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Drought forces early SFF shutdown

By NadiNe Porter

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Drought and tough conditions for farmers is forcing Silver Fern Farms to close processing at Fairton next week – nearly two months earlier than the previous season.

The early closure will affect 250 staff members.

SFF Chief Operating Officer Kevin Winders confirmed the Fairton plant will stop processing next Thursday due to the impact two years of drought has had on South Island stock numbers in the region.

“With el nino forecast farmers made sensible calls around destocking and selling store lambs out of the region. They mainly moved down to Southland and Otago for finishing.”

While recent rain had been positive for farmers, it came too late to have an impact on the current season, he said.

Remaining volumes for the season will come predominantly from Southland and Otago while the remainder of Canterbury lambs will be processed at the cooperative’s Pareora site.

“It’s more central to where the

stock is.”

Overall processing at Fairton has been stopping earlier each season. Last year the chains stopped mid April, while in 2013 and 2014 the chains stopped in mid May. Mr Winders was unable to comment on where bobby calf processing would be undertaken this winter as the decision would not be made until April/May. Last season the Fairton plant lost the calf kill to Pareora with eight weeks work lost by local employees. That on the back of a late start in that same season meant

employment opportunities had been decreased.

Salvation Army food bank manager Judith Lilley said flow-on effects from employees having a shortened season would not be felt initially.

“But there will be an effect later on.”

While most were used to the seasonal nature of the job she advised those that might struggle to seek help early.

“Don’t leave it until it’s too late.”

Beef and Lamb New Zealand chairman James Parsons said lamb processing was 14 per cent

ahead of last season in mid January but due to lighter carcasses production was only 11 per cent ahead.

The farmer levy funded organisation has forecast a lamb slaughter of 19.6 to 20 million head for the year ending September 30, 2016, down six to eight per cent on last season.

“With lamb processing so advanced and reasonable feed levels around much of the country, there is a shortage of lamb looming.”

However, global demand for lamb continued to decline, he said.

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Woody to the rescue Fishermen and women eager to snag a salmon gathered at the Rakaia River mouth bright and early yesterday morning.

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Fishermen out in force for Rakaia competition

By CaitliN Porter

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The Rakaia Salmon Fishing Competition attracts a decent crowd year after year, but less-than-ideal weather conditions had some anglers concerned for the fate of this year’s competition.

However, yesterday morning the river was teeming with fish-

ermen and women trying their hands at landing the big one.

Elwyn Roberts, of Christchurch, was out on the water bright and early yesterday morning but had not had much luck when the Guardian visited the rivermouth.

Not concerned with reports of murky water, Mr Roberts said salmon generally preferred a bit

of colour in the water so there was nothing to worry about.

Watching from the bank and avoiding the thunderous waves, Rakaia Huts resident Kelvin Derry and mate Jim Smith made the trek to the mouth at 5am, an annual venture.

Escaping the family for some peace and quiet Max Ringiringi

couldn’t remember the last time he caught a fish during the competition, but yesterday was his lucky day. The Christchurch resident reeled in a 14 pound (6.35kg fish) before 9am.

The fishing competition will continue today, finishing up tomorrow, with a prizegiving set to take place in the early afternoon.

One look was all it took for Woody to fall for Cindy.

The 10-year-old staffie terrier was on death row at the Ashburton SPCA but was rescued by a Rakaia resident, simply known as “Woody”, just over a month ago.

According to Woody she spent the majority of her life living in a carpark, but had been left at the SPCA following the passing of her owner.

A Rakaia Salmon Fishing Competition stalwart, Woody has been taking part in the event for the best part of 25 years, but this year was a first for Cindy.

The dog spent the majority of her morning reclining on the back of the quad bike, keeping an eye on the anglers.

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Police to target drugs By suE nEwman

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With violent crime across the Ashburton District dropping by 23 per cent over the past year, Ashburton police have turned their focus to issues around drug supply and drug dealing.

In a report to the Ashburton District Council on Thursday, police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said this focus had resulted in a 339 per cent increase in apprehensions around drug supply and this had been matched by a 95 per cent resolution rate.

“People might gasp at that figure – until they see that the resolution rate is also very high,” he said.

Ashburton police were working at maximum capacity and while the number of staff allocated to the station might be correct, keeping jobs filled was an ever-increasing challenge, Mr Banfield said.

“We’ve advertised in Auckland thinking cheaper housing

Firefighters tend to burning hay bales after a fire escaped at a Pendarves property yesterday.

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Stubble fire leads to warning

By Erin TaskEr

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Farmers are facing hefty fines if they’re found to have lit stubble fires which get out of control on windy days, the district’s principal rural fire officer says.

Don Geddes’ warning comes hot on the heels of a suspected stubble fire escape at a Pendarves property yesterday which got into hay bales.

Mr Geddes said recent hot, dry weather had caused the countryside to brown off again in recent days and it was likely fire restrictions would be put back in place next week, but farmers needed to remember that the rules applied

up in Mt Somers gusts were up to 60-70km/h – conditions where fires should not be lit.

“It would appear that this fire has burnt quite a lot of hay bales and that’s a consequence of some degree of, I guess, stupidity,” Mr Geddes said.

The Pendarves fire was one of two keeping Mid Canterbury’s firefighters busy yesterday afternoon, with Hinds’ Volunteer Rural Fire Force putting the call out for more tankers to assist in fighting a fire in about 100 metres of hedge on Wrens Road, near the Rangitata River, at around 4pm.

The cause of that fire was not yet clear.

even in an open fire season.

“We have got the potential to issue instant infringements under our bylaw, of $500 plus GST, because the bylaw applies all year round,” Mr Geddes said.

“That bylaw says nobody should be lighting a fire in a manner where it’s likely to escape from the area being burnt.

“So they are putting their hand up for an instant fine.”

No infringement notices had been issued so far this year, but seven or eight were issued last summer, Mr Geddes said.

Ashburton was recording maximum wind gusts of up around 60km/h yesterday afternoon, and

and good schools might be attractive and we’ve had some success with young people through recruiting, but that’s a long process.”

Ashburton needed trained staff who would hit the ground running, he said.

“We’ve had our staffing increased by two detectives and two constables, but the challenge is finding them.”

Staff shortages meant stretched resources, particularly when police were increasingly being asked to work in areas that were not their top priorities.

Increasingly police time was being directed into the area of mental health that was a social services function, not a policing one, he said.

“We’re now trying to push this back.”

There was a general recognition that policing lacked funding in many areas, but rural policing continued to be the poor relation, Mr Banfield said.

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Boys’ students and two boys from the activity centre one of the boys texted family members who were waiting at the stop when the bus arrived.

The driver, who did not wish to be named for his own safety, said as the two Akina students got off the bus a group of two females and three males attempted to

About 30 students from Hastings Boys’, Hastings Girls’ and Karamu High schools, the Akina Activity Centre and Hastings Intermediate were on board when the incident happened in Havelock North on Thursday afternoon.

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The man who saved a bus load of school children from a gang attack is being labelled a hero, but the humble driver said he was just doing his job.

The veteran driver of 20 years acted as a human shield to prevent five teenagers alleged to have been carrying weapons, from storming the bus.

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■ HIGH COURT CHRISTCHURCH

Stickers point to Tully being at scene A High Court jury has heard about the movements of double murder accused Russell John Tully in the days and hours leading up to the shootings in Ashburton’s Work and Income office.

Tully, 49, denies two charges of murdering Work and Income employees Peggy Turuhira Noble, 67, and Susan Leigh Cleveland, 55, on September 1, 2014.

He’s also accused of attempting to murder two fellow workers Lindy Louise Curtis and Kim Elizabeth Adams and other charges, including two counts of unlawfully possessing firearms, and one of setting a man trap.

Tully was absent from the courtroom during yesterday’s sitting before Justice Cameron Mander for reasons which cannot be reported.

Tully has chosen to represent himself, however in his absence his case is being managed by amicus lawyers Phil Shamy and James Rapley.

Temuka electrician Peter John Sullivan described the scene outside the Cass Street office immediately before and after the shooting rampage.

He was parked at the stop sign at the corner of Cass and Moore streets in an Electraserve van on his way to a job when he saw a man with a balaclava pulled over his face walking quickly in the direction of the Work and Income office.

Mr Sullivan told the court he initially put the man’s garb down to a “cold foggy morning” – until he notice the shotgun he was carrying.

He said the “gunman” appeared to be looking over a hedge

Justice Cameron Mander.

through the office windows.

Mr Sullivan then drove through the intersection to park outside Electraserve’s premises on Moore Street, during which time he lost sight of the “gunman”.

As he spoke to emergency services on a triple one call, a group of people ran out of the Work and Income office. One of them challenged the “gunman” who had made his way to the stop sign where a bike was chained.

He heard the challenger curse the man and say “ . . . you blew her to bits” and at that point realised the gravity of the situation.

Earlier in the day Ashburton signwriter Clive Burns Watson described printing 120 stickers for a man matching Tully’s description about August 13 or 14.

He said the man was quietly spoken but determined in his request for stickers with the letters ‘inX’ printed on them.

He specifically asked for the letter ‘i’ and ‘n’ in lowercase black print and a capital ‘X’ in red.

Mr Watson explained it would be difficult to print stickers in two colours and the man settled for black.

Mr Watson then identified as his work in a number of photos of items found in Tully’s possession after his arrest with the distinctive inX stickers attached, including a cup, a black bike, a broken down shotgun and ammunition.

He was also asked to identify a sticker attached to a spent red shotgun cartridge which was found in the Work and Income office in the aftermath of the shooting.

The Crown alleges this ties Tully to the scene of the crime.

Russell John Tully tries to make a point on day two his trial before the judge ordered his removal.

PHOTO SUPPLIED Carol Mary Kerr told the court of seeing the man she knew as John Tully eating at a public picnic table on East Street minutes before the shootings. Ms Kerr said Tully was a regular customer at Couplands Bakery where she worked.

He came into the store “five or six times a week” and always purchased a slice of bacon and egg pie and a cream bun. On the morning of the shootings he came in shortly before 8am, but left empty handed after discovering there was no bacon and egg pie in the warmer.

Ms Kerr noticed him across the road during her break and took a photo of him on her mobile phone. She told the court she was curious as to where he had got his breakfast.

The photo was produced as evidence.

Ashburton truck driver Kirk David Frew told the court of finding a mobile phone in the trailer of a truck he was using to deliver cattle to a Somerton Road farm on the morning of September 9.

He later gave it to his boss Robin Andrew Taylor, who passed it on to the police.

Some time later in the month Mr Taylor found a second mobile phone in the third deck of a spare sheep crate parked in the yard of his South Street business. It too was passed on to police.

The Crown has alleged both

Peter John Sullivan describes the scene outside the Cass Street office immediately before and after the shooting rampage. phones were planted by Tully in the belief they would be tracked as the trucks moved around the country, in an effort to cover his tracks.

Life Pharmacy pharmacist Melissa Kate West said Tully had visited the shop a “couple of times a week” for “six to eight weeks” prior to the shootings to buy hydrogen peroxide, which Tully used to treat a skin disease.

She told the court hydrogen peroxide was not recommended as a treatment for skin problems and was likely to cause further irritation.

Like several other Crown witnesses Ms West had learned Tul-

Crown exhibits on display in the court house.

ly’s identity after reading a story published by the Guardian on August 9, detailing his struggle to find accommodation.

Others to appear for the Crown yesterday included New World supermarket employee Brian Shimmin and manager Devin Young, who spoke about Tully purchasing chocolate, lollies and milk early on the morning of September 1.

The trial will recommence at 10am on Monday when witnesses in the Work and Income office at the time of the shootings, including the two employees who survived the attack, are expected to give evidence.

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■ MID CANTERBURY TOURISM

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The Ashburton District is riding a tourism wave that saw it top Canterbury for growth in the number of overnight guests during December.

Guest nights for the month were 43.61 per cent up on December 2014 and the district’s growth was part of a Canterbury-wide, post-earthquake tourism recovery.

That growth, however, may have come at the expense of Christchurch city, with statistics showing overseas visitors are still by-passing Christchurch as an overnight destination.

And no one is happier with

the surge in guest night numbers than Experience Mid Canterbury chief executive Bruce Moffat, who believes the busy month is part of a trend that is seeing visitors tour Christchurch but elect to stay outside the city.

“We’ve had the most significant change in Canterbury. Our length of stay has risen too, to 2.23 nights and I’ve had anecdotal feedback about January with a number of people saying it’s been one of the busiest on record,” he said.

Experience Mid Canterbury was unashamedly making a big push to ensure visitors not only visited the district but over-

nighted as well, Mr Moffat said.

A significant effort had been put into promoting the foothills scenic route from Christchurch through Darfield, Methven and Mt Somers, he said, and this was paying off with guest nights in Methven and Mt Somers increasing by 76.78 per cent in December over December 2014.

He believes the district could capture an even greater share of Canterbury bed nights, however, if it had a four star, serviced apartment complex in its accommodation mix.

“I’d like to see a boutique property or serviced apartments here. We do get into situations where we have events

and our guests have to be accommodated outside the district. There’s an opportunity here for a style of accommodation that we don’t currently have.”

A four star complex would give the district significant leverage in the Asian, particularly the Chinese market, Mr Moffat said.

“That’s taking nothing away from the properties we do have.

They do a fabulous job and offer very, very good service, but we still need something more.”

December’s guest night high provided a solid platform for the district to build on for 2016, he said.

■ ASHBURTON AIRPORT

Pilots forced to battle the elements Pilots taking part in the Flying New Zealand National Championships had to battle some strong winds yesterday.

Mid Canterbury Aero Club president Ian Begbie said winds were so strong yesterday morning that one team had to pull the pin on an event.

By lunchtime however winds had eased off and the field grid, life raft and bombing events went ahead as planned.

Flying will continue today before a presentation dinner is held later tonight.

More than 180 people are set to attend with festivities beginning at 6pm.

Camera handed in Ashburton Police are on the hunt for someone missing special memories. They’ve had a camera handed in to them and they’re hoping to find its owner.

The camera was found outside Ashburton’s Catholic Church. If you think it’s yours, contact the Ashburton Police.

Review report close How well two Ashburton economic and tourism organisations are doing their job will be spelled out clearly next month when a review report is presented to the Ashburton District Council. The council has employed a consultant to review both Grow Mid Canterbury and Experience Mid Canterbury’s performances and the findings will come to council on March 31.

Breast cancer ride Teams of five will ride to survive in Methven on Sunday, all in the name of raising money for breast cancer research. Mountain Gym is hosting Ride to Survive, an event which will see teams of five riding hard for four hours non-stop, from 9am until 1pm. The dress code and theme for the day is pink – the colour symbolic with breast cancer.

Man dies after assault The man with gang associations who died after an assault has been named. Clayton Ratima-Ngaha, 24, of Otara, died from serious head injuries after an assault. A scene examination began yesterday at the Tribesman motorcycle gang pad in Otara and is expected to take several days. The investigation team are still appealing for information on the location of the silver Honda Odyssey, registration DBK440, that dropped Mr Ratima-Ngaha at Middlemore Hospital. Mr RatimaNgaha was taken to hospital by two Tribesman gang members about 1pm on Sunday and died on Wednesday afternoon.

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Crash victims named

Right - Liam Sutherland, 15, and Matthew Windst, 14, from the North Shore Aero Club managed to tackle the winds yesterday in their Robin 212U. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 260216-AK-057

■ DICK SMITH CLOSURES

Bargain hunters hit local Dick Smith store A steady stream of customers walked through the doors of Ashburton’s Dick Smith store on the hunt for a bargain yesterday, following news the doors will close for good within eight weeks.

The electronics store went into receivership on January 5 and the closures of all Australian and New Zealand stores was confirmed by the receivers, who said they’d received no acceptable offers for the business.

Ashburton’s store employs three people, but they knew as much as anyone else about the impending closure, having been notified not long before the news became public.

The receiver’s sale signs are up on the doors and the store had

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In brief

Top in December growth

By Sue NewmaN

Ashburton Guardian

been busy, staff said.

The impending closures come after external consultants were brought in following disappointing trading in October and November and launched what it described as “significant marketing activity” to try to boost sales in the run-up to Christmas and compete with rivals JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman.

The only stores unaffected by the closure are those in airports.

It had been thought the New Zealand stores would find a buyer because the most recent results had shown it to be profitable, reporting earnings of $A903,000 in the year ended June 30, 2015.

“While we received a significant number of expressions of interest

from local and overseas parties, unfortunately the sales process has not resulted in any acceptable offers for the group as a whole or for Australia or New Zealand as standalone businesses,” said receiver James Stewart of Ferrier Hodgson.

“The offers were either significantly below liquidation values or highly conditional or both.”

There are currently 301 Dick Smith stores in Australia with 2460 staff and 62 stores in New Zealand employing about 430 people. Mr Stewart described it as a disappointing outcome for the employees.

“We would particularly like to thank the Dick Smith employees for their support and patience

during the receivership process.”

New Zealand employees made redundant will be ranked as preferential claimants and are expected to be paid in full up to the statutory limit of $22,160.

Secured creditors are owed about $A140 million and unsecured creditors about $A250 million.

Dick Smith was valued at $A520 million when it was listed on the ASX in 2013 for $2.20 a share by owners Anchorage Capital Partners.

They had bought Dick Smith from Woolworths in 2012 in a deal reportedly worth $A115 million.

By the time shares were suspended on the ASX, they had fallen 84 per cent to 35.5 Australian cents.

Two of the people who died in an explosive fiery crash on Thursday in Patea were well known identities in the small South Taranaki town.

Cherylene Bayne (known as Cherrie), who was in her 50s, would walk up and down the main street every day visiting the shops and chatting to everyone she met, a shopkeeper said.

Her brother John Bayne, in his late 40s, worked as a cleaner at McDonald’s in Hawera. The flags were flying at half-mast at McDonald’s restaurants in Hawera and Whanganui yesterday. “He was an interesting man and had the most incredible ice-blue eyes,” the shopkeeper said.

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Motorcyclist named The motorcyclist who died after colliding with a car near Hampden in North Otago has been named.

He was 54-year-old John Alexander Horn from Invercargill.

The crash happened about 2.45pm, just north of Hampden on Thursday. Mr Horn died at the scene. Two elderly people who were in the car were taken to Oamaru Hospital by ambulance to be treated for whiplash.

Police were continuing their investigation into the cause of the crash.

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■ BIG LITTLE THEATRE COMPANY

In brief

Hoping passion will take them to the Globe

By SuSan SandyS

susan.s@theguardian.co.nz

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

So said William Shakespeare, and that is a sentiment which is ringing true for Big Little Theatre Company actors.

About 15 of the company’s teenage members are hoping what they may one-day be is actors on the stage of London’s Globe Theatre.

Big Little director Jackie Heffernan said she was currently preparing the students for the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival.

Following regional and national events, ultimately more than 20 secondary school student actors are chosen to visit the Globe each year.

Mrs Heffernan believed her company’s actors were in with the best chance of any other young actors in the country, following exceptional results in Trinity College London examinations.

Trinity College has recently awarded its prestigious exhibition awards for 2014, when students Mitchell Farr, Tilly Smith, Elise Heffernan, Caleb Livingstone and Abby Eastwood performed a Shakespearian piece in front of the examiner.

Drug arrests Four people were arrested for allegedly openly smoking or possessing cannabis at Whangarei’s Town Basin yesterday during a protest by cannabis law reform campaigners. A group of more than 20 people gathered at the Town Basin around 4.20pm with three police officers also in attendance to keep an eye on the protesters from the group Roaring Lions Cannabis Community Whangarei. Several of the protesters allegedly openly lit and smoked cannabis joints, sparking three initial arrests, including the group’s spokesperson. An officer then read the remaining group a Bill of Rights warning and searched them under the Misuse of Drugs Act and allegedly found cannabis in one bag and a man was arrested for allegedly possessing the cannabis. - NZME

Body in bath

Big Little Theatre Company actors (from left) Mitchell Farr, Tilly Smith and Elise Heffernan hope their outstanding efforts in Shakespeare help get them to London’s Globe Theatre.

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It was the same year the quintet was performing in the company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and their enthusiasm for Shakespeare was at an all-time high.

Today Mitchell, Tilly and Elise remain members of the com-

pany, and have put 50 pounds they each won as part of the exhibition award towards funds they are raising to hopefully ultimately get to the Globe.

They and their fellow Shakespeare enthusiasts at Big Little are practising hard for the

■ PRINCIPALS’ ASSOCIATION

Record number at Methven conference

By RuBy HaRfield

ruby.h@theguardian.co.nz

The Canterbury West Coast Secondary Principals’ Association’s biannual conference in Methven has drawn a record number of participants.

A total of 38 principals attended the Learning for Leadership conference, which was held at the Methven Resort on Thursday and Friday.

CWCSPA executive assistant Neil Wilkinson said he was pleased with the number of principals taking part in the event aimed at developing their leadership skills.

“This is the best turnout we’ve had for a long long time.”

The high numbers were probably due to the calibre of the speakers and the fact that the event was opened by Education minister Hekia Parata, who also addressed the crowd at their last conference.

“We enjoyed having her.”

The two-day meet was a good way for principals to get work together as busy schedules and distance means they are unable to catch up frequently, he said.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for

principals to get together early in the year.”

The conference has a different theme each time and is usually held in Methven because it is central to almost all CWCSPA members.

Mrs Parata said she had been looking forward to opening the conference because she has always been impressed with the CWCSPA. They were focused on what they could do to help their students learn, she said.

The event included talks from University of Auckland Centre for Education Leadership director Linda Bendikson, consultant and former University of Canterbury Human Development lecturer Nathan Wallis, who has a professional background in child counselling, teaching and social service management, New Zealand Council for Educational Research education adviser Cathie Johnson and Seido Karate instructor Renzie Hanham, who has assisted sports teams including the All Blacks and Crusaders to better themselves and was awarded the Christchurch Civic Award and Heroes Award in 2008.

Sheilah Winn festival.

“I have had the dream for a long time,” Mrs Heffernan said of entering her students and ultimately making it to the Globe.

“I think it just takes time for children to develop and share the passion for Shakespeare.”

■ METHVEN

International Straw Building Conference a New Zealand first

By SuSan SandyS

susan.s@theguardian.co.nz

Methven is hosting New Zealand’s first-ever International Straw Building Conference next week.

Organisers chose the ski town as the destination for the four-yearly conference due to its agricultural attributes and high quality conference facilities.

About 200 delegates from around the world will converge on the town for the five-day conference, which begins on Thursday.

They will participate in workshops, demonstrations and presentations at the Mount Hutt Memorial Hall.

Delegates include many from New Zealand, including some from Ashburton and throughout Canterbury.

Organisers have secured 220 bales of straw from a local farm, which is enough straw to build a house.

Among those on the organising team is Sarah Johnston, who herself lives in a straw-bale house, at Geraldine, built with 180 bales.

Yesterday Mrs Johnston invited Mid Cantabrians to an open afternoon which would be held as part of the conference.

“Our hope is to have a positive impact within the community while we are here but also after we have left,” Mrs Johnston said.

“By providing an open afternoon for the locals, it’s a way of achieving one of our goals, especially since natural building inherently enhances community spirit.”

The open afternoon would be held at the hall on March 6 from 2pm to 5pm.

The conference would close with a fun straw-bale Olympics, which would see delegates compete by seeing how far they could toss straw bales, and how high they could build bale towers.

Part of preparing for the conference was holding a bus shelter design competition. The theoretical site for the shelter was in Methven, but it is unlikely the shelter will be built.

Police say there were no life threatening injuries to a 51-yearold woman who was found dead in a bath in Christchurch on Thursday.

There were also no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death. An ambulance was called to a house on Gleig Place in Spreydon just before 9am on Thursday, but soon requested police assistance.

Two occupants of the house were being spoken to by police and a scene examination started. In a statement yesterday, police said a post-mortem had been completed and the cause of the woman’s death remains unknown. - NZME

High-fives all round Hundreds of schoolchildren from Hokitika to Ahaura – including every primary school in Greymouth – massed at Rugby Park, Greymouth, yesterday for a tilt at the Guinness World Record for a continuous high-five chain.

The record is currently held in the United States with 1647 high-fives, but Greymouth organiser Maria Swinburn was hoping to break the 2000 mark. Participating children had to do their highfives in a chain, two at a time.

The Greymouth attempt was run as a fundraiser for various local charities.

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Body in burnt car A body has been found in a burned-out car in Wellington yesterday. Police say the alarm was raised at 7.30am when a torched vehicle with a person inside was found on an isolated stretch of Hill Rd in Lower Hutt. Detectives are at the scene and treating the death as suspicious until the cause of the person’s death is determined. Police were alerted to the discovery of a body by the fire service which was initially called to the Hill Rd location. The vehicle was burning when firefighters responded to an emergency call just after 7am to extinguish the blaze, the spokesman said. Acting Hutt Valley area commander Terry van Dillen said police were investigating the identity of the dead person. The park is closed off at the moment and will stay that way for a while. The dead person was just outside the driver’s door.

There is only one house near the park entrance. Occupants said they were unaware of what had happened.

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Forty years in the job and counting

By Sue newman

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When Lynette Breakwell took up a part-time job after her youngest child started school, it was to be a short term period of employment.

That didn’t work out, 40 years, four mayors and four chief executives later she’s still on the payroll at the Ashburton District Council, keeping councillors and staff fuelled with tea and biscuits and running a team of cleaning staff.

Her long service was recognised at Thursday’s council meeting with mayor Angus McKay describing Mrs Breakwell as an employee for whom nothing was a problem.

“She’s lugged thousands of tables around and served thousands of cups of tea.

She’s become the mum of every employee,” he said.

When she signed on the district council was the Ashburton Borough Council and Geoff Geering was mayor.

Back then lunches, while not a lavish affair were more substantial and morning and afternoon tea more lavish than today’s biscuits and cheese or plain biscuits.

And back in those days, the council met at night and that meant supper duty for Lynette and a clean-up job next morning.

Over the years her job as ‘tea lady’ has meant she’s rubbed shoulders with a raft of well known people and recalls Jenny Shipley who was both the district’s MP and Prime Minister as a frequent visitor to the mayoral office.

“I also remember Jim Bolger coming one Saturday to meet the mayor and bringing his wife.

“She was very talkative

and she told me all about her family,” Lynette said.

There have been many visitors from overseas and while, for some the food on offer might be quite different, all were willing to try whatever was provided, she said.

She quickly learned that any visitors from Asia meant there would be a big demand for chocolate biscuits.

With 40 years on the calendar, Lynette says she won’t be celebrating half a century on the council payroll.

“I haven’t made a date to retire yet, but it is in my head.

When, I do, I’ll miss the councillors and the staff especially, there isn’t a bad one among them.”

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Ashburton County Lions are playing host to a Lions District convention for the first time this weekend.

The County Lions are hosting the 202J convention, an event that has attracted more than 220 visiting delegates from Rakaia to Milton.

Convention chairwoman Julie McKimmie said a jam-packed weekend was on the cards, with festivities beginning last night with an official opening ceremony.

Children donned the national dress of a number of countries around the world and motivational speaker, Terry O’Neill was also present.

Today, an AGM of sorts will take place

with all Lions members.

Events will be based at the Ashburton College Auditorium and Menorlue, but tomorrow night visitors and residents alike will let their hair down at the Hotel Ashburton.

The “splash of colour” themed dine and dance will be a chance for members from all over the district to mix and mingle.

Cakes will also be raffled off with all proceeds going to the Child Mobility Foundation (within the 202J area).

Tomorrow, the club will host a remembrance and rededication service which remembers Lions who have passed on within the district.

The convention will then officially come to a close with a luncheon.

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Scouts put rafting skills to test

Hampstead School’s junior students enjoyed a swimming exhibition at Hampstead pool on Wednesday.

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The district’s scout population gathered at Lake Camp last weekend to mark Founders Day, and hold its annual Raft Race Day. Scouts from around the Mania-o-Roto district had to build their own raft and race it across Lake Camp, with a group from Methven the eventual winners on what was a tough, windless day for rafting. Founders Day marks the birthday of Scouts founder Baden Powell and is about celebrating the achievements of young people.

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Mayfield School student Trista Farnell, 10 (right), plays cricket with IDEA Services members during a get together at the Mayfield Domain on Tuesday.

Eighteen children from Mayfield and Mt Somers schools spent several hours having lunch and games with IDEA Services members during the annual event organised by the Mayfield Lions.

Mayfield School principal Richard Kidd said it was a great chance for students to mix with people who are a little bit different to them. “The children enjoyed the experience of mixing and talking with the adults from IDEA Services.”

Fourteen Year 6 to 8 students from Mayfield and four Year 7 to 8 students from Mt Somers attended the lunch.

The event included rides in vintage cars, golf carts and a fire engine as well as a game of cricket.

Participants in Hampstead School’s junior swim testing out the water.

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Alexia Wilson, 10, Jessie Pitney, 10, Teagan Cameron, 10, Rylie Green, 10, Bryce Wilson, 10, Sophie Trott, 9, Katie Wood , 10, during Hampstead School’s triathlon on Thursday.

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Rakaia salmon fishing competition

Maggie Hood, Naomi Taylor, Emily Watson and Abigail Cavanagh compete in the Lauriston, Methven and Our Lady of The Snows School cluster swim on Thursday.

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The great flag debate: It’s This week, New Zealanders get to vote on their country’s flag.

Will the old flag or the new flag prevail? Erin Tasker finds out what some Mid Canterbury people think.

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t’s too much like Australia’s.

It’s costing too much money.

What’s wrong with the current flag? Why is New Zealand even having this debate?

They’re just some of the responses you get when you ask people for their view on the flag.

Most people have an opinion on whether New Zealand needs a new flag or not, and everyone has a reason behind their opinion.

Walking the streets of Ashburton this week, it’s clear people are divided. The front page of today’s Guardian shows 20 people in the current flag camp, and 17 in the new flag camp.

But no matter what camp they’re in, most people’s first comment on the whole thing, is the amount of money it’s costing. It’s money, they say, that could be better spent on education, health and welfare at a time when so many families are struggling to make ends meet.

Some say it’s ridiculous the country is spending so much money on it when there’s nothing wrong with our current flag. Others say the money spent is crazy, but seeing as so much has already been spent, we might as well go ahead and change it.

For those who do want to see it changed, the most common reason

is to make New Zealand stand out from our closest neighbours.

The New Zealand and Australian flags are just too similar, they say.

Former All Black captain Richie McCaw summed it up when he came out in support of the new flag, by posting a photo of the sight he saw running out onto the field to play Australia in the last Rugby World Cup. The two flags were side by side, and they looked so similar, that’s what helped him make up his mind.

Some are doing research into the debate and the reasons for change.

One woman said she was all for the old flag, up until this week.

Then she found out more about the significance of the silver fern and the fact it’s on war-time soldiers’ graves. That started to change her mind.

“But then I saw it flying next to

Mid Cantabrians abroad ...

Justin Cook – Australia

Brad Healy - Australia “I’m happy with the old flag but wouldn’t be against a change.

“It would be nice to see it differ from the Aussie more. I don’t like the silver fern with blue and black background, I think the silver fern on a completely black background would be my favourite of all. If Richie McCaw thinks it should change then I believe that should be the way.”

“I say the new flag. The change represents the continued evolution of New Zealand society.

“The change speaks to New Zealand’s change from a British colony to a country with a unique identity. That, and it looks far too much like the Australian flag.”

Chris Doyle – America/Spain “I agree with the fact we should change the flag.

“I’m not sure about the chosen alternative, but I do believe the fern is important to have, and to the people saying that the fern only pertains to sport and it’s more of a brand mark, well I say the fact that the fern is inscribed on 30,000 New Zealanders’ war graves around the globe carries a lot more meaning.”

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John and Cheryl Lamb – Australia Cheryl: “New flag for me because it represents New Zealand better.

The majority of people overseas recognise the Silver Fern as New Zealand and wouldn’t know what the present flag looks like. We fly the black with Silver Fern flag at home in Australia but would replace it with the new one if it’s chosen. We’ve had no-one tell us our flag is the wrong one.” John: “The new flag, as the present one represents being tied to England and the Royals and I am all for New Zealand being a republic.”

“I prefer our existing flag due to the history.

“It’s been our flag for over a century, to lose it is like changing New Zealand’s identity. The Union Jack which represents New Zealand’s connection with Britain – yes, it’s a bit outdated, but it’s part of New Zealand history - and the southern cross which represents New Zealand’s location in the South Pacific. Two quite special symbols, which I would be sad to see go if the new flag is voted in.”

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voting time the old one and I didn’t feel it stood out,” she said.

She now thinks it is time for a change, but isn’t sure the current option is the right one.

Another local woman told a similar story.

“I wasn’t for changing it but having seen it flying around and doing a bit of reading I’m keen for the new flag, but not the cost of it,” she said.

Even our top athletes – people who have competed under the old flag on the world’s biggest stages – are divided.

John Snowden – who says his vote will be for the current flag - has competed around the world in a blazer or shirt with a silver fern on it and he’s often asked what it is.

He said the silver fern is a sporting emblem, but not a national logo. If there’s something that New Zealand is known for around the world, it’s

the Kiwi.

Meanwhile, former All Black Isaac Ross feels that black and the silver fern speak more to New Zealand, while Olympic and Commonwealth Games cyclist Hayden Roulston doesn’t see the point of changing.

He’s never had a problem with the current flag.

But when it comes to Mid Canterbury people abroad, it seems a change is the most popular option.

People spoken to on the streets of Ashburton this week who have done a lot of travelling in the past, said when they were overseas they were constantly confused for Australians, and having such similar flags did not help.

John and Cheryl Lamb live in Australia now, but they’re proud to be Kiwis. The flag they fly at their Australian home though doesn’t feature the Union Jack.

Their flag is black with a silver fern on it, and if New Zealand votes for the new flag, they’ll happily fly that instead.

Even if people haven’t made their minds up on which flag they’ll be voting for yet, everyone seems to have an opinion on the issue of whether New Zealand even needs a new flag.

There’s those that think it’s too much money to spend, those who think it’s a way to give us an identity rather than people confusing us with Australia, and there’s even the conspiracy theorists who think it’s all just to distract us from other issues like the TPPA. This may be the thoughts of Mid Cantabrians, but what does the rest of the country think?

Preliminary results will come out on March 24. Then, we’ll know if we have a new flag or not.

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Lauren Ellis (current member of the New Zealand track cycling team)

Mark Jackman (former All Blacks Sevens player) “The new flag. I see the fern as a better representation of our country versus the Union Jack.

It also eliminates any confusion between the Australian and New Zealand flags.”

“I prefer the old flag. I had family in the war and I want to represent the country under the same flag they did.”

Isaac Ross (former All Black, now playing rugby in Japan) “Unless you’re an Olympian and fly the flag, I feel the Silver Fern and the term ‘Blacks’ is more our symbol as athletes. You look at most of our sporting team names and they have those two things in there. I’m for the flag change as long as it holds meaning (such as symbols and colour) and doesn’t look crap.”

John Snowden (Commonwealth Games fullbore rifle shooter) Hayden Roulston (Olympic and Commonwealth Games medal winning cyclist) “Keep the old flag. I don’t want a new flag. I don’t really know why to be honest, but I never had a problem with our old flag.”

“I guess I was always in favour of the old one, but I guess I won’t be unhappy about it if the other one gets voted in. I was just worried really that people were confusing the flag with a brand or a logo.”

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“The new flag. I think the flag is important and the stars that represent the Commonwealth and the UK are not so important, and for that reason I would rather promote New Zealand for New Zealand and that flag does it beautifully.”

“I was very much with the old flag, but I think the other one has grown on me with all the publicity, and I suppose it gives us independence from the UK.”

“It should stay the same because it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money that could be used on things other than a flag.”

“I actually gave my vote to my eight-year-old daughter because I thought she would be the one around to enjoy it, and the one she chose is the one up for voting so she’s very excited. I didn’t have a strong opinion either way.”

Heather Price “It’s lasted all those years and I don’t think we need to change it. The money could be spent on other things.”

Mid Canterbury schoolkids ...

Mason Bland, 9

Daycen Fitzpatrick, 9

Kyle Watkins, 10

Zac Evans, 10

“I reckon they should keep it the same, but the Kiwi means more to us because we are called Kiwis so we could have a Kiwi on the flag.”

“It doesn’t need to be changed because all the books would have to be replaced. We would have to buy more books.”

“It needs to stay the same because if we change it then a lot of other things will need changing.”

“I reckon the one with the silver fern. I like it because it has something to do with the All Blacks and other stuff to do with New Zealand as well.”

Madeleine Howden, 6

Charlotte Livingstone, 9

Payton McLauchlan, 6

Trinity Corbett, 9

Maddie Caffell, 8

“We should keep the old flag because it costs too much money to change it and I like the old one because it’s been here for New Zealand for more years.”

“The new one because it’s got the silver fern on it.”

“I like the new one because it has the black at the top and the blue at the bottom and the stars and the silver fern.”

“I don’t think we should change it because we’ve had this flag for ages and it respects our country, and I don’t think we should change it because it’s just going to be too much work and I kind of don’t like the new flag.”

“I come from Ashburton and I like the old one and I don’t want to change it because I just like the old one.”

Zara McGillen, 6 “I like the old one because I remember I liked it when I first saw the flag.”

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Veronica Wall (right) racing with mother Charlotte Cox in the club double sculls at Nationals last week.

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Lake hosting huge regatta Lake Hood is set to host 570 rowing crews from 27 schools for the Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Championship regatta next weekend.

Entries have arrived from as far north as Blenheim and south as Dunedin for two full days of racing as the schools prepare for the National School Championships, the AON Maadi Cup, at Lake Ruataniwha from April 4-10.

The crews will also have another regatta in between with the Meridian South Island Championships at Ruataniwha scheduled for March 19 and 20.

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Racing in Canterbury club colours, Christchurch Boys’ secured the under-19 doubles title, while in the Blenheim club strip, the Marlborough crew picked up a bronze in the under-22 fours and combined with Nelson club to take the senior eight title.

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In brief FIFA vote today The five men vying for the leadership of world soccer’s scandal-hit governing body made their final pitches yesterday in a contest that could hinge on who secures the bulk of Africa’s 54 votes. Delegates from more than 200 countries will elect a new president today to succeed Sepp Blatter of Switzerland, two days after Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini lost their appeals against bans for ethics violations. - Reuters

Just another game Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold has moved to downplay expectations in tonight’s Big Blue, declaring it just another game on the road to the A-League finals.

The Sky Blues head to Melbourne in a rut, without a win in six matches and burdened by international travel from their Asian Champions League match on Wednesday night. Against Victory, Arnold confronts a bogey team too - he is yet to win a Big Blue since moving to Sydney FC. - AAP

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Jennian Homes Ashburton swimmers (from left) Mia and Guy Roadley, Megan Binnie, Hannah King, Victoria Bennie and Leigh Harrison will fly the local flag at the South Island Town and Country Championships today and tomorrow.

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The South Island Town and Country Championships will host 395 swimmers at the EA Networks

Centre today and tomorrow.

Young swimmers have travelled from across the South Island to compete in their respective age-groups and swim meet

director Helen Tait expects the event to be a big success.

“We expect it to be a great meet.

“All accommodation in Ashburton is booked out, it’s big,”

she said. “We hope it finishes on time with the amount of swimmers, but it should be fine.”

Racing began this morning and concludes tomorrow afternoon.

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Top gong for Williamson Kane Williamson’s batting prowess was recognised at the New Zealand Cricket awards function on Thursday night with the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for player of the year.

He was also named test player of the year, and won the Redpath Cup for first-class batting.

The awards complete an outstanding period of recognition for the top order batsman and captain-in-waiting after he was crowned sportsman of the year at the Halberg awards last Thursday.

His latest haul came on the back of an outstanding year for the 25-year-old, who will captain the Black Caps at the World Twenty20 in India next month after Brendon McCullum’s retirement.

Williamson scored four test

centuries in the judging period, which began after the World Cup final and finished after this week’s 2-0 home test series loss to Australia.

In 2015, Williamson set a New Zealand record for the number of test runs (1172) and centuries (five) in a calendar year, and briefly become the world’s No1-ranked test batsman before Christmas.

Williamson is a man of acute modesty but his performances spoke for him during the judging period.

He scored 1003 test runs at 62.68 in nine matches; 980 ODI runs at 54.44 in 19 matches and 404 T20 runs at 57.71 and a strike rate of 138 in nine matches.

With 13 centuries before turning 26, he joined the select group of Sachin Tendulkar, Don Brad-

Kane Williamson man, Alastair Cook and Garry Sobers to have scored as many or more by the same age.

The quality rather than quantity of runs made Williamson’s contribution special. He played with technical perfection, inspiring the country’s fans.

NZC’s annual celebration of cricket – at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre – saw McCullum formally farewelled and presented with his International Cricket Council spirit of cricket award.

Others to be recognised included Trent Boult, who was presented with the Winsor Cup for firstclass bowling, Martin Guptill was ODI and T20 player of the year, White Ferns captain Suzie Bates was international women’s player of the year and Sophie Devine was recognised for her world record fastest 18-ball T20 half-century against India. Amy Satterthwaite was domestic women’s player of the year.

Auckland chairman and Cornwall club stalwart Rex Smith received the Bert Sutcliffe Medal for outstanding services to the sport.

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With seven weeks to go, Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat believes seven A-League teams could still be champions.

The problem is, the loser of tonight’s Big Blue between the Victory and Sydney FC will face an uphill battle to compete. Muscat said it would be folly to suggest Sydney’s 20 hours spent in the air this week wouldn’t make a difference. “It is difficult, lets not shy away from that,” he said. “The biggest thing is you haven’t quite fully recovered when you get on the plane. Having,said that, there’s a lot to be said about a strong mind. The team that shows the greater desire to win the football game will probably do so.” - AAP

Liverpool go through Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen and Athletic Bilbao have reached the round of 16 of the Europa League at the expense of Augsburg, Sporting Lisbon and Marseille.

Premier League club Liverpool edged Augsburg 1-0 at Anfield - to go through on a 1-0 aggregate thanks to a fifth-minute penalty converted by former England winger James Milner, after a disputed handball by Dominik Kohr which infuriated the German club. Another Bundesliga team to go out was Schalke 04, who crashed 3-0 at home to lively Shakhtar Donetesk and went out on a 3-0 aggregate.

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Rashford saves Man U It took an 18-year-old local academy graduate making his professional debut as a late injury replacement to spare Manchester United from potential humiliation in the Europa League yesterday.

Many inside Old Trafford will have known little, if anything, about Marcus Rashford when the striker was called up against FC Midtjylland after Anthony Martial hurt his right hamstring in the warmup. By the end of United’s 5-1 win, which sealed a 6-3 victory on aggregate and a place in the last 16, the fans were singing the twogoal teenager’s name. “He made a great performance,” said United manager Louis van Gaal.

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In brief

■ HOCKEY

Busy month on the turf

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury Hockey is preparing for the coming season with a number of development initiatives next month.

Participation officer Tania Trusler-Clark and former Black Stick and Olympian Kieren O’Grady will kick off March by hosting a Small Sticks hockey programme for players five years and older on March 2 and 9.

Trusler-Clark said the sessions will improve budding players’ hockey skills while having plenty of fun.

“The Small Sticks hockey sessions are a great way for new players to experience hockey,” she said.

“Our aim for the two sessions is to introduce basic hockey skills through game based activities which focus on having fun.”

On March 7, 14 and 18, Mid Canterbury coaching co-ordinator Rachel Curd has organised for experienced coaches from Canterbury Hockey to deliver three coaching sessions in Ashburton for primary, intermediate and secondary aged players.

While coaches will also have an opportunity to learn and improve on Friday, March 18 in a coaching session for coaches.

Mid Canterbury will host Metro A at the Ashburton Oval to round off their season. Skipper Bevan Ravenscroft will be unavailable due to injury, but the team selected boasts plenty of firepower as Allenton skipper Jeff Naish takes on the captain’s duties. Mid Canterbury: J Naish (captain), C Gallagher, H Jones, R Cockburn, N Gilbert, B Houston, D Biggs, M Tait, J Southby, W Southby, S Punselie. Play will begin at 10:30am.

Cricket’s world governing body is moving to diversify the typically male-dominated arena of umpiring with two women to officiate at next month’s women’s T20 World Cup in India. Claire Polosak and her New Zealand counterpart Kathy Cross will become the first women to adjudicate at any T20 World Cup after being included in a 31-person team of officials to oversee the concurrent men’s and women’s tournaments. Cross will become the first female umpire in the tournament’s history when she walks out for the women’s match between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Chennai.

- AAP The Ashburton hockey turf will see development programmes next month ahead of the 2016 season.

PHOTO JOSEPH JOHNSON 110715-JJ-028 The free session will be delivered by Hockey Academy South high performance manager, Chris Leslie, and Curd urged all those interested to get in quick.

“The session will be beneficial

for coaches of all age groups,” she said.

“Spaces are limited, so register your interest with Mid Canterbury Hockey as soon as possible.”

For any more information on the development initiatives, Mid Canterbury Hockey coaching co-ordinator Rachel Curd can be contacted on 0272289401.

Carrington adds another national title out and completely empty the tank and go hard - I haven’t done that in a little while.”

North Shore’s Teneale Hatton was fourth, with Hatton and Carrington eyeing a rematch in the K1 500m today.

Meanwhile, Hawkes Bay’s Scott Bicknell also defended his K1 200m crown, powering home in 37.74s to beat New Zealand teammate Marty McDowell of Mana by 1.36s.

It was Bicknell’s sixth 200m title and his fourth in a row.

Under-23 paddlers Andrew Roy (39.40s) and Taris Harker (39.54s) had a great tussle for the third.

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Johnson dedication Warriors star Shaun Johnson will be dedicating the team’s first game in Brisbane to a 14-yearold fan who died suddenly. Lisa Mapu’s family reached out to the NRL player on Facebook. Her brother Ma’a Mapu said she passed away in October. “My sister was a rising star in touch football who had idolised you since you stepped foot in the NRL. She would always train and practice her step which she nicknamed the johnson skip.”

He said it was worth asking if he would dedicate the Warriors’ first game to his sister. Johnson saw the message and said: “Be my privilege to have her with me and dedicate my performance to her when we play in Brisbane. So sorry for your loss, awesome to see the photo of her in action doing her ‘johnson skip’ ha.”

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Bellamy undecided

Lisa Carrington hits top speed on the water.

Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy wants a few more days to decide his NRL future. Bellamy remains committed to making a call on a potential contract extension before the Storm’s season-opener at home on March 7 against St George-Illawarra. The speculation has been that Bellamy will recommit until 2018. But he said at yesterday’s season launch that he was yet to make a final call. - AAP

Parker made skipper

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Matulino ‘embarrassed’ by pre-season efforts Front-rower Ben Matulino admits he was embarrassed with his personal effort in the Warriors’ heavy NRL trial defeat to St George Illawarra in Nelson last weekend, but says it was a necessary wake-up call ahead of round one.

Matulino believes his side were guilty of complacency following

Season-ender

Women to umpire

■ ROWING

Champion paddler Lisa Carrington snapped up her eighth New Zealand K1 200m kayak title on the opening day of the national canoe sprint championships at Lake Karapiro yesterday.

Carrington, world and Olympic champion at the distance, clocked 42.97 seconds, to beat home Hawkes Bay’s Aimee Fisher, who crossed in 44.01s and Caitlin Ryan of North Shore, 45.63s.

“It’s fantastic to race the other girls and experience the nerves again,” Carrington said.

“It just shows how important these nationals are, that they are still pretty nerve-wracking for me.

“It’s also great to be able to go

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a solid start to the season that saw the Warriors advance to the final of the NRL Auckland Nines before belting an understrength Gold Coast outfit 40-18 in their first trial outing two weeks ago.

Big things are expected of the Warriors this season, with new recruits Issac Luke and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck bolstering their

line-up, but Matulino says the eight-tries-to-two defeat to the Dragons proved they can’t just expect results to fall their way.

“It was [disappointing]. I went missing,” said the 27-year-old Kiwis international.

“I was pretty embarrassed when I walked off the field with how I had played. We have to

work hard to get wins and we all know we can’t just expect to turn up in round one and win just with the squad we’ve got.”

Matulino said coach Andrew McFadden “was pretty pissed off” but was pleased they had been taught a lesson ahead of their season opener against Wests Tigers on March 5.

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Wayne Bennett says he had no hesitation anointing Corey Parker as the next Brisbane captain despite admitting the veteran backrower’s form could “go pretty quickly”.

Bennett hoped the off-contract forward would play at least another year after officially unveiling Parker as retired great Justin Hodges’ successor yesterday. Parker - who turns 34 in May - has shown no signs of slowing down ahead of his 16th NRL season. The 323game veteran would be in sight of Broncos great Darren Lockyer’s club record (355) if he played on in 2017.

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■ RUGBY

New-look sides clash It wasn’t all that long ago the Crusaders and Chiefs were the two titans of the New Zealand conference, battling each other for Super Rugby titles and All Blacks berths.

But both sides will carry a different complexion into tonight’s season-opening clash in Christchurch, with the ambiguity surrounding the new competition seeping into both franchises.

The Chiefs appear in better shape than their opponents at AMI Stadium and should again be pushing for a playoff place.

But coach Dave Rennie’s first team of the 2016 season did highlight a gulf in experience within the squad.

Much will depend on a quartet of All Blacks and, in particular, the form of Aaron Cruden, returning to the scene of his last competitive action on a rugby field.

The first five, who has been on the sidelines since rupturing knee ligaments last April, will form with Tawera Kerr-Barlow a dynamic halves combination, while the importance of Sam Cane and Brodie Retallick will be magnified in the forwards.

Those four are the only players in the Chiefs’ matchday squad who have made more than 50 appearances for the franchise and, while there is plenty of talent elsewhere, youth is the overriding feature.

Rennie’s run-on XV has an average age of 23.9 and features four Super Rugby debutants.

Japanese prop Hiroshi Yamashita will at least bring a wealth of international experi-

named three debutants in his run-on side, with Tim Boys and Richie Mo’unga handed the unenviable task of replacing Messrs McCaw and Carter.

The forward pack, though, still features an all All-Black front row, with Sam Whitelock and Kieran Read complementing that trio.

But the backline, aside from the blockbusting Nemani Nadolo, possesses an especially callow feel.

CRUSADERS David Havili, Jone Macilai, Sean Wainui, Kieron Fonotia, Nemani Nadolo, Richie Mo’unga, Andy Ellis, Kieran Read, Tim Boys, Jordan Taufua, Samuel Whitelock (c), Scott Barrett, Owen Franks, Codie Taylor, Joe Moody. Reserves: Ben Funnell, Wyatt Crockett, Mike Alaalatoa, Jimmy Tupou, Reed Prinsep, Leon Fukofuka, Ben Volavola, Johnny McNicholl.

CHIEFS Richie Mo’unga has the unenviable task of replacing several All Blacks in the pivot position for the Crusaders.

ence to the front row, boasting 49 caps for Japan, while Auckland flanker and Canterbury No 8 Tom Sanders will join Cane in the loose forwards.

Nineteen-year-old Shaun Stevenson is the only debutant in the backline that, while gutted

by a number of off-season departures, still contains enough quality to threaten the Crusaders’ defence.

The home side, meanwhile, are in a similar state of flux as they enter the season.

Coach Todd Blackadder has

Damian McKenzie, Shaun Stevenson, Seta Tamanivalu, Charlie Ngatai, James Lowe, Aaron Cruden (c), Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Tom Sanders, Sam Cane, Taleni Seu, Brodie Retallick, Michael Allardice, Hiroshi Yamashita, Rhys Marshall, Pauliasi Manu. Reserves: Nathan Harris, Mitchell Graham, Siate Tokolahi, Maama Vaipulu, Johan Bardoul, Brad Weber, Anton Lienert-Brown, Latu Vaeno.

How Super Rugby works - the layman’s edition

By Andrew MulligAn

T

o the loyal New Zealand and savvy and knowledgeable Super Rugby reader of this column, I ask for your patience.

That’s because in the interests of being a welcoming host to the two new Super Rugby countries, Japan and Argentina, I must abandon the interests of the few to serve the many new readers - just as Sanzar have done with expansion.

This column is to give the new fan a few tidbits of what the past 20 seasons of Super Rugby has been like for New Zealand fans.

Hola and konnichiwa to the Jaguares and Sunwolves fans.

Here’s a brief historical overview of Super Rugby and which teams shaped it.

Once the competition started in 1996, it was all about the Blues as they won title after title which goes, in part, thanks to winger James Kerr for sewing one up in 1997.

That was until the Crusaders turned it around and won seven titles in 10 years.

It was a remarkable period of dominance until they realised that All Blacks peaking twice a year was physically taxing and they dropped off the pace.

They used to be so good, they put 96 points on a Waratahs team in 2002 they were due to meet in the semi-finals the following week.

The fire cannons that were set off every time a try was scored ran out of gas.

Also, in 2011, the Canterbury earthquakes robbed them of their stadium so they travelled the world and STILL made the final against the Reds - a magnificent feat.

Speaking of Australian teams and the Waratahs - go to YouTube and check out prop Matt Dunning bang over a drop goal from way out to win the game, but deny his team a place in the semi-finals.

What in any other situation

would have been a heroic act was met with despair.

Super Rugby has every scenario covered.

The Tahs, as they’re known, also won a title in 2014. Just don’t ask Crusaders fans how.

After that, Google “Matt Dunning body shaping photos”.

If you’re thinking this is crazy, the Northern Hemisphere is largely dismissive of Super Rugby.

It’s “frothy rugby” to them but who can forget the memorable 6-0 scoreline between the Highlanders and Crusaders in 2009 when Richie McCaw went off injured and everyone worried about it?

The three other New Zealand teams have won a total of three Super Rugby titles.

The Chiefs won two because they had Sonny Bill Williams and the Highlanders are the current champions after no one said they could do it.

The Hurricanes remain titleless but that’s because of a blade of grass (and several missed

tackles on Elliot Dixon) and the fog the Crusaders engineered to roll in during the 2006 final.

That’s okay because the Sharks from South Africa have lost four finals without winning a title.

So let’s turn to South Africa.

They have six teams because they have the most money and can do whatever they want at the bargaining table.

The most famous line about South Africa if you’re ringing talkback about the upcoming games is to trot out “the African teams don’t travel well”, which is true but their away trips ended up being longer than the teams from the other two countries so now we have conferences and groups.

The Bulls have won three titles but that’s because you’re not allowed to wear oxygen masks when playing at Loftus Versfeld.

The Kings are a new old team in South Africa.

Good luck to you and may all your title dreams come true!

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England will outgun the Irish Two wins from two games in the Six Nations and England has some swagger back.

Confidence is coursing through the side again after a Rugby World Cup to forget, but England has beaten only the teams it was supposed to beat: Scotland and Italy.

Ireland, the two-time defending champion, ought to be a truer marker of England’s very early progress under coach Eddie Jones, but looks instead like being just another speed hump in their path tomorrow.

Ireland arrives at Twickenham hurting and desperate, its title defence on the verge of being squashed.

The Irish blew handy leads in a 16-16 draw with Wales and, six days later, a 10-9 loss to France.

They are winless after two rounds for the first time in 18 years.

Because they started the tournament without a swag of injured or retired players, the Irish have performed better than expected, and their despair compounded by more injuries.

Since the tournament began, the Kearney brothers, Sean O’Brien, and Mike McCarthy have been ruled out of the remaining games.

Inside center Jared Payne was the latest to be ruled unfit, presenting a debut for Ulster’s Stuart McCloskey.

It’s a tribute to Ireland’s systems that they have remained competitive, and had enough depth that coach Joe Schmidt has had to debut only one, flanker CJ Stander, followed by McCloskey and Leinster flanker Josh van der Flier this weekend.

There’s another new cap in the reserves.

But even with the return of props Mike Ross (starter) and Cian Healy (reserve) to shore up a scrum that has come off second best in the first two matches, Ireland’s stock of ammunition has diminished, a concern for a team that has scored only one try.

Add in the Twickenham factor, and Ireland’s disadvantages grow.

Ireland scrumhalf Conor Murray went so far as to admit there’s “a fear factor among players about going there” because only seven in the 23-man team have won at England’s HQ. Ireland has won at Twickenham only once in the past 10 years.

Jones wasn’t excited or heartened by the stat.

His team tops the table but the super coach hired to win long overdue trophies has been making sure egos are in check.

“He is very quick to say we are not there yet, which is good,” scrumhalf Danny Care says.

“We know our place, we haven’t performed to the levels we can yet.

“You work hard in training and you work hard for him, and he is the type of guy you go out there on a Saturday and you put everything out on the park for him.”

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In brief

Paddy’s done it all

BY JAMES FORD

JAMES.F@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

For the first time in more than 60 years, Paddy Gifkins will have no official role at Mt Somers Rugby Club when the season kicks off next month.

In his six decade involvement with Mt Somers, Gifkins was present at every annual general meeting, and missed just a handful of committee meetings.

If you can think of a role within a rugby club, Paddy has probably done it.

“Yeah, I hung up my boots and books after 60 years, but don’t get me wrong, I haven’t been wearing the boots for 50 years,” said Gifkins.

Gifkins joined the club as a player in 1955, two years after its inception, plying his trade in the front row as a loosehead prop and quickly joined the committee.

Gifkins was soon elected as the club’s secretary and held the position for almost 30 years.

“I was elected secretary in 1959, and did that for the next 27 years.

“I never went for the top job – I always like to be in the background a bit,” he said.

After more than a decade, he attempted to step down from the role, citing his sloppy hand writing as the reason, but his resignation was quickly dismissed and a typewriter was bought to solve Paddy’s penmanship problems.

“I decided to retire from the secretary in 1970, because my handwriting was getting so rough I couldn’t even read it myself,” he said.

“But they ripped up the resignation letter and bought me a typewriter, and for the next 16 years I learnt to type with one finger, I’d never seen a typewriter up close until then.”

We’re all heading into the unknown with the revamped Super Rugby competition and that uncertainty extends to most of the Kiwi sides.

But the Highlanders are the least-affected team for player turnover and they must be considered a good chance to back up last season’s breakthrough victory.

Every New Zealand franchise is facing searching examinations, and the Highlanders also have their fair share.

But they and the Chiefs are going through less of a transition than their counterparts and I believe those sides set the benchmark as we enter the new campaign.

There’s no doubt the Highlanders possess the personnel to challenge for a second Super Rugby title, considering essen-

Force on the attack Western Force coach Michael Foley hopes his team’s new attacking mindset will eventually lead to a Super Rugby title. The Force finished last in 2015, but Foley has since overhauled the team’s tactics, introducing a faster, more attacking mindset.

The team’s progress will be put to the test when they take on the Melbourne Rebels at nib Stadium tonight.

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Quade in sevens squad Quade Cooper will get his first chance to push for a spot in Australia’s rugby Sevens squad for Rio after being named in the squad for the next leg of the world series in Las Vegas. Cooper was confirmed in the 12-man squad yesterday after the Australian Rugby Union negotiated a release from his French club Toulon for the tournament to be played on March 4-6.

The selection of Cooper is somewhat of a gamble given the 58Test Wallaby will be making his sevens debut in Las Vegas just five months away from rugby Sevens’ Olympic debut.

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Paddy Gifkins 60year association with the Mt Somers Rugby Club came to an end when he stepped down as a committee member in November last year.

Jones plays mind games

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During his time as secretary, Gifkins played a major role in the development of the new clubrooms.

The local community banded together, and, as one of 41 volunteers, Gifkins helped raise money to fund the building.

“We started with a big project for a small community, and almost had it paid off as soon as we built it,” he said.

“There was a loan from the bank, and a lot of local people lent us money interest-free and we paid them all back.”

The foundations were laid in October, 1982 and the club rooms were opened the following April.

“They were a dedicated committee and volunteers in those days.

“Everybody would do their normal jobs, then cart hay to raise money for three or four hours after a day’s work,” he said.

Gifkins eventually gave up his secretarial duties in 1986, when he took on the not too dissimilar role of secretary treasurer, and occupied the position for another quarter-century, before becoming caretaker of the clubrooms.

Having 47 years’ experience as a volunteers firefighter, Paddy was also given the responsibility of fire safety officer.

Gifkins initially decided to retire two years ago, but his wife, Marie, urged him to carry on until his 60th year of service for his beloved Mt Somers.

Although his official association with the club has come to an end, the Mt Somers faithful will be joined by Paddy for the team’s home matches, and he’s as keen as ever for the new season, despite turning 80 on Wednesday.

“The boys are always up for it.

“We’ve only got the one team and people enjoy the game and social side.

“Everyone that’s involved in the club is quite happy,” he said.

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tially the same group emerged on top last year.

It’s just a matter of whether coach Jamie Joseph’s men can handle the hype and expectations.

That’s the biggest question for them - good teams become great teams by dealing with that kind of pressure.

The Highlanders have never had to do that, so do they have the ability to turn a young team into one of the great Super Rugby sides?

The Chiefs have shown in the last few years that they were able to do that.

It wasn’t their best season in 2015 but, again, the personnel is there and I expect them to again be ultra-competitive.

They will start the season against a team I’m pretty passionate about.

I want to see the Crusaders find their mojo again.

Ma’a Nonu: Sorely missed They don’t have to win the competition but they have to play with the type of attitude Crusaders teams are expected to play with.

They’re almost starting over again and they need to forge their own history.

It has been too long between drinks and they need to rebuild.

The Hurricanes have also lost some personnel, although that

word doesn’t do it justice.

What they’ve lost is two of the greatest players the All Blacks have produced.

You can replace some of that with talent but you can’t replace every quality Ma’a Nonu and Conrad Smith brought.

It would be naive to think their departure hasn’t created a massive hole in what last year was a potential championshipwinning team.

They will have to ask the players who were used to being led

by Nonu and Smith to front up.

Guys such as TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett and Julian Savea are senior players now and need to show some leadership rather than follow.

As for the Blues, they’re the enigma of the bunch.

Their form in the trial matches showed coach Tana Umaga knows where he wants to take his side.

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England boss Eddie Jones has heightened tensions with Ireland by claiming Johnny Sexton’s parents will be worried about his long-term health. Jones claimed Ireland fly-half Sexton’s parents must harbour concerns about his well-being after his latest fitness scare in Ireland’s 10-9 defeat to France, branded “whiplash” by Joe Schmidt. The 30-year-old will start Ireland’s Six Nations clash at Twickenham overnight, with Jones further intensifying strong scrutiny over his head injury saga.

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Rebels lose skipper New Melbourne Rebels skipper Nic Stirzaker has failed to overcome a shoulder injury in time for tonight’s Super Rugby clash with the Western Force in Perth.

Stirzaker’s absence opens the door for Sean McMahon to take over the captaincy duties in the season opener. Ben Meehan will start at scrumhalf in the absence of Stirzaker, with winger Reece Hodge named to make his Super Rugby debut. “We gave Nic every opportunity to prove his fitness and availability for this weekend but, unfortunately, ran out of time,” Rebels coach Tony McGahan said. “And we’re not willing to risk further injury to his shoulder in the opening round.”

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Holloway set for debut NSW Waratahs fans might be asking Jed who? But new Waratahs No.8 Jed Holloway says he’s ready to add pace and “X-factor” to the back row - and he has some heavy hitters tipping him for big things. Heading into today’s opening Super Rugby home clash with Queensland, the 23-year-old forward from Yamba on the NSW far north coast, has earned just a handful of caps, most of them in 2013. Now he’s getting his shot at the position which Wallaby Wycliff Palu dominated in recent years. At 195cms and with second-row experience, Holloway offers extra lineout options and some utility value to coach Daryl Gibson.

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In brief

■ V8 SUPERCARS

Frosty keeping the heat on Mark Winterbottom had always been the bridesmaid.

But now that he’s got ‘the one’, he wants it to have and to hold from this day forward.

The reigning V8 Supercars champion is ready to defend the title for the first time in his career and says he feels better than ever on the eve of the 2016 season.

Fit, relaxed, pain-free and full of confidence, the Ford veteran can’t wait for the opportunity to add to what he already considers a huge achievement after years of disappointment.

“I can actually go and enjoy it this year,” Winterbottom said.

“Normally you go into a season saying ‘what do we need to do different?’ This year, you say ‘we were very good, now we can improve’.

“It’s just a different mindset.

“It doesn’t make it easier, it just feels more achievable.

“I don’t want to lose the No.1 now because it’s a pretty special thing.”

Eager to step things up a notch, Winterbottom went to Thailand for his annual pre-season boot camp following surgery to remove screws in his ankle.

The 35-plus degree heat and

Mark Winterbottom high humidity has him mentally and physically prepared for what’s looming as a hot battle for the championship.

Prodrive Racing Australia team-mate Chaz Mostert will be back with vengeance after sending his Falcon FG X - and title hopes - into a wall at Bathurst last October.

The horrific high-speed smash crushed Mostert’s leg and wrist, but hasn’t dented his confidence for the upcoming season.

“There’s really no doubts in my head,” said Mostert, who only returned to the wheel after a fivemonth layoff at a test day in midFebruary.

“The last couple of months have been pretty hard ... but it’s probably the best preparation I’ve had because I’ve been forced to.

“I just want to get back up the pointy end as quick as I can, hopefully get on the podium and spray some champagne with the team.”

While PRA had took the drivers’ title in 2015, team champions Triple Eight Race Engineering are shaping as an ever-growing threat with a new three-car attack.

Joining six-time champion Jamie Whincup in a Red Bullbranded Holden is Kiwi speedster Shane van Gisbergen, with Craig Lowndes to drive a sepa-

rate TeamVortex entry.

For the first time since 2011, Whincup won’t be starting as reigning champion but retains the No.1 garage. While adamant a record seventh title isn’t on his mind, being competitive is.

“We always go in with confidence that we can run it with the best,” he said.

“The car finished last year quite strong, and we’ve got some really good people, fantastic resources, so it’s all there to grind it out again this year.”

But with more driver movements this year than in recent memory comes unpredictability.

Will Davison has replaced van Gisbergen at Tekno Autosports, with ex-PRA pilot David Reynolds filling his spot at Erebus, who have switched from Mercedes to Holden entries for 2016.

Fabian Coulthard will drive DJR Team Penske’s new second entry, leaving his seat at Brad Jones Racing to Tim Slade.

Meanwhile Nissan’s James Moffat has switched places with Dale Wood to partner Kiwi driver Scott McLaughlin in a Volvo.

The championship opens with Adelaide’s Clipsal 500 from March 3.

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■ OPINION

A day for the ages at Hagley Oval I

’ve seen a lot of opening days of test cricket in Christchurch.

At the hallowed ground once known as Lancaster Park (RIP) a mate and I have made the trip up for every contest in the last 30+ years, and we’ve seen some wonderful days of cricket, as the template for each and every match is set up.

There’s been a century before lunch, the excellent sight of Chris Cairns mowing through a high-class England top order, and countless occasions where stoic opening batsmen have dug in and survived against red-hot bowling attacks (Wright and Edgar spring to mind) to set things up for prolific middle order bats to prosper.

But last Saturday at Hagley Oval was an occasion that stood head and shoulders above any of the rest.

The venue is an absolute treat.

While the World Cup games last year had their own atmosphere with the added seating capacity, it was nothing compared to the sight of a completely chocker arena designed for test cricket, and the spectators themselves are a whole lot more relaxed when lounging on the grass, as opposed to being trapped in uncomfortable little plastic seats, jostling for elbow space with loud, obnoxious neighbours.

The weather gods came to the party, the sunshine was relentless and the water and sunscreen

dispensers were the busiest people in the ground.

No wonder the Full House signs were up very early in the morning session.

There can’t have been many sporty folk left in Ashburton either, they all seemed to be perched somewhere around the oval, taking in the sunshine and the action.

Oh, and there was Brendon McCullum.

In his 101st consecutive and final test match, he strode out to the wicket with his team in desperate strife, runs seemingly impossible to find and wickets tumbling.

The standing ovation was long and loud and heartfelt.

The trolls on social media who continue to decry this man’s achievements as captain of our national side were clearly at home doing the gardening (or tapping their keyboards) while the real aficianados were at the park, recognising that while indeed cricket is a game of stats, Brendon McCullum’s captaincy style has brought a massive breath of fresh air to New Zealand, and world cricket, as acknowledged by a vast number of fans, commentators, players and administrators world-wide.

Who could have blamed him if, like Bradman himself, he was overcome by the occasion and failed at the crease?

But he didn’t.

Steve Devereux MY SHOUT

He got his eye in, and proceeded to back himself (as he always did) never mind the mayhem around him.

Edges flew to the boundary, half-chances were missed, gaps in the field were found that weren’t there before.

And best of all, when on 30 and starting to dominate, he was caught in slips (a screamer of a catch from Mitchell Marsh it has to be said) - but the big screen revealed to all what the umpires suspected, it was a no-ball; Captain Fantastic was recalled to carry on.

After the Basin Reserve incident, how delicious can irony get?

Bowler James Pattinson, ecstatic a moment ago, was banished to the part of the ground hosting the most vociferous New Zealand supporters, who reminded him of his folly with a loud-and-long No Ball No Ball No Ball chant, just to rub a little salt in there.

Don’t know if they showed it on the telly, but Pattinson actually backed all the way to the boundary without ever turn-

ing to acknowledge the crowd; surely it was a time to turn, take a bow and take the heat, defusing the situation completely, instead he endured one of the noisiest overs of his career.

Brilliant stuff!

But it was McCullum’s show from then on, smashing every bowler to all parts, and as he charged through the 60s and 70s the young man in our party who had rashly plonked $40 on him to score a century in the first innings became more and more fidgety.

From the mid-80s the crowd was collectively on its feet, with the increasing-tempo clapclap-clap usually reserved for a bowler running hot this time spurring the batsman on, and when he hit the magic mark with yet another brutal blow to the boundary the crowd went wild (our young punter was quite happy too).

Chuck in a world record (belonging for so long to the original Master Blaster Viv Richards) for good measure.

Forty-five whirlwind runs later and McCullum was gone, walking off to yet another ovation that didn’t want to stop.

No matter that eventually the Aussies overpowered us in the test and the series.

Exit a champion cricketer, on a day at the cricket that everyone present will remember for a very long time.

Sykes running hot British rider Tom Sykes was the quickest around the track in the opening practice session of the World Superbikes event at Phillip Island yesterday. In a hardfought 60-minute session, nine other rides finished within the 1:31.543 that Sykes powered his Kawasaki to on the Victorian track.

Sylvain Guintoli - the 2014 world champion - was 0.1sec behind on his Yamaha.

- AAP

Brock Hall-of-Famer Nine-time Bathurst 1000 champion Peter Brock has been unveiled as the first inductee into the inaugural Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame. Organisers said he would be among 30 greats across all motorsport categories honoured at a gala event on March 19 in Melbourne to coincide with the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. Brock was killed during a rally in Western Australia in 2006.

He became a household name through touring car and later V8 racing, winning the Bathurst 1000 nine times - still a record.

- AAP

New qualifying rules Formula One may have a new qualifying system for the upcoming season, with drivers being eliminated every few minutes. The proposal was unanimously approved in a meeting between series stakeholders in Geneva, governing body FIA said yesterday. The new system will be evaluated for introduction at the first grand prix of the year in Australia on March 20.

- AP

Scott sends a message Adam Scott has shown he’s carrying no baggage with golf officialdom, sending one of his long putters as a cheeky memento to one of the key proponents of this year’s rule change. Peter Dawson was chief executive of golf’s rules authority the Royal & Ancient when they proposed a ban on the anchoring of putters against the body. It effectively outlaws the use of long putters, and Scott was one of the most high-profile of those affected.

- AAP

Tiger still swinging Tiger Woods has posted a video of him swinging a 9-iron in a golf simulator. His agent says the video was posted to rebut rumours on social media that he had taken a turn for the worse following two back surgeries last fall. Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management said that the rumors were ridiculous. The video shows Woods, in shorts and golf shoes, taking one smooth swing accompanied by the words, “Progressing nicely.” - AP

Djokovic out injured Top-seeded Novak Djokovic retired from his quarter-final match against Feliciano Lopez at the Dubai Tennis Championships yesterday after losing the first set. Djokovic called for the ATP trainer while trailing 1-2. He kept pointing to his face as he spoke to the trainer, but eventually got up to play.

However, he quit the match after the Spaniard closed out the set 6-3. Djokovic’s retirement means this will be the first tournament in more than a year where he hasn’t reached the final.

- Reuters

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Saturday, February 27, 2016

■ WINTON TODAY

Canterbury raiders target Winton

By Mac Henry Cran Dalgety (left) will have three runners at Winton today and despite each of them having the outside draw, his chances of success look bright.

Two year old filly Millwood Daisy debuted in a Magness Benrow Fillies heat at Timaru a fortnight ago and appeared to go out in sympathy when her stablemate Major Rocket broke turning for home. She has drawn

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eight of eight in the Murray Gray Memorial Two Year Old Fillies Mobile Mile and Dalgety rates her.

“She’s a well above average filly, it’s a challenge going from the outside of the gate but she’s up to the challenge,” he said.

Three year old filly Talkerup won her first three before managing only sixth in the PGG Yearling Sales Three Year Old Fillies Final earlier this month. She drew 10, went out favour-

ite for the feature, got a cart up three wide, sat parked for the last 1000 metres but didn’t kick in the straight.

Talkerup has drawn 13 of 13 in the Hydro Fillies and mares Mobile Mile at Winton.

“She was off her best when the big stakes were up, had a bad draw and looped the field when the pace was on,” Dalgety said, “she’ll be a good prospect (at Winton) though.”

Three year old gelding Alpha Rock

Wairio gallops Tomorrow at Wairio Raceway

Wairoa RC Venue: Wairoa Meeting Date: 28 Feb 2016 6 x1125 Latin Rose b (7) 54 .....................C Lammas 5 2.45pm WAIROA STAR SPRINT RATING 65 $10,000, NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 7 49x25 Wawrinka (6) 54 .........................R Elliot (a3) Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1450m 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 3 1.41pm KIWI TRANSPORT DASH MAIDEN $10,000, 1 05712 Star Of Greenbeel b (10) 60 2 49x25 Wawrinka (3) 59.5 1 12.37pm ADAMS ENGINERING DISTANCE MAIDEN MDN, 1200m 3 9324x Cool Hand Duke b (2) 59.5 .............J Riddell $10,000, MDN, 2100m 1 x8350 Flavouring (3) 58.5 4 33140 Montego Bay (9) 56.5.........L Magorrian (a1) 1 9x542 Countdown (4) 58.5 2 4 Celebratedachiever (1) 58.5.......R Elliot (a3) 5 19700 Tania (5) 56.5 ..................................S Collett 2 22084 Scaramouche b (7) 58.5 3 503x2 Roc Me (8) 58 6 98447 Judi Anne (6) 56.5 3 36508 Mio Kiwi (6) 58.5 4 6307x Keen To Keeper (4) 56.5 7 42694 Born Happy (8) 55.5 4 07705 Master William (10) 58.5 5 x999x Knight’s Princess (5) 56.5 .............M Tanaka 8 08762 Ripe (7) 55 5 70x97 Armando (2) 58.5 ..................... S Olney (a4) 6 4 Ima Allstar (6) 56................L Magorrian (a1) 9 15709 Jaides Jewell (1) 54.5 6 x6009 Won Ton (1) 58.5 7 55x00 Carmenize (2) 56 ........................C Lammas 10 57876 Fierte m (4) 54 ...........................R Elliot (a3) 7 22x95 Amperage (8) 58 .........................C Lammas 8 77x5 Ya Think (7) 56 8 0554 The Local (5) 58 .................L Magorrian (a1) 6 3.20pm BROKERWEB RISK SERVICES (HAWKES 9 20483 So True (11) 56.5 .....................A Jones (a1) 4 2.13pm FRASERTOWN TAVERN JUVENILE 2YO BAY) STAYERS $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m $20,000, 2YO SW+P, 1200m 10 x0x78 Miss Drama Queen (3) 56.5 1 86233 Ascomanni m (10) 60 .........L Magorrian (a1) 1 2Lx56 Savasava (5) 57 ..........................C Lammas 11 45776 Moonraker (9) 56.............................S Collett 2 63234 Chop Suey b (7) 60 1 Cathedral Cove t (13) 59.5 ..............A Collett 2 1.09pm VETENT SPRINT RATING 85 $12,000, Rat- 2 5x4. Pierian Spring (6) 57 .......................S Collett 3 3 5x Chouxperb (7) 57 ..........................M Tanaka 4 2261L Rough Ruler (9) 59.5 ing 85 Benchmark, 1450m 4 O’Reilly’s Choice (4) 57 ...................J Riddell 5 86319 Voxer d (4) 59 1 07274 Colonel Carrera m (3) 60 ...L Magorrian (a1) 5 7. Stephenstihls (2) 57 6 0x050 One O Eight td (3) 59 ...............A Jones (a1) 2 47587 Kage Is King m (1) 56.5 6 Tardy Chardy (1) 57 ...................R Elliot (a3) 7 97536 Osmunda (14) 58.5 3 x9872 Keeping Tom m (4) 55 7 Wilijonmcbride (8) 57 .........L Magorrian (a1) 8 86x08 Southernman m (8) 58 ...............R Elliot (a3) 4 54016 Miss Benci (5) 54 8 8x64 Princess Anastasia (3) 55 9 x5870 Storm Home m (6) 57.5 5 63153 I’m Bronson tdm (2) 54 -

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won his first three before finishing a game second on the grass at Methven last week, after racing without cover for the last lap. He goes from 13 of 13 in the Marley Products Mobile 2400 on Saturday but looks a top hope.

Paul Court has RR Sand Dollar in the Metrix Bathroom Mobile 2400 to complete qualification for the Southland Oaks. She finished second to Nek Time at Addington prior to winning at Wyndham last week. - HRNZ

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88002 Savason (8) 58 ...................L Magorrian (a1) 7 Linchpin (5) 58 ................................A Collett 60 Red Sheeran (4) 58 ........................S Collett 62362 Panella b (6) 56.5 .....................A Jones (a1) 79823 My Paloma (11) 56.5 380x5 Enyanna Marie (10) 56.5 973 Macario (13) 56 ..........................R Elliot (a3) 9x766 Indy (2) 56 Kowhai Kerry (12) 56 -

10 x4621 En Suite (2) 57 11 55946 Arya (1) 56 ....................................M Tanaka 12 08605 Ooee d (11) 56 13 31967 Hilarious (12) 55.5 14 x0509 Murdoch (5) 55.5 7 3.55pm AFFCO NZ LTD WAIROA CUP OPEN HANDICAP $30,000, OPN HCP, 2100m 1 008x4 Willy Duggan m (2) 60 2 06488 Boninsky d (10) 58.5 .....................M Tanaka 3 5x232 Cheese Maker (9) 58.5 4 04250 Red King m (4) 58 ...........................J Riddell 5 13389 Sanasar b (5) 58 ................L Magorrian (a1) 6 10496 No Change dm (6) 56.5 7 44564 Sealed By A Dance m (3) 56 8 x9702 Broadwalk (7) 55.5 9 00021 Silk Chardonnay td (8) 54 ........A Jones (a1) 10 x6071 Cajun (1) 54 ................................C Lammas 8 4.30pm WAIROA EXPATS SPRINT MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1450m 1 734x5 Caper Caleb (1) 58.5 2 28 Highwayman (7) 58.5 3 909 His Nibs (3) 58.5 4 40x00 Locally Sauced (9) 58.5 -

Blinkers on: Won Ton (R1), Pierian Spring (R4), Boninsky (R7), Red Sheeran (R8) Blinkers off: Amperage (R1), Carmenize (R3), Savasava (R4) Winkers on: Keen To Keeper (R3) Winkers off: Boninsky (R7)

1 31718 Dalness Xchange (1) fr 2 64601 Tangos Delight (2) fr........................ G Smith 3 25111 Callenberg (3) fr ................................J Dunn 4 18584 Western Art (4) fr ............................... R May 5 14133 Joey Maguire (U1) fr ................. R Houghton 6 72098 Here We Go Again (U2) fr ....... C D Thornley 7 06734 Tintinara (U3) fr .............................B Orange 8 05043 Delightful Dash (1) 10 ............. M Williamson 9 x5223 Hug The Wind (2) 10 ....................T Williams 10 6x111 Locharburn (1) 35 ............................ D Dunn 9 4.24pm ‘SWEET LOU’ LEONARD MEMORIAL STKS MOBILE PACE $25,000, 2yo fillies mob. pace, 2000m 1 Bonnie Joan (1) fr ............................ D Dunn 2 2 Maczaffair fr ................................. Scratched 3 Flying Miss Mac fr ........................ Scratched 4 6 Major Rocket (2) fr ............................. R May 5 1 Renske B (3) fr .............................T Williams 6 Lady Lavra (4) fr ...............................S Ottley 7 3 Seaswift Joy (5) fr ..........................T Chmiel 8 Delightful Memphis (6) fr ...............B Orange 9 1 Terracotta (21) fr 10 Kotare Yarra (22) fr ............................J Dunn 11 Takemetothebeach (23) fr 12 4 Crimson Lane (24) fr ...................T McMillan 13 Tachyon fr..................................... Scratched 10 4.59 PAUL BURNETT MEMORIAL MOBILE PACE $10,000, 4yo+ c2 to c3 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 22441 Crackabella (1) fr.............................J W Cox 2 68547 Albuquerque (2) fr .........................R Holmes 3 64311 Scotlynn Justis (3) fr ...................J Young (J) 4 65x41 Corroboree (4) fr ...........................B Orange 5 112 Star Fantasy (5) fr .............................. R May 6 x3335 Usain Colt (6) fr 7 72098 Here We Go Again (7) fr ......... C D Thornley

8 50025 Art Critic (8) fr ...................................J Dunn 9 14133 Joey Maguire (9) fr .................... R Houghton 11 5.34pm BUSH INN TAVERN MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 27606 Sounds Swift (1) fr ........................K O’Reilly 2 x9098 Parramatta (2) fr .............................T Chmiel 3 x0964 Just Ben (3) fr ......................... C D Thornley 4 x2533 Canderdel (4) fr ....................M Anderson (J) 5 54289 Rummage (5) fr ....................................B Hill 6 46740 Shantahlia Romeo (6) fr ..... B Williamson (J) 7 0x943 Shrieks Of Delight (7) fr ................... D Dunn 8 32331 Martin John (8) fr ..........................B Orange 9 26367 Kingi Hone Kira (9) fr ................... S McNally 10 70455 Changeover A Flyin (21) fr ........ M Edmonds 11 x2406 Boundary Row (22) fr ...................... G Smith 12 37010 Rock Diva (23) fr ...............................J Dunn 13 53107 Marat Saf Finn (24) fr ..................J Young (J) 14 55374 Courtney John (25) fr 15 22x21 Christopher Banner (26) fr ................. R May 16 00371 Sails (U1) fr ......................................J Curtin Emergencies: Marat Saf Finn, Sails Pacifiers on: Kachina (R4) Pacifiers off: He’s Like The Wind (R1) SELECTIONS Race 1: He’s Like The Wind, Rum In The Sun, Anse Vata Race 2: Major Ben, Novak, Sands Of Time, Laytons Crusader Race 3: D D Trotter, I’m Not Eyre, Motu Great Sensation Race 4: Bet On A Rascal, Anika Lindenny, Tahlia Franco Race 5: Royal Kenny, Kowhai Monarch, Tehoro Ruby Race 6: Royal Shine, Tornado Valley, All Lit Up, Wanna Play Race 7: Harriet Of Mot, Springbank Sam, Jag’s Invasion Race 8: Locharburn, Hug The Wind, Tangos Delight Race 9: Renske B, Delightful Memphis, Kotare Yarra Race 10: Crackabella, Star Fantasy, Usain Colt, Joey Maguire Race 11: Christopher Banner, Canderdel, Sounds Swift

SELECTIONS Race 1: Countdown, Amperage, The Local, Scaramouche Race 2: I’m Bronson, Wawrinka, Keeping Tom, Miss Benci Race 3: Celebratedachiever, Ya Think, Roc Me, Flavouring Race 4: Wilijonmcbride, Princess Anastasia, Chouxperb Race 5: Star Of Greenbeel, Judi Anne, Ripe, Cool Hand Duke Race 6: En Suite, Cathedral Cove, Hilarious, Chop Suey Race 7: Cheese Maker, Sealed By A Dance, Silk Chardonnay Race 8: Panella, Savason, Enyanna Marie, Red Sheeran

Cheviot harness Tomorrow at Addington Raceway

Cheviot Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 28 Feb 2016 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.05pm CHEVIOT A&P SHOW SATURDAY 12TH MARCH TROT $8000, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2600m 1 85542 Brylin Rose (1) fr ..........................J Versteeg 2 2009 Holdon Monarchy (2) fr 3 Wot Up (3) fr...............................A Edmonds 4 46976 China Express (4) fr ........................R Curtin 5 6012x He’s Like The Wind (5) fr ................. G Smith 6 65923 Anse Vata (6) fr ................................ D Dunn 7 Don Pierre (7) fr ............................B Orange 8 0x49 Rum In The Sun (8) fr .....................J W Cox 9 540 Gee Gees Invasion (9) fr ...............R Holmes 10 x9003 November Guy (U1) fr ............. M Williamson 11 98007 Rusty I Am (U2) fr ........................ P Wakelin 12 40008 Landora’s Girl (U3) fr........................ P Nairn 13 x7x74 Ella Lavra (U4) fr ..............................S Ottley 2 12.30pm DONEGAL HOUSE MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 Ears Burning (1) fr 2 2 Sands Of Time (2) fr......................B Orange 3 66036 Beaudiene Gambler (3) fr ............. K Cox (J) 4 4x Major Ben (4) fr ............................T Williams 5 80777 Karanga Sweet P (5) fr ...............J Young (J) 6 Laytons Crusader (6) fr ..................T Chmiel 7 49 Markim (7) fr..................................R Holmes 8 25322 Novak (8) fr ........................................ R May 9 32239 Patrick Bee (9) fr ...............................J Dunn 3 1.00pm MAGPIES REST CAFE - RURAL LIVESTOCK TROT $8000, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2600m 1 00072 Prince George (1) fr ................ L McCormick 2 04032 D D Trotter (2) fr ............................... D Dunn

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65403 King Of The Roses (3) fr ..............J Versteeg 0 Kingdom Come (4) fr........................ J Smith 23565 Early Invasion (5) fr ....................K O’Connor 42254 Motu Great Sensation (6) fr ...... B Borcoskie 795x0 Squire John (7) fr .............................S Ottley 000 Abbys Delight (8) fr ...................... P Wakelin 5x24x Quevert (9) fr.................................... P Nairn 08742 I’m Not Eyre (10) fr........................ T Trathen 0x9 Rollin Thunder (11) fr .............. C D Thornley Lightworkofit (U1) fr......................D Burrows 88250 Chivilcoy (U2) fr................................J Curtin 4 1.32pm WINERIES OF CHEVIOT MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 06753 Rico Gold (1) fr....................... J Morrison (J) 2 24357 Missmatch (2) fr ................................J Dunn 3 Bet On A Rascal (3) fr ...................... D Dunn 4 00026 Anika Lindenny (4) fr ........................S Ottley 5 One Big Fella (5) fr 6 7x Beau Sancy (6) fr .........................T Williams 7 x5074 Saramon (7) fr ............................ D Keast (J) 8 66036 Beaudiene Gambler fr .................. Scratched 9 78870 Mosconi (8) fr ................................... G Craw 10 x7806 Myboylolliepop (21) fr ................ M Edmonds 11 Tahlia Franco (22) fr ..................... S McNally 12 50 Well Armed (23) fr ..............................A Ford 13 98090 Ling Rowl (24) fr......................... R Harneiss 14 08860 Kachina (U1) fr ............................. G O’Reilly 5 2.02pm HEINIGER ‘CAPEX CLASSIC’ MOBILE TROT $9000, 4yo+ c1 mob. trot jun.d, mobile, 1950m 1 45808 Kerryn Kylie (1) fr .................S Tomlinson (J) 2 55732 Shadow Galleon (2) fr ................... K Butt (J) 3 28210 Lavros Texas (3) fr......................... K Cox (J) 4 P2477 Cuddly Jess (4) fr 5 33960 Tehoro Ruby (5) fr ................. J Markham (J)

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20680 Alvira Hest (6) fr ..........................J Young (J) 172 Royal Kenny (7) fr .............. B Williamson (J) 6x025 Kowhai Monarch (8) fr .......... C Ferguson (J) 89040 Total Exposure (9) fr........................ I Lee (J) 60040 Circus Boy (21) fr ......................M Parker (J) 75405 Chivasion (22) fr ......................... L Lester (J) 94370 Tehoro Holly (23) fr ................... M Purvis (J) 6 2.37pm COMMODORE HOTEL HANDICAP TROT $10,000, 4yo+ c2 to c4 spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 03226 Father Christmas (1) fr ....... B Williamson (J) 2 21630 Little Mo (2) fr .......................S Tomlinson (J) 3 31068 Peterhof (3) fr ............................... A Lethaby 4 90143 Royal Shine (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 00550 Bono Hest (1) 10 ............................ A Faulks 6 52466 Wanna Play (2) 10 ............................. R May 7 42551 Clean Break (3) 10 ........................R Holmes 8 37488 All Lit Up (4) 10 ................................ J Smith 9 05404 Galleons Royale (5) 10 .............. L Lester (J) 10 17081 Tornado Valley (6) 10 ..................T McMillan 11 54550 Trouble Rieu (1) 20....................... S McNally 12 13000 Never Fear (2) 20 ......................... G O’Reilly 13 x1800 Santorini Sunset (U1) 20.................. D Dunn 7 3.12pm ROBBIES BAR & BISTRO FFA MOBILE TROT $11,000, 4yo+ ffa mob. trot, mobile, 1950m 1 09321 Sunny Ruby (1) fr ............................ G Smith 2 51256 The Earth Moved (2) fr ....................... R May 3 70111 Harriet Of Mot (3) fr ...........................J Dunn 4 13213 Monty Python (4) fr ................. M Williamson 5 11x51 Aile Rouge (5) fr ............................R Holmes 6 26080 Jag’s Invasion (6) fr .......................B Orange 7 x1688 Royal Aspirations (7) fr..................... D Dunn 8 71117 Springbank Sam (U1) fr ..... B Williamson (J) 8 3.47 CHEVIOT BUSINESSESS CHEVIOT CUP $18,000, 4yo+ c4 to oc spechcp pace, stand, 2600m

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Sta- 1 33674 Thrilling Evie 30.98 U & ........................Bliek dium Meeting Date: 28 Feb 2016 NZ Meeting number: 9 2 35576 What That Does 30.55 .................... T Green Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 3 64133 Mr. Mumbles 30.94 R &...............N O’Regan 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 4 11258 Kitty’s Shiraz 30.55 H & ..............L Laagland 11 and 12 5 24513 Global Conquest 31.21 W &............T Steele 6 65835 Fortis Flier 30.74 U & ........................Cottam 1 2.31pm SEL’S TAB MANGERE SPRINT C1, 318m 7 34152 Jinjaless 31.06 W &.........................T Steele 1 34343 Cookie Monster 18.63 .......................B Craik 8 12541 Elite Blue Chevy 30.61 ....................P Green 2 F5F74 Le Roi nwtd B & ................................. Steele 9 37878 Lagoon Mytye nwtd ......................C Roberts 3 38847 Calm Nuska 18.80 .....................M Mathews 4 68652 Red Rascal 18.66 R & ................N O’Regan 4 3.24pm SEL LOADER TRIBUTE SPRINT C3, 318m 1 61146 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 5 5x211 Lovely Rita 18.50 .......................D Schofield 2 12255 Rasso 18.33 ......................................B Craik 6 37644 Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 3 41514 Nippo 18.57..................................... L Martin 7 46777 Miss Bunnythorpe 18.83 U & ............Cottam 4 44417 Cyclone Lusi 18.62 U & ....................Cottam 8 58834 Jetsun Storm 18.80 ........................G Wilson 5 64715 Atoonga Air 18.45 ........................... T Green 9 78765 Stainless Knocka nwtd U & ...................Bliek 6 22521 Kimetto 18.45 ..............................L Laagland 10 63875 Lord De Air 18.52 .............................M Black 2 2.49 GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C3/4, 318m 7 33513 Fortis Fiona 18.65 U & ......................Cottam 8 16114 No More Debt 18.46........................ T Green 1 34678 Little Rascal 18.38 R & ...............N O’Regan 9 56376 Armistice Day 18.65 ....................... I George 2 42724 Sometime Soon 18.49 ......................B Craik 3 21122 Sacred Can You 18.54 R & .........N O’Regan 10 14788 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 4 16467 Up High 18.84 ................................ P Lowen 5 3.41pm CAROL’S TABS STAKES C1, 527m 1 56786 Plenty Of Time nwtd R & .............N O’Regan 5 68854 Vintage Osti 18.52 ............................C Hore 2 42464 Contemporaneous nwtd R & .......N O’Regan 6 63117 Umaga Rama 18.71 B & .................... Steele 3 74445 Lucky Collect 30.85 ....................D Schofield 7 27237 Myrniong Girl 18.62 ........................ T Green 4 44543 Ruby Murray 30.49..........................P Green 8 86268 Rotovegas Rara 18.45 .................R McPhee 5 36767 Podium Bonus 31.36 W & ...............T Steele 9 77885 Whisper Magic 18.47 ......................P Green 6 15444 Jinja Mia nwtd W &..........................T Steele 10 37756 Looks All Good 18.41 W & ..............T Steele 7 42352 April’s My Mum 31.15...................... T Green 3 3.06pm DOGZONE STAKES C2/3, 527m

1 24564 Chippa Lata nwtd ......................R Blackburn 7 16352 Macjam 18.33 ............................D Schofield 8 67655 Jelly Gem 30.73 U & .........................Cottam 2 23721 Cawbourne Brick 30.41................M Roberts 8 31783 Made Time 18.31 ..............................B Bond 9 45858 Montana 30.60 ................................P Green 3 54222 Joe Joe 30.13 B &.............................. Steele 9 21825 Speed Lorde 18.32 ...........................B Craik 10 56778 Herschke 31.21 ...............................P Green 4 32643 Rock Lass 30.49 ........................D Schofield 10 32435 Optic Shimmer nwtd........................ K Walsh 6 3.59 STITCHES UPHOLSTERY SPRINT C2, 318m 5 26111 Kava Blu 30.08 J & ..........................D Fahey 11 5.28 RAILWAY SPRINT SEMI-FINAL 2 C5q, 318m 1 16617 Don’t Brag 18.60 .......................... H Mullane 6 21485 Miss Velocette 30.36 ...................L Laagland 1 42141 Subic Bay 18.51 ...............................L Ahern 2 87314 More Salt Needed 18.69 R & ......N O’Regan 7 181x3 Kevin In Bangkok nwtd ......................C Hore 2 21552 Zipping Steve 18.41 ...................D Schofield 3 33414 Maligned 18.73 U & ..............................Bliek 8 x4114 Bralyn Charlie nwtd .....................A Turnwald 3 73874 Sandor Glegane 18.37 .................... T Green 4 22122 Peaknuckle 18.49 ......................... H Mullane 9 15715 Fabio 30.32 B & ................................. Steele 4 14232 Allegro Touch nwtd ...........................L Ahern 5 24183 Kapai Lana 18.87 U & ...........................Bliek 10 31336 Cawbourne Crouch nwtd .............M Roberts 5 64384 Solarian nwtd ....................................S Ross 6 12113 Scott No Odds 18.80 B & ................... Steele 6 64533 Nangar Star 18.08......................D Schofield 7 12261 Spotted Flyer 18.61 M & .................. J Smith 9 4.53 AUCKLAND CUP SEMI-FINAL 3 C5q, 527m 1 31635 Miss Eldora nwtd.........................A Turnwald 7 14653 Thrilling Galaxy 18.49 U & ................Cottam 8 82852 Our Jack Attack 18.62 .................. M J Lozell 2 61252 Know Answer nwtd.........................G Cleeve 8 44111 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 9 67424 Lucky Man nwtd ................................B Craik 3 24134 Arctic Action nwtd J & .....................D Fahey 9 21825 Speed Lorde 18.32 ...........................B Craik 10 13425 Skinny Ankles nwtd ........................ P Lowen 7 4.17 PLASTERBOARD LTD AUCKLAND CUP SEMI- 4 15131 Dyna Vikkers 30.47 ......................C Roberts 10 32435 Optic Shimmer nwtd........................ K Walsh 5 17612 Cawbourne Clover nwtd ...............M Roberts 12 5.45 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m FINAL 1 C5q, 527m 6 62765 Electric Impulse 30.12 W & .............T Steele 1 67642 Plaiting Puss nwtd U &..........................Bliek 1 43112 Know Decision nwtd.......................G Cleeve 7 187x3 Spanish Fancy 30.24 .................D Schofield 2 36543 Opawa Binge 18.53 B & ..................... Steele 2 11413 Skuzi 30.62 ......................................L Ahern 8 43122 Our Gypsy 31.22 ..............................L Ahern 3 65573 Asta 18.75 .....................................A Cleaver 3 62854 Boston Heart nwtd ......................A Turnwald 9 15715 Fabio 30.32 B & ................................. Steele 4 75217 Jump On It 18.75 ......................... H Mullane 4 65211 Jessie Surfs 30.43 .......................C Roberts 5 72436 You Betcha Noddy 18.88 R &......N O’Regan 5 12315 Takamori nwtd ............................B Goldsack 10 31336 Cawbourne Crouch nwtd .............M Roberts 6 53484 Prairie Kachina 18.45........................B Craik 6 12111 Opawa Shackley 30.18 J & .............D Fahey 10 5.10 RAILWAY SPRINT SEMI-FINAL 1 C5q, 318m 1 16173 Smash Allegro nwtd .........................L Ahern 7 33224 Diva Pose 18.89 M & ....................... J Smith 7 52F34 Gold Class 30.43 .......................D Schofield 2 15841 Talkin Fancy 18.59 .....................D Schofield 8 8x877 Not Bad nwtd R & .......................N O’Regan 8 22433 Fantastic Sid nwtd ......................D Schofield 3 23111 Country Gun 18.25.......................... K Walsh 9 51655 Botany Bev 18.63 ............................P Green 9 15715 Fabio 30.32 B & ................................. Steele 4 72824 Good Return 18.36 ....................D Schofield 10 645x6 Snapchat 18.30 .................................B Craik 10 31336 Cawbourne Crouch nwtd .............M Roberts 8 4.35 PLASTERBOARD LTD AUCKLAND CUP SEMI- 5 11254 Sweet As Bro nwtd...........................L Ahern LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 6 22252 Firemans Galaxy nwtd ...................G Cleeve - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track FINAL 2 C5q, 527m

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■ NATIONAL COMPETITION

New car win extra special One of three brand new Holdens given away as part of a nationwide Isuzu competition, has been won by an Ashburton family.

Ian and Stacey Howden picked up their new SSV Holden Commodore this week, from Smallbones’ (from third left) Gary Clement and Bob Grant.

Anyone who bought a heavy truck from Isuzu went into the draw to win an extra set of wheels.

The Howdens made their purchase through Small-

bones in December and were over the moon to find out they’d won.

“They were happy, and we were pretty chuffed too because we are only a small dealership really,” Mr Clement said.

Mr Clement said the new car they won was extra special due to Holden ceasing production of the Commodore in Australia shortly.

“So it’s one of the last rearwheel drive Holdens to come out of the factory in Australia,” he said.

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■ SKY TV

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technology, moving from satellite- to internet-based broadcasting, which saw capital spending rise 21 per cent to $62 million, almost half of which went on Sky TV’s decoder upgrade.

Fellett said this transition, along with the expansion of its online SkyGo and FanPass services, was going well but was occasionally frustrating.

Congestion has seen complaints from viewers that access to popular sporting events has been choppy or unavailable.

“It’s something I stay awake with more than anything else.

“Right now, if you watched Sky 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, it’d be 99.9 per cent reliable, SkyGo would be 99 per cent reliable: But it’s that one per cent that lands you on the front page.”

Following the result Sky shares fell 2.2 per cent to $4.51.

The stock is rated an average ‘hold’ based on seven analyst recommendations compiled by Reuters, with a median target price of $5.10. Forsyth Barr analyst Blair Galpin was forecasting profit to fall to $84.1 million on sales of $470 million.

“As expected in a period of rapid change and considerable competi-

tion, pressure has been placed on financial performance,” Fellet said.

“Like most traditional pay-television companies, we are losing traditional satellite customers, but gaining in our online products like Neon and Fan Pass.”

Sky TV provided less detail about the breakdown of its subscriber base, which it said “hurt us in negotiations with content suppliers”.

It’s rolled out new web-based on-demand services, and expects to complete a programme of switching out old digital decoder boxes for new My Sky decoders by the middle of next year, which it anticipates will provide savings on its satellite bandwidth spend.

Revenue from satellite subscriptions increased 0.7 per cent to $383.5 million, accounting for the bulk of Sky TV’s sales.

Sky TV’s advertising revenue generated the fastest increase in the half, rising 17 percent to $42.3 million, and now accounts for 8.9 percent of total revenue compared to 7.8 percent a year earlier.

That’s in a market where television advertising is sinking, with free-to-air players Television New Zealand and MediaWorks bearing the brunt of the decline. - NZME

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Sky feeling the churn Pay-TV operator Sky Network Television saw its highest customer churn in more than a decade as online rivals nipped at its heels and bid content prices ever-higher.

Chief executive John Fellet said Sky was competing well in the frothy market, despite a drop in net profit to $87.1 million for the six months to December 31, pointing to 2.4 per cent rise in revenues on the back of a 0.5 per cent expansion of its subscriber base.

Customer churn, or the proportion of customers who cancelled subscriptions, rose to 15.4 per cent - the highest since at least 2006 - from 14.5 per cent the previous year.

Fellet said churn cycles tended to peak the year following a Rugby World Cup, and given the fragmenting market he was comfortable with the result.

“When you consider there’s now more option to Sky than ever before, I guess I’m pleased with this churn figure,” he said.

The cost of acquiring content rose 10 per cent to $162.9m, which Fellet mostly put down to delivering Rugby World Cup to viewers but noted the market was becoming increasingly competitive.

Good content has never been more expensive than it is now.

“But I think we’ve got a pretty good lock on the good stuff, and I wouldn’t trade my programming with anyone else.

The results come as Sky TV loses its hold on some premium content with the introduction of online streaming video services such as Netflix and Spark New Zealand’s Lightbox offering.

Still, the pay-TV firm retains rugby rights, which are seen as a linchpin in securing domestic viewers.

The company is in the midst of a transition in its distribution

Guardian Shares & Investments

q S&P/NZX 50 Gross

6,224.98

–0.29

0.00%

q S&P/NZX 20 index

4,488.94

–0.24

–0.01%

q S&P/NZX All Gross

6,694.62

–1.10

–0.02%

p Rises 52 q Falls 46

WORLD MARKETS

S&P/ASX 200 index q

4,880.0

–1.20

–0.02%

At close of trading on Feb 26, 2016

p Dow Jones Indust.

16,697.3 +212.3 +1.29% At close of trading on Feb 25, 2016

p FTSE 100 index

6,012.8

+145.6

+2.48%

At close of trading on Feb 25, 2016

p Nikkei 225 index

16,263.2 +122.8 +0.76% Snapshot at 7pm on Feb 26, 2016

METAL PRICES

Source: interest.co.nz

q Gold

1,236.0

London – $US/ounce

–14.75

–1.18%

15.16

–0.16

–1.04%

4,655.0

+69.5

+1.52%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

p Copper London – $US/tonne NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ

Country

As at 4pm Feb 26, 2016

TT buy

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TT sell

0.9177 0.9002 4.1278 0.5999 1.3573 0.4756 74.74 1.6057 10.3776 23.35 0.6661

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OUR VIEW

Flying the flag for the future Sue Newman

ACTING EDITOR

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oday the Guardian includes a feature that details locals’ opinions on the New Zealand flag – to change or not to change.

The people and their comments could be from the person next door, the person who pumps your gas or serves you at the supermarket.

Each of them has been willing to let the rest of the district know what they think of the flag options and on an issue as divisive as this that takes a bit of courage.

We thank them for that.

It’s a subject that is counting its cost in millions of dollars and it’s a subject that has divided families and workplaces.

Few people are sitting on the fence, most have an opinion, even if that opinion is that the process of change should never have started.

But it has and we’re stuck with it. By the end of next week we’ll have received our voting papers and deciding the fate of the flag we fly in the future will be in our hands.

And it’s important we vote. We might object to the big dollar spend up, we might object to the process, but any time we’re given an opportunity to exercise our democratic rights, not bothering is a cop out.

If we don’t take part in public referenda and if we don’t vote at election time or on any other issue, we’re basically saying we don’t care, that what happens in our country is of no real interest to us.

If that’s the case we may as well be living in a communist country or in a country that’s run by a dictator.

We, at least, are able to make our voices heard.

The flag issue might seem like a lot of fuss about nothing and in many ways it is.

It’s easy to understand how people have become disenfranchised with the whole process and easy to understand how, on principle, people refuse to engage with the process because of the money involved, money that would quite frankly have been better used in dozens of other areas.

Like it or not we’re stuck with the second referendum.

We have an opportunity to have our say.

If we don’t it’s too late after the event to sit back and complain.

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Bolts cause lightning in our household Nadine Porter

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any orifice she could find (I’m not kidding – the fact that she is alive and well is a miracle I often ponder on).

Bumbling around, he cursed and said they weren’t there and then proceeded to upend the drawer on the bench and scatter around the contents.

“You’ve thrown them out haven’t you?” He grumbled, but refused to be assured that I hadn’t.

After searching the rubbish and still not finding the bolts he stomped back off to the work-

shop to see what he could find as a temporary fix.

I was perplexed then to see the said bolts on the bench in amongst the other scattered items and wandered out to the yard to show him.

“That’s not them love,” he shook his head. “They’re longer.”

“But they’re the only bolts I found,” I told him, but he kept muttering the words rubbish and something about wives cleaning up.

And so I was surprised when I happened to mention the bolt

saga again this week to learn that they had been found.

No replacements from town needed.

“Where did you find them?” I asked a little nervously, hoping that I hadn’t somehow managed to bin them.

“Oh around,” he waved dismissively, alerting my suspicious mind.

“Define around,” I pressed.

To which he replied with a cheeky grin.

“In the shorts you haven’t washed yet!”

So what are you anxious about? f 2016 should look different than 2015, or any other year for that matter, two significant words may need to be at the forefront of your vision and vocabulary – S T R O N G and C O U R A G E O U S. Just as a parent loves to see their child fulfil their dreams and succeed in their life choices, so too does God. After all, those visions and dreams are placed inside our hearts by the One who gives a rich and satisfying life.

If we could just grasp how much He desires and longs for us to be all He has called us to be and realise our endless Godgiven potential to do so.

To live a life worth living, to stretch ourselves beyond our zone of comfort and to live a life

POLL RESULT

Today’s online poll question Q: Have you ever tried your hand at fishing?

HALFWAY THERE

olts. Such a small insignificant item, hardly worth a meltdown of global proportions, except in the Farmer’s world.

In our sublime 15 years of marriage, bolts and missing scraps of paper have been almost the only notable causes of divorce.

And so it was again last week when I arrived home to a mass of broken, rusty and newly-shiny bolts on my kitchen bench.

Now I know that even though most of those bolts looked past their use-by date, it would be an unforgiveable sin to toss them in the rubbish bin.

I scooped them up, and put them in a “safe place” in a kitchen drawer awaiting the moment the Farmer would surely burst in, a month or even a year from now looking for them.

I was grateful they were on the bench and not in his pockets as our washing machine has suffered various expensive malfunctions over the years due to bolts flinging everywhere.

Sure enough the Farmer came racing in from harvesting, muttering about needing some crucial bolts to put his header back together.

“Where are they love?” He demanded. “I put them on the bench.”

“In the drawer,” I told him sweetly, happy that I had rescued them before the tiny terror (our three-year-old daughter) decided to try and stick them in

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Lisa Anderson

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

of faith, we will need to be strong and courageous.

This takes not just a seemingly impossible task, but it requires a new mind-set, one that may have never been walked in before.

As individuals and a community, we have seen many great doors of opportunity open before us and each one has taken many people to be strong and courageous with the vision and its fulfilment.

Ask any one of those people involved in large or small projects and they’ll tell you the questions and comments that flood their

minds telling them it’s a bad idea, or maybe it won’t work.

Anxiety is not the friend of strong and courageous. Belief, action and determination is.

In fact, anxiety stifles the ability to be strong and courageous and keeps us ineffective.

Any person who has made effective change in their own lives, tried something new or outworked an impossible dream, will tell you they had to look fear and anxiety in the face and do it anyway.

2016 will be a year like no other.

It’s the year to be strong and courageous, to extend our boundaries and move beyond what’s comfortable.

If reading that sentence makes you weak at the knees, then ask

yourself these questions to begin your strong and courageous journey in 2016: ■ What am I anxious/scared about?

■ Do I need to be as anxious as I tell myself?

■ What is the true reality of the danger I am facing? (Do a reality check of the danger.)

■ Am I exaggerating the fear I am facing?

■ What language needs to change?

■ What can I tell myself to lower my perception of danger?

Questions taken from Flying With Two Wings by Kathy King Lisa Anderson is a senior leader of the New Life Church

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■ UNITED STATES

Mission: Stop Trump The Republican presidential candidates are set to spar in the last debate before Super Tuesday when 11 states will vote in Republican contests.

Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are hoping for strong performances to blunt the momentum of frontrunner Donald Trump.

The New York billionaire has won three out the first four contests, including the most recent vote in Nevada.

Mr Trump’s success has caused a fissure in the Republican party.

“The vast and overwhelming majority of Republicans do not want Donald Trump to be our nominee,” Marco Rubio, a senator from Florida, told NBC. He suggested Mr Trump is winning because other candidates are sharing the rest of the electorate.

Mr Trump has been extremely popular despite his controversial comments about banning Muslims from travelling to the United States and building a wall along the Mexican border.

Live coverage - Republicans to battle in Texas debate After four primary and caucus competitions, Mr Trump has 82 Republican party delegates, Senator Ted Cruz has 17 and Marco Rubio has 16.

Kesha fans are to protest outside Sony’s headquarters in New York City today. Earlier this month, a court ruled that the Die Young hitmaker must abide by her contract with Sony Music and Dr. Luke, despite her as-yet unproven claims she was drugged and sexually abused by the record producer a decade ago. The ruling has sent shockwaves through the music business and online with many of 28-year-old Kesha’s fellow female pop peers publicly supporting her in her battle and her supporters starting the hashtag trend ‘FreeKesha’ on Twitter. Her fans now want to make a statement and they plan to gather outside Sony’s offices to campaign she is released from her contract with Dr. Luke’s Kemosabe Recordsan, which is part of Sony-owned RCA.

Donald Trump’s success has caused a fissure in the Republican party.

To become the Republican party’s nominee, a candidate has to have 1,237 total state delegates.

The debate is taking place in Houston, Texas, giving Mr Cruz a slight home-field advantage.

Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has said he will not be quitting the race anytime soon, despite a poor showing in polls and in state con-

tests so far. Ohio Governor John Kasich, billing himself as a moderate, compassionate alternative to his more conservative colleagues, has been pressured to drop out by some Republicans so a nonDonald Trump frontrunner can emerge.

Mr Cruz placed third in three consecutive state races and Mr Rubio had a major stumble in a debate before the

New Hampshire primary. He repeated himself several times and was ridiculed online.

Mr Trump has said he is confident heading into Super Tuesday.

“It’s going to be an amazing two months,” he said after winning the Nevada contest on Tuesday. “We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest.”

- BBC

■ UNITED STATES

Apple asks judge to vacate order on iPhone Police vehicles line the road after reports of a shooting in Hesston, Kansas.

PHOTO AP

■ UNITED STATES

Gunman on rampage An employee killed up to four people and wounded as many as 20 others in a shooting spree that ended at his work site in Hesston, Kansas yesterday where he was shot and killed by authorities, the local sheriff told reporters.

The gunman opened fire at Excel Industries, after police had earlier received reports of gunshots on nearby streets which were connected to the workplace attack, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a news conference.

“This is just a horrible incident that’s happened here,” Walton said. “There are going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over.”

The shooter killed three or

Kesha supporters to protest

four people, and wounded as many as 20 others, the sheriff said. He said the suspect was driving and shooting from his car before he was killed by authorities inside the Excel building.

A spokesman for the local Via Christi Hospital St. Francis said they have taken in six patients from the shooting, with five in serious condition and one in fair condition.

Wesley Medical Center is treating three patients, said the facility’s spokeswoman Susan Burchill. She had no further details.

Excel Industries manufactures products for turf care, according to local media.

- AP

Apple Inc. has asked a federal magistrate to reverse her order that the company help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone, accusing the federal government of seeking “dangerous power” through the courts and of trampling on its constitutional rights.

Yesterday’s filing represents Apple’s first official response since the judge’s order last week and builds upon arguments voiced by the company’s chief executive and supporters.

It marks the latest salvo in a court fight that could create meaningful precedent and establish new legal boundaries in the policy between national security and digital privacy.

“No court has ever authorized what the government now seeks, no law supports such unlimited and sweeping use of the judicial process, and the Constitution forbids it,” Apple said.

The Justice Department is proposing a “boundless interpretation” of the law that, if left unchecked, could bring disastrous repercussions, the company warned in a memo submitted to Magistrate Sheri Pym that aggressively chal-

lenges policy justifications put forward by the Obama administration.

“The government says: ‘Just this once’ and ‘Just this phone.’ But the government knows those statements are not true,” lawyers for Apple wrote.

They said that if Apple were required to build the software the FBI wants, “criminals, terrorists and hackers will no doubt view the code as a major prize and can be expected to go to considerable lengths to steal it.”

A hearing is scheduled for next month.

The dispute broke into public view earlier this week when Pym directed Apple to help the FBI gain access to a phone used by one of the assailants in the San Bernardino, California, attacks.

Federal agents haven’t been able to open the phone of Syed Farook because they don’t know the passcode. The Justice Department wants Apple to create specialised software for the iPhone that would bypass some security features so that the FBI can try as many passcodes as possible without the data being erased.

- AP

Murtaza gets Messi shirt Argentine striker Lionel Messi has sent signed shirts to the Afghan boy who was pictured wearing a homemade shirt with the No. 10 on the back. Unicef said that 5-yearold Murtaza Ahmadi has received signed Barcelona and Argentina shirts from Messi.

It said a football was also delivered to the boy at Unicef’s office in Kabul. The Afghan Football Federation had been trying to set up a meeting between Messi and the boy, who was pictured wearing an Argentina shirt made from a plastic bag. The picture was posted on Twitter by a Turkish sports website’s account, claiming the boy was from Iraq, but this has not been confirmed.

‘I just sung it to David’ Lorde calmed her nerves before performing her tribute to David Bowie at the BRIT Awards by imagining she was singing directly to the late rocker. The 19-year-old musician was joined by Bowie’s former touring band for her rendition of his track Life On Mars which she sang in memory the late great artist - who passed away in January at the age of 69 after losing his battle with cancer. Before stepping on stage at The O2 in London, Lorde was suffering from major butterflies but she just reminded herself to forget the watching world and think of Bowie. Lorde was backed by Mike Garson on piano, Gail Anne Dorsey on bass and Gerry Leonard and Earl Slick on guitars - all of whom played with Bowie on his A Reality Tour in 2003 and 2004 - for her sombre cover which was preceded by a medley of Bowie’s major hits.

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■ UNITED KINGDOM

Misconduct ‘overlooked’ An investigation into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal cleared the BBC of wrongdoing yesterday, even as it painted a damning portrait of an institution where employees were afraid to raise even serious concerns about sexual misconduct for fear of upsetting celebrity talent or making the corporation look bad.

Savile, a BBC television presenter and popular charity figure who died in October 2011, is believed to be one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders.

The review initiated by the BBC blamed the institution’s internal culture for being behind the failure to sound the alarm on Savile’s predatory activity.

It was only after Savile’s death that the extent of his crimes became clear — touching off a national shock wave of rage and introspection about how best to deal with sexual abuse charges, particularly involving the famous.

“Celebrities were treated with kid gloves and were virtually untouchable,” said Dame Janet Smith, a former Court of Appeal judge who conducted the inquiry, describing a BBC culture of not wanting to “rock the boat”.

“There was a feeling of reverence for them and a fear that, if a star were crossed, he or she

Report says concerns about sexual misconduct by Jimmy Savile were overlooked. might leave the BBC,” she added.

According to the report, a particular fear of whistleblowing prevented BBC junior staff members from escalating their complaints to senior managers.

Smith said an atmosphere of fear still exists at the BBC but cleared the institution of responsibility for Savile’s widespread sex abuse — a decision likely to infuriate his victims.

“I have found no evidence that the BBC, as a corporate body, was aware of Savile’s inappropriate sexual conduct in connec-

tion with his work for the BBC,” she said.

Smith said 117 people at the BBC admitted they had heard rumors about Savile, who abused victims on BBC premises, including the venues where his programmes Top Of The Pops and Jim’ll Fix It were shot.

Smith’s review said the Savile abuse incidents dated all the way back to 1959. She identified 72 victims of Savile, both male and female – and one was only 8 years old.

But girls who raised concerns

about Savile were treated as a “nuisance.” In one case in 1969, a girl who was molested on the Top of the Pops program while standing next to Savile on the podium was “ejected from the building.”

The inquiry also concluded that another BBC star, sports presenter Stuart Hall, 86, also used his celebrity to shield his activities, often plying his victims with alcohol.

The Hall investigation was carried out by another former Court of Appeal judge, Dame Linda Dobbs, because Smith had a conflict of interest. Dobbs found 21 victims of Hall, who was jailed in 2013 after pleading guilty to multiple charges of indecent assault.

“The culture at the BBC certainly enabled both Savile and Stuart Hall to go undetected for decades,” Smith said. “I have identified five occasions where the BBC missed an opportunity to uncover their misconduct.”

The director-general of the BBC, Tony Hall, apologized to the victims Thursday.

“What this terrible episode tells us is that fame is power, a very strong form of power,” he said. “And like all power it must be held to account. It must be challenged and it must be scrutinised. And it wasn’t.”

- AP

■ GREECE

Migrants stranded on roads as borders close Groups of frustrated migrants, including families with small children, walked along northbound Greek highways Thursday hoping to reach Macedonia after authorities stopped their buses to ease a bottleneck on the practically blocked border.

It was yet another sign of Europe’s failure to address its worst immigration crisis since the end of World War II. As some 2,000 migrants per day cross illegally into Greece on their way to a better life in the continent’s wealthier north, restrictions imposed

by Austria and Balkan nations have left thousands trapped in the financially broken country — which has seen nearly a million arrivals since January 2015.

The Greek government underlined its annoyance Thursday by recalling its ambassador to Austria for consultations — “in order to safeguard friendly relations” between the two states, said Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.

Greece does not detain people entering the country illegally if they are from Syria, Iraq and several other countries whose citizens are considered eligible for asylum.

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said about 20,000 migrants are stuck in the country, and pledged to set up new camps near the Macedonian border within the next 10 days that could host them all in “decent”

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In brief Bombers kill 15 Suicide bombers hit a Shiite religious building and a military checkpoint in a Shiite-majority neighbourhood of Baghdad yesterday, killing 15 people, an Iraqi security official said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which took place in Baghdad’s Shula district, via a statement posted online, Iraq’s national news agency reported. In one attack, a bomber detonated an explosive belt among people leaving a Husseiniya, or a Shiite place of worship, killing 10 and wounding 34, Brigadier. General Saad Maan said. Another bomber hit the checkpoint at the entrance to Shula, killing five people — three of them soldiers — and wounding 14.

- AP

US tough on N Korea The United States has introduced a draft UN Security Council resolution that it said will significantly increase pressure on North Korea in response to its latest nuclear test and rocket launch. Ambassador Samantha Power said yesterday the draft, which for the first time would subject cargo ships leaving and entering North Korea to mandatory inspections, goes farther than previous sanctions and is meant to ensure North Korea will be held accountable for its actions. “It is a major upgrade and there will be, provided it goes forward, pressure on more points, tougher, more comprehensive, more sectors.

It’s breaking new ground in a whole host of ways,” Power said before heading into a closed-door meeting where the US planned to circulate the draft to all 15 council members.

- AP

Philippines criticised China has accused the USallied Philippines of “political provocation” in seeking international arbitration over territorial claims in the South China Sea, driving home its intention to ignore the proceedings despite pressure from Washington.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the decision by Philippine leaders to lodge a case with a tribunal in The Hague was “irresponsible to the Filipino people and the future of the Philippines.” China has refused to participate in the arbitration process, which it has denounced as illegitimate. A ruling is expected later this year, after the tribunal decided last October that it could hear the case.

- AP

Uterus transplanted

A migrant child holds up a Greek flag as riot police look on, during a protest on a highway at Tempe valley near the city of Larissa, central Greece.

PHOTO AP conditions.

“We want to at least ensure that these people are not on the highways, or out in the fields, that there are no children on the roads,” he said.

Many of the migrants walking along highways yesterday gave up after a few kilometres and were moved on by police to the next stopping point on the route north. Others managed to

find taxis to the Idomeni border crossing, where about 2800 people were waiting, some for up to four days.

But Macedonian authorities only allowed about 100 people to enter yesterday.

Nadica V’ckova, a spokeswoman for Macedonia’s crisis management department, said the country was restricting the entry of migrants to match the number

leaving the country.

Damascus pharmacist Wassim al Mousalli, 37, said he, his wife and children aged 3 and 6 spent two days camped by the Idomeni crossing.

“We spent the night in a small tent, the children were very cold,” he said. “I want to reach Germany, and my main question is why are the borders being kept closed.”

- AP

Surgeons in Cleveland say they have performed the nation’s first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy. In a statement yesterday, the Cleveland Clinic said the nine-hour surgery was performed a day earlier on a 26-year-old woman, using a uterus from a deceased donor. The hospital had long been planning for such a surgery, announcing months earlier a clinical trial that would attempt 10 transplants. The hospital said it wouldn’t release any more details until a press conference next week, except to say the woman’s condition was stable.

- AP

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9.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. 9am - 12.30pm Community Garden, Thomson Street.

ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, coffee and hot food. 9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY HIRE. Northern end West Street Car Park.

Open for toy hire. Methodist Church 9am - 12pm Baring Square.

CRAFT MARKET. Good variety of crafts. West Street Car 10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. Park. 9.30am New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

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10am - 11.30am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrew’s Church Hall, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street.

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

10am - 1pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

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

1pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. Registration 1pm, races start 1.30pm sharp. Fords Road.

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and golf croquet, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street, Allenton.

1.15pm GOLF CROQUET WAIREKA. Golf croquet doubles. Waireka Philip Street.

6pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

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Morning worship, led by Rev John Coutts, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

8am 9.30am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

Worship service led by Rev Henry 8.30am Mbambo, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, 9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Tinwald.

Service and worship with Rev Tevita 9am Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Baring Square East.

Holy Communion, Harrison Street, 10am Allenton.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 9.30am Morning worship. Havelock Street ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

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

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

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

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives.

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

1.15pm GOLF CROQUET WAIREKA. Golf croquet casual. Waireka, Philip Street.

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1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and golf croquet. New members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street, Allenton.

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7.30pm CATHOLIC PARISH CENTRE. Euchre, all welcome. (not public holidays).

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7.30pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting. Rovers Den Mani-ORoto Scout Park, Clamers Ave.

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PPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNIT Y GR ANTS

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lications are now invited from groups and organisations for community grants from Ashburton District ncil for funding in 2016/17. re are now five funding categories - arts and culture, sports and recreation, economic development 2016 events, community development, and natural10 andFEBRUARY built environment (including biodiversity & tage grants). lication forms and criteria are available from our website ashburtondc.govt.nz or from the Council e. For further information please contact Council on 307 7700 or email info@adc.govt.nz. lications close 5.00pm, Monday 29 February 2016.

An answer to every question

NS FOR COMMUNIT Y GR ANTS Serving the needs of older people

ed from groups and organisations for community grants from Ashburton District /17. categories - arts and culture, sports and recreation, economic development velopment, and natural and built environment (including biodiversity &

The first Positive Ageing Expo in Ashburton aims to offer answers to every question you might have as you near retirement.

Held at the Ashburton Racecourse, the Expo will follow the same format as the Expo’s held in Cristchurch by Age Concern Canterbury.

Ashburton Water Management Zone Committee Ashburton Age Concern president Trish Small said it was not always eria are available from our website ashburtondc.govt.nz or from the Council Meetings easy for the ageing population to find out was available for various tion please A meeting the Ashburton Water Zone contactof Council on 307 7700 or emailManagement info@adc.govt.nz. issues.

Environmental Services Committee will be held as follows: , Monday 29 February 2016.

“The Expo is an opportunity to have a great deal of those businessCommittee Meeting es.” l Date: Tuesday 23 February 2016, 2.00pm Council Chamber, Baring Square Site holders ranger from health professionals, common law advio East, Thursday 11 February 2016, Location: Council Meeting Room, 2 Baring Square East, sors, bankers, IT specialists, support agencies, service clubs, retiren 11.00am Ashburton ment villages and rest homes, Ashburton District Council, More Mog Service Delivery Committee bility, CDHB, government organisations and emergency services.

The meetings are open to the public. Copies of the agendas Management Zone prior Committee Starting at 10am on Thursday, March 3, for just a gold coin entry, Meeting are available to the meetings and Meetings can be obtained by the Council Chamber, Baring Square Expo promises to give practical advice and will also offer a knife contacting Council on (03) 307 e Ashburton Water Management Zone7700. The agenda and more Environmental Services held as follows: on the committee can be found at East, Thursday 11 February 2016,sharpening service for a small fee. information Light refreshments will be on sale from Mid Canterbury Rural WomCommittee Meeting to follow Environmental Services www.canterburywater.org.nz/committees/ashburton.phpw y 23 February 2016, 2.00pm en and CWI for all those attending as will easy convenient parking.

Council Chamber, Baring Square There will also be demonstrations during the day of “Steady as you East, Thursday 11 February 2016, Meeting Room, 2 Baring Square East, Finance & Business Support go” exercises that aim to prevent falls at home.

11.00am ton Committee Meeting “We are very excited to be bringing this to our local community. We Service Delivery Committee Council Chamber, Baring Square open to the public. Copies of the agendas hope that the wonderful response from site holders will be reciprocatMeeting meetings and can be obtained by sto theHave refreshments available on site East, Thursday 11 February 2016,ed by the Ashburton public.” your say - closedLight circuit television policy Council Chamber, Baring Square to follow Service Delivery , on (03) 307 7700. The agenda and more Although the Expo is geared towards those reaching or at retiresharpening service(CCTV) willThursday be operating - 2016, bring along East, 11now February committee can Knife be found at circuit television Council’s draft closed policy is ment, Trish says it will be beneficial to all who have worries about elCouncil Meeting follow Environmental Servicesfee ater.org.nz/committees/ashburton.phpw those knives to be tosharpened for a small available for community feedback.

Council Chamber, Baring Squarederly loved ones.

0 Finance & Business Support East, Thursday 25 February 2016, So get along to the Positive Ageing Expo, held at the Ashburton The draft policy details how Council will operate CCTV Committee Meeting Racecourse on Thursday, March 3 from 10am to 3pm.

1.30pm in the district with reference to recording, storing and Council Chamber, Baring Square releasing CCTV footage. The aim of the East, policy is to increase Thursday 11 February 2016, osed public circuit television policy crime, protect Council assets and safety, discourage Water Restrictions to follow Service Delivery infrastructure and support Police in evidence gathering. sed circuit television (CCTV) policy isthe now Water restrictions are in place until Council Meeting munity feedback.

Chamber, Council wants to hear what you think ofCouncil the draft policy. Baring Square further notice. Visit the Council East, Thursday 25 February 2016, how Council will operate CCTV website for a full list of all water gdetailsThe policy and submission found on Council’s th reference to recording, storing form and can be1.30pm supplies with water restrictions. ytage. website The aim ashburtondc.govt.nz of the policy is to increase ourageFeedback crime, protect Council assets and 4 March Water closes 5.00pm Friday 2016. Restrictions Current Fire Season support the Police in evidence gathering. o Water restrictions are in place until Status ear what you think of the draft policy. further notice. Visit the Council website for a full list of all waterAn Open fire season is in place gbmission form can be found on Council’s supplies with water restrictions.across the Ashburton District. edc.govt.nz

ZONE COMMITTEE MEETING Up & Coming POSITIVE AGEING EXPO Thursday, March 3, 2016 10.00am - 3.00pm

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Ashburton District Council currently has vacancies for:

Current Fire Season notice.

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Teacher Aide Position We are looking for a teacher aide to support our learning programmes and the wonderful children at Chertsey School.

The position is for six hours per week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Experience is preferred but not essential.

If you are a practical, self motivated and caring person who is looking for a chance to make a difference then please make contact with the Principal, Sean Wansbrough, by email at principal@chertsey.school.nz or by phoning the school on 03 302 2727. We also welcome school visits.

Applications close on Friday, March 18, 2016.

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Scale A Teacher A position is available for a Scale A Teacher to work in our After School Programme.

This is for a period of two hours per day, three days per week.

If you think this position suits you, please reply by March 11, 2016 with your CV detailing current experience to: Email: jjemmett@ashinter.school.nz Or post: Ashburton Intermediate School, P.O. Box 294, 144 Cass Street, Ashburton 7740

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Full Time Workshop Taxidermist Assistant

AGRICULTURAL SPRAYER OPERATOR

An opportunity has opened to become a valuable member within one of New Zealand’s leading taxidermy companies with a worldwide reputation for high quality standards of taxidermy and customer service.

We are a broad acre spraying business servicing clients in Mid-Canterbury.

We operate 3 trucks and 1 self-propelled 24 metre sprayer and are looking for a reliable and competent operator to join our team.

Jobs include: • Receiving/labelling trophies • Skinning/tanning hides • Preparing skulls/antlers for export • Packing crates for export • Making forms

Experience is not a necessity but applicants will ideally: • Have minimum class 2 licence • Be able to work unsupervised • Have good attention to detail • Be mechanically minded • Be able to follow instructions accurately

Please apply to Delwyn via phone or by email

A competitive remuneration package will be offered.

Tyron Southward Taxidermy Ltd 10 Railway Road, Dunsandel, Canterbury Phone: (03) 325 4545 Email: tahrmaster@xtra.co.nz

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

Contact Ian Howden for more information on 03 308 7662 or 027 444 5429

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Joel visits Ashburton and Geraldine on a regular weekly basis.

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NOW ON E L A S R E SUMM Your Rieker Destination Store www.comfyshoes.co.nz

49 Main Road, Pleasant Point Phone: 03 614 8750 - A/H 0508 RIEKER 743537

Hours: 11am - 4pm Tuesday to Saturday

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We are seeking applicants who have the following attributes: □ Ability to build an excellent public profile □ Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels □ Excellent verbal and written communication skills □ An interest, passion and commitment to supporting people in need □ Ability to develop project plans and give effect to those plans □ An ability to seek funding and sponsorship □ Ability to recruit, train and support volunteers □ Excellent organisational and time management skills □ An ability to work in a flexible manner □ Experience in NGO sector is preferred, but not necessary Based in Ashburton, your role would be to grow, promote and coordinate the activities of CanInspire, organising and liaising with Tutors and Volunteers across New Zealand and developing new partnerships and opportunities to support this work. This role is multi-faceted and will involve administrative duties through to oversight of our work Nationally.

This position is for 16 hours per week and will primarily be based at Community House Mid Canterbury.

Based at our Dunsandel yard, this role requires sound class 5 driving skills combined with excellent stockman ship across all classes of livestock.

Our livestock division services the greater Canterbury district on a day to day basis along with regular long haul movements as well.

Applicants should also possess the following • Class 5 licence • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends if required • A positive attitude • The ability to work unsupervised/ and as part of team • Maintaining high standards of Health and Safety practices • The ability to keep gear clean and tidy without supervision • Have a strong focus on Customer Service Previous experience is essential.

Please email your CV with your application to: reception@ellesmere.co.nz Please contact Murray 03 325 4039 or 027 432 7690.

ASHBURTON COLLEGE

143 Tancred Street, Ashburton, Ph: 03 308 1395 kevin@caninspire.org.nz www.caninspire.org.nz

Part-Time, Fixed-Term Librarian Position

8 hours per week, to the end of the 2016 College year.

This is a school term-time position.

Hours allocation: two days of four hours each; actual days to be negotiated with successful applicant, as will commencement date be.

Mobile Service Technician

If you are interested in joining a successful team servicing the farmer and contractor, please contact by calling, emailing, or writing, in the strictest confidence, to: Bede Prendergast Branch Manager 9a McGregor Lane Ashburton 7700

Commencement: by beginning of Term Two (Monday, May 2), or earlier if practicable.

Applicants to:

• • • • •

Be able to develop an easy rapport with students and colleagues Have a passion for education and literacy Enjoy working as part of a team to add value to a learning environment Be an effective and enthusiastic communicator Be familiar with information technology Employment is under the conditions of the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, Grade B, Step to be determined.

Applications close, 4:00pm Thursday 10 March 2016.

For Information/Job Description please contact:

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN ALL WE DO

Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

151 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton www.petermay.co.nz

Guardian Motoring

Please send letter of application and CV to:

307 7900

info@mgfiresecurity.co.nz or PO Box 37, Ashburton 7740.

John Cockburn JV Operator PO Box 4, Ashburton 7740 Email: john.cockburn@placemakers.co.nz Applications close on March 8, 2016.

Maintenance Day Shift Fitter Talley’s is a successful and well known brand, operating several plants throughout the South Island, as well as having many diversified interests in seafood, frozen vegetables, meat and dairy products.

We currently have the above position available at our Fairton plant located 10 minutes drive from Ashburton.

Masterguard are currently seeking security officers to fill the following roles:

• Be eligible to obtain a security license • Have a current driver’s license • Have a high level of oral and written literacy • Be well presented

Please apply in writing with a copy of your C.V. to:

Applications close March 5, 2016

Security Officers Required

Applicants must:

AUTO TRIM, CANVAS & SHADE

The ideal applicant will have the ability to read and understand plans, be accurate and organised with strong attention to detail. Good communication skills with a friendly and positive “can do” attitude is essential. Building industry experience and computer skills are preferable.

Responsibilities include: » Seed dressing including clover and lucerne » Inwards I Outward goods » Forklift driving Training will be given, but experience IS an advantage.

The successful applicant will: » Need a good work ethic, be keen to learn and enthusiastic. » Physically fit and able » Able to read and write with basic math » Forklift license is an advantage » Good health » Ability to work in a team essential.

We have a great work environment if you are interested in supporting the team.

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

Please send your CV to osgro.seed@xtra.co.nz or post to PO Box 4004, Redwoodtown, Blenheim.

Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton 7740 Email: sheena.tyrrell@ashcoll.school.nz Phone: 308 4193, ext 812 or 027 247 8003

• Weekend Patrol Officer, 6am-6pm Saturday and Sunday • Door staff, 9pm-2am Saturday nights • Casual staff for events, as and when required

• Estimations and quotations • Customer service • Problem solving • Trade sales support Training and personal development will be supplied to enable the successful applicant to be capable in their new role.

We require a Store Person/Seed Dressing Machinist to work at our Riverlands Estate Seed Store in Sunny BLENHEIM.

The Fresh Name in the Freezer

COMMITTED, EFFICIENT, MOTIVATED

This hands-on position is an integral part of the Ashburton team, responsible for key aspects of our business in the Mid Canterbury region including:

SUNNY BLENHEIM opportunity for Store Person I Seed Dressing Machinist Position.

03 307 6031 bede.prendergast@jj.co.nz Applicants for this position should have New Zealand residence or a valid New Zealand work visa.

PlaceMakers Ashburton has a vacancy for an Estimator / Trade Sales Support person.

Osgro Seed Services Limited

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Applications close Friday, March 4, at 4:00pm

We are locally owned and operated and have been in the farm machinery business for more than 57 years, selling and servicing leading brands including Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Challenger, Lely, Welger and Giltrap.

We are seeking a motivated person who wishes to advance their career and has pride in their workmanship. Previous experience with tractors and machinery, while preferred, is not essential as we offer factory run service schools and provide on-going in-house training.

Our goal is to provide the best service available in the Canterbury region. If you think you can provide such service and would excel in an environment that strives to achieve excellence, then we are looking to provide you with a great career.

A very competitive remuneration package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

SITUATIONS VACANT

STOCK DRIVER

For an application pack please contact Kevin Clifford at:

JJ’s are going from strength to strength and are looking to grow our team in Ashburton

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Estimator / Trade Sales Support

CanInspire Charitable Trust Coordinator The CanInspire Charitable Trust was founded in 2010 with the intention of providing workshops for those affected by illness, trauma or loss. The workshops consist of jewellery making (CanBead) and fly fishing (CanTackle) and provide a distraction, a sense of purpose and of accomplishment in a supportive and caring environment. The Trust employs workshop tutors and also relies heavily on a large number of dedicated volunteers. Due to our growth we are now seeking to employ a Coordinator to oversee the day to day work of the Trust, its Tutors and Volunteers.

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We are looking to employ a Maintenance Engineer. You’ll need to have a Trade Certificate or higher qualification, and while it would be desirable for you to have experience with food processing factory maintenance, relevant training will be provided.

If this position interests you, please forward you CV to Maintenance Manager, PO Box 244, Ashburton or email to recruitment@ash.talleys.co.nz

www.talleys.co.nz

CATERER The Ashburton Golf Club invites interested persons to apply for the position of self employed caterer.

This includes catering for men’s and women’s club days, course bookings and the option of catering for large tournaments.

For further information please contact: Jenny Williams 308 2081 or 027 600 3399 before March 11.

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

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

A University of Otago Centre of Research Excellence

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PUBLIC NOTICES

REAL ESTATE

Serving the needs of older people

Age Concern, Ashburton Phone 308 6817

POSITIVE AGEING EXPO Thursday, March 3, 2016 10.00am - 3.00pm Ashburton Racecourse Racecourse Road, Ashburton

Exhibits, displays and free parking

Gold coin entry Light refreshments available on site Knife sharpening service will be operating - bring along those knives to be sharpened for a small fee

TRADES, SERVICES

Mayfield Reserves Board

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

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

RURAL TRADING POST

Woolshed Wanted Currently looking for 3-stand, raisedboard woolshed.

If you’re in need of one being removed, give us a call..

Ross and Barbara Tait 027 430 5884 or 03 302 5872

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For prompt, reliable service Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place Ph 308 8989. 30 years local service. Same day service if possible. SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

HOME handyman available.

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

2016 GAME SEASON BALLOT FOR HUNTING STANDS Applications will be received from licensed game hunters, up to 5:00 pm on Monday 14th March 2016 for the occupation of hunting stands on Council controlled properties at: Wainono Reserve, Waimate (adjacent to Lk Wainono) up to 6 stands (dependant on water levels). All Day Bay (Sth of Oamaru) up to 3 stands (dependant on water levels).

Devils Bridge (Oamaru) 3 stands. Ealing Springs (Rangitata) 1 stand for 4 hunters – all 4 hunters must be named on the application.

Tagging Day is Sunday 10th April at 10:00 am.

Further information may be obtained by phoning Bernadette on (03) 6158400, or emailing to bdolan@ csifgc.org.nz, or writing to PO Box 150, Temuka to which applications should be forwarded.

J P GRAYBILL Chief Executive

Real Estate New Zealand ashburton

Pursuant to Section 53(1) (e) of the Reserves Act 1977 public notice is hereby given that the Mayfield A & P Association has been granted use of the Mayfield Domain for the purpose of holding its Annual Show on Saturday, March 12, 2016, with the right to charge admission.

J.A.Ludemann Secretary

PUBLIC NOTICES Ashburton Chess Club Opening night and AGM

COMMERCIAL INVESTMENT

Book your motoring advertising with our experienced sales team

PERSONAL MAKE LOVE HAPPEN There is no need to be alone when there are so many others who also seek one safe, special partner.

Whether you live in town or on the land, our experienced matchmakers can put you in touch with someone wonderful as soon as today.

Deadline 2pm prior publication day

Ph 0800 856 640 till 8pm All areas. All ages.

Seniors welcome. www.lovesuccess.co.nz

Birthday Greetings

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

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

Telephone 03 307 9176

Monday, February 29, 2016 7.30pm Menorlue Building, Walnut Ave.

24/7 Appraisals 308 6173

Hazel Lowe Happy first birthday to our beautiful girl for tomorrow.

Lots of love Mum, Dad, Riley, Kinneir and Archer. xxx

Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed REAA 2008

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

Thinking of buying or selling a car?

WEB ID AC47698 HINDS 150 Peters Street VIEW By Appointment This is a great opportunity to invest in a well located TENDER closes Friday 4th March, 2016 at 4.00pm, (unless commercial property with good lease terms. Situated sold prior) on State Highway One in Hinds this site has excellent Clark McLeod road frontage and exposure to a significant number of Mobile 0274 322 194 vehicles per day. This property comprises a number of Office 03 307 9183 buildings, including specialised paint booth and Home 03 308 3071 extensive land area. clark@propertybrokers.co.nz

TENDER

Further details available in Information Memorandum upon request.

Hamish Niles

Mobile 0274 356 265 Office 03 307 9182 hamish@propertybrokers.co.nz

www.propertybrokers.co.nz

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PLANTS, PRODUCE

Allenton Hockey Club

Peastraw for Sale

A.G.M.

Pick up from 15 Bryant street, Tinwald between 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday.

Please park on the street and come to the office No EFTPOS - CASH ONLY

LOST, FOUND

LADIES black wallet lost Thursday, February 25 between 12.15 and 12.30pm, Westpac to Couplands area.

Owner would like wallet returned as important personal information is required. Please phone 308 0366.

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

$2.99 ea $2.99 bag $3 $3.99 ea

Specials available from 23/02 - 1/03

OPEN 7 DAYS

HAY for sale. Red clover and lucerne. Approx 200 bales of each. Wakanui. Phone Leen 027 207 7739.

PEASTRAW for sale.

Conventional bales $3 each, HOLIDAY pick up from Hinds. Phone ACCOMMODATION 027 531 1897.

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 MOTORING bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all 1997 HYUNDAI Accent. 5 electric heating. Sky, all mod speed. $1500 ono. Phone cons, short walk to village.

0272 777 123 or 0212 655 Phone Brian 307-8000 or 186.

308-6180.

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.

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Trevor Hurley Real Estate Limited REAA 2008

Weekend Services

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

DUTY DOCTORS

For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Moore Street Medical Practice, 254 Moore Street will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from 10am to 12 noon and from 6pm to 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 3066.

Ashburton Health First, Havelock Street will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 9am to 12 noon and from 2pm to 5pm. During these times appointments can be made by phoning the surgery on 308 1956.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

Saturday and Sunday doctor and emergency details, please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, ph 303 5002.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the

FOR SALE

10.30am Worship Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All welcome

FIREWOOD - Green old man pine $140, semi $170, semi blue gum $200, green blue gum $160 per 3.6m³. Phone Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

OFFICE available for rent. RENTAL ParkING, 24 hour access, FEMALE flatmate wanted, 5 nightly security. Minutes from minutes’ walk from town CBD. Ph 021 554 570. centre. Share with female 38 years old and two cats.

STORAGE units available. Double bedroom inbuilt Various sizes. Rainbow wardrobes. Larges warm Storage. Ph 307 0401. house. $175 a week plus expenses. Ph 0210 840 3750.

Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald RasE NZ Fresh Fruit & Vege 308-1095 hburton

MEDICAL SERVICES

JAMES Street. Until 2pm.

Signs out at 9am.

ACCOMMODATION,

LET OR LEASE

Nectarines 1kg $2.49 bag

Church Services

FLOAT hire - single, double and tandem. Reasonable rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Feed. Phone 308-3422 anytime.

GARAGE sale - Fairfield Road. Saturday, February 27, start 9am. Couch, microwave, steam mop and sundries.

Heaps of great stuff.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

PLANTS, PRODUCE

HIRE

TO RENT: Three bedroom house, Tinwald. Log burner.

Easy care, secure section.

Non-smokers, no dogs.

References requires. $300 per week. Phone after hours 303 7200.

TWO bedroom house, country location, five minutes from town. $300 per week, phone 027 299 7984.

Real Estate New Zealand

Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Have you lost your way in Life?

Join us this Sunday to discover HOPE for 2016.

Including Children’s church See you at cnr Cass & Cameron St’s Sundays @10.00am Everyone is welcome Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison Life 2 da Max (Kids Church)

Creche available Refreshments to follow 6pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

All welcome

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

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

TINWALD POOL

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

Saturday & Sunday: 12noon - 7pm

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 POST DELIVERY CENTRES 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Call us free on (0800 787 797).

INFORMATION CENTRES Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until ASHBURTON REST HOMES 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

OMMUNITY ERVICES METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS ART GALLERY Holidays 10am until 3pm. and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, 327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com unrestricted visiting.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

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HELPLINE SERVICES

10am Morning Service

Fear not for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

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

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

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 have a general practitioners note of referral.

857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

PHARMACIES Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team. from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 6pm - 8pm both evenings.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

EMERGENCY DENTIST

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GARAGE SALES

Tuesday March 1, 2016 7.30pm At the Turf

$6.00 per bale conventional Bale

Blueberries Plums 1kg Broccoli 2 for Whole Watermelon

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ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities

weekday afternoons.

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

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

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Ciprian Verdes. Small: Shannon Reeve.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Gabbie Muschamp. Small: Ref Vetlife.

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

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am F Mucking In 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Taste Of A Traveller 3 0 10am Come Dine With Me PGR 3 Noon Saturday Kitchen 1pm Gino’s Italian Escape 1:30 Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green 3 0 2pm Location, Location, Location 30 3pm Border Security 3 0 3:30 Coastwatch 3 0 4pm River Monsters PGR 3 0 5pm The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6pm One News 0

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:35 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:40 Miles From Tomorrowland 0 7:05 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:30 Gravity Falls 0 7:55 Pokemon XY 0 8:20 Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 0 8:45 Adventure Time 3 0 9:10 N Clarence 0 9:35 Mighty Med 10am Fresh 10:35 Step By Step 3 0 11:05 Full House 3 0 11:35 Young And Hungry PGR 0 12:05 The Fosters PGR 1:05 Pretty Little Liars PGR 0 2:05 The Flash PGR 0 3:05 Supergirl PGR 0 4pm The Amazing Race 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 0 6pm N 72 Hours 0 7pm M Confessions Of 7pm MasterChef Australia 0 A Shopaholic PGR 2009 8pm L Lotto 8:05 MasterChef Australia Romantic Comedy. Isla Fisher, Continued. 0 Hugh Dancy. 0 8:40 Coronation Street PGR Kal 9:05 M The Guardian AO takes his frustration out on 2006 Action. A high-school Nick; Kevin gives Maddie swimming champion with a another chance; Tyrone and troubled past enrols in the Maria grow closer. 0 Coast Guard, where a famous 10:40 F Crimson Field AO 3 rescue swimmer teaches Grace is threatened by Colonel him about loss, love and Ballard, an aggressively rude, self-sacrifice. Kevin Costner, war-scarred commander of a Ashton Kutcher. 0 Sikh regiment. 0 12:50 Happy Hour AO 3 0 1:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:50 L Football – English Premier League Southampton v Chelsea from St Mary’s Stadium in Southampton.

CHOICE TV 6am Restoration Man 7am Selling New York 7:30 Dear Genevieve 8am The Liquidator 8:30 World’s Wildest City 9am Monkey Thieves 9:30 Shane Delia’s Moorish Spice Journey 10am The Lazy Chef 10:30 Million Dollar Contractor 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Auction Kings Noon Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Restoration Man 2:30 Selling New York 3pm The Liquidator 3:30 Buying Hawaii 4pm This Old Thing 5pm Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 6pm Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 6:30 Baby Animals In The Wild 7:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 8:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 9:30 The Treasure Hunters 10:30 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 11pm NZ Hunter Adventures PGR

SUNDAY

Midnight The Jonathan Ross Show 1am Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 1:30 Buying Hawaii 2am Baby Animals In The Wild 3am The Treasure Hunters 4am Monkey Thieves 4:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 5:30 The Liquidator

11:55 M Music And Lyrics PGR 2007 Romantic Comedy.

Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore. 0 1:50 M Please Give AO 2010 Comedy Drama. 0 3:30 World’s Worst Holiday Horrors PGR 3 0 4:20 Jeremy Kyle USA PGR 3 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation An in-depth weekly local current affairs show.

10:30 Baggage PGR 3 11am Million Dollar Listing – NY PGR 3 Ryan shoots a movie-style trailer to highlight an important listing; Fredrik represents a Brooklyn developer.

11:55 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3 (Part 1) 12:55 America’s Next Top Model – Guys And Girls PGR 3 0 1:50 F Save With Jamie 3 2:50 The House That £100k Built 0 4pm Grand Designs Australia 3 0 5pm Outdoors With Geoff 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade PGR 3 1989 Adventure. In 1938, when Indiana receives word that his archaeologist father, Professor Henry Jones, has disappeared on a quest for the Holy Grail, he sets out to find him. 0 9:30 M Lord Of War AO 2005 Action Adventure. True story of a gunrunner who supplied dictators and outran the law for nearly 20 years. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 8:25 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 8:50 Beyblade – Metal Fury 3 Animated series in which teen heroes face an evil organisation vying for world domination.

9:15 Power Rangers – Dino Charge 9:40 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 5pm Drake And Josh 3 5:30 Mr Young 3 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm Bullseye PGR (Starting Today) 3 Eight contestants compete in a series of extreme physical challenges in which they literally aim themselves at the target. 0 8pm The Biggest Loser Australia 3 9:50 Super City AO 3 10:20 Just Shoot Me! PGR 3 0 10:45 Punk’d AO 3

6am Home Shopping Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 The Taste 3 The contestants must create any dish they want to, and pair it with a wine of their choice.

3:30 The Animal File PGR 3 The team travels to Wellington Zoo to treat a Sumatran tiger with a toothache; back at the Wildbase Hospital, an aggressive harrier hawk arrives with a badly broken wing.

4pm Marco Pierre White’s Kitchen Wars 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Animal Airport 6:30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities

Midnight Blue Bloods AO 1am Supersize – I Lost Weight But Lost My Husband! AO 3 0 1:55 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 3 5:30 Charles Stanley 3

11:10 Infomercials

11:50 Home Shopping

7pm University Challenge The final. 0 7:30 Grantchester PGR 3 8:35 Weekend Murders – Partners In Crime PGR In 1952, husband and wife Tommy and Tuppence tumble into an intriguing and unsettling mystery. Based on the stories by Agatha Christie. 0 9:50 Rugby – Super Rugby Crusaders v Chiefs.

MAORI TV

8am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Blues v Highlanders.

From Eden Park.

8:30 World Rugby A show reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

8:55 L Rugby – Six Nations Wales v France.

11am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Blues v Highlanders. From Eden Park in Auckland.

1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Brumbies v Hurricanes. From Canberra Stadium.

3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Cheetahs v Jaguares. From Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein.

5pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Sunwolves v Lions. From Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo.

7:15 L Rugby – Super Rugby Crusaders v Chiefs.

From AMI Stadium in Christchurch.

9:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Reds.

From ANZ Stadium in Sydney.

11:50 L Rugby – Super Rugby Force v Rebels. From nib Stadium in Perth. 2am L Rugby – Super Rugby Kings v Sharks. From Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. 4:10 L Rugby – Super Rugby Stormers v Bulls. From Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.

SKY SPORT 2

6am Basketball – NBL (Replay) Wildcats v Hawks. 8am Football – A-League (Highlights) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne City.

8:30 L Rugby League – Super League Hull Kingston Rovers v St Helens. 11:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Hull FC v Castleford Tigers. Noon Motorsport – FIM SuperEnduro World SUNDAY Indiana Jones and the Last Weekend Murders – Partners in Championship (Highlights) 12:30 Cricket – New Zealand Midnight Te Kaea 3 2 Crusade , 7pm on TV3 Crime, 8:35pm on Prime Awards (Replay) 1:30 Sky Sport 12:35 Closedown News 2pm The Cricket Show 2:15 L Motorsport – World THE BOX DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Superbikes Superpole and Race 6am The Simpsons Super 6:40 Being John Malkovich MLS 6:55 Bafta: A Life In Pictures 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG One. 6pm Rugby League – Super Saturday PG 8:30 Whose Line 1999 Comedy. John Malkovich, – Billy Connolly PG 2012 6:30 MythBusters PG Trail Blazers.

League (Replay) Hull Kingston Rovers Is It Anyway? US PG 8:55 Pawn John Cusack. 8:30 The Making Documentary. 7:25 Annabelle 7:30 MythBusters PG Exploding v St Helens.

Stars PG 9:20 Survivor – Heroes Of Atonement PG 8:45 Starsky 16VC 2014 Horror. Annabelle Wallis, Water Heater. 8:30 Tribe Alive! PG 8pm Fox Sports News v Villains PG 10:10 Survivor – And Hutch MVL 2004 Comedy.

Ward Horton. 9am The Gambler 9:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier 8:30 Rugby League – Super Nicaragua PG 11am Survivor Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, League (Highlights) Hull Kingston 16VL 2015 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, M 10:20 Running Wild With – Nicaragua PG 11:50 Survivor Vince Vaughn. 10:25 Boogie Nights Rovers v St Helens.

Brie Larson. 10:50 Horrible Bear Grylls M 11:15 Treehouse – Nicaragua PG 12:40 The 18VLS 1997 Drama. Mark Wahlberg, Bosses 2 16VLS 2014 Comedy.

Masters PG 12:10 Gold Rush PG 9pm The Cricket Show (Highlights) Woodsmen PG 1:30 RBT MC Julianne Moore. 1pm Hulk MV 2003 Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis.

1:05 Dual Survival M 2pm Mega 9:30 Fox Sports News 2pm Crash Investigation Unit Adventure. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly. 10pm Golf – Australian Women’s 12:35 Predestination MVLS 2014 Moves PG 2:55 Close Encounters M 2:25 Hardcore Pawn PGL 3:15 Team America – World Sci-fi. Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook.

PG 3:20 Close Encounters Masters (Highlights) Round Three.

2:50 Parking Wars PGL 3:40 Law Police 16VLS 2004 Animated Action.

2:10 The Possession Of PG 3:50 Railroad Alaska 10:30 Motorsport – FIM Voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Michael King 16VLS 2014 Horror.

PG 4:45 Auction Hunters PG And Order – UK MV 4:30 The SuperEnduro World Championship Kristen Miller. 4:50 Panic Room 5:10 Auction Hunters PG 5:40 How Shane Johnson. 3:35 After The Simpsons Super Saturday PG (Highlights) 7:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The Universe Works PG 6:35 Gold Dark MVLSC 2013 Sci-fi. James D’Arcy, 16V 2002 Thriller. Jodie Foster, 11pm World Rugby 11:30 Rugby Forest Whitaker. 6:40 Eternal US PG 8pm Pawn Stars PG Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Sophie Lowe. 5:20 Reach Me MVL – Super Rugby (Highlights) Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind MLS Crusaders v Chiefs.

8:30 Hardcore Pawn PGL 9pm Call 8:30 Redwood Kings PG 9:30 Epic 2014 Drama. Sylvester Stallone, 2004 Drama. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet. SUNDAY Kyra Sedgwick. 6:50 Clown 16VL Of The Wildman PG 9:30 The Bar Builds PG 10:30 Auction 8:30 Atonement MVLS 2007 Drama.

2013 Horror. Eli Roth, Andy Powers.

Woodsmen PG 10:30 RBT MC Hunters PG 11pm Pandamonium Midnight Football – A-League Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy.

8:30 Interstellar ML 2014 Sci-fi.

11pm Crash Investigation Unit M PG (Replay) Adelaide United v Brisbane 10:30 Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 11:20 Inbetweeners 2 16LS 2014 11:30 Chosen MVL SUNDAY Roar. 2am Golf – Australian Action.

Comedy.

SUNDAY Midnight Running Wild With Women’s Masters (Highlights) Bear Grylls M 12:55 Aeroplane 12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Chosen SUNDAY SUNDAY Round Three. 2:45 Rugby – Super Repo PG 1:50 Flying Wild Alaska MVL 4am Whose Line Is It 12:55 The Mystery Cruise M 2013 12:50 The Constant Gardener MVLS Rugby (Highlights) Crusaders v PG 2:45 Auction Hunters PG Anyway? US PG 4:25 Pawn Stars Crime. 2:15 After The Dark MVLSC 2005 Drama. 2:55 Team America Chiefs. 3:15 L Rugby – Six 3:15 Dirty Jobs PG 4:10 Flying PG 4:50 Hardcore Pawn PGL 2013 Sci-fi. 4am Reach Me MVL – World Police 16VLS 2004 Animated Nations Italy v Scotland. 5:40 L 5:15 Survivor – Heroes v Villains Wild Alaska PG 5:05 MythBusters 2014 Drama. 5:30 The Mystery Action. 4:30 Panic Room 16V 2002 Rugby – Six Nations England v PG PG Cruise M 2013 Crime.

Thriller.

Ireland.

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 8am Pukana 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Pumanawa Celebrating Maori In Business 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 10:30 Toku Reo 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Rugby – French Top 14 2:30 Friday Night Lights PGR 3 3:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 4pm Whawhai 3 4:30 Get Your Fish On PGR (Starting

Today) 3 Mandy teams up with Princess Wirihana to compete against Tanerau Latimer and Richmond Hollis for the longest kingfish at Alderman Islands. 5pm The Prophets 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 Patapatai 3 7pm The Zoo 7:30 M Vice Versa PGR 3 1988 Family Comedy. 9:20 M Das Boot AO 3 1981 Drama.

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

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FOUR

6am Tux Wonder Dogs 3 0 6:25 The Fishing Show 3 0 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 3 0 9am How To Look At A Painting PGR 3 0 9:30 Going, Going, Gone 3 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 3 2 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Unsung Heroes 3 0 11:55 The Great Bear Stakeout PGR 3 (Part 2) 0 12:55 Undercover Boss 3 0 1:55 The Restoration Man 3 0 2:55 Dynamo – Magician Impossible AO 3 0 3:55 Piha Rescue 3 0 4:25 Fishy Business 0 4:55 F Inside The Animal Mind 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 Our First Home When a council bomb is dropped, and a clash of interests has one family in tears, the teams must re-examine the likelihood of completion this week. 0 8:30 Blindspot AO A hazardous app designed to track government vehicles must be taken down.

0 9:25 Cuffs AO 0 10:40 The Art Of Recovery 0

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Sofia The First 3 0 6:50 The Octonauts 3 0 7:10 The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:35 Get Ace 3 0 8am What Now Children’s entertainment show.

10am Jessie 3 Zuri must find a way to get back a toy Jessie passed on to her after she trades it to a toy collector. 0 10:50 Dr Ken PGR 3 Dr Ken is a brilliant physician, but has no bedside manner whatsoever. 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 2:30 A To Z PGR 0 3pm F Hot In Cleveland PGR Luke Perry. 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Thunderbirds Are Go 3 0 6:30 The Barefoot Bandits Rhys Darby. 0 7pm The Simpsons PGR 0 7:30 Tricked PGR 0 8:30 M Bruce Almighty ML 3 2003 Comedy.

When a TV reporter rages against God after a bad day he is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.

Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston. 0 10:25 Filthy Rich AO 3 0

6am Life TV 3 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 3 8:30 Turning Point 3 9am Both Worlds 3 0 9:25 Re-Think 9:55 The Nation 0 10:55 On The Grill 3 0 11:20 On The Grill 3 11:45 Reality Trip PGR 3 0 12:45 World Jet Boat Expeditions – Rivers Of Oz 1:45 Motorsport – Ashley Forest The first Ashley Forest Rally Sprint was held in 1979. Now the tradition continues as competitors arrive in the small town of Rangiora for the annual race up and down Mount Grey Road.

2:30 Motorsport – Formula Drift US 3pm Motorsport – SsangYong Racing Series 4pm Motorsport – BNT V8 Touring Cars 5pm Ice Road Truckers (Starting Today) 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm House Rules AO 0 8:30 N The Night Manager AO When hotel manager Jonathan Pine receives a plea for help from a wellconnected guest, his actions draw him into the world of a businessman and arms dealer. 0 9:30 N Live At The Apollo AO 0 10:35 M Happy Face Killer PGR 2014 Crime Thriller. 0

11:40 F Cilla PGR 3 0 12:40 Attitude 3 0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae PGR 2 3:35 Infomercials

12:25 Arrow AO 3 0 2:05 Ten 7 Summer PGR 3 2:30 Infomercials 3am Jeremy Kyle AO 3 3:55 Surviving Jack PGR 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Secret Life Of The American Teenager PGR 3 5:30 Infomercials

12:25 Infomercials 11:40 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV

CHOICE TV 6am IFish 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 8am Buying Hawaii 8:30 Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 9am The Liquidator 9:30 Million Dollar Critic With Giles Coren 10:30 This Old Thing 11:30 Baby Animals In The Wild 12:30 Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 1:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 2:30 Jonathan Phang’s Gourmet Trains 3:30 Empire 5pm Beyond River Cottage 5:30 Jerusalem On A Plate 6:30 The Living Room AO 7:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 8:30 Midnight In Paris AO Engaged couple Gil (Owen Wilson) and Inez (Rachel McAdams) are on holidays in Paris with her parents. They are officially in love, but maybe what Gil really loves is Paris in the springtime.

10:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO 11:30 M Dan In Real Life PGS 2007 Comedy. Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook.

MONDAY

1:30 Jonathan Phang’s Gourmet Trains 2:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 3:30 Empire 5am Jerusalem On A Plate

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Strawberry Shortcake 3 7:20 Care Bears 3 7:45 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 7:55 Tree Fu Tom 3 8:40 Julius Jr 3 9:05 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm The Simpsons 3 On a trip to Dizzneeland, the Simpsons board the wrong ride, and are transported through the galaxy to Kang and Kodos’s home planet. 0 7:30 The Big Adventure 3 8:30 M Into The Blue AO 3 2005 Action. Jessica Alba, Paul Walker. 0 10:45 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

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

Noon MythBusters PGR 3 The MythBusters find out whether people should really dive for the doorway in an earthquake.

1:05 Shearing Gang PGR 3 Series about New Zealand shearing gangs.

1:35 MasterChef Junior USA 3 The young chefs receive a mystery box with ingredients children usually dislike, from kidneys, liver and sardines to Brussels sprouts and blue cheese.

2:30 Wild Coasts 3 3:30 Danger Beach PGR 3 4pm Deal Or No Deal 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Life 3 7pm Storage Wars PGR 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 0 8:30 Unforgotten AO Cassie and Sunny visit Father Robert Greaves, who remembers Jimmy fondly, but is unable to help identify the ‘Jo-Jo’, who appears to have given Jimmy the diary. 0 9:35 Elementary PGR 0 10:30 Limitless PGR 3 0

6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Sunwolves v Lions. From Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Crusaders v Chiefs. From AMI Stadium in Christchurch.

10:30 Cycling – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite (Highlights) 11am Sky Sport News 11:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Catalans Dragons v Leeds Rhinos.

Noon L Cricket – Women’s T20 International White Ferns v Australia.

3:30 L Cricket – Island Of Origin T20 North Island v South Island.

6:30 Cricket – Women’s T20 International (Highlights) White Ferns v Australia.

7pm The Cricket Show 7:30 Fox Sports News 8pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Crusaders v Chiefs. From AMI Stadium in Christchurch.

8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Football – ASB Premiership (Replay) Auckland City v WaiBOP United. From Kiwitea Street, Auckland.

11:30 What Remains AO 3 When a suspect makes a confession about Melissa’s death, Len doubts the outcome, and finds it hard to let go, going to extreme lengths to solve the case before it is too late.

12:40 Home Shopping

11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Kings v Sharks.

1:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) Final, Game Two. 3:30 Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights) 4am Ice Hockey – NHL (Replay) Colorado Avalanche v Detroit Red Wings.

MAORI TV 10am The Journey To Success 3 10:30 Te Mana O Te Moana 11:30 Waka Huia 3 12:30 Taniwha Rau 3 1:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 2:30 Poitukohu – Nga Kura Tuarua 3:30 Rugby – French Top 14 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Tangata Taumata Rau PGR 7pm Moko Aotearoa 7:30 The Big Sing Epsom Girls’

THE BOX 6:05 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 6:55 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 7:45 Survivor – Nicaragua PG 8:35 Parking Wars PGL 9:25 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:40 SmackDown! MC 5:25 RBT MC 5:55 Crash Investigation Unit M 6:20 Call Of The Wildman PG 6:45 The Woodsmen PG 7:35 Covert Affairs MV 8:30 NCIS MV Part 1.

9:30 NCIS MV Part 2.

10:30 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 11:30 Covert Affairs MV

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 3:05 NCIS MV Part 1. 3:55 NCIS MV (Part 2) 4:45 Call Of The Wildman PG 5:10 Covert Affairs MV

SKY SPORT 2 Grammar School.

8pm Find Me A Maori Bride 3 8:30 M I Wish AO 2011 Drama.

Having to live apart due to their parents’ separation, a sixth-grader and his younger brother devise a complicated plan to reunite their family. Kôki Maeda, Ôshirô Maeda, Hiroshi Abe. 10:35 Te Kaea 3 2 11:05 Karanga – The First Voice 3 11:35 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 MythBusters PG Pirates 2! 7:30 MythBusters PG The A-Team Special. 8:30 Gold Rush PG 9:25 Treehouse Masters PG 10:20 Redwood Kings PG South Dakota Shoot Out. 11:15 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 12:10 Alaska – Battle On The Bay PG 1:05 Inventions That Rocked The World PG 2pm Railroad Alaska PG 2:55 Railroad Alaska PG 3:50 Railroad Alaska PG 4:45 Rebel Gold PG 5:40 Epic Bar Builds PG 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 Inventions That Rocked The World PG 8:30 Alien Mysteries PG 9:30 Mega Moves PG 10:30 Redwood Kings PG 11:30 Wondernesia PG

MONDAY

Bruce Almighty 8:30pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:50 Interstellar ML 2014 Scifi. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway.

9:35 Inbetweeners 2 16LS 2014 Comedy. James Buckley, Joe Thomas.

11:10 Clown 16VL 2013 Horror.

Eli Roth, Andy Powers. 12:50 The Mystery Cruise M 2013 Crime.

Gail O’Grady, Michelle Harrison.

2:15 Fury 16VL 2014 Action War. Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf. 4:30 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action.

Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. 6:20 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes MVL 2014 Action. Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis. 8:30 The Gunman 16VL 2015 Action. Sean Penn, Idris Elba.

10:30 Sex Tape 16LSC 2014 Comedy.

Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz.

MONDAY

12:05 The Broken Shore 16VLSC 2013 Thriller. Don Hany, Midnight Auction Hunters PG 12:30 MythBusters PG 1:25 Flying Claudia Karvan. 1:50 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action.

Wild Alaska PG 2:20 Auction Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. 3:40 Dawn Hunters PG 2:45 Destroyed In Of The Planet Of The Apes MVL Seconds PG 3:15 Flying Wild 2014 Action. 5:50 The Gunman Alaska PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 16VL 2015 Action.

5:05 MythBusters PG

The Night Manager 8:30pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 6:20 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind MLS 2004 Drama. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet.

8:05 Atonement MVLS 2007 Drama.

Kiera Knightley, James McAvoy.

10:05 The Constant Gardener MVLS 2005 Drama. Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz. 12:10 The Bourne Identity MVL 2002 Thriller.

Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen. 2:05 The Bourne Supremacy MVL 2004 Action. Matt Damon, Franka Potente.

3:50 The Bourne Ultimatum MV 2007 Action. Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles. 5:45 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button MLS 2008 Drama. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett. 8:30 Gladiator MV 2000 Action. 11:05 Master And Commander – The Far Side Of The World MV 2003 Action.

MONDAY

1:25 American Dreamz MLS 2006 Comedy. 3:10 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button MLS 2008 Drama. 5:55 Gladiator MV 2000 Action.

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

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7:50 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Crusaders v Chiefs.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Blues v Highlanders.

9am Pro Kabaddi League 9:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Final, Game One. 10am Sky Sport News 10:30 Rugby League – UK Super League (Highlights) Dragons v Leeds. 11am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Waratahs v Reds. 1pm Sailing – America’s Cup World Series (Replay) Oman. 2:30 Motorsport – FIM SuperEnduro World Championship (Highlights) 3:10 L Motorsport – World Superbikes Supersport and Race Two. 6pm UFC Fight Night (Replay) Bisping v Mousasi.

8pm Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Hull Kingston Rovers v St Helens.

8:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Catalans Dragons v Leeds Rhinos.

9pm Cycling – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite (Highlights) 9:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) Breakers v United.

11:30 Pro Kabaddi League (Highlights)

MONDAY

Midnight UFC Fight Night (Replay) Bisping v Mousasi. 2am Champions League Weekly 2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Crusaders v Chiefs. 4:30 Cricket – International Women’s (Highlights) New Zealand v Australia. 5am Football – A-League (Highlights) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne City. 5:30 Golf – Australian Women’s Masters (Highlights) Round Four.

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CARTER, Simon Eric – Died tragically as the result of a motorbike accident on February 21, 2016, aged 36 years. Adored husband of Jade. Treasured son of Ken and Pauline. Dearly loved brother and brother in law of Sarah and Aaron and adored uncle of Caitlyn and Hazel.

Dearly loved and missed by all his family and friends in Australia and New Zealand.

Funeral will be held in Melbourne on Monday.

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McKINSTRY, Phyllis Elizabeth – The McKinstry families would like to thank you for the love and support you demonstrated in so many ways during our darkest times and during Phyllis's long battle with illness. Special thanks to the staff at the hospital wing of Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement.

CARTER, Simon Eric – Tragically taken from us on February 21, 2016 as the result of a motorbike accident in Melbourne - aged 36.

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TODAY: Fine, high cloud.

Northwest, evening southerly.

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NZ Situation

Wind km/h less than 30 fine

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Saturday, 27 February 2016

A warm moist airmass from the northwest lies over the North orth Island tomorrow and a front approaches the far south. The front moves over most of the country on Monday followed by a ridge.

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Canterbury Plains TODAY

TODAY

FZL: Above 3000m

Rain about the divide clearing from the south during the morning and afternoon.

Fine with high cloud further east.

Wind at 1000m: Gale NW, gusting 90 km/h in exposed places, easing. Wind at 2000m: Severe gale W 95 km/h easing.

Fine with high cloud at times. Northwest winds, changing southerly in the evening.

TOMORROW Areas of morning cloud, otherwise fine.

Northerlies developing.

TOMORROW

MONDAY

FZL: Above 3000m

Areas of morning cloud, otherwise fine.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to gale, gusting 90 km/h in exposed places. Wind at 2000m: NW rising to severe gale 95 km/h.

A few showers developing in the morning with a change to cooler southerlies.

TUESDAY

MONDAY

Showers clearing leaving cloudy periods.

Southwesterlies dying out.

A few showers developing. Severe gale NW changing lighter SW.

WEDNESDAY

Showers clearing leaving cloudy periods.

Southwesterlies easing.

TUESDAY

Mainly fine. Light winds.

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Set 12:01 pm Rise 10:58 pm

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Set 12:58 pm Rise 11:31 pm

First quarter

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Timaru

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Queenstown

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:10 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 247.4 Nth Ashburton at 12:30 pm, yesterday

4.67

Sth Ashburton at 2:10 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 12:40 pm, yesterday

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NZ Today

Canterbury High Country

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 28.7 31.2 Max to 4pm 16.4 Minimum 15.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm February to date 5.6 Avg Feb to date 42 2016 to date 106.8 100 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 41 At 4pm Strongest gust N 57 Time of gust 3:34pm

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ACROSS 1. Street march is picturesquely described if it’s about population study (11) 6. Shroud alternately used for carrying coal (3) 8. A nut is able to take exercises first (5) 10. The Americans won’t have me on such a radio show (9) 11. He had taken one in and hurried on his way (4) 12. Those like Ananias are from Israel, not the East (5) 13. Makes complete atonement with one penny tax, see? (8) 16. Lets her provide one with a place of refuge (7) 17. Frozen dew comes back in the mire (4) 18. Has lain around in indigo (4) 19. It could be March when it’s brought to room temperature (7) 21. How lovely it may be abroad with the French (8) 23. North America is a setback for one coming from the East (5) 26. Some got iciness of the ears (4) 27. They get the jerks who are out looking for birds (9) 28. Joint account in bank?

Let’s see (5) 29. It’s not a first-class dairy, and it won’t stock alcohol (3)

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9. The upper part of music, on which it’s being broadcast (3) 13. Prized possession may shortly be a teg (3-4) 14. Last herb in a glass of beer that can be drunk (7) 15. If dissatisfied, cannot melt into it (10) 19. On 4th March Sybil got the boat (7) 20. It’s wonderful to be French and take a patent out (7) 22. It’s difficult to be left in it without help (5) 24. Do wrong to make it the twenty-first letter in Hebrew (3) 25. Set it at intervals where they breed horses (4)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 7. Wicket-keepers 8. Settlements 12. Oberon 14. Nicely 16. Bottle 18. Myrtle 19. Watchstraps 23. Pepperand-salt Down 1. Kiss 2. Skit 3. Stolen 4. Sermon 5. Spun 6. Errs 9. Electra 10. Treetop 11. Byre 12. Orbs 13. Oil 15. Ivy 17. Exhort 18. Mating 19. Whet 20. Tape 21. Also 22. Sale

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DOWN 1. Fakes (7) 2. Easily cracked or snapped (7) 3. Regal (5) 4. After the expected time (7) 5. Restrict (5) 6. Not as many (5) 9. Talk about the past (9) 14. Obstruction (7) 15. Toxic (7) 16. Listen (7) 19. Value (5) 20. Harden (5) 21. Quick (5)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Maybe it’s because you woke up happy or because the work before you isn’t as taxing as it was earlier this week. Amazing selfcontrol is part of the package for you today.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): There are two kinds of problems: yours and theirs. Knowing the difference between the two and only acting to solve your own will simplify your life and make theirs better, too.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Insecurity is dreary. That’s one more reason to make a full-on, all-in commitment to what you’re doing, saying, performing, cooking, wearing, dancing, buying and living.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Everything you own, have and cherish requires maintenance to some degree. Relationships require the most right now.

Tune it up by plotting some fun together.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Don’t worry; you won’t be showered with rewards and goodness until you feel ready for and worthy of such bounty. After all, the Universe doesn’t wish to embarrass you by giving you more than you can comfortably handle.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Instead of being irritated by that person who moves much more slowly than you do, consider that there is much to be learned and observed at the speed of molasses.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Is it too much to ask the world to wow you? The one who seeks your approval won’t get it nearly as quickly as the one who doesn’t seem to need or want it at all.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You can’t tell what’s in front of or behind the other people. Do “you,” without obsessing about how they’ll take it. Their reactions will have very little to do with your stimulus anyway. Have fun with this.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You have to give to get, and you’re more than willing to be generous.

However, there’s nothing wrong with checking out the payoff history of a venture before you take out your wallet or emotional equivalent thereof.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Just because you love someone doesn’t always mean that the person’s choices are relevant to yours. Examine this carefully now. You may be reacting to something that really doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) involve you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Those who navigate life with street smarts and social savvy are more likely to make moves you’d like to follow than those with only an abundance of theoretical knowledge.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Maybe the other person isn’t technically “making” you happy, but it sure is a lot easier to choose happiness when this person is buzzing around you, all smiles and affection!

OPEN HOMES SATURDAY 27TH FEBRUARY 23 Philip Street, Ashburton

9:30 - 10:00am

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108 Smithfield Road, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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69 Racecourse Avenue, Methven

10:00 - 10:30am

2

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11 Sudbury Street, Ashburton

10:00 - 10:30am

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1

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11 Glassey Drive, Ashburton

**OPEN HOME CANCELLED**

6 Catherine Street, Tinwald

10:30 - 11:00am

3

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19 Wayne Place, Methven

10:30 - 11:00am

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79 Forest Drive, Methven

11:00 - 11:30am

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92 Belt Road, Ashburton

10:45 - 11:15am

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7 Millstream Lane, Ashburton

**OPEN HOME CANCELLED**

127 Cameron Street, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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19 Coniston Drive, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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73B Spaxton Street, Methven

11:00 - 11:45am

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42 Charlesworth Drive, Ashburton

**OPEN HOME CANCELLED**

17 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

11:30 - 12:00pm

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27 Grey Street, Ashburton

12:15 - 12:45pm

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81 Harland Street, Tinwald

12:15 - 12:45pm

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101 McMurdo Street, Tinwald

12:15 - 12:45pm

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37 Hanrahan Street, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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5 Carters Road, Ashburton

12:30 - 1:00pm

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2 Avalon Grove, Ashburton

1:30 - 2:00pm

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2 Westpark Close, Ashburton

1:00 - 1:30pm

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Cawton Grove, Tinwald

2:00 - 2:30pm

SUNDAY 28TH FEBRUARY

5 Cherry Lane, Tinwald

Sections

**OPEN HOME CANCELLED**

10 Mason Place, Ashburton

2:00 - 2:30pm

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22 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

12:30 - 1:00pm

3

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42 Mackie Street, Rakaia

3:30 - 4:00pm

3

1

2

30 Dunford Street, Rakaia

4:15 - 4:45pm

3

1

2

92 Belt Road, Ashburton

19 Coniston Drive, Ashburton

* Private Section: * 4 double, 1 single bedrooms * 2 living areas * 2 toilets * Drive through double garage For Sale POA

Open Home Saturday 10:45am - 11:15am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21061

10 Mason Place, Ashburton

* 3 bedrooms, bath and shower, 2WC * Heat pump - double glazed throughout. * Updated kitchen, open plan dining and living * Double garaging with internal access Offers over $448,000 Open Home Sunday 2:00pm - 2:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21088

127 Cameron Street, Ashburton Billy Thomas on Cameron

Undoubtedly one of Ashburton’s more admired homes. Only a short stroll to the Domain, cafes and restaurants. Resonating character and charm this picturesque home is embraced within it’s beautiful garden. Acquiring this home really is a once-in-alifetime opportunity. This is a must view for anyone seeking a family home in a great location. Through its life it has been a true family home and had plenty of love and attention and been very well maintained and modernised for today’s busy family lifestyle. Classic and elegant, this home is positioned on a 1035sqm (approx.) of prime inner-west land. From the moment you step foot on this most prestigious property you will be spellbound by the grounds with its large established gardens.

17 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

5 Carters Road, Ashburton

Offers over $399,000

Deadline sale closing March 24th 2016 at 4:00pm Open Home Sunday 12:30pm - 1:00pm

1013sqm with a good family Stonewood home. Master bedroom with en suite, flat floor shower and walk in wardrobe. Two generous double bedrooms and a single bedroom/study. Entertainers kitchen with bifold doors to a courtyard with a shade sail.

For Sale POA

17 Buchanan Place is a highly sought after location and offers a lovely 3 double bedroom, 2 storey home on a secure easy care section. The Master Bedroom is equipped with an en suite and a view to enjoy.

Open Home Saturday 11:00am - 11:30am

Open Home Saturday 11:30am - 12:00pm

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21076

122F Tarbottons Road, Tinwald

Nestled in the wonderful kelburn estate, this four bedroom home is full of the wow factor. From the Morantz surround system which lets you control the music from your phone or tablet to the auto cleaning oven, heat pump, auto sensor lights in the hallway and toilet.

Auction 2nd April 2016 at 11:00am On Site Open Home Sunday 2:45pm - 3:15pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21129

Offers over $560,000 Saturday 11:00am - 11:30am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21119 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21086

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4 bedrooms Master with large ensuite Storage galore Modernised kitchen Separate lounges x2 with compliant log fires

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21122

22 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

30 Dunford Street, Rakaia

Deadline sale closing 9th March 2016 at 3:30pm Open Home Sunday 3:00pm - 3:30pm

For Sale $375,000 Open Home Sunday 4:15pm - 4:45pm

Private and sunny family home in a popular Westside Cul-de-sac. Discerning buyer will appreciate quality. 3 bedrooms, large lounge, u/floor heating, 2 heat pumps, fire, fibre optic cabling.

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21131

Superbly situated in a quiet street yet located just a short walk from the center of Rakaia is this wonderful property that presents a brilliant opportunity to secure a very nice well-presented Family home.

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21040