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Hospitals restrict visitors The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) has announced a no-visitors policy for its hospitals following New Zealand moving to Covid-19 Alert Level 4.

The exceptions are a nominated person supporting a terminally ill patient through their end of life care, a parent or guardian who is supporting a child, and the chosen support person of a woman who is giving birth.

This does not apply to the mother’s postnatal stay however, and no visitors will be permitted during this stage of care.

The decision about whether exceptional circumstances apply outside of these exemptions is at the discretion of the charge nurse/midwife manager or another lead clinician.

Chief executive David Meates announced the new stricter policy, for both the CDHB and West Coast District Health Baord, in a press release on Thursday night.

He said the health boards were navigating their way through an extraordinary situation where they needed to examine their policies.

“To this end our new visitor policy is designed to protect those who are receiving care in our facilities. It is a policy with tiaki (protect), manaaki (care and support) and aroha (love) at its core,” Meates said.

“Now is the time for our Can-

Rates holiday up for discussion

terbury and West

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Coast communities to step up and help us protect and care for all those in our care during these challenging times by following this updated visitor policy,” he said.

In all exceptions where a visitor was allowed to access any district health board facility, appropriate screening would take place before they were allowed to enter the care environment to ensure they are well, have clean hands and are using appropriate

Cash-strapped Ashburton District property owners are asking questions over rates payments during the Covid-19 lockdown.

While banks are offering mortgage holidays, and landlords have been directed to implement a rent freeze, there is growing concern around the country from property owners who may have lost jobs or who have been forced to close their business, over the need for rates relief.

Ashburton mayor Neil Brown said the council had fielded queries over a possible rates holiday but no decisions had been made.

Staff had been asked to prepare a report on the implications of any form of rates relief and this would be discussed at a council meeting on April l9.

Implementing any form of rates holiday would not be a simple process and come with income and therefore spending implications for the council, Brown said.

This meeting, like all council or special Covid-19 committee meetings during the lockdown will be held by audio visual links. The council prior to the lockdown, amended its standing orders to allow this to happen.

The April 9 meeting and meetings of the council’s Covid-19 committee will be live-streamed.

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Ashburton Hospital.

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

“It’s vital that we reduce the numbers of people coming into our facilities to reduce the opportunity for any infections to spread. I would like to thank people in advance for their cooperation and playing their part to keep our patients safe,” Meates said.

He asked people with outpatient appointments, if they were unwell or had potentially been exposed to anyone with Covid-19

symptoms, to not come in unless it was an emergency.

“Call the phone the number on your appointment letter. They may be able to arrange a phone or video consultation as an alternative to a face to face appointment,” he said.

And only people with symptoms should call Healthline’s Covid-19 line on 0800 358 5453.

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Twelve more Covid-19 cases in Canterbury region There are 85 new confirmed or probable cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, including 12 in Canterbury, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield announced yesterday.

The new cases take the nationwide tally to 368, which includes a total of 30 in Canterbury with at least one of these in Ashburton District.

The ministry is not providing a district-wide breakdown of cases, and the Guardian is only aware of the Ashburton case through its own sources.

The case is in an Ashbur-

ton District resident, a man in his 50s, who returned from the World Hereford Conference.

There have been at least 15 confirmed cases in people who attended the conference, held in Queenstown earlier this month.

A ministry spokesperson said it was not providing a breakdown of Covid-19 cases beyond a regional level for Ashburton District as it was not required at this stage.

“What’s most important to remember is that if there was something relevant at a territorial district level, that would be

provided at the time in terms of a regional public health media statement, contact tracing,” the spokesperson said.

However, Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown said it would be helpful to have a district breakdown, as it would reinforce to Mid Cantabrians just how important it was to continue following the lockdown procedures.

He had requested the numbers at a Civil Defence meeting he attended yesterday, and the request had been forwarded to Wellington through these Civil Defence channels.

“It’s the people we don’t know who may have it at this stage so we all need to be really vigilant.

This is serious, it’s here, it’s on our back doorstep,” Brown said.

Meanwhile, the ministry’s data on the pandemic, released yesterday, shows the highest number of cases to date (81) have been in the 20 to 29 age group.

The next largest number is for those aged 50 to 59 (69), then 60 to 69 (62), 30 to 39 (56), 40 to 49 (50), 70 plus (28), 10 to 19 (20), and 0 to 9 (2).

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Grant to help completion of Chinese village

By Sue Newman

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A grant from the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust will play an important role in completing restoration work on buildings in Ashburton’s historic Chinese Village Settlement.

The trust distributes up to $200,000 in grants each year to organisations and individuals undertaking activities that promote the preservation of Chinese New Zealand history and awareness.

On behalf of Ashburton’s early Chinese settlers, the Ashburton District Council applied for a grant that would help fund the village restoration project and was given $25,000.

This money, together with a council grant of $40,000, and a similar amount from Heritage New Zealand, will see foundations of one of the historic buildings strengthened and this stage of the restoration project completed.

The council signed a memorandum of understanding with the

Ng family in 2013 that allowed it to become custodians of the site.

This came with the responsibility to restore and protect all items of heritage value including the buildings.

The Ng family established a large market garden on the Allens Road site in the 1920s. It traded under the name King Bros. Prior to settling in Ashburton, the family had established a market garden in Gore in 1905.

At the time those families arrived in New Zealand, a poll tax was in place.

The tax was introduced in 1881 as part of the Chinese Immigrants Act. It was set at 10 pounds, equivalent to about $1800 today, and was imposed on Chinese migrants. Numbers allowed to land from each ship arriving in New Zealand were also limited.

New Zealand saw large numbers of Chinese arrive to work on southern gold fields and as employment in this area dwindled, prejudice against the Chinese

Buildings in Ashburton’s Ng King Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement are looking at a bright future with work soon to begin on making roofs weathertight.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN grew and there were calls for immigration to be restricted.

In doing this and imposing entry taxes, New Zealand followed the lead of Canada and Australia.

Further restrictions on Chinese migration and residency in the 1920s rendered the poll tax largely inoperative, and it was waived by the minister of customs from 1934. However, the legislation was not repealed until 1944, long after other countries had abandoned such measures.

In 2002 the New Zealand government officially apologised to the Chinese community for the injustice of the tax.

The Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust was established in 2004

in recognition of the hardship caused by the poll tax as a gesture of goodwill to poll tax payers, their descendants, and future generations. It aims to create a greater understanding of the Chinese community in New Zealand and to strengthen the unique identity of Chinese New Zealanders.

Heritage New Zealand has recognised the site as one of a kind in New Zealand and because of its high historical value, last year recognised it as an archaeological site of national significance. It is one of only eight post-1900 sites to receive this classification.

The settlement stretches over two hectares and features a number of ageing weatherboard and

iron buildings. It was home to five settler families who provided Ashburton with fresh fruit and vegetables.

At its peak 60 people lived in the village but the business wound up in the 1960s. About half of the original buildings are still standing and the long-term plan for the settlement is for the buildings to be preserved and the area’s history told through storyboards.

While a contract has been let, work on the restoration project will now be delayed however because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Alert Level 4 lockdown.

A guided tour was to have taken place in early May as part of NZ Archaeology Week.

Police encourage essential worker documentation

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

Local police are urging essential service businesses to provide their employees with documents to verify they work in an essential service and are travelling for that purpose.

Police have been stopping vehicles and people locally to ensure they are travelling for a legitimate purpose, and Ashburton Sub-Area

supervisor senior sergeant Leigh Jenkins said he is looking to limit the amount of time his staff need to interact with the public if they have a legitimate purpose.

The document should be on company letterhead, contain the full name and date of birth for the employee who is considered an essential worker and have a phone number for a day shift supervisor for police to contact and confirm

the fact that the worker driving is expected on shift and therefore legitimately driving.

Jenkins said the main message he wants to push to the public is to stay home and stay off the roads unless necessary for legitimate purposes.

“My team will be stopping vehicles 24 hours a day,” he said.

Jenkins said the first day of the lockdown was focused on “edu-

cation conversations” with any members of the public they spoke to and that no arrests were made or charges laid.

There are a number of steps police can take to enforce compliance when they become aware of breaches of the lockdown, beginning with education and warnings.

Police will use the enforcement powers provided in the Health Act and the Civil Defence Emergency

Act 2002 if required.

If police become aware of persistent breaches of the lockdown, those in breach may face arrest and/or prosecution.

Police say this will help keep you and your loved ones safe, and will also ensure police can direct our resources to where they are most needed – delivering essential policing services for communities across New Zealand.

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■■ ASHBURTON TRUST EVENT CENTRE

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It won’t be the final curtain

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Stage lights went out and the curtains fell at an empty Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week as New Zealand moved to Alert Level 4.

Manager Roger Farr said the repercussions would roll on much longer than the minimum four-week Covid-19 lockdown period.

“At the moment we have lost $72,000 through until June, and have to try and bring that back again,” Farr said.

He said about three touring shows had cancelled, while remaining affected shows had postponed, pushing their dates to later in the year or next year.

The event centre’s annual revenue is about $750,000 per year, half of which comes from an Ashburton District Council grant and the other half from income.

It is owned by the charitable Ashburton Performing Arts Theatre Trust, which annually applies for the council grant.

Farr said the grant was not a given each year, and the pandemic would “throw all the balls in the air” as to where the council distributed its money.

“The snowball effect of this is

SeniorNet Ashburton is advising the Ashburton District to take extreme caution during the lockdown with reports of criminals using the pandemic as an opportunity to carry out online scams and malicious cyber activity.

Reports have included attempts to use the World Health Organisation, Bitcoin threats, Malware from downloading Covid-19 MAPS and entering details into phishing websites. Everyone is advised to take extreme caution and not to give out personal details through the phone or over the internet unless it is a trusted and known source.

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Locals are being urged to support shows at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre once New Zealand moves out of lockdown to ensure its future.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN going to be felt wide, if it’s not needed it’s probably not going to be funded, it’s where we fit into that scenario,” he said.

The worst-case scenario would be no grant and limited funding forcing the trust to hand the building back to the council as a community asset.

However, Farr did not think that would happen, and he was confident everything would work out in the end.

As New Zealand recovered from the pandemic and the venue was up and running again, he urged locals to support the shows on offer and for business-

es and individuals to once again begin booking their conferences and events there.

The venue was a safe facility which had always prioritised cleanliness, but it had ramped up its cleaning schedule further in these times and introduced sanitiser stations.

Community House closed; services still running

By Sue Newman

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The doors might be locked on Ashburton’s Community House, but the services its tenants provide are still available to clients.

Its major tenant Safer Mid Canterbury has staff working from home, with just its essential justice services still open for business. But that does not mean other services cannot be accessed, manager Kevin Clifford said.

“We’re trying to maintain the same appointment schedules, and while we can’t do this physically, we’re doing it by phone, or online,” he said.

People who were dealing with staff in any area of Safer Mid Can-

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Kevin Clifford terbury’s work, should not feel cut off, staff were working and were available by phone, Clifford said.

Staff were contacting their

clients to explain how services would be provided during the lockdown, but some services would not be able to continue because they relied on face-to-face meetings.

“This is obviously tricky, but we’re making it work as best we can,” he said.

Specialist family violence and refuge services will continue during the lockdown.

With a national state of emergency declared, the district’s Civil Defence service is on standby and Clifford said his organisation was part of that team.

For the Community House Trust lockdown means big questions over future rental income.

While the building was closed, things still had to keep ticking over so it could swing back into action as soon as the lockdown was over, he said.

“The big question for everyone really is what it’s going to take to turn things back on?”

The trust relied on rent from its tenants to keep Community House open but in the current situation those tenants were paying rent for something they were not using, Driscoll said.

“As a board, we’re not sure what we should do. We’ll just quietly move along for the four weeks, but if it goes beyond that we’ll need to review what we do going forward.”

The temperature is dropping in Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre, in an effort to prune costs while the complex is closed for the four-week Covid-19 lockdown.

Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann said temperatures will be lowered in the three pools and both the spa and steam room will be shut down. To be ready for reopening, water quality in the pools will be maintained with the council’s plant engineer monitoring chlorination and pumps remotely. Regular inspections will also be made of the complex. “We’ll still have significant costs for running the whole complex but we’re turning things down as much as we can.”

Memberships have all been put on hold for the duration of the lockdown and will be reactivated when the complex reopens.

Playgrounds During the four-week lockdown, all playgrounds are off limits and to ensure the message is delivered, the council will be erecting signs on all play areas around Ashburton. It will also erect a tape barrier around the well used playground at the Walnut Avenue end of the Ashburton Domain.

Rubbish collection While kerbside rubbish collections will continue during the four-week lockdown, these will not include the green glass crate. Red wheelie bins will be collected each week on normal collection days, with the yellow recycling bin collected every second week on the normal cycle.

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How to spend our first weekend at Alert Level 4 This is a crucial time. You might be tempted to leave the house this weekend to enjoy your free time. But it’s incredibly important that you don’t revert back to ‘normal life’. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about self-isolation while we’re all at Alert Level 4.

Why do we need to stay home?

Which public spaces are okay to visit?

Remember why we are all taking these extreme measures.

Staying home saves lives, by breaking the chain of transmission.

Effectively none apart from supermarkets and pharmacies. All bars, restaurants, cafes, gyms, cinemas, pools, museums, libraries and playgrounds are closed. Avoid places like beaches where people commonly linger, or are unable to maintain a 2 metre distance.

How does stopping movement help?

The virus is spread by us. It can’t move by itself. So we all need to avoid moving around as much as possible.

What do you mean by stopping movement?

There should be no movement that isn’t essential. For example:

• don’t travel to and from baches or second homes • avoid driving out of your neighbourhood

Don’t touch surfaces others may have touched when outdoors, like park benches or playgrounds.

When you return home carefully wash your hands, and any items you took with you outdoors.

What type of shopping can I do?

• don’t travel across the country in campervans.

You can only shop for essential supplies like food or medicine.

If you need to do this:

Note that DOC has closed all of its campsites and huts.

• nominate one person from your household to go

Why is exercise allowed?

• be aware that shops will limit numbers to help you keep 2 metres away from others

There are very few exceptions to staying home, but exercise is one of them. Going for a walk, run or bike ride is good for your mental health.

Just remember to:

• stay close to home. Enjoy your neighbourhood, but go no further • keep it solitary, or only with those you live with • keep a 2 metre distance from others.

Which types of exercise aren’t okay?

In short, anything that could lead to you getting lost or hurting yourself and end up requiring the help of the emergency services. They need to be fully available to respond to COVID-19 cases. Any search and rescue operation reduces the ability of first responders to deal with this national threat.

Do your bit to help them by avoiding outdoor activities like swimming, surfing, tramping, boating, hunting or hiking.

• be kind to essential workers, and others you’re sharing the shop with • wash your hands before and after you shop.

Remember, you can also arrange to have your shopping delivered, or have family, friends or neighbours drop-off food or supplies at your door.

What distance should I keep between myself and others?

Stay 2 metres away from others. The virus is transmitted by droplets.

Keeping your distance helps slow the spread.

Thank you New Zealand Thanks for spending this weekend safely and wisely.

Stay home. Save lives. It’s how we’ll break the chain and slow the spread of COVID-19.

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■■ OPINION

We are not superheroes wearing capes David Clark

FROM THE FARM

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e live in remarkable times. No-one would have picked three months ago we would be living in a lockdown.

Clearly this is unprecedented and demands our full co-operation.

Over the past few days I have been involved in many conversations and email threads giving consideration to where the line will fall for “essential services” and “essential industries” and at the time of writing this is still not entirely clear.

I would suggest that if we flout exemptions given to agriculture, or if this crisis escalates, then restrictions may tighten.

From my viewpoint, I think there are some things we, as farmers, need to remember.

Firstly, we are not superheroes wearing capes and we are not immune to this mongrel virus.

Secondly, this is not like any emergency or crisis that any of us have ever responded to.

Whether it be a flood, fire, windstorm, snowstorm, earthquake or animal disease outbreak, we can see and identify the danger.

The hazard, the fire, the flood, the broken bridge is over there and so long as I keep my dis-

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers’ president David Clark. tance, I can respond from over here safely.

As can the emergency services respond, church groups, sports clubs and Rural Support Trust can provide assistance and community support.

This is different, the peril is invisible. Normal structures of community support cannot

respond in the manner we expect or need.

Thirdly, this threat is so serious, that the Government has thrown the tourism, travel and entertainment industries to the wall. They may never recover to their former state. We need to do our bit.

Largely we are all isolated in

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this and that is the whole point to slow the infection rate to allow our medical practitioners the capacity to treat patients as required.

We have all seen the tragedy that has unfolded in Italy and are desperate for that not to occur in New Zealand.

While we are physically isolat-

ed, we do not need to be socially.

Most of us are in small bubbles of people close to us, we can reach out from those groups via telephone, or social media if that is your gig, and I would ask for each of you to reach out to the isolated neighbours that we all have who are trapped in this lockdown alone.

We will get through this crisis; there will be light at the end of this darkness and the more effective the lockdown, the sooner it will end.

However, we have two issues in play, the virus and the emergency response to it, and the economic devastation that is unfolding.

The tourism sector will not bounce back from this quickly, it will be sometime before people are legally or financially able, or confident enough, to travel extensively.

Those in our society who directly or indirectly gain their income from tourism are taking an enormous hit and this will filter through the entire economy and affect us all, with the economic effects lasting much longer than the virus itself.

More than ever, New Zealand needs a strong primary sector to provide the backbone of our nation’s economy.

Please take care of yourself, the special people around you and those who you can look out for.

We will see this through together.

Please reach out for help if you need it, Rural Support Trust, myself and our elected Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers team are happy to take your calls.

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Two cases of paratyphoid fever in Mid Canterbury

By Susan Sandys

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Strong interest in Fairton site

By Heather Chalmers

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Multiple parties have expressed interest in Silver Fern Farms’ mothballed Fairton meat plant and surrounding farm land, says a real estate agent marketing its sale.

The site was for sale by deadline private treaty, which closed on Thursday.

The 485 hectares of land, just north of Ashburton, comprise 32ha at the former Fairton plant and 453ha of adjacent farm land.

Colliers International industrial division director Sam Staite said it would take time to work through the buyer interest received.

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The sale had generated a lot of interest, Staite said. “It is a large block in a desirable location.”

Sheepmeat processing at the plant stopped in 2017, with the loss of 370 jobs, following a continued decline in regional sheep numbers following land use change, particularly to dairying.

The plant’s final death knell was last year, following the closure of Fairton’s pelt processing operation with the loss of 44 jobs.

The Fairton plant contained two and three-storeyed processing areas, stock yards, offices, freezers and amenity buildings.

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Ashburton District has had two cases of paratyphoid fever notified for the week ending March 20.

Community and Public Health staff were unable to comment due to working fulltime on the response to Covid-19.

But they referred the Guardian to Ministry of Health information about the illness listed on its website, which says paratyphoid fever is a similar illness to typhoid fever. If left untreated, typhoid fever is fatal in up to 30 per cent of cases or results in relapse in up to 20 per cent of cases.

Typhoid fever typically presents with insidious onset of fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, dry cough and other symptoms, while the clinical manifestations of paratyphoid fever tend to be milder.

It often manifests as acute gastroenteritis, and the duration of the illness shorter and the case-fatality rate is much lower.

Most cases of typhoid and paratyphoid fever notified in New Zealand are associated with overseas travel.

The mode of transmission is ingestion of food and water contaminated by fae-

Contaminated shellfish can cause paratyphoid. ces and urine of patients or carriers. In New Zealand, food vectors have included shellfish taken from sewage-contaminated beds.

Person-to-person direct transmission is uncommon.

Cases are rare in Canterbury, the last time there was an incident in the region was in May last year when just one case was notified.

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Above – Lauren back in her home town in Manitoba where she grew her love of exploring and taking photos.

Right – Blogger, Lauren Korstrom in her happy place.

Below – A gorgeous panoramic view of Lake Clearwater.

Lauren Korstrom might not be a name known to a whole heap of Mid Canterbury locals, but it’s one everyone should familiarise themselves with.

The passionate blogger has taken her passion into the hills and around the Ashburton District and is detailing her every step.

The Guardian’s Heather Mackenzie caught up with her recently.

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anadian-born Lauren Korstrom met a Kiwi boy called Chris, fell in love and followed him halfway across the world to Mid Canterbury.

Four years on and Korstrom has fallen in love again, this time with the rugged landscapes and picture-perfect views of the Ashburton District.

“I love this place, it’s a great place to live.”

When Korstrom first got here she wasn’t so sure how she would cope living in a country that is so different from her own.

Korstrom was certainly excited

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the Mid Canty back to be here, but it all felt a bit like she was starting her life over again.

Realising that if she wanted to make moving here a positive experience and settle into her new life, the courageous young Canadian knew she had to be willing to give Mid Canterbury a chance.

Growing up on a farm just out of Winnipeg has made Korstrom one of life’s natural outdoor types. So in order to help her settle into new surroundings, it was a natural progression for her to throw her backpack and camera

in the car and set off exploring the local landscape.

“Everything is so wow to me here and the need for exploring just grew.”

Big budget travel throughout New Zealand is not Korstrom’s style, nor did she have the budget for it, so she decided to keep it local. That turned out to be the right decision. She loved what she found so much she decided to start her blog www. pony-tail-pretty in order to inspire others to get outdoors and explore their surroundings.

Not confined to New Zealand

places, Korstrom also includes places to stay, different tracks to hike or destinations to visit in North America too.

“We take our homes for granted and so many of us think the grass is greener on the other side when actually we have some pretty cool stuff in our own backyards.”

Her favourite place around here so far is the Ashburton Lakes.

She said growing up in Manitoba, a province with over 10,000 lakes, she has always liked the water.

“I don’t jump in the New Zealand lakes too often, they’re much too cold.”

The amount of time she spends updating her blog varies from week to week. Some nights she gets up to two hours done and some nights it’s zero, it all depends on her mood and how busy she has been during the day.

An accomplished nature photographer, Korstrom often doesn’t get her latest adventure up on the blog for a few weeks as she likes to get the images edited and put them up on her social channels first, then work on the story.

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country To begin with her blog was just a bit of fun, but Korstrom has taken it a lot more seriously in the past 18 months. Another decision that has proved fortuitous, as it has provided her with the opportunity to work with companies in the travel industry and has even led to her current brand ambassadorship with New Zealand company Grisport hiking boots.

On top of her blogging and exploring activities, Korstrom works fulltime at the SPCA in Ashburton, the perfect place for this self-confessed animal lover

to be.

In her own words Korstrom has lived and breathed horses all of her life. She began riding at nine and got her first pony at 14. She still owns her show jumping horse back home. Her mum is looking after the now-retired Samson, who is enjoying his chilled life eating grass and getting lots of attention.

Korstrom had thought of turning her 14 years of horse jumping experience into a career, but after a serious horse accident, that saw a kick in the face leave her with many facial fractures she decided

to hang up her showjumping jacket and look at other groundbased hobbies.

“Horses are still a very big part of me and a deep-rooted passion and I would like to get back into it one day.

“Once I moved to New Zealand though, riding wasn’t the same as it wasn’t my horse. I’m not as brave as I used to be, so I’m taking this time to try other new things like photography and writing.”

For this free-spirited outdoor-loving gal, being cooped up inside for the next four weeks

is going to be a bit of a trial.

However, she has taken a fairly philosophical view to what lies ahead.

“When I found out hiking was off the table for the isolation rules I was disappointed, but the outdoors will always be there.

“What is happening in the country is bigger than doing what we want to do in our spare time and I think it’s a good time to try new things.

“This lockdown actually gives me a huge window to work on content for my blog, so that when the world is ‘normal’ again I can

work on turning it into a profitable business.”

Her advice for any would-be bloggers out there is to include useful information. Write good stories that people can relate to and include eye-catching images.

“Just do it! You don’t need it to be perfect and fancy, you just need to start. There are free platforms to do it on too, so it doesn’t even have to cost money.

“If you write about something you are passionate about the words come easy.”

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Banks release mortgage holiday details

By Pattrick Smellie NZME

First details of the trading banks’ mortgage repayment holiday and government-backed emergency business lending package are emerging, with some banks confirming they will make mortgage repayment holidays available to both home owners and landlords who own rental properties.

Only Westpac, BNZ and ASB Bank have so far released any detail on both initiatives, which Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced on Tuesday were in the pipeline.

BNZ and ASB have confirmed residential property investors can apply for a mortgage repayment holiday.

ANZ is due to make announcements on Monday.

The Westpac mortgage deferral scheme is also being applied to personal loans.

None have yet announced how they will apply the 80 per cent government-guaranteed business lending scheme.

“We’re committed to supporting the government’s Business Finance Guarantee Scheme and we’re currently working to put

this in place,” it says on BNZ’s website, promising updates with eligibility and access details as soon as they’re available.

The New Zealand Bankers’ Association made a blanket announcement that the mortgage ‘holiday’ scheme would give borrowers a six month deferral on all repayments.

However, it warned that interest will continue to build up on the mortgage, meaning borrowers will end up owing more at the end of six months than if they’d

kept up repayments.

That would leave them either with a longer time to full repayment or lead to increased regular repayments to cover the extra interest.

The scheme is intended only to apply to home mortgage borrowers who experience loss of income or other losses associated with the Covid-19 virus crisis.

The outbreak is sweeping the world with dire consequences for the global economy as a growing number of countries

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Many large businesses have unilaterally informed their landlords that they won’t be paying the rent through the nation’s lockdown and that could devastate the commercial, industrial and retail property sectors, the Property Council New Zealand said.

The council represents the owners of commercial property and says its members need support to keep the economy moving both during the shutdown, which is aimed at stopping the coronavirus from spreading, and after the shutdown ends.

“As property is the home of business, any crisis that affects businesses will also affect property owners,” council chief executive Leonie Freeman said.

Freeman said the government does need to step in.

“We think government is a key part to help provide a solution.”

The council is hearing about a multiple of scenarios, including hearing from many landlords who are working constructively with tenants in discussing rent relief, including postponements to outright cuts in rents through to those refusing to pay.

“The biggest issue with this is that we need everybody to come out of this. We need businesses to survive and landlords need to survive,” Freeman told BusinessDesk.

“Once we get through Covid-19, we don’t want to see we’ve lost a whole lot of businesses. Equally, we don’t want to see a lot of property owners being foreclosed on,” she said.

Freeman acknowledged the speculation about the business interruption clause in the standard Auckland District Law Society

home borrowers.

Westpac reminded mortgage-holders who are repaying their loans at a faster rate than is required by the terms of their existing mortgage that an alternative to payment deferral may be to reduce current repayments to match the term of their loan, without penalty.

All banks either have published or, in Westpac’s case, will soon have online forms for customers seeking mortgage relief to make applications.

place their citizens in lockdowns to try and stop its spread.

“Banks will assess the suitability for each customer who is asking for a deferral,” said NZBA executive director Roger Beaumont, indicating that each of the five trading banks – Westpac, ANZ, ASB, BNZ and Kiwibank – “will have different approaches to how they manage the process for customers to opt into a mortgage deferral.”

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Property Council New Zealand chief executive Leonie Freeman. lease which was added after the Christchurch earthquakes and which is widely used for commercial leases throughout New Zealand.

But Freeman said whether or not leases include this clause, “we would encourage owners and tenants to negotiate in good faith what a fair proportion of rent is.”

She said the government’s reintroduction of depreciation on buildings was a positive move but it doesn’t solve the immediate situation in which both landlords and tenants need support through the lockdown.

“It is simply not enough to bridge the gap in what is becoming a cri-

sis of cashflow for many property owners.”

Freeman said we need to think about the issues in three ways.

“There’s the legal position, and that’s the lease. Then after that, there’s the commercial position. All our landlords want to see the businesses survive.

“And then there’s the ethical position. What’s the right thing to do, not only for the property owner and tenant, but for the wider community.”

Freeman praised the government for the job it has done in such a challenging situation.

“It’s happened so fast I think everyone’s just reeling.”

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YOUR VIEW Letters with Love So it’s day two. Things are very quiet here. We went out for a bit of a walk to the park today. The locals seem nice and are friendly enough but a little weird they give you a wave from the other side of the street but when you cross over – they scurry away so you never really walk past them.

Another weird thing they do over here is put teddy bears in their windows, they seem to come in all shapes and sizes, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it but a lot of them do it. I guess it’s some local tradition.

We sort of met the girl next door, her name is Abby, she said she had somehow got herself locked in but had found this button and pushed it and next thing she has come up on our TV. Seems she sleeps in all morning and has breakfast when we have lunch . . . some people eh? But then, I can understand it too, it seems to take all day to do very little, it’s that sort of holiday.

Jacinda (travel agent) has been in touch, as she usually does, making sure things are OK, said that there is an island bug going around and one of the locals is unwell, hope they get well soon.

Your father hasn’t done anything to embarrass us yet but let’s face it – it’s only a matter of time.

Love Mother and Father

Matt Markham

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This amazing little place we call home

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e’ve got this beautiful canvas on which we can create a masterpiece here locally and sadly, not a lot of us choose to pick up the brush and get creative with it.

But every now and then, there’s an exception.

Lauren Korstrom’s work as a blogger, detailing her trips up into the wilderness, beyond the Mid Canterbury boundaries – but still close enough to call home – are a perfect example.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget what we’ve got.

You think of Mid Canterbury and think of the mountains, the sea and the two rivers and everything in between, yet there’s so, so much more.

And as locals, we probably don’t appreciate it enough.

It’s obviously not the right time to even think about getting out and enjoying what our own district has to offer right now, but there will come a time when we can.

I’m a big fan of the lakes, be it Camp, Heron or any of the others tucked away up in the high country. But apart from the odd stinking hot day in summer, they are largely untouched by the local population.

Luckily, through the efforts of people like Lauren, who has a huge following, there’s an open invitation there and the majority of those who frequent such places are from outside of our district.

So, when we break this cycle of isolation and quiet, let’s appreciate Mid Canterbury for what it is.

Every aspect of it.

You never know, you might just be surprised at what you find less than an hour’s drive from your back door.

Finally, as we embark on the first weekend of this quite remarkable time, I want to end the week how I intend to start the next.

And that’s with a thought of the day.

They’ll be light-hearted in most cases, so hopefully they get a smile.

Today’s thought of the day . . .

Studies have shown that one out of seven dwarfs are Grumpy.

Have a great weekend.

Damned if you do . . .

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amned if you don’t.

I felt a strong urge to write about anything, virtually anything, but Covid-19 this week.

But in the end, how can you ignore it?

It’s everywhere and it’s all of us at the moment.

If not affecting or infecting us literally personally, it dictates entirely the way we operate as a community, as a nation, as a planet.

Even as we approach April and the conclusion of daylight saving time in this country, it’s not too difficult to remember back to Christmas and New Year.

Obviously for some, 2019 had been a difficult and challenging year, as I recall a number of social media posts proclaiming to the effect “good riddance 2019 and don’t let the door bang you on the arse on the way out”.

As we sat around our Christmas tables with our families playing a game of “I wonder what 2020 has in store,” I’m pretty sure no one in their wildest dreams could have remotely conjured up what is our present abnormal/normal.

Sure, there were news stories about a new virus that had emerged in China and later we learned that it appeared to

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originate from a wet market and mutated from animals to humans.

But, for what came next?

Bugger me.

They invented a word for mind-bending things like this.

Surreal.

Mrs Mac gave me some advice when considering this week’s offering. ”Don’t get too preachy.”

So, my apologies in advance if that is the perception, but I would just say this.

Democracy is a wonderful liberty we enjoy in this country but it comes with some responsibility.

Especially in dire times.

Most people, I believe, are good people and will do what is required, when it’s required, for the greater good of the community at large. Including themselves.

A statistic I read somewhere over the past days revealed the

percentage on-board with these austere measures, deemed necessary by our Government, is up in the nineties percentage range.

Which leaves a small, defiant rebel cluster who are determined to undermine the efforts by the powerful majority.

There’s a lot that could be said about them but I’ll say just this.

Their attitude is arrogant, self-centred and entitled, and these traits are not particularly nice ones.

But you know what they say about “among every bunch etc”.

Whichever way your political flag flies in this chilling breeze, it is time for co-operation, collaboration and a shared commitment to get through this nightmare in the best shape possible.

Proud, solid airlines with solid balance sheets at the start of the year cutting their services by 85 per cent with grounded assets in the billions sitting on runways and taxiways across the globe is a graphic barometer of the gravity of the situation.

From a global pilot shortage to a shredding of what might have been the most secure job on the planet.

And at the other end, small businesses, often operating, necessarily, on fine margins

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and month-to-month. Now living day-to-day with uncertain futures.

As the jolting barbs of heartbreak news have filtered through of late, there has always seemed to be something that lifts the spirits again.

Relief packages, wage subsidies, lifelines, news that China appears to be coming out the other side, giving us real hope, virologists working on a means to fight it, a simple finger prick test to assess status.

A lot to take in but as has been pointed out, the planet has come through major crises before and will do so again.

We are heading into winter now but summer will return.

The question is, what sort of shape will the planet be in?

What will the new normal look like?

Our best crack at this is to “do the right thing”.

Not just the 90 something per cent.

But all of us.

Broadcaster Peter Mac is Ashburton born and bred and the afternoon host on the Hokonui Radio Network.

The views expressed in this column are his and do not reflect the opinion of his employer or the Ashburton Guardian.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – Hannah Wilkinson represents New Zealand in which sport? a. Cricket b. Netball c. Soccer 2 – In what year was the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown? a. 2006 b. 2011 c. 2016 3 – Harvard University is in which US state? a. Vermont b. Connecticut c. Massachusetts 4 – What would you do with a kedgeree? a. Eat it b. Shape wood with it c. Level a building with it 5 – What is meteorology the study of? a. Space b. The weather c. Meat 6 – Who won a 2020 Academy Award for her portrayal of Judy Garland? a. Kiera Knightley b. Renee Zellweger c. Emma Stone 7 – When was the game of Monopoly invented? a. 1933 b. 1943 c. 1953 8 – In what year was the Battle of Gate Pa? a. 1846 b. 1857 c. 1864

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SIBLINGS’ SUPER SEASON

By Adam Burns

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Ashburton rowers Ged and Isabel Wall have finished the season on a high.

Although the rowing season has come to an abrupt and premature end, the Ashburton College pupils should feel pleased with how the season panned out regardless.

Isabel (13) clinched a gold medal in the open para double

sculls at the New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, Cambridge last month.

Meanwhile older brother Ged (16) finished fourth in the A Final Men’s club double skulls, followed by second place finishes in the B Final Men’s Club Coxless Quad Skulls and Club Single Skulls.

“My expectations were probably lower than what I actually did,” Ged said.

Isabel echoed these sentiments as she approached the national regatta with a low-key approach.

“I wasn’t expecting much, but I’m glad I got a medal.”

She did admit that the nerves kicked in prior to racing, which was nothing unusual for her.

“But when I did it I was relieved and realise there wasn’t much to be nervous about.”

Ged backed up his national re-

gatta efforts with a second place in the Boys’ Under-17 Single Skulls A Final and a fourth place in the Under-18 singles, rowing for AshColl at the South Island Secondary School Rowing Championships in Twizel a fortnight ago.

The pair were set to compete in next month’s Maadi Cup in what would have been their season finale, however the event was ulti-

mately called off due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Although the brother and sister combination preferred to do their own thing as rowers, Ged remained generous in providing pointers for his younger sister “She just tells me to go away,” he laughed.

Both will be ones to watch once the rowing season (hopefully) reconvenes later in the year.

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

Matt Markham I’ll be honest, 90 per cent of this line-up took all of 30 seconds to compile.

The final few slots were the tricky ones that took a bit more consideration.

Roles in the front row, the engine room and at the back of the scum especially.

The backline was straightforward enough though and it looks like an exciting one too.

The prospect of a guy like Cullen running off the shoulder of Nonu or Carter is mouth-watering, especially with the human wrecking ball Lomu on one side and the silky touch of Wilson on the other.

I’m going to have to create this team on the Playstation this weekend and see just how good it really is I think.

The first name I wrote down was Jerry Collins.

Big fan, big heart and big presence.

Enforcers are golden to any rugby team and there have been few better, if any, than the late Jerry.

Same mindset around the inclusion of Richard Loe. We all love a bit of mongrel in our rugby players and Loe brings that in spades; he’d sort a few of the pretty-boy props of today out without too much problem.

Jaime Pitt-MacKay Once again I am only selecting this list of players from the time I’ve been alive and have really paid any attention to rugby, which limits me greatly.

I absolutely agree Colin Meads should feature in a greatest ever All Blacks discussion, but I’m not a fan of comparing players from across generations.

The reality is, take an All Blacks team from 30 year ago and pit them against the modern day team and they would get smoked. The modern players are more machine than man and all they do is play rugby, whereas older generations were still amateur players.

Given I’ve got roughly 15 to 20 years to pick from, I’d say the team almost picks itself. The locks are absolute lock-ins (no pun intended), seven and eight are fairly safe and I think Jerome Kaino might be one of the most under-appreciated All Blacks and more than held his own weight in that iconic loose forward trio.

I’ve gone for Aaron Smith over Justin Marshall at halfback.

Steve Devereux While at first glance this one doesn’t look too difficult; as in I would expect everybody’s 15, 12, 11, 10, 7, 5 and 4 to probably be the same, there are some variables.

Are we looking for the best team? In which case it would be 95 per cent modern Crusaders, or the Cantablacks, or the Auks of a few years previous.

Is it 1960? Or 1995, or present day?

Who are we playing?

Do we need a crash-bash merchant at second-five, or an artiste that will set up his outsides, giving them acres of space to play with?

Does the leader need to be a Richie or a Buck?

Do we need a Kevin Skinner to sort out a few vexatious opponents in the dark places?

There’s a case for The Geriatrics, who only come as a set, and you would pick them if there were still no substitutions allowed.

Or in the midfield, you couldn’t have Frank without Walter – separately they were very good All Blacks, together they were dynamite.

The spot that sat empty for the longest was the No.8 position.

Kieran got the nod, but it was almost reluctant and I’m not really sure why. He’s a fantastic player and has served New Zealand rugby well, but was he a standout? Probably not, just an excellent toiler.

Maybe I’ve got that one wrong?

Honourable mentions; Josh Kronfeld, the greatest scavenger to have played the game.

Ben Smith, Mr Professional – both personal favourites who almost made the cut. And also Conrad Smith, a little bit like Ben in that he was an excellent servant of the jersey.

1. Tony Woodcock 2. Sean Fitzpatrick 3. Richard Loe 4. Sam Whitelock 5. Brodie Retallick 6. Jerry Collins 7. Richie McCaw 8. Kieran Read 9. Aaron Smith 10. Dan Carter 11. Jonah Lomu 12. Ma’a Nonu 13. Frank Bunce 14. Jeff Wilson 15. Christian Cullen

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First-five and fullback pick themselves, as do the midfield trio.

The trickiest positions were the wings, with Jonah an obvious selection on the left. I thought of possibly Julian Savea on the right, but can someone who faded so quickly be an all-time player? That’s why I had to get the iconic Bender into the team, generally a fullback, but he of course played a lot of rugby on the wing for the mighty All Blacks.

1. Tony Woodcock 2. Keven Mealamu 3. Owen Franks 4. Brodie Retallick 5. Sam Whitelock 6. Jerome Kaino 7. Richie McCaw 8. Kieran Read 9. Aaron Smith 10. Dan Carter 11. Jonah Lomu 12. Ma’a Nonu 13. Conrad Smith 14. Ben Smith 15. Christian Cullen

The first name that went down and takes the captaincy in the number 7 jersey, and the second name will steer the side around the park at 10.

That was the easy bit. Comparing players of yesteryear and the current crop is a tricky debate, comparing amateurs with the modern-day professionals – who feature strongly in my selection as I have seen a lot more of their game tape.

Woodcock and Franks both racked up 100 games in one of the toughest gigs in the engine room, while I give Coles the nod as he has all the fundamentals but also boasts blistering wing-like speed.

Colin Meads would be the popular choice at lock but Sam Whitelock and Brodie Rettalick are twin pillars that have been a dominant duo for much of their combined 180-odd tests.

McCaw is joined by powerhouse Jerry Collins and Kieran Read, who in his prime had all the skills and power to earn the 8 jersey.

Aaron Smith’s speed of pass puts him in front of the challengers.

Outside of Carter, I’ve gone with Nonu and Umaga – Conrad Smith was a superb all-around centre but did not have the explosiveness of Umaga.

Left wing was a hard one for me. Jonah Lomu again would be a populist choice.

Adam Burns

Keven Mealamu

The other wing (if you don’t know who’s on left you’re reading the wrong page) may well have been the toughest choice; John Kirwan, Joe Rokocoko, Doug Howlett – there’s a massive list for that honour.

There’s another massive list – that’s at No. 7.

Graham Mourie, Waka Nathan, Michael Jones, Josh Kronfeld and a hundred others would walk into any other national side, at any time.

But you can’t pick them all, so here goes: 1. Wilson Whineray 2. Sean Fitzpatrick 3. Olo Brown 4. Brodie Retallick 5. Colin Meads 6. Jerome Kaino 7. Richie McCaw 8. Zinzan Brooke 9. Chris Laidlaw 10. Dan Carter 11. Jonah Lomu 12. Ma’a Nonu 13. Bruce Robertson 14. Bryan Williams 15. Christian Cullen

Jonathan Leask

Chris Laidlaw

A good mix of the modern and the old school.

I was lucky enough to acquire a copy of Legendary All Black Moments on VHS in the late 90s as a youngster. With footage dating back to 1950s, I learned about the feats of Colin Meads in the 50s-60s and Sid Going in the 70s.

There’s no justification required for Pinetree’s place in the second row, and although Super Sid was pushed hard by Aaron Smith, his guile and zip for me foreshadowed the qualities of the typical modern halfback.

The right wing spot was literally a toss of the coin between JK and Wilson (Goldie probably covers two positions from the bench). As was Buck and Zinzan Brook at 8, but I feel the pack needed another tough, no-nonsense enforcer.

However there were plenty of split-second automatic selections such as Cullen, Lomu, Carter and McCaw. And while the Iceman was at his peak on the openside, he was pretty handy on the blindside and needed to be on the run on XV. Reserves: Jeff Wilson, Beauden

I tossed up going with Doug Howlett, Joe Rockocoko and avoided the strong temptation to slide Ben Smith to the wing to go with Lomu, who’s defensive weaknesses would be well covered in this line-up.

He gets partnered with deadly finishers Jeff Wilson – narrowly edging Kirwan – and Christian Cullen in the back three.

1: Tony Woodcock 2: Dane Coles 3: Owen Franks 4: Sam Whitelock 5: Brodie Rettallick 6: Jerry Collins 7: Richie McCaw 8: Kieran Read 9: Aaron Smith 10: Dan Carter 11: Jonah Lomu 12: Ma’a Nonu 13: Tana Umaga 14: Jeff Wilson 15: Christian Cullen

Tana Umaga

Barrett, Aaron Smith, Zinzan Brooke, Ian Jones, Carl Hayman, Olo Brown, Dane Coles

1. Tony Woodcock 2. Sean Fitzpatrick 3. Owen Franks 4. Brodie Retallick 5. Colin Meads 6. Michael Jones 7. Richie McCaw 8. Wayne Shelford 9. Sid Going 10. Dan Carter 11. Jonah Lomu 12. Ma’a Nonu 13. Conrad Smith 14. John Kirwan 15. Christian Cullen

Michael Jones

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Hockey skills in the lockdown

Mid Canterbury Hockey (MCH) is not letting self-isolation hinder players’ chance to hone their skills. With residents in lockdown due to the Covid-19 crisis, hockey players are being encouraged to share their home obstacle courses. “Just because hockey season is delayed doesn’t mean we can’t be practising skills,” a MCH spokesperson said. A video of MCH coaching and development officer Laura Kingsmill (pictured above) running through a home obstacle course using kettle bells and some climbing rope was shared on the MCH Facebook page earlier this week. MCH urged followers to e-mail or tag their courses on the organisation’s Instagram account for the feature. A second home hockey challenge video was shared on Thursday. The drill was around how many drags could be completed in a minute.

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■■OPINION

Time for northern rugby to dig into their pockets

By Patrick McKendry

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here may be those who will feel uncomfortable that New Zealand Rugby is preparing to ask the government for financial assistance due to the coronavirus crisis – help, I hasten to add, it is eligible for as an incorporated society.

There are other societies and groups who may or may not be more worthy – that’s for the government to decide – but what is increasingly clear is that moving to a sharing of resources as the pandemic hits nearly every industry in the pocket is becoming more prevalent and necessary to prevent wholesale insolvencies.

The idea of a brand like the All Blacks being bailed out by the taxpayer might be difficult to swallow, but NZ Rugby is also responsible for the running of the grassroots game in New Zealand and most of us understand the value of sport – and rugby in its various forms in particular – to our children and communities.

So for World Rugby to say this

week they are working hard to mitigate the financial effects of the fast-spreading virus as the game is put on hold around the world and national bodies nervously watch as revenue dries up is, how can I put this, the bare minimum they should be doing.

Let’s face it, the three July tests against Wales (two) and Scotland (one) are unlikely to happen in New Zealand even though they are apparently still being planned for.

Will the All Blacks kick off their Rugby Championship campaign with a test against the Wallabies in Wellington on August 15 as scheduled?

Who knows at this point.

What we do know is that World Rugby is working on different fixture possibilities for this year – cynics will say that it took a global pandemic for them to finally work on a global calendar – including November tests in the Northern Hemisphere for the Sanzaar nations.

Currently the All Blacks are scheduled to play a test against just about everyone’s second

The All Blacks are always a money-spinner at Twickenham.

favourite team, the Brave Blossoms, in Japan, before travelling to the United Kingdom to play England, Wales and Scotland from November 7 onwards.

Could the All Blacks stay longer and also play Ireland and perhaps another fixture?

Possibly.

What is now almost beyond debate if those fixtures go ahead is that World Rugby must allow for revenue sharing from those tests for the first time.

The All Blacks in particular are constant stadium fillers in

the United Kingdom but don’t receive a bean – the same applies to every other nation, even those with more pressing financial needs such as Samoa, Fiji and Tonga.

The argument of the home nations is that the All Blacks make their money in the middle of the year when they host nations like Wales and Scotland (increasingly unlikely this year).

England make an estimated profit of $20 million from every Twickenham test but their income, and that of Ireland,

Scotland and Wales, is linked to servicing the debts on their stadiums, which they own.

The All Blacks don’t have that issue, nor do many other nations.

But while the coronavirus is bringing us (virtually) closer together via sharing in many cases, it is also highlighting great inequities such as the fact Prince Charles, who has tested positive for Covid-19, is unlikely to have to worry about a lack of hospital beds and ventilators in the UK – merely due to an accident of birth.

There will be those who always elevate themselves above their workers due to a perceived greater status; it’s why some company executives fly business class and don’t hesitate to send their workers into economy for the same journeys. That sort of attitude may never change but there may be less tolerance of it because as this virus has shown in stark relief, there are no companies without workers and no sports without athletes.

We may soon discover whether that penny has dropped for those who run rugby in the north.

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■■MOTOR RACING

Indy 500 falls victim to virus The Indianapolis 500 motor race has been postponed until August because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Promoted as the world’s biggest single-day sporting event with an estimated crowd of 350,000 it will now be raced on August 23.

The crown jewel of American open-wheel racing, which is traditionally staged each US Memorial Day weekend at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was originally scheduled to be held on May 24.

Roger Penske, who last November took over IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, called May his favourite time of year and said he was disappointed to add the Indy 500 to the list of major sporting events hit by the coronavirus.

“The health and safety of our event participants and spectators is our top priority, and we believe that postponing the event is the responsible decision with the conditions and restrictions we are facing,” Penske said in a statement.

“We will continue to focus on ways we can enhance the customer experience in the months ahead, and I’m confident we will welcome fans with a transformed facility and a global spectacle when we run the world’s greatest race.”

According to IndyCar, enhanced measures like higher frequency of cleaning, more hand-sanitizing stations and reducing hand-to-hand interactions between staff and customers will be in place when activity resumes at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

New Zealand’s Scott Dixon won the Indy 500 in 2008.

■■OPINION

Three ways to fix rugby – when it returns

By Phil Gifford

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hanges to the structure of the season, new ways to finance the sport, and making television deals are all vital to make sure rugby succeeds when it returns.

But all the framework in the world won’t help if ways are not found to cut down the number of games that are a cross between 1960s rugby league and sumo wrestling.

In 1965, as a country kid starting a new job at the New Zealand Herald, one of the attractions of moving to Auckland was seeing a game of league for the first time.

League and rugby union fans then usually shared a mutual contempt.

League was “state house rugby” if you were a union follower.

League people called rugby “kick and clap”.

In the mid-1960s league allowed teams to play the ball an unlimited number of times, so two lines of players with battered noses and scarred eyebrows (league then, way more than it does in the modern era, allowed head shots that would make MMA brawls look tame) smashed endlessly into each other.

Have a look at some of the rugby replays that are filling time on Sky’s sports channels now.

In 21st century rugby they don’t call it a play the ball, they call it a breakdown.

But the result is often the same as in old school league.

Endless breakdowns, where commentators note “that’s the 15th phase and they haven’t made

any ground at all”.

In 1967 league introduced a four tackle rule, which went to six tackles in 1972.

In the unlimited tackle days there were still flashes of sheer brilliance.

A genius of the game, a centre for Ponsonby and the Kiwis called Roger Bailey, would stroll around the paddock looking almost bored until he would suddenly take a step, feint as if to run, and then fire as good a pass as any oval ball player in the world has ever thrown to his wing, who would miraculously find himself in open space.

In a flash the sodden swamp that was mid-winter Carlaw Park had been transformed into something as thrilling as a high-wire act at Cirque du Soleil.

Rugby players like Beauden Barrett, Rieko Ioane and Sevu Reece have a lot of that Bailey ability to electrify a game.

To make sure fans come back when it’s again safe for crowds to gather, the trick for rugby is surely to make sure there’s more running, stepping, dodging, weaving and try-scoring than large units lumbering into each other to set up another one-off runner.

How could that be done?

Here are three possibilities.

1) Enforce the off side line at breakdowns

To paraphrase Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, time to get medieval on the ass of those defenders who creep forward at the breakdown.

Setting a five- or 10-metre gap behind the last foot of a defending team at the breakdown would

be even better, but could quickly turn into chaos.

League struggles to always maintain the gap behind the play the ball, and that’s at a much more static situation.

In rugby a new breakdown can be set up every two or three seconds, so policing, say, a fivemetre offside line, in real time could be a total nightmare. But it’d be a great idea to just police the current rules.

How far you’d go with that is a big question.

World Rugby vice-president Agustin Pichot has suggested the sport go hi-tech, and use a drone to check on lines.

“Let’s use the technology,” he said last year, “and that will soon sort it. Within five games, players will know that Hawkeye is watching them and they will stay back.

That is my view.”

It does feel like a step a bit too far into the future, but let’s remember that there was a time when rugby officials swore video referees would be the end of the world as we know it.

In 1998 I argued the idea on the Holmes show on TVNZ with David Moffett, then the CEO of the New Zealand Rugby Union.

Yes, there are times when all of us could do without endless replays of a possible try, but basically I’d stick with my feelings in 98.

If you need technology to get things right, then use it.

2) Speed up setting the scrum

It was imperative that changes were made to make setting a scrum safer.

For a terrible period in the 1980s young players were suffering critical injuries.

At lower levels, where spectators are not being charged to watch, taking all the time in the world to keep players safe is fine.

But one former All Black this week suggested to me that at the highest levels the time may have come to set a time limit for setting the scrum, just as there is for taking a kick at goal.

To set a scrum now, in Super Rugby or tests, takes, on average, a minute.

Cutting that down to 30 seconds would a least be a push in the right direction.

Not having ever been a prop, finding the solution to collapsing is well beyond my skill set.

But surely people who have propped at the highest level could work out a way to restart the game without endless resets, that can (I’ve timed them) take up to three minutes that are of zero interest to anyone.

3) Stop tactical substitutions

In 1996 All Black coach John Hart was quite rightly outraged when in the first test of an historic series win giant Springbok prop Os du Randt said he was “gatvol”, which roughly translates to “stuffed” in English, and left the field in the first test in Cape Town.

Du Randt wasn’t injured, which was then the only reason for a replacement to be allowed.

But what was in fact a tactical substitution followed, and a Springbok prop, Dawie Theron, who wasn’t “gatvol” finished the game in du Randt’s place.

At the end of that year the In-

ternational Rugby Board changed the laws, and subs have been with us ever since.

Clever coaches make good use of subs, and while, in some cases, players are brought on who add to the attacking prowess of the team (think Beauden Barrett at the 2015 World Cup), the fresh legs usually add to the defensive strengths.

It sounds almost callous, but having players starting to feel fatigued over the last 20 minutes just might allow more opportunities to attack and score tries.

And the more that happens the more likely fans will continue to enjoy the game.

Williamson ‘grounded and modest’

Kane Williamson has always presented as a good man, and he went up even further in my estimation with his open letter to frontline medical staff.

If ever words portrayed someone as grounded and modest, it was in these two paragraphs.

“People talk about the pressure sportsmen and women are under to perform, but the truth is we get to do something we love every day for a living. We play games.

“Real pressure is working to save lives.

“Real pressure is going into work each day while putting your own personal safety on the line for the good of others.”

They deserve to be read, and digested, by any sports star who starts to believe their problems are somehow bigger, or more special, than the problems of the average man or woman in the street.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Cartier set to sparkle In a week in which he has had to retire Group One performer Luvaluva, trainer John Sargent will look to another stakes-performed mare from his stable to make her mark at Rosehill.

On Wednesday, Sargent announced the retirement of five-year-old Luvaluva after the Group One-placed mare strained a tendon in the Gr.3 Epona Stakes (1900m) at Rosehill last Saturday.

House Of Cartier is a year younger than Luvaluva and was placed in last year’s Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) in Adelaide after relocating across the Tasman.

The daughter of Alamosa was originally prepared by Nigel Tiley and finished second in the Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie, splitting Pinmedown and Queen Of Diamonds.

With racing scheduled to go ahead at at Rosehill today under strict coronavirus protocols, House Of Cartier will have the third start of her campaign in the Gr.3 Neville Sellwood, with Sam Clipperton to ride.

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ter running fourth over 1350m on a heavy track at her most recent start at Rosehill two weeks ago.

“She’s at her peak now,” Sargent said.

“This should be a perfect race for her.

“She’s got no weight (54kg), it’s 2000 metres and she’s third-up. She won third-up last time in.

“I think she’s a smart mare and she’ll go on with it.

“She’s a bit under-rated, I think.

“She was placed in an Oaks last season and then was going for the Derby a week later but she injured herself in the Oaks and couldn’t run in the Derby.

“She’s bigger and stronger so I’d expect her to go close on Saturday.”

Adding to the mare’s task is the outside barrier draw in a field of 12.

House Of Cartier is raced by Bill Gleeson of Wellfield Lodge, in partnership with Peter Gillespie and would enhance her value again should she win a black-type race.

She is out of four-time Group One winner Shez Sinsational.

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To apply, please provide your CV, cover letter and completed application form via email to: supervisor@communityhousemc.co.nz Applications close 5pm on Thursday, April 9, 2020.

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Refugee Settlement Support Team: Job Vacancies As part of the Government’s decision to increase the annual refugee quota it identified Ashburton as one of five new settlement locations. Contract funding was made available for the development of a new Refugee Settlement Service for Ashburton. Safer Mid Canterbury was successful in its bid to develop and run this service for Ashburton.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the new Refugee Settlement Support Team, working directly with refugees as they embark on their new life settling into a new country and community. All positions are part time and will require family engagement, casework, direct support for the refugee families and collaboration with other support agencies.

The ideal candidates will have the following key attributes: » Willingness to embrace, seek and understand specific cultural knowledge » Enthusiasm and commitment to work as a team member » Excellent oral, listening and written communication skills » Past experience working with refugees and/or minority or diverse populations would be an advantage We are now seeking to fill the following four settlement team job vacancies: Caseworker/Youth: Must be a qualified and registered Social Worker with experience in working with Youth.

Caseworker/Housing: Must have experience knowledge of Housing and Tenancy sector.

and

Caseworker/Volunteer Coordinator: Experience in coordinating and managing volunteer services.

Caseworker/Cultural Navigator: Seeking a person who is fluent in Dari or a similar language (i.e. Farsi).

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Find out how you can help by visiting: www.otago.ac.nz/chchheart

These positions are all part time (24 hours per week) with some flexibility required around when the hours will be worked. In return we offer a supportive and flexible family friendly work environment. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please go to our website career section to download an application form. and view the position description. Please follow all instructions on the form.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Fishing And Adventure 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 8am Faith In Action 3 8:30 Life TV With Paul De Jong 9am Tagata Pasifika 10am The Family Chase 3 0 11:15 John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 12:15 A Place To Call Home PGR 3 0 1:25 Your Home Made Perfect 3 0 2:25 The Hotel Inspector Returns PGR 0 3:25 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t Relocate 4:25 Motoka Andy Ellis, Hayden Paddon, and Kris Green travel the length of the country in search of the quintessential Kiwi motorcar. 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway TV hosts Ant and Dec host a high-energy variety show. 0 7:55 Best Home Cook The cooks must create their ultimate curry. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Best Home Cook Continued. 0 9:05 Manifest PGR 0 10:05 The Bad Seed AO 0

6am Takaro Tribe 3 0 6:10 Thomas And Friends 0 6:25 Tinpo 0 6:30 Blaze And The Monster Machines 3 0 6:55 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 7:15 The Amazing World Of Gumball 0 7:40 Beyblade Burst Rise 0 8:05 Ninjago 0 8:30 Teen Titans Go! 3 0 8:55 Regular Show 0 9:05 Walk The Prank 0 9:30 The Simpsons PGR 3 0 10am Fresh 10:30 Regular Show 10:40 F Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11:10 F Black-Ish 3 0 11:35 8 Simple Rules 3 0 12:05 The 100 PGR 0 1:05 F Penguins Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 0 2:05 The Bachelorette NZ 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 7pm M Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – The Long Haul PGR 2017 Family Comedy. A Heffley family road trip goes off course thanks to Greg’s ulterior motives. 0 8:40 M Tracers AO 2014 Crime Drama. 0 10:30 M Mystery, Alaska AO 1999 Comedy Drama. 0

6am Charles Stanley 3 6:30 Infomercials 9:30 NewsHub Nation 0 10:30 The Taste USA 3 11:30 Married At First Sight US – The First Year PGR 3 12:25 Face Off 3 1:20 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show PGR 3 0 2:30 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3pm The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:30 Survivor – David v Goliath 0 4:30 Eyes Of The Atacama The Atacama desert in Chile is home to the largest space observatory constructed by man, and scientists hope to establish new milestones in astronomy. 0 5:30 HelloWorld An Australian travel and lifestyle television programme exploring destinations around the world.

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M Despicable Me PGR 3 2010 Animated Adventure.

When a criminal mastermind uses three orphan girls as pawns in a grand scheme, he finds their love changing him for the better. 0 8:55 M RoboCop AO 3 1987 Action. 0

6am Ben 10 – Alien Force 3 0 6:25 Danger Mouse 3 0 6:50 The Loud House 3 0 7:15 Henry Danger 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 0 8:05 Teen Titans 3 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Samurai Jack PGR 0 10am SmackDown AO 3 11am Raw AO 3 Noon Best Of Piha Rescue PGR 3 0 1pm NRL Full Time 2pm American Restoration 3 0 2:30 Outback Opal Hunters PGR 0 3:30 Outback Truckers PGR 4:30 Hot Bench 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Homes By The Med 0

11:05 Doctor Doctor AO 3 The annual Miss Whyhope pageant is in town, and Meryl is not pleased when Charlie decides to put a modern spin on the traditional events. 0 12:05 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2:10 Infomercials 5:30 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef

12:50 M South Park – Bigger, Longer And Uncut AO 1999 Animated Comedy. 0 2:15 Love Is… AO 3 0 3am Regular Show 3:10 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3:35 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 Masterstroke

11pm M Girl Missing PGR 3 2015 Drama. Fifteen years after she was left for dead in a ditch, a woman is contacted by a millionaire from New York City who claims to be her mother. Francesca Eastwood, Kiersten Warren, Federico Dordei. 0 12:55 Infomercials 3 5am Hillsong 3 5:30 Charles Stanley 3

Midnight Clash Of The Collectables Eric and Alan meet Ludo, a tough and tattooed dealer who never gives discounts. Eric spots an 18-piece dinner set. In Queensland, Eric and Alan visit Johnny Depp’s favourite antiques centre.

1am Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:45 The Best Of Enemies MC 2019 Drama. Taraji P Henson, Sam Rockwell. 9am Godzilla II – King Of The Monsters MVL 2019 Action. Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown.

11:10 The Poison Rose MVL Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The 2019 Thriller. John Travolta, Morgan Freeman. 12:50 John Takeaway, 7pm on TVNZ 1 Long Haul, 7pm on TVNZ 2 Wick – Chapter 3: Parabellum 16VL 2019 Action.

BRAVO Sky 5 Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry.

6am Trucking Hell M 10am Judge Jerry 3 3pm People Interview – 6:50 The Simpsons Super Glenn Close 3:30 Love 10:30 The Kelly Clarkson Saturday PG 9:35 Trucking And Debt MLC 2018 Drama.

Show 3 Hell M 10:35 Supernatural Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young.

11:30 The Kelly Clarkson MVS 11:25 Curfew MVC 5:10 Maria By Callas PGL 2017 Show 3 12:15 Supergirl MVS Documentary. Maria Callas, 1pm SmackDown Live 12:30 Hoarders 3 Joyce DiDonato. 7:10 Behold MVC 3:05 Main Event MVC My Heart MV 2018 Drama.

1:30 Hoarders 3 3:55 Ax Men ML 4:50 The Marisa Tomei, Charlie Plummer.

2:30 Love It Or List It 3 Simpsons Super Saturday PG 8:30 Booksmart 16LSC 2019 3:30 Love It Or List It 3 7:30 Trucking Hell M Comedy. After realising 4:30 Undercover Boss 3 A digger has fallen off the back they should have worked of a lorry, and is blocking one 5:30 Undercover Boss 3 less and played more, two side of a busy road; Richard overachieving high schoolers 6:30 Undercover Boss 3 and Lee have the unusual job cram four years of fun into 7:30 Botched PGR 3 of retrieving a load of straw one night. Kaitlyn Dever, 8:30 Vanderpump Rules AO from a broken-down trailer.

Beanie Feldstein.

9:30 The Real Housewives 8:30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 10:15 Spider-Man – Far 9pm Ax Men ML Of New Jersey AO From Home MV 2019 10pm Classic Pawn Stars PG Action. Tom Holland, Margaret hosts a 20th Samuel L Jackson.

Anniversary party for Macbeth 10:30 Trucking Hell M 11:20 The Simpsons PG Sunday 12:25 Pure Collection; Joe insults Bill about 11:45 The Simpsons PG 18VLSC 2018 Horror. his sex life; Jackie has a heartSunday 12:15 The Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller. to-heart with her father.

Simpsons Super Sunday PG 1:55 Behold My Heart MV 10:30 A Lie To Die For AO 3 2:10 Lazy Boy Garage PG 2018 Drama. Marisa Tomei, 2:35 Supergirl MVS Charlie Plummer.

11:30 Love It Or List It 3 3:20 Main Event MV 3:15 Booksmart 16LSC 2019 Sunday 4:05 Classic Pawn Stars PG Comedy. 4:55 Spider-Man 12:20 Infomercials 3 4:30 Ax Men ML – Far From Home MV 2019 Action.

5:15 Chicago PD 16V 5am How Do I Look? 3

7pm WhichCar 0 7:30 The Seventies PGR 3 0 8:30 Cristiano Ronaldo Meets Piers Morgan PGR 0 9:30 M Olympus Has Fallen AO 2013 Action. 0

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 My Mokai 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Haati Paati 3 8:30 Pukana 3 2 10am Swagger 10:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 11am Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 11:30 HakaNation Noon Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 1pm Haati Grassroots Rugby 3 2pm Poitukohu Kura Tuarua 3 3pm Touch Rugby – National Championships 3 4pm Waiata Nation The group creates and releases the first Maori waiata of this decade.

4:30 Fresh 5pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 5:30 Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm M The Tale Of Despereaux 2008 Animated Adventure. A brave and virtuous mouse dreams of becoming a knight.

8:30 M Inside Llewyn Davis AO 2013 Musical Drama.

10:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

6am Sand Masters 6:30 Auctioneers And Dealers 7:30 Baby Animals And Friends 8:30 Mysteries At The Museum 9:30 Gardeners’ World 10:30 Culinary Genius 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 Building The Dream 1:30 Escape To The Chateau – DIY 2:30 The Curse Of Oak Island PGR 3:30 Hugh’s Wild West 4:30 Healthy Food Guide 5pm Paul Hollywood – A Baker’s Life 5:30 Mysteries At The Monument Don Wildman investigates the world’s most impressive, and sometimes obscure, structures, statues, and national parks to discover tales hidden within them.

6:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 7:30 Restoration Home 8:30 Antiques Roadshow 9:30 M Bus 657 AO 2015 Crime Drama. When their attempt to rob a gangster’s casino goes awry, a man and his partner hijack a city bus to escape from the police.

Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dave Bautista.

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

11:15 Hugh’s Wild West 12:15 Mysteries At The Monument 1:15 Sand Masters 1:45 Inside Mandarin Oriental 2:45 M Phar Lap PGR 1983 Drama. Tom Burlinson, Judy Morris, Richard Morgan.

5am Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club

MOVIES GREAtS

MOVIES ExtRA

7am Million Dollar Baby MC 2004 Drama. Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman.

9:10 Mr And Mrs Smith M 2004 Comedy Thriller.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie.

11:10 Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo 16LS 2005 Comedy. Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin. 12:35 X2 MV 2003 Action. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry.

2:50 State Of Play MVL 2009 Crime. 4:55 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action. 6:25 About Time MLS 2013 Fantasy Romance. Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams.

8:30 Inglourious Basterds 16VL 2009 War Drama. A small group of soldiers is assigned to infiltrate occupied France during the Second World War. Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson.

11:05 X-Men – The Last Stand MV 2006 Fantasy Adventure. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry.

Sunday 12:50 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama.

2:35 Ocean’s 13 Featurette PG 2007 Featurette.

2:50 State Of Play MVL 2009 Crime. 4:55 People Interview – Jennifer Lopez 2016 Featurette. 5:50 About Time MLS 2013 Fantasy Romance.

7:11 Aquaman MV 2018 Action. Jason Momoa, Amber Heard.

9:31 Destination Wedding MLS 2018 Comedy.

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder.

10:55 Charlie Says 16VLSC 2018 Drama. Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon. 12:45 Lost In London MLS 2017 Drama. Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson. 2:30 Maine 16LS 2018 Drama.

Laia Costa, Thomas Mann.

3:55 Wandering Eye M 2011 Thriller. Amanda Righetti, Krista Bridges. 5:25 The Miracle Season PG 2018 Drama.

Helen Hunt, Erin Moriarty.

7:05 Changeland 16LSC 2018 Comedy. Seth Green, Breckin Meyer. 8:30 The Hummingbird Project ML 2019 Drama. A pair of cousins plan to lay a fibre-optic cable across America to net themselves millions in the stock market and cut off their former boss in the process.

Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek.

10:25 Lancaster Skies PGVL 2019 War. Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson.

6:20 Qi MLS 6:50 Qi MLS 7:20 Qi MLS 7:55 Would I Lie To You? PG 8:25 Would I Lie To You? PG 8:55 Would I Lie To You? PG 9:30 The Bill M 10:20 The Bill MVC 11:05 The Bill MVC 11:55 The Bill MVC 12:45 The Bill MVC 1:30 Casualty PG 2:25 Casualty PG 3:20 Holby City MC 4:25 Inspector George Gently MVC Gently and Bacchus investigate the suspicious death of Gently’s old friend, China.

6:05 Qi M 6:40 The Coroner PG 7:35 Casualty PG Ruby plucks up the courage to confess about Dani; Jade finds someone who believes in her, and starts to believe in herself.

8:30 A Touch Of Frost MVC Frost is faced with the death of a police informer on a raciallytense estate.

10:20 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 11:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG

12:05 Peppermint 16VL 2018 Action. Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz. 1:45 Jeruzalem 16VLC 2015 Horror.

3:20 The Hummingbird Project ML 2019 Drama.

5:10 Wandering Eye M 2011 Thriller.

12:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 1:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 2:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:10 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 4:10 A Touch Of Frost MVC 5:55 The Force – Northeast MVLC

Sunday

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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Sunday

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DISCOVERy 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How Do They Do It? PG 7:30 Gold Rush PG 8:20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:10 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10am Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:50 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 11:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 12:30 Expedition Unknown 1:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Preserving the Old Ways. 2:10 Guardians Of The Glades PG Night Terror. 3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 Mega Marine Machines PG Masters of the Deep. 4:45 Mega Marine Machines PG Titans of Power. 5:40 Mega Marine Machines PG Super Port NYC. 6:35 BattleBots PG 7:30 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 8:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Ancient UFO Earth Landings. 9:25 Gold Rush PG 10:15 The Day I Ran China PG Grand Finale. 11:05 Undercover Billionaire PG 11:55 How It’s Made PG Sunday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 BattleBots PG 1:35 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2am World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2:25 The Perfect Murder M 3:15 Web Of Lies M 4:05 People Magazine Investigates PG 4:55 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M 5:45 The 1980s – The Deadliest Decade M

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6am Tales From The Coast With Robson Green 3 6:50 Tiny House Nation 3 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 3 8:35 Karena And Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy 3 0 9am Q+A With Jack Tame 0 10am Marae PGR 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Attitude 3 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Sunday 3 0 12:55 Location, Location, Location 3 0 1:55 Building Giants 0 2:50 Chasing Monsters 3:50 M The Snow Wolf – A Winter’s Tale 2018 Adventure.

Emilia Fox, Matthias Korneli. 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday 0 8:30 F Gold Digger AO Will Benjamin reveal the truth about his past? 0 9:40 F Autopsy – Patrick Swayze PGR 3 Best known for his roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Patrick Swayze was a popular actor who died at only 57. 0 10:35 When We Go To War AO 3 0

6am Life TV 3 6:30 Brian Houston 3 7am Charles Stanley 3 8am Life TV 3 8:30 Turning Point 3 9am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 0 11am Classical Destinations 3 11:30 Xscape 3 Noon Ocean Bounty 3 0 1pm Motorsport 3 1:01 Volkswagen ID.R – A Year Of Electric Records 1:30 Formula E – Street Racers 2pm Motorsport – GT World Cup 3pm Motorsport – Super Trucks 4pm Monster Jam 4:55 The Fishing Show Classics The best of The Fishing Show. 0 5:25 Fish Of The Day 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Married At First Sight 7pm The Bachelorette NZ The bachelors take on their Australia PGR 0 most daunting task yet – 8:30 M Jurassic World – meeting the bachelorettes’ Fallen Kingdom PGR 2018 parents. 0 Action. After the destruction 8:30 M Adrift PGR 2018 Drama. of Jurassic World, Owen and A young couple unexpectedly Claire return to retrieve the set sail into what would be last dinosaurs left on the one of the most disastrous hurricanes in history. Based island. on true events. 0 Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas 10:20 M Alien Resurrection AO Howard, Rafe Spall. 0 1997 Sci-fi. 0 10:50 Talking Married AO 0

11:35 When We Rise AO 3 Ken relies on Cecilia Chung’s support as he deals with addiction at a VA hospital. 0 12:25 Hillary 3 When tragedy strikes, Ed’s life falls apart. 0 1:15 Coronation Street 3 0 3:20 Infomercials

12:20 The Walking Dead 3 0 1:05 Krypton AO 3 0 1:50 The Exorcist AO 3 0 2:35 Dumb Drivers Make You LOL PGR 3 0 3:20 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3:45 Infomercials 4:20 Masterstroke 4:50 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

The Bachelorette NZ 7pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 6am How Do I Look? 3 9:10 Love It Or List It 3 10am Love It Or List It 3 10:50 Botched PGR 3 11:40 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 12:30 Hoarders 3 1:25 Hoarders 3 2:20 Hoarders 3 3:15 Judge Jerry 3 5pm Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 6pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 7pm M American Dreamz PGR 2006 Comedy.

Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore.

9:15 M The Italian Job AO 2003 Action Thriller.

After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, a man and his team plan an elaborate gold robbery against their former ally. Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham.

11:30 Shahs Of Sunset AO 12:20 Infomercials 3

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 New Looney Tunes 3 0 6:55 Masha And The Bear 3 0 7am Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz 0 7:25 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:45 Tales Of Nai Nai 0 10am Regular Show 0 10:30 N Young And Hungry 10:55 Shortland Street Omnibus 12:10 M Eat, Play, Love 2017 Romantic Comedy. Jen Lilley, Jason Cermak, Lee Majors. 0 1:50 Grown-Ish PGR 0 2:20 Grown-Ish 3 0 2:45 Home And Away Omnibus 4:15 The Bachelor PGR The Women Tell All. 0 6:05 The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 The Simpsons 3 0

Brian Johnson’s A Life on the Road, 8:30pm on Prime

Sky 5 6am Lazy Boy Garage PG 6:25 Supergirl MVS 7:10 NCIS – New Orleans MV (Part 1) 7:55 Main Event MV 8:45 The Amazing Race PG 9:35 Supergirl MVS 10:25 Classic Pawn Stars PG 10:55 NCIS – New Orleans MV 11:45 Ax Men ML 12:40 Mountain Men PG 2pm The Amazing Race PG 3pm Raw MVC 5:45 SmackDown MVC 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans MV Pride and Lasalle travel to Russia to find an FBI special agent who was kidnapped during a failed mission to apprehend the leader of Apollyon.

8:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 10:30 Chicago PD 16V 11:25 The Amazing Race PG

Monday

12:15 SmackDown MVC 1:55 Chicago PD 16V 2:45 NCIS – New Orleans MV 3:35 The Amazing Race PG 4:25 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:10 Criminal Minds 16VS

11:05 Blue Bloods AO Linda’s brother gets into trouble with the mafia, and asks Danny to help him stay safe; the lawyer of a wrongfully arrested man is out for retribution. 0 Midnight Magnum PI AO 3 0 12:55 Infomercials

MAORI

6am Religious Programming 7am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 7:30 Religious Programming 10am Great Rail Restorations 3 11am 100 Day Renovation 3 Noon Fish Of The Day 3 0 1pm Massive Engineering Mistakes PGR 3 2pm Mad About You PGR 3 2:30 Ice Road Truckers Deadliest Roads PGR 3 3:30 Judge Judy 4pm Hot Bench 3 4:30 Hook Me Up! Blackcaps fast bowler Trent Boult loves going fishing with his dad, but neither man has ever caught a Kingfish. Matt has made it his mission to get the pair on the water to catch their dream fish.

5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers 7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 8:30 Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road AO AC/DC front man Brian Johnson swaps stories with guitar legend Joe Walsh, who has plenty of tales to tell of life on tour with James Gang and The Eagles. 0 9:30 Shearing Gang PGR 0 10:30 SmackDown AO 11:30 60 Minutes PGR Bill Whitaker on the race to develop a safe and effective drug and vaccine to treat Covid-19 coronavirus.

12:30 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREAtS

7:01 Love And Debt MLC 2018 Drama. Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young.

8:36 Maria By Callas PGL 2017 Documentary.

Maria Callas, Joyce DiDonato.

10:31 Booksmart 16LSC 2019 Comedy. Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein.

12:11 Spider-Man – Far From Home MV 2019 Action. Tom Holland, Samuel L Jackson.

2:20 Chaplin In Bali 16 2018 Documentary. 3:15 Wild Rose MLS 2019 Drama.

Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters.

4:55 Level 16 16VC 2018 Sci-fi.

Katie Douglas, Celina Martin.

6:35 The Spy Who Dumped Me 16VLC 2018 Comedy.

Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon.

8:30 X-Men – Dark Phoenix MVLC 2019 Action. A cosmic force makes Jean Grey infinitely powerful, but also far more unstable, and the X-Men must decide whether her life is worth more than that of all of humanity. Sophie Turner, James McAvoy.

10:25 Crawl 16VLC 2019 Action. Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper.

11:55 Hearts Beat Loud MC 2018 Drama. Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons. Monday 1:30 Crypto 16VLS 2019 Thriller. 3:12 Chaplin In Bali 16 2018 Documentary.

4:05 Wild Rose MLS 2019 Drama. 5:45 Level 16 16VC 2018 Sci-fi.

7:50 X-Men – The Last Stand MV 2006 Fantasy Adventure. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry.

9:35 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama. Robert De Niro, Frances MacDormand, Eliza Dushku.

11:20 Inglourious Basterds 16VL 2009 War Drama.

Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson. 1:50 A Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Crime.

Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo. 3:55 War Horse MV 2011 Drama.

6:20 Real Steel MV 2011 Action. Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo.

8:30 Wedding Crashers MVLS 2005 Comedy. Two committed womanisers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romance in the air find themselves at odds with one another when one of them falls for a bridesmaid. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn.

10:30 The Hunger Games – Catching Fire MV 2013 Action. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

Monday 12:55 Our Idiot Brother MLS 2011 Comedy. 2:25 People Interview – Jennifer Lopez 2016 Featurette. 3:20 A Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Crime. 5:25 War Horse MV 2011 Drama.

CHOICE

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 Tamariki Haka 6:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 7am Darwin + Newts 3 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Smooth 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Haati Paati 3 8:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 3 9am Globe 3 9:30 Swagger 10am Easy Eats 3 11am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 3 11:30 Te Ao With Moana 3 Noon Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Touch Rugby – Junior Championships 2pm M The Tale Of Despereaux 2008 Animated Adventure. 3:30 Marae DIY 3 4:30 Tagata Pasifika 5pm Tamaki Paenga Hira 3 5:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm Aotearoa 3 7:30 F Rise PGR 3 8:30 M Manganinnie AO 1980 Drama History. Aboriginal woman Manganinnie survives a Black Line raid that takes the life of her husband, Meenopeekameena.

Mawuyul Yanthalawuy, Anna Ralph, Phillip Hinton.

10:10 Kairakau

6am Sand Masters 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Leading The Way 7:30 Healthy Food Guide 8am Paul Hollywood – A Baker’s Life 8:30 Animal Park 9:30 Storage Hoarders 10:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 11:30 Stars In Their Cars Noon Home Of The Year 12:30 Hugh’s Wild West 1:30 Mysteries At The Monument 2:30 Antiques Roadshow 3:30 Inside The Vets 4:30 Rick Stein – From Venice To Istanbul Rick Stein continues his Byzantine odyssey through Croatia, and savours the native oysters of Ston.

5:30 My Dream Home 6:30 American Restoration 7:30 Irish Pickers 8:30 The Cold Case Files Series that investigates longunsolved cases.

9:30 Titanic – 20 Years Later With James Cameron 10:30 Rick Stein – From Venice To Istanbul

11:10 Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:40 Closedown

11:30 American Restoration 12:30 My Dream Home 1:30 Sand Masters 2am Inside Mandarin Oriental 3am The Cold Case Files 4am Titanic – 20 Years Later With James Cameron 5am American Restoration 5:30 Stars In Their Cars

MOVIES ExtRA 6:40 The Miracle Season PG 2018 Drama. Helen Hunt, Erin Moriarty. 8:20 People Interview – Glenn Close 2018 Featurette.

8:45 Changeland 16LSC 2018 Comedy.

Seth Green, Breckin Meyer.

10:10 Lancaster Skies PGVL 2019 War. Jeffrey Mundell, David Dobson.

11:50 Peppermint 16VL 2018 Action. Jennifer Garner, John Ortiz. 1:30 The Hummingbird Project ML 2019 Drama. Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek. 3:20 The Bachelors MLC 2017 Comedy.

JK Simmons, Julie Delpy.

5pm Midnight Sun PGL 2018 Drama. Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger.

6:30 The Vanishing Of Sidney Hall 16C 2017 Drama.

Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning.

8:30 Stan And Ollie PGL 2018 Comedy. Facing an uncertain future, Laurel and Hardy, one of the world’s greatest comedy duos, embark on an ambitious theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Steve Coogan, John C Reilly.

10:10 Mission Impossible – Fallout MV 2018 Action.

Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill.

Monday 12:35 All I See Is You 16LS 2017 Drama.

Blake Lively, Jason Clarke.

2:25 The Bachelors MLC 2017 Comedy. 4:05 Midnight Sun PGL 2018 Drama. 5:35 Stan And Ollie PG 2018 Comedy.

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

UktV 6:40 Holby City MC 7:40 EastEnders PG 8:10 EastEnders PG 8:45 EastEnders PG 9:15 EastEnders PG 9:45 EastEnders PG 10:20 Heartbeat MVC 11:10 The Jonathan Ross Show M 11:55 All Round To Mrs Brown’s MLS 12:45 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown M 1:35 A Touch Of Frost MVC 3:25 A Confession M 4:20 Doc Martin M 5:15 Heartbeat MVC 6:10 Would I Lie To You? PG 6:45 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown MLS 7:35 Casualty PG Connie’s worst fears are realised when she comes back from her conference to find Ciaran has taken over her ED and her office.

8:30 Who Do You Think You Are? PG Paul Merton traces the life of his maternal grandfather, and key events that led to Irish independence in the 1920s.

9:35 Inspector George Gently MVC 11:15 A Confession M

Monday

Midnight Casualty PG 12:50 Casualty PG 1:40 Doctor Foster M 2:40 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 3:40 Inspector George Gently MVC 5:15 Call The Midwife PG 29Mar20

DISCOVERy 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How Do They Do It? PG 7:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Ancient UFO Earth Landings. 8:20 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 9:10 BattleBots PG 10am Undercover Billionaire PG Final Reckoning.

10:50 Alaskan Bush People PG Bears of a Feather.

11:40 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Preserving the Old Ways. 12:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 1:20 Gold Rush PG 2:10 Outback Opal Hunters PG 3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 Outback Opal Hunters PG 4:45 Outback Opal Hunters PG 5:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 6:35 Outback Opal Hunters PG 7:30 Blowing Up History PG Curse of the Seventh Wonder.

8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Undercover Billionaire PG Final Reckoning.

10:15 Unexplained And Unexplored PG 11:05 Expedition Unknown 11:55 How It’s Made PG Monday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Man v Bear PG 1:35 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2am World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid MLC 3:15 Naked And Afraid M 4:05 Naked And Afraid M 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Naked And Afraid MVL

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HUNTER – SMITH Les and Dianne

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NZ Situation

Wind km/h fine

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mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

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rain

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TODAY

FZL: 1300m rising to 1500m in the evening

Cloudy periods and a few showers north of Arthur’s Pass, spreading south about lower ground. Elsewhere, cloud clearing to fine.

Wind at 1000m: Light winds.

Wind at 2000m: Light winds.

Cloudy periods. A few showers developing in the morning. Southwest breezes.

TOMORROW Cloudy periods with a few showers, more persistent toward evening with cloud increasing. Light winds.

Rain, easing to a few showers later. Light winds.

TUESDAY

Auckland

fine

Hamilton

fine

Napier

showers

Wellington

rain

Cloudy periods and a few showers north of Tekapo. Fine with evening cloud elsewhere.

Wind at 1000m: Southeast 30 km/h developing in the morning.

Wind at 2000m: Southeast 40 km/h developing early morning.

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

Greymouth

fine

Christchurch

fine

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Timaru

shower

Queenstown

fine

Morning cloud and isolated coastal showers, then fine. Northeasterlies developing.

Rain, easing. Light winds.

WEDNESDAY

Morning cloud, then fine. Light winds.

Dunedin

fine

Partly cloudy. Northeasterlies.

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Invercargill

shower

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Mainly fine. Light winds. fine fine fine fine showers showers showers fine fine thunder fine fine cloudy cloudy cloudy

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Rise 7:45 am Set 7:30 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 11:01 am Set 9:28 pm

First quarter 1 Apr 11:22 pm ©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

Rise 7:46 am Set 7:28 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 12:04 pm Set 9:57 pm

Full moon 8 Apr www.ofu.co.nz

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Rise 7:47 am Set 7:26 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 1:07 pm Set 10:32 pm

Last quarter

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Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

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cumecs

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:05 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 139.2 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:02 pm, yesterday

376.2 nc

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

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Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing

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overnight max low

Palmerston North rain

TOMORROWFZL: 1500m, rising to 2400m afternoon

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World Weather

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NZ Today

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

Saturday, 28 March 2020

A low to the east of the North Island weakens while directing a southeast flow over the island. A ridge moves on to the far south of the country on Saturday and spreads across the South Island on Sunday. The ridge builds over the South Island on Monday, while a weak trough affects the North Island.

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TOMORROW: Cloudy periods and a few showers. Light winds.

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TODAY: Cloud breaking and fine spells developing. SW breezes.

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Map for today

Ashburton Forecast

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 11.8 12.6 Max to 4pm 10.1 Minimum 10.0 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 8.8 16hr to 4pm March to date 28.0 Avg Mar to date 53 2020 to date 86.2 161 Avg year to date Wind km/h S 20 At 4pm Strongest gust SW 44 Time of gust 12:15am

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): We’re on a cusp. The world is changing fast. What worked for your parents isn’t going to work for you. Past generations have much to offer you, and you have just as much to offer them.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You want to help the situation, but there is a limit to how much you can do before you completely alter the whole scenario. Your delicate touch will be much appreciated.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’ll debate like a star, argue like a top lawyer and, in the end, concede like a wise elder. All you do will count for more because of the people you influence.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Loved ones expect things of you of which you are unaware. Poke around on the subject. Figure out what they want from you. This will be awkward in the moment, but also it will save you hours of future futility.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): So, you’ll lose control. A lapse in self-discipline is just an opportunity. Take a lesson from it. Ultimately, the mistake could be what keeps you faithful to your best practices.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): If you’re slightly less available to others and slightly more able to go off by yourself, you’ll be incredibly more creative, inspired and available to the world.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You are sensitive to the moods of others and will be magician-like in your ability to lift and change those moods into a state of interest and wonder.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You don’t feel comfortable in every environment, but you’re willing to go again and again until you do feel the level of comfort that helps you navigate and own it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You really don’t have to know why a thing isn’t working to know that it isn’t. For now, don’t worry about the why.

Save it for another time. Just move on to what feels a little better.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You rule your own realm today, but it won’t quite be enough.

To help another, to rock someone’s world... that’s the direction you’re going. And you’ll achieve it.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Self-promotion won’t be necessary. The good feeling you have about being you is promotion enough. People like you, and you like people. That’s what’s going on today.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): People will want to know where they stand with you, and you’ll tell them. You’ve little tolerance for vagaries of opinion, wishy-washy emotions or undefined goals.

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ACROSS 1. Where they practise shooting fliers, anger being shown (5,6) 8. Sorting nothing out when perching for the night (8) 9. A hundred hit out in their irritation (4) 10. Form of verse one can cut (5) 13. Biblical brother may have had a use for him (4) 16. It may bloom in one’s eye (4) 17. Could be intoxicated by an anticyclone (4) 18. Chatter quietly, and catch one’s breath (4) 20. Very swiftly goes and throws them at the board (5) 24. Do the opposite, to resolve the knot (4) 25. Game that might resound, after starting right (8) 26. Moving woodenly to the music? (11) DOWN 2. One must study a computer image (4) 3. Some liquid is ignited by the Sappers (5) 4. Get up around middle of the morning and remove the soap (5) 5. May move smoothly, or be powerless to fly (5) 6. Is erupting − from prison? (8,3) 7. Didn’t concentrate so much when inconsiderate (11) 11. Was at cross purposes at ballot-time (5) 12. A clause that is added for the jockey (5) 14. One won’t keep a spade’s depth in one’s mouth (4) 15. Fail to meet a lady teaching (4) 19. Picture the finish being so close! (5) 21. A scent, or a turn-up with mother (5) 22. The gin mixer will give one the key-note (5) 23. This could be the head runner (4)

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

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ACROSS 7. Disdain (13) 8. Prompt (8) 9. Suspend (4) 10. Work path (6) 12. Annual (6) 14. Historic period (3) 15. Warmed (6) 17. Madness (6) 19. Agitate (4) 21. Scottish sword (8) 23. Proclamations (13)

DOWN 1. Put up with (8) 2. Guidance given (6) 3. Exploited (4) 4. Treachery (8) 5. Respiratory illness (6) 6. Presently (4) 11. Becoming less (8) 13. Cut deeply (8) 16. Extreme fear (6) 18. Digit (6) 20. Melody (4) 22. Highest point (4)

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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’s at least one five-letter word.

Good Verywords Good of 15 three Excellent 18 How 11 many 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’s atsolution: least one five-letter Previous bid, bids, word. bin, bind, Goodbins, 11 Very 15 Excellent binds, bis,Good dib, dibs, din, dins,18dis, ids, ins, nib, nibs, sib, sin, snib

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Across: 1. Solitary 4. Skit 8. Rum 9. Solve 10. Nor 11. Bottled 12. Sahib 13. Guttersnipe 17. Asset 18. Rubella 20. Tea 21. Ovine 22. Dab 23. Cite 24. Osculate 5 5. Kinship 3 4 6.2Throbs Down: 1. Scrubs 2. Limit 3. Riled 7. Personable 9. Salutation 14. Upstart 15. Baltic 5 6 3 16. Gamble 18. Raids 19. Lydia

6 9 8 2 1 9 Across: 1. Eventual 7. Overt 8. Authentic 9. Ref 10. Tend 9 15. Arrest 16. Haul 18. Raw 11. Droops 13. Beast of burden 20. Leisurely 21. Eerie 22. Ancestor 8 Down: 1. Exact 2. Estonia 3. Tied 4. After a fashion 5. Seers Previous solution: bid, bids, bin, bind, www.thepuzzlecompany.co.nz 9 7 binds, bins, bis, dib, dibs, din, dins, dis, 6. Stiffen 7. Octopus 12. Startle 13.6Barrier 3 14. Dialect ids, ins, nib, nibs, sib, sin, snib 15. Aware 17. Layer 19. Rule 4 2 6 28/3 1 6 8 5 2 4 3 9 5 PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS Sudoku Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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