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Falloon back on the ballot

By Susan Sandys

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The National Party yesterday announced Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon will next year stand for re-election.

A National Party spokesperson said yesterday Falloon had been the sole nominee for the role, and the party was thrilled to have the “fantastic local representative”

returning after winning the Rangitata seat when he first stood in 2017.

The party kicked off an earlier-than-normal selection process in August, so candidates could “hit the ground running” in their local communities.

That has certainly been the case for Falloon, 36, who wasted no time yesterday talking about

what he wanted to achieve if he made it back to the electorate top seat after General Election 2020.

He said his first demand of a National Government would be to extend State Highway One to four lanes, and he would ask NZ Transport Agency to treat a second bridge over the Ashburton River as a priority.

“The road between Ashburton

and Christchurch is the second most dangerous in the country for fatalities and serious accidents,” Falloon said.

While seeming confident of a National victory in 2020, he was not basing this on the latest 1News-Colmar Brunton poll. This shows support for the National Party has climbed to 47 per cent, despite the party’s leader of Si-

mon Bridges on only 9 per cent as preferred Prime Minister compared to Jacinda Ardern at 38 per cent.

“I don’t read too much into polls,” Falloon said.

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‘Dream team’ excited for 2020

By Susan Sandys

dents is highly important.

Each of the four have high goals, not only for the school and its students, but also in their own lives.

Grace plans to study veterinary science once leaving school. Her biggest passion is riding horses, while she has recently started playing rugby and this year was a member of AshHutt, the combined Ashburton and Mount Hutt College First XV. Sam plans to study commerce, and is a keen rugby player and played for the Mid Canterbury combined First XV. Neil is an academic through and through, with maths his strongest point, but is also a keen sportsman, playing tennis and having competed at national level in croquet. He is highly involved in the Filipino youth community in Mid Canterbury, and his tertiary education plans are to do a Bachelor of Commerce with a double major in finance and accounting.

Annina enjoys netball and is a keen skier, and was this year one of the college’s students selected for Mt Hutt’s sponsored rider scholarship. After leaving school she plans to undertake first-year health science studies at the University of Otago.

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Mount Hutt College’s newly announced team of head students for 2020 are looking forward to working together next year.

Head boy Sam Ree, 17, head girl Grace Bleach, 17, deputy head boy Neil Alombro, 17, and deputy head girl Annina Birt, 16, say they want to build on the school’s fantastic reputation, while also increasing student inclusiveness.

“I think the four of us are going to be a good team,” Grace said.

The others agreed, and Neil added the phrase “dream team” to the mix, summing up how excited the foursome are to have been selected for their new roles. They said one of the things they were particularly excited about was working with their new principal Jack Saxon.

Saxon began the role this term, and according to Grace, Sam, Neil and Annina, he has a bright personality, new ideas, and is very student involved.

The latter is something each of the four students highlighted in what they would bring to their roles when interviewed as part of the head student selection process, believing a feeling of inclusiveness and connectedness amongst stu-

Head students for 2020 (centre) Grace Bleach and Sam Ree and their deputies Annina Birt and Neil Alombro will be emphasising student inclusiveness.

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Falloon back on the ballot From P1 Rather, he believed people were fed up with the current government’s failures, including “broken promises” over police numbers, the KiwiBuild disaster, cuts to roading budgets, an inability to maintain a strongly-growing economy and the huge cost of

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He said he was not taking anything for granted in the large Rangitata electorate, where he won the seat with 19,994 votes, ahead of Labour’s Jo Luxton, who received 13,663 votes, in 2017.

“Ultimately it’s a decision that people will make next year, and I’ll be continuing to work to earn their support,” he said.

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Diggles bounds to success Diggles, with owner Caroline Sinclair, proved himself more than just a pretty face at the weekend’s Mid Canterbury Dog Training Club biannual agility event.

The five-year-old huntaway-cross beardie did not let his long fur and large frame get in the way of acing a series of jumps and tunnels, taking out the Jumpers B3 class.

Sinclair was the show manager for the event. She said it was a fantastic weekend with almost double the number of usual entries, as dog owners came from throughout New Zealand on their way to the national show at Cromwell this weekend.

Sinclair and Diggles are among those who will make the pilgrimage south for the nationals, along with fellow club members Debbie Woods, Mady Bensdorp, Carol O’Connor, and their hounds.

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Drink driver avoids disqualification An Ashburton man has avoided losing his licence for drink driving because he said he was “culturally pressured” to drive an older relative.

Samoan-born Mikaele Suataai had admitted driving with 600mcg when police stopped him driving on Tancred Street in the early hours of August 11.

He had been drinking at his

home but felt obligated to drive his elder.

Suataai, 34, appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday for sentence, where Community Magistrate Sally O’Brien said she accepted cultural expectation was the primary factor for Suataai being behind the wheel.

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Lawyer Roz Burnside said Suataai was relied on by family; the impact of a disqualification would be immense and threatened to derail their new life here.

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Burnside had asked for a discharge without conviction but the magistrate refused, saying drink driving was considered a moderately serious offence in New Zealand.

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work, church and ferry his family to their commitments. His wife did not drive.

Magistrate O’Brien convicted him, fined him $540 and disqualified him for two months, backdated to the date of the offence so effectively served.

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Fined for outburst in shop

A man who lost his temper while waiting to be served at a supermarket admitted charges of intimidation and wilful damage when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Roger Allan Marshall, 40, has also been served with a trespass notice to not set foot in the supermarket now.

Lawyer Clare Yardley said Marshall became upset and angry when he felt he was overlooked at the counter while the shopkeeper went to serve someone else.

“People do get enraged about these things.”

He used abusive language and damaged a sign as he left the shop. “He was upset because he thought the shopkeeper had made a call on a racist basis.”

Community Magistrate Sally O’Brien said shopkeepers were only human. “Sometimes it is easy to think it is all about you and forget the other person is human and maybe making a mistake.”

She said a victim impact report described how the shopkeeper had been upset by the incident on October 3. “They were just standing behind the counter

haviour bond. She ordered him to pay reparation of $404 to the three petrol stations.

and did not deserve this sort of abuse.”

Marshall was fined $150, ordered to pay $100 in emotional harm reparation to the shopkeeper and ordered to come up for sentenced if called upon in six months, effectively a good behaviour bond. She declined to make reparation for the damaged sign.

Others to appear before Community Magistrate O’Brien yesterday included: Iete Emanuel Pukerua, 24, a meat worker of Ashburton, was fined $540 and disqualified from driving for six months after he admitted drink driving in Tinwald on October 12.

Police saw Pukerua driving erratically about 11.46pm, so stopped and breath-tested him.

He blew 600 mcg.

Lawyer Roz Burnside said Pukerua, a Cook Islander, had only been in the country a month and was not aware of New Zealand’s strict drink driving rules.

“It was a foolish decision to drive. He now knows how strict our rules are and he will not be doing this again.”

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A 19-year-old Timaru man was remanded at large so he could instruct a lawyer about five driving related charges. Joshua Matthew Boulden has been charged with twice failing to stop for police, twice for dangerous driving and for driving while disqualified.

He is expected to enter a plea when he appears again on November 19.

Matthew John Gordon, 32, filled his car with petrol at three separate service stations earlier this year and drove off without paying.

The Ashburton man admitted three charges of theft, with the petrol having a combined value of $404. He committed the driveoffs at Oamaru BP, Ashburton Z Energy and Mobil Ashburton.

Lawyer Roz Burnside said the offending had been in April and June when Gordon was trying to get his life together. Since June, he had made progress in that department and was now in a posi-

tion to pay for the petrol.

Police asked the community magistrate to consider imposing a period of disqualification, as a car was used in the commission of the offence.

Magistrate O’Brien declined to disqualify Gordon, saying it would further hamper his rehabilitation.

Gordon needed to work on getting his restricted driver’s licence, she said.

She convicted him on the theft charges and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon in six month, effectively a good be-

A warrant was issued for the arrest of Dale Hawai-Karangi Rimene, after the 22-year-old failed to appear on a charge of stealing $65 worth of kina from a Hornby supermarket.

Rimene had been offered diversion if he wrote a letter of apology and paid for the item. But he did neither, police said yesterday.

Warrants of arrest were also issued for three other no-shows: Cory Rangi Tahiri Bates (charged with wilful damage), Lancer Michael James (breach of community work) and Emma Jane Morris (breach of supervision).

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Barista with a healthy-living vibe

By Linda clarke

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The smell of coffee is back in the Ashburton Arcade with passionate foodie Liz Johnston the new owner of Violet café.

Johnston was welcomed into the arcade family on Monday and is looking forward to getting to know regular customers as they satisfy their coffee fixes.

The barista takes the art of coffee-making seriously and she has plenty of experience providing the perfect blend. Johnston first learned the trade while working at Lunch 15 years ago and pre-children.

She has been a friendly face at St Joseph’s school and the EA Networks Centre more recently, until taking the plunge to go out in business herself.

Johnston believes food and health go hand-in-hand and she has studied integrated nutrition and health. As well as coffee and other hot drinks, she is offering personally-made food, including gluten-free and refined sugar-free options. She hopes to expand to selling fresh salads, Bircher muesli and other nutritious snacks as the business grows.

With two busy, teenage daughters and husband Pip heavily in basketball, Liz has the food and energy equation mastered in her household.

“I’m very passionate about food and health,” she said.

Violet is open at 8.30am on weekdays and on Saturday mornings. Customers can also text their orders.

Liz Johnston has brought coffee back to the Ashburton Arcade.

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Fire at new convention centre NZME A massive SkyCity inferno continued to burn uncontrollably late yesterday afternoon, with one person seriously hurt, thick toxic smoke billowing across the CBD, and the city in gridlock.

Firefighters had been diverted from as far afield as Hamilton to battle the SkyCity Convention Centre blaze, believed to have been started by a worker’s blowtorch on the roof of the $700 million new building. Sources said the fire ignited about 1pm.

Fire and Emergency assistant area commander Dave Woon said St John transported one person in a serious condition to Auckland Hospital.

The fire started on the seventh floor and had spread to the sixth floor by late afternoon.

The fire had also spread visibly across the rooftop in five hours, raising fears about the amount of damage.

“It is a large fire, involving gas cylinders ... bitumen layers ... it is a very, very difficult fire to extinguish,” Woon said.

“We are not on top of the fire, but with the resources just arrived we should be able to make progress.”

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Ardern calls out National NZME

Firefighters can been seen fighting the fire on the convention centre roof. noon from Hamilton.

Woon said they had enough fire resources currently, but not if there was another major event.

He went on to say the cause of the fire was not of concern

at this stage.

Auckland office block air-conditioning units were shut down to stop them dragging fumes and smokes into nearby commercial towers.

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Auckland Mayor Phil Goff reported what he could see live on his official Twitter page.

“Fire is really building. People can be seen on the roof,’’ he wrote yesterday afternoon.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is calling out National for “reneging” on its word and says it has become clear to her that the party cannot be taken on its word.

Her comments come as Justice Minister Andrew Little continues to attempt to get National across the line to support a new anti-terrorism bill.

Tensions between National and the Government have been simmering since the bill was introduced last week.

Little said the Government had been “dicked around” by National over the issue, to which Bridges said that the Justice Minister’s negotiation style was “belligerent”.

The bill was meant to go before Parliament for its first reading yesterday, but it appears as if the bill’s first reading has been pushed back.

The Greens have said it would not support the first reading of the bill as it stands, but have left the door open to supporting the bill if its demands are met.

Ardern today took aim at National, putting the blame for the delay directly in National Leader Simon Bridges’ lap.

Police under investigation after pursuit NZME

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The driver fleeing police early yesterday morning in Christchurch was not travelling at a “horrendous” speed but had reportedly been driving in an erratic manner, police said.

One man died and five other people were badly injured after a four-minute police pursuit ended with the fleeing vehicle crashing into another car on Papanui Rd shortly after 4am yesterday.

The man killed was in a vehicle driven by an innocent motorist, hit by the fleeing vehicle.

Canterbury Metro Area Commander Superintendent Lane Todd told media yesterday the pursuit was under investigation by the Independent Police Conduct Authority.

Todd said their records showed police had not called off the pursuit before the crash happened.

“The pursuit was still active at the time of the crash but obviously the circumstances leading up to crash will be part of that wider investigation.”

He said the fleeing vehicle was not travelling at horrendous speeds but was over the speed limit.

“The officers have reported that the nature of the driving was erratic and they were concerned with the manner of the driving, which is why they had at-

A Toyota car being removed from t e accident site.

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tempted to stop and talk with the driver and then the pursuit had been initiated after that,” Todd said.

“At this stage the car does not appear to be stolen.”

Todd said police had been in contact with the man’s family and were offering support at this horrendous time.

Todd said: “This is an absolute tragedy and a horrific outcome.”

The pursuit began when a Toyota vehicle failed to stop for police on Papanui Road about 4am yesterday.

Police pursued the vehicle for four minutes through residential streets, Todd said.

“At the intersection of Glandovey and Idris roads the Toyota collided with a Hyundai driven by a member of the public.

“The driver and sole occupant of the Hyundai sus-

tained critical injuries and was transported to hospital, where they sadly died.

“There were five occupants in the Toyota. Initial indications are that one of the occupants has sustained critical injuries and the other four serious to moderate injuries.”

A St John spokesman said six people were initially taken to hospital including two in a critical condition, three seriously injured and one person with moderate injuries.

Five ambulances and two St John first response vehicles were at the scene.

The Serious Crash Unit examined the scene and the Independent Police Conduct Authority was to be notified, police said.

The intersection of Glandovey and Idris roads was closed for a number of hours after the accident.

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Bring back respect for authority A

nother tragic situation in Christchurch involving police and people who just don’t know when to stop yesterday and still this horrid debate around with whom the fault lies rages on.

Are the police to blame for taking chase behind an out of control driver in an effort to get them off the road before they do irreparable damage, or is it the fault of the driver who has no intentions of following the letter of the law and will do whatever it takes to evade being brought to justice for their indiscretions?

The decision, it would seem, is a divided one.

A lot of rhetoric yesterday morning, in the wake of yet another Christchurch tragedy involving a police chase, saw the

finger being pointed firmly at police and holding them to account for the loss of an innocent life.

It is their responsibility, we were told, to ensure the safety of the majority and not just the few and if that means withdrawing from a pursuit and not chasing someone who so clearly shows no desire to stop, then that is exactly what must happen.

Does that make it the right decision?

Surely not.

As youngsters in this country we are taught, or at least we were taught, to grow up showing respect to authority. That meant if a police officer told you to stop, that’s exactly what you did.

Not because it was morally the right thing to do either, we were taught to do it because legally it is the right thing to do.

Respect, particularly amongst our youth, seems to have gone in regards to our police officers and it’s no wonder we keep finding ourselves dealing with instances like that which unfolded yesterday morning in the middle of Christchurch.

But to blame the police for someone evading the law of this country is bordering on unbelievable.

As we’ve come to learn over the

past few years, officers abandoning a chases doesn’t always result in a positive outcome. There have been instances where police have withdrawn only for the same vehicle they were chasing to later become involved in a serious accident.

It is their job to ensure our roads and communities are as safe as they possibly can be.

Removing unruly and erratic drivers off the roads, particularly in urban areas where there is likely to be a higher population of members of the public about, is paramount. The decision to chase, or not to chase, often made in a split-second situation, can’t be an easy one to an officer to make.

In situations like yesterday, to blame the police for their

actions, when ultimately all they were doing was their job, is reaching for the very top shelf, especially when you take into account that those who were being chased could have easily helped avoid the entire tragedy by just stopping when requested.

Perhaps instead of looking for, or even appointing, blame to any particular individual or group we should instead be looking more at the bigger picture and trying to figure out why it is so prevalent in our society at the moment, particularly with the younger generation, to disobey and ignore the laws of this country.

When you see those blue and red lights flashing behind you – just stop. It’s bound to end up as a far better outcome for everyone than the alternative might.

rock star Bob Geldof to organise Band Aid, a group of celebrities who recorded the song Do They Know It’s Christmas? for charity.

In 2001, the nation’s anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing centre.

In 2006, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 24 years, four months for his role in the company’s collapse.

Eventually 10 years was cut off Skilling’s prison sentence, and he was released to a halfway house in August 2018.

In 2011, The All Blacks won the Webb Ellis Cup for the second time in seven attempts, defending grimly to hold onto an 8–7

lead over France in front of 61,000 spectators at Eden Park, Auckland.

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect non-infected patients.

Five years ago: Officials announced that an emergency room doctor who’d recently returned to New York City after treating Ebola patients in West Africa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation. (Dr. Craig Spencer later recovered.)

One year ago: Turkey’s president demanded that Saudi Arabia identify those who ordered the

murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and turn over the suspects for trial. China opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge, a 34-mile span connecting Hong Kong to the mainland.

Today’s birthdays: Soccer great Pele is 79. Rhythm-and-blues singer Barbara Ann Hawkins is 76. Actor Michael Rupert is 68.

Movie director Ang Lee is 65.

Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 63.

Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 63. Community activist Martin Luther King III is 62. Parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic is 60. Rock musician Robert Trujillo is 55.

Christian/jazz singer David Thomas is 53. Rock musician Brian Nevin is 53. Country singer-musician Junior Bryant

is 51. Actor Jon Huertas is 50.

Movie director Chris Weitz is 50.

Bluegrass musician Eric Gibson is 49. Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 47. Actress Vivian Bang is 46. Rock musician Eric Bass is 45. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 43. Actress Saycon Sengbloh is 42. Rock singer Matthew Shultz is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Miguel is 34. Actress Masiela Lusha is 34. Actress Emilia Clarke is 33. Actress Briana Evigan is 33.

Actress Inbar Lavi is 33. Actress Jessica Stroup is 33. Actress Taylor Spreitler is 26. Actress Margaret Qualley is 25. Actress Amandla Stenberg is 21.

Thought for today: “Just be yourself – it’s the only way it can work.” – Johnny Carson (19252005).

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Matt Markham

EDITOR

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, October 23, the 296th day of 2019. There are 69 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On October 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J Sirica.

On this date: In 1707, the first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.

In 1869, the design of the New Zealand ensign that was to be flown by ships owned by the colonial government was established by a proclamation by Governor George Bowen.

In 1910, Blanche S Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight, reaching an altitude of 12 feet at a park in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

In 1915, tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

In 1944, the World War Two Battle of Leyte Gulf began, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces.

In 1948, a Mt Ruapehu air crash killed 13. The Lockheed Electra airliner ZK-AGK Kaka went missing in poor weather on a flight from Palmerston North to Hamilton. Searchers did not reach the wreckage for a week.

In 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks.

In 1983, 241 US service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

In 1984, BBC Television reported on the famine in Ethiopia; the story, which shocked viewers, prompted

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Do we base our expectation of love on what we experience in literature, art and film?

There is nothing in life messier and more complicated than love.

We don’t get to choose who we love, or why. That’s why we call it falling. It’s a little out of our control. We can choose whether to act on it, but we can’t choose who we fall for.

Love is just a whole series of weather events.

It’s storms and hurricanes, that come in and out, knock you off your feet, pull at your hair and leave you windswept and drowned.

Some love is like a tornado that pulls you in and won’t drop back down to earth until it is good and done with you.

There is the sweet, slow, smouldering love whose embers

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last long into life. There are the dangerous types of love that cause you to lose yourself, and the healthy ones that help you find your best self.

Some of us have only one love all of our lives.

Some people experience many. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote “There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice”.

Because of its intensity, and its propensity for both comfort and suffering, love has given us some of the most beautiful art, music and literature.

Some of the greatest love stories of all time have given us the most moving prose.

Anais Nin and Henry Miller, both writers, had a love affair that spanned twenty years, and their letters have become a treasured account of a passion that was as much a curse as a blessing to them both, leaving a

literary legacy of passion in their wake.

Anais wrote to Henry, “It torments me to see you just a few hours and surrender you. When I see you, all I wanted to say vanishes”.

Henry wrote, “You arouse in me such a mixture of feelings. I don’t know how to approach you.

Only come to me – get closer and closer to me. It will be beautiful.

I promise you.”

Love stories often make their way from the pages of novels, to the silver screens.

Think The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks, with quotes like, “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.

I’ll never forget a single moment of it.”

Around 60 per cent of all songs are written about love.

Every radio station is a nonstop tirade of ballads and pop sonnets.

While all this makes for beautiful creative expression, it also sets our expectations very, very high.

That’s because writing about the realities of normal, everyday love don’t make great reading.

There is nothing poetic about small gestures of love and appreciation: a cup of coffee made with love for the other half, quiet nights on the couch, curled up together watching movies.

If we expect love to imitate art, we may end missing the simple beauty of what we have.

Because no love is ever ordinary.

Claire Inkson is an awardwinning freelance photographer and blogger who is passionate about telling the stories of our people and landscapes through both these mediums. Claire is also passionate about Rural New Zealand: the people, the stories, the history and is dedicated to the positive promotion of New Zealand agriculture. Find her online at www.claireinkson.com 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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Trump blasts critics AP President Donald Trump lashed out yesterday at critics who prompted him to move next year’s Group of Seven summit from his golf club in Florida, saying “Democrats went crazy” with criticisms that he would have violated the “phony emoluments clause” of the Constitution.

“I was willing to do this for free,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting yesterday, comparing it to his decision not to take his $400,000 presidential salary.

But now, he said, “It will cost a fortune for the country.”

At one point, he lamented, “You people with this phony emoluments clause.”

He brushed aside the criticism that, even without accepting payments, hosting the summit at his Trump National Doral, near Miami, would have been one big promotion for his brand.

“You don’t think I get enough promotion?

“I get more promotion than any human being that’s ever lived,” he said.

Trump reversed course Sunday on hosting the G-7 at Doral after Republicans joined Democrats in raising alarm about self-dealing and violating the emoluments clause that bans presidents from receiving gifts or payments from foreign governments.

His acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said that the president had realised that “it looks lousy” to steer business to his own property.

In a moment of introspection, Trump said yesterday that the Doral had taken a hit – “It went from doing great to doing fine” – because of his divisive rhetoric about immigration and other issues.

The resort is by far the biggest revenue generator of his 17 golf properties, but the PGA and other organisations have pulled events that used to be held there and his company has told local authorities that they should cut its tax bill because it is underperforming.

Mulvaney said last week that Doral was “far and away” the

Patti Smith in concert Music icon Patti Smith has announced she and her band will perform in New Zealand in April. She’s coming here off the back of Australia’s Bluesfest music festival, having enjoyed her 2017 tour across the ditch so much, she “couldn’t refuse” an offer to return downunder. She said: “I really thought that I wouldn’t be able to come back – so I’m delighted that I was wrong.” The Godmother of Punk is coming armed with 10 albums worth of material and years of experience playing live on some of the world’s biggest stages.

Miley’s comments ‘insulting’

Donald Trump: “I get more promotion than any human being that’s ever lived”. best venue because of its location near the Miami airport and separate buildings to host each country’s delegation.

Mulvaney listed eight states visited in the screening process, including Tennessee, North Carolina, Hawaii, California, Michigan and Utah.

But spokespeople for governors and tourism officials in nearly all those states told The Associated Press they weren’t aware of any visits, with some saying they didn’t even know their states were in the running.

Only Hawaii said it was aware that the White House

had conducted a “general search.”

White House officials declined to name the properties they had considered or provide details on how they vetted them.

But the AP reached out to several major hotels and resorts in those states.

Of those that would comment, only one confirmed it had received a visit from a White House team, the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island, Michigan.

It declined to say whether it was back in the running now that the Doral has pulled out.

Trump had earlier tweeted that a possible alternate location was the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, the site of the G-7 summit in 2012.

That was surprising given that Mulvaney had earlier described Camp David as being way too small and remote and a “miserable place” for a G-7 meeting.

Asked at the Cabinet meeting where the summit will be held now, Trump said that the search team would look at other locations, but regardless, “I don’t think it will be as exciting.”

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World’s highest mountain may be shrinking The most commonly accepted figure for Mount Everest’s height is 29,029 feet (8848 metres), a measurement that dates to the 1950s.

But some scientists believe that the world’s tallest mountain may have shrunk slightly after a powerful earthquake struck Nepal in 2015.

Miley Cyrus has been criticised by fans after her controversial comments during an Instagram Live with her boyfriend Cody Simpson. The singer said: “I always thought I had to be gay because I thought all guys are evil, but that’s not true. You don’t have to be gay, there are good people with d**** out there, you just gotta find them.” Her comments offended fans who say her words were insulting towards gay and bisexual women.

“Miley, this is so not it. Women don’t ‘have to be gay’ because they can’t find a good person with a d***, “ one tweeted.

Now, for the first time, Nepal has sent its own teams outfitted with the latest surveying technology to come up with a new measurement of the peak.

The two-year, $1.3 million effort is driven both by patriotism and scientific inquiry, experts say.

The southern flank of Mount

Everest “belongs to Nepal, but for 170 years foreigners have been measuring its height,” said Roger Bilham, a geologist at the University of Colorado.

The current project could be “the most accurate measurement ever made.”

Sometime early next year, the new height will emerge

from an office on the ground floor of a government building in Kathmandu.

Susheel Dangol, the chief survey officer, recently installed a keypad-entry system for his department just to safeguard the Everest data. “Everyone is curious about the project,” he said with a grin.

In April 2018, 900 people turned out for a midweek evening church service that typically draws 50 participants at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Days later, a YouTube video of the proceedings went viral, followed by invitations clamouring for the event to be reprised in cities from Los Angeles to Lisbon. The impetus for this groundswell of interest?

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Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell.

rell said he was comfortable with its underlying business performance.

The earnings guidance is based on a forecast farmgate milk price, which still falls within its new forecast range of $6.55 – $7.55 per kg, he said.

“The mid-point of the revised range does mean our teams will need to continue to push hard to achieve our margins, but so far we’re comfortable with how this season is shaping up in terms of underlying business performance,” he said.

Hurrell said there were positive

SkyCity share prices drop

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SkyCity Entertainment Group shares dropped to a seven-week low in a knee-jerk reaction to news of a major fire at the already-delayed building site for the international convention centre.

The stock fell as low as $3.82 after headlines started to emerge at 1.10pm, and by mid afternoon yesterday were down 2 per cent at $3.90. Shares of Fletcher Building, which is building the centre, were recently down 1.7 per cent at $4.64.

Grant Davies, an investment adviser at Hamilton Hindin Greene, said the fire was obviously bad news for the project, but that there was a dearth of

information for investors on how to judge the impact of the fire.

The convention centre had originally been slated to be completed in the first quarter of this year, but delays by lead contractor Fletcher Building meant the current anticipated date has been delayed to the second half of next year. The casino operator had noted about $40 million in liquidated damages when it announced its annual result while Fletcher’s liability is believed to be capped.

SkyCity has previously said it was already reviewing all 2020 conference bookings. Davies said further delays would push out its ability to secure signature conventions the company had hoped to secure.

nerable workers that it won’t be tolerated.

The Labour Inspectorate has been working with Super Liquor Holdings to improve employment practices from the top down and to make sure franchisers routinely monitored compliance with employment laws within their franchise group to prevent worker exploitation.

“It’s disappointing that exploitation such as this has occurred in a well-known franchise like Super Liquor. There is a growing demand, in New Zealand and worldwide, for corporations to be ethical and accountable in their practices, which extends beyond direct legal obligations,” McMillan said.

The Parihars have sold the two liquor stores and have no plans to become employers again. Their failure to comply with the court orders could lead to imprisonment.

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The owners of two Hamilton liquor stores have been ordered to pay a record fine for underpaying and overworking vulnerable employees.

Husband and wife Paramjeet Singh Parihar and Kuldip Kaur Parihar, who owned two Super Liquor stores in Hamilton, were found guilty of paying between $8 and $11 – less than the minimum wage over a seven-year period.

Some of the employees of the Hillcrest and Flagstaff stores worked more than 60 to 70 hours per week – including on public holidays and were not provided with any sick leave, holiday pay or public holiday entitlements.

The Employment Court ordered they pay a record $200,000 in penalties for serious employment law breaches – $80,000 of which will be

paid as compensation to the workers for the mental and emotional hardships they endured at the hands of their employers.

The couple have also already repaid $250,470 to six former employees for minimum wage and holiday pay arrears. One employee was compensated $106,076 for seven years of underpayments.

The court saw their failure in keeping accurate employment records, which as an attempt to cover up their wrongdoings.

The workers were all migrant workers from India on temporary work visas.

The judge said the treatments of the workers was “inexplicable and heinous”.

Labour Inspectorate Regional Manager Callum McMillan said this sent a clear message to employers who were taking advantage of vul-

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duction is down year to date and expected to continue to decrease for the remainder of 2019, he said.

“We are also continuing to sell our skim milk powder at higher prices than EU and US dairy companies in Global Dairy Trade (GDT) events,” he said.

Fonterra, which in September reported a record $605 million loss, has forecast earnings per share of 15 to 25 cents for the current year.

High milk prices can put pressure on Fonterra’s margins because milk is the co-op’s biggest input cost, but chief executive Miles Hur-

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News that Fonterra had upgraded its milkprice forecast for this year would be greeted with a “huge sigh of relief” from cash-strapped farmers, Federated Farmers dairy chair Chris Lewis said.

Fonterra has shifted its 2019/20 forecast farmgate milk price range up by 30c to $6.55 – $7.55 per kg of milksolids thanks to strong demand for whole milk powder.

The advance rate Fonterra pays its farmer owners will be set off the mid-point, $7.05 per kgMS, of the revised range, it said, up from $6.75 previously.

Dairy NZ’s latest estimate of the break-even point for most farmers is $5.95/kg.

“It is good news for farmers who have been feeling a lot of pressure of late,” Lewis told the Herald.

“Finance has been very tight and some of the regulations – greenhouse gas and water – are weighing heavily on farmers’ minds,” he said.

“There has been huge mental pressure for farmers of late, and we are overdue for some good news, so it’s a positive indicator as to where our season might end,” he said.

“I can feel a collective sigh of re-

signals for the milk price.

“It is still very early in the season and a lot can change. There are a number of factors we are keeping a close eye on, which is why we’ve retained a wide forecast milk price range,” he said.

“These factors include global trade tensions and political instability in some of our key sales regions. And, as is always the case, we cannot predict the weather and clearly weather conditions play a big role in global supply,” he said.

Economists’ milk price forecasts for the current 2019/20 season have drifted higher, driven by constrained supply and a significantly lower New Zealand dollar.

Fonterra’s milk price for the season just ended came in at $6.35/kg.

Economists said Fonterra’s currency hedging arrangements could be more favourable to the co-op this season compared to arrangements put in place for 2018/19.

The New Zealand dollar last traded at US63.9¢, down from close to US70¢ last December.

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

The price bounced to $6.12/kg in 2016/17.

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lief today,” he said.

Lewis and some economists expect the current month – when production typically hits its season peak – could show a slight decline.

“There is massive demand for our product but the supply might not be there,” Lewis said.

Economists had been picking Fonterra’s milk price would shift to the upper end of its range.

ASB rural economist Nathan Penny has had a $7.00/kg forecast in place since January, but said there was a risk that it would be “$7 plus some change”.

“The rate of production growth is slowing, which kind of fits our story,” he said.

Latest production data from the Dairy Companies Association showed production on a milksolids basis for September was 220.98 million kg, up 0.7 per cent from the same month last year, but indicating a slowdown in growth relative to previous months.

Chairman John Monaghan said the co-op had been achieving good prices for its milk so far this season.

“Demand for whole milk powder has been firm, and for the full season we’re expecting it to be above last year,” he said.

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e’ve just come off New Zealand’s great sausage week, where the country’s top bangers are recognised and awards handed to their makers.

That event is always followed by the country’s big sausage weekend and that’s coming up on Labour weekend, three days where Kiwis can cook up a storm on the barbecue and in the kitchen.

Celebrate sausages as they come, cooked in the pan and served with vege, chips, bread or whatever takes your fancy, or give them some special treatment.

Sausage and onion rolls

Herby sausages and butter bean mash 3T oil 4 mint and lamb sausages 8 spring onions, finely sliced 2 400g cans butter beans, drained and rinsed 1 fat garlic clove, finely grated 1 large lemon, zested and juiced Wilted greens, to serve ■■ Heat grill to high.

■■ Brush 1T oil over the sausages, and grill on a tray for 20 minutes, turning regularly.

■■ Heat the rest of the oil in a saucepan over a low heat.

■■ Add most of the spring onion and cook for 5 mins until softened.

■■ Add the beans, garlic, and lemon zest and juice.

■■ Cook for a few mins more, then gently mash with a potato masher to get a thick, creamy consistency.

■■ Season and cook for 5 mins more until warmed through.

■■ Scatter over the remaining spring onion and serve with the sausages and wilted greens.

Sticky sausage wraps 2T American mustard 2T tomato sauce 8T light brown sugar 12 good-quality sausages Packet wheat flour tortillas Lettuce leaves Sweetcorn relish ■■ Combine the mustard, ketchup and sugar.

■■ Preheat pan.

■■ Toss the sausages on and sizzle for about 15 minutes, or until they are crispy, but not quite cooked through. Brush the sticky sauce all over the sausages and cook them for another 5 minutes, basting regularly.

■■ Heat the tortillas on the pan for 30 seconds each side.

■■ Roll the sticky sausages in the wraps, along with lettuce and a dollop of corn relish.

Devilled sausages

1T olive oil 2 red onions, finely sliced 1T brown sugar 1t balsamic vinegar 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, defrosted 500g beef chipolatas 1/2 C good-quality tomato chutney 1 egg, beaten

1T olive oil 8 quality sausages, pork or beef 1 onion, halved and sliced 1 fresh pear, cored and sliced 1/4 C tomato sauce 2T cornflour 2T worcestershire sauce 1/2 t curry powder 1/2 t ground cumin 1/2 t coriander 1T brown sugar 1/4 C raisins

■■ Preheat oven to 210°C (190°C fan-forced).

■■ Place oil and onions in a saucepan with a lid.

■■ Cook over very low heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.

■■ Add sugar and vinegar and cook for a further minute until caramelised and sticky. Set aside.

■■ Cut each pastry sheet into nine equal squares.

■■ Place a teaspoon of onion jam in the centre of a square and top with a sausage ■■ Spoon over a little chutney then bring up two diagonally opposite corners and seal well, encasing the filling. Continue with remaining pastry.

■■ Place sausage rolls on an oven tray lined with baking paper.

■■ Brush the pastry with beaten egg.

■■ Bake for 15-18 minutes until puffed and golden.

■■ Heat the oil in a large frying pan.

■■ Cook the sausages for 4-5 minutes over a low to medium heat until browned.

■■ Add the onions and pear, then cook for a further 2 minutes – drain off any excess oil.

■■ Combine the tomato sauce, cornflour, worcestershire sauce, spices and brown sugar with 2C of water.

■■ Whisk to mix well.

■■ Add the raisins to the jug, then pour the sauce mix into the pan and mix well.

■■ Cover and simmer gently for 8-10 minutes.

■■ Stir occasionally until the sausages are cooked and the sauce thickens.

■■ Serve the sausages over couscous and garnish with fresh thyme. Add seasonal greens.

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Bloke’s dinner 750g baby new potatoes 2T olive oil 8 plump sausages 3 rounded T medium-cut marmalade 2T wholegrain mustard 150ml sweet cider A few rosemary sprigs ■■ Preheat your oven to fan 180°C. ■■ Cut the potatoes into halves or quarters and put them into a large roasting tin.

■■ Drizzle with the olive oil and roast for 10 minutes.

■■ Take the tin out of the oven and place sausages in between the potatoes so they sit on the bottom of the tin. Now roast for another 15 minutes, turning the sausages over at half time so they brown all over.

■■ Gently heat the marmalade, mustard and cider in a small pan, stirring until the marmalade has melted.

■■ Increase the heat and boil for a few minutes until reduced by about half.

■■ Pour the sauce over the sausages and potatoes and toss gently together.

■■ Scatter the rosemary sprigs on top, return to the oven.

■■ Cook for a further 10 minutes until golden brown and sticky with the glaze.

■■ Sprinkle with salt and pepper before serving.

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Lomu’s legacy looms large AP One trampling run launched Jonah Lomu to global stardom, ensuring his name will be indelibly linked to a Rugby World Cup semi-final between New Zealand and England.

The All Blacks winger’s rampaging runs during that era-defining World Cup in South Africa in 1995 were highlighted by his four-try haul against England in the semi-finals.

Before the teams meet in another semi-final this Saturday in Yokohama, there’ll be no avoiding remembrances of Lomu’s legacy.

He died in 2015 at the age of 40 after complications from a kidney disease.

One of those tries against England, when he gathered a loose pass, fended off opposite winger Tony Underwood, kept driving forward despite a desperate ankle tap from Will Carling and then barreled straight over the top of England fullback Mike Catt, is part of rugby folklore.

Catt helped the coaching staff with the Italy team at the World Cup, where a group game between the Italians and New Zealand was cancelled because of Typhoon Hagibis.

He recalled that ‘95 showdown for World Rugby, saying his first World Cup was going well until that moment.

“We’d beaten Australia the week before, won with a drop goal by Rob Andrew,” Catt said.

“Then along came the big man and he ran over me.

“The three times after that, he just ran around me.”

The All Blacks don’t have a winger of Lomu’s calibre in the 2019 squad, but they’ve built a fearsome reputation with an unbeaten record dating to a shock quarter-final loss to France in 2007.

New Zealand thumped Ireland 46-14 in the quarter-finals this year, deploying Richie Mo’unga and Beauden Barrett in a dual playmaker system that proved to be a vastly better option than the strategy devised for the previous

Jonah Lomu was an unstoppable force in the 1995 tournament. three meetings between those two countries.

Ireland had won two of those three tests, including one last November, and was ranked No. 1 heading into the tournament.

England equalled its record winning margin against Australia with a 40-16 win in Oita only hours earlier.

Australia had contributed to England’s group-stage exit in 2015, when it was hosting the tournament.

But under Australian coach Eddie Jones, England has rebound-

ed to win seven in a row against the Wallabies.

England won a world record-equaling 18 straights tests from October 2015 to March 2017, matching the New Zealand mark from August 2015 to October 2016. Although England hasn’t had that kind of success against New Zealand.

The All Blacks have won 15 of the last 16 tests against England, including the last six, up to a 1615 win at Twickenham last November.

“They’ve come to this tourna-

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ment after being hurt at the last one and through that adversity, I think they’re stronger because of it,” All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said. “They’re desperate and they’re well coached. It’s going to be a mighty clash. They’ve got a harder edge about them.”

Hansen said New Zealand’s win in the last two encounters against England was not a bad thing, but not really an advantage at the World Cup. “I don’t want to be sounding rude or smart here, but we got told that about Ireland having an advantage over us having won two of the last three,” Hansen said. “History is important, but it doesn’t dictate the future; it’s a clean slate, it doesn’t matter what’s happened in the past.”

Jones has been busy trying to focus the attention on the All Blacks this week, continuing a theme of praise for opposition players and coaches while devising ways to bring them down.

“We have a challenge this week because we are playing the greatest team that has ever been in sport,” Jones said.

“I don’t think there’s a team that comes close to them for sustainability.”

Meanwhile Welsh referee Nigel Owens will take charge of the All Blacks’ semi-final against England on Saturday. Owens will be assisted by French referees Romain Poite and Pascal Gauzere, while South Africa’s Marius Jonker will be the TMO. Jerome Garces has been named as the ref for Sunday’s semi between South Africa and Wales, with Kiwi officials Ben O’Keeffe and Ben Skeen getting the nod as assistant referee and TMO respectively. Wayne Barnes is the other assistant referee.

World Rugby said that the match officials selection committee did not consider Jaco Peyper for selection this weekend.

“Peyper recognises that a picture of him with Wales fans, which appeared on social media after the Wales-France quarter-final, was inappropriate and he has apologised,” the statement said.

Hansen gives Foster the nod NZME Steve Hansen has given his biggest hint yet on who he thinks should take over his top job when he steps down after the Rugby World Cup. Speaking after the All Blacks’ 4614 win over Ireland, Hansen was clearly impressed by the work that Ian Foster has been doing as All Blacks attack coach, giving him his endorsement.

“Fozzie has got the attack going really good, he’s re-invented it, and is coaching probably the best I have ever seen him coach”, said Hansen.

When Hansen announced at the end of last year that he would be stepping down after the World Cup, he refused to speculate on who he would tip to take over from him, thought did note that Foster “would do a good job, despite not having coached overseas”.

The last All Black coach to get the job without coaching overseas was Wayne Smith.

Neil Sorensen, former general manager of New Zealand Rugby, said in an interview at the time that Foster’s lack of overseas experience would be a factor in the decision.

“I can tell you that Fozzie is really clear, and we’re clear at our place, that when he signed with us to extend his contract, he said I’m worried – maybe I need to go offshore for a while and come back.”

“He made that decision to stick around with a successful All Black side, when the panel sits down they will have to take that into account.

Fozzie will be sitting there thinking ‘maybe I should have gone offshore and it will count against me’.”

It has long been touted that Foster has been groomed for the top job. Head coach of the Chiefs from 2004-2011, taking them to one final, which ended in a hefty defeat, Foster also coached the Junior All Blacks in 2005, before taking over as All Blacks assistant coach in 2012.

Hansen also spoke about his other assistant coach, defensive specialist Scott McLeod.

“I think Stormy has done a wonderful job this year and has got them going well.”

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Masters get amongst the medals Waireka Croquet Club members have returned home from the Timaru Croquet Masters with a golden glow.

The club had 15 members in action at the tournament, where golf croquet was played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week, followed by association croquet on the Thursday and Friday.

It was a hugely popular tournament, with players from all around the South Island taking part, and in total there were 190 entries with another 30 players on the waiting list.

With such big numbers, all three Timaru clubs were used for the tournament, with the lawns at Aorangi, West End and Ashbury hives of activity throughout the week.

Waireka players ended up with at least one medal of every colour in the golf croquet singles, with Sue Lamb and Joyce Davis taking gold medals, and Audrey Leath, Eva Kircher and Shelagh Field taking silvers, while Brian Goodwin, Bev Blair and Colin Lamb won bronze.

Goodwin took a second medal in the golf croquet doubles, teaming up with Joy Hayes to take gold.

In the association singles, Raylene Philips won gold, and she also teamed up with Dulcie Pierre to take bronze in the association doubles.

Waireka’s Brian Goodwin and partner Joy Hayes won gold in the golf croquet doubles at the Timaru Croquet Masters last week.

■■NETBALL

Sky extends netball deal Netball NZ and Sky are thrilled to announce an extension to their agreement that deepens the partnership and helps grow the game at all levels.

The strengthened partnership will deliver a rich suite of top-tier netball for Sky Sport and Sky Sport Now customers, along with a commitment to continue delivering some key matches free-to-air.

The agreement includes all Silver Ferns games and all domestic top tier events, including: - Constellation Cup - ANZ Premiership matches - National netball league - National age group championship.

Sky will broadcast over the satellite on Sky Sport 3 (the Home of Netball), streamed

on Sky Go and Sky Sport Now, and free-toair on Prime.

“We’re thrilled to have extended our partnership with Sky, and are grateful for their support across all levels of netball,” Netball NZ CEO Jennie Wyllie said. “Netball is the number one female team sport in New Zealand with 145,000 players across the country. We’re excited about the opportunity this renewed agreement presents in terms of showing more netball to New Zealand fans, the financial certainty that comes with a multi-year deal, and Sky’s commitment to working with us to grow the game.

“Sky has shown a genuine commitment to women’s sport, and we are delighted to be working together on some new initiatives at the grassroots level.”

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Arsenal slumped to a 1-0 loss at promoted Sheffield United on Monday in the Premier League, upping the pressure on coach Unai Emery after another performance void of creativity and flair.

Lys Mousset took advantage of poor defending from a corner to tap in from close range in the 30th minute and Arsenal never came close to an equaliser despite fitagain striker Alexandre Lacazette making his return from an injury in the second half.

The loss means Arsenal missed a chance to go third in the standings, remaining in fifth instead, while Sheffield climbed to ninth after its first home win since August 18.

“We limited them to few chances and backed up a good performance with a good result,” Sheffield manager Chris Wilder said.

“We wanted to make sure if we played well against a top side we got something from the game and three points is a great reward for the players.”

Arsenal struggled to create chances throughout the game – and the one good opportunity the visitors did create was wasted by the club’s record signing Nicolas Pepe, who missed from a few yards out after a cross from Sead Kolasinac. Emery threw on attacking midfielder Dani Ceballos, Lacazette and Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli, but the Gunners still couldn’t create a single chance to score.

■■OPINION

Quarter-finals an appetiser for the real thing

By Hamish Bidwell

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ales’ fortunate win over France aside, the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals were much as we expected them.

The good teams won and the less illustrious ones went home.

Let’s start with the hugely impressive All Blacks and the England side that now await them in the semi-finals.

New Zealand were excellent in beating Ireland 46-14.

Ireland’s ineptitude didn’t hurt and, in all honesty, you’d have to say their’s was an abysmal campaign.

They didn’t have the tactics or personnel to prosper in Japan, sticking the the box-kicking, rush-defending, attritional style that serves them so well in home conditions.

Surely coach Joe Schmidt realised more would be required to excel at this tournament and, while you can debate whether he had the players to employ a more expansive style of rugby, you’d have to say his gameplans weren’t great.

Honestly, paint dries faster than Ireland halfback Conor Murray takes to survey all and sundry and then hoist up another high kick.

But to the victor the spoils and you’d have to say New Zealand were worthy winners.

Ireland’s recent successes against them led to a bit of pre-match caution about how much the All Blacks might win by, but the predictions of a 10 to 15-point margin proved conservative.

Unlike Ireland, New Zealand’s tactics and skill-execution were spot on.

They made their tackles and looked after the football and, crucially against a side like Ireland, they were able to dictate the tackle-ball area.

Halfback Aaron Smith hasn’t had a stellar tournament but, given some quality ball, he looked far more assured, whether he was feeding those outside him or having a dart around the fringes himself.

All in all, it was an extremely impressive performance from the whole team and highlighted

how this side of the draw is far stronger than the one Wales and South Africa have since emerged from.

To England, then.

This is a team to be feared.

New Zealand have only met them once in this world cup-cycle, for a fortuitous 16-15 win in London last year.

But for a better television match official ruling, England would have been deserved winners that day.

In Owen Farrell, England have a deadly goalkicker.

Manu Tuilagi is a Ngani Laumape-style handful in midfield, while Anthony Watson’s handy on the wing.

George Ford is a very useful playmaking option off the bench, if coach Eddie Jones wants to start Farrell at first – rather than second – five-eighth again this week and then you’ve got Billy and Mako Vunipola, Maro Itoje and Karl Sinckler in the pack.

This is an abrasive, experienced, accurate side who also have enough gamebreakers to beat New Zealand.

Other Home Nations, such as

Ireland and Wales, aren’t much chop when they get down a few points, but England possess athleticism and skill and, just as importantly, won’t be intimidated by the All Blacks.

Jones will see to that, having previously steered Australia to a final, been technical advisor to the champion South Africa team of 2007, then guided Japan to a win over the Springboks at the last world cup.

He is the equal of any coach in terms of experience, success, work ethic and attention to detail and is an enormous asset to England.

This semi-final against the All Blacks looms as the match of the tournament.

The other two quarter-finals are going to be remembered for refereeing, rather than rugby.

Wales’ 20-19 win over France was blighted by a couple of decisions.

The red card shown to France lock Sebastien Vahaamahina was entirely fair, but you could argue Wales’ Ross Moriarty was lucky to just get yellow for a high shot on Gael Fickou.

Had he seen red, Moriarty wouldn’t have been on the park to score Wales’ match-winning try.

You say try, only the television evidence made it look very much as if Wales had propelled the ball forward in the lead-up.

Referee Jaco Peyper and television match official Marius Jonker thought differently and it’s France with an end-of-season do to organise.

As have Japan, after losing 26-3 to South Africa in a match referee Wayne Barnes didn’t officiate well at all.

Barnes and Peyper are among the better whistleblowers going around.

Both usually have a decent feel for the game and don’t seek to dominate and yet each of them had too much influence over the outcome of their respective quarter-finals.

Rugby has a lot to recommend it as a game, but the extent to which officials can manipulate proceedings is not one them.

Let’s hope these remaining games can be decided by the players.

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Ferns produce another epic I s there anything better than a trans-Tasman netball test between the Silver Ferns and the Australian Diamonds?

A few months ago I’d have replied to my own question by saying, yes, there’s a relatively long list of things that are better than that when it comes to sporting showdowns.

But that was when the Silver Ferns were at an almost all-time low.

Now, they’re back.

They’re world champions and on the cusp of what would be only their second Constellation Cup series win since the competition was launched in 2010, and it’s absolutely awesome.

Sunday afternoon’s third match of the latest Constellation Cup series in Sydney was a total cracker.

It was an edge-of-your-seat finish, and heart in the mouth type stuff, and fortunately the Kiwi girls came out on the right side of it.

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I’m a yell-at-the-television, leap-out-of-my-seat and jumpup-and-down type of person when required, and Sunday afternoon was well and truly one of those times.

The game didn’t start off all that well, with the Australians looking like following up their win from game two with another one, as they got out to a handy lead in the first quarter.

But the Ferns fought back and as the game went on they were always well within the hunt, and then suddenly they weren’t just in the hunt, they were in the lead for the first time since scoring the opening goal.

They had the Australians under pressure, which was evident by the benching of their extremely annoying (because they’re hugely talented) shoot-

ers Caitlin Bassett and Gretel Tippett.

They’re tough to handle, but Jane Watson and Karin Burger did a tremendous job of containing them on Sunday, with Burger, in particular, a menace on defence.

There was one player who shone that little bit brighter than the rest, though, and that was of course Laura Langman at centre.

She is the most incredible netballer to watch and has been a key factor in the return to form of the Silver Ferns.

It’s a team game though, and every single player on court played their role on Sunday, as they did in that win in game one.

One of the biggest changes from game one to game two was the shooting, with the Ferns shooters having an off day, and while they were back on Sunday, I think they could’ve been even better.

One of the things I’ve always loved about Maria Folau is her ability to just turn and shoot, with little hesitation.

But at times on Sunday,

particularly as things tightened up a bit, I felt that hesitation did come into her game.

It wasn’t just her though. The Ferns game on a whole seemed to dip for a bit late in the piece.

The speed and flow disappeared, replaced by indecision and miscommunication, and I guess that can happen when the pressure is on.

But eventually, the Ferns got there.

After a topsy-turvy last couple of minutes that had me on my feet one second, and back on the couch with my hands on my head the next, they nabbed a couple of last turnovers and managed to convert them to take the win.

It sets up an exciting final encounter, and while part of me is disappointed we have to wait a whole week for it, the good news is that, even though it’s being played in Perth, it’s on at a decent hour for all us netball fans.

At 10am Perth time, and 3pm New Zealand time, this coming Sunday it will be game on all over again. And I for one can’t wait to see how it plays out.

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Red Bull unhappy with DJR penalties NZME The Red Bull Racing team have trashed the decision handed down after the Bathurst 1000 slow down face which had sullied the 2019 edition of the race.

Bathurst winners Scott McLaughlin and Alex Premat have hung on to their result but Fabian Coulthard was dropped to last on the grid.

DJR Team Penske was also hit with a $150,000 fine with another $100,000 suspended until the end of 2021 and lost 300 points in the team series, reducing its lead over the Red Bull Holden Racing Team to 423 points.

The record-breaking sum will go into the Supercars’ Fines Fund, which goes towards safety and judicial technology such as Hawk-Eye and the new in-car warning system.

But the entire affair has left a bad taste in the mouth of some for the rest of the championship.

Last week, Erebus Motorsport CEO Barry Ryan demanded the team be disqualified.

He told the Below the Bonnet podcast: “Essentially that team blatantly cheated, I guess, and fixed the race, from that point.”

Erebus driver David Reynolds reacted to the news with a pointed clip to an episode of South Park, which essentially said “it does not make sense”.

Now the punishments have been handed down, drivers from the Red Bull Racing team have lashed the decision, with two-time Bathurst champion Garth Tander leading the way.

Tander, who partnered Shane van Gisbergen to second in the great race, told Channel 10’s RPM that DJR barely got a slap on the wrist for the dragging the sport into controversy.

“I feel like still the team has been given a pretty light penalty,” Tander said.

“It’s a lot of money to everyone sitting at home, $150,000 to pay off the mortgage but in reality – and I’m not privy to the Shell V-Power commercial arrangements but I’ve seen other commercial arrangements in other teams that I have been part of – that bonuses for winning Bathurst are much larger than $150,000, from one sponsor.

“So I’m not saying it’s a small fine – it’s a large fine – but the commercial reality of that fine? It’s not that big.”

Veteran driver Michael Caruso – who partnered Cameron Waters for Tickford Racing – agreed that it wasn’t a big fine in Supercars.

But Tander said he didn’t believe the DJR drivers should have lost their positions, lashing the way the Penske team looked after their drivers.

“I don’t think that that team, Shell V-Power Racing, has supported its two primary drivers strong enough this week,” Tander said.

“One, they’ve put an asterisk next to Scott’s victory with what’s happened with the tactics that played out through the race and two, they’ve clearly thrown Fabs under the bus.”

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■■COX PLATE

Shark circling for Sydney feature

NZME New Zealand raider Te Akau Shark and Sydney three-year-old Castelvecchio have been included in the 14-horse field for the $5 million Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m).

The two were among those in danger of missing a start but have been included with dual Cox Plate placegetter Humidor named first emergency.

But Te Akau Shark will have to contend with the outside barrier, with no horse having won from barrier 14 in the 99-year history of Australasia’s weight-for-age championship.

While pleased with making the field, trainer Jamie Richards was disheartened with the draw.

“It’s going to be difficult from there, especially when it is his first time at weight-for age in Australia,” he said.

“He’s going to need to be at his best, but we are happy with him and hopefully we can give them a shake. We shouldn’t be unlucky from out there.”

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having finished runner-up in each of his three starts this preparation, including a short-margin defeat to Kolding in the Gr.1 Epsom Handicap (1600m).

“If we had won the Epsom he looks one of the favourites. He has run second, not beaten far, but he certainly is going the right way.”

It will be the first time the 30-year-old horseman will line-up a horse in the time-honoured race and he said he hopes to be back for more.

“It is a pleasure to have a horse good enough to compete on the international stage and we are very grateful for the support of our owners and to the big boss, David Ellis, for buying all of these nice horses for us,” he said.

“If we can’t do it on Saturday, we will certainly be coming back for another crack.”

While connections of Te Akau Shark are celebrating his opportunity to take on the best weightfor-age gallopers in this part of the world, prominent New Zealand owner John Carter, who shares in

the ownership of both Verry Elleegant and Humidor, had mixed feelings after the former gained a start but the latter was named first emergency.

“I think she deserved to get in, but I think it is a disgrace that he didn’t,” Carter said.

“He’s come back from a major injury, which he sustained ironically in the Cox Plate last year, and it was doubtful as to whether he was ever going to race again.

“They took it extremely easy on him and Lindsey Smith did a great job with all of that recovery work before he went back to Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace.

“His goal was always the Cox Plate as he seems to peak that day every year. It is quite disappointing really, especially after his last run in the Caulfield Stakes where he was in the worst part of the track and he was storming home.”

Humidor will likely contest the Gr.1 Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) on the last day of the Flemington carnival after missing his chance at The Valley.

11 Mint Julep (4) 54..................... B Murray (a2) 12 Nevets (14) 54..................... C Campbell (a2) 13 Phyllite (2) 54................................K Mudhoo MDN, 1400m 1 0x4 Shaker 58.5................................... Scratched 14 Verdigris (13) 54.................... R Mudhoo (a3) 2 76 Highly Charged 58.5..................... Scratched 15 Poniard (8) 56.............................. C Johnson 3 66776 Oceans Away (10) 58.5.................K Mudhoo 16 Teeny Weeny (12) 54 0 I’ve Gottago (6) 58.5 4 90 Resuscitate (9) 58.5................. K Asano (a3) 17 70 Sakura Belle (3) 54 5 2678x Solar Tide (7) 58.5................ R Mudhoo (a3) 18 6 330x4 Too Ferlaxed (14) 56.5................. C Johnson 19 59069 Castlereigh 56.5............................ Scratched 7 030x5 Melanite (3) 56.5...............................J Lowry 20 008x9 Space Cadet (15) 56.5 8 090x5 Playday (15) 56.5..........................K Williams Emergencies: Poniard, Teeny Weeny, I’ve Gottago, Saku 9 0 Chitter Chat (13) 56.5..........R Beeharry (a3) ra Belle, Castlereigh, Space Cadet 8 4.39pm BRYDONE HOTEL 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 10 McGowan (12) 56.5 11 063 Leighton Warrior (5) 56..................M McNab Benchmark*, 1200m 1 106x7 Seduttore d (8) 60 12 8 Panzer (8) 56 13 Maxwell (6) 56..............................L Callaway 2 2439x Fly To The Sky d (9) 59.5 1 Louie Louie d (13) 59................... C Johnson 14 Katrina Marie (4) 54......................T Moseley 3 15 6x00 Ginny 54........................................ Scratched 4 10x Milano d (1) 58.5..................... B Murray (a2) 16 69L0x Zedaam (1) 56.5................. C Campbell (a2) 5 18x0x Fazioli (2) 58....................................J Laking 6 x4606 Tickets On Her d (5) 57.5........T Comignaghi 17 370x8 Superstition (2) 56.5 18 0x07x Fire Katyusha 56.5........................ Scratched 7 8310x Viva La Blues (4) 56.5.......................J Lowry 8 00750 Lincoln Zephyr 56.5...................... Scratched 19 8808x Jiminy Cricket (16) 58.5 9 57104 Stella Daze dm (12) 56......... R Mudhoo (a3) 20 x000x Iwonderwai (11) 56.5 Emergencies: Ginny, Zedaam, Superstition, Fire Katyu- 10 80x80 Where Angels Walk 56.................. Scratched 11 21460 Arnage dm (10) 55.5....................L Callaway sha, Jiminy Cricket, Iwonderwai 7 4.04 WESTCOAST NATURAL PRODUCTS MAIDEN 12 288x0 Frosted (7) 55...................... C Campbell (a2) 13 92888 Stellacanto m (6) 54.5..............Z Bholah (a3) 1200 $10,000, MDN, 1200m 14 146x9 Rosarito 54.................................... Scratched 1 3035 Billy The Kid (16) 58.5..................L Callaway 15 90047 Omar d (3) 56................................. C Barnes 2 Jack Be Quick 56.......................... Scratched 16 347x0 Miss Diorella (11) 54 3 453x8 Touchabeel 54............................... Scratched Emergencies: Omar, Miss Diorella 4 47x Clubcard (17) 54 5 7x40 Global Star (7) 54..........................T Moseley 9 5.14 OAMARU SCAFFOLDING LTD 1400 $10,000, 6 0 Bella Eve (9) 54............................K Williams Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 7 Exaltation (11) 54...........................M McNab 1 0383x Aulyn Star (15) 59.5................ B Murray (a2) 1 All Or Nothing (13) 59..................L Callaway 8 6 React (5) 54............................. K Asano (a3) 2 9 Direct Flight (1) 54......................... C Barnes 3 87550 Summer Monsoon m (9) 59.............J Laking 10 Eavesdrop (10) 54...................T Comignaghi 4 037x7 Scooby 58.5.................................. Scratched

5 0x108 Liam m (3) 58....................................J Lowry 6 999x4 Masu d (1) 58........................... K Asano (a3) 7 3358x Crispin d (10) 57.5.............. C Campbell (a2) 8 30x02 Highly Xcited d (12) 57.5...............T Moseley 9 08335 Abbey Kay d (11) 56.5.............Z Bholah (a3) 10 401x4 Cailin d (8) 56.5 11 50100 Faux Pas dm (6) 55.5................... C Johnson 12 318x0 Lady Davone (4) 55.5....................K Williams 13 7x5P0 Fine Bouquet d (16) 55.................K Mudhoo 14 5407x Mossy Creek (17) 55...................... C Barnes 15 0x500 Admiral Rous d (5) 56..................K Kwo (a3) 16 347x0 Miss Diorella 54............................ Scratched 17 63800 Rothacker dm (2) 55.5 18 00750 Lincoln Zephyr 56.5...................... Scratched 19 92888 Stellacanto dm (7) 54.5 20 03866 Miss Tanira (14) 54 Emergencies: Admiral Rous, Miss Diorella, Rothacker, Lincoln Zephyr, Stellacanto, Miss Tanira Blinkers on: Jiminy Cricket (R5), Jiminy Cricket (R6), Tickets On Her (R8), Abbey Kay (R9) Blinkers off: Rorgus (R3), Zedaam (R6) Winkers on: Rorgus (R3), Melanite (R6), React, I’ve Gottago, Sakura Belle (R7), Aulyn Star (R9) Pacifiers on: Realm (R3) Pacifiers off: I’ve Gottago (R7) LEGEND: Runner Form: b - Beaten favourite at last start c Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months SELECTIONS

Te Akau Shark was just pipped in the Epsom Handicap.

The son of Rip Van Winkle worked over 1200m at Breakfast With The Best at Moonee Valley yesterday morning and Richards is trying to find a silver lining to his gelding’s wide gate.

“The horse worked well here this morning, he will appreciate a little bit of room,” Richards said.

“He usually gets back and I

think around the Valley a little bit of room is going to suit him and hopefully he’ll get a bit of momentum up down the side.

“He’s going the right way.

“It is a big step up for him, but we are here, and this has been the aim.”

The five-year-old chestnut heads into the race in good form,

Oamaru gallops Today at Oamaru Raceway

Oamaru JC Venue: Oamaru Meeting Date: 23 Oct 2019 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.35pm LIQUORLAND SUPPLY SERVICES 1200 $11,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1200m 1 03642 Rocanto db (4) 59.................... K Asano (a3) 2 748x4 Mr Typhon d (3) 57.........................M McNab 3 4753x Feelin The Love dm (1) 56.. C Campbell (a2) 4 3412x Mamma Sans b (2) 54............ B Murray (a2) 5 4657x Taieri Gem dm (5) 54..................... C Barnes 2 1.05 EASYMADE MARMALADE LTD 2200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 74581 Verses d (2) 59......................... K Asano (a3) 2 64057 I’llav Bubbles 58.5......................... Scratched 3 43x17 Golden Age b (6) 58.5....................M McNab 4 61066 Stop Making Sense (4) 56.5.........K Williams 5 P5584 Epae Road d (1) 55.5...................L Callaway 6 04008 Madam De Soir (5) 54.................. C Johnson 7 00x09 Lord Hercules (3) 54.....................T Moseley 3 1.40 NORTHSTAR MOTEL, RESTAURANT & BAR MAIDEN 2200 $10,000, MDN, 2200m 1 5x205 Big Wink (12) 58.5..........................M McNab 2 85743 Five Princes (15) 58.5..................L Callaway 3 58754 Bahhgoofy (10) 58.5...............T Comignaghi 4 74000 Bruce Banner (2) 58.5..........R Beeharry (a3) 5 06409 Tricky Mickey (1) 58.5.............. K Asano (a3) 6 686 Rorgus (14) 58.5................. C Campbell (a2) 7 56x76 Mr Intelligence (8) 58.5.....................J Lowry 8 8x0 Take The Deel (5) 58.5.....................J Laking 9 72752 Figeameout b (3) 56.5...................T Moseley 10 x4289 Mah Girl (13) 56.5................... B Murray (a2) 11 038 Morrigone (11) 56.5..................... C Johnson 12 80450 Secretaria (9) 56.5........................K Williams 13 360x6 June Rose (6) 56.5..................Z Bholah (a3) 14 0 Forgot The Sulky (4) 56 15 0000x Realm (7) 56.5 16 00x09 Lord Hercules 58.5........................ Scratched

M3 Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 23 Oct 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.56pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C0 C0, 305m 1 Dangerous Di nwtd................ L E Dunkerton 2 7773 Freckle nwtd...............................J McInerney 3 Criminal Justice nwtd.......................M Olden 4 53757 Hopcorn nwtd A &............................Williams 5 44442 Yarn Sister nwtd...............................C Morris 6 3 Black Widow Baby nwtd................M Roberts 7 6 Idol Ziggy nwtd...................................M Flipp 8 58342 Big Time Ricky nwtd............................L Cole 9 5677 Dewie nwtd............................... S Gommans 10 88788 Firecracker nwtd A &........................Williams 2 1.14pm WHANGANUI CHRONICLE CO C0, 305m 1 57464 Xanthe Jewel nwtd.................... S Gommans 2 83 Hypothetical nwtd.............................M Olden 3 22666 Spring Comet nwtd D &..............J MacAuley 4 67255 Ariana Sunset nwtd.....................B Goldsack 5 77555 It’s Timmy nwtd..........................J McInerney 6 67485 Piruleta nwtd......................................M Flipp 7 67x57 Bigtime Layla nwtd.......................S J Phillips 8 85553 Zara Jewel nwtd........................ K Gommans 9 38386 Star Way nwtd..................................C Morris 10 68784 Bigtime Lola nwtd A &......................Williams 3 1.31pm AON CPF C1 C1, 305m 1 18774 Homebush Shea 17.91............. S Gommans

Emergencies: Realm, Lord Hercules 4 2.15 MACKENZIE SUPPLY SERVICES 1600 $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 24708 Selfie (6) 60.5............................... C Johnson 2 26x44 What’s Up Alf 59.5........................ Scratched 3 1314x Picture Me Rollin d (7) 58.5.. R Mudhoo (a3) 4 21x98 Khimar War (9) 57.............................J Lowry 5 2x770 Miss Scandinavia d (3) 55.5...........M McNab 6 71x70 Jessie Janet 55............................. Scratched 7 03626 Boyslightup m (2) 54............... B Murray (a2) 8 0x049 Dangerous Pony d (1) 54.....R Beeharry (a3) 9 03866 Miss Tanira (8) 54..................... K Asano (a3) 10 60495 Golden Valkyrie d (4) 54................K Mudhoo 11 5050x Leuluai (5) 54..........................T Comignaghi 5 2.52 SPORTS BAR CENTRAL BREWHOUSE MAIDEN 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 43x03 Renounce (9) 58.5.........................M McNab 2 630L0 Divinexcuse (7) 58.5.....................T Moseley 3 576x6 Monash (12) 58.5 4 598x Danny Green (13) 58.5....................J Laking 5 0x Saboteur (4) 58.5..........................K Mudhoo 6 629x2 Sadler’s Lass (10) 56.5.....................J Lowry 7 9 Ataahualuvthedream (2) 56.5......L Callaway 8 0x0 Rosso Cavalla (14) 56.5........ R Mudhoo (a3) 9 433 Lightning Jack 56.......................... Scratched 10 2 Savvy Lad (1) 56.....................T Comignaghi 11 Country Boy (5) 56......................... C Barnes 12 8x7 Speights (3) 56.................... C Campbell (a2) 13 6x290 Sanctify (8) 54.............................. C Johnson 14 Lavaglo (11) 54........................ K Asano (a3) 15 6x00 Ginny 54........................................ Scratched 16 69L0x Zedaam 56.5................................. Scratched 17 370x8 Superstition 56.5........................... Scratched 18 0x07x Fire Katyusha 56.5........................ Scratched 19 8808x Jiminy Cricket (15) 58.5 20 x000x Iwonderwai (6) 56.5 Emergencies: Ginny, Zedaam, Superstition, Fire Katyu-

sha, Jiminy Cricket, Iwonderwai

6 3.27 BREWCO BRANDING MAIDEN 1400 $10,000,

Race 1: Rocanto, Mamma Sans, Feelin The Love, Taieri Gem Race 2: Epae Road, Stop Making Sense, Verses, Madam De Soir Race 3: Bahhgoofy, Figeameout, Big Wink, June Rose Race 4: Picture Me Rollin, Dangerous Pony, Golden Valkyrie Race 5: Renounce, Sadler’s Lass, Savvy Lad, Sanctify, Monash Race 6: Too Ferlaxed, Oceans Away, Solar Tide, Panzer Race 7: Billy The Kid, Exaltation, React, Clubcard, Global Star Race 8: Arnage, Louie Louie, Fly To The Sky, Seduttore Race 9: Summer Monsoon, Liam, Masu, Aulyn Star, Cailin

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

2 72575 Collete Baxter 18.32..................J McInerney 3 x5474 Killer Frost 18.19...............................P Taylor 4 32311 Big Time May 17.87............................L Cole 5 76382 So Severe 17.89..............................C Morris 6 44563 Sefton Brew 18.07 J &.........................D Bell 7 54268 Small Boy 18.32 A &........................Williams 8 31323 Sedgebrook Saint 17.78......................F Kite 9 6588x Bigtime Toby 18.47............................ P Clark 10 78587 Mustang Moo nwtd.............................. N Udy 4 1.49 BOOK YOUR FUNCTION@HATRICK C1, 305m 1 68878 Go Show nwtd A &...........................Williams 2 63564 Slick As Jewels 18.75............ L E Dunkerton 3 52438 Elsa Blueblood nwtd..................J McInerney 4 43667 Auros Advantage nwtd.................... T Pilcher 5 17676 Mister Booze 18.09......................J McArthur 6 72462 Flying Huey 17.88..................... K Gommans 7 33624 Jinja Ted nwtd................................ M Gowan 8 7752D Go Stopper 17.95...............................M Flipp 9 47857 Elland Road nwtd.......................J McInerney 10 87888 Thrilling Denzel nwtd A &.................Williams 5 2.06pm RIVERCITY GAS C1 C1, 520m 1 25553 Gunnar Blueblood 30.18............J McInerney 2 53345 True Testament 30.59...................B Hodgson 3 76222 Bigtime Fred 30.29..............................L Cole 4 53544 Slam It nwtd...............................J McInerney 5 45276 Opawa Tai 30.66................................. N Udy 6 133 Kongs Out Again 31.15....................M Olden 7 38442 Diamond Geezer 30.88.................M Goodier

8 63435 Replica Rango nwtd............................ N Udy 9 46676 Peekay Shout nwtd............................J Black 10 36685 Midnight Molly 30.46....................B Hodgson 6 2.23pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C1 C1, 305m 1 63767 Blitzem Gem 18.03................... S Gommans 2 25565 Nippa-A-Spot 17.82...................J McInerney 3 74386 Bigtime Jasper nwtd A &..................Williams 4 57388 Bigtime Roll 17.65....................... D P Symes 5 21538 Spring Poppy 18.02 D &..............J MacAuley 6 5145 Johny Mowhawk 18.04.................. D Denbee 7 17863 Idol Little Girl 18.13............................M Flipp 8 85644 Hurricane Al 17.85...........................C Morris 9 88858 Bigtime Claws nwtd A &...................Williams 10 37787 Yee Coo Coo 18.01....................J McInerney 7 2.42pm J P PRINT PETONE CI C1, 305m 1 54756 De Blonde 17.78................................ B Hunt 2 33264 Tynecastle Flyer 17.79 R &..................Voyce 3 12255 Spring Rage 17.96 D &...............J MacAuley 4 87x85 Rising Hawke 17.99.........................C Morris 5 47585 Aussie Dame nwtd.............................. N Udy 6 67376 Chat Ya Later nwtd............................. I Howe 7 88874 Small Paige nwtd A &.......................Williams 8 41223 Gotcha Marshall 18.00...............J McInerney 9 48477 Jetlag Jag nwtd..........................J McInerney 10 37678 Bigtime Wayno nwtd A &..................Williams 8 3.04pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C1 C1, 305m 1 76x55 Shrewdy 18.14....................... L E Dunkerton 2 73776 Homebush Razor nwtd..............J McInerney

3 65167 Big Time Ivy 18.00..............................L Cole 4 81438 Monty 18.00........................................ N Udy 5 88868 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd A &...................Williams 6 84211 Sedgebrook Sally 17.90.......................F Kite 7 6F748 Uno Again 17.71.................................. L Bell 8 57272 Elouera Mist nwtd J &..........................D Bell 9 88858 Bigtime Claws nwtd A &...................Williams 10 38868 Blue Whizz 18.16........................B Goldsack 9 3.19pm FIRST SECURITY C1 C1, 305m 1 23682 Epic Spark 18.00................................ B Hunt 2 36633 Smalltime Johnny 18.11 A &............Williams 3 16 Zipping Luther nwtd J &.......................D Bell 4 86734 Zara Jinx nwtd..................................... N Udy 5 26441 Bigtime Honey 17.67...........................L Cole 6 66x22 Clansman Douglas 18.16............B Goldsack 7 45878 Always Dizzy 18.07....................J McInerney 8 86676 Judge Me Jackie 17.91................... L Pearce 9 6588x Bigtime Toby 18.47............................ P Clark 10 78787 Inky Dinky Jewel nwtd......................L Doody 10 3.39pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1 C1, 520m 1 73455 Black Mags nwtd...............................S Stone 2 65455 Rockoneva 31.41.........................B Hodgson 3 44556 Arm Turner nwtd.........................J McInerney 4 65312 Bigtime Ava 30.70............................. P Clark 5 56362 Valve Bouncing nwtd........................... N Udy 6 11628 Big Time Amie 30.93...........................L Cole 7 67563 Jay Grim nwtd J &................................D Bell

8 33531 Marley Farley 31.16 R &......................Voyce 9 46676 Peekay Shout nwtd............................J Black 10 36685 Midnight Molly 30.46....................B Hodgson 11 3.54pm LASER PLUMBING C1 C1, 305m 1 674F5 I’ll Be Loyal nwtd..........................B Hodgson 2 56554 Bigtime Baxter 17.67................... D P Symes 3 88768 Sly Cath nwtd.....................................J Black 4 6F325 Big Time Kenny 18.04.........................L Cole 5 77623 Bigtime Boy 17.76........................ P B Briggs 6 33573 Bright Concept 17.84........................... L Bell 7 58868 Bigtime Ronnie nwtd.......................... I Howe 8 36435 Big Time Prickle 17.92 A &..............Williams Emergencies: 9 48477 Jetlag Jag nwtd..........................J McInerney 10 87767 Dyna Bryleigh nwtd.......................M Roberts 12 4.16pm HATRICK DASH C2 C2, 305m 1 33232 Sozin’s Fortune 17.93................J McInerney 2 16214 Morning Sun 18.00....................J McInerney 3 11862 Big Time Tatum 17.95.........................L Cole 4 47231 Sedgebrook Lover 18.08......................F Kite 5 17x23 Frizzled 17.81...............................M Roberts 6 86833 Homebush Minnie 17.61............J McInerney 7 24511 Big Time Nash 17.87...........................L Cole 8 65213 Jericho Warrior 17.83........................R Waite 9 46551 Scoobasi 17.68..................................M Flipp 10 76571 Cookie Biscuit 17.75..........................M Flipp 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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Ashburton Guardian 19

■■OPINION

Read an unappreciated superstar

By Dylan Cleaver

I

t is time to start rolling out your we’re-in-the-homestraight lines.

The pretenders have gone, just the contenders remain.

The skirmishes are over and the remaining four armies are preparing for the Big Push into Yokohama.

What you’ve just read are examples of dreadful sports writing: we can all agree that is fact.

Now it’s time, in a slightly less hackneyed way, to separate some semi-final fact from fiction.

The World Cup final is really being played this Saturday.

After the quarter-finals it’s official: New Zealand and England are ranked Nos 1 and 2 in the world respectively.

Wales have dropped to three and the Springboks have sprung to No. 4.

Maths aside, the All Blacks and

RESULTS ■■ Golf Ashburton County Vet October 21 At Mayfield 1st = Des Green and Murray Moorhead 45, 2nd= Ian Beach and Phil McKay 40, 4th = Doug Bruce 39 and Ray Suttie 39 Twos: M Moorhead and G Brown Annual Trip November 1-8th Next Game November 18 - Tinwald, visit from Selwyn Vets

England have clearly been the form teams of the tournament.

The way they dispatched Ireland and Australia in the quarter-finals demonstrated the sort of brilliance and ruthlessness required to win tournaments.

Both also “enjoyed” a match off due to Hagibis (a luxury not afforded Wales or South Africa) so are not as banged up.

Don’t over-complicate the issue, the quality in the Saturday semi-final is strikingly superior to that of the Sunday match-up.

It is the final that wasn’t.

Everything points to “Fact” here except for a couple of wrinkles: whoever emerges victorious from Saturday’s titanic struggle will be battered beyond the ice bath.

That one less match won’t be as much of a factor as it might have been this week.

More pertinently, neither Wales nor South Africa could give a tinker’s cuss whether you think the semi-final draw was weighted in one direction.

One of them will be in the final and 80 minutes from glory.

For an example of the dangers of thinking job done, let’s wind by the microfiche back to 2011 when everybody “knew” the real final was the semi-final between the All Blacks and the Wallabies.

The injury ravaged All Blacks brilliantly quelled the Australian threat and were left with the simple task of defeating a French team in rebellion against their coach and who needed a late penalty miss to beat a Wales side

Kieran Read has been a tower of strength for the All Blacks. that had played the majority of the match with 14 men.

The final was fait accompli.

And yet ...

The way play ran in the subsequent final, France would win that match seven out of 10 times.

There is no debate that the All Black-England semi-final has the two best teams at the tournament, but don’t put the medals around the winners’ necks just yet.

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Kieran Read will be remembered as a true great There have been doubts about Read’s effectiveness in recent times and not all of them related to his shifting role from devastating edge runner to a more middle-of-the-park bruiser.

The herniated disc that required surgery in December 2017 seemed to take a bit of the physical sting from his game and it has

not always been certain that the burdens of captaincy have rested easily upon his shoulders.

The 2019 World Cup has allayed any fears one might have harboured about his declining powers, his leadership or what winning in an All Black jersey means to him.

He has been immense.

Read is in some respects an underappreciated superstar whose most explosive days as a loose forward were played under the long shadow of Richie McCaw. It is now time to acknowledge that Read is an All Black giant and every bit the big-game hunter his predecessor as skipper was.

Read’s CV already glitters like gold but his performances in Japan have added sparkle.

While Beauden Barrett picked up the man-of-the-match gong for his near-flawless performance in the quarter-final mauling of Ireland, Read was the most influential player on the park.

His ball-carrying and handling always provided go-forward and his tackling always resulted in Ireland go-backward.

The 125-test veteran has been in that sort of form all tournament.

Read doesn’t need a third World Cup winners medal to cement his legacy and while he would be the first to acknowledge that nobody is in the business of handing out freebies, if his contribution to the All Blacks is to be measured accurately, he probably deserves one.

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ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

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10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

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AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome. Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

2pm RSA WOMEN’S SECTION. Afternoon social with speaker. Competition butter dish, duchess set. Doris Linton Lounge, RSA, Cox Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

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Due to growth, we have two positions available

Wanted a sporting all rounder who wants to be a star….

RECEPTIONIST VACANCY Part-time Due to Rakaia Medical Centre’s continued growth, there is an opportunity for a part-time receptionist to join our professional, enthusiastic and friendly team. The position is for 31 hours per week.

We are a well-established and forward-looking medical centre with approximately 2400 patients. We place a strong emphasis on providing personalised, high quality care for our patients.

We are looking for someone with that same attention to customer care and who has a positive, friendly and understanding attitude while knowing how to prioritise work flows.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Experience in a medical reception role for at least a year • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Great computer skills with MedTech and Microsoft Office experience • Good time management skills and ability to multi-task • High level of accuracy with a variety of administration work and a quick learner • Ability to build strong rapport with team members • Appreciation of patient confidentiality is an absolute must Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit.

If you are interested in applying for this position please forward your CV with covering letter to: Emma Jaillet-Godin, Practice Manager Rakaia Medical Centre, 30 Elizabeth Avenue, Rakaia, 7710 or via email to: emma@rakaiamedical.co.nz If you would like any further information, please call the medical centre on 03 303 5002 and ask to speak to Emma.

Applications close Monday, November 4, 2019.

The Ashburton Guardian has an opportunity for a passionate reporter to make their mark in the world of sport.

Full-time position

We’re looking for someone who lives for sport – all codes, who is keen to get to know the triers, the grinders the good teams and the sporting stars of the Ashburton District.

This position involves learning all aspects of drycleaning, operating garment finishing equipment and interacting with our customers in our retail area.

You’ll be a one-person sports team, among an editorial team of experienced journalists, covering everything from representative rugby and netball, right down to primary school’s football and hockey.

Ideally you will have an interest in fashion and fabrics, an eye for detail and a high standard of personal presentation.

The Guardian is a progressive, six-day a week newspaper in the heart of a sporting strong hold.

Customer Service / Delivery Person

Our sports coverage is one of the cornerstones of the business.

Our readers are passionate players, watchers and arm-chair critics who love nothing more than reading a good yarn about local sporting stars or teams.

Sport takes place at any time on any given day, so you’ll be flexible with your working hours and willing to go above and beyond the call of duty to provide the sports coverage that the paper requires.

You’ll also get the opportunity to swing one of our cameras around from time to time too.

Weekend work in this role is a given, but that does mean that you’ll get time off during the week to enjoy everything our district has to offer. That could mean that in Winter you are on the slopes within an hour of raising your head from the pillow or in summer out on the lake after just a 10-minute drive.

If you think you could be the sporting star we are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.

Send us an application letter along with your CV, telling us about your passion for sport and what you could bring to the Guardian team.

Please send your application, along with CV to Matt Markham by e-mail: matt.m@theguardian.co.nz or post to Box 77, Ashburton 7740.

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All applicants must be legally entitled to work in New Zealand. Please send your CV with a covering letter in your own handwriting to: The Manager Tinwald Medical Centre 33 Archibald Street, Ashburton 7700 manager@tinwaldmed.co.nz Applications close at noon Tuesday, October 29, 2019.

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This role involves delivery and collection of laundry.

You need to be able to keep to a schedule and have the ability to retain information well. This role involves repetitive lifting of laundry bags, so you need to be physically fit and strong. In this role you are the face of our business, so you must be customer focussed.

A full, clean, class 1 drivers’ licence and the ability to drive a range of vehicles competently with a good local knowledge.

At Wrights Apparelmaster we have a great team. To join our team you will possess and be able to demonstrate the following: A can do attitude, ability to find solutions rather than problems, understand the importance of customers and respect other team members in the workplace.

We are a locally owned growing business, with great systems to ensure clear workflow.

To apply for either of these positions, please email a covering letter and your CV to: admin@wrightsdrycleaners.co.nz

WANTED PENSIONER requires someone to do ironing weekly.

Please phone 307 0061.

WANTED to hire a small caravan for two adults Thursday, November 14 to Sunday, November 17, Christchurch show weekend.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Applications close, November 1.

Adams Sawmilling Co Ltd are seeking a motivated person to join our team to manufacture Pallets and perform other duties as needed.

No previous experience needed as full training will be provided, but a good level of physical ability preferred.

This is a full time position where reliability is a must.

Please apply in person with any relevant references to: Adams Sawmilling Co Ltd. 24 Malcolm McDowell Road Ashburton

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Trainee Drycleaning Garment Technician / Customer Service Person

For all your classified requirements.

Phone the Guardian 307 7900

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LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals.

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

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Cryptic crossword

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars

ACROSS 1. Support given little credit, badly cut by the aspiration (6) 8. They are taken to by those fleeing (5) 9. Man’s parliament lady won’t supply, having nothing less (7) 11. Would they make good fishwives? (8) 12. Rang around with your head in an inflamed state (5) 15. Party back in with this old god (4) 16. The East will disappear on this trip (3) 17. One of the forces Mary turned to (4) 19. Nothing bold about being upset by the sight of it (5) 21. Democrat leader is sat for his portrait, being so inclined (8) 24. Is being very loud, with the result that one doesn’t hear it (7) 25. A show of energy leading up to the front door (5) 26. Stay, with the Sappers, on the flank (6) DOWN 2. A beam of light on it being material (5) 3. What Eiffel was up to, being very tall (8) 4. In the edge, fifty will give a boat direction (4) 5. What a pity, woman having the morning inside (5) 6. She’s not mortal, and is ripe for change (4) 7. Ancient goddess in the river at Oxford (4) 10. Passed on responsibility for limb at being included indeed (9) 12. Soon, a name won’t be able to be supplied (4) 13. The sheriff’s men are starting to be ill between blows (8) 14. Looked at the hole in the needle and started darning (4) 18. My holding of a person is for cash (5) 20. It is admitted we nod in order to show it (5) 21. Performed The Ring for the Queen of Carthage (4) 22. Declared that one was in sorry surroundings (4) 23. It costs a lot to be beloved (4)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You disapprove of unnecessary drama and prefer to remain unflappable, the sort that doesn’t succumb to pressure, embarrass easily or betray oneself. This shows superior character.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’ll tie a number of loose ends and make some final decisions. Leave nothing for tomorrow. Either you’ll handle it now or you’ll decide it’s not worth your attention after all.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): If you give way to the first request, yield to the second and so on, it gets almost impossible to draw the line. You’re better off being a challenge upfront. It gives you more power later when you need it.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): “Festina lente” is the Greek adage symbolised by a dolphin cuddling a boat anchor. The translation of this is “make haste slowly,” an oxymoron you’ll master today as you move with thoughtful precision.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The honeybee can make life sweetly pleasurable with honey or sharply painful with a poisonous sting. With bees and people, much depends on your awareness and approach.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): To make a desired impression, you first must be sure you’re in that moment.

You’ll do this with your advanced awareness of timing and your ability to adjust your internal clock to another person’s pacing.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Physical strength varies with age and other circumstances. Moral strength is far less vulnerable to the influence of time, can be continually developed at every point of life and always matters more in the end.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): If you can’t get yourself to comply with your own directives, try taking on the responsibility of leading others. Social expectation is a strong motivational factor.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): When you think about the icons of cool in the movies, they are people who don’t seem to be in any kind of hurry. You’re like such an icon today as you let time do its work.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Long talks are bonding if you have the time but can feel like a trap if you don’t. Set a 50-minute limit. Most of what needs to be said will be expressed, and if it’s not enough, you can always come back later for more.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You love in different ways depending on what’s needed and what you think you can give. You don’t always need to pick the other person up emotionally to be helpful. Sometimes it’s better to lie low, listen.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): What started as an interesting group of strangers is now becoming more of a unified group of like-minded people, maybe even a loose group of friends. Keep attending. This is just starting to get good.

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DEATHS RAE Mabel Elizabeth (Mabs) – On October 19, 2019, peacefully at home, Ashburton. Aged 91 years.

Dearly beloved wife of the late Ian. Cherished and much loved mother and mother-inlaw of David and Jill, Roger and Cheryl, Gary and Jo, and Andrew and Tammy. Dearest Gran of Adam; Natasha and Gavin, Dan; Ben and Gabrielle, Charlotte, Bridget, Matthew; Melissa and Jared, Timothy and Jodie, James, Nicola and Jaime, and Sarah and Sam. Dearly loved great Gran of Finn; Aubree; Evelyn, and Cyril; Thalia, Marshall, and Izak; Cleo; Laylah, Maia, and Piper, and Mason.

Messages to 1/25 Charlesworth Drive, Ashburton 7700. A service to celebrate Mabs life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, October 25, commencing at 1.30pm. A private family interment will be held.

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GALBRAITH, Warren Victor – On October 21, 2019, passed away peacefully surrounded by loving family at Christchurch Hospital, after a tragic accident, aged 68 years. Loved husband and soul mate of Audrey, cool and caring dad and father-in-law of Justin and Tammy, Aaron (Fred), Shawn and Beck, Carrie and Justin, Scott and Kirsten, Jodene and Nathan, Anna and James, loved Grandpop of his 12 grandchildren. Dearly loved son of the late Alec and Noeline, loving brother of all his brothers and sisters.

Special thanks to the Rakaia First Response Team and ICU Christchurch Hospital for their special care of Warren.

Messages may be addressed to the family of the late Warren Galbraith, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545. In lieu of flowers, donations to Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust would be appreciated, and may be made at the service. The service to farewell and celebrate Warren’s life will be held in our Westpark Chapel, 467 Wairakei Road, Burnside, Christchurch, on FRIDAY, October 25, at 2.00pm, followed by a burial at Belfast Cemetery.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Moira shares her worries; Priya vents her frustration; Kerry’s deception takes its toll. 0 1pm Coronation Street Catchup PGR 3 Toyah tells Leanne she is now homeless; David arrives home late for dinner and reeking of beer. 0 2pm Coast v Country 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 0 4pm Te Karere 2 4:30 Come Dine With Me Daytime 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 MasterChef Australia 0 9:05 Motorbike Cops PGR A group of officers work on the roads and expressways in and around Sydney.

Highly trained specialists on motorcycles, their job is to keep the streets safe. 0 9:35 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:35 1 News Tonight 0

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BRAVO 10am I Found The Gown 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 12:30 Babies Behind Bars PGR 3 1:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 2:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 3:30 The People’s Court 4:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 5:30 Catfish 3 A former catfish asks Nev and Max for help when they fall in love online, but are they genuine?

6:30 Beverly Hills Pawn 3 7pm Beverly Hills Pawn 3 Cory and Aria are presented with a piece of memorabilia worn by James Marsden in the original X-Men movie.

7:30 The Real Housewives Of Dallas PGR 8:30 Confidential 9:45 Catfish 10:40 Snapped PGR 3 11:40 Babies Behind Bars PGR 3 12:25 Infomercials 3

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6am Infomercials 6:30 Bluey 0 6:40 PJ Masks 3 0 7am Littlest Pet Shop 0 7:25 Ben 10 0 7:50 Wacky Races 0 8:15 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 8:35 The Lion Guard 3 0 9am Infomercials 9:30 Religious Infomercials 10am The Middle 3 0 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am My Restaurant Rules PGR 3 0 Noon Mom PGR 3 0 12:30 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 2pm Will And Grace PGR 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Bakugan – Battle Planet 0 3:55 Clarence 0 4:05 Fanimals 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 Have You Been Paying Attention? 0 8:35 Wellington Paranormal PGR Minogue and O’Leary go to a local girls’ high school, where three teen witches begin threatening students. 0 9:05 Zombody Save Me! AO 0 9:35 God Friended Me PGR 0 10:35 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0

11:05 F Criminal Minds AO 3 When Reid fears his mother has been abducted, he asks the BAU to investigate while he is in prison. 0 1am Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 1:25 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2

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11:05 Cougar Town PGR 3 0 11:30 This Is Us PGR 3 0 12:20 Private Practice AO 3 0 1:05 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Infomercials 2:30 Army Wives PGR 3 0 3:15 Family Food Fight 3 0 4:15 Little Big Shots 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:40 Entertainment Tonight 3 12:10 Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 1:10 Dr Phil AO Elsa says she was severely abused almost daily for 19 years, and starved for weeks at a time by the people she thought were her adoptive parents, until an unlikely person rescued her.

2:15 Australian Ninja Warrior 3 The Spinball Wizard proves to be a formidable obstacle; which Ninjas will complete the course, and who will win an instant $5000 by scaling the Mega Warped Wall? 0 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Project 7:30 Grand Designs New Zealand Revisited PGR 0 8:35 The Rookie AO Nolan gets off to a rocky start with his new training officer; Lopez finds herself navigating a case that triggers a personal memory. 0 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 AO 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 Love Island Australia AO Midnight SVU AO 3 An exonerated sex offender is back in the spotlight when his former accuser’s daughter is assaulted and murdered.

12:55 Infomercials

6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 Tamariki Haka 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Te Nutube 7:40 Darwin + Newts 3 7:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 8am Pukana 3 2 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 R&R 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11am Tautohetohe 3 Noon Waka Ama Sprints 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Haka Life PGR 3 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 Pukoro 2 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Te Nutube 4:10 Darwin + Newts 3 4:20 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Ariki 5:30 Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 6:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7am Choccywoccydoodah 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Hope For Wildlife 9am David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 9:30 Lone Star Restoration 11:30 Money For Nothing 12:30 Building The Dream 1:30 Restoration Australia 2:30 Brother v Brother 3:30 Love Nature – Secret Life Of The Kangaroo 4:30 Hemsley And Hemsley – Healthy And Delicious The Hemsley sisters share healthy recipes for all occasions.

5pm Nigella Bites 5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 Bangers And Cash

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Traffic Cops PGR 0 8:30 Ambulance AO The winter crisis in the NHS bites for the West Midlands Ambulance Service. 0 9:45 Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords AO 10:45 Courtside

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm Haka At Home Showcase of some of the best kapa haka from around Aotearoa, performing on their marae, and sharing their history and stories through their songs.

9pm Ahikaroa AO 3 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 American Pickers 8:30 Trawlermen’s Lives Adventurer Ben Fogle takes on one of his toughest challenges yet, sailing the unpredictable and unforgiving North Sea. 9:30 Fishy Business 10pm Alone Redemption PGR

11:15 Athletics – Xterra World Tour (HLS) Featuring off-road triathlons and trail runs.

11:45 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:45 Closedown

11pm Te Matatini Ki Te Ao 3 Highlights from Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival 2019, held at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

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11pm Hemsley And Hemsley – Healthy And Delicious The Hemsley sisters share healthy recipes for all occasions.

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Tiny House Hunting 1am Fishy Business 1:30 Nigella Bites 2am Alone AO 3am Love Nature – Secret Life Of The Kangaroo 4am Trawlermen’s Lives 5am Mysteries At The Museum

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6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Shipping Wars UK PG 7:55 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 8:25 Ice Road Truckers PG 9:15 Storage Wars – Texas PG 9:45 CSI MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:20 Shipping Wars UK PG Noon Jeopardy! PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:55 Storage Wars – Barry’s Best Buys PG 1:45 Crazy On A Plane MVLC 2:35 CSI MV 3:20 Shipping Wars UK PG 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Storage Wars – Texas PG 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG 7pm Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 7:30 CSI MV 8:30 The Force MC 9pm Piha Rescue PG 9:30 Helicopter ER M 10:30 SVU MV 11:20 Ice Road Truckers PG

6:20 Friedkin Uncut 16LC 2018 Documentary.

8:05 American Animals MVL 2018 Drama. Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan. 10am Stan And Ollie PG 2018 Comedy.

Steve Coogan, John C Reilly.

11:35 Maine 16LS 2018 Drama. Laia Costa, Thomas Mann. 1pm 30 And Single MLS 2019 Romantic Comedy. Arturo Castro, Aya Cash. 2:35 People Interview – Glenn Close 3pm Diagnosis Delicious PG 2016 Romantic Comedy.

Maya Stojan, Ryan Rottman.

4:30 Ant-Man And The Wasp PGVL 2018 Action. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly.

6:25 Madeline’s Madeline MLS 2018 Drama.

Helena Howard, Molly Parker.

8pm The Padre MVL 2018 Drama. A US judge comes out of retirement, bent on finding a con man posing as a priest in a small town. Tim Roth, Nick Nolte.

9:40 Night School MLSC 2018 Comedy. Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish.

11:30 The Commuter MVL 2018 Action. Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga.

12:10 Shipping Wars UK PG 12:50 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:15 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Canada’s Frontline M 2:05 Helicopter ER M 2:50 Piha Rescue PG 3:15 The Force MC 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

1:15 Diagnosis Delicious PG 2016 Romantic Comedy.

Maya Stojan, Ryan Rottman.

2:45 Ant-Man And The Wasp PGVL 2018 Action.

Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly.

4:40 Madeline’s Madeline MLS 2018 Drama.

Helena Howard, Molly Parker.

7:50 Training Day 18VL 2001 Action Thriller. A rookie narcotics officer experiences the toughest day of his life with a partner who is a law unto himself. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke.

9:50 Get Smart PGV 2008 Comedy. Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway.

11:40 Anger Management MLS 2003 Comedy.

Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson.

1:25 Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Western. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio.

4:10 The Animal MS 2001 Comedy. Edward Asner, Rob Schneider.

5:35 The Hunger Games – Catching Fire MV 2013 Action. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

8pm Insidious – Chapter 2 MV 2013 Horror. A haunted family seeks to discover the childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson.

9:50 Pitch Perfect MLS 2012 Comedy. Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson.

11:40 The Last Samurai MV 2003 Drama. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe.

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2:10 Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Western. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio. 4:55 The Animal MS 2001 Comedy.

Edward Asner, Rob Schneider.

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Breakdown 7am Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Semi-final – Bay of Plenty v Manawatu. 9am Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Semi-final – Tasman v Auckland. 11am Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Semi-final – Hawke’s Bay v Otago.

1pm Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Semi-final – Wellington v Canterbury.

3pm The Breakdown 4pm Premiership Cup Highlights Show 5pm French Top 14 Highlights 5:30 Rugby Nation 6:30 The Breakdown 7:30 Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semi-finals.

8pm French Top 14 Highlights 8:30 Big In Japan 9pm Wednesday Wind Back 11pm Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semi-finals.

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Midnight The Breakdown 1am Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semi-final – Auckland v Wellington. 1:30 Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semifinal – Hawke’s Bay v Northland. 2am Big In Japan 2:30 Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semifinal – Canterbury v Counties Manukau. 3am Farah Palmer Cup (HLS) Semifinals. 3:30 The Breakdown 4:30 Premiership Cup Highlights Show 5:30 French Top 14 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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6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG NHRA and a 1955 Pink Caddy 2/2. 7:30 Weather Gone Viral PG 8:20 BattleBots PG Last Chance Rumble.

9:10 Expedition Unknown PG Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Aussie Salvage Squad PG You Scratch My Back and I’ll Scratch Yours. 11:40 Web Of Lies M Searching for Mr Wrong.

12:30 Evil Kin M A Mother’s Fight. 1:20 American Monster M Anything for You. 2:10 Weather Gone Viral PG 3pm Alaskan Bush People M 3:50 Bering Sea Gold PG Fight and Flight. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG Don’t Hassle the Hoff – Pontiac Trans Am 1/2.

5:40 Aussie Salvage Squad PG The Tide is King.

6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Devil’s Cut. 7:30 Deadliest Thursday Catch PG Unbreakable.

12:30 Women’s Big Bash 8:30 Aussie Lobster Men PG (RPL) Sixers v Heat.

9:25 Jeremy Wade’s Dark From North Sydney Oval.

Waters PG Cold Water Mystery.

10:15 Moonshiners M 3:25 ICC Cricket 360 The latest cricket news and recent Popcorn’s Secret Stash.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M cricket action from T20, ODI Thieves in the Night. and Test cricket, as well as off- 11:55 How It’s Made PG field interviews and features.

Thursday 12:20 How 3:50 T20 World Cup Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Weather Gone Viral Qualifiers (HLS) Canada v PG 1:35 Bering Sea Gold Nigeria.

PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 4:20 L T20 World Cup 3:15 Alaskan Bush People Qualifiers Hong Kong v Jersey. M 4:05 Treehouse Masters From Sheikh Zayed Cricket PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Bering Sea Gold PG Stadium, Abu Dhabi.

6am India v South Africa (RPL) Third Test, Day Four.

From JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi.

7:55 Sri Lanka v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test, Day Five.

8:50 India v South Africa (HLS) Third Test, Day Four.

9:45 Sri Lanka v Blackcaps (RPL) Second T20.

1:25 India v South Africa (RPL) Third Test, Day Four.

From JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi.

3:20 Women’s Big Bash (HLS) Sixers v Thunder.

3:50 India v South Africa (HLS) Third Test, Day Four.

4:50 L India v South Africa Third Test, Day Five.

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Allenton best on the greens Bowlers from far and wide, including Allenton’s Shirley Doig, converged on a chilly Rakaia Bowls Club on Monday to contest the Murton Cup women’s fours. It ended up being Allenton’s day, with the Allenton Bowling Club four of Janet Kingsbury, Faye McKnight, Jenny Mitchell and Ann Reid taking it out.

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Cane up for the challenge NZME All Blacks flanker Sam Cane is relishing facing up to England’s “pretty impressive” Tom Curry and Sam Underhill in their Rugby World Cup semi-final on Saturday, with the battle at the breakdown key to advancing to the final.

Curry and Underhill, who England coach Eddie Jones has dubbed The Kamikaze Kids, have been standouts in England’s strong forward pack at the World Cup. They got the better of Michael

Hooper and the world class David Pocock in their quarter-final in Oita on Saturday to advance to the semi-finals for the first time in 12 years and face the All Blacks in Yokohama.

“Underhill and Curry have been pretty impressive,” Cane said.

“They’ve both got a huge appetite for hard work and have very good skill sets. They have been really impressive.”

The English duo were only paired by Jones in their final World Cup warm-up matches, something that All Blacks coach Steve

Hansen also did with Cane, the first choice openside flanker since Richie McCaw retired in 2015, and Ardie Savea.

Savea’s form this year made it hard for Hansen not to find a way to fit him into the starting team, and after he failed to settle on a first-choice blindside flanker he selected Savea in the number six jersey.

Cane, Savea and captain and number eight Kieran Read have been the preferred loose forward combination since the All Blacks’ first Bledisloe Cup fixture

against Australia in Perth. After their thrashing at the hands of the Wallabies, where the smaller Cane and Savea were dominated

by Lukhan Salakaia-Loto and Isi Naisarani, the All Blacks openside was initially unsure if Hansen would persist with the approach.

Hansen, however, stuck with the combination and Cane said it was easy to see why in the modern game.

“I guess it might show how the game has evolved,” Cane said.

“We know how teams are so structured and the best chance to

attack from (unstructured play) is from turnover ball so you might increase your chances ever so slightly.”

Despite becoming what appears to be the first-choice combination, Cane said they were still working on improvements, especially against England with a place in the final at stake.

“But pretty much apart from the set piece our roles are interchangeable, whether that’s attack or defence. I think we definitely have room for improvement but we’re going all right.”

Kieran Read the unappreciated AB superstar

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