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Arcade shops moving on Hundred Pipers owner Matthew Harvey will close the cafe tomorrow, ending more than 30 years in the Ashburton Arcade. And he is not alone.

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Alcohol, speed linked to crash Alcohol and high speed were yesterday linked to a crash which claimed the lives of two young men near Hinds almost two years ago.

An inquest into the deaths of Jack Henry Ballantyne and Tui Huruata Candish-Thompson was held in Ashburton yesterday, before coroner Richard McElrea.

Police had requested the inquest deliver a message about the risks associated with drink driving and speed, and the relationship between sports clubs and alcohol use, Ashburton police sergeant Bryan Ennis told the coroner.

He said if Mr Ballantyne, who was estimated to have been travelling at 185km/h, had survived he would have faced serious charges in relation to Mr Candish-Thompson’s death.

On the evening of May 10, the two 19-year-olds had been celebrating Mr CandishThompson’s birthday at the Hinds Tavern, following rugby practice. It was their habit to visit the tavern a couple of times a week after their practices.

Several people heard Mr Ballantyne say he planned to sleep in his car, but when they left the premises around midnight his

plans had changed.

Another team-mate offered both men a ride home, however Mr Ballantyne did not want to leave his vehicle at the pub, and left with Mr Candish-Thompson in the passenger seat.

He last saw his friends on a nearby intersection a few minutes later, where he was told they were going back to pick up “shots” from Mr CandishThompson’s car then going to Mr Ballantyne’s house.

Sometime between 12.15am and 2am, Mr Ballantyne’s Subaru Legacy collided with a culvert, which served as a launch pad, rocketing it into the air,

before it collided with a power pole. It was split diagonally in two by the impact, and both men died instantly. The wreckage was discovered by a milk tanker driver at about 2am.

Mr Ballantyne was subsequently found to have had an alcohol level of 156 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood.

The current legal limit for drivers under the age of 20 is zero, and 80 milligrams for adult drivers.

Senior constable and crash scene analyst John McIntyre estimated the vehicle had been travelling at 185km/h by examining the marks left on the road

and the distance the wreckage had spread.

He said speed had caused the vehicle to yaw – rotate around its central axis, across the road, and the occupants would have had no time to react.

At the conclusion of the inquest, Mr Ballantyne’s father Rob described his son as “a good kid” who had been head of house at his boarding school, a medal-winning rower and a leader among his peers.

“He made an incredibly bad choice that night, and I’m at a loss to know why,” he said.

Mr Candish-Thompson’s mother was also present.

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Playground fun too noisy The days of children screaming in delight as they whiz along a flying fox might be numbered at one Auckland housing development. Signs are about to be put up and a noise assessment is under way after complaints about children making too much noise at the new playground next to the Stonefields estate. Residents there are upset about an adventure kids’ park which opened in front of their houses a few weeks ago. A large flying fox outside their front doors bringing what they say is excessive noise and large areas of sand - used to create a landing zone beneath the equipment - are their main issues. Alan Gilder, of Galway Bay Terrace, said he didn’t begrudge children the playground but he wants the flying fox and sand removed. “I would like the flying fox removed. It does get very noisy on the weekend and there’s sand everywhere.”

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Barbie loses top spot For the first time in more than a decade Barbie has been frozen out of the top spot on the holiday wish lists of girls. The new reigning champion in the hearts of little girls is Team Elsa.

The megahit Frozen has earned Disney more than a billion at the box office worldwide and the gravitational pull of the animated film has now plucked Barbie from the throne she that she has occupied for 11 years, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation.

Homage to Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes never existed but his fictional address of 221B Baker Street still receives a steady flow of letters addressed to the famous detective. The latest tribute comes in the form of a Museum of London exhibition titled The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die and billed as the biggest in 60 years. Part of London’s literary universe, Holmes was created in 1886 by the author Arthur Conan Doyle and has lived on in television series, films and video games the world over. “His profile and the tools of his trade pipe, magnifying glass and deerstalker hat - are instantly recognised across the globe,” says Alex Werner, the head of the museum’s history collections.

The exhibition runs until April 2015. The highlights of the show are a handwritten manuscript

by Doyle that shows the genesis of the character, and a jacket worn by actor Benedict Cumberbatch (left) in 2011 in the TV series Sherlock - a testament to the enduring power of the detective’s image.

Kate pens letter to bereaved mother A bereaved mother says the Duchess of Cambridge wrote personally to console her following the death of her baby daughter. Kate was attending a fundraising campaign launch for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices when she met families who have benefited from the charity’s work. Among them was Leigh Smith, a 33-year-old physiotherapist from Norwich whose daughter Beatrice died from a rare heart condition after just 89 days. She revealed how she wrote a letter to Kate outlining her story, only to receive a personal reply from the duchess. “I was so surprised to receive a letter with such personal comments and signed by her,” Smith said. “It was a lovely gesture and helped me through a terrible time. “I was touched that she had taken so much time to carefully read my letter and then to reply herself - it shows how much she cares. “When I met her today she remembered the letter and said it was an honour to meet me. “I was completely taken aback - for me it was an honour to meet her.” Beatrice would be due to turn one on Friday.

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Shoes stolen from Nazi camp Eight shoes belonging to prisoners at a former Nazi death camp have been stolen from a museum at the site in Poland.

Police have launched an investigation into the weekend theft from the State Museum at the former World War Two camp in Majdanek, museum spokeswoman Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Nowak said. “An employee noticed shoes were missing during a routine check on Saturday. A hole was cut in the metal mesh on a display containing several hundred shoes in barrack 52,” she told AFP. “After counting the shoes, we found eight missing,” she said, adding that the motive for the theft was not known. “It’s in this barrack where all the shoes are on display so that visitors can begin to comprehend the sheer scale of Nazi crimes.” The museum holds a total of 280,000 shoes belonging to victims of the camp, with several thousand on display, she said.

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■ CORONER’S COURT

Loose strop blamed for death

A loose strop caused the quad bike ridden by Rakaia farmer Hamish Baxter to shudder to a violent halt, throwing him from the machine and resulting in caused his death.

Alcohol, speed and failing to wear a helmet were also determined to be contributing factors at a sitting of the Coroner’s Court in Ashburton yesterday.

Mr Baxter’s wife, three daughters and his brother attended the inquest.

Coroner Richard McElrea heard evidence that Mr Baxter,

aged 45 on January 5, 2013, had been drinking at the South Rakaia Hotel for several hours before he was picked up and taken home shortly after 10pm.

Soon after he left on a quad bike to check an irrigator.

The coroner was told it was Mr Baxter’s habit to carry a nylon tie-down ratchet-type strop on the front of his quad bike, which he used to tow the bike behind the tractor when he was shifting the irrigator.

On the night in question one end of the strop had come loose

and gone under the left front wheel of the bike, while the other end was still attached.

Senior constable John McIntyre, who examined the scene, said the most likely scenario was that the strop under the wheel forced the bike to pull to the left, “in a violent, anticlockwise rotation”. This would have caused the other front tyre to slide under the rim, which had started to dig into the road, which resulted in the back end flipping up and the bike rolled.

Mr McIntyre said this oc-

curred because the tyres on farm bikes are purposely underinflated.

He estimated Mr Baxter would have been travelling at speeds of 46 to 56km/h.

He had not been wearing a helmet, and was subsequently found to have an alcohol level of 207 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood – about three times the current legal driving limit for adults.

While farmers do not need a warrant of fitness, vehicle registration or to wear a helmet

when using an ATV on a farm, a helmet must be worn on public roads.

Coroner McElrea found Mr Baxter had died of impact injuries when he was thrown to the road, as a result of the loose strop, however he said his level of intoxication may have delayed his reactions, and his ability to take defensive action when he was thrown off the bike.

He said if Mr Baxter had been travelling at a slower speed and wearing a helmet, the outcome may have been different.

■ ASHBURTON WHITEBAIT SEASON

Whitebaiters have had to work hard for their catches

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It has been only the keenest of whitebaiters who have stuck out this season at the Ashburton River mouth.

This is due to the mouth having shifted north about 1.5 kilometres from the Hakatere Huts settlement and public carpark, and due to catches being only average.

Last year whitebaiters could park their cars and go for a short stroll, with the river mouth directly in front of them, but this year they have to take a 15 minute walk.

“And that’s hard going in the loose shingle,” says 72-year-old Pete Kiddey.

“It’s a hell of a walk back, especially if you have half a bucket of whitebait and it you are walking into a southerly,” Mr Kiddey said.

The Hakatere Huts resident sets out on days when the weather is good and there is not too much of a swell at sea.

Yesterday conditions were perfect as a nor’west flattened the surf, giving the promise of a

good catch.

“I was supposed to be going to golf, but with only four days left, might as well make the most out of it.”

The whitebaiting season draws to a close on Sunday.

Mr Kiddey has been whitebaiting at the river mouth for 25 years. He said this season had been “pretty lousy” with catches few and far between. However, he had eight pounds of the small fish delicacy in his freezer after a few good hauls, including three pound on Monday last week and four pound on Monday this week.

“They were getting 40 pound catches at the Rangitata on the same day,” he said.

Department of Conservation spokesperson Steve Harraway at Geraldine said the Mid and South Canterbury season had overall been good, with consistent catches in the more popular whitebaiting rivers such as the Waitaki, Opihi and Orari.

There had been some minor regulation breaches, particularly with whitebaiters being more than 10 metres from their nets.

Hakatere Huts whitebaiter Pete Kiddey sets out on the long walk to the Ashburton River mouth.

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■ TINWALD TRAFFIC WOES

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Joint bid to find solutions

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these were being narrowed down and analysed to come up with a final solution or package of solutions, Mr McCann said.

Representatives from the Tinwald School, local business community, New Zealand Road Transport Association (NZTA), police, residents’ groups and local cycle clubs have worked through issues of access to, across and along the highway as well as safety issues.

And through that process a wide range of options were considered, with several new

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It might be a long, slow process, but the end result will be the best possible outcome for solving traffic issues in Tinwald, says Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann.

At a second community workshop held yesterday options for solving traffic flow and safety issues along State Highway 1 in Tinwald were discussed.

Seven different programme options were discussed and

ideas coming forward, Mr McCann said.

“Everyone attending was impressed with the process.

It’s the right way to do this, looking at it from every angle.

Considering all the options will give us the right outcome.”

That outcome could be traffic lights but it could also be a range of changes that achieved the same outcome, he said.

Whatever solution was found there was no funding available for immediate work, NZTA highway manager Colin Knaggs said.

“The earliest any works will be undertaken will be as part of the 2015-2018 NZTA programme. Funding will be sought in response to the findings of this investigation and the work will be prioritised on a national basis,” he said.

The business case process now used by NZTA for all projects was a multi-step one, Mr Knaggs said.

“We are at the Programme Business Case stage that will identify a preferred programme of work to address the agreed problems.”

■ ASHBURTON WIND DAMAGE

Wind brings tree branch down on vehicle Strong winds again battered the district yesterday, bringing down a large tree branch on top of a car in the West Street car park yesterday afternoon.

According to the Ashburton District Council it’s the first time such a freak thing has happened. Council staff including Ian Jamieson (right) were quickly on the scene to carefully remove the tree branch, and council was looking into what steps to take next.

According to the MetService, winds gusted up to around 50km/h in Ashburton yesterday, and the district’s in store for more today.

The MetService is forecasting gusty northwesterlies again today, with a high of 22 degrees.

From Friday though, it’s a different story, with a string of cooler, wetter days lined up.

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Fires in drums resulted in two call-outs for the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade overnight on Tuesday. The first was to a Beatty Crescent address shortly before 6pm, while the other was to a commercial premises on JB Cullen Drive at 3.30am. In that case, a fire in a drum had spread to a nearby pile of scrap timber.

Rubbish fire A reported house fire turned out to be a fire in back yard yesterday. The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was called to a Peter Street address shortly before 4pm, to a house fire, but when they got there found it was just a small, open rubbish fire in a back yard. The fire brigade extinguished the blaze.

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Two people are in Christchurch Hospital following a crash between a motorbike and a truck north of Rakaia yesterday afternoon. Both patients were from the motorbike – a male was in a serious condition with possible head and leg injuries and a female with minor injuries.

A St John spokesperson said the truck driver was uninjured.

The crash occurred shortly after 2pm on Main Rakaia Road and fire appliances from Rakaia and Southbridge, two ambulances and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter attended the scene.

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A pit fire which spread into surrounding grass prompted a response from foothills firefighters yesterday afternoon.

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A High Court judge threatened to issue an arrest warrant after AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was late for his court appearance.

Rudd, who appeared in the High Court at Tauranga yesterday, faced a charge of threatening to kill another man, plus possession of cannabis and possession of methamphetamine, after police raided his Harbour Drive home on November 6.

After the matter was called at 9am, Justice Timothy Brewer said he would issue an arrest warrant if Rudd did not appear by 9.30am. Rudd, wearing blue jeans, sneakers and a black T-shirt, arrived a few minutes later.

Rudd sat in the public gallery waiting for his case to be recalled, he talked to a court security officer and drummed a tune on his thighs.

Justice Brewer told Rudd he had spoken

to the Crown and Rudd’s lawyer Paul Mabey QC, and the charges would be transferred to the Tauranga District Court. His next court appearance would be December 2.

At his last court appearance on November 6, Rudd also faced a charge of attempting to procure a man to kill two Tauranga residents – a charge that was withdrawn less than 24 hours later after the Crown reviewed the police file and found no evidence to support it.

Justice Brewer said the remaining matters were best dealt with in the District Court jurisdiction.

Rudd, who has been remanded on existing bail terms, is yet to enter pleas to the charges. Police are refusing to comment on the remaining charges now the matter is before the court.

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Driving at more than twice the speed limit on a suburban Ashburton street has earned a 24-year-old man a date with the court. Police caught the man driving at 105km/h on Tancred Street at 1.15am yesterday. The speed limit on Tancred Street is 50km/h. Because the man was driving at more than 50km/h over the speed limit he has been charged and will appear in court.

Rural fire open day A rural fire open day at the Tinwald Domain on Sunday is as much about the district’s volunteer rural firefighters, as it is about the public. It’s open to all, Ashburton’s acting principal rural fire officer Dave O’Donnell said, and will feature fire appliances on display and light-hearted games.

It’s a day out for firefighters and their families, and a chance for people to find out more about rural fire forces, and inquire about joining if interested. The day gets under way at 11am.

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■ ASHBURTON ARCADE

Three businesses on the move

By Sue NewmaN

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Ashburton’s Arcade has become a place of changing faces, with three businesses relocating or closing this weekend.

Hundred Pipers Café is closing while Style Shoes and Lolly Mania are on the move.

That all three are moving out on the same weekend is a coincidence, but it’s a coincidence that’s leaving arcade owner Barry Redmond with the prospect of yawning gaps in his retail precinct.

In October last year, Mr Redmond unveiled plans for a new arcade that would be built on the site of the existing complex that dates back to the 1880s.

The demolition and rebuild were prompted by earthquake strengthening requirements.

Strengthening and upgrading were an uneconomic option while a rebuild would take the boutique retail complex into the 21st century.

The Redmond family bought the arcade in 1976 and through a major restoration project took the building from dilapidated and disused into a vibrant retail space.

Rebuild plans were given the thumbs up by arcade tenants, some of whom had been trading from that spot for more than 30 years.

All were aware that during the rebuild they would have to relocate, most likely to other premises within the arcade.

And while work is under way on plans for the new arcade, Mr Redmond said no date has yet been set for either the demolition or the rebuild. Part of the challenge was around the logistics of ensuring tenants were able to continue running their businesses while the rebuild was under way, he said.

Life is a round of packing boxes for retailer Melissa Shimmin as she prepares to relocate her shoe shop from the Ashburton Arcade to a new premise on Burnett Street.

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“It will be a fantastic project and we’re continuing to get a lot of positive feedback about it.”

For some tenants, the rebuild has not come soon enough.

Earlier this year Denim Den relocated from the arcade to a larger premises on East Street and in April, baker Matthew Harvey signalled that his departure might not be too far off when he opened a bakehouse in Creek Road.

For several months he’s been a man divided, spending his working week trying to run both a café and a bakehouse.

Doing double duty was always going to have an end date.

And that date has arrived.

Increased competition in central Ashburton with more likely to come as the inner town rebuild continued meant looking for opportunities to do things differently, Mr Harvey said.

“We’re busy and getting busier up here and it’s not so busy in town. It’s just the right time to do this,” he said.

Moving his bakehouse to Creek Road had been a bit of a gamble and had initially been prompted by knowledge that the Ashburton Arcade would eventually be demolished and rebuilt.

While he would have ended up with a new, purpose-built bakery and café, it would also

have meant a temporary relocation and that’s not easy when there are large ovens in the mix, he said. When he closes his arcade café, it will bring to an end a business that, through several owners, has been the social hub of the arcade for more than 30 years.

Mr Redmond said he’s disappointed the café hadn’t been sold, rather than closed. He’s now looking for a new tenant to bring back a food related business to the arcade.

Style Footwear owners Melissa and Brian Shimmin will spend the weekend packing shoes into boxes, piling them on trolleys and relocating their

business into a new home on Burnett Street.

The move has been prompted by the need for more space both for storage and display.

“This is nice security for the future. Burnett Street is so busy now so we were lucky to secure this spot,” Mrs Shimmin said.

Their arcade premise will remain open until Christmas as an outlet shop for sale goods.

Lolly Mania is the third retailer on the move, with owner Howard Mahere reopening on Monday in a larger shop in the Countdown complex.

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Ian Doel (left) is not a happy man.

Since 2001, Monday to Friday he’s turned up at Ashburton’s Hundred Pipers Café, collected his newspaper, bought a bottle of soft drink and selected his lunch from the food cabinet.

What he ate varied according to the mood, he wasn’t a man to play favourites.

Come Monday he won’t be doing that anymore. His favourite inner town eatery will be closed.

The lunch time ritual is an essential part of his working day and the accountant who

describes himself as a “wealth creator” says he’s not sure how the next week will shape up.

“I’m disappointed, a bit annoyed but I’m hoping someone else will take over,” he said.

The café has been a good, relaxed spot for lunch and for him there’s the bonus of staff knowing his habits, having a copy of the newspaper folded and ready for him to read.

Another regular had been buying lunch from the café for nine years. His purchases varied, but his favourite remained a good custard pie.

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■ ATS REVAMP

Demolition work starts today

By Sue NewmaN

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The face of Ashburton’s Burnett Street continues to change with demolition starting today on part of the ATS building, formerly home to stock and station agency Dalgetys.

This morning work will begin on lifting roof trusses out of the south eastern corner of the building, with major demolition work starting around 6pm.

About 10 per cent of the ATS store space will be demolished.

The work was prompted by the Canterbury earthquakes after an engineering report indicated this section of the building met just 8 per cent of the building code, ATS chief executive Neal Shaw said.

“I immediately said ‘everyone out’ so we’ve been working without this space for about 18 months. We’ve rejigged our business to operate without it.

“From an employer’s perspective this was the right thing to do and we’ve made ourselves manage, although it’s getting a bit tight.”

The section of the building that will be demolished was built around 1926 and bringing it up to code was a much more expensive exercise than demolition and a rebuild, he said.

Four separate buildings make up the Burnett Street part of ATS, ranging in construction years from 1926 to 1990. Ultimately ATS would rebuild on the cleared site, but this may not be for two years.

The ideal would be to have all arms of the building operating from the one site.

Decisions on the rebuild

won’t be made until the site is cleared.

“When we knew we were demolishing we looked at all of our alternatives, from selling and building elsewhere but in terms of our location it’s great for us and we felt after going through all the options that it was better to rebuild on this site.

“The rest of the building is in good condition,” Mr Shaw said.

Demolition is almost complete on a building further west on Burnett Street owned by Madden and Co.

In brief Teddy bears’ picnic Teddy bears of all shapes and sizes will have a day out with their owners at the Ashburton Domain on Sunday. It’s time for the annual Port FM Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Held at the domain by the paddling pool, the event will also feature a magician, face painting, a dance competition and egg and spoon racing. There will also be kites in the sky, weather permitting. The picnic will take place between 11.30am and 1.30pm.

SIS report admission Prime Minister John Key confirmed yesterday he was in touch with attack blogger Cameron Slater about the Cheryl Gwyn report the night before it was released this week. Mr Key’s admission came after he strongly counter-attacked Labour over the report by saying Labour MP Phil Goff breached its embargo by discussing it with reporters on Monday night, ahead of its Tuesday morning release.

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Mirror blamed for fire A make-up mirror is believed to have caused a fire that badly damaged a house yesterday, the second Oamaru house fire in a week. While the cause of a fire in an Awamoa Rd house last Thursday and that in the Farnham St yesterday were totally different, fire risk management officer Stuart Ide emphasised it illustrated the need for an early warning system – and smoke detectors were the simplest. No-one was in the house yesterday, but Mr Ide said if it had smoke alarms, someone may have heard them and alerted the fire service sooner.

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■ ASHBURTON COLLEGE

Students put to work out in community More than 300 Year 9 students from Ashburton College mucked in for a good cause yesterday.

The students were taking part in the college’s annual community service morning, where they spent three hours of their time completing vol-

untary work out in the community.

The work ranged from cleaning toys at Phoenix Preschool and the Ashburton Toy Library, to gardening, painting, clearing rubbish and undertaking general maintenance tasks around Ashburton.

Year 9 student Connor Donaldson and his group got stuck in to some gardening jobs at Ashburton Borough School, while other students read to children and helped with maintenance at Allenton and Fairton schools.

Ashburton College head of

junior school Carolyn Clough said the community day encouraged the students to consider the valuable role that volunteers played in their lives, and to promote the importance of working together for the collective good of the community.

■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT

Fire risk creeps up as countryside dries out Mid Canterbury’s countryside might look green, but looks can be deceiving.

Ashburton’s acting principal rural fire officer Dave O’Donnell said the district was definitely drying out thanks to a string of hot nor’west winds.

“It might look green but it’s

pretty dry underneath and fires can still start,” Mr O’Donnell said.

The district’s fire danger indicator display boards currently showed the fire danger level to be moderate, and it was early in the summer to already be at that level, Mr O’Donnell said.

“We could very well be on high before Christmas, if not higher,” he said.

And if that was the case, it was likely fire restrictions would also come in to force before Christmas.

The district’s rural firefighters have already been to a number of rural fires this year,

many which had spread from existing fires in strong winds, which showed that fires could get out of control even this early in summer.

Road sides and gorse fences were getting particularly dry and vulnerable and even a cigarette butt thrown out of a car window could start a fire.

After over a year of social media campaigning, Dunedin has been announced as the winner of Chorus’ Gigatown broadband competition. Dunedin beat out other finalists Gisborne, Dunedin, Timaru and Wanaka, and were announced winners at a special ceremony in Wellington last night.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull said he was absolutely delighted Dunedin was crowned as winner of the competition. He said he was particularly overawed at the incredible effort put in by communities right across the country.

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Ashburton Parents’ Centre co-president Emma Prichard said the centre would definitely back anti-smoking in vehicles carrying children if it became law in New Zealand.

New Zealand Smokefree Coalition director Dr Prudence Stone said the research shows that most people support such a ban and that bans have been wellreceived in jurisdictions where they are already in place.

Dr Damian Collins, one of the authors of the study at the University of Alberta said banning smoking in vehicles would help New Zealand meet its international commitment to protect children and the Govt’s goal to be smoke-free by 2025.

“We can’t have a smokefree nation without smokefree cars for kids,” he said.

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Smokefree Mid Canterbury and the Ashburton Parents’ Centre are backing overseas moves to ban people from smoking in vehicles carrying children.

Researchers in Canada recently held focus groups for youth aged 10 to 18-years-old who were asked about their experiences of second-hand smoke exposure in vehicles, as well as their understanding of their rights.

Ninety-five per cent of the members in the groups were positive about the recent ban on smoking in vehicles that was enforced in Alberta, Canada.

The researchers also examined print media reports and found that children’s right to health were mentioned much less frequently than adult rights and children’s voices were often absent.

Smokefree Mid Canterbury co-ordinator Carly McDowell said that as far as she was aware, smoking in cars was still an issue in the district and the research from Canada can only help to move New Zealand towards banning smoking in vehicles.

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The Work and Income office reopened in Ashburton yesterday – only a short distance from the old site on the corner of Cass and Moore streets.

The office had been closed since the double homicide on September 1 which took the lives of Winz workers Peggy Turukira Noble, 67, and Susan Leigh Cleveland, 55.

Two security guards will be stationed at the new office, on the police station site off Cass Street.

Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay said he was pleased the office had reopened, and he wished the staff all the best.

“The work that they do and the advice they give out is needed in Ashburton,” he said.

He also said he was pleased to have the personnel back operating in Ashburton, as they knew the people of the town.

Ministry of Social Development regional commissioner John Henderson said beginning yesterday, Work and Income,

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Studylink and Senior Services would provide a full service from the temporary offices.

Child, Youth and Family is expected to move in to the site

in early February. Mr Henderson said the temporary offices were expected to operate into 2015 as options for a permanent site continued to be assessed.

Prior to the building opening yesterday, clients were having to travel to locations such as Hornby or Timaru to meet with their case workers.

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Police are investigating after a Dunedin City Council parking enforcement officer’s scooter was rear-ended by a motorist yesterday. The incident occurred about 12.15pm on the corner of Frederick and Cumberland Sts, Senior Sergeant Darryl Lennane said. The parking officer’s scooter was struck by a utility vehicle whose driver had, moments earlier, been issued with an infringement notice, Snr Sgt Lennane said. The driver then allegedly threatened the parking officer with a crutch, before police arrived, he said. The driver, a man, was spoken to by police, but investigations were continuing, he said. The parking officer, a middle-aged woman, suffered a “sore lower back” as a result of the incident, Snr Sgt Lennane said.

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■ UNITED STATES

Building collapses At least seventeen people have been killed and three remain under the rubble after a residential building in Egypt’s capital collapsed. Countless buildings in the teeming city of more than 20 million have been put up in defiance of the most elementary rules of construction, often without permission, rescue services say. The owners had illegally added two additional floors to the seven-storey building in the poor Matariya district in the east of the city.

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Coalmine fire kills 24

Police line up in riot gear as demonstrators protest in the wake of the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

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Another night of protests More than 2000 soldiers have been deployed in the US town of Ferguson on a second night of protest after a grand jury chose not to charge a white policeman who shot dead an unarmed black teen.

After a night of raciallycharged unrest following Monday’s decision, Missouri governor Jay Nixon said the National Guard force in the Ferguson area would be tripled to halt the looting and arson.

At the Ferguson police station yesterday, a cordon of 50 riot police faced off across a road with around 100 noisy protesters chanting and waving placards, including one that read: “We will not be silenced”.

Inside the perimeter of the station, National Guardsmen equipped with riot shields and batons could be seen preparing for the night.

The protest crowd was smaller than it had been on Tuesday, and there was no initial sign of violence, but some masked agitators could be seen on the fringes of the demonstration.

“Lives and property must be protected. This community deserves to have peace,” the governor said, as anger mounted nationwide and fresh protests took place in major cities.

Marchers disrupted traffic on bridges and the Lincoln Tunnel in New York city - leading to a number of arrests - and crowds

took to the streets in downtown Washington, near the White House. Protests were also held in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago, among others.

US President Barack Obama decried the violence and called for rioters to be prosecuted, while acknowledging the deeprooted frustrations of minorities who feel they are unfairly treated by police.

“There are productive ways of responding and expressing those frustrations and there are destructive ways of responding,” he said.

“Burning buildings, torching cars, destroying property, put-

ting people at risk. That’s destructive and there’s no excuse for it. Those are criminal acts.”

Lawyers for the family of slain youth Michael Brown denounced the prosecutor whose grand jury hearing found that police officer Darren Wilson had killed the 18-year-old in self-defence.

“This process is broken. This process should be indicted,” Brown family lawyer Benjamin Crump told a news conference.

Crump criticised the way Wilson had not been crossexamined when he appeared before the grand jury, which decided not to indict him over the August 9 shooting.

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■ AUSTRALIA

Phillip Hughes still in critical condition Cricketer Phillip Hughes’ condition remains critical after he underwent further scans yesterday.

Australian team doctor Peter Brukner issued only the briefest of statements when he updated media yesterday afternoon.

“Philip’s condition is unchanged and he remains critical,” said Dr Brukner outside St Vincents Hospital in Sydney.

Hughes is in an induced coma and fighting for his life following emergency surgery to reduce pressure on his brain after he was struck on the head by a bouncer at the SCG on Tuesday.

The seriousness of his plight has shocked the cricket world.

Test captain Michael Clarke

and NSW captain Brad Haddin were among well wishers to visit the hospital again yesterday, joining Hughes’ family as support flowed in from the international cricket community.

SA batsman Hughes suffered the head injury when he mistimed a hook shot and was struck by a bouncer from young NSW paceman Sean Abbott during a Sheffield Shield match.

There has also been widespread support and sympathy expressed toward 22-year-old Abbott, who has received counselling along with the other NSW and SA players.

The SA-NSW match was abandoned on Tuesday following the accident, and Cricket Australia called off the other

two Shield games in Brisbane and Melbourne yesterday after consulting players and the Australian Cricketers’ Association.

“Given how players across the country are feeling right now, it’s just not the day to be playing cricket and we understand that,” CA general manager of team performance Pat Howard said.

Cricket NSW assembled Blues players and staff at their Moore Park headquarters yesterday to ensure they got adequate support as they came to grips with the predicament of Hughes, a former Blues player who has many mates on their team including Haddin and David Warner. “(The players) are doing it

tough obviously,” Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones told Triple M radio.

“They were pretty shaken up yesterday; it’s not what you expect to happen in a game of cricket.

“Phil was in a pretty bad way when it happened and being opponents and former teammates and mates in many cases, they were the first responders ... the first guys on the scene of what was a horrible accident.”

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said he had received numerous messages of support, including from the New Zealand team touring the United Arab Emirates.

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A fire at a Chinese coalmine has killed 24 workers, state media reports. The blaze yesterday at the mine in Liaoning province, in the northeast, also left 52 people injured, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting the stateowned Fuxin Coal Corporation.

Initial investigation showed that coal dust in a shaft was ignited shortly after a weak earthquake with a magnitude of just 1.6 hit the mine, said the report. Rescue operations had been completed, it added, and production had been suspended for safety checks. The mine went into operation in 1987 and has an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tonnes, with a total of 4660 employees, Xinhua said.

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China hit by quake A 5.6-magnitude earthquake has struck China’s southwestern province of Sichuan, the US Geological Survey says. The quake hit 25 kilometres northwest of the city of Kangding in the mountainous west of the province at 11.19pm local time yesterday, at a depth of 11 kilometres, the USGS reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

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Ebola trial drug An Italian doctor battling the deadly ebola virus has begun treatment with an experimental drug in Italy’s leading hospital for infectious diseases. The first Italian to contract the disease was described by doctors as being in a “stable” condition after being flown back from Sierra Leone overnight. The man has not been identified but Emergency, the medical NGO he was working for, said he was a 50-year-old infection specialist and Italian media described him as a married father of two daughters from Sicily whose first name is Fabrizio. - AFP

Double bomb attacks More than 45 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded market in northeast Nigeria. The explosions in the Borno state capital targeted the same market area where at least 15 people died on July 1 in a blast also thought to have been carried out by the Islamist militants. The attacks came after the militants seized control of another town in Nigeria’s restive northeast, adding to their increasing haul of territory captured in recent months.

Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than “45 people killed.

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xciting projects to turn some under-appreciated Mid Canterbury waterways into something more could be game changers for the way many of us view the deep trenches that cut across the plains.

Fish and Game has designs on a pair of drains – yes, drains – near Surveyors Road that it says could be turned into viable fish habitats and much-improved natural ecosystems.

It has proposed trial projects on the Taylors and Windermere drains, to enhance the habitat to a point where trout, whitebait, eels, and invertebrate life becomes established, grows and thrives.

The plans are exciting because they have the potential to improve the ecology and amenity of parts of the plains that are firmly the preserve of agriculture. They also demand a shift in thinking.

Drains are a means to get rid of stuff that’s not needed on the land they cut through.

They are about discharging, not recharging. They are also about working for, rather than with, productive land.

But Fish and Game wants to turn this idea on its head by adding boulders, weirs and midstream clumps to provide flow diversity and to improve biodiversity.

If the project goes ahead – and there is every chance it will now that it has been endorsed by the Ashburton Water Zone Committee – it will tackle the drains’ unnatural constraints.

They are straight and featureless so they have no structural complexity to maintain fish species, provide a poor spawning habitat and they have no riffles for food production.

Taylors Drain has some of the lowest nitrate levels of drains in the catchment but the Windermere Drain can nudge 18mg/l – high enough to mean invertebrate life might struggle.

This illustrates the challenge posed across the catchment but this plan shows what could be done alongside on-farm runoff minimisation measures to improve waterways.

Another 20 and 30 further drains might get similar treatment if this trial works. If that happens, then many virtually lifeless parts of the plains might become thriving sanctuaries as they work hard for our farms.

YOUR VIEW Commuting On the Guardian’s Facebook page, readers were talking about the prospect of commuter services – whether regular car pools or public transport – between Ashburton and Christchurch.

With reference to the car pooling story in the Guardian (Commuter floats car pooling proposal, Wednesday) I think the time has come for a commuter bus service to be considered for Ashburton, linking with Rakaia and on to Rolleston and Christchurch. A lot of people live in Ashburton and work in Rolleston or Christchurch, or vice versa. It is a different situation to what it was last year when people were talking about a commuter train. That idea didn’t get off the ground but as Ashburton, Rolleston and Christchurch continue to grow,

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some sort of bus service should be considered.

Aaron Smith A few years ago the Ashburton District Council talked about setting up a train between Christchurch and Ashburton.

They only considered it for workers of local businesses.

They failed to ask the wider community. There is huge demand for this – and yes, it would be an expensive exercise – but it would make travel more affordable and safer for a lot of people.

Kelly Lopas About time there was something – people send their kids to school in Christchurch, too. I paid privately for my son.

Karen Hall Even if it was the Rail Car, something is badly needed.

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I agree, to have a bus or train as, with kids going to CPIT next year, it saves on accommodation and cash.

Jo Thorpe

Toot for Tucker thanks The members of The Society of St Vincent de Paul wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all the generous people of Ashburton who responded to the “Toot for Tucker” appeal last week.

A big thank you goes out to members of the Ashburton County Lions Club for organising the appeal and, sorting the collection afterwards.

A special thank you goes to the members of the various clubs, organisations and businesses who gave up their time and vehicles to carry out the collection of goods.

The food collected will go

a long way in supporting our work within the district and will no doubt help make a brighter and more enjoyable Christmas for those families in need.

Once again thank you all for your generosity and God bless you.

Evans Chibanguza, president, Society of St Vincent de Paul

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The crisis in the Ukraine was not orchestrated, writes London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian Gwynne Dyer.

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his is what former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said to German Chancellor Angela Merkel just one year ago, at the European Union summit where Yanukovych announced that he was not going to sign an EUUkraine trade deal.

“The economic situation in Ukraine is very hard, and we have big difficulties with Moscow,” Yanukovych explained to Merkel. “I would like you to hear me. I was left alone for three and a half years in very unequal conditions with Russia...one to one.”

The Ukrainian president was not overthrown by a “fascist” plot, as Russian propaganda would have us believe, nor was NATO hoping to make Ukraine a member. Exactly one year into the crisis, it’s useful to remember what really happened.

The basic question you have to ask about any international crisis is: conspiracy or cock-up?

The Ukrainian crisis definitely falls into the latter category.

Nobody planned it, and nobody wanted it.

Here’s how they stumbled into it.

Yanukovych inherited the negotiations for a trade deal with the EU from the previous government when he won the presidency in 2010. He didn’t end them because that would have alienated half the country: the western, mostly Ukrainianspeaking part.

Yanukovych was deeply corrupt, but he was a competent politician. Almost all his votes had come from the eastern and southern, mostly Russianspeaking parts of the country, but he knew that he couldn’t simply ignore the west.

On the other hand, he couldn’t ignore Moscow either.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin saw the EU as a stalking horse for NATO, and was trying to persuade Yanukovych to join his own “Eurasian Economic Union” (EEU) instead. Moreover, Russia had huge economic leverage, since it provided most of Ukraine’s energy and bought half of Ukraine’s exports.

So for three years Yanukovych tried to get financial guarantees from the EU that

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would make up for the economic punishment Putin would inflict if Ukraine signed the trade treaty.

The EU wouldn’t budge: there would be no special help for Ukraine. And in 2012-13 Ukrainian exports to Russia fell by half as Putin turned the screws tighter.

Those exports mostly provided income for people in industrial eastern Ukraine, i.e.

Yanukovych’s own supporters.

The EU had left him “alone for three and a half years in very unequal conditions with Russia” – so in late 2013 he made his choice: break off the EU

talks, and sign up with Putin’s EEU instead.

Did Yanukovych foresee that there would be big demonstrations against him in Kiev, where people had pinned their hopes on association with the EU? Of course he did, but he certainly didn’t realise that he might ultimately be overthrown – nor did Putin, who had put him in that impossible position.

All the subsequent escalations of the conflict in Ukraine – the Russian annexation of Crimea, the pro-Moscow revolts in the two eastern provinces with the largest ethnic Russian minorities, the direct

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Russian military intervention that saved those revolts from collapse last August – have been driven by Putin’s determination to reverse his original error.

If Ukraine cannot be brought back into Moscow’s sphere of influence, then Putin’s strategy is to paralyse it by maintaining a permanent “frozen conflict” in the east. Kiev’s best option, therefore, is to let the front lines congeal and stabilise into de facto borders, while maintaining its legal claim to the two provinces.

It remains to be seen if Moscow will even let that happen.

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Power margins ‘unsustainable’

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the segments, the bigger the opportunity for independent retailers to attack the residential market,” says the report, which notes there are now 14 competitors operating in the electricity market, including the traditional “big five” of Contact, Meridian, Genesis, Mercury (owned

by MightyRiverPower), and TrustPower, with another five waiting in the wings and a new wholesale market offering, Flick Electric, newly launched.

“Over the near term”, Craigs believes the inflation-adjusted price of electricity to residential consumers will fall, with recovery not likely until the 2018 financial year or beyond.

That has prompted Craigs to put ‘sell’ recommendations on residential customer-heavy players Genesis and MRP, while retaining ‘buy’ recommendation only for Contact Energy,

Electricity companies’ margins on retail electricity tariffs are unsustainably high and will spur ongoing competition in the sector, to the detriment of companies like Genesis Energy, which is heavily skewed towards a residential customer base, says a new report on listed New Zealand electricity stocks

by Grant Swanepoel at Craigs Investment Partners.

While profit margins for electricity sales for commercial and industrial customers have been squeezed and may be about to start recovering, Swanepoel calculates the $5 per MWh “netback margin” gap between residential and commercial consumers that prevailed in March 2013 has blown out to a difference of $18 per MWh. “The bigger the gap between

which it says is more exposed to the commercial and industrial segment of the market and is becoming influential in establishing new, higher benchmarks for wholesale electricity prices as it makes less and less use of gas-fired power stations because of the high proportion of renewable energy now in the

wai Point aluminium smelter to close suddenly, with the first possible date for that being January 1, 2017, if triggered by an announcement 18 months out, on July 1 next year.

“If Tiwai were to shut we would expect discounted cashflow values to fall on average by 10 to 15 per cent and share prices to collapse by over 20 per cent before recovering,” he says.

Genesis would be worstaffected, because it would lose opportunities to run coal and gas-fired plant since Meridian would have 572 Megawatts of installed hydro capacity that it would release into the market, making it the biggest beneficiary of a smelter closure.

However, Craigs is only expecting a reduction in production at the smelter from 2017, not a full shutdown.

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TrustPower and Meridian are reduced from a ‘buy’ to a ‘hold’ recommendation.

“We believe C&I (commercial and industrial pricing) is mostly already prepriced and will be waiting for a recovery.”

The biggest threat to the sector is the potential for the Ti-

Westland cuts milksolids dairy payout forecast

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Advance payments to shareholders would also be adjusted to reflect the lower dairy prices and, therefore, the lower cash flows into the business, chairman Matt O’Regan said.

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AMP ANZ Banking Gr APN News & Media ASB Capital A Pr ASB Capital B Pr AWF Gr Abano Healthcare Acurity Health Gr Air NZ Airwork Holdings Allied Farmers Aorere Resources Argosy Prop Tr Asian Total Return Inv Auckland Intl Apt Augusta Capital Aus Found Inv Co BLIS Tech Bankers Inv Tr Barramundi Bathurst Resources Briscoe Gr CDL Inv Cavalier Corp Chorus City Of London Colonial Motor Comvita Comvita Rights Contact Energy DNZ Prop Fund Delegat’s Gr Diligent BM Services Dorchester Pac Downer EDI EROAD Ebos Gr Energy Mad European Invest Tr F&P Healthcare Finzsoft Solutions Fletcher Building Fonterra Co-op Gr

CLOSING QUOTES BUY SELL

6.17 35.00 0.73 0.94 0.92 2.51 7.21 6.95 2.22 3.23 0.08 0.006 1.06 3.84 3.91 0.95 6.54 0.02 11.45 0.63 0.03 3.04 0.52 0.56 2.04 7.60 5.76 3.80 0.20 6.21 1.82 4.62 5.05 0.28 – 4.20 9.51 0.16 14.60 5.53 2.31 8.18 6.17

6.30 35.20 0.83 0.95 0.93 2.62 7.30 7.00 2.22 3.25 0.08 0.007 1.08 3.88 3.94 0.98 6.60 0.02 11.65 0.64 0.04 3.07 0.53 0.57 2.05 7.75 5.90 4.05 0.27 6.32 1.83 4.65 5.09 0.29 – 4.25 9.54 0.20 15.31 5.60 2.80 8.20 6.18

LAST SALE

DAILY MOVE

6.17 35.30 0.81 0.94 0.92 2.70 7.21 6.95 2.22 3.23 0.08 0.007 1.07 3.84 3.91 0.95 6.57 0.02 11.45 0.64 0.03 3.04 0.52 0.57 2.05 7.60 5.76 3.88 0.25 6.32 1.82 4.62 5.05 0.29 – 4.25 9.51 0.16 14.80 5.55 2.25 8.20 6.18

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52-WEEK HIGH LOW

6.61 38.00 0.92 0.95 0.93 2.90 7.41 7.20 2.29 3.26 0.11 0.02 1.08 3.88 4.18 0.99 6.92 0.03 12.00 0.73 0.28 3.10 0.58 1.91 2.14 7.92 6.15 4.09 0.33 6.48 1.85 5.00 5.12 0.30 – 4.28 10.58 0.83 15.15 5.80 2.76 9.95 6.56

4.45 31.48 0.41 0.85 0.82 2.35 5.90 4.90 1.57 2.39 0.03 0.005 0.90 3.20 3.45 0.72 6.25 0.01 10.65 0.61 0.03 2.30 0.50 0.57 1.27 7.10 4.40 2.90 0.24 4.53 1.49 3.47 2.76 0.20 – 3.32 8.44 0.10 13.40 3.57 0.30 8.17 5.49

000’s SOLD

8.14 10.54 40.00 149.3 66.00 – 3.08 – 1.5m 59.50 2.92 – 622.6 3.51 648.5 1.48 4.74 – 0.83 120.5 257.7 – 2.00 141.8 714.9 0.90 – – 11.50 60.58 110.3 2.65 30.55 325.5 – 145.2 18.59 9.00 – 2.4m – 567.4 329.5

COMPANY

$000

26,751 15,825 13,140 7,285 5,882 4,805 4,801 4,723 4,674 3,206

BIGGEST 10 VOLUME PRICE ($)

0.25 Pumpkin Patch Smartpay Holdings 0.20 Infratil 2.91 Hallenstein Glasson 3.20 Pushpay Holdings AX 2.25 Sanford 5.05 Intueri Education Gr 2.70 Foley Family Wines AX 1.50 7.55 TrustPower Nuplex Ind 3.05

-24.85 -0.17%

MIDCAP

5528.56

SHARE NAME

SHARE NAME

6.27 +10.00 Orion Health Gr 0.53 +6.00 Spark 0.95 +5.56 F&P Healthcare 1.75 +4.79 Meridian Energy 1.24 +4.20 Sky Network TV 0.25 +4.17 Mighty River Power 2.81 +4.07 Ryman Healthcare 0.81 +3.85 Sky City 0.84 +3.70 Fletcher Building 2.02 +3.06 Air NZ

TOP 10 FALLS NZX 15

for shareholders, but not unexpected,” O’Regan said.

“At our October shareholder meetings we warned suppliers that the high level of in-market stocks held by dairy customers was producing downward pressure on prices, especially in

MOVE (%)

-15.25 -9.09 -8.49 -5.88 -5.06 -3.81 -3.23 -3.23 -3.21 -3.17

SHARE NAME

Spark Meridian Energy Orion Health Gr Guinness Peat Gr F&P Healthcare Mighty River Power Air NZ a2 Milk Company Genesis Energyv Sky City

MAIN BOARD $NZ

Fonterra Sh’ders Fund Foreign & Col Inv Freightways Genesis Energyv Gentrak Gr Goodman Fielder Goodman Prop Tr Green Cross Health Guinness Peat Gr Hallenstein Glasson Heartland NZ Hellaby Holdings Henderson FE Inc Horizon Energy Infratil Intueri Education Gr JMO Inv Sub Sh JPMorgan Jap Inv Tr JPMorgan Oseas Tr Kathmandu Hldgs Kingfish Kirkcaldie & Stains Kiwi Prop Tr Mainfreight Marlin Global Marsden Maritime Mercer Gr Meridian Energy Methven Metlifecare Metro Perf Glass Michael Hill Intl Mighty River Power Mill & Copth Hotels Mill & Copth Pref Sh Moa Gr Mowbray NPT NZ Oil & Gas NZ Refining NZ Windfarms NZF Gr NZX

CLOSING QUOTES BUY SELL

6.16 8.33 5.45 2.06 2.10 0.69 1.10 2.07 0.51 3.16 1.10 3.05 6.46 – 2.90 2.70 0.74 4.50 20.40 3.03 1.35 1.50 1.21 15.70 0.82 2.70 0.17 1.66 1.21 4.33 1.90 1.30 2.97 1.29 1.22 0.41 0.40 0.60 0.65 2.01 0.05 – 1.22

6.18 8.46 5.47 2.07 2.15 0.73 1.10 2.10 0.51 3.20 1.12 3.06 6.58 3.30 2.91 – – 4.70 21.00 3.05 1.38 1.60 1.23 15.85 0.83 2.80 0.18 1.67 1.24 4.35 1.92 1.35 2.98 1.30 – 0.42 0.41 0.62 0.67 2.03 0.05 – 1.23

LAST SALE

DAILY MOVE

6.18 8.30 5.47 2.06 2.15 0.69 1.10 2.08 0.51 3.20 1.11 3.06 6.46 3.30 2.91 2.70 0.74 4.55 20.30 3.03 1.35 1.60 1.23 15.85 0.82 2.70 0.17 1.66 1.24 4.35 1.92 1.30 2.97 1.29 1.20 0.42 0.41 0.61 0.65 2.02 0.05 0.01 1.22

-0.04 +0.05 -0.03 -0.04 +0.05 – +0.02 – -0.01 -0.20 +0.01 +0.03 – – -0.27 -0.09 – +0.05 – -0.02 -0.02 +0.02 +0.005 +0.33 -0.01 – – -0.03 +0.05 – +0.02 -0.02 – – – – – – +0.01 +0.06 – – –

52-WEEK HIGH LOW

000’S

5,089 4,361 4,125 3,653 2,368 1,626 1,465 1,442 1,409 1,159 000’s SOLD

6.58 5.48 267.3 8.41 6.98 2.10 5.75 4.40 58.16 2.26 1.75 1.4m 2.71 2.02 13.57 0.75 0.53 14.84 1.13 0.96 883.7 2.20 1.15 39.87 0.70 0.50 3.7m 4.38 2.77 37.90 1.11 0.84 548.4 3.40 2.75 48.43 6.80 5.65 – 3.40 3.00 – 3.18 2.16 554.3 3.35 2.45 1.04 0.90 0.69 – 4.92 3.95 3.37 20.30 17.70 – 4.05 2.77 328.3 1.39 1.24 48.65 2.50 1.58 7.20 1.24 1.06 381.9 16.05 11.40 26.01 0.87 0.76 86.18 3.15 2.64 – 0.27 0.14 149.0 1.80 0.89 4.4m 1.50 1.05 84.75 4.74 3.86 98.33 2.03 1.73 475.7 1.50 1.22 42.48 3.18 1.95 1.6m 1.30 0.68 2.61 1.23 0.64 – 0.64 0.34 – 0.56 0.38 – 0.64 0.55 15.00 0.85 0.62 257.6 2.30 1.58 279.1 0.08 0.05 – 0.01 0.005 – 1.38 1.14 700.7

COMPANY

CLOSING QUOTES BUY SELL

0.01 0.002 3.05 2.70 1.48 6.27 0.47 0.49 0.83 0.04 16.70 – 1.11 0.03 1.46 0.24 0.34 0.36 3.71 0.34 8.11 1.12 4.97 1.50 0.02 0.13 3.25 0.92 1.49 4.03 6.44 0.19 0.50 1.46 3.85 3.10 2.93 2.70 3.42 0.004 1.66 6.10 11.56 1.74 1.71 1.94 3.85 – 0.64 7.50 1.81 – 2.87 1.24 3.65 1.55 3.09 35.95 0.09 0.11 2.10 17.07 4.22 0.63 0.90

in international dairy product prices since February.

Fonterra is widely expected to take a big knife to its $5.30 a kg farmgate milk price when it updates farmers early next month.

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the area of bulk milk powders where the majority of our business is still conducted,” he said.

Bank and industry commentators have widely predicted continued downward pressure on pay-outs throughout the industry after a near 50 per cent

0.01 0.008 3.09 2.84 1.50 6.36 0.48 – 0.84 0.06 16.90 – 1.11 0.04 1.47 0.25 0.35 0.37 3.75 0.35 8.15 1.17 5.10 1.58 0.02 0.13 3.40 0.94 1.50 4.05 6.45 0.20 0.52 1.48 4.00 3.13 2.99 2.71 3.54 0.005 1.67 6.30 11.69 1.75 1.75 1.99 3.88 – 0.66 7.55 1.95 – 2.89 1.25 3.68 1.55 3.15 36.15 0.10 – 2.12 17.20 4.25 0.64 0.95

LAST SALE

DAILY MOVE

0.01 0.003 3.05 2.81 1.48 6.27 0.47 0.51 0.84 0.04 16.70 0.07 1.11 0.04 1.47 0.25 0.34 0.36 3.71 0.35 8.11 1.17 5.05 1.60 0.02 0.14 3.11 0.95 1.50 4.03 6.45 0.20 0.52 1.48 4.00 3.13 2.93 2.71 3.55 0.004 1.67 6.15 11.60 1.74 1.75 1.94 3.87 1.00 0.64 7.55 1.95 3.02 2.89 1.25 3.68 1.55 3.15 35.85 0.08 0.20 2.12 17.10 4.23 0.64 0.95

– – -0.10 +0.11 +0.01 +0.57 -0.005 – +0.03 +0.004 +0.12 – +0.005 – +0.005 -0.05 – – +0.01 +0.01 +0.21 +0.02 -0.20 -0.05 – +0.009 – – – -0.12 -0.03 -0.02 – – – +0.06 -0.04 -0.06 -0.05 – -0.03 +0.02 +0.10 – +0.08 -0.03 -0.05 – – -0.25 – – +0.04 – -0.02 – -0.04 +0.41 – – +0.02 +0.10 -0.02 -0.01 +0.05

52-WEEK HIGH LOW

0.02 0.01 3.62 3.93 2.20 6.79 0.49 0.70 1.76 0.13 16.90 0.13 1.14 0.07 1.50 0.89 0.49 0.39 3.74 0.50 9.05 2.90 5.30 2.15 0.03 0.18 3.52 1.13 1.86 4.23 6.95 0.37 0.68 1.62 4.00 3.30 3.20 3.75 4.20 0.02 2.30 6.50 12.20 1.75 1.75 2.06 4.37 1.40 0.80 7.80 2.10 3.24 2.89 1.50 3.80 1.58 3.85 39.50 0.28 – 3.30 45.99 4.40 0.97 1.06

0.007 0.001 2.83 1.64 1.40 6.20 0.38 0.47 0.62 0.04 13.13 0.05 0.98 0.03 1.26 0.25 0.33 0.18 2.67 0.30 7.22 1.00 3.95 1.46 0.02 0.09 1.75 0.85 1.42 3.41 5.65 0.20 0.47 1.35 3.14 2.23 2.75 2.58 3.08 0.001 1.50 5.28 9.60 1.28 0.85 1.52 3.36 1.00 0.45 6.42 1.72 2.30 2.27 1.00 2.39 1.25 2.99 32.50 0.07 – 1.05 15.00 3.46 0.54 0.80

000’s SOLD

500.0 – 116.3 43.95 3.66 4.1m 335.5 – 484.1 643.2 7.52 – 917.0 – 192.1 290.9 15.02 12.74 13.10 27.87 597.9 8.31 24.49 12.56 1.0m 2.00 – – 64.17 1.2m 913.7 171.1 – 260.8 – 5.1m 33.79 158.7 6.89 – 64.48 10.01 2.94 0.71 74.69 61.16 813.9 9.00 – 20.89 – – 199.1 2.80 5.70 257.9 31.00 12.03 – – 5.40 155.0 278.9 1.4m 3.80

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COMPANY

CLOSING QUOTES BUY SELL

SmartFONZ SmartMIDZ SmartMOZY SmartOZZY SmartTENZ

1.83 3.32 4.84 3.73 1.19

1.84 3.35 4.88 3.76 1.20

LAST SALE

DAILY MOVE

1.83 3.35 4.85 3.73 1.18

+0.001 -0.001 +0.02 -0.009 -0.01

52-WEEK HIGH LOW

1.85 3.37 5.13 4.02 1.23

1.61 2.74 4.24 3.45 1.10

000’s SOLD

15.65 20.70 0.45 20.44 23.20

CLOSING QUOTES BUY SELL

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0.03 3.31 0.13 0.007 0.13 1.50 0.50 0.03 0.16 0.14 6.10 0.10 0.002 0.07 2.25 0.001 0.08 0.55 0.17 0.11 0.001 0.01 0.05

0.05 3.45 0.14 0.01 0.15 1.55 0.53 0.03 0.17 – 6.30 0.20 – 0.08 2.37 0.003 0.08 0.65 0.20 0.12 0.004 0.01 –

LAST SALE

DAILY MOVE

52-WEEK HIGH LOW

000’s SOLD

5396.2

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+50.40 +1.13%

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0.03 -0.001 0.19 0.03 15.00 3.45 – 3.80 1.50 2.20 ALL 0.13 -0.01 0.32 0.08 54.28 ORDS +59.40 +1.12% 0.01 – 0.07 0.01 15.00 0.17 – 0.19 0.12 – 1.50 -0.05 1.70 1.45 21.26 S&P/ASX SMALL 0.53 +0.03 3.22 0.45 5.50 ORDS +25.20 +1.22% 0.03 – 0.04 0.02 24.66 0.16 – 0.16 0.09 243.0 INTERNATIONAL INDICES 0.28 – 0.35 0.20 – 6.10 – 8.00 6.00 – LATEST RESULTS 0.20 – 0.24 0.15 – NEW YORK 0.006 – 0.02 0.006 – 0.08 – 0.09 0.05 – NASDAQ COMPOSITE +3.36 +0.07% 2.25 -0.12 2.75 1.48 6.40 NASDAQ Composite Index on November 25, 2014 0.001 – 0.007 0.001 – 0.08 – 0.16 0.07 27.50 LONDON 0.55 – 0.62 0.30 – FTSE 0.17 – 0.22 0.05 – 100 +1.35 +0.02% 0.11 +0.01 0.16 0.10 320.0 FTSE100 Index on November 25, 2014 0.004 – 0.004 0.001 – JAPAN 0.01 – 0.05 0.009 350.0 NIKKEI 0.06 – 0.10 0.06 – 225 +50.11 +0.29%

5380.3 2090.7

4758.25 6731.1

17407.6

Nikkei 225 Index on November 25, 2014

DEBT SECURITIES $NZ

CODE COMPANY

AIR010 Air New Zealand* ANBHA ANZ/Nat Perp Subord* AIA070 Auckland Intl Airport* AIA080 Auckland Intl Airport* CBAFA CBA Australia* FCG010 Fonterra Co-Op Gr* FCGHA Fonterra Gr Cap Nts* GPLFA Genesis* IAGFA IAG Gr IFTHA Infratil Infra Perp* IFT070 Infratil Infra* KCSHA Kiwi Capital Pref Shares MTFHC Motor Trade Finance* NFFHA Nufarm Finance* GOV290 NZ Government* NZP010 NZ Post Gr Finance* NZF020 NZF Gr* RBOHA Rabobank* SKTFA SKY TV Network* WHS010 Warehouse Gr* WKSHA Works Finance Pref* ZEL020 Z Energy* ZEL010 Z Energy*

COUPON RATE%

6.90 5.28 7.25 8.00 4.39 7.75 5.44 6.19 7.50 5.26 8.50 8.15 6.26 6.64 4.50 6.35 6.00 4.59 4.43 7.37 7.95 7.25 7.35

* = TRADED ON A PRICE PER $100 FACE VALUE BASIS MATURITY DATE

15/11/16 – 7/11/15 15/11/16 15/4/15 10/3/15 – 15/7/41 15/12/36 – 15/11/15 – – – 15/2/16 15/11/19 15/3/16 – 16/10/16 15/6/15 – 15/8/18 15/10/16

CLOSING QUOTES BUY% SELL%

5.10 100.75 – – 100.05 4.15 100.00 102.30 105.70 77.00 5.45 103.00 72.00 86.06 – 5.89 – 94.40 99.20 4.89 104.15 5.19 4.75

LAST 000’S PRICE/$100 SALE% SOLD FACE VALUE

HANG 23843.9 SENG -49.23 -0.21%

HONG KONG

4.75 4.75 5 104.27 Hang Seng Index on November 25, 2014 100.80 100.80 35 100.80 BNZ – – – – $NZ KIWI DOLLAR $NZ1 Exchange rates at 4pm on November 26, 2014 CODE BUY SELL 4.00 4.18 92 107.45 COUNTRY 100.50 100.05 83 100.05 Australia AUD 0.9531 0.9010 – 3.90 10 100.87 Canada CAD 0.9311 0.8663 100.50 – – – China CNY 5.4058 4.4886 DKK 4.9490 4.5789 102.80 – – – Denmark Euro EUR 0.6648 0.6158 106.10 105.70 12 105.70 FJD 1.6445 1.4520 77.25 77.00 88 77.00 Fiji French Polynesia XPF 78.900 72.390 – 5.45 14 103.19 Great Britain GBP 0.5279 0.4903 103.50 – – – Hong Kong HKD 6.4553 5.9603 75.00 – – – Japan JPY 97.510 90.490 90.00 – – – Malaysia MYR 2.9885 2.4387 – – – – Norway NOK 5.6741 5.2307 SGD 1.0772 0.9991 5.80 5.80 35 102.62 Singapore ZAR 9.1130 8.3870 – – – – South Africa KRW 1039 827.52 94.49 94.50 541 94.50 South Korea Sweden SEK 6.1672 5.7107 99.50 99.20 15 99.20 Switzerland CHF 0.7980 0.7403 – – – – Thailand THB 27.240 24.800 104.60 104.60 17 104.60 Tonga TOP 1.6248 1.4149 5.10 5.19 10 107.22 United States USD 0.8276 0.7711 – 4.75 45 105.54 Western Samoa WST 1.9911 1.6289

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■ ENTERPRISING RURAL WOMEN AWARD

Eco pair balance work, family A South Canterbury-based environmental consultancy duo are the supreme winners of this year’s Enterprising Rural Women Awards.

Keri Johnston and Haidee McCabe, principals of Irricon Resource Solutions, have gone from strength to strength since they established their joint consultancy, based in Ashburton, in 2010.

They now employ nine staff North Canterbury to North Otago, with expertise ranging from ecology to engineering, and planning to field technicians.

Both women wanted to continue with their professional careers while fitting work commitments around family and farming obligations.

Mrs Johnston is a natural resources engineer who farms with her husband in the Geraldine district, and Mrs McCabe an environmental consultant from Albury.

The business focuses on improving or maintaining the sustainability of natural resources, such as land, water and waste, and is also involved in irrigation and catchment management. “In the past dairying made up a large chunk of what

Keri Johnstone and Haidee McCabe with Rural Women’s Wendy McGowan.

we did, but all the new environment rules coming into place any farm activity will be under the spotlight,” Mrs Johnston said.

“Some of the rules are already here and the rest are coming – there’s no point in resisting them.”

In developing the business, the flexibility to work around a young family was a key factor for both Mrs Johnston and Mrs McCabe.

“I’m here today, but if there’s school sports tomorrow I’ll be there,” Mrs Johnston said.

“And it’s not uncommon for me to turn up to a job with the

kids in tow.”

Five of the consultants who work for Irricon are also professional women who require the flexibility to work around family and farming commitments.

Mrs Johnston said both she and Mrs McCabe were hands on people, more comfortable in their jeans and gumboots than in a suit in a board room.

“Our clients really appreciate having someone turn up who knows farming. We can talk to them in their language about the issues,” Mrs McCabe said.

“Because of the expertise we have, we can handle almost any

■ AGRIBUSINESS EDUCATION

Schools eye agribusiness subjects to bolster industry New Zealand secondary As part of the new curschools are trialling an riculum development, agribusiness programme Primary Industries Minwhich aims to feed more ister Nathan Guy will students into tertiary officially launch the St study to provide future Paul’s Collegiate Centre talent for the industry. of Excellence for AgriSome 48 students triculture Science and Busialled a pilot curriculum ness in Hamilton tomorat St Paul’s Collegiate row. Guy said he wants School in Hamilton this the primary sector to year with another 85 double the value of exsigned up for next year, ports to $64 billion by the school said. Seven 2025, from $32 billion in other schools throughout in 2012, part of which rethe country have joined quired attracting the best Nathan Guy the project and will offer people into the primary the subject in 2016, with industries. the new subject expected “Industry and govto be available to all secondary schools ernment need to start working closely by 2017, it said. together because we are facing a skills The agricultural sector, led by indus- shortage in the future,” Guy told a Pritry groups DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb mary Sector Bootcamp in Wellington, New Zealand, helped develop the curric- made up of the chief executives from ulum through a $2 million public-private primary sector organisations including partnership investment. The agricultur- beef, sheep, seafood, viticulture and horal industry employs about 11 per cent of ticulture.

New Zealand’s workforce, however the In the year through September, milk number of university graduates in agri- powder, butter and cheese accounted for culture fields is declining. DairyNZ esti- 31 per cent of New Zealand’s exports, mates some 1000 tertiary graduates are while meat and edible offal made up 11 needed in the industry each year, about percent of exports and logs and wood five times the current rate. articles represented 7.3 per cent.

job from start to finish – design, consenting, implementation and compliance.

“We have over 500 clients, and this number is still growing.”

The award came as something of a surprise.

“When we heard all the amazing things women are doing at the awards evening, we didn’t think we were in with a chance,” Mrs Johnston said.

“We were pleasantly shocked when our names were called.”

Irricon Resource Solutions also won the Help! I Need Somebody category, sponsored

by Access Homehealth.

Ashburton Guardian

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Ram sale

A ram sale scheduled to be held in Mayfield next month will be held at the showgrounds this year, rather than the pub.

About 50 first-shear rams will be offered on behalf of local breeders. Norman Carr will be selling suffolks and Suffolktexel cross rams, Paul Gardner texels, Felicity Gardner romneys, and Paul Ross southdowns.

The venue was shifted due to the logistics of setting up the sale, held for the first time last year at the Mayfield Tavern.

This year’s event will kick off at 1.30pm on December 17 at the sheep pens at the Mayfield A&P showgrounds. Enquiries to Geoff Wright 0274620131.

TINWALD SALE Heavy lamb prices lifted slightly at this week’s sale at Tinwald.

Top woolly lambs made $138$150, medium weights $118$130 and lighter lambs, $95$112.

Heavier hoggets fetched $115-$125, mediums $90-$110 and light sheep, $70-$85.

Heavy woolly ewes realised $120-$138, medium weights $105-$115, and $70-$80.

A small yarding of store lambs made up to $75 for the top weights. Ewes with lambs all counted realised $62-$69.

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Ashburton Guardian

Thursday, November 27, 2014

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■ MEAT

Candidates back single meat co-op

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

Fed-up farmers looking for change in the meat industry met at a roadshow in Methven this week.

Hosted by the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group, the roadshow has been travelling the country offering farmers the chance to meet the candidates endorsed for the Silver Fern Farms and Alliance boards.

MIE has endorsed two candidates seeking a seat on the Alliance Group board - Wanaka farmer, vet and company director Dr Mandy Bell, and Southland sheep and beef farmer and commercial investor Russell Drummond.

West Otago farmer and Rabobank Global Farmers Masterclass nominee Fiona Hancox has the group’s endorsement for the Silver Fern Farms board.

MIE mandate for a single coop, comprised of the two major players, Silver Fern Farms and Alliance, which would control 70-80 per cent of the market, to minimise the impact of the current system where 30 plus meat companies create a fractionalised market place.

Guest speaker at Monday’s meeting in Methven was Fonterra director John Monaghan.

He said the red meat sector was vitally important to the New Zealand economy, even for the dairying sector, and urged farmers to use their voting rights to force change within the industry.

“It will take courage and lead-

Fiona Hancox, Dr Mandy Bell and Russell Drummond are hunting a seat on Silver Fern Farms and Alliance boards.

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ership to effect change,” he said.

“The global demand for protein has never been higher, and a structural change is needed – every now and then there is a moment in time and now is the time for the red meat sector to move.”

Mr Monaghan said change takes leadership, and the two current chairmen of the meat co-ops needed to sit down and open the books.

“Lastly it needs farmer sign off – and then you will get government support,” he said.

The success of Fonterra was a reflection of the calibre of people it was able to attract to the

board, and its adherence to cooperative values, he said.

“You go anywhere in the world and Fonterra concerns have the same values – the people know they are working for New Zealand farmers.”

Mrs Hancox said she stood for leadership.

“We are the only ones who can make change happen and we must act to take control of the future,” she said.

“I believe in a strong co-op – we should be reaping the benefits – the money should be coming back to farmers.”

To do that, Mrs Hancox said it was imperative farmers retained

control of their product.

Dwindling supplies of sheep and over capacity in meat works was identified as a problem by all three candidates.

Mr Drummond said 15 per cent of capital stock was still being killed, equating to 5000 sheep a week, and sheep numbers in Canterbury and Southland were at an all-time low.

“We need a bigger slice of the pie coming back to farmers for the industry to survive,” he said.

Dr Bell said the answer required a well-resourced, vertically integrated, industry-controlled, market-led co-op.

She urged farmers to consider they had two businesses – their farms and their co-ops.

“The co-ops are the only one we can exert pressure on – we have two new chairmen, the time is right,” she said.

MIE chairman said Alliance shareholders should post their vote by December 3 to ensure it was counted.

Voting papers can also be faxed to 05282 3353 2869. Online voting can be completed through www.alliance.co.nz and clicking through to the internet voting site, using the unique PIN and password printed on voting papers.

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■ ENVIRONMENT

Septic waste system promises savings

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A new septic waste system will save rural householders money.

The first of the gravity-feed field drain systems to be used in Canterbury was installed at a property on Company Road yesterday.

D&L Plumbing and Heating part owner Brendon Lock said the Advanced Enviro-Septic system uses aerobic bacteria which allowed effluent to be discharged from the older-style holding tanks without the need for power or pumps.

“It grows bacteria in the field drain itself, which drains through without the need for pumps,” he said.

The AES system will save users $1000 plus in power costs and maintenance annually, Mr Lock said.

“The other advantage is it can be laid under driveways if space is a problem, because it can take heavy goods vehicles driving over it.

D&L Plumbing and Heating have orders for eight more of the AES systems, which will be installed in the New Year.

Brendon Lock installs a new type of septic tank unit, the first in Canterbury.

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■ RURAL THEFT

Community service for stealing sheep A fourth offender charged with the theft of 16 sheep in Eketahuna was singled out as the plan’s prime motivator at her sentencing in Palmerston North District Court.

Holly Louise Marlow, 27, was sentenced to 100 hours’ community service and two months’ community detention for her part in the crime.

Plans were set in motion in June this year when Marlow made contact with friend Debra Paulson to arrange selling the meat. The sheep were then taken from two properties in Eketa-

huna between July 1 and July 2.

Marlow and three others went to a Eketahuna hotel at about 9pm.

She played the “pokies” while her three male co-offenders went to two lifestyle properties on Newman Rd and High St. There they slit the throats of a ram and 15 in-lamb ewes.

The men gutted the sheep in the paddocks leaving the heads, offal and the dead ram behind.

The meat was then supplied to Paulson who made a “substantial profit” selling it.

Judge Stephanie Edwards said

it was clear Marlow had played a key role in the offending despite not “getting her hands dirty”.

Defence lawyer Tony Thackery argued Marlow had no idea how many sheep were to be taken or how.

“The position is she had a friend prepared to take the meat.”

The offenders saw this as helping each other out, he said.

An additional 40 hours’ community service was handed down to Marlow on a charge of obstructing police and one of possession of a pipe used to

smoke methamphetamine.

Her three co-offenders and Paulson have already been sentenced to community work.

Federated Farmers Meat and Fibre Industry Group Chair Rick Powdrell said farmers aren’t diligent enough in reporting stock thefts from their properties.

“Unfortunately they might think the police aren’t interested or are too hard pressed to investigate,” he told the Meat and Fibre Council meeting in Wellington recently.

“Federated Farmers surveyed

members and our farmers have told us they don’t bother to report almost two-thirds of stock thefts.”

“But a lack of police interest, or their failure to solve a crime, isn’t the full story. Until rural people are prepared to report all the incidents, the police do not have an accurate knowledge of the size of the problem or where the bad hotspots are.”

“Federated Farmers are working with Police on preventing rural crime and they are appealing to our members to provide information.”

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■ ASHBURTON DOMAIN

Delightful venue right on our doorstep V

arious events have been taking place in the Ashburton Domain to celebrate the 150th anniversary of our wonderful park and these culminate in a fun family day in the park this Sunday.

Try and be there - it will be a great day out.

One of the early commemorative events held recently was a display of motor vehicles; there was an interesting range of models and they all looked great parked amongst the trees.

The early settlers of our town had incredible foresight when they set aside 37 hectares for recreational use.

Being ahead of their time, and obviously people of vision, they probably envisaged that one day there would be motorised vehicles, but even they would amazed at the technological advances which have been made.

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It may be 150 years old, but the domain provided the perfect backdrop for the vehicle display which I think is proof that it is a place which has evolved with time and will always provide our population and visitors with wonderful spaces for relaxation.

Part of the appeal of our domain is its variety, encompassing formal gardens wonderful water features, lovely vistas of trees, playgrounds and large playing fields.

It can also be a place of solitude as well as a venue for large celebrations like the event

taking place this weekend.

Several people have said they find being in the domain inspirational and something which happened recently reminded me of that.

A lady who I often pass while walking in the domain said that after exercising her dogs she was really looking forward to going to Christchurch to have lunch with her grandson.

I asked if it was a special occasion, maybe a birthday or some other celebration.

The lady said no, they were simply catching up but it would be special because they were getting together.

And we both agreed the serenity of the domain somehow reminded us that everyday simple things are special.

Thanks to the dedicated staff the domain is looking great.

Let’s enjoy it.

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■ THOSE JOKERS DO IT AGAIN

Ashburton Motorcycle Show Just two things to say about the recent show: It was great.

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■ FRANZ FERDINAND’S WHEELS

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car was involved in the start of a war.

If he is reading this, I hope my former history teacher Brian Edmonston will think that the following words are a reasonable, albeit brief, synopsis of the events which led to the start of World War 1.

That war, the one which was supposed to end all wars and was in what could be regarded as a contradiction in terms called the Great War (how can war be great?) began just over 100 years ago.

Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, tensions were running high in Europe, especially in the Balkans. The tide of nationalism was turning, populations were seeking their own identities and at the same time wanted to be released from the servitude they were under as subjects of an absolute reactionary and autocratic ruler. The place was a powder keg and it would only take a spark to ignite it.

There was a spark in June 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia were assassinated in Sarajevo.

A bit like JFK going to Dallas, the Archduke had been warned there could be trouble but he insisted on making the visit.

A group of nationalists hatched a plot and threw a bomb at his motorcade.

He was lucky, two guards and several spectators were injured

The Graf and Stift cars were always stylish and luxurious.

but the royal party were unharmed and duly went off to an official function and enjoyed lunch. After that they hopped back in the car and all would have gone well, except that their chauffeur made a wrong turn and had trouble engaging reverse gear to exit the street they shouldn’t have been in.

Purely by chance, one of the conspirators Gavrilo Princip was heading home feeling a bit disappointed their bomb plot had failed, and just happened to be walking home along the same street still carrying a pistol.

Suddenly the game had changed, Princip seized the

opportunity and shot both the Archduke and his wife at close range.

Long story short, the assassination led to a series of brutal reprisals and ultimately to declarations of war.

There are ironies about the death by gunshot of the Grand Duke. He had lived by the gun, being a good marksman who racked up a huge tally, reaching into the thousands, of animals he had shot for sport. The year before he had shot a rare white stag which prompted the doomsayers to predict his own end would be nigh.

His death was also ironical

because he knew the empire was crumbling and he had a more liberal approach than the uncle who he would have succeeded as ruler.

It is likely he would have introduced reforms, but it was probably too late anyway.

Now if Brian is reading this maybe he’ll be wondering, and I know for certain our sub editor Steve and possibly other readers, will be thinking what has all that got to do with a motoring column 100 years after the events.

Well, the royal couple were assassinated in a car.

It was a Graf and Stift, a

marque which had come from humble beginnings to be regarded as the “Rolls of Austria”.

The company manufactured various types of vehicles between 1901 and 2001, at which point they became a subsidiary of the MAN conglomerate.

Described as an expensive open car and painted blood red, the Archduke’s vehicle was very conspicuous and certainly posed a major security risk.

The royal’s car was a 1910 version which despite its 5.8 litre motor only produced 32 brake horsepower, so it was not the most powerful car ever built.

It is thought less than 100 examples of that model were produced.

Some people find the car’s number plate fascinating – the numbers and symbols can be interpreted as 11.11.18, the date on which the armistice which ended World War 1 came into effect.

Over the years, various stories and myths have evolved about the car, but few if any of them are correct and the car is now in a museum in Vienna.

Graf and Stift cars were certainly stylish and expensive, but gradually the market changed and ultimately the company made more money from its commercial vehicles.

The Archduke’s car will always have a place in history, sadly for an unfortunate reason.

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Compelling viewing for race fans

BY MATT MARKHAM

HARNESS RACING NEW ZEALAND

The decision earlier this year to axe Trackside from Freeview stations was met with disdain throughout the country.

Racing fans were furious that they were going to have to pay to view something they had ridden on the coat tails of for free for generations. And boy did they make their voice heard.

They wrote to newspapers, rang radio stations, started pe-

titions and established social media accounts to tell of their plight to get free racing back on the screen in front of them. It was to no avail.

The decision came with a promise of a new look Trackside on two channels broadcast solely by Sky Television.

Still that wasn’t good enough and those who claimed they couldn’t afford it threw their collective hands in the sky once more.

Sky came to the party and offered up a deal which gave a free Sky set up with all the basic channels and the two Trackside channels for next to nothing. Still they complained. They stated turnover would fall rapidly.

It hasn’t and if anything in some sectors it’s rising quite impressively.

And to rub salt into a wound, the numbers that once counted large were diminishing and the

group was fast becoming a very small minority.

Many had sat back, thought about the situation a little more and realised they were still getting a pretty good deal. Now they are reaping the benefits.

During Cup Week we saw the first major tick for the new Trackside set up.

Seven straight hours of dedication to New Zealand Trotting Cup Day was a dream come true for many people.

It was compelling viewing too with in-depth analysis both pre and post-race with a lot of little mini features in between.

There are still, like with any new set-up, some flaws to be ironed out but by all accounts these are being addressed.

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RACE 7 8.05pm ALLAN MCNEILL CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS MOBILE PACE $6500, 4yo+ c1, c2 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 500x6 Crusader Courage (1) fr ......... H McCabe (J) 2 34678 Cut The Cards (2) fr ............... K Marshall (J) 3 61x33 Sea MC (3) fr B Butcher (J, ......................Cl) 4 68333 V C Dell (4) fr ............................... D Butcher 5 84275 Lucky John (5) fr J MacKinnon (J,............Cl) 6 530x5 Rimutoto Prince (6) fr ....................P Butcher 7 00307 Energizer (7) fr ..............................B Weaver 8 58980 Occidental (21) fr ...................... J Abernethy 9 84353 Classic Bet (22) fr ........................ B Mangos 10 94072 President Obama (23) fr ....... A Poutama (J) 11 09623 Violet Bromac (24) fr ..................P Ferguson 12 70674 Flyin Louie (25) fr A Drake (J, ..................Cl) RACE 8 8.30pm RAVENSDOWNE MOBILE PACE $7000, 4yo+ c2, c3 with cond. +claimers mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 18638 Significant Anvil (1) fr .....................J I Dickie 2 2333x Bully’s Rocket (2) fr ...................S Abernethy 3 356x9 Stormy Breeze (3) fr.......................S Phelan 4 72470 Westburn Courage (4) fr ............P Ferguson 5 47414 Mach Cullen (5) fr ........................ D Butcher 6 x1121 Driving The Dragon (6) fr B Butcher (J, ....Cl) 7 3x890 Tafadhali (7) fr ................................. D Jones 8 886x7 Thats Bettor (21) fr ........................B Weaver 9 1x409 Dashing Dane (22) fr A Drake (J, .............Cl) 10 68196 Wyatt Earp (23) fr......................... S Dickson

11 70519 Hadrian (24) fr J MacKinnon (J, ...............Cl) 12 4P1P5 Our Wicklow (U1) fr ...................... B Mangos RACE 9 8.55pm O’FEE AND ASSOCIATES MOBILE PACE $7500, 4yo+ c3 to c6, c7 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 35168 Prime Legal (1) fr ...................... J Abernethy 2 90695 Aces N Eights (2) fr ............... A Poutama (J) 3 23591 Saucy El (3) fr .............................. D Butcher 4 6x702 Skippy Rascal (4) fr ........................J I Dickie 5 x6298 Bettors Card (5) fr ..........................S Phelan 6 37503 Hot And Saucy (6) fr .....................P Butcher 7 67144 Hunua Honey (7) fr............................L Hollis 8 61586 Pureora Paree (21) fr ................... B Mangos 9 82392 Shestherealdeal (22) fr .............S Abernethy 10 24x61 Lofty Brogden (23) fr ............... B Butcher (J) 11 66807 Beckinsale (24) fr .......................P Ferguson 12 6x510 Millview Sarah (25) fr J MacKinnon (J,.....Cl) RACE 10 9.22pm NEXT MEETING FEBRUARY 5TH & 8TH HANDICAP TROT $6500, 5yo+ c3 & faster +claimers discrhcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 78245 Rarangi Jewel (1) fr .......................B Weaver 2 43432 Thanks Charlie (2) fr .....................P Butcher 3 58606 Easy Empress (3) fr .......................J I Dickie 4 59361 Dragon Lady (U1) 10 ................S Abernethy 5 25113 Foxtrot Jack (U2) 10 .................. J Abernethy 6 70868 Knapdale Girl (U1) 30 .................. D Butcher

15 50x59 Imagunakepa (11) 54 ...............A Jones (a3) 16 39x88 Quickasucan m (6) 54 ........................M Hills 17 00700 Wairaka 54 ................................... Scratched Emergency: Wairaka RACE 6 3.02pm BOXING DAY @ PIRONGIA 1580 R75 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1580m 1 51050 The Shackler tm (3) 60.5 ...L Magorrian (a2) 2 653x5 Keepher Close m (2) 58.5 ............... D Nolan 3 14022 Financialterrorist tdmh (12) 58.5J Oliver (a3) 4 22223 Oui tm (8) 57.5 .......................... M D Plessis 5 74460 Rich Billie Marsh t (1) 55.5 .......A Jones (a3) 6 15106 Mihaia m (6) 55.5 ........................ D Johnson 7 836x0 Roddick (4) 55.5 ...............................L Cropp 8 098x0 Torricella (9) 55.5 ................ R Hutchings (a) 9 32740 Coolibah (10) 55 ........................M Sweeney 10 08x5x Ocean Bound (11) 55.................... R Norvall 11 04596 Essaouira (7) 54.5.......................C Lammas 12 x25x7 Miss Foxwood (5) 54 ......................V Colgan RACE 7 3.37pm STEPHEN MARSH RACING STABLES 1400 R65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 51 Our King Sway d (5) 59 ............. M D Plessis 2 31090 Steffi’s Secret dm (6) 58.... U Holmquist (a3) 3 1160x Sarah Pour d (11) 58........................L Cropp 4 3144x Bhiwani d (4) 57.5 ..........................V Colgan 5 12x00 Satanico tm (2) 57.5........................ S Spratt 6 x9223 Orange Peel (3) 57.......................... C Grylls 7 090x7 Our Foxy Lady tdmh (1) 57 ......... D Johnson 8 0519x Cops ‘N’ Coyote (7) 57 .................. R Norvall 9 1735 High Tail It m (13) 56.5 ..............J Oliver (a3) 10 17680 Victor Hugo m (8) 56.5 ...............M Cameron 11 7x623 Always On My Mind (10) 56 ............ R Jones 12 0x588 Serein (9) 55 ......................L Magorrian (a2) 13 06x87 Darting (12) 55 ............................ B Lammas

RACE 8 4.12pm BLAIR THOMSON FAREWELL 1400 R65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 60x44 Silver City m (1) 59.......................... S Spratt 2 2613x Wayne dh (7) 58.5...........................S Collett 3 60x51 Flicka Of Gold 57 ......................... Scratched 4 90174 Chocolat tdh (4) 56.5 .................M Sweeney 5 690x5 Diamond Edge d (11) 56.5 .........M Cameron 6 55x81 Labels d (6) 56 .................... R Hutchings (a) 7 290x0 I’mdaone mh (3) 56 ................... M D Plessis 8 4136x Diamond Thorn (9) 55.5 ......J Robinson (a4) 9 4x21 Attention Seeker (2) 54.5 ................ C Grylls 10 2x1 Mia’s Choice (10) 54.5 ................ D Johnson 11 14863 Anaheim 54.5 ............................... Scratched 12 09008 O’Reilly’s Gold d (5) 54.5 .........A Jones (a3) 13 32065 Back On Song (8) 54 .........L Magorrian (a2) 14 7040x Impy Luis d (12) 54 ..........................L Cropp RACE 9 4.47pm BAKER FORSMAN RACING STABLES 1150 R65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1150m 1 170x0 Repulse Bay (12) 59 ......................V Colgan 2 152x7 Funhouse 58.5 ............................. Scratched 3 4x850 Secret Power (11) 58.5 .................M McNab 4 3041x Manikya (2) 58 ........................B Hutton (a3) 5 3709x Adrenaline Rush (7) 58 .............. Z Moki (a3) 6 26367 Aluka m (3) 57.5........................J Oliver (a3) 7 10x75 Staccato (13) 57.................. R Hutchings (a) 8 480x4 Mataatua (6) 57...........................C Lammas 9 1356x Kschessinska (10) 56.........L Magorrian (a2) 10 1x83 Lime Street b (5) 56 .................... D Johnson 11 10596 Bonete (1) 56 .................................. M Wenn 12 x075x Pinzano (4) 56................................. S Spratt 13 0x857 Presume h (8) 56 .......................M Cameron 14 03424 Buffalo Lass m (9) 55 ........ U Holmquist (a3)

M10 Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Fields for Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Addington Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 10.

Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 RACE 1, 4.36pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C3, 295m 1 62563 Homebush Ariel 17.45 ..............J McInerney 2 36764 Noble Fantasy 17.30 S & ................ B Evans 3 17454 Smash That 17.21 ........................... M Grant 4 56287 Botany Zenvo 17.35 ..................J McInerney 5 63156 Porky Pig 17.33 ......................... A Bradshaw 6 21221 Go Bridie 17.30 ..............................G Cleeve 7 18676 Mulberry Brook 17.51................... K Cassidy 8 54372 Know Wisdom 17.36 ......................G Cleeve 9 41377 Homebush Paige 17.60.............J McInerney 10 15626 Cawbourne Kiwi 17.42 .......................C Weir RACE 2, 4.53pm CTV SPRINT C3, 295m 1 83181 Cronk Went Plonk 17.54 ................. D Voyce 2 15377 Homebush Rocky 17.33 ............J McInerney 3 P3426 Even Seven nwtd ...............................C Weir 4 75556 Dee 17.31 ................................. A Bradshaw 5 2488F Fantastic Four 17.60 ....................... M Grant 6 6x845 Know Fault 17.24 ...........................G Cleeve 7 21345 Sheza Gamble 17.33 M & .................Jopson 8 81767 Smash Easy 17.46 .......................... M Grant 9 41377 Homebush Paige 17.60.............J McInerney 10 27751 Campaigner 17.15 ....................... L Waretini RACE 3, 5.10pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C4,

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5 36x64 Pick The Tip 17.07 .......................... D Voyce 6 75225 Goldstar Chumlee 17.27 S & .......... B Evans 7 43686 Another Colt 17.19 ....................J McInerney 8 46637 Dyna Filbert nwtd ......................J McInerney 9 12575 No Leaf Clover 17.15 .........................C Weir 10 67158 Wunzee 17.39 ...........................J McInerney RACE 6, 6.08pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOGRAPHER DASH C3, 295m 1 4F887 Excuse Please 17.35 .................. J McMillan 2 47648 Big Muddy 17.42 M &.......................... Smith 3 63718 Rambunctious 17.67 ................. A Bradshaw 4 27554 Know Knowing 17.40 .....................G Cleeve 5 26555 John Dory 17.45........................J McInerney 6 34441 Rattle Ya Dags 17.29................. R Cockburn 7 13141 Costing Money 17.43 ...................... M Grant 8 31385 Ohoka Hope 17.49 ....................... L Waretini 9 41377 Homebush Paige 17.60.............J McInerney 10 57818 Smash Amy 17.19........................... M Grant RACE 7, 6.31pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC SPRINT C5, 295m 1 22377 Go Housie 17.03 ............................G Cleeve 2 18713 Homebush Kelso 17.14 .............J McInerney 3 26112 Zipping Jye 17.16 ...............................C Weir 4 62366 Angel Noir 17.15 .............................. B Dann 5 22455 Lunar Tom nwtd J & ........................D Fahey 6 61683 Cracking Chain 17.09 S & ............... B Evans 7 71277 Mer De Noms 17.19 ..................R Blackburn 8 11111 Sozin’s Comet 16.94 .................J McInerney 9 34357 Ohoka Coby 17.26 ....................... L Waretini 10 15484 Red Hot Fury 17.37 M & ...................Jopson

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Fields for Manawatu HRC meeting at Manawatu Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 5. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 RACE 1 5.20pm (NZT) R & S FLOOR COATINGS HANDICAP TROT $6000, 4yo+ c0 to c1 spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 86282 Mistress Castleton (1) fr ................B Weaver 2 45 Success Express (2) fr ................. S Dickson 3 0x397 Chiltons Vocation (3) fr ...............P Ferguson 4 068 Successional (U1) fr..................... D Butcher 5 95553 Earls Buller Girl (1) 30....................S Phelan 6 86466 It’s Big Time (2) 30 ....................S Abernethy 7 60774 Xmas Joy Belle (3) 30 ....................J I Dickie 8 30337 Latent (4) 30..................................P Butcher 9 42474 Miss Middleton (5) 30................... B Mangos 10 1 Colonel Klink (6) 30................... J Abernethy RACE 2 5.45pm WOODLANDS STUD MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 0 Strawb’s Regal Act (1) fr ............P Ferguson 2 Janron (2) fr ................................. B Mangos 3 07 Wave Song (3) fr .................... K Marshall (J) 4 09x9 Donegal Starglo (4) fr.............. B Butcher (J) 5 60x66 Belle De Jour (5) fr ....................... D Butcher 6 x758P Cheyenne Princess (6) fr ...... A Poutama (J) 7 33223 Bourbon Street (7) fr .................S Abernethy 8 43465 Travelling Man (21) fr .....................S Phelan 9 908 McRubble (22) fr ........................... F Cossey

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295m 1 36566 Roqette 17.09 ..............................C Roberts 2 15648 Zebidiah 17.02 .......................... A Bradshaw 3 11245 Rick’s Terra 17.25 C & ........................ Fagan 4 11576 Swiss Ace 17.25 ............................. M Grant 5 17848 Wandy Grant 17.19 ........................G Cleeve 6 66471 Sprinkles 17.23 .........................J McInerney 7 5668x Explodable 17.27 ..............................M Flipp 8 34127 Ringa Ding 17.50 ......................J McInerney 9 21758 Blue Gale Rise 17.28 ....................... B Dann 10 23784 Only Got Time 17.12 .................R Blackburn RACE 4, 5.35pm HAMPDEN TAVERN STAKES C3, 520m 1 16774 Waimak Dave 30.88 ..................J McInerney 2 841F3 Cawbourne Steve 30.71...............C Roberts 3 56536 Opawa Jed 30.06 L &......................... Wales 4 17P24 Voussoir 30.33 H & .............................Taylor 5 34444 Cawbourne Witch 30.64 ...............C Roberts 6 52465 Opawa Rocky 30.55 J &..................D Fahey 7 65828 Cawbourne Floyd nwtd ................... M Grant 8 35286 Goldstar Bella 30.48 S &................. B Evans 9 x8528 Opawa Sam 30.70 L & ....................... Wales 10 36737 Gee Cee Bee 30.43 ...................H Anderton RACE 5, 5.52pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN VOYCE SPRINT C5, 295m 1 33232 Keramus 17.09 ...............................G Cleeve 2 31651 Little Regus 17.01 J & .....................D Fahey 3 13534 Quedrago 17.22 C & .......................... Fagan 4 43734 Mary Marlow 17.14 ......................... M Grant

10 65522 Local Yokel (23) fr ...........................J I Dickie 11 26774 Franco Lennox (24) fr ................ J Abernethy RACE 3 6.15pm BILL BOYD & ASSOCIATES F&M MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 85x00 Lotta Bets (1) fr ..........................P Ferguson 2 964 Bonita Michelle (2) fr ......................J I Dickie 3 79940 Sheza Bright Star (3) fr ................ S Dickson 4 74x59 Smart By Design (4) fr ................. B Mangos 5 8x8 Heart’s Delight (5) fr .................. J Abernethy 6 8x7x5 Westie Chick (6) fr.........................P Butcher 7 894x0 Highview Linda (7) fr ............. A Poutama (J) 8 0088x Boomchickawowwow (21) fr ... K Marshall (J) 9 0x26 Zencara (22) fr ............................. D Butcher 10 36x03 Santanna Jewel (23) fr ...................S Phelan 11 x4232 All That Glitters (24) fr ...............S Abernethy RACE 4 6.40pm DAVIS TRADING MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 0x788 Benji Marshall (1) fr ................ K Marshall (J) 2 35465 Acton Town (2) fr .......................... C Webber 3 3 The Arsonist (3) fr .........................P Butcher 4 72466 Lady Molly (4) fr .............................S Phelan 5 9 Lookatmeboys (5) fr ................ B Butcher (J) 6 908x0 Donegal Star Gretch (6) fr..............J I Dickie 7 077x4 Miss Badlands (7) fr ......................B Weaver 8 53777 Magic Daze (21) fr ....................... B Mangos 9 443x0 Hey Knowitall (22) fr ........................ D Jones 10 90439 Analeigh (23) fr ............................ D Butcher

11 00Px9 Golden Billion (U1) fr................. J Abernethy 12 057 Skip N Sarah (U2) fr...................P Ferguson RACE 5 7.05pm BETTOR’S DELIGHT F&M SERIES MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ f&m c1 to c2 mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 38342 Kate Caterina (1) fr ...................S Abernethy 2 6213P Playaway (2) fr ........................ B Butcher (J) 3 75630 Blythcliffe (3) fr ...........................P Ferguson 4 22530 Kilkeel Lady (4) fr ..........................P Butcher 5 9x062 Eyre Hostess (5) fr ..................... A Drake (J) 6 23849 Monets Daughter (6) fr ................. B Mangos 7 27356 Nicole Vaidisova (21) fr ............. J Abernethy 8 31551 Everlasting Grace (22) fr .............. D Butcher 9 x1617 Lucia Bromac (23) fr .....................B Weaver 10 74140 Smiling Tact (24) fr .........................S Phelan RACE 6 7.35pm OUTBACK TRADING MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 77x64 Thunderbird Tara (1) fr ...................J I Dickie 2 84136 Extreme Carat (2) fr ........... J MacKinnon (J) 3 1x351 Stand Sure (3) fr ...........................P Butcher 4 52700 Yankee Brandy (4) fr .................... C Webber 5 78541 Brandy (5) fr ...............................P Ferguson 6 88797 Belle Delight (6) fr .................. K Marshall (J) 7 077D1 Missdebonair (7) fr ....................S Abernethy 8 978x5 Bad Dancer (21) fr ........................B Weaver 9 42254 Bute Mach (22) fr ......................... D Butcher 10 96268 Smooth Delight (23) fr ................ A Drake (J) 11 93559 Brainstormer (24) fr ................... J Abernethy

Waipa gallops Today at Te Awamatu Raceway

Fields for Waipa RC meeting at Te Awamutu today.

NZ Meeting number: 3. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 RACE 1 12.08pm (NZT) LADY KINTYRE’S LEGACY LIVES ON 1150 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1150m 1 Santiago (16) 58.5 2 88x Astra (6) 58.5 .................................. C Grylls 3 Sea Octopus h (7) 58.5 ...................S Collett 4 42x08 Crucial h (18) 57 ............................. K Myers 5 Louvres h (13) 57 ...............L Magorrian (a2) 6 07x Roman Aspect h (5) 57 ..................V Colgan 7 x0032 Agostini (8) 56.5 .................. R Hutchings (a) 8 33x2 Dasha b (10) 56.5 ..............................M Hills 9 450x6 Flying Briar (1) 56.5 .........................L Cropp 10 9 Last Message 56.5....................... Scratched 11 907 Misconceived (2) 56.5 .................C Lammas 12 0x5 Comment (4) 55 ................ U Holmquist (a3) 13 97x9 Lady Jay (11) 55 ............................. S Spratt 14 The Wayusayit (17) 55 ..............J Oliver (a3) 15 0806x Sino Heights (15) 58.5 16 36808 Malina h (14) 56.5 17 284x2 Wealth Prince bh (9) 57 18 7x4 Snowdrop 55 ................................ Scratched 19 54x Sparkling Sword b (3) 56.5 20 Sombreuil (12) 55 Emergencies: Sino Heights, Malina, Wealth Prince, Snowdrop, Sparkling Sword, Sombreuil RACE 2 12.42pm BUCK’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL 1400 3YO MAIDEN $8000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 72220 Keeping Tom (4) 57.5 ...................... N Harris 2 9x6 Operatic Rescue h (5) 57.5 ...............L Innes 3 9x00 Buff The Diamond (6) 57.5 .................M Hills 4 El Flash 57.5 ................................ Scratched

5 Mr Mosa (8) 57.5......................... D Johnson 6 0 Parker’s Piece (13) 55.5 7 070x8 Fanta Aztec (3) 55.5................B Hutton (a3) 8 0x00 Liberty Heights (12) 55.5 ............C Lammas 9 Miz Oldfields Road (2) 55.5 ...........V Colgan 10 0 Moonlight Mile h (10) 55.5 .............. K Myers 11 00x Philly Lane (1) 55.5 ...................J Oliver (a3) 12 67 Sisterhood h (11) 55.5 13 Solo (9) 55.5 ...................................S Collett 14 Twilight Offer (7) 55.5 ................ M D Plessis RACE 3 1.17pm TE AWAMUTU PLUMBING & DRAINAGE 1580 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1580m 1 2x Oscar Legend (8) 58.5 .................... D Nolan 2 0x025 Top Drive h (1) 58.5 ...........L Magorrian (a2) 3 6x296 Idaho’s Choice (5) 58.5 ...............C Lammas 4 4053x Tukawa (16) 58.5......................... D Johnson 5 464x7 Jigger Inn (10) 58.5 ........... U Holmquist (a3) 6 0x Ali (4) 58.5....................................... R Jones 7 00 Pinz Charming (9) 58.5 ..............M Sweeney 8 3x709 Rogart (7) 58.5 ...................................M Hills 9 Yardarm (2) 58.5 ............................. K Myers 10 070 Fast Catch (17) 57 .......................... S Spratt 11 5x835 Carmen Sandiego b (11) 56.5........V Colgan 12 43x4 Imperial Hawk 56.5 ...................... Scratched 13 20569 Mirage (14) 56.5...............................L Cropp 14 08x68 Tinged With Gold (12) 56.5 . R Hutchings (a) 15 6x3 Likewise (13) 55 ........................J Oliver (a3) 16 Easy Elegance (3) 55...................... C Grylls 17 00x00 Lotti O’Reilly (15) 56.5 .............A Jones (a3) 18 65 Take Fire (6) 56.5 ..............................L Innes Emergencies: Lotti O’Reilly, Take Fire RACE 4 1.52pm FARRELLY CALF REARING 2000 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 2000m

1 32x92 Nek Minnit h (2) 58.5...................C Lammas 2 x5042 All The Way (12) 58.5 .........................M Hills 3 30920 El Grande bh (4) 58.5 ..................... C Grylls 4 07369 Armando (14) 58.5 .................... M D Plessis 5 64055 Look Whos Asking (11) 58.5 ........... S Spratt 6 8x840 Rebisha (15) 58.5 ........................... R Jones 7 09x0 Bomaye (10) 58.5...............L Magorrian (a2) 8 6 Notabadrooster (3) 58.5 .................. K Myers 9 0x006 Tu Meta Peta (9) 58.5.................M Sweeney 10 609 Mongolian Hero (6) 57 ...................V Colgan 11 x7255 Alezan (5) 56.5.................... R Hutchings (a) 12 57327 Katy O’Beel (1) 56.5........................ N Harris 13 x2x73 Tipilk (13) 56.5 ..................................L Innes 14 777 Corundum (8) 56.5 ...................... D Johnson 15 00 Kaapricorn (16) 55 ....................J Oliver (a3) 16 8x07. Tasha Aimee (7) 55 ....................M Cameron RACE 5 2.27pm CRAIG’S TAKEAWAYS @ WHANGAMATA 2000 R65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 67130 Tokomutu Judge tdmh (13) 59 ..J Oliver (a3) 2 024x0 One O Eight td (14) 58 ...............M Sweeney 3 91 Zedpak (2) 58.............................. D Johnson 4 83154 Victoryshallbemine 56 .................. Scratched 5 86x70 Malachy Lad m (5) 56 ..................... C Grylls 6 3x100 Mystic Man th (3) 56 ....................... M Wenn 7 48375 Call The Shots (1) 55.5 ...................S Collett 8 90x02 Makers Mark 55.5 ........................ Scratched 9 42406 Fairy Story m (9) 55 ........................ S Spratt 10 0x800 Mr Toogood tdh (8) 55 ........L Magorrian (a2) 11 x0005 Wazungu (12) 55............................. R Jones 12 x1937 Dreims Of Gold (7) 54.5 ..............C Lammas 13 72409 I’m All Yours td (10) 54.5 ............M Cameron 14 69368 Sophisticate (4) 54 .........................V Colgan

Club news 20 Ashburton Guardian Allenton Bowling Club

son Donald 3 2nds, 2 3rds, Jackie Ryan Morning bowlers, some results: Progres- 1 3rd, Dorothy & David Hastings 1 2nd. sive Pairs 15/11/14 Leads. 1st. Marius Ca- Champion blooms were equal Lesley & bout 2nd. Betty Beck SKIPS. 1st. An- John. nette Sargisson 2nd. Bruce Hopwood. As we don’t have a meeting in DecemShow day Nan Chatterton 14/11/14 ber we had our Christmas function in Fours. 1st. A. MacKenzie s N. MacKen- the form of a very posh Christmas dinzie, O. Kinvig, L. Spargo. 2nd. R. Neil- ner with the tables nicely set and Christson, s. R. Petrie, B. Lynn, J. Schlater. 3rd. mas arrangements and beautiful food G. Bishop, R. Bennett, T. Kaye, A. Sar- which members had helped supply, this gisson. 4th. A. Crawford, B. Holdom, F. was a very happy occasion.

McKnight, J. May. Sponsors Ashbur- After dinner we had a brief meetton Licensing Trust & Robbies Bar & Grill, ing when Graham Gunn our President a big thank you to the sponsors for this passed a vote of thanks for the evening Tournament as it made a very enjoyable and wished members Season’s Greetday. Friday Triples 21/11/14 1st. D. Ish- ings. erwood, R. Isherwood, B. Molloy. 2nd. Dorothy and David Hastings were fareJ. Ryk, M. Anderson, D. Kinvig. 3rd. A. welled before their move to Greymouth McIntosh, M. Cabout, D. Thomas. 4th. in the New Year.

W. Watson, M. Grice, J. Drayton. 5th. Ashburton Garden Club F. McKnight, I. Moore, A. Reid. A great was had and congratulations to all win- We had 51 members for our Christmas ners and well played everyone. It was Luncheon on November 20th at the nice to hear the friendship by the laugh- Senior Centre. The tables were attracter and banter going on and that is what tively decorated and looked great thanks the game of bowls does for you. Also mostly to Jennifer Marks and help by Congratulations to Sandra Keith play- the committee. They were bulging with ing in Hong Kong for NZ gaining 3rd in food so loads to go around. It was a the Pairs. We have had a very enjoyable lovely Christmassy atmosphere to kickBBQ after Saturday bowls which was start the season. Now for the results of attended by many members and their our garden display and all looked good families, good work by the organizers for considering the hailstones and wind the this and please note others will be held previous day. and the dates are on the board in the Premier bloom a Delphinium Audrey Mcclubhouse. Club Champs are progressing Kay Pot Plant Lily Rona McConnell but please get your games played ASAP. Flower of the month 1st Audrey McKay Christmas Party will be held on Decem- 2nd Isabel Porter 3rd Jenny Marks ber 13 so please put your preference of Large bloom 1st Pamela Bird 2nd Audrey McKay 3rd Pat Tarbotton salad or desert on the blackboard.

Small bloom 1st Lois Bradley 2nd Isabel Porter 3rd Jenny Marks Ashburton Bowling Club Congratulations are extended to the win- Miniature Bloom 1st Pat Tarbotton 2nd ners of the recent singles. Firstly Gavin Mary Leighton 3rd Audrey McKay Eder was victorious in the Lowry Cup fi- Spike 1st Jenny Marks 2nd Lois Bradley nals played at Methven last Sunday beat- 3rd Mary Leighton ing Bruce White and then Brent Mason. Cluster 1st Pat Tarbotton 2nd Mary The Ladies have finished their Singles Leighton 3rd Audrey McKay and in the finals Wendy Herriott played Shrub 1st Pat Tarbotton 2nd Mary LeightGaynor Crack and Wendy was the win- on 3rd Audrey McKay ner. Congratulations to you all. The Jun- Decorative Christmas arrangement with ior Singles for ladies will be finalised this Candle Thursday between Heather Mowatt and 1st Jenny Marks 2nd Marilyn Cross 3rd Pip Kiddey. Let’s hope the weather holds Audrey McKay Bouquet Garni Herbs 1st Jenny Marks to get these games finished.

The men have continued to impress with 2nd Lois Bradley 3rd no entry wins in the 3 3’s. Playing at Papanui Nov A special thanks to the judges from the 22 we had 1 win and 2 losses but the no2 MSA who also joined us for lunch. team playing against Riccarton R/C at If you would like to join the Ashburhome did well with 3 wins. Congrats to ton Garden Club in 2015 contact Jenny Roger Herriott ,Winston Lee and Gordon Marks on 308 9796 or Kay Holder-Day Sparks winning19-15, Graham Taylor, on 307 6336 to come along to one of our Alastair MacKenzie and Russell Lowe monthly meetings. winning19-5 and Tony Blain, Allan Miller Ashburton Golf Club and Russell Anstiss also winning 25 - 9 Playing interclub on Wed night Nov 19 Well the Captains versus Presidents the Ashburton no 1 played Methven 2 challenge match went right down to the at Methven. Murray Anderson, Maurice wire on Saturday, after the morning boys Houston and Harold Kemp won 26-10, finished all square with 3 points each, it Graham Taylor, Winston Lee and Gordon was left to the afternoon chaps to battle Sparks won 19-17, and Gavin Eder, Doug it out. The captain was double checking Kinvig and Colin Bird won 13-10 Ashbur- the scores as they arrived in and was ton 2 playing at Hampstead only played looking a bit worried, with 2 games still 4 ends before the weather conditions being played, it was 11 to 9 to the president, but the captain had left 2 strong made it necessary to cancel play.

Saturday Rollover Triples are well patron- wild cards to bring the game home, and ised and last weekend Lex Johns, Alison the Hopster, and Bruce Ferriman, did him Gibbs and Jim McIntyre with 3 wins and proud to bring a draw to the challenge.

8 ends were 1st and, Wally Porter, Relda There was quite a few under hand tricks Prendergast and John McLay 2nd with 2 from the Presidents team, the worst one wins and 8 ends took 2nd placing. There performed by a certain left handed playwas no corner to corner played as the er, who trawled around Ashburton hoscolder weather made things unpleasant. pital, managed to find a member there Jo is still taking entries for Kiddey Aus- with a wonky hip, a dicky knee and a dissie mixed pairs on Saturday December located finger, pushed him in his wheel 6 9.30am start. Find a partner and enjoy chair to the course, then played against a day of competitive bowling, 1 man, 1 him, and just managed to beat him on lady per team. Members are reminded the 18th. Some people have no morals. that the Charity tournament is at Hinds This Saturday is club closing day a mixed this year, funds going to the community day, Greensome match for the Smallswimming pool. Sheet for players is on bone Trophy. 11.00am meet for 11-30 the main notice board. Please use it, the tee off. Then in the evening we have our Presentation night. day is a charity.

Work will begin soon on the roofing, Over the summer season we have lots of weather permitting, and Jo and his help- mixed games so please come down to ers have things well arranged. The new the course, and join in the fun. heat pumps are installed. Remember the Till next time good golfing Christmas dinner on December 14. Tick- Ashburton Horticultural ets $30.

Ashburton Dahlia Circle The Ashburton Dahlia Circle held their November meeting at the Tinwald Hall on Tuesday 18 November 14 members were present. November is the month of our annual rose show there were 43 entries over 10 classes. Mrs April Breading was our judge which resulted Lesley Walker 6 1sts, 4 2nds, 4 3rds. John Hoogweg 3 1sts, Graham Gunn 1 1st, 1 2nd, Ali-

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There was a good turnout for the end of year meeting and pot luck tea, an enjoyable evening of food, fun and fellowship.

Speaker Eileen Ward, demonstrated how to make colourful and effective Christmas tree decorations using beads and different embroidery techniques. Members brought along a lovely selection of Christmas posies, which President Joy Jaine delivered to housebound mem-

bers, and to those in rest homes and hospital.

Table Show results were: Shona Thomas (10 firsts, 3 seconds, 3 thirds), Joy Jaine (5, 8, 3) Pat Tarbotton (8, 2, 2), Maureen Randall (4, 1, 1), John Hoogweg (3, 1, 3), Surrey Lamont (2,2,0) Rosemary Case (1, 3, 0), Norm McDowell (0, 1, 0). Shona Thomas had the Premier Bloom with a white dogwood. Raffles were won by 1st John Hoogweg, 2nd Rosemary Case, 3rd Shona Thomas.

President Joy closed the meeting with best wishes for the Christmas season.

The next meeting will be held on Monday January 26.

Ashburton Men’s Probus Club President Roger welcomed members to the November meeting and reminded members that we would have our Christmas Luncheon and Speaker at Lochlea, Racecourse Road, December 9.

Our Mini Speaker was Jim Lawton. Jim was born in Wellington, and lived so close to the Zoo he could hear the lions roaring at night. His father served with the United States Marines workshop because a medical problem meant he could not serve overseas with the NZ forces.

When the Marines left New Zealand a huge amount of equipment was buried in pits.

When Jim was six, the family moved to Featherston, location of the Japanese POW Camp where forty-eight prisoners and one guard died in a riot.

The family shifted to Ashburton when Jim was about 10 and he attended Allenton School. Back then boys used to swim in the old duck pond by Crum’s Brickworks. After secondary school in Chch he served his mechanic’s apprenticeship in Ashburton and passed his A Grade exam. Later he became Automotive Surveyor with the Ministry of Transport, now enjoying retired life.

Our main speaker was Robin Burton who gave an excellent presentation “In the Wake of Scott and Shackleton,” using the photos he took on a month long voyage from Bluff to Antarctica on the ice strengthened “Spirit of Enderby”, with 48 passengers and 22 crew.

They used zodiacs for a close up look at crested penguins and seals on predator free Snares Island, and landed on Enderby Island, part of the Auckland Islands, site of many shipwrecks, sailed through huge swells in the Victoria Passage, home of albatross, then to the Macquarie Island penguin colony.

Robin’s grandfather, Bill Burton who lived to nearly 100, was a stoker on the Terra Nova in 1910; Robin had a desire to experience and relate to his Grandfather’s experience and visit the huts of Shackleton and Scott. They couldn’t get ashore at Cape Adaire but visited Cape Evans and the totally restored Scott’s Hut, almost expect a member of Scott’s party to appear. They visited Scott base and saw Mt Erebus, sailed to the Ross Ice Shelf, larger than France, then four days sailing to the Campbell Islands where they were lucky to strike good weather before returning to Bluff.

Ashburton Pakeke Lions Club President Lion Bob Rodgers welcomed a large number of members and also visitors from the Mayfield Lions Club to the November meeting which commenced with the singing of the National Anthem.

Lion Clarrrie Galway read the roll call and apologies and clip boards for future activities were circulated. Edith Paterson then said grace and a lovely meal followed. Lion Ray Harraway reported on the Christmas Hamper Raffle sales and also the 150 years Celebration of the Ashburton Domain at which the Club will have a Bar-be-que stall. He also asked for support for the annual Special Needs Childrens Day Out to be held at the Ashburton Domain on the 2nd December.

A special presentation was made by Lion Clarrie Galway to Charter Member Lion Doug Watson as he is moving away from the District after 34 years’ service to the club. Doug held nearly every position in the Club and has served as the Clubs historian and photographer for most of his time. Doug and Kathleen were always very active in all aspects of the Club and the beautiful “Christmas Puddings” they

baked were auctioned annually at the December meeting with funds going to Child Cancer Sufferers. Doug was a mentor to the many new members with his knowledge of all things Lion and was awarded both the Lloyd Morgan and Malven Jones awards for service to Lions New Zealand and International. He was presented with a replica model of the Ashburton Clock Tower suitably inscribed in appreciation for the work he has contributed to the Club. Doug replied that he had thoroughly enjoyed the many years of membership in Ashburton Pakeke Lions and had enjoyed the fellowship of members and hoped that this would continue into the future and his archive of photos, tapes and general memorabilia would be kept for posterity by the club.

Entertainment for the evening saw a debate by two teams of members which got quite animated at times. Tailtwister Milner Jacobs extracted funds from members for misdemeanours they had incurred during the month.

Ashburton Photographic Society This year has been busy with competitions, workshops and numerous field trips all enhancing our love of photography. It’s great that our newer members as well as our regular members have embraced these opportunities to be out and about and learning from one another.

We were saddened to farewell our fellow photographer, friend and mentor, Eric Burton who joined our Society 51 years ago and has been an avid photographer who willingly shared his knowledge and enthusiasm with many keen photographers over this time. He is sorely missed by us all.

We were grateful to have Christchurch photographer Ian Walls to judge our Landscape competition with very useful comments and the opportunity to view his work. His results were; Prints – Acceptances: Julie Begg-’In the Morning Mist’, Faisal Syed-’Landscape Arch’ & ‘Light on the Braids’, Chris Howe-’Pristine Paddocks’, Gaynor Hurst’Sunrise at Taylors Mistake’ Honours: Waiheke Island Sunset’, Faisal Syed-’We All Fall Down’ Digital Images – Acceptances: Jorg Nittmann-’At Bowers Stream’, ‘Hills’ & ‘Late Afternoon at the Hills’, Emmily Harmer’Mt John View’ & ‘Pukaki Store’, Clarrie Brake-’Receeding Storm’ & ‘Sunlite Ridge Faisal Syed-’Red Crown’ & ‘Star Stream’, Honours: ‘Evening Light’, ‘Winter Afternoon’ & ‘Rain on the Can’- Top Image Peter & Phyllis Seymour travelled from New Brighton to present our 3rd Open Competition results giving us good feedback & shared a AV of their photography.

The results were: Prints – A Grade-Acceptances: Margaret Clifford-’Busy Bees’, Suzanne Watson’Church Pew’, Gaynor Hurst-’Colourful Building’, Cindy Lovett-’Dinosaur Log’ & ‘Driving Hard’, Julie Begg-’Raindrops on a Rose’ Honours: ‘Gaynor Hurst-’Apple Blossom’ & ‘Scarlett Thinking’, Peter MacGregor’Late Evening-’Woolshed Creek’ B Grade-Acceptances: Nick Taylor’Racer’, Faisal Syed-’When the Lights Came On’ Honours-Faisal Syed-’Man in the Mist’ Digital Images-A Grade-Acceptances: Jorg Nittmann-’Between the Clouds’, ‘Heading Out’ & ‘Mustang Mack’, Carol Efford-’Cloud Wave’, Peter MacGregor’Early Morning Otamatata’ & ‘Lake Middleton’, Aileen Brake-’Fine Winters Day’, Gaynor Hurst-’Precious Moment’ & Resting’, Suzanne Watson-’Show Reflection’ Honors: Jude Box-’After a Hard Night’, Suzanne Watson-’Flower Centre’ B Grade – Acceptances: Faisal Syed’Against the Gathering Storm’ & ‘If I May Have Italy’, David Oakley-’Streaming Along’ & ‘Water Structures’ Honours: Faisal Syed-’The Race is Lost or Won Far from the Crowds’

Methven Bowling Club It’s been another busy week - Wednesday night we had both teams at home for the men’s 3/3s interclub Methven 1 beat Hinds 3/0 and Methven 2 loss to Ashburton 1 0/3.

On Wednesday the Farmers Tournament sponsored by Phillip Wareing Ltd was played. This was won by Bruce Red-

mond, John Robinson and Paul Adam 2nd Jim Lattimore, Richard Watson and Adrian Richards and 3rd Jock McCrory, Murray McLeod and Terry Shearer. Well done to you all.

At the Friday Allenton triples the team of David and Raiona Isherwood and Barry Molly came out on top. Well done team.

On Saturday our junior team of Rob Fenson, Jim Lattimore, Bruce Redmond and Lyn Fensom won against Leeston. This makes them the winner of their section - congratulations now they will be off to the final play offs. The very best of luck.

The other junior team had a loss to Mandaville and our senior men’s 7/s drew with Christchurch BC. Club Camps - winners only Ladies singles Shirley Pagey and pairs, in a very close match Maureen Sullivan and Raiona Isherwood Men’s singles Greg Lock 3 wins (busy Boy) Rob Fensom, Alan Hill, Jeff Limbrick.

Craig Carter and his Hornby team won their first game but were knocked out in the next in the centre triples.

The final day of the Lowry cup; this is sponsored by Pearson Coach lines.

Methven had 3 of our guys playing Brent Mayson, Adrian Kemp and Eric Maw. In the 1st round both Fig and Adrian won their games Eric had the bye. Round 2 Eric was beaten by Graham Clarke and Brent Mayson beat Adrian Kemp. Brent went on to play in the final against Gavin Eder. The quality of the bowls played by all the players was amazing. The final - we were treated to a great display of draw bowling. Gavin Eder was in brilliant form and kept up a consistent draw game no matter what Brent tried he couldn’t over take Gavin. So congratulations Gavin for being this year’s winner of the Lowry Cup. We start the Neville Goodwin on Thursday night at 5.30pm, on Sunday we have eight teams entered in the sub centre pairs. On Saturday December 5 we have a friendly game at home against Hornby. We need a few more names up on the board please.

MSA Outdoor Bowls Recently spectators were treated to some excellent men’s bowling at the green when they contested for the prestigious Lowry Cup. Play was also vied for at the Allenton and Ashburton greens .All players were hoping to obtain thee wins from four games which would qualify them to play the sudden death final at Methven. Overall 14 qualified. MSA had one player who gave a fine display but unfortunately did not win the three games required. How nice it is to see our green being played on now that the weather has improved. Saturday afternoons and Thursdays fill the rinks and it is obvious that all are enjoying the companionship that exists with much laughter being heard. Last Thursday a new format was introduced for the playing of the Ngaire Hunt Triples. This was mixed and was played over two games to determine a winner. The winners were 1st Guildford Lane [s] Ray Mitchell, Wendy Petrie 2nd David Muir [s] Joan Hardy, Maurice Sunbeam. Wendy has not long returned from knee surgery and it is lovely to see her back on the green playing as if she had never been away. Maybe Burwood have a bowling green for knee patients to practice on, or take some magic potion? I suggest you inquire Margaret as you are next- Ha Ha! Well done Wendy and good luck Marg. All in all, the day was most enjoyable - Super green - Perfect weather and smiling faces. The rent -a- crowd enjoyed it also.

Thursday November 27 are the drawn triples [mixed] for the Beryl Murchie Trophy at 1pm start. The following week will be the same format drawn mixed triples for the Flo. Goulding award. December 2 will be the start of the ladies Club Pairs.

A busy time ahead for both men and women. Sad news for the 2/4s teams when they hosted Darfield for the final game of this competition. Results were Robin Petrie [s] Guildford Lane, Jim Rush, Darcy Lysaght lost 13-17 and Dave Muir [s] Brian Lynn, Ray Mitchell, John Withell lost 10-17.

Championship play next week for the men, but the following week the Chartered Clubs 2/3s competition will commence. Afternoon tea duty, Dec 2nd 4th. Lorraine Boud, Helen Dowdle.

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■ RUGBY

Local athletes finish strong

Elliot set to rejoin Chiefs

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton Intermediate athletes collected podium finishes at the Canterbury Intermediate Athletic Championships at the Ashburton Domain on Tuesday.

The local contingent collected a number of top three finishes with 438 Year 7 and 8 students from around Canterbury came to compete.

In the Year 7 girls Adele Burgess won gold in the discus with a 22.77m effort and Jessica Milne the gold in the 60m dash. Lucy Moore was third in the 1500m and 800m and Intermediate girls came third in the relay. Ben Jackson was third equal in the boys’ high jump and Phoenix Andrew was third in the discus.

In the Year 8s, there was an Ashburton clean sweep of the girls’ discus, with Jaidyn Busch first with a throw of 29.82, Jade Peters second and Alex Dunn third.

Bush also won gold in the shot put with a 10.02, Peters took gold in the long jump, leaping 4.43 and Ashlee Strawbridge took out the high jump, clearing 1.38m.

Georgia Bent was second in the 60m dash ahead of Emily Armstong. Natasha Waddell was third in the 800m, as was Emma-Louise Stagg in the 100m.

In the boys it was an Ashburton sweep of the 1500m, with Max Watson heading home Quinn Ritchie and Abe O’Donnell. Sam Milne was second in the high jump with Zane Cockburn third equal.

Ashburton Intermediate’s Montana Canna, 11, runs the relay at the Canterbury Intermediate Athletic championships at the Ashburton Domain.

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Former Chiefs hooker Hika Elliot will rejoin the Chiefs as a pre-season replacement for Nathan Harris when the side officially assembles today.

Last season Nathan Harris replaced Elliot when he suffered a neck injury. Now in an ironic turn of events, Elliot will replace Harris who is currently recovering from ankle surgery.

Harris damaged his left ankle during the All Blacks match against the US Eagles in Chicago shortly after scoring his impressive first try. He is expected to be out of rugby for six months.

Elliot has been medically cleared to play and is looking forward to rejoining his Chiefs family 12 months after his neck surgery.

“Hika played some Heartland rugby and came through that well. He is in great shape and keen to get back into pre-season training so we are rapt to have him back,” said Chiefs Coach Dave Rennie.

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS Hampstead; Tinwald v Dorie/Fairton

DRAWS ■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Open Grade Tennis Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre November 29 A Reserve 12.15pm Methven v Lowcliffe; Allenton Green v Allenton Blue; Hampstead v Hinds/ Longbeach A Grade 1.30pm Methven v Mayfield/Hinds; Allenton v

RESULTS ■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club Sat Rollover Triples November 22 1st Lex Johns, Alison Gibbs and Jim McIntyre 3 wins 8 ends 21 points 2nd Wally Porter, Relda Prendergast and John McLay 2 wins 8 ends 18 points 3rd Trevor Watson, Ted Connell and Clarrie

Brake 2 wins 7 ends 9 points.

Mens 3 3’s played Nov 22 v Papanui in Chch.

J Ryk, M Anderson and M Quinn win 1716 C Leech, G Crack and H Kemp loss 22-12 B Williams, D KInvig and C Bird loss 20-12.

Ashburton 2 v Riccarton R/C at Ashburton.

R Herriot, W Lee and G Sparks win 1915 G Taylor, A MacKenzie and R Lowe win 19-5 T Blain, A Miller and R Anstiss win 25-9 Played Wed 19 Nov v Methven 2 at Methven M Anderson, M Houston and H Kemp win 26-10 G Taylor W Lee and G Sparks win 19-17 G Eder, D KInvig and C Bird win

13-10 Ashburton 2 playing at Hampstead played 4 ends before play was abandoned due to weather conditions.

Christmas Meeting held at Lochlea Resort. Sandy Saussey welcomed a large gathering of members.

Apologies and correspondence were read and accepted. Pat Gibson has also visited several sick members and wished them a speedy recovery. Natalie our Treasurer reported that the club is in good health. Denise Hyde’s from” Flowers and Balloons” came and demonstrated several easy but very effective table decorations for Christmas time. Using pine needles and cones along with candles and flowers she put together some lovely arrangements. Wilma thanked Denise for sharing her time with us.

Morning tea was served and members were able to have a chat and wonder around outside.

The movie for December is “Pride” to be held at the Regent Theatre on December 3 at 11am. Our main speaker was Neroli Davies. Now anyone that knows Neroli will know how much we all enjoyed her talk. She was raised at Mesopotamia and then spent her young days at”Mt Arrowsmith Station” which her family owned.

Growing up on a high country station she was a real farm girl and was educated along with her brother at home by their mother.

She loved and spent most of her time

riding horses and along with her much loved dog she had some very funny stories to tell. Leaving school she went mustering in both North and South Islands and then went overseas. She also did a Beauty Therapy Course. Then she had the chance to Manage “Mt Arrowsmith Station” where she met this very handsome man (with very good dogs) she said and they married and together they purchased “Gawler Downs”. She told us of a paddock of turnips being eaten off by a flock of Canadian Geese just as they were young plants.

The times when there was deep snow and having to go out and tend to the sheep on her horse which was her great companion. Now Neroli has had a change of lifestyle and owns “Body Treats for U”. Sandy thanked her for her very entertaining story. Then Tony Sands spoke and told us about the Resort and further developments that are taking place. Members were wished a safe and happy Christmas and look forward to see everyone at the next meeting to be held on 26th January 2015. The meeting closed at 11.30 am.

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Full Bore Canterbury Spring Championships November 22 and 23 Ashburton’s John Snowden won the Belt, with Malvern’s Richard Rowlands one point behind. The Ashburton Team of John & Coby Snowden, Ken Chittock and John Miller won the Presidents Challenge Shield for grand total points. Full results: A Grade: John Snowden (Ash) 366.41,

Richard Rowlands 365.41, Malcolm Dodson 361.36, Allan White 358.34, Chris Kershaw 357.20, John Miller 354.26, Ken Chittock 352.26, Peter Newman 345.23 B Grade: David Dick (Blenheim) 360.24, Clinton Whyte 351.18, Charlie Ledbrook 346.20, Andrew Whooley 339.22, Kevin Harper 175.10 C Grade: Coby Snowden (Ash) 348.26, Murray Cook 338.14, David Taylor 325.12, John Fleming 324.12, Brian Hawksby 281.08 F Class: Joey Meldrum (ChCh) 417.18, Chris Brown 401.16, Rod Fairlie 397.15 FTR: Erica Alexander (Malvern) 387.18, Darren Swaney 382.06, Rob Lilley 378.06, Daniel A 370.10, Simon Percy 367.08

CLUB NEWS Nor’Westers Muso’s Club Labour weekend saw us at Nor’westers’ have an extended jam, due to having no work on the Monday. Starting at the later time of 4pm, Methven’s Brian Molyneux and local lad Jesse, from Glitch, kicked off proceedings with some blues backing tracks. Zippy joining at one stage.

Kurt Fleming went behind the drums for a few songs, joined by his uncle, Phil Baird, and Matt Smith on vocals. Songs covered included Helter Skelter, I Wanna Be Sedated, The Blitzkrieg Bop, and Voodoo Chile.

Then Kurt went on acoustic guitar, and Matt went “full bodied”, for a few songs including Tom Wait’s, Heart Attack and Vine, and Skynard’s Southern Man. George Brown joined at one stage on acoustic guitar.

The rest of the afternoon/evening saw a mixture of jam bands. Musicians participating in some awesome music were Bruce, Zippy, Jesse, Cheryl, Kurt, Matt, George, Casey Chambers, Hoppy, and Kev. Songs included, Crossroads, as a tribute to the late great Jack Bruce, Sweet Home Alabama, Time, Come Together, You Really Got Me, La Grange, Break On Through To The Other Side, White Wed-

ding, Green River, Sister Golden Hair, Devil In Disguise, Tainted Love, Fuzzy, Wonderwall, It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, One Step Ahead, I’m On Fire, Ziggy Stardust, Could You Be Loved?, Ain’t No Sunshine, Wish You Were Here, and Proud Mary, amongst others. All in all, an excellent jam, and just a pity our el Presidente’ was sick and not able to make it A reminder the Nor’Westers Muso’s Club 2014 Xmas bash is on the 13th December 7.30 till late at Feeneys Lounge , The Devon Hotel , Ashburton.The music theme this year is ‘ Keepin it Kiwi’ - A Celebration of New Zealand music thru the years .As usual Fancy Dress is the order of the day ,with anything goes ,dress up in whatever tickles your fancy !!, free admission , supper provided , raffles and best dressed prizes.Full bar service from your friendly Devon bar staff. So get in the spirit, dress on up, come on down and have a hoot with your mates or make some new ones. See you all there for a hell of a blast!!! All welcome.

Also our usual jam is this Sunday afternoon, so for some great music and exquisite company, see ya there!!

The Plains Ladies Probus Club It was a Lovely sunny morning for our

Trinity College of Music Exams held in Ashburton Grade 8 Distinction: Olivia Brown; Merit:

Jack Hanrahan; Pass: Hayley Tait (Singing) Grade 7 Merit: Olivia Stewart, Lucy Clough (Singing) Grade 6 Merit: Joshua Pike, Annie McDonald; Pass: Annah Casey-Solly, Lydia Ford (Singing), Emily Dodd (Violin) Grade 5 Merit: Angela Naui (Violin), Samantha McArthur, Gabrielle Stringer, Annelise Diamond, Liberty Higson, Madeleine Evans, Hannah Hawkes (Singing); Pass: Willow Diedricks (Violin) Grade 4 Distinction: Simon Harford (Piano), Matilda Smith (Singing); Merit: Benjamin Sutton, Brianna Harrison (Piano), Mickayla Milmine, Sophie Kettley (Singing); Pass: Hannah Kuipers (Violin), Tenielle Booth, Lara Biggs, Joe Danielson (Singing) Grade 3 Distinction: Samuel Kuipers, Amy Pearson (Piano); Merit: Harrison McMillan; Pass: Toby Lee, Katelyn Hogg (Singing) Grade 2 Merit: Jackson Allred, Shania Harrison-Lee, George Dunlop; Pass: Amelia Parker (Piano), Kate Hatley (Singing) Grade 1 Distinction: Tiffany Yang; Merit: Parker Bradford, Emma Petrie, Emma Cochrane (Piano), Ella Pearson (Cello); Pass: Hannah Glass (Piano), Henrietta Harford (Singing)

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Messi breaks scoring record Argentina wizard Lionel Messi broke the European Champions League scoring record and Luis Suarez broke his Barcelona duck.

Barca romped to a 4-0 win at APOEL Nicosia but that fact was overshadowed by Messi and Suarez’s personal achievements.

Messi came into the match level with Raul on 71 Champions League goals but he stabbed home from close range on 37 minutes to take sole possession of the record.

He went on to notch a hattrick as Barcelona remained a point behind Paris Saint-Germain at the top of Group F after the French team beat Ajax 3-1 thanks to an Edinson Cavani brace and one from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Both sides have already qualified for the knockout rounds and top spot will be decided in two weeks time at the Camp Nou.

Messi’s feat came just four days after the four-time World Player of the Year broke Telmo Zarra’s 59-year-old record of 251 La Liga goals with a hattrick in a 5-1 thrashing of Sevilla to take his tally in the Spanish top flight to 253 goals in 289 appearances.

Just 10 minutes before that, Suarez, who moved from Liverpool in the close season, had finally notched his first goal a brilliant solo effort - for the Catalans in his fifth appearance since making his debut in a 3-1 loss to Real Madrid on October 25.

Elsewhere, Manchester City kept their qualification hopes alive as Sergio Aguero completed a hat-trick in stoppage time to give the English champions a 3-2 win over 10-man Bayern Munich.

City were five minutes from defeat against a side that had

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outplayed them throughout the game, whether playing with 10 or 11 players.

Aguero gave the hosts the lead from the penalty spot after centre-back Mehdi Benatia had been dismissed for bringing him down in the box as the last man.

But Bayern still went into the break in front with two goals in the final five minutes of the half, first through Xabi Alonso’s free kick and then as Robert Lewandowski outjumped Vincent Kompany and Bakary Sagna to head home a deep right-wing cross.

City toiled in the second period as the Germans dominated the ball, until Stevan Jovetic cut out Alonso’s misplaced pass to send Aguero away to equalise five minutes from the finish.

The Spaniard then popped up a minute into stoppage time to pounce on a mistake by former City defender Jerome Boateng.

It left City level on points with Roma and CSKA Moscow going into the last round of matches, with the English side travelling to the Italian capital and the Russians away in Bavaria.

On a day of records, Roma stalwart Francesco Totti extended his mark as oldest scorer in the Champions League in his side’s 1-1 draw at CSKA. At 38 years, one month and 29 days, his 43rd minute goal saw him extend the record he previously set in September to break a three-year-old mark set by former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs.

But Vasily Berezutsky’s equaliser 17 seconds from the end of time-added-on kept the Russians in the race for the knockout stages and sets up a thrilling final round of matches.

Chelsea romped to a 5-0 win at Schalke 04 to not only secure a place in the second round but

also ensure they will win Group G. Captain John Terry opened the scoring with a header from a corner before Brazilian Willian finished off a sublime team move with a crisp finish that had even some German fans applauding.

Jan Kirchhoff headed past his own goalkeeper, and two goals in two second-half minutes from substitutes Didier Drogba and Ramires completed a thoroughly miserable evening for the German side.

In Group H, Shakhtar Donetsk booked their place in the knockout rounds despite losing 1-0 at home to Athletic Bilbao.

That was because Porto, who have won the group, cruised to a 3-0 win at BATE Borisov, who have now let in 22 goals, equalling the record number of goals conceded in the group stages.

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■ FOOTBALL

Top players for January’s ASB Classic With the full field virtually sealed ahead of January’s tournament, the ASB Classic continues to hold its own against more affluent opposition.

The 24-strong main field was confirmed yesterday and, with New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic sneaking inside the ranking cut-off, organisers still possess one wildcard with which to attract another leading player.

But, even before that spot is snapped up, the tournament already boasts five current top-30 players and, in Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams, two women who have held the world No 1 ranking.

Such strength confirms Auckland’s stature on the WTA Tour and compares favourably to similarly-timed tournaments elsewhere in the world. While the event in Brisbane, for example, can offer four times the prizemoney and higher ranking points than Auckland, the quality on this side of the Tasman isn’t too far removed.

The ranking cut-off at the ASB Classic is 77, meaning only players within that mark can attain direct entry, while Brisbane’s sits at 52. Shenzhen, meanwhile, hands out twice as much prizemoney but its rankings cut-off is closer to 100.

And edging the Chinese event is especially pleasing to tourna-

ment director Karl Budge, considering its introduction in 2013 was billed as a blow to Auckland’s chances of luring top talent.

“That’s pretty rewarding for Auckland,” Budge said. “It shows how well we’re viewed by the players and how much they think this is a great place to kick off the year. Having Caroline inside the top 10 and Venus back inside the top 20, I think it gives us real depth at that pointy end with some excitement all the way through.”

In addition to those two drawcards – who, along with world No 14 Sara Errani, had already been announced – Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (25) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (27) round out the top five seeds. Last year’s top seed Roberta Vinci, precocious American Sloane Stephens and former winner Yanina Wickmayer are other notable names, while Budge was also excited about Erakovic’s direct entry.

“It’s great she can get in on her own rank,” he said.

Erakovic’s ranking left the tournament with a spare wildcard and left Budge a busy man on the phone yesterday. Already in consideration are former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone and two-time Auckland semifinalist Jamie Hampton.

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Summer league football under way Holly Allred from Methven Brown pursues Ben Holland from The Royals during Mid Canterbury Football’s junior summer league at Argyle Park last night.

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Appleby out of Australian Open Former champion Stuart Appleby has withdrawn from the Australian Open starting today because of a back injury.

Appleby had been in doubt since Tuesday when he was re-

moved from a marquee grouping with defending champion Rory McIlroy and fellow former winner Geoff Ogilvy.

The 43-year-old played just six holes of yesterday’s pro-am

at The Australian Golf Club before calling it quits. Appleby, who won the Stonehaven Cup in 2001, has been replaced in the 156-man field by Queenslander Blake McGrory. - AAP

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■ MOUNTAIN BIKING

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Record number of bikers expected

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The Longbeach Coastal Classic looks set to break 1000 entries in its eighth year on Sunday.

Online entries closed last night and were rapidly approaching the 900 mark, looking good to finally crack 1000 entries.

The event usually has plenty of walk-up entries who wait and see on the weather - which has been forecast as overcast and 20 degrees, “ideal conditions” for the event.

“The track is in great condi-

tion and the weather forecast is looking good at this stage so fingers crossed for another awesome race day,” race organiser Angela Cushnie said.

Last year’s event had 937 competitors bike, run and walk their way around the course on the historic Longbeach Estate.

The 35km classic ride is proving to be the most popular again this year with many competitors coming back year after year to better their times.

After missing last year’s events, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Anton Cooper returns looking to improve on

his track record time of 1:09, which has generated quite a bit of interest amongst fellow riders.

Cooper won’t be the only gun rider on course with North Canterbury’s Ben and Craig Oliver two rising mountain biking stars also entered.

At the Oceania Mountain Bike Championships in Hobart, Ben took third place and Craig finished 12th despite being delayed by a flat tyre.

As well as the 35km feature event, the 12km family ride will again be well supported and another event growing in popu-

larity is the 12km run.

There is also plenty of entries taking up the challenge of the 21km off road half marathon or the same course on a bike.

Registration opens on the day from 7am on site, with the runners and walkers to start at 9am with the bikers to take off from 10.30am.

With the new benchmark of entrants set to take to the course it will be a busy day for the volunteers from the Hinds Lions and Longbeach School.

■ ROWING

Rowers back at Lake Hood for regatta

By Jonathan Leask

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For a third weekend in November rowers will descend on Lake Hood and in their biggest numbers yet.

After the Canterbury Pennants a fortnight ago and last weekend’s corporate eights, the Ashburton Rowing Club holds its annual two-day regatta.

The forecast isn’t great but as long as the wind stays away they should get through the whole programme, giving Ashburton College rowing coach Steve Beveridge a good look at his crews.

He was encouraged by their results at the recent Canterbury Pennants Regatta at Lake Hood and sees this weekend as one to gauge the progress.

“This weekend will be a bit of a step up depending on who shows up,” Beveridge said.

“By all accounts it will be a mixture of what we have already come across this summer and should present a good

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chance to see how our progress has been.”

At the Canterbury Pennants regatta they faced Christchurch club and school crews, and before that they had the Aoraki 1000 regatta against Timaru and Oamaru based crews, with

this weekend set to be a combination of both. After this weekend’s regatta they have the Otago Championships at Lake Ruataniwha before they break for the festive season.

“This time of year is all about technique and getting the ba-

sics right as well as taking a look at possible combinations.”

The hard yards then begin again on January 10 with their annual week-long training camp which starts the campaign to Cambridge and the Maadi Cup in March.

Crusaders hope to play in Fiji The Crusaders plan to take their Super 15 match against the Hurricanes next year to Fiji.

Details are still being sorted but the New Zealand Herald understands a group has agreed to underwrite the match which is likely to be played at the National Stadium in Suva.

In a prototype move in 2011, the Crusaders played the Sharks at Twickenham because AMI Stadium was damaged in the February 22 earthquake.

With AMI being used for the under-20 Fifa World Cup in late May and June next year, the Crusaders were forced to look for an alternate ground.

They considered Nelson and Timaru but when a sponsor offered to back the game if it was shifted to Fiji, the Crusaders began discussing the concept with tournament officials.

Chief executive Hamish Riach would not comment yesterday about the idea and the rationale of playing in front of about 20,000 spectators in Fiji.

“We can’t comment on the specifics of our Hurricanes game but it is true that venue has not been confirmed. I just can’t comment.

“I am best to continue to say no comment. I am the spokesman, you have rung the right person. All we can say is we are continuing to work through the venue for the game.”

Wellington and Dunedin are unavailable because of the Fifa tournament and Sanzar has completed a draw where New Zealand teams hosted the majority of their games in the front of the competition to try to minimize the disruption.

One Fifa semifinal will be played in Christchurch on June 17 and the ground will then be released for the Super rugby playoffs starting two days later.

“With some luck and leeway around the time of captain’s runs, if the Crusaders earned the right to host a Super rugby quarter-final we think we should be able to cope but it would be very tight,” Riach said.

If the game in Fiji is approved, the Crusaders will play their last four pool games away in Sydney, Fiji, Auckland and Canberra - a schedule which will have a bigger impact on the Crusaders if they qualify for offshore playoff matches.

Any concerns from the players’ association or coaching group about the squad’s welfare are likely to be over-ridden as the Crusaders management chase what they feel will be a financial benefit.

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ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Goodwill shop, sale of pre-loved clothing.

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10.30am RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, St Andrews Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

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7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time / sequence dancing. Learn to dance, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

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TV ONE 6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11am The Chase Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR David asks Priya if she’s dating Rakesh and although she denies it, the truth eventually comes out; Victoria discovers why Eric fired Finn; Dan feels belittled. 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm Packed To The Rafters PGR 30 3pm Selling Houses Australia 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 MasterChef Australia 0 9pm Love Child AO 0 10pm Off their Rockers UK Senior citizens attempt to turn the tables on unsuspecting members of the public in unexpected pranks. 0 10:30 One News 0

11pm Trauma Investigators AO 12:10 Come Dine With Me PGR 30 1:15 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:40 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Matt Hayes’s 24-Hour Rod Race 7:30 Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 8am Auction Room 8:30 Sophie In The Souk 9am The Cook And The Chef 9:30 Storage Hoarders 10:30 Gourmet Farmer 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Toy Hunter Noon Ray Mears’ Close Encounters 1pm Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 2pm Matt Hayes’s 24-Hour Rod Race 3pm Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 3:30 Auction Room 4pm Sicily With Aldo And Enzo 4:30 Catch And Cook – World 5pm My Dream Derelict Home 6pm Gourmet Farmer 6:30 Kitchen Crashers 7pm Garage Gold 7:30 Luke Nguyen’s France 8pm The Flying Winemaker 8:30 Cook The Books 9pm The Roux Masterclass 9:30 Cheese Slices 10pm Zumbo 10:30 Garage Gold 11pm My Dream Derelict Home

FRIDAY

Midnight Gourmet Farmer 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 1:30 Auction Room 2am Sicily With Aldo And Enzo 2:30 Catch And Cook – World 3am Kitchen Crashers 3:20 Combat Hospital PGR 4am Luke Nguyen’s France 4:30 Cook The Books 5am The Roux Masterclass 5:30 Cheese Slices

TV TWO 6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:55 My Little Pony 0 7:20 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 3 0 7:45 Slugterra 0 8:15 Paw Patrol 3 0 8:40 Noodle And Doodle 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle USA AO 1:30 Jeremy Kyle USA AO 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:28 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:30 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 4pm Austin And Ally 0 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Police Ten 7 0 8pm Cops Uncut AO 0 8:30 The Flash AO Barry Allen, aka The Flash, is the fastest man on earth, but speed is not enough to solve all of life’s problems. 0 9:30 Diary Of A Teenage Virgin AO 0 10:35 Hell’s Kitchen AO 0

TV THREE 6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:25 Rachael Ray 3 Incredible weight loss stories; chef Gina Neely joins Rachael for a chat.

11:25 Celebrity MasterChef 3 The three remaining celebrities face their first restaurant service.

Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage AO Game show hosted by Jerry Springer.

1pm Dr Phil AO 3 People with severe cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder seek treatment.

2pm The Biggest Loser Australia PGR 3pm Food Glorious Food 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 The Simpsons 3 0 5pm Big Brother Australia 6pm 3 News 7pm Campbell Live 7:30 The Block – Glasshouse PGR 30 8:40 F CSI AO A woman full of drugs and alcohol is found dead in a swimming pool at rehabilitation facility 0 9:40 F Motive AO 0 10:40 The Paul Henry Show

11:30 Police Ten 7 3 0 Midnight 11:10 Bones AO 0 The Assets 0 1am RBT 3 0 1:25 12:10 CSI – NY AO 3 Infomercials 2:30 Private Practice 1:05 Infomercials AO 3 0 3:15 The Nine Lives Of Chloe King PGR 3 4:05 Pair Of Kings 3 0 4:30 Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:40 The 4:30 Show 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

FOUR

PRIME

THE BOX 6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Pawn Stars PG 7:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 8:05 Survivor – Vanuatu PG 8:55 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 NCIS MV 11:25 NCIS – Los Angeles MV 12:15 Criminal Minds 16VS 1:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 1:30 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 2:20 Law And Order MV 3:10 Survivor – Vanuatu PG 4pm America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Pawn Stars PG 5:30 CSI MV 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 NCIS MV 8:30 Longmire 16V 9:30 Matador MVLS 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 NCIS MV

FRIDAY

12:30 Survivor – Vanuatu PG 1:25 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

PG 1:50 Law And Order MV 2:40 SVU MV 3:30 Longmire 16V 4:20 Matador MVLS 5:10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 5:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG

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6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Scaredy Squirrel 8am Fairly Odd Parents 8:30 Chuggington 3 8:40 Humf 3 8:50 Peppa Pig 3 9am Bob The Builder 3 9:10 Thomas And Friends 3 9:20 Tree Fu Tom 3 A boy goes to the woods behind his house and enters a magical world, where he becomes a superhero.

9:40 Barney And Friends 3 10:05 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:30 Smash!

6pm The Nanny 3 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Family Guy PGR 3 8pm American Dad PGR 8:30 N Bob’s Burgers PGR 9pm South Park AO 9:30 Bro’Town PGR 3 The boys wake up to a Canadian at their table, and it turns out to be dad’s new girlfriend who has moved in and seems set on being their new mother. 0 10pm Nitro Circus Live PGR 10:30 The Big C AO 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Harry’s Practice 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Test PGR 3 Celebrities and viewers answer burning moral questions such as, ‘Do you consider cybersex cheating?’

1pm American Idol 3 2pm Who Do You Think You Are? USA 3 The search for a compelling story and a link to inherited depression leads Steve Buscemi to his great-great grandfather, Ralph B Montgomery.

3pm Bondi Rescue 3 3:30 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:30 Hot Bench 5pm Deal Or No Deal 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Millers PGR 8:00 Modern Family PGR 8:30 Downton Abbey AO 9:30 Madam Secretary AO 10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

6am Golf – Asian Tour (Highlights) Manila Open. 7am Golf – LPGA Tour (Highlights) CME Group Tour Championship – Round 4. 7:30 Golf – European Tour (Highlights) 8am Golf – Australian Masters (Highlights) 9am #SkyRugby – Breakdown 9:30 Rugby – Women’s Sevens (Highlights) 10:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) 11am Basketball – NBL Championship (Replay) 1pm Motorsport – FIA Formula One Championship (Highlights) 1:30 UFC Now 2:30 Sky Sports News UK 3pm The Ultimate Fighter 4pm UFC Fight Night (Replay) 6pm Arena Access 6:30 #SkyRugby – Breakdown 7pm Total Rugby Reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

7:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) Wales v All Blacks. From Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

8:00 The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 #SkyRugby – Engage 9:00 Mainfreight Rugby 10:00 #SkyRugby – Engage 10:30 Inside Cricket

11:35 Entertainment Tonight Midnight Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2am Home Shopping

11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Sea Master Sailing Midnight The Ultimate Fighter 1am Ice Hockey – NHL (Replay) 3am Arena Access 3:30 Fox Sports News 4am The Crowd Goes Wild 4:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 5am Tennis – Davis Cup Final (Highlights)

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Miharo 3 2 7:30 Pukana 3 2 8am Toi Whakaari 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 3 2

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SKY SPORT 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 2 6:30 Ako 3 2 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 #Hakantion PGR 3 8pm Te Po Mekemeke PGR 8:30 Into The Wind AO 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 10pm Survive Aotearoa 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Man v Wild PG Borneo Jungle.

8:30 MythBusters PG Paper Crossbow.

9:30 Yukon Men M Breaking Points.

10:30 Highway To Sell PG Mustang Misfire.

11:30 Nightmare Next Door M Madison Murder Mystery.

12:30 Deadline M Crime with Tamron Hall.

1:30 I (Almost) Got Away With It M 2:30 Alaskan Bush People M 3:30 Yukon Men M 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 6:30 Tethered M 7:30 Naked And Afraid M 8:30 Marooned M 9:30 Tethered M 10:30 Naked And Afraid M 11:30 Blood Relatives M

FRIDAY

12:30 Disappeared M 1:30 Scorned – Love Kills M 2:30 Auction Hunters PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Flying Wild Alaska PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Basketball – NBL Championship (Highlights) 7am Sky Sport – What’s On 7:30 Rugby – International (Highlights) 8am Bowls – New Zealand Open (Highlights) 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 10am Fox Sports News 10:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 11am Cricket – Love Child The Flash International (Highlights) 9:00pm on TV One 8:30pm on TV2 11:30 Cricket – Super Smash (Highlights) MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Noon Cricket – Super Smash (Highlights) 7am Analyze That MVLS 2002 7:10 Krews M 2010 Thriller. Brian 12:30 Sky Sports News UK Comedy. Robert De Niro, Billy Geraghty, Jonathan Cake.

1pm Cricket – International Crystal, Lisa Kudrow.

8:55 Identity Thief MVLS 2013 (Highlights) 8:35 Making Of Johnny English Comedy. Jason Bateman, Melissa 1:30 L Ice Hockey – NHL Reborn PGV 2011 McCarthy.

Tampa Bay Lightning v New York 8:55 Red Eye MVL 2005 Drama.

10:45 Dead Man Down 16VLS 2013 Rangers. 4:30 Cricket – Super Thriller. Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy.

Smash (Highlights) 5pm Cricket – 10:20 The Illusionist MVS 2006 12:40 Mandela – Long Walk To Super Smash (Highlights) Drama.

Edward Norton, Paul Freedom MVL 2013 Drama. Idris 5:30 Bowls – New Zealand Open Giamatti, Jessica Biel.

Elba, Naomie Harris.

(Highlights) 12:10 Harold And Kumar Escape 3:05 47 Ronin MV 2013 Action.

7pm Basketball – NBL From Guantanamo Bay 18LS 2008 Keanu Reeves, Rinko Kikuchi.

Championship (Highlights) Comedy.

John Cho, Kal Penn.

5pm Closed Circuit MVL 2013 7:30 Fox Sports News 1:50 Ali MVL 2001 Drama.

Jon Voigt, Crime. Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall.

8pm Swimming – Ocean Swim Will Smith.

6:35 Gangster Squad 16VLS 2012 Series 4:25 The Break-Up MLS 2006 Action. Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling.

Romantic Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, 8:30 Bowls – New Zealand Open 8:30 American Hustle MLS 2013 (Highlights) Vince Vaughn.

Drama. Christian Bale, Bradley 10pm The Crowd Goes Wild 6:10 A Few Good Men PGL 1992 Cooper, Amy Adams.

Drama. Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise. 10:30 Seamaster Sailing 10:50 The Bag Man 18VLS 2014 11pm #SkySpeed 8:30 Spartan MVL 2004 Thriller.

Thriller. Robert De Niro, John Cusack. Val Kilmer, Derek Luke.

11:30 #SkyRugby – Engage FRIDAY 10:20 The Dilemma MLS 2011 FRIDAY 12:35 Breakaway PGVLS 2011 Comedy. Vince Vaughn, Kevin Midnight Total Rugby 12:30 Comedy. Rob Lowe, Vinjay Virmani. James.

Swimming – Ocean Swim Series 2:20 Gangster Squad 16VLS 2012 1am Fox Sports News 1:30 Bowls FRIDAY Action. Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling.

– New Zealand Open (Highlights) 12:10 Silent Hill 16V 2006 Horror.

4:10 Biography – Jack Nicholson PG Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell. 2:15 3am Football League Show 3:30 4:40 American Hustle MLS 2013 Ali MVL 2001 Drama. Jon Voigt, Will Motorsport – GP2 Series (Replay) Drama. Christian Bale, Bradley 4:30 Motorsport – GP3 Series Smith. 4:50 The Break-Up MLS (Replay) 5:30 #SkySpeed 2006 Romantic Comedy.

Cooper, Amy Adams.

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Redmond up for award Above - Gary Redmond in action for Mid Canterbury this season.

Key figure in top season

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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Mid Canterbury flanker Gary Redmond has been nominated for the Heartland Championship Player of the Year in the 2014 Steinlager Rugby Awards.

Redmond was a key figure in Mid Canterbury’s Meads Cup winning season with his coach, Glenn Moore, labelling him the best player in the competition on several occasions.

Moore’s statement will get put to the test by the New Zealand Rugby Union’s judging panel.

Redmond is up against fellow South Island Heartland XV representatives, Buller’s James Lash and North Otago’s Josh Clark.

Lash, a Hammers loan player back in 2011, was instrumental in Buller’s unbeaten run to the Meads Cup final at first-five but was wayward in the 13-26 loss to Mid Canterbury in Greymouth.

Josh Clark led from the front for

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North Otago but couldn’t guide his side past Wanganui at home in the Lochore Cup final.

Redmond was influential with his high tackle count, turnover rate and effective ball carrying - with his classy performance getting the Hammers back to the pinnacle of the Heartland competition, defending the Meads Cup. Last year Redmond’s fellow looseforward and captain Jon Dampney took home the honour.

The All Blacks dominate the nominations for the awards.

After a successful season where they retained their number one world ranking for the fifth consecutive year, the All Blacks are nominated for the Team of the Year, Steve Hansen for Coach of the Year, with Richie McCaw, Brodie Retallick and Aaron Smith all nominated for the Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year.

The awards will be held at the Viaduct Events Centre on December 11.

STEINLAGER RUGBY AWARD NOMINATIONS ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Pink Batts Heartland Championship Player of the Year Josh Clark, James Lash, Gary Redmond

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ITM Cup Player of the Year Shane Christie, Nehe Milner-Skudder, Seta Tamanivalu

New Zealand Rugby Age Grade Player of the Year Mitchell Karpik, Damian McKenzie, Sio Tomkinson

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Investec Super Rugby Player of the Year Jerome Kaino, Nemani Nadolo, Brodie Retallick

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Tom French Memorial Maori Player of the Year Liam Messam, Charlie Ngatai, Aaron Smith

Charles Monro Rugby Volunteer of the Year Dean File, Mike Nitz, Trudie van LeeuwenCruthers

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New Zealand Rugby Women’s Player of the Year Rawinia Everitt, Fiao’o Fa’amausili, Amiria Rule

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New Zealand Rugby Referee of the Year Jessica Beard, Nick Briant, Glen Jackson

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New Zealand Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year Sarah Goss, Kayla McAlister, Tyla NathanWong

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New Zealand Rugby Coach of the Year Colin Cooper, Steve Hansen, Kieran Keane

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adidas Team of the Year All Blacks, Auckland Storm, Manawatu Turbos, Taranaki

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Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year Richie McCaw, Brodie Retallick, Aaron Smith

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Richard Crawshaw Memorial Sevens Player of the Year Scott Curry, DJ Forbes, Tim Mikkelson Sky Television Fans Try of the Year Beauden Barrett; Hurricanes v Highlanders, Malakai Fekitoa; Sharks v Highlanders, Alapati Leiua; Crusaders v Hurricanes

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