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First Covid-19 case in Mid Canterbury

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At least one of the 18 confirmed or probable Covid-19 cases in Canterbury is from the Ashburton District.

The man, in his late 50s, was tested for the virus following returning from the World Hereford Conference in Queenstown earlier this month.

The Guardian understands the man has only displayed minor symptoms and is recovering well.

As the man followed self-isolation procedures, his family followed suit and also went into isolation, but they have not been tested as they have not displayed any symptoms.

The man’s daughter is understood to

be a teacher at a local primary school.

The principal at the school told the Guardian he was confident in Ministry of Health assurances that teachers and students were low risk, and there had been no need for students or teachers to be tested in the absence of any symptoms.

He said parents had been kept informed with the school sending out regular updates.

“It’s been very procedural, and dealing with facts. And it’s been about supporting people and answering questions as much as we can,” the principal said.

The Guardian understands the man’s case is one of the 78 new con-

firmed or probable cases announced by the ministry yesterday, which has taken the total in New Zealand to 283.

However, as of late yesterday the ministry could not confirm the Ashburton District case was amongst the new tally, and could not provide a district breakdown of Covid-19 cases, only taking it to regional level.

Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield said at his daily Covid-19 media briefing yesterday there were 27 individuals nationwide who had recovered from the virus.

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Take a break, get ready for the new Covid-19 norm

By Sue Newman

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With schools closed and school holidays brought forward, Ashburton College principal Ross Preece is urging his students to take a break, before they start the new experience of distance learning next term.

For some students, distance learning is just the norm in some subjects, but for others it would be new territory. And there were areas such as practical woodwork or PE, where it would be difficult, he said.

“We had two days to get things ready and kids came in and got text books because not everything will be online and staff and the students worked really hard to make sure they’ll have the stuff they need available.”

Inevitably the four-week lockdown would be tough on students who would be anxious about the impact of closures on learning and exams. They could also struggle with the lack of social contact, Preece said.

“This will be an anxious time for teenagers as hanging out with friends is so important for them and right now they can’t do that.”

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a break and enjoyed the first two weeks of the lockdown as their school holidays, he said.

“My message to parents is don’t add to that stress. All secondary principals have agreed that in term two there will be no extra events, the focus will be purely on school work.”

To ensure this happened there would be no field trips or cultural events and the school ball has

been postponed.

“My message to the kids is to enjoy their holidays. Don’t get stressed out, you’ll catch this up easily.”

The enforced four-week lockdown was also an ideal time for parents to teach their kids some new skills, Preece said.

“Look at this as an opportunity to teach them to do other things, teach them to bake, to do home

renovations, it’s an opportunity to learn new life skills.”

Unlike other school holidays when staff often spend most days at school, across New Zealand all campuses are closed and staff mostly stay home.

Preece spent yesterday hacking the weed old man’s beard out of his back garden, but was keeping in close contact with his peers through regular teleconferences.

First Covid-19 case in Mid Canterbury From P1 There were seven people in hospital, none in Canterbury and none in ICU, and all in a stable condition.

In the previous day the ministry had processed 2417 tests around the country, from a total to date of 12,683.

Anyone who had been tested was expected to be in strict self-isolation until advised of the result of their test, even quarantining themselves from other members of their family.

Of the new cases, the majority were linked to overseas travel, including being in the same household as someone who has returned from overseas, having attended a known event or linked to a cluster of other cases or were close contacts of a confirmed case.

The ministry was investigating several possible clusters – Marist College in Auckland, the World Hereford Conference in Queenstown, a wedding in Wellington, a trip by a Wellington group of friends to the US, a contact with the Ruby Princess in Hawkes Bay, and a resthome in Hamilton.

You’re never too late to join the home delivery party

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Walking to the dairy each day to buy a copy of the Guardian was a ritual Les Gee had enjoyed for many years.

But with the arrival of Covid-19, the sprightly 90-year-old decided the time might have come to take the easy route to newspaper readership, by becoming a subscriber.

And in opting for home delivery he and wife Sylvia may well have earned themselves the honour of becoming one of the oldest first timers on the Guardian’s sub-

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The ex-stock firm manager is a life-long avid newspaper reader.

He’s bought the Otago Daily Times and the Guardian for more years than he cares to remember.

“We lived and grew up in Otago and it was good to keep up with what was happening – and to read the death notices to see how many of the people we knew had left on their final OE,” he said.

Walking to the dairy was part of his daily routine, and while he’ll continue to take a walk each day during the Covid-19 lockdown,

Gee said he felt going to the dairy was one exposure risk he wasn’t prepared to take.

Rather than give up the paper, he decided home delivery was the answer.

“If you don’t get it you’re stuffed because local news is very important.”

The prospect of four weeks at home doesn’t faze Gee. He has a stack of books to read, he and Sylvia play Scrabble most nights, there’s television to watch and gardening to do.

He’s not anxious or afraid. When

you’ve lived through a world war, you understand what it means to live in difficult circumstances, he said.

He recalls the day World War Two was declared. As a 10-yearold, the concept of war was pretty frightening, Gee said.

“As kids we were wondering what the future held for us. We had to use building paper to black-out our windows, and we had ration books. Darwin was bombed and that threatened New Zealand.”

However, no one should under estimate the severity of the cur-

rent crisis, he said.

“In that situation we could see our enemy, with this one you can’t. It’s time for us to live quietly.

These steps are the right ones to take and we will beat this.”

As a couple they’re well prepared and they have no concerns about life without visitors.

“Sometimes the best company you can have is your own,” Gee said.

“We’re fine, we have no fears about this lockdown. Wash your hands frequently, breathe through your nose and you’ll be okay.”

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Police prepared for lockdown

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

People in the Ashburton District can expect to see more police patrols as they adapt to being in lockdown.

Ashburton District Sub-Area supervisor senior sergeant Leigh Jenkins said the court has been closed for the lockdown period and staff have been re-focused, including a marked increase in the number of patrols.

This will include in the CBD and industrial areas and with all non-essential businesses shutting down that could make them a target for burglars.

Concerns have been raised by family violence advocates that the lockdown could cause an increase in family harm incidents.

Jenkins said police are hopeful that the community will accept the circumstances of the lockdown.

“Police will respond to any calls for service made by any member of the community in respect of family harm,” he said.

In a usual week in the district police will attend between 10 and 20 family harm calls.

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New way of working for firefighters

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Firefighters have been equipped with face masks and gloves to wear when attending call-outs and Jenkins said police staff also have personal protection equipment issued to them.

“It is for the individual officer to decide when to use it depending upon the circumstances presented,” he said.

On the first day of the lockdown yesterday Police Com-

missioner Mike Bush said his staff have encountered people who say “they are not even aware” of New Zealand’s lockdown status.

He assured Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking yesterday morning they had made the comments with a straight face.

But he was sure most New Zealanders would obey the rules.

When asked how police

would enforce the rules and make sure those out and about were out for a good reason, he said police officers may follow you.

“If they’ve got a good reason – if they’re an essential worker or if they’re going to the supermarket or if they’re going to get food or health supplies – that’s fine.

“If not, stay at home. That’s how you’re going to save lives.”

Protective masks, gloves, safety glasses and disinfecting all equipment and their trucks is the new way of life for firefighters during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade were the first brigade called to a job during the lockdown when they were called to a medical event around 8am on Thursday morning.

Chief fire officer Tyrone Burrowes said they have taken steps to reduce the Covid-19 risk amongst the brigade.

“We are trying to keep our distance when we go to calls and are using minimal crewing so we are not exposing as many members of the brigade,” he said.

“We are also cleaning the vehicles thoroughly when we get back and have had lots of info come through from FENZ (Fire and Emergency New Zealand) on what we should be doing.”

Burrowes said crews will be wearing personal protective equipment and were taking extra steps for medical related call-outs involving respiratory issues or flu-like symptoms.

He said we have one chance to do this right, and that they would be taking all the steps they could to minimise the risk of the disease spreading further.

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Services changing with the seasons As we move into autumn the crops available for sale from Highbank fruit and vege growers Full Circle Farm begin to change.

Tomatoes give way to pumpkins and strawberries move over and let the zucchinis have their moment in the sun.

This seasonal change has left Full Circle with smaller amounts of some traditional summer fruits and veges to sell.

Owner Sarah Barlow said they thought the strawberry season was over, but all of a sudden the plants started flowering and producing fruit.

She knew there wasn’t enough of the late blooming strawberries to list as an individual item on their Methven home delivery page, so her and partner Mosi Lau hit upon the idea of surprise fruit and vege orders.

Customers simply order a $20 surprise bag online and take their chances with what they get – a mixture of late season summer produce and autumn goodies. Barlow assured people there would be no weirdo “What in the world is that?” veg-

A Full Circle Farm Surprise bag became bags of happiness and a welcome distraction on Monday when farm owner Sarah Barlow delivered them to customers. es in the bags, just standard stuff and she challenged everybody to make something fun with the bag, and even email them

images of the creations.

Barlow pointed out was it a bit more work for her and Lau to make the bags up, but the flip

side to the extra time spent, was the enjoyment they got putting them together.

“Many of our regular Methven customers ordered them, and I knew from previous sales what they preferred, so I personalised them as much as I could. It is a fun way to deliver fresh and locally grown produce to them.”

Applying the same mystery bag to cooking for her own family Barlow said she will go out into the garden and grab some random options to make dinner.

This rather cavalier attitude to crop picking has left her wondering how she can combine kale and apples together to make a meal that partner Lau and their two young boys will enjoy.

Barlow knows from the feedback they have received the mystery bags were a welcome treat, especially at moment, but she is not sure how long they can keep the surprise bags going for.

She said seasonal changes and late frosts have adversely affected the range of crops available.

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Killer’s shock guilty plea NZME Brenton Harrison Tarrant yesterday made a shock admission that he was the lone gunman who murdered 51 Muslims at two Christchurch mosques on March 15 last year.

The 29-year-old Australian entered the guilty pleas at a special, hastily-arranged High Court hearing in Christchurch yesterday morning.

Tarrant, who appeared from prison on a screen via audio-visual link (AVL) wearing a grey prison sweatshirt, pleaded guilty to all 51 murder charges.

He also admitted 40 charges of attempted murder relating to the two attacks at Masjid Al Noor and Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15 last year – and pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in a terrorist act laid under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002.

Temel Atacocugu was shot nine times at Al Noor by Tarrant.

He heard the news from one of the lawyers assigned to assist the victims.

“She called me and asked if I had read the text message,” he said.

“I said ‘no’ and she said the terrorist had changed his plea.

“I just said ‘wow’.”

Atacocugu said the pleas were “quite a surprise”.

“This is good news, I am happy – it will save us a lot of time and a lot of stress,” he said.

Travelling to court every day for six weeks or more, potentially giving evidence and the mental and emotional stress that came with that had been weighing on Atacocugu mind.

Brenton Harrison Tarrant “Every day having to face the media, every day having to spend money,” he said.

“It is a relief, this is a big win for us and for the community.”

He said he had been “very emotional” around the anniversary but yesterday that dark cloud lifted.

“When I heard this news, I felt good,” he said.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the guilty plea would provide “some relief to the many people whose lives were shattered by what happened on March 15”.

“These guilty pleas and conviction bring accountability for what happened and also save the families who lost loved ones,

those who were injured, and other witnesses, the ordeal of a trial.”

Police commissioner Mike Bush welcomed yesterday’s resolution to what he described as the largest criminal prosecution in New Zealand history.

The two officers who arrested Tarrant, and later received bravery commendations, said they are “relieved” at yesterday’s guilty pleas.

New Zealand’s worst-ever act of terrorism was filmed by the shooter and livestreamed on Facebook, leading to gun reforms and a global political summit initiated by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to eliminate terrorist and violent extrem-

ist content online.

Justice Cameron Mander convicted Tarrant on all charges yesterday and remanded him in custody to a nominal date of May 1, when it’s expected that a sentencing date will be set – once coronavirus-imposed court restrictions are eased.

“For me this is a good result, but I have questions, Atacocugu said.

“I want to know why he changed his plea – the judge should have asked him why, there are lots of question marks.

“But overall, I am thinking positively – this is a win, win situation.”

Atacocugu will go to sentencing and hopes to read his victim impact statement to Tarrant.

He hopes there will be more answers that day about why he opened fire on the mosques and why he changed his mind about his plea after so many other court appearances.

“He will have a long time to be thinking about what he did,” he said of Tarrant’s future.

“And maybe he will remember he is a human . . . maybe he wants to pay for what he did?”

Survivor Hisham Alzarzour, who was shot multiple times by Tarrant, reacted quietly to the news.

He had been planning on attending the trial.

“It is good . . . it is good that he has pleaded guilty,” he said.

“It is very good there will be no trial.”

Alzarzour’s wife Susan was almost speechless at the news.

“It is really good news,” she said.

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Open despite lockdown Police paid a visit to a bargain store yesterday morning to discuss whether it should be open during the nationwide lockdown.

Crackerjack in Hamilton opened to walk-in customers yesterday, the first day of a month-long lockdown designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New Zealand. Other stores owned by the company were also open in Auckland. Police officers at the scene would not comment. The company did not respond to calls. Some of the company’s employees questioned whether it was an essential service, and said they did not feel safe working during the lockdown. A handful of workers had quit, and others were threatening to. – NZME

An eerie quiet It was a chilly and silent day in March when New Zealanders woke to the words of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern – “Be calm, be kind” – on day one of a national lockdown. Photos around the country showed Kiwis adhering to the new rules to stay home unless they were an essential worker, like nurses in uniform heading to hospital on the few buses still running. Other photos showed rows of empty lanes on motorways usually teeming with rush-hour traffic as the country embraces the restrictions of Alert Level 4 in the fight against Covid-19, which, so far, has infected 205 New Zealanders.

Despite the picture of emptiness, Police Commissioner Mike Bush said his staff have encountered people who say “they are not even aware” of New Zealand’s lockdown status.

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Pay now, go later A website has been set up to pay it forward to your local hospitality businesses by buying vouchers online in the hope of keeping them afloat once lockdown has been lifted. SOS Cafe was set up by David Downs following Monday’s lockdown announcement. Through the site people can buy vouchers or gift cards for their local cafe and restaurant, which can be redeemed at a later date.

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Mad Butcher trading Some Mad Butcher stores continue to trade despite the Government issuing strict orders for all nonessential businesses to be shut as part of a mandatory lockdown to help curb the spread of Covid-19.

Yesterday morning, Mad Butcher stores in Mt Roskill and Glen Innes, in Auckland, owned by Michael Morton, continued to trade and remain open despite this. A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) earlier said it was aware that some Mad Butcher stores remained opened despite the ban, but said these were not permitted to be trading. – NZME

Living at Alert Level 4 How we can all help save lives: Staying home

Services

• Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services.

• Rubbish collection will continue. Check your local authority website for recycling.

• Only make physical contact with those that you live with.

• NZ Post will deliver mail and courier drivers will continue to make deliveries.

• Please note that children CAN travel between the homes of separated parents so as long as they live in the same town/city.

Food and shopping • Supermarkets, dairies and pharmacies will remain open.

• When shopping, as much as possible only one family member at a time, practice physical distancing and hygiene rules while shopping.

• Dairies will operate a strict ‘one-in, one-out’ policy and they won’t be allowed to sell food prepared on the premises.

• Self-service laundries can stay open, as long as 2 metre physical distancing is enforced.

• Service stations will remain open and will be supplied.

• Public transport, regional air travel and ferries are mostly restricted to those involved in essential services and freight.

• Some public transport will be available for essential trips, such as to the supermarket or doctor, but options will be limited.

• Taxi drivers and rideshare services will continue.

• Primary industries, including food and beverage production and processing, will still operate.

• Building and construction workers will carry on in cases where they’re needed to maintain human health or safety.

• Freight and courier drivers will continue to transport and deliver food.

Recreation or exercise

• Grocery food deliveries – such as My Food Bag and Hello Fresh – are considered as essential and will continue as long as the food is not pre-cooked.

• You can go for a walk, run, or bike ride. Exercise is good for people’s mental health.

• If you do, it must be only in your neighbourhood and solitary, or only with those that you live with. Keep a 2 metre distance.

• Takeaway services will be closed.

• However, if you are unwell, do NOT go outside.

• Liquor stores will close, unless within a Licensing Trust Area and will operate with a strict ‘one-in, one-out’ policy.

Wine and beer will continue to be sold at supermarkets.

• DOC has closed all its campsites and huts.

Public spaces • Places where the public congregate must close.

• All bars, restaurants, cafes, gyms, cinemas, pools, museums, libraries, playgrounds and any other place where the public congregate must close their face to face function.

• Playgrounds are classed as an area where people congregate and so are off-limits.

• People can exercise outdoors but must maintain a two metre distance from others.

• Keep it local. If it’s on your doorstep, it’s fine. Otherwise don’t drive long distances to beaches or parks for fresh air. Stay close to your home.

• Do not go hunting or hiking, and especially not on overnight trips.

• No swimming or surfing. A walk along the beach is fine.

But don’t do anything that may require help if you end up getting into trouble.

Interaction with others • Staying at home is meant to reduce the transmission of the virus.

• For this to work, you are asked to only have contact with the people you live with.

• If you want to talk to a friend, call or video chat with them.

• If you want to talk to a neighbour, do it over the fence.

• Feel free to drop off groceries to others e.g. a grandma, but keep a 2 metre distance for her safety.

Remember: following these simple rules will save lives

Support is available If you feel stressed or anxious, you can call or text 1737 to talk with a trained counsellor for free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Mt Hutt still hopes to open

By Susan Sandys

Mt Hutt still plans to open this year, provided Covid-19 comes under control.

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Fresh powder snow and sunshine awaits Mid Canterbury skiers this winter if New Zealand can beat Covid-19.

Mt Hutt is due to open June 5 and the ski area’s ownership company, NZSki, is hoping to still make that date.

NZSki operates Mt Hutt and its two sister ski areas of Coronet Peak and the Remarkables.

CEO Paul Anderson appealed to skiers and snowboarders to do their bit to stay home so authorities could get the pandemic under control. “Our working assumption is we will still do everything we can to open our mountains if we are allowed to,� Anderson said.

He said if New Zealand’s Covid-19 alert level had eased from four, where it currently is, to two by early June, domestic travel restrictions would remain but the ski areas would still be able to serve their local communities. He conceded this would not be the most economically robust of scenarios for the multi-million dollar skifield operations, but being open was better than not being open at all. “We want to maintain our busi-

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want to get out. It’s really important for our community to have not just the mental well-being but also the economic stimulus

that that can bring,� Anderson said.

In the case of the rule of no more than 100 inside continuing at that time, the ski areas would manage that. There would be a new norm of social distancing, and extensive outdoor dining options.

There would be increased and enhanced cleaning protocols, especially in high-traffic areas.

In the unlikely event that the ski areas were unable to open for the entire season, the company would offer to rollover products purchased for use in the 2021 season or provide full refunds.

Mt Hutt has said previously that the bulk of skiers at Mt Hutt were from Canterbury and the rest of New Zealand, with only about 15 per cent from overseas.

The visitation impact on the Queenstown skifields is expected to be more dramatic, as they rely on up to 40 per cent overseas visitation.

Burial or cremation but no funerals For some families, one of most distressing moments of the Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown will be not just the death of a family member, but knowing that they will be cremated or buried without those closest to them in attendance But government regulations for the Level 4 Alert make it clear that no indoor or outdoor event can be held and that this restriction applies to all family or social gatherings as well as weddings or funerals.

And that could mean a cremation or burial with just two staff from a funeral

home in attendance, leaving families to hold a memorial service at a later date.

The Funeral Directors’ Association of New Zealand has issued clear guidelines for all members. As an essential service funeral directors will remain open during the Level 4 Alert, and Paterson’s Funeral Services owner Barry Hayman said his advice to bereaved families is to phone the company’s office and staff will talk them through the options available.

These options, of course, will not currently include a traditional funeral, Hayman said.

Local liquor stores forced to close

By Sue Newman

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The community voted to end the Ashburton Licensing Trust’s monopoly on liquor sales in November 2004, but ripples from that decision are now being felt as New Zealand goes into lockdown during the Level 4 Covid-19 alert.

That decision may have given people living in the trust area new freedoms in terms of liquor purchasing, but it also means Ashburton joined most of New Zealand in having liquor stores off-limits from 11.59pm Wednesday night.

Until that vote, the trust owned liquor stores at the Tinwald Tavern, Hotel Ashburton and the Devon Tavern. It had also owned standalone stores at Allenton and in Moore Street.

Two years ago it dramatically changed its business model and leased all prem-

ises, except for the Devon Tavern, effectively putting all but one off-licence in the hands of private operators.

While it may technically have been able to open the Devon bottle store, trust general manager Rob Reid said the board had elected not to do so. “We’ve closed the whole business. We wouldn’t keep it open just for off licence sales, we’re not willing to put people at risk,� he said.

During the lockdown, liquor stores in areas where there is nowhere else to purchase alcohol have dispensation to remain open, “Twenty years ago we could have remained open, but now the supermarkets will have liquor available,� Reid said.

New Zealand now has just four standalone licensing trust areas – Invercargill, Mataura, Portage and Waitakere.

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■■THE FRY-DAY FRY-UP

Fry-day Fry-up going on hold Unfortunately this will be the last Fry-day Fry-up for at least four weeks as reviewing the town’s fish and chip shops is correctly not classed as an essential service.

We have made it halfway through the series, and I’ve been astounded by the feedback with people obviously staunch and proud about their favourite fish and chip shop.

There has been one shop I have regularly been told I had to visit – the Creek Road Fish and Chip shop.

Everyone from politicians to real estate agents and everyone in between has recommended Creek Road, so I have to say expectations were high.

It was a very weird feeling driving to pick up my order that night as it was the day the lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister, and I never thought it would be possible, but the shop had quite a sombre feeling, with the staff letting customers know they would be open the next day and then closed from that point onwards.

The price of the standard piece of fish, hotdog and scoop of chips was on par with other stores visited so far.

Ashburton is blessed with a wide range of fish and chip shops to satisfy one of New Zealand’s favourite fast food cravings, Guardian reporter Jaime Pitt-MacKay takes on the unenviable, or enviable task of ranking them all . . .

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The chips were nice and crispy, but were not anything extra special compared to other places.

The hot dog threw up a curve-

ball as it was the first one to come without a stick.

While I guess it is no different to picking up the battered bit of fish

Kiwis have no constitutional right to bear arms – Court

By Sam Hurley NZME

A legal challenge by firearms owners to the Government’s military-style semi-automatic weapons ban claiming New Zealanders have the right to bear arms under the Treaty of Waitangi was “doomed to fail”, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The Kiwi Party, formed after the Christchurch terror attacks to protect free speech and individual rights, contested the validity of the Government’s new gun law and the expedited process by which it was passed in the courts.

Yesterday, the terrorist whose mass shootings led to the law change pleaded guilty in the High Court at Christchurch.

Australian national Brenton Tarrant admitted murdering 51 people at two Christchurch mosques on March 15 last year. He also pleaded guilty to 40 charges of attempted murder and one charge of engaging in a terrorist act.

Quickly following the attacks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed to outlaw the types of firearms Tarrant used. It led to the Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act being passed last April after a truncated select committee process .

Most military-style semi-automatic weapons and associated parts were prohibited.

But the Kiwi Party, which is different to the party of the same name that broke away from Unit-

ed Future in 2007, asked the courts to forbid the Government from acting on the law until six months after the 2020 election or until a referendum could be held.

After being initially turned away by the High Court, the group, founded by licensed firearms owners, went to the Court of Appeal. They also, earlier this year, attempted a “leapfrog appeal” to the Supreme Court, which was unsuccessful.

In its argument, the Kiwi Party’s counsel Graeme Minchin said the members of the Select Committee which considered the bill “failed in their duty to provide the checks and balances necessary to maintain a free and democratic society”.

They also claimed it failed to take into account the Magna Carta, while the law also breaches the Treaty of Waitangi and is “unconstitutional” because it contravenes the “right to bear arms [which] is coincident with the balance of powers in English society”.

The so-called constitutional right to bear arms, the Kiwi Party argued, had derived from ancient custom, which evolved into a common law right and was affirmed by the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights 1688 and the Treaty of Waitangi.

Minchin maintained “the right to bear arms is the practical application of the legal principles that ‘no power is unfettered’ and is the mark of a free society”.

He said New Zealanders need to be able to exercise their “constitu-

tional right” to access semi-automatic weapons and large capacity magazines to be able to effectively defend themselves against any unlawful use of arms by agents of the Crown or Executive.

In particular, he argued New Zealanders need access to semi-automatic weapons in order to match police firepower should the cops resort to unlawful use of firearms against New Zealand citizens. However, Minchin acknowledged the “ugliness” of the proposition he was advancing.

In the Court of Appeal’s decision, released this week, Justice David Collins said: “We accept for present purposes that it was customary in ancient times for citizens of England to bear arms ... We do not need, however, to determine if the custom of bearing arms evolved into a common law right.

“An examination of the constitutional instruments relied upon by Mr Minchin quickly exposes the fallacy of his argument that New Zealanders have a constitutional right to bear arms.”

The court said the rights the Kiwi Party say have been breached are not found in the Treaty of Waitangi and the argument “was doomed to fail”.

“The fallacy that there is a constitutional right to bear arms in New Zealand is further highlighted by an examination of the way other democratic countries regulate the ability of their citizens to access firearms,” the decision reads.

directly, there is just something about having the stick to hold on to while navigating the hot dog.

The fish was nice and crispy,

1. Boston Burger 2. Allenton Fish Supply 3. Creek Road Fish and Chips 3. Beach Road Fish and Chips 4. Allenton Fish & Chip Shop

fairly similar to everywhere else so far.

Everything was salted really well and it was a good meal of fish and chips, but definitely not the best out of the places tested so far.

I have no idea when this series will return, I hope sooner rather than later, so everyone follow the Government’s advice, stay home unless you need to go out, and we will all be able to enjoy our favourite fish and chips once again when this is over.

Confusion after Hamilton couple told to go home while out walking NZME A Hamilton woman wants to know what people can and can’t do after her parents were told to go home by police while out walking.

As the country began its first day of a minimum 4-week Covid-19 lockdown, Kirstin McNabb said her parents, aged 68 and 74, were going for a walk around Hamilton Lake about 11am yesterday when they were stopped by police.

“They live on Lake Rd so were going for a walk around the lake ... they pulled them over and told them that they had to go home and Dad said, ‘well I thought we were still allowed to walk’, and they said that was at Alert Level 3, we’re now at Alert Level 4.

“Nobody else, bar one person [that I’ve spoken to] is of the opinion that that’s the case.”

Alert Level 4 restrictions mean people need to stay at home, schools and universities will be closed, as well as non-essential businesses, major reprioritisation of health services, and air travel and public transport will only be for essential services.

The only reasons people can go out is it they need to do a supermarket and/or pharmaceutical run, work for an essential business or do outdoor activities like gardening or going for a walk in their local area.

At Wednesday’s press conference, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put it simply, “act like

you have Covid-19” and stay home.

She said police will be moving around the country and asking questions of those outside of their homes.

People without a valid reason to be outside can be reminded of their obligations, she said.

However, she added that people just getting fresh air should be able to without being told to go home by police, and some common sense was needed in their approach.

McNabb said another friend had sent a photo of himself out walking, being seen by police, but was never questioned.

As well as that, she’d been getting conflicting reports about who she could go walking with.

“There’s four of us in my bubble. So, some people are of the opinion that I can only go for walks with myself and then other people are of the opinion that you can only go for walks with people in your bubble. There’s no clarity around that either.”

A police spokesperson said all non-essential workers were now in lockdown.

“Restrictions include remaining at home, you can still go outside but you must remain within your neighbourhood.”

As for what self-isolation meant, the spokesperson said “it means stay at home”.

“The Government has asked all New Zealanders to stay at home to help stop the spread of Covid-19.”

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Ashburton Guardian

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Friday, March 27, 2020

OUR VIEW

Matt Markham

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t might seem a little arrogant or perhaps even ignorant for the South Island’s three major skifields to be thinking about opening their slopes for the season considering the world we are faced with at the moment, but perhaps their approach is a good message to everyone.

While we don’t know just how long it might be until we’re out of this state of emergency that has the majority of us bound to our homes in an effort to combat Covid-19, there is going to be an end-point where we get to return to normal life, whatever that might be by the time the dust settles.

Not the best example, I know.

But perhaps a good way to spend time during this period is to plan for the future. Talk about what you want to do, what you want to achieve and how you’re going to achieve.

Make it realistic, so that when we can finally walk out the door and repopulate society you are ready to rock and roll. It could be something simple, like planning for a family holiday or something more extravagant like home renovations.

The options are endless and there’s no real excuse for not having enough time to plan it all out at the moment either.

Finally, today I’ve had a few people contact us wanting to know about our hygiene standards when printing, packaging and then delivering your Guardian to you. Like everywhere else in the country, essential services that play a role in getting the paper to you are adhering to strict guidelines around cleanliness and ensuring the chance of further spread is minimised.

Basically the only stage of where a newspaper is in the hands of a human is during the delivery process and all of our delivery drivers are using gloves and facemasks to reduce any risk to you or to themselves.

We’re taking this incredibly seriously because we want to be able to bring you news six days a week.

For as long as we can.

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t’s times like these when you get a real buzz in radio.

Not a good buzz! An onedge, anxious kind of buzz.

I really appreciate the importance of my role at times like these. Any millenials reading this will be like, “who even are you Boi?” But for some, especially our older members of town, they will be appreciating not only the local information but just the sound of a familiar voice.

It will be a slice of normality in these far from normal times.

In my opinion Jacinda has handled herself incredibly well through another crisis. Jeez, she has had her fair share of hurdles to leap over to date eh?

Hindsight will prove it, but I think the swift way she and her team have reacted will save lives. I really worry about what’s going to happen in the coming days in the UK, the US and even over the ditch.

Also the response in Mid Canterbury has been top-notch as well. Dr Emma Andrew, Sarah Clark and the rest of those behind the local Covid-19 Comms team swung into life and have been a godsend for us in the media craving information to pass on to our listeners and readers.

My major hope at the moment is that everybody takes this lock-down seriously, even if you don’t think the virus is that bad and it won’t be an issue for us in Mid Canterbury, please still follow the directions and stay at home.

I very much hope you are correct and this is an overreaction but just in case it’s not, imagine how you’d feel if you were responsible

for further spread and death because you didn’t believe.

It is going to be an incredibly testing time for us over the next four weeks. I know for some people, making Phill Hooper ends meet financially will be OFF THE AIR a very daunting prospect.

Somehow we need to keep reminding ourselves not to sweat the small stuff. Try not to jump down our significant other’s or kids’ throats when something doesn’t go quite right at home. An maybe leave Monopoly until the fourth week!

I see this time as an opportunity for a reset.

It looks like the planet is having one. Satellite images show pollution levels around the world at noticeably low levels. Hopefully those creating it will have a look at how they operate in the future.

I also see it as an opportunity to reset at home. As things get a lot ‘tighter’ for us over the coming weeks I reckon we will discover just how far we can make the bare necessities go. Some of those luxury items we spent too much on, or yearned for, will no longer appear on our radars.

I’m not suggesting we’ll all turn into freedom camping hippies but we may just realise how happy we are with what we have already.

Stay at home, turn the radio on and read the paper and we’ll do our very best to keep you informed as you look after your bubble.

Till next week, Hoo Roo. Phill Hooper is the breakfast host of Ashburton’s Hokonui radio station. The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

Letters with love So, we survived day one of our adventure, and the weather’s picked up a bit.

Your father is well and truly into his holiday mode, he’s not shaving and already walking around in just his underpants, thank goodness the neighbours aren’t here.

He found the TV remote and plonked himself down and has been trying to find something, all he’s getting is soaps, cooking and chat shows, he can’t understand where all the sport games have gone, reckons he’ll have to pay to get the satellite link, he’s a bit cross about it and the vinyl chairs aren’t helping, what with ripping at the hairs on his back when he gets up.

I’ll have to find the manager of this place and see if he can suggest a good restaurant, that’ll cheer him up.

So far we’ve been lucky we haven’t been bitten by mosquitos or any other nasty that could be lurking on the island, but they must be expecting us to get diarrhoea – they have given us about 3 months supply of toilet paper!

Love Mother and Father

Belief relief The publican up there in Chertsey, Taught his wife and his daughter to curtsy.

He said “we in the pub, we serve cold beer and grub, “And if the Queen pops in here she’ll be thirsty”.

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Two established tunnel houses and a large shade house are currently used for growing flowers and strawberries with one growing dwarf avocado trees.

Multiple fruit trees, raspberries and flowers are also grown, while the lucerne provides an excellent feed source for livestock.

A shop area has been built and offers the perfect place to sell your own produce grown on the land.

The addition of a walk in chiller makes this a very viable option.

A workshop and shed complete the outbuildings.

The three bedroom character home has been recently fitted with new carpet throughout, as well as new paint inside.

Heating by the built in log burner and night store, paired with insulation in the ceiling, make this a cosy family home. The large deck on the west side of the property soaks in afternoon sun, creating an ideal space to entertain family and friends.

Located only minutes from the centre of Ashburton, this property has the potential to create a unique business, or enjoy a peaceful lifestyle close to town.

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Autumn’s arrival in the T

he beginning of the ‘changeover’ from summer to winter gardening has arrived!

Autumn brings regular rainfall and a welcome reprieve from hot, dry temperatures for many areas around the country.

Vegetable gardens Harvest your remaining summer crops and remove any plants that have finished cropping and pop them in the compost bin.

Towards the end of the month, winter vegetables can be planted as either seedlings or seeds and include; beetroot, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, onions, radish, silverbeet, spinach, swedes and turnips.

Replenish the soil with much needed nutrients by adding compost.

Mix well with existing soil to a spade and a half depth.

Remember to rotate where you will plant different vegetables compared to last year, and stagger plantings to provide continuous harvesting throughout the season.

Protect your seedlings from snails and slugs and keep watering if there is a lack of rainfall.

Flower gardens Sadly, most summer flowering annuals that thrive in the hot months are nearing the end of their lives.

As temperatures cool towards the end of the month, begin planting out winter annuals like calendulas, nemesia, pansies, snapdragons, wallflowers etc.

As with your vegetable garden, prepare the soil well and make sure there is enough drainage for the coming wet, winter conditions.

Cut back any flowering perennials and plant any new seedlings where desired (remember to check the variety is suited to your region).

March/April are the final months for planting out bulbs.

Good preparation of soil is critical as many bulbs will not be disturbed for a number of years so it’s worth giving them the best start.

In general, bulbs thrive in an open, sunny position where the soil is well drained. Bulbs to plant include; anemones, crocus, daffodils, freesias, hyacinth, iris, lachenalias, nerines, ranunculus, tulips and watsonias. Remember to mark where you plant them.

Fruit trees and berries A number of pear and apple varieties are ready for harvesting this month, while the classic Golden Queen peach ripens in early march.

Passionfruit are turning purple now, indicating they are ready for harvesting.

Pull them directly off the vine or collect as they fall to the ground when ripe.

Mandarins, lemons and oranges are now forming on citrus trees so keep watering consistently, mulch well and continue feeding with Citrus Fertiliser. Berry plants such as raspberries, can be safely pruned this month.

Herb gardens Herbs can start looking a little tired this time of the year and many begin flowering and eventually ‘go to seed’.

Cut back plants regularly or plant new specimens. Another option is to harvest, dry and then store herbs for use over the winter months. It’s a simple process and is very rewarding.

Rose gardens Where roses have been well cared for over the summer months, you will be rewarded with displays of blooms in March and April, and varieties like iceberg will flower right into winter.

Begin applications of rose fertilisers to rose bushes and dead head flowers regularly.

Mulch with fresh compost.

Lawns With the arrival of more consistent rain, work can now begin on renovating existing lawns or sowing a new one.

Lawn fertiliser can be safely applied towards the end of this month – make sure it is watered in well. Regular mowing can begin again to encourage strong, healthy grass growth.

Shrubs and ornamentals Add compost around all existing shrubs and ornamentals.

Hold off purchasing new plants until around May when new season specimens start arriving at garden centres.

Visit www.daltons.co.nz if you need more gardening advice or information on the wide range of Daltons products.

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Open plan living, heated by a heat pump with doors opening from the dining out onto a private northwest facing deck. The front hallway is home to the three bedrooms all with built in storage and new drapes. At the northern end of the home is the family bathroom and a bonus storage room/office and separate laundry.

Well planted raised vegetable gardens and surrounded by fruit trees. All securely fenced with a single garage.

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Your own slice of paradise A fabulous three bedroom townhouse of generous proportions, approximately 220sqm on a 506sqm (more or less) section.

The tranquil lounge has a cathedral ceiling which provides a feeling of space. The kitchen/living/dining are also spacious and open out onto a beautiful private garden and patio.

Double glazed and heated by a built in gas fire and heat pump, plus all day sun, create a comfortable warm home.

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For Lease For Lease by Deadline closing 12pm, Thu 9 April 2020 This 202 hectare property with quality soils and irrigation is for lease, on a three plus two year term.

Located in Chertsey, an area renowned for cereals, seed production and vegetables, but also healthy country for livestock finishing.

A quality farm in all aspects, especially the Chertsey soils capable of growing a wide range of crops including potatoes, small seeds and cereals. In the past, breeding ewes have been prominent. More recently, winter trading lambs and finishing cattle have been utilised in the crop rotation.

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English character Mid Canterbury charm With current situation in New Zealand date of sale to be confirmed.

Two storey homestead in a mature garden with 41.4194 hectares (more or less). Irrigated via two pivots and some K-Lines.

A glamorous kitchen, open plan living/dining area and separate lounge with great indoor/outdoor flow to a paved courtyard. Also on the ground floor, an office, laundry, access to the double garage and a double bedroom with an ensuite. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms and a family bathroom.

A detached two bay garage, three bay hay shed and a four bay implement shed complete this property.

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Terrace Croft If you're looking for a property in an excellent location with income potential, Terrace Croft must be considered.

This 2.7 hectare property offers multiple potential income sources. Two established tunnel houses and a shade house are currently used for growing flowers, strawberries and dwarf avocado trees. Multiple fruit trees, raspberries and flowers are also grown, while lucerne offers livestock a feed source.

A shop area with walk in chiller has been built and offers the perfect place to sell your own produce grown on the land.

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Wake up and smell the roses If you are looking for a property with the potential to create income whilst having all the luxury of an architecturally designed home, then this all round appealing property must be considered.

Located just minutes from the centre of Ashburton, this 8.4 hectare lifestyle property has the business Kakariki Flowers currently operating out of two substantial glass houses located at the rear of the property.

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Modern Family Home In Rakaia 3 Robinson Street, Rakaia This home boasts three double bedrooms, master with en-suite and a sunny open plan kitchen/ living.

Double glazing. Large double garage with workshop and laundry.

Some of the other features are the 1012 sqm section, a skylight that gives the kitchen natural light, sumptuous gardens and a glasshouse.

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Easy Living 19A River Terrace, Ashburton Welcome to a low maintenance and effortless living lifestyle close to town and across the road from the EA Networks community fitness centre. This modern three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is built for the sun and presents an opportunity for you to own a modern property in a convenient central location at an affordable level. Enjoy the security of having a fully fenced residence with an easy-care established garden.

The attractive outdoor patio provides access to both the open plan living areas and master bedroom suite.

Features include a generous office nook off the living areas; customised window joinery features; off-street parking for the boat or camper.

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374 Burnett Street, ASHBURTON Stroll to town from this fantastic two bedroom townhouse. A front unit with private driveway, this home offers a large open plan living/dining/ kitchen area opening to a sunny sheltered patio.

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Features are an abundance of built-in storage and a walk-in shower to ensure ease of access,

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Timeless Elegance 1 Park Lane , ASHBURTON This character entertainer offers a bungalow with three double bedrooms and two bathrooms, predominately double glazed, the ambience of a gas fireplace and a modern hostess kitchen. Throw open the doors from the living and bedroom areas to enjoy the private gardens. Stay warm with a ducted heating system and underfloor bathroom heating. Garaging to accommodate three vehicles. Adjacent to the

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376 Wakanui Road, ASHBURTON Spacious four bedroom family home with two generous sized living rooms. Productive and fertile Wakanui soils subdivided into seven paddocks and two holding paddocks with established fencing and water troughs.

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Classic Meets Contemporary 65 Wills Street ALLENTON This gorgeous villa is ideally situated with a modern and light filled kitchen and dining/ living space.

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A luxury chalet at the Mt Hutt Lodge Complex, located above the breath taking Rakaia Gorge with views out toward the Mt Hutt Range, is now for sale.

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Brand New 88 Alford Forest, ASHBURTON This town house has been thoughtfully designed and positioned for the sun, including three bedrooms and all the modern benefits of a new home.

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42 Charlesworth Drive, ALLENTON A well designed family home great for entertaining. Two north facing living rooms have excellent flow with kitchen and outdoors.

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Warning of looming freight blockages

By Gavin Evans NZME

Ports and freight handlers have signalled the need to keep all cargoes moving off the country’s wharves to ensure essential supplies can continue to get delivered.

The Road Transport Forum today urged the government to take a pragmatic approach in the current lockdown to ensure that exporters and importers of non-essential goods are still able to move consignments.

Ports of Auckland, the country’s largest import terminal, said cargoes are moving well at the moment but that could change in coming weeks if customers aren’t able to receive goods, either because they are shut or because their own depots are full.

“What we want to ensure is that goods keep moving off the wharves,” spokesman Matt Ball said.

“If certain warehouses or distribution centres close because they are not considered essential, that’s where you could get a blockage,” he said.

Government officials have been scrambling this week to try and ensure as many people as possible

stay at home to make the Covid-19 lockdown as effective as possible, while ensuring that essential food, health and other supplies can keep being produced and delivered.

But definitions of what constitutes essential services have changed from day-to-day, while the necessary supporting linkages – in terms of suppliers to those essential providers – have also been missed at times.

Road Transport Forum chief executive Nick Leggett said restricting the movement of non-essential freight risks a “port pile-up” in which exports and essential imports could be delayed.

He said all freight – including imports and exports – has to keep moving to ensure depots keep clearing containers, ships can be emptied and loaded, and emptied import containers filled with exports and re-shipped.

“The government needs to understand that all freight needs to move during this time,” he said in a statement.

“Even by the end of this week, some ports will be struggling.”

Ports around the country vary in terms of their rail links and their ability to access nearby stor-

age yards. Many are also weighted more heavily to exports than imports or vice versa.

Some export cargoes – even of products declared essential by their destination government – are now being held up as they don’t meet this country’s definition of essential products.

Port of Tauranga, the country’s largest, said it is prioritising essential cargoes for delivery from its yards by rail; non-essential containers will be block stacked for collection later.

Proper categorisation of car-

goes will be important as once those non-essential containers are stacked they could be there “for the foreseeable future,” communications manager Rochelle Lockley said.

Ports of Auckland’s Ball said its focus is on moving cargo and it doesn’t want to have to decide what is essential and what is not.

Cargo levels, after declining during the China shutdown, are roughly back to normal although they may fall away in coming weeks as importers cancel orders.

But he said the port is expecting

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Auckland Airport suspends capital expenditure

By Rebecca Howard NZME

Auckland International Airport is suspending capital expenditure projects totalling more than $2 billion, releasing contractors and looking to cut employee salaries and hours as it struggles to ride out the Covid-19 storm.

The airport operator is also consulting with a large number of its employees around a proposal to reduce hours and salaries by 20 per cent.

“Auckland Airport is a resilient business, but these are unprecedented times and we are now moving quickly to identify ways that we can manage the impact on our organisation,” said chief executive Adrian Littlewood.

Littlewood pointed to a swift re-

duction in flight and traveller numbers, and said international passenger numbers are expected to be close to zero in the near term.

Late Wednesday, Air New Zealand said it will operate a limited international network from March 30 to May 31 to enable essential travel and to keep air freight moving through key cargo corridors to North America and Asia. Overall, international capacity will reduce by 95 per cent from pre-Covid-19 levels, it said.

Auckland Airport’s board, the chief executive and the leadership team have already agreed to reduce their remuneration by 20 per cent, Littlewood said.

The company has already withdrawn its earnings guidance and cancelled its dividend payment.

Over the past week, it also released about 90 fixed term and independent contractors from positions no longer needed in the current circumstances, he said. These roles do not relate to essential airport services.

Regarding the projects, Littlewood said a small number of projects are still under review, but those suspended include the second runway, the Domestic Jet Hub, a multi-storey carpark, Park & Ride South, and construction of the 146-room Mercure Hotel near the airport shopping centre.

Littlewood also said Auckland Airport has unrestricted cash of $340 million and an additional $485 million of undrawn bank facilities.

Stock rose 1.7 per cent but overall it’s down 36.7 per cent so far this year.

What we spent our money on in recent weeks NZME Toilet paper has far outstripped food as a sought-after grocery item snatched up by New Zealand shoppers in recent weeks, new figures from Nielsen reveal.

In the three weeks to March 15, sales of toilet paper have increased by 87 per cent compared to this time last year, this follows a surge in sales of household cleaners and facial tissues, up 76 per cent and 67 per cent respectively.

Within food retailing, rice experienced the biggest surge in demand from shoppers in recent weeks following the Covid-19 outbreak, with sales up 69 per cent compared to this time last year.

This follows sales of canned and dried vegetables, up 62 per cent, canned meals up 58 per cent, milk products up 49 per cent, and canned fish and seafood up 36 per cent.

The biggest increase in sales of grocery items were by far foods with

long-lasting shelf life.

These figures confirm the scenes of chaos within experienced supermarkets in recent weeks, as panic buying fuelled by fears of shortages due to the Covid-19 pandemic have set in.

Sales of other food items such as cereal, coffee, small packaged goods, bread, soft drinks, snack foods and cheese have increased by more than 10 per cent in recent weeks.

Outside of consumables, nonfood items such as body wash and cough and cold treatments were up by more than 50 per cent.

Other medicines, health supplements, dishwashing products and laundry detergents were up more than 20 per cent.

Nielsen director of retail service, Nicola Voice, said New Zealand collectively spent $127 million on groceries in supermarkets over the past three weeks.

“Despite the Government and grocery retailers asking for Kiwis to

about 3000 containers this weekend and it’s not clear whether that will be an issue.

“It just depends how many of those boxes can be taken off the port. At the moment it’s not 100 per cent clear.”

Ball said the Ministry of Transport’s guidelines are clear that non-essential freight can be moved to make way for essential cargoes.

The problem will start further down the supply chain, he said.

For example, if a company that is shut has room for only 10 containers in its yard and that is now full, where does the next consignment go?

Another likely issue will be with goods imported by firms that have now gone out of business. Ball said Auckland is already dealing with a “small” number of containers in that situation.

Ball said the lockdown is new territory for everyone. And while blockages won’t be an issue today, he said the port was trying to think ahead.

“We need to work through these issues as they arise and before they become critical,” he said.

“We’re all learning through this.”

shop normally, shoppers have spent an additional $127m in the last three weeks on grocery items at New Zealand’s supermarkets compared to the same time last year,” she said.

“Products like rice, bread, canned meals, coffee, toilet tissues, household cleaners and cough and cold medicines are seeing a new wave of growth as consumers continue to stockpile their pantries.”

Voice warned that New Zealand’s major supermarket operators Foodstuffs, owner of Pak’nSave, New World, Gilmours, and Woolworths, which operates Countdown stores, needed to adapt to the “disruption of normal purchase trends that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak” had introduced.

Figures from Paymark, which processes 75 per cent of the country’s electronic card transactions, show New Zealanders spent $1.3 billion in the week ending Sunday, March 22 – up 7.5 per cent on the same week in 2019.

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Serko +48.15% Gentrak Gr +29.87% Smartpay Holdings +25.00% Tourism Holdings +23.86% Skellerup +23.57% Scott Tech +21.35% Hallenstein Glasson +14.77% Oceania Healthcare +11.54% Napier Port +10.77% Precinct Properties +10.70%

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Metlifecare –21.53% Augusta Capital –18.75% Just Life Gr –11.32% AMP –8.80% Abano Healthcare –8.52% Carbon Fund –5.26% NZ ME –4.76% QEX Logistics –3.64% Warehouse Gr –3.47% Z Energy –3.34%

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Australia 1.005 Canada 0.8477 China 4.4143 Euro 0.5482 Fiji 1.4165 Great Britain 0.5016 Japan 66.06 Samoa 1.7314 South Africa 10.2507 Thailand 19.37 United States 0.5957

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Hunting bears The We’re Not Scared New Zealand Bear Hunt! is under way and several homes in Ashburton and Tinwald, and throughout New Zealand, have been pawmarked as having a bear or, (if no bears are in the house) a soft toy, or two, in their window for people to spot if they are out exercising or walking near their lockdown home – remember to keep your distance at all times if you are outside.

These two windows were spotted in Allenton – Elf and Oscar at the top, with Dog, Rabbit and Mouse below.

Please don’t go driving around for your hunt, but if you are on your way to an essential service, make sure you keep an eye out for new bears/soft toys!

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hen it comes to customisable motorcycles, it seems the cruiser style still reigns supreme.

But while many people will think of Easy Rider, where Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda rode highly modified Harley-Davidsons, there are more simple ways to start making a bike custom fit to its rider.

Somewhat surprisingly, it is Japanese brand Kawasaki that has one of the best factory set-ups for creating a custom-fit cruiser, in the Vulcan S range.

Based around the same DOHC 650cc parallel-twin engine as used in the popular Ninja 650 and Z650 sports bikes, the Vulcan S is also offered in both full power and LAMS guises.

But where the Ninja and Zed go for the thrill of unleashing the engine in a sporty chassis, the Vulcan acts to create the most comfortable fit for its rider with Kawasaki’s Ergo-Fit system core to the bike’s identity.

Straight from the dealership, the Vulcan S offers 18 combinations of ergonomic adjustability, with three positions for the forward-mounted footpegs alone. This means riders can have the bike tailor-fitted before they even leave the dealership.

This comes at an additional cost, with the optional extended/reduced reach seats for the Vulcan S priced from an additional $280, while the

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handlebars start at $159.

That said, with an entry price of just $13,995, the Vulcan S offers good value for the learner rider, as well as the more experienced rider looking for a fun bike to enter into the cruiser lifestyle.

Aesthetically the bike hits the spot.

Low and raked out, its silhouette ticks all the boxes for a cruiser.

Cradled within the high-tensile steel perimeter frame and at the centre of mass is the 650cc parallel-twin heart which adds to the burly look of the Vulcan S with an underslung muffler.

The matte-look Metallic Flat Spark Black that has a gorgeous sparkle when you get up close in the daylight underneath the otherwise flat black paint scheme.

For the base bike, this is the only option available, but for an extra $1000 you can upgrade to the Vulcan S SE, which adds Metallic Matte Covert Green as an alternative.

With its factory solo seat featuring a wide scalloped lip at the rear providing comfort and the forward set pegs letting you stretch out, it’s easy roll along all day.

Though the Vulcan S may not have the brand recognition as the top-selling bike in the LAMS cruiser segment (Harley-Davidson’s Street 500) in my eyes the Vulcan outclasses the American in terms of rider dynamics and fun factor.

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Motoring writer loses licence Bernard Egan MOTORING

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he headline is true – but thank goodness not in the way it might sound.

Needless to say losing one’s licence is not such a good thing for anyone to do – especially a motoring writer!

This motoring writer dropped his driver’s licence when shopping at Netherby Four Square.

Well, to be more precise, confirming the Lotto ticket he shared with his Guardian Motoring Team friends was a donation, rather than the hoped-for investment.

A customer kindly handed said licence to the fabulous staff at the store, who in turn made a post on Facebook.

It has been quite overwhelming – and rather humbling – to have received so many calls from friends.

All of this has very much appreciated.

The response has demonstrated the power of social media, but more importantly has been a reminder of the care,

concern and kindness of others.

It is acts of kindness like this which will get us through the tough times we are facing.

My thanks to everyone who has helped, except that is to Lotto, who somehow got the numbers wrong.

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Iconic swap meets cancelled

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nfortunately both the Ashburton and Winchester Swap Meets have fallen victim to Covid-19.

The pandemic prevents these iconic events taking place this year.

We feel for the organisers and stall holders who are naturally disappointed, as are the punters

and other supporters.

Sadly like so many other clubs and organisations, the Vintage Car Club has had to cancel or postpone other planned activities too.

Another biggie on the local motoring calendar – the annual Rotary Classic Car Run – won’t be happening this year, which of course is a real shame.

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t’s a car which stands out.

Everything about it is impressive.

But there’s a whole lot more to this very special veteran than immediately meets the eye.

Classified as a Veteran because of its age – it was manufactured in 1917 – the car is just one of 20 of its make known to exist worldwide.

It’s the only one in New Zealand, and it lives right here in Ashburton.

When it was spotted, something else stood out – its number plate, which just happens to be the surname of the family whose home it was parked outside.

So two and two was put together, and while assumptions can be tricky, the thought this special car probably belonged to them proved correct.

Soon after there was a chance to speak with the owner. The conversation went something like this “Not sure what make it is, but it must be yours because you’ve given the car a personalised plate identical to your surname.”

Actually, it may have been more like “See you’ve put your name on a car.”

The response was amazing.

It went something like this: “Good spotting, it

is as you know my surname, but I didn’t put the plate on it, the previous owner did.”

“That’s an interesting coincidence”.

“Yes, that’s because it was his surname too”.

So the choice of plate is quite understandable.

But here’s where the story becomes even more intriguing. The surname and the number plate also reflects the make of the car.

It’s not a well-known marque; in fact the current owner, who has a real interest in veteran cars and a good knowledge of them, wasn’t previously aware that in America, way back in time, a man with whom he shares a surname built some very special cars.

There is no family connection with either the maker or the previous owner.

Now if that’s not intriguing enough, how about this. Of the 20 cars known known to exist, fifteen are owned by people with the same surname.

And the story of the names doesn’t end there.

The current owner not only shares his surname with the founder of the company, but a Christian name as well.

So what’s the car, what’s the make and who’s the This isn’t the car which is world famous in Ashburton, but we just owner? couldn’t resist sharing the photo for the benefit of those who wonder Read about it next time. what running boards are for.

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The Olympics - who pays?

With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be?

The most likely answer is – primarily Japanese taxpayers.

“Of course there will be costs,” organising committee CEO Toshiro Muto said when the postponement was announced.

“As for how much, we have no figures with us right now.

“As for who will shoulder these costs? Needless to say, they are not going to be easy discussions, so we are not sure how long they will take.”

The Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei put the added cost at $2.7 billion ($NZ4.6b), citing an estimate from local organisers.

Tokyo organisers will have to renegotiate new leases on venues, pay for maintenance at arenas, and maybe find different fields of play.

They will also have to deal with real estate developers who are already selling off thousands of apartments at what will be the Athletes Village.

The organising committee also employs 3500 staff members, and some may lose their jobs to cost cutting.

Tokyo, driven by advertising giant Dentsu, has sold $3.3 billion in local sponsorships, more than twice any previous Olympics.

Those brands will be clamouring to know what they get for their money. Refunds? Makegood deals? New contracts?

And nothing much can be done until new dates are set to replace what was to be this year’s Olympics: July 24 through August 9, 2020.

“The general target is summer of next year,” said Yoshiro Mori, president of the organising committee and a former Japanese Prime Minister.

“We have to go through scheduling, international events.

“Many things will have to be adjusted before we come up with a certain time frame.”

Of course, all of the rescheduling problems are compounded by the uncertain spread of the virus and the recent downturn in the economy.

Muto acknowledged tough talks are ahead with the International Olympic Committee, which controls the games but leaves the host country to pick up most of the costs.

First, some Tokyo Olympic financing basics.

Local organisers and Japanese government bodies say they are spending $12.6 billion to put on the Olympics.

However, a national government audit report in December put costs at $28 billion. There is always debate about what are – and are not – Olympic costs, and creative accounting is not unknown.

When Tokyo won the Olympic bid in 2013, it said the total cost would be $7.3 billion.

Private-sector money makes up $5.6 billion of today’s total budget.

The rest – whatever the grand total – is public money.

Tokyo has spent almost $7 billion on temporary and permanent venues – about 85 per cent from public funds.

The most expensive venue is the new national stadium, a national government project billed at US$1.43 billion.

For its part, the Switzerland-based IOC has contributed $1.3 billion to finance the Tokyo Olympics, a small fraction of the total cost.

The IOC had income of $5.7 billion for the last four-year Olympic cycle (2013-2016). Almost three-quarters of the income is from selling broadcasting rights, with another 18 per cent from sponsors.

The IOC also has a reserve fund of about $2 billion, and insurance to cover losses.

Bent Flyvbjerg, an author of The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games, in an email to the Associated Press, said the IOC should share more of the costs and termed it a “monopoly.”

The study found the Olympics have the “highest average cost overrun of any type of mega-project.”

Flyvbjerg said the IOC should “pick up a larger part of the bill for the games, which the IOC profits from. Tokyo and Japan will pick up the added cost, unless the IOC makes an exception and expands the reserve fund, which is what the IOC should do from an ethics point of view.”

Tokyo was planning to use 42 venues for 33 sports.

One extra venue was planned for the Paralympics. Muto said it was not clear how many venues would

be available a year from now.

“Some venues we might have to keep renting until next year,” he said. “Because at some venues it takes about a year to get them ready. We can’t take them down and then set them up again for the Olympics.

“That also means added costs.”

The biggest headache could be the athletes village, which is to house 11,000 Olympians and staff, and 4400 Paralympians and staff.

The sprawling site on Tokyo Bay – 5632 apartments – is to be sold off after the Olympics and reports say one-quarter have already been sold. Some cost more than $1 million.

One of the developers, Mitsui Fudosan Co., said it has suspended sales at the complex, which will include 23 buildings.

Even lining up 80,000 unpaid volunteers again could be expensive and create more work.

The city of Tokyo was also planning to use 30,000 added volunteers to help fans find train lines, street addresses, and dish out general help for non-Japanese speakers.

Ticket demand has also been unprecedented with 7.8 million available, and demand exceeding supply by 10 times.

Ticket sales are expected to raise about $1 billion for local organisers.

“We don’t have a final conclusion about what our policy will be,” Muto said. “As much as possible, we want to make sure that people who have already bought tickets will get special consideration.”

The head of the global Olympic movement says the rescheduled Tokyo Games faced “thousands”

of logistical and financial problems and could go ahead before summer 2021.

Though most people have assumed the Games will be held around roughly the same July-August timetable as they were planned for this year, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said earlier dates in 2021 were possible.

“The agreement is that we want to organise these Games at the latest in the summer 2021,” he said. “This is not restricted just to the summer months. All the options are on the table including the summer 2021.”

The IOC agreed with Japan yesterday to the first postponement in the Olympics’ 124-year history due to risks from the coronavirus impact.

It was the last major international sporting event of 2020 to be cancelled, with many questioning why a seemingly inevitable decision took so long to make as the coronavirus epidemic raged around the world.

Bach said he could not guarantee all elements of the Games would remain as initially planned. For example, he did not know what would happen with the athletes’ village.

“This is one of the many thousands of questions this task force will have to address. We hope and we will do whatever we can so that there is an Olympic village, the village is where the heart of the Games beat,” he said.

“Our mission is to organise Games and make dreams of athletes come true,” he added. “We have no blueprint but we are confident we can put a beautiful jigsaw puzzle together and in the end have wonderful Olympic

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McNamara heads to Hong Kong Leading racing commentator Mark McNamara has handled the transition to one of the world’s most watched racing jurisdictions with aplomb.

The Australian racecaller, who until August of last year spent more than a decade plying his trade in New Zealand, recently made the move to Hong Kong, where racing continues behind closed doors but is proving a popular source of entertainment under the confined conditions of Covid-19.

The voice of Canterbury racing, McNamara joined Kiwi commentator Tom Wood in Hong Kong as the English racecallers in the unique jurisdiction, where racing is king of all sports.

The 40-year-old has been in Hong Kong for a month and last weekend had the job of calling one of the most thrilling finishes to the $20 million Hong Kong Derby (2000m), with favourite Golden Sixty narrowly prevailing in Hong Kong’s most prestigious race.

While racing jurisdictions around the world are largely on hold, Hong Kong as a nation has dealt with the pandemic well and the Hong Kong Jockey Club have enforced strict protocols to continue racing.

“Life goes on here in Hong Kong,” McNamara said.

“We are going through a relapse I suppose of coronavirus. We had an outbreak of 30 or 40 cases over the last few days so they have tightened the restrictions a little bit.

“Masks are very much the norm when you go out around here but life does go on.

“The Jockey Club has taken every measure possible to make sure racing does continue which it has done, and will hopefully continue to do.

McNamara had never been to Hong Kong prior to his appointment to the role of commentator.

“We have done so much in that time,” he said. “Racing has been behind closed doors the entire time. So we are talking crowds of about three or four hundred people.

Basically Riccarton on a Thursday.”

McNamara nailed the Golden Sixty commentary last weekend, colourfully describing the emerging superstar and accurately calling the correct result as tearaway leader Playa Del Puente was run down by the favourite.

“I was pretty nervous before the Derby, even though in New Zealand I had called the Group Ones and the Trotting Cups and the Dominions, this was a $20 million Hong Kong Derby,” McNamara said.

“It was a completely different audience than what I had called in Australia and New Zealand.

“This was going out to about nine different countries and it was important to get it right. You have one chance to nail your first big feature race, that was the Derby and thanks to Blake Shinn (who rode Playa Del Puente) it became the most remarkable, entertaining Derby that they have had here in a long time.”

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With no live sport to watch, things are grim. We won’t hide from that. But, to try and create some debate and discussion, members of the Guardian’s sporting nuts club have decided to undertake a series of Top Fives which will run for as long as there are topics to list. Today here’s our top five sporting movies.

Matt Markham 1. Remember the Titans 2. The Mighty Ducks (all of them) 3. Happy Gilmore 4. Cool Runnings 5. Tin Cup

What makes a good movie? Or more importantly, what makes a good sporting movie?

I guess for everyone it’s going to be a little bit different.

For me, I look for two things; something that will make me laugh and something that I won’t mind watching again and again and then again.

My selections are based solely on pure preference and movies that I’ve probably watched more times that anything else and still get the same enjoyment from that I did the first day I watched them.

Remember The Titans is one of my all-time favourite movies of any genre. The quotes, the sto-

ryline, the subtle humour and the serious undertones make it a must watch if you haven’t. Denzel Washington’s efforts were truly remarkable and his “I don’t scratch my head unless it itches, I don’t dance unless there’s music, I will not be intimidated” quote is an absolute beauty.

The Mighty Ducks is there as a childhood favourite, I loved the whole lot of them and hours were spent on roller blades trying to replicate the knucklepuck and the flying V after I’d finished watching.

Tin Cup is a little more serious, but it’s a movie I’ve always enjoyed watching, perhaps I’m a bit of a sucker for an underdog type tale.

And Happy Gilmore and Cool Runnings, well they’re cut from the same cloth. Funny, entertaining and down right ridiculous at times.

But that ridiculous that it’s real and both are more than worthy, in my opinion, of a spot in my top five sporting movies of all time.

Jaime Pitt-MacKay 1. Happy Gilmore 2. Rush 3. Moneyball 4. Rocky 5. Caddyshack

Often an underrated genre of movies, sports movies have turned out some absolute classics that have impacted on culture just as much, if not more than other movie genres.

There is certainly not many movies that have had more of an impact than the beloved golfing comedy Happy Gilmore.

Not many people who have picked up a golf club since the movie was released have not tried that iconic couple of steps before swinging at a golf ball that gave Happy his incredible driving ability.

A quality comedy in its own right, its mocking of golf’s uptight culture at that time was a hit.

Rush is one of the best motorsport movies I’ve seen and gives a great insight into the battles between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, the kind of duel that has defined Formula 1 through the decades. The movie is interesting as there no real protagonist and antagonist. Both Hunt and Lauda

Steve Devereux 1. When We Were Kings 2. Mystery, Alaska 3. Chariots Of Fire 4. FIeld Of Dreams 5. Goon Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali – whoever he was, he was undoubtedly The Greatest; but in 1974 when he agreed to fight George Foreman in the big Rumble, he was way past it, and nobody gave him a chance. Instead, he provided one of the great upsets, and this is a great movie about every aspect of the fight, and how it came to be.

Mystery, Alaska is one of the little-known gems of the movie world. Could easily have fallen into cliche city – small-town team gets a shot at the New York Rangers – but director Jay Roach skilfully evades most of the road blocks and presents a story of a small town with all the associated dramas, nasty hidden secrets and clandestine relationships, that through a human-interest story in a national magazine suddenly gets pushed into the limelight.

They have a quite good hockey team, with a couple of outstanding players – but can they foot it with

Jonathan Leask 1: Jerry Maguire 2: Any Given Sunday 3: Creed 4: The legend of Bagger Vance 5: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby The sports movie genre is dominated by boxing and the American trio of baseball, basketball and football.

There were too many to choose from but these five took my fancy at the time of writing.

Jerry Maguire is a bit of a technicality as it’s a rom-com with a sports setting but one for the whole family.

Any Given Sunday provides a fictional but likely accurate insight into the behind the scenes of American Football.

Creed added new life to the Rocky series for a new generation.

Happy Gilmore almost pushed in as the golf movie on the list but The Legend of Bagger Vance is a movie about golf that isn’t completely about golf with an all-star cast.

And as any good movie list has a comedy, Will Ferrell’s hilarious Nascar driver is just too ridiculous not to force a laugh.

Adam Burns come across as bad people, with Hunt the rockstar playboy and Lauda an incredibly rude and impolite Austrian.

They both turn out to be driven by the same thing though and their softer edges show through as the film progresses.

As a non-baseball watcher Moneyball gave a great insight into the sport with an incredible storyline you’d think would have had to have been written by Hollywood.

Rocky will always remain one of the most iconic sporting movies that spawned a massive series, and where would we be without another great golf comedy in the form of Caddyshack. the big guys when they come to town?

Surely with one of the most outstanding theme songs ever, Chariots of Fire deservedly won heaps of Oscars, Grammies or whatever the top gongs are in movieland, and it remains a great story about the Paris Olympics in 1924, and what sort of skills, persistence and sheer bloody-mindedness it took for a couple of British athletes, one devout Christian and one equally-devout Jew, to make it out on to the track.

Yes, a Kevin Costner movie (but it counters with Ray Liotta, and hey, some people have put Adam Sandler on this page). And yes, it’s unashamedly over-sentimental and bordering on sappy, but it’s powerfully sappy and you can’t help but get involved. When Ray Kinsella’s father, after all the dramas with Shoeless Joe Jackson and his mates from the Yankees, asks him “You wanna have a catch?” you’d have to be pretty heartless not to be affected.

Build it and they will come – Christchurch stadium people take note.

Sometimes Sean William Scott, with his typecast goofiness can be really funny – and in this one he is, playing a bruiser who hurts people, but he proves to have a soul, and you just get to like him.

The Mighty Ducks trilogy The Sandlot Any Given Sunday Million Dollar Baby Moneyball

Disclaimer: I embarrassed to say I have never seen the likes of Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull or Hoop Dreams, which is ridiculous considering Goodfellas is one of my all-time favourite films. However living in quarantine may be time to right those wrongs.

A couple of my picks are clearly from my childhood and have significant nostalgia value. Emilio Estevez, who played the angsty wrestling jock in The Breakfast Club, is equally known for his role as Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks trilogy, the classic tale of a lawyer-turned-peewee hockey coach who turns around a group of young misfits into a half decent ice hockey team which influenced countless youngsters to attempt the “knuckle puck”. Yes they’re silly films but everyone loves an underdog yarn.

Some of those Mighty Ducks kids also popped up as baseballers in 1993’s The Sandlot, which is held

in similar respect. Set in the 60s, it captured America’s baseball obsession and tapped into the mystique of Yankees legend Babe Ruth. It also looked like the greatest summer a kid could ever imagine.

Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday packs a stellar cast and tremendous depth, circled around a battling Miami football outfit. Of course, it is also held in high regard due to Tony Montana himself (Al Pacino) delivering the most stirring motivational half-time speech ever heard by anybody anywhere ever.

Million Dollar Baby is no ball of laughs, but it is a deeply affecting watch about a guilt-ridden boxing trainer, longing to make up for past mistakes by guiding a female amateur boxer to professionalism.

Director Clint Eastwood jacks up this sentiment to some truly heartbreaking levels.

Moneyball is centered more around the boardroom as opposed to the baseball diamond, and tells the true story of the Oakland As 2002 season and its general manager Billy Beane. Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill are excellent, channelling some of the struggles sporting administrators face when they don’t have the cattle.

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■■AMERICA’S CUP

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Delays would hurt Team NZ

Remorse for Sydney joyride

Former Team New Zealand tactician Brad Butterworth has warned that any postponements to the America’s Cup schedule could negatively impact the defending champions.

Like the rest of the sporting world, the America’s Cup 2021 preparations have been halted by the coronavirus pandemic, with both World Series regattas in Portsmouth and Cagliari being cancelled.

The regatta cancellations, as well as the postponement of the Olympics to next year, has raised questions about potential competition logjams, delayed preparations and whether the Cup will be forced to be postponed.

Butterworth believes postponing the America’s Cup – which is due to start in March next year – will be something Team New Zealand would be desperately trying to avoid as it could benefit the challengers.

“I think that they (Team New Zealand) have been hard done by by what’s happened,” the former America’s Cup winning tactician told Radio Sport.

“I think they’re trying to do the right thing by having the regattas overseas and encourage a bit more participation but they’ve been hammered because of it.

“It’ll be up to the governments if this thing carries on,” he added about the prospect of postponing the race for the Auld Mug. “But if it doesn’t then the two teams, the defender which is Team New Zealand and Luna Rosa, would have to agree to delay.

“I think it’s tough for Team New Zealand anyway.

“They’ve got to make a lot of commitments and they’re setting up infrastructure here.

“There’s a lot of contracts they’ve probably gone into to make this all happen.

“I would say they would love to have the regatta on time because I think that they’re well prepared and probably the best prepared out of the other teams.

“It’s such a big thing to delay something like that.

“I think that would fall into the

Team New Zealand sailors hard at work on Te Aihi. challengers’ hands a bit more.”

Members of Team New Zealand, like Blair Tuke and Peter Burling, have also been thrust into an unknown situation of potentially having to prepare for both the Olympics and America’s Cup. But with all preparations seemingly put on hold, Butterworth believes Team New Zealand could have the upper hand if the race does go ahead as planned.

“I think that’s going to be quite difficult – the unknown when it gets racing especially the challengers.

“The three of them have got to race each other. Team New Zealand is really strong.

“Their sailing team is very strong – probably the best in the world really.

“So it’s going to be tough for [the challengers].

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you can’t sail in the elimination series for the challengers.

“So they’ll be watching that very closely.

“But they’ll have to do a lot of sailing as soon as they can get that boat back to New Zealand and get going.”

Butterworth said the challengers, who already looked to be behind Team New Zealand in preparations, could be under added pressure amid the sporting lockdown.

“I think definitely the American team – the New York Yacht Club team – would love to be down here.

“And they would love to be sailing here in the conditions that they’ll probably get. They’re at least six weeks away and probably three months away in terms of setting up.

“The others: I think the Italians are under a bit of pressure because their boat keeps breaking

and they seem to have problems building the boat.

“And the English team went to Cagliari and then they’ve gone back to Portsmouth but they’re locked down – they don’t know where to go or what to do.

“You never know who’s going to come out of there and which design package is going to be the fastest.

“It’s a little bit unknown at the end of the day. But if you look at the teams, Team New Zealand has done the most sailing in the full-sized boats out of all the teams by quite a lot.

“And have been pretty handy at what they’ve done and achieved.

“They’ll like to have more time but they’ll always love to have more time.

“I think that it will be in their interest to race the regatta on time and make sure the challengers if they’re falling behind well that’s just tough.”

Wellington Phoenix midfielder Tim Payne has expressed his embarrassment and remorse after breaking coronavirus self-isolation rules to take an early morning joy ride in Sydney.

Payne and team-mate Oliver Sail could face sanctions from the club after they took a golf cart for a joyride along a busy road on Tuesday morning.

The club confirmed Payne and Sail were involved in the incident, in which they used and damaged facility property, but denied Australian media reports that an arrest was made.

Speaking to Radio Sport’s Jason Pine, Payne said he was “incredibly embarrassed” but took full responsibility for the situation.

“It was definitely a mistake on my behalf. It’s just one of those things you wish you could take back,” Payne said.

“I 100 per cent expect there to be repercussions for my actions.”

Payne said he, Sail and some of their team-mates had been drinking at the team’s facility in Sydney on Monday night, but only the pair of them were involved in the incident.

“It was never our intention to [leave quarantine].

“I don’t know exactly how far [from the quarantine area] it was,” Payne said.

“There will be some legal sanctions in Australia, yes.

“I’ll take full responsibility for that, whatever the club and FFA decide, I’ll take full responsibility.

“I’ve made my bed and I’ve got to take responsibility for my actions.”

The initial report, from the Daily Telegraph, said Payne was spotted driving the cart while shirtless at 1am on Tuesday before he was stopped by police.

The Telegraph reported Payne had later been arrested, however Payne and the Wellington Phoenix have said that was not the case.

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n August, 1895, representatives of 21 rugby clubs walked into the swish George Hotel in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, to discuss the issue of broken-time payments for players who missed work through match commitments or injuries sustained while playing rugby.

They walked out with a new northern league that would compensate its players, which would soon morph into a new sport altogether.

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The one-way flow of players converting from union to league was almost immediately halted but old divisions remained, particularly around class and, in England’s case, geography.

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The world faces months without professional sport and possibly years of spectator-less sport.

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For financial reasons alone, having all the talent playing a single code makes perfect sense.

It’s not as if the games couldn’t benefit from an injection of the best things the other codes have to offer.

Union would be a better game with a tad more space and the ball in play more; league would be a better game if the “battle” for possession wasn’t divisible by six.

There would be years of trial and error combining the codes into a single rule book but even as separate entities, league and union look nothing like they did 30 or 40 years ago.

They have both been sports capable of adapting to the needs of the day.

A single rugby code with a global season and showpiece club/franchise competitions in both hemispheres would make for compelling “content”, as we like to say now.

I’m going to stick my neck out and say it’ll never happen, the walls blocking compromise are too high, but if ever there was a time to talk about the possibility, it’s now.

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Warriors prepared to return “To be honest, if it means keeping the Warriors coach Stephen Kearney is precompetition alive, and our footy club pared to play the rest of the NRL season receiving funding, then we have got to – assuming it restarts at some stage – do what we have to do.” exclusively in Australia, if that’s what it The Warriors were marooned in takes to keep the competition alive.

Australia after their round one match The Warriors returned home on Tuesagainst the Knights, after border restricday night, after the NRL season was sustions were imposed by both trans-Taspended late on Monday evening, due to man governments. the ongoing escalation of the Covid-19 The players took the difficult decision virus outbreak in Australia. to stay on, away from wives, partners The Australian Rugby League Comand families, but a future commitment mission is hopeful of re-starting the could be a matter of months, not weeks. competition, in some form, from June, The competition became one of the July, August or September. last professional contact sports to shut However, even if the virus spread is down in response to the outbreak. under control in Australia and New “I think the boys have had a bit of a Zealand, travel restrictions are likely to taste of it and we would try to make the remain in place for a prolonged period Stephen Kearney process as easy as possible,” said Kearafter that, which could make it impossiney. ble to play at Mt Smart at all this season.

“We were prepared to do that (stay) a week ago.

That would be a heavy burden, but one Kearney “We would probably be better prepared if it is in would be willing to take on.

“If that’s what has to happen, that’s what has to hap- three months, to be able to deal with that sort of situation, if that’s what we had to do.” pen,” Kearney said.

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): When was the last time you heard no one you had to answer to, saw no issue that needed solving, felt no pressure at all? It’s been a while. Go where you can create the illusion of tranquillity.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Social awkwardness can be blamed for 90% of today’s stress. Whatever you do to make interactions easy will improve the day for anyone within a 10-yard radius of you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The exceptional work you do may be awarded in the future, but it’s the daily stuff that really deserves mention and yet may not get it for a while. Know your value.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The usual work you do may, unfortunately, go unmentioned. You know the quantity and scope of what you’ve done, and that gives you a private feeling of accomplishment.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): In sports and in life, people root for the underdog. In business, not so much.

When it comes to money, many need to have a confident feeling they’ll be getting theirs back. Use this concept to your advantage.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): There will be something to cut out, many things to organise and several things to align. All the magic comes from focusing in a particular direction.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Making other people change is hard and, ultimately, unsatisfying. Changing yourself though – that usually feels like soul sunshine. Start with small things. You’ll be surprised how they add up.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The sun burns the sky, not because it’s angry but because things naturally combine in this way. Make a point to be around the people who won’t be offended by what you do naturally.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): When you know something is better than the thing that other people are accepting, you feel it’s your duty to speak up, and you will speak up today.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Life is a privilege that you can’t feel past a few years inside it. It’s not our fault that our brains get used to the status quo, although we might be able to feel better about things by simply repeating this: Life is a privilege.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): What is truth? You’ll grapple with this today, as there are many ways to account for what happened and some of those ways include feeling your way through.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’ve anticipated this moment. It’s probably nothing like what you thought it would be. But here you are, at this age in this time, and it’s the most interesting thing to witness.

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BLACKBURN, Colin Raymond – Passed away peacefully March 26, 2020. Much loved husband of Helen, and much loved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and brother-in-law. He will be missed by all his family. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

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Jason Momoa, Amber Heard.

10:55 Destination Wedding MLS 2018 Comedy.

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder.

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Tokyo – who pays the bills?

Team NZ hurt by delays

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Emma Dyke (third from left) is still harbouring strong desires to be at the Tokyo Olympics next year.

PHOTO STEVE MCARTHUR

TOKYO DREAM STILL ALIVE

By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

Emma Dyke is confident she can still make a run for the Tokyo Olympic Games when, and if, it goes ahead next year.

The world champion Kiwi rower, who hails from Mayfield, admitted it was tough following news the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games had been postponed until next year as the world locks down amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Dyke said some things were bigger than rowing.

“It hurt initially and kind of sucks but regardless it was the

only decision that could be made.”

The 24-year-old, who is now based in Cambridge, was part of the New Zealand women’s eight who came fourth at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Last year she won a gold medal as part of the national women’s eight at the world championships in Ottensheim, Austria to further cement her Olympic game frontrunner credentials.

After weeks of uncertainty and criticism, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) finally announced on Tuesday the Tokyo

Games would be rescheduled until next year.

The decision was prompted by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) statement on Monday that the pandemic was “accelerating”.

Dyke admitted she did not believe the Games would be disrupted, however things had “ramped up”.

“If I had been asked a month ago, I thought it was all good and that it won’t be postponed because we’re fine here.

“But then we forget about the rest of the world and these other

countries that have been in lockdown for months.”

Despite the unprecedented rescheduling of the Games, she was hopeful that she remained in the frame for a second consecutive Olympic appearance.

“Obviously we don’t know what the situation is yet.

“I back myself enough but it obviously depends on what they do and how the qualifications are going to work.

“Hopefully we stay as a qualified crew with no world champs this year.

“Either way it’s going to be hard

training by myself but it is what it is.”

New Zealand rowing coaches were due to have a conference call this week to decide whether athletes would go on a break now, or whether they would be able to keep training until the pandemic is over.

Dyke had just been “rescued” by her mum when she spoke to the Guardian yesterday, readying herself to spend quarantine with family.

“It’ll be nice to be out in the country rather than being stuck up in Cambridge.”

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