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BY RUBY HARFIELD

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A national education crisis is causing problems for Mid Canterbury’s only intermediate school.

Ashburton Intermediate School has been unable to find a successful candidate to take up the principal’s position since Gavin Cooper left in September last year.

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Chris Murphy said the school was suffering a triple whammy with the unpopularity of intermediate schools, principal positions and working in regions.

“There are a number of intermediate schools that have had to go out more than once to attract a principal.”

Prospective principal applicants were wary about applying for positions at intermediate schools due to the institutions not being in favour with Education Minister Hekia Parata.

There have been concerns in the education world that because of this some may close. There were certainly none that have opened recently, Mr Murphy said.

“Nobody wants to be the principal of a school that closes.”

Attracting a principal to any school is

also difficult because of the extra workload of the position.

Many teachers, when they get to that stage in their career, stay as deputy principals because there is a lot more work that comes with being a principal, he said. “It’s not for all teachers … it’s an extremely difficult job.”

Nationally it was also hard to attract people away from cities, with many not wanting to teach in regions, he said.

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■ HOSPITALITY BUSINESSES

Ashburton Trust confident of sales

By Sue newman

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The bids are in and the Ashburton Trust is quietly confident that by the end of next week three of its hospitality businesses will have new owners.

While it’s remaining tightlipped on the number of offers received for the Tinwald Tavern and Motels, Speight’s Alehouse and The Somerset Grocer, trust chief executive Robert Reid said he believed sales would be clinched.

“The level of interest in all three was great,” he said.

Not all of that interest translated into sales when the selling period closed last night, but there were sufficient offers lodged to give the trust confidence in a positive outcome, Mr Reid said.

“The board is still considering offers from several parties and we expect to make a decision by Thursday.”

When a decision on purchasers was made, the trust planned to work with the new owners to make a joint statement on the future of the businesses, he said.

The trust decided earlier this

year that it would move away from running hospitality business and reshape itself as a landlord only. It made the change to ensure it was able to make a higher level of return of money to the community through the Lion Foundation and other grants and sponsorship.

When the decision to sell the three businesses was announced, trust board chairman Alister Lilley said the decision to sell and change focus had been made to ensure the trust had a solid future.

It had had a six-year stretch

where it had not made a trading profit and it wanted to change its direction while it was still in the driving seat, he said.

At that time, the trust board stated that it would not be selling the businesses at a discounted rate; the listings were not indicative of a fire sale.

“But if we don’t change the model, the debt level will go from zero to $20 million in 10 years, so doing nothing is not an option,” Mr Lilley said at the time.

The failure to make a trading profit came not through a lack of

patronage but because of things such as high overheads trusts carried because of their public responsibility and high audit costs, he said.

When the sales deals are signed, the trust will remain in business, but as a landlord only and that would shore up the income stream for the community for the future, Mr Lilley said.

The Hotel Ashburton will go up for sale next month, but the trust intends to retain the Devon Tavern business because it is uncertain of the future of that site.

■ ASHBURTON BAKER

Matt’s had many buns in the oven

By Caitlin Porter

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Matt Harvey’s bakery is flat-out in the lead up to Easter, whipping up thousands of hot cross buns.

He and his fellow bakers have been mixing, kneading and baking 30 dozen hot cross buns every day to ensure the people of Mid Canterbury have something to pair with a cup of tea come Good Friday.

Just how busy the bun-making bakery is, fluctuates week to week, but Easter buns have been pouring out of the bakehouse for the past month, he said.

A master baker when it comes to hot cross buns, Mr Harvey prefers the traditional kind, although he and his staff do get requests for fruitless buns and, occasionally, even chocolate.

Last night was a particularly long one for Mr Harvey. After a

Another day, another batch of hot cross buns for baker Matt Harvey.

quick nap at lunchtime he was preparing to get stuck back into bun baking at 8pm and expected

to work through the night.

While the orders are piling up Mr Harvey said many people still

come in to buy half a dozen here and there. After Easter Mr Harvey and his team won’t slow down

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■ ASHBURTON COLLEGE

German students enjoy time at college

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This has always been difficult and is still the case.

“It all adds up … it’s something that I think is an issue that’s been raised nationally.”

Ashburton Intermediate School board of trustees chairman Mike Farrell said they have advertised the position twice and have had one lot of interviews, but have not found the right candidate.

The board has since applied for special funding from the Ministry of Education to make the position more financially attractive for a principal coming to Ashburton.

The board will wait until this is approved before advertising again in the hope of receiving more applications.

“We felt it was in the best interests of the school to make sure we’ve got the right person.”

There is no reason for a principal not to want to work at Ashburton Intermediate School as it is an excellent institution for young adults to transition from primary to secondary school, he said.

“It’s an opportunity for them to grow and get to know themselves better.”

Judy Jemmett will remain in the position of acting principal until a new appointment is made.

A group of Germans have been fully immersed in New Zealand culture during a two-and-a-half month exchange to Ashburton College.

Five German students arrived in New Zealand last month and have been staying with Ashburton College students during their annual exchange with the European county.

Ashburton College German teacher and exchange co-ordinator, Ken Pow, said the Ashburton College students spent December to February in Germany and the international students would spend February until May in Ashburton, a total of about two-anda-half months each.

The programme has been running for three years and is a great way for students to improve their language skills and ability to understand either spoken German or English, he said.

It was also good for the students, who are mostly 16, to be fully immersed in another culture.

They all loved it and got to go on amazing trips with their host families, Mr Pow said.

Ashburton College student Millie Hopwood, 16, said her time in Germany was fantastic with the highlight being able to have a white Christmas and spend her birthday in Germany.

“It was great to be able to ex-

A group of German exchange students will be at Ashburton College with their Kiwi buddies until May. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 230316-AK-016 perience a completely different culture.”

Millie stayed with Berte Cremers, 16, who is now in New Zealand until May and the two have vowed they will be friends for life.

Berte said the trip had really improved her English and she had enjoyed experiencing a New Zea-

land school, which is completely different to her one in Germany.

Lewis Potts, 17, said he also enjoyed his trip to Germany because he got to experience the other side of the world.

He had never been to Europe before and found it such a big place and so easy to get to dif-

ferent countries. His buddy, Nils Rendel, 17, said he had been loving the scenery in New Zealand which is beautiful and so different from Germany.

There are also three German students who are spending a year at Ashburton College as international students.

Water-bottling proposal on at-risk land

By Sue NewmaN

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The groundwater consent that is part of a potential sale of land in Ashburton’s north-east business park, is in the heart of an area logged by Environment Canterbury as at high risk of nitrate contamination.

On Tuesday the Ashburton District Council confirmed it was in negotiations with a buyer who was interested in establishing a water bottling plant at the park.

The 10-hectare site comes with a consent for abstraction from local aquifers. This was granted by Environment Canterbury in 2011.

The bore is required to be a minimum of 95 metres deep to ensure it does not impact on wells within two kilometres. This could also put it at the outer edge of potential contamination from nitrates.

While there are no guarantees, Ecan groundwater science manager Carl Hanson confirmed that a well sunk to that depth was like-

ly to have only minimal nitrate infiltration, if any.

“It’s quite likely the concentrations would be low but we’d still strongly recommend anyone gets the well tested,” Dr Hanson said.

Wells that were part of the Ecan testing regime in the north east area of Ashburton were generally shallower, 50 metres or less, but purity could only be assured if a well was tested, he said.

Consent details for the business park well show the consent is on

lot nine, the area at the top, north west corner, bounded by Works Road, JB Cullen Drive and the main trunk railway line.

The consent is listed as inactive.

It lapses in September this year and expires in August 2046. It allows up to 45 litres of water per second to be taken, with a daily limit of 3888 cubic metres per day, 1,419,120 cubic metres per year.

A condition of the consent is that the water from this well can only be used for commercial pur-

poses associated with a ‘wet industry’ located on Lot 9.

Running alongside the consent to take water is a second consent that will see more water returned to land than is taken from the aquifers.

The discharge site will be at the corner of Mitcham and Winchmore-Dromore Roads and the consent requires water to be discharged at a continuous rate of not less than 60 litres per second, 15 litres more than is taken.

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■ FONTERRA

In brief

Early dividend won’t ease pain

By NadiNe Porter

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Fonterra’s first half-year $409 million net profit is what farmers expected, but an earlier dividend payment is not expected to ease shareholder pain.

Chairman John Wilson announced a 20 cent dividend would be paid earlier in April to help support farmers cashflow, followed by 10 cents in May and 10 cents in August.

“The timing of these payments is a specific response to the current, very challenging, financial conditions farmers are facing and does not signal any intention to move away from Fonterra’s normal practice of twiceyearly dividends paid in April and October.”

The board did not extend the voluntary loan scheme of 50 cents per share (to be paid back when the milk price reached $6 per kilogram of milk solids) al-

Mid Canterbury dairy farmer Tom Mason said while an early dividend helped cashflow, it wouldn’t help profitability.

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though Mr Wilson confirmed the board had considered it.

For Mid Canterbury farmer and former Nuffield scholar Tom

Mason, the profit was not a surprising result.

“I would expect at a time of low commodity prices that Fonterra should be very profitable and should be able to pay high dividends.”

Mr Mason has shares in Fonterra, as well as supplying milk to Synlait and Fonterra’s non shared up division MyMilk.

While the April dividend helped cashflow, he said, it wouldn’t help profitability.

“It brings more income earlier but if you’ve still got a $4 pay-out price you’re going to run out of money next season.”

Mr Mason said an extension of the voluntary loan might have helped some individuals but it wouldn’t help the industry as a whole.

“We need to face up to the reality of low milk prices and make changes to our farming system…

There’s nothing wrong in being

in the commodity business as long as you are at the bottom end of cost structures and can ride out fluctuations.”

Fonterra also announced 235 million litres of milk was converted into higher returning consumer and foodservice products – building on the additional 600 million litres from the previous year.

Chief executive Theo Spierings said the co-operative was achieving operational efficiencies on its Chinese farms but current global economic conditions remained challenging.

Fonterra Shareholders Council Chairman Ducan Coull said the results were encouraging but said it was important the board continued to drive the business forward, as the performance of some business units including Australia, Venezuela and China Farms were having a negative effect.

Ashburton airfield buzzing with activity Ashburton has been a plane spotters paradise this week as aircraft of all shapes, sizes and ages stopped off at the Ashburton Airfield on their way south to Wanaka’s Easter air show.

From Sunday the air field has been buzzing with aircraft that have called in to refuel while pilots and passengers stretched their legs before heading south to the four-day international festival, Warbirds Over Wanaka.

Mid Canterbury Aero Club instructor Tracy Palmer said the visitors had attracted a large number of local aviation fans, keen to check out the planes and talk to their owners.

Arrivals and departures were almost non-stop on Tuesday he said, with the highlight for spectators the stop-over by teams of Harvard and Yak aircraft.

“They were pretty impressive and great to watch. A lot of locals were flocking around and it was almost like a mini-airshow for a while,” he said.

Aviation enthusiast Murray

Wheat and Wheels An article in yesterday’s Guardian did not give the date for the Ashburton District’s big Wheat and Wheels Rally. The event will be held on April 2 and 3 on Peter Butterick’s Wakanui property and has attracted thousands of entries and exhibits.

Local man arrested A 36-year-old Ashburton male was arrested for possession of a knife in a public place in the vicinity of Cameron Street yesterday. The man is to appear in the Ashburton District Court on April 11.

St John call-outs St John was alerted at 11.18am on Tuesday to a woman who had fallen over at the corner of Cass Street and Havelock Street. An ambulance transported the woman, in her early 70s, to Ashburton Hospital with moderate injuries. St John also attended a motor vehicle accident at 12.07pm on Tuesday, on Wills Street. Ambulance staff assessed two patients at the scene but neither had injuries.

Carpark fall Police are continuing to investigate why a car with two people inside drove off the fourth storey of a car park building in Auckland on Tuesday night. A 30-year-old woman is in a critical condition with severe head injuries and a 39-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in Auckland City Hospital. Police said the car appeared to have fallen from the car park building onto York Road in Newmarket at around 8.40pm.

It plunged from the upper storey and landed upturned on top of another car which was parked in the street.

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A stop for fuel and to stretch their legs and another plane takes off from Ashburton Airport on its way to the Easter aviation extravaganza, Warbirds Over Wanaka.

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Monday and will feature a lineup of in-air and on-ground events featuring national and international pilots and their aircraft.

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Police warning – be safe this Easter

By Erin TaskEr

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Ashburton police are keeping their fingers crossed that Easter 2016 will be one they can sign off as the long weekend when nothing much happened.

As traffic starts to build up through Ashburton today, police are issuing warning to motorists to play by the rules on the road to give emergency services an incident free weekend.

They’re also warning homeowners to make sure their properties are burglar-proofed if they’re planning on heading out of town for the four-day break.

“We want everyone in our communities to have a happy and safe Easter, whether travelling on the roads, out socialising, or heading into the great outdoors,” acting assistant commissioner for road policing and prevention Dave Trappitt said.

People needed to take it easy on the alcohol, look after themselves and their mates, and make a plan to get home safely, which included buckling up, sticking to the speed limit, and not drinking and driving.

“The last thing any of the services want is to have to attend a serious or fatal crash that could have been prevented,” Mr Trappitt said.

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erations Norma Lane said St John ambulance officers saw firsthand the devastating effects of road crashes.

“We hope that making motorists more aware of the serious consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, not wearing seatbelts, or a moment of distraction, will help to reduce the risk of road crashes this Easter,” Ms Lane said.

This Easter police will be fo-

cused on impaired driving, where all drivers stopped can expect to be breath tested, and safer speeds, with the low speed threshold once again being enforced.

They’ll also focus on those putting others at risk by using their cellphone while driving, and ensure everyone wears a seatbelt.

The official Easter Holiday period begins at 4pm Thursday, and ends at 6am Tuesday.

Chorus to investigate liability By susan sandys

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Contractors return to work yesterday after accidentally cutting internet cables on Mt Hutt Station Road.

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Chorus says it will seek to recover the costs of repairing cut cables following Methven losing internet services on Tuesday.

Methven’s town centre and residential area, representing more than 800 households and businesses, lost internet from about 9.30am to about 5pm.

Contractors installing power infrastructure for EA Networks cut through cables on Mt Hutt Station Road, near the Waimarama Road turnoff.

Greg Donaldson of Greg Donaldson Contracting said his staff were working off a plan of where internet cables were supposed to

be. He understood Chorus was investigating liability, but because the cable line was not true to the plan, it was not his company’s problem.

EA Networks network manager Brendon Quinn said Chorus would be talking to the contractor regarding recouping costs, and not EA Networks. The plan the contractor was working off would have been provided by Chorus.

Chorus spokesperson Nathan Beaumont said the outage impacted telephone, broadband and cell services.

“We will be seeking to recover the costs of the repairs from the responsible party,” Mr Beaumont said. If any individual business-

es wanted compensation, they would have to talk to their internet service providers in the first instance.

The town’s BNZ bank was only able to do limited transactions.

While the bank’s national media team said the branch had to close from 11.15am, a Methven staff member clarified yesterday it closed only for about 10 minutes.

The outage also meant the town post office had to turn away customers wanting to undertake land transport transactions.

Methven Medical Centre staff were frustrated by not being able to make referrals to specialists, or use email. It also lost eftpos facilities.

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Home-made goodies sold on the street Stocking the fridge and pantry for Easter was made a little easier for people shopping in Ashburton yesterday with a streetside stall stocked with a range of cakes, pickles, preserves and produce. Members of St Andrew’s Church (from left) Margaret Gundry and Joyce Johnson White were busy ďŹ lling bags with goodies.

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Ashburton County Lions representative Carolyn Nelson hands over the Easter treats to Presbyterian Support student social worker Gemma Smith.

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Easter treats for families Families in need around Mid Canterbury will be treated to a little surprise this Easter thanks to the Ashburton County Lions.

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OUR VIEW

Water, our next big export?

Sue Newman

ACTING EDITOR

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ater is a resource we all take for granted.

We expect to turn on the tap and have pure, drinkable liquid flow, we expect to turn on our showers or garden hoses and have the same occur.

Threaten a water supply and quite rightly people are quick to anger, but often that threat is more perceived than real.

The Ashburton District Council is in negotiation with a potential buyer for one of its sites at the Ashburton Business Park.

The site is a large one and comes with a consent to take groundwater and to discharge water to land.

What should be a simple business deal has become muddied by emotion, with a growing number of people concerned about the business this new business might be doing – bottling water for commercial gain.

Bottled water is a fact of life in many countries and in New Zealand it appears to be the drink of choice for a growing number of people.

Water is drawn from the ground and bottled in many parts of New Zealand, but a suggestion this could occur in Ashburton has raised all sorts of concerns.

People living near the new well fear that another on the network will lessen supply for the rest, others are opposed, philosophically, to anyone making money from “our water”.

The reality is that this is a business deal like any other. Commercial operators buy land and grow crops in “our soil” for their own gain; harvesting water is no different.

If this deal goes ahead there will be more wins than losses for the Ashburton District. We’ll gain a new, and by all accounts, a very large business.

It will need staff, staff will need somewhere to live and somewhere to shop.

If this deal goes ahead we’ll all benefit.

The safeguards are there to ensure the business can only take a set amount of water from its bore.

It can do what it likes with that water providing it returns a greater amount to land. Water in, more water out.

There’s no detail around whether the buyer is on-shore or off, but at the end of the day, what does it matter, the safeguards and the benefits are the same.

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Should all schools ban sugary drinks?

Yes 76.67%

No 23.33%

Today’s online poll question Q: Do you prefer hot cross buns or Easter eggs?

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s Easter approaches, Donald Trump is somehow being compared to another anticipated “Saviour” of his time, Jesus Christ, no less.

As did the Jews see Christ as the man who would rid them of the hated Roman Rule, and bring back their self pride, pride in their nation, and the good times generally, so Americans, apparently, see Mr Trump doing a modern variation of the same thing for them, his “fellow Americans”.

At least, that is what we were led/asked to believe by a young priest who came to our staid, non-demonstrative, Anglican congregation last Sunday – Palm.

We understood, this fluent, good-looking – almost certainly “cool” – preacher is “somebody in the Diocese”, so had a certain amount of mana already built into his persona, thus giving him an aura of conviction, which we were invited to share.

The comparison seemed to make an encouraging impression amongst the thinly-spread parishioners. (We now operate from a recently and luxuriously appointed school auditorium after our church succumbed to the earthquakes, so the believers don’t need to come early to get a seat.) They could see where the speaker “was coming from”, and any obvious character differences between the two “rabble-rousers”, Trump and Christ, were not allowed to spoil the argument of the man from the Diocese.

What was not touched on was what happened next. Within a week of Jesus’ razzmatazz entry into Jerusalem on the back of a non-cool donkey he had “borrowed” for the occasion, he was dead.

What’s more, the means of his demise were at least as cruel and hideously painful as the waterboarding of which Mr Trump is said to approve.

The very same people who roared Christ into Jerusalem had, by the following Friday, done an about turn from him and now clamoured first, for the release of a local thug, behind bars on a

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No doubt, Donald Trump sees no likelihood of the same thing happening to him, either before he becomes the republican nominee for the presidency of the United States or, he hopes, when he has actually made it to the White House itself.

No, he will believe his angry rhetoric is what has got him there and to keep faith with his own mob he must continue in the same venomous vein.

Thus the belittling and the insults are likely to go on. Not so, Christ: “Forgive them for they know not what they do” was the Jesus line, a conciliatory approach to opposition entirely unknown to “The Trump” and one he would no doubt consider craven weakness, unlikely to go far towards making “America great again”, his constantly repeated goal.

Appealing as the upwardly mobile minister made his analogy between these two leaders – the one well established, the other keen to make his mark, there is too wide a character gap for it to have substance. Superficially

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seductive but also unsustainable.

However, though Donald Trump is a long way from being a latter day Christ, there must be a large number of Americans who apparently see him in that light.

What a sad reflection on the Obama years. Assuming the final hurdle turns out to be one too far for the strident Trump, how will Hillary Clinton handle the “wild fires” burning across her nation.

“First woman president confronts conflagration”.

So, while I give the reverend gentleman marks for trying, I feel Mr Trump is unlikely to become a saint or martyr anytime soon, or a rival in the heavenly ratings to the “The Son of God”.

The man in the dog collar has really been comparing apples with pears.

Meanwhile I doubt whether any of our political leaders see themselves as saviours-in-themaking, although I can’t be entirely sure about that.

The ambitions of MPs run very deep. Mr Little has said, were he to be elected next year, he “would put the Aussie banks in their place” as well as curb the inflow of foreign chefs when we already have enough of them in Aotearoa, as it is.

I, for one, was not aware of that but it’s obviously fighting talk from Andrew, even if the culinary cohort is now unlikely to vote for him.

Mr Key is, after all, and through unbelievably gritted teeth, going to have to pay the man who, the judge said, “inadvertently”, recorded the famous “tea party” tapes of his chat with Mr Banks so long ago. However, not he but we, it seems, will actually do the paying as the PM “inevitably” has a fund for that sort of thing.

So, Happy Easter everyone; a lot of thought has gone into it.

Hope the eggs, the rabbits and the chicks (chocolate or otherwise) will be sweet, the venerable hot-cross buns tasty, and finally, there’s a handy garden centre breaking the law nearby.

LATER NEWS We now have a new GovernorGeneral-in-Waiting, the “unknown”, Dame Patsy Reddy. What will also be known by later today is whether or not, when she takes office in September, she will be standing in front of the Fern or the Union Jack. I hope we all find some satisfaction in the result of the referendum, whichever way it goes!

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Blast suspect hunted Islamic State has claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital which killed at least 30 people.

Police issued a wanted notice for a young man in a hat who was caught on CCTV pushing a laden luggage trolley at Zaventem airport alongside two others who, investigators said, later blew themselves up in the terminal, killing at least 10 people.

Officials said about 20 died on the train close to European Union institutions. Islamic State said that too was a suicide attack. The tolls were vague because of the carnage at both sites.

Reports say over one hundred people have injured in the attacks.

The coordinated assault triggered security alerts across Europe and drew global expressions of support, four days after Brussels police had captured the prime surviving suspect in Islamic State’s attacks on Paris last November in which 130 people were killed.

Belgian authorities were still checking whether the attacks were linked to the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said, although Belgian security experts said the level of organisation involved suggested they had been in preparation for more than just a few days.

As the city began to emerge from a day of lockdown, a major police search operation was still under way after dark in the northern borough of Schaerbeek.

Investigators said they had found a nail bomb and an Islamic State flag in an apartment.

Private broadcaster VTM said police went to the area after a taxi driver reported driving three people to the airport and became suspicious when they did not let him touch their baggage.

Last week, explosives and an Islamic flag were found during a raid on an apartment in the south of Brussels.

Police also found a fresh fingerprint of Abdeslam’s there, putting them on to his trail. It was not clear if Abdeslam had been involved at that stage in planning the airport attack.

In a statement, Islamic State said “caliphate soldiers, strapped with suicide vests and carrying explosive devices and ma-

People holding a banner reading “I am Brussels” behind flowers and candles to mourn for the bombing victim. chine guns” had targeted the airport and metro station, adding that they had set off their vests amidst the crowds.

It was not clear, however, that the attackers used vests.

The suspects were photographed pushing bags on trolleys and witnesses said many of the airport dead and wounded were hit mostly in the legs, possibly indicating blasts at floor level.

“A photograph of three male suspects was taken at Zaventem.

Two of them seem to have committed

suicide attacks. The third, wearing a lightcoloured jacket and a hat, is actively being sought,” prosecutor Leeuw told a news conference.

A government official said the third suspect had been seen running away from the airport building. Police later found and detonated a third explosive device at the airport.

Belgian police appealed to travellers who had been at the airport and metro station to send in any photographs taken before the attacks in their efforts to help identify the

Teen survives second bomb Surviving a major bombing is the extraordinary — and repeated — situation that one Utah teen can live to tell about.

Mason Wells, a 19-yearold from Sandy, Utah, is expected to make a full recovery from the bombing attack at the Brussels airport Tuesday, which left him with a surgery scar, severed Achilles tendon, head gash, shrapnel injuries and severe burns.

Wells had once again Mason found himself at the center of a major attack — standing within feet of a bomb that exploded at the Belgian airport. The blasts in the Belgian capital killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens at the airport and a subway train.

Three years ago, Wells and his father felt

the ground shake and narrowly escaped death from an April 2013 attack in the US, when a pressure-cooker bomb exploded a block away from where they were watching his mother run the Boston Marathon.

“Hopefully he’s run his lifelong odds and we’re done,” said Chad Wells about the oldest of their five children. “I think it will make him a stronger person ... Maybe the Boston experience was there to Wells help him get through this experience.”

The former high school football and lacrosse player had four months left on his two-year Mormon mission, and was planning to major in engineering at the University of Utah next fall. He also wanted to reapply to the Naval Academy after barely

missing the cut after high school, his father said.

His father said he woke up to the latest news on the TV before calling his son’s mission president in France and found out his son was injured but alive. More than eight hours later, they finally spoke to their son, who was groggy and exhausted after surgery. The teen is in good spirits but his family is still figuring out when they’ll get to see him, and if he’ll finish his mission.

“I’m completely shocked by the news.

It’s the kind of thing as a parent you never, ever want to wake up to,” Chad Wells said.

“We’re just grateful that’s he lived through this experience.”

Other Mormon missionaries at the Brussels airport were also hospitalised. Richard Norby, 66, of Lehi, and Joseph Empey, 20, of Santa Clara, were with Wells and also hospitalised with serious injuries from the blast. Empey is doing well after being treated for second-degree burns to his hands, face and head.

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After questioning Abdeslam, police issued a wanted notice, identifying 25-yearold Najim Laachraoui as linked to the Paris attacks.

The poor quality of Tuesday’s CCTV images and of the Laachraoui wanted poster left open whether he might be the person caught on the airport cameras.

A lockdown imposed after the attacks was eased and commuters and students headed home as public transport partially reopened.

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Local farmer safe in hotel The family of a Methven man in Brussels were relieved on Tuesday night to find out he was okay following terrorist attacks in the city.

Methven farmer and Beef and Lamb New Zealand representative Richard Fitzgerald is attending an industry conference.

His wife Ruth said yesterday her daughter phoned her late on Tuesday after hearing news of the attacks.

She phoned her husband’s cell phone immediately, and he was able to soon phone her back to let her know he was okay.

“I knew he wasn’t near the airport, but I wasn’t sure where the conference was,” she said.

As it turned out, it was some distance away from the attacks in the Belgium city.

Nevertheless, some conference events had had to be cancelled, and delegates had been instructed not to leave the hotel. Additionally, there had been an heavy armed presence about the city.

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Clinton, Trump add to leads Under the shadow of overseas violence, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton padded their leads on Tuesday with victories in Arizona and attacked each other as the 2016 presidential contest turned into a clash over who could best deal with Islamic extremism.

Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders scored a win in Utah’s Democratic caucuses, claiming victory in the Western state as he tries to keep pace with Clinton who has a seemingly insurmountable lead in the delegate count. He netted some delegates in Utah, but not enough to make up for his loss to Clinton in Arizona.

Long lines and high interest marked primary elections across Arizona, Utah and Idaho that were largely an afterthought for much of the day as the world grappled with a new wave of bloody attacks in Europe. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for blasts at the airport and a subway train in Brussels that left dozens dead and many more wounded.

“This is about not only se-

lecting a president, but also selecting a commander-inchief,” Clinton said in Seattle as she condemned Trump by name and denounced his embrace of torture and hardline rhetoric aimed at Muslims.

“The last thing we need is leaders who incite more fear.”

Trump, in turn, branded Clinton as “Incompetent Hillary” in an interview with Fox News as he discussed her tenure as secretary of state.

“Incompetent Hillary doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” the billionaire businessman said. “She doesn’t have a clue.”

The back and forth between the front-runners came amid a frenzy of activity from voters eager to make their voices heard in the 2016 election.

In Utah, caucus-goers were dispatched by poll workers to local stores with orders buy reams of paper and photocopy fresh ballots amid huge turnout. The state Democratic Party’s website crashed due to high traffic.

In Arizona, voters waited two hours or more in some places to cast primary ballots, while police were called to

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Whistler’s Mother unveiled Whistler’s Mother, the 19th-century painting referenced in The Simpsons and infamously ruined by Mr Bean, has been unveiled in Australia for the first time. James McNeill Whistler’s 1871 masterpiece, portraying his stern-looking elderly mother sitting in profile, will hang at the National Gallery of Victoria following its unveiling on Wednesday. The imposing 1.6-metre high painting, actually titled Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, is one of the world’s most recognisable artworks thanks to countless references in pop culture. It has been parodied in The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and was most famously mocked in Rowan Atkinson’s Mr Bean movie.

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The results from Arizona didn’t bode well for Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich. They are running out of time to slow Trump and Clinton’s march toward acquiring all the delegates needed to

claim their parties’ nominations at the parties’ national conventions in July.

Trump’s Arizona victory gives him all of the state’s 58 delegates, while Arizona awards its delegates proportionally on the Democratic side.

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Staff focus on mental health

Obama arrives in Argentina

Emergency service bosses say changing the blokey culture in their organisations is key to reducing high suicide rates among frontline staff.

Chiefs from Fire and Rescue, Australian Federal Police, state police, ambulance services and the SES joined beyondblue in Sydney yesterday to discuss mental health problems crippling first responders.

NSW Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins said the service’s new 50:50 men to women ratio for its applicant intake scheme would help firefighters to seek help.

“I’ve been a firefighter for 45 years and I noticed the culture change 31 years ago when women started coming in. People started talking more,” he said.

“It’s still very blokey and that can make it tough for firefighters to say `I’ve got a problem’.”

On average, 15 firefighters are medically discharged each year in NSW due to psychological illness.

AFP chief operating officer Andrew Wood said a blokey culture coupled with team loyalty made it hard for individuals to admit they struggled. “People don’t realise that we had staff at the Bali bombings, the (Indian Ocean) tsunami and staff who view child abuse material, which is quite harmful.”

US President Barack Obama has arrived in Argentina to reset diplomatic relations and strengthen trade ties with a country that was part of South America’s left-wing bloc until pro-business President Mauricio Macri took power in December.

Obama’s two-day visit marks a rapprochement after years of sour relations and is a sign of support for Macri’s investorfriendly reforms aimed at opening up Latin America’s third biggest economy.

Obama and his family landed in Buenos Aires shortly after 1am on Wednesday and were met by Argentina’s foreign minister, Susana Malcorra, before being whisked away to the US ambassador’s residence.

The US leader will hold talks with Macri ahead of a joint press conference. He will also lay a wreath at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, where Pope Francis has celebrated Mass, and meet young entrepreneurs before attending a state dinner.

In his first 100 days in office, Macri lifted capital and trade controls, slashed bloated power subsidies and cut a debt deal with “holdout” creditors in the United States. US officials say Obama has been impressed by the pace of reform.

Yet Macri still has to grapple with doubledigit inflation, a yawning fiscal deficit and a shortage of hard currency.

Luring foreign investors is a cornerstone of his strategy to revive the spluttering economy, and Obama arrives with a large business delegation in tow.

Left-wing political parties have promised protests during Obama’s visit, which coin-

McCarthy’s the Boss The one habit that drives Melissa McCarthy batty is people who cannot take a compliment. The actress, who is in Australia to promote her upcoming film, The Boss, reveals she cannot stand it when people tear themselves down. In fact, she has coached her two daughters, Vivian, eight and Georgette, six, to learn to accept when somebody offers a compliment. “It drives me crazy if somebody goes, `Oh I love your jacket and they say `Oh it’s terrible, I actually bought it on sale,” she told AAP on Wednesday. “I always stop them and I say, `for the love of God, just say thank you.

“Own it, you put it on, you must have liked it.

It’s a mindset that I’m kind of a stickler for.”

McCarthy plays the strong-minded, confident billionaire Michelle Darnell in The Boss. Michelle is jailed for insider trading in the comedy, which McCarthy wrote alongside her husband, fellow actor Ben Falcone.

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Barack and Michelle Obama have arrived in Argentina.

PHOTO AP cides with the 40th anniversary of the coup on March 24, 1976 that installed the “dirty war” military junta.

Some are wary of too warm a detente with Washington, an early supporter of the bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship.

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Bindi Irwin now has her licence, passing her driving test in her late father Steve Irwin’s “giant old ute”. The 17-year-old shared a photo of herself on Instagram proudly holding up red p-plates alongside test conductor Constable Joshua Little.

“Thank you so much to Constable Joshua Little and Queensland Police for testing me today and giving me my license,” Bindi captioned the photo. The wild-life warrior and Dancing With The Stars US contestant has always spoken very fondly of her dad, who was killed by a stingray while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in 2006. “It was wonderful to take my test in St George and pass the first time and in my Dad’s giant old ute!”

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New Zealand’s intelligence agencies could potentially be able to access individuals’ tax information. vacy in the tax system could be seen as too much of a soft touch, or that the lack of an existing legal framework governing what intelligence agencies can and can’t lawfully access might be the driver.

“It could be that there is a suspicion that because we’re viewed as a soft target with regards to the

regulations covering data-sharing and financial transactions and the like, that people with untoward ends have started to show up here increasingly to do any number of things,” Buchanan said.

“It could well be that there is no legal framework governing the intelligence agencies’ access

of tax information and they feel that for whatever reason, as part of this tightening and extension of legal cover for operations that may or may not be on the margins of legality, that they need to put something in that would allow the IRD to share information with them on a regular basis,” he said.

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AirAsia X A330-300 lands at Auckland International Airport.

Singapore, Jakarta, Bali, Bangkok, Delhi, Bengaluru, Manila and Tokyo.

This will provide more choice for New Zealanders travelling to those destinations and capacity for tourists from Malaysia, India and Indonesia, markets which are growing rapidly.

Over the past year 34,000 visitors from Malaysia, 41,000 from India and 18,000 from Indonesia

came to New Zealand.

AirAsia has, like other airlines, taken advantage of relatively low fuel prices during the past year to expand to new destinations.

The airline launched with $99 promotional economy fares from Auckland to the Gold Coast and $249 to Kuala Lumpur with travel agents predicting the increase in capacity will keep a lid on prices to both destinations.

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Confident free UFB installation will continue Telecommunications network company Chorus says it’s confident households that are trickier to connect to ultra-fast broadband won’t have to pay extra for installation from next year.

Non-standard installations are those where a home may be part of an apartment block, down a shared driveway, up a hill or some distance from the road. These installations are currently supported by a fund which is due to expire at the end of 2016.

In an interview with Radio New Zealand, Chorus chief executive Mark Ratcliffe said he expected the fund “will run right the way through until the end of 2016 and we’re in discussions with the Crown about the extension of that fund, post-2016.

In November 2012, the government announced a deal with UFB partners Chorus, Enable and Northpower to provide free residential connections for distances up to 200 metres per house from

the road, with enough funding to last until the end of 2015.

UFB partner Ultra-Fast Fibre, which operates in the central North Island, is providing free residential connections until 2019. Chorus contributed $20 million to this fund.

In 2014, Chorus agreed to increase its non-standard installation fund by $8 million, with some of the money coming from reducing its marketing spend on fibre to $2.5 million from $5 million.

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The first flight to Auckland by budget carrier AirAsia X flight has landed, starting a service that will substantially boost capacity to the Gold Coast and on the airline’s home base, Malaysia.

Auckland Airport has estimated the new AirAsia X daily services will be worth about $176 million to the economy.

The airline is Southeast Asia’s biggest budget carrier and is using an A330-300 aircraft on the route with a seating capacity of 377.

That’s a little below the Airbus’ maximum of around 400 seats for regional flights.

The configuration will be AirAsia X’s standard configuration of 365 economy seats and 12 premium flatbed seats.

AirAsia X’s network covers Southeast Asia, North Asia, India, Australia and now New Zealand.

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New Zealand’s intelligence agencies would be able to access individuals’ tax information if parliament backs the recent review carried out by Michael Cullen and Patsy Reddy.

Among the recommendations in the review of the country’s laws governing its intelligence agencies – the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and Government Communications Security Bureau – is to give them access to tax information held by the Inland Revenue Department.

As it currently stands, the IRD can only share information with law enforcement agencies such as police or the Serious Fraud Office to combat serious crime, something that doesn’t extend to the SIS or GCSB. Paul Buchanan, a former intelligence and defence analyst and principal of the geopolitical consultancy 36th Parallel Assessments, said there could be a couple of motivations behind the recommendation in that New Zealand’s ease of setting up companies and unusual degree of pri-

Buchanan said existing law governing the agencies has been a “dog’s breakfast” lacking longterm planning and foresight, and while the recommendations still need ratification by parliament, they should provide legal cover to operatives who are currently working without any legislative protection.

The report, written by former Finance Minister Michael Cullen and incoming Governor-General Patsy Reddy, recommended the legislation should allow for caseby-case access to tax information, subject to the appropriate authorisation if the person is a citizen or foreigner.

New Zealand’s provisions around tax secrecy are under scrutiny in a separate review of tax legislation, with the government looking to scale back New Zealand’s privacy protections to allow broader and wider sharing of taxpayers’ information.

The government wants to let IRD share more information on an anonymised format to provide better services, and also improve how law enforcement can use its information more effectively.

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Geraldine sharemilkers Joe and Suz Wyborn are the supreme winners of the 2016 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

At an awards ceremony last night, the couple also collected a string of category awards, including the WaterForce Integrated Management Award, LIC Dairy Farm Award, Massey University Innovation Award, Hill Laboratories Harvest Award and the Environment Canterbury Water Quality Award.

Described by BFEA judges as representing “everything that is positive about the New Zealand dairy industry”, Joe and Suz have been 50:50 sharemilking on Grantlea Dairy No 1 – a 253ha irrigated property east of Geraldine – since it was converted by owners Leighton and Michelle Pye in 2009.

The Wyborns had only been dairy farming together for three years when they started on Grantlea, but the Pyes’ confidence in the couple had been fully justified, BFEA judges said.

While each partner has defined roles – Joe oversees day-to-day operation of the farm and Suz is in charge of calf rearing and finance – the Wyborns work as a team and their prudent financial management and strong production have helped them build their business remarkably quickly.

“They are extremely focused on developing and articulating processes and systems that allow the farm to run efficiently,” judges said.

Up to 910 cows were milked on the 220ha (effective) farm last season, producing 411,000kg MS using a System 3 regime.

Judges said this excellent production is driven by sound pasture management and efficient use of water.

Two centre-pivot irrigators service all but 4.5ha of the farm.

Considerable vegetation was removed during the conversion process, but the Wyborns and Pyes worked hard to mitigate this loss with an ongoing amenity and shelter planting programme.

Originally from England, Joe first worked for the Pyes in 1998 as a driver in their agricultural contracting business. In 1999 he took over management of the contracting

operation and this experience has helped shape how he and Suz run the farm today.

Judges said the Wyborns demonstrate excellent staff and people management skills.

Health and safety is a key priority and a detailed farm operating manual allows staff to run the farm “safely and effectively unsupervised”.

Judges also noted the couple’s “outstanding adoption of technology and web-based tools to assist in farm management”.

“They monitor and measure, but most importantly they make full use of data in their decisions.”

Judges also praised the Wyborns’ industry and community involvement.

A BFEA supreme-winner field day will be held on Grantlea Dairy No 1, with the date to be advised.

Other winners in the 2016 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards were: Ballance Agri-Nutrients Soil Management Award; Alan and Marion Crowe, Richard and Sharon Crowe, Karalea Ltd, Rakaia.

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Dorie sharemilkers in the running for award

Steve and Kersha Veix

A Dorie sharemilking couple are among the finalists for the coveted Canterbury Share Farmer of the Year title in the Canterbury/North Otago Dairy Industry Awards.

Steve and Kersha Veix will join an outstanding group of sharemilkers from Canterbury, including Purata farm 50 per cent sharemilkers Michael and Susie Woodward.

The couple are 20.5 per cent sharemilkers on a 140ha, 580-cow farm and are the only finalists

from Mid Canterbury.

Fairlie 21 per cent sharemilkers Matt and Vanessa Greenwood, Leeston 50 per cent sharemilkers Tony Coltman and Dana Carver and Oxford contract milkers Ben and Jemma Abernethy will also compete for the title.

Finals judging has already taken place, with the awards dinner to be held on April 5 at the Airforce Museum at Wigram in Christchurch.

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■ WHAT GOES ON TOUR . . .

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times held, the business has he Ashburton branch of And Louise Deans confirmed grown from quite humble beginthe Hearing Association what we all thought – Bob nings to being manufacturers has been in existence for Deans did score that try for the of a lovely range of soy candles, over 50 years.

Originals against Wales back in sometimes made in containers, And thanks to a very enthusi1905! like favourite pieces of china, astic committee – led by Russell Returning home via the Rakaia Bernard Egan provided by customers.

Anstiss – who have built on the Gorge was great, the views on MOTORING As well as describing, in desound foundations laid down by that road are always incredible – lightful terms, how the candles founding members, the associathey seemed even more so from are made, Wendy and Anna also tion keeps going from strength a bus. rather different home which is a gave us a practical demonstrato strength.

Now if that doesn’t sound like reflection of modern design and tion.

The association, like other a wonderful trip, believe it or not a reminder that just as pioneerAll too soon it was time to similar local groups, takes a very there was more. ing members of the Deans get on the bus and head for holistic approach to caring for Long-serving Hearing Associafamily faced huge challenges, to Homebush, near Hororata, their members, providing help tion committee member Muriel this generation has been brave home for several generations of and interesting activities.

Lay had another treat in store enough to look forward and the Deans family.

Now you may wonder, and for us. embrace the future.

In a talk punctuated with understandably so, what this The association has a tradition Thankfully many of the historhas got to do with a of having an ice motoring story. cream on bus trips.

Well it’s simple – We did this in bus trips are among Methven and they the activities the Hearwere very refreshing Association organing. ises for members.

Although two They go to interestpassengers, one ing places, a trip last being Maree week being no excepChambers and tion. other being ----It was a trip this well, someone else, writer was so pleased ended up with two he went on, a great ice creams at the motoring experience. expense of Barbara Once on board a Summerfield and very comfortable Margaret Haskett, coach driven by Craig but we have it on McKeich, we set off good authority the on a journey which Easter Bunny will took us to Yaldhurst, make up for that. then Hororata before Visits to the returning home. venues we visited Wherever people sat are highly recomon the bus they had mended. comfortable seats and If you must travel by bus, then the Rakaia Gorge is most definitely the way to go!

Go to them if got great views. you can.

But some on the bus From a motormany delightful anecdotes were envious of my seat. ing point of view our trip was a ic farm buildings survived and and historical snippets, Louise I shared the back row with five beauty. these are now home to a shop Deans told us the history of lovely ladies: Marjorie Binney, Great roads, interesting places looked after by Chris Fechney the property and of the family Bev Gregory, Sheila Hare, Anand a comfortable vehicle. as well as an amazingly eclectic and explained that if an early nette King and Helen Richards.

From a social point of view it collection of historical items. surveyor hadn’t fallen into an eel At Yaldhurst we were welcouldn’t have been better.

Louise and Chris really made trap, Canterbury settlement may us feel at home. comed to Love Light Soy CanGreat company and great fun. have been quite different. dles, a home-based business set And it was a reminder the Of course as well as having Sadly the historic Homebush up by mother and daughter-inHearing Association and similar carved their place in the history homestead fell victim to the law team Wendy and Anna. groups are such an essential and of Canterbury, the Deans name earthquakes.

Set in lovely surroundings important part of our commuwill also always be associated It has been replaced by a where market days are somenity. with rugby.

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Twenty-one years ago keen owners formed the Ford 8 & 10 Enthusiasts Club (South Island) and they are celebrating that anniversary here in Ashburton this weekend.

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And on Sunday the Vintage Car Club Easter Rally will take off from the club’s grounds on Maronan Road at 11am.

The organisers are none other than our columnists Roger Hart and Bernard Egan who promise easy instructions and a bit of fun.

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Waireka Croquet Club Life continues at a frantic pace at Waireka – the recent very hot weather has made playing croquet a little uncomfortable but we are still enjoying our sport.

The finals of the South Canterbury Silver Badge Golf Croquet were held at Waireka with the pleasing result of Chris Spittal (Intermediate) and Jackie Rollinson (Primary) both from Waireka, being successful. Congratulations to these players – it was a very tough competition.

Last Sunday the Phillips Landscaping Centennial Tournament was held with 16 association pairs competing from Ashburton, Oamaru and Timaru. Once again Waireka was successful with the pairing of Logan McCorkindale and Dulcie Pierre, winning the trophies and Doris Dickinson and Bernice Laird being runnersup. Congratulations to all who played.

This event was followed by a very successful Club Dinner. Thank you Phyllis and team who made this meal such a success. Logan McCorkindale travelled to Timaru on March 13 to participate in the finals of the Silver Badges for Association Players in the A Grade.

Logan had some battles on his hands but ended up in winning the coveted A grade badge. Congratulations must go to this young man who has only played association for three seasons and now holds the A, B and Intermediated silver badges to mark his progress. Well done Logan.

Edmund Fordyce has been playing in Nelson for the top 8 Asssociation Players Invitation Silver Tray – a really tough tournament. Edmund managed to win five of his games against sterling competition. Well done Edmund.

Allenton Bowling Club Results of Progressive Pairs March 5: Leads. 1st Bruce Boothroyd, 2nd Bruce Hopwood. Skips. 1st Denis McEvedy 2nd Maurice Reid; March 12 Leads. 1st Bruce Hopwood, 2nd Bev Anderson. Skips. 1st Barry Molloy, 2nd John Bruce/Francis Frewen. March 19 Leads. 1st Barry Molloy 2nd Millie Foggo. Skips. 1st Alan McIntosh, 2nd Gordy Sparks. Well done to you all.

Congratulations to all our club Champions and a Special Mention must go to our President Alex Crawford who has the “Grand Slam” this season winning all four codes: Singles, Pairs, Triples and Fours. The last member to accomplish this was Fred Aymes in 1980.

Talk about leading from the front Alex, great work and the Club is proud of you!!! We also have our Sandra Keith for the ladies who achieved back to back clean sweeps in the 2009/2010 and the 2010/2011 seasons. Excellent bowling.

Allenton hosted the C of C Pairs Sunday March 20 and all our representatives (4pairs) lined up in the finals. The seniors won and the juniors were runner-up’s so 50% success was brilliant.

Good work Allenton on these wonderful results. Happy Easter to all.

Ashburton Pakeke Lions Club President Ray Harraway welcomed 70 members, partners and guests to the Irish March meeting. A good response was indicated for assistance at the Wheat and Wheels Vintage Machinery event. Help was also requested for the Red Puppy Appeal.

The trip to Mt Somers on April 10 will include visits to Inverary and Mt Somers Stations which will be a fund raiser for the local school.

A picnic afternoon tea will conclude the day. A thoughtful Grace by Lion Owen Everest preceded the meal Director of Meals Lion Noel Lowe explained a new system for lodging apologies for meetings.

The collection of old and foreign coins is going well for Lion Graeme Neil and plans for the Charity Auction on April 15 are well in hand.

The speaker the evening was Klaas

the greens staff and the gardeners for making the grounds so well presented.

Comments come from all players and visitors to the greens.

To those unwell my best wishes for a “get well soon”. Good bowling to you all.

numerous Premier wins for the Garden Competitions. We all enjoyed the opportunity to wander around their domain ranging from established trees, shrubs, fruit trees and of course, their colourful display of choice garden plants.

From there, we ventured to Jack Slater’s larger garden which was beautifully maintained. From the clipped camellia hedge, vege garden and the visual display from the street entrance was a pleasure to see.

The 3rd garden was at Heather & Owen Grays’ garden where we had lunch first before taking in their bigger garden.

With their Daughter’s wedding shortly, they have created a colourful display in readiness for the event. One felt envious of all the variety of fruits grown tucked around the back of the section.

Finally, a visit to Mary McCoskers’ smaller garden was an absolute joy, with the creation of topiaries in various forms, using hanging planting on boundary fencing, filling every nook & cranny with great plantings.

The day started out cool but warmed up by 2pm when we finished. Our next meeting is back at the Senior Citizen Centre on April 21 at 2pm.

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Roma and Fairlie welcomed us this evening with some lovely old tunes.

Lorraine greeted new friends and two visitors from Nelson: Yvonne and Lyn. I hope you enjoyed your evening with us.

The Men’s Group arranged the entertainment this evening. First up was Neil on Keyboard “Morning Town Ride” “Somebody Loves Me” Well done Neil. In between each item this evening Ron had a great collection of Jokes.

Thanks for the laughs Ron. Next up were the Mens group, John H. Lester and Ron with Audrey on piano. They sang “The Bridle Hanging on the Wall” “Two Little Boys” Bev French had us guessing the names of the songs she played on the Ashburton Bowling Club A very hot day saw the Trust Triples piano as she rattled the ivories. “Granplayed Monday March 21. 32 teams from dads Piano” and missing in Action” We 17 clubs played and the 2 top winners then had some guests from the Savage were from the home club. Well done Club on their Banjo’s to entertain us, Diana, Gaynor and Kath with 3 wins fol- Bob, Jim and Russell played “Me and My Shadow””Moonlight Bay” “Hello Dolly” lowed by Diane, Ollie and Gillian. The games were close and evenly matched. Lovely Toe-tapping music. Lorraine told The raffle table was magnificent and us the story of trying to buy a Swimming Costume. Really true for lots of us trying congrats to those who donated goods to poke the extra bits in. Thanks for the for it. Many thanks to the committee of laugh Lorraine. Congratulations to the Wendy, Heather and Dawn, a grand effort and the day went off very well. winners of the raffles. The Men’s Group Ladies played the drawn pairs on Tues- returned with Audrey and sang “A Laced Covered Window” “A Daisy A Day”. The day March 22 and Gaynor and Lois won these with 3 wins. Brentton Donaldson Banjo Boys returned and played “Goodand Raymond Suttie played very well night Sweetheart” “Show Me the Way to win the Ch of Ch Colts Pairs recently. Home” “We’ll Meet Again”. Elizabeth played the Keyboard “Nobody Does it Well lads we are very proud of your efBetter” “Theres a Kind of Hush” Lastly forts.

The club closing day will be on Saturday The Accordian Group: Shirley Michael April 2 and prize giving will follow the Brian Rose Cushla Ann and Bernard on dinner at 6pm. A list is on the board for Keyboard played “Waterloo” “A Gordon for Me” “ Mcnamara’s Band”. Time for donated salads or desserts for members a cuppa and catch-up to finish another to bring. great night.

Remember that the annual meeting is coming up and nomination papers are Ashburton Garden Club on the large notice board. Please do your bit for the club, a little effort by all 24 Members met on March 17 at the Balmakes a happy club. My thanks to all moral Hall at 10.30am for a garden walk to 4 smaller town gardens. We began at the executive from last year for all the work they have done. My thanks to the Allison’s property which has gained

Ashburton Golf Club Busy Easter weekend coming up with some great tournaments at the course.

Saturday we have two Greensome cups on offer, with the Keig cup being played for by any sort of family pairing, and the Coasters cup for any pairs. Then on Easter Monday we have our annual Turkey Trot which is an individual stableford round. Both of these days are mixed days open to all club members. Saturday has the early start for the frosties or 12 for 12.30 for the normal folk, and Monday is all start at 12 for 12.30. It would be lovely to get big fields on both days, then pop in for a drink and welcome Yvonne our new caterer. See you there, good golfing

Grey Power Ashburton On Monday March 21 President Jim Burgess welcomed 40 – 50 members to the monthly general meeting at the Seniors Centre. Apologies were accepted from Elizabeth Davies, Ella Ferris, Ken & Mary Smith, Peter & Ruth Thomas, & Carol Price, Trevor & Ann Gamblin.

Jim announced that our AGM will be on May 17 and nomination forms for office

de Boer (above), a Professor of Astro Physics at Bonn University in Germany also recognised and working in many international institutions but currently spending time in Mid Canterbury visiting family.

In introducing this very complicated subject an explanation was given on the difference between astronomy and Astro physics.

A fascinating talk followed to the and committee are available from the secretary; he also informed members that those who are not financial by May 20 would not receive the Federation Magazine issued in June.

Rose entertained with a medley. Jim then introduced our speaker for the afternoon; Don Geddes who has recently spent 5 weeks on the Auckland Islands as part of a conservation team working with Gibson’s Wandering Albatross.

After a strict quarantine inspection and briefing by DOC in Invercargill the group were taken through some very rough seas to their destination; a small island in the Auckland group. It was amazing to see a very good selection of photographs of the wide variety of flora and fauna on this remote and at first sight; barren and rugged island. Conditions were often cold and windy with very few sunny days. They returned to New Zealand on the HMNZS Otago. At the conclusion Jim presented Don with a fruit tray.

Next meeting April 18 – Speaker – Lorraine Bryan NASC Ashburton Hospital

Plains Ladies Probus Club Joan welcomed 73 members to the Annual General Meeting and gave best wishes to those having birthdays etc. 2 Visitors were present. Jenny Jenkins was inducted as a new member. Treasurer’s report and correspondence was read.

The April movie on the 1st Wednesday at 11 am at the Regent Theatre is not available at present.

Mariene McLaughlan expressed her concern that the sound system is sometimes difficult to hear. Audrey Lowe took the chair for election of officers. Joan gave her Annual report on the years meetings and outings. General business and treasurers report was read out. New President is Wilma Breading, Secretary Alison Doig, and Treasurer Natalie Quantock. Vice President Vera Smoliett, Committee Deb Ellery, Nancy Costin, Sue Jackson, Val Dellow.

New member is Isla Jones and Pat Gibson retiring. Wilma presented Joan and Pat with flowers and thanked them for their hard work during the year. Our Speaker was Graeme Gunn, who told us of his life with music. He grew up playing the piano and played in the “Band of Hope”.

mostly uninitiated listeners on Gravitational Waves and Black Holes in space.

We learnt that Earth is like a marble in a hole and the evolution of stars.

It was mind boggling information much of which is beyond comprehension but nevertheless interesting to hear a speaker so passionate with his topic imparting knowledge in an understandable and light hearted manner.

Guyon Wells was the conductor at St Andrews Presbyterian where Graeme learnt to play the pipe organ. He then became the organist at the church in 1956. He went on to play at the Anglican Church and became conductor there. He plays at country churches and weddings and funerals. Joan thanked him with a tray of fruit. Then Wilma closed the meeting at 11.30 am. The next meeting is on April 18

Tinwald Garden Club Meeting February 25 President Jenette welcomed nineteen members, accepting apologies from ten members, and inducting two new members - Kathleen Bowman and Irene Linwood.

Alex Ching told us about how wasps built a nest in an old tree stump and the battle to remove them.

Rhonda Gallagher from the Ashburton Parks and Gardens spoke about her career in gardening and her various responsibilities in this position. She told us about planning the gardens round the town as well as caring for lawns and berms etc. She spoke about the 10000 daffodils which are planted annually, and about pricking out the spring bedding now. She is just moving into a new position in her work.

This was all very interesting, Pam Tait thanked her and presented a fruit tray.

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C Roberts McCook & Jopson J Dunn S & B Evans G Cleeve S & B Evans Lane & Wales C Roberts G T Bennett S & B Evans

DAVID EMERSON CONSULTANCY DASH $2,000, c4, 295m

57837 Homebush Chopper 17.21 44816 Harkonen Bale 17.08 51351 Maudie’s Babe 17.18 71546 Goldstar Bomber 17.33 31771 Thrilling Echo 17.38 23676 Must Desire 17.17 52744 Paperbond 17.08 62266 Collecting Money 17.27 75868 Wunzee 17.21 67784 Homebush Rufus 17.46

1:35PM

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J T McInerney C Roberts Casey & Fagan S & B Evans McCook & Jopson G Cleeve J & D Fahey M Grant J T McInerney J T McInerney

BARRON’S SUPPLIES SPRINT $1,700, c3, 295m

1 31515 Ultra Action 17.28 3 4 2 11157 Speedy Dispatch 17.32 2 3 21568 Mark Be Good 17.23 1 4 54752 Good Genes 17.48 5 53168 Rand 17.19 6 17218 Homebush Errol 17.32 7 31686 Baduzzi 17.48 8 83426 Opawa Idol 17.35 9 82873 Opawa Crusade nwtd 10 882X5 Mandi Mae 17.47

S & B Evans Hart & Taylor Hart & Taylor M Grant J T McInerney J T McInerney J T McInerney Lane & Wales Lane & Wales Casey & Fagan

New Plymouth Races

Today at New Plymouth

RETURN TO EARTH MAIDEN HIGHWEIGHT

PX # REC Horse (Barrier) kg Trainer

1:00PM

March 24, 2016 CAROL’S T.A.B. STAKES

$7,000, mdn hwt, 2000m Jockey

1 X5425 Countdown (1) 68 K Myers 2 1 2 20846 Scaramouche (6) 68 K Myers 4 3 8650X Colombian Prince (5) 68 G Brick 4 0X060 Call Doubt (3) 68 G Hayward 1 5 08689 Gypsy Verse (7) 68 J Wheeler 1 6 Red Moss (8) 68 K Myers 3 7 7X975 Four Day High (4) 66 J Bell 8 000 Fickle Mistress (2) 66 T Bambry

L Kennedy M Gillies E Farr S Fannin

3:11PM 713

OPT

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March 24, 2016 STELLA ARTOIS MAIDEN

$7,000, mdn, 1600m

1 2439X Cotta Pin (9) 58.5 P Moseley 4 2 2 22004 I Spied (1) 58.5 L Pickford 3 0003 Bear Gryls (10) 58.5 A Clement 4 X9676. No Deal (4) 58.5 J Wheeler 1 3 5 37X80. Pilgrim (2) 58.5 J Bell 6 77 Linchpin (5) 58 Autridge/Richards 7 409X9 Mr Enthusiastic (7) 58 J Wheeler 1 8 50466 Thirtylove (3) 56.5 K Buttimore 1 1 9 74452. Dynamite Lucy (6) 56 R Patterson 1 10 Battle Kat (8) 56 J Millar 1

J Riddell R Hannam K Smith B Hutton (a1) A Jones (a1)

1:52PM

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SHIRLEY VET CLINIC SPRINT $2,000, c4, 295m

1 36145 Homebush Gru 17.41 2 2 14774 Royal Action 17.37 3 12254 Om Nom Nom 17.22 3 4 21111 Sketchy Steve 17.31 5 36186 Costing Money 17.42 6 24277 Wears The Gold 17.28 4 7 5X825 Arbre Chene 17.12 1 8 33865 Gump’s The Name 17.31 9 75868 Wunzee 17.21 10 67784 Homebush Rufus 17.46 2:10PM

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J T McInerney S & B Evans J T McInerney M Grant M Grant C Roberts M & P Binnie A Lee J T McInerney J T McInerney

$2,600, c3, 520m

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A Bradshaw J & D Fahey M Grant S & B Evans S & B Evans G Cleeve J T McInerney Hart & Taylor J T McInerney C Roberts

GARDEN CITY CHEM-DRY DASH $2,400, c5, 295m

11418 Ohoka Billy 17.22 16412 Grand Apache 17.09 27145 Wheelchair Norm 17.01 11337 Smash Rumour 17.19 51811 Dream Large 16.99 63351 Homebush Ariel 17.30 41831 Grifinator 17.33 53131 Dyna Quirk 17.31 56715 Mickey Tee 16.95 38881 Culvie Godfather 17.20

L Waretini S & B Evans J T McInerney M Grant B Dann J T McInerney Casey & Fagan C Roberts R Adcock Hart & Taylor

Track Information Type: Grass; Expected: Dead; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1600m; Straight: 375m; Rail: Rail out 10.5m; Weather: Showers

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08X The Stitchbird (8) 56.5 P Moseley 89286 North Of The Wall (1) 56 E & D Browne 4 Thin Cut (9) 56 D Ranger

4:21PM 715

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DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6 2:45PM

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12 MAC DEVELOPMENTS STAKES

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1 4X251 Know Jinx 30.32 1 2 73465 Know Clown 30.75 2 3 65234 Opawa Val 30.50 4 17414 Country Crossing 30.31 5 73331 Jinja Billy 30.56 3 6 42766 Mystic Action 30.35 4 7 56555 Goldstar Po 30.57 8 44462 Cawbourne War 30.22 9 62775 Know Mayhem 30.34 CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES 10 88726 Zipping Sonny 30.43

1 85213 Long Stockings 30.59 4 1 2 34415 Arctic Action 30.07 3 X3213 Dad’s Ambition nwtd 3 4 51217 Kinloch Power 30.35 2 5 41763 Goldstar Avery 30.24 6 65425 Know Scholar 30.76 7 67414 Nina Baxter 30.53 8 31114 Raewyn 30.43 9 88726 Zipping Sonny 30.43 10 13668 Ace Bale 30.37 2:27PM

Compiled by

D Mo (a2) A Collett R Hannam

WARRNAMBOOL RACING CARNIVAL 1400

$7,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 1400m

1 33183 Shindano (3) 60 S Lennox 1 2 2 03205 Silver Bubbles (1) 59 D & C Bothwell 3 3 45X7L Angelica Rox (4) 58.5 T Keegan 4 4 11090 Labels (5) 58 Hillis/Kesner 5 0X697 Silkysand (2) 56.5 M Paewai 6 0X807. Question Mark (6) 55.5 T Keegan

M Cropp

3:02PM

1 4 2 2 3 4 5 3 6 7 1 8 9 10

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$2,400, c5, 295m

Casey & Fagan A Lee J T McInerney M Grant M Grant G Cleeve Hart & Taylor J Dunn S & B Evans A Bradshaw

LIVAMOL SPRINT

1 23232 Homebush Paige 17.33 3 2 14358 Roadworks 17.25 4 3 64543 Chokehold 17.27 4 27513 Captain Shazz 17.27 2 5 82751 Aiden Baxter 17.07 6 42137 Greet The Judge 17.27 7 11767 Carnegie Hall 17.07 1 8 86X21 Swimming Goat 17.01 9 75868 Wunzee 17.21 10 67784 Homebush Rufus 17.46 DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

G Cleeve G Cleeve J & D Fahey J Dunn L Waretini S & B Evans S & B Evans C Roberts G Cleeve J T McInerney

HAPPY EASTER DASH

24813 Rick’s Treasure 17.24 85422 About Town 17.27 13687 Puma Pants 17.02 17834 Smash That 17.21 42111 Mojo Burst 17.03 46213 Keramus 17.06 12362 Tina 17.41 12722 Dirk The Jerk 17.17 82268 Gold Vipa 17.37 16258 New Thang 17.01

3:21PM

$3,200, c3/4, 520m

$2,000, c4, 295m

2-3, 4-5, 6-7 2-3-4, 5-6-7 1-2-3-4, 4-5-6-7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 2-3-4-5-6-7

9 3X010. Nom du Beel (1) 54 G Temperton 10 77338. King Nero (2) 54 R Patterson 1 5:32PM 717

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Today at Cambridge Raceway +claimers, 2200m Driver

21850 Lola Jones (1) J Abernethy 02791 A Chance To Dream (2) T Macfarlane 50704 Imajollywally (3) R Yoakley 13825 Easy For Cullen (4) G Rogerson 03859 Celtic Warrior (5) T Vince 36612 Eden Paige (6) J & D Butcher 00596 Speak Up (7) F Phelan 64527 Our Southern Man (8) J Abernethy

G Cronin J Darby S Yoakley M Northcott S Wigg S Butcher T Thorby J Kriechbaumer

March 24, 2016

2 78464 Sapphire Castleton (2) W Taylor 2 3 5X235 Yogi Johnson (1) P & V Blanchard 4 28425 Opawa Speed (2) D Iremonger 3 5 00561 KD Commando (u1) T Vince 6 95739 The Scruff (u2) G Rogerson 7 41076 Le Lua Invasion (1) McCaffrey/Paynter 4 8 03903 Revenue Maker (u1) D & C McGowan 1 9 18164 Sarah Lindenny (1) D Marshall 6:59PM OPT 514

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P Butcher M McKendry T Mitchell J MacKinnon (J) P Ferguson S Phelan S Grayling (J) K Marshall (J)

HRV WATER SOLUTIONS TROT $6,000, 3yo+ c1–c2, c3 with cond. +claimers, 2200m

1 3192 Lemond (1) McCaffrey/Paynter 2 M McKendry 4 2 836X7 Allingham (2) D & C McGowan S Grayling (J) 21316 Sikora (21) Hollis/Robertson S Phillips 3 88353 Itsnowornever (3) S Branch K Marshall (J) D Butcher 5:52PM NEVELE R STUD MOBILE PACE 4 28096 Franco Nadal (4) D Balle OPT 512 $5,500, 2yo+ c,g&e c0 mob. pace, 2200m 1 5 2X181 Cyclone Chief (5) T Macfarlane T Macfarlane 3 1 40327 Twentynine Twelve (1) K Shaw P Butcher 6 00378 Cool Son (6) D Balle D Balle 4 2 29072 Spyda (2) McCaffrey/Paynter J Stormont 3 7 P0182 Chosen Path (7) N Chilcott D Ferguson (J) 3 87 Bettor Finish (3) B Mangos B Mangos 8 6X871 Springfield Hugh (u1) R Villiger S Cruickshank

Barrier 2 4 745 Italian Delight (4) T Herlihy T Herlihy 5 Freddy Funk (5) G Dixon T Mitchell 7:34PM GARRARD’S 2YO SIRES STAKES MOBILE PACE 6 54853 Eldolar (6) R Yoakley K Marshall (J) OPT 515 $22,000, 2yo c&g mob. pace, 1700m 4 1 13457 Vasari (1) R Green D Butcher 1 Lambros (7) McCaffrey/Paynter M McKendry 7 54 Barrier

2 56 Rhythm N Blues (2) Telfer/Garlick J Abernethy 1 3 43133 Mongolian Hero (3) P Court Z Butcher 6:24PM HRV VENTILATION SYSTEMS TROT $7,000, c1 & 2 4 12 The Lone Ranger (4) Telfer/Garlick S Phelan OPT 513 faster +claimer discrhcp, 2700m 5 1 89467 Ventimiglia (1) A & L Neal Lambros SCRATCHED L Neal Barrier

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Cambridge Harness

PRINTECH AM DRIVERS PACE $5,500, 4yo+ c1–c3

PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer

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M Cameron

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1000m; Weather: Rain

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12134 Alta Intrigue (5) R Green 416 Mitch Maguire (6) B Mangos 3314 Billy Badger (7) R Dunn

J I Dickie B Mangos J Stormont

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

K Smith M Dravitzki (a1)

HARNESS @ PUKEKURA RACEWAY APRIL 1ST & 3RD R65 $7,000, R65 benchmark*, 1818m

1 753X7 Mendoza (12) 60 J Wheeler 1 4 2 28217 Skyscraper (10) 58.5 Autridge/Richards M McNab J Riddell N Quinn 3 10926 Porotene Magnum (13) 58 P Pascoe L Hemi (a2) D Danis (a4) S Phelan 1 4 9241 Echezeaux (5) 57.5 Autridge/Richards M Dravitzki (a1) M Tanaka G Walsh 5 658X6 Sail Away (3) 57.5 K Myers S McKay (a1) M Cameron 3 6 68593 Shezastunna (8) 57 R Patterson 1 WWW.EPICJOURNEYS.CO.NZ CHELTENHAM 2017 4:56PM LANDMARK HOMES 1818 7 09X74 Newstead (4) 57 J Wheeler 1 2:36PM COMCAT MAIDEN 3:46PM MAIDEN $7,000, mdn, 1400m OPT 716 $8,000, rating 85 benchmark, 1818m OPT 712 $7,000, mdn, 1200m OPT 714 1 1 375X4 Loves The Show (3) 60 J Wheeler 1 B Hutton (a1) 8 04149 Let’s (7) 56 L Tanner 4 1 837X0. Gordys Gesture (5) 58.5 D & C Bothwell A Jones (a1) 2 2 19112 Heavens Keep (10) 58 L Tanner 9 Kohi Road D Mo (a2) 1 2 8 Van (10) 58.5 A Sharrock 1 4 1 0X Fort Knox (4) 58.5 R Sherwin L Satherley J Riddell 3 3 6020X Mangaroa Flo Jo (4) 56.5 Thomas/Smith M Cameron 10 10005 Sakura (11) 55.5 G McBeth 1 1 2 Make Me Achiever (6) 58 Busuttin/Young J Riddell 3 907 Brother One (6) 58.5 K Buttimore L Hemi (a2) 4 4 2021X Nigelissima (9) 55 E & D Browne A Collett 11 648X8. Sir Gonzales (6) 55.5 G McBeth 1 3 3 430X5 My Mustang Molly (2) 56.5 K Buttimore Red Rascal (7) 58.5 I Kelly 1 M Dravitzki (a1) L Hemi (a2) 4 5 64822 Macklemore (7) 55 J Wheeler 1 R Hannam 12 088X7 Straight Furrow (9) 55.5 G Brick 4 76466 Miss Percynallity (1) 56 J Millar 1 Make Me Achiever (3) 58 Busuttin/Young M McNab 5 2 13 35850 Lilly Pins (1) 54.5 J Millar 1 M McNab 2 5 X467X Our Abbadean (5) 56 Autridge/Richards M Cameron 6 Al Hocking (4) 58 W Bolton 1 M McNab 6 80201. Tequila Sunrise (8) 54 J Millar 1 0 14 6411X Brer (2) 55.5 Autridge/Richards 6 08X Lovethefeeling (7) 56 J Millar 1 S McKay (a1) S McKay (a1) 7 00442 Bella’s Delight (6) 54 J Scott S McKay (a1) 7 98040. She’s Bluffing (11) 56.5 D Hayes 15 Silkysand 7 M Tanaka K Smith 8 4419X Just Ishi (5) 54 G Temperton Super Sonic Saber (3) 56 G Brick A Jones (a1) 8 770X High Esteem (2) 56.5 S Brown C Perrett

J T McInerney M Grant McCook & Jopson Casey & Fagan J T McInerney Hart & Taylor M Grant C Weir J T McInerney J T McInerney

B Hutton (a1) C Lammas M McNab J Riddell D Hirini (a3) M Dravitzki (a1) S McKay (a1) H Andrew (a4) SCRATCHED D Mo (a2) M Tanaka A Jones (a1) R Hannam SCRATCHED

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 2-3-4, 6-7-8 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 3-4-5-6-7-8

4 22X9X Gotta Go Cullect (3) J Abernethy 3 J Abernethy 5 63954 No Way Else (4) A Donnelly A Donnelly 2 Elderberry Stride (21) T Herlihy T Herlihy 6 77X04 Aquickone (5) Reid/McMullan Z Butcher 73 Punter’s Dream (22) B Mangos S Lawson 2 7 45583 Fizzi Lizzi (6) R MacKenzie J Stormont Stand Sure (7) M Berger P Butcher 8:10PM TE RAPA WHOLESALE CARS F&M MOBILE PACE 8 461P2 Barrier

OPT 516 $5,500, 2yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, 2200m

9 Thomas McBride SCRATCHED 3 1 5 Spirit Of Delight (1) Telfer/Garlick S Phelan P Ferguson 2 5X578 Blue Allan (2) G Noakes G Noakes 10 40061 She’s Extreme (21) M Pash D Butcher 3 McLeod’s Daughter (3) R & S Lawson S Lawson 11 04351 Wynberg Courage (22) M Berger 4 12 16590 Liberty Styx (23) T Herlihy T Cameron (J,Cl) 4 Memphis Miss SCRATCHED 5 90497 Prime Silver (4) P Young P Young 1 6 22344 Are You Ready Girl (5) M Berger T Mitchell 9:17PM HRV HEAT PUMPS PACE $6,000, 3yo+ c1, c2 with 7 34494 Sleeping Beauty (6) McCaffrey/Paynter J Stormont OPT 518 cond., 2200m

Vivacious Madonna (7) M Berger D Butcher 8 56765 Barrier

2 1 0122X Concorde (1) Reid/McMullan Z Butcher 2 9 Ask Again (21) B Mangos B Mangos 1 2 13232 Max Phactor (2) M Berger P Butcher 4 10 65442 Harriet Bromac (22) P & V Blanchard M McKendry 3 Youbetteryoubet SCRATCHED 11 75300 Flashing Good Time (23) K Judson Z Butcher 4 4 31193 Robert The Bruce (3) A Bublitz P Ferguson 12 76723 Keepers Art (24) Hollis/Robertson P Butcher 5 Platinum Poker SCRATCHED 8:41PM HRV TOTAL HOME SOLUTIONS PACE $7,000, 3yo+ 6 5370X Souvenir Glory (4) K Kearns K Marshall (J) OPT 517 c2–c3, c4 with cond., 1700m 7 8F037 Could A Dunit (5) K Shaw D Butcher 1 1 12411 Trevs No Angel (1) McCaffrey/Paynter M McKendry

8 47767 Tough Enough (6) M Pash

B Mangos

2 Glitzy Gal SCRATCHED Barrier 3 51559 Minstrel Boy (2) B Mangos 3 9 36180 Van Mara (21) R & S Lawson B Mangos S Lawson Barrier

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Forbury Park Harness

Today at Forbury Park

March 24, 2016

2 0 Righteous Brother (2) R Todd S Walkinshaw $5,500, 2yo+ c0 trot, 2200m 3 87628 Skyfall (3) K Barclay 2

4 00325 The Cad (4) D Trainor 1 J W Cox PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 1 5 32663 This Excuse Is Fine (5) T Barron D Dunn 1 Venola (1) P Anderson K Butt (J) 6 0X270 Flyin Sue (6) B Negus S Ottley 2 40840 Strathspey Boy (2) A Kyle A Kyle 7 65X46 Trendy’s Bad Girl (7) S Breen B Williamson (J) 3 9535X Topnotch Eagle (3) W Stapleton R May 8 06420 Red Electric (8) D McLachlan A Beck 4 0707 Jackofdiamonds (4) S Moore B Williamson (J) 4 Culler Coded (9) D Heffernan N Williamson 9 50094 Barrier 5 46X57 Loxi Clairborne (5) L Veint B Morris 1 6 29322 Prince George (6) L McCormick J W Cox 3 10 256X3 Kezza’s Lass (21) R Wilson R May 3 7 2X644 Scottie Trouble (7) B Straight S Walkinshaw Cullen Who (22) K Court 1 M Williamson 8 860 Giventake (8) G & J Knight M Williamson 11 12 79355 Annie Fitz (23) R Wilson C Ferguson (J) 9 Galleons Victory (9) T Barron D Dunn 0 13 40000 The Nans Man (24) B Latimer 4 10 730X0 It’s How You Use It (10) L McCormick L McCormick 14 0X898 Atom Express (25) N Edge R Close 0 11 56000 Pure Emotion (11) S Lock Diamond Star (26) P Court B Orange 12 46660 Rosie Express (12) N Edge R Close 15

16 7460 Sundara (27) K Barclay K Butt (J) 0 13 39005 Don’t Look Back (13) D Gillespie 0 17 00008 Farm Fire (28) G Townley R Holmes 14 0 Bone Idol (14) M Fuller B Orange 15 9 Florence (15) K Grant K Grant (J) 7:08PM DUNEDIN HOLIDAY PARK PACE 0 16 0800 Young Charlie (u1) E Murphy OPT 804 $6,000, 3yo+ c1 pace, 2200m 2 17 035 Lucky Pat’s Son (u2) G Woodhouse A Armour 1 1 1 Distinctive Del (1) L Hanrahan R May 3 2 64052 Pegasus Kommander (2) S Lock J W Cox 6:02PM SPEIGHTS PACE

3 93086 Hudson Sully (3) N Bishop R Close $5,500, 3yo+ c0 pace, 2200m OPT 802 4 4 0621 Nikeira (4) N Hamilton C D Thornley 1 00935 Regalmahon (1) H Hunter R May 2

5 5313 Rum Delight (5) M House

D Dunn 2 80 Gold VC (2) G & J Knight M Williamson M Williamson 2 3 2708X Washingtons Chance (3) R Swain R Swain 6 19629 Gene Time (6) G & J Knight S Ottley 3 4 2650 Really Desirable (4) M Jones S Ottley 7 50659 Louie Finn (7) M Jones B Orange 5 8770P Givethejobtojoyce (5) A Hoffman S Walkinshaw 8 80849 Live To Tell (8) B Negus R Holmes 0 6 00008 Farm Fire (6) G Townley R Holmes 9 L7073 Blingiton (9) L Prendergast C Ferguson (J) 4 7 004X4 Kowhai King (7) N Edge R Close 10 00000 Billy Klondike (u1) N Bishop A Beck 8 94000 Millwood Charity (8) M Prendergast M Prendergast 11 03944 Tubby Jim (u2) B Gooch 1 9 0053 Green Machine (9) R Beale J Ovens 7:43PM PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION TROT 10 90820 Shark Ali (10) K Grant K Grant (J) OPT 805 $6,000, 3yo+ c1 trot, 2200m 11

Magical Murf SCRATCHED G McLay 12 84694 Artsfellow (11) A Black N Williamson 1 03839 Armori (1) G McLay 3 2 85832 Starlight Invasion (2) D McLachlan A Beck 13 P4876 Hangover (12) P Robertson C D Thornley R May 14 00756 Mickey Jay (13) E Latimer B Williamson (J) 3 74375 Another Delight (3) R Wilson 1 4 2104 She’s Allthe Craze (4) N Williamson N Williamson 15 X0090 Chauhan (14) G Shand G Shand A Armour 16 68900 Afro Dizzy Yak (u1) B Gooch A Beck 5 72062 Cheeky Pat (5) G Woodhouse 6 9006X Love Struck Romeo (6) T Butt C D Thornley 6:34PM VETPRO MOBILE PACE 7 10 Sundons Flyer (7) B Negus B Orange OPT 803 $5,500, 2yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2200m 2 8 41 Alderbeck (8) P Williamson B Williamson (J) 1 75820 Pocket Caesar (1) L Veint

B Morris 9 53971 Phoebe Flyer (9) K Franks K Franks 5:29PM OPT 801

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Hawera Harness

Saturday at Hawera Racecourse

March 26, 2016

6 4 Song Of Victory (5) D Gale A Pyers 11:55AM 2 7 33362 Jackalack Sue (6) P Scaife B Butcher (J) $6,000, 4yo+ c0 to c1 spechcp trot, 2100m

Whisky An Frisky (7) D Bublitz S Phelan PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 8 69X9X Barrier 1 93767 Awa Cathrine (1) D Moore D Moore ELLA ROSE LAWN & GARDENING SERVICES MOBILE PACE 3 2 7X235 Primus Inter Pares (2) McCaffrey/Paynter S Phelan 1:34PM $6,000, 3yo+ c,g&e c0 mob. pace, 2000m 3 87808 Aussie Jack (3) D Kessell S Abernethy 2 1 65803 Son Of A Wish (1) R Downey 4 03558 Chiltons Vocation (4) W Brassington R Downey D Ferguson (J) 1 2 55233 Whale Rider (2) A Donnelly 5 68452 Jimmys Girl (1) B Espin A Donnelly K Marshall (J) 6 17942 Gosimongo (2) N Meredith K Marshall (J) S Dickson 3 77797 Itsokbeingbetter (3) D Balle 7 74926 Eli (3) S Doody 49 Delightful Art (4) G Ellison J Abernethy A Poutama (J) 4 3 5 57245 Vega Star (5) Reid/McMullan 8 5X555 Jomo (4) J Robinson S Reid J Robinson 1 9 35823 Burt Munro (5) S Branch D Butcher P Ferguson 6 40526 Lynton Creek (6) J & D Butcher 2 10 63664 Ma Cille (6) P Scaife Frankie Yale (7) J Coppins S Abernethy B Butcher (J) 7 75799 Barrier

11 07835 Notre Dame (u1) T Briskie T Briskie 8 Westwind Flyer SCRATCHED 12 00746 Highland Star (u2) Wallis/Hackett T Mitchell 13 98210 Grey Stoke (u3) R Peni 65 Razor Brogden (21) N Chilcott N Chilcott N Chilcott 9 4 10 87955 Franco Santiago (22) P Scaife 14 08377 Torpedo Run (u4) A Brown S Dickson J Abernethy 4 15 02272 Larch (u5) J & D Butcher S Phelan D Butcher 11 95403 Tenacious Bromac (23) J Gommans 16 02759 Princess Mackendon (u6) Wallis/Hackett M Wallis COMPLETELY WIRED LTD MOBILE PACE GOT IT COVERED/BAKER BUILDERS HANDICAP TROT

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DAN HUGHES/MURRAY PHILLIPS TROT $7,000, 5yo+ c2 & faster discrhcp, 2100m

1 18740 Southland Reflector (1) D Iremonger 2 90477 San Diego Love (2) E Downey 3 06618 Lady J (3) S Dickson 4 57397 Palais Royal (4) L Edwards 3 5 70413 Bim Bom Bay (5) W Fleming 6 First Vintage 2 7 6X871 Springfield Hugh (u1) R Villiger 8 46047 Our Super Ram (1) P Young 4 9 67441 Clifden Clowers (2) S Mounce 10 08177 Little Bro (u1) P Scaife 1 11 9825X Sir George Grey (u2) D Balle 12:58PM

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CORLETT TRUCKING MOBILE PACE

$6,000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 2000m

1 35729 Genociate (1) D Iremonger 3 2 P9X0X Sunhaven Boss (2) J Abernethy 1 3 2 Chiasso (3) R Villiger 4 0 Burning Reign (4) J Mair 5 Lynx

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1 63032 Little Mo (1) K Ford C Ford 4 2 129X0 Blackguard’s Corner (2) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon 3 3 21384 Everybody Knows (u1) G & N Hope R May 4 X06P1 Agnes Brown (u2) K Townley D Dunn 5 08135 Tornado Valley (1) T McMillan T McMillan 2 6 02251 Clover Mac (2) C & J DeFilippi L Lester (J) 7 140P8 Mon Richie (3) D Ross L O'Reilly 1 8 43212 Royal Shine (4) S Smolenski B Orange 9 805P0 Thanksforplaying (u1) G & N Hope S Golding (J) 10 81225 Lothario (u2) P Nairn D Butt 11 26124 Father Christmas (u3) P Williamson B Williamson (J)

March 26, 2016

OPT

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$25,510, 2yo mob. trot, 1950m

Barrier

7:45PM

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47 Heavyweight Hero (1) M Edmonds 74 Muscles Galore (2) C & A Edmonds 136 Custodian (3) R Butt 453 Needle (4) C & J DeFilippi 22 Miracle Rising (5) G Smith 12 Enghien (6) G & N Hope 11 Habibi Inta (7) P Nairn Southern Alps (8) R Holmes 5 Di’z Luck (u1) G Smith

$22,000, 2yo fillies mob. pace, 1950m

Smiley Sophie (1) Purdon/Rasmussen Tachyon (2) Purdon/Rasmussen 345 Seaswift Joy (3) M Shinn 54 Kotare Yarra (4) R Dunn Flying Miss Mac (5) Purdon/Rasmussen 11 Delightful Memphis (6) M Jones 132 Renske B (7) Purdon/Rasmussen

8:13PM

M Edmonds J Dunn D Butt C DeFilippi K Butt (J) R May B Orange R Holmes G Smith

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N Rasmussen M Purdon T Chmiel J Dunn D Dunn B Orange T Williams

CANTERBURY STANDARDBRED BREEDERS STAKES PACE $12,000, 4yo+ mares c2–c5, 1609m

1 181 Laytons Lass (1) T & G Chmiel 1 2 74835 Courtney John (2) P Burrows PI & GJ KENNARD BLOODSTOCK MOBILE PACE 3 59130 Christian Lady (3) P McClelland 6:45PM $11,000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2600m 4 X9431 Shrieks Of Delight (4) P Vermeulen 1 56800 Bella Jones (1) G & N Hope R May 5 84395 Here We Go Again (5) J Gameson 4 3 2 1 Heaven Rocks (2) Purdon/Rasmussen Eva Sophnally (6) G & N Hope M Purdon 6 64144 Barrier 2 3 11X31 Eh Ef El (3) K Barron B Orange 1 4 21155 Mastercraftsman (4) Purdon/Rasmussen T Williams 7 5113P Expressive Victor (21) P Court

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03332 Kilkeel Lady (3) C Butler 86894 Platinum Poker (4) A Grant 54949 McRubble (5) J Cossey 40042 Irish Kath (6) P & M O'Brien 22090 P Tomado (7) D Gale 24232 Maldini (8) E Clarke

K Marshall (J) S Abernethy T Mitchell D Ferguson (J) N Chilcott P Ferguson

65488 Arcano (21) M Pash 27173 Local Yokel (22) K Tarrant 00695 Rangi Rangdu (23) W Fleming 73950 Hadrian (24) R Downey 89880 Wonder Anvil (25) P Young

S Phelan A Poutama (J) K More T Lethaby (J) J Abernethy

Barrier

7

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 5-6-7-8-9-10

9 85535 Chequeme Rosie (21) J Godfrey 4 10 87336 Kia Kaha (22) S Dickson 11 31402 Sage Creek (23) J Coppins 2 12 43532 Balius (24) P Scaife 13 9X087 Pureora Paree (25) Reid/McMullan 14 17656 God’s Delight (26) W Ferguson 4:35PM

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P Ferguson S Dickson T Mitchell D Butcher S Reid D Ferguson (J)

SANDFORD BROS PACE $7,000, 4yo+ c2, c3 with cond., 2000m

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$11,000, 4yo+ c2 to c3 spechcp trot, 2600m

7 18410 Many Options (7) R Holmes R Holmes 8 46384 Robyn’s Bad Boy (8) R Wilson C Ferguson (J) 3 Pat Campbell (9) B Negus D Dunn 9 32147 Barrier

8:19PM NEVELE R FILLIES SERIES MOBILE PACE

10 11295 Arden’s Concord (21) M Saunders R McIlwrick (J) OPT 806 $20,000, 3yo fillies mob. pace, 1700m 11 Nic Mac Willy SCRATCHED 1 Changeling Dana SCRATCHED 1

1 2 35545 Bootie Bromac (22) N Williamson

N Williamson 2 47846 Scarlett Banner (1) G Smith G Smith 4 3 4X452 Allison Stokke (2) G Smith A Armour 9:59PM RICOH MOBILE PACE 1 4 22233 Rakarazor (3) C Barron C Barron OPT 809 $6,000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2200m 2 5 11655 Emily Blunt (4) G & N Hope R May J W Cox 6 63402 Hopes And Dreams (5) G & J Knight M Williamson 1 0X090 Shezalegend (1) A Hoffman T Chmiel 7 17098 Real Courage (6) R Dunn D Dunn 2 54257 Sicilian Secret (2) T & G Chmiel R Close 3 RR Sand Dollar (7) P Court B Orange 3 00005 Sioux Nation (3) N Edge 8 14211 Barrier 3 4 08603 Gerald (4) B Negus S Ottley

5 58060 Hot Chilli (5) R Wilson B Williamson (J) 9 04285 Soapbox (21) M G Brown N Williamson C D Thornley 10 54510 Gotta Classie Girl (22) T & G Chmiel T Chmiel 6 35000 Bettor Backim (6) P Robertson

7 060X8 Beyond Belief (7) P Court

B Orange 11 353 Love Ova Gold (23) R Holmes R Holmes 4 8 95962 Expresso Martini (8) G Anderson R McIlwrick (J) 8:52PM 4-WHEEL DRIVE HANDICAP TROT Tuscaloosa (9) C Morrison J Morrison (J) 9 99689 Barrier $6,500, 4yo+ c2 to c6 discrhcp trot, 2700m OPT 807 2 10 18743 Scotlynn Jack (21) D Taylor J Young (J) 4 1 40X05 Evander D Go (1) N Burton N Burton 1 11 1X20 Jules Manzoni (22) A Hoffman D Dunn 2 06175 Moon Countess (2) G & C Lee G Lee K Butt (J) 3 3 90229 Danke (3) M Jones S Ottley 12 5064P Franco Tariq (23) P Anderson N Williamson 1 4 28417 Kylie Castleton (4) P Williamson M Williamson 13 80644 Cool Changes (24) N Williamson 5 88016 Holdon Toyaspurs (5) M Prendergast D Dunn 10:25 PM JUST ESSENCE CATERING MOBILE PACE 6 16407 One Cool Chick (u1) R Swain R Swain $6,000, 6yo+ c1 to c3 mob. pace, 2200m 7 22000 The Jinja Ninja (u2) A Black N Williamson OPT 810 B Orange 8 08166 Space Ace (1) A Malcolmson A Beck 1 39X89 Billy The Bus (1) M Swain J W Cox 9 7076X Pyramid Magic (1) P Williamson B Williamson (J) 2 19705 Be Me (2) D Trainor 1 R Swain 2 10 04361 October Rain (2) G Smith G Smith 3 00086 Machinegun Kelly (3) B McDonald 2 4 82219 Bute Courage (4) L Hanrahan R May HAPPYHIRE PACE $6,500, 3yo+, c2–c3 with 9:26PM 1 5 04071 Fair Dinkum Bromac (5) M Jones L McKay (J) cond., 2200m 6 195X0 Blazing Bracelet (6) S Lock OPT 808 S Lock 2 1 14753 Man I’m Good (1) A Kyle C Barron A Kyle 7 60971 Ronnoco (7) K O'Connor 4 2 5X417 Corroboree (2) K Barron C D Thornley B Orange 8 80078 Jack Hammer (8) T May 3 97060 Spirit Of Chronos (3) E Latimer 9 64140 Motu Speedy Star (9) E Latimer J Morrison (J) S Ottley

Barrier 4 08518 Franco Hammond (4) R Todd B Williamson (J) 5 34168 The Charging Moa (5) G & J Knight 3 10 78489 Odette Jaccka (21) B Gray M Williamson N Williamson 6 76475 Russian Express (6) N Edge 4 11 09964 Remiss (22) B White R Close B Williamson (J)

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CHRISTCHURCH CASINO MOBILE PACE

S Ottley J Morrison (J) M Williamson R Holmes D Dunn

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 8-9-10 2-3-4-5, 7-8-9-10 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 5-6-7-8-9-10

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1 $11,000, 3yo+ c2 to c3 mob. pace, 1950m 2 1 89710 Dapper George (1) M Howard S McNally 3 3 2 2 122X1 MacKenzie (2) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon 4 3 11357 Bite The Bullet (3) R Dunn J Dunn 4 5 1 4 110X3 Benicio (4) Purdon/Rasmussen N Rasmussen 2 6 4 5 35633 Usain Colt (5) G & N Hope R May 1 7 3 6 1X435 Better Scoot (6) K Barron B Orange 8 7 07134 Aveross Rustler (7) A Faulks D Dunn 9

That Guy Finn (8) J Howe T Chmiel 8 53460 Barrier

5:43PM

10 60556 Montmorensy (10) D Simpson 11 91PPX Boyz Let Loose (11) A Sutherland 12 72380 Astral Ruler (u1) P Williamson 13 10 Flurry (u2) G & J Knight 4 14 04003 Circus Boy (u3) T Barron

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

1 295P9 River Emperor (1) P Fleming T Mitchell MOLLER JOHNSON LTD MOBILE PACE 2 44980 Alta Michaela (2) E Clarke D Butcher 3:25PM $6,000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2000m 3 00756 Aces N Eights (3) F Mitchell K Marshall (J) 3 1 70523 Our Wicklow (1) P Fleming J Abernethy 4 20645 Brainstormer (4) D Gale D Ferguson (J) 4 2 07504 Charming Desire (2) R Downey T Lethaby (J) 2 5 83316 Alta Surreal (5) N Chilcott N Chilcott 2 3 23851 Hezabluechipboy (3) J & M Teaz M Teaz (J) 6 82070 Paul’s Verdict (6) S Mounce T Lethaby (J) 4 7X299 Arizona Eyre (4) M Bowden S Phelan 7 32479 Media Queen (7) P & M O'Brien P Ferguson 5 80075 Sheza Springfield (5) P Springall D Ferguson (J) 1 8 76583 Hudy Haxwell (8) A Donnelly A Donnelly 2:11PM

6 13074 Sifty Tuesday (6) A Donnelly

A Donnelly Barrier $7,000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2000m A Poutama (J) 9 P0088 Dashing Dane (21) F Cossey 1 00594 Rio Grande (1) P Fleming S Abernethy 7 55800 Flight Deck (7) S Doody S Phelan

8 74916 Count Landeck (8) R Villiger

D Butcher 2 00041 Jonah Jones (2) R Dickson S Dickson 4 10 58265 Princess Kate (22) N Chilcott S Abernethy

Barrier 3 08400 Lucy Lorna (3) N Chilcott N Chilcott 11 80094 Scanreco Bay (23) M Bowden A Poutama (J) S Abernethy 4 39130 Danse Macabre (4) P & M O'Brien P Ferguson 9 51640 Living Blue Chip (21) S Phillips 3 12 10467 Elliot Daniel (24) J Abernethy J Abernethy

1 0 49580 Jericho Road (22) P & M O'Brien

P Ferguson 3 5 56123 He’s Novak (5) A Donnelly A Donnelly EGMONT TYRE SERVICE MOBILE PACE 1 11 P0352 Chevrons Easy (23) D Gale B Butcher (J) 5:15PM 2 6 47953 Turnbulls (6) A & L Neal K Marshall (J) $8,000, 4yo+ c3 to c6 mob. pace, 2000m K Marshall (J) 7 64399 Honey Smith (7) P Scaife D Butcher 12 65461 Cut The Cards (24) F Mitchell P Ferguson T Mitchell 1 05323 Lucia Bromac (1) B Weaver

Rimutoto Prince (8) K Chittenden K Chittenden 13 99688 Megatron (25) J Cossey 8 3200X Barrier 2 36612 Eden Paige (2) J & D Butcher D Butcher THE FURLONG PACE $7,000, 3yo+ c2 +claimers,

3 Scanreco Bay SCRATCHED 9 76084 Flanyattice (21) Wallis/Hackett T Mitchell 4:00PM 2000m 1 4 23113 Major Classic (3) G Small B Butcher (J) 10 700X1 Charlie Harper (22) W Castle D Ferguson (J) 2 5 21121 Ralph Elliott (4) S Dickson T Herlihy S Dickson 11 76813 Starry Delight (23) D Gale J Abernethy 1 X4028 Atomic Jet (1) E Clarke 3 6 25431 Bettors Pocket (5) T Herlihy S Abernethy T Herlihy 1 12 4X159 Ohoka Darcy (24) T Herlihy T Herlihy 2 20060 Wave Song (2) P Fleming 3 3 24370 Shantahlia Knight (3) A Stuart J Abernethy 7 25011 Franco Lennox (6) D Gale N Chilcott 4 13 42446 Santanna Magic (u1) T Briskie T Briskie S Phelan Chillysjustastrutter (7) I Small A Poutama (J) 14 08605 Golden Billion (u2) A Pyers A Pyers 4 X8X76 Sandpark Senator (4) R Gilmore 8 57859 Barrier 5 38135 Islay (5) S Doody A Poutama (J) MURRAY BROS/R D 1 MOBILE PACE 6 71707 Moulin Bromac (6) N Chilcott N Chilcott 9 14647 Brydon Delight (21) J Young S Phelan 2:50PM $6,000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, 2000m 1 7 21443 Jack Bates (7) F Mitchell K Marshall (J) 10 97808 Zakspatrol (22) R Douglas M Blakemore (J) 8 98940 Houhora Dream (8) G Ellison 1 64790 Finding Nemo (1) D Blakemore B Butcher (J) 11 39950 Gwendene (23) D Gale M Blakemore (J) J Abernethy Barrier 4 2 00224 Party Rage (2) P Scaife 4 12 09073 Tijuana Bromac (24) A Best B Butcher (J) S Abernethy

5 36769 Kingi Hone Kira (5) S McNally S McNally N Williamson $22,000, 2yo c&g mob. pace, 1950m 6 2221 Fiddlethefool (6) B Shirley 7 07327 Marat Saf Finn (7) D Taylor J Young (J) PX # REC Horse (Start pos) Trainer Driver 4 8 21 Bet On A Rascal (8) K Chapman D Dunn 1 52 Jayedgar (1) M Swain N Williamson 9 03703 Coringa Delight (9) M Jones W Higgs

2 3 Cobra Banner (2) D Moore J Dunn Barrier 2 3 Serengeti (3) Purdon/Rasmussen T Williams 10 35272 Sans Le Sou (21) R Alfeld R Alfeld 1 4 King Solomon (4) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon Wozniacki (22) J Harrington J Harrington (J) 4 5 3 Ultimate Machete (5) Purdon/Rasmussen N Rasmussen 1112 85544 46587 Johnny Eyre (23) M Brown K Cox (J) 3 Mongolian Storm (6) P Court R May 6 351 Barrier

7:15PM HOME AND FAMILY CHCH NZ 2YO MOBILE TROT 5:20PM

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1007m; Weather: Showers

T Chmiel G Smith P McClelland S Golding (J) C D Thornley R May B Orange

Track Information Type: All weather; Direction: Left-handed; Length: 1193m; Weather: Mainly Fine

8 3 9 2 10

44132 Crackabella (22) D Taylor 72365 Royal Counsel (23) M Shinn 72115 Pocket Of Jewels (24) L Hanrahan

J W Cox D Dunn S McNally

DOUBLES TREBLES QUADDIES FIRST 4 PLACE 6

1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 7-8-9-10-11-12

5 42769 Onedin’s Delight (5) M House D Dunn 6 59843 Donegal Carnbouy (6) M Gill K Gill (J) 0 7 70070 Volente (7) N Brady N Brady $11,000, 3yo+ c1 trot, 2600m 1 16246 We’ll Meet Again (1) L & J Smith J Smith 8 34 Kiwi On Show (8) R Holmes R Holmes 2 05030 Henley Park (2) B Borcoskie P Borcoskie 9 7 Lavros Vance (9) L Jones S Ottley

Barrier 3 Bear’s Rest SCRATCHED 3 4 06411 Oona (3) C & J DeFilippi C DeFilippi 4 10 42727 Cmeerock (21) R Dunn J Dunn 5 76224 Sarah Palin (4) M Nyhan P Davis 3 11 50832 Well Armed (22) A Ford R May 6 79034 Natives Lasting Love (5) K Cameron K Cameron 1 12 4X23 Major Ben (23) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon 4 7 12X17 He’s Like The Wind (6) G Smith G Smith 0 13 000X0 Tiger John (24) K Dixon K Cox (J) 8 04693 Diana Harbour (7) K James K James 14 0X A Life Under Fire (25) N McGrath N McGrath 9 73543 BK Dawn (8) Wakelin/Noble P Wakelin 15 7X423 Blade (26) G Smith G Smith 10 01706 Beg Hall (9) T Butt J Curtin 16 44X74 Brunello (27) K Barron B Orange 11 54021 Gee Gees Invasion (10) R Holmes R Holmes 12

Soney Beatt SCRATCHED PIAZZA D’ORO EXPRESSO TROT $12,000, 4yo+ c4 2 13 74210 I’m Not Eyre (11) T Trathen T Trathen 9:55PM & faster discrhcp, 2600m 14 68042 Alvira Hest (u1) A Faulks B Orange 1 09176 Arran Chief (1) A Faulks

A Faulks 15 201X4 Blazing Under Fire (u2) P Williamson B Williamson (J) 2 00953 Never Fear (2) P O'Reilly G O'Reilly 1 16 14186 All Star Angus (u3) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon 3 42177 Pyramid Monarch (u1) P Williamson B Williamson (J) 17 4X001 Quevert (u4) P Nairn P Nairn 4 4 56732 The Earth Moved (1) G & N Hope R May 9:05PM BRECKON FARMS/ALL STARS STABLES EASTER CUP PACE 3 5 71804 Waterloo Sunset (2) P Nairn P Nairn OPT 819 $100,000, c7 to oc spechcp pace, 3200m 6 1X518 Aile Rouge (3) R Holmes R Holmes 4 1 36092 Franco Nelson (1) R Dunn J Dunn 7 21518 Sunny Ruby (u1) S Smolenski G Smith 2 02563 Belkmyster (2) G Anderson M Williamson 2 8 08022 Jag’s Invasion (1) R Dunn J Dunn 3 3 73872 Sky Major (3) B Purdon Z Butcher 1 9 D3771 Sheemon (1) K Townley D Dunn 4 16122 Seel The Deal (4) G McStay R May 5 13112 Costa Del Magnifico (5) B Shirley N Williamson BLUE STAR TAXIS MOBILE PACE 6 52314 Titan Banner (6) G Anderson R McIlwrick (J) 10:20PM $12,000, 4yo+ c4 to c6 mob. pace, 1950m 7 53751 Mighty Flying Mac (7) R Dunn B Orange 1 71886 Dalness Xchange (1) R Dunn J Dunn 2 8 X1113 Locharburn (8) K Chapman D Dunn 3 2 02175 Clive (2) D Ross L O'Reilly 9 12521 Cullect A Guinness (u1) R Dunn C DeFilippi 3 64080 The Royal Garden (3) R Dunn T Williams 1 10 21111 Smolda (1) Purdon/Rasmussen M Purdon 4 60183 Donegal Jimmy Dave (4) R Dunn G O'Reilly T Chmiel CHRISTIAN CULLEN MOBILE PACE 5 53460 That Guy Finn (5) J Howe 9:30PM Four Starzzz Shiraz SCRATCHED $9,000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, 1950m 6 1 089P0 Gotta Ticket (1) M Gill 1 7 31532 Tas Man Bromac (6) N Williamson S Golding (J) N Williamson 2 2 4 8 53164 Valor Lustre (7) I Court Glenferrie Classic (2) M Jones M Jones B Orange 3 7X07 Beau Sancy (3) Paul & Mitchell Kerr 2 Field Marshal (8) T Butt D Dunn 9 14211 Barrier 4 46329 Lucky Three (4) H Hunter H Hunter 8:39PM

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■ RUGBY

In brief

Seniors kick off campaign

Blow for Chiefs The Chiefs have suffered another injury blow to their pack, with experienced loosehead prop Pauliasi Manu suffering a seasonending injury in training. Ahead of what would have been his 50th game for the franchise against the Force on Saturday night, Manu ruptured his Achilles tendon at training yesterday. The injury occurred while he was jogging during a low-intensity drill and will leave Manu requiring surgery in the next few days. The expected rehabilitation period is six-to-nine months, ruling the 28-year-old out of all rugby for the remainder of 2016. The injury further weakens a Chiefs front row that in the pre-season lost new signing Nepo Laulala to a season-ending knee injury, a blow that saw Dave Rennie’s side sign Japanese prop Hiroshi Yamashita.

- NZH

Sky wins Olympics

Vili Kakala in action during Hampstead’s abandoned pre-season match against Temuka last Saturday.

PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 190316-AK-041

By James Ford

was abandoned following a knee injury to Fale Aumalaga last Saturday.

Despite failing to pick up a win so far, Broker believes the three outings have enabled weaknesses to be identified and is confident ahead of the clash.

Rakaia have only had one preseason outing, a 52-31 victory over Temuka, and will lock horns with Darfield in their opening tie of the campaign while Methven will also be on the road as they face West Melton.

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The Combined Country Competition rugby season will begin for local teams Hampstead, Methven and Rakaia this evening.

Hampstead will travel north to lock horns with Lincoln and will be gunning for a winning start.

Regan Broker’s side was narrowly beaten by North Otago outfit Maheno 21-19 and fell to another close 14-12 loss to Timaru Old Boys before their final preseason match against Temuka

■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Section one - Lincoln v Hampstead, Lincoln, 7.30pm. West Melton v Methven, West Melton, 7pm.

West Melton v Methven, West Melton, 7pm. Burn/Duns/Irwell v Glenmark, Dunsandel, 7pm.

Saracens v Kaiapoi, Southbrook, 6pm, Section two - Darfield v Rakaia, Darfield, 7pm, Prebbleton v Ohoka, Prebbleton, 7pm.

Hornby v Waihora, Waihora, 7.30pm.

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Konrad Hurrell is back for the Warriors but there is some mystery about how he will be used.

The powerful centre, who has yet to have any NRL game time this season, has been named on the interchange bench for Monday’s match against the Newcastle Knights.

He replaces Nathaniel Roache, who sustained an ankle injury in a heavy tackle against the Melbourne Storm last Sunday.

For many it will be welcome news – but it is not clear exactly where Hurrell slots in.

Most NRL teams employ a utility on the interchange bench, alongside three power forwards. Roache was cover for hooker, but could also play almost every position in the backline, similar to Kodi Nikorima at the Broncos.

Hurrell is a different proposition. He can play centre or wing – and that’s about it.

He’s been used before off the interchange bench, principally by former coach Matt Elliott, as a shock weapon. But that was when there were concerns over Hurrell’s ability to last 80 minutes and also at a time when

coaches had more interchanges available.

The reduced interchange this year means tactical replacements in the backline are an unaffordable luxury, as the forwards need to be rotated efficiently to mitigate fatigue.

Perhaps the most likely scenario will see Hurrell used as an impact player at the back end of each half, while another player (maybe Jeff Robson, Bodene Thompson or Tui Lolohea) shifts to dummy half for a period to give hooker Jazz Tevaga a spell.

But Hurrell should be an asset to a Warriors team who have been short of game breakers.

His well publicised defensive issues make him an enigma, but what he can bring to the attacking side of the game should not be underestimated. Hurrell can wear out opposition defenders with his charges, and brings a physical intensity that others in the Warriors backline can’t match.

The inclusion of Hurrell is one of only two changes to the 17 that faced the Storm, with prop Sam Lisone replacing fellow front rower James Gavet. Gavet impressed earlier in the season, but struggled to make an impression against the Storm. Lisone returns from a shoulder injury sustained in round two.

Sky Television has the rights for the next four Olympic Games locked up after inking a long-term deal with the IOC. The network, which will also broadcast this year’s Games in Rio, has secured the rights to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 along with the 2024 event, which is yet to be awarded to a host city. It will also screen the next two Winter Olympics in PyeongChang (2018) and Beijing (2022). The decision to chase one of the longest broadcast deals in the company’s history could be read as an aggressive move to shut out free-to-air broadcasters and other aspiring providers from the market. As traditional viewer habits change and audiences increasingly move online, major sporting events remain one of the few reliable world mass aggregators of TV audiences.

- NZME

Bowler ban upheld Bangladesh failed in their frantic bid to get paceman Taskin Ahmed’s bowling suspension overturned to help revive their flagging World Twenty20 campaign after a judicial commissioner upheld the ban for an illegal bowling action. The rightarm bowler and his teammate, left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny, were suspended from bowling on Saturday after both were reported for illegal actions following a March 9 qualifier against the Netherlands in Dharamsala. “...

Taskin Ahmed’s suspension from bowling in international cricket has been upheld, following a review hearing conducted by a Judicial Commissioner,” the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.

- AAP

Three-game ban Former Parramatta, Canterbury and Warriors NRL centre Krisnan Inu has copped a three-game ban for a dangerous throw in the Super League. Catalans star Inu dumped Huddersfield prop Eorl Crabtree during the French side’s 46-26 win over the Giants in a fiery clash on Sunday. Inu was also fined STG300 ($A560) after being charged with a grade D offence by the Rugby Football League’s disciplinary panel. Huddersfield centre Joe Wardle copped the same fine and was given a two-game ban after being sent off for a high tackle.

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■ FOOTBALL

In brief

Fundraising boost for Japan

BY JAMES FORD

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Fundraising for Mid Canterbury Football’s 12th grade team’s tour of Japan has reached $12,000, but the youngsters are hoping an evening with Sir Richard Hadlee will push them even closer to their $60,000 target.

Sir Richard will be the guest speaker for a three-course meal at Hotel Ashburton on May 28, and tickets can be purchased for $95.

The youngsters will head to the land of the rising sun on August 9, and pit their skills against Japanese teams in the town of Hosoe at the Friendship Games Tournament.

The tournament was last held in 2013 in Ashburton, before a two-year layoff due to scheduling issues, but plans are now in place for a return competition in Mid Canterbury next year.

The team has been pulling out all the stops - selling croissants, chocolate, sunscreen and hosting sausage sizzles to fund the trip.

The local players will play matches in Singapore while en route to Japan, before being billeted with Japanese families on arrival.

The New Zealand round of the Sevens World Series will be remaining in Wellington. As reported in the Herald on Sunday, New Zealand Rugby is expected to announce a decision on the future of the Sevens after a board meeting today, but it’s understood a call has been made and the tournament is staying in the capital. The contract in Wellington expired this year, after three years of declining crowds and speculation the tournament could head elsewhere. It’s not yet known how long the new contract will be for, but it’ll be good news for the Wellington City Council, who didn’t want to lose it.

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Cummins makes bid

Longbeach School principal Neil Simons will coach the Japan-bound Mid Canterbury team.

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Coach Neil Simons believes the trip will offer the boys a unique and memorable football and life experience.

“I think not only the football experience, but also the cultural

experience will open their eyes,” he said.

“I think that’s an equal component of the whole trip, because they’re billeted out they will experience more of the traditional

Japanese lifestyle.”

For more information on the evening with Sir Richard Hadlee, Sandy Sigel can be contacted on 027 868 3815 or at legisnas@ gmail.com.

Colourful Wallabies winger Nick Cummins is making an audacious bid for Olympic selection after completing his first training session with Australia’s rugby sevens team in almost six years. “There was a bit of black smoke but we got it done,” Cummins told AAP after surviving a gruelling two-hour workout with the Thunderbolts.

The “Honey Badger” is now hoping to make a bee-line for Rio in August but accepts he’s leaving his run late following his return from a playing stint in Japan. Cummins last featured in Australia’s sevens programme at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi but says he craves a comeback and shot at gold-medal glory.

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O’Connor back

■ RUGBY

Savea given rest for Hurricanes The Kings, yet to win this season and unlikely to in the near future, will be at least spared the sight of charging All Blacks wing Julian Savea (right) at Westpac Stadium tomorrow.

Coach Chris Boyd has decided to rest the 106kg wing, one of three changes to the starting XV which thrashed the Force 41-6 in Palmerston North last weekend.

Jason Woodward replaces Savea, with centre Willis Halaholo coming on for Vince Aso - who is on the reserves bench - and Michael Fatialofa starting at lock.

Fatialofa comes in for Blade Thomson, who shifts to No8 in place of Victor Vito who has a calf strain.

“All three of

those guys who have come in will be looking put their hand up and this gives them an opportunity to do that,” Boyd said.

“We are very lucky with the depth we have in a number of positions and particularly in the outside backs.

“This is an important match for us. We’ve got some good momentum from our last two matches and we want to carry that on into the bye week with a good performance in front of our home fans.”

There are also a number of changes to the reserves where utility back Matt Proctor returns from a knee in-

jury and halfback Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi and lock Geoff Cridge make their first appearances of the season.

Tahuriorangi has played a limited role in the opening weeks of the season after battling a leg infection picked up during the preseason, while Cridge has recently returned to the field after recovering from a shoulder injury.

In the final change, prop Loni Uhila comes back into the squad for Reggie Goodes, who took a head knock against the Force.

Tomorrow’s match against the Kings will be the Hurricanes first at Westpac Stadium in 2016 after playing in Canberra, Dunedin, Auckland and Palmerston North in the opening month.

The Hurricanes have played the Kings on only one previous occasion, emerging 46-30 winners on an entertaining afternoon in Wellington in 2013.

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Brumbies not distracted by CEO crisis The Brumbies have vowed to not let back-room dramas derail their Super Rugby campaign, with co-captain Stephen Moore somewhat thankful the team is in South Africa and away from the unfolding crisis.

Chief executive Michael Jones returned to work in Canberra barely 36 hours after being stood down by the club’s board following a scathing radio interview.

Jones won a temporary injunction against the franchise on Tuesday, reportedly using

Sevens to stay

whistleblower laws and citing an alleged breach of contract to allow him to continue his duties until the case is heard again next week.

The Brumbies are currently on tour, and play the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Sunday.

Moore said coach Stephen Larkham spoke to the players about the situation, emphasising that “nothing changes for us”.

“We just get on with doing our job, which is playing footy and preparing for the Cheetahs this

weekend,” he said yesterday.

“It’s really an important game for us and we certainly have made a point to not be distracted by what’s going on back home.

“It is a bit easier because we are away from Australia ... whilst it’s unfortunate to see the club going through this type of drama, it’s not something we can control as players.”

The Brumbies remain on top of the Australia conference despite their 31-11 loss to the Stormers in Cape Town on Sunday.

Moore said it was disappointing to lose that match following three straight wins and a solid preparation.

But he was hopeful the side would turn thing around this week in a game played at high altitude.

“This competition is a long one so you can move on quickly and get our focus on the Cheetahs this weekend,” he added.

“They’ll be tough as well, they’re a difficult team to beat at home.”

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Former Wallabies star James O’Connor has returned to training with French rugby union club Toulon for the first time since his health scare last month. O’Connor has spent the past five weeks recovering after hypoglycemia and extreme fatigue caused him to collapse on the team bus, prompting French media to report he may have suffered a heart attack. While his club denied those claims, he stayed in hospital for three days. A Toulon club statement on Tuesday said the 25-year-old had since “undergone a series of tests and medical examinations in hospital which proved reassuring and satisfactory.

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Cyclists carry on New Zealand professional cyclists have been caught up in the horror of the Belgium bombings and Sam Bewley says security fears remain for their upcoming races.

Bewley arrived two days ago at Brussels Airport, the scene of one of the bombings, and is now staying about 70km away in Gent preparing for races including the 100th edition of the Tour of Flanders on April 3. He said cyclists would “try to carry on with what we do and stay strong ... with respect to the victims.”

Bennett re-signs Wayne Bennett has reportedly re-signed with NRL club Brisbane in a deal worth $2 million. The deal will keep the master coach at the Broncos until the end of the 2019 season. Bennett - who will also hold the England national team reins until the 2017 World Cup returned to Brisbane last season after seven years away.

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■ WORLD TWENTY20

Big pay day for red hot Black Caps New Zealand’s cricketers are three wins away from a substantial payday at the world T20 championship.

The breakdown of monies to go to teams at the world T20 means New Zealand stand to trouser more than $US3 million, if they go on to win the final in Kolkata early on April 4.

Every team in the main draw and the qualifying tournament, which preceded it, receives $US300,000 as a participation fee.

There is a bonus of $US50,000 for teams winning every group game - and only New Zealand can achieve that in pool 2, if they beat Bangladesh in Kolkata this weekend to complete a four-from-four sweep.

The losing semifinalists get $US750,000 each, the runners-up receive $US1.5 million, while the winners pocket $3.5 million.

So, should New Zealand lose their semifinal, they could get $US1.1million; lose the final and that leaps to $1.85 million.

The expectation is the money will be shared by the New Zealand players, with a chunk set aside for support staff.

The women’s teams have far less financial remuneration at their concurrent world tournament, but it is still an increase on a few years ago.

The winners receive $US70,000, runnersup get $US30,000; losing semifinalists $US15,000 each and a group win is worth $US2,500.

New Zealand have never won either of the world titles, although the women were beaten finalists in the 2009 and 2012 editions, losing to England, then Australia.

They are leading their pool, and next face South Africa early on Sunday (NZT) in Bangalore.

The men were semifinalists in the inaugural tournament in 2007 but have been ordinary in subsequent events. They have a big chance to put that right in the coming week.

Against Pakistan on Wednesday morning, Martin Guptill was outstanding, scoring 80 off 48 balls in New Zealand’s total of 180-5. He also took three catches as Pakistan

Pakistan’s Shoiab Malik (left) congratulates New Zealand players after they won their ICC World Twenty20 2016 cricket match in Mohali. New Zealand won by 22 runs.

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failed to build on Sharjeel Khan’s blistering start, finishing on 158-5.

Pakistan never got its momentum back after Khan hit 47 off 25 balls with nine fours and a six in an opening stand of 65. He was dismissed in the sixth over, caught

by Guptill.

Fast bowler Adam Milne (2-26) and left-arm spinner Martin Santner (2-29) led the New Zealand recovery with two wickets each and put Pakistan on the brink of a tournament exit.

“On the back of Martin Guptill’s superb knock, the batting unit played their roles truly nicely to get to us to a very good total,” New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said.

“It was nice to see, in the second innings, our bowlers kept their composure after a tough start and pulled it back nicely.”

New Zealand has already beaten tournament favorites India and Australia, while 2009 champion Pakistan has just two points

from its victory over Bangladesh after also losing to India.

Pakistan, notorious to slip in run-chases, scored nearly half of the required runs in the first 10 overs before its batsmen let the game slip away.

Ahmed Shehzad (30), Umar Akmal (24) and captain Shahid Afridi (19), who was dropped off the first ball, couldn’t build any real momentum as New Zealand kept taking wickets in reply.

Pakistan also missed the experi-

ence of Mohammad Hafeez, who was ruled out of the match due to pain in his right knee. Hafeez’s replacement, Khalid Latif, playing his first T20 international after almost four years, looked out of sorts in his brief stay before holing out in the deep after scoring only three runs.

“It was a chaseable total, we played well in the first six overs.

But after that, instead of building partnerships, we played too many dot balls,” Afridi said.

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March 18 9 Hole Tournament A Grade Best Gross Hiromi Ikehata (Mthn) 1st nett Micheal Reilly (Temuka) R/U nett Roslie Chant (Coringa) c/b 2nd R/U nett Wendy Smith (Ash) B Grade Best Gross Alister Goodwin (Mthn) 1st nett Barbara Inglis (Mayfield) R/U nett Bernie Morrison (Mayfield) 2nd R/U nett Nancy Costin (Tin) 2nd Shot No 2 Geoff Wood (Coringa) No 6 Jodie Monk (Mthn) No 12 Bernie Morrison (Mayfield) No 16 Rosalie Chant (Coringa) Lesley Riley (Temuka) Longest Putt No 9 Wendy Smith (Ash) No 18 Janice Mc Laughlin (P Point) March 22Women’s Division L G U Silver Linda McClea 90 19 71 Bronze 1 Di Lowe 89 19 70 c/b Bronze 2 Marge Reddicliffe 109 41 68 Nearest the Pin No2 Murray Young (NZRE) Trish Clarke No6 Stables Restaurant Linda McClea No12 Mac&Maggies Barb Harris No16 Outdoor Adventure Val Prendergast Twos Linda McClea Di Lowe Trish Clarke

9 Hole Competition Stablefords Rosie O’Brien 22 Nancy Costin 19

SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club March 26 Weekend Ladies. Mixed Greensome pairs. Keig Cup, Coasters Cups.

March 29 Mid-Week Ladies. Nancy McCormick 36 holes-foursome stroke play. 18 hole stroke for others.

Draw Steward: Kathryn Green 3085393.

Starters: E. Sullivan & K. Green.

No.1 Tee. 9.00 D. Hinton & M. Watson.

H. Ward & S. Lemon. 9.06 J. Williams & B. Turton. J. Welch & V. Moore. 9.12 L. Wackrow, W. Carter 9.18 M. Stoddart, F. Matsinger 9.24 K. Green, E. Sullivan.

9.30 A. Grant.

No. 10 Tee. 9.00 H. Hawksby, E. Porter, J. Dunlop. 9.06 J. Guilford, L. Small, S. Letham. 9.12 R. Bennett, C. Trott, J.

McArthur 9.18 M. Urquhart, D. Simmons, K. Robb. 9.24 J. Sheppard, E. Langford, J. Early.

March 30 Nine Hole Men & Women. Report 9.15 am. Stroke round. Change of day owing to Ladies Tournament on Thursday.

Convenor: Joy Nicholas 3086464.

RESULTS

Tinwald Golf Club March 29 Womens Division Medal 2nd Norma Bradford Putting No 1 9.00 M. Kennedy R. Kinvig T. Clarke 9.05 J. Undy J. Bruhns V. Prendergast 9.10 K. Young S. Young M. Smith No 7 9.00 M. Colville P. Bell B. Harris 9.05 V. Cartney S. Vucetich S. Gutsell No 10 9.00 P. Ellis M. Pawsey D. Sharplin 9.05 M. Moore B. Cochrane M. Reddecliffe B. Jackson 9.10 C. Shanks V. Hampton I. Divers L. Bird No 13 9.00 L. McClea J. vander Heide D. Lowe 9.05 C. Linney J. Smith D. Bell 9 holes 2nd Sue Bunt (srixon ball)

■ Golf Mayfield Golf Club March 22 Ladies Division District Teams competition - 4 best nett results Sue Graham 69, Lal Mulligan 77, Helen Rapsey 77, Adrienne Hopping 77; Hastings McLeod Property Brokers Marilyn Cross 2nd shot 2 & 11 Helen Rapsey 0-29, Alison Vessey 30+ ALT No. 5 & 14 Judy Webb;

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■ Shooting Club Shoot

March 21 Mt Somers Rifle Club Nic Holgate 88, 87.1, Eddie Millichamp 87.1, 87, Jake Dudley 86.1, Kevin Fews 91.2, 89.1, Brent Frame 98.4, 97.3, Meg Dudley 86.3, Dave Millichamp 96.1, Joe McAdam 97.5, Stephen Millichamp 93.3, 92.0, Andy Oram 93.1, Wayne Tubb 91.4.

Mayfield Rifle Club Adrien Holden 86.1, Hamish Yeatman 71.1, Robert Spencer 90.3, 89.2, Sophie Holden 71, Nicholas McDowell 66, James Spencer 57, Kyle Hansen 87.1, Thomas Corbett 81.1, 68, Daniel Gould 85.2, Will Boyd 59, Hunter Stacey 52, Ben Nordqvist 92.4, Melissa Verney 93.1, Jorge Llonds 89.3, 82.2, John Fleming 97.6, Alan Wakelin 96.3, Phillippa Fleming 95.3, 97.5, Andrew Donaldson 94.2, Martin Fleming 98.6, Carl Nordqvist 95.4.

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Chertsey-Pendarves President Janice Allen welcomed a smaller than usual attendance to the 85th Annual meeting held at Pat and Rex Tarbotton’s residence recently. Election of officers took place after the reading and adoption of the Annual Report and Financial Statement.

President, Mrs Janice Allen; Vice President, Mrs Raelene Hewitt; Secretary, Mrs Pat Tarbotton; Treasurer, Mrs Elizabeth Rankin. The Committee members are Mesdames Adrienne Lambie, Judith Nichols, Una Sparks, Daphne Watson and Margaret Watson. Pat, Audrey and Pamela celebrated birthdays during the month.

Members enjoyed a put-luck lunch and a stroll around the garden.

Hinds Hinds Institute met on February 24 in the Hinds Hall with an attendance of 15 members. President Rosa welcomed everyone to the New Year of 2016 and hoped everyone had had a great Christmas break.

Rosa read a story from the January/February “Home and Country” which everyone enjoyed.

Thanks were extended to all those who helped with Meals on Wheels and Posies for the Hospital, sixteen posies were delivered and some of our members chatted with the patients making their day a lot brighter. Also thanks were extended to three husbands who helped with Meals on Wheels.

Founders’ Day service was held in the Ashburton Domain on the 21st February which two of our member attended.

Kathryn reported on the meeting re. the Charity Commission information required for our annual returns.

Our speaker for the afternoon was Jane Wright on behalf of the Hospice Mid Canterbury Trust. She explained that the role of the trust would be to provide social, emotional, spiritual and practical support for the person and family.

As well, Jane spoke on some of the services; mobile massage which is available in people’s own homes - for the person and carer also.

Biography writing provides people with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on their life, and creates a record of their memories and stories for themselves and their families, a letter writing service is also available.

There is also Reiki, a gentle holistic natural therapy, when energised hot hands soothe and balance the body promoting relaxation and quality of life. An experienced counsellor is available to provide pastoral care, counselling and bereavement support throughout the end of life’s journey. Home support too, when volunteers are available to provide whatever support is needed. Books too, are avail-

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Jane was thanked and presented with a gift and a donation to the Hospice Mid Canterbury Trust.

The meeting finished with a lovely afternoon tea, served by the hostesses, Shirley and Betty. It was lovely to have a nice cold drink available as well as tea and coffee on this very hot afternoon.

Diane Bradley, Joan Campbell, Joan Henderson, Barbara Danielson, Daphne Sheehan, Wendy Petrie and Elaine Busby.

The retiring Secretary Patsy Huggins was thanked for her term of Office and presented with a bouquet of roses. Pauline thanked her committee and the members for a successful year and closed the meeting.

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Our February meeting was held at the Wakanui Hall. The Roll Call asked the question: “Do you use soap or shower gel? Soap proved to be the most popular. Members were thanked for the toiletries which will be donated to Women’s Refuge.

Our speaker for the evening was Amanda Johnson, Tiny Farm Candles and Soap.

Amanda demonstrated the art of making fragrant candles in novelty containers, and she also explained her soap making procedure. Members were then able to purchase from the lovely array of candles and soaps. The meeting closed with a chat and supper.

On March 14 Netherby held its monthly meeting and AGM, President Pauline welcomed 28 members and the Aspirations were recited. She thanked those who helped deliver Meals on Wheels and provided eight posies for the hospital during February. It was agreed to “Adopt” Presbyterian Support for our Project for the Year.

The Agenda and report of the Federation AGM for last year was read by Patsy and Valmai Mitchell and Joan Campbell will attend as delegates.

A short report was read on Founders Day with three attending from Netherby also it was reported that the recent Positive Ageing Exposition which was supported

by Mid Canterbury Federation WI was very successful.

Golden Threads was read by Nellie Burrows, an amusing story involving a misunderstanding over a WC. A birthday was celebrated by Rosie and the raffle was won by Nancy. The roll call: biscuits for 206 club produced 27 packets of goodies from our members. The Northchurch Trophy was won by Nancy Christey and the Moylan Trophy by Molly Amos. Before moving to the AGM Joan Henderson and Denise Clark gave a short talk on the Military Tattoo they attended.

Annual General Meeting Report: Pauline presented her Annual Report for adoption and was congratulated by Adrienne. Treasurer Valmai moved the Financial Statement and this was seconded

by Secretary Patsy. Election of Officers resulted in the following. President, Pauline Palmer; Secretary, Adrienne Hodson; treasurer, Valmai Mitchell. Committee,

Westpark Westpark WI held their Annual General Meeting on 16th February at St. Paul’s Church Lounge, the majority of members being present. The Roll Call was for payment of Annual Subscriptions. And an appropriate Motto was then read: “Blessed are they who pay their subscriptions promptly.”

The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Heather Whiting; vice President, Louisa McAslan; Secretary, Yvonne Lister; Treasurer, Margaret Thorpe. Committee members are Jeanette van der Nagel, Ellie Leak, and June Thomas. All reports were read and passed. A vote of thanks was given to the retiring office-holders, and a gift of flowers presented. Some business was dealt with and up-coming events planned. Members were reminded that Westpark are to be catering for the lunch at the Mid Canterbury Federation AGM at the Senior Centre on Friday 1st April.

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Street. Will be the duty doctor for Good Friday, LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold ASHBURTON REST HOMES surgery from 10am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 5pm. COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS OMMUNITY ERVICES Phone for an appointment during these times. and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, Phone lines open from 9.30am on 308 9139.

Resource Recovery Parks unrestricted visiting.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA Ashburton and Rakaia will be closed on Good EMERGENCY DENTIST Good Friday and Saturday doctor and Friday If you do not have or cannot contact your emergency details, please telephone the ART GALLERY regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

327 West Street, phone 308 1133. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, provide an accident and emergency service.

Sundays and Public Holidays.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. medical attention must consult their own or the ELPLINE ERVICES Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS ASHBURTON MUSEUM Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. have a general practitioners note of referral.

857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities

MEDICAL SERVICES

A rare opportunity to partner with leading automotive manufacturer Honda, as its authorised service and after-sales agent, now exists in the Ashburton region.

Serving Honda customers in an after-sales, retail parts and vehicle maintenance capacity, your team will provide the full ‘Honda Experience’ and deliver excellence in customer service, premise presentation and mechanical ‘know-how’.

In exchange, you’ll be given full access to our database of Honda owners, use of Honda’s CRM system, training, as well as other benefits privileged to Honda authorised agents only.

While experience in managing your own business in a vehicle servicing setting is preferred, it is not essential. Minimal capital investment for parts inventory and premise presentation/ facilities will be required to ensure that Honda’s corporate brand standards are fulfilled.

To express your interest in becoming Honda’s authorised service agent and business partner in the Ashburton region, please email: Paul White General Manager Southern Region at paul.white@honda.co.nz.

For more information on our products and services, please visit www.honda.co.nz.

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weekday afternoons.

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS 20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 999, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Simon Baker. Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, INFORMATION CENTRES 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

- 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Izzy Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until Cassen. Small: Ref Vetlife.

2pm. Phone 308-1050.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

BUS DEPARTURES VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. emergencies: Large: Shannon Thomson-Laing.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Small: Laura Mulshine.

ANIMAL SERVICES

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

small animal emergency service. To use DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours this service please phone your vet as usual.

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Easter Church Services Anglican Services

Ashburton & Tinwald Parishes

ST ANDREW’S

GOOD FRIDAY

Presbyterian Church Office Ph 308 8042 Weekdays 9am - noon

At St Stephen’s, Park St, Ashburton At St Andrew’s, Thomson St, Tinwald

Good Friday 25 March

EASTER DAY

9.30 am

ashburton

24/7 Appraisals 308 6173

PLANTS, PRODUCE

EASTER special at Farmers Market. Vege plants all $2.50.

Also gherkins, golden queen peaches, tomatoes etc. and frozen jam raspberries. Small bales of lucerne hay will also be available. Phone 0276 006 658.

FOR SALE, fresh new potatoes. Come and see Farmer Brown at the Farmers Market, Saturday morning.

SMITHFIELD FLOWERS, 211 Smithfield Road.

Chrysanthemums for sale. $8 bunch of chrysanthemums or 2 bunches for $13, many beautiful colours. Floral bouquets $20. Come and see us at 211 Smithfield Road, open every day 8am to 7pm.

East Street market Saturday mornings.

Guardian Classifieds

Sunday at 9.30am

83 Allens Road, Allenton

am - Holy Communion

MEETINGS, EVENTS Mid Canterbury Football AGM Thursday, April 7, 2016 7.30pm Sinclair Centre Enquiries: Jenny 0212 346 755 or email: admin @mcfootball.co.nz

GRAZING

WINTER grazing Overdale kale / grass and silage and good yards. Phone 027 284 0377.

GARAGE SALE - Saturday, March 26. Large estate lot. 26 Kitchener Street. Gates open 9am.

AGM Tuesday, March 29 St Andrews Presbyterian Church Hall 7.30pm

307 7900

LOST - Black 2 year cat, Aitken Street area. Answers to name of Buffie. Phone 308 9122.

GARAGE SALES

Rakaia ANZAC Committee

All are welcome

LOST, FOUND

FOR SALE

DELICIOUS Simnel Cakes Our Simnel cakes have been made, using Nigella's famous recipe. The perfect way to celebrate Easter. Call in and get yours today. Kitchen Kapers, The Arcade Ashburton.

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison

Minister- Rev. Henry Mbambo

At St Andrew’s, Thomson St, Tinwald 10

9.30am Good Friday Service

Easter Day Worship and Communion

8 am - Holy Communion 10 am - Holy Communion

Minister Rev David Brown

New Zealand

Friday at 9.30am

Sunday, March 27

Sunrise Service 7.30 am 10am & 7pm

Real Estate

Good Friday Worship

At St Stephen’s, Park St, Ashburton

Easter Sunday Services

PUBLIC NOTICE Section 101, Sale And Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 YNL Limited, 51 Main Street Methven 7730, Canterbury, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the issue (or renewal or variation of conditions) of an on licence in respect of the premises situated at 51 Main Street, Methven 7730 and known as Methven Resort Hotel.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Hotel.

The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: Monday to Sunday 8am - 3am the following day.

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council.

No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the second publication of this notice. The first publication was made on Thursday, March 17, 2016.

Thursday at 7.00pm

Friday, March 25 at 10 am

Cnr Havelock St. & Park St.

PUBLIC NOTICES

Maundy Thursday Service

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www. ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

GARAGE SALES GARAGE SALE 9.00am - 2.00pm Saturday, March 26 403 West Street.

Workshop tools and sundry. Front-end loader, tilt trailer, 175 CF compressor, site-office caravan, Ford tip truck, Isuzu Luton body truck.

Phone Mike 0274 966 809.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT A G-cup gem. Easter weekend sensual massage plus variety of services.

Phone 0210 864 120.

MATURE, voluptuous, sexy.

In Ashburton now. Phone 021 0864 0120.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Emma Scammell Wishing you a very happy 12th Birthday Em. Have a great day. Love Mum, Dad, Charlie and Georgia (and Maisy and Larry). xxxooo

CINDY, kiwi, attractive, long hair, size 8, busty. Lots of fun.

Phone calls only, private 027 363 7916.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Emma Scammell Happy 12th Birthday Emma.

Best wishes for a great day.

Love Nana and Gramps.

FOR RENT small three bedroom older cottage on well fenced section. No garage. $270 per week.

References required. Phone 0276 364 357.

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

ALL VERY WELCOME

Birthday Greetings

BEAUTIFUL, naughty Asian.

Exciting, busty, great body.

Playful good time. Ph 022 321 0270.

THREE bedroom house with two bedrooms available to rent in Tinwald. Contact 027 928 0882 or 027 433 5766 for viewing.

Hot cross buns to follow

Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Daily Events Thursday 9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners, refresher and learning of Tai Chi for Arthritis. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock St. 9.30am - 11.00am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Fun exercise during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON. New players welcome. Enquiries to Clark Gillies 021-146-3619. EA Networks Centre Stadium.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open for toy hire Thursday and Saturday,

Friday Please note: Good Friday Public Holiday, some activities will be closed 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 Allens

Methodist Baring Square Church hall.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST GOODWILL SHOP. Sell preloved second hand clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, Cnr Archibald and Jane Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. OP shop second time around used clothing.

Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Havelock and Cass Street, entry Havelock Street.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

10.30pm - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat, all welcome. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

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

1.30pm

ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social day, come and try it yourself. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

2pm R.S.A. WOMEN’S SECTION. Annual General Meeting, R.S.A. Cox Street.

7pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Maundy Thursday Service, Park Street.

7pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Maundy Thursday Service, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. learn to dance.

All welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Combined Service at Baring Square Methodist Church.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Good Friday Worship, 48 Allens Rd, Allenton.

9.30am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Pre loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa.

St Andrew’s Church Hall, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Good Friday Service. Park Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Good Friday Service, Thomson St. 1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Heritage Centre, West Street.

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

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Phone 03 307 7900 E: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, Somerset House, 161 Burnett St

ALL PUZZLES © THE PUZZLE COMPANY

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): It’s good to have a witness, and you need one now. Someone who studies your moves will be able to illuminate things about the way you operate that even you didn’t know.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Conversational oddities, quirks that have to do with getting from here to there can be expected. But will you float through this day soaking up and spreading emotional sunshine? Yes! GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): When the task at hand is something you don’t want to do, it’s not your fault.

You may have a constitutional difficulty in being roused to do it. And yet, that’s not a pass. It only means you have to do the rousing yourself.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): There will be a lull in the action and this is the perfect moment to reach out and find some new friends to add to your crew. You won’t go wrong when you seek the company of selfdirected, purposeful and intelligent people.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your values will act as the North Star to guide you to your best. It’s easy to forget values are when you are not surrounded by people who share them. Try harder to find your tribe.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You want to point out what’s right, but stark honesty will scrape up an ego or two. Communicate with kindness and love. This alone will contribute to a brilliant interpersonal result.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): A cause you were involved in has since petered out but there’s something that comes along today that has a similar feel. You may take this one on purely for nostalgia’s sake!

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You’ll be keenly aware of what people do for ego gratification. It’s good not to get too involved in vanity endeavours, they are susceptible to the whims of their creator.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Choose fast. If you waste time agonising over a decision, someone with less talent and heart will choose, run and rise to claim the ultimate victory. Don’t let this happen.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You’ll learn, have fun and share in the process, which feels absolutely effortless. Make sure you get credit for what you contribute. If you’re modest, you’ll miss an opportunity.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Something about what you’re doing or who you are is getting more attention than you want. Come up with clever and gracious ways of handling this.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): A flare of energy sends you right into the best vantage point for what there is to see today. This could have to do with an actual ticketed event – or a natural spectacle of life.

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Canterbury owned, locally operated

Patersons Funeral Services and Ashburton Crematorium Ltd Office and Chapel Corner East & Cox Streets, Ashburton

Ph 307 7433 FUNERAL FURNISHERS

MASTER MONUMENTAL MASON

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We help save lives every day through the research and development of improved diagnosis, be er prediction and treatment of heart disease in our hospital and community.

Find out how you can help by visiting: www.otago.ac.nz/chchheart

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Raising Boys’ and Raising Girls’.

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6am Breakfast 9am Whanau Living Vanessa Opera is in the kitchen with some whanau-friendly dinner ideas; Meg plants a scented garden; Jenny May and Dean’s spare bedroom gets a makeover.

9:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 10:30 The Chase 0 11:30 Coach Trip 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm May The Best House Win Abroad PGR 0 3pm Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:52 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 6:55 My Little Pony 3 0 7:20 Yo-Kai Watch 3 0 7:45 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 3 0 8:15 Paw Patrol 3 0 8:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Home And Away 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Hope And Faith 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle 1:30 Judge Rinder 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:35 Kung Fu Panda 0 4pm Dog With A Blog 0 4:30 The Adam And Eve Show 0 5pm Friends 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Neighbours 0

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Location, Location, Location Kirstie and Phil are in Bristol and the countryside of the Cotswolds, helping buyers looking for a country cottage and an urban pad they can afford. 0 8:30 A Place To Call Home PGR 0 9:35 Alan Carr Chatty Man 0 10:35 One News 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 M The Karate Kid PGR 2010 Drama. Work pressure causes a single mother to move to China with her son.

In his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan. 0 10:30 Mike And Molly PGR 0 10:55 Ten 7 Summer PGR

11:05 The Guess List PGR Guests include James Corden and Jennifer Saunders. 0 Midnight My Big Fat Gypsy Christening PGR 0 12:50 Te Karere 3 2 1:15 Benefits Street AO 3 0 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:30 F Almost Human AO When a Chrome appears to have died young, Valerie recognises it as murder, and begins an investigation.

0 1:05 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0

CHOICE TV

FOUR

PRIME

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am Pukana 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm Whare Maori 3 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Whanau Living PGR 4:30 Nga Manu Korero 3

Midnight Gardeners’ World 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Reno v Relocate 1:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao 2am Young Vets 3am Double Your House For Half The Money 4am Tiny House Nation 5am Trashed

12:30 Survivor – Redemption Island PG 1:20 Modern Family PGL 1:45 CSI MV 2:30 Criminal Intent MV 3:15 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Hell On Wheels 16VLS 4:55 F Strike Back 18VLS 5:25 Shipping Wars PG 5:50 Graceland MVLC

THE BOX 6am CSI MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Piha Rescue PG 7:40 Fire Scene Investigation M 8:05 Pawnography PG 8:30 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 8:55 The Glades MV 9:45 N Criminal Intent MV 10:35 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 NCIS – New Orleans MV 12:15 NCIS – LA MV 1:05 Shipping Wars PG 1:30 The Glades MV 2:20 CSI MV 3:10 Survivor – Redemption Island PG 4pm Piha Rescue PG 4:30 Modern Family PGL 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 SVU MV 6:30 Shipping Wars PG 7pm F Piha Rescue PG 7:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 8:30 Hell On Wheels 16VLS 9:30 F Strike Back 18VLS 10:30 Criminal Intent MV 11:30 Criminal Minds 16VS

FRIDAY

SKY SPORT 1

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Dream Defenders 3 7:55 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 8:20 Chuggington 3 8:30 Hi-5 House 3 8:55 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 9:05 Peppa Pig 3 9:10 Fireman Sam 3 0 9:20 Thomas And Friends 3 9:30 Bob The Builder 3 9:40 Barney And Friends 3 10:05 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Tuff Puppy 3 5pm Turbo Fast 3 5:30 Drake And Josh 3 6pm It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm Story 7pm Family Guy PGR 3 Peter 7:30 Grand Designs UK PGR Kevin helps Joe realise his dream of McCloud follows the progress publishing a book, but things of chef Ed and Pilates get out of hand when Peter instructor Vicky, who want takes over as author. 0 to convert a concrete cow7:30 Bob’s Burgers PGR 3 shed in Somerset into a three 8pm American Dad PGR bedroom home. 0 8:30 American Dad PGR 3 8:30 F Lost And Found AO 0 9pm South Park AO 3 9:30 Bodyshockers AO 0 9:30 South Park AO 3 10:35 NewsHub Late 10pm F The Real Housewives Of Melbourne PGR 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm Madam Secretary PGR 3 Elizabeth is humiliated at a public budget hearing when her staff fail to find the corruption in her micro-loan programme; the investigation of Marsh’s death continues.

2pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 3pm The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 0 4:30 Hot Bench Judge Judy and other judges exchange debate before reaching a verdict.

5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country

11:05 Golf World 11:35 SVU AO 3 0 12:25 SVU AO 3 0 1:10 M Changeling AO 3 2008 Drama. 0 3:25 Lip Sync Battle AO 0 3:45 Caught On Camera AO (Starting Today) 3 0 4:30 Caught On Camera PGR 3 5:15 Rachael Ray 3

11:35 Doctor Who – Christmas Special PGR 3 12:30 Backstreet Boys – Show ‘em What You’re Made Of AO 3 (Part 2) 2:35 David Beckham – Into The Unknown PGR 3 4:20 M Chalet Girl PGR 2011 Romantic Comedy. Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy.

11pm Entertainment Tonight 11:25 The Edge On Four 3 A live stream of The Edge radio station.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 F The Big Spring Clean 8pm Simply Nigella 0 8:40 Joanna Lumley’s TransSiberian Adventure 9:35 Madam Secretary AO 10:35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR

MAORI TV

6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Monty Hall – Great Irish Escape 7:30 Reno v Relocate 8am Better Homes And Gardens 9:30 The Cook And The Chef 10am Sean’s Kitchen 10:30 Britain’s Best Back Gardens 11:30 American Restoration Noon Holmes Makes It Right 1pm The Big Catch 2pm Monty Hall – Great Irish Escape 3pm Reno v Relocate 3:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao 4pm Young Vets 5pm In Search Of Perfection 5:30 Sophie In Jordan 6pm Double Your House For Half The Money 7pm Auction Hunters 7:30 Tiny House Nation Renovation experts travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and the inventive people who live in them.

8:30 Trashed Jeremy Irons looks at the risks to the food chain and the environment of pollution of the air, land, and sea.

9:30 Trust Me I’m A Doctor 10:30 Auction Hunters 11pm In Search Of Perfection 11:30 Sophie In Jordan

FRIDAY

TV THREE 6am Paul Henry 9am The Queen Latifah Show PGR 3 Mario Lopez from Extras; QueenLatifah knights The Princess Bride’s Cary Elwes; a 12-year-old viral video star.

10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon NewsHub Midday 12:30 Dr Phil PGR 3 (Part 2) 1:30 M Presumed Dead In Paradise PGR 2014 Thriller.

Malese Jow, Olivia d’Abo, Gavin Houston. 0 3:20 Entertainment Tonight 3:50 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 30 4:20 Shark Tank 0 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am Ping Pong – World Championship 7am Rugby – The Breakdown 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 9am Wood Chopping – Timbersports Champs 10:30 #SkySpeed 11am Motorsport – FIM Superenduro World Championship 11:30 SKY Sport Select Noon Ping Pong – World Championship 1pm Broncos Insider 1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 2pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 3:30 Rugby – The Breakdown 4:30 Small Blacks TV 4:45 Random Rugby 5pm Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup (Highlights) 6pm Motorsport 7pm #SkySpeed 7:30 Rugby – The Breakdown 8:30 Cycling – Dwars Door Vlaanderen (Highlights) One-day cycle race covering 200km across Flanders in Belgium.

9pm InCycle 9:30 Golf – World Championship (Highlights) Dell Match Play – Day One. 10:30 Sport TBC 11pm UFC Fight Flashback Jones v Cormier. 11:30 Ultimate Insider Midnight Fight Night On Sky 2am UFC Now 3am UFC Fight Flashback Jones v Cormier.

3:30 Ultimate Insider 4am Ping Pong – World Championship 5am NRL 360

SKY SPORT 2 5pm Te Mana Kuratahi 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 2 6:20 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 6:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 7pm Playlist 7:30 Kai Ora 3 8pm Game Of Bros PGR 8:30 Paki Vault 8:30 The Palace PGR 9:30 Friday Night Lights PGR 10:30 Whawhai 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Kawe Korero – Reporters Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG On the Crab. 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 MythBusters PG Banana Slip, Double Dip. 9:25 Aeroplane Repo PG 10:20 Unearthed PG Valley of Death. 11:15 Evil-In-Law M 12:10 Your Worst Nightmare M 1:05 Swamp Murders M Murder in the Ozarks. 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Kings PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Gold Rush PG 8:30 Railroad Australia PG 9:30 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:30 Deadliest Catch PG

FRIDAY

12:30 Blood Relatives M 1:25 Deadly Sins M 2:20 Auction Kings PG 2:45 Destroyed In Seconds PG 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 5:05 Alaska Monsters M

Home and Away 5:30pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:20 Bafta – A Life In Pictures: Kenneth Branagh PG 2012 Documentary. 7:50 Deliver Us From Evil 16VLC 2014 Horror.

Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez.

9:45 Dumb And Dumber To MVLSC 2014 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels. 11:35 Barely Lethal MVL 2015 Action. Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L Jackson. 1:15 A Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Crime Drama. Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo.

3:20 Deliver Us From Evil 16VLC 2014 Horror. 5:20 Run For Your Life 16V 2014 Drama. Amy Smart.

6:45 The Loft 16VLSC 2014 Thriller.

James Marsden, Karl Urban.

8:30 Pixels PGVLS 2015 Comedy.

Adam Sandler, Kevin James.

10:20 Wolves 16VLS 2014 Action. Lucas Till, Jason Momoa.

11:50 Gone Tomorrow 16VLS 2015 Thriller.

FRIDAY

1:20 The Loft 16VLSC 2014 Thriller.

3:05 Pixels PGVLS 2015 Comedy.

4:50 Wolves 16VLS 2014 Action.

6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 #SkySpeed 7am European Tour Weekly 7:30 NRL 360 8:30 Sterlo – On The Couch 9:30 NRL Fulltime 10am Fox Sports News 10:30 European Tour Weekly 11am Sport TBC 11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Rugby – The Breakdown The Karate Kid 1pm Cycling – Dwars Door 7:30pm on TV2 Vlaanderen (Highlights) One-day cycle race covering 200km across MOVIES GREATS Flanders in Belgium.

7:45 Old School MLS 2003 Comedy. 1:30 InCycle 2pm SKY Sport Select Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, 2:30 Sky Sports UK News Will Ferrell. 9:15 The Making Of 3pm Sterlo – On The Couch Atonement PG 9:30 Little Nicky 4pm NRL 360 MS 2000 Comedy. Adam Sandler, 5pm Netball – ANZ Harvey Keitel. 11am Hellboy Championship (Highlights) PreII – The Golden Army MV 2008 Season New Zealand.

Action. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair.

6pm SKY Sport Select 1pm The Watcher 16VL 2000 Thriller. Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves, 6:30 Fishing And Adventure 7pm Super League Fulltime James Spader. 2:35 Mystic River 7:30 Sterlo – On The Couch 16VL 2003 Drama. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon. 4:50 Fun 8:30 NRL 360 9:40 NRL Footy Show With Dick And Jane ML 2005 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni.

FRIDAY 6:20 The Perfect Storm ML Midnight Rugby League – NRL 2000 Adventure. George Clooney, (Highlights) Warriors v Storm. From Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane.

Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland.

8:30 You, Me And Dupree MLS 12:30 The After Match 2006 Comedy. 10:20 Mercury 1am NRL 360 Rising MVL 1998 Action Thriller.

2am Rugby League – NSW Cup (Replay) Newcastle v Mounties. From FRIDAY Hunter Stadium, New Castle.

12:10 The Bounty Hunter MVLS 4am Fox Sports News 2010 Comedy. 2am Fun With 4:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Dick And Jane ML 2005 Comedy.

5am Netball – ANZ 3:30 Mercury Rising MVL 1998 Championship (Highlights) PreAction Thriller. 5:20 The Bounty Season New Zealand.

Hunter MVLS 2010 Comedy.

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

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Friday, March 25, 2016 TV ONE

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6am Country Calendar 3 0 6:25 Going Going Gone 3 0 6:50 Mucking In 0 7:15 Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover 0 8am Praise Be 8:30 Life Challenge Kokoda 9:15 Whanau Living 9:40 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 10:25 The Chase 0 11:10 Coach Trip 0 11:35 Emmerdale PGR 0 12:20 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 1:05 Unzipped PGR 0 1:30 May The Best House Win Abroad 0 2:15 Disneynature – Chimpanzee 0 3:35 Tipping Point 4:20 Te Karere 2 4:40 The Chase 0 5:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Storage – Flog The Lot! 0 7:45 Michael McIntyre’s Easter Night At The Coliseum PGR Comedian Michael McIntyre hosts a night of variety from the Coliseum Theatre in London. 0 8:50 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:25 Monty Python Live Show AO 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:55 Sooty 3 0 7:05 My Little Pony 3 0 7:30 Yo-Kai Watch 3 0 7:55 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 3 0 8:20 Camp Lakebottom 0 8:30 M Winnie The Pooh Movie 0 9:35 M Sophia Grace And Rosie’s Royal Adventure 2014 Family Comedy Adventure. 0 10:55 Neighbours 3 0 11:45 Home And Away 3 0 12:10 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:35 Hope And Faith 3 0 1pm M Fly Away Home PG 1996 Family. 0 2:55 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:40 Repeat After Me PGR 0 4:05 M Lovewrecked PGR 2005 Comedy.

0 5:35 M Stuart Little 1999 Comedy. A mouse embarks on a human-sized adventure when it is adopted by the Little family. 0 7pm M The Waterboy AO 1998 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk. 0 8:30 M The Avengers AO 2012 Adventure. Robert Downy jr, Scarlett Johansson. 0 10:50 M Down To Earth PGR 2001 Romantic Comedy.

Chris Rock, Chazz Palminteri.

0

12:50 Castle AO 3 0 1:45 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 2:10 Infomercials

12:25 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:25 Marvel’s Agents Of Shield AO 3 0 3:15 Arrow AO 3 0 4:05 Mike Tyson Mysteries AO 3 4:25 Step By Step 3 0 4:50 Neighbours 3 0 5:35 Zeke And Luther 3 0

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Trust Me I’m A Doctor 7:30 Reno v Relocate 8am Better Homes And Gardens 9:30 In Search Of Perfection 10am Sophie In Jordan 10:30 Double Your House For Half The Money 11:30 Auction Hunters PG Noon Tiny House Nation 1pm Trashed 2pm Trust Me I’m A Doctor 3pm Reno v Relocate 3:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao 4pm Wildlife SOS 4:30 Shark Man 5pm Luke Nguyen’s France 5:30 Paul And Nick’s Big American Food Trip 6pm Million Dollar Contractor 6:30 Yard Crashers 7pm Auction Kings 7:30 Better Homes And Gardens 9:10 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 10pm Gardeners’ World 10:30 Auction Kings 11pm Luke Nguyen’s France 11:30 Paul And Nick’s Big American Food Trip

SATURDAY

Midnight Gardeners’ World 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Reno v Relocate 1:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao 2am Wildlife SOS 2:30 Shark Man 3am Million Dollar Contractor 3:30 Yard Crashers 4am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 5am Gardeners’ World 5:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao

6am M Diary Of A Wimpy Kid PGR 3 2010 Family Comedy.

The adventures of a wise-cracking student who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone’s life – middle school. 0 7:30 M Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – Rodrick Rules PGR 3 2010 Family Comedy.

0 9:05 M Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – Dog Days PGR 3 2012 Family Comedy. 0 10:40 M Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 3 1968 Family. 0 1pm Family Feud 3 0 1:30 M Holiday Spin PGR 2011 Drama. 0 2:55 M Glee – The Concert Movie PGR 3 2011 Documentary Music. 0 4:20 Entertainment Tonight 4:40 Shark Tank 0 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Hop PGR 3 2011 Family Comedy. The teenaged son of the Easter Bunny, on the eve of taking over the family business, leaves for Hollywood to become a drummer. 0 8:30 The Graham Norton Show AO 0 9:20 Wanted AO (Starting Today) 30 10:05 Fail Army AO 3 10:30 Backstrom AO 11:15 The Good Wife AO 3 Alicia manages the fallout when her corporate CEO client’s insensitive statements to the press threaten a multi-billion-dollar merger.

Midnight Infomercials

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:20 Dream Defenders 3 7:50 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 8:15 Chuggington 3 8:35 Hi-5 House 3 9am Emma!

3 9:10 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 9:20 Peppa Pig 3 9:25 Fireman Sam 3 0 9:35 Thomas And Friends 3 9:45 Bob The Builder 3 9:55 Barney And Friends 3 10:25 The Edge On Four 3 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 3:05 Peppa Pig 3 3:10 Bubble Guppies 3 3:35 Fairly Odd Parents 3 4pm Sticky TV 4:35 Tuff Puppy 3 5pm Turbo Fast 3 5:25 Drake And Josh 3 5:50 It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7:20 Family Guy PGR 3 0 7:40 Nitro Circus Live PGR 3 The crew performs in the US for the first time.

8pm Nitro Circus Live PGR 3 The guys get boxing lessons in Philadelphia.

8:25 Nitro Circus Live PGR 3 8:45 M Inglourious Basterds AO 3 2009 War Drama.

Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson. 0

6am Deal Or No Deal 3 6:25 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 6:50 Animal Airport 3 7:15 Nature’s Misfits 3 8:10 The Bat Man Of Mexico 3 9:05 Animal Attraction PGR 3 10am Sol3 Mio – Ladies & Gentlemen... Live In Concert 3 11:10 Hip Hop-Eration PGR 3 12:15 The Doctors PGR 3 1pm Madam Secretary PGR 3 1:50 Madam Secretary PGR 3 2:40 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 3:20 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:50 Antiques Roadshow 3 4:40 Hot Bench 5:05 Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country 6:50 Storage Wars Texas 3

11:15 Rush AO 3 Rush treats an MMA fighter with a careerthreatening condition; Alex must save his job; Manny and Eve discuss their roles in Rush’s life. 0 Midnight Entertainment Tonight 12:20 Infomercials

11:10 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR Midnight Qi AO 3 From lonely hearts to optimum hugging time and toys, Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, and guests ponder some ‘infantile’ questions.

12:10 Home Shopping

7:15 Storage Wars Texas 3 7:40 Scorpion PGR People are locked inside a burning death trap as Walter’s attempt to ‘normalise’ goes wrong after a virus is uploaded to his computer.

8:45 NCIS – New Orleans AO 0 9:30 American Idol

MAORI TV

6am Golf – World Championship (Highlights) Dell Match Play – Day One. From Austin Country Club, Texas.

7am Fishing And Adventure An adventure show featuring some of New Zealand’s top fishing destinations.

7:30 #SkySpeed 8am L Darts – Premier League From Liverpool.

11:30 Sky Sport Select Noon NRL Footy Show 2pm AFL Weekly Highlights 3:30 Golf – World Championship (Highlights) Dell Match Play – Day Two. From Austin Country Club, Texas.

4:30 Golf World 5pm Golf Central 5:30 World Rugby 6pm Rugby – The Breakdown 7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Hurricanes v Kings.

From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

9:35 World Rugby A show reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

10pm #SkySpeed 10:30 Ping Pong – World Championship From Alexandra Palace, London.

11:30 World Rugby Midnight Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Hurricanes v Kings. From Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

2am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Rabbitohs v Bulldogs. 4am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Broncos v Cowboys.

SKY SPORT 2 Kuratahi 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 2 6:20 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 6:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 7pm Tribe 7:30 Matau PGR 8pm The GC PGR 8:30 M Lara Croft Tomb Raider AO 2001 Action. Noah Taylor, Angelina Jolie. 10:20 Te Kaea 3 2 10:50 Kawe Korero – Reporters 11:20 Closedown

6:30 Pukoro 2 7am SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 7:30 Playlist 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm Whare Maori 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Whanau Living PGR 4:30 Patapatai 5pm Te Mana

THE BOX

DISCOVERY

6:40 CSI MV 7:25 The Simpsons PG 7:50 Piha Rescue PG 8:15 Modern Family PGL 8:40 Survivor – Redemption Island PG 9:30 SVU MV 10:15 Criminal Intent MV 11am Criminal Minds 16VS 11:45 Graceland MVLC 12:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 1:20 Shipping Wars PG 1:45 SVU MV 2:30 CSI MV 3:15 Survivor – Redemption Island PG 4:05 Piha Rescue PG 4:30 Modern Family PGL 4:55 The Simpsons PG 5:20 SVU MV 6:05 Parking Wars PGL 6:55 Shipping Wars PG 7:20 Piha Rescue PG 7:45 Criminal Minds 16VS 8:30 Law And Order – UK MV 9:20 Longmire 16V 10:10 Criminal Intent MV 11pm Criminal Minds 16VS 11:50 Parking Wars PGL

SATURDAY

12:40 Survivor – Redemption Island PG 1:30 Modern Family PGL 1:55 CSI MV 2:40 Criminal Intent MV 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3 3:55 Law And Order – UK MV 4:45 Longmire 16V 5:35 Shipping Wars PG

6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 10:20 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 11:15 Dead Of Night M 12:10 Deadly Sins M 1:05 Blood Relatives M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Kings PG 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 Gold Rush PG 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Naked And Afraid M 7:30 Railroad Australia PG 8:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 9:30 Lair Of The Mega Shark M 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:30 Deadliest Catch PG

SATURDAY

12:30 Killer Confessions M 1:25 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M 1:50 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M 2:20 Auction Kings PG 2:45 Destroyed In Seconds PG 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Tribe Alive PG 5:05 Alaska Monsters M

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7pm on TV3

7:40pm on Prime

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:20 Biography – Kate Winslet PG 2012 Documentary. 7:05 Apple Mortgage Cake M 2014 Drama.

Kimberly Elise, Kevin Hanchard.

8:35 Run For Your Life 16V 2014 Drama. Amy Smart. 10am The Loft 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. James Marsden, Karl Urban. 11:45 Wolves 16VLS 2014 Action. Lucas Till, Jason Momoa. 1:15 Pixels PGVLS 2015 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kevin James. 3pm If I Stay M 2014 Drama. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley. 4:45 Horrible Bosses 2 16VLS 2014 Comedy.

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis.

6:30 Godzilla MV 2014 Action.

Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen.

8:30 The Imitation Game MC 2014 Drama. 10:25 Transformers – Age Of Extinction MVL 2014 Action.

SATURDAY

1:10 In Security 16VLC 2013 Comedy. 2:45 Enter The Dangerous Mind 18VLSC 2013 Thriller. 4:15 The Imitation Game MC 2014 Drama.

MOVIES GREATS 7:10 The Perfect Storm ML 2000 Adventure. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane.

9:20 You, Me And Dupree MLS 2006 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon.

11:10 Mercury Rising MVL 1998 Action Thriller. Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride. 1pm The Bounty Hunter MVLS 2010 Comedy.

Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston.

2:50 Revolutionary Road 16VLS 2008 Drama. Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. 4:45 Runaway Bride PGS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo. 6:40 Children Of Men 16VL 2006 Drama. 8:30 Men In Black II PGC 2002 Sci-fi Comedy.

9:55 Catch Me If You Can ML 2002 Crime. SATURDAY 12:10 Revolutionary Road 16VLS 2008 Drama. 2:05 Directors – Wolfgang Petersen PG 2:35 Runaway Bride PGS 1999 Comedy. 4:30 Catch Me If You Can ML 2002 Crime.

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6am NRL Fulltime The latest round of the NRL Premiership.

6:30 Super League Fulltime The latest matches in the Super League season.

7am NRL 360 8am Fox Sports News The latest sports news and previews of sporting action still to come.

8:30 L Rugby League – Super League Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos. From the The Mend-A-Hose Jungle.

11:30 Back Page With hosts Tony Squires and Kelli Underwood.

12:30 #SkySpeed 1pm Cycling – Dwars Door Vlaanderen (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby League – Super League (Replay) Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos. From the The Mend-AHose Jungle.

3:30 NRL Footy Show 5:30 L Rugby League – NRL Rabbitohs v Bulldogs. From the ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

8pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Grand-final – Broncos v Cowboys.

10pm Friday Night With Matty Johns 10:45 L Rugby League – NRL Final – Broncos v Cowboys. From Suncorp Stadium.

SATURDAY

1am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Castleford Tigers v Leeds Rhinos.

1:30 L Rugby League – Super League Hull Kingston Rovers v Hull FC. From KC Lightstream Stadium.

4:15 L Rugby League – Super League St Helens v Wigan Warriors.

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Sport

Assistant coach Paul Hands has been pleased with Collegiate’s progression in preseason.

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Collegiate in tip-top shape

BY JAMES FORD

JAMES.F@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The kick off of the Michael Duff Memorial Trophy Competition is little more than a week away and there is a sense of excitement around Collegiate ahead of the upcoming campaign.

Consistency will be the key to success, according to assistant coach Paul Hands, and the days of desperate last-minute call-ups to

field a team appear to be behind Collegiate.

“We only had 10 regulars last year, we went through 56 players for the season, just dragging people in,” said Hands.

“This year we’ve got a good, steady 20 turning up on Tuesdays and Thursdays, last year we were lucky if we had eight or nine.”

Club stalwart locks Bryn Hetrick and Brent Ferguson will return

to the fray, and flanker Steve McMannus is also back for another year, while ever-present skipper Richard Hay will lead his side again – albeit in a new position at hooker.

Several new arrivals from Tinwald, who were unable to field a Senior B side this year, will also bolster the ranks, but the club’s biggest coup has been the recruitment of former Rakaia and Mid

Canterbury prop Kamaka Reti.

“He (Kamaka Reti) brings plenty of strength and leadership, and having played at a higher level than 90 per cent of our guys, he know what it takes,” he said.

As the club continues to progress, Hands also spoke of a potential Collegiate senior team in the future.

“As part of the club’s progression, our ambition is certainly to

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get through the grades and have a competitive team in the senior competition in years to come.”

But first, Collegiate must concentrate on the season ahead of them, and Hands insisted that finals are a realistic goal.

“As a club we want to make sure we’re fighting it out at finals time,” he said.

“We want to be able to wear the Collegiate jersey with pride.”

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