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■ CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT COURT

Community work for fraud A former Ashburton man has been sentenced for his part in fraudulent offending to the tune of $140,000.

Troy Leonard Gunning, 29, appeared in the Christchurch District Court yesterday where he was sentenced to 80 hours of community work and ordered to pay reparation of $1464 on multiple counts of using a document

to obtain by deception, laid as a representative charge.

According to the police summary of facts, several BP fuel cards were dishonestly obtained by two people who had submitted false written credit applications to various fuel companies.

The BP cards were then sent to associates living around the country.

On September 22 last year, Gunning received one of the fuel cards from his brother.

On the same day Gunning used the card on seven separate occasions to purchase gift cards and goods from BP service stations throughout Christchurch city.

The offending was revealed when the month fuel card bill

was not paid. The total offending through the combined misuse of the cards totalled $140,000.

A subsequent police investigation showed Gunning’s share of the total value amounted to $1464.

When spoken to the 29-yearold admitted his part in the offending, stating he had used the fuel card to purchase gift cards

■ HAKATERE CERAMICS AND POTTERY

Exhibition to become an annual event

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One year ago they were homeless; today Ashburton’s Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery members are flying high, celebrating their first exhibition and looking towards a bright future.

The group’s exhibition opened on Thursday night and the event attracted a large crowd, keen, not only to view exhibits but also to buy.

And president Zahra Gibson couldn’t have been happier.

“We had more than 100 people turn up and the sales were good. This will now be an annual event and it has been so good for us to have something to focus our work towards,” she said.

The group’s founding members are all experienced potters who have come from other work groups.

One year ago they were strangers bound together by their enjoyment of working with clay; now they’re a group of friends who are working collectively to improve their own work and to encourage new people to try their craft, Gibson said.

“We’ve also come from having to meet in my garage to having our own rooms. Our group’s growing and we’re looking to run another class in November for newcomers.

which he used to buy food for his family.

Gunning also acknowledged knowing the fuel card bill would not be paid and that he had no authority to use it.

Gunning attended school and had business interests in Ashburton but now lives in Christchurch, He has appeared before the courts previously.

Hair raising money for sick kids

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Nancy McIntosh (rear) and Aileen Brake, checking out craftwork on display at the Hakatere Ceramics and Pottery Exhibition.

PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 220916-AK-072 An independent potter assessed work entered for the exhibition and selected only those pieces that were of a high standard. Most were accepted and that was confirmation that members were producing

quality work, she said.

Awards on the night were made to Bevan Stowell, premier; Mick Hydes, open wheelwork; Zahra Gibson, novice handwork and Anna Moore, novice wheelwork.

The exhibition in Emmily Harmer’s West Street studio will be open to the public for two weeks. Visitors will have an opportunity to select a work to receive the people’s choice award.

Seven weeks ago, six-year-old Jasmine Eade told her mum she wanted to cut her hair off and donate it so “a sick kid could have hair”.

This took her mum, Jacqueline Eade, by surprise but at the end of the day, Jasmine came home from school just as eager to do her part and donate her hair.

“This will be her first big haircut, she has only had two or three little trims but this will be the big one,” Eade said.

Jasmine said she is really excited to have her hair short, just like her friend Gracie.

Along with donating her hair, Jasmine and her mum have set up a fundraising page on the Everyday Hero website.

“We have raised about $100 so far which is amazing and all of the money goes straight to the Child Cancer Foundation,” Eade said.

Eade also said that Jasmine has not seen anyone she knows have cancer, but she had seen some ads about children with cancer and said that Jasmine has always been sensitive.

“I’m just really proud of her for sticking to it and having such a big heart,” Eade said.

If you want to help Jasmine raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation, you can go to Everyday Hero and search Jasmine Eade.

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■ CONCERNS AIRED

Fears pea weevil could already be in Mid Canty

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Concerns the pea weevil may already have been imported into Mid Canterbury are mounting.

Pea weevil was discovered in crops in Wairarapa at the end of March, however Ministry of Primary Industries did not impose a moratorium halting all pea production in that region for two years until July.

The four-month lag drew staunch criticism at a meeting in Ashburton recently.

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury vice president David Clark said a consignment of seed peas from Wairarapa came into Mid Canterbury for cleaning prior to the imposition of the moratorium, which also halted movement of crops from the contaminated zone.

The peas were cleaned at a local seed dressing plant and the offal (waste left after cleaning) was transported to a farm in the Highbank district.

Clark said MPI had failed to flag the possibility the offal could be contaminated.

The owner of the farm concerned noticed what he suspected to be pea weevil, and together with a neighbour, buried the offal at his own expense.

“There is a strong suspicion there was pea weevil in that

offal,” Clark said. “It’s a shame there were no controls put in the plan to prevent this – potentially pea weevil has already been imported into Mid Canterbury.”

Canterbury growers produce 80 per cent of the country’s pea crop, valued at $160 million.

This week MPI issued an update on the incursion as pea crops come into flower, however there are no plans to place an incursion zone around the area of the unconfirmed siting of pea weevil.

Clark has lodged his concerns and recommendations to manage the incursion in the minutes of a recent Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers meeting and with the federation’s national body.

“There’s nothing else I can do at this point,” he said.

A sweep netting programme around the perimeter of pea crops will confirm whether the weevil has established in Mid Canterbury.

Prior to the incursion New Zealand was one of the only countries in the world free of pea weevil and as such attracted premium prices. It is thought the contaminated seed came in from America.

Suspected pea weevil infestations should be reported to MPI in the first instance and then to Federated Farmers.

A man high on glue has been charged with intimidation after threatening a 12-year-old girl on Bridge Street in the Netherby suburb of Ashburton, on Thursday afternoon.

Ashburton police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said the 30-year-old man was so affected by inhaling glue he was unable

not an attempted abduction as first reported via Facebook – I remind the community that social media is not the formal manner in which to report criminal offending,” Banfield said.

The accused man was bailed to appear in the Ashburton District Court on Monday September 26.

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Aiming to create lasting friendships

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Jess Bowan and Joanne Inwood have been friends for almost 10 years, displaying what the IHC volunteer programme is all about.

Bowan started volunteering in February 2007 after reading about IHC in a newspaper, she was put through orientation and introduced to Inwood.

Volunteers are matched with a person with an intellectual disability by IHC, who look at people with similar interests.

The pair have been friends since then and have been a part of each other’s lives for almost 10 years and Bowan is the longest serving volunteer for IHC in Ashburton.

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The incident was initially reported as an attempted abduction and word quickly spread on community Facebook pages, prompting a warning about reporting through the correct channels.

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“Jo has come to my wedding and seen my three children since they were babies,” she said.

Inwood said one of her favourite moments over the years was getting dressed up to attend the 2010 wedding.

Usually the pair try to meet about once a fortnight, depending on how busy they are.

Bowan said Inwood is happy to do anything and likes to come along to the kids’ swimming lessons, as long as they make sure to get a coffee and some cake together.

She said the kids now always look forward to spending time with Jo as well, who even buys them Christmas presents.

Belinda Brand, Volunteer co-or-

dinator for Ashburton and Timaru, said the programme has only been running for about 12 years, so the two have been around for the majority of the time.

She said the philosophy behind the programme is to create a lasting friendship.

Brand said there are 19 volunteers in Ashburton, with a further three new people coming on board.

IHC are always looking for volunteers and Brand says anyone can do it; they take people of all ages and in Ashburton there are people ranging from their 20s to their 70s.

If you’re interested in volunteering please call Belinda Brand on 021 244 3674.

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In brief Voting returns so far Halfway through the voting period for this year’s local body elections, just 11.89 per cent of ballot papers have been returned to the Electoral Office. Returns are highest in the Ashburton District Council’s western ward, 14.2 per cent, with 12.04 per cent returned in the eastern ward and 11.25 per cent in the urban area. A total of 2588 out of 21,774 voting papers sent out had been returned; at the same time in 2013, 3017 of the 21,334 ballot papers distributed had been returned. The return rate in 2013 at this point was 14.14 per cent; this time it sits at 11.89 per cent. In the 2010 election, early interest was much higher, with 22.74 per cent of ballot papers returned within the first two weeks of voting. Voting closes at noon on October 8.

Body identified A body found in a rural area near Kaitaia has been confirmed as that of missing gang member Kimble Moore. An autopsy was completed in Auckland yesterday after police recovered the body on Thursday.

Mr Moore, 48, who was a patched member of the Tribesmen Motorcycle Club had been missing since March 17 and police last month upgraded the investigation to a homicide. “Our thoughts are with Mr Moore’s family during what has been a deeply distressing time for them, “ a police spokeswoman said. Police said their focus remained firmly on the investigation and bringing the person or people responsible for the death to justice.

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Ashburton District Council urban ward candidates and Mid Canterbury Environment Canterbury candidates, putting their case for election in this year’s local body elections during a meet the candidates evening in Ashburton.

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■ LOCAL BODY ELECTION

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If voters went to Ashburton’s meet-the-candidates evening wanting answers to burning questions about the future of Ashburton they would have been disappointed.

That disappointment was sparked, not by the candidates failing to provide answers, however, it came from the audience itself.

Rather than asking questions on current and future issues, the audience wanted to debate issues already signed and sealed by the current council.

The Ashburton Citizens’ Association event became a re-run of citizens’ association meetings where the route for a sec-

ond bridge across the Ashburton River was raised again and again, providing an easy bandwagon for the several candidates with citizens’ association ties to jump on.

Peter McQuarters did manage to ask one for the future, however, when he asked candidates if they thought the Methodist Church should be demolished to make way for a new civic centre and library.

While not everyone answered, the candidates appeared united in saying the church should stay, with several saying the civic centre should remain or be rebuilt on its current site.

Angus McKay reminded the audience that the council did not put the church site on the list of

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Southern Stringers cameraman James Gunn went to the scene and spoke to witnesses, who said the driver left the handbrake off when he got out of the bus, which then started rolling backwards. It collided with two cars on the same side of the street, and the force of the collision pushed the bus across the road and into another parked car.

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Favel said she wanted to see the community move forward with strong leadership so “we can be the best we can be”.

Marilyn Walker questioned the pair on their definition of financial responsibility.

McKay said that this was exactly what the council was doing.

“If we had no new projects in the district, then our rates would be under inflation; if you want new projects then they cost money,” he said.

Favel suggested that the council could do more in this area.

The candidates meeting in the Ashburton Event Centre was attended by almost 200 people.

options, that was done by consultants Opus, at the suggestion of several members of the community during the first round of consultation.

There were some gasps of surprise when Donna Favel told the audience that the council intended to raise urban rates by 18 per cent next year to cover the cost of wheelie bins. This has been tagged in the council’s long term plan.

Jo Luxton asked the two mayoral candidates McKay and Favel what their vision was for the future of Ashburton.

McKay replied that he wanted the town to be friendly and that he wanted to see work start on the town centre redevelopment.

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■ MID AND SOUTH CANTERBURY RURAL FIRE AUTHORITY

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When day one for the new Mid and South Canterbury Rural Fire Authority ticks over on July 1, the district’s fire related assets will still remain firmly in the district’s hands.

The enlarged rural fire authority has been in development for some time and as stakeholders tick off the boxes that will determine how the new organisa-

tion runs its business, Ashburton District Council environmental services group manager Jane Donaldson said assurances have been given to everyone involved that local assets will stay in local hands.

“They’re saying they’ve no intention of taking them away from Ashburton; they’ve given us this assurance. The Government reps leading this say they will enter into discussions with each territo-

rial authority about their assets,” she said. The current emphasis as the new authority was developed was in the areas of health and safety of the people involved, responding to incidents and ensuring that permanent staff were able to be paid, she said.

“And we’re assured this is all on track.”

Plant and machinery in the new authority will be maintained by a staff of two. The future of build-

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ings for each rural fire unit had not been specifically discussed, but Donaldson believes they will fall into the same basket as plant and machinery and will be retained in local hands.

“This is still up for discussion,” she said.

The new fire authority will cover two million hectares, will have 340 volunteers, 50 fleet vehicles and 15 weather stations over 20 rural fire forces.

■ ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Staff given low-down on handling artifacts

School ball moved A school ball organised privately

by Wellington students has been forced to move to a secret venue after police raised issues about their original venue’s licensing. The “Humball” was set to run in the James Smith Corner Basement, but police alcohol harm reduction officer Sergeant Damian RapiraDavies said the venue pulled out after being reminded its licence conditions meant students under 18 would need parents accompanying them.

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Firefighter injured A firefighter suffered minor burns while battling a housefire in Wainuiomata yesterday. Fire Service shift manager David Meikle said the firefighter was taken to hospital, but the injuries are not serious. The house fire on Bull Avenue started before 1.30pm.

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Ashburton’s keepers of the past now have a few more skills in their tool kits when it comes to correctly handling material with historic value.

This week an artifacts conservation expert from Wellington’s Te Papa Museum held a workshop at Ashburton’s Heritage Centre where representatives from several of the district’s museums were able to brush up on their knowledge of handling and caring for museum objects.

Staff from rural museums and from the Temuka Museum joined a team of volunteers from the Ashburton Museum to learn from the best during a workshop with Te Papa conservator Lynn Campbell.

Museum director Tanya Robinson said the workshop was a great learning experience for everyone involved and those attending left with a much better understanding of the importance of correct handling of items today to prevent the need for conservation work in the future.

With any historical item, the main damage was usually from incorrect handling or overhandling, Robinson said.

“One of the things we all do

The under-fire French hitchhiker who admitted damaging a road sign and stealing a $1000 sleeping bag has coughed up $4000 so he could pay for his wrongs and leave the country. Cedric Claude Rene Rault-Verpre, 27, appeared at Christchurch District Court yesterday. At his appearance, he admitted shoplifting a sleeping bag, worth $1000, on September 9. Judge Brian Callaghan noted the reparation had been received and said he didn’t see the need for any further penalty. The Frenchman was convicted and otherwise discharged. Rault-Verpre was given his passport back and was free to go. He refused to say anything as he left court with his lawyer.

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As well as correct handling and care for historical items, Campbell also explained about the different care needs of items made of modern materials as they

gained historical value.

“This was fascinating as we looked at how those different materials interact with one another,” Robinson said.

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A 65-year-old woman has been charged with murdering a 2-yearold boy in Manurewa. The boy was admitted to Starship Hospital on December 13 last year. He had serious head injuries and police said they appeared to be nonaccidental. The boy died from the injuries five days later. Detective Senior Sergeant Colin Higson confirmed police had arrested and charged a 65-year-old woman with murder.

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Wakanui School was over-run with rabbits, guinea pigs, lambs, dogs and other animals this week as classes gave way for the annual pet day.

Animals arrived at school about 1pm, in time for the grand parade, followed by judging of calves and lambs.

Dogs on leads tried out an obstacle course, then fancy dress was the order of the day.

Sisters Rachel, 5, and Kate, 8, bought their pet lambs, named Hebe and Flax; names that represented the first plants they sniffed. Eleven-year-old Sofie’s pet lamb Rocket was a laid-back customer.

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Above – Buzzy the miniature horse had plenty of attention from (from left) Tommy, 6, Brad, 11, and Katie, 8.

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A week remains for people wanting to make submissions on a resource consent application to build a new irrigation storage pond in the Mid Canterbury foothills.

The pond, the equivalent of 12,000 Olympic swimming pools, would have benefits for both farmers and the environment, says Rangitata Diversion Race Management Limited CEO Ben Curry.

He is encouraging people to view the consent and make submissions, positive or negative.

The company has already talked through its plans with farmers in the Carew area, as well as Fish and Game, Forest and Bird and other environmental groups.

Curry said it was a major piece of infrastructure that could be important for the district.

“Its primary role is to support existing irrigation but there are opportunities to have further irrigation for Mid Canterbury and south of the Rangitata. And there are a lot of potential environmental benefits.”

The company expects to fill the pond using water it is already consented to take from the Rangitata River, possibly supplemented by flood flows.

Farmers could stop using their groundwater wells if there was more stored water.

Curry said feedback from farmers was “get on with it” while non-farmers said they understood what the company was trying to do.

The deadline for submissions on the consent is September 30.

Ruling: Criminals locked up too long Corrections Minister Judith Collins has strongly indicated the Government will change the law after a ruling that some criminals have been locked up too long – and said the chances of compensation are “remote”.

“I think if I was any of these offenders I would not be going out to buy a new car based on what I think I might get,” Collins told the Herald after a briefing from Corrections yesterday.

The Supreme Court ruling could create “very perverse” outcomes, Collins said – including that prisoners could offend while in jail on remand without any extra time being added to a sentence.

“That is obviously something we need to look at. But it’s very early to talk about legislation ... there may well be a need to revisit the Parole Act.” The lawyer for a man who successfully appealed to the Supreme

Court has confirmed he will seek compensation for wrongful imprisonment and expects thousands of others could be similarly affected.

More than 500 prisoners have had their prison sentences calculated wrongly, the Corrections Department has confirmed.

Twenty-one were to be freed yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Corrections had miscalculated the re-

lease dates for two inmates.

Corrections chief executive Ray Smith said the department had “solid plans” in place to ensure the release of the 21 prisoners yesterday were well managed from a public safety and reintegration perspective.

“Around 500 serving prisoners out of the prisoner population of approximately 9800 are also affected and will have their release dates brought forward. In most

cases this will only be by a matter of a few days or weeks rather than a significant period of time.”

Collins said she did not know how many people could be affected by the ruling.

She strongly defended Corrections, saying the department had done nothing wrong and had acted in accordance with how the Court of Appeal ruled the law should be interpreted on four different occasions.

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Most kids dream of sticking their teacher to a wall and Netherby School students did just that yesterday.

However, the kids were helping raise money for a good cause by taping teacher Ashleigh Hannah to a wall.

Hannah has been raising money during this month as part of Steptember, an awareness month to raise money for people suffering from cerebral palsy.

Since the start of September she has been making sure to walk 10,000 steps a day but yesterday she invited all of the 132 students at the school to stick her to a wall with tape.

The students paid $0.50 for a single strip or $1 for three and an emergency tape run had to be made to ensure everyone got a chance.

Hannah said she is part of a four person team called Three Teachers and a Shearer who are all taking part in Steptember.

Another teacher at the school, Jaz McCully was doing the steps, Hannah’s partner Duncan Leslie, who is a shear-

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er and a teacher from Milton made up the remaining team members.

All the money is going towards equipment and support for children with cerebral palsy

and Netherby School principal Phil Wheeler said they hoped to get around $140.

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Museum closed Hokitika’s landmark Carnegie Gallery has been closed until further notice following a damning seismic report.

The 108-year-old front section of the Hokitika Museum has been found to meet just 12 per cent of the national building standard.

The Westland District Council has estimated it could cost between $250,000 and $300,000 to bring it up to the minimum 34 per cent.

Acting council chief executive Vivek Goel said the findings of the report had come as a “surprise” but in the interests of public safety, the council had restricted access to the building as of yesterday morning.

Mr Goel said staff would still be employed and would work out of the rear part of the museum which was not a risk. That part of the building, built in 1973, was the museum until the Carnegie Gallery was shifted in a heritage project in 1998.

Hokitika Museum director Julia Bradshaw said the bulk of its $2 million collection was housed in the rear of the complex.

She said the closure had come as a shock to staff yesterday and would be a huge loss to the community.

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Shelved, for now Contentious reforms to local government have been shelved until next year after the Government caved to pressure from a group of mayors who said the changes were anti-democratic.

Local Government Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga confirmed yesterday that he had delayed a deadline for a select committee to report back on the reforms. Instead of producing a report in October, the committee had been given a new deadline of March 31.

“This will enable more rigorous analysis of submissions and more constructive dialogue with the local government sector,” Mr Lotu-Iiga said.

“There were nearly 200 submissions on the Bill. Many contain details which need to be worked through with officials to ensure they will work.”

The law changes would have given the Local Government Commission power to override councils and force them to integrate to a Super City-like structure.

The Government had wanted councils to combine resources in order to cover the costs of core

infrastructure projects such as water, sewerage and roading.

Some small councils have run into trouble in recent years while developing major infrastructure schemes such as wastewater, which has led to rates blow-outs and central Government intervention.

But the Government’s proposed changes stirred strong opposition from some mayors, a group of whom took the rare step of making a joint submission in opposition to the bill.

Local Government President Lawrence Yule told a select committee earlier this month that there was deep concerns about giving power to the commission to establish Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) without the agreement of the affected local councils.

These concerns prompted United Future leader Peter Dunne to pull his support for the bill, meaning it would not have had the numbers to pass into law.

Lotu-Iiga said it was “imperative” that steps were still put in place to ensure that big infra-

structure projects were wellmanaged. But he acknowledged the concerns raised by councils, and conceded that solutions needed to be found that “promote local democracy”.

“I look forward to further discussions with the local government sector to explore options and solutions for the issues that have been raised,” he said.

Labour’s local government spokesman Meka Whaitiri said the minister should have gone further and dumped the “doomed” bill altogether.

“This is an absolute admission by the Minister that this almost universally panned bill is fundamentally flawed and needs a massive overhaul.

“Local Government New Zealand and nearly every mayor and council in the country is opposed to this Bill, because of its provisions which undermine local democracy and decision-making.”

Prime Minister John Key hinted last month that the reforms could be delayed or dropped, saying that he would not “die in a ditch” over the changes.

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CityFitness gym-goers have spoken out about the centre’s new policy banning posing.

You may be feeling chuffed with your new physique, but if you’re a member of CityFitness gym, you’re not to go about flaunting it.

Titus Kam, a client of CityFitness’ Newmarket branch who likes to lift weights, said the ban was “silly”.

“The reason why we go to the gym is to improve ourselves, it goes against that.”

Dinesh Sapra echoed Kam’s position. The 30-year-old, who has been working out at CityFitness for around four months, said he was unfazed by others posing and believed the ban was unfair.

“It’s a personal thing. [Bodybuilders] have the right to do that.”

Peter Prescott said although CityFitness was a “great environment” to work out in, he thought the ban was “useless”.

“It’s a public space, you can do what you like.”

The national gym chain’s decision to ban posing in all CityFitness centres was sparked by an “underwear incident” which reportedly created an uncom-

fortable environment for gym goers.

CityFitness operations manager Lisa Brown said: “There was an incident in which someone was practising their bodybuilding routine in their underwear which created an uncomfortable environment for other members requiring us to put out a policy to prevent future issues.”

Brown says the new policy is about clarifying the appropriate use of the gym’s facilities.

“Our focus is to create a friendly and welcoming environment for all to exercise and the facilities are intended for that purpose.

“It is completely appropriate during the course of your exercise routine to use the mirrors to assess form, technique or aesthetic appearance.”

However, Brown says the facilities “are not an appropriate place for members to practice the routines of any individual sport so if the intent in coming into our facilities is to purely use them to practice a bodybuilding routine, we ask that you find alternate locations for such practice.”

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■ AUCKLAND COLLISION

Little boy in critical condition A 3-year-old child hit by a car in West Auckland on Thursday lay crumpled on the road while caregivers tried desperately to get him to respond.

The incident happened about 1.30pm, in Jaemont Ave, Te Atatu

and the child remains in a critical condition in Starship Children’s Hospital.

A neighbour rushed out onto the road when he heard the crash.

“I heard a fearful bang. I’ve never heard a bang like it.”

He said a car was over the centre line and the little boy was lying, all curled up, in front of a parked car quite a distance away.

The man said two women picked him up and put him on the grass berm. They were trying to

Police at the scene where a 3-year-old boy was hit by a car.

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get him to speak but the boy was unconscious. He said one of the women tried to open his mouth but couldn’t.

“The lady was trying to get him to respond, but he was quite unconscious, he wasn’t moving.

“When something hits a body, which is soft tissue, flesh, you don’t expect to hear such a bang.

“The car must have tossed him through the air.

“It’s pretty sad.”

The neighbour said he didn’t notice any obvious injuries and there was no blood but the boy was wearing a shirt.

He said the driver of the car that hit the boy looked to be a woman in her late 20s and was probably in shock from what happened.

A woman who lives nearby the accident said they’d had ongoing road works on Te Atatu Rd for at least a year. As a result their road had seen increased traffic from drivers trying to take short cuts around the congestion.

“It [the accident] is a horrible thing to have happened and the family just need to recover from it.”

The $30 million Te Atatu corridor improvement project is currently under way on Te Atatu Rd, which

Jaemont Ave runs off. The project started on September 14 last year and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

At the scene on Thursday, Inspector Shawn Rutene said the boy ran across the road, where he had been hit.

“What’s occurred here is that a young child, age of 3, has run across the road in front of a moving vehicle and as a result of that, the child is in Starship Hospital with serious injuries.

“This is not a driveway incident.

There’s a lot of inquiries to be made, but at this point in time, the families are being supported by their own and by police.

“The driver of the vehicle that has hit the child is being supported.

“The message is: We’re heading into the school holidays. Users of the road, parents and caregivers need to be vigilant in and around these areas - even these quiet streets.”

The Waitemata Serious Crash Unit attended the incident.

It is understood the child had been with a caregiver who was visiting a property on the street when he ran onto the road.

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hen Hannah and Jordan ‘Pedro’ Miller did their grocery shopping this week, they allowed themselves to splurge – on an extra can of tuna.

While it might not sound like everybody’s idea of a treat, for people living at the extreme poverty line it’s likely the biggest type of treat they’re going to get.

For the Millers, their two cans of tuna are the only forms of meat they’ll be able to eat for the next five days as they take part in Live Below the Line, a fundraising effort designed to show people what it’s

Could you live on just $2.85 a day? That’s exactly what Hannah and Jordan Miller are attempting for five days as they take part in Live Below the Line to raise money for people living in extreme poverty. like to live on just $2.85 a day, as many in extreme poverty do.

Money raised in the challenge, run through TearFund, goes towards fighting human trafficking and sex slavery.

“The relevance is that people living in extreme poverty are more

vulnerable to being coerced or tricked into trafficking,” Hannah said.

The Red Beach, Auckland, couple were only allowed to spend $28.50 on their groceries for the next five days as part of the challenge, a task that took a fair

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ttempting to live below the breadline might not be everyone’s idea of a challenge that’s worth accepting, but if the idea does nothing more than challenge Kiwis to think about the amount of money they spend on food, then it’s an exercise worth trying.

New Zealand is wrapping up

Living Below the Line week, a fundraiser designed to show people what it’s like to live in extreme poverty. The challenge was to live on just $2.85 per day. Impossible you might say, but a number of New Zealand chefs say it’s not only possible to eat cheaply, but cheap eats can also be great eats.

Charity TearFund has pub-

Spiced vegetable fritters 1 onion, finely chopped 2C grated vegetables – whatever is in season 1t salt 1C chickpea flour 1t curry powder Oil for frying 4T sweet chilli sauce for dipping ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Heat oil in pan and saute onion.

Combine all ingredients except chilli sauce.

Stand in fridge for at least one hour.

Stir again.

Heat oil in pan and cook large spoonsfuls until brown.

Flip and cook the other side.

Serve with dipping sauce.

Serves 4 | 40 cents per helping

lished a recipe book based on meals that cost 75 cents or less per serving.

It’s called One Helping and it yields more than a few culinary surprises.

There are plenty of hints and tips for frugal shopping and for adding flavour and goodness to meals without adding cost.

amount of pre-budgeting.

“I was sitting down working out how many servings in a bottle of soy sauce – how much does an onion roughly weigh,” Hannah said.

“We had to price check everything, which is something we don’t normally do. We’re just like, ‘Oh,

that looks yummy, let’s get that’.”

The couple have not done the challenge before, but have participated in World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine in the past.

Their young adults group decided to do the challenge as a team after hearing about it through

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$2.85 per day Coast Vineyard Church, which they attend.

“There’s about eight of us from our church that are participating so we can all be hungry and grumpy together.”

Hannah and Pedro thought they’d find the lack of sugar and caffeine the hardest part to deal with.

Pedro said he would miss his “cheeky sweets”.

They had planned simple meals, including pasta with a tin of chopped tomatoes mixed in, and rice with mixed vegetables and

tuna. One snack option was 100g of rice and one tablespoon of soy sauce.

They said the normal amount they would spend for five days worth of groceries would be $7080.

At the end of their shop, they found they had a little left over to spend.

“There was a little bit of money left, but we thought we were going to get another tuna,” Hannah said.

The couple are big meat lovers, but the two cans of tuna will be the only meat they consume for the

next five days, if chicken seasoning doesn’t count.

Hannah experienced “genuine disappointment” when the peanut butter, which she’d priced out last week, had gone up 70c.

Anyone wanting to sponsor them can head to livebelowtheline. org.nz, click donate to a friend, and type in ‘Hannah and Pedro’.

“It’s not a competition but we’re the best,” Hannah said.

So far they have raised just under $700 – an amount they admit would fetch a fair few cans of tuna.

The couple will be keeping a

video diary of their experience doing the challenge.

What they bought: ■ Budget macaroni elbows 500g – $0.95 ■ Budget rice long brown 1kg – $1.79 ■ Budget tomatoes chopped 400g x 2 – $1.56 ■ Giant multigrain toast 500g x 2 - $1.90 ■ Masterfoods all purpose seasoning 200g – $6.79 ■ Pak’nSave checkout bags x 3 – $0.30 ■ Pams peanut butter smooth

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375g – $2.45 Pams tuna chunks in oil 185g x 2 – $3.58 Solos Choice coconut cream 400ml – $0.99 Apples NZ Queen 1.98kg – $2.95 Carrots 0.855kg – $1.44 Garlic – $2.99 Onions brown 0.695kg – $1.17 Pumpkin crown cut – $0.99 Pams mixed vegetables 1kg – $2.69 TOTAL = $32.54

Pumpkin and yellow split pea dahl with flatbread 100ml oil 1 onion, roughly chopped 1 carrot, chopped 1/4 pumpkin skinned, deseeded and chopped 2 potatoes, diced 3T curry powder 200g yellow split peas, soaked overnight in water 400g coconut cream Salt and pepper to taste 3cm finely chopped spring onion ■ Place oil in pan and heat.

■ Add onion and carrots and cook 5 mins.

■ Add pumpkin, potatoes and curry powder.

■ Cook a further 3 mins then add split peas and coconut cream.

■ Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer until peas and vegetables are soft.

■ Add a little water as required and stir often.

■ Season with salt and pepper.

■ Pour into six bowls and serve with flatbread.

Flatbread: 1C flour and water ■ Heat oven to 200°C. ■ Mix flour with enough water to make soft dough.

■ Rest 5 to 10 mins.

■ Divide into four balls.

■ Dust bench with flour and roll each piece out until 3cm thick.

■ Then roll each until less than 2cm thick.

■ Place bread on wire rack and cook in oven 2 mins.

■ Remove from oven and serve immediately.

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Preheat oven to 180°C. Combine peanut butter, egg, sugar and baking soda.

Add chocolate and stir to combine.

Line baking tray with baking paper.

Use hands to shape teaspoonsfuls of mixture into balls.

Place on tray 5cm apart.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes until lightly browned on to.

Allow to sit on tray for a few minutes.

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Makes 20 | 14 cents per helping.

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nce there were four MacGregors standing behind the counter in four grocery stores around Ashburton; come Monday there will be none.

The last of the grocery line, Brent, for almost 45 years the owner of Allenton’s Hec’s, has decided to call time on the only trade he’s known, selling up to former local Mark Swaney and opting to look for a change of direction.

With just days to go until he’s no longer the man in charge, Brent admits he has mixed feelings about walking away from a business, that for two generations has made its business out of keeping its community fed and watered.

In every way Brent was a baby of the grocery trade. His dad Hec was a grocer and was the name behind the Allenton store, and as his sons Peter, Brent and Bob left school, they donned grocers’ aprons and started out in the business too.

In 1972, at 17, Brent started working for his father. Three months later he was running his own business, Brent’s Wholesale House in Creek Road. By the mid70s the MacGregor empire spread across town, with the family owning four Four Square Stores – Hecs, Peters, Brents and Macs.

“Only two things were discussed at our dinner table – rugby and groceries,” Brent said.

That was in the era of the corner store, when supermarkets were only for overseas cities and across Ashburton there were more than 20 grocery stores, all flourishing.

The MacGregors’ speciality was as a discounter and Brent recalls the family renting a villa to act as its stock store, with a room allocated to each supplier.

Many of the grocery names might be still around, but when he reflects on changes in the way business was done, they’re many and massive, he said.

“I can recall collecting our sugar from the railway, flour from Canterbury Roller Flour Mill, eggs from Ashburton Poultry and butter from Midland dairy co-op.”

Milk was something grocers weren’t allowed to sell. It was delivered at the gate by the milkman and the grocer’s role was to sell packets of milk tokens to leave out for the milkie.

“In recent years, it’s technology that’s changed the way we run our stores day-to-day. Marker pens were used to price goods and then there were marking guns and then we went into scanning,” Brent said.

And then computers and eftpos machines arrived. The world continued to change, the only difference was the speed of change.

Over the years trading days and trading hours have also changed.

What was once a 9am to 5pm business, five days a week with one late night has now morphed, if not into open all hours, then for a pretty decent slice of the day and night, Brent said.

He opens the shop at 5am – and most days it’s still him turning the key in the lock – and shuts up at 9pm, seven days of the week.

Change has been a constant in the grocery business, Brent said, and that’s been the key to survival in the face of opposition from

Brent MacGregor was just a schoolboy in short pants when he started learning the grocery trade; 45 years later he’s looking forward to seeing the industry from the other side of the counter. He talks to reporter Sue Newman about those years as Allenton’s Four Square man.

Brent MacGregor, calling time on a decades long career as Allenton’s neighbourhood grocer. supermarket chains, he said.

“We’ve survived by adapting.

We’ve always tried to be innovative, to think outside the square, whether it’s been with opening hours, introducing our instore bakery or offering services some of the others don’t such as home deliveries.”

Inevitably as supermarkets made inroads into traditional smaller store markets, Brent said he watched his business model change from a store where customers did their weekly shop to becoming more of a convenience store. That tide has turned again, he said, as Allenton’s new subdivisions had opened up, new families arrived and chose to do their grocery business closer to home.

Staying the 45-year distance as the local grocer hadn’t been a solo effort, however.

“I’ve been so fortunate with my great staff. Nicky’s been here 27 years and Heather for 19. And there’ve been a lot of sacrifices for my wife Alison. It hasn’t always been easy, that’s for sure.”

Brent recalls tough years in the 1980s when he watched Allenton go from a thriving shopping centre to one where shops closed and for a while there were more blank shop fronts than there were open doors.

“I don’t mind admitting, we were struggling, but we hung in there and it’s come back.”

Prior to that Allenton was a thriving retail place and late night Thursdays’ stores were packed.

“Those nights people were lined up with full trundlers to the back of the shop. Over the years, Allenton’s been really good to us.”

The loss of the Ashburton Trust’s liquor trading monopoly was a windfall for all grocery businesses, he said, and for the past 10-plus years liquor trading had provided a valuable income boost.

He believes the key to a good business is unchanging – offering good service.

“Stores like mine are always about people, us looking after the locals.”

Brent says he looks at his business peers in Ashburton and sees that he’s part of a changing of the guard, with many of his contemporaries electing to sell up before they’re ‘due’ to retire. It’s the same in the grocery business across the country, 60 seems to be the age owners opt to sell up and move on, he said.

“I guess it’s a lot to do with technology and all the changes in health and safety and red tape. It’s a young person’s game now.”

He started toying with the idea of selling a year ago, but actually making that commitment to sell was tough. It’s like walking away from most of your life, Brent said.

“Yes, I could have carried on, but I knew the time was right –

right now.”

When Mark takes over on Monday, Brent will be sticking around for a few weeks, but says he’ll just be the boy in the background, Hec’s will be Mark’s business.

He and wife Alison will soon enjoy an experience just about every other Kiwi takes for granted, walking around a supermarket, filling a trolly and paying at the checkout.

“I haven’t ever been in Countdown or New World as a shopper, so it’ll be a new experience,” he said.

Brent plans to look, if not for a second career, then at least a fulfilling part-time job.

“I’m too young to retire, too young to sit around and do nothing and I definitely don’t want to be a house husband,” he said.

But he won’t be rushing to become a wage earner, planning to take a couple of months off to enjoy playing more golf and catching a few of the fish that have eluded his line over the years.

“And to be fair, I’ve only had one long holiday and that was eight years ago for a month. That’s the longest I’ve ever been away and that’s one of the reasons I want to leave now.”

Brent says he’ll still pop into the store, it’s still his local, but he’ll be a customer. This year he’ll enjoy watching the store’s Christmas mayhem from the other side of

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the counter.

The leaving is made a whole lot easier because of the happy memories he’ll be taking away of the customers and staff he’s met and worked with over the years.

And he’ll also be taking away the memories of dozens of funny and often embarrassing moments.

There was the elderly woman who arrived in store with two metres of toilet paper trailing from under her skirt; the sign he proudly wrote and forgot to check, advertising Lion Chops as a special instead of loin chops; discovering a fridge he’d left out for collection by a recycler had fallen on to his wife’s car ... the list is endless, but each of those memories make it clear that life as the man behind the counter at Hec’s has been more than just a job for Brent, it’s been a huge slice of his life.

He might be signing off as a retailer, but Brent says he’ll continue to be a retail advocate. And like his business peers, he says he’s concerned about the future of Ashburton’s retail heart.

He’s keen to see the district’s new civic centre built in the centre of town so it can act as the lynchpin for new retail development.

“We need more people in there to regenerate it. The worrying thing is if it (the civic centre) doesn’t happen will it ever come back?” he said.

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■ HOCKEY

One of New Zealand’s best retires

Tinwald’s Jeff Hewitt, John Smitheram, Nigel Heney and Regan Stills were crowned Holmes Cup winners at the Aorangi Men’s Pennants finals.

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■ GOLF

Holmes Cup now in Tinwald’s cabinet St Andrews Golf Club turned out a well prepared course for the recent Aorangi Men’s Pennants finals.

The course was in fine order with

greens that played true and fast.

In the Holmes Cup, it was the Tinwald team that handled conditions best on the day.

Tinwald had worthy oppo-

nents in Rakaia, but were too strong and played some exceptional golf to take the cup.

In the day’s other finals, Pleasant Point took out the Patterson

Cup and Hayes Cup while Mayfield toppled Temuka to lift the Alexander Cup and St Andrews and Geraldine won the Moyes and Redpath Cups respectively.

■ CRICKET

Top start for Black Caps New Zealand continued their strong foray into the opening cricket test against India at Kanpur by dismissing the hosts for 318 and reaching 71-1 at lunch on the second day.

The visitors made the best of the batting conditions on a humid day as they looked to sap India in the field.

Martin Guptill delivered a series of decisive shots, particularly straight, as part of 21 off 31 balls.

Crucially, he kept captain Kane Williamson from the crease for

9.3 overs and dulled the shine of the ball.

Just as he looked to be breathing confidence into a fragile test game, Umesh Yadav angled a ball in to beat his bat.

He was adjudged lbw, but has had worse starts to series.

Williamson entered at 35 and looked accustomed to the conditions in a country where he made a century on debut in 2010 at Ahmedabad.

He also spent a considerable period in the nets during this

year’s Indian Premier League.

The skipper allowed the ball to come to him, but didn’t let his opponents settle either.

Latham moved to 25 using the sweep as a staple.

Latham has an unscrutable countenance at the best of times, but looked like he was in the Mastermind chair yesterday.

Earlier, Ravi Jadeja and Yadav offered a lifeline to India’s first innings. After coming together at 277 for nine, they injected pep to a wilting scorecard.

Despite batting at No.9, Jadeja is the only batsman in Indian first-class history to make three triple centuries.

Cue Neil Wagner, a man renowned as a partnership breaker.

In he stormed and, with the final ball of his first over, brushed Yadav’s gloves down the legside.

Wagner moved to 96 wickets in his 24th test. He is four second-innings wickets away from breaking Sir Richard Hadlee’s record of reaching the milestone in 25 matches.

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New Zealand’s most-capped women’s player has retired from international hockey.

Defender Emily Gaddum (nee Naylor) played 274 internationals from her debut in 2004.

She made herself unavailable for the Rio Olympic Games as her first child is due in January.

Gaddum competed at three Olympic and Commonwealth Games, where New Zealand won a silver (Delhi, 2010) and bronze (Glasgow, 2014) medal.

“It was definitely a tough decision but I feel the time is right now to look ahead to the next challenge,” Gaddum, 30, said.

“I’m pretty comfortable in finishing after a good career, my last game was against Australia in Darwin where we won the final so that was a nice way to go out.”

Gaddum played under three national coaches, Ian Rutledge, Kevin Towns and Mark Hager and had high praise for them all.

“Mark, in particular, has been a huge part of my career on a personal level. He really changed the game for us in creating an uptempo attacking style.”

Gaddum was 18 when she made her international debut and her career has run parallel with good friend, and fellow former Palmerston North student Kayla Whitelock.

“Playing for New Zealand was always a dream so to debut that young and have the privilege to wear the shirt so many times is unbelievable,” Gaddum said.

Gaddum will remain involved in hockey as player and coach at local level.

She is working for Hawkes Bay Hockey and works for the Hawkes Bay Festival of Hockey, which is set for its fourth year in April.

“She will be missed and will go down as one of New Zealand’s best ever defenders,” Hager said.

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■ MOTOR RACING

Holden dumps Tander

Kate Flanagan is touring with the New Zealand International Softball Academy’s under-15 team in Australia.

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■ SOFTBALL

Kate up for Aussie tour

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Kate Flanagan set off on her journey to Sydney at 3am this morning after being selected for the New Zealand International Softball Academy’s under 15 team to compete at the Blue Blaze Tournament at Blacktown Olympic Park.

The New Zealand Internation-

al Academy exposes its teams to elite softball at an international level, and boasts some of the country’s best youth players.

Flanagan’s nine-day tour will begin with a morning skills camp, followed by an evening warm-up match.

The tour rounds off a memorable year for the Ashburton College student which includes

Thinking

a string of fine performances at the under 15 girls’ South Island Softball Championships at Molyneux Park in Alexandra in January.

Flanagan helped her Canterbury Development side to a final showdown against Canterbury A, and, despite a narrow loss, led the tournament’s pitching stats.

Before jetting across the Tas-

man, Flanagan said she hopes to make the most of the experience, and is confident that playing against older opponents will improve her game.

“It’s pretty exciting, it’s a new challenge,” she said.

“I think it will help me improve.

“It will broaden my horizons, and I’m looking forward to meeting with the new girls.”

Days after he delivered the Holden Racing Team a famous Supercars victory at Sandown, veteran Garth Tander has been shown the door in favour of Scott Pye for 2017.

Walkinshaw Racing has decided not to renew Tander’s contract for next season, when the outfit will lose factory backing from Holden after 26 years.

Tander had been the team’s longest-serving driver, winning 50 races – including two Bathurst victories – and a championship in 2007.

“He will always be considered a brother to the Walkinshaw family and we wish him the very best of luck with his future,” owner Ryan Walkinshaw said in a statement.

Tander said it was a “sad day”, knowing his time at HRT was coming to an end after nine years.

“Been a great ride and last weekend is one of many highlights,” he tweeted yesterday.

“Being a Holden factory driver means the world to me. I will be giving it my all to finish on a high in the months ahead.

“We still have some races to win at HRT so let’s all enjoy the ride while it lasts.”

Tander has not given up on finding a seat for 2017, with speculation the 39-year-old could race alongside James Moffatt at Garry Rogers Motorsport.

Pye, who was pushed out of DJR Team Penske following their midyear signing of Scott McLaughlin, will join 2010 series winner James Courtney at Walkinshaw on a three-year deal.

Courtney has also signed on for another three seasons, extending his stay until the end of 2019.

The 36-year-old says he’s more determined than ever to win a championship with the team, even though they’re losing funding from Holden.

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In brief

■ RUGBY

No change to Super format

By GreGor Paul New Zealand won’t give up its efforts to force a change to next year’s Super Rugby playoff format, but the national union is resigned to the prospect of the status quo remaining.

The expanded competition has multiple flaws but the most glaring surfaced at the business end this year when the Chiefs and Highlanders were forced to play away quarter-finals against sides who gathered fewer competition points.

There were knock-on effects of the contrived format felt by the Crusaders, who had to wait an eternity to discover where they would be playing their quarterfinal and were then left stranded in Christchurch for two days waiting for flights to South Africa.

All five New Zealand teams have campaigned for the introduction of a straight top eight next year – where the four teams with the most points, regardless of where they are based, host the quarter-finals.

But that proposal has been rejected by the South Africans and Australians who want the continuation of a guaranteed home playoff spot for the respective winners of each of the four conferences.

“It’s disappointing we couldn’t

New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew. get agreement,” said New Zealand Rugby Union chief executive Steve Tew. “We would prefer to see a straight top eight which we think would be fairer.”

Australia and South Africa argued that the results this year were an aberration and that it would be wrong to change something one year into a five-year agreement.

They also countered with the view that there may be more significant change coming in 2018 and that would be the time to reconsider the finals format.

Both Australia and South Africa are considering a proposal by consultancy firm Accenture to

reduce their current allocation of teams for 2018.

Both have been asked to think about cutting one team each to strengthen the overall competitiveness of the competition.

The Western Force are currently being bankrolled by the Australian Rugby Union and, although they began life with corporate sponsors and major local interest, much of that has dwindled in recent years.

That’s partly down to the lack of success the Force have enjoyed on the field and also the slowing economic picture in Western Australia which has seen the commodity boom fizzle.

The introduction of a sixth

team in South Africa has shown they don’t necessarily have the player depth to fill so many professional contracts and compounding matters is the continuing exodus to Europe and Japan.

If there is rationalisation in 2018 then it would open the prospect of a restructured finals format where all possibilities could be considered.

As to how likely it is that Australia and South Africa will agree to sacrifice what they have worked so hard to be given, Tew couldn’t say.

All decisions within Sanzaar need to be unanimously supported so ultimately it will be up to the Australian Rugby Union to determine the eventual fate of the Force.

It will be the same in South Africa – the national body there will have to be the ones to agree to any reduction.

Plans to evolve Super Rugby beyond the life of the current broadcast deal which expires in 2020 are still at a fledgling stage says Tew with any announcement some months off.

Even when there is detail to reveal, it’s unlikely to be much apparently as the first stage of the plan will be to establish a proposed new structure and then work out who exactly will be part of that.

- NZME

Pacific rugby’s ‘Wild West’ says Fiji coach Fiji’s Olympic gold medal-winning sevens coach, Ben Ryan, has urged rugby’s governing body to clamp down on unlicensed agents who are stripping the Pacific islands of their talent.

Ryan stepped down after leading Fiji to the country’s first-ever Olympic medal at Rio in August, and the Briton remains appalled by the lack of organised administration for rugby in the region.

“We’ve got no licensed agents in the Pacific. Anyone can do anything, so

it’s the Wild West in that respect,” the 45-year-old said. “The guys now are starting to turn up for all these other national sides.”

A number of Fiji’s Rio squad have signed with top European clubs, and Ryan said the country was at risk of losing their top players to other countries in the 15-man code.

“Unless you’ve got a full test cap, you can’t come into the Aviva Premiership, so the French are poaching everyone,” he added. “The closest profes-

sional league to us is the ITM Cup and you can’t go there as an islander unless you’re still able to be qualified to be an All Black.

“So they get players there that spend two or three years, they get a Super Rugby contract dangled in front of them, and they don’t then come back across to play for Fiji.

“Australia’s the same. In 10 years’ time, if things don’t change, I see an Australian side with half their team coming from the islands,” he said.

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Hat-trick for hooker A rare hat-trick from their hooker helped Wellington dispatch a determined Northland 29-21 and leave the Taniwha still searching for their first win. Asafo Aumua became just the fourth hooker in division one history to score a trio of tries, keeping Wellington within touching distance of Otago atop the Mitre 10 Championship. Aumua, a New Zealand under-20s representative, enjoyed an opportunistic streak and illustrated some clinical close-range finishing, scoring once before halftime before crossing twice more in a five-minute second-half spell.

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Wannabes on notice Michael Cheika has warned would-be Wallabies he is keeping a close watch on National Rugby Championship form and is making selection decisions accordingly. In a shot at players who might not be taking the three-year-old competition seriously enough, Cheika has demanded those with Test aspirations to start “hitting it out of the park” in Australian rugby’s third tier and catch his attention. “We’re looking at every game looking at that for selection because that’s what that tournament’s supposed to do.”

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Playing with broken arm Wallabies hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau has been playing through “as good as” with a broken arm, coach Michael Cheika says, and won’t play another Test until it’s fully healed.

Polota-Nau was the surprise highprofile casualty from Cheika’s 30man squad for the clashes against South Africa and Argentina. After discussing the situation with Polota-Nau, Cheika said the best course of action was for him to stop. “He’s as good as playing with a broken arm. It hasn’t mended.”

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Ngatai’s season over

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■ RUGBY

‘I just love footy’

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Richard Catherwood will don the green and gold jersey for the 50th time today when Mid Canterbury lock horns with West Coast at the Ashburton Showgrounds.

Catherwood is also the second most capped player in this season’s Heartland Championship squad behind stalwart Jon Dampney.

It is an impressive feat for any player to reach 50 representative appearances, but Catherwood’s name was not announced with the rest of the squad after the Watters Cup final in July.

The 27-year-old played just 40 minutes of club rugby this season.

His cameo appearance came in Methven’s solitary Watters Cup victory over Hampstead.

Catherwood had been sidelined after sustaining a wrist injury in Thailand that required surgery.

But he was eventually called upon by co-coaches James Jowsey and Craig Dunlea after some impressive pre-season displays with the Mid Canterbury Development team.

This campaign is Catherwood’s sixth with the Hammers, but there were some unfamiliarities at club and representative level on his return from an OE. He was part of the back-to-back Meads Cup winning teams and also helped Methven to Combined Country glory in 2015.

Since then, 17 senior Methven players have departed, while Jowsey and Dunlea’s class of 2016 features just 11 players from previous years.

But, despite a change in personnel, Catherwood has confidence in this year’s squad – even after suffering two defeats in the last four outings.

“It doesn’t feel as though we’re midtable, we’re better than that,” he said.

“At the weekend (against Horowhenua-Kapiti) I think we showed the level we need to be at a minimum and we probably sent out a bit of a warning that we are the team of old.”

Having played one season at first five for Mid Canterbury and two each at second five and fullback, Catherwood cites his versatility as the reason for his longevity.

“I have that versatility, but I wouldn’t

say that I’m the best player in any position,” he said.

“It’s about communication, talking to the guys around you and playing smart footy.”

But co-coach Dunlea also credits Catherwood’s approachability and attitude as playing an important role within the squad.

“Richard brings huge experience and knowledge to the team environment,” said Dunlea.

“He has been outstanding for Mid Canterbury over the years.

“He also adds greatly to the culture of the team with his personality.”

The Methven player’s approach to the game is refreshing.

A willingness to play in whichever position he is needed while possessing an innately competitive nature has made Catherwood a key man in the Hammers’ set-up.

When asked if there is a specific number of appearances that he is aiming to reach, Catherwood’s answer gave a clear insight into his motivation.

“When you’re brought up with three brothers in your family, it’s all we did, every day after school,” he said.

“I just want to keep playing, I just love footy.”

Heartland Championship week five: Mid Canterbury v West Coast, 2.30pm, Ashburton Showgrounds.

Mid Canterbury: Hamish Finnie, Brendon Ridgen, Mike Lynch, Jon Dampney, Eric Duff (c) Tavita Ula, Nick McKain, Phil Watson, Will Mackenzie, Jarred Percival, Seta Koroitamana, Nete Caucau, Richard Catherwood, Christian Vainerere, Timoci Nabakeke.

Replacements: Jackson Donlan, Sam Cottom, Angus Lindsay, Jordan Stewart, Cory Sinclair, Ollie Sapsford, Andrew Letham.

West Coast: David Crouchley, Troy Tauwhare, Jesse Macrae, Kalave Aualiitia, Josh Manning, Brogan Watt, Kevin Curtis, Amenatave Tukana, Nick Makea, Nik Cumming, Chad Kingi-Ternant, Erenimo Tau, Regan Stanton, Kolinio Radrovi, Brad Tunnicliffe.

Replacements: Jacks Druenimolea, Inia Toka, Kelly Rasmussen, Logan Winter, Logan Heath, Maleli Mudu.

Richard Catherwood will make his 50th appearance for Mid Canterbury today.

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■ HALF MARATHON BID

From setback to comeback I

have to report I fell off the wagon last week … not completely, but a bit!

But I learned from it and maybe I learned to be a bit kinder on myself.

I don’t think I told you, but I am supposed to run four times a week.

That’s three times for 30 minutes (for the first three weeks of the training).

Until the final week, it is still three times, but anything between 30 and 50 minutes per run and then a long run on a Sunday.

I was sick for a good couple of days last week, so I only managed to run twice: one short run (40 minutes) and my 8km run on Sunday (yes, I did it! The long run is for me the most important of the week).

Some of you may think “Well

you were sick, you couldn’t really do any more than what you did”.

I guess you are right, I need to cut myself some slack as I was sick half the week.

However, I still felt guilty for not running four times.

Yes, I didn’t run one night as I was working late and thought that I could do it another day of the week to compensate for missing out.

What’s the famous saying?

“Never put something off until tomorrow, it may never come!”?

So right, it didn’t come!

I’m happy I now have this feeling of guilt (never had this before) as it means I miss running when I don’t do it and I am slowly but surely getting addicted!

I don’t think there is a better

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addiction around than sports, do you?

It is a healthy addiction, however sometimes we can overdo it too.

One of my friends is training for the marathon in Queenstown, 42km (now that’s crazy!) and told me the other week that he didn’t run for a week as he had burnt himself out!

Too much of a good thing isn’t good either … Well I don’t think I’ll ever overdo it!

But who knows?

I didn’t know I would get the running bug in just over three weeks.

I certainly had a “running bug” last week, but it was not exactly one that we would want

to encourage.

On the upside, I got back on the wagon this week.

And that’s what is important, isn’t it?

Like Churchill said: “Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

So right Mr Churchill!

In the past, I found that when I fell off the wagon, I fell off it for good.

It could be exercising or dieting or anything else.

I start, I do really well and then something happens and it all goes to custard!

I stop exercising or dieting because I lapsed and decided I had failed, instead of being a bit kinder to myself and accepting the downs with the ups.

So I am pretty proud this time, I carried on.

PS: I hope that if you ever fall off the wagon, you’ll keep going too.

Don’t waste energy by mentally dragging yourself down, use that energy to help you over the hurdles.

■ BOXING

Parker-Joshua bout likely in November It is becoming increasingly likely that Joseph Parker will challenge Anthony Joshua for the IBF world heavyweight title in November.

Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said in an interview that New Zealander Parker is his preferred opponent for Joshua’s second title defence in Manchester on November 26.

Hearn, clearly frustrated following stalled negotiations with Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev, said he appreciated Parker’s determination to get in the ring with anyone.

“At the moment I think the favourite to fight Anthony Joshua is Joseph Parker,” Hearn said.

“There are a few things that have to get done, but it’s a great fight and why not do it now?”

Speaking of his recent Joseph Parker negotiations with other fighters, Hearn said: “People get bad advice, people make poor decisions.

“It’s not just people saying ‘oh well, you didn’t offer enough money. We know the market, we know what people are getting paid.

“Parker seems to be the one who says, ‘I’ll do it, I’m ready to go now’.

“He’s got big balls, Joseph Parker, and he’s very dangerous.

“He’s very fast, he can punch, he’s undefeated.

It’s a tough fight.

“But AJ, he’s ready to go now.”

To challenge for Joshua’s title, first Parker must beat Alexander Dimitrenko in Manukau a week on Saturday.

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Rooney hits back Wayne Rooney has vowed to shut out the critics and battle hard for Manchester United. The form of the United and England captain has come under scrutiny following the team’s recent poor run of results. United lost three successive games before their midweek win at Northampton in the EFL Cup. Some observers have questioned whether 30-year-old Rooney, who is just three goals short of equalling Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time United record of 249, is still worth his place in the side.

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Victory miss Essien Melbourne Victory has failed in its bid to sign Ghanaian international Michael Essien. The former Chelsea star has knocked back an offer from the A-League club to join as a marquee player for the 2016-17 season despite him reportedly ending his contract with Greek club Panathinaikos this week. The 33-year-old Ghana midfielder scored 17 goals in 168 matches for Chelsea.

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Riera returning Former Phoenix midfielder Albert Riera is making a shock comeback.

The Spaniard, who surprised the Wellington-based A-League club by terminating the final year of his contract in May, has come out of retirement and will line up for Auckland City in this season’s 20162017 Stirling Sports premiership.

It’s a homecoming of sorts for the 32-year-old, who played three seasons for Sandringham, including two Fifa Club World Cup campaigns in 2011 and 2012.

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Spurs re-sign Rose Tottenham defender Danny Rose has signed a new five-year deal that will tie him to the Premier League club until 2021. “Anything can happen in football but right now, I’m so happy,” Rose said. “I’m settled here. I’m slowly turning into a southerner. I’ll be here until I’m 31 and at the moment, I couldn’t wish for anything more than to play for Spurs for the rest of my career.”

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Einsteins slammed Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has lashed out at football’s “Einsteins” for criticising him over the English Premier League club’s three successive defeats. Despite winning the first four games of his tenure, Mourinho has come under scrutiny from the media after United’s slump with the club. “We had a bad week.

I know that the world is full of Einsteins; I know that they tried to delete 16 years of my career,” Mourinho said.

- Reuters

Sarsfield reports City Argentine club Velez Sarsfield has lodged a formal complaint with FIFA over Manchester City’s signing of teen midfielder Benjamin Garre. Velez said City tried to sign Garre – who joined the Premier League club after turning 16 in July – from them when he was only 15, which it alleges breached FIFA’s rules on the transfer of minors. FIFA has clamped down hard on the transfer of minors in the past few seasons.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

In brief

Change ‘positive’ for Foran

By DaviD Skipwith The Warriors will meet with the NRL next week to discuss Kieran Foran’s contract and are confident there will be no problems that might prevent him from playing for the Auckland-based club next season.

The Warriors yesterday confirmed the signing of the former Kiwis international on a one year deal but need the approval of the NRL before the contract can be registered.

The NRL are seeking assurances the former Manly and Parramatta playmaker has taken steps to address numerous personal issues and is ready to resume his NRL career.

Warriors managing director Jim Doyle said he had already begun talks with the NRL and expects the process of getting Foran’s deal approved will be straightforward.

“I’m pretty confident,” said Doyle.

“Obviously there’s a process we have to go through but I’ve spoken to the NRL already about what needs to be done and now that he’s signed a contract with us they can give me more detail.

“I’ll meet with them next week and we’ll start working through that but I’m pretty confident we’ll get there.”

Foran has endured a difficult year that saw him struggle on and off the field as his life unravelled following the breakdown in his relationship with his former partner and the mother of his two children, Rebecca Pope.

The 26-year-old has not played after quitting the game and walking out on a multi-million dollar deal with Parramatta after suffering a season-ending shoulder injury against Newcastle on May 30.

Foran will meet with the NRL in the coming weeks and will need to demonstrate he is ready to embark on a playing return and also answer questions from the integrity unit about rumours linking him to allegations of

Birdy on the move?

The manager of Greg Bird has refused to speculate on whether the controversial Gold Coast forward is bound for another NRL club. Manly and Newcastle are reportedly still interested despite the former Test forward being investigated by the NRL integrity unit over two alleged alcoholfuelled incidents in the space of 24 hours. Bird, 31, is contracted to the Gold Coast until the end of next year but has attracted interest from the Sea Eagles along with the Knights who have launched a poaching raid for the former Maitland junior.

- AAP

Soliola a force for good

Kieran Foran knows he will still be under the spotlight at the Warriors. match fixing and his relationship with controversial gambling figure Eddie Hayson.

“He’s very willing and he will go through a process and will meet and talk to them,” he said.

“He knows that’s a part of what needs to be done.

“That will be at their pace but we will see that in the next couple of weeks. They’ll assess what has happened.

“He got himself into a position and they’ll want to know that he’s progressing out of that.

“I’ve talked to him about that regularly.

“I’ve seen a change in him myself over the last few weeks.”

Foran is expected to arrive in Auckland at the end of October and be ready to begin pre-season training under new coach Stephen Kearney in November.

The Warriors medical staff are liaising regularly with Foran’s personal doctor in Sydney.

His recovery from recent shoulder surgery is progressing well and he remains on track to

begin playing again next season.

“Our doctor is talking to his doctor over there in regards to his condition and every time he goes for a check-up those two doctors have been communicating,” said Doyle.

“Our doctor is confident that he’ll be ready well and truly for the season.”

Foran realises he will be under intense scrutiny once he joins the Warriors and he does not expect to escape the media spotlight.

However, he believes the move to Auckland will provide him with the best chance to put his recent dramas behind him.

“He knows that we’re ‘one team, one country’ and therefore there’s always a big focus on the Warriors and he understands that,” said Doyle.

“He just feels that it will be a good change and for him to turn things around, get back to where he used to be, and so it will be a positive change for him.”

“Meanwhile Doyle says the ar-

rival of Kieran Foran at Mt Smart could be a “real positive” for Tui Lolohea.

Since the confirmation of the Foran deal on Thursday night, Lolohea’s future at the club has come under the spotlight.

The Tongan and Kiwis international has been used as a utility player over the last two seasons but has made no secret of his desire to play in the halves.

That pathway now appears closed for 2017, with Shaun Johnson and Foran locked in as the scrum base combination, assuming both are fit and Foran’s contract is registered at the NRL. Where does that leave Lolohea?

In Doyle’s view, with an invaluable opportunity to learn from the best.

“He is still learning his trade,” said Doyle. “He’ll learn from the best next year ... if you are going to learn things it is good to learn from the best.

And he (Foran) is certainly the best.”

- NZME

Storm on guard for electric Raiders duo Melbourne are ready to give a reality check to the NRL’s hottest backline duo Joey Leilua and Jordan Rapana when they host Canberra in tonight’s preliminary final at AAMI Park.

The Storm defence was a highlight of their qualifying final win over North Queensland to advance to the final four and fullback Cameron Munster said they felt they were ready for anything the Raiders threw at them.

“Our defence was outstanding against the Cowboys and hopefully nothing will change against the Raiders as they’ve got a lot of points in them on both sides,” Munster said.

Storm suffered a 22-8 loss to the Green Machine last month,

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when Canberra used their razzle dazzle to stun the minor premiers, with centre Leilua scoring two tries in the opening 24 minutes.

Munster said his side got “ambushed” but would be on their toes in the grand final qualifier, particularly for the threat of Leilua and Rapana, who have combined for 33 tries this season.

“We’re expecting a lot of adlib football; they play off the cuff and whatever they see in front of them they do,” Munster said.

“Those two have been working really well together this year and have been a revelation for the Raiders and we’ve got a big task on that right side to nullify them.”

Munster was one of the Storm’s best in his side’s sixpoint win over the Cowboys two weeks ago, pulling off one of the plays in the season in the final minute when he brought down a high ball from Johnathan Thurston to crush any hope of a comeback.

Still only 22, he said he felt much more comfortable coming into this year’s finals series after getting his first taste of finals football last September.

“I’m still the same kid mentally but it’s my second time in the preliminary final.

“I feel a lot more confident this time round and I know now not to take anything for granted.”

- AAP

Before each match, gentle Canberra giant Sia Soliola receives a text from a mate with the name of a child, which he then scrawls on his wrist. Soliola is quietly contributing to a cause close to his heart and setting an upstanding example when the NRL needs it most. The names of the children written on his wrist come from the Foundation of Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics. After each game, he shares a picture of the child, to whom he has dedicated his performance that day, via his Instagram account, helping to spread awareness.

- AAP

Hoppa in strife again Former NRL player and boxer John Hopoate is behind bars after he allegedly threatened a business owner in Sydney’s North Shore.

He allegedly made a “number of threats” to a Crows Nest business owner and stole a beverage from the premises on Wednesday, police say. Hopoate, who played for Manly, Wests Tigers and Northern Eagles, courted controversy during his 13-year, 209-game, first-grade rugby league career, during which he represented Australia, NSW and Tonga.

- AAP

Praise for Foran deal The Warriors now have the most talented spine in the NRL. That is according to former player and NRL 360 host Ben Ikin, following the signing of Kiwis five-eighth Kieran Foran. Ikin said on NRL 360 that the signing gives the Warriors the best combination of hooker, halfback, five-eighth and fullback, known as the spine, in the game.

“I don’t want Warriors fans to get too ahead of themselves for 2017 but Issac Luke, Shaun Johnson, Kieran Foran, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck ... if that’s not the most talented spine in the competition, then I don’t know enough about footy,” Ikin said.

- AAP

Rhinos in top spot

Joey Leilua

Leeds ended a difficult season on a high with a 37-12 victory over already-promoted Leigh that secured the Rhinos top spot in the Super 8s Qualifiers. It has been a year of contrasting fortunes for the two clubs but it was Leeds who came out on top to ruin the Centurions’ perfect record in the competition. The Rhinos opened up an 18-0 lead in an entertaining first half thanks to two tries from Jimmy Keinhorst and one each for Brett Ferres and James Segeyaro.

In the second half quickfire tries from Ashton Golding and Joel Moon put Leeds out of sight. - PA

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

■ AFL

GWS ready for finals pressure

Back row (from left): Rachel McArthur, Bree Middleton, Hannah O’Reilly (Captain), Mia Christie, Brie Rudolph, Danielle Stevenson, Sierra Chambers. Front row: Britney Taylor, Jessie Pitney, Piper Hood, Maddy Wilson, Isla Miers, Caitlin Muir, Anna Gray.

Absent Mia Roadley.

■ HOCKEY

Girls on Collier Trophy mission

BY JAMES FORD

JAMES.F@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Mid Canterbury’s Primary A girls’ hockey team have been busy preparing for a string of challenging matches at the Collier Trophy in Hamilton next month.

Mid Canterbury will be one of 24 teams from around the country in action and are set to have their work cut out in a highly

competitive pool that includes two of last year’s top five placed teams, Manawatu and Auckland.

Mid Canterbury, who are coached by Skip Muir and Andy Wilson, will also play Bay of Plenty, Central Otago and Invercargill in pool play.

The Mid Canterbury team was selected in July and has played

in mini tournaments in Ashburton, Timaru and Christchurch in preparation for their Collier Trophy clashes.

Team manager Angela Christie said the Mid Canterbury girls have shown plenty of improvement throughout pre-tournament matches and training sessions.

“Their positioning has im-

proved and their ability to play as a team as they’re used to playing against each other,” she said.

“Also, they’ve been working well on new combinations.”

Mid Canterbury will, however, be missing the defensive abilities of Emma Begg following a recent hand injury.

The Collier Trophy Girls’ Tournament will begin on October 3.

■ OPINION

Green Machine out to re-discover glory days

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port is a cyclical business, we all know that.

And however long it takes, your team will probably come back from the doldrums sometime, and you can once again revel in being a fan of winners.

Canberra’s Green Machine in the NRL is a fine case in point.

Today Ricky Stuart’s team team will take on the might of the Melbourne Storm in a battle for a berth in the grand final, but it’s been a while since they’ve seen the sharp end of the tournament.

While the TAB (usually a very good guide) have the Raiders at $2.85 outsiders against Cameron Smith’s superstar line-up, the men from the Aussie capital have been an attacking revelation this year, scoring an average of 29 points a game.

Strike weapons Joseph Leilua and Jordan Rapana are still

youngsters, and with the guidance of experienced skipper Jarrod Croker and a forward pack that has broken 60 more tackles than their Storm counterparts and includes star English import Josh Hodgson at hooker, it would be no surprise if the Green Machine seals a spot in the final, against whoever won last night’s big clash.

But even if they don’t, they’re well on the road towards creating another dynasty, emulating some illustrious clubmates of years past.

The club has made five grand finals since it appeared on the scene in 1982, and converted three of those appearances into premiership titles.

They were the first non-Sydney team to make the finals in 1987, getting right to the final, and they picked up their first premiership in 1989, although it took a nine-match winning

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streak to get there from a precarious position, and suddenly found themselves in the peak of one of the great dynasties.

It was around this time that interest in league was gaining currency in New Zealand, thanks to the wonders of television, and a team wearing green, with a few great Kiwis in it, was always going to get my vote.

With the likes of current coach Stuart, Laurie Daley, Mal Meninga and Brett Mullins putting on the razzle dazzle out back, with Glenn Lazarus, Bradley Clyde, Steve Walters and old lanternjaw Kiwi Brent Todd smashing

all-comers up the middle, it was no wonder the Raiders were everybody’s team to beat in the early 1990s.

All good things come to an end though, and gradually the club went into decline over the next decade as the megastars eventually retired, and the club’s involvement in grand finals became a distant memory.

While it all looked promising in the early 2000s with Ruben Wiki and Clinton Schifcofske leading the charge, the Warriors stole Wiki (and broke the salary cap doing so) and the Raiders faded again.

But they’re back, and with the roster they currently present it looks like the sporting gods just might be shining on them again.

Those famous names of the club’s halcyon days have been waiting a long time, but their patience could be rewarded bigtime.

Greater Western Sydney coach Leon Cameron expects nerves, but is adamant his young side won’t be unnerved when they seek to secure a spot in the AFL grand final.

There are a handful of issues that will decide today’s preliminary final between GWS and Western Bulldogs at Spotless Stadium.

How will the Giants fare without Steve Johnson and can the Bulldogs cover Matt Suckling?

Will GWS be impacted negatively by the fact they’ve played one game in almost a month?

But in terms of the mettle of GWS’s inexperienced charges, most of which are in the midst of their maiden finals campaign, Cameron feels they’ve already given an answer.

The Giants could hardly have handled the club’s finals debut better, comfortably accounting for Sydney in a qualifying final.

Cameron is confident his team won’t be overawed by the carrot of a grand final berth as the league’s latest rivalry heats up.

“When they go to bed tonight there will be a few nerves,” Cameron said yesterday.

“They’ll wake up tomorrow morning and no doubt there will be some nerves.

“They’ve just got to understand they can’t play the game in their heads three or four times before they get to the ground.

“We’re confident they showed that two weeks ago against the Swans in their first final.

“They’re confident kids. Sorry, I shouldn’t say kids because they’ve grown up now.”

The Giants have showed many times throughout their fifth season in the competition they won’t be pushed around.

There have been numerous club firsts and coming-of-age wins this year but the Giants crave the premiership that will show they’ve truly arrived.

“We know we’re a young club in its infant stage, we’re starting to grow up,” Cameron said.

“This is really what you want ... we’re really confident.

“They’re really confident, so it’s going to be a great spectacle.”

Cameron, GWS co-captain Callan Ward and midfielder Ryan Griffen all started their careers at Whitten Oval, making for a clear narrative any time the sides clashed.

But the burgeoning rivalry has come to life this week.

They are two youthful teams in a hurry and it wouldn’t surprise if they regularly meet during September in the next few years.

“We’ll be butting heads tomorrow.

“There’s some good history, good rivalry building between these two young sides.

“It looks like it’s going to be around for the next five or 10 years.”

- AAP

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

In brief

■ BARNESWOOD FARM

New sponsor for big race

By GreG Jones The Ashburton Racing Club is pleased to announce that the most prestigious race on their calendar, the traditionally known John Grigg Stakes for 3-year-olds, has a new sponsor in Barneswood Farm for the 2016 edition.

Sarah and Chris Green, and Ger Beemsterboer, the principals of Barneswood Farm are passionate about racing and it is entirely appropriate to have them take on a race of this quality from long time sponsor and key racing identity Ray Coupland.

Current President David Jones commented “We are truly grateful to Sarah, Chris and Ger for picking up this sponsorship for our premier race.

“It has been won by many high class performers over the years that have made significant impressions in Guineas races over Cup week and beyond.

“To have local support at this level is truly heartening for both the club and the industry.”

Sarah Green said “We have had a relationship with the club in a number of ways over the years and we are delighted to be able to extend our support to the Grigg Stakes.”

The race will be known as the Barneswood Farm Stakes and will be contested on Saturday, October 15.

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No track worries A wet track holds few concerns for Auckland trainer Stephen McKee as he continues the Gr.1 Sothys 2000 Guineas build-up of Karaka Million winner Xiong Feng at Ellerslie today. McKee, and training partner Eddie Chippendale, will produce Iffraaj gelding Xiong Feng in the Manuka Doctor Bonecrusher Stakes second-up after a satisfactory fourth resuming at Ruakaka last month behind Barcelo.

- NZME

Trainer bullish I Suggest’s camp remain confident of another special day at New Plymouth today, despite a change to the conditions of the Powerworx Grey feature. The mare won the event only open to grey horses 12 months ago and their hopes of retaining the title were boosted when they booked apprentice Zinjete Moki. “We got Zinjete because it was advertised as a claiming race, then we got an e-mail saying there weren’t any claims but we’re sticking with her anyway,” trainer Trudy Keegan said. - NZME

Te Aroha gallops Tomorrow at Te Aroha Raceway

Racing Te Aroha Venue: Te Aroha Meeting Date: 25 Sep 2016 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 11.30 TE AROHA LIQUOR MAIDEN HURDLE $10,000, MAIDEN HURDLE, 3100m 1 95802 Rocky (7) 68...................................... A Kuru 2 63933 Havataste (5) 68..............................M Cropp 3 6L507 Artifact tm (8) 68 ........................ S Karnicnik 4 47004 Colonel Carrera m (1) 68 ............. M Mitchell 5 23596 Finns Halo (3) 68 ............................ C Studd 6 00809 Paddy Jo m (4) 68 ...........................M Gillies 7 02637 Old Countess (6) 66 .............W Gordon (2.5) 8 x0LP9 Izzanorange (2) 66............. E Goodinson (3) 2 12.05 TE AROHA STALLION PLACEMENT MAIDEN HURDLE $10,000, MDN HDL, 3100m 1 2223P I’m All Yours (7) 68 2 30944 Armando (3) 68 ............................ M Mitchell 3 6P175 Perry Mason m (4) 68 ..........W Gordon (2.5) 4 83326 Caballo Noir (9) 68 ..................... S Karnicnik 5 01707 Crackthegoodstuff m (5) 68 E Goodinson (3) 6 08588 Global Warrior (8) 68................S Higgins (3) 7 8005L Marquateer (6) 68 ...........................M Cropp 8 99000 Who Can Tell (1) 68 ........................M Gillies 9 6444R Runny Honey (2) 66 .......................... A Kuru 3 12.40pm MAKE-A-WISH NEW ZEALAND HURDLE $20,000, NOV HDL, 3100m 1 12P65 Ooee m (7) 69.5 ......................... S Karnicnik 2 23111 Second Innings dm (5) 69.5 .............. A Kuru 3 12210 Bayrum mb (2) 68.5 ....................... S Fannin 4 0F741 Kentucky Son m (8) 68.5......W Gordon (2.5) 5 88153 That’s How It Goes tdm (3) 68.5 .....M Gillies 6 23614 Top Choice m (6) 68.5.................. M Mitchell 7 56663 Danza Lad tdm (1) 68.5 ..................M Cropp 8 26317 Yardstick (4) 66.5 ............... E Goodinson (3) 4 1.15 GEOFF BRINDLEY MEMORIAL MAIDEN 2200 $7000, MAIDEN, 2200m

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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 25 Sep 2016 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 1 2.08pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C3, 318m 1 45517 Bigtime Moola nwtd U &........................Bliek 2 48832 Baymax 18.50 ...................................B Craik 3 72118 Fantastic Ava nwtd .....................D Schofield 4 12166 Lord De Air 18.52 .............................M Black 5 52124 Scott Tied Up 18.63 U & ...................Cottam 6 54552 Made Time 18.31 ..............................B Bond 7 31425 Walter Mitty 18.44 .............................B Craik 8 85347 Kit And Caboodle 18.18 .............D Schofield 9 53148 Thrilling Galaxy 18.49 U & ................Cottam 10 48344 Sonic Attack 18.62 ....................... M J Lozell 2 2.24 $10K GUARANTEED QUADDIE STKS C1, 527m 1 27611 Lethal Action nwtd........................ H Mullane 2 54347 Podium Bonus 31.36 W & ...............T Steele 3 44573 Opawa Paul nwtd W & ....................T Steele 4 66746 Chateau Neuf 30.89 ........................P Green 5 53466 Rocky McAwesome nwtd U & ...........Cottam 6 44673 Mr. Mumbles 30.92 R &...............N O’Regan 7 83867 Golfing Buddy nwtd R & ..............N O’Regan 8 46226 Embrace Me nwtd ............................ S Clark 9 77685 Opawa Leanna nwtd B & ................... Steele 10 76786 Em Holland 31.38 ............................ S Clark 3 2.42pm WWW.AGRC.CO.NZ SPRINT C2, 318m 1 18653 Nippo 18.57..................................... L Martin 2 74678 Wheelie Good nwtd........................ P Lowen 3 53525 Frankincense 18.59.......................H R Scott 4 38385 Simply Yeti 18.56 ............................. T Green 5 25324 Umaga Rama 18.61 B & .................... Steele

1 65344 Boston Havoc (10) 68.5 ....M Roustoby (am) 2 45655 Blackhaven (6) 68.5 .......... M Northcott (am) 3 9x643 Cartridge (1) 68.5.................M Simons (am) 4 95964 Laekeeper (5) 68.5.................. S Wenn (am) 5 00x06 Copper Coated (4) 68.5 .......L Wheeler (am) 6 F Darva (9) 68.5 ......................... J Myers (am) 7 80L61 Doctor Hook (7) 68.5...............C Myers (am) 8 0 Keep Trucking 68.5....................... Scratched 9 08 Mr Bugsy (2) 68.5 ................. A Donald (am) 10 20285 Into The Mystic (3) 66.5 ...........L Calitz (am) 11 x3048 Palacio (8) 66.5 .................B Rogerson (am) 5 1.45pm CAPISTRANO LODGE R65 & JUMPS 2200 $7000, Rating 65&JMPS Benchmark*, 2200m 1 276x3 Heistheone (3) 71.5 .............L Wheeler (am) 2 82339 Royal Sceptre m (9) 71 ..........J McIlroy (am) 3 12210 Bayrum dmb (7) 70.5 4 82547 Ascomanni m (11) 70 ........ M Northcott (am) 5 3x491 Evadir La Bala (4) 70 ..............C Myers (am) 6 25145 She’s All Clang tmh (2) 69.5 S MacNab (am) 7 82216 Rum’n’coke (6) 69.5 .............M Browne (am) 8 16932 Scusa m (5) 69..................B Rogerson (am) 9 00x02 Steelfix (1) 68 .......................... J Myers (am) 10 7x010 Sakhee’s Star dm (8) 67 ....... A Donald (am) 11 56955 Heeza Dreimer mh (12) 67 ..... S Wenn (am) 12 53205 In A Trance m (10) 66.5............L Calitz (am) 6 2.15pm LANDMARK VETS STEEPLECHASE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN STP, 3500m 1 24577 Fair Script (1) 68 ........................ S Karnicnik 2 22423 Kina Win b (3) 68 .............................. A Kuru 3 75335 Kings Kite (7) 68 .............................M Gillies 4 22PP4 Mendoza (10) 68 .............................M Cropp 5 86459 Lucky Charm m (6) 68 ....... E Goodinson (3) 6 06L66 Irishwise 68 .................................. Scratched 7 2197P Beverley Beck tm (8) 68 .................. C Studd 8 284L3 Hunters Creek tm (9) 68 .............. M Mitchell 9 0F52 Kangaroo (4) 68 -

10 83400 Regalo Reaal m (5) 68 11 64144 Thenamesbond tdm (2) 68...W Gordon (2.5) 7 2.50pm BAYLEYS REAL ESTATE STEEPLECHASE $20,000, NOV STP, 4200m 1 181L5 Stagehand tdm (1) 69.5 ............... M Mitchell 2 22138 Crash Bandicoot m (7) 68.5 ............M Gillies 3 84F14 Mr Kanton tm (3) 68.5 ..........W Gordon (2.5) 4 06L66 Irishwise m (4) 67............................M Cropp 5 49065 Master Michael tm (6) 67 .........S Higgins (3) 6 370F4 Moni Nui tm (8) 67 ..................... S Karnicnik 7 83400 Regalo Reaal m (5) 67 ...................... A Kuru 8 64144 Thenamesbond 67 ....................... Scratched 9 414P3 Nells Belle tm (2) 66.5........ E Goodinson (3) 8 3.25 MIKE FRASER-JONES MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 2 Dougie h (8) 57.5 ........................T Thornton 2 648x Khar Khorum (3) 57.5 3 No Fuss Gus (1) 57.5...................... C Grylls 4 Royal Mojito (2) 57.5 .........................L Innes 5 05446 Eliz Garden (4) 55.5 ........................S Collett 6 6x Thelma (10) 55.5........................R Elliot (a3) 7 Unfazed 55.5 ................................ Scratched 8 8x Coat Of Honor (9) 55.5 ............. R Scott (a4) 9 0509x Gangsters Lass h (7) 55.5 ......B Hutton (a1) 10 Lhotse (5) 55.5 .................S Weatherley (a3) 11 Lucy Wyldstyle 55.5 ..................... Scratched 12 Soul Serenade (6) 55.5 .......A Schwerin (a3) 9 4.00pm SHACKELL ELECTRICAL MAIDEN F&M 1600 $7000, MDN F&M, 1600m 1 5524x Four Day High b (7) 57.5...................L Innes 2 35420 Cool Cassie h (9) 57.5 .....S Weatherley (a3) 3 9882 Sneek In Th’Castle (4) 57.5 ...... R Scott (a4) 4 0003 Baboonski (3) 57.5 .................J Fawcett (a4) 5 00457 Lola Brigida (1) 57.5 6 54565 Maquis b (5) 57.5 ........................T Thornton 7 x00x0 El Healo (2) 57.5 ......................A Jones (a1)

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91023 Raisedinasandpit tdm (12) 59Weatherley (a3) 80164 Domerova m (9) 58.5 .................R Elliot (a3) 07850 Lotus Laud m (6) 57 ........................ R Jones 51005 Rubee tdm (3) 56.5 .....................T Thornton 50270 All The Answers m (2) 56 ................S Collett 05309 Mareeba m (13) 55 .............Z N Azman (a3) 11 5.11pm BIG MICK UNDERGROUND TAKEAWAYS MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 0x34 Bold Warrior (4) 58.5 .........................L Innes 2 Snitzel Star 58.5........................... Scratched 3 8x Here To Stay (8) 58.5 4 7 Keep Up (1) 58.5 .............................S Collett 5 0x70x Scout (7) 58.5 ............................R Elliot (a3) 6 66333 Good Vibes (5) 56.5 ...............J Fawcett (a4) 7 02x55 Leica Glory (9) 56.5 ...........................M Hills 8 2 Secret Merchine (2) 56.5 ........... L Satherley 9 x4854 Happiness Is (6) 56.5 ...................... R Jones 10 8. Kane (10) 56.5 ................................ C Grylls x07x0 Go Like Elle (11) 56.5 Lynsey Satherly is down to ride Se- 11 12 Plutonium (3) 56...............S Weatherley (a3) cret Merchine, a favoured runner in Blinkers on: Master Michael (R7) Blinkers off: Blackhaven the last at Te Aroha tomorrow.

(R4), Four Day High (R9), Pilgrim (R10) Winkers on: Refined (R9), Mareeba (R10) 8 0 Refined (10) 57.5 ............................ C Grylls SELECTIONS 9 0 The Tetian Titan (6) 57.5 .................S Collett Race 1: Rocky, Old Countess, Havataste, Colonel Carrera 10 287 Whitney (8) 55............................M Coleman Race 2: Runny Honey, Caballo Noir, Armando, Perry Mason 10 4.40pm DIPROSE MILLER R65 1600 $7000, Rat- Race 3: Second Innings, Kentucky Son, Bayrum, Danza Lad ing 65 Benchmark*, 1600m Race 4: Boston Havoc, Blackhaven, Palacio, Into The Mystic 1 9510x Amperage 60 ............................... Scratched Race 5: Scusa, Bayrum, She’s All Clang, Royal Sceptre 2 84159 Betterbegood m (4) 60 .............. R Scott (a4) Race 6: Mendoza, Kina Win, Thenamesbond, Kangaroo 3 4x060 Lamason (5) 60 .................................L Innes Race 7: Crash Bandicoot, Moni Nui, Stagehand, Mr Kanton 4 71204 Beyond Reach tdm (11) 59.5A Schwerin (a3) Race 8: Dougie, Thelma, Khar Khorum, Royal Mojito 5 4419x Pilgrim mb (1) 59.5...................A Jones (a1) 6 61569 Rub It In mh (10) 59.5 ..................... C Grylls Race 9: Sneek In Th’Castle, Refined, Four Day High, Whitney Race 10: Domerova, Lotus Laud, Raisedinasandpit, Lamason 7 031x Allabuzz (8) 59 8 33216 Dahls Delight tdm (7) 59 ............ L Satherley Race 11: Go Like Elle, Secret Merchine, Bold Warrior, Plutonium

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

6 42553 Just As Gentle nwtd ..................... M J Lozell 5 51 Highland Laddie nwtd .................. H Mullane 7 56311 Shot Gun Harry nwtd ................... H Mullane 6 4 Typhoon Ted nwtd ............................ S Clark 8 67584 Red Rascal 18.66 R & ................N O’Regan 7 85 Fushidara nwtd ............................... L Martin 9 53757 Spotted Flyer 18.61 M & .................. J Smith 8 27623 Miss Shellac nwtd ............................M Black 10 16652 Sometime Soon 18.49 ......................B Craik 9 76 Ate A Little nwtd ...........................R McPhee 4 2.59pm PLASTERBOARD LTD STAKES C3, 527m 10 557 Bobanuska nwtd ............................. L Martin 1 73173 Miss Velocette 30.36 ...................L Laagland 7 3.52pm MCGHIE PLUMBING SPRINT C1, 318m 1 84877 Scott A Motor 18.86 G & ...................M Hunt 2 16555 Percentage Girl 30.67 .................L Laagland 2 82453 Gimme Hot Chips 18.98 U &.............Cottam 3 37287 Zimmer Frame 30.87 U &......................Bliek 3 66222 Opawa Libby nwtd B & ....................... Steele 4 86433 Gee Thunder 30.85 ......................R K Roper 4 55535 On Demand 19.15 U &..........................Bliek 5 12422 Opawa Kuru 30.59 W &...................T Steele 5 63686 Fantastic Zoe nwtd .....................D Schofield 6 74x44 Untraceable 30.19 ......................D Schofield 6 28887 Hot Star 18.77 ...............................A Cleaver 7 11286 Lochinvar Brogue 30.45 .............D Schofield 7 18753 Sacred Can You 18.54 R & .........N O’Regan 8 34542 Instant Success 30.92................D Schofield 8 51 Lloyd Attack 18.69........................ M J Lozell 9 57757 Who Dat Boy 30.51 ...................... H Mullane 9 66878 Jump On It 18.75 ......................... H Mullane 10 26788 Fantastic Ricki 30.67 ..................D Schofield 10 58783 Just About Ready nwtd ....................M Black 5 3.17pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C4, 318m 1 62222 Our Heisenberg nwtd ........................B Craik 8 4.09 PUMP AND ENGINEERING LTD STKS C2, 527m 1 73163 Idol Leanne 30.71 B & ....................... Steele 2 78387 Melman 18.49 ..............................R K Roper 2 361x2 Kitty’s Shiraz 30.55 H & ..............L Laagland 3 87535 Powder Jack 18.30 G H & ....... PC Ferguson 3 42317 Nangar Gem 30.75 ....................D Schofield 4 74564 Looks All Good 18.41 W & ..............T Steele 4 33245 Jinja Squeak nwtd W & ...................T Steele 5 85332 Macjam 18.33 ............................D Schofield 5 66514 Zipping Kasey nwtd....................D Schofield 6 38868 Zipping Steve 18.41 ...................D Schofield 6 56321 Electric Impulse 30.12 W & .............T Steele 7 22455 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 7 51888 Cawbourne Wales 30.57 ..............R McPhee 8 87636 Sandor Glegane 18.37 .................... T Green 8 82676 Cool Marlow 30.53 .......................... T Green 9 76753 Diva Pose 18.64 M & ....................... J Smith 9 72786 Thrilling Riot 30.97 U & .....................Cottam 10 16467 Formation 18.64 ................................B Craik 10 86777 Lucky Man 30.53...............................B Craik 6 3.34 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT 9 4.27pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C4/5, 318m C0, 318m 1 8x361 Up High 18.47 ................................ P Lowen 1 5 Warrior Tony nwtd U & ......................Cottam 2 12267 Belcroft Banker 18.26 ................H Laagland 2 Chasing Tail nwtd U & .......................Cottam 3 36246 Jump Up 18.34............................. H Mullane 3 5836 Amazing Contact nwtd ......................B Bond 4 74421 Lovely Rita 18.50 .......................D Schofield 4 22 Bruce Banner nwtd ...................... H Mullane

5 6 7 8 9 10

11154 Tee Kay Yapper 18.29 ...................... S Clark 11142 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 33411 Cyclone Lusi 18.62 U & ....................Cottam 3F428 Unileven 18.64 ...........................D Schofield 61186 Dipsy Lala 18.87 U & ........................Cottam 64384 Wobourn Abbey 18.53 ....................P Green 10 4.47 GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C1, 318m 1 35411 Girl Cina nwtd .............................. M J Lozell 2 75452 Eva Kaneva 18.62 ............................ S Clark 3 47876 Opawa Poppy 18.51 B & .................... Steele 4 73532 Le Roi nwtd B & ................................. Steele 5 56477 Rotovegas Sparky 18.55 ..............R McPhee 6 86614 All Hail Caesar nwtd U &...................Cottam 7 88856 Kapai Lana 18.86 U & ...........................Bliek 8 15441 Costing Money nwtd ...................... I George 9 58678 Miss Bunnythorpe 18.83 U & ............Cottam 10 6848x Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 11 5.06pm JOHN PALINO’S-FRIEND OF THE FARMER CAFE STAKES C4/5, 527m 1 12556 Zipping Link 30.53......................D Schofield 2 12612 Sharella 30.45 ...................................B Craik 3 11177 Spud Missile 30.17........................... S Clark 4 31618 Gold Class 30.33 .......................D Schofield 5 13341 Kimetto 30.41 ..............................L Laagland 6 63156 Multicam Ranger 30.80 ..............D Schofield 7 14843 Fantastic Sid nwtd ......................D Schofield 8 71124 Global Conquest 30.27 W &............T Steele 12 5.28pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON SPRINT C2, 318m 1 2146F Thrilling Wiggle 18.74................. G Pomeroy 2 38413 Little Kiwi 18.77 B & ........................... Steele 3 32111 Obstinatus 18.40 R & ..................N O’Regan 4 42837 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver

5 6 7 8 9 10

26658 Atoonga Air 18.45 ........................... T Green 23323 Jinja Fantasy 18.62 W & .................T Steele 26x62 Bee Lichter 18.56 ............................. S Clark 35838 Skinny Ankles nwtd ........................ P Lowen 13466 Cookie Monster 18.63 .......................B Craik 77575 Simply Sam 18.38 ......................D Schofield 13 5.52 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 84877 Deceptive Lad nwtd...................... M J Lozell 2 76222 Agent Schrader 18.56 .......................B Craik 3 66741 Idol Butcher nwtd B & ........................ Steele 4 58513 Tuff Star 18.66 U &............................Cottam 5 76564 Stainless Knocka nwtd U & ...................Bliek 6 45627 Snigglepuss 18.73 ....................... H Mullane 7 18347 Hows Your Mum 19.04 ......................B Bond 8 16675 Bouncie Al 19.09 ............................. T Green 9 6848x Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 10 58783 Just About Ready nwtd ....................M Black SELECTIONS Race 1: Bigtime Moola, Made Time, Kit And Caboodle, Baymax Race 2: Golfing Buddy, Lethal Action, Embrace Me, Mr. Mumbles Race 3: Nippo, Frankincense, Shot Gun Harry, Just As Gentle Race 4: Lochinvar Brogue, Miss Velocette, Opawa Kuru Race 5: Zipping Steve, Our Heisenberg, Macjam, Looks All Good Race 6: Chasing Tail, Bruce Banner, Typhoon Ted, Miss Shellac Race 7: On Demand, Opawa Libby, Sacred Can You, Lloyd Attack Race 8: Cawbourne Wales, Electric Impulse, Kitty’s Shiraz Race 9: Dipsy Lala, Fantastic Lucy, Jump Up, Tee Kay Yapper Race 10: Le Roi, Girl Cina, Eva Kaneva, Costing Money Race 11: Kimetto, Sharella, Global Conquest, Fantastic Sid Race 12: Thrilling Wiggle, Obstinatus, Jinja Fantasy, Little Kiwi Race 13: Deceptive Lad, Idol Butcher, Agent Schrader LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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OUR VIEW

Question time wasted Sue Newman

CHIEF REPORTER

Y

ou have to feel sorry for the local body election candidates who turned up on Thursday night to a meet-thecandidates evening.

Fronting up, standing on stage and opening yourself up to whatever comes takes a lot of courage, but that’s what the candidates for Ashburton’s urban ward and two of the Environment Canterbury councillors did.

One by one they stood up and used their allocated two minutes to talk about what they were standing for and why. The styles were different, the information was different, but the common factor was sincerity.

Each used that time to let the audience of around 200 (an almost decent turn-out for Ashburton) know a little more about the people behind the names on the ballot paper.

For around 45 minutes the evening went according to plan, but then it essentially went pearshaped.

Question time arrived and MC Rodger Letham outlined the rules of engagement – stand up, state your name and ask your question.

It couldn’t have been clearer.

To most in the audience, however, he may as well never have spoken. Those intent on asking questions clearly went to the meeting on a single-minded mission, they had issues they wanted to air, things they wanted to debate and to hell with the official format.

Unfortunately that meant question time was almost a waste of time. Few at the meeting appeared interested in looking ahead; most wanted to look back at decisions that were already signed and sealed by the council – the second bridge route. And they wouldn’t give up.

And then the questions turned to the Methodist Church’s future, should it or should it not be demolished to make way for a new civic centre and library. Fair call that the question was asked, but once the candidates had stated where they stood it should have been over. It wasn’t.

And then there were debates rather than questions over traffic lights, traffic flows and town plans.

Just a couple of probing questions were asked when the meeting had run its course.

For the candidates, a public appearance is never a wasted moment, but for the public a golden opportunity to ask some of the big questions about where those candidates would take our district were wasted.

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POLL RESULT This week’s online poll question:

Have you voted yet?

Yes 58%

No 19% From left: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the 1963 movie Cleopatra. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in The Marrying Man (1991). Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in last year’s By The Sea.

Films ruined by relationship break-ups L

ast year’s By The Sea is a sombre drama about a disintegrating marriage.

It’s suddenly become difficult to imagine being able to sink into the reality of the movie in any normal sense now that the reallife marriage of its two stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (who also wrote and directed), has ended, enrapturing the world.

It highlights the real victim of any Hollywood divorce – the filmgoer who subsequently sees a film starring the dissoluted parties.

In this blog I will cite several other films that will forever be primarily associated with the real-life break-up of the lead actors.

Cleopatra (1963) Probably the only film on this list to have it both ways. 20th Century Fox initially fretted that Elizabeth Taylor’s on-set affair with Richard Burton (both were married to other people) would turn off audiences who they presumed would be offended by such prurient behaviour, and tried to keep a lid on it.

Then as the flagrantly public

The shock break-up of Brangelina has forever ruined their last film together for Dominic Corry. He looks at other movies that have been tarred by the off-set shenanigans of their stars. affair began to entrance the globe, the studio leaned in and rode the publicity wave. You wouldn’t necessarily say the knowledge of the Burton/Taylor affair (and the years of ensuing drama) ruins the film - their onscreen chemistry is scintillating - but it definitely colours every viewing of the lavish epic.

The Marrying Man (aka Too Hot Too Handle) (1991) and The Getaway (1994) The venomous post-marriage discourse between Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger has rendered their onscreen collaborations morbid affairs indeed. Their first film together is a justly forgotten comedy, but their second cinematic pairing is an underrated crime thriller directed by Kiwi filmmaker Roger Donaldson (The World’s Fastest Indian, No Way Out).

A remake of the 1972 film

starring Steve McQueen and Ali Macgraw (overshadowed in its own time by an affair between the leads), The Getaway one of the few gritty 90s crime thrillers to live up to the gauntlet Tarantino threw down with Reservoir Dogs. Worth seeing for the french fries scene alone.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Director Stanley Kubrick said ahead of time that his plan with Eyes Wide Shut was to cast a real-life Hollywood couple as the film’s married lead characters, then cause them to split up.

Mission accomplished, Stanley!

I would argue that this underrated film isn’t overshadowed by the subsequent divorce of its lead actors, and is maybe even enhanced by it. It remains the defining aspect of the project for most people, however.

Proof of Life (2000)

Like The Getaway, this is a decent genre film that didn’t deserve to be overshadowed by the short-lived tabloid-friendly affair between its lead actors, Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, who play characters who also sort of have an affair. The kidnapping thriller has some great stuff in it, and is worth a watch, but good luck thinking about anything but Crowe and Ryan kissing behind the bike sheds.

Gigli (2003) We can’t blame Gigli’s awfulness entirely on the assiduously documented relationship between leads Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, but the pairing certainly played a role. Their second collaboration, Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl (2004), is also a perfectly terrible film in its own right.

– NZME

Haven’t decided 18%

Don’t want to 5%

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Let us stop and rest I

n August I wrote about the need to take some time off and rest.

It is important to be still and acknowledge our Creator and in the Creator, rest. I thought I must build on that article and briefly talk about the need to observe the Sabbath.

We live in a society that tells us that we need to keep going 24/7.

I am told by a colleague of mine and have read that there was a time in New Zealand when businesses, including supermarkets, were closed on Sundays because it was Sabbath, a time of rest. Only the corner dairies were open. Today, the story is different.

Henry Mbambo

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

Currently there is a debate as to whether certain Christian holidays should still be observed and the country’s leadership has passed that debate to local communities.

It is clear that there will be those who are for the idea of keeping trading on days like Easter and those who will advocate for rest on these days.

While this debate is going on, it is important that we all realise that rest does not happen in a

society that wants to keep going 24/7.

Maybe we need to change our language and start talking about 24/6 as suggested by Matthew Sleeth, an American doctor.

Dr Sleeth suggests that we need to go back to observing the Sabbath and I believe that this is for our own good.

From an Old Testament perspective, Sabbath is about stopping.

The word is derived from the verb Sabat, which means to stop, to cease or to keep.

Stopping and resting helps us to see ourselves as being valuable to our Creator and when we stop and rest, we refuse to be seen

as objects for productivity but instead see ourselves as human beings who do not live to be instruments for wealth creation but for relationships and community.

Working 24/7 in a sense dehumanises people and makes us try to find our identity in consumerism and in being materialistic.

When this happens, it can lead to broken relationships, which may lead to broken communities.

So let us stop and reconnect with ourselves, our families, our communities and our Creator by observing the Sabbath.

Henry Mbambo St David’s Church – Allenton

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Death for child molester?

He is a 53-year-old Australian accused of the torture and murder of children for his own sexual gratification that Philippine authorities are considering reintroducing the death penalty for.

Peter Gerard Scully, a father of two from Melbourne, is in a Philippine prison charged with some of the vilest acts known to humanity.

During court hearings and while being filmed in prison, the man believed to have perpetrated some of the worst crimes against children laughed, joked and acted nonchalant about his alleged crimes.

But that may change now the Philippines is considering putting him before a firing squad.

And it is the fate of one victim in particular that has prompted appalled Filipino prosecutors to call for Scully’s execution.

Shocking details can be revealed about the five-year-old girl who Scully hung upside down as he raped and tortured her with two accomplices.

Filipino police say Scully also buried a 11-year-old under the floor of a house he was renting after making a film of him raping her and strangling her to death Now the Philippines may reinstate the death penalty as the only punishment appropriate for Scully’s heinous crimes.

Capital punishment was outlawed in 1986 at the end

Gigi Hadid assaulted

Peter Gerard Scully who is currently being held in a Philippine prison on multiple charges of child molestation. of the brutal Marcos regimen, but assisted by widespread poverty, the country has become a hub of a billion-dollar, global child cybersex industry.’

According to a Fairfax report, during a court hearing where he faced the first six of 75 charges, Scully laughed and joked with his co-accused, who include four men, Christian Rouche, Alexander Lao, and Marshall Ruskin and Haniel Caetano de Oliveira.

Scully fled to the Philippines from Australia in 2011 after he was charged with fraud.

Scully lured children away from impoverished parents with the promise of food and education or used teenage girl accomplices to kidnap them.

He then drugged the children and made films of him raping and torturing them for

an international paedophile ring.

Operating a secret child pornography site on the Dark Web called, he sold the videos for up to $10,000 per view.

But of all his despicable acts, his most infamous is the film he made for the Dark Web is Daisy’s Destruction.

It is this film which shocked even seasoned child trafficking investigators, a Filipino police chief calling it “the worst we have encountered in our years campaigning against child pornography”.

It is believed the victim in the film is a girl called Barbie, who was taken from her family at the age of five by one of Scully’s cohorts, Liezyl Magallo.

Margallo and another young girl Carmen Ann Alvarez are

also facing charges of child exploitation.

Alvarez is said to have been taken in by Sully as his girlfriend after he met her as a 14-year-old prostitute.

His vile crimes went largely undetected until two of his victims, cousins Queenie and Daisy, aged 9 and 12, escaped.

Assisted by the Australian Federal Police and filmed by the Nine’s 60 Minutes, Philippine police arrested Scully in February last year.

Alvarez led them to the apartment where the 11-yearold was buried and to another addresses where Scully raped and tortured his child victims.

Scully has pleaded not guilty to the rape and trafficking of two teenage girls and is being held in the Cagayan de Oro City jail.

- news.com.au

Syria announces new Aleppo offensive The Syrian army has announced the start of a new military offensive in the rebelheld east of the city of Aleppo, signalling a potential further escalation in a bombing campaign by Russian and Syrian jets that rebels say has already intensified in the last 24 hours.

State media quoted the army’s military headquarters in Aleppo as urging civilians in eastern parts of the city to

avoid areas where “terrorists” were located and saying it had prepared exit points for those who wanted to flee, including rebels.

The army announcement did not say whether the campaign would also include a ground incursion.

Rebels said Russian and Syrian jets had escalated strikes in the past 24 hours on areas that control access to the city,

whose rebel-held east has been besieged by Russian and Iranian-backed pro-government forces and completely encircled for all but a few weeks since July.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the intensification of raids on residential areas in eastern Aleppo, saying at least 14 people had been killed on Thursday, mostly civilians.

The United States and Russia have been leading diplomatic efforts to negotiate a lasting ceasefire and have been discussing how to coordinate attacks on militants from the Islamic State and the group formally known as the Nusra Front.

A seven-day-old ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow collapsed last week.

- Reuters

Supermodel Gigi Hadid has been attacked by notorious Ukrainian prankster Vitalii Sediuk while leaving the Max Mara fashion show in Milan. Sediuk grabbed the 21-year-old model from behind and lifted her into the air as she and her sister Bella Hadid, 19, walked to their car. Instead of waiting for a bodyguard, Hadid defended herself by elbowing the serial pest in front of stunned onlookers. Hadid, an avid kickboxer, addressed the encounter on Twitter. “How dare that idiot thinks he has the right to man-handle a complete stranger. He ran quick tho.”Sediuk has defended his attack on Hadid, saying he was protesting the fashion industry.

Darby in Jumanji remake New Zealand’s favourite comedian Rhys Darby is the latest to join the cast of Sony’s Jumanji. The movie which is due to be released in July is the continuation to the original and current cast members are: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Nick Jonas. The film is based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book, which featured Robin Williams which grossed $260 million globally.

Production is currently underway in Hawaii. Darby, who plays Nigel in the movie, is currently a series regular on the TBS comedy Wrecked.

Actor takes aim at homeland Larger-than-life actor Gerard Depardieu said his homeland France is becoming a playground for foreigners populated by imbeciles making wine and stinky cheese.

It's not the first time the maverick performer, 67, has taken aim at France, saying it will become a Disneyland for foreigners.

He was granted Russian citizenship in 2013 after befriending strongman President Vladimir Putin and lambasting tax rates on top earners in his native land.

When asked during the in-

Gerard Depardieu terview if he considers himself French, Depardieu said,"No, I'm a citizen of the world.

"France is likely to become a Disneyland for foreigners, populated by imbeciles mak-

ing wine and stinky cheese for tourists.

"There is no more freedom, people are being manipulated."

Depardieu also took a swing at the film industry saying, “cinema doesn't exist any more.

"There is a world of entertainment and people, terrorised by the Americans, don't know any more which language to speak."

"There are 10 stars and they are all American.

"Their films are crammed with special effects, and the rest of the world of cinema is struggling to exist," he added during

the interview on the occasion of the release in Italy of his autobiography Innocent.

In February Depardieu trashed the Oscars, criticising Hollywood for its comfort bubble.

But in Depardieu's eyes, Italy deserves some praise.

"In Italy, happily, you have not lost your culture and your identity.

"Because you are a young country.

"Unlike half of Europe - with its fear of migrants - that has become a bit fascist."

- Daily Mail

Big Bang stars highest-paid The CBS comedy claimed TV’s four best-paid actors, according to the annual list released by Forbes. Jim Parsons led with a US$25.5 million take, Forbes said, followed by cast-mates Johnny Galecki (US$24 million), Simon Helberg (US$22.5 million) and Kunal Nayyar (US$22 million). In fifth place: Mark Harmon, star of CBS’ drama NCIS, was paid US$20 million. Forbes’ list of TV actresses reaffirms the generous salaries for Big Bang stars: Leading lady, Kaley Cuoco placed second on that list, with US$24.5 million. In that top spot: ABC’s Modern Family bombshell Sofia Vergara.

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Passport details posted online An image purported to be a scanned copy of US first lady Michelle Obama’s passport was leaked online alongside personal emails said to belong to a lowlevel White House staffer who worked with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The White House declined to comment on their validity, but spokesman Josh Earnest said the administration was taking the matter seriously.

“We’re aware of those media reports, and it is something we’re looking into,” US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a news conference.

The emails published appear to be from a Gmail account belonging to staffer Ian Mellul and largely contain mundane infor-

mation concerning planning logistics for Clinton campaign events.

The leak is the latest in a set of files targeting US politicians and political insiders to be disclosed by a group calling itself DC Leaks.

Last week the group published personal emails from former Secretary of State Colin Powell showing his distaste for Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

Powell confirmed to Reuters the hacked messages were authentic.

Cyber security experts and US intelligence officials have said the DC Leaks group is a front for a wide-ranging hacking operation by the Russian government .

-Reuters

breach ever,” said well-known cryptologist Bruce Schneier.

He said it was too early to say what impact the breach might have on Yahoo and its users because many questions remain, including the identity of the state- sponsored hackers behind it.

Three US intelligence officials, who declined to be identified by name, said they believed the attack was state-sponsored because of its resemblance to previous hacks traced to Russian intelligence agencies or hackers acting at their direction.

Yahoo said it was working with

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In brief Plane forced to land Jetstar engineers are trying to find out what caused the cabin of one of its planes to fill with smoke en route from Sydney to Cairns. The airline said the captain of the flight, which was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Brisbane, decided to shut down one of the engines as a precaution, and no emergency had been declared. Passengers took to social media to share their relief after the “terrifying” and “frightening” experience. No one on the flight required medical attention. - AAP

Croc victim recovering

Michelle Obama

500m Yahoo accounts hacked in 2014 Yahoo Inc says information for at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to the biggest cyber breach ever.

Yahoo said that data stolen may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords but that unprotected passwords, payment card data and bank account information did not appear to have been compromised, the company said.

“This is the biggest data

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law enforcement on the matter.

The FBI said it was aware of the matter, and the US Secret Service was not immediately available for comment.

“The investigation has found no evidence that the statesponsored actor is currently in Yahoo’s network,” the company said.

Shares of Yahoo stock were barely changed for the day after the news, while shares of Verizon Communications, which has agreed to buy the company’s Internet business, were up about 1 per cent.

It was not clear how this dis-

closure might affect Yahoo’s deal with Verizon.

Verizon, which announced in July an agreement to buy Yahoo’s core internet properties for $US4.83 billion ($A6.32 billion), said in a statement it was made aware of the breach within the last two days and had limited information about the matter.

“We will evaluate as the investigation continues through the lens of overall Verizon interests, including consumers, customers, shareholders and related communities,” the company said.

Reuters

A Queensland wildlife park owner is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a large crocodile in front of tourists. Rob Bredl, known as the Barefoot Bushman, was in the middle of a feeding demonstration at Bredl’s Wild Farm north of Mackay, when the 4.5-metre male reptile struck. The 66-year-old managed to break free from the croc’s jaws but suffered serious injuries to his left forearm and right leg. Bystanders helped stem his bleeding while paramedics rushed to the park. It’s understood Bredl could lose part of his hand after it was crushed in the croc’s jaw.

-AAP

Magnitude 6 quake The US Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck in the sparsely populated Izu Islands region south-southeast of Japan’s main island of Honshu.

USGS reported that the earthquake had its epicentre located about 617 kilometres south-southeast of Tokyo. Its depth was measured at 10 kilometres. No tsunami warnings are in effect.

-NZME

Daily Events Saturday 9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET. Crafts for sale in the West Street car park.

9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Community Garden, Thomson Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm

Sunday 8am ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Stadium. E A Stadium.

8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park St. 8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson St, Tinwald.

9am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Monday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Rd. 9am - 5pm ASHBURTON ALTRUSA. Fabric and craft pop up shop, open all week. Ashburton Arcade next to Robillards Jewellers.

ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. Open for toy hire. Methodist Church Baring Square.

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street.

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

10am - 1pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.15am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Assn and Golf Croquet, Allenton Sports

Club, Cavendish Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles. Waireka Philip Street.

5pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS. Open to all level of swimmers over 20 years followed by coffee and chat. E A Stadium.

Holy Communion, Harrison Street, Allenton.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship led by Rev John Coutts, all welcome. Annual General Meeting at 10.45am. 65 Oxford Street.

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

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

Baring Square East.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service and children’s programme, Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Street.

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, spring flower Sunday.

Havelock St. 10am

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

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park St 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson St, (Tinwald School hall).

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

1pm - 3pm

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

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles, Waireka, Philip Street.

4.30pm - 6.30pm ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Cafe Service, hall Cnr Thomson and Jane St. 7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson St, (Tinwald School hall).

9.45am PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting to be held at Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

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

Main Street, Methven.

12noon - 1.30pm

ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Free lunch every Monday. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets, entry off Cass St. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY

HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Assn and Golf Croquet, Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall.

48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC PARISH CENTRE. Euchre, all welcome. (not public holidays). Cnr Burnett and Winter St. 7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Speaker Carol Gunn on Peonies and Saffron. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Ave.

Business 28 Ashburton Guardian

www.guardianonline.co.nz

Saturday, September 26, 2016

■ ROBERT HARRIS CAFE

Cafe owners named Rookie of Year An Ashburton café has been named as a national award winner after showing excellence in business since purchasing their Robert Harris café over 15 months ago.

Steph Ching and Dale Gray, owners of Robert Harris Café Ashburton, were singled out amongst 42 New Zealand cafés in the Robert Harris network to be named Rookie of the Year.

The award was announced at the annual 2016 Robert Harris Café Franchise Awards, in Christchurch earlier this month. The awards acknowledge outstanding service and achievement.

David Thackery, Robert Harris Cafés franchise manager, said the pair were worthy winners.

“Within the short time that Steph and Dale have been part of our network, they have quickly grasped a real understanding of our values.

“Their passion for excellence demonstrates that they have put the skills they are learning into practise and it is this pursuit of excellence that underpins our culture.”

Ching said she was ecstatic about the win.

“As newbies, our team had to work hard to win the respect of locals who have rewarded us with their loyalty.

“We are very proud of our team because without their hard work this simply would not be possible.”

■ WAREHOUSE GROUP

Guardian Shares & Investments Compiled by

NEW ZEALAND SHARE MARKET

Source: NZX and Standard & Poors

Last sale

Daily Volume move ’000s

+2 –5.5 +46 +0.5 –4.5 –6 –15 +5 +10 –7 –11 +4 –5 – –0.5 –3 –1 – +4 +0.5 –7 –4.5 +2 –4 –1 – – –19 – – +0.5 –4 – +1 –3 –1 +1.5 – –7 –1 +1.5 +3 –1 +4 –2 +3 +4 +45 –10 –3

1.5m 1.7m 61.25 601.8 782.4 8.3m 320.7 1.1m 59.19 909.5 2.1m 689.1 98.53 643.0 650.7 309.2 460.8 796.9 44.56 871.9 75.56 564.0 1.4m 115.2 160.1 245.3 354.3 82.67 24.62 463.2 239.3 106.8 438.2 65.00 837.6 1.4m 3.7m 222.1 127.3 173.2 633.2 1.3m 11.15 106.4 14.51 155.1 663.7 25.36 22.61 446.7

7590 7502 7414 7326 7238 7150

23/9

Sell price

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Buy price

9/9

a2 Milk Company ATM Air NZ AIR ANZ Banking Gr ANZ Argosy Prop ARG Auckland Intl Airpt AIA Chorus CNU Comvita CVT Contact Energy CEN Ebos Gr EBO F&P Healthcare FPH Fletcher Building FBU Fonterra Share Fund FSF Freightways FRE Genesis Energy GNE Goodman Prop Tr GMT Heartland Bank HBL Infratil IFT Investore Property IPL Kathmandu Hldgs KMD Kiwi Property Gr KPG Mainfreight MFT Mercury NZ MCY Meridian Energy MEL Metlifecare MET Metro Perf Glass MPG NZ Refining NZR NZX NZX Orion Health Gr OHE Port of Tauranga POT Precinct Properties PCT Prop For Industry PFI Restaurant Brands RBD Ryman Healthcare RYM Scales Corp SCL Sky Network TV SKT Sky City SKC Spark SPK Stride Prop & Inv SPG Summerset Gr Hldgs SUM Tegel Gr Holdings TGH Tower TWR Trade Me Gr TME TrustPower TPW Vector VCT Vista Gr Intl VGL Vital Hlth Prop Tr VHP Warehouse Gr WHS Westpac Banking WBC Xero XRO Z Energy ZEL

S&P/NZX 50 Index Gross

2/9

Company CODE

At close of trading on Friday, September 23, 2016

26/8

S&P/NZX 50 Index Gross constituents

q S&P/NZX 50 Gross

7,296.74

–14.96

–0.2%

q S&P/NZX 20 index

5,142.81 –15.77 –0.31%

q S&P/NZX All Gross

7,892.83 –14.34 –0.18%

p Rises 59 q Falls 40

WORLD MARKETS

p S&P/ASX 200 index

5,431.3

+56.8

+1.06%

At close of trading on Sep 23, 2016

p Dow Jones Indust.

18,392.5 +98.76 +0.54% At close of trading on Sep 22, 2016

p FTSE 100 index

6,911.4

+76.63

+1.12%

At close of trading on Sep 22, 2016

q Nikkei 225 index

16,754.0

–53.6

–0.32%

At close of trading on Sep 23, 2016

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

p Gold

1,339.10

London – $US/ounce

+13.0

+0.98%

p Silver London – $US/ounce

19.87

+0.44

+2.26%

p Copper London – $US/tonne

4,815.50

+82.5

+1.74%

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

Net profit $78.3m Warehouse Group lifted annual earnings 12 per cent, just beating the top end of its guidance, as the country’s largest listed retailer eked out bigger reductions in its cost base to widen operating margins.

Adjusted profit rose to $64.1 million in the 52 weeks ended July 31 from $57.1m a year earlier, the Auckland-based company said in a statement.

Net profit rose 49 per cent to $78.3 million, or 22.6 cents per share.

Revenue increased 5.6 per cent to $2.92 billion with sales growth across all of the retailer’s brands.

Gross margins shrank due to its Noel Leeming group lifting sales of low-margin consumer electronic goods, however, operating margins widened to 3.8 per cent from 3.4 per cent as Warehouse focused on stripping out costs.

Chief executive Nick Grayston said the board has approved his three-year strategy which will focus on lifting profitability by removing “complexity and cost” of an inefficient operating model and reshape the company’s physical footprint to support the digital business.

The group’s online sales rose 22 per cent to $185.8m, accounting

for about 6 per cent of total revenue.

“The improvement in the financial performance of the group demonstrates that the trading strategies are delivering results,” Grayston said. “Our task is to ensure that the business is a strong and profitable competitor in the future retail environment, which will look very different from the traditional retail business model that has served us so well to date.”

Warehouse spent hundreds of millions of dollars overhauling its outlets and buying new businesses to drive future growth in the past few years under the leadership of Mark Powell, and Grayston, a former Sears Holdings executive, took over in De-

cember. The board declared a final dividend of 5 cents per share, payable on December 8 with a November 25 record date.

That takes the annual return to 16 cents, unchanged from a year earlier.

The shares last traded at $2.90, and have increased 8.6 per cent this year.

The company’s flagship ‘Red Sheds’ stores lifted sales 2.5 per cent to $1.76b for a 12 per cent increase in operating profit to $79.6m, and the blue shed stationery chain increased sales 6.2 per cent to $279.2m with profit up 12 per cent to $14.3m as better sourcing helped widen margins for both units.

- NZME

As at 4pm Sep 23, 2016

TT buy

Australia 0.9688 Canada 0.9696 China 5.1618 Euro 0.666 Fiji 1.5302 Great Britain 0.5687 Japan 75.38 Samoa 1.8944 South Africa 10.0828 Thailand 25.58 United States 0.7433

TT sell

0.937 0.9344 4.5332 0.6375 1.4112 0.5491 72.24 1.6624 9.7203 24.39 0.7171

Disclaimer: NZX and MetService have endeavoured to ensure the correctness of the information; neither NZX, MetService related companies, nor this newspaper, nor any of their respective employees or agents make any representation as to its accuracy or reliability nor will they, to the extent permitted by law, be liable for any loss arising in any way from, or in connection with, errors or omissions in any information provided (including responsibility to any person by reason of negligence). Please note: All products and services are subject to change without notice.

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Ashburton Robert Harris owners Steph Ching and Dale Gray, with franchise support manager Rebecca Robins (right).

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Intueri faces possible sanctions Intueri Education Group is in a trading halt on the NZX and ASX pending an announcement from the company over “possible sanctions” across the Tasman.

The announcement concerns “notification received from the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) relating to possible sanctions,” Intueri said in a statement.

The shares will stay halted until either the company makes an announcement, or September 27, whichever is earlier, unless ASX decides otherwise.

ASQA is Australia’s national regulator for that country’s vocational education and training sector, and regulates courses and training providers to ensure nationally approved quality standards are met.

Intueri operates across the Tasman through its Online Courses Australia subsidiary, which accounted for 35 per cent of its $50.1 million of revenue in the six months to June 30 this year.

A large percentage of students in Intueri’s Australian online

courses are funded through VET Fee-Help.

The Australian government has imposed a cap on the scheme this year, holding all providers to their 2015 revenue levels.

The Australian Federal Department of Education and Training is conducting a review of the scheme after a Senate inquiry found rampant abuse of the system and soaring costs, and legislation is expected to be introduced early next year.

- NZME

ADOPT A PET Enquiries to Tracey on 021 135 6969 or via Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/ MidCanterburyAnimalShelter

REHOMED Tabby

Harold Male approximately 1-2 years of age. Harold is de-sexed, microchipped, flead and wormed. He is a very affectionate wee boy, who will make someone a fantastic companion.

A small adoption fee applies.

This lovely boy is looking for a new home.

He is very friendly and he will be de-sexed. If you have room in your home and heart for him give us a call, or check us out on www.fb.com/MidCanterburyAnimalShelter

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FOSTER FAMILIES WANTED The foster programme aims to increase the number of animals we are able to assist, and make ready for adoption. Every animal that goes into foster care is given a second chance at life. Your work as a ‘foster parent’ really can ‘save lives’!

Do you have room in your home and your heart for orphaned or injured animals? Would you like to foster a litter of kittens, a cat recovering from surgery or a dog who needs to know what a ‘home’ is?

Many animals that come into the Shelter need a little extra care and attention, before they can find their new forever home. We have a limited amount of space and people to care for these animals so we rely on our fantastic fosterers to offer temporary homes to animals in need.

Foster parents provide varying levels of care, including helping animals to; • • • •

Socialise and learn good behaviour Gain weight Rest and recover following surgery Receive medication

The majority of the animals in need of foster MCAS are holding their Annual General Meeting, Saturday 8th October, 1pm at the St Johns Rooms on Tancred Street. An extended welcome to the community members to come along and learn what we are all about, and meet the team.

parents are kittens, with or without their mothers. We particularly need fosterers during the kitten season, (October to May) when we have hundreds of abandoned and unwanted kittens coming into our care. Although this is often our busiest time, we need temporary homes all year round.

To become a foster parent you need…

• A warm and secure separate room within your home that is not used by any other animal or person. If you are caring for dogs or puppies, you will need a secure fenced property with inside areas the animal can access to sleep and interact with the family.

• Your own reliable vehicle to collect and drop off your foster animal. You will also need to bring animals into our coordinator for routine checks, and transport them to the vet or after hours vet, in case of emergencies.

• Your landlord’s consent if you are living in a rental property.

• Ensure your own animals have current vaccinations to help guard against cross contamination. If you choose not to do this you may risk the health of your own animals.

• Follow Shelter fostering rules and guidelines,

policies and procedures for safe animal care.

• Background knowledge of animal care and the ability to recognise normal/abnormal behaviour.

• Lots of love and time to ensure the animal receives the care and attention it deserves.

We understand that looking after an animal is a big undertaking so we try to make sure it is as easy as possible. We will supply all food, medicine, necessary equipment, toys and bedding, to help make your foster animal comfortable within your home. Our friendly team of co-ordinators are available to offer support at any time.

The average length of time needed to foster an animal will vary, but generally between 4-6 weeks for cats /kittens and up to 3 months for dogs/puppies. Each case is different. You can foster if you work part-time, full-time or not at all. We try to match the right animal to your circumstances.

So if fostering is of interest to you, or you would like to know more, contact MCAS on ph 021 356 969, or via the web site: www.midcanterburyanimalshelter.co.nz

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter have a Bouncy Castle for Hire. All proceeds go back into helping the local animals within our area. For further information on availability and price, contact the co-ordinator on PH: 027 404 3780, or contact us via our web site: www.midcanterburyanimalshelter.co.nz

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Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

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• Certification: gas, electrical & self-containment • Camec parts & accessories shop • TV & audio • Joinery • Upholstery • Electrical & lighting • Plumbing • Engineering Contact Lifestyle Motorhomes for all your RV requirements. All work is carried out on site by our own qualified tradesmen.

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For your rural, residential and commercial property maintenance, contact us.

• Landscape and garden renovations • Ride-on lawn mowing • Gardening • Hedge trimming • Clean-ups

Don & Sue Cooper 027 339 6350 or a/h 03 308 9257

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

HEAT PUMPS

40 South Street Ashburton Call Simon Woolley

0800 808 155 www.scissorlift.co.nz

HEAVY VEHICLE DRIVER LICENCING Certified Assessor for licencing from Learner to Full • Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left

Perfect all year round

• Wall or floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

Contact Paul McCormick

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

How do you put a dollar value on keeping your property protected?

Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

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Roofing Specialists We specialise in:

•New roofs and re-roofs •Five Rib roofing •Corrugated roofing •Fascia, spouting and downpipes •Qualified fixers.

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696 Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

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Painting – Wallpapering – Plastering “NO JOB TOO SMALL”

New Pure Water System Enjoy spot and streak free windows!

• Interior • Exterior • Professional • Prompt • Competitive

Book your high windows in today

“we clean to a standard, not a price”

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• regular full house cleans • one off spring cleans • farm houses • builders cleans • floor buffing

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Better than a beach in your own backyard Swimming pools / Spas For every lifestyle and budget, see our range!

4WD Diesel Diesel &&Electric 4WD ElectricScissorlifts Scissorlifts

Servicing / Advice

We service pools, spas, pumps, water filters etc.

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Rough and electric lifts available 403 West Street, Rough terrain terrain and

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Contact Scott 021 440 364 | Office 03 307 6126 | elitescaffolding@clear.net.nz

WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Scaffold Towers • Full Edge Protection • Tube & Clip Scaffolds • Proping

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Factory Spray Lacquer

Sad, unloved things in your life get a second chance from us.

The Finishing Company

Lindsay 027 555 5575

03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856

150 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton doakys@xtra.co.nz - 03 308 1248

Lacquer Finishes for doors, joinery, existing kitchens, furniture, appliances. a new look for your old stuff!

Wardrobe organiser

To advertise here contact Deidre on 021 272 2399 or 307 7927

We can refit your existing wardrobe or fit out your new one.

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WE OFFER: • H Frames • Aluminium Sca • Full Edge Prote • Tube & Clip Sca • Proping

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Lifestyle

CONNECTIONS

Chiropractic for improved health, injury prevention and nutrition.

ACC Registered.

Debra Curtin Chiropractor Mon, Wed, Thurs: 8.30am-5.30pm Fri: 8am-2pm

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- Landscaping Plants - Ornamental & Specimen trees - Native plants for all purposes - Hedging plants & Topiaries - Fruit & Nut plants.

Beginners welcome!

SOUTHERN

WOODS

Call Yvonna on 021 248-7778 or yvonna@hulahoops.co.nz

PLANT NURSERY

1133 Main South Road - Call 0800 800 352 - www.southernwoods.co.nz

to register interest as dates are to be confirmed.

Your Rieker Destination Store

Tues: 9am-5pm

Plants for all projects.

5.45pm-6.45pm Timaru, Tuesday - Ashburton Thursday $120 for 8 weeks.

Join our In2Hula ‘Hoop for Fitness’ Classes in Ashburton

André Grob Chiropractor

Denture Problems?

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Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm Saturday 10am - 2pm Sunday 11am - 2pm

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

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ASHBURTON COLLEGE

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100% MADE OF NEW ZEALAND Process workers needed

Qualified Heavy Diesel Mechanic

• Ashburton location • Mid Canterbury

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors is looking for a fully qualified Heavy Diesel Machinery Mechanic to work in a newly established workshop with upto-date technology which includes a 20mtr truck lifter and brake roller set up.

Silver Fern Farms is looking for seasonal staff for the 2016-17 processing season from November to April at our Fairton Plant, Ashburton.

We offer a great team environment, the money’s good, and you’ll be working with a proud team of people in a progressive food processing company.

So if you enjoy working as part of a team, have a ‘can do’ attitude, keen to learn, not afraid of a bit of hard work, and are a New Zealand Citizen/Resident, or hold an open valid work permit, then we want to hear from you.

This position involves being responsible and accountable for fully maintaining the workshop, and all servicing, field service, general repairs and maintenance.

The successful application must have: • • • • •

Experience with heavy earthmoving machinery Have good time management Have the ability to work unsupervised Full car licence HT licence

If this sounds of interest to you, please phone:

To apply call into the Fairton Plant Main Office, Office Rd Fairton, RD2 Ashburton to complete an application form or email francis.renner@silverfernfarms.co.nz Alternatively apply online at careers.silverfernfarms.co.nz www.silverfernfarms.com

307 7900 Malcolm McDowell Road PO Box 571 Ashburton 7740

Garden Department Fixed Term Mitre 10 MEGA have a vacancy for a salesperson in our Garden department. This is a fixed term position to cover our busy season, with a roster of 32 hours per week, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Immediate start and ends January 31, 2017.

If you have the following skills we would like to hear from you:

office@evanstransport.co.nz 03 308 8075

Diesel Mechanic Permanent full-time

Evans Transport Ltd is a proven player in the transport sector. We service the meat industry with transportation of chilled, frozen and containerised products within the Canterbury region.

We require a Diesel Mechanic to join our workshop team.

Our workshop staff service and maintain our fleet of modern Freightliner and Nissan trucks, refrigerated and flat deck trailers and sundry equipment including forklifts, a combi-lift and auxiliary vehicles.

You will be required to: • work unsupervised, • hold current NZ Driver’s Licence, a Class 5 Licence would be an advantage, • have a positive attitude, • be punctual, have a strong work ethic and be able to work in a small team environment, • maintain vehicles to New Zealand COF standards.

Remuneration package includes a wage relevant to today’s market.

Should this position interest you, please send a CV to: Geoff Evans, PO Box 571, Ashburton 7740 Or email geoff@evanstransport.co.nz If you require any further information please phone: Geoff Evans 027 4327 612

Applications close Monday 03 October 2016.

Applicant confidentiality is assured.

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Food Service Operator Silver Fern Farms Ltd is seeking a person or an established food business to operate a fully equipped cafeteria at the Fairton Plant 6km north of Ashburton.

• Have a passion for gardening.

• Be fit and able to lift.

• Be able to work in a team.

• Reliable • Be able to work unsupervised • Customer service skills Please send your C.V. and covering letter to: hr.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Human Resources, Mitre 10 MEGA, PO Box 35, Ashburton 7740 Applications remain confidential and close at 5pm, Monday, October 3, 2016

The site is seasonal for approximately 6 months when there are several hundred employees who are potential customers.

For further information phone 307 6802 or, send expressions of interest by Friday, September 30, 2016.

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Please send your CV along with a cover letter in the first instance to: Ashleigh Grant at ashleigh@ashburtonbaptistpreschool.co.nz or feel free to drop your CV into the office at 8 Eton Street.

Phone: 03 308 2325 A job description is available upon request.

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Painter Decorator We are a small local painting and decorating business specialising in new housing.

We are looking for an experienced and hard-working tradesman or brush-hand to join our team as soon as possible.

The applicant would need to be reliable and motivated, be able to follow directions and keen to deliver a high standard of work in the painting and decorating industry.

This is a full-time position and a vehicle licence would be an advantage.

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We are looking for an additional staff member to work specifically with one student, on this programme.

This is a Ministry-funded, fixed-term position of 14 hours/week, across Monday to Friday.

Commencement for the beginning of Term Four 2016 preferred,(Monday 10 October), until mid-December.

Employment is under the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, Associate Scale, Grade B. Initial payment step commensurate with experience.

The programme meets the needs of specific students who, for a range of reasons, are alienated from mainstream education. It operates off-site, under the auspices of Ashburton College, for the benefit of Ashburton and Mt Hutt College students.

Enquiries/applications to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Phone: 308 4193, ext 812; Cell: 027 247 8003 Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton 7740

Tanya on 027 491 5636 or email CV to: office@tarbotton.co.nz

Just remember that Silver Fern Farms is working hard to maintain a drug and alcohol free workplace. Pre-employment drug testing is mandatory.

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PLANTS, PRODUCE

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

Grapes punnet 500gm Mushrooms Strawberry punnet Avocado

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

OPEN 7 DAYS The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

PUBLIC NOTICES

Subcontractors are invited to submit their tenders by 12 noon Wednesday September 28, to mark.wilson@corbel.co.nz Documents are available from: app.estimateone.com/s/ corbel/ 03 341 5551 www.corbel.co.nz

Make your GP team your first call 24/7 Even after-hours a nurse is available to give free health advice Phone your usual General Practice number 24/7

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

PUBLIC NOTICES

CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP To all our valued customers The next meeting of the Ashburton Trust Board will be held in the Head Office Boardroom, Level 1 Somerset House, Cnr East + Burnett Streets, Ashburton

on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 5.00pm

TENDERS

Tuarangi Home Plant Room Project

$2.99 ea $7.99 kg $2.99 ea .99c ea

Specials available from 20/09 - 26/09

TRAVEL

◊ CHRISTCHURCH REBUILD TOUR Sunday, October 16.

Includes open day at the Art Centre, lunch at The Breakfree on Cashel, tour City Centre latest rebuilds, Somerset Retirement Centre open day.

For bookings phone 308 7646

PUBLIC NOTICES

Bananas $1.99 kg

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Beckley Coachlines Programme

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Robert Reid General Manager

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

After 43 years on Sunday, September 25, Hecs Four Square Supermarket will be having a change in ownership.

Brent and Alison MacGregor would like to take this opportunity to thank all of their customers over the years for allowing them to “look after the locals” and be a part of the Allenton community.

We have very much enjoyed being here.

We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce Mark Swaney as the new owner/ operator and wish him all the best with his new venture.

Hecs Four Square will close at 1pm on Sunday, September 25 to stocktake and will be reopening as usual on Monday morning bright and early.

Hecs Four Square Supermarket 98 Harrison Street, Ashburton 7700 hecs@foursquare-si.co.nz

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

PHARMACIES

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm both evenings.

cdhb.health.nz/carearoundtheclock

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DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

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

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact - President 021 1356 969.

VETERINARIANS

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm ASHBURTON HOSPITAL Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

POST DELIVERY CENTRES Children must be accompanied by an adult.

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Mon - Fri 5pm - Husbands and patient’s own children may visit 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. Business Area: Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, INFORMATION CENTRES Call us free on (0800 787 797).

-unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until ASHBURTON REST HOMES LIFELINE Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, OMMUNITY ERVICES METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA Holidays 10am until 3pm. unrestricted visiting.

ART GALLERY For weekend doctor and emergency details, Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com 327 West Street, phone 308 1133. please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, EMERGENCY DENTIST BUS DEPARTURES If you do not have or cannot contact your Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm ph 302 8105.

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service. regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist provide an accident and emergency service.

Havelock Street.

Ph 308 7192.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Saturday: 10am 1pm, Sunday 1pm 4pm Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Sundays and Public Holidays. medical attention must consult their own or the ASHBURTON MUSEUM duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently NIMAL ERVICES ELPLINE ERVICES 327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL have a general practitioners note of referral.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS weekday afternoons.

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Allenton Medical Centre, Harrison Street, will be the duty doctor for Saturday and Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am - 12.30pm and 2pm - 5pm both days. Please phone for an appointment 308 9139

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VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies: Large: Izzy Cassan, Patrick Taylor. Small: Kasia Chapman-Labecka.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies: Large: Ciprian Verdes, Kaitlyn Lutz. Small: Lynlee Kueh.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint afterhours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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FOR SALE

Beckley Coachlines Programme ◊ EVITA Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch Sept 25 @ 4pm ◊ ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch Nov 25 @ 7.30pm ◊ NUTCRACKER BALLET Isaac Theatre Royal @ 2pm.

For bookings phone 308 7646

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable service contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989.

30 years’ local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

ELECTRICIAN STODDART ELECTRICAL LTD Qualified & reliable electrician; available for domestic work e.g. alterations, installation of lights, plugs, airconditioning and home ventilation systems. I look forward to hearing from you. Ben Stoddart 027 439 9157.

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

SPECIALISED SERVICES

Vermicast Nutrient Rich Organic Soil Conditioner “For sustained growth and yield”

Made up of WORM CASTINGS and DECOMPOSED ORGANIC MATTER The natural and comprehensive alternative to chemical or artificial fertilisers.

20 litre bags $12 each incl GST Bulk $48 per scoop (approx. 1/3 m³) incl GST Truckloads $250 per tonne excl GST. Sales between 9.00am and 12 noon, Monday to Friday Ashburton Meat Processors Ltd, 170 Bridge Street, ASHBURTON Phone 03 308 2019

MEETINGS, EVENTS WINCHMORE TENNIS CLUB

GRAZING

WORKING BEE Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 9.00am

OPENING DAY Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 1.30pm

AGM Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 5.00pm (after the opening) All events will be held at the Winchmore Courts All current, past and new members are most welcome

Dairy heifer grazing wanted in Canterbury • R1yr heifers grazing Nov - May • R2 yr. heifers grazing May - May • We have weaners available from November • Competitive rates with weight gain bonus options

Any inquires – please phone 027 418 8175

LOCAL certified seed potatoes. 2kg bags $5.99.

Jersey Benne, Maris Anchor, Red Rascal, Rocket, Swift, Ilam hardy, Desiree, Nadine, Victoria, Van Rosa, Rue, Heather, Red King Edward, Agria, Cliff Kidney.

Lushingtons, 5 Archibald Street, phone 03 308 6858.

RURAL TRADING POST MUSICAL GRASS silage baled and

wrapped $65 per bale + GST. LADYBANK Learning School of Music - Vacancies for Phone 027 284 0377. adults during the day and LIVESTOCK wanted. 4-6 vacancies after school for weaned beef-x steer calves. keyboard/piano - ukulele singing - guitar. Barbara 027 Phone 027 633 1099.

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LUCERNE hay for sale, shed stored, $8 per bale. Phone MOTORING 027 473 3010.

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

We design, we build, we innovate.

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YOGA - Men’s only class Beginners give yoga a go, build strength and flexibility safely. Starting Tuesday, October 11, 7.30pm, St Pauls Church Hall.

Bookings essential. Phone 027 480 5662.

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LIVESTOCK, PETS

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Phone Richard Andrews 027 536 8693 www.livestockexchange.co.nz

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

HEALTH & BEAUTY

GRAZING AVAILABLE First class grazing for yearling hiefers on top irrigated grazing unit under a high standard of management.

Phone John 027 227 6075

YOGA with Annie. Term 4 starting October 10.

Monday 9.15am mixed level, 6pm beginners/foundation, Tuesday 6pm mixed level, 7.30pm men’s class. St Pauls FOR SALE Church Hall, Oxford Street. DRY old man pine $180, Bookings essential. Phone green old man pine $130, 027 480 5662. green blue gum $150, green larch $140, all 3.6m³. Split GRAZING and delivered. Phone Shane GRAZING available for 160 James Firewood 303 7063. calves, December – long term, irrigated property, FIREWOOD - Dry old man experienced grazier. Phone pine $180, green old man Greg, Canterbury Grazing Ltd pine $140, green blue gum $150. All per 3m³ load 0273 786 314. delivered. Phone Tim Boyd 303 6280.

MIKE PRESTON

FIREWOOD - dry old man pine $180, dry gum and macro $250. A cord 3.6m³.

Split and delivered. Phone Peter Nicoll 027 2012 777.

LIFESTYLE & RURAL SPECIALIST

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

Don’t get left behind! Are you wondering what your property is worth? Please feel free to contact me for a confidential no obligation chat.

Mike Preston

M 027 430 7041 | B 03 307 2400 | mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008.

Follow me on Facebook facebook.com/mikepreston.bayleys

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ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

A1 hot honey Asian classy, beauty, sexy, busty 38D. BRAND new two bedroom Playful, really good massage. house with heat pump and Phone 020 4068 7352. under floor heating. Westside near Domain, available midALBA, 28 year old, Chinese October. Phone 307 8851 lady, 36 D cup, busty, size and leave a message.

10. Good personality. Professional massage. In/out calls.

Phone 021 163 2328.

FLATMATE wanted from October 1, 2016. $130 per ANGEL tall, busty, attractive, week plus expenses. Phone professional lady. In/out calls. 308 9122.

Phone 021 0283 1426.

CINDY, Kiwi, attractive, size 8, busty. Phone calls only. Ph LARGE four bedroom family home with extensive gardens.

027 363 7916.

Seven kilometres from Mt NEW Lulu, Korean lady, Somers. Separate large excellent service, two ladies studio and double garaging. special, one week only. In/out Long term rent preferred. calls. Phone 022 679 3029.

Must have good references. $400.00 per week. Phone SOPHIA - Succulent wild 0274 532 087. woman. No tattoos, clean, straight. Available 7 days.

Phone 021 044 0698.

SUNNY three bedroom house, Mayfield. Single garage and double car port. $230 per week. Three weeks bond required. Phone 027 828 6690.

Guardian Situations Vacant

TINWALD three bedroom architecturally designed house. Clean and warm.

Double garage.

Suit professional couple.

References required. $340 per week. No pets or smokers. Phone 021 253 2637.

TO LET. Two bedroom flat.

Easy walking to town. $230 per week. Phone 027 207 1551.

TO RENT three bedroom lifestyle block with an approx an acre of paddocks available to rent, situated just 5 minutes from Ashburton town centre. Has log fire and two garages with storage. $500 per week, enquires to 027 487 8579.

Guardian Motoring 307 7900

Church Services Advertise in this classification every Saturday!

Book two adverts and get one free!

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SPODE blue Italian.

Celebrating 200 years with six new items. Come in and add to your collection, we have plenty to choose from.

Spend over $70 and go in the draw to win a meat platter or vase. The China Shop in The Arcade.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 Peak Production.

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Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley.

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Noon The Crowd Goes Wild 3 2:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Counties Manukau v Waikato.

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Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott. 8:55 The Cobbler MV 2014 Comedy.

Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi.

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MV 3:40 Elementary MV 5:30 Dance Moms 3 10:55 Black Mass 18VL 4:30 The Simpsons Super 6:30 Top Chef 2015 Crime. Johnny Depp, Saturday PG 7:30 Modern 7:30 Millionaire Joel Edgerton.

Family PGL 8pm Branson Matchmaker Taxi PGL 8:30 Counting Cars SUNDAY Patti must create a love match PG 9pm Tornado Hunters 12:55 Horrible Bosses 2 16VLS for a self-made millionaire PG 9:30 Rocky Mountain 2014 Comedy. Jason Bateman, who has had two broken Bounty Hunters MVL Jason Sudeikis. 3:40 Close engagements.

10:30 Smackdown MV Up – Angelina Jolie PG 2012 8:30 Keeping Up With The Documentary. 4:10 The SUNDAY Kardashians Midnight Man 16VLSC 12:15 Raw MV 3:30 Piha 9:30 Shahs Of Sunset 2015 Thriller. Brinna Kelly, Rescue PG 3:55 Modern 10:30 Kourtney & Kim Take Family PGL 4:20 Counting Will Kemp. 5:50 The Hobbit Miami AO Cars PG 4:45 Rocky Mountain – The Battle Of The Five 11:30 Snapped PGR Armies MV 2015 Adventure.

Bounty Hunters MVL 12:20 Infomercials 3 Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

5:35 Tornado Hunters PG

11:30 Home Shopping

MOVIES GREATS

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6:30 Dora Matatoa 2 7am Avatar 7:30 The Zoo 3 8am Fitness In The Whare 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Playlist 9:30 Kaitangata Twitch 10am KTK – Next Level 10:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 11am Kawe Korero – Reporters 1:30 The Big Hit 2pm Home Krew 3 2:30 Survive Aotearoa PGR 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Kapa Haka Whanau 6:30 M The Last Unicorn 1982 Animated Fantasy. Voices of Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury.

6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Natural World – Machli: Tiger Queen 8:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 9am Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen 9:30 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan 10:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 11:30 The Liquidator Noon Barn Hunters 12:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Nick Knowles’s Original Features 4pm Beverly Hills Pawn 4:25 Salvage Hunters 5:30 Bondi Vet 6:30 Walking With The Great Apes

8pm Iti Pounamu PGR Sonny, My Older Brother.

Po idolises his elder brother, so when Sonny gets a hiding, Po steps up to help.

8:30 M Les Enfants Du Paradis AO 1945 Romantic Drama. Arletty, JeanLouis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur.

7pm Pete And Pio’s Kai Safari 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 9:30 Auction Hunters 10pm Nick Knowles’s Original Features

11:50 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 12:20 Closedown

11pm Beverly Hills Pawn 11:30 Matt Hayes’s 24 Hour Rod Race 12:30 Auction Hunters 1am Bondi Vet 3am American Pickers 4am Salvage Hunters 5am Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle

SKY SPORT 1

6am Ten-pin Bowling – Weber Cup USA v Europe.

7am Cricket – International (HLS) India v Blackcaps – First Test, Day Two. 7:30 The Golf Fix 8:30 School Of Golf With Martin Hall.

9:30 AFL Weekly Highlights 10:30 The Breakdown 11:30 World Rugby Noon L Rugby – Women’s NPC Farah Palmer Cup – Semi-final. Auckland v Canterbury.

2pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Counties Manukau v Waikato.

2:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Canterbury v Otago.

4:30 The Breakdown 5:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Taranaki v Manawatu.

7:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Hawke’s Bay v Tasman.

From McLean Park, Napier.

9:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Northland v Wellington.

From Toll Stadium, Whangarei.

10pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Counties Manukau v Waikato.

10:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Week Six Saturday.

SUNDAY 12:15 The Whole Nine Yards 11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy.

(RPL) Canterbury v Otago.

Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry.

1:55 After.Life 16VLSC 2009 SUNDAY Horror. Christina Ricci, 1:30 Fox Sports News Liam Neeson, Justin Long.

3am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup 4:35 Big Daddy PGL 1999 (RPL) Taranaki v Manawatu.

Comedy. Adam Sandler, 5am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Leslie Mann.

(RPL) Hawke’s Bay v Tasman.

7:20 Making Of Atonement PG 7:40 Grown Ups PGL 2010 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek. 9:20 Warm Bodies MVC 2013 Comedy. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer. 2013.

10:55 Law Abiding Citizen 18V 2009 Crime. Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler.

12:45 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford MVS 2007 Drama.

Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck.

3:20 After.Life 16VLSC 2009 Horror. Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long.

5:05 Children Of Men 16VL 2006 Drama. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine.

6:55 Jurassic Park 3 MV 2001 Adventure. Sam Neill, William H Macy.

8:30 Van Helsing MV 2004 Horror Action. A 19th-century vampire hunter must stop Dracula using Frankenstein’s monster and Wolfman for evil purposes. Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale.

10:45 Big Daddy PGL 1999 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann.

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

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY

6am Auction Hunters PG Space Cowboys.

6:30 MythBusters PG MythBusters – The Reunion.

7:30 MythBusters PG Holiday Special. 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:25 Dark Woods Justice M 10:20 Dual Survival M 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG 12:10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 1:05 Naked And Afraid XL M 2pm Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG Can We Eliminate Evil? 2:55 World’s Biggest Shipbuilders PG Super Tug. 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Settling the Score.

4:45 Alaskan Bush People M High Tide Housing.

5:40 You Have Been Warned M Nailed It. 6:35 Free Ride PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Pete Nelson and his team design private escapes for those keen to reconnect with nature and awaken their inner SUNDAY child.

12:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) 8:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG Tour Championship by Coca 9:30 Gold Rush PG Frozen Pay. Cola – Round Two. 12:30 Rugby League – NRL 10:30 Auction Hunters PG Risk and Reward.

(HLS) Sharks v Cowboys.

11pm Man Made Marvels 1am #SkySpeed China PG Ancient Beijing.

1:30 World Rugby SUNDAY Midnight Dual 1:55 L Rugby League – Survival M 12:55 Murder Super League Qualifying 8s Comes To Town M 1:50 Dirty – Round Four.

Jobs PG 3:40 Auction 5am Fox Sports News 5:30 Ironman Championship Hunters 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG Series (HLS) 5:05 MythBusters PG 6am The Crowd Goes Wild An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Super 8s – Hull v Warrington Wolves.

9:30 Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Sharks v Cowboys.

11:30 Rugby League – Holden Cup (RPL) Panthers v Cowboys.

1:30 NRL Footy Show 3:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sharks v Cowboys.

4pm Motorsport – TCR Singapore 4:30 #SkySpeed A review of the week’s motorsport highlights and the progress of Kiwis on the world stage.

5pm Rugby League – Holden Cup (RPL) Dragons v Roosters.

7pm Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Sharks v Cowboys.

From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

9pm L Rugby League – NRL Storm v Raiders.

From AAMI Park, Melbourne.

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6am Rural Delivery 0 6:25 The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6:50 Sunday 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Nature’s Great Events 0 12:50 Four Rooms 1:50 Location, Location, Location 0 2:50 This Town PGR 3 0 3:50 Dare To Dream 0 4:20 New Zealand Story Matt McCarten is a Kiwi with a way of convincing people they can fight and win, and the unions, the Alliance Party, and the Maori Party have all benefited from his unique style. 0 4:55 N Nature’s Boldest Thieves 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm Karena And Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy 0 8:30 F Hillary 0 9:30 How To Murder Your Wife AO 3 0

6am Sooty 3 0 6:20 Little Monstar 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 My Little Pony 3 0 7:10 N Looped Luc and Theo are best friends who become stuck in a time loop where every day is Monday, but they act as though it is Saturday. 0 7:35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles 0 8am What Now 10am Dog With A Blog 0 10:25 The Bachelor 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 2:30 Samantha Who? PGR 0 3pm Kevin From Work PGR 3:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Black-Ish Dre campaigns to be the new Santa at the office Christmas party. 0 6:30 The Middle 3 0

11:25 Q+A 3 Local political-affairs programme. 0 12:35 Attitude 3 0 1:05 Emmerdale AO 3 0 3:05 Marae PGR Maori current-affairs show. 2 3:35 Infomercials

11:35 M Underworld – Awakening AO 2012 Action.

Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy. 0 1:10 Gotham AO 3 0 2am Twisted PGR 3 2:50 Infomercials 3:20 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Secret Life Of The American Teenager 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

Hillary

8:30pm on One

BRAVO 6am Hoarders 3 6:45 Hoarders 3 7:30 Flipping Out 3 8:15 Flipping Out 3 9am Top Chef 3 9:45 Millionaire Matchmaker 3 10:35 Below Deck Mediterranean 3 11:30 The Real Housewives Of Auckland 3 12:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 3 1:30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 3 2:30 Made In Chelsea 3:30 Flipping Out 3 4:30 Flipping Out 3 5:30 Flipping Out 3 6:30 Top Chef 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker Patti must create love connections for a professional poker player and a divorced 40-year-old who is very close to his mother.

8:30 Dance Moms 9:30 Botched 10:30 I Am Cait AO 11:30 Snapped PGR 12:20 Infomercials 3

7pm Australian Survivor 0 8:40 M Lethal Weapon AO 1987 Action Thriller. 0 9:40 N The Exorcist Series based on William Blatty’s 1971 novel about a priest who performs exorcisms on demonic spirits.

0 10:35 N Dead Of Summer AO

How to Murder Your Wife 9:30pm on One

THE BOX 6am Piha Rescue PG 6:25 Piha Rescue PG 6:50 Piha Rescue PG 7:15 Border Security M 7:40 Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 8:10 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG 10:45 Tornado Hunters PG 11:10 Border Security M 11:35 Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 12:10 American Grit PG 1:05 Raw MV 3:50 Smackdown MV 5:35 Main Event MV 6:30 American Grit PG 7:30 Scorpion MV 8:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 10:30 Main Event MV 11:30 Scorpion MV

MONDAY

12:30 Graceland MVLC 1:20 Piha Rescue PG 1:45 Piha Rescue PG 2:10 Piha Rescue PG 2:35 Border Security M 3am Helicopter Heroes – Down Under PG 3:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:10 Scorpion MV

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6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am UCKG 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am The Nation 0 11:05 The Embassy PGR 3 0 11:35 Both Worlds 0 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR 1pm Motorsport – Australian V8 Utes 2pm Motorsport – NHRA DragRacing Series 3pm Motorsport – World Rallycross (HLS) 4pm Motorsport – World Endurance Championship (HLS) From America.

5pm Big Angry Fish Milan and Nathan fish around the Kari Kari peninsula, finding fish wherever they go, turning the day into a competition between them.

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm House Rules PGR 0 8:30 N Grand Designs New Zealand PGR 0 9:30 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show PGR 0 10:30 M Runner Runner AO 3 2013 Crime Thriller.

A college student goes to Costa Rica to confront the online gaming tycoon who cheated him out of his winnings. Ben Affleck. 0 12:20 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

6am Buying Alaska 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Matt Hayes’s 24 Hour Rod Race 8am Walking With The Great Apes 8:30 Auction Hunters 9am Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 9:30 Beverly Hills Pawn 10am American Pickers 11am Nick Knowles’s Original Features Noon Pete And Pio’s Kai Safari 12:30 Bondi Vet 1:30 Salvage Hunters 2:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 3:30 Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds – A Tale Of Three Cities 4pm Getaway 4:30 Jamie’s Food Escapes 5:30 Tiny House Nation 6:30 The Living Room

7pm Storage Wars PGR 7:30 Prime Planet – The Story Of China PGR Series written and presented by historian Michael Wood, exploring the history of the world’s oldest continuous state, from its ancient past to the present day. 0 8:30 The Case Of – Jonbenet Ramsey AO 0 10:30 Psych PGR

7pm The Laughing Samoans 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Semi-final – Storm v Raiders.

8:30 M Frank AO 3 2014 Comedy Drama.

Domhnall Gleeson, Michael Fassbender.

10:15 Te Kaea 3 2 10:45 Koroua 3

7:30 Heritage Rescue Brigid revisits the museums and heritage sites she helped during the series to see how they are getting on.

8:30 Jack Irish AO 9:45 The Jonathan Ross Show PGR Jonathan Ross chats with celebrity guests.

10:55 Getaway

11:30 Al’s Fish’n With Mates AO 3 Al takes on American fishing star Carter Andrews, confident that having the home advantage of fishing in Sydney Harbour is the key the contest.

Midnight Home Shopping

11:15 Closedown

11:30 Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple Midnight Secret Creatures Of Jao 12:30 Buying The Bayou 1am Jamie’s Food Escapes 2am Jack Irish AO 3am The Jonathan Ross Show PGR 4am Heritage Rescue 5am Tiny House Nation

MOVIES GREATS

8:10 Close Up – Johnny Depp PG 8:40 Paranormal Activity – The Ghost Dimension MVC 2015 Horror.

Chris Murray, Brit Shaw.

10:15 Avengers – Age Of Ultron MV 2015 Action.

Robert Downey jr, Mark Ruffalo.

12:35 Horrible Bosses 2 16VLS 2014 Comedy.

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis.

2:25 Insurgent MV 2016 Action. Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

4:25 Spy 16VLS 2015 Comedy.

Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne.

6:25 Terminator Genisys MVL 2015 Action. Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

8:30 Crimson Peak 16VLSC 2015 Drama. After a family tragedy, an aspiring author must choose between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of an outsider, and is taken to a house that breathes, bleeds, and remembers. Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska.

10:30 Unbroken MV 2014 Drama. Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson.

6:05 Jurassic Park 3 MV 2001 Adventure. Sam Neill, William H Macy. 7:35 The Whole Nine Yards MVLS 2000 Crime Comedy. Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry. 9:15 Children Of Men 16VL 2006 Drama.

Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine. 11:05 The Lost World – Jurassic Park PGV 1997 Sci-fi Adventure.

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite.

1:10 Hope Springs ML 2003 Comedy Romance. Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver.

2:40 The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 Fantasy.

Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom. 5:35 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy.

Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen.

8:30 The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King MV 2003 Fantasy. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen.

11:50 The Hangover 16LS 2009 Comedy. Bradley Cooper.

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10am Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 Talent show that gives random people the chance of winning up to $1000.

10:30 Aotearoa 3 11am Native Affairs 3 11:30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 12:30 Ahorangi Next Generation 1pm Finding Aroha PGR 3 1:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 2:30 Poitukohu – Nga Kura Tuarua 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Tangata Taumata Rau Kahurangi Maxwell tours through her home town, Ohinemutu, with local, Rawiri Waru, to talk about Ngati Whakaue and his musical talents.

MOVIES PREMIERE

12:45 The Exorcism Of Molly Hartley 16VLSC 2015 Horror. Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa. 2:20 Inherent Vice 16LSC 2015 Crime.

Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin.

4:45 Close Up – Tom Cruise PG 5:15 Insurgent MV 2016 Action. Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

MAORI

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

Noon Mayday PGR 3 Varig Flight 254 disappears without a trace over the jungles of Brazil.

1pm Elementary PGR 3 2pm Shearing Gang PGR 3 0 2:30 Coastwatch Oz PGR 3 3pm Storage Wars – Canada PGR 3 3:30 Mainfreight Rugby 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm New Zealand From Above 3 A bird’s-eye view of the Southern Alps and the alpine landscape carved by glaciers, the 1860s gold rush, and the Pinot Noir now produced in the region. 0

1:30 The Fighter 16VLSC 2010 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale. 3:25 Directors – Jay Roach PG 4am The Lost World – Jurassic Park PGV 1997 Sci-fi Adventure.

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite.

SKY SPORT 1 7am Cricket – International (HLS) India v Blackcaps – First Test, Day Three.

7:30 Sky Sport Select 8am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Saturday Highlights.

8:30 Rugby – Women’s NPC (RPL) Semi-final.

10:30 Marathon – Sydney (HLS) 11:30 Mainfreight Rugby 12:30 Sky Sports UK News 1pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Counties Manukau v Waikato.

1:30 World Rugby 2pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Saturday Highlights.

2:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup North Harbour v Southland.

4:30 L Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Bay of Plenty v Auckland.

6:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Counties Manukau v Waikato.

7pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Northland v Wellington.

7:30 Fox Sports News 8pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Sunday Highlights.

8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) North Harbour v Southland.

MONDAY

Midnight Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Bay of Plenty v Auckland. 2am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Storm v Raiders. 4am Marathon – Sydney (HLS)

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SKY SPORT 2 6am Fox Sports News 8am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Storm v Raiders.

8:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sharks v Cowboys.

9am The Ultimate Fighter 10am Rugby League – NRL (RPL) Storm v Raiders.

Noon Rugby League – Super League (RPL) Qualifying 8s – Hull KR v Huddersfield Giants. 2pm L Rugby League – National Premiership Wellington v Counties. 4pm L Rugby League – National Premiership Canterbury v Akarana. 6pm Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Storm v Raiders. 6:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sharks v Cowboys.

7pm L Rugby League – NSW Cup Final – Mounties v Illawarra. 9:15 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Saturday Highlights.

9:45 Marathon – Sydney (HLS) 10:15 #SkySpeed 11:05 L Motorsport – Moto Grand Prix Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon Race.

MONDAY 2:05 World Rugby 2:30 Rugby Nation 3:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Sunday Highlights.

4am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Saturday Highlights.

4:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Storm v Raiders.

5am Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Sharks v Cowboys.

5:30 Cricket – International (HLS) India v Blackcaps – First Test, Day Four.

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DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG Hook, Line and Printer.

6:30 MythBusters PG Underwater Car. 7:30 MythBusters PG Hindenburg Mystery.

8:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:25 Treehouse Masters PG 10:20 Deadliest Catch PG Settling the Score. 11:15 The Last Alaskans M No Man’s Land. 12:10 The Last Alaskans M The Hunted.

1:05 The Last Alaskans M Winter is Coming. 2pm The Last Alaskans M Everything is Hungry. 2:55 The Last Alaskans M The Last Sunset.

3:50 The Last Alaskans M Into the Darkness.

4:45 The Last Alaskans M Nothing Lasts Forever.

5:40 The Last Alaskans M The End of Darkness.

6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Churchill’s Toyshop PG 8:30 World’s Biggest Shipbuilders PG Launch.

9:30 Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG Mysteries Of The Subconscious.

10:30 Treehouse Masters PG 11:30 MythBusters PG Video Games Special.

MONDAY 12:30 You Have Been Warned M 1:25 Dirty Jobs PG 2:20 Auction Hunters 2:45 Auction Hunters PG 3:15 Dirty Jobs PG 4:10 Treehouse Masters PG 5:05 MythBusters PG

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Family Notices 38 Ashburton Guardian ENGAGEMENTS GIBB - GILCHRIST – Rosslyn and Neville Gibb, along with Lou Gilchrist and Norman Dalley (Roxburgh) and Peter Gilchrist (Dunedin), are proud to announce the engagement of Michael and Sherri at Maggiore, Italian lakes.

DEATHS CHURCH, Gordon James (Gordie) – On September 22, 2016 peacefully at home, aged 77 years. Dearly loved husband of Elizabeth (Liz), loved and devoted father and father-inlaw of Aaron, Craig and Sue, Campbell and Amanda, and Nathan and Dimity, amazing grandad of Joanna, Julia, Chloe; Trinity, and Keelia.

Messages may be addressed to The Family of the late Gordon Church, c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545.

The funeral service for Gordie will be held in our AvonPark Chapel, corner Kerrs and Pages Roads, Linwood, Christchurch, on THURSDAY, September 29 at 10.30am followed by interment in Memorial Park cemetery.

MAJOR, Gweneth (Gwen) – Died in Auckland May 27, 2016 aged 98. Wife of the late Tom and mother/mother in law of Murray and Sharon, Grant and Jill, Ross and Kay and Lloyd and Jen. Prior to moving to Auckland she had lived in Redcliffs, Ashburton and Hinds. The interment of Mum’s ashes and a graveside acknowledgement of Mum’s life will be held at 11.30am on SATURDAY, October 1, in the Returned Services section of Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch.

Patersons

CAWTE, Mick – 10 years have now passed.

Remembered with love always.

FOWLER, Melville Wayne – Funeral Services 17.5.1950 – 18.9.2016 CKNOWLEDGEMENTS Peacefully at Hawkes Bay and Ashburton A DOOLAN, Kevin Patrick Hospital. Loved husband of the late Hazel and loved Crematorium Ltd (KP) – Alma, Micky, Carla, Shane, father and father-in-law of Office and Chapel John, James and their Craig and Hesty, Mark, and Sharon. Grandad of Sarah Corner East & Cox families wish to sincerely and Matthew. Dearly loved Streets, Ashburton thank you all for the love and support following the sad loss foster son of the late Eunice of a loved husband, father, and Bill Ross and loved foster father in law, grandfather brother of Philip (deceased), and great grandfather. Your Irwin, Judy, and Robbie. A cards, phone calls, flowers, service to celebrate the life of and gifts of food were very Wayne will be held in the St much appreciated and were a Stephen’s Anglican Parish great comfort during this time.

Centre, 1 Tancred Street, A special thank you to the MID CANTERBURY Ashburton on WEDNESDAY, FUNERAL SERVICES District Nurses, Father Gray, September 28, 2016 at Father Shannahan, Father 1.00pm. In lieu of flowers Galbraith’s provide choice! Valloppallil and all those who donations to the South We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Galbraith’s gave of their time to help the celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, Canterbury Hospice can be and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. provide choice! family, and Kevin to stay at made at the service.

We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to home which was his wish. reflect their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and Messages to The Fowler Call us on your family.

Nicole, Sasha, and young family, 22 Sydney Terrace, Call us on 308 3980 James, we are so proud of Takapau, Central Hawkesor call in and 308 visit 3980 our new premises at the way you all stepped up Bay. or 246 callHavelock in andStreet visit with your time and loving care our new premises at of your Grandad. Alma is Eion McKinnon sorry she missed seeing you Rob Cope-Williams all at Kevin’s farewell but 246 Havelock thank you for being there for Street all of her family.

Official Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm May he rest in peace.

McNALLY, Bruce Donn – FUNERAL It is with great sadness that Janet announces the sudden FURNISHERS passing of Bruce, September MASTER 21, 2016. Aged 73 years. MONUMENTAL MASON Cherished father and fatherin-law of Bethany McNally, E.B. CARTER LTD and Sarah and Simon For all your memorial Chamberlain. Special grandy requirements to Arava, Cassie, Daniel, and New headstones and designs Michael. Cherished son of the Renovations, late Len and Betty McNally.

Additional inscriptions, Dear friend and son-in-law of Cleaning and Concrete work Jean Kingan. Dearest brother Carried out by qualified of Pauline McNally, and tradesmen.

Jennifer and Bob Brasell. 620 East Street Ashburton Loved brother-in-law of David Ph/Fax 308 5369 and Donna, Murray and or 0274 357 974 Annette, and Russell and ebcarter@xtra.co.nz Annette Kingan. Loved uncle NZMMMA Member to all his nieces and nephews. Messages to Guardian McNally family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of Classifieds flowers donations to the Neurological Foundation 307 7900 would be appreciated and may be left at the service.

Remembering with love all the good times.

A short service to celebrate Bruce’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on TUESDAY, September 27, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private cremation.

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BOX, Danny – 24.10.1973 - 24.09.1993 When I was just a child half-grown the world seemed vast to me, I knew Life and Death and yet; life and death weren’t known by me.

The endless days of summer taught not life’s brevity the family hearth a blanket that hid winters severity.

I dreamed my childhood dreams and some became reality, while others fell beside the way, lost, Please note all late death or forgotten by me, notices or notices sent Then life came knocking outside ordinary office hours at my door, must be emailed to: deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz looked upon me with disdain, knocked me down to ensure publication. then picked me up then To place an office during knocked me down again. office hours please contact I gained, I lost, us on 03 307 7900 I gained once more for more information it’s said strength comes out of pain, Any queries I’m older, wiser, sadder, please contact I no longer believe 0800 that old refrain.

ASHBURTON For now the outside (0800-274-287) world is small, my inner world immense, now life and death are known by me, I weep for innocence.

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

DEATHS

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Midnight Tonight

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gitata

TIMARU

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SUN PROTECTION ALERT

10:05 – 2:40 AM

PM

PROTECTION REQUIRED Even on cloudy days Data provided by NIWA

Waimate

NZ Situation

Wind km/h less than 30 fine

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers 30 to 59

fog

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

Canterbury Plains

rain

snow

hail

60 plus

NZ Today

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAY

FZL: About 2200m

Mainly fine, apart from morning cloud, and isolated afternoon and evening showers possible. Winds at 1000m and 2000m: Light.

Mostly cloudy, with patchy drizzle, becoming confined to the coast for a time in the afternoon. Light winds.

TOMORROW

TOMORROW

FZL: 1800m

Rain becoming widespread in the morning.

Snow down to 1100 metres at first.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: NE 25 km/h.

Rain developing in the morning, then becoming scattered from afternoon.

Northeasterlies developing.

MONDAY

MONDAY

Mostly cloudy, with a few showers.

Northeasterlies.

Scattered rain, easing to the odd shower later. Northeasterlies.

TUESDAY

TUESDAY

High cloud with a few spots of rain.

Northeasterlies dying out.

Mostly cloudy, with a few showers.

Northeasterlies.

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Scattered rain or showers, mainly about the eastern hills. Easterlies developing.

Rain with easterly winds.

World Weather

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

showers fine rain cloudy fine showers fine thunder fine fine fine thunder fine showers cloudy

Frankfurt Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi

11 9 25 12 13 22 24 27 4 27 25 25 30 11 13

cloudy cloudy fine showers showers showers rain fine thunder cloudy fine fine showers rain fine

23 21 20 30 28 32 32 26 33 23 32 28 20 11 31

10 10 9 26 24 23 24 8 25 9 17 14 10 7 18

New York Y Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

fine fine showers rain cloudy fine fine thunder cloudy fine cloudy fine cloudy fine cloudy

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

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Saturday 9 noon 3

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9 pm am 3

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Sunday 9 noon 3

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9 pm am 3

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9 noon 3

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10:12 4:29 10:44 5:54 12:15 6:33 12:44 6:53 1:14 7:30 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

Rise 6:19 am Set 6:32 pm

Good

Good fishing

Rise 7:17 am Set 7:33 pm

Good

Rise 1:50 am Set 11:40 am

Good fishing

Good

9 Oct www.ofu.co.nz

Good fishing Rise 4:30 am Set 2:40 pm

First quarter

1:13 pm

©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

Rise 7:15 am Set 7:34 pm

Rise 3:44 am Set 1:39 pm

New moon

1 Oct

rain

Hamilton

rain

Napier

cloudy

Full moon

5:35 pm

16 Oct 5:25 pm

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

17 12 7 23 15 14 17 25 8 13 25 21 21 17 10

17 13 18 11 14 10 17 9 14 9 14 9 14 7 16 9 13 7 12 7 15 4 13 8 13 4

Palmerston North fine Wellington

cloudy

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

cloudy

Greymouth

fine

Christchurch

cloudy

Timaru

cloudy

Queenstown

fine

Dunedin

cloudy

Invercargill

fine

River Levels

cumecs

1.95 nc

Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:05 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 153.8 Nth Ashburton at 12:10 pm, yesterday

8.48

Sth Ashburton at 12:10 pm, yesterday

6.63 nc

Rangitata Klondyke at 4:00 pm, yesterday

62.6

Waitaki Kurow at 12:05 pm, yesterday

425.1

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

Monday

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overnight max low

Auckland

Forecasts for today

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Saturday, 24 September 2016

A trough lies slow moving over the upper North Island throughout the weekend until Wednesday, and a moist northeast flow persists over New Zealand during the period.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 9.9 11.4 Max to 4pm 5.7 Minimum 6.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm September to date 19.6 Avg Sep to date 38 2016 to date 420.4 500 Avg year to date Wind km/h E 11 At 4pm Strongest gust E 17 Time of gust 3:58pm

to 4pm yesterday

Methven

Christchurch Airport

Timaru Airport

10.1 10.7 7.2 –

11.2 13.3 7.1 7.8

10.9 11.6 8.3 –

0.0 21.3 – 840.6 –

0.0 32.8 34 402.2 476

0.0 3.6 31 348.2 359

SE 9 – –

E 15 E 19 3:32pm

E7 E 15 2:05pm

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Puzzles

Puzzles and horoscopes www.guardianonline.co.nz Cryptic crossword

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Simon Shuker’s CodeCracker

ACROSS 1. The sort of muscle a snake has (11) 7. By working the treadle, changed it (7) 9. Has the skill to remove the top of the wire (4) 11. The way to intone Gregorian plainsong (5) 12. Forcibly take a bit of melody (6) 14. Ability to perceive price-change with pence one brought about (11) 18. A patch of fine prose may be Tyrian (6) 20. Sort of shark one will treat with care and economy (5) 22. Be wildly enthusiastic as to the party (4) 23. This song, the cradle of rock music? (7) 24. Having a lame air, turn it blue (11) DOWN 2. Tag roué might acquire for a gross offence (7) 3. One is cheated of this horseback journey one is taken for (4) 4. Gold piece a spacecraft may be in (5) 5. A marriage may be a game, to some (5) 6. Sort of alcohol shortly represented in the manuscript (5) 8. One lecture that could be in the bag (8) 10. The rifle Ann used for it was diabolical (8) 13. An agent finishes his apprenticeship early (3) 15. Its premature ringing down could ruin act (7) 16. Have fun with an athletic pursuit (5) 17. Barely a loss is made by this precious stone (5) 19. Be worthy of comparison with viral disorder (5) 21. It is a noisy closure to the winning of all the tricks (4)

WordBuilder

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

Quick crossword 1

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

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TODAY’S GOALS: Good – 7 Excellent – 9 Amazing – 13

Previous solution: ATOMISER

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ACROSS 1. State (7) 5. Conceals (5) 8. Highly regarded (4,7,2) 9. Part of an aeon (3) 10. Conversation (9) 12. Swells (6) 13. Criminals (6) 15. Approaches (5,4) 16. Oxygen (3) 18. Quibbling over details (4-9) 20. Horse-drawn cart (5) 21. News (7)

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You are sensitive, but not a drama queen or king. You don’t need everyone’s attention when something unusual happens. A friend does need this kind of attention now, you’re generous to give it.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): A friend of a friend reaches out. Is there a romantic tinge to the gesture? It’s unclear, but your feeling of warmth at this do-gooder is well-founded.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The pressure is on. You’d like to show them all what you can do, but the moment isn’t right, the performance is under-rehearsed. You’ll have your time. Until then, relax.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Though it was an annoying surprise, your ability to meet that sudden need is a testament to your problem-solving prowess. You notice; you help. It’s all in the life of a day.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You wear your mood or better.

If you’re not quite feeling sunshine, you’ll opt for the optimistic choice and hope that it pushes you into the zone. That’s what will work today.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): If you have to go to great lengths to prove your worth to someone, maybe that person isn’t right for you. It would be better if you were with someone who could see and appreciate you “as is.”

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): If everyone can see the problem, and no one wants to be the one to fix it, that’s the kind of job that has your name written all over it. You do have special talents, after all.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Shouldn’t your relationship be nearly the same in private as in public?

Consider the differences between these two scenarios, and fix what needs fixing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): If you know what you need to do, and yet you still don’t want to do it, this may not be your fault.

Motivations are low when the goals aren’t good enough. Make it juicier.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): This is the maximum seriousness level. Now it’s time to start walking backward to the silly zone. Having trouble? Seek a flirty, funny influence to get you back to your usual buoyant self.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You can’t change others, but you can change what you think of them – or that you think of them at all. Now it will be easier for you to disengage with negative influences.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Keep going. Cross the finish line. This is important. Get your award, and drink the complimentary water, too. These rituals mean something. Don’t rob yourself of the ending.

Previous Cryptic solution

Across 1. Suspect 5. March 8. Emperor 9. Litre 10. Provident 12. Ode 13. Pagan 17. Apt 19. Everybody 21. Rebus 22. Bespoke 24. Tread 25. Wrestle Down 1. Sleepy 2. Suppose 3. Ear 4. Terse 5. Militancy 6. Ratio 7. Heeled 11. Impressed 14. Provost 15. Carrot 16. Pyrene 18. Table 20. Elbow 23. Sue

Previous Quick solution

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Ashburton Guardian

Sudoku

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Previous solution: ale, ales, ass, lase, lases, lass, lea, leas, less, sal, sale, sales, sals, sea, seal, seals, seas.

Across 1. Dims 3. Spell out 9. Candour 10. Naive 11. Inarticulate 13. Exhume 15. Chosen 17. Faint-hearted 20. Edict 21. Entreat 22. Heredity 23. Feud Down 1. Deceives 2. Mania 4. Piracy 5. Lonely hearts 6. Opiates 7. Ties 8. Contaminated 12. Unedited 14. Heavier 16. Threat 18. Theme 19. Mesh

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

DOWN 1. Drench (5) 2. Cooperating (13) 3. Poison remedies (9) 4. Self-regard (6) 5. Embrace (3) 6. Worsening (13) 7. Endures (7) 11. Praised more than is deserved (9) 12. Poor display (3,4) 14. Religious fanatic (6) 17. Rants (5) 19. Transgress (3)

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