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By Sue Newman

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The rising cost of using the EA Networks Centre pools has seen swimmer numbers plummet over the past 12 months.

And with that result in mind, when he presented the centre’s budget for the coming year to Ashburton District councillors yesterday, facilities manager Steve Prescott argued for fees to re-

main unchanged.

While fees in some areas were untouched, learn to swim lessons have been hammered, with the cost of water babies and preschool lessons set to rise to $9 and school age lessons to $11 for levels 1 to 6, $12 for level 7 and $16 for level 8.

Prices for an adult to swim are tagged to rise to $7 with most concession cards also set to increase.

Prescott said the pool area had been hard hit when prices last went up with adult swimmer numbers down by 3000 over the past year.

“We’re concerned if pool charges increase again this year this could have the same effect and further reduce our numbers,” he said.

“The centre is now no longer affordable to all.”

Ashburton is already at the top end of pool charges across a number of New Zealand council-run pools.

“There is a price point people look at and they won’t go above this. Once you lose them you don’t get them back.

“We need to make sure the balance is right and it is affordable for everyone.

“If adult swim numbers drop

then so do kids,” Prescott said.

Fee rises, combined with the arrival of more competition, had also had a combined impact on gym membership with the loss of 150 members over the past year.

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Staveley Heights in top 10 nationwide

By Susan Sandys

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Staveley Heights has been named amongst the top 10 most welcoming accommodation venues in New Zealand.

Booking.com has announced the winners of its Traveller Review Awards 2020, with recipients including venues which have received the best and most consistent reviews from their guests.

Staveley Heights boasts an impressive average review score of 9.9 out of 10 on the Booking.com platform, putting it in the top 10 nationwide.

Steve and Sharon Jones are the couple behind the boutique bed and breakfast, which takes up to eight guests.

They said their secret to getting five-star reviews year after year was a combination of location and making people feel at home.

Steve said since opening about five years ago, they had hosted people from around the world, including South America, Argentina, Iceland, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, the United States, Canada, China and South Korea.

About 100 of their guests per year left reviews on the Booking. com site, and the venue had never dipped below an average score of 9.9 out of 10.

He said he and Sharon built Staveley Heights after falling in love with the site in the Mid Canterbury foothills.

“We wanted to share it with the world,” he said.

They purpose-built their new home as a bed and breakfast with three living areas, and views from every room, encompassing the foothills, Southern Alps and across the Canterbury Plains.

He said he and Sharon aimed to make people feel comfortable as

Steve and Sharon Jones are chuffed that their boutique bed and breakfast has been so highly rated by guests. soon as they arrived, and would tell them to put their feet up.

“We like to give people a homeaway-from-home atmosphere.”

The couple came to hospitality after working in other industries throughout their lives. They retired out of their fashion business in Queensland in 1995, selling the enterprise which operated five

fashion stores. Steve was 50 at the time. They then farmed at Lauriston until 2009, and went back to Australia to live at Noosa before deciding to come back this side of the Tasman and purchase the land at Staveley.

They had fallen in love with the spot after visiting it for the many years they farmed here, and be-

came aware of the six acres for sale when visiting friends here in subsequent years.

Steve said he was flattered by the award, and it meant a lot to have guests themselves rate the venue so highly.

He said he was originally from Liverpool in England, so was down to earth, and Staveley

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Heights could never in any way be “snobby”. For this reason, getting top reviews from the guests themselves meant a lot, as he would not want to market the venue as luxury or five-star.

“I would rather them say it than us. Getting this sort of award, the guests can read into that themselves,” Steve said.

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No pool fee rise plea

Heart Kids members two-year-old James Lyons and mum Sam enjoy a day out at Plains Museum.

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Great day out for Heart Kids

By Susan Sandys

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It was a great day at the Plains Museum for Heart Kids Canterbury branch members on Sunday.

Services co-ordinator Judith Wakelin said about 10 families enjoyed free train and fire engine rides.

“It was absolutely delightful,” Wakelin said.

Heart families day-to-day struggled with organising medications, surgeries, hospital ap-

pointments and days off school.

“So it’s actually really good to have a positive thing, they think ‘It’s okay, because I get to go and do lovely things like this’,” she said.

Some of the families had never met each other, so being able to share fun experiences with others going through the same hardships was fantastic.

She said 12 babies per week in New Zealand were born with a heart defect, and it was the most

common congenital issue affecting children.

The branch supported about 550 families in Canterbury, where in the 2018 to 2019 year seven families lost their children to the condition.

The branch was invited to the Plains Museum for the day by one of its recently-joined members – Carl Petersen.

Petersen is a member of the Plains Museum and Ashburton Fire Museum, and he himself

knows the tragedy of losing a child to a heart condition.

His son Shane passed away at only 10 days old in 1973.

Petersen said he joined Heart Kids last year following coming across the group while browsing on the internet. He wanted to help out, and after talking to fellow members at the Plains came up with the idea of a day out.

He said it was wonderful to see the children and their families having a great time on the day.

From P1 With another gym arriving, one that had a very modest fee structure, the EA gym could lose more members if it increased fees without increasing its levels of service, he said.

“Competition is healthy but for most people, price remains an important factor in selecting a gym.”

If council wanted the centre to be used it could not put prices up, councillor Lynette Lovett said.

“We need kids and families coming in the door and using these facilities.”

Stadium fees had been rising for several years as the council tried to bring a higher level of user pays funding into the centre and they are also set to rise in the next financial year.

The stadium was well used between 3pm and 9pm, Prescott said and staff were working hard to bring in other users during school hours.

“We’re trying to get schools to use this time but they find the cost is prohibitive. They’ll come to swim, but not to use the stadium.”

The price rises are likely to generate $75,000 in extra income, but if fees went up and people walked away, there could be negative gain as it was likely costs would remain the same, Prescott said.

Councillors will revisit the fee rise today when they wrap up budget debates.

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It’s set to be bee crazy at Tiddlywinks

By Heather Mackenzie

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Bees and pre-schoolers would not normally be considered a practical combination.

Rest assured there is no need to press any panic buttons or reach for the nearest epi-pen, Tiddlywinks Preschool is getting perfectly harmless and gentle natured leafcutter bees.

Co-owner Amanda Moore said that the Tinwald centre is heavily focused on nature, so when Countdown Supermarkets announced their Growing for Good grants for 2020, Moore didn’t hesitate to apply.

“This was the first time the grants were open to preschools as in the past it was only for schools.”

In order to qualify, the preschool had to document how the bees would benefit the children’s knowledge of nature, add to the community and how they planned to maintain the project in the future.

Originally Moore applied for a grant of $140 to cover the cost of the beehive and one year’s subscription, but the nice people from Countdown awarded them a $400 grant.

Due to breeding cycles the bees will arrive at the end of the year. In preparation for the bees’ arrival Moore said they will be

Tiddlywinks pre-schoolers excitedly hold up pictures of bees. PHOTO HEATHER MACKENZIE 250220-HM-0003 planting bee-friendly plants and flowers.

“So when the bees arrive, via courier, they will have plenty of established food on offer.”

“Leafcutter bees are perfect to have as an educational tool as

they don’t swarm or make honey.”

“They will help us teach the children about the importance of bees, how they pollinate plants and what would happen to our food chain if we did not have them.”

The bees don’t know it yet but they will soon be winging their way to bee paradise.

Tiddlywinks preschool is full of natural timbers, native plants and for entertainment they can watch the children roll down a

grassy hill.

“Nature is such a big part of our philosophy, it underlines much of what we do, so the leafcutters are the perfect addition to our centre.”

This year Countdown have given out $26,000 worth of grants to schools and preschools across the country.

Countdown’s general manager sustainability, Kiri Hannifin, said that they were blown away by the huge number of applications received from schools and early childhood centres around New Zealand.

“Countdown is focused on helping protect the precious environment we have here in New Zealand and we’re keen to help grow the minds of young Kiwis who are interested in sustainability.

“It’s really clear that there are thousands of kids who are passionate about doing more, so we’re really glad that we can support a large number of schools and ECEs to help encourage this.”

The Growing for Good grants are now in their second year and Hannifin said it has been incredible to watch the first round of projects come to life over the past year and we’re really excited to watch the second round of schools and pre-schools flourish.

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Collecting handbags for Grace

By Heather Mackenzie

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The name Grace Millane and the nature of her death has touched our nation, leaving us feeling saddened and for the most part helpless.

So when Methven Travel Office manager, Jodie Monk saw a Facebook posting for the Love Grace Handbag Appeal she knew it was a way for her to help women who have been affected by violence.

The idea is that handbags containing basic items like toothpaste and deodorant, extra items such as tissues, soap and lip balms, topped off with luxury items listed as perfume, sunglasses and costume jewellery will be delivered to those in need at local refuges.

The appeal was started by Millane’s family in order to raise awareness of violence against women all around the world as a way of trying to salvage some good from the unspeakable tragedy of losing their beloved daughter.

“So often we scroll past posts on Facebook but in this case I didn’t, it is such a good cause and I thought, why not?” Monk said.

Monk shared the post on a

few personal pages which led to a question about where people should bring handbags to.

One quick phone call to her boss Dave Dynes saw him approve her request to use the work office as the drop-off point, so she shared the appeal information on the Methven Travel page too.

Monk wanted to thank Peter Wadea and his team at Methven Pharmacy for donating so many lovely items to the cause.

“The pharmacy have donated make-up and personal care products, in total a lot more than was requested, and I’m grateful to them for that.”

Also on Monk’s thank you list is Methven local Rachel Moore.

Moore is delivering the handbags to Christchurch this afternoon.

“Rachel offered to take them up to Christchurch for us which is really kind. We could have taken them ourselves but our drivers don’t always go into the centre of the city.”

As Moore will be leaving Methven in the afternoon there is still time to drop off a handbag or some items to the team at Methven Travel.

Check out the Methven Travel Facebook page for more details.

Jodie Monk is pleased to be doing her bit for the Love Grace Handbag Appeal.

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■■ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

In brief

Drunk-driving thief sentenced A man who crashed his vehicle while drunk driving after stealing petrol has been disqualified from driving, ordered to complete 165 hours of community work and pay reparation of $87.75.

Stanley Martin Ellender-Nottage appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Ashburton District Court on Monday and entered guilty pleas to charges of theft under $500, careless driving and driving with breath alcohol in excess of 400mcg.

Between 3am and 3.30am in September 2018 Ellender-Nottage paid $15 to a forecourt attendant of a petrol station after filling up a container with petrol.

This left him in credit for $2.15, and he said he would return to fill up his vehicle.

He returned, declined the $2.15 he was owed and said he was going to fill his car up.

The attendant activated the bowser and carried on his duties.

Ellender-Nottage filled his car up and drove off without paying.

At 6am that morning he lost control of his vehicle and crashed in to a grass verge.

The front passenger in the

vehicle suffered an abrasion to their forehead in the crash.

Ellender-Nottage was combative with responding emergency services that were attempting to get him out of the vehicle.

He returned a breath alcohol sample of 600mcg.

When asked why he took the petrol he told police that it was the attendant’s fault for activating the bowser and that they

should lose their job.

For the drink driving charge he was sentenced to 40 hours’ community work, to be served cumulative with the 125 hours he already had outstanding, and disqualified him from driving for nine months.

He was ordered to pay reparation of $87.75 for the theft, and was convicted and discharged on the careless driving charge.

A serial burglar could be looking at a custodial sentence if he offends again after appearing in court on Monday.

Tyrone Laffey pleaded guilty to one burglary charge in front of Judge Maze.

In the summary of facts read to the court by police prosecutor Toaiva Hitila​​, it is said that on September 14 at 12pm Laffey gained access to an Ashburton District Council work-yard in the Ashburton Domain by jumping a fence.

After forcing his way into a shed by breaking the corner of a window and opening the latch, he took a number of items.

When spoken to by police, Laffey admitted his crime.

Reparation of $815.79 was sought.

Judge Maze remanded Laffey on bail until March 30 for sentencing and provided a minute to support an application from the defence for a cultural report.

Judge Maze said should Laffey re-offend given his history, he would be a potential candidate for a full custodial sentence.

Tamaki off DWTS Destiny Church’s Hannah Tamaki will not appear on reality show Dancing with the Stars, MediaWorks has confirmed. “Our announcement for this year’s Dancing with the Stars cast is scheduled for the end of March, however we are taking the unusual step to confirm Hannah Tamaki will not be part of that lineup,” a MediaWorks spokesperson said. “It was originally planned for Hannah to take part in the show. We now recognise this was a mistake and we apologise. We have seen a very strong reaction, some of which has been extreme and concerning and MediaWorks does not condone bullying. We would be failing in our duty of care to everyone if we continued as planned.”

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Lawyer grounded A Nelson lawyer who failed to have her travel ban with Air New Zealand lifted says she’s considering her legal options.

Anjela Sharma was barred from using the airline’s services in 2019 after a dispute over entry into Nelson’s Koru Club Members lounge. In a decision released on Monday, the Auckland High Court dismissed her application for a mandatory interim injunction to immediately remove the ban. Justice Paul Davidson also dismissed an application to move the proceeding to the High Court in Nelson, where Sharma lives.

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Lots of tests; no virus Health officials say there are still no confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Zealand.

“There are currently no suspected cases. To date, around 120 tests have been carried out and all of these have returned negative,” director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said. Bloomfield said the continuation of the imposed travel restrictions for a further eight days was part of the Government’s precautionary measures in the current “keep it out” phase. “Those measures are being reviewed every 48 hours on - NZME an ongoing basis.”

Big dry to continue

A group take to the water in the Mania-o-roto zone scouts annual raft race at the weekend.

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Scouts test raft building skills on Lake Camp

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If it floats, there is a good chance it has been used by a scouts member to construct a raft, with competitors in the 2020 version of the annual event taking to the waters of Lake Camp to test out their construction skills on Sunday.

Given only one rule which is that they must wear lifejackets,

the scouts are given free rein on how they build their rafts, often producing interesting results, says Mania-o-Roto scout zone leader Michelle Brown.

This year’s edition of the race saw about 50 scouts from across Mid Canterbury take to the water.

“They sort their rafts out before and bring them up on the day, most are normally doing

some last-minute building work on the Saturday but the weather curtailed that,” she said.

“They have free license for what they build, there are no rules except that they must wear lifejackets.

“We have had all sorts of things over the years from bike-driven paddle boats to rubber rings cut in half and a

trampoline one year.”

The contributions of three scout leaders were also recognised with Founders Day being incorporated into the day.

Bronze tiki were awarded to Brent Kershaw, Derek Barrett and Karen Hodgson.

Brown said the bronze tiki is awarded for an outstanding contribution over a time period between 10 and 15 years.

Brown grass and empty water tanks around the country are set to stay that way for the next week as the hot, dry weather continues.

The weekend’s fleeting wet spell is a distant memory with the chance of any decent rain unlikely for the next week, according to MetService. The only exception is the west coast of the South Island such as Fiordland where rain is set to pelt down on Thursday. - NZME

Mushrooms in carpet A tenant who endured months of mould in her rental property brought a carpet with mushrooms growing in it as “incredible” evidence for a Tenancy Tribunal hearing. Leona McLean has been awarded just over $11,400 in exemplary damages and compensation after it was found that her landlord – William Todd & Co Ltd and IPI Properties Ltd – failed to fix a number of issues including replacing a leaking roof.

When she raised her concerns with the landlord they tried to cancel the tenancy.

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Campaign manager issues apology NZME Hannah Tamaki’s sacked campaign manager has made an emotional apology to The Project’s Kanaoa Lloyd less than 24 hours after he lauched a tirade of abuse against her.

Jevan Goulter, who acted as a spokesperson for Vision NZ, took to Facebook to label Lloyd a “rancid rotton [sic] stuffed pig with blood pouring out of her eyes” and said she should “show NZ what voluntary euthanasia looks like”.

The row stems from the Herald on Sunday revealing that Tamaki was tipped to appear on the next series of MediaWorks’ Dancing

With the Stars.

Lloyd said on The Project show she co-hosts on Monday night that Tamaki should not be on the programme: “I love Dancing with the Stars, and I don’t really think I want to see a homophobic paso doble or a xenophobic cha-cha,” she said.

Now, Goulter, after being axed

by Tamaki, has posted a video apologising to Lloyd for his “disgusting” words as well as attempting to mend his relationship with the Tamakis.

“I wanted to make an apology to Kanoa Lloyd from The Project,” he said in an emotional video on Facebook. “I wanted to make an

apology because I need to for the comments I made last night, which was totally unacceptable.

“It was downright disgusting really. I have no grounds to justify the things I said, whatsoever ...

“Kanoa, I’d like to genuinely apologise for the things I said because clearly there were things in there that had much wider, deeper things in them that I was too careless to think about when I put my post up.

“They were certainly views that are not held by anybody I work with, associate with or even views that I hold myself. It goes to show what a poor choice I made when I decided to do that.

“To Kanoa, and to any of your friends and anybody else that I have offended or caused distress or harm to ... I genuinely apologise.”

Goulter also used his public statement to apologise to Hannah Tamaki, revealing he has since handed in his resignation following the vile outburst.

“I’m also sorry to Hannah Tamaki for those comments because they certainly are not comments reflected by her or the campaign she’s running with Vision New Zealand.

“It has been put up there that I am a Destiny PR man. That’s not correct. I never have been. To Des-

tiny Church members I also apologise that I have been tagged in that.

“I have certainly acted out on my own and exercising a lack of judgement. It doesn’t go far enough as what I said was downright bloody stupid.

“I have offered Hannah Tamaki my resignation, to which I believe she has accepted that.”

Earlier, Hannah Tamaki, the leader of Vision New Zealand political party, said she was “appalled at the outburst” and had fired Goulter.

“I would never condone that disgusting language and behaviour,” she said in a statement.

Horror discovery – monster wasp nest in wall

By Belinda Feek NZME

A monster wasp nest – stretching more than a metre long – has been found in the kitchen wall of a Huntly couple’s home.

Karla Ferguson and partner Mitch Smith couldn’t believe their eyes as more of a portion of the wall was ripped down to reveal the pests’ new home, situated by their oven.

Pest removalist Robbie Stapleton, of YourLocal, estimated up to 7000 European or German wasps were living in the wall cavity for between six months and a year.

Ferguson told the Herald it was one of their cats who first noticed something was awry for about a month as she sat intently staring at the ceiling.

It was then she saw, what she thought, were about a dozen bees flying around the kitchen light.

“We thought it was bees to begin with and we didn’t want to kill them ... so a beekeeper came round and said ‘no, they’re wasps’.”

Stapleton was then quickly enlisted and was able to get stuck into the removal on Sunday.

Then it was discovered not only wasps, but wasps in all stages of development, from larvae to close to hatching.

“As he was pulling them out of the wall there were wasps trying

to get out of their little cocoon to make their way into the world.

It was absolutely insane. He said ‘you were about to have an even bigger problem’.

“We were lucky to get [Stapleton] when we did.”

The nest was so large that the wall was warm to touch on the outside.

As he got under way with spraying the nest through a hole, it attracted the wasps back to their nest who eventually surrounded Stapleton as he sprayed them.

Stapleton said although unusual, he wasn’t overly surprised the wasps had set themselves up in the wall as they enjoyed warm conditions.

Ferguson was pleased and amazed that no one, including any of their five cats, two dogs or 14-month-old daughter, were stung in the process.

After leaving the pesticide to soak in overnight, Stapleton returned on Monday to try to determine the size of the nest and was shocked by the discovery.

“It’s definitely a large wasp nest.

It’s the biggest I have ever seen .. being in a wall in their kitchen made it a unique find.”

It measured 1100mm long and filled the depth of the wall cavity – about 100mm.

It was slightly bigger than a

wasp nest he attended in a Cambridge hay barn on Friday which left its owner nursing 40 stings. “[European] wasps themselves do like to eat what people eat ... they do like to nest in eaves and woodpiles and hay stacks because they’re not like a paper wasp, they don’t stick on the side of something, they like to find a hole.”

That hole was on the outside of the house, just under the roof, measuring a few centimetres in diameter.

He later discovered a series of empty paper wasp nests, which he believed was likely the result of the arrival of the German wasps and winning a turf war over the property with their rivals.

As for how to prevent a wasp nest erupting in a home, Stapleton said that was tricky and it was more about calling in a professional to get rid of it as soon as it’s noticed.

German wasps are smaller and more aggressive than paper wasps, coloured bright yellow with black triangle-shaped marks on their back. Disturbingly, a wasp can sting a victim repeatedly and release a pheromone attracting more wasps to the scene.

Wasps scavenge for food and sweet liquids and were attracted to picnics, barbecues and rubbish bins.

The nest was massive and full of wasps.

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OUR VIEW

Things ramping up in council chambers I

f you’ve ever sat down and done a budget, you’ll know just how much frustration can come with the whole project.

The shuffling of funds, the splitting of resources, the allocation of this to there and that to there can be a rather large task to undertake.

And that’s just if you’re doing it for yourself.

This week, Ashburton District councillors have begun the task.

But, instead of having to worry about just their own finances, they’re poring their way over the finances for the entire district and ensuring that the right funds are spent in the right places and trying to do so while not offending, or misrepresenting, any particular sector of the community.

It’s a pretty thankless task, because ultimately, no matter what decisions are made, someone, in some way, is going to have to pay.

Nevertheless, it’s a job that needs to be done.

What the process does allow is for the community of ratepayers who have a vested interest in the goings on from within the council chambers to see their elected members in full flight, for arguably the first time

during this term.

Up until this point it’s all been niceties and box ticking and ensuring that things keep ticking over for the district, but from budget time onwards the expectation levels of the community rise considerably in what they expect from those chosen to represent them.

We have to allow that time.

There’s a new mix around the table, some new personalities and the integration of some older heads to the group and nothing is ever going to run like clockwork from the outset.

There will be bumbles and mistakes, and people will forget when they’re supposed to raise their hand and when they’re not, but if they do make those

mistakes, it’s more of a learning curve or experience than an intentional misdemeanour.

And a few would do well to remember that when casting a critical eye over things.

It by no way means that for the past four and a bit months that this current crop of councillors have been sheltered from criticism or critiquing, but a few corners of the community are, perhaps, trying to create a storm from a light breeze.

We have every right to hold our elected members to account, and to question their decisions and comments, and it is our expectation that we will be represented around the table as a whole and not just in little parts.

This week will give ample

opportunity to work through that process.

We’re going to see and hear plenty from those who will be willing to really stamp their authority on things and have their voice heard and discussions around the table during the course of the coming weeks will set the momentum for the rest of the year.

What it will do is make clear who is going to be the forerunners of the group and who is going to set the tempo and push the boundaries.

Everyone will have an opinion on who that, or they, might be – but there’s always a surprise package somewhere in the mix and it will be interesting to see who emerges during this term.

Go Dai hamlet.

In 1984, the last US Marines deployed to Beirut as part of an international peacekeeping force withdrew from the Lebanese capital.

In 1994, a jury in San Antonio acquitted 11 followers of David Koresh of murder, rejecting claims they had ambushed federal agents; five were convicted of voluntary manslaughter.

In 1998, a jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey’s talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.

Ten years ago: New York Gov David Paterson announced he wouldn’t seek re-election amid a criminal investigation over his handling of a domestic violence complaint against a top aide.

Five years ago: Theodore Hesburgh, 97, a Catholic priest who transformed the University of Notre Dame into a school known almost as much for academics as football and who championed human rights around the globe, died in South Bend, Indiana.

One year ago: After making his way from Pyongyang in an armoured train, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vietnam’s capital ahead of a summit with

President Donald Trump, who arrived later in the day aboard Air Force One. Today’s birthdays: Countryrock musician Paul Cotton is 77.

Actor-director Bill Duke is 77.

Singer Mitch Ryder is 75. Actress Marta Kristen is 75. Rock musician Jonathan Cain is 70. Singer Michael Bolton is 67. The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is 66. Actor Greg Germann is 62.

Bandleader John McDaniel is 59.

Actor-martial artist Mark Dacascos is 56. Actress Jennifer Grant is 54.

Rock musician Tim Commerford is 52. Singer Erykah Badu is 49.

Actor Maz Jobrani is 48. Rhythmand-blues singer Rico Wade is

48. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kyle Norman is 45. Actor Greg Rikaart is 43. Rock musician Chris Culos is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 41.

Country singer Rodney Hayden is 40. Pop singer Nate Ruess is 38.

Latin singer Natalia Lafourcade is 36. Actress Teresa Palmer is 34.

Actor Alex Heartman is 30. Actress Taylor Dooley is 27.

Thought for today: “If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you think you have it, then you have it.” – Jackie Gleason (1916-1987).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, February 26, the 57th day of 2020. There are 309 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Centre, killing six people and injuring more than 1000 others.

On this date: In 1616, astronomer Galileo Galilei met with a Roman Inquisition official, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, who ordered him to abandon the heretical concept of heliocentrism, which held that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of the other way around.

In 1844, There was a deadly duel in Wellington. William Brewer died of wounds received during a pistol duel with another Wellington lawyer, H Ross, on February 26, 1844. The duel followed a quarrel over a case in the Wellington County Court.

In 1904, the United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the US agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.

In 1916, actor-comedian Jackie Gleason was born in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Mount McKinley National Park in the Alaska Territory.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional act establishing Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

In 1940, the United States Air Defence Command was created.

In 1952, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

In 1966, South Korean troops sent to fight in the Vietnam War massacred at least 380 civilians in

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omething happens when you have lived in one place for a long time.

It seeps into your bones a little, and sometimes you become part of it too.

There is a comfort in it in a way, a feeling of belonging, of knowing you have a place in the world.

It’s being greeted by name at the little dairy on the corner when you buy milk, it’s the café owner knowing your coffee before you order it.

It’s the trust you have gained from a life lived within the limits of what is expected.

It’s walking down the street and remembering the people that lived in houses, long gone now, moved onto a different life or sometimes not alive any-

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more at all.

We become keepers of stories, a walking museum of everyday histories, all at once vitally important yet trivial at the same time.

Adam Duritz once wrote in Mrs Potters Lullaby, “If dreams were like movies, then memories are films about ghosts”, and the longer we live and breathe in the same spaces, the more memories linger there, happy or sad, life changing or mundane.

Our memories are indeed ghosts, playing out their roles on every street corner, every bar, every room in the house we have remained in for so many years, stuck in a perpetual time loop.

Like a record stuck in a groove, a CD skipping on the same line.

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Re-runs of our own lives.

Walking past the playground, we see our children as toddlers, little and sweet, tumbling down the slide, or maybe a little older, licking a near finished ice cream, limbs brown from a summer years passed, melting vanilla on their chins, sticky and sweet .

It’s the embrace of a longgone love in the autumn trees in the park, once our everything and but for so long our nothing, a memory so thick walking through a fog.

It’s the smile of someone who is no longer on this earth, their simple wave from a car window, when we never knew it would be our last or we would have treasured it more then, like we do now.

Because nothing lasts, not people, not places, not things.

All we have is memories, ever changing and unreliable by design.

Comforting and painful simultaneously.

Sometimes we must brush them away, these memories, sticky like cobwebs, often more suffocating than soothing.

And sometimes the memories others have of us put us in a box we outgrow, or at least want to outgrow, and we yearn for anonymity for ourselves and for another place.

Somewhere where the memories belong to other people, where we are not defined by our own true stories, or the ones embellished or altogether fabricated for us by others.

Suddenly we want a different coffee, a different name even.

We don’t want to be defined by the perceptions of whatever before was, we want to be the outsider experiencing something new and feel the tingle of the uncertainty like goose bumps on our souls.

We want to shed our histories the way lizards shed their skins.

So, we run, or we travel, or we change our lives, our jobs, our homes.

And it works.

For a while, at least.

Until we realise that although our memories are precious, we are not defined by them.

Running will not save us.

We have to make peace with the ghosts and know that nothing is more real and tangible and important than this moment.

Right here.

Now. Claire Inkson is an awardwinning freelance photographer and blogger who is passionate about telling the stories of our people and landscapes through both these mediums. Claire is also passionate about Rural New Zealand: the people, the stories, the history and is dedicated to the positive promotion of New Zealand agriculture. Find her online at www.claireinkson.com The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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‘It’s a new day’ Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault against two women and led off to prison in handcuffs yesterday in what his foes hailed as a landmark moment for the legal system and a long-overdue reckoning for the man vilified as the biggest monster of the #MeToo era.

The 67-year-old Weinstein had a look of resignation on his face as he heard the verdict: guilty on two charges, not guilty on a set of more serious ones.

While it was not the across-the-board victory prosecutors and his accusers had hoped for, it could put the stooped and feeble-looking Weinstein behind bars for the rest of his life.

The charges carry up to 29 years in prison.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. saluted the women who came forward against the once-feared studio boss, saying they “changed the course of history in the fight against sexual violence” and “pulled our justice system into the 21st century.”

“This is the new landscape for survivors of sexual assault in America, I believe, and it is a new day.

“It is a new day because Harvey Weinstein has finally been held accountable for crimes he committed,” Vance said.

Weinstein’s lawyers said they will appeal.

“Harvey is unbelievably strong. He took it like a man,” defense attorney Donna Rotunno said.

“He knows that we will continue to fight for him, and we know that this is not over.”

Another of his lawyers, Arthur Aidala, quoted Weinstein as telling his legal team: “I’m innocent. I’m innocent. I’m innocent. How could this happen in America?”

The jury of seven men and five women took five days to find Weinstein guilty of raping an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 by forcibly performing oral sex on her.

He was acquitted on the most serious charges, two counts of predatory sexual assault, each carrying up to life in prison.

Both of those counts hinged on the testimony of Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein barged into her apartment, raped her and forcibly performed oral sex on her in the mid-1990s.

Judge James Burke ordered Weinstein taken to jail immediately.

Court officers handcuffed Weinstein and put their arms under his, leading him unsteadily out of the courtroom via a side door without the use of the walker he relied on for much of the trial.

He was later taken from the courthouse in an ambulance, strapped to a stretcher in his suit, and taken to a locked unit at Bellevue Hospital.

The judge said he would ask that Weinstein, who had been free on bail since his arrest nearly two years ago, be held in the infirmary at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex after his lawyers said he needs medical attention following unsuccessful back surgery.

Rotunno said in an appearance on Fox News that Weinstein was initially headed to the jail, but was diverted to Bellevue to be checked out for heart palpitations and high blood pressure.

“He’s OK,” she added.

Sentencing was set for March 11.

The sexual assault charge carries up to 25 years in prison, while the third-degree rape count is punishable by up to four years. (The jury acquitted Weinstein of

WWE back in the ring WWE is returning to NZ this August, bringing a slew of superstars to Auckland for a WWE Live show. After a sell-out at the same venue in 2016, WWE Live will be at Spark Arena on August 8. More than 750,000 WWE fans have been to a WWE live show in Australia and New Zealand since the first WWE Global Warning stadium live event in Melbourne, which took place in 2002. Fans can expect to see stars such as Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, and Bobby Lashley among many others.

Box office goes Sonic Harvey Weinstein will be sentenced on March 11. first-degree rape, which requires the use of force or the threat of it, and found him guilty of third-degree rape, which involves a lack of consent.)

The verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told of rapes, forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and excuses from Weinstein about how the Hollywood casting couch works.

In addition to the three women he was charged with attacking, three more who said they were assaulted by Weinstein testified in an effort by prosecutors to show a pattern of brutish behaviour.

Whispers about Weinstein circulated in Hollywood for years before they finally turned into a torrent of accusations in 2017 that destroyed his career and gave rise to #MeToo, the global movement to encourage women to come forward and hold powerful men accountable for their sexual misconduct.

The trial was the first criminal case to arise from the barrage of allegations against Weinstein from more than 90 women, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman and Mira Sorvino.

Most of those cases were too old to prosecute.

While prosecutors and other Weinstein foes were disappointed by his acquittal on the most serious charges, they exulted over the guilty verdicts.

“The era of impunity for powerful men who rape people is over,” Sorvino said, breaking down in tears on a conference call of Weinstein’s former accusers.

“He will rot in jail as he deserves.”

While Weinstein did not testify, his law-

yers contended that any sexual contact was consensual and that his accusers went to bed with him to get ahead in Hollywood.

Weinstein now faces charges in Los Angeles. In that case, announced just as the New York trial was getting under way in early January, authorities allege he raped one woman and sexually assaulted another on back-to-back nights during Oscars week in 2013.

During the trial, Weinstein regularly trudged into the courthouse stooped and unshaven, using his walker – a far cry from the way he was depicted in court as a burly Jekyll-and-Hyde figure whose eyes seemed to turn black with menace when his anger flared.

“If he heard the word ‘no,’ it was like a trigger for him,” his rape accuser testified.

One woman said that when she laughed off his advances, he sneered, “You’ll never make it in this business. This is how this industry works.”

The jury heard lurid testimony that Weinstein injected himself with a needle to get an erection, that his genitals appeared disfigured, that he sent Sciorra a box of chocolate penises and that he once showed up uninvited at her hotel room door in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other.

Over the years, Weinstein managed to silence many accusers with payoffs, nondisclosure agreements and the constant fear that he could crush their careers if they spoke out.

He also employed an army of attorneys, publicists and private investigators to thwart journalists and suppress news stories about his behaviour.

The hedgehog edged the sled dog by a nose at the box office. Sonic: The Hedgehog zoomed to the top of the box office with a take of $26.3 million in its second weekend while audiences ignored critics and heeded The Call of the Wild as the Harrison Ford CGI dog flick finished a close second with $24.8m. It was a strong weekend for both films, with each outperforming expectations and overcoming early doubts about design problems.

Carnival rocks in Rio Brazil’s famed Carnival kicked off in earnest over the weekend, as millions of scantily-clad revellers poured into the streets, many of whom took the opportunity to parody or otherwise comment on the nation’s deeply polarised politics. Since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019 he’s shown little interest in Carnival and at times denounced what he sees as debauched behavior. To be sure, most partiers were dressed in distinctly apolitical garb, ranging from mermaid to cowboy costumes, indicating Brazilians were focused on revelry first, and politics a distant second.

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tor is already highly renewable and agricultural emissions may take longer to reduce.

But the government’s plans to encourage greater take-up of electric vehicles is in disarray, with both the opposition National Party and NZ First, Labour’s coalition partner in government, claiming the credit for stalling a feebate scheme intended to subsidise EVs and penalise imports of high-emission vehicles.

Whineray, who leaves Mercury next month to become chief operating officer at dairy giant Fonterra, said electrification of transport will be a “faster cab” off the rank in reducing the country’s carbon emissions than trying to electrify industry.

Electricity is more efficient as a transport fuel than liquid fuels and provides a roughly five-to-one cost advantage on petrol, he told ana-

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Freightways may call in the lawyers as it lobbies for an end to stateowned New Zealand Post’s discounted zonal pricing, which it says is eating into earnings at its rival DX Mail division.

NZ Post introduced zonal pricing last year for certain bulk mail products, charging different prices for mail delivered to different areas.

NZX-listed Freightways said its DX Mail unit is under direct attack from the structure, “which effectively offers their customers the cheapest rates to those areas that DX Mail delivers into, and more expensive rates to those areas where DX Mail does not deliver”.

An NZ Post spokesperson said that “a zonal pricing structure was introduced on some bulk mail ser-

vices last year to enable NZ Post to be more competitive in areas where there is competition and align pricing closer to actual delivery costs of different areas.”

Physical mail delivery services have been in decline as people adopted electronic pathways. That has become more pronounced over the past decade.

The Commerce Commission undertook a preliminary investigation into the issue but decided not to take it further.

“On the basis of the information available to us, we currently consider that there is unlikely to be significant harm to consumers from NZ Post’s pricing,” a Commerce Commission spokesperson said.

Freightways, which this week reported revenue up 1 per cent to $318.9 million in the six months to

‘Ugliest’ house finally sells

By Ben Leahy NZME

Auckland’s “ugliest house” has finally found someone to love it – or demolish it – after selling for a cut price $485,000.

The buyers who said “yabba dabba do” to the Fred Flintstone-style Mt Roskill home were able to snap it up for close to half its $910,000 Auckland Council valuation.

The house garnered plenty of media attention last year thanks to one house hunter dubbing it New Zealand’s ugliest home, while its advertisement called it “Flintstone-style”.

Yet, despite the publicity, it still didn’t sell at an October auction.

Former owner Sophie Jayawardene earlier told media how

she created what she called the igloo and painted it in bright internal colours she loved.

The home also didn’t have building code compliance and so a cut price sale had been expected from the moment it was put on the market.

Barfoot and Thompson’s marketing had billed it as “a disaster turned developer’s opportunity”.

Prior to last October’s auction, Barfoot and Thompson’s Alex Yang said the problem for those wanting to buy the house had been that banks weren’t keen to lend to them due to the home’s many issues.

Squirrel Mortgage’s John Bolton said lenders were reluctant to offer home loans on buildings with non-compliance issues.

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December 31 from a year earlier, reiterated the level of discounting “has had an adverse effect on earnings in the DX Mail Division”.

Chief executive Mark Troughear said the commission determined that the targeted discounted zonal pricing didn’t have an adverse impact on consumers in the short term. However, longer term it “completely ignored” the fact that if you end up with only one provider then you have no competition.

Troughear said he planned to go back to the competition regulator “very shortly,” claiming NZ Post is now offering additional rebates.

If that doesn’t pan out, “we have a number of other options,” he said.

“We will consider litigation, but we will also carry on competing hard with New Zealand Post,” he said.

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the smelter to argue they are getting all their power from Meridian’s 800-megawatt Manapouri hydro scheme. When they are not, they need to be contributing to the grid costs of getting that energy south.

The smelter, which uses about 13 per cent of the country’s electricity, produces some of the world’s lowest-carbon aluminium and is also one of only two plants in the world that can produce ultra-high purity metal.

Contact Energy observed earlier this month that allowing the site to close would be strange, given the country is trying to encourage low-emissions industry on the back of the New Zealand’s renewable energy resources.

Electrification of transport and industry are considered key planks of the country’s efforts to reduce emissions, given the electricity sec-

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Rio Tinto needs to offer New Zealand a greater long-term commitment to the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to warrant additional support, Mercury NZ chief executive Fraser Whineray said.

Requests for lower power prices from the country’s biggest electricity user are “getting a bit tedious,” he told analysts on a conference call with investors yesterday.

The 48-year-old smelter at Bluff will close within the lifetime of new generation Mercury is building, all of which is in the North Island, and the company is “relatively indifferent” as to whether it shuts now or later.

Rio’s 12-month notice period on shutting the plant provides no certainty for New Zealand and being invited to participate in a “dragrace” on power prices doesn’t interest Mercury, Whineray said.

“I don’t know how many times we’re been around this mulberry bush,” he said.

“They need to work out something that is actually going to benefit New Zealand and its long-term outcomes,” he said. Absent that, he has a “pretty dim view” on further support for the smelter.

“Stay or go – make your mind up.”

lysts. In contrast, gas and coal are highly efficient for many process heat applications and trying to replace them with electricity would actually cost more, he said.

Officials are currently consulting on a range of measures intended to encourage processors to shift away from coal and gas for low-temperature applications in favour of electricity, biomass and geothermal energy.

Options include a ban on new coal-fired boilers, providing firms with more information on ways to electrify operations, and imposing mandatory emissions reporting for firms spending more than $2 million on energy annually.

Whineray said firms need transparent rules so they can make longterm investment decisions and a more broadly-based emissions trading scheme.

“You can then deal with how you either substitute new technology when the right capital decision comes up, or run a different series of offsets somewhere else where it’s more efficient to do so,” he said.

Having someone in Wellington trying to pick favoured energy technologies risks carbon leakage as firms are made less competitive against the products of higher-emitting overseas rivals, he said.

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Rio Tinto, which owns 79.4 per cent of the plant at Bluff, Monday reported a $46.2 million underlying loss from the business in 2019 amid low aluminium prices and rising raw material and labour costs.

The London-based mining giant, which received a $30 million payment from the government in 2013 to help it stay, started a formal review of the business in October after failing to achieve big enough costs savings in talks with power supplier Meridian Energy.

It has since approached the government and national grid operator Transpower to try and get relief from transmission charges it considers too high relative to the assets it uses.

Meridian and Contact Energy, the largest South Island generators, have been looking at ways to offer a lower price, while also working with Transpower to accelerate upgrade work needed on the grid so that surplus power can be moved north if the smelter closes or reduces its operation.

Whineray said he had some sympathy for the smelter’s bid for a lower transmission bill, and he said an Electricity Authority proposal to allow Transpower to offer a prudent discount is “reasonably pragmatic”.

But he said it’s “a little glib” for

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Making curry a favourite Curries of all kinds are universally loved.

Even those who claim they don’t like spicy food can be wooed if you serve up a curry that’s more about flavour than it is about heat.

It takes a lot to beat a good curry and what you serve up can be as complex as you choose – make your own curry paste, use a ready-made curry powder or opt for a sachet of ingredients with the flavours you’re after.

Simple butter chicken

Beef curry 1T canola oil 2 onions, diced 350g lean beef, diced 3 cloves garlic cloves, crushed 2T curry powder 400g canned tomatoes, crushed 2T tomato paste, reduced-salt 1C water 1T fresh coriander, chopped ■■ Heat oil in a large pot.

■■ Add onion and sauté until soft and beginning to brown.

■■ Add beef, garlic and curry powder and sauté until the beef has browned lightly.

■■ Add canned tomatoes, tomato paste and water.

■■ Bring to a gentle simmer.

■■ Cover and cook slowly for approximately 2 hours or until the beef is tender.

■■ Add more water if it looks to be drying out too much.

■■ Serve with coriander sprinkled on top.

Pumpkin and chickpea curry 1/3 pumpkin, cut into chunks 2T peanut or rice bran oil 1C (250ml) vegetable stock 1C couscous 2 cloves garlic, crushed 6 green shallots, chopped 1T red curry paste 1 x 400g can chickpeas 1 x 400g can coconut milk 2T fresh coriander, chopped ■■ Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced).

■■ Toss pumpkin in 1 tablespoon oil and roast on baking paper on a baking tray until golden and tender.

■■ Bring chicken stock to the boil in a small saucepan.

■■ Turn off heat, add couscous and cover with a lid.

■■ Heat remaining oil in a heavy based pan.

■■ Sauté garlic and shallots until soft.

■■ Add red curry paste and fry over a medium heat for 1 minute.

■■ Add chickpeas and coconut milk and simmer for 5 minutes.

■■ Add pumpkin and stir to combine.

■■ Fluff couscous with a fork.

1T light butter 500g chicken thighs, roughly chopped 1 onion, finely sliced 1 large garlic clove, crushed 2t ginger, freshly grated 1t cumin 2t garam marsala 1/2 t cardamom 1T finely chopped coriander – (stalk and leaves) 1 x 400g can diced tomatoes 180ml (3/4 C) chicken stock 120ml (1/2 C) low fat Greek yoghurt 60ml (1/4 C) low fat thickened cream 2C cooked rice Coriander leaves for garnish ■■ Heat a large non-stick frying pan on medium and add half the butter.

■■ Add chicken and onion and brown for a couple of minutes.

■■ Remove mixture from the pan and set aside.

■■ Reduce heat to low and add remaining butter.

■■ Add garlic, ginger, cumin, garam marsala, cardamom and coriander.

■■ Cook for 1-2 minutes before returning chicken to the pan, along with the tomatoes and chicken stock.

■■ Increase the heat and bring to the boil.

■■ Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes before adding yoghurt and cream.

■■ Heat through and serve on rice garnished with coriander leaves.

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Easy chicken curry Curry paste 1T cumin seeds 1T coriander seeds 1t fennel seeds 1t black peppercorns 1t cinnamon 1t paprika 1/2 t salt 1 chilli, chopped 2T tomato paste 1/3 C white vinegar Curry 1T oil 1 onion, sliced 8 boneless and skinless thighs 420g tin diced tomatoes 1/2 C chicken stock 1t brown sugar 1/2 C chopped coriander Hot rice and naan to serve ■■ In a small frying pan place the cumin, coriander, fennel seeds and black peppercorns.

■■ Bring to heat, swirling around for 2-3 minutes, until they become aromatic.

■■ Remove and place into a mortar and pestle, grinding them to a powder.

■■ Add the cinnamon, paprika, salt and chilli, grinding some more.

■■ Stir through the tomato paste and vinegar.

■■ Warm the oil and add the onions, cooking for 4 minutes until soft.

■■ Add 3 tablespoons of the paste, cooking for 2 minutes.

■■ Add the chicken, browning all over.

■■ Pour in the tomatoes, stock and sugar.

■■ Bring to a simmer until the chicken is cooked through.

■■ Stir through the coriander.

■■ Serve hot with rice, naan and an extra sprinkle of coriander.

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Homestyle lamb curry Thumb-sized piece ginger, 1/2 cut into matchsticks, the rest left whole 2 onions, quartered 4 garlic cloves 2T rapeseed oil 1 cinnamon stick 1T ground coriander 1t ground cumin 1t ground turmeric 1/2 t fennel seeds 750g leg of lamb, diced 400g can chopped tomatoes 1 red chilli or green chilli, deseeded and sliced Small bunch coriander, stalks finely chopped, leaves roughly chopped Basmati rice and mango chutney or raita, to serve ■■ Put 1/2 the ginger, 2 quartered onions and 4 garlic cloves in a food processor with 300ml water.

■■ Blitz to a smooth purée. Scrape down the sides with a spoon and blitz again.

■■ Tip into a deep sauté pan, cover with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes.

■■ Remove the lid and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring occasionally.

■■ By now the liquid should be all gone, if not, cook a little longer.

■■ Add 2 tablespoons of rapeseed oil to the pan with the remaining ginger.

■■ Turn up the heat and fry, stirring, for 3-5 minutes until it starts to colour.

■■ Stir in 1 cinnamon stick, 1 tablespoon ground coriander, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon ground turmeric and 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds.

■■ Add the diced leg of lamb. Stirfry until the lamb changes colour.

■■ Tip in the can of chopped tomatoes along with a can of water.

■■ Add chilli, season well, cover and leave to simmer for 1 hour.

■■ Stir in the finely chopped stalks from a small bunch of coriander.

■■ Re-cover and cook for a final 30 minutes until the lamb is tender.

■■ Add a splash of water if necessary to loosen the consistency as it cooks.

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■■RUGBY

Barrett back early?

Beauden Barrett could make his Super Rugby return earlier than expected.

Newshub reports the All Blacks star is keen to make his long-awaited debut for the Blues in round 11 against the Hurricanes – his former team – at Eden Park.

The game is a week earlier than the franchise had initially planned for, with Barrett previously reported to be in camp from April 13.

Barrett is on sabbatical from the game.

His last match was in the All Blacks’ bronze medal playoff against Wales at the Rugby World Cup. The 28-year-old has reportedly expressed frustration about being sidelined and is eager to play.

The decision, however, remains in the hands of the Blues, with Barrett still required to meet “return to play” protocols.

This month coaches such as the Chiefs’ Warren Gatland and Highlanders’ Tony Brown called for changes to New Zealand Rugby’s policy of protecting their All Blacks at the expense of their Super Rugby teams.

While on break, Barrett has been in and out of Blues headquarters and was spotted on the Blues’ training field before their loss to the Chiefs.

Blues assistant coach Tom Coventry said at the time that Barrett looked in good form.

“He’s in great nick.

“He’s a true professional who knows how to keep himself in shape when he’s away from the game,” Coventry said.

“He’s going to be short of a few games of footy but we’ve got a plan around how we get him ready to play.

“It won’t be too long before he’s back with us.”

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■■OPINION

NZ Rugby should be on full alert over Savea

By Gregor Paul

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t is time for New Zealand Rugby to have a chat with Ardie Savea and find out whether he is serious about wanting to play in the NRL. He’s told the world that he is, but he did that via a podcast so it’s hard to know whether he’s 100 per cent serious when he said he’s “100 per cent keen” on making the switch.

His podcast host was former NRL player Isaac John and so perhaps Savea was swept along in the moment to the extent that he presented a vague thought as a burning ambition.

That seems unlikely, however, especially now that he has said he sees playing league for Samoa as part of that plan.

This doesn’t feel like Savea is operating on a whim – more a deliberate and considered career plan.

Those who reckon it may just have been an early negotiating ploy do Savea the disservice of believing such a crass tactic would sit well with him.

He’s the sort of character who

has, to date, proven to be unfailingly honest and without agenda and while an older generation can’t work out why Savea is discussing so openly what they think should be private, failure to comprehend doesn’t mean it is not true.

Besides, it is not so hard to understand why Savea has declared his intentions.

He belongs to an uninhibited, open generation, many of whom live without filter on social media.

They see no difference between updating what they ate for lunch and telling the world their career plans, and a move to the NRL would appear to be genuinely high on his agenda when his NZR contract expires next year.

Whatever his intention, though, he should now have everyone’s attention because what he ends up doing after next year is going to be genuinely fascinating and potentially ground-shifting.

Savea is a player whose influence extends beyond what he does on the field and what’s vital for NZR is that they don’t get caught up viewing his value purely in terms of what he offers

as a loose forward.

Too often players are seen through a narrow lens.

Too readily they are valued against the likely competition in their respective position.

If there are obvious contenders with whom they are competing, NZR tends to be conservative with the contract offer.

Conversely, if the All Blacks coaches can’t see that there are likely to be many alternatives coming through the system for a while, NZR will extend themselves to retain a player.

It’s the oldest rule in economics – supply and demand working to dictate price.

But there is a bigger picture and the market has greater complexity these days as players can have equal or greater influence off the field.

Savea is most definitely in the category of an athlete with the ability to influence the thinking of a whole generation.

Much of the respect he holds is driven by his rugby prowess.

He’s an obviously brilliant talent – a rare find, someone who can play across the back-row and

yet look like a specialist in each position.

He’s relatively small by current loose forward standards and yet he’s capable of running through much bigger men, and Savea has an uncanny knack of playing within a prescribed role while appearing to have been granted a licence to do whatever he feels like.

His performances generate appeal, but it’s his conduct off the field that keeps it.

Savea’s confidence to be himself, to not conform to any notion of what he should be, is inspirational to a generation that is knee-deep in angst about how to win peer approval.

He owns a fashion brand, he holds clinics to help men understand themselves and he dances for fun on videos he posts.

There’s a depth of intelligence to Savea that becomes apparent when he talks.

He possesses a clarity of thought about societal expectations and the pressures exerted on young people that confirm he thinks beyond the bubble of rugby and its endless

process of training, resting, playing and reviewing.

He’s a natural leader because of this.

He hasn’t set out to guide the next generation but they can’t help finding him inspirational and if he disappears to the NRL, he’ll take plenty of rugby followers with him.

Rugby is desperate right now for more support.

It is desperate for more fans to come to stadiums and for more players to find and love the game.

Savea is precisely the sort of individual who can wield influence in both those quests.

Young men across the country follow his every social media move.

They connect with what he posts, what he says and how he plays and rugby needs influencers like Savea.

Really needs them, and his value is extreme because of the way he conducts himself as much because of the way he plays.

NZR would be making a terrible mistake if they didn’t foresee the impact of losing him to league next year.

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Gillette a bridge too far

By Adam Burns

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Ashburton College let Timaru Boys’ High off the hook in Gillette Cup action, crashing to a 26 run defeat in a low scoring encounter at the Domain on Monday.

Everything was going swimmingly for the AshColl 1st XI at the innings break, after they won the toss and knocked off the visitors for a meagre total.

However, the Timaru Boys’ High side turned the tables as they skittled AshColl for an even 100 in the 40th over.

It was a meek way to collapse for the hosts after they had Timaru on the ropes earlier in the day.

Timaru Boys slumped to 14/2 in the fifth over after both openers Liam Andrews and Toby Clemmett had been removed cheaply.

Flynn Linton and Caleb Donaldson stabilised the innings over the next five overs.

However chaos soon followed as Timaru Boys lost four wickets for 10 runs as the heart of their batting was ripped out.

Cameos from Fletcher Rhodes (23) and McGregor Isbister (33*) guided Timaru Boys past 100, however there was little to crow about elsewhere as AshColl wrapped the innings up in the 44th over.

The wickets were shared around the bowlers with Devon Flannery (2-10), Ben Middleton (2-21) and Angus Jemmett (2-27) the standouts.

Set 127 to win, it was a slow and steady start by AshColl’s openers, Flannery and Jemmett.

Flannery departed in the ninth over for 7, followed by Isaac Bazley two overs later.

Even at 34/2 AshColl remained in the box seat, but once Jemmett and Jonty Small were sent packing, the screws tightened.

Lachie Jemmett held up one end and repelled Timaru’s bowlers temporarily, however his batting partners all came and went swiftly as the hosts collapsed to 53/5 and then 85/8.

AshColl’s final glimmer of hope in the match went when Jemmett was dismissed for a fighting 23, the sole batsman to offer any resistance.

Ross McCullough finished the

Kohli reflects on shock loss India captain Virat Kohli (right) had a simple and honest message for the tens of millions of fans in his cricket-crazy nation after they lost the first test to New Zealand by 10 wickets at the Basin Reserve.

“We did not play good enough cricket and that’s why we lost,” Kohli said.

“Some people might want it to be the end of the world, but it’s not.

“For us it’s a game of cricket.

We lost and we move on, we keep our heads high.”

New Zealand had virtually assured themselves victory on a pivotal third day when their lower order contributed 123 runs for the last three wickets, to take their first innings to 348 and a 183-run lead.

Then they reduced the tourists to 144-4 by Sunday’s close of play and upon returning for the fourth day, Tim Southee and

Trent Boult claimed five of the last six wickets needed to bowl them out for 191.

It took Tom Latham and Tom Blundell just 10 balls to score the nine runs required for victory, which was India’s first loss in the International Cricket Council’s World Test Championship.

Kohli praised New Zealand’s bowlers for their ability to build sustained periods of pressure and cramp the natural strokemakers in his side and said they had contributed to his side’s collapse for 165 in their first innings.

“I think we let ourselves down, massively, in the first innings with the bat,” Kohli added.

“We knew the conditions were going to keep getting better so if you get 230-240 in the first innings of the test match then you’re giving your bowlers a chance and then your second innings deficit also becomes smaller.”

Kohli is going through a lean run with the bat in New Zealand, having scored just 201 runs in nine innings with a high score of 51 from the first one-day international.

He scored two and 19 at the Basin Reserve but still felt he was still batting well.

“Sometimes scores don’t reflect the way you are batting,” he said.

“If it doesn’t come off, then you don’t have to beat yourself up too much.

“You take pride in performing for the team and I’ve always done that and I’m looking forward to contributing in a win in the next test.

“It’s never been about my performance on tour or about how many runs I score.

“It’s all about if the team wins, even a 40 is good.

“If the team loses, then a hundred is irrelevant for me.”

tail off as AshColl came up 26 Lachie Jemmett top scored for runs short.

Ashburton College in a losing Alex Power and Caleb Donald- cause on Monday. son were the pick of the Timaru bowlers, both claiming three PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN wicket bags.

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A strong ride off the front mark helped Liz Wylie to glory on Sunday.

Keeping the chasing pack at bay, Wylie did enough to secure victory and lift the Boomerang Cup and the Lauren Ellis Trophy.

The Tinwald Cycling Club travelled south to Hinds to contest the 50km handicap event.

Marty Hyde produced another trademark showing as he gutsed it out for a second place finish, leading the chasing pack home.

John Uden had his best race of the season to also claim a spot on the podium.

Marty Cuttle continued his good form at the business end of the programme, to take fourth spot.

Paul Macfie and Michelle Davidson rounded out the top six.

Scratch marker Steve Hands secured fastest time honours, riding the distance in a rapidfire 69.05.

Co-markers Tony Ward and Nigel Douglas recorded second and third

fastest times respectively.

Meanwhile, the juniors and division 2 contested a 15km handicap event.

It was a great day for the Reid stable as Tom Reid recorded his second victory of the year, in another strong ride off the front mark.

James Reid dug deep to produce his best ride of the season, storming home to claim the runner-up spot.

Leah Reid backed up her win the previous week to put up another great show to take third.

Cooper Spillane was in the thick of the finish to take fourth place.

Fifth place was filled by big improver Sarah Gould. Zoe Spillane came in sixth position and secured the fastest time, riding the course in 25mins 59secs.

Debbie Skinner took the division 2 honours from Hillary Singlewood, and Andy Skinner charged home to take fastest time honours.

Next week the club will contest a 60km handicap event around the Blackbridge block.

WYLIE TICKS ALL THE BOXES Liz Wylie leads the pack en route to victory in Tinwald Cycling Club’s 50km handicap event on Sunday.

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■■MOTOR RACING

NASCAR regroups after crash This we know: Ryan Newman might very well be the toughest man in NASCAR. The Purdue graduate with an engineering degree has, for 18 seasons, railed against the dangers of superspeedway racing.

He’d been airborne in his car too many times for his comfort, and his scathing criticism of NASCAR’s approach to racing at Daytona and Talladega got him fined for his bluntness.

Now he has a head injury from yet another airborne accident, this one on the last lap of the Daytona 500, and his streak of 649 consecutive races ended at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

He could have been killed; in a statement, he intimated he understands it should have been a fatal accident.

But he survived, walked out of the hospital with his daughters less than 48 hours after the crash and is now healing while eagerly awaiting clearance to return to his No. 6 Ford.

“I have spoken with Jack Roush

and he has assured me that the No. 6 car will be waiting and ready for my return,” Newman said.

And with that, a long emotional week for NASCAR came to an end.

The Cup Series went racing again, Joey Logano won at Las Vegas for the second consecutive year and Ryan Blaney proved he has shaken off the demons that haunted him after his car triggered Newman’s crash.

Ross Chastain was a suitable replacement for Newman and the entire Roush organisation was able to take a collective breath and return its focus to winning races.

Newman wants to be the one to publicly discuss his ordeal, Roush President Steve Newmark said, so the statement is all Newman is ready to offer for now.

He said he avoided any broken bones or internal injuries, and doctors are pleased with the way he’s healing.

It is Newman’s right to handle the situation any way he chooses.

But the long week took its toll on the NASCAR community and

the lack of information made fans fear the worst for the 42-year-old Indiana native.

It took almost 20 minutes to get Newman out of its car, which was upside-down and on fire when it came to a stop.

NASCAR reconstructed the safety team response and said a paramedic had entered Newman’s car 35 seconds after it came to a stop and was working on the driver the entire time.

The unsettling moment of Newman’s extraction came when the safety team brought out several black screens in an attempt to shield the scene.

Mike Helton, president of NASCAR when Dale Earnhardt was killed at Daytona in 2001, acknowledged to The Associated Press the negative connotation assumed when an accident scene is covered.

Hearts sank across the sport as workers attempted to shield Newman’s removal from the car.

So work will continue, as it has in the 19 years since Earnhardt

Ryan Newman was the last Cup driver killed in a race.

Newman seems to be healing and Newmark confirmed Newman’s goal of winning the 2020 championship remains intact.

In the roller-coaster week of completing the rain-delayed Daytona 500, tending to Newman and shifting the series across the country to Las Vegas, the NASCAR community showed its unwavering support for its family.

Helton was one of the first to ar-

rive at the hospital and Newman was either visited or called by all top executives, from chairman Jim France on down.

Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin went to the hospital after he left the track. Martin Truex Jr. was in Daytona awaiting Newman’s discharge from the hospital.

Blaney spoke to him Wednesday night. Joey Logano texted a joke about Newman not having a neck.

Newman, one of the most stubborn drivers in the series who will absolutely never yield position on track without a fierce battle, was moved.

“I want to personally thank everyone, including the man upstairs, for their support, encouragement and the numerous offers of assistance,” Newman said. “We always say that the NASCAR community is one big family and never has that been more evident to me than after seeing this family rally together and provide the comfort and support that has been shown to my family and me over the past few days.”

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All the comforts of home

By Barry Guy

AshColl game abandoned A promising start by Ashburton College’s combined XI was in vain against St Thomas of Canterbury as the climate intervened on the weekend. Ash Coll’s scorecard read 225/6 before the match was abandoned due to rain. Half centuries from Seb McMillan (58) (above) and Millar Newlands (73) served the backbone of the home side’s total, played in gloomy conditions. However, the heavens opened up leading to the abandonment of the 2nd grade one day encounter.

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Stead heaps praise on bowling attack New Zealand coach Gary Stead felt his pace bowlers had never been more accurate than in their 10-wicket win over India in the first test in Wellington but he expected the visitors would be more competitive in the second match in Christchurch.

Pace spearheads Tim Southee and Trent Boult returned to the side after missing New Zealand’s last test against Australia in early January and combined to take 14 of the 20 Indian wickets to fall at the Basin Reserve.

Southee had match figures of 9-110, while debutant Kyle Jamieson impressed with 4-39 in India’s below par first innings total as the pace attack put the visitors under pressure for long periods and restricted their scoring.

“I can’t speak highly enough of the bowling unit and the way they went about taking 20 wickets on a pitch that had a little bit in it the whole time,” Stead told reporters yesterday, the day after his side completed the win early on the fourth day.

“From my perspective I think it was our most accurate performance with the ball.”

While they had the benefit of first use of a green Basin Reserve wicket, Stead admitted he had been surprised

at how easily they ran through India’s lineup and dismissed them for 165 and 191.

“Yes, that was a surprise,” Stead said.

“But I think that’s testament to the amount of pressure we put on them for a long period of time.

“We picked up wickets at times you might consider were critical in the match ... and I guess that was the catalyst for the win.

“We got on a roll and I think when teams do that they can be hard to beat.”

Stead said that Neil Wagner, who missed the first game to be at the birth of his first child, would join the team in Christchurch for the second test at Hagley Oval that starts on February 29.

The left armer’s return would provide “a good selection dilemma” for the side in Christchurch, especially after Jamieson’s “outstanding” debut, Stead added.

“Whoever we go with, we know we will have to put in a performance that we did in this game, because we know India will get better,” he said.

“If we can be as accurate or as clinical as we were in this first game then we will be in for a cracking test.”

Kyle Jamieson made a stunning start to his test career.

Home comforts certainly helped the Black Caps reverse their test fortunes following their 10 wicket win over India in the first test at the Basin Reserve.

New Zealand rebounded from their 3-nil hiding from Australia, while India suffered their first loss in eight games in the ICC World Test Championship.

Did the home side catch the tourists off guard or is New Zealand such a dominant team at home?

It was just seven weeks ago that New Zealand returned from Australia following a three nil hiding and up against the top ranked side in the world Kane Williamson’s team was expected to have their hands full once again.

However their hands were full of catches as they completed their 100th test win in dominant fashion.

Williamson says they tried to forget about recent results and bouncing back wasn’t something they talked about within the team.

“I suppose it’s stripping things back a little bit because you can get a little bit carried away when you’re thinking about the results after you’ve had a number of poor ones.

“Sometimes the want for a good one can be the distraction to getting it, so it’s focusing on the areas that are important, the roles, the plans that give us the best chance of success.”

One of those who you’d think would have been keen to make a point was bowler Tim Southee.

He was dropped for the third test in Sydney over the New Year and then had some struggles during the T20 games against India.

However he fought back with 5 for 61 in the second innings at the Basin Reserve, his 10th 5-wicket haul in tests.

Southee played a straight bat to any talk of redemption.

“Every time you take the field you’re trying to do your role and trying to do your job for the team.

“You want to play as much as you can.

“I love playing test cricket and to be back put there in the whites it’s about looking forward rather than back and being able to move on from previous experiences.”

Southee says if anything, playing at home just makes a player feel more comfortable.

“Some of the Indians guys they’re coming to conditions that are foreign to them, so for us it’s coming back to grounds that we’ve played some very good cricket on over a number of years now.

“The guys know what to expect when you turn up to the Basin and Hagley which I guess happens all around the world, in home conditions you should have more of an understanding than the opposition.”

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Classic contenders stepping out Cambridge trainer Tony Pike will unleash a pair of classic contenders this week with Group One-winning filly Loire set to contest the Gr.2 Little Avondale Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hawke’s Bay today, while stablemate Sherwood Forest will represent the team in the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Pike is pleased with Loire, who is on-track for the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) on March 14 and believes the daughter of Redoute’s Choice will come on from her last start third in the Gr.2 Fillies Classic (2000m) at Te Rapa, when well held by key rival Jennifer Eccles.

“She’ll improve a lot off her Te Rapa run,” Pike said.

“She got caught back and had to come wide in a slowly run race but I had been very soft on her after Wellington (when second in the Gr.3 Desert Gold Stakes).

“Just bearing in mind what we hopefully have coming up, I may have left her a bit short as well at

Te Rapa. She’s worked really well since and has definitely improved off that run.

“She’ll get a good trip from gate three this week and I don’t think we’ll have to get as far back from the draw as she has been in past starts and two of the other favoured runners have drawn a touch wide, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see her turn the tables on Wednesday, but obviously it’s not the grand final with the Oaks two and half weeks later.”

A trip to Sydney awaits Loire, should she perform to expectations at her next two starts, while she is also in contention for the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year series in which she is currently second behind Jennifer Eccles.

Pike is also sceptical about the form from the Te Rapa meeting, believing the margins flattered some of the winners, with Loire 6.3 lengths behind Jennifer Eccles in the slowly run race.

“I think you’ll find that a lot of the horses that raced in those

2400m journey with Sherwood Forest, who boxed on gamely when third in the Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m), but recognises he will have to be at the top of his game to topple favoured pair Dragon Leap and Two Illicit.

“I couldn’t be happier with him, he’s improved off that last run,” Pike said.

“I think he’s going to be right on song for the Derby.

“We’ve just got to find a length or two to beat the two favourites but as long as it’s a truly run race then he’s definitely going to outstay most of them.

“It was a bit of sit and sprint affair in the Avondale Guineas and he just hasn’t got the dash to go home in sub 34 (seconds) so we’ll make it a dour staying race and he’ll prove pretty hard to beat.

“If there’s a small chink in their armour (Dragon Leap and Two Illicit), then we’ve got every chance of knocking them off.”

Australian-based Kiwi hoop Michael Walker will ride Sherwood Forest in the Derby.

Loire in winning form at Riccarton. land Derby to his mantle after landing the blue riband event in 2016 with Rangipo.

Pike has no concerns about the

three-year-old races will finish a lot closer next start,” he said.

The Cambridge horseman is hoping to add another New Zea-

M4 Hawkes Bay gallops Today at Hastings Raceway

Hawkes Bay Ri Venue: Hastings Meeting Date: 26 Feb 2020 FLOATS MILE $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 1 12 Maninthesky (3) 59.5................ D Danis (a2) and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 2 70167 Danger Dee t (1) 58........................ R Kozaki 1 2.09pm LAND ROVER HOY IN HB 10-15 MARCH 3 7217 Enchanting Pearl 57...................... Scratched 4 L4x1 Ruby Rocks (5) 56.5........................S Collett MAIDEN 1300 $10,000, MDN, 1300m 5 6210 Tuppence d (6) 56.5................. K Asano (a2) 1 43 Horopito (4) 58.5............................J Waddell 6 7xP81 Bingwa d (4) 56.5 2 3 Hot Spring Project (2) 58...............M McNab 7 85342 Swish Az h (8) 56...........................H Andrew 3 Kinesis (3) 58........................... K Asano (a2) 8 50697 Anjameme d (2) 54.5....................... C Grylls 4 Beyond Sacred (1) 58......................R Myers 9 x8476 Colorado Miss (7) 54 5 787 Pas De Geant h (6) 58.................... S McKay 6 32 Melody Roxx b (5) 56.5.................... C Grylls 4 3.54pm NADEEM 1300 $25,000, Rating 72 Bench 7 099x6 Glitzyrock 56.5.............................. Scratched mark, 1300m 8 4 When In Paris (7) 56.................... D Johnson 1 1125x Griffin d (9) 62.5......................C Burdan (a3) 627x2 Merlini t (3) 62.......................... K Asano (a2) 2 2.43pm TIME TEST 3YO 1400 $25,000, 3YO SW+P, 2 3 71452 Desert Magic mb (2) 59.5......S Macnab (a2) 1400m 4 81327 Motivation tdh (8) 59......................J Waddell 1 356x4 Quick Thinker dm (1) 58.5..............O Bosson 5 72551 Maria Dior tdh (6) 58.5 2 27262 Callsign Mav tbh (5) 58.5................. C Grylls 6 31x56 Euka Lady t (5) 58............................ C Grylls 3 1 Rum t (4) 57.5..................................J Riddell 7 32113 Heart Of Stone 58......................... Scratched 4 90521 Serena th (2) 56.5............................S Collett 8 23L51 Mehrtens t (10) 58...........................J Riddell 5 91 Bad ‘n’ Bouj d (3) 55.5..................... R Kozaki 9 67053 The Rippa (7) 58.......................... R Hannam 6 04272 On Show 55.5............................... Scratched 10 x3175 Kapinos (4) 57.5................... T Yanagida (a2) 3 3.19pm COLWYN HERCOCK/MAJESTIC HORSE- 11 x1021 Magic Incanto th (1) 55.5................... T Allan

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 26 Feb 2020 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles : 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.15pm (NZT) LASER PLUMBING C0 C0, 305m 1 8 Alamein Pudly nwtd K &.....................Phillips 2 72347 Allegro Kyle nwtd................................L Cole 3 77377 Freckle nwtd...............................J McInerney 4 64458 Ahuroa Whizz nwtd.........................R Murray 5 44733 Citizen Zagreb nwtd...................J McInerney 6 52 Idol Lucy nwtd....................................M Flipp 7 76F77 Zara Jewel nwtd........................ S Gommans 8 86587 Big Time Camila nwtd A &...............Williams 9 64887 Blue Mowhawk nwtd..................... D Denbee 10 868 Isaac Marjen nwtd..............................M Flipp 2 12.32pm GUTHRIE BOWRON WANGANUI C0, 520m 1 23433 Sedgebrook Comet nwtd.....................F Kite 2 36758 Big Time Angel nwtd...........................L Cole 3 Taiapu nwtd...........................................I Cox 4 54344 Derry Blues nwtd.............................. P Clark 5 55555 Alfie Daman nwtd.............................. P Clark 6 Takakawe nwtd..................................... I Cox 7 6 Alamein Graeme nwtd K &.................Phillips

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 26 Feb 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4 1 3.09pm (NZT) BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C1/C2 C1/2, 305m 1 768F6 Lady Jellybean nwtd.....................M Goodier 2 35674 Johny Mowhawk 18.03.................. D Denbee 3 75463 Big Time Rusty 18.13 A &................Williams 4 68x88 Big Time Ivy 18.00 A &.....................Williams 5 48586 Cadillac Mack nwtd....................J McInerney

5 4.29pm PER INCANTO 1400 $35,000, OPEN HCP, 1400m 1 1x00x Wait A Sec tmh (8) 61.5...................D Turner 2 x2141 Supera 60.5.................................. Scratched 3 12350 Peso tmh (3) 59.5.............................R Myers 4 21423 Yearn td (11) 59............................... S Spratt 5 46154 Magnum d (9) 58............................O Bosson 6 27192 Cutting Up Rough td (12) 56.5Goindasamy (a2) 7 68407 Watch This Space tdm (10) 56.5.D Danis (a2) 8 0x584 Shadow Fox td (1) 54.5................ R Hannam 9 87326 Lucyinrio td (4) 54........................ D Johnson 10 4x314 Swisswatch tdb (2) 54.............C Burdan (a3) 11 66321 Salt Bay d (6) 54 12 3x548 Honneur Noir d (7) 54......................S Collett 13 00877 Hugo The Boss dh (5) 54................. R Oliver 14 22141 Very Appealing m (13) 54................ C Grylls 6 5.04 TREMAINS STARTING GATES 2200 $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2200m 1 1x0x6 Italian Lover td (2) 60................... D Johnson 2 03833 Hank Moody t (4) 59............ T Yanagida (a2) 3 96052 Trending d (3) 58..........................C Lammas 4 20491 Zac Brown m (1) 58.........................D Turner

5 23122 Robusto mb (6) 57.5......................O Bosson 6 44115 Jonny Russ th (7) 57.5................. R Hannam 7 39081 Casino El Jay 57........................... Scratched 8 81004 Flying Meg d (10) 56.5......... C O’Beirne (a2) 9 85356 Mighty Connor d (9) 55 10 x7745 La Soeur d (5) 54.5..........................R Myers 11 49070 The Midnight Shift d (8) 54...............S Collett 7 5.39 LITTLE AVONDALE LOWLAND STAKES (G2) $100,000, 3YOF SW, 2100m 1 32131 Jennifer Eccles (9) 56.5.................J Waddell 2 30123 Loire t (2) 56.5................................M McNab 3 13812 Showbeel (8) 56.5..........................O Bosson 4 14822 Nothing Compares (5) 56.5.............. C Grylls 5 41373 Heart Of The Ocean (6) 56.5....... D Johnson 6 2211 Unlaced th (1) 56.5.....................M Coleman 7 6x512 Princess Ani 56.5.......................... Scratched 8 3142 White Hibiscus (4) 56.5....................S Collett 9 14605 Kellys Inspiration (3) 56.5...................R Elliot 10 14525 Queen Kamada 56.5..................... Scratched 11 x8264 Sovereign Express (7) 56.5.............R Bishop 8 6.15pm FAREWELL BUTCH & TESS 1200 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m

1 31623 Not Usual Litening (4) 59................. C Grylls 2 x1655 Bucky tdh (3) 58.............................J Waddell 3 231 Showbourne (1) 57............................L Hemi 4 61850 Cinzento h (6) 56.5........................M McNab 5 1x Exaltation d (8) 56.5.......................O Bosson 6 697x1 Keltic Rockstar d (5) 56.5................ S McKay 7 1x6 Shoshone dm (9) 56....................C Lammas 8 50x93 Glorious Ocean d (2) 56............... D Johnson 9 98107 Ruie’s Crumpet h (7) 56..................... T Allan

Blinkers on: Horopito (R1), Callsign Mav (R2), Maria Dior (R4), Robusto, Mighty Connor (R6), Sovereign Express (R7) Winkers off: Tuppence (R3), Sovereign Express (R7)

SELECTIONS Race 1: Melody Roxx, Hot Spring Project, When In Paris, Kinesis Race 2: Quick Thinker, Rum, Callsign Mav, Serena Race 3: Anjameme, Ruby Rocks, Tuppence, Swish Az Race 4: Merlini, Motivation, Maria Dior, Griffin, The Rippa Race 5: Yearn, Swisswatch, Lucyinrio, Watch This Space Race 6: Robusto, Zac Brown, La Soeur, Hank Moody Race 7: Loire, Showbeel, Nothing Compares, Heart Of The Ocean Race 8: Exaltation, Shoshone, Showbourne, Cinzento

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway 8

6 Kay Tuesso nwtd K &.........................Phillips

3 12.50pm FIRST SECURITY C0 C0, 305m

1 55663 My Emmett nwtd................................M Flipp 2 84 Big Time Lenny nwtd...........................L Cole 3 F865 Oma Rapeti nwtd.............................C Morris 4 86666 Homebush Brave nwtd...............J McInerney 5 F5244 Firecracker nwtd A &........................Williams 6 28 Allegro Ella nwtd.................................L Cole 7 76776 Telltale Signs nwtd...........................M Olden 8 F7774 Sedgebrook Mini nwtd........................W Kite 9 64887 Blue Mowhawk nwtd..................... D Denbee 10 7668 Silly Salmon nwtd.............................L Doody 4 1.07pm CPF INSURANCE C1 C1, 305m 1 44452 Allegro Curtis 17.62............................L Cole 2 86846 Go Stopper 17.95 A &......................Williams 3 756F5 Euphamistic 18.26.......................B Hodgson 4 14455 Choice Sister 18.01..........................C Morris 5 66538 De Blonde 17.78................................ B Hunt 6 76225 Goldstar Auburn nwtd............... S Gommans 7 83548 Naharis 17.73.....................................D Edlin 8 73243 Big Time Ricky 18.10 A &................Williams 9 37777 Hypothetical 18.13...........................M Olden 10 88587 Dottie Bell 18.09 J &............................D Bell

5 1.25pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m 1 36644 Sedgebrook Sally 17.90.......................F Kite 2 78883 Big Time Rose 17.94 A &.................Williams 3 73854 Homebush Keasha nwtd............J McInerney 4 43773 Princess Pea 17.94...........................P Taylor 5 8x864 Idol Little Girl 18.13............................M Flipp 6 57573 Bigtime Kiowa 17.68 A &.................Williams 7 25147 Big Time Lorna 18.16..........................L Cole 8 82242 Judge Me Jackie 17.91................... L Pearce Emergencies: 9 87877 Bigtime Kylie 17.82................... S Gommans 10 37777 Hypothetical 18.13...........................M Olden 6 1.45pm KERNOW CONSTRUCTION C1 C1, 520m 1 11867 Big Time Vince 30.39..........................L Cole 2 34841 Big Time Baby 30.62...........................L Cole 3 66431 Big Time Benny 30.70.........................L Cole 4 74364 Bigtime Maci 30.53..............................S Kite 5 53742 Cossie Cooper 30.35.......................M Olden 6 62235 Big Time Mac nwtd..............................L Cole 7 212 Big Time Fairy 30.84...........................L Cole 8 51214 Young Dumb Broke 30.63................M Olden 9 6526x Opawa Lara nwtd................................ N Udy 10 58746 Mainline Lil 31.21.........................B Hodgson

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2.01pm ACCELL “LEADING THE WAY IN CANINE THERAPY” C1 C1, 305m 1 86565 Bigtime Baxter 17.67................... D P Symes 2 55745 Rockoneva nwtd...........................B Hodgson 3 67487 Bigtime Mike nwtd A &.....................Williams 4 75672 Zara Daiken 17.93.............................. N Udy 5 48853 Bigtime Champ 17.66 A &................Williams 6 55716 Free Thinker 17.87...........................M Olden 7 42313 Jamboree 18.02...............................C Morris 8 65244 Leslie Albert 18.06......................B Goldsack 9 88587 Dottie Bell 18.09 J &............................D Bell 10 86787 Cool Wolf 17.86.............................. D Donlon 8 2.18pm ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS C1 C1, 305m 1 84378 Bright Concept 17.84........................... L Bell 2 63885 Classic Rapper nwtd............................S Kite 3 55857 Token Pick 18.15................................. N Udy 4 72547 Retail Mayhem 18.03...................... L Pearce 5 8273F Taranaki Brie 18.16.......................... C Brider 6 42813 Big Time Kevin 18.18..........................L Cole 7 35316 Black Widow Baby 18.07 A &...........Williams 8 45373 Double Change nwtd................ S Gommans 9 86787 Cool Wolf 17.86.............................. D Donlon 10 66868 Bigtime Dean 18.06 A &...................Williams

9 2.35 AON MAIDEN DISTANCE FEATURE C0d, 645m

1 15455 Vibe nwtd.....................................A Turnwald 2 36535 Goldstar Hadlee nwtd................. G Hodgson 3 56578 Big Time Gina nwtd.............................L Cole 4 63663 Meandering nwtd.........................A Turnwald 5 Vacant Box Five n & a 6 42623 Cavatate nwtd J &................................D Bell 7 57747 Bigtime Ava nwtd.............................. P Clark 8 44326 Rich Lister nwtd.............................M Gowan 10 2.53pm GARY ROSS DECORATORS C1 C1, 305m 1 56464 Paradox Prince 18.43...................B Hodgson 2 747F6 Nuclear Jewel 17.90........................L Doody 3 56343 Small Boy 18.32 A &........................Williams 4 38245 Homebush Minnie 17.61............J McInerney 5 65586 Hurricane Al 17.85...........................C Morris 6 65862 Limpy Jackson nwtd J &.......................D Bell 7 65674 Subway Kay 18.28......................B Goldsack 8 23515 Big Time Joey 17.76...........................L Cole Emergencies: 9 66868 Bigtime Dean 18.06 A &...................Williams 10 87877 Bigtime Kylie 17.82................... S Gommans LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

6 87857 Clansman Douglas 18.16............B Goldsack 7 68338 Bigtime Coco 17.72..................... D P Symes 8 45768 Duke Bruce 17.94............................... N Udy 9 87877 Bigtime Kylie 17.82................... S Gommans 10 86787 Cool Wolf 17.86.............................. D Donlon 2 3.34 RED SNAPPER SEAFOODS,CHRISTCHURCH DISTANCE C1/C2 C1/2d, 645m 1 65346 Djay Dynamix 37.98............................L Cole 2 32458 Opawa June 38.77.......................A Turnwald 3 86472 Bigtime Alfie 38.34..............................L Cole

4 11272 Hot Platter 38.26..........................A Turnwald 5 24323 Ask King Jeff nwtd..............................L Cole 6 85451 Kamada Park nwtd.......................A Turnwald 7 33113 Emgrand Rose 38.04...................A Turnwald 8 35246 Bigtime Acacia 38.20..........................L Cole 3 3.49pm QUALITY INN COLLEGIATE C1/2, 305m 1 62261 Light Cruiser 17.93.........................G Atwood 2 22117 Sub Twenty Three 17.80.....................L Cole 3 55F17 Shamrock Green 17.85...............B Goldsack 4 53511 Yarn Sister 18.01..............................C Morris

5 52461 Arthur’s Crown 17.82........................R Waite 6 78252 Cockney Rip Off 17.72.....................M Olden 7 35233 Breed Apart 17.75............................M Olden 8 43713 Thrilling Ivy 18.10...................... S Gommans 9 66868 Bigtime Dean 18.06 A &...................Williams 10 88587 Dottie Bell 18.09 J &............................D Bell 4 4.07pm PALMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1/C2 C1/2, 305m 1 23561 Opehu Express 17.86.......................R Waite 2 61564 Big Time Tatum 17.86 A &................Williams

3 62215 Zara Fab 18.03.................................... N Udy 4 35175 Elouera Mist 18.11 J &.........................D Bell 5 22285 Shadow Girl 17.75...........................C Morris 6 11125 Life Is Good 17.92............................M Olden 7 11F87 So Severe 17.77..............................C Morris 8 31465 Bigtime Roll 17.65..................... S Gommans 9 86787 Cool Wolf 17.86.............................. D Donlon 10 37777 Hypothetical 18.13...........................M Olden LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Catalyst baying for blood in Guineas Ding, ding.

Bring on round two.

That is the message from trainer Clayton Chipperfield as star Kiwi three-year-old Catalyst prepares to avenge his last-start defeat to Queenslander Alligator Blood when the pair clash in Saturday’s Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington.

In a race for the ages, Alligator Blood prevailed by a short head over Catalyst in the Gr.3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) earlier this month after an enthralling length-ofthe-straight battle at Flemington, reminiscent of two prize fighters going blow for blow over 12 rounds.

In the much-hyped rematch, Catalyst has been installed the $2.60 favourite ahead of his bigger opponent, who is a $3 chance in what shapes as a deep field, with plenty of potential wildcards that could spoil the match race.

A three-year-old boasting a last start Group One victory over older horses would normally command top billing for an Australian Guineas, but such is the depth to the field, Gr.1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) winner Alabama Express finds himself on the fourth line of betting at $7, splitting emerging gallopers Chenier ($6) and Superstorm ($10).

And while Alligator Blood’s trainer David Vandyke has described his title contender’s work as tradesman-like and has pointed to the fact the Blood has raced or trialled every month since July, the Kiwi camp are brimming with confidence.

“I think he is getting better,”

Catalyst and Alligator Blood are set for another battle of the titans at Flemington on Saturday.

Chipperfield said of Catalyst.

“I will be very interested to see what Damian Lane says after he gallops him tomorrow (Wednesday) morning.

“He galloped him before the CS Hayes and I am hoping he gets off him and says he has improved.

“I gave him a run along on Saturday and I think he has definitely improved.”

The former jumps jockey-turned-trainer believes track conditions should be a lot more

suitable for his charge this weekend.

“With the downgrade of the track and the rain on the day, we didn’t see that brilliance last-start, but we have never seen him in a dogfight either, so to see him do that and not lie down certainly gives us a bit more confidence,” he said.

Chipperfield is hoping to draw well so Catalyst can secure a handy position in the running on Saturday.

“I think he is best suited behind them,” he said.

“If we can get a decent draw on Saturday ideally I would love to see him in the one-one. If he can sit behind them then we can hook out and he has that sprint.”

Catalyst will be ridden by Damian Lane in Saturday’s assignment, his third jockey in as many starts, but Chipperfield doesn’t believe that will be an issue.

“I am sure James (McDonald) and Damian had a good chat after

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the Hayes,” Chipperfield said.

“Damian was meant to ride him but got suspended, and luckily for us James McDonald didn’t have a ride, so to get James on and get his opinion of the horse was great.

“He is the real deal this horse.”

Catalyst is staying at Brett Scott’s Mornington stable and Chipperfield said the surrounds at his long-time friend’s place were similar to his Te Awamutu base.

“He’s a very happy horse, we couldn’t have asked for a better spot at Scotty’s stable. He settled in as soon as he got off the plane.

We had a chance to go to Flemington and box him there, but we only box at night at home and in the day he has a paddock. That is exactly what we have got here.”

The 39-year-old horseman is taking in as much as possible on his maiden campaign in Australia.

“This is my first trip over here with a horse and racing over here is just unbelievable.

“There are so many opportunities for every class of horse. If you’ve got a good horse back home, you’ve got to come to Australia.

“The prizemoney is just phenomenal. Catalyst for example has won six stakes and Group races and we’ve got $480,000 in the bank, whereas Alligator Blood hasn’t won a Group One and he has won A$2.2 million in prizemoney.”

Chipperfield is looking forward to Saturday’s contest, which will be his last start before the $5 million All-Star Mile (1600m) next month and yet anther chance to bolster his bank account.

“He’s happy, which makes me happy,” Chipperfield said.

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10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10.30am - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Join us with your embroidery for a

day of stitching and friendship. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities to help with balance. $3 per session. MSA Social hall (excludes school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON STEADY AS YOU GO. Gentle exercise, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817 for more information. Church of the Holy Spirit hall, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION.

Club days Tuesday and Thursday.

Boules will be supplied, all welcome. 115 Racecourse Road.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON STEADY AS YOU GO. Gentle exercise, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817 for more information. St Peter’s Church, 93 Harrison Street, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON STEADY AS YOU GO. Gentle exercise, all abilities welcome.

Phone Age Concern 308 6817 for more information. Buffalo Lodge Hall. Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

2pm RSA WOMENS SECTION. Social afternoon, housie, competition salt and pepper shakers. Ashburton RSA, Cox Street.

5pm - 7pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Social Golf Croquet during our beautiful summer evenings, new players welcome to come and have a go!

Waireka, Philip Street.

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SITUATIONS VACANT

PUBLIC NOTICES

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors is a locally owned and operated company based in the Ashburton District. Due to an increase in workload we have multiple positions available.

Grader Operator with Experience Work will involve, but not be limited to: • Grading driveways • Grading dairy lanes • Do borderdyking • Civil work sites

Skilled Operator for 14ton Wheeled Excavator

GARAGE SALES

The Methven Recycling Yard will be restricted and/or closed for maintenance in March.

The Line Road entrance will be closed Tuesday 3 March and Wednesday 4 March. The Methven Chertsey Road entrance will be closed Thursday 5 March and Friday 6 March.

The entire facility will be closed Monday 9 March and Tuesday 10 March. The site will be fully operational from Wednesday 11 March.

We are looking to employ a Skilled Operator for a 14ton wheeled excavator.

Work will involve, but not be limited to: • General farm maintenance • Water race/irrigation race cleaning • Mainline installation • Culvert installations • Stock water troughs • Farm drainage • Clamshell holes

Multi Skilled Operator with Experience

To be a successful applicant for any of the above positions it would be preferable but not essential to have the following attributes: • Minimum class 4 drivers’ licence • Self-motivation and be able to work unsupervised • Be a team player and have good communication skills • Ability to complete a job to a high standard • A good attitude towards health and safety A very competitive remuneration package will be offered to the right applicant.

If this sounds like you please phone: Tanya on 0274 915 636 or email your interest to office@tarbotton.co.nz Applicants for these positions should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Are you commited to continuing your leadership growth? Do you care about our district and want to make a difference? Apply for the $10,000 Leader’s Scholarship.

For application and eligibility criteria go to www.advanceashburton.org.nz

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NOTICE OF MEETINGS

Meetings for ratepayers of the following drainage and river rating districts are being held as outlined below:

The following meetings will be held in March 2020:

• Upper Hinds River/Hekeao: Tuesday 3 March, 10am, Mayfield Hall, State Highway 79, Mayfield • Lower Hinds River/Hekeao: Wednesday 4 March, 10am, Hinds Community Centre, 20 Rogers Street, Hinds • Ashburton Hinds Drainage: Thursday 5 March, 9.30am, Eiffelton Hall, 979 Longbeach Road, Eiffelton • Ashburton River/Hakatere: Thursday 5 March, 6.30pm, Ashburton Community House, 44 Cass Street, Ashburton

Bill Bayfield CHIEF EXECUTIVE

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To confirm venue and start times for these meetings please check online at the link described below or contact Customer Services on (03) 353-9007 (calling from Christchurch) or calling from any other areas: 0800 324 636 (0800 EC INFO) Agendas will be available online at http://www.ecan.govt.nz/meetings at least two days prior to each meeting.

Please contact Environment Canterbury with any queries:

“SUMMER SHOW” Ashburton Society of Arts, Short Street Studio. Opening Sunday, February 23, 11am - 4pm. Guest Christine Lang and 15 local members.

Continuing Saturdays and Sundays, also Mondays and Mid Canterbury Rakaia ANZAC Wednesdays when sign is Dog Training $ Annual Club Inc out, until March 22.

Enquiries Level 2, 73St, Burnett Ashburton Members I.B.A.N.Z & & Brokernet Ltd. LevelSt, 2, 73 Burnett St,|Ashburton |of Members of NZBrokers I.B.A.N.Z & NZ Brokernet NZ Ltd. Level 2, 73 Burnett Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z General Meeting Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. Annual 308 4533 or 027 313 5178.

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MOTORING

Thursday 26 March Performance, Audit & Risk Committee at 2.00pm Environment Canterbury, 200 Tuam Street, Christchurch.

0800 324 636

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING. Professional window tinting for cars, homes and offices. Providing privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety and security. Phone Craig Rogers 307 6347 or 0800 TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ. www.windowtinter.co.nz

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.

Thursday 12 March Council at 11.00am Environment Canterbury, 200 Tuam Street, Christchurch.

Bill Bayfield CHIEF EXECUTIVE

PUBLIC NOTICES

PEA straw – small bales, $3 from paddock, $5 delivered.

Wakanui area. Phone 302 3857.

March 2020

Members of the public are welcome to attend these meetings, and copies of the agenda will be made available at the meetings.

TRADES, SERVICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Motoring 307 7900

To find out more go to: ecan.govt.nz/riverdistrict

The Advance Ashburton Leader’s Scholarship is now open

FOR SALE PEA STRAW - conventional bales $6 delivered. Pea Straw - medium square bales $45 delivered. Pea Vine Hay Round bales $90 delivered.

Enquiries, please phone Andrew 020 402 33792.

Guardian

The purpose of the meetings is to elect a liaison committee for each of these rating districts, and to discuss works and finances. All ratepayers are welcome; your rates notice will tell you if you are a ratepayer of any of the above districts.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PAKEKE Lions charity market. 9am Saturday, February 29, Ashburton Racecourse.

Donated saleable household, garden, workshop sporting items accepted. Please no electrical.

Trevor 307 2629. Jim 975 8277, Dave 307 4349, George 307 2243.

MIA, Asian lady, 34D busty, good service. In/out calls.

Phone 021 046 4314.

Neil McCann Service Delivery Group Manager Ashburton District Council

We are looking to employ a Multi Skilled Operator with Experience to operate a range of machinery from 1.7ton to 35ton excavators, graders, scrapers, dozers, rollers etc, to assist in our agricultural and civil works operations.

We are looking for an experienced General Manager with compassion and entrepreneurial spirit who is eager to join a very special organisation.

Hospice Mid Canterbury supports individuals and families throughout the Ashburton district who are dealing with a life-limiting illness.

We are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our clients and their families, ensuring that those we support are being given the opportunity to ‘live every moment’.

The General Manager oversees volunteer services, contracted service provision, Hospice Mid Canterbury shop, funding and events, promotion, and education.

The person we are seeking will have proven leadership and financial skills, strong communication skills and the ability to find solutions through lateral thinking.

This is a wonderful opportunity to make a positive difference in our community.

15 – 20 hours per week.

Please contact: Jane, admin@hospicemc.nz for further information or to request a job description.

Applications close Sunday, March 1, 2020.

Methven recycling yard closure

The drop-off surface will be reshaped to allow for improved surface water run off, which will help prevent potholing in winter.

We are looking to employ a Grader Operator.

General Manager

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 Monday-Friday 7am - 6pm; Saturday 7.30am - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am 12.30pm - Phone 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You have talents that some of your friends just don’t understand. At best, they accept this part of you but can’t appreciate it. You deserve to be nurtured.

You could use a few new friends.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): There’s a difference between being carefree and being uncaring. You’re attracted to happy, lighthearted people who are also empathetic and intelligent – in other words, people like you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Structure inspires. This is why, Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids get visitors by the droves. Fates favour your structural fortifications today, whether through routine, business plan or blueprint.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Compromise isn’t always the way to please both parties. When each settles for something different from what’s wanted, it’s a lose-lose. If you want to win all around, you’ll have to get creative.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): It’s not like you can go buy willpower when your supply is running low.

But you can replenish by demanding less of yourself and taking it a bit easier. This is kindness you deserve. Be sweet to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): There’s no reason to believe a stranger is the enemy, or the hero, lover, rainmaker... Resist projecting onto people what you want them to be. The stranger is only an opportunity to know who the stranger is.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Everyone on the outside of a group wants to know what’s going on inside.

The longer the line at the door, the more interesting the experience seems. Use the principle in your social life.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The gods don’t rush around.

They have all the time in the world to get there. Move slow today and you’ll have the confidence and appeal of a powerful entity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It will be tricky to find balance in your thought processes, but there’s good in whatever side you err on. If you overthink, at least you care. And underthinking them shows trust in the universe.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Stay humble. It will be challenging because you’ll be complimented and given power. You’ll be given options and shown better things than others see. Just keep your ego as small as possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): The things people will let slip – that they’re thinking of you, that you’re one of the dear ones... – these things matter and are more telling than is comfortable.

You’re a favourite. How does that feel?

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Forcing yourself to behave won’t work. The childish part of you doesn’t care what the mature part wants. Distraction, gentleness, incentives, patience – these are the self-parenting tactics you need.

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DEATHS WILKINSON, Margaret Josephine – Passed away peacefully at Mayfair Rest Home at the age of 84. Dearly loved sister of the late Robyn (Bob) Harkness and Lucy and Mary and Graham Ranson. Loved auntie of her nieces and nephews.

Will be dearly missed.

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BLAIR, William Lewis (Bill) – On February 20, 2020 at Terrace View Retirement Village, Ashburton. Passed away peacefully with his family by his side. Aged 87 years. Dearly loved husband of the late Mabel Estelle.

Dearly loved father and father-in-law of Lewis and Sue, Averial and Ray, the late Brenda, Bruce and Oyuna, Philip and Sherril, Owen and Cheryl and the late Kevin.

Very special Dad of Rhonda, and Tina. Much loved grandfather and Pop of all his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Messages to the Blair family, c/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Special thanks to Terrace View Rest Home and all the staff, and Dr Penny Holdaway. Your support has been greatly appreciated. In lieu of flowers donations to the Ashburton St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Bill’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, February 28, commencing at 2pm.

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PRIME

6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am Cash Trapped Quiz show where six contestants compete in fast-paced question rounds with the twist that nobody leaves until somebody wins.

Hosted and based on an original idea by Bradley Walsh. 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Coronation Street 3 0 2pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 0 4pm Te Karere 2 4:30 Dog Squad 3 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 3 0

6:30 Darwin And Newts 0 6:40 Moon And Me 0 7:05 My Little Pony 3 0 7:25 Star v The Forces Of Evil 3 0 7:50 Bunnicula 3 0 8:15 The Lion Guard 3 0 8:35 Goldie And Bear 3 0 9am The Incredible Journey 9:30 Infomercials 10am Neighbours 3 0 10:30 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11am The Bachelorette NZ 3 0 Noon 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 2pm American Housewife PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Powerpuff Girls 3 0 3:40 Pokemon – Sun And Moon: Ultra Legends 0 4:05 The Deep 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The AM Show 9am Islands In Time PGR (Starting Today) 3 The story of how the violent power of the Earth has created a realm of biodiversity and beauty. 0 10am Infomercials 11:30 Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 12:25 Face The Truth PGR Men v Women Special.

The truth team helps people face the truth with the opposite sex.

12:55 Dr Phil AO 1:55 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 3 0 3:25 Seafood Escape 3:55 Darren Robertson’s Charcoal Kitchen 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Location, Location, Location 0 8:20 L Lotto 8:25 Location, Location, Location Continued. 0 8:35 F Living With The Boss Haven Falls Funeral Home boss Allen leaves Auckland for Northland. 0 9:35 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:35 1 News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 0 8:30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown Host Jimmy Carr is joined by captains Jon Richardson and Sean Lock, and Susie Dent, Rachel Riley, Aisling Bea. 9:35 God Friended Me 0 10:35 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0

7pm The Project 7:30 Married At First Sight Australia PGR 0 9pm Talking Married PGR 0 9:10 Lost And Found PGR 3 After more than 50 years of wondering about the mother who gave her away, will Shirley finally get some answers? 0 10:10 NewsHub Late 10:40 SVU AO 3 0

11:05 Criminal Minds AO 3 The BAU investigates a workplace shooting committed by a state-ofthe-art drone in Silicon Valley. 0 Midnight Queen Sugar PGR 0 12:55 Te Karere 3 2 1:15 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:05 Mom PGR 3 0 11:30 Wentworth AO 3 0 1:25 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:50 Regular Show 3:05 Quantico AO 3 0 3:50 Love Island UK AO 3 4:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:40 Face The Truth PGR The truth team helps people face the truth with the opposite sex.

12:05 Infomercials

God Friended Me 9:35pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Four Weddings USA 3 11am Snapped PGR 3 Noon Keeping Up With The Kardashians PGR 3 1pm The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 2pm Below Deck AO 3 3pm Undercover Boss 3 4pm The Kelly Clarkson Show 5pm Hoarders 3 6pm Judge Jerry 6:30 Love It Or List It 7:35 Hoarders Andy and Becky feel it is their constitutional right to live however they choose, even if it is among 250 tonnes of hoard, but they soon find themselves at odds with the city government, and they could go to jail and lose their home.

8:30 999 – What’s Your Emergency?

9:35 Young, Dumb, And Banged Up In The Sun AO 10:35 Snapped PGR 3 11:30 Snapped – Killer Couples AO 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

Running Wild with Bear Grylls, 8:30pm on Choice

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Robot Wars 8am Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 8:25 Highway Thru Hell PG 9:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 9:40 CSI MV 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Robot Wars Noon Jeopardy PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:50 Outback Truckers PG 1:40 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 2:30 CSI MV 3:15 Robot Wars 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Hardcore Pawn PG 6pm Highway Thru Hell PG 7pm Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 7:30 CSI MV 8:30 FBI MV 9:30 Shades Of Blue MVLSC 10:30 SVU MVS 11:15 Highway Thru Hell PG

Thursday

12:05 Robot Wars 12:50 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:15 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 2:05 Shades Of Blue MVLSC 2:50 FBI MV 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Hardcore Pawn PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

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

12:45 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:55 Support The Girls MLSC 2018 Comedy. Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson.

8:30 Johnny English Strikes Again PGVL 2018 Comedy.

Rowan Atkinson, Ben Miller.

10am Breakthrough PG 2019 Drama. Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace.

11:55 Terminal 16VLS 2018 Drama. Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg.

1:30 Crypto 16VLS 2019 Thriller. Beau Knapp, Kurt Russell.

3:15 Don’t Knock Twice MVLC 2016 Horror. Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton.

4:50 Long Shot MLS 2019 Comedy. Charlize Theron, Seth Rogan.

6:55 Poms PGLS 2019 Comedy.

Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver.

8:30 Boy Erased 16VLC 2018 Drama. The gay son of a Baptist pastor is faced with an ultimatum – attend a conversion therapy programme or be exiled by his family, friends and faith.

Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe.

10:30 A Nasty Piece Of Work 18VLSC 2019 Horror.

Kyle Howard, Julian Sands.

6:29 Barbershop 2 – Back In Business ML 2004 Comedy.

Ice Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas.

8:14 The Hobbit – The Battle Of The Five Armies MV 2015 Adventure.

Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

10:35 Hollywood Homicide MVL 2003 Action Thriller.

Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lou Diamond Phillips.

12:30 Get Smart PGV 2008 Comedy. Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway. 2:20 Lara Croft Tomb Raider – The Cradle Of Life MV 2003 Action.

Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds. 4:20 Public Enemies 16V 2009 Crime.

Johnny Depp, Christian Bale.

6:40 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 Comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill.

8:30 Beauty Shop MS 2005 Comedy. Unable to tolerate her obnoxious boss, a hairstylist leaves her job and opens a beauty shop. Queen Latifah.

10:20 Lucy 16V 2014 Action. Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman.

11:50 The Sixth Sense MV 1999 Thriller. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette.

Midnight Robin Hood MV 2018 Action. Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx. 1:55 Gemini MVL 2018 Thriller. Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz. 3:25 Madeline’s Madeline MLS 2018 Drama.

Helena Howard, Molly Parker.

4:55 Long Shot MLS 2019 Comedy. Charlize Theron, Seth Rogan.

1:35 The Fifth Estate MVL 2013 Drama. Benedict Cumberbatch.

3:40 Lara Croft Tomb Raider – The Cradle Of Life MV 2003 Action. Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds.

5:35 Public Enemies 16V 2009 Crime. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale.

Thursday

Thursday

MAORI

6am Ben 10 3 0 6:25 The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7am League Of Super Evil 7:30 World Of Quest 8am Nicky, Ricky, Dicky And Dawn 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 10am The Doctors PGR 11am The Chase Australia 3 0 Noon Everybody Loves Raymond 3 0 12:30 Chicago Justice AO 3 0 1:30 Frasier 3 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun 5pm 3rd Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rugby – French Top 14 (HLS) 6:30 Sky Sport News 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Traffic Cops PGR 0 8:30 Ambulance AO A repeat caller causes problems for Scott and Ana. 0 9:45 Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords AO 10:45 Motorsport – Nascar Cup Series (HLS) Pennzoil 400.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 Tamariki Haka 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 Pipi Ma 7:30 ZooMoo 7:40 Te Nutube 7:50 Darwin + Newts 3 8am Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9am Easy Eats 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am Celebrity Playlist 3 10:30 Morena 3 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon Nanakia PGR 3 12:30 Finding Aroha PGR 3 1pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 1:30 Opaki 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 3:30 Playlist 4pm HakaNation 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Waiata Mai 5:10 Pukoro 2 5:40 Tamariki Haka 5:50 E Kori 3 5:55 Pipi Ma 6pm ZooMoo 6:10 Te Nutube 6:20 Darwin + Newts 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Staying Healthy – A Doctor’s Guide 7am Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7:30 Gourmet Farmer Afloat 8am My Family And The Galapagos 9am Bondi Harvest With Guy Turland 9:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 10:30 Mysteries At The Museum 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 Location, Location, Location 1:30 Designing Paradise 2pm My Floating Home 2:30 My Dream Home 3:30 The Kitten Rescuers 4:30 Gino’s Italian Escape 5pm Nigellissima 5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 Jade Fever

7pm R&R With Eru And K’Lee 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 Cooking show hosted by Cameron Petley, who shares family recipes, favourite markets, and tips for picking the freshest local produce.

8pm Ahikaroa AO 3 8:30 Marae DIY 3 9:30 The Puna 3 10pm Rere Te Whiu AO 3 10:30 #whiuatepatai AO 3

7pm Jade Fever 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls Bear spends two days in the remote Utah desert with Tamron Hal. 9:30 Alone – The Arctic PGR 10:30 Jade Fever

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Staying Healthy – A Doctor’s Guide 1:30 Gino’s Italian Escape 2am Cash Cowboys 3am The Kitten Rescuers 4am Alone – The Arctic PGR 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 1 6am The Breakdown 7am Six Nations Review Show 8am Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show 9am French Top 14 Highlights 9:30 Japan Top League – Verblitz v Spears (RPL) 11:30 Rugby Nation 12:30 The Breakdown 1:30 Six Nations – Italy v Scotland (RPL) 3:30 Japan Top League – Verblitz v Spears (RPL) 5:30 Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show 6:30 French Top 14 (HLS) 7pm Euro Rugby Featured Game (HLS) 7:30 The Breakdown 8:30 Six Nations – England v Ireland (HLS) 9pm Six Nations – Italy v Scotland (HLS) 9:30 Six Nations – Wales v France (HLS) 10pm Women’s Six Nations – Italy v Scotland (HLS) 10:30 Women’s Six Nations – Wales v France (HLS) 11pm Women’s Six Nations – England v Ireland (HLS) 11:30 Six Nations Review Show

Thursday

12:30 Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show 1:30 French Top 14 Highlights (HLS) 2am Pro14 – Blues v Benetton (RPL) 4am Pro14 – Scarlets v Southern Kings (RPL)

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SKY SPORT 2 6am Blackcaps v India (RPL) First Test, Day Four.

From the Basin Reserve, Wellington.

8am South Africa v Australia (RPL) Second T20. From St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth.

11:30 Blackcaps v India (HLS) First Test, Day Four.

From the Basin Reserve, Wellington.

12:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (RPL) White Ferns v Sri Lanka. From the Waca in Perth.

4pm Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Australia v Sri Lanka.

4:30 L Women’s T20 World Cup England v Thailand. From Manuka Oval in Canberra.

8:30 L Women’s T20 World Cup West Indies v Pakistan. From Canberra’s Manuka Oval.

Thursday 12:30 Blackcaps v India (HLS) First Test, Day Four.

From the Basin Reserve, Wellington.

1:30 South Africa v Australia (RPL) Second T20.

From St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth.

5am L South Africa v Australia Third T20.

From Newlands in Cape Town.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Flugtag Flyer/Wicked Wayfarer.

7:30 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 8:20 BattleBots PG 9:10 Unexplained And Unexplored PG Killing Meriwether Lewis.

10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Railroad Australia PG 11:40 Swamp Murders M In Too Deep. 12:30 The Perfect Murder M Garden of Evil. 1:20 People Magazine Investigates M Murder Among Friends. 2:10 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 3pm Bering Sea Gold PG Cracked.

3:50 Deadliest Catch PG Battle Lines. 5:40 Railroad Australia PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Christmas Wonderland Woes.

8:30 Homestead Rescue PG Life or Death in Michigan.

9:25 River Of No Return PG Horsepower Up. 10:15 Moonshiners – Whiskey Business M More Dollars Than Sense.

11:05 Naked And Afraid MVL Swamp Queen.

11:55 How It’s Made PG

Thursday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 1:35 Deadliest Catch PG 3:15 Bering Sea Gold PG 4:05 What On Earth? PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid MVL 5:45 Deadliest Catch PG

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By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

The Waireka Croquet Club continues to flourish, following a successful showing earlier this month.

Five members of the Ashburton club were among the medals following impressive performances at the New Zealand Masters Games in Dunedin on February 1-7.

Sue Lamb won a gold medal in the Golf Croquet Singles Division 2 event.

In the same event, fellow club

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member Brian Goodwin secured a spot on the podium, winning bronze.

Lamb backed up her singles performance the next day, winning her second gold of the tournament in the Golf Croquet Doubles Division 2 event, alongside Eva Kircher.

The spoils did not end there for Waireka as Gail Benseman won silver medals in the Golf Croquet Singles Division 4, Ricochet Croquet Division 2 and Association Croquet Division 3 events.

Bill Allnutt also chipped in, se-

The medal winning Waireka quintet of (from left) Sue Lamb, Bill Allnutt, Gail Benseman, Eva Kircher and Brian Goodwin celebrate their success.

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curing silver in the Golf Croquet Doubles Division 1 event alongside Christchurch’s Patricia Alston.

The New Zealand Masters Games features dozens of events across different sporting codes, attracting more than 4000 competitors each year.

Lamb said that there was an element of good fortune to the Ashburton contingent’s impressive haul.

“It’s because we’re in an age group, handicap range.

“They were all really even games, it was just the luck of the draw.

“It’s played in good spirits .... we have a lot of fun at the Masters.”

Modesty aside, the club have enjoyed a fair bit of success at the annual event and are always well represented at other tournaments.

“Every time we have a good

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haul of medals at the Masters,” Lamb said.

Despite this, securing the spoils of the event is a low priority for the club. “It doesn’t matter about the medals, it’s about the camaraderie of the event and the social aspect. Although we do all have a competitive streak.”

Next up for the club is the golf croquet club championships on Sunday, followed by the South Island Vets in Timaru on March 3-4.

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