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New at the helm of Ashburton College, Ross Preece is leading Mid Canterbury’s largest secondary school towards huge roll growth and an approaching era of technological change. Susan Sandys reports.

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Leading school into a new era One of Ross Preece’s first jobs after beginning as the new Ashburton College principal this month was to meet with the Ministry of Education.

It was regarding the subject of roll growth, and the subsequent need for building improvements. The allocation of significant funds are on the horizon as the school’s 2017 roll of 1220 is expected to climb to 1600 within the next 10 years.

It’s not the only change anticipated as the school moves into the future. There are challenges faced by the education system as a whole as the entire careers landscape develops in the face of rapid technological advances.

They are challenges Preece believes Ashburton College needs to tackle front on, and it is something he has experience with from his previous job as principal at Whangamata Area School in the

Coromandel. “Pretty much our students were paperless, apart from assignments and assessments,” he said.

The 57-year-old has a goal for this year, and that is to help staff, parents and students understand the need for such developments. He won’t be making the college paperless just yet, however.

“It will happen gradually and over time, but it’s not something I need to put my energies into. In the same way that slates and chalk no longer exist in schools, within 10 to 20 years any information will be transferred digitally.”

He gave the example of driverless cars in Singapore, and solar-powered rubbish bins in Whangamata. The latter compact automatically, meaning they need emptying only once every 10 days.

“There’s a job that’s disappeared because of technology. But there has to be

someone to design the solar cells and set up the systems, so the future is about equipping students with the skills they need to maximise their chances of being productive citizens in the future,” Preece said.

“Schools used to be about giving students knowledge, ensuring they had enough information crammed into their heads and passed exams. Now we have Google and Suri, information is instantly available. It’s about our students being equipped with the skills to be successful in the future – the ability to communicate, collaborate, to think for themselves and problem solve.”

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■ POLICE CHASE

■ EDUCATION

Woman critical after chase

A new era for school

Dave Glossop

The driver of a car that crashed while fleeing police in south Auckland has died, and police are trying to identify a critically injured female passenger.

They have grave concerns for the wellbeing of the woman who was a back seat passenger.

About 10.30pm on Saturday, the car failed to stop for police, ran a red light while travelling north on Great South Road in Manukau, and hit an SUV which was driving down Cavendish Drive in Auckland.

Police are appealing to the public

Picnic area to be made safe Plans are afoot to rehabilitate the Taylor Stream picnic area on Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road between Mt Somers and Staveley.

Dangerous conditions forced the Ashburton District Council to close the picnic spot, popular with locals and travellers on the Inland Scenic Route, last year.

Council open spaces manager David Askin said the picnic area required extensive tree and land restoration to improve the site’s safety for visitors.

“Prior to closing off the picnic area, vehicles accessing the site were getting bogged, and dangerously leaning trees posed a risk to visitors’ safety,” he said.

“We simply couldn’t leave the picnic area in this condition.

“We have begun developing a plan to remove dangerous trees, open the area up to increase sunlight and re-landscape the site.

“Unfortunately, this is a big project, and will need to be scheduled into our already busy work programme. We hope to have the work completed as soon as possible so the community can get back to enjoying this lovely spot.”

Signs have been erected at Taylor Stream advising visitors of the closure and asking them to stay away from the area until it can be reopened again.

Travellers can still access all other picnic areas along the road, including Bowyers Stream and Mayfield.

to help identify the critically injured women, who they say is about 25 to 30 years old.

She is Maori or Polynesian and has a number of tattoos, including one on her right knee, a musical note on her left inside ankle and a large one on her inside of her left forearm.

“This whole attitude of failing to stop for police needs to end,” Inspector Dave Glossop, the area commander, says.

“Whatever that person has done is not more important than the com-

munity’s lives, or their own life.”

He said the passengers of the SUV that was hit had serious, but not life threatening, injuries.

They were thrown out of the rare windscreen of the car, and Insp Glossop said they are lucky their injuries aren’t worse.

The police investigation into the matter is ongoing and the Independent Police Conduct Authority has been notified.

“It’s just reckless behaviour.”

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From P1 Preece is also enthusiastic about the possibility of introducing an outdoor education programme at Ashburton College.

The surrounding environment gave the opportunity for classes in fields as diverse as hunting and fishing and yachting, he said, and the school had a responsibility to ensure a broad curriculum.

Additionally he was hoping to encourage collaboration across the teaching of different subjects.

He said at primary and intermediate level, students experienced rich interdisciplinary learning, but at secondary school they shifted between classes which taught just one subject each.

Teachers could consider how they could work across various subjects together.

Preece is from Christchurch originally, and taught for 22 years before beginning his career as a principal at Murchison Area School in 2006. He was principal of Whangamata Area School from 2008.

“I have been an educational gypsy, I have moved around with the job,” he said.

The latest move from the Coromandel to Mid Canterbury has come with a big change in climate.

He and wife Paula, who have three adult children, have bought a home in Ashburton, and recently found themselves lighting the fire on a cold summer’s day.

In Whangamata it rarely drops to single digits, and last year there was just one frost.

“If it’s nine degrees I get parents writing me notes - ‘Please excuse my son’s puffer jacket because of the extreme cold’,” he said.

“But I’m from Christchurch so I remember cold.”

He and Paula plan to join a local golf club in the Ashburton area as they both enjoy playing the sport.

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■ FRUIT FUND

Fruit Fund’s future in doubt

BY MICHELLE NELSON

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A charity which distributes fruit to Mid Canterbury children and families in need will shut up shop at the end of February unless someone steps up to rescue it.

Fruit Fund has been operating in Ashburton for almost four years, collecting and distributing fruit to schools, preschools and Presbyterian Support Services.

Deidre Moses established the Ashburton branch of the national charity and has co-ordinated the service since its inception, however family commitments mean she can no longer continue in the role. She has written to 27 service clubs in the hope the Fruit Fund service could continue, but with no luck.

“I’m really disappointed but I just can’t keep going,” Moses said.

“I’m very proud that Fruit Fund has left a legacy of 100 fruit trees planted in schools and child care centres in the district.”

Moses hopes those with fruit trees will continue to offer excess produce to schools, or advertise to give it away.

“There is a real need in this community for the service, and it’s heartbreaking to see fruit rotting on the ground,” she said.

“I have been humbled by the generous support of the public in this venture, and wish to thank all those who have picked, distributed, donated and assisted with our fund raising,” she said.

Fruit Fund volunteers pick and deliver produce such as pears, stone fruit and apples directly to schools.

Fruit more suited to preserving is picked and delivered to Rob-

bies Bar and Bistro, where staff volunteer to preserve and pack it. Presbyterian Support Services then distribute it to needy families.

“The busiest time of the year for volunteers is from now until May, when the fruit ripens”.

The service will continue until the end of February, and Moses remains hopeful someone will see its value and keep it going.

■ ASHBURTON PIPE BAND FESTIVAL

Skirl of bagpipes at Mid Canty pipe band festival

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Members of the Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band overcame their nerves yesterday for their first performance in 10 years at the Ashburton Pipe Band Festival.

The alternating clouds and sun made things tricky for the bagpipers and the sensitive reeds in their instruments, but the many people who lined streets near the Ashburton Domain for the festival’s traditional street march were impressed.

Seven bands, including the born-again Ashburton band, then played for judges in a handicap competition for trophies.

The Ashburton band had plenty of supporters. This time a year ago, it had only four pipers; now it has 12 and the group has grown to 16 thanks to the efforts of pipe major Peter Doak.

Judge Peter MacLean said the bands were judged on musical presentation, performance and sound, including the integration between the drum and pipes.

“The heat makes it harder. They use more air because the reeds open up in the heat and it is harder to keep them tuned together.”

The festival has been hosted by Ashburton for around 40 years

and this year included six grade four bands and one grade two band – South Canterbury Juvenile, Ashburton, Canterbury Caledonian, South Canterbury Development, City of Christchurch, North

Canterbury and South Canterbury. Festival-goers sought shelter from both the wind and the sun under trees in the domain’s Grigg Street picnic area while the judges sorted out the best performers.

Above - Drum major Derek Cullimore proudly leads the Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band along Grigg Street.

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■ HOME AFFORDABILITY

Local homes ‘unaffordable’

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Ashburton’s median house price might be well below the national average, but our homes are still tagged as severely unaffordable on the international housing affordability scale.

The scale takes the average price of a home and measures it against an area’s median household income. In the Ashburton District the median house price in December was $352,000 and in the 2013 Census the median household income was given at $63,100.

This gives an affordability rating of 5.57.

For an individual wanting to take the first step towards homeownership, the news is grim. The district’s average income was $32,900 in 2013 Census and that puts buying a home almost out of reach for a one-income family with an affordability rating of more than 10.

The loan-to-value ratio lending restrictions that require first home buyers to have a minimum deposit of 20 per cent, $70,000 for the district’s average price home.

From October 2016 banks are

permitted to make no more than 10 per cent of their residential mortgage lending to high-LVR (less than 20 per cent deposit) borrowers who are owner occupiers, and no more than 5 per cent of residential mortgage lending to high-LVR (less than 40 per cent deposit) borrowers who are investors.

The district’s affordability rating is slightly above the national average, 5.2, which is still in the severely unaffordable bracket.

New Zealand’s lack of affordability is driven by the Auckland market which is now sitting at

fourth worst in the world behind Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver. Auckland’s affordability multiplier is 9.7.

The annual Demographica report says that overall New Zealand is now a severely unaffordable place in which to buy a home.

Palmerston North is the most affordable place to buy with a rating of 4.1.

In the early 1990s New Zealand had an affordability rating of below 3.0.

The annual survey compares prices to incomes in 367 cities around the world.

In brief Spark problems Spark services are back up and running, after customers were experiencing difficulties yesterday.

Spark says it had a hardware failure in one of its data centres, which caused the trouble on both mobile and broadband around the country. Traffic was diverted through another route.

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Carissa Avison

Woman still missing Missing Auckland woman Carissa Avison went to Muriwai on the morning of the day she was last seen. The 21-year-old was last seen leaving her home on Dockside Lane, Auckland Central, at about 8.30am on Thursday, police said at the weekend. Yesterday they said they had established she was on Holder Place on the North Shore about 10am on Thursday and then received a ride to Muriwai on Auckland’s west coast, arriving about 11am, but her destination from there wasn’t known. Police have concerns for the safety.

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■ NEW SCHOOL YEAR

Remember it’s 20k around school buses

BY MICHELLE NELSON

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Children will be back on the roads this week with schools reopening after the summer break and Rural Women New Zealand want people to remember the 20km/h speed limit when passing a stopped or stationery school bus.

“It is very important in all communities, particularly in rural areas, that drivers are aware of the rule and safe speed limit of 20km/h passing a stopped school bus,” RWNZ national president of Fiona Gower said.

NZ School Speeds has also petitioned the government to consider lowering speed limits to a maximum of 30km/h in school zones at peak times, to bring these in line with the 20km/h school bus rule.

“It is hoped that all political parties will agree to a speed restriction outside schools at peak times,” NZ School Speeds spokesperson Lucinda Rees said.

RWNZ also encourage parents and caregivers to teach children about road safety when they are getting on and off the bus, at the gate or at the designated point on the road.

“Accompany children to the bus stop and ensure that they understand what to do and when picking up children, park on the same side of the road as the bus stop,” Gower said.

An Emirates A380 aircraft heading for Auckland had to divert to land at a New Zealand Air Force base. RNZAF Base Ohakea in Manawatu got 20 minutes warning the commercial A380 aircraft was coming, the base duty officer said. He said it arrived just after 3pm yesterday. The plane has 350 passengers on board and it couldn’t land at Auckland International Airport because a Singapore Airlines plane had a problem taking off.

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History demolished at Borough School

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Borough School’s last links with its 145-year-old past disappeared in just a few minutes last week.

The school, the longest established in the Ashburton District, has gradually replaced its historic buildings with new, and the last building to go was the infant school block, built in 1938.

The double classroom replaced its predecessor that once stood on the Park and Winter streets corner of the school playground. This classroom was built in 1880 to accommodate infants when the original school in the grounds of what is now St Stephen’s Church, built in 1872, ran out of space.

The first school started its life with just one room and over the next eight years five more were added to accommodate the growing roll.

Eventually a new school was needed and a new brick school was opened in 1919.

This stood in the centre of the school grounds providing classroom space for generations of youngsters until it was demolished in 1976.

Firefighters call in for a chat Children at Hannah n Henry’s preschool enjoyed a change of routine yesterday morning when firefighters attending a false alarm callout to Ashburton Hospital stopped for a chat.

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Above – Almost 80 years of education history disappeared when the infant block at Borough School was demolished.

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ARTS DIARY ■

January 30 – Two exhibitions: James Robinson, Strange Attractor, to February 25, and Michael Armstrong, The Blurred Fringes of the Hyperbolic, to March 26, at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

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February 1 – Woodblock Print Workshops kick off, and continue on February 8, 15 and 22.

Creative classes for adults at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

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February 9 – Michael Armstrong studio visit to Timaru for Friends of Ashburton Art Gallery.

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February 17 –George McCulloch – From Sheep Station Manager to Art Collector, talk about collection by Lawrence McCallum, at 11am.

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To February 19 – Yours and Ours exhibition, recent additions to the Ashburton Art Gallery collection.

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February 25 – The Social, a group of artists which formed after the earthquakes, will undertake the Mayfield Project, involving the Overflow op shop at Mayfield and the Ashburton Art Gallery, to March 19.

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March 3 – Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award Awards exhibition and opening function 7pm.

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March 17 – Grumpy Old Women at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

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March 18 – Empowering Women talk series begins at Ashburton Art Gallery.

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To August 23 – Mark Braunias Assemble, Disassemble, Reassemble exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

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Pania Brown creates a new image every day.

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Prolific artist inspired by felines

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Dexter the ginger cat offers neverending inspiration to his owner Pania Brown.

Brown is an artist based in Methven, and Dexter has appeared in many of her images, which have sold around the world.

According to Brown, he is one charismatic cat, with a “massive personality”. That, combined with his extraordinary good looks, makes him the perfect subject for her works.

Brown is originally from Palmerston North and moved to Methven in 1995, attracted by the ski industry. Her partner Marc Davies is a ski instructor and examiner on Mt Hutt.

Starting out as a contemporary landscape artist, Brown’s foray into feline art began in 2015 when her other much-loved cat, TJ, a female tabby, passed away.

She was devastated, but Davies came to the rescue with the gift of a Draw Something Every Day book of blank pages.

Drawing something every day is exactly what Brown did, and has been doing ever since.

“It was therapy,” she said.

She is onto her second book, and the images now number over 500.

It has turned into a career, which involves her selling prints and greeting cards which feature her images on-line.

Last week she sent two of her prints to Australia, one to America and two to the United Kingdom.

“It can be really good, you can get a really good week,” she said.

Although it could also be hard

graft, and it was not something that was easy to make a living from.

The prolific artist also sells at a number of markets, including at Sumner, Riccarton and Yaldhurst.

As well as drawing, Brown spends time each day marketing on a variety of websites, and markets a lot through her Facebook page.

She draws her original images with coloured pencils, and also sometimes uses lead pencil and ink.

She has completed an artist’s series, where she paints a portrait of a famous painter with a ginger cat, in the style of that painter’s work.

And she has done a series of book covers, which feature a play on words. For example, they include The Great Catsby, A Tale of Two Kitties, Fifty Shades of Speyed and Harry Pawter.

While cats are a big influence, she has a number of other subjects and some days her work will be inspired by what is happening in the news, and her drawings will be in the style of a newspaper cartoon.

Other days she may recreate interesting scenes she has recently observed, for example one of her recent drawings featured a man in a skirt rollerblading.

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Above and right – Some of Pania Brown’s artwork. Not all her subjects are cats.

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Above – The Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band addresses the marshal ahead of its individual performance at the festival yesterday.

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Above – The Canterbury Caledonian Pipe Band marches down Grigg Street as part of the Ashburton Pipe Band Festival yesterday.

Top right – Jacqui Rodgers contemplates the boxing game.

Above right – Alan Smith in action at the Methven Bowling Club.

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Below – Dan Maw got up to beat his brother Davey in the ring at the Dubliner Fight Night at the Methven Heritage Centre in Methven on Saturday night.

Below right – Donna Topp and Mandy McTigue were giving it everything as they battled it out for the glory on Saturday night.

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■ UNITED STATES

Anguish at airport New York City’s JFK airport has become the scene of anguish and desperation for the families of people detained after arriving in the US from nations subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Many flights to the US already were in the air on Friday when the president’s order on Saturday barred entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations.

Lawyers and advocates working at the airport said they didn’t have a hard count on the number of people taken into custody after getting off their flights.

Yosre Ghaled, 25, was among about a dozen distraught people waiting at an airport terminal on Saturday to see if loved ones would be released, or put back on an outgoing plane.

Her mother-in-law’s sister, a 67-year-old Yemeni citizen coming to live with family in the US because she is sick from heart problems and diabetes, was detained after getting off a plane from Saudi Arabia.

“We’re very sad. She lives a very bad life.

We try in her last days to (give her) a good life,” Ghaled said, adding that the family had been told that she would be refused entry and put on a jet back to Saudi Arabia.

Trump said the goal of the temporary travel restriction was to keep out potential terrorists.

Two members of congress, Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez, joined several hundred protesters who spent part of the day at the airport trying to win the release of about a dozen people they said had been detained.

People in the crowd chanted “Let them in”. Celebrities including Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon joined the demonstration.

The detainees in New York included two Iraqis who had previously been given permission to come to the US because of their ties to the US military.

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Ed Sheeran tour dates Ed Sheeran has revealed dates for a global tour following a year out of the music scene. After making a strong return this month, topping the charts with tracks Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill, he plans to share his new music across continents. The tour will kick off in Turin, Italy, on March 17, before moving across Europe, Ireland and the UK, Central and South America, finishing in Mexico in June. Sheeran, 25, worked on his new music during a 12-month break from the public eye and social media last year. The tour will follow the official release of Sheeran’s latest album, Divide, on March 3.

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Rachel Walker of St Paul and her daughter Evelyn, 7, join others in protesting an executive order signed by President Donald Trump restricting immigration from several Muslim nations, at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, in Minneapolis.

PHOTO AP One of them, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, who had worked as an interpreter for the US Army after it invaded Iraq in 2003, emerged from custody to cheers from the crowd in the mid-afternoon.

He pronounced the US “the land of freedom” home to “the greatest people in the world” upon his release, but also expressed dismay about having been initially held.

Lawyers sat on the floor of an airport terminal on Saturday evening working up court petitions on their laptops on behalf

of detainees. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said he had directed state lawyers and the agency that controls Kennedy to “explore all legal options” to assist anyone detained at New York airports.

“I never thought I’d see the day when refugees, who have fled war-torn countries in search of a better life, would be turned away at our doorstep,” Cuomo said.

“This is not who we are, and not who we should be.”

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■ AUSTRALIA

Travis Collins lands first Golden Guitar After 21 years of attending the Tamworth Country Music Festival, Travis Collins has finally walked away with Golden Guitar awards in his hands.

The Sydney country star, who has been nominated for his four previous albums, was the biggest winner at the 45th Golden Guitar Awards in Tamworth, NSW on Saturday night, winning recognition for his fifth record, Hard Light.

Collins won three awards: Male Artist of the Year, APRA AMCOS Song of the Year (Call Me Crazy) and Single of the Year (Just Another Girl).

“This has got to be a dream - someone needs to wake me up,” Collins told the audience at Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre as he accepted the award for Male Artist of the Year.

Collins said Hard Light is his rawest album and focused on real issues in his life including repairing his relationship with his father and his father-in- law’s death by suicide.

“There’s stuff on this album that was torn straight from the diary of my life.

There are stories on here that weren’t only things in my life I wasn’t ready to share, they were things I wasn’t ready to face before now,” Collins said.

The victory was even more special as his father, who was diagnosed with throat

Travis Collins cancer about two years ago, attended the country music ceremony for the first time.

“One of my big influences in my life in country music is my father sitting in the back row, thanks for being there,” he said.

Golden Guitar favourite Sara Storer also had a big night taking home two awards for Female Artist of the Year and Bush Ballad of the Year (Amazing Night) bringing her career Golden Guitar Award tally to 21.

Storer won her first Golden Guitar in 2003 for Best New Talent but said it still felt special to take one home.

“It’s still nice to get a Golden Guitar.

You put a lot of hard work and effort into your albums. The main thing is writing a song that means something to me and if it means something to someone else, that’s wonderful,” Storer said.

Storer said it was particularly nice to win Bush Ballad of the Year as it spoke to her background as a country girl who has recently moved back to a farm in Albury in regional NSW after five years living in Darwin.

“I like to write about the country and the characters in the bush, basically it’s a bit of a passion of mine. I live out on a farm and my family background is farming so I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for it,” she said.

Other big winners on the night included Tamworth favourite Troy Cassar-Daley who won best Album for Things I Carry Around and who was also elevated to the Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown on the night.

The ceremony, hosted by country stars Adam Harvey and Felicity Urquhart included performances from Kasey Chambers, who performed solo and in a duet with Bernard Fanning, The Mc Clymonts, big winners Sara Storer and Travis Collins.

Lee Kernaghan closed the night out with a performance of his old hit The Outback Club.

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Carrie Fisher

Public memorial service A public memorial service will be held in Hollywood for Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds. The event will be held at Forest Lawn Cemetery Hollywood Hills on March 25, where the actresses were laid to rest following their deaths, just a day apart, in December. In a statement to fans, Reynolds’ son Todd Fisher said: “We will be celebrating their lives with friends, family members, and the people who loved them, you. The service will begin at 1pm and immediately afterwards, those who want to walk to their final resting place are welcome to do so.” People unable to get inside the service will be able to watch on big screens outside the cemetery’s Freedom Theatre, Fisher added.

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Amitai Pati

Concert postponed Opera singers Sol3 Mio have been forced to postpone their Hawaii concert, after Canadian authorities lost Amitai Pati’s passport. Pene Pati and Moses Mackay made it to Hawaii, but Amitai remains trapped in Vancouver. Pene and Moses took to Instagram to apologise to fans.

Sol3 Mio have emphasised that the show is only postponed, not cancelled.

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Troops take water facility jeh, but Ibrahim said the evacuation will be delayed.

The village houses the water source with the same name, which was the major source of water for Damascus.

The opposition monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces entered Ain el-Fijeh along with ambulances to transport the injured as part of a deal to end the fighting there. The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdurrahman, said rebel fighters remain in other villages in the valley, including militants with the al Qaeda-linked affiliate in Efra, a village about 10km from the water source.

The ceasefire, brokered by Russia and Turkey and in place since December 30, was tested by the fighting in the valley. The fighting was sparked by government claims that rebels poisoned the water source at Ain el-Fijeh — a claim the rebels denied.

The deal also requires the evacuation of those rebel fight-

ers who refuse to put down their weapons. The military media said about 1200 fighters are expected to surrender their weapons, but it is not clear yet the final number of fighters to be evacuated.

As part of a goodwill gesture, the fighters raised the official Syrian flag, used by the government, over the facility to signal the deal was in place. Syrian government and allied troops have been closing in on rebel-held areas around the capital in recent months.

Similar agreements were reached with rebels in other suburbs of Damascus, who eventually capitulated under intense shelling and tight siege.

The issue of the Barada Valley was one of the main focuses of indirect talks between the rebels and the government in the Kazakh capital Astana last week.

The talks were sponsored by Russia and Turkey and supported

by Iran, and ended with a call to reinforce the ceasefire and put mechanisms in place to monitor violations.

Separately, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, a rebel stronghold that has been beset by infighting since Monday, a new coalition of insurgents was announced Saturday, effectively pitting the extremist al Qaeda-link group against its former ally, the ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham group. The new merger, named The Levant Liberation Committee, includes al Qaeda-linked affiliate, Fatah al-Sham Front, and four other groups. It comes two days after a similar merger was announced, led by Ahrar al-Sham, and included at least three factions who took part in the talks in Astana. The talks concluded with calls for the rebels to dissociate themselves from al Qaeda’s affiliate.

The new merger is likely to further inflame the rivalry between the insurgents. Further complicating the already volatile situation, the head of the new group is a defected member of Ahrar al-Sham.

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Princess Diana will be commemorated with a statue in the gardens of Kensington Palace to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.

Prince William and Prince Harry said it was the right time to “recognise her positive impact” both at home and abroad with the monument.

It will be erected in a place she knew well, the public gardens of her former London home at Kensington Palace.

“It has been 20 years since our mother’s death and the time is right to recognise her positive impact in the UK and around the world with a permanent statue,” a statement from the princes said.

“Our mother touched so many lives. We hope the statue will help all those who visit Kensington Palace to reflect on her life and her legacy.”

William was 15 and Harry just 12 when their mother was killed in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.

William made a rare public admission earlier this month about his feelings following the accident, saying during a visit to a London bereavement centre he felt “very angry” when his mother died.

Kensington Palace said work on the artwork would begin soon but it was not possible to say when it would be unveiled, although it is hoped the ceremony would take place this year.

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Syrian government troops gained control of the main water source for Damascus yesterday, as the military worked to secure it and remove land mines in a major development that caps weeks of fighting with rebels in the area, according to Syrian state TV and opposition media.

Alaa Ibrahim, the local governor, said the evacuation of fighters to northern Syria was delayed for one day because of rain storms and freezing temperatures. Maintenance of the water facility will begin as soon as the military declares the area secure, officials said.

The development ends the standoff over Ain el-Fijeh village that restricted the water flow to nearly five million residents of the Damascus area for over a month.

The fighting had also trapped tens of thousands of civilians in the Barada Valley area, where the water source is located.

Syrian state TV showed buses lined up to transport rebel fighters out of the village of Ain el-Fi-

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The widow of John Hurt says it will be a “strange world” without the veteran British actor following his death at the age of 77.

Anwen Hurt said the Oscarnominated star died at his home in Norfolk on Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

She called the award-winning actor the “most gentlemanly of gentlemen”, as it was revealed that he spent the last years of his life working on a number of films.

Hurt will return to screens as Ralph, a successful screenwriter who is facing terminal illness in That Good Night, which takes its name from the poem by Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle in to That Good Night.

He had completed filming for the role, described as “poignant” by producers, months before his death as he continued to work at a prodigious rate.

In a statement to the Press Association, Anwen said: “It is with deep sadness that I have to confirm that my husband, John Vincent Hurt, died on Wednesday January 25 2017 at home in Norfolk.

“John was the most sublime of actors and the most gentlemanly of gentlemen with the greatest of hearts and the most generosity of spirit. He touched all our lives with joy and magic and it will be a strange world without him.”

As well as working on That Good Night, Hurt was also starring in the Jackie Kennedy bi-

Crash kills at least 47 At least 47 people have died and 24 are injured after a traffic accident near the capital city of Madagascar. The dead included guests of a wedding and about 10 children, the government said yesterday. The reason for the accident has not been determined yet. A commercial transport lorry, which was not intended for the transport of people, was involved in the accident.

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Joyride on stolen bus A 16-year-old boy has allegedly stolen a bus and taken it on a joyride in Melbourne, police say.

The teenager, along with three girls aged between 14 and 16, allegedly stole the bus from a depot in West Footscray at 1am on Friday – leading police on a short pursuit before they were arrested.

Police say they then went on a crime spree, stealing items from shops in a number of suburbs. The teens were arrested and the boy remains behind bars on motor vehicle theft charges, while the girls are expected to be charged with shop theft.

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Mower sparks fire A lawn mower has sparked a grassfire in regional Victoria that destroyed a house, three sheds and eight cars. The CFA says a lawnmower in a paddock caused the blaze in Heathcote on Saturday afternoon which quickly spread to a neighbouring property. The fire was brought under control just before 7pm and firefighters continued to monitor the scene for hot spots yesterday.

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Guilty of cruelty A jury has convicted a suburban Georgia couple of child cruelty for locking their oldest son in a basement for nearly two years.

Recardo and Therian Wimbush locked their then-12-year-old son in a basement for 18 months as punishment and neglected to care for another son’s malignant cancer. The Department of Family and Children Services acted on an anonymous tip in 2014 that led to their arrests. The jury found them innocent of the four more serious first-degree cruelty charges but guilty on three counts of seconddegree cruelty. The Wimbushes, who served as their own attorney, face up to 30 years in prison. A juvenile court will decide whether any of the couple’s 10 children see their parents again.

- AP John Hurt opic Jackie, thriller Damascus Cover and the upcoming biopic of boxer Lenny McLean, My Name Is Lenny.

Jackie co-star Natalie Portman said she was “so extremely sad” to hear of Hurt’s death.

She said: “I was lucky enough to make two films with him both of which were taken to the next level because of his performances.

“He was the most talented actor, and also a deeply good and funny and poetic and smart and warm human being.

“I send my love to his family at this terrible time, and join his

fans in watching his films that we are lucky enough to have forever.”

Hurt was also filming Darkest Hour, in which he starred as Neville Chamberlain opposite Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill, due to be released on December 29.

The British actor was nominated for two Academy Awards, for The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, and won four BAFTA Awards, including a lifetime achievement accolade in recognition of his outstanding contribution to British cinema in 2012.

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Tiger escapes A tiger escaped from a circus in Sicily, running along the road in a town near Palermo before being recaptured. Monreale Mayor Piero Capizzi said at first he thought someone was joking when he was told a tiger was on the loose at the weekend. But local traffic police indeed found the tiger on the run.

The animal was re-captured after being coaxed to go inside a series of increasingly smaller cages. It was taken back to the circus.

The mayor says it is not known how the tiger escaped from the circus, which is currently performing in the Monreale area.

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ilts and bagpipes gave the Ashburton Domain a Scottish flavour yesterday. The occasion was the annual Ashburton Pipe Band Festival and this time we had a band of our own competing . . . it’s been many years since that happened.

In fact this time last year, there were just four pipers. Now there are 12 and the Ashburton Scottish Society Pipe Band has come out of hibernation.

The bagpipes have that special ability to bring a tear to the eye or make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

Yesterday people lined Elizabeth and Grigg streets to see not only our own band, but six others.

It’s testimony to people like Peter Doak, pipe major, that the Ashburton band is back on the scene.

Members who moved away have come back and new pipers have been grown.

For someone who can only play the last piece of music I learned on the piano (The Norwegian Cradle Song, thank you Mrs Bennett), the pipes look hard to play. It will have taken the Ashburton group many, many hundreds of hours of practice, individually and as a group, to prepare for yesterday.

There was plenty of genuine interest in seeing them succeed yesterday.

It was also good to see the band’s succession plan in place with a number of younger faces in the group.

It is no easy task to keep a group or club going and they need support and encouragement.

They also need a reason to perform, not only for their own enjoyment but to spread their particular type of music to new groups and generation.

The pipe band festival has been running for more than 40 years, here’s hoping both the band and the event keep going to add to our district’s rich and diverse culture.

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New year, new decisions D

uring the holiday break I took time out with family and friends and enjoyed a holiday away.

As you will now know, that break also gave me time to consider my future and consequently I have this week announced I will not be contesting the election this year.

I have thoroughly enjoyed, in fact loved, my time representing Rangitata as MP and working as first Junior Whip and then a Minister over a range of portfolios.

But after this year’s election I will look for new opportunities.

I remain committed to working as Rangitata MP and will do everything I can to ensure a successful election result in the electorate and nationally for the National Party.

Better connectivity for four Rangitata communities High quality internet makes a difference to the way we run our local businesses, with access to the digital economy and greater commercial opportunities, brings huge benefits to our schools and brings convenience

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and efficiency to our everyday lives.

That is why we are investing $300 million to expand the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) programme to an additional 151 towns across New Zealand, plus 43 suburban fringe areas around the larger centres which were covered by the first phase of the programme.

This means bringing fibre access to four Rangitata communities – Methven, Lake Hood, Pleasant Point and Temuka. The expansion means about 8000 more people will have access to fibre.

Phase one of UFB has already brought fibre access to over one million households and businesses in 38 towns and cities across New Zealand.

The level of UFB uptake is at 30 per cent, with over 300,000 connections.

This expansion brings us closer to achieving our target of bringing faster broadband and better mobile coverage to 99 per cent of New Zealanders by 2025.

Delivering for Kiwi families in 2017.

Whilst the American election was on everyone’s mind while we were travelling I spent a lot of time thanking my lucky stars that we have relative stability and can have confidence that New Zealand is on the right track.

The Government is gearing up for the challenges of election year with a busy agenda and a clear plan for our country’s future – building on the strong momentum we have achieved over the past eight years.

New Zealand is well positioned compared to most other countries. That’s no accident. It’s the result of New Zealanders’ hard work, backed by the National-led Government’s clear plan for our country’s future.

Our economy remains one of

the strongest in the developed world. And Kiwi families are seeing the benefits.

Around 250,000 extra jobs have been created over the past three years and unemployment is falling. The average annual wage is now $58,400 – up $12,000 since we were elected in 2008 and more than double the rate of inflation, while interest rates are at 50-year lows.

The country is back in surplus and we’re getting better results from important public services like hospitals, schools and social programmes.

We are seeing strong growth in sectors such as tourism, ICT, construction, and hightech manufacturing.

We have the resilience and the financial strength to bounce back from challenges

such as the Kaikoura earthquakes, and the Government will continue to support the recovery efforts.

We are committed to ensuring this stability and progress continues as we head into the New Year.

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here to start?

There’s a touch of Alice in Wonderland about Trump’s take-over of the White House, so becoming, overnight, the leader of the free world.

Can it be part of an on-going fairy story, full of mad-hatters, (plenty of candidates there), white rabbits, march hares, a cheshire cat, (contender for that position, Donald’s very own spokeslady) a king and queen of hearts and even a mock turtle, the President himself?

We are reminded that at school the mock turtle was taught ambition, distraction, uglification and derision. One can’t help, feeling Trump must be a graduate of a very similar syllabus.

True, Melania Trump seems unlikely to be a practising Q-of-H as Lewis Carroll’s had a very bad temper and bossed the king, and others, around. Though, who knows? She may be the power behind the throne to whom Donald turns for much of his worldly advice.

On the other hand, she seems to be everyone’s idea of a trophy wife – glamorous, delicate and wheeled out only when needed to impress.

That is, impress visiting dignitaries and impress in terms of her husband’s apparent magnetism in managing to persuade such a beauty to marry him in the first place.

But then, in that regard, I am told an unlimited money supply, even from willing lenders, can heighten the attraction of old men in the eyes of a potential, much

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younger bride. How will Melania handle the first lady” role? That’s what we are all agog to watch.

There are other parallels too between the Trump whanau and the inhabitants of Wonderland.

It is all a matter of taking in what has happened and, despite the resemblances between Alice’s experiences and the new President’s in terms of upsetting the natural order, to distinguish between the two. Hers were clearly make-believe, his very much the real thing.

Alice would certainly have raised her eyebrows at the sinister appearance of the latest Trumpism, namely, alternative facts, whereby, if the truth looks like showing the President or other members of his administration in a less than favourable light, a far softer version and more attractive interpretation of the events in question, will be offered?

Trump’s spokeslady seems already to have mastered that technique and it may well catch on in political circles round the globe.

Thus from the Trump White House will come only those details Americans (and we) might be thought to prefer rather than what has actually occurred.

Such political fudging has, of

course, been going on for years but to raise its status and give it an official title adds a quasi authenticity to the whole disreputable charade.

Late news tells us of a sudden surge in the sales of George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 in which a totalitarian regime adopts the practice of newspeak, Orwell’s satirical and prophetic take on alternative facts.

And now there’s more; the executive orders are coming thick and fast from the Oval Office, each presented to the cameras to give us a sight of the Trump heavy-handed signature, very much a reflection of the contents of the order.

Oil pipelines across native reserve land could well lead to serious bloodshed, as could the new harsh attitude to abortion.

As for the Trump Wall round Mexico, Erich Honecker, former puppet president of East Germany (GDR) and a connoisseur of dividing walls must be, if not actually laughing, at least smiling in his grave. Once built it will, of course, require gun towers, searchlights, and booby traps immediately in front of it making it impregnable to would-be immigrants.

And when all two thousand miles of it are in place, the Mexicans themselves are going to pay for it. As Tui would say, yeah, right”.

Round the world, leaders are attempting to come to terms with the elephant in that same, oval office, not least ours.

English hopes to be able to sign a bi-lateral agreement with the

United States, but even he thinks it unlikely.

As the Trump is busy cutting off his nose to spite his face, others look towards China and beyond for inspiration and economic leadership.

China has expressed itself more than willing to take up the role while America takes cowardly refuge in its own, megalomanic cocoon.

In other parts, where sanity still prevails, we hear of the pending resignation of Helen Clark from her illustrious eight year stint at the United Nations. She has done a fine job and brought solace to many benighted countries.

The near future would seem a good time to be leaving the scene before Trump and his henchmen somehow get their hands on the organisation.

Meanwhile, the PM has to explain how billionaire Pete Thiel, currently a member of team Trump, owner of much high-end real estate in Glendhu Bay, Wanaka, million dollar donor to the Christchurch earthquake appeal and involved in a multiplicity of other deals, good and bad, managed to acquire New Zealand citizenship along the way. Shades of Kim Dot Com, series two.

Labour claims it is a disgraceful example of wealth-flexing to become a New Zealander – for what purpose not yet made fully clear – while National, so far, claims to have no idea.

What he is doing for the

new leader of the free world also remains a mystery.

So there we are, one month into 2017, the future as foggy as ever - and the sea round our coasts a whole lot cooler.

Wet suits essential!

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■ SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS

Joy among death at Deception Island

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bandoned homes, full of ghosts, are the most fascinating kind of museum. An iron stove without its doors, a battered sewing machine at a broken table, a dirty hessian rug blowing out of an open window – they all offer titillating details of lives lived here.

I try to picture the last time someone stood up and walked out of this place, all those decades ago.

It’s hard to imagine, because given the 50-knot winds and blinding Antarctic blizzard whipping my face, it’s hard to imagine anyone living here at all.

These wooden huts on Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands, look dishevelled now.

When they housed Norwegian whalers during the early 20th century, they probably weren’t much better.

On approach, Deception looks like any other island, but when you pass through the rocky channel of Neptune’s Bellows, you discover it’s actually in the shape of a horseshoe with a large, flooded caldera in its centre.

This is its first deception, which gave the island its name when American sealer Nathaniel Palmer sailed by in 1820.

In our little nook of Whalers Bay, barren volcanic slopes and ash-layered glaciers slide into a rocky, black beach littered with the industrial flotsam of whale oil extraction. Boats and barrels are scattered among the whalebones.

The huge tank that boiled the whales’ bodies still looms high on the beach, rusty and sombre – a grim beacon to a time when these majestic mammals were hunted and killed in their thousands.

Gnarly, leftover whale carcasses would have clogged the bay as tankers pumped oil from smaller tanks on the beach. These ugly tanks remain here too, giving welcome windbreaks and shelter for gulls, who have made nests among rusty poles and pipes.

The whaling station on Deception Island closed in 1931, the whales spared only by their decreasing worth. For over 10 years this place remained a desolate graveyard until the Royal Navy set up a British base in the abandoned buildings in 1944.

That this place could be a secure human habitat was its second deception. The base was occupied continuously from 1944 to 1967, when a volcanic eruption forced its evacuation. It reopened in 1968 but nature forced out humans once more a few months later with another eruption, whose mudflow destroyed most of the buildings.

Deception Island – there’s a reason this wild, unpredictable place is uninhabited. Nature likes it that way.

It’s almost divine punishment for what humans did to the whales here. There’s a reason this wild, unpredictable place is uninhabited. Nature likes it that way.

The abandoned, fire-blackened buildings here are now preserved as a Historic Site under the Antarctic Treaty (which, incidentally, bans whaling unless carried out for scientific purposes). It’s sad that our permanent footprint on the island originates in cruelty and greed.

We’re not allowed to walk inside the buildings for safety reasons, so I sit between two of them for my own shelter against the blizzard.

Corrugated iron roofs and wood-panelled walls have collapsed, and pane-less windows are permanently blown open in the wind, which is too fierce for me to find peace among these ghosts.

I peer inside. I see some machinery and try to imagine someone using it, someone cooking dinner at the stove, warming themselves on a bitter winter’s night.

I can barely imagine the desolate, cold and lonely life the whalers had here. They may have been well paid but their lives were tough.

The only life here now is the dips and cries of the Antarctic terns, whose white wings glisten like bright flickers of fire. The odd Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins waddle along the shoreline before diving into the sea. Fur seals and Weddell seals can often be seen laid out on the rocks. It’s good to

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see nature reclaiming this place.

But humans refuse to leave it alone. One of the reasons is the caldera’s calm, safe waters, which make it one of Antarctica’s safest harbours (for whales now too, thankfully).

Since the 19th century, sealers and whalers have found refuge here before or after crossing the sometimes-treacherous Drake Passage, the 800km-wide body of water separating Antarctica from South America, its closest landmass.

Today, our expedition ship

Sea Spirit shares the bay with a small team of research scientists recovering in their yacht after being tossed about on the Drake in a seven-metre swell. A cruise ship is holding out there too, waiting for conditions to ease before attempting the crossing to Argentina.

Of course, there’s a third deception in this calm; this volcano remains active.

The geothermal activity on Deception Island “slightly” heats the seawater here, offering travellers a rare opportunity for a relatively warm Antarctic bath.

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I gingerly take off my gloves, and in an instant, the cold stings my fingers. But as I dig my palms into the coarse, black rocks on the shoreline, I feel a warmth down below. This place looks so dead and monochrome above ground yet holds such heat and power within.

A final deception.

I’m suddenly startled by the sight of two naked bodies darting into the bay. German travellers Florian and Amelia dive straight into the cold and splash about, giggling.

It’s hard to deny desolate Antarctic as a spectacular place to swim. Bathing nude here in the caldera of an active volcano even more enticing, it seems.

“I couldn’t pass up this opportunity,” says Florian.

The pair laugh, wrap their arms around each other and smile for the camera. Their eyes are sparkling, as eyes do when you’ve tested your limits and come out victorious.

Their vivacious joy is in stark contrast to the macabre backdrop of death on the shore. It’s wonderful to see this place being enjoyed without being exploited. It is morbid, but heavenly, too.

Deception Island.

But I’m glad the creaking huts and empty tanks are still here, lonely out in the elements. Antarctic whaling stations are as dead as the ash and ice. In this respect, the detritus is a warming reminder of how far we’ve come.

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In brief Williams’ huge bill Serena and Venus Williams ran up a $33,000 hotel bill in Auckland while competing in the ASB Classic this month and Auckland tennis organisers had to foot the bill. The bill was additional to the substantial appearance fees paid to both players. The Williams sisters both struggled on the court with early round exits, but enjoyed the best of Auckland in their downtime, booking out five luxury suites and their own function room at the Sky City Grand Hotel.- NZME

Isha missing in action Speaking to the crowd at Rod Laver Arena following sister Serena’s win, Venus Williams was humble, spoke highly of her sibling and said she was grateful to even be breathing let alone be part of a grand slam final. But one shout-out didn’t go as planned. “Sister Isha, where are you?” Venus said as she scanned the crowd before realising she wasn’t at the stadium. “She didn’t come?” The crowd laughed along as Venus held a hand up to her mouth and managed a chuckle herself. “I get it. It is too hard. I get it. Isha, I love you.”

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McCaws at the tennis Rhys Cromie is all eyes on the ball as he serves one up on Saturday in open grade senior tennis.

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Fairton confirms dominance

By Matt MarkhaM

matt.m@theguardian.co.nz

Fairton can declare themselves the winners of Round 2 of Mid Canterbury Open Grade senior tennis after they took an unassailable lead with their fourth victory of the round on Saturday.

Up against Methven, the doubles matches resulted in shared points after Methven’s Flynn Ness and Jarad Hill beat Connor Brosnahan and Bryn Looij 6-4, 7-5 and Fairton’s Tyler Leonard and Jade Brosnahan beat Isabelle Talbot and Sophie Innes 6-1, 6-3.

Ness kept the pressure on

Brosnahan to win their singles fixture 6-3, 6-3 but the remainder of the Fairton side rallied to win their matches and give the table-toppers the win – and a big enough buffer on the standings to claim round two honours with one more day of play remaining.

Allenton and Hampstead are now locked in a tie in second place after the former beat the latter on Saturday.

Spurred on by an in-form Rhys Cromie, Allenton’s three singles wins were enough to get them home.

Cromie and Peter Leonard

beat Andre Van Rooyen and Tony Brosnahan 6-3, 6-2 for Allenton, but Matt Bubb and Mary-Anne Thyne were too good in their match winning 6-2,6-0.

Thyne was Hampstead only singles victory, beating Maisie Looij 6-0,6-2.

Saturday’s other match went the way of Tinwald who set the early pace by winning both their doubles matches to pile the pressure on Southern.

Tessa McCann continued the form that has her ranked as Mid Canterbury’s best female singles player with a 6-2,6-2 victory over Ashleigh Leonard, but that was

the only bright spot for Southern.

In A-grade reserve action, Tinwald continued their march with another victory – although this time they did drop a match.

The three previous rounds had results in 6-0 victories for the side, but Southern managed to take a match off them on Saturday.

They too have an unassailable lead with Hampstead 11 points behind them in second place – despite losing on the weekend.

They were beaten by Allenton while Dorie beat Methven in the other fixture.

The honeymoon continues for New Zealand’s most famous newlyweds, who enjoyed a day together at the Australian Open. Richie and Gemma McCaw posted pictures on social media ahead of the muchanticipated final between Venus and Serena Williams at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. “The atmosphere here is building... can’t wait for the game tonight,” said Mrs McCaw, posting a picture to Instagram of the smiling couple outside the arena.

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Peers, Kontinen win Australian John Peers and Finnish partner Henri Kontinen have been crowned men’s doubles’ champions at the Australian Open. No.4 seeds Peers and Kontinen defeated American pair Bob and Mike Bryan 7-5 7-5 on Saturday night to claim their first silverware at a major. The third-seeded Bryan brothers had each been looking to equal John Newcombe’s record for the most grand slam doubles titles won by an individual with a 17th major win, but Peers and Kontinen were not to be denied.

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No end in sight for record-setting Serena

By Darren Walton Savouring one of her sweetest triumphs, Serena Williams is placing no limits on what she may accomplish next after becoming the most successful player in professional tennis history.

Williams elevated herself to

“Jordan status” after upstaging sister Venus to win an unprecedented seventh Australian Open crown and record 23rd grand slam title at Melbourne Park.

The 35-year-old’s emotional triumph nudged her ahead of German great Steffi Graf and within touching distance of Aus-

tralian Margaret Court’s all-time record 24 singles slams.

“It’s such a great feeling to have 23. It really feels great. I’ve been chasing it for a really long time,” the American said.

“When it got on my radar, I knew I had an opportunity to get there, and I’m here. I’m here.

“I finally made it to Jordan status at 23. Honestly, it’s crazy.”

At 35, Williams is also the oldest women’s major winner in the 49-year open era.

Yet the living legend believes she’s playing “better than I think ever” and has no plans on slowing down.”

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Coldstream takes thriller

By Matt MarkhaM

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Coldstream and Methven began their Muirhead Rosebowl chase with victories in Mid Canterbury senior cricket on Saturday.

Methven chased down a modest total set by Lauriston with consummate ease on the Lauriston Oval while Coldstream came out on top of the closely fought affair against Tech – winning by two wickets.

Tech won the toss and elected to bat and were quickly in trouble before a rescue mission from the

Gallagher brothers, Callum and Morgan – in which they put on 83 for the fourth wicket, salvaged the innings.

Callum finished with 41 while Morgan top-scored with 46.

Jason Morrison then saw things through with his 32 runs off 38 balls before Tech were bowled out for 163.

Kieran McClea played the role of chief destroyer picking up four wickets from his 6.4 overs, conceding just 109 runs.

In reply, the Coldstream side looked quite comfortable at 65-2

when Bo Houston departed for 33.

A mixed bag from their middle order however saw them struggling a bit with Jono Print’s 40 and Jay Houston’s 30 the only other highlights.

In a tense final few overs the Coldstream side managed to get the required runs to win by two wickets with just seven balls remaining.

On the other side of the district, Lauriston’s 156 all out proved to be no match for Methven who chased down the required runs,

losing just one wicket in the process.

Lauriston batted first and scored 156 in stifling conditions, with Ash Mills claiming three scalps to continue his good form with the ball.

A 46-run partnership between Chris Gorman and Todd Dodunski set the visitors up before Sam McIvor strolled to the crease.

McIvor and Dodunski put on an unbeaten stand of 113 to see Methven to victory with McIvor scoring 71 not out and Dodunski finishing on 60 not out.

Meditation helped Scorchers win BBL

By Justin ChadwiCk Perth Scorchers coach Justin Langer has revealed his inspired decision to play inexperienced paceman Jhye Richardson in the BBL final was all thanks to his daily meditation ritual.

Langer faced one of the toughest selection decisions of his coaching career when weighing up whether to play Jason Behrendorff or Richardson in Saturday night’s final against the Sydney Sixers.

Behrendorff – one of the best T20 bowlers in Australia – hadn’t played since breaking his leg in November.

Richardson had performed admirably throughout the tournament, but he was battling ankle and rib injuries.

Langer said he asked about 50

people for their opinion about who to play.

In the end, the answer came to him at 6.50am on the morning of the match during his daily meditation.

“It just came, and it was crystal clear,” Langer said.

“I sent a text to the selectors at about 7.20am saying it was a crystal clear decision.”

Richardson didn’t let his coach down, with the 20-year-old snaring 3-30 and completing a runout to earn man-of-the-match honours.

His heroics helped lift the Scorchers to a crushing ninewicket victory, securing their third BBL crown.

Richardson said although he pulled up sore from the semifinal win over the Stars, he was desperate to play in the final.

And he was given every chance

by Langer to prove his fitness.

“I asked him a week ago how’s your rib. And he said, ‘Oh, a bit sore’,” Langer said.

“I said, ‘I tell you what, I’m going to walk away and give you five minutes to think about how you’re going to answer that question again’.

“When I asked how his rib was, he said, ‘It’s good, I’m feeling really good’.

“And when I asked him again on Friday night, he said, ‘I’m going brilliant, I don’t even feel it’.

“He’s getting street wise the young fella.”

Behrendorff remains a key cog in WA’s cricket set-up.

The left-arm paceman will build up his bowling loads over the coming weeks in the hope of returning to Sheffield Shield

ranks before the season is out.

While Richardson was the hero in the BBL final, former test paceman Mitchell Johnson was just as pivotal.

Just four days after snaring 3-3 in the semi-final, Johnson returned figures of 1-13 off four overs against the Sixers.

The feats of Johnson and Richardson restricted to the Sixers to 9-141.

The Scorchers reached the victory target with 25 balls to spare.

Michael Klinger scored an unbeaten 71 off 49 balls, while fellow opener Sam Whiteman (41 off 21) was also influential.

Johnson has already indicated he wants to return to the Scorchers next season, and Langer says he would love to have the leftarm paceman feature again for his side.

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New Zealand is unlikely to have a team in the Big Bash League any time soon.

The Australian T20 competition, now in its sixth edition, has gone gangbusters across the Tasman, selling out 20 of 35 games and drawing an average crowd of 30,500.

Interest on this side of the ditch has been boosted by the isolated involvement of our limited-overs specialists – former Black Caps skippers Stephen Fleming and Daniel Vettori coached teams this season, Brendon McCullum led the Brisbane Heat to the semifinals, while Ish Sodhi and Colin Munro played notable cameos.

But BBL boss Anthony Everard warns we should not hold our breath on the prospect of fielding an NZ-based team in the tournament.

“I wouldn’t say never, but it’s not something on the radar at the moment,” he said.

“Sorry to disappoint.

“The strategy hasn’t changed for BBL, which is really about capitalising on the opportunity to draw new fans in our own backyard and I still think there’s plenty of upside in that.

“New Zealand is a market that we know has huge interest and there’s no question having North and South Island teams would work well from a New Zealand perspective, but it really has to fit in with the broader Cricket Australia strategy.”

While Heat slugger Chris Lynn claimed he would rather play Big Bash than international limited overs for Australia, Everard insists the BBL is not designed as an alternative to national honours.

“That’s a minority view,” he said.

“There’s no question the opportunity to represent your country on the international stage is still very much at the forefront of players minds.

“But the responsibility is really incumbent on administrators, on myself and others at Cricket Australia, to come up with a scheduling scenario that’s the best of both worlds.

“There are certainly worse problems for sports to have.

“Essentially, Cricket Australia has two premium products in the market – international cricket and the growing Big Bash League.

“That’s nearly 80 days of content to schedule, whereas six years ago, we had half of that.

“So, good problem to have, but certainly a challenging one to fit everything in.”

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Black Caps looking forward

By DaviD Leggat In sport and life it’s best not to linger on the bad stuff; that may help explain why last month’s belting from Australia across the Tasman hasn’t been discussed in depth by New Zealand as they prepare for the return Chappell Hadlee series, starting at Eden Park today.

There’s a strong belief among the New Zealand squad that the gulf between the teams is nothing like it was projected as they were dunked 3-0 at Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.

Senior batsman Ross Taylor wasn’t on that trip, getting over his left eye surgery, but he confirmed it hasn’t exactly been top of the agenda in conversations among the players.

“No we haven’t talked about it much.

“You play so much cricket you can’t let things dwell,” Taylor said.

“After the Australia series, the guys got straight back into domestic cricket, and played well against Bangladesh.

Australia is going to be a step up but at the same time you’ve just got to get on with what’s in front of you.”

And Taylor, returning after three months out of the ODI game, warned it would be foolish to think Australia will be a soft touch with the absence of their three top order batting stars, David Warner, Usman Khawaja and captain Steve Smith for a range of reasons, from the trip.

“They had a big part to play in the last series.

“Warner’s been in stellar form, Smith is very consistent and an inspiring leader.

“They’ll be looking for [standin skipper Matthew] Wade to step up.

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Latham good with gloves Tom Latham will be lining up behind the stumps against Australia after a seemingly smooth audition with the gloves for Canterbury on Saturday. Latham played a key role in leading Canterbury to a fivewicket win over Auckland in the Ford Trophy. While it would be shoddy analysis to make a definitive judgement without having seen all 50 overs of his glovework, Latham was sharp with two stumpings, and helped manufacture a runout as Auckland could only muster 209/8. Latham backed up his keeping stint by making 59 at the top of the order, displaying the added lineup balance he can provide by multi-tasking with the gloves. Canterbury eased home with 12 overs to spare.

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Haddin welcome back

Ross Taylor says Australia is going to be tough, regardless of who is in their line-up.

“The New Zealand public would love to have Smith and Warner here, they love reminding them of a few things.

“But Australia get a chance to check out their depth. Any time you play Australia, regardless of who they put on the field, you know they’re going to be tough.

“We don’t like losing to each other.

“Not having those guys there gives them an opportunity.”

New Zealand’s batsmen certainly won’t be in chortling mode.

Australia’s bowling attack is formidable, and at full strength, with Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and resurgent Pat Cummins all in Auckland.

They’re all likely to get a rest at some point in the series.

“It’s just the landscape of cricket.

“Players who play three formats need a break, and if you don’t give them a break that’s where injuries come in.

“They lose Smith and Warner but us batters are up against their best bowlers.

“We’ll be under pressure and hopefully can respond.”

Taylor is tipping an intriguing series, in terms of the possible variations in pitch conditions.

“They’re going to be totally different.

“This one [Eden Park] will have a little bit in it, small boundaries; there’ll be pace and bounce in Napier, and the slower nature, where it could turn, at Hamilton.

“In a three-game series you’ve

got to be ready to go straight away.

“You can’t let 10-15 overs go, you’ve got to be right on the ball.

“Quite often in a short series whoever wins the first match gets the upper hand and confidence.”

Australia are aware Eden Park, with its quirky angles and short boundaries, looks a ground full of runs, but often flatters to deceive.

“You assume there’s going to be high scores, but it tends to swing here,” captain Matthew Wade said.

Taylor has a theory – “It just has a little bit in it.

“Sometimes I just don’t think there’s a par score. Some days it’s 300 plays 300; others it’s 200.

“You’ve just got to analyse it as quickly as possible.”

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Sydney Sixers captain Moises Henriques is unsure whether Brad Haddin will play on next BBL season, but says the veteran wicketkeeper will be welcomed with open arms if he does want to continue his glittering career. Haddin wound back the clock with a handy 38 off 25 balls in the loss to the Scorchers in Saturday’s final. “It would be nice for us if he could churn out a few more performances like that next year, but that decision is complete-ly with him. He’s a great role model not just as a cricketer, but also the way he conducts himself off the field.”

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Starc ready to fire Mitchell Starc has only played one international match in New Zealand, but it’s no secret he’s a fan of the country’s swinging conditions. The left-arm quick will return to the scene of his finest World Cup hour when Australia take on New Zealand at Eden Park today. Starc was at his devastating best on that day in 2015 – and he is keen to repeat the mayhem. “It’s something the quicks are excited about, there’s probably a bit more in it.”

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Will Twenty20 soon go the way of the hula-hoop?

By PauL Lewis

S

tephen Fleming’s suggestion New Zealand scale back test cricket in favour of the short forms of the game seems to have created little or no discussion.

Good. It’s a crock.

Today’s Chappell-Hadlee 50-over match against Australia will be closely followed after the boredom of the Bangladesh series where every version (T20, ODI and test matches) meandered to inevitable conclusions.

Leave aside the fact Fleming is the greatest scorer of test runs in New Zealand’s history.

It would be a bit small to suggest he is denying others the career he enjoyed as Fleming’s comments were presumably aimed at the good of the game – and not just the good of Fleming (who earns a living coaching T20 stuff in India and Australia).

In a cricket sense, his contention is redundant.

New Zealand is ranked No. 1

in the world at T20 and fourth in ODIs. In tests, the Black Caps are ranked fifth.

No matter what you may think of the ICC rankings, there’s no apparent need to scale anything back if success in the short forms is happening organically.

And, anyway, why would you?

In tennis, New Zealand has no one in the world top 50 singles players, men or women.

So should we scale back singles and concentrate on doubles?

Everyone’s head is being turned by the admittedly astonishing numbers watching Australia’s Big Bash T20 series.

That has led to even more strident predictions of test cricket’s demise – based on small crowds around the world, even cricketcrazy India.

But there’s life in the old girl yet.

The Big Bash’s biggest TV audience earlier this month was 1.7 million; the average audi-

ence 1.3m across all games.

On day four of the recent day-night test, Australia against South Africa, 1.8m watched the final session.

The first day of that test averaged 1.3m – and that’s over 8 hours, not the ‘instant coffee’ ethos of T20’s hit-and-giggle ethos.

The fifth day averaged 1.6m.

That said, T20 has affected test cricket – faster scoring has penetrated tests and led to persuasive calls for them to be shortened to four days.

We can never forget tests were saved by Kerry Packer’s ‘circus’ in the 1970s; a staid administration dragged by the hair into a modern world of coloured clothing, TV rights, day-night games and a greater sense of urgency, competition and relevance to the sporting public.

T20 has done what its creators intended – bringing new people, new audiences, into the game.

So is this not the next revolu-

tion that will ‘save’ cricket?

There’s just one small thing.

ODIs have stood the test of time, even if the Aussies still casually insult us by leaving their three best batsmen at home.

T20 may not.

It may be a step too far into the over-scheduled, overblown, more-is-less dynamic of modern life in a predominantly disposable society.

It may be a cricketing fad – going the same way as Tamagotchi, the Macarena, crocs and those god-awful baggy jeans designed to be worn to show your underwear but which all too often succeeded in showing bum cracks as well.

How will T20 fare when the crowd get bored with the ramp shot, the endless succession of sixes, bowlers as sacrifices and when the hype is just ... hype?

The Wellington Sevens is an object lesson.

Originally marketed as a massive dress-up party fuelled with

lashings of booze, it became old hat.

Now it is being shopped around as a family day.

T20 may be doing big numbers now, but does anybody really care?

Is it building its own tradition or is it soon to be forgotten when the next big distraction arrives on the scene?

Fleming’s assertion of scaling down tests was based on “we are not really ever going to threaten one or two in the world ... we’ve come close at times but it’s only going to be for brief moments ... to compete against the big countries is always going to be a challenge.”

Precisely.

That’s what sport is.

A challenge.

It’s setting yourself against the best and, occasionally, beating them.

Otherwise, we should all go down the road and have a milkshake ...

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In brief Bids for Pacquiao bout Australian boxer Jeff Horn’s dream of fighting Filipino champion Manny Pacquiao in his hometown of Brisbane is a step closer to reality with the Queensland government formally bidding to host the fight. Queensland tourism minister Kate Jones confirmed yesterday the state government had put its offer to promoters with Suncorp Stadium the proposed venue for the April 23 WBO world welterweight championship bout.

Horn has already labelled the bout as his “dream fight”.

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Tuipulotu struggles The Blues franchise is gearing up for a Super Rugby season without Patrick Tuipulotu, but will continue to support the All Black lock during his indefinite absence. The giant second-rower will not report for duty as expected this week and has been given all the time he needs to resolve “ongoing personal issues” that saw him return home early from the national team’s Northern Hemisphere tour last November.

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Randle takes Motor Cup

Softballers back on the diamond Izaac Otene fires one down at softball at Argyle Park on Saturday afternoon. Full story in tomorrow’s Guardian.

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Liverpool slide continues Liverpool have sunk deeper into their mid-season rut, as Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers shocked them with a 2-1 FA Cup triumph at Anfield yesterday.

Indeed, it was a day for the underdogs, with non-league Lincoln besting Championship leaders Brighton Hove & Albion to advance to the final 16.

And Tottenham Hotspur needed injury-time heroics to get past League Two Wycombe Wanderers, who twice blew a late-game lead.

Goals by Richard Stearman and Andreas Weimann proved enough for Wolves, 18th in the second tier, to inflict a third home defeat in a week on Juergen Klopp’s faltering side.

The loss left Klopp steaming, the German admitting that Liverpool can’t get any lower than where they are currently at.

“If someone asks if this is the lowest point of my Liverpool time until now, I don’t know,” Klopp told reporters.

“I don’t think it is the right time to talk about being positive or optimistic.

“In this moment, we feel really bad.”

Liverpool, fourth in the Premier League, have won only one game out of eight in January and

The face of despair: Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp watches his team stumble out of the FA Cup yesterday.

PHOTO AP their chances of lifting a trophy this season look bleak.

“It is a perfect moment to turn, because it is not possible to go lower,” Klopp said.

Wycombe were on course to trump Wolves, with a genuine giant-killing away to Premier

League title hopefuls Tottenham Hotspur, as two goals by Paul Hayes gave them a 2-0 half-time lead in their game at White Hart Lane.

Garry Thompson then restored their lead seven minutes from time, after Tottenham had

battled back, but Dele Alli equalised and an own goal salvaged a 4-3 victory for Tottenham.

Lincoln did hold on for an upset though.

They went doen 1-0 to Brighton, before coming back to take a 3-1 victory.

Brighton weren’t the only Championship high-flyers undone, with Newcastle United succumbing to a humbling 3-0 defeat at League One’s Oxford United.

While those two slipped, Aaron Mooy came off the bench for Huddersfield Town to give a late assist, as they ran out 4-0 winners over lowly Rochdale.

There was precious little drama at Stamford Bridge though, as Premier League leaders Chelsea beat second-tier Brentford 4-0, or at Selhurst Park, where Manchester City outclassed Crystal Palace 3-0 in an all-Premier League clash.

Two other Premier League sides made progress, with Middlesbrough beating Accrington Stanley 1-0 and Burnley seeing off Bristol City 2-0.

Blackburn Rovers won a northwest derby 2-0 against Blackpool in a game memorable for protests against their clubs’ respective owners by both sets of fans.

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Australian Thomas Randle cruised to the chequered flag as his championship rivals ran into drama in an incident-filled Toyota Racing Series race at Hampton Downs yesterday. The 20-year-old became the first Australian to win the New Zealand Motor Cup since Warwick Brown in 1975 as he led from start to finish in the weekend’s feature race. Austrian Ferdinand Habsburg finished second and Jehan Daruvala third but championship leader Richard Verschoor and New Zealander Marcus Armstrong were caught up in incidents.

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Close calls fuel Leishman Marc Leishman hopes a series of near misses at Torrey Pines have taught him the patience to close out the Farmers Insurance Open. The 33-year-old moved to seven under with a four-under 68 at the US PGA Tour’s La Jolla tournament, two shots behind the 54-hole lead set by Patrick Rodgers (67) and defending champion Brandt Snedeker (70). Big-hitting American Tony Finau is a shot back at eight under and shares third place with Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Tsung Pan going into the final round.

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Wildcats fight back The Perth Wildcats jumped from seventh spot to third on the NBL ladder with a 73-71 win over Melbourne United at Perth Arena.

United’s David Barlow, playing his 200th game, missed a threepoint attempt with seconds remaining before team-mate Todd Blanchfield missed the tip in on the buzzer to give the Wildcats the win on Saturday night.

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Ramirez in sights Leicester are expected to increase their efforts to sign Middlesbrough forward Gaston Ramirez over the weekend. The Premier League champions have already had an offer for the 26-year-old turned down by Boro but Ramirez has reportedly handed in a transfer request in an attempt to force a move to the King Power Stadium.

The transfer window closes on Tuesday night.

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M4 Whakatane gallops Today at Te Teko Raceway

Whakatane RC Venue: Te Teko Meeting Date: 30 Jan 2017 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.50pm THE BEACON 1400 RATING 65 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 2490x Nothing Trivial d (5) 60 ............. D Danis (a4) 2 81249 Cutting Up Rough d (8) 59.5 .... K McCulloch 3 30024 Pasabahce tm (1) 57.5 ...............R Elliot (a2) 4 213x9 Spritz m (3) 57.5 ........................M Cameron 5 1 Colorado Prince d (4) 57.5 ..........C Lammas 6 60x07 Cochise d (2) 57.......................... D Johnson 7 32845 Hello M’Lady (6) 56 ....................M Coleman 8 47x07 Lookatmepins d (7) 55.5 ..S Weatherley (a2) 2 1.25 GARTSHORE CONSTRUCTION MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 Giant Like (5) 58.5 ...........S Weatherley (a2) 2 0x Outofthemist (3) 58.5 ............H Marzuki (a4) 3 8. Sufficient Funds (8) 58.5 .............C Lammas 4 Forecast (14) 57 .........................M Coleman 5 6 Sovereign Prince (7) 57 ..............T Thornton 6 7x Stephen Bond (6) 57 7 First Nephew (11) 57 ............... K McCulloch 8 x6x23 Hush Little Sista (1) 56.5.......... D Danis (a4) 9 86x47 Victoria’s Secret (12) 56.5 ...............S Collett 10 0x0 Miss El Dorado (13) 56.5 ...................M Hills 11 75668 Miss Mazzy (2) 56.5 ...................R Elliot (a2) 12 78. Pacotaine (4) 56.5 .....................S McKay (a) 13 x50x8 Sneaky Darci (9) 56.5 ..................... R Jones 14 Elle Wood (10) 55 ...................... L Satherley 15 699x7 La Vamos (15) 58.5 3 2.00 CARTER BLOODSTOCK RISING ROMANCE MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 8x262 Maestro Max 58.5 ........................ Scratched 2 7x Leonardo (5) 57 .........................M Coleman 3 Canto Magic (6) 57 ............................M Hills 4 7x9 Culzean (12) 57 -

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5 3372x Quaintrelle (10) 56.5 ..................R Elliot (a2) 6 0x Zabeelious (7) 56.5 .................... L Satherley 7 20x Our Girl Madi (11) 55 8 4 Boho Chic (13) 55 .......................C Lammas 9 64 Silver Cloud (9) 55 10 x456x Saronic Miss b (1) 55 ...............J Nason (a2) 11 7x Provision (3) 55 ...............................S Collett 12 0x60 Icing On The Cake (2) 55 ................ R Jones 13 9 Roxanne (14) 55 ...................... K McCulloch 14 Stolen Night (8) 55 ..................B Hutton (a1) 15 60x9 Sophialign (4) 55 Emergency: Sophialign 4 2.35 NICHOLSON AUTOS 1600 RATING 65 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 8x125 Arundel (3) 60 ............................. D Johnson 2 379x5 Brilliant Magic (6) 57.5 .....S Weatherley (a2) 3 21x40 Gingernuts (1) 57 .......................M Cameron 4 54244 Deluxe Edition m (8) 57............ D Danis (a4) 5 x3183 Fastnet Fire db (2) 56.5...............C Lammas 6 841 Korakonui (4) 55.5.................... K McCulloch 7 489x7 Running Scared td (9) 54 ................S Collett 8 00x00 Ben Ferrarri (5) 54...................... L Satherley 9 57000 Secret Liaison (7) 54 ................J Nason (a2) 5 3.10pm PUTAUAKI TRUST CUP $20,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 1x918 Quintessentially db (3) 59 ........... D Johnson 2 x0373 Private Hero (1) 57.5................J Nason (a2) 3 62167 Laddie Of Oakview (5) 56.5 Weatherley (a2) 4 97204 Whatz Occurring (2) 55.5 ..........S McKay (a) 5 97821 Lustrous d (8) 54.5 ......................C Lammas 6 x4940 Douro (7) 54 ...............................M Coleman 7 93030 Jesdemona m (6) 54 .................. L Satherley 8 33889 Varro (4) 54 ................................R Elliot (a2) 6 3.50 TEAM WEALLEANS 2100 RATING 65 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 5x61. Moral Code (1) 59 ....................... D Johnson

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56174 Baymax (7) 58.5 .................................J Jago 1. Rosso Corsa (10) 57.5 ...............M Cameron 0x051 Thailand (6) 57 ................................S Collett 37983 Master Poet m (5) 57 ............... D Danis (a4) 50756 Cool Tart d (4) 56.5 ....................M Coleman 27258 Hot In High Heels (11) 56 ...........C Lammas 70x00 The Talisman m (8) 55 ...............R Elliot (a2) 91078 Gangsters Lass (3) 54 ................T Thornton 69846 De Kensington Oval (2) 54 .................M Hills 00x37 Eskimo Kiss (9) 54 ................... K McCulloch 7 4.25pm TRACKS CONCRETE LTD MAIDEN 1600 $7000, MAIDEN, 1600m 1 96x5 Outsider (13) 58.5 ...................B Hutton (a1) 2 00x0x Elite Blue (8) 58.5 ...........................S Collett 3 x00x0 Mr Luv (7) 58.5...................................M Hills 4 2. Boomerang (3) 57 .......................C Lammas 5 9 The Dash (2) 57 .............................. R Jones 6 22x23 Libretti b (14) 56.5 7 72030 All Razzle Dazzle (5) 56.5 8 620x9 Blinding Fast (9) 56.5 .................R Elliot (a2) 9 689x0 Demelza (10) 56.5 .....................M Cameron 10 60x60 Jane’s Secret (6) 56.5 ...............S McKay (a) 11 9860 Sheztomuch (15) 56.5 12 2 Princess El Jay (12) 55 ............... D Johnson 13 7025 She’s A Ripper (11) 55 ................T Thornton 14 9x069 Choux Lace (1) 55 ................... K McCulloch 15 000. So Brazen (4) 55 16 57000 Secret Liaison 56.5 ...................... Scratched 17 00x00 Ben Ferrarri (16) 58.5 Emergencies: So Brazen, Secret Liaison, Ben Ferrarri 8 4.58pm NEW WORLD WHAKATANE MAIDEN 2100 $7000, MAIDEN, 2100m 1 8x802 Motuman (6) 58.5...............................J Jago 2 60x03 Chateau Roc (3) 58.5................S McKay (a) 3 60204 Epae Road (19) 58.5..................M Cameron 4 02x87 Battle Royal (15) 58.5 ..............A Jones (a1) 5 47857 Here To Stay (8) 58.5 ............... K McCulloch

6 0x85 Suffice To Say (1) 58.5 ...............R Elliot (a2) 7 650x7 Te Taika (14) 58.5.....................J Nason (a2) 8 Vanuzi (17) 58.5 9 22264 Marshal (11) 56.5 .............S Weatherley (a2) 10 97360 Itsabird (9) 56.5 .......................... L Satherley 11 0x097 Princess Dillon (7) 56.5 ..............M Coleman 12 08 Earth Sky (16) 56.5 13 502 Press My Buttons (4) 55 .............C Lammas 14 958 Dee And Gee (10) 55 .................... R Norvall 15 80 Red Keep (20) 57 ............................ R Jones 16 00 Dontbeshy (13) 55 17 8x79 Defer (5) 58.5 ..........................B Hutton (a1) 18 7x87 Giant Hunter (18) 55 19 680 Rebel Rebel (12) 57 20 0x99 Refined (2) 56.5 Emergencies: Red Keep, Dontbeshy, Defer, Giant Hunter, Rebel Rebel, Refined Blinkers on: Outofthemist (R2), Ben Ferrarri (R4), Ben Ferrarri (R7), Red Keep, Refined (R8) Blinkers off: Cochise (R1), Saronic Miss (R3), Whatz Occurring (R5), Libretti (R7) Winkers on: Hot In High Heels (R6), Princess Dillon, Giant Hunter (R8) Winkers off: So Brazen (R7), Refined (R8) Pacifiers on: Defer (R8)

SELECTIONS Race 1: Nothing Trivial, Spritz, Colorado Prince, Hello M’Lady Race 2: First Nephew, Forecaste, Hush Little Sista, Stephen Bond Race 3: Quaintrelle, Silver Cloud, Saronic Miss, Our Girl Madi Race 4: Running Scared, Deluxe Edition, Arundel, Fastnet Fire Race 5: Quintessentially, Lustrous, Douro, Jesdemona Race 6: Baymax, Cool Tart, Moral Code, Rosso Corsa, Thailand Race 7: Boomerang, All Razzle Dazzle, Outsider, Choux Lace Race 8: Te Taika, Battle Royal, Press My Buttons, Marshal

Right – Danielle Johnson rides Quintessentially in the Putauaki Trust Cup at the Whakatane RC meeting today.

Auckland dogs Today at Manukau Stadium

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Sta- 5 15656 Locha Knocka 18.63 ....................... T Green 5 23231 Hows Your Mum 18.62 ......................B Bond 5 11443 Absinthe Minded nwtd......................L Ahern dium Meeting Date: 30 Jan 2017 NZ Meeting number: 6 35131 Unileven 18.45 ...........................D Schofield 6 11132 Beat The Butcher 18.81 U & .................Bliek 6 32655 Global Conquest 30.27 W &............T Steele 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 7 53858 Let’s Go Sprite 18.53 .......................L Ahern 7 76538 Formation 18.64 ................................B Craik 7 76636 Triple Parked 30.51 .......................... S Clark 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 8 13646 Jump Up 18.34............................. H Mullane 8 4174x Screaming Skull 18.70 ..................H R Scott 8 56273 Spud Missile 30.10........................... S Clark 11, 12 and 13 9 53668 Obstinatus 18.25 R & ..................N O’Regan 10 2.48pm CITY OF SAILS SPRINT FINAL C5f, 318m 9 13464 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 10 61578 Sandor Glegane 18.37 ....................

T Green 10 44347 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 1 12.06pm (NZT) TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 26821 Speed Lorde 18.21 ...........................B Craik 7 1.50pm MCGHIE PLUMBING STAKES C1, 527m 1 51412 Imperial Court nwtd.........................P Green 4 12.58pm DOGZONE STAKES C1, 527m 2 61121 My Girl Chloe nwtd.......................... K Walsh 1 78744 Idol Leanne 30.71 B & ....................... Steele 1 12742 Good Job 31.05 ..............................P Green 2 17582 Missing Allegro 18.75.......................L Ahern 3 61673 Belcroft Banker 18.15 ................H Laagland 2 34245 Kitty’s Shiraz 30.55 H & ..............L Laagland 2 87621 Cosmic Rover 30.73........................ T Green 3 35417 Eva Kaneva 18.62 ............................ S Clark 4 32173 Vegas Burst 18.17 ..........................P Henley 3 62337 Bold Sassy 31.30 .......................D Schofield 3 44533 Jinja Mia 31.41 W & ........................T Steele 4 17625 All Hail Caesar 18.94 U & .................Cottam 5 37227 Just As Gentle 18.50.................... M J Lozell 4 21242 Westworld nwtd .................................B Craik 4 84442 Golden Ivy 30.60 W & .....................T Steele 5 34762 Lovely Rita 18.50 .......................D Schofield 6 41466 Fabrelee 18.20 ..................................C Hore 5 57372 Willi Gas It nwtd ......................... G Pomeroy 5 33564 Mr. Mumbles 30.75 R &...............N O’Regan 6 87474 Embrace Me nwtd ............................ S Clark 7 11452 Sketchy Chief 18.29 G H & ..... PC Ferguson 6 26156 Rising Hawke nwtd G H & ....... PC Ferguson 6 12277 Opawa Velocette nwtd W & .............T Steele 7 56661 Thrilling Forest 18.80 U & .................Cottam 8 84212 Eva Diva 18.38 ...........................D Schofield 7 75546 Cawbourne Wales 30.57 ..............R McPhee 7 21535 Wong Way nwtd U & .........................Cottam 8 23413 Scott Tied Up 18.63 U & ...................Cottam 9 13464 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 8 83272 Lucky Man 30.53...............................B Craik 10 48887 Nangar Gem nwtd ......................D Schofield 8 76453 Mr. Fuss Pot nwtd......................... H Mullane 9 22167 Lethal Action nwtd........................ H Mullane 9 14783 Gravity Falls 31.31 ....................... H Mullane 11 3.04 CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STKS C3, 527m 9 18661 Mid Collison nwtd ............................ T Green 10 61584 Myrniong Girl 18.62 ........................ T Green 2 12.23pm STITCHES UPHOLSTERY STKS C0, 527m 10 14783 Gravity Falls 31.31 ....................... H Mullane 10 18661 Mid Collison nwtd ............................ T Green 1 62433 Joe Joe 30.13 B &.............................. Steele 1 22231 Princess Alea nwtd ...........................C Hore 5 1.15pm PLASTERBOARD LTD STAKES C2, 527m 8 2.10pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C3, 318m 2 36527 Thrilling Riot 30.97 U & .....................Cottam 1 15357 Cool Marlow 30.53 ..................... G Pomeroy 1 73813 Fresco Star 18.55......................... H Mullane 2 743 Jetsun Stampede nwtd ..................G Wilson 3 42134 Thrilling Hettie nwtd ........................ K Walsh 2 17572 Bloomingdales 31.06 ........................B Craik 2 45376 Sonic Attack 18.62 ....................... M J Lozell 3 37626 Girl Queenie nwtd ...........................T Patton 4 82344 Rubeus Hagrid 30.91 ....................... S Clark 3 23111 Clockwise Rap 30.81 ......................P Green 3 36855 Raging Demon 18.48 U & .....................Bliek 4 53562 Highway Hound nwtd ................... M J Lozell 5 63F22 Miss Velocette 30.36 ...................L Laagland 4 22418 Jinja Heart 30.92 W & .....................T Steele 4 21143 Tumbalaioo 18.52 G H & ......... PC Ferguson 5 44221 Hey Pretty Girl nwtd ..........................C Hore 6 8D144 Tron Bradman 30.80 G H &..... PC Ferguson 5 26352 Electric Dee Eye nwtd .....................P Green 5 74633 Made Time 18.31 ..............................B Bond 6 52744 Jetsun Jamie nwtd .........................G Wilson 7 51178 Electric Impulse 30.12 W & .............T Steele 6 46545 Jinja Squeak 30.48 W & ..................T Steele 6 46352 Cyclone Lusi 18.62 U & ....................Cottam 7 74633 Erasmus nwtd G H & .............. PC Ferguson 8 81875 Crying In Vegas 30.79 ...................... S Clark 7 11665 Opawa Harry 30.90 B & ..................... Steele 7 78827 Little Kiwi 18.54 B & ........................... Steele 8 33747 Transzeus nwtd ............................... T Green 9 41354 Bruce Banner nwtd ...................... H Mullane 8 12611 Magic Clock 31.05 ..........................P Green 8 11664 Saint Sassy 18.62 ......................D Schofield 10 11765 Flying Merkel 31.14.......................... S Clark 9 64678 Zarzuella nwtd.................................S Codlin 9 62475 Multicam Ranger 30.76 ..............D Schofield 9 61578 Sandor Glegane 18.37 .................... T Green 12 3.27 GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT 10 88 Jerrica nwtd B & ................................. Steele 3 12.41 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT 10 74775 Zimmer Frame 30.77 U &......................Bliek 10 53668 Obstinatus 18.25 R & ..................N O’Regan C4, 318m 6 1.35pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C3, 318m 9 2.27pm ANNIVERSARY DAY CUP C5, 527m C4/5, 318m 1 23641 Our Sambo 18.78......................... M J Lozell 1 31116 Bigtime Speedy 18.89 ......................L Ahern 1 23166 Untraceable 30.19 ......................D Schofield 1 26211 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 2 76843 Thunderation 18.66 ..........................L Ahern 2 27754 Gimme Hot Chips 18.56 U &.............Cottam 2 13312 Gold Class 30.33 .......................D Schofield 2 27431 Effective Power 18.45 ......................L Ahern 3 887x2 Up High 18.47 ...................................G Hunt 3 28251 Fantastic Ava nwtd .....................D Schofield 3 68565 Sharella 30.45 ...................................B Craik 3 4586x Happy Wife 18.56 .............................. D Hunt 4 566F5 Idol Gee 18.68 B &............................. Steele 4 373F8 Shot Gun Harry nwtd ................... H Mullane 4 71211 Opawa Kuru 30.35 W &...................T Steele 4 21143 Ekali 18.42 ..................................... G Farrell 5 41748 No More Debt 18.46........................ T Green

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6 82121 Allegro Lass 18.65 ...........................L Ahern 7 84636 Stylish Fancy 18.39 ....................D Schofield 8 41455 Bigtime Moola 18.71 U & ......................Bliek Emergencies: 9 44347 Hallo Star 18.23 ................................B Bond 10 13464 Fantastic Lucy 18.22 ..................D Schofield 13 3.44 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS C1, 318m 1 566F4 Typhoon Ted 18.70 ........................... S Clark 2 25851 Miss Shellac 19.15 ...........................M Black 3 84652 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 4 63415 Pattykate Gem nwtd .........................L Ahern 5 65511 Irinka Darcy 18.86 ...........................S Codlin 6 33522 Alex Attack 18.94 U & .......................Cottam 7 56474 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 8 61121 Amazing Contact 18.77.....................B Bond 9 64572 Mega Munchies 18.70 U &................Cottam 10 42623 Kapai Lana 18.83 U & ...........................Bliek SELECTIONS

Race 1: Imperial Court, Thrilling Forest, Scott Tied Up, Eva Kaneva Race 2: Erasmus, Hey Pretty Girl, Highway Hound, Zarzuella Race 3: Waerenga Star, Happy Wife, Unileven, Fantastic Lucy Race 4: Wong Way, Westworld, Bold Sassy, Kitty’s Shiraz, Idol Leanne Race 5: Cool Marlow, Electric Dee Eye, Jinja Squeak, Jinja Heart Race 6: Gimme Hot Chips, Beat The Butcher, Fantastic Ava Race 7: Golden Ivy, Cawbourne Wales, Cosmic Rover, Good Job Race 8: Little Kiwi, Tumbalaioo, Saint Sassy, Cyclone Lusi, Made Time Race 9: Opawa Kuru, Gold Class, Spud Missile, Global Conquest Race 10: My Girl Chloe, Eva Diva, Speed Lorde, Sketchy Chief Race 11: Electric Impulse, Rubeus Hagrid, Joe Joe, Thrilling Hettie Race 12: Thunderation, Our Sambo, Allegro Lass, Stylish Fancy Race 13: Typhoon Ted, Drury, Alex Attack, Irinka Darcy, Pattykate Gem LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incor- 8 45215 Sioux Baxter nwtd ..................J T McInerney porated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 30 Jan 9 26664 Ear’s Boris 21.91 ...............................M Flipp 2017 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 10 78787 Pacific Vibe 21.66...................J T McInerney and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12; 13 and 14 Trebles: 1, 4 3.20pm USE PETRAVELLER.COM.AU C4/5, 375m 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 8, 9 and 10; 12, 13 and 14 1 31126 Cawbourne Nath 21.70 ................M Roberts 1 2.20pm (NZT) FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY 2 17573 Mark’s Boy nwtd ...............................L Ahern 3 32413 Cawbourne Jarrod 21.53 .............M Roberts MONDAY C0 C0, 375m 4 47168 Angie Zarr 21.31 .........................T R Pilcher 1 72284 Don’t Mention It nwtd ..................A Turnwald 5 51568 Cawbourne Mezza 21.85 .............M Roberts 2 3 Bigtime Racer nwtd ..........................L Ahern 6 73531 Robins Zarr Hood 21.67..............A Turnwald 3 478 Cawbourne Mack nwtd ................M Roberts 7 47112 Smash Allegro 21.29........................L Ahern 4 Cawbourne Kaz nwtd ...................M Roberts 8 15316 Cawbourne Foxy 21.70 ................M Roberts 5 Cawbourne Gibbo nwtd ...............M Roberts 9 48663 Bigtime Jess 21.56...........................L Ahern 6 43322 Pride Of Sarah nwtd........................... N Udy 7 1 Vee Marina nwtd .........................A Turnwald 5 3.36 AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES C2, 375m 8 5x81 Buddy Swift nwtd ..................K A Gommans 1 13133 Ima Lucky Zarr 21.95 ..................A Turnwald 9 78766 Homebush Myra nwtd ............J T McInerney 2 86415 Adrenalin Kick 21.77 ..............J T McInerney 10 56787 Victoria Pace nwtd .................J T McInerney 3 45265 Cawbourne Gunna 21.72 .............M Roberts 4 46147 Too Much Sugar nwtd ........................ N Udy 2 2.42pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C0 C0, 375m 5 43132 Kalisi 22.05 ........................................ N Udy 1 x7365 Noonoo nwtd L & ............................... Morris 6 64366 Banshee Boy 21.82 ....................B Goldsack 2 28x2 Scissor Clip nwtd ........................A Turnwald 7 27866 Thrilling Cassie 21.86 ...........K A Gommans 3 67682 Walnut nwtd ......................................M Flipp 8 21523 Bigtime Summer 22.32 ....................L Ahern 4 3 Cawbourne Kai nwtd ....................M Roberts 9 56755 Sammy Baxter 21.79 .............J T McInerney 5 4x835 Wong All Along nwtd ...................A Turnwald 6 1 Stay Frosty nwtd ..............................L Ahern 10 67888 Kirkham Jasper nwtd ...................M Roberts 7 8 Cawbourne Looks nwtd ...............M Roberts 6 3.58pm PROTECTIVE SERVICES LTD C2 C2, 375m 8 26324 See Eye Aye nwtd ............................L Ahern 1 75477 Lonesome Nitro nwtd ...................M Roberts 9 7x587 Tomorrow Star nwtd ........................... N Udy 2 55242 Slick Star 21.71 ...........................B Hodgson 10 66787 Cawbourne Jeff nwtd ...................M Roberts 3 14516 Unawares 21.81 ..........................A Turnwald 4 1x11 Jugatui 21.76 ...................................L Ahern 3 2.57pm J P PRINT, PETONE C2 C2, 375m 5 3243F Cawbourne Pottsy nwtd ...............M Roberts 1 68581 Casual Sipper nwtd G &.................. J Clarke 6 75825 Mighty Mac nwtd ................................ N Udy 2 42775 Bigtime Rise nwtd ............................L Ahern 7 76662 Homebush Rocky nwtd ..........J T McInerney 3 14322 Lektra Spider 21.64............................. L Bell 8 64773 Uno Brent nwtd .................................. N Udy 4 41264 Enhancer 21.51...........................B Hodgson 9 75667 Second Time nwtd G & ................... J Clarke 5 14466 Knead You nwtd ..........................A Turnwald 6 42553 Cawbourne Frost 21.89................M Roberts 10 56868 Goodtime Lady 21.72....................... I Moore 7 53435 Opawa Lachlan nwtd.......................... N Udy 7 4.19pm ARCH LAWRENCE INVITATION 766M 31ST

MARCH C3 C3, 375m 1 28631 Cawbourne Hint 21.73 J & ..................D Bell 2 14434 Air Express 21.83...................J T McInerney 3 23216 Viva La Vixen 21.73 ....................A Turnwald 4 18134 Thrilling Berry nwtd ...............K A Gommans 5 43412 Uno Nathan 21.85 .............................M Flipp 6 83236 Cawbourne Matty 21.41 J &................D Bell 7 33372 Opawa Tommo 21.79 ......................... N Udy 8 11211 Daisy Lara 21.80 ..............................L Ahern Emergencies: 9 648x2 Cawbourne Gil 21.80 ...................M Roberts 10 42866 Hawkesbury Fever 21.38 ............A Turnwald 8 4.34pm PALMERSTON NORTH GOLD CUP 31ST MARCH C4 C4, 375m 1 17225 Doosh 21.82...........................J T McInerney 2 16157 Cool Rythm 21.81 .......................B Hodgson 3 51277 Rain And Tears 21.76......................... N Udy 4 23817 Americano 21.54 ..............................L Ahern 5 21281 Stormy Days 21.57 ..........................L Ahern 6 11111 Bigtime Thinker 21.73 ......................L Ahern 7 55123 Fall From Grace 21.55 ................A Turnwald 8 53411 Bigtime Reign 21.89........................... N Udy 9 48663 Bigtime Jess 21.56...........................L Ahern 9 4.50pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C1, 457m 1 66575 Mobilize nwtd ................................M Gowan 2 43F16 Unbeknown 26.69 .......................A Turnwald 3 84724 Speedy Dispatch nwtd J & ..................D Bell 4 13121 Geordie Who nwtd ...........................L Ahern 5 36673 Opawa Gavin nwtd G &................... J Clarke 6 88632 Bigtime Coffee nwtd .........................L Ahern 7 53568 Peajay Pringles nwtd G & ............... J Clarke 8 22185 Watch My Back nwtd..................B Goldsack 9 77478 Citrus A Peel nwtd G & ................... J Clarke 10 77788 Cawbourne Eski 26.15 .................M Roberts 10 5.12 STEVE ‘THE AUCTIONEER’ DAVIS C1, 457m 1 45744 Kirkham Harvey 26.63 ....................L Doody

2 66654 Trick Me Vara nwtd G & ................... J Clarke 3 75331 Bigtime Power nwtd .........................L Ahern 4 88642 Unverified nwtd ......................J T McInerney 5 x5485 Loo Loo Blue 26.37 ........................... I Howe 6 7746F Winevara nwtd G & ......................... J Clarke 7 22281 Cawbourne Crowie nwtd ..............M Roberts 8 36717 Act Naturally nwtd ............................S Stone Emergencies: 9 77478 Citrus A Peel nwtd G & ................... J Clarke 10 86787 Cawbourne Ohio nwtd ....................L Doody 11 5.33pm ADRIAN CLARK - BLOODSTOCK CONSULTANT C2 C2, 457m 1 54315 Cawbourne Muzza 26.33 .............M Roberts 2 85764 Lady Zeena 26.52 ........................ T Downey 3 53655 Charlie Bo Bo 26.37 ....................B Hodgson 4 32433 Molly O’Shea 26.54.....................B Hodgson 5 88261 Scodelario 25.90 .............................L Doody 6 52532 Bigtime Bell nwtd .............................L Ahern 7 11347 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 ....................L Ahern 8 82624 Arcane Rampage 26.14 L &............... Morris 9 47725 Bernie’s Boy 26.24 ........................B Mitchell 10 36836 Cawbourne Toddy 26.03 ..............M Roberts 12 5.51pm PRESTON’S MASTER BUTCHERS C4/5 C4/5, 457m 1 14611 Mr. Maize 26.33...........................A Turnwald 2 75216 Vegas Danny 25.84 .....................A Turnwald 3 26146 Swiftly Chloe 25.86 .....................B Hodgson 4 23514 Bigtime Jason 26.00 ........................L Ahern 5 17423 Bigtime Lady 26.29 ..........................L Ahern 6 2F152 Map My Run 26.04...........................L Ahern 7 41455 Cawbourne Clover 25.97 .............M Roberts 8 53528 Takamori 25.71 ..........................B Goldsack 13 6.11pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C1, 375m 1 41162 Stole Me Car 22.06 ...............K A Gommans 2 24535 Opawa Gumisie nwtd J & ....................D Bell 3 46477 Alcudia 21.77 ....................................M Flipp

4 13534 Brighteye’s Soul nwtd......................... N Udy 5 14267 Wetchester nwtd ................................. L Bell 6 11613 Bigtime OnFire 22.12 .......................L Ahern 7 87737 Plum Krazy nwtd ........................B Goldsack 8 33463 Uno Again nwtd.................................. N Udy Emergencies: 9 11844 Bigtime Taylor 21.51 .........................L Ahern 10 36446 Golden Pixel nwtd .......................B Hodgson 14 6.27pm WWW.PNGREYHOUNDS.KIWI C1, 375m 1 44437 Cawbourne Merl 21.64 J & .................D Bell 2 46311 Bigtime Spirit nwtd ...........................L Ahern 3 88754 Premier Prince 22.26 ......................L Doody 4 14454 You Betcha Becky nwtd...............A Turnwald 5 77547 Billy Marlow 21.88 .............................M Flipp 6 74575 Consumate Ease nwtd ...............B Goldsack 7 45338 Hanover State nwtd............................ N Udy 8 87785 Whata Shemozzel nwtd .................R Murray 9 63264 Another Key nwtd J &..........................D Bell 10 33561 Allegro Power 21.72 .........................L Ahern SELECTIONS

Race 1: Don’t Mention It, Vee Marina, Bigtime Racer, Buddy Swift Race 2: Cawbourne Looks, Cawbourne Kai, Stay Frosty, Noonoo Race 3: Casual Sipper, Lektra Spider, Bigtime Rise, Enhancer Race 4: Smash Allegro, Cawbourne Nath, Robins Zarr Hood Race 5: Ima Lucky Zarr, Bigtime Summer, Adrenalin Kick, Kalisi Race 6: Slick Star, Mighty Mac, Jugatui, Lonesome Nitro Race 7: Thrilling Berry, Opawa Tommo, Daisy Lara, Cawbourne Hint Race 8: Fall From Grace, Americano, Cool Rythm, Doosh Race 9: Geordie Who, Unbeknown, Bigtime Coffee, Mobilize Race 10: Bigtime Power, Kirkham Harvey, Unverified, Loo Loo Blue Race 11: Bigtime Lonestar, Molly O’Shea, Scodelario, Lady Zeena Race 12: Vegas Danny, Mr Maize, Takamori, Bigtime Jason Race 13: Alcudia, Stole Me Car, Bigtime OnFire, Uno Again Race 14: You Betcha Becky, Cawbourne Merl, Billy Marlow LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Monday, January 30, 2017

■ RICCARTON

No maybe about Miami Local runner Maybe Miami mastered the gusty Riccarton wind with aplomb on Saturday as he snatched a valuable black-type victory on his home track in the Listed Speight’s Timaru Stakes (1400m).

The Kevin and Pam Hughes-trained gelding was back on his home patch after a gallant performance for fourth in the Gr. 2 Manawatu Challenge Stakes at Awapuni last month and certainly appreciated the familiar surroundings despite the tricky wind that had gusted strongly throughout the meeting.

Settled beautifully just off the early pace set by stablemate Super Trouper, Maybe Miami made his challenge three wide as the field turned for the long Riccarton run home.

Race favourite Batman joined issue at the 300 metre mark with the pair settling down to a torrid battle.

On this occasion Batman had to settle for the role of sidekick as he couldn’t peg back the determined Maybe Miami who held him out by three-quarters of a length at the finish.

A victory at home base was a sweet result

for co-trainer Kevin Hughes who revealed a battle with the easterly wind wasn’t the only issue his charge faced during the contest.

“I’ve never seen the wind so bad and so strong during a meeting here,” he admitted.

“They were really battling coming up the straight and to top things off Sam (jockey Samantha Collett) dropped her whip as well.

“Our fella was pretty tough in the end and Sam was very impressed by the effort.”

Hughes is keen to tackle Group One company next with the gelding who has blossomed during a lengthy campaign.

“He’s been up right through the winter so he has done a remarkable job,” he said.

“With the ground being pretty hard we are spacing his races but he has come on and that last start run at Awapuni showed us he can cope in the top grade.

“I’d like to have a crack at the Haunui Farm Classic at Otaki next month.

“We know Kawi and horses like that will be in the mix but he deserves a shot at them when he is racing so well.” - NZME

PUBLIC NOTICES

Ashburton Community Christmas Lunch

The organisers of the 2016 Ashburton Community Christmas Lunch would like to thank the following for their generous support.

• • • • • • • • •

All Fed Up Catering Co. Ltd ANZCO Foods Arthur Cates Ltd Ashburton Guardian Ltd Ashburton Meat Processors Ltd Ashburton Trading Society Ashburton Trust Ashburton U Hire Ltd Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade • Bidvest Foodservice Christchurch • Boston Burger

• Community House Mid Canterbury • Countdown Ashburton • dpi design & print • Mtec Metering Contractors • Netherby School • New World Ashburton • Pak’nSave Hornby • PlaceMakers Ashburton • Presbyterian Support • Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains • Silver Fern Farms Ltd • Sim’s Bakery

• Southberry • St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church • St Paul’s Presbyterian Church • Talley’s Group Ltd • The Ashburton Courier • The Green Grocer • The Warehouse • Tinwald Hall Society • Wells Electrical • Whittaker’s

Thank you also to the individuals who made donations.

A very special thanks to the hard-working volunteers who gave their time to make this a memorable and enjoyable occasion for us all.

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable computer servicing or laser engraving, contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Ph 308 8989. 30 years local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD discount card welcomed.

OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

Building – it’s what we know and it’s what we do best. That’s why clients have chosen us, again and again.

Maybe Miami stretches out to take the honours in the Timaru Stakes on Saturday.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

FOR SALE OLD newspapers available.

Perfect for packing, fires, bedding for animals, birds, craft work and so on. Please call in to the Guardian, Level 3, 161 Burnett Street or phone 307 7900 for bundles of 10 or more.

MOTORING

WHEEL alignments at great ADULT prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an ENTERTAINMENT alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills ABBY, fun pretty outgoing lady. In/out calls. Private Street. Phone 308-6737. premises. Phone 021 0869 0409.

HIRE

GENERAL hire.

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

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

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 9.00am 2.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

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One week only. Phone 021 115 3218.

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ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

TO LET. Two bedroom tidy middle flat. Park Street, close to shopping centre. Suited to a couple, or a single person living alone. Perfect location.

Call 03 308 2650 or 021 109 7806.

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Birthday Greetings Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested.

Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Charlotte Butler Happy 6th Birthday Charlotte.

Have a wonderful day.

Lots of love Mum, Dad, Annabelle and Jessica. xxx

Jack Templeton Happy 11th Birthday!

Lots of love, Mum and Dad. xxx

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

10am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS

TUESDAY 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church.

48 Allen’s Road.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZ SHED. Open day for all members. 182 Methven Highway.

GOLF. Round one of the Heartland Championship. Ashburton Golf Club, Golf Links Road.

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

Main Street, Methven.

12pm - 1.30pm BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Community free lunch each Monday, Cass Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

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

1.15pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

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

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH GOODWILL SHOP. Selling clean pre loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, Cnr Archibald and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST OP SHOP. Good clean ‘Second time around” clothing. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr

of Cass and Havelock Streets.

9.45am WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet handicap singles. Waireka.

Philip Street.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter. Main Street, Methven.

12pm - 3pm JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Signing Centre, New Community House, 44 Cass Street.

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

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

6pm RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. 3km or 5km run/jog or walk. Domain Pavilion on Walnut Avenue, opposite Creek Road.

Puzzles

www.guardianonline.co.nz Puzzles and horoscopes

Cryptic crossword

Monday, January 30, 2017

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

ACROSS 1. A shortfall will occur if edict is misapplied (7) 5. A dip’s made to have a decided flavour (5) 8. One having a row as Norma turns to him (7) 9. In a clever year-book, none is excluded (5) 10. One gaining from black market activity will prefer one to change (9) 12. One of the Anguillidae, in its true element (3) 13. Money-bag has single penny, sure to be replaced (5) 17. Is leaving to the bowler’s left (3) 19. Visited, for example, and got a different sort of biscuit (9) 21. A connected series of a hundred links (5) 22. Gets over sun disturbance by being on edge (7) 24. Pass the rope’s end through for the old bailiff (5) 25. Some of them pressurised her, powerful though she was (7) DOWN 1. Sagging, many poor doctors are only partially up to it (6) 2. Ardour over its involvement in mink (7) 3. A projection on shaft that’s roughly a metre (3) 4. To a grammarian, it’s time to be strung-up (5) 5. Lifting device that has unbroken pins (9) 6. It is a bit of calm, by the sound of it (5) 7. Don’t get bait wet: bluebottle doesn’t drink (3-3) 11. Cupid turned men to love finally with his cheek (9) 14. A typical example of the time Poe wrote about (7) 15. Agree it might occur around beginning of November (6) 16. North Carolina uses this form for enumeration of inhabitants (6) 18. Almost a female version of an old love (5) 20. Literary style of Greene, endlessly diversified (5) 23. A commercial traveller in corded cloth (3)

WordWheel

WordBuilder

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

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

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TODAY’S GOALS: Good – 6 Excellent – 9 Amazing – 10

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Because of all you know now, there are bits of the past that pang with sweet resonance. You watch them as if through a window. This is sweet, too. How would you play it if you knew future-you was watching?

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’ve faith in many things, ideas and people. The area in which you lack strong belief will be rattled today, and you’ll learn about the source of your doubts and misgivings.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Do you think you’re a better judge of the other person or of yourself? Most people are a better judge of the other person.

That’s why feedback from those who love you has credence for you, especially today.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): A decision hangs in the balance. Thinking time is needed. Your best thought processes come while you’re driving, showering, walking and the like. Approach from different angles. Reason it out.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Those who have earned your respect, friendship and love (or any two out of the three) deserve the pleasure of your company in real life. Face-to-face encounters bring good fortune today.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Everything ends – days, stories, connections – and many endings are accompanied by relief, hope and a swell of new energy. Take a breath and put the next step forward.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): With certain types of buttonpushing individuals, it’s very difficult not to be petty. Pettiness is what they draw out in you. Counteract with the air-sign mantra: Rise above.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): True success is never determined by factors beyond your control. It can’t be. Because true success is the process.

It’s the making of efforts. It’s the systematic approach to a goal, not the goal itself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’ll be drawn to the bright lights and noise. It’s mostly fun to manoeuvre your way through the sensory excitements, but only for a short period of time. It’s nowhere to overstay.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Networks are built one relationship at a time. You’ve earned yours over years of making and cherishing connections. Some of these connections you can share, and some are non-transferable.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’re so openhearted that people rarely cross your personal boundaries. Still, there are those who will find the property line and cross it today.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’re gifted at reading people – even entire rooms full of people!

Bonus: You have a sixth sense for who needs what you have to offer and who offers what you need.

Previous cryptic solution

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Previous solution: arc, arch, cap, car, carp, crap, cha, chap, char, hap, harp, pah, par, parch, rah, rap.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian

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KING, Hugh McKay (Hughie) – On January 27, 2017. Peacefully at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. Aged 95 years. Dearly loved husband of the late Noeline. Much loved father MID CANTERBURY FUNERAL SERVICES and father-in-law of Alison and the late John Rodgers, Galbraith’s provide choice!

David and Heather, Judith We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and Galbraith’s and Tom Milliken (Timaru), celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, and Sheryl and Hal Stivens. and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. provide choice!

We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to Much loved grandad of his their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and 14 grandchildren and also reflect a Call us on your family. loved great grandad and great Call us on 308 3980 308 great grandad. or call in and visit 3980 our new premises at or246 callHavelock in andStreet visit “Now at Peace” Messages to the King family our new premises at Eion McKinnon Rob Cope-Williams PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Managing Director Celebrant 246 Havelock A funeral service to celebrate the life of Hughie will be held Street at the Church of the Holy Name, Sealy Street, AshburOfficial Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm ton on Thursday, February 2, commencing at 2pm. Followed FUNERAL by interment at the Ashburton FURNISHERS New Lawn Cemetery.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

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HARRINGTON, Reverend Monsignor James Morris – On Saturday, January 28, 2017, died peacefully at Nazareth House. Much loved and respected priest of the Diocese of Christchurch in the 60th year of his ordination.

Requiescat in Pace Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, 373 Manchester St, Christchurch, on Wednesday, February 1 at 11.30am. followed by interment in the Priests section of Bromley Cemetery. A Vigil Mass will be celebrated at St Marys Pro Cathedral, 373 Manchester Street, tomorrow, Tuesday at 7pm.

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information.

9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show With special guest Kerry Washington. 0 10am Tipping Point Quiz show in which four players take on an extraordinary machine, hoping to win its jackpot.

11am The Chase 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Location, Location, Location 30 2pm Kiwi Living 0 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Millionaire Hot Seat 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Little Monstar 3 0 7am The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue! 3 0 7:25 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 7:50 Breadwinners 3 0 8:15 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:40 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Step

By Step 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street 3 0 Noon The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 1pm N Bachelor In Paradise PGR 0 3pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3:30 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 3 0 3:40 Kickin’ It 0 4:05 KC Undercover 0 4:30 My Wife And Kids 0 5pm Friends 3 0 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Pound Pups To Dog 7pm Shortland Street 0 Stars 0 7:30 The Big Bang Theory 0 7:30 Piha Rescue PGR 8:30 Life In Pieces PGR 0 The search for an injured man 9pm The Mick AO at Whites Beach; a mother To teach Sabrina a lesson, has a serious neck injury; Mickey tricks her; Chip turns a fisherman misjudges his to Jimmy for advice. 0 landing. 0 9:30 First Dates UK 0 8pm Gadget Man 0 10:25 Two And A Half Men AO 3 8:30 Our Girl AO 0 0 9:45 Criminal Minds AO 0 10:55 Mom PGR 0 10:40 1 News Tonight 0 11:10 American Crime Taylor must defend his actions to the police; Anne deals with a discovery about her son.

12:05 Murder In The First AO 0 1am Te Karere 3 2 1:25 Infomercials 5:05 Impact For Life 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

The Mick

9pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 10am Million Dollar Listing 3 10:55 Hoarders 3 11:45 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 3 12:40 Vanderpump Rules 1:35 Dance Moms 3 2:30 Botched 3 3:30 Flipping Out 3 4:30 Dance Moms 5:30 Hoarders 3 6:30 Million Dollar Listing 3 7:30 Hoarders 3 8:30 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Madison competes against David and James for a Malibu compound, but when the owner considers teaming them up, Madison sets out to win the listing for himself.

9:30 Wahlburgers Donnie takes Paul see the site of the new Wahlburgers location in Las Vegas; after their work is done, Donnie sets out to get his brother to loosen up at the casinos.

10pm Wahlburgers 10:30 Hoarders (Starting Today) 3 11:25 Snapped PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

11:25 F The Undateables AO 0 12:25 Desperate Housewives 3 0 1:20 Shortland Street 3 0 1:50 Infomercials 2:50 The Good Witch 3 0 3:35 The Real PGR 3 4:20 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 4:40 Baby Daddy PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

The Vow

8:05pm on Three

THE BOX 6am CSI MV 6:50 Criminal Intent MV 7:40 Storage Wars – New York PG 8:05 Storage Wars – New York PG 8:30 Shipping Wars PG 8:55 The Simpsons PG 9:20 Criminal Minds MV 10:10 NCIS MV 11am NCIS LA MV 11:55 NCIS LA MV 12:50 Container Wars PG 1:15 Criminal Intent MV 2:10 CSI MV 3:05 The Carbonaro Effect PG 3:35 Shipping Wars PG 4:05 The Glades MV 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 Criminal Intent MV 6:30 The Carbonaro Effect PG 7pm Container Wars PG 7:30 NCIS MV 8:30 Shearing Gang PG 9pm Border Security M 9:30 Ice Road Truckers PG 10:30 Criminal Minds MV 11:25 NCIS MV TUESDAY 2:15 Shipping Wars PG 12:40 Container Wars PG 1:05 The Glades MV 1:55 Criminal Minds MV 2:45 CSI MV 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Shearing Gang PG 4:20 Border Security M 4:45 Ice Road Truckers PG 5:35 The Carbonaro Effect PG

THREE

PRIME

6am The Best Of Paul Henry 8am Rachael Ray 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:25 Family Feud 3 0 Noon Dr Phil PGR 1pm M A Mother Betrayed PGR 2015 Thriller. A newly wed woman is committed to a mental hospital for having hallucinations, but finds out her husband plans to steal her life, including her daughter.

Lynn Collins, Adam Kaufman, Bree Williamson.

2:55 Baggage PGR 3 3:20 Sticky TV 3:25 The Moe Show 0 3:30 Sticky TV 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:25 Wipeout 0 5:25 N Celebrity Family Feud 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm The Block Australia PGR 0 8:05 M The Vow AO 3 2012 Romantic Drama.

A husband must regain the love of his wife after a coma steals the past five years of her memories. Inspired by true events. Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Sam Neill. 0 10:15 NewsHub Late 10:45 Gallipoli AO 0 11:40 Entertainment Tonight 12:10 Infomercials 5:30 City Impact Church

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7:30 Pukana 2 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am 2Kaha PGR 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Head Start 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Iwi Anthems 3 4:30 Paki Vault 3 5pm Kapa Haka Regionals 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 3 2 6:25 A Maui Te Tipua 3 6:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 32 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7pm Hahana 3 7:30 Fishing Impossible PGR 7:30 The Game Chef 3 Three friends embark on the 8pm Aotearoa 3 Waitangi. ultimate extreme fishing 8:30 N Corp And Anam AO trip, beginning with a drive When Cathal is wrongly through Kenya’s toughest blamed for a murder, he must terrains to catch a Nile perch act to clear his name, even in crocodile-infested waters. though it will endanger loved 8:35 M I, Robot PGR 2004 Sci-fi ones.

Thriller.

9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10pm Whawhai Fight Night 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2 11:10 The Tonight Show Starring 11pm Te Kauta 3 Chat show Jimmy Fallon PGR A celebrity chat featuring guests who reminisce show. about their younger days and some 12:10 The Crowd Goes Wild of their naughtiest secrets.

3 An irreverent daily sports and 11:30 Closedown entertainment show.

12:40 Closedown

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS 6:25 Something To Talk About ML 1995 Comedy Drama. A woman deals with the realisation that her husband is cheating on her.

Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall.

8:10 Meet The Parents M 2000 Comedy. Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller.

9:55 Transformers MV 2007 Action. Shia LaBoeuf, Megan Fox. 12:15 Black Hawk Down 16V 2001 Action. Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

2:35 Super 8 MV 2011 Sci-fi.

Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler.

4:25 Notting Hill MLS 1999 Comedy. Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant.

6:25 The Day After Tomorrow AO M 2004 Action.

Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal.

8:30 Brokeback Mountain MVLS 2005 Drama. A ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection.

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal.

10:45 Two Weeks Notice PGS 2002 Comedy. Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt.

1:25 Dope 16VLSC 2015 Comedy. Shameik Moore, ZoÎ Kravitz. 3:10 Close Up – Kevin Spacey PG 3:40 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay Part 2 MVC 2015 Adventure.

5:55 Furious 7 MV 2015 Action.

12:25 Law Abiding Citizen 18V 2009 Crime.

Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler.

2:15 Super 8 MV 2011 Sci-fi.

Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler.

4:05 Brokeback Mountain MVLS 2005 Drama.

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal.

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6am The Fairly Odd Parents 6:25 Kid v Kat 6:50 The Penguins Of Madagascar 7:15 Bella And The Bulldogs 7:40 Henry Danger 8:05 Avatar – The Last Airbender 8:30 Sanjay And Craig 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:30 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:55 Jeopardy 3 10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. From Auckland’s Eden Park.

2:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. From Auckland’s Eden Park.

6:20 Gods Of Egypt MV 2016 Action Adventure.

Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler. 8:30 The Gift MVL 2015 Thriller.

Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall.

10:20 Dirty Grandpa 16VLSC 2016 Comedy. 12:10 The Exorcism Of Molly Hartley 16VLSC 2015 Horror. Sarah Lind, Devon Sawa. 1:45 Gods Of Egypt MV 2016 Action Adventure. Brenton Thwaites, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gerard Butler. 3:55 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay Part 2 MVC 2015 Adventure.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson.

6:15 Furious 7 MV 2015 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

8:30 Avengers – Age Of Ultron MV 2015 Action. Tony Stark begins working on a peace-keeping programme, but things go awry and he and The Avengers must save the world from the villainous Ultron. Robert Downey jr, Mark Ruffalo.

10:55 Batman v Superman – Dawn Of Justice MV 2016 Action. Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams.

TUESDAY

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SKY SPORT 1 6am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers.

6:30 Rugby – World Sevens Day Two. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Basketball – NBL Championship Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers.

9am Football – A League Adelaide United v Wellington Phoenix. 9:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers.

10am Cricket – International India v England – Second T20. 10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. 2:35 The Cricket Show 3:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. 7pm Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers. 7:30 Rugby – World Sevens Wellington – Day One. 9pm Rugby – World Sevens Wellington – Day Two. 10:30 L UFC Non-PPV. TUESDAY 12:30 Football – A League Adelaide United v Wellington Phoenix.

1am Netball – Quad Series Silver Ferns v Australian Diamonds. 1:30 Fox Sports News 2am The Crowd Goes Wild 2:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers.

3am Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. 3:30 Cricket – International 4am Ice Hockey – NHL All Stars

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6am Benny Hinn 6:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies 7:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 8:30 Billionaire’s Paradise – Inside Necker Island 9:30 Jamie At Home 10am Poh’s Kitchen 10:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 11:30 The Water Brothers Noon Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge 1pm Billionaire’s Paradise – Inside Necker Island 2pm 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies 3pm The Cook And The Chef 3:30 Baby Animals – In Our World 4:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 5pm Peter Kuruvita’s Coastal Kitchen 5:30 Tiny House Hunting 6pm Home Wranglers 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Travel Man – 48 Hours In 8pm Grand Tours Of The Scottish Islands 8:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 9:30 Walking The Himalayas 10:30 American Pickers

11:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things Midnight Peter Kuruvita’s Coastal Kitchen 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Micky Flanagan’s Detour De France 2am Baby Animals – In Our World 3am Home Wranglers 3:30 Tiny House Hunting 4am Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 5am Walking The Himalayas

SKY SPORT 2 6am Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Bahamas Classic- Round Three.

6:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Farmer Insurance Open – Round Three.

7am L Golf – US PGA Tour Farmer Insurance Open – Round Four. 12:30 Golf – PGA European Tour (HLS) Qatar Masters – Round Four.

1pm Basketball – NBL Championship (RPL) Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers.

3pm Hockey – India League (RPL) 4:30 Ice Hockey – NHL All Stars (RPL) 6:30 Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day 14.

7:30 Fox Sports News 8pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. 9pm Cricket – International (HLS) India v England – Second T20.

9:30 Tennis – Australian Open (RPL) Men’s Singles – Final. From Melbourne Park.

TUESDAY

Midnight Tennis – Australian Open (RPL) Women’s Singles – Final.

2:40 L Hockey – India League Dabang Mumbai v Delhi Waveriders. 4:30 Golf – PGA European Tour (HLS) Qatar Masters – Round 4.

5am Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) Bahamas Classic – Round Four.

5:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (HLS) Farmer Insurance Open – Round Four.

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DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 How Do They Do It? PG 8am Auction Hunters 8:30 MythBusters PG 9:25 Deadliest Catch – Dungeon Cove PG Winter’s Wake. 10:20 Gold Rush Special PG The Gambler.

11:15 Deadly Sins M 12:10 Most Evil M 1:05 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Hunters 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 What On Earth? PG 5:40 MythBusters PG 6:35 Mega Trains PG New Zealand – The Milk Train.

7:30 You Have Been Warned M Wild Things.

Factual science-led series featuring user-generated content and expert analysis.

8:30 MythBusters PG MythBusters Revealed.

A behind-the-scenes episode.

9:30 What On Earth? PG 10:30 What Happened Next? M 11pm What Happened Next? M 11:30 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG

TUESDAY

12:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 1:25 Most Evil M 2:20 Auction Hunters 2:45 Auction Hunters 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Treehouse Masters PG 5:05 Moonshiners M

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Yes, I’m like Trump Eddie Jones is mid-flow; he is explaining the metamorphosis that no one quite understands ... how he turned the England rugby team into serial winners within months of taking over. ‘I just changed their mindsets, that’s all,’ he says with a small shrug, as if to suggest it is the simplest thing in the world. “As the coach, you need a clear vision of what will make them great and you bombard them with that until they believe it.” He sounds a bit like Donald Trump. ‘Yes, like Trump,’ he says, as the England team’s PR man quivers gently in the corner.

Mark Breach is all concentration as he builds toward a victory on Dubliner Fight Night in Methven on Saturday.

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‘Awesome experience’

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Organisers are hailing the inaugural Dubliner Fight Night in Methven as a huge success and plans are already in place to make the event a biannual affair moving forward.

More than 400 people attended Saturday night’s event at the Methven Heritage Centre and each and every one of them made their voice heard as they got behind the 20 local boxers who stepped into the ring in the name of charity.

The Dubliner’s Gary Manning said that they couldn’t have been any happier with how the night unfolded.

“I think it’s safe to say it exceeded expectations and more,” Manning said.

“Right from the outset there was a really good vibe in the crowd and we have had a lot of positive comments about the night.

“We’re looking at making it a biannual event, now that we have all the procedures in place and know what we are doing it should be a bit easier the next time around.”

Manning served a dual-purpose role as he was also a coach of many of those who stepped into the ring.

The quality of fighting on offer was of a high standard with the national judges, who officiated on proceedings all commenting on the standard set in the ring.

“I was real proud of everyone who stepped up,” Manning said.

“There were a few surprise

packets chucked in there too, people we weren’t that sure about that really rose to the occasion.”

The battle of the Methven brothers Davey and Dan Maw went the way of younger brother Dan after three bruising rounds in which Dan was given a unanimous decision by the three judges.

One of the bouts of the night came in the penultimate fight when Brenton Connell and Sam Grant touched gloves.

The pair threw everything at each other throughout the three rounds with some heavy punches landed from both sides before Grant was declared the winner after a split decision from the judges.

“The adrenalin got running

once you got into the ring,” Connell said.

“It was an awesome experience.”

New Ashburton College 1st XV co-coach Simon Fleetwood was another victor, beating Terry Pannett in a bout that looked like it could have gone either way and 18-year-old Holly McTigue impressed plenty with her ability in the ring when she beat Hannah Mentink.

Donna Topp stopped a McTigue clean sweep when she beat Mandy McTigue and Jacqui Rodgers opened the night in style with her victory over Brooke Dickey.

Others to win on the night were Malcolm Cairns, Rory Lawn, Hamish Guild and Ben Bailey.

Disappointing end to Wellington sevens The All Blacks Sevens will have to settle for sixth in their home tournament.

They fell 17-12 to Argentina thanks to a last second try to Franco Sabato after a wild pass went astray.

New Zealand did score two good tries of their own, the first

to Regan Ware off another nice piece of guile from Vilimoni Koroi, and the second a set-piece, double cut, move which saw captain Scott Curry cross.

But they could not shake Argentina, and rookie Tone Ng Shiu hinted that their South American opponents may

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have wanted the result more.

Fiji had ended the hopes of three-time defending champions New Zealand with a clinical 26-10 win earlier yesterday, before squeezing out two late tries to overcome a plucky Scotland 19-12 in the semi-finals.

All Blacks Sevens coach Scott

Waldrom lamented the lack of support as his team failed to reach the semi-finals for the sixth time in their past seven tournaments.

On Saturday fewer than 10,000 turned out, with only about 1000 left to cheer on New Zealand at the end of the night.

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Venus will carry on Venus Williams remains driven to prolong her accomplished career after losing to younger sister Serena in the Australian Open final. The 36-year-old fell to a 6-4 6-4 defeat on Saturday as Serena landed an unprecedented seventh Australian Open title. Venus had walked onto the court as the oldest finalist at Melbourne Park in the 49-year open era. But despite leaving empty-handed, Venus says she will attack the rest of the year with renewed vigour after surpassing expectations by reaching her first grand slam decider since Wimbledon in 2009.

Dhoni on the big screen The genius of the Indian Premier League, the theory goes, is to combine two national obsessions: cricket and Bollywood. Yet the more you look back at the career of Mahendra Singh Dhoni – the longserving India captain who finally stood down this week – the more you realise that he got there first.

Dhoni’s life story has been turned into a big-budget movie, The Untold Story, which came in at an 3 hours 10 minutes and has taken more than 15 million at the box office.

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