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Leonardo DiCaprio is Hollywood’s biggest player, according to a new Tinseltown salary expose.

The Wolf of Wall Street star takes home $US25 million ($NZ33 million) per movie - $US5 million ($NZ6.6m) more than the likes of Denzel Washington, Robert Downey, Jr, and Matt Damon. Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are the top females, raking in as much as $US15 million ($NZ20m) a movie. The big names on The Hollywood Reporter’s new highest-paid list also features Brad Pitt and American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook co-stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

Punter misses World Cup One punter at the Cricket World Cup final missed the entire game after invading the field at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before the match began yesterday. The pitch invader took to the field just before the national anthems were played at the game and made it out halfway across the area before being tackled to the ground by security. The effort was greeted with baffled derision on Twitter, at the thought of missing the game for seconds of glory. A serial streaker who ran naked across the pitch during last month’s opening match in Christchurch was fined $1500.

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Slater says he would fight again Cameron Slater’s first foray in to the boxing ring was a short one but he hasn’t ruled out pulling on the gloves again.

The vocal right-wing blogger (below) was knocked out in the first round of his celebrity bout against cricketer Jesse Ryder on the Super 8 fight card in Christchurch on Saturday night. “It’s frightening. It’s terrifying,” Slater said. “But we did it for charity so I had to overcome those fears. I knew I was going to get banged around but it was for charity. I’ve raised, personally, over $5000 for KidsCan and I’m chuffed with that.” Slater rarely takes a backward step and it must have grated him somewhat that he had to fight out of the red corner, draped in red attire, given his political leanings.

He dropped 17kg in the lead-up to the bout after training under veteran coach Henry Schuster. “I’ll do it again without such a mismatch but that’s fine,” Slater said. “I still did it; I still got in there.” Ryder, who came in to the fight as a hot favourite and wore blue, has used boxing for the past few years as part of his fitness regime as a professional cricketer.

The 30-year-old stepped in to the ring in 2012 against outspoken radio host Mark Watson. Ryder dispatched Watson via technical knockout in the first round.

Ryder, a former Black Cap with a history of off-field incidents, will head to England next month to link with county side Essex. “He got me flush with one and that made me see the red mist a bit,” Ryder said of the bout that lasted 1min, 1sec.

An Anzac arrival?

As New Zealanders and Australians mark the centenary of Anzac Day England will be in the midst of royal fever, awaiting news of the birth of the newest member of the royal family. The second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge is due to be born on Anzac Day. The Daily Mail has reported that April 25 is the due date of the baby brother or sister for Prince George, third in line to the throne. The Duchess gave a hint last week at a charity event, saying the baby was due “mid-April to the end of April”, and the Daily Mail said sources had confirmed the due date of April 25.

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$9.1m richer A very lucky Lotto player from Auckland is $9.1 million richer after winning Powerball First Division on Saturday night. The winning Lotto ticket was sold at Mitchell’s Paper Power in Auckland. Saturday night’s total Lotto Powerball prize was made up of $9 million from Powerball First Division and $166,667 from Lotto First Division.

Five other lucky punters also won $166,667 with Lotto First Division. The winning Lotto tickets were sold at Loveridges Lotto and Video in Hawera, Newtowne Drycleaners in Dunedin, Clutterbucks Four Square in Mataura, Fresh Choice in Waimauku, and Pak’n Save Lincoln Road in Auckland. No one won Strike Four, and it will be worth $300,000 in next week’s draw.

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Relay a huge success

Cancer survivor John McIntosh (left), and supporters Wayne McIntosh, and Kate McIntosh, 6, took part in the Heroes of Hope lap at the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at the weekend.

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$157,000 and counting . . .

By Caitlin Porter

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Even the rain could not dampen the spirits of those participating in the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event at the weekend.

Organising committee chairwoman Alison Driscoll said everything went brilliantly, and deemed the relay a success.

“Even with the bit of rain we had people just kept on going and it was just amazing,” she said.

The rain didn’t stop anyone, and one participant in particular charged on and walked the entire time – a whopping 18 hours.

Altogether there were 67 registered teams, and over 900 participants.

Teams surrounded the oval at the Ashburton Showgrounds, with sites set up as far as the eye could see.

“We had people doing food, we had some of the college kids selling glowsticks, we had

girls that shaved their hair off.

We had three of those, and between them they raised $6500,” Mrs Driscoll said.

“That was pretty phenomenal.”

While the total amount raised for the Relay for Life will be counted up over the next month, as donations continue to roll in, the preliminary total yesterday was $157,000.

“Just some amazing efforts, absolutely amazing efforts, we are feeling pretty stoked and

pretty humbled really,” Mrs Driscoll said.

“There’s been garage sales, there’s been bake sales, there’s been raffles, there’s been a huge number of very enterprising ways to raise money.”

The organising committee had not set a target of how much money they wanted to raise, they merely wanted to get as many people involved as possible, a goal Mrs Driscoll said was achieved.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters delivered National a humiliating bloodied nose in the Northland byelection on Saturday night with a huge victory.

Peters claimed a majority of 4012 votes – a massive turnabout from National’s 9000 majority just six months ago. It is the first time in more than 50 years National has lost the Northland seat.

Peters had 15,359 to National candidate Mark Osborne’s 11,347. Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime had 1315, her vote clearly affected by strategic voting as Labour supporters turned to Peters.

At the campaign headquarters Peters celebrated with an attack on National. He said Osborne should not take the blame for National’s loss. “You have our understanding and our sympathy and no one should hold you accountable for vast neglect and political abandonment.”

The mood was jubilant at the NZ First HQ, the Duke of Marlborough Hotel in Russell.

Among those celebrating with Peters was former Labour MP Shane Jones. His decision to attend Peters’ event rather than Labour’s will add to speculation he may consider a return to Parliament with NZ First.

Former Labour minister Dover Samuels was also there, saying another cyclone was going through Northland: “This one is called Winston.”

It was more subdued at National’s HQ at the Kerikeri Golf Club, where ministers supporting Osborne included Steven Joyce and Paula Bennett.

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■ YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

In brief Fire callouts The Mayfield, Mt Somers and Methven fire brigades attended a car crash at Mt Somers opposite Brothers Road yesterday afternoon. The crash occurred when a vehicle allegedly went through an intersection and hit a pole. One person went to hospital, but the extent of injuries were unknown.

Police notebook No incidents were reported from the weekend by deadline yesterday.

Orari crash fatal A man injured in a serious crash between a car and a truck in South Canterbury yesterday has died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. Police said the vehicles crashed on State Highway 1 south of the Rangitata Rd bridge, north of Orari, about 2pm. The car’s driver, its sole occupant, died in an ambulance on the way to Timaru Hospital. The truck’s driver was uninjured but was badly shaken.

Police temporarily closed SH1 after the crash to allow the Canterbury serious crash unit to carry out a scene examination. Police said they would like to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash and could not stay at the scene.

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Te Anau stabbing Mitchell Dellow has just started an automotive technician apprenticeship at Gluyas Motor Group.

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Creating jobs for young people

By Caitlin Porter

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The percentage of unemployed youth in the district is low, but Grow Mid Canterbury is calling for even more initiatives to be put in place to aid youth in to the workforce.

Ministry of Social Development figures from the last quarter show that youth unemployment for those aged between 18 and 24 has dropped to 17 per cent in the district, and the number of people receiving jobseeker support is also down.

Some 264 people received jobseeker support in the last quarter, down from 300 in the previous quarter.

Grow Mid Canterbury chief executive Rob Brawley said while the district was lucky that unemployment was a lot lower than in other places, it was not a reason to be complacent.

Mr Brawley said there were a number of initiatives in place in the district to help youth into the workforce.

“From preparing people for trades, to preparing people for agricultural careers, to a gateway programme where people can experience a particular workforce before joining it and the Salvation Army and YMCA programmes, but no, we need more,” he said.

Grow Mid Canterbury itself

also runs a programme called NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) but Mr Brawley said more experience programmes, or youth guarantee schemes are needed.

A youth guarantee scheme is essentially like going to a college, it is paid for and you learn the skills required for a particular job, he said.

“I’d like to see more of them available in our district so we don’t lose people to Christchurch or Timaru.”

Mitchell Dellow is one Ashburton youth who chose to stick around, and pursue employment opportunities in Mid Canterbury.

He is one of three automotive technician apprentices at Gluyas Motor Group and said he stayed because he knew he could achieve his goal of being a fully qualified mechanic.

“Ashburton’s a cool little town,” he said.

YMCA manager of community and youth development Poppy Cooper-Vear said she believes there are jobs out there for youth, and the YMCA are prepared to help them navigate their way into the workforce.

The YMCA are now looking for an employment coach and work broker to help support youth in securing permanent and sustainable employment.

Scouts miss out on top community honour

By Caitlin Porter

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Ashburton’s Mania-O-Roto Scout Zone lined up against the country’s best community groups over the weekend, in this year’s Trustpower National Community Awards.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t Ashburton’s year and the title of supreme winner went to Focus Paihia, representing the Far North District.

The winning group received $2500 prize money, a $500

voucher, a trophy and a framed certificate.

The runner-up was Central Otago’s Sticks N’ Stones. They received $1500 prize money, a $200 voucher and a framed certificate.

Local fundraising committee member Carolyn Bond-Hood said the winning group’s project was awesome and they were a worthwhile winner.

Saturday was a busy day for all 25 teams who participated. Each team gave an eight-

minute presentation on its activities or project and all were judged on that presentation – as well as on a 1000-word summary that was provided prior to the event.

“It was a very long day, but [there were] really amazing projects, we were really pleased with how ours came across, everything that it was supposed to do, it did,” Mrs Bond-Hood said.

Trustpower Community Relations co-ordinator Suzi Luff

said Trustpower was proud to lead the way in recognising, rewarding and celebrating the incredible contribution volunteers make to New Zealand communities.

The awards were judged by a panel of independent judges including Gary Johnson from Volunteering New Zealand, Sam Johnson founder of the Student Volunteer Army and 2012 Young New Zealander of the Year and Jim More from Radio New Zealand.

A young woman was stabbed at a Fiordland bar early yesterday morning. Police said the 27-yearold woman was taken to Southland Hospital with stab wounds after the serious assault in Te Anau.

A 40-year-old Te Anau woman was arrested in relation to the assault and will appear in court.

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Racist rant arrest A Lower Hutt man has been arrested after a video of a racist rant on a Wellington bus against two young men who appeared to be Muslim was published online.

The incident happened on an NZ Bus in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae on Wednesday morning.

The footage, shot by an Iraqi Muslim woman sitting behind the man, shows the man calling out to the pair and accusing them of being “Islam c***s” and “shooting innocent people”.

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Egg farm protest Animal activists say a peaceful protest turned violent yesterday after stones were allegedly thrown at a group trying to put a stop to the construction of what will be New Zealand’s largest cage egg farm. The allegations have been dismissed by Craddock Farms as “laughable, ridiculous and totally untrue”. Some 30 activists from Stop Craddock Farms confronted egg farmers at the cage egg producer’s farm in Pukekohe.

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Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1451 drawn on Saturday.

Winning numbers (in ascending order): 4, 9, 14, 15, 27, 33.

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Powerball winning number: 7.

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Youth council looking for new blood

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The Ashburton Youth Council is calling for new members, to get involved in the community and to share the views of the district’s youth.

The youth council was set up to provide a forum and engage young people in the Ashburton District Council’s decision-making process as well as to increase the district council’s under-

standing of young people’s perspectives.

Youth council administrator Rachael Boyd said due to clashing commitments and members moving on to tertiary study, the council is looking to recruit five new members.

Mrs Boyd said existing members, who were all relatively new, had been focusing on orientation. What the group is hoping to do when the new mem-

bers are settled in, she said, was to get the Ministry of Youth Development to come down and run leadership and meeting workshops.

The council has also been busy looking into other events for youth in the district to participate in.

“There was talk of doing a drive-in movie and things, and at the moment they are split into sub-committees and they

are working on whether or not that is viable,” Mrs Boyd said.

Members of the council have also been out and about in the district asking youth what they would like the youth council to do for them and what they want to see more of in the district.

Part of it is getting them to participate in events and part of it is trying to get across to the council what the youth want and their views, said Mrs Boyd.

“The youth council is there to act as a conjugate between the council and the youth, so we get them to ensure the views of the youth are canvassed to the council and we want them to encourage pride in the district,” she said.

People aged 15–24 who want to become a member of the Council can do so via the Ashburton District Council website before April 2.

Search teams join 24-hour exercise

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New Hinds playground put to test Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew (back left), Alison King of the Hinds Reserve Board, Hinds Lions president Robert Ellis and Ashburton District Council representative Stuart Wilson were all on hand to help open the new Hinds playground recently.

Millie Drake, 9, Coby Drake, nine months, and Stacey King, 2, then enjoyed

testing out all the new equipment.

The playground was officially opened on Saturday afternoon and Mr Ellis said a lot of work was done on the day to ensure everything went smoothly.

The playground was a joint venture between the Lions and the Hinds Reserve Board and it had been in the works for

about 12 months.

It was a great turnout for the official opening with about 50 people from the community and 20 to 30 children were present, Mr Ellis said.

Representatives from various organisations involved with the playground also made an appearance.

Divers search bay for car wreck Police searching for a missing 11-year-old boy and his stepfather have sent divers into the water at Curio Bay, where they have found a vehicle earlier identified by underwater camera.

Mike Zhao-Beckenridge, 11, and John Beckenridge have been missing since March 1, and police have been searching the bay in Southland since pieces of Mr Beckenridge’s car washed up earlier this week.

A police spokesman said a

break in the conditions yesterday afternoon had allowed police divers to enter the water.

The vehicle, first identified by underwater camera on Friday, was consistent with the washed-up car parts, leading police to believe it was Mr Beckenridge’s Volkswagen Touareg. However, that was yet to be confirmed.

“At this stage, a very partial search in difficult conditions was unsuccessful in gaining any further information about what

is in the vehicle,” the spokesman said.

“Until police are able to confirm this by extracting the vehicle from the water, which may take some time due to the difficulty in doing this, police will continue to conduct inquiries.”

Southland area commander Inspector Kelvin Lloyd earlier said he hoped the vehicle was a red herring and Michael and his stepfather were safe and well somewhere.

Michael is 1.65m tall, of solid

build and of Asian descent. Mr Beckenridge is 1.75m tall, of medium build and of Swedish descent.

Mr Beckenridge is also known as John Robert Lundh, Knut Goran Roland Lundh or John Bradford.

Police are continuing to urge the public to stay vigilant. Anyone with information can contact police on 03 471 5002 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

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Search and Rescue teams from the Ashburton District took part in a 24-hour training exercise in Arthur’s Pass over the weekend.

Teams from both Rakaia and Methven took part in the exercise, which finished just before lunchtime yesterday.

Ashburton principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said the event was an annual one, involving all the Land SAR groups from across Canterbury.

“For the last few years it’s been a sort of a rogaine event with a whole bunch of different activities,” he said.

“There’s things like navigation, first aid, clue processing, river crossing, all that sort of stuff.”

The exercise isn’t an easy one and Mr Geddes said he did not think anyone had ever completed all the events in the 24-hour period.

There was a competitive element to the training exercise too, and each team is scored out of a total of 1000.

“We’ve made it a little bit competitive to add a little bit more interest to it,” Mr Geddes said.

Each team has to book a time to complete each exercise and are then assessed on their competency and skills.

All teams also had to have a mandatory four-hour rest period at some point during the 24 hours. A police press release stated that 13 teams took part, with over 100 SAR volunteers and police SAR. Canterbury Police SAR coordinator Sergeant Phil Simmonds said it was the first time a 24-hour SAR training had been run in Arthur’s Pass.

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Heroes of Hope

Cancer survivors and supporters donned yellow and red ribbons before taking to the track to open the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life on Saturday afternoon.

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By Caitlin Porter

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The opening ceremony of the Relay for Life went off without a hitch, with cancer survivors and their supporters taking to the track for the Heroes of

Hope lap. Organising committee chairwoman Alison Driscoll said about 300 people took to the track, the survivors in red sashes, and their supporters in yellow.

“The track was just a sea of

yellow and red,” she said. “It was just so moving, so incredibly moving.”

Another highlight was the 9pm candlelight ceremony, said Mrs Driscoll.

The ceremony was designed

to give people the opportunity to remember those they had lost.

White paper carry bags were available for people to purchase, and the bags could then be decorated.

“They put them down all

around the outside of the track and after the candlelighting we did a lap in silence with just a piper,” Mrs Driscoll said.

Afterwards people took their electric candles back to their bags and they glowed all night.

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Relay for Life Around 900 people camped out at the Ashburton Showgrounds on Saturday night to support the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life fundraiser.

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Right - Fiona Ward (left), Queenie Heke (centre) and Devaun Thompson (right) take time to remember David Heke, who lost his battle with cancer last month.

Below - Anna Stratford went all out for the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at the weekend, and joined hundreds of others dressed up for the occasion.

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Mark Cherry walks with one of the Relay for Life ribbon cutters, Georgia Humm, 10, and Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew.

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Above - The glow of an electric candle lit up white paper bags all over the Ashburton Showgrounds, to remember those who lost their lives to cancer.

Below - People walked and ran through the night.

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Investing in youth is the best investment of all Sue Newman

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he idea of a place where young people can get together, talk, enjoy a soft drink and food, socialise and perhaps play pool is not new.

It’s been tried in various guises in most towns and city suburbs around New Zealand.

Often a youth club has started well but stumbled on the back of flagging support from youth or more often on a lack of cash and lack of volunteers to keep the wheels turning.

Ashburton has had its share of youth clubs over the years.

Base Cafe seems to be staying the distance. But like each of its predecessors, it’s struggling. Not from a lack of numbers through the door, rather from a lack of money to pay running costs.

Over three years it’s proven itself; numbers through the door are growing - and so are the bills.

Targeting 10 to 14-yearolds was a smart move.

They’re not as picky as older teens when it comes to entertainment. Most are just happy to hang out with their mates.

The big factor that has made Base a success, however, is that it’s all inclusive; there’s no charge to attend.

That, of course, means Base will always struggle for cash, will always run from grant to grant and often the bank account will be empty.

Last week the Ashburton District Council handed over $6000 so the rent could be paid. Generous? No. The money will be deducted from next year’s council grant.

The $13,000 the council gives Base each year is just a drop in its spending ocean, a ridiculously small investment in the district’s young people.

This facility is clearly valued by our young people and the council needs to play a bigger role in keeping it solvent. That would send a very clear signal that the council is prepared to stand up and support its youth.

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Ashburton is the second town in the South Island to have its fibre network completed under the UFB initiative, following the completion of the programme in Oamaru late last year.

The completion of the project in Ashburton means that more than 8600 local households, schools, businesses and medical centres can now connect to the network.

Since the start of this project in 2012, the Government has invested $9 million to bring fibre to this region. The new network means better speeds, capacity and reliability for this community.

More than 10 per cent of eligible users in Ashburton have already signed up for fibre and the rate of uptake has almost doubled in the past six months.

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2013 to June 2014, with an annual growth of 272 per cent.

People are increasingly choosing fibre for its superior speeds, capacity and reliability as the build continues across New Zealand.

Over the past 10 years, we have moved up from 22nd place out of 30 OECD countries in June 2004 to being 15th out of 34 OECD countries for fixed broadband subscriptions as at June 2014. We are now ahead of Australia, the US and Japan for fixed broadband.

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In brief Solo pilot dies A Swiss aviator attempting to circumnavigate the world in 20 months in a lightweight two-seater aircraft has died after crashing into a volcano in central Ecuador.

Ecuador’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation says Eric Guilloud was declared dead after the accident in Cotopaxi province. An aide to the pilot said Guilloud’s Aerospool WT9 Dynamic aircraft slammed into the Cotopaxi volcano soon after taking off from Latacunga airport south of Ecuador’s capital Quito. Sixteen soldiers went to the site to try to save him, the aviation agency said.

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Pilot wanted to be remembered The co-pilot who investigators believe crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps worried “health problems” would dash his dreams and vowed one day to do something to “change the whole system”, an ex-girlfriend says.

The 26-year-old woman, identified only as Maria W, recalled in an interview with the mass-circulation Bild daily how Andreas Lubitz told her: “One day I’m going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember.”

“I never knew what he meant by that but now it makes sense,” it quoted the “shocked” flight attendant as saying.

The black box voice recorder indicates that Lubitz, 27, locked the captain out of the cockpit of the Germanwings jet and deliberately flew Flight 4U 9525 into a mountainside as the more senior pilot tried desperately to reopen the door during its eight-minute descent, French officials say. All 150 people aboard were killed.

As investigators race to build up a picture of Lubitz and any possible motives, new media reports emerged saying he had suffered from vision problems, adding to earlier reports he was severely depressed.

German prosecutors believe he hid an illness from his airline but have not specified the

ailment, and said he had apparently been written off sick on the day the Airbus crashed on its route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.

Bild, which showed a photo of the ex-girlfriend from behind to conceal her face, said she had flown with Lubitz on European flights for five months last year and that he had had another girlfriend since her.

She said he could be “sweet” and would give her flowers but got agitated talking about work conditions, such as pay or the pressure of the job, and was plagued by nightmares.

“At night he woke up and screamed ‘We’re going down!’,” she recalled.

If Lubitz did deliberately crash the plane, it was “because he understood that because of his health problems, his big dream of a job at Lufthansa, of a job as captain and as a longhaul pilot was practically impossible”, she told Bild.

She split up with him because it became “increasingly clear that he had problems”, she said.

German police found a number “of medicines for the treatment of psychological illness” during a search at his Duesseldorf home, newspaper Welt am Sonntag weekly said, quoting an unnamed high-ranking investigator as saying he’d been treated by several neurologists and psychiatrists.

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Japan whaling ships return with no catch Japanese whaling ships returned home from the Antarctic at the weekend for the first time in nearly 30 years with no catch on board, after a UN court ordered an end to their annual hunt, local media reports.

The two ships - the 724-tonne Yushinmaru and the 747-tonne Daini (No 2) Yushinmaru - arrived at a port in western Shimonoseki city, a major whaling base.

It was the first return by Japanese whalers without catching

any whales since 1987 when the country began the annual “research” hunt in the Antarctic, the Asahi Shimbun said.

The two ships did not face any attacks by anti-whaling activists during their threemonths voyage, the daily added.

Tokyo had said this season’s excursion would not involve any lethal hunting. Harpoons normally used in the capture of the giant mammals were removed from the vessels.

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boats carried out “sighting surveys” and took skin samples from the huge marine mammals, news reports said.

The non-lethal research came after the International Court of Justice - the highest court of the United Nations - ruled in March last year that Tokyo was abusing a scientific exemption set out in the 1986 moratorium on whaling.

The UN court concluded Tokyo was carrying out a commercial hunt under a veneer of

science. After the ruling, Japan said it would not hunt during this winter’s Antarctic mission, but has since expressed its intention to resume “research whaling” in 2015-16.

In a new plan submitted to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its Scientific Committee, Tokyo set an annual target of 333 minke whales for future hunts, down from some 900 under the previous programme.

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Somali elite units have ended a siege by al-Shabab militants in a Mogadishu hotel, where at least 18 people were killed. Security forces killed the last remaining attacker yesterday, 13 hours after the Islamist militants attacked the popular Maka-Almukarama hotel in the capital, according to police.

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Ebola ‘emergency’ Guinean President Alpha Conde has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions in the west and southwest of the ebola-hit country in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly disease.

The focus of the virus “has shifted to our country’s coastal areas”, the president said. “That is why I am declaring a reinforced health emergency for a period of 45 days in the prefectures of Forecariah, Coyah, Dubreka, Boffa and Kindia,” he said. Since the ebola outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013, more than 24,000 people in nine countries have been infected with the virus, and more than 10,000 of them have died. All but a handful of those deaths have occurred in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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Gunmen behead 23 Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have beheaded 23 people and set fire to homes in Buratai, northeast Nigeria, on the eve of elections, a federal lawmaker representing the area says. “There was an attack on Buratai late Friday by gunmen suspected to be insurgents ...

They beheaded 23 people and set homes on fire,” said Mohammed Adamu, who represents the town some 200km from Borno’s capital Maiduguri. “At least half the village has been burnt,” he added. A nurse at the nearest major hospital, in Biu, said the 32 injured who were receiving care also reported that many were decapitated during the attack. Further details of the violence were not immediately available, but the attack is consistent with Boko Haram’s past strikes in the area in the south of the state, where defenceless civilians have been repeatedly targeted.

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Trekking offers family adventure

Sun rise from Poon Hill, Ghorepani, Nepal

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awn’s golden light catches the tops of the snow-capped Himalayas and gradually creeps downward as the rising sun lights up a sweeping arc of soaring peaks, at once forbidding and starkly beautiful.

The stunning vista from the top of Poon Hill – at 3193 metres, the highest point of our family’s six-day trek in Nepal – was among many highlights of a Lord of the Rings-like adventure through lush forests, terraced fields and traditional villages nestled above plunging valleys.

Sometimes the going was tough – like hiking two hours up steep, stone steps. Other times, we walked along gently undulating woodland paths.

Along the way, there were rewards: children who ran to greet us (sometimes asking for money or lollies), wildflowers beside the path, breathtaking views and cups of hot masala tea at cute little rest stops.

If you’re looking for a family adventure that immerses you in nature, beauty and a fascinating culture – and you’re willing to rough it – consider trekking in Nepal.

Our two boys, 12 and 10,

Malcolm Foster gathers up the family, puts his hiking boots on and goes trekking in the Himalayas loved the experience. One of my older son’s favourite parts was the camaraderie with other trekkers from around the world in common rooms at the “tea houses,” or simple lodges where we stayed.

Children as young as eight or nine could handle the popular 65 kilometre GhandrukGhorepani-Poon Hill loop we hiked, located just south of the Annapurna Range, while small children can be carried on the backs of porters.

We hiked four to six hours daily, depending on the trail’s difficulty, usually reaching our destination by 3pm, allowing time to relax before dinner.

With good weather, this route will give you stunning views of a string of mountains, including Annapurna I at 8091 metres, 10th-tallest in the world; Machapuchre, or “Fishtail,” with its distinctively shaped peak; and the towering Dhaulagiri (8172 metres), the world’s seventh-tallest. Mount Everest, located 300 kilometres to the east, isn’t visible on this loop.

The circuit starts and ends near the lakeside town of Pokhara, central Nepal’s trekking hub.

We used 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, which specialises in training and employing women, to hire our guide, Mana Kunwar, an experienced, flexible and fun Nepali woman who spoke good English. Her knowledge of the trail, culture and language – and contacts at tea houses where she booked our rooms – enhanced our experience immensely.

We also hired a male porter to carry one backpack while I carried another. My wife and kids hiked with smaller knapsacks. Hiring guides is not only a way to get to know locals, it also offers them a valuable source of income.

Peak trekking season is in October and November, when skies are clearest and temperatures hover between 15 to 25 degrees Celsius.

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We encountered no snow, but a week before our October visit, a freak blizzard and avalanche hit a pass at a much higher elevation about 50 kilometres to the north, killing more than 40 people.

April and May, also a good time to go, can be cloudier, but the rhododendron trees are in bloom. June, July and August are rainy.

Be prepared to rough it.

Some teahouses offer hot showers but water supplies are often limited. Rooms run $US3 to $US5 a night and are spartan, but clean.

Blankets are available, but most trekkers bring sleeping bags, which can be rented or bought in Pokhara or Kathmandu at shops that sell everything you need, including knock-off brand fleeces and backpacks.

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The food is rather monotonous: Lots of dal bhat, or lentil stew with rice, plus curries, pastas and soups, and not much meat or fruit. Deep-fried “gurung bread” is quite good. You may want to bring canned tuna or meat.

As for that sun rise from Poon Hill: We woke at 5am and hiked 45 minutes from the village of Ghorepani to see it, and shared the experience with 300 to 400 other trekkers.

But like the rest of the trip, the effort was well worth it. We got a panoramic view of both the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges in all their majesty.

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College girls fourth The Ashburton College junior girls finished an impressive fourth at the 3X3 Secondary Schools’ National Slam in Auckland on Saturday.

The girls finished up fourth after going down to Westlake Girls’ 5-13, having lost to Rangitoto in the semi-finals 3-12 – who went on to win the final 9-7 over Hamilton Girls’. The college junior boys also had a top eight finish coming home seventh after a 12-6 win over Hobsonville Point. The college senior boys were 17th with a 17-15 win over Rosmini College. As expected Tall Black Tai Wynyard led his Rangitoto team to the title beating Westlake Boys’ 18-17.

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Horn makes it a double in Mt Somers feature Trent Williams opens up a gap on the field during the 10th annual Mt Somers Bike Race yesterday. The fastest man over the 35km was Logan Horn in 1.30:21, while Kristine Marriott was the fastest female clocking 1:57:27. Horn was a previous winner in 2013 and clocked a similar time going around the course the opposite way - with the Mayfield and Districts Lions running the course in the opposite direction around the historic Mt Somers Station to celebrate 10 years of the race. The rain showers in the morning were likely to have put off a few competitors but they still had over 300 riders turn up to race, up on last year’s event, over the three events, 35km, 30km and 20km events. Full results can be found online at www.mtsomersbikerace.net.nz.

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By Ben McKay A gutted Craig Lowndes missed a golden chance to make history and sweep the V8 Supercars round at Symmons Plains yesterday.

Starting from his third pole of the weekend and chasing a third victory that would have moved him up to 100 V8 Supercars victories, Lowndes took just two turns to ruin his race.

Beaten from the blocks by David Reynolds from the front row of the grid, Lowndes hit the Ford man at turn two, spinning Reynolds around and earning himself a pit lane penalty.

With the front-rowers removed from the equation, it was Jamie Whincup who stormed to victory ahead of Chaz Mostert and Kiwi driver Shane van Gisbergen.

Lowndes was devastated af-

ter the race and admitted his fault, despite struggling to accept the result.

“We threw it away,” he said.

“I copped the penalty, it was deserving, and we move on ... but I’m gutted because I know the car was fast.

“When you get a good car and you don’t deliver it’s a real big failure.”

The five-time Bathurst champion was able to move through the field to finish sixth in the 200km race.

But it was his Red Bull Racing team-mate Whincup who was re-writing the history books with an 11th race win at the rural Tasmanian track.

Whincup triumphed in a strategic pit-stop battle with Mostert, who did well to improve from sixth on the grid.

“I didn’t expect to be sitting here this weekend,” Whincup said.

“This weekend was owned

Jamie Whincup: Benefited from a big mistake by Lowndes.

by my team-mate, who I would have liked to have seen get the triple.”

Garth Tander finished in fourth place, with Mark Winterbottom in fifth.

Kiwi teenager Andre Heimgartner impressed with an eighth place finish, his best re-

sult in his debut Supercars season.

The result lifts Whincup to the championship lead, ahead of former pace-setter James Courtney and Lowndes in third.

Whincup’s victory makes it six straight Red Bull race wins in Tasmania after he and Lowndes swept last year’s meet at Symmons Plains.

It also takes Whincup into second place on the all-time race victories chart with 91, eight short of Lowndes’s 99.

Yesterday’s V8 results: 1. Jamie Whincup (Holden) 2. Chaz Mostert (Ford) 3. Shane van Gisbergen (Holden) 4. Garth Tander (Holden) 5. Mark Winterbottom (Ford) Championship standings 1. Jamie Whincup (Holden) - 483 2. James Courtney (Holden) - 464 3. Craig Lowndes (Holden) - 460 4. Garth Tander (Holden) - 457 5. Shane van Gisbergen (H) - 456 - AAP

The Adelaide Thunderbirds went down to the unbeaten West Coast Fever 55-50 in Perth yesterday but coach Jane WoodlandsThompson remains confident the 2013 champions can still make a run to the trans-Tasman netball competition finals. The Fever overran the Thunderbirds in the final quarter at HBF Stadium, leaving West Coast on top of the competition with four wins and a draw. Despite a decent defensive effort from Eboni BeckfordChambers to on Caitlin Bassett (40 goals from 44 attempts) the Thunderbirds couldn’t capitalise in attack with some poor turnovers and lacklustre shooting from Carla Borrego (35 from 45) and Erin Bell (15 from 23). It leaves the Thunderbirds with just one win from five matches.

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Hewitt grabs bronze Andrea Hewitt secured her first medal at the Auckland leg of the World Triathlon Series yesterday and probably did enough to qualify for next year’s Olympics in the process. It was a good result for Hewitt, although her race wasn’t without drama after she incurred a 15-second penalty for a littering (discard) violation on the 40km bike leg. She took it before the final lap of the 10km run before surging into third behind American duo Gwen Jorgensen and Katie Zaferes. Hewitt’s performance was enough to meet Tri NZ’s selection criteria for the Rio Olympics, although the nomination still needs to be ratified. Great Britain’s Jonathan Brownlee finally broke Javier Gomez’s stranglehold to win the men’s race, with former world under-23 champion Pierre Le Corre (France) earning his first WTS podium in third.

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Vettel ‘Fantastico’ Sebastian Vettel stunned Mercedes’ world champion Lewis Hamilton last night with an audacious Malaysian Grand Prix victory which set the Formula One season alight.

The Ferrari driver took advantage of an early safety car as he hit the front and held off Hamilton and Nico Rosberg after pitting only twice, compared to three for the Mercedes pair. Australian Red Bull driver and former teammate of Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, finished 10th. Four-time world champion Vettel now has 40 career wins but it is his first with Ferrari, and breaks a dry spell stretching back to 2013. “Fantastico, fantastico!” he screamed down the radio in Italian. “Yes boys, can you hear me? Thank you, thank you. Forza Ferrari!”

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Top start for Southern Southern made a statement on the opening day of the Senior B competition, annihilating Allenton 80-0. The holders of the first round Michael Duff Memorial, Southern, started their defence in emphatic fashion. Collegiate had a one point win over Rakaia 17-16, Hampstead beat Mt Somers 22-13 and Celtic claimed a 38-12 win over Methven.

Tinwald had the bye.

Decisions hurt Force Two disallowed tries ensured the Western Force ended their South African tour winless with the Sharks securing a 15-9 Super Rugby victory at Kings Park in Durban yesterday. The Force were looking to shake off the heartbreaking, last-second loss to the Bulls in Pretoria after controlling the majority of that contest and again they took it up to more fancied South African opponents.

The Force led 6-0 at halftime with two penalties courtesy of Sias Ebersohn, but a disallowed try to Ben McCalman and then another in the second half to Steve Mafi proved match-deciding.

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North knocked out Powerhouse winger George North said yesterday he is feeling fine despite once again being badly concussed in a game the previous night. The Wales star scored two tries for Northampton in a 52-30 Premiership win over Wasps, but he was then laid out cold when he was caught on the head by the knee of Wasps forward Nathan Hughes. Hughes was sent off for dangerous play but protested his innocence. North left the field unconscious and in a neck brace but the club tweeted just before half-time that he was “awake”.

The player then wrote on his own Twitter account on Saturday: “Thanks for all the messages.

Feeling ok, up and about.” - AFP

Record club rugby crowd Saracens moved up to second place in the English Premiership yesterday after beating Harlequins 42-14 in front of a world record crowd for a club rugby match. A total of 84,068 spectators turned out for the match at Wembley, the home of English football, as Chris Ashton and Chris Wyles both scored doubles to help secure the victory for Saracens. Exeter lost 25-18 to Leicester, who are up to third, while London Irish withheld late pressure to beat fellow strugglers Newcastle 22-21. - AFP

Heavyweights crash Top 14 leaders Toulon and Clermont, both preparing for European Cup quarter-final action next weekend, suffered defeats in French rugby action yesterday. Stade Francais scored five tries to four in a 40-26 victory which prevented Clermont going top in an entertaining, highquality match in Paris. And Toulon, top of the table but equal on 61 points with Clermont, missed the chance to pull ahead, falling to a 34-24 defeat in front of a record 64,000 spectators at Marseille’s Velodrome Stadium. Toulon, who host London Wasps on Sunday week, demonstrated major problems in defence falling apart in the second half after leading 18-7 at halftime.

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Hampstead finds that winning feeling Hampstead’s TK Mareko runs around an Ashley defender during the opening round match in the Combined Country rugby competition at the Hampstead Rugby Club on Saturday.

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By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Last year’s strugglers Southern and Hampstead made winning starts to the Combined Country Cup rugby competition on Saturday.

All three Mid Canterbury teams in section two collected wins as Hampstead beat Ashley 22-10 while Southern had an away win over Ohoka 37-7 and Methven were too strong for Saracens 40-15 in Rangiora. Newcomers Rolleston gave a reasonable account of themselves, going down to 2014-runners-up Waihora 6-20, while Burnham-Dunsandel beat Darfield 18-12.

In section one Rakaia came up short against Southbridge 35-37 while Celtic fell to Oxford 7-20.

Defending champions Lincoln were convincing winners over Kaiapoi 42-17 while Glenmark welcomed back Hornby with a 44-3 win and West Melton beat Prebbleton 23-14.

Hampstead v Ashley Hampstead started the season in winning fashion with a hard fought win over North Canterbury champions Ashley.

“We are absolutely chuffed with the win,” Hampstead coach Regan Broker said.

“They played well as a team, got stuck in from the start and dug in deep to get the result.”

The home side started well to produce the opening try to flanker Tevita Ula from a rolling maul and shortly after had a try in the corner to fullback Josh Nonu, with flanker Toafa Touli converting for a 12-0 lead.

Ashley responded by lifting the tempo and ran Hampstead ragged but also produced a lot of mistakes which allowed the hosts to hold on.

“It looked like we were out on our feet and Ashley thought they were and tried to speed things up, but kept making mistakes and giving us back the ball.”

Eventually the visitors were able to finish something off and crossed for a converted try make it 7-12 at the break.

Touli landed a penalty before Ashly put plenty of pressure on the host. After a sustained period on defence Hampstead broke out and a box kick from Kenny Faalavaau was taken by Nonu and fed back to Faalavaau for the try, with replacement Myson Teata landing the conversion. From there Hampstead dug deep to hold on for the win, even blowing an opportunity for a bonus point but happy to get off to a winning start.

Ohoka v Southern Having lost the first five games in the past two seasons, it was quite the relief for Southern to record a bonus point win over Ohoka.

“We got a win and the board and a bonus point to boot so we are pretty pleased,” Southern coach Jason Rickard said.

“We’ll take plenty of confidence from it but we aren’t getting too far ahead of ourselves.”

Tries to halfback Will Mackenzie and lock Logan Bonnington were both converted by English first-five Dan McNally and his two penalties made it 20-0 at halftime.

A red card to wing Michael Collins and an injury to centre James Hastings forced a reshuffle to the Southern backline during the second half.

After a sluggish 20 minutes to start the second half, wing Ryan Williams went over and secondfive Richard Fridd converted to

make it 27-0 before Ohoka went 90m for a converted try.

The Southern forwards finished things off with Bonnington scoring a second and Scott Vessey scoring Southern’s fifth try to complete a solid 37-7 win.

Saracens v Methven Methven powered home in the second half to record a bonus point 40-15 win over Saracens in Rangiora. Saracens made the stronger start with two tries from quick taps but Methven had tries to flanker Feketi Puleiku and prop James McLeod and a conversion and penalty from first-five Nick Wackwitz made it 15-all at the break.

Methven dominated the second half but it wasn’t until the final quarter that they made it count. Halfback Chris Lock scored the bonus point try before winger Oscar Baisagale grabbed a second and secondfive Andy Hamilton crashed over to make it 40-15 following the conversion from Richard Catherwood.

“Playing all our preseason game at home I think we were a little slow off the bus and took a while to get going,” Methven coach Dale Palmer said. “We were creating plenty of opportunities but the finishing isn’t quite there yet which you can expect at the start of the season.”

Southbridge v Rakaia A missed conversion on full time saw an injury-hit Rakaia miss out on a draw against Southbridge, going down 3537. Three-try hero Seta Koroitamana missed the conversion that would have had his side steal the draw.

“The way things were going for a while I thought we were going to get plastered but we clawed our way back and almost

stole it,” Rakaia coach Wayne Foxcroft said.

Southbridge scored early before first-five Mason Hislop kicked two penalties and Koroitamana went on for his first try to take an 11-7 lead. Southbridge hit back right on halftime to reclaim the lead at 14-11.

Southbridge were able to race out to lead 37-24 before Rakaia raced home - only to come up agonisingly short of a draw.

There were tries to captain Mark Andrew, prop Garth Fechney and two from Koroitamana as well as a conversion but he was umbel to land the last kick.

Rakaia didn’t come away empty handed, collecting two consolation bonus points.

Oxford v Celtic Celtic couldn’t convert at key times while their host did as Oxford took the win 20-7.

Oxford held a narrow 6-0 advantage at the break and in the second half it was a try apiece, but the hosts added a further three penalties.

“It was a lack of ability to capitalise while they did,” Celtic coach Warren Mackenzie said.

“We certainly had plenty of opportunities and were in a lot of scoring positions but failed to convert.

“We gave away too many penalties and they had a good kicker.”

Josh Evans scored the lone try with Nathan McCloy converting but Mackenzie lamented several other missed opportunities – including McCloy and Willie Hintz both being denied tries.

There was more bad news as Mackenzie is sweating over the health of key backline leader Matt Winter with a knee injury.

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■ RUGBY

Pollard’s boot sinks Crusaders Bulls five-eighth Handre Pollard became the first Super Rugby player past the 100-point mark this season as his team defeated the Crusaders 31-19 in Pretoria.

The Springboks 2015 World Cup No.10 contender kicked two conversions and four penalties from nine shots at goal for a 16-point contribution at Loftus Versfeld stadium yesterday.

Pollard tops the points scorers’ chart with 108, which is 18 more than national-team rival Patrick Lambie from the Sharks, who was rested this weekend.

He played down his personal role after receiving the man-ofthe-match award as the Bulls achieved a fourth straight victory after beginning the season with two losses.

“It was a great team effort,” said the 21-year-old successor to Loftus legend Morne Steyn.

“And it was a great privilege for me to pit my wits against Dan Carter, the best fly-half of all time.”

A try each from right-winger Francois Hougaard, inside centre Burger Odendaal and substitute lock Grant Hattingh completed the Bulls’ total.

Veteran All Blacks and Crusaders five-eighth Carter gave a flawless goal-kicking performance with one conversion and four penalties, and giant Fijian left-winger Nemani Nadolo scored a try.

Victory lifted three-time champions the Bulls two places

There’s always talk of secret weapons in World Cup year fanciful claims made that one team or another have unearthed a potentially tournamentchanging something.

The All Blacks, not that they are going to shout about it, could make such a claim if they wanted. By bringing back Wayne Smith, the All Blacks have added an asset, the value of which is almost impossible to accurately gauge.

Wrapped up in Smith is 30 years of coaching experience and an emotional intelligence that enables him to connect with athletes.

Test football is now a details business.

The margins between the best sides are infinitesimal. When the Boks play the All Blacks, it is toss-of-the-coin stuff.

It’s not much different when New Zealand play Australia, England, Ireland and Wales.

Leith finds his niche Every day at the Chiefs is like Disneyland for Michael Leitch and this weekend he will meet the man who set him on that happy path. The Japanese captain on Saturday crossed the try line in his first Super Rugby game in the country of his birth, helping the Chiefs to a 37-27 win over the Cheetahs in Hamilton.

Having grown up in Christchurch before moving to Japan at the age of 15, Leitch’s first season in Super Rugby has been a dream come true. And it’s a dream that was partly forged by the coach with whom his team will clash when the Chiefs host the Blues on Saturday night. Sir John Kirwan handed Leitch his Japanese debut in 2008, and he knows the debt of gratitude he owes the Blues coach. - NZME

Coaches happier

Handre Pollard: The Bulls’ sharpshooter scored 16 points against the Crusaders yesterday.

to seventh on the southern hemisphere inter-provincial combined standings and second in the South African conference.

Record seven-time title-holders the Crusaders dropped one place to ninth overall and find themselves in the unfamiliar position of being only fourth in the New Zealand conference.

Billed as the match of the seventh round, the teams fully fulfilled expectations with 80 pulsating minutes of top-class rugby.

“We are very happy and very

tired,” said Bulls No.8 and skipper Pierre Spies, a returnee this year after missing almost all of last season through injury.

“It was a great team effort although it helps a lot to see Handre kicking all those points week after week.”

All Blacks No 8 and Crusaders skipper Kieran Read said his team produced a tremendous effort without securing even a losing bonus point.

“Our plan was to keep the ball moving to try and run the Bulls ragged, and we did that

well at times. However, the execution was not there,” Read said.

Bulls led three times and the Crusaders twice in a see-sawing first half that ended 18-16 in favour of the hosts.

The South Africans had stretched the advantage to five points when the decisive try came on 66 minutes.

A Carter pass was intercepted by Hattingh, who made a long gallop to the try-line and held off two Crusaders to dot - AFP down.

In defence of Smith’s role with the All Blacks

By Gregor Paul

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Little things matter, from kickoff strategy, to lineout pod formation, to numbers at the breakdown, to angles of running and technique at the breakdown.

The intricacies of these battles go over the heads of most followers - but it’s the outcome of those mini conflicts which creates the space elsewhere that everyone can see.

This is where Smith comes into his own. He’s been brought in as defensive coordinator, a portfolio he mostly held as assistant coach for the national side during 2004-11. No one can match the sophistication of his analysis and technical and tactical application of defensive structures.

Not everyone will believe that, however, because the curious thing about Smith is that he will forever be remembered as the former All Blacks head coach who suffered a crisis of confidence in 2001. His decision to inform the NZRU board

he wasn’t sure he was the right man was universally viewed as weakness.

It’s curious because the conclusion couldn’t have been more wrong. Smith’s uncertainty wasn’t driven by self-doubt, but an uncommon selflessness that put the needs of the team ahead of personal goals. After the All Blacks had lost again in Sydney, Smith felt that the legacy preservation of - demanded his contribution be scrutinised.

The NZRU board were caught out by Smith’s position and awarding the job to John Mitchell seemed an almost spiteful response to the country’s best coach laying his soul bare and asking for nothing more than reassurance.

The history is relevant today as only the grossly ill-informed would wonder why the All Blacks have turned to Smith in World Cup year.

The answer is that the All Blacks have added to their coaching staff a man whose

passion for the team is unparalleled. He ultimately sacrificed himself in 2001 and yet willingly returned in 2004 as an assistant.

In late 2011, he was in the running to coach England - a job that came with a small fortune - but pulled out when the cold reality hit him that there would come a point where he would be plotting the downfall of the All Blacks in 2015.

The All Blacks need to be doing things differently in defence. While it was manageable for Hansen to drive the defensive strategy in 2014, it wasn’t ideal. In World Cup year, he wants to be dedicated to the big picture.

Smith will deliver the tiny improvements that will make the All Blacks tougher to break down. And perhaps most significantly, he’ll provide the squad, particularly the senior players, with the sage mind and calm demeanour that builds confidence.

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After years of failing to find a harmonious way to meet the respective needs of the All Blacks and Super Rugby coaches in World Cup year, gold has finally been struck. There has been tension between the All Blacks coaching group and Super Rugby franchises in each World Cup year since 1999. The former has typically been anxious about the workloads and form of key individuals while the latter have belligerently ignored requests and operated to their own agenda. The nadir was reached in 2007 when the All Blacks coaches were granted permission to remove 22 of the best players for the first seven weeks of Super Rugby. It proved disastrous for the popularity of Super Rugby and didn’t help the national team much either. Finally it would seem a happy medium has been reached after 16 years of trying. Workloads of individuals are being managed by a sensible and not overly intrusive agreement that no likely All Black is to play more than five consecutive games.

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Same again for Blues It’s after nights like these that John Kirwan, rather than resigning himself to going back to the drawing board, must be tempted to smash the thing to smithereens and start on something else like an old stone tablet that he could also use to knock some sense into his players. Once again, this match against the Waratahs at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, won 23-11 by the home side, didn’t go his way.

Once again the Blues made it difficult on themselves. One can only imagine what goes through a coach’s mind, when, facing the sixth loss of the season, he watches poor decisions by match officials combined with players throwing possession away as they attempt the near impossible when common sense would suit so much better.

- NZME

Larkham joins Cheika Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is looking forward to Stephen Larkham’s “awesome” input as they join forces officially for the first time to plot an unprecedented third Australian Rugby World Cup triumph. A 51-man squad of World Cup hopefuls have gathered in Brisbane for a three-day camp that Cheika hopes will have Australia’s state rivals firmly “on the same page” less than six months out from the global showpiece. - AAP

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In brief Ferguson pleases coach Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson says he was pleased with the way Blake Ferguson coped with the occasion of facing former NRL club Canberra yesterday.

Ferguson, who was sacked by the Raiders in 2013, starred in the 34-6 win, scoring a try, adding a try assist, four tackle busts and 125 metres to his name before limping off in the second half with a foot injury. He was seen leaving the ground on crutches, wearing a moon boot on his right foot. The Roosters say he will have scans on the injury and it is their only fitness concern from the game.

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Dragons slay Manly St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor is confident Josh Dugan’s troublesome left ankle is a problem the fullback can manage throughout the NRL season. Dugan was comfortably the best player on the field at Wollongong’s WIN Stadium on Saturday night in the dour 12-4 success over Manly. The victory moved the Dragons to 2-2 for the season after a slow start to the campaign that saw the joint venture struggle in their defeats by Melbourne and Wests Tigers.

McGregor’s side have struggled in attack all season but NSW star Dugan was their biggest threat going forward setting up his side’s only try scored by Jason Nightingale.

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Cowboys struggling If anyone knows how to rectify a slow NRL season start it is the North Queensland Cowboys. Or so everyone thought. Cowboys back-rower Gavin Cooper admitted dead-last North Queensland were no closer to solving why they had come out of the blocks so meekly ahead of tonight’s home clash with Melbourne. North Queensland may have been their own worst enemy in previous years but at least they had been able to find a way to turn around a pedestrian start, making the NRL finals in the past four years. But after pre-season title favourites the Cowboys slumped to a horror 0-3 record ahead of their showdown with the Storm, Cooper conceded they had been left scratching their heads. “For whatever reason as soon as things don’t go our way we drop the bottom lip and everyone’s heads go down,” he said.

- AAP

New star for England an of the moment Harry Kane scored just moments into his international debut to seal a 4-0 win for England against Lithuania at Wembley in Euro 2016 qualifying on Saturday. The Tottenham Hotspur striker was called up by Roy Hodgson having scored 29 goals for his club this season, and he was brought on for captain Wayne Rooney in the 71st minute of the qualifying Group E fixture with England leading 3-0. Within two minutes, the 21-year-old had his first goal for his country, heading home from a Raheem Sterling cross at the back post. Before that, Rooney opened the scoring early on with his 47th international goal, leaving him two shy of Bobby Charlton’s England record. “I dreamed of this and it’s just a bit of a blur at the moment,” Kane told ITV. - AFP

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Errors plague Warriors Twenty years on since their opening NRL match, history repeated as the Warriors narrowly succumbed to the Brisbane Broncos 24-16 in a seesawing affair.

The match provided a snapshot of everything that has defined the Warriors over the last 20 years, with inconsistency and under-delivering being dominant themes.

Despite not firing a shot and conceding three first-half tries the Warriors came out revitalised in the second-half, and although they managed to square the scoring ledger, inaccuracies and errors continued to cruel their comeback hopes.

With expectations high after their best season start since 2010, and pre-match festivities replicating the Warriors’ 1995 extravaganza, there was everything to play for.

A Kapa Haka performance set the scene before members of the club’s original line-up and bursts of fire flanked the side as they made their onfield arrival.

However, after starting the match strongly and being denied the first scoring chance, the Warriors structures and attacking intent quickly went out the window.

Eleven errors and four penalties combined to see them spend the majority of the second quarter struggling to get out of their own half.

The Broncos held their nerve and warmed into the match, successfully completing their first 18 sets and going 29 minutes before committing their first error.

As occurred back in 1995, the visitors went out to an early

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10-0 lead, with tries to both wingers, Corey Oates and Lachlan Maranta, before interchange prop Jarrod Wallace added a third in the shade of halftime.

The home crowd of 14,679 was left stunned and silent as their side trudged to the sheds down 16-0 before a Chad Townsend try six minutes after the resumption sparked both parties to life.

Down by 10-points and with more than half an hour to play, the Warriors began finding their rhythm but three scoring chances went awry with more poor execution and handling.

Just when the Broncos seemed to have absorbed the best the Warriors had to offer, Johnson sliced through the right side defence mimicking his exploits from last ye a r ’ s Four Nations final - before finding debutant centre Matt

Allwood on an inside line to score under the bar.

The No 7 added the extras to narrow the margin to four, and shortly after Solomone Kata leapt high to claim the ball from a Townsend bomb to dot down and level the scores.

To the groans of the stands, Johnson’s third conversion attempt was waved away, setting up a heart-stopping finish.

A contentious call against Ben Matulino for hands in the play-the-ball gave Parker an easy penalty to give the Broncos a two-point lead.

Despite some desperate attack in the dying stages, an illconceived tap-back from a line drop out saw Broncos hooker Andrew McCullough pounce to give the Broncos a fourth try.

Parker again converted after the siren to cap their third straight win and send Warriors fans home with that familiar feeling of what might have been.

Broncos 24 (Corey Oates, Lachlan Maranta, Jarrod Wallace, Andrew McCullough tries; Corey Parker 3 cons, 1 pen) Warriors 16 (Chad Townsend, Solomone Kata, Matt Allwood tries; Shaun Johnson 2 goals) - NZME

■ FOOTBALL

Phoenix drop points to Sydney FC

BY DANIEL RICHARDSON The sharks are circling the Wellington Phoenix and their lead at the top of the A-League ladder has been slashed.

Wellington entered round 23 with a four-point advantage at the front of the pack but after their 3-0 loss to Sydney FC at Westpac Stadium yesterday, they only hold a slender onepoint margin over Melbourne Victory, Perth Glory and Sydney.

The Victory also have a game in hand.

What it means is the final few weeks of the A-League’s regular season will be hugely important as teams jockey for position heading in to the playoffs.

Of the Phoenix’s four remaining fixtures, three of them are at home, which should give them a helpful leg up.

They were always likely to be under the pump against Sydney FC given seven players, including the influential Nathan Burns and Michael McGlinchey, were

away on international duty.

The A-League doesn’t recognise designated Fifa windows and regularly schedules games in those breaks.

Sydney FC had their troubles too as striker Marc Janko - the A-League’s leading goal-scorer - was unavailable due to his commitments with Austria.

The first half was a disaster for the Phoenix as they conceded all three goals.

It could have been so different as striker Joel Griffiths was through on goal after a minute but he couldn’t convert for the home side.

The goals came in odd ways for Sydney but it didn’t bother them. Firstly, Jacques Faty, a Senegalese international, bagged his first A-League goal as the defender scored from close range.

Former Phoenix striker Shane Smeltz was next as right back Matthew Ridenton played him onside and Smeltz poached a goal like he so often has in his lengthy career.

Shane Smeltz: Scored a goal and was sent off yesterday.

The third came via an own goal from Manny Muscat following a goalmouth scramble, which put the Phoenix in deep waters after only 40 minutes.

Wellington coach Ernie Merrick is never one to sit on the fence when the game needs to chased and he removed Ridenton at the break and introduced the attacking Kwabena Appiah to play on the right wing as he made

his senior debut for the Phoenix.

Appiah had his moments and is a player of promise but he wasn’t able to help spark an unlikely revival for Wellington.

Aside from a bad result for the Phoenix, they will also be without midfielder Albert Riera against the Melbourne Victory next week after he was shown a red card in the second half, following his second yellow.

It became 10 on 10 shortly after as Smeltz was given his marching orders for lashing out at Phoenix defender Ben Sigmund. Smeltz left the field to chants of: ‘Judas’ from the Yellow Fever. The crowd was 6236; not bad considering the game clashed with the Cricket World Cup final.

The outing was one to forget for the Phoenix who probably knew they were always going to find life tough with so many players away.

Sydney FC 3 (Jacques Faty 9, Shane Smeltz 28, Manny Muscat 40 og) Wellington Phoenix 0 halftime: 3-0.

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College’s best-ever Maadi

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton College completed their best ever Maadi Cup National Secondary Schools rowing regatta at Lake Karapiro.

Veronica Wall collected the college’s first ever gold medal when she won the girls’ under 16 single on Friday and she then backed up that performance to win silver in the girls’ under 16 double with Grace Wilson on Saturday.

Wall and Wilson were in a

battle with the Craighead crew and couldn’t close them down on the run home, finishing four seconds back, with a further four second buffer back to third.

Wall and Wilson were also in the under 16 quad with Emma Jansen, Lara Biggs and cox Maddie Evans that was fifth while the boys’ under 18 double of Benji Barry and Matt Rae was also fifth in their A final.

Matt Beveridge was seventh in the boys’ under 18 single A final.

The girls’ under 17 coxed four won their B final - a ninth overall ranking - as did the boys’ under 18 pair.

The gold and silver medals, coupled with boats qualifying for a total of five A and five B finals made it their most successful regatta, with their previous best also coming in the North Island in 2013 when they won a silver and bronze medal from five A and three B finals.

Right: Maadi Golden girl Veronica Wall.

‘Inspired’ purchase A visit to the annual New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales Series at Karaka provided the catalyst for a group of racing enthusiasts to return the following year and make a purchase that is now delivering them the experience of a lifetime.

The filly they bought races under the name Exquisite Jewel and on Saturday she took her career record to four wins from just 13 starts with a victory in the Gr. 3 Manawatu Classic at Awapuni after finishing a gallant 4th in the Gr. 1 New Zealand Oaks at her previous start. Just 24 hours after the win part-owner Caroline Marner is still coming to terms with the victory and what it means for the syndicate who race the filly they bought on the spur of the moment just over two years ago.

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■ TENNIS

Djokovic in search of fifth Miami title Defending champions Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams launched their Miami Open title repeat bids in constrasting style, Djokovic battling past Martin Klizan as Williams cruised into the third round.

Djokovic, the top seed who is looking for a fifth Miami Masters crown, had to work for his 6-0 5-7 6-1 second-round victory over Slovakia’s Klizan yesterday.

The world No.1, who beat Roger Federer last weekend for the Indian Wells crown in California, is hoping to duplicate his North American March hardcourt title double of last year.

In fact, the Serb is bidding to become the first man to complete the sweep three times.

He looked well on his way to a quick win when he snapped up the opening set against his 41st-ranked opponent in 23 minutes.

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He won the first seven games before Klizan got onto the scoreboard and appeared set to serve out a quick victory with a 5-3 lead in the second.

But he dropped his serve and Klizan went on to win the second set before Djokovic reestablished control and earned the victory after one hour, 56 minutes.

“Credit to Martin for battling and making me play an extra shot,” Djokovic said. “It was a pretty different game in the second set than it was in the first.

“I hope to have another great week in Miami,” Djokovic said of his quest for another career milestone.

“I’ve played some of my best tennis on these courts.”

Women’s world No.1 Williams had little trouble in a 6-3 6-1 victory over Monica Niculescu.

The 33-year-old American,

who had a much harder time getting past the Romanian spin-merchant in her Indian Wells opener, showed no sign of the knee injury that forced her to forfeit her quarter-final in California last week.

“It was a little sore in practice, but it was OK today,” Williams said of her knee.

“I really didn’t feel it today, to be honest.

“Once you step out on the court you have so much adrenaline going. The adrenaline kind of kills it. So I was surprised.

“I felt pretty good,” added Williams, who is seeking an eighth Miami crown.

The 33-year-old American star next faces 15-year-old compatriot Catherine “CiCi” Bellis.

Bellis advanced with a 6-2 6-1 win over 29th-seeded Zarina Diyas on Friday.

In other men’s matches, Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori

defeated Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-2, 6-1.

Canadian fifth seed Milos Raonic beat Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-1 6-4 while Spanish sixth seed David Ferrer beat Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-1 6-1.

French 11th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrated his return from a lingering arm injury with a 6-4 3-6 6-3 win over American Tim Smyczek.

While Williams looked sharp in her second-round match postponed from Friday by rain, sixth-seeded Canadian Eugenie Bouchard fell at the first hurdle, beaten 6-0 7-6 (7-4) by German qualifier Tatjana Maria.

In women’s third-round play, fourth-seeded Dane Caroline Wozniacki, Ekaterina Makarova and ninth-seeded German Andrea Petkovic all advanced.

Venus Williams also booked a fourth-round berth, with a 6-4 7-6 (7-3) victory over Australian - AFP Samantha Stosur.

Australia’s sprinting heavyweights were upstaged by three-year-old Brazen Beau when they last met in the Newmarket Handicap. In his absence they are primed for battle in Saturday’s TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. Horse of the Year Lankan Rupee was unplaced in the Newmarket and came out of the race with a couple of muscle problems which required treatment. Terravista, equal with Lankan Rupee at the top of the world sprint rankings, was affected by the heat but trainer Joe Pride said that was not a factor in his third. “That has happened to him before,” Pride said. “He doesn’t like humidity and it was pretty warm that day. He is in great order and I can’t wait for the race.”

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Gai chases triple crown Gai Waterhouse will rely on Golden Slipper placegetter English in her bid to win the second leg of the two-year-old triple crown. The Tulloch Lodge trainer confirmed English would be her sole runner in Saturday’s Group One Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick with Thomas Huet to replace the suspended Blake Shinn on the filly. English finished second to stablemate Vancouver in the Golden Slipper and with that colt to miss the Sires’, English gets her chance in the spotlight on day one of The Championships. - AAP

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incor- 1 25235 Opawa Dosh nwtd .............................. N Udy porated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 30 2 76857 Benji nwtd ............................J Woolston-Bell Mar 2015 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 3 4153F Homebush Dawn nwtd ..............J McInerney 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 4 33335 Homebush Lucifer 22.00 ...........J McInerney 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 5 24226 Sunday Driver nwtd ..........................P Taylor 6 45631 Bundoran Lad 22.30 ..................... D Donlon 1 1.55pm (NZT) TURAKINA PETS C0 C0, 375m 7 216 My First Litter nwtd.......................M Roberts 1 T34 Skinny Ankles nwtd..............A Turnwald 8 56212 To The Bank 21.79 ....................... P Denbee 2 86521 Clearly Magic nwtd L & ...................... Morris 9 11816 Dark Faerytales 21.68............. D T Poutama 3 72744 Dark Garnah nwtd.................... S Gommans 4 46546 Goodtime Moni nwtd ................ S Gommans 10 44526 Cawbourne Crazy 21.91 ..................... L Bell 5 8x87 Ranger’s Waltz nwtd .......................S Maher 4 2.48pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C4 C4, 375m 1 76437 Wheelie Rascal 21.51 .................A Turnwald 6 36754 Homebush Happy nwtd ................. R Maisey 2 38341 Here Without You 21.61.............. B Johnston 7 8337 Goodtime Lady nwtd ........................ I Moore 3 51467 Individual Lily 21.40 .........................L Ahern 8 22437 Made Time nwtd...............................L Ahern 4 17641 Big Jamesy 21.51 .......................A Turnwald 9 38568 Key Eye nwtd ........................... S Gommans 5 66772 Allegro Master 21.43 ........................L Ahern 10 75744 Bundoran Lass nwtd ..................... D Donlon 2 2.13pm WAREHOUSE STATIONERY C0 C0, 457m 6 38583 Stellar Force 21.45................... S Gommans 7 23353 Enhancer 21.51...........................B Hodgson 1 1 Making Time nwtd ............................L Ahern 8 63427 Boston Strike 21.76.....................A Turnwald 2 56 Bigtime Tricks nwtd ..........................L Ahern 9 16783 Opawa Shaiden 21.66..................M Roberts 3 474 Bigtime Moola nwtd..........................L Ahern 4 8 Bigtime Reign nwtd ..........................L Ahern 10 53876 Grand Allegro 21.51 .........................L Ahern 5 552 Bigtime Redfoo nwtd ........................L Ahern 5 3.05pm MANAWATU HARNESS RACING C3, 375m 1 56636 Cawbourne Tomcat nwtd.................... N Udy 6 32876 Pistols Princess nwtd ........................M Flipp 2 34212 Rock On Sprite 21.85 G & .................Denby 7 33245 Bigtime Pulse nwtd ..........................L Ahern 3 67763 Alamein Duke 21.51 K & ...................Phillips 8 723 Ritza River nwtd ...............................L Ahern 4 77517 Uno Orange 21.74 ..........................S Maher 9 6486 Mary’s Bad Boy nwtd ................. B Johnston 5 84848 Homebush Crash nwtd..............J McInerney 10 28887 Bigtime Ranson nwtd .......................L Ahern 3 2.30pm GRANT IRVINE PHARMACY C1 C1, 375m 6 13337 Runs For Gas nwtd .................. S Gommans

2 62736 Homebush Churro nwtd ............J McInerney 7 21531 Sweet As Bro 21.57 .........................L Ahern 3 22154 Crystal Wave 21.54 .....................B Hodgson 8 11433 Homebush Olive nwtd ...............J McInerney 4 15344 Mercenary 21.45 .........................A Turnwald 9 88456 Captain’s Choice 21.50 ................M Roberts 5 41565 Wheelie Chillie 21.66 ..................A Turnwald 10 78454 Your Say nwtd ..............................M Roberts 6 3.25pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C5, 375m 6 51325 Super Zip Zip 21.77 ....................A Turnwald 7 15654 Fastback King 21.85 ............... D T Poutama 1 52326 Red Moova Hoova 21.50 G & ............Denby 8 67735 Big Boy Deno 21.59 .....................M Roberts 2 41113 Allegro Class 21.31 ..........................L Ahern 9 16768 Serena Rose 21.66 ..........................L Ahern 3 23455 Blue And Curly 21.27 .......................L Ahern 10 53876 Grand Allegro 21.51 .........................L Ahern 4 73411 Winfield Winter nwtd ....................M Roberts 5 11421 Weepu 21.53 ....................................L Ahern 9 4.24pm NORTH ISLAND CHALLENGE FINAL C5f, 457m 1 47114 Cawbourne Crouch 25.73 ............M Roberts 6 45122 Elle Packer 21.24 .............................L Ahern 2 41233 Mammy Brown 26.00 .......................L Ahern 7 42155 Mighty Magic 21.75 ..........................L Ahern 3 23862 Really Clever 25.63 ..........................L Ahern 8 12313 Cawbourne Midget 21.48 .............M Roberts 4 56213 Smash Allegro 25.97........................L Ahern 9 72346 What’s Up Gee 21.46 .......................L Ahern 5 26432 Ritza Danny 26.10 ...........................L Ahern 10 26288 Shinzigzag 21.56 G & ........................Denby 6 31131 Angvella 25.93 .................................L Ahern 7 3.41pm J P PRINT, PETONE C3 C3, 375m 7 32644 Varga Frost 26.09..........................A Speight 1 64365 Ever So Hopeful 21.51 G & ................Denby 8 42724 Curious Life 26.11 ...........................M Olden 2 24747 Opawa Lean Meat nwtd ..................S Maher 9 41254 Trident nwtd........................................ N Udy 3 22488 Another Jewel 21.92 .................J McInerney 4 51878 Alamein Kat 21.58 K & ......................Phillips 10 12275 Coolabah Blue 25.98 ..................A Turnwald 5 13687 Barry’s Way 21.38 ............................R Waite 10 4.41pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY LTD C1, 457m 1 83686 Cawbourne Tip 26.33 ...................M Roberts 6 65215 Manu Rama 22.11 ..........................L Doody 2 558x1 He’s A Jessie nwtd ............................. N Udy 7 21127 Unlikely Attack 21.79 D &...........J MacAuley 3 22312 Ritza Rose 26.31 .............................L Ahern 8 63382 Hanify Ace 21.74................................ N Udy 4 6x876 Opawa Chris nwtd......................... R Maisey 9 455F8 Homebush Tiare 21.64..............J McInerney 5 2242F Where’s Shiraz 26.40 ......................... N Udy 10 78454 Your Say nwtd ..............................M Roberts 8 4.01pm PERSONAL PROTECTIVE SERVICES C4, 375m 6 x7133 Wasem Twist nwtd.......................A Turnwald 7 13642 Meg’s Me Mum nwtd .......................S Maher 1 54167 Semantics 22.24 ..............................L Ahern

8 21375 Thrilling Toby nwtd .................. D T Poutama 9 87728 Into The Fray nwtd ...........................R Waite 10 57854 Wall Age 26.54 ................................L Doody 11 4.59pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESS. C3/4 457m 1 55553 Speed Legend 25.71...................B Hodgson 2 37347 Cosmic Scramble 26.10 ..............B Hodgson 3 85461 Bigtime Dasher 26.03 ......................L Ahern 4 71478 Graduation 25.80 .............................L Ahern 5 41347 Lochinvar Rossi nwtd ..................A Turnwald 6 11187 Winsome Jenny 26.37 .....................L Ahern 7 42411 Lochinvar Maui 25.84 ..................A Turnwald 8 616F7 Always Welcome 25.86 ....................L Ahern 9 37367 Alamein Jah 26.18 K & .....................Phillips 10 37846 Manyana Groper nwtd.................A Turnwald 12 5.16pm GRAEME HAYDEN-HOLMES MEMORIAL C1/2, 457m 1 66655 Cawbourne Aries 26.47 ...............M Roberts 2 55446 Thrilling Dylan 26.22 ............... T McCracken 3 71316 Auckland Vending nwtd ...............A Turnwald 4 14847 Opawa Jean 26.45 .................. T McCracken 5 41135 Boston Lightning 26.62 ...............A Turnwald 6 16223 Golfing Buddy 26.67 .................. B Johnston 7 7x743 Mariah 26.63 ....................................P Taylor 8 57256 Zulu Mercedes nwtd.....................M Roberts 9 38645 Cawbourne Gracie nwtd ..............M Roberts 10 35756 Sarah Campbell nwtd..................B Hodgson 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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PUBLIC NOTICES

2015 Easter Advertising Deadlines - Classifieds

Adesanya claims Super 8

The office will be CLOSED Good Friday, April 3.

Saturday, April 4 and Easter Monday, April 6.

There is no publication on Good Friday, April 3.

We will be open again 8am, Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Run-ons / Single Columns / Announcements / Death Notices / Greetings*

By Daniel RichaRDson Israel Adesanya needed an extra round but he emerged victorious at the Super 8 boxing tournament with a split-decision win over American Brian Minto.

Adesanya, a 25-year-old who boasts a 41-2 record as a kickboxer, moved to 3-1 as a boxer, while Minto fell to 41-9 in Christchurch on Saturday night.

The final was one of the more entertaining fights on the bill and the bonus frame was needed after a the three-round final produced a split draw from the judges.

Adesanya’s fitness helped him in the sudden-death stages as he edged the 40-year-old who has form with New Zealand fighters, having previously clashed with Shane Cameron and Joseph Parker.

Minto beat Australia’s Daniel Ammann (31-9-1) in the semi-final having previously edged Monty Filimaea (1012-1) in the quarters.

Adesanya topped Lance Bryant (4-2) in the other semi via majority decision.

Adesanya knocked out Asher Derbyshire (7-2) in the second round of his quarterfinal.

In the only 10-round bout on the card, Australian Anthony McCracken (18-71) defeated Kiwi-trained Samoan Vaitele Soi (24-2) via unanimous decision, 99-91, 99-91 and 98-92.

Former league hardman Monty Betham moved to 7-1 as a professional after he beat ex-English cricketer Adam Hollioake (2-2) via fourth-round TKO in a cruiserweight bout.

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Road.

10.00am

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research.

Ground floor Heritage Centre, West St. All welcome.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Circuit training, 1st time free. St Andrews Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

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

7.00pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre. Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON BIRD CLUB. Monthly meeting, Rover Den, Maniao-roto Park, Chalmers Avenue.

Tuesday

ASHBURTON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION (INC).

Document or service from a JP, open every Tuesday. Community House, 122 Tancred Street. (rear of Westpac Bank).

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Rd. 1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. For new and regular players. M.S.A. Sports Grounds, Racecourse Road.

2.00pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Senior Parishioners Easter Holy

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6.00pm ASHBURTON ATHLETICS. 5Km run, jog or walk. Weekly from January 13 - March 31. Ashburton Domain Walnut Avenue, opposite the end of Creek Road.

7.30pm ASHBURTON ASTRONOMY GROUP. Monthly meeting, Menorlue.

Ashburton College, Walnut Avenue.

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“GOLF CROQUET’ WAIREKA. Golf Croquet singles. Philip Street.

9.30am 10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. NEWCOMERS. Walking group, meet at the Church, Social group coffee morning, All 48 Allens Road, Allenton. welcome. Nosh Cafe in the Ashford 9.30am - 12.30pm Village, West Street.

ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH 10.00am GOODWILL SHOP. Pre-loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Church, Cnr Main Road and Jane Encounter.

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YOUR STARS

by Forecasters

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) As Mercury spends his last full day in a reflective part of your chart take time to take one last glance at the rear mirror before moving on.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) While the words ‘I don’t have time to stop and talk’ may be on the tip of your tongue hold them back, a moment lost maybe lost forever.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) While the momentum will continue once Mercury leaves your career sector tomorrow you’re more likely to stay on track if you have a plan.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) While it’s important to keep your money and professional hats on, it’s also important to embrace a sense of wanderlust and curiosity.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) As Mercury spends his last full day in your financial sector it’s about keeping your head in the game and working with his head for money.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) Any urgency is around making sure communication lines are open in terms of getting the ball rolling.

Focus on specific issues once done.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) No matter how busy you are there’s a need to remain mentally focused at work on any task at hand. Work smarter and practice smart time management.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Somehow you’ll need to pull something out of the bag to ensure you maintain a balance between work and play today, whatever it takes.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) A push to get home and family matters on the right track, that began in early January has reached its final day, with a chance to tie up loose ends.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) No matter how many demands on your time and how many balls you’re juggling, communications is most important on your agenda today.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Mercury’s last full day in your income sector requires you to keep your head in the game, making the most of his smart head for money.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) While your birthday month wrapped up 9 days ago it’s only today that you reach a point where it’s time to commit to the future and the journey ahead.

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Rise 7:46 am Set 7:28 pm

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Hamilton

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Wellington

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Nelson

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Greymouth

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Timaru

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Queenstown

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IN MEMORIAM

BLEE, Dorothy Joy (Joy) – On March 27, 2015 at Coldstream House, Ashburton.

Aged 78 years. Dearly loved wife of John, and the late John Ritchie. Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Paul and Robyn Ritchie (Christchurch), Alison and Dave (Perth), Craig and Editha (Auckland), and loved Grandma of Georgia and Benjamin; Sophia and Noah. In lieu of flowers donations to the Ashburton Cancer Support Group, or Ashburton Branch of Save the Children Fund would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Messages to the Blee family C/- PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Joy’s life will be held at our Chapel, Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on Wednesday April 1, commencing at 2pm, followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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Grant Elliott, the only shining light in the Black Caps’ batting line-up, scored 83 of New Zealand’s 183 in yesterday’s dismal effort.

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BY ANDREW ALDERSON The World Cup final was the first time at least one of New Zealand’s top three batsmen had failed to get past 38 at the tournament.

In front of a bulging Melbourne Cricket Ground the Mitchells, Johnson and Starc, and later James Faulkner put the New Zealanders under intense, and eventually fatal, pressure.

At 39 for three in the 13th over, after Brendon McCullum (0), Martin Guptill (15) and Kane Williamson (12) had succumbed, New Zealand’s position looked precarious.

Ross Taylor and Grant Elliott righted some of the early damage, which was testament to the team’s belief that they can res-

urrect a total from the worst of circumstances.

However, 183 was a letdown on what appeared a decent batting wicket and the power they generated in the knockout matches to reach 393 for six setting against the West Indies and 299 for six chasing against South Africa.

No one could question the veracity of New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum’s decision at the toss.

His counterpart Michael Clarke said he would have done the same in what appeared perfect batting conditions.

The white line fever of Starc and Johnson provided the point of difference with their relentless accuracy and aggression.

Extra pace, generally in the

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high 140km/h range, also meant the New Zealanders struggled to adjust shots in time. A hint came early with wicketkeeper Brad Haddin standing in close proximity to the 30m circle.

Starc finished with two for 20 from eight overs; Johnson took three for 30 from nine.

Able support also came from Faulkner’s three for 36 from nine. His spells were highlighted by the dexterity of his variations, particularly his slower ball.

Starc finished the tournament with 22 wickets at 10.18 with the best economy rate (3.50) outside Michael Clarke’s 2.8 from five overs. He backed up the menace demonstrated in his six for 28 at Eden Park.

A hostile opening spell of

four overs saw him grab one for eight.

The wicket of McCullum with the fifth ball of the game set a tone which resonated, until Taylor and Elliott steadied the innings with a 111-run fourthwicket partnership off 137 balls.

Johnson took over in the ninth over and left no opportunity to release the pressure which, for the New Zealanders, was as much as they have endured at the tournament.

Johnson plodded into his runup, face furrowed with concentration and moustache bristling.

He produced plenty of deliveries in the hallway of hesitation followed by his accustomed look of indignity following-through.

His first victim was Kane Williamson who prodded defensive-

ly into Johnson’s hands.

After second spells of two overs which conceded 16 runs between them, Starc and Johnson were just as convincing in their third return to the bowling crease against the middle and lower order.

Starc conceded just four from his final two overs and snared Luke Ronchi at slip; Johnson had two for 11 in his three overs as Daniel Vettori and Matt Henry departed.

Clarke led his team’s batting from the front, in his last ODI for his country, and when he left, bowled Henry for 74, to a standing ovation, Australia required only nine more runs to put yet another cricket world cup trophy in their cabinet.

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