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Drug rip-off plan in Gairns’ death The jury trial of Kooly Managki Te Tomo opened in the High Court sitting in Timaru yesterday before Justice Gerald Nation.

Te Tomo is accused of causing the death of Arran (AJ) Gairns by manslaughter in the early hours of the morning of May 31, 2014. He is further charged with assaulting Gairns with intent to rob him.

A jury of four men and eight women will be asked to decide whether Te Tomo, who was jointly charged with three other people, caused Gairns’ death by causing him, by fear or threat of violence, to do an act which caused death, thereby committing manslaughter.

Prosecutor Andrew McRae opened by outlining the evidence that will be given over the next week in support of the Crown’s case.

The Crown alleges the group con-

spired to rob Gairns of about half a gram of methamphetamine.

One of the party lured Gairns to a workshop behind the Hunting and Fishing store on West Street in Ashburton on the pretext of buying meth from him. The three others were lying in wait ready to ambush him.

In attempting to escape, the Crown attests Gairns first hid in a nearby creek.

One of the group retrieved his vehicle from the roadside and drove in to the area to “shine some light” on the situation.

A security light on a nearby building activated, giving Gairns’ position away.

His assailants dragged him from the water, threatened and assaulted him, knocking him back into the creek.

They then stood over him demanding the drugs.

Gairns managed to break free and fled

into the darkness. Despite an extensive search of the area Te Tomo and the two others were unable to locate Gairns and left the scene.

His body was not found until shortly after 3.30pm on Sunday, some 36 hours after he was thought to have died.

McRae said expert witnesses would prove Gairns drowned in a storm water collection area behind the buildings.

Gairns’ former partner was the first witness to take the stand yesterday.

She described her concerns about his meth use, and after a break in the relationship, an agreement was made to abstain from using the drug for three months.

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School opens doors for national book night

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Mt Somers Springburn School is all ready to welcome the community in to its small, yet wellstocked library tonight.

The school will be opening its doors, like many other spaces around the country, for the Book Discussion Scheme Book Night.

People are invited to come along and spend some time reading a book and enjoying a hot chocolate.

“I received an email and thought it would be a great opportunity to open the library up to the community,” said Sarah Gaskin, the teacher in charge of the school’s library.

“It is a separate building at the school and is not often a space parents have access to.

“It is crammed full of books, around 2500, but it is tiny.”

With children excited for the event, Gaskin said they are hoping for a good turnout, and to raise funds for refurbishment of parts of the library through sales of hot chocolate.

“There are parts of the library that we are hoping to get refurbished throughout the year so hopefully this will help,” she said.

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About $1500 was raised at a concert for Methven singer Tilly Smith as she prepares to head off for the World Championships of Performing Arts in Los Angeles next month.

Held on Saturday night at Samuel’s Bar, the concert had over 100 people attend, and on stage was additional high-profile Methven born and bred talent.

This included country singer Cam Luxton, musical theatre artist Greta Casey-Solly, and Mount Hutt College 2016 Bandquest winners Rasta Monkey (left), which are currently gearing up for the Christchurch Smokefree Rockquest next week.

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$2m plus of appliances for Mid Canty

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Pendarves Volunteer Rural Fire Force members are “rapt” with their new appliance, says chief Paul Stewart.

The 2017 Isuzu double cab with a 5800 litre tank and 260 horsepower is every rural firefighter’s dream.

It has a higher capacity pump than the brigade’s former 1990 appliance, which served them well for about 13 years.

“We are rapt with it, you have to be in a state of readiness, you have to have reliable gear,” Stewart said.

Stewart and four fellow Pendarves firefighters took a drive over to Geraldine last week to pick up the vehicle, and liked it so much they took turns driving it back, with Stewart getting to drive it first.

The vehicle is part of a more than $2 million replacement of older fleet fire engines for Mid Canterbury’s 10 rural fire forces – altogether about 15 new trucks

costing about $170,000 each.

Funded by the Ashburton District Council and the National Rural Fire Authority, the replacement is an ongoing one, with about one new engine rolled out each year, and about half of the rural fire fleet has been replaced to date.

Mid South Canterbury Rural Fire Authority principal rural fire officer Rob Hands said the new appliances were well deserved on the part of Mid Canterbury’s approximate 180 rural firefighters.

“They put in a lot of time supporting their communities by responding to incidents. It’s nice that the council recognises their efforts and makes sure they have the appropriate equipment,” Hands said.

The council was one of the country’s fire force leaders in ensuring their district’s rural fleet was an effective one.

Deputy principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said there was a flow-on effect from having up-todate equipment.

Pendarves Volunteer Rural Fire Force chief Paul Stewart is pleased with the force’s new engine.

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7 Days Live pencilled in for Ashburton

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Ashburton Trust Event Centre personnel are excited about the prospect of 7 Days Live being added to their show programme for later this year.

Marketing co-ordinator Lisa Scammell said herself and centre manager Roger Farr had done their utmost to get the show here, even though it generally performed to bigger audiences of at least 700.

The event centre has about 500 seats, and as such would not usually be on the 7 Days producers’ radar.

One of the reasons they had worked hard to secure the show was that other touring comedy shows such as the Fresh Up comedy tour featuring the likes of 7 Days stars Ben Hurley and Dai Henwood, had been popular with Mid Cantabrians in the past.

7 Days’ main trio – host Jeremy Corbett (centre), Paul Ego (left) and Dai Henwood.

PHOTO SUPPLIED “Ashburton seems to like to laugh,” Scammell said.

“We felt it would be a great lift to Ashburton, and knowing it would be such a popular show we did all we could to get it over

the line,” she said.

Hosted by Jeremy Corbett, 7 Days is a high-rating TV3 comedy game show airing on Friday nights, featuring two teams of three comedians each.

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The Ashburton show is pencilled in for December 8, and a Christmas work function dinner package may be available on the night as well. The show would be part of a 7 Days Live nationwide tour, with some of the shows in the tour broadcast live.

A MediaWorks spokesperson said none of the shows around the country had been locked in or confirmed at this stage.

Securing 7 Days would add to a wide variety of top acts at the event centre this year, including Tiki Taane Mahuta next month, Rhys Darby in July and Gary Mullen’s One Night of Queen in August.

Meanwhile, next year is the 10th anniversary of the event centre, and to celebrate Variety Theatre Ashburton’s annual production will be the highly popular stage production of Mamma Mia! Farr will be the director.

From P1 On the evening of May 30, 2014, the couple drove to Christchurch where Gairns purchased a gram of meth for $900. Some time after their return to Ashburton, Gairns left home to sell the remaining meth. He met up with one of the accused.

A volley of text messages between the parties and another woman disclosed their intentions to rob Gairns.

The transcript of these messages was presented to the jury.

Crown witness Stacey Leigh Curtis described Te Tomo and the other three leaving her home after plans had been laid for the “drug rip-off”.

The decision was made after Gairns allegedly treated the woman involved in orchestrating the attack like a “crack whore”, who traded sex for drugs, according to the message transcripts.

After regrouping at Curtis’ home, texts were exchanged, the parties accused each other of taking the drugs, which were later found in the clothing Gairns was wearing at the time of his death.

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■ POLITICS

Peel Forest newcomer aiming for party vote By susaN saNdys

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Government irrigation investment to the tune of $90 million was good news in Mid Canterbury last week, but not for environmentalists.

Green MP Mojo Mathers represents that view, and is hoping more voters are coming around to her way of thinking.

Mathers moved to Peel Forest from Christchurch one year ago and for the first time this election will stand as the Green Party candidate for Rangitata.

“We do not support multi-million dollar subsidies for land intensification, because that’s basically what it is,” she said of the irrigation announcement.

Mathers was in Ashburton and chatted not only about politics, but also a little about her new life at Peel Forest.

She and partner Don live on a two hectare lifestyle block and have three goats, one of which, named Esther, came into season last week meaning Mathers had to transport her to the local billy.

“Here’s hoping for a baby goat or two in five months!” she posted on her Mojo Mathers MP Facebook page the next day with a photo of Esther in the back of her old car.

She and Don milk the goats and make cheese.

“When we get it right it’s better than anything you can buy in the shop, when we don’t get it right it goes to the dog,” she said.

The dog is an SPCA rescue dog and huntaway cross named Kea. Mathers said politics had not initially been her main goal, but was the direction her life took after it had been difficult to find employment following university, due to her deafness. Mathers had graduated with an honours degree in mathematics at Canterbury. She chose further study and completed a Masters in Conservation Forestry. In following years she was based at Coalgate where she and her former husband brought up their children and ran a rural business working with farmers around forestry.

Catching up with Mathers face to face is the only way to have a conversation with the MP, as her deafness prevents her from conversing on the phone.

She has only slight hearing in one ear and as such relies on lip reading.

At public meetings she has a helper to write questions from the floor so she can read them and then answer.

Mathers entered Parliament five years ago as New Zealand’s first deaf MP and has achieved significant political wins, including a ban on animal testing of cosmetics, and achieving live captioning of Parliament TV. The Green Party has yet to select all its candidates and rank them, but Mathers has an indicative ranking of eighth.

She said her main aim for her campaign in Rangitata would be to get as many party votes as possible.

In brief Appeal rejected A dangerous rapist with 153 previous convictions and a persecution complex has had a final appeal against a sentence of preventive detention rejected by the Supreme Court. Alan Ivo Greer, 54, was jailed in the High Court at Wellington in 2014 to preventive detention with a minimum jail term of 10 years for a raft of violent charges including rape. The court was told Greer’s belief system, which included a persecution complex, increased the likelihood he would reoffend.

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Paintball shooter jailed A Whangarei man who pulled out a paintball gun and shot “rapid fire” at six people in a drive-by attack last December has been sentenced to 25 months in jail.

Shane Paraha, 18, appeared in the Whangarei District Court for sentencing after earlier pleading guilty to one charge of reckless disregard causing grievous bodily harm and five charges of assault with a weapon. A female university student who was one of the six people shot at has lost an eye in the shooting and was forced to quit her studies.

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The men in blue have turned pink in an attempt to raise awareness for New Zealand Anti Bullying week.

The Waikato District Police will don pink hi-vis vests while on duty this week. Designed by one of the women in the force, the campaign is a way to make a stand against bullying and cyber bullying which is the highest rated social issue among New Zealand youth.

Police took to Facebook to show off their fresh new look and educate the country on the growing social issue of bullying.

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■ FACEBOOK FRAUD

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If a Facebook deal sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t worth the risk, police say.

Last week in the Ashburton District Court a woman was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for offering to supply methamphetamine, theft and fraud charges relating to Facebook buy and sell pages.

Jessica Jeni Sutherland offered to sell a bike windscreen on a page set up for the Buller district.

The hapless victim transferred the money to her account but the windscreen never arrived.

Sutherland pulled the same trick on another person, who was in the market for a tablet device. She contacted him offering a Samsung tablet for $150, again the money was transferred into her account, the device was not sent and Sutherland went off the radar.

A case involving a man who has potentially scammed at least 11 people by selling goods on social

media pages is currently under police investigation, prompting the warning.

Canterbury area prevention manager senior sergeant Paul Reeves said the alleged offender had been offering items, such as bikes, for sale Canterbury-wide.

Like Sutherland, he is accepting payment and not delivering the goods.

“Too many people have lost hundreds of dollars by handing over money to individuals behaving in this way,” Reeves said.

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A spate of wheelie bin fires in a Christchurch suburb has police urging residents to bring their bins in at night. The majority of the fires have occurred in Ilam, at night during the weekends over the past two months, Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said. Properties and vehicles have also been damaged following the fires. Police are asking residents to remember to bring their wheelie bins in at night, and ensure they’re not visible from the road.

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Art exhibition just four works Christchurch artist Steve Carr launched his four-work exhibition, Variations for Troubled Hands, at the Ashburton Art Gallery on Saturday.

Transpiration, a six-channel time lapse projection of carnations soaking up coloured dyes, is now on display in the Colin Redmond Gallery, alongside American Night, a condensedtime film of a bird, on just one screen.

Studies for Cadence, a photographic sequence of hand gestures from Royal New Zealand Ballet prodigy Cadence also appears in the side gallery and hall wall.

Motor Relief fills the Carr Family Gallery as part of a series of car wheels in motion on 12 monitors.

It is the first time the gallery has displayed one exhibition

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Artist Steve Carr addresses the gathered guests.

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Guardian photographer Robyn Hood was there to take these pictures.

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Ashburton Family Go Kart Club takes to the streets If you were driving through the centre of Ashburton on Friday, and saw a collection of go-karts, fear not, Mario Kart has not come to life, the Ashburton Family Go

Kart Club were in town.

“As we are not able to drive the gokarts in the Street Parade on Sunday, we thought we would take the opportunity to show off what we

do,” club member Wayne Shierlaw said.

The club races every third Sunday of the month, using paddocks that local farmers kindly donate

for the club’s use. “There are a variety of different divisions that race, from the small ones, intermediate, senior and the super-karts,” he said.

“We have gotten a lot of interest, especially from people saying they have old karts gathering dust in the garage, and we just want to say to them, get out and race them.”

A wide range of karts were on display on Friday.

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Talent shines at ceilidh There was plenty of variety on offer at the Ashburton County Scottish Society’s Ceilidh on Sunday. Featuring local entertainment, Scottish dancing, singing and performances by the Ashburton Pipe Band, there was something for everyone.

Guardian photographer Robyn Hood went along to the Ashburton Seniors Centre to take these pictures.

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■ SAUDI ARABIA

‘Stamp out extremism’ US President Donald Trump has called on Middle Eastern leaders to combat a “crisis of Islamic extremism” emanating from the region, casting the fight against terrorism as a “battle between good and evil,” not a clash between the West and Islam.

Trump spoke during a meeting of more than 50 Arab and Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia. The speech was the centrepiece of Trump’s two-day visit to the country as part of his first overseas trip.

Trump is putting the onus for combatting terrorism on the region and imploring Muslim leaders to aggressively fight extremists.

He attended the opening of a Global Centre for Combatting Extremist Ideology later in the day.

Trump spoke of “the crisis of Islamic extremists,” “the Islamists” and “Islamic terror of all kinds.”

But he did not use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”.

As a presidential candidate, Trump routinely railed against former President Barack Obama and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for failing to use the specific phrase, insisting that, “Anyone who cannot name our enemy, is not fit to lead this country.”

In his speech Trump said Syrian President Bashar Assad

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United States President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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He called upon countries around the world to work together to end the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

Trump denounced Iranian aggression in the region, and said that the “longest-suffering victims” are the Iranian people.

The Iranian people have “endured hardship and despair under their leaders’ reckless pursuit of conflict and terror,”

he said. Trump said every nation must shoulder the burden of rooting our terrorism from their countries.

“Every nation has an absolute duty to ensure that terrorists find no quarter on their soil.”

Trump said terrorist groups “do nothing to inspire but kill.”

He said “terrorists don’t worship God, they worship death”.

The US president said the overwhelming majority of victims of terrorist attacks were

the “innocent people of the Arab, Muslim and Middle Eastern nations”.

He said the US sought a “coalition of nations” in the Middle East with the aim of “stamping out extremism”.

Before Trump spoke, King Salman of Saudi Arabia said he was committed to stamping out the Islamic State group and other terrorist organisations.

He also railed against Iran, calling it “the spearhead of global terrorism.”

– AP

■ UNITED STATES

Ringling Bros big top shuts down after 146 years With laughter, hugs and tears – and the requisite deathdefying stunts – the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus received its final standing ovation as it performed its last show.

“We are, forevermore, the Greatest Show on Earth,” boomed Johnathan Lee Iverson, who has been the ringmaster since 1999. His son, who also performed, stood by his side. The show was held at the Nassau County Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

It was an emotional 2 1/2 hours for those who worked

on the circus. Many of Ringling’s employees are second, third and even fourth-generation circus performers, while others met their spouses while touring. All spent months on the road, travelling from city to city in Ringling’s train cars and describing themselves as a giant family, albeit one with many clowns.

But it also was the fans who felt like family.

Elaine Bario, a 57-year-old usher at the Nassau County Coliseum, said she’s seen the circus every time it’s been on Long Island – some years as

a child with her father, who also was an usher at the same venue.

“The animals, this is where we fell in love with them,” she said. “We got to see animals here and the Bronx Zoo. We don’t go on safaris.”

Bario cried as she watched the final big cat act with its leopards, tigers and Alexander Lacey, the handsome animal trainer.

“I’ve always had a crush on the lion tamers,” she said, laughing through tears.

But it was those animal shows that led to the circus’

eventual demise.

Over the years, animal rights activists had targeted Ringling, saying that forcing animals to perform and transporting them around the country amounted to abuse. In May 2016, the company removed elephants from its shows, but ticket sales continued to decline. People, it seemed, didn’t want to see a circus without elephants. Ringling’s parent company, Feld Entertainment, announced in January it would close the show, citing declining attendance and high operating costs.

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■ INDONESIA

‘Please just one Corby’ – Bali parole Indonesian parole authorities have indicated they’ll be happy to see the back of Schapelle Corby.

Speaking ahead of Corby’s deportation to Australia on May 27, her long-time parole officer and counsellor Ni Ketut Sukiati said the former beauty student had often been “stressed” and “angry” to deal with.

“I hope it will all be over

soon,” Ms Ketut said.

“Please no more foreigners like this. It makes us so busy ... We’re tired. Please just one Corby.”

From the first time she met the newly-paroled 39-year-old in February 2014, Ms Ketut said it was clear Corby was having difficulty “opening up”.

“She didn’t want to talk. She was angry all the time like she was stressed. Even while here

with us, she is mad at us.

“In the end, we are stressed too.”

The drama and controversy that marked Corby’s trial continued after her release from Bali’s Kerobokan prison more than three years ago.

Within days, her parole was thrown into jeopardy when Indonesian authorities raised concerns over reports of a lucrative paid TV interview with

the Seven Network and the luxury accommodation she was living in.

In March, her sister Mercedes told Seven how her sister was “broken now”.

“She was such a strong person before ... She is different.”

Ms Ketut offered one piece of advice to Corby.

“If you want to change, then change. If not, it’s at your own risk.”

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Russell Crowe might have just accidentally confirmed Ed Sheeran is secretly engaged to Cherry Seaborn.

The Kiwi star was on an Australian breakfast radio programme when he casually referred to Seaborn as Sheeran’s “fiancee”. Crowe was telling his interviewers about Ed’s regular visits to his farm. “He was on tour here and he was getting a bit burned out so he came up and stayed for a couple of days to get some sleep and then we became mates,” Crowe said. He then added: “He has subsequently gone back to the farm with his fiancee for more time.”

Hunter loses her mum Rachel Hunter’s mother Janeen Phillips has lost her battle with cancer. Hunter has taken to social media to pay tribute to her mother, honouring the “realm of magic that exists in and around her”. “At 9pm Last Night with a complete circle of love sitting beside her, Jacqui, Myself, Liam & Renee, comforted Mum in her last breaths,” Hunter wrote. “The beauty that surrounded that moment was a moment only she could have created. Yes there was so much pain in her last 18 months, but we will never forget the force of beauty, fire, protectiveness, empathy, strength, and of course the realm of magic that exists in and around her.”

Couple taking it slow Clutching each other’s hands, gazing longingly into their eyes, and dreaming of the future - Zac Franich and Viarni Bright seem quite the happy couple. The pair put on a loved up show for onlookers after they were declared the winning couple of The Bachelor NZ on Sunday night. But they admitted they were going to “take it slow” together. Franich chose Bright after a long elimination process that saw Franich date then discard 20 different women on nationwide television. In the final, it came down to Bright and Lily McManus, a free spirit from Wellington

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OUR VIEW

Big power bills? Shop around Megan Gnad

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s we felt the icy Antarctic blast over the weekend, many of us turned the heating up and also began noticing a sudden jump in power bill prices.

This week, we’ve been asking readers to let us know if they’ve received a shock when opening up their most recent bill since the cold snap began.

While some of you have had no problems at all, some have been gobsmacked to receive rises in excess of $150 without using any more electricity than usual.

This just seemed unfair, so we went to the Electricity Authority for more information about what your power company can and cannot do when it comes to winter charges.

It turns out, even though it’s heavily monitored, there’s quite a few options.

Chief executive Carl Hansen said at times of peak demand, lines companies face higher costs and pass these onto retailers, which can then choose to pass them on to consumers or not.

“Retailers have a number of options about how they manage prices – many choose to “even out” their price structure – i.e. set one price that covers them for changes in the prices they have to pay over a year, others set their prices depending on what the price of electricity is doing at the time the consumer is using it,” he said.

The role of the Electricity Authority is to maintain an overview of the electricity system and make sure it is working for consumers.

Many of you who wrote to us about your own experiences, also noted you were branching out and using a range of new initiatives to monitor, or even out, how much you were spending.

Companies, such as, SmoothPay, GloBug and Flick Electric Co. were all mentioned as helping through those tough months.

So, what are our options to combat the chill and the effect it has on our back pockets?

The Electricity Authority recommends you visit www.whatsmynumber.org.nz and www.powerswitch.org.nz By plugging in data from a recent power bill, it will calculate how much you could potentially save by switching to a different provider.

Across New Zealand, they estimate that, on average (and depending on where you live and usage), people could save around $175 a year by switching.

When every little bit counts, it’s well worth giving it a go.

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emperatures plummeted to a freezing -2 degrees in Ashburton yesterday, meaning we’re all turning to our heat pumps and heaters to stay warm.

But, as some of you are finding out, opening your power bill can make for quite a surprise.

Did you know, at times of peak demand (such as in winter) lines companies face higher costs because they pay to use the transmission grid and they have to use it more in times of high demand.

The Electricity Authority then pass these higher costs onto retailers, who can choose to pass them on to consumers or not.

Some may choose to “even out” their price structure and others set their prices depending on what the price of electricity is doing at the time the consumer is using it.

While some of you have already noticed a hike in your power bill, others of you have been using various websites and consumer sites to find other deals on offer.

How do you prepare for the rise and do you have any tips for cutting costs over the colder months?

We want to hear exactly what this means for you and how you overcome this added expense.

Have your say by commenting on our Facebook page or voting in our poll at www.guardianonline.co.nz

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Riparian plantings are the only target dairy farmers are not currently meeting.

Discord over the accord dispiriting for farmers

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hird year results from the Sustainable Dairy Water Accord were released last week and the 36-page report re-emphasised all the work being done on dairy farms on environmental stewardship.

Independently audited gains include compliance for dairy effluent systems being their highest ever at just under 95 per cent; fencing of waterways pushed out to 26,197km and 97 per cent of dairy farms; and a big jump in the number of farmers subscribing to nitrogen information systems – now 83 per cent of farmers against 56 per cent in year two of the accord (2013-14).

More than 99 per cent of sites where stock cross waterways on farms now have bridges or culverts.

But once again the usual suspects, from activist lecturers to corporate fundraisers painted green, piled in to find something to complain about. The obligatory photos of Hereford bulls in waterways were posted online to show how the dairy industry was just making up spin.

I would love to get these people all together just once and make them hand milk some Hereford bulls so they might work out the difference between them and a dairy cow.

I find it incredibly frustrating that these groups and individu-

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als can’t for once recognise the good stuff we have done. Yes, I accept they feel more needs to be done – and farmers acknowledge that too.

But even if there is more to do, isn’t it possible to say “hey, well done on achieving that. When you’re finished dealing with that aspect, we think you should move onto doing this as it will have additional benefits and complement greatly the work you have already done”.

Instead the message most farmers hear is “you suck, you haven’t done anything useful, and you need shutting down completely”.

I worry that many a farmer is going to start thinking, “what’s the point of doing anything, it doesn’t seem like anything we do will please these people”.

Having been involved in oversight of the accord as a member of the Dairy Environment Leadership Group, I know for a fact that the auditing of these measures are rock-solid.

So for the stream fencing,

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the farmer checks off their farm waterways on a GIS map, it is then verified by a third party who either walks, or flies a drone, over the length of those waterways confirming that they have been fenced, or bridged.

Everything that is reported in that accord has been independently verified.

Because we have to be so precise to meet the auditing standards we can’t show as much progress as has actually been made.

For example, with the statistics around riparian planting we have a target that half of the dairy farms would have a riparian plan, and half of those would have implemented it, by last year.

We are behind on that target because of the effort required to get the systems in place for the nutrient recording, which turned out to be vastly more problematic recording-wise than was anticipated.

However, I know there are plenty of farmers like myself, who don’t have a riparian planting plan, but do actually have all riparian margins planted off on both the dairy farm and the run-off.

On my farm it’s been that way for over 20 years, the only problem being all that planting hampers the anglers from get-

ting to the river. Same goes for wetland protection. We haven’t got around to identifying them all so that we can record that they are protected. Certainly the little wetland on my run-off has a fence around it. So we haven’t been able to tick a box but the fence is in place.

One of the big problems I see with the accord is that in trying to achieve these very ambitious targets, which have required the support from many different groups, we chase lots of information and data so we can prove action in the political and public arena, but the solutions can end up being more political than practical.

Unfortunately, getting some of those groups to share the information has been a drama.

Going forward my hope would be that we come up with solutions that achieve the end outcome in the most efficient manner.

Andrew Hoggard is Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group chairperson. 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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NZ ‘won’t let TPP benefits go’ deal, there’s some New Zealand will still trade-offs. benefit from join“In the short-term ing the Trans-Pacific there are real gains Partnership, despite for New Zealand and giving up concessions we just don’t want to on pharmaceuticals to let those go.” the now absent UnitIf every provision ed States, Prime Minhad to be renegotiister Bill English says. ated the deal might Over the weekend never happen, he New Zealand, Japan said. and nine other memThe TPP was prebers of the TPP agreed dicted to boost the at an APEC meeting Bill English country’s trade by in Vietnam to pursue $2.7 billion by 2030. their trade deal without the US. However, Mr English said there That was despite the deal keeping provisions on pharmaceutical were no formal estimates for the deal without the US. rules which benefited America.

He said there would be an im“It’s not at great cost to us,” Mr mediate benefit in saving “a couEnglish said yesterday.

“There’s some small cost to us ple of hundred million” in tariffs, around pharmaceuticals, so we and New Zealand could compete believe in the long run, like any with Australia in Japan’s beef mar-

ket. The absence of the US lowers the volume of trade between the remaining countries to barely a quarter of the level it would have been if the economic behemoth had remained.

Mr English said the US could still join the deal, when they saw the benefits of open trade.

Another benefit of the TPP would be 11 countries committing to regional integration and stability at a time when the rest of the world was troubled by “darkened clouds of protectionism and nationalism”, Mr English said.

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam remain in TPP talks.

Their officials will meet again in Japan in July and bring proposals in November.

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■ BANKING

Kiwis manage their finances online Kiwis’ favourite bank branch is their computer or smartphone, according to new research from the Future of Finance report for 2017.

Interviewing roughly 20,000 people in 16 countries across the globe, the findings showed that New Zealanders are big adopters of financial technology (fintech).

Eighty-one per cent of New Zealand respondents said they preferred to manage their finances online, leading the global charge in fintech.

The Netherlands came in second at 79 per cent, while in the US and Japan, online banking was comparatively lower at 58 per cent and 57 per cent respectively.

Visiting a branch was the third most preferred way to bank in Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore, with online and smartphones trumping bricks and mortar.

The research also showed that

the majority of people around the world are disillusioned by banking institutions.

Fifty per cent of respondents believed banks focus mainly on profit and not what customers need.

New Zealand appears to have a greater trust in banks, with 28 per cent believing their bank offers great service and a fair deal, the highest result across the globe.

By comparison, only 5 per cent of respondents in France and Germany felt the same way.

Only 44 per cent of respondents in New Zealand said they felt their bank focuses on profit over customers, slightly below the 50 per cent average.

Australians, who share some of the same institutions, were more sceptical with 60 per cent of respondents believing banks were prioritising profit.

Spain led the cynicism with 70 per cent.

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Rocket Lab has delayed for a day the start of a launch-attempt window to send its Electron rocket into space from its base in Mahia on the East Coast. It says high winds on the peninsula have forced it to have another go today.

The company has said weather and other technical factors will dictate whether the test launch can be attempted and what one local described as a nasty southerly blew through at the weekend.

There are more than 700 permanent residents on the peninsula between Gisborne and Wairoa and one of them, Joe Hedley, said on Sunday the weather had been rough over the weekend with strong, cold southerlies and a big swell running.

“It’s pretty quiet at the moment. We’re all waiting for the first

launch. There’s been a couple of people who have said they want to be here to see a bit of history,” he said.

There were about 40 Rocket Lab staff on the launch pad site at the southern tip of the peninsula.

The site was chosen by the New Zealand-founded company for its southeasterly aspect and because it is so remote and private.

Rocket Lab says it will release footage of the launch – if it is successful. With more than 10 tonnes of a liquid oxygen-kerosene fuel mix a catastrophic failure would be dramatic.

Rocket Lab says it has three test launches planned before carrying commercial cargo of small satellites into low Earth orbit more frequently than its competitors and more easily from a test site with

little aviation activity around it.

The only regular international flight in the vicinity is a LATAM airlines Dreamliner heading for Chile and back, means clearing air space is not a major issue compared with launch sites in other countries.

The launch timeline is lengthy, with a lift-off about six hours after the road is closed.

Rocket Lab says launch postponements or scrubs were common and should be expected.

Hedley said he had been advised it would be difficult to get a glimpse of the rocket, even from the peninsula. After a slow lift off to clear the portable tower, the rocket would accelerate to a maximum speed of 27,000km/h, meaning it may only be visible for about nine seconds.

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MARKET REPORT Dairy Winter arrived last week with a very cold south westerly with snow that was followed by hard frosts.

While feed conditions in the province are good, this early cold snap could hasten the advent of cow dry off and start of the winter spell.

Another auction last Tuesday saw the market lift for the fifth event in a row and create consolidation for this season and optimism for next year.

ASB again led the way with a $6.75kg ms, followed by Westpac on $6.50, but Fonterra’s prediction is due this week and most pundits suggest early $6 dollars are a real possibility.

Commentators have been analysing the detail of progress on the water accord targets, the numbers on the fencing and culvert construction and riparian planting of waterways and their analyses makes impressive reading.

Non-compliance on dairy effluent disposal is now the lowest ever but more progress is needed in nutrient budgets and plans to reduce nitrate leaching into the ground water.

ASB is floating the idea of quarterlybased farmgate milk price payments to reduce price volatility and encourage participation in milk futures.

Legislative changes would be needed but ideas aimed at making income predictions more reliable will be welcomed by all farmers.

The immigration authorities have given foreign dairy workers another three years to sort out the regulation concerns brought about by agents offering fraudulent entry visas.

Lamb More schedule rises for lamb this week, with one company offering minimum contracts that peak at $6.30/kg cwt in October.

Market fundamentals look strong in all the main destination markets helped by shortages and strong demand for chilled product.

Mutton schedules are also on the rise as supply reduces, with interest from Mexico, Malaysia and the Middle East.

Rumours that Silver Fern Farms’ plant was under threat have proved true, with the company proposing to close the plant after a sharp drop in lamb numbers processed in the past seven years.

While devastating for local workers in Ashburton, many showed little surprise and, for some, more reliable employment will be offered just an hour away at Pareora and Belfast.

The company stated that they believe land use changes had consolidated in the region but were not optimistic these lost lamb numbers would return.

Iran has reopened its meat trade and Taylor Preston has sent a small shipment of lamb to test this market again.

Wool Last week’s South Island auction saw a wider range of better styled wools reignite some interest in a weak crossbred wool market.

The mid micron wool market has been described as volatile although small volumes of that type of product and contracts are helping to smooth price returns.

Beef Prices lift slowly for cow and prime product as shortages of imported beef offers into the US push demand.

Some US commentators are expressing nervousness as some beef cuts are selling for the highest price ever, and are suggesting “prices have got to crash soon”.

There was a good clearance of animals at the recent Beef Expo with a Hereford bull topping the sale with a $40,000 bid.

Deer More lifts in venison schedules this week as processors compete strongly for a shortage of product, and with minimum contracts peaking at $9.30/kg cwt in October, well fed yearlings will be very profitable.

Managers are encouraged to feed their used breeding stags well as lighter conditioned animals are very vulnerable to sudden cold snaps similar to what was experienced last week.

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■ WATERWAYS

■ CONSENTS

Bid to protect waterways

Farmers reminded to check land use consents

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Dairy farmers are open-heartedly embracing a commitment to protect waterways, chair of the Dairy Environment Leaders’ Group chair and Methven farmer Alister Body says.

Commenting on the latest Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord report, Body said the work being carried out by farmers to help achieve swimmable rural waterways independently audited by Crown entity subsidiary Telarc SAI annually.

“As part of the assessment for the latest report, Telarc spent 15 days auditing DairyNZ and the Water Accord dairy companies to verify the information they provided,” Body said.

“The assessors also spent 40 days visiting 80 farms randomly selected from DairyNZ’s database

to verify information provided by the farmer to their dairy company.”

Body describes the accord as an open-hearted declaration by dairy farmers that they will play their part in protecting dairy farm waterways that feed into rural rivers, lakes and other water bodies.

“We set up this accord three years ago to formalise and measure their environmental efforts.

We’re very proud to say 11,400 farmers around the country have endorsed the accord, effectively making a rock-solid commitment.

“Dairy farmers also know that other agricultural sectors, industry and urban communities influence water quality too. Our farmers are leading the way, and they encourage others to step up as well.”

Along with DairyNZ, signatories include the key dairy companies, while the supporting partners

and friends of the accord span a range of agri-businesses, Federated Farmers, Irrigation NZ, and regional and district councils.

Body and his wife Janine Peters farm off the Methven highway, milking 550 cows, with the help of a farm manager and two permanent staff.

He said dairy is very much on a journey and farmers, as well as the scientists who work alongside them on researching and developing new ways to lower dairying’s environmental footprint, know there is more work to be done.

“As we look to the future, we are also reflecting on what has been achieved over the three-year period this latest accord covers. And I congratulate our accord farmers – I am a farmer myself, and I can say from personal experience achieving tangible benefits on farm is not easy or quick.”

Alister Body

■ APP LAUNCHED

New app to help with animal welfare The Ministry for Primary Industries has launched a mobile app that helps farmers, transporters, stock agents and veterinarians determine whether an animal is fit for transport.

Developed with industry and vets, the app is an easy and efficient tool to help people make the right decision for the welfare of animals. It consolidates available information in to one place and doesn’t require internet access, which makes it suitable for on-farm use.

Director of Verification Services Dr Chris Kebbell says most people in the primary sectors are well aware of the fitness for transport requirements, but MPI veterinarians at processing plants still see some animals arrive that should not have been transported.

“Animal welfare is everyone’s responsibility and farmers, transporters, stock agents and veterinarians all have a role to play in ensuring only fit animals are transported.

“The information in the app is

based on the transport requirements in the codes of welfare for dairy cattle, deer, sheep and beef cattle.”

Developed under MPI’s Safeguarding our Animals, Safeguarding our Reputation Programme, the app is a tool to improve voluntary compliance with animal welfare requirements.

“One of the ways we achieve this is through the development of resources to support owners and people in charge of animals.

There has been demand for this

tool and many are excited that it’s now available. We’ve had great feedback so far,” says Dr Kebbell.

The app also contains the requirements for the recently implemented regulations for young calves. New fitness for transport regulations are currently under development and the app will be updated once they are implemented.

To download the app, head to iTunes (for Apple devices) or Google Play (for Android devices) and search ‘fit for transport’.

Environment Canterbury is undertaking a detailed regionwide farming campaign, reminding farmers of their responsibility to meet water quality limits and to help them find out whether they will need a consent to farm this year.

Requirements under the Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan place responsibility on farmers to operate within water quality limits.

As a result, farmers may now need to apply for a land use consent to farm.

Around 10,000 farms across the region need to determine whether they require consent this year.

Environment Canterbury Chair David Bedford said there were several steps farmers needing a consent were required to take, and ECan and industry bodies were available to help.

ECan’s online tool NCheck is now available to help farmers determine whether they will need a land use consent to farm.

Those who do should start by preparing nutrient budgets, creating a farm environment plan, and then applying for consent.

While the current focus is on the farms with irrigation, all farmers need to confirm whether or not they need a land use consent.

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■ WINTERFEED COMPETITION

Crops come under scrutiny The last of the district’s A&P association winterfeed competitions was held last week with Methven crops under scrutiny.

In line with the Ashburton and Mayfield competitions, swedes were the target crop.

Bob Brown took the Ravensdown Challenge Trophy home for his outstanding fodderbeet crop.

James Anderson was runner-up for the trophy at just 0.2 of a point behind Brown.

Warwick Bell produced the best dryland crop in the competition and also took the target crop trophy with his swede crop.

RESULTS Swedes 1st W Bell (50.1pts) 2nd R Withers (47pts) 3rd A Maxwell (44.6pts) Kale 1st K Henderson (51.7pts) 2nd W Ensor (51.4) 3rd B Holmes (48.9) Fodderbeet 1st B Brown (61pts) 2nd J Anderson (60.8pts) 3rd A Harkness (58pts) Greenfeed cereals 1st J Anderson 2nd R Lilley

Above and below - Judges evaluate a foothills crop during the Methven A&P Association’s winterfeed competition.

Left - Ben McIntosh takes a closer look at the fodder beet crop in the winterfeed competition.

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Rape 1st B Begg (38.4pts) 2nd A Furzeland (36.6pts) 3rd D Maw (33.5pts) Autumn saved pasture 1st M Lock (34.5pts) 2nd C Mackenzie (33.7pts) 3rd A Maxwell (31.8pts) Mixture 1st W Ensor (33.5pts) Short rotation pasture 1st A Maxwell (24.6pts)

Chance to see best of the best The combined Mid Canterbury A&P Association’s Winterfeed Grand Final will be held on Thursday next week. It’s been a great season for winterfeed crops and the competition will be tough. Members of the public are welcome to tag along to see the best of the best crops in the district.

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Black map mystery

By Glenn Vallender

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shburton Museum is home to thousands of individual maps and plans of various sorts, carefully kept in 100 large and purpose-designed map drawers.

An ongoing project for the museum is the cataloguing of these maps and plans so that they can be more accessible and useful for researchers.

An important type of map in the collection are the cadastral plans, colloquially known as cadastral maps.

Cadastrals are a common and important type of map. The English word cadastral comes from the French cadastre, which in turn comes from the Latin capitastrum and the Greek katastikhon meaning a ‘register’ or ‘list’.

The earliest cadastral maps were ordered by Roman emperors such as Vespasian in 77AD, to define land boundaries so that (you guessed it) taxes could be collected.

Apparently, when the Roman Empire collapsed, the use of cadastral maps went with it, until around the turn of the seventeenth century when their use began again in Holland.

Since then, cadastral maps have been a tool to define boundaries and can be used to show property ownership. While they provide the legal description or ‘appellation’ for a piece of land, most people do not have a lot of use for cadastral maps, except perhaps in researching, dispute resolution, or when planning a new building.

In effect, cadastral maps are those maps that have specific survey information showing legal property boundaries. Because they are very accurate, they are frequently overlaid to show specific kinds of information, such as locations of shingle pits, grader driver beats, snow and flood damage.

Older Ashburton Borough cadastral maps are always fascinating, as they show previous road names and house sections yet to be developed, along with other information. For example, a 1949 borough map is overlaid to clearly show Ashburton’s schools, parks and green belts.

One of the oldest cadastral maps held at Ashburton Museum is the first town map produced

by Robert Park in 1864. There are also later ones drawn by William Harper in 1879, who based his map on earlier ones by Park (1864), William Frederick Moore (1864) and Leuwin Alfred Slater (1877).

Types of cadastrals Cadastrals work at three different scales: title plans, survey plans and maps.

A cadastral title plan shows a property’s legal boundaries, areas and dimensions. A cadastral survey plan shows a larger area,

B.M. 311, a Black Map of Ashburton North Bank, 1864, from a survey by Robert Park. Its ongoing use can be seen in the handwritten annotations and signs of wear. Black maps could also be colourful. Here, reserves are coloured pink.

often with the deposited plan numbers and detailed survey observations. Both types include survey office plans and Maori land plans.

A cadastral map joins together the information found on cadastral survey plans to give a picture of a region. Together, these provide information about specific properties, locations and regions. Over time, they can show property changes in the area, and be a useful source of Maori and Pakeha place names and the names of landowners.

Black, red and green maps The oldest cadastral maps in Canterbury date back to at least 1849.

The oldest cadastral map at Ashburton Museum is a provincial map of Canterbury. As well as showing major property boundaries, it records the names of some property owners. It dates to 1856, and is known as a Black Map. The term Black Map is of uncertain origin. Other early maps are known as Red Maps and Green Maps.

It is thought that these colours are part of a cataloguing system distinctive to Canterbury. Black Maps are the oldest maps, with later versions known as Green or Red Maps.

Notes written in the 1920s indicate that the original Black Maps were taken from Surveyors’ Field Books.

They were then drawn up by different groups of draughtsmen, sometime between 1880 and 1920. This may suggest that the different colours indicate who drew the plan, or which map was the original and which were copies.

Green Maps are thought to

Above - A 1949 Ashburton Borough cadastral map showing schools, parks and green belts. It has half-mile marks drawn in a circle centred on Baring Square.

Below - The 1903 sale plan of suburban lots in Allenton.

Charles Edward Fooks.

From 1888, Fooks was Ashburton town’s clerk and engineer responsible for cadastral plans.

be mainly copies of already published maps, or historical originals which were not strictly survey or cadastral maps.

It has also been suggested that they were given these names because that was the colour of the shelves they were kept on. Here is a project for an historian: what is the origin of the term Black Maps, and what is their relationship to the Red and Green versions?

The value of cadastrals Today, Geographic Information Systems are able to put multi layers of land information into digital maps so that all sorts of interesting map information can be found from the comfort of your cellphone, tablet or laptop.

Surveyor field books and cadastral maps are a priceless source of information. Archives and museums have a great responsibility in preserving these sources for future generations.

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RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA playoffs Collated results from the National Basketball Association semi-finals (all series bestof-seven): Eastern Conference at Cleveland Boston Celtics 111 Cleveland Cavaliers 108 (Cleveland Cavaliers leads series 2-1)

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club May 8 Flaxmere and King Trophies N/S 1st Joyce Johnson & Mervyn Jones, 2nd George Brown & David Fisher, 3rd Bev Blair & Sheila Lyons. E/W 1st Pat Wise & Bruce Leighton, 2nd Mary Francis & Ann Gilbert, 3rd Dee Murdoch & Wendy Parr May 9 A ladder N/S 1st Evelyne Taylor & Alan Wright, 2nd David Sewell & Peter Downward, 3rd Bill Kolkman & Jim Rooney. E/W 1st Audrey Rooney & Carolyn King, 2nd Kay Robb & Rosemary McLaughlin, 3rd Linda Baker & Mike Holmes May 10 Valetta Trophy N/S 1st Trish Downward & Rewa Kyle, 2nd Val Ferrier & Melva Stowell, 3rd Rosemary McLaughlin & Judith Edmond. E/W 1st Rona Brownlie & Arthur Maude, 2nd Mary Buckland & Trish Small, 3rd= Pauline Fergus & Peter Downward, 3rd= Edna Segers & Perry Jowers May 11 Duplicate N/S 1st Mary Buckland & Trish Downward, 2nd Arthur Maude & Rewa Kyle, 3rd Fiona Williamson & Ruth Logan. E/W 1st Paul Fergus & Pauline Fergus, 2nd Ian Doel & Rosemary McLaughlin, 3rd Pat Wise & Lynette Leadley May 15 B and C Ladder N/S 1st Bruce Leighton & David Wilkinson, 2nd Pauline Scott & Helen Briggs, 3rd Marjorie Hoar & Kathy Dunn. E/W 1st Graham Gilbert & Ann Gilbert, 2nd Mary Bruce & Bev Blair, 3rd Pat Wise & Joyce Johnson May 16 Robinson Salver N/S 1st Melva Stowell & Pat Jordan, 2nd Arthur Maude & Maree Moore, 3rd Kay Robb & John Fechney. E/W 1st Annette Blain & Audrey Rooney, 2nd Peter Downward & Trish Downward, 3rd Jim Rooney & Mike Holdaway May 17 Individual Ladder N/S 1st Trish Downward & Peter Downward, 2nd Rosemary McLaughlin & Judith Edmond, 3rd Edna Segers & Melva Stowell E/W 1st Bev Turton & Arthur Maude, 2nd Jeanette Lovett & John Irwin, 3rd Pat Wise & Lynette Leadley May 18 Smith Trophy N/S 1st Kay Robb & Trish Downward, 2nd= Martin de Jong & Bill Kolkman, 2nd= Lynette Leadley & David Sewell. E/W 1st Ian Doel & Sheila Lyons, 2nd Carolyn King & Arthur Maude, 3rd Maree Moore & Maureen Kolkman

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers May 20 20 Riders 1st Brent Hudson 37m 28s. 2nd Steven Hands 24m 28s. F/T. 3rd Michael Templeton 24m 32s. 2f/t. 4th Alex Hooper 24m 32s. 3f/t. 5th Paul Sinclair 27m 33s. 6th. Roger Wilson 27m 39s. 7th Michelle Knight 29m 11s. 8th Don Morrison 28m 02s. 9th Drew Titheridge 28m 03s. 10th Shona Proctor 28m 03s. 11th Rob Hooper 26m 37s. 4f/t. 12th Doug Coley 27m 12s. 13th Ross Templeton 27m 55s. 14th Brian Ellis 32m 53s. 15th. Andy Skinner 31m 38s. 16th Ross Proctor 32m 54s. 17th. Debbie Skinner 32m 55s. 18th Liz Wylie 32m 56s.

19th Janette Hooper 32m 57s. 20th Dave Shurrock 32m 57s.

■ Football English Premier League English Premier League results, standings Arsenal 3 (Bellerin 8, Sanchez 27, Ramsey 90+1) Everton 1 (R Lukaku 58 pen), Hull City 1 (Clucas 66) Tottenham Hotspur 7 (Kane 11, 13, 72, Alli 45+2, Wanyama 69, Davies 84,

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Ross Taylor nudges one past the keeper as New Zealand wrapped up the tri-series title with a convincing 190-run win over hosts Ireland at Malahide near Dublin yesterday. The win was set up by a strong batting display, in which captain Tom Latham’s third ODI century helped set up 344 for six. On a chilly day, with rain occasionally sweeping the ground, Ireland didn’t get close, rolled for 154 with more than 10.3 overs to spare.

Alderweireld 87), Burnley 1 (Vokes 23) West Ham 2 (Feghouli 27, A Ayew 72), Watford 0 Manchester City 5 (Kompany 5, Aguero 23, 36, Fernandinho 41, Jesus 58), Southampton 0 Stoke City 1 (Crouch 60), Chelsea 5 (Willian 8, E Hazard 61, Pedro 77, Batshuayi 90, 90+2) Sunderland 1 (Manquillo 3), Swansea 2 (J Ayew 71, Llorente 86) West Bromwich Albion 1 (J Evans 33), Liverpool 3 (Wijnaldum 45+1, Coutinho 51, Lallana 56) Middlesbrough 0, Manchester United 2 (Harrop 15, Pogba 19) Crystal Palace 0, Leicester City 1 (Vardy 51) Bournemouth 1 (Junior Stanislas 1).

Standings P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 38 30 3 5 85 33 93 Tottenham Hotspur 38 26 8 4 86 26 86 Manchester City 38 23 9 6 80 39 78 Liverpool 38 22 10 6 78 42 76 Arsenal 38 23 6 9 77 44 75 Manchester United 38 18 15 5 54 29 69 Everton 38 17 10 11 62 44 61 Southampton 38 12 10 16 41 48 46 Bournemouth 38 12 10 16 55 67 46 West Brom Albion 38 12 9 17 43 51 45 West Ham 38 12 9 17 47 64 45 Leicester City 38 12 8 18 48 63 44 Stoke City 38 11 11 16 41 56 44 Crystal Palace 38 12 5 21 50 63 41 Swansea 38 12 5 21 45 70 41 Burnley 38 11 7 20 39 55 40 Watford 38 11 7 20 40 68 40 ——————Hull City 38 9 7 22 37 80 34 Middlesbrough 38 5 13 20 27 53 28 Sunderland 38 6 6 26 29 69 24

■ Golf Aorangi Golf Club May 21 Women’s Weekend Pennants held at Pleasant Point South Zone: Pleasant Point 2 9 Gleniti 2 3, Waimate 9.5 North Otago 2.5, Maungati 10 Timaru 2, St Andrews Bye North Zone: Pleasant Point 1 10 Geraldine 2, Gleniti 1 9 Methven 3, Tinwald won by default from Ashburton.

Ashburton Golf Club May 20 Final of the Watson Cup Royce Jamieson & Tufuga Sa defeated Shane Beavan & Gordon Crawford.

Newton Trophy Final Jordan Bird & Tom Blacklow defeated Charlie Alexander & Noel Sutton.

Stableford Round Best score of the day was George Brown with 39 pts by c/b. Other winning scores were: Mark Holmes and Colin Divers 39; Paul May 38; Ken Clucas and Paul McFie 37; Bryan Donaldson 36; Tony Bennett 35; Robbie Bell and Pat Turton 34.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Beavan Rickerby; Rothbury Insurance: Peter Walker, Netherby Meats: Greig Sparrow, South Island Seeds: Brent MacGregor, Charming Thai (longest putt) Ken Clucas.

Twos: Paddy Bradford and Peter Walker.

Birdy Jackpot: # 5, Nett Eagles: # 14 Nine Hole Section Best score in the Stableford round: 25pts

by Ryan Stoddart. Other winning scores: Andrew Teale 20, Sam Prince 17, David Hensen 17.

Mayfield Golf Club May 17 Mid-week Stableford Competition Gordon Duthie 43 stableford points, Richard Spicer 40, Ali McLeod 36, Andrew Peek 36. Nearest the Pin: Charlie Rapsey Two’s: Richard Spicer and Gordon Duthie.

May 18, 9 Hole Division Stroke and Stableford: 1st T Gallagher 53:19:34, 20 stbf, 2nd J Ludemann 61:18:43, 11 stbf. Greg Sim Building and Excavating 2nd Shot No. 2 – T Gallagher, Mayfield Transport Ltd No. 5 – T Gallagher

Methven Golf Club May 17, Ladies Division 2nd Waddington Plate and 4th Tui’s Trophy 1st Heather Santy 98-26-72, 2nd Sally Jones 100-26-74, 3rd Ellen Kemp 98-23-75 Nearest the Pin # 4 Silver Methven Pharmacy Tania Wilson, # 6 Bronze A Aribica Jane Helmore, # 17 Bronze B Supervalue Sandra Ilton, # 13 Open Foursquare Supermarket Pam Watson, # 14 Aqua 2nd shot Aqua Japanese Restaurant Bev Isherwood, # 4 Saturday Ladies Methven Travel Sally Jones Two’s and Net Eagle: Pam Watson Paradiso Best Net: Heather Santy 72 May 19 9 Hole Golf 4th Mary Fahey / 3rd Stableford & 4th Putting Competition Annette Maw - 57-19-38 Putts 16/Stablefords 17, Jodie Monk - 57-19-38 Putts 17/ Stablefords 16, Mike Markillie - 54-16-38 Putts 20/Stablefords 15 Methven Travel 2nd Shot = Annette Maw PGG Wrightson Best Player = Annette Maw 131 Stableford = Annette Maw May 20 Men’s Division Final Duff Trophy, Stroke round.

Winners: Mike Gray & Gavin Santy Senior: Alister Maxwell 79-8 71. Intermediate: Phil Johnson 85-13-72. Junior A: Ian Lucas 96-21-75. Junior B: Bob Ilton 97-25-72.

Other Good Scores: 73 Ben Rutter. 74 Dayle Lucas, Jim Park. 75 Michael Kemp. 76 Keith Middleton, Gavin Santy.

Two’s: Pete Wood, Dayle Lucas, Tony Worsfold, Phil Johnson.

Dubliner Best Nett: Alister Maxwell 71.

Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Phil Johnson. Methven Travel Best Gross: Dayle Lucas 77.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Keith Middleton. Hunters Wine No 6: Tony Worsfold. Ski Time No 13: Gavin Santy. Green Parrot No 17: Pete Wood. Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Barry Wackwitz.

Next Week: May 27th: ISTAS, 1st Round Mt Harding Trophy (over 50’s) 3rd Round Green Jacket.

Rakaia Golf Club May 17 Ladies Division Stroke - Par Round – Connelly Cup – Extra Medal Freda Bierema 106 – 30 – 76, 4 down, Sally Smith 104 – 26 – 78, 6 down Railway Tavern 2nd Shot No 3 - Sue Martin, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 - Sally Smith, Val Bell Nearest The Pin No 8 - Sally

Smith, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 – Sue Martin, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 – Freda Bierema

Tinwald Golf Club May 19, Women’s Division Silver – Best Gross: Bronwyn Flannery (Tinwald) 90, Best Nett: Christine Ross (Mayfield) 74, Runner up Nett: Leen Bell (Tinwald) 75, Stableford: Phylis Smith (Tinwald) 29. Bronze 1 - Best Gross: Mary-Lou Watson (Ashburton) 101, Best Nett: Colleen Gibbs (Geraldine) 78, Runner up Nett: Sally Lane (Tinwald) 80, Stableford: Trish Cates (Ashburton) 29. Bronze 2: Best Gross: Jenny Harrex (Tinwald) 106, Best Nett: Helen Rapsey (Mayfield) 78, Runner up Nett: Jenny Staddard (Ashburton) 81, Stableford: Sue Gutsell (Tinwald) 28.

Nearest the Pin: #2 Christine Ross, #6 Christine Ross, #12 Pam Feutz, #16 Jenny Stoddard May 20, Stroke Leading scores in the stroke round played on Saturday: 0-12; John Smitheram 71, Regan Stills 72, Jeff Hewitt 73, Struan Scott 73 b/l. 13-18; Pete Summerfield 72, Richard Thompson 73, Brian Rouse 74, Pete Marshall 76, Mark Banks 77 b/l. 19 plus; Ben Hobson 76, Lindsay Jackson 79 b/l. Women; Elizabeth Collins 78. Nearest pin; Tinwald Liquorland: #2; Steve McCloy.

Gluyas Ford # 6; Leen Bell. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill# 12; Richard Thompson. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Terry Reynolds. G& R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Jason King. Two’s; Gary Lee, Selwyn Munro, Jason King. Net eagle; # 6 Not struck

■ Ice hockey NHL playoffs Collated results from the NHL Semifinal(all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Penguins 7 Ottawa Senators 0 (Pittsburgh Penguins leads series 3-2)

■ Petanque Ashburton MSA Petanque Club May 21 Ashburton MSA Mens Drawn Petanque Doubles - held in Ashburton Winners: Peter Marriott and Trevor Nish, Runners up: Stephen Kyle and Vince Nuberg, Third: Neville Bensdorp and Henry Marriott, Fourth: Richard Browne and Jonathan Crum.

May 21 Ashburton MSA Ladies Petanque Drawn Doubles – held in Ashburton Winners: Betty King and Marion Harrison, Runners up: Jan Guilford and Ellen Pithie, Third: Wil Nuberg and Alison Thomas, Fourth: Karen Bensdorp and Shelagh Field.

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby May 20 Senior Division 1 Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Section One Waihora 20 (2T) v Saracens 16(1T) Burn/Duns/Irw 23 (1T) Darryl Phillips Motor

Company Celtic 32 (5T) Prebbleton 15 (2T) Darfield 26 (4T) Hornby 5(1T) Glenmark 84 (12T) Devon Tavern Hampstead 34 (5T) Ohoka 20 (2T) Section Two PWL Methven 24 (4T) Southbridge 33 (5T) Stuart Tarbotton Contractor Southern 32 (5T) Kaiapoi 24, Rolleston 10 (2T) West Melton 52 (8T), Oxford 3 Rakaia 32 (5T) Lincoln Bye Senior B – Michael Duff Memorial Trophy Grieve Construction Allenton 12 (2T) KFC Hampstead 48 (8T), R&R Spreading Methven 12 (2T) Collegiate 17 (3T), Mt Somers 31 (5T) Rakaia 7 (1T) Wholesale Seeds Southern 24 (4T) Kellys Café & Bar Celtic 10 (1T) UC Championship Mid Canterbury Combined 13 Lincoln HS 15 Combined Competition – Colts Waihora 44 (7T) Celtic 17 (3T) Rakaia-Methven Bye Combined Competition - Under 18 Waiora vs TBHS Methven Default Lincoln/Prebbleton – Win Southern/Hampstead 7 Aoraki 31 Ashley/Oxford 14 Darfield Hurunui 22 (3T) Hanham Concrete Celtic 22 (3T) Pegasus Bay 15 Rolleston 26 Combined Competition – Under 16 Waimak & Stags 28 Mid Canterbury Mechanical Hampstead 59 Northern Raiders 36 vs Ashley/Saracens 30 Harnett Contracting Celtic/Shearmac Methven 5 Prebbleton 35 Waihora/Springston 93 RD Petroleum Tinwald 0 West Melton/BDI/Leeston Rolleston Combined Competition – Under 14.5 Fowler Homes Celtic/Purata Farms Rakaia 22 West Melton 53 Lemacon Hampstead 15 Southbridge 17 Methven Prebbleton MCRU/ACL – Under 13 Competition Lysaght Glass Celtic 33 Ashton Garage Doors Collegiate 71 Methven 19 Allenton Tinwald 61 Hyde Bros Spraying Southern 32 Lifestyle Motorhomes Hampstead 57 MCRU/ACL – Under 11.5 Competition Ashburton Online Celtic 49 Ross Leadley Building Collegiate 7, Methven 24 Allenton Tinwald 49, Moore Mechanical Southern 20 Hampstead 39

■ Shooting Ashburton District Rifle Club May 21 Scores at 300 and 600 yards TR, Tim Webb 49.7, 49.5, 98.12, John Miller 50.4, 48.6, 98.10, John Snowden 49.3, 49.5, 98.8, John Fleming 49.3, 48.3, 97.6.

F class, Murray Cook 60.6, 57.4, 117.10, Mike Chui 59.4, 58.5, 117.9, Mark Alexander 59.4, 58.3, 117.7, Stuart Amos 58.2, 58.6, 116.8, Brian Greystone 55.4, 60.5, 115.9, Tim Boyd 52.2, 53.2, 105.4.

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s winter league competition: Mick Hooper lost to Pete Topham 0-3, Gary Casey beat Mike Keen 3-0, Jordan Hooper beat Megan Ness 3-1, Mike Keen beat Michelle Read 3-1.

Brendon Adam beat Paul Cousins 3-1, Jimmy Hunn lost to Ron Carlson 1-3, Chris Thompson beat Carl Hough 3-1, Graham McCormick beat Rebecca McCloy 3-0.

Adam Clement lost to John McDonnell 0-3, Craig Campbell beat Mike Jackson 3-0, Reece Wallington lost to Phil Andrew 0-3, Ryan Jackson beat Amy Muckle 3-1.

James McCloy beat Jimmy Hunn 3-1, Riley Wilson beat Reece Wallington 3-1, Hamish Trott beat Charlotte Smith 3-0, Pete Blacklow beat Pat Summerfield 3-0, Nigel Tew lost to Eelke Dijkstra 0-3, Blair Horrell beat Cameron Grant 3-2, Jan Lee lost to Robbie Kok 2-3.

Nick Marshall beat Chris O’Reilly 3-0, Ian Dolden lost to Jimmy Hunn 0-3, Kirsty Clay lost to Andy Morrison 1-3, Martina Padrutt lost to Kate O’Reilly 0-3.

Ben Kruger beat Glen Ralston 3-2, Steve Devereux lost to Mark O’Grady 2-3, Ro b Giles lost to Brendan Clark 1-3, Luke Anderson lost to Chrissie Stratford 1-3.

Teams ladder after last week’s games: Team 5 74 points; team 3 73, team 4 72, team 13 64, team 9 62, team 12 61, team 1 59, team 8 59, team 11 52, team 10 47, team 14 45, team 2 43, team 6 43.

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■ MOTOR RACING

Dixon on pole for Indy 500 Kiwi Scott Dixon has qualified on pole position for next week’s Indianapolis 500 after posting the fastest four-lap average at the Brickyard yesterday.

The one-time champion at the famous race proved too quick in the fast nine shootout on Monday morning to put his Chip Ganassi Honda-powered car in the prime spot.

He recorded a four-lap average speed of 232.164 to bank a third career pole at Indianapolis.

“It feels damn good,” Dixon said.

“We trimmed the car and before we went out when I was sitting there, I thought we’d maybe trimmed too much and perhaps we should put some more downforce in the car.

“That first lap was just huge.

“I can’t thank the team enough – they’ve been working so hard.

“This season has started off great and good points today as well.”

Dixon was thrilled to do all he could possibly do a week out from the race and will celebrate the pole as a separate performance.

“This is job one – obviously the real deal is coming up in a week’s time and that is where we will push even harder and try to capitalise even more,” Dixon said.

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Country Golf Club May 26 Ladies Vets Play at Rakaia 9.30am for 10.00am start 9 Hole players welcome, bring own lunch and small gift for raffle

Ashburton Golf Club May 27 A stroke round from the Blue Tees will be played as the third qualifying round for Club Championships.

Starting times: Morning 8am, Afternoon report to the Pro shop at 11.30 for a 12 noon start.

Nine hole golfers report at 12.30 for a 1pm start.

■ Hockey Mid Canterbury Hockey Played at NBS Ashburton Hockey Turf May 26 Kiwi Sticks (4th Grade) Duty Club: Rakaia 3.45pm Turf one: Tinwald/Mayfield v Allenton Thunder (Hampstead/Coll SW,H Soal) Turf two: Wakanui Blue v Collegians White (J Cameron, G Muir) 4.30pm Turf one: Rakaia v Allenton Storm (L Ellis, L Adams) Turf Two: Tinwald The Tool Shed v Wakanui Black (J Cameron, H Soal) 5.15pm Turf one: Methven Black v Wakanui White (K Dalgety, A Bowler) Turf two: Tinwald Engineering Solutions v Collegians Green (A Quigley, TBC) 6.00pm Turf two: Methven White v Tinwald Smith & Sons (S Reith, Hampstead SW) Bye: Hampstead 1st Grade Women 6.50pm Collegiate v Methven Black (Hampstead, Coll/Hampstead) 8.00 pm Hampstead v Collegians/ Hampstead (Collegiate, Methven Black) Bye: Methven White May 27 Mini Sticks (5th Grade) Duty Club: Rakaia (Coaches to Umpire) 9.30am Turf one: Tin-

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Celtics pip Cavs Avery Bradley’s buzzer-beating three-pointer has capped a stunning 111-108 comeback win for Boston over Cleveland in game three of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

The Celtics were hammered in the first two games of the best-ofseven series and playing without star Isaiah Thomas, came from 21 points down in the third quarter to upset the Cavaliers in Cleveland yesterday.

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Warriors eye Maloney The Warriors are watching former Warriors five-eighth James Maloney’s situation with interest as they look to find a replacement for Kieran Foran. The club is weighing up their options around whether to splurge on signing three quality forwards to bolster their struggling pack or to recruit an experienced playmaker. The 30-year-old has a year to run on his contract understood to be worth $650,000 per year and wants an upgrade and extension, but at this stage the Sharks are not willing to play ball.

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No Origin for Slater “The pole is its own race here; its own weekend.

“The significance of winning pole is big as well but we are here to win the race.

“Back in 2008 we won from the pole so hopefully we can replicate that here.”

Ed Carpenter and Alexander wald Aotea Electric v Tinwald Bonnington Paint; Turf two: Allenton Eagles v Collegians Green; Turf three: Tinwald/Mayfield v Tinwald Skip 2 It; Turf four: Rakaia v Wakanui Black; 10.10am Turf Three: Tinwald/Mayfield Transport v Collegians White; Turf four: Allenton Hawks v Wakanui Blue; Bye: Methven Fun Sticks (6th Grade) – Duty Club:Rakaia 11.00am: All teams assemble at Turf.

At Ashburton (Senior Women) 1.00pm: Cambridge v Hampstead (TBC); At Timaru (Senior Women) 5.00pm: Geraldine v Hampstead/Collegians; May 28 1st Grade Men 5.00pm Lowcliffe Tinwald v Hamp/Colleg (Allenton, Wakanui 1GM) 6.15pm Allenton v Wakanui (Lowcliffe/Tinwald, Hampstead/Coll 1GM) Bye: Tinwald May 29 2nd grade Boys (Time change) 5.00pm Allenton/Hampstead v Wakanui (E ConnollyWhyte, R Law); 6.15pm Methven v Invitational Team (Wakanui SM,J Gray) May 30 KWICK Sticks (3rd Grade Mixed) 4.15pm Tinwald/Mayfield v Wakanui 7s (M Baker, Hannah) 5.15pm Rakaia v Wakanui 8s (Hannah, J Gray) 6.15pm Methven v Tinwald (R Law, A Quigley) 7.15pm Collegians v Allenton (R Law, J Gray)

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby May 24 – June 1 Club Days: Allenton, Collegiate May 24 Aoraki Schoolgirls Competition Mt Hutt/Ashburton v Craighead, Methven, 4.45pm, B Frame UC Championship Christchurch BHS v Mid Canterbury Combined, 15:00pm, CBHS, TBA May 27 Senior Division 1 Luisetti Seeds Combined Competition Quarter Finals Darfield v Oxford, Darfield, 2.45pm, W Burrett Rakaia v Prebbleton, Rakaia 1, 2.45pm, K Hancock, P Hill, P McKnight Southbridge v Waihora, Southbridge,

Rossi will join Dixon on the front row.

Two-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso will start on the second row after finishing qualifying with the fifth best average speed. Dixon’s team-mate Tony Kanaan will begin on the third row.

- NZME 2.45pm, K Opele Glenmark v Lincoln, Glenmark, 2.45pm, S O’Reilly Canterbury Rugby Supporters Club Trophy Southern v Saracens, Hinds, 1, 2.45pm, TBA, G Clement, M Southby Celtic v Kaiapoi, Celtic 1, 2.45pm, TBA, G Jopson, H Grant Plaque Section BDI v Methven, 2:45pm, Burnham 1, TBA Hornby v West Melton, 2:45pm, Denton Oval, TBA Plate Section Rolleston v Ohoka, 2:45pm, Rolleston 1, TBA Hampstead Bye Senior B - Centennial Mug Competition Grieve Construction Allenton v Wholesale Southern, 2:30pm, Allenton1, J Bond Collegiate v KFC Hampstead, 2.30pm, Collegiate 1, D McKibbon Mt Somers v Kelly’s Café & Bar Celtic, 2:30, Mt Somers, M Gallagher Rakaia v R & R Spreading Methven, 1:00pm, Rakaia, K Faalogo UC Championship Christchurch BHS v Ashburton College, 15:00pm, CBHS, TBA Combined Competition – Colts Prebbleton v Darfield, Prebbleton Oval, 1:00pm, TBA Rakaia/Methven v Lincoln Black, Rakaia1, 1:00pm, P Hill Springston v Waihora, Springston 1, 1:00pm, TBA EuroAgri Celtic Bye Combined Competition - Under 18 Darfield v Hurunui, Darfield 2, 1:00pm, TBA Rolleston v Ashley/Oxford, Rolleston 1, 1:00pm, TBA Hanham Concrete Celtic v Pegasus Bay, Celtic 2, 2:15pm, S Bennett Methven Default v Waihora Win Aoraki v Lincoln/Prebbleton Timaru Boys High v Southern/Hampstead, School Park, 13:00pm Combined Competition – Under 16 Prebbleton v Mid Canterbury Mechanical Hampstead, Prebbleton 1, 1:00pm Waimak & Stags v Nortern Raiders, TBA Rolleston v Waihora/Springston, Rolleston 2, 1:00pm, TBA

Above – Kiwi driver Scott Dixon pulls out of the pit area during a practice session for the Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dixon will start the big race on pole position.

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Ashley/Saracens v West Melt/BDI/Leeston, TBA Harnett Contracting Celtic/Shearmac Methven v RD Petroleum Tinwald, Celtic 1, 1pm, H Grant Combined Competition – Under 14.5 Rolleston v West Melton, Rolleston 5, 12:30pm, TBA Prebbleton v Lincoln, 12:30pm, Prebbleton 2, TBA Southbridge v Methven, Southbridge 2, 1:00pm, TBA Lemacon Hampstead v Fowler Homes Celtic/Rakaia, Hampstead 1, 1:30pm, G Barr Waihora Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 13 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton/Tinwald v Hyde Bros Spraying Southern, Allenton 1, 1:15pm: B Frame Lysaght Glass Celtic v Methven, Celtic 2, 1:00pm: G Jopson Ashton Garage Doors Collegiate v Lifestyle Motorhomes Hampstead, Collegiate 1, 1:15pm: J Kilworth MCRU/ACL – Under 11.5 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton/Tinwald v Moore Mechanical Southern, Allenton 4, 1:00pm Ashburton Online Celtic v Methven, Celtic 3, 1:30pm Ross Leadley Building Collegiate v Hampstead, Collegiate 1. 12:00pm MCRU/ACL – Under 10 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Howden Ag Southern, Allenton 2, 1:30pm Blacklows G Celtic v Blacklows W Celtic, Celtic 4, 1:45pm H n B Services Collegiate v Methven Black, Collegiate 2, 1:30pm Purata Farms Rakaia v Methven White, Rakaia 4, 1:30pm Stocker Dairies Hampstead Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 9 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Methven, Allenton 2. 12.30pm Summerfield Builders G Celtic v Tinwald, Celtic 4. 12:45pm Naylor Love Collegiate v Progressive Livestock Southern, Collegiate 2, 12:30pm Purata Farms Rakaia v Summerfield Builders W Celtic, Rakaia 4, 12:30pm Netherby 4square Hampstead Bye

Queensland selectors have described the snubbing of Billy Slater for next week’s State of Origin series opener as the “toughest decision we’ve had to make”. And Brisbane’s Anthony Milford has been named as Maroons starting five-eighth with recovering playmaker Johnathan Thurston (shoulder) listed as 18th man.

- AAP MCRU/ACL – Under 8 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton/Tinwald v Agspread Southern, Allenton 3, 1:30pm McCrea Painters & Decorators Celtic v Netherby 4 Square Hampstead, Celtic 4, 11.45am Cates Grain & Seed Collegiate v Methven Black, Collegiate 2 11:30am Purata Farms Rakaia v Canterbury Feed Assessment Southern, Rakaia 3, 1:15pm Methven White Bye MCRU/ACL – Under 7 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Tinwald, Allenton 3, 12:45pm Summerfield Builders G Celtic v Spark Hampstead, Celtic 3, 12:45pm Summerfield Builders W Celtic v Four Seasons Treecare Southern, Celtic 3, 12:45pm Camross Electrical Collegiate v Methven Black, Collegiate 3, 1:45pm Methven White v Methven Red, Methven 4, 1:00pm Greg Donaldson Contracting Mt Somers v The Finishing Company Celtic, Mt Somers 1:30pm Purata Farms Rakaia v ADM Southern, Rakaia 3, 12:30 MCRU/ACL – Under 6 Competition Associate/Club Referees Required Allenton v Tinwald, Allenton 3, 12:00pm Anderson Joinery G Celtic v Hayden Mackenzie Contracting Southern, Celtic 3, 12:00pm Anderson Joinery W Celtic v Riverlea Ag Southern, Celtic 3, 12:00pm Cranfield Glass Collegiate v Methven Red, Collegiate 3, 1:00pm Redpath Ltd Collegiate v Netherby 4Square Hampstead, Collegiate 3, 12:15pm Methven Black v Methven White, Methven 5 1:00pm Greg Donaldson Contracting Mt Somers v Summerfield Builders Celtic, Mt Somers, 12:45pm Purata Farms Rakaia v Coleman Ag Southern, Rakaia 3, 12:30pm May 31 Aoraki Schoolgirls Competition – Round 4 Mt Hutt/Ashburton v Geraldine 1st 15, Methven, 3.30pm: G Jopson June 1 Mt Hutt College, Quad tournament Methven, 10.00am: H Grant, G Barr

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

In brief

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High hopes for Chocante The connections of the rising staying star Chocante are already making plans for a return trip across the Tasman.

The four-year-old has come a long way in a short time and trainer Stephen Marsh is keen to test the progressive son of Shocking in the best of company next season.

“We would like to be in Melbourne in the spring for some serious races,” he said.

“It’s not as if he’s having a lot of racing this autumn and he can be on a direct flight back from Brisbane and he won’t need a long time out in the paddock.”

Chocante won four of his 12 starts in New Zealand, including the Gr.3 Counties Cup, before the Queensland winter carnival and he impressed in his Australian debut when third in the Gr.3 Chairman’s Handicap.

“I was rapt – I thought his run was outstanding,” Marsh said.

“He’d gone from 1400 to 1600 and then up to 2000 at Doomben.

He was still fresh and pulled a bit so it was a great effort and he’s done an absolute treat since.”

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Johnson focused Chris Johnson is prepared to go the extra mile in his quest for a second national jockeys’ premiership. The veteran South Island rider won the title with 139 winners in 1995-96 season and a treble at Rotorua on Sunday took him to 84 for this term, five behind pacemaker Danielle Johnson.

- NZME

Kiwi filly impresses Aloisia is likely to head to Brisbane after making a perfect start to her Australian career. Placed in one of her two starts for Matamata part-owner and trainer Jason Price before her sale, the Azamour two-year-old was successful in her first appearance at Flemington on Saturday for Caulfield horseman Ciaron Maher.

- NZME

Death of Bahhare

Chocante in winning form with Craig Grylls aboard.

Chocante will step up to 2200 metres this Saturday in the Gr.3 Premier’s Cup at Eagle Farm.

“Jim Byrne will be riding him again and hopefully after this

weekend he will be desperate to stick with him,” Marsh said.

Chocante will close out his Queensland campaign in the Gr.2 Brisbane Cup, again at Ea-

gle Farm on June 10.

“That will be over 2400 metres and the timing is ideal for him – he’s a really exciting horse,” Marsh said.

- NZME

Group winner and producer Bahhare died on Sunday. The Americanbred son of Woodman enjoyed his best years at Rich Hill Stud before he transferred to The Pines at Rakaia. “He was a lovely horse to deal with,” Rich Hill’s John Thompson said. “He was New Zealand’s champion sire of two-year-olds in the 2003-04 season.” Bahhare‘s best representatives included Hurrah (Captain Cook Stakes), Dowry (South Australian Oaks) and Carlisle Bay (Gr.3 Sha Tin Trophy). - NZME

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 23 May 2017 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 2.52pm AAA FENCING HANDICAP TROT $6000, 3yo+, up to r48 with cond. spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 Xtra Time (1) fr 2 63 Clover Kate (2) fr .......................... S Dickson 3 63645 Malabar Spur (3) fr ....................S Abernethy 4 x0703 Stallbackskungen (4) fr .............. A Drake (J) 5 30792 Commando One (U1) fr ..............A Poutama 6 41766 Aunty Jan (1) 30 ...............................A Pyers 2 3.17 PAUL CLARIDGE MOBILE PACE $6000, nonwinners 2yo+ mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 0004 Lucy’s Ariel (1) fr 2 28485 Itsokbeingbetter (2) fr 3 75057 Burn A Debt (3) fr ........................ K Marshall 4 70543 Shapeshifter (4) fr ................ D Ferguson (J) 5 Bugalugs (5) fr ...........................P Ferguson 6 Red River Dash (6) fr .....................B Towers 7 4427x Genociate (7) fr 8 80449 Bonnie Boy (21) fr

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 23 May 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.05pm (NZT) SOUTHLAND GREYHOUNDS WELCOME C0, 390m 1 531 Distinctive Miss nwtd J &.................D Fahey 2 6523 Black Tori nwtd .......................... A Bradshaw 3 23262 Goldstar Linkin nwtd S &.................B Evans 4 5634 Murphy Magic nwtd ................... A Bradshaw 5 Homebush Jean nwtd ............J T McInerney 6 426 Kinetic Shadow nwtd....................C Roberts 7 53233 White Not Wong nwtd M & ................Jopson 8 7 Bookie Monster nwtd ........................J Dunn 9 Brad Baxter nwtd ...................J T McInerney 10 x4265 Wake Up Susie nwtd M & .................Jopson 2 12.25pm MEGA LEGEND RUN C0, 457m 1 38 Granny Magnet nwtd .........................J Dunn 2 75725 Tiger Uppercut nwtd.....................C Roberts 3 85762 Homebush Flutey nwtd ..........J T McInerney 4 64853 Forkner Bale nwtd ........................C Roberts 5 27F7F Forbury Flyer nwtd .................J T McInerney 6 651 Junk Mail nwtd L & ............................. Wales 7 88 Idol Ajay nwtd L & .............................. Wales 8 35427 Homebush Ivana nwtd ...........J T McInerney 9 47677 Eskimo Chill nwtd...............................J Allen 3 12.45 NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEATS NZRSq, 457m 1 61211 Nicey Spicey nwtd ..................... A Bradshaw 2 76148 Avalanch City nwtd.................J T McInerney 3 78444 Verbena nwtd ................................R Adcock 4 22734 Botany Alan 26.09..................J T McInerney 5 43122 Opawa Plum nwtd J & .....................D Fahey 6 76312 Max Stix nwtd...............................C Roberts 7 64174 Opawa Crusade nwtd L & .................. Wales 8 51657 Sader Nation 26.68 ....................... G Cleeve 9 83666 Another Message nwtd M & ..............Jopson 10 88888 Troublesome Brit nwtd .................C Roberts

9 A Fine Blue (22) fr 10 9 Hunter Red (23) fr 11 Toppatherock (24) fr ..................S Abernethy 12 67x Mrs Zippy (25) fr 13 P9500 Meggy Mogs (26) fr .....................A Poutama Emergency: Itsokbeingbetter 3 3.47 KEITH & MERYL GOSS MEMORIAL HANDICAP TROT $6000, r50 to r60 spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 53421 Danke (1) fr ................................. K Marshall 2 P9015 Above The Rest (2) fr .....................S Phelan 3 12559 Insignificant (U1) fr 4 76211 My Sky (1) 10 ............................ J Abernethy 5 10090 One Night Out (2) 10.....................B Weaver 6 21849 The Prince (U1) 10....................S Abernethy 4 4.15pm BILL BOYD & ASSOCIATES MOBILE PACE $6000, r61 to r80, r81 to r85 with cond. 2000m 1 48335 Brainstormer (1) fr .....................S Abernethy 2 5468x Pay Me Art (2) fr ..........................A Poutama 3 05862 Franco Lennox (3) fr .................. J Abernethy 4 33132 Ralph Elliott (4) fr ......................... S Dickson 5 04311 Extra Guinness (5) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 6 21751 Marshal Star (6) fr

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4.40pm OUTBACK TRADING CO. MOBILE PACE $6000, up to & including r60 mobile, 2000m 1 04830 Paul’s Verdict (1) fr .................M Johnson (J) 2 96867 Contractual Issues (2) fr 3 45770 Myeyesadoreya (3) fr 4 08067 Aces N Eights (4) fr ..................... K Marshall 5 727x0 Narelle Franco (5) fr 6 05817 Arizona Atom (6) fr ......................A Poutama 7 14537 Razor Brogden (7) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 8 03641 Trixie Bromac (21) fr..................S Abernethy 9 33516 Sumthin Special (22) fr 10 51660 This Excuse Is Fine (23) fr 11 25541 Arcano (24) fr .............................P Ferguson 12 50903 Admiral’s Flight (U1) fr 6 5.05pm CENTRAL ENERGY TRUST MOBILE PACE $6000, up to & including r48 mobile, 2500m 1 00064 Dashing Dane (1) fr 2 x9x74 Shapeofthingstocome (2) fr..............B Taylor 3 06056 Was Meant To Be (3) fr .............S Abernethy 4 10040 Burning Reign (4) fr.............. D Ferguson (J) 5 49008 Lolita Franco (5) fr ........................ S Dickson 6 70962 Our Wicklow (6) fr

7 77699 Valmara (7) fr 8 36334 Pure Desire (21) fr .....................P Ferguson 9 9040x Themailman (22) fr 10 03204 Marquis Eyre (23) fr 11 40987 Prime Lustre (24) fr .....................A Poutama 12 04580 Samaritan (25) fr ........................R Argue (J) 7 5.29pm NEW CENTRAL HOTEL WOODVILLE MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ r50 to r57 mobile, 2500m 1 32917 Amaro (1) fr ................................ A Drake (J) 2 27368 Waingaro Mara (2) fr ............ D Ferguson (J) 3 10307 Idealagain (3) fr 4 52232 Dana Dawn (4) fr .........................A Poutama 5 77222 Kilkeel Lady (5) fr 6 40953 Jack Bates (6) fr .......................... K Marshall 7 23717 Letting Go (7) fr .........................S Abernethy 8 85628 P Tomado (21) fr ....................... J Abernethy 9 02134 Armabluechipboy (22) fr .................S Phelan 10 63139 Hezaluckygrinner (23) fr.............P Ferguson 11 60771 Cut The Cards (24) fr 12 73568 Megatron (25) fr .............................B Towers 8 5.54pm R WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY/BACK HERE THURS MBL PACE $6000, non-winners 3yo+ , 2500m

1 56296 Go Paddy (1) fr.................................A Pyers 2 57880 Cottonwood (2) fr .............................B Taylor 3 06843 Rebel Richie (3) fr ................ D Ferguson (J) 4 40870 Take A Gamble (4) fr ................... K Marshall 5 00000 The Coup De Grace (5) fr ...........A Poutama 6 Bettor Have Courage (6) fr .............S Phelan 7 86972 Cherokee Red (7) fr ...................P Ferguson 8 57665 Glendene (21) fr ........................ J Abernethy 9 28485 Itsokbeingbetter (22) fr 10 072 Madiba (23) fr..................................S Doody 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 SELECTIONS

9 75776 No Tinkerbell nwtd .........................J Guthrie 10 77856 Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 11 3.25 DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER C1, 457m 1 36x23 Dyna Hadvar nwtd........................C Roberts 2 88446 Homebush Patriot nwtd ..........J T McInerney 3 34458 Miss Blue Sky nwtd .....................R Hamilton 4 11 Pat Tama nwtd L & ............................. Wales 5 17765 Goldstar Tu Puc nwtd S & ...............B Evans 6 27634 Kay Bomb 26.60............................ G Cleeve 7 65454 Ghost 26.46 .................................C Roberts 8 27786 Flaming Sambuca nwtd .........J T McInerney 9 66688 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 10 8x778 Subterfuge nwtd .................................J Allen 12 3.41 GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C2/3, 457m 1 44565 Storming Mack 26.13 .................. B I Conner 2 61111 Watta Gunn 25.86 .........................R Adcock 3 11646 Jon Snow Lives 26.19 ..................C Roberts 4 81765 Arcane Sabre 26.46 M &...................Jopson 5 11183 Express Gunn nwtd.......................R Adcock 6 45x8x Top Caliber 22.41 ........................ B I Conner 7 78876 Majestic Action 26.13 S & ...............B Evans 8 11213 Spring Sam 26.00 ..................J T McInerney 9 23F23 Cawbourne Palmer 26.09 ............C Roberts 10 58461 Rushcuter Action nwtd S & .............B Evans 13 3.57pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C3/4, 390m 1 52531 Zipping Clyde nwtd ..................... B I Conner 2 32752 Southern Mist 22.57 ....................R Hamilton 3 22534 Amino Trouble 22.60 ................. A Bradshaw 4 52588 Dirk The Jerk 22.82 ...........................J Dunn 5 43671 Super Stevie 22.96.......................C Roberts 6 78478 Homebush Flame 22.70 .........J T McInerney 7 75487 Homebush Scribe 22.48 ........J T McInerney 8 14875 NippaOfSambucca 22.80 .......J T McInerney 9 78772 Know Scrutiny 22.65 ..................... G Cleeve 10 41147 Idol Star 23.02 L & ............................. Wales 14 4.25pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C1, 390m 1 76534 Homebush Ragna nwtd .........J T McInerney

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Race 1: Clover Kate, Xtra Time, Stallbackskungen, Commando One Race 2: Shapeshifter, Bugalugs, Hunter Red, Genociate Race 3: My Sky, Danke, The Prince, One Night Out Race 4: Extra Guinness, Marshal Star, Ralph Elliott, Franco Lennox Race 5: Arcano, Razor Brogden, Arizona Atom, Trixie Bromac Race 6: Our Wicklow, Marquis Eyre, Pure Desire, Dashing Dane Race 7: Kilkeel Lady, Waingaro Mara, Armabluechipboy Race 8: Madiba, Go Paddy, Cherokee Red, Rebel Richie

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway 4 1.05pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEATS

3 33588 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn 4 12283 Penalty Bale nwtd ........................C Roberts NZRSq, 457m 5 54222 Cawbourne Leaha nwtd ...............C Roberts 1 34653 Know Sweat nwtd.......................... G Cleeve 6 Fx865 Opawa Faith nwtd ........................K M Grant 2 68371 Ana Dior nwtd ..............................C Roberts 7 64728 Homebush Tulip nwtd .............J T McInerney 3 52344 Nozzno Fear nwtd ..................... A Bradshaw 8 46714 Awesome Annie nwtd.................. B I Conner 4 43321 Opawa Cheviot nwtd S & ................B Evans 9 25686 Qadir Bale 26.60 ..........................C Roberts 5 52614 Regalyn 26.19 ...................................B Eade 6 26522 His Nibs 27.07....................................J Allen 10 66688 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 7 31512 Opawa Denise nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 8 2.28pm WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ 8 77786 Homebush Howard 26.02 ......J T McInerney C4/5, 390m 1 68388 Chaimbo nwtd ........................J T McInerney 9 27881 Opawa Richie nwtd L & ...................... Wales 2 11785 Opawa Binge 22.34 L & ..................... Wales 10 83666 Another Message nwtd M & ..............Jopson 5 1.25pm NZ RACING SERIES GRADUATION HEATS 3 11746 Speedy Blueblood 22.87 ........J T McInerney 4 11111 Wheelchair Norm 22.08 .........J T McInerney NZRSq, 457m 5 41323 Seeking Baxter nwtd ..............J T McInerney 1 56481 Hard Questions 26.04 ................... G Cleeve 6 22155 Puma Pants 22.14..................J T McInerney 2 57537 Mischief Managed 26.45 ........... A Bradshaw 7 56234 Homebush Sloan 22.50 .........J T McInerney 3 75781 Trendy Blake 26.15 ................J T McInerney 8 66622 Homebush Kelso 22.40 ..........J T McInerney 4 28212 Goldstar Dodge nwtd S & ...............B Evans 9 78772 Know Scrutiny 22.65 ..................... G Cleeve 5 32315 Opawa Sophie nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 6 11281 Asserting Power nwtd ............... A Bradshaw 9 2.46pm ORETI BEACH RUN C1, 457m 1 53468 Hilton Forabeer nwtd ................. A Bradshaw 7 21132 Opawa Timo 26.72 J & ....................D Fahey 2 48242 Princely Gold nwtd .................J T McInerney 8 62364 Shift The Blame nwtd .............J T McInerney 3 117 Opawa Bear nwtd L & ........................ Wales 9 83666 Another Message nwtd M & ..............Jopson 4 13571 Pyro Polly nwtd .................................J Dunn 10 88888 Troublesome Brit nwtd .................C Roberts 5 4x113 Mr. Bear nwtd ................................R Adcock 6 1.45pm ADDED ENERGY DASH C2, 390m 6 73477 Nippa Eel nwtd .......................J T McInerney 1 43543 Wears The Gold nwtd...................K M Grant 7 48515 Homebush Cherico nwtd........J T McInerney 2 21152 Vallende Star nwtd ............................J Dunn 8 32351 Nippa-A-Spot nwtd .................J T McInerney 3 33522 Definite 22.77 .................................. R Breen 9 47573 Hotdog Shannon nwtd .................C Roberts 4 72175 Homebush Riley 22.81 ...........J T McInerney 10 77856 Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 5 43165 Royal Action nwtd S &.....................B Evans 6 74211 Jinja Rules nwtd .....................J T McInerney 10 3.06pm ASCOT PARK DISTANCE C2d, 630m 1 21564 Goldstar Coco 37.06 S & ................B Evans 7 21115 Caballo Blanco 22.52 ........................J Dunn 2 36467 Waimac nwtd..........................J T McInerney 8 47513 Theseus 22.89 ..................................B Eade 3 88888 Goldstar Po nwtd S & ......................B Evans 9 58461 Rushcuter Action nwtd S & .............B Evans 4 73422 Fancy Nomikai nwtd ...............D J MacMillan 10 865F1 Ngakawau nwtd......................J T McInerney 5 5F653 Heritage Watch 38.05 ....................J Guthrie 7 2.09 CONGRATULATIONS SCARY CANARY C1, 457m 6 53886 Goldstar Dallas nwtd S & ................B Evans 1 73868 Luciastar 26.03 ......................J T McInerney 7 77477 Know Value nwtd ........................... G Cleeve 2 76573 Rhinegolde nwtd ................................J Allen 8 23131 Southern Lights 37.38 .................R Hamilton

83226 Opawa Lean Meat 22.55 L & ............. Wales 41674 Cawbourne Senor nwtd ...............C Roberts 43675 Stormy Sunday nwtd ..............J T McInerney 43234 Another Fan 22.74 M & .....................Jopson 43736 Blazin Action nwtd S & ....................B Evans 21114 Epic Fantasy nwtd .........................R Adcock x1741 Ghisella nwtd S &............................B Evans 46853 Wong Box nwtd M &..........................Jopson 86637 Homebush Clint nwtd .............J T McInerney 15 4.50pm RACING AGAIN 6TH JUNE C1, 390m 1 72756 Opawa Opal 22.84 L & ....................... Wales 2 23217 Coco Bango nwtd...................J T McInerney 3 11 Ketchikan Blue 22.77 ........................J Dunn 4 36432 Cawbourne Sandy 22.61 .............C Roberts 5 44434 Slick Action nwtd S & ......................B Evans 6 52577 Mr. Fuss Pot nwtd S & .....................B Evans 7 2244x Freckle Flyer nwtd ..............................J Allen 8 34444 Crotty nwtd ................................ A Bradshaw 9 68824 Crazy Sunday nwtd ................J T McInerney 10 75776 No Tinkerbell nwtd .........................J Guthrie SELECTION

Race 1: Bookie Monster, Goldstar Linkin, White Not Wong, Black Tori Race 2: Junk Mail, Granny Magnet, Forkner Bale, Forbury Flyer Race 3: Opawa Plum, Sader Nation, Nicey Spicey, Avalanch City Race 4: Opawa Denise, Nozzno Fear, Opawa Cheviot, Know Sweat Race 5: Hard Questions, Opawa Sophie, Opawa Timo, Shift The Blame Race 6: Caballo Blanco, Vallende Star, Jinja Rules, Theseus Race 7: Penalty Bale, Charlie Runkel, Awesome Annie, Luciastar Race 8: Wheelchair Norm, Opawa Binge, Homebush Kelso Race 9: Opawa Bear, Pyro Polly, Nippa-A-Spot, Princely Gold Race 10: Southern Lights, Goldstar Coco, Heritage Watch, Know Value Race 11: Dyna Hadvar, Kay Bomb, Ghost, Flaming Sambuca Race 12: Watta Gunn, Storming Mack, Express Gunn, Spring Sam Race 13: Zipping Clyde, Dirk The Jerk, Amino Trouble, Southern Mist Race 14: Epic Fantasy, Opawa Lean Meat, Ghisella, Another Fan Race 15: Ketchikan Blue, Cawbourne Sandy, Crotty, Opawa Opal

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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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

NZR signs with Vodafone features including a “cuttingedge” stadium experience for tests.

The live stadium experience will be launched during the upcoming Lions tour.

“This new technology puts control in the hands of fans in the stadium who through their devices will be able to replay tries, view highlights and watch alternative live footage from multiple different camera angles,” said NZR’s press release.

These are all new content plays Sky ideally wanted to deliver to its vast but falling audience.

It was a major reason for the attempt to link with Vodafone.

For NZR, it is a

clear signal the organisation intends to look beyond Sky TV for future opportunities.

NZR said the partnership will “extend the fan experience outside the stadium

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with Vodafone providing high speed broadband” in Lions tour fan zones and supporting a rugby road-trip throughout the series.

NZR CEO Steve Tew said the agreement puts “rugby at the forefront of the integration of technology and sport in New Zealand”.

“This partnership with Vodafone means local rugby fans will have access to in-stadium technology that is at the forefront of what is available around the world to watch the game,” he said.

“It is an incredibly exciting development.

“It is important to us that we move with the times and offer a world leading fan experience, and in this day and age that means integrating innovative technology into our fan offering.”

Vodafone’s chief executive Russell Stanners said the company was focused on making rugby content work.

“If you look at the major sporting franchises around the world, they are all focusing on how they engage with their player communities, enhance the experience for fans and provide new viewing experiences for more people,” he said.

- NZME

All Blacks Sevens crash and burn One bad half can ruin a sevens tournament.

The All Blacks Sevens found that to their cost in London on the final leg of the World Series.

After recording a clean sheet on day one, they led Scotland 21-0 at halftime in their Cup quarter-final.

Tries to Sam Dickson, Fa’asiu Fuatai and Andrew Knewstubb and almost mistake-free sevens saw them in total control.

Then it all unravelled in trainwreck fashion, as Scotland, unrecognisable from the first spell, rattled on four tries with doubles to Dougie Fife and Jamie Farndale as they monopolised possession and New Zealand’s defence, hitherto accurate, fell apart.

With less than a minute to play, New Zealand were embarrassingly penalised for having eight men on the field, and Farndale ploughed over for his second, the winning score.

Clearly deflated, they fielded a second-string side for the fifth place semi-final, but were overrun 40-7 by a rampant Australia, whose every touch seemed to turn to gold.

Thus, a tournament which promised so much ended with a seventh equal placing, a jarring note after the promise shown in Paris last weekend.

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New Zealand Rugby has linked up with rival Vodafone in an alliance that could spell trouble for Sky TV. At Eden Park in Auckland yesterday, NZR announced a new rugby app to feature on Vodafone products is the first product to roll out of the new partnership.

Vodafone has become an official sponsor of the All Blacks and NZR in a four-year agreement that could completely change the way rugby fans interact with its content including test matches.

NZR said the partnership would “create world-class digital experiences for rugby fans inside and outside the stadium”.

The announcement will cause major anxiety within Sky TV whose attempt to merge with Vodafone was knocked back by the Commerce Commission earlier this year.

It now appears Vodafone has forged on with its own content play around the All Blacks and the code itself.

The deal is more than just for sponsorship and comes at a time as Sky’s current broadcasting deal with NZR looms on the horizon.

That agreement ends in 2020.

NZR described Vodafone as a “connectivity partner” and described a new All Blacks app with more

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Hamilton nabs Sevens Hamilton will be the home of the New Zealand leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series for 2018 and 2019. Wellington’s Westpac Stadium has hosted the event since 2000 but crowd numbers have dwindled in recent years from the glory days when the tournament would sell out in a matter of hours. New Zealand Rugby’s Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Nigel Cass said Hamilton offered a world-class stadium built for rugby fans, a central location for travelling fans, and most of all, a host community that loves rugby.

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Ngatai unlikely starter Chiefs midfielder Charlie Ngatai is again symptom-free from concussion but is unlikely to play against the Blues at Eden Park on Friday. A headache after training last week ruled him out of the defeat to the Crusaders in Fiji, another blow following his year-long lay-off with concussion which ended for the Chiefs only a fortnight ago when he started against the Reds. Coach Dave Rennie said yesterday that the cause of Ngatai’s headache remained unknown but he had gone four days without any issues and that the Chiefs would take a conservative approach.

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Huge blow for Lions The British and Irish Lions have suffered a big blow on the eve of the New Zealand tour with England number eight Billy Vunipola ruled out through injury. Vunipola has failed to recover from a shoulder injury. Wasps and England’s James Haskell will join the squad following the Aviva Premiership Final. The Australian-born Vunipola has played 34 tests for England and would have been the expected starting number eight for the Lions in the three-test series against the All Blacks.

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Smith ‘still available’ Wallabies great George Smith says he will never turn his back on a test recall if coach Michael Cheika comes knocking. But the 36-yearold doesn’t want it to come at the expense of current internationals like Michael Hooper and Sean McMahon. Openside flanker Smith has not played for Australia since the 2013 Lions tour but his form this season for the Queensland Reds has been so good it has prompted talk of a call-up for June’s threetest home series.

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Duffie escapes sanction

New Zealand’s Fa’asiu Fuatai can’t get away from Fiji’s Paula Dranisinukula at the London Sevens at Twickenham over the weekend.

PHOTO AP to overcome, but the capitulation in the second spell against Scotland will be hard to take for coach Scott Waldrom, who hands over the reins to Clark Laidlaw on June 1.

New Zealand held fourth posi-

tion, just eight ahead of USA, but could well have overtaken Fiji for third as the latter missed Cup qualification.

South Africa had already been declared thte World Series champions, but Scotland took the Cup

title in London, defeating England 12-7 in the final to emulate their 2015-16 victory at this event.

Sir Gordon Tietjens’ Samoan team finished 13th after a very challenging season.

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Blues wing Matt Duffie has escaped further sanction for his red card in his team’s 30-22 defeat to the Stormers in Cape Town. Surprisingly, he pleaded guilty to both offences – the first for being offside at a ruck following a team warning, and the second a tackle on the already prone Cheslin Kolbe. Most observers believe neither card was necessary. Adding insult to injury for them was the fact Shaun Treeby was only penalised for his high tackle which knocked out Piers Francis. Treeby was subsequently banned for three weeks, but even that could be considered light given Sam Whitelock was banned for two weeks for a light elbow tap.

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TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The depth of a loss is measured by how long it takes you to get over it. This is a highly personal equation. What one person shrugs off another carries for years. You can expect everyone’s healing pace to be different.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Sound of mind, sound of body – what more could you ask for? Sure, you can think of a few things you might like but is that the right thing to do? The sun is in your sector, and generosity is your nature.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): To flatter isn’t always to put yourself in a lower position. After all, it takes one to know one. And a little more on the subject: Doing the opposite is also a form of imitation.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The tone of a thing will be much more important than what the thing does or is. The representation is what will matter.

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VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): When you see something inconsistent with your belief system, by your definition it’s absurd. Yet you might end up doing that very thing – which is equally absurd. There’s nothing wrong with either.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Progress is hard to nail down, because who knows which nuisance is better than the last? You’ll figure it out.

Some praise will come to you on the matter, not that it will mean much, since you’ve an agenda beyond all that.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You do not strive to be generous to satisfy a social quota. You give what you feel like giving. That’s honest. The special charisma that swirls around you today has a lot to do with that honesty.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Neglect is an underused concept. Use it now. Problems fade from neglect. Maybe they were never problems, merely situations. Buh-bye.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): There’s something a little weird afoot. You think, “I don’t have time for this!” But then “this” is all you’re doing.

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Transitions are precarious parts of life, represented in big happenings and also in the day to day. Be tender to those in the middle stages, as they are particularly vulnerable.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The call of duty – some dread it. But to you, this is an entry point. You like to go beyond the call of duty, in fact. Going beyond the call is your aim in many regards these days.

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

9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 With special guest Nicole Kidman.

0 10am Tipping Point 11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm MasterChef Australia PGR 3 0 2:25 New Zealand On A Plate Marlborough. 0 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Four In A Bed The second visit is to Merchant House B&B in Girvan, Scotland, where one couple’s desire to win rubs some others up the wrong way.

4:55 The Celebrity Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 N MasterChef Australia 0 9:15 Finding My Twin Stranger For every face, there are seven doppelgangers, and leading experts in twins test seven doppelgangers from around the world. 0 10:15 The Force 0 10:45 1 News Tonight 0 11:15 Major Crimes The Major Crimes Unit continues to investigate the conspiracy behind Dwight Darnell’s murders, and his links to the Zyklon Brotherhood. 0 12:10 Intelligence AO 3 0 1am Te Karere 3 2 1:25 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

Finding My Twin Stranger 9:15pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Hoarders 3 10:55 Catfish 3 11:45 The Real Housewives Of New York City PGR 12:40 Southern Charm PGR 1:35 Intervention Canada 3 2:30 Real Housewives Of NYC – How They Got Here PGR 3 2:55 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 3:50 Hoarders 3 4:45 Dance Moms 3 5:40 Teen Mom 6:35 Catfish 8pm Real Housewives Of NYC – How They Got Here PGR 3 8:30 N The Real Housewives Of New York City Luann tells Dorinda how her wedding plans are unfolding; as Bethenny and her realtor friend set out to sell the apartment she got back in the divorce.

9:30 Dating Naked AO 10:30 Intervention Canada 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 3 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am Camp Lakebottom 3 0 7:25 Beyblade Burst 3 7:50 Slugterra 3 0 8:15 Sofia The First 3 0 8:35 Doc McStuffins 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle 2pm Judge Rinder 3 3pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3:30 Horace In Slow Motion 3 3:32 Leon 3 0 3:35 The Adam And Eve Show 0 4:05 Bunk’d 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 The Middle 0 8pm American Housewife 0 8:30 Grey’s Anatomy AO 0 9:25 Hotel Hell AO 0 10:20 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 10:50 Cougar Town PGR 3 0

11:20 Empire 0 1:05 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Infomercials 2:30 Scandal AO 3 3:20 The Real 3 4:05 Selfie PGR 3 0 4:30 Regular Show 3 0 4:40 The Adam And Eve Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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THE BOX 6am Wheel Of Fortune 6:25 Jeopardy 6:50 Criminal Intent MV 7:40 The Force MC 8:05 Container Wars PG 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Law And Order – UK MV 9:45 Piha Rescue PG 10:15 Deep Undercover MVLC 10:45 Helicopter ER M 11:35 Jeopardy Noon Raw Live MV 3:15 CSI – Miami MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune 5pm Jeopardy 5:30 Criminal Intent MV 6:30 Border Security PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 Covert Affairs MV 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:30 Law And Order – UK MV 11:25 CSI – Miami MV

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12:15 Raw MV 2:40 Jeopardy 3:05 Pawn Stars PG 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Covert Affairs MV 4:45 Hawaii Five-0 MV 5:35 Border Security PG

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

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

10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon Dr Phil AO 12:55 The Bachelor NZ – Women Tell All PGR 3 0 2pm Minute To Win It 3 2:55 Entertainment Tonight 3:20 Sticky TV 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:25 F The Blocktagon After weeks of renovation, the teams will see if their work pays off in cash.

5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Project 7:30 The Last Resort PGR It is time for the couples to address the problems they face in the bedroom, with the relationship specialists calling on sexologist Doctor Nikki Goldstein. 0 8:35 NCIS AO 0 9:30 SVU AO 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 Chicago PD AO 3 0

6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 Sanjay And Craig 3 6:50 Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever 7:15 The Fairly Odd Parents 3 7:40 Shimmer And Shine 3 8:05 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 8:30 Johnny Test 3 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:25 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 0 12:35 Jericho PGR 3 1:30 Bones PGR 3 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3pm Escape To The Country 3 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Wheel Of Fortune 6:30 Jeopardy 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Mythbusters PGR Adam and Jamie test a fan favourite, tackling rocket science as they discover whether gummy bears are a viable rocket fuel.

8:35 Prime Rocks – Dragon AO 3 10:10 The Naughty Bits PGR 3

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Miharo 2 7:30 Dora Matatoa 2 8am Autaia 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Morena 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Pukoro 2 3:30 Miharo 2 4pm Dora Matatoa 2 4:30 Hahana 3 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Te Matatini (HLS) Highlights from the 2017 Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival.

6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm Kawe Korero – Reporters 7:30 Kai Ora 3 8pm Native Affairs 8:30 M Standing In The Shadows Of Motown PGR 2002 Documentary. Story of the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed dozens of Motown artists.

10:30 Media Take

11:50 The Project 3 12:20 Infomercials

11:10 60 Minutes PGR 3 Anderson Cooper reports on monitoring Americans who sympathise with ISIS; 60 Minutes investigates the real consequences of fake news.

12:10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 1:10 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 1:40 Closedown

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

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6:55 Close Up – Johnny Depp PG 7:25 Central Intelligence MVLS 2016 Comedy Action.

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Danielle Nicolet. 9:10 Beyond The Reach MV 2014 Thriller.

Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine.

10:40 Close Up – Johnny Depp PG 11:10 Teacher Of The Year MVLSC 2014 Comedy.

Matt Letscher, KeeganMichael Key, Sunny Mabrey.

12:30 Stretch 16LSC 2015 Crime Comedy. Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale.

2:05 Central Intelligence MVLS 2016 Comedy Action.

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Danielle Nicolet. 3:50 Beyond The Reach MV 2014 Thriller.

Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine.

5:20 American Ultra 16VLC 2014 Comedy. Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart. 6:55 The Other Side Of The Door 16VC 2016 Horror. 8:30 Popstar – Never Stop Never Stopping 16LS 2016 Comedy. Parody about a pop star who falls from grace, and tries every trick in the fame handbook to get back on top.

10pm Star Trek Beyond MV 2016 Sci-fi.

6:45 The Making Of Inception PG 7am The Rite MV 2011 Horror.

Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue.

8:50 Rendition 16VL 2007 Drama. Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep.

10:50 Superman Returns MV 2006 Action. Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth.

1:20 The Runaways 16LSC 2010 Drama. Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning.

3:05 Accepted MLS 2006 Comedy. Justin Long.

4:35 Hereafter MVL 2010 Drama. Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Bryce Dallas Howard.

6:40 The Fast And The Furious MVL 2001 Action.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster. 8:30 Hot Tub Time Machine 16LS 2010 Comedy. Dissatisfied with life, four men return to a decrepit resort where they partied in their youth, where a drunken incident in a hot tub sends them back to their 1980s heyday. John Cusack, Clark Duke.

10:15 Bachelorette 16LS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Rebel Wilson, Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher.

11:40 Snatch 18VL 2000 Crime. WEDNESDAY 1:20 Hereafter MVL 2010 Drama. 3:25 Accepted MLS 2006 Comedy. 4:55 Close Up – Johnny Depp PG 5:20 The Fast And The Furious MVL 2001 Action.

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Midnight The Green Inferno 18VC 2013 Horror.

1:40 American Ultra 16VLC 2014 Comedy. 3:15 Nothing But Trailers M 3:45 Popstar – Never Stop Never Stopping 16LS 2016 Comedy.

5:10 The Green Inferno 18VC 2013 Horror.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Aussie Rules – AFL (RPL) Melbourne v North Melbourne.

9am Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) AT&T Byron Nelson Event.

10am Golf – European Tour (HLS) Rocco Forte Open Event.

10:30 Golf – LPGA (HLS) Kingsmill Championship – Round Four.

11am Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) AT&T Byron Nelson – Round Four.

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Hurricanes v Cheetahs.

12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Chiefs v Crusaders.

1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Force v Highlanders.

1:30 Rugby – World Sevens (HLS) Day One. 3pm Rugby – World Sevens (HLS) Day Two. 4:30 Rugby – First XV (RPL) Wellington College v Palmerston North.

6pm Rugby – Super Rugby (HLS) Chiefs v Crusaders.

6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Hurricanes v Cheetahs.

8:30 The Breakdown 9pm Fox Sports News 9:30 Back Page 10:30 Football – Arsenal TV Arsenal v Everton.

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1:30 UEFA Europa League Magazine 2am UCL Magazine Show 2:30 Football – Fifa U-20 World Cup (RPL) New Zealand v Vietnam. 4:30 Fox Sports News 5am FIH Hockey World 5:30 AFL Weekly Highlights

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

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Building The World’s Most Luxurious Ship 7:30 Diving With Crocodiles 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 10am Destination Flavour Scandinavia 10:30 Tiny House World 11am Waterfront House Hunting 11:30 The Cook And The Chef Noon Building The World’s Most Luxurious Ship 1pm Treasures Decoded 2pm Full Steam Ahead 3pm Poh’s Kitchen 3:30 Fabulous Foals 4:30 A Cook Abroad 5:30 Double Your House For Half The Money 6:30 Salvage Hunters

7:30 Location, Location, Location 8:30 Brother v Brother The Listed Sisters judge the brothers’ master bedrooms and baths, and the winner meets Wayne Newton.

9:30 Money For Nothing 10:30 Salvage Hunters

11:30 A Cook Abroad 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am The Lazy Chef 1:30 The Delicious Miss Dahl 2am Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple 2:30 Getaway 3am Speed With Guy Martin 4am Location, Location, Location 5am Brother v Brother

SKY SPORT 2 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Football – Fifa U-20 World Cup (RPL) New Zealand v Vietnam. 8:30 UEFA Europa League Magazine 9am The Hunters Club Whitetail Bowhunt Part One. 9:30 Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos. 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Noon Rugby League – NRL 12:30 NRL 360 1:30 Monday Night With Matty Johns 2:30 Rugby League – Super League 3pm Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Dragons. 3:30 Tennis – The French Open Preview Show 4pm UFC Now 5pm Motorsport – MotoGP Grand Prix de France. 5:30 Motorsport – WRC Portugal Event.

6:30 Super League Fulltime 7pm Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Dragons. 7:30 Rugby League – NRL 8pm Rugby League – NRL 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 On The Couch With Sterlo 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 11pm The Breakdown 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Stormers v Blues. WEDNESDAY Midnight Rugby – Super Rugby Force v Highlanders.

12:30 NRL Fulltime 1am Rugby League – NRL 1:30 NRL 360 2:30 On The Couch With Sterlo 3:30 Super League Fulltime 4am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Warriors v Dragons.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Fisherman’s Daughter.

7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG Viewer Special. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10am Railroad Australia PG 10:50 What On Earth?

PG Gateway to Eden.

11:40 Swamp Murders M Chain Reaction. 12:30 Evil Kin M The Boneyard.

1:20 Blood Relatives M 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters PG Rock-Et to Me! 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Winter is Coming.

4:45 Treasure Quest – Snake Island PG Cappy’s Curse. 5:40 MythBusters PG Superhero Hour. 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Decision Time. 7:30 Naked And Afraid M 8:30 Treasure Quest – Snake Island PG Striking Gold.

9:25 The Wheel PG Soaked and Starving. 10:15 River Monsters PG Devil of the Deep. 11:05 Blood Relatives M 11:55 Evil Kin M The Boneyard. WEDNESDAY 12:45 Deadliest Catch PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Bering Sea Gold PG 5:45 Deadliest Catch PG

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Sport Mourinho’s hasty exit Jose Mourinho was keen to make a swift exit after Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 2-0 at Old Trafford three days before their Europa League final clash with Ajax.

Having seen the youngest United team in Premier League history wrap up the club’s domestic season with the win, Mourinho left little time for post-match media commitments.

The Portuguese spoke to United’s in-house channel MUTV only very briefly following the game, saying: “Don’t ask me too many things because now I am in a final. Let me go home, I am in a final now.”

Thompson dominant

Simon strikes gold Ashburton indoor bowler Simon Thomas took another step towards becoming one of New Zealand’s most decorated international representatives over the weekend.

Thomas, who plays out of the Rakaia club, returned from Australia late on Sunday night where he was competing as part of the New Zealand Mat Blacks side who proved far too dominant for their Australian rivals in the three-day test match in Sydney.

The New Zealand side warmed to their task over the course of the three days, starting cautiously before producing consistent performances to leave them needing just the one win on the final afternoon to lock the Henselite Trophy away again.

New Zealand won the overall test match 41-25.

Thomas, who skipped both the men’s fours and the men’s triples, picked up one Australasian Medal during the test match,

with his triples side going three-nil over their rivals to claim the tie.

At the other end of the spectrum his fours side was unable to pick up a win, losing 0-3.

“It’s always nice to pick up another medal, but the main goal was of course getting the victory for New Zealand,” Thomas said.

“And to do it in the style we did was quite satisfying, there was a really good team culture which we took out onto the mats and put into our performances.”

Having represented New Zealand on a number of occasions, Thomas now has 10 Australasian medals to his name which has him right up there with the best to wear the black blazer.

It is believed that 13 is the magical mark, and Thomas isn’t ruling out being back shooting for another two medals when Australia comes to New Zealand in 2019.

“You always strive to be there and I’d been away from the mix for a few years so it was nice to be back in and having a go for my country.

“I really enjoyed it.”

While Thomas was away playing for his country, it was bowls as usual taking place in Ashburton, with Grant Wilson adding to his already hugely successful season by winning the championship pairs on Sunday at the McNally Street stadium.

Playing with his Willowby clubmate, Robyn Atkinson, Wilson saw off the challenge of another two clubmates in Mat Bassett and Graeme Chapman in the final, winning 11-6.

The win gave Atkinson her fourth championship title, leaving her needing just one more for her gold star, while for Wilson it was his eighth as he continues his hot run of form to kick off the 2017 bowls season.

Simon Thomas picked up his 10th Australasian Medal while playing for New Zealand in Sydney over the weekend.

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American golfer Lexi Thompson has won the LPGA Tour’s Kingsmill Championship by five shots, producing a tournament record score. The victory came in Thompson’s third event since she lost the ANA Inspiration major in a playoff after being penalised four strokes for a rules violation reported by a television viewer during the final round. Thompson led the Kingsmill tournament in Williamsburg, Virginia from start to finish, closing with a six-under-par 65 for a 20-under 264 total.

Gagai deciding future Newcastle fullback Dane Gagai is the latest player whose form is being impacted by his ongoing contract dramas, according to coach Nathan Brown. But the good news is that it’s all likely to end soon. The Knights are expecting the Queensland State of Origin star to make a call on whether he will take up a three-year deal with South Sydney worth a reported $2.1m this week. Brown said confirmation would finally allow the club to move on in its chase of a marquee player and ramp up its rebuild.

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