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Alpine Fault will rupture, the only question is when

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While we can’t predict when earthquakes will occur, scientific research has shown that the Alpine Fault has an unusually regular history of producing large earthquakes.

This week Canterbury University professor Tom Wilson laid out the facts around the fault’s rupture and its likely impact on the Ashburton District to Ashburton District councillors. He is involved with the AF8 (Alpine Fault Magnitude 8) three-year programme of scientific modelling, response planning and community engagement.

A magnitude 8 earthquake will hit the Ashburton District when the Alpine Fault ruptures, that’s the certainty, the only unknown, is when.

Wilson spelled out the impact of a fault rupture on the district and he didn’t pull any punches. It was likely be a massive shake that would disrupt life in the district for some time, he said.

Given the fault’s history over thousands of years, a rupture is due within 50 years.

And if that rupture started at the southern end, in Fiordland, its power when it hit the Ashburton District would likely be 32 times the Darfield quake and 1000 times that in Christchurch.

“It’s around its spatial extent.

It’ll have a big, South Island wide footprint,” Wilson said.

The fault was between 400 kilometres and 450 kilometres in length.

Fortunately there was a huge amount of data on the behaviour of the fault, historically and that meant predictions of future ruptures could be made with greater accuracy, he said.

The last known rupture was in 1717 and history showed its rupture pattern was on average, every 300 years. We are now at year 302.

A magnitude 8 earthquake will hit the Ashburton District when the Alpine Fault ruptures, that’s the certainty, the only unknown, is when, says Canterbury University professor Tom Wilson.

“I’m 35 and I’d be exceptionally lucky not to see an alpine fault earthquake in my life time,” Wilson said.

While the fault could rupture in sections it was more likely it would rupture along its full length and the impact would vary according to the substructure of different parts of the island, he said.

When it hit the Canterbury Plains, the gravel base would slow the wave train, but that would

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amplify its shaking intensity.

In terms of a timeframe, it could take as little as two minutes before it hits the Ashburton District.

Where the rupture would begin was unclear, but the Fiordland scenario would be the most damaging for Canterbury, Wilson said.

There would be up to six minutes of shaking with the most intensive lasting for up to two minutes.

The earthquake itself would

not be the district’s worst hazard. Secondary hazards such as landslides, dammed rivers, and disruption to inland roads were likely to have a greater impact on life in the district for some time, he said.

“And those secondary hazards are more challenging to design and plan for.”

Because the South Island had very few major routes, taking any or part of those out would create

significant problems for many communities, Wilson said.

“Kaikoura was a great dress rehearsal of what happens when road and rail routes are lost and there are few alternative routes.”

While State Highway One was likely to remain useable in parts, alpine passes and many inland routes were likely to be significantly affected, he said.

The electricity transmission network could be disrupted and if Transpower pylons were damaged, replacements could be a long time coming. Most likely would be the scenario where generation was shut down while the system was checked and that could take days, Wilson said.

“Aftershocks and landslides will create issues as the infrastructure will continue to be exposed to challenges. In the first week there would be quite a lot of disruption across the South Island.”

There would be many parts of the island that were isolated for a long period of time.

Buildings would be the greatest contributors to human casualties, particularly in rural towns where there was still plenty of unreinforced masonry, he said.

“The socio-economic impacts are likely to continue for decades and for Ashburton that would be the knock-on through the dairy sector.”

While there would be people displaced from their damaged homes in many parts of the South Island, in the Ashburton District displacement was unlikely to affect many, Wilson said.

The best chance any community had in a natural disaster such as an Alpine Fault rupture was preparedness, but the unknowns around timing gave planning a complex edge.

The only certainty was that it would rupture at some point and when it did it would be a major event, he said.

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■ MOSQUE ATTACKS

District stops to show respect

By Linda CLarke

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There might not have been prayers inside Ashburton’s Muslim house of prayer yesterday, but there were plenty outside.

There were also tears and impromptu hugs as people of all ages gathered outside the Ashburton masjid on the corner of Archibald and Jane Streets. Many women wore headscarves. People held hands and were silent for two minutes following a national call to prayer.

A single police officer watched from across the street.

People started arriving at the masjid about 1pm. Some brought flowers that they laid alongside the many floral tributes that have been placed there following the twin attacks on Christchurch’s mosques eight days ago.

All spent time quietly contemplating the tributes and messages of support that were fixed to the outside fence.

“What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is the shame for being human,” said one message.

“I think the hardest part of losing someone isn’t having to say goodbye, but rather learning to live without them,” said another.

On the footpath, in chalk “let every creed and race gather here before thy face”.

While many hundreds of Mid Canterbury people have attended vigils in the past week, yesterday’s was not organised, but the result of a collective need to stand together at a time that will be etched into the memories of all New Zealanders forever.

In businesses around town, people also paused to reflect on the massive swell of emotion and solidarity that has been generated by the attacks.

The Catholic Holy Name Church in Ashburton tolled its bell 50 times at 3pm yesterday, once for each person who died in the attacks at Deans Avenue and Linwood.

Churches across the country took part, the timing of the bells to occur between the call to prayer at 1.30pm and the funerals

Michael Meehan (left) and Michael Hanrahan start the bells tolling at Holy Name church at 3pm yesterday. of the victims that took place at 4pm.

The Muslim community has been in the daily prayers of those at the Holy Name church and Father Denis Nolan has flown the church’s flag at half mast every day since the attacks.

He said the church bell had also rung at 1.32pm for two minutes, to mark the Muslim call to prayer.

At Holy Name, the bronze bell is ensconced in a special tower. Since the late 1970s, the bell has been rung with the flick of a switch rather than by pulling a rope.

The bell is usually rung at services and funerals and on special occasions, like the death of the Pope or a bishop. It also rang to remember those who lost their lives in Christchurch’s earth-

quakes. Ten-year-old Michael Meehan started the bells tolling precisely at 3pm, counting solemnly through to 50 with the help of church elder Michael Hanrahan.

Another of the parish’s young members, 18-year-old Fylgia Romero, has organised a multi-faith peace vigil on the grass behind the parish centre for Sunday, at 11.15am. It will be a chance for people to pray in their own native tongue.

Father Dennis said young people’s response to the tragedy, with shows of compassion and caring, had been overwhelming. The sense of love and solidarity shown by the wider community had also been important and would spark ongoing conversations about caring for each other.

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Messages from some of Ashburton’s younger citizens adorn the fence outside the Ashburton masjid.

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Heartache and hope His tiny body, fragile as a bird, barely filled half an open coffin.

Mucaad Ibrahim, 3, was carried aloft in a shroud, almost weightless, by ten of his Somali family wearing long dark robes.

Some of them reached in for a last embrace.

The youngest victim of the Christchurch terrorist attacks, he was buried after a mass funeral at Memorial Park yesterday.

Ibrahim, a brown-eyed boy described by family as constantly smiling, was born to a Somali family who had fled fighting in their home country 20 years ago.

He was killed after becoming separated from his father in Al Noor Mosque, the first mosque to be hit by the gunman.

“Verily we belong to God and to Him we shall return,” his brother Abdi said after his short life was ended last Friday.

In all, 26 victims of the Christchurch terrorist attack were buried over two hours. A 27th, Mohamed Elmi, who died in a car crash after grieving with victims, was buried with them.

It was mourning on a scale rarely seen before in this country. A line of hearses 100 metres long were parked opposite the cemetery.

Five thousand mourners filled the grounds – the equivalent of a tenth of New Zealand’s Muslim population.

“We don’t do this every day,” an announcer said over the loudspeakers.

“We don’t bury 27 of our loved ones in a day, so please understand we are going to do things differently.”

The shrouded bodies were

Worshippers at Hagley Park yesterday. buried five at a time, with only six or eight family members allowed at the grave side because of space.

After a short prayer, they were held above heads to their graves and had dirt thrown over them by male relatives and friends.

There was little time for ceremony, and another five bodies soon followed.

“New Zealand is unbreakable.

We are broken-hearted but we are not broken.”

Seven days ago, Al Noor Mosque Imam Gamal Fouda looked into the eyes of a killer.

Yesterday, all he saw was love and compassion, as thousands gathered in Hagley Park – and

millions stopped around New Zealand and the world – to honour the 50 killed at the two Christchurch mosques.

“To the people of New Zealand, thank you. Thank you for your tears. Thank you for your haka. Thank you for your flowers,” Fouda told the gathered crowd, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and All Black Sonny Bill Williams.

“Thank you for your love and compassion. To our Prime Minister, thank you. Thank you for your leadership – it has been a lesson for the world’s leaders.

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gotten.

“Thank you to our police force and frontline services. You put our lives before your own everyday.

“Thank you to the neighbours who opened their doors to save us from the killer.”

The Muslim call to prayer was spoken at 1.30pm followed by two minutes’ silence to honour the victims of the shootings at the Deans Ave and Linwood Ave mosques.

As New Zealand bowed its head and all reflected on the grief of the past week, Fouda’s words filled hearts as he spoke of the love that had come from such a tragic event.

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In brief Free legal assistance Ashburton law firms are offering free legal assistance to families directly affected by the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Chair of the Ashburton Legal Practitioners’ Society Katrina Palmer said lawyers wanted to support families through a tremendously difficult time. “All Ashburton law firms have offered free legal assistance to those families directly affected. If we can’t help, we will find someone who can. Many people in our community have been directly or indirectly affected. Some may be related to the victims and some supporting friends and family who have been directly involved in the aftermath. We encourage anyone struggling to reach out to the many support networks in our district.” Lawyers throughout Canterbury are offering pro bono assistance for families of the victims, who may need help with issues around immigration, childcare, employment and tenancy and property.

EV charging station The long awaited electric vehicle charging station planned for Methven will be installed and ready for use on April 12. The station will be at the Mt Hutt Memorial Hall.

More gravel pits needed Currently the Ashburton District Council owns five gravel pits around the district it uses to metal the district’s roads. To ensure there are sufficient gravel supplies to meet the needs of the district well into the future, it is investigating a number of parcels of land which are either in council ownership or managed by council for future gravel extraction. The land is in Methven, Chertsey and Wakanui.

Consent numbers dip

Companies make arrangements for funerals Funerals have begun in Christchurch for those who lost their lives in the Christchurch terror attack last week, with companies making arrangements to allow their staff to attend.

“With a number of our employees attending funerals in the

coming days we will be either reducing shifts or not processing at our Canterbury sites to accommodate our employees’ needs at this difficult time. We have worked with our farmers who had booked space, to reschedule for next week,” ANZCO Group chief executive Peter

Conley said.

“Given our close connections with the Muslim community ANZCO’s immediate focus is on supporting our people through the coming weeks.

“We are in regular contact with our people and are providing support and support mate-

rial. We’re encouraging anyone affected to speak to our professional counselling service.”

“In the face of this awful event it has been heart-warming to see the widespread compassion, and the outpouring of grief and support for the Muslim community.”

Building consent numbers in the Ashburton District continue a trend of falling numbers, a trend that has been running for more than a year. In February 39 building consents were issued, down from 43 in February 2018. The value of consents issued for the month was well down, at $7.539 million from $22.501 million, but the 2018 figure included a consent for a large poultry raising shed, building services manager Michael Wong said.

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■ MOUNT HUTT COLLEGE

A celebration of diversity

By Linda CLarke

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Mount Hutt College’s annual diversity night took on added meaning this week when students and their wider community gathered on Thursday night to celebrate their different ways of living.

Social sciences head teacher Jo Brennan said last week’s mosque attacks set an undertone for the event, but the community’s response had been one of love and people had embraced the opportunity simply to be together, in all their differentness.

Diversity night started three years ago as an idea in the back of one of Brennan’s classrooms – it spread to a lunchtime gathering and then last year to a community event. This year’s event, as it panned out, happened seven days after a gunman opened fire in two Christchurch mosques, killing 50 and injuring many more.

Brennan said about 300 people attended this year. “People came along prepared to talk to everyone … it was joyous, something positive.”

Food, activities and entertainment made up the night, with visitors tasting South African sausages, home baking from the Philippines and food from Japan, Tonga, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

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The Year 9 social studies class ran activities to keep youngsters busy, like balloon busting and mask-making, as part of their research into festivals celebrated in Asian communities.

Live performances included a Tongan dance group, Filipino and Highland dancing. There was also a tae kwon do demonstration and a group of students visiting from Shukutoku High School in Japan dressed in traditional yukata and performed.

Brennan said Year 13 student Katie Herlihy also provided another highlight of the night, by creating profiles of the many diverse students at Mount Hutt College. She said the senior student interviewed students about who they were and how they came to be at the college.

The work would become part of an official wall of faces that the school was creating.

Brennan said many of the food stalls had decided to donate their takings from the night to Victim Support, to help those affected by the mosque attacks in Christchurch.

“I was really blown away by our students and our community. Methven is a fantastic community … we are small but we support.”

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In behind mosque attack victims Schools from around the district this week have been coming together to raise funds for those affected by the Christchurch terror attack last week.

Thousands of dollars were raised by the schools, with many holding mufti days, while students at Borough School laid flowers in a heart shape at the school.

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Recycling goes under cover Come April you’ll no longer have to time your trips to Ashburton’s Resource Recovery Park by the weather.

Gone will be the days of dodging rain, wind and puddles as you do your bit for the environment by off-loading your recyclables into open air containers. A new, covered space is about to be commissioned at the park that will make the whole exercise much easier for the community.

Ashburton District Council waste recovery manager Craig Goodwin said the new covered area will add agri-chemicals and hazardous waste to the recycling options offered in the current open air site.

The new area will also see more park staff on site to assist the public, Goodwin said.

Staff were also working to recover more recyclable material from the tip face. An example of that was a quantity of good timber removed recently and this was material that could be sold through the site’s reuse shop, he said.

“We want to do a lot more of this work, to take a lot more out of the stuff that’s going to landfill.”

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There are no longer W

hen Christine Todd picked up her handbag and left work on Wednesday, she did more than just head home for dinner, she played the final card in ending 100 years of the Todd family as Ashburton retailers.

Christine and Tony had sold their business to Timaru’s Preen family two years earlier, but committed to remaining part of the business for a further two years.

Time is now up and for the first time in 99 years there won’t be a Todd behind the counter in the clothing store.

Tony was the third generation of his family to own the East Street business, but the couple’s children Nikki and Mike found other careers to pursue, leaving their parents to ponder the ultimate fate of the store.

He retired in January last year after 54 years in retail.

On Wednesday the retirement plan was completed and for the first time in years, Christine said she got out of bed on Thursday morning and knew with absolute certainty that the day was her own – no urgent work phone calls, no popping in to the store to check how things were running.

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Christine and Tony, packing up 102 years of retail experience.

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Between them they’ve logged more than 100 years of retail experience, but Christine and Tony Todd are finally calling their time their own. They share with reporter Sue Newman their anticipation of embracing the freedom of retirement. came pamper day ahead of a long planned holiday; she’s finally joined Tony in retirement with no regrets.

“The new manager Norah (Johnson) is

amazing. She’s very passionate and has the same customer focused philosophy as Todds. She’ll take the store to a another level but passing over 48 years of experience in eight days was tough.”

While she knew March would see her severing her ties with Todds, Christine said the final week was harder than the actual sale of the shop.

“I’ve continued to run the shop as though it was my store, but this week was like giving away my baby; you suddenly realise that for 99 years there’s been a Todd in the shop.”

What made the leaving even harder was saying goodbye to staff. While she knows she’ll see them again, it won’t be the same as working together, Christine said.

“We’ve been fortunate, we’ve had

wonderful relationships with our staff.”

Becoming a retailer was definitely not on Christine’s radar. She was happily working at the Ashburton County Council, happily dating Tony.

“We were thinking about getting engaged and Tony’s dad jumped in and said, if you want to be in the family you need to start working with the family, so I decided to take on this man – and his debt,” she said.

Moving into retail and into a family business meant goodbye to tidy 8.30am to 5pm, five-day-aweek work. Welcome to retail.

“But I was so lucky, it was the opportunity of a lifetime,” she said.

Christine took over running Todi Boutique on the upper level of the store from Tony’s sister Jackie.

At that time the store was divided into the boutique for younger customers and the showroom for the rest. It also sold fabrics, knitting wool, manchester and children’s wear.

The boutique’s customer base grew at the expense of the showroom as fashion became less age divided and that led to a radical overhaul of the store – manchester, fabrics, knitting wool and baby wear were out. The focus of the revamped store was on menswear, womenswear and lingerie.

Over her 48 years in the store, Christine said labels were constantly changing as manufacturers disappeared and new ones filled their gaps. And that’s changed buying patterns too with it becoming more difficult for independent retailers as with no New Zealand manufacturers purchas-

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Todds in Todd’s es from overseas often require large numbers of garments.

Over the years, she said the couple had worked well, each has had their own area of responsibility, and over the years they’ve made life-long friends with other couples who own fashion stores.

You don’t sell a family business without a lot of soul searching. It takes time to make decisions, to find the right buyer, but Tony was always philosophical about the prospect of selling, however.

“My dad always said, nothing is for ever, and he’s right. You just have to face up to it. The important thing is the door is still open, the retail store is still in town. At the end of the day when it comes to selling there are only so many logs coming down the river and if you leave an opportunity there might be no more logs to jump on.”

And that’s an outcome that doesn’t always eventuate for family owned retail business, he said.

“You see so many family stores close when family need to retire.

There are becoming fewer and fewer family owned stores around New Zealand.”

Some have closed, others have been bought by larger family groups with about five of these now owning multiple businesses.

Preens, Todds owners have five stores in Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton.

“The issue with small town New Zealand with the smaller, inner town retailers, look back 30 or 40 years and you’ll see there were many small niche retailers in the town centre of Ashburton.”

It’s important for anyone in business to take a long term view, rather than simply focusing on today, Tony said.

“It’s nice to know we haven’t closed the door and that the sale was to someone passionate about family values.”

Tony recalls one of

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the best pieces of advice he was given over his 54 years in the rag trade.

“I was at a seminar and this guy said you should stand outside your shop once a year and ask yourself, ‘If I started again with a clean sheet of paper what would I have in my store’?”

That clean sheet approach saw several changes in the business, but none were more dramatic than the day fabrics disappeared from the store.

Cheaper imported clothing meant the need to make their own clothes had gone for many wom-

en, he said.

“Dad always said though that for the amount of fabric we sold he never saw it worn and walking down the street. There must have been an awful lot thrown in the back of cupboards.”

Family businesses are unique and come with their own challenges, but having several couples who owned similar stores as friends meant there was a good forum for sharing problems and ideas.

The foundations for that informal discussion group were laid by Tony’s dad Les. While it might have been the

family expectation that he went into the business, Tony says becoming a retailer was never a hardship.

He counts himself lucky to have worked for several years in major retail stores in Wellington, but says he does wonder how different his life would have been if he’d pursued his first career choice, as a chef.

That love of food remained and he’s a more than passionate home cook. He’s adamant, however, that retirement won’t see him involved in a food business of any kind.

Retirement won’t see Tony and

Christine sitting at home. They plan to buy a campervan and spend time on the road around New Zealand enjoying every scenic spot they can and they plan more travel overseas.

And their grandchildren will be seeing more of their grandparents.

Perhaps the opportunity they’re most excited about however, is to be able to follow their son Mike who is a member of New Zealand’s Wheel Blacks rugby team, to international tournaments.

Both say the thing they’ll miss is contact with customers.

“After 54 years you feel you know a lot of people. Every day you’d have interaction with about 200 people and we’ll miss that. It means you walk down the street and you feel you know everyone,” Tony said.

But retirement opens new doors and it’s those they’re looking forward to opening.

“We’re fortunate to have each other and to have good health. You just have to go out and do things while you can,” Christine said.

They celebrated the end of their final day as retailers at home with friends, family, staff and ex-staff and a meal with Tony in chef’s whites.

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Letterman left it too late David Letterman thinks he should have retired from The Late Show a decade before he did. The 71-year-old broadcaster stepped away from the programme in 2015 after more than 30 years and while he believes he outstayed his welcome, he claimed no one had “the guts” to fire him.

Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres, he said: “Yes it is true, and I’ll tell you what happened.

It turns out nobody had the guts to fire me. And I should have left like 10 years ago.

You want to make sure you have some energy to direct toward other things.”

Fires burn at the site of a factory explosion in a chemical industrial park in Xiangshui County of Yancheng in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.

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China blast kills 44 The death toll in an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has risen to 44, with another 90 people seriously injured, the local government reported yesterday.

Thursday’s blast at the Tianjiayi Chemical plant in the city of Yancheng is China’s worst industrial accident in years.

Nearly 1000 area residents have been moved to safety as

a precaution against leaks and additional explosions, the city government said in a statement posted to its official microblog. Windows in buildings as far as about six kilometres away were blown out by the force of the blast.

The city government statement said 3500 medical workers at 16 hospitals had been mobilised to treat the injured,

dozens of whom remain in critical condition.

The cause of the blast remained under investigation.

China experiences frequent industrial accidents despite orders from the central government to improve safety at factories, power plants and mines.

Among the worst accidents was a massive 2015 explosion

at a chemical warehouse in the port city of Tianjin that killed 173 people, most of them firefighters and police officers.

In November, at least 22 people were killed and scores of vehicles destroyed in an explosion outside a chemical plant in the northeastern city of Zhangjiakou, which will host competitions in the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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In brief

■ WESTLAND MILK

Yili Westland’s white knight In turn, many of Westland’s 429 farmers, still on their knees from the last global milk price slump, are feeling the heat from bankers.

Even if they wanted to – and many don’t – they can’t sell their farms.

Who wants to buy a dairy farm with an income that lags well behind what is being paid to other New Zealand farmers via the industry benchmark, created by market price-setter Fonterra?

To continue to stand alone, Westland would need to gouge significant amounts from its already too-skinny milk payouts in the form of retentions.

As chairman Pete Morrison says, that’s just not realistic.

“Our farmers can’t afford that.”

Out of the 26 parties who answered the Westland board’s call last year for a white knight with capital, Yili has emerged with the best offer – a buyout deal worth $588 million, including taking on Westland’s debt and liabilities.

According to Westland, the nominal value of its shares has ranged from 70c to $1.50 per share.

Pete Morrison Yili is offering $3.41 per share, subject to that being within or above an independent adviser’s valuation range. The debt and other assumed liabilities total $342.5m.

For the average-sized Westland supply farm, the share offer translates to about half a million dollars cash.

And there are extra sweeteners in this conditional deal.

Yili has committed to collect all

KiwiSaver fund manager Milford Asset Management dumped its shareholdings in social media giant Facebook and joined the call from government-backed retirement fund managers for Facebook, Google and Twitter to take greater care monitoring content posted to social media platforms. That follows the live-streaming on Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, along with a host of smaller livestreaming sites, of the attack on two mosques in Christchurch in which 50 people died. The fund manages close to $14 billion of investors’ funds.

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Maybe that will partly clean up social networks and content sharing sites especially if – and I feel a bit sick typing this – if they’re penalised for earning advertising revenue from offensive material.

Nobody would be surprised if a system similar to the proposed European Union upload filtering is proposed to stop users from sharing and posting extremist content.

Hotly debated currently, the idea is that content sharing sites will screen out copyrighted material or face big fines.

Except nobody knows how to do this yet.

Ten years ago, Pakistan decided it had had enough of YouTube and managed to knock it offline by

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asking internet providers in the country to advertise bogus routes that redirected traffic to the wrong places.

It was messy and broke bits of the internet.

Nowadays, it has become much harder to remove access to sites that way.

For instance, hate sites hide behind resilient content delivery networks such as Cloudflare that forward their traffic without revealing where the actual servers are.

Privacy regulation means it’s more difficult to trace hate site operators as well.

Maybe in the years ahead we will come up with a solution that addresses the fact that some of us are just awful people who shouldn’t be online.

Until then, who can fault those who want to ban and round up smartphones and personal computers and switch off mobile and fixed-data networks?

It’s not going to happen but this is one time when it really would feel right and respectful to press the off-switch for tech, at least for a while.

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treaming though, and it only takes one person to share the video on peer-to-peer networks to get around an upload block.

This is already happening with P2P links shared on social media.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s call to crack down on social media for failing to remove terrorist content will probably result in Facebook, YouTube and others improving their automated censorship.

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But it is undeniable that cheap gear, fast networks and online forums where people veer from rickrolling to racism in just a few clicks have become terrorist accessories.

Terrorists spread their poison to others with shocking ease as well.

Algorithms are no match against myriads of people – whether they’re doing it on purpose or not thinking straight – uploading awfulness that should not be shared.

Putting faith in hashing functions to automatically recognise disgusting content that should be filtered out and when they fail because it’s been altered, using human moderators, is futile.

This is nothing new, and global content sharing sites know full well that they have become so big that they cannot keep up with their unco-operative users.

The internet is a multi-headed hydra and it is very difficult to stop information of any kind from spreading on it.

An emergency protocol that forces social media and content sharing sites to quickly turn off uploads for a few days after horrors like Christchurch might have reduced the dissemination of the murderer’s video.

That doesn’t take care of lives-

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Should we just switch off? riting about technology after the atrocities in Christchurch feels empty and meaning-

Auckland electricity lines company Vector has been ordered by the Auckland High Court to pay a multi-million-dollar penalty. The $3.575 million fine has been imposed because the organisation breached its network quality standard due to a high number of power outages. Vector serves more than half a million homes and businesses in the greater Auckland region and as a regulated business must comply with Commerce Commission regulations regarding the maximum revenue it can collect and the minimum standards of quality it must deliver. - NZME

milk supply – not to be sneezed at given the remoteness of some West Coast farms.

And it will pay a competitive payout of at least as much as the Fonterra farmgate milk price, for 10 years from the season that starts on August 1 this year.

What that milk price might be is anyone’s guess, but if Fonterra’s and Westland’s respective forecasts for this current season are any indication, it’ll be very hard for struggling farmers to say no.

Fonterra is forecasting that it will pay $6.30-$6.60 per kilogram of milksolids.

Westland’s forecast is $6-$6.20.

Last season Fonterra paid $6.69, while Westland paid $6.12.

To go ahead, the Yili takeover needs 75 per cent shareholder support and must also be approved by shareholders holding more than 50 per cent of the shares eligible to be voted.

As well as shareholder approval, the deal – formally, a scheme of arrangement – needs High Court approval. It also requires the tick from the Overseas Investment Office (OIO).

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By Juha Saarinen

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“I hope we can now get on with the business of running our own dairy company as we have been doing successfully for over 65 years.”

Those optimistic words in 2002 from Westland Milk Products’ then-chairman Ian Robb are now a bittersweet memory.

Back then, the dairy co-operative had just rejected joining the newly formed Fonterra.

Today, farmers in the rugged, remote region are being asked to sell a nearly 150-year-old dairying heritage to China.

Westland’s farmer-owners this week began gathering in towns up and down the Coast to hear the first pitches from directors to sell their financially-embattled co-op to Asia’s biggest dairy producer, Yili.

There’s little room for sentiment about the old days.

Westland hasn’t been paying its farmers a competitive milk price for several years.

The kitty is stretched, the company is heavily in debt and the banks are breathing down its neck.

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OUR VIEW

Keep the talk and respect coming

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e’ve learnt a lot about ourselves over the course of the past week, both as individuals and as a collective community and nation.

There’s been this wonderful discovery that we are all actually one people, we are a collaborative group where no matter what race, age or religion there is no real separation.

One bleeds, we all bleed. One hurts, we all hurt. It’s a shame that’s taken such a tragic event like last Friday afternoon to galvanise us as one, but the truth is that it has and the discussion lines on how we act and treat those who might not look the same or have the same beliefs as us has become louder than ever

before.

Phill Hooper said it exactly right at Tuesday night’s vigil when he said that it’s now time to be mindful about our thoughts, words and actions. He’s right when he says it’s now about not laughing about the Muslim family that moves in down the street or suggesting that immigrants continue to take jobs from real Kiwis. It has been commonplace

for so long for those things to just naturally happen, but over the past week it’s been all but wiped out of our society except for those odd individuals who, for some reason, take glee from being the smart arse at the party who can’t keep their mouth shut.

So, for a week it’s been taboo – but the challenge is keeping it that way for the future.

No matter what anyone says or thinks, no one could have truly predicted last week’s horrific events would unfold on our own doorstep and perhaps in some ways there are a huge number of us who have been guilty of aiding and abetting that fire which burns so ruthlessly within some people through our actions and words.

So, let’s keep the momentum building. Our place is welcome to anyone from anywhere in the world, provided their thoughts and actions are not sinister in nature, we, the Ashburton District, are a welcoming bunch to anyone who crosses over our boundaries and we need to ensure the extended arm remains outstretched for a long time to come.

Some will say that what unfolded last week was an attention seeking act of callousness from an individual who believed he knew better. His single goal was to bring pain and torture to a group of undeserving people who have now had their entire worlds turned upside down.

But the accused’s biggest

achievement is one he will probably not be all that happy about.

What he managed to do was to bring together a country which up until a point probably wasn’t fully aware of its direction.

He’s brought people together who you could never have dreamed of standing side by side.

He’s given an often-silenced quarter of our society a voice and a newfound respect that will never be reversed and it is now our duty, as guardians for future generations, that our New Zealand never returns to its former self.

And the best way to do that?

Keep the conversation flowing, ensure the talk and respect keep coming and that we remain together as one.

the jetliner to plunge to the ground.

In 2003, during the Iraq War, a US Army maintenance convoy was ambushed in Nasiriyah; 11 soldiers were killed; six were captured, including Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who was rescued on April 1, 2003.

In 2005, truck driver Tyrone Williams was convicted in federal court in Houston for his role in the 2003 deaths of 19 immigrants he was smuggling across Texas. (After initially receiving a life sentence, Williams was resentenced in Jan. 2011 to nearly 34 years in prison.)

Ten years ago: The Obama administration unveiled a plan to

take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors; Wall Street responded by hurtling the Dow Jones industrials upward nearly 500 points.

Five years ago: During a visit to Beijing, US first lady Michelle Obama told Chinese professors, students and parents that she wouldn’t have risen to where she was if her parents hadn’t pushed for her to get a good education.

One year ago: A French-Moroccan gunman killed four people before being killed by police in southern France who stormed a supermarket where he had taken hostages; the victims included a

police officer who had swapped himself for a hostage being held in the supermarket. President Donald Trump released an order banning most transgender troops from serving in the military except under “limited circumstances.”

Today’s birthdays: Singer Chaka Khan is 66. Actress Amanda Plummer is 62. Actress Catherine Keener is 60. Actress Hope Davis is 55. Actor Richard Grieco is 54.

Country musician Kevin Griffin is 54. Actress Marin Hinkle is 53.

Rock singer-musician Damon Albarn (Blur) is 51. Actor Kelly Perine is 50. Actress-singer Melissa Errico is 49. Rock musician John Humphrey is

49. Bandleader Reggie Watts is 47. Actor Randall Park is 45.

Actress Michelle Monaghan is 43. Actress Keri Russell is 43.

Actress Anastasia Griffith is 41.

Gossip columnist-blogger Perez Hilton is 41. Actress Nicholle Tom is 41. Country singer Paul Martin (Marshall Dyllon) is 41. Country singer Brett Young is 38. Actor Nicolas Wright is 37. Actor Ben Rappaport is 33.

Thought for today: “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” — Alexander Pope, English poet (1688-1744).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2019. There are 283 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 23, 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the US Army during World War Two arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.

On this date: In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

In 1847, Wakefield and Featherston duel. Isaac Featherston, editor of the Wellington Independent, had in effect accused William Wakefield, the New Zealand Company’s principal agent, of being a thief. Neither man was hurt in the duel.

In 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

In 1940, John A. Lee expelled from Labour Party. A charismatic exsoldier, orator and writer, Lee had been active in the New Zealand Labour Party since shortly after the First World War. In 1956, Pakistan became an Islamic republic.

In 1965, America’s first twoperson space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan first proposed developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles — an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

In 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75 people on board; it turned out the teenage son of a pilot who was allowed to sit at the controls accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing

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Nail polish and appraisals D

ads, can you trust a 12-year-old daughter? I mean, your own daughter that you have known since the first moment she opened her eyes, the moment when she smiled at you, the time she said ‘Da!’ I thought I could, until on Thursday when I was right in the middle of my appraisal meeting, and looked down to see my nails glistening with a coat of what my daughter assured me was “not shiny nail polish”.

My head dropped, my hands automatically disappeared under the table and yet again I asked myself, why do things that happen to stupid people always happen to me?

For weeks Panda, (abbreviation for Pandemonium) had been nagging me to let her give me a makeover of any description. It was actually my fault because a couple days before school started I had let her shave my head. It was so short an exuberant pensioner started prodding me to see if I was ripe while I was standing next to the Kiwifruit bin in Countdown.

With a shaved head and an unshaved face I started school. I wasn’t sure of my beard, but then

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it really grew on me.

From there the constant questioning began. Can I do your nails? Can I shave your chest or even worse can I wax your eyebrow! Seriously, I didn’t know there were that many procedures an almost teenage girl can suggest.

So Panda wore me down and after establishing the ground rules I relented to a manicure.

She caught me in a moment of weakness, the news was on and I didn’t really register what was happening until she giggled.

Glancing down I discovered every nail on my right hand was a washed out pink.

The giggle turned into a roar when Panda saw my reaction! As quick as a back wax strip being removed, she reassured me it was a practice polish and would come off. Panda convinced me she would not do that on the left hand. I relented, the weather was

on now and a typical ‘don’t-talkwhile-the-weather-is-on silence’ descended.

Panda declared I was finished and moved away quicker than a roach when the fridge is opened – and for a very good reason, my left hand nails were light blue!

Hilarity ensured and I even had to admit it was funny, but I did make sure I was devoid of coloured nails when I went to work.

Forgetting that I have a bad memory, I got sucked into a manicure again. The decision confirmed I had signs on both of my ears saying Space for Rent. This time she openly said she would apply a clear polish. I asked to see the bottle and checked the colour. Satisfied, the procedure began. Once finished Panda declared it some of her best work and allowed me to admire the transformation.

The polish was clear, but shiny.

No worries reassured Panda, it will dry and not be shiny, where upon she skedaddled onto the couch. Five minutes later, they were still shiny. Twenty minutes later, they were still shiny and they had set!

Ahhh! If I was any more stupid I would have to be watered twice a week. Then I got distracted

The fruits of our Labour

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n the immortal words of that old war horse, Harold Macmillan, Britain’s PM in the early sixties, Sir Michael Cullen, former Finance Minister, chair of NZ Post and sundry other national entities, seems “never to have had it so good”.

This was a slogan used by the effervescent Supermac as he campaigned for re-election in 1962.

It was his opinion of what the British people should be feeling after several years of his rule.

Well, Sir Michael, who chaired the Tax Working Group (TWG) set up specifically by our creaky coalition to make the case for a Capital Gains Tax (CGT), having done as bidden – and been handsomely rewarded for so doing – has now been retained at a fee of $1250 a day until June 30, to deal with any loose ends that might require Mike’s expertise to sort out (or words to that effect, as intoned by the current, actual Minister of Finance, Grant Robertson).

Thus the former deputy PM to Helen Clark (of less than blessed memory) is being paid a substantial sum to maintain a watching brief on an inquiry which has been well and truly wound up and passed into the nation’s archives. One might, therefore, feel

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the noble knight, himself, has, indeed, “never had it so good”; so much so he really will have to step carefully if he wishes to avoid the soubriquet of a “rich prick”, as he so named those he felt too wealthy, back in the days when he managed the nation’s purse strings.

If the cap fits, Sir Mike, it’s your responsibility to wear it.

Meanwhile, a once-was Labour colleague of Cullen’s, these days re-incarnated as a close mate of the great Winston The First, Shane Jones, is facing rumours of conflicts of interest and other political abnormalities by well-meaning operatives commissioned to find out just what might be involved.

The reaction of this now Very Important Person – just ask him – is one of such puffed up indignation that a messy explosion seems both imminent and inevitable. To

by Married at First Sight and by the time I had gone to bed, I’d forgotten all about them, until Thursday.

And so there I sat in my own office, responsible for 222 awesome children and 23 fantastic staff.

The Big Kahuna of the Greatest School in Tinwald, setting up my appraisal goals with a very senior education expert who had travelled down for this meeting.

It was as I was embellishing my achievements to date when I caught the quickest of flashes off my nails.

It hit me like the scent of a passing sheep truck. I had nail polish on at work! Trapped like fluff in a belly button, I sat on my hands.

Time went slower than a Lada full of elephants going uphill.

Eventually we were done and I bid her farewell. Now I know she may have seen through some of the bluster of my answers, but I bet she would agree that at least my nails looked good.

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

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This column, obviously, was written before the Mosque massacre. I share the nation’s grief and sadness. I also admire, particularly, the outstanding leadership of Jacinda Ardern, whose reaction to and handling of the tragedy has been inspirational.

say he is affronted by such talk is grossly inadequate to describe his feelings. He is splutteringly incoherent at the cheek of it all.

It should not be forgotten he sees himself as the Santa Claus of Aotearoa with a vast sack of taxpayers’ money to dispense in favour of causes of which he approves.

One of the schemes into which he has poured some of this hardearned (by other people) cash is said to have produced as many as fifty-four whole jobs. A shrewd investment, certainly. Then there are all those millions of trees he has been given with which to decorate the landscape and, at a stroke, preserve us from the ravages of that snake in the grass, climate change.

Thus, Jones is a man from High Places facing and conquering the nation’s challenges. To question his dignity and overweening mana would be sheer effrontery and could lead to one being swamped in a wave of uncontrollable self-righteousness.

But, respectfully, I submit Jones is not the only Lofty Figure of Interest (LFI) currently up against swirling suggestions of dubious behaviour and, even, pure sculduggery.

Simon Bridges, seems to have been enveloped in the cloying tentacles of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over the significant matter of party political donations, and their being wrapped in small enough parcels to come in under the radar of the generosity limit barrier.

Such allegations appear to stem from the stoush between Bridges and Jami-Lee Ross, now some months ago, when the latter accused the former of corruption.

All those weeks on, it would appear these snitchy accusations have come home to roost. Bridges has denied the canards made against him.

And now, this very day, we (ie all my fellow Christchurch ratepayers and I) learn our very own and much-revered mayoress, Lianne Dalziel, is also “under the pump” (pun unavoidable) over an apparent conflict of interest over “family links to water bottler, Cloud Ocean Water”.

COW is a Chinese company with which Lianne’s husband, Rob Davidson is involved.

The issue of exporting local water to foreign parties is high on the list of homespun controversies and led, only last weekend, to a bad-tempered protest march

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by enraged citizens. Are the the lady and gentlemen to whom I have referred really setting us lower orders the sort of example by which we can be inspired to go forward, dream dreams and conquer our demons or, are we being led by feet-draggers and the less-than-inspirational?

Later: Shane Jones has now succeeded in raising the ire of his boss – though he would be too proud to acknowledge her as such – PM Jacinda Ardern, over his latest outrageous allegations.

This time he has, in Parliament, questioned, bombastically, as only he can, the integrity of the Serious Fraud Office, in particular, its handling of the inquiry into the National Party’s donation issue.

Jacinda Ardern has made it crystal clear that the SFO is not a political organisation and should therefore not be challenged in the manner chosen by Jones.

The case continues.

The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - Adults can breathe and swallow at the same time. a. True b. False 2 - Which capital city represents L in the NATO phonetic alphabet? a. London b. Lagos c. Lima 3 - Which of these is not a common name of the New Zealand native bird? a. Pied fantail b. Tree fantail c. Black fantail 4 - Which continent has the longest coastline? a. Europe b. Africa c. Asia 5 - Complete the popular saying: Rome wasn’t built in...? a. A day b. A week c. A rush 6 - Which of the world’s religions has the largest number of followers? a. Christianity b. Judaism c. Sikhism 7 - Which country’s flag is red, square and has a white cross in the middle? a. Iceland b. Switzerland c. Sweden 8 - Footrot Flats was a farm located near which fictional NZ town? a. Raupo b. Laupo c. Daupo

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Flying high At the Ashburton Airport with No. 24 (Ashburton) Squadron, Air Cadets held Exercise Miramar 2019 recently.

It gave many Ashburton cadets their first experience of not only flying, but taking the controls for take-off, landing, circuits and lots more.

This bunch of adrenaline-filled cadets also gained 4 level 2 credits as part of their aviation training.

A huge thank you to the instructors from Ashburton Aviation Pioneers who gave up their weekend to take our cadets into the sky.

Front row, sitting down: Cadet McDonald (left), Cadet Smollett. Rear (from left): Cadet Savage, Sergeant Kingan, Cadet Haslemore-Hampton, Cadet Champaigne, Cadet Chisholm, Cadet Sol, Cadet Feron, Cadet McKenzie, Leading Air Cadet McDonnell, Flying Instructor Ron Mcfarlane.

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WEEKEND IN MID CANTERBURY Mid Canterbury is a fantastic place to live.

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Above – Tinwald School students go green for St Patrick’s dress-up day.

Left – Vision Insurance’s Meg Ashworth and David Rush working hard on a Friday.

Above – Climate change protest on the East Street Chessboard.

Above – Liam Oke from Skip-2-It Flooring Xtra installing carpet tiles at Mount Hutt College.

Left – Rainer Irrigation storemen working in style in the newly-renovated parts & service area that is now up and running.

Above – Valerie Blake and Sidney Te Taite on their way to a marching competition.

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Above – Lovett Family Farms staff member Erwin Pol filling and moving bulk bags of onions that are to be exported to Europe.

Above – Redmonds’ interior consultant Amanda Patrick making the final touches to a new home staging.

Below – JKF Homes staff member Henry Phillip framing a roof on a pole shed at Ryal Bush yard.

Above – Neumanns Tyres staff member Dave Huria making sure the tractor tyre is attached properly before assigning any work on it.

Above – Des Kruger getting ready to fell a tree with his powerful Stihl Shop chainsaw.

Above – Rural Transport staff members Trevor and Nick moved a new crane on to a new truck to get fitted at Helmack Engineering, which will be ready for use in a few weeks’ time.

Above – Corey Thomson from Palmer Agri Parts Direct Ltd welding hay feeder frames.

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON

Above – Nicky Horrell from the Toolshed Ashburton talking with a customer about power tools.

Above – Wilson Bulk Transport truck driver Jurie Blanche preparing to leave the Lovett Family Farms after loading onions for export to Europe.

Above – Property Brokers staff finishing off their work for the week.

Left – Melissa from Style Footwear fitting Samantha Rose with a new-season boot.

Left – Minute and Sylvester, the Riverside Industrial Park-famous cats, chilling out at the Toolshed Ashburton.

Right – Terrace View Retirement Village staff members Colleen Ledingham and Louisa Russell playing 500 with residents Ngaire Hampton and John Wylie while resident Sylvia Williams (left) is enjoying watching them play.

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FRIDAY EVENING

Above and below – Boys brigade members have been busy cleaning rubbish from Wakanui Beach.

Above – Kids having fun at Tinwald Cycling Club Whizz Wheelers night.

Below – Kirstin Cook’s leaving drinks at Speight’s Ale House (from left) Aaron Heath, Desme Daniels, Kirstin Cook and Cushla Harborne.

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FRIDAY EVENING

Above (from left) – Samantha Weir, Valeska Flanagan, Catherine Tozer, Riki-Lee Marshall, Charnae Sinclair, Lylah and Madi Wilson celebrating the birthday of a friend at The Phat Duck.

Left – James Guthrie calls Chris Hurley’s shot while playing pool at the Turf Bar.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Above – Wilsons Windscreen’s Blake and Wayne fitting a windscreen.

Above – Run and Walk Ashburton members look like they’re having a ball.

Above – Harveys Bakehouse staff Georgia and Julia ready to welcome customers.

Above – Ashburton Vintage Car Club’s, Les Bennett, with a line-up of classic beauties.

Below – Ines (left) and Kerrin Forster working on a sausage sizzle to raise money for Ines’ trip to Japan.

Above – EA Networks staff members fixing power lines in town.

Above – 2IC Gian Aterrado hosing the shed after morning milking.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Above – Jo Ryk (left) and Boyd Marsh supporting the bowls at Hampstead.

Left – Bruce Wear taking his dog Jake for a walk.

Above – Ian selling his delicate designs at the Farmers’ market.

Left – Eunice, enjoying reading the Guardian, while selling her plants.

Above – Farmers’ market – David and Les commenting on the world.

Left – Saturday bowls at Lochlea Resort.

Right – Tina Wishart was selling her pots made from cement and cloth at the Ashburton Craft Market.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Above (from left) – Allison Gibbs, Helen Boag, Jill Harris and Shona Scott supporting the bowls at Hampstead.

Above – Fletcher Hutchinson and Poppy having cuddles at the Ashburton Domain.

Above – Gerald Hayes (left) and Mark Read wait patiently at the Ashburton Vehicle Testing Station.

Above – First National’s Mark Williams takes a breather at the end of a busy open home.

Below – Alex Bamford-Smith (left) and Lester Hurst from the Ashburton Photography Club were out and about at the weekend.

Below – Mechanic Neville Gibb hard at work at Hyundai’s Ashburton workshop.

Above – Archie Millar, 2, was with dad Sam at the Ashburton Domain giving the tractor a workout.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Above – Darryl Nelson packing his groceries into his truck at New World.

Above – Aaron Bradley takes his “Porsche” out for a spin at the Ashburton Toy Library.

Below – Jimmy Malthus is aiming to be a builder at the Ashburton Toy Library.

Left – Roy, with his children Danielle and Adam, are happy to have filled up the pantry at New Word.

Above – Veronica and Andrew Golding walking their dog Dodge at our gorgeous Ashburton Domain.

Above – GDC mechanics hard at work keeping the fleet operational, making sure vehicles and plant are ready for action first thing Monday morning.

Above – Hampstead Braves win softball semi-final.

Left – Ben Bradley with mum Emma at the Ashburton Toy Library.

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SATURDAY MORNING

Above – Methven A&P Show Schools’ Top Team competitors, (from left) Toby, Toby, Harry and Hugh, are members of TTHH. Left – People being welcomed on to Hakatere Marae for a day of learning.

Above – Methven A&P Show El Quincho staff Samuel Diaz (right) and Gina Lee serving woodfired deliciousness.

Above – Methven A&P Show spinning demonstration by Alison Jones.

Left – John Sunckell, Rose and Andrew Falloon, John and Alison Driscoll were representing the National Party at the Methven A&P Show.

Above – First National’s Theresa Hislop getting ready to meet potential buyers at one of her open homes.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON

Above – Run and Walk Ashburton group out on an afternoon stroll.

Left – You can lead a pony to water, that’s if he behaves ... 3-month-old colt Komet gets some training from 11-year-old Piper.

Above – Jack Gibbons (left) and Kyle Cabading at the Skills Park Pump Track.

Above – Stuart Brown and Nerida Jemmett lay down a fresh surface on part of the River Trail Loop.

Above – Ellesmere College softball team holds a sausage sizzle at the Warehouse Ashburton, with Josh Stolickess and Calais Hill cooking up a storm.

Left – The Tinwald Cycling Club’s Mid Canterbury championship race under way near Wakanui.

Right – Out on the greens at the Tinwald Golf Club.

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Above – Always things to do around the truck. Owner operator, Nigiel Harvey polishes up the Elgin Transport truck wheels. The job was hijacked by Haze needing a pat.

Above – Don waits for the next customer at the Aviation Museum.

Left – Randy and Kidlat, 9 months, Esteban check out the produce at a grocery shop.

Below – At the Aviation Museum Warren is lovingly restoring a Chrislea Super Ace 1948 plane.

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Above – Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade quiz night fundraiser for the Skytower climbers.

Above – The Ashburton Club and MSA Orchestra performing on a Saturday night.

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Above – Enjoying an evening at the RSA (from left) Juliet Hayes, Anne Robertson, Rod Hayes, Des Thomas, Sherran Ross, Alan Robertson.

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Above – Michael Staples getting supplies in for Saturday night at Super Liquor, Methven, being served by Davinder Singh.

Above – David Morrison playing darts at Arcadia.

Left – Jazzmin Wilson and Iva Prazakova serving at the Blue Pub Right – Cricket boys David Morrison and Ryan Jamison enjoying a drink at Cleavers Corner Gastro Pub. Below – Emma and Katie Kiddie leaving the Regent Cinema Ashburton after enjoying the Captain Marvel movie.

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SUNDAY MORNING

Above – Pond swim competitors.

Above - Competitors get ready for their pond swim (Open Water Masters Swim).

Above – Veronica Wall, focused while rowing on Lake Hood.

Above – Spectacular sunrise in the Rakaia Gorge.

Above – Shifting break fences below Mt Hutt.

Above – Mayfield dairy farm workers, Paige and Diego, looking after their cows.

Left – A busy morning at Cafe Primo E Secundo.

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Above – The crowds gather as the Hinds Rugby Club gears up for another season of rugby.

Above and below – Classic boats at Lake Hood.

Below – Hinds rugby muster day.

Above – A staff member prepares for another busy day at Staveley Store.

Left – Babies at the Victory Baptist Church creche.

Right – Tinwald’s St Andrew’s Anglican Church members celebrated its 140th birthday.

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Above – Talbot Security staff patrol early Sunday.

Above – The busy café at Ashburton New Life Church after Sunday service.

Above – Tennis players watch the Gala Cup finals.

Left – Sam Bubb playing in the Gala Cup tennis final.

Above – Cup tennis players Ollie Bubb (left) and Jake Parsons are about to play their A reserve singles final.

Above – Gala Cup A grade tennis players, Cameron McCracken (left), and Sam Bubb, pose before doing finals battle.

Above – Anthony Bennett chatting up the staff at Cleavers Corner Gastro Pub.

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Above – Tyrone Cain, doing the hard yards at Ashburton U-Hire.

Above – Peter and Eva Kirwan watching the Gala Cup tennis.

Left – St Patrick’s day fun (from left) Lorraine Gosling, Nikita Carson and Codi Hart at Eat.

Above – Mid Canterbury Special Olympics Swimming team and coaches, (from left) Trevor, Anne, Emma, Colleen, Dom and Peter.

Above – Carlton (10 months) and his mum, Manaia Jenner, after Sunday morning’s service at the Ashburton New Life Church.

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Above and below – Enjoying a crafty time at the Plains Museum.

Above – Mia Pearson making coffee at the Somerset Grocer.

Above and below – Manning the Fire Museum at the Plains Museum, Tinwald. Alan McQuarters and Bill Hart.

Above – Stephen and Linda Pratley celebrating their 39th anniversary of their first date, with a bike ride from Tinwald to Lake Hood.

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Above – Nine-year-old Madeleine Pegg came all the way from her home in Rakaia to lay flowers and a drawing at the Ashburton Masjid, with her parents Cristian and Joanna.

Above – Frank Pethig (at centre of photo) celebrating his 70th birthday with family.

Above – Dog training seminar organised by the Mid Canterbury Dog Training club at the Tinwald Domain. Members are being given instruction from Lisa Duff.

Above – The Ashburton Masjid frontage was filled with flowers and messages of support for the Muslim community.

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Above – Natasha Pearson (aka Miss Lola Turquoise) at the Aviation Museum.

Below – Members of the Ashburton Society of Arts Judith Mitchell (left) and Ngaio McKee look after their summer exhibition at the Short Street Studio.

Above – Methven candle vigil for victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

Above – New parents Zara Tate and Matthew Hood enjoying their newborn baby Zac. Below – Mike Keith (All Saints Anglican Church), Mark Taylor (Elim Church), Arii Taimataora (Plains Presbyterian Church) at Methven candle vigil.

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Above – Stacey McMillan, Debbie Jones, Viv Horsburgh, Lara Hannon, A Mushonga, Chantelle Quinn, Damien Quinn, Andy McManus, James Hannon celebrating St Patrick’s Day at the Tinwald Tavern.

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Above – Crystal Lavery, Christine Lavery and Issie Kyle enjoyed a walk around the Aviation Museum after being at the Rock n Hop in Timaru.

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Ashburton College’s rowers are set to line up with the country’s best next week at the pinnacle event on the national secondary schools’ rowing calendar, the Maadi Cup. They’ll be one of the smallest teams there when the regatta kicks off at Lake Karapiro on Monday, but that hasn’t held them back in the past, and coach Justin Wall said it won’t hold them back again this time.

Wall started the long drive up to the Waikato lake on Thursday, with Ashburton College’s sev-

en boats in tow, while his young charges will fly up.

The school is sending a team of six rowers plus coxswains and they will compete in the girls’ under-18 pair, double, single and quad, and the boys’ under-17 single and double, and the under-16 single.

Last year, Ashburton College sent a team of nine rowers to the national event at Lake Ruataniwha and they came away with some outstanding results. Veronica Wall – who has now left school – won the under-18 single, the under-18 double with Mollie Gibson, and the under-18 quad with Gib-

son, Emma Stagg and Lara Biggs, while Gibson, Stagg, Biggs and Aidan Elvines were third in the under-17 quad, and Gibson won the under-17 single.

This year, Gibson is back for more and hopes are high that she’ll add more medals to her Maadi tally.

“We are looking forward to, obviously, good performances but we don’t want to say too much until we know what we have to do,” Wall said.

At recent regattas some of Ashburton’s young rowers have shown that they can do more than just

keep up with the South Island’s best, and now they are eager to test their skills against the country’s best and hopefully finish on the podium.

The Maadi Cup regatta will begin with heats on Monday and Tuesday, with repecharges and quarter-finals to take place on Wednesday, followed by C and D finals, and semi-finals, on Thursday. Friday and Saturday are the big days where all the A and B finals will take place.

Wall’s hopeful all Ashburton rowers will feature in those A and B finals, and maybe inspire their

school mates to follow in their footsteps in years to come.

Ashburton College’s rowing numbers have been down a bit over the past couple of years, but an open day just last weekend saw 18 prospective rowers head along for a look at what the sport entails.

“We are a small rowing school but we have been trying to increase numbers, and if most of the people coming to our open days come back, we will be doing well,” Wall said.

“We’ve got the lake, we’ve got the gear, we just need the numbers.”

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Donkeys again kings on court

Lake the place to be Lake Hood is set to be a hive of activity this weekend, with three major events taking place. The main body of the lake will host both the top of the South Island secondary schools’ sailing regatta and the South Island Dragon Boat Championships, while the water skiing area of the lake will play host to a water skiing tournament.

The Lake Hood Water Ski Club’s three event tournament will see water skiers compete in slalom, tricks and jump, and action will get under way at 8am both today and tomorrow. The dragon boat racing will get under way by 9am today, while the sailing event will run all weekend and wrap up on Monday.

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Preparing to send a ball back over the net during the final round of the Mid Canterbury Tennis Twilight Tennis competition on Wednesday evening was John Hetrick from the Electric Donkey Bottom Biters.

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A week of tennis prizegivings will continue today when the final acts of the Mid Canterbury Tennis A interclub competitions play out.

With daylight saving looming, the Mid Canterbury Tennis social competitions wrapped up during the week, with Twilight Tennis the first to finish up on Wednesday night.

The Electric Donkey Bottom Biters – one of the teams to beat in the competition for a few years now – proved to be hard to beat

again this year, with the team taking out the 2018/19 title.

Tridents were second and Hackers third.

Meanwhile, Thursday night’s round of Sunset Tennis was also the final one for the season.

Sunset Doubles was split into five different sections, and division one’s pre-Christmas title went to Crozier’s Turkeys, while the post-Christmas title went to Cates Grain and Seed.

Division two was split into an A and B section for the first time this season, with Geraldine winning both the pre and

post-Christmas division 2A title, and a new team to the competition this year, Agitated Panda, winning the pre-Christmas division 2B title.

Cream of the Crop took the post-Christmas division 2B title.

Division three was won by I’d Hit That pre-Christmas, and Willies Wonkers post-Christmas, while the Dorie Damsels won the ladies grade for the first time pre-Christmas, and the Wanna Bees took the post-Christmas title.

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up. The prizegiving will take place first, with Allenton having claimed the pre-Christmas title and Tinwald the post-Christmas title.

Play will still take place today though, with Tinwald taking on Fairton, Methven playing Southern and Allenton taking on Hampstead.

In the final day of A reserve action, the Allenton Kakapos would take on Hampstead, while the Allenton Wekas will play the Methven Diamonds. Southern/ Wakanui have the bye for the final round.

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Titan’s challenge Gold Coast’s forwards must step up for today’s NRL clash with Cronulla, with coach Garth Brennan viewing the Sharks as the competition’s toughest pack.

Brennan yesterday talked up the Sharks’ forwards, in particular representative stars Andrew Fifita, Aaron Woods and Paul Gallen.

He said the Sharks would be desperate to bounce back after last week’s defeat to Newcastle, and his own forwards would have to rise to the occasion.

“The boys understand they’re in for a tough afternoon, when you look at the middle that they’ve got in their team in Fifita, (Matt) Prior, Gallen and Woods – they’re all representative players,” Brennan said.

“There’s probably no bigger challenge than that Cronulla pack. They’re experienced, they’re hard, they’re tough and they’re very skilful. Our guys have got to stand up, they’re aware of that.”

The Titans are also seeking to bounce back from round-one disappointment after a 21-0 loss in torrential rain at home to Canberra.

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Black Caps captain Kane Williamson and teenage White Ferns star Amelia Kerr have taken home the big honours at the New Zealand Cricket Awards on Thursday night.

Both players claimed three awards apiece, with Williamson taking out the main prize, claiming the Sir Richard Hadlee medal as Men’s Player of the Year. His efforts in the test arena, scoring 801 runs over the season at an average of 89, saw him also named best test player, and win the Redpath Cup for firstclass men’s batting. Kerr, still only 18 years old, was named Women’s ODI Player of the Year and took home the Phyl Blackler Cup for domestic bowling, along with the Secondary Schools’ Female Player of the Year.

- NZME

Australia the danger Even before Australia upstaged India in unprecedented fashion, Pakistan stand-in skipper Shoaib Malik regarded them as one of the biggest threats at the World Cup. Aaron Finch’s team were widely written off as World Cup contenders, having endured a terrible slump in which they recorded four victories from their past 26 completed ODIs. That trot ended when Australia banked three constructive wins to complete a landmark series win in India. It marked the first time Australia have ever fought back from 2-0 down to win a fivematch ODI series and the first time India have ever lost a five-match ODI series after leading 2-0. - AAP

Gallen to retire Sharks veteran and former NSW State of Origin captain Paul Gallen has confirmed he’ll retire from professional rugby league at the end of 2019. Gallen, 37, has played 327 NRL games for Cronulla since his 2001 debut, as well as 24 games for NSW and 32 Australia tests. He captained the Sharks to their sole NRL Premiership triumph in 2016, and NSW to a droughtbreaking Origin series triumph in 2014.

- AAP

Cronk out injured Sydney Roosters star Cooper Cronk has been ruled out of today’s NRL clash with Manly because of a hamstring issue. The Roosters have drafted in playmaker Lachlan Lam after being granted approval by the NRL to bring him in from outside of their 21-man squad. It is expected Cronk will miss just one week before returning for the club’s round-three match against his former club Melbourne. - AAP

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 45

■ RUGBY

Celtic a force to be reckoned with

By Erin TaskEr

Erin.t@thEguardian.co.nz

When Willy Tahuri first coached a women’s rugby team, the team wasn’t taken all that seriously.

It was a fair few years ago now, back when Tahuri was living in the Hawke’s Bay. “It was a big joke back then, and that really got my goat,” Tahuri said.

The team was determined to prove their doubters wrong.

“It took a while, but we showed them,” Tahuri said.

Now, he’s back at the helm of a women’s rugby team – Ashburton Celtic’s first women’s rugby team – but the experience was proving to be a whole lot different this time around.

Women’s rugby was no longer living in the shadows of the men’s game and more and more women and young girls were keen to pick the sport up.

Tahuri had a team of more than 20 keen and committed women on the books, some of whom had never played the game of rugby before, but the team was already proving to be a force to be reckoned with.

In their first ever hit-out – a pre-season friendly against Burnside a couple of weeks ago – they romped home.

This weekend, the team will face their next big test.

They were in Queenstown for a Queenstown 10s tournament, and while Tahuri wasn’t there with them, he was confident they’d do well and come back far better players for the experience.

He is taking a one step at a time,

and one game at a time, approach to the season ahead but is happy with where the team is at.

“At the moment we are tracking well.

“All the girls are excited and looking forward to the new season,” Tahuri said.

Tahuri took hold of the side’s coaching reins just a few short weeks ago after a bit of a rugby coaching hiatus.

He had a sea of support behind

him, with coaches offering to help out where they could, and this week Hampstead senior men’s coach Shaun Bovey joined the side at their Monday night training session.

Tahuri’s son, Willy Tahuri Jr, was also there helping out and Tahuri Sr said the team was moving along really well.

“From where we started, to where we are now, it’s phenomenal really,” Tahuri said.

The Celtic women’s team would

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9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS’ MARKET. Lots of produce, products, hot and cold drinks and much more. See you there!

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

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

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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play one more pre-season game following this weekend.

That match will take place on March 30, the day the Celtic club’s senior men’s team will embark on their 2019 Luisetti Seeds Combined Country Cup competition campaign.

The draw for the Christchurch women’s competition – which the Ashburton Celtic team will be playing in – for the coming season was yet to be confirmed.

Above – Hampstead men’s rugby coach Shaun Bovey was at the Celtic women’s side’s training this week giving some helpful tips and pointers.

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Mar 23, 24 & 25, 2019 9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET. Children’s clothing, jewellery, Rawleighs, toys and more. West Street, car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open, 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.co.nz or phone 027 640 4094. Racecourse Road.

10.45am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf croquet club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club,

Cavendish Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association club days, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm (sharp) RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Afternoon meet. Turkey Trott (3km).

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ASHBURTON METHODIST CHURCH. Morning worship with Rev Heather Kennedy. Paterson’s Chapel, corner East and Cox Street. (note - new venue).

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Fourth Sunday of Lent. Harvest Thanksgiving, service led by Rev Eric Mattock , all welcome. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am ST PAUL’S/ST JAMES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Morning worship at Thomson Street, Tinwald led by Betty Watson. 127 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

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

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

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Holy Communion. Park Street.

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

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

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

11am ASHBURTON SAILING CLUB. Learn to sail weekly for 8 weeks, age 7 upwards. New extension area at Lake Hood.

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

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

9.45am PLAINS LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Annual General Meeting, Doris Linton lounge, RSA Rooms, Cox Street.

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

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN.

Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

Senior’s Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

12pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH.

Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, foyer entrance off Cass Street.

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

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

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed

most public holidays.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Monthly meeting with speakers Bruce and John Mia Flora Winchester. Domain Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Cambridge trio primed Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman will head into the Gr.2 Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ International Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga on Saturday armed with three strong chances.

They include dual Group Three winner Nicoletta, Group performer Camino Rocoso and in-form gelding True Enough.

True Enough will tackle blacktype company for the first time

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bit and what exactly his pet distance is and where he is best suited,” Forsman said. “1400m was a bit of a warm-up for this weekend last time and he was just a bit outpaced, So hopefully from (barrier) one he can jump and roll along and be somewhere near the pace.

“How he performs on Saturday will dictate whether we stick to the mile in this company or try him Lynsey Satherley rides Camino Rocover further (ground).”

- NZME oso in the Tauranga feature today.

Canterbury-Hororata gallops Today at Riccarton Raceway

Canterbury Racing-Hororata Venue Riccarton Park Meeting Date: 23 Mar 2019 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 12.20pm COCHRANES FARM MACHINERY $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2000m 1 x5541 Lady Bealey tdm (9) 59 ........ R Mudhoo (a3) 2 41622 Smoke House Bay t (8) 58.5 ....... C Johnson 3 27011 Te Quiera td (5) 58.5 .......... C Campbell (a2) 4 18021 Letsbringiton td (1) 58 ................. R Hannam 5 83350 Oligarch td (7) 58 .............................J Lowry 6 86958 Shanzino tdh (2) 58....... K Chowdhoory (a3) 7 83461 Producer (3) 55.5 ........................... J Parkes 8 82055 Head Office (4) 54.5..........................L Hemi 9 04462 Diorissimo m (6) 54 ........................S Wynne 2 12.55 SELWYN RAKAIA VET SERVICES $25,000, 3YO SW+P, 1400m 1 34457 Fire Show (5) 57.5 ............. C Campbell (a2) 2 31573 Highly Unlikely dh (7) 57.5K Chowdhoory (a3) 3 7501 Clooney (12) 57.5 ...........................J Laking 4 x3062 Khimar War tbh (13) 57.5 .................J Lowry 5 11 Our Hail Mary (10) 56.5 ................. J Parkes 6 0x223 Devious bh (1) 56 ............................D Turner 7 32332 Hombre b (6) 56 .......................... C Johnson 8 39276 El Bee Jack (11) 56 .............. R Mudhoo (a3) 9 32174 Severine th (3) 55.5..................... R Hannam 10 74060 Miss Valencia (9) 55.5 ....................S Wynne 11 21080 Exemplar h (4) 55.5 -

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“I think he is the sort of horse that is very genuine, he will jump and put himself on the pace and I don’t think he will shirk his task that’s for sure.”

The Tauranga feature will be a defining point in Camino Rocoso’s preparation, with his performance in the race dictating what path he takes in the future.

“Camino Rocoso is probably struggling to find his niche a little

on Saturday and his connections believe the five-year-old, who has won six of his 14 career starts, will acquit himself well at that level.

“I think he will measure up,” Forsman said. “Every time we raise the bar he keeps putting his hand up.

“While it is a handy even field, there are some classy performers and he is not really well off under the set weights and penalties.

12 69387 Devil’s Staircase 55.5 ................... Scratched 13 75420 Sentito h (8) 54 .................................L Hemi 14 77x58 Arnage (2) 54 ...............................T Moseley 3 1.30 PETERSENS JEWELLERS LADIES BRACELET $22,500, 2YO SW+P, 1000m 1 P7x He’s Got Power (1) 57 .................... J Parkes 2 Keep Quiet h (2) 57 .........................D Turner 3 94381 Rosarito h (7) 56.5 ........................ C Barnes 4 643x2 Diva Express (6) 55.....................L Callaway 5 445 Touchabeel b (4) 55 .................... C Johnson 6 2553 Our Rosette h (3) 55 ..... K Chowdhoory (a3) 7 Live Drama h (5) 55 .....................T Moseley 4 2.08pm R REDPATH LIMITED $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 23736 Carson River dh (10) 60 K Chowdhoory (a3) 2 27262 Sentient mb (1) 59.5 .........................L Hemi 3 64591 Bluey’s Chance 58.5 .................... Scratched 4 0x021 Titanium Jack th (12) 58.5................J Lowry 5 44345 Celtic Wonder b (7) 57 .............D Bothamley 6 91693 Magic Note th (2) 57 ......................S Wynne 7 46631 Quaintrelle th (3) 57 ....................... J Parkes 8 64921 Vouch tdh (11) 56.5 .........................J Laking 9 84345 Lady Byron td (8) 56 .......................D Turner 10 10026 Sure Is d (6) 56 ........................... R Hannam 11 31682 Frosted 55.5 ................................. Scratched 12 41576 Superstatic d (9) 55..................... C Johnson 13 96552 Stellacanto (4) 55 .........................T Moseley 14 69387 Devil’s Staircase m (5) 54 .....K Mudhoo (a1)

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2.42pm YALDHURST WOOLS & NZWTA $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1800m 1 81740 Aulyn Star (2) 60 ................G Saejorhor (a4) 2 981 Dermot h (1) 59 ............. K Chowdhoory (a3) 3 x2412 Just Push Play t (10) 59 ....................L Hemi 4 56516 Run Forrest Run t (7) 58.5 .............S Wynne 5 50444 Tony Two Chips (12) 58 ...... C Campbell (a2) 6 982P3 The Lustre b (5) 57 ..........................J Lowry 7 60448 Vee Twelve (11) 57 ..................T Jonker (a2) 8 59435 Morrellmac m (6) 56.5 ..................T Moseley 9 43619 Mowenna (4) 56 .......................... R Hannam 10 130x7 Sitarist (8) 56.................................. J Parkes 11 30x05 Thailand (9) 56 ............................ C Johnson 12 42168 Musee D’Orsay h (3) 55.5 .....K Mudhoo (a1) 6 3.19pm SEATON FAMILY MEMORIAL HORORATA GOLD CUP $35,000, OPN HCP, 1800m 1 26129 Boots ‘N’ All tdh (5) 61........ C Campbell (a2) 2 x9006 Tommy Tucker tm (2) 58.5 ................J Lowry 3 x36x0 Bloodstream th (6) 56 ....................S Wynne 4 33553 Timy Tyler tm (4) 54 ...........G Saejorhor (a4) 5 13410 Shezatoucha tdm (3) 54...............T Moseley 6 33211 Orepuki Lad m (7) 54 ........................L Hemi 7 51112 Anythingcouldhappn tdb (9) 54 ... C Johnson 8 46610 Smiling Assassin tmh (8) 54Chowdhoory (a3) 9 69561 Forged tmh (1) 54 .................K Mudhoo (a1) 10 51442 Pamir tbh (10) 54 ................. R Mudhoo (a3) 11 26304 Vantaa td (11) 54 .......................... C Barnes

7 3.53 SONIA & GARRY THOMPSON OPEN SPRINT

$35,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 45112 Johnny Jones td (4) 60 ...... C Campbell (a2) 2 11061 Gift Of Power dm (3) 59 .............. C Johnson 3 16x11 Disturbance tdh (7) 57.5 .................D Turner 4 0080x Luke tm (9) 54.5 .............................S Wynne 5 x967x Zawhip tdm (1) 54 ......................... C Barnes 6 72065 Koxinga d (6) 54 ......................T Jonker (a2) 7 28093 Pippi Rea td (2) 54 ...................... R Hannam 8 10274 Mr Typhon tdh (8) 54 ..... K Chowdhoory (a3) 9 x6106 Vendima tdh (10) 54 ..........................L Hemi 10 65672 Tickets On Her d (5) 54 ................T Moseley 8 4.33pm VALACHI DOWNS SOUTH ISLAND T’BRED BREEDERS STKS $80,000, F&M SW+P, 1600m 1 00433 Contessa Vanessa dm (7) 56 ...... C Johnson 2 44177 Flying Sardine tdm (5) 55 K Chowdhoory (a) 3 12931 Residential td (2) 55 .................... R Hannam 4 588x2 Wize Act tm (11) 55 ...................... C Barnes 5 28x55 Zentessa tdh (12) 55 .......................D Turner 6 54404 Feelin The Love tmh (1) 55 .......T Jonker (a) 7 21273 Zabay (3) 55 ......................... C Campbell (a) 8 22022 Shirley Maude d (8) 55.................T Moseley 9 33341 The Sparkle d (9) 55 ...................... J Parkes 10 x2112 Ataahuadreamsrfree tdh (10) 55 .......L Hemi 11 23355 Red River Rock dh (6) 55........K Mudhoo (a) 12 32043 Splendior d (4) 55 ..........................S Wynne 9 5.13pm PAT REARDON FAMILY & HORORATA SUPPORTERS $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m

1 11497 Hoofbeat d (8) 60.5 ..........................J Lowry 2 42337 Final Say td (7) 60 ................... K Asano (a4) 3 1131x Tuilana tm (13) 59 ................ R Mudhoo (a3) 4 33311 Jim’s Gift (4) 58 ............................T Moseley 5 4x8x2 Docket d (6) 58....................R Beeharry (a3) 6 610x5 Heberite dm (5) 57.5 .......... C Campbell (a2) 7 46813 King Kane tdh (3) 57.5 ................... J Parkes 8 61210 The Swiss Maestro tbh (12) 57.5Chowdhoory (a3) 9 75240 Lake Chalice tdh (2) 57 ............D Bothamley 10 x1274 Nuclear Fusion m (9) 56 ............. C Johnson 11 76x60 Odisha dmh (10) 56 .......................S Wynne 12 48451 Perfidia td (11) 55.5....................... C Barnes 13 72241 Touch The Sky d (1) 55.5 ................D Turner Blinkers on: El Bee Jack (R2), The Lustre (R5), Bloodstream, Vantaa (R6) Blinkers off: Te Quiera (R1), Vee Twelve (R5) Winkers on: Hombre (R2), Final Say (R9) Winkers off: El Bee Jack (R2), The Lustre (R5) SELECTIONS Race 1: Letsbringiton, Lady Bealey, Diorissimo, Te Quiera Race 2: Our Hail Mary, Miss Valencia, Severine, Clooney Race 3: Touchabeel, Rosarito, Live Drama, He’s Got Power Race 4: Celtic Wonder, Lady Byron, Sentient, Titanium Jack Race 5: Just Push Play, The Lustre, Thailand, Tony Two Chips Race 6: Boots ‘N’ All, Anythingcouldhappn, Vantaa Race 7: Gift Of Power, Mr Typhon, Johnny Jones, Disturbance Race 8: Contessa Vanessa, Zentessa, Flying Sardine Race 9: Nuclear Fusion, King Kane, The Swiss Maestro

Wairio harness

Today at Central Southland Raceway 12 50266 Phil’s Last Chance (11) fr .........B Williamson 13 876x0 G T Reactor (12) fr ..........................B Morris 14 5553 Lifeofbrian (13) fr.......................M Hurrell (J) 5 2.28pm DRAKE PLUMBING & DRAINLAYING MOBILE TROT $10,000, 3yo+ r40-r55., mobile, 1609m 1 66823 Crusher Collins (1) fr ............... N Williamson 2 81356 Nottingham K Two (2) fr ............E Barron (J) 3 600P Smokin Bandar fr ......................... Scratched 4 64100 Scarlett Lane (3) fr ...............S Tomlinson (J) 5 x00P0 Veneto (4) fr .................................... E Swain 6 2731x Horse Of Course (5) fr ............ M Williamson 7 Dx007 Thunder Buddy (6) fr..............A Beck 8 20557 Sugar Cane (7) fr ................ D D McCormick 9 54180 Larch (21) fr ...................................K Adams 10 52160 Flying Monkey (22) fr ................... A Lethaby 11 55960 Tolkien (23) fr .................................K Larsen 12 33532 Robbie Royale (U1) fr ................... B Barclay 6 3.08pm WINTON NIGHT ‘N DAY FOODSTORE MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r40-r51., mobile, 1609m 1 14095 Maahes (1) fr.....................................A Beck 2 32485 Chelsea Ella fr.............................. Scratched 3 07400 Black Ops (2) fr ........................B Williamson 4 88029 Excellent (3) fr ............................... K Barclay 5 73040 Paduka (4) fr .............................E Barron (J) 6 97x44 Iwanadancewitsumbody (5) fr . M Williamson 7 67846 Bettors Highlight (6) fr ............. N Williamson 8 7P030 Magnate Mara (7) fr ............................G Lee 9 07862 Triple VC (21) fr ............................. B Barclay 10 69500 Honour Scroll (22) fr......................... A Milne 7 3.43m TRANSPORT SERVICES MBL PACE $11,000, 3yo+ r52-r55., mobile, 1609m 1 76525 Lilac Becky (1) fr ..................... S O’Reilly (J)

2 150 Huntaway (2) fr.........................B Williamson 3 90470 Magnetic Watch (3) fr ............. J Morrison (J) 4 9568x Sportzstar (4) fr ....................... N Williamson 5 60358 Vin Scully (5) fr........................ M Williamson 6 71 Saginaw (6) fr...................................S Ottley 7 70927 Kotare Elite fr ............................... Scratched 8 201 For The Kitty fr.............................. Scratched 9 37176 Calico Hill (21) fr ...............................A Beck 10 05207 First Son (22) fr .............................B Orange 11 14796 The White Rabbit (23) fr .................K Larsen 12 5231x The Bull Pen (24) fr ....................... B Barclay 13 1 U May Cullect (25) fr ..................... K Barclay 8 4.23pm VET SOUTH EQUINE SOUTHERN BELLE S.S MOBILE PACE $12,000, w/c., mobile, 1609m 1 1x771 Ideal Gal (1) fr ...........................M Hurrell (J) 2 x9103 Naiya Franco (2) fr ...............S Tomlinson (J) 3 00521 Smoke N Reactor (3) fr ............. L McKay (J) 4 27220 Zenola’s Art (4) fr .......................... K Barclay 5 41521 Lilac Star (5) fr ........................ S O’Reilly (J) 6 x2145 Born To Boogie (6) fr ..................... B Barclay 7 11446 Raksbet (7) fr ...................................S Ottley 8 75137 Bridesdale Robyn (8) fr ..............C Ferguson 9 14194 Divinia Bellezza (21) fr ..................B Orange 10 11425 Rockabilly Blues (22) fr ........... N Williamson 11 19541 I’mallaboutthebase (23) fr ....... M Williamson 9 5.03 SOUTHLAND VEHICLE SALES MOBILE PACE $12,000, 3yo+ r56-r70., mobile, 1609m 1 30516 Triroyale Brigade (1) fr............. N Williamson 2 x4183 Donegal Art Chokin (2) fr .............. K Barclay 3 50841 Raffy Roo (3) fr .................................A Beck 4 59134 Nota Bene Denario (4) fr ............... B Barclay 5 64303 Benio Ben (5) fr ............................T Williams

6 52692 Pats Dragon (6) fr................... J Morrison (J) 7 8P129 Mucho Macho Man (7) fr ...........M Hurrell (J) 8 1511x Mongolian Cavalry (8) fr................B Orange 9 22312 Santanna’s Rocket (21) fr.........B Williamson 10 76788 Tiziano (22) fr ............................E Barron (J) 10 5.31 OTAUTAU VETS PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r40-r55, stand, 1609m 1 63667 Thaboyz Toy (1) fr .....................M Hurrell (J) 2 69192 Ardent Lustre (2) fr ........................B Orange 3 01 Altimeter (3) fr ..............................T Williams 4 240x0 Ideal Breeze (4) fr .............................A Beck 5 81504 Son Of Lana (5) fr ......................... B Barclay 6 54184 Shuzi (6) fr .............................. N Williamson 7 17088 Tad Lincoln (7) fr .................... S Walkinshaw 8 63434 Miss Waikiwi (8) fr ............................S Ottley 9 10839 Hurricane Banner (9) fr ........S Tomlinson (J) 10 34737 Groomsman (10) fr.................. M Williamson SELECTIONS

Racing Tauranga Venue: Tauranga Meeting Date: 23 Mar 8 91408 Khorabella (1) 54 ........................... S McKay 11 27143 Salt Bay (4) 54 ............................... J Bayliss 2019 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 9 62362 Walkin’ By (6) 54 .........................D Mansour 5 3.00pm SNOW WILLIAMS BAYLEYS REAL ESTATE and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 3 1.48pm TEAM WEALLEANS HANDICAP $25,000, HANDICAP $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 12.38pm RYAN BRADLEY BAYLEYS COMMER- Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 35617 The Glint (3) 59 .............................. S McKay CIAL MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1600m 1 82202 Stacey Ann d (1) 59 ....................T Thornton 2 61002 Alternative Fact tdm (9) 57.5 ...........S Collett 1 34424 Marbuzet (6) 57.5 .......................R Elliot (a1) 2 21439 Tightlign tb (2) 59 ............................ C Grylls 3 36569 Zah Wanted (1) 57.5 ...................... A Calder 2 43200 Charred (9) 57.5............................. A Calder 3 11352 Sinarahma (4) 58.5 ...........................L Innes 4 32210 Spring Delight d (2) 57 .................... C Grylls 3 263 On The Nighttrain (4) 57.5 ............M McNab 4 16855 Giant Gem (5) 58.5 ........................ J Bayliss 5 29507 Nocturnal (7) 56.5 .......................... J Bayliss 4 290x9 Hasabro (3) 57.5 ...............................L Innes 5 31172 Together (6) 57.5...........................M McNab 6 00x87 Arite Guru m (5) 55.5 ...................... R Jones 5 63748 Mont Ventoux (7) 57.5 .................... S McKay 6 9x021 Chill d (3) 56.5.................................S Collett 7 500x0 Freewheeler (6) 55.5 ...........................C Dell 6 66 Brawler (2) 57.5...............................S Collett 7 15018 Lauramia td (7) 56.5...... A Goindasamy (a3) 8 91x68 Wilijonmcbride (4) 55.5 ..............R Elliot (a1) 7 5877 Poppa’s Shock (5) 57.5 .................. J Bayliss 4 2.23pm TRITON PACIFIC OWENS PLATE $25,000, 9 25580 Rocanic d (8) 55..............M Hashizume (a4) 8 37333 Western Girl (1) 55.5....................... C Grylls Rating 72 Benchmark, 1200m 6 3.35pm DRYMIX CEMENT BAY OF PLENTY CUP 9 00707 Bingwa (8) 55.5 ..............................G Swann 1 17334 Born Dragon d (7) 60 .....................V Colgan $30,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 2100m 2 1.13 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES, $30,000, 2 5266x Justacanta dm (11) 59.5 ..... T Yanagida (a3) 1 32144 Roger That mh (2) 61 ...............N Bakar (a3) Rating 82 Benchmark Fillies and Mares, 1300m 2 59270 Farm Boy d (8) 59 .......................... S McKay 3 04346 Star Treasure (9) 58.5 1 900x0 Hasahalo (3) 60 ................................L Innes 3 72351 Felaar d (5) 58.5................................L Innes 4 22539 Short Fuse d (5) 58 ......................... C Grylls 2 33125 Pasabahce tm (5) 59.5 ...............R Elliot (a1) 4 42x56 Wide Awake d (4) 58 .....................M McNab 5 200x2 Santa Catarina m (2) 57.5.............M McNab 3 113x7 Honneur Noir d (4) 58.5 ..................S Collett 5 03978 Seventeen Seventy td (1) 57 .......... A Calder 6 45145 Virtuoso Lad d (10) 57.5 ................ S McKay 4 36522 Pop Star Princess td (2) 58 ........ L Satherley 6 42016 Justamaiz (6) 56 ............................V Colgan 7 x410x Fullinbloom d (3) 56 ........................S Collett 5 02212 Dama Zorro 57 ............................. Scratched 7 55133 Cha Siu Bao (3) 55.5 ...................... C Grylls 8 81910 No Finer Pins d (1) 56 ............J Fawcett (a1) 6 31839 Ladynadel (7) 57 ............................. C Grylls 8 13314 Artiste tdm (10) 55 .............. T Yanagida (a3) 9 x174x Lady Zeraph (6) 55.5 ..................D Mansour 7 40115 La Mia Stella (8) 56.5 ..................T Thornton 10 62362 Walkin’ By d (8) 54 9 22105 Lady Shabeel tdm (7) 54.5 Goindasamy (a3)

10 42046 Sunburst td (9) 54 ...................E McCall (a4) 11 42773 Red Sky At Night t (11) 54 ......... L Satherley 7 4.15pm WINDSOR PARK STUD JAPAN NZ INTERNATIONAL TROPHY $100,000, OPN-SW&P, 1600m 1 50x50 Endless Drama (4) 57 .................D Mansour 2 6x002 Hiflyer tdmb (14) 57 ........................S Collett 3 24148 Volpe Veloce tdm (9) 56 ................M McNab 4 32025 Tiptronic td (7) 55 ..............................L Innes 5 68369 Watch This Space tdm (5) 55 .........V Colgan 6 74139 Elusive Treasure dm (8) 55 ............ J Bayliss 7 51053 He’s Cavalier dm (10) 55.............T Thornton 8 11112 True Enough tdb (6) 55 ................... C Grylls 9 12382 The Mitigator d (13) 55................... S McKay 10 33806 Camino Rocoso d (1) 55 ............ L Satherley 11 70x00 William Wallace (2) 55.................... A Calder 12 47767 Nicoletta td (12) 54.......................R Elliot (a) 13 51823 Donna Anne Billy tdm (11) 53Goindasamy (a) 14 60x05 Vinevale (3) 53 ................................ R Jones 8 4.55pm CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS HANDICAP $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 74590 Light Shadow td (3) 60 2 54526 Bruegel (9) 59.5 ............................. A Calder 3 x0832 Civilised (10) 59.5 .............................L Innes

4 03355 Acutus (8) 59..................................V Colgan 5 02504 Scaglioni (2) 59 ................... T Yanagida (a3) 6 009x0 Staccato dm (12) 59...................R Elliot (a1) 7 21x58 Dragon Storm (4) 58.5 ....................S Collett 8 88754 Nothing Trivial td (6) 58.5 .........N Bakar (a3) 9 43874 Incantesimo d (7) 58 .......M Hashizume (a4) 10 99843 Elusive Meteor (5) 57 ..................... J Bayliss 11 55234 So You Sparkle (13) 57 .................. S McKay 12 x71x6 Ignored (11) 56.5 ............................ C Grylls 13 90338 O’Sam d (1) 55............................T Thornton Blinkers off: Arite Guru (R5), Hiflyer (R7) Winkers on: Brawler (R1), Arite Guru (R5) Pacifiers off: Khorabella (R2)

Wairio Trotting Club Inc Venue: Central Southland Raceway Meeting Date: 23 Mar 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 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 12.10pm WESTERN ELECTRICAL/FORDES PET FOOD TROT $10,000, non-winners 2yo+, stand, 1609m 1 07987 Global Flight (1) fr .........................R Jenkins 2 63347 Dora Explorer (2) fr ............. D D McCormick 3 60057 Pegasus Hanover (3) fr ........... M Williamson 4 66644 Robo Trouble (4) fr ........................ B Barclay 5 92 Big Iron (5) fr ............................... T Stratford 6 44765 The Power Broker (6) fr ................. A Armour 7 Majestic Rollon (7) fr ................. L McKay (J) 8 Cracker Hill (8) fr ......................B Williamson 9 7x33 Gazza Galleon (9) fr.................P Williamson 10 090x7 Rumand Coke (10) fr ............. J Morrison (J) 11 x8080 South Park (U1) fr .......................... P Hunter 2 12.46 DT KING CO LTD/WINTON’S TOP PUB MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+., 1609m 1 Eliza Mach (1) fr ...........................T Williams 2 Montefalco (2) fr ........................M Anderson 3 4 Slate (3) fr .........................................A Beck 4 07008 Snowy Dana (4) fr ...............................C Lee 5 67 Melton Mafia (5) fr ...............................G Lee 6 0 Hazer (6) fr .................................... B Barclay 7 68 Hampton (7) fr ...............................B Orange 8 79 Surazal (8) fr .................................... A Milne 9 x0009 Lisa Rocks fr ................................ Scratched 10 32438 Don’t Need An Excuse (21) fr ...E Barron (J) 11 52379 Rebel With A Grin (22) fr ..................S Ottley 12 Jaccka Ted (23) fr .................... N Williamson 13 08 Tommys Reactor (U1) fr ......... S Walkinshaw

14 500 Lock It In Eddie (U2) fr .............B Williamson 15 24858 Flaming Jim (U3) fr ................. M Williamson 3 1.21 MORRIS CONTRACTING LTD FILLIES & MARES MBL PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m., 1609m 1 66 Rakabeach (1) fr ......................B Williamson 2 4060x Fraud (2) fr ................................M Hurrell (J) 3 Tulsa Jaccka (3) fr ................... N Williamson 4 58009 Swift Robyn (4) fr .......................C Ferguson 5 9 Victoria Calling (5) fr .................E Barron (J) 6 07008 Snowy Dana (6) fr ...............................C Lee 7 950 Opal (7) fr ....................................B McLellan 8 0698 Bettor Lady (8) fr ......................... J Alford (J) 9 Stunin Magic (21) fr..........................S Ottley 10 42403 Tara Bromac (22) fr .......................B Orange 11 20056 Betterthanspraying (23) fr ............. B Barclay 12 42 Southern Rain (24) fr ..........................G Lee 13 03242 Delight (25) fr ...............................T Williams 14 Fire Bug (26) fr .....................S Tomlinson (J) 15 39575 Thisexcusebetterbeit (U1) fr ... S Walkinshaw 4 1.56 EARL DRAKE BUILDER PACE $10,000, nonwinners 3yo+, stand, 1609m 1 07008 Snowy Dana (1) fr ...............................C Lee 2 3228 Classy Kid (2) fr ........................... A Lethaby 3 0D623 Kiwi Bloke (3) fr .......... J Morrison (J) 4 00x52 Depend On Washie (4) fr .............T Williams 5 x609x Articulate (5) fr ...............................K Larsen 6 200 Finn The Belligerent (6) fr ....... N Williamson 7 93887 Delight N Gold (7) fr ........................ E Swain 8 64 Play Ball (8) fr................................ B Barclay 9 x7608 Rakagem (9) fr ..........................E Barron (J) 10 0x0 Baia do Sancho fr ........................ Scratched 11 925 Luvtahavtime (10) fr ...................... K Barclay

M2 Tauranga gallops

Race 1: Big Iron, Cracker Hill, Global Flight, Gazza Galleon Race 2: Montefalco, Slate, Don’t Need An Excuse, Hazer Race 3: Fire Bug, Delight, Southern Rain, Tara Bromac Race 4: Classy Kid, Luvtahavtime, Lifeofbrian, Kiwi Bloke Race 5: Crusher Collins, Sugar Cane, Horse Of Course Race 6: Bettors Highlight, Iwanadancewitsumbody, Maahes Race 7: U May Cullect, Huntaway, Lilac Becky, First Son Race 8: Rockabilly Blues, Divinia Bellezza, Bridesdale Robyn Race 9: Santanna’s Rocket, Nota Bene Denario, Donegal Art Chokin Race 10: Ardent Lustre, Miss Waikiwi, Groomsman, Thaboyz Toy

LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Today at Tauranga Raceway

SELECTIONS Race 1: On The Nighttrain, Hasabro, Marbuzet, Poppa’s Shock Race 2: Hasahalo, Honneur Noir, Pasabahce Race 3: Sinarahma, Together, Tightlign, Chill, Stacey Ann Race 4: Fullinbloom, Short Fuse, Walkin’ By, Born Dragon Race 5: Spring Delight, The Glint, Nocturnal, Wilijonmcbride Race 6: Felaar, Cha Siu Bao, Artiste, Roger That, Wide Awake Race 7: Volpe Veloce, Endless Drama, The Mitigator, True Enough Race 8: Civilised, Ignored, Bruegel, So You Sparkle

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 47

Hugo out to show who’s boss The John Bary-trained Hugo The Boss will be aiming to add a seventh win to his tally tomorrow when he lines-up in the LJ Hooker & McHattie Realty Ltd (1000m) at Tauherenikau.

Bary (right) elected to bypass last weekend’s Listed Lightning Handi-

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ace barrier for Sunday has further boosted his confidence.

“I was really pleased with that run against some better horses,” Bary said. “He was strong to the line and is just a happy horse. He is against some good ones but I expect a good run from the nice draw.” - NZME

Waimate harness Tomorrow at Waimate Racecourse

Waimate Trotting Club Inc Venue: Waimate Racecourse Meeting Date: 24 Mar 2019 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.07pm HAREWOOD TAVERN AMATEUR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r55, up-r69., mobile, 2600m 1 07054 Zulu Courage (1) fr....................... R Sissons 2 49500 Beaudiene Gambler (2) fr ............J Reardon 3 28280 Doc Seelster fr ............................. Scratched 4 34320 Caesar’s Quest (3) fr ........................W Frost 5 70600 Alexy (4) fr ...................................... C Negus 6 77990 Kansas City Jim (5) fr................ N Chalmers 7 08777 Highland Reign (6) fr ...................M Stratford 8 00034 Fortune Tiller (7) fr ............................ W Low 9 03790 Russian Express (21) fr 10 54810 Trompeur (22) fr ............................ B Wilmott 11 31386 Royal Jester (23) fr............................A Edge 12 45282 Gabby’s Star (24) fr .................. G Sinnamon 13 05890 Flamboyant (25) fr .............................P Cook 14 60309 Vigoroso (U1) fr............................... T Quate 2 12.37 THE TYRE GENERAL PACE $8000, non-winners 2yo+, stand, 2000m 1 7x942 Amethyst (1) fr..................................R Close 2 Shez Gorgeous (2) fr .....................T Chmiel 3 23885 Franco Hatton (3) fr .....................T McMillan 4 8220 Tiz A Sweetheart (4) fr ................C DeFilippi 5 00656 Goodthingstaketime fr .................. Scratched 6 45304 The Diva (5) fr ..................................S Ottley 7 0x275 Living Fantasy (6) fr ................ M Williamson 8 88632 Ultimate Swift (7) fr .................... D Keast (J) 9 Jaeden (8) fr ................................ B Hope (J) 10 980x3 Sherry Baby (9) fr............................B Munro 11 549 Fusitua (10) fr................................... G Ward 12 20728 Magical Mellissa (11) fr ...................J W Cox 13 7 Midnight In Memphis (12) fr 14 947 The Fonz (13) fr ...................... C D Thornley 15 9 Makasar Boy (14) fr...................... G O’Reilly 16 62432 Victor Tango (15) fr................. J Morrison (J) 17 03 Last One Grin (16) fr ....................M Heenan Emergencies: Goodthingstaketime, Jaeden, Midnight In Memphis

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track just played against us, so we thought we’d hold him for Tauherenikau where we will get a better footing.”

Bary was pleased with Hugo The Boss’ last start third placing behind Group winners Gift of Power and Passing Shot and drawing the

cap (1200m) with the five-year-old gelding in favour of Tauherenikau and he expects Hugo The Boss to continue his strong formline.

“He has had a great season,” Bary said.

“We were going to run him in the Lightning, but obviously the

3 1.12pm KIRK IRRIGATION MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 2yo+., mobile, 1700m 1 97268 Mach O’Melley (1) fr ................ M Williamson 2 00656 Goodthingstaketime (2) fr .............. K Barron 3 64570 Dreaminsover (3) fr ......................T Williams 4 7 Midnight In Memphis (4) fr ..............J W Cox 5 Jaeden (5) fr ................................ B Hope (J) 6 78800 Lilac Change (6) fr ...........................S Ottley 7 830x0 Comfortably Numb (7) fr ...................J Dunn 8 8x6 Delight Of Texas (8) fr ..................J Versteeg 9 00x60 Mongolian Machete fr .................. Scratched 10 98552 Markham Eyre (21) fr .............K Newman (J) 11 60 President Pat (22) fr .......................N Burton 12 52588 The Last Straw (23) fr ...............M Anderson 13 06049 Aveross Spitfire (U1) fr .....................J Young 14 095x7 Nui May Tau fr .............................. Scratched 4 1.47 FARMLANDS WAIMATE & MCMILLAN EQUINE FEEDS TROT $8000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2000m 1 02653 Sierra Gold (1) fr ...........................R Holmes 2 42067 Sunrise Spur (2) fr........................J Versteeg 3 63347 Dora Explorer (3) fr ............. D D McCormick 4 76746 Hang On Suzie (4) fr .....................B Orange 5 08782 Muchacha Bonita (5) fr......................J Dunn 6 93233 Desert Wings (6) fr ......................C DeFilippi 7 0874 Amulet (U1) fr.................................. G Smith 8 8x9x Mdina (U2) fr ...................................... C Butt 9 04780 Majicion (U3) fr.............................T Williams 10 x6430 Clyde (U4) fr............................ C D Thornley 11 x0890 Ken’s Dream (U5) fr ........................L Dobbs 12 x0560 Razor (U6) fr .............................M Anderson 13 D9500 Aorangi (U7) fr .............................. K Townley 14 L4522 Superfast Lad (U8) fr ........................S Ottley 5 2.22 PINELEA FARMS F&M MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ f&m., mobile, 1700m 1 800 Nicole (1) fr ................................ D Keast (J) 2 94245 Canstar (2) fr ..................................T Chmiel 3 06023 Already Gone (3) fr ...................M Anderson 4 20000 Social Media (4) fr .......................T McMillan 5 85357 Laydeenwaiting (5) fr.................... S McNally 6 76077 Szybka Lane (6) fr............................ G Telfer 7 90224 Been To Jenny’s (7) fr ................ K Cameron 8 50830 Beaudiene Overtake (8) fr......K Newman (J)

14 00097 Gorilla Playboy (U4) fr ...................B Orange 15 20557 Sugar Cane (U5) fr.............. D D McCormick Emergency: Sugar Cane 8 4.07 SOUTH FUELS KEEPING INDUSTRYS MOVING MBLPACE $9500, r40-r50., mobile, 1700m 1 00683 Franco Riot (1) fr .......................... A Lethaby 2 1802P Star Paige (2) fr ................................S Ottley 3 0x694 Scotlynn Harry (3) fr ..............B Laughton (J) 4 66036 Hot Starff (4) fr ............................. S McNally 5 17074 Ripsnorter (5) fr...................... J Morrison (J) 6 97700 Spicy Girl Becqui (6) fr .................T Williams 7 58037 Pat Campbell (7) fr ...........................J Young 8 27103 Bella Veloce (8) fr ...........................T Chmiel 9 21658 That Alexander Guy (21) fr..........C DeFilippi 10 54522 The Doorman (22) fr .......................J W Cox 11 12779 Aveross Rustler (23) fr ............... D Keast (J) 12 00520 Dying To See You (24) fr.................. G Smith 13 29265 Bush Man (25) fr ..................... M Williamson 14 P9613 Bird Of Paradise (26) fr .............M Anderson 15 0254x Playboy Prince fr .......................... Scratched 16 59052 Paul’s Verdict (27) fr .........................R Close Emergencies: The Doorman, Playboy Prince 9 4.42pm WHITESTOCK LIVESTOCK WAIMATE CUP HANDICAP PACE $14,999, 3yo+ r56+ discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 18146 Doctor Tim (1) fr ........................... G O’Reilly 2 32285 Spot On (2) fr .................................. G Smith 3 16441 Machsgain (3) fr ............................. K Barron 4 35754 Overarm (4) fr ................................T Chmiel 5 7609x Bringitonhome (5) fr .........................S Ottley 6 64409 Go Davey (6) fr......................B Laughton (J) 7 60730 Johnny Eyre (7) fr ..................K Newman (J) 8 76213 Johnny White (U1) fr ....................T Williams 9 00905 Mogul (1) 10M ...............................J Geddes 10 2P012 Onedin Reign (2) 10M.......................J Dunn 11 10221 Three Ideas (U1) 10M ............. C D Thornley 12 43350 My Wee Man (1) 25M....................B Orange 13 13821 Airpark Flyer (1) 35M .............. M Williamson 10 5.17pm STALLIONS AUSTRALIASIA HANDICAP TROT $10,000, 3yo+ r54-r80 discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 12600 Highland Star (1) fr....................M Anderson 2 90285 Dusky Eyre (2) fr ..............................R Close

42100 One Apollo (3) fr........................... S McNally 40767 Red Hot Rocket (4) fr ...................... G Smith 00015 Zeddie Marit (5) fr .........................B Orange 95132 Clifden Clowers (6) fr ........................J Dunn 13800 I’ldoitmyway (7) fr ................... J Morrison (J) 13412 Sunny Glenis (8) fr .................... R Anderson 50385 One Over Dover (9) fr ............. C D Thornley 06041 Sods Law (U1) fr ...........................J Geddes 87258 Rebel Kibbybones (U2) fr .................... J Hay 35698 Red Hot Poker (1) 10M .................... G Telfer 28625 We’ll Meet Again (1) 20M ................. J Smith 45125 Trick Star (2) 20M.............................S Ottley 55149 Time For Diamonds (3) 20M .............. J Ford 11 5.52pm IRT MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r51-r60., mobile, 1700m 1 7710x Unico Enchantress (1) fr ............. B Hope (J) 2 54522 The Doorman (2) fr 3 23180 Bella Roza (3) fr ..............................J W Cox 4 04313 Sister’s Delight (4) fr.........................S Ottley 5 97941 Pembrook Blue (5) fr ........................J Young 6 4413 Just Wondering (6) fr ........................... J Hay 7 40090 Leading The Way (7) fr ........... J Morrison (J) 8 529x3 Stun Gun (8) fr ..............................B Orange 9 07590 Donegal Carrickfin (21) fr ..................J Dunn 10 56819 Mr Midnight (22) fr........................ G O’Reilly 11 51005 Bobby T (23) fr ...........................R Cameron 12 48519 God Only Knows (24) fr .................. G Smith 13 14470 Essence Of Easton (25) fr....... M Williamson 14 61262 Mad Lu Li (26) fr..................................K Cox 15 96145 Melt Down (U1) fr .........................M Heenan SELECTIONS

1000 $12,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1000m CUP R72 1600 $20,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 6 Here Comes Trouble (1) 55.5 1 49058 Casaquinman d (3) 59.5 .................D Turner 1 4107x Guy Fox m (2) 60.5 .............. S MacNab (a2) 7 Hydroexpress (11) 55.5 2 18140 Lucyinrio (7) 59 ........................M Singh (a2) 2 17631 Pep Torque td (9) 59.5......... C O’Beirne (a3) 8 5x Samurai Girl (4) 55.5............. H Andrew (a2) 3 16113 Hugo The Boss td (1) 59 ............. C Johnson 3 100x0 Centre Attention dm (10) 59.....M Singh (a2) 9 Bella Sorella (6) 55.5 ......................D Turner 4 3350x Stradivarius m (6) 58.5 .............. D Hirini (a1) 4 40165 Red Cloud dm (3) 59...................... J Parkes 10 Lady Godiva (10) 55.5................. C Johnson 5 05170 Bring To The Block m (2) 55.5 ...........L Hemi 5 2527x Zartan dm (7) 59 ................... H Andrew (a2) 11 Sweet Fields (7) 55.5 .................R Elliot (a1) 3 2.05pm FAST TRACK INSURANCE & EQUIVETSNZ 6 x9716 Island Bay (5) 54.5 .....................R Elliot (a1) 6 60216 Awesome Al t (6) 56.5 .....................D Turner 7 34233 Grand Mayson (8) 54 ......................S Collett 7 23025 Rosetta d (1) 56.5 MDN 2200 $10,000, MDN, 2200m 8 08219 Carillion db (4) 54........................ R Hannam 8 21531 Atlanta Peach d (8) 56 ....................S Collett 1 Citizen Niall (10) 58.5................ D Hirini (a1) 2 997 Reveille (11) 58.5 .................S O’Malley (a3) 5 3.15pm FAGAN FORD LVN WOOL HANDLERS R65 9 34622 One Prize One Goal (5) 56 ...............L Hemi 10 515x1 Platinum Rapper m (4) 55 ........... C Johnson 2050 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2050m 3 6000 Senor Pinyata (3) 58.5 1 99x05 Dal Kilchoan m (8) 59.5 ....................L Hemi 7 4.25pm PGG WRIGHTSON R65 1400 $10,000, Rat4 67322 Bella Nero b (1) 56.5 ........... C O’Beirne (a3) 2 x6421 Uncle Bro (1) 59 ............................. J Parkes ing 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 5 75566 Red Red Robin (9) 56.5 ........ H Andrew (a2) 3 08371 Granite Ridge m (5) 58.5 ...... H Andrew (a2) 6 8845 Aquarium (6) 56.5 ......................R Elliot (a1) 1 12252 Platinum Wild Card d (2) 60 ........ R Hannam 4 23323 Katiem Marie (4) 58 ............. S MacNab (a2) 7 x0677 Road To Reign (5) 56.5 ...................S Collett 2 0x323 Harlem ‘N’ Co d (8) 58.5............. Z Moki (a2) 5 8100x La Jungles (9) 58 ....................... Z Moki (a2) 8 She’s Divine (4) 56.5 ................... C Johnson 3 x5241 Wallaceville d (3) 58.5 ..........S O’Malley (a3) 6 52315 Hypatia (3) 56.5 ..............................S Collett 9 6x070 Shockaine (7) 56.5 ................ H Durrant (a4) 4 41222 Lodi (5) 58 .......................................S Collett 7 50154 Stunning td (6) 56.5 .................... R Hannam 10 76544 Quatromosa (8) 56 ......................... J Parkes 5 44706 Prosecco m (1) 57.5..........................L Hemi 8 54643 Sophia Magia m (7) 56....................D Turner 11 53468 Flying Meg (2) 56 ..............................L Hemi 6 x086F Whatsup (12) 57.5 ................ H Andrew (a2) 9 x09x5 Galway Lil (2) 55.5 .............. C O’Beirne (a3) 12 80646 Viva La Platinum (12) 56 ............. R Hannam 7 129 Chickaberinda td (11) 56.5............. J Parkes 4 2.40pm LJ HOOKER & MCHATTIE REALTY LTD R82 6 3.50pm KURIPUNI SPORTS BAR TAB MASTERTON 8 43175 Car Pie (6) 56............................ D Hirini (a1)

9 53617 Hingis d (4) 56............................R Elliot (a1) 10 x3307 Leighs Mate (9) 56 ...................M Singh (a2) 11 6000x The Cossack t (10) 55.5 .............. C Johnson 12 998Px Mr Ink m (7) 55...................... H Durrant (a4) Blinkers on: Hunter Villain (R1), Media (R2), Centre Attention (R6), Chickaberinda, Leighs Mate, Mr Ink (R7) Blinkers off: Viva La Platinum (R3), The Cossack (R7) Winkers off: Media (R2), Centre Attention (R6) SELECTIONS

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73900 Diamond Shadow (21) fr ...................J Dunn Lottie Moon (22) fr........................ G O’Reilly 04659 Katie Daly (23) fr 08 I Miss Mum (24) fr .................B Laughton (J) 238x Jessie Kelly (25) fr....................... B Hope (J) 68776 Dream On Jaffa (U1) fr..................R Holmes 6 2.57pm BRIAN LOW MEMORIAL/WAIMATE VET CENTRE PACE $9500, 3yo+ r40-r55, stand, 2000m 1 90044 Ideal Rule (1) fr ............................ A Lethaby 2 931 Artfilly Crafted (2) fr ..........................S Ottley 3 67713 Frankie Jones (3) fr ................. M Williamson 4 5341 Mighty Monica (4) fr ......................B Orange 5 36949 Unfinished Business (5) fr ...........C DeFilippi 6 54102 Myboylolliepop (6) fr ..............B Laughton (J) 7 1 Tiebreaker (7) fr ........................... G O’Reilly 8 12325 Just N Awe (8) fr ......................... B Hope (J) 9 31250 Gotta Future (9) fr .............................J Dunn 10 x4331 Iknow (10) fr ........................................ J Hay 11 03790 Russian Express (11) fr ............. D Keast (J) 12 26454 I’m Jimmy James (12) fr ................ K Butt (J) 13 00089 Pay Me Visa (13) fr...........................R Close 14 4x600 Em Ay (14) fr ....................................J Young 15 69316 Smirken (15) fr ....................... J Morrison (J) 16 1 Miss Daytona (16) fr ......................J Geddes 17 54921 Pine Cone (17) fr........................ K Cameron Emergencies: Unfinished Business, Russian Express, I’m Jimmy James 7 3.32 AON INSURANCE TROT $9500, 3yo+ r40-r53, stand, 2600m 1 88650 Topnotch Eagle (1) fr..................... K Butt (J) 2 00980 Milliondollarmonkey (2) fr ..................J Dunn 3 40008 Holly Trouble (3) fr ........................ G O’Reilly 4 63492 BK Dawn (4) fr .................................J Young 5 40034 Count Eyre (5) fr ..............................R Close 6 52108 Easy Pickings (6) fr ..................... B Hope (J) 7 60321 Lone Star Lad (7) fr ..........................S Ottley 8 98051 Ideal Invasion (8) fr ................. S O’Reilly (J) 9 01329 Stellar Success (9) fr.............. J Morrison (J) 10 12900 Tequila Sunset (10) fr ................. K Cameron 11 67070 Dolly Jones (U1) fr .......................... G Smith 12 97603 Rusty I Am (U2) fr ........................ P Wakelin 13 0060x Mickey Jay (U3) fr ................... M Williamson

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Race 1: Fortune Tiller, Gabby’s Star, Trompeur, Caesar’s Quest Race 2: Ultimate Swift, The Diva, Amethyst, Shez Gorgeous Race 3: Jaeden, Midnight In Memphis, Markham Eyre Race 4: Desert Wings, Superfast Lad, Sierra Gold, Clyde Race 5: Canstar, Jessie Kelly, Already Gone, Been To Jenny’s Race 6: Tiebreaker, Just N Awe, Mighty Monica, Frankie Jones Race 7: Lone Star Lad, BK Dawn, Easy Pickings, Count Eyre Race 8: Bella Veloce, Bird Of Paradise, Hot Starff Race 9: Airpark Flyer, Johnny White, Onedin Reign Race 10: We’ll Meet Again, Clifden Clowers, Sunny Glenis Race 11: Sister’s Delight, Mad Lu Li, God Only Knows

Masterton gallops Tomorrow at Tauherenikau Raceway

Masterton RC Venue: Tauherenikau Meeting Date: 24 Mar 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 12.55pm (NZT) FARMLANDS GALLAGHER FENCING MDN 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 245x3 Hunter Villain (2) 58.5 ................. C Johnson 2 9x242 Outthegate (8) 58.5 ....................R Elliot (a1) 3 Almo Costa (4) 58.5 ....................... J Parkes 4 8x3 Lincoln Hanover (9) 58 ................ R Hannam 5 0x3 Royal Inn (1) 58..................... H Andrew (a2) 6 3877 Greystone (3) 58 .............................S Collett 7 Semper Magico (6) 58 ....................D Turner 8 6 Golden Pera (7) 56...................M Singh (a2) 9 Ancheta (5) 56 .......................... D Hirini (a1) 2 1.30pm PER INCANTO MDN 2YO 1000 $10,000, MDN 2YO, 1000m 1 29x43 Media (9) 57.5 ...................................L Hemi 2 73 Regal Reward (2) 57.5 .........S O’Malley (a3) 3 5x5 Springsteen (3) 57.5 .......................S Collett 4 Eleventhour (5) 57.5....................... J Parkes 5 6222 Miss Sweet Pee b (8) 55.5 .......... R Hannam

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Race 1: Outthegate, Lincoln Hanover, Royal Inn, Golden Pera Race 2: Regal Reward, Sweet Fields, Eleventhour, Lady Godiva Race 3: Bella Nero, Aquarium, Viva La Platinum, She’s Divine Race 4: Stradivarius, Hugo The Boss, Casaquinman, Carillion Race 5: Katiem Marie, Uncle Bro, Hypatia, Stunning Race 6: Platinum Rapper, Awesome Al, One Prize One Goal Race 7: Chickaberinda, Lodi, Wallaceville, Harlem ‘N’ Co

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

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium 1 32536 Pat Tama 30.60 ................................ S Clark Meeting Date: 24 Mar 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 53241 Opawa Pink 30.81 W & ...................T Steele 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 3 53875 Hey Khali 30.90 U & ..........................Cottam Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 4 22225 Little Moo 30.50 U & .........................Cottam 1 1.21pm (NZT) SPEEDMAPS @FORMPRO RATINGS 5 3348F Salvarotti 30.70 .................................B Craik 6 62774 Jack No Lag 30.89 ......................... Y Castro SPRINT C1, 318m 7 15545 Monsoon Malabar 30.93 U & ............Cottam 1 28642 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R &...........................L Udy 8 56366 Jinja Twist 30.62 W & ......................T Steele 2 27665 Aussie Dame 18.92 .........................P Green 9 64565 Talkabout Sophie 30.95 ...................M Black 3 67434 Scott No Value 18.51 .....................S E Hunt 4 24456 Jinja Liv nwtd U & .............................Cottam 10 17578 Peekay Shout nwtd U & ....................Cottam 5 26755 Red Dee 18.53 ................................P Green 4 2.14 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT 6 42342 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R & ..................L Udy C1, 318m 7 51826 Decision 18.79 ................................. S Clark 1 66768 Yella Ella 18.79 R &.............................L Udy 8 7F737 Clausen Jewel nwtd R & .............N O’Regan 2 76555 It’s A Must 19.11 W & ......................T Steele 9 48457 Smalltime Johnny 19.02 A & ...........Williams 3 26543 Waiterimu Ripper 18.80 R & ...............L Udy 10 46877 El Hefe nwtd ................................. D R Laing 4 42452 Opawa Loyal 18.69 .......................... S Clark 2 1.39pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C0, 318m 5 63875 Botany Laraine 19.06 ......................P Green 6 24724 Bigtime Monty 18.67 .................... H Mullane 1 2 Bold Diesel nwtd ............................. T Green 7 86436 On Demand 18.54............................M Black 2 88766 Magic Eight Ball nwtd R &...........N O’Regan 8 34272 Karaoke Prince 18.98 R & ..........N O’Regan 3 2 Ashen nwtd .......................................B Bond 9 36654 Bigtime Winnie 18.90 A & ...............Williams 4 73347 Shozip Ruby nwtd ...........................T Patton 5 8455 Coober Pedy nwtd R &................N O’Regan 10 87753 Sly Cath nwtd A & ...........................Williams 6 62478 Firecracker nwtd A & .......................Williams 5 2.31pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STAKES C3, 527m 7 4 Call Me Leo nwtd ............................ T Green 1 84417 Idol Ajay 30.90 W &.........................T Steele 8 31 Thrilling Massey nwtd ..................... K Walsh 2 17231 Born Quick 30.87 W &.....................T Steele 9 44847 Bigtime Claws nwtd A & ..................Williams 3 76217 Gao Gao 30.81 .............................. G Farrell 10 7 White Fire Opal nwtd R & ...........N O’Regan 4 33435 It’s A Danger nwtd ..........................C Henley 3 1.56pm PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES STKS 5 26375 Stay Rich nwtd M & .......................... J Smith 6 15663 Jetsun Singer 30.73 .......................G Wilson C1/2, 527m

7 56168 Zugzwang 30.99 ............................ S O’Neill 8 66526 Jetsun Doll 30.88 ...........................G Wilson 6 2.49pm LAST ONE STANDING SPRINT C2, 318m 1 48283 Talkabout Izzy 18.81 .......................... D Ray 2 87735 Scott The Looks 18.76 U & ...............Cottam 3 14838 Bright Concept 18.79 R & ...................L Udy 4 44436 C’est L’Amour 18.67 ..........................B Craik 5 41783 Nasa 18.78........................................B Craik 6 12656 Banjo Hope 18.94 A & ....................Williams 7 3x111 Only Seconds 18.54..................... H Mullane 8 43524 Nexus 18.60 ................................... G Farrell Emergencies: 9 43676 Mega Munchies 18.61 U &................Cottam 10 85674 Gotcha Millie 18.65 ...................... H Mullane 7 3.06pm $15,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 STAKES C1, 527m 1 38873 Sir Kinloch 31.03 .............................. S Clark 2 72134 Crackling Gal 30.91 U &....................Cottam 3 23366 Just Maddie nwtd .............................M Black 4 83186 Talkabout Ziggy 30.95 ........................ D Ray 5 17456 Secret Rory 30.98 .......................... G Farrell 6 64444 Bear Claws 30.81 W & ....................T Steele 7 75532 San Tan Samson 30.68 ................... T Green 8 36385 Home Bound nwtd R & .......................L Udy 9 75754 Vince Fawn 31.04 ...........................S Codlin 10 54564 Opawa Velocette 30.86 W &............T Steele 8 3.24 QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 318m 1 11814 Tres Vite 18.60 ................................T Patton 2 25341 Jetsun Paint 18.53 .........................G Wilson

3 35167 Wong Way 18.27 U & ........................Cottam 4 52886 Bigtime Victory nwtd .................... H Mullane 5 37171 Junk Mail 18.43 W & .......................T Steele 6 48146 Disclaimer 18.60 .............................P Green 7 42115 Just One Smile 18.25 ........................B Craik 8 4x163 Kiwi Boy 18.18 U & ...........................Cottam Emergencies: 9 11275 On Da Quest 18.59 R & ......................L Udy 10 45258 Alex Attack 18.38 U & .......................Cottam 9 3.42pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 72242 Botany Wayne nwtd ........................P Green 2 13434 Guru’s Choice 18.80 A &.................Williams 3 24852 Blocker 18.57 R & .......................N O’Regan 4 21143 Bigtime Champ 19.01 A &...............Williams 5 43215 Sings Like Elvis nwtd ....................... S Clark 6 78131 Token Jasper nwtd ........................... S Clark 7 72737 Opawa Big 18.87............................ G Farrell 8 45411 Always Dreaming 18.58 ................. G Farrell 9 43524 Nexus 18.60 ................................... G Farrell 10 48283 Talkabout Izzy 18.81 .......................... D Ray 10 3.59pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STAKES C4/5, 527m 1 21464 Go Angel 30.70 .............................. G Farrell 2 72612 Cameo Syd 30.45 .............................B Craik 3 17246 Tianyu 30.62 .................................. G Farrell 4 23673 Ramblin’ On 30.46 W & ...................T Steele 5 31454 Heart Shaped Box 30.50...................B Craik 6 66426 Jinja Might 30.42 U & ........................Cottam 7 66116 Jinja Bailey 30.36 U & .......................Cottam

8 86132 Ti Amo 30.73.....................................B Craik 9 32785 Amy Amy 30.47 .............................. G Farrell 11 4.16pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C3/4, 318m 1 17346 Manila Bala nwtd R &..................N O’Regan 2 21258 Your Valentine 18.57 .........................B Craik 3 35536 Nangar Panther 18.53 ....................C Henley 4 45123 Jinja Mongo 18.34 W & ...................T Steele 5 4628x Asserting Power nwtd .................... S O’Neill 6 F8271 Bombshell Blonde 18.62 .............. H Mullane 7 815F1 Irinka Stono 18.74 R & ................N O’Regan 8 71856 It’s Pawsible 18.61 ..........................P Green Emergencies: 9 18688 Was Just Saying 18.59 R &.................L Udy 10 34235 Vee Marina 18.76 U & .......................Cottam 12 4.34pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C3, 318m 1 67617 Unconscionable 18.61 R & .................L Udy 2 14312 Jetsun Bear 18.65 ..........................G Wilson 3 63833 Amazing Contact 18.58...................S Codlin 4 24156 Cawbourne Cool 18.68 ..............K T Herbert 5 27656 Podium Phobia nwtd .................... H Mullane 6 17651 Barwon Bandit 18.68......................S E Hunt 7 74562 Beat The Butcher 18.36 R & ...............L Udy 8 24413 Bigtime Dean 18.75 A &..................Williams 9 3428x Out Of Paper 18.81 .................... G Pomeroy 10 34235 Vee Marina 18.76 U & .......................Cottam LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Applications to be received no later than 4pm Monday, April 1, 2019.

PUBLIC NOTICES Mount Hutt College/Lauriston School

Community Consultation Meeting 27 March 2019, 7pm The Mount Hutt College/ Lauriston Primary School Board of Trustees (board) are seeking your feedback on a proposed change to the way the board operates. We are considering changing the existing structure from the current Mount Hutt College/ Lauriston School combined board and split it into two separate boards; one for each school. We know this is an important decision and are seeking feedback from the school community, school staff and previous board members on this matter. Any proposed change to the structure of our board will require sign off by the Minister of Education.

We will be holding a community consultation meeting at Mt Hutt College Hall, March 27, 2019 at 7pm. At this meeting there will be opportunity for discussion and questions.

This will be followed up with a community survey where you can formally provide feedback on the proposed changes. I hope you will be able to join us at the consultation meeting to gain a full understanding of this matter and provide a valuable community perspective.

For further information please see: http://mounthuttcollege.co.nz/board-of-trustees/board-consultation-information Richard Fitzgerald, Chairperson Board of Trustees Mount Hutt College and Lauriston School

Scottfresh produces a year-round supply of high quality fresh vegetables which are distributed via our market partners to consumers throughout New Zealand. Please visit www.scottfresh.co.nz for our full company profile.

In this permanent, full-time position, you will report to the Business Manager and work between Spotswood and Conway Flat in North Canterbury. Candidates with either limited or extensive experience will be considered. Modern accommodation will be provided for you if required, whether you are single or have a family.

This position will encompass both administrative and operational areas of responsibility, which will suit a person who wishes to be exposed to all aspects of a vegetable post-production operation. If you have agronomic skills and wish to lead our field trial programmes, there is an option for you to do so.

International travellers form a significant portion of our seasonal workforce, so your ability to successfully recruit and connect with these young people will ensure an ongoing upbeat and enjoyable work environment.

You will lead the business in the following areas: • Recruitment & in-field leadership of the logistics, harvest and post-harvest teams • Customer communication, supply planning and forecasting • On-farm H&S compliance, NZ GAP, HACCP Your areas of competency will include: • Either a relevant tertiary qualification or experience in an agri production environment • Willingness to work both in-field and perform key administrative functions • Strong attention to detail, leadership and team building skills To speak about this role in strict confidence or to request a position description, please phone Deb Francis from AgRecruit on 021 224 5000. Otherwise, send your CV and covering letter via www.agrecruit.co.nz by Sunday 31 March 2019.

We specialise in agri-business

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Teacher Aide Vacancy 15 Hours per week

You will be working on a fixed term contract alongside children in Years 1-8, Monday to Thursdays 9am -12.45pm.

There is a possibility of extra hours.

Applications to: anthony@dorie. school.nz Applications close Tuesday, April 9, 2019.

Russell Moon & Fail is one of Ashburton’s long standing founding legal practices.

Our firm has a proud tradition of quality service to the rural and urban communities of Ashburton and the greater Mid Canterbury area. We offer a full range of specialist legal services to our client base both in Mid Canterbury and beyond.

ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT This entry-level position has been newly created to provide extra support to our reception and administration team. The role will consist of reception and telephone, archiving, database administration, and general administration duties.

The ideal candidate will have: • Excellent written and spoken English; • Sound computer skills and a good knowledge of Microsoft Office products; • Willing and able to learn quickly; • The ability to remain calm under pressure; • A friendly personality and willing to help out where required.

This position will give you a great base knowledge of how a legal office operates and provide you with good skills to advance your career with ongoing training and support.

Please apply in writing with a brief CV by Wednesday, April 3 to: Nerida Jemmett, Russell Moon & Fail PO Box 22, Ashburton 7740 Or by email to: nerida@rmf.co.nz

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TRADES, SERVICES

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Pete’s Tours Phone 027 432 1681

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Minimum group booking 14 people. $20 pp + $200 for the driver.

Free luggage trailer.

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TRADES, SERVICES COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For professional computer servicing and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place. Phone 308 8989. Locally owned and serving Ashburton for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

Supergold discount card welcomed.

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

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Our firm has a proud tradition of quality service to the rural and urban communities of Ashburton and the greater Mid Canterbury area. We offer a full range of specialist legal services to our client base both in Mid Canterbury and beyond.

SENIOR LEGAL SECRETARY We require the services of a senior legal secretary to provide high quality work in our busy estates and property departments.

The ideal candidate for this role will have: • Strong Microsoft Office skills, with the aptitude to pick up new systems and processes quickly; • Experience providing administrative support in a legal or professional services environment; • A high level of attention to detail and accuracy, and the ability to effectively prioritise tasks; • Excellent written and spoken English; • The ability to deliver outstanding customer service to clients and thrive on working to deadlines, be conscientious about your own work and offer proactive support to others; • Flexibility in your approach and a willingness to help other people when needed; • Enjoy working in a team environment.

In return we offer a competitive remuneration package based on the successful applicant’s skill and experience, as well as a great working environment with our modern office, current technology and our strong focus on staff well-being.

We would be happy to discuss possible job flexibility options with the right candidate.

Please apply in writing with a brief CV by Wednesday, April 3 to: Nerida Jemmett, Russell Moon & Fail PO Box 22, Ashburton 7740 Or by email to: nerida@rmf.co.nz

Gardener and Mower Operator Our Open Spaces team manage and maintain 86 parks and reserves through our district. While their work is physically demanding, the results of their effort go on show for the entire community to see, providing much satisfaction.

Performing a range of tasks such as spraying, weed trimming, pruning and daily mower and general maintenance, we are looking for someone who is mechanically minded to join our team.

Our standard working week is Monday to Friday, eight hours each day starting at 7.30am.

GRAZING

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

FOR SALE

SCOOTERS - new and secondhand three and four wheel-electric scooters and wheel-chairs.

Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton GRAZING wanted for store today. Phone 308 3602. lambs, top money for top feed.

Phone Mitch 027 313 1320.

AKAROA - CHARMING, GARDENING spacious holiday home, three LIME chip for sale - Westside bedrooms, two bathrooms, Hire, 171 Alford Forest Road. all electric heating. Sky, $38 per scoop. Call now on 308 all mod cons, short walk 0006. Compost and bark too. to village. Phone Brian Pick-up and delivery options. can even hire a trailer!

307| Members 8000 or 308 6180.

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An exciting full time position has become available in our Ashburton Clinic for a Receptionist/ Customer Service. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic person passionate about the industry, with outstanding communication skills to build relationships with our clients.

This is a pivotal role in our practice and involves answering telephones, attending to farming and small animal customers, booking appointments, liaising with our vets, stock ordering, office administration tasks, and some inventory management responsibilities.

If you are highly organised, share our passion for delivering outstanding customer service, with the skill and empathy to positively interact with customers with a high degree of professionalism, we would love to hear from you.

Please apply with a hand written letter and enclose your Curriculum Vitae to: Practice Manager Canterbury Vets Ltd 363 West Street, Ashburton Or email saraht@canvet.co.nz Applications close Wednesday, 27 March 27, 2019.

Health & Safety Advisor We are looking for a dynamic person to join the team as an Advisor who has knowledge and experience in applying health and safety.

This role is about coaching and mentoring our clients to enable them to build their health and safety capability, while providing specialist/ good practice Health and Safety advice and guidance.

We are looking for an experienced consultant or advisor who knows how to build client relationships with a good ability to translate legislative requirements into everyday language to deliver simple and effective health and safety services.

If this sounds like your next opportunity, then apply with a cover letter and CV today to:

BUSINESS NOTICES

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers GRAZING required for lambs. Must be good quality and have handling facilities.

All options considered.

Phone 027 632 6168.

Canterbury Vets is a mixed animal veterinary practice, serving the mid Canterbury community for over 20 years with clinics in Ashburton and Methven.

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

Applications close Sunday, 31 March 2019.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Ashburton Clinic – Full Time

info@cp.org.nz

To find out more about this vacancy and what the Ashburton District Council has to offer you - go to our website.

BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horses and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

SITUATIONS VACANT

Receptionist / Customer Service

Russell Moon & Fail is one of Ashburton’s long standing founding legal practices.

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LAGMHOR Community Society Inc (LSCI) – AGM – The LSCI AGM will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 5.45pm at Lagmhor School, 739 Tinwald, Lagmhor Westerfield School Road, Ashburton. All interested parties welcome.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ASHLEY, attractive available for appointments. Gentleman welcome.

No texting.

Phone 021 0275 9055.

ASIAN ladies, Sasa 20 years old, slim size 6, Weini 28 years old size 8 34DD, busty, two girls good time special, $200 half hour full service. Phone 021 046 4314.

CELESTE available by appointment and Kate will be available Friday. No texting please. Phone 021 146 1569.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL HOUSE for Rent - Three bedroom with large living/ kitchen/dining area. Available immediately. Pets allowed subject to conditions. Princes Street, Netherby. Phone 027 221 1408 or 3021 814.

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

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

General Maintenance / Mower Operator Our Open Spaces team proudly manage and maintain 86 parks and reserves through our district. While their work is physically demanding, the results of their effort go on show for the entire community to see, providing much satisfaction.

Performing a range of general maintenance tasks on facilities and playgrounds throughout the district and assisting with mowing during the busy season, this role guarantees variety and would suit a ‘handy’ person.

To find out more about this vacancy and what the Ashburton District Council has to offer you - go to our website.

Applications close Sunday, 31 March 2019.

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

Practice Nurse Part-time - Two days per week (days to be agreed) Sealy Street is an established General Practice in Ashburton with a fantastic team of nurses, GPs and administrative staff. We are entering an exciting time as we prepare to shift into a new building on Tancred Street. We are focused on making continual improvements to our service to ensure we are providing the best possible care for our patients. Our new building will allow us to better serve the people of Ashburton. For these reasons we are looking for an additional nurse to work two days per week.

We are looking for someone who: • Holds a current Annual Practising Certificate and a current CPR certificate • Is passionate about pursuing best practice in primary health nursing and is focused on continual improvement • Wants to join a supportive and enthusiastic team • Has a genuine interest in progressive models of care Knowledge of MedTech 32 would be an advantage as would a current vaccinator’s certificate.

We expect to expand our services so there is likely to be opportunities to grow the role and increase hours for those with the availability to do so.

Do not hesitate to contact us for a position description or if you have any other questions: tony.dann@eastfieldhealth.co.nz 022 0232 955 To apply, please email a current CV and cover letter to Tony Dann at the above address before Monday, April 1.

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Dinner Date

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BRAVO 10am Beverly Hills Pawn 3 10:28 The Dish PGR 3 10:30 Dance Moms 3 11:30 Dance Moms 3 12:28 The Dish PGR 3 12:30 Top Chef – Just Desserts PGR 3 1:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 2:28 The Dish PGR 3 2:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 3:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 4:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 I’m Having Their Baby 3 7:30 Botched PGR 3 8:30 Vanderpump Rules AO 9:30 Unanchored AO 10:33 The Dish PGR 3 10:35 Summer House AO 11:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3

SUNDAY

12:20 Infomercials 3 5am Flipping Out 3

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6am Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:20 Custard’s World 3 0 6:30 Ducktales 3 0 6:55 Ben 10 Reboot 3 0 7:05 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 7:25 Future-Worm! 3 0 7:50 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 8:15 Lego Ninjago – Masters Of Spinjitzu 3 0 8:40 Beyblade Burst Evolution 3 0 9am We Bare Bears 3 0 9:15 Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man v The Sinister 6 0 9:35 Dragon Ball Super 3 0 10am Fresh 10:30 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 0 11am Suburgatory PGR 3 0 11:30 Alone Together PGR 0 Noon Love Connection 0 12:55 Instant Hotel PGR 0 2:05 Living Biblically 0 2:35 Splitting Up Together PGR 0 3:05 America’s Funniest Home Videos 4pm Puppies Make You Laugh Out Loud 0 5pm F Travel Guides 0 6pm The Middle 0 6:30 The Big Bang Theory 3 0

6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Fishing And Adventure 7:30 Infomercials 0 9am Whanau Living 0 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Tipping Point 10:55 Hell’s Kitchen Australia PGR 0 Noon 800 Words PGR 3 0 1pm Location, Location, Location 3 0 2pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 3pm Flipping Profit! 0 3:55 Gino’s Italian Escape 4:25 Extreme Cake Makers 3 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

12:35 Rizzoli And Isles AO 3 0 1:30 Coronation Street CatchUp 3 0 3:30 Infomercials

TVNZ 2

7pm M How To Train Your Dragon PGR 2010 Animated Adventure. A young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to them than he assumed.

8:50 M Blended AO 2014 Comedy.

11:10 M The Prestige AO 2006 Drama. 1:30 M Gimme Shelter AO 2013 Drama. 0 3:15 Scandal AO 3 4:45 Young And Hungry PGR 3 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 Religious Infomercials

Nightwatch

11:30pm on Prime

SKY 5 6am Montana Wild M 6:55 The Simpsons PG 9:55 Pawn Stars – UK PG 10:20 MacGyver M 11:15 Supernatural MVS 12:05 Grimm MV 1pm The Flash MVS 1:50 Supergirl MVS 2:45 Arrow MVS 3:35 Marvel’s Runaways M 4:30 The Simpsons PG 7:30 MacGyver M Angus ‘Mac’ MacGyver works for a clandestine organisation within the US government, relying on his unconventional problem-solving skills to save lives.

8:30 Ice Road Truckers PG As the roads melt beneath the drivers’ wheels, Art Burke must keep his rig above ground on a melting ice crossing.

9:30 Appalachian Outlaws M 10:30 Montana Wild M 11:30 The Simpsons PG SUNDAY 2:30 The Flash MVS 3:25 Supergirl MVS 4:20 Arrow MVS 5:10 Marvel’s Runaways M

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6am Charles Stanley 6:30 The Project 3 7:25 Infomercials 9:30 NewsHub Nation An in-depth weekly current-affairs show hosted by Simon Shepherd and Emma Jolliff. 0 10:30 The Bachelor NZ PGR 3 A steamy single date sees old flames reignite; a date card like no other reveals a surprising twist, catching everyone off guard. 0 11:35 Restaurant Revolution PGR 3 12:45 Anh Does Brazil 3 1:40 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:10 The Goldbergs PGR 0 2:35 Drop The Mic PGR 3:05 Survivor – Edge Of Extinction 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Nella The Princess Knight 0 6:25 Duck Dodgers 3 0 6:50 The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7:15 Danny Phantom 3 7:40 Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 8:05 Teen Titans 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Justice League PGR 10am Raw PGR 3 11am SmackDown PGR 3 Noon Football – English Premier League 3 1pm Flog It! 3 2pm NRL Try Time 3pm IRT Deadliest Roads PGR 3 4pm Netball – Premiership (HLS) 5pm Fishing Classics Continuing their Wairarapa adventure, the team’s goal is to live off the land, not just fishing, but also going an early-morning boar hunt. 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm 100 Day Renovation 0

6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 7am Waiata Mai 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Pipi Ma 3 7:50 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Smooth 3 8:30 Pukana 3 2 11am Basketball – Fiba World Cup Qualifiers (RPL) 11:30 Both Worlds 3 12:30 Paki Vault 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Junior National Championships (HLS) 2pm Basketball – College Nationals (RPL) 3pm Haati Grassroots Rugby 3 4pm Waiata 3 4:30 My Reggae Song 3 5pm Fresh 5:30 Moteatea 3 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Money For Nothing 7am Britain’s Ancient Tracks With Tony Robinson 8am Baggage Battles 8:30 Tigers About The House 9:30 Saving Lives At Sea 10:30 Jamie’s Comfort Food 11:30 Gardeners’ World 12:30 Help! My House Is Falling Down 1:30 Restoration Home 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Baby Animals 4pm James Martin’s French Adventure James’s culinary tour of France leads him to the Camargue region, where he barbecues a local fish, learns about the region’s fleur de sel, and tours a rice farm in time for the harvest.

5pm Brother v Brother 6pm Mysteries At The Museum

7pm M How To Train Your Dragon 2 PGR 3 2014 Family Fantasy. Hiccup and Toothless must unite to save the future of men and dragons. 0 9pm M Eddie The Eagle PGR 2016 Comedy. Story of an underdog and Olympic hopeful who won the hearts of sports fans, despite being reviled by the sporting establishment. 0

7pm WhichCar 0 7:30 Scorpion PGR 0 8:30 3rd Rock From The Sun PGR 0 9pm Married With Children PGR 3 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (DLY) Hurricanes v Stormers. 0

7pm M Ferngully – The Last Rainforest 1992 Family.

The magical inhabitants of a rainforest must save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.

8:30 M Tracks PGR 2013 Adventure Drama.

10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7pm American Idol 9pm M Up In The Air AO 2009 Drama. A businessman travels the country firing people, leading an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected, and grounds him.

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga.

11:20 M Almost Famous AO 3 2000 Drama. A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on tour.

Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson. 0 1:30 Infomercials 5am Brian Houston 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Nightwatch AO 3 During the week of Mardi Gras, the busiest time of year for the first responders in New Orleans, Titus and Dan find themselves swimming through a sea of people to help an injured man. 0 12:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6am Murder On The Orient Express MC 2017 Crime.

Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp.

7:50 Who Took My Daughter? 16VLC 2017 Thriller.

Katie Boland. 9:20 Amityville – The Awakening MVLC 2018 Horror. Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

10:45 The Greatest Showman PG 2017 Drama.

Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron.

12:30 Murder On The Orient Express MC 2017 Crime.

Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp.

2:20 Marrowbone 16VSC 2018 Horror. George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy. 4:10 Megan Leavey MVLS 2017 Drama.

Kate Mara. 6:05 Atomic Blonde 16VLSC 2017 Action.

Charlize Theron, James McAvoy.

8pm Unsane 16VLC 2018 Thriller. When a young woman is unwillingly committed to a mental institution, she finds herself being confronted by her greatest fear of all. Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard.

9:40 The Hitman’s Bodyguard 16VL 2017 Action.

11:35 Save This Dance PG 2018 Romance.

6:55 Bruce Almighty ML 2003 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston.

8:35 The Help MC 2011 Drama. Emma Stone, Viola Davis.

10:55 Armageddon ML 1998 Action. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Liv Tyler.

1:20 Thirteen Days ML 2000 Drama. Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood.

3:45 Seabiscuit MC 2003 Drama. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges.

6:05 Kate And Leopold PGL 2001 Romance. Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman.

8pm After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi. One thousand years after cataclysmic events led humans to leave Earth, a crash landing leaves a teenager and his father stranded on Earth.

Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

9:45 Cinderella Man MV 2005 Drama. Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger.

SUNDAY

12:05 The Last Castle MVL 2001 Drama. Robert Redford, James Gandolfini.

SUNDAY 2:15 Nothing But Trailers 12:55 The Directors – David MVLSC 2:30 Thirteen Days ML Yates PG 1:25 Marrowbone 2000 Drama. Kevin Costner, 16VSC 2018 Horror.

Bruce Greenwood.

3:15 Megan Leavey MVLS 2017 4:55 Seabiscuit MC 2003 Drama. 5:10 The Hitman’s Drama. Tobey Maguire, Bodyguard 16VL 2017 Action.

Jeff Bridges.

11pm #whiuatepatai AO 3 Kaumatua.

11:30 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Valspar Championship – Round One. 7am L Golf – PGA Tour Valspar Championship – Round Two. From Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbour, Florida. 11am Golf – PGA European Tour (HLS) Maybank Championship – Round Two. 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Highlanders.

Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Sky Sports News 1pm Football – UEFA 2020 (HLS) European Qualifiers.

2pm The Kiwi Football Show 2:30 L Football – ISPS Handa Premiership Semifinal Two. 4:30 Rugby – Pro14 (RPL) Edinburgh v Leinster.

6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Blues v Highlanders.

7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Hurricanes v Stormers.

From Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

9:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Crusaders.

From the SCG, Sydney.

11:50 L Rugby – Super Rugby Sunwolves v Lions.

From Singapore.

SUNDAY

2am L Rugby – Super Rugby Bulls v Chiefs.

From Pretoria. 4:10 L Rugby – Super Rugby Sharks v Rebels.

From Durban.

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

11pm Brother v Brother Midnight Baby Animals 12:30 Baggage Battles 1am Mysteries At The Museum 2am James Martin’s French Adventure 3am M Up In The Air AO 2009 Drama. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga. 5am Building The Dream

SKY SPORT 2 6am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Dragons v Rabbitohs.

From Jubilee Stadium, Whanganui.

8am L Rugby League – Super League Castleford Tigers v St Helens.

From Mend-A-Hose Jungle, Castleford, England.

11:15 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Broncos v Cowboys.

From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

1:15 The Professor’s Farewell Tour 1:45 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Friday.

Raiders v Storm; Broncos v Cowboys.

2:15 #SkySpeed 2:40 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Jets v Mounties.

From Shark Park in Woolooware.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL Sharks v Titans.

From Shark Park, Cronulla.

7pm L Rugby League – NRL Knights v Panthers.

From McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Sea Eagles v Roosters.

From Lottoland, Sydney.

SUNDAY

Midnight Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Shark v Titans.

2am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Dragons v Rabbitohs.

2:30 L Cycling – MilanoSanremo 5:30 #SkySpeed 23Mar19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Treehouse Masters PG Jeffersonian Honeymoon Suite. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:10 American Monster M Live by the Sword.

10am Evil Lives Here M In the Lion’s Cage. 10:50 Web Of Lies PG With Friends Like These. 11:40 Air Rescue PG 12:05 Air Rescue PG 12:30 Expedition Unknown PG Genghis Khan’s Tomb.

1:20 Jay Leno’s Garage PG One of a Kind. 2:10 Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman PG Rally Time. 3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 Expedition Unknown PG The Real Robin Hood.

4:45 Expedition Unknown PG Hunting Vampires.

5:40 Expedition Unknown PG Blackbeard’s Hidden Gold. 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Deeper Dive PG 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 10:15 The Very Edge Of China PG 11:05 Expedition Unknown PG 11:55 What On Earth? PG

SUNDAY

12:45 Strange Evidence PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 The Last Alaskans PG 3:15 The Last Alaskans PG 4:05 The Last Alaskans PG 4:55 The Last Alaskans PG 5:45 The Last Alaskans PG

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Sunday, March 24, 2019 TVNZ 1

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6am F Extreme Road Rescue 0 6:50 Tiny House Nation 7:40 Tagata Pasifika 8:05 Praise Be 8:35 Death Threat 0 9:10 20/20 0 10am Marae PGR 2 0 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Attitude 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Sunday 0 12:55 Tiny House Nation 1:50 Our Big Blue Backyard 0 2:55 Location, Location, Location PGR 3:55 Tipping Point Lucky Stars 4:55 The Celebrity Chase With Natalie Anderson, Patsy Kensit, Esther Rantzen, and Brian McFadden. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm Country Calendar 0 8:30 Victoria PGR 0 9:30 Deception AO 0 10:30 F Apple Tree Yard AO 3 0

11:30 Romper Stomper AO Kane’s takeover of Patriot Blue gathers momentum; after a failed ambush at a Patriot Blue funeral, Antifasc strikes back, inflaming racial tensions. 0 12:35 Attitude 3 0 1:05 Coronation Street CatchUp 3 0 3:05 Infomercials

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6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Puppy Dog Pals 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!!

And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7:15 Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7:35 KC Undercover 3 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 Noon The Bachelorette PGR 3 0 1:50 This Is Us 3 0 2:45 Home And Away Omnibus PGR 0 5pm Castaways Matt attempts a dangerous swim to another part of the island and finds two other Castaways; the thought of splitting resources amongst the trio becomes reality. 0 6pm The Middle 0 6:30 The Big Bang Theory 3 0 7pm M 2012 PGR 2009 Action.

An academic researcher leads a group of people in an attempt to counteract the apocalyptic events predicted by the ancient Mayan calendar for the year 2012.

John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet.

10:05 Ambulance Australia PGR 11pm M Blade AO 1998 Action. A half-vampire, half-human warrior is intent on stopping an evil bloodsucker from achieving world domination. 0 1:10 Love Island Australia 3 0 2:10 Infomercials 2:40 The Undateables 3 3:30 Quantico AO 3 0 4:15 Infomercials 4:45 Step By Step 3 5:30 Infomercials

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MOVIES PREMIERE

The Celebrity Chase 4:55pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am Flipping Out 3 6:45 Flipping Out 3 7:35 Flipping Out 3 8:25 Flipping Out 3 9:10 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 9:58 The Dish PGR 3 10:05 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 10:50 Beverly Hills Pawn 3 11:15 I’m Having Their Baby 3 12:05 Backyard Envy 3 12:58 The Dish PGR 3 1pm Dance Moms 3 2pm Dance Moms 3 3pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 3:58 The Dish PGR 3 4pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 5pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6pm Backyard Envy 7pm Million Dollar Listings Los Angeles PGR 8:30 Emma Willis – Delivering Babies AO 9:30 Intervention Canada AO 3 10:33 The Dish PGR 3 10:35 Newlyweds – The First Year AO 11:30 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

PRIME

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Life TV 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 3 0 10:50 Getaway 3 11:15 Big Angry Fish (Starting Today) 3 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – The Grid 1:30 Motorsport – Pro7 (HLS) 2pm Motorsport – NZV8 Ute Racing Series (HLS) 3pm Motorsport – US Formula Drift (HLS) 4pm Motorsport – BNT V8s (HLS) Round Six. 5pm XVenture Family Challenge 0 5:30 Road Cops 3 A motorist reaches high speeds attempting to escape from the police; a car’s dodgy paint job has an officer suspecting it is stolen. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Married At First Sight Australia PGR 0 8:30 M No Strings Attached AO 2011 Comedy. A man and woman try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but before long they learn they want something more.

0 10:40 M Admission AO 3 2013 Comedy.

7:05 Atomic Blonde 16VLSC 2017 Action. Charlize Theron, James McAvoy. 9am Unsane 16VLC 2018 Thriller. Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard. 10:40 Save This Dance PG 2018 Romance. Lexi Giovagnoli, Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Brant Daughtery. Noon The Adventure, 8:30pm on Prime Directors – David Yates PG 12:30 The Hitman’s Bodyguard 16VL 2017 SKY 5 Action. Ryan Reynolds, 6am Last Man Standing Samuel L Jackson.

PG 6:25 The Flash 2:30 Crooked House MVS 7:15 Supergirl PGLS 2017 Drama.

MVS 8:05 Arrow MVS Max Irons, Stefanie Martini.

9am Marvel’s Runaways 4:25 Inconceivable 16VLS M 9:50 Supernatural 2017 Thriller. Gina Gershon, MVS 10:45 Survivor Nicky Whelan. 6:10 Father – San Juan Del Sur PG Figures MLSC 2017 Comedy.

11:40 Ice Road Truckers Owen Wilson, Ed Helms.

PG 12:35 Appalachian 8pm Rampage MVC 2018 Outlaws M 1:30 Raw MVC Action. A genetic experiment 4:15 SmackDown MVC gone awry turns a kind-hearted 6pm Main Event MV ape into a rampant creature of 7pm Last Man Standing PG enormous size, resulting in a 7:30 Survivor – San Juan Del global crisis. Dwayne Johnson, Sur PG Naomie Harris.

8:30 Scorpion ML 9:50 Stronger 16VLSC 2017 9:30 Scorpion ML Drama. Jake Gyllenhaal, 10:30 Supernatural MVS Tatiana Maslany.

11:25 Survivor – San Juan 11:45 The Exception Del Sur PG 16LS 2016 Drama.

Christopher Plummer, MONDAY Lily James.

12:15 Million Dollar Car Hunters PG 1:05 Last Man MONDAY 1:30 Father Standing PG 1:30 Main Figures MLSC 2017 Comedy.

Event MV 2:20 Million Owen Wilson, Ed Helms.

Dollar Car Hunters PG 3:25 Rampage MVC 2018 3:10 Supernatural MVS Action. Dwayne Johnson, 4am Last Man Standing Naomie Harris. 5:10 Crooked PG 4:25 Scorpion ML House PGLS 2017 Drama.

Max Irons, Stefanie Martini.

5:10 Scorpion ML

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CHOICE

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon Agatha Raisin PGR 3 0 1pm University Challenge 3 0 1:30 Superior Donuts PGR 3 0 2pm The Great Indoors PGR 3 2:30 Paddington Station PGR 3 0 3:30 Great Rail Restorations 3 0 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers A young Kent couple living in France make sacrifices to keep their dreams alive; in Andalusia, a Briton deals with being a single mother and running her new hotel.

6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 7am Waiata Mai 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Pipi Ma 3 7:50 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Smooth 3 8:30 Fitness In The Whare 3 9am Swagger 9:30 Grid 10am Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 10:30 Wild Kai Legends AO 3 11am Our Songs 3 11:30 R&R Noon Ride Or Die 3 12:30 Waka Warriors 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Nationals 2pm M Ferngully – The Last Rainforest 1992 Family. 3:30 Waka Ama Sprints 4:30 Gate To The Globe 3 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 7:30 Prime Planet – Modern Dinosaurs 0 8:30 Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure PGR 0 9:30 60 Minutes PGR 10:30 Skinny Brides To Fat Wives PGR 0

7pm Whaikorero 3 7:30 Artefact 3 8:30 M The Namesake 2006 Comedy. Raised as a first-generation American, a man must balance his life in New York with the cultural traditions of his Indianimmigrant parents.

Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan.

10:35 Te Ao – Maori News 3

11:30 Rugby League – NRL (DLY) Warriors v Tigers.

From Campbelltown Stadium in Sydney.

1:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) 2:30 Closedown

11:05 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 Ngati Kohanga Reo ki Tauranga Moana.

11:35 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 7:15 People Interview – Ryan Reynolds 2016 Featurette.

7:55 After Earth MV 2013 Sci-fi. Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

9:40 Cinderella Man MV 2005 Drama. Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger. Noon The Last Castle MVL 2001 Drama.

Robert Redford, James Gandolfini.

2:10 Shutter Island 16VL 2010 Thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo. 4:25 Bringing Down The House MV 2003 Comedy. Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Joan Plowright, Eugene Levy. 6:10 Wanted 16VL 2008 Action. James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie.

8pm Johnny English Reborn PGVL 2011 Comedy. MI7’s top spy returns from hiding to face a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

Rowan Atkinson.

9:45 Planet Of The Apes MV 2001 Action. Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter.

11:45 Safe Haven MVS 2013 Romantic Drama.

Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders.

MONDAY 1:40 Shutter Island 16VL 2010 Thriller.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo.

3:55 Johnny English Reborn PGVL 2011 Comedy.

Rowan Atkinson. 5:35 Wanted 16VL 2008 Action.

SKY SPORT 1 6:15 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Waratahs v Crusaders.

8:20 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Bulls v Chiefs.

10:25 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Sunwolves v Lions. 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Sharks v Rebels.

1pm Rugby – Super Rugby Bulls v Chiefs. 1:30 Netball Zone 2pm L Netball – Beko League Mainland v Northern Marvels.

From Lincoln Events Centre, Lincoln. 4pm L Netball – ANZ Premiership Tactix v Mystics. 6pm Golf – LPGA Tour Bank Of Hope Founders Cup – Round Three. 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Highlanders.

7pm Netball – Beko League (RPL) Mainland v Northern Marvels. 8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Bulls v Chiefs. 10pm Netball – ANZ Premiership (RPL) Tactix v Mystics. 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Reds v Brumbies.

MONDAY

Midnight Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Highlanders.

12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Hurricanes v Stormers.

1am Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Crusaders.

1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Bulls v Chiefs. 2am Rugby – Super Rugby Sharks v Rebels. 2:40 Rugby Nation 3:55 L Rugby – Gallagher Premiership Exeter v Bath.

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

6am Dream Gardens 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am The Best Place To Be 8am War On Waste 9am Baby Animals 9:30 Saltwater Heroes PGR 10:30 The Secret Helpers 11:30 Brother v Brother 12:30 Mysteries At The Museum 1:30 American Idol 3:30 Operation Arctic 4:30 Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking Gordon Ramsay creates dishes inspired by French cuisine, from tuna Nicoise salad to chicken fricassee with sautéed potatoes, and lavender crème caramels.

5pm Great Australian Cookbook 5:30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat 6pm Tiny House Nation 7pm American Idol American Idol searches the United States for the next American pop star.

9pm M 20 Feet From Stardom AO 2013 Documentary. True story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.

11pm M Behind The Candelabra AO 2013 Drama.

1am Tiny House Nation 1:30 Four Rooms 2:30 M 20 Feet From Stardom AO 2013 Documentary. 4:30 Barry’d Treasure 5am Building The Dream

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6am L Rugby League – Super League Catalans Dragons v Leeds Rhinos. 8am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) 8:35 L Football – UEFA 2020 European Qualifying Spain v Norway.

From the Mestalla in Valencia.

10:45 Golf – European Tour (HLS) Maybank Championship – Round Three.

11:15 UCL Magazine Show Noon Cricket – IPL (HLS) 12:30 Sky Sports News 1pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Dragons v Rabbitohs.

1:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) 2pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) 2:30 Cricket – IPL (HLS) 3pm L Rugby League – Queensland Cup Wynnum Manly Seagulls v Redcliffe Dolphins.

From BMD Kougari Oval, Brisbane. 5pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) 5:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) 6pm L Rugby League – NRL Bulldogs v Eels.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

8pm L Rugby League – NRL Tigers v Warriors.

From Campbell Town Stadium.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Sea Eagles v Roosters.

6:35 Treehouse Masters PG A Treehouse Fit for a Viking. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:10 What On Earth?

PG 10am Expedition Unknown PG Genghis Khan’s Tomb. 10:50 Gold Rush PG 11:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 12:30 Air Rescue PG 12:55 Air Rescue PG 1:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 2:10 Homestead Rescue PG When Cows Attack. 3pm Homestead Rescue PG The Hill of Death.

3:50 Homestead Rescue PG Ozark Mountain Misery.

4:45 Homestead Rescue PG Methane Meltdown.

5:40 Homestead Rescue PG Drowning.

6:35 Homestead Rescue PG Storm Shelter Showdown.

7:30 Blowing Up History PG Treasures of the Terracotta Army. 8:30 Mighty Ships PG 9:25 Outback Opal Hunters PG 10:15 Expedition Unknown PG Genghis Khan’s Tomb.

11:05 Gold Rush PG 11:55 What On Earth? PG MONDAY 12:45 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG MONDAY 1:35 How Do They Do It? 12:30 Rugby League – PG 2am How Do They Do It? NRL (RPL) Tigers v Warriors.

PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid 2:30 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) M 3:15 Naked And Afraid Bulldogs v Eels. 4:30 Sunday M 4:05 Naked And Afraid Night With Matty Johns M 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:30 Controversy Corner 5:45 Naked And Afraid M 24Mar19

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Areas of low cloud or fog morning and night. Otherwise, fine apart from possible afternoon showers about the foothills.

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Areas of morning low cloud or fog, then fine.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: Light.

Hamilton

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Napier

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Areas of morning low cloud or fog, then fine.

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Nelson

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Blenheim

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Greymouth

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Christchurch

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Timaru

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Queenstown

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Rain. Early changing to southerlies.

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High cloud and scattered rain. Strong northerlies.

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Cryptic crossword

Saturday, March 23, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): As you gain new awareness, you feel less certain of your direction. What you considered only yesterday the plan that made complete sense, now seems like a weak option. Don’t act yet. More will be revealed.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Today comes with a feeling akin to hitchhiking. It feels as if you’re hurling down the road out of control, in a vehicle that is not your own, and yet you’re still getting where you want to go.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Today’s ideas splash and play in a watercourse far from the mainstream but will trickle through and make it there anyway.

After all, you have same right to your opinion that everyone else has.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Work opens your horizons in ways you never would have known about were you not willing to dedicate yourself, for an amount of time, to earn an amount of money.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Good comes with bad. You wouldn’t want it all one way. This will become apparent as you’ll appreciate the one who keeps you centred, while also appreciating the one who knocks you way off centre.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Conversations fragment and loop-the-loop, and then shoot off through the stratosphere. As resourceful and clever as you are, you’ll either turn it into art or commerce.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’re able to commit fully to what you’re into. What you like, you love, all the way through. Therefore, the term “guilty pleasure” doesn’t apply. No need to apologise for something that’s working for you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Those on the outside want in. You’re not good with this. You don’t have the skills or the hardness to handle begging eyes. Protect yourself. More layers!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): This is a frenzied pace and it needs to be counteracted by a slower frame of mind. Breathe deeply, hold it, let it out. Breath handles what any number of more complicated mental tricks could not.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): What’s stifling to you?

Is it someone who says that you can’t? Is it yourself when you say that it has to be done this way...” This is the day you’ll break through the stifling messages.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): How well are you really communicating these days? You know what you mean, but are you letting them know, too, with your eyes, with your body, with your full intention? Consider that your challenge today.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): People come and go through life. Maybe you don’t make it to the top tier and maybe they don’t. It’s painful to lose status, but a function of social reality. Something will be rectified along these lines today.

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