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Counting down to the Guardian’s 135th birthday we are looking back at papers from the past

Gibb’s last track to be released The final song to be written by the late Robin Gibb, recorded in a bedroom using an iPad, is to be released on an album of previously unheard recordings by the Bee Gees star. The track, called Sydney, prompted tears from Gibb and his wife Dwina when he wrote it as he nostalgically looked back at his early life in Australia with his hitmaking brothers. It was recorded in August 2011, just nine months before his death after a lengthy period of ill health. Other songs from the album, called 50 St Cathereine’s Drive, were recorded between 2006 and 2008 and feature many autobiographical recollections.

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Azalea plays nurse to injured bird Iggy Azalea has played the role of nurse, and it’s not for some sort of hospital-themed music video. The Australian rapper revealed she was sick and had to pull out of a concert in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. “I am so sorry Columbus I am not feeling well but I will be with you on the 6th.. thank you x” she tweeted. However, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for herself, Azalea decided to look after a baby finch who had been captured by her own pet pooch. “I found another baby finch in my dog’s mouth last night but she didn’t bite it and tweety made it to the morning. Phew!” she posted on Instagram, alongside a picture of the bird nestling in tissue paper.

On Thursday, July 7, 1892: Fire in East Street. Seven shops burned. Damage £10,000. ... the large block of buildings known as Saunders’ Buildings was in imminent danger, being only separated from the burning wooded tenement by a narrow right-of-way, but thanks to the splendid efforts of the then Fire Brigade the larger block was saved.

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Lorde pens first movie single Lorde is set to have the first single in the newest Hunger Games movie album – and she’ll curate the movie soundtrack.The 17-year-old Grammy Award-winner from the North Shore said she’d already written the first single with producer Joel Little, and urged her fans: “be ready”.

“I am so pleased and proud to have been announced the sole creator of the soundtrack for MOCKINGJAY – PART 1,” she tweeted. Lorde’s latest job involves her hand-picking artists for the album, which is due to be released in the Southern Hemisphere’s spring. “Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly-anticipated film was a challenge but I jumped at the chance,” she said.

Set to inspire Director Taika Waititi is taking the helm of a short film featuring everyday New Zealanders that aims to support and inspire the All Blacks. For Rexona’s Do More project, Kiwis at home and around the world are encouraged to film a 60- or 90-second video demonstrating how they go the extra mile in their everyday lives.

The best entries will be selected by Waititi, the director of Boy and What We Do in the Shadows, who will weave the material together to create the short film. The film, which also includes All Black playmaker Dan Carter, is meant to inspire not only the All Blacks in next year’s defence of the Rugby World Cup but all New Zealanders.

“The All Blacks do all that they can to win, they practise harder and they give up their comforts and things we take for granted so that they can play for their country and win,” said Waititi.

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No quick fix for rural pot-holes

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Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee (centre) checking out Rural Transport’s new site during yesterday’s opening ceremony with (from left) company general manager Jim Crouchley, board chair John Dobson, Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew and company part owner Philip Wareing.

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The volume of heavy transport on roads in the Ashburton District is anticipated to increase by about 73 per cent in the next 20 years, says Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee.

Speaking at the opening of Rural Transport’s new complex on Northpark Road yesterday, Mr Brownlee said the Government study on future road freight needs in the future put the national growth at 50 per cent; Mid Canterbury, however would be much higher.

“In recognition of this, through our accelerated roading programme, we will be putting large amounts of money into rural roading over the next three years. What is coming out of New Zealand from the rural economy deserves this investment.”

In expanding its business and building on a new site, Rural Transport was showing a huge amount of confidence in the rural economy and the company was an example of why New Zealand continued to do well when the rest of the world

was slowing down, he said.

“New Zealanders just put their heads down and went on producing.”

Rural Transport’s new base was the realisation of a long held dream for the company’s directors, said general manager Jim Crouchley.

The new site offered new opportunities to grow, but while the transport industry had come a long way over the past 100 years, the basics had stayed the same, he said.

“The cattle are just as stroppy, bobby calves still smell the

same, sheep are just as hard to push up the ramp, and there’s still plenty of dust.”

Rural Transport was formed 10 years ago after the Trevor Wilson Trust, Philip Wareing and Brian Thomson bought Owens Transport. It was then based on South Street but quickly outgrew that site.

Board chairman John Dobson said he was proud to be part of a company that could trace its history back to industry founding father Bob Burnett and was now placed to continue growing well into the 21st century.

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The Ashburton District might be hoping for a big Government hand-out to fix its rural roads, but like the rest of New Zealand it is part of a nationwide roading catch up programme, says Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee.

He was in Ashburton yesterday to open Rural Transport’s new Northpark Road complex and said the Government recognised there was a lot of work to be done to bring New Zealand’s rural roads up to scratch.

“We already have 14 projects in regional New Zealand we’re going to partly fund and what this signals is a willingness on the part of the Government to look at other regional projects.”

In reshaping the financial assistance rate (FAR) for local roads, Mr Brownlee said Ashburton would be a winner as it moved from 47 per cent to 52 per cent. The unknown factor is how this would translate into money, as it would be tied in to the reclassification of the country’s roads.

The details of that reclassification have yet to be determined and critical to that discussion would be balancing how an area such as the Ashburton District that had a relatively low rating base but high producing value was funded, he said.

In terms of state highway funding and the need to upgrade bridges that were the only highway links, such as Rakaia and Ashburton, Mr Brownlee said Ashburton wasn’t alone in having concerns.

The government was aware of the vulnerability of many of those bridge links but could make no promises on any upgrades, he said.

Heavy transport is expected to increase in the next 20 years.

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■ ASHBURTON TRUST

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■ SUPPORT FOR BREASTFEEDING

Trust strong as challenges loom

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The past trading year was one of change and challenge for the Ashburton Trust, says chief executive Giles Beal.

While the trust achieved a total revenue of $18.9 million, slightly higher than the previous trading year, its books showed a $44,000 loss compared to a $592,000 surplus last year. The difference is accounted for in property re-valuations that occurred that year.

Revaluations are likely to spike this year’s profit upwards as a number of rents are due for review.

“In spite of some challenges during the year, we did make good progress on our strategic goals of growing revenues and achieving efficiencies and that leaves us well positioned to continue to grow and develop profitability in the year ahead,” Mr Beal said.

While its overall revenue was up last year, the trust would this year have to grapple with the declining profitability around one of its venues, The Shed, he said.

“In early May last year the profitability of these dipped with competition coming into the market, the Arcadia and then the Print Room. It went from being profitable to less profitable as this market is now saturated. It’s at the forefront of our mind what do we do – reinvest or close it.”

The Hotel Ashburton also had reduced sales for part of the year with its function rooms closed for refurbishing. Scaffolding around Speights Ale House to allow work on earthquake damage had also affected revenue at both venues for a period, Mr Beal said.

“On the positive side, with all of these problems we still saw sales grow, with improved performance

at other venues and we’ve now got things back on track. Sales are up at Speights and the hotel function rooms are going from strength to strength.”

Refurbishment of accommodation at the Hotel Ashburton was ongoing and the pay back had come in increased bed nights, he said.

“In spite of competition coming back from Christchurch this market is still growing. We still see the hotel as key for the trust.”

Over the past year, the trust had focused on reducing operating costs and, through a licensing trust deal, had carved around $90,000 off its insurance bill, gained efficiencies in payroll and introduced new point of sales systems. It had also restructured bank debt and was now in a position to start paying debt on Somerset House.

Looking ahead, it will be investing in an upgrade and extension of the Speights Ale House this year and will continue upgrading work at the Hotel Ashburton.

“Looking forward, things are pretty rosy. If you look at our core business we are in a much better place than we were a year ago and a much, much better place than three years ago. We’re building a business that’s planned to last. We have to take medium term view of what we’re doing.”

The numbers only told part of the story of the trust’s trading year, Mr Beal said.

“You can’t take just one year in isolation. We’re running a much better business than we were three years ago and we’re building a better business with much more solidity into the future.”

The trust’s accounts will be presented at its annual meeting at the Hotel Ashburton on August 7.

Breastfeeding mothers Jane Lowe holding Bethany (20 weeks) and Kylie Heney feeding Quinn (7 weeks) joined more than a dozen others at the Ashburton Plunket Rooms yesterday for the national Big Latch On. PHOTO TONI WILLIAMS 010814-TW-043

Big Latch On unites mums Babies outnumbered mothers at the Big Latch On in Mid Canterbury yesterday, courtesy of a set of twins.

The 20 mothers, breastfeeding 21 babies, were taking part in a nationwide event.

Plunket community karitane Marise Jayne said the Latch On was a nationwide show of support for breastfeeding in public and breastfeeding in general, “which is so good for babies”. The youngest baby

was three weeks old and the oldest 22 months.

Some of the benefits of breastfeeding include reduced risk of baby’s chest infections, meningitis, ear infections and urine infections. It also helped women recover from childbirth.

The Ashburton women joined thousands of others from different cultures and backgrounds who simultaneously breastfed their own

babies in public events nationwide. It was the 10th anniversary for the event.

Ms Jayne said each of the mothers got a goodie bag when they registered. It contained novelty items such as Plunket ears and balloons but also included pens, pads and baby body lotion.

They also had spot prizes for mothers and celebrated with morning tea.

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■ LOCAL ECONOMY

Local economy could face head wind

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The Ashburton District’s economy might have roared along at twice the national rate over the past 10 years, but it could be about to face a brisk head wind, says Grow Mid Canterbury chief executive Rob Brawley.

The district’s GDP has averaged four per cent growth over the last decade and at the same time jobs grew at seven times the national rate, but there are

signs the district could face some new challenges over the coming year, Mr Brawley said.

While last year’s record dairy payout was predicted to drop significantly for the current season, it still sat above the long term average for the last 16 seasons, but he believes the dairy payout is not the only contributor to the head wind.

“Rain affected harvest, higher interest rates, uncertainty over the impact new legislation may

have on farm production and balance sheets and a challenging ski season to date are all likely to mean less money flowing through our economy.”

While that could mean a reduction in spending from some sectors, the district’s economy remained sound, with other areas such as sheep and beef farm incomes improving and the construction industry going through a boom time, he said.

To ride through any dip in

spending, Mr Brawley said businesses should be keeping a close eye on their stock levels and monitoring cash flow to make sure they were matching expenditure and income. For some that might mean cutting back on capital expenditure or rationalising debt, he said.

“It’s also a good time to talk to your bank about your future needs and about managing interest rate risk, but probably you should focus on good service;

that’s what will set your business apart.”

Grow Mid Canterbury is about to release its draft economic strategy and to ensure it saw the district moving forward as the community did, Mr Brawley said he would be looking for plenty of feedback.

“We’ve worked hard to get to this point and we need your input to make sure we get it right – for the future of the Mid Canterbury.”

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Students pay colourful tribute to Glasgow games

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Hinds School pupils had fun pushing themselves to the limit yesterday in a novelty games tribute to the Commonwealth Games.

It was organised by the student council.

Principal Eric Davis said pupils from the four house colours divided in half to form eight countries.

Each country of 14 to 20 children got to name the homeland they represented.

The pupils made banners in the morning, had a shared lunch with invited family and after an opening ceremony, took part in the novelty, fun games.

There were relay running dashes with a ball between the knees, taking water between buckets with a drinking cup and an obstacle course with children going over, under and through.

There was also the classic novelty favourite - the gumboot throw.

Mr Davis said top performing countries would earn points for their house colours - the winners to be announced next week.

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Hinds School pupils (from left) Lena Tamura Goodman, Olivia Wilson and Sabrina Irvine represent Bluezil in a novelty games tribute at the school to the Commonwealth Games.

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■ HEALTH LAW CHANGES

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Sunbeds, diseases in spotlight Plans to restrict sunbeds to R18 and enforce the management of serious infectious diseases has gone before Parliament with the introduction of the Health (Protection) Amendment Bill.

Rangitata MP and associate health minister Jo Goodhew said the amendment bill brought together two separate, but equally important, sets of

changes to protect the health and safety of all New Zealanders.

If passed, the Bill would stop the harm caused to people under 18 years of age by artificial (UV) tanning machines.

“There is clear international evidence that UV tanning devices, including sunbeds, significantly increase the risk of skin

cancers among users and that younger people are at higher risk,” Mrs Goodhew said.

“Sunbed age restriction has already been adopted in other jurisdictions such as South Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and California.

“The Bill also gives enhanced tools to health authorities to manage people with infectious

diseases who put others at risk,” Mrs Goodhew said.

The changes included: • Enable Court Orders that required an infected person to limit disease spread • Strengthen contact tracing processes.

• Improved monitoring of sexually transmitted infections HIV, gonorrhoea and syphilis.

■ METHVEN CRAFT FAIR

Ring handed in Have you lost a ring? A ring has been handed in to the Ashburton Police Station. It was found on Wednesday. If you think it might be yours, get in touch with the Ashburton Police on 3078400.

Daffodil Day near Ashburton businesses are encouraged to Paint the Town Yellow and decorate their windows in the run up to the Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Day Appeal late next month. Cancer Society staff will be visiting businesses and distributing flyers today to tell them about the promotion. Cancer Society health promoter Mandy Casey said prizes would be offered to businesses with the best window displays. The judging would be done between August 17 and 29. Businesses wanting to support the appeal can phone the Cancer Society to register. Daffodil Day is on Friday, August 29.

All Blacks in town Ashburton’s Sinclair Centre will be the hottest spot in town on Thursday when three All Blacks mix and mingle with rugby fans.

The visit is part of New Zealand Rugby’s programme to take players to provincial New Zealand as a way of thanking fans for their support. Which All Blacks will be coming Ashburton’s way won’t be known until next week.

While in town the trio will call in at Ashburton College for a skills and drills session, and will visit students at Ashburton Intermediate School.

The community mix and mingle is open to all comers and will be held in the Sinclair Centre on Park Street from 11am – 11.45am.

Barrier arm petition Making the most of foam shapes bought from the proceeds of past craft fairs are Methven Playcentre children (from left) Holly Febrery, Jack Palmer, Zoe Waddington and George Taylor.

Craft fundraiser helps playcentre Methven Playcentre is preparing for one of its major fundraisers of the year this weekend.

The Methven Craft Fair at the Mount Hutt Memorial Hall

will operate from 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday.

About 35 stallholders from throughout the South Island will be selling all manner of items, including jewellery, bags,

cushions and books. An espresso coffee outlet and food caterers will also be there.

Mrs McMillan said about $2000 raised at the last two craft fairs held by the playcen-

tre had enabled it to purchase large foam play shapes for pupils.

“It’s a fundraising thing for us and the kids benefit from it,” she said.

A petition started by Christchurch man Simon Carson to pressure KiwiRail to install barrier arms at the North Park Road rail crossing attracted more than 1000 signatures in just one day.

On July 7, 22 year old truck driver George Ellis died when his car was struck by a south bound train at the crossing. The crossing is currently uncontrolled and KiwiRail has made a commitment to install flashing lights and warning bells but not barrier arms. Mr Carson aims to have 15,000 signatures.

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■ LONGBEACH SCHOOL

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Ginger beer study for students

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Pupils at Longbeach School are learning the art of brewing with a few dozen bottles of ginger beer on the hop.

It is a non-alcoholic brew.

Students from the Lynnford and Eiffelton classrooms are mastering the brewing craft under the watch of teachers Annabel Brook and Nic Hill.

Mrs Brook said the brewing was done in the name of science and part of their integrated unit.

Initially the pupils, aged between eight and 10 years old, questioned how beer was brewed.

“Obviously we couldn’t brew beer,” Mrs Brook said. So they chose non-alcoholic ginger beer instead.

The pupils got a surprise visit from Mrs Bundaberg (aka parent Cherie Thorne) and followed a secret ginger beer recipe step by step.

The pupils had been fascinated by the process and were really excited, Mrs Brook said.

The first step was to grow a bug which was fed for a week

Henry’s lifeline Southland Sharks basketball player, Leon Henry, is thanking a New Plymouth District court judge for saving his career. Henry was to be sentenced yesterday on two assault charges in relation to a brawl in the city on May 25.

He instigated a violent punch up with Crowded House bar staff, having downed 36 standard drinks after a game in New Plymouth.

Recognising Henry’s career hinges on him taking up a contract with the Townsville Crocodiles this month, the judge decided to adjourn sentencing to give him time to pursue the opportunity.

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before using to make a brew which was then bottled.

They made about three or four dozen 1.5 litre bottles, which now sit fermenting.

Mrs Brook said the next step was for the pupils to create labels for their bottles.

Principal Neil Simons was lined up to test the ginger beer once it was ready and the rest would be shipped home with the pupils.

The children took brew bugs home last term and some of the pupils had kept them alive.

Excitement is brewing for Longbeach School pupils (from left) Gracie Brine, Tayla Abernethy, Katie Ashworth, Charlotte McLaren, Jasper Keating, Tane Moore and Catelyn HendersonGeddes.

The death of a Christchurch man in his 70s is being investigated by police. Though nothing in the post mortem suggested the man’s death at a North New Brighton address on Thursday morning was suspicious, police said it would be weeks before the cause of death could be confirmed. Final interviews with relevant parties were being completed.

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Boy missing

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Counties Manukau police are appealing for information about a 14-year-old boy with a learning disability who has not been heard from since July 28. Joshua Avant went missing from Takanini but was not familiar with the area. He had learning disability that could affect his judgement and lead him into unsafe situations, police said.

Police had concerns for his safety and asked that anyone with information contact them as soon as possible.

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■ RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

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For Mid Canterbury school pupils opting out of religious education, it’s learning as usual.

Religious education hit the news again recently with a Christchurch mother furious about her son’s treatment during the session time. Tanya Jacob had excluded her son from the religious education session but said he was made to wash dishes and pick up rubbish during the sessions.

Mid Canterbury children opting out are placed into other similar aged classes during the

weekly or fortnightly sessions.

Some schools, like Ashburton Borough School, do not provide any religious instruction.

Methven Primary School principal Chris Murphy said “very few children” opted out of the religious education section but classes were not run at the same time, so opted out children worked in another class during the sessions.

“It’s values based and follows authorised curriculum. It works fairly seamlessly,” Mr Murphy said.

He said the education was Christian and there was no in-

doctrination or evangelisation.

The sessions were taken by Methven community members, including the Anglican minister and the Elim pastor.

The Board of Trustees reviewed its inclusion annually.

“For the time being it suits our community and the students get something out of it,” Mr Murphy said.

Tinwald School also worked with local parish members but worked their sessions into the lead up to Easter and Christmas. It focused their study on the reason behind the two religious holidays.

Principal Peter Livingstone said they ran three optional half hour lessons before both events. “Children who do not take up the option work in the library for that half hour under teacher supervision. Or often the children work from their class, it’s a good chance to catch up,” he said.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillian said the religious education provision of the Education Act only applied to primary schools. Religious education began in 1939 and schools officially closed for 30 minutes for it to take place.

Banks to appeal return conviction John Banks says the battle to clear his name is far from over.

The former Auckland mayor and Act MP was yesterday convicted of filing a false electoral return.

Outside the High Court at Auckland, after Justice Edwin Wylie sentenced the 68-yearold to two months’ community detention and 100 community work, Banks said he would appeal, citing “compelling new evidence”.

Banks said he respected the court and the judge’s finding before dropping the bombshell that there was further information not presented during trial.

“Since the finding of guilt, fresh, new, unimpeachable, water-tight evidence has emerged.

That new evidence completely contradicts much of the evidence given in the court,” he said.

“We’re looking forward to taking that ... to the Court of

Appeal and in the process of time, that will completely exonerate me of these charges.”

During the judge-alone trial in June, the Crown argued Banks’ failed mayoral campaign received two $25,000 donations from Megastuff Ltd on Kim Dotcom’s behalf in June 2010 and $15,000 from SkyCity in May that year.

While Justice Wylie ruled the charge in relation to the SkyCity donation was not proven, he

believed Mr Dotcom was telling the truth.

Yesterday’s sentencing began as surprisingly as it ended; with Banks’ lawyer David Jones QC accepting a conviction on behalf of his client when it was previously indicated he would seek a discharge.

The offence carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison or a fine of up to $10,000 but the judge said the offending was not at the upper end.

A year since it was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, The Luminaries is still as popular as the day it was first published. Eleanor Catton’s Hokitika-based goldrush novel was long-listed in July 2013 and went on to win the world’s top literary prize, catapulting the book and author to new heights.

Nielsen Bookscan reports 57,000 sales at the till for the past year excluding sales by New Zealand’s leading bookstore, Whitcoulls, which does not share commercially sensitive information but has 58 stores nationwide. The book has dominated the Nielsen weekly bestsellers list for a year. - APNZ

CCC needs $900m Christchurch City Council has revealed it faces a funding black hole of up to $900 million to help rebuild the earthquake-wrecked city, and is set to start public consultation on “at least a partial” sale of its assets. An independent probe into the council’s coffers has found that if the rebuild is to continue at a satisfactory pace, and for it to meet its debt requirements over the next five years, the council needs more money. It can’t borrow any more, and council said the only way it could bridge the funding gap without hitting ratepayers with a 20% rates rise is by “releasing capita” from its assets.

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Masons’ Lodge Erewhon turns 100 Lodge Erewhon will celebrate 100 years since its establishment this weekend.

Susan Sandys reports.

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houghts first turned to establishing a Masonic lodge at Mt Somers early last century. The foothills location was becoming more populated as people came to settle on the land, work on farms and in wool works and coal mining.

The nearest Masonic lodges were at Methven and Ashburton, so with the main form of transport being horse and gig, this was a long way to travel, particularly during snowstorms and heavy frosts.

Among founding members was William Gifkins, the first Worshipful Master of Lodge Erewhon. In 1868 he immigrated to New Zealand from England and learned the trade of fellmonger and wool scourer.

He established wool scouring plants at Alford Station, Double Hill, Mount Hutt, Acheron, Lake Heron, Lake Coleridge and Glenthorne. His woolscour at Mt Somers boasted some of the first electricity generated in the area.

The first Masonic meetings were held in the Mt Somers School room on October 1914.

Furnishings were brought from Mr Gifkin’s wool wash and returned after each meeting.

Meetings were held on the Friday on or before the full moon. This was because members had to travel by horsedrawn vehicles and the moonlight helped both horses and drivers negotiate their journey.

Members soon tendered out for construction of their own building, at a cost of 335 pounds and 10 shillings. They held their first meeting in the Erewhon Lodge rooms on May 28, 1915. The 1926 minutes show electric light was installed at a guaranteed charge of seven shillings per month.

When the organisation turned 50, its membership was 97, having fallen from 143 the previous year in line with a national trend. Forty-four new members have joined in the past 25 years, and today it has a membership of 46.

To commemorate its 75th anniversary, Lodge Erewhon had over $2000 to invest in a project to present an inscribed book to each child leaving Form Two at Mt Somers School. Additionally, each member contributed towards a building fund to

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replace the original building.

However, the rooms still stand today, but have been converted into a two-storey home.

Lodge Erewhon relocated to Ashburton when combined lodge rooms were built in 2003.

Secretary Noel Lowe is among long-serving Lodge Erewhon members, having

belonged for 48 years.

He said being a country lodge, Erewhon had guarded a lot of traditions handed down through its membership over the 100 years.

“Our refectory proceedings still hold today with every visiting master, or a representative of a lodge, being asked to reply

to a toast,” Mr Lowe said.

And when it came to functions requiring meals, the head steward always rang brethren who were to bring meat one week before, so there was time to prepare it.

“There was one brother you did not ask to bring meat and that was brother Bill Webb.

Bill carted silica sand from Mt Somers to the glassworks in Christchurch and used his influence to get drinking glasses with Erewhon and square and compass (freemasonry symbols) engraved on them. They are still in use at the Ashburton Masonic Centre,” Mr Lowe said.

Visitors were always welcome, except in 1987 when a burglar climbed on the roof and fell through the skylight, breaking the senior deacon’s chair.

“He was tracked down after he reported to the Methven doctor for body repairs.”

Mr Lowe mused on the future of the organisation.

“Being a third generation mason I wonder what the years to come will bring freemasonry, with the next generation showing no interest.

“Perhaps the craft needs to adapt its charter to make our organisation more acceptable to the needs of our communities,” he said.

Today more than 10 of Lodge Erewhon’s members are Filipinos, representing the large proportion of people from the Phillippines in Mid Canterbury today working on dairy farms.

The timing of the centennial celebrations this weekend has been to accommodate their busy calving schedules.

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Attendees will view the original Lodge Erewhon rooms, before travelling back to the Ashburton Masonic Centre for afternoon tea, and a centennial banquet this evening at Hotel Ashburton.

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In-depth look at a murder Evidence that led to Bronson Kelekolio being identified as the killer of Sina Solomon – a crime for which he was this week sentenced to life in prison – was overwhelming, the police detective who headed the case says. Before this week’s sentencing in the High Court in Christchurch, reporter Myles Hume sat down with John Rae to talk in-depth about the murder, how it unfolded and how it was solved.

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knock on the door scares Malia Kelekolio and her aunty in their 43 Aitken Street property.

Who could possibly need them at almost 3am on a Saturday?

At first they refuse to open it, then they recognise the voice.

Malia opens the door for her teenage brother, 15-year-old Bronson Kelekolio.

He stands on the doorstep, covered in blood, short of breath.

Come quick, she’s told, someone has hurt Sina.

The uncharacteristic panic of the Ashburton teenager strikes a nerve with Maria and her aunty.

Fearful as to what’s happened to the 22-year-old woman who she has grown to know as her stepsister, they hurry to Sina Nerisa Solomona’s Cass Street address, less than 300 metres away.

They pass Tommy Kelekolio’s black Honda that has been parked on the lawn for weeks.

Stuffed underneath Kelekolio and Malia’s father’s car in overgrown grass lies a knife handle and a serrated knife, wrapped in a bloodied checked bush shirt.

A sealed path runs along the side of the house, leading to the back door that’s been left ajar.

Inside the back door corridor of the rented home they find Sina in a pool of blood with her pants around her knees.

Sina is barely recognisable.

Her head and face had been stabbed multiple times and her throat slashed.

Amid the chaos, a distressed Kelekolio rushes to Sina, drops to his knees and holds her head.

He speaks to her, seemingly hoping for a sign of life.

Meanwhile, Malia finds the nearest power point and plugs in her phone charger. She dials 111 and rings for an ambulance,

which is dispatched in minutes followed by Ashburton police; the station situated just 450m away.

Following a description of the

horrifying scene to the operator, Malia is given advice on CPR, an act she continues on an unresponsive Sina out of sheer desperation and despair.

During those frantic moments, Malia uses a towel to cover her stepsister’s pubic region, attempting to conserve her dignity.

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r that shocked a district 3.05am December 15, 2012.

Homicide scene

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he family home became a homicide scene in the hours following the

death.

Detective Senior Sergeant John Rae, of Papanui, took charge, assisted by Ashburton’s Detective Sergeant Jennifer Hooke as the second in command and file manager Detective Sean Millington.

The street was cordoned off and neighbours were caught in the middle of an unfamiliar scene.

Their homes became exhibits for rubberneckers as they were thrust under the media spotlight.

To the naked eye murder was the obvious cause of death for the detectives. The blows to Sina’s head and the blood splatter on the walls indicated this was a direct and personal attack.

Kelekolio, who raised the alarm, is in shock in the hours following Sina’s death.

A key suspect from the outset, he is taken to the Ashburton Police Station, but he appears overwhelmed by the horror.

He is in no fit state to speak and the officer dealing with him calls for an ambulance to transport him to Ashburton Hospital.

That night

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Sina Solomona

Ashburton police arrive at the scene, closely followed by the paramedics.

They enter to find Malia still trying to revive her stepsister.

After a quick check for danger, police take over CPR until the paramedics arrive and check for signs of life.

Sina is pronounced dead at

ewind a few hours and Friday night, December 14, 2012, is shaping to be no different to any other for Bronson Kelekolio.

He is free to roam, he has little responsibility and there seems to be little parental concern about where he goes or who he’s with. He only really

has to answer to someone when things go wrong.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Kelekolio leaves his Aitken Street home heading to 111 Cass Street where his father Tommy lives with his partner Anuella Solomona and her four adult children George and Richard Ioapo and Loretta and Sina Solomona. Loretta’s partner Tara and Sina’s daughter Kaira also live at the address.

Sina, who has lived in Ashburton since 2002, is a hard-working bubbly young woman who enjoys a busy life with friends, family and her young daughter.

Kelekolio meets Tara, who is there to collect some equipment for a family birthday party. It is almost 2am.

Elsewhere, Sina, her CMP Canterbury workmate Penrose Poriomaka and another colleague are on their way home from a night shift when they are stopped by police on Walnut Avenue.

A drivers’ licence complication means they are ordered to drive directly to Penrose’s place, where Sina texts Tara, asking him to pick up her and her workmate.

With Kelekolio tagging along, Tara heads to Penrose’s house and drops Sina’s friend off at Willow Street.

Tara and Kelekolio then drop Sina off at Cass Street. Realising she would be alone, Tara asks if she wants him to come in, but she doesn’t mind. He drops Kelekolio at his Aitken Street home, which he shares with his sister Malia and his aunt, before continuing on to join other family members at a house in Allenton.

Kelekolio opens a bourbon and cola, and leaves again a few minutes later, wearing his checked brown and white bush

shirt with a Moshi portable speaker tucked in the top pocket and blue jeans.

He makes the three-minute walk back to the Cass Street home where he knows Sina is alone, enters through the unlocked back door and launches his attack.

He reaches for the utensil drawer and pulls out a butcher’s knife and thrusts it into the back of her neck. He then stabs her in the head, where the force snaps the tip off the blade, but he continues to repeatedly stab her as she falls to the ground.

Several blows are inflicted on the left side of her head.

Kelekolio does not let up, he proceeds as the knife snaps again.

The knife breaks until he is left with only the handle in his grasp.

During the violent attack, while Sina is still alive, Kelekolio carries out a sexual attack.

He then goes back to the drawer, pulls out a serrated knife and slashes her throat, likely the final blow, before returning to his home.

He wraps both knives in his bush shirt and stashes them under his father’s car.

He is wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans when he tells his sister and aunty what he has stumbled upon.

Evidence

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etective Senior Sergeant John Rae says the evidence that led to identifying Kelekolio as the sole killer was in the end overwhelming.

Mr Rae arrived later that Saturday morning, with officers from Christchurch, Timaru and Ashburton also descending on the Cass Street homicide scene. continued over page

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A caravan was set up outside the Cass Street home, with police cordoning off the property and a section of Cass Street.

Due to the number of people who were with Sina close to the time of the killing, many interviews were narrowed down to a handful of key suspects.

In the meantime, investigating officers called in environmental scientists to conduct a scene examination, while police carried out numerous search warrants at relevant addresses about Ashburton, including the Aitken Street house where Kelekolio lived.

Kelekolio was interviewed the day after the incident. “He couldn’t be excluded from day one because he was at the scene,” Mr Rae said. “His story was tenuous at best and we were really trying to establish in far more concrete terms what he was doing and where he was, where he had been and what he had been up to.”

On the day Sina died, Kelekolio posted condolences on his Facebook: “RIP”, he wrote, followed immediately by the comment “to ma sis”.

It seemed a cunning cover-up; a mindset he did not let up on.

Meanwhile, a bloodied hand print is found on a nearby used clothing bin, which is later found to have no relevance to the case. But a Moshi speaker found under Sina’s body was highly likely to have been in Kelekolio’s possession.

Five days after the murder on December 19, police found the serrated knife and knife handle wrapped in a shirt under Tommy’s car at Aitken Street.

Police kept an open mind, but all the signs pointed to Kelekolio, even though results from the bloodied finger prints on Sina’s body and DNA evidence were yet to be processed and reinforce Kelekolio’s link to the crime.

Even when photographs of the knives and the shirt were shown to Kelekolio he didn’t fold.

“He came up with a story about someone else being

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involved and him being threatened and having to dispose of them at the other guy’s instigation. It didn’t have the solid ring of truth about it,” Mr Rae said.

“His tactics weren’t sophisticated. As far as the investigation was concerned it was a good solid piece of work, taking our time and working through it.”

Kelekolio was arrested that Wednesday night. He was remanded in custody after an appearance in the Christchurch Youth Court the following day on Thursday, December 20.

Two days later more than 400 people gather in the Baring Square Methodist Church for Sina’s funeral.

He was then denied bail in Ashburton District Court to court on January 14, 2013.

But the questions still remained, why would a 15-yearold boy do this to a woman he knew as a stepsister?

Motive

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esides a potential sexual motive suggested during the investigation, Mr Rae said it was hard to establish the teen’s motive for the malicious crime.

Friends close to Kelekolio said he appeared to have a good relationship with Sina, but others spoke of conflict within the family.

Mr Rae said there were hints of an argument between Kelekolio and Sina in the week prior to the murder, when she called him out on the way he spoke to a family member.

He says that could be to do with Kelekolio being brought up with strong Pacific Island values; that he may have taken umbrage at being censured by his stepsister. But at the end of the day the motive remains a mystery.

“I mean this has come out of the blue, there’s no history to my knowledge of Bronson being violent like he was here.”

On March 18, Kelekolio was committed to trial and a freshly laid charge of sexual violation

Bronson Kelekolio

by unlawful sexual connection was put before him – he denied that too.

A pre-trial conference at the High Court in Christchurch heard he would stand trial for two weeks starting November 4, 2013, and despite what Mr Rae labelled “an overwhelming” case against him, Kelekolio maintained his not-guilty stance.

It is understood that was largely down to conflict within the family as to what was his best move. But at an arraignment hearing at the Timaru High Court sitting in Christch-

urch, Kelekolio made a shock guilty plea to both charges, with his father and the Solomona family sitting in the gallery.

On Thursday his name suppression was lifted and he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years and six months – more than 18 months since he committed the crime.

Friends, family

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oyal friends of Kelekolio Kelekolio, also known as Ale, have defended him through the ordeal, but it was with those friends that drugs, alcohol and cunning antics never seemed too far away.

Detective Senior Sergeant John Rae said Kelekolio, the youngest in the immediate Kelekolio family, lived a life with loose boundaries.

Friends say school was never really a priority for him in recent years and his behaviour reflected that.

He attended Ashburton Bor-

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MURDERS IN MID CANTERBURY

BY ERIN TASKER

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urder is not a common occurrence in Mid Canterbury, so the murder of Sina Solomona shook Ashburton to the core.

It was just the third murder recorded in Mid Canterbury in 15 years; one of 12 reported since 1913.

This week, more than 18 months after the crime, Bronson Kelekolio - the teenager who pleaded guilty to Miss Solomona’s murder in October last year - was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years and six months.

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Of the three murders to have occurred in the district in the past 15 years, Miss Solomona’s was one of two to have been solved so far.

To this day, the killer of Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley has not been brought to justice. Her body was found in a gully in the Rakaia Gorge days after she went missing while out walking her dog down the Ashburton River track at New Year 1999. Her killer has never been found.

The last murder before Miss Solomona’s was on January 5, 2004, when 41-year-old Methven man Donald Andrew Linwood

died in Ashburton Hospital after being stabbed during a barbecue at an address in Allen Street, Methven. He was stabbed twice and died from his injuries.

Matthew Albert Walsh, 35 at the time, pleaded guilty to his murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 13 years. That means he will be eligible for parole in 2017.

The same detective who took charge of that case – Detective John Rae from Christchurch – also led the inquiry into Miss Solomona’s death.

November 1913 – Housewife Rosanna Lilley was murdered in her home at Mayfield.

March 1943 – A female taxi driver, Wilhelmina Webster was murdered on the outskirts of the town.

June 1953 – A taxi driver, Alexander Henderson was murdered.

November 1969 – The body of Robert Richards was recovered from the charred remains of his Mount Hutt homestead. Forensic tests showed he had been murdered before the fire was started.

April 1975 – John Beamsley received a fatal gun shot wound in his Ashburton home.

February 1978 – Eleven-year-old Rhonda Bain was attacked, raped and murdered while out riding her horse.

December 1978 – Nicola Duncan was murdered during a domestic dispute and her body was recovered from the Rakaia Gorge.

1996 – Woman killed in head on crash near Rakaia River bridge. The driver of the other car involved was charged with her murder. He was found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.

January 1999 – Kirsty Bentley is murdered and her body found in the Rakaia Gorge. Her killer has never been found.

2004 – Donald Linwood dies after being stabbed during a barbecue at Methven.

2012 – Sina Solomona is killed at her Cass Street home after returning from a late shift at her job.

ough before heading to Ashburton College.

A schoolmate and childhood friend said he was often truant with friends.

“I remember one time they told me they went to one class during the whole week,” she said.

She said he was asked to leave the college and join its community entry programme for pupils with behavioural difficulties who are at risk of being suspended or excluded.

Kelekolio is of Tokelauan descent, and the two families

were brought together by Sina’s mother and Kelekolio’s father.

They united after Anuella’s husband and father of her children Inu Ioapo, 40, was killed after his car collided with a stock truck 3km south of Rakaia on March 1, 2005.

Sources say Tommy was originally a family friend, who forged a relationship with Anuella.

Kelekolio’s mother lived in Christchurch for several years, but according to her Facebook page, she now lives in Porirua.

Both families have lived

in Mid Canterbury for several years after moving from Porirua. Kelekolio’s father Tommy held down two jobs – one at ACL and another as parttime glass cleaner at The Shed nightclub.

Anuella worked at CMP in the lamb processing plant, not far from the bench her daughter Sina also used to work the night shift on.

The blended family spread across two houses, Kelekolio living with his aunty, his father’s sister, and his own sister Malia on Aitken Street, while Tommy

lived just around the corner at 111 Cass Street with the Solomona family.

Another one of Kelekolio’s sisters, Imeleta Ulupalo, lived elsewhere in Ashburton with her husband and family.

One associate said: “Bronson had a lot of issues at home” and appeared to have little structure in his life.

Anuella’s friend Elenoa Needham said there was conflict within the family. Kelekolio was not always welcomed by the Solomona side.

“It was because of his mouth, and Sina always used to call him a little shit because Tommy believed whatever he said.

“Tommy wasn’t always around when they were together.”

Friends say Kelekolio often appeared at ease on the outside with a cheeky sense of humour.

However, comments on his Facebook page offered an insight into the life the 15-yearold led.

“I miss getting drunk with you, all the mad smoke up’s and all the timed I’ve saved your ass (sic),” one person wrote, reminiscing after his friend was arrested for the killing.

But he was also a keen sportsman, being selected in the Mid Canterbury Country under 14½ squad in June 2010 after performing well for his Tinwald club.

An associate, who did not want to be named, said they remembered Kelekolio moving in with a family friend when things got tough at home, where he was “really happy”.

He went to church with them and helped out with household chores. But when he went back to his family, things began to slide again.

Mr Rae said Kelekolio’s home life would have been a contributing factor in his offending.

“I don’t think he fitted with the ideals of the family at Cass Street; he behaved in ways that weren’t acceptable to them and they pushed him away,” he said.

“He’s living with an elderly aunty, he’s living with an older

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sister, both who have their own lives that they go about. He’s not in school, he’s in the education programme. He hasn’t got a parent living with him, no-one is exercising control or direction over him apart from the odd time when he gets a cuff over the ear for when he’s not doing something right.

“He had access to alcohol, he was accessing drugs ... but what it means is you lose your inhibitions to improve, it takes away your drive and so he was falling by the wayside.

“It was a definite contributing factor.”

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oday, Kelekolio has had two birthdays in juvenile detention in Christchurch, his 16th on the Christmas Eve just six days after he was arrested.

Meanwhile, the blended family he was once part of has been destroyed.

Anuella and Tommy split after Sina’s funeral and any slight relationship that remained was in tatters after Kelekolio pleaded guilty.

Sina’s daughter Kaira is being raised by Anuella and Sina’s twin sister Loretta.

They occasionally visit the Ashburton Methodist Church where minister Tevita Taufalele works with them. He says Kaira is now known as Sina Junior.

“I’ve been talking with them through the process of forgiveness,” Tevita said.

However, he said it would take time and be difficult for them to entirely come to grips with something that is still so raw.

Tommy is still living in Ashburton and is said to remain one of Kelekolio’s strongest supporters.

Kelekolio, now 17, has at least 14 years before him in prison, along with the life-long reputation he gets with it.

He will have to accept the destruction of a life he caused, and, along with that, the family he was once part of.

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■ RISING STARS

Matariki celebrated in style Rising Stars Preschoolers ended their Matariki learning this week with a disco and a celebration of Kiwiana.

The children had been celebrating the Maori New Year over the past months.

Head teacher Sally Johnstone said families, teachers and children had learned about New Zealand culture and the celebration of Matariki and had done a variety of learning activities.

They included planting vegetables and flowers, shared time with visitors from the community, a movie day; they created Matariki artworks, made Maori bread and learned the national anthem and other waiata.

Ms Johnstone said preschoolers also had a shared morning tea with their families. “We have also been learning about our own cultures, writing our own Mihis and what makes us special about who we are,” she said.

As part of the closing celebrations the children dressed in Kiwiana costumes and enjoyed a disco. There were All Blacks, ballerinas and farmers but also Hokey Pokey ice cream, a jar of Vegemite and a giant pavlova costume.

Below - Preschoolers dressed for a celebration of Kiwiana as part of Matariki.

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Preschoolers back Crusaders Rising Stars preschoolers show their support for the Crusaders ahead of their Super 15 final against the Australian-based Warratahs tonight. They had a Crusaders Day. Most of the little preschoolers, aged between two and four years old, dressed in red and black and practised rugby at a Crusaders Day. There was even red and black playdough.

But while there were dozens of Crusaders, there was also one All Black.

Preschool teacher Rasela Sa said some of the children had recently showed an interest in rugby.

And there were a few eagerly waiting to be old enough to play rippa rugby.

“We decided to have a black and red day to show our support for the Crusaders as they head into the finals,” Miss Sa said.

It gave the children a chance to connect the different areas of their lives preschool, home and community – in a shared interest.

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In brief

■ UKRAINE

Police head to MH17 site

By Paul OsBOrne The Australian government is increasingly confident it will be only a matter of days before the remaining bodies of MH17 victims and their effects are transported from the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

The breakthrough came after a meeting between Russian, Ukrainian and separatist leaders in the Belarussian capital Minsk, and followed the successful mission of an advance team involving Australian and Dutch police.

Ukrainian deputy prime minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote on Twitter that within two days militants would allow passage of the bodies through the war torn Donetsk region.

The advance team has identified a new, safer but longer route for a 14-vehicle convoy, which at 4.30pm (AEST) yesterday was on its way to the site, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said.

“There will be about 100 (people) in this convoy,” Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop confirmed from Kiev.

“We have judged that it is safe for a much larger team to go onto the crash site and really start working in earnest.”

Ms Bishop, who was to leave Ukraine overnight, said refrigerated vans would carry the remains, which would then be transferred to the Netherlands for identification.

“My work is done but the mission goes on,” she said.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the advance team, which had been prevented four times from reaching the site during to shelling and gunfire, had itself recovered some remains.

Australian officials believe as many as 80 bodies are still at the site.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 is believed to have been

Gone are the days when Aussie beer lovers are meant to slam down a coldie and let out a belch.

Experts are encouraging a more refined level of consumption, such as taking the time to pour the amber fluid into a glass, matching it with food, and experimenting with new flavours. It’s all part of a drive to get Australians reacquainted with beer. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show domestic beer consumption in 2013 was at its lowest point in 67 years, and Brewers Association boss Denita Wawn said a turnaround was yet to come. - AAP

Gas blasts kill 25

Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski whose daughter, 25-year-old Fatima, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, sit on part of the wreckage of the crashed aircraft.

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shot down on July 17 by a surface-to-air missile fired by proRussian separatists, killing all 298 people on board including 38 Australians.

Mr Abbott said the Australian Federal Police and Dutch police mission was risky, given the continued fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists in the area.

But the government had taken the best expert advice and Australia’s special envoy Angus Houston was “plugged in” to the international team involved in the mission.

Following Clive Palmer’s comments that Australian po-

lice should be withdrawn because of the dangers, Mr Abbott said he did not lightly put personnel in harm’s way.

“But let’s not forget 298 innocent people have been murdered, 38 Australians have been murdered,” he said.

“We owe it to our dead to bring them back, we owe it to their families to bring them back.”

The advance team paused for a moment’s silence at the crash site, almost two weeks to the hour since the plane went down, after travelling for six hours to get there.

Senior representatives from

Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE met in Minsk as news came through of the successful advance mission.

A statement following the meeting said the senior representatives had committed to securing safe access by international investigators to the crash site until their work on the spot was completed.

There was also agreement on the release of hostages, improved monitoring of the ceasefire and better control and verification on the border between Ukraine and Russia.

Another meeting will be held next week.

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Survivors from landslide unlikely Rescue workers are losing hope of finding survivors amid the mud and debris from a major landslide in western India, where 150 people are feared to have been killed.

Fifty bodies and eight survivors have now been pulled from

South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has sold his Pretoria home where he killed his girlfriend last year for less than he hoped, to help pay legal fees for his ongoing murder trial. The athlete had hoped to raise at least five million rand ($A508,520) when he put the small villa in a gated community on the market in March, said estate agent Ansie Louw, who is the wife of Pistorius’s coach. The buyer ended up paying 4.5 million rand - significantly less than the price paid for similar properties in the same neighbourhood.

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■ INDIA

By aditya Phatak

Pistorius sells home

the site where a village once stood in a remote part of Maharashtra state, but incessant rains and strong winds have hampered rescue efforts.

“The debris is huge and since it is wet mud, there is negligible chance of air pockets. Any more survivors would be miracles,” said Ganesh Pawar, medi-

cal officer at the rural hospital treating casualties.

The National Disaster Response Force has said about 160 people were thought to have been living in the dozens of houses damaged when a hill gave way and cascaded onto their village of Malin.

Relatives told of losing

whole families after tonnes of earth and trees came crashing down onto the homes below.

“I lost my dad, mum, nephew, my whole family.

“What will I do?

“I have nothing left,” inconsolable Usha Vilas Gavar, 30, said close to the scene.

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A series of powerful gas blasts have killed at least 25 people and injured up to 267 in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, overturning cars and ripping up roads as terrified residents fled an inferno. The explosions sparked massive fires which tore through the city’s Cianjhen district, leaving a yawning trench running for hundreds of metres down the middle of a major thoroughfare and littering the streets with dead bodies. Dramatic video footage captured by dashboard cameras inside cars showed multiple blasts and pillars of flame erupting from manholes as drivers frantically tried to avoid being engulfed. The National Fire Agency said the blasts killed at least 25 people.

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Seen our cocaine?

French authorities have ordered a probe after more than 50 kilos of seized cocaine worth millions of euros went missing from the Paris police headquarters. The theft was discovered yesterday and a probe was launched, the police said. The cocaine was seized in raids that took place in July and was stored in a secure room. “If the investigation shows that the law has been broken very firm measures will be immediately taken,” the police said. The revelations are a major embarrassment for the Paris criminal police.

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New generation missile China has acknowledged the existence of a new intercontinental ballistic missile said to be capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads as far as the United States, state-run media reports.

A government environmental monitoring centre in Shaanxi said on its website that a military facility in the province was developing Dongfeng-41 (DF-41) missiles, the Global Times reported. The DF-41 is designed to have a range of 12,000 kilometres.

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In brief Ball issues for Phoenix If an extra shot or two flies over the crossbar from the Wellington Phoenix during their FFA cup clash with Adelaide United across the Tasman on Tuesday night you could probably lay some blame on the ball. Nike supply the balls for the A-League but the inaugural FFA Cup features Umbro balls and the Phoenix have spent the past week trying to get used to the new piece of equipment. “They are a lot lighter and different to what we’ve been used to,” Phoenix striker Jeremy Brockie said. “But it’s good that they’ve arrived a little bit early so we can get a good feel for them.”

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■ KARATE

Taylah’s a real karate kid

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Scorchers sign Klinger The Perth Scorchers have signed experienced batsman Michael Klinger for the 2014-15 Big Bash League season. Klinger joins the Scorchers from the Adelaide Strikers after making 663 runs at an average of just under 35 and a strike rate of almost 120 in the first three editions of the BBL. The former Australia A representative has also played Twenty20 cricket with Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Kochi Tuskers Kerala, making more than 2000 runs in 77 matches with a strike rate of more than 120.

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Gavaskar slams Indians India’s massive 266-run third Test defeat to England drew widespread condemnation yesterday with former captain Sunil Gavaskar accusing MS Dhoni’s team of abject surrender in Southampton. “To lose this Test even before lunch on the final day showed zero resistance whatsoever,” Gavaskar told the NDTV news channel. “There was no fight and that is a disappointing aspect,” added the former recordbreaking opening batsman. India’s loss was an abject surrender.” - AFP

Raonic ousts Hewitt Lleyton Hewitt has been knocked out of the Washington Open by big-serving Wimbledon semifinalist Milos Raonic. The Canadian blasted 27 aces on his way to winning the tight third-round clash 7-6 (7-1) 7-6 (7-3) against the Australian veteran yesterday at the $US1.9 million hardcourt tune-up for the US Open. Raonic, who also won his opener over American Jack Sock in two tie-breakers, will face US giant-killer Steve Johnson for a spot in the last four.

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Eels up for finals Parramatta skipper Tim Mannah says the Eels’ self-belief never wavered during a mid-season stumble and they are confident they can play NRL finals football.

The Eels were flying before losing four matches in succession - the streak snapped last week with a win over Gold Coast. Ranked 12th heading into their clash with Cronulla today at Remondis Stadium, Parramatta are still very much in the finals hunt, on the same ladder points as the seventh-placed Cowboys. Mannah, who returned from a shoulder injury against the Titans, says the Eels remain tight thanks to Brad Arthur, who took over as head coach this season. The Sharks are without skipper Paul Gallen, who is sidelined with a biceps injury. - AAP

New Zealand Karate representative Taylah Burrowes.

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Taylah Burrowes has only been a karate kid for less than two years, but she will be representing New Zealand in the Oceania Karate Championships in Fiji in September.

The 10-year-old attended the New Zealand National Championships in Wellington in July, where she was third in the 10-11 under 40kg kumite.

Taylah then attended the Karate New Zealand national training camp over two days, where she was named into the New Zealand team.

“I was really surprised and then got quite excited,” Taylah said.

She will take on the best from Oceania in the kumite (the fighting) in the 10-11yrs under 40 kg category, and will continue to train four times a week under Thorsten Windhorst at the Jion Karate Club in Ashburton.

The green belt only started karate in October 2012 and has proved a fast learner.

“My brother started karate and I watched and decided to have a go.

“He eventually lost interest but I carried on.”

At the nationals fellow Jion members won medals, with Thorsten Windhorst taking gold in the veteran male kumite and a bronze in the kata while Jenna Borthwick won gold in the 10-11 year girls’ kumite.

Jessica Windhorst won bronze in the 14-15 kumite and was third in the secondary schools, while Leanne Walsh took bronze in the 12-13 year-old girls’ kata and kumite.

Also at the nationals in Wellington were the Russell sisters, Isla and Kalia, competing out of the Kofukan dojo in Christchurch.

Kalia won the silver in the 6-7 year old girls’ kumite and the bronze in the kata, while older sister Isla won the silver in the 8-9 year old girls kumite.

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Lillyman expects forwards to front

By DaviD skipwith Prop Jacob Lillyman expects the Warriors’ forwards to produce an improved effort in tomorrow’s crucial away match against the Canberra Raiders after last week’s loss to Manly.

The Warriors held their own up-front against the Sea Eagles and as a team they managed to create enough scoring opportunities to win the game, but individually, the starting members

of the pack failed to make the big metres.

Of the six starting forwards, none managed more than Lillyman and fellow front-rower Suaia Matagi, who both reached 65 metres, while bench players Ben Matulino and Jayson Bukuya were the stand-outs, with 117 and 82 metres respectively.

“We were definitely down, that’s probably been right across the board, especially the forwards. We were all down

and a bit dirty on ourselves and we’re certainly looking to bounce back,” Lillyman said.

Coach Andrew McFadden defended his forward’s efforts, and rightly pointed out that overall they were not too far behind the Manly pack’s total, with the Warriors’ big men accumulating 585 metres to the Sea Eagles’ 699.

“I thought the forwards did a fair job.

“All the stats suggested that

although we had a lack of possession in the game that we made just as many metres as them. I thought Ben Matulino particularly had a very good game and they’re going to need to be good again against a big Canberra pack,” he said.

“We certainly recognised those areas we let ourselves down in but we’ve got to just focus on this week’s performance and if we play our best footy we should win the game.” - NZH

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In brief Decathletes pull out New Zealand decathletes Brent Newdick and Scott McLaren’s failure to complete the event at the Commonwealth Games came after a long battle with Athletics New Zealand selectors for their inclusion in the Glasgow team. There were concerns from some senior athletics officials that McLaren in particular did not have the form or fitness to warrant a place in the team. The inclusion of the pair, who have both struggled with injury over the past year, was the subject of some fraught conversations between the New Zealand selectors and the athletes. It is understood McLaren was threatening to go to the Sports Tribunal if he wasn’t selected.

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Quiet man does the job

Laura Langman (left) passes the ball under pressure from Saphia William of St Lucia during their preliminary round netball match at the Commonwealth Games. The Silver Ferns face England tonight in a semi-final knockout encounter.

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Pocket rocket ‘indestructible’

By DaviD Leggat Injuries, illness, loss of form.

Life is a serious roller coaster for sports teams.

The Silver Ferns are no different, especially on the injury front right now.

But there are invariably certainties teams can bank on in difficult times.

In the Silver Ferns case one of them is that Laura Langman will just keep trucking along, making herself invaluable to her side and with every game restating that she’ll be remembered as one of the great New Zealand players.

Her personality is such that she’d probably laugh that off.

But consider the little midcourt dynamo has now stretched her unbroken run of internationals dating back to her debut in 2005 to 105. She has an indestructible quality about her.

Several years ago, an All Black medical person compared two particular players who occupied the same position.

Both were established players in the touring squads of the time. One, a city type, was forever on the physio’s table, most days of the week, complaining of a niggle here, a bruise there; the other, a rugged, uncomplicated farming fellow, didn’t darken that particular door for entire tours.

Langman’s dedication to being fit ensures one less headache for her coaches.

In a world of head scratching and trying to figure out all manner of issues, one thing her Silver Ferns coaches have been able to ink in with total certainty: Langman will be on court, doing her thing, no fuss, just playing top class netball.

Langman is the glue of the teams she plays in, the player who greases the wheels to keep

things smoothly on track.

So who is this pocket rocket her team-mates call Lauz?

She’s a farmer’s daughter from near Pirongia.

She snowboards, surfs and used to ride horses, and is, if not a fitness freak, then someone for whom being physically fit matters.

Langman loves running long distances and enjoys a laugh, as witnessed by her being willing to dance Langman Style (geddit?) on television show The Crowd Goes Wild.

Her handwriting is evidently particularly neat, whatever you care to make of that, she has an accounting degree, is pursuing a masters and works at Deloittes.

Coach Wai Taumaunu has no doubts on the qualities she brings to the Silver Ferns’ table.

“It’s her level-headedness in pressure situations.

“She’s the one whose avail-

able [to take a pass]. She’s the one playing the short ball, she’s resilient and has the physical capabilities to be still running as hard as she was at the start of a game.”

New Zealand play England tonight for a place in the gold medal Commonwealth Games match. Expect a full court press from England, who fancy their chances, and were grumpy for having let slip a cracking opportunity to topple Australia in pool play this week.

The Silver Ferns have fingers crossed for their two injured shooters, Cathrine Latu and Maria Tutaia. Taumaunu hinted yesterday that one might make it.

Leana de Bruin and captain Casey Kopua can boss the defensive circle as well as any combination around.

As for the midcourt, you have to figure it’s in pretty safe hands.

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Bronze takes coach back to 1998 glory

By Nik SimoN There was an emotional flashback to Kuala Lumpur in 1998 as David Phillips watched his prized gymnast, David Bishop, step on to the podium in Glasgow.

Phillips won bronze in the

men’s floor competition at those Malaysian Games and after a 16-year medal drought for New Zealand gymnastics he watched on as proud coach while Bishop won the same medal in the same discipline.

It was a tearful moment for Phillips, who hopes the sport’s

moment in the sun can help generate new interest in gymnastics.

“It’s like deja-vu,” said Phillips. “It’s like we’ve gone full circle. The whole scenario was so similar to when I competed.

“In Kuala Lumpur I was up early and, like David, I watched as athletes kept scoring less

than me. We don’t have a lot of heroes in our sport, so an occasion like this is huge for gymnastics. We don’t get a lot support; we just put our heads down and get on with things.

So when an athlete like David delivers on the day, it’s just incredible.”

- NZH

Devon Manchester has to undergo a personality change when he steps on to the field for the Black Sticks. Hockey players like their goalkeeper to be noisy. That’s not Aucklander Manchester’s natural way. “I wouldn’t say generally off the field I’m a bossy, out-there kind of person,” he said yesterday. “But on the field it’s definitely something that I’ve been developing. When I first came into the team as quite a young goalkeeper there were guys I’d followed when I was growing up, and you’re telling them what to do,” Manchester said. It didn’t quite seem his place to be doing that, but he’s learning, and that suits the line of defence in front of him just fine.

“The feedback from them is that’s definitely what they want.” - NZH

Kiwis in 800m final A quarter of the competitors in this morning’s Commonwealth Games 800m final will be wearing the silver fern. Both Nikki Hamblin and Angie Smit finished third in their respective semi-finals in Glasgow yesterday to seal safe passage to the gold medal race. For Hamblin it’s a chance to repeat her result from Delhi four years ago, where she took silver, while Smit is relishing the chance to run alongside an athlete she cited as an inspiration.

The Kiwis ran clever tactical races to gain automatic qualification for the final, emerging from the back of the field to pass their opponents on the home straight.

- NZH

Villumsen breaks hoodoo At long last, Linda Villumsen will wear a gold medal around her neck when she returns to New Zealand. Always the bridesmaid, Villumsen had finished with silver or bronze in five consecutive world championship time trials, while she also finished second at the last Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The Danish-born Kiwi finally cracked the top step of the podium in yesterday’s race around Glasgow Green, flying in the finishing stages to turn an eight-second deficit into a six-second lead.

- NZH

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■ RUGBY

Photo op controversy Crusaders captain Kieran Read caused a minor controversy ahead of tonight’s Super Rugby final when he left a captain’s photo opportunity before his Waratahs counterpart Michael Hooper arrived. Yesterday’s media event, planned to include Read, Hooper and the trophy at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium, ended in disarray when the Waratahs’ skipper was delayed, apparently by traffic. Read was at the stadium for the scheduled 12.15pm Sydney time start and decided to leave after waiting 25 minutes for Hooper and getting word that the loose forward was still 20 minutes away. The failure to get the two captains together might have disappointed photographers, but it brings things to the boil nicely for tonight’s clash.

- APNZ

Deans backs Crusaders Multiple Super Rugby title-winning coach and former Wallabies mentor Robbie Deans has given his stamp of approval to the 2014 Crusaders ahead of tonight’s final against the NSW Waratahs. Deans coached the Crusaders to five titles in nine years, including their last with victory over the Waratahs in the 2008 final in Christchurch immediately before linking with the Wallabies. He was also manager of the first two of the Crusaders’ competition-record seven title-winning sides. Current Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder, who played in three of the champion sides under Deans, has had a number of near misses since taking over in 2009. “We caught up in Christchurch a couple of weeks ago and he liked the way that the Crusaders were playing their footy,” Blackadder said. “He thought he could see the belief within the players, so it was reassuring to hear that. It was nice.”

- AAP

The one that got away History shows there’s been 18 hyped-up yet fruitless campaigns for the NSW Waratahs. But 2008 - precisely the May 31 Super 14 final at Christchurch’s renovated Lancaster Park - stands as the one that got away. A night where the Tahs, guided by a teenage Kurtley Beale, led 12-3 and had a longawaited title in their grasp before it all spun out of control. Michael Cheika’s current Waratahs can bury enduring painful memories of that 20-12 heart-break tonight by repaying the Crusaders at ANZ Stadium. No opponent has turned NSW’s Super Rugby dreams into nightmares like the Cantabrians.

Eleven straight defeats in the past decade, a record 96-19 humiliation in 2002 and two triumphs in deciders - 2005 and 2008. - AAP

Treatment for Beale Star playmaker Kurtley Beale has failed to complete the NSW Waratahs’ final training session before tonight’s blockbuster Super Rugby final with the Crusaders.

Beale required treatment for a shoulder complaint midway through the captain’s run at Allianz Stadium, but coach Michael Cheika was not concerned enough to tinker with his bench. Cheika yesterday opted for a six-two split, with halfback Brendan McKibbin and winger Peter Betham his only backline reserves.

- AAP

Last year it was against Otago B, this year Glenn Moore’s Mid Canterbury meets Southland in Oamaru.

Tough pre-season hit-out m

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury take a patchwork team to take on the Southland Stags in Oamaru today with 15 of the initial squad unavailable.

Coach Glenn Moore had hoped to take as close to a shadow starting XV into the tough preseason hit out but injury, illness and unavailability have hindered those plans.

“It’s disappointing really and not ideal but we can’t change it so we just have to press forward,” Moore said.

“There’s a few boys brought in that are on the borderline of being there, so they got the opportunity to show their wares.”

In the forwards the absence of Tevita Ula has Sam Houston switch to the blindside, and former Tasman Mako Gary Redmond will wear the number 7 in the only change to the forward pack that started the shield challenge.

Celtic’s Neil Thompson has come into to replace the injured James Carr, with Jackson Donlan also capable of playing hooker, while Joel Hewson and Alipeti

Polotele have also been brought in as bench cover.

The backline has sweeping changes with no Richard Catherwood, Esera Lauina, Peni Manumanuniwila or Dwayne Burrows, who all started last month, not available. Cawte Whiting will start at halfback with Will Mackenzie ruled out.

Ashburton College’s Nete Caucau starts at second five outside Murray Williams, with Brenton Connell shifting into centre from the wing.

Josh Nonu and Seta Koroitamana, who regularly plays at

flanker, are on the wings with Andrew Fluker at fullback.

Ryan Ashworth and Maukie Otukolo have been called in as cover on the bench.

The personnel may have changed but Moore still expects them to perform, and be as competitive against Southland as they were against fellow ITM Cup side Counties.

“Nothing should change from the point of view of attitude, commitment and desire so we expect everyone to front with the same.

“Southland are at full strength

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MID CANTERBURY 1 Tokulua Tolu, 2 John Sharpe, 3 Robert Kwong, 4 Logan Bonnington, 5 Andrew Smith, 6 Sam Houston, 7 Gary Redmond, 8 Jon Dampney©, 9 Cawte Whiting), 10 Murray Williams, 11 Josh Nonu, 12 Nete Caucau, 13 Brenton Connell, 14 Seta Koroitamana, 15 Andrew Fluker.

Reserves: 16 Simon Fleetwood, 17 Matt Groom, 18 Neil Thompson, 19 Jackson Donlan, 20 Joel Hewson, 21 Alipeti Polotele, 22 Davey Maw, 23 Ryan Ashworth, 24 Maukie Otukolo, 25 Andrew Letham.

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If we accept that the Crusaders and Waratahs share the same resolve to win tonight, then the difference between the best two sides in the competition could rest on their respective emotional states and it’s in this area that Todd Blackadder’s men could have an edge.

Minutes after his side thrashed the Sharks in their Christchurch semi-final last weekend, Blackadder talked about the lessons learned from their failure to win the 2011 final against the Reds in Brisbane.

One of their problems, apart from their inability to snuff out the attacking genius of halfback Will Genia, was their emotional state heading into the Suncorp Stadium showcase.

In short, the Crusaders got a bit carried away - not surprising given their already high emotional levels caused by the ongoing Christchurch earthquakes. This week they have been businesslike, the fact they are away from possible distractions in Christchurch probably a good thing.

Sydney is a big city, a rugby union final in this metropolis doesn’t carry the weight of a league showdown, for example.

Certainly, there was no sign of the Crusaders getting carried away in the wake of their demolition of the Sharks, despite the fact it was one of their best performances ever under Blackadder.

There was no yahooing in the changing room; only a loud but fairly restrained rendition of “Happy Birthday” for persons unknown.

The same can’t be said of the Waratahs, who, unlike the Crusaders, are not used to being in the competition at this time of year.

They last featured in a final in 2008. They lost to the Crusaders.

Their coach, Michael Cheika, a man possessing a hot temper, showed signs of pressure this week, when, according to a newspaper report, let rip at a photographer at training.

“What if I come to your work and start f ... king photographing you?” Cheika shouted at a photographer situated behind the goal posts who had the temerity to show some interest in the Waratahs’ lineout drills.

Cheika, already on thin ice after incurring a suspended six-month ban by Sanzar for abusing a cameraman during the Waratahs’ loss to the Sharks in Durban, later had a more restrained crack at another photographer.

The incidents happened before a team huddle on the training field in which veteran midfielder Adam Ashley-Cooper read out a poem containing references to all 30 players in the Waratahs’ squad, an emotional recital which apparently drew applause and sent shivers down the spin of prop Sekope Kepu.

“I think when someone goes to that length and includes 30-odd blokes in a poem touching on a little bit on his experience with them or where they’ve come from and all that kind of stuff is pretty special,” Kepu told media afterwards.

Who knows, it might help do the trick for the Waratahs, but it’s hard to see Richie McCaw, Kieran Read or Dan Carter doing anything like that.

For them and the rest of the Crusaders, the motivational stuff will come from within.

For them there is a simply a steely resolve to finish the job.

- APNZ

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made tougher other than their Super Rugby players, so will be a good outfit.”

It will be a tough test, made even harder by the changes, as Mid Canterbury ramp up their preparations for the Meads Cup defence, which starts on August 23.

Today’s match kicks off at Centennial Pak in Oamaru at 12.30pm. * * * * * * Southland have Mid Canterbury product and New Zealand Sevens representative Mark Jackman on the bench, ready to make his Southland debut.

Jackman last played ITM Cup for Hawkes Bay before being picked up by the New Zealand Sevens team.

After battling with a thumb injury he wasn’t selected for the Commonwealth Games and took up the offer from Southland.

Jackman will get his debut for the province off the bench, as will several players including deaf player Morgan Mitchell who will start in the front row alongside centurion Jason Rutledge and JP Koen, the lone Super Rugby player available to the Stags’ line up.

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Dan Carter and Nemani Nadolo should be key figures for the Crusaders in tonight’s Super 15 final.

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■ GOLF

Ricky hits magic mark Methven harness driver Ricky May chalked up his 2500th win on the last day of the 2013-14 season at Addington on Thursday night. May drove Dalton Bromac to the win in the first at the New Zealand Metro racing meet, two lengths clear of runner-up Wesley Silcox driven by John Dunn. It was his 102nd win for the season, the fifth time he has driven 100 wins in a season.

His first winner came in 1977 on November 27, when he took Ruling River to the line first in Geraldine.

The new harness racing season opened yesterday, one where May will look to win an unprecedented eighth New Zealand Trotting Cup in November.

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Richards moving north Group One sprinter Natuzzi will be among a small team of horses trainer Paul Richards will relocate to Byerley Park after the New Zealand Cup carnival. Richards, who has more than a 100 winners to his credit, has decided to shift his operation north to Karaka after 30 years in Mosgiel. He said the move would offer his horses, particularly Natuzzi, better opportunities and he had been impressed with the Byerley Park facilities. It would also bring him and his wife Leanne closer to their children Jamie and Libby.

The stable star Natuzzi is back in work after a successful summer and autumn campaign that was rewarded with a Listed Lightning Handicap win at Trentham and success in a $A100,000 sprint at Caulfield.

- APNZ

Melbourne-bound Gai Waterhouse has sent her New Zealand-bred stayer Hippopus to Melbourne to begin a new campaign at Moonee Valley today.

Waterhouse won seven races from just 17 starters on the course during the 2013-2014 season and Hippopus will be faced by just six rivals in The Valley Handicap (2040m).

Tulloch Lodge representative Mark Newnham said Sydney’s recent dry spell is another reason Hippopus will begin his campaign in Melbourne. “There is just nothing to start him off up here in Sydney.

We’ve had no rain here and there are a lack of races up here at this time of the year for open company horses up over a distance.” By High Chaparral, Hippopus has had two starts in Victoria, winning the Listed VRC St Leger as a three-year-old before an unplaced finish in last year’s Bendigo Cup. - APNZ

First win for Donald Wanganui apprentice Adam Donald has wasted little time in getting his first winner on the board.

The 18-year-old was successful at Waverley on Thursday aboard the Raymond Connors-trained Goldmist when they claimed an upset win in the Rating 65 sprint.

“That was my fourth ride and I had two as an amateur,” said Donald, who comfortably rides at 54kg. “It was a huge thrill and the first time I’d ever sat on the horse – I was browsing through the nominations and he (Connors) was the first one I rang.” Originally from Rotorua, Donald became involved in the industry at his father’s prompting and is employed by trainer Paul Belsham.

- APNZ

Champions on the greens Ashburton’s Sue Lamb marks the hole for Ellesmere’s Kath Winter (right) as she prepares to putt during the Aorangi Nine Hole Association Championships at the Ashburton Golf Club yesterday.

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■ OPINION

Best of Glasgow Games-watching T he latest sporting extravaganza to hit our TV screens, the Commonwealth Games is nearly over, and what a marvellous spectacle it has been, as it always is.

Favourite sport (yes I’m awfully biased) has been the squash, particularly the doubles version.

Almost everyone who’s tried that variation of the game will tell you how much straight-out fun it is, there’s so much talk, banter, abuse and raucous laughter going on, folks tend to forget how dangerously crowded it is on the court; most players have experienced that exquisite agony of a full-blooded drive connecting with backs of legs or other more tender bits (especially those players who tend to drift across from the T in search of some real or imagined advantage).

Top-level doubles is way, way above that, the skills involved are doubly phenomenal as they somehow make room for each other’s shots, while constantly communicating with their partner about who should take the next return, all happening with split-second timing, resulting in some breathtaking rallies.

Terrific stuff, it’s just a pity that the sheer pace of the game

of squash still doesn’t come across properly on the telly.

Best single event: The men’s cross-country cycling race.

I stumbled across it late on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, and after a few minutes there was no more channelhopping for the rest of the duration.

In a gruelling, exhaustive event where the winning margin is usually recorded in minutes, from around the half-way mark there was a group of four riders who had the medals podium to themselves, and that group stuck together until the finish line was well in sight.

And that group included an Aussie, on paper easily the highest-credentialed rider in the field and a red-hot favourite, as well as a Canadian, whose country always, always dominate this sport, so the pressure on his back to score at least silver was akin to that on our sevens guys.

Oh, and two Kiwis to make up the numbers.

But, with one lap to go, the flying Kiwis were still there, right in the mix, in a game that the phrase gut-busting was clearly invented for.

And when the Canadian finally

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cried enough, well into the final, massive lap, there were three.

The Aussie was biding his time, happy to operate in a Kiwi sandwich and pounce when it came to the final sprint to claim the glory he figured was rightfully his.

But in a genius stroke of timing, the leading rider, Anton Cooper who hails from just up the road, suddenly delved very deep, found some forgotten recess of energy, and launched himself off the saddle, and off into the distance, towards the line and Games immortality.

A stunned Aussie couldn’t react, and suddenly he was relegated to third as Sam Gaze flew past him and the most unlikely of Kiwi quinellas became a reality.

If you were watching it live and were still in your seat over the last three hundred metres, then you’re a far calmer sportswatcher than I.

More terrific stuff, exactly what the Games are all about.

Oddest event: The ladies shot put. Our Valerie was unhappy and frustrated about her own performance; the second placed competitor was unhappy and frustrated about not having any show at all in catching the leader; two others threw personal bests in their first attemps but were unhappy and frustrated about not being able to go on with it; even the commentator was flat and unable to inject any excitement into the event for the viewers (sure you don’t want the Danny Morrison over-hype, but a bit of enthusiasm doesn’t hurt, perhaps he was unhappy and frustrated about having nothing much to work with).

Valerie tried to explain it all at the after-match interviews and said that she was really, really happy to have sealed her position as one of our very best Games athletes ever, but it was all so low-key it may as well have been some provincial competition.

Maybe her competitors should be allowed a teaspoon of gojuice each, just to give them some chance getting close to our champion and rejuvenating the contest.

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■ MOTORCYCLE RACING

In brief Youth shines at Ipswich

Bailie back on track

He admits to getting tongue tied in front of hero Craig Lowndes but young V8 Supercars driver Scott McLaughlin is no shrinking violet on the track. The Volvo pilot, who famously quipped that he “gave it some jandal” following a thrilling clash with champion Jamie Whincup in Adelaide earlier this year, led a trio of young guns to the top of the timesheets in yesterday’s practice run at Queensland Raceway. The 21-year-old New Zealander, a race winner in Perth in May, finished quickest on the day ahead of 22-year-old Chaz Mostert and 25-year-old Nick Percat.

It’s another sign that the sport’s generation next is quickly proving itself on the track, even if they can still be starstruck at times.

- AAP

Porsche buys track Petrolheads around the world can breathe a sigh of relief: South Africa’s Kyalami race track has been sold to Porsche. In an auction held last week, Porsche South Africa made the highest bid of R205 million ($22.9m). It was one of just two bids, even though High Street Auctions previously reported it had received significant interest from potential buyers.While it’s too early to say what Porsche’s plans for the circuit are, numerous sources say it intends to keep Kyalami operating as a race track.

- AP

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Bailie Perriton has hopped back across the Tasman for the fourth round of the Australian Superbike FX 300 Cup at the Winton Raceway in Victoria.

After the opening three rounds, the Ashburton teenager is currently in third place, and well within striking distance of the top spot.

His season has already proved anything can happen, with crashes and mechanical failures playing a big part in the current standings.

Perriton is battling Queensland’s Kyle Buckley and Victorian Brandon Demmery in the top three in the series, with the two Australians having experience on their sides.

“Every time I go to Australia I have to learn a new track in just four 15 minute sessions,” Perriton said. “So far I have managed to get on the front row of the grid for each round, even though some of the riders have previously done hundreds of laps. Most of them actually race the same circuit a week before the championship gets there.”

Despite having to learn as he goes, Perriton has raised a few eyebrows among his competitors with his braking skills and his fierce determination.

He hopes to use those skills to his advantage at the tight and technical Winton circuit after a wider circuit in the third round in Queensland.

“The last round was the hardest.

“I am not used to such a wide track and it took me a while to start carrying more speed into and through the turns.

“The circuit at Winton is more like tracks in New Zealand, with it being narrower and having more corners.

“If I can set a good pace in qualifying I will be able to learn from the local riders and would like to see a pole position and a race win this weekend.”

It has been an exciting year so far,

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I would like to see a race win this weekend

crowned the New Zealand 250cc champion in March and performing well in Australia, and the achievements have not gone unnoticed.

He was recently contracted by Suzuki NZ to ride one of their bikes next season in the 600cc Supersport class.

It is highly regarded as the toughest class in road racing and is the gateway to more international appearances and ultimately a Superbike ride.

A recent outing at Timaru produced a positive first ride on the bike, and between the remaining Australian rounds he will be spending time testing the new machine ready for the Suzuki Tri Series in December.

This weekend the focus is entirely on the 300cc competition, back on his original 300cc machine after an engine failure at the second round at Mallala meant he rode a borrowed bike in the third round.

Kiwistars team manager Merv Orford left for Melbourne a few days early to rebuild the engine and put the rest of the machine together, which sustained chassis damage in a crash at the same meeting.

The team is humbled by the help they have received.

“The help and support of competitors and ex-pat Kiwis in Australia has been fantastic.

“Without their help which includes the loan of bikes and vehicles along with workshops and places to stay, none of this season would have been possible.

“No matter what the hardships, someone always comes to the rescue,” Orford said.

Bailie Perriton is back to Australia this weekend.

Round 4 of the Australian Superbike / FX 300 Cup is being held at Winton in Victoria.

Sponsoring him for $1000 this round is Spring Lynne Motorcycles.

As he enters the second half of the championship Bailie is currently in 3rd position.

It promises to be an exciting year for the Ashburton teenager as he challenges the best in Australia.

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ral economy and that also saw many people lose almost everything, he said.

“There have always been little hiccoughs. Around 2000 we had the tech market crash and then the global financial crisis.

You always feel pretty bad when things are tough because I’ve always taken the attitude that you work for your clients and you also feel for them. When this happens, everyone gets bruised.”

For investors, Mr Lennie is a firm believer in diversification as the key not only to survival but also to making your money work for you.

In 2008 he became part of the Forsyth Barr team and said that was a signature move for inves-

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war’s end. In particular, the new Lenin-led government resuscitated Russia’s commodity exports, triggering a fall in global prices which continued through much of the 1920s. Many New Zealand farmers struggled to service and repay their debts.

A newspaper cartoon of the era blamed the economic recession which followed on the wave of new immigrants from Britain and elsewhere. Infamously, in March 1922, a deputation of returned soldiers called on the Mayor of Wellington, Robert Wright, to petition the government to halt all Asian immigration and return all migrants to their home countries.

A century later, despite dairy related debt having trebled to $32 billion over the past decade, continuing strength in global commodity prices has prevented a credit crunch similar to that of 100 years earlier. However oddly enough, immigration has again become a political issue.

Larkin wrote his poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1. The poem depicts English society on the brink of monumental change. In New Zealand’s case, the passage of time has not altered the fact that this country is a nation of immigrants, largely reliant on primary exports for its economic well-being. New Zealand’s monumental change is that economically the country is now an Asian, rather than a European, nation.

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Never such innocence

n August 4, New Zealanders nationally will commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. Under the direction of the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage, these commemorations will emphasise the campaigns on the Western Front where over 80% of New Zealand casualties were suffered.

New Zealand’s total population in 1914 was slightly above one million. Of this number, around 100,000 went overseas (many for the first time); 18,500 were killed and 41,000 wounded.

In his famous poem of war, Phillip Larkin described the optimistic mood at the outbreak of the Great War as “Never such innocence, Never before or since”. This sense of patriotic positivity was mirrored across the 12,000 miles between England and New Zealand, both socially and economically.

In many respects, there are striking similarities between New Zealand’s economy today and in the period leading up to the First World War. Under the policies of William Massey and the Reform Party, the economy was at its strongest point relative to any other period in the country’s short history. The Finance Minister of the time, James Allen, believed strongly in the need to reduce New Zealand’s overseas borrowing and the government expenditure.

More broadly, the world economy was in a period of bur-

tors in Ashburton.

“I look back, it was a key decision and I am pleased about this because it meant I was able to offer better advice and spend more time with my clients rather than on administration.”

As he signs off on a long career, Mr Lennie said he’d miss both the market and his clients.

“A lot of clients I’ve worked with for a very long time and hopefully I’ve helped them meet their objectives,” he said.

The decision to retire was a long time in the making but Mr Lennie said he reached a point where he started asking himself, how many good years he wanted to do the things he still wanted to do in life.

4/7

Ian Lennie is calling time on his financial career.

For the past 37 years Ian Lennie has been the go-to man for many people when it came to financial investment advice.

Over those years, he’s lived through the highs and lows of the financial markets, made a raft of good friends among his many clients and put his head on the line as a regular columnist for the Ashburton Guardian.

Back in 1977 Mr Lennie signed on with Gabites and Sinclair as an accountant, later becoming involved in the sharebroking business under mentor Ron Gabites.

At that time Ashburton had three broking licence holders

– Mr Gabites, Neil Sinclair and Jack Ross. Mr Lennie joined their ranks. And that’s how it remained for several years, but one by one the others retired and by 2000 he was left as the sole practitioner.

Working with shares was both challenging and rewarding, he said. “The greatest challenges came during the sharemarket crash in 1985. That was when everyone went beserk and got involved with shares with no real understanding of what they were doing.”

People got burned.

“They made big investments and got wiped out completely.”

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

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spects of how lower drink-drive limits will affect socialising – and business – in Mid Canterbury will make some of us feel uneasy.

On one hand, there is the reasonable position that alcohol and driving mix as well as cider and milk.

And on the other, there is the concern that discouraging drinking will mean less money over the bar.

The Land Transport Amendment Act became law this week. It will come into force in December, just in time for our high-summer Christmas parties.

A rough calculation has it that the law will effectively halve how much alcohol can be consumed before motorists are considered too affected to drive.

This will be applauded by those who believe that any risk is too great when it comes to road safety – and those who think one booze-related death is one too many.

After all, alcohol-impaired driving is a significant problem and statistics suggest an unreasonably consistent number of people flout the law.

With all that as a starting point, it may be hard for some of us to come to terms with the unease some feel about the impact of the change.

For many sports and social clubs, bar takings provide much of the money they need to keep doing what they do. At some, that revenue dwindled as drink driving limits dropped and public opinion against drinking and driving grew.

Clubs this week said there was no doubt they would be affected by the new rules. Their members were sensible and they had courtesy coaches, but bar revenue looked set to drop.

There are shades of the debate about pokie money funding community groups. Problem gambling is a problem – but then, so is struggling to run a not-for-profit club.

Concerned treasurers might yet consider new ways to help their clubs out. But as they do, some will point to a drop in bar revenue as evidence the new law is strong enough to work.

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Pioneer radio in Ashburton

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he comments in the Guardian about the new radio station, and the return of the breakfast show host sent my thoughts racing back to 1978.

1978 was a huge year for Ashburton because it marked the town’s centennial celebrations.

All sorts of events were planned and the council and local businesses lobbied long and hard for radio coverage.

Until then, local coverage came from Radio New Zealand’s 3ZB. It had to be a dire emergency for the radio car to be dispatched. It carried a huge amount of gear and was a nightmare to operate.

I only remembered that happening once, when I set off to Ashburton from Christchurch during the August storm in 1975, and got stuck between fallen trees just north of the Selwyn.

Anyway, that’s another story.

Back to 1978 a group of us were asked to spend a fortnight in Ashburton running what was to be called 3ZE Radio Ashburton.

With the centennial going, the minute we finished the breakfast show, George Balani and I would be out on the streets with tape recorders. There was a performance of some sort at the Allenton shops, raising money,

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and like the Telethons of those days, people volunteered to pay, if someone they named would perform some ridiculous task.

My father offered his pocket money if I would recite the entire story of the Night before Christmas.

I did, and saved his “repayment” for later.

A 3ZB jock, who shall remain nameless, offered to jump out of

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plane, the parachute open, and drift downwards in what appeared to be a very soft landing.

It was only when the pilot came down that we heard that he’d fainted right on the edge of the plane, so they gave him a push and he made his way, blissfully unconscious, to the ground. Wonder what OSH would have to say now.

There was also the centennial parade, and it was huge.

Hand-decorated floats galore, and every vintage vehicle from miles around.

At the very last minute, George came to me and told me the guy who was supposed to do the commentary hadn’t turned

There was no time for panic, I was pushed up a ladder on to the verandah of a shop in East Street

a plane. He had a mic and was to talk his way down.

It was all very interesting chat leading up to the jump, and then total silence from a guy who could talk under wet concrete.

We saw him come out of the

up, so I’d have to do it.

I’d never commentated on anything longer than a kids’ running race.

There was no time for panic, I was pushed up a ladder on to the verandah of a shop in East Street.

The floats were easy, I could rabbit on about the decorations and the kids on float, the organisation which had entered it, and name of anyone I recognised.

But I could see the vintage cars and dread was setting in.

All I could think was luck would bring a green car belonging to someone who lived around the corner to one of my cousins and was wearing a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat.

It didn’t work.

But the vintage car guys saved my bacon. Attached to each front bumper was a plaque stating the make and the year, who it belonged to and other crucial information.

When I got home , Dad, who had been listening, said: “I had no idea you knew so much about vintage cars.” I just said: “There’s a lot about me you don’t know”, and walked off.

Anyway, good to have local radio back again, but we can’t be too complacent, because the media moguls are don’t care about the likes of us.

Big markets, big money, are what they are after.

The Kapiti coast, with a similar population base as Ashburton, apparently has 18 radio stations, all competing for the same advertising dollar.

What if it came to that?

You and I can make a difference

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h my goodness! What is a Christian Comment in this world? What a time it has been recently! Do you sometimes ask “Where are you God?” I do.

An airliner downed in the Ukraine; horror in Israel and Gaza; turmoil in Syria; girls kidnapped; floods and earthquakes; people still suffering in Christchurch; domestic abuse; child abuse ... and so the list grows.

Violence and despair in our world and in the streets and homes of New Zealand ... and more.

Then God’s precious gift to us, the Dean of our cathedral in Christchurch, died this week.

I sometimes feel helpless, and I do say: “Where are you God?” Even though I know our God doesn’t use us like puppets and manipulate us.

Rev Heather Stewart CHRISTIAN COMMENT

Sometimes I feel as if the best I can do is lift the situation to God, in love, knowing that our combined prayers do make a difference.

What does our faith say to us?

My Old Testament reading on Monday was Micah’s Song, from the book of Micah chapter 6, verse 8: “Hear what your God requires of you: To live justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God.” How different the world would be if we all did that! It’s the way of Jesus ... and I believe it’s the only way the world will work.

When we walk closely with our God, the rest falls into

place. I think winter gives us a clue. The four seasons tell a story of transformation every year.

There are reasons for the seasons and we need them too.

Winter is an inactive period, a fallow time, when everything looks dead – seeds are hiding, creatures hibernating.

Picture our present winter scenes! I love the skeletal trees in their nakedness – an artist at work there! Yet what looks like death is really ‘sleep’ – a necessary rest in which life renews itself. This inactive period is essential as Earth waits patiently for her eventual revival in spring – which comes with a burst of creative energy. In my garden the snowdrops, up already, are the first to flower and other spring flowers are poking through the dark soil – the promise of things to come.

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In winter creation has a “Quiet time”.

We’d all do well to emulate winter and be still for a season in our daily living.

A Korean theologian wrote that the Korean character for busyness (and I think Chinese also) has the elements destruction of the heart. Makes sense, doesn’t it. Something dies when we are too busy.

Walking humbly with our God requires being still enough to really listen to God and to one another as we too gather “resources for the spring”.

I know that if we all did that we would see more clearly, live more justly and love one another better.

You and I can make a difference. Let it begin with me.

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Arable Farm Vacancy We have a vacancy on our 330 ha arable/dairy grazing farm in the Pendarves/Dorie area. Experience in cultivation, tractor work and stock work and an HT licence an advantage.

Modern 3 bedroom house available as part of competitive salary package. Must be motivated and able to work independently.

Send your CV to Derrylin Ltd 289 Longs Road RD7 Ashburton 7777 or phone 302 0870 for further information.

Johnstons Hire Centre is a steadily growing and developing hire company looking for another full time member to join our close knit team.

Our mission is to provide good,clean,wellmaintained equipment for hire.

The sales aspect of your role would require you to have a neat and tidy presentation with attention to detail and good communication skills.

General skills in equipment repairs and maintenance is essential.

You need to be motivated and be able to work unsupervised and take initiative.

Some weekend work will be required.

Please send your C.V. and a covering letter(in your own handwriting) to: Deborah duToit Johnstons Hire Centre 435 West st Ashburton,7700

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An opportunity has arisen within our store for the position of Dairy Deli/Frozens Assistant.

The days required will be Tuesday to Friday 10.30am - 7.00pm and Saturday 6.30am - 3.00pm.

The successful applicant will: • Be physically fit as lifting is required.

• Provide excellent customer services.

• Be able to work in a team environment.

• Have a positive and enthusiastic attitude and work well under pressure.

• Have tidy work habits, be organized and well presented.

• Have the ability to work in a cold environment.

If you feel you have the required attributes for this position, please submit your application to:

Permanent full time position There is currently an opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced hard landscaper to join a wellestablished local landscape company based in Mid Canterbury. Due to current workloads we are looking for someone who is either a qualified landscaper or someone who has the right skills and experience in paving, planting, lawns, irrigation, fencing, decking plus some maintenance skills would be an advantage. You will be required to have a full driving licence, Class 2 & 4.

Personal presentation and quality of work along with attention to detail is a must as you will be working in the private sector and light commercial industries.

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

Donalda Hartley Human Resources Manager P O Box 444 Ashburton 7740

If you are looking for a rewarding role with a lot of variety then email your cover letter and CV to:

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SITUATIONS VACANT Do you like working outdoors and managing your own day?

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic person?

Do you hold a current driver’s license?

If you have answered yes to the above then we have the position to interest you!

Partnership Services Representative

Methven Townsperson

• Dynamic and Growth Focused Organisation

• Mid Canterbury territory

Ruralco represents a partnership between two trusted farm focussed co-operatives, the Ashburton Trading Society (ATS) and Ravensdown Fertiliser. Both Co-operatives are committed to their shareholders, their families, and their local communities. Ruralco offers farmers the ability to purchase all of their farm and family inputs from a broad range of businesses with their own discount charge card.

and developing new markets designed to maximise the overall business offer to the Ruralco card holders.

Reporting to the Partnership Services Manager, the Partnership Services Representative will play a key role in driving the card supplier marketing, sales, and relationship functions for the co-operative’s partnership portfolio for the Mid Canterbury area. Responsibilities include continuing to develop the growth and retention of existing Card Suppliers

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Previous account management and sales experience is preferable as will be your ability to self-manage and build strong relationships with Card Suppliers. You will have a natural affinity to the agricultural sector as you will be dealing with local businesses that service the farming community.

The successful applicant will be proactive and motivated to achieve. A proven commercial track record in a business to business environment will also be advantageous.

This is a fixed term position aligned with the Methven Township Minor Maintenance Contract.

• Cleaning of public conveniences • Maintenance and operation of the green waste facility • Regular inspections of council facilities • Removal of litter from streets, parks and reserves • Daily cleaning of footpaths and channels in the Methven CBD This is a fulltime position covering 5 ½ days for 1 person or could be completed as a job share over 7 days Please send applications to: Methven Townsperson Position HR & Compliance Manager Ashburton Contracting Ltd PO Box 264, Ashburton Email: janee@ashcon.co.nz

To apply, please email your application and CV to hr.manager@ruralco.co.nz (Quote RCL16).

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We are seeking to employ a Relief Boiler Operator to assist with the operation of our 14MW Coal Fired Boiler. This position would be on a casual basis to cover any staff absences or gaps in our roster as they arise.

Advertising Department of a daily paid newspaper We have a vacancy for a part-time or full-time Graphic Designer to play an integral role in the advertising team for the Ashburton Guardian daily newspaper and other locally generated publications. Our sales people require a clever designer with flair to create successful campaign concepts for our clients. The successful candidate will not only produce accurate, quality work - they will also have the “X” factor when it comes to understanding how to attract attention and create a buying response by our readers. The role also includes the co-ordination, design and layout of editorial and advertising for our feature publications.

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We would be prepared to train the right person to Level 2 standards if they possessed suitable past experience operating boilers.

If this position interests you, please send your CV to the Services Manager, PO Box 244, Ashburton or email to recruitment@ash.talleys.co.nz

Benjamin Dolan Happy 11th Birthday.

We are so proud of you.

Have a wonderful day.

Love always, Mum, Dad, Daniel, Ryan and Jake.

Benjamin Dolan Happy Birthday Benjamin.

You always brighten up our days. Proud of the young man you are. Love Nana and Grandad Andrews.

Khloe Cumberland Happy 2nd Birthday to our wee monkey Khloe.

Love Mummy, Daddy and Bradley.

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Applications close August 15, 2014 If you meet the above criteria, have the energy and enthusiasm to complement our professional team, please send your resume, with examples of recent work detailing your skills and experience, to:

Peter May Ltd is a leading Canvas Fabricator proud to service our local and South Island communities. We are currently looking for an outstanding person to join our team in an exciting and varied role as a Canvas Fabricator.

Desme Daniels, General Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 or email desme@theguardian.co.nz

We are a passionate and conscientious team who are looking for a liked mined person to join us, to assist with Canvas and PVC goods production.

You may be a school leaver or person contemplating a new career direction. Full training will be provided with encouragement to enter an apprenticeship in Canvas Fabrication.

Sophie Chapman Happy 6th Birthday for Sunday. Enjoy your day.

Love from Mum, Dad, Alex and Jesse.

Stevie Jacobs Happy 3rd Birthday!

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Storeperson role Briscoes Ashburton

This position is a very busy hands-on storeroom role. You will be responsible for stock management Saturday, August 2,for2014 Ashburton Guardian 37 to Briscoes Ashburton and may also be required work across the Profit Centre.

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WORKSHOP FOREMAN/LEADING HAND Greg Donaldson Contracting

We seek a suitably experienced Heavy Vehicle Diesel Mechanic to fill the role of Workshop Foreman/Leading Hand in our modern, busy workshop.

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Office Manager We are looking for a person to take responsibility for the smooth running of our small, dynamic office where your professionalism, initiative and office skills will be welcomed. Your full-time role will include providing a full range of office management duties including but not limited to: • Day-to-day running of the office • Accounts payable and receivable • Payroll • Preparing and filing GST and PAYE returns • Some marketing duties You will have the flexibility to implement new procedures and systems to improve the smooth running of the office.

This role will suit someone who has previously proven themselves in a similar role, or an experienced Diesel Mechanic who has the desire to step up and make the most of this exciting opportunity.

You will assist the Workshop Manager with the day to day running of the workshop and be able to take sole charge of the workshop when required.

Applicants will be experienced in all aspects of the Heavy Diesel, Road Transport and Earthmoving industry and will preferably hold class 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 licenses, or be willing to obtain these licenses. You will need energy, enthusiasm and great people skills for dealing with customers and staff alike.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a pre-employment drug test.

A very competitive remuneration package along with excellent working conditions will be offered to the successful applicant.

If this sounds like you, please forward your CV to: ACL Workshop Manager P O Box 264, Ashburton Or email to: MikeJ @ashcon.co.nz

This position will suit you if you have good interpersonal and presentation skills, and office management experience. You need to be self-directed and have organisational and problem-solving skills.

Applicants must have: • Experience with Accomplish Cash Manager or similar accounting packages and Ace Payroll • Extensive experience with Microsoft Office Suite of products including advanced Microsoft Word and Excel skills • Experience using database management systems • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills • A positive disposition Applications outlining qualifications and demonstrating how your experience and skills match the job requirements are due by Please submit your CV and cover letter by email: donaldsoncontracting@xtra.co.nz

Experienced Truck Driver Owing to an increased workload, a full time position has become available for an experienced Truck Driver.

Applicants must have full Heavy Truck and Trailer Licences, must be tidily presented, and able to converse well with Clients.

You will be working alongside a friendly team, and will have plenty of variety in your daily activities.

If you think you are the right person for the job, please phone:

Brent McLaren 0274 746 026 or email: b-m.mclaren@xtra.co.nz

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• The ability towill cope well under pressure Responsibilities include: Teppanyaki skill • To be the available to work to weekends as we operate • Running storeroom the required audit is preferable.

7 days a week standards Applicants please Responsibilities will include: send CV to: • Processing • Running and the dispatching storeroom to all the inwards required and audit Miyabi Ltd, 82 outwards goods in a timely manner standards McMurdo Street, • Processing and dispatching all inwards and Guardian Classifieds Ashburton 7700 by• Maintaining accurate inventory records outwards in a timely manner • Managing allgoods associated documentation August 16, 2014.

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Assisting with the milking of 200 cows and Please apply in writing with handwritten cover letter to: general dairy farm work (feeding out, etc) in Please apply in writing with your CV and cover letterPaul to: Brohan, Business Manager the Winchmore area (12 mins from Ashburton).

Paul77-83 Brohan,Evans Business Manager Must be physically fit, have good initiative.

Street 77-83 Evans Street Experience not necessary, but preferred.

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Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

PHARMACIES

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring East Street, Ashburton, will be open from 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. 9.30am - 12noon Saturday, from 10am 12noon Sunday, and from 6pm - 7pm both DUTY DOCTORS evenings.

This service is for emergency medical Methven Pharmacy, Main Street, Methven, care only. Please remember your will be open from 4pm - 6pm Saturday and Community Services Card.

Sunday. Phone 302 8103.

Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty doctor HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold ASHBURTON HOSPITAL surgery from 10am until 12noon and from WARD 1 - DAILY, 10am - 11.30am and 2pm 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary.

- 7.30pm. Children must be accompanied by Surgery phone 308 3066. an adult.

Sealy Street Medical Centre, Sealy Street, WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment Ashburton, will be the duty doctor for Sunday & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may No appointment necessary. Surgery phone visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

308 1212.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA -unrestricted visiting.

For weekend doctor and emergency details ASHBURTON REST HOMES - please telephone the Methven Medical COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, Centre, ph 302 8105. unrestricted visiting.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted provide an accident and emergency service. visiting.

Except in cases of emergency persons PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted requiring medical attention must consult visiting. their own or the duty general practitioner.

EMERGENCY DENTIST Persons subsequently requiring treatment If you do not have or cannot contact your at Ashburton Hospital must have a general regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 practitioners note of referral. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

HELPLINE SERVICES ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Due to relocation, the Ashburton Museum is closed until further notice.

COMMUNITY POOL

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

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.

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

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE

INFORMATION CENTRES

MENTAL HEALTH Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COMMUNITY SERVICES ART GALLERY

Due to relocation, the Art Gallery is closed until further notice.

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm

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

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Fiona Chapman.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Shannon Thomson-Laing. Small: Refer Vet Ent. VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Andrew Robinson, Katherine Hayward. Small: Nina Fields.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint afterhours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Dear customers, We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area: • Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer.

• Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

• The needs of young people who suffer physical and mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers Applications close at 5pm, Friday, August 22, 2014. For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/ – Croys Ltd Level 2, 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582, Ashburton Phone: 03 308 8353 Email: mcf@croys.co.nz www.mcf.org.nz

Public Concert

ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB TOTTLE TRIO

Cathy Irons - Violin Bruce Roberts - Trumpet Grant Bartley - Piano Vocalist - Lois Johnston SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, at 2pm Sinclair Centre, Park St. Ashburton

Admission by programme at the door.

Adults $15 - Members $10 - Students Free Afternoon tea will be served

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We apologise for any inconvenience this week due to our in store renovations.

We will be closed this Saturday 2 August.

We look forward to your custom in our new look store.

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LET’S TALK ENVIRONMENT

& GETTING SOMETHING DONE Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew invites you to hear

MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT HON AMY ADAMS discuss freshwater management and environment issues at a public meeting on

Thursday 7 August @ 3.30pm Venue: Hotel Ashburton, Gardenside Room Enquiries to 021 124 0279

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HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

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FLOAT hire - single, double and tandem. Reasonable rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Feed. Phone 308-3422 anytime.

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MEETINGS, EVENTS Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095 Ashburton Branch Manchester Unity

FOR SALE

CONVENTIONAL bales of pea straw for sale, weed free $5 per bale delivered. Phone AKAROA - CHARMING, 027 390 0002. spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all FOR SALE electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village. DRY Macrocarpa $250, Semi Phone Brian 307-8000 or Old Man Pine $160, Green 308-6180.

Blue Gum Macrocarpa $150, all 3.6m3. Ph Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

GRAZING FIREWOOD - Old Man Pine $210, Macro $280, Oak $310, per 3m3. All dry and delivered to Ashburton. Phone R.J. McLaren 303-7283 or 0274374-399.

◊ CHRISTCHURCH REBUILD REVISITED Sunday 10th August Includes the recited Rebuild Mall, Tram ride and tour of the city and Sumner Departs Ashburton 9.30am Ticket price $30

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ENTERTAINMENT

FIREWOOD - Old Man Pine, dry and under cover, delivered in 4 and 6 metre loads. Phone 027 465 2122.

FOR SALE - Firewood, Dry Old Man Pine $180, 3.6m3 (cord). Phone 027 371 8880.

MAKE A PERFECT toasted sandwich, no fuss - no mess The reusable toast bags from Kitchen Kapers are only $7.50. Use to make toasted sandwiches, heat up pastries, pizza slices, chicken nuggets and more. Perfect for kids after school snacks.

Annual General Meeting Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 5pm at Arcadia Function Centre 80 Tancred Street Ashburton, All members welcome to attend.

Subsidised Dinner included, please book phone 0800 687 648

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

Get in before it’s too late!

Claim your subsidy for electrical irrigation system upgrades

to reduce harmonics Only 6 months left!

Located on a prime site this solid brick home offers a range of options. Updated exterior includes roof and windows and the addition of a double garage is an added bonus.

VIEW Sunday 3 Aug 11.00 11.45am DEADLINE PRIVATE TREATY (unless sold prior) Wednesday 13th August 2014 at 2.00pm

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TRADES, SERVICES

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

YOUR LOCAL

PAINTING PROFESSIONALS

Phil Moore Laser Electrical Rural Manager

027 443 6001

Phone Phil now and he will take care of everything from a free quote through to final compliance to ensure you get the payout from EA Networks.

Laser Plumbing & Electrical Ashburton 726 East Street, Ashburton Laser Electrical Rolleston 831 Jones Road, Rolleston

Laser Electrical Geraldine 17 Peel Street, Geraldine Contact us today on: Richard: 027 279 8952 Office: 308 9039

www.bradfords.co.nz

Laser Electrical Temuka 44 Vine Street, Temuka

www.laserelectrical.co.nz www.laserplumbing.co.nz

24 hour service 7 days a week

0800 LASER 4 U (0800 527 374)

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EDUCATION

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Church Services Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome You can be stable in instable days.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Evangelical Presbyterian Church 10.30am Worship Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 Website

www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10.00am Morning Service Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church)

Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Creche Available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays @10.00am Including Children’s church 131 Thomson Street Everyone is welcome.

(Tinwald School Hall) Sunday Morning 10.30am See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron St’s Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062 ALL VERY WELCOME

FOR SALE PASSPORT PHOTOS $18.00. Professional images taken and processed while you wait by the friendly staff at The Photo Shop. Find us in the Centre of the Arcade. Ph: 307 7595.

PIANO for sale.

G Fabrikant, Schwechten, Berlin. Steel frame, walnut finish, in good order. To view please phone 302 4994.

ADULT

FOR SALE

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four ENTERTAINMENT wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric ANGEL tall busty attractive professional and Mobility Ashburton today. lady, discreet premises. Phone Phone 308-3602 (022) 122 0683.

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

CINDY Kiwi, 36, size 6, attractive, busty, long hair.

GFE. Phone calls only, 027 448 7011.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ZOE - Attractive and busty.

Genuine callers only. Please no texting. Available all week.

Phone 021 0233 9259.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL EASTSIDE, two bedroom flat.

One of four. Not suitable for dogs $260 pw. Please phone 027 490 7374 or 308 8885.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

WARM, SUNNY, 2 TWO BEDROOM unit. Warm BEDROOM flat, Chalmers sunny with heat pump. Avenue. Please phone 021 Allenton area. All recently 324 529. redecorated, no pets, no smoking. $330 pw. Phone 308 0222 or 0274 382 311.

Real Estate

WANTED to rent. 1 - 3 bedroom house in Ashburton or close to town. Good references available. Phone 308 0060 or 022 411 5024.

Daily Events Saturday 9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street,

Sunday 8.00am ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Wonderful views Lake Tekapo, Round Hill ski field. All welcome phone Diane 3036250. Meet Ashburton Courthouse, Baring Square West.

8.00am ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.00am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street, Allenton.

Monday

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

New Zealand ashburton

24/7 Appraisals 308 6173

15 Cross Street

7pm

We hope to see you this Sunday!

St David’s Church

48 Allens Road For more info please call Everyone welcome Pastor Mike Grove www.st-davids.org.nz 308 4695

Guardian Classifieds

307 7900

Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist 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.

10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY

GROUP. Open for research, all welcome. Upstairs 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.30am - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD. Embroidery day and chat. Ashburton Seniors’ Centre, Cameron Street.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele.

Church lounge, Baring Square East.

9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Laurence Ennor. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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 ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

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.

10.30am 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.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. Racecourse Road.

5.00pm ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Taize Service, Taize Celtic Liturgy. Park Street.

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 with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Seafield Road.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting, all welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, St Andrews Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

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

7.30pm TINWALD INDOOR BOWLS CLUB. All welcome to come and have a bowl.

Tinwald Hall, entry off McMurdo Street.

For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street.

9.00am 10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF. Members will host the lady vets. Stableford Road. round. Tinwald Golf Club.

9.00am - 4.00pm 10.00am ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. SERVICE INC.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014 TV ONE

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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 11:30 Tagata Pasifika Noon MasterChef: The Professionals – Australia 3 0 2pm Star Treatment 3pm Is Modern Medicine Killing You? 3 0 3:30 Code: 1 PGR 0 4pm Intrepid Journeys 3 0 5pm The Fishing Show Matt discovers Whakataki on the Wairarapa Coast. 0 6pm One News 0

7pm Country Calendar A Gisborne couple extend the capacity of their hill country farm by improving the fences, and when they have a day in town, they go in their 1962 Chevy. 0 7:30 Location, Location, Location 0 8:30 Undercover Boss USA 0 9:30 Saturday Murder Mystery – Protected AO 0 11:20 M WE AO 2011 Biopic.

The story of the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson. 0 1:25 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:35 Neighbourhood 3 0 4am Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

CHOICE TV 6am What’s Really In Our Food?

6:30 Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 7:30 Celebrity DIY With Craig Phillips 8am Untamed Asia 8:30 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 9am Trish’s Mediterranean Kitchen 9:30 Design Star 10:30 Catch And Cook – World 11am Bath Crashers 11:30 The Liquidator Noon Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 1pm Better Homes And Gardens 2:30 Gardeners’ World – Life In A Cottage Garden 3pm Barter Kings 3:30 Travel Unravelled 4pm Sandcastles 5pm Heaven’s Kitchen 6pm World’s Greenest Homes 6:30 The Magicians 7:30 Ray Mears’ Wild Food 8:40 M Just Henry AO 2011 Drama. Josh Bolt, Elaine Cassidy.

10:40 Cardinal Burns AO 11:10 Sandcastles

SUNDAY

Midnight Barter Kings 12:30 Travel Unravelled 1am Heaven’s Kitchen 2am World’s Greenest Homes 2:30 M Just Henry AO 2011 Drama. Josh Bolt, Elaine Cassidy.

4:30 Cardinal Burns AO 5am The Magicians AO

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6am Fireman Sam 3 0 6:10 Poppet Stars 0 6:15 Paw Patrol 0 6:35 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 7am The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:25 Robot And Monster 3 0 7:50 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 8:15 Generator Rex 3 0 8:40 Beware The Batman 3 0 9:05 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome PGR 0 9:20 Regular Show PGR 3 0 9:30 Operation Hero 3 0 10am Home Krew 10:30 Rodney 3 0 11am Wipeout USA 0 Noon The Bachelor 3 0 2pm Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 3pm Fear Factor PGR 0 4pm Full House 3 0 4:35 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 6pm The Amazing Race 0 7pm M Sister Act 2 – Back in the Habit 1993 Comedy.

Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy. 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw.

8:05 Sister Act 2 – Back in the Habit Continued. 0 9:10 M The House Bunny AO 2008 Comedy. Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone. 0

TV THREE

FOUR

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 Smokefree Rockquest 2013 3 11am Survivor – One World 3 Noon Million Dollar Listing 1pm Epic 1:55 New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker 3 2:55 Hamish And Andy’s Gap Year – Asia PGR 3 0 3:55 Would I Lie To You? UK AO 3 4:30 Testing The Menu 3 5pm Outdoors With Geoff 5:30 The Simpsons 0 6pm 3 News

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 8:30 The Wild Thornberrys 3 8:55 Rocket Power 9:20 Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:50 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm iCarly 5:30 Big Time Rush 3 6pm Everybody Hates Chris PGR 30 6:30 M Bee Movie 3 2007 Animated. A young bee eager to explore the world outside his hive, befriends a human florist, and becomes outraged at the selling of honey, leading to a lawsuit. Voices of Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger. 0 7pm The Secret Lives of Dancers 8:25 M The Karate Kid 2 PGR 0 3 1986 Family.

7:30 F Save with Jamie A martial arts student 8:30 SVU AO 0 inadvertently makes an 9:30 Blue Bloods AO 0 enemy while visiting Okinawa 10:25 M Sound of My Voice with his mentor.

AO 2011 Drama. A journalist Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and his girlfriend pose Noriyuki. 0 as believers to infiltrate a 10:40 Traffic Light PGR Lisa and secretive cult and meet its Mike’s relationship takes off leader. Christopher Denham, in a new direction when she Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling. 0 decides to keep tabs on him via GPS technology.

11:10 M Anger Management 12:15 Infomercials 5am Hillsong AO 2003 Comedy. Adam Sandler.

0 1:10 M Ramen Girl AO 2008 5:30 Charles Stanley Comedy Drama. 0 3:10 The Celebrity Apprentice PGR 3 4:45 Partners PGR 3 5:05 Home Krew 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:10 Excused AO 3 Dating show in which singles looking for love try to win dates before being eliminated from contention.

11:35 NZOWN PGR Hosted by Angelina Boyd, the latest news and views on New Zealand music.

12:05 Infomercials

PRIME

9am Small Blacks TV 9:15 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Sea Eagles v Broncos.

11:15 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 21 Friday.

11:45 Small Blacks TV Noon The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 UFC Now 1:23 L Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship Ipswich 400 – Qualifying. From the Queensland Raceway.

2:15 Golf Central 2:45 Golf – World Golf Championships (Highlights) 3:15 Small Blacks TV 3:30 Rugby – Women’s World Cup (Replay) 5:30 Total Rugby 6pm #SkyRugby – Breakdown 6:30 #SkyRugby – Engage

11:25 Rugby – Super Rugby (Delayed) 1:40 Ready, Set, Glasgow 2:10 Commonwealth Games – Hockey Men’s hockey semi-finals coverage. 4am Commonwealth Games – Squash Women’s doubles from the Scotstoun Sports Campus.

Midnight Fox Sports News 12:30 Ready, Set, Glasgow 1am Fox Sports News 1:30 Golf – World Golf Championships 2am Motorsport – V8 Supercars 2:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars 3am Rugby – Super Rugby 3:30 Rugby League – NRL 4am Motorsport – V8 Supercars 4:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars 5:05 Rugby – Super Rugby

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 A Maorilanguage learning course that works with an interactive website to reinforce and encourage further learning.

2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Mt Albert v Glenora.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Journey To The West 7pm Te Kaea 3 2

THE BOX 6am Mountain Men PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 No Man’s Land M 8:05 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

10:10 Raw MC 1:05 Survivor Marathon PG 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Duck Commander ML 8:30 Hatfields And McCoys – White Lightning PG 9pm Lizard Lick Towing MVL 9:30 Mountain Men PG 10:30 No Man’s Land M 11:30 Terriers MVLS

SUNDAY

12:30 Survivor – Australian Outback Marathon PG 3:50 Terriers MVLS 4:45 Hatfields And McCoys – White Lightning PG 5:10 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 5:35 The Simpsons PG

SKY SPORT 1

6am Good Morning Glasgow The latest news and results from day nine.

9:30 Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 Host Clive Anderson puts a panel of comedians through a series of games to total the points and announce a winner.

Noon NRL Fulltime (Highlights) Round 20 action.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 3pm Bondi Rescue 3 Lifeguards are unable to find a swimmer.

3:40 Great Outdoors 3 4:35 Better Homes And Gardens 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Glasgow 2014 Highlights The latest news and results from day nine.

7pm Storage Wars PGR 3 7:30 Classic Weekend Murders – Midsomer Murders PGR 3 DI Tom Barnaby realises there is more to a case than first appears when the father of a poacher, jailed for killing a tramp, is himself murdered.

9:40 Commonwealth Games – Netball Semi-finals.

7pm Rugby – Super 12 2002 Crusaders v Waratahs.

The final game of the 2002 round robin.

9pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Final – Waratahs v Crusaders.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

SKY SPORT 2 10:30 Golf World A weekly review of golf tournaments around the globe.

11am Sky Sports News UK A daily international news bulletin.

11:30 Motorsport – World Rally Championship (Highlights) Rally Finland, Day One. Noon #SkySpeed Greg Murphy and Stephen McIvor review the week’s best motorsport highlights Sound of My Voice Bee Movie and follow the progress of Kiwis on 10:25pm on TV3 6:30pm on FOUR the world stage.

12:30 L Rugby League – NSW Cup Wyong v Wentworthville.

DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS 2:30 L Rugby League – 6am Auction Kings PG 6am Miss Potter PG 2006 Drama.

6:45 The Last Stand 16VL 2013 Holden Cup Sharks v Eels. From 6:30 MythBusters PG Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor.

Action. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Remondis Stadium in Cronulla.

7:30 MythBusters PG 7:30 The Astronaut’s Wife MS 1999 8:30 The Making Of Oblivion PG 4:30 L Rugby League – NRL 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG Sci-fi. Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron.

8:55 One In The Gun 16 2010 Sharks v Eels. From Remondis 9:30 Dukes Of Haggle PG 9:20 A Simple Plan MVL 1998 Thriller. Steven Man. Stadium in Cronulla.

10am Auction Kings PG Thriller. Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda.

10:30 The Possession 16VL 2012 7pm L Rugby League – NRL 10:30 Bear Grylls – Escape From 11:20 Hairspray PGS 2007 Comedy Cowboys v Titans. From 1300 Smiles Horror. Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Hell M 11:30 River Monsters 12:05 The Hangover Part III 16VLS Musical. Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta. Stadium in Townsville.

With Jeremy Wade PG 12:30 Dual 2013 Comedy. Bradley Cooper, 1:15 Miss Potter PG 2006 Drama.

9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Survival PG 1:30 MythBusters PG Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor.

Zach Galifianakis.

Roosters v Dragons. From Allianz 2:30 Auction Hunters PG 3pm 2:50 Letters To Juliet PGL 2010 1:45 Company Of Heroes 16VL Stadium in Sydney.

Auction Hunters PG 3:30 Ice Cold 2013 War Action. Tom Sizemore.

Romantic Comedy.

11:30 Golf – World Golf Gold PG 4:30 Magic Of Science PG 3:25 She Wants Me MLS 2012 4:35 Practical Magic MV 1998 Championships (Highlights) 5pm The Mind Control Freaks M Drama. Aidan Quinn, Nicole Kidman. Bridgestone Invitational – Round Comedy. Josh Gad, Hilary Duff.

5:30 Deadliest Catch PG 4:55 Inescapable 16VL 2012 Thriller. 6:20 What Lies Beneath MVL 2000 Two. From Akron, Ohio.

7:30 Treehouse Masters PG Thriller. Harrison Ford.

Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson.

SUNDAY 8:30 Rods ‘n’ Wheels PG 8:30 You Don’t Mess With 6:30 Riddick 16VLS 2013 Sci-fi Midnight Sky Sport – What’s On 9:30 Gold Rush PG The Zohan MLS 2008 Comedy.

Action. Vin Diesel, Karl Urban.

A look at what is coming up on the 10:30 Ice Cold Gold PG 8:30 The Hobbit – An Unexpected Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider. sports channels over the next week.

11:30 Auction Hunters PG 10:25 The Yards MVL 2000 Crime.

Journey MV 2012 Adventure.

12:30 #SkySpeed Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg.

Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

SUNDAY 1am Sky Sport – What’s On Midnight Nightmare Next Door M 11:20 Red Lights MVL 2012 Thriller. SUNDAY 1:28 L Cricket – Twenty20 1am Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets M Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro.

12:20 Letters To Juliet PGL 2010 Blast Quarter-final Two – Surrey v Romantic Comedy. 2:05 You 1:30 Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets M SUNDAY Worcestershire.

Don’t Mess With The Zohan MLS 2am Extreme Forensics M 1:10 She Wants Me MLS 2012 5am L Golf – World Golf 2008 Comedy. 3:55 The Yards MVL Championships Bridgestone 3am Extreme Forensics M Comedy. 2:35 Inescapable 16VL 2000 Crime. 5:50 Practical Magic Invitational – Round Three. From 4am Extreme Forensics M 2012 Thriller. 4:05 Riddick 16VLS MV 1998 Drama.

5am MythBusters PG 2013 Sci-fi Action.

Akron, Ohio.

7:30 M An American Tail – Fievel Goes West 1991 Family Animated. James Stewart, John Cleese, Amy Irving.

9pm M Lost In Translation PGR 3 2003 Comedy Drama. Two people try to deal with the alien ways of Tokyo and the transience of life. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi.

11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

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 3 6:45 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Marae 2 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Fire Scene Investigation 30 11:55 The Sea’s Strangest Square Mile 0 12:55 Secret Location 0 1:55 The Force PGR 3 0 2:25 Dog Squad PGR 3 0 2:55 Restoration Man PGR 3 0 3:55 Fair Go 3 0 4:25 Animal House 3 0 4:55 F Polar Bear Family And Me 3 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm Radar Across the Pacific 0 8:30 Nothing Trivial – The Finale Tele-feature picks up and concludes the fate of the pub-quiz team. 0 10:30 The Berry Boys AO Musical documentary about the recently found negatives of pre-war soldiers’ portraits taken by Wellington photographer William Berry.

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6am Fireman Sam 3 0 6:10 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:20 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 30 6:45 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 30 7:35 Scooby Doo! Spooky Games 0 8am What Now? Gungey games; friendship day.

10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 12:35 Pretty Little Liars (Starting Today) 3 0 1:30 The 100 PGR Raven helps Abby craft an escape pod; a search-andrescue mission ends in surprise. 0 2:30 Once Upon A Time In Wonderland PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away 3 0 6pm Hart Of Dixie 3 0 7pm The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 0 7:30 The Middle 0 8pm The Neighbors 0 8:30 M Total Recall AO 2012 Action. Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel. 0 10:50 M Underworld – Awakening AO 2012 Action.

Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy.

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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 0 11am The Best Of Campbell Live 11:35 3rd Degree 3 0 12:30 ‘Til Death PGR 3 1pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 2pm Golden PGR 3 0 2:30 Motorsport – Aussie V8 Utes Round three coverage.

3:30 Motorsport – Australian Porsche Carrera Cup A new version of the 911 GT3 Cup car introduced to the Adelaide street layout.

4pm Motorsport – NHRA (Highlights) 5pm The Simpsons 30 5:30 Big Angry Fish 6pm 3 News 7pm The X Factor Australia PGR 0 8:30 M The Bourne Legacy PGR 2012 Action Adventure.

Centred on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.

Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Albert Finney, Rachel Weisz. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Monsuno 3 7:25 Max Steel 3 7:45 Grojband 3 8:10 The Wild Thornberrys 3 8:35 Rocket Power 9am Fanboy And Chum Chum 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 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 Everybody Hates Chris PGR 3 6:30 Top Chef 7:30 Glee 8:30 How I Met Your Mother PGR When Robin invites Ted over at 2am, and Ted accepts, trying to convince himself nothing is going to happen, since he has a girlfriend. 0 9pm New Girl PGR 9:30 Witches of East End AO 10:25 F Wilfred PGR 10:50 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

6am Good Morning Glasgow 9:30 Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Better Homes And Gardens 3 1pm Secret Millionaire USA PGR 3 Debbie Johnston runs a healthcare empire in Richmond, Virginia, but will trade it in for Richmond, California, an area known for heavy gang activity and crime.

2pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Rugby – Super Rugby Final – Waratahs v Crusaders. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Glasgow 2014 Highlights The latest news and results from day 10.

7pm Storage Wars 3 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 8:30 Being Poirot PGR After 25 years playing one of TV’s icons, David Suchet attempts to unravel the character of Detective Hercule Poirot during his final days on set.

9:30 Ready, Set, Glasgow 10pm Commonwealth Games – Women’s Hockey From the Glasgow National Hockey Centre.

7:30 Fox Sports News 8am Cricket – Twenty20 Blast (Delayed) Quarter-final Three – Essex v Birmingham.

11:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars (Highlights) Ipswich 400 – Race 23.

From the Queensland Raceway.

Noon Motorsport – V8 Supercars (Highlights) Ipswich 400 – Race 24.

From the Queensland Raceway.

12:30 Motorsport – World Rally Championship (Highlights) Rally Finland – Day Two. From Jyväskylä.

1pm Sky Sports News UK 1:30 L Rugby League – Holden Cup Raiders v Warriors.

From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Raiders v Warriors. From GIO Stadium in Canberra.

6pm Rugby League – 40/20 6:30 Rugby Nation 7:30 Ready, Set, Glasgow The latest news from Glasgow.

8pm Sky Sport – What’s On A look at what is coming up on the sports channels over the next week.

8:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Final – Waratahs v Crusaders.

From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

11:30 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 12:35 Attitude 3 0 1:05 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3am Marae 3 Maori current affairs show. 2 3:30 Infomercials

12:35 N The River The crew of a research vessel are on a quest to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon. 2:20 Infomercials 2:50 20/20 3 0 3:45 It Is Written 3 4:15 Partners PGR 3 4:35 The Amazing Race 3 0 5:20 Posh Nosh 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:25 House Of Cards AO Francis is interrogated; Stamper deals with personal demons.

12:35 7 Days AO 3 1:05 Jono And Ben At Ten AO 3 1:35 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

11:45 Infomercials

Midnight Commonwealth Games – Men’s Hockey The men’s hockey finals.

2am Commonwealth Games – Squash Mixed and men’s matches from the Scotstoun Sports Campus.

4am Commonwealth Games – Netball Final – Teams TBA.

11pm Golf – World Golf Championships (Highlights) 11:30 L Motorcycling – British Superbike Championship Round Six – Thruxton. 5am L Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series Gobowling.com 400.

CHOICE TV 6am Barter Kings 6:30 Christ Embassy 7am Ray Mears’ Wild Food 8am Travel Unravelled 8:30 Sandcastles 9:30 Heaven’s Kitchen 10:30 World’s Greenest Homes 11am The Magicians Noon Early Edition 1pm Extreme Fishing With Robson Green 2pm Ray Mears’ Wild Food 3pm Martin Shaw – Aviators 3:30 Monty Hall’s Great Escapes – Beachcomber Cottage 4:45 Return To River Cottage PG 5:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 6:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever 7pm Gourmet Farmer 7:30 The Jonathan Ross Show PGR 8:30 The Prisoner AO (Mini-series) An update to the cult series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as The Village.

9:30 Walking Through History With Tony Robinson 10:30 School Of Comedy AO 11pm Monty Hall’s Great Escapes – Beachcomber Cottage

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12:20 Return To River Cottage 1am Martin Shaw – Aviators 1:30 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 2:30 School Of Comedy AO 3am The Jonathan Ross Show PGR 4am The Prisoner AO (Mini-series) 5am Gourmet Farmer 5:30 Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 1:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Marist v Papakura.

3:30 Rugby League – UK Super League Teams TBC. 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Kai Time On The Road Kai Time goes to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands to board Captain Moko’s charter boat; Rewi is shown the latest fishing techniques and local tricks before cooking a traditional fish dish.

THE BOX 6am Survivor – Australian Outback Marathon PG 9:20 No Man’s Land M 10:15 The Simpsons Marathon PG 12:20 Modern Family PGL 12:45 Mountain Men PG 1:40 Duck Commander ML 2:05 Hatfields And McCoys – White Lightning PG 2:30 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 2:55 Raw MC 5:45 WWE Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 CSI MV 9:30 CSI MV 10:30 Crossing Lines MV 11:30 Deadliest Warrior MV

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SKY SPORT 2 10am Golf Central 10:30 Sky Sports News UK 11am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Final – Waratahs v Crusaders.

1:30 Sunday Footy Show 3:30 Golf – World Golf Championships (Highlights) Bridgestone Invitational – Round Three.

4pm Motorsport – World Rally The Bourne Legacy Championship (Highlights) Rally 8:30pm on TV3 Finland.

4:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Final – Waratahs v MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Crusaders.

7:35 What Lies Beneath MVL 6am Red Lights MVL 2012 Thriller.

5pm L Rugby League – NRL 2000 Thriller. Harrison Ford, 7:50 She Wants Me MLS 2012 Rabbitohs v Knights. From Barlow Michelle Pfeiffer.

Comedy. Josh Gad, Hilary Duff.

Park in Cairns.

9:20 Inescapable 16VL 2012 Thriller. 9:40 You Don’t Mess With 7pm Motorsport – World Rally The Zohan MLS 2008 Comedy.

10:55 Riddick 16VLS 2013 Sci-fi Championship (Highlights) Rally Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider.

Action. Vin Diesel, Karl Urban.

Finland – Day Two. 11:35 The Yards MVL 2000 Crime.

12:55 The Hobbit – An 7:30 Fox Sports News Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg.

Unexpected Journey MV 2012 8:30 Rugby Nation 1:30 Chocolat MVS 2000 Drama.

Adventure. Martin Freeman.

9:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche.

3:45 The Haunting Of Bryan (Highlights) Ipswich 400 – Race 25.

3:30 Shallow Hal ML 2001 Comedy. 10pm Rugby League – NRL Becket ML 2010 Thriller. Tim Daly.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black.

5:15 Hansel And Gretel – Witch (Highlights) Round 21 Sunday.

5:25 The Green Mile 16V 1999 Hunters 16VL 2013 Action.

10:30 Rugby League – 40/20 Thriller. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise.

Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton.

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8:30 Pain And Gain 18VLS 2013 Midnight Motorsport – V8 10:45 The Runaways 16LS Action. Mark Wahlberg.

Supercars (Highlights) Ipswich 400 10:45 A Stranger In Paradise 16VLS 2010 Drama. Kristen Stewart, – Race 25. 12:30 Rugby – Super Dakota Fanning.

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GOODWIN, Shirley Elizabeth – Brian and family wish to thank all who have supported us during this sad time. the tributes to Shirley plus the MID CANTERBURY FUNERAL SERVICES flowers, food and support provided have been Galbraith’s provide choice! incredibly generous.

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MacAVOY, Timothy George – Sarah, Jeremy, Ben and our families wish to say thank you to our relatives, friends and the community for all your love and support you have given us during this extremely sad time. The lovely flowers, your comforting words in cards, phone calls and visits, baking and food have all been much appreciated. We are humbled by your generosity. Many thanks to Barry Hayman and Rev David Brown for their advice and support in helping to organise Tim’s private funeral and his memorial service, which greatly portrayed our wee man and his love for life.

Thank you also to all those who attended Tim’s memorial service, made donations to the Starship foundation or the MacAvoy Memorial fund. We will always remember your kindness and love and be forever grateful.

PEAT, Robert George (Bob) – Vic wishes to thank everyone for their kindness, baking, cards, flowers, visits and messages of sympathy. I would especially like to thank my neighbours including Bay, Jan and John and Peter and Karen for their continuing support in the sad loss of Bob. It was much appreciated and will always be remembered.

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Rain becoming widespread, and snow lowering to 600m, then clearing and becoming mostly fine.

Wind at 1000m: NW dying out in the morning.

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Wind at 1000m: Gale NW 100 km/h, gusting 130 km/h in exposed places, easing to 70 km/h in the evening.

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BLACK – Hamish and Wendy (nee Hunter) are proud to announce the safe but speedy arrival of our beautiful daughter Zoe Alice Verona Black on July 25, weighing 6lb 12.5oz. Special thanks to Midwife Sandra Scott, Christchurch Women’s Hospital and all the staff at Ashburton Maternity Unit for BARTON, Annie Victoria (Nancy) – looking after us all.

23-3-23 - 27-6-14 CLAY – Carolyn, Beverley and Christopher and Kirsty are families wish to sincerely delighted to welcome Nellie thank you for your Sophia Clay into their family overwhelming love and on 24 July, weighing 6lb 2oz. support shown to us when we A big thank you to Anna lost our lovely mother, Campbell and the staff at devoted nanny and adored Christchurch Women’s and super nanny. The beautiful Ashburton Maternity. flowers, lovely baking, phone calls, cards, supportive DEATHS messages, emails and texts have given us so much Please note all late death support. Special thanks to notices or notices sent out- Rev David Brown for the side ordinary office hours wonderful service, Leslie must be emailed to: Blain and Moyra Whiting for deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz your beautiful music, Carol to ensure publication.

Gunn for your tribute, St Ladies Choir, During office hours notices David’s Paterson’s Funeral Services may also be sent to: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz and all those who attended the service to celebrate Any queries Nancy’s long and full life. please contact Please accept this as our 0800 personal acknowledgment we ASHBURTON are sincerely grateful to you (0800-274-287). all.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 17.8 18.9 Max to 4pm 12.7 Minimum 7.4 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 0.0 Avg Aug to date 2 2014 to date 509.4 403 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 33 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 57 Time of gust 4:09am

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A tidythis three bedroom home on a pet Certainly onefriendly, to viewfamily to be sized workshop compliments tidy package. section. With compliant inbuilt log fire in the lounge area. Good sized appreciate. kitchen opening to the rear of the Section. A spacious single garage plus workshop compliments this tidy package. Certainly one to view to be appreciate.

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18 Harrison Ashburton Ashburton 22 St Grove Street

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Home now, Future & ready for immediate posession!!

Good to Go * 3 Land Bedrooms * Double internal access 3 bedrooms, modern & tidy bathroom * Ashburton 22garage Grove Street * Private outdoor entertaining * Good Open plan spacious kitchen,dining,living to Go * 3 Bedrooms * Good offheated street parking * *Well with access log fire &garage heat-pump Double internal Private outdoor entertaining * *Location, Location, Location So much on offer and parking will $320 be sold; quick!

Good off returning street * *Previously per be week * Available for immediate possession So much on offer and will be sold; be quick!

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For Sale $360,000 For Sale: Price on Application View By Appointment View : Saturday 10:00 - 10:15am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20147 For Sale $360,000 rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20482 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 View By Office Appointment Ashburton 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20147 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

Netherby 9 Davis Crescent

15 Geoff Geering Dr Ashburton Ready for immediate possession Netherby 9 Davis Crescent Side by side properties, buy one or buy both. These flats have 3

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DOUBLE WHAMMY OPPORTUNITY 7 & 9 Davis Crescent

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* 4 Bedrooms (master with ensuite) For Sale Offers over $145,000 each DOUBLE WHAMMY OPPORTUNITY & 9 Davis bedrooms each and great back yard area for kids7 and pets toCrescent roam. No * Large open plan living space View by appointment For Sale: $485,000 by side properties, buy oneopportunity or buy both.you These flats have 3 been waiting 9 has Side no garaging.

This could be the have * Double int access garage For Sale Offers over $145,000 each rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20161 View Saturday 10:45 - 11:00am bedrooms each and great back yard area for kids and pets to roam.

No for! No 9 is currently rented * Heat pump and solarat $220 per week.

Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 View by appointment rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20464 been waiting 9* has no garaging.

This could be the opportunity you have Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) Tastefully decorated throughout. rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20161 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 for! No 9 is currently rented at $220 per week.

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For Sale: Deadline private treaty closing 4pm 3A1F2I For Fri 15Sale Aug $275,000 ‘14 (prior offers considered) View: by appointment View Saturday 11:00 - 11:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20556 rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20121Ashburton Office 03 For SaleOffice $275,000 Ashburton 03 307 8317 307 8317 LICENSED (REAA 2008) Mid Canterbury RealEstate EstateLimited LimitedLICENSED View by appointment Mid Canterbury Real (REAA 2008) rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20121 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

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Easy Care Easy This tidy townhouse is just one block from the

heated with a heatpump ad nightstore. Single garage and easy care grounds completes the package.

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For Sale $238,000 For Sale: $260,000 View by appointment View Saturday 10:00 - 10:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20087 For Sale $238,000 rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20492 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 View byOffice appointment Ashburton 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20087 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) Ashburton Office 03 307 8317 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

Ashburton Hut 8 Hakatere

106 Grove St, Tinwald Easy to Like Ashburton Hut 8 Hakatere This is a life style that many love in a small caring community. This hut

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Down By The Seaside This hut and all its contents could be yours.

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Lot 2 Kelburn Estate, Ashburton 2/265 MooreTinwald Street

... to build your dream home with all the garaging and ‘man cave’ CBD. Large living area, two Moore double bedrooms Ashburton 2/265 Street with good storage. Galley space you’ll ever need. kitchen with abundance of cupboards and dining isarea. bathroom Easy Care Easy Living This tidy townhouse just Large one block from the All services including fibre optic cable at the boundary.

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For Sale $80,000 - $90,000 View by appointment For Sale:Price on Application For Sale $80,000 - $90,000 rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20212 View : Saturday 11:30 - 11:45am Ashburton 03 307 8317 View byOffice appointment rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20384 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008) rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20212 Ashburton Office 03 307 8317

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