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Burglar hits dairy in rapid raid

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

The owners of the Netherby Dairy have been left stunned and disappointed after a smash and grab break-in in the early hours of Friday morning saw between $4000 and $6000 worth of cigarettes stolen from their shop.

Just after 2am on Friday morning a person, using a crowbar, forced entry to the shop before running in and attempting to open locked drawers of cigarettes before successfully removing one drawers packed full of cigarettes and running out of the shop.

In total the break-in lasted less than a minute and was captured on CCTV. Kevin Deng, whose parents own the dairy, said it was disappointing as it was the first time they had had a break-in like that since they had taken over the ownership of the dairy.

“The person had clearly been in here before and knew the layout, they snuck along the front of the building so they weren’t seen by the security camera out front that looks at the car park,” he said.

“They have used a big crowbar to open the door and have ran in and gone through the drawers and they obviously knew were everything was.”

Deng said they were still trying to determine the exact value of the cigarettes stolen, but that they estimated the value would be between $4000 and $6000.

While the store has not been burgled before, they have been the victim of another tobacco theft in 2015 when a man asked for a packet of tobacco.

Deng put the $70 packet on the

counter and as he turned away to get cigarette papers, the man grabbed the packet and ran out of the store.

The Dengs are still waiting for the reparation for that crime to be

paid, and the way that incident was handled by police doesn’t make them feel confident that there will be a positive outcome in this case.

Deng said while the cigarette

targeted robbery was concerning, for a small dairy trying to compete with other food retailers in the area cigarettes provided a considerable part of their business.

Limited notification for water bottling consent

By Susan Sandys

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Environment Canterbury has decided not to publicly notify a consent application from Fairton LP Limited.

The company has applied to convert a dairy irrigation consent relating to a bore on a property it owns on the outskirts of Ashburton for water bottling purposes.

Environment Canterbury has limited notified the application

to iwi only – being Te Runanga o Arowhenua, Te Taumutu Runanga, Te Ngai Tuahuriri and Te Runanga o Nga Tahu.

This is on the basis that the proposed use of the water is considered to adversely affect the mauri, or life principle and essence, of the freshwater.

“It is considered that issue solely effects these parties,” ECan says in its decision.

There are three types of notification – non-notified, in the

case of adverse effects on the environment and people are considered less than minor, limited notified, when the opportunity to make submissions on the proposal is opened only to specifically affected persons, and publicly notified, if adverse effects are considered more than minor and anyone is able to make a submission.

Fairton LP’s consent application seeks to change the conditions of an existing consent, for

a dairy farm, to take groundwater, reduce the area irrigated with that water, add stock-water as an additional use, and update standard water metering, efficiency and administrative conditions, for the next 15 years.

It also seeks permission to use the water from that consent for commercial and industrial purposes including water bottling for a period of 12 years.

The consent would take the water at the existing take rate,

but at lesser theoretical annual volume than currently authorised for irrigation and stock water.

The site is close to State Highway One and is within an area of mixed use – farming and the now-closed Silver Fern Farms. It runs alongside the railway line, bounded by Works Road to the north, the Ashburton Business Estate to the east and the Rural Transport Limited yard to the south.

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Big debate over Methven’s drinking water

By Sue Newman

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A $4.5 million investment would have fixed Methven’s drinking water woes for years to come, but instead $200,000 will be spent on a long-shot solution to solve the town’s water quality issues.

Over the past three years boil water notices have been issued for Methven households on eight occasions. Some of those have been for up to 10 days.

As owner of the supply the Ashburton District Council is required under government drinking water standards to provide Methven residents with a safe and secure supply.

Currently the town’s supply is a gallery intake from the North Ashburton River, but at times the treatment plant cannot ensure the water is protozoa compliant.

To meet drinking water standards the council is looking for

an alternative treatment system that could involve drawing water from another source to bridge periods of poor water quality or using a $4.5 million membrane treatment option.

This week district councillors looked at next year’s draft budgets and discussed a business case prepared by staff on options for enhancing Methven’s water supply.

The cheap option is to drill a bore in the hope of finding sufficient water to supplement the gallery supply, but indications are that the chances of finding water at a reasonable depth are slim. The other option was to invest $4.5 million in a membrane treatment upgrade.

Improving the quality of Methven and other rural villages’ water was not an option, council service delivery manager Neil McCann said.

“With the new water regulations we have to lift the bar and put money into treatment options. We have to be absolutely sure 100 per cent we have a supply that’s compliant,” he said.

While membrane treatment was the ultimate, long-term answer, if a good supply of water was found at 200 metres that would be the far cheaper option and would provide an alternative source when needed, McCann said.

The chances of finding water near the supply intake were not high, however, he added.

“You might strike it lucky, like winning Lotto, but the $200,000 might also be gone and we’d need to go straight to the membrane. If we spend $4.5 miilion there’ll be no boil water notices,” Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown said.

Chief executive Hamish Ri-

ach made it clear to councillors that however they chose to do it, complying with drinking water standards was not optional.

“The new regulator with new intentions and enforcement on drinking water standards is absolutely coming.

“We don’t know the details and the timing, but we absolutely know increased standards for drinking water are coming and a new regulator will be holding us and all councils to account on it.

The problem won’t go away,” he said.

Councillor Rodger Letham favoured “having a crack” at drilling to see if there was water available, but accepted the chances of getting it were slim.

While councillors were tempted by the membrane treatment option, they voted to try the well-drilling option first.

Methven will also have an ad-

ditional $221,000 spent in the next year to upgrade its water storage capabilities.

Work on a new reservoir was included in the council’s longterm plan for next year, but concept designs and indicative costs show that the amount set aside is insufficient and an additional $221,700 is needed to ensure the project can be completed.

In its long-term plan the council intended to spend $794,000 on the design and construction of a replacement reservoir.

It will now build the new reservoir and when this is commissioned, a condition assessment and repairs will be carried out on the existing concrete tank.

When it is brought back into use, Methven’s supply will be significantly boosted with the two storage reservoirs providing a total storage capacity of 1200 cubic metres.

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Walking to their own tune

By Heather Mackenzie

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Harpist Michelle Doyle and violinist/vocalist Michael O’Donnell are bringing their blend of a classical, Celtic and jazz type vibe to the Mt Hutt Memorial Hall tonight.

The Australian musicians are in New Zealand hiking the 3000km Te Araroa trail and playing at various venues along the way, to launch their first album A Walking Place and to raise money for osteoporosis research.

Diagnosed with the condition at 24, Doyle knows how important it is to maintain a positive outlook and to keep physically active.

“When we first started the hike I didn’t know if I would make it all the way to Invercargill, but here we are in Methven with 740km left to go and I’m thinking I might just make it.”

While Doyle always knew the hike was a good plan, partner O’Donnell took a bit of convincing, but once she put the idea of performing along the way in his head, he quickly changed his mind and thought it was a great idea.

“I find the hiking very meditative. Two weeks of walking is enough to push the rubbish out of my head and to make room for the music to come,” he said.

Doyle and O’Donnell may be walking the length of the country carrying their packs, but their instruments have opted for a cushier option.

The harp and violin are being transported ahead of them via a network of strangers offering to carry the instruments to the next town, or if that fails, a courier.

At their concert in Nelson Doyle asked the audience if anybody was heading south or knew of anyone leaving Nelson soon who would have room for a harp and violin.

“A friend of Methven’s Viv Barrett was in the audience and she offered to transport them to Methven for us.”

After the concert the logistics of getting the special cargo south were worked out.

“She told us that she wouldn’t be home when we planned to drop them off, but she’d leave the door open so we didn’t have to leave them outside.

“She was true to her word. When we arrived the door was unlocked so we left them in the lounge with a thank you note.”

They both agreed that the kindness they have been shown in New Zealand has been outstanding. O’Donnell said they have not experienced any issues around

sending their instruments south with strangers.

“The harp is so big, so I am sure if it did go missing someone in New Zealand would pretty soon notice it,” he said.

Doyle said she was more worried about the airlines damaging her harp case. She said she’s witnessed baggage handlers literally throwing it in the past.

Prior to leaving Australia the duo had booked their 20 nationwide performance venues nine months in advance and at that stage Methven didn’t make the cut as the Mid Canterbury town is not officially on the trail map.

The pre-arranged concert dates certainly give them a schedule to work to, but they have also built in plenty of rest days for practising, meeting locals and to eat good meals.

So when Sue Stewart from the Mt Hutt Memorial Hall contacted them to see if they would play in Methven on the way through, they thought ‘why not, we have the time’.

“It was really good timing as the Wanaka gig had just cancelled on us, plus we were coming to Methven anyway,” O’Donnell said.

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Turning up sound around the council table

By Sue Newman

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The days of struggling to hear speakers around the Ashburton District Council meeting table will soon be over.

The council’s current sound system is old and inflexible and, on many occasions, cuts speakers off mid-speech and other times it fails to light up and identify a councillor who wants to speak.

The problem has prompted the council to move forward the purchase of the sound system destined for installation in the new civic building’s meeting chamber.

On Thursday councillors agreed to spend $86,000 on a new sound system for the council chamber.

The new system was designed to be portable and would be relocated to the new building, business support manager Paul Brake said. “This won’t be wasted money, we’re just spending it a bit earlier.”

The new system had been trialled and it was a huge improvement on the current one, deputy mayor Liz McMillan said.

As councillors indicated they wanted to speak, their names would appear on screen in order and that ensured whoever was chairing a meeting was able to allocate speaking opportunities as requested, she said.

The existing system was still used by a few councils and the council will endeavour to sell its old units.

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Motorhome show ready to go

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

The sites are marked out and filled up, the marquees are up and everything is ready to go for the annual South Island Motorhome Show.

The show has been run in Ashburton for more than 10 years, and has been organised by the Lions Club of Ashburton since 2018, after it was handed over by original organisers, Murray and Bev Meadows.

Convenor Brendon Quinn said the event was set to have more trade sites than ever, and they have had to make extra allowances for private sellers, having to turn away a number during the week.

Organisers have also had to change how the social campers park at the event, trying to fit as many in as possible in the expectation they will see more at the event than usual due to the national rally being held in Oamaru next weekend.

Members of the Lions club have been busy throughout the week preparing the showgrounds for the event, carefully planning out every site and hand marking the layout.

Organisers were keeping their fingers crossed that the weather was good for the weekend.

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For an investment of just over $48,000 Ashburton will have a Citizens’ Advice Bureau (CAB) that will give the community access to a large pool of information about Ashburton District events, activities and service.

The bureau will be run under the umbrella of Community House and manager John Driscoll said, with the council’s funding commitment secured, the service will be up and running within six months.

Driscoll said a steering group can now be established and a paid co-ordinator appointed to run the service. This person will

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In brief Discover Mt Hutt Discover Mt Hutt will be held tomorrow, after being postponed from today due to forecast poor weather. Conditions are expected to be much better tomorrow, with a fine day on the mountain.

Between 10am and 4pm visitors will be able to experience New Zealand’s best ski resort in a summer setting with hiking, mountain biking and helicopter rides. The day raised more than $40,000 for local charities last year, and organisations set to benefit this year include the Ashburton Cancer Society. Ski area staff, who volunteer for the day, and Methven Lions, are hoping to hit a similar figure this year.

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Site convenor Jeff King and trade site convenor Rex Whiting double check the layout as they get things ready for the South Island Motorhome Show which opens today.

PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY “Each day the forecast has gotten better, earlier in the week it was definitely raining, the next day it was showers and the next day it says overcast with light showers so hopefully it is okay,” he said.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand will have a manned site

over the weekend and will host three short presentations providing fire safety advice for mobile homes today.

The show is open for two days, today and tomorrow, with an entry fee of $5 per person and free entry for those aged under 15.

Unfortunately earlier in the year a number of signs around the town advertising the show were vandalised.

A sign on Racecourse Road had had a number of bolts removed from supporting wires while a sign on River Terrace was pushed over.

Funding guaranteed for Citizens’ Advice Bureau

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also recruit a team of volunteers.

While the way is now cleared for the CAB to be established, it will take six months of working with an established CAB before the service will be ticked off and running in Ashburton.

When councillors discussed seed funding for the CAB at Thursday’s council meeting, they had no hesitation in giving it the green light.

The service was one that would fill a void and its location in Community House was ideal, Lynette Lovett said.

The CAB provides quality independent, up-to-date information and advice and is established in more than 80 locations

around New Zealand. Information is free and advice that helps people understand their rights and responsibilities is also available. As part of the national network, Ashburton people will also have access to a national data base of information.

An important role for the CAB will be maintaining a community directory of all organisations, clubs and services in the district, Driscoll said.

In the past this was done by the council, but the directory has not been updated for several years.

An area in Community House has been identified for the service which will also have a pri-

vate room that will be available for sensitive discussions.

If the council had not agreed to seed fund the CAB’s establishment, the project could have been delayed for up to nine months while an alternative source of funds was found.

The council will also grant the CAB $15,000 of operational funding as part of next year’s budget on the condition that visitor information is also available.

This will be a trial and the uptake of this information will be monitored over a 12 month period.

The seed funding and operations grant will come from the council’s economic development budget.

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Advertising an Auckland apartment as being in an area lacking homeless men or state tenants has been branded “totally insensitive”. Bernie Smith of the Monte Cecilia Housing Trust said it was “callous”. The ad says: “No homeless men are wondering [sic] the streets ‘round here, no housing New Zealand folks or shelters ... just high-end owner-occupiers and businessman [sic] and those kids who think they are way too clever.”

The ad showed no understanding or empathy of the homeless issue which blighted New Zealand, – NZME Smith said.

Killer awarded compo RSA shooter and triple murderer William Bell has been awarded compensation after he was illegally strip searched in prison. Bell became one of New Zealand’s most notorious killers when he gunned down three people and wounded a fourth at the Mt Wellington-Panmure RSA in December 2001. Mary Hobson, 44, Wayne Johnson, 56, and William Absolum, 63, were killed during the robbery. He also shot Susan Couch, who worked part time doing the club’s accounts.

Bell shot all three in the chest before bludgeoning them with the butt of his shotgun. Last month, Bell was awarded $1000 in compensation, a Corrections spokesperson confirmed to media.

It came after the 2018 High Court ruling that compensation was payable to prisoners who were subject to an unlawful strip search at Auckland Prison in 2016. – NZME

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Rugby club hit by thieves

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

A local club has been left with a $1000 bill to replace a number of irrigation pods that were stolen from their grounds this week.

Allenton Rugby Club past president and groundsman Craig Street arrived to do his mowing on Wednesday when he noticed something was amiss.

“I watered the field on Monday, left it on Tuesday as there was training and on Wednesday I came down to mow and moved them around and realised something was off,” he said.

A row of three pods had been cut from the hoses that feed water between them and another was also removed.

“They’ve obviously got a big knife or a hacksaw and just cut through the pipe,” he said.

Street said the club had recently been the victim of another theft when a battery was stolen from the club’s tractor, leaving them nearly $1500 out of pocket before the season even started.

“It is just a shame because it impacts negatively on the club as

that is money that could be used to purchase quite a lot of gear,” he said.

“We’ve already had to spend $1500 when we shouldn’t have needed to.”

With fewer irrigation pods and the season just around the corner, it also puts more pressure on the club’s volunteers and their bid to get the pitches green and ready for the season.

The ground’s main pitch is in good shape, but with a large area of junior pitches to water, Street said it would take up more of their time having to move the pods around to cover the area.

Police have been notified of the theft, though Street said he hoped by going public it might jog the memory of people who may have seen something.

“The police can only do so much so hopefully somebody might have been biking past and saw a couple of guys and they’ll think ‘oh that could’ve been that’,” he said.

Street said he hoped it served as a good reminder for other rugby clubs to ensure that they kept what property they could secure.

Right – Allenton Rugby Club past president and groundsman Craig Street was shocked to discover a number of irrigation pods had been stolen from the club’s grounds this week.

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First NZ coronavirus case confirmed NZME A person who has recently travelled to Iran has become the first confirmed case of coronavirus in New Zealand.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the news speaking to media in Sydney yesterday.

The person is aged in their 60s and arrived in New Zealand on Wednesday on Emirates flight EK450 from Tehran, via Bali.

“The person arrived in Auckland on February 26 and travelled home in a private car,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Health said.

“Their family became concerned about their condition and called Healthline.

“They were advised to seek medical attention and attended Auckland City Hospital emergency department that same day. All were wearing masks on arrival. As a result of the individual’s symptoms and travel history they were admitted and tested.”

The results of the test were confirmed at 4.15pm yesterday and makes New Zealand the 48th country to have a confirmed case of the virus.

The person is in a stable condition.

“They are in an improving condition in isolation, in a negative pressure room to prevent any spread of the disease,” the spokesman said.

Public health officials have begun tracing the person’s other close contacts and people who were on the same flight.

The Ministry of Health says there is a high likelihood of sporadic cases in New Zealand but the chances of a community outbreak remains low, despite the confirmed case.

“The Ministry of Health is confident the public risk from this new infection is being well managed because of the public mes-

Backpacker allegedly raped near Hamilton NZME A 24-year-old Danish backpacker was allegedly raped after being picked up hitchhiking and taken to a remote cemetery near Hamilton on Thursday.

A man was arrested and charged with rape an hour later.

Detective Senior Sergeant Will Loughrin said the woman was hitchhiking just outside of Hamilton on Thursday when she was picked up.

She was then driven about 80km to a secluded cemetery near Hikutaia where the man allegedly attacked her.

“At some point she was able to escape during the attack.”

Someone found her soon after on some farmland nearby in a state of distress, Loughrin said.

The woman was able to give the police information about the car and within an hour two young officers stopped a car of that description and spoke to its driver.

Loughrin said the man gave the officers “key features” which led to his arrest.

A 50-year-old Hamilton man appeared in Hamilton District Court and was granted interim name suppression. He will reappear in March.

Loughrin commended the “quick work” of the young officers who were able to “get a really quick resolution to a really horrendous crime”.

The woman is being supported by police and other agencies, he said.

saging, awareness of Covidd-19 disease and our public health response to managing cases and contacts,” the spokesman said.

The confirmation followed a statement earlier yesterday afternoon by the Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield that tests were being carried out on the person in Auckland City Hospital.

Ireland and the Netherlands have also announced the first cases of the deadly virus in the past 24 hours.

Health Minister David Clark yesterday an-

nounced a raft of new measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, including new travel restrictions from Iran.

The Government will also be bolstering the health presence at international airports and there will be no exemptions for overseas students from China to enter New Zealand, Clark said.

So far, the Government has conducted 130 coronavirus tests in New Zealand – they have all come back negative.

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Lighting fires in the name of science Hectares of mature gorse in the Rakaia Gorge are scheduled to go up in flames between March 1 and 15 to support research into rural fire science.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand and Scion fire scientists working with the Department of Conservation have earmarked around 80 hectares of gorse off Double Hill Run Road for the burns.

Scion senior fire scientist Grant Pearce, who is a former Ashburton College pupil, says that it does seems odd to be lighting fires when the country is so dry and with the Australian bushfires fresh in people’s minds.

“Our goal is to gather information on how fire spreads through different vegetation fuels to develop improved fire behaviour models and prediction tools for rural fire managers,” he said.

“The best way to learn more about fire behaviour and flame spread mechanisms is to study actual fires in conditions as close to real life as possible. We plan to carry out the burns over five to six days, depending on the weather.

“At the most, we will do two burns in one day.”

A year’s preparation working with Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz), DOC and Envi-

Ashburton College alumnus Grant Pearce is the lead researcher on a project that will see 80 hectares of gorse burned in the Rakaia Gorge in the name of science.

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Work preparing the six plots to be burned has seen the site

mapped in detail, firebreaks bulldozed on site and buffer areas that will be burned out ahead of the main burns, which was carried out this week.

Fire experts are coming from around the world to record and observe the research burns.

“We have also been talking to all the neighbouring property

owners and they have made visits to the site to see the location for themselves and safety measures that are in place, as well as letting local communities know what is going on,” he said.

Fires will only be lit under the weather conditions specified in the fire permit and with the prior approval of Fenz.

Firefighters and equipment will be on site the whole time and a helicopter will be on standby.

In addition, a traffic management plan will be in place for the road adjacent to the burn area.

“As our climate changes and extreme fire conditions become more common, our research findings will hopefully help prevent loss of life, property and our native vegetation and wildlife,” he said.

Rural wild fires can be devastating. Every year in New Zealand around 3000 wildfires burn some 6000 hectares of land, costing New Zealand more than $100 million per year.

That is just the direct costs of the firefighting response and immediate damage to property.

It does not include the indirect losses associated with damage to rural lands or conservation resources, and personal property and lives, which can be many times greater.

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Coronavirus rocks the stock markets NZME New Zealand share prices shifted 2 per cent lower in response to another sharp fall on Wall Street as concerns about the spread of coronavirus continued to mount.

In the opening minutes of trade, the NZX-50 was down 209 points at 11,205, in contrast to the Dow Jones Index’s greater 4.4 per cent decline.

US stocks are now on track for their worst week since the Global Financial Crisis.

Most major sharemarkets elsewhere in the world have also gone sharply in reverse.

The Dow finished 1190 points down at 25,766.

The US benchmark index has fallen by more than 10 per cent since its most recent peak, thereby meeting the technical definition of a correction.

This week, the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it expected cases in the United States to rise.

The virus has now infected more than 82,000 people worldwide.

Most of the cases are in China.

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NZ stocks fell after the US sharemarket officially entered correction territory. PHOTO NZME Standard & Poor’s reaffirmed New Zealand’s ratings and said it doesn’t expect the fall-out from covid-19 to substantially weigh on the country’s economy long-term growth prospects.

S&P rates New Zealand AA/A-1+ on a foreign currency basis and at AA+/A-1+ in local currency terms and said its outlook is positive.

The outlook “reflects our view of the country’s declining exposure to risks related to its high external debt”, it said.

The reducing risks give it “more policy space to respond to poten-

tial macroeconomic and financial sector shocks”, it said.

However, “we don’t expect the slowing China economy from the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus to substantially weigh on New Zealand’s long-term growth prospects”, it said.

According to S&P, while Chinese tourism and student numbers are likely to weaken in the first quarter of 2020 with the New Zealand government’s travel restrictions, “we expect it to pick up again once the restrictions are eased”.

The Government recently extended a travel ban to and from China for another eight days and yesterday Universities New Zealand international programmes committee chairman, Grant Guilford, said time was running out for New Zealand universities to get a special exemption to allow about 6000 students, currently stranded in China, to start the first semester here.

Sources close to the sector suggest the up-front cost to the sector will be in the region of $700 million to $800 million in lost fees, living costs, and travel and tourism across the sector.

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YOUR VIEW Ashburton Museum An article in Saturday’s Guardian headed “Museum collection inventory urgent” gives an extremely misleading picture of the state of the Ashburton Museum and its collection.

I am not sure if it is the current museum manager who has provided this misinformation or your reporter who has not checked all sides of the story, but as a former director of the museum I feel I must inform you of the true facts.

Looking at the various statements individually, the first is “The collection of items managed by the Ashburton Museum is the largest in the South Island”.

I’m sure museums such as Canterbury, Nelson, Southland, Otago and even Shantytown at Greymouth would be interested to hear that their collections have been reduced in size, especially when the article correctly states the Ashburton Museum’s collection contains about 20,000 objects.

“Only a small percentage of these have been recorded in its electronic database.”

The only items not recorded in the electronic database would be some of those that have entered the collection since I retired in April 2016.

When the museum became aware, about 2010, that a move to a new building was definitely going to happen at some point a large part of the Baring Square building was closed off to create a work area and the object collection was re-catalogued.

This involved checking and correcting each entry in the existing electronic database, a specialist museums software programme called Past Perfect, adding photographs to most entries and creating new records for any item that did not have one. Some items were de-accessioned at this time.

It took until we moved in 2014 to complete this task “Only a very small number of these are stored at the museum.

The rest are in sheds and a variety of locations around the district”.

When the museum collection was moved from the old buildings in 2014 the entire collection, without exception, was moved to the new building.

With the exception of a very small number of de-accessioned maps at the old polytech building in Cameron Street, the only objects stored in “sheds and a variety of locations” would now be those the current museum manager has caused to be stored in such places. Who knows where those maps went.

“A lack of resources means these items have not been catalogued.”

Virtually everything was catalogued when the new museum opened in 2014 and much of the new material that arrived in the following two years, before I retired, was also catalogued by staff.

Most of the items currently not catalogued would be those that arrived after April 2016, during which period the museum staff has increased from three to five.

It is correct that item locations were not updated at the time of the move for the simple reason

that it was not possible to assign a shelf number until items were actually in place in the new building. Once the work of setting up new displays was completed good progress was being made with updating this part of the catalogue entries.

“While museum staff knew where items were stored, the contents of many boxes was often unknown because the contents had not been catalogued”.

Not correct. Every item possible had been catalogued prior to 2014.

In that process every item had been given an accession number which in some way was attached to the item and in most cases these numbers were repeated on the outside of boxes for the small part of the collection that was actually boxed.

If there is no number on the outside of a box it is only necessary to open the box to obtain the number from the actual item and then check the number in the Past Perfect catalogue.

“Moving from the old museum, where there was no electronic database, to the new”.

Again, far from correct. The Past Perfect electronic database cataloguing system was installed at the old museum in 1999, 15 years before the move, and the software was regularly updated as new versions became available, before, and after, the move to the new building.

“Every item had to be identified and its location recorded. This was an incredibly time consuming job.”

Every item had been identified in the three years prior to the move and recording locations is only a matter of locating an item in its storage area, entering its ac-

cession number in Past Perfect to bring up its record and changing the storage location to the one for the new building.

“Under 50 per cent of the [20,000] objects are recorded in the electronic database”.

Given that virtually 100 per cent were recorded in the electronic database in 2013 when the move was made, that means the collection has doubled in size since then.

Given that the museum’s collection policy was considerably tightened prior to that time to reduce the amount of new material coming in, and given also that only a relatively small amount of material was received between the move to the new building in 2014 and my retirement in April 2016, most of that increase must have occurred in the present museum manager’s time.

“Many objects were assumed to be in the collection without any record of exactly what they were, or why, or how they were there.”

There is some truth in this, but not all of it, and there are reasons for this. It is also not insurmountable.

The collection began in the 1960s in an old house in Cass Street and no written record was started until 1976 when known details were recorded in exercise books.

A card system was also started in the 1980s, but was replaced by the Past Perfect electronic database in 1999. Obviously in the very early years not a lot of information was recorded and some of those early items remain in the collection today.

However, it is possible to establish some provenance (history) for many of these items. An example is the collection of firearms

recently removed from the museum, but not de-accessioned.

The museum manager reported they had no provenance or connection to Ashburton. It has taken only five phone calls to establish provenance for all except one item and a strong connection for them to Ashburton people.

This is work that could have been done by staff but volunteers outside the museum have now had to do it.

New Zealand’s museum community is small, and stories such as this spread quickly. At a time when the Ashburton District Council may be advertising for museum staff it is very unfortunate a substantially incorrect article such as this has been published. It can do no good for the institution’s reputation which is why I have sought to correct it.

Michael Hanrahan Director, Ashburton Museum 2006-2016.

Cenotaph I find myself in complete agreement with RSA president Merv Brenton (Your View, February 24), and would like to add to his comments.

Mr Brenton responds to Cr Rodger Letham’s comments about relocating the cenotaph by asking whether the museum will be next to be relocated off the main road site.

Does Cr Letham recall that one of the justifications McKay, Brown et al made for siting the museum building where it is, with all the controversy it continues to generate, was to form a civic precinct.

That concept was, of course, destroyed by the same councillors when they prioritised the Baring Square East site for the

library and civic centre building.

Had he done his homework, Cr Letham might have realised the elegant solution town planners made in siting the cenotaph, clock tower and the other Baring Square East memorial in a line with the Borough Council at one end and the County Council at the other.

A feasibility study would probably have revealed to him that it could not be moved, and his mayor, with his new-found love of keeping town features in situ, would have disagreed with him anyway.

Baring Square East is already cluttered, and had Cr Letham considered how the cenotaph is used he would realise there is not appropriate space for it there.

In my view, it is only right that we are inconvenienced by road detours on Anzac and Armistice Days. After all, those commemorated by the cenotaph were more than a little inconvenienced themselves.

The often silent Cr Letham seems to have revealed which is the better path for him to follow.

Finally, is it too much to ask whether Sue Newman, or even a Guardian sub-editor, could proof-read her writing – “the cenotaph could be relocated across town to Baring Square West”.

Selwyn Price Editor’s footnote: The editor apologises for the error regarding the location of the cenotaph. It is most regrettable.

However, he also wonders if he should expect a similar acknowledgement for the letter writer’s failure to spell councillor Rodger Letham’s name correctly, which luckily was spotted by a sub-editor.

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Third Stewart concert Sir Rod Stewart will perform a third New Zealand concert especially for his South Island fans. The Maggie May hit-maker will play Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium, November 11, as part of his The Hits! world tour. Tickets go on sale at 11am on March 6. The announcement follows exceptional demand for tickets to his two Mission Estate shows in Napier, with the November 14 gig selling out within an hour before a second show was announced for November 15.

Stewart last performed at Forsyth Barr Stadium in 2015 to a sell-out audience of 25,000.

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Covid-19: ‘We’re all going to get infected’ NZME An Australian virologist at the forefront of coronavirus testing has warned “we’re all going to get infected” with coronavirus “at some point”.

Associate Professor Ian Mackay from the University of Queensland also warned on Thursday that the virus could be “with us for life”, he told The Australian.

“It doesn’t look like this virus is ever going to go back in its box.”

Professor Mackay said the virus would become impossible to avoid.

“At some point in the coming months or years we’re all going to get infected because we’ve all been infected by

these other endemic viruses,” he said.

“We already have four of these coronaviruses, mostly causing colds. We get them every year. They peak during winter but they still move around – between us – during the rest of the year as well. So it’s likely this might become one of those.”

The Australian expert’s comments come as one of the world’s leading coronavirus experts warned it’s “inevitable” every country will eventually be hit by the disease, which is proving to be “particularly wily” and “intelligent”.

Speaking at a press conference in London on Thursday, Professor Gabriel Leung from

the University of Hong Kong said it was likely the virus had already spread to most nations.

“If you don’t have it or you don’t have any reported cases, it’s because you’re not testing, it’s not because you don’t have it,” he said.

Professor Leung recently travelled to China as part of the World Health Organisation’s WHO-China Joint Mission on Covid-19.

There, he and 24 other experts toured around Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan and Wuhan to learn more about the disease and observe how the government was working to control the outbreak.

While China’s containment measures appeared to have

worked, many key questions remained, he said.

“What we don’t know is do we have to do everything the Chinese did or just some of it? And if it’s some of it, which bits?” he said on Thursday.

“That is so crucial as the rest of the world is now going to experience the first wave.”

Scientists also need to confirm whether people can be infected with the virus more than once.

“The four human coronaviruses don’t generally, for mild infections, give you neutralising immunity – that’s why you can get it again and again and again,” Professor Leung said.

“This (virus) is much more nuanced and much more complex,” he added.

Styles ‘okay’ after robbery Harry Styles has insisted he’s “okay” after he was robbed at knifepoint earlier this month. The 26-year-old singer was reported to have had money stolen from him almost two weeks ago when he was robbed at knifepoint while out in London, and he has now said he’s doing fine following the attack. When asked how he is doing following the incident during an appearance on the Today show, Harry simply said: “I’m okay, thanks. Thank you for asking.” Styles was reported to have been robbed on February 14, while police confirmed the incident they did not mention the One Direction star.

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Twenty-nine Turkish soldiers killed in air strike AP An air strike by Syrian government forces killed 29 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, a Turkish official said yesterday, marking the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since it first intervened in Syria in 2016.

The deaths were a serious escalation in the direct conflict between Turkish and Russia-backed Syrian forces that

has been waged since early February.

Rahmi Dogan, the governor of Turkey’s Hatay province bordering Syria’s Idlib region, said 29 troops were killed and others were seriously wounded in the attack. He said 39 injured were being treated in Turkish hospitals.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed earlier in Idlib. At least 50 have now been killed in Idlib since the start of Febru-

ary. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was holding an emergency security meeting in Ankara, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevult Cavusoglu spoke to Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg by telephone.

Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, who plays a senior role in foreign affairs, also spoke to US national security

adviser Robert O’Brien.

The air strike came after a Russian delegation spent two days in Ankara for talks with Turkish officials on the situation in Idlib, where a Syrian government offensive has sent hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing towards the Turkish border.

The offensive has also engulfed many of the 12 military observation posts Turkey has in Idlib.

Jeremy Kyle returning Jeremy Kyle is making a comeback to television after the firestorm of criticism after a guest on his talk show later took their own life. The host had his popular British talk show cancelled last year after the death. Steven Dymond was found dead after failing a lie detector test on the show designed to establish whether he had been faithful to his partner. Kyle’s return to screens was shared by his new manager Claire Powell on Instagram. “So pleased to welcome the very talented and very real ... Jeremy Kyle exclusively to @the_can_group,” Powell wrote in an Instagram caption.

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Mid Canty tourism needs security blanket A

lot of emphasis is put on the tourism potential in the Mid Canterbury region, and in some ways we over promise and under deliver on so many aspects.

Put bluntly, we’re not that great at telling everyone how good this place is and exactly what is on offer and available to anyone who calls by to pay us a visit.

And we need to be so much better at it because the current global situation around coronavirus and its potential damage to the number of people visiting New Zealand demands us to be better.

We don’t realise how much of a hotbed of activity for a visitor to our country we are – and with

developments in the pipeline over the next few years, that demand and interest is only set to grow, so it’s important we’re on the front foot and ensuring that everything is as it should be for when the influx does come.

Methven is a bit of a perfect example.

It’s a ghost town at the moment, full of locals and contract workers who are largely

keeping the town’s businesses alive through their patronage and their dollar spends, but the desire is always for the winter months to arrive so that a whole new flood of people come into the town.

Every time I’ve driven past the town’s i-SITE over the past few weeks, it’s been desolate and that can’t bode well for the potential income the centre needs to meet its running costs.

Sure, it might be seasonal – but something needs to be done to ensure the safety of our tourism sector during the quieter months, and perhaps provisions need to be put in place should coronavirus have a real impact on the winter months in the

district.

At a meet the candidates meeting last year, prior to the election, all four mayoral candidates, and some of those standing for the role of councillor, stood up and pledged their commitment to the future of tourism in Mid Canterbury.

Maybe now might be the right time for those very same members to stand up and act on their pledges and ensure that a sector of our community, which could bring in significant value in the next few years, is up and running and fully functional when that moment does come.

Election promises are not quickly forgotten, particularly when made in front of a

community of people who are passionate about the project and right now organisations like Experience Mid Canterbury will need as much support, whether it be financial or just guidance, as is possible to ensure that a potentially nasty virus wave can be ridden out without too many issues.

How that happens, or who is given the task of bringing together a plan isn’t the important part of this. It’s ensuring that at least something is done, or some discussions are at least started.

We can’t afford to have people sitting back waiting for things to happen, only a front foot approach is suitable in these circumstances.

famous as the former home of the prophet Rua Kēnana.

In 1980, former Israeli foreign minister Yigal Allon, who had played an important role in the Jewish state’s fight for independence, died at age 61.

In 1984, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he was stepping down after more than 15 combined years in power.

In 1996, Daniel Green was convicted in Lumberton, North Carolina, of murdering James R Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan, during a 1993 roadside hold-up. A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashed on approach to Arequipa, killing all 123 people on board.

In 2004, Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King film won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for.

Twelve years ago (2008): Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton of trying to “play on people’s fears to scare up votes” with a TV ad showing sleeping children and asking who would be more qualified to answer a national security emergency call at 3am.

Eight years ago (2012): Violent weather packing tornadoes continued to ravage the Midwest and South, resulting in some 15 deaths.

Four years ago (2016): A federal judge in New York ruled that

the Justice Department could not force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine drug case. Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument dealing with gun rights, provoking gasps from the audience. President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honour, the nation’s highest military honour, to Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers Jr, a Navy SEAL who participated in the rescue of an American hostage in Afghanistan.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Joss Ackland is 92. Former

astronaut Jack Lousma is 84. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople is 80. Motivational speaker Tony Robbins is 60. Legal affairs blogger Eugene Volokh is 52.

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is 48.

Poet, musician and hip-hop artist Saul Williams is 48. Rapper Ja Rule is 44. Singer-musician Mark Foster is 36.

Thought for today: “Well, it has happened again. The Earth has circled four times around the sun, astronomers have designated this a leap year and anxious bachelors won’t answer their telephones until midnight.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, February 29, the 60th day of 2020. There are 306 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On February 29, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a second Neutrality Act as he appealed to American businesses not to increase exports to belligerents.

On this date: In 1504, Christopher Columbus, stranded in Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West, used a correctly predicted lunar eclipse to frighten hostile natives into providing food for his crew.

In 1796, President George Washington proclaimed Jay’s Treaty, which settled some outstanding differences with Britain, in effect.

In 1892, the United States and Britain agreed to submit to arbitration their dispute over seal-hunting rights in the Bering Sea. (A commission later ruled in favour of Britain.)

In 1916, singer, actress and TV personality Dinah Shore was born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tennessee. (Shore, who claimed March 1, 1917 as her birthdate, died in 1994 just days before she would have turned 78.)

In 1924, in a first for New Zealand schools, intelligence tests were imported by the rector of Waitaki Boys’ High School and used on all its first-year post-primary school students.

In 1940, Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards, including best picture of 1939; Hattie McDaniel won for best supporting actress, the first black performer so honoured.

In 1956, President Dwight D Eisenhower announced he would seek a second term of office.

In 1960, the first Playboy Club, featuring waitresses clad in bunny outfits, opened in Chicago.

In 1964, A milling road built by the Bayten Timber Company provided the first ever vehicle access to the remote Urewera settlement of Maungapōhatu –

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Making good on a resolution A

stute readers may recall a bold proclamation I made prior to Christmas where a commitment was made to shake things up this year on matters pertaining to my ground-based personal transportation.

Well, happily, I can now report that for once this scribe has actually followed through on what is sometimes mistaken for noisy, puffy bluster.

Which is fair enough, ’cos I’ll be the first to concede it often is.

Following that column I had lots of comments from family and friends, (chiefly from family as there are way more of them), that I was setting myself up for disaster, destruction and grievous personal injury.

You’d have thought from their reaction that I was going to form a demonstration e-scooter solo stunt act and take it to fairs and carnivals the length of the country.

“See Peter Mac leap ten grain silos on a rocket-assisted e-scooter.

“Watch as New Zealand’s most elderly disc jockey performs backward flips and jumps curbs.”

Evil MacKnievel.

I think they envisaged me as the crustiest of all demons.

On a small push-off electric conveyance.

Sheesh!

Anyway, fresh back from Christmas holidays the interrogation began.

In fact, the boss was in such suspense, I received a text from Carol even before coming back, asking if I had made the purchase.

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PETE’S PERSPECTIVE

“Due diligence” was my standard reply to all who enquired.

“This requires careful due diligence.”

Reality was, it was taking a while to find something of Mrs Macs I could discreetly sell to help pay for it.

Nah, that’s a lie, but it got you going didn’t it?

Eventually, following a bit of reading of online reviews, a few shop visits and general things one does in the endeavour of said due diligence, I was offered the opportunity to have a brief test-ride of one of the e-scooters we had as a prize for the duck race.

It was pretty good but I had one reservation. I was a little stooped and the handlebar bit could not be adjusted.

This is one of the problems that 6’2” people have.

That and the fact it’s impossible to find size 13 shoes in this town.

But I digress.

I was in luck.

The store had a ‘pro’ version of the e-scooter which had taller handlebars (just right), a bit more

oooomph, and slightly larger wheels.

I took that one for a spin around the S&C carpark and found I had run out of excuses.

This would be my mount.

So now I am approximately a week and a half into it.

And the verdict?

Brilliant – 15 to 20km/h.

Surfing the sidewalk.

I have already worked out that I am saving at least $50 per week in petrol. And keeping the kms down on my car.

Don’t get me wrong, I will still use the car in situations where I need to, but a lot of car running is random flitting here and there.

I’m banking on savings of $2500 per year.

Except I look at that as a fortnight on the Gold Coast, or some other desirable, pleasurable pastime. Just because I stopped being wasteful and considered some economies.

It’s not about being stingy. It’s about maximising what resources you have.

And, just a few summers off retirement age, one needs to consider these things.

One thing I have noticed whilst out on it in Ashburton is that there are no others.

Well, they are obviously out there somewhere but clearly not obvious.

In fact, I have yet to see another one anywhere around town on a daily basis.

The thing should have recovered its costs in about five months and then it’s all cream, providing it hangs together.

It’s designed for up to 100kgs of passenger carriage and to be honest I’m right on the limit, but also am trusting they built a bit of give-and take into it?

Hope so.

Stand aside please . . . and tally ho.

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.

The need for spiritual harvesting T

he days are still warm, though beginning to shorten, and the harvest is being brought in.

We have been picking plums, pears, and berries in the garden.

The grain in the paddocks around the town is being carried into silos on farm or further afield.

Harvest is a time of gathering in what has grown and ripened through the season.

In days gone by harvest thanksgiving was a feature in many churches. Maybe it is observed less frequently now as more of us become further removed from the land.

It was a time of thankful rejoicing for the year’s harvest.

A well-known hymn we used to sing was “We plough the fields

Rev David Bayne

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

and scatter the good seed on the ground”. The second line reads “but it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand”.

The following verses point us to the basis for all that we can do. That is – God’s provision for us. Our response then should be humble thankfulness.

Another feature of harvest thanksgiving services was sharing the surplus.

Produce was brought along and later shared out with others, particularly those who did not have the same access to harvest – the elderly, the infirm, and the

poor. In this way neighbours were cared for.

Harvest was used by Jesus as an illustration in a number of ways.

One of those was to remind us of the foolishness of relying on the physical harvest we enjoy to the detriment of our souls.

Material blessings are certainly to be enjoyed, yet a focus on them alone leads not to joy but to misery.

As you enjoy the harvest that comes each autumn season, I encourage you not to forget the importance of a spiritual harvest.

What we sow physically leads to a physical harvest.

What we sow spiritually leads to a spiritual harvest also.

God is not mocked in this regard.

What are you sowing in your

life? The kind of seed you sow produces the corresponding harvest.

The apostle Paul speaks of the fruit of the Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control – a wonderful harvest.

This comes from the Word of God being sown in the heart and in time it produces its harvest.

Unlike sowing seed in the soil, this sowing is simply the reading and hearing of the Bible.

Also unlike the physical harvest, which often requires springtime for sowing, you can sow spiritually anytime – even today.

Why delay?

Rev David Bayne Grace Presbyterian Church

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The weather was fabulous, the bride looked gorgeous and everything ran smoothly.

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There’s a lot to organise and get ready.

Here’s some advice to make sure that you don’t forget anything and you’re all set for your big day: – Dress The first thing that you need to think about is what you are wearing. You need to think about what style of dress you would like and you’d need to consider this a good few weeks in advance.

– Shoes The next aspect that you need to consider is your shoes. Ideally you need to pick some shoes that match your dress.

– Hair You can either get your hair done by

your hairdresser or if you prefer you could do it yourself. If you decide to go to a hairdresser then remember to take pictures of any hairstyles that you like so that your hairdresser can try them out in your hair to see if you like them.

– Makeup If you decide to do your own makeup then you need to get some practice in!

Decide what look you are going for and then you can start practising. You need to pick a look that suits your style and outfit – either classic or more vibrant.

– Accessories You need to try and pick accessories that enhance how you look but don’t overshadow what you are wearing. If you struggle to find accessories that work with your style then you could always get creative and make your own.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – What is Ashburton’s average rainfall in March? a. 42.5mm b. 62.5mm c. 82.5mm 2 – Calista Flockhart is married to which actor? a. Hugh Grant b. Richard Gere c. Harrison Ford 3 – Which activity was a favourite hobby of Winston Churchill? a. Billiards b. Horse training c. Bricklaying 4 – What is the surname of the two sisters who currently represent New Zealand at cricket? a. Kerr b. Bates c. Green 5 – What is the surname of the TV character Doc Martin? a. Adamson b. Ellingham c. Cunningham 6 – Kelly Slater is one of the all-time greats in which sport? a. Skiing b. Surfing c. Swimming 7 – What is unusual about a male seahorse? a. It can regrow a tail b. It can live briefly on land c. It can get pregnant 8 – Which of these is the most northerly? a. Christchurch b. Greymouth c. Westport

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Riley’s on the rise

Feast of tennis action

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Allenton batsman Harvinder Singh plays a defensive shot during his side’s win over Technical a fortnight ago.

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Allenton to carry momentum

By Adam Burns

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Allenton will be wanting to avoid a competition hangover when its players take to the park today.

The team are fresh off a country cricket boil-over after they knocked the Technical Stags from their perch a fortnight ago.

No doubt it would have jolted the competition leaders who

are on the cross-over side of the draw this weekend.

But it will be intriguing to see how the Allenton contingent respond following the highs of their previous outing.

They host Greendale today in the combined senior competition’s penultimate round, a team who have not been in action since the start of the month.

However they will be heartened by their match-up with Allenton prior to Christmas.

On that occasion Greendale got home by four wickets, however they will take on a spurred Allenton team high on confidence.

The hosts will look to their skipper Karmjeet Singh to lead from the front.

The wicketkeeper-batsman is the third highest scorer with the bat in the combined competition and was given the nod for Mid Canterbury’s rain-affected Hawke Cup game against Southland last weekend.

Peninsula host Weedons’ Senior B team in the other game at Tai Tapu and with seven wins to its name, the home side should

go in as firm favourites.

Technical take on Cheviot in the cross-over game at Brookside Park and the Hurunui club could be in for a long day as they meet a Stags outfit, stinging from their loss to Allenton.

Despite last week’s loss Technical remain on top of the Combined Senior competition standings.

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Blundell cruising the trail

By Adam Burns

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n a short amount of time, Riley Blundell has left many a trail in his wake.

The 14-year-old mountain biking talent has only been riding competitively for three years but it has not stopped him from racking up the results.

Last weekend, Blundell secured an overall win in the Mt Somers Mountain Challenge’s 23km Foothills event.

Riding in the junior under-18 category, Blundell finished in a time of 1hr 18mins.

It was an improvement on his 1hr 22mins showing in last year’s event where he won the junior category in a sixth overall finish.

Older brother Brad Blundell also finished fourth in his category in the 31km MTB Challenge event.

The Blundell family appear to be naturally gifted on the bike.

The younger sibling has followed in his brother’s footsteps after he won the Mt Somers Mountain Challenge’s 20km Lowland Ride on his first attempt in 2016.

Riley would also transition to more competitive events having fooled around on the bike casually for about a year to that point.

“Our aunty took us down the River Track,” he said.

“It was just so much fun so we got into it more.”

“And there’s a massive eight foot jump.”

The Mid Canterbury MTB Club’s river trail loop has been known to claim the occasional injury among yong keen riders, mother Julie Srhoy said.

There may be some genetic factors at play considering Blundell’s mother was a successful equestrian.

Blundell would soon be a regular fixture on the South Island mountain biking circuit.

After beginning in the cross-country format, he has also branched out into both downhill and endurance riding.

He feels his downhillng skills have developed into a key strength as a rider.

Although his preference is the downhill, Blundell is prepared to prove he is adaptable as a rider.

Last year he came second in the Aoraki MTB Championships under-15 boys’ event which provided a chance for Blundell to apply his downhill prowess.

He won the event the previous year.

A vigorous training regime consisting of rides of up to six days per week has spurred his ascent.

His two rides at Mt Somers have not been without mechanical stumbling blocks.

In 2019, his chain came off his bike and his pedal came off in this year’s event.

He agreed there was a lesson to be learned from both instances.

“I don’t check my bike that much.

“I just had to pedal harder I guess to get the win.”

Next he is preparing for the South Island Schools’ MTB Championships to be held at Mt Hutt on March 27-29 and which will cover cross-country, downhill and enduro events.

“That’s what I’m training for right now,” he said.

Blundell is also gunning for the National MTB Championships to be held in the Northland town of Paihia in October.

Although he is showing a dedication to training and doing well in events, the young rider is taking things in his stride rather than setting lofty goals.

How he performs in upcoming events will offer a long-term gauge.

“It depends if I get in the top three for the nationals and then I will start thinking about it more.”

Mid Canterbury teen Riley Blundell keeps going from strength-to-strength on the mountain bike and enjoyed one of his biggest successes last weekend. Adam Burns caught up with the young rider about his rise and what he has in the pipeline.

Riley Blundell gets upright on his XTC Enduro Hardtail.

Blundell during the Mt Pleasant Enduro last year PHOTO GRAVITY CANTERBURY

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Blundell is currently training for the South Island Schools’ MTB Championships.

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Full-on weekend for tennis

Virus forces Crusaders match move

By Adam Burns

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The third round of inter-club tennis kicks off today amid a chocka weekend in Ashburton.

Two of the three club matchups are to be played on the respective club courts.

The Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre will play host to both the two-day Junior Grade Tournament which began yesterday and today’s match-up between Fairton and Dorie.

It will be business as usual for Mid Canterbury’s young club reps, radiating after their Browning Shield triumph on Sunday.

Dorie and Fairton will offer an absorbing match-up with the former proving to be no easybeats.

Dorie were made to work hard for their club win over Southern a fortnight ago.

The performances of Rhys and Jayden Cromie should prove crucial to their club’s chances.

However, they will meet a team boasting the likes of Diego Quispe-Kim, Connor Brosnahan and Jade Brosnahan and will firm as favourites.

Their round 2 showdown saw Fairton hammer Dorie 8-1.

In other pairings, Hampstead host Southern in what will be an intriguing battle on court.

Hampstead are coming off a dominant display over a weakened Fairton and will back themselves again today, aided

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by the likes of Peter Leonard, Pete Kirwan and young guns Maia Liu and Nishitha Maarka.

Southen will be no pushovers and themselves have quality in their line-up which features Sam Bubb, Ollie Bubb, Gareth Evans and Jess Aldridge.

Hampstead will be wary of things getting away on them af-

ter Southern dominated them on the singles court during their round two clash in December.

Methven trek to Allenton to round the weekend off. Both teams will call upon their match from a fortnight ago where a modest Methven got the points.

Allenton will be keen to offer some retribution but will have

to contend with the likes of Tyler Leonard and Cameron McCracken.

For the neutrals, a repeat of the three-set epic on the doubles court between Allenton’s Lachlan Adam and Mattieu Lucas and Methven’s Aiden Watt and Victoria Talbot will be welcomed.

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White Ferns lose last-ball thriller to India NZME The White Ferns are going to have to produce a feat they haven’t accomplished since 2017 to make the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup. A thrilling three-run defeat to India has left the Ferns in all likelihood needing to beat Australia in order to progress to the final four – a daunting task against

the world No. 1 side; a team they haven’t beaten in their last four meetings.

Such a scenario assumes both teams take care of business against Bangladesh in their next encounters – the White Ferns’ showdown coming on Saturday – but if so, the final group game on Monday will decide whether the White Ferns live on at the tournament.

Their hopes of progression would have been much simpler had they chased down India’s middling 133-8 yesterday in Melbourne, but despite a scintillating final surge from Amelia Kerr, they fell just short.

Needing an unlikely 34 off the last two overs, Kerr nearly produced a magical victory, hitting 18 off the penultimate over from Poonam Yadav, before a Hayley

Jensen four, three singles and a stunning Kerr scoop over third man for four left the White Ferns needing five off the final ball to win, and four for a Super Over.

However, Kerr – who finished unbeaten on 34 off 19 balls – couldn’t connect off the final ball, with Pandey nailing a yorker into her pads, leaving India with a sigh of relief and the White Ferns wondering what could have been.

The Crusaders will wear the unusual title of curtain-raisers in round seven of the Super Rugby season, with their match against the Sunwolves relocated out of Japan due to concerns from the global coronavirus outbreak.

The Crusaders were scheduled to meet the Japanese franchise in Tokyo on March 14, but will now play at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, prior to the Reds’ match against the Bulls.

This follows the Japanese government’s decision to postpone sporting events in the country for at least the next two weeks and ongoing concerns around the world, including within Super Rugby territories, of the potential further spread of the coronavirus.

The Sunwolves’ round six clash against the Brumbies, scheduled to be played in Osaka next Sunday, has also been relocated.

The match will now take place at WIN Stadium in Wollongong and will be played prior to the Chiefs’ match against the Waratahs at the same venue next Friday.

Addressing the situation, Super Rugby chief executive Andy Marinos said it was clear the changes needed to be made to ensure the wellbeing of players, management teams, officials and spectators.

“For the integrity of the tournament we also believe relocating the matches was the right thing to do regardless of the complexities involved,” Marinos said.

“Due to the fact that the Sunwolves were due in Australia for two matches following the Brumbies and Crusaders matches in Japan, the matches have been relocated to Australia. This has enabled us to create a series of double-header matches which we hope will prove popular with rugby fans in Wollongong and Brisbane.

No decisions have been made at the stage in regards to the Sunwolves’ remaining four fixtures scheduled to be played in Asia.

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Patrick Erin set for home-town return NZ Racing Desk Group One winner Patrick Erin has returned to the Wingatui stable of Brian and Shane Anderton, and he will resume his New Zealand career in today’s Dunedin Casino Open (1200m) on his home track.

The Gallant Guru gelding began his career with 10 wins from 21 starts for the Andertons, headed by the Listed Riverton Cup (2147m) and a close fourth in the Wellington Cup (3200m).

Patrick Erin was transferred into the Sydney stable of champion ex-pat Kiwi trainer Chris Waller in early 2018, and he won the Gr.1 Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) at Randwick in October of that year.

He also finished fourth behind champion stablemate Winx in the Gr.2 Apollo Stakes (1400m) in February 2019, and collected another fourth placing behind Avilius in the Gr.3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m).

Now an eight-year-old, Patrick Erin is back home and is set to have his first New Zealand start in more than two years.

“It’s been really nice having him back in our stable,” Shane Anderton said. “It was a bit of a shame to see him go when he went over to Sydney, but his performances over there definitely showed that he was good

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Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 29 Feb 2020 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.25pm (NZT) CURRAGHMORE 1600 $50,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 x5824 Thomas Aquinas db (6) 60......C Burdan (a3) 2 13 Star Tsar b (4) 59........................M Cameron 3 57044 The Buzz d (5) 59...................J Fawcett (a1) 4 52431 Playsameanpinball d (7) 58.5..........J Riddell 5 79723 Looks Like (2) 58.5.........................V Colgan 6 7x752 My Zulu Warrior d (1) 58.5...............S Collett 7 36840 Take It Out td (3) 58.5............... D Danis (a2) 8 0x572 Tunzagutz (8) 55.5.......................T Thornton 2 1.00pm HEADQUARTERS VIADUCT NATHANS MEMORIAL $50,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 35158 Bully Boy tm (5) 60..................C Burdan (a3) 2 95043 All In Vogue (4) 58.5................J Fawcett (a1) 3 97310 Starrybeel td (7) 58...................... D Johnson 4 60230 Final Suggestion (8) 57...............M Cameron 5 04531 Voler Pour Moi d (6) 56.5..... T Yanagida (a2) 6 64141 Dance Card td (1) 55.5......................L Innes 7 32454 Scaglioni m (9) 53.5.........M Hashizume (a3) 8 x9669 Chachi Arcola t (2) 53..................T Thornton 9 07760 Gabriel (3) 53........................ M Kareem (a4) 3 1.35pm VERTICAL LOGISTICS 1400 $50,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 331 Victory Glory d (8) 59...................... S McKay 2 5x16 Packing Rockstar (1) 59.................J Waddell 3 0x863 Honesty td (4) 58.5............................R Elliot 4 4190x Willy Away m (2) 58.5.... A Goindasamy (a2) 5 1637x Splendido b (6) 58............M Hashizume (a3) 6 x351x Baby Face (9) 57.......................... D Johnson

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Patrick Erin will contest the Dunedin Casino Open (1200m) at Wingatui on Saturday.

PHOTO WILD RANGE PHOTOGRAPHY enough to be there. We were proud of him.” three-kilogram claim of apprentice jockey The winner of 11 races and more than Rahul Beeharry will reduce his weight to 57 $775,000 in stakes, Patrick Erin has been kilograms. assigned a 60-kilogram topweight for his “The horse is really well heading into Sathomecoming run in today’s open sprint. The urday, his work has been good,” Anderton

said. “Obviously he’s going to find the 1200m much too short. He’ll get back, and hopefully he’ll be running on nicely at the end.”

Patrick Erin could be in line for a return to black-type racing on April 18 at Riccarton.

“At this stage we’re aiming him towards the Canterbury Gold Cup (Gr.3, 2000m),” Anderton said. “It’s under weight-for-age conditions and looks like the right sort of race to target with him. So hopefully we’ll carry on down that road after Saturday, and then we’ll just see what happens after that.”

The Wingatui meeting today will also feature Patrick Erin’s full-brother and stablemate Gallant Boy, who will line up in the NIND Electrical Open (1600m).

The nine-year-old has won 12 races and more than $310,000, headed by a victory in last year’s Gr.3 White Robe Lodge WFA (1600m) and two black-type placings.

Gallant Boy finished sixth in an attempted defence of his White Robe Lodge crown earlier this month, six lengths behind the winner Killarney.

“He’s going along pretty nicely,” Anderton said. “He’s getting a little bit older now, but still enjoying his work.

“A little shower of rain might help him this weekend, just to slow down some of the others a little bit.”

7 21770 Triomphe t (5) 57..............................R Myers 8 57259 William Tell d (3) 57.............. T Yanagida (a2) 9 67x17 Love Struck 56.5........................... Scratched 10 9x531 Madam Pompom d (10) 56.5........... S Spratt 11 1x6 Shoshone tm (11) 56.5................C Lammas 12 32007 Its All Fake News (7) 55.5............T Thornton 4 2.10pm GO RACING SYNDICATIONS 1200 $50,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1200m 1 25411 Acutus d (4) 61.......................... D Danis (a2) 2 15512 New York Jazz dm (2) 61.A Goindasamy (a2) 3 72301 Riding The Wave d (8) 60...............J Waddell 4 093x2 Veine D’Or d (1) 59.......................... S Spratt 5 49321 Virtuoso Lad td (12) 59.......S Weatherley (a) 6 24144 Aero De Paris dm (11) 58.5............. C Grylls 7 x579x Florence Jean (6) 57.5................ L Satherley 8 9139x Walkin’ By td (3) 57..........................R Myers 9 93224 Manchu d (10) 56.5............................L Innes 10 65455 Savette (7) 56.5................................J Riddell 11 55151 Shipshape d (9) 55.5........................S Collett 12 54131 Threadtheneedle (5) 55.5............ D Johnson 13 49x49 Elusive Empire (13) 54.5................. R Kozaki 5 2.45 GRAEME THOMSON ANTIQUE ESTATE JEWELLERY 1500 $50,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1500m 1 6701x Platinum Rapper m (3) 59..... M Kareem (a4) 2 25521 Tweedledee m (7) 58.5........ T Yanagida (a2) 3 56266 Redcayenne t (5) 58....................... M Walker 4 x0476 Sasanof’s Hero t (9) 58....M Hashizume (a3) 5 17623 Crafty Jess tm (8) 57.5.....................S Collett 6 16945 Beauty Star (1) 56........................ D Johnson 7 51825 Ohceedee (10) 55.5....................M Cameron 8 0x601 The Rebel Knight td (4) 54.5............ S Spratt 9 17332 Jip Jip Rock td (6) 54..... A Goindasamy (a2)

1 60646 Santa Monica td (13) 56.................J Waddell 2 22369 Speedy Meady dm (1) 55.5..................C Dell 3 x1191 Its Destinys Child td (5) 54.............. A Calder 4 02103 Sheezallmine db (2) 54................C Lammas 5 x7137 Evalina d (14) 53.5......................M Coleman 6 05155 Pretty To Sea tdmb (10) 53.5.............L Innes 7 77x13 Spring Heat td (7) 53.................... D Johnson 8 x1187 Dama Zorro td (3) 53............. T Yanagida (a) 9 32128 Rock ‘N’ Affair d (12) 53...................R Myers 10 25431 What A Smasher 53...................... Scratched 11 x9016 Santa Catarina tdm (8) 53................ S Spratt 12 51391 Red Chois tdm (6) 53....................... C Grylls 13 45332 Short Fuse d (11) 53................... L Satherley 14 66321 Salt Bay d (9) 53............................. S McKay 15 81142 Molto Veloce td (4) 53......................S Collett 9 5.05pm VODAFONE NZ DERBY (G1) $1,000,000, 3YO SW, 2400m 1 1211 Dragon Leap t (12) 56.5.................J Waddell 2 13413 Sherwood Forest (11) 56.5............ M Walker 3 11132 Scorpz t (2) 56.5.......................... D Johnson 4 71125 Peloton (14) 56.5.........................M Cameron 5 32354 Tibetan (16) 56.5................................L Innes 6 21344 Platinum Road (6) 56.5....................J Riddell 7 31651 Vladivostok t (8) 56.5...................... S McKay 8 6x211 Reggiewood (15) 56.5........................R Elliot 9 98923 Shakespeare b (4) 56.5...................S Collett 10 14060 Lochwinnoch (1) 56.5....................... S Spratt 11 43137 Den Bosch (3) 56.5.......................... C Grylls 12 05164 Red Rufus (13) 56.5..................... R Hannam 13 5413 Monlula (9) 56.5..........................M Coleman 14 27419 Dalmatia (7) 56.5................S Weatherley (a) 15 34033 Platinum Spirit mb (10) 56.5............R Myers

16 11211 Two Illicit t (5) 54.5..........................V Colgan 5.40pm BARFOOT & THOMPSON 2100 $50,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2100m 1 19514 Roc Wheeler d (4) 59.5.......S Weatherley (a) 2 1x262 Shezathinka (7) 58.5...............C Burdan (a3) 3 46x37 Amazing Az d (11) 58.5............... D Johnson 4 20141 Hunter Villain (5) 58.........................R Myers 5 161 Kissinger 58.................................. Scratched 6 38113 Rip Em Up b (10) 57.5...................J Waddell 7 50283 Special Light td (9) 57.5...................S Collett 8 55016 Hasabro (1) 57.5.................. T Yanagida (a2) 9 51431 London Banker d (2) 57.5...........M Coleman 10 12315 Patsys Lass b (6) 56........................ S Spratt 11 40114 Gravitelle (3) 55.5..............................L Innes 12 02436 Sunburst 55.5................................ Scratched 13 43258 Stilton d (8) 54............................. L Satherley 14 07760 Gabriel 54..................................... Scratched Blinkers on: Thomas Aquinas (R1), Starrybeel (R2), Elusive Empire (R4) Blinkers off: Willy Away, Its All Fake News (R3), Bella Mente (R7) Winkers on: Packing Rockstar, Its All Fake News (R3) SELECTIONS

4 03557 Touch The Sky (3) 58......................B Murray 5 13773 Alonzo d (7) 58......................... K Asano (a2) 6 59x70 Vice Marshall tdm (13) 58....R Beeharry (a3) Benchmark, 1600m 1 x2234 Beneficial (1) 59...............................J Laking 7 x9658 Kerany tdh (4) 57.5........................ C Barnes 2 47x12 Manhattan Flame m (13) 59..........K Williams 8 32364 Juliette tmh (11) 57...........................J Lowry 3 56346 Nopele mb (4) 59........... K Chowdhoory (a2) 9 76207 Where Angels Walk td (10) 57..... C Johnson 4 94141 Ripnroll dm (9) 59................. R Mudhoo (a2) 10 x0x45 Blue Eyed Susie h (9) 56.... C Campbell (a1) 5 4413x Shanzino dh (7) 58.5.....................T Moseley 11 15945 Kate The Great td (5) 56....................L Hemi 6 11823 Vouch db (10) 58.............................S Wynne 12 60030 Campo td (1) 56.....................A Mudhoo (a4) 7 71761 Ray’s In Command tdh (5) 58.........B Murray 13 51004 Fire Katyusha t (12) 55.5.............K Kwo (a3) 8 x2125 Cabernet tbh (6) 57............. C Campbell (a1) 14 05x03 Car Pie 54.5.................................. Scratched 9 31702 Rosie Glow m (12) 57..................K Kwo (a3) 9 4.49pm NZB AIRFREIGHT STAKES 1400 $50,000, 10 95412 Gloss td (11) 56.5........................ C Johnson 3YOF SW, 1400m 11 57624 All Black Magic tm (14) 56.5...T Comignaghi 1 18282 Miss Federer b (2) 56.5.................K Williams 12 08520 Taieri Gem tmh (3) 56.................... C Barnes 2 46321 Live Drama (12) 56.5....................T Moseley 13 95245 Upscale d (2) 56....................... K Asano (a2) 3 63461 Trifolium (4) 56.5.......................... C Johnson 14 7108x Dante Fire th (8) 55.5...........R Beeharry (a3) 4 80203 All About Magic (7) 56.5... K Chowdhoory (a) 7 3.39pm DUNEDIN CASINO 1200 $35,000, OPN HCP, 5 76836 Bronte Beach b (16) 56.5........... K Asano (a) 6 443 Asathought (1) 56.5.............. C Campbell (a) 1200m 1 6600x Patrick Erin tdh (5) 60..........R Beeharry (a3) 7 414x Siracusa d (13) 56.5.........................J Laking 2 x7186 Don Carlo td (10) 58.5.....................J Laking 8 6610 Blackbook d (5) 56.5...............T Comignaghi 9 40039 Far Site m (9) 56.5.......................L Callaway 3 16414 Rocanto tdm (12) 58 4 59682 Pippi Rea td (4) 57.5................ K Asano (a2) 10 83956 Hot Tap tm (10) 56.5...................... C Barnes 5 70243 Johnny Jones td (6) 55.5........T Comignaghi 11 600x1 Rockin Robin (11) 56.5...................B Murray 6 03102 The Precious One tdmh (9) 54.5.....B Murray 12 56150 Ginny h (8) 56.5.................................L Hemi 7 x1170 Morweka tdmb (2) 54....................K Williams 13 03271 Our Rosette (17) 56.5 8 566x1 Turncoat tdm (11) 54............... W Papier (a4) 14 3109 Heidi Hi m (14) 56.5..........................J Lowry 9 63501 Always On Call tdmh (1) 54......... C Johnson 15 190x3 Papagena m (6) 56.5..................D Prastiyou 10 57373 Exemplar tdm (7) 54...... K Chowdhoory (a2) 16 0x233 Fairway Flight (3) 56.5 11 77810 Zabay tdh (8) 54.................. C Campbell (a1) 17 84555 Matuki (15) 56.5 12 24451 Bluey’s Chance tdm (3) 54.... R Mudhoo (a2) Emergencies: Papagena, Fairway Flight, Matuki 8 4.14pm MCMILLAN EQUINE FEEDS 1200 $22,500, 10 5.24 NZB SOUTH ISLAND SALE FRIDAY 17 APRIL 1600 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 7367x Fire Show d (6) 59.5...............T Comignaghi 1 x1498 Outram th (11) 60..............................J Lowry 2 66041 Mister Mocha td (2) 59.5.................S Wynne 2 68548 Smiling Assassin m (12) 60.... W Papier (a4) 3 38431 Sligo t (8) 58.5...............................T Moseley 3 6x513 Flickitova tdh (6) 59............. C Campbell (a1)

4 46x31 Lord Zacford td (19) 59.................T Moseley 5 061 Carnaby Street d (1) 58.5.......T Comignaghi 6 61673 Milano (14) 58.5..............................S Wynne 7 96605 Taponisme tm (4) 58.5.......................L Hemi 8 07422 Sweet Oak (10) 58...........................J Laking 9 23397 Highly Unlikely (3) 57.5............ K Asano (a2) 10 777x5 Ruby Marie d (13) 57....................K Mudhoo 11 54877 Perfidia (18) 56.5.......................... C Johnson 12 53851 Rosie Mae d (5) 56.5............ R Mudhoo (a2) 13 61095 Neruda th (20) 56 14 340x0 Reliable Glow dm (15) 56.K Chowdhoory (a2) 15 72995 Havana Heights th (2) 55.5 16 36758 Marquita Miss mh (7) 55.5 17 100x0 Danzi Creek tdh (17) 55.5 18 53736 Fine Bouquet mh (8) 55...............K Kwo (a3) 19 30026 Sure Is db (16) 54.5 20 044x4 Coup Dreamwood (9) 56.5 Emergencies: Havana Heights, Marquita Miss, Danzi Creek, Fine Bouquet, Sure Is, Coup Dreamwood Blinkers on: Nesta (R1), Papagena (R9) Blinkers off: Kentucky May (R2), Vouch (R6), Miss Federer, Heidi Hi (R9) Winkers on: Killarney (R5), Miss Federer, Fairway Flight (R9) Winkers off Nesta (R1), Papagena (R9) Pacifiers on: Heidi Hi (R9) SELECTIONS

10 61437 Iron Eagle tb (11) 54....................... S McKay 11 12139 Swords Drawn b (2) 54.......S Weatherley (a) 12 x7258 Incantesimo t (12) 54....................... C Grylls 6 3.20 MCKEE FAMILY SUNLINE VASE (G3) $70,000, 3YOF SW, 2100m 1 31527 Bergamot b (4) 56.5....................M Cameron 2 65211 Seven Seas (6) 56.5........................R Myers 3 27255 Karalino (3) 56.5.............................. C Grylls 4 6514 Pineapple Girl (2) 56.5................M Coleman 5 71028 Annie’s Song (10) 56.5.................C Lammas 6 36211 Meghan d (7) 56.5..............................L Innes 7 16254 Amal Rose (9) 56.5.........................V Colgan 8 3142 White Hibiscus (11) 56.5..................S Collett 9 33148 Communique t (8) 56.5.................. M Walker 10 x5150 Darcee Que t (5) 56.5........................R Elliot 11 18768 Kaipaki Road b (12) 56.5............. D Johnson 12 x5746 Octave (1) 56.5............................... S McKay 7 3.55pm MUFHASA FASTTRACK STAKES $60,000, 3YO SW+P, 1300m 1 x109x Aretha (5) 56...............................M Cameron 2 12412 Run To Perfection t (9) 56..............J Waddell 3 14323 Hasstobegood (6) 54......................V Colgan 4 11235 Showoroses t (7) 54.........................S Collett 5 02354 Bella Mente (11) 54...................... D Johnson 6 2113 Star Of Bombay t (4) 54.....................R Elliot 7 30182 Woodcote Lass m (10) 54................ C Grylls 8 10731 Avadane t (1) 54.................................L Innes 9 11243 Madam Hass tb (2) 54................M Coleman 10 47136 Familia (8) 54.................................. S McKay 11 68x01 Shampagne Dancer (3) 54............... S Spratt 8 4.30 HAUNUI FARM KING’S PLATE (G3) $100,000, OPN-SW&P, 1200m

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Race 1: Star Tsar, My Zulu Warrior, Thomas Aquinas, The Buzz Race 2: Dance Card, Starrybeel, Final Suggestion, Scaglioni Race 3: Packing Rockstar, Shoshone, Madam Pompom Race 4: Manchu, Acutus, Savette, Aero De Paris Race 5: Swords Drawn, Jip Jip Rock, Crafty Jess, Redcayenne Race 6: Amal Rose, Bergamot, Karalino, Communique Race 7: Madam Hass, Star Of Bombay, Avadane, Woodcote Lass Race 8: Sheezallmine, Santa Catarina, Speedy Meady Race 9: Two Illicit, Dragon Leap, Scorpz, Reggiewood Race 10: Gravitelle, Shezathinka, Amazing Az

Otago gallops Today at Wingatui Raceway

Otago RC Venue: Wingatui Meeting Date: 29 Feb 2020 NZ 5 72121 Expedition d (5) 56.5............. R Mudhoo (a2) Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 6 x3032 Tee Cee Coup d (6) 56.5.K Chowdhoory (a2) and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 7 93x41 Skaaboom d (8) 55.5......................S Wynne 1 12.05pm (NZT) SPEIGHT’S 2200 $30,000, Rating 82 8 48784 Tickets On Her td (1) 54.....................L Hemi 9 05x03 Car Pie d (9) 54.............................K Mudhoo Benchmark, 2200m 1 38878 Shakti tdm (8) 60.5........................K Mudhoo 4 1.50pm ADMIN EXPRESS MAIDEN 1600 $10,000, 2 37252 Shezatoucha tdm (11) 59.... C Campbell (a1) MDN, 1600m 3 22935 Riviera Rock b (1) 59.........................L Hemi 1 44524 Mustard bh (4) 58.5..........................J Laking 4 95120 Mr Intelligence dm (10) 58.5.R Mudhoo (a2) 2 46204 My Cashier (6) 58.5..................... C Johnson 5 63791 Bakela tmh (6) 56.5...................... C Johnson 3 03795 Senor Moss (17) 58.5.....................B Murray 6 73111 Scooby tdm (4) 55.5........................S Wynne 4 0x768 Dough Boy h (1) 58.5............... K Asano (a2) 7 01141 Sister Monica (2) 54.5.............T Comignaghi 5 49896 Renounce (12) 58.5........................S Wynne 8 91103 Feel The Rush tdm (9) 54.............K Williams 6 Southern Gent h (2) 58.5............... C Barnes 9 88537 Nesta tm (7) 54............................L Callaway 7 Step Son h (7) 58.5............. C Campbell (a1) 10 40402 The Lustre (12) 54........................T Moseley 8 x9225 Index bh (5) 56.5...............................J Lowry 11 21517 Out Of The Park t (3) 54..................B Murray 9 x00x2 Deebeewiththestars (10) 56.5............L Hemi 12 06507 Francis Drake (5) 54....................K Kwo (a3) 10 93055 Qwerty (14) 56.5...........................K Mudhoo 56837 Wondering (15) 56.5.....................T Moseley 2 12.40pm BOND CLINICAL & SPORTS MASSAGE 11 12 00 Drumcastle (16) 56.5...........R Beeharry (a3) 820 $22,500, 2YO SW+P, 820m 13 35770 Secretaria (3) 56.5........................K Williams 1 9110 Lovebug td (3) 57....................T Comignaghi 14 75608 Trip In Time (9) 56.5.....................K Kwo (a3) 2 Koputaroa (6) 56.5....................... C Johnson 15 00078 Artic Warrior (11) 58.5.... K Chowdhoory (a2) 3 Tappy’s Lad (8) 56.5.....................L Callaway 16 097 Perceive h (13) 56 4 261 Chokito (4) 56......................R Beeharry (a3) 17 0909 Alagant Angel (8) 56 5 2x5 Kentucky May (9) 54.5....................S Wynne Emergencies: Artic Warrior, Perceive, Alagant Angel 6 2 Pikey Princess (10) 54.5................ C Barnes 5 2.25pm NIND ELECTRICAL 1600 $35,000, OPEN 7 2 Under Her Spell (1) 54.5.......... K Asano (a2) HCP, 1600m 8 Choux In (7) 54.5............................B Murray 1 07306 Gallant Boy tdmh (9) 60.......R Beeharry (a3) 9 Petty’s Legacy h (2) 54.5....... R Mudhoo (a2) 2 21810 Killarney td (6) 58....................T Comignaghi 10 Willnotquit (5) 54.5.............................L Hemi 3 65475 He’s Gold t (2) 57............................S Wynne 3 1.15pm KB CONTRACTING 1200 $25,000, Rating 4 16366 Shaara tm (1) 55.5........................K Mudhoo 5 92421 Shirley Maude dm (8) 54.............. C Johnson 72 Benchmark, 1200m 1 60581 Barabas d (3) 62.5................... K Asano (a2) 6 561x0 The Gordonian tdm (4) 54 Chowdhoory (a2) 2 5203x Our Teddy Boy tdmh (4) 59.C Campbell (a1) 7 14694 Picture Me Rollin tdm (3) 54. R Mudhoo (a2) 3 09231 Final Savings td (2) 58.5.............. C Johnson 8 x4925 Showpin tdm (10) 54.....................K Williams 4 0x912 Vasiliki td (7) 57.............................T Moseley 9 53383 Waimate Bill tm (7) 54...........A Bohorun (a3)

10 25087 Stellacanto dm (5) 54.........................L Hemi

6 3.04pm POSITIVE SIGNS 1600 $25,000, Rating 72

Race 1: Feel The Rush, Shezatoucha, Sister Monica, Scooby Race 2: Under Her Spell, Chokito, Koputaroa, Pikey Princess Race 3: Vasiliki, Tee Cee Coup, Final Savings, Barabas Race 4: Mustard, Index, Qwerty, Wondering, My Cashier Race 5: Killarney, Shirley Maude, Gallant Boy, Waimate Bill Race 6: Upscale, Gloss, Cabernet, Beneficial, Vouch Race 7: Pippi Rea, Johnny Jones, Don Carlo, Rocanto Race 8: Mister Mocha, Alonzo, Kate The Great, Fire Show Race 9: Miss Federer, Live Drama, All About Magic, Siracusa Race 10: Sweet Oak, Flickitova, Highly Unlikely, Outram

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Saturday, February 29, 2020

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Marsh planning another Derby upset NZ Racing Desk Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh is upbeat about his chances of causing another upset in the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie today.

Marsh produced Crown Prosecutor at $105 to win last year’s Derby and while Scorpz is only a

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little tricky but we’re very happy with him.”

Unhappy with the slow pace of the Avondale Guineas, Marsh just wants a genuine tempo for the derby to give Scorpz his best chance of success.

Marsh expects Scorpz to take up a handy position under rider Danielle Johnson, giving him his best

chance to capitalise.

“Generally, he puts himself somewhere there and that should mean he really gets his chance,” Marsh said.

“It’s been a perfect prep for him.

He won that Salver (2100m at Ellerslie in December) and then we were able to give him a nice summer break.”

6 21871 Madiba (6) fr......................................J Curtin 7 11260 Rocknroll Rod fr............................ Scratched 8 91215 Lilac Star (1) 10M..................... S O’Reilly (J) 9 63846 Jay Tee Tyron (2) 10M...................T Williams 10 40231 Dadndave (1) 20M...............................B Butt 11 13621 Homebush Lad (2) 20M........... C D Thornley 12 04100 Sweet Mary (U1) 20M..................C DeFilippi 13 31144 Stars Tonight (1) 30M....................... G Smith 8 4.12 CHEVIOT CONCRETE AMURI READY MIX HANDICAP TROT $10,000, r56+ discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 15502 Far From True (1) fr...........................D White 2 03293 Majestic Chevron (2) fr...................B Orange 3 333x4 Gil Favor (3) fr................................... P Nairn 4 20780 Idle Moose (4) fr................................J Curtin 5 98623 Chief Of Staff (5) fr........................... G Smith 6 80626 Valley Star (6) fr................................S Ottley 7 22790 Phoebe Onyx (7) fr...........................J W Cox 8 61334 Full Of Hope (8) fr......................... G O’Reilly 9 01909 Missie Castleton (9) fr.................C Markham 10 426x0 Lotamuscle (1) 10M.............................B Butt 11 33044 Justamollyarcher (2) 10M...............R Jenkins 12 05677 Sundons Flyer (1) 20M...........J Young-Grant 13 x0x01 Mr Fahrenheit (2) 20M......................R Close 14 35009 Medusa (3) 20M.......................... K Cameron 9 4.48 CHEVIOT LICENCING TRUST MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ f&m r40-r60., mobile, 1980m 1 40005 Star Paige (1) fr....................................K Butt 2 20820 Little Rain (2) fr........................A Mugford (J) 3 47839 Yoha (3) fr......................................B Orange 4 37193 Woman In Gold (4) fr........................R Close 5 71962 Look Sharp (5) fr...................... S O’Reilly (J) 6 66657 Miss Daytona (6) fr.........................J Geddes

7 40740 Champagneandwine (7) fr...... J Morrison (J) 8 33224 Anamajor (8) fr..............................T Williams 9 31x1 Delma Craze (9) fr.....................M Anderson 10 04426 Soundslikeart (21) fr........................ G Smith 11 32141 Melody’s Mischief (22) fr...................S Ottley 10 5.23pm THANK YOU KIRSTEN MCNABB MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r55,r56-r60 w/c., mobile, 2600m 1 74080 Adam Patron (1) fr............................ G Smith 2 08565 Senorita Margarita (2) fr...............C DeFilippi 3 00150 Pat Campbell (3) fr.....................M Anderson 4 38043 Highland Reign (4) fr................ S O’Reilly (J) 5 20100 Auchtercairn (5) fr...................J Young-Grant 6 18984 Jenora (6) fr......................................R Close 7 59803 Only In America (7) fr.............. J Morrison (J) 8 0x094 Nimah Franco (8) fr...........................S Ottley 9 52565 Doctor Tim (9) fr............................ G O’Reilly 10 98033 Tracksarefortrains (21) fr.............C Markham 11 47363 The Kaik (22) fr....................................K Butt 12 98579 Arocknatthepark (23) fr............ C D Thornley 13 00310 Bossmaro (U1) fr............................B Orange Pacifiers on: Dolly P (R1) Pacifiers off: Abby Golightly (R2) SELECTIONS

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4.29 NORTHERN TAVERN AUTUMN CUP (HANDICAP PACE) $15,000, r56-r100 spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 32525 Nota Bene Denario (1) fr...........B Williamson 2 51162 Burlington (2) fr............................. S McNally 3 7x434 Delightful Deal (3) fr................. N Williamson 4 93517 Cast A Shadow (4) fr..........................A Beck 5 11436 Just Holla (1) 10M............................J W Cox 6 24741 Parama (2) 10M..........................C Ferguson 7 x6702 Please Shuddup (U1) 10M....... M Williamson 8 7415x Born To Boogie (1) 20M................. B Barclay 9 1370x Baileys Knight (U1) 20M............J Harrington 9 5.04pm BIG WILLY’S MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r48., mobile, 2200m 1 0300P Dismara (1) fr..............................R McIlwrick 2 98372 Delight (2) fr............................. N Williamson 3 84860 Rosinupthebow (3) fr..................M Hurrell (J) 4 99030 Magnetic Watch (4) fr.............. S Walkinshaw 5 22183 Mighty George (5) fr...................E Barron (J) 6 05959 Nightmarch (6) fr.................. K McNaught (J) 7 47528 Stay Aboard (7) fr..................S Tomlinson (J) 8 87162 Major Menace (8) fr..........................J W Cox 9 09016 Natural Fire (21) fr.......................C Ferguson 10 57404 Kagee VC (22) fr.......................B Williamson 11 x5909 Carlo Gambino (23) fr..................B McLellan 10 5.34pm HOMESTEAD FILLIES & MARES MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 2yo+ f&m., 2200m 1 90 My Tern (1) fr....................................R Swain 2 65043 Rakarippa (2) fr............................... P Hunter

3 40962 A Smidgen More (3) fr.............. M Williamson 4 00x06 Kennington Girl (4) fr...................R McIlwrick 5 8 Alexsjoy (5) fr.............................E Barron (J) 6 500x4 Miss Ivy (6) fr............................B Williamson 7 Tac Mac (7) fr........................... N Williamson 8 78273 Von Art (8) fr................................C Ferguson 9 4 Cautious Galleon (21) fr.....................A Beck 10 Ideal B B (22) fr...............................K Larsen 11 Flight Crew (23) fr.......................... B Barclay 12 8x095 Arizona Doll fr............................... Scratched 13 336x3 American Eyretime (24) fr............. S McNally Pacifiers off: Rydgemont Milly (R3), Cuddly Trouble (R5), My Tern (R10) SELECTIONS

2 67165 Sefton Stan 30.75.............................S Lozell 3 72211 Jinja Babe 31.03..............................P Green 4 18162 Monsoon Malabar 30.93 U &.............Cottam 5 36552 Go Angel 30.70............................... G Farrell 6 15443 Opawa Delight 30.59.........................B Craik 7 72564 Dig Dig Dig 30.60............................ S O’Neill 8 28526 Pam Arising 30.74........................... S O’Neill 9 1F245 Jinja Jay 30.85 W &.........................T Steele 10 36444 Tommy The Jett nwtd........................M Black 9 3.46pm AUCKLAND CUP FINAL C5f, 527m 1 22412 Silenci 30.60...............................P Ferguson 2 27522 Robson 30.32..............................P Ferguson 3 31511 Ringside 30.14...............................R Adcock 4 34221 Uthor Bale 30.45...........................C Roberts 5 42311 Oster Bale 30.77...........................C Roberts 6 12132 Bigtime Rod nwtd................................L Cole 7 21151 Pinny Mack 29.90............................. S Clark 8 24123 Dyna Dave 30.20..........................C Roberts 9 12322 Big Time Izzy nwtd..............................L Cole 10 62511 Big Time Ocean nwtd..........................L Cole 10 4.03pm PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD STAKES C1, 527m 1 74863 Dignity Dented 31.23....................... T Green 2 71225 Nova Willow nwtd................................L Cole 3 68544 Zipping Monty nwtd.........................C Henley 4 87647 Our Scarlett nwtd............................ G Farrell 5 63757 Kai Nan 30.79................................. G Farrell 6 77354 Tamantha nwtd...................................B Bond 7 57725 Fall Gracefully nwtd..................... M Prangley

8 86357 Opawa Lola nwtd............................ G Farrell 9 41476 Fear The Fur 31.02......................... S O’Neill 10 65668 Peekay Shout nwtd............................J Black 11 4.21 QUALIFIED PET SERVICES RAILWAY SPRINT FINAL C5f, 318m 1 82182 Big Time Tina nwtd..............................L Cole 2 42111 Seve 18.34.........................................D Lane 3 31252 Cheese And Chalk 18.59....................L Cole 4 15111 Select Trick 18.27................................C Weir 5 34111 Archie John Hill 18.50 J &................D Fahey 6 11111 Trojan Hoarse 18.55............................L Cole 7 81752 Super Over Drama nwtd S &...........B Evans 8 25211 Buddy Boom 18.26 U &.....................Cottam 9 63612 Know Baby nwtd.............................G Cleeve 10 71772 Thrilling Watch nwtd......................D Roberts 12 4.38pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C2/3, 318m 1 11261 Night Ace 18.53.......................... G Pomeroy 2 34781 Jinja Bailey 18.75 U &........................Cottam 3 78887 Hands Of Steel nwtd........................ T Green 4 21244 Kuridrani 18.65..................................M Black 5 56714 Flying Huey nwtd..............................M Black 6 88824 Bigtime Thor nwtd R &.................N O’Regan 7 23548 Go All Lin 18.56.............................. S O’Neill 8 31772 Stay Rich 18.55 M &......................... J Smith 9 78648 Thrilling Katie 18.40....................K R Toomer 10 72555 Audrette 18.45...................................B Bond

Cheviot harness Tomorrow at Addington Raceway

1 10 Scrappylittlenobody (1) fr................. G Smith 2 33778 Foreigner (2) fr...................................G Hunt 3 59P8P Take After Me (3) fr...........................R Close 4 50789 Global Flight (4) fr..........................R Jenkins 30901 Midnight Assassin (5) fr...............C DeFilippi 1 12.12pm CHARLES WIFFEN MT BEAUTIFUL WINES 5 6 02900 Majestic Sunset (6) fr........................J Curtin TROT $8500, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 7 42301 Steel Dust (7) fr............................T McMillan 1 Masterofthemanor (1) fr...........A Mugford (J) 8 1044 Call This Fun (8) fr.............................. J Ford 2 66604 Pastrana (2) fr......................... J Morrison (J) 9 90300 Tequila Sunset (9) fr.................... K Cameron 3 6x08 Bacardi Pride (3) fr..................... M Edmonds 10 74827 She’s Allthe Craze (10) fr........J Young-Grant 4 0x085 Dreamsinthe Mist (4) fr..................B Orange 11 05240 Blink N Bones (11) fr...........................B Ford 5 05 Andoverlov (5) fr..................................B Butt 12 10P03 Grand Princess (12) fr............. J Morrison (J) 6 0 Sonny Lachlan (6) fr.......................R Holmes 13 40808 DD’s Super Stuart (13) fr............ J Markham 7 63093 It Wasn’t Me (U1) fr.................. C D Thornley 14 00606 Smudgee fr................................... Scratched 8 6P007 Mono Gamble (U2) fr................ S Smolenski 15 2P550 Idle Stuartia (14) fr.........................B Orange 9 5005x Dolly P (U3) fr...............................M Perriton 16 09686 Red Harbour (15) fr.................. C D Thornley 10 06280 Make My Sundon (U4) fr...................S Ottley 17 71x Insist The Win (16) fr............................B Butt 2 12.44pm RURAL LIVESTOCK MOBILE PACE $8500, 18 10003 Rites Of Zhou (U1) fr............................K Cox Emergencies: Midnight Assassin, DD’s Super Stuart non-winners 4yo+., mobile, 1980m 1 24609 With The Stars (1) fr...................M Anderson 4 1.52pm BUSH INN TAVERN MOBILE PACE $8500, 2 75076 Cambire fr..................................... Scratched non-winners 3yo+ f&m., mobile, 1980m 3 60x Abby Golightly (2) fr................. C D Thornley 1 0 Itz The Con Artist (1) fr............K Newman (J) 4 080P Offthebench (3) fr...................B Laughton (J) 2 9x7 Annie Richter (2) fr............................R Close 5 36928 Calypso Rock (4) fr........................A Stewart 3 4 She’s Tough (3) fr.................................B Butt 6 9005 The Rhythm Of Life (5) fr....... G Thornley (J) 4 Doubt I’m Dreaming (4) fr........ C D Thornley 7 072 Cheapcheap (6) fr............................ G Smith 5 2 Uber Express (5) fr............................J Curtin 8 0x Well Said Love (7) fr.......................B Orange 6 59874 Laterintheday (6) fr........................... G Smith 9 34556 Smooth Debate (8) fr........................R Close 7 632 Bring Back Leah (7) fr.......................S Ottley 10 64x70 Le Tissier (21) fr.............................R Holmes 8 42664 Maggie (8) fr...................................J Geddes 11 54066 Nadira Franco (22) fr....................... H Clarke 9 40843 Ride In A Concorde (9) fr...............B Orange 3 1.17pm GLEN HILL BUILDERS TROT $9000, 3yo+ 10 6x706 Narcissist (21) fr...................... J Morrison (J) 5 2.27 GLEN MCNABB EARTHMOVING ENGINEERr40-r55, stand, 2600m Cheviot Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Addington Meeting Date: 01 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10

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Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m) at Ellerslie a fortnight ago.

“I was really happy with the run.

He’d gone first-up at a mile at Te Aroha and just went into the Avondale Guineas a little above himself,” said Marsh.

“He just over-did it on a slow pace but he’s trained on really well.

His draw (barrier two) might be a

fraction of that, at $12 with TAB bookmakers, for this year’s threeyear-old feature, the second generation Derby-winning trainer is hoping he can upstage favourites Dragon Leap and Two Illicit.

Giving him confidence is the improvement the colt by Charm Spirit has shown since his laststart second to Dragon Leap in the

ING PACE $9000, 4yo+ r40-r55 jun.d, stand, 2600m 1 51524 Mr Bohannon (1) fr.................B Laughton (J) 2 0x90x Sweet Marylou (2) fr....................T Duley (J) 3 76040 Eastwood Isabella (3) fr..........S Thornley (J) 4 53100 Tombelina (4) fr...................... G Thornley (J) 5 55001 Chase The Hat Trick (5) fr....... J Morrison (J) 6 9250x Sweeney Todd (6) fr..................... J Alford (J) 7 89716 La Bella Vita (7) fr.......................S Payne (J) 8 0160x Vulcan Star (8) fr.....................K Newman (J) 9 21905 Loissonya (9) fr.......................... L McKay (J) 10 00007 Victor Tango (10) fr.......................S Smith (J) 11 21 Seamark (11) fr........................ S O’Reilly (J) 12 92038 Gotta Future (12) fr..................A Mugford (J) 13 90434 Canardly Remember (13) fr.... S Diamant (J) 6 3.02pm DOWNBYTHESEASIDE LEONARD MEMORIAL STKS MBL PACE $30,000, 2yo fillies., 2000m 1 6 Girls Love Pearls (1) fr......................J Curtin 2 3 Booraa (2) fr.........................................K Cox 3 2 Sweet Lizzie (3) fr..........................B Orange 4 Aimee’s First Meddle (4) fr............... G Smith 5 9 Eliza Davolta (5) fr.................... C D Thornley 6 8 Shanika (6) fr................................T Williams 7 5 Ariella (7) fr.......................................R Close 8 1 Town Echo (8) fr.........................M Anderson 7 3.37 CHEVIOT BUSINESSES CHEVIOT CUP HANDICAP PACE $13,000 3yo+ r56+ discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 42108 Southerly Change (1) fr..................B Orange 2 52510 Fynn Frost (2) fr.......................... K Cameron 3 83082 Sweet Loress (3) fr...............................K Butt 4 74843 Go Davey (4) fr.......................B Laughton (J) 5 72913 Burnham Boy (5) fr............................S Ottley

Race 1: Andoverlov, Dreamsinthe Mist, Mono Gamble Race 2: Cheapcheap, Smooth Debate, With The Stars Race 3: Call This Fun, Scrappylittlenobody, Steel Dust Race 4: Uber Express, She’s Tough, Itz The Con Artist Race 5: Mr Bohannon, Vulcan Star, Chase The Hat Trick Race 6: Town Echo, Aimee’s First Meddle, Shanika Race 7: Dadndave, Jay Tee Tyron, Burnham Boy, Stars Tonight Race 8: Gil Favor, Full Of Hope, Lotamuscle, Mr Fahrenheit Race 9: Woman In Gold, Melody’s Mischief, Look Sharp Race 10: Only In America, Doctor Tim, Nimah Franco, Auchtercairn

Invercargill harness Tomorrow at Ascot Park Raceway

Invercargill Harness Racing Club Inc Venue Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 01 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.28pm CENTREPOINT & SOUTH CITY LIQUORLAND MOBILE PACE $10,000, 4yo+ r53-r59., 2200m 1 94x00 Glenthorne fr................................. Scratched 2 36163 The Night Watchman (1) fr..........R McIlwrick 3 86801 Franco Riot (2) fr........................E Barron (J) 4 P1883 Makara (3) fr......................................A Beck 5 800x5 Hazer (4) fr..................................... B Barclay 6 84558 My Georgie Boy (5) fr...................... P Hunter 7 60075 Major Sass (6) fr............................ K Barclay 8 77233 Deus Ex (7) fr........................K Tomlinson (J) 2 1.01pm WAXY’S IRISH PUB MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mr40 to mr45., mobile, 2200m 1 58530 Sly Tricks (1) fr............................... A Armour 2 9x242 Particular (2) fr................................K Larsen 3 00x06 It’s My Opinion (3) fr..................B Williamson 4 00x04 Battle Axe (4) fr........................ N Williamson 5 09880 Bub’s VC (5) fr............................E Barron (J) 6 08960 Mr Jingles (6) fr............................B McLellan 7 76446 Hold Thumbs (7) fr.....................M Hurrell (J) 8 808x7 Change Up Dulc (8) fr........................A Beck 9 60575 A Rocknroll Maid (21) fr........... M Williamson 10 56562 Sunset Red (22) fr................................G Lee 11 46387 The Naenae Express (U1) fr.......R McIlwrick 3 1.34pm WAIKIWI TAVERN MOBILE TROT $10,000,

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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 01 Mar 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 1.26pm (NZT) SPEEDMAPS @FORMPRO RATINGS SPRINT C4, 318m 1 12163 Express Emporium 18.72 W &.........T Steele 2 63646 Fantastic Amy 18.29.........................S Lozell 3 7118x Bigtime Jetty nwtd...............................L Cole 4 33321 Franky The Jett 18.69........................E Potts 5 32184 Looking Snatched nwtd......................B Craik 6 51564 Thank You Next 18.63........................B Craik 7 53332 Last Star 18.56.............................. D R Laing 8 53566 Suspicious Minds 18.44.....................B Craik 9 73676 Bigtime Bee nwtd................................L Cole 10 38457 Cameo Syd nwtd................................B Craik 2 1.44pm JAMIE & CHAD 21ST BIRTHDAY SERIES FINAL C1f, 527m 1 21432 Pebble Beach nwtd............................D Lane 2 24433 React Respond 30.77......................R Roper 3 74748 Bold Diesel 31.06............................. T Green 4 44321 Opawa Nemo 30.96 W &.................T Steele 5 43274 Opawa Big 30.91............................ G Farrell 6 55125 Talkabout Sophie 30.95....................M Black 7 21413 Dobby Who 30.93....................... M Prangley 8 12231 Portland Wonder nwtd........................B Craik 9 36565 Jinja Jake nwtd W &.........................T Steele 10 77354 Tamantha nwtd...................................B Bond 3 2.01pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STAKES C4/5, 527m

r56-r80., mobile, 1700m 1 17650 Hawaiian Hula (1) fr................. N Williamson 2 16287 Jimmy Carter (2) fr................K Tomlinson (J) 3 90565 Crusher Collins (3) fr..................... S McNally 4 23595 Rydgemont Milly (4) fr............ J Campbell (J) 5 27258 Dipendra (5) fr...............................R Stevens 6 55689 Nottingham K Two (6) fr.............E Barron (J) 7 x6333 Full Noise (7) fr.............................. B Barclay 8 33x77 Picketts Ridge (8) fr.....................R McIlwrick 4 2.09pm LONE STAR CAFE & BAR MOBILE PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mr47 to mr50., 2200m 1 604 Fireball (1) fr................................C Ferguson 2 03 Peroni (2) fr.............................. N Williamson 3 5202 Scotlynn Beach Boy (3) fr..........E Barron (J) 4 3 Motor Mouth (4) fr.................... M Williamson 5 70 Call Me Keith (5) fr.......................... P Hunter 6 0659 Art Profile (6) fr..........................M Hurrell (J) 7 3 The Big Yin (7) fr............................ B Barclay 8 Falcon’s Monarch (8) fr..............J Harrington 9 Lord Of The Dance (21) fr............. B Norman 10 335 Mach Quillan fr.............................. Scratched 11 08x Make Believe (22) fr...................... S McNally 12 68645 Love On The Rocks (U1) fr............ K Barclay 5 2.44pm ILT GOLD CHIP FINAL (HANDICAP TROT) $15,000, 3yo+, w/c spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 9x22 My Moment’s Now (1) fr........... M Williamson 2 80270 Slainte (U1) fr............................P Williamson 3 9x1 Carnegie Hall (1) 20M.................... B Barclay

4 5x109 Midsummer Queen (2) 20M.......... B Norman 5 00410 Make My Day (3) 20M......................J W Cox 6 081P6 Kiwitrix (4) 20M........................ N Williamson 7 78060 Cuddly Trouble (5) 20M................. S McNally 8 21234 Richard The Third (6) 20M....S Tomlinson (J) 9 65976 Miss Jessica (7) 20M................ T Robertson 10 94037 Emma Frost (8) 20M.............K Tomlinson (J) 11 62070 Helluva Way (U1) 20M................... K Barclay 6 3.19 SPEIGHTS ALE HOUSE MOBILE PACE $10,000, 4yo+ r49-r52., mobile, 2200m 1 00x40 Cheddar Made Beta (1) fr.........B Williamson 2 42390 Rockin Rod (2) fr................................A Beck 3 60176 Ideal Glacier (3) fr......................E Barron (J) 4 02612 Tulsa Jaccka (4) fr.................... N Williamson 5 06355 Franco Huntington (5) fr..............R McIlwrick 6 50975 Pick Six Telf (6) fr........................... B Barclay 7 10940 American Mac (7) fr...................M Hurrell (J) 8 45852 Bunter’s Dream (8) fr....................... P Hunter 7 3.54 ASCOT PARK HOTEL MOBILE PACE $12,000, 3yo r59., mobile, 1700m 1 31 Uncle Chan (1) fr........................E Barron (J) 2 780x3 Cranbourne (2) fr.......................... S McNally 3 23313 Renegade Rose (3) fr.............. M Williamson 4 16 Robyns Shadow (4) fr.................C Ferguson 5 x1232 See Ya Write (5) fr..............................A Beck 6 32914 Major Meister (6) fr......................... K Barclay 7 57731 Targaryen (7) fr...............................K Larsen 8 16541 Bundoran (8) fr............................... B Barclay

Race 1: Deus Ex, Major Sass, My Georgie Boy, Franco Riot Race 2: Particular, Sunset Red, Hold Thumbs, A Rocknroll Maid Race 3: Picketts Ridge, Full Noise, Dipendra, Crusher Collins Race 4: The Big Yin, Peroni, Love On The Rocks, Motor Mouth Race 5: Carnegie Hall, Richard The Third, Emma Frost, Kiwitrix Race 6: Franco Huntington, Bunter’s Dream, Cheddar Made Beta Race 7: Cranbourne, See Ya Write, Renegade Rose, Bundoran Race 8: Please Shuddup, Nota Bene Denario, Just Holla Race 9: Stay Aboard, Delight, Dismara, Major Menace Race 10: American Eyretime, Flight Crew, Tac Mac, Rakarippa LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 1 33711 Jinja Nice 30.78.................................E Potts 2 11246 Charlow 30.77 R &.......................N O’Regan 3 12322 Big Time Izzy nwtd..............................L Cole 4 62511 Big Time Ocean nwtd..........................L Cole 5 63256 Big Time Seth 30.68............................L Cole 6 71784 Big Time Maple nwtd...........................L Cole 7 32113 Melita Vella nwtd.................................L Cole 8 52414 Grunt 30.82 W &..............................T Steele 9 32142 Spring Queen 30.67...........................E Potts 10 78253 Simply Smooth nwtd...........................L Cole 4 2.19pm JO’S WHOLESALE & SPORTS BAR TAIPA TAVERN SPRINT C1, 318m 1 44312 Kapai Stewie 18.78 W &..................T Steele 2 63771 Botany Rifles 18.75..........................P Green 3 48857 Platinum Spirit nwtd.......................... S Clark 4 44721 Paddy Fast 18.76 M &....................... J Smith 5 52661 My Snuggles 18.93......................... G Farrell 6 67653 Medusa Who 18.97..................... M Prangley 7 76F32 Just Nia 18.80...................................M Black 8 531 Portland Art 18.78..............................B Craik 9 74523 Asserting Power 18.77.................... S O’Neill 10 58236 Bailey And Cream 18.96 R &...............L Udy 5 2.36pm AUCKLAND STAYERS CUP C2d, 779m 1 33126 Shaynee nwtd...................................S Lozell 2 53442 Mighty Muscle nwtd J &...................D Fahey 3 82313 Alotta Talk nwtd J &..........................D Fahey 4 83263 Grunty Mama nwtd S &..............C Blackburn 5 87656 Aleng nwtd......................................S E Hunt 6 56163 Boyka nwtd..................................... G Farrell

7 41114 Von Strass nwtd J &.........................D Fahey 8 25F24 Goldstar Sydney nwtd S &...............B Evans 9 65668 Peekay Shout nwtd............................J Black 6 2.52 SPORTSBOWL FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C2, 318m 1 51873 Botany Thommo 18.60.....................P Green 2 25314 Noise Maker 18.70...........................P Green 3 82572 Pliskova 18.78................................... S Clark 4 77884 Bigtime Lovie 18.92...........................B Craik 5 25327 Grey Way 18.64.......................... G Pomeroy 6 38256 Ford Man 18.90 R &.............................L Udy 7 65443 Gain Capital 18.53.............................B Craik 8 111x Morton Keeping nwtd........................ S Clark 9 54258 Bigtime Gal 18.92 R &.................N O’Regan 10 41366 Rainy River 18.81............................S E Hunt 7 3.12pm $10,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 C5, 318m 1 76514 Kiwi Boy 18.18 U &............................Cottam 2 44F13 Big Time Chance nwtd........................L Cole 3 88314 Bigtime Bremner 18.68.......................L Cole 4 52333 Sir Duggie 18.23.................................L Cole 5 11115 Big Time Pluto nwtd............................L Cole 6 11211 Oakmont nwtd....................................D Lane 7 54741 Jinja Mongo 18.34 W &....................T Steele 8 14273 Ashen 18.42.......................................B Bond 9 53315 Podium Phobia 18.53.........................B Craik 10 15418 Carbon Tiger 18.41 W &..................T Steele 8 3.28 CAROL’S TAB TAIPA TAVERN STAKES C2/3, 527m 1 46266 Jinja Murphy 30.50 W &...................T Steele

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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hen it comes to making sure your vehicle is fit to be on the road, looking for a trustworthy and independent business should be at the top of your list.

They don’t come more trustworthy than Flo Orlandea and his team of vehicle testers at Canterbury Vehicle Compliance Ltd, which has built up

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With decades of vehicle testing experience in the Canterbury region, the team are able to test all forms of vehicles to ensure they have their Warrant of Fitness or Certificate of Fitness.

Whether they are imported vehicles

from overseas to vehicles built from scratch in New Zealand, they can test them to ensure they meet the required regulations to be on the road.

Their reputation has been built on high quality work, good customer service, honesty, superior knowledge and skill.

Their main business is complying fresh imports into New Zealand and recomply deregistered vehicles.

Flo first started CVC on Milton Road, working on complying fresh imports and de-registered vehicles.

Within a couple of months Flo opened a second site in Rangiora where he had previously worked after past clients contacted him, and at the start of 2020 CVC opened their third site on South Street in the former VTNZ South Street testing station.

The site gave CVC a home of their own to carry out heavy vehicle testing, having previously rented one lane of the ACL workshop for two days a week

to service their clients’ needs.

They have added their own touch to the South Street site, revamping the offices and outfitting the space with completely new equipment to carry out their work to the highest level.

Vehicles now enter the site from Terrace Drive as opposed to South Street in the past.

For Flo and many of his team it was coming full circle in their vehicle testing careers having worked there for VTNZ previously.

With a competitive market for providing vehicle testing, Flo says it is important to offer a trustworthy and independent service so there was not the impression that a garage could fail you on a warrant of fitness so that you use them to get the vehicle fixed.

If you have a freshly imported vehicle or are thinking of buying a vehicle with no registration, they can assist with the procedure.

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the road requires relevant and up-to-date knowledge – the regulations may change over time.

Any vehicle must meet the current New Zealand standard for frontal impact and emissions, and all freshly imported vehicles and lapsed registrations first registered in New Zealand on or after January 1, 1991 must be stripped back and checked.

There are exemptions available for immigrant vehicles, special interest vehicles and left-hand drive special interest vehicles, which they can assist with. NZTA fees apply for all exemptions.

Vehicles older than 20 years are also exempt from some regulations.

Warrant of fitness services are provided by booking (for cars, bikes and heavy vehicles exempt from CoF, ie: agricultural machinery, forklifts), and they provide Certificate of Fitness checks for all vehicle classes (including passenger service vehicles and motorcycles).

Right: Flo Orlandea (left) and the team at Canterbury Vehicle Compliance are ready to make sure your vehicle is safe to be on the road.

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Visit the Sport Canterbury stand and pick up a local strength and balance class brochure/Home Safety Checklist.

Balance is an aspect of fitness that is often overlooked, even by many active and motivated adults. The New Zealand Ministry of Health, however, recommends that older adults undertake balance exercises three times each week.

According to Sport Canterbury strength and balance lead Rebecca Logan, “Improving balance helps us keep independent and living stronger for longer.”

Falling, Logan adds, is not part of the ageing process and can be avoided. One of the best ways to help prevent falls is to add exercises into your physical activity regime that include balance as well as core and leg strengthening routines.

Including these types of activities will help improve your reaction, so if you do become off balance, your increased ability to react swiftly and correct yourself will reduce the chance of a fall occurring. Having increased muscle mass will also help support your bones and joints so that if a fall does occur, you are more likely to walk away without a significant injury.

Sport Canterbury’s Live Stronger for Longer project is part of a nationwide initiative supporting older adults to live independently and injury-free, in their own homes, by reducing their risk of falling.

This is a collective, whole system approach, to falls prevention, encompassing in-home support, pharmacy, and community strength and balance classes.

Kate Conner is a regular attendee at Evolve, an approved strength and balance class in Ashburton.

“The Evolve class has definitely improved my strength and balance. The way Matt explains each exercise and the purpose of the exercise, it feels like it’s our own personal training session. If I didn’t attend the classes, I would certainly feel very stiff in a short period of time.”

One of the goals of the Live Stronger for Longer project is to ensure that every person in New Zealand, aged 65 years and over, can attend a strength and balance class within their community. There are currently 15 approved strength and balance classes running weekly within the Mid–Canterbury region. Each of these classes has met nine clinical criteria, established by a technical Join an approved class near you: advisory group, to ensure they are Visit www.livestronger.org.nz effective in reducing falls risk. or phone Sport Canterbury on

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BE SAFE IN YOUR HOME You don’t have to wrap yourself in cotton wool to reduce your risk of a fall, but you can make your home safer with a few adjustments.

The Live Stronger for Longer website (www. livestronger.org.nz) has a Home Safety Checklist available both online and as a paper copy, which you can use to check areas in your home such as rugs, lighting, the bathroom, bedrooms, the kitchen, living room, stairs, outside and your personal safety.

The Home Safety Checklist gives ideas on how to fix identified issues/hazards and includes a todo list, so you can make a note of what needs attending to.

Copies of the Home Safety Checklist will be available from the Sport Canterbury Mid Canterbury stand at the Positive Ageing Expo. Call by and pick up a copy.

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Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.

Weekend Services

Medical ServiceS

Pharmacies

IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

For all other medical assistance outside of normal hours, please phone your General Practice team, 24/7, to speak with a health professional who will give you free health advice on what to do or where to go if you need urgent care If you don’t have a regular General Practice, call any GP team 24/7 for free telephone health advice.

DUTY DOCTORS Tinwald Medical Practice, Archibald Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday.

Consultations will be from 10am to 12 noon and 6pm to 7pm No appointment necessary.

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday.

Consultation will be by appointment only.

Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID.

Methven & Rakaia Area

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

For weekend and emergency services please phone Methven Medical Centre on 302 8105 or Rakaia Medical Centre on 303 5002 for details on how to access the after-hours service each weekend.

Healthline is a free health advice service. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number to call is 0800 611 116. Healthline is staffed by registered nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential.

Lifeline

Ashburton Rest Homes

Art Gallery

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm, Wednesday: 10am – 7pm

Emergency Dentist

Ashburton Museum

Dog, Stock & Noise Control

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Helpline ServiceS Alcoholics Anonymous

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information.

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis

Support. Phone 03 364 8791

Victims Support Group

24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846).

Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, outside of these hours leave a message.

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Toll-free: 0800 353 353.

coMMunity ServiceS

Ashburton Public Library

9am ASHBURTON FARMERS MARKET. Local fresh produce, hot drinks and more. North end West Street carpark.

9am - 12pm CRAFT MARKET. Woodwork, jewellery, Rawleighs products, clothing and much more.

West Street, car park.

9am - 4pm SOUTH ISLAND MOTORHOME

SUNDAY 8am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

8.30am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Birdlings flat, all welcome, phone Jenny 308 6862. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square west.

9am - 4pm SOUTH ISLAND MOTORHOME SHOW.

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

9.30am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION. ‘ Heartland Championship Round 3, 10am start, Methven Golf Club.

Facebook: Ashburton County Veterans Golf Association.

9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN OPPORTUNITY SHOP.

aniMal ServiceS Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Animal Welfare Centre

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm.

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Veterinarians

Contact - President 021 1356 969.

20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, Sat and Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm.

149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein.

Full emergency service all weekend.

Mail Closing Times ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies.

ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Maisie Fleming.

Information Centre Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL Methven - Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am until 3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

Daily Dairy SATURDAY

Bus Departures

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm both evenings.

February 29, March 1 & 2, 2020 SHOW. Buy or view motorhomes, caravans, towing vehicles, craft and food stalls, plus associated presentations. $5 entry, children under 15 free. Ashburton Show Grounds, Brucefield Avenue.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open every Thursday and Saturday with almost 1000 different toys to choose from for hire. 106 Victoria Street, The Triangle, Ashburton.

9.30am - 1pm

ST JOHN OPPORTUNITY SHOP. Open daily and on Saturday 9.30am 1pm. 129 Tancred Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed

most public holidays.

10am - 12pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB MUSEUM AND PARTS SHED. Open to the public. Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet. New members welcome.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft

from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm (draw) WAIREKA GOLF CROQUET. Golf Croquet Doubles, new players welcome. Waireka, Philip Street.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association Croquet, new members welcome. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

Buy or view motorhomes, caravans, towing vehicles, craft and food stalls, plus associated presentations. $5 entry, children under 15 free. Ashburton Show Grounds, Brucefield Avenue.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Henry Mbambo. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST CHURCH. Morning worship with Rev Heather Kennedy, Paterson’s Chapel, corner East and Cox streets.

10am HAKATERE PRESBYTERIAN PARISH. Morning worship led by Rev Johanna

Warren. All welcome. 127 Thomson St. 10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship and service led by Rev Eric Mattock, All welcome. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. All Age and Holy Communion. Park Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

1pm - 3pm

ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm (draw) WAIREKA GOLF CROQUET. Golf Croquet Doubles, new players welcome. Waireka, Philip Street.

5pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Taize Service, Park Street.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School hall).

Open daily from 9.30am - 4pm and Saturday 9.30am - 1pm. 129 Tancred St. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For information phone Age Concern 308 6817. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10.30am COMMUNITY WALKING GROUP.

Hockey Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

12pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP.

Open for research, visitors welcome.

Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Assn croquet, new members welcome, Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

4.30pm - 7pm GIRLS BRIGADE. Any enquiries please phone Rachel on 0211 1226 063. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cass Street.

6pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall. 48

Allens Road, Allenton.

6.30pm - 9pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINEDANCERS. 6.30pm to 7.30pm – Easy Intermediate following onto intermediate level from 7.30pm to 9pm. Instructor Annette Fyfe 0274 813 131. Tinwald Hall, Grahams St. 7pm - 9.30pm R AND R LINE DANCING ASHBURTON. Beginners/Intermediate weekly line dance class. Enquiries Rayma 0274 867 504. Balmoral Hall, 240 Cameron Street.

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SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

TRACTOR OPERATOR REQUIRED

General Manager Stuart Tarbotton Contractors is a locally owned and operated company based in the Ashburton District. Due to an increase in workload we have multiple positions available.

Grader Operator with Experience We are looking to employ a Grader Operator.

Work will involve, but not be limited to: • Grading driveways • Grading dairy lanes • Do borderdyking • Civil work sites

Skilled Operator for 14ton Wheeled Excavator We are looking to employ a Skilled Operator for a 14ton wheeled excavator.

Work will involve, but not be limited to: • General farm maintenance • Water race/irrigation race cleaning • Mainline installation • Culvert installations • Stock water troughs • Farm drainage • Clamshell holes

Multi Skilled Operator with Experience We are looking to employ a Multi Skilled Operator with Experience to operate a range of machinery from 1.7ton to 35ton excavators, graders, scrapers, dozers, rollers etc, to assist in our agricultural and civil works operations.

To be a successful applicant for any of the above positions it would be preferable but not essential to have the following attributes: • Minimum class 4 drivers’ licence • Self-motivation and be able to work unsupervised • Be a team player and have good communication skills • Ability to complete a job to a high standard • A good attitude towards health and safety A very competitive remuneration package will be offered to the right applicant.

If this sounds like you please phone: Tanya on 0274 915 636 or email your interest to office@tarbotton.co.nz Applicants for these positions should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Church Services

We are looking for an experienced General Manager with compassion and entrepreneurial spirit who is eager to join a very special organisation.

Hospice Mid Canterbury supports individuals and families throughout the Ashburton district who are dealing with a life-limiting illness.

We are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our clients and their families, ensuring that those we support are being given the opportunity to ‘live every moment’.

The General Manager oversees volunteer services, contracted service provision, Hospice Mid Canterbury shop, funding and events, promotion, and education.

The person we are seeking will have proven leadership and financial skills, strong communication skills and the ability to find solutions through lateral thinking.

This is a wonderful opportunity to make a positive difference in our community.

15 – 20 hours per week.

Please contact: Jane, admin@hospicemc.nz for further information or to request a job description.

Applications close Sunday, March 1, 2020.

Book two adverts and get one free!

Advertisement Rates 5x1

50mm x 30.75mm

$25

6x1

60mm x 30.75mm

$30

All prices GST exclusive

Guardian ASHBURTON

Team member Mitre 10 MEGA Ashburton has a vacancy for a Night fill team member. This position is for 15 hours per week Monday – Friday 6pm – 9pm.

The successful applicant will require these attributes: • Must be physically fit as lifting is involved • Able to work unsupervised • Good computer skills If you think this position is suitable to you, please send your covering letter with your CV to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Human Resources, PO Box 35, Ashburton 7740.

Applications close on Wednesday, March 4, 2020.

Today’s construction is tomorrow’s legacy  Housing  Commercial  Farm  Renovations Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote on 03 308 9936 or 027 432 3258

Happy Birthday

For just $10!* Book your birthday greeting, including a photo, for just $10! Ten words only.*

Phone 03 307 7900 Email: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

(Under 12 children’s birthday greetings remain FREE) *Terms and conditions apply.

The applicant’s main roll will be operating our reversable plough and direct drill. Applicant must be mechanically minded and capable of working alone. This job will involve shift work, working nights and weekends when required.

This is a full-time position with extra work available in the greater agricultural business outside of drilling season.

Must have experience on John Deere tractors fitted with auto steer and two years minimum experience with operating and maintaining seed drills to a high standard. Knowledge of the wider Canterbury area would also be an advantage.

Shared accommodation can be provided, and a competitive salary package will be offered to the right applicant.

Applicant must pass pre-employment and ongoing drug testing.

If you have a positive approach, can do attitude and a sense of humour we would love to hear from you.

Email covering letter and CV to: admin@mcleodcultivation.co.nz

Night fill

GUARDIAN

Advertise in this classification every Saturday!

We require an experienced tractor operator for our growing agricultural contracting business.

McLeod Cultivation provides cultivation and drilling services between Ashburton and Geraldine. We operate modern well maintained machinery and are based 25 mins south west of Ashburton.

Level 3, Somerset House, 161 Burnett Street

DESIGN TEAM

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REAL ESTATE

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

Come along to our Open Day and talk to us about our proposed plan. Saturday 7 March, 11am - 4pm, ADC marquee next to the playground by the main carpark in the Domain.

Have your

Say!

Ashburton Domain Development Plan Our Place : Our Domain

We are developing a 30-year plan for our Domain to ensure it is future-proofed for the years to come. We want to know what you think of our ideas - this is your chance to shape what the Domain will look like.

Full maps and information on the proposed plans, along with a form to provide your feedback can be found at

ashburtondc.govt.nz/haveyoursay

We are accepting feedback until 5 pm, Sunday 5 April 2020.

Looking for a new person to join your business?

Call the Guardian today for your situations vacant advertising requirements.

307 7900

PUBLIC NOTICES Mayfield Reserves Board

Pursuant to Section 53(1) (e) of the Reserves Act 1977 public notice is hereby given that the Mayfield A&P Association has been granted use of the Mayfield Domain for the purpose of holding its Annual Show on Saturday, March 14, 2020, with the right to charge admission.

J.A. Ludemann, Secretary.

TRADES, SERVICES COMPUTER PROBLEMS??

For professional computer servicing and laser engraving, see Kelvin at KJB Systems, 4 Ascot Place. Phone 308 8989. Locally owned and serving Ashburton for 30 years. Same day service if possible.

Supergold discount card welcomed.

PUBLIC NOTICES

SCVCC Annual Swap Meet Winchester Domain SH1, April 4, gates open 7.30am.

All makes car Display Something for everyone.

Sites – Michelle Munro Phone 03 686 4824 Or email scvccswapmeet@hotmail.com No dogs allowed.

PUBLIC NOTICES “SUMMER SHOW” Ashburton Society of Arts.

Short Street Studio. Opening Sunday, February 23, 11am - 4pm.Guest Christine Lang and 15 local members.

Continuing Saturdays and Sundays, also Mondays and Wednesdays when sign is out, until March 22. Enquiries 308 4533 or 027 313 5178.

L A U ANNERAL GEN Mid Canterbury Badminton Club Annual General Meeting Tuesday, March 10 at 8pm EA Networks Stadium All welcome

To advertise in AGM phone Classifieds

03 307 7900

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PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

Notice of electricity delivery price EA Networks owns and operates Mid Canterbury’s electricity distribution network. The electricity we receive comes from Transpower’s national grid and we distribute this electricity to every home, business and farm in our region.

The pricing below details the costs we charge electricity retailers for the delivery of this electricity. Retailers, in turn, include these costs in their retail electricity pricing.

For more information on our pricing, please visit eanetworks.co.nz or call us on 0800 430 460.

Customer Group

Count

Description

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Units

Delivery Price April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020

Delivery Price from April 1, 2020

General Supply - less than 5 kVA

$/con/day

0.5788

0.5263

15,116

General Supply - 20 kVA

$/con/day

0.1500

0.1500

1,631

General Supply - 50 kVA

$/con/day

0.3000

0.3000

680

General Supply - 100 kVA

$/con/day

0.6000

0.6000

280

General Supply - 150 kVA

$/con/day

0.9000

0.9000

Uncontrolled

$/kWh

0.1016

0.0857

Controlled 16

$/kWh

0.0178

0.0162

Night Boost

$/kWh

0.0178

0.0162

Night only

$/kWh

0.0000

0.0000

Embedded Generation Export kWh

$/kWh

0.0000

0.0000

Floodlight - Closed

$/fixture/day

0.3149

0.2863

General

1,627 Irrigation

Industrial

12 1

0.2771

0.2520

0.4896

0.4275

Irrigation Harmonic Penalty

$/kW/day

0.5896

0.5275

Irrigation Managed Trial

$/kW/day

0.4896

0.4275

Irrigation Managed Rebate

$/kW/day

-0.1000

-0.1000

Industrial Supply - kVA

$/kVA/day

0.4891

0.3872

1

Industrial Day Demand

$/kVA/day

0.4891

0.3872

Industrial Peak Demand

$/kVA/day

0.1833

0.1216

Anytime Demand

$/kVA/day

0.3058

0.2656

665.1669

707.0529

0.2060

0.1232

89.1084

99.1597

0.2060

0.1267

354.0878

340.3709

0.2060

0.0902

4

1 Large Users 1

Street Lighting

$/fixture/day $/kW/day

39

1

Generation

Under Verandah - Closed Irrigation

CMP

$/day

CMP MD

$/kVA/day

Silver Fern Farms

$/day

Silver Fern Farms MD

$/kVA/day

Mt Hutt

$/day

Mt Hutt MD

$/kVA/day

1

Highbank Pumps

$/kW/day

0.2369

0.2052

1

Highbank

$/day

1,058.5216

950.4324

1

Montalto

$/day

108.5070

97.4270

1

Cleardale

$/day

84.8038

76.1442

1

Lavington

$/day

21.8367

19.6069

9

Street lighting

$/fixture/day

0.2333

0.1953

March 2020 Controlled fire experiments are being conducted on blocks of gorse by Scion fire scientists and Fire and Emergency New Zealand during the first two weeks of March.

Where: Rakaia Gorge, Double Hill Run Road.

When: Over 4-5 days between 1 and 15 March, 2020. Exact timing depends on weather conditions.

Why? To provide data on fire behaviour and smoke

dispersion for the purpose of developing fire behaviour tools for gorse, essential to fire management in New Zealand.

What safety measures are in place?

• Fire crews on site at all times.

• Operations overseen by Fire and Emergency New Zealand and supported by an incident management team.

• Scion’s fire team trained and experienced in conducting fire experiments.

• Helicopter on stand-by.

For further information:

Tim Mitchell, Manager Rural Fire, Fire and Emergency New Zealand. 021 927 778 Grant Pearce, Senior Fire Scientist, Scion. 027 471 2840 www.ruralfireresearch.co.nz

Notes: 1. This schedule is a summary only. Please refer to the full EA Networks Pricing Schedule as at 1 April 2020, available at eanetworks.co.nz/disclosures/regulatory.

2. All prices are GST exclusive.

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Creative Comunitys & the Sport New Zealand rural travel fund Grants- Applications open Applications are now being sought from groups and organisations for Creative Communities and Sport New Zealand.

Applications close at 5pm on Monday 30 March, 2020 for the funding to be allocated in July 2020.

Application forms and full criteria for each scheme are available online from ashburtondc.govt.nz For more information, contact Council on 307 9646 or email grants@adc.govt.nz Ashburton District Council 5 Baring Square West Ashburton 7740 ashburtondc.govt.nz

Ashburton Returned and Services Association (Inc) Notice is hereby given that the

Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held in the Moore Lounge, RSA Clubrooms, Cox Street, Ashburton at 10am on Sunday, March 29, 2020.

Closing date for notices of motion Friday, March 6, 2020.

Merv Brenton President

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

HIRE

GENERAL hire. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East Street. Open Monday-Friday 7am - 6pm; Saturday 7.30am - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am PLANTS, PRODUCE MEADOW hay, very good 12.30pm - Phone 308 8061 quality, conventional bales, www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz shed stored. Pick up from near airport. $6.50 each. Guardian Classifieds 307 7900 Cash only. Phone 308 6745.

GRAZING

FOR SALE

WANTED – Grazing for 8 FOOT fibreglass dinghy. lambs. Small or large $350 or near offer. areas. Anything considered. Phone 0210 220 2600.

Phone Ewan 0274 354 031.

DRY pine firewood $75 per WE require grazing for metre. Phone 027 507 3880. lambs and cattle, short and long term arrangements. GREEN old man pine $170, We are able to do all the 3.6m³. Phone Shane James stock handling if required. Firewood 027 611 334.

Weekly and/or weight gain rates. Phone 027 632 6168. PEA STRAW - conventional bales $6 delivered. Pea Straw - medium square bales $45 delivered. Pea Vine Hay Round bales $90 delivered.

Enquiries, please phone Andrew 020 402 33792.

Guardian

Motoring 307 7900

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT HOPE, attractive and busty.

Available for appointments.

No texting.

Please phone 021 027 59055.

LISA, Asian lady, size 8, 34D busty, 26 years old.

Good massage, excellent service.

In/out calls.

Phone 021 046 4314.

Guardian

Situations Vacant

307 7900

Trades & Services

To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz TALBOT SECURITY GROUP

TALBOT SECURITY GROUP

LOCKSMITHS / DOOR REPAIRERS

Home and Business Solutions Alarm Installation Alarm Servicing Alarm Monitoring Alarm Response

E - operations@talbotsecurity.co.nz phone 03 307 2409 anytime 24/7

CALL DAM DOORS AND MORE MOBILE SERVICE 0275 167 104

2031035

• • • •

• Ashburton based locksmiths • Keys, door locks, padlocks • Window stays and latches • Sliding/bifold door rollers • WE REPAIR ALL

HEAT PUMPS OCAL

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Book your high windows in today “we clean to a standard, not a price”

KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE ALL YEAR ROUND

• regular full house cleans • one off spring cleans • farm houses • builders cleans • floor buffing

HEAT PUMPS

electriCOOL Ltd Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

• All staff are police vetted •Able to travel out of town

03 307 2656 | www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz

Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36 Keeping your property protected with a security camera system from Masterguard

CALL GROUTPRO FOR AN HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT YOUR GROUT AND TILE AFTERCARE

To deal with Dirty Tiles and Grout

Protect your biggest asset with a home security camera package from Masterguard

CALL GROUTPRO WE HELP YOU KEEP ON TOP OF YOUR SHOWER AND TILE MAINTENANCE

• Tile shower makeovers • Professional tile and grout cleaning • Re-colouring existing grout

Call me today for a free, no obligation quote

• Sealing and repairing/replacing tiles/grout • Replacing mouldy and tired silicon

WE TRANSFORM TILES/GROUT IN BATHROOMS, KITCHENS, SHOWERS, BALCONIES, CONSERVATORIES AND ANY TILED AREA

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301

Contact GroutPro Brett Muir for a quote and an upfront honest discussion.

027 746 7632

57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

Lifestyle

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CONNECTIONS

ASHBURTON LEARNING CENTRE Do you need help with:

Learning English as a second language?

Your apprenticeship paperwork?

With reading, writing or maths?

Developing your computer skills?

Open all hours

Check out our courses now!

Phone 308 3927 Cell 027 434 4809 205 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton

www.ashburtonlearningcentre.co.nz

Contact the Centre Phone 308 5322 Corner Park and Havelock Street, Ashburton

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Fishing And Adventure 3 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 10am Pacific Island Food Revolution 0 11:05 John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 12:05 A Place To Call Home PGR 3 0 1:15 Eat Well For Less 0 2:30 The Hotel Inspector Returns PGR 3 0 3:30 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t Relocate 4:25 F Embarrassing Pets Dog behaviourist Leon must tame unruly pups. 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 8pm Lotto 8:05 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway Continued.

0 8:30 Best Home Cook The contestants must create their ultimate pasta dish. 0 9:40 Manifest AO 0 10:40 Mrs Wilson PGR (Starting Today) 3 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 6:50 The Insectibles 3 0 7:05 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 7:25 The Amazing World Of Gumball 0 7:50 Beyblade Burst Rise 0 8:15 Ninjago 0 8:40 Justice League 0 9:05 Regular Show 0 9:25 Clarence 3 0 9:35 Walk The Prank 0 10am The Simpsons 3 0 11am Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11:25 Black-Ish (Starting Today) 30 11:55 8 Simple Rules 3 0 12:20 Doctor Who 3 0 1:30 Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 0 2:30 The Bachelorette NZ 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 7pm M Nacho Libre PGR 2006 Comedy. A cook in a Mexican monastery hides his identity to become a wrestler to raise money for the orphans, and impress one of the nuns. 0 8:50 M The Hangover Part II AO 2011 Comedy. Phil, Alan, and Doug travel to Thailand for Stu’s wedding. 0 10:55 M Chappie AO 2015 Scifi. 0

6am Charles Stanley 3 6:30 Infomercials 9:30 NewsHub Nation 0 10:30 Survivor – Heroes v Healers v Hustlers 3 11:30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue 3 Noon Dr Lisa To The Rescue 3 12:30 Face Off PGR 3 1:30 Drop The Mic PGR 3 2pm Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3 2:25 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:55 The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:25 Survivor – David v Goliath 0 4:25 Amazing Pigs Documentary about pigs, which have conquered almost every habitat on Earth thanks to their remarkable senses, intelligence, and adaptability. 0 5:30 HelloWorld An Australian travel-and-lifestyle programme exploring destinations around the world.

6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm America’s Got Talent – The Champions 0 8:55 M The Da Vinci Code AO 2006 Drama. A murder in the Louvre, and clues in paintings

by Leonardo da Vinci, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for 2000 years.

Tom Hanks, Audrey Tatou, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany. 0

6am Ben 10 3 0 6:25 The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 6:50 Max Steel 3 0 7:15 Henry Danger 7:40 Legion Of Super Heroes 3 0 8:05 The Fairly Odd Parents 3 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Samurai Jack PGR 0 10am SmackDown AO 3 11am Raw AO 3 Noon Ice Road Truckers PGR 3 0 1pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 2pm American Restoration 3 0 2:30 Rugby League – Super League (DLY) 4:30 Hot Bench 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Homes By The Med Charlie explores the Dalmatian coastline and islands, including a cascading house, a refurbished fisherman’s cottage, and a Roman ruin in Split. 0 7pm Shipping Wars PGR Jennifer troubleshoots the biggest load of her career, a Mini Max plane, which tests her patience. 0 7:30 The Sixties PGR 3 0 8:30 Hellfire Heroes PGR 0 9:30 Super Rugby (DLY) Highlanders v Rebels.

6:30 Waiata Mai 6:40 My Mokai 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Huritua 8:30 Pukana 3 2 10am Swagger 10:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 11am School Of Training 3 11:30 HakaNation Noon Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 1pm Haati Grassroots Rugby 3 2pm Poitukohu Kura Tuarua 3 3pm Total Combat PGR 3 4pm F Tangaroa With Pio 4:30 Paki Vault 3 5pm Aotearoa 3 5:30 Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

7pm M The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle 2000 Family Comedy. Rocky the squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose must face humans who want to take over their idyllic world.

8:40 M The Piano AO 1993 Drama.

10:45 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

6am My Second Restaurant In India 3 6:30 Inside Mandarin Oriental 3 7:30 Baby Animals And Friends 3 8:30 Mysteries At The Museum 3 9:30 Monty Don’s American Gardens 3 10:30 Culinary Genius 3 11:30 American Pickers 3 12:30 Building The Dream 3 1:30 Escape To The Chateau – DIY 2:30 Inside Mandarin Oriental 3 3:30 Hugh’s Wild West 3 4:30 Healthy Food Guide 3 5pm Food Safari – Earth 3 5:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 3 6:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club Jamie and Jimmy are joined by Hollywood star Danny DeVito as he puts on his pinny and cooks for the diners at the end of Southend Pier.

7:30 Restoration Home Big House owner Alun has a big job on his hands to restore the building to its grandeur and influence of the past. Progress has been painfully slow, but his aim is to turn Big House into a home.

8:30 Antiques Roadshow 9:30 How To Make Love Like An Englishman AO 3

11:50 Doctor Doctor AO 3 When Penny returns to Whyhope, she is confronted with the mess Nora left behind; Hugh has a sudden burst of inspiration. 0 12:55 Coronation Street 3 0 3:05 Infomercials

1:15 M Inherent Vice AO 2015 Crime. In 1970s Los Angeles, a private investigator looks into the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin. 0 3:50 Home Improvement 3 0 5:30 Religious Infomercials

11:45 M The Other Side Of The Door AO 3 2016 Horror.

A portal opens between the living and the dead when a mother attempts to reconnect with her dead son. Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky.

1:35 Infomercials 5am Hillsong TV 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:30 Clash Of The Collectables 3 In Australia’s Southern Highlands, Eric and Alan see ancient Samurai armour and a Nazi plane; Eric buys a very old Indian painting; Alan runs into one of the world’s most famous movie cars. 0 12:30 Closedown

11:15 Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:45 Closedown

11:30 Love Nature – Hugh’s Wild West 3 12:30 Restoration Home 3 1:30 My Second Restaurant In India 3 2am Cash Cowboys 3 3am M How To Make Love Like An Englishman AO 3 2014 Drama. 5am Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 3

MOVIES PREMIERE

Best Home Cook

8:30pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Judge Jerry 3 10:30 The Kelly Clarkson Show 3 11:30 The Kelly Clarkson Show 3 12:35 Hoarders 3 1:30 Hoarders 3 2:30 Love It Or List It 3 3:30 Love It Or List It 3 4:30 Undercover Boss 3 0 5:30 Undercover Boss 3 6:30 Undercover Boss 3 7:30 Botched 3 8:30 Vanderpump Rules AO 9:30 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey AO As Melissa prepares for her fashion show, Teresa continues siding with Danielle about Margaret; Joe Gorga becomes concerned about Teresa’s mental state; Jackie discusses her eating problems with her children.

10:30 A Lie To Die For AO 3 11:30 Love It Or List It 3

Sunday

12:20 Infomercials 3 5am How Do I Look? 3

6:25 Close Up – Liam Neeson PG 6:55 Yardie 16VLC 2018 Drama.

Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen.

8:35 Wild Rose MLS 2019 Drama. Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters. 10:15 Ideal Nacho Libre Home MLSC 2018 Comedy.

7pm on TVNZ 2 Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan.

11:45 Peppermint 16VL SKY 5 2018 Action. Jennifer Garner, 6am World’s Wildest John Ortiz. 1:25 Close Weather PGV 6:50 The Up – Liam Neeson PG 1:55 The Wedding Simpsons Super Guest MVLC 2019 Thriller.

Saturday PG 9:35 World’s Dev Patel, Radhika Apte.

Wildest Weather PGV 3:30 Daphne 16LC 2017 10:35 Supernatural MVS 11:25 Curfew MVC 12:15 The Comedy. Emily Beecham, Geraldine James. 5pm The Flash MVS 1:05 Ax Men ML Padre MVL 2018 Drama.

2pm SmackDown Live MVC Tim Roth, Nick Nolte.

4:05 Main Event MV 6:35 The Girl In The Spider’s 4:50 The Simpsons Super Web 16VC 2018 Action.

Saturday PG Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason.

7:30 World’s Wildest 8:30 Fantastic Beasts – The Weather PGV Crimes Of Grindelwald MV 8:30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 2018 Adventure. To thwart Grindelwald’s nefarious plans, 9pm Ax Men ML 10pm Classic Pawn Stars PG Albus Dumbledore enlists the help of a resourceful former 10:30 World’s Wildest student. Eddie Redmayne, Weather PGV Johnny Depp.

11:20 The Simpsons PG 10:45 Holmes And Watson 11:45 The Simpsons PG 16VLSC 2018 Comedy.

Sunday 12:15 The Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.

Simpsons Super Sunday Sunday 12:15 Welcome PG 2:10 Lazy Boy Garage Home MVLS 2018 Thriller.

PG 2:35 The Flash Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski.

MVS 3:20 Main Event 1:55 Messi And Maud 18SC MV 4:05 Classic Pawn 2017 Drama. 3:25 Daphne Stars PG 4:30 Ax Men ML 16LC 2017 Comedy. 4:55 The Padre MVL 2018 Drama.

5:15 Chicago PD 16V

MOVIES GREATS 8am The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers MV 2002 Fantasy. Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen.

10:55 Training Day 18VL 2001 Action Thriller.

Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke.

12:55 Walk Of Shame MLS 2014 Comedy. Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden.

2:30 Mortal Instruments – City Of Bones MV 2013 Adventure. Lily Collins, Jaime Campbell Bower.

4:40 Austin Powers In Goldmember MVLS 2002 Comedy. Mike Myers, Beyonce Knowles.

6:15 White House Down MVL 2013 Action. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx.

8:30 The Heat MVLS 2012 Crime Comedy. An uptight FBI special agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston police officer to apprehend a drug lord. Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy.

10:30 Transformers – Dark Of The Moon MVL 2011 Action. Shia LaBeouf.

Sunday

1:05 Get Smart PGV 2008 Comedy. Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway. 2:55 Walk Of Shame MLS 2014 Comedy. Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden.

4:30 Mortal Instruments – City Of Bones MV 2013 Adventure. Lily Collins, Jaime Campbell Bower.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Kick Off 6:30 Super Rugby – Highlanders v Rebels (RPL) From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

8:30 L Pro14 – Edinburgh v Blues 10:35 Super Rugby – Waratahs v Lions (RPL) From Bankwest Stadium, Sydney.

12:35 Kick Off 1:05 Super Rugby – Highlanders v Rebels (HLS) 1:35 Super Rugby – Waratahs v Lions (HLS) 2:05 Pro14 – Edinburgh v Blues (RPL) 4:15 L Super Rugby – Hurricanes v Sunwolves From McLean Park, Napier.

7pm Gallagher Premiership – Gloucester v Sharks (RPL) From Gloucester, England.

9:10 L Super Rugby – Reds v Sharks From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

11:20 Super Rugby – Hurricanes v Sunwolves (HLS) From McLean Park, Napier.

11:55 Super Rugby – Hurricanes v Sunwolves (RPL) From McLean Park, Napier.

Sunday

2am L Super Rugby – Stormers v Blues From DHL Newlands, Cape Town.

4:10 L Super Rugby – Bulls v Jaguares From Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria.

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

SKY SPORT 2 6am South Africa v Australia (HLS) Third T20.

From Newlands in Cape Town.

7am Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) White Ferns v India.

From Junction Oval in Melbourne.

7:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Australia v Bangladesh.

8am Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) South Africa v Thailand.

8:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) England v Pakistan.

9am Blackcaps v India (HLS) First Test Wrap.

From the Basin Reserve, Wellington.

11am L Blackcaps v India Second Test, Day One. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

7pm Women’s T20 World Cup (RPL) White Ferns v Bangladesh.

10:30 Blackcaps v India (HLS) Second Test, Day One. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

11:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) White Ferns v India.

From Junction Oval in Melbourne.

Midnight L South Africa v Australia First ODI. From Boland Park, Paarl.

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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 Railroad Australia PG 9:10 Railroad Australia PG 10am Railroad Australia PG 10:50 Railroad Australia PG 11:40 Railroad Australia PG 12:30 Expedition Unknown PG England’s Vanished Crown Jewels. 1:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Christmas Wonderland Woes. 2:10 River Of No Return PG Horsepower Up. 3pm Outback Opal Hunters PG 3:50 BattleBots PG 4:45 BattleBots PG 5:40 BattleBots PG 7:30 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 8:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Area 52.

9:25 Gold Rush PG 10:15 The Day I Ran China PG Grand Finale.

11:05 Undercover Billionaire PG House of Cards.

11:55 How It’s Made PG Sunday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 BattleBots PG 1:35 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 2:25 Evil Lives Here MVLC 3:15 Web Of Lies PG 4:05 People Magazine Investigates M 4:55 The Coroner – I Speak For The Dead M 5:45 The 1980s – The Deadliest Decade M

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6am Extreme Road Rescue 3 Scotland is hit with extreme blizzards, and climbers and helicopter crews are put in serious danger. 0 6:50 Tiny House Nation 3 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 3 8:30 Off The Grid With Pio 0 9am Q+A With Jack Tame. 0 10am Islands Of The Gulf 3 0 10:30 Haka Global 0 10:55 Attitude 3 0 11:25 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 PGR 3 3:50 Serengeti 3 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Sunday 0 8:30 Gold Digger AO (Mini-series) 0 9:40 Autopsy USA AO 3 0 10:35 Ramy AO

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:20 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Looney Tunes 3 0 6:55 Masha And The Bear 3 0 7:05 Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz 0 7:25 Elena Of Avalor 0 7:50 Tales Of Nai Nai 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 Noon Toni Braxton PGR 3 0 1:40 Kevin Can Wait 3 0 2:10 Home And Away 3 0 4:05 The Bachelor PGR In Santiago, Chile, one woman tells Peter she has never been in love; Peter and a group of the women star in their own telenovela as two quarrelling women face one another for one last time. 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 The Simpsons 0 7pm The Bachelorette NZ 0 8:30 M Walk Of Shame AO 2014 Comedy. When a fling leaves her stranded in downtown Los Angeles, a young reporter has eight hours to get to the most important job interview of her career. Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden. 0 10:25 The Walking Dead AO 3 0

11:45 When We Rise AO 3 Roma helps take a stand against the National Organisation for Women’s attempts to purge lesbians from their ranks; Ken comes to accept, and fight for, his sexuality. 0 12:40 Hillary 3 0 1:40 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 3:35 Infomercials

Country Calendar 7pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 6am How Do I Look? 3 6:45 How Do I Look? 3 7:35 How Do I Look? 3 8:20 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 3:40 Judge Jerry 3 4:05 Judge Jerry 3 4:30 Judge Jerry 3 5pm Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 6pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 7pm M Couples Retreat PGR 3 2009 Comedy. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell. 0 9:20 M Something Borrowed AO 3 2011 Romantic Comedy.

11:35 Very Cavallari AO 12:25 Infomercials 3

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11:25 M Deliver Us From Evil AO 2014 Horror. 0 1:25 Krypton AO 3 0 2:10 The Exorcist AO 3 0 2:55 The Crystal Maze 3 0 3:45 Infomercials 3 4:20 Religious Infomercials 4:50 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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

SKY 5 6am Lazy Boy Garage PG 6:25 The Flash MVS 7:10 NCIS – New Orleans MV 7:55 Main Event MV 8:45 The Amazing Race PG 9:35 The Flash MVS 10:25 Classic Pawn Stars PG 10:55 NCIS – New Orleans MV 11:45 Ax Men ML 12:40 Mountain Men PG 1:30 Lazy Boy Garage PG 2pm The Amazing Race PG 3pm Raw MVC 5:45 SmackDown MVC 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans MV After a naval lieutenant from an affluent New Orleans family has a fatal fall down a flight of stairs, the NCIS team must find out whether his death was an accident or foul play.

8:30 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

THREE

PRIME

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Life TV 3 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 9:30 The Hui 0 10am NewsHub Nation 0 11:05 Ainsley’s Market Menu Noon Ocean Bounty 3 0 1pm Motorsport – Jaguar ETrophy 1:30 Motorsport – World Speedway Championship 2:30 Motorsport – Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge 3 3:30 Motorsport – US Formula Drift 4pm Motorsport – Monster Jam 4:55 Wild Weather With Richard Hammond (Starting Today) 3 Wind. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Married At First Sight Australia PGR 0 8:30 Talking Married AO 0 8:40 M Baywatch AO 3 2017 Comedy. Mitch Buchannon keeps disagreeing with a brash new recruit, but they must work together to keep the beach safe from careless beachgoers and drug rings.

Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron. 0 11pm Blue Bloods AO Danny takes a side job as a bodyguard for a released former convict who took the fall for someone else; Jamie and Eddie reflect on their relationship. 0 11:55 Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 0 12:45 Infomercials

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6am Religious Programming 7am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 7:30 Religious Programming 10am Rugby League – Charity League (HLS) 10:30 Basketball – NBL (HLS) 11:30 Cricket – ICC Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) Noon Paul And Nick’s Big Food Trip New Zealand 3 0 1pm Massive Engineering Mistakes PGR 3 2pm Mad About You PGR 3 2:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v India (HLS) 3:30 Cricket – South Africa v Australia (HLS) 4:30 Rugby Nation 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers

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 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Huritua 8:30 Waka Ama Sprints 3 9am Globe 9:30 Swagger 10am Cam’s Kai 3 11am R&R With Eru And K’Lee 3 11:30 Te Ao With Moana 3 Noon Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 12:30 Taha Tauiwi 3 1pm Touch Rugby – National Championships 3 2pm M The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle 2000 Family Comedy. 3:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 4:30 Whare Taonga AO 3 5pm Ipukarea 3 5:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am My Second Restaurant In India 3 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Leading The Way 7:30 Healthy Food Guide 3 8am Food Safari – Earth 3 8:30 Animal Park 3 9:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 3 10:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 3 11:30 Stars In Their Cars 3 Noon Home Of The Year 12:30 Hugh’s Wild West 3 1:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 3 2:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 3:30 N Inside The Vets 0 4:30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam 5:30 My Dream Home 3 6:30 Road To Riches

7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 7:30 The Cruise 0 8:30 Brian Johnson – A Life On The Road PGR Brian meets Billy Joel, whose tours have been among the highest grossing in history, as he looks at the highs and lows of life on the road. 0 9:30 Uncharted With Sam Neill PGR 3 0 10:35 SmackDown AO 11:35 60 Minutes PGR Anderson Cooper looks into the work of Mark Bradford, considered one of America’s most influential artists; Lesley Stahl goes to Modena, Italy, to meet chef Massimo Bottura.

12:35 Closedown

7pm Aotearoa 7:30 Rise PGR 3 8:30 M I Am Not A Witch PGR 2017 Drama. After a banal incident in her local village, an eight-year-old girl is accused of witchcraft.

Maggie Mulubwa.

10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 Tut’s Treasures – Hidden Secrets 8:30 M Chef AO 2014 Comedy Drama. A head chef leaves his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.

10:30 Luke Nguyen’s Railway Vietnam 3

11pm Kairakau Drama series that goes inside the world of historic Maori warriors.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Road To Riches 3 12:30 My Dream Home 3 1:30 Freedom Riders 3 2am Cash Cowboys 3 3am Chef AO 3 5am Stars In Their Cars 3 5:30 Home Of The Year 3 Over eight weeks, 21 homes compete for the Home of the Year title, with three properties featured each week.

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:30 The Girl In The Spider’s Web 16VC 2018 Action.

Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason.

8:25 Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes Of Grindelwald MV 2018 Adventure.

Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp. 10:35 Holmes And Watson 16VLSC 2018 Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly. 12:05 Welcome Home MVLS 2018 Thriller.

Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski.

1:45 The Padre MVL 2018 Drama. Tim Roth, Nick Nolte. 3:20 Films Of Fury – The Kung Fu Movie 16VSC 2011 Documentary.

4:45 Sicario – Day Of The Soldado 16VLSC 2018 Action.

Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin.

6:45 Lost In London MLS 2017 Drama. Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson. 8:30 John Wick – Chapter 3: Parabellum 16VL 2019 Action.

After killing a member of the international assassin’s guild, John Wick finds himself with an army of bounty hunters on his tail. Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry.

10:45 The Poison Rose MVL 2019 Thriller. John Travolta, Morgan Freeman.

Monday 12:25 Pilgrim 18VLSC 2018 Horror.

Courtney Henggeler, Kerr Smith. 1:45 Sicario – Day Of The Soldado 16VLSC 2018 Action. 3:45 John Wick – Chapter 3: Parabellum 16VL 2019 Action. 5:55 The Poison Rose MVL 2019 Thriller.

6:36 The Heat MVLS 2012 Crime Comedy.

Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy. 8:29 White House Down MVL 2013 Action.

Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx.

10:36 Transformers – Dark Of The Moon MVL 2011 Action. Shia LaBeouf.

1:05 Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo 16LS 2005 Comedy. Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin. 2:30 Captain Phillips MV 2013 Drama.

Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi.

4:40 Mission – Impossible III MV 2006 Action Adventure. Tom Cruise, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne.

6:45 Parental Guidance PG 2012 Comedy. Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei.

8:30 Ocean’s Eleven MVL 2001 Crime. Danny Ocean and his 10 accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts.

10:30 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 16VLSC 2016 Biography Drama.

Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman.

Monday 12:20 Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo 16LS 2005 Comedy.

1:45 Captain Phillips MV 2013 Drama. 3:55 Mission – Impossible III MV 2006 Action Adventure.

SKY SPORT 1 6:35 L Sevens – World Series Los Angeles – Day One. 2:30 Super Rugby – Reds v Sharks (HLS) From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

3pm Super Rugby – Stormers v Blues (HLS) From DHL Newlands, Cape Town.

3:30 L Sevens – World Series Los Angeles – Day One. 5:30 Gallagher Premiership – Harlequins v Chiefs (RPL) From Twickenham Stoop, London, England.

7:30 Super Rugby – Stormers v Blues (HLS) From DHL Newlands, Cape Town.

8pm Rugby Nation Highlights and analysis of the latest rugby action.

9pm Super Rugby – Stormers v Blues (RPL) From DHL Newlands, Cape Town.

11pm Sevens – World Series (HLS) Los Angeles – Day One.

SKY SPORT 2 8:30 South Africa v Australia (HLS) Third T20.

9:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) White Ferns v India.

From Junction Oval, Melbourne.

10am Blackcaps v India (HLS) Second Test – Day One. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

11am L Blackcaps v India Second Test – Day Two. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

6:30 South Africa v Australia (HLS) First ODI. 7:30 Blackcaps v India (HLS) Second Test – Day Two. From Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

8:30 L Women’s T20 World Cup England v West Indies.

From the Sydney Showground.

Monday

Midnight TBC 12:30 Women’s T20 World Cup (HLS) White Ferns v India.

Monday From Melbourne, Australia.

12:30 Super Rugby – 1am Women’s T20 World Stormers v Blues (HLS) 12:55 Super Rugby – Bulls v Cup (HLS) India v Sri Lanka.

From Junction Oval, Jaguares (HLS) Melbourne.

1:25 Super Rugby – Reds v 1:30 Women’s T20 Sharks (HLS) 1:55 L Pro14 – Southern World Cup (HLS) Australia v Bangladesh.

Kings v Connacht Rugby From Nelson Mandela Bay, Port From Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia.

Elizabeth, South Africa.

2am L Pakistan Super 4am Rugby Nation League – Islamabad v 5:05 L Sevens – World Series Los Angeles – Day Two. Karachi

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

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DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How Do They Do It? PG 7:30 UFOs – The Lost Evidence PG Area 52.

8:20 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 9:10 BattleBots PG 10am Undercover Billionaire PG House of Cards.

10:50 Homestead Rescue PG Life or Death in Michigan.

11:40 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 12:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 1:20 Gold Rush PG 2:10 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 3pm Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 3:50 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 4:45 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 5:40 Sydney Harbour Patrol 6:35 Sydney Harbour Patrol 7:30 Blowing Up History PG 8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Undercover Billionaire PG 10:15 Unexplained And Unexplored PG 11:05 Expedition Unknown PG 11:55 How It’s Made PG Monday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Ed Stafford – Man, Woman, Child, Wild PG 1:35 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid MVL 3:15 Naked And Afraid MVL 4:05 Naked And Afraid MVL 4:55 Naked And Afraid MVL 5:45 Naked And Afraid MVL

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Seek the specific support you need.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): If you don’t require too much in your life, what do you need more money for? Consider what your sacrifice of time, energy and life is all about at this point.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Some won’t participate unless they are sure they can get it right.

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CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): The thing that puzzles you makes perfect sense to another and vice versa.

Knowing more only takes you so far. What helps is to feel more, or rather differently. Put yourself in the shoes of another.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): People want things. Usually, the thing they want in the beginning is just a way in. You will gain something unexpected, exciting and absolutely vital along the way.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Because you’ve a normal human brain, there are many sectors that have to communicate with one another.

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LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Magical people are people who go to events without knowing anyone there, take classes out of sheer curiosity and generally dip their toes into the streams of life. You are a magical person.

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How seamless is your route to success?

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Resentment is useless and uncreative.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Good listeners are the best friends. You aspire to be such a person, though it won’t come very easily today. You’ll need to keep bringing your attention back to the task, which will be a noble effort.

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PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): People who know how to play, take care of their own, give more than they take, tolerate more than feels comfortable, laugh when it’s not funny, love when it’s not worthy – those are the ones to cherish.

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Finance wizz drawn back to Ashburton

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shburton is the sort of place you leave and come back to. It has an attraction that draws you back whatever your age.

There’s something in the expression “you can take the boy out of Ashburton but you can’t take Ashburton out of the boy.” That’s the case with Bill Calder, well almost.

He was born, educated and grew up in Mid Canterbury and only left to pursue a career in banking. Now he’s back, at least in Christchurch, but he’s keen to travel those 100 kms home to family, friends and the community he embraced as a young man.

Bill was born in Ashburton in 1956. He attended Hampstead School and Ashburton College. There he was remembered for his sporting ability. He was very good at athletics and impressed at rugby, representing Mid Canterbury through the age grades. But Bill had another asset. He was lead guitar in a school band with three other college students.

The band, called Deep Image, played covers. They were handy with Cream but excelled with Beatles and Credence Clearwater Revival. Colleagues at the time remember Bill had great fingers on the guitar and a loyal group of fans.

He also had great fingers on the calculator but that was to come later.

Bill had a warm, close family upbringing.

Bill’s parents, Gordon and Bertha, both worked for The Guardian. It was there they met. While work romances are discouraged, Gordon and Bertha’s flourished. Ink was in Gordon’s fingers and, a few years later, he joined Laurie Kerr to establish Calder and Kerr in Tancred Street.

The Guardian played an important role in the Calder household. Gordon, Bertha, Barbara and Bill read the paper. So did Mandy, the family dog. She had close vision and was able to read it when she picked it up from the paperboy each day.

Bill was a typical Ashburton teenager.

When he wasn’t starring at the Showgrounds, he drove the circuit up East Street and down West. Bill fondly remembers familiar spots on the Ashburton landscape.

The domain or opposite the racecourse were two, and he wasn’t alone.

However Bill had a talent for banking. He worked for the CBA bank in Ashburton and, after four years, transferred to Wellington in early 1978. When the CBA morphed into Westpac, he moved to Palmerston North, back to Wellington and down to Christchurch in 1996.

Forty-five years in finance gave him a comprehensive knowledge of the industry. But there was something missing in the services

provided by banks and Bill started seeking a finance and investment alternative that offered solutions to people that the banks couldn’t help with.

He found it with Zagga. At first he was surprised by the name but, when it explained “why zig when you can Zagga,” he understood. It’s a New Zealand peer to peer lending and investment company that’s created a lending platform matching investors with credit worthy borrowers.

It’s fully licensed and regulated by the Financial Markets Authority. Investors can earn higher returns while borrowers gain greater access and flexibility to the finance they need. It’s Zagga’s point of difference and offers a possible solution to credit worthy borrowers who aren’t able to secure finance elsewhere.

In particular, Bill points out that Zagga, established in 2014, offers an alternative to people looking to borrow, including start-up businesses that lack a track record but are able to offer security. To date it’s lent about $300 million through its platforms to borrowers throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Zagga has a loyal customer base but is always looking to grow. That’s where Ashburton comes in. “I’m from Mid Canterbury and aware of the depth of investment opportunities the district offers,” he says. “We’re looking for mum and dad and private investors and can offer them a much better rate than the disappointing returns they might get elsewhere.”

Bill encourages people to check Zagga out at www. zagga.co.nz, ring him on 0274-780-326 or drop him an email at bill@zagga.co.nz.

If you’re interested he’s planning a trip home in the next few months and would love to meet anyone interested in borrowing or investing.

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“We’re a small but very viable and trustworthy alternative,” – Bill says.