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Signs raise dog owners’ ire

By Sue Newman

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A wide open paddock, large grassy swales and stretches of roughly grassed areas, it should be dog heaven. It’s not.

Those open spaces now have signs hammered up at entrances making it very clear that dogs and dog owners must be joined by a leash. And dog owners who use those areas at Ashburton’s north

east business park are not happy.

There are dozens of regulars and two of those, Heather Cullimore and Sally Kenny, say that since people read in the Guardian that an Ashburton District bylaw required dogs to be on a leash in that area, it had been a hot topic with everyone they’ve met on their daily walks.

“We’ve been coming here most days for the last four years and it’s

a place older people can come to easily,” Cullimore said.

Some days there can be up to 30 dog owners and their pets in the area and it’s a great open space for dogs to run free, she said.

“It’s dog heaven. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the past week has been very, very upset.”

A number of those regulars were elderly and said the area was the only one they could access easily

to walk their dogs, Cullimore said.

Sally Kenny is so angry she’s started a petition calling on the council to revoke the bylaw. Her petition is now hanging from one of the council’s dog control signs.

“This is the first time I’ve stood up for something, but I feel very strongly about this as many others do. Coming out here with your dog lifts your spirits,” she said.

It was a real blow for regular us-

ers to know that something they and their dogs had been enjoying for years was now off limits. Going to a small dog park area would never compensate for the loss of the huge business estate area, Kenny said.

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Tinwald Domain an award winner

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

A small slice of the Ashburton District has been given international recognition and can claim to being the only piece of real estate in the South Island to do so.

Ashburton’s Tinwald Domain was this week announced as a Green Flag award winning park and open space by recreation New Zealand – the only location within the South Island to be named among the 29 award winners.

The award is part of an international programme which recognises and rewards parks and green spaces which provide high quality and innovative recreational experiences for communities.

A popular picnic location with a swimming pool, lake and camping ground alongside the hugely popular Plains Museum, the Tinwald Domain is a hot bed of activity particularly during the summer months and used by large numbers of locals and visitors alike.

Recreation Aotearoa parks and open spaces programme manager and green flag judge, Karl Nesbitt said this year’s green flag awards had been a positive challenge, with two new councils and seven new parks coming on board.

“As judges we’ve had the great opportunity to experience some of New Zealand’s quality places and spaces that are used by the community,” he said.

“A big thank you needs to go to the communities behind the management and delivery of these parks and to our judges who volunteer their time to share their knowledge with the park teams.

“We look forward to another year working with green flag award recipients and sharing with the public the great spaces they provide.”

The Ashburton District Council were approached yesterday morning for comment on the success of the Tinwald Domain but were unable to provide comment on the success by yesterday evening.

Sally Kenny (left) with dogs Emily and Sophie and Heather Cullimore with Alice are determined to have the large grassed areas at Ashburton’s north east business park become areas where dogs can run free.

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The Tinwald Domain has been recognised as one of 29 green flag award-winning parks and open spaces by Recreation Aotearoa.

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The requirement to have dogs on a leash in the business estate is not new, it’s been part of the council’s dog control bylaws since they were last reviewed, said council environmental services manager Jane Donaldson.

The only change was that signs had now been erected making it clear that the bylaw requiring dogs to be on a leash in a public place applied to that

area. Areas where dogs were banned, where they must be on a leash and where they could run free were all clearly spelled out in the bylaw, Donaldson said.

When it is reviewed in 2022 the community would have an opportunity to make submissions, however it was unlikely to be reviewed before that date, she said.

“And while dog owners might not be happy, we’ve had a lot of individual complaints about dogs out there that the public doesn’t hear about. A string of

rushing dog complaints. And while dog owners might support off-lead areas, there are a lot of people who don’t feel safe around off-lead dogs.”

It became a balancing act for the council in determining areas where dogs could run free and that was why dog parks had been established, Donaldson said.

“This is not a new rule, you’ve never been allowed to have dogs off-leash in there as it’s a public place, but we’re putting signs up to try and avoid confusion.”

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O’Connor gets tough on rodeo welfare

By Susan Sandys

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Ashburton show ready to roll

By Sue Newman

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He’s checked the weather – it’s looking good, the grounds are in tip-top order and yesterday, the bones of this year’s Ashburton A&P Show were taking shape as president David Butterick stepped back and took a breather.

And while he might be a seasoned show attendee, exhibitor and committee member, Butterick said he still gets pretty nerv-

ous ahead of gates opening on day one. If he’s honest, he said, he doesn’t relax until the last vehicle leaves the ground on Saturday.

While he might be president, Butterick said events such as an A&P show could not be held without a huge amount of work by many, many people, both show committee members and volunteers. The people who pitch in and simply get on with doing the countless jobs in the weeks and months leading up to the

show make his job much easier.

Looking across the grounds from the show offices, it appeared everything was on schedule and taking shape – trade sites were marked out, tents were being erected and large machinery was moving on site in readiness for the gates to open early Friday morning, he said.

For dog triallists and competitors in equestrian events, the day will start early, at 8am and from 9am trade, market and food sites

will be open for business. They will be joined by a host of other events and competitions over both Friday and Saturday, with the grand parade scheduled for 2pm.

Action will continue in the main ring from 8am Friday until late afternoon Saturday.

The theme for the 142nd A&P Show is Seeds of Mid Canterbury, celebrating the district’s position as one of the world’s most prolific seed producing areas.

Brown and Brown ensure a slickly-run show Visitors to this year’s Ashburton A&P Show will see a wellplanned, well-organised and slickly-run event, but planning for that event has been under way for many months.

And forefront in that planning is show secretary Lucille Brown.

She’s the person who puts in the hours behind the scenes, tidying up from one event and then almost immediately beginning the ground work ahead of the next.

Yesterday, with less than two days until the gates open on this year’s event, Brown and her assistant, daughter Susan, were on the home stretch. The two days of the show, however, will see the pair putting in long hours fielding a myriad of questions from the public and exhibitors.

How the event runs depends on the groundwork that’s done before hand, and with five years in the job Brown has running a show down to a fine art. She does the work single handedly until her daughter arrives Labour Weekend to pick up the intensive work of creating catalogues for each show section.

There’s a massive amount of paperwork involved to ensure each section runs smoothly. A storage box is assigned to each containing ribbons, certificates and catalogues and this will be

Ashburton A&P Show secretary Lucille Brown and assistant Susan Brown, checking off items in the trophy cabinet to ensure every cup is available for presentation at the conclusion of classes in this year’s show.

PHOTO SUE NEWMAN 301019-SN-0127 collected by section stewards on show day. They will also collect prize envelopes.

Brown has already printed off more than 4000 labels and ap-

plied these to those envelopes and on show day each will be stuffed with cash.

She’s checked off the large number of trophies and, post

show, these will head off to the engravers to have the next name engraved in what in many cases is a very long list of winners over many decades.

Gareth Hughes is confident rodeo “cruelty” will become an election issue next year if his members’ bill on the issue is not picked up.

The Green Party’s animal welfare spokesperson has drafted a bill which would outlaw what he calls the worst aspects of rodeo, such as calf roping and the use of flank straps in bull riding.

He said he had drafted the bill in light of his awareness that the Greens were the only party who believed rodeo should be banned outright.

“Last season three animals died in pretty horrific and painful circumstances, I think it’s pretty indefensible,” he told the Guardian yesterday.

Hughes was referring to a horse dying following becoming entangled in its saddle at Methven Rodeo in 2018, a rodeo bull having to be euthanised after dislocating its leg at Gisborne Rodeo, and a horse in the grand final at North Canterbury running into a fence and dying.

“Animals should not be dying in these events, and they are,” Hughes said.

“I think it’s archaic, and it belongs in the history books.”

He hoped the Animal Welfare (Prohibition of Rodeo Activities) Amendment Bill would be one of the bills selected in Parliament’s ballot box system to come up for discussion. But if he did not have the luck of the draw on his side, then he wanted to see curtailing rodeo events become an election issue, and he was confident it would, as more and more people were protesting at rodeos and sponsors were pulling out.

He was disappointed the government had not acted on the issue, along with a large number of other animal welfare issues.

However, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor said Government had been working to improve animal welfare at rodeos since last season’s animal deaths.

“I’ve made it clear to rodeo organisers that I expect the highest animal welfare standards at rodeos,” O’Connor said.

For the first time this season, which kicked off in Winchester on Saturday, the Ministry for Primary Industries would have an Animal Welfare Inspector at every event, that was 35 rodeos altogether, to ensure the code of welfare was upheld.

“Special attention will be given to the requirements for each event to have a veterinarian and an animal welfare officer assigned for the duration of the rodeo,” O’Connor said.

“Earlier this year, upon recommendation from The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC), The New Zealand Rodeo Cowboys Association (NZRCA) established a Rodeo Animal Welfare Committee to ensure practices are up to scratch.”

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■■ASHBURTON SPCA

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Kitten season now under way

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

Staff at the Ashburton SPCA Centre are preparing for a rush of kittens as the kitten season gets under way, with a number already coming through their doors.

While some are handed in to the centre, others have to be rescued, including two kittens that were found under a spa pool.

Centre manager Rebecca Dobson said she had rescued kittens from peculiar places in the past, but it was the first time she had had to dig kittens out from a location.

“It is the first time I have had to dig them out but it is definitely not the weirdest place I have had to rescue them, last year we had some that had been taken on to a roof by their mother,” she said.

The kittens were taken back to the centre for some intensive care treatment, with one so cold the SPCA staff initially feared it had died.

Mother cats often look to hide their kittens in secure locations, which has often led to rescues from places such as behind woodpiles.

It is around this time every year that SPCA sees a flood of kittens and pregnant cats through their doors with cats breeding during the warmer months of the year.

“So far we have had 14 neo-natal kittens, which is under two-to-three weeks old, a few that are four-to-five weeks old and some heavily pregnant cats as well,” she said.

Dobson said the best thing for people to do is to call or visit the centre to get some advice on what to do if they have kittens or a cat that has not been desexed.

“There are options for what we can help with,” she said.

Animals that come through the centre are fostered out to families in Christchurch, but the Ashburton centre is looking for more and will be hosting an information evening on November 6.

Anybody interested is asked to RSVP to ashlyn.wallace@ spca.nz.

The centre is also open from 10am to 1pm Tuesday to Saturday for people to visit, or you can call on 03-307-1019.

A motorist has been charged with careless driving after a dramatic collision on an Auckland motorway which was captured on a motorist’s dashcam. Police said they had charged a 50-yearold woman over the crash near the Esmonde Road off-ramp on Labour Day. The woman, who faces a charge of careless driving causing injury, will appear in court next month. Dashcam footage shows a car narrowly missing a crash as it attempts to merge on to the motorway before the same car is seen violently swerving into another vehicle, leading to that car flipping through the air.

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Rural fire warning as summer approaches Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Temperatures are set to soar later this weekend and firefighters are urging people to remember important safety advice.

Deputy principal rural fire officer Don Geddes said people need to take extra care in dealing with fires they believe to be out by making sure they rake out ashes and either dampen them down with water or bury them as high temperatures and wind can make

Members of the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade did not have to go far to attend an alarm activation yesterday after the alarm was triggered at the Ashburton Fire Station. An issue with a door in the station triggered the alarm, and was quickly dealt with by firefighters who said it was the first time they could remember being called to an alarm activation at their own station.

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Right – One of the kittens that had to be dug out from under a spa pool.

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them more likely to re-ignite.

Geddes said while conditions in the countryside remain green, it was a good time to ensure that roadsides had been mowed to make it easier to keep them shorter in the future, and that other material that could be fuel for a fire when dried out was removed.

“It is easier to do it now (mow the roadsides) and keep them short than deal with them when they are at knee or waist height and all the fuel is going to stay there once you

have mowed them,” he said.

Geddes said now was a good time to burn off any material with the countryside being so green and people not requiring a permit to burn.

However, he still urged caution about checking the forecast to ensure that conditions would not become windy at any point to keep the risk of any fire spreading to a minimum.

Geddes also warned farmers to keep an eye out for birds nest-

ing in farm machinery, especially when workers are taking breaks.

“In a lunch break a starling can bring in enough material for a nest to start a fire,” he said.

“Putting the bonnet up on the tractor can be a good deterrent as it makes them less likely to nest.

“It seems like these are messages we are putting out regularly and they should be getting through, but they (fires caused by nests) are still happening.”

Real estate agents giving out unsatisfactory advice or using misleading advertisements may now have to pay up to $100,000 compensation to home buyers and sellers. Agents were previously only at risk of paying compensation when committing serious cases of “misconduct” that directly caused buyers or sellers to lose money. But the new law brought in yesterday allows buyers and sellers to also seek compensation in less serious cases of “unsatisfactory conduct” by an agent.

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White Island rumbling Scientists are keeping a close eye on rumbles at New Zealand’s most active volcano – with two key indicators of unrest at their highest level in three years. Over the past few months, scientists have tracked a change in the amount of sulphur dioxide (SO2) pouring out of White Island in the Bay of Plenty, along with a shift in volcanic quakes. Analysis of the SO2 suggested a possible increase in gas passing through the volcano from depth.

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■■AUCKLAND SIKH TEMPLE

$100k for job laws breaches NZME A Sikh temple in south Auckland has been ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars for breaching employment laws.

Harpreet and Jaswinder Singh were employed by Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Papatoetoe from October 2017 to May last year.

But for half a year’s work, Harpreet Singh was paid only $2000 in cash and Jaswinder Singh $1000.

So the pair took the temple to the Employment Relations Authority earlier this year.

The authority has found the temple breached the men’s employment agreements, the Minimum Wage Act and the Holiday Act. It has ordered the temple to pay Harpreet Singh over $32,000 and Jaswinder over $34,000 for lost wages and holiday pay, and compensation for humiliation and loss of dignity.

The temple must also pay a $40,000 penalty for breaching employment laws.

The pair, both Indian citizens, are qualified Raagi Jatha – a religious role that many in the Sikh religion describe as similar to a temple priest or preacher.

Aside from performing instruments, singing and delivering prayers in a religious ceremony, they were also involved in teaching children, cleaning the temple, and occasionally preparing and serving food to the congregation.

The employer had promised to provide the pair with accommodation, meals and medical expenses valuing $15,000 per annum in the employment

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Harpreet Singh and Jaswinder Singh. agreement, but the authority found it failed to do so.

“There was no furniture, only two mattresses and a mirror on a wall. There were two windows.

One had a curtain and the other had newspapers covering it,” the authority’s determination statement said.

“The room had a leaky roof that leaked water onto Jaswinder’s mattress. Despite complaints being made, the holes in the roof were not fixed, although both men were provided with new mattresses.”

The temple accused the pair of being responsible in the stealing of its holy books and abandoning their employment without providing any notice but the

claims were overturned by the authority.

The temple also failed to provide travel expenses from India to New Zealand as promised in the employment agreement, according to the authority’s findings.

It had taken both of the men’s passports upon their arrival and didn’t give them a vehicle and fuel card for travelling, the authority said.

It also failed to pay wages, for the work Harpreet and Jaswinder Singh had done on statutory holidays, and failed to pay holiday pay on their termination.

The authority said that the breaches were “intentional”.

“There was clearly an ine-

quality of power. The applicants were both migrant workers from India. They spoke no English and their work visas were tied to the respondent [the temple],” the statement said.

“They were in a particularly vulnerable position not only because their employment was linked to their work visas with the respondent, but also because they were unfamiliar with New Zealand laws and regulations.”

The authority said the temple had provided the Inland Revenue with earning schedules during the pair’s employment, but they were “inconsistent with the amounts the parties acknowledged had been paid”.

101 days on still no action on Ihumatao dispute NZME It has been 101 days since police flooded onto the disputed land at Ihumatao to evict those protesting a planned housing development, yet still no resolution between the parties is in sight.

A core group of mana whenua remained on the South Auckland site, hosting the various school groups and manuhiri continuing to visit the land, which has historical ties to some of Tamaki Makaurau’s earliest inhabitants.

So too remained a small police presence, and security guards for Fletcher Building, the company behind the contested 480home development.

The quiet scenes were a stark contrast from the days after protesters were served an eviction notice on July 23, which drew thousands of supporters from across the country, and over a hundred police officers, with scenes likened to Bastion Point.

Amid escalating protests, on July 26 Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stepped in to call a halt to the development while all parties negotiated a resolution.

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The occupation of Ihumatao near the Otuataua Stonefields is now into its 101st day. involved, bringing the mana 1whenua groups divided over the development under the korowai of the Kingitanga to find common ground.

In September Kingi Tuheitia announced mana whenua had reached a consensus: they wanted the land, original-

ly confiscated by the Crown in 1863, returned and wanted the Government to negotiate with Fletcher Building.

But that was more than six weeks ago, and mana whenua have heard nothing since.

Qiane Matata-Sipu, co-founder of Save Our Unique Land-

scape (SOUL) and Makaurau Marae representative, said the radio silence was disappointing.

“The Government has not been in contact, has not come to visit – we have not heard anything.

“This Government should be doing better. The Prime Minister said for Maori to hold her to account, well she needs to act on those words.”

While the group had been occupying and protesting the development for the past several years, Matata-Sipu said these past 100 days since the eviction notice had brought Ihumatao, and wider issues around Maori land, into the mainstream.

“It shows the treaty settlement process has been very clearly flawed. Te Tiriti was never meant to be something that was ‘settled’ and moved on from, it was meant to be honoured in everyday life.”

Ardern has been repeatedly asked by mana whenua to visit the site. A spokesman for her office said she would not do so until after a resolution was found, as she did not want to interfere with the process.

Former Prime Minister Sir Bill English has returned to Parliament to protest proposed changes to abortion laws, saying the way they treat health workers who object are “disgraceful”.

But life-long abortion rights campaigner Dame Margaret Sparrow says the reforms need to go further.

A parliamentary select committee is currently hearing public submissions on legislation that would give women access to abortions until 20 weeks’ pregnancy without having to go through current legal hoops, largely remove abortion from the Crimes Act and allow for the creation of “safe zones” around clinics to keep protesters away.

The legislation passed its first reading 94 votes to 23 in August and politicians now need to consider what changes could be made before it returns for a second vote.

Sir Bill and his wife, doctor Lady Mary English, spoke to the committee yesterday, the former, in graphic detail, describing the process of some late-term abortions and calling it “extreme violence”.

The pair also raised concerns the wording of the law would open health workers with conscientious objections to abortions to be pushed out of their jobs.

The bill as it stands says employers need to accommodate for objections “as long as it would not unreasonably disrupt the employer’s ability to provide abortion services”.

“This is the Government giving itself permission to harass its own vulnerable workers,” former National PM Sir Bill said.

“It’s a disgraceful piece of legislation.”

Mary English said it could drive much-needed staff out of the sector and would particularly affect those from religious communities.

The argument was met with opposition from committee member and Green MP Jan Logie, who at one point entered a heated exchange with Sir Bill.

“It’s hard to see for me how a large DHB or institution would be in a situation where a person could not be found to do other duties,” she said.

Meanwhile, Dame Margaret Sparrow, who was the president of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand for more than 30 years from the 1970s and one of the first doctors in New Zealand to prescribe the morning-after pill, said the changes needed to go further.

She and other advocates for change have welcomed the legislation as a major step forward, but they’ve criticised the requirement for health practioners to still approve abortions after 20 weeks.

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Boris calls early election AP Britons will be heading out to vote in the dark days of December after the House of Commons yesterday backed an early national vote that could break the country’s political impasse over Brexit – or turn out to be merely a temporary distraction.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes electing a new crop of lawmakers will give his Conservative Party a majority and break the stalemate that blocked his plan to take Britain out of the European Union this month.

This week the EU granted Britain a three-month Brexit extension until January 31.

But after three years of inconclusive political wrangling over Brexit, British voters are weary and the results of an election are hard to predict.

The House of Commons voted 438-20 – with dozens of lawmakers abstaining – for a bill authorising an election on December 12. It will become law once it is approved by the unelected House of Lords, which does not have the power to overrule the elected Commons.

Even before the result was announced, the political parties were in campaign mode.

Johnson – who has had to abandon his vow to lead Britain out of the EU on October 31 “do or die” – accused his opponents of seeking to frustrate voters’ decision to leave the EU and prolong the Brexit process “until the 12th of never”.

“There is only one way to get

Abuse campaign Former child star and abuse survivor, Corey Feldman is campaigning change laws for historic offenders, warning Hollywood predators will “fall like dominoes”. After reportedly being told his sexual abuse allegations were “too old” to be prosecuted, Feldman launched the #Kids2 movement, which aims to introduce sweeping regulations that will ensure the safety and protection of kids working on movie sets. With Feldman claiming the film industry is “still rife with sexual predators”, he warns that “things will change dramatically” when new laws come into force in California in January.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during the debate on the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill in the House of Commons, London.

PHOTO AP Brexit done in the face of this unrelenting parliamentary obstructionism, this endless, willful, fingers crossed, ‘not me guv’ refusal to deliver on the mandate of the people – and that is to refresh this Parliament and give the people a choice,” Johnson said.

The road to polling day opened up when the main opposition Labour Party, which had opposed three previous attempts by Johnson to trigger an election, changed its position.

Now that Brexit has been delayed, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party would vote in favour of an early election because the prospect that Britain could crash out of the EU without a divorce deal had been taken off the table.

Brexit will form the unavoidable backdrop to the election, but the left-of-centre Labour Party is calculating that voters will want to talk about issues such as health care, education and social welfare – all of which saw years of fund-

ing cuts by Conservative governments – more than about Brexit. The party’s position on the EU is convoluted, with a split between those who want to go through with Brexit and those who want a new referendum on whether to remain in the bloc.

The strongly pro-EU Liberal Demcorats have been eating away at Labour support in Britain’s big cities.

“The choice at this election could not be clearer,” Corbyn said in a statement.

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Strong quake kills six; scores hurt AP A powerful earthquake shook the southern Philippines yesterday, triggering landslides and loosening boulders that killed six people and injured more than 100 others in a region already damaged by a strong quake two weeks earlier, officials said.

The magnitude 6.6 earthquake was caused by the movement of a fault about 7 kilometres deep about 25 kilometres east of Tulunan in Cotabato province, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology said.

Tulunan Mayor Reuel Limbungan said about 90 per cent of the houses in three rural villages were damaged by the intense ground movement.

Among the dead were a father and his child who were hit by boulders which rolled down a mountain onto their small farm in hard-hit North Cotabato province. Another child was injured, provin-

A woman on a stretcher is assisted by a companion after a powerful earthquake was felt in Davao City, Philippines.

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cial disaster response officer Mercedita Foronda said. She said more than 100 villagers received injuries, mostly minor, in the province.

Two others died in a landslide and falling debris in Magsaysay town in Davao del Sur province.

A pregnant woman was

killed by a falling tree in Tulunan and a 66-year-old man died from head injuries after apparently being hit by heavy debris in South Cotabato province’s capital, Koronadal, where 30 other people were injured as they dashed out of their homes, offices and shopping malls, police and other

officials said.

Several cities and towns suspended classes to allow inspections of school buildings. Several buildings damaged in another quake earlier this month sustained further damage and were closed to the public.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake on October 16 left at least seven people dead and more than 200 others injured and destroyed or damaged more than 7000 buildings, officials said.

In July, two earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines, killing eight people.

The Philippines lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.

A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990.

Legend rewrites classic American singer John Legend has re-written the classic Christmas song Baby, It’s Cold Outside to focus its lyrics on consent in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The song, originally written in 1944, is about a man trying to convince a woman to spend the night while she hesitantly suggests she should leave. The lyrics have long provoked controversy but face renewed criticism in the wake of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. Legend revealed in an interview he has updated the lyrics with comedian Natasha Rothwell and recorded it with fellow US singer Kelly Clarkson for a Christmas release.

MAFS couple slammed A Sydney business owner has publicly blasted Australian Married At First Sight stars Jules Robinson and Cameron Merchant after they asked for “freebies” for their wedding, in exchange for publicity on Instagram.

The couple contacted the vendor hoping to get thousands of dollars worth of complimentary services, promising not just the Insta-glory, but also a brief mention in Channel Nine’s coverage of their wedding. The business owner, who spoke anonymously, said their company had declined the request, adding that they would be surprised if anyone went for it.

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Not that old i-SITE chestnut again J

ust when you thought the battle of the Ashburton i-SITE and its closure was done and dusted, here it comes again – emerging from the mist like a pack of Vikings out on a raid.

It’s been a long and, at times, confusing battle. Between those who were charged with the decision to close the seemingly popular location and those who were prepared to stand up and fight for its continued service to the Ashburton District.

The former were unofficially declared the winners when no resolution was found, despite the best efforts of a number of passionate people who attempted to get it back up and running.

That, we thought, was the end of it – but then an election rolled around and, although not prop-

erly pinned to the campaign banner of any particular candidate, it was there, chipping away in the background of discussions.

And now, we have a war of words unfolding on a subject many thought had been put to bed. And, perhaps, the battle is only just starting to really warm up.

It started with a column in these very pages on Saturday morning, extended onto social media later that day and into the

weekend and now is filling some column inches in the letters to the editor section on the very next page.

We’ve got radio hosts, former mayors, former mayoral contenders and former councillors all airing their opinions and picking apart each other’s arguments with precision in a battle which may well end up resembling a massive rally at Wimbledon with no side gaining total authority on the subject.

So, who is right?

Those who have been privy to the most information throughout this long and drawn out process would naturally have the biggest grasp on things, but perhaps those who are trying to fight the good fight for the people of Ashburton who turned up to protest

the closure know and understand more than what their opponents might think?

The most obvious thing at this point in time, is that there doesn’t appear to be any wiggle room for the i-SITE to be reopened in its former location and glory.

I get the feeling that most had resigned themselves to that fact too.

Instead, it’s about ensuring that whatever is in the future plans to replace that particular service are done so to their full potential and in a manner which allows the tourism sector to grow and prosper.

Former mayor, Donna Favel makes the most salient point of all on the next page today when she says that despite the closure of the i-SITE the tourism spend

in the Ashburton District has continued to rise.

Had the closure had a detrimental impact on that very important figure then perhaps the argument for the return of the i-SITE would have held more weight, but things are moving rapidly and not having that building open to the public seems to have had no impact on people coming into our district and the money they are spending.

Perhaps there might be bigger fish to fry in this particular sector.

Some more pertinent subjects that we could be drawing our attention and our resources towards.

But something suggests that tale of the Ashburton i-SITE and the day they closed its doors is far from over.

bone people, won the prestigious Booker Prize In 1998, a genetic study was released suggesting President Thomas Jefferson did in fact father at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings.

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard.

In 2001, New York hospital worker Kathy T Nguyen died of inhalation anthrax, the fourth person to perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism.

In 2005, Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was honoured during a memorial service in Washington, DC. In 2015, the All Blacks successfully

defended their Rugby World Cup title Ten years ago: A registered sex offender was arrested in Cleveland after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.

Five years ago: Commercial space tourism suffered a huge setback when a prototype passenger rocket, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, exploded during a test flight, scattering debris over the Mojave Desert and killing one pilot while seriously injuring the other.

One year ago: President Donald Trump said the number of military troops being deployed to the US-Mexican border could reach 15,000.

Today’s birthdays: Actress Lee Grant is 94. Former astronaut Michael Collins is 89. Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is 88. Folk singer Tom Paxton is 82. Actor Ron Rifkin is 81. Actress Sally Kirkland is 78. Actor Brian DoyleMurray is 74. Actor Stephen Rea is 73. Actress Deidre Hall is 72. Actor Brian Stokes Mitchell is 62. Movie director Peter Jackson is 58. Rock musician Larry Mullen is 58. Actor Dermot Mulroney is 56. Rock musician Mikkey Dee is 56. Rock singer-musician Johnny Marr is 56. Actor Rob Schneider is 55.

Country singer Darryl Worley is 55. Actor-comedian Mike O’Malley is 54. Rap musician Adrock is 53.

Songwriter Adam Schlesinger is

52. Rap performer Vanilla Ice is 52. Rock musician Rogers Stevens is 50. Rock singer Linn Berggren is 49. Gospel singer Smokie Norful is 46. Actress Piper Perabo is 43. Actor Brian Hallisay is 41.

Actress Samaire Armstrong is 39.

Folk-rock musician Tay Strathairn is 39. Actor Eddie Kaye Thomas is 39. Rock musician Frank Iero is 38. Actor Justin Chatwin is 37.

Actor Scott Clifton is 35. Actress Vanessa Marano is 27. Actress Holly Taylor is 22. Actress Danielle Rose Russell is 20. Actress-singer Willow Smith is 19.

Thought for today: “Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.” – Rosalind Russell, American actress (1911-1976). – AP

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, October 31, the 304th day of 2019.

There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.

Today’s highlight in history: On October 31, 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War Two. On this date: In 1517, Martin Luther sent his 95 Theses denouncing what he saw as the abuses of the Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences, to the Archbishop of Mainz, Germany, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation.

In 1917, The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played a key part in the capture of the town of Beersheba, a turning point in the struggle between the British and Ottoman Empires in the Middle East in the First World War. In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.

In 1941, work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927.

In 1959, a US Marine reservist showed up at the US Embassy in Moscow to declare he was renouncing his American citizenship so he could live in the Soviet Union. His name: Lee Harvey Oswald.

In 1964, Theodore C Freeman, 34, became the first member of NASA’s astronaut corps to die when his T-38 jet crashed while approaching Ellington Air Force Base in Houston.

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all US bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.

In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards.

In 1985, Keri Hulme’s first novel, The

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ll referenda are, these days, tainted by the brush of Brexit. They should, therefore, be viewed with the deepest suspicion and vigilance.

Never again will a political leader offer “the masses” such a sop to show he is aware of their doubts, misplaced as he may think them to be.

In his arrogant attitude to those he thought hopelessly misguided, then British Prime Minister David Cameron “generously” agreed to have the question of Britain’s possible exit from the European Union (EU) included on the ballot paper at the General Election of 2015.

Clearly, he was fully confident the electors would express their overwhelming wish that Britain remain a fully integrated member of that organisation.

That, certainly, was Cameron’s own view.

But ... not to be! To his astonished consternation, Cameron discovered a narrow majority (52 to 48 per cent) of his countrymen and women actually wanted to leave it.

And the rest– as they tend to say – has become on-going and tortuous history.

After four years of mostly bad-tempered wrangling, the fall-out from Cameron’s disastrous decision still shows little sign of resolution.

The ramifications rumble on,

Nick Lindo

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all because the people were invited to express their opinion on one specific and significant question.

The lesson is obvious; beware the referendum.

The crux of this issue would seem to be the wisdom of the referendum, per se. In the ancient times in the City State of Athens, the locals met in the square to give their opinion on whatever issue was put before them. They represented no one but themselves.

However, such a primitive – though pure – form of democratic government was hardly fit for purpose as the business of government became a good deal more complicated.

Which is why the parliamentary version came into being, whereby representatives of the people, offering different outcomes and opinions on behalf of those people, were elected to a central government, rather than their having to be physically present to cast their vote.

Basically, that is still the system by which we are governed.

However, if these elected

representatives are genuinely representative of the people who voted for them, does that not preclude any other type of administration.

In other words, the Members of Parliament have the right and, still more, the responsibility, to make all decisions on behalf of their individual electorates rather than – when it suits them – abdicate that authority and thus, put out selected issues to the publicat-large for their consideration, matters for which the MPs have not the inner fortitude to make decisions for themselves.

Does that not equate to their may not wishing to take possible future blame or, certainly, a weakening of their own convictions?

Rather, they should have the courage to cast a vote in keeping, not only with those convictions but, in addition, after having done serious research to gauge the feelings of as many individual members of the electorate who might care to discuss the matter at meetings specifically set up by the member to make this possible.

Thus armed with a range of electorate opinions the member takes with him to the Beehive the representative opinion of his electorate and votes accordingly.

In that way the parliamentary democracy which we claim to admire, and in which we put

our faith, is given a substantial vote of confidence.

Thus, if one were to invest parliamentary decision-making with the sort of trust and respect, as outlined above, the referendum can be seen as a cynical cop out, with MPs not prepared to take the hard decisions for fear of hostile fall-out and, even, possible loss of seat at the next election.

Therefore, throw the matter open to the nation and accept its verdict. Representatives they may be but apparently not, to be trusted to make the big decisions, or prefer not to be seen to be responsible for them.

In my book, therefore, such weighty matters as legalising cannabis, euthanasia, abolishing the Maori seats, considering the future of MMP, and other such controversial topics, should be decided in Parliament where they belong and not by a series of referenda tacked onto next year’s ballot paper.

Let Parliament do its duty according to the principles of our system of government for which it was established.

In response to Tony Todd – Yes, at the Meet the Candidates evening in Methven all mayoral candidates responded yes, they would support increased funding for Experience Mid Canterbury.

However, I wish to clarify, Tony Todd seems to have misinterpreted an affirmative response to that question of EMC funding, as support for the Information Centre.

After regularly attending presentations by EMC for nine years, my understanding of their goal is to market this district in new and innovative ways (not necessarily via an information centre).

I supported the question of more funds to enable EMC to spend more, any away they see best fits the needs and for the benefit of this district.

I have been a part of the inter-

view panels that recruited the majority of the talented board members for EMC, each with their own unique experiences and skillsets in the tourism sector.

I do note, that since the closure of the Ashburton i-SITE – instead of one, Ashburton now has two locations where you can obtain tourist information (Library and Somerset Grocer), both venues are open longer hours than the Ashburton i-SITE was and one (the Library) offers free wifi.

Since the closure of the i-SITE, tourism spend in the Ashburton District has continued to rise year upon year, reaching $185m for the year ended June 30, 2019.

Could it be that this growing tourism spend reflects the predicted trend of the increasing number of tech-savvy tourists?

Donna Favel

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YOUR VIEW Information centre Peter McQuarters’ comments annoyed me, Selwyn Price’s comments were correct but need adding to.

When the i-SITE was started, Ashburton District Council added little funds with many who had a visitor business either volunteered or paid to help it run.

Now ratepayers put in around $400,000 which is almost all used on wages with little left to promote the district. Many businesses which could benefit choose not to contribute but expect ratepayers to add even more.

One should also look at the record of the two people mentioned, both were involved in the art gallery museum which had a 50 per cent overrun and the last council is still trying to get the building watertight.

This year another $2.5m is budgeted so if one needs to insult and shame one also needs to have the facts correct.

Tony Todd’s letter also needs some facts added.

Ashburton District Council do not control the i-SITE or Experience Mid Canterbury as they have an excellent board and staff who receive the rate grant and spend where they think best for this dictrict’s tourism advantage.

If council can find more money from an already set year’s budget then that will go to EMC to spend where they think best as experts.

Or are councillors going to dictate to or disband EMC and make all the future decisions.

That to me would be moving into dangerous country.

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Vege growers concerned by plan

By Linda Clarke

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Talley’s and the Ashburton district’s commercial vegetable growers are worried about proposed changes to the Canterbury Land and Water Plan.

Talley’s Ashburton general manager Aaron Chudleigh said the company was alarmed at the proposed changes to vegetable growing rules and the impact it could have on both the region and the business.

Talley’s, Potatoes New Zealand and local farmers are among those to make submissions to Environment Canterbury about Plan Change 7, some of which deals with nutrient losses from commercial vegetable growing.

Chudleigh, in his submission, said the plan made it extremely hard to continue growing vegetables in the region and it would have a spinoff effect on Talley’s, and potentially its workforce and families in the area.

He said the plan failed to acknowledge the work already done to limit nutrient losses, to improve water quality and the value of vegetable growing for the district.

Talley’s supports the ability for a group of growers to manage environmental issues collectively to improve their response to water quality issues.

“As a business that is growing and heavily investing in infrastructure in the region, the lack of opportunity for growers to expand their current crop areas will hamper our business’ competi-

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A change in entrant criteria to include people with a valid New Zealand work visa has boosted numbers taking part in the national dairy industry awards programme.

Organisers say the change, introduced last year, has resulted in an increase in the variety of nationalities entering the awards.

Visa criteria for the dairy trainee and dairy manager categories were changed, enabling people to be eligible to enter as long as they held a valid New Zealand work visa at time of entry and at each stage of judging and have been employed full-time for two years on a New Zealand dairy farm when entries open.

Entries for the 2020 awards close on November 16.

New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards general manager Robin Congdon said changing the visa criteria saw an increase overall

in entry numbers in the dairy manager and trainee categories and many of the regional winners were able to enter because of the change.

“The qualifications clause in the dairy trainee category – where a potential entrant could not have completed an NZQA Level 5 or higher qualification in any field of study – was also removed, acknowledging the awards programme as a learning platform where people can learn and grow, both personally and professionally.”

He said the awards provided continuous engagement with developing talent within the dairy industry and regional teams helped to create positive, local communities of like-minded, progressive farmers.”

“We’ve had a fantastic response with entries so far and look forward to more entries coming in over the next three weeks.”

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of our business and will have a major impact on not only the Ashburton town community, but also employees and growers of the region.”

Up to 7000ha of potatoes is

grown in Canterbury annually, from a national area of around 10,300ha; Potatoes New Zealand says another 9500ha will be needed by 2025.

Potatoes grown in Canterbury were critical for the processing industry and for seed production, the organisation said. Constraining production and growth would severely constrain the ability of the industry to produce potatoes for domestic demand and export.

The organisation said potato growers needed to observe strict crop rotations to maintain soil health and structure, and avoid disease – which is why they tended to lease land and had complex operations that the nitrate leaching tool Overseer struggled to accurately process.

Potatoes New Zealand has proposed alternative rules based on good management practice.

ECan received some 556 submissions over two proposed plan changes and many of the submitters asked to be heard by the independent hearing panel of David Sheppard, Raewyn Solomon and Rob van Voorthuysen at a hearing likely to be held in the first half of next year.

The ability to carry out managed aquifer recharge, as piloted in Mid Canterbury, was also part of the proposed suite of plan changes.

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Protecting backyard native wildlife has become easier with the Taranaki region’s first trap library.

The Department of Conservation in Taranaki opened the trap library after receiving numerous requests from schools and the community for assistance with trapping. DoC Community Ranger Ellen Squire said people can borrow traps just like borrowing a book from the library.

“Traps, particularly possum traps aren’t cheap, so it is great to be able to fill a resource gap. Our hope is that the library will inspire residents to engage in long-term predator control throughout the region and further

help protect our native wildlife.”

Traps are available from the New Plymouth DoC office and are lent out for three months at a time, free.

Every trap is ethically approved and the traps available are primarily used to target stoats and possums.

Borrowers are encouraged to feedback information to DoC on what they have caught.

All information will be collated to form an image of how residents are contributing to the protection of local wildlife and native bush from the threat of introduced predators.

The trap library compliments the work being done as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, with the aim to be the first predator free region in the country.

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Water tensions begin to ease

By Heather Chalmers

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Tensions over water allocation and quality are easing as tougher nitrate-leaching targets are enforced, but some individuals and organisations still want to push their own agenda, re-elected Environment Canterbury councillor John Sunckell said.

“What we have not been able to achieve to date is convince many, if any, from the other side of the debate that we have in fact done anything.

“We have come a very long way in a short few years and it hurts at times when those who stoke those tensions do not give recognition to remarkable things that have been achieved in this short timeframe,” said Sunckell, a third-generation Leeston dairy farmer who jointly represents the Mid Canterbury region.

Issues with nitrate leaching were being addressed and reduced. Research was providing tools such as plantain, a pasture plant which reduced nitrate leaching, and the breeding of dairy cows with a lower nitrate leaching footprint, as well as more efficient irrigation and improved management.

“Give us some biotech, a few more tools and we will sort biological gases,” Sunckell told a Canterbury branch of the Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science seminar at Lincoln University.

Water was being managed through ECan’s Canterbury Water Management Strategy.

“Water is a public good, no one owns it, everyone owns it, but there is this view of many that they do in fact own it and therefore have rights.

“What we have had, in hindsight, is probable poor application of rules or rules that have not kept up with the times, but there have always been rules.”

Sunckell said that in the last decade, the CWMS had developed more appropriate nutrient and water rules at both a zone and regional level.

“With this has come a significant shift in thinking from our rural and provincial folk as to what is required of them.

“Good news stories are extremely hard to sell into the mainstream media. We can write all we like in the rural media, but unless something changes we are talking

Environment Canterbury Mid Canterbury councillor John Sunckell says issues with nitrate leaching are being addressed and reduced.

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Few people outside agriculture know of farmers’ 2009-2013 nitrogen loss baselines and tough nitrogen loss reduction targets, particularly in the Hinds and Selwyn-Waihora catchments.

“So maybe one of the tensions

we face is not so much the facts, but the perceptions that some groups would have us believe. I have to ask whether some of these groups have the advancement of their agendas at the forefront of their thinking rather than the communities and environments

that they choose to engage in.”

Touching on the quality and quantity of Christchurch’s drinking water supply, Sunckell said modelling showed that in 50 to 100 years, the city’s drinking water could approach 5.6 mg/litre of nitrogen, half the public health maximum acceptable values, if nothing was done.

Waimakariri district farmers now faced some “quite draconian rules” under ECan’s Plan Change 7 which would significantly disrupt agriculture in that district.

“We cannot under-estimate the financial and capital costs that will be visited on primary producers in that catchment.

“The other side of the debate has picked up this modelling with some horror and I would suggest just a little lack of understanding.

“Add a touch of the Danish study that shows the potential for a link between higher nitrate levels and bowel cancer and we have a political nightmare that many candidates across local government ran on.”

Sunckell said that with today’s knowledge, and science, the issue of Christchurch’s water quality could be addressed.

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NZ lamb exporters welcome Brexit deadline extension RNZ An extension to the Brexit deadline is being welcomed by New Zealand lamb exporters, who had been worried about possible disruptions to Christmas trade.

European Union leaders have agreed to extend Brexit until January 31 next year – meaning the UK will not leave as planned on today.

The bloc would also allow for a so-called “flextension” – meaning the UK could leave before the deadline if a deal was approved

by Parliament.

The UK market is very important for chilled New Zealand lamb exports ahead of Christmas and

there had been concerns from industry that the UK’s departure from the European Union during this period could present border delays and increased administrative costs.

Beef and Lamb’s international trade manager, Esther Guy-Meakin, said while the extension did not solve the problem long term, it was a good outcome for now.

“That [extension] comes at quite a good time for us ahead of our Christmas trade and importantly it avoids a no-deal Brexit which is no good for anybody.”

Guy-Meakin said the January 31 deadline would be the fourth Brexit-deadline to be announced

and the industry had been working hard to prepare for all possible scenarios.

“I think everyone has done what they needed to do in order to be prepared but of course there’s a whole range of other things that are out of our control,” she said.

Guy-Meakin said the uncertainty around Brexit had already had an impact on lamb exports to the UK, which were back about 23 per cent compared to this time last year.

Tim Ritchie of the Meat Industry Association said this was due to importers being cautious about buying chilled product, such as lamb.

“Chilled is a time-sensitive product and you treat it very carefully and I think people have been just a little bit more cautious than they would normally be,” Ritchie said.

Ritchie said luckily demand for meat globally was strong, in part due to the protein shortage caused by African Swine Fever in China. But he said it was still important to maintain ties with traditional markets like the UK. “There’s no other market in the world that will take the sort of volume of chilled lamb legs than the UK market, and so it’s very very important that we maintain that link and those commercial relationships,” he said.

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Airline decision a travel boom signal?

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merican Airlines’ decision to dramatically step up flying to New Zealand is a sign of the great US travel boom.

The airline will next summer more than triple capacity to this country where arrivals from the United States have climbed 9 per cent in the past year to 368,000.

This exceeds the 6 per cent climb to 93 million Americans travelling outside the United States last year.

A buoyant economy, better air connections and importantly, much improved services from that country’s airlines resulted in 93 million Americans travelling abroad last year, according to US Commerce Department figures.

And the travel-happy super-rich are growing in number in the US like nowhere else on the planet.

The Economist says there are close to 19 million “dollar’’ millionaires, up from seven million 20 years ago.

The surge in American visitors to this country is great news for the tourist operators as they stay

longer, spend more and more likely to travel off the beaten track.

And it’s also fantastic news for Kiwis wanting to travel to the States.

More air capacity means more competition and almost inevitably, lower fares. A weaker kiwi dollar against the greenback has stunted travel to the US in the year to August – down 1.4 per cent to 209,000 but it’s still running at high levels.

American’s new services between Auckland and Dallas Fort Worth and the long-awaited Christchurch to Los Angeles flight will provide Kiwis with vast options of destinations to fly to even if their dollar doesn’t go as far as it did 18 months ago.

By next summer New Zealanders will have the choice of six mainland US cities flying nonstop from Auckland and one from Christchurch.

But for American Airlines it’s a southbound play.

Russ Fortson, American’s managing director of Asia Pacific operations, says right now the country is hot.

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American’s new flights will launch new services from Auckland to Dallas-Fort Worth and break new ground with flights between Christchurch and Los Angeles.

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He says (in spite of a certain result at the weekend) the All Blacks are tremendously popular in the US. “Then take your pick. It’s the Lord of the Rings – now there’s a massive attraction. For many it’s an aspirational, a once in a lifetime trip.’’

Older, richer people came here to get on board the growing number of cruise ships,

new destinations and boosting capacity.

American will launch the threetimes a week seasonal services from next October.

The airline has operated Dreamliner flights from Auckland to Los Angeles since 2016 and the Dallas-Fort Worth flights will be in addition to those summer services (also three times a week) and pit the airline up against Air New Zealand which has since 2015 flown to Texas, operating to Houston.

The Christchurch-Los Angeles flights will be a big boost for the South Island city whose residents and tourist authorities have been pushing Air New Zealand to resume the route which it pulled out of about a decade ago.

The new flights will be worth $52m a year to this economy.

American’s doing this not only because it sees latent demand, but its doing it because it can.

Regulatory approval of its joint venture with Qantas means it can co-ordinate flying across the Pacific and, importantly, rely on the Australian airline to feed its long haul flights across the Pacific.

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OMV has been granted the last of the environmental consents it needs for a drilling programme off Taranaki this summer.

The company, which operates the Maui, Maari and Pohokura fields, has been granted a discharge consent for up to 11 wells it could potentially drill during the next five years in five permits it has interests in.

The company plans to drill three wells off Taranaki this summer and is awaiting an additional consent required to drill one well in the Great South Basin off the south-east coast of the South Island.

Should the company receive that consent next month, the programme could get underway in December, a spokesman said.

Vienna-based OMV is New Zealand’s biggest gas producer, having bought Shell’s interests in the offshore Maui and Pohokura fields last year. It is planning to use the COSL Prospector, a modern, harsh-environment rig sitting idle since Tama-

rind Resources cut short a development drilling programme at the Tui field in September.

The consent granted for its Taranaki work, published by the Environmental Protection Authority yesterday, primarily covers harmful substances that will be discharged into the sea with the water-based muds used during drilling.

It also covers things like discharges from the rig’s cooling systems, hydrocarbons from well tests and excess cement from well construction.

While some of the chemicals may prove lethal to plankton and small fish coming directly into contact with a concentrated discharge plume, the EPA said the overall the impacts of the programme on the Taranaki marine environment will be negligible.

OMV plans three wells in Taranaki and has previously described the programme as “pivotal” to its strategy for assuring long-term energy security for New Zealand.

Toutouwai-1 lies in a permit directly north of the Tui field which

OMV manages on behalf of partners Mitsui and Sapura Energy.

Gladstone-1 lies further north, off the coast northwest of New Plymouth in a permit OMV shares with Malaysia-based Sapura.

OMV is also planning an in-fill well at the 40-year-old Maui field it is trying to extend the life of.

The firm’s planned drilling in the Great South Basin has been more controversial.

Tawhaki-1 would be drilled early next year about 146 kilometres south-east of Balclutha. The well lies in about 1,300 metres of water so is not especially deep by international or New Zealand standards and has about a one-in-six chance of success, OMV estimates.

In September, the EPA granted a consent for accidental discharges from the rig’s deck drains during the programme. It resisted calls from opponents of the programme to broaden that public process to also include the applications it is now considering from OMV for marine consents and discharge consents for the Tawhaki drilling.

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Agtech firm gets Provincial Growth Fund loan NZME Scott Technology will receive a $5.8 million loan from the government’s Provincial Growth Fund to set up an agriculture technology business unit.

Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and Trade and Export Minister David Parker announced the loan as one of several projects in Dunedin, including almost $20 million to re-open KiwiRail’s Hillside workshops.

The Scott unit would be dedicated to providing automation solu-

tions and services for New Zealand food processors, producers and their suppliers, Jones said.

Scott said it would create 15 new highly skilled jobs and aimed to deliver $30 million of benefits to the agritech industry, initially focused in the South Island.

Funds would provide a “technology boost” to local industry, job creation and export earnings and set up an advanced robotics training facility for customers, staff and external students, Scott said.

Scott Technology, which is controlled by JBS Australia, said it

would leverage its global capability.

Scott Agritech would include a training function for customers and other interested parties specific to operating and maintaining both automated and robotic equipment.

The company and the government will now work together to determine final agreed terms, including repayment conditions, for the six-year loan, Scott said.

The stock lifted 1.3 per cent to $2.33 and is down 23 per cent over the past 12 months.

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Club news 14 Ashburton Guardian Altrusa International of Ashburton This month Altrusa members celebrated the Altrusa life of two of our charter members, Annette Lane and Joyce Campbell, loyal members supporting the Ashburton community for the last 46 years.

A group of around 20 Ashburton women held an inaugural dinner in June 1973, and continued holding meetings prior to the Altrusa International of Ashburton being officially chartered on April 4, 1974. With Isabel Linton of Christchurch Altrusa, these three ladies are the longest serving Altrusans in New Zealand.

At our membership programme meeting we enjoyed a pictorial presentation of sparkling moments in the life of the club, in which Joyce and Annette took active part. They were each presented with a “Your Life in Altrusa” photo book, and roses.

For our annual “Make a Difference Day” we have again distributed our sets of Alphabet Letters to all Ashburton babies born in October. Our six-weekly Foot Clinic has been appreciated. Twice monthly we deliver “Books on Wheels” supplied by the Ashburton Library to people no longer able to visit the library personally.

Our club was pleased to have a display at the recent Ashburton 50Plus Connexion Showcase. Several members recently travelled to Christchurch to present our donation cheque to the Bone Marrow Cancer Trust for furnishings for the new extension at Ranui House.

Ashburton Bowling Club Ashburton Bowling Club members’ results for the past week, played in what has been a gorgeous week weather-wise, are as follows: Friday Triples at Ashburton on October 25, Margaret Watson as part of a composite team came 4th, Murray Anderson, John Kewish, George Crack came 5th.

Saturday Rollover Triples: 1st with 3 wins, 15 ends was Trevor Watson, Owen Gray, Margaret Carnachan, Bob Wilson, 2nd was Colin Cross, Mervyn Campbell, Charles Rooke.

In the threes/fours, Ashburton had three good wins on Saturday morning, October 26, playing a top Christchurch club.

One of the teams picked up a seven on one end to salvage a win! The missing bowl of the team on that end belonged to the skip who suggested that he had placed it strategically to stop the drive!

Good skipping, Murray!

In the Gill Trophy Fours at Hinds on Sunday, October 27, Murray Anderson, Jim and Laraine Mills, George Crack came 3rd with 3.5 wins, and Brian Williams in a composite team came 4th.

Good bowling!

Ashburton County Lions Members of the Ashburton County Lions met on Wednesday October 23 for their monthly tea meeting at the Hotel Ashburton. Special visitor for the night was Zone Chairman Garth Bateup who addressed the meeting updating us on Lions issues locally and internationally.

October and November are very busy months for the club.

The recent accessory sale was very successful thanks to the support of the local community. Funds raised from this will go to support ‘Lives Worth living’ a new

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Members helped with the October Blind Appeal and Meals on Wheels. Volunteers will also be on the gates at the Ashburton A&P show and others as drivers for the day care centre. The next big event for the club will be the ‘Toot for Tucker’ to be held on Monday November 18.

On the social scene there are plans for a visit to the Christchurch Riverside Market and a Xmas Party at the new Barkers Café in Geraldine.

After the business of the meeting members enjoyed time discovering their artistic talents by making creative Christmas cards. These cards will now go to a group called ‘Sending the Love NZ’ to be distributed to local rest homes. Anyone wanting to add cards they have made can put them in the post boxes at Robert Harris Café, Paper Plus and the Ashburton Art Gallery.

This deal from a President’s trophy night has the potential for a myriad of results.

Dealer East will open 1 Heart, with a take out double, or perhaps a 1 NT overall from the 18 point South hand. With 9 high card points and a void in Clubs a number of Wests chose to bid straight to 5 Diamonds – a shut out bid which East will pass. There are 2 opening lead options that can take the contract light – a Diamond or a Heart.

A Diamond opening lead has dummy’s singleton K taken by South’s A, and any suit other than Clubs is an effective defence lead. A small Spade to the A singleton on the table, declarer cashes the Club A discarding either a small Spade or Heart from hand.

A second club will be covered by S and ruffed in West’s hand. He then plays the Diamond Q, dropping the 2 remaining trumps, but where to from here?

Play 5 more trump tricks, looking to end play South, but a watchful South must be aware of what was discarded on the Club A and if it was the Heart 3 keep his Spade K and J (he knows West does not have 3 Hearts) and if it was the Spade 3, he must keep his Heart K and Q. With an opening Heart lead declarer will win in hand with the A. Immediately he crosses to the Spade A, cashes the Club A discarding the Heart 3, and comes to hand with a club ruff, ruffs a

Ashburton Horticultural Society President Trevor Gamblin welcomed 13 members to our monthly meeting.

Our 5 minute talk was presented by Rosemary Case speaking on the success of our site at the 50+ Connexion Expo held recently at the Event Centre.

Our Guest Speaker was Pam Whiteford speaking on herbs. The classification of a herb is its leaves, seeds or flowers are used to flavour food, medicinal use or perfume. Many herbs freely seed each year or herbs can be easily propagated.

In the garden group herbs together as per their growing preference of drought or wet conditions. Pam spoke on how to grow and care for many common herbs used in cooking.

Table Show results: Pat Tarbotton 7 firsts, 5 second, 2 thirds, Rosemary Case 3, 0, 0, Joy Jaine 7, 6, 1, Surrey Lamont 4, 4, 6, John Hoogweg 3, 2, 5, Cyril Keen 1,1, 2, Trevor Gamblin 3,0,0, Premier award went to Pat Tarbotton for a trio of Ranunculus Raffle was won by Pat Tarbotton Next meeting is Pot Luck Tea on Monday November 25 at 6pm at the Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue, this is our final meeting for the year. New members and visitors most welcome.

Ashburton Photographic Society Our Field trip this month was out to Langdon’s Reserve. This was thoroughly enjoyed by all that attended. What a treasure we have right on our doorstep.

We have also had our last competition for the year. It is great to see the improvement in photos since the first competition.

Prints A Grade Acceptance Cindy Lovett “Looking Up”, David Oakley “Ready to Ride”, Haley Fisher “Tunnel Vision”, Hayley Zanker “Still Playing at Sunset”, Jess Chamberlain “Learning to Fly”, Lester Hurst “Orangutan”, Maria Chamberlain “Hawk After Eating Roadkill’ and Nel Davison “Checking if it’s Safe” Prints A Grade Honours Maria Chamberlain “Getting Every Last Crumb Despite the Rain” Prints B Grade Acceptance Camilla Harris “Sunset at Carters Beach”

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and Malcolm Whyte “Stag on Watch” Prints B Grade Honours Malcolm Whyte “Moreaki Boulders” Digital A Grade Acceptance Bill Cabout “Fishing Boats at Westport Marina”, Brenda Lynch “Night train”, Carol Efford “Old Jetty”, Cindy Lovett “Sun Setting on the Coast” and “Warp Speed” David Oakley “Lake Hood Boardwalk”, Haley Fisher “Water Lily”, Hayley Zanker “Shapes and Patterns” and Megan Ellis “Rusty Barb” Digital A Grade Honours Maria Chamberlain “Quarry Road”, Megan Ellis “Beach Sculpture” and Nel Davison “New To This World” Digital B Grade Acceptance Anita Badger “Spring Time”, Anna McGregor “The Tahr Team”, Camilla Harris “Log Monster”, Diane Rawlinson “Doomed by Drought”, Janine Barker “In Loving Memory” and Malcolm Whyte “Misty Shelter” Digital B Grade Honours Annette Whyte “Looking For Lunch” and Malcolm Whyte “Smile For The Camera” Cindy Lovett won our Anderson Set of Three competition. Well done everyone. Jude – Competition Secretary.

Hinds Women’s Institute The Hinds WI members were welcomed to their October meeting by President Rosa who also led the Ode and Aspirations.

Sick members were remembered and best wishes were extended to Val and Lorraine.

The meeting dealt with the previous month’s business and a very comprehensive report of the recent Half Yearly meeting at Rakaia was given by Secretary Valmai.

The Financial Report was delivered by Ruth and a catch-up re the Ashburton A&P Show Bay and Tray progress was also given.

Business was dealt with before our guest and fellow member, Annette, told

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us about her, and her husband’s, recent cruise around Malaysia., Their luxury Liner, which was named ‘Voyager of the Sea’, travelled at night and docked during the daylight hours to enable the passengers to go ashore and enjoy the sights.

The cruise began in Singapore where many of this city’s tourist wonders were captured on film. Kuala Lumpur with its iconic Twin Towers was an impressive sight.

Next stop was Pinang which had been in times gone bye, a British Colonial outpost. This was evident by the many Historic buildings etc still found there.

Another place visited was a Batik factory where the art of Batik screen printing using wax, dyes and artistic skill was explained. The resulting designs were amazing, A butterfly factory with its many colourful exhibits was followed by a visit to a rice growing field. Here the various growing steps were explained culminating in the commercial production of the rice we can buy in NZ. Phuket was another city visited and its nightlife necessitated the ship’s tender running throughout the night. Nearby was the “James Bond” Island, the famous floating village and a cashew nut factory.

The members enjoyed Annette’s talk and much discussion followed while partaking afternoon tea which included Rosa’s tasty creamed meringues!

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members on Thursday October 24. We met in the Doris Linton Lounge. Apologies were received. The R.S.A. song was sung well, without a pianist. And happy birthday to those who are another year older.

Sympathy was given to anyone who has sadly lost a loved one. Sick members were wished a speedy recovery. Bus trip

Ashburton Woodworkers Nineteen members were welcomed

by Bruce Ferriman, for our October meeting then introduced our guest, luthier, artisan Mac McElwain, guitar maker.

Show and Tell: Dave Busby: two candle sticks, a mairie bowl.

Frank Luxton: some gold leaf sheets, a small box to hold a diamond.

Roger Scammell: set of six identical skittles.

Dave Ford: two yew items.

Chris Thompson: sandwich board with the club’s logo.

Clarrie Brake: swamp kauri vase.

Les Mattingley: two Christmas theme cut outs.

Kevin Challis: rewarewa bowl. Interesting grain pattern.

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the tension of six strings which can be about 68 kilos, therefore much bracing is required inside the body.

He introduced three complete guitars constructed from well grained indigenous timbers. The rimu came from his home’s barge board, kauri from a built in wardrobe and an electric guitar. This shows how demolition wood can be given a second life instead of becoming firewood. The two guitars certainly had rich, mellow terrific sounds when he played a few tunes. Some members felt the need to try strumming, dreaming some day of becoming a maybe rock singer, I believe they have left that dream too late.

Thanks Mac for your interesting talk into the world of musical instrument maker, a fascinating evening.

on Wednesday February 5, 2020: President needs destination ideas by November 28. C hristmas dinner on Monday December 9: information next month. Patrice Ansell was introduced. She and husband have been overseas again. Patrice had a lovely selection of photos, and told of starting in Canada, then to Alaska and back to USA. Seeing Niagara Falls, Totem poles, maple syrup making, lovely gardens etc. They went on two cruises and travelled by bus and train. Patrice was thanked for coming to tell of travels.

Raffles were won by Marilyn Coley and Margaret Drummond.

Competitions: Butter Dish: 1st Pat Cannan, 2nd Claire Wesley, 3rd Marilyn Coley.

Duchesse Set: 1st Elizabeth Davies, 2nd Claire Wesley, 3rd Marilyn Coley.

Lions Club of Ashburton First and foremost, our club welcomes two new members. Chrissy Milne introduced by Lois Sparrow, and Craig Hadley, introduced by Michael McAnulty, are welcome additions to our ranks. We wish them all the best.

Our November meeting on Wednesday November 6, is a meeting with a difference. We are visiting Canterbury Dried Foods at Wakanui. The bus leaves from Hotel Ashburton at 6pm, then we return to the Hotel Ashburton for a short meeting and meal.

Our Golf Tournament on October 17, was a great success with a record 145 players participating. The beneficiaries of our Tournament, Cancer Support and Life Education, will share the proceeds from the day. This amounted to $16,000.

Bruce Ferriman, Terry Molloy and the organising committee, are congratulated on their work. One footnote, the Ashburton Lions Team won the Manny Sim Trophy for the first time ever, defeating Ellesmere and Mayfield.

The race night event at Addington Raceway was attended by a small but enthusiastic group and a good night was had by all.

Sunday November 10 is the eagerly awaited Simon O’Neill/Woolston Brass Band concert and the visit to Dot’s Castle in Oamaru is on Sunday November 24. Our Christmas meeting will take the form of a partner’s night with a Christmas theme and meal. Entertainment will be provided by our local Variety Theatre songsters.

The South Island Motorhome Show under the direction of Brendan Quinn, will be held on Saturday February 29 and Sunday March 1, 2020. New and improved signage for State Highway One and smaller signage for River Terrace and East St are being made. Any enquiries to Brendan Quinn. The interest to date has been very encouraging with a number of trade sites already booked.

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Ashburton Golf Club A wonderful sunny Labour weekend Saturday saw a big field take to the Brandon course, the greens had just been cored and sanded, but still ran better than most, and in no way affected the scoring.

The highlight of the day was a superb Hole in one by Alison MacGregor on the 14th, the funny part is that she was not even going to play and had to be coerced by Natasha, Karen and Meg to make up a four. By all accounts a beautifully struck 5 wood did the trick, never leaving the pin and just rolling in. Luckily hubby Brent was playing in the four in front and saw the whole thing. The bubbly flowed in the clubhouse and the lovely Nurse Gladys was questioning old Arkwright, about how many Aces he had got over his fifty years of golfing. By all accounts his memory got a bit fuzzy and could not quite remember.

The top team of the day went to Josh Cochrane, Jamie Stone, Peter Morgan and Tom Blacklow with a wonderful score of 104, just pipping Alison and the girls on 103.

The RMF Silva cup final series got off to a great start, with Grieg Sparrow’s 41 stableford points just beating Dylan Stoddarts on countback and taking first place. This jumps Grieg to third in the standings, Dylan is second, but Ian Rive’s solid 38 stablefords got him to the top of the table.

Seven players have now been cut, unluckiest was old Arkwright who also scored 38 stablefords, but out of the 5 players who shot 38, he had the worst back nine and misses out by a single point. The semi-final for the RMF Silva cup is Saturday week when 5 more players will be cut.

This Saturday is a fun fourball best ball pairs game, summer starting times of 12 noon meet for 12.30 start.

Eight Jolly boys are up to Christchurch next week on Hoppy’s annual golf tour, checking out some of Christchurch’s finest like Clearwater, Harewood and Russley, it should be a blast, a great week of golf and debauchery. I will have my iPhone with me and hopefully if I can remain compos mentis next Tuesday or Wednesday I will write the report from Tour HQ. Good golfing!

Alison MacGregor (second from left) and her Blondini team-mates celebrate her hole-in-one with bubbly.

SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■■ Shooting AOTSA October 26 Outdoor Smallbore, 50 metres.

Greg Menzies 547, Carl Nordqvist 556, Martin Fleming 570, John Fleming 560.

Ashburton District Rifle Club, October 27 At 300 yards.

F Open, Blair Gabites 56.4, 58.4, 114.8, Andrew Torrington 52.0, 53.2, 105.2, Darral Bradley 51.0, 54.0, 105.0, David Smith 51.2, 52.1, 103.3.

TR, John Fleming 45.2, 47.1, 92.3, Martin Fleming 43.0, 49.2, 92.2, Gareth Miller 43.0, 49.1, 92.1.

And locals in Marlborough Champs, 26, 27 and 28 October, at Blenheim.

A grade, (14 entries), won by Vic McMurdo 474.36 of Wellington, 2nd, John Snowden 471.44, 5th, Bevan Mehrtens 467.37, 8th, Chris Kershaw 465.40, 10th, Allan White 460.45. B grade, (9 entries) 1st, Daniel Alexander 460.33, Megan Snowden 455.21.

C grade, (2 entries) 2nd, Brian Hawksby 394.26, DNF. FTR, (6 Entries) 1st, Murray Cook 522.25, 3rd, Mark Alexander 517.10, 5th, Brian Graystone 434.11, DNF. FO, 1 entry Mike Chui 561.33.

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Mayfield Golf Club Mid-week stableford competition Winners: Wayne Blair 39, David Morrow 38, Ian Beach 38 October 23 9 Hole Golf Stroke 1st Eddie Graham 52-15-37, 2nd Jill Ludemann 5718-39 c/b Bernie Morrison 57-21-36 Greg Sim Building & Excavating No 2: Cate Hogan-Wright, Mayfield Transport No 5: Bernie Morrison

Methven Golf Club October 23 Ladies Division Best Ball Pairs: Sharon Burrell-Smith and Sandra Marr 67; Wendy Wareing and Sara Gallagher 73 Aqua Japanese Restaurant best Nett of the Day:-Sharon Burrell-Smith 74 Nearest the Pins: #17 Open/Br B 2nd shot Arabica Sharon Burrell-Smith, #13 Open Cinema Paradiso Heather Middleton, #6 Open Methven Pharmacy Jane Helmore, #4 Open Methven Travel Sara Gallagher, #14 Open 2nd shot Methven Supervalue Sandra Marr, # 14 Sat Girls Methven Foursquare Bev Isherwood Twos and Nett Eagles: Sharon Burrell-Smith

Methven 9 Hole Tournament October 25 81 players from 18 clubs played a nine hole tournament at the Methven Golf course Prize List 2019 - 9 hole Tournament Ladies Grade 1 (0 - 38.1) Best Net Glenda Hamilton 33 1st Stableford Lynley McKenzie 19, 2nd Stableford Hiromi Ikehata 19, 3rd Stableford Tonee Hurley 16, 4th Stableford Jenny Moynihan 16, 5th Stableford Judith Wilson 16, 6th Stableford Myra Story 15, 7th Stableford Adrienne Aitchison 15 Longest Drive: Lynley McKenzie Ladies Grade 2 (38.2 - 46.8) Best Net Annette Maw 36 1st Stableford Heather Kemp 18, 2nd Stableford Jacinta Schmack 18, 3rd Stableford Lorna Dent 17, 4th Stableford Jenny Matthews 16, 5th Stableford Lillian O’Hanlon 15, 6th Stableford Penny Davidson 15, 7th Stableford Joan Pascoe 14, Barbara May 14 Nearest the Pin: Ron Kemp Longest Drive Jacinta Schmack Ladies Grade 3 (46.9 - 54.4) Best Net Val Biggs 37 1st Stableford Joanne Richardson 16, 2nd Stableford Trish Pedofsky 15, 3rd Stableford Erin Gunn 14, 4th Stableford Jessie Dunstan 14, 5th Stableford Daphne Brooke 13, 6th Stableford Carolyn Harkness 13, 7th Stableford Bonnie Erspamer 13 Longest Drive Carolyn Harkness Men Best Net John Evans 32 1st Stableford Ralph Sinclair 20, 2nd Stableford Kevin Thompson 17, 3rd Stableford Eddie Graham 17, Satoshi Otaki 17 Longest Drive Kevin Thompson Lucky Cards: 1 Glenys Gibson, 2 Betty Green, 3 Karen Currie, 4 Diane Gebbies

Rakaia Golf Club October 23 Ladies Division Closing day, 2BBB: Teresa Booker and Jill Burrowes 66, Val Sisson and Bev Sutherland 69 Railway Tavern 2nd shot no 3: Jill Burrowes, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd shot no 6: Teresa Booker, V Bell Nearest Pin no 8: Marion Wederell, Chertsey Spraying 2nd shot no 15: Teresa Booker, S. Quinn 2nd shot no 17: Teresa Booker

Twos: Wayne Vessey Arthur Grigg Kerry Read Rosehope Rommey Player of the Day: Jeff McNeilly 85/21/64 October 29 Ladies Division - Stroke Round Sharon Duthie 93-27-66, Judy Fielder110-40-70, Sue Graham 105-32-73, Christine Ross 87-13-74, Juliet McLeod 107-33-74,,Mr Manns Bakery & Cafe Second Shot 2&11 Sharon Duthie, Sims Bakery Nearest the Pin 5&14, Alison Vessey.

Two’s: Alison Vessey No 5

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■■ SEVENS RUGBY

More keen sevens starters needed

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

Alarm bells started going off last week when a call for players keen to take to the field for Mid Canterbury in sevens this season was answered by just four players.

When the team came together on Tuesday night for their second training, things had improved slightly, with 10 players heading along, but more are still needed for Mid Canterbury to be able to field a sevens team this season.

Mid Canterbury Rugby Union (MCRU) rugby development officer Jason Ree said last week’s turnout was disappointing, given the MCRU had put a lot of effort into sevens this season in a bid to put the best team out on the park and qualify for nationals, after missing out last season.

A few weeks ago, the MCRU hosted a club sevens tournament for the first time in a number of years.

“The main aim of that was to introduce a few new guys to it and see who might come to the surface,” Ree said.

The tournament went well, with five teams taking part and Methven coming out on top, and a couple of Methven players were among the four who turned up to the first Mid Canterbury training last week.

Ree said the four players who turned up were quality players,

they just needed more.

The South Island regional sevens qualifying tournament is being held in Timaru at the end of November, and opportunities for game time between now and then are limited.

The last leg of Canterbury’s Spring Sevens series is this Saturday and the plan had been for Mid Canterbury to enter a team, but if they didn’t have at least 12 to 15 players, that plan would go out the window.

The other tournament that Mid Canterbury had been planning to attend before South Islands has been cancelled, so players turning up to training is even more important, because their trainings will pretty much be their buildup.

Ree said a few gave their apologies after the first training, and said they’d be there this week.

There were no excuses now, he said, as all clubs have been notified and now it’s up to the players to turn up and commit.

This year’s Mid Canterbury sevens team is being coached by MCRU chief executive Ian Patterson, along with Matt Winter, and they’ll get together for another training at 6.30pm tonight at McLean Park (opposite Ashburton Intermediate on McLean Street), where anyone interested in playing is urged to head along and put their hand up.

Ten players, including Elih McKibbin, turned out to the Mid Canterbury sevens team’s training session on Tuesday night, and it’s hoped that number will grow at tonight’s training.

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■■ LONGBEACH COASTAL CHALLENGE

Why didn’t you pack the jet planes, Mum?

By Rachael Rickard

W

ith sun-drenched days, longer evenings and brighter mornings, I hope you were able to have an adventure over the long weekend. For me it involved three things, a run for me, a bike with my children, and a lesson on why you should never go on adventures sans jet planes!

Taking my own advice, I took the children on an adventure.

By the time we bundled up the required kit, three kids, four helmets, four bikes, 2.5L of water, three bungy cords, muesli bars, apples, bike carrier and the illusive 10mm allen key, it was early-afternoon.

Enthusiasm was high, especially from the youngest – I’vejust-turned-4-years-old and have a new bike. Leaving from the carpark on the west side of the Tinwald bridge we headed down the river trail towards Lake Hood.

There was lots of whooping and “wait for me!” I tried to organise them into a peloton with each child taking a turn to lead.

Little do they realise that in any other bunch I would be getting stared down or dropped by the other riders, as after 20 minutes I am yet to do any work on the front.

Stopping at our halfway point, food and water is unpacked and

A couple of riders tackle the 2017 course in Big Al’s t-shirts. All children’s entries this year go in the draw to win a youth mountain bike thanks to Big Al’s in Methven. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN all but demolished. We have a break and discuss how high the river would have to be to flood the trail, the theory of why staying in your biggest gear is the fastest way to bike (I’m not sure it is?), and how many minutes until we get home.

We set off for the carpark.

Then, it starts: “I can’t do this anymore, my legs are tired.”

Bless, he has ridden a long way.

We walk our bikes a little until I

realise that the enthusiasm has waxed off and at this pace it will be dark. I start questioning my parenting choices and can only keep answering with why didn’t you pack jet planes? “Come on, keep moving, not too far”. Which is a total lie as the carpark is ages away!

The big kids are doing laps out and back, riding three to four times the distance, while I try and work out how to carry

everything, and begin obsessing about jet planes.

Then I have a stroke of genius – bungy cords. I’ve seen it done, admittedly by elite athletes in adventure races, but in theory it should work here too.

Hooking one end of the bungy cord onto the 16” BMX handle bars and the other end under my saddle we set off with me towing the lad and his bike. I test the theory of big gears go further and try to catch the others (could do with a jet plane by now; this is probably the karma for not taking laps earlier!).

After a few minutes all is going really well, in hindsight probably too well. The kid is having a blast, all play and no work, until we get a little too fast… and then I realise he can’t use his brakes.

Here comes a corner and what’s this … he’s sling-shotted up beside me!

With the Longbeach Coastal Challenge just four weeks away the 5km run and 12km bike are great events to team up with your children on (check minimum age at the online registration). All children’s entries go in the draw to win a youth mountain bike thanks to Big Al’s in Methven.

For those of you following the training programmes for longer events, here’s what’s on this week: Week Four Training Summary,

Courtesy of Team CP: 35km mountain bike – four sessions made up of: 1 x 75 min hard cycle; 1 x 80 min steady cycle, 1 x 90 min steady cycle, 1 x 120 min steady ride.

12km run – four sessions made up of: 1 x 50 min steady run, 1 x strength or circuit session, 1 x 60 min group run, 1 x 70 min steady run.

21km run – five sessions made up of: 1 x 50 min steady runs, 1 x strength or circuit session, 1 x 60 min group run, 1 x 40 min steady run, 100 min moderate run.

All other days are rest days. It is advised that you finish with five minutes of stretching, going through your main muscle groups, or use a foam roller to roll your muscles out. This will help your recovery.

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All the best this week, RR. Rachael Rickard is the marketing and publicity co-ordinator for the 2019 Ruralco Longbeach Coastal Challenge. She is currently training for the Queenstown Half Marathon and will be trying hard not to get beaten by her 6 & 7-year-olds in the 5km at the Longbeach Coastal Challenge

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Hampstead greens abuzz

By Erin Tasker

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Dwindling membership meant the future wasn’t looking all that rosy for the Hampstead Bowling Club a year ago.

But a few short months can make a huge difference, and today they’re a club well and truly on the up, having more than doubled their membership.

It’s the sort of growth that any sports club would be over the moon with and Hampstead have a couple of their newer members to thank for it. Sick of constantly having to play each other as the club’s only two juniors and colts, Regan Broker and Scott Hyndman decided to try and talk a few of their mates into coming along for a roll up.

They proved to be pretty persuasive and after starting last season staring down the barrel of an uncertain future with membership having fallen to around the 17 mark, the club now has a membership of almost 40. They’ve signed up 13 new men and seven new women, and most of them are aged under-40.

“I think this is the first time in a long time that we’ve had a men’s singles competition that’s actually a full field of 16 players,” Broker said. They’re doing what it takes to get people through the gates – catering to their needs in almost every way. Every Thursday night they’re hosting a roll up where kids are not only welcome, they even get fed.

Last week they held a pot luck dinner, where members brought along a dish to share, and other weeks the club president’s wife has busied herself in the kitchen cooking up the kind of food that will make kids want to keep coming back.

They’re now regularly getting more than 30 players out on the greens every Thursday evening and the atmosphere is great, Broker said.

This season is Broker’s third at Hampstead, having joined his two brothers at the club after ending his rugby and cricket days. He’s a Hampstead man throughand-through, and what he’s loved about the Hampstead Bowling Club has been the willingness and eagerness of the club’s older members to take new players under their wing and pass on their years of bowl-

Above – Manu Otene is among the new generation of bowlers at the Hampstead Bowling Club.

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Steve Gamble is one of the new recruits at the Hampstead Bowling Club, wearing the Hampstead colours with pride at tournaments around the district, including this one in Methven.

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And it’s paying off. Some of the new Hampstead players have already caught the eye of rep selectors and a couple of weekends ago at the Edna Low Fours tournament in Methven, Hampstead teams finished second and third. On Sunday, a Hampstead team took out the Gill Trophy fours tournament at the Hinds Bowling Club.

For Broker – now the club’s vice-pres-

ident – it’s exciting to see the club’s hard work paying off. But as a club they knew it had to be done for Hampstead to survive past the next few seasons.

“We just had to do it, because we were starting to die a tragic death,” Broker said.

“If we were to keep going the way we were, we would’ve only had 10 or 11 players in a few years.”

Broker’s wife Rachel is among those giving the sport a shot, and as the manager

of this year’s Ashburton Barbarians rugby league team, Broker even talked a few of the league boys into giving it a go, including Barbarians coach Steve Gamble.

Gamble said the Thursday nights in particular have a real family friendly atmosphere, and he and his family have loved being a part of it so far.

“All the new ones are getting better and better each time, and that’s the main thing,” Gamble said.

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■■AWAPUNI

Nymph Monte doing it for Guisey

By NZ Racing Desk There will be one notable absence at Awapuni on Saturday, with the passing of Paul Guise on Monday.

The Wairarapa horseman rode his pride and joy Nymph Monte in trackwork at Opaki racecourse on Monday morning, in preparation for his tilt at the Listed Ricoh Feilding Gold Cup (2200m) on Saturday, but sadly passed away shortly afterwards.

The Central Districts racing community were devastated by their loss, particularly Nymph Monte’s trainer Grant Nicholson.

“Paul rode him on Monday morning, got off and a few minutes later he had a heart attack,” he said.

Guise was a popular face around the Opaki Training Centre and rode many quality equine athletes, including dual Group One winners Tavistock and Cent Home.

“He has been with me for six years,” Nicholson said. “He used to be a jockey and he trained a few and used to train in partnership for a while with Jim Wallace.

“He has been track riding for myself and Andrew Campbell as well, with Tavistock. He also track rode and strapped for Jim Wallace with Cent Home.”

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Left – The late Paul Guise with his favourite horse, Nymph Monte.

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Group One-winning horses is great, it is a son of the former that has meant more to him than most.

Guise had been with Tavistock eight-year-old gelding Nymph Monte from the very beginning of his career and he has been a constant companion to the horse,

went, he loved him.”

While the week started on the worst possible note, Nicholson is hoping Nymph Monte can end it on a high, in honour of Guise.

“It would be great to win in Guisey’s honour. He will be there with him on Saturday in spirit.”

Looking ahead to Saturday, Nicholson is happy with Nymph Monte and believes he has improved since his eighth-placing in the Egmont Cup (2100m) at Hawera earlier this month.

“I wasn’t too disappointed with his last start at Hawera,” he said.

“It was a nice run and it wasn’t his main goal. He has improved out of that run.

“He does like Awapuni and hopefully we get a bit of luck. Barrier eight is near perfect for him.

He can slot in wherever he wants to and if the track (rated a Soft7 on Wednesday morning) came back a point or two that would be nice, but the track won’t be an issue.”

All going to plan, Nymph Monte will head south next month to tackle the Gr.3 Christchurch Casino New Zealand Cup (3200m).

“As long as he hits the line strong on Saturday we will head down to Riccarton,” Nicholson said. “That will be his grand final this campaign.”

Paul Guise’s funeral will take place at Opaki Training Centre at 11am tomorrow.

4 80331 Fly Without Wings tm (5) 54.. A Bohorun (a3) 5 43749 Red Major tmh (3) 54....................T Moseley 6 47575 Midnite Kaos tm (1) 54............ B Murray (a2) 7 47565 Mrs Gee Eye tm (7) 54.......... R Mudhoo (a3) 7 4.42pm THE THOMAS GREEN AND HOWL AT THE MOON 65 2000 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 2x902 Beam Me Up Scotty m (7) 59.R Mudhoo (a3) 2 6x761 Mr Intelligence m (9) 59....................J Lowry 3 137x5 Pableau (3) 59.................................S Wynne 4 5216x Colour Me Red m (5) 58.5...........L Callaway 5 01800 Karm ‘N’ Easy m (2) 57.5..............T Moseley 6 42703 Molly Polly m (6) 56.5............... K Asano (a3) 7 54x40 Morrellmac m (1) 56.5......... C Campbell (a2) 8 40504 Olaf t (11) 56.5........................ B Murray (a2) 9 83497 Our Boy Baz (4) 56......................K Kwo (a3) 10 30700 Southern Jazz (8) 56.............A Bohorun (a3) 11 60x65 June Rose (10) 54...................Z Bholah (a3) Blinkers on : Busy (R1), Non Blonde, So Natural (R3), Goa Head Caller, Remarkable Kate (R4), Olaf, June Rose (R7)

Blinkers off : Our Boy Ritchie (R4), Abbey Kay (R5), Karm ‘N’ Easy (R7) Winkers on : Abbey Kay (R5) Winkers off : Beeslaststing, Busy (R1), Olaf (R7) Pacifiers off : Remarkable Kate (R4) SELECTIONS: Race 1: Mother Goose, The Selection, Vintage Jack, Marmaduke, Love To Dream Race 2: The Bumper, Irish Excuse, Shirley Maude, What’s Up Alf, Accidental Offside Race 3: Promising, Son Of Surf, Arnage, Omar, Full Fury Race 4: Gerry Joyce, Sounds Promising, Trickle Treat, Our Boy Ritchie, Rosie Mae Race 5: Little Flick, Garment, Rosie Glow, Expedition, Heaven Knows Race 6: Galway Garry, Come Fly With Me, Midnite Kaos, The Style, Fly Without Wings Race 7: Pableau, Beam Me Up Scotty, Molly Polly, Morrellmac, Our Boy Baz

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6 24112 Thrilling Stomp 26.05....................... K Walsh 7 15671 Thrilling Bruce 25.88........................ K Walsh 8 18782 Sefton Stan 26.03.............................S Lozell 9 47465 Frosty Blaze 26.16........................... T Green 10 18486 Kapai Tahi 25.94 R &...........................L Udy 9 2.27pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C5, 375m 1 74274 Native Scout 21.34...........................P Green 2 26122 Sophia Noir 21.18...................... A Lawrence 3 46187 Thrilling Katie 21.23...........................E Potts 4 33841 Call Me Leo 21.28............................ T Green 5 14131 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik 6 82273 See Eye Be 21.04......................... H Mullane 7 18435 Classy Impact 21.13........................ T Green 8 36318 Athenais 21.19...................................S Ross 9 31586 Typical 21.25......................................S Ross 10 2.42pm GREYHOUNDS NORTH DISTANCE C2d, 650m 1 77857 Zipping Monty nwtd......................... G Farrell 2 85873 Opawa Plum nwtd........................... G Farrell 3 58547 Hua Hua 38.17..............................R McPhee 4 33647 Billy’s Bake nwtd..............................P Green 5 Box Vacant 6 45551 Smoochie 38.24......................... A Lawrence 7 23323 Go Angel 38.17............................... G Farrell 8 22214 Thrilling Amigo 38.45....................... K Walsh 11 3.02pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 11442 Stefano 25.57............................. A Lawrence 2 51355 Keysile 25.56...............................P Ferguson

3 15627 Thrilling Uma 25.79.......................... K Walsh 4 71713 Thrilling Vice 25.48.......................... K Walsh 5 Box Vacant 6 32168 Billy Bright 26.10.........................P Ferguson 7 x7567 Thrilling Jo 25.53.............................. K Walsh 8 82721 Thrilling Talk 25.42........................... K Walsh LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here SELECTIONS: Race 1: Spring Queen, Thrilling Haze, Shaynee, Our Hotrod, Rich Lister Race 2: Irinka Jacob, Little Teegs, Afridi, Looby’s Story, Eye Kno Race 3: Go All Lin, Snoopy’s Hero, Out Of Paper, Jinja Jake, In Focus Race 4: Ti Amo, Hands Of Steel, Damaging Lomar, Barossa, Idol Ajay Race 5: Thrilling Peta, Dyna Frankie, It’s A Stroll, Sheyna, Don Morocco Race 6: Sovereign Pride, Dignity Dented, Fancy, Just Nia, Just Maddie Race 7: Taking Aim, Pat Tama, Nangar Dream, Zipping Gabby, Luke Skywalker Race 8: Thrilling Bruce, Platinum Earner, Thrilling Stomp, Zoro, Waiterimu Ripper Race 9: Suspicious Minds, Sophia Noir, Athenais, See Eye Be, Call Me Leo Race 10: Go Angel, Thrilling Amigo, Hua Hua, Smoochie, Zipping Monty Race 11: Stefano, Thrilling Talk, Thrilling Vice, Keysile, Thrilling Uma

strapping him to 10 victories, including two at stakes level.

“He has been with Nymph Monte from day dot, he was his favourite horse,” Nicholson said.

“He rode him right through from breaking in time and he always strapped him wherever he

Gore gallops Today at Gore

Gore Racing Club Venue: Gore Meeting Date: 31 October, 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 1.07pm (NZT) ROOFCRAFT INDUSTRIES & AON INSURANCE BROKERS MDN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 4x Vintage Jack (2) 58.5......................K Selvan 2 049x Marmaduke (1) 58.5..................D Bothamley 3 70x Beeslaststing (4) 58.5............. B Murray (a2) 4 8x22 Mother Goose (5) 56.5..................K Mudhoo 5 5299x The Selection (3) 56.5......... C Campbell (a2) 6 5 Love To Dream (6) 56.5...........T Comignaghi 7 006 Busy h (7) 56.5..............................T Moseley 8 Egotistic (8) 54.............................K Kwo (a3) 2 1.42pm HENDERSON LIVESTOCK OPEN 1200 $12,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 86412 Irish Excuse tdmh (2) 63.5.. C Campbell (a2) 2 9906x Accidental Offside tdmh (3) 56........S Wynne 3 11001 The Bumper tdm (4) 56.................. C Barnes 4 26x35 Shirley Maude t (1) 54...................T Moseley 5 26x44 What’s Up Alf dm (5) 54...............K Kwo (a3) 3 2.17pm HOKONUI SUZUKI HANDICAP 1200

$10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 08x93 Son Of Surf d (7) 60.............. R Mudhoo (a3) 2 415x Full Fury d (9) 59.....................Z Bholah (a3) 3 47441 To Sir With Love tdm (3) 58.5.A Bohorun (a3) 4 65442 Promising dm (10) 57...................K Kwo (a3) 5 10x08 Haywood tm (8) 56.5........... C Campbell (a2) 6 00473 Omar d (11) 56.5............................ C Barnes 7 566x9 Non Blonde d (2) 56................ B Murray (a2) 8 x9027 Drumstorm dm (1) 56................... C Johnson 9 14604 Arnage dm (6) 55.5.................. K Asano (a3) 10 409x7 So Natural d (5) 55........................K Mudhoo 11 78588 Knutquacker dh (4) 54...................T Moseley 4 2.52pm PETERS GENERICS MDN 1335 $10,000, MDN, 1335m 1 24224 Gerry Joyce b (9) 58.5..................K Mudhoo 2 x9252 Sounds Promising (7) 58.5.C Campbell (a2) 3 54x30 Our Boy Ritchie (1) 58.5.......... K Asano (a3) 4 0x0x2 Trickle Treat (6) 58.5................T Comignaghi 5 6505x Port Stephens (2) 58.5.................K Kwo (a3) 6 8 Goa Head Caller (5) 58.5..............T Moseley 7 8x Hillbillycharlie (8) 58.5.......................J Lowry

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 31 October 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.06pm (NZT) COOKIES CAFE SPRINT C0, 375m 1 36274 Smash Burton nwtd R &......................L Udy 2 33 Our Hotrod nwtd U &..........................Cottam 3 7342 Bailey And Cream nwtd R &................L Udy 4 236x Thrilling Haze nwtd.......................... K Walsh 5 64223 Shaynee nwtd.................................C Henley 6 43424 Rich Lister nwtd................................S Lozell 7 63728 Donny nwtd U &.................................Cottam 8 F1 Spring Queen nwtd............................E Potts 9 23556 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 10 66765 Riccitelli nwtd....................................M Black 2 12.23pm MELBOURNE CUP DAY @ THE CLUBHOUSE 5/11 STAKES C1, 457m 1 5x626 Ophira Bale nwtd..........................M Roberts 2 F4432 Afridi nwtd W &................................T Steele 3 76777 Bigtime Silver nwtd............................E Potts 4 74563 Eye Kno nwtd.................................W Woods 5 48425 Looby’s Story nwtd..................... A Lawrence 6 33F17 Little Teegs 25.83....................... A Lawrence 7 74873 Wairoa Angel 26.05..................... M Prangley 8 72111 Irinka Jacob 26.16.............................S Lozell 3 12.41pm YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C1, 375m 1 24362 Snoopy’s Hero 21.44........................... D Ray 2 71567 Talkabout Sophie 21.54....................M Black 3 6F8x6 Agbeze nwtd.....................................M Black

8 73306 Belle South (3) 56.5................ B Murray (a2) 9 4 Rosie Mae (4) 56.5............... R Mudhoo (a3) 10 9970x Remarkable Kate (10) 56.5.............K Selvan 5 3.27pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1335m 1 x3481 Rosie Glow tm (6) 59............... K Asano (a3) 2 90951 Garment tdm (1) 58.5.............T Comignaghi 3 83350 Abbey Kay (7) 58.....................Z Bholah (a3) 4 10x00 Drumspirit (10) 57.5..................... C Johnson 5 0054x Gemstone Jewels td (5) 57.5.. B Murray (a2) 6 07962 Little Flick (8) 57............................K Mudhoo 7 68x25 Expedition b (9) 56.5....................L Callaway 8 53649 Heaven Knows m (3) 56.5..... R Mudhoo (a3) 9 04807 Tachibana m (4) 56.........................S Wynne 10 51x70 Kitty Power m (2) 55.5......... C Campbell (a2) 6 4.04pm GRANT FARMING PARTNERSHIP OPEN 1800 $12,000, OPN HCP, 1800m 1 34x10 Come Fly With Me tdm (6) 60..Z Bholah (a3) 2 12528 Galway Garry dm (2) 57.5........ K Asano (a3) 3 2x640 The Style m (4) 54..........................S Wynne

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway

4 28641 Go All Lin nwtd................................ S O’Neill 5 76256 Chat Ya Later nwtd............................. I Howe 6 74238 Out Of Paper 21.43..................... G Pomeroy 7 55772 Jinja Jake 21.62 W &.......................T Steele 8 53657 In Focus 21.66...............................P Cleaver 9 62748 Mahala Bay nwtd...........................W Woods 10 37745 Seven Sharp 21.56..................... W Toomath 4 12.58pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C4, 375m 1 47112 Ti Amo 21.38......................................B Craik 2 8x8x8 Full Speed nwtd............................ H Mullane 3 17625 Talkabout Izzy 21.33........................... D Ray 4 46527 Hands Of Steel nwtd........................ T Green 5 25324 Barossa 21.38............................ A Lawrence 6 53563 Damaging Lomar nwtd.......................B Craik 7 38611 Idol Ajay 21.44 W &..........................T Steele 8 86235 Dyna Diode nwtd...........................M Roberts 9 16455 Does He Exist 21.33........................R Roper 10 58756 Artic Miss 21.15.......................... G Pomeroy 5 1.16pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C2, 375m 1 66547 Stay Rich 21.46 M &......................... J Smith 2 35334 It’s A Stroll 21.46 U &.........................Cottam 3 11112 Thrilling Peta 21.45.......................... K Walsh 4 7x151 Dyna Frankie nwtd........................M Roberts 5 56586 Bigtime Jacob 21.24..........................B Craik 6 66142 El Narco 21.57.................................P Green 7 32351 Don Morocco 21.33........................P Cleaver 8 82573 Sheyna 21.17....................................S Lozell 9 33383 Monsoon Malabar 21.54 U &.............Cottam 10 24352 Gain Capital 21.22.............................B Craik

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1.33pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT PROJECT CONDITIONED C1f, 375m 1 63385 Just Nia nwtd....................................M Black 2 68747 Mr Felix nwtd.....................................M Black 3 2F733 Fancy 21.71.................................. H Mullane 4 67116 Dignity Dented 21.68....................... T Green 5 51122 Sovereign Pride 21.44.......................S Ross 6 63855 Jinja Lad 21.72..............................R McPhee 7 F1723 Madam Bucks 21.49................... G Pomeroy 8 63564 Just Maddie 21.72.............................M Black 9 68476 Ford Man nwtd R &..............................L Udy 10 48568 Stellar Babe 22.10.........................P Cleaver 7 1.51pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C2/3, 375m 1 73645 Zipping Gabby 21.32...................P Ferguson 2 27447 Nangar Dream 21.16...................... G Farrell 3 41886 Grey Way 21.72.......................... G Pomeroy 4 47566 Mobility Scooter 21.20......................M Black 5 24735 Podium Phobia nwtd..........................B Craik 6 34772 Taking Aim nwtd..............................P Henley 7 66156 Luke Skywalker nwtd...................... L A Hunt 8 5F243 Pat Tama 21.35................................. S Clark 9 487x7 Raylene nwtd................................ H Mullane 10 24352 Gain Capital 21.22.............................B Craik 8 2.08pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C2/3, 457m 1 62323 Zoro 25.85.................................. A Lawrence 2 23243 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93..........................S Ross 3 38516 Bold Diesel 25.85............................. T Green 4 75757 Waiterimu Ripper 25.94 R &................L Udy 5 12231 Platinum Earner nwtd........................ S Clark

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Kolding thriving at Rosehill

OMF Stakes likely for Concert Hall

By NZ Racing Desk Group Three winner Concert Hall is set to back-up at Ellerslie next Tuesday after running home well for fifth over 1600m at Te Rapa on Labour Day. “There was a bit of rain around in the late afternoon and the track really loosened up and that meant she really never felt comfortable in the footing,” said Robert Wellwood, who trains the mare in partnership with Roger James.

“Her last 100m was the best, but she didn’t have a lot of room up the straight. We were pleased with the run under the circumstances.”

Concert Hall was nominated for the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton next month, but her connections have elected to keep her closer to home.

“We left her in the Coupland’s Mile just to keep our options open,” Wellwood said. “It’s a long trip down there and we have got other plans with her throughout the summer.

“We will look to stay up here and will probably throw a nomination in for the OMF Stakes (Gr.3, 2000m) next Tuesday at Ellerslie and from there poten-

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New Zealand-bred galloper Kolding is on song for the $A7.5 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill on Saturday, according to jockey Glenn Boss.

The Chris Waller-trained gelding has won two of his three starts this campaign, including his last start heroics in the Gr.1 Epsom Handicap, but it was his 1030m trial at Rosehill last week that really has Boss fizzing.

“I had the opportunity to trial him last week and I felt that he has come on since the Epsom,” he said. “Physically he looked amazing, but mentally he just felt really on the job. He gave me all the right signs as a jockey, going towards a major race, that you want to see and feel.”

Boss is unbeaten on the son of Ocean Park after piloting him to victories in the Gr.3 Bill Ritchie Handicap and Epsom, and he has taken a lot of confidence from the form that has come out of the latter race.

Runner-up Te Akau Shark was impressive when running third in the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) on Saturday, while Nettoyer has subsequently won the Gr.3 Angst Stakes.

Concert Hall will likely contest the Gr.3 OMF Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie next Tuesday.

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tially onto a Counties Cup (Gr.3, 2100m).

“There are plenty of other nice options over Christmas, but we will take it step-by-step.”

Meanwhile, the Kingsclere team are happy with the progress of Rondinella in Melbourne.

The daughter of Ocean Park

has finished runner-up in both the Gr.2 Stocks Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Ladies’ Day Vase (1600m) and her trainers are looking forward to stepping her up in distance next week.

“Rondinella is going well,” Wellwood said. “She will be nominated for both the Mackinnon

(Gr.1, 2000m) and Matriarch (Gr.2, 2000m), but will more than likely run in the Matriarch.

“We are pretty proud to see her competing so well over a mile there, although it is well short of her best. She is very well and we are looking forward to stepping her up over 2000m.”

Manawatu harness Today at Manawatu

Manawatu Harness Racing Club Inc. Venue: Manawatu Raceway on October 31. NZ Meeting number: 7. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7. Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7.

1 5.24pm (NZT) MATT & MARION HICKEY HANDICAP TROT $9000, r40+ discrhcp, stand, 2500m 1 17057 Mackerelli (1) fr....................K Blakemore (J) 2 348x2 Leesa Castleton (2) fr.....................S Phelan 3 08851 The Rev (U1) fr............................. D Butcher 4 34691 Takenoprisoners (1) 20M...............Z Butcher 5 197x5 Laura Bush (2) 20M.............. D Ferguson (J) 6 0x054 Stylish Duke (U1) 30M...................T Mitchell 7 56063 Sundons Flyer (1) 40M..................B Orange 2 5.50pm CAFE JACKO MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2500m 1 2983 Carse O Fern Cully (1) fr....... D Ferguson (J) 2 3604 Ohoka Bandit (2) fr.........................T Mitchell 3 56232 Ace Strike (3) fr............................. D Butcher 4 6 Novak Djokovic (4) fr.................. J Abernethy

5 459x0 He’s Gratis (5) fr................................B Taylor 6 0 Emmi Rose (6) fr.............................S Phelan 7 5 Tactful Reaction (7) fr.................S Abernethy 8 27863 Absolut Russian (21) fr..................B Orange 9 384x8 Machteer (22) fr.............................B Butcher 3 6.15pm MANELINE FARRIERS MOBILE PACE $9000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 8x879 Yankee Dancer (1) fr......................B Butcher 2 756x7 Shan One (2) fr...............................S Phelan 3 506 Greenback Boogie (3) fr.................T Mitchell 4 77x7 I Said Imracn (4) fr............................B Taylor 5 587x2 Jessie Kelly (5) fr............................B Orange 6 5x7 Lavazza (6) fr.................................Z Butcher 7 694 Sarandon (7) fr.............................. D Butcher 8 9x Classey Robin (21) fr................. J Abernethy 9 9P3x Nicky Jay (22) fr.................... D Ferguson (J) 10 596x8 Speciale Uno (23) fr...................S Abernethy 4 6.41pm CARTOWN MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r50., mobile, 2500m

M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 31 October 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 4.16pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C2, 295m 1 57113 Homebush Aimee 17.55............J McInerney 2 67557 Cosmic Ruben 17.23.................J McInerney 3 22321 Opa’s Mate 17.47.............................R Casey 4 17525 Cold Affair 17.37........................... L Waretini 5 21252 Citizen Aguero 17.46.................J McInerney 6 47813 Homebush Finn 17.21................J McInerney 7 66417 Miss Nina nwtd..............................M B Fuller 8 31424 Goldstar Galaxie 17.40 S &.............B Evans 9 16437 Don’t Cry Joni 17.62............................A Lee 10 16665 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 2 4.32pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND DASH C3, 295m 1 24165 Amuri Liv 17.28..........................J McInerney 2 55323 Little Krakatoa 17.24.................. A Bradshaw 3 24324 Know Hassle 17.29.........................G Cleeve 4 61151 Mitcham Becky 17.34 J M................ McCook 5 75477 Smash Grenade 17.38..................... M Grant 6 76373 Black Eye Bill 17.47................... M Dempsey 7 36817 Go Mufasa 17.16.............................R Wales 8 42153 Know Sweat 17.26..........................G Cleeve 9 57343 Kalonga 17.36 S &...........................B Evans 10 34736 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 3 4.53pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 DASH C2, 295m 1 86662 Goldstar Liberty 17.32 J M............... McCook 2 11586 Ohoka Lacey 17.47....................... L Waretini 3 54711 Opa’s Joy 17.33...............................R Casey

1 790xP Mister Mighty (1) fr................ D Ferguson (J) 2 18739 Molly Dooker (2) fr.........................Z Butcher 3 80097 Martin McGuinness (3) fr...............T Mitchell 4 49481 Benjamin Button (4) fr................S Abernethy 5 85951 Vanhalem (5) fr...............................S Phelan 6 409x0 Onedin Punter (6) fr................... J Abernethy 7 700x8 Red River Dash (7) fr.................... D Butcher 8 30003 Artfilly Crafted (21) fr......................B Orange 9 0489x Amaro (22) fr....................................S Doody 5 7.06pm COURTESY FORD MOBILE PACE $9000, r51-r54., mobile, 2500m 1 7882P Karmic Way (1) fr.................. D Ferguson (J) 2 7481P Captain Max (2) fr..........................B Butcher 3 02391 Payment Plan (3) fr....................S Abernethy 4 312x5 Maria Kirilenko (4) fr................... J Abernethy 5 089x2 Voodoo Prince (5) fr.......................B Orange 6 00106 Stevie Lynn (6) fr............................T Mitchell 7 44978 Westar Sam (7) fr.......................... S Dickson 8 x4794 Matai Minky (21) fr........................ D Butcher

9 45Px3 Milner (22) fr....................................S Phelan 10 640x1 Scelta Uno (23) fr...........................Z Butcher 6 7.31pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA COLE MOBILE PACE $9000, r55-r66., mobile, 2500m 1 966x2 Ideal Tiger (1) fr...............................S Phelan 2 43015 Changearound (2) fr.......................T Mitchell 3 12216 Jingles Bromac (3) fr..................... D Butcher 4 12x07 The Kapiti Express (4) fr............ J Abernethy 5 525xL Sweet Maggie Ryan (5) fr..........S Abernethy 6 25051 Peter Forsberg fr........................... Scratched 7 9x671 Mucho Macho Man (6) fr................B Orange 8 559x4 Burst Out Laughing (21) fr...K Blakemore (J) 7 7.56pm PALMERSTON NORTH GOLF CLUB MOBILE PACE $9000, r40-r49., mobile, 2000m 1 21032 Tempo Rose (1) fr..........................B Butcher 2 20006 Red Terror (2) fr............................. D Butcher 3 500x5 Iamthedream (3) fr.........................T Mitchell 4 9Px0P Bettor Trenz (4) fr...........................Z Butcher 5 99994 Beaudiene Emerald (5) fr........... J Abernethy

6 00684 Den’s Legacy (6) fr.........................B Orange 7 780x6 Ryans Gal (7) fr..........................S Abernethy 8 x7002 Chromozone (21) fr.........................S Phelan 9 932x3 Contractual Issues (22) fr...... D Ferguson (J) SELECTIONS Race 1: Sundons Flyer, Leesa Castleton, The Rev, Takenoprisoners, Laura Bush Race 2: Ace Strike, Machteer, Ohoka Bandit, Carse O Fern Cully, Absolut Russian Race 3: Lavazza, Jessie Kelly, Shan One, Yankee Dancer, Speciale Uno Race 4: Vanhalem, Benjamin Button, Molly Dooker, Artfilly Crafted, Amaro Race 5: Westar Sam, Payment Plan, Captain Max, Voodoo Prince, Milner Race 6: Jingles Bromac, Mucho Macho Man, Ideal Tiger, Burst Out Laughing, The Kapiti Express Race 7: Tempo Rose, Chromozone, Bettor Trenz, Contractual Issues, Den’s Legacy

6 23778 Special As 17.30 J M....................... McCook 7 11437 Vasterbottenost 17.34..........................A Lee 8 32178 Homebush Tesan 17.28.............J McInerney 9 57343 Kalonga 17.36 S &...........................B Evans 10 34736 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &.....................B Evans LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Opa’s Mate, Goldstar Galaxie, Homebush Aimee, Cosmic Ruben, Citizen Aguero Race 2: Little Krakatoa, Amuri Liv, Know Hassle, Mitcham Becky, Know Sweat Race 3: Opa’s Joy, Goldstar Liberty, Ohoka Lacey, Ezra Blueblood, Mitcham Trudy Race 4: Just Izzy, Goldstar Montana, Broken Penniless, Blazing Banjo, Jingili Jill Race 5: Pinny Mack, Go Vegas, Emgrand Park, Oster Bale, Our Hemi Race 6: Opawa Deal, Blazin’ Carter, Double Speed, She’s For Us, Bertie Allen Race 7: Spring Falcon, Ringside, Bigtime Brody, Dyna Elwyn, Know Refusal Race 8: Dyna Dave, Diddilee, Barrel Runner, Go Glow, Gem Race 9: Pearls Are Us, Rivalries, Nature’s Gent, Opawa Nat, Bigtime Annie Race 10: Uthor Bale, Opawa Toddy, Big Time Maple, Sakichi, Dyna Varsity Race 11: Robson, Max Dancer, Opawa Rooster, Dyna Xarvel, Ophelia Allen Race 12: Opawa Hypo, Eternal Debt, Know Scrutiny, Dyna Lenny, Special As

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

4 21268 Snickerdoodle 17.42......................... B Dann 5 43518 Goldstar Tasman 17.68 S &.............B Evans 6 87222 Mitcham Trudy 17.31..................J McInerney 7 23458 Ezra Blueblood 17.33.................J McInerney 8 65418 Homebush Boden 17.46............J McInerney 9 51773 Goldstar Shiloah 17.40 S &..............B Evans 10 16665 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 4 5.13pm A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE PH 0800222583 DASH C2, 295m 1 13754 Jingili Jill 17.42 M &............................. Smith 2 36357 Homebush Comet 17.55............J McInerney 3 88864 Blazing Banjo nwtd....................J McInerney 4 18572 Just Izzy 17.35.................................. B Dann 5 25463 Kia Tere nwtd S &.............................B Evans 6 53631 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 7 25617 Punch On Woody 17.58.............J McInerney 8 42344 Goldstar Montana 17.47 S &............B Evans 9 51868 Homebush Maycee nwtd............J McInerney 10 16665 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 5 5.40pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 57511 Our Hemi 30.30 U &...........................Cottam 2 7548x Know Betrayal 30.27.......................G Cleeve 3 53131 Go Vegas 30.03 J &.........................D Fahey 4 41x72 Oster Bale nwtd............................C Roberts 5 62212 Dyna Quark nwtd..........................C Roberts 6 15374 Big Time Seth nwtd.............................L Cole 7 65511 Emgrand Park 30.00....................A Turnwald 8 11333 Pinny Mack 29.94............................. S Clark 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 6 5.59pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 34332 Double Speed 30.11......................R Adcock 2 61136 Tap Out Bill nwtd..........................A Turnwald

3 21145 She’s For Us nwtd.........................M Roberts 4 78675 Jinja Might 30.57 U &.........................Cottam 5 11457 Opawa Deal 30.16 J &.....................D Fahey 6 64257 Blazin’ Carter 30.03............................L Cole 7 8142x Bertie Allen 30.01.........................C Roberts 8 27626 Famous Lee 30.51 S &....................B Evans 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 7 6.27pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 72845 Dyna Elwyn 29.67.........................C Roberts 2 86255 Bigtime Brody nwtd.............................L Cole 3 23625 Know Refusal 30.35........................G Cleeve 4 38217 Smash Calling 30.56........................ M Grant 5 16458 Opawa May 30.21............................R Wales 6 22111 Spring Falcon 29.99 J &...................D Fahey 7 31F76 Kiwi Gal nwtd U &..............................Cottam 8 15385 Ringside 29.84...............................R Adcock 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 8 6.51pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 27243 Diddilee 30.09..............................A Turnwald 2 152x3 Gem 30.21 J &.................................D Fahey 3 42222 Barrel Runner nwtd.................... A Bradshaw 4 24166 Bigtime Shadow nwtd.........................L Cole 5 53533 Go Glow 30.07 J &...........................D Fahey 6 43x81 Federal Impact nwtd............................L Cole 7 22123 Dyna Dave 29.67..........................C Roberts 8 55375 Must Be Rusty 30.24..................J McInerney 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 9 7.16pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 54116 Bigtime Annie nwtd.............................L Cole 2 2x113 Rivalries 30.16 J &...........................D Fahey 3 57242 Jinja Bailey 30.97 U &........................Cottam

4 31117 Pearls Are Us 29.97........................G Cleeve 5 34314 Nature’s Gent 30.11.....................A Turnwald 6 21652 Opawa Nat 30.28 J &.......................D Fahey 7 71636 Dyna Elliot 30.80...........................C Roberts 8 65486 Bashful Buffy 30.55....................J McInerney 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 10 7.41pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 11216 Sakichi nwtd................................P Ferguson 2 51474 Bahama Queen 30.17........................J Dunn 3 16222 Big Time Maple nwtd...........................L Cole 4 54141 Know State 30.01............................G Cleeve 5 55236 Dyna Varsity 30.17........................C Roberts 6 2111 Uthor Bale 30.14...........................C Roberts 7 52211 Opawa Toddy 30.18 J &...................D Fahey 8 8x728 Our Tyson 30.70.................................M Flipp 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 11 8.05pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NEW ZEALAND GREYHOUND CUP HE C5q, 520m 1 82335 Bigtime Rod nwtd................................L Cole 2 58611 Max Dancer 30.13 J &.....................D Fahey 3 17281 Know Threat 30.21..........................G Cleeve 4 48231 Goldstar Alaska 31.07 S &...............B Evans 5 61521 Opawa Rooster 29.99......................R Wales 6 1462x Ophelia Allen 30.09.......................D Roberts 7 12137 Robson nwtd...............................P Ferguson 8 11221 Dyna Xarvel 30.53........................C Roberts 9 67853 Meka 30.19...................................D Roberts 12 8.31pm PROTEXIN DASH C3, 295m 1 52217 Eternal Debt 17.29..........................G Cleeve 2 4516x Opawa Hypo 17.27..........................R Wales 3 25128 Know Scrutiny 17.24.......................G Cleeve 4 47434 Dyna Lenny 17.17.........................C Roberts 5 48688 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.....................B Evans

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7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred 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 HAKATERE CERAMICS ANNUAL EXHIBITION. Work created this year by members. Free admission and most items for sale. Daily 1 - 8 November. Short Street Studios, 53 Short Street.

10.30am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Seniors’ coffee club, all welcome. Park Street.

10.30am - 11.30am WALKING NETBALL. $2. E A Networks Centre, River Terrace.

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.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

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Cryptic crossword

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars

ACROSS 1. Female side, if fast, could follow Democrat leader (7) 5. Small drum and bar to play it with (5) 8. Idle talk, and tract he makes of it (7) 9. The humble moo is duly halved (5) 10. It may be pooled, but it will score forty (6,3) 12. Type of deer in part, theoretically, making a comeback (3) 13. The thing that changes darkness (5) 17. At one in the morning it is one’s purpose (3) 19. Anyone can cause such aggravation (9) 21. To play from the tee, be behind the wheel (5) 22. Might take drink with editor, being a like spirit (7) 24. Stinging sort of return made, right away (5) 25. He makes drainage cuts the church tried to organise (7) DOWN 1. The fish is in the river, to put it in plain language (6) 2. Treat us according to our height (7) 3. Suitable beginnings always produce talent (3) 4. Before anyone else, a top degree (5) 5. Communication, mind to mind, of the type Al produced (9) 6. Anchor at front of recess in the garden (5) 7. Made corresponding sound to my herd scattering (6) 11. A feature met in lane that winds about (9) 14. A king among the butterflies (7) 15. Carriage to put one down on a forbidden turn (6) 16. Put in a bid for a boat’s small craft (6) 18. Corn one found in the labyrinth (5) 20. Having nothing on, this eye sees without glasses (5) 23. Food that may be bolted (3)

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

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Sudoku DOWN 1. Roped (7) 2. Protected (7) 3. Vitality (5) 4. Doomed (4,3) 5. Frequently (5) 6. Anxiety (5) 9. Flexible (9) 14. Recommenced (7) 15. Emit (7) 16. Boasted (7) 19. Deadly (5) 20. Movies (5) 21. Customary (5)

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We Backed Black!

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): TRICK: Make the decision.

Once you decide, all the uncomfortable energy that comes with worry, doubt and uncertainty will melt away. You’ll commit and take action. TREAT: Confidence resumes.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): TRICK: Those who are much older or younger than you will teach you something you can immediately put to rewarding use in your life. TREAT: Hugs and laughter are coming your way.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): TRICK: The last thing you thought would happen will be the first thing that does. TREAT: You’ll understand a loved one’s beautiful intentions and be delighted by them regardless of execution. You are loved!

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): TRICK: Your warmth radiates and boomerangs. You give a smile and get a smile. Charisma doesn’t mean you get every deal, but it doubles up on your chances.

TREAT: What was lost will be found.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): TRICK: It seems like it should be obvious, and maybe this is why people often forget the No. 1 way to connect with others is to show interest in them. You come by this honestly. TREAT: Sensory delight is all yours.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): TRICK: You master natural ways to relax and send out an easy vibe.

It’s why you handle much more than other people can. TREAT: Because you’re so calm and capable, you’ll be promoted.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): TRICK: You ask for help, not because you particularly need it but because it’s a way to involve people and understand their talents. TREAT: You’ll be surprised by what people want to contribute to your life.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): TRICK: The more public you are about what you need and want, the more likely you’ll be to get it. TREAT: The admiration of your peers will feel pretty amazing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): TRICK: You can’t help but be a little mysterious, as you’re not exactly in the mood to give your whole story. This works in your favour. TREAT: You’ll have a rapt audience for anything you care to impart.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): TRICK: People behave according to the role you cast them in. Your expectation will be met, though perhaps in an unexpected way. TREAT: You’ll love how you’re reflected in another person’s eyes.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): TRICK: This day seems like one ominous locked door. TREAT: It’s locked, but you have the key, you’ll never lose it, because you are the key. All you have to do is show up like you own the place and go in.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): TRICK: Redress that past issue. The cool thing to do is holding someone accountable to making it right.

TREAT: Balance will be restored.

Previous cryptic solution

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

There’s at least one five-letter word.

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Even when Paul had nothing to give, he always gave something to Greenpeace.

A Memorial Service to celebrate Paul’s life will be held at the Doris Linton Lounge, Ashburton RSA, Cox Street, Ashburton on SATURDAY, November 2, at 2.30pm.

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fog

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

TODAY

Fine, apart from some morning and evening cloud about the coast. Southwesterly breezes.

SATURDAY Fine and warm. Northeasterly breezes.

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Auckland

showers

Fine apart from isolated afternoon showers.

Wind at 1000m: W 40 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: W 50 km/h.

Hamilton

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Napier

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TOMORROWFZL: Rising to 2500m in the afternoon

Palmerston North fine

Mainly fine, some evening cloud.

Wind at 1000m: W 35 km/h, becoming light in the afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: W 45 km/h, easing to 35 km/h afternoon.

Wellington

fine

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

Greymouth

fine

Christchurch

fine

FZL: About 1500m

SATURDAY Fine with light winds.

Fine and warm. Northeast breezes.

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Timaru

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Queenstown

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Fine. Westerly breezes.

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Bad fishing Set 12:47 am Rise 9:56 am

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 186.9 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 2:30 pm, yesterday

83.1

Waitaki Kurow at 2:04 pm, yesterday

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MORGAN, Paul Andrew Please note all late death Laurence – notices or notices sent Unexpectedly in Ashburton outside ordinary office on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, aged 40 years. Dearly hours must be emailed to: loved son of Lorraine Bennet, deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. and John and Muriel Morgan, much loved partner of To place a notice during Melissa Moss and adored office hours please contact Dad of Kyran Morgan. Loved us on 03 307 7900 for more brother of Lynleigh and Em, information.

Scott, and Todd and Helena, Any queries please and cherished uncle of contact 0800 Conrad, and Hunter.

Messages to The Morgan ASHBURTON Family, c/- PO Box 6035, (0800-274-287) Ashburton 7742. In lieu of flowers donations to Greenpeace would be appreciated and may be left at the service.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 20.0 22.3 Max to 4pm 2.1 Minimum -0.3 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm October to date 70.0 Avg Oct to date 57 2019 to date 626.0 570 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 30 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 46 Time of gust 3:36pm

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8:30 Below Deck Captain Lee and his returning crew, Kate and Ashton, are joined by six new crew members aboard luxury M/Y Valor as they travel to Southeast Asia to explore Thailand.

9:30 The Real Housewives Of Orange County AO 10:35 Snapped PGR 3 11:35 Babies Behind Bars PGR 3 12:25 Infomercials 3

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Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight.

8pm Lara Croft Tomb Raider – The Cradle Of Life MV 2003 Action. Lara discovers the mythical Pandora’s Box, only to have it stolen by a Chinese crime leader. Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciaran Hinds.

10pm Scary Movie 5 MVLS 2013 Comedy Horror.

Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Snoop Dogg.

11:25 V For Vendetta MVLS 2006 Sci-fi Action.

Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving. Friday 1:35 Semi-Pro MLS 2008 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson. 3:05 Silver Linings Playbook MVLS 2012 Comedy Romance.

5:05 Anger Management MLS 2003 Comedy.

SKY SPORT 1 6am Wind Back 8am Farah Palmer Cup Highlights Show 8:30 The Breakdown Discussion about the weekend’s rugby with a panel of former players and experts.

9:30 Farah Palmer Cup (RPL) Premiership Final – Canterbury v Auckland.

Noon Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Premiership Final – Tasman v Wellington.

2:30 Big In Japan 3pm Meads Cup (RPL) Final – North Otago v Wanganui.

5pm Lochore Cup (RPL) Final – West Coast v South Canterbury.

7pm Mainfreight Rugby Club matches from around New Zealand.

8pm Big In Japan 8:30 Farah Palmer Cup Highlights Show 9pm Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Premiership Final – Tasman v Wellington.

11:30 Mainfreight Rugby Club matches from around New Zealand.

Friday

12:30 The Breakdown 1:30 Farah Palmer Cup Highlights Show 2am Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Championship Final – Bay of Plenty v Hawke’s Bay. 2:30 Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Premiership Final – Tasman v Wellington.

3am Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show Round Two. 4am Pro14 Highlights Show

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6am Wild Ireland 6:30 Fishy Business 7am Hemsley And Hemsley – Healthy And Delicious 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Secret Life Of The Kangaroo 9am Bondi Harvest With Guy Turland 9:30 Brother v Brother 11:30 Money For Nothing 12:30 American Pickers 1:30 Bangers And Cash 2:30 Guy Martin v The Robot Car PGR 3:30 Orang-utan Jungle School 4:30 Ainsley Eats The Streets Avoiding the tourists traps while travelling is increasingly difficult for Ainsley Harriott but, in an effort to remain fresh and original, he turns to street food for inspiration.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Jade Fever 8:30 Discovering… Pat Benatar PGR 9pm Discovering… ZZ Top PGR 9:30 Paranormal Survivor AO 10:30 American Pickers

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Tiny House Hunting 1am Ainsley Eats The Streets 2am American Pickers 3am Orang-utan Jungle School 4am Paranormal Survivor AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 2 7:40 Australia v Sri Lanka (HLS) Second T20.

8:35 Women’s Big Bash (HLS) Heat v Hurricanes.

From Lords, London.

9am Australia v Sri Lanka (RPL) Second T20.

From The Gabba, Brisbane.

12:30 L Marsh One-Day Cup Queensland v Western Australia.

From Metricon Stadium, Carrara.

9pm World Cup 2019 – India v Blackcaps (HLS) Semi-final – Day One. From the Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester.

10pm World Cup 2019 – India v Blackcaps (HLS) Semifinal – Day Two. From Old Trafford, Manchester.

11pm World Cup 2019 – England v Blackcaps (HLS) Final.

From Lord’s, London.

Friday

Midnight England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Second ODI. From The Oval in London.

12:30 England v Blackcaps 2015 (HLS) Third ODI. From the Rose Bowl, Hampshire.

1am Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) First ODI. From Seddon Park, Hamilton.

1:30 Blackcaps v England 2018 (HLS) Fourth ODI. 2am Women’s Big Bash (HLS) Scorchers v Strikers.

2:30 Australia v Sri Lanka (RPL) First T20.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Back to the 1980s in a 1968 Coronet.

7:30 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 8:20 Deadliest Catch PG Hell or High Water.

9:10 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Railroad Australia PG 11:40 Web Of Lies PG D is for Deadly.

12:30 Evil Kin M To Lose is a Sin. 1:20 Murder Calls M No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

2:10 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 3pm Alaskan Bush People M Browntown Boom.

3:50 Bering Sea Gold PG Storm Surge. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG Road to Barrett Jackson 1/2.

5:40 Railroad Australia PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Gold Rush PG 8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10:15 Deadliest Catch PG Hell or High Water.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M Loaded for Bear.

11:55 How It’s Made PG Friday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 1:35 Bering Sea Gold PG 2:25 Moonshiners M 3:15 Alaskan Bush People M 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 Naked And Afraid M 5:45 Bering Sea Gold PG

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Fitting farewell for Guise P18

Back from the brink FULL STORY P17 At the end of a long driveway on Cambridge Street, there’s a bit of a revival going on and Scott Hyndman is one of the men to thank for it. One of fewer than 20 remaining members of the Hampstead Bowling Club last season, he and a fellow bowler tasked themselves with bringing the club back from the brink. Now, it is once again a hive of activity.

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Hansen wields the axe NZME Steve Hansen has rung the changes for the All Blacks’ final World Cup match against Wales.

The All Blacks have made eight changes to their starting lineup including one positional switch, as they look to bounce back from their semi-final loss to England in the bronze playoff.

Hansen said it was a difficult team to select.

“This was a tough team to select because, as always, everyone wanted to play,” said the All Blacks coach. “But with a short turnaround and the nature of the tour-

nament, we feel that this is the right team for this occasion.

“There’s been a lot of external talk around this being the game that no one wants to play. However, from our point of view, we can’t wait to play it. Everyone in the squad − players and management − are motivated by the opportunity to show that our last performance wasn’t at the high standard that we know we can play at.

“This is a test match against an opposition that will also be keen to make a statement. Therefore, we will need to turn up with real attitude, intent and work ethic, and then execute our skillsets to

the highest level possible. The game will be physical and fast as both teams will look to play to their strengths. We are looking forward to it and can’t wait.”

Hansen thanked the fans before what will be his and several of the team’s senior players’ final game for the All Blacks.

“Whilst none of us – players, management or fans − got the result we wanted at this tournament, this is another opportunity for us to wear the jersey and represent our country with pride.

“On behalf of the All Blacks, we’d like to thank our fans for all their ongoing, unconditional support.

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It’s something that we never take for granted and is greatly appreciated by us all within the team.”

It was an emotional press conference for some of the All Blacks, including captain Kieran Read.

Read said it had been a rollercoaster ride over the past few days but a pleasure to play in the team.

“I’ve loved every minute. It’s my last week to be with these men I call good mates. I just want to go out and enjoy the time with those blokes.”

Read said Wales would present a tough battle.

The match kicks off at 10pm tomorrow night.

All Blacks team to play Wales tomorrow: 1. Joe Moody (44) 2. Dane Coles (68) 3. Nepo Laulala (24) 4. Brodie Retallick (80) 5. Scott Barrett (35) 6. Shannon Frizell (8) 7. Sam Cane (67) 8. Kieran Read – captain (126) 9. Aaron Smith (91) 10. Richie Mo’unga (16) 11. Rieko Ioane (28) 12. Sonny Bill Williams (56) 13. Ryan Crotty (47) 14. Ben Smith (83) 15. Beauden Barrett (82)

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