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Mackenzie’s milestone

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The start of this year’s Heartland Rugby Championship had a bit of an extra-special importance for one Hammer.

Southern stalwart Will Mackenzie was running on to the paddock for the 50th time in the green and gold jersey.

“I probably played my first game for them 50 odd games ago, I don’t remember what year it was but it was probably 2012 or 2011,” he said.

Over 50 games, Mackenzie has taken to the field in big games that most club rugby players can only dream about, including three Ranfurly Shield challenges and two Meads Cups finals, both of which he won.

“When we won the Meads Cup the first time, that was probably my favourite game I’ve played in,” he said.

“I’ve played a few now (Ranfurly Shield Challenges) and they have been pretty good.

“There is the step up in intensity which is noticeable, and it is always good if you can give them a bit of a run.

“We didn’t really do that in the last one (against Canterbury) but against Counties we only lost by 17 points and that was quite good.”

Despite being the most capped player in the Mid Canterbury squad, Mackenzie does not really see himself as an out-and-out leader and teacher in the squad.

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“If I can help someone out in a way that is great and if there are some of the new guys coming in and I can be helping them that is good,” he said.

Despite playing rugby since he was six, it was only in recent years that Mackenzie set his sights on making it into the Mid Canterbury squad.

“I had been overseas and back a bit and had one winter back so I decided to stick around and give it a go and made it in,” he said.

“I never really had any goals with how many games I was gonna play … I just took it game by game.”

In what could be history repeating itself, Mackenzie’s now sharing a changing room with his younger brother Hamish, who is 27, and has returned to the region after time away.

“We get on pretty good and we should be able to help each other along,” Mackenzie said.

“He came back and played club rugby and played good so made it into the squad and he had a pretty good run on Saturday so hopefully we might even see him get a few starts.”

As the profile of the Heartland Championship grows, more former All Blacks are drawn to the competition, including Regan King, who is playing for the Hammers this season.

“His game knowledge and experience is really good and is a big aid for some of the younger guys, and he is a really good guy,” he said.

“It is quite cool that these blokes want to come back at the end of their careers and play in the heartland regions.”

The Hammers started off with the win against Poverty Bay and Mackenzie said it was a good way to start.

“There was some good things, but there are things that we have got to work on,” he said.

“I feel like it is going to be quite a sore season, you have really got to win everything and the more you win the easier it gets.

“There are no easy beats in the competition and everyone is getting bigger, fitter and stronger.”

Mackenzie will have to dig in for a few more years if wants to break the record for appearances for the Hammers, with the legendary Jock Ross holding the honour with 158 matches played.

Left – Will Mackenzie lead the Hammers out on to the field on Saturday for his 50th match in the green and gold.

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Right – With the ball, Hamish Mackenzie and his team-mate Regan King in action against Poverty Bay on Saturday.

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Gary and Karen Manning

Businesses make it into finals Mt Hutt Ski Area and Methven’s Irish bar and restaurant The Dubliner have made it to the finals of this year’s Champion Canterbury Business Awards.

The two businesses were among 150 who entered the awards; three finalists in each of the 14 categories were announced last week with the winners to be named on October 4.

Mt Hutt is in the tourism/retail/ hospitality category for medium and large businesses and is up against Christchurch Adventure Park, closed by fire within eight weeks of opening, and Willowbank Wildlife Reserve.

The Dubliner is also in the tourism/retail/hospitality category, but for small enterprises.

It was a big week for the bar, which a few days earlier received news it had been shortlisted as finalists in the Hospitality New Zealand national awards for excellence in the best neighbourhood bar and eatery and excellence in marketing.

The eatery is owned by Gary and Karen Manning and opened its doors on the main street on Methven in November 2015. The building was town’s old post office.

Mt Hutt is currently enjoying one of its best snow bases in years, after two big snowfalls in the past month.

Winds were a pest this past weekend, with the skifield closed on Saturday. It was open yesterday, though winds affected the Summit Six and triple chairlifts.

The Wild Bunch posse ready for action at Ashburton over the weekend.

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Posse invades Ashburton

By Linda CLarke

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Cowboy action shooter Bob McDonald, better known as the Witch Doctor, continued his domination of the sport at the weekend by winning the national Wild Bunch overall champion title.

McDonald and about 30 shooters from around the country spent

a perfect weekend at the Beckley Range on Cochranes Road shooting hundreds of rounds to decide who was best.

McDonald was a comfortable winner; it was his fourth win since the trophy was introduced in 2012, and his third in a row.

He used a 12 gauge shotgun, a 45 pistol and 45 rifle to accumu-

late the best score, firing around 400 rounds of ammunition over the three days of shooting.

He said he was a bit underdone going into the event with little time recently for training, but perfect conditions and some friendly rivalry helped him focus.

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Lions food van done and dusted

By Linda CLarke

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The Lions Club of Ashburton has a new catering van after its old one literally blew apart.

The new mobile food trailer, worth about $65,000, has been built largely with donated materials and labour and Lions member Max Cawte said it would have its first outing on September 1.

The new one is a purpose-built catering trailer with ovens, hotplates and hobs, and equipped with its own generator. It will also have its own gas and water supply.

Cawte said it replaced an old caravan that came to pieces while it was being towed. Lions club members will tow the new van to events where they can sell hot chips, sausages and burgers, or more fancy fare.

The trailer will also be available for community hire, at a small cost.

The trailer will be based at UHire and hire costs will include the cost of cleaning after each use.

The new mobile catering van has been a two-year project and Cawte said engineers, welders and others in the community had generously given time or material.

The 4.2m trailer can accommodate up to four people and has pop-up sides for protection from the weather.

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Classics on the road for charity

By Linda CLarke

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Don Williamson’s much-loved 1965 Mk2 Jaguar was in good company yesterday.

The elegant old car was among 60 vintage, classic or otherwise distinguished cars to take part in a daffodil rally to raise funds for the Cancer Society.

The scatter rally was organised by the Ashburton Vintage Car Club and spokesman David Oakley said participants had to

accumulate as many points as they could by visiting different spots around the district within a 90-minute period.

The organisers had allocated different points values to the spots, so it was a combination of speed and maths ability to amass as many points as possible.

Oakley said there were 36 reference points and rally participants would need to answer a question about each to prove they had visited the spot.

The Rangitata River mouth was assigned 35 points, while spots around Ashburton town were of lower value.

The rally was designed to be fun and challenging, he said.

Drivers were also warned they had to obey the open road and limited speed zone restrictions.

Williamson and his wife Carol, as navigator, were up for challenge and were studying the map before striking out for their first reference point.

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The cream-coloured Jaguar is among several cars in his collection and he makes sure they are driven regularly. The Mk2’s shape and performance made it a favourite.

The oldest vehicle taking part in yesterday’s rally was a 1927 Model A Ford, while the most modern was a 2017 Suzuki Swift.

There were also a few convertibles with their tops down, taking advantage of the warm spring weather.

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In brief Changeable weather Rain is on the radar following the warm spring weekend. The weather has allowed welcome drying and improved the outlook for many farmers in the midst of calving and lambing. The high has given way to an incoming trough that will bring rain and strong north-easterlies. Rain is forecast today and tomorrow, followed by a changeable pattern.

Bouncers stabbed Three Auckland bouncers have been stabbed after stopping a man from allegedly stealing a woman’s handbag. The attack happened outside a bar on Customs Street about 10.50pm on Saturday after two of the man’s friends arrived and helped him attack the bouncers, police say. One of the bouncers was stabbed in the chest and taken to hospital in a serious condition. The other two were wounded on their arms.

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Death at high school

Rakaia volunteers’ final sort-through Volunteers wait to sort the last batch of recycling at the Rakaia Recycle Centre on Saturday. The community started sorting its own recycling nearly 17 years ago, diverting tonnes of waste from landfill and raising in excess of $100,000 for the town by selling recycled items. Rakaia people can still drop off their recycling but it will no longer be sorted by local volunteers, contractor Envirowaste is now in charge of the collection. Saturday was the final day for volunteers, who have forged many friendships over the years.

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Mountaineer survives

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Nats launch campaign National Party leader and prime minister Bill English launched his party’s campaign in Auckland yesterday as Labour’s Jacinda Ardern was in Christchurch offering to help the city’s post-quake rebuild.

Mr English was in front of nearly 3000 supporters in the Trusts Arena, most of them waving blue “I’m Backing Bill” placards and cheering him on as he urged them to get out on the

A person has died at an Auckland high school. Ambulance responded to a call-out about 1.20pm at Kelston Boys High School.

Police referred the Herald to the Ambulance communications team, as it appeared to be “a medical event at a sports field”. A St John spokesman confirmed it was “one patient deceased on scene”. He did not have further details.

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campaign trail. He told them the choice facing voters was more solid economic and social progress or the risk that all could be lost if a coalition of “unstable, untested opposition parties with unpredictable and unclear policies” won the election on September 23.

In Christchurch, Ms Ardern said a Labour-led government would create a $300 million fund for projects to develop the

city. This “capital acceleration facility” would be the centrepiece of her party’s plan for the region.

Ms Ardern said Labour would also establish an arbitration tribunal to help resolve earthquake issues and fund an extra eight mental health professionals for the city’s schools.

A new opinion poll dealt a blow to NZ First’s bid to seize the Whangarei seat from National.

The party has high hopes that former Labour MP Shane Jones, now its candidate in the seat, can repeat leader Winston Peters’ trouncing of National in the 2015 Northland by-election.

The Q&A Colmar Brunton poll showed that’s not likely to happen – National’s incumbent MP Shane Reti held 42 per cent of the electorate vote against Mr Jones’ 24 per cent.

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An Auckland mountaineer missing on the North Island’s highest peak called police to say he was lost and then kept in touch for the next 12 hours awaiting rescue.

Searchers worked through the night after the mountain climber became separated from a group and ended up lost on Mt Ruapehu.

The missing man was found and taken off the mountain by rescue helipcopter.

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Free parking hailed a winner

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Anecdotal feedback might be good but the numbers that will spell out success or failure won’t be known until November on Ashburton’s town centre free parking trial.

One hour free parking was introduced for East Street in November last year after retailers complained that malfunctioning pay and display machines were providing the ultimate disincentive for people wanting to park and shop.

They petitioned the Ashburton District Council to trial one hour free parking on East Street and with two months to run in

the trial, retailers are hailing it a success.

The trial was paired with the installation of smart technology parking domes in each vehicle space.

These record when a vehicle stops and when it is moved and alert parking wardens to over-parked vehicles.

Council environmental monitoring manager Rick Catchpowle said there was every indication the meters were highly successful and when the one-year trial was up the council would be able to access a range of data that would include time parked, average parking periods and high demand periods of the day.

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Construction date mystery

BY SUE NEWMAN

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The story behind the photo of an elderly homestead published in the Guardian recently is long and complex, but still leaves the construction date of that homestead shrouded in mystery.

Present owner Bev Jack and previous owner Sue Rollinson have filled in many gaps in its history, but nailing down the date of its construction has been impossible.

The homestead, Maranui, is located at Westerfield and was built on land that was once part of the vast Westerfield block of 40,800 acres. The land’s original owner was Charles Reed (1865) and on his death the land was sold to Cyril Hawdon and Alexander Strecky in 1880.

It then changed hands regularly and was variously owned by William deBurton Wilson in 1997 and Thomas Stone in the late 1880s.

In 1903, 3802 acres were sold along with several other blocks with the Maranui homestead sitting on block seven.

While construction date is unknown, current owner Bev Jack suggests it could have been in the late

1860s. The site was chosen because there was a good supply of water available and this also prompted plans to be drawn up for a Westerfield village.

Apart from a few buildings, this never eventuated.

The Dillon family were owners of Maranui for many years, followed by the Browns Browns, Abernethys, Rollinsons and now Jacks.

Recent owners have left their mark in many ways on the historic home with some modernisation attempts. Bay windows have been removed, many other windows replaced with aluminium frames and one owner went so far as to remove the external weather boards, replacing these with modern material.

The Rollinsons turned the restoration tide, reinstated wooden panelling on interior walls using recycled material from a church and the Jacks have reclad the entire house with weather boards. They are continuing the work started by the Rollinsons aimed at returning Maranui to its early glory.

Ted and Sue Rollinson owned the property for 19 years and developed extensive gardens; the Jacks bought it six years ago.

The construction date of the Westerfield homestead, Maranui, is shrouded in mystery.

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New wheelie bin service starts 1 September Collection Area The new system will replace the current bag and recycling crate systems operating in the district. If you already have a green crate, please keep it as you will not be issued a new one.

The new system is also being introduced to some properties that haven’t previously received Council kerbside collection services, including Lake Hood, Fairton and Winslow.

Boundary maps are available online.

Be Ready Upon receiving your bins over the past month, you will have also received a Handbook. Please refer to it to learn how the new collection system works and when your bins will be picked up.

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The green crate is for recycling glass bottles and jars. The 45-litre crate will be collected from the kerbside every fortnight, on alternate weeks to the yellow bin collection.

The yellow bin is for recycling plastics, cans and paper. It will be collected from the kerbside every fortnight, on alternate weeks to the green crate collection. It is a 240-litre wheelie bin with a yellow lid.

The red bin is for everything that is not recyclable, including household and organic waste. This 80-litre bin is collected weekly and will replace the black ADC rubbish bags.

A full Calendar illustrating the collection system and how to find your collection day is available in your booklet or on our website.

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The Guangdong Modern Dance Company from China is bringing its internationally acclaimed performance Beyond Caligraphy to the Christchurch Arts Festival for one show only.

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BY KATIE TODD

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A wealth of entertainment is quite literally just around the corner, with 50 exciting arts events rolling into the Garden City over the next three weeks.

The biennial Christchurch Arts Festival will kick off on Wednesday and bring a rich smorgasbord of comedy, theatre, light installations, visual art, music, sculpture, cabaret and dance to 19 venues around town.

“A highlight for us this year is that we’ve got our strongest ever international line-up,” said festival director Craig Cooper.

One headlining feature from Australia is Velvet, a performance that blends circus, discotheque and cabaret to create “the show with everything”.

Another is the South Korean live action comedy Chef: Come Dine with Us, which brings together beatboxing, dance and cooking.

“We’ve got artists coming to the festival from Brazil, China, Ireland, Mexico, France – 14 different countries as well as the local, so it’s really diverse and exciting,” Cooper said.

Two New Zealand shows will also premiere at the festival – musical Things Between Us, and multimedia adventure Erewhon Revisited.

Visual art spectacles include ceramics and photographs by Anna Miles, an outdoor light installation by Shades Arcade and kinetic sculptures, paintings and films by Len Lye. In musical offerings, the fes-

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September 1 and 2 – Hospice Mid Canterbury presents Night of the Southern Stars at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7.30pm, featuring Simon O’Neil with Tim Beveridge, Tizane McEvoy and accompanied by Stephen Small. The MSA Men’s Choir will be performing as well as Ashburton College choirs Phoenix Rising and Phoenix Chorus.

To September 3 – Ashburton Embroiders’ Guild exhibition The Joy of Stitching at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

September 9 - Ashburton Musical Club Student Showcase at Sinclair Centre, Park Street, 7.30 pm. All welcome. Visitors $5 at door To September 10 – Annabel Menzies-Joyce exhibition Unless at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

September 13 – Bill Massey Tourists at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

September 23 – The Imperial Russian Ballet A Festival of Russian Ballet at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

To September 24 – Anya Sinclair exhibition Forest Lives at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

To September 24 – Ashburton Society of Arts’ Early Spring Show at the Short Street Studio.

September 27 – Ashburton College Music Department presents Music Evening 2017 at Ashburton College Auditorium September 30 – The Extravaganza Fair at Ashburton Domain October 6 to 8 – Mid Canterbury Children’s Theatre Disney the Aristocrats Kids & Disney My Son Pinocchio Jr at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

October 14 – Lions Club of Ashburton presents Stars in Your Eyes at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

October 19 – The Sound of Music at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

October 22 – Andrew London Trio at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

To November 5 – Impressions Exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

November 16-18: The Playspace Theatre Co. presents Tomorrow’s Too Late at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

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The Auckland Theatre Company is taking the stage at the Christchurch Arts Festival to present My Own Darling, a show described as “part road movie and part love song”.

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tival includes orchestral performances from the University of Canterbury School of Music, choral performances from Atlas Voices and Irish music from Pirate & Queen.

Cooper says the Christchurch Arts Festival has undergone a lot of changes since launching 20 years ago.

“After the earthquake we lost a lot of our venues – we did what we could to go ahead, in tents in Hagley Park.

“Over the years we’ve gained more and more new venues, including three new ones this year,” he said.

Organisers hope this year’s diverse line-up will attract visitors

from far and wide, of all ages and interests. Shows range from free to $70 with student, concession and family options available.

“There’s really something for everyone,” Cooper said.

The full programme along with ticketing information and venue details, are available at artsfestival.co.nz

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The Wild West swings into town The weekend’s weather was perfect for the Wild Bunch national pistol shooting competition, which attracted cowboy shooters, in character, from all over the country. Guardian photographer Robyn Hood went west to take these photographs.

Above – Cooch (Mark Wear) and Bumble (Bede Prendergast), both from Ashburton.

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Above – Abby Cass (Kaye Paulger) and Dustin Mudd (Rob Turner), both of Rotorua.

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Above (from left) – Ruby Redsmoke (Tracey Ball of Nelson), Pearl Hart (Angie Surgenor of Hokitika), Jesse Jayne (Brittany Surgenor of Hokitika) and Crystal (Gina Cole of Nelson).

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Above – Myskal (Kirsty Griffith) of Nelson.

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Below – Miss Kitty (Jane Lavery) of Ashburton.

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Above – Big Bad John (John Holley) of Alexander.

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Below – Bald Eagle (Duncan Macpherson) of Kaitangata.

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Nightof the SouthernStars featuring International Artist Simon

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Mid Canty sunshine lifts spirits Linda Clarke

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healthy injection of sunshine over the weekend has lifted the district’s communal spirit.

The snow-capped mountains made for a stunning skyline, while grass everywhere was greener than green. Some people even cranked up the lawnmower.

Others decided to head to Lake Hood, a facility that is really coming into its own. The Lake House restaurant looked busy and boat-owners and jetskiers seized the opportunity to give their vessels a run before the summer ski season.

The subdivision that has grown up around the lake is ever expanding as people are drawn to homes that are a stone’s throw from the water’s edge or close to walking a cycle trails. It must feel like being eternally on holiday.

Water is the common denominator and there is no doubt Ashburton would be a dusty shadow of its current self without irrigation, though most of the greening lately has been the result of decent rain.

What happens in Mid Canterbury and wider Canterbury on the irrigation front is important.

Water-users here are innovative and early adopters of technology that means they measure, monitor and manage not only water but fertiliser and other inputs.

We are leading the way and the district has been making progress … not fast enough for Fish and Game and some others, but progress.

Over the years, the majority of farmers have changed the way they operate. Most have always farmed with a sustainable business in mind, but like any industry there are those who must be dragged, kicking, to make a change.

Education and changing behaviour is happening in this district, it just doesn’t suit some water activists to acknowledge it.

Farmers have taken Labour’s proposed water tax personally and many are standing up and showing their environmental credentials; these farmers would likely back moves to speed up the performance of stragglers.

Irrigation could actually be the saviour of the Ashburton River, if the Rangitata Diversion Race Management Company gets consent to build a storage lake at Klondyke.

Some of the water that is stored there could easily be marked for release into the Ashburton River and, as we know from higher flows this summer, that is great for everyone who uses it.

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ignificant benefits can be delivered to New Zealanders through a growing economy and a commitment to help New Zealanders get ahead.

This is highlighted by the recently announced expansion of cheaper access to doctors for low-income New Zealanders.

To start next July under a reelected National Government, 600,000 more lower-income New Zealanders will have access to $18 doctor visits, one of the dividends of a strong and growing economy.

We will also expand access to the Community Services Card to an additional 350,000 New Zealanders with low incomes and high housing costs, to ensure they can access a range of cheaper health services including those receiving an Income Related Rent Subsidy or Accommodation Supplement.

These changes to healthcare access mean more low-income New Zealanders will be able to get the healthcare they need, when they need it.

The National-led Government has already made sure all

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children under 13 have free GP visits and prescriptions. Around 1.4 million New Zealanders also have the cost of visiting their GP capped at $18 through the Very Low Cost Access scheme.

We will build on this by introducing an $18 cap on GP visits for all Community Services Card holders.

This will make it easier for 600,000 more low-income New Zealanders to visit their GP before a condition deteriorates.

This in turn will help further reduce the numbers turning up at busy emergency departments with issues a GP could have resolved.

For a family of three earning up to $60,000 per year this means they will be able to access $18 GP visits – with children un-

der 13 still able to go for free.

So along with getting access to cheap GP visits, 350,000 more New Zealanders with lower incomes and high housing costs will receive cheap prescriptions, free emergency dental care and free glasses for children through their new Community Service Cards.

These changes will increase the total number of New Zealanders who can access either free or very cheap GP visits to 2.5 million, at a cost of $380 million over four years. The cost will be met from the 2018 Budget operating allowance.

In other health-related news, it has been shown nationwide health targets have had a significant impact on ensuring better, faster and more convenient healthcare for New Zealanders.

The six national health targets have helped to drive improvement in performance across the health system. Now nine years since the targets started, a real difference has been made to the quality of care in the health system and has saved lives.

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A truck in floodwaters passes a home damaged in the wake of Hurricane Harvey yesterday in Aransas Pass, Texas.

Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast at the weekend smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.

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Two dead, 40 missing in Hurricane Harvey There are two fatalities, 30 people are being treated for injuries and another 30 to 40 people are missing in Texas in the midst of Hurricane Harvey, US media is reporting.

Houston police say a woman died in flooding and a death that had been reported earlier was that of a man who died in a home destroyed by fire at the height of the storm, Aransas County Sheriff Bill Mills said, according to USA yesterday.

Two towns in Aransas County, Rockport and Port Aransas, were hard-hit by the storm, USA Today said yesterday.

Throughout the region between Corpus Christi and Houston, many people feared that toll was only the beginning.

Authorities don’t yet know the full scope of damage because weather conditions prevented emergency crews from getting into the hardest-hit places.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 100cm of rain on cities, including dangerously flood-prone Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest.

In the island community of Port Aransas, population 3800, officials were unable to fully survey the town because of “massive” damage. Police and heavy equipment had only made it into the northernmost street.

“I can tell you I have a very bad feeling and that’s about it,” said Mayor Charles Bujan, who had called for a mandatory evacuation but did not know how many heeded the order.

Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm’s path. The mayor said his community took a blow “right on the nose” that left “widespread devastation,” including homes, businesses and schools that were heavily damaged. Some structures were destroyed.

Rockport’s roads were a mess of toppled power poles. A trailer blocked much of one major intersection. Wood framing from ripped-apart houses was strewn along Route 35 on the town’s southern end.

Harvey’s relentless wind tore the metal sides off the high school gym and twisted the steel door frame of its auditorium.

“We’re still in the very infancy stage of getting this recovery started,” said Aransas County spokesman Larry Sinclair.

Rockport Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax told The Weather Channel that the city’s emergency response system had been hampered by the loss of mobile phone service and other forms of communication.

A day earlier, Rockport Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Rios offered ominous advice, tell-

ing people who chose not to evacuate to mark their arms with Sharpie pens, implying that the marks would make it easier for rescuers to identify them.

As many as 14 people suffered minor injuries, including slips and falls, scrapes and a broken leg, Aransas County Judge C.H. “Burt” Mills Jr. said. The lone fatality confirmed so far was a person caught in a fire at home during the storm, Mills said.

He did not identify the victim.

About 300,000 customers were without power statewide. Governor Greg Abbott said it would probably be several days before electricity was restored.

Meanwhile, the storm was barely moving. Rainfall totals varied across the region, with Corpus Christi and Galveston receiving around 8cm, Houston 18cm and Aransas 25cm.

In Houston, authorities were pleading with people not to leave their homes as a flood emergency was declared.

“The streets are treacherous,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said.

Elsewhere in the storm’s immediate aftermath, the Coast Guard had rescued 20 people from boats and barges in distress, said Captain Tony Hahn, commander of the Corpus Christi sector.

The Corpus Christi port was closed with extensive damage.

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Couple flee cops via croc-infested river

BY PERRY DUFFIN A young pregnant woman and her partner are missing after jumping into a crocodileinfested river in the Northern Territory while attempting to flee police.

Caitlyn Munnich, 19, Raphael Woodhouse, 25, along with three other people, evaded a random traffic stop in the Kakadu

region, police said.

They managed to evade police for a few hours before fleeing into Bird Billabong in the Mary River early on Saturday morning.

While the three unnamed accomplices are co-operating with police, officers hold fears the couple jumped into the dangerous river to escape.

“We believe the pair may have jumped

into the Mary River and hold grave concerns for their welfare,” Territory Duty Superintendent James O’Brien said.

“The Mary River system is full of salt water crocodiles and we are hoping that these people have made it to safety.”

The couple excitedly announced on Facebook in July they are expecting a baby.

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Stephen King is retaliating against US President Donald Trump for blocking him on Twitter. In a recent post, the horror author said he would block Trump from seeing the upcoming movie It or the currently showing television series Mr Mercedes, both based on his books.

King’s tweet says “No clowns for you, Donald. Go float yourself.” The movie It is about a group of children who confront their fears while confronting the evil balloon-carrying clown, Pennywise.

The movie is due out next month. Mr Mercedes is about a killer who drives a stolen Mercedes into a crowd.

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Price divorcing again Katie Price, the ex-wife of Australian pop singer Peter Andre, says she is divorcing her third husband after discovering his year-long affair with her children’s nanny.

The British glamour model had previously forgiven Kieran Hayler for sleeping with her two best friends in 2014, but was devastated to find out that he had been unfaithful again. In an interview with The Sun On Sunday, Price said that she had found incriminating emails between her husband and nanny Nikki Brown. “I was gutted. For a year I was basically paying her to f*** my husband,” she said. – PAA

Taylor Swift sets records Spotify says Taylor Swift has set a new global first day streaming record. The music delivery site said yesterday it had logged more than eight million same-day streams for her new single, Look What You Made Me Do. The 27-year-old singer dropped the song on Friday to streaming platforms and iTunes. She wrote and produced it with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who performs in the bands Bleachers and fun. It’s the first single from her sixth album, reputation, to be released on November 10. The video was to premiere on the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Drawing tourists to Albania

Goats in the village of Nivica, southern Albania. An ambitious project is aiming to open up remote villages in the highlands of southern Albania to the outside world.

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igh in the mountains of southern Albania, a bonejarring drive along a rough track with switchbacks frequented more by goats than by cars leads to a cluster of small villages where time appears to have stood still for decades.

Sheep’s milk is still carried to the local cheesemaker by donkey.

Elderly villagers hike into the mountains to collect fistfuls of wild oregano and other herbs.

Old rituals of lighting candles to honour ancient, gnarled, sacred oaks are kept alive, although no one who practices them seems to know why or how they came about.

Strung out along a sheer cliff behind an old, crumbled fortress, the village of Nivica is unknown to many even in Albania. But an ambitious project is aiming to open it up to the outside world and to tourists wanting to discover the spectacular natural beauty and rural way of life of the more isolated parts of the country.

“We are doing a pilot project on the concept of how to connect rural communities very close to the coastline but (which have)

never been helped by coastline tourism,” said Auron Tare, who heads Albania’s National Coastline Agency and is leading the project in Nivica.

The area’s attractions are many.

Crystal-clear streams run through sheer canyons and gorges slicing through the landscape. Small stone Ottoman-era bridges still arch over gullies, untouched for centuries. At sunset, shepherds drive their flocks through the fields to small corrals for milking.

And like everything in the Balkans, the region is steeped in history.

“Apart from the landscape, the reason to come here is because of the stories. This is a place where Roman troops travelled, this is a place where Normans travelled, this is a place where Ottomans travelled. World War One, World War Two. There are many stories to be connected to this area,” Tare said.

“Plus the wonderful landscape, and also the untouched life. Here you see people milking their sheep and their goats as they did 4000 years ago. You see people in their pastoral daily life, which is extremely attractive to people who have lost that heritage, and you

would come here and find that spiritual enrichment in your life.”

For now, visitors are mainly young backpackers from European countries hiking along Albania’s ancient trails and camping in a field just outside the village. Tare says about 150 tourists visited the village over the past month, mainly from the Czech Republic, drawn by comments on social media from a team of Czechs who have been working on marking centuries-old paths as hiking trails.

The area is still far off the beaten track; many of those living on the coast just over the other side of the mountains have never even heard of Nivica.

“This village, we can say that it is deeply (hidden) in the mountain,” said Lorena Sinatrakaj, a 29-yearold archaeologist working on the project. Even she herself had never heard of it, she admits.

When the project leaders arrived, they found a village based on agriculture and animal rearing, she said. Tourism was an alien concept, and the village was in a general state of dilapidation.

Many of the locals had moved away to towns and cities elsewhere in the country. With little state infrastructure or services, waste

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management consisted largely of throwing garbage down the ravines or tossing it in the street.

“When we came here last year, there was 30 years’ worth of garbage in the village square,” Tare said.

The project’s first task was to clear up the rubbish, both inside the village and in the nearby ravine. Now the village square has been cleared, and villagers drive their sheep past stonemasons chipping at rocks, the sound of chisels striking stone echoing through the sultry summer heat as they work on the village’s biggest single project: a new guesthouse, scheduled for completion next spring.

Sinatrakaj says locals quickly embraced the project once they saw the potential for tourism.

For Dallandyshe Merio, a local woman who left the village two decades ago and moved to the southern port town of Vlora, the project has brought such hope to the village that she is considering moving back.

“I’m happy that the village has come back to life again. Before, everyone was gone,” said Merio, who initially converted one of the rooms in her house in the village

for paying guests. When she saw how well the system worked with her first guest, a German, she renovated a second room and now runs a small bed-and-breakfast.

“People are coming back and rebuilding,” she said.

Crucially, part of the project includes turning the dirt track leading to the village from the nearest town of Tepelene into a road, to ease access.

But the danger of opening up too fast to too much tourism is a real one, and something Tare and Sinatrakaj are well aware of. The aim, they say, is not to turn Nivica into a place where tour buses disgorge thousands of tourists, something that would shatter the tranquillity of the area and endanger the local way of life.

“As we know, tourism has a lot of good benefits but also negative effects, such as destroying local culture and destroying (the) environment,” Tare said.

“And as we go slow, we’re trying to convert the traditional hospitality to a more welcoming feeling and place for visitors to come, without disturbing the local culture. It is a challenging aspect, of course, and time will tell if we are right or not.”

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Calmness gets ABs home

New Zealand winger Rieko Ioane attempts to run past Australian winger Dane Haylett-Petty (right) during their Bledisloe Cup rugby test in Dunedin. The All Blacks defeated the Wallabies 35-29.

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Hooker Dane Coles has revealed the calmness of the senior players and coach Steve Hansen at halftime and deep into the match was crucial in helping the All Blacks in their dramatic come-from-behind victory over the Wallabies.

The All Blacks, down 17 points in as many minutes in Dunedin, clearly just need to get their hands on the ball and try to exert some consistent pressure on a Wallabies team making the most of their chances after last weekend’s thrashing.

But the harder the home side tried, the worse it got. Possession was spilled time and again and the Wallabies capitalised from seemingly impossible situations – such as directly from a fast retreating scrum.

There was no panic among Kieran Read and his fellow leaders, however. And with Aaron Smith’s converted try after the halftime hooter bringing them back into the match 17-14, the All Blacks felt they had momentum.

“They really gave it to us and put us under a lot of pressure for

most of that match,” Coles said.

“There was definitely calmness but our skills and execution was quite poor. We dropped a lot of ball – just the simple stuff and they got the run of the green and scored some points.”

The drama of the first half had nothing on the second, however, with Will Genia and Kurtley Beale scoring tries which put the visitors ahead twice after Beauden Barrett and Ben Smith scored for the All Blacks.

That left the All Blacks needing something special and they delivered, with Read taking the re-start and making the break which led to the brilliant interchange between TJ Perenara and Barrett for the No10’s second try, one which helped the All Blacks to a famous 35-29 victory.

Barrett said the All Blacks knew they could get out of the hole dug by the Wallabies and their own mistakes if they kept the faith.

“We could have easily gone into our shell but we were encouraged at halftime to trust our skills and earn the right to play

again and that trust was shown right through to the 80th minute,” Barrett said.

“It’s just about doing the basics well. Nothing special has to happen, it’s just doing what we train, being in the moment and trusting that.

“We always back ourselves right to the final whistle and as long as there’s seven points in it we’ll never give up.”

It was a special match for Barrett, who scored two tries and was accurate off the tee, kicking five from five shots at goal. His opposite Bernard Foley kicked only two from six.

And it was for Coles too, after his battle with concussion which sidelined him for four months this year.

“I was pretty gassed when I got subbed,” Coles said. “I thought our reserves were good – better than last week – they really added to the edge and intensity we needed to get the job done.

“It shows the belief in our team – we never give up. When we do things simple and effective we give ourselves a good chance.”

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Steve Hansen defends Retallick from Cheika ire All Blacks boss Steve Hansen has come to the defence of Brodie Retallick, saying the lock wasn’t acting deliberately when he tipped Australian flanker Ned Hanigan onto his head in Saturday’s second Bledisloe Cup Test win.

With his side trailing early, the 66-Test Retallick escaped sanction for an incident in which he cleaned Hanigan out of a ruck, only to upend him.

Welsh referee Nigel Owens, after reviewing the incident with the TMO, found Retallick’s actions to be accidental - infuriating Wallabies boss Michael Cheika.

The All Blacks ultimately went on to claim a late 35-29 win.

Cheika felt the lock should’ve been penalised, with a sin-binning or red card surely changing the course of the Test in his side’s favour.

“He’s got his arm through his legs, picked him up and it’s a free pass. That’s one that’s clear, I don’t have to go over it,” Cheika said post-game.

“The guy can’t end up on his head any other way. It’s a freebie.

“Just as well he didn’t break his neck.”

Hansen disputed that series of events on Sunday, saying blindside Hanigan had jumped upon Retallick in the ruck and subsequently fell off.

He felt Owens’ ruling was fair, and looked to avoid yet another trans-Tasman war of words with Cheika by saying he was entitled to his view.

“When somebody jumps on top of you, you get up on your knees and he falls off, it’s an accident. It’s not a deliberate act,” Hansen said.

“I don’t want to get into that (Cheika) made his point and that’s fine.”

The SANZAAR review committee is yet to make a call on the incident.

On the injury front, Hansen said most of his side emerged unscathed from their battle, barring Sam Cane and Ryan Crotty concussions. The pair will go through the relevant protocols, with the squad set to reconvene next week for their Test against Argentina in New Plymouth.

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Successful champs for local team Ten members of the JION Karate Dojo in Ashburton had a successful trip to the Canterbury Karate Championships recently.

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Black Ferns sink England The Black Ferns have won back the women’s rugby World Cup with a sublime second half to overwhelm defending champions England 41-32 in Dublin.

The Kiwis were comprehensively outplayed in the first spell but ran in five second-half tries – headlined by prop Toko Natua’s hat-trick – for an outstanding win.

The Black Ferns had orchestrated the perfect start, first five-eighth Victoria Subritzy-Nafatali’s wide kick missing Portia Woodman but falling perfectly for fullback Selica Winiata to dot down.

England reduced the margin with a penalty soon after, then were clinical in making the Black Ferns pay when flanker Sarah Goss’s tackle was deemed dangerous and she was sin binned after 20 minutes.

The Kiwis were able to hold out England initially, but were always going to struggle at scrum time with a player down and conceded a penalty try after 24 minutes.

Seven minutes later, winger Lydia Thompson extended England’s lead, crossing out wide after quick hands from the breakdown left the New Zealand defence scrambling.

The Kiwis continued to concede too many penalties, and at 17-5 down looked down and out.

But two minutes from halftime, Natua reach out a big hand from the depths of a strong Black Ferns drive to the line for her first try of the night.

New Zealand celebrates after winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup final in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

PHOTO PETER MORRISON/AP After struggling for possession and territory for the first 40 minutes, the New Zealanders came out firing in the second spell.

Their aimless kicking game disappeared, and the tries began coming.

Natua kick-started proceedings with her second try from close range, the Kiwis rewarded for a patient build-up.

Lock Charmaine Smith added

another after 52 minutes, only for England to hit back through Thompson two minutes later.

But the Kiwis found another gear, controlling possession with a dominant forward effort epitomised by Natua’s hat-trick try as the hour mark approached.

First-five Kendra Cocksedge darted across for New Zealand’s sixth, then Subritzy-Nafatali unleashed another pinpoint cross

kick for Winiata’s second try of the match.

There was still a twist at the end, the Ferns finishing with 14 players after Lesley Ketu’s 77th minute yellow card.

England capitalised, driving Izzy Noel-Smith over to reduce the Kiwi lead to nine with two minutes remaining, but it was too little and far too late.

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Flying start to season for Hammers From P24 The Hammers kept the pressure on and substitute Seta Koroitamana finished off a piece of fantastic play from Mid Canterbury after Sau made a penetrating run up the left wing, before the ball was spread quickly the width of the pitch and into the arms of Koroitamana.

Percival notched an excellent conversion, putting Mid Canterbury’s lead at 22-5.

Soon after he had his second try of the day, taking a quick tap and powerfully diving in to the corner to secure the bonus point victory for the Hammers.

Percival converted and in the dying moments added his name to the try-scorers column as well, diving spectacularly on to his own grubber kick to record the Hammers’ fifth try of the day.

He was unable to convert, giving Mid Canterbury the 34-5 victory.

After the match, co-coach James Jowsey said they were pleased with the performance.

“To go to the cliché book it really was a game of two halves. We should have put three on them in the first half but we didn’t and

Mid Canterbury captain Jackson Donlan scoring a try in the side’s 34-5 win against Poverty Bay on Saturday.

PHOTO ROBYN HOOD 260817-RH-063 that was the main message in the shed at halftime that we need to finish those chances,” he said.

“You always want to win the first game of the season as it boosts the confidence and we have done the best we could by getting the bonus point.”

Mid Canterbury 34 (tries, Maleli Sau, Jackson Donlan, Seta

Koroitamana X2, Jarred Percival.

Penalties, Jarred Percival. Conversions, Jarred Pericval X3) Poverty Bay 5 (Tries, Siosiua Moala) Halftime: 5-5 In other results around the competition, Mid Canterbury were the only Hanan Shield side

to pick up a win, with Horowhenua Kapiti beating North Otago 22-19, while South Canterbury lost to Buller 27-24.

Defending Meads Cup Champions Wanganui thrashed Wairarapa Bush 79-7, while the West Coast were able to overcome the King Country 17-6. Thames Valley beat East Coast 42-13.

Manly down Warriors Manly have pulled off a dramatic NRL victory, skipper Daly CherryEvans landing a field goal in the fifth minute of golden point to beat the Warriors 22-21 in Auckland.

The Sea Eagles had been seven points down with seven minutes of normal time to go on before beginning a late fightback.

Fullback Tom Trbojevic producing a chip-and-chase try from nothing, Matt Wright kicked the conversion and then Cherry-Evans landed a field goal to tie up the score with two minutes on the clock.

Warriors star Shaun Johnson and Cherry-Evans each had another go at a one- pointer in the final minute of normal time, but both went wide, before CherryEvans nailed the extra-time winner, kicking into the wind with his left foot after stepping off his right.

The result halted a Manly slump and maintained their playoff hopes, but for the Warriors, already out of finals reckoning, it was an eighth loss in a row.

Manly dominated the early stages in front of 9167 fans and they were aided by a couple superb 40-20s from five-eighth Blake Green.

The second ended just outside the corner flag and led to lock Jake Trbojevic opening the scoring in the 13 minute.

Wright added the extras and then a penalty, before the Warriors struck back.

The home side had been guilty of some sloppy touches but then benefited from a Manly turnover deep in their own half to send winger David Fusitu’a over in the corner.

Eight minutes from halftime, Fusitu’a got his second chasing a Johnson kick into the in-goal.

While Warriors hooker Issac Luke had produced the break that led to that second try, he wasn’t able to land the handy conversion to break the 8-8 deadlock.

After Wright added a penalty early in the second spell, Tom Trbojevic produced a piece of magic to help push Manly further ahead.

Given the ball on the halfway, he broke clear, dodged a tackle and produced a cross-kick that centre Dylan Walker latched on to score.

Three minutes later, Fusitu’a came up with some skill of his own, snaring a Johnson attacking bomb and sending centre Blake Ayshford over, with Luke’s conversion levelling the score again with half an hour to go.

The home side didn’t lead until 10 minutes from the end when winger Ken Maumalo finished off an expansive move in the corner.

Johnson landed the sideline conversion and then a field goal, before Manly’s late charge.

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Federer versus Nadal Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal, under New York’s bright lights – finally.

Even Federer wants it. After a spate of big-name withdrawals, the US Open needs it.

And it could well happen.

The two tennis titans are slated to clash at Flushing Meadows for the first time in what would be dream conclusion – if not quite the climax – to this extraordinary retro season where Federer and Nadal have wound back the clock to dominate like a decade before.

After a compelling 12-year rivalry, featuring 37 showdowns – nine in grand slam finals – Federer and Nadal are seeded to meet in the semi-finals as they bid to sweep the four majors for the first time since 2007.

While Federer is favoured to add a sixth US Open trophy to his collection, after landing his sixth Australian Open title and unprecedented eighth Wimbledon crown already in 2017, Nadal has arrived as world No.1 for the first time since 2014 following his 10th success in Paris.

“I’m not too surprised he’s back to this magnitude and being back at world No.1 after all these years is really exceptional, really nice for him,” Federer said on Saturday.

“I’d be happy to play him here.

We never played here in New

Roger Federer is set to take on Rafael Nadal in the US Open.

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York, so I think that would be fun for everybody involved.

“I don’t know, 60-plus players in between us that don’t agree in our section that we should make it to the semis. We have our work cut out there.

“But I’d love to play Rafa here in New York. Hopefully it will be a night session. Hopefully that

would be a great atmosphere and one again where we play great like at the Australian Open.

“So, yeah, I don’t think we are both thinking that far ahead. I’m sure it will be a nice prospect.”

The absences of injured former world No.1 Novak Djokovic and defending champion Stan Wawrinka – after both last year’s final-

ists called an early end to their seasons – and the late scratchings of second seed Andy Murray, Milos Raonic and 2014 runnerup Kei Nishikori have left Federer and Nadal as clear favourites.

Suddenly the likes of Alexander Zverev, the fourth seed, and fellow young guns Dominic Thiem, seeded sixth, and mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios, runner-up to Grigor Dimitrov last week in Cincinnati, have emerged as serious title challengers.

“Opens the draws, like we saw in Montreal and Cincinnati,” Federer said.

“There will be certain sections that if the seed loses anything can happen and you can have a deep run at a slam, semis and beyond.

“So I think it’s a huge opportunity for guys ranked outside of the top 10 because there is less guys to beat, getting to quarters or semis, potentially, depending on your section.”

Federer, who has the chance to become the sport’s oldest world No.1 over the coming fortnight, and Nadal launch their title quests on Tuesday, as does Kyrgios against fellow Australian John Millman.

Zverev is in action on day one against Darian King, a surprise qualifier from Barbados.

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■ GOLF

Spieth eyes PGA victory in New York Jordan Spieth is hoping to channel his inner Tiger Woods to “cruise” to a 12th US PGA Tour victory at the final round of the Northern Trust in New York.

Establishing a three-shot over world No.1 Dustin Johnson after Saturday’s third round, Spieth is keen for an easy win after stressful triumphs at the Travelers Championship and British Open this year.

World No.3 Spieth fired a sizzling six-under-par 64 at Glen Oaks Club on Long Island and at 12-under built a sizeable cushion over Johnson, who signed for a 67 to be outright second at nine-under.

Spieth surrendered a final-round lead at the Travelers in June and had to hole out from a bunker shot during a sudden-death play-off to win.

He also relinquished the lead on Sunday of the Open at Royal Birkdale before mounting an enormous comeback to defeat Matt Kuchar by three shots - Spieth’s third career major.

“I’ve kind of shown anything can happen (when leading); unfortunately and fortunately,” said Spieth at the first leg of the PGA Tour’s $US67 million play- offs series.

“I imagine it’s not like guys chasing Tiger, where you almost felt hopeless.”

The 24-year-old American has converted nine of his past 10 final-round leads on Tour, including his four-shot win at the Pebble Beach pro-am in February.

“I’ve also had cruises. Pebble Beach was an absolute cruise. That’s what I would obviously like tomorrow,” said Spieth.

“On Sunday, I’ll have ‘DJ’ within three and some other guys who have been playing extremely well this whole year.”

Sharing third place five shots back of Spieth is England’s Paul Casey and American Patrick Reed (both 66) as well as Spanish world No.8 Jon Rahm (67) and Matt Kuchar (68) at sevenunder.

Australian world No.9 Jason Day, who won this event in 2015, climbed back up the leaderboard with a 68, but at two-under the Ohio-based Queenslander sits a distant 10 shots off the pace, tied 22nd.

“Unfortunately, I didn’t get anything going today. But I feel good; I’m striking it nicely,” Day said.

“The ultimate goal is to go out there and make as many birdies as I can and shoot myself near somewhere near the lead.”

Fellow Australian Geoff Ogilvy also mounted something of a comeback on moving day at the opening event of the $US10 million FedEx Cup playoffs series.

The former US Open winner signed for a 69 to claw back to one-over the card and sharing 39th.

Queensland veteran Rod Pampling struggled on day three, shooting a 75 to drop to seven-over and outright 68th.

- AAP

Jordan Spieth is hoping to secure his 12th US PGA Tour victory at the final round of the Northern Trust in New York.

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Andy Murray

■ TENNIS

Murray out due to hip injury Andy Murray has pulled out of the US Open after failing to recover from a hip injury.

The world No.2 struggled through Wimbledon with the problem, losing in the quarter-finals to Sam Querrey, but his prospects for Flushing Meadows had looked positive when he travelled to New York last weekend.

However, after a week of practice Murray has decided he is not fit enough to do himself justice.

“I did pretty much everything I could to get myself ready here, took a number of weeks off after Wimbledon, spoke to a lot of hip specialists, tried resting, rehabbing to get myself ready here and was practising OK the last few days but it’s too sore for me to win the tournament and ultimately that’s what I was here to try and do, so unfortunately I won’t be playing this year,” the Scot, who looked close to tears, said.

Murray’s withdrawal means five of the top 11 men will not be playing at Flushing Meadows, with Milos Raonic joining the Scot, last year’s champion Wawrinka, runner-up Djokovic and 2014 finalist Nishikori in pulling out.

Wawrinka, Djokovic and Nishikori have followed the example of Roger Federer, who took the final six months of last season off to fully recover from knee surgery and has reaped the benefits this year.

“If I get myself fit and healthy, there is no reason why I can’t (come back at the same level),” Murray, who will miss a slam for the first time since the French Open in 2013, said.

“I have been practising here and been competitive in practice when I’m not moving close to how I can when I’m healthy. Obviously there has been a lot of players with injuries this year. Roger and Rafa (Nadal) last year had a few problems.

“I want to be back on court as soon as I can. If it means that I can play before the end of the year, then that’s what I would love to do. I miss competing, and I’ll try to get myself back on court as soon as I can.

“But obviously I’ll need to make the correct decision and really think it through these next couple of days with my team.”

Murray’s withdrawal means a reshuffling of the men’s draw, with fifth seed Marin Cilic taking over the No.2 slot and an opening match against American Tennys Sandgren.

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■ CANOEING

Gold and silver for Carrington at worlds Triple Olympic medallist Lisa Carrington has won silver and gold from her first two finals at the canoe sprint world championships in the Czech Republic.

Carrington, a double Olympic champion in the K1 200m, opened her campaign in Racice with silver behind Volha Khudzenka in the K1 500m.

The 28-year-old Tauranga paddler was edged by Khudzenka’s strong finish, clocking 1min 48.710 to the Belarusian’s 1:48.421.

Carrington backed up soon after in the K2 500m with Caitlin Ryan, the pair dominant in racking up a 1:38:687 win over Germany’s Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze, who finished in 1:40.582.

The Kiwi pair are a relatively new combination, and Carrington said it was pleasing to manage the win so soon.

“A few months ago, I didn’t really know I was going to do this event, so I’ve only been training with Caitlin for a few months,” she said.

“This is why we do all the training that we do and I’ve been preparing for this for a while, so I just had to trust the process really.”

Carrington is halfway through a packed programme, qualifying for the K1 200m final with a 39.557sec semi-final win.

She will also join Ryan, Kayla Imrie and Amee Fisher in the K4 500m final after the quartet posted the fastest qualifying time in their heat on Saturday (NZ time).

- NZME

In brief Lyon stay unbeaten Lyon maintained their unbeaten start in Ligue 1 but failed to break down a stubborn Nantes in a 0-0 draw. Lyon enjoyed more possession with Brazilian defender Marcelo and forward Bertrand Traore having chances saved early on. Nantes, coached by Claudio Ranieri – the Italian who led Leicester to English Premier League glory two seasons ago – showed good organisation but scant threat for most of the game considering they were at home.

Lyon hit the woodwork twice midway through the second half.

Traore struck the post and forward Nabil Fekir’s follow-up strike cannoned off the crossbar.

Midfielder Jules Iloki had the first shot on target for Nantes in the 81st minute, but goalkeeper Anthony Lopes saved with his foot.

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Shoulder charge ban

Lisa Carrington was in the medals at the canoe sprint world championships in the Czech Republic.

Jarrod Wallace’s NRL season is over after the Gold Coast skipper was given a three-week ban for a shoulder charge. The Titans’ week from hell was worsened yesterday after Wallace was cited by the match review committee for a hit on Canterbury’s Moses Mbye. Wallace was charged with a grade three offence for the tackle on Saturday, meaning he will miss three weeks if he accepts an early guilty plea and five weeks if he fights the case and loses. He looks all but certain to miss his side’s final round clash with the Sydney Roosters and his likely ban will carry into the 2018 pre-season.

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Fitness questioned

Top finish for Sissons

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■ MULTISPORT

Clough’s run of success continues Ashburton multisport athlete Matthew Clough has continued a year of success with a secondplace finish at the 2017 ITU World Aquathlon Championships. Racing in the U19 category, Clough

was looking to improve on a third-place finish in Mexico the year before.

With the event starting in the water, Clough exited in sixth place and set to work chasing

down the pack ahead, overtaking second place with 1km to go, finishing with a time of 32 minutes and 35 second, just over a minute behind the first-place Rahul Jegatheva from Australia.

New Zealand triathlete Ryan Sissons has produced his third straight top-10 finish in taking fourth at the World Triathlon Series race in Stockholm.

The 29-year-old Zimbabwe-born Kiwi now sits seventh in the series rankings as he prepares for the grand final in Rotterdam on September 14-17.

Sissons came out of the choppy 1500m swim 35 seconds down on the leaders, setting to work on the bike in the first chase pack behind a flying front group of six driven by British star Jonathan Brownlee.

The lead pack extended their advantage to over a minute on the eight-lap cycle leg before Sissons’ group hauled the deficit back going on to the run.

The Kiwi stuck with Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt and Frenchman Pierre Le Corre as they chased down all but the flying Brownlee, who went on to win emphatically in 1hr 49min 10sec Sissons slipped back in the final sprint, but was content with fourth over the testing Stockholm circuit.

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Andrew Johns has questioned whether Jarryd Hayne is unfit and overweight following his uninspiring and tumultuous NRL season. Hayne again had a game to forget in Gold Coast’s 26-14 loss to Canterbury on Saturday.

Coach Neil Henry was sacked after falling out with Hayne just five days earlier, a shake up which was expected to fire up the Titans playing squad. But Hayne, like the rest of the side, was once again ordinary and committed simple errors such as kicking out on the full. It led rugby league great Johns to question whether Hayne, who has been criticised for not performing to the level expected of his $1.2 million pay packet, was fit enough.

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West Indies fight hard James Anderson has moved two wickets closer to joining test cricket’s 500 club as England and the West Indies battled for control of the second test. However, the tourists, resuming at 1-19, did well to reach the lunch break on 3-109 in reply to England’s first innings of 258. Anderson took his total to 493 by removing Kieran Powell on the first evening at Headingley and added two more before Kraigg Brathwaite (63not) and Shai Hope (33no) combined to bolster the Windies’ cause. Anderson wasted little time removing nightwatchman Devendra Bishoo for one and then had Kyle Hope (three) brilliantly caught by Joe Root. Anderson was roared on by a capacity crowd.

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■ BOXING

Mayweather earns TKO win Floyd Mayweather Jr figured out a 50th opponent, letting Conor McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless and exhausted on the ropes.

Mayweather battered McGregor around the ring in the later rounds, finally stopping him at 1:05 of the 10th round with a flurry of punches that forced referee Robert Byrd to stop the fight.

Before a pro-McGregor crowd that roared every time the UFC star landed a punch, Mayweather methodically broke him down after a slow start to score his first real stoppage in nearly a decade.

He did it in what he said would be his final fight, against a fighter who had never been in a professional boxing match.

McGregor boxed surprisingly well early.

But after landing some shots in the first three rounds, his punches seemed to lose their steam, and Mayweather went on the pursuit.

McGregor backpedaled most of the way, stopping only to throw an occasional flurry as Mayweather wore him down.

“I think we gave the fans what they wanted to see,” Mayweather said. “I owed them for the (Manny) Pacquiao fight.”

McGregor had vowed to knock Mayweather out within two rounds, and he won the early rounds with movement and punches to the head. But the tide of the fight turned in the fourth round as Mayweather seemed to figure out what he had to do and began aggressively stalking McGregor.

“I turned him into a Mexican tonight,” McGregor said. “He fought like a Mexican.”

In a fight so intriguing that it cost $10,000 for ringside seats,

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McGregor turned in a respectable performance for someone in his first fight. But Mayweather’s experience and his ring savvy paid off as he executed his game plan to perfection.

“Our game plan was to take our time, go to him and take him out in the end,” Mayweather said. “I guaranteed everybody this fight wouldn’t go the distance.”

Mayweather was widely criticized for not going after Pacquiao in their megafight, and he didn’t make the same mistake this time.

In a fight that could make him $200 million he seemed to stagger McGregor with a series of punches in the ninth round, then came back in the 10th eager to finish it off.

McGregor went over and hugged Mayweather. He seemed almost happy in the ring afterward, secure that he had given a good performance even in losing.

“I was a little fatigued,” he said.

“He was composed in there, that’s what 50 pro fights can give you.”

Mayweather ran his record to 50-0, surpassing Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record and giving himself a great parting gift. He repeated afterward that he was not going to fight again.

“This is my last fight for sure.

50-0 sounds good, I’m looking forward to going into the Hall of Fame,” Mayweather said. “I picked the best dance partner to do it with.”

Irish fans arrived by the thousands in the days before the fight, filling the arena for the weighin and boisterously cheering for their man.

The capacity crowd at the arena cheered McGregor on, but they quieted as the fight progressed and Mayweather showed his dominance.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr (left) fights Conor McGregor in a super welterweight boxing match in Las Vegas yesterday.

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RURAL WOMEN Anama A trip to the South Canterbury village of Woodbury was the venue for the Anama Rural Women’s August meeting.

Noticeable among the various reports and items was the thoughtfulness, support and care of members for each other by way of messages of condolence to the McKenzie and Divers families, letters of thanks, and visits to members in hospital and in their homes.

Retiring provincial president Sandra Curd had visited Anama life member Betty Evans and kept her up to date with provincial matters and Mayfield Lions chairman sent an e-mail of thanks immediately after branch members had catered for their monthly dinner.

These thoughtful acts are part of the values of society and are much appreciated.

Anama members have been catering for Mayfield Lions for 39 years with several members having been on board for each event.

The guest speaker Joanna Hewson, a registered physiotherapy acupuncturist, spoke about cosmetic acupuncture, a rejuvenating facial treatment for face, mind and body incorporating very fine needles and massage. Wellbeing acupuncture is another aspect which relaxes, calms and energises the body.

Acupuncture has been used by the Chinese for well over 3000 years. New Zealand practitioners use both Chinese and Western/medical treatments and assessments. Jo gave a fascinating hands-on demonstration on a colleague of facial treatment and massage.

Lunch and shopping in Geraldine wound up an interesting and informative day.

Lynnford The Lynnford Rural Women’s meeting held on the afternoon of August 3 at the home of Jill Harris and co-hosted with Joan Moore was attended by 13 members with just four apologies accepted. The middle of winter not being conducive to venturing out to meetings.

The meeting was the first one presided over by our new President Marian Dent who worked in easily with returning secretary Marion.

At the recent regional meeting, Jill Harris won the photographic section Child at Play with her study of her grand-daughter holding a chook, a delightful photo of a child with her pet hen.

Those that attended the meeting, enjoyed the very good speakers, one of whom was talking about milking Texel sheep.

With not having a speaker this month it was an opportunity to discuss many Rural Women inhouse details for the remainder of the year.

Marion will deliver flowers for Chalmers Ward on August 11.

Upcoming events: Mid Canterbury Provincial AGM on August 18 at 1.30pm.

The Jam sponge sandwich, which is an entry for the competition, will be used for afternoon tea.

Monday, October 9 is the day that the Lynnford Branch will be delivering Meals on Wheels.

The next Link meeting which will be hosted by the Lynnford Branch, will be held on Friday, October 20, being the day before Labour Weekend. A venue to be confirmed.

The next branch meeting to be held at Bev Bagrie’s home at 1.30pm on September 7.

The Rural Women Conference which is to be held November 18-20 in Invercargill this year, was discussed.

Winchmore We had a good attendance at our monthly meeting in August at the hall.

Elsa Hydes introduced our speaker Margaret Kelk who gave us a very full and entertaining talk on her recent travels in the UK and Crete.

On Margaret and Geoff’s bucket list was a trip in a longboat on an English canal.

They were accompanied by another family couple and for seven days wound their way along the waterways.

Margaret also told us about visiting the Chanel Islands and a trip around the top of Scotland; she had many entertaining stories to tell those present.

A number of members are unwell with winter colds and our president is unwell with a loss of her voice which we hope improves soon.

The branch is organising and running another school holidays children’s craft morning, this was held for the first time in 2016 and proved popular.

It was also decided to hold another social function before Christmas for the ladies and ideas will be demonstrated for inexpensive Christmas gifts.

Members had been successful in the competitions at the recent Regional Conference and they are to be congratulated.

Seafield President Kerry welcomed a smaller number of five members to our August Meeting which was held at St Paul’s Presbyterian Lounge.

One birthday to be celebrated later this month and there is a bit of sickness amongst members at the moment.

Motto the month: You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.

All business was dealt with including going through all the correspondence from National Office and locally.

A full report was given on the Region 2 Conference which was held at the Seniors’ Centre on July 28 which five of our members attended.

Kerry asked members in what form would be the best to keep us together for the future. Members are to think about it.

Next meeting to held at Staveley.

As there was no speaker, meeting was closed and members had a social time together.

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable computer servicing and laser engraving. Contact Kelvin, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989. Proudly serving locals for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

MOTORING

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8.30am LET OR LEASE WAREHOUSES for lease - 3.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 Riverside Industrial Park, www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz 545m² with 2 x inbuilt offices Doaky’s SUN CONTROL WINDOW and 200m². Contact Paul 021 Plumbing Ltd TINTING. Quality window 140 9787 or contact Murray films for privacy, UV (fading), 027 567 8921.

03 308 1248 heat, safety and security. For cars, homes and offices.

Phone Craig Rogers 307 6347 or 0800 TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ. Check us out on FACEBOOK.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

NEW, 26 year old, Singapore lady, size 10, 34C busty.

Good service. Phone 021 831 682.

Main South Road, Tinwald, Ashburton 03 307 9028 www.smallbones.co.nz

Birthday Greetings

RURAL TRADING POST

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local distributor: Veehof phone 302 2911.

Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton

Cooper Hulme Happy Birthday!

Seven years old!

Love Nanna and Grandad.

Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Daily Events Monday 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.45am PLAINS LADIES FRIENDSHIP CLUB. Meeting with lunch, celebrating our 25th birthday. Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

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

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD

Tuesday 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allen’s Road.

9.30am ASHBURTON U3A. 10am speaker Jenny Harper, Director Christchurch Art Gallery. St David’s Union Church, 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. Good clean ‘Second time around” clothing for sale.

Ashburton Baptist Church, cnr of Cass and Havelock Streets.

10am NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Weekly coffee morning for new people to Ashburton. Nosh Cafe at Ashfords, West Street.

10am

August 28 & 29, 2017

EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September, late night Wednesday.

Ashburton Art Gallery, West St. 12pm - 1pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Free lunch for everyone. Baptist Church, please enter off Cass St. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research. Heritage Centre, 327 West Street.

1pm - 4pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting. Waireka Croquet club rooms, Philip St. 6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in the hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE EUCHRE. Every Monday night, Catholic Parish Hall, cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 127th Annual General Meeting and table show awards. Sports Pavillion, Walnut Avenue.

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter. Main St, Methven.

10am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Exercises and Tai Chi for Arthritis. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD EXHIBITION. “The Joy of Stitching” runs daily from 5 August - 3 September, late night Wednesday.

Ashburton Art Gallery, West Street.

12pm - 3pm JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Signing Centre, New Community House, 44 Cass St. 1pm AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Fall prevention strengthening muscles improving balance.

Presbyterian Church, Rakaia.

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

1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Club day, non-members welcome. 115 Racecourse .

5.30pm - 7.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group. 48 Allens Road.

7pm - 9pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Weekly club night, all player levels welcome. E A Network Stadium, River Terrace.

7.30pm ASHBURTON TABLE TENNIS. Weekly games, come and have a go! Ashburton Club and MSA, Havelock Street.

Puzzles

www.guardianonline.co.nz Puzzles and horoscopes

Cryptic crossword

Monday, August 28, 2017

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

WordWheel

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): On a gut level, you know the investments of energy, time or money that are right for you. Honour you limits and also your instincts toward outrageous generosity.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Stop struggling. No one will gain from extraneous effort. There’s someone close with the power to help or maybe even make the whole dilemma go away. Reach out.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The pressure is off – except for, of course, the pressure you’re putting on yourself, which is more or less a constant. Is this necessary? Ease up a little and then, if you feel OK about that, maybe a little more.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Your instincts are honed.

Believe it. You’ll automatically make the right risk to save what’s important. With that knowledge, you can go about your day worry-free.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Success is linked to your creativity. Before you make any actual efforts, put your imagination to the task. Daydream your way into solutions. Think of 10 different ways you might solve the problem.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Are you in love with a person or with the story you have created about the person? Certainly, your projections affect the situation. Love and objectivity don’t mix. The deeper the love the lesser the objectivity.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’re not proud of every single thing you’ve done, but that’s part of being human. Mistakes can’t be helped. Anyway, doing nothing wrong is a mistake, too – the mistake of being boring and scared to grow.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Someone who is truly on your wavelength – well, it’s a pretty rare find. Don’t let that stop you from reaching out, though. Finish your thoughts before communicating them. Join the dots. Make it easy for people to understand you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It hasn’t been easy to figure out what you really want, because the answer keeps changing. That’s fine. All the more reason not to make a move yet. Wait until you’re more certain.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Thinking energises you.

It doesn’t have to be your own thinking, either; you’ll be energised by what you read, hear and see, as long as there’s a robust thought process behind it.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Not all plans are conscious. When your subconscious plans come together today, the result will be a mixture of surprise and satisfaction.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’re not going to win alone, and neither will the other person. Join forces in a game that’s big enough for two. Become partners in seeking a solution with prizes for all.

WordBuilder

Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

How many words of three or more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There is at least one fiveletter word.

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TODAY’S GOALS: Good – 10 Excellent – 14 Amazing – 21

Previous solution: TENEMENT

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Previous solution: abs, alb, albs, awl, awls, bas, bawl, bawls, lab, labs, law, laws, sal, saw, slab, slaw, swab, was.

Sudoku

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Guardian

Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

RANGIORA

LAKE COLERIDGE

Weather

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TODAY: High cloud. A period of rain around midday. NE tending NW in the afternoon.

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THURSDAY: Cloudy, occasional rain ASHBURTON Ra WALKER, Allena Janice ka ia 18 or drizzle developing. SE developing.

(Jan) (Nee Colville) – MAX 11 OVERNIGHT MIN 5 On August 26, 2017 peaceAsh fully at Ashburton Hospital. bur to Geraldine n Aged 83 years. Dearly loved Midnight Tonight MID CANTERBURY FUNERAL SERVICES wife of Lloyd. Much loved Ra n mother and mother-in-law gitata Galbraith’s provide choice! of Barry Hefford and Jo We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Galbraith’s Broughan, Raewyn Councelebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, sell and Dave Jackson, and and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. provide choice!

TIMARU We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to Katrina and Richard Cooke. reflect their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and 17 Loved step mother of John Call us on your family.

Call us on 308 3980 Walker and Mel, Sandra 308 visit 3980 our new premises at Walker and Murray McOscar.or call in and Loving Nana of Stacey Counor 246 callHavelock in andStreet visit sell and Dean, Kurt Counsell our new premises at and Jeremy, Michelle CounEion McKinnon Rob Cope-Williams Paterson’s Funeral Services sell and Scott, Ryan Hefford 246 Havelock FDANZ Ashburton Waimate and Heidi Broughan, Jason Ph 307 7433 Street Wind km/h Monday, 28 August 2017 NZ Situation and Paige Anderson, Sarah less than 30 Anderson, Josh, Olivia and Fronts associated with a complex trough over the Official Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm fine mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers Ben Cooke, Jason and KerTasman Sea move east across the New Zealand today. fine showers clearing showers rie Watson, and Hollie and FUNERAL SMITH, Phyllis Ann – 30 to 59 A weak ridge of high pressure lies over the South Grace. Special family friend FURNISHERS Passed away peacefully at of John, Elizabeth, Michaela, Island tomorrow, while a broad low pressure system Addington Lifestyle Care on Sarah, Caleb and Aaron fog isolated snow sleet thunder rain snow hail 60 plus approaches the North Island. The low moves slowly MASTER August 26, 2017, aged 92 Staite. Loved sister of Max thunder flurries years. Dearly loved wife of the Colville. Messages to the MONUMENTAL MASON across New Zealand from Wednesday to Friday. late Leonard, loved mother Walker family PO Box 472, overnight E.B. CARTER LTD Canterbury Plains NZ Today Canterbury High Country max low and mother-in-law of Carol Ashburton 7740. A service For all your memorial and Ivan Purtle, Sheryl and for Jan will be held at Our Auckland showers 18 11 TODAY TODAY FZL: 2100m requirements Kit Randall, and the late Ian. Chapel cnr East and Cox New headstones and designs Cherished nana of Richard, streets, Ashburton on ThursScattered morning rain, then becoming fine. Periods of rain about the main divide, with Hamilton showers 17 10 Renovations, Nicky, Greig, Angela, James day, August 31 commencing snow down to 1700 metres at first. Cloudy Northeasterlies.

Additional inscriptions, and Mandy. Loved great-nana at 1.30pm followed by interNapier showers 19 11 further east, with scattered morning rain.

Cleaning and Concrete work of her 15 great grandchildren. ment at the Ashburton New Wind at 1000m: NW gale 65 km/h.

TOMORROW Carried out by qualified A funeral service for Phyl- Lawn Cemetery.

Palmerston North showers 19 10 Wind at 2000m: NW gale 80 km/h. tradesmen. lis will be held at the La Vida Fine, but becoming cloudy in the evening 620 East Street Ashburton Centre, 34A Hansons Lane, Paterson’s Funeral Services Wellington showers 15 11 with occasional drizzle. Light winds.

TOMORROW FZL: Lowering to 1400m at night Ph/Fax 308 5369 FDANZ Ashburton Upper Riccarton, Christchor 0274 357 974 Ph 307 7433 urch, on Friday, September Fine spells. A few showers about the main Nelson rain 15 10 ebcarter@xtra.co.nz WEDNESDAY 1, at 11am, to be followed divide, falling as snow down to 1500m, NZMMMA Member by a private interment. MesBlenheim showers 16 8 clearing later. Cloud developing in the Cloudy, with a few spots of early rain. sages may be sent c/- the E, with a few spots of rain later.

Wind at Light winds.

Smith family, PO Box 37152, Greymouth showers 15 9 1000m: NW 50 km/h gradually easing to FLORISTS Christchurch 8025.

CROTTY, Bruce Morgan – On August 26 2017. Peacefully at Radius Millstream, Ashburton. Aged 94 years. Dearly loved husband of Colleen and the late Margaret. Much loved father and father-in-law of Shona King (Melbourne) Tony and Joy (Belfast) Joy Heney (Hakatere) and Grant (Christchurch). Loved pop of Hayley and Michael and loved grandad of the late Isaac, and Daniel, Aaron, and Kerry and Mark; and Anna and Lachlan.

Funeral details later.

Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka & Surrounding Districts since 1905

Celebrant

Managing Director

THURSDAY

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Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to:

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to ensure publication.

To place a notice during office hours please contact us on 03 307 7900 for more information Any queries please contact 0800 ASHBURTON (0800-274-287)

30 km/h. Wind at 2000m: NW 60 km/h gradually easing to 40 km/h.

Cloudy, occasional rain or drizzle developing.

Southeasterlies developing.

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Patersons Funeral Services and Ashburton Crematorium Ltd

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Office and Chapel Corner East & Cox Streets, Ashburton

Ph 307 7433

WEDNESDAY Mainly fine in the west. Cloudy with a few spots of rain clearing in the east, snow down to 1200 metres at first. Northwesterlies dying out late.

FRIDAY Cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle.

Southerly breezes.

World Weather

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Rise 7:08 am Set 6:01 pm

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First quarter

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Rise 7:06 am Set 6:02 pm

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Fair fishing

Set 12:43 am Rise 11:05 am

Full moon

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Bad fishing

Set 1:40 am Rise 11:41 am

Last quarter

13 Sep 6:26 pm

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River Levels

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 182.8 Nth Ashburton at 12:15 pm, yesterday

14.1 nc

Sth Ashburton at 12:05 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 4:00 pm, yesterday

69.5

Waitaki Kurow at 12:08 pm, yesterday

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Source: Environment Canterbury

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 17.3 20.0 Max to 4pm 6.4 Minimum -0.2 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 92.2 Avg Aug to date 53 2017 to date 728.6 453 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 19 At 4pm Strongest gust N 30 Time of gust 3:19pm

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Peppa Pig 0 7am Littlest Pet Shop 3 0 7:25 Blazing Team 3 7:50 The Day My Butt Went Psycho 3 0 8:15 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 0 8:35 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Hoarding – Buried Alive PGR 3 0 Noon Jeremy Kyle PGR 1pm Judge Rinder 2pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 Leon 0 3:35 The Adam And Eve Show 0 4:05 Best Friends Whenever Shelby sets out to create her own web site; Cyd and Naldo win a boat and hide it in their backyard. 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Diana, Seven Days 8pm Life In Pieces PGR An in-depth look at the week Colleen joins John and his Air leading up to Princess Diana’s Force friends for his annual funeral, a time when the tradition of dirty Christmas future of the monarchy was carolling. 0 in serious doubt. 0 8:30 Wentworth AO 0 9:30 Hunted AO 0 9:30 Love Island AO 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0 10:35 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0 11:05 F Cougar Town PGR 3 0 11:35 The Mysteries Of Laura AO 30 11pm American Crime AO 12:25 Desperate Housewives AO Luis arrives at the Hesby farm and 3 0 1:10 Shortland Street PGR learns the truth about his son’s 3 0 2am Infomercials death; after a revealing conversation, 3:05 Baby Daddy PGR 3 3:25 The Jeanette and JD attend a workers’ Real PGR 3 4:15 Full House 3 rally.

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BRAVO 10am Top Chef 3 10:55 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:20 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 11:50 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 3 12:45 The Real Housewives Of Orange County PGR 1:40 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 2:35 Botched PGR 3 3:35 Hoarders 3 4:30 Dance Moms 3 5:30 Million Dollar Listing NY PGR 3 6:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 7:30 Masters Of Flip 8:30 Three Days To Live AO 9:30 N Snapped – She Made Me Do It PGR When a millionaire goes missing, a manhunt ensues and the police must find out whether the family man led a double life, or a business partner let greed become murder.

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Westside

8:30pm on Three

THE BOX 6am Wheel Of Fortune PG 6:25 Jeopardy PG 6:50 Covert Affairs MV 7:40 Heroes MV 8:30 The Simpsons PG 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 NCIS – New Orleans MV 10:40 NCIS – New Orleans MV 11:35 Jeopardy PG Noon Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:25 Pawn Stars PG 12:50 Piha Rescue PG 1:20 Covert Affairs MV 2:10 CSI – Miami MV (Part 1) 3:05 Heroes MV 4pm The Simpsons PG 4:30 Wheel Of Fortune PG 5pm Jeopardy PG 5:30 Covert Affairs MV 6:30 Piha Rescue PG 7pm Pawn Stars PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 NCIS MV 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 M 10pm Deep Undercover MVLC 10:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 11:25 CSI – Miami MV TUESDAY 12:20 Covert Affairs MV 1:20 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:50 Criminal Minds 16VS 2:40 Pawn Stars PG 3:05 Supernatural 16V 3:55 NCIS MV 4:45 Hawaii Five-0 MV 5:35 Piha Rescue PG

THREE

PRIME

MAORI

CHOICE

6am The AM Show Duncan Garner, 6am The Legend Of Korra Amanda Gillies, and Mark Richardson 6:25 Henry Danger 3 6:50 Kid v present news, interviews, and Kat 3 7:15 Grojband 7:40 Hank humour to start the day.

Zipzer, The World’s Greatest 9am The Café Underachiever 3 8:05 Johnny 10am Infomercials Test 3 8:30 The Loud House 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 Noon Dr Phil AO 9:50 Jeopardy 3 10:20 The 1pm The Block NZ PGR 3 0 Doctors PGR 2:25 Lip Sync Battle PGR 11:15 Hot Bench 11:40 The 2:55 Entertainment Tonight Tonight Show Starring Jimmy 3:20 Sticky TV Fallon PGR 3 12:40 Escape To 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm The Country 3 1:35 Top Gear PGR Susie Nordqvist presents 3 3pm Escape To The Country comprehensive coverage of global 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 0 and local news.

5pm Million Dollar Minute 4:25 Wipeout 0 5:30 Prime News 5:25 Family Feud 0 6pm Storage Wars 3 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 6:30 Pawn Stars NewsHub live At 6pm presents The Pawn Stars want to buy a plane comprehensive coverage of global propeller that may be historically tied and local news. to Charles Lindbergh.

7pm The Project 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 The Block NZ PGR 0 7:30 Ice Road Truckers PGR 8:30 F Westside AO Polar veteran Alex Debogorski Rita makes a deal with some must haul an oversized fuel devils; Mike buckles when tank; Art Burke stumbles onto his personal and private lives an ice crossing at night. 0 collide. 0 8:30 Ice Wars AO 9:30 Blue Bloods AO 0 9:40 Mayday AO 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:45 The Tonight Show Starring 10:55 N Satisfaction AO 0 Jimmy Fallon PGR

6:30 Takoha 6:40 Nga Papara Kapi 7am Penguins Of Madagascar 3 7:30 Pukana (HLS) 2 7:40 Huritua 7:50 Paia 8am R&R PGR 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Kawe Korero – Reporters 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Ako 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 Nga Papara Kapi 3 3:30 Penguins Of Madagascar 3 4pm Pukana 3 2 4:10 Huritua 3 4:20 Paia 3 4:30 Rugby League (HLS) 5:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka (HLS) 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Kaea 2 7pm Kawe Korero – Reporters 7:30 Moose Meat And Marmalade PGR 8pm Aotearoa 8:30 Murupara Dreaming AO 3 9:30 F Best Of Hunting Aotearoa PGR 3 10pm Whawhai Fight Night 3 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

11:50 The Project News and entertainment show hosted by Jesse Mulligan, Kanoa Lloyd, and Josh Thomson.

12:20 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

11pm Kawe Korero – Reporters News reporters dissect and discuss the day’s news and events.

11:30 Closedown

11:45 Football – English Premier League (RPL) West Bromwich v Stoke.

From The Hawthorns, West Bromwich.

1:45 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

7:50 Skiptrace MVC 2016 Comedy. Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville.

9:35 London Has Fallen 16VL 2016 Action Crime.

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. 11:15 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay Part 2 MVC 2015 Adventure.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

1:30 Morgan 16VL 2016 Sci-fi.

Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy. 3pm Jack Reacher – Never Go Back MV 2016 Action.

Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders.

5pm The Lennon Report MVLC 2016 Drama.

Richard Kind, David Zayas.

6:30 Divergent – Allegiant Part 1 MV 2016 Adventure.

Shailene Woodley, Theo James.

8:30 Ouija – Origin Of Evil MVC 2016 Horror. To enhance her seance fraud business, a widowed mother of two unwittingly invites a supernatural spirit into their home through an Ouija board.

Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson.

10:15 The Huntsman – Winter’s War MVL 2016 Action. Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Charlize Theron.

TUESDAY 12:10 The Trust 16VLSC 2016 Crime.

Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira. 1:40 Good Kids 16LSC 2016 Comedy. 3:10 The Lennon Report MVLC 2016 Drama. Richard Kind, David Zayas. 4:40 Divergent – Allegiant Part 1 MV 2016 Adventure.

6:40 Jurassic Park 3 MV 2001 Adventure. Sam Neill, William H Macy. 8:10 Picture Perfect M 1997 Comedy.

Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon. 9:50 Twelve Monkeys MVL 1995 Scifi Thriller. Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe.

11:55 Leap Year PGV 2009 Romantic Comedy.

Amy Adams, Matthew Goode.

1:35 Jurassic Park 3 MV 2001 Adventure. Sam Neill, William H Macy. 3:05 The Next Three Days MVL 2010 Crime. Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks. 5:15 Bad Teacher 16LS 2011 Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake. 6:45 What Just Happened MVLS 2008 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Sean Penn. 8:30 Grace Of Monaco PGVLS 2013 Drama Biography. Six years after marrying Prince Ranier III, Grace Kelly must reconcile her past as a screen icon, and present as a mother and European monarch. Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth.

10:15 Surrogates MV 2009 Action. Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell.

11:45 Something Borrowed MLS 2011 Romantic Comedy. Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson. TUESDAY 1:35 Accepted MLS 2006 Comedy. Justin Long, Jonah Hill. 3:05 Grace Of Monaco PGVLS 2013 Drama Biography. 4:45 Bad Teacher 16LS 2011 Comedy.

SKY SPORT 1

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 Strip The City 8:30 Secrets Of Great British Castles 9:30 Jamie’s American Road Trip 10:30 Tiny House Nation 11:30 Food Safari – Fire Noon Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge PGR 1pm Secrets Of Great British Castles 2pm The Living Room 3pm Food Safari – Fire 3:30 Love Nature – Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan 4:30 Hugh’s Three Hungry Boys Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall challenges three mates to holiday for five weeks without money, and they begin their relationship with Daisy the milk float on the hills of Dartmoor.

5:30 Location, Location, Location 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Inside The Tube – Going Underground 8:30 Jungle Atlantis 9:30 Peter Ackroyd’s Thames 10pm Travel Man – 48 Hours In...

10:30 American Pickers

11:30 Hugh’s Three Hungry Boys 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Backroad Bounty 2am Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge PGR 3am Salvage Hunters 4am Peter Ackroyd’s Thames 4:30 Travel Man – 48 Hours In...

5am Jungle Atlantis

SKY SPORT 2

6am Motorsport – Formula One (RPL) Belgian Grand Prix.

8:30 Triathlon – ITU World Series (RPL) Stockholm – Women’s Race.

10:45 Triathlon – ITU World Series (RPL) Stockholm – Men’s Race.

1pm Motorsport – Formula One (HLS) Belgian Grand Prix.

1:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Northern Trust, Round Four.

2pm Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Canadian Pacific Women’s Cup Open, Round Four.

2:30 Rugby – The Championship (RPL) All Blacks v Australia.

4:30 Rugby – First XV (RPL) Auckland Final.

6pm Sport TBC 8pm Rugby League – NRL Sunday Highlights.

8:30 Fight Night On SKY 10:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) All Blacks v Australia.

11pm Rugby – The Championship (HLS) Argentina v South Africa.

11:30 Women’s Rugby – World Cup (HLS) Final – Black Ferns v England.

6am Canoe Sprint – ICF World Championship (RPL) Day Five. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Rugby Nation 9:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) All Blacks v Australia. 10am Rugby – The Championship (HLS) Argentina v South Africa. 10:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup Sunday highlights. 11am Cricket – International (HLS) England v West Indies – Second Test, Day Three. 11:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Third ODI – Sri Lanka v India.

Noon Global Rallycross (HLS) Atlantic City – Round One. 1pm Global Rallycross (HLS) Atlantic City – Round Two. 2:30 Spartan Race – World Championship Monterey. 3:30 Motorsport – MotoGP (HLS) British Grand Prix – Qualifying.

4pm Motorcycling – Road Racing Series (HLS) Ulster Grand Prix, Part One. 5pm Motorsport – Speedway European Championship 7:30 Hunters Club Simply the Pest.

8:30 NRL 360 TUESDAY 9:30 Monday Night With Midnight Aussie Rules – AFL (HLS) 3am Rugby – Mitre Matty Johns 10:30 Rugby League – NRL (HLS) Warriors v 10 Cup Friday highlights.

Sea Eagles. 11pm The After 3:30 Rugby – Mitre 10 Match 11:30 Sport TBC Cup Saturday highlights.

4am Hunters Club Simply TUESDAY Midnight UFC the Pest. 5am Golf – US PGA Now 1am NRL 360 Tour (HLS) Northern Trust, 2am Rugby League – NRL Round Four. 5:30 Golf – (RPL) Titans v Bulldogs.

European Tour (HLS) Made in 4am Rugby League – NRL Denmark – Round Four.

(RPL) Storm v Rabbitohs.

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

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 MythBusters PG 9:10 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Outhouses, Cow Bras And Bears, Oh My! 10am Treehouse Masters PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M 12:30 Your Worst Nightmare M High School Revenge. 1:20 Murder Among Friends M 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 Auction Hunters 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 What On Earth? PG Who Built Supervillain Island?

5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Alaskan Bush People M 7:30 Auction Hunters 8pm Auction Hunters 8:30 MythBusters PG The Mythbusters take on five firearm cliches from films.

9:25 What On Earth? PG Curse of the Lost Kingdom.

10:15 Deadliest Catch M Hurricane Alley.

11:05 Murder Among Friends M 11:55 Your Worst Nightmare M High School Revenge.

TUESDAY 12:45 Gold Rush PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am Auction Hunters 2:25 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How Do They Do It? PG 5:20 Auction Hunters 5:45 Edge Of Alaska M

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Monday, August 28, 2017

Sport Deja vu for rugby fans Rugby fans were left with deja vu last night when a chunk of the All Blacks’ match was replayed on freeto-air by Prime TV. The match was scheduled to air at 8.30pm on Prime TV – but the first seven minutes were replayed in a mistake the channel has blamed on a “timecode error”. The broadcaster posted its apologies to their Facebook page. “The people that work on Prime take their jobs very seriously, and everyone is doing everything they can to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”

- NZME

Track cycling gold

Mid Canterbury’s Seta Koroitamana forces his way to the line for one of his two tries in the side’s 34-5 win against Poverty Bay on Saturday.

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Flying start for Hammers

BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The Mid Canterbury Hammers have started their season off in the best way possible with a bonus-point, 34-5 victory over Poverty Bay at the Ashburton Showgrounds.

As well as it being the start of the season, it was a special day for Southern stalwart Will Mackenzie, who was playing his 50th game in the green and gold.

With the A squad taking care of any dew on the pitch in their match against North Otago Development in the curtain-raiser, conditions were perfect to start the season off right, with not a breath of wind.

It was Mackenzie’s sharp passing off the back of the dominant Mid Canterbury scrum that created the first try-scoring chance for Mid Canterbury, when the play was spread through the midfield, giving left winger Isireli Masiwini a brilliant look in at the corner, until he spilled the ball as he crossed the line.

Not long after, Masiwini was forced off the field through injury, and was replaced

by Dan Fransen, who switched to the right wing, with Maleli Sau switching to the left.

Mid Canterbury squandered two more chances on the wings, and the supporters

It was Mackenzie’s sharp passing off the back of the dominant Mid Canterbury scrum that created the first try-scoring chance for Mid Canterbury were left counting how many points could be on the board.

Sau was eventually able to strike on the left wing, capitalising on the Hammers once again spreading the play well.

First-five Jason Kjestrup missed the conversion, giving the Hammers a 5-0 lead.

Poverty Bay would eventually get their first and only points on the board when number eight Siosiua Moala battered through the defence after a strong run from fullback Ethine Reeves.

Kjestrup had two chances to give the Hammers the lead once again but was unable to, striking the right post with a 45m penalty, and pulling one left from slightly closer in only minutes later.

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This left the halftime score at 5-5, and the Hammers supporters scratching their heads as to how their side was not ahead.

It did not take the Hammers long to take the lead in the second-half, with fullback Jarred Percival taking over the kicking duties, converting a penalty.

A yellow card to Sau did nothing to slow down Mid Canterbury as they piled the pressure on, with captain Jackson Donlan scoring a well-worked try off the back of a lineout drive, with Percival adding the extras.

CONTINUED

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New Zealander Ellesse Andrews has won individual pursuit gold at the track cycling junior world championships in Italy. The 17-yearold Cambridge rider upset Italian favourite Letizia Paternoster, who had earlier won the multi-event omnium. Andrews had set a new junior world record with a brilliant 2min 18.080sec in the morning qualifying, going on to back up with a gritty win in the gold medal ride.

She opened out a 1sec advantage through the first kilometre and while Paternoster pushed hard, Andrews held her off to win by half a second in 2:19.038. Andrews added gold to the team pursuit silver she won alongside Nicole Shields, Kate Smith and Emily Shearman earlier.

- NZME

Goodbye Sir Colin Sir Colin Meads has made his final appearance at his beloved Waitete rugby club. Meads will be farewelled today at a public service in Te Kuiti that is expected to attract thousands.

Yesterday, though, the legendary All Black, who died last Sunday aged 81 after a long battle with cancer, made his last lap of Rugby Park, driven in a hearse by sons Kelvin and Glynn, and then his final appearance at Sunday school drinks. It was a chance for club patrons, family and locals to pay their respects, and reminisce. - NZME

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