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Our most dangerous day of the year April 13 was a dangerous day last year, with double the average rate of claims from Mid Canterbury. A year on, ACC is urging people to take care.

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Rowe set to remarry

Debbie Rowe, the former wife of Michael Jackson, has confirmed that she will marry the late king of pop’s friend, gay porn producer Marc Schaffel, after previously insisting she was not engaged to him. Reports surfaced last month after Rowe was photographed wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring. Rowe at first denied the claims, but has since confirmed the engagement, saying she initially turned down Schaffel’s proposal because she feared she had terminal cancer. However, test results have shown the former nurse, mother to Jackson’s two eldest children Prince Michael and Paris, has the autoimmune disease sarcoidosis, which is not life-threatening.

Rowe said: “He loves me, knows my kids, loves my kids and we’ll see where this goes.” She and Schaffel have yet to set a wedding date.

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Toe-sucker jailed A man who sucked an unwilling woman’s toes inside a Wal-Mart has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. Michael Anthony Brown was convicted of assault. Police said the 31-yearold Brown told the victim he was a podiatry student and asked her to try on shoes for him in the shoe department last month.

Investigators said Brown eventually stuck the woman’s foot in his mouth and sucked on her toes, then offered to pay for her groceries after she appeared outraged.

Chinese man covers himself in bees A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body in more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey. She Ping, a 34-year-old honey merchant from the south-western Chinese city of Chongqing, says he used a technique known as “bee bearding” to cover himself in bees in a display for a group of French photographers this week. The collective weight of the bees was more than 45kg. Bee bearding is a global pursuit, and Indian Vipin Seth holds the world record for wearing a mantle of bees weighing 61.4kg, according to Guinness World Records’ official video channel.

Participants generally attract the bees by placing a queen bee in a small cage hanging from their body. “To be honest I felt very nervous, but I do it to promote my honey,” She said, adding that he was stung more than 20 times during the 14-minute stunt.

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Behold, the Lorde Muppet Lorde has collected another celebrity trophy by being famous enough to be the inspiration for a Muppet puppet. The customised Lorde Muppet, made by The Muppet Studio to coincide with the release of the Muppets Most Wanted movie, is being auctioned on the New Zealand online site Trade Me to raise money for the Starship Foundation. The Lorde Muppet has big hair, a black mesh jumper and a blue nose. It has attracted 84 bids so far, and the price exceeding $NZ1500 ($A1382.80). The auction closes on April 20. The New Zealand singer gave permission for the 33cm-high Muppet to be created and only one has been made, according to replies to questions on the online auction site. The puppet continues a Kiwi connection to the movie.

Bret McKenzie from the New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords is music supervisor for the movie and his comedy partner Jermaine Clement is appearing as a Gulag prisoner whom Kermit meets when he is mistaken for a Russian criminal.

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Canty Plains used in movie The Canterbury Plains have been used to recreate a turn of last century harvest season in Scotland for a big screen retelling of a legendary Scottish novel. Filming of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song begin in Scotland this month. But crucial scenes in the long-awaited production have already been shot on a farm outside Christchurch with lead actors, Agyness Deyn and Peter Mullan. A specially harvested-crop was used to stand in for the Aberdeenshire countryside where Gibbon’s story of a young woman’s struggles growing up in a dysfunctional family in the fictional Estate of Kinraddie is set. Other interior World War One scenes have been filmed in Luxembourg.

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■ ASHBURTON TEEN ON MURDER CHARGE

New court date for Sina’s killer

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A new court date has been set for the Ashburton teenager who admitted killing Sina Solomona, but the High Court is remaining tight-lipped over the nature of the appearance.

The 17-year-old, who was 15 at the time of the murder, is set to appear in the High Court in Christchurch on Friday May 2 at 10am.

It comes after several delays as

the teen, who has name suppression, was scheduled to appear on February 14 for sentencing after pleading guilty to murdering Ms Solomona, and another charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection last October.

Another date was pencilled in for March 9, but that too was put off.

A High Court spokesperson said the May 2 appearance would not be for sentencing, but could not state the nature of the

hearing and why there had been delays.

“All I can advise you is that it is not sentencing.

“Due to suppressions, we are not in a position to be able to advise the public anything,” she said.

The appearance will come almost 17 months since December 15, 2012, when Ms Solomona was murdered in her Cass Street home after finishing her night shift at CMP Canterbury.

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■ TRUSTTUM WINDOW INSTALLED

Millennium glass moved to new heritage centre By sue NewMaN

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The installation of the Trusttum window in Ashburton’s new heritage centre and art gallery sends a clear signal that work on the project is close to wrapping up, says Ashburton District Council commercial manager John Rooney.

The window, previously featuring in a window on the staircase landing in the Baring Square Gallery, was installed in its new home on Monday in what proved to be a problem-free exercise, with one of its creators Ben Hanly returning to Ashburton for the reinstallation, he said.

The idea to commission a stained glass window was put forward by the art gallery committee in early 1999. It was unveiled in November 2001 after months of planning and fundraising. Originally it was intended as an Ashburton Art Gallery millennium project as a lasting monument to Ashburton’s visual arts and in recognition of the Baring Square building’s link to the district’s local government history.

The building for many years was home to the Ashburton County Council before it amalgamated in 1989 with the Ashburton Borough Council, to form the Ashburton District Council.

Nationally acclaimed Christchurch artist Philip Trusttum was commissioned to design the window.

It randomly spells out “Ashburton Est. 1876”, the year the Ashburton County Council was established.

The unveiling of the window coincided with the 125th anniversary of the Ashburton County Council.

The window is made of handblown imported French glass, with each panel being made up of more than 150 individual pieces by Hanly and Suzanne Johnson.

Funding came from a number of sources including the community and the sale of Trusttum’s working paintings of sections of the window.

Right - Ashburton’s prized Trusttum window, securely installed in Ashburton’s new Heritage Centre and Art Gallery.

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months since the teen pleaded guilty on October 18.

Sensible Sentencing Trust national spokesperson Garth McVicar could not comment on individual cases before the court, but said delays in court proceedings were hard on the families of victims.

He said he had seen cases where families had become increasingly frustrated or even ill as they put their lives on hold while they awaited justice.

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tive Kevin Tso also could not comment specifically, but said sentencing or verdicts were a significant step for families and victims.

“Our role is to ensure people involved in a court case are supported and informed about the process, certainly it can create frustration, but as long as the people are informed about the reasons then I think that assists with the possible frustration and emotional response that can occur,” he said.

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■ ROYAL VISIT

Lauren hopes to meet Will and Kate

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Two Mid Canterbury athletes are destined to cross paths with the visiting royals today.

But if Lauren Ellis bumps into the couple, the New Zealand track cyclist, who hails from Hinds, admits she probably has no idea what she is going say.

Ellis will join Mid Canterbury rowing product Hamish Bond at the official opening of the newly-built Avantidrome in

Cambridge.

There to officially open the new facility will be the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Ellis, who recently moved to Cambridge, will feature in a 1500m individual pursuit exhibition race against fellow Olympian Jaime Nielsen at the official opening.

“There’s maybe about eight of us who will be in an athletes’ tent, so there’s a chance they might come and talk to us between races, it would be pretty

cool to meet them,” the 24-yearold said. But when asked what she would say to them she joked: “I have no idea.”

Ellis said the visit was a great opportunity for the town she has called home since February, but more importantly for the worldclass $28 million Avantidrome where she has already spent countless hours competing and training on the track.

“It’s going to be a really big event for the town, all the tickets for the opening have been sold

out and there’s a lot of interest,” she said.

Gold medallists and Cambridge residents Sarah Ulmer and Rob Waddell will host the royal couple, for what will be a three hour extravaganza to celebrate cycling.

The Duke and Duchess were official ambassadors for Team GB at the London Olympics and witnessed the British men’s pursuit team claim the world record in their qualifying round and then go on to win gold.

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Aucklanders cram viaduct for royal encounter Aucklanders turned out in their thousands yesterday to catch a glimpse of glamour royal couple the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

And it is Catherine who can claim bragging rights over her husband Prince William, as she left him in her wake during a spectacle race around Waitemata Harbour aboard two Team New Zealand boats.

As the royal couple arrived at the Viaduct Basin, a few heavy showers of rain poured down on the thousands of people lining the dockside.

Some were resplendent in Union Jack coloured clothing and others wore Williams and Catherine face masks.

Aimee Trist had been waiting at the Viaduct for a chance to meet the royal couple since 6.30am.

The crowd behind her surged forward as they approached and Ms Trist was pushed against the barrier. “I fell forward and she (the Duchess) said “you’re getting squashed”.

They shook hands and the Duchess said she had a top similar to the one Ms Trist was wearing.

The Duchess of Cambridge takes the helm, while Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker stays close.

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Faye Hayman and Heather Saint said the Duchess of Cambridge spent three or four minutes talking with them.

“She was very open and a very warm person. She was genuine, and looks at you when she’s talking to you,” said Mrs Saint.

Lily Ferguson wore an English rugby jersey hoping she would stand out in the crowd and it worked.

“William said ‘nice rugby jersey’ and asked me where I was from. It was amazing.”

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A visual reminder of some of the activies Mid Canterbury people were up to on April 13 last year.

April 13 the dangerous day last year

By Erin TaskEr

APRIL 13, 2013

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If you got injured on April 13 last year, you were far from alone; ACC accepted 53 claims from the Ashburton District that day.

A total of 11,061 ACC claims from the Ashburton District were accepted last year – an average of around 30 a day – making April 13 one of the district’s most accident-prone days of the year.

But it turns out it was a dangerous day to live in New Zealand. ACC released figures yesterday which revealed April 13 was the day on which the highest number of injuries happened in 2013, with 8067 claims lodged with ACC relating to that day, while April 6 came in second with 8024 claims.

Interestingly, in Mid Canterbury those two days were the first two Saturdays of senior rugby and a quick read through the Guardian’s senior rugby report from that weekend indicate some of those 53 claims probably originated on sports fields.

A Hampstead rugby player was carted away by ambulance but later cleared of any serious injury, while Celtic had “a few walking wounded” and Methven was forced to put a lock out on the wing and their coach had to pull on his boots due to injuries – including a broken leg.

The report from the weekend before (the second most injury-prone day) shows that Methven lost Sam Robinson (hamstring) and Sam Lock (broken wrist) to injury in the first 24 minutes of their opening weekend rugby game.

Netball, football and hockey had also started by those days, but reports for the other three sports indicated no serious injuries.

According to ACC there can be a small rise in sport-related claims at the start of season, but claims from one sport would not be enough to skew the overall claims figures on a single day.

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Guthrie said there was no consistent pattern to weekend or after-hours accidents.

“On a day of sporty activities there will be more accidents from sports,” he said.

“If people are partying and drinking

What was Mid Canterbury up to on April 13 last year?

There was a Wheat and Wheels Rally at Wakanui and a dexter cattle farm open day, along with a Valetta country market and cutting horse championships in Tinwald.

Teachers took to the main street to protest against plans for the education sector, while emergency services reported a quiet weekend.

There were no fire call-outs for our local fire brigades, while the police reported no incidents from April 13.

TIPS Simple tips to help avoid home injuries, most of which result from falls, include: ■ Mop up spills as soon as they happen ■ Fasten loose mats and rugs to the floor ■ Replace blown light bulbs so you can see in the dark ■ Run electrical cords along walls, not across the floor ■ Clear toys and clutter from walkways

FIVE WORST DAYS The five most ‘injurious’ days in 2013, in order, were: ■ 13 April 8067 claims ■ 6 April 8024 claims ■ 11 May 7988 claims ■ 18 May 7757 claims ■ 8 June 7732 claims Interestingly, while the months of April, May and June contained the most ‘injurious’ days last year, the month with the most injuries overall was March with 166,349 claims, well ahead of February and May, which were neck-and-neck with 152,564 and 152,222 claims respectively.

there will be more accidents involving foolish or stupid behaviour.

“Frequently accidents happen because someone, either due to a lack of time or over familiarity, takes a short cut rather than using the trusted safe method to do the task.”

ACC’s head of injury prevention and insurance products, David Simpson, said there was no easily identifiable reason why April 13 was so injurious.

Daily claims volumes fluctuate. ACC averages around 4600 claims a day and around 1.7 million claims per year, but on February 22, 2011, around 12,000 claims were received; that was the day of the Christchurch earthquake.

Mr Simpson said being aware of common hazards that could cause injuries was a good first line of defence tomorrow.

“It’s a Sunday, so a lot of us will be at home or taking part in sport or recreational activities.”

Some tips to help avoid sport and recreational related injuries include: ■ Warm up and cool down ■ Wear high vis gear if walking/ running/cycling on or near the road, especially in poor light/ darkness ■ Be alert to changing weather conditions – watch out for slippery conditions underfoot, and take appropriate gear if you’ll be outside for some time

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Major roadworks along State Highway 1 near Chertsey are on track for the early May deadline, despite this week’s rain causing delays.

New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) performance manager Pete Connors said work on the $320,000 maintenance project was progressing well – with expectations it would take about two months to complete.

“This week’s rain caused a delay with sealing but a break in the wet weather yesterday will see this work completed,” Mr Connors said.“If the good weather continues, we may get the road marked and the temporary speed restrictions lifted before the Easter break.

“However, there will still be work to complete on the side drains and roadside shoulders. This work will continue through to the end of May.” Plans are in place to lay new pavement, apply a new sealed surface, improve the drainage system and install new safety improvements at the Coplands Road Intersection.

The 650 metre stretch has

Fire callouts Ashburton volunteer firefighters were called out to CMP’s Northpark Road site yesterday afternoon to what turned out to be an accidental false alarm. The callout was at about 2.15pm.

Caleb returns home Caleb Skinner is back in Masterton.

The 2-year-old, who was left fighting for his life on March 3 when he was assaulted at a house.

Caleb was airlifted to Starship Hospital in critical condition, with his parents Joanne Smith and Darryl Skinner at his side. He then spent two weeks at Wilson Rehabilitation Centre, arriving home on Thursday afternoon to a new house. Doctors say while he isn’t severely brain damaged, the toddler will experience learning and behavioural difficulties as a result of the assault.

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A 47-year-old man has been taken to hospital following an incident at a rural property in Central Otago involving cyanide. Police said they were alerted to the incident in the Bannockburn area, near Cromwell about 6.15am yesterday.

“As a result of the information, police had concerns for a male resident’s wellbeing in that area,” Senior Sergeant Dave Scott said.

Ambulance officer and the Fire Service also attended. “It involved decontamination of the scene due to the presence of cyanide,” Mr Scott said. The man was being taken to Dunstan Hospital for further assessment. It is understood he was licensed to use cyanide in his work, Mr Scott said.

His condition is not lifethreatening.

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‘Netballer’ in fire

Classrooms next week will be abuzz with excited chatter about a blood-red moon hovering in the New Zealand skies.

A child-friendly lunar eclipse - where the Earth passes between the moon and the sun, casting a red glow on the moon - will be seen before bedtime on Tuesday evening.

Forecasters say the best chance of viewing the astronomical extravaganza is by perching high on an eastern

Roadworks on State Highway 1, south of Chertsey, are on schedule despite rain at the weekend. But the NZTA is warning drivers to take care after a minor crash on Monday.

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been a scene of constant traffic congestion since the works began but drivers had mainly been well-behaved, he said.

However, a minor nose-to-tail crash on Monday has NZTA warning drivers to be vigilant of the 30lm/h temporary speed limit.

beach sand dune and hoping the weather holds off.

It is the first of two lunar eclipses to be seen from New Zealand this year, with the second event happening around midnight on October 8.

But Tuesday’s event will be a special family affair.

“The big attraction is after dinner time and families can go out together and have a good look,” said David Britten, astronomy educator at Stardome Observatory at Auckland’s One Tree Hill.

“The Transport Agency thanks those drivers who have kept to the temporary speed limits while travelling through the construction site.

“It makes a significant difference to the safety of the contractors working on site, and to the safety of the travelling

Spectators will be able to see the moon rise from 6pm.

It will then move within the Earth’s shadow to be completely eclipsed by 7.08pm - about 15 degrees above the eastern horizon.

The full eclipse will last for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

In a lunar eclipse, the moon is obscured as it passes through the Earth’s shadow.

Two shadows will cross the moon during the event - the large penumbra (or “almostshadow”), which dims the

public,” Mr Connors said.

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moon, and the umbra, a smaller opaque shadow caused by the Earth blocking out the light from the sun to the moon.

And the best vantage, according to both astronomers and meteorologists, it will be on any eastern beach - if the clouds stay away.

MetService forecaster Daniel Corbett said early indications have a weather system lashing the west coast on Tuesday.

But eastern areas might stay dry, and clear, for long enough to see the event.

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

■ MID CANTERBURY BUS SAFETY

Parents need to pick up act

By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Parents need to clean up their act when it comes to collecting primary-aged children from bus stops, Mid Canterbury’s largest school bus company warns.

It comes after a coroner’s inquest this week into the death of Buller 5-year-old Mahuri Hemi Bettjeman-Manawatu who died of serious crush injuries to his head and chest when he was hit by a school bus in 2012.

The young boy was said to be running alongside the bus but as it turned left at the same

time, he fell on to the road and under the left rear wheel.

The tragedy prompted the bus company involved, Ritchies Transport, to fit extra mirrors to its fleet to alleviate a blind spot, a move supported by Rural Women New Zealand.

Pearsons Coachlines Ashburton manager Mark Cook said school buses should already have “decent mirrors”, which could see the full length down each side of the bus.

Avoiding such incidents came down to parents, bus drivers and children all abiding by rules set out by the company

and schools, he said.

Mr Cook said his drivers were trained to see children had made it safely to their parents, were up their driveway or visibly well away from the bus.

“I also put it back on the parents, if this happens to a kid where’s mum and dad?

“If they are at primary school, parents are supposed to pick them up. Mum and dad sitting across the road from the stop is the issue we find more than anything. They need to be at the door of the bus to collect their child.”

The company is responsible

for transporting about 1200 children from 14 Mid Canterbury schools, and has one of the best safety records in New Zealand.

Rural Women NZ national president Wendy McGowan said believed blind spots were likely to be a problem with many school buses, and urged other companies to install extra mirrors to ensure there is good visibility down the full length of the bus. “The cost of retrofitting mirrors is a small price to pay to keep children safer around school buses and hopefully avoid a similar tragedy.”

■ LOCAL LAD’S GARDENING EFFORT

In brief Motorcyclist killed A motorcyclist was killed in a crash involving a truck in Flatbush, South Auckland, last night. Emergency services were called to the scene at Stancombe Road shortly after 7pm. A St John spokeswoman said the motorcyclist died instantly.

No other people were treated for injuries or taken to hospital.

Police were still at the scene and the serious crash unit would be investigating.

- APNZ

Loan shark bill A Government Bill aiming to rein in loan sharks has passed its second reading in Parliament this week.

The Credit Contracts and Financial Services Law Reform Bill overhauls consumer credit laws in a bid to protect those borrowing money.

Consumer Affairs Minister Craig Foss said the bill would require lenders to act responsibly and ensure vulnerable consumers were given the information they needed to make sound borrowing decisions. The Bill increases protections in cases of repossession whereby goods that could be repossessed must be specifically identified by the lender. Items including beds, medical equipment and portable heaters would be prohibited from repossession altogether.

- APNZ

Tax dodgers The Government has rubbished claims it is more interested in cracking down on benefit fraudsters than tax dodgers trumpeting a return of up to $8 for every dollar invested in chasing tax cheats. Speaking at the OECD Cash and Hidden Economy Conference yesterday, Revenue Minister Todd McClay said exposing tax evasion in the ‘hidden economy’ last year gave a return of $45 million - equating to $5.60 for every dollar spent. “For non-compliance through property speculation, $53.8 million worth of discrepancies were found, a return of $8.42 for every dollar invested.”

Coast tramper found

Lachlan Oldham, 3, with his 40kg pumpkin.

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Lachlan’s monster pumpkin takes prize By erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

Lachlan Oldham is only three years old, but he’s already a budding green thumb who knows the secret to growing humungous pumpkins.

The pumpkin he entered in the Mitre 10 Mega kids’ big pumpkin contest was so big that your average adult would probably struggle to carry it,

let alone a three-year-old.

Lachlan’s pumpkin was judged Ashburton’s biggest at the recent judging, after it weighed in at a whopping 40kg – more than double the weight of an average three-year-old.

It would have got lost in the shadow of the country’s biggest though – the national competition was won by Auckland’s Ashley Jordan who’s pumpkin weighed 124.4kg. That winning

pumpkin weighed just 400g more than last year’s winning pumpkin grown by Ashburton schoolgirl Taylor McKenzie.

Ashburton store manager Kelvyn Savage said he was pleased with the local entries this year, given it had been a tough growing season.

“This year’s pumpkin season was quite tricky. It was very, very dry and pumpkins need a lot of water to take off. While

this year’s pumpkins didn’t top last year’s winner, all the kids did really well in growing anything at all.”

Children were asked to plant pumpkin seeds last October and care for them until pumpkin harvest time in April. Mitre 10 stores throughout the country ran the competition with the heaviest pumpkin from each store in with a chance to take out the national title.

Police are no longer concerned for a tramper who was reported overdue in South Westland.

Greymouth police senior constable Mike Tinnelly yesterday appealed for information about Gabriel Mabbs, 62, from Wakefield.

Ms Mabbs rang her mother from Hokitika on April 3 to say she was heading south and intended to do a six-day tramp. She did not mention where and was not believed to have been heard from since. But later yesterday Mr Tinnelly said police no longer required information about Ms Mabbs as she had been located safe and well.

- APNZ

Illegal drugs, cash More than 100 illegal drug imports and $650,000 in undeclared cash have been seized at New Zealand’s border in the past five months.

Customs Minister Maurice Williamson said the organisation’s annual summer operation, run between November and March, made 120 drug finds, including three methamphetamine seizures totalling 14kg at Auckland airport.

“Detector dogs also found $650,000 of undeclared cash.”

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■ ASHBURTON STATE HOUSES

Tenants face rental shake-up

By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Forcing state house tenants to leave because they earn enough to afford a rental in a tight private market will be a contentious point under the latest shake-up of the welfare system.

That’s the view of Presbyterian Support upper South Island manager Jackie Girvan as Housing New Zealand (HNZ) applications and assessments become the responsibility of Work and Income (WINZ) from Monday.

WINZ income manager Marama Edwards said the move would streamline the system, with 80 per cent of social

housing tenants already working with WINZ. But from July 1, the changes will introduce reviewable tenancies for those paying an income-based rent in social housing.

“They are going to be looking at those who are close to paying market rent and if they are still eligible for a HNZ house,” Ms Girvan said. “That will be contentious because people have got in and think the house is for life even if their circumstances change dramatically.”

She saw positives as some single tenants occupied three bedroom HNZ properties that would cater for families on

HNZ waiting lists, but said it could be difficult for those forced into the competitive private market in Ashburton.

“If you’re looking in Canterbury, it’s really hard to get a private rental so the other issue is you can’t say you have got to leave when there is nowhere for people to go.”

Ms Edwards said there were six case managers for the Ministry of Social Development to cover state housing in Canterbury, and they would use the same criteria as HNZ to gauge tenant eligibility.

Ms Girvan said it was positive many clients would have to deal with just one government

department, but hoped teething issues would not be a problem as livelihoods were at stake.

“The people I was most concerned for were those who just applied, what happens to their application, but apparently it will go across quite seamlessly.”

She said those on the waiting list regarded priority A on the state housing waiting list would be contacted every five days and those a priority B every month.

Also under the changes, income-related rent subsidies will be open to registered nongovernment and community housing providers which, to date, is only open to HNZ.

■ DOWN TO EARTH EATING

Preserving, bottling, jam and relish on agenda An Ashburton environmental team are wanting locals to get back to down to earth eating next week.

Sustainable and affordable eating will be the key focus of the event to be held at the Base Youth Centre next Thursday, when experts Lamea Brittenden and Rebecca Lees show locals the art of preserving and bottling food, and making jam and relish.

“Eight per cent of the food in supermarkets today was not there 80 years ago,” committee organiser Katie Esler said.

“A lot of people are getting back to down to earth eating, it’s the way our grandmothers always did things, they always made their own food, so it will be a great experience for everyone who comes along.”

The evening will be held on Thursday at 141 Tancred Street at 7.30pm. Gold coin entry.

Solomons dire Living conditions continue to deteriorate in Solomon Islands following severe flooding in the country last week. Infrastructure in the country’s capital Honiara remains extremely damaged and the city’s water system was running at only 40 per cent, UNICEF NZ executive director Dennis McKinlay said. Almost 10,000 people remained in evacuation centres. Clean water and adequate sanitation were urgently needed to avoid the spread of disease, he said.

Tamiflu worth it?

New research showing antiviral drug Tamiflu shortens the symptoms of flu by just 12 hours is raising questions about the billions of dollars spent by countries to stockpile it. The Ministry of Health yesterday said it will maintain its $32 million stockpile of Tamiflu despite the new evidence, as it was “international best practice” to do so. The British Medical Journal and the Cochrane Collaboration yesterday issued a call to governments to reconsider policies on stockpiling Tamiflu in light of the findings. While it shortened symptoms of influenza by half a day, there was no evidence to support claims it reduced hospital admissions, complications, or the spread of flu, the Cochrane Collaboration said in a press release.

Toddler killed in drive A 23-month-old who died after being hit by a vehicle in the driveway of his South Auckland home may have been running to greet his father. Te Manawa Whetuki Renata, known as Whetuki, suffered critical injuries when he was hit by a vehicle reversing up his Papatoetoe, driveway on Wednesday. His mother, Emma Renata, was nearby and rushed him to Middlemore Hospital in her car. The little boy’s injuries were not survivable and doctors pronounced him dead at 7pm. It is understood Whetuki was rushing to meet his father who was arriving home and backing up the driveway towards the house on a back section.

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■ ROYAL VISIT TO DUNEDIN

Scarfies warned to keep lid on party The residents of Dunedin’s Hyde Street are ready for a right royal party, but they have been warned it could be the last if this year’s keg party spirals out of control.

With this year’s 3500-capacity event taking place a day before the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Dunedin, festivities are set to take on a royal flavour, with one flat having the theme “Your Royal Hydeness”.

University of Otago vicechancellor Professor Harlene Hayne said the party was an “opportunity for students to dress up and have fun”, but

In brief

warned of consequences if it went badly.

“In the event that things deteriorate, then the party will be closed and the university will seek ways to prevent the event from occurring in the future.

“No event, no matter how much fun it generates for a few, is worth the expensive destruction of property or serious injury,” Professor Hayne said.

Individual students who broke the law would be dealt with by police and those breaking the university’s code of conduct could face exclusion from the university.

Otago University Student

Association administration vice-president Ryan Edgar said OUSA provided harm minimisation and logistics support to the street’s residents.

This included having “Red Frogs” volunteers handing out food and water and “Are You OK?” volunteers for those who had “indulged maybe a bit too much”.

St John and Student Health would be on hand to reduce pressure on the hospital’s emergency department.

The party was a closed event and people trying to get inside the venue without the proper wristbands could be ejected or

trespassed, organisers said.

Medicine student and Hyde Street resident Josh Tiro, 19, said he and his flatmates would be getting up for a street breakfast at 5am today and would start drinking after that.

The event was about “having a good time” while staying out of trouble, he said. To get the most out the day, you needed to “pace yourself ”.

Police Inspector Jason Guthrie said police had been involved in organising the event and encouraged those attending to “enjoy themselves within the bounds of the law”.

- ODT

George bungle Laughing and playing with a curtain cord, baby Leila Grenside had the world’s media aflutter when she was mistaken for Prince George watching his parents’ welcome to Government House in Wellington. Cuddling mum Jessica Nickelsen from the second storey of the building overlooking the royal ceremony on Monday afternoon, the 14-month-old was identified as the future King with his Spanish nanny. Twitter blew up with reports of the youngest royal watching from the window, and the rumours were soon turned to print. “As driving rain swept Wellington, George did not attend the official welcoming ceremony on the lawns of Government House but he was spotted watching proceedings from a window in the arms of his newly appointed Spanish nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo,” the Independent Online reported. The family found the incident amusing.”It’s hilarious,” said Ms Nickelsen. “She does have short hair and similar colouring.”

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

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In brief

■ METHVEN’S SCOOTER TRACK

Track shapes up

St John goes green St John ambulance officers are going green and changing the colour of their uniforms. Later in the year, all staff will trade their white tops and black trousers for green versions. The new uniforms will be made of a more durable fabric and the green colour was seen to be “more practical and fit for purpose”. The ambulances are also undergoing a colour transformation, but only on an as required basis. Around 30 to 40 ambulances nationwide get replaced and upgraded each year.

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A year of brainstorming and creative planning came to life at Methven Primary yesterday.

The school’s playing field resembled a construction yard as volunteers from Rabobank, Methven Trucking and Stockdill Earthmoving mucked in to dig out the course for a new 70 metre scooter track.

A concrete loop of humps and jumps will be some of the main features of the

track which pupils asked the school to consider, and was eventually given the green light with it expected to cost just under $20,000.

“When the kids asked we did a bit of research and went down to the domain and Hampstead School where some of the students had a go,” principal Chris Murphy said.

“They asked for ups and downs and all sorts, believe it or not there is nowhere

you can go to find plans on scooter tracks so we had to use a lot of creativity.”

Mr Murphy said riding scooters was a popular lunchtime activity for the children, and he expected that only to increase after the track is complete in the coming weeks.

Above - Volunteers Izaak McDonald and Grant King muck in.

PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 110414-TM-028

■ ASHBURTON ANZAC RUN

Local runners remember fallen soldiers

BY ERIN TASKER

ERIN.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

A pre-Anzac Day memorial run and walk tomorrow will be a chance for participants to have fun, raise money, and remember New Zealand’s fallen soldiers.

Gary Whiting has organised the Lest We Forget pre-Anzac Day memorial walk or run at the Ashburton Domain, and he’s hoping for nicer weather than that which greeted participants in last year’s event.

“We are praying the sun is going to come out and the rain’s going to go away but we’ll wait and see,” Mr Whiting said.

“But it will be on wet or fine.”

Last year it was wet, but around 60 people still took part.

The event is held over 8km – based around the Ashburton Domain – and Mr Whiting said the 8km was symbolic. When the Anzacs arrived at Gallipoli they were meant to go to a village about 8km away.

“But it never happened and they ended up spending months on the cliffs.”

They were there rain, hail or shine and there was no first prize back then, just like there will be no first prize tomorrow.

It’s all about participation and remembering.

“Like we say, the poor fellows in the trenches in World War One had to stand in the trenches for months,” Mr Whiting said.

Participants can run or walk and entry will cost $10 for adults and $3 for kids under 12 – funds raised will go to the RSA - and all participants will receive a poppy.

“No one gets any money out of this except for the RSA and it goes to their Poppy Fund,” Mr Whiting said.

The event will start at the main pavilion on the Walnut Avenue side of the Ashburton Domain.

Seminar to ‘help’ gays sparks furore A seminar at a Northland church offering to help people overcome their “same-sex attraction issues” has sparked a furore on social media and in the gay community.

The talk, at Paihia’s Baptist Church, was advertised in Mid North community newspapers this week. The ad invited anyone who had problems with same-sex attraction, or a loved one who did, to hear the life story of a man who had overcome his issues.

He and his wife had helped many others, the ad said.

The backlash started with a post on the Northland Grapevine Facebook page, which had more than 230 comments by noon yesterday.

Comments ranged from those who were appalled by the implication that being gay was a condition that had to be overcome, to those who defended the church’s right to host the talk or were concerned by the threat to free speech.

Others saw the reaction against the talk as a sign of how far society had progressed in its acceptance of different expressions of sexuality.

The church’s Facebook page has been swamped with comments criticising the talk.

Pastor Bill Anderson did not wish to comment, saying only that it was a “calm, quiet little ad extending an offer of help to people who are hurting inside”.

He was disappointed with the attacks on him and the church,

and that many people only seemed to show an interest in the church when there was controversy.

The Ohaeawai woman whose Facebook post sparked the furore, Alissa Gibbs, said she was “really riled” by the ad at first.

“I don’t think that sort of intolerance has a place in our little community. I wanted to draw it to people’s attention, I didn’t expect such a backlash and I didn’t intend people to jump down the church’s throat.”

Four Taiwanese people have been arrested for allegedly importing more than $11 million of crystal methamphetamine. Customs officers found more than 11kg of the drug hidden in heavy metal boxes at Auckland Airport’s cargo inspection facility on March 25.

The find prompted an investigation, called Operation Gravel, which involved Customs officers and detectives from the Organised and Financial Crime Agency (OFCANZ). Three men and a woman from Taiwan were arrested as part of the operation.

They appeared in Auckland District Court yesterday charged with drug importation and supply. Detective Senior Sergeant Lloyd Schmid of OFCANZ said two of the men, aged 19 and 29, had arrived in New Zealand the day before the drugs were discovered.

- APNZ

Otira Hotel sells The Otira Hotel is about to change hands, and its new owner already has a replica Cobb and Co coach ready to collect passengers from the railway station and take them back in time - just as happened 100 years ago. After almost 16 years, former Aucklanders Chris and Bill Hennah - who own not only the hotel but most of the former railway township - are preparing to hit the road in their bus when the hotel changes hands on May 1. New owner Lester Rowntree, of Moteuka, has a background in heritage farming.

He has a replica stage coach, almost identical to the original one on show in the Arthur’s Pass visitor centre. He also has five Clydesdale horses to pull it - in fact, he has 75 horse-drawn vehicles in his vast collection.

Car-surfing kea die Two young kea have died after suspected car surfing at Deaths Corner in the Otira Gorge. The Department of Conservation said both birds suffered head injuries from similar incidents in the past week. Senior ranger Chris Stewart, from DoC’s Arthur’s Pass team, said the parrots were known for landing on cars and picking things off, but sometimes when the cars took off the birds stayed put.

“When the car gets going, they are really in trouble,” Mr Stewart said.

It was not the first time kea had been seen car surfing in the area, however an unusually high number of birds had been congregating at the Otira Viaduct lookout this year, he said. Members of the public had reported seeing the birds on moving cars, then trying to fly off.

“They are 1-year-old, teenagers, still having fun.”

- APNZ

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Behind the scenes of St John

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eep, beep, beep, beep ... when the pagers go off they hit the ground running – if it’s code red they have 45 seconds to get out they door.

They aren’t the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade, nor are they Ashburton police – they are the ambos.

St John Ashburton – 40 dedicated men and women in a mix of paid and volunteer positions who do the job for many reasons.

They see you at your worst and when you are most vulnerable.

They are men and women just like us, but they are trained to be first responders in a medical emergency or an accident.

When we are in strife they ease the pain and get us to further medical help.

It’s St John annual appeal and to better understand their work, reporter Toni Williams went behind the scene and spent a day with a frontline crew.

ON THE JOB On the day I was an observer, frontline crew Robyn and Theresa were on truck one. Manning the station during the day there was also Russell, Frith and Shayne.

Robyn and Theresa had been on site since 6am and 7am respectively.

It was around 10am before they got their first job.

The more senior Robyn is an ILS paramedic and Theresa a BLS paramedic. She is in training for ILS. They have vast experience between them and often speak a medical language common amongst the station crew.

They have worked together for a while and it shows in their familiarity with each other.

They work in one of those industries where those you work with, are the only ones who know what you experience.

Especially when it comes to the unsavoury aspects of the job.

The details of which would either fascinate or revolt you, but are the reality for them.

ON THE SCENE Our first call hits home, it’s a child in a schoolyard accident.

It’s nothing sinister, just a slip.

The crew tries to relax the patient, explaining the process as they go through each step and working at a steady but manageable pace for the child.

It’s a potentially serious situation, but they tailor their speech to their patient: they get the best information out of people when they are calm and relaxed.

The second call is a code red and the fire siren on Burnett Street goes off at the same time.

A comment is made to look out for flying firemen and when

Theresa and Robyn clean the frontline truck between jobs.

I hear the siren I am glancing out the window from my rear dickey seat for the big red truck I can hear ... It’s a good few minutes before I realise it’s us.

Duh! We travel out of town “sirens and lights” – it is a code red.

It’s important.

Traffic pulls over and we are able to cruise the centre road watchful of other road users.

But most are great; they get out of the way or pull over as much as they can.

I believe it’s because at the end of the day, if it was us in need, we’d want others to do the same!

The third call is to a private home, but that comes later in the shift.

So to fill in time, the women have jobs in the station to complete, as well as study.

Between each trip they restock the ambulance and replace anything they have used.

They have enough on board for multiple calls, but today it’s quiet.

Then on a weekly basis each ambulance – there are three, plus the events van – is expected to be washed.

The qualification for each St John officer gives them extra responsibilities.

Those with higher qualifications can add extra medicines to their repertoire. They are able to prick and poke more too.

Our final call is into a private home.

It’s a typical home, but to navigate the close hallways and lift up and down step with a stretcher could seem comical ... if it was not so serious for the patient.

Thirty minutes before the 6pm knock-off Robyn and Theresa finally get back to their study.

I have lost them to words I only know the letters of and could not automatically pronounce.

Downstairs the other crews are winding down, tidying up the station before the next shift comes on.

All paperwork is completed and will be checked through the St John process.

Any discrepancies from their strict procedures will be followed up on.

Otherwise, it’s a good day.

No-one was lost and the reporter got a taste of being a St John officer.

ON STATION Imagine a home away from home.

Upstairs there are offices, four bedrooms, utilities and a large training room used by St John Youth and its younger siblings, Penguins.

Downstairs its more offices, training rooms, utilities, lounge,

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dining room and kitchen facility with a good supply of hot drinks – good quality coffee and decafe ... (what for?) plus it’s instant hot and cold water on tap.

There is a resident cat called PJ lounging on the sofa in the open-plan lounge area, complete with a large television sporting Sky, reserved mostly for the night crews.

Tucked in the corner is the pager system emitting a constant hum as the fan works to cool the unit.

Sometimes the radio might be on, but today the only other noise is the talk between the crews.

They speak with a high level of medical knowledge not expected outside a hospital.

They talk like a family ... ribbing each other, talking through situations both work and private.

It’s a comfortable environment and easy to forget why they are here.

Just filling in time until the next call the beep, beep, beep, beep, that says someone needs them ... someone needs help.

FOOTNOTE I got off lightly on my observation day, we were not busy but I got to see a mixture of events for a taste of the job.

It’s a catch 22 scenario – a busy day for St John means

some Ashburton residents aren’t faring too well.

But as the lackey helping as much as I could and when I could, I can tell you my arms/ shoulder muscles slightly ached the next day.

The essential equipment St John officers carry to each job is heavy.

Add to that carrying a person on a stretcher and lifting or manoeuvring the stretcher in and out of some of the tight spots in homes is a complete body workout!

AMBULANCES Ambulance one is the frontline van that is the most modern of the lot.

It has the best gear and is most often used.

Ambulance two gets the backup calls. It has older gear on board that is a little bit heavier than the modern range.

The third ambulance is used for transfers. They are contracted by the hospital to provide this service.

It does not take an ambulance out of service as commonly thought.

Many are planned transfers, but often they pop up in the course of the day.

They can go either way – Ashburton Hospital to Christchurch Public or vice versa, or to Christchurch Women’s.

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■ CORRECTIONS DEPT VETERAN

Norm keeps eye on work parties By sue neWman

sue.n@Theguardian.co.nz

Norm Thompson has just turned 80 and reckons he’s still got a few years left in the workforce.

He’s the oldest person in New Zealand holding down a job with the Department of Corrections as a community service supervisor and he’s been on the job for 17 years.

Every Friday and Saturday he turns up at Ashburton’s corrections depot, backs out the van and collects his community service team for the day. They work, he talks, mentors and provides encouragement.

The master mechanic, businessman and polytechnic tutor is happy to share his knowledge and his life skills. His rewards come in knowing he might be making a difference in someone’s life.

He became a corrections work supervisor almost by accident.

“In the dim distant past I was president of Rotary and in my

past president’s year they tried to find a task that would keep me out of the way. There were no offices in town for social welfare or corrections. The kids were tipped out of court and left to get into trouble, there was nothing for them.”

Norm and his mate, mayor Geoff Geering decided to fix the problem, bent the ear of politician Rob Muldoon, pointed out a few deficiencies in the system.

Norm found himself with a job – unpaid.

“There was no vehicle. I used my old flat deck truck with a stock crate on and piled everyone in the back and we’d drive off with them hanging on. It went along in an amateurish sort of way until we got an office here and I started getting a cheque.”

Not everyone is happy with their enforced hard labour stint, but Norm believes with good negotiation and a bit of listening and advice most people can be turned around. Community service can change lives and it

can change attitudes. He doesn’t care who’s on community service or why they’re there.

“I never allow anything to become confrontational. It’s amazing at the end of the day to see how positive people are.”

Today he’s as fit as he’s ever been, however, the first hint he’s not giving 100 per cent to the job and he’ll be calling it quits.

“I’m not prepared to do it half pie or to have people making allowances for me. The minute that happens I’m off like a scalded cat.”

Yes, he gets paid for what he does, but it’s not about the money, working with corrections is about giving back, about changing lives, he said.

Eighty-year-old Norm Thompson, breaking records as New Zealand’s oldest community services supervisor for the Department of Corrections.

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Put Some Colour In Your Life television host/artist Graeme Stevenson interviews Ashburton artist Rachel Jemmett.

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Jemmett lights up screen

By Toni Williams

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Ashburton artist Rachel Jemmett was in the spotlight yesterday filming for SKY art show Put Some Colour In Your Life from her home art studio.

The 43-year-old mother of two was still coming to terms with being selected to appear on the show that reached millions of people worldwide.

“It’s pretty surreal really. I like the process though and we’ll see what comes from it.”

Mrs Jemmett was contacted by artist/producer Graeme Stevenson who, as a Harley Davidson-riding artist, was putting human colour back into the art

world and taking it to the people.

He is touring the country to film and profile 24 artists in a series to show later in the year.

Mr Stevenson was taken by the vibrancy of Mrs Jemmett’s pieces after he found her work through the internet and followed up with closer art contacts.

The show already appeared on stations in New Zealand such as Q, Sky, Dunedin Television, two North Island television stations and were renegotiating with CTV in Canterbury.

With a global reach via social media and on YouTube, the opportunity for Mrs Jemmett was huge.

“It’s a great opportunity and good for Ashburton artists,” she said.

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Nursing friends ready for reunion

BY TONI WILLIAMS

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Hospital aides, enrolled nurses and registered nurses will get together for the biennial Ashburton Nurses Reunion lunch next month.

And its organisers want to hear from any nurses who trained or worked for Ashburton Health Services.

The reunion will be on Sunday, May 18.

Ashburton Hospital has been the training ground and workplace for hundreds of nurses since it opened in 1879.

While it may be too farfetched to expect any of the original nurses to be at the reunion, their latter day colleagues will remember them.

Reunion organisers Carol O’Reilly and Dorothea Webb said nurses had a bond from working in the nursing environ-

ment with shared or common experiences and memories.

The original idea behind the first reunion more than 10 years ago was comradeship.

They had emailed and contacted people they knew about but were interested in hearing from more. “We have contacted as many people as we know of; it’s up to word of mouth now.”

They had already taken registrations from nurses who had trained in the 1940s, and most other decades since would be covered by reunion attendees.

They expected around 60 past and present nurses to attend but more would be welcomed.

A morning tea opening before a service at the hospital chapel in the theme of past, present and future would give attendees a chance to take a moment and remember those unable to be there.

The service will be run by Rosalind Stewart and helped

by Reverend Glenis Pluck, of Rakaia. It would be followed by lunch at the Hotel Ashburton.

Anyone who wanted to attend should contact Mrs O’Reilly 308 8758, or Mrs Webb 302 4745 to register.

Above - Ashburton nurses reunion organisers Carol O’Reilly (front left) and Dorothea Webb want to hear from all past and present nurses for their biennial event. Service organiser Rosalind Stewart stands at the lectern.

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In brief Learning the hard way Enigmatic Parramatta playmaker Chris Sandow has learnt the hard way that talent alone is not enough to make it in the NRL, says team-mate Jarryd Hayne. Sandow has been a revelation in wins over Penrith and Brisbane since he returned from a nine-month exile with Wentworthville in the NSW Cup in round four. The 25-year-old earned man of the match honours in the Eels’ upset win over the Broncos last weekend and Hayne says Sandow has worked as hard as ever to get back to first grade.

“We always knew Chrisy had the talent it was about him going away, working hard and fixing up key areas of his game,” Hayne said.

- AAP

Nofoaluma re-signs Exciting Wests Tigers wing David Nofoaluma has re-signed with the club. Nofoaluma’s three-year deal will keep the speedster at the Tigers until the end of the 2017 season. The 20-year-old Campbelltown junior has scored 11 tries in 19 games since making his debut in 2013. “The Club has been great to me over the years and I’m really enjoying my football,” Nofoaluma said iyesterday. “I’ve always supported the Wests Tigers; it’s a great feeling to be now playing NRL for the Club and I’m thankful for the opportunity I have been given,” he said. - AAP

Recruiting not an issue A gaggle of leading player agents don’t think the ruckus engulfing the Warriors will make any difference to their ability to recruit players for next season.

April is normally a month when a significant amount of business is done so the fallout from Matt Elliott’s departure as coach is bad timing - there’s never good timing for blood-letting - but Steve Gillis, David Riolo and Frank Endacott would have no trouble recommending the Warriors to their clients. “I don’t think it will have an impact at all,” said Gillis, who represents both Simon Mannering and Ben Matulino. “The club have the potential to be a real force in the game”.

- APNZ

Raiders wary of Mullen Forget round two: Jarrod Mullen’s return is going to make Newcastle a whole different prospect to stop.

Canberra might have toppled the Knights in Newcastle less than a month ago, but coach Ricky Stuart knows it’s going to be a whole lot tougher at Canberra Stadium today. The Knights have confirmed key playmaker Mullen will play in the clash after recovering from a hamstring injury he sustained in the Auckland Nines. “They’ll be a different team again with Jarrod Mullen playing and (Darius) Boyd out the back,”

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Tougher regime

BY MICHAEL BROWN Andrew McFadden has promised a “tougher” approach as interim Warriors coach and it’s exactly what senior players Simon Mannering and Jacob Lillyman want.

The message from both was they want a coach who demands higher expectations and accountability, with the inference being it wasn’t enforced enough under Matt Elliott.

The former coach showed incredible loyalty to his players, even when they weren’t performing, and was loathe to make too many changes.

Feleti Mateo, whose form has been mediocre at times over the past couple of years, played 79 consecutive games for the Warriors but was dropped in McFadden’s first week in charge.

There were a handful of other changes to the Warriors side to face the Bulldogs at Eden Park tomorrow, with Chad Townsend also dropped for Thomas Leuluai and Siliva Havili, David Bhana, Dominique Peyroux and Charlie Gubb brought onto an extended bench.

Ngani Laumape will start in place of the injured Glen Fisiiahi (shoulder).

“I know the way [McFadden’s] going to approach it,” Mannering said.

“You can take tougher and think he’s going to be a drill ser-

New head coach Andrew McFadden lays down the law

geant and yell and scream but you can be a lot tougher on expectation and accountability to make a tougher environment.

“Hopefully the guys thrive on it.”

The captain agreed that if players weren’t performing, they needed to be dropped.

“Yeah, that’s Andrew’s call.

“We simply can’t perform like we did on the weekend [in the 37-6 defeat to the Sharks], whether you have the local guy from down the road.

“You can’t accept a performance like that and the coach is gone because of that. We have to have some pride in our own performance before we worry about who our perfect coach would be.”

McFadden knows he’s on trial for the remainder of the season

and hopes he can do enough to convince the club to keep him on fulltime. Elliott was grooming him to take over next year but there are many who believe the Warriors need an experienced coach like Tim Sheens or Neil Henry.

It’s been a whirlwind fortnight for McFadden, who was appointed and then had to resign as Kiwis assistant coach once he took over at the Warriors.

It might look like a sudden rise, but he has been coaching for a decade since retiring as a player at just 26.

“My head has been spinning but I keep grounding myself by saying I have worked hard for this,” he said. “The reason this has all happened is about performance. Ultimately we need to be accountable for our performances.”

- APNZ

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Free food

Messing with Wikipedia Andrew McFadden has endured a whirlwind past fortnight having been appointed and resigned as Kiwis assistant coach and also handed the Warriors coaching gig on an interim basis. Bigger than that, however, someone messed with his Wikipedia page.

In the entry it says he took over “a role considered by many to be detrimental to his health and wellbeing. Whether he is actually going to make an impact on these inconsistent players is yet to be found out.” At least it’s accurate.

Sometimes it’s hard to get much change from $110 when the family go out for a meal, but rugby league fans can also chuck in a rugby league test for free. Or is it the other way around? The NRL are offering free meals in an effort to entice fans to this year’s Anzac test in Sydney. Priced from A$40 for adults, $30 juniors and $110 for families, fans will have a range of food including hot dogs, chips, nachos, sandwiches, fruit and ice-cream available throughout the night. The Kiwis just want to dine out on the Kangaroos after their heavy World Cup final defeat.

Crowd goes wild

Made to measure

Ngani Laumape wants to make an impression after earning a recall to the Warriors starting side and he certainly made one with Crowd Goes Wild reporter Hayley Holt. Laumape was practising his goalkicking at the end of training on Wednesday and one struck an unsuspecting Holt on the back as she interviewed hooker Nathan Friend.

Statistically, the Warriors measure up reasonably well against the other teams in the competition.

They are mid-table for linebreaks (22), errors (62), offloads (46), tackle breaks (114) and the like but, something that isn’t measurable, must rate a distant last for effort and application.

General pattern Set of Six loves patterns - we’re currently

working on a new Eric Watson and Owen Glenn quilt - and there’s an incredible one that exists between the Warriors and Bulldogs. Dating back to July 2006, the two teams have established a two-win, twoloss pattern. Going by that, it’s the Warriors’ turn to win tomorrow, given the Dogs have won the last two (24-16 in Wellington and 32-18 at Mt Smart in 2012).

Hello, how are you?

Matt Elliott had always enjoyed a bit of banter with the fourth estate and even in departure offered a final quip. In his statement, released yesterday, he told media that he wouldn’t be making any further comment.

“If you’d like to hear my voice mail, please don’t hesitate to call,” he said. For the record, it’s a pretty standard voice message but it does sound just a little melancholy.

- APNZ

QUOTES It’s been a tumultuous week in the history of the Warriors, with many people having plenty to say. APNZ looks at some of the best quotes. * * * * * “I have learned a lot from Matt and am saddened that he has made this decision [to resign]. It speaks volumes of his character and integrity and I personally wish him well.” - Warriors chairman Bill Wavish * * * * * “It is pretty embarrassing standing here today knowing that your coach is getting sacked because of our performance.” - Warriors fiveeighth Thomas Leuluai * * * * * “I will certainly be putting his name forward if the Warriors are seeking candidates. Tim would be an ideal candidate and would bring experience and solidarity. He is the current Australian coach and a four-time premiership-winning coach.” Tim Sheens’ agent Wayne Beavis * * * * * “I was sorry to hear of Matt’s ‘resignation’. I was sorrier still when I learned that he hadn’t, in fact, walked away from the Warriors at all - he didn’t jump, he was pushed.” - Warriors coowner Sir Owen Glenn * * * * * “I just feel like an outsider to the club. Why keep money in it if you are not getting anything out of it? I’m not talking about dividends. I’ve never received a cent.” - Glenn * * * * * “There was no need to air that in public. That should have been done in the boardroom, one on one. He’s slapped all of us fans in the face, and I’m gutted. I’m devastated. I’m not a happy butcher, to be fair. I’m a very sad butcher.” - Sir Peter Leitch (AKA Mad Butcher) * * * * * “I can’t get inside [Glenn’s] mind. This has caught me and everyone else by surprise. Why would you do this?” - Warriors co-owner Eric Watson * * * * * “At the end of the day, the club would have preferred this didn’t happen and I’m in the same place. In these difficult situations, it’s not about wording, it’s about being respectful and I very much appreciate Bill for his sensitivity.”

- Matt Elliott * * * * * “If I believe the New Zealand fans believe I’m not the right owner and the club should have another owner, I would be prepared to [walk away].

But that’s not the message I’m getting ... people know through my actions I’m here for the long haul.” - Watson * * * * * “The Warriors should be flying.

In season 2011 they made the grand final in all three senior grades and it finally looked like this sleeping giant was about to realise its undoubted potential.

Here we are only two-and-ahalf years later and they have just sacked their second coach in that short period. Many have raised their eyebrows at the club’s last two head coach appointments.” - Phil Gould (Sydney Morning Herald) - APNZ

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It proved a triple treat for Lauren Boyle on the final night of the State New Zealand Open Championships in Auckland last night. The 26-year-old, a triple medallist in the world championships last year, took out the 400m freestyle to complete a clean sweep of all three of her key freestyle races - the 200m, 400m and 800m. All three races were under the qualifying mark for the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark at the championships which double as the official Trials for Glasgow, as well as the Oceania Championships in Auckland next month and the Pan Pacific Championships at the Gold Coast in August.

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Reward for the hard yards Mid Canterbury junior tennis players Tessa McCann and Edwin Dargue have been selected to play for Canterbury in the nationals Teams Event to be held later this month. McCann has been selected into the Canterbury 14s team to compete at Albany Tennis Park in Auckland while Dargue is in the Canterbury 12s team to compete at Renouf Tennis Centre in Wellington, both held between April 24 and 27. The youngsters have been travelling to Christchurch at least once a week for training, as well as their Mid Canterbury Tennis training, with the selection a reward for a strong summer on the courts.

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Phoenix fighting off wooden spoon

By Daniel RichaRDson From looking like playoff contenders to staving off the wooden spoon, the Wellington Phoenix’s turbulent season will come to an end today.

Their campaign can be broken down in to three clear parts.

They spent the first 10 games not being able to crack a victory, then they went on eightmatch run that made them look like world-beaters, before injuries and suspensions caught up with a young squad who will now finish near the foot of the ladder.

There’s a decent chance very few people will turn up to watch their final game against the Melbourne Victory at the Cake Tin tonight.

If Wellington lose and the Melbourne Heart were to upset West Sydney today, the Phoenix would pick up their second unwanted kitchen utensil in as many seasons, although depending on other results this weekend they could finish as high as eighth.

“I haven’t worried about

where we finish. I have worried about not scoring goals and not defending as well as we should,” Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick said.

“With the fans behind us it would be really good to finish on a high note; scoring some goals, defending well and trying to keep a clean sheet.”

Wellington will have to do that without regular centre back Ben Sigmund who has been sidelined with a thigh muscle injury, which gives Luke Adams a rare opportunity.

The 19-year-old can take the game as a job interview for next season given he is in the final weeks of a one-year contract.

Striker Stein Huysegems may also need a decent showing given he is continuing to negotiate an extension with the Phoenix.

The Victory are locked in for a playoff spot but tonight’s result could determine their seeding for the post-season, which means they can’t tune out for their trip to the capital.

Melbourne have been juggling their squad as they are also playing Asian Champions

It’s not quite mission impossible, but the first shots in the battle to dethrone Rafael Nadal as French Open champion are about to be fired in the upmarket surrounds of the Monte Carlo Country Club.

These skirmishes follow a similar pattern each year. Nadal will usually win at least three claycourt tour events in the European spring, surviving the odd scare, on his way to another familiar Sunday afternoon of crowning glory on the crushed red brick surface of Roland Garros. Figures released by the ATP this week illustrate the Spaniard’s dominance on clay, a surface which has yielded 43 of his 62 career titles, including a record eight French Open titles. At Roland Garros alone, the Spaniard has won 59 out of 60 matches, the only blotch being his injury-hit 2009 fourth-round exit to Robin Soderling.

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Wenger eyes FA Cup Arsene Wenger has challenged his Arsenal players to use tonight’s FA Cup semi-final against holders Wigan to lift their shattered spirits. Wenger’s side head to Wembley with their confidence in tatters after a miserable run ended their hopes of winning the Premier League and left them fighting to secure qualification for the Champions League. Last weekend’s chastening 3-0 defeat at Everton was a major blow to the Gunners’ hopes of securing a top-four finish, and morale is at a low ebb following the latest in a long line of big game flops this season. “What is important after our performance against Everton is to respond well. That’s where our future lies, is our capacity to respond with a strong performance and that is the next game and the next game is the FA Cup,” he said.

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Powell’s ban ‘unjust’ Glen Moss: Not a certainty to play for the Phoenix tonight.

League fixtures but they won’t roll over to give the Phoenix an easy finish.

Aside from Sigmund’s absence, the Phoenix may have a small goalkeeping conundrum on their hands with custodian Glen Moss managing a minor groin problem.

The All Whites gloveman should be fit to play today, but if he’s not Jacob Spoonley will

start between the sticks and the Phoenix’s 45-year-old goalkeeping coach Jonathan Gould may have to sit on the bench as regular backup Lewis Italiano is injured.

Fourth-string option James McPeake, who rode the pine during the first game of the season in October, is at the OFC Champions League in Fiji with Waitakere United.

- APNZ

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, the former 100m world record holder, slammed the 18-month doping ban meted out to him yesterday calling it “unfair” and “unjust”. “This ruling is not only unfair, it is patently unjust. Panels such as these, I understood, were assembled to allow athletes who, consciously or unconsciously come into conflict with the rules of sport, a chance at equitable redemption,” Powell said in a statement posted on his website.

“Unfortunately, this was not the case.”

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In brief Sailors off the hook The two Kiwis implicated in the Oracle Team USA modification scandal during last year’s America’s Cup have escaped any further punishment by Yachting New Zealand. After a lengthy investigation into the cases against grinder Matthew Mitchell and boatbuilder Andrew Walker, the national body yesterday ruled no further action should be taken against the pair. Yachting New Zealand’s investigations have also led to serious questions over the international jury’s handling of the entire affair. An international jury appointed by ISAF were tasked with the initial investigation into illegal modifications made to Oracle’s AC45 catamarans during the 2012 and 2013 World Series events. They came down hard on the Cup defenders, docking them two race wins, and handing down a $288,000 fine.

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Marquez back on track World champion Marc Marquez returns to the scene of his first MotoGP triumph on Sunday and looks to be in even more formidable form for the Grand Prix of the Americas in Texas. Marquez was just a month removed from breaking his right leg in a dirt-bike accident when he won a 2014 season-opening thriller in Doha on March 23. After almost three weeks’ more recovery time, the 21-year-old Spaniard expects to be even stronger in Austin, where his historic victory last year made him the youngest rider to win a MotoGP race and launched him on his remarkable run to a precocious world title.

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Hamilton sets the pace Great Britain’s 2008 Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has clocked the fastest time during testing at the Sakhir circuit where he won the Bahrain Grand Prix at the weekend. Three of the five world champions still competing - England’s Jenson Button (McLaren), Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) and Germany’s Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) - did not take part in the testing which allowed certain stables to use their reserve drivers and Pirelli to test their new tyres. “It’s been a long day, running lap after lap to analyse the tyres but driving a Formula One car is never boring,” said Hamilton, who clocked a fastest lap of 1min 34.136sec after 132 laps.

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Pacquiao after revenge Manny Pacquiao wants a decisive victory over Timothy Bradley in their eagerly anticipated welterweight world title rematch Saturday in Las Vegas as he bids to avenge a controversial loss two years ago.

America’s Bradley, renowned for his amazing durability, snapped the Philippine boxing icon’s 15-fight unbeaten streak with a debatable split decision triumph in their first showdown on June 9, 2012. The 30-year-old Bradley is out to prove he was deserving of the World Boxing Organisation belt he seized that night and has since defended twice. “Manny can punch - he does have knockout power,” said trainer Freddie Roach.

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■ JET SPRINTS

Rookie navigator

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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Her driver may have been disappointed, but rookie navigator Shama Putaranui didn’t scoff at third place in the fifth round of the New Zealand Jet Sprints Championships last weekend.

Ashburton’s Putaranui planned to make her debut navigating at the championships final round in Wanaka next weekend.

Instead she was sat beside Australian Group A champion Brooke Dixon, who had brought eight years of A grade racing across the Tasman to compete in the championships.

Her boyfriend, Karl Brenssell, and some of his mates had purchased a boat – Get Insider - to compete in the Lights class, with Putaranui to navigate for the first time in Wanaka.

But that all changed when Putaranui thought she was being pranked about navigating for Dixon in the fourth round of the championships at Hastings.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” Putaranui said.

“The association had sent out an email to all the drivers asking for a navigator to sit in with Brooke and when my friends, who are quite the pranksters, told me I thought it was a joke.

“Then I met Brooke in Hastings and was getting breathalysed when I realised, wow I was actually doing this.”

The safety precaution to ensure no alcohol impaired drivers or navigators take to the water was the sobering moment for her that she was about to navigate for the first time, with a driver used to winning.

“When I showed up in Hastings I think I was just supposed to be a bum in the seat but I still learnt the track and did the navigating.

“On our first run we only got the rotation right once, but the steering on the boat was pretty bad after damage she suffered at Baypark.”

They had four qualifying runs looking to make the top 12, where it becomes a knockout after each run until two boats go head-to-head.

“We got faster but just missed out on the top 12.

“On our last run we were on track for a good time but took a wrong turn due to the steering issues.

“It was a great learning experience for me.

“I learnt you couldn’t afford to be passive.

“You really have to put your hand in their face, be confident and direct about it.”

She also learnt the strain it takes on the body, attempting to stay still and hold your arm steady while the boats that can go from 0-100 in a matter of seconds.

Missing out on the knockout stages wasn’t something Dixon was used to and Putaranui wasn’t sure she would get the call-up again.

“They weren’t sure if she was going to come back.

“It’s pretty costly coming over but being a

champion all she does is win and to go from winning to what she encountered [at Baypark and Hastings] was pretty hard.”

However, two weeks out from Wanganui Putaranui got the call and turned up raring to go.

“I had actually done heaps of preparation before the Wanganui meeting.

“Brooke’s that good she doesn’t really need a navigator, but I didn’t want to just sit there and do nothing.

“The driver should know the track, but you are there as the backup.”

Putaranui learnt the track and the rotations off the map, from all direction by rotating the map until she could “visualise it in your head from every angle,” and also made use of YouTube clips of the previous year’s racing to practise her signals and timing.

She even created a miniature version of the race track, mowing the course in a paddock and walking through it.

Their first run at Wanganui, a night round, was 56.8 seconds, but

by the meet’s end they had shaved six seconds off to clock a 50.9s run in their final round to come in third.

“Brooke was a bit disappointed with third, but I was really excited and stoked with it.”

They missed out on the opportunity to go faster as two crashes, including one that took out a lighting tower, delaying proceedings, with the top three decided out of the top five round.

The rookie navigator now returns to the original plan navigating in Wanaka this weekend, where she can now be the disappointed one not to gain a podium finish.

Right and below: Shama Putaranui in action with Aussie champion jetsprinter Brooke Dixon at the New Zealand Jet Sprints Championships last weekend.

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“Brooke was a bit disappointed with third, but I was really excited and stoked with it.”

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Hammers v Japan East Mid Canterbury will meet touring Japanese side, Japan East Rugby Football, in a night game on April 23 at the Celtic Rugby Club. An extended Mid Canterbury squad has been announced to meet the team from the Kanto province, who approached the union for a warm up match before they play New Zealand Universities.

The initial squad of 28 is subject to availability. The squad is predominantly made up of players from last year’s Meads Cup winning side with potential new additions being former Tasman Mako and Methven flanker Gary Redmond, former West Coast and Rakaia midfielder Oscar Pamment and Rakaia flanker Sam Houston, while Southern’s Niko Bueta was in the development squad last year. Southbridge’s flying Fijian duo of Willie McGoon and Peni Manumanuniwila and influential fly half Murray Williams were also included, as is former import prop Matt Groom, who is set to join Methven this season.

The squad will be added to after today’s matches with the team to train during the week. The squad also gives an indication of who selectors are looking at in the early stages of the season ahead of the Meads Cup defence in the Heartland Championship and the all-important Ranfurly Shield challenge on July 9.

Answers close to home After struggling to find an effective midfield partnership since Robbie Fruean left last year, the Crusaders could be on to the right mix in Ryan Crotty and Kieron Fonotia, a new combination at this level but one which has its roots in Christchurch’s New Brighton club. The pair have been good mates since playing together since the age of six and have quickly clicked back into the well-worn groove started at the working class environs of Rawhiti Domain. Fruean’s departure for the Chiefs left a big hole in the Crusaders midfield, one that former Hurricane Rey Lee-Lo hasn’t been able to fill yet. It might just be that the answer wasn’t too far away; one that was forged in friendship in Christchurch’s eastern suburbs.

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Better starts please If the Chiefs can match their fast finishes with stronger starts then it will take a “special” team to upset the defending champions. While they are without a win for almost a month, the Chiefs head into tonight’s clash with the Rebels in Hamilton clear on top of the New Zealand conference. And that’s a position that will only solidify if they can shake off the slow starts that plagued their tour to Perth and South Africa, a weakness that left them chasing down sides in the final quarter of their fixtures.

After six matches this season, the Chiefs lead the competition with 21 tries, 10 of which have been scored in the last 20 minutes. That’s the best mark in Super Rugby and a far cry from the 21st to 40th minute, when the Chiefs have crossed just once. “This team’s got an incredible belief about it and we just have to try get that going for 80 minutes,” said Gareth Anscombe, set to make a maiden start at first five.

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Ashburton College’s Laura Harrison makes a break from inside her own half that would set up a try for Emma Waite in the side’s big win over Geraldine.

College girls overpower rivals The Ashburton College Girls’ 1st XV humbled Geraldine 1065 on Wednesday evening at the Celtic grounds, as pre-season training is having the desired effect.

New forward Chloe Te Moananui, senior players Annie McDonald and Emma Waite all claimed hat-tricks while Naomi Cone landed 13 of her 16 conversions in the rout.

It was one-way traffic for most of the match but the College coaches gave credit to Geraldine, who continued to play doggedly until the final whistle blew.

After Wednesday’s 16-try romp, College will be expecting a much tougher test against Roncalli next week, but plan to build upon the strong start to the season.

Highlanders ease past the Bulls

By Patrick Mckendry Look out, here come the Highlanders.

Last year’s easybeats are anything but this season, as last night’s convincing victory over the Bulls under the Dunedin roof so clearly showed.

Faced with an early barrage from the Bulls’ massive pack, the Highlanders merely bided their time.

With men like Malakai Fekitoa and the two Smiths, Aaron and Ben, they will always be confident of their counter-attacking ability.

Whether they can maintain this good form remains to be seen.

This victory has rocked them up the leaderboard from 10th to 5th, but they have a bye next weekend and following that two extremely tough fixtures

against the Sharks and Stormers in South Africa.

Regardless, it would have been a pleasing performance for coach Jamie Joseph, who watched his team blow a big lead in their narrow victory over the Rebels on this ground last weekend.

This time the margin was more clear-cut due to their ability to cut loose in broken play and the Bulls’ incredible knack of making mistakes just as they were in positions to score or increase pressure on the home side.

For the Bulls, so dominant for the first half an hour, to see the Highlanders come back relatively easily from the 13-3 deficit must have been a blow.

A brilliant over-thrown lineout taken by second-five Shaun Treeby - a planned move - led to Lima Sopoaga’s converted try

and a penalty soon after evened the score at 13-all.

The Bulls had played with such muscularity - they fielded a massive forward pack including veteran Victor Matfield and an openside flanker in Jacques Du Plessis who stands 2.1m tall that their confidence must have been knocked.

Their lineout was unbreakable and their scrum a real force, reaping as it did three tightheads.

Their first-half try was beautifully put together too, halfback Piet van Zyl chipping superbly from an attacking scrum into the hands of right wing Bjorn Basson.

Conversely, once the Bulls’ initial onslaught had petered out, the Highlanders were a step ahead everywhere apart from the set piece.

Brad Thorn’s departure with

a right biceps injury straight after halftime did nothing to halt their momentum.

The Highlanders simply dug a little deeper, their fitness and, crucially, skill level a level or two above the Bulls’.

Centre Fekitoa’s break and pass put Gareth Evans away for a try which gave the Highlanders the lead for the first time and then he scored one himself, through pace and power, accepting an inside pass from Aaron Smith to go under the posts.

It is little wonder the former Blues midfielder is on All Blacks coach Steve Hansen’s radar.

The Bulls reverted to what they know, but once the Highlanders defused their driving maul it was all over; prop Marcel van der Merwe scoring a consolation try.

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■ GOLF

It’s in the blood

Lovett notches up big victory

By Jonathan Leask

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Ashburton golfer Hilary Lovett was the convincing winner of the Keith Plier Trophy for best women’s overall gross - by a whopping 20 shots - at the 29th National Left Handed Golf Championship held at the Ashburton Golf Club this week.

“I played to my handicap so it was pretty pleasing, but the national champion thing is a bit hard to believe,” Lovett said.

Lovett lifted the overall gross honours by a big margin, but her low handicap meant that Trish Clarke (Darfield) actually had the best nett to take the Bob Harrington Trophy, while the women’s Askew Trophy went to Glenys Plowman (Turangi) after a rainy four days out on the Brandon Course.

In the open division Ken Shea (Raglan) won the bruce poole trophy for men’s overall gross, adding to his previous victories in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

The Bob Charles Trophy

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for men’s overall nett went to Jamie Frewen (Alexandra) who also took the Lionel Kelly Trophy for best nett over the last two rounds.

In the Senior Division (over 60s) Greg Limond (Howick) defended the Rei Thompson Trophy with the best overall gross, and Stan Mathews (Otemoetai) also defended the Barry Turner Trophy with overall nett.

Australian George Kotaridis had the best nett over the last two rounds to take out the Tom Armstrong Trophy.

Neville Lucas of Waimakariri won the super seniors (over 75).

The Scheppes Trophy for teams from one club went to Alexandra, the Kakapo Trophy for teams from a golfing district went to Waikato/Bay of Plenty while New Zealand comfortably accounted for their Australian counterparts for the Andrew Fenemor Trophy.

Kiwi UFC fighter Dylan Andrews will be in the stands rather than the cage when the mixed martial arts promotion makes its first appearance in New Zealand on June 28. The Gold Coast-based 34-year-old, who is slowly making his way back from surgery after he badly dislocated his shoulder during his bout with Clint Hester at UFC Fight Night 33 in Brisbane last year, was thought to be a chance to recover in time to be on the card at Vector Arena. “I won’t be ready.

I’m not expected to be clear till at least September,” Andrews said.

“I’ll obviously be at the event.” The show will be headlined by Kiwi James Te Huna against American Nate Marquardt (32-13-2). - APNZ

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Right: A happy Hilary Lovett after a tee shot during the the 29th National Left Handed Golf Championship at the Ashburton Golf Club this week.

■ OPINION

Sounds of thunder on the track

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a noise as you could want to damage your eardrums with.

There’s your Porsches and Lamborghinis barking out their own highly-personalised rackets, there’s Formula One (well, up until this season anyway) requiring earplugs for spectators, screaming their way around at 14,000rpm, the wonderful high-pitched whine of the rotaries, even the humble Honda S2000 can sound ok as it blasts past you pulling 9000rpm in third gear (so I’m told) - but nothing, nothing ever matches the extraordinary rumble that a V8 produces.

And right now we’re in the middle of the annual slug-fest that is the Supercar V8 competition, made even better with the recent inclusion of Nissan and Mercedes to break into a market so long dominated by the longstanding Ford v Holden stoush.

Last week’s round at Winton (the Australian one, not Southland) saw a couple of notable

Winning the Masters has been a family affair for Bill Haas and his ancestors since his great-uncle, Bob Goalby, captured the green jacket in 1968. “It has been a special place in our family since then,” Haas said of Augusta National. So it’s no wonder there’s a special spark for Haas after firing a four-under par 68 yesterday to seize a one-stroke lead after day one of the 78th Masters - it’s in his blood. “I guess so,” Haas said. “We’ve had a bunch of family play here.” Haas, whose best Masters finish was a share of 20th last year, is the son of Jay Haas, who was third in the 1995 Masters.

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he V8s.

Possibly something of an anachronism in this day and age, when we’re staring down the barrel at the end of fossil fuels.

In fact the way of the future is already here, with fullyelectric cars (looking remarkably like advanced F1 machines) already reaching into the 260kmh+ regions out on the track.

But, no matter how PC and environmentally friendly the new-fangled toys may be, they ain’t never going to match the raw attraction of the big bangers.

Ever since I first heard the PDL Mustang, a marvellous machine built way before its time, blasting around Ruapuna, Wigram and Teretonga, leaving all and sundry in its rumbling wake, there was the knowledge that the ultimate noise in motor racing had been invented, or at the very least refined to as good

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events.

One was the remarkable sight of three Kiwi drivers, Fabian Coulthard, Shane van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin, starting a race from the front of the grid; considering the class of the Aussies lined up behind them that’s a fantastic feat right there.

The other was the debut victory for the Erebus team, with Lee Holdsworth getting his Mercedes home in a gutsy display from the fast-finishing Ford of Mark Winterbottom.

The cameras were well focused on team owner Betty Klimenko for the last few rounds as a maiden win looked more and more likely, and the

emotional factor was off the scale when owner and driver embraced back in pit lane, surrounded by delirious fans.

Part-time motor racing aficionados might think that Klimenko is a newcomer to the game, but that’s not quite the case.

Erebus Motorsport runs cars in the Australian GT Championship and regularly has top European drivers on board, Erebus won the 2013 Bathurst 12 Hour, they’re into the Aussie Racing Cars Super Series, the V8 Utes as well as Formula 3.

Which all adds up to megadollars the owner is pouring into the sport (this lady must have very deep pockets), and all aimed at days like last Saturday, when your car and driver sit atop the podium, with the hotshot competition leaders way down the track.

And all the while they’re playing our song, a superb concerto written in V8 Major by some brilliant, long-dead composer.

When Suzie Muirhead stepped away from international hockey in 2006 she made a prediction. The former Black Sticks defender ended her career with a New Zealandrecord 238 test appearances but didn’t think her name would stay at the top of the tree forever and she was right too. Emily Naylor was due to line-up in her 239th international this afternoon when the Black Sticks play Australia at the Six Nations tournament in Hastings. “I remember saying to Emily the day I retired that I was expecting her to get the record,” Muirhead said.

“I thought it might be a bit sooner because they play so many test matches these days.”

- APNZ

Stakes high for Fulham The stakes are sky-high at Craven Cottage tonight when Fulham host Norwich in a game that is sure to have a major bearing on who is eventually relegated from the Premier League. Fulham are currently unwanted holders of the third and final relegation place, but a victory over fourth from bottom Norwich would bring them to within two points of their opponents, who appear to have the toughest final four games of any of the clubs currently in fear of the drop. Norwich must play Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal after their Fulham assignment, and their anxiety was apparent following last week’s home loss to West Bromwich Albion when they sacked their manager Chris Hughton.

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NZ food prices fall on cheaper sugary treats

By Suze Metherell New Zealand food prices fell in March as cheaper cakes and candy drove a fall in grocery prices, and offset more expensive meat and produce.

The food price index fell 0.3 per cent in March following a 1 per cent fall in February, according to Statistics New Zealand. Food prices rose 1.2 per cent on an annual basis, the first time all five components of the index increased since September 2011.

The monthly decline was led by a 1.6 per cent drop in grocery prices to their lowest level since August as cakes and biscuit prices and confectionary, nuts and snacks both dropped 3.5 per cent. In the year grocery prices made the smallest gains of all the subgroups, up 0.2 per cent, led by an 8.8 per cent gain in fresh milk and a 7.1 per cent rise in cheese prices.

Last month the Reserve Bank embarked on a tightening cycle, lifting interest rates 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent as it tries

to stem inflationary pressure in the economy. Food prices make up almost 19 per cent of the consumer price index, the inflation measure used by the central bank. First-quarter CPI is due for release next week.

“Despite food price inflation remaining subdued, inflation indicators point to a pick-up in other inflation areas,” Christina Leung, economist at ASB Bank, said in a note. “Overall, the result is in line with our expectations, and we expect the first quarter CPI released next Wednesday will show a 0.6 per cent increase.”

Yesterday’s figures showed meat, poultry and fish prices rose 0.9 per cent in March, the biggest increase across the subgroups.

Meat, poultry and fish prices rose 1.6 per cent, with mutton, lamb and hogget prices up 15 per cent in

the year. Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.4 per cent in March, and were up 1.9 per cent in the year, driving the annual gain.

Prices of non-alcoholic beverages increased 0.2 per cent in the

month for annual increase of 2.7 per cent. Non-alcoholic beverages

led the annual increase, with packaged coffee and tea prices climbing 5.3 per cent.

Fruit and vegetable prices rose 0.5 per cent in March, with cheaper apples and kumara. On an annual produce prices rose 1.5 per cent with more expensive tomatoes, oranges and mandarins.

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Apparel retail: Rags to riches?

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pparel has been one of the weakest segments in the retail sector over the last two years.

This reflects a combination of things, including growth in online spending through offshore websites; a strong New Zealand dollar (making offshore purchases and overseas travel attractive); unfavourable weather patterns affecting seasonal purchases and overall consumer spending habits favouring household durable goods.

The New Zealand listed apparel retailers, of whom Hallenstein Glasson, Michael Hill, Kathmandu and Pumpkin Patch are included in our research coverage, have largely underperformed the domestic equity market through 2013 and 2014.

However, we expect to see a turnaround in apparel in 2014.

Economic indicators suggest consumer demand in New Zealand should accelerate, although rising interest rates may slow the recovery.

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New Zealand still lags offshore peers in sales penetration through the online channel and we expect further strong growth in online spending in the medium-term.

Favourable currency rates, stable cotton pricing and improved material sourcing should help to maintain gross profit margins and reduce the pressure to compete by price discounting.

We have a positive view on the listed companies in the retail apparel sector given current depressed valuation levels and scope for earnings recovery. Our preferred listed companies in the sector are those exposed to categories showing above aver-

age growth, such as outdoor leisure apparel and jewellery, with stronger pricing power and planned expansion.

Overall, the key drivers for an improvement in market sentiment in retail apparel sector are: ■ An improving market backdrop ■ Strong execution of strategic and internal changes by companies in the sector, including the use of innovative strategies to protect their domestic market position from online/multichannel retailers and grow their online market share; ■ Favourable weather patterns (ie colder autumns and warmer springs) Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan are authorised financial advisers with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton.

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3,961.23 –15.45 –0.39%

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 Falls 58

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16,170.22 –266.96 –1.62%

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6,641.97

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Don’t be sidelined this winter Coen Lammers EDITOR

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CC has warned the nation that tomorrow is statistically the most dangerous day of the year.

Last year, 8067 people lodged ACC claims for injuries sustained on April 13.

The ACC experts are scratching their heads as to why that day had such a high injury rate, but most people in Mid Canterbury playing winter sports can tell them that April 13 was the second day of the season.

Not surprisingly, last year’s season opener for many teams was April 6 and came a close second with 8024 claims.

On average, ACC receives around 4600 claims each day, but you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that our beloved winter sports cause us most pain, with the top five days in 2013 all on Saturdays.

The third worst day on the ACC top 5, May 11, resulted in 7988 accidents, including a concussion during football for yours truly.

The medical centre’s waiting room that afternoon quickly filled up with injured rugby, netball, league and football players.

Long-suffering wives and mothers were rolling their eyes as some of the patients were comparing war stories and trying to predict how quickly they would be back on the field.

New Zealanders are encouraged to keep fit and often play until an older age, but there is a price.

Despite sporting Saturday spikes, most injuries still happen at home, so ACC reminds us to mop up those wet spots, fasten loose carpets or wires, keep the house well lit and watch out for toys or other clutter.

Today, though, remember to do a decent warm-up and a good stretch, play within your limits, remember your age and that your boss would like to see you on Monday.

And once you get these first weeks out of the way and build up some match fitness, there is plenty of time to go hard at the business end of the season.

Just make sure you are still on the field and not on crutches on the sidelines.

YOUR VIEW Kidney Society

Burn-offs

On behalf of members of the Ashburton Kidney Society we wish to thank members of the Ashburton community for their support while carrying out free blood pressure testing during Kidney Awareness Week.

Particular thanks go to Redmonds for providing a venue and the Carr Group and Mitre 10 for allowing staff to have their blood pressure tested on the day.

High blood pressure is a major contributor to kidney disease and the more we are able to make the public aware of this by carrying out free blood pressure testing the better chance we have of recognising the signs and symptoms.

Thank you again.

I am amazed at the ignorance of farming practices demonstrated by many of your correspondents.

The latest, on April 11, suggests that burning crop residue is a modern method which is used only as a cost-cutting measure. In fact crop residue burning was much more prevalent during the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s than it is today.

I grew up on an arable farm and used to often be given the job of mowing, raking, and ploughing to create firebreaks around paddocks which had recently been harvested.

All crop residue was burned during that period, unlike the present when much of the straw is baled and used in the dairy industry. Also, we can only assume that “Townie” would pre-

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by David Fletcher

fer farmers to use insecticides (usually organophosphates) to control the springtails, slugs and other destructive pests which are otherwise destroyed by the practice of burning.

Surely the inconvenience of the occasional drifting of smoke over the town is preferable to the introduction of even more of these dangerous chemicals into the environment. Also, when crop residue is worked into the ground and decomposes instead of being burned, it still introduces the same gases (ie methane) into the atmosphere as that natural process takes place.

I suggest that those who do not wish to live in a rural town (and benefit from the burgeoning agricultural economy), leave, move to a major city and experience the industrial pollution which will certainly give

them more to moan about than the occasional haze of smoke over our town.

D. Oakley ***** If “Townie” put as much time into research as he did to moaning about farming practices, he would know that ploughing crop residue under causes more pollution to the environment than burning off.

There is a God After reading today’s front page have decided there is a God. Viv

Wet paper Yes bring back the bag I’m also sick of wet newspapers.

Alan

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You can’t have exponential growth with a finite planet R

ecently, Federated Farmers Dairy spokesperson Will Leferink wrote that “feeding the world is the biggest practical and moral issue we face”.

Simultaneously, agribusiness professor Jacqueline Howarth (Waikato University) was commenting about the need “...to feed the world’s ever-growing population” in a lecture at Otago University. And Prime Minister John Key has opined “...that New Zealand ... will play its part ... in feeding the extra 3.5 billion people who will be on the planet by 2050”.

Why do apparentlyin-

telligent folk use projections of something which hasn’t happened yet to justify doing more of something now, while ignoring the ramifications?

A long time ago, a fellow by the name of Upton Sinclair said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Later, Bertrand Russell put it this way: “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinise it closely and, unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for act-

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Stephen Watson Urban 027 433 9695

Janine Reinecke Urban 027 772 0692

Stephen Janine Urban 027 433 9695

Urban 027 772 0692

Sue Prendergast Urban 027 322 8422

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Eliza Waszczak Urban 021 039 1770

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Do you think the lack of rental properties in Ashburton has hit crisis level?

Yes 61%

Writer Murray Grimwood feels a recent column from Federated Farmers dairy chairman Willy Leferink on food, climate and land competition needed a response from a different perspective. ing in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.”

They might sound a bit sexist to modern readers, but they’re both on the money.

We can appraise the Leferink/ Howarth/Key comments ourselves, by using pure logic.

Firstly, if you were stocking a farm in a manner you could maintain indefinitely, you’d breed only as many livestock as your pasture could support. You wouldn’t be silly enough to breed three times that number and then complain that there wasn’t enough grass. And you’d – rightly – regard someone who did, as stupid.

But you’d also regard someone who stocked a paddock with one more animal each season as stupid too, wouldn’t you? Sooner or later, a gradual increase must reduce the paddock to the same dust-bowl as instant over-stocking will.

You may not be able to pick the stocking-rate which was onetoo-many, but everyone knows there will be such a point.

So why do all three commenters assume we will have a planetary paddock stocked with 9 or 10 billion people? The serious question first has to be asked: What is the sustainable planetary human stocking-rate?

It was asked of visiting Professor Ellen Moseley-Thompson at the Otago University some years ago: “That’s not the question” she replied. “You tell me the level of consumption you want to maintain and I’ll tell you the sustainable population.”

She’s absolutely right. On a sustainable basis – which logic tells us must include no drawing-down of finite resources, no over-use of renewable resources and no un-dealt-to pollution – our planet can carry somewhere between 1 billion (at our present level of indulgence) and 2 billion (at closer to subsist-

ence level). That means we are at least three times overshot now, let alone with another 3.5 billion on board.

Let’s use that logic to see how we got to this grotesquely -overshot point. We started small – as you have to. We grew – as you tend to do from small.

We built a trading system which fitted growth – we couldn’t have built any other kind. We ramped into the resources of the planet – we had no other source.

The key resource was stored energy, without which, of course, no goods are produced, no services supplied, no food tabled. Our supply has been solar in origin. Stored over millions of years, used by us in less than 300 – there in a nutshell is what underwrote our overshoot.

First firewood, then coal, oil and gas. The problem with running a growth-requiring society on a finite resource (or on the overuse of a renewable one) doesn’t come when you run out of it. The problem comes when you maximise your supply-rate of the stuff – around halfway through the process.

Past its inevitable maximum point, a growth-based system is in trouble. It’s going to become a game of musical chairs. The moment growth stops, profit, interest, dividends and debt-repayment become compromised.

Worse, your growing number of people with their growing expectations, are going to be growingly frustrated. Almost everyone thinks that if you have money, you can buy stuff – but that bet is increasingly off on the down-side of the planet’s ability to supply.

The moment growth in energy-supply peaks (we haven’t the space here, but investigations of EROEI – Energy Return on Energy Invested – and of the diminishing returns you get from efficiencies, are well worth the effort, as is questioning claims about alternatives) your ability to supply things diminishes. Things like food.

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For the record, we went into planetary resource-overshoot about 1980. We’ve been drawing-down capital – natural capital – at an ever-more-unsustainable rate ever since.

You can work out – there’s that logic again – where we are with resource-consumption.

When you’re down to fracturing rock and exploring deep offshore from a country on the bottom of the planet, you’re probably past growing your oil supplies. When you are looking for phosphate on the sea-floor off the Chathams? Presumably, you’ve used up any better source ... and so on.

The urgent need is to reduce consumption, a move made easier if there are fewer consumers. We won’t, though.

History is littered with examples of societies which chose to ignore the signs. This is just the first time we’ve run the experiment globally.

Here in New Zealand, we have chosen the three folk above, as “leaders”. Which means that if their comments demonstrate ignorance, they merely reflect our own. Willy wants dairying on lifestyle-block land. Jacqueline wants pasture-fed beef and lamb. If you really wanted to feed a horde – instead of doing the logical thing and distributing contraception – you’d do it with grain.

Dairy and meat show up as inefficient used of land, energy and water (I like my meat and cheese – just sayin’). And John Key? Well, if we were smarter, we wouldn’t vote for folk who advocate exponential growth based on a finite planet.

We’d vote for someone with a grasp of logic, an understanding of sustainability, and a game-plan for achieving it while we still can.

Murray Grimwood is a columnist with Lifestyle Block magazine (The Good Life) who writes on land-use, land-sharing, biodiversity, resource-constraints and energy.

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In brief Packer wins appeal Former New Zealand league player Russell Packer could be released from jail next January after his sentence for a violent assault was reduced. A Sydney judge has also urged the former Warriors prop to use his battle with alcohol to be an ambassador to others struggling with substance abuse.

“I see that potential in you, sir,” Downing Centre District Court Judge Chris Hoy said yesterday.

Packer was with mates for a night out in Sydney’s CBD in November 2013, when he got into a fight with a man after being kicked out of a hotel. Packer punched the man and stomped on his head as he lay on the ground, and was jailed for two years in January for the assault.

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Corby cleared Schapelle Corby has avoided punishment over an inflammatory TV interview, with Indonesian authorities finding no grounds to send her back to jail. The convicted drug smuggler was released from a Bali jail in February, but a month later her sister Mercedes endangered her parole by speaking to the Seven Network. In the interview, she continued to argue her sister was innocent, and speculated the 4.1kg of marijuana found in the body board bag in 2004 may have come from Indonesia, or been placed there by a baggage handler. Yesterday, the Office of the Corrections DirectorGeneral, which reported to the minister on the issue, confirmed it found “no legal grounds to stop Corby’s parole”.

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Global debut for Galaxy The latest version of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy smartphone has gone on sale worldwide, days after the electronics giant announced it was facing a second consecutive quarter of profit decline. The Galaxy S5 has a lot riding on it to steer the South Korean firm’s profit-making machine back on track as growth in smartphone sales slows, with mature markets like North America and Europe near saturation. Reviews of the S5 have mostly concluded that it is one of the best high-end smartphones on the market, but there is also a general consensus that it lacks the “wow” factor needed to differentiate it from its predecessors and competitors. - AFP

Nine killed in bus crash Nine Cambodians were killed when a mini-bus carrying migrant workers returning home for the Buddhist New Year crashed and burst into flames in eastern Thailand, police say. Yesterday’s smash was the first major accident of Thailand’s Songkran holidays, which bring carnage to the roads each year despite regular safety campaigns.

The mini-bus left the road on a sharp curve in Chanthaburi province in the early morning and smashed into a tree, local police officer Major General Chatchai Chaipetch said.

“Nine people, all of them believed to be Cambodians, were killed at the scene and more than 10 were hospitalised,” he said. Hundreds die each year in road accidents during the Buddhist New Year holidays owing to a dangerous mix of alcohol, busy roads, water throwing festivities and reckless driving. - AFP

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By ReBecca Le May The search for MH370 is at a pivotal point, with expectations mounting that the plane’s black box and wreckage could be pinpointed within days.

And despite confusing signals from Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the search co-ordinators yesterday, there’s little doubt conclusive proof that the Malaysia Airlines flight went down in the Indian Ocean is tantalisingly close.

After a third set of acoustic signals were picked up by the Australian ship Ocean Shield, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said authorities were confident they knew the location of the black box.

“It’s been very much narrowed down because we’ve now had a series of detections, some for quite a long period of time,” he told reporters in Shanghai, where he’s working to sign a free trade agreement with China.

But moments later, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said there had been no breakthrough, and that an initial assessment of the sounds detected on Thursday afternoon by an RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft had concluded they were “unlikely to be related to the aircraft black boxes”.

The pinger locator being towed from the Ocean Shield detected acoustic signals on Saturday and again on Tuesday, dramatically narrowing the once-massive search zone.

Adding to the view that the Ocean Shield is looking in the right place is JACC confirming that British ship HMS Echo has re-joined the Australian vessel in the northern part of the search zone.

HMS Echo has left behind Chinese ships about 300 nautical miles to the south, where the Haixun 01 reportedly detected pulse signals last Saturday.

Despite the encouraging signs that the Ocean Shield is zeroing in on MH370’s final resting place, there’s no official confirmation yet that the sounds detected on Saturday and Tuesday came from the illfated Boeing 777.

The closest JACC came during the week was to say they were likely to be emanating from a man-made source.

The plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders are now considered to be within a roughly 20-kilometre radius, equating to a 1300 square kilometre plot of the Indian Ocean floor.

A relative of passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that vanished exactly one month ago, waits for a briefing to start at a conference room of a hotel in Beijing. ap photo

While that’s still a considerable area, it’s small compared to the 305,000 sq km area the search began with.

The latest pings are still being analysed, with the goal of using all of the acoustic data gathered so far to triangulate the plane’s position on the bottom of the sea in waters about 4.5km deep.

And they’re getting weaker because the black box beacon’s battery is several days past its usual shelf life.

The key question now is whether search teams now have enough information to pinpoint a location where they can deploy the Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle, that will attempt to find and photograph any wreckage from the plane.

But it moves six times slower than the towed pinger locator, so the latter continues to be used as long as the weakening signals can be heard.

For the Australian-led search to have got to this point - 26 days after it began - is truly remarkable considering no wreckage has been found.

JACC chief Angus Houston, the former chief of defence, has repeatedly stressed how difficult the task is, saying it is the most challenging recovery operation he has ever seen.

During press briefings, packed to the brim with media from around the world, he’s compared the case to Air France flight 447, which plunged into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard.

While that disaster was also a baffling mystery, with its circumstances only becoming clear two years later when the black box was finally recovered, it was an easier recovery operation than that currently being undertaken.

Wreckage including the tail section was recovered from the sea within days of the accident, as were two bodies.

And that aircraft, an Airbus A330, had stayed on its course, Mr Houston pointed out.

MH370, on the other hand, went way off course shortly into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and despite hundreds of pieces of debris being spotted since, none have been confirmed as belonging to the missing plane.

The initial search focused on the South China Sea. After subsequent searches in the Strait of Malacca, Andaman Sea and northern Indian Ocean, the focus turned to the southern Indian Ocean, based on satellite data provided by Britain’s Inmarsat.

That crucial data was com-

bined with information from Boeing and Rolls-Royce about MH370’s likely performance, speed and fuel burn rate to calculate its most probable route - a first in aviation history.

“If this does turn out to be the aircraft, it was a phenomenal feat of engineering and mathematics and data reduction that said, ‘this is where you should go look’,” US Navy Captain Mark Matthews told CNN. “And you have to realise that the last known position of the aircraft was thousands of kilometres away.

“So to be able to do that based on just these intermittent hits with the Inmarsat satellite communications is phenomenal.”

Also unprecedented is the number of nations collaborating in the search, with even China and Japan putting aside tensions to work alongside each other.

Finding answers to the world’s most perplexing passenger jet crash is not only crucial for trying to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again, but for the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew.

They may soon learn MH370’s fate and end the anguish of not knowing.

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7. 1 quake hits off PNG A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea and was followed by a 6.7-magnitude tremor, but no Pacific-wide tsunami warning was sounded.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the first quake, originally put at 7.3 magnitude but later revised down, struck yesterday 57 kilometres off the town of Panguna on the remote and volcanic Bougainville island.

The second hit about an hour later 96 kilometres from Panguna, the USGS said, adding that both quakes had an estimated depth of about 50 kilometres.

Geoscience Australia estimated the first quake at 7.4 magnitude and said the tremor, which hit close to the neighbouring Solomon Islands, was believed to be in the “shallow” range.

“They would have gotten a strong shake across the island, and there’s the possibility of

some damage,” David Jepsen from Geoscience Australia told AFP. The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center ruled out the threat of a Pacific-wide destructive tsunami after both quakes but Jepsen cautioned that there was a “possibility of a local tsunami” in PNG. Chris McKee from the PNG Geophysical Observatory said officials had not yet been able to make contact with those on remote and isolated Bougainville island.

“We haven’t been able to determine whether a tsunami was generated,” he told AFP. Quakes of such magnitude are common in the island nation, which sits on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates.

In October, a 7.1-magnitude quake struck in the same area - around 65 kilometres west of Panguna.

Last year in February the remote town of Lata in the Solomons was hit by a devastating tsunami after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake.

The tsunami left at least 10 people dead, destroyed hun-

dreds of homes and left thousands of people homeless.

In 2007 a tsunami following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least 52 people in the Solomons and left thousands homeless.

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Prosecutors pinpoint ‘inconsistencies’ Pistorius said police moved fans, put the duvet on the floor and opened the curtains when they came to his villa, implying they had tampered with the crime scene.

“Is this one big conspiracy?” asked Nel with incredulity.

“They would do all this to you?”

Pistorius, known as the “Blade Runner” for his j-shaped prosthetic legs, has been charged with murdering his 29-year-old model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp after shooting her four times through a locked toilet door.

He faces a life sentence if convicted.

The double-amputee, once revered for his triumph over disa-

bility, has said he fired the shots accidentally and did not mean to kill anyone.

He also testified that he feared someone was coming through the toilet door and that his life was in danger.

This seemingly contradictory account was probed at length

by Nel, who drew a concession from Pistorius that the shots should not have been fired at all.

“We know for a fact there were no intruders in your house that night, we know for a fact there was no ladder against the wall,” Nel said.

“We know for a fact that you had no reason to shoot, objectively speaking.”

Pistorius responded:

“That’s correct my lady.”

Pistorius’s cross-examination is a key point in his trial, and a stern test of both his version of events and of his resolve.

During the five-week trial, the world-famous athlete has appeared fragile, frequently crying in court and becoming physically sick when gruesome details of Steenkamp’s injuries were discussed.

Regardless of who Pistorius believed was behind the door, he could face a stiff sentence if Judge Thokozile Masipa believes he purposely used lethal force without reasonable cause.

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Rubbish tip scoured for missing girl

A rubbish tip has been scoured and a family home declared a crime scene in the frantic search for a three-year-old Queensland girl, feared kidnapped.

There’s been no sign of Chloe Campbell since she was reported missing from her Childers home, south of Bundaberg, on

Thursday morning. Her parents fear she was specifically targeted and taken through an open window.

Detective Inspector Bruce McNab says the Childers tip is being searched, along with bushland, dams and places near the family’s home.

Adrian Mole author dies Tributes have been paid to Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend who has died aged 68. Townsend, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved worldwide success with the publication of her best-known work, The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, in 1982. Her publisher, Penguin Books, said she died yesterday “surrounded by her family” after suffering a stroke. “Sue Townsend will be remembered as one in a handful of this country’s great comic writers,” said Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House UK.- PA

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In a pummelling cross-examination the prosecution called Oscar Pistorius’s account of killing his girlfriend “impossible”, zeroing in on apparent inconsistencies in key parts of his testimony.

“Your version is so improbable that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible,” Prosecutor Gerrie Nel thundered during his second day interrogating the Olympian.

Nel also rubbished the athlete’s claim that police moved important pieces of evidence after arriving at the scene early on Valentine’s Day morning last year.

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He says investigators have been tracing garbage collected from the family’s neighbourhood on Thursday morning in a bid to find Chloe.

“We’ve identified the rubbish that was collected on the day and we will be going through that,” Det McNab said.

The family’s home is being examined for any clues, he said.

Inspector Kevin Guteridge says every lead is being followed.

“What we can’t afford to do is have a closed mind on this,” he said.

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Australian soldiers didn’t see an Afghan teenager standing in the bushes as they fired shots in Oruzgan Province, a Defence inquiry says. When a pair of suspected insurgents failed to follow instructions to stop, Australian special operations soldiers, along with members of the Afghan National Security Force, fired shots. A short time later they saw the boy “falling to the ground” nearby, a Defence inquiry into the matter found. The 13-year-old boy was hospitalised with unspecified injuries after the incident on May 1, 2012.

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Laptop fire warning Sony has warned customers to stop using its new Vaio Fit 11A laptops because of an overheating battery problem that poses a fire risk and says it may issue a recall. The Japanese electronics giant said 25,905 units had been shipped globally since they went on sale in February. It said it may recall the computers, but was so far asking customers to stop using them, adding that it plans to issue more details, including repair options, over the next couple of weeks. “There is a risk that battery overheating could damage part of the computer,” it said in a statement yesterday.

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Ita downgraded Cyclone Ita has been downgraded to a category four but authorities say it’s still a severe storm. Ita has slowed down to 13 kilometres per hour and was 115 kilometres northnortheast of Cooktown and 270 kilometres north of Cairns at 5pm yesterday. Queensland’s Bureau of Meteorology has downgraded it from a five to a category four cyclone. But the bureau warns Ita still poses a serious threat to communities along the far north Queensland coast and is expected to make landfall near Cape Flattery. Ita will bring destructive winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour and storm surges. - AAP

Quake in Nicaragua A 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Nicaragua has killed one person, left 33 injured, and damaged more than 800 homes.

President Daniel Ortega declared a state of emergency after yesterday’s quake, centred in the Pacific coast region of the Central American nation. He said it caused significant damage and triggered panic among the population. The fatality was a 37-year-old woman who died of a heart attack. - AFP

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when children go outside Researchers say huddling inside is not good for kids’ eyesight, children are encouraged to go outdoors to play to improve their mood, get exercise and break the hypnotic spell of mobile phones, television and video games.

Now there’s another important reason - it may help them avoid vision problems. Two studies published in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, say that time spent outdoors blunts the chances of children developing nearsightedness (myopia) and slows its progress in those with myopia.

“It’s not the time spent reading, just that they spend more time indoors and are not getting good light needed in early childhood,” says David Hunter, chief ophthalmologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. “There’s something about outdoor light that’s good for the eyes.

But there’s nothing in these two papers that says children shouldn’t be reading.

Maybe they should read outside.”

Nearsightedness makes distant objects appear blurry because of light in the elongated eye focusing in front of the retina. People with farsightedness, or hyperopia, see distant objects clearly

but close ones are blurry. In that case, because of a shortened eyeball, light travelling through the lens never focuses before hitting the retina, with the focus point behind the retina.

A study from Taiwan says myopia has become a public health issue worldwide, making it a priority for the World Health Organisation’s Vision 2020.

“Early onset of myopia is associated with high myopia in adult life,” the study says. “High myopia is a significant public health problem because of its association with increased risk of several ocular diseases, including cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment, myopic retinal degeneration, visual impairment and blindness.”

That reveals the urgency of postponing the onset of myopia as long as possible and retarding progression to keep children “at low myopic status” until adulthood. “Recent evidence suggests that increased outdoor activities and reduced long-term near work could help prevent myopia,” the study says.

In the study, one suburban Taiwanese school adopted a programme to encourage 333 students to go outside during breaks.

The school serving as the control group generally had its 228 students remain inside.

After one year new onset of myopia was significantly lower in the group that took breaks outside compared with the control group that stayed indoors.

Hunter says the numbers were enough to prove there were advantages when children spent more time during the school day, or any day, in daylight.

“Because children spend a lot of time in school, intervention from educational systems is a direct and practical approach to tackle the increasing prevalence of myopia,” the study says.

Hunter says the retina is thought to control eyeball growth depending on the type of light hitting its neurotransmitters.

The quality and colour of indoor light hitting the retina “somehow is contributing to stimulating eye growth”.

Hunter says that before research on the importance of natural light on eyesight, he had little to recommend to parents whose children had myopia.

Now he does: “I encourage with more rigour and confidence for their kids to spend more time outdoors.”

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Phone (03) 307 8317 Phone (03) 307 8317

Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds theguardian.co.nz

EXECUTIVE HOME CLEANING & GARDENING LIMITED Sandra & John

03 307 8184 or 027 292 0180 Professional service and a friendly team for a job well done, experienced gardener.

Roofing Specialists We specialise in:

•New roofs and re-roofs •Five Rib roofing •Corrugated roofing •Fascia, spouting and downpipes •Qualified fixers.

Free Measure & Quote

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696 42 J.B. Cullen Drive

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HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

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• Wall or floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems phone 0274 362 362 or 308 4573.

Certified Assessor for licencing from Learner to Full • Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left

Contact Paul McCormick

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

ELECTRICIAN

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Marmox insulation board Fully installed Free quotes Locally owned and operated

Contact David on: T/F 027 599 4028 E davidtaylor@maxnet.co.nz

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• Rotary Mowers • Ride-on Mowers • Water Blasters • Small Motor Repairs

• Reel Mowers • Chainsaws • Rotary Hoes • Generators

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307 0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36 PAINTING & DECORATING CONTRACTORS If you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your PAINTING and DECORATING NEEDS – Commercial or Residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • Roof painting

air conditioning | heat pumps repairs | additions | audio visual

CALL Bo Houston on 022 414 9449

For any enquiries call us today on Ph/Fax 308-8432 Mob 0274 332 259 Email: trudgeon@vodafone.co.nz

TV AERIAL SPECIALIST YOUR LOCAL TV RECEPTION SPECIALIST • Your local authorised Freeview installer • Improved TV 1 Guaranteed • Extra Phone Points • TV and Video Tuning • Future Proof Pre-wire of New Homes • Authorised Sky Installer • Surround Sound Installation

ASHBURTON TV & AUDIO LTD Ph 308-7332 or 027-277-1062

John Sharman

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Trades & Services To place a Trades & Services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

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The Finishing Company 03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856

Hartley Curd phone 0800 788 393 or 021 328 301 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton.

Wicksey’s Lawn Mowing Service

EMERGENCYglass GLASS rEpairs REPAIRS EmErgEncy There when you need us with a Fast reliable service plus No extra Call-Out fee for urgent after-hours work

Lawns cut and tidied - spick and span - for your home, rental or business properties.

Servicing the Mid Canterbury area.

Good rates, free quote.

ashburton glass Works 11 Peter Street, Gordon Allan gordon allan

Paint, Plaster (Rockcote), Factory Spray Lacquer, Specialist Coatings/Textures (Resin & Stone Floors)

11 peterAshburton street, ashburton Tel:Tel: (03)(03) 308308 3918 3918 a/H:A/H: (021) 716 716 157157 (021)

Ph Graeme on 027 457 6508

Alps Continuous Spouting

Truck and trailer of dry firewood delivered.

Need new spouting, fascia and downpipes?

Give Ben a call for a free quote. All jobs guaranteed.

Bluegum, Oregon and Old Man Pine... that’s the good stuff!

Manufacturers and installers of continuous spouting, fascia and downpipes.

Minimum 4 m3 RINI Contracting Ltd

Ben Kruger • Phone 308 4380 or 027 390 1027 • email: benkruger@xtra.co.nz

Call or text me 027 451 7300

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Water quality testing and treatment Home irrigation Pump sales, service, repair Valves and fittings LPG for home and business Gas appliances Bird scarers LPG hoses, regulators, adaptors . . . and more

Elaine Dillon

MOB: 021 836 543 or O: 307-7907 or 307-7900

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Michael & Ann Keen

FURNITURE & BEDS Lounge and bedroom Lounge suites, occasional furniture, dining suites and Sleepyhead beds See Cam today

East to Burnett St, Ashburton Phone 03 308 5269

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Compactor Truck Driver

Kliptank Territory Manager

We require a reliable and well presented person to drive our front and rear load compactor trucks. Class 4 license required but we would be prepared to assist a suitable applicant who has a class 2.

Opportunity to join a well established business introducing innovative tank solutions to the dairy farming industry.

Apart from driving, there is a wide variety of other tasks in our busy recycling depot, so if you want to be part of a small but vibrant team that is making a difference call into McNally street depot and pick up an application form or email tony@wastebusters.net.nz.

• Experience sought from rural construction / dairy farming / agricultural industries • Seeking a results and client satisfaction driven salesperson • Covering Canterbury region - Oamaru to Kaikoura geographical territory To receive application instructions email: kirsty.recruiting@gmail.com Or ph: 021 355 179 or apply online at http://www.seek.co.nz/job/26320419

Post applications to PO Box 323 Ashburton 7740

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MATT LOVETT LTD EffluEnt ManagEMEnt

Part-time Position

Our Mid Canterbury based slurry spreading business requires a reliable person to operate our Storth Mega Mix Stirrer and tractor.

This includes: • Stirring dairy effluent ponds • Some heavy lifting of pipes Hours will vary. Must have a current drivers licence. Agricultural experience is a plus.

Guardian Motoring

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Tractor Driver – Machinery Operator A full-time, permanent position has become available on our dairy farm 10 minutes north of Ashburton. No on-farm accommodation is available.

Experience in handling large modern agricultural equipment for feeding animals and operating a spraying unit with 20+ metre boom will be an advantage.

This position requires good mechanical skills, ability to communicate clearly, and being prepared to work efficiently within a team environment.

Apply to ajrgrant@hotmail.com with an outline of your abilities.

CONTACT MATT ON 027 281 2089

Initial enquiries can be made by phoning 021 892 763

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Mon, Wed, Thurs: 8am-5.30pm Fri: 8am-1pm

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Starting Monday, May 5 – June 27, 2014

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Start winter on the right foot and let’s get you and your buddy healthy with new healthy habits and exercise!

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Parts and Accessories Assistant

• Trade Estimation & Quotation

BAM Pumping Ltd operates 8 Z Stations in South/ Mid Canterbury and is looking for the right Manager to become part of our team.

Do you want to: • Run a multi-million $ turnover site.

• Operate the Z food and coffee site in Ashburton • Manage a team of between 10-15 staff.

• Have day to day operational autonomy.

• Receive ongoing training.

• Be part of a progressive NZ company.

The successful applicant will be a motivated team player, with the Z Factor. You may be a recent business graduate or have a background in management, perhaps even a current cafe manager looking for more.

If you believe you have the right skills to lead our team please apply by email or post with a current CV to:

A great opportunity exists within our business in the role of Company Trade Estimation & Quotation, this person will be responsible for house plan quantity estimations, and pricing for our Mitre 10 stores in Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru. The position could be based in Ashburton or Timaru dependant on the suitable applicant.

Ideally we would like a person with experience in Price Estimations although if we find a suitable applicant with the right attributes we are willing to train and develop a person in the skills required to perform the role. This position is full time, Monday - Friday (40 hours).

Ideal attributes: • Experience in Microsoft Excel, Word & Outlook • Experience with Build Master software or similar (If no experience, training will be provided) • Exceptional customer service skills • Accuracy is paramount • Ability to solve problems • Building Industry experience.

Bevan McLellan BAM Pumping Ltd PO Box 724 Timaru Email: ztimaru@xtra.co.nz

• Building Supplies Sales person Two positions (40 hours and 24 hours per week) We are looking for two sales people to join our busy building supplies team. One position is full time (40 hours) and the other is part-time (24 hours), both positions will include one weekend day.

Applications will be held in the strictest confidence and close on May 4, 2014.

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Site Manager Z Ashburton

Ashburton Guardian

Ideal attributes: • Experience of interest in DIY • Excellent customer service skills • Reliable • Be able to work in a team • Be fit as manual lifting is required • Clean drivers licence If you think you have the attributes for either of these positions, please send your C.V. and covering letter stating which position you are applying for to:

Due to a position becoming available in our parts and accessories department, we are seeking to appoint a person to our busy, enthusiastic franchise dealership. Desirably, this person would have a reasonable mechanical knowledge and good computer skills, have some experience with counter sales, with excellent telephone and customer service skills.

Jeff Marshall Motorcycles is in a very buoyant, large rural sector. We service the farm and off road sector, and have a large road bike riding clientele as well.

Our parts department is spacious, clean and tidy, warm with easy access. Our business is very much customer focused, so applicants need to be the same, be prepared to take responsibility, be honest, have strong self-belief, be physically fit and active, loyal, driven, have a sense of humour and be passionate about motorcycles.

We consider ourselves a pro-active business, and in the community and motorcycle clubs.

Applicants, • Must have a high attention to detail, • Must be able to work as part of a team, and also be able to work unsupervised, • Must be willing to do on going product training, • Must have a clean drivers licence, & preferably motorcycle, • Should have a NZ residency or a valid NZ work Visa, • Remuneration is dependent on experience and skill..

Check out our business www.jeffmarshallsuzuki.co.nz Application can be made in the strictest confidence by contacting Jeff. Marshall direct on wk - 03 308 2055 cell - 027 431 1744 email - jeff@jeffmarshallsuzuki.co.nz

HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to Human Resources, Mitre 10 MEGA, P.O. Box 35, Ashburton 7740.

All applications remain confidential and close on Wednesday, April 23, 2014.

Class 5 Truck Driver Stuart Tarbotton Contractors Limited is a successful and innovated contracting company, operating a wide range of modern machinery ranging from 1.5ton to 25ton Excavators, Graders, Scrapers, Dump Trucks, Trucks and Trailers, Loaders, Rollers, Bulldozers, Crushing Plant.

Netball Administrator Mid Canterbury Netball is looking to find a suitable candidate

Due to ongoing workload we are currently looking to employ a Class 5 Truck Driver

Farm Assistant – Ashburton Meat Processors

Stuart Tarbotton Contractors has a variety of work on offer such as • Tree clearance work • General farm maintenance • Dairy and farm lanes • Demolition • Driveways

“TOMORROW’S toSUCCESS fill the role of Netball Administrator for Mid Canterbury.

The ideal candidate will have: BEGINS TODAY”

• Effluent storage ponds • Dairy conversions • Farm drainage control • Industrial site works • Subdivisions

Kip McGrath helps more than 15,000 children succeed in Maths and English every year.

Ashburton Meat Processors Limited operates yearround from its premises in Bridge Street, producing a range of meat cuts on-time and to specification for a number of significant local and national clients.

If this sounds of interest to you please phone the office on (03) 307 7065 or 0274 332 264 or email CV to: office.stc@xtra.co.nz

We are currently seeking applications from suitable people for a Farm Assistant role on our state-of-the-art Worm Farm operation.

Applicant confidentiality is assured.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Plough and Drill Operator

Roger Smith Contracting Ltd is a very progressive, family owned company specialising in drilling and cultivation in Mid Canterbury.

We maintain a focus of being the best in the industry. Due to our business expanding we have an opportunity for a highly motivated operator who is keen to work with the best team and the latest equipment.

We offer: { Full training and a systemised work environment { Friendly team environment { Late model John Deere tractors

This is a full time position, working within a small team responsible for the operation of our on-site worm farm. Tasks will range from shifting irrigators and feeding of stock, to general maintenance of outdoor areas of the worm farm and plant. Applicants must be physically fit and capable of operating a range of machinery from tractors to irrigators.

This position offers full on-job training, a competitive hourly rate and year-round job security.

To apply, email your details to lisa.miller@ab32.co.nz or for further information, contact Ryan on 03 308 2019.

Applications close 17 April 2014.

The successful candidate will require a high standard of capability and dedication to quality workmanship with the skills and ability to operate equipment of this size.

If this position is of interest to you, please apply in writing to; Roger Smith Contracting Ltd 1 Sudbury Street Hampstead Ashburton 7700 Or phone Roger on 027 223 0406

• Competency using MS Office and Xero.

• Ability to work independently without supervision.

• Strong effective communication skills both written and If you love teaching verbal. this could be a great • High attention to detail. opportunity for you.

• Team player and a positive attitude.

Due to roll growth • Work well under pressure and have the ability to in our Ashburton multitask.

Kip McGrath Centre we require a trained • Experience in planning and management is an advantage. teacher, starting Term • The ability to effectively maintain all netball programmes 2. Hours negotiable.

We provide help, confidence, or extension work, according to your child’s run inprogrammes Mid Canterbury. specific learning needs. We specialise in individual for Y1-10 Ability to teach students whichliteracy use a balance of computer work and bookwork, • Knowledge of netball is an advantage but not essential. and that are aligned to school curriculum. and numeracy to We also cater for Y11 and Y12 NCEA maths students.

All our level tutors are qualified, experienced teachers. intermediate This role is contracted for up to 35 hours during the netball Call us at Kip McGrath on 307 6252 preferable. and arrange for your child’s free educational assessment. season, dropping to approximately 15 hours out of netball If thisSpecialist sounds likein Mathematics, you tuition English, Spelling and Reading season.

Flexibility of hours and ability to work nights and www.kipmcgrath.co.nz please email a brief ~ Ph: (0800) TUTORING or 307 6252. weekends is required.

CV to: For job description or any information about the above position ashburton@ kipmcgrath.co.nz please email Angela at aaron.ange@xtra.co.nz To apply forward your CV and covering letter by Saturday, April 26 to: SITUATIONS VACANT

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Office Junior We are seeking a bright, outgoing and eager to learn Office Junior to join our firm.

The successful applicant will possess: • • • •

A pleasant personality An excellent telephone manner Accuracy in message taking Word processing skills to a high standard • Driver’s licence preferable You will be working in a busy environment and be expected to handle telephone enquiries, reception work, typing and general office duties.

This is an entry level position with opportunities for an aspiring legal secretary or a person wishing to pursue a career as a legal executive (involving qualification at tertiary level).

Please apply in your own handwriting, enclosing a copy of your CV, to The Office Manager Argyle Welsh Finnigan Solicitors PO Box 454 Ashburton 7740

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Blacklows TradeZone Ashburton

Store Person/Sales Representative Blacklows TradeZone Ashburton supply automotive and engineering products and accessories within the Ashburton/Mid & South Canterbury districts.

Due to increased demands from a growing customer base, they now seek an internal/part time “on road’ salesperson to join their team. This is a full time position with some Saturday morning work.

The position includes: - Warehousing and stock control duties - Building strong customer relationships - Identifying and generating new business opportunities - Developing existing client base Applicant will need: - To be honest, confident and result driven - Proven sales history would be an advantage - Be willing to go the extra mile for our customers - An engineering & automotive background - Possess a NZ citizenship & current drivers licence - Good computer skills If you are interested in a career with an award winning, well established company, are self motivated, well organised and meet the above criteria, please send your cover letter and CV to: Peter Blacklow, Manager, Blacklows TradeZone Ashburton.

Or email peter@blacklows.co.nz

Or email: jan.johnson@awlegal.co.nz ASHBURTON

South Street, Ashburton PHONE (03) 308-3147 FREEPHONE 0800 452 522

Registered Nurse Part time

We are looking to employ an RGON or R. Comp. Nurse to join our team and work with our Clinical Manager.

This role involves day shifts on a permanent part time basis.

Prior elder care/dementia care preferred and experience with quality systems management would be an advantage.

Receptionist/Office Administrator – Part time Due to restructuring we are seeking a part time Receptionist /Office Administrator for 25 hours per week.

Experience with this role and affinity with the elderly essential.

Please call for an application form and job description or apply via email or in writing to:

PRINCES COURT DEMENTIA CARE 58 Princes Street ASHBURTON 7700 Ph. 03 308 0302 Email: admin@princescourt.co.nz

Coachbuilder or Panelbeater A full time position has become available in our Panel and Paint shop for a Coachbuilder or Panelbeater.

The position requires • Good work ethics • Have a high standard in detail and finish • To be reliable • The ability to work unsupervised • To work in a team and meet production deadlines Please send resume and cover letter to The General Manager Bus and Truck Body Work Ltd PO Box 51, Ashburton 7740 Phone Keith on 0274 274 007 or 307 0378 Email busandtruckbodywork@xtra.co.nz

General Cartage Dispatcher

We are a locally owned family transport company with a fleet of 60 trucks consisting of Foden, Isuzu, MB, DAF & Kenworth trucks based in the Methven area. Our dedicated team are expertly trained and experienced to deliver a variety of services to our extensive range of clients.

We are seeking to employ a full time general cartage dispatcher to work in our busy office, the applicants should have the following attributes: • Possesses excellent communication skills and has an affinity with the rural client base • Good time management and well organised • A ‘can-do’ attitude when under pressure • Proven staff management • Computer skills are an advantage as we operate a modern dispatching system although full training can be given.

This position is available to anyone who feels they may possess the skills we require and who wish to work in a busy team environment.

Remuneration will be negotiated with the successful applicant depending on previous experience. Package includes a full use company vehicle and medical insurance.

Coach Builder/Panel Beater Ashburton, Full Time, Coach Builder/Panel Beater

Skilled Coach Builder/Panel Beater wanted Ritchies Transport Holdings Ltd is New Zealand’s largest privately owned bus company with over 900 buses New Zealand wide with a large bus repair/refurbishment workshop in Ashburton.

We currently have a vacancy for: Qualified Coach Builder/Panel beater to join the team working on buses and coaches at our Ashburton workshop.

Essential requirements include: • Strong communication and literacy skills • Experience repairing and maintaining buses or trucks • Trade qualification preferred, or suitable industry experience • Welding experience is must • Able to be flexible

Mark Great Southern 143 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton.

Merchandiser/ Rep – Ashburton

Great hourly rate.

No time sheets.

Established non-food branded product.

Phone (03) 302 8616 or e-mail simon@philipwareing.co.nz

Email CV and photo to Cody.

temp100@ihug.co.nz

Part Time - Fixed Term Contract Newlands seek a person to assist with office and administrative functions following a recent, significant acquisition. This is a part time, fixed term position, for up to 12 months, to assist with the integration of the new trading activities into our existing operations.

The successful applicant will have the following attributes: • Enjoy working in a team environment • Possess good communication skills • Be reliable, accurate and conscientious • Previous administration/office experience • Excellent organisational skills • Be flexible and willing to undertake a variety of tasks within different departments of the business • Experience with Microsoft office • Great telephone manner • Be able to take the initiative Training in our systems and processes will be provided to the successful applicant.

This part time position is for at least 20 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Newlands are market leaders in the auto-electrical and battery supply industries, with branches in Ashburton, Rolleston and Timaru. (For further info visit www. newlands.net.nz).

For more information or to obtain a job description please contact karla@ newlands.net.nz. To apply please forward your CV along with a written cover letter to: karla@newlands.net.nz Newlands Group Ltd. P.O. Box 315, Ashburton Phone 03 308 7234 or 0800 153 771 www.newlands.net.nz Applications close Thursday, April 24.

Trounce Transport Ltd

Driver Required We are currently seeking a driver for one of our bulk grain truck and trailer units.

If this interests you and you have Class 5 licence, please give Ian a call

027 432 9788.

Allenton School requires an

Office Assistant

to work in a job-share position, which involves secretarial, financial and medical duties, starting as early as possible.

This is a great opportunity to become part of an established, New Zealand owned and operated company.

The shared position will be 5 days over a fortnight for a total of 38 hours.

Apply NOW! Send your CV to:

If you think you have the necessary skills to meet the challenge of this position and would like an application package, please contact the school office by telephone, 308 6495, or email office@ allenton.school.nz

Garth Stewart garth.stewart@ritchies.co.nz PO Box 95085 Swanson Auckland 0653

We’ve built a reputation

211 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton (03) 307 61 30 www.calderstewart.co.nz

027 222 3319 Please apply to

Must be already in stores merchandising.

Simon Wareing Philip Wareing Ltd P O Box 28 Methven

This is a full time position working Monday to Friday and some weekend work will be required.

Remuneration will be negotiated commensurate with your ability.

of being solid and reliable, just like the buildings we construct.

Yard Person We require staff for our Ashburton yard that enjoy working outside and have a good level of physical fitness.

The successful applicants will be self motivated and work well in a team.

Enquiries to

Part time. A few hours a fortnight.

Office Administration Assistant

Applications will close at 5pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Dementia Care

SITUATIONS VACANT

Applications close 23 April 2014.

If interested please obtain application pack before Thursday 17 April 2014.

Visit our website www.allenton.school.nz for details

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Saturday, April 12, 2014 TENDERS

Driver Class 5 Ashburton

TNL is a major participant in the road transport and logistic market employing over 300 permanent staff. TNL has a long and distinguished history in which it has earned its reputation as a leading provider of seamless transport and logistic services.

A position has become available for a Class 5 driver to join our Ashburton branch. TNL Ashburton provides nationwide freighting services as well as local deliveries.

We are seeking applicants with proven driving experience in truck and trailer units to be based in Ashburton to undertake line haul run from Ashburton to Christchurch and return daily.

Specifically the successful person will have the following: • A minimum class 5 license with relevant driving experience, • Current F and DG endorsement, • A passion for excellence, • A proven history of providing strong customer service, • Good time management skills.

Applications should apply in writing to: Colin Smythe, Branch Manager, P.O. Box 6055, Allenton, Ashburton 7740 or email colin.smythe@tnl-group.co.nz Applications close Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Ashburton Guardian

RURAL TRADING POST

TENDER NOTICE

CONTRACT 2014/E3 - HIRE OF PLANT, TRANSPORT OF PLANT AND ROCK FOR RIVER AND PARKS WORKS

Environment Canterbury invites tenders for the casual hire of plant and equipment for river works for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015. The region extends from the area covered by the Kaikoura District Council in the north to the Waitaki River Catchment in the south.

Rates are sought for:

Backhoes Mowers Bushmen Rollers/Compactors Bulldozers Scrapers Draglines Spraying Units Excavators Te Waihora/ Lake Ellesmere Openings Graders Tractors Helicopter spraying Transporters Loaders Road Trucks and trailers Loading & Transporting of Rock Road Trucks – rock cartage Log Skidders Off-road Dump Trucks Watercarts Miscellaneous Labour and Plant; for fencing repairs, weedeating, tree chipping etc.

Tender documents can be downloaded electronically from our website: www.ecan.govt.nz/planthire, or can be obtained by phoning Customer Services on 03 353 9007 or toll free on 0800 EC INFO (324 636).

TRADING

LAMB or CATTLE FINANCE

AT COMPETITIVE RATES Purchase new or cashflow existing stock.

Flexible terms and finance options available.

Put your plans into action and give one of our agribusiness managers a call today.

Mark Poole Sam Earl

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027 614 1148 027 677 7195

Tenders shall be submitted on the forms contained in the tender documents and shall be contained in a sealed envelope endorsed “TENDER FOR HIRE OF PLANT”. Tenders may be posted to Environment Canterbury, PO Box 345, Christchurch 8140, or placed in the Tenders Box at the Environment Canterbury office at 5 Sir William Pickering Drive, Burnside. Tenders sent by Fax will not be considered.

Tenders shall close at 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 May 2014.

Tractor Driver / General Farm Hand

We are a small contracting business operating modern well maintained machinery which includes cultivating and drilling. Experience in reversible ploughing and drilling will be an advantage. Farm work involves shifting stock, feeding out and general farm work Our vision is to provide quality service to the local community Good remuneration offered for the right person in helping us achieve this, which means working long hours at times and still being able to laugh.

If you are still keen after that last line you just might be the right person so:

TRADES, SERVICES

Public Notice

FRIESIAN BULLS

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ $ FOR SCRAP $ BUYERS OF ALL METALS Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling Licensed Buyer Dealer

10A McGregor Lane Riverside Estate (Off McNally Street)

Phone 308-8959 or 027-228-1467 anytime

TRADES, SERVICES 4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, fade, heat and glare control, privacy and safety films for glass. FREE quotes - 20 years local service, Bill Breukelaar - phone 0800 368 468. www.tintawindow.co.nz

TENDERS Calder Stewart Construction invites Subcontractors and Suppliers pricing this tender to submit their quotes by 12 noon Wednesday 16 April 2014

NZFS Southbridge Fire Station – NP1690 New Station 79 Hastings Street, Southbridge Contact Jeff Sutherland Phone 03 338 0013 Or jeff.sutherland@ calderstewart.co.nz PO Box 8356, Riccarton, Christchurch 8440.

Documents available at our office AON House, 388 Blenheim Road.

CD available on request.

CARPET-2-U sales and TRADES, SERVICES installation of carpet, vinyl and tiles. Phone Mike Gill on SOLAR-SHADE-WINDOW027 491 4210.

TINTING. Controlling the Sun. Best Product, best HOME handyman available. installation, best price.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph Lifetime warranties. Ph 0800 027-677-1952.

473 242, www.hpwf.co.nz

RURAL TRADING POST

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more

FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

Give us a call, ask for James on 03 303 6232 between 7pm-9pm

WANTED

PUBLIC NOTICES

Bill Bayfield CHIEF EXECUTIVE

McLeod Cultivation Due to expansions in the team we require a new team member contracting work covering Geraldine and Mayfield districts, arable / diary support farm based in Ruapuna area

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TRADES, SERVICES COMPUTER PROBLEMS? For prompt, reliable service, contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton, ph 308 8989, 30 years local experience.

SUPERGOLD discount card accepted.

AVAILABLE NOW MAIZE

Phone Rob 027 447 4812 for delivered price RURAL TRADING POST

APRIL/MAY CALF SHED BEDDING SPECIAL. 10% discount on bulk orders for our premium woodmulch delivered in April/May. Guaranteed 100% untreated wood/bark. NO DEMOLITION MATERIALS USED HERE. Sawdust also available.

Adams Sawmilling, Malcolm McDowell Road. Ph 3083595.

Guardian Classifieds Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

Mon-Fri 8am – 5.30pm Sat 10am – 1pm

SITUATIONS WANTED HONEST, reliable, 34 years old male, experienced tractor driver, requires tractor driving.

Agriculture work, has class 2 licence. Phone 027 590 5080.

Contact: Sam Earl 027 677 7195 Mark Poole 027 614 1148

FODDER BEET for grazing or harvesting.

CUSTOM motorcycle modifications.

General stainless steel and aluminium fabrication, onsite maintenance.

Southern Engineering, 13 Robinson Street, Paveco, 027 829 0000.

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING. Professional window tinting of cars, homes & offices. Quality films for privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety & security. Phone Craig Rogers your ONLY local applicator 307 6347 or 0800TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ.

Cashflow existing or finance available to purchase

Birthday Greetings Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

Frank Rooney Happy 4th Birthday.

Hope you have a great day.

Love Mum, Dad, Max and Honor.

Frank Rooney Lots of love on your 4th Birthday tomorrow.

Love from Nana, Pop, Aunty Penny, Aunty Hayley and Uncle Logan.

Poppie Busch-Ward Happy 7th Birthday Pops Lots of love Mum, Jack and Ruby. xoxoxo

0800 LASER 4 U (0800 527 374) www.laserelectrical.co.nz

Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our ground floor office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Fondant Flower Classes with Kirstin Day

Fri, April 11, 1pm - 3pm Demonstration $25 Sat, April 12, 1.30pm - 4.30pm Hands on class $65 The Arcade, Ashburton Includes flower modelling kit Limited spaces so be in quick!

03 308 8287

Section 101, Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 Public notice of application for on-licence, off-licence, or club licence (or application for variation of conditions of onlicence, off-licence, or club licence) Ianmashtami Food Ltd, 300 East Street, Ashburton 7700, has made application to the District Licensing Committee at Ashburton for the issue (or renewal or variation of conditions) of an on licence in respect of the premises situated at 300 East Street, Ashburton 7700, known as Indian Minar.

The general nature of the business conducted (or to be conducted) under the licence is: Indian Restaurant The days on which and the hours during which alcohol is (or is intended to be) sold under the licence are: 10am - 12am Monday to Sunday (7 days).

The application may be inspected during ordinary office hours at the office of the Ashburton District Licensing Committee at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Any person who is entitled to object and who wished to object to the grant of the application may, not later than 15 working days after the date of the first publication of this notice, file a notice in writing of the objection with: The Secretary, Ashburton District Licensing Committee, PO Box 94, Ashburton District Council No objection to the issue of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 105 (1) of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

No objection to the renewal of a licence may be made in relation to a matter other than a matter specified in Section 131 of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

This is the first publication of this notice. This is the second publication of this notice. The first publication was made on Saturday, March 29, 2014.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

REAL ESTATE

450sqm Building For Lease PGG Wrightson Rural Supplies 447 West Street Ashburton

We will be closed on Easter Saturday, 19 April and ANZAC Saturday, 26 April 2014.

For urgent enquiries please phone 027 662 2925.

Helping grow the country

PLANTS, PRODUCE CONVENTIONAL pea straw, weed free, $5 delivered in Ashburton area. Phone 027 390 0002 or 303 7680.

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

DAIRY FARMERS Expressions of interest for dairy lease bulls available for coming season, fresian and white faced bulls. Phone 027 632 6168.

Refuse and Recycling – Easter and ANZAC Collections

Resource Recovery Parks The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks will be closed on: • • •

Friday 18 April 2014 Monday 21 April 2014 Friday 25 April 2014

Methven Drop-off Facility The Methven drop-off facility for household items will be closed on: • Friday 18 April 2014 • Friday 25 April 2014

All enquiries welcome

Collections normally scheduled for Friday 18 April 2014 will be collected on Thursday 17 April 2014

Please phone Matt or Heidi Hart 027 547 8935 or 302 0186 PUBLIC NOTICES

GRAZING

GRAZING wanted, for beef cattle. May till November.

Numbers to suit. Phone 027 632 6168.

Collections normally scheduled for Monday 21 April 2014 will be collected on Tuesday 22 April 2014 Collections normally scheduled for Friday 25 April 2014 will be collected on Thursday 24 April 2014 There are no changes to any other collections.

Please ensure all rubbish and recycling is placed at kerbside by 7.30am on collection day.

NEIL MCCANN Group Manager Service Delivery

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Special Olympics Mid Canterbury

A.G.M. Monday, April 28 At Idea Services All interested persons welcome.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

GRAZING 12HA kale, close to Winchmore Hall. Phone 027 222 5360.

Pool & Pump World will be closed for the Easter holidays from Friday, April 18 till Monday, April 28, 9am.

The team wishes everybody a nice Easter.

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL DUTY DOCTORS GENERAL WARDS - (Medical and Surgical): This service is for emergency medical DAILY, 2pm - 4pm and 6pm - 7.30pm care only. Please remember your Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Community Services Card. Emergency CHALMERS WARD - (including Assessment, phone until 8am Monday - 0800 700 155.

Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN Allenton Medical Centre, The Mall, VISITING. Harrison Street, Ashburton, will be the duty MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. practice for Saturday and Sunday until 8am -Husbands and patient’s own children may Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm. until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm both TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, days. No appointment necessary. Surgery -unrestricted visiting. phone 308 9139.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES

COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, For weekend doctor and emergency details unrestricted visiting. please telephone the Rakaia Medical Centre, CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted ph 303 5002. visiting.

PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service. visiting.

Except in cases of emergency persons EMERGENCY DENTIST requiring medical attention must consult If you do not have or cannot contact your their own or the duty general practitioner. regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 Persons subsequently requiring treatment for the name of the rostered weekend dentist at Ashburton Hospital must have a general in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, practitioners note of referral.

Sundays and Public Holidays.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

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ELPLINE ERVICES Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, Cnr East & Burnett Streets, Ashburton, will ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS be open from 9.30am - 12.30pm Saturday, Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757)

FLOAT hire - single, double and tandem. Reasonable rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Feed. Phone 308-3422 anytime.

GRAZING

GRAZ4U LIMITED. May to May grazing available for large numbers of 1 yo dairy heifers. Winter Grazing for R2's and Cows available. 5 Hectares of fodder beet to be bought harvested and taken off farm. A Contractor is available. Please contact: Sarah: 027 206 6760 or Matthew Bird: 027 608 3226.

GRAZING - winter grazing available, 28ha irrigated kale and supplements for approx 500 cows/heifers. Westerfield Valetta area. Phone 0274 399 139.

HIGH quality supervised grazing available for Rising 1 Heifers, now, or at May 1, 2014. For all grazing requirements. Contact: Matt cellphone no: 027 608 3226.

WANTED: lamb grazing for 450 lambs until approx end of June. Phone 0274 889 099 or 303 0919.

WINTER GRAZING. Kale in Mayfield area (numbers to suit).

Transition grass, covered barley straw, quality grass balage. Good cattle yards. Experienced grazier.

Sold standing or per head per week. Phone Andrew 027 470 1067.

FOR SALE

LARGE house lot of carpet, 4-5 years old. Grey tones.

Please phone 027 491 4210.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

from 10.30am - 12 noon Sunday, and from or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

6.30pm - 7pm both evenings.

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

GRAZING

GRAZIERS required to accommodate increased demand for dairy heifer grazing and winter cow grazing, immediate, or May 1, 2014. For all grazing requirements. Contact Phone: Matt cellphone no: 027 608 3226.

27 Gordons Road, Ashburton Phone 308 2245

Weekend Services MEDICAL SERVICES

Due to a staff bereavement Smallbone Holden and Smallbone Isuzu will be operating at a reduced capacity from 11.30am Monday, April 14.

With full services resuming Tuesday, April 15.

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

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

PHARMACIES

438 Acton Road, Rakaia

Refuse and Recycling - Kerbside Collection If your collection day is a Friday or Monday there will be changes over Easter and ANZAC Day.

MOTORING FOR SALE Mazda Capella.

1995 Mazda Capella 5 speed manual. Registered and warranted. 196,000 kms very good condition. Runs well $2500 or near offer. Please phone after 7pm 03 308 5800.

• High stud construction with concrete apron surrounds • Includes; office, kitchen and toilets • Only 5 minutes off State Highway 1 • Previously used as an export packhouse • Offers a variety of opportunities; contractors, storage, packhouse

Closed Statutory Holidays.

Group Bookings by arrangement

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service

MENTAL HEALTH

COMMUNITY POOL

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

Team.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

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

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Phone 308 1133. Baring Square East, Ashburton. Sat & Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm Closed Public Holidays.

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

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Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm

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WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021

1356 969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 027 683 8111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: The duty vet this weekend is: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Fiona Chapman.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour weekend emergencies: Large: Tommy Wilson. Small: Ian Hodge.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Reon McMurtrie. Small: Refer Vet Ent Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after

NIMAL ERVICES hours small animal emergency service. To use Baring Square East, Ashburton. Ph 308 3167 DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL this service please phone your vet as usual.

Saturday-Sunday 1.00pm - 4.00pm

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PLANTS, PRODUCE

PERSONAL

Cauliflower

$1.99 ea

Avocado Royal Gala 2kg Plums 1kg Potatoes 10kg

.99c ea $2.99 bag $2.99 bag $5.99 bag

Specials available from 08/04 - 15/04

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

FOR SALE 2009 PIAGGIO 49cc scooter.

4976km, 4 stroke, rego on hold $1450, mint condition, jet black, please phone 308 2440.

FOR SALE

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308-3602

FIREWOOD for sale, generous 3.6m cord, semi dry CARAVANS, TRAILERS pine, delivered Ashburton 6X4 TRAILER for sale, only $150. Phone Dave 027 registered, no warrant 660 6433. $350.00. Phone 308 6058.

FOR SALE - Two lounge Suites, two fridge-freezers, one automatic washing, 1 29 inch TV, one single bed, to view and make offers call at 19 Porter Street, Saturday 9 until 12 noon.

NISSAN 2005 March 2, silver, excellent order, 53,000kms, auto, 1400cc, economical, easy parking. $10,000. Phone 308 3775.

8X4 TRAILER. Steel trailer with wooden deck. WOF expires August 2014.

Registered till February 2015.

Asking price $500. Also solid trampoline and freestanding netball hoop, open to offers.

Phone 308 7700 or 027 221 3930.

There is no need to be alone when our matchmakers know so many wonderful women and men who are also seeking one safe special partner. Whether you live in town or on the land, happiness and fulfilment can be yours with a phone call.

Phone 0800 856 640 til 7pm Credits avail for members of other agencies www.bridgesintros.co.nz Matchmaker since 1989

ACCOMMODATION,

WARM sunny two bedroom ADULT flat on the west side to rent.

Available Easter, easy care, ENTERTAINMENT small section.

Phone BORED out of your tree, Rebecca 027 555 1455. need some excitement? Give me a call. Xander. Busty and attractive. Phone 021 0233 9259 (no texting) No time wasters.

MODERN two bedroom flat to rent. Heat-pump, dishwasher.

Close in west side, no smokers, no pets. $275pw.

Phone 308 9201.

TO RENT: three bedroom brick house in Allenton. Nice big section. Close to school.

Prefer non smokers, no pets.

Rent per week $350. Viewing CARAVAN for sale. 1980 time available 11am - 12noon Oxford.

18ft tandem, Sunday, April 13. Please complete with awning. Ph 03 contact Simon, phone 027 302 0816.

439 3010.

GRAZING

HOW LONG WILL YOU BE SINGLE??

308-1095 RENTAL

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

MEETINGS, EVENTS

The next meeting of the Ashburton Trust Board will be held in the Head Office Boardroom, Level 1 Somerset House, Cnr East + Burnett Streets, Ashburton

May 13 to May 14 for 220 yearlings – Winchmore irrigated 250 yearlings – Oxford part irrigated

on

Phone Greg Tait

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 4:30pm

027 378 6314

Giles Beal Chief Executive

Guardian Classifieds

9.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET. Weekly farm fresh produce, plants, coffee, food and more. North end of the West Street car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist

Sunday 8.00am ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele.

Church lounge, Baring Square East.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. palm Sunday service led by Paul Inwood, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Family service led by Rev Laurence Ennor, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth members celebrate Palm Sunday, morning tea to follow. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Monday 9.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass

Church Services Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 Website

Presbyterian Church Havelock Street 10am Morning Service Office Ph 308 8042 Weekdays 9am - noon

& Communion

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison Children’s Programme 6.00pm House of Prayer

Sunday Worship 13 April Palm Sunday 10am & 7pm

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Maundy Thursday 17 April 6pm Tenebrae Service in the Sinclair Centre Good Friday 18 April 9.30am

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10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Saturday’s in the West Street Car park.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATON MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Doubles competition. Ashburton Domain, Philip Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB. Monthly concert “Opening Night”.

Arranged by Committee. Sinclair Centre, Park Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovett’s Road, Maronan Road.

10.00am ASHBURTON M.S.A. QUOITS. All welcome to have a throw. Racecourse Road M.S.A. Sports ground.

10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Palm Sunday Service Rev David Brown Cnr Havelock St & Park St 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping god and transforming lives.

63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11.00am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship, St James, Jane Street, Tinwald.

12.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Senior youth group travel to Christchurch for Methodist Service.

12.50pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. Racecourse Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm STAVELEY MUSEUM. Open in the Staveley village.

4.00pm - 6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNI0N CHURCH. Messy Church, Join us for fun crafts, fellowship, Christian message and shared tea. Bring a plate. Family friendly.

St David’s Church hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service In The Sinclair Centre Rev David Brown Cnr Havelock St & Park St 7.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Senior youth group Easter egg hut and reflection on the week leading up to Easter, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10.00am CARDIAC COMPANIONS. Exercises, social and occasional speakers.

Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Seafield Road.

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

7.00pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Holy Communion, Park Street.

7.30pm TINWALD INDOOR BOWLS CLUB. All welcome to come and have a bowl.

Tinwald Hall, entry off McMurdo Street.

8.00pm ASHBURTON ELECTRONIC ORGANAND KEYBOARD CLUB. Club night, visitors welcome. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

Church hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

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Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays @10.00am Including Children’s church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron St’s Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699 St David’s Church 48 Allens Road Everyone welcome www.st-davids.org.nz

131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome

Come and hear faith to overcome in these unstable days.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

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Saturday, April 12, 2014 TV ONE

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TV TWO

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Come Dine With Me Omnibus PGR 3 0 11:25 Tagata Pasifika Noon Cook Me The Money 1pm Mexican Food Made Simple 30 1:30 NZ On A Plate – Off The Beaten Track 3 0 2pm Four Weddings PGR 3pm Keep Calm And Carry On 30 3:30 Coastwatch PGR 3 0 4pm South 3 0 4:30 Get Fresh With Al Brown 30 5pm River Monsters With Jeremy Wade 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar A team of people who spend most of their time in remote bush hunting pests like goats and deer for DOC and regional councils. 0 7:30 MasterChef Masterclass MasterChef judges Simon Gault and Ray McVinnie make their favourite risotto and dessert. 0 8:30 Endeavour 0 10:30 Call the Midwife PGR 0

6am Pocoyo 3 0 6:05 Poppet Stars 0 6:10 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:20 The Adventures Of Chuck And Friends 0 6:40 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 7:05 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 Teen Titans Go! 0 7:50 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:20 Green Lantern – The Animated Series 0 8:45 Adventure Time 3 0 9:10 Young Justice – Invasion 0 9:35 Regular Show PGR 3 0 10am Fresh 10:30 Rodney 3 0 11am Wipeout 3 0 Noon The Bachelorette PGR 3 0 1:55 The Carrie Diaries PGR 0 2:55 The Fosters PGR 3:55 Melissa And Joey 3 0 4:25 Full House 3 0 5pm Extreme Makeover – Home Edition 3 0 6pm The Amazing Race 3 0

11:40 Whitechapel AO 3 0 12:40 Titanic AO 3 0 1:35 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:35 Neighbourhood 3 0 4:05 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

11:05 M Appaloosa AO 2008 Crime. Ed Harris. 0 1:30 M Fanboys AO 2008 Comedy. Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell. 0 3:05 The Apprentice PGR 3 4:40 Melissa And Joey PGR 3 0 5:05 Fresh 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

CHOICE TV 6am What’s Really In Our Food?

6:30 Better Homes And Gardens 8am Selling London 8:30 World’s Greenest Homes 9am Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 9:30 Trish’s Paris Kitchen 10am You Live In What?

11am Traders And Collectors 11:30 Travel Wild Noon House Crashers 12:30 Great British Garden Revival 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm Selling London 3:30 Out In The Cold For a handful of people living in the extremes of the Arctic, going out in extreme conditions is their work.

4pm Fantasy Homes In The City 5pm Hairy Biker’s Best Of British 6pm Nigel Marven 7pm Lonely Planet– Best Parks Ever 7:30 Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 8:35 A History Of Scotland 9:45 Outcasts AO In 2045, a fleet of anti-matter transporters departed Earth for a newly discovered, lifesupporting planet.

10:45 Fantasy Homes In The City

SUNDAY

Midnight Nigel Marven 1am Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 2am Lonely Planet – Best Park Ever 2:30 Flatmates AO 3am A History Of Scotland 4am Outcasts 5am Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British

TV THREE 6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 Both Worlds 3 11am House Rules 3 Noon House Rules 3 1pm Beauty And The Geek Australia PGR 3 2pm Beauty And The Geek Australia PGR 3 3:30 The Great Food Race 3 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 Modern Family Phil and Claire have a five-year plan to go on holiday and enjoy life once Luke leaves for college and, to keep that on track, Phil is taking a drastic step. 0 6pm 3 News

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Sticky TV 8:30 Rugrats 3 9am Rocket Power 9:25 Redakai 3 10:10 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly The adventures of a teen who produces popular Webcasts for kids and becomes an online celebrity.

5:30 Big Time Rush 3 6pm Malcolm In The Middle 0 6:30 M Big Miracle PGR 2012 Drama. Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski.

7pm M Dolphin Tale PGR 2011 7pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate 8:45 F Dream Factory PGR 3 0 Family. Inspired by the true Home Cooking PGR 0 9:45 The Real Housewives of story of a dolphin who loses 7:30 Ice-Road Truckers PGR 0 Orange County AO Tamra 8:30 CSI – New York AO After an her tail in a crab trap, and and Alexis meet for the first off-duty police officer is killed the introverted 11-year old time since their showdown; during a robbery, the CSIs use boy who befriends her. Harry Heather and Gretchen clash interrogation to break down Connick jr, Morgan Freeman. 0 while planning a party trip to 8pm L Lotto the suspects and get to the Mexico.

This week’s Lotto draw. truth. 0 10:45 Friends with Benefits AO 8:05 Dolphin Tale PGR Continued. 0 9:30 CSI – New York AO 0 Sara reunites with a former 9:15 M MacGruber AO 2010 10:30 Hannibal AO 0 boyfriend, who causes a Comedy. Will Forte, Val change in her personality.

Kilmer. 0 11:25 M Notorious AO 3 2009 Biography. Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke. 0 2:05 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:15 Excused AO 3 Dating show in which singles looking for love try to win dates before being eliminated from contention.

12:05 Infomercials

PRIME

7:30 New Tricks PGR The team unlocks over three decades of secrets and lies on the Rock of Gibraltar; Lane faces a disciplinary hearing that drags up past events and threatens his career.

8:35 Silent Witness AO (Part 1) 9:45 Rugby – Super Rugby (Delayed) Chiefs v Rebels.

From Waikato Stadium in Hamilton.

11:45 Torchwood – Miracle Day AO 3 Gwen must choose between her family and Jack.

12:50 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 2pm The Big Hit PGR 3 2 2:30 Kanikani Mai 3 3:30 It’s In The Bag 3 4pm Whanau Factor 3 4:30 Pumanawa 3 5pm Pumanawa What three Rotorua operators are doing to expand their businesses to tap into the international market.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Journey To The West 7pm Te Kaea 3 2

THE BOX 6am Gator Boys PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Lie To Me MV 8:10 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

10:15 Raw MC 1:10 The Pretender Marathon PG 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

7pm The Simpsons PG Flanders attempts to redeem Homer during a Bible-study trip to Israel.

7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 9pm Hardcore Pawn PG 9:30 Gator Boys PG 10:30 Lie To Me MV 11:30 Criminal Intent MV

SUNDAY

12:30 The Pretender Marathon PG 3:50 Criminal Intent MV 4:45 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 5:10 Hardcore Pawn PG 5:35 The Simpsons PG

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK 3 Noon NRL Fulltime (Highlights) 12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 3pm The Changing Face Of The Queen 3 4pm Peta’s Culinary Adventures In France 3 4:30 Addicted To Fishing Nicky is trained by Mark Kitteridge, one of those who led the way for soft plastics fishing in New Zealand; tips and techniques for catching snapper in the outer Hauraki Gulf.

5pm Fishing And Adventure 5:30 Prime News 6pm Junior MasterChef UK 6:30 MasterChef USA

6am L Fight Night Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira v Roy Nelson.

From Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

8am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Highlanders v Bulls. From Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.

10am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Reds v Brumbies. From Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

Noon Swimming – New Zealand Open Championships (Replay) Day Four.

2:30 Darts – Premier League (Replay) 5:30 Golf – The Masters Tournament (Highlights) Round Two. From Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.

6:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Highlanders v Bulls. From Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.

7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Chiefs v Rebels.

From Waikato Stadium in Hamilton.

9:35 L Rugby – Super Rugby Force v Waratahs.

From nib Stadium in Perth.

Midnight Golf – The Masters Tournament (Highlights) 1am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 3am L Rugby – Super Rugby Cheetahs v Crusaders. From Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein.

5:05 L Rugby – Super Rugby Lions v Sharks.

SKY SPORT 2 6am Swimming – New Zealand Open Championships (Replay) Day Four. From West Wave Aquatic Centre in Auckland.

8:30 Pacquiao Bradley 24/7 9am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Panthers v Rabbitohs. From Sportingbet Stadium.

11am Sport 365 11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Noon Rugby League – NRL New Tricks (Highlights) Round Six Friday.

7:30pm on Prime Including the Penrith Panthers v South Sydney Rabbitohs and Gold MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Coast Titans v Brisbane Broncos.

7:15 Nature Calls MLS 2012 Comedy. 6:15 The Making Of Robin Hood PG 12:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Raiders v Knights. From Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville.

6:30 Fatal Attraction 16V 1987 GIO Stadium in Canberra.

8:40 Age Of Heroes 16VL 2011 War. Thriller. 8:30 Frequency MV 2000 2:30 L Rugby League – NSW Sean Bean, Danny Dyer.

Thriller. 10:25 Win A Date With Cup Mounties v Newcastle. From 10:15 Three Inches M 2011 Sci-fi.

Tad Hamilton! MS 2004 Romantic GIO Stadium in Canberra.

Noah Reid, James Marsters.

Comedy. Kate Bosworth.

4:30 L Rugby League – NRL 11:45 The Hunger Games MV 2012 Noon Pretty Woman PGL 1990 Action. Jennifer Lawrence.

Romance. Richard Gere, Julia Roberts. Raiders v Knights. From GIO Stadium in Canberra.

2:05 Nature Calls MLS 2012 Comedy. 2pm Pride And Prejudice 2005 7pm L Rugby League – NRL Drama. Keira Knightley, Matthew Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville.

Eels v Roosters. From Pirtek Stadium MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland.

3:30 A Thousand Words ML 2012 in Sydney, NSW. Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis. 4:05 Sex And The City 16LS 2008 9:30 L Rugby League – 5:05 The Man With The Iron Fists Comedy. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon. NRL Tigers v Cowboys. From 16VLS 2012 Action. Russell Crowe.

Campbelltown Stadium in Sydney.

6:30 Two For The Money MLS 6:45 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 11:30 Rugby – Super Rugby 2005 Drama. Al Pacino, Matthew Comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill.

(Highlights) Chiefs v Rebels. From McConaughey, Rene Russo.

8:30 Jack Reacher MVL 2012 Action. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike. 8:30 Fool’s Gold MV 2008 Adventure. Waikato Stadium in Hamilton.

10:40 Save Your Legs ML 2012 Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson. SUNDAY Comedy. Stephen Curry, Brendan 10:25 Fear And Loathing In Las Midnight Rugby League – NRL Cowell.

Vegas 18 1998 Comedy Drama.

(Replay) Raiders v Knights. From GIO Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro.

Stadium in Canberra.

SUNDAY 2am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 12:10 A Thousand Words ML 2012 SUNDAY Eels v Roosters. From Pirtek Stadium Comedy. 1:40 The Man With The 12:20 Pride And Prejudice 2005 in Sydney, NSW. Iron Fists 16VLS 2012 Action.

Drama. Keira Knightley. 2:25 Sex 4am Rugby League – NRL 3:15 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 And The City 16LS 2008 Comedy.

(Replay) Tigers v Cowboys. From Comedy. 5am Jack Reacher MVL 4:50 Fear And Loathing In Las Campbelltown Stadium in Sydney.

2012 Action. Tom Cruise.

Vegas 18 1998 Comedy Drama.

7:30 M Muppets From Space 1999 Family. The Muppets engage in extraterrestrial antics. Voices of Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Bill Barretta.

9:10 M East Is East AO 3 1999 Comedy Drama. In early 1970s England, a traditional Pakistani father finds his family spinning in decidedly non-traditional directions. Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge.

CSI – New York 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 8:30pm on TV3 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Auction Kings PG 10am What Happened Next? PG 10:30 Deadliest Catch PG 11:30 River Monsters With Jeremy Wade PG 12:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 1:30 MythBusters PG 2:30 Auction Hunters PG 3pm Auction Hunters PG 3:30 Gold Rush PG 4:30 Futurescape With James Woods PG 5:30 World’s Biggest Ship PG 6:30 World’s Top Five PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Survive That! PG 9:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 10:30 Moonshiners PG 11:30 Auction Kings PG

SUNDAY

Midnight Auction Hunters PG 12:30 Future Firepower PG 1:30 What Happened Next? PG 2am Everything You Need To Know PG 2:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 3:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 4:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 5:30 MythBusters PG

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

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6am Rural Delivery 6:25 60 Minute Makeover 3 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 10am Marae 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Football – English Premier League 1:30 Location, Location, Location 30 2:35 Undercover Boss USA 3 0 3:35 Fair Go 3 0 4:05 N Islands On The Edge Young swallows, otters, and seals face the biggest storms and highest tides of the year. 0 5:20 Planet Dinosaur (Starting Today) 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 MasterChef New Zealand The top four duos tackle an Asian cuisine challenge at Club Med in Bali. 0 8:30 Offspring AO The Proudman family is affected when Nina and Patrick’s counselling session goes public. 0 9:30 Rake AO 0 10:40 Betrayal AO 0

11:35 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 12:40 Attitude 3 0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae 2 3:35 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Out In The Cold 6:30 Christ Embassy 7am Fantasy Homes In The City 8am Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 9am Days Of Our Lives Omnibus PGR Noon Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 1pm Nigel Marven 2pm Lonely Planet– Best Park Ever 2:30 Early Edition 3:30 Clodagh McKenna – Irish Food Trails 4pm Paul And Nick’s Big Food Trip 4:30 Catch And Cook 5pm Military Driving School PGR 5:30 Extreme Frontiers Canada 6:30 N2K PGR 6:55 Gourmet Farmer 7:30 Coast 8:30 Vexed AO A drama about a pair of mismatched police officers who disagree on everything from on the job policing to their own personal lives.

9:45 Walking The Amazon A history of one of the world’s most challenging mountains and its infamous north face.

10:40 Military Driving School 11:05 Paul And Nick’s Big Food Trip 11:30 Early Edition

MONDAY

12:30 N2K PGR 1am Gourmet Farmer 1:30 Coast 2:30 Vexed AO 3:30 Walking The Amazon 4:30 What’s Really In Our Food?

5am Extreme Frontiers Canada PGR

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©TVNZ 2014

6am Fireman Sam 3 0 6:10 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:15 Pocoyo 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 0 6:45 Jungle Junction 3 0 7:10 The Looney Tunes Show 3 0 7:35 Back At The Barnyard 3 0 8am What Now? 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 Noon Pretty Little Liars PGR 0 1pm Twisted PGR 2pm Scrubs PGR 3 0 2:30 Super Fun Night PGR 3 0 3pm Trophy Wife PGR 3 0 3:30 Home And Away 3 0 5:45 America’s Funniest Home Videos 0 6:15 M The Incredibles 2004 Animated Adventure. Voices of Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson. 0

TV THREE 6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Re-Think 9:30 Three60 10am The Nation 11am The Best Of Campbell Live 11:35 3rd Degree 12:30 ’Til Death 3 12:55 ’Til Death 3 1:30 Motorsport – Octane Academy: Final 2:30 Motorsport – New Zealand Road Racing Round three of the 2014 New Zealand Superbike Road Racing Championships.

3pm Motorsport – NHRA 4pm Motorsport – WRC Rally 5pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 5:30 The Simpsons 6pm 3 News

8:30 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD 7pm The Great Food Race PGR AO 0 The four teams face a three9:30 The Tomorrow People AO 0 tiered culinary marathon that 10:30 M Apollo 18 AO will see one team out of the 2011 Horror. Decades-old Great Food Race. found footage from Nasa’s 8:30 The Blacklist AO 0 abandoned Apollo 18 mission 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 AO 0 10:25 House of Cards AO reveals the reason America has never returned to the moon. Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen. 0

12:10 M The Forbidden Kingdom AO 2008 Action. 2:05 Supernatural – The Animation AO 2:35 Infomercials 3:05 20/20 3 0 3:50 Happily Divorced PGR 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:30 7 Days AO 3 Midnight Jono And Ben At Ten AO 3 Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce give their take on New Zealand current events.

12:30 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

7:10 Small Blacks TV 7:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory.

8am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Cheetahs v Crusaders.

10am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Chiefs v Rebels.

Noon Grassroots Rugby 1pm Sky Sport 365 1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Cheetahs v Crusaders.

2pm L Netball – ANZ Championship NSW Swifts v Melbourne Vixens. From Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre.

4pm L Netball – ANZ Championship West Coast Fever v Queensland Firebirds. From Challenge Stadium in Perth.

6pm College Netball (Delayed) Auckland Play-off.

7:30 Glee The glee members 7pm L Netball – ANZ 7pm Storage Wars 3 go to Los Angeles for the Championship 7:30 N Antiques Roadshow Nationals, with two additional 8:30 N James Nesbitt in Northern Mystics v Mainland guests.

Tactix. From The Trusts Arena New Zealand Hobbit star 8:30 M Dazed and Confused in Auckland.

James Nesbitt explores his PGR 3 1993 Comedy. The 9pm Rugby League – NRL adopted homeland, New adventures of students on (Highlights) Zealand, on a journey that the last day of school at a Warriors v Bulldogs. From sees him visit Sir Peter high school in a small town in Eden Park in Auckland.

Jackson, get a Maori tattoo, Texas in 1976. Jason London, 9:30 Rugby Nation Hosted by and try extreme sports.

Rory Cochrane.

Tony Johnson.

9:30 Ross Kemp Extreme Worlds 10:35 The League AO 10:30 The Fishing Show AO 10:30 Monroe PGR 3 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 3 7am Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 7:25 The Wild Thornberrys 3 0 7:50 The X’s 8:15 Rugrats 3 8:40 Rocket Power 9am Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm Malcolm In The Middle 0 6:30 Survivor – Brawn v Brains v Beauty

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Better Homes And Gardens 3 1pm Indian Ocean PGR 3 2pm Davey Hughes – Untamed 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Week six.

4:30 Rugby Nation Highlights of the latest action from the Super Rugby 2014 season.

5:30 Prime News 6pm History Under The Hammer 3 6:30 One Man And His Campervan Vintage camper-van lover and foodie Martin Dorey journeys around Britain celebrating the freedom of camper-van living.

11pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

11:55 Infomercials

11:30 Alone In The Wild PGR Eight sport and television personalities are left alone in remote locations with only a handheld camera. They must find water, food and shelter, while facing the elements and local wildlife.

12:35 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 Series using drama to teach te reo Maori.

2pm Aa Rau 3 Series showcasing the Maori identity through books by Maori and about Maori.

2:30 Marae DIY (Starting Today) 3 Putahi Marae in Frasertown.

3:30 Rugby League – UK Super League Teams TBC. 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Whakatauki 3 The use of proverbs in modern composition. 2 6:30 Ka Tu Ka Korero PGR Kingi

THE BOX 6am The Pretender Marathon PG 9:20 Lie To Me MV 10:15 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

12:20 Modern Family PGL 12:45 Gator Boys PG 1:40 Pawn Stars PG 2:05 Cajun Pawn Stars PG 2:30 Hardcore Pawn PG 2:55 Raw MC 5:45 Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 CSI MV Grissom’s investigation of a disembodied head leads him to a small northern town.

9:30 CSI MV After their main piece of evidence is thrown out in court, the CSI team must work together to find new evidence.

10:30 Hatfields And McCoys 16VLS

MONDAY

12:30 Main Event MC 1:25 SmackDown! MC 3:30 CSI MV 4:20 CSI MV 5:10 Modern Family PGL 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Warriors v Bulldogs. 1:30 Rugby League – 40/20 2am The Fishing Show 2:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) Northern Mystics v Mainland Tactix. 4am Football – A-League (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2 helps Fred Vercoe to be an orator.

7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Delayed) Warriors v Bulldogs. From Eden Park in Auckland.

9:30 M Incendies AO 2010 War Drama. Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfil their mother’s last wishes.

Lubna Azabal, Mélissa DésormeauxPoulin, Maxim Gaudette.

11:40 Te Kaea 3 2 12:10 Closedown

DISCOVERY 7:30 MythBusters PG Painting with Explosives: Bifurcated Boat.

8:30 Futurescape With James Woods PG Replacing God. 9:30 Auction Hunters PG 10am Auction Hunters PG Once a Pawn a Time.

10:30 Survive That! PG 11:30 Moonshiners PG 12:30 Curiosity PG 1:30 Moonshiners PG 2:30 Moonshiners PG 3:30 Moonshiners PG 4:30 Moonshiners PG 5:30 Moonshiners PG 6:30 Moonshiners PG 7:30 Curiosity PG 8:30 Gold Rush PG 9:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 10:30 Treehouse Masters PG 11:30 Naked And Afraid PG

MONDAY

12:30 World’s Top Five PG 1:30 Auction Kings PG 2am Everything You Need To Know PG 2:30 Man v Wild PG 3:30 Deadliest Catch PG 4:30 Flying Wild Alaska PG 5:30 Man v Wild PG

MasterChef New Zealand 7:30pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:10 A Thousand Words ML 2012 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis.

8:40 The Man With The Iron Fists 16VLS 2012 Action. Russell Crowe.

10:15 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 Comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill.

Noon Jack Reacher MVL 2012 Action. Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike.

2:10 Save Your Legs ML 2012 Comedy. Stephen Curry, Brendan Cowell.

3:45 Nitro Circus – The Movie MC 2012 Action. Travis Pastrana.

5:20 The Code MVLS 2009 Crime.

Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas.

7:05 The Bay 16VL 2012 Horror.

Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly.

8:30 Elysium 16VL 2013 Sci-fi.

Matt Damon.

10:25 A Haunted House 16SC 2013 Comedy. Marlon Wayans.

11:50 Seconds Apart 18V 2011 Horror. Orlando Jones.

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8:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Six Saturday.

9am Pacquiao Bradley 24/7 9:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory.

10am Sport 365 10:30 Rugby League – NRL James Nesbitt in New Zealand (Highlights) Round Six Friday.

8:30pm on Prime 11am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Six Saturday.

11:30 L Rugby League – NSW MOVIES GREATS 6:45 Two For The Money MLS 2005 Cup Warriors v Bulldogs. From Eden Park in Auckland.

Drama. Al Pacino.

1:30 L Rugby League – 8:45 Fool’s Gold MV 2008 Adventure.

Holden Cup Warriors v Bulldogs.

Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson.

From Eden Park in Auckland.

10:35 Pride And Prejudice 2005 3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Drama. Keira Knightley, Matthew Warriors v Bulldogs. From Eden Park MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland. in Auckland.

12:40 Fear And Loathing In Las 6pm Sky Sport – What’s On Vegas 18 1998 Comedy Drama.

6:30 The Fishing Show Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro.

7pm L Football – A-League 2:35 The Notebook PGC 2004 Sydney FC v Perth Glory.

Romance. James Garner, Gena 9pm Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Rowlands, Ryan Gosling.

Cup Series (Highlights) Bojangles’ 4:40 Miami Vice 16V 2006 Action.

Southern 500.

Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell.

10pm Motorsport – Nascar 6:50 Resident Evil 16V 2002 Action Nationwide Series (Highlights) VFW Thriller. Milla Jovovich.

Sport Clips Help A Hero 200.

8:30 The Rundown MVL 2003 Action. 11pm L Cycling – ParisDwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott. Roubaix Race Referred to as 10:15 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime. Al the Hell of the North, with road Pacino, Hilary Swank, Robin Williams. cyclists racing to cover 160 miles.

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1:50 The Making Of Alien v Predator PG 2:05 Miami Vice 16V 2006 Action. 4:15 The Notebook PGC 2004 Romance.

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JONES - EPILO – Nicola and Daniel welcome with love Shamika Mary Epilo on March 23, 2014 at Christchurch Women’s Hospital, weighing 5lb, healthy and well now. A huge thank you to Sandra Scott and the team of lovely Doctors and midwives at Christchurch Women’s. And a big thank you to all the staff in NICU, your support was amazing. Thank you for all your well wishes.

MCLEOD – Hamish Hayley and big sister Charlotte are thrilled to announce the early but safe arrival of Maggie Anthea McLeod born 9-4-14 weighing 6lb. A huge thank you to Christchurch Women’s, the amazing staff in neonatal and Jackie Wylie.

SIM – Steven and Sally (nee Truelove) are pleased to announce the arrival of Jack Edward Sim on April 1, weighing 7lb 14oz. Many thanks to Joy Dixon and Mary Campbell and the staff at Ashburton Maternity ward,

DEATHS

POOKE, Trish Mary (nee Blackler) – Peacefully in the company of her family on Tuesday, April 8 2014. Dearly loved wife of the late Malcom, loved mum of Jason and partner Kate, Samantha and partner James. Messages please to c/o 4 Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042. A special thanks to the Canterbury Area Health Board for their wonderful care of Trish. In lieu of flowers donation to the Breast Cancer Research would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service in the celebration of Trish's life will be held at the Aoraki Funeral Home Chapel, 160 Mountainview Road, Timaru on TUESDAY, April 15 at 10:30am followed by interment at the Timaru Cemetery Aoraki Funeral Home FDANZ Please note all late death notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours must be emailed to:

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CAMERON, Stuart Alistair (Stu) – On April 8, 2014 at Christchurch Hospital, aged 42. Stu lost his courageous battle with cancer surrounded by loved ones. Stu is much loved and will be terribly missed by Nikki, and their children, Bridie and Stella, his partner Kirsty, and her children, Hayley and Jacob. Loved son of Trish, Alistair and Heather, son-in-law of Geoff and Shelley, loved brother of Jacque and Daryl, Evan, Kim and Glen, Tanya and Al, and loved uncle to all his nieces and nephews.

Special thanks to Stu’s oncology team, the wonderful staff on Ward 26, Nurse Maude and Anna Plotkin.

“Others have loved, this we know, but Stu was ours and we love him so.

Rest easy now Stu, over and out”.

Stu’s farewell shin-dig to be held at Dunsandel/ Irwell Rugby Clubrooms on MONDAY, April 14, 2pm, 5 Tramway Road, Dunsandel. Messages can be sent to 66 Acacia Ave, Rangiora 7400. In lieu of flowers donations to the Canterbury Cancer Society would be appreciated.

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SCOTT, Merle Ann – 12 - 04 - 2004. In memory of a loved wife, mother and grandmother. Passed away ten years ago today. Don and family.

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CLARK, Mavis, Jean (Jean) – The Clark and Harris families wish to express their heartfelt thanks for sympathy and kindness given to them on the death of Jean in Wellington after a brief illness. Jean had a wide extended family and a large circle of friends and she will be sadly missed. Your thought fullness and support has helped to make our loss less painful. Please accept this as a personalized thanks.

WYLIE, Denise Joan (nee Curry) – John, Peter, Lynette, Andrew and their families wish to sincerely thank everyone for their support in recent weeks.

Your attendance at Denise’s funeral, visits, phone calls, cards, baking and other acts of kindness have all been appreciated. A very special thank you to the wonderful caring staff at St John of God Hospital and Community Houses for all the dignity and respect they showed to Denise. To Father Noonan and Sister Mary, we thank you for your tremendous support as well. To all of you, our deepest thanks for being there for us. Please accept this as our personal acknowledgment to you.

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RUSHTON, Courtenay Shavaughan – Gerard and Claire together with Terry, Corey, Josh and Candace wish to thank and acknowledge the amazing support and love that so many have shown us after the devastating loss of our precious daughter and sister Courtenay. We have been amazed at the hundreds of messages, cards and letters, and flowers and baking we received each day. The many visits from friends and family show us the support we have of so many people. We are still are overwhelmed at the thoughtfulness and kindness so many have and continue to give us. Special thanks must go to all of Courtenay’s friends who shared with us to celebrate her life at her service in Ashburton. To Maaka and the Rangi Ruru Kapa Haka group for their strength, courage and passion displayed at Courtenay’s service. To all Courtenay’s boarding sisters and her friends and staff at Rangi Ruru for the amazing memorial given to remember Courtenay. We are so grateful for the amazing care the staff at Christchurch’s ICU, especially Dr George Downward, and Courtenay’s nurses, Ingrid, Sharon, Madeleine and Jo gave Courtenay and our family and to the Staff at Timaru’s ICU, the ambulance services in both Fairlie and Twizel and to the medical staff at Mackenzie Medical Centre.

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The respect and love of Courtenay and us was incredibly mind-blowing in the huge number of people who attended Courtenay’s services. Our biggest thank you also needs to go to our family and friends who continue to support us.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 14.3 15.5 Max to 4pm 10.4 Minimum 9.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm April to date 38.2 Avg Apr to date 18 2014 to date 219.4 187 Avg year to date Wind km/h E7 At 4pm Strongest gust E 13 Time of gust 3:10pm

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Trust your instincts this weekend, especially when it comes to how much or little effort is required, finding the goldilocks zone that works for you.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) Part of holding onto professional desires and expectations Venus left you with is remembering to maintain a work/play balance.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) This weekend is when you’re able to start looking at the concrete steps you can take, factoring in real life needs and demands.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) There are a lot of forces vying for your attention, with a mix of pressures, tensions and insights, especially on the professional and relationship fronts.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) There is a need to make the most of the last weekend for a while where you can keep your professional hat off and embrace a sense of adventure.

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LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) This is a time when big dreams are being born on the work front, with a need to use any tension as motivation and a chance to challenge your excuses.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) It is important to remember that right now it’s all about balance, but also remembering that it’s okay to say ‘no’.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Home is likely to be where the heart is, but it seems life didn’t get that memo, putting plenty of demands on your time and providing plenty of distractions.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) With some challenging weeks in front of you, the best way you can prepare for this is to ground yourself and maybe even in the most literal way.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) There is a definite need to keep your money hat on today, more so because money matters will soon be overwhelmed by life’s other realities.

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96 60L $ Wheelbarrow

Flat, low sheen or semi gloss. White.

SKU00413845

2400W

SKU00246186

19

SKU04441255

10L Easycoat Interior

86 Blower Vac $

Daffodil Bulbs Obdam

136

SKU00860854

$

17

95

White. Semi gloss or low sheen. SKU00253433/00253457

100kg load rating.

19

$

27

SKU00162595

10L Clean & Protect Interior

3 Step Household Ladder 4W LED GU10 Globes

$

8kg Lawn Fertiliser

$

From

47

97

24

98 EACH

“Trolley loads of fun this Easter” WEEKEND ACTIVITIES Saturday 12th, Sunday 13th and Saturday 19th April from 10am

• Easter Bunny • Easter Egg Hunt • Easter D.I.Y. workshops for kids* *Booking essential. Contact your local store.

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE ASHBURTON 363 West Street, Ph 03 307 6671

SKU00248971

46cc Petrol Chainsaw SKU00243672

199

$

Not all services and products featured are available in all stores, but may be ordered. See in store for product availability. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of commercial quantities. All prices quoted are inclusive of GST. Prices valid until Friday 18th April 2014 or while stocks last.

TRADING HOURS Weekdays 7am-6pm Weekends & Public Holidays 8am-6pm www.bunnings.co.nz

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