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By Susan Sandys

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Free prescriptions introduced by Countdown will put pressure on local pharmacies in a competitive market to stay in operation.

From Thursday last week, the supermarket chain’s six Canterbury in-store pharmacies were offering free prescriptions, in a move expected to save customers in the region more than $350,000 a year.

Countdown’s head pharmacist Jeremy Armes said a key reason behind establishing Countdown Pharmacy in 2012 had been to make healthcare more affordable and accessible.

“And providing free prescriptions is another way we can continue to help make that happen,” Armes said.

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Countdown has 30 in-store pharmacies across New Zealand.

Ashburton pharmacists are frustrated by the move in which an Australian-owned multi-national can support the loss-leader initiative due to its backing.

Subsidised medications are provided on prescription by pharmacies, which charge $5. This fee is a tax which the pharmacy must forward on to Government and if it does not recover the fee from its customers, it has to pay this to the Government anyway, detracting from its bottom line.

Wises Community Pharmacy manager Andy McKee said Countdown’s move was anti-competitive and undermined the viability of community pharmacy providers.

These providers played a vital role in Ashburton’s healthcare community.

“Ultimately it is likely to result in the closure of a number of locally-owned businesses and a reduction in healthcare services for the wider community,” he said.

Despite the concern, many customers are vowing to continue to support the model of community pharmacies which has served Ashburton well for years, where individual pharmacists and their staff get to know them and help with all sorts of advice and healthcare.

Many commenting on the Guardian Facebook page this week talked of “consistent friendly service”, “cool, compassionate staff” and high expertise at their local pharmacy store.

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Second dengue fever case

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nausea and vomiting, and a skin rash.

Dengue outbreaks are common in tropical and subtropical Pacific Islands, where Aedes mosquitoes live.

One case was notified in Ashburton District for the week ending July 26, following the first case notified for the year in May. The two cases follow there being zero notifications for the

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Mid Canterbury has had its second case of dengue fever notified for this year.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus and can make people very sick and can even kill. Symptoms can last from two to seven days and may include a sudden fever, an intense headache, muscle and joint pain, feeling very tired,

disease over the previous four years back to 2014. Canterbury Medical Officer of Health Dr Ramon Pink said Aedes mosquitoes able to spread dengue fever are not normally found in New Zealand.

“The best way to avoid dengue is to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, when visiting nations where the Aedes mosquito thrives,” Dr Pink said.

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Wastebusters trustees will officially hand over the money tomorrow and the funds will then be used to support projects which promote waste minimisation practices or protect and enhance the environment.

Advance Ashburton executive officer Sandi Wood said the charitable foundation was delighted to receive the funds, which would be used to pay grants at regular intervals and would be a fitting reminder of Wastebusters and what it had achieved over its 25year history.

The trust started in Ashburton in 1994 with the aim of reducing waste going to landfill; it was a vision promoted through schools and the wider community by Anita Coghill and Sheryl Stivens.

But when the Ashburton District Council opted for new recycling contractors in 2010, Wastebusters had to change direction though it continued to provide recycling and education services. When overseas markets for recycled products collapsed in 2018, Wastebusters had no alternative but to stop operating, as it did not have the financial resources to do otherwise.

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■■ROAD SAFETY

Govt jumps gun on funding

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

A large-scale project to improve road safety between Ashburton and Rakaia has not yet had its business case completed, but despite that has already received funding, according to a government announcement last week.

Last week Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter announced a further 2430kms of New Zealand’s most dangerous state highways and local roads will be made safer as part of the Government’s $1.4 billion Safe Network Programme.

Listed under the programmes that would have construction starting in 2018-19 was the Ashburton to Rakaia SH1 project.

The New Zealand Transport Agency began consulting on the Ashburton to Rakaia SH1 project in 2017, and a NZTA spokesperson said no final option for the project had been selected at this point, and that no decisions following that stage had occurred, including the funding of the project.

Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon says it is hard to know who to believe.

“On the one hand you’ve got the Government saying that funding is confirmed, but on the other NZTA are saying it isn’t,” he said.

“NZTA’s own engagement in Mid Canterbury shows just how unpopular the Government’s cut-price plan is. The number one issue raised by locals was extending the road to four lanes as I’ve been calling for.

“Numerous safety concerns were raised about installing median barriers down the existing narrow road, including the impact on emergency services and agricultural equipment.

“NZTA have been forced into this position by a Government more interested in investing in Auckland rail and cycle projects. Cutting $5 billion from the state highway network will make our roads less safe and more congested.”

This project description says it will make State Highway 1 between Selwyn River and Ashburton safer.

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The NZTA’s project to improve road safety between Ashburton and the Selwyn River is still in the planning stage.

PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 300719-JPM-0037 Some people supported the median barriers, many others have concerns, while extending existing passing lanes and/or adding new passing lanes was also proposed.

The key concerns raised in the engagement report included the economic costs, the effects on emergency services and agricultural vehicles and travel time and driver frustration.

The report also says no barriers will be installed in the towns along the route, and that a speed review will be instigated along the Rakaia Bridge after feedback was received from motorists saying they were concerned about the speed.

The report also addresses the idea of a four-lane highway, saying that with the road toll increasing, quick action is needed on improvements that will help prevent deaths and serious injuries.

“These works do not prevent larger scale work being carried out in the future if they are required, but they will help stop people being killed or seriously injured right away,” the report says.

It says possible improvements could include widening the centreline or putting in a median barrier to keep traffic apart and prevent head-on crashes, and that these changes will prevent people from being killed or seriously injured on this road.

The most recent part of the project to be completed was the public feedback summary which was released in June.

The report found that people supported: dropping the speed limit from 70km/h to 60km/h or less in Rakaia and Dunsandel, dropping the speed to 80km/h and putting in double yellow lines on the Rakaia Bridge, dropping the speed limit on the rail overpass, better/upgraded pedestrian facilities at Dunsandel and Rakaia, looking at truck parking in Rakaia that restricts visibility for cars coming out of the Mobil station and Elizabeth Ave, travel restrictions be placed/policed on over dimension and heavy vehicles travelling on the Rakaia Bridge at peak times, the widening of centrelines and a manual alert sign and lights for cyclists to activate before they enter the Rakaia Bridge.

Mid Cantabrians are continuing to be plagued by flu.

The latest figures for the number of influenza-related hospitalisations in the Ashburton District has soared compared to the last total, reaching 23 since the start of May. At the same time last year there had been just one influenza-related hospitalisation in the Ashburton District.

The figure of 23 compares to 14 reported from the previous week.

Additionally there has been one flu-related death since the start of the season after a patient admitted to Ashburton Hospital, with pre-existing conditions, died of complications from influenza.

This compares to none at the same time last year.

Medical officer of health Dr Ramon Pink said Canterbury community influenza-like illness rates and influenza-related hospital admissions remained above average, however the rate of increase both nationally and in Canterbury appeared to have slowed.

He reiterated the health board warning about the flu being much more serious than a common cold.

“In New Zealand, flu-related illnesses cause around 400 deaths a year and account for 45 per cent of sick days each winter,” he said.

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■■ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

Tinwald woman loses licence A Tinwald woman who drove into a student on a pedestrian crossing, breaking her leg, was disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to pay her young victim $500 for emotional harm.

Nicola Everdina Lemberg, 46, admitted a charge of careless driving causing injury when she appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday before Community Magistrate Sally O’Brien.

The magistrate noted Lemberg had written an apology letter to the student and paid $450 for damage to a puffer jacket and glasses.

Lemberg was driving east on Walnut Avenue at 8.45am on April 29 when she struck the student, who stepped out on to a pedestrian crossing near Ashburton Intermediate School.

The student fell back on the road and suffered a broken leg as a result. Her glasses and jacket were also damaged.

Magistrate O’Brien said the student also had bad bruising and had been unable to play sport. She remained upset about what had happened.

“Your driving fell below the level of care expected of drivers,” she

told Lemberg, “and caused significant impact for the young victim.”

Lemberg had a clean driving record but her failure needed to be recognised by the court, the magistrate said.

As well as the disqualification and emotional harm payment, Lemberg was ordered to pay court costs of $130.

Others to appear before Community Magistrate Sally O’Brien yesterday: Alexander Hayato Blake, 18, a student of Methven, admitted being under 20 and driving with excess breath alcohol in Methven on June 28.

Police stopped him at 11.12pm while he was driving to a friend’s house and conducted a random breath test. He blew 250mcg.

Blake was fined $220, ordered to pay court costs of $130 and disqualified from driving for three months.

Luke Russell Sinclair was unlucky by one-and-a-half hours.

Sinclair, a beekeeper, admitted being under 20 and drink driving on the night of June 21. He was 19

at the time but his birthday was the next day. Drivers under 20 have a zero breath alcohol limit while drivers 20 and over have a limit of 250mcg.

Police said Sinclair was stopped at 10.20pm on June 21 after a few beers to celebrate his birthday. He blew 161mcg.

His lawyer Clare Yardley asked Magistrate O’Brien for a concession on the penalty, saying Sinclair had been so close to turning 20.

“He was one-and-a-half hours off turning 20. It is as close as it comes and he would have been legal.”

The magistrate cut him some slack, not imposing a fine but disqualifying him from driving for three months and ordering him to pay court costs of $130.

Shane Anthony Kerr-Quinn, 31, was sentenced to an alcohol interlock when he admitted drink driving on the Rakaia highway on June 8.

He was stopped by police at 9.55pm and blew 810mcg. It was his second drink drive conviction, after blowing 884mcg in 2010.

Magistrate O’Brien also fined him $450 with $130 court costs.

Kerr-Quinn was disqualified for 28 days then authorised to apply for the alcohol interlock, which will be fitted to his work vehicle.

After 12 months, depending on compliance, he can then apply for a zero alcohol licence, which will

last for three years.

The whole alcohol interlock programme costs around $2500 and takes four years.

Keanu Crawford blew 1117mcg when stopped by police in Ashbur-

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after hitting pedestrian remanded Crawford for sentence in Christchurch on September 2.

She said it was a very high reading.

Crawford, through his lawyer Roz Burnside, said he had made a foolish decision to drive after an argument.

ton after reports from members of the public about his driving.

Crawford, 23, of Christchurch, was stopped on East Street about 8pm. He had driven past police, who had been alerted about his driving behaviour and was seen to

cross the centre line and swerve in his lane.

Magistrate O’Brien noted Crawford had another drink drive conviction a year previously. She ordered a pre-sentence report, with alcohol and drug assessment, and

Police found a Methven woman stopped for speeding on July 19 had already lost her licence because of excess demerit points for speeding.

Christy Renee Hare, 20, was stopped doing 124km/h on Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road. Police found her licence had been suspended on May 18 for three months.

She was remanded to August 27 for sentence.

Her lawyer Roz Burnside said she would be filing information to support an application for special reasons not to disqualify Hare further.

The charge of driving while suspended, which Hare had admitted, carries a mandatory disqualification of six months.

Nathanial Owen Gosling, 29, of Timaru, was fined $600 and or-

dered to pay court costs of $130 after admitting driving while his licence was suspended for excess demerit points. He was also disqualified from driving for six months from September 25, when the points suspension is over.

Gosling was stopped on State Highway 1 in Ashburton for speeding on July 20, when police found he should not have been behind the wheel.

Magistrate O’Brien told him to get his restricted licence when the disqualification period was over.

A Timaru man who caused more than $6000 damage to a Christchurch motel room admitted four charges of intentional damage.

Justin Michael Anthony Pollock, 35, admitted the damage but, through his lawyer, said he had an issue with the $6190 reparation claimed.

He was remanded to August 27 for a pre-sentence report and sentence.

The police summary of facts said Pollock was staying at the Parkview Hotel in Christchurch on June 28 and was in a room, drunk, with his

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partner when they began arguing.

He kicked in the bathroom door, damaging the frame. He head butted a wall, damaging the Gib. He was eventually locked out of the room by his partner and he attempted to jemmy the door open with a key, damaging the door.

In police custody, he ripped the cover off a mattress in his cell and ripped a blanket. Damage to police property amounted to $544.

Hayden Johnston was fined $300 after admitting a charge of driving with sustained loss of traction and disqualified from driving for six months.

He was also fined $500 for driving without a licence, having previously been caught and forbidden to drive again until he had one.

Johnston said he had money problems that had stopped him getting a licence, but he would sort his licence out after the disqualification period ended.

Warrants were issued for the arrest of Dale Rimene (charged with theft) and Shay Scowen (charged with drink driving), after they failed to appear.

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Organisers readying for big bird sale

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Myrtle rust a worry for Mid Canty

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.

Organisers are expecting crowds to flock to the Bird Rare manuka andAshburton kanuka stands Club’s bird and in Midannual Canterbury are accessory at risk if sale fungal this year, just asmyrtle they have the disease rust done in the past. spreads here.

Publicity officer Valerie Snook Myrtle rust was detected on a said thepohutukawa sale was usually madyoung plant aearlier house just and before the doors this month Biosecurity New opened at she expects much Zealand is 9am, advising local gardenthe same this year. ers, orchardists and nurseries to “You don’t to and be a member monitor theirhave trees take acto sell birdsee or asigns cage,ofjust tion if athey theshow disup,” she said. ease.

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9am to 1pm trees on Saturday, It affects in the August myrtle 17. family, including natives such as Snook said rata, it was a popular pohutukawa, manuka and time of like the year for sales as breedexotics bottlebrush. ing season approaches.

The Department of Conserva“Breeding season is notitfar away tion is not yet sure how will afand native peopleecosystems. are starting to think fect ahead about what they going Forest and Bird’s Maryare Ralston, to do and it issaid a golden opportuniof Methven, it could be poty to buyvery birdsserious and fillfor some tentially the gaps mayou might have,” she said. nuka honey industry if manuka “We also never know what peowas affected. ple“The are going to show Staveley forest upis with, not even club members, is alin danger because itthere is mainly ways a big year.” beech, butsurprise locallyevery some other very important plants and places

could potentially be susceptible to the rust.

“The Harris Reserve, which exists primarily to protect one of the last kanuka remnants on the plains, is vulnerable.

“There is a lot of manuka and kanuka in various places along the foothills and high country and it would be a tragedy if these were affected.”

Ralston said manuka, kanuka and rata occurred together on the Rhyolite Ridge of Mt Somers and were vulnerable if the disease spreads to Mid Canterbury.

“At the moment it is not here and we can only hope our colder climate is keeping it at bay. Climate change may make the situation worse – places not invaded may get it eventually as things warm.”

She said it was a bit of a warning bell about protecting rare native local biodiversity.

“We need more reserves, such as the Harris Reserve, so that we have more than one place for these precious plants.”

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Drug law reform: What the Government has kept quiet

By Derek Cheng NZME

The Government has quietly ordered a review of its 44-year-old drug law, which will anchor its health-based response to drug use and form part of its long-term response to the synthetic drugs crisis.

The scope and timeframe of that review is still being considered, but organisations across the drug treatment sector have been calling for a review of the Misuse of Drugs Act (MODA) for years.

The Psychoactive Substances Act, set up to tackle the increasing use of synthetic drugs, is also seen as a failure and in need of an overhaul.

The MODA was already considered out of date in 2011, when the Law Commission released a comprehensive 350-page report that said it was no longer fit for purpose and poorly aligned with the Government’s National Drug Policy.

“Its main components were developed in the 1970s, when the ‘hippie’ counterculture was at its height and the illegal drugs of choice were cannabis, cocaine, opiates and psychedelics like LSD,” the commission’s report said.

It recommended a repeal and replacement of the law with a health-based model to be administered by the Ministry of Health.

The previous government largely ignored the commission’s review, but a new review has now been ordered in the face of the synthetics drugs crisis, which has contributed to 80 deaths during the past two years.

Asked about the review, Health Minister David Clark would only say that no formal review had been announced.

There are only a few non-redacted references to a review in hundreds of pages of documents released to the Herald under the Official Information Act about the Government’s drug law reforms.

They refer to a planned or expected review, the scope of which is yet to be determined.

The reluctance to announce it is an indication of how emotive and politically sensitive drug issues are.

Politicians are wary of any policy that might scare voters, especially when the Government has already moved on medicinal cannabis, a referendum on recreational cannabis and a law change that would mean police would only criminalise drug users if a therapeutic approach was a worse option.

The report said the law was focused too much on drug supply and not enough on reducing harm and demand.

“There are adverse social consequences from a distinctly punitive approach to lower-level offending. Quite large numbers of young New Zealanders receive criminal convictions – which might subsist

The Government is receiving plenty of advice that treating drug users as criminals is not working.

for life – as a result of minor drug offences.

“This is a disproportionate response to the harm those offences cause.”

The report said current drug classifications were “anomalous” and no longer reflected modern scientific evidence about drug harm.

This is backed up by the Ministry of Health’s drug harm index in 2016, which referred to a 2010 paper about harm to users and to others.

The research, published in med-

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sion also wanted to scrap the list of drug weights that, if found by police, would lead to a presumption of supply.

The default weight, 56 grams, has raised concerns that heavy users of drugs could be charged as drug dealers.

Instead, the report recommended a new offence of aggravated possession, with jail terms for commercial dealers, but not for heavy drug users or those caught with small amounts for “social” dealing.

It also recommended mandato-

off the table, according to Dr Warren Young, the commission’s deputy president at the time and now general manager of the Independent Police Conduct Authority.

“The world has changed,” Young told the Herald.

“Now it’s a much more open question the extent to which criminalisation is the right response, in the least towards possession offences.

“If you want to say the focus is on taking a health approach rather than a criminal and law enforcement approach, it’s some-

We are not aware of any evidence that existence of the [pipe and utensils] offence itself deters drug use ... To the extent that the offence deters safer drug use, it causes harm rather than prevents it

ical journal The Lancet, was led by Professor David Nutt and found that alcohol, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine were the most harmful, while LSD and mushrooms were the least harmful.

The 2017 Global Drug Survey said that alcohol led to more per capita emergency treatment than LSD, magic mushrooms, MDMA or cannabis.

LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) remain Class A drugs and carry the most severe criminal penalties, while MDMA is Class B. In its report, the Law Commis-

ry cautioning for any illegal drug use. Police would caution a drug user and a final caution would require the user to attend a health intervention or face prosecution.

The number of cautions would depend on the drug.

The lack of discretion would mitigate concerns of unconscious bias from police.

The report did not support decriminalising or legalising drug use, but that might not be the case if the commission undertook a review today.

The 2011 report was written when legalisation of any drug was

what inconsistent to treat every possession and use offence as a criminal offence.”

Young said a criminal justice approach impeded a health and education approach.

“Treating everything as unlawful, the starting point in education is that all use is harmful, full stop.

“There is a debate that ought to be had about the extent to which mere possession of drugs ought to be legalised, and for what sorts.”

That may or may not be politically agreeable, but the Government is receiving plenty of advice that treating drug users as crimi-

nals is not working.

The Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group, in a report last month, noted widespread frustration that drug use was still treated as criminal offending. It will make recommendations to the Government in August.

The Government inquiry into mental health and addiction went as far as recommending replacing criminal penalties with civil ones such as fines, as has happened in Portugal.

“The criminalisation of illicit drugs poses a barrier to seeking help, and convictions for personal drug use have far-reaching consequences on people’s lives,” the inquiry’s report said.

The Government’s official response to this recommendation is that it needs “further consideration”.

However, according to numerous official documents, the Government doesn’t want to criminalise drug users and agencies even considered having no criminal penalties for users of synthetic drugs.

This was ultimately discarded because of fears that people would opt for synthetics over less harmful drugs that could get them jailed if caught.

Drug Foundation executive director Ross Bell said this perverse incentive could be eliminated if all drug use was decriminalised, but Government ministers have not shown any appetite for that.

They have also pushed back strongly against any suggestion the Misuse of Drugs Amendment bill, an interim step which was expected to have its second reading in the House yesterday, is de facto decriminalisation.

The Law Commission’s report included other recommendations, such as a new offence to ensure that administering a drug to another person wasn’t treated as a dealing offence and making it legal to possess a pipe or utensils.

“We are not aware of any evidence that existence of the [pipe and utensils] offence itself deters drug use ... To the extent that the offence deters safer drug use, it causes harm rather than prevents it,” the report said.

Young said all the recommendations from the 2011 report were still relevant today.

The MODA review is also expected to form part of the longterm plan to tackle the synthetic drugs crisis.

A Ministry of Health review of the Psychoactive Substances Act (PSA) found that it could not work as intended unless a ban on animal testing was removed, which effectively made it impossible to prove whether a product was less harmful and potentially pave the way for it to be legalised.

The subsequent black market led to cheaper, more dangerous synthetic drugs that have contributed to 80 deaths in the past two years.

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Two in bed and both said, come over H

ey, Sky Sport and Spark, let me in on the action.

Please.

I think, for at least the past 10 years, I’ve been a loyal customer to both of your businesses. I’ve paid my bills and I’ve continually supported you by not jumping ship and leaving for another network or provider.

So, I’d like a little bit of loyalty back.

I see yesterday you’ve announced that you are both doing a bit of collaborative work when it comes to the Rugby World Cup, with particular focus on the pubs and clubs scene and ensuring that those of us who like a cold beer at the local while watching the footy are still able to do so.

That’s great for those socialites who like to go out and watch rugby at a venue like that, but what about the introverted types, the ones who are too scared of what they might stand up and yell in front of a room full of unfamiliar people if the referee makes a wrong decision, or Beauden Barrett misses a kick from right in front?

I’m one of those people.

So, where’s my sweetener?

I guess you probably know, because of the way most New Zealanders look at the sport of rugby, that I’ll eventually cave in and pay the money to ensure that I get to watch the coverage live and that I can sit in my lounge and scream at the television to my heart’s content.

But I kind of feel like I’m being taken for granted a bit.

And, I’d presume I’m not the only one.

What would be fantastic would be that considering you two powerhouse organisations have so obviously been working together a fair bit, is if you could come up with a bit of a deal or promotion that rewards those who are

existing clients with either both of you, or one or the other.

Sky Sport, we’re the people who have meant that you’ve had the audience to warrant investing in such events in the past and Spark our investment in you is the reason that you’ve been able to branch out and extend your stable of products and options.

Yet the majority of us are being shunted out into the cold and expected to fight financially to get ourselves back in the door.

And, to be fair, all for a few weeks of rugby. Come on!

Spark, I can give you some credit. My time as a customer of yours has been an overall happy experience. You’ve kept up-todate with the latest trends and

demands and often provide new ways and options to enhance my experience.

Sky Sport, not so much. I think in the past couple of years the best you’ve done is offer one movie channel for the school holidays and then you proceeded to play some of the worst movies ever created as if encouraging me not to take up a movie package on the existing deal.

Together, you could do some wonderful things.

Wonderful things like allowing me, and so many other people around New Zealand, the chance to watch our national team compete in the World Cup live.

That’d be a great start.

Best wishes, Matt.

Martian soil.

Ten years ago: Three American tourists were arrested by Iran on suspicion of espionage while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border. (Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced to eight years after being convicted on spy-related charges, but were released after more than two years; Sarah Shourd was released on health grounds after 14 months.) Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the international space station.

Five years ago: The CIA’s insistence

that it did not spy on its Senate overseers collapsed with the release of a stark report by the agency’s internal watchdog documenting improper computer surveillance and obstructionist behaviour by CIA officers.

The death toll from the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 in West Africa.

One year ago: Jury selection began in the trial of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman; he was accused of failing to report tens of millions of dollars in Ukrainian political consulting fees. (Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a-half years

in prison after being convicted at trial in Virginia and pleading guilty in Washington to two conspiracy counts.)

Today’s birthdays: Singer Lobo is 76. Actress Geraldine Chaplin is 75. Singer Gary Lewis is 74. Actor Lane Davies is 69. Actress Susan Wooldridge is 69. Actor Barry Van Dyke is 68. Actor Alan Autry is 67. Jazz composer-musician Michael Wolff is 67. Actor James Read is 66. Actor Michael Biehn is 63. Rock singer-musician Daniel Ash is 62. Actor Dirk Blocker is 62. Rock musician Bill Berry is 61. Actor Wally Kurth is 61. Actor Wesley Snipes is 57. Musician Fatboy Slim is 56. Rock musician Jim Corr is 55. Author J.K.

Rowling is 54. Actor Dean Cain is 53. Actor Jim True-Frost is 53.

Actor Ben Chaplin is 50. Actor Loren Dean is 50. Actress Eve Best is 48. Actress Annie Parisse is 44. Actor Robert Telfer is 42.

Actor Eric Lively is 38. Singer Shannon Curfman is 34. Hip-hop artist Lil Uzi Vert is 25. Actor Reese Hartwig is 21. Actor Rico Rodriguez is 21.

Thought for today: “The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.” — E.V. Lucas, English author and critic (1868-1938).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Wednesday, July 31, the 212th day of 2019. There are 153 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On July 31, 1954, Pakistan’s K2 was conquered as two members of an Italian expedition, Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, reached the summit.

On this date: In 1715, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying gold, silver and jewellery sank during a hurricane off the east Florida coast; of some 2500 crew members, more than 1000 died.

In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.

In 1945, Pierre Laval, premier of the pro-Nazi Vichy government, surrendered to US authorities in Austria; he was turned over to France, which later tried and executed him.

In 1961, IBM introduced its first Selectric typewriter with its distinctive “typeball”.

In 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 reached the moon, transmitting pictures back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface.

In 1971, Apollo 15 crew members David Scott and James Irwin became the first astronauts to use a lunar rover on the surface of the moon.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

In 1992, the former Soviet republic of Georgia was admitted to the United Nations as its 179th member. Thai Airways Flight 311, an Airbus A310, crashed while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal; all 113 people aboard died.

In 2002, a bomb exploded inside a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine people, including five Americans.

In 2008, scientists reported the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water in

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Is Simon Bridges the ideal person to be leading National into the next election when he’s facing high-flying Jacinda Ardern?

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t seems the time is fast approaching – and may already have passed – when National Party members, within and without parliament, need to do some serious head-scratching over the leadership of their party.

Put bluntly, it must be said that Simon Bridges, committed and voluble – excitable, even – as he undoubtedly is, seems to be making little impression in the polls when it comes to comparisons between him and the permanently high-flying, if somewhat ethereal, PM, Jacinda Ardern.

With the outlines of next year’s election beginning to appear in the sand, and elsewhere, the National mandarins must surely be beginning to “dig deep” in an increasingly frantic search for someone who will not only undermine Jacinda’s stratospherically high-standing with the electorate but will, in his or her own right, offer a realistic alternative.

Not that long ago, Andrew Little, then leader of the Labour Party, was going only backwards as he struggled to establish himself as the viable alternative to John Key and then PM, Bill English.

As the pressure grew and the impending 2017 election lit up the political sky, he realised that neither he nor his party, was going to make it to the tape.

So, as a Herculean sacrifice to reality and his party, he stood down in favour of the fair features – if a tad toothy – of the lovely Jacinda, and what happened next is now history of

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long-term significance.

It led, inexorably, to the crumbly coalition now in power, propped by the dreamy Greens and Winston’s ageing warriors.

That’s what self-sacrifice can do for you – and others.

So far, only the combative Judith Collins has been named as a possible alternative; she is marginally more preferred as a replacement for Jacinda than is the well-meaning, though unconvincing, current leader of the National Party.

That may be an embarrassment to Simon Bridges but hardly a threat to the present holder of the top job.

In fact, Ardern’s prospects of staying in her office in the Beehive seem unchallengeable.

Daughter Neve, now a toddler, may well be a middle-aged teenager by the time her mother relinquishes that lofty perch.

So, unless there is an, as yet, unknown Nat – preferably female, articulate to the nth degree and oozing charm, if not actual, and irresistible, glamour – National appears doomed to wander the political wilderness for several elections to come.

Labour’s secret polling is even

telling us (and them) the National Party has now sunk to below the 38 per cent line, normally regarded as the kiss of death, and from which the return can only be long, hard and excruciatingly painful.

As an afterthought, perhaps – and it applies to all political parties – when searching for a leader it is, surely always wise to find one who does not display eccentricities of speech or demeanour thus making the chosen one a gift for both satirist and cartoonist of whom, these days, there is an endless supply of skilled practitioners.

Meanwhile, the western world is now faced by the unappealing prospect of having two unconventional leaders in power, one in the White House and now, the other, in 10 Downing Street.

Boris Johnson – complete with multi marriages, several children and a mistress 25 years his junior (with whom he seems often to have noisy disagreements) has now been given – by the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party – the keys to the kingdom and a comfortable pad in fashionable Downing Street.

How long he will retain the right to reside in that iconic home amidst the unending Brexit brouhaha, is questionable, but is thought likely to be short.

In fact the pundits have already decided Johnson’s premiership will be one of the briefest of modern times.

Even so, it is hard to see the, well past his use-by date, Jeremy

Corbyn, winning over the British people to his controversial ways of thought.

Johnson is undoubtedly an erudite, highly-born man, a product of Eton and Oxford – as have been the majority of British PMs before him – but how much good that will do him when attempting to do business with the dangerously mercurial Trump, when they have their inevitable tete-a-tete in the west wing, is doubtful. Boris’ record for hard work – probity, even – is also shaky, to say the least.

Some of the old guard, in Britain and beyond, may find Boris’ domestic arrangements repugnant and not at all what they expect of a British Prime Minister, even if we are now in 2019 and not 1919.

Thus does the political wheel continue to revolve. In Aotearoa, NZ, if you have political ambitions, it seems you are more likely to be able to influence society by becoming a Labour MP than a National one.

However, Jacinda may yet put a dainty foot disastrously wrong and the whole scene change overnight.

From a commentator’s point of view that would suit me admirably!

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Fifty-seven killed in riot AP At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organised crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials.

Para state prison authorities said a fight erupted around 7am between the Rio de Janeiro-based Comando Vermelho and a local criminal group known as Comando Classe A. “Leaders of the (Comando Classe A) set fire to a cell belonging to one of the prison’s pavilions, where members of the (Comando Vermelho) were located,” the statement read.

State prisons chief Jarbas Vasconcelos said the fire had spread rapidly with inmates held in old container units that had been adapted for the prison while another building is under construction.

The fire prevented police forces from entering the building for several hours, he told a news conference.

Two prison staff members were held hostage, but eventually released.

“It was a targeted attack.

The aim was to show that it was a settling of accounts between the two groups, not a protest or rebellion against the prison system,” Vasconcelos said.

Authorities have not found any firearms following the riot, only makeshift knives.

Prison authorities said 46 inmates will be transferred to other prisons, 10 of whom will go to stricter federal facilities.

President Jair Bolsonaro was elected on the promise of curbing widespread violence

Dark Horse ‘copied’ A jury has ruled that Katy Perry’s 2013 hit Dark Horse improperly copied a 2009 Christian rap song, setting up arguments over how much the singer and other defendants will owe. The decision yesterday returned by a nine-member federal jury in a Los Angeles courtroom came five years after Marcus Gray and two co-authors first sued, alleging Dark Horse stole from Joyful Noise, a song Gray released under the stage name Flame. The case now goes to a penalty phase, where the jury will decide how much the plaintiffs are owed for copyright infringement.

People seek information about family members who are prisoners after a riot inside the Regional Recovery Centre in Altamira, Brazil.

PHOTO AP in Brazil, including in the country’s often overcrowded, out-of-control prisons.

The Associated Press obtained a July 2019 report from the National Justice Council that it says was filed by a local judge in charge of the facility, showing that the prison had 343 detainees for a maximum capacity of 163.

Yet Vasconcelos said the situation did not meet the official requirements to be considered overcrowded.

“It is not a unit that has a prison overcrowding, we consider overcrowding when it exceeds 210 per cent,” Vasconcelos said during the press conference.

The judge who filed the

report described the overall state of the prison in the city of Altamira as “terrible”.

In many of Brazil’s prisons, badly outnumbered guards struggle to retain power over an ever-growing population of inmates who are able to run criminal activities from behind bars.

The killings echoed those of 55 inmates who died in a series of riots in May in several prisons in the neighbouring state of Amazonas.

In early 2017, more than 120 inmates died in prisons across several northern states when rival gangs clashed over control of drug-trafficking routes in the region. The violence lasted several weeks, spread-

ing to various states.

Para state authorities spent time in Altamira, drafting a security plan to avoid possible retaliations in the region.

Police forces from the nearby municipality of Santerem were sent as reinforcement in the coming weeks.

Prison authorities said they had not received any prior intelligence reports of an upcoming attack.

The prison is run directly by the state, not a third-party private operator as in the Manaus prisons where the riots took place in May. Last year, inmates set fire to another wing inside the same prison unit, according to the state prosecutors’ office.

■■UNITED STATES

America coming to NZ Classic rock legends America will celebrate their 50th anniversary with three New Zealand shows later this year. Best known for their classic hits of the 1970s and ’80s including Ventura Highway, Horse with No Name, I Need You, Don’t Cross the River, Tin Man, Sister Golden Hair, and You Can Do Magic, America will play consecutive dates in Christchurch, Wellington and Hamilton from November 22. Headed by Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, America return Downunder having amassed six certified gold and/or platinum albums, with their first greatest hits collection, History, hitting four million plus in sales.

Teen’s chilling posts before deadly shooting NZME The teen who opened fire at a food festival killing three people before he was fatally shot by police posted an ominous Instagram warning before the killing spree.

Authorities were searching for answers to why a 19-yearold opened fire on a popular food festival less than two kilometres from his parents’ home in California, killing two children and another man, but believe many more people would have died if officers patrolling the event had not stopped the gunman so quickly.

Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence and appeared to randomly target people with an “assault-type rifle”, at the end of the threeday Gilroy Garlic Festival that attracts about 100,000 people

Santino William Legan to the city known as the Garlic Capital of the World, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said.

Police responded in less than a minute, and Legan turned his “AK-47-type” gun on the officers, Smithee said.

Three officers fired back and killed Legan, who legally pur-

chased the weapon in Nevada this month.

A second suspect “was involved in some way, we just don’t know in what way,” Smithee said, without giving further details. “We have no idea of a motive,” he said.

Police recovered a rifle at the scene, Smithee said.

An Instagram account bearing the suspect’s name, created four days ago, posted two messages shortly before the attacks, including a reference to a white supremacist text.

One post was a photo of people walking around the Garlic Festival with the words “Ayyy garlic festival time Come get wasted on overpriced sh**.”

The other post, made about an hour later, showed a sign of Smokey Bear saying “Fire Danger High Today”.

“Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard,” the caption

said. “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw**s?”

A mestizo is a person of mixed descent, usually white and Hispanic, or white and American Indian, CNN reports.

Might is Right is a book published in the late 1800s which has been described as a white supremacist text that promotes anarchy, vilifies Christianity and calls Jesus the “true Prince of Evil”.

The natural order, according to the book, is a world at war in which the strong must vanquish the weak, and white men must rule over those of colour.

Police said the gunman cut through a fence to evade metal detectors and other security at the festival’s entrance.

Grande causes outrage Singer Ariana Grande has been called out on social media after making a tasteless comment about child pageant star JonBenet Ramsey, who was murdered in 1996. Grande’s fans took exception to what she’d written and she later issued an apology. Ramsey was just 6 years old when she was found dead in her family’s Boulder, Colorado home. Grande’s friend Doug Middlebrook, posted an image of Ramsey on the front of a newspaper, with the caption: “No one has done more covers”. Grande replied to the tweet, writing: “I cant WAIT for this to be your halloween look” and Middlebrook responded with “working on it already”.

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Zuru to sue Lego, escalating war

the Zuru’s Max Build More and Mayka products copy the distinctive look of Lego Minifigures, and would confuse consumers into thinking they were Lego toys.

This week, Zuru lawyer Gregory Smith said his company was not only appealing, but has filed a countersuit in a Californian court (then transferred to Connecticut), accusing Lego of anti-competitive practices designed to “stifle” newcomers – practices that he claims break US antitrust laws.

“Intellectual property rights are extremely important to Zuru.

We work hard to ensure we are

Danone to spend $40m on Balclutha biomass boiler, upgrade

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French food group Danone said it would spend $40 million on upgrading its Balclutha milk powder facility to make it carbon neutral.

Danone said the upgrade would make the Balclutha facility the New Zealand dairy industry’s first carbon neutral plant.

The company said it would spend $30 million on building a state of the art biomass boiler, to be fuelled by woodwaste from surrounding plantation forests.

Danone said its new boiler would reduce the plant’s carbon dioxide emissions by 20,000 tonnes a year. The existing boiler runs on LPG. The Balclutha plant processes raw milk sourced from 18 local farms into powder that is used as the base for production of its Nutiricia infant milk formula (IMF) brands, including Aptamil and Karicare.

Boilers play a big role in converting milk into a dry powder through heat and about 85 per cent of the entire plant’s energy consumption comes from steam production.

Cyril Marniquet, Danone’s New Zealand operations director, said the company, group-wide, wants to become carbon neutral by 2050.

French engineering company Veolia design and manage construction of the biomass boiler, Danone said in a statement.

Danone’s investment in the plant also includes the installation of a new water treatment plant to more efficiently treat water waste.

Danone aims to go carbon neutral with an upgrade to its Balclutha plant.

The multi-national acquired the Balclutha spray drying plant from Gardians and its Airport Oaks, Auckland, blending, packing and canning facilities from Suttons in 2014.

Since then, the company has invested $150 million to double production capacity of finished infant formula products in New Zealand.

Danone also has a warehousing facility in Auckland and a 49 per cent holding in Yashili New Zealand, which runs an infant formula plant in Pokeno.

Biomass or bioenergy is energy from plants or plant bi-products.

When energy is released through combustion, carbon dioxide (CO2) and other by-products are also released.

The CO2 released is largely off-

set by that which was absorbed in the original growth of the biomass, which will be captured in the growth of new biomass to replace the biomass being used.

Danone’s biomass boiler at Balclutha will be fuelled by by-products or residue of forestry activity that may ordinarily go to waste.

“These lumber production by-products, while traditionally disposed of or burned, are valuable sources of heat, steam, and/ or electricity when used in a biomass boiler system,” it said.

There are four commercial forests within a 50-kilometre radius of the Balclutha plant.

Early this month, Fonterra, a major coal user, said it would would stop installing new coal boilers – 11 years ahead of its previously advised plan.

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a $600 million-a-year toy business over the past 15 years and made a splash locally by buying Dotcom Mansion in Auckland for $32.5 million in 2016. But their business is global, and most of their manufacturing and most of their 5500 staff are in China and Hong Kong.

Along the way, they’ve had to spend tens of millions on legal costs in what can be a sharp-elbowed industry.

The latest drama began in April when – just days after their Bunch O Balloons victory was confirmed, Lego filed its legal action.

The Danish toymaker claimed

fringed its “utility” patent – equivalent to what is more traditionally known in New Zealand as just a patent, he told the Herald.

“Broadly speaking, a utility patent in the US protects the way a product works, regardless of that product’s look or feel. Zuru devised a novel and inventive method of filling up several balloons with water at once.

“The utility patent protects that method. The court found that Telebrands, by using a similar method in its product, infringed that patent.

The current Lego vs Zuru fight is about a different kind of patent; a “design” patent - equivalent to a design registration in New Zealand, he said.

For Zuru, Smith said, “We are vigorously defending this lawsuit on the basis there was no improper infringement and Lego is relying on invalid intellectual property rights.”

The Kiwi toy company also intends to go full-force with its counter-suit alleging anti-competitive behaviour.

In the meantime, Smith emphasises that the suit only affects Zuru’s Max Build More and Mayka toys in the US.

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Kiwi toy company Zuru says it will appeal an injunction against its figurines, won by Lego in the US earlier this month – and that it’s launching a countersuit, alleging the Danish toymaker is abusing its market dominance in a bid to smother new competition.

To outsiders, it seems a lot like the recent case that saw Zuru win $43 million costs and damages from Telebrands, a US company that had ripped off its signature Bunch O Balloons product.

Is the boot simply now on the other foot?

An intellectual property expert says there’s a key difference (keep reading). First, some quick background: On July 8, a US court granted Lego an interim injunction, and ordered Zuru to immediately stop manufacturing, distributing its Max Build More and Mayka lines and to remove any of the products already on store shelves. Zuru US retail partner Walmart was ordered to stop selling the products, pending a full hearing.

Zuru was founded by Cambridge siblings Anna, Mat and Nick Mowbray. The trio have built

not infringing on legitimate valid third-party rights,” Smith said.

“In this case, we believe Lego is asserting overly broad claims in an improper effort to monopolise the construction toy products market, block legitimate competition and eliminate value-priced innovative and high-quality, competing construction toy products from the market.”

But Lego’s market heft aside, to a layperson it looks like the Danish toy company is simply doing to Zuru what Zuru did to Telebrands after it copied Bunch O Balloons.

Nick Mowbray has called the giant Lego (2018 revenue: $8.2 billion) legally “aggressive” (an adjective also used by Bloomberg to describe the toy company).

But can he claim the moral high ground after he and his sibling so tenaciously pursued Telebrand through the US court system?

Sebastien Aymeric, a senior associate with James and Wells – a law firm that specialises in intellectual property issues – said that while superficially similar, the two cases hinge on quite different IP principles and laws (Aymeric does not act for Zuru or Lego).

In the Bunch O Balloons matter, Zuru alleged Telebrands had in-

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ometimes you just feel like comfort food and to satisfy that craving you can’t go past pasta.

It’s the most versatile of carbohydrates and is happily at home combined with just about any vegetable, meat or sauce.

And if that wasn’t enough, pasta meals are quick to take from pantry or fridge to plate.

Cheesy pasta and vegetable bake 1/4 C (60ml) olive oil 4 small (240g) baby eggplants cut into 1cm slices 200g swiss brown mushrooms, quartered 750g jar tomato and basil pasta sauce 1C (250ml) vegetable stock 300g short pasta 1/3 C chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 1/2 C (40g) grated parmesan cheese 200g bocconcini, drained

Bacon and cheese pasta 25g butter 1 onion, chopped finely 4 rashers bacon, cut into chunks 1T flour 1 1/2 C milk 1T thyme leaves 1C grated tasty cheese 4C cooked pasta ■■ Preheat oven to 180°C. ■■ Melt butter in a pot.

■■ Add onion and bacon and cook for 4 or 5 minutes without browning.

■■ Add flour and stir for 2 minutes.

■■ Slowly add milk, stirring until sauce has thickened.

■■ Stir through thyme, half the cheese, and season with salt and pepper.

■■ Add pasta and stir, coating it in sauce.

■■ Spoon into individual dishes or one large dish.

■■ Sprinkle on remaining cheese.

■■ Place in hot oven for 20 minutes or until golden.

Simple carbonara Spaghetti or other pasta, enough for the number of people you are serving 3 eggs + 2 egg yolks 1/2 C freshly grated parmesan 1/2 t salt Freshly ground black pepper 3-4 rashers of rindless bacon ■■ Cook pasta in plenty of hot, salted water ■■ While pasta cooks, combine eggs in a bowl and cook bacon in a deep pan.

■■ When pasta is cooked, drain and return to the pan with the cooked bacon in it.

■■ Remove from the heat.

■■ Pour the egg mixture over the pasta and gently stir to combine.

■■ Finish with a generous grind of black pepper. Leave to stand for 1 minute.

■■ Serve with grated parmesan and a sprinkle of parsley on top.

■■ Heat oven to 200°C fan-forced.

■■ Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the eggplant and mushrooms.

■■ Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are browned lightly.

■■ Add the pasta sauce and stock.

Cook, stirring occasionally for 10 minutes.

■■ Season to taste with salt and pepper.

■■ Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water until just tender, drain.

■■ Add the pasta, parsley and half the parmesan to the tomato sauce mixture; mix well.

■■ Spoon mixture into a shallow 2.5-litre (10C capacity) ovenproof dish.

■■ Sprinkle the top with torn pieces of bocconcini and the remaining parmesan.

■■ Bake for about 20 minutes or until browned.

Prawn fettucine 375g dried fettuccine 1/2 C frozen peas 1T olive oil 500g peeled medium green prawns (tails intact) Chopped basil 2t ground garlic 2 courgettes, thinly sliced 300ml light thickened cooking cream 2t lemon rind, finely grated 1/2 red capsicum, thinly sliced 2 green onions, thinly sliced ■■ Cook dried fettuccine in a large saucepan boiling, salted water until tender.

■■ Add frozen peas for the last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain. Return to pan.

■■ Heat olive oil in a large, deep frying pan. Add prawns, garlic and zucchini.

■■ Cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until prawns change colour.

■■ Add cream. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes or until prawns are just cooked and sauce thickens.

■■ Stir in lemon rind and basil.

■■ Pour sauce over pasta. Add onions and red capsicum.

Toss to coat.

Not all pasta shapes are created equal, and some are better suited to thick sauces while some are perfect for oil-based sauces. For delicate sauces (sauces made primarily with olive oil or tomatoes) spaghetti or other long pastas are a solid choice as the thin sauce coats the pasta evenly. For heavier sauces (sauces made with meats or large chunks of veges) tube pastas such as penne or other large shapes are ideal. The crevices in the pasta trap the hearty sauce and let you get the perfect ratio of sauce-to-pasta in every bite.

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■■ Chop pumpkin into 3cm cubes.

■■ Toss in olive oil then spread on a baking tray in a single layer with the unpeeled garlic cloves.

■■ Season well with salt and pepper and bake for 30-40 minutes until tender. Set aside to cool.

■■ Heat a small saucepan over gentle heat and melt butter.

■■ Add flour and whisk until smooth, then leave to cook for 1 minute.

■■ Add a small amount of milk and whisk. Continue adding milk gradually, whisking continuously, until you have a smooth sauce.

■■ Leave to simmer for 3-4 minutes.

■■ Roughly mash pumpkin with ricotta, sage and crushed garlic.

■■ Remove lasagne sheets from the packet and lay them flat.

■■ Cut them widthwise to form squares. Place a large spoonful of pumpkin mix at one end and roll up to form a sausage shape.

■■ Continue until all of the mixture has been used. Increase oven temperature to 220°C. ■■ Spread a few spoonfuls of the white sauce in the bottom of a medium-sized lasagne dish.

■■ Nestle cannelloni tubes in a single layer in the dish, seam-side down, ensuring they are quite close together. Top with the remaining sauce and sprinkle with grated parmesan.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – Catherine Street is in? a. Hampstead b. Allenton c. Tinwald 2 – The Brooklyn Bridge is famous in which city? a. San Francisco b. Washington c. New York 3 – In physics, newtons measure? a. Force b. Speed c. Weight 4 – When did Vincent van Gogh paint The Starry Night? a. 1849 b. 1889 c. 1929 5 – In what year did the first beer cans go on sale? a. 1905 b. 1920 c. 1935 6 – Sitar, tanpura and veena are types of? a. Storage jars b. Venomous snakes c. Stringed instruments 7 – Anorexia nervosa is a form of? a. Anxiety disorder b. Eating disorder c. Kidney malfunction 8 – Which area does the Pulse team represent in women’s netball? a. Dunedin b. Hamilton c. Wellington

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Crumbed lamb cutlets with warm green veges Lamb 12 Quality Mark lamb cutlets 24 small basil leaves 1C dried white breadcrumbs or panko crumbs 1/4 C finely-grated parmesan cheese 1/4 C flour 1 egg, lightly beaten with a little milk Oil for shallow frying Herb vinaigrette 6T olive oil 3T lemon juice 1t dijon mustard 1t liquid honey 3T chopped fresh herbs, such as Italian parsley, mint and chives Green vegetables 16 spears asparagus, base snapped off, lower stalks peeled if woody and sliced in half on a diagonal

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250g snow peas, trimmed 2C green peas, frozen ■■ Lamb: Trim most of the fat from the lamb cutlets. Rub cutlets with a little oil. Press a basil leaf on to the meat on both sides of cutlets. Mix the breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese together and place on a large plate and the flour on another. Place egg mixture in a shallow bowl. Dip the cutlets in the flour dusting off any excess, then the egg and finally in the breadcrumbs, pressing them down so the cutlets are well coated. Place on a tray and cover. Refrigerate lamb cutlets if you are not cooking them within 20 minutes.

■■ Herb vinaigrette: Place all ingredients in a small bowl and whisk to combine.

■■ Green vegetables: Steam or boil green vegetables until

just tender, drain and place in a serving bowl. Pour over the herb vinaigrette while still warm and toss gently.

■■ To serve: If refrigerated, bring lamb cutlets back to room temperature. Pour enough oil into the base of a large frying pan so it comes up the sides by about 2cm. When hot, place in half of the lamb cutlets and pan-fry for four minutes, turning once. (This will depend upon thickness of cutlets).

■■ Remove from the frying pan and place on paper towels to drain.

Sprinkle with a little salt. Repeat with the remaining cutlets. Place lamb cutlets on a warm serving platter and serve with the warm green vegetables.

Recipe courtesy of Beef + Lamb New Zealand www.recipes.co.nz

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Crash puts Paddon out of Finland NZME Hayden Paddon’s pending return to the World Rally Championship circuit has ended in heartbreak.

The Kiwi driver was ruled out of this weekend’s Rally Finland event after crashing his M-Sport Ford Fiesta during a test run.

A rock had lodged itself under the front of the car during a turn and lifted it off the track, causing widespread damage.

Both Paddon and co-driver John Kennard were unhurt in the incident.

Paddon called M-Sport managing director Malcolm Wilson immediately after the crash, who along with the team tried to find a solution but there was little that could be done.

“Malcolm was straight on this,” M-Sport WRC team principal Richard Millener told Autosport.

“His instruction was to find a way to get him out to the event, but we just can’t do it.

“It’s so frustrating.

“The car needs a jig and we don’t have one and, even if we had a car built and ready to go, it would take three and a half days to get it out there.

“It’s simply not possible.”

In a post to Facebook, Paddon expressed his disappointment over the crash.

“Unfortunately our test that

started so well today didn’t end as well.

“The Fiesta WRC car was feeling great and pleasantly surprised how quickly we were able to get to grips with it,” he wrote.

“However a rock in the middle of a 6th gear corner lifted the front of the car off line and the rest is history at that speed on a narrow section of stage.

“John and I are both ok and thank you for everyone’s messages. Incredibly sorry for the team and everyone back home in NZ who made this event possible.

With the damage sustained we will be unable to start the event.

“Where to next ..... who knows.

“But it’s great to have the support of M-Sport at present. Motorsport can be cruel, but it is these highs and lows that makes us stronger and keeps bringing us back – fans and competitors alike.”

Millener refused to blame Paddon for what he saw as a freak accident.

“You can’t help but feel really sorry for Hayden.

“We don’t blame him for this,” he said.

“A rock’s been pulled out and he’s then discovered it sitting in the middle of the road in a blind, sixth-gear right-hander.

“There was nothing he could do to avoid it.”

Gymnasts’ final farewell Hayden Paddon’s car looking a bit worse for wear.

An Ashburton rhythmic gymastics club has bid a sad farewell, hosting its final competition at Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre on Sunday. The Ashburton arm of Olympia Gymnastics Sport has run out of the EA Networks Centre stadium for the past couple of years. But coach Michelle Smith-Copland said due to a move to Christchurch during the week for her children’s schooling, she’d made the decision to close the club. A former rhythmic gymnast herself, she would continue to coach in Christchurch. Pictured taking part in the club’s final competition was Christchurch 10-year-old Shyla McGregor.

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Schumacher ‘watching Formula One on television’ NZME Former Ferrari boss Jean Todt has delivered fresh hope over Michael Schumacher’s health.

Schumacher’s recovery after suffering severe head trauma in a near-fatal skiing accident in 2013 has been a closely guarded secret by his family and friends.

Updates have been few and far between, with Schumacher’s wife

Corrina only breaking her silence earlier this year to publicly celebrate his 50th birthday.

But in a rare update on the seven-time world champion’s health, Todt revealed that Schumacher is making good progress and even watched Formula One with him on television.

“I’m always careful with such statements, but it’s true. I saw the race together with Michael Schu-

macher at his home in Switzerland,” Todt said.

A close friend of Schumacher, Todt is one of few select people who regularly visits the Formula One legend at his home in Switzerland.

Confident over his progress, Todt said Schumacher was in good hands.

“Michael is in the best hands and is well looked after in his

house. He does not give up and keeps fighting.”

It’s a refreshing update following Todt’s comments earlier this month that he was saddened by the fact Schumacher was struggling to communicate.

“His family is fighting just as much and of course our friendship can not be the same as it once was,” Todt said. “Just because there’s no longer the same

communication as before.”

Another close friend, basketball player Dirk Nowitzki, has since revealed Schumacher was receiving physiotherapy treatment but was hesitant to speak further on the topic in respect of keeping details private.

“Of course I hope that he’s making progress in his physio and we’ll see him again someday,” he said.

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■■OPINION

■■BASKETBALL

Rollercoaster ride continues A

s many of you will know, the life of a Warriors fan hasn’t always been easy over the years.

Once again, on Saturday night, we had our heads in our hands following another loss which could largely be put down to a handful of refereeing decisions that could only be described as pretty darn awful.

It’s not the first time, and I am absolutely certain it won’t be the last time, but the question is why?

Are we Warriors fans just so passionate about the game and one-eyed that we only see things from our own point of view?

Or is there actually some kind of conspiracy at play here?

There’s been much written and spoken about on the issue in recent days, but I think the most interesting came from former Warrior Monty Betham, who hit out, describing the refereeing as having hit its worst point in the club’s history.

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He knows exactly what he’s talking about and while current players might not be fully free to express their true feelings on the issue, there’s nothing stopping him.

One of the most interesting revelations was Betham saying that he’d seen Australian players come to the Warriors from Australian clubs and saying how tough it was as a Warrior.

He said they’d always just sucked it up and figured it was the way it was, but now, he believed it had gotten to the point of incompetence.

There may be apologies and sanctions or whatever, and yes four referees from Saturday’s game have been dropped, but that doesn’t change the result, and I think the fact that the TAB refunded head-to-head bets on the game was a pretty big indicator that the result was wrong.

The Warriors were just outside the top eight heading into that Eels clash, and now they’re just that little bit further outside the top eight.

A win against the Eels would have been big in terms of their

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position in the competition with only six rounds remaining.

Betham’s take on the season as a whole so far was that, while it was often the Warriors letting themselves down, this season it was the officiating.

He estimated the Warriors had been wrongly penalised out of five competition points.

Right now, five extra points would put them in a tie for sixth.

Warriors fans are passionate, and we will not lie down when we feel we have been wronged.

Someone – and he knows full well who he is – sent me a message straight after that game saying something along the lines of ‘Warriors fans moaning about one bad call at the end of the 80 minutes that they reckon

cost them the game’.

I knew this person was just trying to get a rise out of me, but I couldn’t help myself.

I took the bait.

Yes, there was the pass that led to what would have been a winning try being ruled as forward (far from the first time that’s happened to us), but what about the couple of strip calls earlier that wrongly went the way of the Eels?

It all led to, not for the first time, the word conspiracy being bandied about at the end of a Warriors game.

Now, I am sure that referees don’t go out onto the field intending to make biased calls, or to favour one team over another, and if we were talking about volunteer referees on a club spot scene I wouldn’t be saying any of this.

But these guys are meant to be the best in the business.

This is their job, and when it comes to the Warriors, for some unknown reason they don’t always seem to do the best job.

We don’t want apologies, we just want better.

Tall Blacks lose Vukona The Tall Blacks will be without their longtime captain for their upcoming World Cup campaign, with confirmation yesterday that Mika Vukona will not be suiting up in China.

Vukona has suffered a left knee injury in the Sal’s NBL ruling the Brisbane Bullet forward out of the upcoming tournament.

With the wider roster assembling in Auckland later this week for a four-day selection camp before 14 players and staff fly out to Japan to begin their World Cup preparations, it is not the news that head coach Paul Henare wanted to hear.

“We have known for a couple of weeks that Mika was unlikely to get clearance to play, but we all know Mika and wanted to give him as much time as we could to understand full implications of the injury.

“Even knowing we were essentially left with no choice, it was one of the hardest calls I have had to make in my time coaching this team.

“Few if any others give what Mika has given to this national team over so many years, he is the heartbeat of our group and a leader on and off the court.”

Opuke-Hakatere take out thriller on the turf Moving the ball up the turf during her Opuke-Hakatere side’s latest win in the Mid/South Canterbury women’s division two hockey competition on Sunday was Jessie Pitney. Pitney and the rest of the young Mid Canterbury team beat Roncalli’s 1st XI 4-3 on Saturday, in what was their final home game of the season’s round robin competition. Opuke-Hakatere will head to Timaru to play Cambridge this weekend, in their final hit-out before heading into semi-finals.

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■■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Juniors get ready for their turn

By Erin Tasker

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With the start of the Aoraki junior rugby league season just over three weeks away, the hunt for players is now well and truly on.

The Ashburton Barbarians held a muster day last week, followed by a registration and training day on Monday this week, and they are now holding regular training sessions as they looked to field teams across the age groups – under-8s, under-10s and under-12s – in what is just their second season of delving into the world of junior league.

Last season it was a roaring success, with good numbers and the Barbarians hosting a successful day of junior rugby league at their home base – Robilliard Park – and they are set to do it all again this season.

The Aoraki junior competition will get under way in Timaru on August 24, and on August 31 players will again make their way to Ashburton.

It is hoped the Ashburton junior club day will see around 250 to 300 kids taking to the park to play some league, with teams from around Canterbury likely to again take part.

Aoraki’s junior competition will run through until September 28, and the Barbarians aren’t the only Mid Canterbury rugby league club hoping to play a part in it, with the Chertsey Oilers also putting the call out for players for what will be their first ever junior teams.

The Oilers are still a relatively new club which fielded a team for the Aoraki Cup seniors competition at the tail-end of the season,

along with the Barbarians and two teams from South Canterbury – the Cowboys and the Outlaws.

The Barbarians’ main team played in the Canterbury Rugby League division one competition, which heads into semi-finals

stage this weekend, and although the Barbarians will feature, their build up hasn’t been ideal.

They were due to play the Burnham Chevaliers on Saturday, but for the second week in a row were defaulted to.

Regan Broker from the Ashburton Barbarians seniors management team, gives a few tips to the next generation of Barbarians on Monday afternoon.

■■RUGBY LEAGUE

■■ BASKETBALL

Perfect start to the play offs Mid Canterbury drew a tough start to the top six play-offs in the Canterbury division one men’s basketball competition, but it ended up being a dream start.

The Tricroft Mid Canterbury side played the top-ranked Pioneer Blue in Christchurch on Sunday, a team that had only lost one game in the regular season, so they were definitely going to be a tough nut to crack.

But, crack them they did. Mid Canterbury came away with a big win, 102-81.

Pioneer Blue made all the early running and took an early 6–2 lead after Mid Canterbury failed to convert on several fast breaks.

Marc Juntilla got Mid Canterbury on the board, fouled driving to the hoop, and from there Mid Canterbury started hitting their shots and got onto an 11–0 roll to lead 13–6 before a time out was called.

Pioneer Blue came back to cut the lead to a slender 21–19 lead at the end of the quarter, and a closely fought second followed.

Every time Mid Canterbury got a roll, Pioneer Blue were able to strike back, Mid Canterbury coach Brian Kerr said.

“This ended up being the script for the rest of the game.”

Mid Canterbury’s zone defence intensified and some excellent drives to the basket by Pip Johnston put Mid Canterbury out to 50–39, but Pioneer kept themselves

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alive hitting three 3-pointers to reduce to the gap to seven at half-time.

The third quarter started well for Mid Canterbury with three blocked shots by Jason Greig, who was starting to impose himself at both ends of the court, but Pioneer kept coming back.

Mid Canterbury kept looking to exploit in transition, however Pioneer did a good job of nullifying it, and Mid Canterbury’s offence started to lose some shape as Pioneer got back within two points, 58-56.

With Mid Canterbury leading 75–71 at the final break, it was all to play for in the final quarter, and it got off to a messy start with plenty of turnovers and missed shots.

Pioneer got back to within two, and it was a question of who would hold their nerve. The answer was Mid Canterbury.

They went on another 10-point run which pushed the margin back to 12, and every time Pioneer threatened the gap, Mid Canterbury headed straight back down the other end and scored.

With two and a half minutes to go Mid Canterbury went on a big 15–2 run to close out the game, winning 102-81.

Kerr said Johnston had a terrific game, excelling on the drive and shooting well from outside to top score with 30 points (including four 3-pointers), while Juntilla also had another cracking game scoring 27 points and was continually asking ques-

tions of the Pioneer Blue defence.

Fotu Hala and Nick Fechney both continued their good form scoring 16 points apiece, while Jason Greig utilised his size well, scoring 11 points.

When Mid Canterbury and Pioneer Blue met earlier in the seconds, Pioneer Blue won 93-75, but Kerr said the Mid Canterbury side that played on Sunday was vastly different.

“Firstly we had most of the team available and secondly there was a real focus on the job at hand,” Kerr said.

“It was a wonderful game of basketball that was certainly closer than the final scoreline would indicate.

“Pioneer Blue never went away and there were a number of times Mid Canterbury pushed the lead out beyond 10 points only to have Pioneer Blue force their way back to within a couple of points.”

He said Mid Canterbury’s defensive intensity was again outstanding, making Pioneer Blue work hard for their baskets, while they also shot well from the floor, hitting 40 from 74 (54 per cent) including 13 from 26 from three-point range.

“With those sort of stats, you win games,” Kerr said.

Mid Canterbury will now play Atami Casa de Banos this weekend in Christchurch in the next game of their return season to the city competition.

Cost ruling out technology NZME Fans were outraged, the Warriors’ boss called for dress-up revenge and four officials were sacked.

That’s the aftermath of last weekend’s controversial NRL clash between the Warriors and the Parramatta Eels.

With the one-sided refereeing performance, packed with inconsistencies and confusion, many have since called for computer technology to be introduced into the game. From a system being able to rule on forward passes to microchips tracking the ball, nothing has been left off the discussion table.

But although revealing such technology was indeed available, chief executive of Animation Research Ian Taylor said the biggest barrier was the cost.

“The technology certainly is there,” Taylor said. “You would just be able to just click on the player’s hands and the line would go out at right angles.

“We track golf balls using radar, in fact, top golfers put chips inside golf balls and track them [and] a rugby ball would be far easier. It’s just a thing of cost value.

“The technology available now gives them a really good head start and I think you probably would be able to do something by next season ... but that stuff gets really expensive.”

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Hansen expecting torrid Bledisloe NZME To the Bledisloe Cup, then, and hopefully, from an All Blacks perspective, significant improvements in the team’s collective performance for the retention of the second most cherished trophy in their collection.

Nothing will focus All Black minds more than Wednesday’s squad announcement and the requirement for the 34 remaining players to farewell those who won’t prepare for the first test against the Wallabies in Perth a week on Saturday.

The return match is at Eden Park on August 17.

Steve Hansen and his fellow coaches will hope that extra edge, match fitness and game understanding gained from the runouts against Argentina and South Africa will clear the way for a more cohesive attack; and the ability to actually catch the ball will help enormously with that, too.

There’s not too much wrong with the All Blacks’ defence; and credit must go to assistant coach Scott McLeod here as he received more than his share of criticism from the public and some pundits last year after succeeding Wayne Smith.

The concession of two tries in two tests isn’t a bad result and the one scored by Hershel Jantjies in the final minute in Wellington at the weekend was unlucky.

Cheslin Kolbe’s speculative kick could have gone anywhere and it was unfortunate for Aaron Smith that it bounced a little high for him and into the hands of Jantjies.

The All Blacks will almost certainly name their strongest line-up against the Wallabies for a test in front of a crowd of more than 60,000 at a sold-out stadium.

Brodie Retallick won’t feature until the World Cup at the earliest due to his dislocated shoulder, and Sonny Bill Williams will drop to the Mitre 10 Cup where he will probably play two games for Counties Manukau – possibly a pre-season match in Katikati on Saturday and the round one fixture against Taranaki at Pukekohe – in order to improve his match fitness.

But elsewhere Hansen will go with his big guns and that will provide further evidence of his thinking for the first World Cup pool game against the Springboks and following knockout matches.

Asked what he expected from the Wallabies, who lost

their first Rugby Championship game against the Springboks in South Africa before edging the Pumas 16-10 in Brisbane at the weekend, he replied: “A torrid battle. We always have great games against them – it will be a fast game.”

With Richie Mo’unga and Beauden Barrett finally finding their rhythm just after halftime at Westpac Stadium, the pace at which the All Blacks played was noticeably high. More of the same but without the handling errors will be the plan in Perth.

“Sometimes when you’re trying new things you’re having to think about how you’re doing them,” Hansen said in defence of his players, and in particular his forwards, a day after the 16-16 draw.

“In a high-speed game when there’s a high-speed defensive line coming at you, you haven’t got time to think about it.

“You have to be instinctive.

“When you slow down to think about it some of your motor skills go.

“Sometimes your lungs go pretty quick too and then your skills go.

“Some of the big boys really felt the pinch of the speed of the game because we asked them to do a lot.”

The All Blacks will be producing a fast-paced game against the Wallabies.

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Methven’s Dallas McLeod, pictured last year after being named Canterbury’s under-19 player of the year, is one of seven new caps in Canterbury’s 2019 Mitre 10 Cup squad.

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McLeod one of seven new caps for Canty Methven’s Dallas McLeod is one of seven new caps in the Canterbury squad for this year’s Mitre 10 Cup rugby competition.

Canterbury head coach Joe Maddock announced his squad yesterday, and it featured the return of a couple of old faces as well as the inclusion of the seven new faces – five backs and two forwards.

Maddock said there was plenty to like about the emerging talent in the line-up and he was excited to provide some young players – many whom had progressed through the Canterbury and Crusaders’ development programmes – an opportunity to test themselves at a provincial level.

McLeod was one of them.

He was Canterbury’s under-19 player of the year in 2018, and spent time in camp with the Crusaders earlier in the season, before vice-captaining New Zealand at the World Rugby Under-20 Championship in Argentina.

“Dallas’ work rate has impressed and he’ll have taken a lot of valuable lessons from his experiences already this year,” Maddock said.

The squad represented 12 clubs from throughout the province and, alongside the seven uncapped players, there were two returning players in Tim Bateman and Inga Finau.

The side was further boosted by the return of Luke Whitelock, who

had been named to captain the side, and Whitelock would be supported by vice-captains Whetukamokamo Douglas, Mitchell Drummond, Luke Romano and Tim Bateman.

The 2019 Mitre 10 Cup season had its official launch yesterday in Auckland, where loose forward Tom Sanders attended as the team’s representative. Canterbury’s Mitre 10 Cup season officially kicks off on August 10 when the team travel to Hamilton to take on Waikato.

The 2019 Canterbury Mitre 10 Cup squad is: Michael Alaalatoa* (Linwood), Harry Allan (Sydenham), Tim Bateman (Christchurch), Fergus Burke* (Canterbury University), Brett Cameron (Lincoln University), Tom Christie (Christchurch), Whetukamokamo Douglas (Canterbury University), Mitchell Drummond (HSOB), Mitchell Dunshea (Springston), Ereatara Enari (Lincoln University), Inga Finau (Linwood), Sam Gilbert* (Lincoln University), Cullen Grace* (Lincoln University), Billy Harmon (New Brighton), Oliver Jager (New Brighton), Daniel Lienert-Brown (HSOB), Brodie McAlister (Sydenham), Dallas McLeod* (Christchurch), Josh McKay (Lincoln University), Rameka Poihipi* (Lincoln University), Reed Prinsep (HSOB), Ngane Punivai (Lincoln University), Junior Ratuva* (Burnside), Luke Romano (Hurunui), Seb Siataga (New Brighton), Tom Sanders (Banks Peninsula), William Tucker (Christchurch), Siate Tokolahi (Sydenham), Luke Whitelock (Canterbury University). *denotes new caps.

All Blacks call on Kiwis to ‘back black’ as World Cup looms NZME The All Blacks are looking to rev up support in the lead-up to the Rugby World Cup with a new advertising campaign.

The ad campaign, developed by Kiwi agency Contagion, calls on New Zealanders to showcase their support for the All Blacks.

The campaign features a series of vignettes featuring fans supporting the team in different ways.

One of the more memorable moments in the ad features a Kiwi bloke standing alongside a van with a giant fern crudely painted on to it.

Contagion chief executive Dean Taylor, an Englishman by birth,

says the point of the campaign is really to inspire regular Kiwis to get stuck in and participate in the campaign.

Asked whether he would be supporting the All Blacks or England when the action kicks off in Japan, Taylor laughs before saying the All Blacks.

“My wife was born here and my

kids are Kiwi,” he says. “I have always thought that the passion of the New Zealand fans is part of the reason why the team is so successful on the world stage and I can’t wait to be a part of that.”

Taylor says he really hopes to see as many fans as possible jump on social media and show their love for the team.

Videos sent in by fans will be live on the official website.

New Zealand Rugby went on the hunt for an ad agency to help drum up support for the All Blacks at the end of last year. Taylor says that the idea to get regular Kiwis involved led to his agency winning a pitch against a number of other contenders.

Racing 18 Ashburton Guardian

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

■■JAZZY STAR

■■SAM SPRATT

Owners’ patience rewarded

Milestone well in sight

By Jonny Turner

NZME

It took just two scintillating bursts of speed for Jazzy Star’s season to go full circle in the past two weeks.

The Brent White-trained 4-yr-old dashed along the passing lane to make it two wins from two starts in a perfect winter preparation.

Jazzy Star also started his season by winning his first two starts, before things went pear-shaped for the pacer during a summer campaign in Auckland.

“He went awful up there,” White said.

“I wouldn’t have sent him up there if I didn’t think he was a chance to pay his way.”

“Nothing worked out for him, really.”

“We think he might have picked up a bug on the way up there.”

The Auckland Reactor pacer immediately put his failed trip behind him when he produced a jaw-dropping burst of speed to win fresh up for driver Stephen McNally.

Jazzy Star backed that effort up with another impressive performance at Addington on Friday night.

What talent the pacer possesses is not yet matched in his ringcraft though.

Jazzy Star’s greenness meant driver Ricky May elected to ease the favourite to a gap three back on the markers after he failed to make the lead.

Though it may have caused some of the horse’s backers some nerv-

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ous moments, it proved to be masterstroke from May when he found clear air in the straight.”

“He is still learning the game a wee bit,” White said.

“He relaxes far better on the back of another horse.

“He had a dig for the lead and he can over-race a wee bit, so when the gap opened we took our opportunity.”

“Ricky thought he would take the punt and the horse fell back to sleep then.”

“Around the bend he was just jogging and it was just a matter of finding a gap.”

Jazzy Star’s troubles were not simply over when he left the spelling paddock following his Auckland campaign.

The pacer’s return to racing was set back around two months ago when he was struck down by illness.

“I had him ready to go to a race at Ashburton six or eight weeks ago and I pulled him out of the box and he had snot running out of his nose,” White said.

“So we had to start again with him.”

“I have to take my hat off to his owners Dave and Gay Luke.

“They have been patient with me and let me do what I have got to do with him.”

Jazzy Star’s back to back wins have earned him a small break.

The pacer was likely to have three weeks off before resuming in the spring, White said.

Ricky May drove Jazzy Star to perfection at Addington.

Sam Spratt is not one for setting goals, but she is making an exception in the new season and also has a realistic opportunity to achieve a very notable milestone within another few seasons.

The vibrant Pukekohe jockey is pleased with her results for the 2018-19 season.

Going into the last race meeting of the term at Tauranga today, she has won 59 races to be back in the top 10 on the New Zealand Jockeys’ Premiership and once again she has comfortably broken the $1 million barrier.

She has topped $1 million in all but two seasons for the last 12 years and in 2008-09 she beat Lance O’Sullivan’s 1989-90 New Zealand record of $3.26 million when her prizemoney haul was $3.4 million, while in 2013-14 when she reached $939,000 she spent five months in England “I’ve got to be happy with my results this season,” she said.

“I just try and be pretty consistent each season and it’s been another solid one, even though I didn’t win a Group One race this season.

“I’m not huge on setting goals, but I’d love to win a race for my grandmother’s 100th birthday.

“She turns 100 on January 7 and my brother, Neil, and his family are coming over from England. It would be pretty special if I could win at that time.”

Tauranga gallops Today at Tauranga Raceway

Racing Tauranga Venue: Tauranga Meeting Date: 31 Jul 2019 2 1.05pm LASER PLUMBING TE PUKE MAIDEN 1200 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 $10,000, MDN 2YO, 1200m Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 6x2 Fleurgundy (4) 57.5.....................M Coleman 1 12.30pm GARTSHORE 1600 $10,000, MDN, 1600m 2 59x95 Keano Reeves (5) 57.5............... L Satherley 1 45x58 Hunua Hank (4) 58.5...................M Cameron 3 Bullybrook (8) 57.5...........................R Smyth 2 8244 Beauty Star 58.5........................... Scratched 4 37269 Amazing Team (6) 55.5......................R Elliot 3 x7842 Kipling (12) 58.5............. A Goindasamy (a3) 5 Desert Mirage (7) 55.5..................... C Grylls 5 Sweet Clementine (3) 55.5............. A Calder 4 0x582 Van Blanc (18) 58.5........................V Colgan 6 6 Power Of Hope (1) 55.5...............T Thornton 5 9270x Iskander (15) 58.5................................C Dell 7 6 7x929 Our Milo (2) 58.5....................... D Danis (a2) 8 It’s Gucci (2) 55.5.........................D Mansour 7 x7373 Teen Titan (13) 58.5......................... A Jones 3 1.40 OASIS BAR AND GRILL MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, 8 7x445 Touch The Clouds b (7) 58.5............ S Spratt MDN F&M, 1200m 9 09025 Littlemisspunky (14) 56.5.................R Smyth 1 48x23 Raz b (11) 57.5................................ C Grylls 10 x6892 Sheez Leica (9) 56.5....................... S McKay 2 0x3 Sweet Painted Lady (9) 57.5........T Thornton 11 00x83 Liz’s Gift (17) 56.5....................E McCall (a3) 3 95x More Than Enough (6) 57.5.........J Kam (a4) 12 50x94 Kiwianna (10) 56.5........................... C Grylls 4 6500x Poppy O’Neill (3) 57.5..............E McCall (a3) 13 7x704 Shahana (6) 56.5..............................T Wenn 5 Blew By You (10) 57.5......................R Smyth 14 440x7 Each Way (11) 58.5..................... L Satherley 6 Cape Gem (7) 57.5.........................V Colgan 7 700x0 If We Meet Again (4) 57.5.......... R Scott (a3) 15 78x65 Reflection (5) 56.5 8 Jenny Kraig h (8) 57.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 16 0x657 Man Power b (3) 58.5 9 7x9x6 Quintana (1) 57.5........................M Cameron 17 90506 Tintero (1) 56.5 10 Reverence (2) 57.5............................R Elliot 18 89 Rockwithattitude h (8) 58.5 11 x7090 The Flying Mullet h (5) 57.5....C Burdan (a3) 19 00 Barbara (16) 56.5 Emergencies: Each Way, Reflection, Man Power, Tintero, 4 2.15pm OCEAN EMPEROR, THE GOOD LOOKING Rockwithattitude, Barbara BOY 1200 $10,000, MDN, 1200m

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Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 31 Jul 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 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 3.19pm ADEPT ACCOUNTANTS C1/2 C1/2, 305m 1 43337 Mr. Postman 17.85.............................. N Udy 2 43538 Plan Stan 17.96.............................. L Pearce 3 64223 Alamein Dip 17.95 K &.......................Phillips 4 15465 Idol Patches 17.71.............................M Flipp 5 52511 Bigtime Coco 17.72.............................L Cole 6 33236 Barbarossa Boy 17.74................B Goldsack 7 47711 Always Dizzy 18.07....................J McInerney 8 F8416 Cosmic Marty 18.15...................J McInerney 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 78744 Bigtime Panther 18.03.................... M Gowan 2 3.37pm J P PRINT PETONE C1/2 C1/2, 305m 1 37876 Cookie Biscuit 17.75..........................M Flipp 2 63236 Lady Jellybean nwtd.....................M Goodier 3 34684 Bigtime Lizzy 17.65.............................L Cole 4 35836 Sozin’s Angel 18.01...................J McInerney 5 37131 Dottie Bell 18.09 J &............................D Bell 6 34775 Nippa-A-Spot 17.82...................J McInerney

1 4 Mr Pickles (2) 58.5...................E McCall (a3) 2 0x400 Ego Fast (10) 58.5...............................C Dell 3 75 Making Waves (9) 58.5...............M Cameron 4 Ayappan (1) 58.5..........................D Mansour 5 690x7 Blizzing Away (11) 58.5...............M Coleman 6 00 Bullnose h (12) 58.5......................... R Jones 7 Diogenes (6) 58.5..........................M McNab 8 Ihu (7) 58.5....................................... S Spratt 9 9866x Le Patron (8) 58.5................ T Yanagida (a2) 10 09x00 Kate Louise (5) 56.5.........M Hashizume (a4) 11 Little Stevie (4) 56.5................... R Scott (a3) 12 94770 Sheeznoteasy h (3) 56.5..............T Thornton 13 Cape Gem 56.5............................. Scratched 14 x7090 The Flying Mullet 56.5................... Scratched Emergencies: Cape Gem, The Flying Mullet

9 x00x0 Sure Bet tm (2) 54.5...........................R Elliot 6 3.29pm FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 2580x Lake Superior (6) 58.5..........E Leighton (a4) 2 766 The Winklepicka h (9) 58.5..........T Thornton 3 9 Captain Reg (3) 58.5........................ S Spratt 4 Captive (12) 58.5...........................M McNab 5 Ghardaia (8) 58.5.............................R Smyth 6 68 Into The Deep (14) 58.5..............M Cameron 7 070 Roc In Style (10) 58.5........................R Elliot 8 9x22 Geri (13) 56.5............................ D Danis (a2) 9 5x354 Damesel (2) 56.5............................. C Grylls 10 3 Haere Up (15) 56.5 11 7046 Belle Of Georgia (7) 56.5.A Goindasamy (a3) 12 Glad All Over (5) 56.5.......... T Yanagida (a2) 5 2.54pm GRAHAM BROWN AND CO CELEBRATION 13 94879 Jacinderella (4) 56.5...............C Burdan (a3) 14 78x07 Just Kate (1) 56.5 1400 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 8x084 Mount Midoriyama dm (5) 59.5........S Collett 15 70x00 Hear My Voice (11) 58.5 2 64356 Cameahotfriday tdm (4) 59.............. S Spratt Emergencies: Just Kate, Hear My Voice 3 41900 Pokuru Wild d (1) 58........................ C Grylls 7 4.04 QUICK COUNT 2100 $10,000, Rating 65 Bench 4 88210 Dalmar dm (6) 58.....................E McCall (a3) mark*, 2100m 5 9x518 Falkirk Lass tdmh (7) 57.5........ D Danis (a2) 1 x6x90 Ted Willdoit m (9) 60........M Hashizume (a4) 6 60034 Dudewithattitude th (3) 57.5.........T Thornton 2 x4348 Beau Jeu dm (7) 59.5.......... T Yanagida (a2) 7 560x0 El Coolio td (9) 55.5.........................R Smyth 3 02349 Delegate dm (12) 59.............E Leighton (a4) 8 80x93 I’ma Shygirl dmh (8) 54.5...... M Kareem (a4) 4 00668 Pierian Spring m (15) 59....................R Elliot

5 87148 Flyingflynn (11) 58.5........................ S Spratt 6 00701 Rodmar tdmh (6) 58.5...................... A Jones 7 x3096 In A Minute dm (14) 57.. A Goindasamy (a3) 8 5x955 Wagner m (5) 56.5..................... N Alam (a4) 9 31429 Seemax mb (2) 56......................M Cameron 10 07x09 Mueled m (3) 56.............................. A Calder 11 65x43 Easy Walking m (10) 55.5................ C Grylls 12 40x07 Barb Dwyer m (13) 54..................T Thornton 13 75Fx8 Artifact m (8) 55 14 0x04P Epae Road (1) 55.........................D Mansour 15 09780 Freewheeler (4) 55 Emergencies: Barb Dwyer, Artifact, Epae Road, Freewheeler Blinkers on: Van Blanc (R1), Power Of Hope (R2), Le Patron (R4), Roc In Style (R6) Winkers on: Damesel (R6) Winkers off: Into The Deep, Roc In Style (R6) Pacifiers off: Keano Reeves (R2) SELECTIONS Race 1: Hunua Hank, Van Blanc, Kiwianna, Touch The Clouds Race 2: Fleurgundy, Desert Mirage, It’s Gucci, Sweet Clementine Race 3: Raz, Sweet Painted Lady, Cape Gem, Quintana Race 4: Mr Pickles, Diogenes, Making Waves, Ego Fast Race 5: Falkirk Lass, Cameahotfriday, Dudewithattitude Race 6: Geri, Into The Deep, The Winklepicka, Damesel Race 7: Seemax, Easy Walking, Rodmar, Beau Jeu, Delegate

Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

7 78477 Mahala Bay 17.75..........................W Woods 8 48525 Zara Zoe 17.79................................... N Udy 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 48685 Prettiest Eyes 18.02.........................M Olden 3 3.54pm WHANGANUI CHRONICLE C1 C1, 305m 1 28532 Blue Whizz 18.16........................B Goldsack 2 25233 Choice Sister 18.21..........................C Morris 3 25585 Smash Rock nwtd........................... L A Hunt 4 41458 Cool Wolf 17.86.............................. D Donlon 5 53886 Sedgebrook Pride 17.95......................F Kite 6 53584 Magnetude Eight 18.11............. S Gommans 7 65677 Sly John 17.99 J &...............................D Bell 8 46524 Jericho Warrior 17.83........................R Waite 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 68786 Bigtime Kaea 18.01............................ B Hunt 4 4.12pm WANGANUI TOYOTA C1 C1, 305m 1 65322 Homebush Shea 17.91............. S Gommans 2 44476 De Blonde 17.78................................ B Hunt 3 32466 Dream On Dreamer 17.91...............M Olden 4 75818 Star Secret 18.26 A &......................Williams 5 57556 Taramakau nwtd.........................J McInerney 6 78887 White Comet 17.75........................ D Donlon

7 26253 Eye Kno 17.87...............................W Woods 8 116 Big Time Flash 17.64..........................L Cole Emergencies: 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 88875 Chop Shop nwtd........................J McInerney 5 4.28pm LASER PLUMBING C1 C1, 305m 1 84615 Small Boy 18.32 A &........................Williams 2 64874 Replica Rango nwtd............................ N Udy 3 42885 Epic Spark 18.00................................ B Hunt 4 66652 Idol Jan 17.80....................................M Flipp 5 47333 Tynecastle Flyer 17.79 R &..................Voyce 6 78342 Big Time Chance 18.06.......................L Cole 7 43657 Slam It nwtd...............................J McInerney 8 41528 Harpoon Harry 18.29 D &...........J MacAuley 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 48685 Prettiest Eyes 18.02.........................M Olden 6 4.47pm BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK C1 C1, 305m 1 25474 Yee Coo Coo 18.01....................J McInerney 2 75226 Paradox Prince 18.43...................B Hodgson 3 54757 Bigtime Boy 17.76........................ P B Briggs 4 55773 Big Time Clare nwtd............................L Cole

5 24683 Raining Sixes 18.32....................B Goldsack 6 84238 Cawbourne Symsy 17.78 J &...............D Bell 7 75633 Ahuroa Flyer 18.13.........................R Murray 8 77755 Opawa Hunter nwtd...........................M Flipp Emergencies: 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 66767 Goldstar Charger nwtd.............. K Gommans 7 5.05pm RIVERCITY GAS C1 C1, 305m 1 16774 Hurricane Al 17.85...........................C Morris 2 68454 Bigtime Gal 17.87...............................L Cole 3 28x64 Funzalo 17.61..............................B Hodgson 4 56476 Sedgebrook Saint 17.96......................F Kite 5 24424 Blackjack Man 17.90...................B Goldsack 6 36342 Homebush Razor nwtd..............J McInerney 7 54265 Retail Mayhem 18.03...................... L Pearce 8 71757 Big Time Rose 18.27 A &.................Williams 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 78744 Bigtime Panther 18.03.................... M Gowan 8 5.22pm PALAMOUNTAINS SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION C1 C1, 305m 1 84687 Crackle 17.94.................................. L A Hunt 2 32226 Big Time Rusty nwtd...........................L Cole

3 88837 Shamrock Green 17.88...............B Goldsack 4 15315 Duke Bruce 18.08............................... N Udy 5 5176F Two Percenta 18.23 J &.......................D Bell 6 34423 Bigtime Champ 17.66 A &................Williams 7 38732 Lucha 17.82.......................................D Edlin 8 86456 Rockoneva nwtd...........................B Hodgson Emergencies: 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 56777 Cosmic Ryder nwtd....................J McInerney 9 5.39pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C1 C1, 305m 1 63763 Slick As Jewels 18.75............ L E Dunkerton 2 24733 Uno Again 17.71.................................. L Bell 3 56874 Auros Advantage nwtd.................... T Pilcher 4 88755 Sefton Brew 18.07 J &.........................D Bell 5 65437 Valyrian Steel nwtd....................J McInerney 6 68562 Arthur’s Crown 18.06........................R Waite 7 83281 Bigtime Sam 17.96 G &.......... S Fredrickson 8 32282 Subway Kay 18.28......................B Goldsack 9 45668 Thrilling Eddie 17.78 J &......................D Bell 10 56777 No Mug 17.90..................................C Morris 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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■■SWIMMING

In top company NZME Lewis Clareburt knows he needs to go faster.

It might not be the reaction you’d expect from someone who had just posted a personal best and claimed a bronze medal at the World Championships, but it’s the realistic approach the Kiwi swimmer is taking.

Clareburt blazed home in the 400m individual medley final at the World Championships in Korea this week in 4min12.07sec to break the national record by more than two seconds.

In doing so, he became just the fifth Kiwi to World Championships medal, joining Gary Hurring (1978), Anthony Mosse (1986), Danyon Loader (1994) and Lauren Boyle (2013, 2015).

Clareburt said he still had plenty of work to do if he wanted to have a chance at repeating the feat at the Olympic Games in Tokyo next year.

“It’s a huge confidence booster and hopefully it’ll slingshot me into next year,” Clareburt said.

“I’m expecting that I’ll have to go at least four seconds faster to even think about getting a medal in the final at the Olympics just because of how fast the Olympics will be next year.”

The 20-year-old finished three seconds behind first placed Daiya Seto of Japan at the World Championships, and said he was shocked to have finished in third place.

Clareburt went into the event with his sights set on simply qualifying for the final and post a good enough time to qualify for the Olympic Games.

“The other guys in the race, their entry times

RESULTS ■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club July 23 and 27 LGU, Barnett Vase - Nett Maxine Carter 68, Liz Cabout 72 July 27 and 30 Truman Trophy - Putting Bev Chinn 28, Sally Lemon 30 on c/b, Heather Trott 30 on c/b Nearest the Pins: No 4 Gabites Hilary Ward, No 8 House of Travel Ellenor Sullivan, No 12 Lynn’s small Salon Hilary Ward, No 14 Todds of Ashburton Leigh Wackrow, No 18 2nd Shot to Green Erin Porter Twos: Robin Bennett No 8

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were a lot faster than mine and a lot faster than the time I had actually done.

“But there are so many factors that make people not go as fast in the final as their personal best so I guess I was lucky enough that I was able to pull out a personal best and those other people in the race weren’t able to hit their times so it gave me a good opportunity to sneak a medal.

“I definitely didn’t expect them to not perform like they should have.”

July 27 Argyle Park Walkers – 3km Handicapped Strong Walk 1st across the line - Barbara Taylor 23:48.

Paul Severins 20:20; Dave Strong 20:51; Noel Batty 21:32; Peter Larkin 22:06; Marie Batty 22:31; Barbara Taylor 23:48; Lori Rusbatch 23:55; Lynda Bayne 24:03; Robert Moffitt 24:09; Wendy Severins 24:24; Janet Hood 24:28; Colin Phillips 25:27; Karen Hodgson 26:16.

Runners - 3km Handicapped Larkin Pace 1st across the line – Mike O’Callaghan 22:54.

Angel Spooner 12:46; Ian Broadbelt 13:30; Tam Grant 13:59; Steve Skilling 14:19; Gary Whiting 14:32; Alison Conway 15:48; Stacey Hayes 16:28; Eamon Hooper 17:56; Mike O’Callaghan 22:54.

■■ Shooting Mt Somers Rifle Club Jess Lill 88.0, 88.0, Sam Coldicot 74.0, 77.0, Jess Heaven 92.1, 88.0, Emily Heaven 79.0,

Daily Events WEDNESDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

9.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St David’s Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

9.30am WALKING GROUP. One hour walking varying fitness levels.

Meet Walnut Avenue by the College Auditorium carpark.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL.

THURSDAY 6am SCOUT SCARF DAY 2019.

All active and former Scouts are urged to wear their Scout scarf today August 1, to mark the Spirit of Scouting. Once a Scout – Always a Scout!

9.30am AGE CONCERN EXERCISE CLASS. Weekly classes. Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join our friendly group for fun exercise during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River

72.0, Lachlan Rooney 86.1, 85.0, Hunter Lill 94.0, Archie Rooney 83.0, 83.0, Bree Greer 84.1, Dave Nesbit 90.0, 89.2, Tim Greer 95.4, 89.2, Caleb Greer 84.2, Dave Millichamp 94.3, Wayne Tubb 94.4, Kevin Fews 91, Brent Frame 95.3, 98.3, Andy Oram 91.2, 94.2, 97.4.

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New Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt celebrates a podium spot.

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Mayfield Rifle Club Robert Spencer Jnr 94.3, Daniel Gould 90.2, Sarah Gould 80.0, Ella McDowell 78, Martin Fleming 98.5, 99.6, Chloe Lovett 75.1, Ben Nordqvist 94.5, Andrew Donaldson 95.2, Carl Nordqvist 94.3, John Fleming 98.4, 97.4.

Ashburton Rifle Club Murray Cook 95.4, Garth Wright 86.2, Allan Mitchell 94.1, Grant Glassey 89.1, Greg Menzies 99.7, 98.5, James Storey 88.1, 84.2, Abbey Calder 88.2, 80.0, Lachlan Storey 84.0, Chrissy Lee 81.0 Paul Fletcher 89.1, Leo Wildey 96.5, Mathew Lee 71.0, Quynn Geddes 75.0, Taylah Geddes 86.0, Sam Lovett 84.0.

DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club August 3 Weekend Ladies Rnd 1 Tucker Salver - report 8.15 for 8.45 start Convenors S Bradford 02211590983, B Fechney - 0211305366 August 6 Mid-Week Ladies Rnd 1 Tucker Salver - report 9.30 for 10.00 start Starters - M Watson/D Hinton August 8 Nine Hole Men and Women Rnd 5 Jean Drummond Trophy - putting Secretary M Morgan – 0279645380, Club Captain - S Lemon - 0274054910

July 31 & August 1, 2019 NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

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

10am - 3pm 206 CLUB AGE CONCERN. Join us for a fun day filled with activities for the over 60 years. For more information ring Age Concern 308 6817.

Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10.30am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO.

Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 10.30am - 12pm ASHBURTON OPEN COFFEE MORNINGS. Every Wednesday, come for a coffee and chat, child friendly location, all welcome. Phone Adi 027 220 8791 or Sue-ann 021 679 348.

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.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with limited mobility. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY

HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre $4. Newcomers welcome we are friendly. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

1.30pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 5pm (sharp) RUN AND WALK ASHBURTON. Wednesday walks, 5km town circuit for all walking abilities and fitness levels. Meet on Philip Street beside the Croquet lawn.

6.30pm THE MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS.

Beginners learn to Line Dance (6.30pm), lower Intermediate/intermediate (7.30pm-9pm). Instructor Annette Fyfe Phone 0274 813 131, Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Corner Queens Drive and Creek Road.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Weekly fitness, fun and friendship.

Contact Elizabeth 308 5437. Buffalo Hall, 20 Cox Street.

7.30pm ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLS. All welcome to come and play indoor bowls at the Indoor Bowls Stadium, McNally Street, in the Riverside industrial area.

Terrace.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

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

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm

ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.30am ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GROUP. Bring your stitching and meet a friendly group. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all

abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome.

Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong. Newcomers welcome. $4.

Tuition available for new players.

Waireka Croquet Club. The domain, Philip Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO.

Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox St. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

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

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIORNET. Q and A, computer housekeeping and maintenance. Tips and advice for everyone. $2. MSA lounge, Havelock St. 7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

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If this is you, please send your CV and cover letter to: Desme Daniels, General Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 Or email desme@theguardian.co.nz Applications close Saturday, August 17, 2019.

ASHBURTON COLLEGE ‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

EXAMINATION CENTRE MANAGER We are looking for a skilled person to manage all processes relating to the conduct of examinations at Ashburton College according to NZQA procedures.

The successful applicant will have a high level of communication and management skills with experience in Microsoft programmes and the ability to learn new programmes quickly.

Effective working relationships are required with a variety of personnel and groups – within and without of the College.

This is a permanent position for a set period annually for November and December, for commencement immediately.

Remuneration is set by NZQA. Applications close noon, Tuesday 6 August 2019.

Information package enquiries and applications please contact: Jodee Ross, Principal’s Secretary Phone (03) 308 4193 ext 809 Email: rj@ashcoll.school.nz

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT NEW Asian, beautiful, sexy, size 9, 38DD, busty, no rush, playful, good massage.

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Experienced Technician Gluyas Motor Group is a Multi Franchise Dealership with Ford, Nissan and Mazda.

We have a heated modern workshop and seek an experienced technician to join our service team.

The successful applicant must be focused on exceptional Customer Service, a high work standard, have a good common sense approach and ability to diagnose faults and be able to follow Work shop manuals and bulletins, be familiar with modern vehicles electronics and it would be an advantage if they held a WOF Inspector Certificate.

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Full-Time Butcher We are seeking an experienced Butcher to join our team.

The person we need to fill this position should be: • Passionate about providing excellent Customer service.

• Honest, reliable and physically fit.

• Able to work well under pressure.

• A team player and a good communicator.

• Able to comply with our Health and Safety and Food Safety programme.

This will be your opportunity to grow your skills in a fast paced and exciting environment, where quality is important.

The hours and days of work will be Sunday – Thursday 6.00am – 3.30pm.

If you can show a background of an excellent work record and a high standard of workmanship and performance, please apply now including a cover letter and CV to: Human Resources Manager Ashburton New World P O Box 444, Ashburton 7740 Or email: donalda.hartley@newworld-si.co.nz Applications close on Friday, August 9, 2019.

RURAL TRADING POST TRADES, SERVICES

Herd Manager We need an experienced, friendly team player to fit our existing team.

The applicant needs high standards in dairy shed management, communication, animal herd health treatments, stockmanship, tractor operation, understanding and implementing required grazing residuals and round length.

A calm and caring disposition towards animals is absolutely essential.

Personal qualities required are, patience, reliability, trustworthiness, ability to work independently and ability to handle stressful situations calmly.

Ag ITO level 3 and Milk Quality preferred and preferred 5 years NZ experience.

We are proud to provide a happy, healthy and supportive workplace.

Shared accommodation with Wifi available.

Please send your CV and covering letter to: parsonsfamilyfarming@gmail.com Note this position is available from around October 1, 2019.

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GENERAL hire. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East Street. Open Monday-Friday FOR SALE 7am - 6pm; Saturday 7.30am BARK for sale Westside Hire, - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am 171 Alford Forest Road. $36 12.30pm. Phone 308 8061. per scoop. Call now on 308 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz 0006. Compost and chip too.

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LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horses and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

GRAZING GRAZING available, 18ha rape, approx 5.5 t DM/ ha, Lauriston.

Phone Mitch 027 313 1320.

TREES WANTED We have a logging crew available to harvest your wood-lot, big or small.

Any species considered, phone Murray at Philip Wareing Ltd 0274 334 538.

PUBLIC NOTICES Ashburton Branch Manchester Unity Annual General Meeting Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - 5pm at St John meeting room 241 Tancred Street, Ashburton.

All members welcome to attend.

Followed by subsidised dinner at The Stables Tinwald.

Please book 03 307 7586

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING - Vehicles-homesoffices. Phone Craig Rogers 307 6347 - 027 258 0884 or 0800 TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ. Follow us on facebook w w w. w i n d o w t i n t e r. c o . n z

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

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They are often forced to choose between providing food, warmth and shelter for their family, knowing the profound impact that going without even one of these things will have on their health and well-being.

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TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): You’ve been influenced enough. Taking yourself out of the chatter of the world for a block of time will help you connect to a well with something timeless and rich inside.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Some social arenas are easy to navigate. Their rules are clear-cut, and you’ve obeyed them so many times the behaviour is automatic. Other social arenas will get easier, too. You just have to experience them more.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): It’s hard enough to know what to do for yourself. How are you supposed to know what to do for others? Sometimes you just know, and it works. If not, stick with doing what makes you feel most alive.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): There’s a stronger-than-usual inner commentator to deal with, and that’s only because you’re in a state of flux. Who you are is changing. Knowing how to act like you isn’t as certain as it was.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Getting carried away with an idea or activity can be embarrassing when others don’t take to it with your enthusiasm.

This is the best kind of embarrassed to be and highly recommended by the fates.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You want to know about your faults. You don’t mind when they are gently pointed out. In fact, you gravitate toward friends and seek teachers who can do this for you – Miracle-Gro for your soul.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Until you fully understand a thing, it is dangerous to praise it, and even more dangerous to reject it. The gift of penetrating curiosity combined with the discipline of study will serve you well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Personal fulfilment doesn’t come from success. Instead, like sweat, it’s a product of work. Because it’s not contingent on the win, personal fulfilment can come equally from success or failure.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Let some of the praise from your last success soak in and juice your ego just enough to fuel the start of the next thing.

It’s a safe thing to do, only because you’re too modest to dwell there and get a big head.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): In a dog-eat-dog world, you’re vegan. That doesn’t mean you won’t compete. You’ll just do it by minding your own business and committing even more fully to the same work you’ve done all along.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Even though your friends and family members would like to have your back, they won’t think ahead like a professional would. For the things that matter for your bottom line, hire the right person.

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DEATHS POOLE, Betty Mae (nee Dixon) – Passed away peacefully in Tauranga, on Monday, July 29, 2019 in her 102nd year.

Beloved wife of the late Clif, and dearly loved mother and mother-in-law of Judy and Wayne Laing, David and Jenny, Ronda and Ken Stirling, and Pam and John Harcourt.

Treasured grandmother and great grandmother. Grateful thanks for the extraordinary care provided by the Bethlehem Views staff. A celebration of Betty's life will be held on FRIDAY, August 2 at 1.30pm at the Hillsdene Chapel, 143 13th Avenue Tauranga.

Messages to the Poole family, c/- PO Box 650, Tauranga 3144.

HART, Penelope Jane (Penny) – On July 28, at Radius Millstream, Ashburton, after a courageous battle, surrounded by her loving family. Aged 58 years. Loved daughter of the late Len and Jane. Dearly loved and treasured sister and sister-inlaw of Chris and Mary-Jean, Anthony (Jack) and Kirsty, Michelle and Andrew Rattray, and amazing Aunty to Sarah and Jack, and Symone and Shaun; Cory, Mathew, Thomas and Charlotte, David and Sarah, and Dylan; Lauren, and Nicholas and adored great Aunt to Huxley, Macklin, Effie, Sophie, Jackson, and Oliver.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 Ellen is joined by Rob Lowe and Tig Notaro. 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Marlon calls in sick at work to go meet Bear Wolf; Graham anonymously phones the police. 0 1pm Coronation Street Catch-Up PGR 3 0 2pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 3pm Tipping Point Lucky Stars 0 4pm Te Karere 2 0 4:30 Funny You Should Ask 0 4:55 The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6:30 MyaGo 0 6:40 PJ Masks 3 0 7am Monchhichi Tribe 3 0 7:25 Future-Worm! 3 0 7:50 The Tom And Jerry Show 0 8:15 Doc McStuffins – Toy Hospital 3 0 8:35 Captain Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 9am Infomercials 10am The Middle 3 0 10:30 Neighbours PGR 3 0 11am My Kitchen Rules PGR 3 0 12:05 Judge Rinder PGR 3 2:05 Will And Grace PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:35 Peppa Pig 0 3:40 Pokemon XYZ 3 0 4pm Fanimals Programme for children who love animals. 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The AM Show 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:25 Entertainment Tonight 3 11:55 Face The Truth PGR (Part 1) Michelle says her daughter’s drinking and partying are out of control, and is worried for her safety.

12:25 Dr Phil AO 3 David says his young-adult daughter has violent rages, refuses to take her medications, uses illegal drugs, and regularly drives while drunk.

1:20 The Block NZ – Firehouse PGR 3 0 2:25 Vet On The Hill 3 3:30 Family Feud Australia 3 4pm NewsHub Live At 4pm 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm Love Island UK 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Kirstie And Phil’s Love It Or List It 0 8:30 Race Across The World 0 9:45 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:45 1 News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Have You Been Paying Attention? 0 8:30 F Wentworth AO The prison is still under siege, and not everyone will make it out alive. 0 9:35 Station 19 PGR 0 10:25 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 10:50 Cougar Town PGR 3 0

7pm The Project 7:30 The Block NZ – Firehouse PGR 0 8:35 Magnum PI AO After Magnum is kidnapped, he discovers his former partner is on the island, and plans to steal a fortune in gold. 0 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 AO 0 10:25 NewsHub Late 10:55 9-1-1 AO 3 0

11:15 Criminal Minds AO 3 Agent Luke Alvez joins the team, which must capture a killer who escaped prison with 13 other convicts at the end of last season. 0 12:50 Te Karere 3 News and current affairs from a Maori perspective. 2 1:15 Infomercials 3 0 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:15 Gotham AO 0 12:05 Private Practice PGR 3 0 12:50 The Middle 3 1:15 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:40 Infomercials 2:40 Army Wives AO 3 0 3:25 Australian Survivor PGR 3 0 4:45 Young And Hungry PGR 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

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BRAVO 10am Mom’s A Medium 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing LA 3 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 12:25 Bachelorette Australia PGR 3 1:30 Millionaire Matchmaker PGR 3 2:30 Undercover Boss 3 3:30 The People’s Court 3 4:30 Million Dollar Listing LA 3 5:30 Four Weddings USA 3 6:30 The People’s Court 7:30 Dr Christian – 12 Hours To Cure Your Street PGR Christian goes to Oxford, where he meets a cyclist with an unusual joint condition.

8:30 Killer Couples AO Two teen lovers are under suspicion when someone close to them dies.

9:30 The Real Housewives Of New York City During the reunion final, the women finish criticising Luann about her sobriety, and then look back at some of the highlights from their trips out of the city.

10:30 Snapped PGR 3 11:30 #killerpost AO 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

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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

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Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette. 8:55 The Mexican MVL 2001 Action.

Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt.

10:55 The Adjustment Bureau MLS 2010 Sci-fi Thriller.

Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp, John Slattery.

12:40 Immortals 16V 2011 Action. Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke. 2:30 Gone MVL 2012 Drama Mystery.

Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley. 4:05 This Is 40 16LSC 2012 Comedy. Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann. 6:15 Wrath Of The Titans MV 2012 Fantasy. Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. 8pm The World’s End MVLS 2013 Comedy. Five friends reunite 20 years after a failed epic pub crawl, this time determined to reach the fabled final pub, The World’s End. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost.

9:50 The Hobbit – The Desolation Of Smaug MV 2013 Adventure.

Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen.

12:05 Welcome To Acapulco 16VLC 2019 Action.

1:35 Unsane 16VLC 2018 Thriller. 3:10 Landline 16LSC 2017 Comedy. 4:45 The Guernsey Literary And Potato-Peel Pie Society MC 2018 Drama.

12:30 Kick-Ass 2 16VLS 2013 Action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Moretz. 2:10 Gone MVL 2012 Drama Mystery.

3:45 This Is 40 16LSC 2012 Comedy. 5:55 Wrath Of The Titans MV 2012 Fantasy.

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7:40 The Strangers – Prey At Night 16VLC 2017 Horror. Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson.

9:05 Love In Paradise PG 2015 Comedy. Luke Perry, Emmanuelle Vaugier.

10:30 Madame MLS 2017 Comedy.

Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel.

Noon Deadpool 2 16VLSC 2018 Action. Ryan Reynolds, Julian Dennison. 2pm The Strangers – Prey At Night 16VLC 2017 Horror.

Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson.

3:25 Love In Paradise PG 2015 Comedy. Luke Perry, Emmanuelle Vaugier.

4:50 Unsane 16VLC 2018 Thriller. Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard.

6:25 Landline 16LSC 2017 Comedy. Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass. 8pm The Guernsey Literary And Potato-Peel Pie Society MC 2018 Drama. After the First World War, a young writer goes to the island of Guernsey, where she forms an unexpected yet life-changing connection with the locals.

10:05 Roman J Israel, Esq MVL 2017 Drama.

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6am Tiny House World 6:30 Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals 7am Destination Flavour Singapore 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Hope For Wildlife 9am Guiding Alaska 9:30 Monty Halls’s Dive Mysteries 11:30 Building The Dream 12:30 The Great Interior Design Challenge 1:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 3:30 Bondi Vet 4:30 How To Cook Like Heston 5pm Nigella Bites Nigella focuses on creating quick and satisfying meals for occasions when time is of the essence.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 Supercar Mega Build

Whanau Living 3 He Kakano The Palace PGR 3 Conversations With Teen Mums AO 3 9pm Ahikaroa AO 9:30 Ahikaroa AO 10pm #whiuatepatai AO 3 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 American Pickers 8:30 Walking The Nile Photographer and writer Levison Wood attempts to walk the length of the world’s longest river.

9:30 Astronauts – Toughest Job In The Universe 10:30 Cold Water Cowboys PGR

11pm Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 Tuhourangi-Ngati Wahiao – Te Arawa.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Tiny House World 1am Nigella Bites 1:30 How To Cook Like Heston 2am Tribal Bootcamp 3am Bondi Vet 4am Supercar Mega Build 5am Mysteries At The Museum

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SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 The 1014 Rugby Show 7am The Breakdown 8am The Back Page 9am Rugby – The Championship (HLS) Australia v Argentina. 9:30 Rugby – The Championship (RPL) All Blacks v South Africa.

11:30 The Breakdown 12:30 L Rugby – First XV Palmerston North Boys’ v Napier Boys’. 2:30 Golf Central 3:30 Golf – Senior Open Championship (HLS) 4pm Golf – LPGA Tour (HLS) 4:30 Golf – World Championship (HLS) FedEx Invitational Event.

5:30 Rugby – First XV (RPL) Palmerston North Boys’ v Napier Boys’.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Rugby – Australia v All Blacks 2000 (RPL) 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 10pm Fox Sports News 10:30 World Sailing Show 11pm Surfing – World League (HLS)

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Midnight Fox Sports News 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 1am Golf Central 2am Golf – Senior Open Championship (HLS) 2:30 Cycling – Tour De France (HLS) Stage 20 – Albertville to Val Thorens.

3am Rugby – Pacific Nations Cup (HLS) Round One. 3:30 Fox Sports News 4am The Crowd Goes Wild 4:30 The 1014 Rugby Show 5am The Breakdown

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7am League Life Inspiring and remarkable stories in rugby league.

7:30 The Fan A look at rugby league through the historical and quirky lens of the game’s biggest fan Andrew Voss.

8am NRL Try Time All the tries from the weekend’s matches.

9am AFL 360 The latest news in the AFL, hosted by Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson.

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5pm NRL 360 6pm League Life 6:30 The Fan 7pm NRL Try Time 8pm NZ Press Box 8:30 The Back Page 9:30 NRL 360 10:30 The Matty Johns Podcast Rugby league news and reviews.

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4am Rugby League – Queensland Cup (RPL) 31Jul19

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8:20 Fast ‘n Loud PG Apache/ Road to Chopper Live 2/2.

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7:30 Deadliest Catch PG Shifting Stack.

8:30 Aussie Salvage Squad PG Family And Friendship.

9:25 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:15 Moonshiners M The Trouble with Tickle.

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Taking part in Sunday night’s latest pickleball session was David Hampton.

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Pickleball proving to be a hit

By Erin Tasker

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Just a couple of months after making its official debut in Ashburton, the sport of pickleball is continuing to prove a winner.

Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann said it all started on a rainy Thursday night back in April, where a handful of people turned up to give the sport a shot on a single court on loan from the Gore District Council.

From there, the pickleball scene

in Ashburton has grown at an incredible rate.

Official and regular play on Sunday evenings began on May 19 and the roster of players seemed to double each week early on, hitting almost 50 players at its peak.

So staff at the EA Networks Centre seized upon the newfound popularity by quickly expanding the stadium’s number of tournament quality courts to eight, allowing up to 32 players to enjoy the sport at once.

McCann said a pickleball round robin roster system made managing large numbers of players and games easy, ensuring everyone got good competitive or casual play each evening – whichever level they preferred.

Pickleball was described as ideal for those who enjoyed other racquet or bat sports like tennis, badminton, table tennis, and even squash.

Pickleball blended certain aspects of all of those sports into one.

“Folks are sure to get a good workout without the aches, pains, and joint soreness experienced in other sports, which is why pickleball is quite popular with the more senior community,” McCann said.

But, in saying that, a diverse range of players of different ages and abilities were showing up every Sunday evening for their weekly hit of pickleball, because it was a sport for all ages.

The new sport had proven so popular among some, that there

are a number of players looking at attending the next pickleball nationals which are being held in Rotorua in October.

McCann said on average between 20 and 30 people are turning up for the Sunday night sessions, which run from 5pm until 7pm, and they’d also just added a Tuesday night session from 5pm until 7pm.

It cost players just $3.50 each for the two-hour sessions, and that includes the use of both pickleball paddles and balls.

The hunt is on for the future stars of rugby league

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