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CD to test phone alert system

BY SUE NEWMAN

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If your cellphone issues a piercing shriek tomorrow between 6pm and 7pm and you receive a message alerting you to a civil defence emergency – don’t panic, it’s simply a test.

The message is the first live, nationwide test of a new emergency mobile alert, one that will be used in the future to let people know if their life, health or property may be at risk in an emergency situation.

While tomorrow’s test will be nationwide to compatible cellphones, in a real emergency alerts will only be sent to phones in the geographical area affected by the emergency.

The new mobile phone alert will be an additional warning channel in emergencies and will not replace radio, television, social media or websites or the natural

warning signs of emergencies such as a tsunami. Ahead of tomorrow’s test, cellphone owners can check whether or not their device is capable of receiving the warning at www.civildefence.govt.nz. Phones

need to be on the most up-to-date operating system.

The alert will look different on different phones and you can see what to expect on your phone’s screen by checking the civil de-

fence website. The message you receive should have the word TEST in it. If you receive an alert containing this word then there is nothing further you need to do.

Once the nationwide test is com-

pleted, the alert system will go live and if you receive an emergency mobile alert you should take the message seriously and follow the instructions.

The alerts use cell broadcast technology so there is no need to sign up or download an app. Emergency mobile alerts use a dedicated signal so they will be more reliable in an emergency when mobile phone and internet traffic could overload the network.

It doesn’t matter which network you are on, any capable phone entering the targeted emergency area during the broadcast period will receive an alert.

Emergency mobile alert messages can only be sent by the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management, Civil Defence Emergency Management groups, NZ Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Ministry of Health and Ministry for Primary Industries.

Fonterra walking the sustainability path

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Environmental sustainability might not be words that are automatically associated with the dairy industry but they are now the by words dairy giants such as Fonterra live by says the organisation’s relationship manager James Caygill.

And that sustainability drive means that the dairy giant’s future growth, anticipated to be about 2 per cent a year, will come from better farming practices rather than more dairy conversions and more cows, Caygill told Ashburton District councillors this week.

The day of mass conversions had gone and so too had growth in dairy herd sizes, he said.

There were various ways to minimise the inevitable impact of this growth on districts such as Ashburton, particularly on roads that would handle greater traffic volumes, Caygill said.

These could include better

driving of fleet vehicles or utilising a programme currently used in Southland where Fonterra became a road monitoring agency for the council. This would see trucks kitted out with equipment that would monitor bumps and

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the farm gate. We started our sustainability journey with very little experience. We knew a farm’s boundary and that was it.”

Accepting it had a social responsibility came with the dairy business. Caygill said Fonterra

Currently Fonterra handles around 22 billion litres of milk a year; by 2025 this is planned to increase to 30 billion.

“Our strategy is based on three Vs – volume, value and velocity.

We want to increase the volume

We started our sustainability journey with very little experience

changes in road surfaces.

“This would make us your ears and your eyes and it’s something we should look at expanding beyond Southland.”

Fonterra had learned huge environmental lessons since the 2003 Dirty Dairying report, he said.

“It’s fair to say we were caught flat-footed and we hadn’t focused enough on what went on behind

had introduced a complex and comprehensive mapping system that saw every water course recorded and a range of other measures and data on every supplier farm recorded.

Fonterra staff walked every farm to build the database, he said. “100 per cent of waterways on Fonterra farms will be fenced

by January. If they’re not, we’ll stop collecting milk.”

of milk we move in higher value products with greater speed or velocity.”

And key in that strategy is growing what is now its most lucrative product stream, the service industry. “Foodservice is our star right now, the dairy product we sell to restaurants,” Caygill said.

There were five ‘hero’ products in that category – sheep butter, culinary cream, whipping cream,

cream cheese and quick-frozen, super-stretchy mozzarella.

New Zealand was a small player in world milk production, but unlike most other countries where consumption was largely home based, New Zealand moved vast quantities of product overseas.

“We consume about 5 per cent of milk grown here, the rest goes into countries without a strong milk production industry.”

Internationally, New Zealand milk products fed 1 billion people, Caygill said.

Main markets for Fonterra are Chile, Brazil, China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and at home.

Ashburton was the largest single producer district in the South Island with just over 300 Fonterra farmers and just under 250,000 cows producing more than 112 million kilograms of milksolids a year.

“You sit between two plants at Clandeboye and Darfield so you’re vital.”

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88-year-old jumping for charity

By Colin Williscroft

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George Crack with the bike he rode the length of the country on in 1971.

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Three years after becoming the oldest person to jump out of a plane with Skydiving Kiwis, George Crack, 88, is going to give it another go.

This time, however, it’s to raise money for the Cancer Society.

Today at 11am George will head up into the sky above the Ashburton District as part of the Cancer Society’s Jump for Cancer.

Those who signed up for the campaign had to raise a minimum of $800 for the opportunity to take part in what’s been described as the ultimate adrenaline rush, complete with stunning views, while supporting a cause close to the hearts of many Kiwis.

For George, that’s definitely the case.

When George’s grandson was seven he was diagnosed with cancer around his glands. He was only given a 25 per cent of surviving, but that young boy is now 29 and living in Christchurch, having survived his ordeal thanks to, among other things, developments in chemotherapy and bone marrow treatments around that time.

“And at that age you don’t realise how serious things are,” George said.

That same grandson still puts into Canteen and he recently gave George $300 towards his Jump for Cancer fundraising.

George played down what he will do this morning.

“It’s not a great effort to do what I’m doing. It will be about 25 minutes going up and six minutes coming down.”

However, it turns out he has quite a history of raising funds for others.

In 1971 he rode a bicycle from Cape Reinga to Bluff, raising more than $6000, quite a tidy sum in those days, for a swimming pool on Stewart Island.

In doing so the then 46-yearold was the first person to ride a bike over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, as authorities had to close a lane off for him to make the trip over the Waitemata Harbour.

The whole journey down country took 23 days, but it wasn’t easy going, especially early on.

“I hadn’t been on a bike for 20 years and I hadn’t done any training, so I was a bit poorish at the start.”

He’s still got the bike, a Raleigh three-speed, and in the last four or five years he’s done a couple of rides on it to raise money for prostate cancer research, one from Mount Cook to Oamaru, and another from Rolleston to Hinds.

The former publican, who has run hotels in places as far-flung as Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands, was also involved in efforts to raise money for a new grandstand, complete with squash courts, at the racecourse on the Chathams.

George reckons he’s been lucky in life, blessed with many things, including his family, but there’s something else that might explain why he’s so keen to help other people and causes.

When he was living and working on Stewart Island he and an-

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he was out hunting, saw what was going on and acted quickly.

“He just happened to be there and pulled me out. It was a miracle. I got 46 years of extra life.”

Years he hasn’t wasted.

George is extremely grateful for all those who have supported his latest fundraising effort, including his friends at the Hampstead Bowling Club.

When he was at the club last Sunday afternoon, the club and bowlers chipped in with more than $350.

“It was a great gift,” he said. “I got pretty emotional and couldn’t speak. Someone else had to thank them for me.

“I came home and cried like a bloody big kid because of the goodness of people.”

Given he’s jumped with Skydiving Kiwis before, George has a pretty good idea of what to expect when he goes up today.

“I’m looking forward to it. Not

He said it was the chute opening. ‘Christ,’ I said, ‘I thought that was up long ago’

other man went out floundering one morning.

Having travelled to their fishing spot by launch they then got into a dinghy they had towed behind them, to set their net.

Unfortunately, for one reason or another, the dinghy became swamped, and both men ended up in the water.

George said his swimming ability was restricted to little more than dog paddle, and he and his friend used a plastic container they had brought along to put their catch in, to stay afloat.

But they soon lost hold of the container and staying afloat proved to be too much for the other man, who drowned.

George thought the same fate awaited him and, just when he thought it was all over, the local policeman, who was off duty at the time and only in the area because

worried at all.”

Like his last jump, it will be captured on video.

“The expression on your face doesn’t look very good sometimes,” he said, smiling.

“I remember going down last time and then all of a sudden there was an enormous jerk and I said to (his tandem skydiving companion) ‘what was that?’

“He said it was the chute opening. ‘Christ,’ I said, ‘I thought that was up long ago’.”

Although unsure just how much he has raised in his latest fundraising effort, George is sure it’s well over the target of $800.

However, it’s not too late for members of the public to contribute.

There’s an account at NBS in Ashburton under “G Crack – Skydive” that will be open until Tuesday.

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Hearing assn celebrates 60 years The Ashburton Hearing Association celebrated its 60th anniversary yesterday with a luncheon at the Senior Centre.

And after more than half a century of existence, the association is still going strong – a fact that those who established it in November of 1957 as a sub-branch of the Christchurch Centre of the NZ Hard of Hearing League would be proud of.

“They set three aims for the new body,” Russell Anstiss, current president, said.

“To teach lip reading, to provide a full social life for their members and to help with the proper and most effective use of hearing aids.

“Lip reading and body language are still important skills for today’s hearing-impaired people, but the more rudimentary nature of hearing aids back then meant provision of proper tuition in lip reading was an essential service in helping the hearing-afflicted.

“For many, it was the only way to break down the barriers to communication and involvement.”

Initially two tutors travelled by train from Christchurch on Thursdays.

Over the next 30 years or so the numbers of tutors and students fluctuated, peaking at 150

Left – Maree Chambers (left), Dawn Templeton and Heather Kaye cut the cake at yesterday’s 60th anniversary celebrations for the Ashburton Hearing Association.

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in 1975/76 with a dedicated fulltime tutor. However, by 1985, the emphasis on lip reading shifted and rehabilitation and that role

was eventually taken over first by the National Foundation for the Deaf and later by Life Unlimited.

An equally important theme

still continuing is the provision of social activities that gives members opportunities to mingle and enjoy the company of other peo-

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Yesterday’s celebration coincided with the association’s usual pre-Christmas luncheon with a good group in attendance.

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Waireka Croquet Club members are looking ahead to the day their five playing greens become six.

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Croquet club to spread its wings

By Sue Newman

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They might not be talking dollars, but the Waireka Croquet Club is definitely talking expansion.

Come the end of January, players will be off their Ashburton Domain greens and heading to Methven and Allenton for matches while contractors undertake a major project that will see existing greens refurbished and playing surfaces extended towards Grigg Street.

Publicity officer Raylene Phillips said the addition of a new playing green will see the club with six full-size playing surfaces that will allow it to hold national events. Currently it has five playing greens with three lawns that overlap.

The development will leave the clubhouse untouched, but player shelters will have to be lifted and relocated. The irrigation system will also be re-laid.

With the growth in popularity of golf croquet, the club’s membership was growing and extra greens were needed to ensure the

needs of both association croquet and golf croquet members could be accommodated, Phillips said.

The entire playing area will be lasered to ensure perfect levels and, while the new green will need to be developed, the existing lawns will just be resurfaced. The work is likely to take less than a week, but players won’t be back on home turf until September, she said.

While she’s keeping the all-up cost of the work under wraps, Phillips said this will be covered by grants and from the club’s own funds.

The extension of the croquet lawns fall well within the area designated for croquet, Ashburton Council open spaces manager David Askin said.

While one or two smaller trees will be moved and the nearby weather station will also need to be relocated, the overall impact on the domain itself will be minimal, he said. “They approached us and we aerial mapped the contours to see how we could extend the lawns.”

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Mid Canterbury’s Jo Luxton grew up quickly when at the age of 13 her family went through a traumatic separation due to illness. It was just one of many challenges which have made her life an ordinary one, she says, and one that has helped guide her in her new role as a Member of Parliament. The 44-year-old, who once aspired to being a hairdresser, talks to Susan Sandys.

List MP Jo Luxton catches up on some of her Parliamentary duties at home at Hinds.

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mazing, exciting, overwhelming, a whirlwind, and a real rollercoaster of emotions.

That’s how Mid Canterbury’s Jo Luxton describes the past two months.

Following General Election 2017 in September, the Hinds preschool owner became a Member of Parliament.

Jo is the eldest of three daughters to Jim and Margaret Thompson and mainly grew up in Gisborne.

“I had a happy upbringing,” she said as part of her moving maiden speech in Parliament this month.

And she did. But it was an upbringing marred by the traumatic experience of her mother becoming ill when Jo was 13.

Margaret could not keep food

down and Jo had to help care for her. Doctors could not find the source of the problem and decided that Margaret’s inability to eat was psychological, and thus sent her to a mental health hospital. This meant the girls – Jo and her 10-year-old Down Syndrome sister Theresa and her seven-year-old sister Melissa – had to be cared for elsewhere, and Jo ended up with an aunt in Rotorua.

Thankfully doctors soon discovered the illness was due to a closure of the oesophagus and they were able to treat it and send Margaret home. The family was reunited.

Luxton dedicated her maiden speech to her mum and became teary-eyed towards the end when she acknowledged her bravery and determination.

“I knew I would get emotional when I talked about mum and my family because I got emotional when I wrote it,” Jo said.

Margaret’s health issues were to continue throughout her life, and three years ago she was diagnosed with heart failure as a result of leukaemia treatment she received in the 1990s. She was given just three months to live, but is still battling on and will be 65 next month.

“She’s very, very excited to be able to get the pension,” Jo said.

The family is now mostly Canterbury based. Margaret, who remarried after she and Jim separated, today lives in Christchurch, while Theresa lives in Ashburton and Jo is her legal guardian.

Despite the traumatic experience of her early teens and more

challenges which followed, Jo avoids any description of her life having been tough.

“I just think I have had an ordinary life,” she said. “I think everything you do experience, good or bad, makes you who you are.”

And her experiences did not so much feed into her political aspirations, as give her a “huge empathy” for people.

“I don’t think you can judge someone because of the situation they are in, you never know the background of that situation.”

After undertaking school certificate in Gisborne, Jo decided school was not for her and left Lytton High part way through Year 12. She dreamed of being a hairdresser and worked in a local salon. But she was made redun-

dant after a year and spent some time on the dole and picking kiwifruit in Te Puke.

She married first husband Jason and at the age of 20 had son Levi. He is today 24 years old, big brother to Jo’s other two children of 22-year-old Kelsey and 13-year-old Matthew. Her husband, builder Matt Luxton, has two sons, 25-year-old Oliver and 22-year-old Cameron, and the couple recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary.

“We were lucky the children all got on well. I don’t think there’s ever been any tiffies between any of them,” Jo said.

The family’s base is at Hinds, where Matt built their home about six years ago, next door to Jo’s Headstart Early Learning Centre which she established in 2008. Opening the business,

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Jo Luxton, with husband Matthew Luxton and three of their five children (from left) Matthew, Kelsey and Levi (far right) on election night.

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which is today a living wage employer, and has nine staff, represented a significant milestone for a single mum who worked her way up through early childhood, after once earning $20 cleaning a playcentre three days per week.

One vivid memory from her single mum days was going into Winz and asking for a small loan so she could pay off some bills.

“I thought I could pay it back at maybe $5 or $10 per week.

The person I dealt with just laughed at me and said ‘What do you think we are, a bank?’ I will never ever forget that, it was hard enough going in there and asking, and then to be treated like that, it was just terrible,” she said.

If going from a single mum to a business owner was a big step, going from standing as a candi-

date in Rangitata to becoming a Member of Parliament was huge.

Jo admits that when first anticipating the political journey she would be taking, she had not really thought this would be the outcome.

Achieving a high placing on Labour’s list may have been the first inkling, but it was not until she received a congratulatory text from senior whip Kris Faafoi as her election night party was coming to a close, that she really believed it.

The text resulted in an excited reception, first from Jo as she jumped up and yelled excitedly, then from her family and friends still remaining at the party, who cheered and clapped.

“To be in Parliament, it’s a huge privilege, I’m really happy with the outcome,” she said.

Getting there has not been without its moments. She recalled the unpopularity of Labour’s proposed water levy resulting in personal abuse being hurled at her in the street during the campaign period.

While she lost to National candidate Andrew Falloon in winning the Rangitata electorate, she is a List MP, and her goal is to “watch and listen and learn as much as I can”. She has not given any thought to further political aspirations at this stage, although is pleased party administrators have approved her request to open an electorate office. They have deemed this will be in Timaru and Jo is currently looking for office space.

On election night she was pleased with having dramatically reduced National’s candidate

majority in the electorate and said she was determined to win the electorate next time around.

Today she still thinks this is possible, and will be aiming to do this, but her main goal will be continuing to increase the party vote.

Jo has her own office in Bowen House and flies out of Timaru Airport to Wellington each Monday night during Parliament’s sitting weeks. She was living out of a suitcase to start with but now rents a place in the capital.

Parliament sits 8.30am to 10pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and 8.30am to 6pm on Thursdays, and Jo returns to her Mid Canterbury home on a Thursday night.

She has yet to meet Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, but has had a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Jacinda

Adern. One of the aims of the meeting was to gain an understanding of select committee interests. Jo has since been put on the Education and Workforce Select Committee, chaired by National’s Sarah Dowie, and the Primary Production Select Committee, of which she is deputy chairwoman. The Primary Production Select Committee is chaired by National’s David Bennett.

Of all the Parliamentary duties Jo has now, she is most looking forward to her select committee work. After all, politics is about making a difference and this will be where politicians from parties across Parliament put their mind to many of the country’s pressing issues.

“It’s working collegially, it’s the real nuts and bolts of stuff,” she

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Assisting disabled people to improve their lives Aspire Canterbury is a notfor-profit community-focused organisation committed to meeting the needs of older people and disabled people with mobility issues. Their aim is to assist people in making informed decisions about accessing services or choosing products that will assist them in their daily lives.

Can we help you or someone you support?

Disability Information Service – a one-stop information service which offers unbiased advice to help people navigate their way to organisations or services that can provide them with support or advice.

Aspire Canterbury Shop – Shop online or call in to our shop at 314 Worcester Street

and view our range of easierliving products. We also hire out wheelchairs, ramps and walkers.

Mobile service – Fun interactive presentations of our information, services and easier-living equipment. We

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To book our presenter to speak to your group call Richard at numbers

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ADVERTISING FEATURE Saturday, November 25, 2017 Ashburton Guardian

Motorhome in need of freshening up?

Just like your house, after time your motorhome will start to look tired or dated.

We will help you update, modernise or just refresh the look of parts or all of your motorhome. Lifestyle Motorhomes has many years’ experience building, refurbishing and repairing RVs. From updating window catches to removing and replacing awnings, we’ll upholster seats, replace water heater systems, fit new floor coverings, complete roof upholstery or replace the complete roof.

We refurbish campervans inside or outside, including cooking options, repairing rotten or squeaky floors and insulate walls. If it needs updating, improving or replacing, we’ll do it all.

Common refurbishments currently include improving

the storage options, updating bench tops, cupboards and re-upholstering the squabs to freshen up the look.

All your engineering needs are covered at Lifestyle Motorhomes. Lifestyle Motorhomes offers a range of services, the most common

services are mounting bike racks, installing that extra storage locker, plus installations of grey (sink and shower), black (toilet) and fresh water tanks, including all plumbing and pump connections.

The most common

electrical jobs Lifestyle Motorhomes undertakes are electrical warrants, upgrading to LED lighting, upgrade American and UK vehicle wiring to NZ Standards, solar panel with controller installs, automatic and manual satellite dishes, TV and sound systems, 230 and 12-volt motorhome wiring and inverters to keep your home comforts operating while you are freedom camping.

Appliances can be supplied and installed on site at Lifestyle Motorhomes. The most common supply and installs Lifestyle Motorhomes undertake are LPG heaters and water heaters, diesel heaters, three way and 12-volt compressor fridge/freezers.

We can also upgrade or install your new gas stove and certify your gas system at the same time.

Lifestyle Motorhomes has a

great range of Christmas gift ideas for anyone interested in camping, has a caravan or motorhome our summer sale starts on November 27 and runs until December 20.

You are welcome to call in and have a complete safety check on your caravan or motorhome’s electrical and gas systems, plus discuss all your DIY ideas as we have all the gear you will require for self-containments and all those other projects you may want to work on over the holidays.

While you are at it, pick up your copy of our Sizzling Summer Savings catalogue at the same time.

Sorry our new entrance off Chalmers Avenue isn’t quite completed yet, but keep a look-out for the transformation taking place at Lifestyle Motorhomes.

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Bentley, Terrace View’s beloved companion.

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STRETCHING ACROSS FIVE ACRES OF PARK LIKE GROUNDS ALONG CARTERS TERRACE

Terrace View Retirement Village is more than a retirement home, it’s a complete lifestyle community. It offers residents affordable luxury living with the benefits of experienced and skilled staff and the comforts of home.

Terrace View on Carters Terrace in Tinwald takes the title as Ashburton’s first purposebuilt retirement village.

It is set on five acres of land among peaceful, landscaped grounds and gardens, bordered on one side by the Ashburton River. The village has a variety of lifestyle and care options, including independent or assisted living in villas, apartments or studios, right through to full resthome, hospital or palliative care.

There is also a communal lounge/theatre space, dining room, laundry facilities and a café / bar facility. All the rooms on-site are modern, warm and spacious.

Whether it be Terrace View’s quality meals and onsite services, or getting one’s health care needs met, Terrace View’s staff are second to none, and offer residents’ quality care right at their door. It’s just one more on-site option that gives residents – and their family members – peace of mind.

Depending on the lifestyle option chosen, residents of the villas can keep their independent living in a secure property offering full kitchen facilities, living rooms and bedrooms for family visitors. Each villa has been professionally designed and the neutral décor is just ready and waiting for occupation.

The apartment options offer the same security and freedom but in a smaller sized property. The apartments have also been designed to meet residents’ needs and care packages can be upgraded if those needs change.

The studios also offer the same secure independence with a range of service packages including 11 care suites providing a higher level of care.

The Terrace View resthome and hospital has professional staff working in a modern and purpose-built facility. The large rooms come complete with ensuite and views of the grounds and gardens.

The range of lifestyle options at Terrace View mean couples can remain close to each other in retirement if they have different health care needs. It’s just another bonus that gives some comfort for all concerned.

As if the site and its facilities were not enough to prompt a call to Terrace View, the retirement village has another drawcard: at Terrace View, residency means no lawn mowing, maintenance or upkeep of the grounds or the property. That means more time to spend on other interests.

The communal areas are a great way to keep in contact with other people and offer a facility for regular social activities. The lounge/theatre area, with bar facilities, is also a great place to relax with others while catching up on local news, gathering for national, or sporting, events around the large communal television or to just sit and admire the fabulous garden setting and listen to the birds.

Available for purchase – One great studio – Don’t miss out and buy now.

Our weekly fee is locked for life.

CALL TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION

Donna Coxshall 03 307 6140 – Facility Manager 37 carters terrace, tinwald, ashburton 7700 | www.terraceview.co.nz

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ADVERTISING FEATURE Saturday, November 25, 2017 Ashburton Guardian

Adventure for the active retiree The world’s your oyster when you’re retired and if overseas travel is on your bucket list then an escorted adventure with Jill Worrall Tours fits the bill perfectly.

Canterbury-born and bred, and based in Timaru where she works with My Travel Broker, Jill Worrall has had more than 15 years’ experience leading groups in countries as diverse as Iceland and Cuba, Zambia and Iran.

She’s also one of NZ’s most successful travel writers, so over the years has built up an in-depth knowledge of her destinations.

Her tours are perfect for the active retired who are looking for stress-free, enjoyable travel which combines topclass guides, exciting destinations, personal attention but at the same time, plenty of free time to explore amazing places on your own or to team up with other like-minded tour members for a drink or a meal.

Jill has an impressive record of return travellers – sometimes up to 75 per cent of those on a tour have travelled with her before, some up to 10 times!

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She has a fantastic line-up of tours for 2018 and beyond, including Israel and Jordan; Slovenia and Croatia (featuring a small ship Adriatic cruise), the Balkans; Spain and Morocco and Northern India.

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Tips for finding the right retirement lifestyle option 1.

Location - do you want to stay in the same town or city or move to a warmer climate?

2.

There are many different types of communities now available ranging from those that offer a full range of accommodation options from independent living in a retirement community through to full care or hospital care.

Check that the retirement community has good access to

shops, either close by and if not, does it provide transport?

3.

If you are still active check out the facilities the village provides.

4.

Check security — is the community gated, are there locks on the main doors. Ask other residents whether they feel safe.

5.

If you are moving into care you need to feel comfortable with staff – are they friendly and helpful?

ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY An enthusiastic group of dedicated, knowledgeable gardeners meet monthly.

Jordan & Israel 3 - 24 MARCH 2018 WITH JILL WORRALL Although at the centre of a tumultuous region, Jordan and Israel remain open and safe for visitors. With iconic destinations, such as Petra and Jerusalem, they are definitely bucket-list places for many people.

There are monthly speakers and all members are keen to share their learnings.

HIGHLIGHTS IN: JORDAN The Roman city of Jerash, Jordan River Baptism site, the Dead Sea, Red Sea cruise, overnight in Wadi Rum, Petra and family feast. ISRAEL Tel Aviv, Caesarea, the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Masada, Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.

Meetings every 4th Monday of the year except December, June and July.

The Annual Ashburton Garden Competition runs early February.

Return to Iran 1 - 22 APRIL 2018 JILL WORRALL & REZA MIRKHALAF-ZADEH Iran is one of the least-understood countries in the world and always astonishes first-timers with the warmth and friendliness of its people, the magnificence of its traditional architecture and the depth and drama of its history.

Queries can be emailed to Rosemary – email rosecase@kinect.co.nz | or call 03 307 7653

HIGHLIGHTS Tehran’s best museums, including the incomparable State Jewels; the World Heritage Listed Tabriz bazaar; St Stephanos Armenian Church; Kerman and the Prince’s Garden; Yazd (Towers of Silence, Zoroastrian fire temples and historic old quarter), Persepolis and Shiraz; Isfahan (mosques historic bridges and fantastic shopping!)

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Adriatic Explorer 17 MAY - 7 JUNE 2018 WITH JILL WORRALL Our 2016 Adriatic Explorer sold out and as our week-long included cruise has limited cabin space you need to book soon for this tour.

HIGHLIGHTS City tours of Zagreb, Ljubljana, Dubrovnik and Split; Lake Bled; Postonja Caves, Pula Roman amphitheatre, Plitvice Lakes, Sarajevo; Mostar bridge; week-long cruise on a luxury small ship; Dubrovnik; Montenegro; fantastic food, wine and entertainment.

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Specialist, affordable eye health St George’s Eye Care in Christchurch opened in September 2015. It is a purpose-built eye care facility that extends ophthalmology services to South Island patients at a competitive price.

“St George’s has a long standings commitment to develop and extend the services it offers to meet the needs of those in the community who require surgical or specialist healthcare,” says hospital Chief Executive Greg Brooks.

“St George’s is the first private hospital in New Zealand to recruit specialist in-house ophthalmologists,” says Brooks.

“This model delivers a number of efficiencies that make the surgical services significantly more affordable for patients.” We believe eye care should be attainable which is reflected in the pricing

structure we have adopted.

It is summed up by our core belief, which is simply, Eye Care for you.

St George’s Eye Care team is lead by Clinical Director Dr Paul Baddeley.

Dr Baddeley moved to New Zealand in 2016 from the UK. Having studied medicine at Oxford University he completed nine years of ophthalmic training, and five years as a Consultant eventually specialising in Cataract, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, diabetic eye disease and eye lid care.

Dr Baddeley uses the latest intraocular lens technology as routine allowing smaller incision surgery with the associated benefits to his patients.

With New Zealand’s aging population cataract removal is one of the most common eye operations performed in

We understand how precious your eyes are to you and hence we are pleased to offer a ... tailored service New Zealand.

The most common cause of cataract is aging, but can include inherited problems, medications, and health problems including diabetes and trauma to the eye at any stage. Cataracts can be slow to develop and can do so at different rates within each eye.

Some of the common symptoms’ of cataracts can be, cloudy, blurry or foggy vision, changes in the way

Making specialist eye care more attainable is all about putting you first Patients entering St George’s Eye Care in Christchurch will enjoy world-class attention in our purpose built facility.

Our patients are our number one priority.

To contact St George’s Eye Care ask your optometrist or GP, call us direct on 03 375 6333 or email eyecarebookings@stgeorges.org.nz

you see colour, issues with glare and driving at night. If you are starting to notice any of these particular symptoms or have any concerns with you vision it is best if you visit your local optometrist.

They will perform all the necessary tests and discuss your options with you. With the slow progressing nature of cataracts they may determine that it is best to continue with regular eye examinations to monitor your eyes.

If you need to take further action your optometrist can assist you by referring you to an ophthalmologist, like Dr Paul Baddeley at St George’s Eye Care for further action.

Cataract Surgery is performed under anaesthetic at St Georges Day Surgery Unit. You are usually in the unit for approximately three hours and are able to return home the same day. (You will

however need someone to drive you).

At St George’s Eyecare we understand how precious your eyes are to you and hence we are pleased to offer a completely bespoke individually tailored service for each patient. With our skill and expertise our focus is to provide high quality patient care using state of the art technology, ensuring your experience is as comfortable and reassuring as possible.

If you would like to be seen at St George’s Eyecare you can be referred to us via your GP or your local optometrists. We are aligned with all insurance companies otherwise if you have a question or would like to book an appointment, please contact our friendly specialist team on 03 375 6333 or email eyecarebookings@ stgeorges.org.nz Advertising feature

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ADVERTISING FEATURE Saturday, November 25, 2017 Ashburton Guardian

Focus on living well

Quality care

Dementia is one of New Zealand’s most significant healthcare challenges, touching the lives of two out of three people in the country and so prevalent the number of people living with the illness is projected to triple by 2050.

Yet it remains a little understood condition, more than 30 decades after the region’s leading support body was established.

Dementia Canterbury rebranded last November from Alzheimers Canterbury, a move designed in part to reflect the diversity of illnesses that fall under the dementia umbrella.

Alzheimer’s accounts for 50-80 per cent of dementia cases but is only one of more than 70 different illnesses covered by the term. Common to them are difficulties with memory, reasoning, communication, perception and judgement.

While there is no cure for dementia, there is much that can be done to help people with the condition live enjoyable, fulfilling lives within the community, and it is this focus on

Cameron Courts Rest Home and Retirement Villas provide the senior citizens of Ashburton and the wider community a homely, quality, professionalised care and safe surroundings in which they live in.

Cameron Courts Rest Home is the residents’ home and all residents are part of the Ashburton community.

There is much that can be done to help people with the condition live enjoyable, fulfilling lives “living well” that forms the heart of Dementia Canterbury.

The not-for-profit group is almost entirely self-funded and uses its resources to break down barriers associated with dementia, providing education, social workers and a wide range of activities designed to tie in with existing community organisations.

Services are provided free of charge to people affected by dementia, including their family and whanau, through a network across Canterbury and the West Coast that relies heavily on volunteers and the generosity of ordinary New Zealanders.

We believe the residents have the right: • •

To love and be loved To live and age with dignity, respect, security and peace • To be accepted as you are • To privacy, confidentiality and self determination • To practice your religion and have access to the minister of your choice Our home endeavours to provide a “Quality care for superior living” where all in our care enjoy security, acceptance, companionship, peace and love.

We work hard to make sure they receive the high standard of quality care. We employ staff who are friendly, understanding and caring. We provide a safe, clean and comfortable home where you receive a balanced, varied, tasteful and nutritious diet.

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In addition to this, Dementia Canterbury offers a wide range of social and activity programmes for people with dementia.

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For more information, please contact Cameron Courts (03) 308-8534 or Ashwin Mani 021 527 433

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Spectacular Israel – I will be back Flight Centre Ashburton’s Lucy Sewell has recently returned from the trip of a lifetime to Israel. She packed a lot into her trip from the bustling cities to the desert, from the Dead Sea to the Masada and everything in between. Lucy was amazed at how many significant sites were packed in to such a small country.

Here is what she had to say about her time in Israel: Travelling from Tel Aviv the capital city, I jumped on an Intrepid trip with seven other like-minded travellers to head up to Jerusalem, the religious mecca of the world.

Jerusalem has so many historical and religious sites so the easiest way to get around is to take a walking tour with a guide. On our walking tour we visited places like The Mount of Olives, Via Dolorosa where Jesus carried his cross, Church of Holy

Sepulchre, the Western Wall, Tower of David and also the Church of All Nations.

Of course, as incredible of a destination as this city is, there’s more to Israel than Jerusalem.

Once we ventured out into the country, we found ourselves heading up to an ancient, fortified Masada by gondola. Built by Herod the Great it is high above the Judean desert, situated on a mountain. An hour

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later we were as low as you can possibly go, floating in the Dead Sea. Just bobbing around without any effort, covering ourselves with its salty therapeutic mud and enjoying the views of the mountains all around us was something I will never forget!

After Jerusalem, we travelled to Nazareth via the Sea of Galilee to try some local fish before heading back to the beach city of Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv, I believe, is the Israeli version of Hawaii but has a totally different culture

attached. Highlights for me were shopping at a huge local market and heading down to the beach to have early morning swims in the Mediterranean Sea. This trip was particularly good because it was an Intrepid tour with a local driver and very knowledgeable guide. We would tell them we are hungry so they would make some calls and off we would go down back alleys away from the tourist traps to eat authentic Israeli food. I truly

believe a tour is the right way to go if you want to make the most of your time in this amazing country.

Unlike what is shown on the TV I felt very safe. I found the people extremely friendly, the culture and history unlike any other, and obviously a special mention has to go to the food, especially the hummus – that was outstanding!

I’m counting down until I return to this amazing country. Israel, I will be back!

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ADVERTISING FEATURE Saturday, November 25, 2017 Ashburton Guardian

Care for the Alzheimer’s caregiver Caring for a loved one is stressful, tiring, sometimes frustrating, and also a very important and much-needed role. It is a job that you learn on the go. There is no ‘right’ way, and it is a responsibility that requires constant adjustments. Most caregivers will also tell you, it is a role that comes with a lot of judgment.

As caregivers you may find that you have put yourself on the back burner many times. You may feel extreme guilt for wanting to see your friends, go to a movie or just have some me-time. Outsiders always seem to think you aren’t doing enough or doing it right, however, very few are willing to show up and help.

What has been learned over many years of families as caregivers is that you cannot be an advocate for your loved one if you are not taking time for yourself. You are impor-

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You have to put on your oxygen mask first before you can assist someone else.

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self and create some type of balance. This will vary from individual to individual. You have every right to focus on

yourself at times while being the ringleader in this circus called caregiving.

As Ashburton’s only dedicated dementia unit, we are here to help you.

We provide a continuum of care from respite and resthome level dementia care at Princes Court Dementia Care, through to hospital/palliative care for your loved one, when needed, at our sister facility Coldstream.

Our dedicated educator ensures that all staff have achieved their Level 3 National Certificate in Health and Wellbeing and Level 4 Dementia Limited Credit Programme.

This allows them to provide compassionate dementia and hospital level care through the life continuum. This assures families that the level of care offered at both facilities is of a high standard.

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the heart of you can enjoy Set in beautifully landscaped the greater neighborhood grounds, Princes Court offers with Be cafes, pharmacies and spoilt for choice at “Coldstream” your loved ones 24 hour retail outlets just a “stone’s specialised dementia care throw” Registered but with security & services provided • 11and townhouses whereaway. you canWith live independently Nurses fully respite care.

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YOUR PETS

Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - From which country does the siamese cat originate? a. China b. Egypt c. Thailand 2 - Which band released the album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb? a. U2 b. Led Zeppelin c. Queen 3 - Which country is the biggest consumer of pistachio nuts? a. China b. India c. US 4 - Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland on Christmas Day in which year? a. 1968 b. 1973 c. 1977 5 - How many different colours feature on a Rubik’s Cube? a. Four b. Five c. Six 6 - Hanoi is the capital of which country? a. Thailand b. China c. Vietnam 7 - Where will the 2020 Summer Olympics take place? a. Tokyo b. Paris c. Los Angeles 8 - Where on the body might an Indian person wear a jutti? a. Foot b. Head c. Wrist

Lions Club members of yesteryear Yesterday’s Your Place history photo wrongly identified Dr Ottley as the man on the right holding the pipe. He is in fact, the man in the middle with the pipe in his mouth.

A big thank you to our eagle-eyed readers who picked this up!

The good news is that a reader has identified many more of the men in the photo: Mick Stayt (second from left), then it is Les Todd (fifth from left), Dr Maurice Ottley and Joe Walls (worked for C. E. Bayley, an agricultural business).

Ian Bonish (curator of the domain) is second from right and Arthur Stephenson (furniture maker) is right (with pipe in hand).

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Manus refugees threatened Papua New Guinea police appear to have used long metal batons to beat refugees and asylum seekers in the Manus Island detention centre, as authorities seek to clear the camp.

Video footage has been released showing local police hitting and threatening refugees.

It is understood police and immigration officials arrived early morning as part of an ongoing operation to move the remaining men at the nowclosed facility.

Witnesses said more than 100 men out of the 300 remaining left on buses yesterday morning.

PNG police chief Gari Baki has told the ABC the relocations were being done “peacefully and without the use of force”.

“We are doing the best we can and the refugees cannot continue to be stubborn and defiant.”

Police photographed entering the immigration camp on Manus Island.

PHOTO AP Behrouz Boochani, a journalist and asylum seeker at the centre, said the police had “attacked”.

“The refugees are going to leave the prison camp. So

many are in the buses and are on the way to the new camps,” he wrote on Twitter.

The centre, set up by Australia to process asylum seeker boat arrivals, was officially

closed on October 31 but the men say the new facilities are unsafe and lack proper health services.

Police have seized food, water and personal items as they seek to pressure the men to leave.

The UN High Commission for Refugees has received reports of force being used to remove the refugees and asylum seekers, and called for calm.

“We urge both governments to engage in constructive dialogue, to de-escalate the tensions and work on urgent lasting solutions to their plight,” the UNHCR said in a statement, noting it lacked full access to the centre.

Austrlaian immigration inister Peter Dutton said it was important the men left the centre and entered the “much better accommodation” as quickly as possible.

– AAP

Carrey beats depression Jim Carrey has overcome depression, after years of struggling with the mental disorder. The 55-year-old actor previously revealed that he was battling depression at the height of his fame, when he starred in movies such as The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

But in a new interview with Britain’s i newspaper, Jim has revealed that he has now largely beaten the dark cloud that once consumed him. “At this point, I don’t have depression. There is not an experience of depression,” he explained.

“I had that for years, but now, when the rain comes, it rains, but it doesn’t stay.”

Argentinian navy Human trafficking confirms ‘all dead’

■ AFRICA

victims freed Nearly 500 victims of human trafficking have been freed and 40 suspects arrested in an Interpol operation involving raids across Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.

Two hundred and thirtysix children were among those rescued, a statement released by the international policing body said.

The 40 suspected traffickers will now face prosecution for offences including human trafficking, forced labour and child exploitation, the statement added.

The raids were part of Operation Epervier, which was

carried out under the aegis of a project targeting human trafficking gangs across Africa’s Sahel region.

The initiative is funded by the German Foreign Office.

The Interpol statement named one example of a 16-year-old girl who was promised work in Mali but then forced into prostitution to pay for her travel costs.

The UN-affiliated International Office for Migration and several non-governmental organisations assisted the operation and provided counselling to those who had been rescued.

– DPA

Families of crew lost in the San Juan submarine have been told their loved ones “are all dead” after an explosion on the day the vessel disappeared, according to reports.

Family members claimed they had already received phone calls from Navy officials telling them the entire crew had perished in a blast, believed to have taken place between 180m and 900m below the surface.

Officially, Argentina’s Navy is refusing to speculate on the fate of the sub’s 44 crew members and have vowed to continue the search for the stricken vessel, according to sources.

And they have angrily accused the Argentinian Navy of a cover-up after it was yes-

terday forced to confirm there had been a violent explosion where the vessel would have been just hours after its last transmission.

The noise “consistent with an explosion” was recorded by two international agencies last week.

Luiz Tagliapietro, father one of the men who was on the submarine, claimed a navy official phoned him to break the news that his son was dead.

Asked if the 43 men and one woman on board had died, he said: “Yes, yes, yes, yes. One hundred per cent. My son’s boss confirmed that they are all dead.

“There’s no human being who survives that.”

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Lorde wins best album Lorde’s Melodrama has been named the best album of 2017 by music magazine NME. The long-running British mag said it was a “regret-drenched break-up album that waves a magic wand at pain and transforms it into pure pop magic. From house-influenced lead single Green Light to the deliciously overwrought Supercut, Melodrama gives you pause to reflect on the past even as it takes your hand and leads you to the dance floor.” Melodrama is the North Shore 21-year-old’s second album, following 2013s Pure Heroine.

It topped charts around the world, including New Zealand, Australia and the United States. In the UK, where NME is based, it made number five. Secondplace was Wolf Alice’s Visions of a Life.

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By George, he’s a top NZ bloke Matt Markham

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he world needs more people like George Crack.

Generous to a fault and not afraid to put himself out there to earn a dollar or two in the name of charity. In short, he’s genuine, top, quintessential Kiwi type of bloke.

If you haven’t caught up with George’s latest fundraising drive, you’ll find out all about it, and everything else he’s achieved in his 88 years, on page 3 in today’s Guardian.

A few years after becoming the eldest person to jump out of an aeroplane with the local Skydiving Kiwis, George is heading back up again this morning to raise funds as part of the Cancer Society’s Jump for Cancer.

This comes after a lifetime of giving back from a man who has certainly packed a fair amount into his life – including the small matter of biking from one end of the country to the other in 1971.

That would have been no mean feat back then.

There was no cycle trail to aid the process and as the first person to bike across the Auckland Harbour Bridge, our George holds a little slice of national history.

There are special people like George littered throughout society, but they really are a scarcity.

To want to be so giving and charitable takes a huge heart and for them to be willing to put others’ needs before their own.

It’s a little easier when you’re younger, but at 88 George really should have other people looking out for and helping him as opposed to being the one doing such good things.

It can be easy to sit back and praise someone for doing something so generous, but the real proof is in the pudding when one’s actions can inspire someone else to do something good.

I know, having now read George’s tale, I’ll be popping along to NBS before Tuesday and making a donation and I’d urge anyone who can do, to do the same.

George’s story is quite incredible. And moving.

If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, make sure you do.

You’ll feel pretty good about life after you have.

YOUR VIEWS ON FACEBOOK Question of the day: What’s the most beautiful place you have ever been to?

Kirstyn Has to be on the Sound of Music tour from Salzburg Austria. We travelled up into the mountains and lakes district finishing in the beautiful village of Mondsee to find the gorgeous St Michaels church which is the the Sound of Music wedding was filmed. Blown away by all the ornate decorations on there but even more so, Austria is just like NZ only on steroids lol.

Shirley Got to be Home Ashburton .

Love the place.. right in the middle of the Mountains, the Sea , a city north and a smaller one South .Winter and summer sports. What more do we want Christine So many to choose from but the place where I had a big emotional response to was La Sagrada Familia (the Gaudi cathedral) in Barcelona, Spain. So beautifully stunning that I cried.

Peter Hangover Bay about 500 ks North of Perth in W.A. truly incredible scenery and appropriately named ....I spent NYE there with mates. In the middle of nowhere... Ozzie desert spectacular Liz I’ve been to come amazing places but my favourite view is driving into Aoraki Mt Cook on a perfect sunny day.

Kay Arrowtown in autumn..NZ... ashburton..in spring time or winter when snow on mountain and it’s a beautiful day xx Nigel Walking on the beach with my girl during a sunset in Rarotonga Charlene 12 apostles when we went to Australia just recently and did the great ocean road tour Helen Monte Bre, Ticino, Switzerland Alisha Mount Everest base camp looking up at Everest with not a cloud in the sky. Truly magical.

Phyllis Broome, western Australia,, love cable beach..

Brian coron,palawan Philippines

Ange Whit sundays australia airlie beach Melissa Akaroa, I love it there Cathie Flying to NZ from Australia.

Seeing mts Tasman and Aoraki peeking through the clouds.

Gail ashbuton is way up there wonderful people. Climate Shirley Andora, the most beautiful place ever.

Jonathon Stewart Island. Place is amazing. I didn’t want to leave.

Catherine Pamukkale in Turkey , unique and beautiful Brad-Anna Rawas on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu

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t is the dawn of the age of the young, the articulate and the telegenically-appealing female MP. Yes folks; I bring you good news.

Described above is the new political scene we can now sit back and appreciate, courtesy of trailblazer and – remarkably – instant prime minister, Jacinda herself.

Single-handedly, effortlessly and, above all, gracefully, she has brought us a new and exciting brand of politics where the undoubted power and presence of the female voice will be heard and appreciated in the Beehive – and well beyond – in a modern manner, rarely, if ever, heard or seen before.

She has, in those immortal words, broken the mould.

She has, too, opened the way for others of her ilk, intelligence and looks to be admired and listened to as never before.

It is a flowering of the parliamentary woman in all her glory and appeal which will become the revelation and inspiration for the politics of the future.

No longer the fusty old men of governments past – or even young ones on their way up – it is to the appealing young woman to whom we shall now turn for common sense and clarity.

During the week, for immediate example, I had the good fortune to see and listen to the engaging features and American twangy tones of Julie-Anne

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Genter, a Green List MP, and now associate minister of transport.

She was expressing, with rare conviction and feeling, her abhorrence of the endless carnage on our roads and what she was going to do – from that moment on – to put an end to it.

Her eloquence was impressive and, in addition, from the glint in her eye, I was left in no doubt that she meant every word she said as well as business overall.

Though she is hardly the first minister of transport – associate or full-blown – to address this distressing issue, I detected an urgency in what she said frequently lacking in her male predecessors.

I retired for the night feeling we might all be a bit safer on the roads now Genter is in charge.

But that is not all.

Both the new, tenuouslyconnected government and the major parliamentary block that was done in by the vagaries of MMP – National – have their own potential and budding leading women, some of whom have already made an impression; National’s Amy Adams and Nikki Kaye, for example.

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small or unimportant.

The exam is a life-long, continual assessment! There are thousands of questions, yet they all boil down to two.

Do you always love God with all of your being and do you always love your neighbour as yourself?

Note the always.

You don’t have to have great intelligence for this exam. You don’t need to have great fitness or good health. Special skills or technology are not a requirement.

The bad news is that you are graded from the moment of birth.

So, even if you decided at some point to be perfect from this point on until the day you die, you still have the problem of the past.

Perfection is the required standard.

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Julie-Anne Genter Also gearing up to re-strut their intellectual and physical clout, Hare Te Hipango from Whanganui and Sarah Dowie, Invercargill.

The Greens, as well as Genter, have both Chloe Swarbrick, the youngest MP for 42 years, and Golriz Ghahraman, to fly their distinctive flag.

In the red corner – as well as leader Jacinda – Virginia Anderson and Jo Luxton, among others, are awaiting their turn to follow their leader.

A bevy of gifted, attractive and clearly-spoken female members of parliament are ready and very much able to bring their considerable talents to bear in our seat of government.

It is an exciting prospect and likely to bring much greater interest to the business of parliamentary debate, as well as a corresponding increase in the respect for our representatives whenever they appear on the world stage.

Elsewhere, another round of point-scoring and losing is afoot.

Winston Peters is apparently on some 007 type mission in North

Korea, too secret to be discussed publicly.

No doubt though, back home his lawyers are busy on the case of “Who leaked the details of Winston’s overblown pension”.

That case is likely to become as legendary as Winston’s Wine Box of many years ago.

I also note the colossal expense of flying Auckland City councillors to far-flung junkets in every corner of the world by business – or better – class as well as the $126,000,000 proposed extension to one of the Auckland wharves to accommodate the sailing boats of very rich men who wish to race them under the guise of the America’s Cup in 2020.

I wonder what the homeless, real or fake, think about that.

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Not only in avoiding doing what you shouldn’t, but also in doing all that should. It’s a tough exam.

Only one person in the history of the whole human race has ever passed this exam.

The good news is that God has also provided a guaranteed way of getting not just a pass but a top grade – an excellent!

The one man who got a perfect grade (Jesus) came as a representative for all who believe in Him. That’s right – if you have faith in Jesus Christ, his good marks get credited to your account. Not because you deserve it, but because God is gracious.

No room for complaining then about how hard the marking is, when a top mark is available for those who want it.

You do however; need to be serious about committing yourself to Jesus as your representative.

That is a lifestyle change. It involves serving Him – not yourself.

Think about the ultimate exam,

the exam of life.

How will you be graded? What will be the consequences?

Remember the good news – you don’t have to rely on your own failing efforts, you can apply to have Jesus Christ’s perfect score allocated to your account.

It isn’t a complicated application, just a serious one.

Turn away from sin and yourself and put your trust in Jesus - and Him alone. Then, as your representative, all His achievements are credited to you.

His promise is that He came so that all who believed in Him would have abundant life.

Rev David Bayne is minister of the Grace Presbyterian Church The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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How will you be graded in God’s exam?

t’s exam time again and the current news is about the anguish caused by the maths paper.

First we had accusations about the paper. Then we had it defended by NZQA. This in turn sparks off the debate about assessment.

Important as they may be at the time, many exams and their results have a limited shelf life.

Once you move on in life they don’t seem to have the significance they once did. Other matters, other accomplishments, move to centre stage and the importance of the exam seems to dwindle.

There is one exam, however, which has permanent significance. That is the exam of life.

There is one examiner whose marking and grading is both final and perfect.

The consequences of the grade you get in this exam are eternal consequences – not something you move on from. Nor are they

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Survival of the most savvy retailers Only the fittest and most savvy retailers will survive the digital era and Warehouse Group is accelerating its transformation plan, chairwoman Joan Withers and chief executive Nick Grayston said in notes for the annual meeting in Auckland yesterday.

Warehouse’s share price has fallen around 30 per cent since the annual meeting a year ago, a serious concern, Withers said.

The stock last traded at $2.04 versus around $3 at the prior AGM. “Globally, retailers are besieged and only those who are the fittest and who have made the changes needed to compete for today’s customers are successful,” she said.

Against a backdrop where over $2 billion was wiped off the value of ASX listed retailers in the month following the announcement of Amazon’s arrival in Australia, both the board and management team recognised that business as usual or incremental change is not an option, she said.

Under the leadership of Grayston, who took over from

Mark Powell in December 2015, Warehouse has embarked on a three-year strategy to lift profitability by removing the complexity and cost of an inefficient operating model and reshaping the company’s physical footprint to support the digital business.

In a presentation for shareholders, Grayston said the “acceleration of our transformation plan is now an imperative to respond to

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Kiwi households spending $4.1b more than they earn Kiwi households spent $4.1 billion more than they earned last financial year, despite employees taking home bigger pay packets.

It was the third financial year in a row that New Zealand households racked up billions of dollars in debt, Stats NZ said yesterday.

A year earlier in March 2016,

total savings in Kiwi households – the difference between household income and spending – was also minus $1.8b.

The last time New Zealand households saved more than they spent was in 2013, with household savings reaching a peak of $3b in 2012.

The hit to savings comes on the back of Kiwi households spending $152.1b in the March 2017 financial year, or $8.5b more than a year earlier.

This was despite total employee salaries in New Zealand growing by $5b to $114b last financial year.

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emerging trends.”

According to the chief executive, power has shifted to consumers and “our retail business model must evolve to utilise new technologies and platforms which connect consumers across global marketplaces to create an experience that differentiates us from our competition”.

Among other things, it needs to pivot from a supply-driven model

as an extensive click and collect offering. In a recent presentation to investors, the company highlighted New Zealand’s ecommerce market is growing at 14 per cent year-on-year but that local competition is heating up with the Kmart ecommerce launch as well as global players.

Group online sales, however, were up 18.4 per cent year-onyear in the 2017 financial year, ahead of the market.

Among other things, it is currently experimenting with different AI packages for strongest customer experience, developing delivery innovation through things like an express delivery trial and testing a chatbot at Noel Leeming.

Withers said Warehouse has secured key international executive skills to help it deliver the change and recently engaged global management consultancy McKinsey & Company to assist with the implementation of the strategy “which should give the market greater confidence that the results we are planning for, will be delivered.”

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Inland Revenue has struggled to make its direct debit terms and conditions a less taxing read, earning it the people’s choice worst ‘brainstrain’ award at the annual Plain English Awards.

The people’s choice is awarded to the best and worst plain English communicators as nominated by members of the public and IRD was said to be the only one that truly qualified as a ‘Brainstrain’, the judges say.

“IRD says they have improved their website and made it easier to do business. But when you choose to pay by direct debit and two days later this nonsense is emailed to you ... they could do better,” the nominator said.

The Plain English awards were developed to address the frustrations of wading through legal speak or dissecting business jargon in business or government

documents.

Howver, they also recognise those doing away with unnecessarily complex language and jargon.

The people’s choice for best plain English communication went to Wellington City council for its magazine ‘Our Wellington’, at the awards held in Wellington this week.

The not-for-profit company Utilities Dispute took the top prize for best organisation supreme award.

Plain English Awards Trust chairman Gregory Fortuin says the awards go a long way in improving the lives of New Zealanders.

“Think of people caught in an emergency getting fast help from their insurer through an easy-tocomplete claim form. Or patients experiencing less stress because they can easily understand their treatment.”

“Communications written in plain English really can improve the lives of everyday Kiwis,” he said.

US plain language specialist Chris Trudeau commended New Zealanders for their use of plain English, saying the country is “far ahead of the game”.

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Sport Challenge on to halt Methven

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All eyes will be on Methven this weekend as they look to wrap up the first round of the senior interclub tennis competition undefeated.

The side has conquered in all its matchups so far, and Hampstead will have the task of stopping them reaching that mark.

Methven have been driven forward by the impressive performances of Koji Kawamata, who extended his unbeaten streak last week, and will surely have a personal goal to finish this round without a loss.

Hampstead themselves will not be short of any confidence, having swept Fairton 6-0 last week.

Jade Brosnahan has been a rock for the team in singles matches, winning all of her games.

Aidan Mitchell and Pete Kirwan look to be quite the doubles pairing, winning 6-0 and 6-0.

Probably to the surprise of some, Allenton have struggled so far this season and had that compounded by losing to previously winless Tinwald.

It is likely they will be up against the wall this weekend again when they take on Southern, who gave Methven a very good run for their money last week.

Jason Feutz and Luke Glendining nearly overturned the impressive Kawamata and Sam Bubb in the doubles. With Feutz able to defeat Bubb in the singles, he will be a valuable part of Southern lineup.

In the third and final match of the day, Fairton will play Tinwald.

Fairton will likely be stinging after the previous round’s result, and with the likes of Rhys Cromie and Tyler Leonard gunning to get their team back in the winning column.

Left - Aidan Mitchell and the Hampstead team are hopeful they can roll over the undefeated Methven side today.

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Saturday, November 25, 2017

■■RUGBY

The changing faces of the All Blacks Anyone peeking into the future in the week of the first test against the British & Irish Lions, couldn’t have imagined the All Blacks starting lineup would be looking the way it is for the last game of the year.

For the record, there are only three forwards starting in Cardiff – Codie Taylor, Sam Whitelock and Sam Cane – who played at Eden Park on June 24 and five backs – Aaron Smith, Beauden Barrett, Sonny Bill Williams, Ryan Crotty and Rieko Ioane.

But as significant as the statistic of more than half the team being different is, it doesn’t alone portray how much the team this week has strayed from all expectations.

Neither Kane Hames nor Nepo Laulala were even in the squad to play the Lions and the former in particular barely had any kind of public recognition.

Patrick Tuipulotu, who starts at lock in Cardiff, hadn’t been able to make the Blues team for much of Super Rugby and had in fact been dropped out of the squad to play the Lions because he failed to notify anyone he was running late for training.

In June Tuipulotu felt a long, long way from being anywhere near the All Blacks in 2017. His confidence was low, his form patchy and he was heading entirely in the wrong direction.

Luke Whitelock, who will win his second cap this weekend, wasn’t nose-diving like Tuipulotu, but he was probably just as far away from a test call up.

He’s been a quiet achiever with the Highlanders in the last two years and one of the game’s big improvers, but it has taken a long list of injuries and defections to bring him the No 8 jersey.

The miraculous recovery of Rieko Ioane has denied Seta Tamanivalu his first appearance on the wing and that, if it had happened, would have been another almost unimaginable scenario back in June.

And the final surprise that would have been difficult to foresee is the captaincy being held by Sam Whitelock.

He is a deserving and capable candidate, but he is in the job because Read has been ruled out,

Sam Whitelock, seen here in action in the recent the test again France, will captain the All Blacks against Wales.

Ben Smith isn’t here and Sam Cane has been overlooked on the basis he may not play the full 80 minutes.

It has been a tumultuous five months for the All Blacks in respect of injury and unavailability.

At no time in the last five or six years have they ended a season with a team deemed to be their strongest that is so different to the one with which they started.

As a comparison, in 2016 nine of the team that started the first test against Wales, started the last

test against France.

There were, though, 14 of the match day 23 involved in both games, with Aaron Smith and Aaron Cruden starting in June before swapping with TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett who were on the bench in June and started in November.

The only things that would have been hard to foresee looking ahead from June last year were the sudden emergence of Anton Lienert-Brown, who was nowhere near the All Blacks in the series

against Wales but started against France, and the fast-tracking of Ioane who won his second cap off the bench in Paris having begun the year as a unknown 19-yearold at the Blues.

It may well have been an unprecedented year of change for the All Blacks and even the coaches may feel they have been taken into selection territory for this last game that has surprised them.

But coach Steve Hansen was adamant that all he and the man-

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agement team can do is play the hand they have been dealt and have faith it is good enough.

“There is not much we can do about it,” said Hansen. “We have just got to look at the positives of it and they are that a lot of people who wouldn’t normally be getting opportunities are getting them and in the long run that will be good for us.

“And you know this is a team that we have a lot of faith in him so they have just got to go out and do the job.”

ABs missing fear factor, says Gatland Warren Gatland has put his miserable record against the All Blacks to one side and declared the world champions have lost their fear factor in Wales.

Welsh coach Gatland believes his players are ignoring their disastrous record against New Zealand heading into Saturday’s Test in Cardiff.

Boosted by the drawn series result achieved by his British and Irish Lions in New Zealand this year, Gatland reckons his players believe they can topple the tourists and end their 64-year drought.

“We have got a group of players in the squad, some of them have had success, obviously in a different (Lions) jersey,” he said.

“I think in the past, and rightly so, the All Blacks, having been the best team in the world consistently, you kind of have almost that fear factor about playing them.

“The fact that some of these players have played them on a regular basis, it is not that sort of trepidation, I suppose, in terms of familiarity.”

Wales have gone 29 Tests since 1953 without beating the All

Blacks. The last 10 have come during Gatland’s decade in charge.

Not only that, Wales under their Kiwi mentor side have lost 33 of 36 combined Tests against southern hemisphere giants New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

Despite being weakened by numerous injuries and unavailabilities, the All Blacks will be as tough as ever to topple, Gatland predicts.

He revealed he had chatted with All Blacks counterpart Steve Hansen at a function on Wednesday night and it became apparent how

heavy the tourists’ injury toll had become.

“They are still the best team in the world. They could put out a fourth, fifth, sixth-strength team and still beat most teams because of the quality of players that they have,” Gatland said.

“They are obviously probably missing seven or eight of their regular starters from 12 months ago, but in saying that, it is an opportunity they get to develop some depth, and we are going through the same process.”

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Welsh coach Warren Gatland

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Weekend Sports Box A look ahead to the sporting weekend, with a glance back over the shoulder at the week that was.

On the couch ...

It will be the last time we see the All Blacks in action this year, so why not flick on to Sky on Sunday morning and watch the boys in black take on Wales.

The game kicks off at the reasonably early time of 6.15am, and should be well worth the watch.

The punt ...

Just getting a bit miserable now, but let’s persist and head back to the Premier League.

Crystal Palace vs Stoke City: Draw @ $3.25 Newcastle vs Watford: Draw @ $3.25 Swansea vs Bournemouth: Bournemouth @ $2.60 Tottenham vs West Brom: Tottenham @ $1.25 $2 bet for $68.60 return.

Pool: $83

The gambler ... $5 Multi wins $9,931.90 This punter correctly predicted a couple of big upsets in the NBA amongst their 10-leg Multi which turned a fiver into almost $10K. Brooklyn v Utah - Head to Head: Brooklyn Nets @ $1.82 Indiana v Detroit - Head to Head: Indiana Pacers @ $1.85

San Antonio v Oklahoma City - Head to Head: San Antonio Spurs @ $2.00 Sacramento v Portland - Head to Head: Sacramento Kings @ $3.10 Chicago v Charlotte - Head to Head: Chicago Bulls @ $3.10 Detroit v Buffalo - Head to Head: Detroit Red Wings @ $1.65 Vegalta Sendai v Omiya Adrija - Head to Head: Vegalta Sendai @ $2.40 Kawasaki Frontale v G-Osaka - Head to Head: Kawasaki Frontale @ $1.50 Albirex Niigata v Kofu - Head to Head: Albirex Niigata @ $2.65 Kashiwa v Iwata - Head to Head: Kashiwa @ $1.95

Quick quiz ...

The Ashes are now under way over in Australia, so here is a bit of trivia. Who has scored the most runs in the Ashes?

Pic of the Week …

A pretty cool moment from the English football the other night. Wigan player Ryan Colclough scored a brace in his side’s match before being substituted to head to the hospital to watch his son being born, not even having the time to take off his kit.

Quiz Answer: Don Bradman

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No time to change: Ryan Colclough with his newborn son.

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Saturday, November 25, 2017

■■CRICKET

In brief Transgender lifter

No shortage of runs

Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been named in the New Zealand team to compete at next year’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. 39-year-old Hubbard, who will compete in the 90-kilogram class, will be the first transgender athlete to represent New Zealand at a Commonwealth Games. She became the first transgender athlete to win an international weightlifting title for New Zealand at the Australian Open this year, lifting 123 kilos in the snatch and 145 kilos in the clean and jerk. Her win was contentious among rivals who said an athlete who had previously competed as a man had an unfair advantage. As Gavin Hubbard, she was a New Zealand junior recordholder in the 105-kilo class and has had to meet strict criteria around testosterone levels to compete as a woman.

– NZME

Batsman admits assault

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

Lauriston will be hoping to keep their good form up when they host Allenton this weekend.

A switch was flicked last week and the runs finally flowed in the Pritchard Shield, now swinging the focus on to those who do their work with the ball in hand.

Last week saw three teams hit 200 runs, with both teams who opened the batting able to defend their totals.

Lauriston were the most impressive team in victory last week, restricting the Methven side to only 70 runs after

posting 225 runs themselves.

The Lauriston bowlers seem to have hit their stride, and have been very economical so far this season, only 121 runs in two games.

This will be tested this weekend, however, when Allenton make the short trip up the road to play in Lauriston.

With only two games played, Allenton sit top of the runs scored

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category, with 372 runs in total.

The next closest side is Coldstream on 340, with the help of having already played three games.

Methven will have the chance to regroup with the bye this weekend and figure out what they can do to improve their run-scoring, having only scored 177 in this competition.

The other match on Saturday

will see Coldstream play their second home game in a row when they host Tech.

Tech are fresh off the bye and have looked dangerous with the acquisition of brothers Jeremy and Scott Punselie.

Teams will also be hoping to make the most of this weekend with most likely to lose players to Mid Canterbury’s first Hawke Cup game next weekend.

■■RUGBY

Wallabies to unleash Tongan Thor Michael Cheika will unleash Tongan Thor Taniela Tupou on Scotland, just a week after the powerhouse prop completed his three-year Wallabies qualification period.

The 130kg 21-year-old Queensland Reds bookend was named on the bench by Cheika for the Murrayfield clash after jetting in to the UK last week.

Three years ago Tonga-born Tupou hit the headlines when videos emerged of him scoring long-range tries for Auckland’s Sacred Heart College. However, he opted to pursue a career in Australia and signed for the Reds rather than a New Zealand Super Rugby franchise.

Tupou admitted he broke down in tears after learning of his selection yesterday and said wearing the Wallabies jersey was a dream come true.

“I’m lost for words, I actually don’t know what to say,” Tupou said.

“I was in tears actually. The first thing that came to my mind was my family.

“Growing up in Tonga as a young kid, all I wanted to do was to play for Australia one day and now I can do that this weekend.

“I just wish my family was here.

I know my team will have my back, so can’t wait.”

New Zealand were keen to have Tupou in their national schoolboys team side.

However, the quietly-spoken wrecking ball said watching the Wallabies as child gave him a special affection for the gold jersey.

“I grew up in Tonga, always watching the Wallabies, watching guys like ‘Squeak’ (Stephen Moore), Sekope Kepu and Taf (Polota-Nau).

“I was always wanting to play for Australia, even I went to New Zealand, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship ... but it didn’t

change me.

“It didn’t change for me, wanting to play for Australia and I’m grateful and I can’t wait to get out there and play on Saturday.”

AUSTRALIA: Kurtley Beale, Marika Koroibete, Tevita Kuridrani, Samu Kerevi, Reece Hodge, Bernard Foley, Will Genia, Sean McMahon, Michael Hooper (capt), Ben McCalman, Blake Enever, Rob Simmons, Sekope Kepu, Stephen Moore, Scott Sio. Reserves: Tatafu Polota-Nau, Tetera Faulkner, Taniela Tupou, Lukhan Tui, Lopeti Timani, Nick Phipps, Karmichael Hunt, Henry Speight.

Canterbury batsman Ken McClure will take time out from representative cricket after pleading guilty to a charge of injuring with reckless disregard.

McClure, 23, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man in Hanmer Springs on September 10 and has been remanded for sentencing until January 19. The charge of injuring with reckless disregard carries a maximum penalty of five years’ jail. McClure has made himself temporarily unavailable for representative cricket, requesting that he be allowed to take time out of the game to reflect on his circumstances and to undergo counselling.

– NZME

Watling not keeping BJ Watling has been ruled out of wicket keeping duties for the Black Caps first test against the West Indies in Wellington next week.

The incumbent test glovesman has been deemed not fit to stand behind the wickets due to his hip injury. Watling is currently playing for Northern Districts in the Plunket Shield.

– NZME

Fittler Origin coach Brad Fittler has been appointed NSW coach, with the former captain taking the reins after a three-month search for Laurie Daley’s successor. Fittler, a former Sydney Roosters coach and NSW assistant, beat ex-South Sydney coach Michael Maguire to the position and will coach the side he represented 31 times, 14 as captain. The Blues great takes over a side which won one State of Origin series in five years under Daley, who was told in late August his contract would not be extended.

– AAP

Starc wounded briefly Mitchell Starc has avoided serious damage after a fielding mishap on day two of the Ashes opener, with the spearhead returning to the Gabba shortly after cutting his leg.

Starc and Shaun Marsh were both hunting down a ball in the deep on yesterday, when the sliding spearhead managed to cut his left leg with the spikes on his right boot. The left-armer trudged off the oval and dashed into the rooms for treatment but emerged two overs later to field.

– AAP

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Saturday, November 25, 2017

■■GERALDING TROTTING CLUB

In brief

Rising stars racing at Geraldine

By Matt Markham

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As the weather warms up around the country, so does the grass track harness racing action and if today’s Geraldine Trotting Club meeting at Orari is anything to go by, then it’s going to be an intriguing summer.

With more than 200 nominations for the first of their two race days in the season, the Geraldine club was never going to struggle for quality fields.

But above all else, their flagship event, the $25,000 Geraldine Cup, is a mouth-watering contest.

Featuring so many of the rising stars of the Canterbury pacing ranks, the 2850-metre event will set the tone for the coming weeks with a plethora of grass track action ahead.

Headed up by Seel The Deal, who tackled the New Zealand Trotting Cup and New Zealand Free-For-All last week, the field is littered with potential winners from the top of the book to the bottom.

The most notable entrant, however, is Cran Dalgety’s Raukapuka Ruler.

Last season’s Northern Derby winner will begin his four-yearold season in the event, looking to pick up where he left off at the end of last term.

And Dalgety is sure he’s better than ever.

“He’s come back in fantastic nick, he has really broadened out in the shoulders and looks like a bull.

“He’s pretty ready for this week, I wouldn’t expect him to be too far off the mark.”

Other serious contenders who are in good-nick include Mickey Gee, James Dean and Mongolian Hero.

A win for Mickey Gee would mark a special result for driver, Sam Ottley who hails from just over the fence of the racecourse.

Her mother, Denise Ottleyn has a runner in the race as well in Tuapeka Cup winner, Rocki Warrior.

New addition Hastings trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen will unleash another string to their bow at Awapuni today. Lowry and Cullen have already made it a season to remember with the win of Wait A Sec in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2400m) on their home track and they have produced some promising younger horses working through the grades, while coming up nicely is their dual Group One placegetter Savvy Dreams. Adding to their string is a newcomer to the stable, Saint Kitt, who will resume in the Wai Pine Limited/ John Turkington Forestry Bulls Country Cup (1500m) today.

Formerly owned and trained by Kelly Burne, Saint Kitt has been leased by Cullen and his partner, Nikki Lourie, and goes into this weekend’s assignment fresh-up, having not raced since finishing unplaced last May.

Luck changes for Mark

Leo O’Reilly (right) and James Dean will be out to try and win today’s Geraldine Cup. PHOTO MATT MARKHAM 121017-MM-001

The free-wheeling pacer will be driven today by Gerard O’Reilly.

Former top three-year-old filly of last season, Seaswift Joy will also contest the race with Johnny Morrison handling the driving duties on the Malcolm Shinntrained mare.

He was in the bike at Addington last week where they ran a fast-finishing seventh behind Bonnie Joan.

“The draw didn’t help us at all, we got too far back and never really got into it.

“She found the line great though and I’m sure if she had been closer she wouldn’t have been right up there at the finish.

“The grass track should suit her, she’s raced well on them in the past.”

As well as the cup, there’s a massive support card which also features some of the best trotters from around the region including

Harriet Of Mot who looked set to win last week’s Dominion Handicap before a late gallop saw her lose out of commission.

TOP TIPS ■■ BEST BET: Saying Grace (Race 6) First starter from the Greg and Nina Hope stable who looks a very good horse in the making. Should have no problems winning on debut with Ricky May in the bike.

■■ EACH WAY ALL DAY: James Dean (Race 9) Made up a huge amount of ground on Show Day in a pretty smart field. Might not wait for anyone here today if the opportunity presents itself.

■■ LARRY LONGSHOT: Julia Lady (Race 12) Big runs during Cup Week, including nearly stealing her race on Cup Day. Will relish the grass, the trip and the draw – all at a pretty good price.

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Simogramor to keep winning roll going If promising filly Simogramor follows the family pattern she will win the Wentwood Grange Juvenile (1000m) at Te Rapa tomorrow.

The Fastnet Rock two-year-old is a daughter of the top racemare Katie Lee and she has already shown some of her mother’s ability, being a trials winner before finishing a solid second in her debut behind the smart Espumoso at Te Rapa earlier this month.

Katie Lee was also runner-up in her debut and went on to notch her first win in her second start and that was also on the Te Rapa course. And for good measure, Katie Lee’s second foal, Legramor, also found Te Rapa a happy hunting ground in her second start and, like both Katie Lee and Simogramor, she had been runner-up

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on debut.

Simogramor is also eligible for the Karaka Million, but won’t be rushed to be on hand for the $1 million feature at Ellerslie on January 27.

“I’m not going to push her. I’ll let her tell me what she wants to do,” co-trainer Debbie Rogerson said. “I’d like to see her get out of maidens then freshen her. She’s a nice two-year-old.”

Rogerson says Simogramor has some of her mother’s traits, particularly her dislike for wet ground.

“She likes good ground, just like Katie Lee did,” she said. “She got wet tracks for her first two trials and didn’t like it. But when she struck a good track in her next trial, she won well.”

In her debut at Te Rapa, Simogramor showed speed to lead and fought back well when headed by Espumoso, who had also won his debut, at Te Aroha.

“He was over-used and the other horse (Espumoso) was hard and fit and ready,” Rogerson said.

“When you look at the time and sectionals he ran it was a very good run. And the winner is a pretty smart horse.”

It’s no surprise that Rogerson is taking extra interest in Simogramor and her older half-sister Legramor.

“Katie Lee was special to me,” she said. “She had some tough races and never stopped trying.”

Katie Lee won eight races and seven of them were black-type with the obvious highlight being

An inside draw could be the key to an overdue change of fortune for Group One winner Marky Mark at Pukekohe today. Marky Mark has won twice since taking the 2015 Gr.1 Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni, but in several of his subsequent starts he has been unlucky. He lost his rider in the Gr.2 Windsor Park Japan NZ International Trophy (1600m) at Tauranga then copped a check when unplaced at Te Rapa the following month. And again freshup at Ellerslie earlier this month luck didn’t go his way. Marky Mark has drawn the ace in the Fasttrack Insurance 1400 on Saturday and Murdoch is hoping that barrier will enable him to get a softer run and be saved up for his best work at the finish.

Change of headgear Royal Success will have a change of headgear when he attempts to regain winning form at Te Rapa next start. The Savabeel five-yearold was tried in blinkers for the first time when he won narrowly at Rotorua last month and again wore the headgear when going down a head to Natuzzi at Tauranga last Saturday. “He got to the front at Tauranga then the winner ran past him and he came back and had another crack. He didn’t see the other horse until he was headed by him,” co-trainer Stephen Autridge said. “We’re taking the blinkers off and putting a vizor on. “Apart from that, he’s going well. He’ll start next in the Listed Swap (Contractors) Sprint at Te Rapa on Waikato Cup day.”

Stablemates to differ

Simogramor looks promising. her Group One double in the NZ 1000 and 2000 Guineas.

She was the 2010 NZ Bloodstock Filly of the Year.

– NZ Racing Desk

Stablemates Francaletta, Deals In Heels and Coldplay are likely to take different paths after clashing in the Gr.2 NRM Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1400m) at Pukekohe on Saturday.

Francaletta will be out to complete a double after winning the Gr.3 Rich Hill Stud Taranaki Breeders Stakes (1400m) at Hawera last month, while Deals In Heels is also a last-start winner. On the other hand, Coldplay comes into Saturday’s race on the fresh side, having not raced since finishing unplaced in the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings on September 23.

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M8

Banks Peninsula harness Tomorrow at Motukarara Raceway

Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. Venue: Motukarara Raceway (Grass). Meeting Date: November 26. NZ Meeting number: 8. 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 12.05pm (NZT) PDL BY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC AMATEUR DRVRS MBL PACE $7000, 4yo+ up to & including r55 +claimers mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 0085x Zulu Courage (1) fr.......................... C Negus 2 90x07 Live To Tell (2) fr.................................P Cook 3 86590 As Kiwi As (3) fr................................ G Cook 4 44548 Redmaro (4) fr................................. M Hallett 5 000x7 Red Ranger (5) fr..............................W Frost 6 87963 Beaudiene Gambler (6) fr...........P Anderson 7 45127 Royal Jester (7) fr...............................A Edge 8 85x04 Earthbound (8) fr.......................J McDermott 9 5883x Joemaro (9) fr....................................S Wigg 10 01469 Queen Of Glory (21) fr.......................C Wigg 11 42005 All Nuts N Bolts (22) fr.....................N Munro 12 97300 Nerve Of Steel (23) fr......................... W Low 13 20636 Gunpowder (24) fr..................... T Woodward 14 00552 Zakspatrol (25) fr............................ B Wilmott 2 12.30pm NORJO MOTORCYCLES & JEMMETT’S POWERTOOL SERVICE $7500, non-winners 3yo+ trot, stand, 2170m 1 90428 Sage Trouble (1) fr........................M Heenan 2 68908 Masies Pride (2) fr..........................L O’Reilly 3 Westar Maggie (3) fr........................... R May 4 Crusader Conqueror (4) fr.............I Cameron 5 649x Well Defined (5) fr............................. D Dunn 6 000x7 Oak (6) fr.........................................K Adams 7 Brian (7) fr.................................. M Edmonds 8 740x0 Silver Spur (8) fr................................. M Neill 9 35039 Monarco (9) fr.............................. B Hope (J) 10 980x5 Here We Are (10) fr....................... S McNally 11 08666 Tricky Rastus (11) fr...................... P Wakelin 12 6 Scallywag Sam (12) fr.................. B Crothers 13 47776 Show Of Faith (13) fr..........................G Hunt 14 Rue Daunou (14) fr.................. C D Thornley 15 Midnight Memories (15) fr 16 0x924 Shona Mary (16) fr.........................B Orange 17 Skyline (17) fr................................ G O’Reilly 18 7 Champagne Prince (U1) fr.................J Dunn Emergencies: Masies Pride, Crusader Conqueror, Oak, Midnight Memories 3 12.55pm FERN LAW SOLICITORS MOBILE PACE $7500, up to mr46 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 00x00 The Doorman (1) fr.................. C D Thornley 2 900x8 Four Starzzz Legend (2) fr............ S Lethaby 3 93227 Nui Ba Den (3) fr............................ K Butt (J) 4 86503 Clarendon Falcon (4) fr.....................J Young 5 8x407 It’s A Deal (5) fr...........................R Cameron 6 04068 Capital Girl (6) fr...................................K Cox 7 86303 Kylie Ann (7) fr..................................S Ottley 8 4300x Chelsea Ella (8) fr..........................B Orange 9 0997x Rico Gold (9) fr.................................. D Dunn 10 7442x Donegal Carnbouy (21) fr........... C Smith (J) 11 0000x Die Standing (22) fr...................... J Sheenan 12 09809 Bettor Trenz (23) fr............................R Close

M9 Auckland Greyhound Racing Club. Venue: Manukau Stadium. Meeting Date: November 26. NZ Meeting number: 9. 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 1.17pm (NZT) GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C2/3, 318m 1 54555 Nangar Panther 18.53.................D Schofield 2 26188 Kawaii 18.58......................................B Craik 3 36377 Wong Way 18.51 U &.........................Cottam 4 81448 Diva Pose 18.64 M &........................ J Smith 5 36816 Stranger Things 18.92........................B Craik 6 78F34 Fancy Gas 18.70 M &....................... J Smith 7 28372 Southern Blue 18.64...................C M Henley 8 11644 Epic Force 18.63........................... H Mullane 9 12541 Mini Bike 18.52................................. S Clark 10 22644 On Demand 18.88.............................M Black 2 1.35pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C0, 318m 1 52322 Barwon Bandit nwtd....................D Schofield 2 848 Sky Ryder nwtd.................................M Black 3 87 Bright Concept nwtd R &......................L Udy 4 1 Go Home Harry 18.77....................... S Clark 5 6825 Billy Bullet nwtd..............................H R Scott 6 23331 Brick With Eyes 18.68 R &...........N O’Regan 7 8333 Atlas Shrugged nwtd..................... H Mullane 8 23832 Warrior Tony nwtd U &.......................Cottam 9 5 Jetsun Paint nwtd............................G Wilson 10 27F44 Surge Ahead nwtd R &........................L Udy 3 1.52pm STITCHES UPHOLSTERY SERIES FINAL C0f, 527m

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13 56540 Jemima Franco (24) fr......................J W Cox 14 8235x Gotta Ticket (25) fr.............................J Dunn 4 1.25pm STALLIONS AUSTRALASIA TROT $8000, 3yo+ up to & including r55 trot, stand, 2170m 1 00085 Princess Harbour (1) fr...................R Holmes 2 x6383 Troy Castleton (2) fr....................... S McNally 3 8x830 Flyinova (3) fr................................ J Wheeler 4 44150 Motu Great Sensation (4) fr....... B Borcoskie 5 69214 Ruthless Success (5) fr.............. L McKay (J) 6 100x5 Kai Time (6) fr............................ M Edmonds 7 837x1 Xmas Joyella (7) fr...................... M Lewis (J) 8 714x5 Bacardi N Coke (8) fr............... C D Thornley 9 0Px06 Idle Boys (9) fr................................B Orange 10 68263 Hot N Fast (10) fr..................... S O’Reilly (J) 11 85036 Agatha Tyron (11) fr.......................P O’Reilly 12 8x517 Zsa Zoe (12) fr......................S Tomlinson (J) 13 70140 Sea Rover (13) fr..........................T McMillan 14 0639x Natives Lasting Love (14) fr........ K Cameron 15 72741 Bright Glow (15) fr.........................I Cameron 16 3x438 We’ll Meet Again (16) fr.................... J Smith 17 06434 Time For Diamonds (17) fr.................. J Ford 18 6087x The God Botherer (U1) fr............B Munro (J) Emergencies: Princess Harbour, Kai Time, Idle Boys, The God Botherer 5 2.00pm CRAYTHORNES HOTEL MOBILE PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+ mr46 to mr50 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 7540 Downtown Train (1) fr........................ D Dunn 2 9 Shot In The Dark (2) fr.................... A Faulks 3 9 Lilbitbettor (3) fr..............................R Holmes 4 Sounds Bettor (4) fr........................L O’Reilly 5 84 Machs Mareta (5) fr........................ K Butt (J) 6 0x0x Viewfield Navajo (6) fr............ O Thornley (J) 7 Comin At Ya (7) fr..................... L McCormick 8 Tracksarefortrains (8) fr....................... R May 9 00x Grin For Gold (9) fr................... C R Thornley 10 80x Franco Rebel (21) fr................. C D Thornley 11 x9477 Awayovernight (22) fr.......................R Payne 12 8855 Gore Bay (23) fr...........................N McGrath 13 7454x Tom Me Gun (24) fr....................... G O’Reilly 14 57x24 Life Lavros fr................................. Scratched 15 8 A Better Destiny (25) fr........................K Cox Emergency: Grin For Gold 6 2.35pm THE FAMOUS GROUSE JUNIOR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ r40 to r70, r71 to r75 with cond. mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2000m 1 x4726 Claus (1) fr.................................. L Lester (J) 2 0810x Shadowman (2) fr............................K Gill (J) 3 21x95 Pirate Bay (3) fr.....................M Anderson (J) 4 44828 Highland Reign (4) fr.................. C Purvis (J) 5 96x13 Zimfandel (5) fr......................... S O’Reilly (J) 6 417x3 Mac Almighty (6) fr......................... K Butt (J) 7 7x001 Mr Woodlea (7) fr.................... J Morrison (J) 8 1128x Bakari (8) fr...........................S Tomlinson (J) 9 33333 Lovetodream (9) fr.................A Fitzgerald (J) 10 07870 Glenferrie Classic (21) fr............ L McKay (J) 11 4400x Mossdale Rose (22) fr.................. B Hope (J) 12 73800 Pantastic (23) fr...........................B Munro (J) 13 8x290 Pay Me Visa (24) fr...................... D Keast (J)

14 4730x Scotlynn Mach (25) fr............. J Markham (J) 7 3.10pm NZ SAFETY MOBILE PACE $8000, r46 to r49, r50 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 92990 Earthquake (1) fr............................... D Dunn 2 0x69P Passion Flower (2) fr......................B Orange 3 8808x Selena Franco (3) fr................. C D Thornley 4 40x00 Kiel (4) fr.................................. L McCormick 5 10998 Classie Cullect (5) fr...................... G O’Reilly 6 5190x Sharknado (6) fr........................N Purdon (J) 7 80363 Regal Suzy (7) fr................................. R May 8 0x807 Mister Slick (8) fr............................R Holmes 9 x7802 Classie Margaret (9) fr.........................K Cox 10 0x027 King Size (21) fr.................................J Dunn 11 17070 Cullenmore (22) fr.............................S Ottley 12 40890 Glenisthebettor (23) fr.................... K Butt (J) 8 3.45pm NICK’S PETFOOD AND TRICES FIREWOOD MOBILE PACE $8000, r40 to r44 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 87000 Red River Lochee (1) fr............ C D Thornley 2 0850x Lolita Franco (2) fr............................... R May 3 86068 Sicilian Secret (3) fr.....................I Schwamm 4 x0949 Idealagain (4) fr..............................B Orange 5 9249x Hes Fast And Furious (5) fr......... C Smith (J) 6 75569 Uralla Sue (6) fr..............................L O’Reilly 7 58543 Opawa Mach (7) fr...................... K Cameron 8 06080 Franco Caliph (8) fr...........................J Young 9 68x00 Tufflittlerooster (9) fr..........................R Close 10 56545 Man Of Steel (21) fr........................T Chmiel 11 09090 Pegasus Kommander (22) fr..... J Kennett (J) 12 67098 Nova Time (23) fr..........................T Williams 13 050x0 Ireby Meg (24) fr.............................H Hunter 9 4.20pm BRANDHOUSE MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ r56 to r60 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 05434 Kardesler (1) fr.................................R Payne 2 x15P0 Linton Shard (2) fr............................. D Dunn 3 4x207 Cole Porter (3) fr........................... G O’Reilly 4 5800x Buckeye (4) fr.................................J Geddes 5 33661 Sounds Lika Gem (5) fr..................L O’Reilly 6 04010 Marat Saf Finn (6) fr..........................J Young 7 22590 Laytons Lass (7) fr..........................T Chmiel 8 31601 For The Corz (8) fr.........................B Orange 9 39180 Westar Sam (9) fr 10 00x71 Franco Exeter (21) fr................... D Keast (J) 11 510x0 Calendar Girlz (22) fr............... C D Thornley 12 27902 Clive (23) fr.............................. C R Thornley 10 4.56pm CHALLENGE LINCOLN MOBILE TROT $8500, 3yo+ up to & including r63 mob. trot, mobile, 2000m 1 0x075 Veneto (1) fr.............................. J Kennett (J) 2 797x7 Rachmaninov (2) fr.................. C R Thornley 3 6087x The God Botherer (3) fr...............B Munro (J) 4 00090 Rusty I Am (4) fr............................ P Wakelin 5 0P000 Unique Marshall (5) fr....................B Orange 6 04364 Majestic Moment (6) fr...................S Golding 7 x5011 B D Son (7) fr....................... J Harrington (J) 8 1457x Beg Hall (8) fr................................. K Butt (J) 9 x2130 Momentous (9) fr...............................S Ottley 10 20610 Dragon Boy (21) fr..........................R Holmes 11 52132 Sugar Cane (22) fr............... D D McCormick

Ricky May will be in action at Motukarara tomorrow.

12 6948x Just A Dude (23) fr................... C D Thornley 13 65D80 Soney Beatt (24) fr................S Tomlinson (J) 14 44856 Medusa (25) fr.................................. G Smith 11 5.31pm HSW ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r50 to r54 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 00x10 Eye Candy (1) fr............................ G O’Reilly 2 08789 Stop Means Stop (2) fr....................T Chmiel 3 74204 Red Under Fire (3) fr......................B Orange 4 x8614 Belle Of Brooklyn (4) fr......................S Ottley 5 0x816 Rah De Rah (5) fr.............................J W Cox 6 85910 Westy Ranger (6) fr...........................R Close 7 5190x Franco Lamar (7) fr............................. R May 8 37217 Just Dance (8) fr............................... D Dunn 9 41060 Vyndetta (9) fr.................................. G Smith 10 17030 Lucy Diamond (21) fr........................ G Ward 11 23215 Make Us Grin (22) fr......................L O’Reilly 12 49048 Leading The Way (23) fr................ S McNally 13 39807 Raising Hope (24) fr..................N Purdon (J) Pacifiers on : Franco Rebel (R5), Sharknado (R7) Pacifiers off : It’s A Deal (R3)

Selections

4 55342 Beautiful Boy 30.58............................B Craik 5 Box Vacant 6 26631 Unbeknown nwtd...............................E Potts 7 22243 Pat Tama 30.72................................. S Clark 8 15164 El Narco 30.69.................................P Green 9 3.37pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 34236 Space Oddity 18.66...........................B Craik 2 25111 I’m A Leo 18.60............................L Laagland 3 65572 Bigtime Amelia 18.83...................... G Farrell 4 63263 Umaga Rama 18.61..........................M Black 5 53211 Scott Tied Up 18.63 U &....................Cottam 6 46156 Bigtime Moola 18.69 R &.....................L Udy 7 75638 Ken Wilde 18.63............................ H Mullane 8 33353 Opawa Rocket 18.86 W &................T Steele 9 31877 Unconscionable 18.71 R &..................L Udy 10 41887 Was Just Saying 18.79 R &.................L Udy 10 3.54pm PLASTERBOARD STAKES C3/4, 527m 1 42312 Stay Away Haydo 30.70................... T Green 2 56318 Global Conquest 30.27 W &.............T Steele 3 26455 Beaumont 30.65.................................B Craik 4 28121 Yooldome 30.59..........................D Schofield 5 26451 Jinja Squeak 30.48 W &...................T Steele 6 126x6 Zipping Silva nwtd.......................D Schofield 7 78716 Beltom 30.42...............................D Schofield 8 33534 Electric Lotto 30.87.....................P Ferguson 11 4.12pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C4/5, 318m 1 47486 Classy Impact 18.56........................ T Green 2 17488 Mega Munchies 18.61 U &.................Cottam 3 71713 Sun Is Shining 18.56..........................B Craik

4 11534 Tumbalaioo 18.45........................P Ferguson 5 12466 Hallo Star 18.23 R &............................L Udy 6 37272 Formation 18.60.................................B Craik 7 x7224 Mrs Browns Girl nwtd R &............N O’Regan 8 12121 Highland Laddie 18.36.................. H Mullane 9 18478 Irinka Darcy 18.51............................S Codlin 12 4.29pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN SERIES FINAL C1f, 527m 1 24711 My Red Hero 30.99 D R &................. D Hunt 2 78342 Jetsun Stampede 31.39..................G Wilson 3 68762 Cawbourne Eden nwtd..................R McPhee 4 26262 Idol Ajay nwtd W &...........................T Steele 5 33214 Opawa Loyal 31.12........................... S Clark 6 26841 Untouchable 31.43...........................P Green 7 12211 Secret Lily 30.82 W &.......................T Steele 8 43426 Twelve Gauge nwtd...........................M Black 9 45483 It’s Electric nwtd..........................C M Henley 10 35283 Goldstar Holly nwtd......................... G Farrell 13 4.47pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 72633 Allegro Cody 18.67 D R &.................. D Hunt 2 57543 Call My Name 18.51..........................B Craik 3 5F277 Microphone 19.07........................... G Farrell 4 86F56 Hows Your Mum 18.62 U &................Cottam 5 74767 Doug Deep nwtd R &...........................L Udy 6 63447 Blocker 18.81 R &........................N O’Regan 7 25571 Gimme Hot Chips 18.56 U &..............Cottam 8 67755 Zipping Maro nwtd............................ S Clark 9 54674 Howlin’ Ace nwtd..............................S Codlin 10 57x67 Girl Cina 18.70.................................T Patton

3 73 Pukerua (7) 57.5................................L Innes 4 4374 Rodolfo (12) 57.5........................R Elliot (a1) 5 7 El Coolio (6) 57.5........................ L Satherley 6 67 Jonny Russ (5) 57.5.........................J Riddell 7 9 Verry Flash (10) 57.5..........S Weatherley (a) 8 763x2 Fiscal Fantasy (3) 55.5.................T Thornton 9 562 Replica (9) 55.5...........................M Cameron 10 563 Konstantina (11) 55.5................... D Johnson 11 5 Katie Perrie (1) 55.5.........................S Collett 12 6x98 Anevay 55.5.................................. Scratched 13 Misstumut (2) 55.5....................... C Johnson 14 9 Reflection (4) 55.5...................J Fawcett (a3) 15 7 Spectra 55.5.................................. Scratched 7 4.38pm COOLMORE AUSTRALIA 1600 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 31056 Savasava dm (13) 59................... C Johnson 2 249x7 Slice Of Cake td (4) 58.5.................V Colgan 3 510x0 Kirkenes d (5) 58..............................J Riddell 4 1x605 Tobi d (12) 58.......................................C Dell 5 70x00 Black Lace (9) 57.......................T Wenn (a3) 6 6x1x5 Inscription (6) 57.................S Weatherley (a) 7 41 Ivy’s Court d (7) 57........................... S Spratt 8 23391 New Crown (11) 57..........................S Collett 9 07x44 Courtmaster (3) 57..................... M D Plessis 10 23410 Miss Campbell m (8) 56.5............... J Bayliss 11 1x448 Repeat m (2) 56.5........................ D Johnson 12 1 O’Hara t (14) 55.5.......................M Coleman

13 20x97 Indian Maid (1) 55.......................M Cameron 14 68x30 Korakonui (10) 55...............................L Innes 8 5.13pm STABLECRAFT 1200 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 1x0x Crux d (15) 59.....................G Saejorhor (a4) 2 7x09x King’s Cross (12) 59..................... D Johnson 3 23x88 Amastar tdm (14) 58.5............... M D Plessis 4 16440 Colorado Bay m (10) 58.5................J Riddell 5 420x6 Eprouvez td (4) 58.5....................... J Bayliss 6 1. Aligns With Me m (13) 58.............T Thornton 7 3037x Showpin d (1) 58.............................. S Spratt 8 7x24x Miss Horotiu b (8) 57.5................M Coleman 9 7491x Aileen Grace (2) 57.............S Weatherley (a) 10 17x82 Orphea d (11) 57...............................L Innes 11 5910x Scarlet Princess 57....................... Scratched 12 0x10x She’s Flossie dm (7) 56.5.........J Nason (a2) 13 4x1 Chouxs Wisely (3) 56.......................S Collett 14 32064 Saignon dm (16) 55.5.................. C Johnson 15 7x807 Fast And Furious d (6) 57 16 x800x Kaharoa Rose (5) 55 17 813x4 Aquilo m (9) 58 Emergencies: Fast And Furious, Kaharoa Rose, Aquilo Blinkers on : Heat Seeker (R2), Fast Finance (R5), Fiscal Fantasy, Reflection (R6). Blinkers off : Verry Flash (R6) Winkers on : Kittykittybangbang (R4), Jonny Russ (R6), Inscription (R7), Amastar (R8). Winkers off : Fiscal Fantasy (R6)

Race 1: Zakspatrol, Joemaro, Royal Jester, Gunpowder Race 2: Westar Maggie, Monarco, Brian, Skyline Race 3: Nui Ba Den, Kylie Ann, Clarendon Falcon, Capital Girl Race 4: Troy Castleton, Ruthless Success, Flyinova, Agatha Tyron Race 5: Sounds Bettor, Gore Bay, Franco Rebel Race 6: Mac Almighty, Lovetodream, Highland Reign, Bakari Race 7: Classie Margaret, Selena Franco, Regal Suzy, King Size Race 8: Opawa Mach, Man Of Steel, Hes Fast And Furious, Uralla Sue Race 9: Kardesler, Cole Porter, For The Corz, Sounds Lika Gem Race 10: Majestic Moment, B D Son, Momentous, Medusa Race 11: Just Dance, Belle Of Brooklyn, Make Us Grin, Eye Candy

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 1 44724 Phuket Paul nwtd.............................S Codlin 2 5 Stensness nwtd............................. H Mullane 3 33x61 Tullabung Googar 31.58..............P Ferguson 4 24651 Wee Meredith 31.46......................... L Martin 5 65x43 Secret Hombre nwtd........................T Patton 6 48783 Deception Diva nwtd W &................T Steele 7 212 Home Bound nwtd........................... T Green 8 7848 Jetsun Woody nwtd.........................G Wilson 9 84655 Wairoa Racer nwtd........................ H Mullane 10 7236 Jetsun Swan nwtd...........................G Wilson 4 2.10pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C4, 318m 1 66368 Shot Gun Harry 18.68................... H Mullane 2 51465 King Shaq 18.47.............................. T Green 3 42364 Kapai Lana 18.61 R &..........................L Udy 4 67416 Bodyguard 18.66................................B Craik 5 24253 Ekali 18.42...................................... G Farrell 6 43212 Fantastic Sid 18.49.....................D Schofield 7 64215 Waerenga Star 18.63 U &..................Cottam 8 17334 Beat The Butcher 18.36 R &................L Udy 9 74765 Raging Demon 18.48 R &....................L Udy 10 38587 On Fleek 18.65..................................B Craik 5 2.27pm HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY BRIAN DELAMORE C1, 527m 1 35283 Goldstar Holly nwtd......................... G Farrell 2 51633 Uno Twenty Five nwtd..................... G Farrell 3 6157 Hatshepsut 31.27...............................B Craik 4 21252 Alyeska nwtd......................................B Craik 5 51388 Sue Zooki nwtd................................ T Green 6 31F55 Salvarotti 30.89...........................D Schofield 7 36885 Jack No Lag 31.51.......................... Y Castro 8 45483 It’s Electric nwtd..........................C M Henley

9 61156 Mai Meng 31.14.................................B Craik 10 22488 Zarzuella 31.28................................S Codlin 6 2.45pm WWW.AGRC.CO.NZ SPRINT C1, 318m 1 24341 Jetsun Jamie 18.73.........................G Wilson 2 58558 Don’t Brag 18.44........................... H Mullane 3 27255 Zimmer Frame nwtd R &......................L Udy 4 22561 Hey Khali 18.67 U &...........................Cottam 5 46442 Agistri 18.68.................................... G Farrell 6 13152 Statman Dave 18.76...................H Laagland 7 65762 Nasa 18.78.........................................B Craik 8 18474 Red Dee 18.53.................................P Green 9 13876 Swift Order nwtd.........................C M Henley 10 76674 Rocky McAwesome 18.75 U &...........Cottam 7 3.02pm PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD STAKES C1/2, 527m 1 12324 San Tan Samson 30.68.................... T Green 2 28434 Zipping Ringo 31.09 D R &................ D Hunt 3 35424 Princess Alea 31.02....................C M Henley 4 77216 Kapai Bart 31.16 W &......................T Steele 5 55463 Electric Dee Eye 30.88....................P Green 6 82626 Little Bit Silly 30.93......................D Schofield 7 74853 Barwon Annie 31.02....................D Schofield 8 55836 Opawa Kuru 30.35 W &...................T Steele 9 46344 Thrilling Riot 30.97 U &......................Cottam 10 15684 Monkey Bars nwtd...........................C Steele 8 3.19pm NZ RACING SERIES ADVANCED FINAL NZRSf, 527m 1 23521 Westworld 30.37................................B Craik 2 22526 Cristiane Cyborg 30.34................. H Mullane 3 618x7 Joe Joe 30.13....................................M Flipp

Cambridge gallops Tomorrow at Te Rapa Racecourse

Cambridge Jockey Club. Venue: Te Rapa. Meeting date: November 26. NZ meeting number: 6. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8. Trebles : 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8.

1 1.08pm (NZT) WENTWOOD GRANGE JUVENILE MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 2YO, 1000m 1 3 Our Beeskees 57.5....................... Scratched 2 6 Kapalka 57.5................................. Scratched 3 2 Simogramor (7) 55.5..........................L Innes 4 Autumn Wild (6) 55.5 5 5 Elle D’Berry (5) 55.5...................R Elliot (a1) 6 She’s A Thief (2) 55.5...................... J Bayliss 7 Imelda Mary (3) 55.5...................M Cameron 8 Luvlucy (1) 55.5..............................V Colgan 9 Pushmee (4) 55.5........................C Lammas 2 1.43pm LANGSFORD-N & G LTD 1200 MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 33x Ming’s Emperor (3) 58.5...................M Vance 2 4 Clarios (5) 58.5.......................J Fawcett (a3) 3 Pinsman (11) 58.5 4 6x6 Forever Blue (8) 58.5.......................J Riddell 5 0x0 All Trumped Up (7) 58.5......S Weatherley (a) 6 0x Heat Seeker (12) 58.5.............B Morgenrood 7 26x Come In Spinner (6) 57......................L Innes 8 925x8 Midsummer Magic (1) 56.5.............. S Spratt 9 660x3 Our Showgirl (9) 56.5...................... J Bayliss 10 47x94 Thelma (2) 56.5................................S Collett

11 Capucine (4) 56.5.......................M Cameron 12 Situla Star (10) 56.5.................... L Satherley 3 2.18pm RANDAL JUDD MEMORIAL 1200 MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 x4942 Raposa Rapida (14) 57.5 2 3. Pinnacle (10) 57.5...............S Weatherley (a) 3 Master Painton (2) 57.5..................M McNab 4 7x Sir Linwood (8) 57.5...................B Hutton (a) 5 66 The Swiss Maestro (4) 57.5.............J Riddell 6 Lo Schiaffo (9) 57.5......................T Thornton 7 Princeville (6) 57.5........................... S Spratt 8 2 Actressa (3) 55.5................................L Innes 9 3 Power O’Hata (5) 55.5................M Cameron 10 Damesel (12) 55.5 11 Vendella (13) 55.5...........................V Colgan 12 0 Miss Freelove (7) 55.5................M Coleman 13 Sandrine (15) 55.5....................... C Johnson 14 Za Za Gabor (1) 55.5...................... J Bayliss 15 Sirvolk (11) 57.5 Emergency: Sirvolk 4 2.53pm MONOVALE SAND 1400 MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 2 Darci de Luca (3) 58.5................ L Satherley 2 746x Felaar (11) 58.5.............................M McNab 3 5680x Cape Ceilidh (6) 58.5...................... J Bayliss 4 5532 Simply Optimistic (4) 57............... D Johnson

5 2 Each Way (5) 57 6 Albut Me (9) 57...................................M Hills 7 Sacred Tonic (8) 57............................L Innes 8 x4275 Kittykittybangbang (13) 56.5 9 3 La Estrella (10) 56.5 10 339x5 Top Actress (2) 56.5......................... S Spratt 11 x080x Amelia (14) 56.5........................J Nason (a2) 12 8x4 Chiquitita (12) 55..............................S Collett 13 Marcellina (7) 55.........................M Cameron 14 Respin (1) 55..................................V Colgan 5 3.28pm PORRITT SAND 1600m MAIDEN $10,000 1 534x4 Redcayenne (7) 58.5.......................V Colgan 2 3 Ripley (6) 58.5..................................J Riddell 3 0x305 Makfactor (10) 58.5 4 70x4 Prince Jabeel (5) 58.5........................L Innes 5 00x9 Daytona Red (8) 58.5................... C Johnson 6 7 Startling Reminder (4) 58.5......... L Satherley 7 00 Fast Finance (1) 57.....................R Elliot (a1) 8 3236x Artiste (2) 56.5............................M Cameron 9 3204x Imeldas Girl (9) 56.5........................S Collett 10 735x3 Queen El Jay (3) 56.5.................M Coleman 11 9605. Xtrapenny (11) 56.5.....................T Thornton 6 4.03pm SPRAYLINK WEED SPRAYING 1600 MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1600m 1 2 Each Way (8) 57.5.......................M Coleman 2 2 Unnameable (13) 57.5...................M McNab

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Tomic must battle open wildcard playoff Bernard Tomic will have to fight for an Australian Open wildcard, with Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt saying he needs to see more from the tennis bad boy.

Injury-plagued Thanasi Kokkinakis was this week awarded a discretionary wildcard but Tomic won’t be given the same guaranteed start.

Plummeting to 143 from a career high world No.17 in 2016, Tomic has been invited to compete in a 16-man field in the wildcard playoff in Melbourne in December, although is yet to accept the invitation.

Hewitt said Tomic was unsure of his plans for the summer when he spoke to him a few weeks ago, although his management said would enter into qualifying for Brisbane and the Open.

“He’s had a tough year and he needs matches and he’s got to put himself out there on the line to have a crack at making the Open,” said Hewitt,speaking at the launch of Smash MND, which is a pre-Open Jimmy Barnes concert to raise money for Motor Neurone Disease.

“We all know the kind of tennis he can play but he has to get back to that level and he also needs to commit to the sport as well and we won’t be making any more wildcard decisions until we see what happens in the playoffs.”

Hewitt said Tomic playing a Challenger event, which was a second-round loss in Slovakia, in his last tournament of the year was a step in the right direction for the 25-year-old.

Tomic has progressed to the fourth round three times at Melbourne Park and suffered a third-round loss this year.

Bernard Tomic Should he fail to win the playoff event, Tennis Australia still has four other remaining wildcards.

Hewitt said the Australian Open men’s title was wide open, with some of the regular contenders such as veterans Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray sidelined for much of the year through injury.

Hewitt said he’d been impressed by Australia’s No.1 Nick Kyrgios through the Davis Cup campaign and felt he’d matured.

“Coming in a lot of the top guys from the previous years are going to be seeded a lot lower because they haven’t played really for the last six months so there’s going to be a question mark on how they come in and how their bodies are holding up,” Hewitt said. “(Roger) Federer is going to go in as favourite as age 36 but there’s going to some opportunities for some young guys to stand up and maybe win a grand slam.”

– AAP

■■HOCKEY

Black Sticks face England in semifinals New Zealand must overcome world No.2 England if they are to advance to the final of the Hockey World League Final tournament in Auckland.

The semi-final schedule was determined on Thursday when England beat the United States 2-1 and the Netherlands accounted for China 4-0 in the last quarter- finals.

The fifth-ranked Black Sticks advanced to the last four a day earlier, putting a winless record in pool play behind them to upset Argentina 2-1.

Their match against England on Friday is the first time the teams have met since the Champions Trophy in Mendoza three years ago, when New Zea-

land won 3-1.

The top-ranked Dutch will start firm favourites against ninth-ranked South Korea in the second semi-final on Saturday.

The Netherlands have yet to concede a goal and notched big wins over South Korea (3-0) and New Zealand (4-0) in group play.

Schedule: Friday: Argentina v Germany (classification).

NZ v England (semi-final).

Saturday: USA v China (classification).

Netherlands v Korea (semifinal).

– NZN

Joseph Parker

Parker accused of degrading title Boxing superstar Anthony Joshua has accused the camp of Kiwi counterpart Joseph Parker of degrading the WBO heavyweight title, as they attempt to engineer a 2018 fight with the British heavyweight.

Parker and promoter David Higgins laid out their final negotiating position on Wednesday in Auckland, asking for 35 per cent of the bout’s net profits.

If their demands are not met, they’ll give up on claiming Joshua’s scalp and pursue a trans-Tasman bout with Australian Lucas Browne in the new year.

Parker’s camp also suggested the 28-year-old Joshua – the unbeaten IBF and WBA champion – has a glass jaw, in stark

contrast to their own fighter.

On vacation in Dubai, Joshua hit back, saying he’d have no trouble knocking out Parker, who has underwhelmed in his two WBO defences.

The 25-year-old Parker has required points to down both Romanian Razvan Cojanu and Briton Hughie Fury, having won the WBO belt in December 2016.

Joshua felt the Aucklander was degrading his belt with his antics.

“Does he want publicity? Is it a PR stunt?” Joshua told British media.

“What’s so difficult about fighting this little kid who’s doing press conferences? It’s very unprofessional of them – the heavyweight

championship is such a respected title to have, but stuff like that takes away from the creme-de-la -creme of the title.

“They need to put their egos aside and stop doing silly things.”

Hearn, meanwhile, told Sky Sports UK he’d watched Higgins’ slightly disorganised press conference, but still wouldn’t agree to a 35 per cent cut.

But he agreed Parker deserved more than 25 per cent.

Higgins considered that progress, having been initially offered a lowball 20 per cent by Joshua’s camp, but wouldn’t accept less than 35 per cent.

He said the offer was non-negotiable.

– NZME

■■PERU

Peru’s world cup spot in doubt Peru’s spot at the Fifa World Cup could be in jeopardy following reports of the Peruvian government planning to take control of the football association.

The South American country booked the final place in the 2018 Fifa World Cup after beating the All Whites 2-0 in a playoff series last week.

However, there is a slim chance the likes of New Zealand, Italy or Chile could replace Peru at the tournament.

According to Libero, Congresswoman Paloma Noceda wants the Institute of Sport to control the Peru football association.

FIFA has a very strong stance

on governments taking control of football associations and could go as far as the extreme approach and exclude Peru from the World Cup in Russia.

It would then be up to Fifa to decide on which country they invite to the tournament.

“If any association withdraws or is excluded from the competition, the FIFA Organising Committee shall decide on the matter at its sole discretion and take whatever action is deemed necessary,” read the Fifa regulations.

“The FIFA Organising Committee may in particular decide to replace the association in question with another association.”

If Fifa went on rankings then Chile would get the nod, currently ranked 10th in the latest World rankings. Chile finished sixth in South American qualifying, behind Peru on goal difference.

Italy, ranked 14th in the latest, were knocked out in the UEFA qualifying playoffs by Sweden, however Fifa regulations state only 13 European teams can play at a World Cup. USA could also be in the mix if it was a financial decision by Fifa. The All Whites could claim they would be the fairest decision since they were knocked out by Peru.

-NZME

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

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PAINTER & DECORATOR Phone 03 307 4200 022 698 7358 No obligation free quotes

Farms, factories, commercial buildings, private homes, club rooms, sheds, etc.

Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Services include but not limited to:

• Minor repairs • Roof painting • Spouting cleaning • Water blasting • Mould and moss treatment • Airless spraying

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE ALL YEAR ROUND

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electriCOOL Ltd 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.

PROTECT YOUR HOUSE FROM SPIDERS AND FLIES Locally owned and operated for 25 years

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Your local authorised Freeview installer Commercial TV systems Extra phone points TV wall mounting Future proof pre-wire of new homes Authorised Sky installer Home theatre installation

ASHBURTON TV & AUDIO LTD Ph 308-7332 or 027-277-1062

Glass Fences Custom made for it

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

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

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Weekend Services

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Emergency Dentist

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

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. Ashburton Health First, Havelock Street, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Please phone 0800 700 155 for an appointment.

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. Consultation will be by appointment only. To make an appointment please phone 0800 700 155.

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

HELPLINE SERVICES Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24 hr Rape and Sexual

Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm Methven & Rakaia Area For weekend and emergency services please phone 302 outside of these hours leave a message.

8105 for details on how to access the after hours service Alcohol Drug Help Line each weekend.

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Pharmacies Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, Lifeline - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353. will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday. From 5pm - 7pm both evenings.

Ashburton Rest Homes

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

Bus Departures

Art Gallery

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm - Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Ashburton Museum

ANIMAL SERVICES

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm

Alcoholics Anonymous

Victims Support Group

COMMUNITY SERVICES

Ashburton Public Library

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24h/sce.

Mid Canterbury Spca

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - 308 4432.

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter - Contact -

Mail Closing Times

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Seafield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

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

Information Centres

Methven Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com

Daily Events

President 021 1356 969.

Veterinarians

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

November 25, 26 & 27, 2017

Saturday

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday.

Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

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

Main Street, Methven.

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. 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.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet, singles and doubles. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. (draw) Golf croquet, casual doubles for all ages.

The domain, Philip Street.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Play association or golf croquet.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Social play, new members welcome. 115 Racecourse Road.

Sunday

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Volunteers Day, worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo, 48 Allen’s Road, Allenton.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST BARING SQUARE CHURCH. Morning worship, all welcome. Rev Tevita Taufalele. Baring Square East.

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

Main Street, Methven.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship, celebrating St Andrew’s Day, festival of Christ the King. Sinclair Centre. Park Street.

10am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. No service at St Paul’s. Worship service at St James, Tinwald followed by congregational meeting at 11am. 127 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

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

11am - 4pm PLAINS RAILWAY COMBINED CRAFT GROUP. Craft people welcome, bring a friend and spend an enjoyable day. Phone 308-5911 or 307-2802. Plains Museum, 19 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

11.15am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Greenstreet Country Service, Greenstreet Staveley Road.

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. (draw to be done) Golf croquet casual doubles for all ages. The domain, Philip Street.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

Monday

9am PLAINS LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Meet at the Balmoral Hall car park on Cameron Street in Ashburton to car pool for meeting at Lake Hood.

9am - 4pm HAKATERE CERAMICS. Annual Exhibition 24 Nov - 1 Dec. Emmily Harmer Photography and Framing. West Street.

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

Main Street, Methven.

12pm - 1pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Free lunch for everyone. Baptist Church, please enter off Cass Street.

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. Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

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

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE EUCHRE. Every Monday night, Catholic Parish Hall, cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot and cold food and drinks. North End West Street car park, Ashburton.

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Local crafts, new stalls welcome. West Street Car park.

8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am GOLF TOURNAMENT - HELP NINA FIGHT CANCER. 9am shotgun start. $120 per team, max 4 players. Lunch provided, raffles and prizes. Tinwald Golf Club, Frasers Road.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9am - 4pm HAKATERE CERAMICS. 24 - Nov - 1 Dec. Annual exhibition at Emmily Harmer Photography and Framing. West Street.

R.S.A. WOMENS SECTION. Reminder - Christmas Dinner to be paid to Catherine by 30 November, thanks.

6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

MACHINE OPERATOR / STOREMAN Ashburton

Luisetti Seeds is a significant provider of grain and seed processing in the Canterbury region as well as supplying seed both nationally and internationally. An opportunity has arisen for a Seed Cleaning Plant Operator/Storeman to start in January 2018.

Key responsibilities will include: • Operating a high output, modern, seed cleaning plant • General yard duties including assisting with the intake and dispatch functions You will need to be organised, logical and fit and have a willingness to work extended hours over the harvest period. You should be mechanically minded and be able to work in a team environment. Although a knowledge of agriculture would be desirable, an ability to operate machinery is critical for this position.

Seed cleaning experience and a forklift licence would be an advantage but is not essential.

Applications should detail recent relevant experience, qualifications and references.

Applications close Friday, December 8, 2017.

Customer Service Person Building Supplies department Mitre 10 MEGA Ashburton, have an opportunity available for someone to join their team. The position involves working in our Building Supplies department in a sales role. This position is approximately 32 hours per week and will include a weekend day.

To be successful, applicants will have: • Ability to work in a team environment • Interest in building/D.I.Y • Excellent customer service skills • Fit and able to lift • Reliability • Able to use initiative The position offers great job satisfaction, support of the leading Trade & DIY retailer in Mid Canterbury. In return we offer fantastic staff buying privileges and solid job security.

Please email your C.V. and covering letter to: HR.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Lyn Church, Human Resources, Mitre 10 MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton. 7740.

All applications close on Monday, November 27, 2017.

Applications will be treated and viewed in confidence.

Please apply to: Luisetti Seeds Ltd PO Box 77, Rangiora 7440 Attention: Susan West Or admin@luisettiseeds.co.nz

SITUATIONS VACANT

Guardian Real Esate

307 7900

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

Compliance Partners is a boutique consultancy providing Health and safety, HR and Occupational Health services to the farming sector throughout Canterbury. We are very keen to secure a dynamic person to join the team as an Advisor who has knowledge and experience in applying health and safety.

What you will be doing?

• Coach and mentor clients to enable them to build their health and safety capability on farm; • Provide specialist/best practice Health and Safety advice and guidance; • Build their own client base; • Keep up to date with changes and interpretation of the HSWA. We are looking for an experienced advisor who knows how to build client relationships with a working knowledge and understanding of HSWA 2015. Ideally you will have a good understanding of the rural sector.

If this sounds like your next opportunity then apply with a cover letter and CV today to:

info@cp.org.nz.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

CASUAL STAFF CASUAL STAFF Required for kennels

andkennels cattery.and cattery.

Required for Must be available work Will need to have atogood rapport withand animals to be weekends schooland holidays. available for weekends and holiday periods.

Phone Phone 302 2859 302 2859 after 6.30pm

Guardian Situations Vacant

Job Positions Available Due to growth and development of the Business, Hotel Ashburton is hiring for immediate start the following positions:

Duty Manager Chef de Partie Commis Chef Waiter/Waitress

To apply, please email cover letter and CV to: accounts@hotelash. co.nz

307 7900

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Learning Support Assistant – Alternative Education Programme (Community Entry Programme)

We are looking for an additional staff member to work within the programme.

This is a term-time only position of 27.5 hours per week.

Commencement from start of Term 1 2018.

Employment is under the Support Staff in School’s Collective Agreement, Grade B.

Invitation to all PAST and PRESENT people who were members of The Meat Workers Union

To a Final farewell - Reunion evening.

Saturday, December 2 Celtic Rugby Club, Keenan’s Road 4pm to 11pm Bar closing - 10pm Food - Platters and light food from 7.30pm Drinks - Beer, low Alc Beer, Wine, Rtd’s, provided Transport - Vans every half hour from 3.30pm from clock tower.

Drop offs from 7.30pm.

No kids, no partners.

Funded by Darcy Lysaght shop sales.

LET OR LEASE

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.

Applications close noon, Monday 4 December 2017.

Information package enquiries and applications please contact: Jodee Ross, Principal’s Secretary Phone (03) 308 4193 ext 809 Email: rj@ashcoll.school.nz Ashburton College, PO Box 204, Ashburton 7740

All families of prospective New Entrants to Tinwald School from December 2017 to June 2018 are invited to an Information Meeting on Thursday, November 30 at 9.30am in the Tinwald School hall.

All welcome!

For catering purposes please RSVP by phone on 308 4555

Farm Worker Radfield AG Ltd

TRADES, SERVICES

Location - 10 KM NE Ashburton.

We are seeking an additional full time, permanent person for our 385 hec, fully irrigated, mixed crop and stock farm.

Responsibilities include: • operating machinery • managing irrigation • stock work You will be required to: • work unsupervised • manage time efficiently • show initiative • show good decision making You will be part of an innovative team focused on farming efficiently and profitably using sustainable practices and techniques.

Remuneration dependant on experience.

Applicants should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Email C.V. with references to: radfieldag@gmail.com or contact David for more information David Ward (027) 430 2102

Building for Lease Kermode Street opposite The Warehouse.

Ex Harvey Norman bulk store 1100m2 floorspace with sealed yard Stud height 8 metres Office, kitchen and toilets Available December 1, 2017 Phone Barry Redmond 021 344 862 ENTERTAINMENT

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

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

03 307 9028

Birthday Greetings Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested.

Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Silver Fern Farms - PPCS - CFM

Initial payment step commensurate with experience.

Tinwald School

Doaky’s Plumbing Ltd

Health & Safety Consultant/Advisor

PUBLIC NOTICES

Max Withell-O’Grady Happy 10th Birthday Maxie-double figures already.

Love from Mum, Dad, Kurt, Jack, Milo and Molly. xx Max Withell-O’Grady Happy Birthday Maxwow 10 already. Have a great day from all of your Nanas, Grandads, Auntys, Uncles & Cousins. xx

Friday, December 1 St Stephens Church Park Street, Ashburton 12 noon and 5pm Sunday, December 3 St Mary’s Church, Geraldine 4pm $5 door sales only $5

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PUBLIC NOTICES

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Tinwald Rugby Football Club

TRADES, SERVICES

DENTURES. Dr Peter Rumping, retired dentist, continues to provide full dentures. Repairs to existing dentures also available.

Phone 027 220 9997.

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

AGM Tuesday, December 5, 2017 7pm Tinwald Sport and Recreation Clubrooms Sherman Street New committee members required

MOTORING 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.

Mid Canterbury Rugby Supporters Club Annual General Meeting 2017 Business: Annual report Annual accounts Election of officers General business Thursday, November 30 at 7pm Downstairs Lounge, Ashburton Showgrounds.

All welcome.

03 307 9028

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.

LAYING hens for sale. Brown Shaver Point of lay pullets.

Delivery possible. Phone or text 027 502 6569.

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8.30am 3.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

GRAZING

GRAZING for 200-300 calves available.

Long term.

Experienced grazier on irrigated coastal farm.

Contact Graham Shaw 022 AKAROA - CHARMING, 137 2033. 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.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

GARAGE SALES

GARAGE sale. November 25, 1a Creek Road. Netherby W.I. Fundraiser. Proceeds to Cancer Society “Relay for Life” 9am start. Clothing, household items, knick knacks etc.

FOR SALE

A BARGAIN, Allenton, private sale, weatherboard and tile, three bedroom, two living areas, two w/c, double garage, mature full section.

Sound house, in need of updating, RV $285,000, all offers considered. Please phone Steve 021 104 2040 to view.

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FOR SALE GREEN old man pine $140, green blue gum $160. Spilt and delivered. All 3.6m³.

Phone Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL Asian beauty. One day only. For a short time.

Very good massage. Phone 021 078 2363.

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four ACCOMMODATION, wheel electric scooters and RENTAL wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric LARGE farm house in Mobility Ashburton today. Mayfield area.

Four Phone 308-3602 bedrooms, $300 per week.

Please call Sally to enquire 027 622 7748.

ADULT

ENTERTAINMENT NEW two beautiful Asian ladies. On special. Half hour $200. Good massage, Good fun. In/out calls. Phone 022 460 3977.

Three bedroom, heat pump, wood burner. Close to Netherby shops. Backyard fenced with double garage. $320 per week. Phone 021 613 676. Available after December 11.

Lifestyle Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd.

CONNECTIONS

Find something special this Christmas Splashy Art Money Boxes – only $45

SHIRTS FOR EVERY BODY Hundreds of styles in classic, tailored and slim fit.

GREED IS GOOD 3 Shirts for $300*

76D Talbot Street, Geraldine - Phone: 03 693 7363

House of Hearing

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6am Te Karere 3 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 Farming a few goats has turned into an award-winning cheese business.

0 7am Global Radar 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 8:30 Life TV With Paul De Jong 9am Tagata Pasifika 10am Couples Come Dine With Me 11am The Chase Australia 0 11:55 Coronation Street 3 0 1:55 The New Zealand Home 3 0 2:55 Unreal Estate 0 3:50 Eat Well For Less 0 4:55 5 Star Family Reunion General knowledge quiz show where family members attempt to win a family holiday and a cash jackpot. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Moving Out With Tamati A Manurewa couple are pillars of their community, but a recent health scare has seen Ian look to his Far North home of Kaitaia. 0 7:30 The X Factor UK 0 8pm Lotto The Lotto draw.

8:05 The X Factor UK 0 9:30 Coronation Street AO 0 10:30 A Place To Call Home AO 0 12:30 N Of Kings And Prophets AO A biblical drama centred around a battle-weary king, a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd. 0 1:25 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:30 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

Bolt

7pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Catfish 3 10:55 I’m Having Their Baby 3 11:50 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 12:40 Cyrus v Cyrus Design And Conquer 3 1:10 Cyrus v Cyrus Design And Conquer 3 1:40 Catfish 3 2:35 Botched PGR 3 3:35 Tabatha Takes Over 3 4:30 Tabatha Takes Over 3 5:30 Masters Of Flip 3 6:30 Tabatha Takes Over 3 7:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR Patti tries to find romance for a work-consumed owner of a boutique PR firm.

8:30 Mariah’s World When Mariah’s upcoming wedding plans fall apart, she decides to take a leap of faith and follow her heart.

9:30 Shahs Of Sunset AO 10:30 The Disappearance Of Maura Murray 3 11:30 Four Weddings UK 3

Sunday

12:25 Infomercials 3 5am Teen Mom 3

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6am Art Attack 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 The Furchester Hotel 0 6:55 Future-Worm!

0 7:20 Transformers Robots In Disguise 0 7:45 Nexo Knights 8:10 Star Wars Rebels PGR 0 8:35 Beyblade Burst 9am Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 0 9:30 Gamer’s Guide To Pretty Much Everything 10am The Muppets 0 10:30 F Food Fighters 0 11:25 Take Me Out PGR 3 0 12:30 The Fosters PGR 1:30 Once Upon A Time 0 2:30 The Real O’Neals PGR 0 3pm Dr Ken PGR 0 3:30 Life In Pieces PGR 0 4pm Clipped PGR 0 4:30 The Undriveables 0 5pm My Kitchen Rules NZ PGR 0 6pm N The Barefoot Bandits 0 6:30 The Middle 3 0 7pm M Bolt 2008 Animated Adventure. The canine star of a fictional sci-fi-action show believes his powers are real as he embarks on a cross-country trek to save his co-star from a threat he also believes is real. 0 8:45 M Snowpiercer AO 2013 Sci-fi Action. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Pukana 7:25 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation An in-depth weekly local current affairs show.

10:30 Survivor – Worlds Apart 3 Eighteen new players are divided into three tribes according to their occupations.

11:55 The Bachelor NZ PGR 3 New Zealand’s next bachelor meets the 23 women vying for his heart. 0 1:05 Ice Road Truckers 3 0 2pm Lip Sync Battle PGR 0 2:30 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3pm The Goldbergs PGR 3 0 3:30 George Clarke’s Old House New Home 3 0 4:30 Getaway 5pm Survivor – Heroes v Healers v Hustlers 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Johnny English Reborn PGR 3 2011 Comedy.

MI7’s top spy returns from hiding to face a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. 0 9pm M Mercury Rising AO 3 1998 Action Thriller. 0

6am Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 6:25 World Of Quest 3 6:50 Max Steel 7:15 Kung Fu Panda – Legends Of Awesomeness 3 7:40 Sanjay And Craig 3 8:05 The Loud House 8:30 Henry Danger 3 8:55 The Thundermans 10am Robot Wars PGR 11am The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 1:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) 2:30 Storage Hunters PGR 3pm Homes By The Med 3 0 4pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Flog It!

11:10 N Seven Year Switch Australia PGR 0 2:10 Wentworth AO 3 0 3:45 Kitten Impossible 0 4:30 Regular Show 3 4:40 Young And Hungry PGR 0 5:30 It Is Written

11:20 M Vanilla Sky AO 3 2001 Romantic Thriller. A successful publisher finds his life taking a surreal turn after a car accident with a jaded lover. Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz. 0 2am The Nation 0 3am Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Skint AO 3 Stories about how people survive without an income or very little money.

12:30 Closedown

Johnny English Reborn 7pm on Three

ThE BOx 6am Border Security M 6:50 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away? MVL 7:35 Siberia MV 8:25 Outsiders 16VLSC 9:25 The Shannara Chronicles MVLS 10:15 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpsons episodes. 1:15 Border Security M 2:05 Siberia MV 2:55 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 3:40 Limitless MV 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Modern Family PG 8pm Last Man Standing PG 8:30 Million Dollar Car Hunters PG 9:30 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! MVL 10:25 Border Security M 11:25 Outsiders 16VLSC

Sunday

12:20 Modern Family PG 12:50 Last Man Standing PG 1:20 Million Dollar Car Hunters PG 2:10 Siberia MV 3am Last Man Standing PG 3:25 Outsiders 16VLSC 4:20 MacGyver M 5:05 Deep Undercover MVLC 5:35 Modern Family PG

7pm Container Wars PGR 7:30 F The Brokenwood Mysteries PGR 3 0 9:30 Agatha Raisin And The Quiche Of Death PGR 0

6am Big House, Little House 7am BBQ Champ 8am Buying Hawaii 8:30 Love Nature – Polar Bear Town 9:30 Inside Heston’s World 10:30 Storage Hoarders 11:30 Big House, Little House 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1:15 Better Homes And Gardens 2:30 Watt’s World 3pm The French Collection 4pm Junk Gypsies Sisters Amie Sikes and Jolie Sikes-Smith dust off dressers and reimagine relics at the flea market.

4:30 Baggage Battles 5pm Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 5:30 Britain’s Biggest Adventures With Bear Grylls Adventurer Bear Grylls goes on a journey of discovery across England, Scotland, and Wales.

6:30 The Big Catch 7:30 American Pickers 8:30 Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week AO An ultimate endurance challenge as some of the UK’s fittest men and women are tested by battle-hardened veterans from the world’s toughest special forces.

9:30 The Operatives PGR 10:30 Wild Brazil – Land Of Fire And Flood

11:20 Te Kaea 3 11:50 Closedown

11:30 The French Collection 12:30 Junk Gypsies 1am Watt’s World 1:30 Buying Hawaii 2am Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week AO 3am The Operatives PGR 4am The Big Catch 5am American Pickers

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:10 The Trust 16VLSC 2016 Crime. Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira.

8:40 Take Care ML 2014 Romantic Comedy.

Leslie Bibb, Thomas Sadoski.

10:10 Split 16VC 2016 Thriller.

James McAvoy, Anya TaylorJoy. 12:05 Hail, Caesar! PGL 2016 Comedy. Josh Brolin, George Clooney. 1:50 The Boy MVC 2016 Horror.

Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans.

3:25 Everybody Wants Some!! 16VLSC 2016 Comedy.

Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman. 5:20 Blair Witch 16VLC 2016 Horror.

James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez.

6:50 London Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action Crime.

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. 8:30 Miss Sloane MLS 2016 Drama.

Known for her cunning and brilliant mind, Miss Sloane is a highly sought after DC lobbyist who finds herself on the wrong side of a fight. Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. 10:45 Live By Night 16VLS 2016 Crime. Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning.

7:20 I Am Legend MV 2007 Drama. Will Smith, Alice Braga.

9am Babylon AD MVL 2008 Action. Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh.

10:40 Hall Pass 16LS 2011 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis.

12:25 The Siege MVL 1998 Action. Bruce Willis, Annette Bening.

2:20 Seabiscuit MC 2003 Drama. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges.

4:40 The Skulls MV 2000 Thriller. Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker.

6:25 Moulin Rouge MS 2001 Musical. Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

8:30 The Messenger 16LS 2009 War Drama. An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with the widow of a fallen officer.

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone.

10:25 The Green Hornet MVL 2011 Action. Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz.

6am Rugby League – World Cup (HLS) Semi-final One – Australia v Fiji.

From Brisbane.

6:30 Rugby – International (RPL) Scotland v All Blacks.

8:40 L Rugby – Aviva Premiership Newcastle v Gloucester.

11am The Crowd Goes Wild 11:30 The Cricket Show Noon L Cricket – International Australia v England – First Test, Day Three.

3:05 The Australian Cricket Show (HLS) 3:35 L Cricket – International Australia v England – First Test Day Three.

8:30 Inside Cricket 9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm Rugby – International (HLS) Scotland v All Blacks.

From Murrayfield, Edinburgh.

10:30 Golf – Australian Open (HLS) Round Three.

From the Australian Golf Club in Sydney.

11pm Rugby League – World Cup (HLS) Semi-final One – Australia v Fiji.

From Brisbane.

11:30 Fox Sports News

12:25 Seven Psychopaths 16VLS 2012 Comedy.

Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson.

2:15 Seabiscuit MC 2003 Drama. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges. 4:35 Close Up – Ben Affleck PG 5:05 The Skulls MV 2000 Thriller.

Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker.

12:15 The Backpage 1am L UFC Fight Night Silva v Gastelum.

3:20 L Rugby – International Scotland v Australia.

5:30 L Rugby – International Wales v All Blacks.

Sunday

12:50 Approaching The Unknown ML 2016 Drama.

Mark Strong, Luke Wilson.

2:20 Everybody Wants Some!! 16VLSC 2016 Comedy.

4:15 Blair Witch 16VLC 2016 Horror. 5:45 Live By Night 16VLS 2016 Crime.

Sunday

ChOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Team Umizoomi 7am Huhu 7:10 He Rourou 3 7:20 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 7:30 Huritua 3 7:40 Paia 3 7:50 Cube 3 8am Te Mana Kuratahi Kapa Haka Omnibus Noon Kapa Haka Whanau 12:30 Road To The Nats 1pm Basketball – Secondary Schools National Championship 2pm E Tu Whanau Touch National Championships 3 3pm Basketball – National League 3 4:30 Golf World 5pm Waiata 3 5:30 Aotearoa 3 6pm Pukuhohe Studio game show in which two teams compete in a game of wits to test their reo skills.

6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm M Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Il – The Secret Of The Ooze PGR 3 1991 Adventure. The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last canister of the ooze that created the Turtles.

8:30 M Only Lovers Left Alive AO 2013 Drama Horror.

10:40 Raise Our Men PGR

SKY SPORT 1

Sunday

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 10:30 Cricket – International India v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day One. 11am The F1 Show 11:30 #SkySpeed Noon Motorsport – WRC Rally Australia. 1pm Rugby League – World Cup Semi-final One – Australia v Fiji. 1:30 Rugby League – World Cup Quarter-final One – Australia v Samoa.

2pm Rugby League – World Cup Quarter-final Two – Tonga v Lebanon. 2:30 Rugby League – World Cup Quarterfinal Three – New Zealand v Fiji. 3pm Rugby League – World Cup Quarter-final Four – England v Papua New Guinea. 3:30 Rugby League – World Cup Semi-final One – Australia v Fiji. 5:30 L Rugby League – World Cup Semifinal Two – Tonga v England.

8:30 Rugby – International Scotland v All Blacks.

9:20 L Motorsport – GP3 Abu Dhabi – Race One. 10:15 #SkySpeed 10:45 Motorsport – WRC Australia 11:45 Hockey – World League Semi-final Two – Netherlands v South Korea.

Sunday 1:15 Cricket – International 1:45 Rugby League – World Cup 2:15 Rugby League – World Cup 2:50 L Rugby – International Italy v South Africa. 5am The World Rugby Show 5:50 Motorsport – Supercars 25Nov17

DISCOVERY 6:35 MythBusters PG Viewer Special Threequel. 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Life After – Chernobyl PG 9:10 Bering Sea Gold PG Proving Day. 10am Shadow Of Doubt M 10:50 American Monster M The Last Broadcast. 11:40 The 1980s – The Deadliest Decade M 12:30 Diesel Brothers PG 1:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG 2:10 Naked And Afraid PG 3pm Bering Sea Gold PG Uncharted Waters.

3:50 Bering Sea Gold PG Cruel Summer. 4:45 Bering Sea Gold PG Hail Mary.

5:40 Bering Sea Gold PG Proving Day. 6:35 Shark Tank PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Insane Pools – Off The Deep End PG Living Under the Sea. 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier Homestead Secrets M Jane.

10:15 Auction Hunters PG 10:40 Crossroads – 2000 Years On The Silk Road PG 11:30 Ed Stafford – Left For Dead M Laos – The Annamite Mountains.

Sunday

12:20 Bering Sea Gold PG 1:10 Moonshiners M 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:05 Moonshiners M 4:55 MythBusters PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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Sunday, November 26, 2017 TVNZ 1

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6am The Fishing Show 3 0 6:45 Hatch, Match And Dispatch 3 0 7:10 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Marae PGR 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Mastermind 0 11:35 Fair Go 3 0 Noon Coronation Street AO 3 0 12:55 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade 0 1:55 F Rapid Response PGR 3 0 2:25 F Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 2:55 Ready For Take Off 0 3:30 The 48 Hour Destination 0 4pm Nigel Latta Blows Stuff Up 3 0 4:30 Pet Medics 3 0 5pm Tipping Point Lucky Stars 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Blue Planet Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and their survival is a challenge with many different solutions. 0 8:45 Trust Me AO 0 9:55 F Cold Feet AO 0

11pm Q+A 3 Local political-affairs programme. 0 12:10 Attitude 3 0 12:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 Rhona has reservations; Adam lashes out; Chrissie gets a shock. 0 2:35 Marae 3 3:05 Infomercials

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ChOICE

6am Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Peppa Pig 0 6:45 Masha And The Bear 0 6:55 Chuggington – Little Trainees 0 7am Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 0 7:10 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:35 Be Cool ScoobyDoo! 0 8am M Pokemon The Movie – Hoopa And The Clash Of Ages 2015 Animated Adventure. 0 9:15 Kickin’ It 0 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 Noon The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story PGR 0 1:50 Regular Show 3 0 2pm Black-Ish PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away Omnibus 3 0 5pm M The Adventures Of Tintin 2011 Animated. Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Hadock set off to find the sunken ship The Unicorn. 0 7pm The Simpsons 0 7:30 The Crystal Maze 0 8:30 M Thor AO 2011 Action.

The warrior god Thor is banished to Earth after he reignites an ancient war, but when evil forces invade Earth, Thor must learn to be a true hero. 0 10:45 M No Good Deed AO 2014 Thriller. 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Living Church Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 The Hui 0 10am The Nation 0 11:05 Whanau Ora PGR 3 0 11:55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – Muscle Garage 1:30 Motorsport – Formula E 2pm Motorsport – Monster Jam 3pm Motorsport – FIA World Endurance Championship 4pm Motorsport – World Rally Championship 5pm Life This episode explores the way some fish lay eggs, defend themselves and even how they remove parasites. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Percy Jackson – Sea Of Monsters PGR 3 2012 Adventure. In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters, to find the mythical Golden Fleece.

0 9:05 M Predators AO 3 2010 Action. 0

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon Rugby – International Wales v All Blacks.

From Principality Stadium, Cardiff. 0 2:05 Hot Bench 3 2:30 University Challenge 3 Canterbury v Massey. 0 3pm Storage Wars – Barry Strikes Back PGR 3 3:30 Paul Merton’s Secret Stations 3 0 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Homes By The Sea 3 Charlie visits Wales’ largest island, Anglesey, where the first piece of architecture he wishes to understand is the Menai Bridge. 0 7pm F Storage Wars – Miami PGR 7:30 Jamie’s Super Food 0 8:30 The Witness For The Prosecution AO (Mini-series) 0 9:45 60 Minutes PGR 10:45 Football – English Premier League

10am Whanau Kai 3 10:30 Sidewalk Karaoke 3 11am Native Affairs 3 11:30 Marae DIY 3 12:30 Code PGR 3 1pm Ipukarea 3 1:30 On The Ladder 3 2pm Finding Aroha PGR 2:30 Basketball – Secondary Schools National Championship 3:30 Pete And Pio 4pm Hoiho 3 Turangi.

4:30 Hip-Hop – New Zealand Nationals 3 5pm Haka Nation 3 5:30 Matangi Rau Meet the elders of an area in the region referred to as Taiwhenua, from Wairoa to Wairarapa.

6:30 Te Kaea 2

12:25 Marvel’s Agents Of Shield AO 3 0 1:55 The Vampire Diaries 3 0 2:40 Infomercials 3:15 Benched PGR 3 3:40 Ellen 3 0 4:05 Regular Show 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 4:45 Marvel’s Agent Carter AO 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:15 M The Counsellor AO 3 2013 Crime. A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz.

0 1:40 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

11:45 Hot Bench 3 12:15 Closedown

11pm Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:50 Approaching The Unknown ML 2016 Drama.

Mark Strong, Luke Wilson.

9:20 London Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action Crime.

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. 11am Miss Sloane MLS 2016 Drama.

Thor Percy Jackson – Sea of Jessica Chastain, Gugu MbathaMonsters, 7pm on Three 8:30pm on TVNZ 2 Raw. 1:10 Live By Night 16VLS 2016 Crime. Ben Affleck, BRAVO ThE BOx Elle Fanning. 3:15 Life On 6am Million Dollar Car 6am Catfish 3 6:40 I’m The Line MVL 2015 Drama.

Hunters PG 6:50 The Force Having Their Baby John Travolta, Kate Bosworth, 3 7:30 Teen Mom Devon Sawa. 4:50 Black MC 7:40 The Simpsons Mountain Side 16VC 2014 3 8:10 Teen Mom Super Sunday PG Horror. Shane Twerdun, 3 8:55 Teen Mom A marathon of Simpson’s Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt.

3 9:40 Catfish 3 episodes. 10:15 Face 6:30 Gold ML 2017 Drama.

10:20 Millionaire Off M 11:10 The Force Matthew McConaughey, Matchmaker PGR 3 MC 12:05 MacGyver Edgar Ramirez. 8:30 Logan 11:10 Cyrus v Cyrus Design M 1pm Helicopter 16VLC 2017 Sci-fi Action.

And Conquer 3 11:30 Cyrus ER M 2pm Raw MV World-weary and with his v Cyrus Design And 4:45 Smackdown MV powers fading, Logan hides Conquer 3 11:55 Extreme 6:30 Main Event MV away while caring for an Guide To Parenting PGR 3 7:30 MacGyver M ailing Professor X, until an 12:50 Four Weddings UK 3 Mac and Jack suspect that extraordinary young girl 1:45 Four Weddings UK 3 the 1970s Zodiac Killer has pulls him back into battle.

2:45 Four Weddings UK 3 returned when they investigate Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart.

3:45 Catfish 3 4:35 Masters the murder of Matty’s 10:50 Sausage Party 16VLSC Of Flip 3 2016 Animated Comedy. goddaughter.

5:35 Masters Of Flip 3 Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, 8:30 Texas Rising 18VLSC 6:35 I’m Having Their Baby Jonah Hill.

9:30 Bosch MVL 7:35 I’m Having Their Baby Monday 10:30 Helicopter ER M 8:35 Dance Moms 12:20 Don’t Breathe 18VLSC 11:30 Main Event MV With two duets and a group 2016 Horror. Stephen Lang, Monday dance, the girls struggle with Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette. stamina as well as their leader’s 12:30 Helicopter ER M 1:45 Gold ML 2017 Drama.

1:20 Deep Undercover cut-throat attitude.

Matthew McConaughey, MVLC 1:45 The Force MC 9:35 Tabatha Takes Over Edgar Ramirez. 3:45 Nothing 2:35 Face Off M 3:25 Texas But Trailers MVLSC 10:30 Ladies Of London AO 11:30 Four Weddings UK 3 Rising 18VLSC 4:15 Bosch MVL 4am Logan 16VLC 2017 Sci-fi Action.

5:05 Main Event MV 12:20 Infomercials 3

MOVIES GREATS 6:50 Moulin Rouge MS 2001 Musical. Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor. 8:55 The Messenger 16LS 2009 War Drama. Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone.

10:50 The Green Hornet MVL 2011 Action. Seth Rogen, Cameron Diaz. 12:50 Seven Psychopaths 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson. 2:40 The Iron Lady PG 2011 Biography Drama. Meryl Streep.

4:25 The Pink Panther PGC 2006 Comedy. Steve Martin, Beyoncé Knowles, Kevin Kline. 6pm People Interview – Nicole Kidman 6:45 The Others M 2001 Thriller. Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan.

8:30 Green Lantern MV 2011 Action. A test pilot receives an alien ring that gives him super powers, and is given the task of keeping peace within the universe. Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively.

10:25 The Lincoln Lawyer MVLS 2011 Thriller.

Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei.

Monday

12:25 Due Date 16VLSC 2010 Comedy. Robert Downey jr, Zach Galifianakis. 2am The Iron Lady PG 2011 Biography Drama. Meryl Streep.

3:45 Nothing But Trailers M 4:15 The Pink Panther PGC 2006 Comedy. 5:45 The Others M 2001 Thriller.

7pm The Ring Inz AO 3 7:30 Te Awa Tupua – Voices From The River PGR 3 8:45 M The Age Of Innocence AO 1993 Drama.

Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman, who is separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman’s cousin.

SKY SPORT 1 9am School Of Hard Knocks 9:30 Rugby – International (RPL) Scotland v Australia.

11:30 Rugby – International (HLS) Wales v All Blacks.

Noon L Cricket – International Australia v England – First Test, Day Four.

3:05 The Australian Cricket Show 3:35 L Cricket – International Australia v England – First Test, Day Four.

8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm Rugby – International (HLS) Scotland v Australia.

From Murrayfield Stadium.

10:30 Rugby – International (HLS) Wales v All Blacks.

11pm Rugby – International (HLS) England v Samoa.

11:30 Rugby – International (HLS) Ireland v Argentina.

Monday

Midnight Rugby – International (HLS) France v Japan. 12:30 Rugby – International (HLS) Italy v South Africa. 1am Golf – Australian Open (HLS) Round Four. 1:30 Hockey – World League (RPL) Bronze Playoff.

3am Hockey – World League (RPL) Final. 5am Rugby League – Women’s World Cup (HLS) Semi-final One – New Zealand v England.

5:30 Rugby League – Women’s World Cup (HLS) Semi-final Two – Australia v Canada.

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

6am Wild Australia With Ray Mears 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Christ Embassy 7:30 Buying Alaska 8am Secret Life Of The Tasmanian Devil 9am Wild Brazil – Land Of Fire And Flood 10am The French Collection 11am The Big Catch Noon Wild Australia With Ray Mears 12:30 Inside Nature’s Marvels 1:30 Baggage Battles 2pm Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 2:30 American Pickers 3:30 Extreme Frontiers 4:30 Jamie’s Family Christmas Jamie shows us how to have a stress-free festive time.

5:30 Tiny House Nation 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 M From Paris With Love AO 2010 Action. In Paris, an employee in the office of the US Ambassador meets an American spy trying to stop a terrorist attack in the city.

John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

10:25 The Auction House 11:25 Buying Alaska 11:55 Secret Life Of The Tasmanian Devil 12:55 Jamie’s Family Christmas 1:55 M From Paris With Love AO 2010 Action. John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 3:30 Buying Alaska 4am Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 5am Tiny House Nation

SKY SPORT 2 6:20 L Rugby – International Ireland v Argentina. 8:50 L Rugby – International France v Japan.

11am Rugby League – World Cup (RPL) Semi-final Two – Tonga v England. 1pm Rugby – International (HLS) France v Japan. 1:30 Rugby – International (HLS) Scotland v Australia. 2pm Rugby – International (HLS) Italy v South Africa. 2:30 Rugby League – World Cup (HLS) Semi-final One – Australia v Fiji. 3pm Rugby League – World Cup Semifinal Two – Tonga v England.

3:30 L Rugby League – Women’s World Cup Semi-final One – New Zealand v England.

5:45 L Rugby League – Women’s World Cup Semifinal Two – Australia v Canada.

7:55 Rugby – International (HLS) Scotland v Australia.

8:30 Rugby – International (RPL) Wales v All Blacks.

10:30 Football – A-League Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners. 11pm Tennis – Davis Cup Final Day One.

Monday

Midnight Motorsport – Supercars Coates Hire Newcastle 500 – Race 25.

12:30 Motorsport – Supercars Coates Hire Newcastle 500 – Race 26. 1am World Rugby 1:25 L Tennis – Davis Cup Final Day Three – France v Belgium.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 MythBusters PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:10 Naked And Afraid M 10am Bering Sea Gold PG 10:50 Moonshiners M 11:40 Alaska – The Last Frontier Homestead Secrets M Jane. 12:30 Alaskan Bush People – Book Of Browntown M Provide and Protect.

1:20 Shark Tank PG 2:10 Fast ’n’ Loud PG The Shorty Short VW Bus. 3pm Fast ’n’ Loud PG One Cool Impala. 3:50 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Big, Bad C-10 Build – Part One. 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Big, Bad C-10 Build – Part Two. 5:40 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG NHRA; ’55 Pink Caddy – Part One. 6:35 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG NHRA; ’55 Pink Caddy – Part Two. 7:30 Sydney Harbour Patrol PG 8:30 Ocean Warriors PG Life and Death.

9:25 Ocean Warriors PG Perseverance.

10:15 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Don’t Hassle the Hoff – Pontiac Trans Am. 11:05 Diesel Brothers PG Somersault. 11:55 Treehouse Masters PG

Monday

12:45 Moonshiners M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters PG 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Moonshiners M 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 MythBusters PG 5:45 MythBusters PG

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Family Notices 38 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS COOPER, Albert Dennis (Dennis) – Passed away peacefully on November 15, 2017.

Dearly loved husband of the late Josephine. Much loved father, father-in-law, grandfather and great grandfather. Messages to 81 Morris Road, RD 2, Ashburton.

A private cremation has been held.

CUNNINGHAM, Joan Margaret – On November 23, 2017 at Ashburton.

Loved and respected by her family and friends. Messages to PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Thanks to Dr Chris Ryan, St John Ambulance and the wonderful staff at AAU and Ward 1 Ashburton Hospital. Funeral details to follow.

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SMITH, Kenneth John (Ken) – On November 21, 2017.

Passed away peacefully at Tuarangi Home, surrounded by his family. In his 93rd year.

Dearly loved and devoted husband of Mary. Much loved father and father-in-law of Jillian and Peter George, Christine and Dougal Moore, Richard Smith and Louise Green. Cherished “Gang” of Nick, Hamish, James, and Tori; Jaclyn, Sam, and Matt; Maddie, and Kate, their partners and families.

Messages to the Smith family c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Donations to Presbyterian Support in memory of Ken would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Ken’s life will be held at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Oxford Street, Ashburton on Monday, November 27, commencing at 1.30pm. Followed by a private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Light winds, afternoon sea breezes.

Morning cloud clearing to a warm and fine day, isolated afternoon showers. Wind at 1000m: Light. Wind at 2000m: Light.

TOMORROW

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Partly cloudy, but isolated afternoon showers near the foothills. Northeast.

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Mainly fine, but a few afternoon showers.

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Mainly fine, but a few afternoon and evening showers. Light winds.

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Waitaki Kurow at 12:08 pm, yesterday

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): For a peaceful, tranquil environment, less excitement and drama is the rule. It’s best when the alarm’s left for emergencies. Not even your alarm clock needs to be alarming. So what else needs to go?

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Everyone is flawed, and someone is really liking the way you’re flawed today. That in and of itself isn’t a good enough reason to keep going in the same direction, though.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): This thing you’re doing isn’t going to work in the same way much longer.

It needs a new idea. Trying to have an idea isn’t a really good way to have one. So don’t try. Live, and know it’s coming to you.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You have a really good answer to the question “What’s the point?” and that’s why you’re the best person for the leadership role. Step up and step in.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): It can be a dangerous thing when people get too wrapped up in their own experiences to relate to the needs and wants of others. Get out; ask questions. Get involved so you won’t have this problem.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Be confident about your sense of timing, because it is stellar right now.

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LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You seek emotional knowledge.

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SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You begin each interaction with a humble heart and a willingness to help. With this attentive flexibility, you’ll create affinity between you and a person who will play a key role in your future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You don’t have to have swagger or think you’re the greatest. You have to believe you can do it. With more confidence, you’ll rise. You will persist in the face of a challenge and ultimately overcome it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Good luck comes the same way as bad luck does, in spurts. You’ll get on a good run with three beautifully timed interactions today. Play this for all it’s worth!

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): A smile should be backed by a joyful heart. But some smiles are bankrupt. You’ve given them and received them. You’ll recognise them today and have compassion for the spirit-poor. Try and spread cheer.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You are not of one mind. You are of many minds and possibilities. Some aspects of your personality are being pushy right now because they need an outlet. Find one. It could just lead to your greatness.

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