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A tough year, but a proud year L

earning comes about, not from doing, but from thinking about what we do.

It can be easy to go through life and just ride through the motions, not paying too much attention to what happens around us and taking the time to stop and take it all in and also reflect on what has happened.

Of course, a lot of life is about the day-to-day stuff and it doesn’t rarely bear much requirement to stop and reflect. You just think and then you do, without too much concern.

The end of any calendar year gives great opportunity to sit back though, put the feet up and look back on the past 12 months and take a look at all the good, all the bad and all the indifferent that has unfolded.

2019 has been a big year and reflection isn’t too hard to come across.

We’ve had the good. We’ve had the bad and as always, we’ve certainly had the indifferent.

But just like it does, this little district that we call home has risen above the drama, the devastation and the heartache and held its head high and showed that no matter what adversity is thrown in our direction we can stand up to the task and ride through the problem and come out on the other side.

The events of March 15 in Christchurch and the ripple effect it had on Ashburton and in particular our Muslim community will never be forgotten. Those tragic few days where the harsh reality of what unfolded came to light will haunt many for years – but even in darkness there was some light.

The gathering at the Ashburton Domain for a vigil in the wake of the disaster was moving and showed that no matter what our heritage or religion we are capable of coming together as one in solidarity and showing that we are stronger than any one person who deems themselves capable of playing God. I’ve had the pleasure of being in the editor’s chair for coming up three years now but I’ve been in this community for an awful

lot longer than that and while we’ve had some bad times, this year has been particularly horrible on our roads and sadly, in and around some of our homes.

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what the past 12 months has.

On a slightly more positive note though, there have been positives.

Cash injections into our

One can only hope that 2020 brings more positive news than what the past 12 months has.

We’ve seen death, injury and heartache – the kind of stuff we don’t want to see and the kind of stuff we don’t have to write about and one can only hope that 2020 brings more positive news than

schools, government funding for a new hot pools complex in Methven which will considerably boost the tourism dollar spent in our district were welcome announcements and we’ve taken

particular enjoyment from sharing the good news stories of the incredible people who live in this district six days a week, during the entire year.

For us, our 140th celebrations were a particular highlight.

While not a significant milestone, 140 years of existence is still something we’re incredibly proud of and that during that time we’ve been able to remain staunchly focused on being local and delivering to the people of Mid Canterbury news that matters to them.

There’s no hiding from the fact of just how hard the newspaper industry is at the moment and to be New Zealand’s only fully-owned, independent daily newspaper is something this district, not just us, should be incredibly proud of.

Your Local MP I’m available to meet with constituents on Mondays and Fridays and any day that Parliament isn’t sitting. Contact my office in Ashburton to make an appointment to meet or speak with me.

Andrew Falloon MP for Rangitata 81 Harrison Street, Ashburton • 03 308 7510 rangitatamp@parliament.govt.nz andrewfalloonforrangitata Funded by the Parliamentary Service. Authorised by Andrew Falloon MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington.

But what the future holds for us, and the newspaper industry is uncertain.

2020 promises to be an intriguing and somewhat scary year.

The so-called Kiwishare model which has been touted could have serious ramifications for us, small regional newspapers, while boosting the heavyweights of the industry and leaving everyone else to scrap for the tidbits that remain.

While we’ve stuck true to our traditional values, some of our more powerful and wealthy contemporaries have neglected the values of a good newspaper and shied away from the community aspect of their news.

They’ve instead focused more on the click bait and worried about the big news, all the while ignoring the good stuff out there in their regions that make things tick over.

Yet it seems possible that they will be rewarded for doing that while those of us who have continued, or at least tried to continue to do what we’ve done for decades, may get little more than a pat on the back and thanks for holding things up while the others strayed off course.

Winston Peters said that regional news is as important as a hospital and as important as a school.

Let’s hope he remembers that when it comes time to discuss the options and doesn’t ignore the beating heart of an industry that at times is struggling to see just a few feet in front of them.

On behalf of myself, and the entire team here at the Guardian, I want to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers, advertisers and supporters as well as the entire district best wishes for the final few hours of 2019 and into 2020.

We can’t wait to bring you the news of this incredible wee district we call home for another year and look forward to sharing more wonderful stories of the achievements and efforts of you all.

Let’s make it a year to remember.

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A huge year for local democracy

Looking back on 2019, there is much to reflect on for our community, and not all of it I can mention in just a few paragraphs, but I’d like to touch on a few things.

It’s been a big year for local democracy and representation, with a new term of council elected in October and the introduction of livestreamed council meetings.

I am proud to be serving alongside a group of dedicated, capable and eager elected members. Everyone is settling in well into their new roles and I have enjoyed getting to meet other mayors from around the country and getting on with the business at hand.

Residents now have even more access to see this first-hand, as we began livestreaming the meetings this year, which I’m very pleased is available.

There have been several projects that have advanced or been completed over the last

bring some level of certainty and closure, and for those who are suffering, perhaps a time of healing.

Thank you to everyone who has stepped up this year to help those in need, for providing support, rejecting hatred and showing our true community spirit. These selfless acts of caring are probably what I am most proud of.

I hope you are staying safe and enjoying this time with friends and family, and I look forward to working with you all in the New Year to make the Ashburton District an even greater place.

Neil Brown

MAYOR’S MESSAGE

12 months that are helping to improve our district. Several notable projects include the Ashburton Cemetery extension, plans to rejuvenate Ashburton’s town centre, the much-needed upgrades to the Rakaia Salmon site and the new Ashburton River Crossing and Pump Station that will future-proof the town’s wastewater network for many years to come.

While there have been many wonderful achievements and improvements this year, 2019 has undoubtedly been a tough time for many. Mycoplasma bovis has brought a great deal of stress

and uncertainty for our farmers; we’ve experienced terrible losses on our roads; and of course we will never forget the devastation of the Christchurch Mosque

attacks on March 15.

My thoughts continue to be with those impacted by these awful events.

My hope is that 2020 will

The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

A productive year of council delivery

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wenty-nineteen has been a productive year for the Ashburton District Council as we’ve worked to deliver upgrades and core services for the community.

In addition to our usual services and activities, we’ve worked hard to improve important infrastructure, plan ahead for growth in our district, attract investment and do our best to make the Ashburton District an even greater place to live, work and play.

We have completed an important extension of the Ashburton Cemetery on Seafield Road, which ensures that the town’s burial and remembrance needs will be met for the next 40 years.

Additional land earmarked for work will extend this to 80 years.

Plans are progressing for the $1 million Rakaia Salmon site upgrades. New toilets, lighting, playground equipment and signage will really help revamp this space and ensure the facilities can continue to meet visitors’

Hamish Riach CEO’S MESSAGE

and residents’ needs.

Earlier in the year, residents helped us to decide on the budget for the new Ashburton Library and Civic Centre, and it was very pleasing to see so many people having their say on such an important community asset.

The site on the corner of Havelock Street and Baring Square East has been cleared and work is progressing on the designs.

Roading has continued to be one of our biggest priorities.

Some notable projects undertaken this year were upgrading a 5.15km section of Poplar Road outside Hinds from shingle to seal, rehabilitating 700m of Beach Road in Ashburton, and

rehabilitating a 550m section of Seafield Road, just to name a few.

Looking ahead, there are a few exciting projects and activities on the horizon for the New Year.

The physical work to revitalise the Ashburton CBD streetscape will kick off in early 2020, which is intended to help reinforce the

importance of the CBD and attract businesses back into town.

There is also the 2020 national Sister Cities Conference awhich is coming to Ashburton in April.

This major event poses great potential for investment and opportunities, plus the economic benefit of people coming to stay

and spend in our district.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has worked with the council these last 12 months to make our district a great place; from the mayor, councillors and staff, to government agencies, businesses and community groups and volunteers, to our advisors, contractors and suppliers, and of course to all residents right across our district who have taken the time to provide important feedback, whether through formal consultations or reporting issues to us.

Your contributions make a big difference.

I hope 2020 has great things in store for you and your family.

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Opening the jar on 2019

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here’s a couple of things unique to this time of year. The stress and fun of Christmas out of the way, perhaps some anticipation and planning of New Year’s Eve festivities, it’s easy to lose track of what day of the week it is.

The other, and I’m sure I’m not alone, is the theme that seems to fill my Facebook feed: “Uggh, 2019 was the worst, bring on 2020.”

The “New Year, New Me” phenomenon is a pretty common reaction to natural human traits: always seeking improvement, and a propensity to remember the negative experiences much more than the positive.

The internet, that trove of wonderful ideas that few people ever seem to put into practice, suggests writing a positive thing about each day and popping it into a large jar. At the end of the year you open the jar and look back on the good things that happened.

There will be challenges next year. Whether they be natural disasters like earthquakes or eruptions, catastrophes of flooding or fire, or damage done by a fellow human, in all those tragedies we can find a small piece of solace, something that keeps us going until better days.

Days when we celebrate the normal things, the weddings, the birthdays, the time spent with loved ones.

The things that we cherish but all too quickly gloss over when we try to remember.

Here’s to more of those days, and better memories ahead.

Bring on 2020.

Andrew Falloon

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As I sat down in a similar process to write this column a couple of days before New Year’s Eve, to recall the year we’ve had, the two things that squeezed out almost all positivity were the tragic events that effectively bookended 2019: the March 15 attacks in Christchurch, and the tragedy on Whakaari/White Island just a few weeks ago.

Although quite different, both stunned our sense of safety and triggered a state of national grief.

But as with all things, there was hope. Events like the vigil in the Ashburton Domain, just a few days after the Mosque attacks, where we expressed our sorrow

but made clear that hate would not divide us.

Or the open day at the Mosque in Ashburton, where I got help from local garden centres to help plant a community garden as a lasting symbol of our district’s support.

We’ve seen that community

spirit again more recently with flooding and the closure of both bridges over the Rangitata River.

Of people across the district opening their doors to complete strangers, offering a bed, a meal, or even just a bathroom stop as they made their way through town.

Andrew Falloon is the MP for Rangitata. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

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■■ SELWYN

There’s more to come in 2020

Goodbye to 2019 and welcome to 2020

Jo Luxton

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s we pack down our decorations and finish up the Christmas Day leftovers, our minds begin to turn to the year ahead, to goals, hopes and perhaps a resolution here and there. Before we do that, I’d like to take some time to reflect a little on the year that has been 2019.

From creating jobs, protecting our environment, fixing hospitals, making homes healthy and warm – it has been a busy year for this Government. We have passed more legislation than any Government in recent history – with 74 Bills passed during 2019.

Locally we have seen Provincial Growth Fund announcements, mental health funding for Three Rivers and a visit from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to announce the rebuild of Ashburton College. I am committed to Rangitata getting our fair share, and have recently written to Minister Phil Twyford about the urgency of widening the Rakaia Bridge.

Just this month we have seen an unprecedented $12 billion infrastructure package announced. We know the books are in good shape, and this is the best time to take action. We’ll be putting $8 billion into transport, decarbonising state assets, continuing to fix up our hospitals and revitalising regional opportunities. Not to forget the already announced a one-off spend for almost every state school in the country, including $6 million for local Mid Canterbury schools.

This has been a big year for our New Zealand Police. Another 60 police officers have recently graduated and are being deployed to the frontline just in time for the busy summer months; eight of those

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I here in Canterbury. This sets a new record for police, with 854 graduates for 2019. We are training police at double the rate of previous years, and also setting records of diversity of the workforce. This year 37 per cent of new officers are women, the highest proportion ever.

A recently announced increase of the minimum wage rate has been well-received, and will see a quarter of a million New Zealand workers receive $18.90 an hour from April 2020. This will boost wages by $306 million a year across the country and the flow on effect means this is an investment in local economies where workers spend their wages.

It’s been a year of delivery, and there is more to come in 2020. I can’t wait to get back into it.

Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

hope this column finds you all well and recovered from eating too much ham, turkey or pavlova over Christmas.

It is now that time when we close the door on 2019 and look ahead to 2020 with hope and anticipation. I know that some people like to make New Year’s resolutions (often to do with drinking less alcohol, losing weight and exercising more). If you are one of these people, I wish you every success in sticking to your plan.

Unfortunately our current Government has not done a very good job of sticking to its financial plan and as my former colleague Steven Joyce wrote in a column just prior to Christmas, they are rather like a person who just isn’t good with their money and, despite having a good income, ends up constantly maxing out their credit card.

After having inherited massive surpluses and strong growth, the Government has blown them in two years and we are now facing a deficit, weak growth and growing debt with nothing to show for it.

Let us hope that the Government will at least use some of the money it has borrowed for infrastructure projects to do a U-turn and decide to fund the Christchurch Southern Motorway extension from Ashburton to Rolleston.

Also on my wishlist for Selwyn this year is that we receive enough rain over January and February to reduce the risk of fires in our region but not so much as to put a dampener on outdoor holiday plans.

One of my hopes for the whole of New Zealand for 2020 (aside from a change of Government of course!) is that we manage to avoid tragedies such as the mosque shootings and White Island eruption which occurred this year.

I wish you all a happy and safe New Year.

Amy Adams is the MP for Selwyn.

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In brief

Working hard to keep you safe M

id Canterbury Police wish to take this opportunity to wish all those in the district a safe and happy new year 2020.

2019 bought with it tragedy in the form of two homicides and a number of deaths on the road.

Deaths in our community have a far reaching impact and we work hard to keep people safe in our communities.

To those who lost a loved one this year, whether on the roads or through crime, we are thinking of you over the holidays and hope you have support and whanau around you.

2019 also bought with it a refresh to the district’s police staff.

This year has seen an influx of 17 staff either new to the job

straight from Police College or experienced members from out of the district.

The mix of young and experienced staff lends itself to high excitement and expectations for the policing service and capability in the year to come.

It has been a pleasure to serve the community in 2019 and on behalf of the police, I wish to thank the people of Mid Canterbury for the high level of support police receive.

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New Year’s Eve revellers will be able to ring in the New Year under clear starry skies tonight.

Morning cloud is set to clear, with temperatures climbing to 26 degrees today. Tomorrow, Ashburton kicks off 2020, alongside Blenheim, as being the hottest place in the country, basking in 34 degrees, which is more than 10 degrees above average for this time of the year.

MetService meteorologist Andy Best said there would be a large ridge of high pressure building over Aotearoa from New Year’s Eve onwards. However, evening showers and southerlies are forecast to move in on Thursday, and by Saturday maximum temperatures drop to the teens.

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Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins.

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New Year nightmares Peter Livingstone OUT OF SCHOOL

Ahead of the countdown to 2020 a community organisation has issued a warning about high-dose MDMA pills that contain up to three doses in a single pill. KnowYourStuffNZ has identified several high-potency pills in testing this summer season, which are likely to be found around the country over the holiday period. “These pills should be approached with caution.

Users are advised that the only way to guarantee safety is to not take them,” the KnowYourStuffNZ website says. “For those who do choose to take them, our recommendation is to only take a third of a pill at most, and wait at least an hour before considering taking any more.”

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DHB decision slammed

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ip Christmas was over and we had completed the required stay with the in-laws before we headed out camping in Taupo for New Year’s.

Being recently married we had the two unmistakeable features of a young couple. The freedom of no kids and the bank balance of a Robert Jones investor after the ’87 crash.

We borrowed all the gear, a dome tent designed for pygmies, an airbed manufactured from a World War Two life raft and a pump that was a cross between one of those dynamite detonators from a cartoon and an asthmatic piano accordion.

We set off from Thames in a 1979 Mitsuibishi Lancer – the four-door model in bright orange and meandered our way south to Taupo, to the resort of De Bretts Thermal Springs!

Upon arrival we duly set up camp and I always had the task of pumping up the airbed. This was achieved with a sheen of sweat and a strange squeaking sound from the pump, in the heat of the day I took no notice and got the bed set up.

The tent was the deluxe model with a vestibule and was in true ’80s colours of pink and blue.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful save for a gorgeous red Stingray Corvette that slunk into the campground, driven by an older gentleman and accompanied by a younger, attractive woman.

I jealously eyed up the car as they set up camp next to us, and wished teaching paid more so that I could afford one.

Then night fell. As the camp settled in and the last coughs

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and sneezes died in the night, we drifted off into a Baileys-induced slumber.

A little while later, it became obvious that the couple next door were getting to know each other and of course being in tents, the sound carried.

My wife and I got the giggles and had to endure 12 and a half minutes of laugh suppressing agony until their happy coupling drew to its final conclusion. I decided 12 minutes wasn’t too bad for the old guy.

Again we settled in and drifted off. I don’t know when, but I began to dream I was being tortured on a bed of nails to the sound of a thousand hissing cobras. Slowly climbing through the fog of a deep sleep, I woke to discover the nightmare of campers – the airbed had gone down.

Waking up my better half, we decided to inflate it, hoping it was a slow leak. Quieter than a cat on carpet, I retrieved the pump and began to inflate.

Now I had never paid any attention to the odd sounds the pump made when using it during the day. But in the summer

night stillness of a tent, it directly mimicked the poetry of passion that emanated earlier from the Corvette couple next door, but in a minor key.

In the shadowy torch light, it only took one look from my wife for us to dissolve. Each upward and downward thrust was triumphantly trumpeted through thin tent walls.

I tried slowing my pace, but this merely added the sound of a cat gargling. I quickened the tempo only to discover a higher note could be heard, like the whistle through a pensioner’s false teeth.

For what seemed an eternity but turned out to be less than three minutes, we gave up. A quick decision was made for her to remain in the tent and sleep on every towel, sweatshirt and other soft item we could find.

I was to have the luxury of the back seat of the ’79 Lancer.

Long after morning had dawned and the car was verging on suffocating me under the summer sun, I awoke, a cramped, sweaty, dribble-frommouth hapless husband.

Disembarking from the car I stretched in a series of poses, ironing out the kinks. My eyes were closed against the glare of the daylight. When I finally opened them, I caught sight of the old guy sitting on a small deckchair, having his morning coffee.

There was a hint of triumph in his morning smile and greeting.

What was going through his mind I wonder? Did he think that I was so bad after three minutes I was banished to the car?!

I didn’t want to engage in eye contact and hurriedly entered the tent to discover my beautiful wife still blissfully asleep. Grabbing my wallet I left, slipped back into the car and went looking for some camping mattresses to buy.

Stuff the budget, I was getting the deluxe model!

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

An Auckland District Health Board doctor is slamming her bosses online for scrapping tea and coffee for patients’ family in what she says is a bid to cut costs.

“Seriously the one thing we were ever able to offer distressed family members was a cuppa at a time of crisis,” neuro and general medicine doctor Vivian Fu said on Twitter.

The DHB acknowledged a tea and coffee station on a neurology ward hadn’t been set up for “a period of time” but said a temporary measure was in place while the issue was being sorted. “We’d like to reassure people that we’ve made no changes to our policy and we are continuing to provide tea and coffee to whānau and visitors,” a DHB spokeswoman said. - NZME

Two found dead Residents of a quiet Auckland street where a man and woman were found dead and a child was critically injured have expressed shock and disbelief at the tragic events. A resident Raj Singh saw the many police cars on his street yesterday, followed by an officer knocking at his door. An inspector told him two people were deceased, and a child had been taken to Starship Hospital, he said.

Police confirmed two bodies – that of a woman and a man – had been discovered after officers arrived at the home at 9.50am. Another neighbour said the victims had been home for Christmas and the high-energy little boy had played with his Christmas toys. “He got a new bike. He was a full-on little boy.” The circumstances of the deaths and exactly how the two people died and how the boy was injured are not known.

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The New Zealand Order of Merit DNZM To be Dames Companion of the said Order: Dr Anna Louisa de Launey Crighton, QSO, JP, for services to heritage preservation and governance Ms Noeline Taurua, for services to netball Professor Marilyn Joy Waring, CNZM, for services to women and economics

KNZM To be Knights Companion of the said Order: Mr Stephen William Hansen, CNZM, for services to rugby Mr Robert George Martin, MNZM, for services to people with disabilities The Honourable Joseph Victor Williams, for services to the judiciary

CNZM To be Companions of the said Order: Mr John Daniel Barnett, ONZM, for services to film and television Professor Richard Dodgshun Bedford, QSO, for services to governance Mr Robert James Campbell, for services to governance and business Dr Jennifer Barbara Carryer, MNZM, for services to health, particularly nursing Mr Antony John Carter, for services to business governance Gillian, Lady Deane, for services to philanthropy, particularly for rare disorders, the arts and youth Ms Helen Mary Heffernan, for services to health Dr Frances Anne Hughes, ONZM, JP, for services to mental health and nursing Ms Rachael Le Mesurier, for services to governance, the community and health Mr Donald Evan Murray MacCormick, for services to health, particularly surgery

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Dr Michael Edward Matthews, for services to food technology and the food industry Mr John Walter McKinnon, QSO, for services to New Zealand-China relations Mr Roger John Moses, ONZM, for services to education Ms Helen Joan Plume, for services to the environment Dr Edward Ward, for services to intensive care practice Dr Dianne Rosemary Webster, QSO, for services to health, particularly paediatrics

ONZM To be Officers of the said Order: Ms Priscilla Jane Askew, for services to music Ms Jan Patricia Bolwell, for services to dance and theatre Ms Lydia Pounamu Bradey, for services to mountaineering Mr Murray Ernest Cammick, for services to the music industry Mrs Elizabeth Jane Clark, for services to gymnastics Associate Professor Hendrika Martine Crezee, for services to interpreter and translator education Mr Grant Thomas Crothers, for services to Tokelau and the fishing industry Dr John Wayne Delahunt, for services to endocrinology and the transgender community Ms Margaret Hine Forsyth, for services to netball and the community Mr Graeme William Gale, for services to aviation and conservation Mrs Rosslyn Ann Gale, for services to aviation and conservation Mr William Morris Gosden, MNZM, for services to the film industry Ms Karyn Lee Maxwell Hay, for services to broadcasting and the music industry Mr Michael Hopkinson, for services to kayaking and outdoor education Dr Harvey Eshkol Indyk, for services to analytical chemistry and the dairy industry Ms Susan Jane Kedgley, for services to women and governance Mr Anthony Francis Kokshoorn, for services to local government and the community Ms Laura Robyn Langman, for services to netball

Helen Plume

Dr George William Mason, for services to conservation, philanthropy and the community Mr Paul McGill, for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand Mrs Amanda Elizabeth Anngold McIntosh, for services to early childhood education Ms Annette Margaret Milligan, for services to health, particularly nursing Mr Robert Narev, MNZM, for services to the community and education Ms Ranui Ngarimu, for services to Maori art and culture, particularly weaving Mr Shaun Michael Norman, for services to mountaineering, alpine safety and the community Dr Keith William Ovenden, for services to the arts Miss Susan Diana Price, for services to literature and philanthropy Mrs Lynden Ann Sainsbury, for services to philanthropy and the community Ms Mary Gemma Schumacher, for services to palliative care Emeritus Professor Warwick Bruce Silvester, for services to science and conservation Ms Suzanne Mary Sinclair, for services to the community and governance Mr Stephen John Tew, for services to rugby and sports administration Reverend Nove Vailaau, for services to the Samoan community Mr Shayne William Walker, for services to fostering children and social work Mr Anthony Gordon Wilding, for services to the dairy industry and the community Mr Gary Ross Wilson, for services to Maori and Pacific journalism and broadcasting

MNZM To be Members of the said Order: Dr Anne Bardsley, for services to science and the State Mr Peter Richard Barker, for services to the community Ms Gillian Margaret Bibby, for services to music education Miss Lauren Marie Boyle, for services to swimming Mrs Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows, for services to Tongan art and education Mr George Leonard Burt, for services to Maori

and broadcasting Ms Susan Mary Cameron (Susan Boland), for services to music and seniors Mrs Marilyn Joy Cassidy, for services to dance Mr Gerben Willem Cath, for services to the screen industry and education Mr George Sheung Hung Chan, for services to philanthropy and the community Mr John Anthony Chemis, for services to education Mr Michael Anthony Chopping, for services to the electrical industry Dr David Anthony Codyre, for services to mental health Mrs Naomi Frances Cowan, for services to mental health and the community Mr Roy James Cowley, for services to charity governance and the arts Ms Kathleen Mary Craig, for services to music and music education Mr Paul Emlyn Crowther, for services to music Ms Julia Samantha Durkin, for services to photography Mrs Carrol Margaret Elliott, for services to nursing and the community Ms Janine Ewan, for services to palliative care Mrs Judith Grace Geare, for services to language education and New Zealand-Germany relations Mr John Grant Gibson, for services to rugby league Ms Parris Renee Goebel, for services to dance Ms Carole Erna Gordon, for services to seniors Ms Louise Mary Green, for services to education Dr Aroha Gaylene Harris, for services to Maori and historical research Ms Arneta Honey Hireme, for services to rugby league Mrs Jenn Maree Hooper, for services to maternity care and people with disabilities Ms Penelope Anne Hulse, for services to local government Reverend Dr Helen Elizabeth Jacobi, for services to the Anglican church and the community Mr William John Kerrison, for services to river and wildlife conservation Professor Ngaire Margaret Kerse, for services to seniors and health Mrs Jennifer Sabina Khan-Janif, for services to refugee and migrant communities

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Lealamanu’a Aiga Caroline Mareko, for services to the Pacific community and education Mr Dennis Te Uhi Marsh, for services to music and fundraising Associate Professor Humaira Moeed, for services to science education and the community Ms Ruth Suzanne Money, for services to victim advocacy Mrs Linley May Myers, for services to education Mrs Jennifer Ann Noble, for services to health, particularly research for rare diseases Mr Graeme Frederick North, for services to architecture and natural building standards Mr Donald Peter O’Connor, for services to motorsport Mr Patrick Leo Michael O’Connor, for services to migrant communities and education Ms Tamsin Orr-Walker, for services to kea conservation Mrs Yvonne Shirley Ann Palmer, QSM, for services to seniors and the community Mr Geoffrey Robert Pearman, for services to seniors and business Mr Hadleigh Jayton Richard Pierson, for services to paralympic sport Mr Kim Leslie Robinson, for services to the deaf community Mr Donald William Scarlet, for services to conservation Mr Grant William Rowan Sidaway, for services to seniors and ICT education Senior Sergeant Bryan Martin Smith, for services to the New Zealand Police and the community Ms Pauline Alice Roycroft Stansfield, for services to people with disabilities Mr Clayton Trevor Arthur Stent, for services to the community and governance Mrs Jennifer Ann Thompson, for services to amputees and horticulture Miss Sonia Faiga Tiatia, for services to hospitality and youth Mr Tiatia Ieti Fale Tiatia, for services to sport and the Samoan community Mrs Marama Amiria Tuuta, for services to Maori and education Mrs Wendy Joy Ure, for services to early childhood education Mrs Lucy Whittingham (Lucy Addison), for services to the deafblind community Mr Gordon Alan Wilson, for services to education

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Mr David Philip Wright, for services to biodynamic agriculture Mr Paul Dudley Wright, for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the forestry industry

The Queen’s Service Order QSO To be Companions of the said Order: Mr Gary John Dickson, for services to search and rescue Dr John Morgan Williams, for services to the State and the environment

The Queen’s Service Medal QSM Mrs Kataraina Kathy Allen, for services to the community Mr Peter Leicester Ayson, OStJ, for services to the community Mrs Jaylene Viki Ball, for services to Maori and the community Mr Rodney Elliott Brown, for services to conservation Mrs Kathleen Anne Burford, for services to migrant and refugee women and crafts Mr Stephen Michael Bush, for services to environmental rejuvenation Mrs Diane Elizabeth Cleverley, for services to the community and music Mr Norman Rodney Crawshaw, for services to the community and sport Ms Barbara Alison Elizabeth Cuthbert, for services to cycling and transport advocacy The Reverend Ngaire Glenys Davis, for services to the community Mr Panapa Stewart Davis, for services to the community Mr David Malcolm Denton, for services to outdoor recreation and youth Mrs Mairi Patricia Dickson, JP, for services to the community Mrs Barbara Joan Dixon, for services to the community Reverend Leslie Norman Dixon, MStJ, for services to the community

Mrs Patricia Anne Flutey, JP, for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and the community Mrs Shirley Frew, for services to textile crafts and the community Dr Alison Heather Gaston, for services to health and health education Mr Roger Francis Gilbert, for services to sport and historical research Mr Kenneth Alan Hamilton, for services to athletics and youth Sister Sally Catherine Hannan, for services to the community Mr Allan John Hedley, for services to the community Ms Veranoa Angelique Hetet, for services to Maori art Mr Lehi Hohaia, for services to the New Zealand Police and Maori Ms Suzanne Jane Hori Te Pa, for services to the Pacific community and youth Mr Andrew John, for services to conservation and education Mr David Stuart Jones, for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand Mr Rex Graham Kirk, deceased. Her Majesty’s approval of this award took effect on 22 October 2019, prior to the date of decease, for services to the community and sport Mrs Carrell Mary Knight, fFor services to lawn bowls Reverend Evan Hope Lagaluga, for services to the Niuean community Mr Petrus Wilhemus Martens, for services to football Mrs Beryl Joy Maultby, for services to the community Mrs Philippa Elizabeth McCann, for services to the Blind Foundation Ms Lisa Claire McLaren, for services to climate change advocacy Mr James Peter Muir, for services to the community Mrs Kolovula Murphy, for services to Tongan and Pacific communities Mr Robert William Norling, for services to railway heritage and the community Mr Terence Patrick O’Neill, for services to sports journalism Mr Turangapito Parata, for services to Maori, health and youth Mr Lui Ponifasio, for services to the Pacific community

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Mrs Mereane Ponifasio, for services to the Pacific community Ms Hellen Puhipuhi, for services to the Pacific community and education Mr Murray Thomas Purvis, for services to the community and tennis Mr John Taylor Reed, for services to the community Mr Bruce Douglas Russell, JP, for services to the community Mrs Cushla Alison Scrivens, for services to historical research and heritage preservation Mr Harjit Singh, for services to the Indian community and seniors Mrs Jean McLean Stanley, for services to conservation Mrs Rosemary Margaret Stott, for services to music Mrs Barbara Florence Stuart, for services to conservation Mr Teremoana Tauira, for services to the Pacific community Mr John Scott Taylor, for services to the community Mrs Barbara Mary Thompson, for services to the community and women Mrs Leonie Mavis Tisch, for services to health and the community Ms Gillian Ruth Vaughan, for services to wildlife conservation Mr Terence Archibald Wade, for services to scouting, education and the community Ms Robyn Coralie Watchorn, JP, for services to the community and art

HONORARY Reverend Kalolo Fihaki, for services to the Tongan community

The New Zealand Distinguished Service Decoration DSD Group Captain Michael James Cannon, NZBM, for services to the New Zealand Defence Force

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August 2019 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.

While there was no snow, Methven received significant rainfall during August some of which caused surface flooding around the township.

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Ashburton Canvas fabricator Tom Marriott was recognised as the top apprentice in his trade.

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Summer singing The mountain snow came to Methven and hundreds braved the elements for now the White Out festival held in the township, inschool in session cluding many people who tried their luck on the rail jam.

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If you’re on your way past the Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week, keep an ear out for the hard-working vocal chords of 149 Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School (MCSSS) students.

The group launched into a week of practice yesterday before they bring a musical theatre production to the stage on Friday and Saturday.

It’s the biggest production yet for the MCSSS, which has been operating each January for 18 years and is musically helmed

by Ashburton singing tutor Jo Castelow.

“We now have people from all over, from as far as Timaru and Christchurch, and each time brings a new mix of voices,” said Castelow.

Some singers have been involved in the week-long course for more than 10 years, she said,

while more than half of this year’s PHOTO junior group are newcomers.

The group range in age from 9 to 21 years and includes members of NAZDA and first-year university students.

This year’s production is themed Time Travellers and will cover musical theatre and tunes from across the ages – from My Fair Lady and Bing Crosby to recent hits like Hamilton and Moana, along with everything in between, Castelow said. “Among the juniors everyone knows the songs from Moana, but they find that they love singing the older ones just as much,” she said.

And not only does the theme provide something for everyone in the audience, she said, but gives the young singers the opportunity to learn about various musicals. The group received their music a month ago, and auditioned for solo positions on unSunday. They are currently un dergoing two days of musical

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A number of older buildings around the Ashburton District will shortly be sporting signs that spell out how they rank against new building standards.

As part of the on-going drive to ensure all buildings will be earthquake safe, the Ashburton District Council will be sending signs to owners of buildings built prior to 1976 and will be asking them to display those signs prominently on the outside of their property.

The public notification is part of the council’s drive to ensure every older building has been inspected by engineers and that where required, strengthen-

ing work is either carried out or planned in the future.

It’s been a long process getting to this point, council building services manager Michael Wong said, but the placard templates had now arrived and these would be sent to property owners over the next month.

The placards would serve a two fold purpose – making the public aware of a building’s compliance level and encouraging owners to carry out necessary strengthening work.

Wong anticipates there will be about 150 sent out in February to owners of non-compliant buildings.

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Three 80-minute performances of Time Travellers will take place on Friday night, Saturday after-

and that dramatically reduced the number of buildings coming into the net locally.

If a building is required to have THE a placard displayed it will contain information on the percentage it complies with building standards and the year with which it will need to be strengthened to come up to code, Wong said.

Older buildings that have been assessed and found to be up to strength or that have already been strengthened will not need to display placards.

Details on the placard-bearing buildings will be held on a public register with the Ministry of Building and this is accessible to anyone.

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already assessed. Then we’ll do another desk top review and pick up the ones we may have missed and we’ll work with them,” he said.

Buildings that have not been assessed will be given the lowest rating until an assessment is done, Wong said.

There had been a proposal to change the rules so the cut-off date for engineering assessment would have moved forward to cover all buildings built before 2004 and that would have seen hundreds of buildings around the district bearing stickers, he said.

The consultation process ensured there was no date change

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Ashburton College principal Ross Preece told former students and teachers about plans to replace the school’s leaky Blibrary.

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Getting pitch perfect for their production later this week are Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School students (from left): Lucy Clough, EJ Stockman, Emily-Jane Farr and Annah Casey-Solly. practice, before director Alice Sollis steps in to help with the actions from Wednesday onwards.

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noon and Saturday night at the Event Centre, with tickets now available from Ticket Direct.

Honesty boxes targeted From P1 Near Methven, Lucy Raisbeck’s free range egg stall was also burgled on Sunday night.

While taking out the bins yesterday morning, she said she noticed that the security camera had been taken and the padlock had been cut off from her honesty box.

All money had been cleared from the box before the theft, but Raisbeck said she was still gutted to discover the break-in, which she presumes is the work of people “who don’t care about other people”.

However, with new security methods for Raisbeck and an ultra-secure honesty box for Billie, both stalls are continuing to operate.

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Te Araroa walkers are on the rise, benefiting the summer tourism industry in Methven.

Many who do the 3000-kilometre trail, which runs the length of New Zealand, end up in the ski town, as it is a natural resting point near the uncrossable Rakaia River.

Methven i-SITE consultant Lyndsay Agnew said December to February was peak season for trail walkers, and she was assisting about half a dozen per week.

“Most of them are doing the whole trail or the whole South Island, depending on how much time they have got,” she said.

“They are really interesting people, you have to be a certain breed to want to go and walk 3000 kilometres.”

They mostly came from Europe and North America, and walked north to south, hitch-hiking into Methven from above Lake Coleridge. They generally stayed in the campground or backpacker lodges in Methven.

“It’s nice to have them here and they spread the word when they go back,” she said.

Walkers rejoin the trail on Blackford Road in the Rakaia Gorge, and Methven Travel provides transport on the “empty” section of its school bus run, and operates an on-demand shuttle service in school holidays.

The Te Araroa section through Mid Canterbury goes from here to the Hakatere Heron Road, taking a public access easement over Glenariffe Station, then crossing the 60,000-hectare Hakatere Conservation Park.

Among those undertaking Te Araroa is American Clayton Beckett. His trail name is Chef, he has a travel blog at chefspecial5.com and is from Connecticut.

The 26-year-old is walking the South Island section, south to north, and was in Methven at the weekend. He said he ended up staying two nights instead of one at Snow Denn Lodge because he needed the rest, and the fact it of-

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fered a Hikers’ Special made it all the more attractive.

“My feet were pretty banged up, so I decided to hang out for just one more day,” Beckett said.

He flew into Auckland in midDecember, and had his cellphone stolen in his first two days. He flew to Queenstown and shuttled to the southern end of Te Araroa at Bluff, and walked 555 kilometres north to Twizel over the next fortnight, staying in high country huts and his tent. With last week’s storm system forecast he decided to skip the next section and he

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hitchhiked to Methven, and left at the weekend aiming to hitch to north of Lake Coleridge to resume the trail.

Beckett said the trail to date had had many river crossings, and some mountainous terrain, as well as farm tracks and dirt roads.

Besides the road walks, which he did not like as they lacked the wilderness appeal of true trail walking, and a lack of markers in some areas, he was enjoying the scenery and meeting lots of people.

Of the few fellow hikers he had met, most were walking north to

south. “A lot of Kiwis don’t even know about the trail,” Beckett said.

He was not worried about being without a cellphone.

“If you don’t have service it’s not going to help you and you are not going to get that in the mountains,” he said.

He was confident enough from previous trail walking in Chile and America not to worry about an emergency locator beacon.

In the 12 months to July last year, 550 people walked the full length from Cape Reinga to Bluff,

compared to 350 in 201 and 210 the year before.

Te Araroa Trust chairma vid McGregor said the trail, takes five months to com and officially opened in 201 attracting people from all w life.

“From students and youn ple taking a gap year to r and workers taking an ext holiday.

“It’s a great way to conne New Zealand and to really know the landscapes, peop climate,” McGregor said.

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Sue Hutchinson, services manager at Presbyterian Support and Donna Collins, shop manager for St Vincent de Paul received curtains from Altrusa International of Ashburton president, Rosemary Moore and member Isabell Page. Using curtain material donated to the service club’s fabric bazaars, members had turned it into 93 curtains of various sizes which were then to Presbyterian Support and St Vincent de Paul.

Right – Ashburton’s Dave O’Donnell clocked up more than 25 years as a rural firefighter. His long career was recognised when he was presented with the 25-year gold star at a ceremony at the Lakehouse at Lake Hood.

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Black ice was believed to have been the cause of a crash between a truck and a car which closed the Rakaia River bridge and saw the truck cab plummet to the riverbed below.

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Methven canines and their owners eagerly awaited entry into Methven’s new dog park as Methven Community Board chairman Dan McLaughlin prepared to officially open the facility.

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A time to give thanks . . .

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’ve touched on a few reflections from the 2019 calendar year further forward in today’s paper, but as I sign off for the year and get ready to head away for a few days, it’s always nice to pay thanks as well.

2019 has been a huge year for the Guardian.

A huge year in terms of change, a huge year in terms of celebration and a huge year in terms of news from in and around the Ashburton District and there’s a team of people here, and out there in the community who make it happen who we are indebted to.

First off to the staff of the Guardian.

Whether you be reporters, pho-

tographers, sub-editors, graphic design artists, app administrators, sales representatives, circulation managers, delivery drivers, administration or our awesome after-school kids – thank you.

You roll in here each day and get the job done. We throw changes and new challenges at you each and every day and you handle them with skill and professionalism, you should be proud.

To our fiercely loyal advertisers, whether you be new clients during 2019 or those who have been with us for many years, thank you.

We rely on the support of advertising to make our paper work, and we’re lucky to have such businesses and business owners who throw their faith in us to help deliver their product, alongside our own.

And last, but certainly not least it’s a big thank you to all of you.

Newspapers only survive with people who read them, and we’re lucky because we have a loyal bunch of readers who each and every day get their news fix from within our pages, or on our website or even through our social

media channels or the Ashburton app.

We’re reaching further than we’ve ever reached before, with a recent survey conducted showing our reach each week into the Mid Canterbury region to surpass 30,000 – a notable figure.

But we can’t do that without your support and your trust in us to deliver the news to you.

Then there’s those of you who help us fill the pages by telling us your stories. Or by sharing your knowledge on a host of different subjects. We know we’re annoying some times, but the time you give us is always valued and plays a huge part in the Guardian each and every day.

So, on behalf of everyone else

here, thank you. We’re nothing without the community we live in.

We’ve seen some tragedy, dealt with some pretty heavy blows and come together in a united front during the past 12 months and while it’s been a year of change, the future looks bright for our little district and we’ve got plenty to look forward to.

It’s a privilege to be just a small cog in the wheel that produces the Ashburton Guardian six days a week, for 52 weeks of the year and the daily challenge that is met with absolute passion and excitement and I’m already looking forward to seeing what the next 12 months brings.

Happy New Year to you all.

39-year-old son of the late Sen Robert F Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.

In 2001, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spent his final day in office praising police, firefighters, and other city employees in the wake of 9/11, and said he had no regrets about returning to private life.

Ten years ago: A lone gunman dressed in black killed five people in Espoo, Finland, four of them at a crowded shopping mall, before returning home and taking his own life.

Five years ago: A stampede at Shanghai’s glitzy riverfront during

New Year celebrations resulted in 36 deaths.

One year ago: Despite some New Year’s Eve gains, stocks finished 2018 with their worst yearly showing in a decade; the S&P 500 ended the year 6.2 per cent lower than where it began. House Democrats unveiled a package of bills that would re-open the federal government without approved funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico; Trump, meanwhile, told Fox News Channel that he was “ready, willing and able” to negotiate an end to the partial shutdown that had stretched into its 10th day.

Today’s birthdays: TV producer George Schlatter is 90. Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is 82. Actor Tim Considine is 79. Actress Sarah Miles is 78. Actress Barbara Carrera is 78. Rock musician Andy Summers is 77. Actor Sir Ben Kingsley is 76. Producer-director Taylor Hackford is 75. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is 73. Actor Tim Matheson is 72.

Pop singer Burton Cummings is 72. Actor Joe Dallesandro is 71.

Rock musician Tom Hamilton is 68. Actor James Remar is 66.

Actress Bebe Neuwirth is 61.

Actor Val Kilmer is 60. Singer Paul Westerberg is 60. Actor Don Diamont is 57. Rock musician Ric

Ivanisevich is 57. Rock musician Scott Ian is 56. Actress Gong Li is 54. Author Nicholas Sparks is 54. Actor Lance Reddick is 50.

Pop singer Joe McIntyre is 47.

Rock musician Mikko Siren is 44.

Rapper PSY is 42. Rock musician Bob Bryar is 40. Rock musician Jason Sechrist is 40. Actor Ricky Whittle is 40. Actor/singer Erich Bergen is 34. DJ/vocalist Drew Taggart is 30.

Thought for today: “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to!”

– William E Vaughan, American newspaper columnist (1915-1977).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, December 31, the 365th and final day of 2019.

Today’s highlight in history: On December 31, 1986, 97 people were killed when fire broke out in the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

On this date: In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, the British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec; Montgomery was killed.

In 1853, Sir George Grey left New Zealand after his first term as governor.

In 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light by illuminating some 40 bulbs at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

In 1904, New York’s Times Square saw its first New Year’s Eve celebration, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance.

In 1951, the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.

In 1972, Major League baseball player Roberto Clemente, 38, was killed when a plane he chartered and was travelling on to bring relief supplies to earthquakedevastated Nicaragua crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Rico.

In 1974, private US citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40 years.

In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year’s Eve performance in Dallas.

In 1987, Robert Mugabe was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s first executive president.

In 1991, representatives of the government of El Salvador and rebels reached agreement at the United Nations on a peace accord to end 12 years of civil war.

In 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation.

In 1997, Michael Kennedy, the

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Past reflections, building for the future

By Nikki Verbeet

H

ope.

It’s fundamental to our psychology to have something to look forward to.

It would be fair to say that hope hasn’t been in abundance in our rural sector of late.

There is no doubt the sector is experiencing rising costs, environmental pressures, public perception issues, shrinking price margins, cash flow challenges and pressure to meet compliance obligations – all of which impact confidence.

Research around mental health indicates that to have hope we need three things: Something to look forward to.

To believe that we are in control of our fate enough to achieve that something.

A community to achieve it with us.

Research also indicates that, as a group, people are much more likely to set and achieve their goals when they have these three things.

So what motivates people in the rural sector today?

We had one weekend off a month and although we didn’t milk the cows, we often moved fences – but the absolute luxury was having a sleep in!

We worked with equipment that, by today’s standards, would be a definite health and safety risk such as tractors with no brakes or even permanently missing a back mudguard, reminiscent of a water wheel. The self-steering tractors of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, whilst the farmer pitch forked the silage, could prove rather

inaccurate!

Training? This usually consisted of a series of expletives. We tried to learn from these by not repeating the same mistake twice.

Generally, we spent our time trying to minimise the stuff-ups and breakages and avoid the consequences of too much cost-cutting.

In spite of all these challenges we didn’t feel hopeless. We were hopeful because we had our eyes on the prize – the proven pathway from farm worker to farm owner was alive and well.

Sharing and comparing stories like this with our farming mates at dinners gave us something to laugh about. It was always reassuring to hear someone else’s story.

We had something to look forward to. We believed we were in control of our fate to achieve that goal, which for many was farm ownership. We had a community around us that we regularly connected face-to-face with.

We had the co-operative

spirit – we all worked and played together as a community. There were days when we went to help the neighbour haymaking.

Other mornings we helped each other ‘dry cow’ and then hosted a massive cooked breakfast for everyone. Then there were the local games of touch rugby and dos at the local country hall.

Things have changed for the better in a lot of ways. But some of the change hasn’t been for the better and we need to recognise that.

We have different challenges now. For example, technology has made farming easier, but it has also enabled farms to grow to a size where people management and the foresight to avoid burnout and keep people safe have become important issues.

Social media can be great for gathering information, but some research has shown it increases loneliness and anxiety. We’ve been “too busy” to go to those local barbecues.

It’s even been a struggle to turn up to school events with one

partner often saying, “You go, and I’ll do the xxx here on the farm.”

In the same way that wetland areas on farms used to be viewed as “unproductive” (but are now recognised as being hard working and highly productive in the way they filter nutrients), so called “unproductive time” spent connecting with friends and neighbours is highly productive.

It enables us to filter all the experiences we’ve had and process them into something we can learn and grow from.

Previously we watched the tanker pick up our milk and waved goodbye to it – end of story.

Now we have the consumer virtually on our doorstep asking questions about how we farm and how their food is being produced. For years we farmed under the mantra of “produce more” and the banks, the market, all vigorously pushed the sector in that direction. Now the focus is sustainability – financially, environmentally and personally.

The sector is re-inventing

itself. It’s been a massive shift for us, and we are transitioning to a new future. We are re-setting and re-inventing ourselves. We are having to rebuild our aeroplane mid-flight. Change can be daunting but it can also be very rewarding. More sustainable farming practices can prove less labour-intensive as an example.

Are the traditional pathways to ownership still there? Or do we need to consider alternative vehicles to reach our goals? Syndex, for example, offers opportunities at various levels that are more affordable in different industries including land.

There are now alternatives where you don’t have to borrow millions. Diversification has also provided some good opportunities.

Can you help yourself and those around you find something to look forward to? Can you ensure your goal is controllable and achievable? Can you find your people?

The end of the year can provide a time of reflection and future planning.

This could involve sitting around the table with farm owners, farm managers and collectively growing each other. People staying longer in an area on a farm has to be better for both the farm and the community.

Work without hope is as bad as hope without work. We need both the shovel and the inspiration.

Nikki Verbeet is an NZME commercial manager. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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Bumper month for e-store Mighty Ape New Zealand shoppers, and that there were better deals to be had on Black Friday.

“The deals on Boxing Day aren’t necessarily as good. It’s kind of lacklustre and really an opportunity for retail stores to get rid of anything that didn’t sell well before Christmas.”

Online shopping has increased eight times faster than in-store shopping over the last year.

New Zealanders spent just shy of $150 million in shops on Boxing Day this year, well behind the $253m spent on Black Friday last month, though an increase on the $139.5m spent on Boxing Day last year, according to figures from Paymark, which processes about 75 per cent of the country’s electronic eftpos transactions.

On Black Friday, Kiwis spent $253m. Over the weekend, a total of $652m was spent.

Mighty Ape started out as an online games store, though in recent years it has expanded to sell a much larger variety of goods, including apparel, homewares, electronics, toys and imported food. It positions itself as a local competitor to Amazon, offering overnight or same-day shipping in major centres.

Inside a Mighty Ape warehouse. now surpassed Boxing Day as the bigger sales event for us,” he said.

“Boxing Day is almost reserved for people to buy themselves things, it doesn’t seem to have the same incentive that Black Friday and Christmas shopping does where you are buying for a lot of people. On Black Friday and taking advantage of those deals, you can spend more on more people whereas on Boxing Day once that opportunity has passed, it is more just taking advantage of a few sales, but with less of a reason to make purchases.”

Burns said he believed Boxing Day was losing its appeal with

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Strong commodity prices and global demand are still powering New Zealand’s agriculture sector but 2020 won’t be without its challenges.

Total export revenue from the sector is tipped to hit $47.9 billion in the year ending June 2020, up 3.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries. It is also optimistic about 2021, picking revenue to be up another 2.1 per cent.

“A lot of these gains can be attributed to rising global commodity prices and the drivers behind rising prices are likely to be sustained through 2020 and 2021,” MPI said.

That’s not to say there aren’t any headwinds. Among other things, 2019 was marked by a series of environmental and regulatory challenges that won’t be going away any time soon.

The recent Zero Carbon Act targets methane emissions being 24-to-47 per cent lower than 2017 levels by 2050. Those will cost the economy about $7 billion a year by 2050, DairyNZ has said. While that number may be too high it certainly won’t be without cost.

The dairy sector is particularly in the line of fire on the methane emissions target.

MPI warned the number of New Zealand dairy farms experiencing financial distress is increasing and the financial pressures “may constrain the ability of financially vulnerable farms to invest and adapt to the changes associated with increased environmental and other regulatory requirements on the sector over the longer term”.

ANZ Bank rural economist Susan Kilsby said the sector’s biggest challenge will continue to be the “adjustment to the reset the agri-sector

is going through”.

This includes adjusting to consumer demand and regulatory changes, which mean farmers now have to be able to prove they are farming in a way that is kind to environment, labour and animals.

It is “creating uncertainty and, combined with the reduction in bank appetite to fund unprofitable businesses, is causing a wave of farmers looking to exit. This in turn, along with uncertainty of future returns, is reducing land values,” she said.

The latest data from the Real Estate Institute showed the median price per hectare for dairy farms has decreased 22.1 per cent over the past 12 months.

However, “this cycle is also creating opportunities,” said Kilsby.

She pointed to opportunities for younger farmers to purchase farms, advisers who can help farmers understand and thrive in the new regulatory environment, and technology that helps with decision making and records what has happened.

Julia Jones, head of analytics for NZX and a member of the Primary Sector Council, said key sector challenges include climate change impact, food production sustainability, as well as infrastructure spending.

At ASB Bank, rural economist Nathan Penny said the major questions are whether the US-China trade agreement will help or hinder New Zealand food exports and whether the current “rural-urban divide” will widen or narrow.

Addressing this divide was a key factor for the Primary Sector Council, which launched a new “vision” for the sector at the end of 2019 that includes setting up a new partnership to add value to New Zealand’s food and fibre products as they con-

tend with unprecedented change in the global market.

“The corrosive dialogue that has emerged in New Zealand, pitching farming interests against environmental interests; town against country and, astonishingly, even sector against sector is unfair and strategically anaemic. It is important for all New Zealanders that we reject this divisive framing of the dialogue,” said council chair Lain Jager.

Synlait Milk chief financial officer Nigel Greenwood said he didn’t think the challenges could be isolated to a single year, but the key factors were “emerging challenges around the environment” as well as animal welfare.

“The groundswell of pressure from the public is driving the government quite rightly to put more pressure on the dairy sector to clean up its act. It’s not just a 2020 issue.

It’s a very long-term issue.”

He said both the sector and Synlait are aware of the issues and significant steps are being taken.

In June 2018, Synlait announced its refreshed commitment to sustainability with the release of its 10year sustainability plan. In the plan, Synlait made new commitments around water usage, greenhouse gases, nitrogen loss, palm kernel expeller and coal.

One of Synlait’s most recent efforts involves its Whakapuawai programme. The initiative incorporates the establishment of an industrial scale nursery to propagate native plants.

The 15-hectare site at Synlait Dunsandel will be capable of growing more than one million native trees and shrubs annually, with a goal to plant four million native trees on farms and community land by 2028.

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Friday sales that people just took advantage of the fact that there were specials earlier and started their Christmas shopping earlier than they normally would.”

Trading on Black Friday was another “bumper” day for Mighty Ape, he said.

Over the Black Friday weekend, the retailer received more than 30,000 orders compared with 20,000 during the weekend a year earlier. Its sales increased by more than 20 per cent on the day.

On Boxing Day, it received just over 5000 orders.

“Black Friday over the years has steadily been catching up and has

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December has proven a record month for e-commerce retailer Mighty Ape. Sales at the online retailer, headquartered north of Auckland in Silverdale, were up 22 per cent year-on-year in the four weeks to December 30.

During the month, Mighty Ape shipped out more than 400,000 products via 200,000 parcels, an increase from the 160,000 recorded at the same time last year.

It shipped out an average of 26,000 parcels each day during December.

Mighty Ape general manager, Alastair Burns, said December 2 was the busiest sales day of the month – on Cyber Monday, the Monday immediately following American flash sales shopping day Black Friday, while December 16 was its busiest day for sending out parcels.

About 14,000 orders were placed on the retailer’s online store on December 2, compared with 10,000 on December 17 – its busiest day of the month recorded last year.

“December has been really busy.

Overall, for December our sales

growth has been excellent, yearon-year particularly. It all started with Black Friday being a bit later in November than usual, and that kicked off our sales for Christmas and it didn’t really die down from there,” Burns told media. He was unable to share any financials.

“There’s usually a bit of a lull [between Black Friday and the start of Christmas spending]. It definitely is busier following Black Friday year-on-year, but this year it just seemed that it didn’t die off at all – sales remained high all throughout the period.”

Burns said Mighty Ape had posted record December sales revenue since its inception in 2008. He said the company had benefited from the uptake in online spending in recent years.

“Every year we see more and more customers, more and more people are shifting to online in December from traditional retail and for us it is an ever-increasing trend that we hope will continue,” he said.

The Christmas spending season, and the retailer’s busiest day, started earlier this year with Black Friday falling a week later than normal, Burns said.

“It was correlated with the Black

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Watermelon and pineapple ice blocks 2/3 C sugar 3/4 C water 800g seedless watermelon, skin removed, roughly chopped 2T lemon or lime juice 1 pineapple, skin and core removed, roughly chopped 1T passionfruit pulp, strained so the seeds are removed ■■ To make the sugar syrup, in a small saucepan, combine sugar and water over a medium heat.

Cook stirring for 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Boil, without stirring for 1 minute. Leave to cool to room temperature.

■■ Place watermelon in a blender and process until smooth. Press through a sieve into a jug, until you have 1 cup of juice. Discard the pulp. Combine watermelon juice with half the sugar syrup and half the lemon or lime juice.

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Strain through a fine sieve. Pour into ice block moulds so they are filled half way. Freeze for 2 hours or until solid.

■■ Place pineapple in blender and process until smooth. Press through a sieve into a jug, until you have 1 cup of juice to use. Discard the pulp. Combine pineapple juice with remaining

syrup, passionfruit pulp and remaining lemon or lime juice.

Strain through fine sieve or strainer.

■■ Remove moulds from freezer.

Pour mixture into the moulds and insert sticks. Freeze until ice blocks are solid.

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Remember the millennium?

By Rosie Twamley

As the bells rang in the Dunedin Octagon, the crowd counted down and celebrated the New Year.

The year 2000 was here, with more celebrations and fireworks to be set off.

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he end of 2019 heralds the end of another decade, with 2020 starting a new one.

This has the team at Ashburton Museum reminiscing about the start of the new millennium, which will be 20 years young next year.

It was a time when people thought the world was going to end and computers were going to stop working altogether, with much uncertainty. Alas, no such excitement, the world kept rotating around the sun and here we are still standing, with working computers, 20 years later.

At the time there were dire warnings, with the electricity industry advising people not to turn off all their appliances just before midnight on New Year’s Eve as it could cause a massive power surge, which would fry personal computers, video recorders and TVs that were still switched on.

With advice to ‘act normally’ pushed, similarly there was a guide about Y2K and the possible bugs that could affect the CLEAR system. These state that even if Y2K does decide to surprise us, they will be prepared, giving a real sense of the unknown that came with the start of a new millennium.

The Y2K bug, or the Year 2000 problem, was the result of a decision made by computer programmers who shortened the way a year was recorded to save computer space. This meant that at the start of the New Year some computers’ clocks may have gone back to 1900 or 1980.

2000 today The most ambitious live broadcast in history was undertaken by TV3 and Bank of New Zealand as the official sponsor. 2000 Today saw a non-stop 30 hour broadcast that came from 3000 live cameras around the globe.

Due to time zones, New Zealand was the first to see the start of the new millennium, and this was used to its full advantage, with branding on the 2000 Today brochure stating ‘New Zealand, first to the future’.

The first to the future theme was also used by the New Zealand Millennium Office, which produced guides to event applications, and a guide to joining in on the celebrations.

The government also set up the Towards 2000 taskforce to make the most of New

Above - In the Ashburton Museum collection we have a $10 note, commissioned in 2000 to commemorate the new millennium. Clearly the main focus is on NZ as being the adventure capital, an idea that is still strong in our tourism today. The other side of the $10 note (bottom photo).

Zealand’s unique position to be the first to ring in the new year and millennium.

Alongside the theme of first to the future, the sub theme of cleaner, greener was also a focus. The start of a new millennium had people thinking about the importance of protecting our natural heritage for future generations through conserving, re-creating and carefully managing our resources.

In 2019 this seems eerily similar, albeit with more urgency as we enter another decade.

Last news of the 20th Century The Radio New Zealand news at 11pm

on December 31, 1999, talked about resignation of the Russian president, with Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, put in charge until elections were held.

In NZ large crowds gathered in all the main centres ready to bring in the new year.

The Chatham Islands were reported from, being the official first place to see the millennium.

Sir Peter Blake gave his new year greetings and Legend of the Seas cruise liner passengers reported that they got to experience new year twice by passing over the dateline twice.

Ashburton’s new millennium In Ashburton, time capsules were buried, trees were planted and history was recorded.

Hakatere residents Colleen Patton-Todd, Leslie Henderson and Peter Marriott buried a time capsule that recorded the everyday lives of 20th Century New Zealanders.

The capsule includes a supermarket receipt, petrol docket, telephone account, coins of the day, a hut owner’s rate card, a Hakatere 2000 pen, a plane ticket, a tide chart for Hakatere, the last Ashburton Guardian of 1999 and more everyday items.

Due to be opened 50 to 100 years later, when the hut owners celebrate their 150th or 200th jubilee, now in 2019 and coming in to 2020, there is still another 30 or more years to go!

The Ashburton Guardian was selling an Ashburton Guardian Millennium Time Capsule that would contain the last paper of 1999 and the first paper of 2000. This was a great chance ‘to record the lives of people living in our district for future generations’.

Mayors and council representatives took up the physical challenge of tree planting as part of the bold project covering much of the region.

Ealing was the start of the planting, where 100 trees were planted for the first stage of the project, which was designed to enhance driving on State Highway 1.

A millennium marker was taking shape in November 1999, which now sits on Mount Somers.

Similarly a marker was placed on Mount Alford, a millennium ball, which also houses a time capsule.

A project was undertaken in March 1999, where women at the forefront were the main focus.

Organised by the Women’s Division Federated Farmers and launched officially

by Jenny Shipley, it set out to gather details about women and youth living in the Ashburton District.

Happy 2020 everyone

Left and above - The back and front covers of an Ashburton Guardian dated Monday, January 3, 2000.

Right - A Millennium Women book in the Ashburton Museum archives.

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August 2019 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.

Above –Nicole Purdom, who knows a thing or two about rugby, is the new Mid Canterbury Rugby Union women’s rugby development officer.

Above left – the Ashburton College Junior A Boys basketball team won their Mid-Division Final, running away with the win 95-62 over their Cashmere counterparts.

Left – Mat Bassett in action for the South Island team in Pukekohe, sends another one down the mat.

Above – Julie Mushonga and the College B netball team won their match against Lincoln High School.

Left – Mount Hutt College’s Tino Heripo looks to barge his way through the Riccarton High School defence during a rugby match between the two sides.

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ON TOP OF THE WORLD Kimberley Bird returned home recently from a five-week trip in the North Island where she’s been mixing it with some of the big names in the equestrian world. One golden result in Taupo though has elevated her into the spotlight to join those she’s been competing against. Matt Markham caught up with the Ashburton rider to discuss her success.

She’s a tough old game the equestrian world.

Hours spent on the road, travelling from one show to the next tacking up horse after horse all the while dreaming of getting that clear round that brings you to the judges’ attention.

For many, it’s a pipe-dream – there might be visions of one day riding at Badminton, or wearing the Silver Fern of New Zealand, but it’s a brutal sport which can spit you out as quickly as it swallowed you up.

So success, wherever it might come is important. And needs to be celebrated.

But when you succeed on the biggest of stages, it’s even more important as it’s something which very few get the opportunity to achieve and for Ashburton rider, Kimberley Bird, December has been one of those months.

Bird returned to her Mid Canterbury home just prior to Christmas having ticked off the biggest moment of her still very young career in the saddle when she claimed victory in the fourth round of the FEI World Cup at the Taupo Christmas Classic.

But for the 23-year-old it wasn’t just a moment where years of experience in New Zealand’s most elite and toughest show jumping series came to fruition.

Instead, she was having just her second start in the series and emerged on top of 12 of New Zealand’s best riders, jumping at heights of between 1.4 metres and 1.6 metres.

“It was pretty amazing,” Bird said.

“Even just to be competing at that level, let alone winning, it was a surreal feeling and one which probably still hasn’t really sunk in.

“I went into it with no real expectations, I just wanted to enjoy it and see what happened but it unfolded pretty quickly and all of a sudden I was the winner.”

Riding her 10-year-old Holsteiner mare, Cera Cassina, or Beezie as she’s known around home, Bird was one of four riders to receive a fault for knocking off a rail in the first round of the competition.

That put her in the box seat if she was able to produce a clear jump in the second round and as the second last rider in the competition, she headed out into the arena with it all to play for.

“She (Beezie) jumped like an absolute superstar.

“I couldn’t believe how well she handled it.

“She knew exactly what she was doing and went out there and did it like an old pro and we got the clear round and there was only one rider left after me, so we didn’t have to wait too long.”

When that rider, Briar Bur-

Kimberley Bird and Cera Cassina after winning a round of the FEI World Cup in Taupo. nett-Grant of Taupo, collected a rail at the last fence, Bird was declared the winner – much to her delight.

“That initial feeling, that was

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“She’s got a bit of mind of her own at times and can be a bit of a hot head, but she’s got a beautiful action and knows what she’s doing.”

That initial feeling, that was pretty special and it’s something I hope I get to feel a few more times yet too

pretty special and it’s something I hope I get to feel a few more times yet too.”

The win while a surprise, probably shouldn’t have been.

Cera Cassina had been in hot form winning the 1.45 metre class the day before the World Cup event and then had also been victorious the week prior at the National Young Horse Show winning the one star 1.4 metre FEI class.

“She’s a real pro.

The World Cup Series now moves to Dannevirke early January for the grand final where there are points-and-a-half on offer.

However, just the best four scores count for riders, and each of the four in contention for the series crown carry a drop score.

The winner of the league has the opportunity to represent New Zealand at the World Cup Final in Las Vegas next year.

Back in Ashburton for the fes-

tive season, Bird was looking back at a strong 2019 calendar year but also had a casual eye on what lies ahead in 2020 where she will now be known as a force to be reckoned with on the annual circuit.

With no real major competitions at the ultimate heights in the South Island, she’s forced to travel a lot to compete if she wants to hone her craft and that means a massive undertaking from not only herself, but also her family.

“I’ve got some pretty amazing support around me, Mum (Kate) and Dad (Alan) are incredible and then there’s the wider network of people who all step up and make sure things are ticking over at home for me.”

A noted breeder of her own stock, Bird likes to produce and develop her own horses for the ring.

While it might be easier in some instances to purchase readymade show horses, the satisfaction of achieving huge results on a horse you’ve moulded and grown

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yourself far outweighs everything else.

“I’m a bit of a breeder.

“I had one born on Christmas Eve while we were crossing the Cook Strait, but doing the job on a horse that you’ve bred and raised yourself is extremely satisfying and a really special part of it all.”

In between the riding and schooling, Bird doesn’t have much time for anything else, but is currently working while doing a little bit of study on the side, but she would probably admit that her full attention is more on the remaining events of the showing season.

Upcoming features include the National Championships in Christchurch, a trip to Marlborough among other events and everything culminating in the annual Horse of the Year competition.

And after the result in Taupo, the name Kimberley Bird won’t just be another on the entry sheet, but instead one which everyone will be out to keep an eye on.

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■■CRICKET

Review ‘not pretty’ Kane Williamson’s post-mortem from the Boxing Day test makes grim reading for the Black Caps.

While the New Zealand skipper maintained his positive tone and upbeat outlook when detailing what went wrong in their 247-run defeat to Australia, as he listed the flaws in the batting display, and how improvement was also needed from the bowlers, it hammered home just how far the Black

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Caps are lagging behind in this series.

Williamson acknowledged the phenomenal effort of the likes of Tim Southee and Neil Wagner, but despite their full-hearted attempts, the Black Caps bowlers have never quite been able to put Australia under serious pressure.

“I know the guys will be looking forward to Sydney as an opportunity to improve.”

Ashburton Golf Club Saturday 28 December The winner of the Radius Care Player of the day was Brent MacGregor 76-11=65nett and 43 pts.

Other winning scores were: Sheryl Reid and Gordon Crawford 42; Bev Chinn 41; George Brown and Grant Hastie 40; Barry Jury, Gaby Jansen, Guildford Lane, Bruce Day, Murray Moorehead, Stewart Dunlop and Chris Ralston 39; Richard McKernan 38 on c/b.

Twos: Kevin McStay, Matt Tait, Gordon Crawford, Grant Hastie, Beavan Wilson, Charlie

FTR, Murray Cook 51.1, 54.2, 105.3, Mark Alexander 50.1, 49.0, 99.1.

■■ Shooting

Saturday 4 January The Summer Stableford rounds continue and the fourth qualifying round for the Property Brokers shootout will be held.

Mixed days over summer.

Starting Times: Morning start at 8.00am; Afternoon report at 12noon for a 12.30pm start, Nine hole golfers report at 1.00 for a 1.30pm start.

Ashburton District Rifle Club 29 December at 700 yards.

TR, John Snowden 49.5, 48.3, 97.8, Allan White 50.4, 47.3, 97.7, Martin Fleming 48.3, 48.4, 96.7, John Miller 42.2, 49.3, 91.5, Charlie Ledbrook 45.0, 44.1, 89.1, Brian Hawksby 46.1, 41.1, 87.2, John Fleming 40.1, 45.1, 85.2, Mike Chui 34.0, 43.1, 77.1.

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Tomorrow at Ellerslie Raceway

14 x9541 Threadtheneedle d (4) 56............ D Johnson 15 531 Santori td (8) 54.5...................J Fawcett (a1) 16 352 Origineel (1) 54..................................L Innes 3 1.38 BARNESWOOD FARM ECLIPSE STAKES (G2) $100,000, 2YO SW, 1200m 1 11 Not An Option (4) 56.5.......................L Innes 2 1 Preakness (1) 56.5..........................V Colgan 3 1 Trident t (9) 56.5.............................J Waddell 4 47 Johnny Canuck 56.5..................... Scratched 5 11 Play That Song m (8) 54.5......... J McDonald 6 3 Amor Fati (7) 54.5....................... L Satherley 7 54 Tivaan Warrior (3) 54.5................... A Calder 8 1 American Princess d (6) 54.5...... D Johnson 9 216 De La Terre (2) 54.5...........................R Elliot 10 44 Targhee (5) 54.5..................................M Dee 4 2.13 VALACHI DOWNS ROYAL STKS (G2) $100,000, 3YOF SW, 2000m 1 3112 Two Illicit t (6) 56.5..........................V Colgan 2 x1221 Lilikoi (3) 56.5............................. J McDonald 3 17571 Annie’s Song (16) 56.5.....................S Collett 4 3x533 Rendition (7) 56.5..........................O Bosson 5 x3138 Showbeel (17) 56.5 6 04140 Aalaalune (15) 56.5............................R Elliot 7 64642 Greyvee m (19) 56.5...........................M Dee 8 315 Bergamot (10) 56.5........................M McNab 9 106 Celestial Nymph (13) 56.5............... C Grylls 10 415 Coco Baci t (1) 56.5....................M Cameron 11 55x51 Darcee Que t (2) 56.5.................M Coleman 12 21849 Diamonds Galore (14) 56.5..............J Riddell 13 5x61 Snowdeel (8) 56.5........................ D Johnson 14 72187 Kaipaki Road (5) 56.5 15 53514 Nothing Compares (4) 56.5..........C Lammas 16 05039 Anna Cecelia (18) 56.5 17 x4362 Meghan (12) 56.5 18 88573 Shocking Penny (11) 56.5 19 94 Elisa Carolina (9) 56.5 Emergencies: Nothing Compares, Anna Cecelia, Meghan, Shocking Penny, Elisa Carolina 5 2.48pm DUNSTAN FEEDS STAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL $100,000, SP COND, 2400m 1 52862 Paisley Park m (12) 60............... J McDonald 2 20116 Lincoln King t (7) 56.5.................. D Johnson

3 x6121 Kya Khoob Lagti Ho d (8) 56.S Weatherley (a) 4 71042 Joe’s Legacy m (2) 56.........................M Dee 5 21213 Swords Drawn b (3) 56..................O Bosson 6 68452 Steven James (9) 55.5...................M McNab 7 02751 Babiche (15) 55............................... A Calder 8 75028 Special Light 54.5......................... Scratched 9 x1145 Rangitata (14) 54.5.....................M Coleman 10 x4810 Flying Meg (16) 54................... K Asano (a2) 11 x7283 Spring Delight (1) 54...................M Cameron 12 34897 Lorde Have Mercy 54.................... Scratched 13 2310L Vencedora 54................................ Scratched 14 13631 Seemax m (6) 54.................. M Kareem (a4) 15 x9641 Dance Card t (5) 54...........................L Innes 16 x0432 Stilton (11) 54.............................. L Satherley 17 60941 Trumpet (4) 54.................................. C Grylls 18 20749 The Midnight Shift (13) 54.......J Fawcett (a1) 19 13510 Lake Superior (10) 54.5...................R Myers Emergency: Lake Superior 6 3.23 JAMIESON PARK AUCKLAND GUINEAS (G2) $100,000, 3YO SW, 1600m 1 x1513 Sherwood Forest d (2) 56.5................M Dee 2 1x111 Riodini t (3) 56.5...............................S Collett 3 12 Dragon Leap b (6) 56.5.............. J McDonald 4 x6212 Free To Shine (1) 56.5......................J Riddell 5 x2616 My World t (10) 56.5............S Weatherley (a) 6 1 Not Ideal (5) 56.5...............................L Innes 7 20221 Our Creed td (4) 56.5...................C Lammas 8 x25x2 Holy Mongolemperor b (7) 56.5.....O Bosson 9 211 Star Of Bombay t (8) 54.5................ C Grylls 10 2x413 Heart Of The Ocean (9) 54.5....... D Johnson 7 3.58pm RICH HILL MILE (G2) $100,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 1 7x214 Yearn tb (8) 59................................. T Harris 2 x1170 Hello It’s Me t (11) 57.5...............M Cameron 3 60684 Watch This Space tdm (12) 57.5........L Innes 4 09501 The Real Beel d (7) 57..................... C Grylls 5 22912 Aligns With Me m (10) 56.5.S Weatherley (a) 6 31874 Secret Allure dm (15) 54.5...............R Myers 7 2x143 Aim Smart (1) 54................................R Elliot 8 x4602 Donna Anne Billy dm (2) 53.5...J Fawcett (a) 9 73200 Contessa Vanessa tdm (5) 53......... A Calder 10 000x8 Demonetization tdm (3) 53.......... L Satherley

11 x3111 Prise De Fer td (13) 53.......................M Dee 12 6x516 Hypnos tm (9) 52.5.......................... R Oliver 13 04277 Livin’ On A Prayer t (14) 52..............S Collett 14 82142 Braavos t (16) 52........................ K Asano (a) 15 11770 Poker Face d (4) 52......................T Thornton 16 x1262 Gino Severini tdb (18) 52.....................C Dell 17 33816 Pierina t (17) 52........................... D Johnson 18 75x02 Za Za Gabor d (6) 52 8 4.33pm SKYCITY CITY OF AUCKLAND CUP (G3) $200,000, OPN HCP, 2400m 1 10960 Blue Breeze m (1) 59...........................C Dell 2 47225 Roger That dm (15) 58.5................J Waddell 3 25441 Concert Hall (14) 57.5........................R Elliot 4 05041 Sentimental Miss d (5) 57.......... J McDonald 5 x6011 Justamaiz d (2) 57.........................M McNab 6 65435 Pinmedown tm (16) 55.5..............C Lammas 7 x5132 Beyond The Fort (3) 55.5.................R Myers 8 05832 Platinum Invador b (13) 55.5..............L Innes 9 x3861 Artiste tm (8) 55.5.................. T Yanagida (a) 10 39325 Lady Shabeel tm (9) 55.5.............T Thornton 11 43241 Savy Yong Blonk t (12) 55.5................M Dee 12 62253 Star Karen 55.5............................. Scratched 13 12606 The Good Fight d (6) 55.5...S Weatherley (a) 14 32147 Yatima (10) 55.5..........................M Cameron 15 11476 Aigne tm (4) 55.5....................T Newman (a) 16 36157 Wheao (7) 55.5........................... L Satherley 17 12730 Iskander (11) 55.5 9 5.08pm SISTEMA RAILWAY (G1) $200,000, OPNSW&P, 1200m 1 310x0 Endless Drama td (17) 58..................L Innes 2 4x98x Volpe Veloce tdm (1) 56.................M McNab 3 23x41 Julius tdm (10) 56..........................J Waddell 4 99556 Santa Monica td (15) 56...............T Thornton 5 21716 Dawn Patrol dm (3) 56.....................J Riddell 6 63223 Speedy Meady dm (7) 55.5..................C Dell 7 30x07 Winter Bride dm (11) 55............. J McDonald 8 45x12 Media Sensation tdb (6) 54.5......M Coleman 9 21x23 Princess Kereru td (2) 54.............C Lammas 10 75x11 Its Destinys Child td (14) 53.5......... A Calder 11 39x71 Evalina d (16) 53.5....................... D Johnson 12 19x11 Dama Zorro td (4) 53............. T Yanagida (a) 13 0x051 Pretty To Sea tdm (9) 53.....S Weatherley (a)

14 x1716 Kali (8) 51.5.........................................M Dee 15 x5328 Ronchi tdm (12) 55 16 477x1 Spring Heat td (5) 53 17 21219 Mr Universe d (13) 55 Emergencies: Ronchi, Spring Heat, Mr Universe 10 5.48pm BARFOOT & THOMPSON 1600 $50,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 6x242 Creative Genius td (13) 59.5............ T Harris 2 60x88 Lucky Sweep td (11) 59...............T Thornton 3 8x221 Show Down (4) 58.5.......................V Colgan 4 x6556 Jakkalbomb (3) 58....................... D Johnson 5 92x81 Civilised td (16) 58................... K Asano (a2) 6 312x3 Hoist tm (6) 58...............................O Bosson 7 32141 Answer Back m (17) 57.5..... T Yanagida (a2) 8 13361 Iron Eagle td (9) 57.5...................... S McKay 9 000x6 The Rebel Knight t (5) 57............M Cameron 10 28120 Nasha Riva dm (14) 56.5...............M McNab 11 75x02 Za Za Gabor d (10) 56.5.................. C Grylls 12 48144 Aileen Grace (15) 56...........S Weatherley (a) 13 24118 Livvy Lass td (1) 56.............................M Dee 14 50x16 Rockoneve (7) 56...............................R Elliot 15 86307 Sunburst d (2) 55.5.................J Fawcett (a1) 16 25x66 Vichy d (8) 55.5.......................... J McDonald 17 26P59 Firoden (12) 54.5.............................S Collett Blinkers on: Platinum Road (R1), Peace Train (R2), Amor Fati (R3), Lincoln King (R5), Dragon Leap (R6), Lady Shabeel (R8), Ronchi (R9), Lucky Sweep (R10) Blinkers off: Man Oh Man (R1), Anna Cecelia (R4), Volpe Veloce (R9), Sunburst (R10) Winkers on: Heart Of The Ocean (R6) Winkers off: Lucky Sweep (R10) SELECTIONS

14 Sugar For My Honey (1) 56.5.A Bohorun (a3) 15 Magnolia Man (2) 57 16 x0600 Our Rosette (14) 55 Emergencies: Quintuple Twins, Sugar For My Honey, Magnolia Man, Our Rosette 7 4.09pm DUNEDIN CASINO WAIKOUAITI CUP OPEN 1975 $25,000, OPN HCP, 1975m 1 35215 Dee And Gee 60........................... Scratched 2 50545 Son Of Maher (1) 59...... K Chowdhoory (a2) 3 50010 Camino Rocoso (3) 58................. C Johnson 4 54858 Wild Jack m (4) 56.5.............A Bohorun (a3) 5 32361 Zentessa (7) 54.5........................D Prastiyou 6 x7137 Shezatoucha m (5) 54.............T Comignaghi 7 9x666 Anythingcouldhappn (2) 54..... B Murray (a2) 8 02332 Pop ‘n’ Rock (6) 54..........................S Wynne 8 4.44pm BRENT LUCAS BUILDERS AND SKEVINGTONS MDN 1975 $10,000, MDN, 1975m 1 74329 Five Princes 58.5.......................... Scratched 2 3663 Red Light District (12) 58.5.........D Prastiyou 3 0x844 Mr Fahrenheit (5) 58.5..................T Moseley 4 x0563 Scandalous (6) 56.5.........................J Laking 5 40421 Too Ferlaxed (11) 58.5 6 34778 Figeameout 56.5........................... Scratched 7 89021 Kandhu (7) 58.5........................... C Johnson

8 03535 Secretaria (10) 56.5................T Comignaghi 9 830x4 Jingo (14) 56.5....................... S Toolooa (a3) 10 x9984 Mistress Quickly (4) 56.5..............K Mudhoo 11 00036 Star Wars Princess (15) 56.5.R Mudhoo (a2) 12 0x579 Melanite (8) 56.5................. C Campbell (a1) 13 553 Jack Be Quick (16) 57 14 0x905 Saboteur (9) 58.5.........................L Callaway 15 x8658 All About Roy (3) 58.5 16 08050 Our Royal (2) 58.5 17 0 Crikey It’s George (1) 58.5 18 80x76 Dough Boy (13) 58.5 Blinkers on: Red Light District (R8) Blinkers off: Walk With Kings (R2), Hot Tap (R4), All About Roy (R8) Winkers on: Emma’s Chance (R6) Winkers off: Red Light District (R8) SELECTIONS

3 87x16 Bucky th (5) 58...............................H Andrew 4 2x410 Enrichment b (2) 57................C Burdan (a3) 5 439x8 Amano (8) 57.................................. J Parkes 6 20x65 Lincoln’s Gal (9) 56 7 3740x Altius 56........................................ Scratched 8 21906 Tumbleweed (4) 54.5............ C O’Beirne (a2) 9 25405 Zappeur h (6) 54.5.........................D Bradley 10 04x87 Rekohu Diva h (7) 54......................... T Allan Blinkers on: Rainbow Song (R1), Like A Boss, Fabulous Fleet (R2), Matt Cain (R3), Blizzing Away (R5), Zappeur (R8) Blinkers off: Mi Jakky (R1), Pinot Grey, On Show (R3) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Gravitelle, Justa Boy Bullseye, Caribbean Rose Race 2: Not Usual Litening, Mekelle, Peace Train, Origineel Race 3: Not An Option, Play That Song, Preakness, Targhee Race 4: Two Illicit, Lilikoi, Kaipaki Road, Celestial Nymph Race 5: Kya Khoob Lagti Ho, Stilton, Babiche, Dance Card Race 6: Riodini, Dragon Leap, Not Ideal, Sherwood Forest Race 7: Prise De Fer, The Real Beel, Yearn, Aim Smart Race 8: Pinmedown, Platinum Invador, Beyond The Fort Race 9: Julius, Kali, Princess Kereru, Endless Drama Race 10: Nasha Riva, Hoist, Iron Eagle, Lucky Sweep

Waikouaiti gallops Tomorrow at Waikouaiti Raceway

Waikouaiti RC Venue: Waikouaiti Meeting Date: 01 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.39 OTAGO DAILY TIMES & HARBOUR FISH R72 1975 $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1975m 1 54484 He Ain’t Heavy m (2) 59...............L Callaway 2 54446 Pinup Coup (7) 57.5....... K Chowdhoory (a2) 3 24121 Zedaam m (6) 57.5.......................T Moseley 4 51336 Bridget Town m (8) 56.5...... C Campbell (a1) 5 02332 Pop ‘n’ Rock 56.5.......................... Scratched 6 x8662 Vee Twelve (3) 56.5.........................S Wynne 7 02109 Spider Lily m (1) 56.................T Comignaghi 8 40x08 Producer (4) 54.5.............................A Balloo 9 08850 Stellacanto m (5) 54.............. R Mudhoo (a2) 2 1.14 EAST OTAGO TRANSPORT, WAE AND GOLDEN FLEECE 0-1 $10,000, 0-1 WIN SWP, 1975m 1 81320 Verses (2) 58.5................................S Wynne 2 00375 Effervescent (4) 58.5........................J Laking 3 86545 Leuluai (1) 58.5.............................T Moseley 4 5x078 Prediction (7) 58.5................. R Mudhoo (a2) 5 39800 Acre 57.......................................... Scratched 6 66x10 Sister Monica (5) 56.5.............T Comignaghi 7 62334 Stop Making Sense b (6) 56.5..... C Johnson 8 80x61 Thunder Bay (9) 58 -

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Alexander, Bev Chinn and Brent MacGregor.

Nearest The Pins: Braided Rivers: Brendon Davidson; Rothbury Insurance: Brent MacGregor; Value Plus Processing: Ivan Blain; South Island Seeds: Gordon Crawford: Property Brokers #6: Grant Smith Charming Thai Longest Putt: James McFarlane; Tinwald Tavern Lucky Prize: Brendon Davidson.

Birdie Jackpot: # 6 Nett Eagles Jackpot: #4

Auckland gallops

Auckland RC Venue: Ellerslie Meeting Date: 01 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.28pm SKYCITY 2100 $50,000, MAAT, 2100m 1 x1271 Jimmy James (18) 59.......................S Collett 2 79311 Justa Boy Bullseye d (4) 59.....E McCall (a3) 3 41921 Sagunto (3) 59................................ S McKay 4 47312 Prince Albert b (13) 58...................J Waddell 5 84714 Koolascuz (12) 58..........................M McNab 6 x1002 Highland Dancer (8) 58.......................M Dee 7 32177 Triomphe t (9) 58.......................... D Johnson 8 4011 Gravitelle (6) 57.................................L Innes 9 x4320 Its All Fake News (15) 57....S Weatherley (a) 10 x4214 Lochwinnoch (7) 56.5...................T Thornton 11 86421 Platinum Road (5) 56.5....................J Riddell 12 x9881 Rip ‘n’ Burn (17) 56.................J Fawcett (a1) 13 32x13 Caribbean Rose (14) 56 14 07313 Valmur td (1) 56...............................R Smyth 15 0x010 Trip To Freedom (16) 56...............C Lammas 16 74204 Ambitious Showgirl (11) 55.........M Cameron 17 x6324 Man Oh Man (10) 57 18 52226 Piggy Malone 57........................... Scratched 19 8x562 Prince Solari 57............................ Scratched 20 52477 Charred 57.................................... Scratched 21 x0035 Rosa Fiore (2) 55...............................R Elliot Emergencies: Ambitious Showgirl, Man Oh Man, Piggy Malone, Prince Solari, Charred, Rosa Fiore 2 1.03pm MAINSTREAM PLUMBING & GASFITTING 1400 $50,000, MAAT, 1400m 1 67x17 Peace Train d (7) 58.................... L Satherley 2 67x14 Quick Preview (11) 58...................... C Grylls 3 36x52 Hunter Villain (6) 57................. K Asano (a2) 4 66222 Sham On Toast (9) 57.........S Weatherley (a) 5 9352x Vedo Rosso (13) 57.......................M McNab 6 2x80x Cleverconversation 57................... Scratched 7 x2616 My World 56.5............................... Scratched 8 79x31 Not Usual Litening d (2) 56.5......M Cameron 9 72x21 Call Me Evie (10) 56............ T Yanagida (a2) 10 25x13 Mekelle (3) 56.....................................M Dee 11 74x10 Servilia 56..................................... Scratched 12 33x21 Shanqueen (5) 56............................S Collett 13 006x1 Three Sixty t (12) 56........................R Myers

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RESULTS

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9 067x8 Shaz The Bank (8) 56.5..............D Prastiyou 10 x0000 Walk With Kings (3) 55.....................A Balloo 3 1.49pm CARGILLS, BLUESKIN NURSERY & PURE SERVICES $10,000, 2&3YO SW+P, 1150m 1 25380 All About Magic (5) 57.5.K Chowdhoory (a2) 2 106 Okay Pal b (3) 57.5 3 He’s Gangster (1) 56....................L Callaway 4 91 Lovebug (6) 54........................T Comignaghi 5 x0600 Our Rosette (2) 54........................T Moseley 6 Top Ghia (4) 54............................ C Johnson 4 2.24 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1250m 1 88718 Tickets On Her (2) 59.5......... R Mudhoo (a2) 2 55232 Arnage m (3) 59..............................S Wynne 3 57x13 Miss Tilly Winks (9) 59............T Comignaghi 4 20531 Montreux Miss (7) 58.5 5 05508 Hot Tap mb (5) 58........................ C Johnson 6 10x03 Wynmoore m (1) 58.........................A Balloo 7 0x802 Miss Maxipark m (6) 57.........A Bohorun (a3) 8 94000 Dangerous Pony (8) 56.................T Moseley 9 5503 Our Girl Gilly (4) 54........ K Chowdhoory (a2) 5 2.59 GLAMOUR HOOVES RACING STABLES R82 1250 $12,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1250m 1 86122 Belle Fascino m (5) 59.......... R Mudhoo (a2)

2 44042 Killarney (6) 58.5.....................T Comignaghi 3 40014 Mr Typhon (1) 57.5......... K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 29x48 Passito (2) 56.5....................... B Murray (a2) 5 x8057 Exemplar m (3) 55.5.....................T Moseley 6 0x605 Barabas (8) 55.5.................... S Toolooa (a3) 7 936x1 Windsor (7) 54.5.......................... C Johnson 8 48620 Bluey’s Chance m (4) 54..................A Balloo 9 7x021 The Swiss Maestro (9) 54...............S Wynne 10 8x845 He’s Mi Brother (10) 54.........A Bohorun (a3) 6 3.34pm OTAGO TYRES,IRONIC & HOPE & SONS MDN 2YO&UP 1250 $10,000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1250m 1 4252x Hombre b (12) 58.5 2 4 Are You Cereal (5) 58.5................L Callaway 3 78x44 Mustard (11) 58.5.............................J Laking 4 x0000 Artic Warrior (10) 58.5...................T Moseley 5 7x Yannick (13) 57............................ C Johnson 6 24x93 Ophelia Rose (7) 56.5 7 453x9 Index (4) 56.5...................... C Campbell (a1) 8 x3077 Show Cloud 56.5........................... Scratched 9 1 Rocket Ship 58.5........................... Scratched 10 347x0 Emma’s Chance (8) 55......... R Mudhoo (a2) 11 004 Bright Flash (6) 55 12 5x00 Easy On The Eye (9) 55..............D Prastiyou 13 6x030 Quintuple Twins (3) 56.5 -

Race 1: Pinup Coup, Zedaam, He Ain’t Heavy, Vee Twelve Race 2: Stop Making Sense, Leuluai, Effervescent, Verses Race 3: All About Magic, Lovebug, Our Rosette, He’s Gangster Race 4: Arnage, Tickets On Her, Hot Tap, Wynmoore Race 5: Belle Fascino, Killarney, The Swiss Maestro, Exemplar Race 6: Hombre, Mustard, Are You Cereal, Ophelia Rose, Index Race 7: Zentessa, Camino Rocoso, Shezatoucha, Wild Jack Race 8: Red Light District, Mr Fahrenheit, Jack Be Quick

Hawkes Bay gallops

Tomorrow at Hastings Raceway

Hawkes Bay Ri Venue: Hastings Meeting Date: 01 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.50pm (NZT) JIMMY RURAL 2100 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 87720 Zac Brown m (3) 59.5....................H Andrew 2 89441 Jonny Russ th (5) 59.................... R Hannam 3 15 Roc Legend (7) 59.......................... J Parkes 4 3310 Glorious Dream t (1) 58.5..............L Allpress 5 1x897 Rainbow Song m (4) 58.5.......C Burdan (a3) 6 51x03 Sheza Beach Babe t (8) 56.5........... M Singh 7 68540 Vannoss h (6) 55................................L Hemi 8 0x008 Mi Jakky h (2) 54................................ T Allan 2 1.25pm STELLA ARTOIS 3YO 1200 $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 High Achiever (7) 57.5 2 5 Laureate (3) 57.5....................C Burdan (a3) 3 96 Like A Boss (2) 57.5.................. D Danis (a2) 4 Mitchell (6) 57.5.............................H Andrew 5 O’Connor (4) 57.5........................... R Kozaki

6 2 Tamahine (5) 55.5..............................L Hemi 7 9x Copiapino (1) 55.5.........................L Allpress 8 7 Fabulous Fleet h (8) 55.5................. M Singh 9 Infared 55.5................................... Scratched 10 Unlaced h (9) 55.5.......................... J Parkes 3 2.00pm GARTH BEST- BEST TRAVEL MEMORIAL SPRINT $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1100m 1 60x31 Matt Cain th (7) 59.............................L Hemi 2 52x13 Pokuru’s Gift (9) 59......................... R Kozaki 3 0x154 Challa d (1) 58.5.....................C Burdan (a3) 4 x247x Pinot Grey b (4) 57.5......................D Bradley 5 3188x Elliot Power (6) 57..................... D Danis (a2) 6 96x10 Magic Incanto 56........................... Scratched 7 010x8 Swish Az h (2) 55.5......................... J Parkes 8 x3604 On Show bh (3) 55.........................H Andrew 9 x6836 Got The Call (8) 55 10 1x570 Miss Sweet Pee (5) 54.5.............. R Hannam 4 2.35 RUSSELL FAMILY CITY OF HASTINGS CUP/ FASTTRACK 5K $20,000, OPN HCP, 1300m 1 18187 Lucyinrio td (5) 60............................ M Singh

2 54836 Stradivarius tmh (4) 58.5....................L Hemi 3 744x3 Swisswatch t (1) 56.5..............C Burdan (a3) 4 7x872 Maria Dior th (3) 54................. T Taiaroa (a3) 5 24813 Motivation tdh (2) 54......................L Allpress 5 3.10 PHIL’S GARDENS MILE $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 43x26 Fearless b (3) 58.5.........................H Andrew 2 69625 Blizzing Away (7) 58.5........................ T Allan 3 44909 Double Act (8) 58.5...................... R Hannam 4 00898 War Of Words h (10) 58.5....... T Taiaroa (a3) 5 869x8 Whiteout 58.5................................ Scratched 6 7 Red Sunday h (2) 57....................... J Parkes 7 26x26 Florence O’Reilly (6) 56.5................ M Singh 8 28634 Rox (9) 56.5...................................L Allpress 9 0x724 Sheer Elegance h (5) 56.5.................L Hemi 10 Dancing Queen (1) 56.5............ R Goldsbury 11 5 Lady Chardonneigh (4) 55........ D Danis (a2) 6 3.45 KAHUNGUNU KAPA $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 280x6 Real Beach tdh (3) 59..................... J Parkes 2 47x12 Edwardian Lady td (1) 58.5..... T Taiaroa (a3)

3 x5910 Ivan Kane dmb (6) 58.5.................H Andrew 4 05092 One Prize One Goal tmh (2) 58.5.... M Singh 5 347x7 Royal Ruby td (4) 58...............C Burdan (a3) 6 0x128 Savanah Belle (5) 57......................L Allpress 7 4.19pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $10,000, MDN F&M, 1400m 1 x34x3 Spirit Of Galway (2) 57.5.........C Burdan (a3) 2 43x3 Ball Gown (6) 57.5.........................D Bradley 3 07254 One Way Street 57.5..................... Scratched 4 80x3 Vroom h (8) 57.5............................H Andrew 5 680x5 Rusty In Rongotea (4) 57.5................ T Allan 6 Commotion (3) 57.5........................ J Parkes 7 2 Alexandrite (9) 56...........................L Allpress 8 3 Ginger Jane (1) 56 9 x8x95 Royal Charter (7) 56............ C O’Beirne (a2) 10 Ivory Madonna h (5) 56......................L Hemi 8 4.54pm ROGER RUSSELL/CHARLIE KEENAN MEMORIAL $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 890x3 Quantum dm (1) 60............................L Hemi 2 37513 Yossarian tdh (3) 59......................... M Singh

Race 1: Glorious Dream, Zac Brown, Roc Legend, Jonny Russ Race 2: Laureate, High Achiever, Unlaced, O’Connor Race 3: On Show, Challa, Matt Cain, Pokuru’s Gift, Pinot Grey Race 4: Swisswatch, Lucyinrio, Stradivarius, Motivation, Maria Dior Race 5: Fearless, Blizzing Away, Rox, Florence O’Reilly Race 6: Savanah Belle, Real Beach, One Prize One Goal, Ivan Kane Race 7: Spirit Of Galway, Alexandrite, Ball Gown, Vroom Race 8: Enrichment, Amano, Yossarian, Quantum, Bucky

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Winton harness Today at Central Southland Raceway

Winton Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Central Southland Raceway Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.56pm NZ BLOODSTOCK MOBILE TROT $7000, r40-r53., mobile, 2400m 1 61086 Tweedledee (1) fr 2 0778x Tolkien (2) fr....................................K Larsen 3 03937 Alpine Retreat (3) fr....................E Barron (J) 4 x6581 Time In A Bottle (4) fr............... M Williamson 5 77087 Helluva Way (5) fr.................... J Morrison (J) 6 8x507 Global Flight (6) fr..........................R Jenkins 7 87x90 Lady Zara (7) fr................................... A Kyle 8 33182 Crusher Collins (8) fr................ N Williamson 9 6x509 Jaccka Jeorge (21) fr..................... B Barclay 10 50817 Ayutthaya (22) fr................................ A Milne 2 1.31pm FORKLIFTS NZ LTD MOBILE PACE $8500, non-winners 3yo+ mr40 to mr48., mobile, 2400m 1 7x352 Jaccka Ted (1) fr....................... N Williamson 2 48036 Yuko (2) fr................................K Newman (J) 3 06990 Miss Auckland (3) fr......................C Graham 4 0507 Mahia (4) fr.......................................M Jones 5 D56 Swell Time (5) fr............... M Williamson 6 898x9 A Rocknroll Maid (6) fr 7 45305 Major Menace (7) fr........................ B Barclay 8 x0695 Don’t Need An Excuse (8) fr......E Barron (J) 9 06430 Delight N Gold (21) fr....................... E Swain 10 98455 Wee Ring The Changes (22) fr...C Ferguson

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

11 0x030 Ellz Angel (23) fr..........................B McLellan 12 98599 Magnetic Chime (24) fr......................A Beck 13 600 Sly Tricks (25) fr............................. A Armour 14 86522 Glenledi Captain (26) fr................... P Hunter 3 2.07 REGENT CAR COURT MOBILE PACE $7000, r40-r49., mobile, 2400m 1 85552 Notaword (1) fr............................... B Barclay 2 62761 Touche (2) fr..........................S Tomlinson (J) 3 54289 Holy Havoc (3) fr............................. P Hunter 4 4x887 Melton Mafia (4) fr................................G Lee 5 626x9 I’m Jimmy James (5) fr............ J Morrison (J) 6 x8283 Bettors Atom (6) fr.......................C Ferguson 7 00P88 Von Richthofen (7) fr...................... K Barclay 8 70755 Man I’m Good (8) fr............................. A Kyle 9 04x15 Flash Party (21) fr.................... N Williamson 10 396x8 Ideologist (22) fr...............................M Jones 11 08563 Ideal Glacier (23) fr....................E Barron (J) 12 0x006 Maahes (24) fr 4 2.42pm FAIRBAIRN PLUMBING LTD MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r50-r54,r55 w/c., mobile, 2400m 1 77520 Lite Percussion (1) fr...................... K Barclay 2 98170 Fireforefiddle (2) fr.....................E Barron (J) 3 77477 Triple VC (3) fr.......................S Tomlinson (J) 4 51088 Vin Scully (4) fr......................... M Williamson 5 60044 Dark Rage (5) fr......................K Newman (J) 6 7x361 Dallas Grimes (6) fr........................ B Barclay 7 81x5 Airwaves (7) fr................................... A Milne 8 20322 Tartan Trilogy (8) fr................... N Williamson

9 2281x Olive Cook (21) fr.................... J Morrison (J) 10 14729 Burnham Boy (22) fr.........................M Jones 11 x9849 Bottle Rock (23) fr.......................C Ferguson 12 1 C R Gold (24) fr..............................R Holmes 13 28800 Nirvana Beach (25) fr.................M Anderson 14 0P18 Makara (U1) fr....................................A Beck 5 3.17 WILLY’S FLOORING LTD MOBILE TROT $9000, r55-r63., mobile, 2400m 1 33274 Rydgemont Milly (1) fr................E Barron (J) 2 16xP1 Jimmy Carter (2) fr................K Tomlinson (J) 3 91249 Gazza Galleon (3) fr...............B Laughton (J) 4 93417 Mdina (4) fr.......................................... C Butt 5 6157x Majestic Connies (5) fr............ J Morrison (J) 6 x1220 Sekkie Monkey (6) fr................ N Williamson 7 02x98 Super Fast Pat (7) fr....................... B Barclay 8 12x52 Cuchulainn (8) fr 6 3.53 SOUTHERN ST’BRED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION MBL PACE $15,000, 3yo fillies., mobile, 1609m 1 599 Rakanellie (1) fr..........................E Barron (J) 2 6133 Nikasa (2) fr................................... B Barclay 3 21x Luella (3) fr................................... B Hope (J) 4 31 Watch Me Now (4) fr...................... K Barclay 5 60x41 Pearl Harbour (5) fr.................. N Williamson 6 121 Sugar Loaf (6) fr.........................M Anderson 7 4.24 GIBSON-SMITH BLOODSTOCK MOBILE PACE $10,500, non-winners 3yo+ mr49 to mr50., 2400m 1 New York Man (1) fr.....................C Ferguson 2 63 I’m Watching You (2) fr............. M Williamson

3 Jaccka Oliver (3) fr......................... B Barclay 4 6 Starkey (4) fr.................................. A Armour 5 84 Raksjameson (5) fr.....................E Barron (J) 6 Hayden Bromac (6) fr......................K Larsen 7 9 I Had A Dream (7) fr........................ P Hunter 8 0x2 Ricotta (8) fr 9 4423 Major Meister (21) fr....................... K Barclay 10 0 Maya Angelou fr............................ Scratched 11 Rock To The Boss (22) fr 12 Saint Tropez (23) fr.............................A Beck 13 Mossdale Lottee (24) fr................ B Hope (J) 14 Buck (25) fr.............................. N Williamson 8 4.54pm THE MACCA LODGE SOUTHERN BELLE SPEED SERIES MOBILE PACE $10,000, w/c., mobile, 1609m 1 2xD22 Might Be Me (1) fr..............................A Beck 2 x3038 Calico Hill (2) fr 3 464x2 Stay Aboard (3) fr..................S Tomlinson (J) 4 15525 Vintage Rose (4) fr 5 370x2 Mossdale Art (5) fr....................... B Hope (J) 6 0x406 Major Sass (6) fr............................ K Barclay 7 2x125 Dachy (7) fr.............................. N Williamson 8 x2251 Bridesdale Robyn (8) fr...............C Ferguson 9 37583 Betterthanbrie (21) fr........................M Jones 10 31925 Team Kiwi (22) fr............................R Holmes 11 40111 Held To Ransom (23) fr................ J Alford (J) 12 02334 Anamajor (24) fr.........................M Anderson 13 21181 Countess Of Arden (25) fr......B Laughton (J)

9 5.24 THE TEST SYNDICATE MOBILE PACE $10,000, r55-r70., mobile, 2400m 1 6x200 The Croupier (1) fr.............................A Beck 2 26484 My Georgie Boy (2) fr...................... P Hunter 3 04x01 Dangerous (3) fr....................... N Williamson 4 97271 Maidonthebeach (4) fr 5 66x69 The Maroon Marauder (5) fr.. K Tomlinson (J) 6 06464 Unloaded (6) fr............................... B Barclay 7 91920 Whata Razzle Dazzle (7) fr........M Anderson 8 40741 Kingmaker (8) fr....................... M Williamson 9 154x5 No More Change (21) fr..............C Ferguson 10 9x74P Mach’s Back (22) fr........................ K Barclay Pacifiers on: Jaccka Jeorge (R1) SELECTIONS

Race 1: Crusher Collins, Time In A Bottle, Tweedledee, lady Zara Race 2: Glenledi Captain, Jaccka Ted, Swell Time, Major Menace Race 3: Flash Party, Touche, Bettors Atom, Ideal Glacier Race 4: Tartan Trilogy, Dallas Grimes, Dark Rage, Makara Race 5: Cuchulainn, Jimmy Carter, Rydgemont Milly Race 6: Sugar Loaf, Watch Me Now, Luella, Pearl Harbour Race 7: Major Meister, Ricotta, Raksjameson, Starkey Race 8: Held To Ransom, Dachy, Stay Aboard, Anamajor Race 9: Kingmaker, Unloaded, The Croupier, Maidonthebeach LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Auckland harness Today at Alexandra Park

Auckland Trotting Club Inc Venue: Alexandra Park Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2019 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 4.06pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD HANDICAP TROT $20,000, 3yo+ r50-r60 discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 78493 Safrakova (1) fr...................................L Chin 2 44355 Magnafique (2) fr..............................M Wallis 3 86042 Tobruk (3) fr....................................T Mitchell 4 2781x Bolt For Brilliance (4) fr...................T Herlihy 5 02006 Sunny Petite (5) fr........................J Stormont 6 00074 Resonate (U1) fr................................J Dunn 7 x2414 Madeakillin (U2) fr............................G Gillies 8 x4050 Monkey Selfie (U3) fr.....................N Chilcott 9 09083 Red Castleton (1) 10M................ T Cameron 10 13x82 Swiss Miss (2) 10M.....................P Ferguson 11 8x613 Full Of Hope (3) 10M.....................Z Butcher 2 4.36pm LINCOLN FARMS BLOODSTOCK MOBILE PACE $20,000, 3yo+ r50-r56., mobile, 2200m 1 85535 Vespa (1) fr................................... B Mangos 2 351x7 Akarana Prince (2) fr..........................J Dunn 3 92258 Ferritts Sister (3) fr.........................N Chilcott 4 3x311 Golden Quest (4) fr..................... T Cameron 5 26858 M T Pockets (5) fr.........................A Poutama 6 x2622 Sheffield Sparky (6) fr....................Z Butcher 7 16845 Accelere (7) fr................................T Mitchell 8 06214 Fabrizio (8) fr..................................B Orange 9 34586 Charlotte Royal (21) fr.................P Ferguson 10 3x824 Dina Brown (22) fr...........................T Herlihy 3 5.06 I FLY THAI AIRWAYS MOBILE PACE $20,000, 3yo+ r58-r73., mobile, 2200m 1 x4122 Gliding Away (1) fr..........................B Orange 2 x7911 Dina Bolt (2) fr.........................N Rasmussen

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Otago Greyhound Racing Club at Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 11.40am FORBURY PARK FIRST 4 SPRINT C0, 310m 1 67562 Grey Wind nwtd...........................N Wanhalla 2 88336 Impressive Gift nwtd..................J McInerney 3 8858 Pukeko Magic nwtd.........................B Healey 4 75833 Chelsea Smile nwtd......................C Roberts 5 x8688 Mick The Mouse nwtd................J McInerney 6 63784 Homebush Showoff nwtd...........J McInerney 7 Homebush Bomber nwtd...........J McInerney 8 38xF3 Homebush Hans nwtd................J McInerney 9 66375 King Theoden nwtd..........................C Steele 10 Homebush Barclay nwtd............J McInerney 2 11.56am OGRC EARLY QUADDIE SPRINT C0, 310m 1 77778 Impressive Mood nwtd...............J McInerney 2 7x482 Homebush Surgeon nwtd..........J McInerney 3 33 Maffra Daisy nwtd......................J McInerney 4 86624 Marakesh Max nwtd...................J McInerney 5 x6872 Blushing Pete nwtd..........................R Wales 6 26 Homebush Susan nwtd..............J McInerney 7 68376 Homebush Marissa nwtd...........J McInerney 8 36753 Three Gold Stars nwtd....................C Healey Emergencies: 9 46356 Homebush Liz nwtd...................J McInerney 10 77466 Kowloon Lights nwtd.......................J Guthrie

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Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 31 Dec 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 1 2.32pm (NZT) COLIN KEEN MEMORIAL (GROUP 2) FINAL C5f, 545m 1 21233 Spring Falcon nwtd J &....................D Fahey 2 53333 Know Refusal 32.57........................G Cleeve 3 13121 Uthor Bale 33.15...........................C Roberts 4 24216 Opawa May nwtd.............................R Wales 5 21144 Double Speed 32.93......................R Adcock 6 73552 Egomaniacal 32.35.......................D Roberts 7 21111 Oster Bale 32.27...........................C Roberts 8 64348 Know State 32.49............................G Cleeve 9 35155 Know Shame 32.45.........................G Cleeve

3 2232x Best Western (3) fr.....................S Abernethy 4 11166 Im A Gigolo (4) fr.............................T Herlihy 5 23567 Matai Geordie (5) fr......................J Stormont 6 56244 Double Rocket (6) fr........................S Phelan 7 0x589 Tiger Swift (7) fr.............................T Mitchell 8 57363 Jay Tee Tyron (8) fr.............................J Dunn 9 22651 Callie’s Delight (21) fr......................J I Dickie 10 33775 Ivana Flybye (22) fr........................B Butcher 4 5.36 ALABAR SIRES STAKES 3YO CHAMPS MBL PACE (G1) $150,000, 3yo fillies., mobile, 2200m 1 25051 Emmber (1) fr................................... M White 2 12216 Need You Now (2) fr......................T Williams 3 2x323 Spellbound (3) fr................................J Dunn 4 24271 Dr Susan (4) fr................................T Herlihy 5 x8178 Little Miss Perfect (5) fr..................Z Butcher 6 66759 Longview Lady (6) fr......................B Orange 7 41345 On A Roll (7) fr...........................S Abernethy 8 11642 Gemma Mac (8) fr................................A Butt 9 11131 Amazing Dream (21) fr............N Rasmussen 10 5x112 Stylish Memphis (22) fr....................... R May 5 6.06pm WOODLANDS STUD YEARLING 21/01/20 HCP TROT $20,000, r62-r83 discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 642x3 Tricky Ric (1) fr................................J I Dickie 2 71035 Puma Road (2) fr...........................Z Butcher 3 89635 Ace Commander (3) fr...................B Orange 4 x1821 Anditover (4) fr.............................. D Butcher 5 22019 Phoebe Imperial (U1) fr..................N Chilcott 6 44002 Lovely Bundy (U2) fr...................P Ferguson 7 515x7 Pretty Majestic (1) 15M......................J Dunn 8 11x23 Tickle Me Pink (1) 25M...................T Herlihy 9 35275 Gershwin (U1) 25M......................A Poutama 10 50862 Sertorius (U2) 25M....................... B Mangos 11 19973 Kenny’s Dream (1) 35M............B Williamson

12 62491 Sunny Glenis (2) 35M.....................S Phelan 6 6.36pm PGG WRIGHTSON YEARLING SALES SERIES FNL MBL PACE $200,000, 3yo., mobile, 2200m 1 2132 South Coast Arden (1) fr............... B Mangos 2 13132 One Change (2) fr...................N Rasmussen 3 30543 Down To The Bone (3) fr....................J Dunn 4 42231 American Me (4) fr..................... J Abernethy 5 17167 Hampton Banner (5) fr.................A Poutama 6 21394 Line Up (6) fr........................................A Butt 7 40703 Mighty Looee (7) fr......................P Ferguson 8 21725 Flying Even Bettor (8) fr................T Williams 9 52081 Ideal Agent (21) fr..........................T Mitchell 10 26x83 Smooth Deal (22) fr........................M Purdon 11 83446 Bad To The Bone (23) fr.................Z Butcher 7 7.06 SIMS PACIFIC METALS 2019 NATIONAL MBL TROT (G1) $100,000, ffa., mobile, 2700m 1 01411 Winterfell (1) fr........................N Rasmussen 2 31322 Majestic Man (2) fr....................B Williamson 4844 Valloria (3) fr.......................................J Dunn 3D 4 55563 Destiny Jones (4) fr....................... D Butcher 5 15x2D Enhance Your Calm (5) fr..............T Williams 6 11011 Oscar Bonavena (6) fr....................M Purdon 7 22406 Marcoola (7) fr.................................S Phelan 8 22323 Massive Metro (8) fr.......................T Mitchell 9 41154 Temporale (21) fr.............................T Herlihy 10 71328 Paramount King (22) fr....................J I Dickie 11 70000 Woodstone (U1) fr..........................B Orange 8 7.36 AUCKLAND CO-OP TAXIS 300 3000 MOBILE PACE $20,000, r75-r103., mobile, 2200m 1 1111x Gambit (1) fr................................ T Cameron 2 x2832 Revolver (2) fr.................................T Herlihy 3 xP144 Havtime (3) fr............................ M McKendry 4 57255 Bettorstartdreaming (4) fr................J I Dickie

2 30861 Another Masterpiece (2) fr..............T Herlihy 3 11231 Self Assured (3) fr..........................M Purdon 4 40903 Check In (4) fr..............................A Poutama 5 32214 Cruz Bromac (5) fr.........................B Orange 6 28492 Classie Brigade (6) fr.........................J Dunn 7 84085 Star Galleria (7) fr..........................T Mitchell 8 35050 On The Cards (8) fr.........................S Phelan 9 03362 Mach Shard (9) fr...........................Z Butcher 10 26038 Triple Eight (10) fr.......................... D Butcher 11 12220 Chase Auckland (U1) fr.................T Williams 10 8.39pm BRECKON FARMS YOUNG GUNS SERIES HEAT 2 MBL PACE $25,000, 2yo., mobile, 1700m 1 2 Krug (1) fr.......................................B Orange 2 3 First Class (2) fr......................N Rasmussen 3 8 Captain Nemo (3) fr.......................Z Butcher 4 4 Platinum Stride (4) fr............................A Butt 5 6 Black Edition (5) fr......................... B Mangos SELECTIONS Race 1: Swiss Miss, Bolt For Brilliance, Monkey Selfie Race 2: Dina Brown, Ferritts Sister, Sheffield Sparky, Fabrizio Race 3: Dina Bolt, Gliding Away, Matai Geordie, Double Rocket Andre Poutama is down to drive Check In in Race 4: Amazing Dream, Stylish Memphis, Need You Now the Trillian Trust Auckland Cup tonight, at Race 5: Tickle Me Pink, Tricky Ric, Sertorius, Kenny’s Dream fixed odds of $151 if you’re brave enough. Race 6: One Change, Smooth Deal, Line Up, Bad To The Bone 5 93219 Ball Of Art (5) fr..............................T Mitchell Race 7: Oscar Bonavena, Winterfell, Massive Metro, Majestic Man 6 40400 Dance Time (6) fr.......................... D Butcher Race 8: Belle Of Montana, Revolver, Gambit, Wainui Creek 7 68551 Step Up (7) fr.................................B Butcher Race 9: Self Assured, Thefixer, Cruz Bromac, Mach Shard 8 1x111 Belle Of Montana (8) fr...................Z Butcher Race 10: Krug, First Class, Platinum Stride, Black Edition

9 31123 Wainui Creek (21) fr........................S Phelan 9 8.08pm TRILLIAN TRUST 2019 AUCKLAND CUP PACE (G1) $250,000, ffa, stand, 3200m 1 53523 Thefixer (1) fr..........................N Rasmussen

LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

5 23264 Miss Nina nwtd............................... B Conner 6 67382 Mick The Mower 33.31...............J McInerney 7 13273 Longshanks 33.02......................A Bradshaw 8 31212 Mr Blackjack nwtd J &......................D Fahey 9 23136 Opawa Cutie nwtd............................R Wales 10 65335 Shermo Bale nwtd........................C Roberts 8 1.40pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER STAKES C1/2, 545m 1 45146 Mitcham Manering 34.30...........J McInerney 2 45438 Must Be Rusty 32.41..................J McInerney 3 34544 Orina Allen 33.21..........................C Roberts 4 46183 Shift The Blame 32.60................J McInerney 5 51774 Cosmic Stu 32.65.......................J McInerney 6 46772 Goldstar Yankee 33.28 S &..............B Evans 7 67511 Punters Last nwtd............................R Wales 8 31153 New Note nwtd J &..........................D Fahey 9 78667 Nippa Enough nwtd....................J McInerney 10 56368 Prince Rohit nwtd.......................J McInerney 9 1.57pm DELTA ENGINEERING SPRINT C4, 310m 1 24311 Opawa Oscar 18.62.........................R Wales 2 22634 Goldstar Spotty 18.79 S &...............B Evans 3 12617 Homebush Tesan 18.69.............J McInerney 4 76531 Starr Blueblood 18.72................J McInerney 5 78518 Amuri George 19.08...................J McInerney 6 71F76 Princely Gold 18.31....................J McInerney 7 28724 Goldstar Willa 18.68 S &..................B Evans 8 41633 Amuri Magic 18.35.....................J McInerney

9 15182 Souffle Sue nwtd........................J McInerney 10 25167 Citizen Aguero nwtd...................J McInerney 10 2.17pm OTAGO NEW YEAR’S EVE CLASSIC FINAL C5f, 310m 1 12233 Little Krakatoa 18.64.................. A Bradshaw 2 11661 Shaw Lee 18.25 J M........................ McCook 3 14133 Hankenstein 18.32..................... A Bradshaw 4 82728 Disobedience 18.63 S &..................B Evans 5 43845 Wildebeest 18.35....................... A Bradshaw 6 F1622 Chasing Fame 18.27..........................S Keen 7 37848 Nelso Allen 18.49..........................C Roberts 8 61411 Eyrewell Turbo 18.37....................... H Cairns 9 22452 Tee An’ Cee 18.39.......................... B Conner 10 22571 Homebush Boots 18.58.............J McInerney SELECTIONS

4 46271 Opal Hunter nwtd.......................J McInerney 5 67565 Cool Beans 18.95......................J McInerney 6 64342 Goldstar Galaxie 18.93 S &.............B Evans 7 35323 Pooran’s Jadeja nwtd J M................ McCook 8 25455 Homebush Maycee 18.55..........J McInerney Emergencies: 9 36863 Gracie Lee nwtd.........................J McInerney 10 56853 Brut Magic 19.27.............................C Healey 5 3.46pm RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 14TH JANUARY C1, 310m 1 53652 Know Majority 19.02.......................G Cleeve 2 71232 Impressive High nwtd.................J McInerney 3 83252 Homebush George nwtd............J McInerney 4 55337 Homebush Velma 18.52.............J McInerney

5 33421 Meatloaf nwtd................................S Hindson 6 22123 Goldstar Perrie nwtd S &.................B Evans 7 71855 Smokey Dodger 18.72.............. P Hammond 8 63751 Chicago Head nwtd....................J McInerney 9 38743 Goldstar Wynter nwtd S &................B Evans 10 22324 Homebush Rehaina 18.78.........J McInerney SELECTIONS

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway 3 12.12pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 545m 1 55633 Ain’t He Lucky nwtd....................N Wanhalla 2 3865 Opawa Nash nwtd............................R Wales 3 4667 Silouette Jet nwtd................................J Allen 4 25572 Punters Choice nwtd........................R Wales 5 2 Savage Knight nwtd........................ H Cairns 6 33544 Max Volume nwtd.......................A Bradshaw 7 6256 Volcanic Whisper nwtd........................J Allen 8 846 Tidal Tapestry nwtd.............................J Allen 9 6 Beret Girl nwtd J &...........................D Fahey 10 86 Opawa Rod nwtd.............................R Wales 4 12.30pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE STAKES C1, 545m 1 57273 Zefside nwtd...............................J McInerney 2 1334 Macadoodle nwtd J &.......................D Fahey 3 65x61 Goldstar Flora nwtd S &...................B Evans 4 72721 Billy Ray nwtd.............................N Wanhalla 5 87857 Bruiser’s Day nwtd......................... B Conner 6 34543 Black Stockings nwtd.................A Bradshaw 7 11x41 Punters A Hero nwtd J &..................D Fahey 8 74463 Queena Bale nwtd........................C Roberts 9 24625 Go Belle nwtd...................................R Wales 10 37537 Dream Kay nwtd..............................R Wales 5 12.47pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C2, 310m 1 44531 Khatia nwtd................................J McInerney 2 51877 My Girl Sofia 18.62.........................B Healey

3 37651 M’Lady Sadie nwtd.....................A Bradshaw 4 56546 Reign Of Fire 18.37....................J McInerney 5 53372 Homebush Reed 18.66..............J McInerney 6 4F147 Punch On Scooby 18.91............J McInerney 7 77621 Baldrick 19.36............................J McInerney 8 74266 Homebush Boden 18.60............J McInerney Emergencies: 9 57612 Dusty’s Ink 18.87.............................B Healey 10 11523 Dyna Trevor nwtd........................H Anderton 6 1.05 BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C3, 310m 1 81126 Homebush Alexei nwtd..............J McInerney 2 58321 Homebush Caesar 18.37...........J McInerney 3 11773 Sozin’s Azure nwtd.....................J McInerney 4 27672 Goldstar Dodge 18.72 S &...............B Evans 5 87175 Sozin’s Blue 18.64.....................J McInerney 6 21436 Mitcham Reado 18.52................J McInerney 7 47568 Homebush Sayer 18.40.............J McInerney 8 74571 Amuri Liv nwtd...........................J McInerney 9 82142 Go Mufasa nwtd...............................R Wales 10 84546 Punch On Buzz 19.14................J McInerney 7 1.22 BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS STAKES C1, 545m 1 44864 Know Talent 33.52...........................G Cleeve 2 46452 Goldstar Truman nwtd S &...............B Evans 3 41131 Pretty Busy 33.06 J &......................D Fahey 4 5F741 Hustle Ace nwtd..........................N Wanhalla

Race 1: Impressive Gift, Chelsea Smile, Homebush Bomber Race 2: Maffra Daisy, Homebush Susan, Three Gold Stars Race 3: Punters Choice, Opawa Nash, Max Volume, Beret Girl Race 4: Macadoodle, Queena Bale, Black Stockings Race 5: My Girl Sofia, Khatia, Homebush Reed, Dusty’s Ink Race 6: Homebush Caesar, Homebush Alexei, Homebush Sayer Race 7: Pretty Busy, Longshanks, Hustle Ace, Know Talent Race 8: New Note, Punters Last, Orina Allen, Mitcham Manering Race 9: Opawa Oscar, Amuri Magic, Goldstar Willa, Souffle Sue Race 10: Shaw Lee, Wildebeest, Hankenstein, Little Krakatoa LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway 1 82683 Homebush Flynn nwtd...............J McInerney 2 54582 Goldstar Charger nwtd S &..............B Evans 1 23633 Opawa Sweet 33.02.........................R Wales 3 36821 Punters Kirsty nwtd..........................R Wales 2 32546 Goldstar Alaska 33.05 S &...............B Evans 4 6x522 Cisco Reign nwtd..........................D Roberts 3 28372 Joe Bonanza 32.36....................J McInerney 5 452F1 ST Andrews nwtd...............................D Lane 4 66146 Know Threat 32.36..........................G Cleeve 6 47432 Sozin’s Assassin nwtd................J McInerney 5 13642 Bashful Buffy 32.64....................J McInerney 7 56521 Big Tiny nwtd..............................J McInerney 6 42135 Know Equal 32.82...........................G Cleeve 8 65778 Homebush Vassy nwtd...............J McInerney 7 51422 Classy Witch 32.54.........................G Cleeve 9 TF163 Know Tactics nwtd...............G Cleeve 8 23741 Darla Bale nwtd.............................C Roberts 10 43553 Homebush Comet 18.69............J McInerney 9 4457x Know Conclusion 32.66..................G Cleeve 4 3.27pm HAPPY NEW YEAR SPRINT C1, 310m 10 78667 Nippa Enough nwtd....................J McInerney 1 23143 Mitcham Pru nwtd......................A Bradshaw 3 3.07pm EQUINOX BAR & RESTAURANT SPRINT 2 25552 Goldstar Whitey nwtd S &................B Evans 3 43211 Carl Spackler nwtd.........................R Adcock C1, 310m 10 21455 Know Betrayal 32.37.......................G Cleeve

2 2.52pm OGRC LATE QUADDIE STAKES C2/3, 545m

Race 1: Oster Bale, Uthor Bale, Know State, Know Refusal Race 2: Darla Bale, Opawa Sweet, Know Threat, Joe Bonanza Race 3: Homebush Flynn, Cisco Reign, Sozin’s Assassin Race 4: Mitcham Pru, Carl Spackler, Goldstar Galaxie Race 5: Homebush Velma, Goldstar Perrie, Homebush George 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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Hunter Quinlan Happy 5th Birthday Hunter!

Enjoy your Tinwald School days. Love always Nana and Poppa. xxxxx

TUESDAY

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Dec 31, 2019, Jan 1 & 2, 2020

Merry Christmas

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

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo. West Street Ashburton.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

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

aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo. West Street Ashburton.

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

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

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

DUTY DOCTORS

Pharmacies

Lifeline

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will Toll-free: 0800 353 353. be open from 10am - 1pm Wednesday (New Year’s Day) and OMMUNITY Thursday (New Year Holiday).

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Ashburton Rest Homes

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

Emergency Dentist

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

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Wednesday (New Year’s Day) until 8am Thursday (New Year Holiday). Consultation will be by appointment only.

Ashburton Health First, Havelock Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Thursday (New Year Holiday) until 8am Friday. Consultation will be by appointment only. Please call ahead for an appointment.

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

Support. Phone 03 364 8791

Methven & Rakaia Area

Victims Support Group

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

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

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

HELPLINE SERVICES Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955.

Ask for the Crisis Team.

Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis 24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846).

Direct dials to a volunteer.

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

Alcohol Drug Help Line

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Information Centre

SERVICES

Methven - Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am until 3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com

Bus Departures

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks will be Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. closed on: Wednesday, January 1, 2020.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Art Gallery 327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133.

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

RESOURCE RECOVERY PARKS

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Ashburton Museum

327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890.

Open daily: 10am – 4pm

Ashburton Public Library

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Dog, Stock & Noise Control

Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.

Animal Welfare Centre

All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.

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

Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.

Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter

EA Networks Centre - Pools

Veterinarians

Contact - President 021 1356 969.

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

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

Full emergency service all weekend.

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

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

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

Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

Puzzles 20 Ashburton Guardian December 31, 2019 Puzzles andTuesday, horoscopes

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Being the centre of attention might be uncomfortable for some, but not for you, not today, because you’re so ready for it. Besides, what you have to contribute from this highly visible spot will help many.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): People are drawn to you because they believe you will lead them to the next good place. Maybe it’s a heart or headspace. Even better! Expand horizons without expanding the carbon footprint.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): The bigger person in the situation is usually the calmer person, the one who is considering the most people, thinking of the long-range results and generally acting selflessly.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’ll think about how you might be healthier in the upcoming months, beginning with changes you could make to your work or daily routines. Start small. Better yet, start teeny. Micro habits are the answer.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your taste in media will develop in different directions, a reflection of changing needs and growing curiosities. The fun part will be the new friends you’ll make along the way who share these interests.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): If, in the spirit of getting a fresh take on the new year, then you decide to do some decluttering, you will find the most fascinating things in your own file cabinet and drawers.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You are the bright light in another person’s night – a role you didn’t ask for, but now, like the lighthouse helping a ship avoid the rocky shore, you’re ennobled by the responsibility.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You find that a purge of the old year’s unnecessary baggage is a thrill.

Consider extending the clean-up effort to digital files and social media.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Take a moment to imagine how you want these last breaths of the year to go. Make a plan to support your best-case scenario. Whether or not you stick to the plan, you’ll be better for having one.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You’ll make the most of this opportunity to reflect on the last year.

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PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Some of your ideas about the New Year reflect your priorities and some reflect your fantasies. In the months to come, you’ll be moving those two categories closer together, starting today.

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HARNETT, Anthony Please note all late death Francis (Tony) – notices or notices sent On December 23, 2019, outside ordinary office peacefully in his sleep at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. hours must be emailed to: Aged 84 years. Dearly deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. beloved husband of Marie for 57 years. Loved father and To place a notice during father-in-law of Robert and office hours please contact Jane, Belinda and Joe and us on 03 307 7900 for more the late Randall, Jack and information.

Helen and Rebecca and Any queries please Richie. Very much loved contact 0800 grandad (Tony) of Patrick, ASHBURTON Felix, and Cleo; Hannah, and (0800-274-287) Joe Peters; Brooke; Sinnead, Dominic, and Frano.

Messages to the Harnett family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Very special thanks to the staff at Tuarangi Home and Ashburton Hospital for their wonderful care of Tony. A requiem Canterbury owned, Mass to celebrate Tony’s life locally operated will be held at the Church of Patersons The Holy Name, Sealy Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY, Funeral Services January 3, commencing at and Ashburton 11.00am.

Followed by interment at the Ashburton Crematorium Ltd New Lawn Cemetery.

Office and Chapel Corner East & Cox Streets, Ashburton

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1997 Comedy. 0 10:40 The Big Bang Theory 10:15 Mrs Brown’s Boys AO 3 0 10:50 Mrs Brown’s Boys AO 3 0

7am Married At First Sight USA 3 The experts encourage each couple to bring their new spouse to a place from their past that has a special meaning.

8:05 The Biggest Loser Australia 3 9am House Rules PGR 3 0 10:05 Infomercials 11:35 Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 12:35 Face The Truth PGR 1pm M Sins And Seduction PGR 3 2018 Thriller. When a progressive minister welcomes a seemingly sweet couple into her church, she finds herself entangled in the obsession of a handsome new parishioner. Nicky Whelan, Brandon Quinn, Rib Hillis. 0 3pm American Ninja Warrior 3 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Bondi Rescue 0 7:30 The Block Australia PGR 0 8:35 M Gladiator AO 3 2000 Action. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen. 0

11:30 Mrs Brown’s Boys AO 3 Mammy’s Tickled Pink. 0 Midnight New Year’s Eve Fireworks 2019 3 12:05 Mrs Brown’s Boys AO 3 Mammy’s Tickled Pink. 0 12:15 Mrs Brown’s Boys Special AO 3 0 12:55 Kath And Kim PGR 3 0 1:45 Infomercials 5:35 Fishing And Adventure 3

11:25 7 Days – 10th Birthday Special AO 3 Jeremy Corbett, Dai Henwood, and Paul Ego return with a cast of Kiwi comedians, for a special episode celebrating a decade of 7 Days on air.

12:25 Infomercials

11pm Year In Review 2019 0 Midnight L New Year’s Eve Fireworks 2019 12:05 F Have You Been Paying Attention To 2019? 0 12:55 F Dumb Daredevils Make You LOL PGR 3 1:45 Infomercials 2:50 Army Wives AO 3 0 3:35 Love Island Australia AO 3 0 4:40 F America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0

MOVIES PREMIERE

Elton John, 7pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Yours, Mine, Or Ours PGR 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 11:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 12:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 1:30 Below Deck – Mediterranean PGR 3 2:30 Four Weddings UK 3 3:30 The People’s Court 4:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 Dress To Impress 3 7:30 Snapped PGR 3 8:30 Body Fixers PGR 3 9:30 Botched AO Dr Nassif helps a woman who was head-butted by a bulldog, and is now missing the inside of her nose; Dr Dubrow must remove a breast lump to stop a leaking nipple.

10:30 Snapped AO 11:30 Snapped – She Made Me Do It PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

7:09 John Ford – The Man Who Invented America MC 2018 Documentary.

8:04 Hotel Artemis 16VL 2018 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown. 9:39 The Festival 16LSC 2019 Flight of the Conchords in Comedy. Joe Thomas, Jemaine Clement. 11:14 The London, 9:30pm on Prime Institute 16VSC 2019 Thriller.

James Franco, Allie Gallerani.

SKY 5 12:54 Ocean’s 8 ML 2018 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Action. Sandra Bullock, Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Cate Blanchett. 2:42 John Simpsons PG 7:15 Charmed Ford – The Man Who M 8am Border Security Invented America MC 2018 – Australia’s Frontline M Documentary. 3:37 Hotel 8:25 Ice Road Truckers ML Artemis 16VL 2018 Thriller.

9:15 Storage Wars – Texas Jodie Foster, Sterling K Brown.

PG 9:40 CSI MV 10:25 SVU 5:10 Charlotte’s Song 16VLSC MV 11:10 Charmed 2015 Drama. Iwan Rheon, M 11:55 Jeopardy! PG Katelyn Mager. 6:40 See 12:20 Wheel Of Fortune PG You Soon 16S 2018 Drama.

12:45 A1 – Highway Patrol Liam McIntyre, Harvey Keitel.

MVLC 1:35 The Simpsons PG 2pm Raw Live MVC 5:05 Wheel 8:30 Bad Times At The El Of Fortune PG 5:30 Storage Royale 16VL 2018 Drama.

Wars – Texas PG 6pm Ice Seven strangers, each with a Road Truckers ML 7pm Border secret, meet at Lake Tahoe’s Security – Australia’s El Royale, a rundown hotel Frontline M 7:30 CSI MV with a dark past. Jeff Bridges, 8:30 World’s Wildest Weather Chris Hemsworth.

PGV 9:30 Combat Dealers PG 10:55 Drunk Parents MVLSC 10:30 SVU MV 11:15 Ice Road 2019 Comedy. Alec Baldwin, Truckers ML Salma Hayek.

Wednesday

12:05 Charmed M 12:50 Wheel Of Fortune PG 1:15 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 Border Security – Australia’s Frontline M 2:05 Combat Dealers PG 2:50 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Simpsons PG

Wednesday

12:30 Bad Date Chronicles MC 2017 Romantic Comedy.

Merritt Patterson, Justin Kelly.

1:52 Lasso 16VLC 2017 Horror.

3:26 Bad Times At The El Royale 16VL 2018 Drama.

5:43 Charlotte’s Song 16VLSC 2015 Drama.

MAORI

6am Codename – Kids Next Door 3 0 6:30 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 7am Krypto The Superdog 3 0 7:30 Danny Phantom 3 8am Game Shakers 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 10am The Doctors PGR 3 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 0 Noon Just Shoot Me PGR 3 0 12:30 Elementary PGR 3 0 1:30 Frasier 3 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun International real-estate show where property experts search the world help house hunters find their perfect patch of paradise.

5pm Third Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 3 7pm A Big Lego Christmas 3 0 8:05 Brits Icon – Elton John PGR 3 Gala concert event celebrating the life and career of music’s ‘Rocket Man’.

9:30 Flight Of The Conchords In London AO 3 Musical comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement return with a new comedy special.

11:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:30 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 7:57 Gravity MLC 2013 Drama. Sandra Bullock, George Clooney. 9:25 Pride MLSC 2014 Comedy. Bill Nighy, Dominic West. 11:22 I Am Number Four MV 2011 Sci-fi Action. Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant.

1:08 Jack The Giant Slayer MV 2013 Adventure. Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor.

3pm Dinner For Schmucks MLS 2010 Comedy. Steve Carell, Paul Rudd.

4:55 Elysium 16VL 2013 Action Sci-fi. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley.

6:50 10 Things I Hate About You PGS 1999 Romantic Comedy. Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles.

8:30 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama. A detective must apprehend his estranged son on a murder charge. Robert De Niro, Frances MacDormand, Eliza Dushku.

10:20 Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Western. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio.

Wednesday

1:05 Jack The Giant Slayer MV 2013 Adventure. Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor. 2:57 Dinner For Schmucks MLS 2010 Comedy. Steve Carell, Paul Rudd. 4:52 Elysium 16VL 2013 Action Sci-fi.

Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley.

CHOICE

6:30 Paia 6:40 My Mokai 7:10 He Rourou 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 8am Ariki 8:30 Road To The Nats 3 9am Native Kitchen 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am Waiata 3 10:30 F My Party Song 11am Tautohetohe 3 Noon IVF World Sprints 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Celebrity Playlist 3 1:30 Opaki 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Paia 3:10 My Mokai 3:40 He Rourou 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 5:30 Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Moosemeat And Marmalade PGR 3 Explore cultures and traditions through the way we access, cook and present our food.

8pm F Waka Man 3 8:30 Piri’s Tiki Tour PGR 3 9pm F Intake AO 3 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO 3 10:30 Whawhai

6am Gardeners’ World 7am River Cottage – Summer’s Here 8am Animal Park 9am Gourmet Farmer 9:30 Alone PGR 10:30 Ozzy And Jack’s World Detour 11:30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12:30 Treasures Decoded 1:30 Britain’s Most Historic Towns 2:30 Titanic – The New Evidence 3:30 Wildlife Icons 4:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals Jamie prepares a classic British picnic, including sausage rolls, mackerel pâté, asparagus, crunchy salad, and Pimm’s Eton mess.

5pm Rachel Khoo – My Swedish Kitchen 5:30 Flipping Bangers 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 M Kath And Kimderella PGR 2012 Comedy.

When Kath Day-Knight wins a trip to Italy, she and her overbearing daughter Kim find themselves at the centre of their own fairytale. Jane Turner, Gina Riley.

9:30 Designing Paradise 10pm My Floating Home 10:30 American Pickers

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

11:30 Closedown

11:30 M The Words AO 2012 Drama. An exploration of the price of success, and consequences that affect innocent lives. Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde.

2am The Secret Lives Of Owls 3am Wildlife Icons 4am Designing Paradise 4:30 My Floating Home 5am Flipping Bangers

SKY SPORT 1 6am Black Ferns Wins (RPL) Canada v Black Ferns.

From Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center in California.

8am All Blacks Wins (RPL) All Blacks v Pumas.

From Estadio José Amalfitani in Buenos Aires.

10am Maori All Blacks Wins (RPL) Maori All Blacks v Fiji.

From Rotorua.

Noon National Co-Ed Final (HLS) St Kentigern’s v Feilding High.

12:30 National Girls Final (HLS) Christchurch Girls’ v Hamilton Girls’.

1pm National Boys Final (HLS) King’s College v Hastings Boys’.

1:30 Farah Palmer Cup Championship Final (HLS) Otago v Hawke’s Bay. 2pm Mitre 10 Cup Championship Final (HLS) Bay of Plenty v Hawke’s Bay. 2:30 Farah Palmer Premiership Final (HLS) Canterbury v Auckland.

3pm Mitre 10 Cup Premiership Final (HLS) Tasman v Wellington.

3:30 Super Rugby Final (HLS) Crusaders v Jaguares.

4pm Seven – Ignite7 (HLS) 5pm Pro14 – Benetton v Zebre (RPL) 7pm Pro14 – Edinburgh v Warriors (RPL) 9pm Seven – Ignite7 (HLS) 10pm All Blacks Wins (HLS) All Blacks v Wallabies.

From Optus Stadium in Perth.

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

SKY SPORT 2 6am Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test.

From Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne.

8am Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test.

From Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne.

9am Women’s Super Smash (HLS) Sparks v Magicians.

From Molyneux Park in Alexandra.

9:30 Super Smash (HLS) Volts v Kings.

From Molyneux Park in Alexandra.

10am Big Bash (HLS) Hurricanes v Stars.

10:30 Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test.

From Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne.

6pm Big Bash (HLS) Hurricanes v Stars.

6:30 Women’s Super Smash (HLS) Sparks v Magicians.

From Molyneux Park in Alexandra.

7pm Super Smash (HLS) Volts v Kings.

From Molyneux Park in Alexandra.

7:30 Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test.

From Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne.

8:30 Big Bash (HLS) Hurricanes v Stars.

9:05 L Big Bash Strikers v Thunder.

From Adelaide Oval.

31Dec19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Monkey Business Dragster.

7:30 Wheels That Fail PG 7:55 Wheels That Fail PG 8:20 Fast N’ Loud PG No Second Chances.

9:10 Kindig Customs PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Outback Opal Hunters PG 11:40 A Crime To Remember M The Gentleman Killer. 12:30 Blood Relatives M Rotten to the Core.

1:20 Web Of Lies M Murder Goes Live. 2:10 Wheels That Fail PG 2:35 Wheels That Fail PG 3pm Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail PG The Monster Mine.

3:50 Deadliest Catch PG New Blood, Old Wounds. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG Double Trouble Galaxie. 5:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 6:35 Outback Opal Hunters PG 7:30 BattleBots PG 8:30 Expedition Unknown PG 9:25 What On Earth?

PG 10:15 Naked And Afraid XL PG 11:05 Naked And Afraid MLC 11:55 How It’s Made PG Wednesday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Wheels That Fail PG 1:10 Wheels That Fail PG 1:35 Deadliest Catch PG 2:25 Moonshiners – Whiskey Business PG 3:15 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid MLC 5:45 Deadliest Catch PG

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6am Alphabetical 3 0 6:55 Sun, Sea, And Brides To Be 3 8am Flipping Profit! 0 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 10am Tipping Point 3 11am The Celebrity Chase 3 0 Noon Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Coronation Street Catchup 3 0 2pm Location, Location, Location 3 0 3pm Dinner Date 3 . 0 4pm Tipping Point Lucky Stars Ben Shephard returns with a new series of Tipping Point Lucky Stars, where three celebrities take on a machine, hoping to win money for charity.

4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At Six 0 7pm Royal Variety Performance 2019 A night of family entertainment, including performances by Rod Stewart, Mabel, and Robbie Williams. 0 8:20 L Lotto 8:25 Royal Variety Performance 2019 0 9:30 Coronation Street 0 10:30 Back To Life AO 0

6am Infomercials 6:30 Bluey 0 6:40 Paw Patrol 3 0 7:05 My Little Pony 0 7:25 Teen Titans Go! 0 7:50 F Unikitty! 0 8:15 Ducktales 3 0 8:35 Sofia The First 3 0 9am The Incredible Journey 3 9:30 Infomercials 10:05 Neighbours 3 0 10:35 Australian Survivor PGR 3 0 12:05 The Bachelor 0 1:50 M Barely Lethal PGR 2015 Action. Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L Jackson, Jamie King. 0 3:40 Bluey 3 0 3:45 Bunk’d 3 0 4:35 House Rules Six Australian teams put their homes on the line and their skills to the test, competing for renovation supremacy and a cash prize. 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm M The Blind Side PGR 2009 Drama Biography.

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatised boy who became an All American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. 0 9:30 M Our Brand Is Crisis AO 2015 Comedy Drama. 0

11pm Code Black AO 3 0 11:55 Queen Sugar PGR Charley meets with others interested in joining the fight against Sam Landry; Nova is made an offer she cannot refuse. 0 12:45 Kath And Kim PGR 3 1:15 Infomercials 5:35 Fishing And Adventure 3

11:35 Mom PGR 3 0 12:05 Grey’s Anatomy AO 3 0 1:40 Infomercials 2:40 Army Wives AO 3 0 3:25 Love Island Australia AO 3 0 4:20 First Dates US PGR 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

THREE

7pm Bondi Rescue 0 7:30 The Block Australia PGR 0 8:40 The Graham Norton Show – New Year Special PGR Graham Norton brings in the New Year with Tom Hanks and Stephen Graham before their war-time film, Greyhound, as well as Motsi Mabuse, Melenie C, and Sink the Pink. 0 10pm Live At The Apollo AO 0 11pm SVU AO 3 Top youth hockey players are investigated by the squad after a violent initiation incident in a locker room. 0 Midnight Fail Army AO 3 Series with pranks and compilations featuring the web’s biggest failures. 0 12:25 Infomercials

MOVIES PREMIERE

Royal Variety Performance 2019, 7pm on TVNZ 1

BRAVO 10am Mom’s A Medium 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 11:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 12:30 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 1:30 Below Deck – Mediterranean PGR 3 2:30 Four Weddings UK 3 3:30 The People’s Court 4:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 Dress To Impress 3 7:30 Botched Presents – Perfect PGR 3 8:30 Paramedics – Life On The Line AO Paramedic Shanelle teams up with her old preceptor Shaq to help Paramedic Specialist Martin confront a challenging situation.

9:30 Emma Willis – Delivering Babies AO 10:30 Snapped 11:30 Snapped – She Made Me Do It PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

PRIME

7am Married At First Sight USA 3 8:05 The Biggest Loser Australia 3 A favourite goes home in a surprise exit.

9am House Rules PGR 3 0 10:05 Infomercials 11:35 Millionaire Hot Seat 3 0 12:35 Face The Truth PGR 1pm M Absolute Fear PGR 3 2012 Thriller.

When a woman follows her boyfriend to look for his father, last heard from on a deserted island, they discover he was part of a top-secret government project, and had good reason for not wanting to be found.

Stephanie Lemelin, Matthew Alan, Patrick Bergin. 0 3pm American Ninja Warrior 3 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7:09 See You Soon 16S 2018 Drama. Liam McIntyre, Harvey Keitel. 8:59 Drunk Parents MVLSC 2019 Comedy.

Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek.

10:33 Bad Date Chronicles MC 2017 Romantic Comedy.

Merritt Patterson, Justin Kelly.

The Blind Side 11:55 Bad Times At The 7pm on TVNZ 2 El Royale 16VL 2018 Drama.

Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth.

SKY 5 2:12 Drunk Parents MVLSC 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel 2019 Comedy. Alec Baldwin, Of Fortune PG 6:50 The Salma Hayek. 3:46 Bad Simpsons PG 7:15 Charmed Date Chronicles MC M 8am Border Security – 2017 Romantic Comedy.

Australia M 8:25 Ice Road Merritt Patterson, Justin Kelly.

Truckers ML 9:15 Storage 5:08 My Revolution MC 2016 Wars – Texas PG 9:40 CSI MV 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Charmed Comedy. Samuel Vincent, Anamaria Vartolomei.

M Noon Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Glass MVC 2019 Drama.

12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG 12:50 Combat Dealers PG James McAvoy, Bruce Willis.

1:35 World’s Wildest Weather 8:30 Daughter Of The Wolf PGV 2:25 CSI MV 3:10 Charmed 16V 2019 Action. When the son M 4pm The Simpsons PG of an ex-military specialist is 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel abducted, she captures one of Of Fortune PG 5:30 Storage the kidnappers and uses him Wars – Texas PG 6pm Ice Road Truckers ML 7pm Border in an attempt to find her boy.

Security – Australia’s Frontline Gina Carano, Richard Dreyfuss.

10pm 6 Days 16VL M 7:30 CSI MV 8:30 The 2017 Action. Jamie Bell, Force MC 9:30 Piha Rescue PG 10pm Piha Rescue PG Mark Strong.

10:30 SVU MV 11:15 Ice Road 11:35 Breaking And Exiting 18C 2018 Comedy.

Truckers ML Thursday Milo Gibson, Jordan Hinson.

12:05 Charmed M 12:50 Wheel Of Fortune PG Thursday 12:55 Elvis 1:15 Jeopardy! PG 1:35 Border Goes There – Paul Feig MC Security – Australia’s 2019 Documentary. 1:45 The Frontline M 2am Piha Rescue Killer Trainer MC 2018 Thriller.

PG 2:25 Piha Rescue PG Hannah Barefoot, Adam Huber.

2:50 The Force MC 3:40 SVU MV 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas 3:08 My Revolution MC 2016 Comedy. 4:25 Glass MVC 2019 PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The Drama.

Simpsons PG

11:50 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

12:50 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS 6:38 Nothing But Trailers M 6:53 10 Things I Hate About You PGS 1999 Romantic Comedy.

Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles.

8:28 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama. Robert De Niro, Frances MacDormand, Eliza Dushku. 10:14 Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Western. Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio.

12:54 Nothing But Trailers M 1:24 Jack The Giant Slayer MV 2013 Adventure. Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor. 3:15 We Bought A Zoo PGL 2011 Drama. Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson. 5:20 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action.

Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan.

6:50 Grown Ups 2 PGVLS 2013 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kevin James. 8:30 Love, Rosie MLS 2014 Romantic Comedy. Two young people have been best friends since they were five, so they could not possibly be right for one another… or could they?

Lily Collins, Sam Claflin.

10:15 Fast And Furious 6 MV 2013 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson.

Thursday

MAORI

6am Ben 10 3 0 6:30 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 7am Krypto The Superdog 3 0 7:30 Danny Phantom 3 8am Game Shakers 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 10am The Doctors PGR 3 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 0 Noon Just Shoot Me PGR 3 0 12:30 Elementary PGR 3 0 1:30 Frasier 3 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun International real-estate show where property experts search the world help house hunters find their perfect patch of paradise.

5pm Third Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 3 7pm Qi PGR Names.

Sandi Toksvig is joined

by Cariad Lloyd, Romesh Ranganathan, Phill Jupitus, and Alan Davies.

9:40 Ross Kemp – Extreme World AO 3 0 10:40 Ballers AO

12:21 Prometheus 16V 2012 Sci-fi Mystery. 2:21 We Bought A Zoo PGL 2011 Drama. 4:21 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action. 5:49 Grown Ups 2 PGVLS 2013 Comedy.

CHOICE

6:30 Paia 6:40 Pukoro 2 7:10 Tamariki Haka 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 Pipi Ma 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Darwin + Newts 3 7:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 8am Ariki 8:30 Road To The Nats 3 9am Native Kitchen 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am Waiata 3 10:30 Fitness In The Whare 3 11am Tautohetohe 3 Noon IVF World Sprints 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm Celebrity Playlist 3 1:30 Opaki 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Paia 3:10 Pukoro 2 3:40 Tamariki Haka 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 Pipi Ma 4pm Potae Pai 3 4:10 Darwin + Newts 3 4:20 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm HakaNation 5:30 Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

7pm M The Swan Princess Christmas PGR 2012 Animated Adventure.

A prince must save Christmas and a princess after an evil wizard turns her into a swan.

8:35 M The Darjeeling Limited AO 2007 Adventure.

10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

11pm Koroua 3 A series of conversations profiling some of the last remaining Maori male elders, focusing on the transition of Maori from before urbanisation to the present day.

11:30 Closedown

SKY SPORT 1 6am Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show 7am Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show 8am French Top 14 Highlights A wrap up of all the tries and main talking points from every game of the round.

8:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 10:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 12:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 2:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 4:30 French Top 14 Highlights A wrap up of all the tries and main talking points from every game of the round.

5pm Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show 6pm Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show 7pm French Top 14 Highlights A wrap up of all the tries and main talking points from every game of the round.

7:30 Sevens – Ignite7 Behind-the-scenes of the New Zealand Sevens Development Camp.

8:30 Fiji v Maori All Blacks From ANZ Stadium, Suva.

10:30 French Top 14 (RPL)

Thursday

12:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 2:30 French Top 14 (RPL) 4:30 French Top 14 (RPL)

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

6am Gardeners’ World 7am Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7:30 Rachel Khoo – My Swedish Kitchen 8am Wildlife Icons 9am Gourmet Farmer 9:30 Alone PGR 10:30 Ozzy And Jack’s World Detour 11:30 James Martin’s French Adventure 12:30 American Pickers 1:30 Designing Paradise 2pm Julius Caesar With Mary Beard 3:30 Tribes, Animals, And Me 4:30 Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 5pm Forever Summer With Nigella 5:30 Flipping Bangers 6:30 Mine Hunters 7:30 Lost Worlds – Deeper Into The Black Sea 9:30 Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week PGR 10:30 Bear Grylls – Mission Survive PGR Bear shows how to survive and travel in water – rivers, lakes, and heavy rain. Can the celebrities catch enough fish to feed themselves, and who will be on the next flight home?

11:30 Flipping Bangers 12:30 Baggage Battles 1am Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 1:30 Forever Summer With Nigella 2am The Secret Lives Of Owls 3am Tribes, Animals, And Me 4am Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week PGR 5am Flipping Bangers

SKY SPORT 2 6am Big Bash League Highlights 6:30 Women’s Super Smash Sparks v Magicians.

7am Super Smash (HLS) Volts v Kings.

7:30 Big Bash League (RPL) Strikers v Thunder.

11am Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Second Test.

Noon Super Smash Volts v Kings.

12:30 Big Bash League (HLS) Hurricanes v Stars.

1pm Big Bash League (HLS) Strikers v Thunder.

1:30 Women’s Super Smash (HLS) Sparks v Magicians.

2pm Australia v Blackcaps 2011 Second Test Wrap.

4:30 Australia v Blackcaps First Test Wrap.

From Optus Stadium, Perth.

6:30 Australia v Blackcaps Second Test Wrap.

From Melbourne Cricket Ground.

8:35 Big Bash League (HLS) Strikers v Thunder.

9:05 L Big Bash League Heat v Scorchers.

From Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast.

Thursday

12:30 Australia v Blackcap (HLS) Second Test.

1:30 Super Smash (HLS) Volts v Kings. 2am Big Bash League Hurricanes v Stars.

2:30 Big Bash League (HLS) Strikers v Thunder.

3am Women’s Super Smash (RPL) Sparks v Magicians.

1Jan20

DISCOVERY 6:35 China’s Treasure – Guizhou PG 7:05 China’s Treasure – Guizhou PG 7:30 Wheels That Fail PG 7:55 Wheels That Fail PG 8:20 BattleBots PG 9:10 Expedition Unknown PG Chasing the Snake Kings.

10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Outback Opal Hunters PG 11:40 A Crime To Remember M Paradise Lost. 12:30 Blood Relatives M Mommy Dearest.

1:20 American Monster M Off-Camera. 2:10 Wheels That Fail PG 2:35 Wheels That Fail PG 3pm What On Earth? PG 3:50 What On Earth? PG Curse of Genghis Khan. 4:45 What On Earth?

PG 5:40 What On Earth? PG 6:35 Sinkholes – Swallowed Alive PG 7:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 8:30 Alaskan Bush People PG 9:25 Raising Wild PG 10:15 Moonshiners M 11:05 Naked And Afraid MLC 11:55 How It’s Made PG

Thursday

12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Wheels That Fail PG 1:10 Wheels That Fail PG 1:35 Deadliest Catch PG 2:25 Moonshiners – Whiskey Business PG 3:15 Gold Rush – Parker’s Trail PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid MLC 5:45 Deadliest Catch PG

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Historic ton at the MCG

All Stars hold all the aces

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Kimberley Bird returned home recently from a five week trip in the North Island where she’s been mixing it with some of the biggest names in the equestrian world.

She ticked off the biggest moment of her still very young career in the saddle when she claimed victory in the fourth round of the FEI World Cup at the Taupo Christmas Classic.

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Kiwi crowd loud and proud The exuberant Kiwi crowd at the MCG have been hailed by the players involved as one of the best in the history of New Zealand cricket.

Believed to be the largest amount of New Zealanders in attendance at a test cricket match – over 20,000 Kiwis were estimated to be in attendance on Boxing Day – the supporters who stuck around for all four days were certainly also the most vocal.

Compared to the usual crowds

the Black Caps usually get in home tests – small and largely mute – the Kiwi fans who took up residence in Bay 21 at the MCG were a remarkable contrast.

Cheering throughout the Black Caps’ eventual 247-run drubbing at the hands of Australia, the New Zealand fans pinched a few Barmy Army tunes, tweaking the words to make them local, and were regularly chanting and clapping.

The New Zealand national anthem got several renditions – of

mixed quality – to applause from the Australians in attendance, while several classic Kiwi songs were belted out by a slew of enthusiastic males in various states of intoxication.

Black Caps captain Kane Williamson, who went over to the crowd after the match to thank the fans, said their support was unforgettable.

“The crowd were truly incredible and an experience that I think all the guys will never forget.

“I guess the only things that would compare to it are some of the moments we had during World Cups where they were just so engaged, but this was even more unique as we were coming second for most parts of this match.”

Australian captain Tim Paine believed the Kiwis in attendance added plenty to a special occasion.

“The New Zealand crowd were excellent, I thought they added to the Boxing Day test. It was a little bit like having the English here,

to be honest. They gave us a bit of stick, we gave a bit back, it was all in good fun and just makes it more memorable to play in front of crowds that are getting right into it like that.”

And, for the Kiwi supporters who had waited since 1987 to get a chance to visit Melbourne for the Boxing Day test, Paine had a prediction. “It was an excellent Boxing Day test match crowd – and I don’t think it will be another 30 years until they’re back.”

Fields for tomorrow’s $200,000 Auckland Cup

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