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Hilton’s dad had to calm son

Paris Hilton’s father Rick was reportedly called in by police to help calm his son Conrad during his recent arrest. The reality TV star’s brother was taken into custody after he allegedly broke a restraining order keeping him away from his former girlfriend, Hunter Salomon, the daughter of Paris’ sex tape partner Rick Salomon. Law enforcement sources tell editors at celebrity site TMZ that during his arrest, Conrad was so agitated that cops called in Rick, who accompanied police officers into the building and helped calm his son down. The website reports that Conrad, 21, has been charged with trespassing.

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Huge estate for sale One of the world’s largest private landholdings, a series of cattle stations in Australia that is larger in size than Scotland, is to be sold with an estimated price tag of $398 million. The family-owned estate across three states and the Northern Territory was founded in the 1890s

by Sir Sidney Kidman (left), Australia’s so-called “cattle king”. Allegedly a distant relation of actress Nicole Kidman, Sir Sidney set out penniless from his home as a 13-year-old in South Australia with a one-eyed horse and built a pastoral empire that now covers 100,000sq km. The remote estate, owned by the beef baron’s descendants, is the largest private non-state and non-monarchical stretch of land in the world. It includes 11 cattle stations across the country and about 155,000 cattle as well as the 23,000sq km Anna Creek Station, the world’s largest standalone cattle property. Only about 150 people are thought to live in the territory. The sale has attracted interest from more than 30 bidders across the world from China, the United States, Britain, Switzerland and Canada.

Ricky Martin slams Trump Singer and The Voice star Ricky Martin has slammed Donald Trump’s “ignorance” following the tycoon’s remarks about Mexicans. “There’s much hatred and ignorance in your heart @realDonaldTrump #LatinosUnidos,” Martin tweeted yesterday. Trump made his ill-advised remarks about immigration during his presidential campaign launch. The tycoon told supporters that America has become a “dumping ground” for Mexico’s problems. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best ... They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us...”

A multi-tasking dad A man holding a baby made a great barehanded catch over the glove of Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez on Wednesday (NZ time), prompting a replay review. Cubs right-hander Jason Hammel fouled off a pitch from Zack Greinke. Gonzalez chased the pop-up and reached over the rolled-up tarp while trying to make a play, but the man reached out and grabbed the ball with his right hand while carrying a baby sucking on a bottle in his left arm. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly then came out of the dugout and argued for fan interference.

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Highest-paid couples Taylor Swift and her latest beau DJ Calvin Harris have taken Jay Z and Beyonce’s crowns as the music world’s highest-paid celebrity couple, according to Forbes.

The Blank Space singer and her Scottish hitmaker boyfriend only recently confirmed their romance, but they are already beating out the hip-hop super-couple on the money list, making a combined total of $US146 million ($NZ212 million) in 2014, according to editors at the finance magazine. Beyonce and Jay Z, who topped the list last year, drop to second place with a $US110.5 million ($NZ160.52 million) fortune. Rounding out the top three on the new rich couples list are country stars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, who earned $US57 million (SNZ82.8 million) together over the past year.

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Post snow clean up ‘pretty half-hearted’

BY SUE NEWMAN

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The post-snow clean up job in Methven has been, at best, pretty half-hearted says resident Rusty McLennan.

While roads were cleared quickly after the snow finished falling last Thursday, Mr McLennan is concerned that many footpaths in the village were not cleared properly and have been left with a shallow coating of snow that has quickly turned to ice. Other footpaths have not been cleared, he said.

In both cases, residents are preferring to walk on the road rather than risk falling on the icy surface and he’s concerned at the potential for accidents.

“One of those footpaths is on a route to the primary school and you can’t use it. If it had only been for a couple of days that would be okay but it’s been a week, I’ve seen several people fall over this week,” he said.

In addition to icy or uncleared footpaths, the road clearing exercise has left large piles of snow along street verges that makes them impossible to use and these will take weeks to melt, Mr McLennan said.

It’s unlikely the Ashburton District Council will make another foray into Methven on a footpath clearing exercise said contracts manager Brian Fauth.

“They might be a little icy still but they’ve been cleared.

We don’t intend to truck away all of the snow, it’s just too expensive to do this,” he said.

Not every footpath had been cleared; the council had targeted higher use areas to ensure people were able to walk around the village in safety, Mr Fauth said.

“If it becomes unmanageable from the point of view of people slipping over we’d have to take another look at it, but we believe they are passable.”

Rusty McLennan is fed up with the post-snow clean up job on Methven’s footpaths that he says have left some like an ice skating rink while others are still impassable because of uncleared snow.

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■ ASHBURTON HOSPITAL

More junior doctors coming

BY CAITLIN PORTER

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There are plans to have more junior doctors at Ashburton Hospital, with the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) looking to replace six positions with eight new roles.

The news follow moves to pull Ashburton from the Rural Health Services umbrella and become a separate entity.

The proposal, which is still being consulted on, would retain five medical specialists while disestablishing six medical officer positons.

Eight new registered medical officer positons, including three

registrars, would be established, the board confirmed yesterday.

Board general manager for people and capability Michael Frampton said the proposal would make available more doctors, making workloads more manageable, reducing hours worked and the frequency of being on call.

Ashburton had always had a mix of senior doctors, and doctors in training. Doctors in training positions were necessary to give those doctors a chance to experience rural medicine, he said.

“We hope to rotate these doctors in primary care to help

strengthen services in this area and to hopefully help trainees gain a wider perspective of working in rural general practices,” Mr Frampton said.

New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association national secretary Dr Deborah Powell, whose organisation represents junior doctors, said the proposed changes were exciting for patient care in Ashburton.

“The proposed return of resident doctors to Ashburton is, in our view, a great step forward both for the ongoing training and therefore supply of appropriately trained doctors for rural communities, but for the patients

who will of course benefit from care,” Dr Powell said.

Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Ian Powell said the proposed change would increase second year house surgeons and see registrars undertake specialist training in rural hospital medicine.

“This is a new growing specialty and the Medical Council is encouraging smaller community hospitals to take up these training positions, Ashburton is well placed for this move,” Mr Powell said.

Senior doctors at the hospital were working hard and were

very busy, due to increased health needs in the district, he said.

Ashburton GP spokeswoman Dr Charlotte Cox said there had been more community demand for health care in previous years, even as some hospital services closed.

GPs had a good relationship with the hospital’s senior medical officers and were always concerned when the squeeze was put on a pressurised service.

Methven GP and Pegasus Health Board representative Dr Gayle O’Duffy said she supported the plans, which she said made sense.

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■ POLYTECH MERGER

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Link up ‘a coup’ - principals

BY DAISY HUDSON

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The merger between Aoraki Polytechnic and CPIT could be a huge coup for Mid Canterbury, according to local principals.

The move would see a new tertiary entity established in Canterbury, although the future of individual campuses and courses is still up in the air.

Despite the uncertainty principals are confident the move will see big gains for primary industries education in the district.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said the merger was “probably inevitable” given the changing nature of the district, but he believes it will be a positive change.

“I think there are some huge opportunities in this, particularly for Mid Canterbury,” he

TIMELINE The proposed merger has been on the cards since December last year, when Aoraki Polytechnic and CPIT announced they were exploring the feasibility of forming a new combined entity.

Seven options were considered, and of those seven the most agreeable to both institutions was the creation of a completely new tertiary institution that would operate in the Canterbury region.

Under the merger both institutions would contribute to its costs and ensuring its success.

It would expand the range and

depth of programmes offered in the Aoraki region and maintain campuses in the region.

It would also establish ‘Centres of Excellence’, which would focus on primary industries, health, broadcasting, sustainable practice, trades, and tourism.

If the merger goes ahead, most Aoraki Polytechnic staff would transition to the new institution.

Those who did not want to make the move would be offered redundancy.

Staff have about a month to submit their feedback on the proposal.

said. Mr McMillan said the polytechnics had been in discussions with local schools and other interested parties for about two years.

“I’m more than confident that

we will see an increased need for, and an increased amount of, industry tertiary training and support in our district,” he said.

Mount Hutt College princi-

pal John Schreurs said he too could see a lot of positives about the merger.

“I’d like to think it would mean an expansion of the Aoraki campus in Ashburton,” he said.

He said it made sense to continue primary industries training in the district.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said he was “absolutely” confident that Ashburton would remain a hub for primary industry education.

He also believed it would be able to provide more resources and choice than the institutions would be able to separately.

The Aoraki Polytechnic campus in Ashburton currently has about 144 enrolled students and 11 staff.

There are 20 programmes offered at the campus across a range of subject areas.

Merger ‘will have big wins for Ashburton’

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay is confident there will be big wins for Ashburton when Aoraki Polytech and CPIT merge.

When the two announced earlier this week that they would merge and form a new organistion, Mr McKay said he had been told by Aoraki’s chairman that “everything would be good for us in Ashburton”.

As the merger plan firmed up and unfolded, Mr McKay said he would be actively pursuing good outcomes for the Ashburton District.

“I’d like to see us as the centre of agriculture courses.

The administrative base will be Timaru and Christchurch, what we care about is what

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is what’s happening on the ground and I believe there will be huge plusses in the amalgamation of the two, far more than we have now. We’ve already been pegged for niche courses such as safe driving of heavy vehicles for our overseas employees.”

Having the greater power of Christchurch was a good deal for Ashburton, he said.

“We need to be the centre of excellence for the things we’re good at, agriculture, servicing industries and trades. This is exciting and it will offer opportunities.”

The writing had been on the wall for some time for a merged Canterbury-wide polytechnic, Grow Mid Canterbury chief executive Rob Brawley said.

The success of the merged polytech relied on getting the model and the culture right with the right governance in place, he said.

“Otherwise the scale of Christchurch City’s education needs and opportunities will overwhelm rural Canterbury’s needs. We absolutely cannot

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afford to lose the impetus we have gained in agri-business with Aoraki. Over the past 18 months we’ve seen real progress here,” Mr Brawley said.

Over that time a new level five management course and agricultural cadetship programme had been launched and investment made in a new agricultural training base in Ashburton.

“There is national interest and support from the industry for what we are doing here and what we are looking to achieve.

It can’t be lost it’s too important to our agri-business industry and to New Zealand.”

Mid Canterbury was an obvious base for a centre of excellence for agriculture and environmental management training in Canterbury, he said.

Heater fire warning The Ashburton Fire Service was called to a West Street address shortly after 2am yesterday after a heater set a bed on fire. The damage was minor, but chief fire officer Alan Burgess said people should ensure heaters were kept at least one metre away from anything combustible.

Clean up continues The first snowstorm of the winter might be one week old but the Ashburton District Council is still working in a number of areas to restore the district to normal.

Stockwater races and trees are top of its to-do list with rangers closely monitoring race intakes.

Some are still blocked by snow, ice and vegetation from the storm and blockages have caused flooding on some roads and farms, said open spaces manager David Askin.

The council wants farmers to check their stockwater races and remove any debris that might be blocking them. If they notice any main water courses that appear to be blocked, they should contact water rangers, he said. Snow has also damaged trees in parks, cemeteries and streets in Methven, Mt Somers and Mayfield.

Parking space closed Inner town workers who use a site that previously housed Smallbone’s car sales business as their weekday parking space need to look elsewhere for all day parking. The site is now off limits, with Craig Carr, spokesperson for its owners Burnett Land Holdings, saying due diligence on the land was being undertaken ahead of its redevelopment. Details on plans for the site are likely to be released in about two months.

Sell-off challenge Auckland iwi Ngati Whatua has confirmed it will seek a judicial review of Government’s plan to sell off Crown land to private developers. The iwi said yesterday it had filed a statement of claim in the High Court at Auckland to seek a ruling on its right of first refusal on surplus land in Auckland. Iwi spokesman Ngarimu Blair said that unlike other iwi, land in Ngati Whatua’s rohe (territory) was extremely scarce.

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■ ASHBURTON TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Ordinary Ashburtonians just ‘vanishing’

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Dave Horrell is missing in action, according to Yellow’s Ashburton telephone directory.

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Dave Horrell thought he led a pretty ordinary life.

Same address, same phone number – but suddenly everything changed. Dave was vapourised.

He went to bed one night with his phone number and address clearly printed in the Ashburton telephone directory and woke up the next day to find he’d disappeared.

When his new directory was delivered, he checked his listing and then he checked again. Horrell, D. was missing.

He called his sister and was surprised to find he was not the only Ashburtonian who had slipped off the radar.

“She told me she knew of several people who’d been missed out. We’ve all just vanished.”

Not one to sit back and complain, Mr Horrell decided to be proactive and contacted Spark and asked why? Ten days later he’s still asking why. No-one’s answering.

He decided to check the online white pages. No, he didn’t

exist there either.

The problem, it seems, cannot be laid at the door of Spark. It has sold off both its yellow and white page listings.

The problem belongs to a company called Yellow, with account director Natasha Gillooly saying that technically the problem was not their’s either.

“Standard listings in the White Pages are updated automatically from information Yellow receives from phone companies.

All phone company customers are automatically listed in the White Pages phone book unless the phone company advises us that a number is to be kept private. Standard White Pages listings are also replicated in Yellow’s other directories such 018, whitepages.co.nz and Yellow Local where available,” she said.

You can opt out of a listing and in Ashburton about 1 per cent of households do, but you can’t opt in.

None of that helps Mr Horrell, however, he’s still listless and not having given authority to opt out, he’s still wondering how he’s been left out.

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■ ASHBURTON PARENTS

Parents in online bullying stoush

BY DAISY HUDSON

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A group of parents have been “sparring with each other” on social media over allegations of bullying between students, it has been claimed.

Parents have allegedly taken to “stomping around the town” looking for alleged bullies and messaging their parents online.

Expanding on his claims yesterday, Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said that had led to a war of words

between parents who were concerned about their children’s welfare and those whose children were being accused of being bullies.

Posts about alleged bullying incidents have been showing up on social media with increasing frequency.

In one recent case a 12-yearold was named and shamed by a parent for allegedly bullying their child.

The comments on the post then turned into a heated stoush

between groups of parents.

At the time local principals expressed their disappointment that the dispute ended up on social media.

Ashburton Intermediate School principal Gavin Cooper said people may not realise the consequences of posting on social media.

He likened social media to a bathroom wall, as people could write things anonymously and without accountability.

Mr McMillan said he did not

have a lot of respect for inflammatory posts on Ashburtonbased Facebook groups, saying they often contained “inaccurate and incorrect gossip”.

He said parents who had any concerns about their children should contact the college directly. He said there were two small groups of Year 10 students who were doing “the normal thing that adolescents have always done” by falling out one day and becoming friends again the next.

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“Most parents get that,” he said. “Unfortunately a small group of parents got caught up in that.”

Mr McMillan believed the Harmful Digital Communications Bill that is currently before Parliament would go some way to stamping out inappropriate online behaviour.

“It’s like road rules,” he said.

“We shouldn’t need them, but there’s always a small element of people who just don’t get it.”

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■ ASHBURTON HOSPITAL

In brief

Local birth numbers steady

By Caitlin Porter

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The number of Ashburton women birthing locally remains steady while those birthing at Christchurch Women’s Hospital falls, recently released data shows.

Statistics released by the Canterbury District Health Board to the Guardian shows the number of women delivering babies in Ashburton Hospital has remained steady for the past few years, increasing by a small number last year and most noticeably peaking around the time of the earthquake.

Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) director of midwifery, Samantha Burke said this was because a number of mothers chose to move out of Christchurch temporarily around the time of their child’s birth.

All in all, birthing numbers across the Canterbury region continue to grow, which is a

reflection of overall population growth, some of which can be directly attributed to the rebuild, she said.

However, as the number of Ashburton women birthing locally increases, the number of Ashburton women birthing in Christchurch has dipped.

Births have dropped from from 298 during the period 2012/2013 to 269 for the period 2014/2015.

Ms Burke said Ashburton Hospital works closely with Christchurch Women’s Hospital so fast access to specialised care can be arranged if needed.

The most important thing and a key goal for the CDHB was ensuring that all women in Canterbury have access to quality primary maternity facilities, Ms Burke said.

“All our primary maternity units are well equipped and our midwives and lead maternity carers (LMCs) are skilled and experienced in dealing with emergencies,” she said.

While there are currently no plans to provide tertiary level maternity care, such as caesareans at primary maternity facilities such as Ashburton, the Ashburton maternity unit is scheduled to be refurbished as part of the overall upgrade plans for the hospital.

At the other end of the spectrum, while stillbirth figures are dropping nationally, locally they have increased over the past three years, however numbers do remain low.

In 2012 there was one stillbirth, and that figure jumped to two the following year and last year four were recorded.

In a report released on Tuesday the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee found nationally stillbirths after 37 weeks of pregnancy reduced from 117 in 2007 to 69 in 2013.

The report put this down to fewer babies dying from a lack of oxygen around the time of birth.

BY THE NUMBERS The number of Ashburton women who have delivered in Christchurch Women’s Hospital 2009/2010 307 2010/2011 333 2011/2012 270 2012/2013 298 2013/2014 283 2014/2015 269 TOTAL 1760 The number of deliveries in Ashburton Hospital 2009/2010 34 2010/2011 109 2011/2012 151 2012/2013 115 2013/2014 110 2014/2015 118 TOTAL 637 Stillbirths for Ashburton women 2009/2010 5 2010/2011 1 2011/2012 6 2012/2013 1 2013/2014 2 2014/2015 4 TOTAL 19

■ ST JOHN

Manager moonlights one night a week

By HannaH CunningHam

aoraki polyteChniC journalism student

Most Wednesday nights, the man in charge of Countdown Ashburton says goodbye to his family to work for his community.

Store manager and father of three Jeremy Samuels is a volunteer ambulance officer. He has been with St John for 18 years, including four with Ashburton St John.

He became a St John cadet when he was at school in Gore and since then, he has been ready to set his personal time aside to be a highly-trained volunteer first responder.

Mr Samuels was among the many St John volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake.

It was unlike anything he

Jeremy Samuels

had experienced and he said it was rewarding to help people in such desperate need.

There have been many other memorable, personal moments

before and since – particularly the relief he sees in the faces of people when the St John ambulance arrives to help.

“It’s great knowing you have helped save a life and made a difference,” Mr Samuels said.

Mr Samuels is one of about 150 St John volunteers in Mid Canterbury. The organisation plans to say thanks to the volunteers at a mid-winter dinner tomorrow night, when service awards will also be presented.

St John area executive officer Elaine Vallender, who has been a volunteer at St John for 14 years, said she could not thank the volunteers enough for their work.

“The community relies so heavily on our volunteers,” Mrs Vallender said.

Mr Samuels said he would

be at the dinner and that it was important for community volunteers to maintain a balance between work, volunteering and family.

He said he was lucky to have an understanding family and that supportive Countdown staff pulled together to help if he had a busy night with callouts. “They have an appreciation for me because I am a volunteer. Some do extra hours and extra shifts to make sure the shop still runs when I am not there,” Mr Samuels said.

Mr Samuels cannot recommend volunteering enough. “It is a great way to give back to the community.”

According to the 2013 census, 17.2 per cent of people in the Rangitata electorate volunteer.

PM tours flood-affected areas of North Island By liz Wylie Prime Minister John Key and Civil Defence Minister Nikki Kaye met flood-affected mayors and local MP Chester Borrows at Wanganui District Council Chambers yesterday to discuss plans for cleaning up the region.

The Prime Minister had earlier flown over the region in a helicopter with Whanganui mayor Annette Main to survey

the flood damage.

After the meeting, Mr Key said the first priority was to address damage to homes and roading.

“I will need to go back and talk to the Finance Minister and Cabinet colleagues to see how much assistance we can make available.

“We have an emergency situation with Silver Fern Farms and 350 workers unable to get there so we need to address

that.” The Prime Minister said he was unsure about the $120 million estimated by Horizons Regional Council for the cost of recovery but said that central government was committed to supporting the councils in the region.

“It’s hard to believe we won’t be doing more,” he said.

Ms Kaye congratulated the mayors in the region for the excellent work they had achieved during the past week and those

nearby like Palmerston North Council for sending staff over to help.

“We will be working alongside mayors and councils and we have already topped up the Taranaki Rural Relief fund by $50,000,” she said.

The Prime Minister attended a meeting with Red Cross and Civil Defence volunteers at the Whanganui Welfare Centre at Girls’ College before departing Whanganui.

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Ship due to dock A stock transporter carrying thousands of live sheep and cattle was due to dock in Mexico last night New Zealand time. The 45,000 ewe lambs and 3000 cattle left Timaru on board the Nada just over two weeks ago amidst a storm of controversy.

Livestock company Peter Walsh and Associates organised the shipment of breeding stock. The animals were purchased from farms around the South Island and were conditioned on a Rangitata feedlot before loading. News of the shipment was kept under wraps until shortly before departure. The export of live sheep for slaughter was suspended in New Zealand in 2003 and prohibited in 2007, but the Ministry of Primary Industries confirmed it routinely exports livestock for breeding purposes.

Animal rights groups were quick to rally, calling the shipment cruel and unacceptable, and saying the animals were bound for slaughter, however MPI refuted these claims.

$23m in Lotto offer Your chances of winning Lotto Powerball might be just one in 3.838 million but that won’t stop thousands of Kiwis make an investment today that they hope will change their lives. Lotto Powerball has jackpotted to $23 million and Ashburton punters might have an extra edge when it comes to buying a ticket as one of New Zealand’s top five powerball winning stores is on their doorstep Ashburton Countdown is second on the list of luck, with two big wins to its credit – $3.4 million in 2003 and $13.3 million last year. Working in multiples of $10 million, it would complete the trifecta if the same store sold a $23 million ticket. New Zealand’s biggest powerball winning ticket, $33 million was sold in Septebmer 2013. Countdown Lynfield, Auckland has sold three winning tickets totalling $14 million, Manukau City Lotto, three winning tickets, $15 million, Camera and Printz, Westgate, Auckland, two tickets, $16 million, Ashburton’s Countdown, two tickets, $16.7 million, with Rotorua’s Countdown selling the richest haul, two tickets totalling $18.1 million.

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The Conservative Party’s disintegration continued yesterday as two more board members resigned, leaving the party rudderless and possibly paving the way for founder Colin Craig to make his comeback as leader.

Chairman Brian Dobbs and Laurence Day confirmed they would stand down from the board, following in the footsteps of seven other board members who quit the party this week in the wake of Mr Craig’s admission of inappropriate conduct. Those departures left the party in the hands of Christchurchbased board member John Stringer, Mr Craig’s staunchest critic and a central player in this week’s events. Mr Stringer, the party’s self-appointed chairman, was last night attempting to recruit board members to get the party back on track. The board had been scheduled to meet today, and one of the motions on the agenda was to cancel Mr Craig’s membership.

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Pool numbers on decline

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

There might be 840 properties around the Ashburton District with swimming pools, but large numbers of those pools are being filled in or dismantled.

As part of its five yearly inspection regime of pool safety fencing, council staff have visited 313 properties over the past six months. Of those they found around 120 had been taken out of commission. Of

the remainder, far more failed their inspection than passed.

The failures in most cases, however, were for minor issues that were easily remedied, said council building services manager Michael Wong.

Most pool owners were aware of the need for child safe fencing around their pools and the council provided plenty of information to anyone who needed it, he said.

“We want everyone to be

safe, so if you fail the first time we’ll go back and check and we’ll go back again if we need to without cost.”

Para pools that were 1.2 metres above ground were exempt from fencing, but ladders must be removed when a pool was not in use, Mr Wong said.

All other pools required child-proof fences. A property owner could seek an exemption, but these were rarely granted. Some local authorities

do not offer that option.

When a pool comes up for inspection, property owners are notified and asked to make an appointment with council staff.

Swimming pool fencing became compulsory in 1987 and was applied retrospectively on all pools in New Zealand. The legislation is currently being reviewed and may be amended to exempt spa pools with lockable lids from the fencing requirement.

In brief Pedestrian dies An 86-year-old woman struck by a car in Manuwera last week has died. The woman was hit while crossing Russell Road as she walked her dog around midday on Thursday last week. Noeline Sheppard died on Tuesday at Middlemore Hospital. Police said the driver of the vehicle that hit her was assisting police. They have asked anyone who saw Ms Sheppard walking her white American bulldog that day to get in touch. Police were also interested to hear from the driver of a medium-sized red saloon car who may have witnessed the collision.

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Keys taken from driver A concerned motorist snatched the keys from another vehicle on Thursday afternoon after it was driven around a roundabout in central Greymouth, on the wrong side of the road. Police said a white Toyota Corolla had forced approaching vehicles to take evasive action, shortly before 4.30pm. The driver stopped nearby and another motorist did an “excellent job” by removing the keys from the ignition. “While this action no doubt prevented anyone from being hurt as a result of being hit by this driver, police do not recommend people take this type of action,” police staff said.

There was always the risk that the driver could have taken exception and lashed out. The offending driver will be charged.

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New ambassador

Deerstalkers Laurie Kain (left) and Al Kircher recut a track on Duncan’s Face.

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Funds mean welcome hut, track upgrades

By SuSaN SaNdyS

SuSan.S@theguardian.co.nz

New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association Rakaia branch members are heartened by support from a new government conservation fund.

Member Peter Oldham said about $550 from the Community Conservation Partnership Fund (CCPF) had helped with repairs and maintenance at the Mathias Hut, Cattle Creek Hut and with track work across Duncan’s Face.

“It certainly encourages us to keep the facilities up and go-

ing,” Mr Oldham said.

The branch, established in 1959, maintains three six-bed high country huts, used by hunters, trampers and mountain climbers. They are the Mathias and Reischek huts, built by members in the early 1960s, and the Cattle Creek Hut, formerly Evan’s Hut. The Mathias and Cattle Creek huts are on the north side of the Rakaia River, as is Duncan’s Face. The Reischek Hut is on the south side, and is equipped with a mountain radio.

Mr Oldham said the funded repairs and maintenance would include replacing rotting wooden-frame windows at Cattle Creek Hut with aluminium windows. The Mathias hut had recently had extensive work, being relocated and having a new verandah installed.

The Duncan’s Face track work included recutting a high level track to improve access in the area.

The allocation to the group is from a $700,000 fund, allocated by the government through the CCPF to the New

Zealand Outdoor Recreation Consortium, representing 130 tramping, climbing, hunting and biking clubs across the country.

Department of Conservation acting recreation manager Andy Thompson said the new partnership had got off to a good start and so far more than $600,000 had been allocated to 60 groups.

“Their hands-on efforts to improve these facilities mean that more people can get out and enjoy them,” Mr Thompson said.

A week after Auckland Council hosed down Sir Bob Harvey’s claim he was the new ambassador for the Super City, mayor Len Brown has welcomed the former Waitakere mayor’s appointment to the role. Last Friday Sir Bob announced on breakfast television that he’d been appointed to a council role, which would involve overseas investment. But within minutes of the announcement, a mayoral spokesman said there had only been “discussions” about him taking on the new job.

Yesterday the council announced Sir Bob, who has stepped down as chairman of the council-controlled organisation Waterfront Auckland, was named ‘Champion for Auckland - overseas investment’ by the council.

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Gun scare A man was seen with a firearm in a central Wellington suburb yesterday, sparking a police callout just before noon. Central Police Communications said officers were talking to a group of people in the suburb of Northland yesterday afternoon. There was not thought to be any danger to the public.

Later, police said a man assaulted a woman, threatened her with a firearm, and the fled the scene but was later arrested. “The man suspected of assaulting her had left the scene, but was tracked to an address in Island Bay. “This address was cordoned by armed police and the man and two associates were called out of the address and taken into custody without incident.” Senior Sergeant Braydon Lenihan said the people involved were known to each other.

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Toss-up between food and warmth for some

Simon Barnett and Vanessa Cole dance their winning foxtrot performance.

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■ DANCING WITH THE STARS

Nerves now under control

By SuSan SandyS

susan.s@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton’s own Simon Barnett said “almost uncontrollable” nerves in his first week of Dancing with the Stars made him realise he had to do better.

Talking to the Guardian this week, the More FM awardwinning breakfast show host said the first episode of the show had him thinking “What am I doing here?”

“I think I so spooked myself, my nerves were almost uncontrollable in that first week, I barely could breathe standing waiting for my name to be called out.

“It was almost a moment when the world stood still,”

Mr Barnett said. He went on to deliver an average performance which was scored the second lowest of the night.

“But funnily enough it was a good thing as it did make me realise I have to do it,” Mr Barnett said.

And he has picked up the challenge since. He and dance partner Vanessa Cole returned the top score of the night, with three nines from the judges, with a foxtrot at the fourth show on Sunday night.

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Mr Barnett made national

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However, the nose was fine, and his knee is strapped for performances.

He has lost weight throughout the gruelling rehearsal and performance schedule, and has gone from 82 kilograms to 76.

“I’m trying to eat because I can get really scrawny,” Mr Barnett said.

Rehearsals are seven days per week, mostly in Mr Bar-

nett’s home-city of Christchurch. He and Ms Cole fly to Auckland each Saturday morning, returning on Monday after Mr Barnett announces remotely for his Monday morning breakfast show from an Auckland studio.

He said he and Ms Cole would obviously love to do really well in the competition, which sees one couple eliminated each week, but had decided “we can only control what we can control”.

“I just take it week by week, that’s all I can focus on,” Mr Barnett said.

Mr Barnett grew up in Ashburton and is a former Ashburton College head boy.

School repairs way worse than first thought

By KirSty JohnSton The number of old, mouldy schools needing extensive redevelopments – and the scale of the repairs required – is higher than first thought, the government says.

Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye yesterday moved to reassure schools it was “on the cusp” of announcing a number of major rebuilds, in the wake of complaints about children learning in mouldy buildings while waiting for plans to be approved.

Schools have told the New Zealand Herald they have been waiting up to three years for plans to get sign-off, with poor communication adding to the stress of having sick students and staff, and worried parents.

The minister told the Herald that it had 16 major redevelopments in the pipeline, including Western Springs, Balmoral School, Northland School and Clayton Park – all schools that have had widely publicised issues.

Some of those were going to have to be much larger than

first thought, and the ministry did not want to rush into them and repeat “the mistakes of the past”.

“We want to take the opportunity to do something that is going to last for generations - and to ensure fairness,” Ms Kaye said.

“The challenge has been the scale of what we expected to find is a lot higher [than first thought].”

Kaye said following a nationwide property assessment began in 2012, it was initially believed about 25 to 30 schools

would need major redevelopment _ due to leaky buildings, old stock or roll growth _ or a combination of all three.

Of those, 14 had been signed off already at a cost of $360 million, and the rest were being prioritised nationally, with “four or five” to be approved by the end of the year.

However Ms Kaye said as the assessments were finalised, other schools with major issues had come to light, so the number needing huge cash injections was likely to rise.

- NZME

People living in cold, damp houses must choose between staying warm or buying food as temperatures plummet around the country, anti-poverty campaigners say.

Overnight temperatures plunged below zero in multiple cities on both islands this week, and cold snaps like these put extra pressure on people living in substandard housing, advocates say.

Beneficiary advocate Alastair Russell said people living in “unacceptable” homes were often on low incomes or benefits.

“It would be unusual for people to be living in acceptable housing if they are on benefits in this country.”

Mr Russell said cold winter weather meant increased pressures to make ends meet.

“It leaves people in situations where they are highly stressed, they have no sense of hope for the future and they make tough choices about paying bills or going hungry,” he said.

“Earlier this week the Prime Minister made a grossly flippant remark about people in Housing New Zealand homes being able to seek extra help – that extra help does not exist.

Work and Income makes it as difficult as possible to seek extra help.”

Earlier this month, a coroner ruled toddler Emma-Lita Bourne’s “cold, damp” Housing New Zealand home was a contributing factor to her death.

The 2-year-old girl died in Auckland’s Starship Hospital on August 8 last year from an acute brain bleed, caused by a septic embolism as a result of her respiratory infection.

In the wake of the coroner’s ruling, there were calls for Government intervention.

The Green Party said the Government should provide non-recoverable grants to families struggling with power bills, so they did not have to borrow money from Work and Income.

Mr Russell said this had not happened. “In the context where a coroner has concerns that poverty is a killer, this Government continues to do nothing.”

Mr Russell said he had been doing social work for more than 20 years and in that time the housing situation had only become worse. This lack of action was deadly, he said.

“Ultimately it ends people’s lives, it kills them, as the coroner has confirmed.”

Mr Russell said this winter more tragedies like EmmaLita’s were likely, which “is simply unacceptable in a country that is supposedly a first world economy.”

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■ BUSINESS MID CANTERBURY

Turning adversity into opportunity

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Sue Lindsay is a great example of taking adversity and turning it into an opportunity.

An only child, she left the family’s Southland farm to study agricultural economics at Lincoln University. Farming did not figure in her future.

Fate, however had other ideas and dealt her family the double whammy of a dad with cancer and a mother with early onset Alzheimer’s. For Sue, an only child, that meant dropping her study and making an unplanned return home. She was, however, well prepared.

“My dad took me to the accountant with him when I was eight and that instilled some business knowledge, so when he was diagnosed I went home and took over responsibility for both mum and the farm.”

That was a turning point in her life.

“At the time it seemed like a crisis but it was really a gift. I learned so much about myself and what’s important in life. I had to make choices.”

Motivational speaker Sue Lindsay inspiring Ashburton business people at this week’s Business Mid Canterbury meeting.

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And her choice was to be involved in running the family farm with a manager and to pursue a career in agri-business.

She sold real estate, worked for pharmaceutical company Smith Klein, and went on to lead rural trader CRT. “Over that time I grew into my confidence but I look back

and know that a lot of what I did, I did intuitively.”

Eventually she had to make the tough call to sell the family farm.

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Beware cyberbullies ... the law As technology has advanced, so too has the problem of cyberbullying and online harassment.

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It would also make it an offence to send messages and post material online that was intended to cause harm, and it would create a new offence of incitement to commit suicide in situations where the person does not attempt to take their own life.

Under current legislation it is only illegal to incite someone to commit suicide if they take their own life, or attempt to do so.

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A corporate body can face a fine of up to $200,000

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rolls, cyberbullies, keyboard warriors – whatever you call them, people who harass and bully others online are becoming an increasingly serious problem in today’s society.

Not a week goes by without stories of so-called “revenge porn”, online naming and shaming, or other forms of cyber harassment hitting the headlines.

Cyberbullying has become prevalent in Mid Canterbury with Facebook pages and other social media sites inundated with posts naming and shaming people, including children, and calling out people who have allegedly committed an offence.

The issue of online bullying is a tough one. After all, as we are constantly told, once something is put on the internet it is there forever. Simply removing a post from social media is not very effective if it has already gone viral.

It is also easy to assume that saying something on the internet will not have any “real world” consequences.

To some extent, under current law that is at least partly true.

However, tough new legislation before Parliament is look-

ing to crack down on cyberbullies, trolls, and those who post harmful material online.

The Harmful Digital Communications Bill, led by Communications Minister and Selwyn MP Amy Adams, makes it a criminal offence to send messages or post material online that is intended to cause harm.

It will also see a complaint agency empowered to resolve complaints about harmful communications.

The push for tougher legislation was prompted by the Roastbusters scandal, in which teenagers boasted online about having sex with underage and intoxicated girls.

The bill moved one step closer to becoming law this week after passing the committee stage.

It is expected to pass its final reading next week after opposition parties did a u-turn and decided to support it following extensive amendments.

The Act party is now the only party opposed to the bill, with leader David Seymour saying he could not support what he sees as the potential criminalisation of children.

The possible ramifications for young people have been a point of contention for many politicians.

Labour communication spokesperson Clare Curran attempted to amend the bill to prevent anyone under the age of 17 from being charged with a criminal offence under the new legislation.

However, Ms Adams has denied that young people will face criminal convictions, saying anyone under 17 would be dealt with in youth court and would only face charges for the most serious offending.

Concerns have also been raised about the broadness of the bill and what actually constitutes harm.

During the bill’s debate in the committee stage Mr Seymour said in the future he believed the bill would be used as a case study for bad law-making.

One thing parties on both sides of the aisle can agree on is that there is a pressing need for stronger legislation to combat the problem.

Ms Curran said despite a series of issues she had with the bill, Labour was “reluctantly” throwing its support behind it because the party considered cyberbullying too significant to ignore.

However, while the bill now has wide cross-party support, it has come under fire for allegedly infringing on freedom of speech.

Canterbury University law professor Ursula Cheer told TV3’s The Nation that she was concerned the bill was a risk to freedom of expression.

She said the aims of the bill were “very worthy”, but the legislation could have a serious impact on free speech.

She also had concerns about the media not being exempt from the legislation.

However, Safer Ashburton Think First project co-ordinator John Hobbs says concerns about the impact of the bill on freedom of speech are “pathetic”.

Mr Hobbs is a strong supporter of tougher legislation for cyberbullies having spent a lot of time working with young victims of online harassment.

He believes cyberbullies need tough penalties to dissuade them from their actions.

“The people that cyberbully, at the end of the day they just need to learn that what they’re doing is just totally unacceptable and there needs to be consequences for their actions,” he said.

He said people who said the bill infringed on their freedom of speech were just making an “incredibly pathetic excuse”.

“We’ve got it pretty damn good in terms of freedom of speech,” he said.

“I think it’s up to people to use that freedom wisely.”

He said it was “perplexing” that despite knowing their actions were wrong, people continued to post harmful material online.

Social media sites and groups are often filled with posts that are far from the page’s intended purpose.

Facebook buy and sell pages based in Ashburton have seen everything from posts naming someone as a sex offender to claims of bullying.

In one instance a 12-year-old was named and shamed for allegedly bullying another child by the child’s parents.

All too often Ashburton-based Facebook pages host defamatory or derogatory posts by adults, proving that the issue is not just limited to young people.

For Ashburton police youth aid officer Senior Constable Rob Hooper, combating the issue is all about education.

Mr Hooper said online trolls and bullies need to be very aware that their comments could have serious consequences.

Part of the problem was that while in the past spats were between two people, social media now means that arguments are made public, he said.

As most politicians have admitted, it is not yet clear how much of an effect the new law will have on online harassment.

However, what is clear is that the keyboard warriors amongst us who take their battles on to social media could face some very tough, very unexpected consequences.

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Major call centre shakeup

By SiMon CollinS Nurses will now be stationed at 111 emergency call centres to answer “non-urgent” calls as part of a wide-ranging shakeup which may also give nurses operating national helplines access to patient records.

The new 111 system follows a trial which averted thousands of ambulance callouts in Auckland over the past year.

It comes at the same time as a new 10-year contract with the Ministry of Health, likely to be worth about $20 million a year, for a new 24-hour integrated “telehealth” phone service replacing the current Healthline and specialist helplines for depression, gambling, alcohol and drugs, immunisation, poisons and quitting smoking.

The contract has gone to a company owned by doctors’ groups ProCare in Auckland and Pegasus in Canterbury.

At present, when someone calls 111, they are asked by an

Dr Kate Baddock

operator if they need police, fire or ambulance. If the caller chooses an ambulance, they are put through to another operator who deals with the call.

Under the new system, that operator would code the call and send all those coded green, or least urgent, to the on-duty nurse.

The nurse will decide whether to make an appointment with the caller’s GP, send a para-

medic, or if necessary, an ambulance. Company chairman Dr Martin Seers said the ProCare/ Pegasus company Homecare Medical had stationed two or three nurses in the Auckland 111 call centre since last July.

St John communications head Victoria Hawkins said the trial avoided ambulance callouts for non-urgent conditions such as constipation, cramp, boils, piles, gout, sleeping problems, earache, toothache, backache and vomiting.

In the 11 months since the trial started, St John received 117,574 emergency calls in Auckland; 22,150 (18.8 per cent) were referred to nurses.

“This has freed up an extra 1.5 ambulances on the road 24 hours a day, seven days a week in Auckland.”

Ms Hawkins said the trial would now be evaluated by an independent party by October, but in the meantime would be extended to support Northland and Waikato over the next three

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Schools in lockdown

By Morgan TaiT and Corazon Miller An 18-year-old man who sparked the lockdown of two Auckland schools was suffering a “mental health crisis” and was found by police eating a pie at a petrol station.

The man was believed to be armed with a knife when he made threats against two Whangaparaoa schools about midday yesterday, triggering a large police response and placing the schools in lockdown.

Police officers were onsite at Whangaparaoa College and Whangaparaoa Primary School as students and teachers were forced to stay inside classrooms for up to an hour.

The man, who is not a current student at the college, did not enter the school grounds during the ordeal and was found by police at the Mobil petrol station on Red Beach Road about 1pm.

He was “having a pie and a drink” when he was found, said a source.

Rodney police area commander Inspector Mark Fergus said the man was in police care while his mental health was assessed.

He said the man was not found with a weapon.

It was not yet clear if charges would be laid, said Mr Fergus.

“Police commenced the search as a result of some threats made around local schools,” said Mr Fergus.

“The purpose was to find this man who was suffering a mental health crisis.”

Mr Fergus would not disclose how the man made the threats.

He also raised concerns with misinformation being circulated on social media, and would not address some of the claims being made.

“Much of it is unfounded,” he said.

Whangaparaoa College acting principal Robyn Brownlee said students were bundled into the nearest classrooms as soon as police informed them of the threats.

“All staff and students all responded really positively,” she said.

She would not confirm if the man at the centre of the incident was a former student or if he was known to the school.

“That’s a police matter,” she said.

Several other schools in the area went into voluntary lock down.

The mother of a student at the school, who did not want to be named, said it was believed the man was an ex-student with a grudge against the school.

The woman said her son had been “a little worried” and been in touch many times.

“They were locked in the classroom, complete lockdown, there’s a heavy police presence around the school and what not,” she said.

“He said he heard there was somebody out there the police were looking for with a knife on school grounds.”

Other parents collected their children from school early.

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months. Dr Seers said he hoped it would be rolled out nationally over the next few years.

“My understanding is that Wellington Free Ambulance are happy to work with us if we win the contract. We have also talked to the southern call centre,” he said.

Meanwhile the new national helplines contract starts on November 1.

Dr Seers said the firm would seek access to parts of patients’ health records so that helpline nurses answering calls in the middle of the night could understand the likely causes of callers’ symptoms.

“The view would be that such a record will be available to a nurse doing a triage of someone who is acutely unwell so that she could say, ‘Your doctor has you down as having emphysema’, or ‘I can see that you took a course of antibiotics two weeks ago’, or ‘You had a chest x-ray three months ago’.”

Dr Kate Baddock, who chairs

the Medical Association’s General Practitioner Council, said GPs would give “cautious support” to sharing their patient records with Homecare Medical, which already operates the after-hours service for most Auckland GPs, as long as privacy and confidentiality issues could be managed.

The company is to keep all existing specialist helpline phone numbers but is also exploring a three-digit number similar to 111 for all non-urgent health calls.

Dr Seers said it was recruiting about 100 staff for the main healthline part of the new service for call centres in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

It would keep existing staff at the National Poisons Centre in Dunedin and was likely to hire many of the 59 staff at the Quitline stop-smoking service in Wellington and 15 at the alcohol and drug helpline in Christchurch.

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The Konovalenko family (from left) Tanya, Mariana, 3, Daryna, 6, and Mykola Konovalenko are proud to call Ashburton home.

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Ukrainian family settling into new home Many people from overseas are making Mid Canterbury home.

T Aoraki Polytechnic journalism student Hannah Cunningham caught anya and Mykola Konovalenko made the big decision to move from Ukraine to New Zealand three years ago.

They started their new life on the West Coast before making their way to Ashburton three weeks ago.

This week it was obvious the family of five was getting ready to settle into their new town.

Their house was all-but empty – the furniture had yet to arrive – and daughters Yuliana, Daryna and Mariana were crowded around a laptop watching cartoons.

Mrs Konovalenko explained that moving to New Zealand was not an easy decision for the family to make. Mr Konovalenko was offered a job on a dairy farm – it was an irresistible opportunity that the family dared not miss.

“I think it was a very important decision, you know new country, new surroundings, new people and new culture,” Mrs Konovalenko said.

The family are from

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Cherkasy, in central Ukraine.

It is a city well known for its education facilities and is about the same size as Christchurch.

It was a wonderful place to live, but New Zealand offered something not always evident in their sometimes tumultuous home country: a safer environment.

The faux-ceasefire and ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia further proved the move to New Zealand was the best decision the family could have made, Mrs Konovalenko said.

But that did not mean the transition was easy. Leaving uncertainty in Ukraine also meant leaving behind family

up with Tanya and Mykola Konovalenko, originally from the Ukraine.

and friends. Mr Konovalenko moved first: “It made the move over here much harder for me having three little children with me it was very hard,” Mrs Konovalenko said.

“It was very hard work for the first year of living here.”

The couple attended social English classes soon after they arrived. Mrs Konovalenko said they helped her become more confident with the language and helped make new friends in their new country.

Learning the language helped make settlement easier and Mrs Konovalenko was confident her children will get a better education here than in the Ukraine.

“In the Ukraine they are more strict with learning, here they learn and have fun and enjoy it, Mrs Konovalenko said.

Her husband agreed: “I see our children proud of what they are doing and always come home with awards.”

The Konovalenkos have already discovered there are many people in the district who are from, or have links to, the Ukraine.

They said many shared the same reasons for leaving their home country – to seize new opportunities and to make a better life for themselves and their children.

“We have friends that live just down the road, it makes it

much easier decision to move here,” Mrs Konovalenko said.

Supporting a family here does not have the same pressures as in the Ukraine, where wages are relatively low and prices are high and unstable.

“My husband can work one job [here] and not worry about money,” Mrs Konovalenko said.

“Prices in New Zealand are much better here. He can work and we can still afford everything, but in the Ukraine it was not possible.”

Mrs Konovalenko hopes to get a job and to become involved with the community.

Ashburton is their new home and they have no plans to leave anytime soon.

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Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – Which war was the backdrop for the TV series M*A*S*H? a. Korean b. Vietnam c. Crimean 2 – How was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better known? a. Lenin b. Stalin c. Karl Marx 3 – Which country won the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest? a. Sweden b. Estonia c. Spain 4 – Which common animal has the Latin name Cornu aspersum? a. Bee b. Housefly c. Snail 5 – In which year did Peter Snell break the world record for running the mile? a. 1960 b. 1962 c. 1967 6 – Which movie was the sequel to Saturday Night Fever? a. Tragedy b. You Should Be Dancing c. Staying Alive 7 – Which country’s national anthem is called There is a Lovely Country in English? a. Denmark b. Mexico c. Algeria

8 – Mark Williams was top of the charts on this day in 1975 with which song? a. Show No Mercy b. Yesterday Was Just the Beginning of My Life c. If It Rains

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Sports diary Around the Grounds

Saturday Mid Canterbury Rugby Luisetti Seeds Watters Cup round two Max Gilbert Trophy – Rakaia v Celtic, Rakaia 1, 2.45pm, Southern v Methven, Hinds 1, 2.45pm, Senior B – Centennial Mug – Round 6 Mt Somers v Allenton, Mt Somers, 2.30pm, Rakaia v Celtic, Rakaia 1, 1pm, Southern v Methven Hinds 1, 1pm, Tinwald v Collegiate, Tin 1, 2.30pm,

UC Championships Waimea College v Ashburton College, Nelson

Mid-South Canterbury Hockey Senior Women Hampstead v Craighead at Timaru, 1.30pm Hampstead/ Collegians v TGHS at Ashburton, 1.30pm Senior Men Wakanui Black v Cambridge at Timaru 3pm, Wakanui Blue v Northern Hearts at Timaru, 3pm

Mainland Football Men’s Div 4: MCU Eastern v Parklands United @ Redwood Park, 2.30pm Men’s Div 5: Methven v Halswell United @ Ashburton Domain, 2.30pm Men’s Masters Div 2: MCU Masters v Parklands @ Ashburton Domain, 2.30pm Men’s 18th Div 2: MCU v Waimak @ Ashburton Domain, 10.45am Men’s 18th Div 3: Methven v Papanui @ Redwood Park, 10.45am Men’s 16th Div 1: MCU v Halswell United @ Ashburton Domain, 12.30pm

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Runners in Canty team

By Jonathan Leask

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Six Mid Canterbury runners have gained selection to the Canterbury Cross Country team for the inter-regional cross country competition in Blenheim in September.

Isabella Gibson, Jake Jackways and Brea Roderick qualified after top 10 placings at the Primary v Intermediate Cross Country Championships held on Wednesday.

The road to Canterbury qualification had the runners compete at Halswell Quarry a fortnight earlier, having progressed from their respective school and the Mid Canterbury races.

The primary and intermediate Year 7-8s had previously run separate races and both sent the top 20 finishers to the Roto Kohatu race this week to find the Canterbury team.

The top 10 finishers were selected for the Canterbury Cross Country team, coached by Christchurch-based Paul Norton that will compete in Blenheim in September.

In the Year 7 boys’ section Jake Jackways (Dorie) was second, Isabella Gibson (St Joseph’s) was fourth in the Year 7 girls’ section

Mid Canterbury runners (from left) Isabella Gibson, Jake Jackways and Brea Roderick this week qualified to race for Canterbury at the inter-regional cross country competition in Blenheim in September.

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and Brea Roderick (Mt Hutt) was sixth in the Year 8 girls’ section to all qualify for Canterbury teams.

The trio joined Rosaria Gib-

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son (St Joseph’s) and the Longbeach pair of Ella Pearson and Bobby Gould who had already qualified to run for Canterbury in the Year 5-6 age groups at

the Halswell Quarry earlier this month.

Jackways, Gould, Pearson and Isabella Gibson all raced for Canterbury last year.

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Ashburton College enjoyed a bumper week at the Aoraki Junior Basketball championships.

On Thursday the girls went through the round robin unbeaten, with their closest result a 14-point win over Timaru Girls’ High School.

The girls had wins of 33-14 over Craighead, 41-10 against Geraldine and then another 31-point win over Mountainview, 38-9.

They recorded their biggest win over Roncalli, 37-2, before tougher tests against St Kevin’s 28-12 and Timaru Girls’ 26-12.

Earlier in the week the College boys sent two teams to the championship - and the B team toppled the A team in the final, 30-28.

The A boys lost to Timaru Boys’ Blue 9-31 before wins over St Kevin’s Y10 6712 and Mountainveiw 26-6.

Over in pool B the College B team beat Timaru Boys’ White 27-21, Roncalli 3521 and Waitaki 24-19 to qualify top before ousting Timaru Boys’ Blue in the semifinals 35-22.

College A got up over Waitaki 25-18 in the other semi-final before the B team took the bragging rights with a narrow twopoint win in the decider.

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The Warriors know how devastating they can be when they play to their structures, and according to five-eighth Chad Townsend, are aiming to work teams over strategically rather than relying on all-out attacking flair.

The Penrose-based side are intent on replicating last week’s highly efficient secondhalf effort against the Titans, and demonstrate the same focus and composure in establishing a platform up-front, when they meet the Canberra Raiders at Mt Smart Stadium today.

The emphasis is on absorbing and creating pressure rather than looking for easy points early on, with a firm belief their attack can shine and reap rewards in the latter stages of matches, as it did on the Gold Coast.

“Ball security, composure, kick game, finishing sets, completion rate, if they’re all high percentage then it gives us more chance of winning,” Townsend explained.

“We definitely know we are capable of that, we just need to replicate it more often.

“We believe in the process. Our game method [against the Titans] was to play tough and to put the ball in the corner and make them come out of their own end.

“In the second-half they couldn’t handle it, and we came over the top in the end and scored some good tries.”

The Warriors are wary of the much-improved Raiders’ forward power and in-form ball-running five-eighth Blake Austin. The visitors have a five-two away record and will be desperate to claim another win after last week’s heart-breaking final-minute defeat to the Cowboys.

The seventh-placed Warriors have 16 competition points, level with the ninth and 10th-placed Bulldogs and Sharks, and will be looking to put some distance between them and the chasing trio of the Raiders, Panthers and Titans, all locked on 14 points.

A win ahead of next week’s second and final bye would see the Warriors well placed to consolidate a playoff spot through the final nine rounds, with five more home games scheduled against the Storm (fifth), Sea Eagles (16th), Sharks (ninth), Dragons (third) and Cowboys (second).

“They’ve [Raiders] been one of the most improved teams in the comp,” Townsend said. “They’ve got some pretty big and aggressive forwards and some clever halves who run and kick the ball reasonably well so we’re expecting a big game and we’re looking to put in a good performance before the bye.”

Key to the Warriors’ hopes is the ability of their big men to power forward giving Townsend and halfback Shaun Johnson room to move, as they did so effectively last week.

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McCullum reveals plans Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum has committed himself to New Zealand Cricket for another year.

The 33-year-old, whose international future has been the subject of much speculation over the past week, will lead the Black Caps in their long-awaited home and away series against Australia this summer, as well as being available for the World T20 in India in March.

McCullum will however sit out the upcoming tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa after an intense period of cricket dating back to the World Cup. The re-signing means he’s on track to play his 100th consecutive test since debut for the Black Caps in the home series against Australia after Christmas.

Only South African AB de Villiers, who has played 96 consecutive Tests since making his debut can beat him to what would be a record.

The annual contracting process will be completed next week and the list of Black Caps players being offered contracts will be announced on Wednesday.

McCullum said he was excited about what lay ahead for the Black Caps.

“It’s a critical time for the team,” he said.

“We’ve had a very good past 18 months but we’ve got some real challenges ahead of us and we need to keep making progress.

“This is a young, emerging side with some very big series on the horizon and it’s a really exciting time to be involved,” he said.

New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum hits a six off the bowling of England’s Steven Finn during the International Twenty20 cricket match between England and New Zealand at Old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester, England, this week.

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Meanwhile, McCullum has agreed to a three-year deal with Australian Big Bash team the Brisbane Heat, currently coached by fellow Kiwi, Daniel Vettori.

A member of the Heat in the inaugural Big Bash series, McCullum will return to the Brisbane franchise this summer and

will be available for all games – apart from any that clash with Black Caps internationals.

“I’m certainly looking forward to linking up with the Heat again,” said McCullum.

“Apart from Brett Lee breaking my nose in the first ever game, I enjoyed being part of the inaugural year when it was

all a bit unknown and there was a lot of excitement and buzz about the BBL. “The competition has really developed quickly since then and from what I have seen, the standard is right up there with the best in the world,” McCullum said.

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Black Sticks stun Australia in semi-final New Zealand pulled off an outstanding 2-0 win over tough rivals Australia yesterday at the women’s world league hockey semi-final in Antwerp.

The win is just the 17th by the women’s Black Sticks against Australia in 112 matches.

Captain Anita Punt put New Zealand ahead with a well struck penalty corner shot shortly after halftime. It was the first goal in the 13th attempt from a penalty corner during the tournament.

The tireless Punt had a hand in setting up the crucial second goal with a clever run and deft pass to midfielder Ella Gunson, who took her chance well to double the lead.

The win leaves fourth-ranked New Zealand top of pool B,

In brief Blow for Bolt Usain Bolt has been removed from the list of entries for the 100 metres at the Jamaica trials, apparently the latest setback for the world record-holder.

Jamaican athletics officials said yesterday that Bolt was expected to compete in the 100 in Kingston to sharpen his sprinting form against speedsters such as Asafa Powell and Yohan Blake. Bolt was already assured of a spot in the world championships in August in Beijing to defend his 100 and 200 titles. But Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association officials said Bolt’s name was withdrawn overnight, without elaborating. The heats were yesterday, and the 100 final is scheduled for today. - NZME

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three points ahead of world No 2 Australia going into the final round of group games, in which New Zealand will meet hosts Belgium tomorrow.

The top three teams at the tournament are guaranteed places in next year’s Rio Olympics.

“It was a really tough battle and to come away with a win is awesome for the girls,” Punt said. “It was definitely a pretty fast game and we’re going to need to recover well after this.”

Punt, whose goal made her New Zealand’s leading scorer, going ahead of striker Katie Glynn and now-retired attacker Krystal Forgesson, said it was a case of keeping on fighting as the game wore on and she was confident if they did that “it would fall for us”.

Australian captain Madonna Blyth, playing her record 304th international, was disappointed her team didn’t put their game plan into action as effectively as they had hoped.

“Credit to the New Zealand girls. They played well and at that pace we all know they can do. We’ve got a lot to do looking ahead to the quarter-finals.”

Australia had a fine penalty corner conversion rate going into the match but yesterday failed to find the net with any of their five attempts. New Zealand managed one from their four opportunities.

Australia’s chief shooter Jodie Kenny had her radar on the blink yesterday but New Zealand defended the set piece impressively, while goalkeeper Sally Rutherford pulled off a string of

quality saves, including one from Jane Claxton with four minutes remaining, which would have given Australia impetus for a final late push.

Auckland defender Liz Thompson, a key figure in a strong defensive operation, admitted there were tired legs in the New Zealand dressing room but “we’re pretty over the moon, to be honest”.

“Our game plan is to go forward and attack a lot and I think Australia play a pretty similar style so these games finish up really fast and full on, so it’s good to finally come away with a win.”

In the other pool B game Belgium beat Poland 2-0 while in pool A Korea thumped France 11-0 and Japan and Italy drew 2-2.

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Shimmering palm trees and temperatures in the high 20s will be the backdrop for the Wellington Phoenix when they take on Fiji in Suva today and Ba on Tuesday. The Phoenix play a full Fijian national team captained by Phoenix striker Roy Krishna and coach Ernie Merrick is taking the preseason fixtures seriously. “The boys have had an off-season programme to follow because we knew this flight was on Thursday and our first game was on Saturday,” Merrick said. “So they had to come in to pre-season ready to go. We have done some testing and trained for a week so they will be a bit underdone. It will be hard work over here in two very competitive matches.”

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New club Former Salford and Warriors fullback Kevin Locke has signed on with Super League’s cellar dwellers Wakefield Trinity. Wakefield moved in quickly to snare the former Kiwis and Warriors player after Salford owner Marwan Koukash confirmed he was willing to release him from his contract. Locke has signed with Wakefield to the end of the season, pending a visa.

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Lee starts well Danny Lee is the best of the Kiwis after the opening round of the Travellers Championship in Connecticut on the PGA Tour. The 24-yearold fired a four-under 66, including five birdies and a bogey yesterday, which left him in a share of 15th, four strokes back from leader Bubba Watson who opened with an eight-under 62. Five players are in a share of second at six-under. Lee’s countrymen Steven Alker and Tim Wilkinson will need to go under the card in their second round today after they opened with a 70 and 71, respectively. Alker made four birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey during his evenpar round, which put him in a tie for 94th.

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Ready to nail it Strong debut season

By Jonathan Leask

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Andy Hamilton has had a rollercoaster few weeks and hopes for a few more highs before the rugby season ends.

He overcame a nail through the foot to start in the Combined Country Cup - his first club final - and scored a try in Methven’s win but missed last week’s opening Watters Cup clash due to the snow.

Hamilton, 24, missed the quarter-final after a nail through the foot the night before and also sat out the semifinal win over Burnham-Dunsandel-Irwell before suiting up for the final against Waihora.

“I just had to pad it up and hope for the best - and that no one stood on my feet,” Hamilton said.

It got a good workout early on when he scored a try, running off the inside of midfield partner Fa’aitu Tuamoheloa to dive under the posts during the 31-29 win. “It was the first club final I’ve ever been in. I had always been pipped at the post in semi-finals so to score and have a win was bloody good.

“It’s always a good feeling to go over under the posts and I scored it in front of my partner so it was pretty special.”

Hamilton moved south from Wanganui this year with his partner Peta and their daughters Quinn, 3, and Honor, 1, finding work as a shepherd and a place at the Methven club.

After the highs of his first final win he then missed last week’s clash with Celtic due to the snow.

“I couldn’t even get the car

out of the drive and had to help out on the farm which couldn’t be helped.”

Hamilton’s strong debut season in black and white has had him selected into the initial Mid Canterbury squad, with a potential Ranfurly Shield game in the offing later this year.

“I’d love to run out in a Ranfurly Shield game. Not many players get that opportunity.”

Hamilton has already had Heartland experience with Wanganui, on the bench in the 2009 Meads Cup win over Mid Canterbury in Christchurch.

If Hamilton can cement a place in the Heartland squad he will relish the round two trip back to Cooks Gardens.

His first priority is with his club and Hamilton returns to the fray with Methven’s back against the wall in a cut-throat Watters Cup competition that will see the top two teams play off on August 1, with no semifinals this year.

A limp loss to Celtic last week means Methven can ill-afford another if they are to reach a fourth straight final.

Southern have fallen short of the big game in the past three seasons and with renewed depth in the squad this year, they have their eyes on a big finish.

They had a disappointing and dramatic exit in the quarterfinals of the combined competition, losing to Oxford after conceding a converted try deep into injury time.

In the other Watters Cup match today, defending champions Rakaia are at home to Celtic, with the Max Gilbert Challenge Trophy up for grabs.

Methven’s Andy Hamilton on the way to the tryline during the Combined Country Cup final win over Waihora.

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Hurricanes hoping to tweak lineout By samueL White

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The Hurricanes aren’t shying away from the fact they need to improve their lineout for today’s Super Rugby semi-final against the Brumbies in Wellington.

Hurricanes lock Jeremy Thrush said they had time to focus on what had been letting them down during last week’s bye.

“We’ve had an extra week to

figure things out ... so we’re going in there with a lot of confidence,” he said.

The 30-year-old acknowledged they had failed to succeed in taking the ball during lineouts recently and needed to focus on this as a problem area.

“I won’t shy away from the fact that [during] the past three weeks we’ve been a bit rocky there,” he said.

The Brumbies operate their lineout at 91 per cent efficiency from their own throw, the equalhighest figure in the competition, while the Hurricanes have dropped to 80 per cent.

Today’s semi-final clash will be the first time the two sides will meet this season, so it is difficult to anticipate what to expect.

The Hurricanes have racked up plenty of points during their

successful campaign, while the Brumbies had the tightest defence during the regular season.

However, Thrush was confident the Hurricanes forwards would be able to overcome their previous faults and wouldn’t be distracted by what the Brumbies had to offer.

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McCaw Highlanders ready rested and to battle Waratahs restless By steve hepBurn It is going to be tough – really tough. It could come down to last man standing.

When the Highlanders play the Waratahs tonight, there is going to be some carnage. That tends to happen in semi-finals.

But Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph says his side is ready to do battle with the Waratahs in Sydney.

The team knows it is going to face a barrage of big bodies with the likes of lock Will Skelton and No 8 Wycliff Palu sure to be to the fore.

Joseph said that approach was nothing new and his side had seen it before this season.

“They are very big, very physical and very confrontational. We just have to make our tackles and win that battle,” Joseph said.

“Maybe we move their big guys around. With the size and and physicality, they have to carry that bulk around the track. If we can keep reasonable speed in our game then we may be able to create some opportunities for us.

“Every team we play against is trying to slow the ball down. It is no different this week than it was last week, and it will be next week, if we go through.

“We’ve just got to be clinical and accurate in our clean-out.

We have to make sure if we make some half-breaches or line breaks, we can create that real speed and space.

“If we have created that in the past, we have been really potent.

When we haven’t, we have been pretty average. That really is a key to the game.”

Joseph believes the Highlanders are peaking at just the right time. This is their 12th game in as many weeks, while the Wara-

we’ll be on the back foot pretty quickly,” he said.

Thrush was also wary of trying to pin down the exact problem or fault in their lineouts as he said there wasn’t a single issue they needed to improve on.

“It’s more of ... putting the comb over and going through a lot of the things that are kind of letting us down.”

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tahs had last weekend off.

“We put 40 points on the Blues and played really well against the Chiefs. I think my preference is to continue that.

“We have got momentum at the moment. We have played really well last week and we just want to continue that on.”

The Highlanders played out of their skins last week to beat the Chiefs in Dunedin and need to do that again.

They will stay true to their uptempo game and look to move the ball. It has worked all season and would be foolish to change.

All Black stars Ben Smith and Aaron Smith will, as usual, be asked to produce big performances. First five-eighth Lima Sopoaga will also be expected to show why he was named in the All Black squad last week.

But for all the power and pace in the backline, up front is where this game will be won.

Joseph said everyone had to work together if the rugged Waratahs pack was to be stopped.

“That is the challenge: back up from that performance against a real spirited Chiefs side, who

slow lifts and bad calls, he said.

“We’re making sure we get our stuff right ... so we can hit the ground running.”

Hurricanes coach Chris Boyd also acknowledged the lineout was an issue during their recent matches.

“There was a bit of soul searching around that area of our game,” Boyd said.

“We’ve put a lot of effort into it

are very similar to the Waratahs.

They are very confrontational and very direct.

“We just have to step up that level. And we have some backs who can score some tries.”

That is the Highlanders’ best hope. They do not want to get engaged into some trench warfare and have good enough players to not get sucked into going down that road.

Games at this stage of the season, and at this level, often come down to a few key moments.

Last week, against the Chiefs, a couple of sparks of brilliance from Aaron Smith and Waisake Naholo led to the winning of the game.

The Highlanders need some more of those tonight and to show some steel in defence as the Waratahs look to grind out a win.

The home side will undoubtedly miss Kurtley Beale, although it will be no surprise if he makes the field.

The Highlanders, who will wear the green away jersey, will be pleased that fine weather is forecast tonight.

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this week and we’re confident that we can be better.”

Today’s game was expected to feature a sell-out crowd, something that usually only occurs when the All Blacks are in town.

“We’ve got a full stadium behind us ... and we’ve got to feed off the energy and keep playing our game,” Thrush said.

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By the time the Samoa test rolls around next month, Richie McCaw will be forgiven for feeling a little stir crazy.

The All Blacks captain, never one to miss a match when fully fit, has been strangely inactive as the Super Rugby season bleeds into the international campaign.

This time of year is typically busy for McCaw. First, he drags the Crusaders as far as he can toward another title, then he turns his attention to crafting another impeccable season with the All Blacks.

But not in 2015. For only the second time in his 15-year career with the Crusaders, McCaw has been left watching the Super Rugby playoffs as an interested, if envious, viewer.

It’s hardly how he planned his June - running shuttles in a vacant stadium holds only so much allure - but McCaw insisted it was simple to switch his focus away from the disappointment in redand-black.

“When the team watched the [Super Rugby qualifier] last Saturday night, it was a little bit funny,” he said.

“You’d quite like to be out there but, when you’re in this camp, you sort of forget about Super Rugby and you get focused on this.

“We’ll sit back and watch the games over the weekend and it’s always the way – you wish you were out there. But it wasn’t to be, so you move onto your next thing pretty quick. And right now, after a week here, it’s all about being ready for the test season.

That’s the thing we’re thinking about.”

McCaw has certainly had plenty of time to think about the next objective. His last game for the Crusaders was on June 13 and with every high-stakes match he experiences only through a television, McCaw’s feet grow itchier.

So it’s understandable for the flanker to be raising his hand high in a bid for selection against Samoa. And it’s equally logically for Steve Hansen to grant that request without thinking twice.

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endured 25 days between runs when the All Blacks take the field in Apia - ample rest for the 34-year-old. Hansen was unequivocal when quizzed whether he would need another captain for the first test of the year and, if McCaw was less explicit about his role, there is no reason the skipper won’t be involved.

“We’ll find that out next week, but I haven’t spoken to the coaches,” McCaw said. “I haven’t played too much rugby for a couple of weeks so hopefully I get the boots on and have a run, whether it’s starting or not.”

Unless disaster strikes, it will surely be starting, and only a similar calamity will prevent McCaw from taking the No7 jersey for the majority of the All Blacks’ outings this year. Because with only five tests before the World Cup, there is hardly an abundant amount of room for experimentation, no matter how well Sam Cane performed in Super Rugby this season.

So while an idle McCaw may currently be at a loss on how to spend all his free time, he will lay dormant for only so long. And as he’s shown this week, outlasting many younger men in the All Blacks’ fitness testing, McCaw looks ready to erupt come July 8.

“Considering the amount of rugby I’ve been able to play, I feel pretty good,” he said. “There’s always a wee bit of room for improvement and we’ve got time to be able to do that as the season moves on, so we get really sharp. But for where we are at this point of the year, it’s pretty good.”

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■ AUCKLAND’S SPORTS FACILITIES

Auckland’s disappearing Auckland’s council is considering a controversial stadium reshuffle. It is nothing new. NZME’s Dylan Cleaver takes a look back at some of the great moments to have occurred at some of New Zealand’s most famous, long-lamented playgrounds.

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es White looked over his right shoulder, past the No 2 ground, across Stanley Street and up the hill to the University clock tower.

The big hand was pointing at the three, the little hand four. A 2.30pm kickoff usually meant a 4pm finish, but this was no ordinary game. Two Kiwis, Jimmy Haig and George Menzies, had fractured facial bones, the victims of French headbutts.

Play had also been held up for some time when Martin Martin, the French hooker, for minutes that seemed like hours refused to leave the field after being sent off. The 11 men of the Kiwis, no injury replacements in those days, were trailing the French 12 by one. Time was not on their side. White had a penalty attempt from the sideline. His opposite, the brilliant and irascible Puig Albert, tossed him the ball and with a Gallic shrug of his shoulders said, “No chance.” The boys sitting in the trees at the Parnell end of the ground were the first to tell White that his kick was good. The rest of the stadium followed. The Kiwis had beaten France, in 1951 indisputably the best team in the world, 16-15.

To replicate the kick now, White would have to negotiate a big obstacle, namely a student village housing some of the best and brightest at Auckland University, but if you’re a league fan who once worshipped at Carlaw Park, it will never truly leave you.

Stand, as White, 87, does now, and you can still ‘feel’ the roar from the old railway grandstand, which shook as the freight trains rattled past. You can hear the cans clanking on the concrete seats of the utilitarian stand on the domain side of the ground as the wharfies enjoyed their big day out. You can smell the stale urine as decades of punters ignored what were known as “the toilets from hell” for the convenience of the back of the stand.

There was the famous corner, at the Parnell end, that rose up

Kiwi rugby league legend Des White where the Carlaw Park goalposts used to stand.

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sharply. You can picture novice players believing that kicks would go dead, being embarrassed as the ball stopped rolling up the slope and watching helplessly as those with local knowledge pounced.

White surveys the scene. The Ponsonby stalwart now lives in Pukekohe. He hasn’t been to the site of the old park for some time.

“When did all this happen?” he says in amazement at the student village. “It’s disappointing because this was a great place for spectators. At no other ground could you get as close to the game as you did here.”

What was it like for players?

“Great… when you won. Not so good when you lost.”

It wasn’t all Lion Red and skittles for White at the park.

Great Britain centre Doug Greenall, famous for playing with plaster casts and throwing stiff arms, split his spleen in half with one tackle and, just to show how ephemeral glory can be, White played for Auckland against France two days after the famous test, missed a couple of shots and suddenly wasn’t so clever anymore.

“My father-in-law said, ‘C’mon Henry,’ – he always called me by my middle name – ‘we’re going for a drink.’ I didn’t really drink then but decided to go. We walked up to The Exchange in Parnell. We were standing next to a couple of Maori boys who’d been to the game and I heard one say to the other, ‘That White can’t kick for s***.’ “‘There you go,’ said my

Petar Sain, New Zealand and Carlton Bowling Club bowler, where Carlton Bowling Club used to be in Newmarket, Auckland.

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father-in-law, ‘You’ve lasted in the hall of fame for all of 48 hours’.”

Back in the glory days of Auckland club league, when City-Newton v Ponsonby would attract crowds of 10,000, Carlaw Park was a focal point for the mainly blue-collar community.

It meant a lot to White. It’s not trite to say he felt a spiritual attachment to the place. Now his eyes scan left and right, looking for reminders of the park.

“Progress, I suppose,” he says of the kitset village in its place.

White is not long removed from a nine-hour operation to replace a hip. He’s owned seven hips now, four on the right, three on the left. The walk can sometimes resemble a shuffle, but it’s a proud shuffle, a purposeful one.

The end of his playing career did not mean the end of sport.

He became an award-winning broadcaster on league and had

more time for his other great sporting love, bowls.

Not much than a kilometre from Carlaw Park in a straight line once stood bowling nirvana.

If you talk to the walls of the greenkeeper’s house they might whisper back. They’ve got plenty of stories to share.

Come in close. Shut your eyes and imagine a stunning timber pavilion with a balcony fit for royalty. Imagine four of the flattest, most immaculately manicured bowling rinks in the country; an oasis of green that never failed to catch the eye as you drove over the concrete ribbon of the Newmarket flyover.

“A truly charming spot, where prospect pleases and even man is not vile,” gushed the editor of Bowling News in 1912.

Imagine crisp whites, fresh cut sandwiches, cups of tea and listen as these walls recount the time, in the summer of 2004-05

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playgrounds when Ivan Marsic and Petar Sain went head to head in the Carlton Bowling Club’s singles final.

The final end, it’s 20-all. With his penultimate bowl, Marsic draws shot. Sain, pronounced Shane, the Croatian way, reaches for his last Henselite, polishes it for luck and drives, taking out the shot bowl to hold one. Marsic draws again. The crowd waits, the bias kicks in, and: “He couldn’t draw the shot – I win,” says Sain.

It was the last final ever played at the club. The property was sold to a developer. Nothing but weeds and dereliction followed. It was resold to Chinese businessman Donghua Liu, most famous for his association with former minister of the crown Maurice Williamson.

The pavilion is gone. Demolished. The greens are rubble and weed; a makeshift cemetery for road cones and debris at the back of the uninviting Boulevard Hotel.

Just the greenkeeper’s cottage survives, home to ghosts of bowlers past. But the memories of the greats who called it home are harder to destroy: like Sain, the Marsic brothers Ivan and Wally, Ivan Kostanich, Gary Lawson and “the brilliant” Connew brothers.

The club still exists, in amalgamated form, with Cornwall.

They have a lovely facility on a corner of Cornwall Park.

Not Far from the old Carlton Bowling Club, in a nice triangle with Carlaw Park, stands Duncan Ormond, on Newmarket Park, near a copse of trees in between an apologetic looking duck pond and a grassy knoll.

It is around about the spot where, after Brian Turner had thumped it up field and “some good kid from Christchurch with an Afro whose name I forget” had nodded it on, the ball squatted for Ormond.

The kid’s name was almost certainly five-cap All White Johan Verweij, the opposition was Australia, the score was 0-0 and it was Ormond’s international debut.

Ormond, now 65, shapes to kick again.

“Were you left-footed?”

“No, but I’ve got skills,” he laughs.

New Zealand scored a rare win over Australia that night, Ormond’s goal to nil. A month later, in July, 1979, the park was no longer, with a good chunk of the field and the Eastern Grandstand (which made a lie of the ‘grand’ part) having disappeared down the gully.

Aerial view of Carlaw Park, after the announcement of its $97 million stadium and re-development.

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It is difficult to imagine an international ground, one with the best floodlights in the country, there now, let alone a park that at various times hosted Spurs, Sunderland, Bournemouth, Rangers, Hearts, Norwich, Stoke, Aberdeen and Manchester United.

The western side of the park, where once stood 42 rows of concrete terraces, is now a nondescript bank and a walkway to Sarawia Street and Broadway, where worshippers of Mammon gather for the latest designer labels.

To the east is the gully that swallowed the ground and beyond that 115 Bassett Road, where Ronald Jorgensen and John Gillies brought Chicagostyle murder to New Zealand.

In front of where the Auckland Football Association offices were is now a children’s playground, with views of Hobson Bay to the north.

This is a park that is going out of its way to hide its past.

On a sign at the entrance much is made of the site’s pre-European history and the fact it was a tip before a Depression-era relief scheme turned it into a park. It then reads: “Since then the park has seen a variety of uses including athletics, midget

car racing, a golf driving range and,” afterthought coming, “a major football venue.”

It was also a ground that, in the general scheme of things, had not even been the home of Auckland football for that long.

Those long of memory and tooth, believe that the spiritual home of football in New Zealand’s biggest city is Blandford Park, a ground you’re going to have some difficulty finding unless you’re the owner of some serious earthmoving equipment.

In Grafton Gully, near the tennis courts and the interlocking junctions of Grafton Road, Wellesley Street and the motorway system, once stood the park, about 10m below the road level.

This hosted football, Grafton Cricket Club and had a cycling track around the edge for velo enthusiasts. The beauty of it, says Ormond, that like Melbourne, “you could go for a drink in the pubs in town then wander down to watch the game.

“People did not like football shifting out of town to Newmarket Park.”

But in the 1960s that is what happened, as Auckland burghers began their never-ending quest to accommodate its

Aerial of what used to be Carlaw Park, Auckland.

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rapidly growing population and their beloved cars.

In many respects, the disappearing parks and sports ground shuffles shine a light of Auckland’s uniqueness, or what historian Professor Emiritus Russell Stone calls “exceptionalism”.

A century ago, Auckland’s population was 134,000, about one-10th of what it is today.

After World War Two in particular, it started growing at a rate that was far outstripping the rest of the country.

“One of the fundamental problems was always where to distribute the people and where to locate the sports grounds,” Stone said.

Sport was no less popular, although it was far less of a business. For many Aucklanders, there were only three reasons to leave the house in the weekends – church, the movies or sport.

All three had comparatively far higher attendance in the days before television and homeentertainment systems.

They didn’t mind walking.

Auckland was, says the professor, a pedestrian city, so those in Ponsonby, on the city’s western fringe, would have thought little about walking 8km to Potter’s Paddock to see the All Blacks play their first test in

Auckland, against the AngloWelsh in 1908.

Potter’s Paddock, not to be confused with Potter’s Park, which sits on the corner of Balmoral and Dominion Roads, is on the modern-day site of Alexandra Park where, incidentally, the Blues will move their headquarters next year.

“The earliest big rugby games in the city were played on private property,” Stone says.

“People would come from town to Greenlane and play on farmer’s paddocks. Dilworth farm, which is now home to the school of the same name, was one.”

Eventually, Cabbage Tree Swamp was drained, renamed Eden Park and became home to Auckland rugby and cricket (and was protected by law, no less), but for most other sports, the city has provided, quite literally, a constantly changing landscape.

These cathedrals are gone now. Some, like Blandford Park and Newmarket Park, mostly forgotten, others, like Carlaw Park, still lamented.

As Auckland twists and bends to accommodate more people, more cars, more houses, it would be foolish to think that where we go to worship now will still be there tomorrow.

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Whangarei gallops Today at Ruakaka

Fields for Whangarei RC meeting at Ruakaka today. NZ Meeting number: 2. 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 10.45am (NZT) COWLEY’S HIRE CENTRE R85 2100 $20,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2100m 1 708x9 Canterino td (3) 59 ..................S McKay (a3) 2 00x00 Savanah Rush 58......................... Scratched 3 x2080 Uncle Shayne tdmh (6) 56.5 4 x4511 Smedley tdm (4) 56............L Magorrian (a2) 5 42722 Endorsement d (7) 55 ................G Cooksley 6 534x4 Kidnapped tdm (2) 54 .............B Hutton (a2) 7 x7883 Radar tdh (5) 54 ..........................T Thornton 8 80099 Bachelor’s Dream (1) 54 .............C Lammas 2 11.15am TAVISTOCK SYNDICATE OWNERS 2YO 1000 $17,500, 2YO SW+P, 1000m 1 25x Amarula (13) 57 ......................S McKay (a3) 2 00x65 The Dark Knight (2) 57...............G Cooksley 3 Mongolian Warrior h (10) 57 ......M Cameron 4 6. Rule The World (9) 57 ................. D Johnson 5 Majic El (4) 57 .............................T Thornton 6 3x31 Sheradream m (3) 56.5 ...........B Hutton (a2) 7 2 Night Fever (11) 55 ............L Magorrian (a2) 8 5x3 Deviant Miss (7) 55 ................. R Smyth (a1) 9 4x Irdy’s Girl h (5) 55........................C Lammas 10 4x Vicar’s Daughter (8) 55 ...................S Collett 11 5 Sacred Desire (14) 55 .......................L Innes 12 6x Suggestions (12) 55 .......................V Colgan 13 0 Seattle 55 ..................................... Scratched 14 9x National Asset (6) 57 .........................M Hills 15 76x77 Infiraaj (1) 55 Emergencies: Seattle, National Asset, Infiraaj 3 11.45am WHANGAREI LOVE IT HERE 3YO MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 6222. Where Theres Smoke b (11) 57.5 ...R Smyth (a1) 2 x0432 He’s Cavalier (17) 57.5....... J Whiteside (a3) 3 24 All Roads (12) 57.5 .........................S Collett

M6 Fields for Waipa RC meeting at Te Awamutu tomorrow.

NZ Meeting number: 6. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 10.55am (NZT) FARMERS DAY MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 34434 Louvres h (10) 58.5 ............. M Dravitzki (a1) 2 963 Real Winners (1) 58.5 ...................M McNab 3 084 Goldchi (11) 58.5 ........................T Thornton 4 5 Blue Pool Blur (8) 58.5 ....................S Collett 5 050x0 Lotus Laud h (6) 58.5 ...................... R Jones 6 6 Shantav (14) 58.5 ...................S McKay (a3) 7 0 Buster Abbott h (4) 58.5 .................. C Grylls 8 30x30 Caileag (7) 56.5 ...................... R Smyth (a1) 9 4x244 Laaffaire (16) 56.5 ....................... D Johnson 10 4 Mariposa h (3) 56.5 ............L Magorrian (a2) 11 6 Lady Ferner h (13) 56.5 .............M Sweeney 12 x6680 In Memory Of (12) 56.5 .................P Holmes 13 50x8 My Shantilly (2) 56.5 ................A Jones (a2) 14 260x7 Nulla Creek (5) 56.5 ................B Hutton (a2) 15 6889x Tinged With Gold (15) 56.5 ........R Elliot (a4) 16 099 Trisha (17) 56.5 17 86 Two Gee’s h (9) 58.5 18 9 Who’s Laughing Now 56.5 ........... Scratched Emergencies: Tinged With Gold, Trisha, Two Gee’s, Who’s Laughing Now 2 11.30am 100TH ANNIVERSAY WAIPA 4 OCTOBER 2015 MDN 1150 $7000, MDN, 1150m 1 73x Lucky Boy (1) 58.5 .....................V Gatu (a3) 2 3 Theverdict (11) 58.5 ....................T Thornton 3 90x30 Don’t Stop Me Now (8) 58.5....S McKay (a3) 4 0x Blacklisted (10) 58.5 ............... R Smyth (a1)

M3 Fields for Auckland Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Manukau Stadium tomorrow. NZ Meeting number: 3.

Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 2.39pm (NZT) GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C2/3, 318m 1 11133 Fresco Star 18.66........................B Littlejohn 2 18665 Toxic Revenge 18.75 U & ..................Cottam 3 35558 Where’s Carlos 18.62 R &...........N O’Regan 4 76126 Speed Lorde 18.49 ...........................B Craik 5 52544 Winfield Winter 18.57 ...................M Roberts 6 43314 Multicam Lad 18.45....................D Schofield 7 84828 English Honey 18.55 R & ............N O’Regan 8 42228 Sacred Can You 18.63 R & .........N O’Regan 9 76877 Bee Rabbit 18.61 .............................T Agent 10 53354 Asta 18.76 .....................................A Cleaver 2 2.57pm AGRC REWARDS STAKES C0, 527m 1 x8863 Herschke nwtd ................................P Green 2 35372 Chateau Neuf nwtd .........................P Green 3 5 Tepirita Avedon nwtd ........................T Agent 4 52 April’s My Mum nwtd ....................... T Green 5 57884 Jetsun Royal nwtd ..........................G Wilson 6 6 Jetsun Desire nwtd ........................G Wilson 7 34684 Hugglemonster nwtd .................... H Mullane 8 22263 Cookie Monster nwtd ........................B Craik 3 3.15pm PLASTERBOARD LTD STAKES C2, 527m

4 42 Fortius (19) 57.5............................P Holmes 5 8x772 Scandinavian 57.5 ....................... Scratched 6 2 Silencer h (7) 57.5......................M Cameron 7 4. Sasanof’s Hero (8) 57.5 .............G Cooksley 8 Lancaster (1) 57.5 ....................... D Johnson 9 x372x Palace Talk b (13) 55.5......................L Innes 10 4x Escalate (3) 55.5 .....................B Hutton (a2) 11 x7644 Jehanne (15) 55.5 ...................S McKay (a3) 12 05x8x Malala h (6) 55.5 .........................T Thornton 13 Katie Taylor (14) 55.5 .........L Magorrian (a2) 14 6 Katango (18) 55.5 .......................C Lammas 15 Tommy Brock (4) 57.5 ....................V Colgan 16 8 Bannerman (10) 57.5 17 8 Rico h (16) 57.5 18 0 Bulawayo h (2) 57.5 19 0x07. Onetangi (9) 55.5 20 50x89 Hardy’s Revenge (5) 57.5 Emergencies: Tommy Brock, Bannerman, Rico, Bulawayo, Onetangi, Hardy’s Revenge 4 12.15pm A’FARE CATERERS R85 1400 $20,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 20323 Airfield Road m (6) 60.5 ..........S McKay (a3) 2 12451 Makarska td (3) 58 ..................B Hutton (a2) 3 6x476 Grey Power dm (4) 57 4 857x9 Faraway Eyes tmh (5) 56 ....A Schwerin (a3) 5 06x54 The Last Shower d (8) 54.5.........T Thornton 6 3x039 Elysium tmb (2) 54 .....................M Cameron 7 45898 Zero Tua Hundred d (7) 54 ..............S Collett 8 87127 The Rich Lister td (1) 54 ...............P Holmes 9 61501 Valante t (9) 54............................ D Johnson 5 12.50pm NORTHLAND BUSINESS SYSTEMS MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 8x720 Super Ready h (11) 58.5............M Cameron 2 86 Two Gee’s (8) 58.5 ......................T Thornton 3 4x680 Heartnsoul 58.5 ........................... Scratched 4 x8000 Jet Fighter 58.5 ............................ Scratched 5 8x Lord And Master h (5) 58.5 .............S Collett 6 587 Most Likely 58.5 ........................... Scratched 7 0 Stabikraft (6) 58.5 .......................C Lammas

8 8x322 Big Dreamer b (7) 56.5 ..................V Colgan 9 07592 Fort Street Dancer (10) 56.5L Magorrian (a2) 10 x4704 Hapi Girl h (2) 56.5.................. R Smyth (a1) 11 x0040 Belle Volant (4) 56.5 ............A Schwerin (a3) 12 6 Prosperity (1) 56.5 ...................... D Johnson 13 2070x Silver Tips (3) 56.5 ..................B Hutton (a2) 14 0x08. Stunner (9) 56.5 ............S McKay (a3) 15 55232 Justified 56.5 ................................ Scratched Emergency: Justified 6 1.26pm WHANGAREI BUS SERVICES MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 3x035 Flavouring (12) 58.5 ............A Schwerin (a3) 2 33 Bloodstream (14) 58.5 ................T Thornton 3 9Dx45 Serengetti Sun h (6) 58.5 ............ D Johnson 4 x3730 Yeah Bro h (7) 58.5 .......................P Holmes 5 36x57 Enure (13) 58.5 ..........................G Cooksley 6 000x King Tute h (1) 58.5 ................. R Smyth (a1) 7 8x7 Pro Fumo (11) 58.5 ............L Magorrian (a2) 8 97. Star Choice (3) 58.5 .......................V Colgan 9 09x23 Opulent b (9) 56.5 ......................M Cameron 10 20x53 Ice Cool (4) 56.5 ......................A Jones (a2) 11 0x067 Amparo h (2) 56.5 ...................B Hutton (a2) 12 0 Rock Rose (8) 56.5 .........................S Collett 13 06x07 Thunderbird Three (5) 56.5 14 7 Zastella (10) 56.5 ..............................L Innes 15 55232 Justified 56.5 ................................ Scratched Emergency: Justified 7 2.06pm WHANGAREI ITM OPEN HANDICAP 1600 $25,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 1 588x6 The Jungle Boy tdm (4) 59 2 910x7 Bechtolsheimer tdm (1) 57 ..............S Collett 3 46x63 Biologist tdm (6) 56.5 ....................P Holmes 4 5x055 Pan Dulce tdm (8) 54.5 ............. R Smyth (a) 5 6x476 Grey Power dm (7) 54.5 ..............C Lammas 6 12382 North Of Sunset d (10) 54........... D Johnson 7 84246 Secret’s Only dm (2) 54 8 06x54 The Last Shower d (9) 54............T Thornton 9 88552 Loves The Show h (5) 54 ...........M Cameron 10 x2080 Uncle Shayne tdmh (3) 54 ...L Magorrian (a)

8 2.41pm WAIPU N TARTAN 2015 R65 1200 $17,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 1x9x5 Rockwell db (1) 59 ............................L Innes 2 41803 Twin Fighter (4) 58 ........................ R Norvall 3 76818 Al Pacino td (2) 57.5................S McKay (a3) 4 11743 Midnight Mistress d (9) 57..L Magorrian (a2) 5 1x06 Cookie Monster td (5) 57 ............ D Johnson 6 61329 Garland td (10) 56.5 7 82x1x Ireland’s Teardrop (6) 56.5 .............V Colgan 8 36933 Silver City tm (13) 56.5........A Schwerin (a3) 9 x00x0 Priority (7) 56 ..............................T Thornton 10 316. Touch The Sky h (8) 55.5 ...........M Cameron 11 x4404 Overnightsensation tdh (14) 55R Smyth (a1) 12 7x966 Huckleberry Flyer h (11) 55 ........C Lammas 13 576x4 Flavigny (3) 54.5 ........................G Cooksley 14 48x80 Pinzano (12) 54...............................S Collett 9 3.16pm BNI B*NSPIRED WHANGAREI R75 1200 $18,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 79103 Belial tdm (8) 59 .................L Magorrian (a2) 2 88722 First Class d (13) 59 3 120x1 Haddon Hall tdm (2) 57.5 ............T Thornton 4 x1544 Vibrant Moss d (4) 57....................P Holmes 5 3x68x Piazzetta (9) 56.5 ....................B Hutton (a2) 6 91301 Queen Of Navarre tdm (6) 56 .S McKay (a3) 7 70x11 In Flight tdh (3) 56 ......................M Cameron 8 05660 Airman td (10) 55.5 ........................V Colgan 9 4x77x Clubs Choice td (11) 55 10 x6285 Willing Spirit 55 ............................ Scratched 11 714x3 Charlie Farley t (12) 55 .......A Schwerin (a3) 12 00x16 Aimees Babe tdh (1) 54 .......... R Smyth (a1) 13 14x4x Zuccato d (5) 54 .......................... D Johnson 14 x1082 Diamond Rose dm (7) 54 .........A Jones (a2) 10 3.51pm ROB HARTE LAWYER SUPPORTING RUAKAKA CHARITY R65 $17,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 1 Hasselhoof th (8) 59...................M Cameron 2 3x426 River Raider th (1) 59 ..................C Lammas 3 7x921 Counting House t (11) 58.5 .....B Hutton (a2)

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40x88 Royal Sceptre tdm (4) 58.5 ......A Jones (a2) 45x34 Aurora Lights d (7) 57.5 .............. D Johnson x5493 Budwiser (2) 57.5 ........................T Thornton 2x10x Oscar Legend (3) 57.5 .......L Magorrian (a2) 7x405 Sonic Jet (5) 57.5 ...........................V Colgan 650x9 Rich Ted (6) 56.5 .....................S McKay (a3) x2x00 Secret Lily 56 ............................... Scratched 50x47 Sea Of Speed 55.5 ...................... Scratched 13566 Capriella d (9) 55 ..............................L Innes 80x07 Our Daisy (10) 54............................S Collett 90x99 Carnelian Lights 54 ...................... Scratched 4.31pm COWLEY’S HIRE CENTRE R65 1600

$17,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 x2172 Finns Halo dh (4) 59 ..................... R Norvall 2 7x182 Charlie Pride h (8) 58.5 ......L Magorrian (a2) 3 x3150 Playboy Prince h (5) 58.5 ..............P Holmes 4 17591 Ana d (11) 57.5 ..........................M Cameron 5 5x177 Mister Tom (7) 57.5 ...........................L Innes 6 2x496 The Mig t (13) 57.5......................T Thornton 7 9x862 Zafrenzy dh (12) 56............................M Hills 8 6x3x8 Bill Breaker h (14) 56 .....................V Colgan 9 68x75 Businessman (2) 56 ........................S Collett 10 100x0 Eight To Rule (6) 56 ................B Hutton (a2) 11 0150x Queenoftheamazon d (9) 55.5 .... D Johnson 12 9600x Cast A Spell m (3) 54.5 ........... R Smyth (a1) 13 44x57 Savabella Rose (10) 54...............C Lammas 14 05x60 Our Queen Bee mh (1) 54 ..A Schwerin (a3) Blinkers on : Sacred Desire (R2), Bannerman, Rico, Hardy’s Revenge (R3), Lord And Master, Stabikraft (R5), Serengetti Sun, Star Choice, Zastella (R6), Priority (R8), Our Daisy (R10) Blinkers off : Elysium (R4), Royal Sceptre (R10) Winkers on : All Roads (R3), Elysium (R4), Big Dreamer (R5), Counting House, Royal Sceptre, Aurora Lights (R10) Winkers off : Palace Talk, Hardy’s Revenge (R3), Stabikraft (R5), Star Choice (R6)

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La Vamos h (4) 58.5 .......................... D Hain Viaago (7) 58.5 ............................... C Grylls 6243x Charleston Girl (5) 56.5..............M Cameron 698x2 Ventura (9) 56.5 ............................M McNab 655x Chachar h (3) 56.5 ............R Goldsbury (a3) Miss Mitra 56.5............................. Scratched 0 El Encanto h (6) 56.5 ..........A Schwerin (a3) 4000x The Secret’s Out h (2) 56.5 ......... D Johnson 3 12.00pm MAGNUM INDUSTRY MAIDEN 1150 $7000, MDN, 1150m 1 32 Mr Luigi b (10) 58.5 2 4 Bransome h (6) 58.5 ......................... D Hain 3 47. Macedon (13) 58.5 .....................R Elliot (a4) 4 x885x Wickedly h (3) 58.5 .........................S Collett 5 00x65 Zedsational (1) 58.5 ...........L Magorrian (a2) 6 Harry’s Command h (5) 58.5........... C Grylls 7 09x70 Kauri Man (8) 58.5 ..................S McKay (a3) 8 5325x Malina h (12) 56.5 ............... M Dravitzki (a1) 9 x3265 Tranky Doo b (7) 56.5 ................. D Johnson 10 Lolotea h (9) 56.5 ..........................M McNab 11 5x087 Rarooney (4) 56.5 .......................T Thornton 12 9. Who’s Laughing Now h (2) 56.5B Hutton (a2) 13 00. Won By One (11) 56.5..........V Gatu (a3) 4 12.35pm KITCHEN EQUATION MAIDEN 2000 $7000, MDN, 2000m 1 40209 Ready To Rumble (2) 58.5 ..........T Thornton 2 080x0 Southernman (1) 58.5 ................R Elliot (a4) 3 007x0 Eyeslucky (7) 58.5..............................M Hills 4 P523x Ima Dancer m (10) 58.5 .......... R Smyth (a1) 5 6x098 Sir Al Syd (3) 58.5 ........................... C Grylls 6 47x00 The Hawk (9) 58.5 ........................P Holmes 7 55232 Justified (6) 56.5 ...........................M McNab

8 2x08. Special Unit (12) 56.5 .............B Hutton (a2) 9 80448 Four Day High (4) 56.5.................... R Jones 10 Beach Babe (8) 56.5 ..........L Magorrian (a2) 11 08090 Bixby h (5) 56.5 ........................... D Johnson 12 8960. Shimmy (11) 56.5............................S Collett 5 1.10pm QUBIK RATING 65 2000 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 0x538 Henry Tudor m (12) 59 ................ D Johnson 2 8x008 St Saturnin m (5) 57.5 ..................... C Grylls 3 10x00 Deagon m (4) 57 ...........................M McNab 4 8x706 Varro td (7) 57 ......................... R Smyth (a1) 5 x6150 Darting tm (6) 56 .....................S McKay (a3) 6 9x007 St Rhythm mh (14) 56 ........L Magorrian (a2) 7 96065 Bagsagold (13) 55.5........................ R Jones 8 08789 The Nott (11) 55.5 .............R Goldsbury (a3) 9 80842 Running Scared (3) 55 ....................S Collett 10 875x9 Sophisticate (1) 54.5 ................A Jones (a2) 11 00P0x Southern Countess dm (10) 54.5A Schwerin (a3) 12 08x00 Magic Memories (8) 54 ..............V Gatu (a3) 13 00304 Dahls Delight 54........................... Scratched 14 09877 Labels (9) 54 ...........................B Hutton (a2) 15 6x006 Istimagic m (2) 55.5 ....................T Thornton Emergency: Istimagic 6 1.40pm JF GRYLLS MEMORIAL CLASSIC RATING 75 2000 $12,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2000m 1 55175 Reka mh (6) 59.5 ............................ C Grylls 2 28x16 Letmeby dm (8) 59 ...................A Jones (a2) 3 4x803 The Shackler tm (5) 58 ...........B Hutton (a2) 4 17x00 Forbidden dm (4) 56.5................M Cameron 5 38219 Thee Achiever b (1) 55................ D Johnson 6 Px704 Flavour Flav dm (10) 55 .....................M Hills 7 3x374 Raisafuasho tdm (7) 55...........S McKay (a3)

8 64323 Secretary Of State h (2) 54 .........T Thornton 9 8x347 Te Kingi tdm (9) 54 ..........................S Collett 10 x0070 Heistheone (3) 54 ................... R Smyth (a1) 7 2.14pm EDWARDS ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD R75 1150 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1150m 1 687x2 Mr Knowitall m (11) 59 ............S McKay (a3) 2 7x760 Alice Webb Ellis d (8) 58.5 .......A Jones (a2) 3 x0614 Conrwin tdmh (10) 58.5 ......A Schwerin (a3) 4 18557 Eveready (2) 58...........................T Thornton 5 020x7 The Canon h (5) 57.5 .......... M Dravitzki (a1) 6 01350 Back On Song m (9) 57 .............R Elliot (a4) 7 67133 Shebang tdmh (1) 57 .................M Cameron 8 1335x Summer Dale dm (7) 56.5..........V Gatu (a3) 9 x3915 Princess Nicole tdm (3) 56 .......... D Johnson 10 x519x Silento mh (6) 55...........................M McNab 11 x0607 Pogue tdm (4) 54 ....................B Hutton (a2) 8 2.49pm POWER FARMING RATING 75 1580 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1580m 1 x6484 Mistaar m (8) 59 2 8x633 Nottoobad m (3) 57.5 ..................T Thornton 3 x4141 Fast Catch m (7) 57 ................ R Smyth (a1) 4 6P566 High Society (4) 56.5 5 28314 Divine Shiva mb (5) 55 6 89x70 Fair Fleet m (6) 54.5................B Hutton (a2) 7 0x009 Gwynedd m (1) 54 ...................... D Johnson 8 010x8 Maranui (2) 54.................................S Collett 9 3.24pm PGG WRIGHTSONS RATING 65 1400 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 51800 Torricella dm (1) 59 ....................R Elliot (a4) 2 309x9 Apachee Taat d (3) 58 .............B Hutton (a2) 3 37251 Aranmore (4) 58 .............................. C Grylls

71497 Raaj d (8) 57.5 ................................S Collett 30840 Bachata h (10) 57 ..............L Magorrian (a2) 63864 Edward The Eighth dm (7) 56 ..... D Johnson 62585 O’Reilly’s Gold d (6) 55.5 ...........V Gatu (a3) 0x263 Buffalo Lass m (9) 55 ...............A Jones (a2) 75586 Nighean m (11) 55 .................. R Smyth (a1) 100x5 Raisedinasandpit m (2) 54.5 ......M Cameron 7490x Edith Piaf (5) 54.5 .........................M McNab 05x60 Our Queen Bee 54.5 .................... Scratched 10 3.59pm TE AWAMUTU TYRE CENTRE RATING 65 1400 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 0666x Mihaia dm (9) 59 ......................... D Johnson 2 000x1 Heeza Dreimer dm (3) 58 ........A Jones (a2) 3 50x61 Sir Francis d (6) 57.5.....................M McNab 4 00x64 He’s A Bigdeel (10) 56.5 ............M Cameron 5 7x750 Repulse Bay h (1) 55 .......... M Dravitzki (a1) 6 090x0 Cape Mapperley (2) 54.5 ................ C Grylls 7 07x90 Dark Gem dm (8) 54.5 ........A Schwerin (a3) 8 680x0 Rustana dm (7) 54 ..................B Hutton (a2) 9 60783 Alezan (4) 54..............................R Elliot (a4) 10 940x8 Checkoutthemisses m (12) 54 ...V Gatu (a3) 11 89997 Doucette dm (5) 54 .........................S Collett 12 00769 I’mdaone mh (11) 54 ......................... D Hain 13 8x377 Manaia Rose (13) 54 ...................... R Jones Blinkers on : Laaffaire, In Memory Of, Trisha (R1), El Encanto (R2), Macedon (R3), Four Day High (R4), Forbidden (R6), Edith Piaf (R9), Dark Gem, I’mdaone (R10) Blinkers off : Zedsational (R3), Heistheone (R6), Gwynedd (R8) Winkers on : Buster Abbott (R1), Gwynedd (R8) Winkers off : Trisha (R1), Four Day High (R4), I’mdaone (R10)

1 75356 Uncle Romilly 30.79 ..........................B Craik 2 86688 Zipping Orrick 30.40 M & ................. J Smith 3 67182 Mockingjay 30.86 ..............................B Craik 4 33267 Fortis Flier 30.74 U & ........................Cottam 5 28653 Lucky Man 30.53...............................B Craik 6 31477 Let’s Go Lettie 30.25 .................... H Mullane 7 32131 Jetsun Quaker 30.59......................G Wilson 8 84727 Carat’s Prince 30.58 W & ................T Steele 9 6647x Elephant Trunk 30.86 ..................... G Farrell 9 5.14pm MTA GIFT VOUCHERS STAKES C1, 527m 1 36473 Bangkok Honey nwtd .....................P Henley 2 57676 Jetsun Jinny nwtd ..........................G Wilson 3 22476 Thrilling Evie nwtd U & ..........................Bliek 4 25667 Percentage Girl 30.97 .................L Laagland 5 27263 Opawa Pearl 30.91 R & ..............N O’Regan 6 4513 Bohaba Girl 30.81 ........................... T Green 7 63555 Viking Cruiser nwtd M &................... J Smith 8 87638 Carolina Moon nwtd .........................T Agent 9 43758 Zalia 30.85 W &...............................T Steele 10 454x8 Jetsun Lord Jon 30.96 ...................G Wilson 10 5.31pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS STAKES C4/5, 527m 1 52316 Jannik 30.23...............................D Schofield 2 66415 Sharella 30.45 ...................................B Craik 3 11212 Untraceable 30.33 ......................D Schofield 4 34241 Premier Osti 30.51 ............................C Hore 5 45317 Good Return 30.31 ....................D Schofield

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81237 Joe Joe 30.13 B &.............................. Steele 27414 Spanish Fancy 30.24 .................D Schofield 24184 Pretty Chic 30.37 .......................D Schofield 27435 Indi Rhode 30.71 W & .....................T Steele 56473 Manyana Groper nwtd......................T Agent

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32777 Hashtag Josh 18.28 ..........................B Craik 78662 Tee Kay Yapper 18.29 ...................... S Clark 88383 Miss Universe 18.44 R &.............N O’Regan 14772 Ngauruhoe 18.54 G & ..................... J Clarke 44441 Festival Miss 18.36 .................... G Pomeroy 67455 Rotovegas Sparky 18.55 .................S Payne 25465 Atoonga Air 18.45 ........................... T Green 73154 Lola’s Quest 18.64 ............................B Bond 85647 Armed Forces nwtd ......................M Roberts 88888 Aldonza nwtd ................................. I George

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14121 Sometime Soon 18.49 ......................B Craik 63644 Contemporaneous 18.57 R & .....N O’Regan 36322 Frankincense 18.67.......................H R Scott 78438 Fortis Fiona 18.65 U & ......................Cottam 35564 Carter Cash nwtd R & .................N O’Regan x3211 Gumbalanya 18.52 .........................P Henley 22263 Cyclone Lusi 18.64 U & ....................Cottam 21162 Peaknuckle 18.49......................... H Mullane 83454 Thrilling Orla 18.76 P & ................. J Cleaver 63555 Viking Cruiser nwtd M &................... J Smith

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Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 1 24824 Tennessee Smile nwtd ......................C Hore 2 45222 Who Dat Boy 30.64 ...................... H Mullane 3 61743 What That Does 30.55 .................... T Green 4 23652 Mrs. Punting 30.48 W & ..................T Steele 5 11846 Who You 30.99 ............................. H Mullane 6 42137 Montana 30.68 ................................P Green 7 55336 Artic Rouge 30.83 W & ...................T Steele 8 47464 Bloo Bloomers 30.67........................ S Clark 4 3.45pm DOGZONE SPRINT C2, 318m 1 35184 Lord De Air 18.52 U & ...........................Bliek 2 21546 Aconagua 19.16 G &....................... J Clarke 3 22222 Popcorn Sutton nwtd.........................C Hore 4 75185 Heza Carlos 18.66 ....................... M J Lozell 5 56618 All In All 18.45 U & ............................Cottam 6 14233 Jack McCoy nwtd ...........................P Henley 7 75871 War On Terror 18.95 R &.............N O’Regan 8 57327 Cawbourne Teash nwtd................M Roberts 9 33178 Opawa Venus 18.81 B & .................... Steele 10 65178 Thrilling Brave nwtd U &....................Cottam 5 4.03pm DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT C4, 318m 1 88621 Call Me Blue 18.41.....................K R Toomer 2 24438 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 3 87148 Our Jack Attack 18.62 .................. M J Lozell 4 41854 Jay Low 18.46 .................................. S Clark 5 11256 Kissen Run 18.43 M & ..................... J Smith 6 12578 Rotovegas Rara 18.45 ....................S Payne

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Japanese restaurant opens its doors

BY SUE NEWMAN SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The latest addition to Ashburton’s dining scene opened its doors last night to invited guests who tested and tasted a comprehensive menu of Japanese food.

Miyabi Japanese Restaurant will officially open its doors to the public on Tuesday, but owner Ton Kittikote opted to put months of planning to the test before welcoming paying customers.

Diners were able to choose from an extensive menu, with staff happy to make suggestions.

Many opted for shared plates of starters before choosing

their mains.

Miyabi comes complete with a teppanyaki dining area as well as traditional dining spaces.

From the moment you walk into Miyabi there is absolutely no doubt you have walked into a Japanese inspired space with beautifully themed wall panels and dark walls and ceilings. Atmospheric and inviting.

Thursday night might have been a dress rehearsal for the main event, but there was very little that needed tweaking.

The food was superb, and the hospitality warm.

Miyabi is in the heart of the Redpath complex on the northern end of Ashburton’s East Street.

Left – Happy diners test driving the menu at Ashburton’s new Japanese restaurant Miyabi.

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Global equity markets Taking a look at the equity markets, the weaker economic

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backdrop and uplift in bond rates meant equity returns were generally modest over the past three months.

US equities tend to drift in the six months leading into the first hike of a tightening cycle and this year seems to be no different.

Elsewhere, of the markets we follow, Hong Kong and Japan were the strongest.

Australian and NZ equity markets Australian equities underperformed in most markets.

The healthcare sector weakened during March and April largely due to share price fundamentals becoming a little stretched, while banks came under pressure as regulators continued to signal the need for higher capital requirements.

Resources were the best performers, recovering on the back of a bounce in commodity prices.

New Zealand equity market returns were slightly weaker over the quarter, where a number of stocks with stretched fundamentals declined.

Fixed interest market Looking at the fixed interest markets, with global inflation remaining low, it is difficult to see short or longer-term interest rates lifting significantly from current levels.

Locally, the big move this month was a cut of 25 basis points to New Zealand’s Official Cash Rate, which took many on the market by surprise.

Low growth and a lower milk pay-out are major reasons behind this and we could see further cuts going forward unless economic conditions change significantly.

This is great for borrowers, but harder for investors reliant on income.

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman are Authorised Financial Advisers with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton. This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice.

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ecent global economic growth has been weaker than expected.

European growth rates remain extremely modest, although business and consumer confidence levels have returned to near the highs of last year.

Time, however, is running out for Europe’s most indebted country, Greece. The deadline for adherence to the bail-out funding package is fast approaching.

At the same time United States economic growth has been dented by a stronger US dollar, while weaker oil prices have hit the energy sector.

We believe the consequences and potential risks of further US dollar strength are likely to result in the Federal Reserve removing monetary policy accommodation more slowly than otherwise.

Chinese growth has also fallen below official targets. As has occurred elsewhere, authorities are relaxing monetary policies to boost the economy.

Their reserve ratios are still well above the lows of 7.5 per cent during the Global Financial Crisis, so there remains ample room to lower ratio requirements as a means of boosting money supply.

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OUR VIEW

Climate change frustration Stu Oldham

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t is a measure of the desperation some feel about climate change that protestors risked kneecapping their cause by brazenly breaching Parliament security.

Four Greenpeace protestors this week clambered up the old parliament building to unfurl a banner and pitch solar panels to criticise sustained government inaction.

It was a publicity stunt for an issue that gets plenty of publicity, but it certainly proved a group frustrated about climate change is, well, still frustrated about climate change.

It was never meant to change government policy and it was never going to open new eyes to the role governments should play in averting a slow-moving catastrophe.

At best, it was meant to get climate change back on the news agenda, to give some added spice to an issue that, for some, is either too big to fathom or too remote to seem true.

The protestors spent a chunk of Thursday on the ledge before coming down to be arrested. By then, the discussion was much more about security than climate change.

Even Greens co-leader Metiria Turei was worried the breach should not be symptomatic of security problems at Parliament.

And so the politicians sidestepped climate change to focus on security, demonising the protest when they should have been vexed by fossil fuels and bovine flatus.

Greenpeace targeted Parliament for all sorts of reasons, but chief among them is that our politicians have a case to answer in their response to climate change.

The National-led Government accepts human activity influences climate change but, overall, New Zealand rates poorly on some measures of climate change policy and emissions performance.

Like others, it has settled for incremental improvements rather than wholesale change, underpinned by the sense New Zealand should not be penalised for being an early adopter.

So it should be no surprise that the short, sharp protest has simply highlighted it is easier to focus on fixing parliamentary security than moving swiftly to tackle climate change.

YOUR VIEW ATS loyalty I read with interest your article in the Guardian a few days ago (June 22) about a farmer who was leaving ATS. I assumed to start off with that he was an arable farmer, but seeing that he intended to join CRT Farmlands I must have been wrong in my assumption.

CRT Farmlands are a major seller of PKE and also a large user of imported feed grains from Australia, and only last October Glencore Grains boat imported 5000 tonnes of feed grain for them, and an additional 5000 tonnes of grain for Westons!

Thus, resulting in a lot of arable farmers having grain left in their silos at the beginning of the harvest season.

I, as a second generation ATS

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farmer, would cease to be a member if ATS were to merge with CRT Farmlands and contrary to the remarks made by the farmer, I believe that ATS has remained loyal to its core business.

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Cultural spend How amazing! The average donation to the [Ashburton] Museum from 5732 visitors was 21c – and the 2560 visitors to the [Ashburton] Art Gallery gave an average of 9c (Council budgets, Your View, June 25).

Tell me – do they give change? This must go a long way in paying the staff who are getting $7000 a week between the six of them according to [Ashburton District] Council figures.

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B

efore heading to the US last month, my ideas about the place came almost exclusively from CSI, with a little Breaking Bad thrown in for good measure.

Naturally I was expecting to come across multiple crime scenes, drug-dealing chemistry teachers and Horatio Kane look-alikes peering over their sunglasses as they nutted out ways to snare the latest killer.

Of course, that’s about as sensible as basing your views on Auckland solely on Highway re-runs (it’s not all like that in the big city, I promise). Still, my four weeks in the dairy heartland of the US were a real eye-opener – and not only because murder mysteries were nowhere to be seen.

The first surprising thing was that there actually is a dairy capital of the US – Wisconsin proudly announces this fact on every state numberplate.

I have to admit that I never actually saw a real live cow during my stay in Milwaukee, but the abundance of ice cream and frozen custard, complemented by the display of full-size fibreglass cows at the local dairy bar more than made up for that fact.

What else was surprising?

Well, the number of large things, for a start. The US does have a reputation for excess, but I had hitherto been under the

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Hanging out in a giant baseball glove that rivals the Rakaia Salmon.

impression that things like giant gumboots and carrots were the domain of Kiwiana. In fact, the Rakaia salmon would’ve looked right at home in the local baseball stadium, amongst the giant mitt and racing sausages. That’s right, racing sausages. The five oversized bangers took off in a sprint around the stadium just after the sixth innings, attracting the loudest cheers of the entire game.

Going to a baseball game was quite a cultural experience in itself – the drumrolls and giant TV screens were great prompts for when to cheer, but it was the other spectators who put on the best show - cheese-shaped hats were the order of the day (dairy capital, remember).

It was also at the baseball stadium that I came across a new definition of the word tailgate.

In Wisconsin, this refers to a barbecue party out the back of

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As someone who abhors traffic jams, you can understand why I was initially hesitant about “going tailgating” – cheese curd and sausages put paid to any doubts.

All in all, I’ve learnt that the US is a much tastier, less lethal place than I imagined, and that large things are a great talking point in many parts of the globe.

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In brief

■ SYRIA

Bailout stalemate Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with the leaders of France and Germany yesterday as talks on getting his country more loans were due to extend into the weekend ahead of a debt deadline looming next week. With Greece facing a potential debt default on Tuesday, European leaders have demanded finance ministers from eurozone countries reach an agreement today on the reforms Greece needs to make to unfreeze its bailout loans. Meeting on the sidelines of a European summit, Tsipras told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande that Greece “doesn’t understand the insistence of the institutions on such harsh measures,” a Greek government official said.

- AP

Unwitting assistance A US prison guard who admitted giving two inmates tools, paint, frozen hamburger and access to a catwalk electrical box says he didn’t know the killers planned to break out, and investigators say they have no reason to believe he was knowingly involved in the plot.

Gene Palmer was released on $25,000 bail yesterday after his arrest on charges of promoting prison contraband, tampering with evidence and official misconduct.

Palmer, who has been suspended, will plead not guilty, his lawyer said.

- AP Turkish soldiers stand as smoke billows from the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab or Kobani following the attacks by IS militants as seen from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Turkey.

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IS kills 120 civilians in Kobane At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monitoring group says.

“According to medical sources and Kobane residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS in their homes or killed by the group’s rockets or snipers,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

He described it as one of the

group’s “worst massacres” in Syria.

Another 26 civilians were executed by IS on Thursday in a village near Kobane, on the border with Turkey, the Observatory said.

“When they entered the town, the jihadists took up positions in buildings at the southeast and southwest entrances, firing at everything that moved,” Abdel Rahman said.

He said the bodies of civil-

ians, among them women and children, were found in their homes and in the streets.

“The jihadists knew that they could not stay and control the town in the face of the Kurdish forces. They came just to kill and strike a moral blow to the Kurds,” Abdel Rahman said.

Kurdish activist Arin Shekhmos said: “Every family in Kobane lost a family member on Thursday.”

IS launched a surprise attack on Kobane on Thursday in-

volving three suicide bombers, just over a week after Kurdish militia ousted it from Tal Abyad, another border town further east.

Analysts said the assault was revenge for the loss of Tal Abyad.

Backed by US air strikes and Syrian rebel groups, Kurdish militia had pushed IS out of Kobane in January in one of the jihadists’ most dramatic defeats.

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■ FRANCE

Body decapitated in suspected terrorist attack A suspected Islamist attacker has pinned a decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of a gas factory in eastern France before being arrested, police say.

The suspect entered the factory yesterday and set off several small explosive devices, the source said.

Police said it was unclear whether the attacker was acting alone, or had accomplices.

“According to the initial findings of the inquiry, one or several individuals on board a vehicle, drove into the factory.

An explosion then took place,” said one of the sources.

“The decapitated body of a person was found nearby the factory but we do not yet know whether the body was transported to the place or not,” added this source, adding that a “flag with Arabic writing on it was found at the scene.”

A man thought to be the person who carried out the attack has been arrested, according to sources close to the inquiry, who said he was known to the security services.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls

ordered increased security measures at all sensitive sites in the area.

The attack came nearly six months after the Islamist attacks in and around Paris that killed 17 people in January that started with a shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Two Islamist brothers attacked the satirical magazine, killing 12. A policewoman and four hostages in a Jewish supermarket were also killed during the three-day attacks.

The January attacks drew

record crowds onto the streets of Paris in a historic “march against terrorism”.

Nearly four million people marched through the streets of France and more than 1.5 million in the French capital along with dozens of world leaders to express defiance in the wake of the attacks.

France has a high proportion of people that have gone to fight alongside Islamists in Iraq and Syria and has been on alert for possible attacks on its soil since the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

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Ex-Russian PM dies Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, whose career included desperate but unsuccessful diplomatic efforts to avert wars in Iraq and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, has died.

He was 85. President Vladimir Putin offered condolences to Primakov’s family, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

He added that the president saw Primakov as “a statesman, a scientist and a politician who has left a very big heritage” and that he always wanted to hear Primakov’s view on global issues.

The cause of death wasn’t immediately known.

- AP

Extremists storm base Islamic militants from the AlQaeda-linked Al-Shabab group attacked a remote African Union base in Somalia yesterday, causing many casualties, said the AU mission and a local official. In a tweet, the African Union mission confirmed there had been an early morning attack on their outpost in Lego, but did not provide any further details. Mohammed Haji, an official in the Lower Shabelle region told The Associated Press that militants attacked the base entrance with a suicide car bomb before gunmen began their assault.

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Taliban issues threat The Pakistani Taliban warned it would target the country’s main electrical company if it did not end power outages in the country’s south — where an intense heat wave has killed 866 people in the past week. Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Tehrik-eTaliban Pakistan, also expressed his grief and condolences over the heat-related deaths in the southern port city of Karachi.

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Cartoons of Muhammad again W

ould it be all right if I called Geert Wilders a piece of human waste? No? Damn.

Well, then, can I call him a deeply cynical politician who is willing to get people killed to advance his political career?

Okay, thanks.

Geert Wilders is a deeply cynical Dutch politician who is willing to get people killed to advance his political career.

Sometimes they are Muslims, sometimes they are people of Christian heritage – that doesn’t really matter, so long as he reaps the publicity.

And now he has come up with a clever new way to outrage foolish young Muslims and get them to murder people for him.

Wilders realised that a littleknown Dutch law obliges the television networks to show ANYTHING that a politician wishes to include in a party political broadcast.

No censorship is allowed on grounds of truth, of taste, or even of safety.

So the far-right politician, whose whole political career has been based on attacking Islam, decided to air some truly nasty cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad.

One shows a man labelled

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“Muhammad” with snakes in his beard. Another shows a rather loony-looking young man who is clearly labelled “The Prophet Muhammad”.

A third shows somebody who is probably meant to be Muhammad on a unicycle, juggling five chopped-off heads with letters attached that spell ISLAM. Not funny, not clever, not really even topical. Just nasty.

Most Muslims are uncomfortable with images of Muhammad, and many believe that they are blasphemous.

That doesn’t mean that democratic, pluralist societies like those of the West should ban such images. Freedom of speech means that any group, including any religious group, should accept that it may be criticised, even mocked in public.

You cannot demand special treatment just because your feelings will be hurt.

But you can and should expect not to be singled out for hatred simply because of your

particular religious beliefs.

You have the right to be protected from rhetoric that deliberately confounds innocent believers with terrorists (as Wilders regularly does). And you certainly have right to be protected from incitements to violence.

There is a world of difference between Geert Wilders and the dozen people who were murdered by Islamist extremists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last January. They were equal-opportunity cartoonists who targeted everybody with equal irreverence and a fine absence of discrimination; Wilders is a monomaniac who wants to ban the Koran in the Netherlands because it is “like (Adolf Hitler’s) Mein Kampf ”.

But he is a devious monomaniac, because the people he is really trying to incite to violence are Muslims.

If he can trick ignorant Muslims into killing people by portraying the Prophet Muhammad in ugly and insulting cartoons, he wins.

The cartoons Wilders has insisted be broadcast on Dutch television were originally shown at an event in Texas last month which awarded a $10,000 prize for the best (ie

worst) cartoon about Muhammad. The organisers were trying to provoke a reaction, so they invited Wilders to give the event a higher profile.

It worked wonderfully: two simplistic young fanatics tried to attack the conference, and were shot dead in the car park.

So Wilders brought copies of the cartoons home with him, and announced that he would broadcast them on Dutch television as a defence of free speech.

The broadcast was supposed to go out in the Netherlands on Saturday, but somebody at the NPO1 television network managed to mislay the tape Wilders had given them.

He was furiously indignant about that, of course, and insisted that his right as a party leader to put anything he wants on the party political broadcasts must be respected.

He says he has now been promised that it will go out on Wednesday evening. If the promise is kept, the rioting and killing will probably have started by the time you read this.

Wilders knows perfectly well that this will happen, and is content that it should.

He and his anti-Muslim allies on the far right of Dutch

politics are what Marxists used to call the “objective allies” of the bearded Muslim extremists screaming for blood in the streets and the more calculating Muslim leaders who urge those fanatics to go out and commit violence in the name of “defending” Islam.

Both parties, however much they hate each other, have a common interest in keeping the outrage level among their followers high, and they tacitly co-operate to keep the pot boiling.

The poor old media know they are being manipulated and exploited by people with truly reprehensible agendas, but they cannot simply refuse to report the news, even if it is manufactured news (as is so often the case).

And so, in a world where most people of any religion or none simply want to get on with their neighbours and lead a quiet life, we are fed a constant diet of lies that shows us a world full of blood-thirsty, hate-filled extremists.

Oh, and by the way: Geert Wilders is a piece of human waste.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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MOBILE MOWER SERVICING • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

COMpETITIVE RATES Ù gardens Ù pruning Ù lawns

Ù home Ù commercial Ù office

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

HEAT PUMPS Perfect all year round

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

electriCOOL Ltd

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

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

Contact Paul McCormick

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

YOUR LOCAL TV RECEPTION SPECIALIST • • • • • • •

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

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

ATTENTION: PROPERTY OWNERS For your rural, residential and commercial property maintenance, contact us.

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

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

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Roofing Specialists We specialise in:

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

Free Measure & Quote

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696 42 J.B. Cullen Drive

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PAINTING & DECORATING CONTRACTORS If you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your PAINTING and DECORATING NEEDS – Commercial or Residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • Roof painting

For any enquiries call us today on Ph/Fax 308-8432 Mob 0274 332 259 Email: trudgeon@vodafone.co.nz

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

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 120 Moore Street, Ashburton.

Doaky’s Plumbing Ltd • Plumbing • Drainlaying • Blocked Drains NOW RURALCO SUPPLIERS

Lindsay 027 555 5575 150 Smithfield Rd, Ashburton doakys@xtra.co.nz - 03 308 1248

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

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SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire.

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

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ADOPT A PET Find out more about these pets by contacting the Mid Canterbury Animal shelter on 021 135 6969

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Contact Tracey 021 135 6969

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Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

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

DUTY DOCTORS

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Sealy Street Medical, Sealy Street, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212.

Tinwald Medical, Main South Road, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 6565.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

Saturday, and Sunday doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, ph 303 5002.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East org.nz for more information.

Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, MENTAL HEALTH from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 6pm - 8pm Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis both evenings.

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PHARMACIES

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

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.

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the ELPLINE ERVICES 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.

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

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

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

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Mon - Fri 5pm 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. Business Area: Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE

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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.

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

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, OMMUNITY ERVICES unrestricted visiting.

EMERGENCY DENTIST

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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ART GALLERY

327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

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

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

ANIMAL SERVICES

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. Open DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm - 4pm. Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 Research facilities weekday afternoons. hour service.

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 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Izzy Cassen. Small: Ref Vetlife.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Jane Sykes. Small: Laura Mulshine.

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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N IO S S E R P IM D O O G A MAKE Sports Reporter

If you enjoy working with people who are open minded, friendly and fun, appreciate an honest, supportive working environment…

Look no further.

This job doesn’t come around very often.

Here you will find more than just a day job.

You will be empowered to make a difference for the good of your community, while personally benefitting from the results of your work.

For the first time in six years, there’s a vacancy for a passionate sports reporter in the Ashburton Guardian’s busy and fiercely independent local newsroom.

AREA SUPERVISOR

The full-time position will suit a multi-talented, self-starting and web-savvy journalist eager to get to the heart of Mid Canterbury sport.

ASHBURTON A unique blend of outdoor and indoor work Our Rivers team, within the Rivers, Parks and Survey section, is responsible for the construction and maintenance of river control, flood protection and land drainage works across the region.

The Ashburton Depot staff carry out works in river schemes from the Selwyn River/ Waikirikiri through to the Hinds River/Hekeao.

You will manage staff and contractors engaged in a variety of activities. The role requires STMS, skills in planning and pricing outdoor works, budgeting expertise, liaison with landowners and other stakeholders, partnership with iwi and sensitivity to the environment.

If you are fit, health and safety focused, can work independently, and have the necessary skills, we want to hear from you.

They’ll report on all the big games, and on all the big news, in one of the most exciting and successful homes of top-flight and provincial sport.

They’ll have a nose for a good story, be enthusiastic and well organised, and have lots of initiative. And they’ll be a proactive team player that works well under pressure and can think on their feet.

If this sounds like you, please email a covering letter and CV to: stu.o@theguardian.co.nz

Final closing date for applications is Tuesday, 7 July 2015, however we are actively recruiting for this role and applications will be assessed as they are received.

Applications close July 10.

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Then join us!

APPLY AT: CAREERS.ECAN.GOVT.NZ OR PHONE 0800 324 636

Transport Coordinator / Freight Dispatcher 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. This exciting position has become available in our brand new Ashburton based freight office.

The Fresh Name in the Freezer

Reporting directly to the Southern Freight Manager, your duties will include: • receiving in information and entering the relevant data into our freight management system for dispatch • allocating tasks and jobs ready for dispatching to our drivers • documenting, manifesting and dispatching our driver’s for their daily tasks • communicating regularly with our team of driver’s and other branches.

Our ideal applicant will possess the following attributes: • be motivated with exceptional communication and time management skills • ability to problem solve and make quick justified decisions • friendly positive phone manner and effective email writing skills • can multi-task and cope well under pressure • having knowledge of our Icos dispatch system and Eroad GPS would be an advantage, however full training will be given to the right applicant.

Your understanding of the transport industry legislative requirements, along with knowing NZTA compliances, and good knowledge of the truck loading code will all help towards securing this position.

Having a Class 5 licence with an F endorsement would be an advantage, however is not essential.

An attractive salary is offered to reflect the degree of experience necessary and standard of applicant required.

If this opportunity interests you and you have the qualities mentioned above, please apply with a CV and two current references to hayden.reed@ash.talleys.co.nz or post to PO Box 244, Ashburton.

Confidentiality assured.

Oil Seed Extractions (OSE) is an Ashburton based company who develop, produce and supply high quality speciality seed oils to the global food, skincare and health product sectors (www.seedoils.co.nz), and is a subsidiary of the Midlands group of companies.

We are currently recruiting for a full-time Brand Manager and Marketing Administrator, to cover a maternity leave position. This placement will be for a period of 15 months.

In this role you will be responsible for developing and implementing the company’s marketing strategies for our finished product brands.

This will include taking new products into the market place and developing brand awareness. In addition, you will also be responsible for the cohesive creation and management of international marketing materials, including website and social media, for the Midlands group of companies.

The ideal candidate must have an eye for detail and the ability to work to deadlines. Within this role you will have a high level of interaction with clients and business partners, so excellent written and verbal communication skills are crucial. Previous marketing experience with food products and FMCGs is preferred however we are committed to finding the right candidate and will provide further ongoing training as required.

For further information and a position description please visit the following website www.midlands.co.nz

Situations Vacant

Motoring

Rachel ____________________________Ashburton With: _______________________________ Guardian Date:_______________________________ 307 7900

Full-time Position 4 days on – 4 days off (4.30am – 2.30pm) An energetic, responsible person with excellent customer service and leadership skills is required to join our team.

Duties will include :• Start of day procedures and reconciliations.

• Staff supervision.

• Shop, Café, and Forecourt service.

• Stock Management and Ordering.

• General Site cleaning and maintenance.

Experience is essential due to the possible advancement into operational management for the successful incumbent.

For further information/applications – please email Rasek Ganda rmganda@xtra.co.nz Applications close Wednesday, July 1

Qualified and Registered Teacher Ashburton Baptist Preschool are looking for a full time, qualified and registered teacher for our busy centre to cover a maternity leave position.

If you are energetic, a great team player and communicator that enjoys working as a part of a dedicated team ensuring quality education and care for our precious children, whilst embracing our special character Christian centre, then we would love to hear from you.

Please send your CV along with a cover letter in the first instance to: Ashleigh Grant at abelc@xtra.co.nz or feel free to drop your CV into the office at 8 Eton Street.

Phone: 03 308 2325 Applicants close 5pm Wednesday, July 8, 2015.

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Science Technician

This is a part-time, permanent position, of 12.5 hours/week, 40 weeks/year, College term-time.

The timing of the hours will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

The Science Technician supports teaching delivery in the Science Faculty.

Previous experience is an asset but not essential.

Training will be provided.

Employment is under the Conditions of the Support Staff in Schools’ Collective Agreement, Administrative Scale, Grade C. Enquiries/applications to: Please forward a current CV and covering letter to: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator on phone (03) 308 4193, ext 812 or 027 247 8003; Email: sheena.tyrrell@ashcoll.school.nz, Ashburton College, P O Box 204, Ashburton.

Applications close 3:00pm, Friday 10 July 2015.

To apply please send your cover letter along with current CV to the following address, to reach us by Friday, July 3, 2015.

Brand Manager Position Oil Seed Extractions PO Box 65 Ashburton Or email to:- lyn.scammell@seedoils.co.nz

www.talleys.co.nz Real Estate

Brand Manager and Marketing Administration

Shift Supervisor/Customer Service Representative

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SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

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

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Receptionist • • •

Leading Canterbury law firm Ashburton-based Full time, permanent position

Tavendale and Partners is a leading Canterbury law firm with offices in Christchurch, Leeston and Ashburton, specialising in agribusiness, commercial law and resource management.

We are looking for a full-time receptionist to join our Ashburton team. As the ‘face of our firm’ you will be confident, calm under pressure, well-organised and possess excellent communication skills.

Calf Rearer Calf Rearer required on a 700 cow farm to take responsibility for rearing all heifers and bobbies. Experience is required and must be able to work unsupervised. Must be able to drive a manual vehicle, tube calves, feed calves using feeders and drums, spray calf sheds and assist with general tasks.

This role is from approx 25 July until approx the end of September. Feeding is once a day starting approx 8:30am, 4-6 hours a day, must be able to work weekends, 35-40 hours/week.

The farm is located at Ealing. You will need your own transport to get to and from work.

Please contact Linda 03 3037 264 or 027 356 7288

Daily Events Saturday

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

Your day will be busy and varied. You will be meeting and greeting our clients, answering the phone, providing assistance to our administrative team and other general duties that help with the smooth running of our firm.

Remuneration will be determined by experience and full training will be given to the successful applicant.

Please email your CV and covering letter in confidence to jlp.con@tp.co.nz Applications close, Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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Preloved clothing bargains. St Andrews Anglican Church, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street. Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.00am Morning Worship led by Mrs Betty 10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Watson, all welcome.

65 Oxford Street.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr 8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Havelock and Park Street.

Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald. ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather 10.00am 9.30am permitting.

Lovetts Road, off Maronan HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Road.

Mass, Sealy Street.

Worship service led by Peter and Sandy 10.00am 10.00am Renew. 48 Allens Road.

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. 9.30am New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Thomson Street, Tinwald.

Service and worship with Rev Tevita Main Street, Methven.

10.30am Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge.

10.00am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Baring Square East.

Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

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

63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Club and family day, everyone welcome.

M.S.A. Grounds, 115 Racecourse Road.

2.00pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGAN AND KEYBOARD CLUB. Charity Concert for St John Ahburton.

Ticket $10 at door. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

Monday

ASHBURTON BRANCH. Diabetic support group, no charge. 36 Short Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Circuit training, 1st time free. St Andrews Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women circuit training in hall. 48

Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre . Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting, Rover Den, Mania-oroto park, Chalmers Avenue.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street,

Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE.

New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road. Tinwald.

10.00am - 12.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Sunday

interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

6.00am 1.00pm - 3.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 A great selection of many aircraft from Allens Road, Allenton. the past to the future. Seafield Road.

10.00am 1.00pm - 4.00pm METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, East St. All welcome.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting. Waireka Croquet Clubrooms, Philip Street.

1.30pm DIABETES N.Z.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

DO YOU ENJOY EATING KIWIFRUIT?

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Do you use kiwifruit to help keep your bowels regular?

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Plant & Food Research are looking for volunteers for a study looking at the effects of kiwifruit on gut health.

Ashburton District Council seeks tenders for the construction of a Fire Shed at Hinds, Isleworth Road being part of the Hinds Domain, Ashburton District.

This is a 16 week study which involves eating kiwifruit and pysllium (fibre).

The work involves the construction of a single storey timber framed building with steel cladding, comprising two vehicle bays, a meeting room, kitchen and ablutions. Total floor area is approximately 215sqm. Council will obtain all necessary consents for the construction prior to commencement.

Conditions of tender, contract for service, working drawings and specifications can be obtained from the Receptionist, Ground Floor, Council Administration Building, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton or by phoning Council’s Property Department on 03 307 7863.

Tenders are to be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Hinds Rural Fire Shed” and received no later than 4:00pm Tuesday 14 July 2015.

We require people aged 18 to 65 years who suffer from constipation or suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (with constipation).

You will be required to visit 40 Stewart Street, Central Christchurch for periods of 30 minutes on 6 occasions.

You will be reimbursed for your participation.

Tenders for the property close with – To find out more about the study contact:

The Chief Executive Officer Ashburton District Council PO BOX 94 Ashburton

Sarah Eady (03) 325 9671 or 027 476 6137 - sarah.eady@plantandfood.co.nz

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

White Mushrooms $7.99 kg

Officer for enquires – James Webb – Commercial Manager Andrew Dalziel Chief Executive www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

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of 8 wire sheep netting in good order.

Phone 307 8807.

307 7900

Birthday Greetings Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

Amelia Bruce

Happy 9th Birthday.

Have a wonderful day.

Lots of love Mum, Dad, Jacob, Meg and Nannie Bev. xoxoxo

James O’Connor Happy 8th birthday, have an awesome day.

Love from Dad, Mum and Melissa.

George Robins Happy 10th Birthday George have a awesome day! Lots of love from Mum, Dad, George Nicholas and Poppy. xxxxx 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.

Minion cake tin set available for hire.

$20 for 7 days

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287 www.kitchenkapers.co.nz

TRADES, SERVICES

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

TRADES, SERVICES

4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, fade, heat and glare control, privacy and safety films for glass. FREE quotes - 20 years local service, Bill Breukelaar - phone 0800 368 468. www.tintawindow.co.nz CHIMNEY sweep. For a professional, clean, tidy, fully insured service please call Dan McKerrow, Chimney Sweep and Repairs. Phone 021 118 7580 (please leave a message).

COMPUTER PROBLEMS? For Prompt Reliable Service Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989.

30yrs Local experience, Same day service if possible, *~ SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed ~* COMPUTER Tuneup and Repairs, New Computer Sales & Setup, Internet setup, Onsite Day Or Evenings and Weekends, LOW FEES, call Robin Johnstone at Networks Firewalls & PCS 308 1440 or 027-768 4058.

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

HOME handyman available.

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

RURAL TRADING POST

CALF bedding special - 2 weeks only.

Premium woodmulch suitable for calf bedding $18m3 + GST ex yard - Adams Sawmilling - Ph 308 3595. Special available for 2 weeks ending July 4.

FOR SALE: geared electric fence reels with live strand $60. Non geared electric fence reels with live strand $40. Phone 027 205 2279.

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GRAZING

307 7900

Aussie Oranges Pears 1kg Broccoli 2 for NZ Lamb Legs

$1.99 kg $1.99 bag $3 $11.95 kg

Specials available from 23/06 - 30/06

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

SITUATIONS WANTED

LINCOLN grad looking for permanent roll on a Sheep/Beef Farm in Canterbury. Phone Georgina 027 774 8720 or 03 685 5722.

MOTORING

307 7900

GRAZING available. Rakaia area. 9.8ha kale. Phone Don 021 900 213.

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

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

All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 8061 A/h: 308 7460 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod LET OR LEASE cons, short walk to village.

LOCKABLE shed for rent Phone Brian 307-8000 or 19m x 9m. Long term. Please 308-6180. $200 per week. Phone 308 3913.

308-1095

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills STORAGE unit for lease. Fire Street. Phone 308-6737. rated storage unit 4.35x3.80 in secure, alarm monitored compound, accessible July 24. Please phone Nicola at Bradfords 03 308 9039.

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GOOD Quality grazing available with experienced Graziers Mid Canterbury Region. Contact Phone No. 027 227 6075.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Section 101 SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 THE ASHBURTON LICENSING TRUST, P.O. Box 217, Ashburton has made application to the District Licensing Agency at Ashburton for the renewal of an On-Licence and an OffLicence in respect of the premises situated at 116 Victoria Street, Ashburton and known as: Devon Tavern.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is that of a Tavern.

The days on which and the hours during which liquor is (or intended to be) sold under the licence are: On Licence Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 3:00am Off Licence From any bottlestore Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm Across the bar Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the District Licensing Agency at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, P.O. Box 94, Ashburton No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice.

PUBLIC NOTICE Section 101 SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 THE ASHBURTON LICENSING TRUST, P.O. Box 217, Ashburton has made application to the District Licensing Agency at Ashburton for the renewal of an On-Licence and an OffLicence in respect of the premises situated at 11 Racecourse Road, Ashburton and known as Hotel Ashburton.

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

The days on which and the hours during which liquor is (or intended to be) sold under the licence are: On Licence Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 3:00am At any time on any day to persons living on the premises as a lodger or employee Off Licence From any bottlestore Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm Across the bar Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the District Licensing Agency at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, P.O. Box 94, Ashburton No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 This is the first publication of this notice.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Section 101 SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 THE ASHBURTON LICENSING TRUST, P.O. Box 217, Ashburton has made application to the District Licensing Agency at Ashburton for the renewal of an On-Licence and an OffLicence in respect of the premises situated at 175 Burnett Street, Ashburton and known as Somerset Grocer.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is that of a Cafe.

The days on which and the hours during which liquor is (or intended to be) sold under the licence are: On Licence Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the District Licensing Agency at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, P.O. Box 94, Ashburton No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 This is the first publication of this notice.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Section 101 SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012 THE ASHBURTON LICENSING TRUST, P.O. Box 217, Ashburton has made application to the District Licensing Agency at Ashburton for the renewal of an On-Licence and an OffLicence in respect of the premises situated at 103-107 Archibald Street, Tinwald and known as Tinwald Tavern.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is that of a Tavern.

The days on which and the hours during which liquor is (or intended to be) sold under the licence are: On Licence Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 3:00am Off Licence From any bottlestore Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm Across the bar Monday to Sunday 7:00am to 11:00pm The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the District Licensing Agency at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wishes to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, P.O. Box 94, Ashburton No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 This is the first publication of this notice.

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Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Public notice of application for on-licence, off-licence, or club licence (or application for variation of conditions of onlicence, off-licence, or club licence) Farmers Corner Ltd, Cnr Longbeach Rd and 5 H1, Ashburton, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the renewal of an on-licence in respect of the premises situated at 12 Longbeach Rd, Ashburton, 7773 known as Farmers Corner Ltd (Highway One Restaurant).

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

The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: Monday - Sunday, 9.00am - 9.00pm.

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

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

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

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

TIDY two bedroom flat with heat-pump, in Tinwald, to rent. No pets. No smokers.

Available July 11. Enquiries ring 027 221 2669.

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CHURCH SERVICES

Church Services

TWO bedroom flat, Netherby.

Available mid-July. Sunny, heat pump, single garage. No pets, no smokers. $280 p/w.

Phone 308 6464.

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

10am

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Morning Service Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison

CENTRAL private location sought for adult bookings by professional escort. Mature with excellent references.

Phones 022 129 2005.

LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church)

Creche available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

NEW Asian, hot, beautiful, lovely lady, friendly, size 8. sexy body, busty, 40 DD, good massage. Phone 021 260 4716.

NEW in town, Monique.

Sensual, leggy, full on and full of fun, mid 20’s, size 10 C bust, long hair, lingerie and heels. From Auckland. Phone 021 0285 4416.

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Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am

FIREWOOD - Dry old man pine for sale. $195 per cord.

Phone 021 470 926.

Join us for an Every Sunday Encounter with Jesus Christ All welcome Sundays@10.00am I can face tomorrow just because he lives Including Children’s Church 206 Cameron Street Everyone is welcome. Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511 See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts PRESBYTERIAN Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

FIREWOOD special - 2 weeks only.

Screened slabwood $80/cord delivered in town C.O.D - Adams Sawmilling - Ph 308 3595 eftpos available at mill office prior to delivery - 2 week special ending July 4.

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

FOR SALE

BARLEY baleage for sale (this seasons). 43.9DM, 9.4ME. Phone 027 408 7008.

FIREWOOD - Dry old man pine $200, blue gum $250, macrocarpa $250, all 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 Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

CHURCHES (Ashburton)

St Andrew’s 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

Havelock St. 10am & 7pm

St James

Thomson St. 11am

St Paul’s Oxford St. 9.30am

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5:20 The Amazing Race Marathon PG Cold Gold PG 5am MythBusters PG 16VLC 2014 Thriller.

5:30 Fishing And Adventure 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Team Umizoomi 3 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 8am Tribe 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Media Take 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Otahuhu v Howick.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Irikura 3 6:30 Death Threat PGR 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M Astro Boy PGR 2009 Family Animated.

Voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage.

9:15 M Slumdog Millionaire AO 2008 Drama. Dev Patel.

11:25 Te Kaea 3 2 11:55 Closedown

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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6am Rural Delivery 6:25 Road To The Young Farmer Final 6:50 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 0 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 Noon Survival Tales From The Wild 3 0 1pm Judy Bailey’s Australia 3 0 2pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 3pm Dynamo – Magician Impossible PGR 3 0 4pm Australia’s Deadliest 3 0 4:30 Wild Vets 3 0 5pm Nature’s Weirdest Events 30 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm House Hunt 0 8:30 Indian Summers AO 0 9:35 N Devil’s Playground AO A psychological thriller set in the churches, schools, and upper ranks of power in the Australian Catholic Church, beginning with the disappearance of a local Catholic schoolboy. 0 10:35 A Place To Call Home AO 3 0

6am Fishtronaut 3 0 6:25 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 3 0 6:45 Crash And Bernstein 3 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:35 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 8am What Now The finale of Phone and Away.

10am ANT Farm 0 10:25 The Bachelor Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 3pm F Hot In Cleveland 3 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm F Thunderbirds Are Go 0 6:35 M Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 2013 Family. Flint and his friends set out to save the world, again. Voice of Anna Faris. 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 With David Jeremiah 3 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 0 11am Come Dine With Me New Zealand Omnibus PGR 3 0 1:10 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 3 0 1:45 Motorsport – BMW Festival (Highlights) 2:15 Motorsport – Beach Hop (Highlights) Classic-car festival on the East Coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. 3:15 Motorsport – World Touring Car Championship (Highlights) 3:45 Motorsport – NHRA Championship (Highlights) 5pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking Specials 0 6pm 3 News 6:30 3D 0 8:30 M This Is The End AO 7pm Dancing With The Stars 2013 Comedy.

New Zealand While at a party, six friends 8:30 Westside AO Ted and Rita find themselves trapped in a realise they have raised a house after a series of strange problem child, but wonder and catastrophic events in how to deal with him. 0 the Los Angeles area. James 9:30 Rush AO 0 10:25 M The Do-DecaFranco, Jonah Hill. 0 Pentathlon AO 3 2012 10:35 M The Apparition AO Comedy. 0 2012 Thriller. Ashley Greene.

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6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Tree Fu Tom 3 7:20 Rugrats 3 7:45 The Winx Club 3 8:10 Max Steel 3 8:35 Rocket Power 3 9am Lalaloopsy 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 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm iCarly 3 6:30 M Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas 3 2000 Family Comedy.

Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Joan Collins. 0 8:25 Family Guy PGR 3 8:55 South Park AO 3 9:25 Burn Notice AO Michael deals with old feelings while working with Fiona to steal information from a programming syndicate for Sonya.

10:20 Welcome To The Family 3 10:45 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

11:30 Golf – PGA Tour (Highlights) Round three of the Travellers’ Championship on the PGA Tour, from the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell, Connecticut.

12:25 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 1:30 Emmerdale 3 0 3:20 Infomercials

12:10 Marvel’s Agents Of Shield AO 3 0 1:05 Marshal Law, Texas AO 2:35 Infomercials 3:10 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 3:55 Anger Management PGR 3 0 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 The Carrie Diaries PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:40 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am The Dog Hotel Doggy devotees Matt and Leon open a new Hollywood-style pooch paradise in the British seaside town of Brighton.

7am Natural World – Man-Eating Tigers Of Sumatra 8am American Restoration 8:30 Speed With Guy Martin 9:30 Carter Can 10am Auction Room 10:30 Trinny And Susannah’s Makeover Mission Australia 11:30 The Picker Sisters 12:30 The Dog Hotel 1pm Natural World – Man-Eating Tigers Of Sumatra 2pm Yard Crashers 2:30 Fantasy Homes In The City 3:30 Better Homes And Gardens 5pm Thai Street Food With David Thompson 5:30 Backroad Bounty 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 The Wonder Of Dogs A look at dogs in all their spectacularly different forms.

8:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO A drama following the lives of a typical extended Australian family.

9:30 Vexed AO A detective series about the complications of modernday life.

10:30 Backroad Bounty 11:30 Heaven’s Kitchen At Large

MONDAY

12:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO 1:30 Vexed AO 2:30 Yard Crashers 3am Fantasy Homes In The City 4am Better Homes And Gardens 5:30 Thai Street Food With David Thompson

12:05 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

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, highlighting sport for young New Zealand fans.

Noon River Cottage Australia PGR 3 Paul has been collecting old chicken feathers, but why? Could there be something fishy going on?

1pm Celebrity Wife Swap USA PGR 3 1:55 QI M 3 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship The final of the ANZ championship.

4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake Off 3

7:05 Storage Wars – New York 7:35 British Gardens In Time 8:35 CSI – Cyber PGR 9:30 Elementary PGR Holmes’s beekeeping hobby collides with his professional life when an online community he belongs to makes an unbelievable request of him.

10:30 Psych PGR

11:25 Tony Robinson Down Under PGR 3 From the search to identify the Great Southern Land, and through the colonial era, Tony Robinson discovers the key events and major influences that define Australia today.

12:30 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2 12:30 Matariki Magic 2015 3 1/4.

1pm The Rugby Show (Replay) Auckland Grammer v Sacred Heart College. The match of the round from Auckland’s First XV 1A rugby competition.

2:30 Code 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Glenora v Mangere.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia

THE BOX 7:50 Survivor – Panama PG 8:40 Crossing Lines MV 9:30 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

Noon Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:45 SmackDown! MC 5:25 Ice Road Truckers PG 6:15 Counting Cars PG 6:40 Outback Hunters PG 7:30 The Musketeers MVLS The king travels to Sweden to facilitate a marriage between his cousin and the Swedish crown prince that will be advantageous to France.

8:35 Criminal Intent MV A medical student is murdered after she returns to New York from Guatemala.

9:35 Criminal Intent MV 10:30 Rogue 16VLS 11:30 The Musketeers MVLS

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Rogue 16VLS 3am Criminal Intent MV 3:50 Criminal Intent MV 4:40 Counting Cars PG 5:05 The Musketeers MVLS

7am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Semi-final One – Hurricanes v Brumbies. 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 16, Saturday. 8am L Motorsport – IndyCar Series MAVTV 500. 11am Motorsport – MotoGP (Highlights) Motul TT Assen Races. 11:30 Crash Noon Sport 365 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Semi-final Two – Waratahs v Highlanders. 1pm Small Blacks TV 1:15 Random Rugby TV 1:30 Sport 365 2pm Golf Central 3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Semi-final Two – Waratahs v Highlanders.

3:30 Fishing And Adventure 4pm Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race 4:30 InCycle (Highlights) 5pm Cricket – Natwest T20 Blast (Replay) 8:30 Rugby Nation Highlights and analysis of the latest rugby action.

9:30 Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup (Replay) Quarterfinal Three – Australia v Japan.

11:30 Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup (Replay) Quarter-final Four – England v Canada. 1:30 Fox Sports News 2am Hockey – FIH Women’s World League Semifinal (Replay) 3:30 Fishing And Adventure 4am Mixed Martial Arts – Bellator 139 (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Paepae 7pm Matariki Magic 2015 7:30 Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Raiders.

9:30 M Smoke AO 1995 Comedy Drama. A Brooklyn smoke shop is the centre of neighbourhood activity, and the stories of its customers.

Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito.

Devil’s Playground 11:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9:35pm on TV One Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Dukes Of Haggle M Country Fried Camaro. 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 Auction Hunters Space Cowboys. 8am Auction Hunters Ramped Up. 8:30 Treehouse Masters PG 9:30 Dual Survival – Biggest Blow-Outs M 10:30 Man v Wild M Jake Gyllenhaal.

11:30 Naked And Afraid M Edge of Madness. 12:30 The Last Frontiersmen M 1:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M Channing Tatum. 2:30 Bear’s Wild Weekend With Stephen Fry M 3:30 Naked And Afraid M 4:30 Naked And Afraid M 5:30 Dual Survival M 6:30 How The Universe Works PG 7:30 Brothers In Blood – The Lions Of Sabi Sand PG 9:30 Manhunt PG 10:30 Naked And Afraid M 11:30 Dual Survival M

MONDAY

12:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls M 1:30 A Crime To Remember M 2:30 Dukes Of Haggle M 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Ice Cold Gold PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:15 Man Of Steel MV 2013 Action.

Henry Cavill, Amy Adams. 8:35 22 Jump Street MVLSC 2014 Comedy.

Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum.

10:25 The Expendables 3 MVL 2014 Action. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham. 12:30 The Hot Potato 16 2011 Crime. Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney. 2:10 Love Bite 16VS 2012 Comedy. Jessica Szohr, Ed Speleers. 3:40 Pacific Rim MV 2013 Sci-fi. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba. 5:50 The Hobbit – The Desolation Of Smaug MV 2013 Adventure. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen. 8:30 Guardians Of The Galaxy MV 2014 Action.

Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana.

10:35 Carrie 16VLS 2013 Horror.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde. MONDAY 12:15 Casting Couch 16LS 2013 Comedy. Jason Lockhart, Mayra Leal. 1:50 Filth 18VLS 2013 Crime. James McAvoy, Jamie Bell.

3:25 Love Bite 16VS 2012 Comedy.

4:55 Guardians Of The Galaxy MV 2014 Action.

Westside

8:30pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 6:20 Reign Of Fire MV 2002 Action Fantasy. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Gerald Butler. 8am SWAT MVL 2003 Action. Samuel L Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J, Olivier Martinez. 9:55 Heavenly Creatures PGV 1994 Drama.

Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet.

11:35 Man On A Ledge MVL 2012 Thriller. Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks. 1:15 Road Trip 16LSC 2000 Adventure Comedy.

Breckin Meyer, Rachel Blanchard.

2:50 The Frighteners MV 1996 Comedy Thriller. 4:40 17 Again PGS 2009 Comedy. 6:20 Disclosure 16LS 1994 Drama. 8:30 You Don’t Mess With The Zohan MLS 2008 Comedy.

10:25 Hostage 16VL 2005 Action.

MONDAY

12:15 Murder By Numbers 16V 2002 Thriller. 2:15 Road Trip 16LSC 2000 Adventure Comedy. 3:45 The Frighteners MV 1996 Comedy Thriller. 5:35 17 Again PGS 2009 Comedy.

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

28Jun15

6am Canoeing – Slalom World Cup (Replay) Day One. 7:30 Random Rugby TV 7:48 L Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal Three – Australia v Japan.

10:18 Sport 365 10:48 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Warriors v Raiders.

11:18 L Football – Fifa Women’s World Cup Quarter-final Four – England v Canada.

1:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Roosters U20 v Titans U20.

3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Roosters v Titans.

6pm L Rugby League – NRL Tigers v Panthers.

8pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 16, Saturday.

8:30 InCycle 9pm Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race 9:30 Fishing And Adventure An adventure show featuring some of New Zealand’s top fishing destinations.

10pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 16, Sunday.

10:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Warriors v Raiders.

11pm The After Match 11:30 Cricket – Caribbean Premier League T20 (Highlights) Barbados Tridents v St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. MONDAY Midnight Motorsport – MotoGP (Highlights) Motul TT Assen Races. 12:30 Rugby Nation 1:28 L Cricket – Natwest T20 Blast Somerset v Glamorgan.

5am Cricket – Caribbean Premier League T20 (Highlights) Barbados Tridents v St Kitts and Nevis Patriots.

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Family Notices 42 Ashburton Guardian BIRTHS

Bennett – Andrew and Jess (nee Wallace) would like to announce the safe arrival of Henry James Bennett, at Ashburton Maternity on June 19, 2015, 6 pound 7 ounces.

A wee brother for Liam.

Special thanks to Sandra Scott and the team at Ashburton Maternity.

DEATHS

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MOORE, Margaret Mary – On June 10, 2015 at Ashburton Hospital. Aged 78.

Dearly loved wife of the late Merv and dearly loved mum and mother in law of Garry and Tanya, Ross and Judy, Jeff, Bruce and Trina and the late Suz, and Jules (USA).

Loved nana of Luke, Tom, Harry, Sam, George, Jack, and Annabel; Sara, Kirsty, and Sophie; Jordin; Louise, Sam, Kerry, and Ben. Messages to the Moore family, P O Box 20, Rakaia 7710. A service to celebrate Margaret’s life is to be held at our Chapel Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on MONDAY, June 29, commencing at 11.00am.

Followed by private interment.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to:

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to ensure publication.

During office hours notices may also be sent to:

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Any queries please contact 0800 ASHBURTON (0800-274-287).

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KIRCHER, Relda Rosetta – Kimberley, Brian, William, Thomas and Anna would like Waimate to thank all family and friends Wind km/h Saturday, 27 June 2015 NZ Situation for the support received less than 30 A disturbed west to southwest flow covers New during Relda's time in fine mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers hospital and the days Zealand for most of the forecast period. A ridge fine showers clearing showers following the loss of a much 30 to 59 moves onto the country during Wednesday. loved mother, mother-in-law and Nan. The visits, phone fog isolated snow sleet thunder rain snow hail 60 plus calls, baking, cards, flowers thunder flurries and kindness shown were really appreciated. Also thank overnight you for the donations to Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low Palliative Care Unit, Auckland showers 15 11 TODAY TODAY FZL: Rising to 1200m, lowering to 800m at night Ashburton Hospital. Special thanks also to the nursing Mainly fine, though snow showers about Hamilton showers 14 7 staff in the Palliative Care Fine with morning frosts. Northwesterly the divide during the afternoon. Wind at Unit for their care of Relda developing in the morning, turning Napier showers 15 5 1000m: NW to 60 km/h, turning SW and during her time there. southwesterly from the south in the evening.

McASLAN, Gerald Stewart – We would like to thank the people who helped us with their kind words, phone calls, food, flowers and donations to Ashburton Cancer Society.

Also the nurses, carers, doctors, Allenton Pharmacy, ambulance people, and everyone who helped Gerald during his illness and enabled him to stay home, where he wanted to be. Also thanks to family and friends who attended Gerald’s lovely funeral, and Rev. David Brown who lead it. This has been a huge comfort and support to us all. We have donated costs of cards and postage to the Palliative Care team, so please accept this message as a personal acknowledgement of our deep gratitude.

Sincerely, Louisa, Sylvia, Andy and Ann, Janet and Ron Cross, Hamish, Jessie and Louise Cross.

ENGAGEMENTS

PRICE - TEMPLE – Chris and Jeanette, along with Alan and Ingrid (Glenorchy) are thrilled to announce the engagement of Andrew and Eraina.

TOMORROW Fine with northwesterlies.

MONDAY Fine with northwesterlies.

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Timaru

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Queenstown

late rain

Dunedin

late rain

Invercargill

late rain

Showers about the divide with snow lifting to 1300 metres. Mainly fine further east.

Gale or severe westerlies.

Fine. Northwesterlies dying out, northeasterlies developing near the coast.

World Weather fine showers rain drizzle showers showers fine rain fine rain fine thunder fine fine showers

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Bad fishing

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 157.6 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC

ACROSS 1. Swearing it will turn into a price change round end of term (11) 9. A vast liquid quantity may be German in the North Sea (5) 10. Prudence at which one may use one’s own judgment (10) 11. What’s punishable by law comes in waves (5) 12. When one felt composed one paid the bill (7) 14. Happen to see half are diamonds (3) 15. Male politician taking narcotic drug (4) 16. A discount that can be rate of exchange (6) 17. This singer has a fishy look (4) 21. An overhead through which one goes when very angry (4) 22. Top fruit for a leading performer (6) 23. As far as one can open one’s mouth to make a peg of it (4) 26. The lout who removes the top of the bread (3) 27. A crack about a hundred will receive no end of change (7) 29. How fit he may be to be a tea-leaf (5) 30. It’s about rubbing of calf in riot of movement (10) 31. It’s dangerous to put head in marriage (5) 32 . Give light back for second engagement of same teams (6,5)

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13. Loops to keep on one when checking (4) 18. Assert that there’s space for a private cabin (9) 19. Violent collision may be unfortunately simultaneous (8) 20. Wrap-round garment may give Parisian no pain (4) 24. The can produced for public relations is no different (6) 25. A sea duck needs a twowheeler, nothing less (6) 26. Be at hand with one’s proposal (5) 28. Abdominal trouble present among bucolics (5)

QUICK ACROSS 7. Having influential friends (4-9) 8. Distribute (8) 9. Sole (4) 10. Concurs (6) 12. Tyrant (6) 14. Signal (3) 15. Distance (6) 17. Erase (6) 19. Run away (4) 21. State of confusion (8) 23. Pure (13)

DOWN 1. Nightwear (8) 2. Recess (6) 3. State of unconsciousness (4) 4. Meant (8) 5. Libra sign (6) 6. Parsimonious (4) 11. Timetable (8) 13. Criminalised (8) 16. Avaricious (6) 18. Lasso (6) 20. Touch down (4) 22. Wooden hut (4)

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YOUR STARS

by Forecasters

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) This is an important weekend for matters of the heart, taking time out to hear yourself think, having your money hat on and communication lines open.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) It’s time to declare war on any remaining glass ceilings, knowing you have the support of the professional gods all the way.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Over recent months your heart has been steadfast in what it’s telling you, with the difference now that you’re able to hear what its saying.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) As busy as life may be today and as important as it will be to keep your professional and money hats on, take time out.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) You’ve reached a point where you now know what you want from your relationships, what they need from you and how to balance the two.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) While you’ve reached an important weekend for communication and relationship matters there’s also a need to keep a professional hat on.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Do what you can to keep your professional and money hats off, instead embracing a passion for adventure and the weekend spirit.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Weekend or not, the professional gods come together to provide the first real clues that something big is developing, demanding attention.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) This is a time for getting curious about your personal and professional options, not for nailing anything down. Keep mind and options open.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) With the Sun and Mars spending their last weekend in your work sector you need to keep your work hat on, focused on what excites you.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) It’s now up to you to ensure dominant professional and relationship forces don’t squeeze out a need for fun and adventure in your life.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) Do what you can to make home and family matters and life’s other needs a priority, especially with life already busy and set to become even busier.

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phone 0900 55000 www.forecasters.co.nz

SATURDAY 27TH JUNE 91 Wills Street, Ashburton

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10 Charlesworth Drive, Ashburton

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103 Forest Drive, Methven

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2/27 Wakanui Road, Ashburton

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11 Davidson Street, Ashburton

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38 William Street, Ashburton

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2/268 Wills Street, Ashburton

12:15 - 12:45pm

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52 Beach Road, Ashburton

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24 Ludlow Drive, Lake Hood

1:00 - 1:30pm

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36 Middle Road, Ashburton

2:00 - 2:30pm CANCELLED

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1 Burnett Street, Ashburton

2:00 - 2:30pm

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14 Saunders Road, Ashburton

3:00 - 3:30pm

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SUNDAY 28TH JUNE 24 Ludlow Drive, Lake Hood

VIEW OUR LISTINGS ONLINE AT: rwashburton.co.nz Ashburton 52 Beach Road

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Worth Seeing - Worth Owning

Great first home or investment property. 3 generous bedrooms plus 2 living areas heated by Gas Fire and Heat pump. Sits well to capture all day sun and has a backyard that kids would really enjoy. For a good property - priced right. It is vacant and ready for you.

This is your opportunity to get into the real estate market either as an investor or your first home. It has plenty of potential to add value or to make it into a home to be proud of.

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Open Home Sat 1:00pm - 1:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20873 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317

Offers over $280,000

Ashburton 10 Charlesworth Drive

Brand new, ready for immediate possession. 3 double bedroom (master - WIR & ensuite) plus office. Sizeable open plan kitchen & living space. Private sheltered covered outdoor living. Heatpump and stylish electric fire. Sought after location.

Ashburton 2/27 Wakanui Road * * * * *

Two Bedrooms Large Lounge Conservatory off Dining Room Large kitchen with Butlers pantry Double internal access garage

Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

Ashburton 11 Davidson Street

Ashburton 38 William Street

* Elegant 4 bedroomed home * New large kitchen * Logfire, HRV, Heatpump, Underfloor heating * Office, sep laundry, internal access, double garage with auto door, family bathroom plus a second shower * Paved outdoor dining

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3 Generous sized bedrooms Open plan Kitchen Family room Short walk to town Great out door area for family and pets Compliant Fire

BIR $625,000-$645,000 Open Home Sat 10:45am - 11:15am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20851

Negotiable over $235,000

Offers over $417,000 Open Home Sat 11:30am - 12:00pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20878

$310,000

Open Home Sat 11:00 - 11:30am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20876

Ashburton 2/268 Wills Street

Lake Hood 24 Ludlow Drive

Ashburton 1 Burnett Street

Ashburton 14 Saunders Road

Offers over $359,000 Open Home Sat 12:15pm - 12:45pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20859

Auction to be held onsite 4th July 2015 at 11am (USP) Open Home Sat 1:00pm - 1:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20822

Offers over $308,000 Open Home Sat 2:00pm - 2:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20855

Offers over $230,000 Open Home Sat 3:00pm - 3:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20856

3 bedroom sunny townhouse 3 heating options Private 1/8 acre rear section Double garage - internal access and auto door Just minutes stroll to Countdown Complex

Manager Jill Quaid 027 437 6755

This spacious home boasts: * 4 Generous Bedrooms * Spacious ensuite and WIR * 3 Living areas * Designer Kitchen with Granite Bench * Magnificent Lake Views

Urban Consultant Kim Miller 027 236 8627

Urban Consultant Cindy Hayward 027 389 7955

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Urban Consultant Mike Grant 021 272 0202

Open Home Sat 12:00pm - 12:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20471

4 Bedrooms Sunny Lounge Big Garage Great Tenants

Urban Consultant Chrissy Milne 027 290 6606

This home is looking for “Boys with Toys” wanting good garaging and off street parking. The home offers open plan living with a good sized kitchen/dining area. It’s your choice 3 Bedrooms or 2 and a nice morning sun room/play room. Currently tenanted with tenant keen to stay or make it your own.

Urban Consultant Sue Cooper 027 331 3733

Urban Consultant Armand van-der-Eik 021 597 527

Urban Consultant Carrie-Ann Summers 021 165 3091