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Two breathalysers sent for testing A small number of Ashburton motorists caught drink-driving could have their fines waived after a national breathalyser recall.

Two Mid Canterbury Drager 7510 breath screening devices were among 400 that were sent away for further testing after the discovery of a technical issue.

Any infringements or fines resulting from faulty devices would be waived and those affected would be contacted by police for further instruction.

Senior Sergeant Scott Banfield said Methven and Rakaia stations each had one of the hand-held Drager 7510 breathalysers.

However, there was nothing to worry about because any new devices used by police were routinely calibrated and investigated if problems occurred, he said.

National manager of Road Policing, Superintendent Steve Greally, said police would continue to test drink-drivers as usual using the Drager 6510 breath screening device – a previous model which is still in widespread use.

The Drager 7510 testers were rolled out to small rural stations in July but a random spot test by police revealed a problem with the calibration of some of the machines.

“As soon as the issue was discovered we made contact with Drager and sought urgent assurance that this problem will be fixed,” Mr Greally said.

“In the meantime, as a precautionary step, we have removed all of the devices from service, which have now been sent to Drager for further testing to determine the exact nature and scale of the issue.”

Initial spot checks revealed that two of

the devices tested did not meet the required international and NZ Police calibration standards, despite being tested and calibrated correctly before roll-out, he said.

“Although it is unclear at this stage exactly how the error with some of the 7510 hand-held devices has occurred and how many in total may end up being affected, we are committed to ensuring that all of the devices are working correctly and fairly.”

While the devices that have failed have only done so by a small margin, for the avoidance of any doubt any infringements or charges resulting from them would be waived.

“Those in this bracket should therefore consider themselves very lucky to have avoided police action in this instance,” Mr Greally said.

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Enrique Iglesias uses injury to help kids Enrique Iglesias is turning his traumatic hand injury into a positive experience by getting behind a charity benefiting children who are dealing with emergencies. The Hero singer suffered nasty cuts to his hand while performing in Tijuana, Mexico after reaching out to grab a flying drone, which he uses to capture video footage at his shows. The device sliced into his fingers, but he refused to end the concert early. He was photographed with blood dripping from a makeshift bandage onto his white T-shirt, on which he drew a heart.

Iglesias has now teamed up with organisers at Save the Children to sell T-shirts, featuring the bloodied, heart image, on his website. “I’m extremely excited to partner with Save the Children to help kids who need it the most,” Iglesias said.

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The last sunset for year Kiwi scientists have captured on camera the last sunset of the year over Antarctica, as the continent moves into 24-hour daylight. NIWA marine physics technician Brett Grant captured this shot at McMurdo Sound where NIWA and Otago University scientists have set up camp to investigate why Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking at the same rate as Arctic sea ice. The camp, comprising eight converted shipping containers, has been towed from Scott Base and provides everything needed to undertake a range of scientific experiments. NIWA marine physicist Dr Craig Stevens and Otago University’s Dr Patricia Langhorne are researching the possibility that the answer lies in the production of super-cooled seawater beneath the giant Antarctic ice shelves that make up 40 per cent of the Antarctic coastline. From inside one of two science containers, they are melting holes through the sea ice to take oceanographic measurements. Heated water is used to melt out blocks of ice through cut-outs in the floor containers which enables access to the ocean while being sheltered from the weather.

Caviar in casket Police in Russia’s far east stopped a hearse speeding on a highway — only to find half a ton of caviar stashed inside.

The hearse was caught speeding on the road connecting Khabarovsk, not far the Chinese border, to a city further north.

When police officers asked the driver to open the car they saw plastic containers with caviar hidden under the wreaths lying next to a casket. More caviar was found inside the casket, which did not contain a body. The driver told police he had been hired by a man who asked them to take the casket with the body of a female relative to a city morgue. The men insisted that they had no idea what was inside the casket.

Car lands on house roof When Joyce Kingsley heard “kaboom” while at her Michigan home, she immediately thought about extreme weather. The 83-year-old needed to look up: A Ford Mustang was parked on the roof of her home after the driver had a medical problem and lost control on a highway in Shiawassee County.

Kingsley’s home about 30 kilometres north-east of Lansing is built next to a hill, and the roof is nearly level with the ground, The Argus-Press of Owosso reported. “I was just watching TV inside. I had it up pretty loud — but this was much louder,” Kingsley said.

State police said the Mustang went through several bushes, trees and a fence before stopping on the roof.

The driver was treated for low blood sugar but wasn’t hurt. “The driver is extremely lucky,” Trooper Ben Rowell said.

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Ducklings hold up traffic A dramatic slow-motion police chase on Dunedin’s Southern Motorway saw traffic backed up and back-up called, as six runaway ducklings diced with death on the busy road. The drama unfolded just before 1.30pm, when police were called. The motherless six were found at full waddle north on the hill to Lookout Point. The delicate, downy ducklings were following the concrete barrier of the road just centimetres from the thundering tyres of stock and logging trucks, as they made a head-long rush for the top of the hill.

First responder Constable Bryce Johnson kept pace with his quarry. Only with the intervention of Taieri-Clutha area response manager Senior Sergeant Al Dickie, did the drama end. Mr Dickie managed to trap some under a police-issue jacket, before, with Mr Johnson’s help, corralling the rest of the family together, and transferring them to a police car.

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■ CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL

No funds from local coffers

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Christchurch city might be looking for funding options for its key rebuild projects, but the Ashburton District Council won’t be coming to the party, says council chief executive Andrew Dalziel.

As the city council considers its options for funding regional facilities such as the Town Hall, art gallery, museum and AMI Stadium, it

has tossed the option of adding its neighbouring councils into the funding mix.

It has tagged Selwyn and Waimakariri and possibly Hurunui in the mix, but if it looks further afield, Mr Dalziel said Ashburton won’t be playing ball.

“I believe we’re too far away to be involved.

“Hurunui already gets bitten

by Canterbury for funding for the museum and I know they’re very

aggrieved at having to pay for this,” he said.

Many years ago Ashburton also contributed to the Canterbury Museum but when its own museum came on stream it disentangled itself from the regional museum contribution.

The Ashburton council was committed to funding its own facilities for residents and visitors and the argument that it was unfair for Christchurch ratepayers to

fund facilities that were used by out of towners, could be applied to any district, any town or city, Mr Dalziel said.

“We’re building stuff here; how do we get people from out of town who use it to pay? That’s pretty hard to do. For example, we’ve got Lake Hood, that’s a topical debate, how many people from outside the district are using this facility on a nice weekend?”

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Gearing up for Guy Fawkes

A blustery evening made for a spectacular light show at the Guy Fawke’s evening at the Rakaia domain last year.

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The annual Rakaia Guy Fawke’s extravaganza is set to take place this weekend, thanks to the Lions Club of Rakaia.

There will be the traditional fireworks display and a bonfire as well as a range of food stalls, entertainment and activities for

children on Saturday night.

Lions Club member and event organiser Alistair Sutherland said he hoped for a good turnout.

On average about 2500 to 3000 people attend each year.

Other than the regular main attractions Mr Sutherland said there would be performances from The Kopy Kats and the Two

Chain Road Band.

A busker, known as Mullet Man, will also make an appearance.

“People love him and he’s good value,” Mr Sutherland said.

The event starts at 6pm and is free to attend but gold coin donations are appreciated.

The fireworks display will be let off once it is dark enough.

As in previous years there is a total glass ban.

No rain is forecast for Saturday, but according to the MetService temperatures will only hit the mid-teens.

If the weather does not play ball the festivities will be postponed until Sunday night, Mr Sutherland said.

■ INFANT FORMULA SCARE

Infant formula accused may face High Court The man allegedly behind threats to contaminate infant formula with the poison 1080 may end up before the High Court.

He faces two charges of blackmail but cannot be named for at least six months because of a suppression order.

Charging documents allege the action was financially motivated.

During a brief appearance in Manukau District Court yesterday, the defendant’s former

give its ratepayers an advantage it could introduce two tier user fee structures for those facilities, offering them reduced use or admission prices, he said.

Ashburton hadn’t yet been included in the city council’s funding net but if that happened the council would be prepared with a ‘diplomatic response,’ Mr Dalziel said.

“In a practical sense, this is not going to happen.”

counsel Hugh Leabourn was replaced by John Billington, QC. Judge David Harvey said there had been some discussion about the matter being elevated to the High Court because of the seriousness of the allegations.

The accused was remanded in custody without plea until November 6.

A criminal investigation started when letters were sent to Fonterra and Federated Farmers in

November last year threatening to poison infant formula if New Zealand did not stop using the pest-control poison by the end of March this year.

The public was told of the threat in March and formula was taken from supermarket shelves and held securely to prevent contamination.

In what became known as Operation Concord, 60 people were considered of significant inter-

est and approached to be interviewed by police.

More than 2600 people were considered over the course of the investigation, which cost police $3 million, police Commissioner Mike Bush revealed when the man was arrested two weeks ago.

Police said they believed the arrested man acted alone and no one else has been charged.

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If you are planning to use the western end of Seafield Road as your route into Ashburton on Saturday you might need to think again.

From 8am the section of Seafield Road between Bremners Road and Bridge Street will be closed to all through traffic.

The only vehicles that may enter will be those driven by people attending the Ashburton A&P Show.

Show secretary Lucille Brown said there would be plenty of warning signs for motorists to signal the closure.

“Last year we did it as a trial and the odd milk tanker came through; this year it will be very obvious it’s closed with large mobile signs at each end,” Mrs Brown said.

Roadside parking will also be limited to the showgrounds side, but parking will be available in paddocks on the Ashburton Cemetery side of the road, in an Ashburton Meat Processors paddock and in the Netherby School grounds off Brucefield Avenue.

“There’s now only limited parking on site because the show has grown and extended out into the parking area,” Mrs Brown said.

The association decided to close Seafield Road to through traffic as a safety measure because of the high number of pedestrians crossing the road during the day.

The number of trade exhibitor sites is now well over 100 and entries in the horse section are very high, she said.

Competitors in equestrian events at the Ashburton A&P Show are able to compete for points towards the horse of the year event.

The closure will be lifted at 6pm.

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■ ASHBURTON RIVER

River birds under threat

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Four-wheel-drivers accessing the Ashburton River are threatening the successful breeding of river birds, amid concerns Environment Canterbury is not acting quickly enough.

Large concrete barrier blocks which prevent vehicles accessing the river from the Tinwald side of State Highway One have been illegally removed, and five fourwheel-drive vehicles were spotted driving close to nesting birds in the riverbed on Sunday.

Forest and Bird Ashburton chairperson Edith Smith said yesterday she had reported the shifting of the blocks to ECan last week, and was surprised it had not replaced them.

The removal of the barrier follows similar vandalism last year.

The blocks appear to have been shifted by a vehicle with a strop, and the strop remained at the scene under one of the blocks yesterday.

Mrs Smith approached fourwheel-drivers in the river bed

Illegal removal of a concrete block barrier threatens Ashburton’s river birds.

PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 281015-SS-007 on Sunday, after happening to notice five vehicles as she drove past. She made the drivers aware they were too close to breeding birds, with the four-wheel-drive track going within one metre of where black billed gulls are nesting this year.

And when the five four-wheeldrivers went further downstream

towards the Trevors Road area, they unsettled a colony of about eight black fronted terns.

Forest and Bird has employed Masterguard security to keep an eye on the colonies, effective as of last week. Four-wheel-drivers and other river users are advised to stay away from the river bed during the breeding season for

the highly endangered birds, from around late September until mid-January.

Disturbing protected birds and destroying nests is an offence under the Wildlife Act 1953 which can result in imprisonment or a fine of $100,000. An Ashburton man was imprisoned for one month after driving into the black billed colony in 2012.

Southern zone public relations officer for New Zealand FourWheel-Drive Association, John McDonald in Ashburton, said yesterday it was the Mid Canterbury Four-Wheel-Drive Club’s policy to keep off the river at this time of year while birds were nesting.

“But unfortunately not everyone belongs to a club, so ‘a’ they don’t know, or ‘b’ they don’t care,” he said. He did not condone removal of the concrete barrier blocks, but believed ECan needed to have them installed only for the bird breeding season, and not year-round.

ECan had not responded to the Guardian by deadline yesterday.

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In brief Search continues The search of a fishing boat, which sunk off the Canterbury coast, continued yesterday with the deployment of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s diving support vessel. The FV Jubilee sank near the Rakaia River mouth with three crew members on board on October 18. Sergeant Phil Simmonds said the Navy’s support vessel – HMNZS Manawanui, members of the NZ Police Dive Squad and the Navy’s Operational Diving Team (ODT) hoped to resume their search of the boat after Tuesday’s inclement weather.

“The safety of those involved in the recovery phase is paramount and the intention is for members of the ODT to continue searching inside the wreck [yesterday]. As the wreck of the FV Jubilee is located at a depth of 40m, the ODT can only complete a fixed number of dives each day.” The process to formally identify the two men recovered from the wreck on Monday is still ongoing and the deaths have been referred to the coroner.

Charged by a bull A 54-year-old Geraldine man was airlifted to hospital with serious chest injuries after being charged by a bull on Tuesday. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter were called to the Geraldine area at 10am and the man was taken to Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition.

Clinic takes a break The Hakatere Marae health clinic is taking a brief break while volunteer GP Dr Charlotte Cox gets her new practice up and running. The clinic opened for the first time in May of last year before closing in September due to technical difficulties and reopening in November. Earlier this year Dr Cox said she was seeing a good number of patients and the clinic was providing an alternative, accessible service for people needing a doctor. However, in an effort to set up her new practice Ashburton Health First Dr Cox has had to take a break from the clinic but hopes it will resume as normal in 2016.

Man identified Members of Red House receive the house trophy during this year’s Winter Blues assembly.

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Police have identified the man who died after falling from a central Hamilton carpark on Tuesday. He was 41-year-old Tauranga man Jamie Thomas Strahan. Waikato Senior Sergeant Juliet Burgess said there were no suspicious circumstances associated with the death. The matter had been referred to the coroner, she said.

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No weapons found Armed police called to a Lower Hutt address yesterday did not find any weapons. Police said the incident in Stokes Valley stemmed from police inquiries made several days ago. They confirmed last night that no weapons were found at the address. “We are speaking with the complainants in regards to the initial call out but would like to reassure the public that at no stage was a firearm presented.”

Police earlier said the incident did not appear to be related to a shooting in Taita on Tuesday.

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■ PROCESSED MEAT

Processed meat claims ‘a joke’

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Research that has dubbed processed meats as “carcinogenic to humans” is a joke, says a local butcher.

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report released this week evaluated the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red and processed meats.

A working group of 22 experts from 10 countries classified the consumption of red meat as “probably carcinogenic to humans” while processed meat was classified as “carcinogenic to humans”.

The report stated that while meat consumption varied greatly between countries experts concluded that each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 per cent.

Owner operator of Netherby Meats and third generation butcher Mike Hanson said the research was a bit of a joke and appeared to be based on larger corporate meat suppliers, rather than local butchers.

Meat provided by butchers was usually locally sourced and butchers were up front as to how it was treated.

“A small local butcher is paramount for better quality.

“We don’t have the hands to go and mix up special potions to make up something really strong or dangerous,” he said.

Mr Hanson said when it came to curing his butchery opted for a dry cure with salt and honey, or natural manuka smoke.

However, with imported meats it was harder to know what was in them.

“They [larger companies] can make ham double in size by emulsifying it, curing it and pressurising it.”

Mr Hanson said he had not had any queries about the WHO’s revelations, but was happy to talk to customers about how his meats were treated.

The research wouldn’t change the way he and his family ate meat, he said.

“We probably eat meat five out of the seven days of the week and my granddad’s done that, my dad’s done that.”

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■ ASHBURTON CADET UNIT

Cadets training hard ahead of nationals By ruBy Harfield

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A team of nine Ashburton Cadet Unit members have been training hard ahead of the National Area Skills Competition in Auckland this weekend.

Area support officer Major Cezarne Rodgers said the group have been training every Wednesday night and for the past two weekends.

Last weekend they took a break but on Wednesday touched up a few things during their last get-together before the competition.

The group had never been in the competition before and will be against two tough competitors – Mangawhai and Upper Hutt, she said.

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Local private dietician Sarah MacAvoy said it had been known for a while not to eat processed meats daily, but that red meat had nutritional benefits and was a source of protein and iron.

Cooking methods can also affect carcinogenicity, charring meat can increase carcinogens.

Being mindful of portion sizes when it came to meat was important, she said.

Between 120 grams and 150 grams is the appropriate serving size, which should be eaten three to four times a week.

“I’m hoping [the team will] be competitive. I know the standard is very high.”

Major Rodgers said she was surprised when the team made it to the nationals after taking out the top spot at the Southern Area Skills Competition in West Melton earlier this month.

“I was a little bit shocked, it had never happened before. I’m very proud of them.”

She had helped run the nationals a few times in the past and is looking forward to taking a team up this time.

The group consists of Hayden Adams (team leader), William Brett, Meg Dudley, James Forbes, Scott Kelland, Varley McLean, Emma Simonsen, Jack Thomson and Tiana Waaka. Josiah Pento will not be there due to injury.

Red meat refers to all types of muscle meat such as beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton and goat.

Processed meat refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation.

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Identity confirmed Police have confirmed the identity of a body found on Waiheke Island earlier this month. He was 50-yearold Sam Hala Halagigie, originally from Otahuhu. The body was found by a member of the public who was walking near Ocean View Rd on October 1. Police say Mr Halagigie was not a resident of Waiheke.

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4.2 quake A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Taranaki yesterday. The quake, 20km north of Opunake, was described by GeoNet as of a “moderate intensity” with a depth of 17km when it struck at 1.49pm.

Opunake is a small town 45km southwest of New Plymouth. On its Twitter account, Taranaki Civil Defence said the quake was an aftershock from last week’s 4.9 magnitude, 16km deep quake that struck in Opunake on Thursday.

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Ashburton A&P Show president Lynette Lovett polishes the Soundness Challenge Cup.

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Volunteers are hard at work at the showgrounds preparing for the gates to open tomorrow for the 138th Ashburton A&P Show.

Included in yesterday’s line-up was a team checking off and polishing the 118 silver trophies which will be handed out to the champions over the two-day event.

Show president Lynette Lovett was working on her favourite piece – the Soundness Challenge Cup – to be awarded to the best Clydesdale horse on the grounds.

“Unfortunately a few pieces have not been returned – we have been begging people to bring them back. We live in hope,” she said.

Other volunteers were assembling showjumping courses, erecting the president’s marquee and making lunches for the 30-strong crew.

A man who escaped from the Auckland District Court on Tuesday is still on the run. Uta Marsh is alleged to have made off from the courthouse about 4pm, fleeing from an interview room where he met with his lawyer. He has still not been caught, Inspector Ian Brooker of the police northern communications centre confirmed yesterday.

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Life behind bars One of the killers of Wellington man Matthew Stevens has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with no chance of parole for 11 years. Stuart Graham Wilton, 28, was sentenced in the High Court at Wellington yesterday. Mr Stevens was murdered in Lower Hutt in November last year and his body dumped beside the Paekakariki Hill Road. Wilton originally denied the charge but changed his plea in October and admitted his role in Stevens’ death.

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■ SOUTHLAND TRAGEDY

Tight-lipped over death Police remain tight-lipped about how a 37-year-old Australian woman came to be run over while lying on a dark Southland road.

The woman was yesterday identified as Tamara Maree Schmidt, of Brisbane, and friends and family paid tribute to the “beautiful” mother and friend.

Detective Sergeant Mark McCloy, of Invercargill, said a team of 12 detectives from as far afield as Dunedin and Queenstown were piecing together the woman’s movements in the hours before she was run over on State Highway One, about 10km from Bluff, on Monday morning.

Police have not ruled that Ms Schmidt was dead before she was hit by a Bluff motorist about 1am.

“Our investigations are ongoing as to how she came to be on the road and how she died,” he said.

Police would not comment on the cause of death yesterday after previously saying she was hit and killed by a car.

Police had suspicions other vehicles might have hit Ms Schmidt’s body in the hours before her discovery by the Bluff resident.

ESR examinations on the scene and four vehicles of interest to police were completed, as was a post-mortem.

Police would not comment on the findings of those investigations, other than to say no other vehicles had hit Ms Schmidt before her discovery.

Ms Schmidt was travelling with a companion. However, police would not comment on the identity of that person.

Officers had spoken with them and several others.

“There’s been further witnesses come forward and other sightings,” Mr McCloy said.

No-one was being held in police custody, but Ms Schmidt’s travel companion remained in Invercargill, he said.

“The woman’s family have been advised in Australia, and police continue to assist them and her travelling companion.”

Police wanted to hear from anyone who saw Ms Schmidt between 9pm on Sunday and 12.50am on Monday, or from anyone who saw the Britz campervan in which she was travelling or any other people walking on the Bluff highway.

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Aid appeals after quake Desperate survivors are appealing for food and blankets after a devastating earthquake killed more than 360 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban urged relief agencies to push ahead with aid deliveries to victims of this week’s powerful earthquake, which destroyed thousands of homes, triggered landslides and stampedes, and knocked out communication lines.

Mass burial ceremonies were conducted in both countries as officials warned that the death toll could spike as entire communities remain inaccessible amid freezing winter conditions.

Pakistani officials were unable to reach authorities in the remote district of Kohistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for a second day to see how its population of nearly half a million people had fared.

“There is no way to communicate with the officials in Kohistan, the communication lines have been disrupted and roads blocked, so we cannot say anything about the damage there,” a police official in the northwestern city of Peshawar said.

The bulk of the casualties recorded so far are in Pakistan, where 248 people were killed, including 202 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and more than 1600 injured, disaster management authorities said.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew to Shangla in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - believed to be one of the worst-hit districts with 49 reported dead so far - where he pledged compensation for dam-

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In brief Body found The body of a man has been discovered at the same property where police arrested fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco in NSW’s central west. Heavily armed officers stormed the farm at Elong Elong, near Dubbo, just before midday yesterday and arrested the father and son, who had been on the run for eight years. Soon after the arrests, police found the body, believed to be that of a 68-yearold man, after searching the property. The man, believed to be the property’s caretaker, had been missing since October 8.

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A Pakistani soldier carries an injured child who was airlifted from Chitral following the deadly earthquake, at Peshawar airbase in Pakistan.

AP PHOTO aged homes, state media reported.

In Gandao village in Shangla the quake left homes completely flattened or riddled with cracks, forcing most of the population to camp out in the open amid freezing winter rain.

People desperately appealed to the government for quilts, blankets, sweaters and food rations as snowy conditions set in.

“We have nothing to eat and

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wear in the cold,” resident Hakim Khan, 60, whose 12-year-old nephew was killed in the quake.

“My family members are forced to wait for help under the open sky.”

Afghan officials said at least 115 people were confirmed dead and hundreds more injured, with casualties reported from about half a dozen of the country’s 34 provinces, and more than 7600 homes reported damaged.

In one of the most horrifying incidents to emerge so far, a dozen Afghan schoolgirls were trampled to death as they rushed to escape their classrooms in remote northern Takhar province when the quake struck.

Bystanders rushed the dazed and terrified survivors to hospital, many lying limp in the arms of their rescuers, as doctors tried reviving some of them by pumping their chests.

- AFP

■ UNITED STATES

Nine killed as Libya FBI probes violent helicopter shot down US school arrest A helicopter carrying 16 people has been shot down over the sea near Libya’s capital, killing at least nine passengers, including a senior militiaman.

The aircraft was hit by gunfire shortly before noon on Tuesday and went down near the Al-Maya area just west of Tripoli, said Colonel Mustafa Sharkasi, a spokesman for the air force of Libya’s Tripolibased government.

“We have so far recovered nine bodies, including the body of Colonel Hussein Abu Diyya,” a senior officer in the powerful Fajr Libya militia that controls the capital, he said.

“We think that all the passengers are dead,” Sharkasi said.

A Tripoli-based official earlier said the helicopter had been carrying 23 people.

Sharkasi said the aircraft was “unarmed” and blamed armed groups allied to the in-

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ternationally recognised government for carrying out this “criminal” act.

He vowed that the Tripolibased administration would retaliate.

“We will respond at the appropriate time and place,” he said.

Sharkasi said the helicopter was on its way to Tripoli from an unspecified location when it was hit.

Three crew members and “employees, including bank employees who were carrying funds for state employees” were on board in addition to Abu Diyya.

Libya descended into chaos after the October 2011 ouster and killing of long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Two governments are vying for power and armed groups are battling for control of its vast energy resources.

- AFP

The FBI and the US Justice Department say they have opened a civil rights investigation into the violent arrest of a black female high school student by a white police officer, footage of which has gone viral and sparked outrage.

The incident in South Carolina comes amid a heightened focus on police brutality in the United States after a string of incidents - some deadly - involving police and African Americans.

Politicians, school officials and rights groups expressed outrage yesterday, saying such violence has no place in schools.

In two mobile phone videos of Monday’s confrontation in the state capital Columbia, an officer has a short conversation with a girl, sitting at her desk, before grabbing her by the neck, flipping her and her desk over, and dragging her along the floor.

She does not appear to put up any resistance, though Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said

Tuesday he had learned of a third video of the incident, from a different angle, that shows the student hitting the officer.

School officials called the incident shocking.

“It was outrageous and unforgivable, and it does not represent who this district is,” Debbie Hamm, superintendent of Richland School District Two, said yesterday.

She said there is strict protocol to ensure that the police officers assigned to the school only intervene in criminal behaviour and not disciplinary incidents.

“Regardless of the reason for the officer’s actions, such egregious use of force - against young people who are sitting in their classrooms - is outrageous,” Victoria Middleton, executive director of the rights group American Civil Liberties Union.

Lott said the officer has been suspended without pay.

- AFP

Ben Carson has edged ahead of Donald Trump nationally in the US battle for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll. The results mark the first time Trump has been dislodged from the top of the broad Republican field in months, and reflect continued preference for outsider candidates more than 13 months before the 2016 presidential election. The New York Times/CBS News survey yesterday showed Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon who has never held public office, was the presidential pick of 26 per cent of respondents, compared with 22 per cent for Trump, although the difference lay within the margin of error of six percentage points.

- AFP

10,000 guns South Carolina police have reportedly arrested a man who stashed an arsenal of up to 10,000 mostly stolen guns at his home.

Brent Nicholson, 51, was detained over the weekend after mountains of rifles and handguns were found stacked at his home and in a nearby storage facility. Hundreds more weapons were found at a liquor store Nicholson runs with his father, and at his parents’ home, the Charlotte Observer newspaper reported yesterday. Police said they will need several days to catalogue the arsenal, which also included crossbows, ammunition and more than 500 chainsaws.

- AFP

Severe thunderstorm The threat from a severe thunderstorm that smashed parts of southeast Queensland has passed but a warning remains in place for areas further north.

Roofs were torn from homes and dozens of powerlines brought down when the storm hit the small town of Fernvale west of Brisbane on Tuesday afternoon.

The storm was later heading north towards the Sunshine Coast and was expected to affect the suburbs of Maroochydore, Nambour, Yandina and Coolum Beach, the Bureau of Meteorology said. It could also lead to flash flooding and large hailstones falling in areas near Gympie, Kingaroy, Hervey Bay, Taroom, Maryborough, Rolleston and Springsure. “Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and large hailstone,” the bureau said in a warning issued on Tuesday night. No calls for assistance have been received from those areas, a Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman said.

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There’s no such thing as safe food any more Sue Newman

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ife was a whole lot simpler when humans ate in ignorance.

The rules were few – if your belly rumbled, you ate. And what you ate depended on what you either grew or could afford to buy. There was no such thing as processed food. It was either cooked or raw but it was always au naturel.

Not so today. Every time you open a magazine, newspaper or web page you’re bombarded by food-related information, most of it conflicting, most of it designed to make you question what you actually ingested along with your lunch.

Nothing is safe from the food police and while there is plenty of sound, science-based reasoning behind many food warnings, there are just as many that are based on fad or fancy.

No argument with cutting back on sugar and fat. The medical evidence and the visual evidence in bulging bodies is so obvious. It’s all the other warnings that are the worry. Take eggs, they’ve been hailed as the complete meal and they’ve been condemned as the ultimate contributor to high cholesterol.

Currently they’re on the okay food list but the niggling doubts remain.

Meat is currently top of the bad list and it’s no stranger to that slot. For years we’ve been told we eat too much meat, that our high rates of bowel cancer can, to some degree, be attributed to our carnivorous habits.

The warnings are now more specific. Yes, meat is bad, but processed meat is the real enemy.

That’s bad news for butchers and bad news for anyone who enjoys bacon, sausages, saveloys, ham, corned beef, hot dogs or anything that’s not pure meat.

And that hits at the heart of our Kiwi lifestyle. Imagine a barbecue without meat, without the charred bits we know are carcinogenic.

It’s enough to turn meat eaters into vegetarians, but that, of course brings a whole new set of problems. Unless you grow them yourself, how do you know what’s in or on your vegetables?

Progress is a fine thing, but when it comes to food, maybe it’s our progress that’s killing us.

YOUR VIEW Cemetery trees I would also like to comment on the trees shading the road and adjacent premises at the Methven Cemetery.

I am not sure what part of no cost, we will do it for free, Mr McCann doesn’t understand.

Mr Harmer has offered to remove the troublesome trees and clean up the area at no cost to the ratepayer or council and yet Mr McCann says it is an expensive exercise.

All it needs is to get rid of all the trees that will never be any good, prune up the nice ones and let the natives survive underneath.

Is this the Council being heavy handed and spending ratepayers money when they don’t have to .

Take up Harmer’s offer and let them get on with it.

Ron Smith, Neighbour

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Peter’s first job was weeding what he refers to as a ‘hydroponic sky garden’ or in layman’s terms, overgrown guttering. life into a stinking, thick, black sludge that Marsden Point Refinery could not do anything with.

I also learnt that the most effective technique was to scoop it up with three fingers and flick it over the edge in one swift movement, and that watching where it was falling would cause me to loose balance slightly.

So I proceeded with gusto – this was my first job and I was going to get paid for tossing crap!

I also learnt that Miss Green was not aware of my pragmatic plan, and took it upon herself to gather in the remnants of her hydroponic sky garden.

She had assembled a bucket and some small spade type thing to do the job.

I also learnt that Miss Green was a closet ninja-nana (the kind who moves around you at a family wedding, and you don’t know they are there, especially when you are talking about them). So the stage was set for a dramatic Act One of a 12-year-old boy destroying a sky garden above a ninja-nana.

I learnt that old duck ninjananas like Miss Green can make funny noises. I managed to scoop up a satisfyingly, heaving, stinking pile of gutter crap and deftly fling it with the grace of Valerie Adams.

Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation states that any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

I learnt that the mass known as Miss Green and the rotting mass of her sky garden were attracted to each other.

What Newton didn’t explain was that the mass of Miss Green emits odd, guttural barking type sounds when being pelted with decomposed sky garden.

Upon hearing such seal like sounds, I peered over the edge of the roof to observe a spectacular sight! To put it simply, Miss Green had been totally shat upon.

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ur school has just gone through the process of appointing teachers for next year and the reaction of the successful applicants was infectious as they were told they had a position.

Ahead lies new beginnings and the nervousness of working in a new team and with new children.

The process turned my mind back to one of the first jobs I ever had as a naïve 12-year-old.

One of the old ducks at church needed someone to weed her garden. I was quite good at this seeing as my father had a weeding policy at home.

See if you wanted to play or go to a friend’s house on the weekend, then you had to spend an hour in the garden first – weeding.

My father was so enthusiastic about this policy that once a friend came around to enquire if I was available to play, dad put him to work in the garden as well!

Anyway, back to Miss Green and my first paying job. I biked down to her place with the warning of my mother still ringing in my ears: “be polite, don’t be cheeky and get the work done”.

I learnt a lot about gardening that day. I learnt that Miss Green had what I would now term to be a ‘hydroponic sky garden’.

A hydroponic sky garden is anything that grows in your gutter. Miss Green had had a fine example of one. Miss Green decided that her hydroponic sky garden no longer enhanced the look of her two-bedroom, summerhill stone clad, decromastic roofed retirement pad.

So I set about removing this garden first. Through the sheer power of my get-it-done-andget-out-of-here brain, I decided to crawl along the edge of the roof, clearing out the gutter and throwing the debris over the side, onto the garden below, that I also had to weed.

I learnt that hydroponic sky gardens are incredible microcosms of life and have the ability to turn any identifiable plant

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knitted, Crimean War era cardigan was gloriously shat on.

I moved back from the edge and lay upon the roof, writhing in silent giggles as I contemplated my actions towards my first employer.

After some time I cautiously peered back over the edge. The ninja-nana had struck again, and moved without me knowing. I decided to finish the job and get out of there as soon as I could.

Strangely, when I saw her at the end of the weeding process, she was changed and made no mention of the bountiful harvest that had rained upon her.

Needless to say, I was never asked to weed her garden again but I did learn a lot that day, my first day on the job.

Peter Livingstone is the principal of Tinwald School. The views expressed in this column are his and do not represent the views of his school, the Ashburton Guardian or the Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association.

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Queenstown flights need support A Dunedin to Queenstown air link looks set to be scaled back after just taking off, despite being a big hit with those who turned up for its inaugural flight on Tuesday.

Kiwi Regional Airlines (KRA) chief executive Ewan Wilson said shortly after the flight landed in Queenstown what was to have been a daily service might be scaled back to Fridays and Mondays.

Mr Wilson said while three months of marketing had achieved good results for routes to Nelson and Hamilton, it appeared there was “an over-supply of capacity” for the Dunedin to Queenstown route.

KRA is the work of Mr Wilson, a former Dunedin man, now a Hamilton city councillor, who was behind Kiwi Air, which collapsed in 1996 after intense competition.

His latest venture targets regional routes not served by other airlines.

The inaugural flight to Queenstown was delayed by low cloud in the resort, something that did not seem to bother passengers, who were in a festive mood.

The flight’s captain approached ticket holders personally in the Dunedin terminal to explain the situation, and keep them updated.

The 19 paying passengers who boarded the first flight clapped and cheered as it left the terminal, took off and landed.

Such was the mood of the passengers, even a flight crew member received a round of applause when she momentarily forgot the name of the first officer during her welcoming and safety spiel, then remembered it.

Once in the air, KRL2 flew north towards Dunedin, then headed inland over the Strath Taieri.

Tony and Cynthea Corbett, of Dunedin, said they booked to experience the first flight, and to support the new business.

Ms Corbett said it was a good service for people with family in the region.

Karen Holmes, who lives on the Taieri, was travelling to visit family in Queenstown, and friends in Wanaka, and would “most definitely” use it again.

After the flight, the first passenger off the plane, Jon-Paul Jordan,

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But after marketing the airline before its launch, it was clear there was interest in flights to Nelson and Hamilton.

“The challenge will be Queenstown.”

Shifting the mindset of people away from driving the route would take time, he said.

“Sometimes you’ve just got to try the route and see how it pans out. I can already see we’ll need fewer flights.

Mr Wilson expected the result would be flights on Mondays

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of Dunedin, described it as brilliant.

“A bit of a long journey here but it was all worth it – a beautiful view on the way in, too.”

Mr Jordan, a private banking manager for ASB Bank, worked in Queenstown for the day and flew back to Dunedin in the evening.

Mr Wilson said he was “really proud”, and described the enthusiastic response of passengers as “pleasing”.

“We’ll certainly need a lot more of that.”

and Fridays. Businesses told him their representatives were more inclined to travel to Queenstown on Monday, and spend the week there.

The service would also allow people to travel for weekend stays.

KRA spokesman Max Coyle said the airline had approached the Southern District Health Board, and companies including Sealord and Fonterra to gauge interest in the Queenstown flights.

The airline lands at a buoyant time for tourism.

Visitor arrivals to New Zealand topped three million for the first time in the year to July 2015, fuelled by a huge increase in Chinese tourists.

Domestic tourism spending was $13.4 billion in 2014, up 2 per cent on the previous year, while total tourism spending was almost $24 billion, 4 per cent of New Zealand’s GDP. Destination Queenstown chief executive Graham Budd said the Queenstown-Dunedin route had not been fulfilled before – despite attempts – and he hoped the company was well supported. - NZME

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The number of Solid Energy staff who earn more than $200,000 before tax has nearly halved.

According to the company’s annual report, 25 staff earned more than $200,000 in the year to June 30, 2015. In the previous year, 41 staff earned more than $200,000.

In total, 239 staff earned a sixfigure salary – 18 fewer than the previous year.

Solid Energy, which in August went into voluntary administration, said 27 of the staff listed were only included because of redundancy payments. Of those, seven had been employed on individual employment agreements and 20

had been employed under the terms of the collective agreement.

The number of staff earning more than $300,000 has also decreased. In the 2014 financial year, nine staff earned $300,000 or more, compared to just three in the 2015 financial year.

In both years the highest paid staff member, presumably chief executive Dan Clifford, earned between $650,000 and $660,000 - about half the amount earned by a former chief executive, Don Elder.

Andy Coupe, who was appointed acting chairman in February, earned $99,824.

Former director Pip Dunphy, who resigned from the position on February 5, earned $101,432.

Solid Energy’s workforce has dropped by almost one-third since it hit the skids. At the end of 2012, Solid Energy employed 1658 people (excluding contractors). At June 30, 2015, the company employed 589 people.

Communications officer Bryn Somerville said Solid Energy’s Christchurch head office staffing had fallen by 186 since the company hit trouble in 2012. It currently employed 44. He confirmed further restructuring of head office was planned.

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■ AORAKI POLYTECHNIC

Aoraki students now under Otago Aoraki Polytechnic’s Dunedin students will complete courses under the Otago Polytechnic banner from next year.

Otago Polytechnic yesterday confirmed it would take over all of Aoraki Polytechnic’s Dunedin campus courses.

Aoraki Polytechnic film and television student Amber Proctor, 19, said she liked the move.

“It means we get a wider range of opportunities ...”

“Aoraki’s quite small in Dunedin, so joining with Otago means more promotion for the courses.

“We get really good job opportunities with Aoraki ... but I think that a certificate or diploma through Otago would look better to employers, because Aoraki’s

not that well-known in some areas,” Miss Proctor said.

Beauty therapy student Ahleah Payne-Gee, 19, felt the transfer was positive, especially now she was guaranteed to be able to finish the second year of a two-year course.

An Otago Polytechnic spokeswoman said yesterday if students were partway through a course at the time of the transfer, they would be guaranteed completion of it next year. All programmes plus staff, buildings and administration would be transferred to Otago Polytechnic.

A consultation process had been ongoing between the two institutions since September 10.

Otago Polytechnic acting chief

executive Matt Carter said in a statement he was “delighted” the transfer had been confirmed and he was “looking forward to welcoming the new team of staff and students”.

All programmes offered at Aoraki in Dunedin at present would be offered, “subject to achieving sufficient enrolments”, he said.

“Aoraki and Otago share similar approaches to learning ... [and] we look forward to providing learners more opportunities and outstanding learning experiences at Otago Polytechnic.”

On September 7, Otago Polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker said some courses could be scrapped if enrolments were not at about 16 by February. - NZME

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■ LAKE COLERIDGE WATER STORAGE

Data key to making lake work

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Cloud can increase the chance of rain, but it also delivers water banked in Lake Coleridge to irrigators with certainty.

At this week’s combined Ashburton and Selwyn-Waihora zone committee meeting Trustpower’s engineering manager Peter Lilley reported on the Rakaia River National Water Conservation Order, which allows irrigators on the Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation (BCI) scheme to store water in Lake Coleridge to be released when river flows are insufficient to draw from.

Trustpower, which generates hydro-electricity at Coleridge, was also granted permission to construct a canal linking the lake with Central Plains Water’s (CPW) storage facility. Farmers pay to store the water, and those on the BCI tapped into it for the first time in 2013. CPW comes online this season.

Mr Lilley said the system was working well but relied on the collection of accurate and transparent data.

“We can only store water when irrigators are not using their allo-

cation, so we need to know how much is being used,” he said.

“The water belongs to the irrigators – it is only released on request. It may be some farmers are using some water from the river and some stored water, we need to know this.”

On a daily basis the data collected is “not perfect” and for that reason some of the stored allocation is always held back, but it self corrects over time.

“The lake is the only way we can manage that inaccuracy, we can’t put that stress on the river,” Mr Lilley said.

“The key to that is data transparency when it comes to data.”

Likewise, water releases for irrigation purposes don’t work unless Trustpower provides storage data which can be viewed in real time using cloud technology.

As well as providing the necessary information for farmers and Trustpower, Environment Canterbury can also keep track of inflow, storage and releases from the lake.

Under this Information Management System (IMS), irrigators enter their water take entitlement, within the water conser-

Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation manager John Wright at Lake Coleridge when the first irrigation water was banked in 2013.

PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO vation order criteria, the actual amount drawn and request releases of stored water for the following days.

Trustpower accumulates inflow data, assigns stored water to users, manages storage and responds to release requests and

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Mr Lilley also reported on changes to the river and lake since the water conservation order came into effect.

Lake levels are now slightly higher in spring, the summer drawdown now occurs “some

years” as opposed to “most years” at the time of the order, and lake levels are only “slightly lower” mid-summer to late autumn.

Other than a decrease in water releases in early spring changes to the river have been minimal.

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■ PGG WRIGHTSON

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■ PALM KERNEL IMPORTS

Annual Imports up on back of reduction plea earnings forecast to fall by 12% Imports of palm kernel (PKE) – which Fonterra is keen for farmers to cut back on – rose slightly in September compared with the same month in 2014.

PKE imports came to 213,488 tonnes in September, up 0.8 per cent from 211,709 tonnes in September 2014, according to data from Statistics New Zealand.

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By Suze Metherell PGG Wrightson, the rural services firm controlled by China’s Agria Corp, expects annual earnings to fall as much as 12 per cent from the previous year, as weaker dairy prices weigh on farm incomes.

The Christchurch-based firm expects operating earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation to be between $61 million and $67 million in the year ending June 30, 2016, compared to the $69.6 million it reported for the 2015 financial year.

Dairy prices recovered in October to be the highest level since March, after an extended drop saw New Zealand’s largest export commodity drop from a record and forced Fonterra Co-operative Group to slash its payout to farmers.

Lower income for farmers has flowed through to reduced sales for Wrightson.

“While the recent bounce in global dairy prices provides welcome relief for the sector, our view is that this news has come a little late for New Zealand dairy farmers to materially increase their spending with us for the current season,” chief executive Mark Dewdney said in a statement. “A low dairy pay-out forecast at the time farm budgets were set remains the key reason we believe our earnings may dip in 2016 from last year’s excellent result.”

Wrightson has been expanding its operations, agreeing to buy the assets of Australian seed business Grainland Moree as well as a 50 per cent stake in Uruguayan rural services company Agrocentro Uruguay for undisclosed amounts.

Dewdney said despite the weaker dairy prices, Wrightson was ahead of expectations for the first quarter, without being more specific. The New Zealand seed business had a strong start to the financial year, he said.

The profit warning comes ahead of the company’s annual meeting in Christchurch today.

Wrightson shares last traded at 43.5 cents, and have gained 4.8 per cent over the past 12 months.

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The co-op put forward a recommended maximum of 3kg/per day/per cow as a guideline.

Palm kernel has become a useful standby for farmers, particularly during abnormal weather, when consumption can go

up to 10kg a day. The product came into its own in 2007 when a drought sent North Island farmers looking for new feed sources, marking a step change for palm kernel as a viable feed supplement.

Imports of palm kernel – a by-product of the palm oil process – have gone from 96,000 tonnes in 2003 to 2 million tonnes last year.

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■ MORRIS 10

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t’s a story with a sad beginning, but a happy outcome.

Bryan Wilkins left school to work on the family farm, and incidentally he and Mavis still live on part of that property.

In those days, farm bikes and utes as we know them now, were pretty much still in the future; the sheep work was done on horseback and on foot.

One Christmas Day, Bryan’s father looked outside and had bad news for Bryan.

Bryan’s horse had died.

It was certainly distressing news on what should have been a happy day; like all good horsemen, Bryan was attached to his trusty steed.

Always a forward thinker, Bryan knew another form of horsepower could be put to use.

With this in mind and because of his loss being reluctant to train another horse, he started thinking about a suitable vehicle.

In town one day he saw a vehicle which he instinctively knew would be useful, albeit one which at first may have seemed an unusual choice to others, but not to Bryan.

The vehicle was a 1939 Morris 10.

Bryan asked the owner if he would sell his car and was told “yes, but I’ve turned down an offer of 20 pounds”.

So Bryan asked if he would take 40 pounds and the deal was done.

Maybe thinking Bryan’s offer was generous, the seller provided a new battery.

The car had to be towed home but with a little tinkering it fired up easily, although initially only on two cylinders.

Bryan soon had it going on all four, and over the years the Morris 10 not only proved ideal for the job but also reliable, clocking up 10,000 paddock miles.

The car had several features which made it ideal for the job.

The big wheels provided good traction especially in wet weather, although Bryan says his homemade version of chains - twine laced through the spaces in the wheels - helped.

Two ewes with lambs fitted in the back seat, there was room for the dog and, because the boot lid opened down, others could ride in there.

When new, the car was a company vehicle driven by a stock firm agent who sold Lanz Bulldog tractors.

Bryan knows the car’s history, and he had a chuckle once at shearing time.

He asked shearer Harley Gundry if he would like a ride in the Morris 10, getting the reply “not likely, I wouldn’t ride in that”.

To which Bryan responded, well you have before.

Puzzled, Harley asked when, and Bryan told him Harley’s dad once owned the car.

Ultimately the development of farm bikes made them a good option, and the Morris 10 was retired and remains so on the farm.

Bryan had ideas of restoring it but as he says “a few other cars came along”.

They certainly have but that’s another story!

The idea of having a usable restored Morris 10 stayed with Bryan, so when the chance came along to buy another 1939 model which was in pretty good order, he grabbed it.

This car came from Rangiora, and although he had a few overheating issues, Bryan managed to drive it home.

The car was complete, the original upholstery is in excellent condition, the back window blind works perfectly, as do the trafficators and the tool kit supplied when the car was new.

The exterior required some work and the motor needed to be reconditioned, with ironically

for an English car, parts being sourced from the USA. Bryan did all the work, that’s right, all the work, panelbeating, painting, mechanicals, himself.

Some of the work was quite intricate, but being practical and skilled, Bryan was undaunted.

That’s an incredible achievement for anyone, but especially so for Bryan who as the result of a farm accident many years ago finds it difficult to stand for very long.

Being methodical, he planned and did the work in stages, and typically did it perfectly.

Fitting news tyres provided some amusement.

Bryan took the wheels and a set of new 16X525 tyres to Neumanns.

Alan Neumann was amazed to see tyres which were long out of production, so he asked where

Bryan got them.

Bryan was able to say “from you” and then added, 40 years ago!

Always thinking ahead, Bryan had bought and carefully stored the tyres knowing they would be needed one day.

Correct storage had improved the rubber.

Today the Morris 10 looks absolutely resplendent, restored in its original two tone colours.

Powered by a four cylinder 1140cc motor with a four speed gearbox, the Morris 10 is a peppy car which rides well and cruises comfortably at around 80km/h.

Morris 10 production began in the 1930s but was put on hold in 1939 because of the outbreak of war. Production numbers in that year were low, and consequently so were exports.

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It is thought Bryan’s cars are two of a limited number of the model in this country.

The 1939 cars featured subtle design differences unique to that year and these add to the rarity of the vehicle.

Production began again in 1946, when design changes saw the body size extended by three and a half inches.

Soon after restoration was completed, Bryan and Mavis drove the Morris 10 on the Vintage Car Club’s 2014 Spring Rally.

Driving that day, Bryan was reminded of the similar car he bought over 50 years before, which was not only a great workhorse, but ultimately led to Bryan’s interest in vintage and classic cars.

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■ RUGBY

Support from home overwhelms ABs

Conrad Smith sits for a moment during training.

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The support for the All Blacks is flooding into their training base outside London as they prepare for the World Cup final showdown against Australia, with midfielder Sonny Bill Williams describing it as “overwhelming”.

Messages and best wishes are starting to cover the walls of their team room at their Pennyhill Hotel base that the players will use as inspiration as they attempt to defend their title at Twickenham on Sunday morning.

Normally England’s home, the All Blacks have this week taken it over the hotel and training facilities in Bagshot, Surrey, as they get ready for their first World Cup final against their neighbours, and reminders of home will not be in short supply.

Williams tweeted: “The support is overwhelming”, with fullback Ben Smith admitting the team are getting a sense of the anticipation building on the other side of the world.

“I imagine they’ll be pretty excited back home,” Smith said. “We’re excited as players to get out there and play the game.

“It’s great to have all the support from back home – we definitely feel that support.

“There are things that pop up in our team room that we have a look at. Obviously people send you messages of support and you’re really grateful for all the support we’re getting from back home. It means just as much to them as it does us.”

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base is a private area where they will hold meetings and, potentially, have snacks between their meals. It is an area in which they can mix away from prying eyes.

The support is reaching a crescendo, just as the volume of the crowd chanting for the All Blacks in their tense 20-18 semifinal victory over the Springboks at Twickenham at the weekend did.

Steve Hansen’s men have never heard such chanting at England’s home, with veteran midfielder Conrad Smith this week saying it spurred them on as they defended their slim lead against a Boks team which saved their best for last.

Halfback Tawera Kerr-Barlow, who was born in New Zealand but lived in Australia’s Northern Territory for much of his youth, said he had received support from his Australia mates, who had a foot in each camp.

He added of New Zealand’s trans-Tasman rivalry: “We have the Bledisloe between us which is taken very seriously by both countries, and I think because we’re so close to each other, through any sport really we’re natural rivals. I suppose it’s fitting we end up in a World Cup final together.

“When I was younger, Australia were going through quite a good period in their rugby, so obviously our family friends used to give us a bit of grief. Everyone knows it’s a massive rivalry between us. It’s a World Cup final and everything is up for grabs so that will add to the occasion.”

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Club news www.guardianonline.co.nz Age Concern Ashburton The final Age Concern newsletter for 2015 is awaiting delivery to all members as soon as possible, so keep an eye out for your copy. Included is an invitation to the members’ Annual Christmas Party to be held at the Seniors Centre on Friday December 4 at 2pm. We look forward to you joining us in celebration of this special and significant time of the year.

We were thrilled with the response to Lavender Day, our Annual Street Appeal, on October 2 and extend grateful thanks not only to the public of Ashburton for their generosity, but, also to the many dedicated volunteers who manned the various collection stations and the businesses who supported us by making venues available.

Rosa Bennett’s 50 Plus group has concluded a very successful programme of seven weekly sessions on Friday mornings at the Seniors Centre. We are greatly indebted to Rosa for her continued interest and enthusiasm in delivering 50 Plus on behalf of Age Concern.

206 Club, under the guidance of Mary Harrison, continues to offer activities, companionship and a stimulating programme for all clients. The volunteers who support Mary in the daily format are an invaluable asset for the successful operation of 206 and we gratefully acknowledge their wonderful contribution.

A reminder that all enquiries for the above mentioned, as well as Advocacy, Courtesy Drivers, Gardeners, Steady As You Go classes and Total Mobility are welcomed at the Age Concern office – phone 3086817.

Allenton Bowling Club Ladies 1st round of the 5’s and Rowntree Competitions have begun. The 5’s has 2 wins away against New Brighton and The Rowntree had a draw against Halswell. On October 22 Our In House drawn triples for the Walter Johnson Trophy was played - 14 teams took part.

1st. N Woods, F Frewen & B Beck 2nd.

B White, D Thomas, & J Mitchell 3rd. G Beckley, B Molloy & L Tarbotton. Sponsor Darryl Phillips Motor Co. Progressive Pairs on October 24 - Leads. 1st. Jenny Mitchell 2nd. Barry Molloy/Lester Tarbotton Skips. 1st Alan McIntosh 2nd.

Sandra Keith. Bowls Canterbury 2 Fours Results: Div 2 Sec A: A Crawford R Holdom R Harrison & B Molloy won 22-8 G Bishop C Youngman R Kane & A McGirr won 28-8 Div 6 Sec A: T Sutton D Hickman R Brasell & D McCormick won 2210 B Saussey R Smitheram M Reid & D McEvedy won 17-13. Club Championships are underway, please get your games organized asap. Dates are on the board and late games will be classed as a default. Saturday is our club day and all members are urged to come along and enjoy our wonderful club.

Upcoming Events November 13 Show Day Open Fours, also soon is Sub Centre Lowry Cup Men’s Open Singles and Nan Marsh for the Ladies Singles. December 19 Anama Tray Open Aussie Pair. December 12 M & G Cartwright Club Drawn Triples Write these down and support these events. See you on the Greens.

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of golf and debauchery - may be able to tell a few stories later, but we all know, what goes on tour, stays on tour. Good golfing.

Ashburton Horticultural Society There was a good turnout of members for the monthly meeting. The Annual Garden competition is in the early stages of planning and will be advertised shortly. Next meeting will be Monday November 23 beginning with a pot luck tea at 6pm. Members were asked to make a decorative Christmas Posy Bowl and these will be taken to Friends of the Society.

Daphne Rissman spoke on the care of roses and problems encountered with rose growing, particularly stress caused by lack of water which can lead to black spot. The hard frosts in exposed areas this winter have caused damage and will reduce flowering time this summer. Gardeners living near farming areas need to be aware of the potential harm caused by spray drift. We were showed how to properly maintain secateurs.

Members then put some of their questions to Daphne about taking cuttings, when and how to water and prune roses.

An interesting and humorous discussion followed on the effects of the moon on plants, the water table, animals and people!

Table Show Results: Joy Jaine 8 firsts, 3 seconds, 3 thirds, Surrey Lamont 6, 5, 1, Pat Tarbotton 5, 6, 2, Anne Gamblin 3, 1, 2, Brian Glassey 3, 0, 3, Maureen Randall 2, 2, 1 Rosemary Case 2, 0. 0, Dorothy Broome 0, 3, 2 Premier Award - First equal Surrey Lamont, Rhododendron, and Anne Gamblin, Flowering pot plant – cyclamen.

There was also a very special display by Brian Glassey of five flowering brooms.

The raffle was won by Pat Tarbotton.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club members Richard Browne (left) and Bruno Falco took home the South Island title over the weekend.

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The Ashburton MSA Petanque Club is still celebrating after taking home the South Island double championship title last weekend.

Richard Browne and Bruno Falco paired up during Saturday’s event in Dunedin and took out the top spot.

Both were rewarded for the efforts by also being selected for the New Zealand Open doubles team.

Neither had ever won the South Island

title before and with only three years’ experience behind them were proud to have performed so well.

Playing against petanque veterans with up to 20 years’ experience, Browne said it was great to finally take home the title.

In just over a week the pair will take their efforts to the big leagues, going head to head with petanque players from around the country for the national doubles title in Herne Bay, Auckland.

Browne said Ashburton would love to be chosen to host the event next year.

Usually it rotates around the three main petanque centres in the Auckland, Wellington and Southern regions but it would be a great feat for a new club to host, he said.

To heighten interest in the sport, the Ashburton club is hosting a local doubles competition, running for four weeks.

Anyone with questions on how to participate can contact the club.

Ashburton Woodworkers Bryan Ching welcomed 23 members to the October 22 meeting, at our first meeting at our new clubrooms at the Tinwald Domain. Several thank you letters for the invitation to the opening were read out, while Wim Melchers gave a thank you address to president, Bryan Ching for his contribution to the project of building the clubrooms and obtaining so many sponsors. Much applause followed. Thanks Bryan.

Show and Tell: Kevin Challis a rimu spoon & an off centre handle; David Ford a pinus radiate hollow vase with handle; Bruce Ferriman three marble painted bowl; Ian Harding three pierced vases & two Australia hardwood vases; Peter Ireland a thin pine platter; George Spencer ash mallet and a kauri bowl; Les Mattingley a duck calling device; Frank Luxton a rimu carved vase; Dave Strong a scout woggle boot shape and three large clothes pegs; Wim Melchers a worm holed piece of beech driftwood turned into a bowl.

Clarrie Brake then gave us a demonstra-

tion on carving, preceded with a brief history of carving and explained the importance of the golden rectangle classic proportions. If carving a turned object, leave the dish fixed to the chuck so that it can be held firmly in a vice while carving.

He took some time showing us how to sharpen his chisels which differs from sharpening turning chisels. Sharp chisels cut better, are less dangerous than blunt ones. An outline of a leaf and grape was drawn on a block of lime wood, he then proceeded to show us how to cut round it. Thanks Clarrie.

Hakatere/Ashburton U3A This month’s guest speaker was former Ashburtonian, now Lecturer in Art History at Otago University, Dr Warren Feeney, who addressed a sizeable gathering of members and guests on 21st Century art.

Using illustrations of key works that trace the directions contemporary art

has moved - from Marcel Duchamp to Simon Denny and Yvonne Todd, we learnt that although art may outwardly entertain and pretend to flatter, its main purpose was to provoke reflection on beliefs, conceptions (and misconceptions) of personal world views. 21st century art is not only popular but often conceptual in approach where it uses everyday imagery to provoke questioning of what art is. It is also brings ‘the street’ into the world of serious art.

U3A were privileged to have Warren address us on issues surrounding contemporary art and left everyone leaving with different accommodations of the meaning of 21st century art. Indeed, visiting an art gallery to view modern (and ancient) works of art will provoke thought in a way that no ‘mall’ or ‘stadium’ could possibly do.

November 24 our last meeting for 2015, will have a presentation by Sheryl Stivens on Environmental Management.

Doors open 9.30am at St. David’s

Ashburton Golf Club Couple of busy weeks just gone and some busier ones coming up. We had some great winners recently, Kevin Smith and Terry O’Reilly picked up the Watson Cup, and Vince Carr carried John Dudley’s bag round the course as they picked up the Newton Trophy. This Monday just gone, Miti Daniel won the Centennial Cup with a superb 45 points, pipping yours truly by a point. Well done to all winners. This weekend we have the Ladies’ South Island Interprovincials held at Brandon on Saturday and Sunday. Should be some wonderful golfers on show and the course is looking fantastic.

So no organised golf this weekend, but all the other Mid Canterbury clubs have invited us to take part in their games of the day with reciprocal rights, so get some mates together and head round the county and visit our neighbours. I would love to have other captains ringing me saying that our boys and girls have been burgling prizes across the district, so go get into them.

We will be going a bit farther afield, six of us are going on a jolly boys’ jaunt to Tauranga and the Mount, for seven days

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Charity golf day a big success The 14th annual Ashburton Charity Golf Classic proved a resounding success in September with more than $28,000 raised for the Mid Canterbury Cancer Society, Prostate Cancer Foundation and Hospice Mid Canterbury. Thirty teams, mostly made up of local businesses, participated in the competition.

At the money handover were (front, from

left) Heather Ford (Brophy Knight), Mandy Casey (Mid Canterbury Cancer Society), Karen Hall (Hospice Mid Canterbury), Rodger Bradford (Bradfords) and (back, from left) Annie Bonifant (Mid Canterbury Cancer Society), David Fisher (Brophy Knight) and John Cockburn (Prostate Cancer Foundation/ Placemakers).

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Church, Allenton.

MSA Racing Section After two enjoyable trips to Methven trots behind the section, our next trip is planned for Saturday November 21. We will travel to Phar Lap Raceway to enjoy the day at Timaru.

Usual conditions apply, keep your eye on the section noticeboard. Our section is planning to travel to Kaikoura for the 2016 Kaikoura Cup. This trip will be departing Sunday am returning Tuesday. To gauge interest and secure your booking the section requires a deposit of $100 per person to obtain our accommodation. This deposit is required by November 6. More information available from Murray Campbell or Michael Crequer. Good punting members

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members on October 22. There was a reasonable attendance. Apologies were accepted. We sang the RSA song and Happy Birthday to one member, accompanied on the piano, by Hope McIntosh.

Sympathy was sent out to anyone who has sadly lost a loved one.

Sick members were wished a speedy recovery. The President gave a brief report on the seventieth birthday celebration.

Claire is taking names for the Christmas dinner to be held on Monday December 7. Cost $20. Thank you to all who baked for the stall at the R.S.A. Garage Sale. Note: change of date for the bus trip, from February 1 to February 8, 2016.

Four names wanted please to sell raffles next month.

The speakers were introduced: Jo Houghton from The Christchurch Kidney Society and Carmel Gregan-Ford, from Kidney Health New Zealand. Both ladies gave much information and readily answered member’s questions. The recently developed Cook Book sold quite well. The ladies were thanked for giving up time to come and inform us about Kidney health.

Raffles were won by Catherine Smith and Verna Hastie.

Competitions: Teddy – medium size 1st Helen Lynn, 2nd June Bain, 3rd Colleen Wederell; Spring Flower 1st Helen Lynn, 2nd Judy Peck, 3rd Colleen Wederell. A most interesting afternoon ended, with the hostesses serving afternoon tea.

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■ CRICKET

In brief

College look to continue form

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Ashburton College will lock horns with Shirley Boys’ 2nd XI in Christchurch on Saturday in their second match of the season.

College are gunning for promotion and got off to strong start against Riccarton High School over the last two Saturdays to take a deserved 10-wicket win at the Ashburton Domain.

On day two of their first competitive outing last Saturday, College had the task of seeing off Riccarton for an outright win after leading by 101 with one wicket remaining from day one.

The visitors ended College’s innings when Josh Paul dismissed Josh Buchanan for just one extra run, but Buchanan quickly helped the home side make inroads in to the Riccarton reply when he caused opener Josh Daly to loop a catch to skipper Kieran Hunt at cover.

Buchanan then sent fellow opener Tim Bridgman back to the pavilion.

Hunt brought himself in to the action and had instant success to remove Ben Bridgman for one run before Buchanan took this third wicket of the day, finding an edge for Ben Niles to take the catch at third slip to remove Jonty Hunter.

With four cheap wickets down, Riccarton needed the middle order to provide some stability, and the partnership of James Rennie and Josh Paul answered the call by putting on 50 before Gareth Hunt took a fine catch at mid-

Given a platform to strengthen their Test ambitions, Australia’s hopefuls have all floundered on day one of the Sheffield Shield season. Cameron Bancroft, Shaun Marsh, Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja all failed to post a score of substance in potentially their final knocks before national selectors pick a squad for Brisbane.

Chairman of selectors Rod Marsh will tomorrow announce the squad that will face New Zealand in the three-Test series opener, which starts on November 5 at the Gabba. The major question is which batsmen deserve call-ups after the retirements of Michael Clarke and Chris Rogers.

- AAP

Geitz called up

Josh Buchanan took three wickets during Riccarton’s second innings last Saturday.

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wicket off the bowling of Connor O’Grady to dismiss Paul. Rennie went on to top score with 67 before running out of partners.

O’Grady took two more wickets, dismissing Ethan Ng for a duck before Tom Ravenscroft caught Max Connelly.

Niles also claimed a wicket when Tom Ravenscroft caught Oliver Robson, Hunt then returned to the fray, and saw off the visitors’ tailenders. Ricca-

rton were all out for 117, meaning 16 runs were required from College’s second innings for an outright win. Just two overs were needed as Michael Burton struck two fours and a six.

College coach Mark Reid said it was difficult to gauge the level of Shirley Boys’ 2nd XI, but was expecting his players to be confident after last Saturday’s convincing outright win.

“We don’t know what Shirley

Boys’ 2nds will be like, we played them back in February and won quite convincingly but they were missing some players and were quite weak, so it’s difficult to know what to expect,” he said.

“The guys did well against Riccarton and I’m sure they’ll have confidence from that.”

College hope to continue their winning form on Saturday, when play begins at 10.30am at Shirley Boys’ High School.

Breakers back in business against the Taipans It turns out all the Breakers needed to rediscover winning ways was the return of their best offensive weapon.

That rather unsurprising revelation was confirmed at Vector Arena last night as Corey Webster unleashed a career-high 35 points to easily conquer Cairns.

Hopefuls stumble

Webster came back to the Kiwi club after falling just short of his NBA dream, finding his teammates languishing in an early 1-3 hole. Since then, the Tall Black has led all scorers in consecutive games as the Breakers leapt into the Australian NBL top four.

Just like Sydney last week, the

Taipans were unable to tame the scoring threat of Webster, who started fast to give the Breakers an early lead and finished strongly to clinch a comfortable victory.

Webster finished the game shooting 51 per cent from the floor, including three three-pointers, allowing the Breakers’ sud-

denly-stout defence to do the rest.

“The most important thing is we got the win,” Webster said after the game. “We played some good team defence and I’m proud of the boys.”

The feeling is undoubtedly mutual, with the final score 90-67 in the Breakers’ favour. - NZME

Australia’s netball captain Laura Geitz has been rushed to Perth for the Constellation Cup decider against New Zealand tomorrow.

Geitz was rested with Australia up 2-0 in the four-Test series, but after the Silver Ferns hit back with an upset win in Melbourne on Sunday, the 27-year-old was on Wednesday called back into camp. The experience and composure of goalkeeper Geitz was sorely missed in the 50-47 game-three defeat as the Kiwis turned around a nine-goal deficit to keep the series alive. The three-goal victory was the Silver Ferns’ first Constellation Cup win since September 2013 and ended Australia’s run of 10 consecutive wins against their trans-Tasman rivals.

- AAP

Phoenix future Captain Andrew Durante says football in New Zealand would be “destroyed” if the Wellington Phoenix were kicked out of the A-League. The Football Federation Australia has said it doesn’t think Wellington adds value to the league and instead wants a third Sydney team. The FFA has offered the owners of the Phoenix a four-year licence extension – their current licence runs out at the end of the season – and owner the Welnix group have said it has little interest in continuing unless there is more certainty. Welnix is seeking a 10-year extension but the FFA has kept it largely in the dark.

SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■ Bridge

V Palmer Thursday Evening – Presidents Trophy N/S 1 L Leadley and I Doel, 2 A Sim and R Phillips, 3 B Macaulay and S Rosevear E/W 1 R McLaughlin and K Robb 2 T Small and V Palmer, 3 T Downward and V Ferrier

Ashburton Bridge Club October 16 Monday Evening – Duplicate N/S 1 M Hoar and P Wise, 2 D Fisher and B Leighton, 3 D Sewell and G McCormick E/W 1 Joyce Johnson and G Brown, 2 F Williamson and M Francis, 3 G and N Baker Tuesday Evening – Hazelmere Trophy Ashburton Bowling Club N/S 1 M Buckland and R McLaughlin, 2 J Fechney and S Rosevear, 3 T October 30 Toyota Friday Triples Downward and Jan de Jong E/W 1 W Kolkman and A Rooney, 2 P Following skips have entered teams:R Anstiss, J Argyle, N Atkinson, T Blain, Downward and K Robb, 3 L Baker and L Connell, G Crack, J Dennis, G Eder, M A Maude Eder, D Gutberlet, B Harper, B HarriWednesday Afternoon – Valetta Trophy N/S 1 R McLaughlin and J Edmond, 2 M son, G Hawkins, R Herriott, B Holdom, T Johnson, C Leech, J Smart, B Marsden, Buckland and P Downward, 3 B McIlraith J Martin, E Maw, B Neilson, M Quinn, M and M Moore Reid, J Ryk, N Sharplin, M Smallridge, E/W 1 R Kyle and T Downward, 2 K A Smith, G Taylor, W Watts, B White, B Robb and J Wright, 3 E Lattimore and

DRAWS

■ Bowls

Williams.

Inquiries to J Ryk Phone 3087907. jandjryk@xtra.co.nz

Hinds Bowling Club November 1 Gill Trophy Open 4’s – 9am start Entries: D Gutberlet, B Lynn, C Leech, Waimate, B Marsh, B Mayson, G Sparks, Geraldine, G Taylor, M Skilling, J Ryk, G Pagey, B Holdom, Methven, Hinds Convenor Jock Moore 3037149 mobile 0274370686. Bring own lunch.

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club October 31 and November 1 The course will be closed due to the South Island Women’s Interprovincial competition being played over the weekend. Members are encouraged to play at one of the Clubs with which reciprocal rights are held Ladies Division October 31 Weekend Ladies. Course closed for S I Interprovincial Ladies Tournament.

November 3 Mid-Week Ladies. Mystery Bus trip.

Please meet at club house at 7.45am for 8am departure. Contact Leigh Wackrow for further details (308 3790 or cell phone 027 432 7780) November 5 Nine Hole Men and Women. Course closed for maintenance. Convenors: Ann Fleming 3084005 and Joy Nicholas 3086464. Club Captain Jenny Williams 3082081.

Tinwald Golf Club November 3 Women’s Division Mildred Doak Trophy (3 clubs) Report 9.05 for 9.30 start.

Starters K. McAuliffe, B. Cochrane; Cards D. Bell, L. McClea; Draw steward, J. Bruhns

■ Tennis

Mid Canterbury Tennis October 31, Open Grade Tennis Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre A Reserve 12.15pm Hampstead v Tinwald, Methven v Allen-

ton/Wakanui A Grade 1.15pm Hampstead v Allenton; Southern v Methven; Fairton v Bye Junior Tennis Round 3 Saturday 31 October 2015 All games to start at 9am sharp B Grade - played at ATTC Duty Team Methven Green Methven Green v Hinds Southern Warriors; Hampstead v Tinwald Orange; Rakaia Blue v Allenton; BYE – Dorie.

Junior A & Junior B Combined Grade Dorie/Rakaia B v Longbeach/Willowby at Rakaia; Allenton v Wakanui Southern Wild Slammers at Mayfield; Methven Red v Hampstead/Tinwald v Hampstead; Hampstead v Methven Silver at Methven Domain; BYE – Hinds/Southern Allenton.

Junior C Methven White v Rakaia Rascals at Rakaia; Hampstead v Hinds Southern Stingers at Hinds; Methven Black v Hinds Southern Stars at Mt Hutt College; Dorie C v Allenton at Allenton.

Please phone any defaults through to Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis 308 3020 as soon as possible.

Racing

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Rolston seeks imported blood New Zealand Bloodstock’s Danny Rolston will spend the next week helping local breeders in a longterm plan to produce the next Trust In A Gust, Foxwedge or Anabandana.

All three of those Australasian Group One winners are out of United States-bred mares, and all were bought at the Keeneland November Sale, where Rolston is headed.

The sale is a mixed bloodstock sale, and it’s an especially good place to find high-quality mares.

This year will be the third in which Rolston has gone over, as part of a partnership between New Zealand Bloodstock and the Keeneland sales agency.

“Predominantly the idea is to fa-

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Addington Raceway today. 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 4.39pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C2, 295m 1 64218 Kyla Rose 17.32 .....................J T McInerney 2 44257 Raincheck 17.56 ............................. M Grant 3 63215 Peyton Sawyer 17.56 ................... L Waretini 4 34221 Adjudicator 17.23 S & .....................B Evans 5 23622 Gump’s The Name 17.45 ....................A Lee 6 12854 Sketchy Steve 17.35 ....................... M Grant 7 26227 Cawbourne Danial 17.25 ...................C Weir 8 32331 Screw And Bolt 17.33 ........................C Weir 9 47314 Candyboy 17.48 C & .......................... Fagan 10 83412 Royal Action 17.37 S & ...................B Evans 2 5.01pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 1 C5q, 520m 1 16243 Jewel Action nwtd J & .....................D Fahey 2 26513 Willis 30.26....................................R Adcock 3 51151 Lochinvar Impact nwtd ...............D Schofield 4 21412 Goldstar Avery 30.24 S &................B Evans 5 27736 Boris nwtd ........................................ B Dann 6 11521 Know Cheers 30.36 .......................G Cleeve 7 12357 Homebush Chopper 30.06 .....J T McInerney 8 51352 Opawa Diesel 30.46 L & .................... Wales 9 46425 Know Lapse 30.81 .........................G Cleeve 10 12746 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts 3 5.19pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C3, 295m 1 22433 Know Pride 17.08...........................G Cleeve 2 24184 Cawbourne Dozer 17.27 ....................C Weir 3 63118 Wrinkles 17.33 .......................J T McInerney 4 41444 Homebush Bruno 17.34 .........J T McInerney 5 46425 Know Lapse nwtd...........................G Cleeve 6 21376 Kinloch Power nwtd S & ..................B Evans 7 31818 Bhuja 17.47 ...............................R Blackburn 8 66156 Wears The Gold 17.28 .................C Roberts 9 74621 Air Express 17.30...................J T McInerney 10 68712 Om Nom Nom 17.43 ..............J T McInerney 4 5.46pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 2 C5q, 520m 1 36226 Boston Heart nwtd ......................A Turnwald 2 51367 Zipping Angel nwtd ............................C Weir 3 86813 Cawbourne Crouch nwtd .............M Roberts 4 15163 Bound To Erupt nwtd ....................... M Grant 5 31677 Opawa Stretch 30.32 L & ................... Wales 6 12265 Can’t Catch Tim 30.09 ..................R Adcock 7 23256 Know Value 30.44 ..........................G Cleeve 8 62111 Born To Boom 30.02 .........................J Dunn

cilitate some investment from New Zealand breeders into some international bloodlines,” he said.

“It came about as a bit of a joint venture with Keeneland. They were in New Zealand and asked us how we thought we could generate some interest and we came up with the idea of going up there.”

Rolston has spoken to a number of New Zealand breeders, and has trawled through the first three books of the sale to put together a short list of young mares he believes will suit the Southern Hemisphere market.

Upon arrival at Keeneland he will cast his eye over the mares on the short list to see how they shape up

physically, before deciding which mares to bid on after consultation with New Zealand clients.

“We mainly look for mares off the track, or mares with their first foal inside, or if there’s an obvious Australasian-relevant pedigree.”

He then has the task of trying to outbid the rest of the world – not an easy task, but one where the rewards are potentially very high.

“The Keeneland sale’s not American pedigrees only, either. You can tap into many of the European and South American bloodlines too.”

New Zealand Bloodstock is offering breeders a package including finance, insurance and airfreight for any mares they do buy.

Christchurch dogs 10 12746 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts

9 7.37pm FAST ARCHER AT STUD SPRINT C3, 295m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

12333 Must Desire 17.17 ..........................G Cleeve x3726 Butterbean 17.20 M & .....................P Binnie 24263 Increasing 17.33 ............................. M Grant 71618 Homebush Zippy 17.37 ..........J T McInerney 17884 Homebush Slinky 17.42 .........J T McInerney 11438 Harden Faster 17.38 ..........................C Weir 17462 Only Got Time 17.12 .................R Blackburn 7888x Sprinkles 17.23 ......................J T McInerney 52662 Another Fan 17.38 .................J T McInerney 47824 Know Contest 17.30.......................G Cleeve 10 8.07pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 7 C5q, 520m 1 34445 Big Red Chev nwtd .....................A Turnwald 2 23334 Know Mention 30.06 ......................G Cleeve 3 22118 Chippa Lata 30.31.....................R Blackburn 4 11141 Dream Collector 29.85 J & ..............D Fahey 5 67x77 Frost Yourself nwtd .............................C Weir 6 13442 Kirkham Jack 30.15......................C Roberts 7 61284 Skuzi nwtd........................................L Ahern 8 24731 Roadworks 30.91 ............................ M Grant 9 28543 Know Neglect 30.61 .......................G Cleeve 10 57346 Know Hero 30.32 ...........................G Cleeve 11 8.35pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 8 C5q, 520m 1 22111 Dyna Vikkers 29.94 ......................C Roberts 2 42314 Boston Billy 30.40 H & ........................Taylor 3 12212 Opawa Shackley 30.03 J & .............D Fahey 4 35568 Know Jinx 30.32.............................G Cleeve 5 46312 Rolex Roo nwtd ................................L Ahern 6 14211 Breaking Mad nwtd ......................... M Grant 7 46544 Botany Kevin 30.49 ................J T McInerney 8 27516 Goldstar Junior 30.58 S & ...............B Evans 9 28543 Know Neglect 30.61 .......................G Cleeve 10 48641 Chasing The Line nwtd ...............A Turnwald 12 9.03pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C4, 295m 1 42228 Collecting Money 17.27 .................. M Grant 2 33176 Cawbourne Peejay 17.28 ...................C Weir 3 41684 Dream Large 17.14 .......................... B Dann 4 48131 Bo’s Business 17.27........................ M Grant 5 11853 Terra Mondo 17.47 C & ...................... Fagan 6 16455 Cawbourne Jelly 17.11 ......................C Weir 7 76338 Spider Girl 17.18 .............................. B Dann 8 67147 Porky Pig 17.33 ......................... A Bradshaw 9 35738 Costing Money 17.42 ...................... M Grant 10 67683 Starburst Terry 17.20....................... M Grant

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M5 Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu Raceway

Manawatu HRC meeting at Manawatu Raceway today.

NZ Meeting number: 5. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8. Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8.

1 5.35pm (NZT) BECOME A MEMBER OF MANAWATU HRC HANDICAP TROT $7000, 4yo+ c0 to c4 spechcp trot, stand, 2500m 1 Above The Rest (1) fr ...............K Chittenden 2 00x99 Torpedo Run (U1) fr .................. J Abernethy 3 78930 Ma Cille (1) 30......................... B Butcher (J) 4 715 Bet Pray Love (2) 30 ........................ D Dunn 5 D8xD4 Bim Bom Bay (3) 30 ..............K More 6 6979x Mistress Castleton (4) 30 ....... K Marshall (J) 7 4x127 Master Monarchy (5) 30 ............. A Drake (J) 8 P0x32 Notre Dame (U1) 30......................S Lawson 9 7841 No Bacardi Damit (U2) 30 ..... A Poutama (J) 10 10330 Mokosun (U1) 40 ......................... D Butcher 11 72x12 The Prince (1) 50 ...........................S Phelan 12 x8x54 Lookslikeatrooper (1) 60 .............. S Dickson 2 6.01pm MEMBERS MOBILE PACE $6500, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 6000x Lady Molly (1) fr ..................... K Marshall (J) 2 34522 Big Bad John (2) fr ....................... D Butcher 3 80x85 Smooth Delight (3) fr .................. A Drake (J) 4 233x5 Branch Rickey (4) fr ..................... S Dickson 5 64x21 Taylahs Girl (5) fr .................. D Ferguson (J) 6 48x54 Lola Jones (6) fr ........................ J Abernethy 7 98x60 Bettor Backim (7) fr ..........................B Taylor 8 68x01 Chevy’s Convertible (21) fr ...... B Butcher (J) 9 77541 Beacon Hill (22) fr ................. A Poutama (J) 10 82x43 Franco Lennox (23) fr .............. T Lethaby (J) 11 08054 Classic Bet (24) fr ......................P Ferguson 3 6.30pm ROYDEN WILLIAMS PHOTOGRAPHY MOBILE PACE $6000, c0 with cond. mob. pace, mobile,

2000m 1 30x75 Cherry Evans (1) fr.....................P Ferguson 2 7 Real Courage (2) fr ................... J Abernethy 3 6606x Givethejobtojoyce (3) fr .......... K Marshall (J) 4 97066 Diamond Delight (4) fr ........... A Poutama (J) 5 08x33 Here Comes Helen (5) fr ............ A Drake (J) 6 25593 Franco Santiago (6) fr ............. B Butcher (J) 7 9 Myeyesadoreya (7) fr ................... D Butcher 8 Bubbly Babe (21) fr ................. T Lethaby (J) 9 48084 Mystic Potion (22) fr ............. D Ferguson (J) 10 3766x Local Yokel (23) fr ...........................S Phelan 4 7.03pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION MOBILE PACE $6000, c0 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 4987x Called To Serve (1) fr ........... D Ferguson (J) 2 40046 O’Gara (2) fr ..................................S Lawson 3 095x2 Tuherbs Two (3) fr ........................ D Butcher 4 0 Righteous Miss (4) fr ............... B Butcher (J) 5 96224 Waihemo Art (5) fr............................ D Dunn 6 Screen Gem (6) fr ..........................S Phelan 7 3877x Hanover Alert (7) fr ...........................K More 8 9x93 Cottonwood (21) fr ...........................B Taylor 9 49x34 Tenacious Bromac (22) fr ...........P Ferguson 10 6x654 Maldini (23) fr ................................. G Martin 5 7.28pm DOUG GALE RACING STABLES MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 61 Islay (1) fr .............................. A Poutama (J) 2 8993P Atom Hanover (2) fr.......................... D Dunn 3 68693 Royal Kate (3) fr ........................... D Butcher 4 0567x God’s Delight (4) fr ............... D Ferguson (J) 5 095Px Monets Daughter (5) fr ............... A Drake (J) 6 2P08x Pilot Officer (6) fr .................... K Marshall (J) 7 105 Rio Grande (7) fr ....................... J Abernethy

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Helmack Hardware Ltd T/A Helmack ITM Ashburton

Timaru ITM Ltd Timaru

Due to the sale of both businesses, the last trading day will be October 29, 2015.

We take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support over the last 18 years and 12 years respectively.

The new owners, Jonnie and Davey Sutherland from Kaiapoi, have been trading as an ITM store for some 11 years and will bring a new fresh approach to the hardware and timber business in both towns.

We advise that

Today at Addington raceway 9 28543 Know Neglect 30.61 .......................G Cleeve 10 12746 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts 5 6.16pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 3 C5q, 520m 1 3576P Radwanska nwtd..............................L Ahern 2 68883 Tina 30.36 H & ....................................Taylor 3 16277 Gold Class 30.19 .......................D Schofield 4 35723 Trust Issues 30.04 J &.....................D Fahey 5 17211 Spud Missile nwtd ............................ S Clark 6 41514 Know Answer 30.38 .......................G Cleeve 7 21188 Homebush Howard 30.22 ......J T McInerney 8 7F565 Izzey Bale 30.14...........................C Roberts 9 46425 Know Lapse 30.81 .........................G Cleeve 10 48641 Chasing The Line nwtd ...............A Turnwald 6 6.38pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 4 C5q, 520m 1 11125 Arctic Action 30.11 J & ....................D Fahey 2 11131 Know Decision 29.88 .....................G Cleeve 3 41221 Joe Joe nwtd B & ............................... Steele 4 37578 Magic Emily 30.15 H &........................Taylor 5 62742 Lonesome Nitro 30.41..................M Roberts 6 33444 Winsome Jenny 30.39 .....................L Ahern 7 42161 Allmendinger nwtd ......................A Turnwald 8 72585 Homebush Kelso 30.31 ..........J T McInerney 9 28543 Know Neglect 30.61 .......................G Cleeve 10 12746 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts 7 6.57pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 5 C5q, 520m 1 67336 Another Liz 30.63 ...................J T McInerney 2 31513 Spanish Fancy nwtd ...................D Schofield 3 72425 Varga Frost nwtd .........................A Turnwald 4 5263F Albie Jay 30.20 J & .........................D Fahey 5 43536 Know Danger 30.02 .......................G Cleeve 6 17732 Cawbourne Kenny 30.67..............C Roberts 7 63143 Takamori nwtd .................................. B Dann 8 11112 Benjamin Black 30.29 .............. A Botherway 9 46425 Know Lapse 30.81 .........................G Cleeve 10 57346 Know Hero 30.32 ...........................G Cleeve 8 7.20pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND CUP HEAT 6 C5q, 520m 1 12253 Melham nwtd................................... K Walsh 2 41615 Know Scholar 30.76 .......................G Cleeve 3 76658 Karen’s Magic 30.38 .....................R Adcock 4 36356 Human Instinct nwtd ..............J T McInerney 5 16461 Opawa Rosie 29.96.......................... B Dann 6 74112 Mystic Action 30.35 J &...................D Fahey 7 51751 Cawbourne Brick nwtd .................M Roberts 8 17371 Untraceable nwtd .......................D Schofield 9 46425 Know Lapse 30.81 .........................G Cleeve

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8 09x98 Ard (21) fr ..................................S Abernethy 9 87709 Jack Bates (22) fr .......................P Ferguson 10 07006 Golden Billion (23) fr ............... B Butcher (J) 11 1047x Molly Sims (24) fr ...........................S Phelan 6 7.57pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL SERVICES MOBILE PACE $6000, c0 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2500m 1 87x57 Acton Town (1) fr .................... K Marshall (J) 2 22x72 Shapeofthingstocome (2) fr..............B Taylor 3 68x23 All That Glitters (3) fr .................S Abernethy 4 8x347 All Nuts N Bolts (4) fr ....................... D Dunn 5 0336 Prime Lustre (5) fr ..........................S Phelan 6 Daz McBromac (6) fr .................... D Butcher 7 34x46 Jericho Road (7) fr .....................P Ferguson 8 88x Bad Jack (U1) fr .................... A Poutama (J) 7 8.24pm WOODLANDS STUD MOBILE PACE $7000, 4yo+ c2, c3 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 198x9 Rangi Rangdu (1) fr ..........................K More 2 7x658 Alta Michaela (2) fr ........................S Lawson 3 88x67 Starry Delight (3) fr.................. T Lethaby (J) 4 29x33 P Tomado (4) fr ...................... K Marshall (J) 5 80x28 Irish Kath (5) fr ..................... D Ferguson (J) 6 00x84 Santanna Magic (6) fr ............. B Butcher (J) 7 018x0 Waverley Chapel (7) fr ................. S Dickson 8 87559 Aces N Eights (21) fr ..................P Ferguson 9 30xPx Kate Caterina (22) fr .................S Abernethy 8 8.51pm NEXT MEETING SUNDAY 1ST NOVEMBER MOBILE PACE $7500, 5yo+ c3 to c6 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 2x643 Bankcard (1) fr ...................... A Poutama (J) 2 84611 McArdle Royale (2) fr ....................... D Dunn 3 05x15 Brainstormer (3) fr ..................... J Abernethy 4 3906x Steal A Grin (4) fr ......................S Abernethy 5 111x3 C A Penny (5) fr .............................S Phelan

Saturday, October 24 Friday, October 30 Saturday, October 31 We will be closed due to stocktaking.

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Public Notice CERAMIC tiles - tile quality guaranteed - Tile Warehouse Section 101,Sale and selection available at Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Redmonds Furnishing and Kate Louise Acland and Flooring, Burnett Street.

David Quaife Acland, COMPUTER PROBLEMS ? Farmers, Mt Somers Station, ◊ Christchurch Rebuild For prompt reliable service. 281 Peaches Road, Tour - Saturday, Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Ashburton has made November 7, departs Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place. application to the District 9.30am. Includes Ph 308 8989. 30 years Local Licensing Committee at service. Same day service if Ashburton for the issue of an tour of Kaiapoi, with possible.

SUPERGOLD Off licence in respect of the lunch at the Kaiapoi Discount card welcomed. premises situated at 2 WMC, then tour of Burgess Road, Staveley and Christchurch central RURAL TRADING POST known as The Staveley Store. city, restart mall.

JOHN Deere 4030 tractor Tickets $38 - includes 2WD with Trumac front-end The general nature of the lunch. loader. Phone 0274 382 311. business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence For bookings is: General Store. phone 308 7646 LET OR LEASE OFFICE space for lease. Off The days on which and the street parking, 24 hr access. hours during which alcohol is For all subscriber Handy to CBD, available (or intended to be) sold under enquiries, missed December. Phone Paul 021 the licence are: Monday - Sunday 554 570. delivery, new 9am - 5pm.

The application may be subscriptions, GARAGE SALES SATURDAY, October 31. 20 inspected during ordinary temporary stops, Manse Street, 9am-1pm. office hours at the office of Ashburton District call our subscriber Household goods, furniture, the brass ornaments, boot covers Licensing Committee at 5 Square West, hotline for Mazda Bounty and Ford Baring Ashburton.

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Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to FOR SALE 0800 274 287 CHRISTMAS NIGHT - object to the grant of the Monday, November 2, application may, not later 0800 ASHBURTON 7.00pm to 9.00pm. Come than 15 working days after along and see our exquisite the date of the first Christmas decorations. The publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the China Shop in The Arcade. objection with: DRY cracked hands? Linden leaves herbalist hand and nail The Secretary, Ashburton lotion $8.50. Treat yourself at District Licensing Committee, The China Shop in The PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council.

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No objection to the renewal of EXQUISTE cut glass lamp a licence may be made in and shades.

Create relation to a matter other than We help save lives every day ambience in your home. a matter specified in Section through the research and Priced from $299.00. The 131 of the Sale and Supply of development of improved China Shop in The Arcade.

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The Club Orchestra

WHAT’S ON

will be performing Saturday October 31 7.30pm

Members, guests and affiliates all welcome.

ASHBURTON INDIAN MULTICULTURAL CHARITABLE TRUST

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Ph 308 7149 Courtesy van available.

Nov 8 @ 2.30pm Ashburton Raceway Hall, Racecourse Road, Ashburton November 7, 2015 6.30pm Night full of entertainment, free dinner & refreshments $5.00. Free entry to children under 10 available at various outlets or contact the organisers. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the event organisers: Bikash 027 755 7780, Ronesh 021 724 962 Janesh 027 759 4412

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

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Event kindly sponsored by: 152nd Year Notice of Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the One Hundred and Fifty Second Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the Nelson Building Society will be held at The Rutherford Hotel, Trafalgar Square, Nelson on Wednesday 25th June 2014 at 5.30pm.

To advertise in What’s On contact Emma BUSINESS 1. To receive the Directors report and Statement of Accounts 2.

To appoint the Auditors for the ensuing year and fix their remuneration

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General Business

Copies of the Society’s Statement of Accounts will be available at the Society’s Nelson, Richmond, Motueka, Murchison, Westport, Greymouth, Takaka and Ashburton offices from Wednesday 18th June 2014.

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03 307 7936 Daily Events Thursday

9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

9.30am - 11.00am BALMORAL HALL LINEDANCERS. Classes recommence . Balmoral hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime section, great exercise, new players welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Centre Stadium. River Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH GOODWILL SHOP. Sale of Pre loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, cnr Archibald and Jane Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square

Friday

6.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 11.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH.

East.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time around Op-shop, Good second hand clothing. Cnr Cass Street and Havelock Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road.

10.00am- 11.00am GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN TRUST. Coffee/Support group on every Thursday. Presbyterian Support Rooms, Tancred Street.

10.30am RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, 1st time free. St Andrews Church, Bridge Street Rakaia.

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

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of may aircraft from past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Club Day, new members very welcome.

M.S.A. Sports Grounds, 117 Racecourse Rd. 2.00pm - 3.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Learn to play Association Croquet.

Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

7.00pm ASHBURTON R.S.A. DARTS SECTION. Section night, all welcome. Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

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

Drop in for a cuppa, clothing sale. St Andrews Anglican Church, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm

ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research . Ground floor, Heritage Centre, West Street.

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The Ashburton Trust Event Centre is holding a Christmas market after the great success of this event last year.

Over 30 stalls , come and enjoy a great day of shopping.

A gold coin donation, get a glass of bubbles or juice.

Birthday Greetings Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

Lily Rosevear Happy 7th Birthday.

Love from Mum, Dad, Harry, George and Tom.

Nevaeh Gleeson Happy 6th Birthday.

Enjoy your special day.

Love you to the moon and stars. Mum, Dad and Bailey. xoxoxo Nevaeh Gleeson Happy Birthday Vaeh.

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ACROSS 1. The discordant clanging may be irritating to one’s nerves (8) 4. There’s nothing in a mink number such as this (4) 8. Stuck in which it’s hard to escape routine (3) 9. Whittle away and deal with the Sunday joint (5) 10. The underworld record was not complete (3) 11. Utter lack? (7) 12. Medical Officer may be taking one up on a drug (5) 13. Being scatty type, he’d made mess of it (5-6) 17. Fellow with no return to the opera (5) 18. Law one must change in the light of such a transport system (7) 20. One’s ambition may be to draw a bead (3) 21. Flower that comes up in an unfinished row (5) 22. Collection of table-talk chemist recognises in equal quantities (3) 23. How to act dumb (4) 24. Examples of medication applied lest ribs get broken (8)

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QUICK Across 1. Loch 8. Accentuate 9. Palomino 10. Tuck 12. Warren 14. Moment 15. Cities 17. Parcel 18. Tend 19. Innocent 21. Role models 22. Kelp Down 2. One at a time 3. Halo 4. Action 5. Inform 6. Customer 7. Peek 11. Centennial 13. Reindeer 16. Sailor 17. Ponder 18. Tore 20. Cask

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CRYPTIC Across 1. Reconcile 5. Lap 7. Pour 8. Ignoring 10. Improper 11. Fund 13. Anthem 15. Parent 18. Bind 19. Paradise 22. Corvette 23. Zinc 24. Sal 25. Rectangle Down 1. Replica 2. Clump 3. Ingres 4. Ebon 5. Leisure 6. Paged 9. Coney 12. Carat 14. Tendril 16. Treacle 17. Lactic 18. Backs 20. Icing 21. Fear

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DOWN 1. Words of gratitude (4,2,6) 2. Spoke (7) 3. Small pier (5) 4. Ruled (7) 5. Absolutely necessary (5) 8. Piece of bad luck (12) 9. Annoyed (9) 14. Strays (7) 15. In conclusion (7) 18. Broke (colloq) (5) 19. Scatter (5)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You may notice that people tell you much more than they would reveal to others.

They’ll let loose of hidden truths, memories lodged deep in the heart, long-forgotten stories. It’s like they’ve been waiting for you.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You know you’re unique and special and don’t need anyone to point it out.

Today it’s easier for you to see the commonalities with others than it will be to see the differences.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): First impressions last, and it’s better if people receive you with gentle warmth. It’s better to steer clear of controversial subjects and stick to upbeat topics.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Your brain sometimes tricks you into thinking more than is necessary.

Physical exertion will help calm the overactive parts of your mind, leading to improved performance.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness, when shared, is doubled.

You’ll be the recipient of a similarly auspicious sort of cosmic math. Set your own logic aside to make room for a little magic.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Loneliness isn’t a function of who is around; it’s a function of how connected you feel to them. Reach out. Make more bridges!

There are so many gaps.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Once your mind becomes convinced of something, it can be difficult to change.

That doesn’t make it any more correct. It’s good you’re slow to come to a conclusion today.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You know how necessary your role is, and you have tangible evidence of how effectively you play it. While you don’t need an award, it sure will feel nice when you get one!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Your current endeavour is of utmost importance. Your vision is the single driving force of this. Vision is not all you’ll need, it has power to bring together the other elements.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The evils of the world don’t need more attention. Distract yourself from the negativity you can’t do anything about.

Create your own safety bubble.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Exciting, spontaneous people attract you — probably because you also have these qualities, though perhaps you have lost track of them lately. You’ll love the fresh influence.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The attitude of optimism you learned as a child will colour your world. Try to soar beyond the level of optimism you were taught.

Belief makes things real.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian BIRTHS

TRUNGO – You brought Gunna and I ice creams every Tuesday night at Charles Street. You had the best dance moves to Brittany anyone has ever seen. You were the light that shined so bright in everyone’s life. You gave everything and asked for nothing in return.

You were that guy that every girl need’s in her life as a true friend. I will never let that go ever. I miss you so much already, you always made me happy and laugh no matter what was happening in my world. I am so very grateful to have seen you off on your journey to say good luck and see you later. I send big love to your mum, Ngan, Thang, Pork, Jon and Niko.

“Namaste my friend.”

Kylie

RAUKETE – John and Olivia (nee Price) along with very proud big brother Lucas are delighted to announce the fast but safe arrival of Mila Grace Charlize born October 22 at 8.55pm, weighing 9lb 1oz. A special thanks to midwife Sandra Scott.

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Fine with increasing high cloud.

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 With a special performance by Florence And The Machine. 0 11am The Chase 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Adam arranges an emergency baptism for Johnny. 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 Tina is lost for words; Kylie pushes Gail over the edge; Julie must stay strong. 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me PGR 2pm Four Weddings USA 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Amazing Spaces – Shed Of The Year Tonight – Eco and Normal categories. 0 8:30 F House Husbands PGR With Lewis renting a new home, a custody dispute over Tilda looms; Mark’s decision about his new job could mean the end of The Mill. 0 9:35 Alan Carr Chatty Man 0 10:35 One News 0 11:05 Upper Middle Bogan AO 3 0 11:40 Short Poppies PGR 3 0 12:10 Trauma Investigators AO 3 1:10 Te Karere 3 2 1:35 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 32

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Monty’s Big Catch 7:30 Candice Tells All 8am Baggage Battles 8:30 Natural World – The Last Grizzly Of Paradise Valley 9:30 The Cook And The Chef 10am Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Turkey 10:30 Property Brothers At Home 11:30 American Restoration Noon Ray Mears Goes Walkabout 1pm Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge PGR 2pm Monty’s Big Catch 3pm Candice Tells All 3:30 Baggage Battles 4pm Lonely Planet’s Year Of Adventures 5pm Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes 6pm My Dream Home 7pm Buy It, Fix It, Sell It 7:30 Cook The Books 8pm Luke Nguyen’s Memories Of The United Kingdom Luke looks back at his favourite memories from his trip to the United Kingdom.

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10am Motorsport – TCR International Series Round 10.

10:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) Townsville Crocs v Illawarra Hawks.

12:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) New Zealand Breakers v Cairns Taipans.

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8pm Extreme Sailing – Istanbul 8:30 Sea Master Sailing A monthly sailing roundup of all the latest news and stories from the world of grand prix sailing.

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Sport ABs salute astute coaches Ben Smith in pensive mood at yesterday’s All Blacks press conference, and praising the insight of defence guru Wayne Smith.

The idea of a secret weapon at the Rugby World Cup is whimsical, yet New Zealand probably has the closest thing to one.

Step forward Wayne Smith.

Recognised the world over as one of the brightest minds in rugby, he has been in the background at this tournament, though his work as the All Blacks’ boffin for defence has been clear for all the world to see as they have powered into the upcoming final.

New Zealand has easily the most tries in the tournament, but thanks to Smith it has also conceded the least: Just four in six matches.

Four years ago in their home World Cup, they conceded five alone in the pool stage.

Coaches and players like to talk about fine margins, how small changes can make the biggest

differences. In that regard, Smith painted his greatest portrait yet in this tournament in the 20-18 semifinal win over South Africa last Saturday.

On a rainy afternoon that ought to have suited the bulkier Springboks more, the All Blacks didn’t concede a try to them for the first time in four years. They didn’t even let the Springboks look like scoring a try, and finished the match pressing the Boks back inside their own 22.

The Wallabies, whom the All Blacks face in the final on Saturday, have conceded only four tries, too, three of them to Scotland in the quarterfinals, and none to Argentina in their semifinal.

But this was about Smith, who England tried to lure after the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but loved the All Blacks more. These All

Blacks love him right back.

“He always gives us good insight as to how the other teams will be looking at us, and what they’ll be seeing,” fullback Ben Smith, no relation, said yesterday. “He’s been doing a great job over the last few weeks to get our preparation right, and had a big impact.

“He’s good individually, too. You can go to him and talk about position-specific things to help yourself out. He’s been brilliant.”

Hooker Keven Mealamu, dealing with Wayne Smith in eight of his 13 years as an All Black, also couldn’t praise him enough.

“Wayne’s got a really good rapport with the players, he’s a very smart man,” Mealamu said. “He sees a lot of things that a player doesn’t usually pick up on. He’s good at getting his teaching across. His attention to details is

right up there.”

Wayne Smith was part of New Zealand’s triumphant coaching corps that ended a 24-year wait for the Webb Ellis Cup in 2011, and moved on without expecting to rejoin the national setup.

A very good All Black flyhalf in the early 1980s, he transitioned into coaching and led the Crusaders to two Super Rugby titles, which earned him the All Blacks coaching job for two years until he resigned in 2001. His love of the All Blacks drove him to doubt how far he could take them.

Despite the setback, the respect for his technical and tactical work and empathy saw him taken back aboard the All Blacks under coach Graham Henry in 2004 until the World Cup was won in 2011. After that, he was the assistant at the Chiefs, whom he helped to win

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consecutive Super Rugby championships in 2012-13.

Last December, he was chuffed to be asked back into the All Blacks by coach Steve Hansen.

Hansen wanted the astute and innovative Smith not only for his considerable knowledge, but also for his fresh thinking after looking at the All Blacks from the outside in over the previous three years.

Now he’s in, and on the cusp of helping them become the first team to win consecutive Rugby World Cups.

Secluded as they are in Bagshot, at England’s swanky rugby base 30 kilometres south-west of Twickenham, Mealamu said it felt like a normal test week.

With Wayne Smith in the control room, these All Blacks believe the week will end as it normally does, with a win.

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