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Union probes rugby brawl Investigations are continuing into an incident during a senior B rugby match on Saturday where it has been alleged a player was kicked in the head. A feisty encounter between Hampstead and Collegiate came to a head late in the game when the two sides broke into a fight resulting in the match being called off with 15 minutes left to play. The incident drew large comment and speculation on social media on Sunday night and throughout yesterday and Mid Canterbury Rugby Union boss, Ian Patterson said the union was working hard to get an outcome from their investiga-

tions which were continuing yesterday. “As you can imagine, there’s a lot to be worked through and without the access to video footage it’s even more difficult,” he said. Meanwhile, in a statement to The Guardian, the Hampstead Rugby Club said they were keen to focus on the positive aspects of the club while assisting the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union. “The club is co-operating with the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union to gather the facts and deal with them in an appropriate manner,” the statement said. “Our club does not endorse aggressive

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behaviour by anyone and will deal with the facts once made available. “We would like to focus on the JAB seven a side tournament that kicks off our JAB season on Saturday and the other 100 plus members that are positively involved in our club and wanting to play rugby in Mid Canterbury.” The match was originally scheduled for 1pm on Saturday, but the MCRFU shifted the match to 3.30pm due to a number of Hampstead players not being unavailable until that time due to work commitments as a direct result of the current mycoplasma bovis outbreak.

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ECan accused of damaging spawning grounds The Ashburton District Court will set aside three days later this year to hear a charge laid against Environment Canterbury of damaging fish spawning grounds in Bowyers Stream. The charge has been brought by the Central South Island Fish and Game Council and alleges that between April 24 and May 26 last year, ECan did disturb or damage spawning grounds of trout and salmon. The maximum penalty is a fine not exceeding $200,000. The case was before the Ashburton court yesterday and was remanded to June 11, by which date the three-day hearing before a judge will be set. The charge is laid under the Conservation Act and is not required to be heard by a judge with an environment court warrant. The Fish and Game Council says valuable fish spawning grounds in Bowyers Stream, which is connected to the Ashburton River, were damaged by earthmoving machinery. The council says earthworks over 11km of the stream caused extensive damage and that the work was done at the height of the salmon and trout spawning season.

Man arrested after ‘violent incident’ BY KATIE TODD

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Tips-off from members of the Ashburton public sparked two separate police investigations on Friday and Saturday last week – one ending in arrest and the other ending with “all clear”. In Netherby on Thursday night, police received a complaint from a member of the public regarding a “violent incident”, which they investigated the following day. Police executed two search warrants at a property on Friday

fore court yesterday and more information is expected later in the week. Police said they are not seeking any more information from the public on the matter, as it is now before the courts. Meanwhile, on Saturday night, police were investigating after an individual was reportedly seen walking on the Rakaia bridge. Police closed the bridge to traffic at around 7.50pm to investigate, following a phone call from a member of the public con-

cerned that somebody was trying to cross the bridge by foot. Senior Sergeant Phil Dean said the area was safely searched by crews, including the Canterbury Highway Patrol, while traffic waited. Police looked along the bridge and in the surrounding area to ensure nobody had jumped or fallen off it. No-one was found during the investigations, Dean said, and the bridge was reopened a few minutes later.

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Marking lives lost

Anzac Day services

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A sea of white crosses representing local lives lost in World War One is now surrounding the Ashburton cenotaph. Baring Square West became a busy place yesterday morning, when 316 crosses were set up, along with 204 others across Hinds, Mayfield and Rakaia – among a total of 18,200 around the country. Each cross is inscribed with the name of a local soldier who was killed in battle, or who later lost their lives from injuries. Helping set them up yesterday was Dave Gowans, along with several other Ashburton Compulsory Military Training (CMT) members who collectively have worked to assemble, paint and inscribe each of the district’s crosses for the fourth and final time. The nationwide project was initiated by the RSA in 2015 as New Zealand marked a century since the allied landings at Anzac Cove on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula. The crosses will make their final appearance later this year on Armistice Day, November 11, Gowans said, marking a century since the end of the war.

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Ashburton Compulsory Military Training (CMT) members setting up white crosses around the Ashburton cenotaph yesterday. PHOTO KATIE TODD 230418-KT-002

Man acquitted of dishonesty charges A 56-year-old Ashburton man who withdrew $40,000 in cash from his mother’s bank account after she went into a retirement home was acquitted on three charges of dishonestly using a bank card yesterday. Mark Wayne Robinson, a truck driver by trade, had denied the charges, which were heard in the Ashburton District Court before Judge Gary MacAskill. Robinson, who had been living with his mother and caring for her before she moved into the home, said he had consent to use her bankcard to find himself a job and a new place to live. He said he

didn’t realise how much money he had withdrawn and intended to pay it back. Judge MacAskill said since Robinson had acknowledged the debt, he should instruct his lawyer to prepare a legal document so it could be eventually repaid. He said it was clear that Robinson’s mother had inferred consent by allowing him to keep using the bankcard, though the pair had not discussed how much money would be spent and on what. “The door was left wide open for misunderstanding.” The prosecution had not proven Robinson had acted dishonestly,

the judge said, though he had taken advantage of the available resource and fallen short in his responsibilities as a son by not making sure his mother was kept fully informed. The court was told Robinson had moved into the spare bedroom at his mother’s house in 2009 when he returned from the United States. He paid board until he ran out of money after being adjudged bankrupt. He did the cooking, cleaning and other household chores and used his mother’s bankcard, with her authorisation, to run the house.

Ethel Robinson sold the property in November 2015 when she moved into a resthome. Robinson, who had been financially dependent, continued to visit and take her on outings and he used her bankcard to pay. He told the court that he travelled around the country staying in motels and looking for work. He did not realise he had withdrawn $40,000 until police contacted him to talk about the transactions. Mrs Robinson said she had been a “trusting old lady” and even after the bank alerted her to suspicious transactions on her ac-

count, she continued to allow her son to use the bank card. Prosecutor Helen Bennett said Robinson would make up to five transactions some days, withdrawing up to $300 at a time and the cash was unreasonably beyond the amount he needed to get back on his feet after his mother’s home was sold. He was withdrawing up to $8400 a month and took, in total, $40,000 in 204 transactions. Mrs Robinson’s daughter went to Age Concern for advice and then complained to police after learning her bank account had been depleted.

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In brief Gas leak contained A gas leak in central Porirua has been contained. The leak occurred when a truck hit a gas valve in the carpark of the Pak’nSave supermarket yesterday, police say. Cordons around the area have been removed. - NZN

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Giving the gift of mobility By Katie todd

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It took just one small observation and a few ounces of goodwill to ensure Tinwald resident Janet Walker’s safety accessing her home. Walker became the “very grateful” recipient of a new mobil-

ity ramp this month, after it was built for her with help from Ashburton Joinery and Placemakers Ashburton. The idea behind the project was sparked late last year, during the Ashburton Guardian’s Christmas Wishes initiative. Media Sales Coordinator Emma Jaillet-

Godin was working at Walker’s home on another project when she noticed Walker’s existing ramp looked a little unstable. However, she fortunately knew someone who could help – her partner Henry Cook from Ashburton Joinery, and his workmate Mitchell Ward.

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Kiwi takes US title A proud plus-size model from New Zealand has been crowned the winner of a popular pin-up beauty pageant in the US. Fran Robertson, who creates colourful costumes and dresses and is also a talented makeup artist, was crowned the title of Miss Viva Las Vegas Pin-Up 2018 at the hugely popular Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend. The event is said to be the largest and most respected Rockabilly festival in the world. Robertson, whose business is Fran Robertson: Decorator of People and Things, took to social media to thank her many supporters and fans. - NZME

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For the next few weeks, new parents taking their bubs home from Ashburton Maternity will also take home a special gift from a local Filipino group. Filipino friends PAK-P have donated dozens of soft toys to the unit, each parcelled up as a “welcome to the world” present for new babies. Since forming last year, the group, also called “the turtles” have been involved in a number of charitable projects around Ashburton. Charge midwifery manager Julie Dockrill said the Ashburton Maternity is incredibly proud to be part of the partnership with the Filipino society. “They’re doing this to benefit all of the community, and it’s really nice,” she said. Around 150 babies are born in the maternity ward each year.

Grey District Council mayor Tony Kokshoorn has decided not to stand for re-election in local body elections next year. He said he was 65 years old and it was time to spend more time with his family. “I just always thought politics is a tough business and when you go home you are not concentrating on what your wife is saying and you are concentrating on what you are doing at work,” he said. He has been on the council for 21 years and mayor for 15 years, during which time no one stood to oppose him. - NZN

Babies born in Ashburton Hospital’s maternity ward like Chloe (third left) will receive a welcome gift thanks to the Ashburton PAK group, pictured with charge midwifery manager Julie Dockrill (centre). From left: Ace Ucol, Marlon Aragon, Jeffery Sostinto, John Paul Belarmino, Brian Redoque, Kristian Earl Cabrera, Raymond Tan. PHOTO KATIE TODD 230418-KT-015

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Auckland mayor Phil Goff returned to work yesterday after surgery for a heart attack that could have claimed his life. The 64-year had two angioplasty operations after being rushed to Auckland City Hospital on April 21. Last week, he revealed in the Herald one of his arteries was completely blocked and “if the blockage had occurred in the other [main] artery it could have been fatal”. The main artery was 75 per cent blocked. Yesterday, Goff said:“It’s good to be back. We are about to make critical decisions on investing in Auckland’s transport network.” - NZME

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Cash-stuffed safe cracked open by rubbish truck A safe picked up by rubbish collectors found to contain as much as $30,000 in cash was cracked open by a rubbish compactor. Council contractors picked the safe up in Hillsborough on March 7 after it was left out for collection. Upon cracking it open, they found a sum of money inside, which was handed in to police. Auckland Council was notified of the discovery on the same day. Information released to the Herald under the Official Information Act by Auckland Council showed the safe was opened after being put in the back of a truck. “The safe, along with other rubbish material, was placed into the back of the compactor rubbish truck. “The truck then activated a compacting cycle. At this time the compacting device crushed and broke open the safe box, and the money was discovered. “The collection staff then immediately notified Waste Management and the NZ Police were also notified at the same time.” The matter was under investigation by police but so far no charges have been laid. “As it is still an active file being investigated police are not able to comment further,” a police spokeswoman said. Auckland Council said no complaints or disciplinary actions were taken against staff employed by Waste Management, either in relation to the incident with the safe or since the company’s contract for inorganic collection began. The amount of money found in the safe, the amount handed in to police and the identity of the safe’s owner were not disclosed to council. The safe’s owner had previously

declined to be interviewed by the Herald and police did not disclose the amount of cash handed in. Waste Management did not respond to request for comment, but national manager Monica Cadman had previously said the discovery was “acted on immediately”. Neither she nor police confirmed the amount, which the Herald understands could be as much as $30,000. At the time the discovery of the cash raised the legal question of whether “finders keepers” applies – or if the money should be returned to the absent-minded safe owner who threw it away. Barrister Marie Dyhrberg said in such cases it wasn’t as simple as “finders keepers”. Anyone who found and kept a large sum of cash or valuable objects could be subject to “theft by finding” if they did not hand it in to police. “Common sense would tell you no one would abandon [cash] and that’s an oversight.” Theft by finding means you cannot assume because you found something abandoned that it now belongs to you. - NZME

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Pero can’t afford to return $2.3m Mike Pero says he can’t afford to pay back the $2.3 million that he overpaid himself at the real estate business that bears his name. And the Christchurch-based entrepreneur has been given a reprieve by the High Court’s Justice Mary Peters, who recently put a halt on orders for him to return the funds. Pero is embroiled in a long running legal dispute with Mike Pero Mortgages, which he founded but no longer owns. Both, however, are co-owners of Mike Pero Real Estate. Pero is the chief executive of that nationwide real estate network and last year was found by the High Court to have given himself a pay rise without his coowner’s approval. The real estate boss, according to the court, increased his salary from $200,000 to $340,000 a year and also authorised an additional “brand ambassador” payment to himself of $125,000 per annum. Pero and another company he controls was ordered to pay back all money they received in excess of $200,000 a year. That was later calculated as being at $2.38m once accrued interest is taken into account. Pero and Mike Pero Mortgag-

Mike Pero has been granted a stay over enforcing $2.3m debt. es cannot agree how the debt should be repaid. Pero says that he doesn’t have the ability to pay back the amount right now. He says his only asset is his $12.5m worth of shares in Mike Pero Real Estate, which won’t agree to pay out a divided that would allow him to return the overpayment. Pero alleged that Mike Pero Mortgages won’t allow a dividend to be paid so it can acquire shares off him for less than they are worth. Pero has launched separate le-

gal action to determine whether or not a dividend should be paid and last month Justice Mary Peters agreed to put a stop on Mike Pero Mortgages’ ability to enforce its debt until that matter has been resolved. Any sale of Pero’s shares in the real estate firm would reduce his interest to less than 50 per cent and the judge accepted that it may be impossible to restore it if the separate action over the divided is successful. Justice Peters agreed to grant a stay over enforcing the debt until September this year. - NZME

Solo mum told benefit cut after she went on Tinder dates A solo South Auckland mum-ofthree whose benefit was cut was told it was because she had been on two Tinder dates. The unnamed woman said she told her case worker about the dates in order to be up front, Radio New Zealand reported. The man had paid for dinner and a movie, the woman said. Her case worker reportedly responded that that was considered a dependent relationship by Work and Income. The Ministry of Social Development has since apologised, saying the case manager had

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Match fracas an absolute disgrace T

here’s a dark side to everything and on Saturday at Hampstead rugby’s dark side reared its ugly head. And while we shouldn’t probably speculate on too many levels about exactly what transpired out there, unfortunately there’s no hiding from the fact that the display produced by individuals was a disgrace to the national game. Allegations of players being kicked in the head, referees being threatened and supporters and players engaging in physical fighting all came to light in the wake of the match. A disgusting piece of news for a region so proud in rugby history. We play rugby at a district level for the love of the game

and unfortunately Saturday afternoon’s behaviour has left a sour taste in the mouth of many that may have done irreparable damage to the image of the game. Parents are frightened to take their children to a game for fear of them witnessing something similar to what happened on Saturday. Fans are preferring to avoid standing on the sidelines for fear of embarrassment and

club stalwarts are hanging their heads in shame and wondering exactly where things went wrong and at what point did it become a step too far. And now the decisions must be made by the sport’s governing body in this district, the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union. Their task is somewhat of a double-edged sword. By taking extreme action in removing a team from the competition they impact on other teams who all of a sudden have a bye introduced into their competition and by banning players they leave another side in threat of not being able to field a team. Either way, something needs to be done to ensure such things don’t happen again. It’s a position most of us will

be happy we are not in. No one likes to see the game suffer due to some poor decisions by one group of individuals, but for the sake of the betterment of the game, it may be a tough call that has to be made. Probably the most impacted in the entire saga though were those charged with officiating the match – particularly the man in the middle of the paddock. No volunteer, in any sense of the term, should be subjected to the absolute rubbish that the referee on Saturday had to deal with. At a time when sports across the Mid Canterbury region are struggling to find new faces to officiate matches at all levels, the chances of bringing new

a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight US servicemen. In 1990, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. Ten years ago: The White House accused North Korea of assisting Syria’s secret nuclear programme, saying a Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel in 2007 was not intended for “peaceful purposes”. Five years ago: In Bangladesh, a shoddily constructed eight-storey commercial building housing

garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1100 people. One year ago: Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the US record for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump; the International Space Station’s commander surpassed the record of 534 days, two hours and 48 minutes for most accumulated time in space by an American. Today’s Birthdays: Movie director-producer Richard Donner is 88. Actress Shirley MacLaine is 84. Actress-singer-

director Barbra Streisand is 76. Country singer Richard Sterban (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 75. Rock musician Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 73. Rock singer-musician Rob Hyman is 68. Actor-playwright Eric Bogosian is 65. Actor Michael O’Keefe is 63. Rock musician David J (Bauhaus) is 61. Rock musician Billy Gould is 55. Actress Stacy Haiduk is 50. Rock musician Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors) is 50. Actor Aidan Gillen is 50. Actress Melinda Clarke is 49. Actor Rory McCann is 49.

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umpires, referees and match officials to the table in the wake of such situations isn’t going to help. In fact, it will only hinder. What is probably most disappointing about the weekend’s events however is that aside from that incident, there was some fantastic rugby being played in other parts of the region. Our senior teams are punching well in a tough combined competition and the remaining Senior B sides put on exciting and crowd-pleasing games of rugby. Yet, instead of focusing on that, we are staring down at the dark end of the barrel and sitting and waiting to see what the next steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again will be.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2018. There are 251 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 24, 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress. On this date: In 1792, Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle began composing War Song for the Rhine Army, later known as La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France. In 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South. In 1915, in what’s considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople. In 1916, some 1600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by British forces five days later.) In 1947, novelist Willa Cather died in New York at age 73. In 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1962, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, using NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite to bounce a video image from Camp Parks, California, to Westford, Massachusetts. In 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality. In 1970, the People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite, which kept transmitting a song, The East Is Red. In 1980, the United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran,

Rock musician Brian Marshall (Creed; Alter Bridge) is 45. Actor Derek Luke is 44. Actress Reagan Gomez is 38. Actor Austin Nichols is 38. Actress Sasha Barrese is 37. Singer Kelly Clarkson is 36. Rock singer-musician Tyson Ritter (The All-American Rejects) is 34. Actor Joe Keery is 26. Actor Jack Quaid is 26. Actor Doc Shaw is 26. Thought for Today: “Never practice what you preach. If you’re going to practice it, why preach it?” — Lincoln Steffens, American journalist-reformer (1866-1936)

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Gaps in land use data must be closed – Fed Farmers

he Our Land 2018 report, released this week by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ, has highlighted the impact of urban sprawl into agricultural land, loss of wetlands and emerging problems associated with soil compaction. Even Environment Minister David Parker said he was “particularly troubled” by how much urban and lifestyle block growth is occurring on irreplaceable, highly productive land. There was a 10 per cent increase in urban areas from 2002 to 2012 and the loss would be even more now with the pressure on housing in the past few years. In the words of the Minister, even in a country as lucky as New Zealand we only have limited quantities of these highclass soils for food production. There has been a 7 per cent reduction in land used for agriculture in the decade to 2012, with most lost to urban growth, forestry and farmers retiring land (though some of the latter is boosting biodiversity, as land returns to bush and/or is put under QEII covenant for permanent protection). The report notes a 42 per cent increase in the area of land used for dairying between 2002 and 2016, and a 20 per cent decrease in land used for sheep and beef. Keep in mind that international markets and Government policy and regulation encouraged and allowed for that, and the national economy has reaped the rewards. Some $35.4b in exported goods was earned from what we produced on the land in 2016. Farmers are putting large amounts of time and dollars into increasing the efficiency and lowering the environmental footprint of dairying. The National River Water Quality Trends by Land, Air, Water Aotearoa

If there was ever proof needed of the benefits the Ashburton Trust Event Centre has brought to the performing arts sector of our community over the past 10 years, the Big Little Theatre Company’s season of One Man Two Guvnors was surely it. There could not have been a more fitting way for us to kick

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(LAWA), also released this week, showed that many more sites are improving than deteriorating for all the river water quality parameters monitored over a 10-year period. New Zealand has naturally high rates of erosion, due to a combination of steep terrain, rock and soil types, and climate. Data analysis shows we are losing around 192 million tonnes of soil each year to erosion, 44 per cent of it from pasture land. Soil is the centre of everything farmers do on the land. Its loss to erosion or being covering with tarseal is something we as significant custodians of land get frustrated with. Most farmers are very aware of erosion and take action to reduce it. Ministry for the Environment Penny Nelson acknowledged at the report’s launch that three quarters of farmers actively manage fertiliser, and 60 per cent are working on soil compaction. While data from 11 regions show 33 per cent of sites tested had soil phosphorous levels that were too high, 83 per cent or more of tested sites were within target range for five of the seven key soil indicators (pH, total carbon, total nitrogen, mineralisable nitrogen, bulk density). The other indicator of concern is that 44 per cent of sites tested had low macroporosity levels. Healthy soil has been described as being like a sponge, full of holes that can absorb air and

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Email us! editor@theguardian. co.nz Facebook us! facebook.com/ ashguardian water. When it is compressed by vehicle and animal movements it can’t absorb water so easily, which makes it more drought prone and nutrients are more likely to run off into waterways. Federated Farmers is committed to supporting farmers to implement good management practices that will reduce erosion and help manage soil. We’ve welcomed the Our Land 2018 report as a useful tool for helping all farmers and other land users see what we need to continue to work on. It’s a good first attempt at putting together some analysis of our land use. But it is obviously lacking in significant data – the report admits this multiple times. Feds is extremely disappointed most of the data used has not been updated since the Environment Aotearoa report of 2015, which used 2012 data. What’s more, data is only

drawn from only 11 of New Zealand’s 17 regions. The other five regional councils either don’t monitor soil or didn’t supply their results, which could give us a skewed picture of what’s really happening. If we are serious about monitoring land use and its quality, we need to get our act together and fund the science appropriately. The fact that most of the data in this report is six years out of date is not acceptable or helpful. Chris Allen is Federated Farmers’ Environment Spokesperson 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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off our ten-year anniversary, than to host this remarkable theatre company. A local theatre company that has developed and grown alongside us over the past 10 years, training and nurturing a breeding ground of local talent capable of tackling some of the most challenging and demanding roles in theatre. One Man Two Guvnors was one such example where the cast, who range in age from

seven to seventeen, were challenged to perform what is essentially an adult comedy, with all the slap-stick humour and comical timing needed to capture the audience and carry them through two hours of comical misadventure. The standing ovations the cast received was a fitting tribute to how well they did and they can all feel justifiably proud of what they’ve achieved. To the production team, the

many parents who crew the performances and the incredible band, congratulations and thank you. You and the many other performance groups in our community is but one of the reasons we are here, the smiles and excited faces we see on stage each night is another. Here’s to another 10 years. Roger Farr, manager, Ashburton Trust Event Centre

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Power balance shifts Beijing has come a long way since it first landed a jet fighter aboard what was originally HMAS Melbourne in 1987. The former Australian aircraft carrier had been sold for scrap. But it proved a source of valuable technical intelligence for an ambitious Chinese military. China surprised the world again with the unveiling of its first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, in 2012. It had been bought from Ukraine in 1998. It was supposed to have been turned into a casino. Instead, it emerged as a fully armed and operational warship. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been experimenting with it ever since, developing a feel for the strengths and weaknesses of carrier warfare. Meanwhile, it’s been busy building another. Yesterday, tugboats were seen moving the ship from its wharf in preparation for its first independently powered foray at sea. This ship, so far known only as Type 001A (CV-17), is a reverse-engineered and somewhat modified version of the Soviet-built Liaoning. Its hull was launched at the Dalian Shipyard in April last year. It’s since been undergoing fit-out. It has also been subject to a series of harbourside tests and trials. The ship is believed to be

Survivor’s lucky escape The first contestant eliminated from Survivor New Zealand season two says she made a “lucky escape” from the show, realising she was not cut out for a season of blindsides. Josefien (Jose), the youngest female contestant on the show at 23, was voted out of her tribe Chani in a surprise elimination. Reflecting on her early elimination, Jose says she has since heard that the game becomes even more brutal following her exit. “What I’ve heard is (that) I’m the tip of the iceberg, in terms of drama and feelings getting hurt,” she says. “I don’t think I have it in me to be that. I’m not a sneaky person. I didn’t realise until I got voted off that that is the operative facet of this game.”

China’s Type 001A aircraft carrier. headed towards a designated testing zone in the Bohai Sea, which has been declared a ‘no go zone’ until April 28. “The first sea trials of China’s second aircraft carrier, built at the Dalian shipyard, are likely to take place in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea to test its power and design,” Song Zhongping, a military

expert and TV commentator, told the state-operated Global Times. It’s an event that has military analysts in Japan, all of South East Asia, India, the United States – and Australia – sitting up and taking notice. It means China now has two armed and operational aircraft carriers capable of projecting

firepower far beyond its borders. It’s an event that further changes the balance of power in its favour. Meanwhile, Beijing’s building two more. Work on aircraft carrier Type 002 resumed in May last year. It’s also believed first metal was cut for the construction of Type 003 in December. - AP

Karadzic trying to quash genocide conviction Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be taking the courtroom floor again when he contests his conviction for genocide and a 40-year prison sentence before UN appeals judges.

Karadzic was convicted in 2016 for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia broke apart, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Now 72, Karadzic was found

guilty on 10 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia he oversaw as the president of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic.

He has filed 50 grounds of appeal in an effort to overturn his conviction and sentence. Acting as his own lawyer, he has asked for the entire judgement to be reversed and for a “new and fair trial”. - AP

Kiwi ﬁlm impresses Whoopi Iconic entertainer Whoopi Goldberg has heaped praise upon an animated Kiwi short film playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. “I loved this film,” exclaimed the Oscar-winner following a screening of Fire In Cardboard City, written by Matt Heath and directed by Phil Brough. The Kiwi film, which was eight years in the making, screened in the animated shorts programme at the prestigious New York film festival over the weekend. “This made me laugh!” Goldberg went on to say during a Q&A session with the film’s director, Phil Brough, who attended the festival. As curator of the animated shorts programme, Goldberg personally selected Fire In Cardboard City for inclusion in the festival.

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Inquiry will cost ANZ $53m ANZ’s dealings with the Australian banking royal commission will cost it about $A50 million ($53.3m) this year, the bank has revealed. The bank has reported it spent $A16m on legal and other costs associated with the royal commission in the first half of the year and flagged a $50m hit for the full year. In a report released ahead of its May 1 half-year results, ANZ said it was unable to predict the outcome of the inquiry or what impact it would have on its own business or the broader financial industry. Set up in the final days of 2017, following mounting and ultimately public pressure, ANZ was among the first of Australia’s biggest financial institutions to endure a torrid time at the hands of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne QC. In the first week the commission heard that since 2008, ANZ customers have been refunded about $A220m over a string of issues, including $A90m to customers charged the wrong interest rate on their home loans.

The inquiry also heard ANZ stood by its decision to give a 30year loan to a 71-year-old pensioner who cannot afford the repayments. The executive responsible for ANZ’s $A265 billion home loan portfolio, William Ranken, said the decision was in line with

the bank’s procedures, and that checking customers’ expenses on every application would be complex and expensive. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne QC said that appeared to be a compromise between administrative convenience and obeying the law.

“That’s a very awkward tradeoff if that’s the way it’s seen,” Commissioner Hayne said in March. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott was the first CEO of the big four lenders – Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, National Australia Bank – to publicly back a royal commission, which the federal government finally called at the behest of the quartet. Elliott said he hoped the royal commission would serve as a watershed moment that would restore the trust of customers and the community. Meanwhile, in New Zealand the financial sector watchdog says it is in talks with Australia’s major banks and financial services firms about the implications for their New Zealand arms in the wake of Australia’s banking inquiry which has exposed a series of scandals. The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry will head into its second week of hearings in Australia this week, probing issues around financial advice. Last week’s hearings saw the

inquiry claim its first scalp after AMP chief executive Craig Meller resigned on Friday and the company issued an apology after revelations that it had charged people for advice they never received. Earlier in the week the inquiry heard that advisers from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the parent of ASB bank, charged dead clients for financial advice – in one case for a decade. ANZ, Westpac and National Australia Bank, which owns BNZ, are due to appear this week to face allegations about inappropriate financial advice and improper conduct. Hayne is due to produce an interim report on the inquiry by September which could have major implications for New Zealand, where the major banks are all Australian-owned, and financial services company AMP also has a strong presence. A spokesman for the Financial Markets Authority said it was monitoring the developments at the Royal Commission closely and was in close contact with the Australian regulator ASIC. - NZME

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Technology at Jucy’s Queenstown hotel will enable visitors to self check using a terminal in the lobby or a smartphone app which could also be used to unlock rooms.

Jucy opens ‘pod hotel’ in Queenstown Car rental and tourism operator Jucy has opened a “pod hotel” in Queenstown aimed at millennial travellers in a city feeling the squeeze from the tourism boom. Jucy said the five-storey, 276bed hotel was expected to provide relief from a worsening shortage of accommodation in the region. Chief executive Tim Alpe said the latest government figures showed the town’s rapid tourism growth was accelerating. “At its current rate of growth, Queenstown will receive three quarters of a million tourists in just over a year’s time – more than a fifth of the total number of visitors to New Zealand annually,” Alpe said. “In February this year, hotel occupancy rates in the area were at

94 per cent and supply shortages have led to price increases. The last thing we want to see is this impacting on the country’s reputation among international tourists,” he said. “The expansion of Jucy Snooze into Queenstown is designed to meet the needs of the millennial traveller – who are particularly vocal on social media, and our new offering is expected to help provide support for the tourism brand.” Rooms accommodate eight travellers in a “bunk room” style configuration, with guests able to make private, individual sleeping spaces by closing blinds. The new accommodation would be a mixture of pods and private rooms with en suites.

Technology would enable visitors to self check using a terminal in the lobby or a smartphone app which could also be used to unlock rooms, which also had USB chargers, free Wi-Fi and storage lockers. Most of the pod units would be priced from $45 with private rooms starting at $130 during the high season, and rates reduced for off-peak travellers. “We believe the pod hotel concept will offer a low-cost alternative for the budget tourist, whether it’s a backpacker or a couple,” Alpe said. The company launched the micro accommodation concept first in Christchurch and also operates the Jucy Snooze brand in Auckland. - NZME

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7,368.2

+39.25

+0.54%

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22,088.04 –74.20 –0.33%

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17.11

–0.08

–0.47%

–3.0

–0.04%

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6,939.0

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NZ irrigation advanced: expert New Zealand’s irrigation systems compare favourably to those in California, an international water management expert told Irrigation New Zealand’s annual conference in Cromwell last week. Dr Stuart Styles, from the Irrigation Training and Research Centre at California Polytechnic State University, recently toured New Zealand looking at how irrigation systems here compare to those in California. He saw a lot of similarity between the two places. “New Zealand has very modernised irrigation systems and even had some features I haven’t seen in California,” he said. “Both areas use automated systems. One area where New Zealand is more advanced than California is in the use of water ordering and billing, where the systems are more integrated.” Styles said there was opportunity for New Zealand to modernise more systems by replacing open races with piped systems. In California, growers had also experimented with their fertiliser management to obtain improved crop yields, which he said New Zealand could learn from. Spray irrigation was the predominant type of system in New Zealand, whereas in California surface irrigation, a less efficient system, is used on 43 per cent of irrigated land. Overall Styles concluded that irrigation systems and practices in New Zealand were at the upper end of the performance spectrum. The conference also featured a panel debate on the importance of water and the future of irrigation. The debate, which included Nuffield Scholar and South Canterbury farmer Ryan O’Sullivan, ANZ rural economist Con Williams, Pamu Farms (Landcorp)

An integral part of the Irrigation New Zealand 2018 conference was the expo that featured a range of products and services designed to improve production and irrigation efficiency. PHOTO SUPPLIED environment head Dr Alison Dewes, Pioneer Energy chief executive Fraser Jonker, University of Otago law professor Jacinta Ruru and Central Otago mayor Tim Cadogan, covered a range of topics and featured a variety of views. Following up on the government’s recent announcement that a number of irrigation schemes won’t be able to access loan funding, Williams said that long-term certainty around water policy was important for farmers to make future investment decisions. Dewes supported the government’s decision, saying that New Zealand needed a new strategy as

mass land changes had occurred in the past 20 years, which required significant amounts of water. “This has spill over effects and we need to pull back and think about this.” However, she saw positives in that there was acceptance among farmers that problems did exist, and that good science was available to provide guidance. O’Sullivan, a dairy farmer, said that both nutrient discharge issues and allocation issues needed to be dealt with at a catchment level, as there was so much variety catchment to catchment in the issues being dealt with. Cadogan agreed, referencing a

Central Otago river used for irrigation. “Manuherikia must be solved by people in our district not out of Wellington. One size won’t fit all but that’s what will come out of Wellington.” A water tax was also discussed, with Ruru saying that once a value was placed on water, water would become property and the government would have to address what Maori rights and interests in water were. Williams said that a water tax would be expensive to collect, however a tradeable system could work, but a better approach would be tax the externality (pollution).

The panel agreed that an increased focus on environmental requirements meant that farming and irrigation were becoming more sustainable. In opening the conference, Irrigation New Zealand chairwoman Nicky Hyslop noted that in recent years there has been a far greater understanding of the impact irrigation and land use has on the environment, and irrigators and schemes up and down the country were working with communities to improve water quality. She said farm environment plans and investment in new irrigation schemes were helping reduce environmental impacts.

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Groups welcome climate change appointments DairyNZ Chief Executive Tim Mackle has welcomed the announcement of the members of the Interim Climate Change Committee. “Establishing the Interim Committee is an important step for New Zealand towards becoming a net zero emissions economy,” Mackle said. “DairyNZ supports the formation of this committee and the important work they will undertake for New Zealand. “It is wonderful to see Dr Jan Wright has been included in the interim committee. Her work as the former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment formed the basis for much of the government’s climate change policy. The dairy sector supported her suggestions, in her previous role, on how best to achieve New Zealand’s climate change commitments. “There is need for a strong understanding of each of New Zealand’s major sectors – especially across the transport and agricultural sectors who are the

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Federated Farmers climate change spokesman Andrew Hoggard two largest emitters. Both Harry Clark and Suzi Kerr have important agricultural experience which will be necessary to this role. “I am concerned however by the omission of a member with actual farm knowledge. This understanding and experience is vital in order to understand how different mitigations impact on the farm system.

“The expertise present across the members of the interim committee will ensure the best decisions are in place to move New Zealand’s economy towards a low emission future.” The interim committee will consider agriculture’s role in meeting New Zealand’s greenhouse reduction targets and whether agricultural methane and nitrous oxide emissions should face a price in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. “DairyNZ is committed to assisting our levy payers do their part to address on farm emissions,” Mackle said. “The dairy industry must do its part alongside the wider economy to reduce and offset New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions.” Federated Farmers also welcomed the appointments, saying it believed the make-up of the interim committee puts some significant scientific thinking on the case. “This should mean we can figure out once and for all just what

the obligations are that New Zealand has to meet, not just for agriculture, but for all of us. “We are all emitters,” Federated Farmers climate change spokesman Andrew Hoggard said. Feds believes the committee members have a good mix of skill sets between them. “They all know their stuff. “And a couple of them are very familiar with agribusiness and the challenges faced every day by farmers, especially given the limited range of tools available to reduce emissions.” The committee has a comprehensive terms of reference to follow and it does not suggest the inclusion of agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme will be a forgone conclusion. Feds was also pleased to see the committee has been given a longer length of time to report back, not until next April. “This is not something we should be pushing to get done within an unrealistic timeframe.”

Arable award nominations open The Federated Farmers’ Arable Industry Group is taking nominations from members for this year’s Arable Farmer of the Year and Biosecurity Farmer of the Year. The Arable Farmer of the Year award is designed to recognise a Feds member who balances production requirements against environmental, sustainability and other compliance requirements, while the biosecurity award looks to recognise someone who has demonstrated intuition and motivation in addressing the potential risks posed by pests, weeds and diseases to businesses and livelihoods. The award aims to promote and reward excellence in on-farm biosecurity practices in the arable industry. The winners of the awards will be announced at the Federated Farmers Arable Industry Group conference in Timaru on June 6. To nominate someone or for more information, contact Philippa Rawlinson (prawlinson@fedfarm.org.nz or 021512971). Closing date for nominations is May 25, 2018. Last year’s arable farmer of the year was Wakanui’s Eric Watson, while the biosecurity award was won by Karen Williams from Wairarapa.

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Farm gate price watch …

for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural 23-Apr-18 current price range Saleyard prices … u LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 70 - 94 Prime 99 - 135 u HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 267 -279 u STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 270- 283 This week

Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 109.37 17.5 kg YX SI 122.69 19.0 kg YX SI 132.69 21.0 kg YX SI 146.01 Local trade (c/kg) SI 710 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 105.24 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 498 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 370 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 465 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 550 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 545 AP Stag 60kg SI 660 AP Stag 80kg SI 880

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Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 361 350 350 Wheat, feed 376 370 360 Barley, feed 377 380 370

Source: Midlands Grain 333 350 300 302 370 280 307 380 290

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MARKET REPORT Labour, when it was last in Government, had firmly signalled that agriculture were going to be required to meet their share of the cost of meeting the nations greenhouse gas emissions obligations. Under National a period of grace was bought. However, it has only been a matter of time before focus is brought back to bear on the sector that emits nearly 50 per cent of New Zealand’s emissions. At the Paris Accord (December 2015) New Zealand agreed to reducing 2030 net emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels. Given levels have increased by 23 per cent since 1990 this is not going to be easy and if the largest emitting sector with 49 per cent is left out then reaching this target is doomed from the beginning. To this end, Climate Change Minister James Shaw has announced the members of a climate change committee and asked them to look at how to get agricultural emissions down. The good news (is this good news?) is that any liabilities will be held to 5 per cent within this term of Government. The high-powered group are asked to look at “the full range of feasible options for including agriculture in the NZ ETS”. However, Shaw said “there was a live possibility that agriculture would not enter the ETS – but if it did not there would be a question of what to do instead”. Per head of capita New Zealanders sit at 23rd of 188 nations on 16.62 metric tonnes of CO2e. The much-criticised China is 8.49 and India 2.28. The World average per capita is 6.27. However, if livestock is brought into the CO2e liability equation, then for some farmers with diverse land forms (steeper country) there is a profit opportunity from the returns to be made from harvesting carbon from planting trees. This may more than offset the CO2e from livestock and even show a profit, at least for some time. Pine trees have been shown to be able to capture CO2e for up to 50 years pushing out the reckoning period beyond most people’s planning horizons. Currently New Zealand is the only country seriously considering applying GHG liabilities to livestock.

Sheep

Sheep prices have held up well through the autumn and despite having had the first cold spell of the season, which has drawn out more lambs, saleyard prices are still sound. Processors schedules are reflecting this and contracts for the April to June period are considerably above the current advertised prices, which mean solid prices will continue to be paid into winter.

Wool

Wool prices had a welcome lift at the latest Christchurch sale held last week with clean coarse crossbred ewe fleece averaging around $320 a kilogram and finer crossbred wool at approximately $349. Lambs wool also held well although more falling into the coarser end and overall crossbred lambs averaged around $4.27 per kilogram.

Beef

Prime grades have held at last schedule week’s levels, however, bull and cow grades have come back by between 10-15 cents per kg at most plants. In New Zealand’s largest beef market, the USA, beef production forecast for first-half 2018 was reduced on an expected slower pace of feedlot cattle slaughter and lighter cattle weights. However, a catch-up is expected in the second half of 2018 with more feedlot cattle will be slaughtered and at heavier weights. Overall, the annual beef production forecast for 2018 have been pared back slightly on previous predictions. China, which is having increasingly greater importance for beef is experiencing a slight softening in demand.

Deer

Venison prices are still holding at the previous weeks high level. Numbers of deer coming forward are declining and due to bottom out in the June-July period before starting to build up again. So, prices are unlikely to drop until the supply of animals starts to pick up again.

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In case you missed it last week, Fonterra has seen sense, perhaps as a result of the criticism it has received more recently from Small Business Minister Stuart Nash, and for smaller service providers has reintroduced faster payment terms which will apply to suppliers that provide Fonterra with up to $300,000 of goods or services each year. Up to 4000 businesses are said to be affected. However, for the larger businesses the previous arrangements will still apply. Rob Spurway, Fonterra’s chief operating officer of global business is reported to have said some medium-sized suppliers would stay on the older payment terms explaining it “had to draw the line somewhere”, while most big suppliers are understood to have negotiated bespoke arrangements. The new arrangements are said to be introduced on August 1 this year.

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Our second Anzac Day 1917 BY BRIAN W. PRITCHARD

ebruary, 1917, and the matter of commemorating Anzac Day again raised its head. The government indicated that proceedings should be similar to the previous year. However, at the end of February the government also declared that municipal elections were scheduled for April 25. As these couldn’t be moved Anzac celebrations would fall two days earlier. Confusion reigned. The Returned Soldiers’ Associations were outraged. Already the day, date and commemoration had become an inviolate trinity. Public meetings of protest were held. The government was ignored. The Ashburton Borough Council received the government’s date change at its March 29 meeting. Its response was succinct: “It was decided to celebrate ‘Anzac Day’ on April 25.” The county council concurred. Mayor Robert Galbraith was to arrange a patriotic gathering. A united religious service and address at the domain pavilion at 2.30pm, preceded by a procession, was duly advertised. Ashburton Guardian readers undoubtedly noted that the procession would be under Lieutenant Colonel E. B. Milton, Commanding Officer of the 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles, in which Ashburton’s soldiers were included. Participants The participating groups – eight were involved – included soldiers on leave from expeditionary forces and training camps, the fire brigade and discharged returned soldiers, who were granted permission to wear uniform. It was hoped all ranks would “readily comply with the orders issued, so as to make the procession as imposing as the occasion demands”. The list of participants suggests Anzac Day had taken on a more military slant. A year prior, the parade was a more civic affair, with the parade simply a convenient way of tidily manoeuvring a diverse body of men. Now, only an orderly, disciplined and polished parade was worthy of the sacrifice of the fallen. It was a tribute in its own right. That Milton delivered the prin-

1. A young girl waves a ﬂag during an Anzac Day parade progressing along East Street towards the Ashburton Domain. 2. An advertisement from the Ashburton Guardian advertising the second Anzac day parade in 1917. 3. Anzac Day Parade progressing along East Street towards the domain, 1917. Lieutenant-Colonel Milton and Lieutenant Grut leading, followed by men of the 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Riﬂes. 4. Mayor Galbriath with soldiers on Anzac Day, 1917.

cipal address also contrasted with the civilian guest speaker of the previous year and maintained a link between parade and service. Perhaps aware of the seeming imbalance, Galbraith issued a generously-sized advertisement and invited all returned soldiers to a luncheon at the Farmers’ Tea Rooms immediately after the ceremony. Despite large numbers again coming from the country, the 1000 or so at the domain was far fewer than previously. The religious service now came first, allowing the speeches to proceed uninterrupted. Galbraith himself struck a positive note. He hoped the war “would soon be over” and expressed pleasure that so many “Anzac boys” were present. Milton looked back. Grimly recalling the Anzac landing, he declared the day would go down as “one of glorious memory”. The service over, Anzac Day,

1917, became a day of contrasts. As well as the luncheon, there was a concert, where individual experiences of Gallipoli were recalled, and with a musical programme, Anzac Day took on an informal note. There was also a special evening Anzac Day service at St Stephen’s Church for the unveiling of a roll of honour of church members killed in action. Significantly, the 17 names included men fallen at the Western Front as well as on Gallipoli. For the first time it seems a local Anzac Day commemoration, even if small compared with the afternoon’s event, recognised another substantial involvement of New Zealanders in the war – the third Somme offensive. Launched in September, 1916, within a few weeks casualties there were little short of the numbers lost in the entire Dardanelles campaign. Milton’s speech gave no hint of actions after the Gallipoli landing, but in this service the “glorious memory” was being enlarged. Anzac Day, 1916, was Gallipoli Day. Anzac Day, 1917, was Gallipoli and Western Front Day. Those remembered in 1916 surely would have welcomed a commemoration shared with those who followed. Anzac Days still far ahead would further this broadening involvement. Lest We Forget.

Honouring the Fallen The Ashburton Museum, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains, has erected in front of the museum one of the original Ferriman flagpoles, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. This week the Ashburton Museum honours: April 28: Robert COCHRANE, Arthur HOLE April 30: Norman PUGH

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RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA playoffs Collated results from the National Basketball Association opening-round playoffs yesterday (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference at Milwaukee Milwaukee Bucks 104 Boston Celtics 102 (Milwaukee Bucks 2 Boston Celtics 2) At Washington Washington Wizards 106 Toronto Raptors 98 (Washington Wizards 2 Toronto Raptors 2) At Indianapolis Cleveland Cavaliers 104 Indiana Pacers 100 (Indiana Pacers 2 Cleveland Cavaliers 2) Western Conference at San Antonio San Antonio Spurs 103 Golden State Warriors 90 (Golden State Warriors leads series 3-1)

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club April 16 Flaxmere & King Trophies N/S 1st Bruce Leighton & Fiona Williamson, 2nd Mervyn Jones & Joyce Johnson, 3rd Hilda Blee & Ann Gilbert E/W 1st Margaret Bean & Dee Murdoch, 2nd Lynette Adams & David McCormick, 3rd Sheila Lyons & Bev Blair April 17 Robinson Salver N/S 1st Trish Downward & Alan Wright, 2nd Kay Robb & John Fechney, 3rd Rewa Kyle & Judith Edmond E/W 1st Maureen Kolkman & Beth McIlraith , 2nd Bev Turton & Rona Brownlie, 3rd Linda Baker & Mike Holmes April 18 Valetta Trophy N/S 1st Paul & Pauline Fergus, 2nd David Sewell & John Fechney, 3rd Trish Downward & Rewa Kyle E/W 1st Ann Gilbert & Shirley Harris, 2nd Bev Turton & Rona Brownlie, 3rd Mary Buckland & Trish Small April 19 Mary Mulligan Trophy N/S 1st Mary Buckland & John Knight, 2nd Val Ferrier & Trish Downward, 3rd Martin de Jong & Rosemary McLaughlin E/W 1st Kay Robb & Pauline Fergus, 2nd Gladys Baker & Jan McClelland, 3rd Gordon McCormick & David Sewell

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers April 21 30 riders, 16km 1st Ethan Titheridge CT.29.57. HT. 4.415m. RT. 25m 42s. 2nd Richard Kirwan CT.29.58. HT.6.15m. RT. 23m 43s. F/T. 3rd Michael Gallagher CT.29.58. HT. 6.15. RT. 23m 43s. 2f/t. 4th Ross Templeton CT. 29.58. HT.6.15. RT. 23m 43s. 3f/t. 5th Rob Hooper CT.29.59. HT.6.15m. RT. 23m 44s. 4f/t. 6th Paul Summerfield CT. 29.50. HT.4.00m. RT. 25m 50s. 7th Matt Marshall CT.30.00. HT. 6.15m. RT. 23m 45s. 8th Kristine Marriott CT.30.00. HT. 6.15m. RT. 23m 45s. 9th

Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Shona Proctor CT.30.01. HT. 4.00m RT.26m 01s. 10th Andrew Shepherd CT.30.01. HT. 4.00m. RT. 26m 01s. 11th Matthew Clough CT.30.02. HT.6.15m. RT. 23m 47s. 12th Bruce McClelland CT.30.51. HT.4.00m. RT.26m 51s. 13th. Don Morrison CT.30.52, HT.4.00m. RT.26m 52s. 14th Pam Harcourt CT.30.52. HT.4.00m. RT.26m 52s. 15th Kerry Clough CT.30.53. HT.2.00m. RT. 28m 53s. 16th Shane Gerken CT.30.53. HT. 4.00m. RT. 26m 53s. 17th Dave Shurrock CT30.53. HT. 2m. RT.28m 53s. 18th Doug Coley CT. 30.54. HT. 2.00m. RT. 28m 53s. 19th Brian Ellis CT. 30.55. HT. Go. RT. 30m 55s. 20th Nigel Chatterton CT. 30.56. HT. 2.00m. RT. 28m 56s. 21st Michael Templeton CT./ 30.58. HT.6.35m. RT. 24m 23s. 22nd Tony Ward CT. 30.58. Ht. 6.35m. RT. 24m 23s. 23rd. Paul Houston CT. 31.33. HT. Go. RT.31m 33s. 24th. Liz Wylie CT. 31.47. HT. Go. RT. 31m 47s. 25th Janette Hooper CT.31.49. HT. Go. RT. 31m 49s. 26th. Ross Proctor CT.31.50. HT, 2.00m. RT. 29m 50s. 27th. Lucy Kirwan CT. 32.19. HT. 2.00m. RT, 30m 19s. 28th. Colin Teahen CT.33.41. HT.4.00m. RT. 29m 41s. 29th. Don Sutton CT.33.42. HT. 4.15s. RT. 29m 27s. 30th. Brent Hudson CT.33.42. HT. 2.00m. RT. 31m 42s.

■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets April 20 June Withell Trophy played at Ashburton 1st Joyce VanderHeide Net 67, 2nd Jane Helmore 68, 3rd June Bruhns 69, 4th Jillian Lake 70 on C/B from Jan McArthur. Nearest Pin No 8 Jane Helmore, 2nd Shot on 12 Maree Moore Two (2) Joyce VanderHeide 9 Hole Players Barbara Irvine Net 36

Ashburton County District Veterans Golf Association McPherson Shield played at Tinwald Golf Club Winner of McPherson Shield B. Goodrich 70 net Grade Winners 0—19 R. Harris and C. Alexander 73 20—27 M. Fechney 72 D. Osborne 76 28+ R. Putze and J. Harris 72 Two’s: R. Putze and G. Munro

Ashburton Golf Club April 21 The Radius Care Players of the Day and winner of the Murray Webb Salver: Phil Kerr and Jamie Stone nett 56. Other winning 4 Ball scores were: Tong King & Peter Morgan 61; Gavin Douglas & Andrew Tindall 62: Charlie Alexander & Noel Sutton, Barry Jury & John Fechney, Chris Robertson & Peter Walker, Ken Clucas & Paul May all 63. The cutoff score for the match play was nett 67. Twos: Brent MacGregor, Barry Jury, Jordan Bird, Kirk Schimanski, Robbie Bell, Gavin Douglas and Paul May. Nearest The Pins: South Island Seeds: Barry Jury; Rothbury Insurance Barry Jury; Allenton Meat Centre: Paddy Bradford; Braided Rivers: Jordan Green; Charming Thai Longest Putt: Mike Smith; The Stables Family Restaurant Lucky Draw: Paddy Bradford. Birdie Jackpot: #18; Nett Eagles: #7

Nine Hole Results First in the Stableford competition was Hughie Murchie with 21pts. Other winning scores were: Gordon Clinton and Mike Smith 18pts, Mel Trewavas and Andrew Teale 17pts.

Mayfield Golf Club April 19 9 Hole Division 3rd Handicap & Putting 1st Bernie Morrison 14 Putts; 2nd John Greenslade 15 Putts Greg Sim Building & Excavating 2nd Shot No 2: John Greenslade Mayfield Transport No 5: Jacinta Schmack April 21 Bisque Parr winners Jack Allan 10 up; Wayne Vessey, Roger Lake, Arnold Rushton 6 up; Bill Allan, Charlie Rapsey, Ian Beach 5 up Player of day: Jack Allan who shot his age 74 off the stick great score 74/11/63

Methven Golf Club April 18 Ladies Division L.G.U. Silver: Jenny Senior 91-15-76, Tania Wilson 95-18-77 Bronze A: Sally Jones 99-26-73, Jane Helmore 97-23-74 Bronze B: Bev Isherwood 109-33-76, Sandra Marr 105-29-78 3rd Tuis Trophy Sally Jones 36 1st Gwen Cook Sally Jones 99-26-73 Aqua Japanese Restaurant Best Nett of the day Sally Jones 73 Nearest the Pin: #6 Silver Methven Pharmacy: Jenny Senior #17 Bronze A Arabica: Jan Lane # 4 Bronze B Cinema Paradiso: Sandra Marr #13 Open Methven Foursquare: Gail Limbrick #14 2nd Shot (Sil-BrA) Supervalue: Gayle O’Duffy #17 Sat Ladies Methven Travel: Sally Jones Two’s and net Eagles: Pam Watson, Sandra Marr, Gayle O’Duffy, Jane Helmore, Robyn Maw, Bev Isherwood. April 21 Men’s Division Second round of the Duff trophy, stroke round Senior: Logan Middlemass 74-6-68. Intermediate: Rod Carson 81-16-65. Junior A: Jim Rooney 90-23-67. Junior B: Allan Lock 95-24-71. Other Good Scores: 67 Phil Elliott. 68 Stuart Wilson. 69 Ben Rutter, Gavin Santy, Ken Cowles. 70 Frank Sandys, Ian Lucas. 71 Craig Middleton, Jim Lattimore, Alister Maxwell, Graham Gunn. 72 John McGettigan, Phil Johnson. 73 Grant Goodwin, Allen Smith, Les Linton. Two’s: Michael Kemp, Alister Maxwell, Neil Hessen. Dubliner Best Nett: Rod Carson 65. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Jim Rooney 67 by lot. Methven Travel Best Gross: Logan Middlemass 74. Closest to Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Keith Middleton. Hunters Wine No 6 Jim Lattimore. Ski Time No 13: Ross Breach. Green Parrot No 17: Frank Sandys. Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Gavin Santy. Next Week: 28th April: 3rd Round Duff Trophy, 1st Round Middleton Trophy. R.S.A Trophy.

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April 18 Ladies Division Thomas Trophy - Harrison Trophy Aotearoa Cup – Coronation Medal- Best Nett Teresa Booker 93 – 19 – 74 - 33 Stablefords; Sally Smith 102 – 27 – 75 – 33 Stablefords 9 Hole Val Bell 51 – 16 – 35 Railway Hotel 2nd Shot No 3 – Sue Martin, Rakaia Seed cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 – Freda Bierema, Val Bell Nearest the Pin No 8 – Sally Smith, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 – Judy Moore, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 – Sandra Quinn

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Tinwald Golf Club April 21 Stroke Leading scores in the stroke round played on Saturday; -18: Steve Kircher 69, Cameron Miller 70 b/l Brent Holmes 70. 19 plus: Kerry Whiting 69, Arthur Pawsey 71 b/l. Women: Maree Moore 75. Nancy McCormick foursome; Christine Kinita and Belinda Kirdy 152. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Gordy Kenton. Gluyas Ford # 6; Maxine Whiting. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Neil Connelly. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Robin Simms. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Brent Holmes. Two’s; Steve Kircher, Isaak McDonald, Paul Hefford, Robin Simms, Brent Smith, Leo Johnston. Net eagle; # 7 not struck. Winning pairs in the Findlay Cup were Rod Harris and Leo Johnston, Richard Thompson and Lindsay Jackson, Brent and Wayne Smith, Terry Reynolds and Steve Anderson, Steve McCloy and Brian Rouse, Clarrie Whiting and Robin Simms, Dave Allan and Murray Beach, Gordon Rennie and Roger Bruce.

HUGEL JTBC LA Open Final round scores from LPGA Tour event, the HUGEL-JTBC LA Open yesterday (par71). 272: Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 68 66 70 68274: Park Inbee (KOR) 66 71 69 68, Ko Jin Young (KOR) 71 67 66 70277: Ryu So Yeon (KOR) 71 65 73 68278: Ji Eun-Hee (KOR) 68 69 70 71, Emma Talley (USA) 68 72 71 67279: Minjee Lee (AUS) 69 73 66 71, Morgan Pressel (USA) 71 68 73 67280: Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong (THA) 70 72 69 69281: Caroline Inglis (USA) 68 71 69 73, Pernilla Lindberg (SWE) 68 76 66 71282 Also: Lydia Ko (NZL) 70 75 72 69

■ Pigeon racing Ashburton Pigeon Club This week we had 2 races from Kekerangu The first race was our flock race, 6 flyers sent 156 birds 1st M Davidson 1338.408 mpm, 2nd L Davidson 1337.980, 3rd B&G Kirwan 1336.735, 4th N Martin 1325.242, 5th T Drummond 1324.857, 6th D Lensley 1281.338 The second race was the second leg of the Tripple Crown, 5 flyers sent 10 birds 1st B&G Kirwan 1335.268 mpm, 2nd L Davidson 1329.998, 3rd B&G Kirwan 1299.510, 4th M Davidson 1289.087, 5th D Lensley 1256.473, 6th T Drummond 1214.350, 7th T Drummond 1212.375, 8th M

Mid Canterbury Rugby Division 1 Section A Saracens 27 Ashburton Celtic 5; Ashley 28 Waihora 68; Ohoka 49 West Melton 26; Southbridge 32 Lincoln 30; Hampstead Devon Tavern Seniors 25 BDI Seniors 46 Section B: Railway Tavern Rakaia 64 Hornby 5; Methven Wareings 24 Kaiapoi 31; Stu Tarbotton Contracting LTD 36 Hurunui 31; Rolleston 13 Prebbleton 27; Darfield 38 Oxford 18 Senior B: Section A: Methven 46 Allenton 12; Rakaia 48 Mt Somers 32; Southern Wholesale Seeds 52 Ashburton Celtic 24; Hampstead 4 Collegiate 22 Colts Section A: Prebbleton 20 Lincoln Rugby Club 13: Colts Ashley 26 Waihora 27; Darfield Colts 41 Oxford 7; Celtic Colts 18 Springston 19 For the complete schedule of times, venues, referees etc for all grades, go to: http://www.midcanterburyrugby.co.nz/ draws-results/results-1

■ Squash Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s winter league competition: Ed Harrison lost to Jock O’Connor 0-3, Phil Andrew lost to Craig Donaldson 1-3, Kirsty Clay lost to Shane Muckle 0-3, Riley Wilson beat Rob Giles 3-1, Rebecca McCloy lost to Chrissie Stratford 1-3. Nick Marshall beat Ben Kruger 3-0, Adam Clement beat Lawrence McCormick 3-0, Pete Blacklow lost to Ian Dolden 2-3, Rebecca Abernethy lost to James Bowker 0-3, Tim Kuipers lost to Mike Keen 1-3, Kyla Clement lost to Sarah Hayman 1-3. Kevin Milne beat Billy Nolan 3-1, Adam Clement lost to Mick Hooper 1-3, Julie Smith beat Jordan Hooper 3-2, Brendan Clark beat Melissa Wilson 3-1, Hamish Trott beat Robbie Kok 3-0, Sam Kuipers beat Jane Kingan 3-0. Jimmy Hunn beat Harry Stanway 3-2, Ron Carlson lost to Nathan Forbes 0-3, Rob Giles beat Reece Wallington 3-1, Charlotte Smith beat Jan Lee 3-1.

■ Shooting Mt Somers Rifle Club Naomi Waghorn 73.1, 81, Marcus Juffer 70, 77, Kelsey Jacobson 76, Ben Shannon 89, Jess Heaven 85, 85.2, Nic Ewart 85.1, 79, Harry Redmond 91.4, 77, Stephen Millichamp 93.3, 94.3, Wayne Tubb 94.4, Dave Millichamp 92.2, 94.3, Andrew Oram 97.4, 95.2, Mark Smith 90.1, 93.2, Eddie Millichamp 89.1, 90, Brendon Ridgen 93.1, 90.1.

Mayfield Rifle Club Robert Spencer Jnr 92.2, 91.2, Fernando Torres 94.6, Steph Dechecchi 79.1, Daniel Gould 76, Isobel Spencer 67.1, Martin Fleming 99.7, Ben Nordqvist 94.4, Hamish Dalzell 93.2, 98.4, Andrew Donaldson 95.5, Brian Hawksby 93.3, John Fleming 96.4, Carl Nordqvist 99.6.

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Lino up to the task By Christopher reive Mason Lino may have had limited opportunities to perform in first-grade, but when they’ve come he’s stepped up in a big way. With two wins in two appearances in the Warriors’ 2018 campaign, there’s no question he’s up to the task. Warriors first five-eighth Blake Green would know. Having played alongside both Lino and incumbent halfback Shaun Johnson this year, Green said the two were able to move in and out of the squad seamlessly. “They play the same role in our team. “I sort of play on the ball, and they’re bit of a like for like swap when they come in,” Green said. “Obviously both are very good footy players. “Shauny is super talented, as we’ve seen over the years, and Mason has been fantastic for us when he’s come in, but I think that’s what you’d expect.” In their round seven win over the St. George Illawarra Dragons, Lino and Anthony Gelling came into the squad for the injured Johnson and Solomone Kata. Neither missed a beat, and for Gelling, his first start in the NRL was one to remember. The pair scored the opening two tries of the match, as the Warriors went on to claim a 2012 victory. “We’ve got some good depth in

Not even an Immortal’s praise can cheer up Brisbane NRL fiveeighth Jack Bird. In fact, the Broncos recruit reckons the claim of Andrew Johns that he should be picked as

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club April 25 The annual Battle of the Sexes will be played for the Baker Trophy, individual stableford. Report at 11.30am for a 12.00pm start. April 28 The first round for the Watson Cup 4BBB match play competition will be held with a Stroke round for those not in the match play.

Seasoned Warriors forward Tohu Harris won’t get a chance to take on his former NRL club after being ruled out of the clash with the Storm in Melbourne. The tight nature of the turnaround for tomorrow’s Anzac Day match meant Harris was never considered after copping a head knock during their 20-12 upset of St George Illawarra in Auckland on Friday. Coach Stephen Kearney described the concussion as “pretty significant”. - AAP

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Mason Lino hasn’t put a foot wrong whenever he’s been asked to step in for Shaun Johnson. the side and we work really hard in the preseason on the style we wanted to play and anyone that gets a chance, we expect them to do their part and Mason’s certainly done that.” Lino has toiled away with the Warriors looking for minutes in first-grade. After coming up through the Warriors’ under-20 programme, he signed on to play reservegrade with the club in 2015 – making his NRL debut later that

season in place of an injured Chad Townsend. He then resigned with the club on a two-year deal in 2017, and was named in the Intrust Super Premiership team of the year for the season. Coach Stephen Kearney had also noticed the way in which Lino handled himself when given the opportunity to play with the top team this season. He said it gave him another genuine halfback option when

he was selecting the team for the week. “That’s what competition is about – putting your hand up and Mason’s done a great job of that,” Kearney said. “The decision will always be made for the benefit of the whole team. “Sometimes that goes against what someone wants but it’s what the team needs and the decision will always be made on that.” - NZME

Brisbane’s Bird needs to regain NRL mojo By Laine CLark

Harris out injured

NSW pivot has only added to the pressure. Former Cronulla star Bird has turned heads after being slotted into the Brisbane halves at the expense of Kodi Nikorima the past fortnight. But Bird is beating himself up

over his under par display in the 34-20 NRL loss to premiers Melbourne. And not even a massive rap from Blues legend Johns can snap him out of it, it seems. “Last week I had a pretty ordinary game. I was pretty down my

performance,” Bird said. “I wasn’t happy with my game. I think I let myself and the team down. “I just need to find my mojo back and start enjoying footy again. “Once I start doing that I will start playing better footy.” - AAP

There will be an earlier start (11.45am). Starting times: Morning 8am; Afternoon report to the Pro Shop at 11.15am for an 11.45am start Nine Hole golfers report at 12.300pm for a 1.00 start. The draw for the Watson Cup matches is: No 1 Tee 11.45 P Ker & J Stone vs J Bird & S Clarke 11.52 J Williamson & W Hetrick vs M Tait & S Strange 11.59 D & R Stoddart vs B MacGregor & H Niles 12.06 K Clucas & P May v A Hopwood & I Rive 12.13 B Jury & J Fechney vs T Molloy & R Pawsey 12.20 R Jamieson & B Fauth vs J McArthur & T O’Reilly 12.27 P Bradford & G Jansen vs T Sa & C Lovelock 12.34 C Alexander & N Sutton vs

T Bennett & G Johnston. Reserves: G Sparrow & P Turton, B Clarke & P Greer, B Franklin & S Vivian. April 29 The final of the White Trophy will be played along with a mixed game for other players. The finalists are: N & D Gill vs H Ward & P Greer. Report at 11.30am for a 12.00pm start.

Springston, Celtic v Southbridge, Kaiapoi v Oxford, Lincoln v Glenmark, Rolleston v Southern, Saracens v Ashley, Prebbleton v Rakaia, Burn/Duns/Irw bye Methven bye April 28 Burn/Duns/Irw v Celtic, Southern v Rakaia, Glenmark v Ashley, Rolleston v Kaiapoi, Waihora v Southbridge, Oxford v Hornby, Saracens v Ohoka, Springston v Methven, West Melton v Lincoln, Darfield v Prebbleton, Hampstead bye Hurunui bye

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby April 25 Waihora v West Melton, Hurunui v Darfield, Ohoka v Hampstead, Hornby v

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Sam Burgess’ growing list of suspended games in the NRL has reached double figures after the South Sydney star accepted a two-match ban for his high hit on Canberra’s Aidan Sezer. The Rabbitohs confirmed their English enforcer would accept the gradetwo charge yesterday, meaning he will miss clashes with Brisbane and Newcastle over the next fortnight. The decision means Burgess will be free to play St George Illawarra in three weeks’ time, a game he would have missed had he taken the case to the judiciary but failed to have it overturned. - AAP

Pre-match nerves Cronulla prop Andrew Fifita has made the bold admission he was scared to take the field for the Sharks’ upset win over Penrith. In the absence of senior forwards Paul Gallen and Wade Graham, and after losing Luke Lewis to a calf injury in the 12th minute, Fifita stepped up with an inspirational effort. With his side down on troops, Fifita played all but seven minutes of the 26-22 win at Southern Cross Stadium, and his impact was immense as he charged for 130m and made 35 tackles. - AAP

Luke backs Maguire Warriors hooker Issac Luke has thrown his support behind his former Rabbitohs mentor Michael Maguire’s bid to become the next Kiwis coach. The No 9 maintained his outstanding early season form for the Warriors in Friday’s 20-12 victory over the Dragons to continue his push to reclaim his New Zealand jersey for the mid-season test against England in Denver. Luke was confident Maguire would be a good fit for the Kiwis job, with the 44-year-old on the shortlist. - NZME

No excuses for Manly Daly Cherry-Evans insists he and exiled Manly team-mate Jackson Hastings have cleared the air following their infamous falling out in Gladstone earlier this month. The Sea Eagles’ horror NRL week went from bad to worse on Sunday as they fell 44-10 to the previously winless Parramatta at ANZ Stadium. - AAP

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In brief Prop cited for biting Bulls prop Pierre Schoeman has been accused of biting Rebels backrower Richard Hardwick during their clash in Pretoria. Schoeman wasn’t penalised for the alleged foul play, which occurred in the 58th minute of the Rebels’ 28-10 loss. However, after further investigation the Citing Commissioner deemed the incident had met the Red Card threshold. - AAP

Woodward for England? The form of New Zealand winger Jason Woodward has him on the verge of a test debut with England, according to his club coach. Former Hurricanes flyer Woodward has impressed in his debut season at Gloucester and is widely regarded as a candidate to tour South Africa in June. Injuries to outside backs Anthony Watson and Jonathan Joseph have furthered the cause of the versatile Woodward, 27. - NZME

High praise for Carter

Collegiate’s Te Hira Carroll breaks free of the tackle of Paul Mareko in Senior B rugby on the weekend. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 210418-TM-0210

■ RUGBY

Points aplenty in Senior B While a nasty incident took centre stage in Mid Canterbury’s Senior B rugby at the weekend, away from the drama at Hampstead a points fest was on offer across the region. Plenty is yet be written and spoken about the Hampstead and Collegiate fixture. It was initially rescheduled to later in the day from its original starting time and then it was called off early after a number of nasty incidents – but the Collegiate boys came out of the match with the points in the bank – advancing their chances of being a

serious contender for the competition. Three teams now sit on top of the competition with three wins each, but that will change this week with two of the sides clashing this weekend. Defending champions, Southern, got their season back on the right path after an almost-mishap against Methven last week to beat Celtic convincingly, 5224, out at Hinds in a free-flowing game of rugby. They are three from three and on Saturday finally showed the rugby prowess that has made

them almost unbeatable in recent seasons, which will have sent a warning to the Rakaia team they will be facing this weekend. Rakaia again walked off the paddock with five points in the bag thanks to a hard-fought, high-scoring win over Mt Somers at the Rakaia Domain. They won the match 48-32 in a game where the gaps opened freely for both sides allowing plenty of points to be put on the board. Mt Somers only have the one win to show for their efforts

from the first three matches, but haven’t been far away in their two losses. Methven pushed themselves into the top four with their first win of the season – a bonus point success over Allenton at Methven. After pushing Southern seven days earlier, the Methven side are growing in confidence. They head to Celtic this week for a match which will likely determine who takes up a clear spot in the top four with the two sides only separated by Methven’s higher points differential.

Sevens sisters storm to victory in Japan A dramatic semi-final comeback over Australia has spurred New Zealand to victory in the Japan leg of the Women’s Sevens Series. The defending champions came from 12-0 down to topple Australia 17-12 in a repeat scoreline of the Commonwealth Games finale, and then overcame France 24-12 in the final to take their first title of the 2017-2018 series. New Zealand have hit their stride halfway through the season, claiming gold at the Commonwealth Games, before racking up 198 points in six games on their way to their Japanese jubilation. While the French were the last

team standing, it was Australia who were always going to be their main foes, and a second half comeback kept their realistic hopes of overall series glory alive. After going down 12-0, a try in first half added time from Gayle Broughton put New Zealand back in touch against their arch rivals, and they dominated the second spell. A Michaela Blyde try got them back in the contest, and Tyla Nathan-Wong sliced the Australian defence apart with 90 seconds remaining to seal the win. They followed up the dramatic victory by dispatching France in the final, who had earlier seen off the surprise package, Spain.

New Zealand have never lost to France and a try to Blyde after just 38 seconds set them on their way. France levelled the scores through Camille Grassineau, but some fancy footwork from Theresa Fitzpatrick put New Zealand back on top before the break. With three minutes to go, France sensed an upset, but as has happened so often before, a moment of magic from Portia Woodman made the difference. Woodman got on the outside of the French defence, sprinting 80 metres to score, before – as she did in the semifinal – NathanWong sealed the deal with a superb late effort. “It’s been an amazing couple of

weeks,” said Nathan-Wong. “We’ve had some adversity with girls getting injured but all the credit to the girls – we played amazing.” With the women’s world series only consisting of five tournaments, an Australian win would have put them in a near-unassailable position after winning the first two legs. However, with New Zealand taking 20 points for a win they have cut the gap to just six points. New Zealand will still need Australia to falter if they are to defend their title, with tournaments in Canada (May 12-13) and France (June 8-10) set to decide overall honours. - NZME

Carter’s Racing 92 team have beaten Munster to make the Champions Cup final against Leinster on May 13 in Bilbao, and the match will mark Carter’s farewell from the game’s major stages. British and Irish Lions icon Ian McGeechan, a former Scottish back, has labelled Carter “the most complete No. 10 (who) will be seen as one of rugby’s greatest players”. He ranked with 1970s Welsh halfback Gareth Edwards as the best of the best, McGeechan wrote. - PA

Tahuriorangi joins ABs Chiefs halfback and former Rotorua Boys’ High School student Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi attended the All Blacks Foundation Day in Wellington yesterday. The in-form halfback will attend the day with fellow North-Island based Chiefs, Blues, and Hurricanes players which aims to lay the foundation for the upcoming All Blacks season. Tahuriorangi was in the Maori All Blacks team who played the British and Irish Lions in Rotorua last year, and will be fighting to secure the third halfback spot behind Aaron Smith and TJ Perenara. - NZME

Landers to play Baabaas The Highlanders appear set to face a French Barbarians side in Invercargill in June. It has been reported that the side will host the Barbarians team on June 22, the night before the All Blacks play France in Dunedin. That will follow a match between the French Barbarians and the Crusaders a week earlier in Christchurch, the night before the second test in Wellington. The French tour begins on June 9, when the national side plays the All Blacks in Auckland. - NZME

Two-year ban for drugs Manawatu Cyclones rugby player Aroha Nuku has been banned for two years after testing positive for methamphetamine. Ms Nuku said she took a white powder she believed to be Ritalin to keep awake while driving home late one night from rugby training in Palmerston North to her home in Opunake. The NZ Rugby Judicial Committee released its decision yesterday and backdated the start of the ban to September 22. - NZME

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■ BASKETBALL

Bucks tie up playoffs Australian big men Thon Maker and Aron Baynes made quality contributions for their respective teams as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Boston Celtics in an NBA play-offs clash yesterday. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 27 points, including tipping in the go-ahead basket with five seconds left, to give the Bucks a 104-102 win which tied their eastern conference first-round series at 2-2. The Bucks set a franchise playoff high with 14 blocks, eclipsing the previous high of 13 set in game three. The 7-foot-1 Maker has turned into disruptive presence after playing sparingly in the first two games and in 30 minutes yesterday he scored eight points and contributed five massive blocks. “Thon is playing extremely assertive. “The blocked shots are going to stand out because that’s something somebody can see on the stat sheet,” Bucks coach Joe Prunty said. Jaylen Brown had 34 points for the Celtics, while Tatum added 21 and Baynes had nine points and 11 rebounds. Game five is in Boston before the series returns to Milwaukee. Patty Mills had an equal-team high five assists as the San Antonio Spurs eased to a 103-90 win over the Golden State Warriors to avoid a clean sweep. Manu Ginobili scored 10 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter for the Spurs, who extended their western conference series to a game five, as coach Gregg Popovich remained out after the death of his wife last week. Klay Thompson’s hot shooting streak came to and end, scoring 12 points at just 25 per cent from the field. LaMarcus Aldridge had 22 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Spurs, but they were willed to the finish by the Ginobili. The 40-year-old played in his 217th play-offs game to break a tie with Shaquille O’Neal for sixth in league history and passed Reggie Miller for third in career threepointers in the post-season. Kevin Durant had 34 points and 13 rebounds for the Warriors, who can wrap up the series at home tomorrow. LeBron James scored 32 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers escaped with a 104-100 victory over the Indiana Pacers to make it 2-2

Netball Australia has confirmed its Super Netball import policy is here to stay amid a growing chorus calling for Australia to let its domestic competition become the English Premier League of world netball. Opinion has varied in the week since England’s stunning Com-

Davies takes Manfeild Team DSR have gone back-to-back in the Link ECU D1NZ National Drifting Championship after Adam Davies took victory at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon. Feilding hosted the penultimate round of the D1NZ Pro Series where the rotarypowered Nissan pilot made it the second straight win for the team. “It’s pretty cool and it’s a huge win for me because not many people run a rotary so it’s a big win in that respect,” Davies said. - NZME

Whincup keeps calm Jamie Whincup is not panicking after a horror weekend at Phillip Island saw him slip back in the Supercars standings. The Red Bull Holden champion headed to Victoria in the lead, but left in fifth after a penalty stripped him of a podium finish. He finishing ninth on Sunday. The results leave him 142 points behind Scott McLaughlin, who claimed a pair of victories. Whincup, the most decorated driver in Supercars history, has belief he can respond with 12 events for the year still remaining. - AAP

New national coach Tennis New Zealand have appointed a new National Performance Coach, Frenchman Christophe Lambert. The 52 year old is a highlycredentialled career coach and joins Tennis NZ off the back of 20+ years of high performance coaching. Lambert has delivered impressive stints in leadership coaching roles in the UK, Canada and as a part of the provincial system in China. he says his biggest challenge will be “trying to find players around the country aged between 8 and 14 years who have potential because they have the biggest possibility for improvements”. - NZME

Bogut ‘whole package’

Boston Celtics’ Aron Baynes dunks over Milwaukee Bucks’ Thon Maker during the second half of Game 4 of their first-round playoff series yesterday. PHOTO AP in their hard-fought series. James added 13 rebounds and seven assists in his 100th career play-offs game with 30 or more points. Domantas Sabonis top scored with 19 points for Indiana travel to Cleveland for game five tomorrow.

John Wall took over down the stretch and finished with 27 points and 14 assists as the Washington Wizards beat the top-seeded Toronto Raptors 10698 to level their series. Bradley Beal led the Wizards

with 31 points before he fouled out with five minutes to play. DeMar DeRozan started 0 for 6, before getting into the game and winding up with 35 points, six assists and six rebounds for the Raptors. - AP

Australian Super Netball import policy to stay By Emma KEmp

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monwealth Games gold-medal triumph had Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander pointing the finger at Super Netball’s no-restrictions import approach. But where Alexander said Australia’s heartbreaking one-point loss was “our high performance system working for another country”, Netball Australia chief executive Marne Fechner felt it was a

case of the whole game benefiting from the league’s high quality. Coupled with commercial factors, she said there were no plans at this stage to scale back its rule change allowing clubs an unlimited number of international athletes on their roster – a huge increase from the one permitted in the ANZ Championship. Five of England’s Games grand

final starting seven currently ply their trade in Australia. On the flipside, New Zealand’s absence from the Gold Coast podium contributes to evidence of the extent Super Netball is moulding the international game. New Zealanders are allowed to play in Super Netball but are barred from representing the Silver Ferns if they do so. - AAP

Andrew Bogut’s NBL arrival will stir as much off-court interest as it will on it according to his national coach Andrej Lemanis. The first Australian No.1 NBA draft pick will suit up for the Sydney Kings this year, and his presence is likely to help continue the league’s rise in popularity after some barren years. The 33-year-old won an NBA title with Golden State and still has plenty to offer in the world’s top league, but will instead ply his trade at home for the first time. - AAP

City up for semi-final A new-found mental edge has Melbourne City poised to end their ALeague grand final drought when they face Newcastle Jets on Friday. That’s the feeling from Luke Brattan, who sees demonstrable improvement under new coach Warren Joyce. Brattan says the meticulous Joyce has made his mark and it’s showing in their results. - AAP

Salah takes PFA title Mohamed Salah has been crowned the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year after an explosive first season at Liverpool. Few could have foreseen the Egyptian magician’s impact after he swapped Roma for Anfield last summer in a STG34.3-million deal. Salah’s exceptional performances have brought recognition from his peers, having seen off tough competition from Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne. - PA

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■ OAKS DOUBLE

Special result on the cards By AdAm HAmilton Shez All Rock looks a bit special and she’s chasing something very rare on Friday. So many great fillies have tried and failed to win the NSW and Victoria Oaks. Amazingly, the last to do so was Bob and Vin Knight’s former Tasmanian filly Jane Ellen way back in 1989. Champion filly Frith ran second to Itz Nosurprisesthere in the 2013 NSW Oaks then won the Victoria Oaks. Off the back of a sparkling NSW Oaks win and dominant Victoria Oaks heat win at Melton last Saturday night, the Aussie TAB has Shez All Rock $2.80 favourite in the pre-draw market for Friday

night’s $150,000 Nevele R Stud Victoria Oaks final (2240m). It’s her last target before joining the All Stars’ team to chase the NZ Oaks and Harness Jewels. Young trainer-driver Mark Pitt has done a superb job with the daughter of Rock N Roll Heaven, who has raced just seven times for six wins and a second. The switch to Purdon and Rasmussen was agreed to former Kiwi and now US-based Chris Ryder paid a reported $220,000 to buy Shez All Rock just days after her NSW Oaks win. “The plan is for her to come back to me after the Jewels for a crack at the Vicbred series and the Breeders Crown,” Pitt said. “Chris (Ryder) said there’s a

Driver Mark Pitt chance he might leave her with me for her four-year-old season as well. “I’ll be over there in NZ cheering for her in the Oaks and Jewels, don’t worry about that.” For now, Pitt’s sights are firmly set on Friday night’s Oaks and

with a serious dash of confidence. “She’s still only had a handful of runs really and she’s green. “Every race is a learning curve and it was the same the other night when I really buzzed her at the start for the first time. Like everything else, she handled it well,” he said. Shez All Rock ripped home in splits of 27.5 and 27.7sec to beat Nostra Villa by 4.1m in a 1min56.9sec mile over 2240m. Emma Stewart’s Speak No Evil led throughout to win the second heat and weakest of three heats in a 1min57.5sec mile rate. The third heat went to Grant Dixon’s Queensland raider Aqua Miss. - HRNZ

Close Up progressing Shelley Hale’s Group One winner Close Up is quietly making his way towards another round of feature assignments. Close Up provided the Cambridge trainer with the highlight of her career when winning the Tarzino Trophy at Hastings last September, then was narrowly beaten into second when splitting New Zealand Derby and Rosehill Guineas winner Gingernuts and Group One star Kawi in the Windsor Park Plate. - NZME

Top mare for Waikato The stakes-winner and multiple stakes placegetter Starvoia has been retired from racing and purchased by Waikato Stud. Prepared at Balcairn by John and Karen Parsons, Starvoia won six of her 16 starts and was placed on a further six occasions. Starvoia was also stakes placed on five occasions. - NZME

Otago gallops Today at Wingatui Raceway

2 003x2 He Kin Fly d (1) 58.5 .......................S Collett 3 71566 Flytime d (4) 58 ...............................A Collett 4 4x8x4 Lord Beaver dm (2) 58 ....................J Laking 5 67172 Lucky Edie d (7) 56.5 ................B Hong (a3) 1 11.47am TAIERI COLTS MAIDEN $10,000, 800m 6 L0221 Our Teddy Boy dmh (5) 56.......Campbell (a3) 1 43420 Roc Leone h (8) 58.5 ......T Comignaghi (a2) 7 62510 The Czar d (8) 56 ................... B Murray (a2) 2 40x Mathieu (15) 58.5 ...........................S Wynne 8 27950 Taieri Gem tdmh (3) 54 ................. C Barnes 3 Benlachie (1) 58 .......................... C Johnson 9 51939 Vishnu (9) 54....................... R Firdhaus (a2) 4 Natural Light (13) 58 .......................J Laking 5 So Natural (2) 58.............................S Collett 4 1.27 MOSGIEL TAVERN MAIDEN $10,000, 1200m 6 75577 Befiftytwo h (7) 56.5 ....................K Kwo (a3) 1 0x373 Markwood h (18) 58.5 ........ C Campbell (a3) 7 9x0 Raise The Alarm (16) 56.5 .. R Firdhaus (a2) 2 69x Omar (17) 58.5.......................... G Jogoo (a) 8 8x39x Let Her Rip Riley (12) 56 .............T Moseley 3 0x2 Chowder b (16) 58 ...........................J Lowry 9 6x Cabernet bh (6) 56 ...........................J Lowry 4 4 Poilu h (19) 58 ............................. C Johnson 10 0x Hiho h (3) 56 ...................... C Campbell (a3) 5 47467 Van Halen (12) 58 .......................L Callaway 11 Silhouettes (9) 56 ...................... G Jogoo (a) 6 9x Fly To The Sky (7) 58 .....................S Wynne 12 Xanthia h (14) 56 ...................... S Muniandy 7 3252x Free And Easy (2) 56.5 ................T Moseley 13 80x My Soprano (5) 56 8 62037 Itstolate (4) 56.5 14 79x Ygritte h (11) 56 ..................... B Murray (a2) 9 435 Jim’s Gift (20) 56.5 ..........................S Collett 15 670x Always On Call h (10) 56.5 10 What A Dream (5) 56.5 .......... B Murray (a2) 16 0x60x Never You Mind h (4) 58.5 11 448x Juliette h (10) 56 ....................... S Muniandy Emergencies: My Soprano, Ygritte, Always On Call, 12 44x00 Highland Lady (14) 56.....................A Collett Never You Mind 13 Hadiya (9) 56 ............................B Hong (a3) 8 Eyes Above (13) 56.........T Comignaghi (a2) 2 12.17pm WINGATUI FUNCTION CENTRE $11,000, 14 15 8 Maximus Decimus (11) 58 Rating 75 & Jumpers Benchmark, 2200m 0 Pedro (3) 58.5 1 863x0 Delacroix tdm (7) 59.................... C Johnson 16 0 Align The World (1) 58.5 2 711x2 Jackfrost mh (3) 58.5 ......... C Campbell (a3) 17 87 Gallant Suzi (15) 56.5 3 50014 Tilly Dunnage mb (6) 57.5...... B Murray (a2) 18 4 18619 Villa Elba td (8) 57..................... G Jogoo (a) 19 0x006 Hold The Raddle h (6) 58.5 5 29348 Satin Guru tdmh (5) 55.5 .......... S Muniandy 20 40x Mathieu (8) 58.5 6 23127 Mac Murdoch b (9) 55 ..................T Moseley Emergencies: Maximus Decimus, Pedro, Align The 7 75623 Southern Dancer (11) 55 T Comignaghi (a2) World, Gallant Suzi, Hold The Raddle, Mathieu 8 00960 Raven Darkholme t (4) 54 ...............A Collett 5 2.02 RAY & ALISON KEAN SOUTHERN WIDE REAL 9 00002 The Energizer tdm (1) 54 ............K Kwo (a3) ESTATE $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 10 33757 Lady Em (10) 54 ............................S Wynne 1 2135 Dutch Courage d (3) 59 ............ G Jogoo (a) 11 612x0 Go Go Gonzo tm (2) 54 ................ C Barnes 2 x09x1 Prince Oz d (1) 58.5 .....................T Moseley 3 12.52 KB CONTRACTORS $11,000, Rating 75 Bench- 3 23462 Vice Marshall dm (5) 58.5 ................J Lowry 4 0021x Twilight Meteor dm (9) 57.5.... B Murray (a2) mark, 1200m 5 28793 Mia Mamma td (4) 57 ......T Comignaghi (a2) 1 x3615 Enzedjewel td (6) 59 .......T Comignaghi (a2) Otago RC Venue: Wingatui Meeting Date: 24 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10

Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 24 Apr 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.08pm (NZT) SOUTHLAND GREYHOUNDS WELCOME C0, 390m 1 34631 Homebush Tasha nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 Zefside nwtd..............................J McInerney 3 22635 Kevron nwtd .................................C Roberts 4 28x28 Homebush Bow nwtd ................J McInerney 5 Tee An’ Cee nwtd ........................ B I Conner 6 Homebush Maycee nwtd...........J McInerney 7 Elland Road nwtd ......................J McInerney 8 Nippa Martino nwtd ...................J McInerney 9 Black Bobby nwtd........................ B I Conner 10 Cosmic Marty nwtd ...................J McInerney 2 12.26pm ADDED ENERGY DASH C2, 390m 1 22137 Mitcham Faye 23.02 ..................J McInerney 2 33521 Barellen Panther nwtd ..................C Roberts 3 25453 Detective Dash nwtd .................J McInerney 4 85216 Another Message 22.81 .............J M Jopson 5 71445 Goldstar Jay Jay nwtd S & ..............B Evans 6 36178 Homebush Sloan 22.50 ............J McInerney 7 16834 Homebush Fued 22.57 .............J McInerney 8 67521 Homebush Scorpio 23.38 .........J McInerney 9 15661 Pip Baxter nwtd .........................J McInerney 10 52565 Auros Advantage nwtd S & .............B Evans 3 12.43pm WWW.BODYAUDIT.CO.NZ C3/4, 457m 1 3x413 Rover Bale 25.64 .........................C Roberts 2 51243 Dyna Dave nwtd ...........................C Roberts 3 83522 Charlie Runkel 25.89 ........................B Eade 4 46755 Know Hassle 26.00 ........................G Cleeve 5 16112 Perfect Result 26.38 ......................R Adcock 6 72317 Must Be Rusty 26.13.................J McInerney 7 51854 Botany Alan 25.88.....................J McInerney 8 66x78 Epic Dream 25.64 ......................J M Jopson 9 11125 Dyna Bart nwtd ............................C Roberts

6 56286 Jakob Gambino td (6) 57.....R Beeharry (a3) 7 7987x Southern Cool m (8) 57 8 35x18 Black Label tdbh (2) 56.5 ................A Collett 9 10836 Dreaming Easy h (11) 56 ... C Campbell (a3) 10 3195x Starmaker d (12) 56 ........................S Collett 11 17x9 Eckse d (13) 56 ..............................S Wynne 12 090x0 Double Choice d (7) 54 ............... C Johnson 13 0x0x6 Lady Conraad d (10) 54 ..............L Callaway 6 2.37pm CAREFREE STABLES $11,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 92531 Raise You Ten tdh (6) 61 .... C Campbell (a3) 2 10780 Lochan Ora tm (5) 60 ..................K Kwo (a3) 3 60367 Maid Of Steel d (2) 59 .....................S Collett 4 x586x News Flash tdmh (7) 59 ...................J Lowry 5 14x85 Fairlight td (3) 58.5 ...................... C Johnson 6 72433 Tomm Jones td (8) 57.5 ..T Comignaghi (a2) 7 80150 El Bee Darci dm (1) 55.5.................A Collett 8 13804 Willow tdh (10) 54 ......................... C Barnes 9 34346 Whispering (4) 54...................... G Jogoo (a) 10 47951 What’s Up Alf dm (9) 54 ......... B Murray (a2) 7 3.12 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES $12,000, R65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1400m 1 10693 Sammi Lou d (8) 59.5 .....................S Collett 2 20x28 Moyrabella b (10) 58.5 ....................A Collett 3 5360x She Rocks td (12) 58.5 ............. G Jogoo (a) 4 5x17 Shine Bright (9) 58.5 ...................K Kwo (a3) 5 x0091 Valetina Vittoria (6) 58 ............ B Murray (a2) 6 10286 Diorissimo tdm (3) 58 ......................J Laking 7 x009x Perceptive tmh (2) 58 ......... C Campbell (a3) 8 30363 Scarlet Princess b (7) 58 T Comignaghi (a2) 9 42773 Mystify Me d (11) 57.5 ................ C Johnson 10 35474 Supatwista (4) 56.5 .............R Beeharry (a3) 11 0x0x6 Lady Conraad (5) 55 ...................L Callaway 12 98x90 Royal Dollar th (1) 55 .................... C Barnes 8 3.52 RIVIERA OF ANTARCTICA MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 5x702 Golden Valkyrie (15) 58.5.............T Moseley 2 29279 Riding High h (3) 58.5 -

rama, Luuka 10 5.06pm PROUDLY WINGATUI! $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 0421x Gold Leaf tmh (6) 60 ................. S Muniandy 2 43x10 Olaf (15) 58.5 ...........................D Bothamley 3 70x65 Letsbringiton (12) 57 ................... C Johnson 4 57x96 Slammer h (1) 57 .............................J Lowry 5 405x0 National Asset dm (8) 56.5 ..........T Moseley 6 7036x Verna Audrey td (9) 56 ........... B Murray (a2) 7 69406 Passamaquoddy d (5) 56 ................A Collett 8 09x04 Squizzy tdmh (2) 56 ........................ J Morris 9 10x90 Erin’s Babe tdh (13) 55.5 ... C Campbell (a3) 10 250x7 Knight’s Princess d (10) 55.5 ..........S Collett 11 93300 Welcome td (11) 55.5 ................ G Jogoo (a) 12 04605 Countess Ruby tdh (7) 55 ............. C Barnes 13 376x9 Hollypop (3) 55...............................S Wynne Em: Royal Mistress, Mavrick, Park Lane, Pyjamarama, Luuka 14 06765 Quaintrelle d (14) 54.5 ..............B Hong (a3) 15 60x06 Miss Norway h (4) 54 9 4.27pm TABULA RASA MAIDEN $10,000, 1600m 16 80080 Velvet Rose dmh (16) 54 1 70285 Producer (15) 58.5 ..........................J Laking Emergencies: Miss Norway, Velvet Rose 2 55532 Yes You Did h (19) 58.5 .............B Hong (a3) 3 425x7 Mighty Mak (4) 58.5 ....................K Kwo (a3) Blinkers on: Mathieu, My Soprano, Ygritte (R1), Go Go Gonzo 4 46648 Heza Duke (12) 58.5 ...............T Jonker (a3) (R2), Markwood, Highland Lady, Mathieu (R4), Maid Of Steel, 5 04 Park Ranger (1) 58..........................S Collett Fairlight (R6), Roc The Cradle, Park Lane (R8), Park Lane (R9) 6 0 Adriano (11) 58 ..............................S Wynne Blinkers off: Double Choice (R5), Scarlet Princess (R7) Winkers 7 9 Highly Xcited (8) 58......................T Moseley on: Juliette (R4), Double Choice (R5), Riding High (R8), Danzi 8 79x25 Patromia h (7) 56.5 .........T Comignaghi (a2) Creek (R9), Letsbringiton (R10) Winkers off: Let Her Rip Riley 9 6628x Patricia Rose (14) 56.5 ...............L Callaway (R1), Markwood, Highland Lady (R4), Roc The Cradle (R8) 10 x0706 Smart Garden (17) 56.5 ..................A Collett SELECTIONS 11 86 Danzi Creek h (2) 56 ........................J Lowry Race 1: Let Her Rip Riley, Mathieu, Cabernet, Silhouettes 12 9 Invite h (6) 56 ................................ C Barnes Race 2: Southern Dancer, Satin Guru, Jackfrost, Lady Em 13 Moi Diva h (16) 56 ....................... C Johnson Race 3: He Kin Fly, Lucky Edie, Enzedjewel, Taieri Gem 14 70 Warbird (18) 56 Race 4: Markwood, Fly To The Sky, Van Halen, Free And Easy 15 x00x8 Royal Mistress (5) 56.5 Race 5: Dutch Courage, Prince Oz, Vice Marshall, Dreaming Easy 16 077x0 Mavrick (3) 58.5 Race 6: Raise You Ten, Tomm Jones, Willow, What’s Up Alf 17 x0807 Park Lane h (13) 58.5 Race 7: Scarlet Princess, Moyrabella, Mystify Me, She Rocks 18 0x990 Pyjamarama (10) 56.5 Race 8: Mowenna, Riding High, Golden Valkyrie, Jandles 19 000 Luuka h (9) 56 Race 9: Patromia, Producer, Heza Duke, Yes You Did Emergencies: Royal Mistress, Mavrick, Park Lane, Pyjama- Race 10: Slammer, Quaintrelle, Welcome, Passamaquoddy 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

46LPx Brat Pack (10) 58.5 37970 Al Be Civics (11) 58.5 .................L Callaway 00x7x Bullseye (14) 58.5 ......................... C Barnes 67x57 Rock Master (13) 58 ................D Bothamley 0 Roc The Cradle (1) 58.....................S Collett 00569 Skedaddle Skedoo (7) 58........T Jonker (a3) 30982 Jandles h (9) 56.5 ....................... C Johnson 85024 Mowenna (12) 56.5 .........T Comignaghi (a2) 82956 Ready To Rock (8) 56.5 ..................J Laking 0x806 Bobtail (5) 56.5....................... B Murray (a2) 00x04 Peggy Stewart h (4) 56 ...............K Kwo (a3) 770x Chelsea Blue h (2) 56 ............... S Muniandy x00x8 Royal Mistress (6) 56.5 077x0 Mavrick (16) 58.5 x0807 Park Lane h (19) 58.5 0x990 Pyjamarama (17) 56.5 000 Luuka h (18) 56 -

Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway

3 81646 Leo’s Son 22.72 ........................J McInerney 4 62863 Tricky Action nwtd S & ....................B Evans 5 11618 Sierra Delta nwtd S &......................B Evans 1 736x1 Homebush Cherico 22.76 .........J McInerney 6 21132 Know Sweat 22.85 .........................G Cleeve 2 51553 Senorita Julie nwtd....................J McInerney 7 71223 Cosmic Jase 22.90 ...................J McInerney 3 31376 Rambo nwtd ..................................R Adcock 8 18163 Jitterbug Jewel nwtd.....................C Roberts 4 53347 Valyrian Steel 22.82 ..................J McInerney Emergencies: 5 61326 Idol Georgie nwtd .............................. J Rush 9 13666 Opawa Binge 22.34.........................R Wales 6 62818 Homebush Ellie nwtd ................J McInerney 7 27168 Jealous Much 23.12 ..................J McInerney 10 15546 Magic Mike 22.40 .........................C Roberts 8 67138 Rand 22.62 ................................J M Jopson 8 2.10pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C3, 390m 1 47333 Know Respect 22.74 ......................G Cleeve 9 15661 Pip Baxter nwtd .........................J McInerney 2 44118 Chop Shop nwtd .......................J McInerney 10 52565 Auros Advantage nwtd S & .............B Evans 5 1.18 TONI@BODYAUDIT.CO.NZ 021657001 C5, 390m 3 27743 Homebush Miles 22.44 .............J McInerney 4 71481 Flaming Sambuca 22.65 ...........J McInerney 1 61264 Cawbourne Britty 22.42 ...............C Roberts 5 24348 Zugzwang 22.88 .........................R Hamilton 2 25531 Botany Cold nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 75444 Justin Ryan 22.67 S &.....................B Evans 3 61312 Ohoka Alex 22.63..........................R Adcock 7 31338 Disclaimer 22.63 ...........................R Adcock 4 63111 Wheelchair Norm 22.08 ............J McInerney 8 53563 Star Bucking 22.97....................J McInerney 5 23812 Abrasador 22.17 ...............................B Eade 9 13666 Opawa Binge 22.34.........................R Wales 6 34342 Sarcasm nwtd ................................G Cleeve 7 3F48F Queen Kong 22.69 ....................J McInerney 10 15546 Magic Mike 22.40 .........................C Roberts 8 27142 Sozin’s Blue 22.70 ....................J McInerney 9 2.26pm ORETI BEACH RUN C1, 457m 1 62288 Cerrone Bale nwtd .......................C Roberts 9 87616 Sergess nwtd ............................J McInerney 2 1 Zipping Mia nwtd ......................... B I Conner 10 62324 Homebush Rufus nwtd ..............J McInerney 6 1.36pm WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ 3 23332 Lightning Crash nwtd ....................R Adcock 4 63444 Goldstar Diesel nwtd S & ................B Evans C0, 457m 5 56748 Know Dollars nwtd .........................G Cleeve 1 26223 Archie’s Ranger nwtd .................J M Jopson 6 58544 Chief Doug nwtd .......................J McInerney 2 8 Mick The Mower nwtd ...............J McInerney 7 33724 Broken Penniless nwtd...................G Cleeve 3 4 Know Flare nwtd ............................G Cleeve 8 64356 Black Dan nwtd .........................J McInerney 4 Goldstar Charger nwtd S & .............B Evans 5 32 Jinja Twist nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 10 2.47 CONGRATULATIONS FUNNY MUMMY C1, 457m 1 37482 Avalanch City 26.15 ..................J McInerney 6 F Jinja Viking nwtd J & .......................D Fahey 2 6x315 Know Other nwtd ...........................G Cleeve 7 1 Dyna Walter nwtd .........................C Roberts 3 76456 Homebush Ragna 26.53 ...........J McInerney 8 6 Know Shame nwtd .........................G Cleeve 4 84765 Extra Salsa nwtd S & ......................B Evans 9 5 Goldstar Hemi nwtd S &..................B Evans 5 34464 Know Leave 26.36 .........................G Cleeve 10 45443 Sly Carl nwtd ...................................R Wales 7 1.53 SOUTHLAND OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C3, 390m 6 6776x Ghost 26.46 ...............................J M Jopson 7 51451 Jinja Jake nwtd.................... A R J Tregurtha 1 36727 Homebush Boden nwtd.............J McInerney 8 57834 Zipping Ripley nwtd ..................... B I Conner 2 81666 Shift The Blame 23.04...............J McInerney 10 12217 Cosmic Stu nwtd .......................J McInerney

4 1.01 CONGRATULATIONS JUST GOT LIT UP C2, 390m

9 787x7 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 10 888x7 Zipping Piper 26.56 ..................... B I Conner 11 3.03 CONGRATULATIONS RICHARD B C1, 457m 1 87723 Storming Mack 26.13 .................. B I Conner 2 511 Sly Rose nwtd .................................R Wales 3 23217 Malaga Molly 26.97 ...................J McInerney 4 42524 Know Equal nwtd ...........................G Cleeve 5 66875 Ana Dior nwtd ..............................C Roberts 6 13676 Forbury Flyer 27.15 ...................J McInerney 7 37286 Goldstar Scooby 26.57 S &.............B Evans 8 25828 Majestic Action 26.05 S & ...............B Evans Emergencies: 9 787x7 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 10 888x7 Zipping Piper 26.56 ..................... B I Conner 12 3.21 GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C1/2, 457m 1 46332 Allen Hadrian 26.29 .....................C Roberts 2 28577 Spring Sam 26.00 .....................J McInerney 3 48473 Goldstar Miley 26.50 S & ................B Evans 4 77645 Zipping Jen nwtd ......................... B I Conner 5 84341 Darlek Ian 26.22........................J McInerney 6 52124 Shoe Fly 26.95 ...........................J M Jopson 7 77858 Sea Fever 26.00 .......................... B I Conner 8 x1556 Rockstar Kobe 26.54....................C Roberts 9 787x7 Pianissimo 26.26......................... B I Conner 10 888x7 Zipping Piper 26.56 ..................... B I Conner 13 3.41pm ASCOT PARK CONSORTIUM C1, 390m 1 23227 Goldstar Scooter 23.24 S & ............B Evans 2 868x5 Opawa Millie nwtd ........................D Roberts 3 86736 Homebush Kazzy 23.66 ............J McInerney 4 51272 Cosmic Ryder nwtd ...................J McInerney 5 65267 Sozin’s Emperor 22.78 ..............J McInerney 6 26234 Homebush Skip 22.76...............J McInerney 7 81888 Magic Wilma nwtd .....................J McInerney 8 37P47 Joey Baxter 22.65 .....................J McInerney 9 78686 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J McInerney 10 888x7 Zipping Piper nwtd ...................... B I Conner 14 3.57 ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 390m 1 77765 Homebush Patriot 22.86 ...........J McInerney

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87x37 Leanne’s Way nwtd ....................J M Jopson 85333 Cosmic Ruben nwtd ..................J McInerney 47667 Ohoka Tess nwtd.......................J McInerney 24368 Zip Zap Zoe nwtd ......................J McInerney 86753 Goldstar Po nwtd S & ......................B Evans 66422 Homebush Hundy 23.22 ...........J McInerney 44256 Raylene 23.10 ...............................R Adcock 78686 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J McInerney 888x7 Zipping Piper nwtd ...................... B I Conner 15 4.15pm RACING AGAIN 8TH MAY C1, 390m 1 27515 Homebush Ivana nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 36153 Mounga nwtd ............................J McInerney 3 57836 Aroha nwtd ....................................R Adcock 4 68873 Goldstar Renee nwtd S & ...............B Evans 5 52264 Jinja Cody nwtd.........................J McInerney 6 76577 Sergio Star 23.33 ......................J McInerney 7 58335 Sozin’s Roar nwtd .....................J McInerney 8 75385 Dave’s Pick nwtd .......................J McInerney 9 78686 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J McInerney 10 888x7 Zipping Piper nwtd ...................... B I Conner SELECTIONS

Race 1: Zefside, Tee An’ Cee, Homebush Bow, Homebush Maycee Race 2: Mitcham Faye, Homebush Fued, Another Message Race 3: Rover Bale, Dyna Dave, Perfect Result, Must Be Rusty Race 4: Rambo, Homebush Cherico, Valyrian Steel, Idol Georgie Race 5: Wheelchair Norm, Sarcasm, Abrasador, Cawbourne Britty Race 6: Jinja Twist, Know Flare, Goldstar Charger, Know Shame Race 7: Shift The Blame, Jitterbug Jewel, Homebush Boden Race 8: Homebush Miles, Disclaimer, Flaming Sambuca Race 9: Zipping Mia, Lightning Crash, Goldstar Diesel Race 10: Avalanch City, Jinja Jake, Know Leave, Zipping Ripley Race 11: Malaga Molly, Majestic Action, Sly Rose, Know Equal Race 12: Allen Hadrian, Sea Fever, Darlek Ian, Rockstar Kobe Race 13: Opawa Millie, Cosmic Ryder, Homebush Skip, Sozin’s Emperor Race 14: Raylene, Cosmic Ruben, Leanne’s Way Race 15: Homebush Ivana, Mounga, Jinja Cody, Sergio Star LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

■ CHRIS JOHNSON

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Back over the jumps Chris Johnson is planning to make a brief comeback over fences in a bid to improve his prospects of winning another New Zealand Jockeys’ Premiership. The gifted horseman will ride Delacroix in the Wingatui Function Centre 2200 at Wingatui today and he will also ride the eight-year-old in the open hurdles at Riverton on May 20. “It’ll be a one-off ride to qualify him for highweights,” said Johnson’s partner, Belinda Middlewood. “John and Karen Parsons wanted him to ride Delacroix in last year’s Grand National, but he wasn’t keen at that stage.” Under the New Zealand Rules of Racing jockeys are only eligible to ride in highweights if they have ridden in a steeplechase or hurdle race in the period from January 1 the previous year. In Johnson’s case he hasn’t competed in a jumps race for almost six years, since he rode the Jeff Lyndstrained Conquistador when he was

Top jockey Chris Johnson pulled up in the Great Northern Hurdles in September 2012. Four days earlier he recorded his last jumps win aboard Silk ‘N’ Satin for John Sargent at the Wingatui meeting. Johnson is an accomplished hurdles jockey, having 55 wins from 260 rides, though he has competed in just one steeplechase in which his mount fell. His jumps CV includes three Grand National Hurdles triumphs, plus victories in the Great Western Hurdles, Great Northern Hurdles

Daily Events TUESDAY 8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join “fellow sheddies” for some fun and fellowship, make/fix something on our new workshop. 8 William Street. 9.30am ASHBURTON U3A. Dr Frieda Looser Seminar “History of Salt” lunch provided. Visitors casual rates. St David’s Union Church, 48 Allens Rd, Allenton. 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road. 10am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Exercises and Tai Chi for arthritis. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street. (excludes school and public holidays). 10am NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Coffee morning for new people to the area. Nosh Cafe, Ashford Village, West St. 10am

WEDNESDAY (ANZAC DAY) 8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join “fellow sheddies” for some fun and fellowship, make/fix something on our new workshop. 8 William Street. (not public holidays). 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady As You Go Exercise group. Meet at 48 Allens Road, Allenton. 9.30am AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. ALLENTON - Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. St David’s Church, Allenton. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven. 10am - 3pm AGE CONCERN 206 CLUB.

and the Wellington Hurdles. Johnson is familiar with the ability of Delacroix, having ridden him on the flat for a win and eight placings, and he has watched on as the son of Zabeel has made the grade as a hurdler with five wins and four placings from 13 attempts. Delacroix beat just two home when resuming at the Riverton meeting in a flat race earlier in the month. “He’s improved with the run and should go better on Tuesday,” Karen Parsons said. “He’ll be ready to go over fences at Riverton.” Johnson has kicked home almost 2300 winners in New Zealand and the 54-year-old picked up his second New Zealand Jockeys’ Premiership last season, 21 years after he first won it in 1995-96. Going into Tuesday’s Wingatui meeting he is sitting in third placing on the premiership with 81 wins, while Sam Collett has a clear lead on 106 ahead of her cousin, Alysha Collett, on 82. - NZME

April 24 & 25, 2018 MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven. 10am - 3pm AGE CONCERN, 206 CLUB. Fun filled days for over 60years, for more information ring 308-6817. Cameron St. 10.30am AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. METHVEN- Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. All Saints Church, 1 Chapman Street, Methven. 1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE CLUB. Social games, new members welcome. 115 Racecourse Road. 1pm R.S.A. INDOOR BOWLS. Weekly social indoor bowls. Linton lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street. 1pm AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. RAKAIA - Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. Presbyterian

Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Road . 6pm INTEGRATIVE YOGA. Weekly yoga classes. Senior Centre, Cameron Street. 6pm - 7.30pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Sprint Session, visit Run and Walk Ashburton facebook page for more details. Meet Walnut Avenue Pavilion, Ashburton Domain. 7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. All ages and abilities welcome, racquets available. E A Network Centre Stadium, 20 River Terrace. 7.30pm ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Table Tennis, weekly meeting for all levels, come “Have A Go!” Ashburton M.S.A. Havelock Street.

Monday Tuesday and Wednesday each week, 60 years and older. More information ring Age Concern 308-6817. Cameron Street. 10.30am AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. CENTRAL TOWN - Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street, Ashburton. 10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street. (excluding school holidays). 1.30pm AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. CENTRAL- Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street, Ashburton. 6pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. 5km town circuit. All walking abilities and fitness levels catered for. Leaves from

Philip Street beside the croquet lawn at 6pm sharp. 7pm BOOTCAMP. Catering for all levels of fitness. Hinds Domain. Contact Georgia 0276888686 or Aleisha 0278489309. 7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance (7pm), beginners/ intermediate(8pm-9pm). Instructor Annette phone 307-7138 a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street. 7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Fitness Fun and Friendship. Buffalo Hall, Cox Street. 7.30pm ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC. Entries: Set subject - Five. Results: Landscape. Senior Centre, 206 Cameron St. 7.30pm ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. Club night at the McNally Street Stadium.

CERAMIC tiles - tile quality guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at Redmonds Furnishing and Flooring, Burnett Street. COMPUTER PROBLEMS ?? For prompt reliable computer repairs and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989. Proudly serving our locals for 30 years. Same day service if possible. SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed. INTERIOR PLASTERING. For all your plastering and Gib stopping requirements. New builds, alterations etc. No job too small. Loyal Interior Plastering; phone 027 384 7118 or 027 303 4746.

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MEETINGS, EVENTS

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Ashburton Kidney Society AGM Tuesday, May 8, 2018 7.30pm St John rooms, Tancred Street. Speaker: Max Reid, CEO Kidney Health NZ. All interested welcome.

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Cryptic crossword

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Curiosity is among your most useful talents, as it will lead you to experience wonder, triumph, satisfaction and dissatisfaction. (Those last two will be equally important to a fulfilling life.) TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’re good at uncovering the facts, hearing the facts through the fiction and giving the facts in an unbiased way. Today’s talent for truth will make you an invaluable part of a quest for justice. GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You have developed mental tricks to help you get around obstacles, avoid conflict and rise above trouble. You may not be fully aware of exactly how you do this, but someone will follow your lead today. CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): None of the saints were canonised for counting other people’s sins. It just doesn’t work that way. Those who focus on the sins of others are still making sin their focus. LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): It is possible to train your mind to be stronger than your emotions. You’ll seek this kind of mastery. Clearly, emotions run amok do not contribute in a positive way to what you’re trying to build in your life. VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The temptation to share prematurely will be there. Exciting things are coming together but it’s still early. Work quietly and your success will speak for you. LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Some people are easier to be around than others, but that doesn’t make a relationship any more correct. An uncomfortable relationship can inspire your highest and quickest evolution. SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): From a distance, the rolling fog is mysterious, beautiful, mystical... but when you’re in the thick of it, it can be maddeningly disorienting. Avoid states of perplexity by rising above them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Seeing the problems isn’t pessimism – far from it. This is actually a form of optimism. If you didn’t think there might be something to be done about it, you wouldn’t have the guts to see it. CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The creative process is your joy. Products that come of it can bring fleeting satisfaction, but it’s almost unmentionable compared with the feeling that comes from being in the flow of your work. AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You may not have all the skills you need to make something happen yet, but you’re getting them. Try again. Also, keep a record of your efforts so you can avoid making the same mistake twice. PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): While joy feels better, sadness can be beautiful, too. It can wash over you like a wave in a moment of connection that makes you appreciate and value your life.

WordBuilder

Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

Quick crossword 1

Across 1. Gruff 4. Digests 8. Avert 9. Tumbler 10. Did 11. Excellent 12. Lady 13. Mesh 18. Quartered 20. Cap 21. Evasion 22. Naomi 23. Tresses 24. Sheet Down 1. Grandiloquent 2. Upended 3 6 3. Fetter 1 4. Detach 2 5. Gamble 6. Solve 7. Stretch a point 14. Enclose 8 5 3 1 15. Stairs 16. Grunts 17. Adonis 19. Awake

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Sudoku

ACROSS 1. The devil (colloq) (3,4) 5. Temporary GP (5) 8. Amusement (13) 9. Neither (3) 10. Much loved (9) 12. Delicate (6) 13. Swedish currency (6) 15. Change shape or appearance (9) 16. Recede (3) 18. Exact likeness (colloq) (8,5) 20. Tendon (5) 21. Go backwards (7)

24/4

DOWN 1. Expanse of water (5) 2. Resoluteness (13) 3. Annoys (9) 4. Jacks (6) 5. Local area network (abbr) (3) 6. Disposal of excess goods (9,4) 7. Bullfighter (7) 11. Economising (9) 12. Strongly dislikes (7) 14. Whiner (6) 17. Ales (5) 19. Pull a vehicle (3)

Previous solution: ale, ales, lase, laze, lazes, lea, leas, sal, sale, sea, seal, sez, zeal, zeals.

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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9 1 6 4

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MEDIUM

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Previous cryptic solution

TODAY’S GOALS: Good – 8 Excellent – 10 Amazing – 12

Previous solution: APERTURE

Your Stars

ACROSS 1. Charges positioned in the semi-confusion. (7) 5. In a date fateful for Caesar, Latin does nothing (5) 8. One playing with one has right to follow wrong parent (7) 9. Flower has a part to play in Shakespeare (5) 10. Parts of train I rage about when there are limos around (9) 12. Sheep you and I turn east (3) 13. Beat will disappear in this dance (5) 17. Spare one for the wife (3) 19. Mother of invention, and sense City made of it (9) 21. Scold child for dropping fifty at start of exam (5) 22. Half of them get net in a mess when rising above others (7) 24. Study in need of make-over if it has a film of dirt (5) 25. Letters could provide support bridge-builders need (7) DOWN 1. One Member has piece of legislation to create collision (6) 2. Show left for yachtsman on the beam (7) 3. The world of fashion starts to overtake nature (3) 4. Gesture calling for silence when on the mat (5) 5. They buy shares to sort veins out (9) 6. Mislay nothing in the middle if it’s licentious (5) 7. Is merciful with the parts one uses for repairs (6) 11. In the Northeast, style changes with depth of feeling (9) 14. It is apparent I had to appear in horse competition (7) 15. Care not to finish back in bed if toned up (6) 16. Try lemon, on leaving out evergreen (6) 18. Heavenly joy Arthur achieved as a composer (5) 20. The thorax may have treasure in it (5) 23. Sat with this angry feeling of humour being ironic (3)

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PO Box 472, 7740. Messages to Ashburton Cunneen family, In flowers donations to POlieu Boxof472, Ashburton 7740. 13 Min,ofChristchurch Hospital In lieu flowers donations to Helipad. A Requiem Mass to 13 Min, Christchurch Hospital celebrateA Malcolm’s life will Helipad. Requiem Mass to be held at Malcolm’s the Churchlifeof will the celebrate HolyheldName, be at the Sealy Church Street, of the Ashburton on FRIDAY, April Holy Name, Sealy Street, 27, commencing at 1.30pm. Ashburton on FRIDAY, April Followed by at 1.30pm. private 27, commencing interment. Followed by private Paterson’s Funeral Services interment.

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DEATHS

CUNNEEN, Malcolm Richard – On April 23, 2018 passed away peacefully at Radius Millstream, Ashburton. Aged 88 years. Much loved and loving husband of June for 63 years. Dearly loved father and father-in-law of Philippa and Murray Grayburn, Chris and Julie Cunneen, and Janey and Alistair Chapman. Much loved and respected Grandad of Matthew and Marie-Claire, and Sarah Grayburn; Hayley Cunneen and Rob McGuinness, Sean, and Andrew Cunneen; Emma and Henry Ross, and Tim Chapman. Great Grandad to Ruby and Toby Ross who adored “Their Grandad.” Safe in the arms of Jesus. Now with his parents Eileen and Malcolm (Jerry) Cunneen, his brother Bishop John Cunneen and his sister Millicent Gresham. Rest in peace, will be sadly missed. Messages to Cunneen family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flowers donations to 13 Min, Christchurch Hospital Helipad. A Requiem Mass to celebrate Malcolm’s life will be held at the Church of the Holy Name, Sealy Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY, April 27, commencing at 1.30pm. Followed by private interment. Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

Please note all late death LEONARD, Robert notices orJohn notices sent – With deep regret we advise outside ordinary office hoursof the sudden must bepassing emailed of to: John (J.R.) at Ashburton Hospital, deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz in histo 88th year, on April 19, ensure publication. 2018. Loved husband of the To place a notice duringand late Noeline. Father office hours please contact father-in-law of Bruce and 03 307and 7900Gavin Rose,us on Alison for more information Fuller, Stuart and Diane, Gary and Barb. Grandad John of Any queries Megan and Joel Freedman please contact (Sydney), Peter and 0800Haley, Lizzy, Jayden,ASHBURTON and Liam. Great Grandad of Philip (0800-274-287) Freedman. Messages to the Leonard family c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A celebration of John’s life will be held at the Lauriston Memorial Hall, (Lauriston, Ashburton) on THURSDAY, April 26, commencing at 11.00am. Followed by a private interment.

D EATHS John Robert – LEONARD, With deep regret advise– of LEONARD, Johnwe Robert the passing of John Withsudden deep regret we advise of (J.R.) at Ashburton the sudden passing Hospital, of John in his 88th year, on Hospital, April 19, (J.R.) at Ashburton 2018. Lovedyear, husband of 19, the in his 88th on April late Father of and 2018. Noeline. Loved husband the father-in-law Bruce and late Noeline.of Father Rose, Alisonof and father-in-law BruceGavin and Fuller, Stuart Diane,Gavin Gary Rose, Alisonand and and John of Fuller,Barb. StuartGrandad and Diane, Gary Megan andGrandad Joel Freedman and Barb. John of (Sydney),andPeter Haley, Megan Joel and Freedman Lizzy, Jayden, Liam. (Sydney), Peter and Haley, Great Jayden, Grandad and of Philip Lizzy, Liam. Freedman. Messages the Great Grandad of toPhilip Leonard family c/- POto Box Freedman. Messages the 472, Ashburton A Leonard family c/- 7740. PO Box celebration of John’s life will 472, Ashburton 7740. A be held atof John’s the Lauriston celebration life will Memorial be held atHall,the (Lauriston, Lauriston Ashburton) on THURSDAY, Memorial Hall, (Lauriston, April 26, on commencing at Ashburton) THURSDAY, 11.00am. by ata April 26, Followed commencing private interment. 11.00am. Followed by a Paterson’s Funeral Services private interment. FDANZFuneral Ashburton Paterson’s Services Ph 307 7433 FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

McLAUCHLAN, Barry R.H. – Passed away peacefully McLAUCHLAN, Barry R.H. at – Radius Millstream on April 21, Passed away peacefully at 2018. Son of the late Jim and Radius Millstream on April 21, Frances Dearly 2018. SonMcLauchlan. of the late Jim and loved brother and brother-inFrances McLauchlan. Dearly law ofbrother Bruce and andbrother-inBarbara, loved June ofandBruce John and Fahey, Peter law Barbara, and Barbara, and June and JohnElizabeth Fahey, Peter Alan Cornwall. and Barbara, Elizabeth and Alan Cornwall. STRINGER, Blair – 19-02-1932 – 20-04-2018. STRINGER, Blair – Passed peacefully 19-02-1932away – 20-04-2018. surroundedaway by family and Passed peacefully friends. surrounded Adored by family and cherished husband of Shirley friends. Adored and Canterbury owned, for 62 years. Loving father cherished husband of Shirley locally operated and father-in-law of Barbara for 62 years. Loving father Peter, Vicki of andBarbara Gary. and father-in-law Loving Poppa of and LouisGary. and and Peter, Vicki Maddison; Jordan Loving Poppa of and LouisAnna, and Josef and Jordan Emily, and and Anna, great Maddison; Grandpoppa Josef and Emily,of and Lucy. great Messages to the Grandpoppa of Stringer Lucy. family, c/- toPOtheBoxStringer 472, Messages Ashburton In lieu472, of family, c/- 7740. PO Box Office and Chapel flower donations Ashburton 7740. toIn Gideons lieu of Corner East Cox International wouldto&be much flower donations Gideons appreciated may left International would bebemuch Streets, and Ashburton at the service. celebration appreciated andA may be left of Blair’s life will held at at the service. A be celebration the Baptist of Blair’sAshburton life will be held at Church, Cass Street, on the Ashburton Baptist THURSDAY, Church, Cass April Street, 26, on commencing at 2.00pm. THURSDAY, April 26, Paterson’s Funeral Services commencing at 2.00pm.

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Canterbury High Country

TODAY

Areas of cloud. Isolated showers south of Ashburton, clearing in the evening. Northwesterly breezes, dying out in the evening.

FZL: About 2500m

Cloudy with patchy light rain south of Lake Tekapo, mainly fine farther north. Wind at 1000m: Westerlies 35 km/h, dying out in the evening. Wind at 2000m: Westerlies 50 km/h, easing to southwest 30 km/h evening.

TOMORROW

Fine. Northeasterlies developing in the afternoon.

TOMORROWFZL: 2600m, 3000m in the afternoon

THURSDAY

Fine. Wind at 1000m: Westerly 30 km/h. Wind at 2000m: Southwest 40 km/h.

FRIDAY

THURSDAY

Mainly fine, high cloud developing. Northeasterlies strengthening. Becoming cloudy, rain developing. Northerlies becoming strong, turning southwest later.

Mainly fine, high cloud thickening. Winds turning northwesterly, gale later.

SATURDAY

Becoming cloudy, with rain developing. Northwest gale, possibly severe gale for a time. Changing southwest at low levels.

FRIDAY

Rain easing to drizzle and becoming confined to inland areas. Southerlies easing.

World Weather

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 162.1 Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 4:00 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:05 pm, yesterday

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Canterbury Readings

Thursday

4:53 11:06 5:15 11:34 5:52 12:02 6:13 12:31 6:46 12:56 7:07 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

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Forecasts for today

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Tuesday, 24 April 2018

A ridge lies over the North Island while a trough weakens as it moves up the South Island today. The trough is followed tomorrow by another ridge spreading across the country from the west. The ridge moves northeastwards on Thursday allowing westerlies and fronts to affect the lower South Island.

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STRINGER, Blair – 19-02-1932 – 20-04-2018. Passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Adored and cherished husband of Shirley for 62 years. Loving father and father-in-law of Barbara and Peter, Vicki and Gary. Loving Poppa of Louis and Maddison; Jordan and Anna, Josef and Emily, and great Grandpoppa of Lucy. Messages to the Stringer family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flower donations to Gideons International would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A celebration of Blair’s life will be held at the Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Hydes Street, on 027 437 9696 Mick THURSDAY, April 26, commencing at 2.00pm. mick.hydes@bayleys.co.nz

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6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 Ben 10 – Alien Force 6:50 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 0 7:15 League Of Super Evil 0 7:40 Duck Dodgers 3 8:05 Max Steel 3 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 The Moe Show 0 9:20 Jeopardy 3 9:50 The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 10:20 The Doctors PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 Escape To The Country 3 12:40 Ed PGR 0 1:35 Married With Children PGR 2:05 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 5pm Frasier 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm American Restoration 0 6:30 Pawn Stars 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Great British Bake Off In Italian week, the bakers face a Sicilian signature, a deceptively tricky technical, and a fiddly showstopper in the highest temperatures recorded in the tent. 0 8:35 The Seventies PGR 9:35 Mayday AO 10:30 Superior Donuts PGR 0

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 Dora Matatoa 2 7:10 Te Mana Kuratahi 7:40 Pukana 3 2 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Te Kaea 3 2 8:30 KaweKorero 3 9am Swagger 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Kai Ora 3 10:30 Celebrity Playlist 3 11am Waka Huia 3 Noon School Of Hard Knocks PGR 12:30 Billy T James AO 3 1pm The GC PGR 3 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Waiata Mai 3:10 Dora Matatoa 2 3:40 Te Mana Kuratahi 4:10 Pukana 3 2 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Fresh 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Uri Taniwha 6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm KaweKorero 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm The Topp Twins – Do Not Adjust Your Twinset 8:30 Beyond The Battalion 3 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10pm Whawhai 10:30 SmackDown AO 3

11pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more. Midnight The Crowd Goes Wild PGR 3 The team presents the best of the day’s sports news. 12:30 Closedown

11:30 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 Midnight Closedown 5:20 L The Auckland Dawn Service Leah Te Whata looks at the setup of the ceremony, with Alison Mau and Julian Wilcox hosting at the dawn parade and service from the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

MOVIES GREATS 7:35 Into The Blue MVL 2005 Action. Jessica Alba, Paul Walker. 9:25 Bad Teacher 16LS 2011 Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake. 11am The Losers MVL 2010 Action. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans. 12:35 Georgia Rule MLS 2007 Drama. Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan. 2:25 Into The Blue MVL 2005 Action. Jessica Alba, Paul Walker. 4:15 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck. 6:10 The Hunger Games MV 2012 Sci-fi Adventure. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth. 8:30 American Reunion 16LSC 2012 Comedy. A decade later, the classmates are together again for their high-school reunion and, in one long-overdue weekend, they discover distance cannot break the bonds of friendship. Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann Scott, Tara Reid. 10:25 Unstoppable ML 2010 Action. Denzel Washington, Chris Pine.

WEDNESDAY

12:05 The Rite MV 2011 Horror. Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue. 1:55 Out Of The Furnace 16VLC 2013 Thriller. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck. 3:50 American Reunion 16LSC 2012 Comedy. 5:40 Unstoppable ML 2010 Action.

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SKY SPORT 1

6am The Living Room 7am Junk Gypsies 7:30 Love Nature – Africa’s Trees Of Life 8:30 American Pickers 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things – Best Bites 10am Luke Nguyen’s Food Trail 10:30 Treasures Decoded 11:30 Dara And Ed’s Road To Mandalay 12:30 Coastal Railways With Julie Walters 1:30 Heritage Rescue 2:30 Travel Man – 48 Hours In 3pm Love London 3:30 Love Nature – Arctic Dilemma 4:30 Jamie’s Great Britain Jamie travels to Yorkshire to sample Yorkshire puddings and ale, Jewish chicken soup, Persian delicacies, Chinese cuisine, and Eccles cakes. 5:30 Cash Cowboys 6:30 Animal Park 7:30 Location, Location, Location Kirstie and Phil catch up with two sets of house buyers, two women in the south, and one in the north, who presented particularly challenging briefs. 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Money For Nothing 10:30 Cash Cowboys 11:30 Jamie’s Great Britain Jamie travels to Yorkshire to sample Yorkshire puddings and ale, Jewish chicken soup, Persian delicacies, Chinese cuisine, and Eccles cakes. 12:30 Junk Gypsies 1am Animal Park 2am Love Nature – Arctic Dilemma 3am Heritage Rescue 4am Location, Location, Location 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

SKY SPORT 2

6am Aussie Rules – AFL (RPL) St Kilda v GWS Giants. 9am Bowls – Premier League (HLS) Day One. 10am Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Valero Texas Open Event. 11am Golf – European Tour (HLS) Trophee Hassan II Event. 11:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Hugel-JTBC Championship – Round Four. Noon Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v Dragons. 12:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sunday. 1pm Bowls – Premier League (HLS) Day One. 2pm Golf Central 3pm Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Valero Texas Open Event. 4pm Golf – European Tour (HLS) Trophee Hassan II Event. 4:30 Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Hugel-JTBC Championship – Round Four. 5pm Cricket – IPL (HLS) Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians. 5:30 Cricket – IPL (HLS) Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils. 6pm AFL Weekly Highlights 6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Reds v Chiefs. 8:30 The Breakdown 9:30 The Back Page 10:30 The Golf Show 11:30 Golf – PGA Tour Valero Texas Open Event.

6am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Sharks v Panthers. From Southern Cross Group Stadium, Cronulla. 8am NRL 360 9am Big League Wrap 10am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Cowboys v Titans. Noon Cricket – IPL (RPL) Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils. 3:30 Cycling – Tour Of Croatia (RPL) Stage Six. 5:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Valero Texas Open Event. From TPC San Antonio in AT&T Oaks, San Antonio. 6:30 Golf Central 7:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) Trophee Hassan II Event. From Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, Morocco. 8pm Super League Fulltime 8:30 NRL 360 9:30 The Fan 10pm Queenslanders Only 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 11pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Saturday. Coverage of Rabbitohs v Raiders, Tigers v Knights and Cowboys v Titans. 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Broncos v Storm. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

12:30 Golf – European Tour (HLS) Trophee Hassan II Event. 1am Motorsport – Nascar Xfinity Series (HLS) Toyotacare 250. 2am L Cycling – Tour De Romandie Prologue. 4am Rugby – Super Rugby (RPL) Blues v Highlanders.

Midnight NRL Try Time 1am NRL 360 2am The Fan 2:30 Queenslanders Only 3am The Back Page 4am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Eels v Sea Eagles.

WEDNESDAY

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

WEDNESDAY

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Deadliest Catch PG Bad Moon. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Mashed. 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Marital Maintenance. 10am Fast ‘n’ Loud PG This is so Farfegnugen. 10:50 Diesel Brothers – Power Hour PG Lifted. 11:40 Swamp Murders M Good Friday, Deadly Friday. 12:30 Blood Relatives M Fresh Heir. 1:20 Evil Lives Here M 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Hail Mary, Full of Crab. 4:45 What On Earth? PG Dracula’s Tomb. 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Bad Ass 1. 6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG This is So Farfegnugen. 7:30 Battlebots PG 8:30 What On Earth? PG Hitler’s Lost Gold. 9:25 Street Science PG 9:50 Street Science PG Human Cannonball. 10:15 Finding Escobar’s Millions PG La Familia. 11:05 Naked And Afraid M Lord of the Rats. 11:55 Evil Lives Here M

WEDNESDAY

12:45 Blood Relatives M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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Sport

Chris Talbot is all concentration as she rolls her way to success in the NZ Mixed Fours qualifying tournament on the weekend while Helen Rennie considers her next shot. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 210418-TM-103

Next-up: the nationals Willowby’s Grant Wilson and Methven’s Chris Talbot have taken the first step towards national glory by winning the district round of the New Zealand Mixed Pairs on Saturday. The duo, who were also the defending champions in the local competition, fought off the challenge of four other mixed pairings in a round-robin style tournament to claim success. Despite being light on numbers, the tournament was still a closely fought affair. Talbot and Wilson managed two and a half wins out of their first three games to

put them in the box seat heading into the final round of play. It was then determined halfway through that final match that no other team could actually surpass the pair and they were declared the winners over Mark Sheard and Helen Rennie, who finished with two wins from their four matches. Wilson and Talbot will now head to the Zone Playoff where they will face teams from Canterbury, South Canterbury and North Otago. The winner of that tournament qualifies to play in the national final against five

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other zone winners later in the season. Meanwhile on Sunday the Ashburton representative team made a good start to what will be a busy season with a comprehensive victory in their first fixture for the season against North Canterbury in Rangiora. Ashburton put a squad of 24 out on the mats with a good mixture of experience and skill and were well rewarded. They began the day strongly to have an unassailable lead at the half-way point of the day in which teams were playing fours, pairs and singles.

Things didn’t quite continue after the lunch break however, although they did enough to win the round and the overall tie 58 wins to North Canterbury’s 26. Junior bowler, Taylor Mackenzie, finished with the best record of the Ashburton players for the day with five wins and one draw from her six matches, with a host of other players snaring five wins for the day. The next representative fixture for the season comes against South Canterbury in a fortnight ahead of the annual clash with Ellesmere.

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