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The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to an accident on Sunday night after a car and truck collided on State Highway One.

Two injured in separate crashes

By Matt Markham

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Two separate car accidents in Mid Canterbury within five minutes of each other on Sunday night gave emergency services a busy end to the weekend.

The first occurred on Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road around 11.15pm on Sunday night while the second occurred around 11.20pm on State Highway One. In each accident a person was reported as being seriously injured.

Out near Mayfield, emergency services

were called to the scene of a single vehicle crash where the driver had crashed into a tree.

St John confirmed that one person was taken to Ashburton Hospital with serious injuries.

Police stated yesterday that the Serious Crash Unit was called to examine the scene and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.

Mayfield Voluntary Rural Fire Force Chief Fire Officer Ian Fielder said his unit were at the scene for roughly two hours – mainly in

a traffic control role.

“We were largely there to assist St John,” Fielder said.

“The traffic control side of things was pretty straight forward too as it was only the odd milk tanker at that time of night going through.”

The road remained open but was reduced to one lane.

As Fielder and his unit were arriving at the Mayfield crash, reports began to filter through of the accident on State Highway One.

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That prompted one truck from Ashburton which was on its way to the scene to be diverted back to the crash near Chertsey.

Police yesterday confirmed that the accident, at the intersection of State Highway One and Coplands Road, south of Chertsey, involved a tanker and another vehicle.

The driver of the vehicle, a 27-year-old male, was seriously injured and airlifted to Christchurch Hospital.

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■■ BUSINESS SECTOR

Retailers supporting others

By Sue Newman

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For Ashburton’s retail heart to begin beating again, business owners need to unite and support one another, says Chicago Joes owner Emma Todd.

As the Covid-19 alert levels start to de-escalate, Todd said there was more strength in retailers banding together and supporting one another than taking a competitive approach in what will be a very different business world.

And she’s walking the talk, promoting other businesses and creating a rallying call – community over competition.

“We all need to rally around and support one another and when I put this up on my Facebook page instantly there were other business responding and wanting to be part of this too,” she said.

On her business Facebook page, Todd posts stories about businesses she uses and offers incentives for people to love the post, to follow the business she’s profiled. Each time this is done, is worth one entry in a voucher competition.

It might be a small way of showing support for one another, but that support is important, she

Emma Todd from Chicago Joes. said. “It’s showing we’re there and it’s about putting money back into our community. We need to share the love and to support our local economy to keep local people in jobs. I see this as not about

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yourself, it’s about everyone. You can’t be selfish. You have to promote everyone as best you can.”

Competition had no place in a community that would be working hard to recover when busi-

nesses reopened, Todd said.

“We have to work together. If people want something you don’t have, recommend another local shop.

“We have to pull together to get through this because it will be a challenging time for a lot of us looking ahead.”

Todd’s business trades online, and she said it was great to see other businesses that did not, looking at new ways of trading while they were physically closed.

Quite a few were using voucher purchase options to generate some cashflow.

“And we’re fortunate compared to some, hairdressers and beauty therapists who’re absolutely hands on.”

Kim Reed owns DNA and said that while she’ll be among the last wave of businesses to reopen, she’s counting herself lucky because she’ll open with a book full of appointments and that means instant cashflow.

She’s in touch regularly with her staff and with other retailers and said that network was great both for support and for sharing ideas.

As the days of lockdown tick by, Reed said the most challenging thing was dealing with calls from

people wanting to book ahead or wondering how best to cope with missed appointments.

Reed’s decided the fairest way to deal with rebooking customers is to rebook the oldest appointments first. She’s had to take her online booking system down and it will stay down until the doors reopen.

Reed is a big supporter of the community over competition philosophy and said that while every business would have its own worries, the strength that came from supporting one another was huge.

For hairdressers who were surrounded by people all day, living in a bubble with little outside contact took a bit of getting used to, Reed said.

She talks regularly with her staff, checks their welfare and makes sure they’re coping with social isolation.

Like many small businesses she’s using a voucher purchase scheme to generate income while her doors are closed.

Customers can effectively pay for all or part of for a haircut or colour in advance through the scheme. The uptake has been good, she said.

■■FIRE AND EMERGENCY

Two injured in separate crashes From P1 Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Tyrone Burrowes said St John were already on the scene when his crew arrived and they assisted in a medical role and also used cutting gear to extricate the patient from the vehicle.

“It was a reasonably straight forward role for us,” Burrowes said.

The accident was also attended by units from Lauriston and Ashburton with the latter left to assist the Westpac Rescue Helicopter with their landing.

Police created a road block in the im-

mediate aftermath of the crash until traffic management arrived on the scene and put a diversion in place.

GCH Aviation Ltd General Manager, Simon Duncan said the Westpac helicopter attended the accident after being dispatched at 11.32pm.

His crew arrived on the scene at 11.58pm and departed with one patient around 1.04am, arriving at Christchurch Hospital at 1.32am.

Duncan said the patient had a suspected broken femur.

A strong nor’wester which blew across

most of the Canterbury Plains on Sunday night would have made the trip a little less comfortable, despite the chopper being of the very latest technology.

“The wind was nor’west, which would have been side on for that flight,” Duncan said.

“The poor patient with a broken femur would have required lots of pain relief prior to and during the flight with strong winds being less comfortable for patients and crew.”

The Serious Crash Unit examined the scene and inquiries are ongoing.

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■■ HEALTH

Pharmacies feeling pinch

By Sue Newman

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Community pharmacies across New Zealand might be open for business during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for many the requirement to open their doors each day is creating significant financial pressures, says Ashburton pharmacist Carolyn Cameron.

While pharmacists and doctors were given $15 million when the first Covid-19 alerts were sounded, for pharmacies, that money was gone almost before it hit bank accounts, Cameron said.

“The first week or 10 days before lockdown were very stressful because we had to put a lot of systems in place and that money went on setting these up,” she said.

Pharmacies were required to remain open during all alert levels as an essential service, but the only real business being done was through the dispensary, Cameron said.

“And we don’t really make a lot of money through dispensing, our shops subsidise the dispensary and shops have been quiet.”

The dispensary too had been quieter than usual because fewer people were going to the doctor, she said.

Cameron predicts the prolonged loss of business could see some of New Zealand’s 1065 pharmacies close.

The $5 dispensing fee that a customer pays for each prescription was paid back to the government and Cameron and her fellow pharmacists have been pushing for some time to have this scrapped, because it acted as a disincentive for some people to have a prescription filled, she said.

For pharmacists around New Zealand, how their business would sustain the ongoing slowdown in trade was a constant worry, but they also accepted they were fortunate in being able to remain open, Cameron said.

“The perception is we’re okay but people don’t realise how slow our trade is, but at least our staff are working.”

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Guild) Chief Executive, Andrew Gaudin, said that the sector was still pushing for ongoing financial support from the government.

Like Cameron, he’s concerned that reduced revenues and increased costs faced during the pandemic could force some pharmacies to close, removing a vital piece of the primary health care sector.

Ashburton pharmacist Carolyn Cameron.

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Status quo for medical services Mid Canterbury medical services will continue to operate as they have for the lockdown as New Zealand moves to alert level three today.

GP spokesperson Dr Emma Andrew said doctors would continue with mostly virtual consultations, physiotherapists would do most of their work virtually but would still able to see acute conditions, dentists would be available only for urgent care, and pharmacies would continue to issue medication on a monthly basis.

“This does not necessarily mean you need monthly renewal of scripts from your local doctor – please check with your pharmacist first,” Dr Andrew said.

She added that many wondered if they needed a Covid-19 test before going back to work, but tests are only required in the case of any symptoms, such as runny nose, sore throat, sneezing, cough, loss of sense of smell, shortness of breath or fever.

“If you do have any of these symptoms please contact your local GP or Healthline.”

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New Zealand is now at Alert Level 3 This is a milestone in our struggle against COVID-19. We are all responsible for what happens next. Every contact we make is a chance for the virus to spread.

We could easily lose what we have gained. Our continued success, or failure, depends on the decisions that we each make individually – but which in turn, will affect everyone.

In two weeks, we will review our progress and decide if we can safely continue to step down restrictions.

The decisions we each make now matter because every interaction we have is an opportunity for the virus to spread.

At Alert Level 3, more businesses are able to get going again, and over 400,000 people are able to return to work. Schools and Early Childhood Centres are re-opening from tomorrow for up to Year 10 students whose parents and caregivers need help.

But we must remember Alert Level 3 is still a high alert – it’s about getting business back, not our social lives.

We must continue to keep our bubbles small and interact with as few people as possible. Be sure to stay local, and only make the minimal number of necessary trips.

Importantly, work and learn from home if you can.

We’re a team of 5 million. Formidable.

We can do this. So thank you New Zealand for making the right decisions, when it really counts.

Living at Alert Level 3 Here’s what stays the same at Alert Level 3: • stay local for exercise or to pick up essential supplies • wash your hands often with soap, then dry them

• all public venues including libraries, museums, cinemas, food courts, gyms, pools, and parks must stay closed • you must work from home if you can

• you must learn from home if you can • if you are sick you must stay home • if you are vulnerable or aged 70+ you should stay home to stay safe.

Here’s what has changed at Alert Level 3: ALERT LEVEL 4

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Nobody can attend funerals, tangihanga or weddings

Up to ten people can attend funerals or weddings in a contactless way

Shop for essential items only

Shop in a contactless way for all types of goods

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You can’t buy non-essential items.

Only essential workers can come in to the workplace

You can shop online or by phone for any goods you like, as long as you don’t make physical contact with others.

Paying for goods: • payment needs to happen online, over the phone, or in a contactless way at the store.

Organisers must: collect everyone’s details for contact tracing.

There must be no receptions or meals.

Receiving goods: • most goods need to be delivered in a contactless way to the customer’s doorstep • where deliveries can’t happen customers can pick-up goods from the shop front in a contactless way • retailers cannot open their premises to customers • you cannot browse in-store, or discuss issues face-to-face with staff.

Workers who can’t work from home, can now come in to the workplace

Non-essential travel is not permitted

Travel is still restricted

Limited public transport available for essential travel only

Public transport more widely available

Schools and Early Childhood Education Centres are closed

Schools and Early Childhood Centres

Stay in your bubble

You can extend your bubble a small amount

You can travel for work, school, recreation, to go to the supermarket, pharmacy or for medical reasons. You can travel to pick up goods purchased in a contactless way.

However, you must continue to keep your travel as close to home as possible. You can cross a regional boundary to go to work or school.

You can use public transport for work, school, recreation, to If you are able to travel on public transport, please try and go to the supermarket, pharmacy or for medical reasons. You avoid peak times unless you are a worker or are travelling can travel to pick up goods purchased in a contactless way. to an educational facility. Physical distancing applies.

Childhood centres and schools will open on Wednesday 29 April for students up to Year 10 that need them.

You can extend your bubble slightly to bring in close family, isolated people, or caregivers.

Non-essential businesses cannot trade

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Formal tangihanga involving large gatherings are unable to occur under Alert Level 3, but funerals of up to 10 people can go ahead.

However, children that can stay and learn at home should do so. Sick or vulnerable children should also stay home and they will be supported to do so.

Remember: more people equals more risk.

Keep your bubble as small as possible.

Non-essential businesses can trade if they follow the Alert Level 3 rules If your business involves physical contact, you cannot open.

Other businesses must: • trade in a contactless way (see above) • use contact tracing.

They must also have a health and safety plan to help stop the spread of COVID-19, including: • good hygiene • physical distancing • and the regular cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces.

REMEMBER: At Alert Level 3, wherever possible, you should continue to work from home.

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■■ MID CANTERBURY MUSIC

Making noise on the music scene

By Heather Mackenzie

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From humble beginnings in a Tinwald garage, Ashburton band Doppler went on to achieve impressive milestones in the New Zealand music scene.

Band drummer Simon Christensen said when the band first got together in 2007, he and fellow band mates, lead singer Adam Wilson, Dan Wilson on bass and guitarist Matt Gorman, would practice a couple of times a week in a Tinwald garage.

Unfortunately the neighbours didn’t share the group’s enthusiasm and rehearsals were often interrupted by the arrival of noise control.

“It got that way in the end, the noise control officer knew us and was a fan. He would ask us to play just one more song before he left.”

Keen to win the hearts of disgruntled neighbours, they dropped notes in nearby letterboxes listing rehearsal times and invited folk to come along and listen. Unfortunately it didn’t work and they had to admit defeat.

Giving up was not an option, so when the band members couldn’t secure another practice venue in Ashburton they cast their eyes further afield to Christchurch.

“That meant that we all had to travel to and from Christchurch twice a week to practice in a shed up there and we soon got sick of that.”

Thanks to various emails and the Ashburton Guardian making the band’s plight known, The Blue Pub came to the rescue and offered Samuels Bar to practice in.

A more permanent solution came when a local Methven resident offered them his farm cottage.

“He heard of us and knew how hard we were working so he wanted to support us. Having the cottage made life so much easier for us as we could leave all our gear set up and just take ourselves to practice.”

Next came the name. Christensen said they chose Doppler after the Doppler effect, which is why an ambulance’s siren sound

The founding members of former Mid Canterbury band Doppler. From left; Simon Christensen, Adam Wilson, Matt Gorman and Daniel Wilson.

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From this moment on Doppler’s success and notoriety moved in a steady upward direction. Regular gigs at The Blue Pub, Millie’s Bar in Ashburton and various Christchurch bars, meant they were earning enough to start exploring writing more of their own music.

One of the band’s most unforgettable songs is Oblivion.

Doppler closeted themselves away down in Otago’s Catlins for a week to work on the song, only emerging when everybody including their producer were happy.

Heading to York Studios in Auckland to record the song was without a doubt a pinnacle career moment for Doppler.

During the bands journey to this recording moment, they had met and opened for some impressive bands long the way, so when word got out Doppler were coming to York Studios, the offers of help flooded in.

“I could not believe the offers of support from New Zealand big name bands. For example drummer from Elemeno P called and

asked if I wanted to us any of his drum kit. He told me to come and have a look and grab anything I needed.”

The famous names didn’t stop there. The producer working on Oblivion was none other than Joel Little. The former Goodnight Nurse band member, turned music producer, is famous for his work with the likes of Taylor Swift and Lorde.

Every good single needs a music video to go with it, so the boys sent a copy of the song to New Zealand on Air and applied for a $5000 grant.

The day New Zealand on Air called and told him the grant was successful was a day Christensen will never forget.

Filmed in the old Christchurch Women’s Hospital, before the earthquakes, the video is all muted colours and peeling paint, switching between shots of the band playing and surreal moments of lead singer Adam Wilson wearing a hospital gown while being wheeled around by some dubious looking medical staff.

“It took three days to shoot with heaps and heaps of takes of different set-ups,” said Christensen.

Doppler on set for the filming of their video for single, Oblivion.

Having been together for three years and buoyed from recent air time on Juice TV and the Rock radio station, it was time to chance their arm in the Auckland music scene.

The move was made after Doppler completed their New Zealand tour in June 2010. Not all the band members waved goodbye to Ashburton. Matt Gorman had already left the band by then, replaced by guitarist Adam Wilson and Dan Wilson also elected to stay behind.

Christensen said he’s gratefully for the time they had in Auckland and the experiences they gained while there.

“We played at some awesome places and met some incredible people.

“Moving up there for us was about the money but it as also about making more contacts in the music industry and we certainly achieved that.”

After 18 months in the big smoke, Christensen found the call to come back to Ashburton to spend time with his young daugh-

ter was greater than the desire to stay put and he headed home.

Christensen vowed he would give playing in an originals band a miss from then on and just go for covers. But that idea was scarpered when Couger Lounge frontman Brett Colgan asked if he wanted to check out Colgan’s band at the Tinwald Tavern that night.

Adam Wilson summed up life with Doppler pretty well.

“My favourite moments in Doppler were when we had The Blue Pub packed to the rafters filled with friends and fans signing along to every song and rocking the night away while playing with three great mates on stage and still great mates to this day.”

Christensen remembers one night when they were opening for Elemeno P in Methven after the Big Air. “When we were playing the crowd were going nuts and clearly loved us. So when lead act Elemeno P took to the stage they introduced themselves as “Friends of Doppler”.

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■■ TALES FROM THE BACK SEAT

Long line of assassination

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Sticking with tradition

Guardian motoring correspondent, Bernard Egan is well known around these parts.

Over the next few weeks, he’s agreed to share with us some of his tales of from yesteryear.

Some will be his own telling while others will come directly, or indirectly from others. The whole truth of some, can be left for public opinion. Readers are invited to share tales with Bernard by emailing geegeeber@gmail.com

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And Abe Lincoln was ight Presidents assassinated while seatof the United ed in Ford’s Theatre, JFK States have died in was shot while sitting in office, four from natural a Ford Lincoln car. causes and four were William Harrison, assassinated.

Bernard Egan who was the 9th presAbraham Lincoln was TALES FROM THE BACK SEAT ident and the first to not the first president die in office, holds the to die in office, but distinction of being he was the first to be the shortest-serving assassinated. president, dying just a month after his John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) is both inauguration. the last president to be assassinated and His presidency was the shortest but his to die in office. inaugural address was the longest.

There are some interesting coincidencAfter speaking in wet, freezing weather es around Abe Lincoln and JFK. They were without a hat, overcoat or gloves, he deelected to congress 100 years apart – Abe veloped pneumonia, so ironically a long in 1846, JFK in 1946. talk led to a very short term in office.

Abe Lincoln was elected to the presHe was elected in 1840 and every presiidency in 1860, JFK 100 years later in 1960. dent elected or re-elected at 20-year interThey were both concerned with civil vals afterwards up to 1960 died in office. rights.

Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 In each case their wives lost a child and almost suffered the same fate, but he while living in the White House. broke the cycle by surviving an assassinaEach died of gunshot wounds to the tion attempt. head, sadly both in the presence of their Arriving at hospital, Reagan, with his wives and both on a Friday. In Abe’s case usual wit, looked at the medical staff and Good Friday, which certainly didn’t turn quipped “I hope you’re Republicans”. out good for him.

Abe Lincoln’s secretary warned him not to go to the theatre where he was assassinated, it is thought her surname was Kennedy.

JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln warned him not to go to Dallas.

The vice-presidents who succeeded Abe Lincoln and JFK shared the same surname – Johnson – and they were born 100 years apart.

And likewise the assassins John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, each of whom was known by their three names were born in the 39th year of the century in which they lived (1839 and 1939 respectively).

Each assassin’s name is composed of 15 letters.

Booth ran from the theatre where he shot Abe Lincoln and was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a book depository warehouse and was caught in a theatre.

Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before they could be brought to Abraham Lincoln trial.

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Tahlia Christie, 9 and Milly Christie, 15, laid a wreath outside their home to mark Anzac Day. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Official Anzac Day ceremonies might have been cancelled this year because of the Covid-19 lockdown, but that didn’t stop informal acts of remembrance occurring around the Ashburton District.

Traditionally Milly Christie, 15 and nine-year-old sister Tahlia, have laid a wreath at Ashburton’s Baring Square Cenotaph on behalf of the Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band. And this year was no different, but instead of the wreath-laying taking place during the official Anzac community service, it took place outside the girls’ home.

At 6am the Christie family were streetside with their wreath and again at 11am when the girls attached the wreath to a tree outside their home.

Mum Megan said that her daughters wanted to lay the wreath for the band members who were unable to play their traditional role leading the Anzac Day parade.

Both Milly and Tahlia are highland dancers and chose to wear their kilts for both ceremonies, performing the highland fling at 11am.

At 6am, Christie said it was quite moving to hear the Last Post being played around the neighbourhood, and at 11am pipe band members played Amazing Grace from their own backyards.

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OUR VIEW

Matt Markham

EDITOR

The long waiting game continues I t must be tough for a lot of organisations and committees around the district who currently sit in limbo while awaiting further instruction on what their next steps might be as we make our way down the Alert Levels.

Today we see a number being allowed back into some form of basic function, but it’s still incredibly limited with even the sport of golf, played in wide open spaces, facing unprecedented restrictions on what can and can’t be done on the greens.

But it’s not just sport.

There are volunteer organisations and committees out there who are wondering what their next step might be.

They are getting as prepared as they possibly can, but there’s no guarantee when they’ll be able to action all the work that’s been done behind the scenes.

And that must be tough.

People join these groups because they have a passion.

They want to be a part of something or to give back and serve something that has done them well in the past.

They are the first to roll the sleeves up and get stuck in and get the job done but at the moment those sleeves are being held down by tape, tightly.

All they need is some clarification, a bit of a timeline perhaps or some dates to start working towards so that they can hit the ground running and be fully functional and operational as soon as is possible under the restrictions.

There’s been a lot of lost momentum for so many over the past month or so and everyone is keen to get that momentum back up to where it was.

But, unless you are a big organisation with a bit of weight in the game, or a major sport with a proactive governing body, it’s very much a case of wait and see.

The don’t call us, we’ll call you approach.

Hang tough though, as the coming days unfold a lot more light looks set to be shed on the situation and each day gone is another day closer to the information so many of you desperately need.

Thought of the day: Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

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Recovery needs tax breaks, not shovels I

n 1945, everyone looked forward to the end of World War Two, but some economists and finance ministers were worried.

With demobilisation and big cutbacks of defence spending on the horizon – what would stop us sliding back into the mass unemployment of the 1930s, as indeed had happened in many countries after World War One. Even in New Zealand, soldiers returning from the battlefields to a “land fit for heroes” found themselves instead propping up the dole queues.

They needn’t have worried.

The second war had been much better handled economically than the first, largely under John Maynard Keynes’ guidance.

Rationing, price controls and enthusiastic take-up of war bonds had freed the resources needed for war, while also building the balance sheets of households.

There was a huge pent-up demand for the products of the reviving peacetime economy, and the resulting boom ended up fuelling the longest period of unbroken economic prosperity in the history of the Western world.

Well, what can we hope for as we come out of the war on Covid-19? Will there be a burst of consumer spending from pentup demand? Everyone will need a haircut, of course, and those of us lucky enough to keep our jobs through the lockdowns will have some savings, which we should patriotically spend as fast as we can as soon as the shops open.

Tim Hazledine But that’s probably not going to be enough to remobilise a private sector of which huge tranches have been simply forced to completely shut down. We need a big boost, fast. So, the Government has invited local authorities to prepare plans for “shovel-ready” projects – and, boy, have they responded, with long wish-lists requiring billions of dollars in subsidies.

I think this is quite the wrong thing to do. I have three concerns. First, a lot of these projects are dodgy from a cost-benefit perspective, and some may be particularly inappropriate to our new post-pandemic economy.

Top of Wellington’s list is an international convention centre – does the business plan for this still stack up, if indeed it ever

did? Auckland has prioritised the ruinously expensive underground railway, premised on the assumption of continued mass commuting to the CBD. Working from home, anybody?

There’s an economists’ saying about all this: governments aren’t very good at picking winners, but losers sure are good at picking governments.

Second, the one thing all of these projects have in common is that they do actually require shovels. They are all construction or physical infrastructure schemes.

But have we forgotten that, just over one month ago, the most problematic sector in the economy was building and construction, stuck in an inflationary boom with cost overruns, delays and lagging house building?

This sector is really the worst place to pump money into right now, because the supply side is stretched, and will be again soon after building recommences from today.

And thirdly, because of problem two, it turns out that most of these schemes couldn’t actually be cranked up before six months from now, at the earliest.

But we need a programme that will give relief to households and revenue to small and not-sosmall businesses right across the country, and right away, the moment we get to lockdown level 2.

There is only one way to do this fairly and efficiently, and it is a

very good way. On the day that the Prime Minister announces the move to level 2, the Minister of Finance should startle the country by proclaiming a GST holiday: zero GST from tomorrow until…well, he probably shouldn’t say when. Just get out there and enjoy it while you can, with 15 per cent more spending power in your pockets.

I think it is generally agreed – here and around the world – that macroeconomic crises like these justify governments moving into Keynesian deficit spending, as was done to good effect after the Global Financial Crisis a decade ago.

Instead of adding to the deficit by throwing expensive shovels at projects, and thereby taking the public sector’s share of total spending up even further than its current, very high, level of 40 per cent of GDP, let’s hold the line on spending and cut tax revenues for a while, and let the households and the business sector sort out the shovelling for themselves.

Tim Hazledine is a professor of economics at the University of Auckland.

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t’s been a long four and a half weeks and we’re all a bit worn down. We’ve cooked so many meals, we’ve washed so many dishes ... the novelty of time at home has now well and truly worn off.

Stay-at-home parents could have told us we’d feel this way.

I’ve never been a stay-at-home mum because I like my work days to actually have an end to them. I returned to work when my daughter was six months old because I wanted the level of mental stimulation that talking with other adults can achieve – and because I was lucky my daughter’s dad was happy to stay at home with her.

The past four weeks have proved that, as usual, I was right: with my daughter’s daycare closing for alert level 4, I’ve been working from home to a soundtrack of a toddler who talks all day long, from the minute she wakes (way too early) to the moment she goes to sleep (way too late).

How can a tiny person have so much to say? And how can so little of it be of any interest to another human being?

These are merely two of the dozens of questions I ask myself while I prepare yet another

snack for her to lick and then dismiss. This life I’ve been living in the past four weeks is precisely what I was trying to avoid when I returned to work, and all this online fascination with this newfound domesticity just rubs salt on the wound. Don’t get me wrong: I love her to pieces and I am loving all this extra time watching her grow and develop – but you can love your time doing something and still recognise how exhausting it is.

As I learnt from watching Daniel Tiger with my daughter: it’s okay to feel two feelings at once.

I like the luxury of not having to think about more than one task at once, of peeing uninterrupted, of not having to repeat myself 32 times to get a simple message across, of writing articles like this in one sitting and without having to stop mid-paragraph to help find the Lego piece she purposefully threw behind the sofa.

All those luxuries disappeared in a flash when the pandemic hit and I’ve had to relearn to multitask while trying to keep a child alive and out of harm’s way all day, every day.

After four and a half weeks of this madness, I tip my imaginary hat to you stay-at-home parents

(and toast to you with my very much non-imaginary wine).

Being a slave to your family’s every want and need, especially when a percentage of your family is made up of tiny dictators who can’t fend for themselves, is hard work.

To any parent who stays home with young kids and gets to the end of the day with a clean house and a sane mind, I salute you. Also, I have many questions for you and all of them begin with “how the hell?”

And to the parent who achieves none of that but still puts their child to bed, safe and sound, every night: I see you. I see you through my pile of laundry and the dust on the surfaces and the pile of toys that I’ll only tidy tomorrow.

The pandemic has forced many of us to become stay-athome parents and we now, more than ever, realise how daycare teachers are just not paid well enough and how no wage subsidy on this Earth could ever begin to cover the work a stay-at-home parent does on a regular day.

Imagine working in an office with someone who requires constant supervision for every task and who follows you around mostly undoing all the work

you’ve managed to get done in a day? Sure, when we’re not in a pandemic, there are playgrounds and cafes and other things we can do to fill the time – but the essence of it is the same: caring for your family full-time is full on.

When this passes (and it shall pass) and the economy is all up and running again, most of us will hopefully go back to work in offices and factories and all sorts of other places that we don’t have to clean up ourselves.

We’ll look back on this time and remember how exhausting it was to do so much cooking, and cleaning and childminding and we’ll all have a better understanding of how much those who “just” stay at home all day are actually dealing with.

Pandemic or no pandemic, stay-at-home parents are the ultimate essential worker.

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seum or gallery and had more expertise with hotels in warm climates.

He had no concept at all of conservation matters and requirements regarding natural light, humidity or stable temperature, hence the issue over windows.

The project committee was seldom allowed to meet with him and most of our requests and suggestions were filtered through council property staff.

There was one occasion when a request for pipes not to be hidden by a ceiling did not reach him, and it was only when he came to visit us unofficially ahead of an official meeting with council staff that we got through to him.

On another occasion we only realised at the last minute a workbench for the workshop had been designed to be made from stainless steel with steel legs. In the end we had to supply our own specifications for a wooden bench.

The council property manager on one occasion told us we would have an air conditioning system better than any operating theatre in the country.

No doubt he was simply re-

peating what he had been told, but it should have been realised operating theatres and galleries and museums have very different requirements for good reasons, and it was not an operating theatre that was being built.

It is interesting that the architect those who were to use the building suggested, but who was rejected, is now being used by the council to design its own new office and library building.

I suspect Kevin Keane’s issue (Guardian, Friday, April 24) must be a personal one between himself and this particular contractor as many of the major buildings in the Ashburton District have been built by this firm without issue.

You have to look further to see what it is in the design that has caused today’s faults.

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ter days when we couldn’t go to school because of the snow, those school-but-not-school-days where nothing is planned and you ended up playing Monopoly, or some other game, which we all know resulted in a war with your siblings, your mother getting cross and punishments all round.

Then being thankful (for a short while) that you could go back to school.

So, as we start to pack our bag to leave, I think back and I find all the days and the memories merge together, I realise I can survive a month of nothing to do.

I’m beginning to think I will be able to survive retirement with your father at home and under my feet every day.

Good bye Covid Island ‘4’ and may we never return......

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YOUR VIEW Art gallery and museum As one of those involved with the building of the art gallery and museum building, I must agree with Anne Carr’s comments in Monday’s Guardian.

The Ashburton-based contractor and the Ashburton-based sub contractors all did a very good job.

They were excellent to work with, although much of our contact, especially in the early stages, had to be through council property staff instead of directly with the people doing the work.

It was the out-of-town architect and sub-contractors who caused the problems currently being experienced.

Even after the building was commissioned, getting contractors responsible for such things as air conditioning, elevators, security and fire alarms to iron out bugs (in the case of fire alarms, bugs in the literal sense) was extremely difficult.

However, the real issues were with the ‘architect’ who had never designed anything like a mu-

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MARKET REPORT Someone will likely write a book one day and call it “When Madness Ruled the World (or wanted to)” and it will turn what we have been watching from afar into fiction, as it what has been occurring internationally almost beggar’s belief.

The behaviour of some of the politicians we have been able to observe in the last few weeks really makes ‘one’ glad to be living in New Zealand.

The behaviour of the US, led by their president, makes you wonder what sort of grip on reality exists. Unfortunately, the US is not alone with Brazil, Hungary, Russia and even the UK for a time seeming to be in a parallel universe.

Sweden was going to show the world how a sensible nation can beat the virus by adopting a business as usual approach.

It now has 18,000 affected and over 2200 deaths. It has a population of 10 million so it gives an idea of what could have happened here.

And it’s not over for them yet with somewhere around 600 new cases being found on a daily basis.

New Zealand, in the meantime, appears to have almost cleared itself of the coronavirus and it has achieved this by understanding the principle of putting the good of society ahead of that of the individual. A greater good is achieved and most are better off in the long term.

Countries like Brazil and the USA appear to put the rights of the individual as sacrosanct regardless of what common sense would indicate.

What most within New Zealand found to be at best inconvenient and for some economic suicide, was still adhered to for the benefit of the greater good. It seems to be way out of step with the behaviour of many countries.

And it was only after a dramatically increasing death toll did some regions shut down borders and the economy, by which time it was too late and much damage to both their economies and society has been wrought.

New Zealand has been lucky in that we may have had a little more time to assess the situation. But better, rational decisions

were made and supported by the vast majority and thank the stars for that.

Total global declared infections are now around three million with over 200,000 deaths and the daily increase now creeping into the 100,000.

The question that looms large is what is happening with the African continent. It may be that there is a severe case of under reporting of both cases and deaths.

Many countries, due to their total lack of resources, probably cannot do a great deal anyway.

Latin America is in a similar position and likewise the Indian sub-continent.

So, while the first part of our journey is largely behind us, for some countries there is still a long way to run and the globe will not be able to relax until all nations are free, which will most likely require a vaccine.

Going into Alert Level 3 this week is a welcome progression but for many it means little has changed.

For agriculture, the situation around saleyard selling is being clarified with most now saying they are still shut down.

The major Canterbury ones have provided additional information saying that they will not be open until the country goes to Alert Level 2.

In the short term this is not a major worry as the freezing works have not had the throughput to help drive demand for store stock (with the possible exception of beef weaners).

But once they (hopefully) start to lift their production then finishing farms may start to empty out and be ready to take on more stock from those farms that are awaiting to get rid of them.

Dairy farms must also be starting to get twitchy as the flow of cull cows should have been well under way by now.

If the flow of all livestock does not begin soon it will start to become an animal welfare issue – not quite in the same league as human health in a pandemic but still a concern.

Farmers’ markets, another outlet necessary for many rural folk, are also going to remain off limits for the interim.

Some artisan type producers have man-

aged to utilise online selling which, as we saw in China back in January, is likely to be one of the changes coming out of this period of lock down. But it still doesn’t replace the face to face (be it behind a mask) experience.

The Minister for Primary Industries statement that sharemilkers will be able to move between farms on “Gypsy Day” was a bit of a no-brainer.

If we are still under an Alert level 3 or greater at that time (end of May) then something has seriously gone wrong with the virus controls. However, it has provided a little certainty.

Dairy Most interested persons will have seen the latest Global Dairy Trade auction results by now and probably wincing at the -4.2 per cent drop in the weighted average price. This is the largest drop since February when there was a -4.7 per cent fall. The milk powders showed real weakness with SMP falling -4.9 per cent and WMP -3.9 per cent.

Butter wasn’t far behind at -3.6 per cent while cheddar has a small lift with +1.9 per centCheddar has been rising steadily since November 2019 when it was at US$3609 to the current $4480.

WMP has dropped below the US$3000 mark, which economists seem to like it above, to US$2707. Not great but well above the US$1590 which was the low point of August 2015.

The concerns at the moment are where prices are going to end up for next season.

Fonterra will be in deep thought (we hope) weighing up what they accept for forward contracts.

The current fall in prices which are driven by most of the globe going into the covid-19 recession may affect some countries more than others and China, despite having their lowest growth quarter since 1976 currently and their outlook also being bleak as their largest market, the US, look as though they are going to be in an economic bind for sometime to come, may still be in the mar-

ket for large amounts of milk products.

It is likely they may reduce other areas of consumer spending before reducing spending on milk products and food in general.

However, a lot of New Zealand’s milk goes to other places and some of these rely on oil production to generate their wealth and that is looking extremely shaky at the moment.

Fonterra suppliers are also closely watching future price contracts and according to NZX are very keen to lock in prices.

“Fonterra’s fixed milk price of $6.32/kg for next season was massively over-subscribed in April and farmers who applied were allocated only 13 per cent of their target quantities. The co-operative received 57.8 million kilos in applications for the 7.5m kg available from 756 farms or about 7.5 per cent of the total farm shareholders.”

An earlier contract in March offering at $6.80 (less 10 cents costs) was also oversubscribed, although at a lesser rate, with applying farms being allocated 33 per cent of desired amount.

The next allocation comes out May 11 and will most likely have the price reduced again.

However, with some analysts predicting price ranges of between $5.60-$6.50, well down from the current $7.30 estimates for this season.

This season’s allocations are in marked contrast to last year when they were undersubscribed by over 33 per cent.

Fonterra is putting up considerably less volume allocations onto the market this season indicating the uncertainty international purchasers have in future prices.

Sheep and beef Lamb and mutton schedules have come through the week relatively unchanged and prime beef has even seen a small lift.

Venison Has managed to stay above the $6 mark and also remains unchanged.

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Exports back on track NZME The New Zealand-China meat trade has returned to pre-coronavirus levels but markets in North America and Europe have been hit hard by the pandemic, Invercargill-based Alliance Group says.

China last year become New Zealand’s biggest export destination for sheep meat and beef, by volume and value, but exports plummeted early this year when Covid-19 restrictions kicked in, hitting the food-service trade to restaurants, and supply chains within the PRC. Alliance, a farmer-owned co-operative, is New Zealand’s biggest sheep meat exporter, and the second biggest meat exporter after Dunedin-based Silver Fern Farms.

Chief executive David Surveyor said trade with China was back to where it was before the outbreak .

“China is going well. It is in a good space,” Alliance chief executive David Surveyor said.

“You have seen some relaxation of the people movement issue and we have seen good, solid demand of for ovine (sheep) and bovine (beef) product,” he said.

New Zealand continued to be a trusted

source of food supply in China.

“So there is really good sentiment for us going forward in China,” he said.

Surveyor said there was a risk that other meat exporters might lift their export efforts to China as demand in their home countries slumped, which could put pressure on prices.

“We are not seeing that at the moment, but its certainly possible.”

“I think that we are back to where we were (in China) beforehand. If you go to broader Asia, we are doing pretty well -it’s been a positive story for the Alliance Group,” he said.

However, the same could not be said for another key market, North America, where Covid-19 is still spreading and where unemployment is skyrocketing.

“The challenges really are in North America,” he said.

Alliance sells high value products – such as racks of lamb – to the US. “When the market for those starts to get skinny, that obviously affects the value of the entire animal as it flows through to farmers,” he said.

Trade in Europe was slow as many counties struggled to get the coronavirus under control.

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View of a dragline employed in the construction of the Rangitata Diversion Race, as well as the singlemen’s accommodation.

A grand diversion

By Connor Lysaght

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he Great Depression had a massive impact on New Zealand society.

New Zealand suffered from mass unemployment and riots as economic despair gripped the country, but for a portion of those looking for work, the solution came in the form of work relief schemes.

One such scheme was the development of the Rangitata Diversion Race, which was envisioned to transform the agricultural and pastoral landscape of the district, allowing for much more efficient use of our land.

The scheme exceeded expected costs, having

soared to a price tag of two million pounds as the project moved forward.

Work on the Rangitata Diversion Race began in April 1937, and the scheme was completed in June 1945.

A hydroelectric power plant was developed at Highbank in 1945, and since then we have had the Montalto hydro station built in 1981, and a behavioural screen for diverting fish back into the river was installed in 2007.

This week, we are happy to present some photographs of the construction of the RDR taken by Mick Crowley, a firefighter on the steam dragline, from the Ashburton Museum photographic collection.

Photograph of the dragline and bulldozer, vital pieces of machinery used in the scheme.

A glimpse of the end result of the project–efficient irrigation for the Ashburton District.

An aerial photograph of the Rangitata Diversion Race taken by Charles Heller from Kalamazoo, USA in 1960, who was studying in New Zealand.

The project was, and still is, a great source of pride for the people of Ashburton District.

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Golf – with a difference

The Methven Golf Course has it all in terms of challenges.

Mid Canterbury golfers itching to get back out on the greens today will be greeted with a very different-looking golf round than they are used to when they do.

Under Alert Level 3, golf is allowed to be played at a limited capacity and local golf clubs are taking all the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of their members.

Only players with memberships to that club are allowed onto the course and must play solo unless playing alongside someone from their bubble.

No scorecards will be available and clubhouses will remain closed.

Players are urged to check in prior to going on to the course, with clubs needing to

know who has been and gone should contact tracing be required.

Players will find no flagsticks or bunker rakes on the course, with holes cut in the middle of the green and cups turned upside down.

In this instance, hitting the cup is considered as being “in”.

All players on the course must be registered, and players are also asked to book their round in advance to ensure that all Alert Level 3 social distancing requirements are met.

Further information on requirements and the process to play can be found by contacting any of the local clubs.

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World Rugby must act, and lead

By Sir Ian McGeechan

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he imminent appointment of World Rugby’s chairman has highlighted, in the current climate, the very real opportunities for appraisal and change in the global game.

A pivotal moment in many respects. I really hope the coming weeks and months will see all involved in World Rugby build consensus around meaningful, progressive change. What follows is an accumulation of my thoughts over the last few weeks.

It’s amazing how you start to look at things differently once the carousel stops. By no means am I saying they must be enacted, or they are all the right solutions. But these are the sorts of ideas I would love to see being discussed in an open collective way. And involve the clubs. One thing is certain: World Rugby must not be afraid to act and to lead.

1. Put the players first

Players are the lifeblood of the game. If money is king, all you will ever get is people chasing it.

Player welfare must be central to the new vision. Creating financial opportunities from well thoughtout and creative competitions could mean less is more.

2. Create a nine-month season with three ‘breaks’

I think rather than a non-stop season followed by a long summer break, it would be better to throw in three four-week rest windows through the year. The players would train through them anyway, just as they do in the summer now. But mentally as much as physically it’s important to rest regularly. A nine-month seasonwould allow for a 40-game season (10 internationals in two blocks of five, and a 30-game club season covering domestic/Europe.) and still give players adequate time off.

3. Align the global calendar

It would be good to get a ninemonth season, with clearly delineated club windows and international windows. Two international windows is fine. One in the spring when you can get the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship (with Japan added to it) played.

And another in the autumn, when you can mix and match and get tier one playing tier two.

With no club games getting in the way, why not also have tier one A teams/B teams/regional teams playing against tier two and tier three nations in that second window? Clearly World Cups and Lions tours will require slight

tweaks to the calendar. But it’s not insurmountable.

4. Hold a tier two World Cup at same time as World Cup

Why not hold a tier two World Cup Challenge competition for the next 10 best ranked teams (outside the RWC group of 20) to run concurrently with the main one? That would allow developing nations the chance to play on rest days in the tournament, and give them training/development opportunities against tier one teams.

5. Standardise 14-club leagues

If you’re creating a truly synchronised game, it makes sense to run the big four leagues on the same dates at the same times.

The Top 14 in France and the Pro14 already are 14-club leagues.

Super Rugby (currently 15) and the Premiership (12) could follow suit. You could then have two conferences of seven, with playoffs at the end of the season.

6. World Club Challenge and streamlined Euro tournament

With three proper rest periods, and fewer games, something has to give. Fewer European games in a streamlined tournament would keep clubs on their toes for qualification. It would likely get some pushback from clubs. But you

could create a World Club Challenge at the end of each season, with the four winners of the four big domestic leagues all playing each other in a super cup? That would create a huge amount of money (for the game as a whole, not just those involved). And from far fewer games.

7. Get tier one playing against tier two on a regular basis

It should never be the case that a country like Uruguay qualifies for a World Cup, as they did last year, and their first game against a tier one country comes at the World Cup itself. An international programme has to be created whereby they are regularly tested against tier one nations.

I’m actually not as bothered by the argument over promotion and relegation to the Six Nations or the Rugby Championship. I’m talking about a wholesale change.

8. Give tier two countries the chance to field best players

I’m fully behind Bill Beaumont’s idea of allowing players who have gone off and qualified for a tier one nation, but for whom it has not really worked out, the chance of returning to play for the country of their birth. What’s the point of a player such as Northampton’s Fijian wing Taqele Naiyaravoro –

who has two international caps for Australia, the last of which came back in 2016 – sitting in the international wilderness? He’s still only 28. Naiyaravoro himself says he would relish the responsibility of being a senior player in his own country; to pass on what he has learned from the opportunities he has been given. That in turn would lead to an accelerated learning process for the others.

9. Give tier two nations better support at every level

I don’t just mean give them more money (although that is clearly a large part of it). I mean create a proper, well-structured mentoring and development system which would see knowledge-sharing at every level, from school rugby to coaching to administrative and financial advice. We saw with the recent fiasco over Francis Kean in Fiji that the same checks and balances just aren’t in place in developing nations.

10. Create a World Rugby financial controller

On a similar theme, it would be good to see World Rugby create a position whose sole responsibility is to oversee the disbursement of funds to tier two and tier three nations and then help to manage the spending of said monies.

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■■RACING

BACK ON TRACK

By Matt Markham

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury horse racing trainers will return to what they know this morning with the arrival of Alert Level 3, allowing them back to training at full capacity with a view to racing resuming in a month.

It will mean that the three codes, thoroughbred, harness and greyhounds, are some of the first sports in the country to get back into action following the Covid-19 lockdown with only rugby league at this stage pegged as an earlier starter.

But while a return to normality for most trainers is being welcomed, there is frustration with the industry as to what might be awaiting them when they get back onto the track, with many trainers across the country waiting to see what stake levels might look like before deciding just how big they’ll go in their return.

At this stage, the Racing Industry Transition Authority, who operate the TAB, and the sport’s controlling bodies haven’t publicly disclosed what the stake payments might be made up of, with a draft calendar of racing dates the only thing made public.

Further information is expected in the coming days, but it is certain that some reduction in money being raced for will be faced due to a lack of turnover with the TAB having faced declining revenue in recent months due to minimal live sport and racing.

Leading thoroughbred trainer, Tony Pike took aim at RITA last week, stating that the lack of transparency coming from the governing bodies wasn’t good enough.

Top of the list was a potential change to stake money.

“We just want some certainty around what those rewards are going to be once we are back up and racing,” he said.

Pike said it was paramount that the trainers, and the owners of horses who would make up fields when racing did resume, knew what they were getting themselves into.

“These horses and the owners and trainers are the ones putting this show on for RITA. “They’ve been poorly managed for a number of years.”

One of the major bugbears for industry participants surrounding RITA is the seemingly exorbitant amount of some of the salaries for those who work for the organisation.

135 employees within the business earn between $100-$150k per year, with 98 falling into that bracket.

A further 28 employees are listed as being on salaries of between $150-$200k, 11 sit between $210k and $390k with a total of more than $19 million paid out between those 135 employees.

The Covid-19 Wage Subsidy register

Trainer Brent White

Horse racing trainers will be able to resume normal practices from today with the arrival of Alert Level 3 with racing set to resume later this month.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN shows that RITA applied for 595 employees across the country and so the 135 is only a small portion of their total employee base.

Ashburton Racecourse back in business

After more than a month with the gates locked, the Ashburton Racecourse, which is classified as a public training facility, will return to some form of normal today.

The track is home to more than a dozen trainers, with some training big teams of horses and others only having one or two based at the track.

Local harness racing trainer, Brent White, one of the district’s more prolific trainers in terms of numbers of horses in work, spent yesterday getting 12 of his horses back to the racecourse in preparation for getting them back into work from this morning.

“I’ve been a bit lucky in the fact that I’ve been able to have a few of mine jogged,” White said.

“Under the restriction rules we were allowed to jog them on private properties, so I had some at my property and a few of my

owners took some as well.

“So, they’re coming back pretty fit and ready to go.”

White said he’d imagine two or three of his team will be ready to go once racing resumes at the end of month, with more only a couple of weeks behind.

Stake levels weren’t so much of an issue for him, but knowing and understanding exactly what the handicapping system for racing might look like was of greater concern.

“You hear rumours and whispers from across the country of what it might look like, but as of yet there hasn’t been any confirmation from Harness Racing New Zealand.

“They’ve been pretty slack on the communication front which has made it frustrating – the Australians have been great with their communication.”

Another crystal ball-gazing mission for White is the planning of spring and summer campaigns for the star members of his training team.

Horses like pacer Jazzy Star and trotter One Apollo could well be aimed for Group One races during Cup Week, but not knowing what the pathway looks like, or what the actual races themselves will be, makes it tough.

“They’ll be back in work in a couple of weeks, but it will be slow and steady buildups for them while we wait and see what the season is going to look like I think.”

Draft dates calendar released

Last week a draft calendar for the coming months was released, with greyhound racing set to return on May 11, harness racing on May 29 and thoroughbred racing on July 3.

Under the draft plan, RITA would run nine greyhound meetings a week at six venues from early May. Meetings scheduled for the Invercargill and Dunedin racetracks on the southern end of the country’s South Island will be moved to Christchurch.

Harness racing would return on May 29, with 37 meetings at four venues.

The Ashburton Racecourse, which is a public training facility, reopened this morning after being closed during the Level 4 lockdown.

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Thiem balks at payout

Tennis star Dominic Thiem (right) is reportedly set to refuse to add to a fund to help players outside of the world 250 who have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Most sports including tennis have been put on hold as the world attempts to get on top of the pandemic.

Wimbledon has been cancelled while the French Open and US Open tournaments remain in doubt.

World number one and 17-time grand slam winner Novak Djokovic is president of the ATP player council – and along with fellow greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal – has proposed players inside the world 100 each donate money to those ranked No. 250-700 in singles.

“We feel that we all need to get together and help these guys out.

“Many of them are thinking to leave pro tennis because they just can’t survive financially,” Djokovic said in a letter to the players.

A sliding scale would see top five players donate $30,000 each, down to players ranked 51 to 100 donating $5000.

That would come to a total of more than $1 million, with hopes of additional sup-

port by the four grand slams and the ATP to make it up to $4m.

“Of course, guys like Novak, Roger and Rafa, they’re doing just fine,” world number 21 John Isner said about the proposal.

“But, we all realise that the tour is more than just a handfull of players and that we have to help everyone out.”

However, world number three Thiem, who lost to Djokovic in this year’s Australian Open and has earned more than $23m ($NZ38m) in prize money, isn’t interested in helping out.

Under the proposal, Thiem would give up US$30,000.

“None of the lower-ranked players have to fight for their lives,” Thiem said.

“I’ve seen players on the ITF-Tour who don’t commit to the sport 100 per cent.

“Many of them are quite unprofessional. I don’t see, why I should give them money.”

Thiem made $8 million in prize money alone last year, and $1.7 million already in prize money in just the first two months of 2020.

26-year-old Thiem is a 16-time winner on the ATP Tour and has made three grand slam finals.

■■RUGBY

Super Rugby needs serious revamp Wallabies playmaker Matt Toomua has joined calls for a rethink of the Super Rugby competition once the sport re-starts after the coronavirus shutdown.

The Melbourne Rebels back believes the competition, which features 15 teams across Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Japan, needs to be replaced by a more local product.

“Maybe the model that we’ve got is a little bit aged and outdated and maybe we need to have a rethink,” the 30-year-old said.

“I guess this is almost forcing us to do it, whether it be in the short term until those borders open or whether it be long-term into

something else that’s a bit more sustainable, bit more domestically focused.

“I think there’s a lot of people who are wanting to have a domestic model for quite a while now, whether it be Australia-focused or Australia-New Zealand focused or something along those lines.”

The Super Rugby season was suspended after round seven because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the competition is set to shrink to 14 teams next year with the loss of the Tokyo-based Sunwolves.

Increased airfare costs are expected even after the crisis has passed, however, which will hang heavy on national unions already

hard-hit financially by the sporting shutdown.

Echoing the recent comments of his former Brumbies and Australia captain Stephen Moore, Toomua said he felt the competition was simply no longer engaging fans.

“If I’m a Rebels member, what do I get?

“I get seven home games, maybe five against teams that I know, two or three against teams that I don’t know or don’t care about, and then three games that are in time zones that aren’t suitable,” he said.

“It’s just not, for me personally if I’m a supporter, I don’t think that’s an attractive product, I really don’t.”

■■RACING

O’Sullivan stable ready to roar The Matamata stable of Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott is preparing to welcome 25 to 30 horses back into the stable over the coming week, with boom three-yearold Dragon Leap not far away from a return to training.

If there is a silver lining to the lockdown period, O’Sullivan believes the additional time to mature for the son of Pierro, can only make for a better horse next season.

The Hermitage Thoroughbreds-raced gelding has won three of his five starts to date, including the Gr.2 Auckland Guineas (1600m) and Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m).

The step up to 2400m in a brutally run Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) proved a bridge too far, with the classy youngster outstayed

when finishing fourth to Sherwood Forest.

“Dragon Leap will be back in fairly soon,” O’Sullivan said. “It was always planned for him to go up to Hong Kong as a four-year-old, but I understand that is still to be decided.

“We will prepare him for the spring and hopefully if he comes up well enough, we could look at taking him to Australia and campaigning him there.

“We will probably kick off and have a race here and just see how we are going, but it is still undecided as to whether he ends up here, Australia or in Hong Kong.”

A champion jockey, turned trainer, O’Sullivan believes Dragon Leap is the best horse he has had anything to do with since he took out his trainers’ licence.

“He is our big flag bearer and has shown that he has got way above average ability,” he said.

“He is definitely the one. He has only had the five starts and his campaign was cut short.

“We were looking at taking him to Brisbane to have a tilt at a couple of races there, but that wasn’t to eventuate.

“I think long-term for the horse, it is probably the best thing. He has been in the paddock for a while and there is no doubt that he is only going to improve and mature with time.”

O’Sullivan’s base in Matamata has often been a launching pad for horses racing abroad, including a number that end up in the care of his brother Paul, who has been training in Hong Kong since 2004.

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FREW, Beatrice Grace (Beaty) – Passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 26 2020 at Longwood Lifestyle Village Riverton, aged 83 years.

Beaty will be sadly missed by her three sons Brent, Callum and Dwight. Loved motherin-law of Maria and Leanne Frew, and Peter Tiller. Dearly loved ‘Beaty’ to Thomas, Maddy, Gracie and Charlie.

Loved sister of Marjorie Welsh, Oliver* Gibson and Neill* Gibson.

In loving Memory RIP A beautiful mother, mother in law and grandmother to all.

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6am Breakfast 9am Les Mills BodyCombat 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am Cash Trapped 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Moira is tempted by a plan; Tracy decides on a fresh start; Manpreet makes a risky decision. 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 Sally tears a strip off Kevin; Daniel catches wind of Bethany’s internship; Geoff’s mood darkens. 0 2pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 3pm Tipping Point 0 4pm Te Karere 2 4:30 Highway Cops 3 0 5pm The Chase 3 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6:30 Rescue Bots Academy 0 6:40 MyaGo 3 0 6:50 Bluey 0 7am The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 0 7:25 Ben 10 3 7:50 Wacky Races 3 0 8:15 Moon And Me 3 0 8:35 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 3 0 9am Infomercials 10am Neighbours 3 0 10:25 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11:55 Selling Houses Australia 0 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Home And Away 3 0 2:30 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3pm Les Mills Born To Move 3:25 Bluey 0 3:30 Get Clever 0 3:55 The Lodge 3 0 4:40 Friends 3 0 5:10 The Simpsons 3 0 5:35 Home And Away 0 6:05 The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:30 Amped Noon Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 12:55 Dr Phil PGR 1:50 The House That £100k Built 3 Mary and Justin set out to build a home in rural Devon with just $120,000. 0 2:55 Restoration Man 3 Former heavyweight boxer Scott Welch hopes to transform Thorington Gate Lodge into a modern home. 0 3:55 Chris Humfrey’s Animal Instinct 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Eat Well For Less NZ A family where TV dinners rule; Michael van de Elzen and Ganesh Raj have must persuade a particularly reluctant toddler to ‘Eat Well For Less’. 0 8:30 N Unbreakable AO 0 9:25 20/20 AO 0 10:25 Seven Sharp 0 10:55 Sunday 3 0 11:50 Under The Influence PGR 3 0 12:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 1:05 Te Karere 3 2 1:30 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 The Amazing Race Australia PGR 0 8:35 Paranormal Caught On Camera PGR 0 9:25 Leigh Hart’s Big Isolation Lockdown 9:55 First Dates NZ PGR 3 0 10:45 Mom PGR 3 0

7pm The Project 7:30 David Lomas Investigates PGR 0 8:30 NCIS AO 0 9:20 Rebuilding Paradise With Paul Henry 3 9:50 NewsHub Late 10:20 Covid 19 Update 10:50 The Blacklist AO

11:10 All Rise 0 Midnight The Resident AO 3 0 12:45 Cougar Town PGR 3 1:10 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:40 Infomercials 2:45 Scandal AO 3 3:30 Desperate Housewives AO 3 0 4:15 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 4:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:45 Millionaire Hot Seat 12:35 Infomercials

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BRAVO 10am Get A Room With Carson And Thom PGR 3 10:55 Snapped PGR 3 11:50 The Kelly Clarkson Show 12:50 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 1:45 Below Deck PGR 3 2:45 Keeping Up With The Kardashians PGR 3 3:45 Wahlburgers 3 4:10 The People’s Court 3 5:10 Judge Jerry 5:40 Hoarders 3 6:30 Love It Or List It 7:30 Stop Search Seize An emergency landing in Shannon Airport; the size of a passenger’s bag raises suspicion in Dublin Airport; a grandmother is caught smuggling several thousand cigarettes.

8:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills AO 9:30 The Killer Affair AO When a wife and mother is murdered in a wealthy suburb, the police discover a hidden world of sex and drugs that leads them to a killer they never expected.

10:30 Snapped PGR 3 11:20 Killer Couples AO 3 12:10 Infomercials

Choccywoccydoodah 5pm on Choice

SKY 5 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:45 The Simpsons PG 7:10 Parking Wars PGL 8am Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 8:25 Storage Wars PG 8:50 Storage Wars PG 9:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 9:40 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Parking Wars PGL Noon Raw Live MVC 3:05 Parking Wars PGL 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 5:30 Hardcore Pawn PG 6pm Storage Wars PG 6:30 Storage Wars PG 7pm Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 7:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 8:30 Trucking Hell M 9:30 Outback Truckers M 10:30 SVU MV 11:15 Storage Wars PG 11:40 Storage Wars PG

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12:05 Parking Wars PGL 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 2:05 Outback Truckers M 2:50 Trucking Hell M 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Hardcore Pawn PG 4:50 Hawaii Five-0 MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

6:30 Paia 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 He Rourou 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Mahi Pai 7:40 Tamariki Haka 7:50 Huritua 8am Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:30 My Country Song 3 9am Pete And Pio 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am The First Voice 3 10:30 Tapatahi 11:15 Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 12:15 Someday Stories PGR 3 12:30 Game Of Bros PGR 3 1pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 1:30 Ako 3 2 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 3:30 Playlist 4pm Swagger 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Paia 5:10 Pukoro 2 5:40 He Rourou 3 5:50 E Kori 3 5:55 E Ki E Ki 6pm Mahi Pai 3 6:10 Tamariki Haka 6:20 Huritua 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Exotic Delights 8pm Ahikaroa AO 3 8:30 Matau Bros Gone Fishing PGR 9pm Piri’s Tiki Tour PGR 9:30 Toa Hunter Gatherer AO 10pm Waka Ama Sprints 10:30 Marae PGR 2

6am Baby Animals Around The World 7am Hugh’s Three Good Things 7:30 Rachel Allen – All Things Sweet 8am Hope For Wildlife 9am Best Cake Wins 9:30 Bangers And Cash 10:30 Mysteries At The Museum 11:30 Salvage Hunters 12:30 The Ganges With Sue Perkins 1:30 WWII Great Escapes – The Freedom Trails 2:30 World’s Most Luxurious 3:30 Big Cat Country 4:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 5pm Choccywoccydoodah The crew are back with more fantastical cakes and, at Easter, they must make 1000s of seasonal treats to feed the insatiable appetites of their ‘choccyholics’.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 George Clarke’s Old House New Home George takes on an Edwardian home with an extreme case of 1970s wallto-wall panelling, and tackles a mock-Tudor cottage in Hastings.

8:30 Restoration Man 9:30 Help! My House Is Falling Down 10:30 American Pickers

11:25 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:25 Love Island UK AO Callum talks to the men about how much he likes Molly; Shaughna must prepare herself for the worst.

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6:22 Love And Debt MLC 2018 Drama. Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young.

7:58 The Amityville Murders 16VLSC 2018 Horror. Paul BenVictor, John Robinson.

9:33 Booksmart 16LSC 2019 Comedy. Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein.

11:15 RBG PGL 2018 Documentary.

12:55 Holy Lands ML 2019 Drama. James Caan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

2:36 Life, Itself 16LSC 2019 Drama. Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde.

4:33 Cold Pursuit 16VLSC 2019 Action. Liam Neeson, Laura Dern.

6:30 If Beale Street Could Talk MVLS 2019 Drama.

KiKi Layne, Stephan James.

8:30 Kin MVLC 2018 Action.

Hunted by a vengeful criminal and a mob of unearthly soldiers, an unexpected hero must go on the run with his teenaged brother. Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor.

10:15 Dropping The Soap 16LS 2017 Comedy. Jane Lynch, Paul Witten.

11:50 Lancaster Skies PGVL 2019 War. Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson.

8:15 The Purge 16VL 2013 Thriller. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey. 9:40 Before Midnight MLS 2013 Romantic Drama. Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. 11:30 The Forgotten MVL 2004 Thriller. Julianne Moore, Anthony Edwards. 1pm The Great Gatsby MVS 2013 Drama Romance. Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton.

3:20 The Lincoln Lawyer MVLS 2011 Thriller.

Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei. 5:15 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action.

Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan.

6:45 Last Vegas MLS 2013 Comedy. Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken.

8:30 Taking Lives 16VLS 2004 Crime Drama. An unorthodox FBI agent is called in by the Montreal police to profile a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims.

Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland.

10:10 The Hangover 16LSC 2009 Comedy. Bradley Cooper.

11:50 Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn: Part 2 MV 2012 Fantasy. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson.

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6am Ben 10 – Ultimate Alien 3 0 6:50 Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever 3 0 7:15 Trulli Tales 3 0 7:30 Atomic Puppet 3 0 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 0 8:05 The Thundermans 3 0 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am 100 Things To Do Before High School 3 0 9:25 The Great British Bake Off 3 0 10:30 The Chase Australia 3 0 11:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 3 0 Noon Making New Zealand 3 0 1pm Penn And Teller – Fool Us PGR 0 2pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun – Winter Sun 3 5pm Frasier 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 0 7:30 The Great British Bake Off 0 8:35 Carol’s Second Act PGR 9:05 The Unicorn PGR 9:35 Qi PGR 10:50 The Breakdown

MOVIES PREMIERE

1:30 Obey 16VLSC 2018 Drama. Marcus Rutherford, Sophie Kennedy Clark.

3:05 Life, Itself 16LSC 2019 Drama. Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde. 5am Cold Pursuit 16VLSC 2019 Action.

Liam Neeson, Laura Dern.

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1:45 Riding Giants ML 2004 Documentary. Jeff Clark, Darrick Doerner. 3:25 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action.

Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan.

4:55 The Lincoln Lawyer MVLS 2011 Thriller.

MOVIES ExtRA 6:15 Halloween 16VLC 2018 Horror. Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer. 8:01 Ben Is Back MLC 2019 Drama.

Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges.

9:45 Discarnate 18VC 2018 Horror. Thomas Kretschmann, Nadine Velazquez.

11:12 Jellyfish 16LSC 2018 Drama. Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews.

12:54 Good Boys 16LSC 2019 Comedy. Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon. 2:24 Dead Leaves MVS 2004 Anime.

3:20 The Intruder 16VSC 2019 Thriller. Michael Ealy, Meagan Good. 5pm Stan And Ollie PGL 2018 Comedy.

Steve Coogan, John C Reilly.

6:35 Instant Family M 2019 Comedy. Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne. 8:30 Steve McQueen – The Man And Le Mans MLC 2015 Documentary.

Obsession, betrayal and ultimate vindication, this is the story of how Steve McQueen – one of the most charismatic stars of his generation – risked it all in pursuit of his dream.

10:25 Slender Man MLC 2018 Horror. Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles.

Wednesday

Midnight Another Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 Comedy. Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers. 1:25 Duplicate 16VS 2018 Drama. Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse. 3:05 The Intruder 16VSC 2019 Thriller. Michael Ealy, Meagan Good. 4:45 Stan And Ollie PGL 2018 Comedy.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

UKtV 6:10 Doc Martin PG 7am EastEnders PG 7:35 The Graham Norton Show M 8:25 The Bill MVC 9:15 Inspector George Gently M 10:45 Grantchester MV 11:35 Doc Martin PG 12:25 DCI Banks 16 1:55 The Bill MVC 2:45 Lewis M 4:25 The Graham Norton Show ML 5:20 Who Do You Think You Are? Australia PG 6:20 Qi MLS 6:55 Insert Name Here PG 7:30 Qi M With Jo Brand, Rich Hall, Fred MacAulay, and Alan Davies.

8pm Would I Lie To You? PG With guest panellists Rhod Gilbert, Kelly Hoppen MBE, Carol Vorderman, and Hal Cruttenden.

8:35 Heartbeat MVC PC Wetherby helped Lesley Ashton in a case back in Northallerton, and now she is obsessed with him, and turns up in Ashfordly.

9:30 Ackley Bridge PG Kaneez is angry to discover Nas is considering the arranged marriage.

10:25 Father Brown M 11:15 DCI Banks 16 Wednesday 1am Qi MLS 1:30 Qi M 2am Would I Lie To You? PG 2:35 Who Do You Think You Are? Australia PG 3:30 Heartbeat MVC 4:20 Ackley Bridge PG 5:10 Father Brown M 5:55 Who Do You Think You Are? Australia PG 28Apr20

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Cutlass Lowrider 1/2. 7:30 Wheels That Fail PG 7:55 Wheels That Fail PG 8:20 Top Gear PG 9:10 Richard Hammond’s Big PG Mega Ship. 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Expedition Unknown PG Kalahari Desert’s Lost City.

11:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 12:30 Web Of Lies MVLC Hunting Ground. 1:20 Blood Relatives M All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go. 2:10 Top Gear PG 3pm Gold Rush PG New Blood. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG Cutlass Lowrider 2/2.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Outback Opal Hunters PG 7:30 BattleBots PG The teams start to feel the pressure, and undefeated Hypershock seeks to take down the reigning champion, Bite Force.

8:30 Expedition Unknown 9:25 Jeremy Wade’s Dark Waters PG Return of the Outback Beast.

10:15 Jeremy Wade’s Dark Waters PG South Africa’s Legendary Beast.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M Paradise Lost.

11:55 How It’s Made PG

Wednesday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Wheels That Fail PG 1:10 Wheels That Fail PG 1:35 Gold Rush PG 3:15 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail PG 4:05 Expedition Unknown PG 4:55 Gold Rush PG

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Sport

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Waiting for clarity

By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

Squash Midlands is awaiting clarification as to what a Level 2 status means for local squash.

All squash clubs in the Midlands area between Ashburton and Oamaru will remain closed as the country moves into Covid-19 level 3. “We are involved in weekly zoom conference calls with Squash NZ and the other squash districts to try to get some clarification on what level 2 would look like for squash,� a Squash Midlands spokesperson said on their Facebook page last week.

Sport New Zealand has issued guidelines around sport and recreational activities across the four alert level categories.

Non-contact activities can take place in indoor and outdoor facilities with public heath measures under Alert Level 2.

However Squash Midlands said more clarification was required, specifically around the social distancing protocols.

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Thiem not keen on payout

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