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Milk cash cut by $4b Dairy farmers’ season looks set to go from “lite” to “super trim” on the back of a dramatic drop in the milk price.

Fonterra yesterday cut its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the 2014-15 season, from $7 to $6 per kgMS. That will slash $1.6 billion from its earlier forecast.

The drop from $8.40 last season will collectively cut dairy incomes by about $4.3 billion, or 1.9 per cent of GDP. The GlobalDairyTrade price has slumped 16 per cent since June 1.

Federated Farmers Dairy chair Andrew Hoggard said it was not the death of dairying, but a reflection of near perfect production seasons in Australiasia, North America and Europe.

“The revision has turned our season from being ‘lite’ to ‘super trim’,” he said.

While farmers were expecting a revision, the size of the drop has surprised.

“It means farmers will need to watch costs closely and cut their cloth accordingly. It means getting back on the computer to reforecast farm budgets.”

Fonterra also announced an

estimated dividend range of 2025 cents per share - amounting to a Forecast Cash Payout of $6.20-$6.25 for the current season.

Chairman John Wilson said the lower forecast Farmgate Milk Price reflected continuing volatility.

“We have seen strong production globally, a build-up of inventory in China, and falling demand in some emerging markets in response to high dairy commodity prices. In addition, the New Zealand dollar has remained strong. Our milk collection across New Zealand last season ending 31 May 2014 reached 1,584 million kgMs, 8.3 per cent higher than the previous season.

“This drop in the forecast farmgate milk price will have an impact on our farmers’ cash flows. We continue to urge caution with on-farm budgets.”

Federated Farmers is recommending farmers talk to their bank manager, farm consultant and accountant.

“Given half of what we get paid is spent locally, this will impact the towns but the cities are not immune,” Mr Hoggard said.

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Malik abused for tweet One Direction singer Zayn Malik has received a backlash of abusive messages after he posted Twitter message in support of Palestine. Malik, who was brought up a Muslim, posted the hashtag #freePalestine to his 13 million followers today, and it has already been shared more than 140,000 times.

Among the abusive responses on the micro-blogging site, were messages telling him to “go kill yourself” while others called him “ignorant” and accused him of supporting terrorists. Another told him: “The world hates you.” But other users praised him for the comment, provoking a heated debate among his fans. Ahmad Ayyoub said: “thanks for being brave, thanks for being a human Zayn, free Palestine.”

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Back in time Keas have been infrequent visitors to lowland Mid Canterbury – but their visits made the news: An unusual visitor made his appearance at the Mead recently on the farm of Miss Shellock. Her nephew, Master Walter Shellock, found a kea hopping around near where some fowls were feeding. He obtained a pea-rifle and secured the bird. There is no record of any sheep having been killed by these birds in the district. Another was captured alive about 12 months ago at the Mead.

Queen comments on lack of comfort Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams remembers the exact moment the Queen looked at the Iron Throne and remarked that it didn’t look very comfortable. Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit to the set of the hit HBO fantasy series in Northern Ireland last month with the Duke of Edinburgh. It was widely noted that the 88-year-old Monarch declined to sit on Westeros’ version of her royal chair, but there was never an explanation as to why. Now Williams has explained. The 17-year-old, who plays Arya Stark joined several cast members including Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Conleth Hill (Lord Varys) on the Belfast set to meet Her Majesty.

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Poof returns Due to popular demand, a Ponsonby Road bar has changed its name back to Poof, only months after complaints led its owner to drop the title. The bar, which opened last year, changed its name to Pop in April, after owner Wayne Clark said he had received complaints – mainly from older members of the gay community – over the derogatory nature of the word “poof”. But the bar has now returned to its original name, with website GayNZ.com reporting “overwhelming” feedback in favour of the change. University of Auckland PhD student James Burford said he did not find the bar’s name offensive and there had been movement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities to “reclaim” stigmatising words like “poof”.

Pitt, Jolie pay cafe to close Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have paid the owners of a beach cafe in Europe thousands of dollars to close down for three months so they can shoot a film. Pitt and Jolie are filming new project By The Sea at Mgarr ix-Xini on the island of Gozo in Malta, and they need unfettered access to a tiny pebble beach to shoot their scenes. However, a beachside kiosk holds pride of place in the bay, so the millionaire stars have rented the entire cafe for the summer. Owners Noel and Sandra Vella says they’re not going to make as much had they remained open, “but at least I’m getting some form of compensation”.

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■ FATAL

Driver killed in head-on collision

By Erin TaskEr

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A man from Northern Ireland who was working in Mid Canterbury was killed in a car crash south of Ashburton on Monday night.

John-Paul Nelson, 30, died instantly when the white Toyota

ute he was driving collided headon with a truck and trailer unit on State Highway 1 just south of Tinwald at about 8.30pm.

Ashburton police sergeant Bryan Ennis said exactly how the crash occurred would be determined in a report by the police serious crash unit, which

attended the scene.

“One of them has crossed the centre line. “We believe the ute may have crossed the centre line, but that will come out at some stage,” Mr Ennis said.

Mr Nelson had been in New Zealand since November 2013.

Mr Ennis understood Mr Nel-

son had been on a working visa in Mid Canterbury.

He said police would like to hear from anyone who may have seen his vehicle prior to the crash.

The driver of the truck and trailer unit sustained minor injuries in the crash.

Diversions were in place for a number of hours while investigations into the crash took place.

The man’s death takes Mid Canterbury’s road toll for 2014 so far to eight.

The seventh road death occurred at the North Park Road rail crossing earlier this month.

■ RUNNING WITH DOGS

Canine runners ready to race cross-country

By Toni Williams

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Rakaia man Mark Roberts is notching up the kilometres and pounding the pavements with a trio of fur as he lines up his next unofficial race.

Into Canicross – cross-country running with dogs – Mark runs with his beloved Siberian huskies Jinx, Cheesy and Beavis. He got involved in the sport though his love of the dogs and was on the look for a change.

“I have always loved the Artic breeds, in particular Siberian huskies and their work ethic,” he said.

He had previously raced with carts and on snow where he used six to eight dogs.

“I decided to get back into running and it made sense to use the dogs, so I built up over the past year to being able to run 120km per week with them,” he said.

While not popular in New Zealand, Canicross had a big following internationally.

“Although the sport has very little interest in New Zealand, it is huge in Europe and other parts of the world, with both a European and World Champs,” he said.

Mark said because there was no formal Canicross races in New Zealand, he had entered the Midnight Madness Sled Dog Race

this week in Taupo.

The dry land event was 55km and made up of competitors with teams of up to eight dogs pulling wheeled carts through the Kiangaroa Forest. Mark was the exception and would run it so was not officially entered.

He still expected to do well and believed he had “an above average chance” of finishing the event in front.

He wanted to finish in five hours, however with the compulsory one hour rest for the dogs at 30km it would take six hours.

He said there was more physical effort needed to run with the dogs, who were limited by his speed.

“The dogs can only go as fast as I can run. With a wheeled cart the resistance in less and the Musher (driver) does not need to physically be involved. Overall it’s much harder to run, than standing on a cart,” he said.

Mark often travelled for work – he was a K9 Natural companion animal nutritional scientist.

“I try to get some serious mileage on the dogs when I’m home, but train alone obviously when overseas”.

He had trained in Bangkok, Dusseldorf, Manchester, Seattle and San Diego often putting in some long kilometres before work.

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■ LAKE RESCUE

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Jetskier towed to safety

Craft bazaar Altrusa Ashburton is planning a craft bazaar next month to raise money for Altrusa-supported community projects and need donations of good quality craft making materials. Anyone able to donate any unused craft materials such as knitting, sewing, cards, jewellery, patterns can drop them off in collection boxes at Ashburton’s Smith and Church, on Moore Street or Resene on Burnett Street until August 20.

Alternatively people can contact Helen Hooper 308 6088 if they need items collected. The bazaar will be held at the Sinclair Centre on August 30 between 11am and 2pm.

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A Methven man who detoured for a bit of fishing on Lake Benmore when on his way to see his girlfriend in Dunedin had a lot more drama than he expected on Saturday.

Harry Jackson (19), contractor worker, had to be towed to shore when his Yamaha jetski failed to start out on the lake, then began taking on water.

He was well equipped with a personal locator beacon, a mobile phone, flare and wearing a lifejacket. However, police said his trip still could have ended in disaster if he had gone into the water with the clothes he was wearing. ‘’He was a bit surprised when I told him I doubted he would have lasted more than 10 to 15 minutes [in the water] and would never have made it ashore,’’ Constable Craig Bennett, of Kurow, said.

“A lot of people don’t know how cold that lake can get.’’

But Constable Bennett also said at least Mr Jackson was wearing a lifejacket and did have a beacon and forms of contact.

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Mr Jackson acknowledged to the Otago Daily Times that he ‘‘was not dressed ideal’’ with trackpants, a woollen jersey, dive boots, gloves and lifejacket.

Next time he would probably consider wearing a wetsuit, which would help protect him in the water.

After launching the jetski from Sailor’s Cutting in the morning, Mr Jackson went across the Ahuriri arm and when he was about 150m to 200m from the mouth of the

gorge he discovered the jetski would not start.

Water had drowned the battery and was continuing to leak into the jetski. Although mobile phone reception was patchy, he managed to get a text to his father in Methven, who then notified police.

After that and activating the locator beacon, Mr Jackson had to wait about half an hour, which he said was ‘‘pretty quick’’, for a boat to tow him back to Sailor’s Cutting.

Constable Bennett said a helicopter operating in the area was able to be called in to monitor the situation and stay overhead to direct two boats on the lake to Mr Jackson.

“He was a little embarrassed, but thankful.’’

While having safety equipment, Mr Jackson was ‘‘very lucky’’ he did not end up in the water, but he did the right thing and stayed where he was until rescue boats arrived, Constable Bennett said.

■ RENTAL DEMAND

Housing surplus keeps rental prices stable

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Christchurch tenants might be looking at rent bills that are now among the highest in New Zealand, but the big price hikes are not being reflected in Ashburton, a real estate agent says.

Good three bedroom properties that are warm, clean and dry can usually be rented for between $300 and $350 a week.

And that’s about $100 below prices that are now being asked in Christchurch, Jill Quaid said.

The big driver in pushing rental prices up was accommodation shortages and renters in Ashburton at the moment were fortunate that there were plenty of houses available and that meant relatively stable prices.

“There are quite a few vacancies, that’s a seasonal thing, but the key issue for all landlords if they’re wanting to get the best price for their property is to make sure it is well heated, well insulated and well maintained,” she said.

While market demand dictated how much landlords could ask for their rentals, Mrs Quaid said they walked a fine line between balancing the need to cover rising insurance and rates costs against the importance of keeping their property at a marketable rental.

“It’s their business so they have to get a good return, but they also have to have a property that is in good condition.”

Ashburton’s renters currently have choices when it

comes to where they live, but the scramble to find accommodation in Christchurch has now pushed rentals up to an average of $431 a week. The housing shortage and high rentals are pushing more people into substandard accommodation with some living in cars, garages and sheds.

On-line rental bureau Trade Me has 30 Ashburton listings, 18 of those are high demand three bedroom properties. The average price is $330 a week.

The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade attended a small fire on Bridge Street yesterday about 8.40am. Members extinguished a smouldering area in wooden palings between a house and fence.

Domestic call-outs Ashburton police have attended five domestics in the last two days.

Yesterday they were called to a domestic at 12.20am, following one on Monday evening at 6.30pm. They also attended three on Sunday, one at 2.15am, one at 6.30pm and another at 8.50pm.

Flight grounded Air New Zealand has issued an “unreserved apology” to 227 passengers caught up in a two day delay from Hawaii, and offered $1000 compensation. A faulty indication system prompted pilots to abort flight NZ09 at takeoff on Sunday NZT. A number of rescheduled departures have since been cancelled after Air NZ failed to repair the faulty system on the Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

Passengers are set to spend a third night in hotels after being again sent away from the airport yesterday afternoon. Air NZ has issued a formal apology and said it will offer compensation to all those caught in the rolling delay.

“Due to the lengthy nature of this disruption . . . we will also be compensating each customer $1000 in either cash or Airpoints Dollars.”

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■ ULTRA-MARATHON MAN

BY TONI WILLIAMS

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Ashburton doctor Mick Tarry is in training for the Ultra Tour de Mont Blanc next month in France. It’s a 168km ultrarunning race with a 9600m climb from start to finish.

As if the race itself was not enough of a challenge, Mick could experience warm weather, thunderstorms and blizzards along the route. The mental challenge and endurance needed is great.

He hopes to finish in 38 hours, about 17 hours behind the winner, but entrants must finish within 46 hours.

There are checkpoints and stations along the way to keep a track on athletes’ status – and health.

Tracking is also available online.

“It’s a slow jog,” he says of his style.

You carry some food but there are feed stations on the course.”

He needs to keep his energy levels up and has a few “go-to” snacks he uses including peanut butter sandwiches, bananas, mandarins, breakfast drinks, cereal bars, jam sandwiches and gingernuts. He drinks diluted tonic water.

Mick has wife Moira to thank for introducing him to the endurance sport.

He started training with her as she did triathlon training, but then just kept running. Mick has completed international races ranging from 100km to 154km.

They included the West Highland Way in Scotland and the Blue Mountains in Australia but also New Zealand’s Kepler Challenge Mountain Run.

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It was his success at two of these races that qualified him to enter the French event. However, the Tour de Mont Blanc will be his longest event.

And he’s determined to be one of the 40 to 60 per cent of entrants who finish.

“I have just got to do it. I qualified so I’ve got to do it,” he says.

He ranked it as one of the top two

prestigious races in the world - the other was the Western States in America. It was also 168km. “I find it very relaxing, very social,” Mick says.

He says there are a lot of like-minded people ultra-running and there were often conversations on route.

During the race he will need three or four changes of clothing on route plus

sneakers. Over the hours running his feet will expand and he will place larger sized sneakers strategically at stations along the way.

Mick’s has his support crew – Moira and son, Alasdair – and is ready for the challenge. It’s most important to Mick that he finishes. “I just hope not to finish last,” he says.

■ MT HUTT SKIFIELD

No snow forces organisers to cancel masters races

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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For the first time in its 20-year history, the Mt Hutt Masters races have been cancelled.

The 20th Land Rover Mt Hutt Masters was to be staged at the ski area this Friday and Saturday.

Organiser Michael Bushel said he had had to make the disappointing call this week, due to a thin snow pack on the race arena.

“There’s not enough snow to

put a gate or a race pole in the snow,” Mr Bushel said yesterday.

Additionally, strong nor-west winds were forecast.

“We have left the call for as long as possible with our fingers crossed, but to no avail and to try and give plenty of warning,” Mr Bushel said.

The race’s sponsors were keen to continue with a cocktail function on Friday night at Methven Resort, likely to be attended by those who have come from throughout New Zealand and

overseas to race.

The Mt Hutt race was the first in the Masters series for the year, with others to be held at Treble Cone, Coronet Peak, and Cardrona. Only the latter two skifields currently had enough snow.

Mr Bushel said it had been a similar year on Mt Hutt in 2005, with little snow. However, while wind had taken snow off the ridges, enough snow had remained in gullies for the event to go ahead. This year was dif-

ferent in that regular periods of rain had deteriorated the snow pack. Without snowmaking, Mt Hutt would not have been able to have remained open this year, he said.

Meanwhile, heavy rain and damaging winds are on the way for the South Island today, the MetService has warned.

In Canterbury, northwest winds were expected to strengthen this morning, a severe weather warning issued yesterday said. And between

about 9am and midnight, gusts could reach 130 kilometres per hour, especially about and immediately east of the foothills.

In one or two spots, gusts of 140 kilometres per hour were possible. The winds should ease slightly overnight Wednesday into Thursday.

Additionally heavy rain should develop near the main divide in Canterbury. The heaviest falls were likely from mid-afternoon until mid-evening, with intensities of 15-25mls per hour.

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■ SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH

Help for young Maori parents on horizon

By Sue NewmaN

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Beth Waters, taking the pulse of the community.

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Social work student Beth Waters is undertaking a research project that could result in a new support programme for Ashburton’s young Maori parents.

Over the next two months she will interview families about their needs and the support they would like to be able to access in the community. The findings of her research will be compiled and used to apply for funding for a new service to provide that support.

The success of the research project relies on finding parents of preschoolers who are willing to come forward and share their thoughts, ideas and concerns, Ms Waters said.

“We want to gain an understanding of what support people have now and what people believe would support them better in the community.”

She has been working through pre-schools, schools and health providers to identify Maori families who are happy to talk about parent-

■ HAKATERE MARAE

Art work unveiled Hakatere Marae elders (right) Mere Keeling, Janet Benfell and Judy Toki unveil one of two wall plaques on Hine Paaka building this week at the Hakatere Marae.

The other plaque was unveiled by Ashburton College art teachers Claire Robertshaw and Jenny Owens.

An intimate group including members of the Ashburton College Kapa Haka group were present for the mihi and blessing celebrations.

The plaques – of 20 panels each - were made by three classes of Year 9 and 10 art students at Ashburton College last year under the watchful eye of art teacher Ms Robertshaw. They were helped with funding by Creative Communities Art Funding Scheme run through the Ashburton District Council.

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At the unveiling Ms Robertshaw said the students worked with traditional Maori motifs and designs to give them a contemporary edge. They used words such as unity, equality and love for inspiration.

There was frequent use of koru, hearts, ferns, kiwi, doves and the New Zealand flag into the pieces.

She said students used red, white and black so they tied together when they were placed on to the panel.

It took five weeks of term four to complete the art work in class before time was spent finishing the panels.

The Hine Paaka building sits to the side of the main marae building and was used for training and workshops.

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ing, their own lives as youngsters and the support gaps they can identify in the community.

“I’m finding that a lot of Maori families have dispersed around New Zealand and they’re away from their traditional support, away from their families. For many of them I think there is perhaps a degree of shyness or possibly shame in asking for help, but we want them to share their concerns with us, we want them to feel we value their opinion,” she said.

In addition to one-on-one interviews, Ms Waters said several hui would be held where people can be involved in group discussions.

“We could just go out and set up a support system but we want to find out what people really need; it could be very different to what we think the need is. This project is about helping people not to feel so isolated because we know social isolation is a real issue for a lot of young families who have moved to Ashburton and who don’t know where to go for help.”

Growing up in Ashburton, Ms Waters said she had watched the district’s population change as large numbers of newcomers moved into the area. And while that was good for any district, it also meant new support networks were needed, she said.

“This project is about getting the correct data from the right people so we can then provide people who need help with the right kind of help.”

The project is being conducted on behalf of the Hakatere Marae with Michelle Brett acting as their advisor for the Marae committee. It is being administered by Presbyterian Support. Young parents wanting to contact Ms Waters can do so through Presbyterian Support on 3085868.

Participants will be reimbursed for their time.

Findings from the interviews and hui will be used to support a funding application to SKIP (Strategies with Kids; Information for Parents).

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■ DRUG SIGNS

Police sign tool in war against drugs Staff reporter An initiative to draw attention to raids on properties where they believe drugs were sold has been called proactive policing in the face of questions about civil rights.

Police last week raided a series of Mid Canterbury properties suspected of being linked to the drug trade.

Outside some, they placed a temporary sign that read “Drugs will no longer be sold from this house”. At the time, police said the signs had been used in cities.

An occupant at one property told the Guardian the sign effectively labelled her

property a “tinny” house before the claim was tested in court.

She was not charged but another person at the address was. It was up to the police to prove their case against that person rather than “shame” the property, she said.

Council of Civil Liberties spokesman Kevin McCormack said the sign prompted questions as to the rights of individuals versus the rights of the community.

“If there is to be a presumption of a person being innocent until proven guilty then I’d have thought there is a big question about the appropriateness of putting

up signs of that nature.”

If the sign is legal, police should be questioned as to why they felt entitled to erect them at all, he said.

The Guardian put that to a police national spokeswoman and also asked whether police were satisfied the signs were neither prejudicial or ran the risk of being defamatory.

In a statement, she said “police remained committed to reducing the harm that drugs cause in our communities and will continue to use a range of tools and tactics to achieve this”.

University of Canterbury law lecturer

Chris Gallavin doubted the sign would prejudice a defence as it was not “evidence” while the jury, if any, was always directed to put out their minds anything they saw outside of court.

Occupiers not charged with an offence might argue that the sign breaches their privacy but this would be weighed alongside the circumstances.

Dr Gallavin doubted such a claim would succeed.

A defamation claim would depend on the evidence the police put to the court.

In defamation, truth is an absolute defence, Dr Gallavin said.

■ ANNUAL LAKES BIRD COUNT

Rare birds thrive at lakes

One of 54 Australasian crested grebes counted at the Ashburton Lakes on Sunday.

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■ INSURERS COUNT COSTS

June storm costs $30m The cost of insured damage from this year’s June storm has reached $30 million.

The June 9-11 storm that hit much of the Auckland region and east coast of the North Island brought down trees and power lines and cut power to more than 80,000 residents.

It also caused surface flooding as far south as Marlborough and Canterbury.

The Insurance Council of New Zealand Chief Executive Tim Grafton said the $30 million in insured damage from the June storm took the total insurance cost from severe weather events this year to $107 million.

“At the same point last year, insurers had paid out $103 million for insured

damage from severe weather events and 2013 was the second costliest year for weather-related damage since 1968, with over $174 million of insured costs,” he said.

Insurers paid out $18 million for more than 6000 domestic claims and $9.5 million in commercial material damage claims from the June storm.

Approximately $1.1 million was paid out in motor vehicle claims and $758,000 in marine-related claims.

“We’re awaiting provisional figures for the 25 June storm that hit Nelson and Tasman region, as well as the July 8-11 storm that caused severe flooding in Northland but 2014 looks likely to be another costly year for New Zealand.”

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The highest-ever number of Australasian crested grebes was counted at the Ashburton Lakes in an annual bird survey at the weekend.

Department of Conservation principal science advisor Colin O’Donnell and volunteers walked around the area on Sunday to undertake the department-led count, which began in 1984.

Mr O’Donnell said there were 54 grebes counted. The previous highest number was 40, in 2008.

“It’s a good number of birds. It seems like they have bred quite well over the last year or so,” he said.

He believed the Lake Heron Conservation Group’s pest control work may have helped numbers.

Crested grebes are a threatened species, with only about 3500 left in Australia and New Zealand. They are extinct in the North Island, and mainly only exist in high country lakes throughout the South Island after numbers have declined on the West Coast, Marlborough and Nelson.

Other birds counted on the day included New Zealand scaup, New Zealand shoveller and grey teal. Numbers were “holding their own overall”, Mr O’Donnell said.

He said the Ashburton Lakes bird count may be the longest running monitoring project of water birds in New Zealand.

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Pokie machine spend on rise The amount of money spent on gaming in the Ashburton District hit an all-time high for the June quarter.

Over that three-month period, punters invested $1.518 million in pokie machines around the district, with the spend topping $1.5 million for the first time.

Across the district there are 154 gaming machines located in 13 venues in Ashburton, Hinds, Rakaia and Methven.

The spend in June last year was 7 per

cent up on the previous year; this year’s record breaker was up another 5 per cent.

Nationally the gaming machine spend was down just over 2 per cent over the past year from $826 million to $806 million.

Profits from Ashburton’s gaming machines are distributed in Mid Canterbury through six charities - New Zealand Community Trust, the Lion Foundation, Air Rescue Services, Pub Charity, MSA, and RSA.

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Ashburton’s St John ambulance service travelled 2453 kilometres last week and attended 86 calls.

Of those call outs 30 were urgent callouts, 61 were medical and 24 were accidents.

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Ashburton police are looking for a caravan that was stolen from the Ashburton Holiday Park in late April.

The van was locked and stored at the park and the exact date it was taken is unclear.

The 2003 Oxford Road Wagon van is white and red with a grey swirl design on the side. Its registration number is B838F. Anyone with information about the missing caravan should contact Constable Ben Bright at Ashburton Police – 03 3078400 or 021 192 2295 or email benjamin.bright@police. govt.nz

A major fundraising effort is under way to help paralysed Wanganui jockey Thomas Russell. Mr Russell, 31 - injured doing track work in Bulls on June 19 - is in Christchurch Hospital . Fundraising will include the New Zealand Racing Board during August donating 10 per cent of turnover on the jockey’s challenge betting option to Mr Russell’s fund. The Waverley Racing Club, at its race meeting tomorrow, will donate $1800 and challenge all jockeys, trainers and owners to match its donation.

An account has been set up for other donations from around the country as well.

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Pilot previously too Harre takes high to fly, court told on PM Key The Civil Aviation Authority knew of allegations that hot air balloon pilot Lance Hopping was a binge-drinker, had cheated on a pilot’s exam, and on at least one occasion was “too pissed” or “too high” to fly, it was revealed yesterday.

A CAA report into the complaints was tabled in evidence at the inquest into the Carterton balloon disaster by Alastair Sherriff, lawyer for some victims’ families.

It detailed numerous complaints about the pilot in the years before the fatal January 2012 crash, which claimed the lives of all 11 on board.

At the inquest yesterday, Chris Ford from the CAA confirmed no safety review was conducted into Mr Hopping despite the serious accusations against him over his 15year career.

Those concerns included an Aviation Related Concern (ARC) on February 4, 2010 about a balloon flight that was cancelled because Mr Hopping appeared “too pissed and/or too high to perform piloting duties”, the report said.

That incident was not isolated, it said.

“In one incident within the previous two years, an on board crew person had to take over the controls of the balloon because Mr Hopping was incapable of landing it on his own due to impairment.”

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The report also said an unauthorised notebook was found on the pilot as he was sitting a flying exam.

“A layman would call that cheating in that exam, wouldn’t they?” Mr Sherriff asked Mr Ford, who agreed.

A medical certificate in 2004 pointed to Mr Hopping’s “binge drinking” after he admitted to regularly drinking 24 cans of beer weekly - mostly in weekend drinking sessions. The concerns prompted the CAA to monitor Mr Hopping, but not to ban him from flying.

“That does not demonstrate a good regulator system working very well for the safety of the public, does it?” Mr Sherriff asked.

Mr Ford said he agreed.

The report said one of the two CAA investigators who looked into allegations about Mr Hopping found they were “probably without reasonable factual evidence and most likely rumour”.

Mr Sherriff said if the information had been in the media in 2010, nobody would have flown in a balloon with Mr Hopping.

“That’s a fair assessment,” Mr Ford replied.

Mr Ford said the CAA was a “changed organisation” since 2010, with a new director, board and senior management team.

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Internet Party Leader Laila Harré will stand against Prime Minister John Key in his Helensville electorate she said last night.

She was standing against Mr Key “because the Prime Minister has some explaining to do” and she wanted to debate him at candidate meetings “away from his army of spin doctors”.

She would be asking him “to explain his Government’s relationship with Hollywood and Skycity”.

“I’ll be asking him to tell us what’s in the TPPA he is negotiating behind closed doors and to open the books on our intelligence relationships.”

Ms Harré also said she would be taking Mr Key to task over the economy. “What happened to the jobs he promised? As many jobs have been destroyed on his watch as have been created. There is no plan from Mr Key. We rely heavily on other countries for skilled people while expecting large numbers of our young to learn on empty stomachs.”

She said while New Zealand had been talking about a knowledgebased economy for decades, Mr Key was “holding the rest of New Zealand back with his ignorance of the digital age”.

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A Rotorua man stole almost $18,000 worth of electricity to power a cannabis-growing operation in his Hannahs Bay home, a court has heard. John Kenneth David, 53, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court yesterday to three years and 10 months’ jail after previously pleading guilty to cultivation of cannabis, unlawful possession of a firearm and theft of $17,685 of power. The sentence also covered separate convictions for assaulting a police officer, refusing a blood alcohol test and dangerous driving.

Judge Chris McGuire said police searched David’s Charles Rd home on July 1 last year and found a “large, well-established indoor cannabis cultivating operation on a commercial scale”, including growing lamps.

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Lamb pie wins A lamb cutlet and kumara mash pie from Wairarapa’s Clareville Bakery has won this year’s New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards.

Carterton baker Michael Kloeg’s “perfect ratios” of pastry, meat and gravy won over the award’s judging panel, which included celebrity chef Simon Gault. “It was the best pie on the day,” Brent Kersel, awards judge and managing director of Bakels New Zealand, said. Mr Kloeg’s winning creation was named top pie at last night’s awards dinner in Auckland.

It was picked from more than 4800 pies, including rabbit and wild boar, caramelised rhubarb and wild berry, chilli con carne, spiced duck with bacon and slow cooked beef cheek and cauliflower cheese pie.

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Car surfers charged Bay of Plenty police say two men have been charged in connection with video footage of a man “car surfing” posted on You Tube over the weekend with the heading “Car surfing in Tauranga.” Two 24-yearold Tauranga men volunteered themselves to Tauranga police yesterday. One was charged with dangerous driving and the other was charged with being party to dangerous driving. They are due to appear in the Tauranga District Court on Friday.

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Confidence boost for older drivers Mid Canterbury’s older drivers got a driving confidence boost this week in a driver training course run by Age Concern Ashburton. Twenty-six people took part.

The one-day course “staying safe confident driving for mature drivers” was designed to give driving skills to mature drivers who experience physical changes that affected their driving abilities, vision, reaction time and flexibility.

It was led by Age Concern Canterbury project co-ordinator Yvonne Palmer and Canterbury Police senior constable Phil Newton.

Mr Newton presented information on safer driving patterns.

The course material focused on helping mature drivers maintain their confidence

in driving and highlighted the importance of analysing changing traffic situations, the impact of the ageing process on vision and hearing and planning trips.

A key topic in the programme was the changing road code changes, which were identified in a video presentation and generated discussion among participants.

Mrs Palmer also touched on “life without a car” for those who found that they were no longer able to drive safely.

Age Concern will hold a course on this topic in October. People can register their interest by phoning the office on 308 6817.

All participants on the staying safe confident driving for mature drivers received a certificate of attendance and workbook for their attendance.

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skilled nurses play in bowel cancer care, we will be able to provide more New Zealanders with colonoscopies.

He said it would also help with workforce issues associated with getting a national bowel cancer screening programme in place.

“We are investing heavily in helping DHBs improve their endoscopy services.

Last year we invested an extra $3.6 million to deliver more colonoscopies. This was followed by a further $8 million this year to improve waiting times for diagnostic tests, including colonoscopies,” Mr Ryall said.

In the 2012/13 financial year, 41,000 colonoscopies were performed nationwide by district health boards.

It was a 20 per cent increase on 2008/09.

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Beds prop up $1.6m turnover Ashburton Trust premises turned over $1.62 million in June, with accommodation the strongest performer.

June turnover is boosted every second year by the Harness Jewels, and with this year a non-race meeting year, turnover was nine per cent down on June 2013.

With that event removed from the equation, trust chief executive Giles Beal said performance for the month was on a par with the previous year.

For the first quarter of the 2014 financial year, total sales were up 2 per cent on the same period in 2013. Accommodation was again the winner, up 17 per cent. Offpremise sales for the quarter were up 7 per cent but on-premise sales were down by 2 per cent.

Nurses will play a bigger role in bowel cancer care with specialist nurses trained as early as next year to do colonoscopies.

The move was announced by health minister Tony Ryall yesterday.

The extra staffing numbers could help fast-track a long awaited national bowel cancer screening programme.

Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa recently had a giant inflatable colon in downtown Ashburton to raise awareness of the cancer.

It is New Zealand’s second deadliest cancer.

BBCA chairwoman Rachel Holdaway said at the time with no national screening programme, the biggest protection people had against bowel cancer was to be aware of its symptoms. It was often a disease people were reluctant to discuss.

The colonoscopy was a diagnostic test to identify whether a person had bowel cancer. It located and removed pre-cancerous growths.

The first group of nurse endoscopists would begin training next year.

“Nurse endoscopy offers real benefits to patients and public health services,” Mr Ryall said.

“By expanding the role these highly

“Accommodation sales continued to hold up well and forward bookings for all trust businesses remain strong,” Mr Beal said.

He predicts that competition from Christchurch as providers come back into the market will present a challenge in the coming months to Ashburton’s accommodators.

The late night market continued to be a challenge because of both the number of venues and the increasingly difficult regulatory environment, he said.

Trust management was looking at a number of options to improve turnover in this area but until Ashburton’s local alcohol policy was signed off it was difficult to put a plan in place, Mr Beal said.

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esley Elliott risks opening raw wounds to help others avoid the pain she has endured.

Daughter Sophie was murdered by former boyfriend Clayton Weatherston in 2008. She was stabbed to death at her family home. Mrs Elliott was first to the aftermath.

The subsequent trial showed Weatherston to be abusive and controlling. Mrs Weatherston wanted to raise awareness of such abuse in order to help others.

Mrs Elliott helped establish the Sophie Elliott Foundation, an organisation dedicated to educating young people about healthy relationships.

For the past three years, she has toured the country to speak about her experience and to get people talking about dating, violence and healthy relationships.

Just a hint of her visit to Mid Canterbury schools this week prompted parents to take stock of the things they saw in their own children.

One parent said just thinking about the health of her daughter’s relationship with her boyfriend had her reassessing her attitude toward late-night text messages.

The message sound was a familiar but annoying fixture most nights – but, instead of growling about the time, should she ask her daughter whether things are okay?

Another parent said they had already counselled their son about how easy it is for “just keeping in touch” to become overbearing and threatening.

A succession of “where are you?”, “what are you doing?” and “who’s there?” text messages might be meant to be chatty, but how would they sound in a phone call? They sound bad. They sound badgering and even threatening. And they certainly do not sound healthy.

Mrs Elliott hopes young people and their parents will learn to recognise the signs of an unhealthy relationship and that, together, they will counter them.

The message from a mother who knows what it is to lose a child to an abusive relationship is that parents and children should start now.

The headlines about familial abuse cases that make it to the Ashburton District Court show us what is at stake.

YOUR VIEW Healthy living As a GP, I spend the majority of my day prescribing medications. However, what I would really prefer to be doing is prescribing people time to exercise, eat a healthy diet, and rest.

Who has the time to be healthy? Without a doubt, I understand that leading a “healthy lifestyle” is very timeconsuming.

Most of us work fulltime, care for family members, and have a home to maintain.

When does this leave us any time to take care of ourselves?

If I could prescribe people one to two hours per day, ideally over the “lunch hour”, when they could go outside, eat their lunch (provided for them at a low cost by the local eatery and consisting of mostly plant-based foods loaded with

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fruit and veg), in the sun surrounded by a green space; and then spend 30-60 minutes going for a brisk walk or doing some mild yoga or just thinking about life, I bet I could cut my medication prescriptions in half.

This is obviously not a problem unique to Ashburton, or New Zealand, by any means.

Having lived in the US, the UK, and now here, I can tell you that these themes run throughout. And I realise this is not the best economy in which to bring up these subjects.

However, I do feel people in New Zealand, and in particular in Ashburton, have more of a healthy sense that less time spent working and more time spent being a healthy person can be economically (and emotionally) beneficial in the long run than some of the other

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places I have lived, hence why I thought this article might be reasonably well-received.

I am thrilled to now live in a place where being healthy matters and I would like to do all I can to promote this attitude in my community.

Genevieve Syed

Work appreciated While driving to work each day I see council/city care workers picking up rubbish and cleaning our streets.

Much of this is done before the sun is up. I want to say a big thank you to these people for keeping our town tidy. Also to the people who clean out the gutters when it rains.

The job you do is very much appreciated.

Thank you also to the people connected with the building

that sits beside the post office, thanks so much for taking care of the garden out front.

To Sandra Maree Kirkman, I have cleaned out our resource room and found a NCEA level 3 Early Childhood Ed and Care Cert that was gained in 2009.

If you would like to collect this, phone 307-6350.

H. Daly

Caring staff In special appreciation to the wonderful staff at the Ashburton Hospital.

My husband and I have had occasions to be in Ward One over the past year.

We both cannot fault the caring attention of all the staff that cared for us – as well as the great meals.

Thank you all.

Alison and Jim Lawton

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or those of you who are keen rugby supporters, the news that three All Blacks will be coming to Ashburton on August 7 to mix and mingle with fans is pretty exciting.

Each year New Zealand Rugby selects several towns around the country for All Blacks to visit and, lucky for us, Ashburton is one of the towns chosen this time around.

Like many New Zealand towns and cities, rugby in the Ashburton District represents a big part of life outside work – whether you are a member of a local club, play in a social team, follow the All Blacks and a Super Rugby team or you support a family member who plays.

Testament to rugby’s strong popularity here is the fact that the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union’s membership today stands at 2100 members – not an insignificant number when you consider the total population of the district.

Taking a quick stroll down rugby memory lane, the first game of rugby believed to have been played here took

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place in 1875 between Canterbury and South Canterbury.

Rakaia Rugby Club is our oldest club, formed in 1876 and the first town club was Ashburton, formed in 1878.

The first regular local club competition started as far back as 1882. Needless to say, rugby certainly established firm roots here a very long time ago.

But it is not just rugby that features strongly in our community; it is sport in general.

Mid Canterbury boasts considerable sporting talent and a deeply-engrained sporting culture. It has grown into a breeding ground for many international sports stars including New Zealand Hockey’s Stacey Carr, cyclists Lauren Ellis and Olympic silver medalist Hayden Roulston, World Cup and World Championship rowers Hamish Bond, Matthew Trott and Duncan

Grant as well as famous All Blacks Adam Thompson and Isaac Ross (whose dad, Jock Ross, was also an All Black and his mum a Black Fern), Grant Perry, Dennis Cameron, Tane Norton, Archie McCormick, Lester Rutledge and Maori All Blacks, Paul Williams, Gary Waterreus and Lee McDonald.

Over the years Mid Cantabrians have shone on the national and world stages in swimming, rowing, cycling, netball, athletics, waterskiing, rugby, hockey and the list goes on.

This month local sports heroes Lauren Ellis (cyclist) and John Snowden (rifle shooter), are competing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and Steven Prescott – the sports facility manager at our new EA Networks Centre and a champion swimmer - heads off to the 2014 World Masters Swimming Championships in Canada.

I would like to wish them the very best of luck for the coming weeks.

I encourage you to keep up the great support you give our local sportspeople and keep in

mind that many of them – like many in the Mid Canterbury Hammers – work long hours during the week and on top of that do their training after work and on weekends.

Now the Hammers have their Ranfurly Shield challenge out of the way, we all look forward to another top showing in the Heartland Championship.

If you are new to our community, I encourage you to consider joining a local sports club.

It is a really good way to establish a new network of friends and the choice of sports available here for all ages is impressive, from water sports to mountain activities to team and individual sports.

On a final note, young and old, come along to our public event next week and help make sure you give the All Blacks a very special welcome to Ashburton.

For full details about the event please see www.ashburtondc.govt.nz Angus McKay is the Mayor of Ashburton

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BY JUNG HA-WON Student survivors of South Korea’s ferry disaster have testified about how passengers, abandoned by the crew, improvised means of escape, using fire hoses to pull people to safety as the vessel sank.

On a second day of student testimony in the trial of the Sewol ferry’s captain and 14 crew, more than a dozen high school teenagers recalled the trauma of the April 16 tragedy that killed 250 of their classmates.

One spoke of how she was saved by the actions of an adult passenger as sea water flooded into the heavily listing ferry.

“At first, someone lowered a strip of window curtain that I grabbed on to, but then I slipped back down,” the student said.

“Then a passenger threw me a fire hose and I tied it around my hips and he pulled me up,” she added.

The charges against the Sewol crew arise from their de-

cision to abandon ship while hundreds of people were still trapped inside.

Captain Lee Joon-Seok and three senior crew members are accused of “homicide through wilful negligence” - a charge that can carry the death penalty.

Eleven others are being tried on lesser violations of maritime law.

Of the 476 people on board the Sewol when it capsized, 325 were Dawon High School pupils on an organised outing.

Only 75 of them escaped.

Another student said she and several classmates had been trapped inside a cabin by falling luggage as the 6,825-tonne ferry keeled over on to one side.

Passengers from an adjoining cabin heard their shouts and managed to force the door open and pull them into the corridor.

“They calmed us down and made a rope with curtain material. Then one man climbed up and pulled us out,” she said.

They were eventually plucked off the sinking ferry

Whale hunt stopped Japan says it has wrapped up a whale hunt in the Pacific, the second campaign since the UN’s top court ordered Tokyo to halt a separate slaughter in the Antarctic.

The country’s fisheries agency said 115 whales were killed during the two-and-a-half month campaign as the whaling fleet returned home. The hunt saw 90 Sei whales and 25 Bryde’s whales killed, in line with a pre-hunt target, the agency said, adding that there was no interference from anti-whaling activists. Sometimes violent exchanges between Japanese whalers and activists have become a regular occurrence during the high-seas hunts.

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by a coastguard helicopter.

The national coastguard was widely criticised for its initial response to the disaster, and state prosecutors said yesterday they had detained the captain of one patrol boat that was on the scene for questioning.

He could face charges of falsifying public records for allegedly doctoring the rescue log

to show his unit’s response in a better light, the prosecutors said.

Yesterday’s court testimony echoed that of the day before, with each student stressing the lack of help from any crew member, and describing repeated tannoy messages telling passengers to stay put even as the ship was sinking.

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‘Stop war at crash site please’ Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to ask Ukrainian forces to stop fighting around the MH17 crash site, a government spokesman says.

“The prime minister this morning called the Ukrainian president with a request to halt hostilities around the crash site,” Jean Fransman said, after fighting with pro-Russian separatists prevented international investigators reaching the site for a third day.

Poroshenko told Rutte he would do everything possible to allow investigators access, Fransman said.

“Rutte expressed his concern about the fact it appeared the investigators may today yet again not reach the site,” Fransman said.

“This is important because we want to get to the crash site as quickly as possible to get the victims and bring them home.

“Mr Poroshenko said that he will do everything possible to make access possible.”

The Ukrainian military confirmed early on Tuesday that violence was still raging.

“Pockets of insurgents are continuing to fire on Ukrainian positions from the towns of Snizhne, Torez and Shakhtarsk,” it said, referring to towns within about 30 kilometres of the site. The fresh conflict came a day after rebels admitted Kiev had regained control over part of the vast site, where the remains of some of the 298 victims still lie 12 days after the disaster.

Kiev would not confirm the rebels’ claim, saying only that its troops had entered a string of towns around the scene.

A Dutch and Australian police mission needs access to the site to recover victim remains and personal effects.

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An 11-year old Indonesian girl has been trampled to death while queuing for a handout at the private residence of Vice President-elect Jusuf Kalla in South Sulawesi province. She was among thousands of people hoping to get 50,000 rupiahs ($A4.65) at a ceremony marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, state-owned news agency Antara reported. “She was trampled to death and crushed during the queue,” it quoted a relative of the girl as saying.

At least six other people aged 16 to 50 were treated in hospital after being trampled in the stampede outside the house in the provincial capital Makassar.

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Google before GP Mothers are more likely to turn to “Dr Google” than their family doctor to seek advice if their child is poorly, a British poll suggests.

A new survey found that GPs are third on the list of sources of advice for mothers, behind seeking help from their own mothers and going online. The poll, conducted by law firm Irwin Mitchell on 2000 mothers from across the UK, found that one in five would go to their GP as their first port of call if their child was ill. Twenty nine per cent said they would first ask their own mother for advice and 26 per cent said they would rely on the internet for information. Not wanting to bother their family doctor unnecessarily was the most common reason for mother’s turning to other places for advice, with 58 per cent saying this was their reason for seeking help elsewhere. But one in 10 said they feel like their doctor does not really listen to them.

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Ebola warning Australians are being warned to steer clear of parts of West Africa as the deadly Ebola virus claims more victims. Nearly 700 people have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since March in what has been described as the most serious recorded outbreak yet of the virus. There are fears it could spread further across the region; Nigeria has set up disease isolation centres at its international airports after recording its first death from the virus. Victims of the virus, or those suffering symptoms, should be avoided at all costs. Ebola has a 90 per cent fatality rate and can quickly kill once contracted. There is no known vaccine or cure.- AAP

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■ TOURISM INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

Tourism chief no stranger to firing line lower-profile role where he’ll be a cheerleader for the $24 billion industry.

Roberts began his working life as a radio journalist before becoming a parliamentary press secretary - including working for former Labour Tourism Minister Mark Burton - and then going into corporate public relations.

It was in his most recent job at Tourism New Zealand that he became more focused on stakeholder relations, government relations and a bigger management role.

At TIA he succeeds Martin Snedden who, with his cricket background and leading role in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, had a high profile.

Roberts said he was known within the industry.

“There’s been a range of different people leading this organisation,” he said.

“Martin was great at pulling this sector together with

this growth phase and I’m well enough known in the sector itself.

“I’m really the cheerleader for it now and poking and prodding to make sure it stays on track.”

The tourism industry is worth about $24 billion and under targets launched by Snedden aims to be worth $41 billion by 2025.

Tourism is the country’s second-biggest export earner but was hit by the global financial crisis between 2008 and 2011.

Operators were in a good position, despite the consistently high New Zealand dollar, Roberts said.

“Universally they’re saying the tide’s turned ... To survive, tourism businesses have had to improve.

“With that consistently high exchange rate we’re certainly not a cheap destination for international visitors any more and New Zealanders are also expecting value at home because there’s competing options off-

Chris Roberts is the new cheerleader for the country’s 1500 tourism operators.

shore.”

Tourism would continue to face being buffeted by what it couldn’t control, he said.

New fears over air travel, attacks on visitors or ash clouds grounding planes could affect

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recovery action in the district court.

Mr Greenstein challenged the court’s jurisdiction, claiming he was an employee.

He took a claim to the ERA testing his employment status.

Although Mr Greenstein initially agreed to be an independent contractor, he claimed that six weeks into the relationship Zeald was treating him as an employee.

The claim was only raised some time after Zeald’s proceedings in the district court.

In determining a relationship the ERA applies a four-part test – the intention of the parties, integration in the business, control over the individual, and

Christine Summerville of Chapman Employment Relations is an employment and HR advisor for businesses in Ashburton christine@chapmaner.co.nz

Finance boss released as model prisoner Failed finance company boss Owen Tallentire has been granted parole, described as a “model prisoner”.

Tallentire was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of theft by a per-

son in a special relationship and pleading guilty to misleading investors. The 67-year-old had been chief executive of Capital + Merchant Finance, which owed investors $167 million when it collapsed in Novem-

ber 2007. Co-offenders, Wayne Douglas and Neal Nicholls, are serving longer sentences. Tallentire earlier this month came before the Parole Board, which said he clearly met the criteria for release on parole.

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whether they are genuinely in business for themselves.

Mr Greenstein acknowledged his signed agreement was clear he was a contractor.

He was required to purchase his own equipment and cover his own expenses.

There was no requirement to work fixed times or notify he was unavailable – typical expectations of an employee.

He was not required to work from Zeald’s premises and he decided whether he accepted leads.

He was responsible for his tax and ACC, and had the ability to profit from his endeavours.

All this led the ERA to determine Greenstein was a contractor, therefore the district court has jurisdiction and the matter returns to that venue.

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Employee or contractor?

hether a relationship is an employment or contractor one can have significant financial implications for an employer.

If determined to be an employment one, the employer is liable for holiday pay, sick leave and minimum wage payments.

Claims can be backdated for six years. An expensive exercise to get wrong.

Fortunately for Zeald New Zealand Ltd, when a dismissed contractor challenged his relationship status, the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) determined he was not an employee.

Mr Greenstein worked as a sales consultant and was paid initial booster payments to assist with his cashflow.

The contract he had signed stated that if he didn’t meet sales targets he had to pay the money back.

After several alleged contract breaches, Zeald terminated the relationship and commenced

the industry and perceptions of New Zealand at any time.

“Occasionally there might be a small blip but one-off events don’t tend to register.

“Long term, a combination of events can.”

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Chris Roberts is no stranger to being in the firing line.

In 2005 he was Transpower’s spokesman when opposition to plans to build pylons through Waikato sparked outrage and resulted in an effigy of his boss being burned outside a public meeting.

He was also spokesman for New Zealand Oil & Gas with its 30 per cent shareholding in Pike River Coal when the company was becoming the target of anger over the fatal explosion at its mine near Greymouth.

The 48-year-old has just started as chief executive of the Tourism Industry Association the body representing 1500 operators throughout the country.

He said he was live on television during the effigy-burning in Tirau.

“That gave me a great grounding in how to deal with stakeholders and communities.

“I was put on the front line.”

The TIA job is typically a

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1 – Which of these countries has not previously won the Fifa World Cup? a. Scotland b. France c. Uruguay 2 – Which of these famous authors was also once a lawyer? a. Tom Clancy b. John Grisham c. Stephen King 3 – What is four-fifths when written as a percentage? a. 40% b. 60% c. 80% 4 – Which famous novel features the five Bennett sisters? a. Pride and Prejudice b. Jane Eyre c. Vanity Fair 5 – What is the meaning of the Chinese word ‘cha’? a. Tea b. Dance c. Love 6 – Who starred in the films Rebel Without a Cause and Giant? a. James Dean b. Marlon Brando c. Dennis Hopper 7 – In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop flight over what? a. Sahara Desert b. Atlantic Ocean c. North Pole 8 – What is the middle name of All Black rugby star Dan Carter? a. David b. Richard c. William

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Beef bourguignon with tomato and rosemary

■ Cut the beef into 2.5cm-3cm cubes, season with salt and pepper. Brown the meat in a hot frying pan in a dash of oil. Transfer to a slow cooker. Using the same frypan, add the onion and mushrooms and brown quickly, before adding to the beef.

■ Mix the stock, tomatoes, wine, tomato paste and rosemary together and pour over the beef

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■ Cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 3-5 hours. Serve with mashed potato and seasonal vegetables.

■ Oven cooking instructions: Prepare the casserole as above, adding an extra 1C of beef stock or wine. Cook in a lidded ovenproof dish at 160°C for 120 minutes or until beef is tender.

Tips ■ Best beef cuts for casseroling or braising: chuck or boneless shin/ gravy beef take 2-2½ hours to

cook. Topside, round and blade take 1-1½ hours to cook.

■ Don’t rush the initial stage of browning the meat. This will help make the dish rich in colour and flavour.

■ If cooking in the oven, simmer the casserole gently and taste it to see if it’s ready. Stir occasionally and adjust the heat as it cooks if needed. When it’s done the meat should be tender.

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Get your Sunday roast on ...

Sunday has been decreed New Zealand’s roast day.

It might seem an odd thing setting aside one day of the year to celebrate New Zealand’s iconic meal, the roast and three veg, but the old-fashioned roast as we knew it has gone out of favour.

Healthier lifestyles and less time to cook means the family roast is a rarity in many houses.

Our Kiwi chefs, however, have played a big part in reinventing the roast and turning it into a meal of choice for modern families. Roasts today are smaller, quicker cooking and when they arrive at the table, light years away from the overcooked meat, overcooked vege and thick gravy of the past.

The challenge on Sunday is to cook a nice piece of meat, turn on some outstanding vegetables and invite your friends around to celebrate all things Kiwi.

times during cooking.

■ Remove the lamb from the oven and transfer to a carving board.

■ Cover with foil and allow to rest for 10 minutes before carving.

■ Serve with a selection of roasted vegetables.

30-minute roast pork 800g piece of pork scotch fillet Olive oil 1 apple Sage leaves or rosemary, chopped 4 strips of bacon Root vegetables ■ Preheat oven to 170°C. ■ Chop all the vegetables into cubes, toss with oil and herbs, and spread on baking tray and place in oven.

■ Slice the scotch fillet/rib eye longitudinally into four and then cut a slit along each piece.

■ Wrap loosely with bacon and place on rack above

Herb-infused roast lamb 4 garlic cloves, crushed 2T coriander, fresh, chopped 2T rosemary, fresh, chopped Salt to taste Black pepper, freshly ground 2T mint, fresh, chopped 1 leg of lamb, about 1.5kg 2T wholegrain mustard 2T olive oil

vegetables.

■ Cook until juices run clear when meat is pierced. Allow meat to rest 10 minutes before carving.

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Festive roast beef 1.25kg-piece beef eye fillet, sirloin or rump 1/2 small bunch fresh rosemary 60ml (1/4 cup) light olive oil 2 large garlic cloves, crushed Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2t light olive oil, extra ■ Preheat oven to 200°C. ■ Tie the beef at regular intervals with unwaxed white kitchen string to secure.

■ Coarsely chop 1T of rosemary ■ Combine with oil and garlic in a small bowl.

■ Rub the rosemary mixture over the beef.

■ Thread the rest of rosemary sprigs under the string on the beef. Season with salt and pepper.

■ Heat the extra oil in a roasting pan over high heat.

■ A d d the beef and cook, turning occasionally, for 6 minutes or until brown all over.

■ Roast in the

■ Make incisions all over the lamb with a small, sharp knife.

■ Combine the garlic, herbs, oil and mustard together and rub evenly over the lamb. Season well.

■ Cover and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.

■ Preheat the oven to 200°C. ■ Place the lamb on a rack in a roasting pan.

■ Cook the lamb for 20-25 minutes.

■ Lower the heat to 180°C and cook for 1 1/2 hours basting several

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oven, basting regularly with pan juices, for 15-20 minutes for medium-rare or until cooked to your liking.

Remove beef from baking pan and transfer to a plate.

Cover with foil and set aside for 10-15 minutes to rest Remove string and rosemary sprigs from the beef.

Carve the beef across the grain into thick slices.

Place on a serving platter and serve immediately with horseradish or your preferred gravy or sauce, and fresh vegetables.

Asian beef 800g-1kg rump roast 3cm lemon grass 1 thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger 2 cloves garlic 1 tomato 1 red chilli 1T of grated palm sugar (or brown sugar) 1t of salt 1t of sesame oil 1T rice bran oil ■ Preheat the oven to 200°C. ■ Make the paste by putting all of the ingredients except rise and meat into a food processor ■ Smear the paste all over the surface of the beef.

■ Heat the rice bran oil on the stove and brown the beef on all sides.

■ Put beef in the hot oven for 20-30 minutes (medium rare).

■ When the beef is cooked as you wish, remove the pan, cover and rest for 10-15 minutes.

Slow-roasted pork

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1t salt 1C apple cider vinegar ■ Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. ■ Pat pork dry with paper towels then scoring the skin in a crisscross pattern with a sharp knife.

■ Put peppers and garlic in roasting pan. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves, paprika and salt.

■ Place the pork on top of the vegetables and pour in the cider vinegar, top up with the water.

■ Cover and seal with a double layer of foil and cook for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

■ Remove the foil, cook for a further 20-30 minutes until the meat is well-browned, and the juices are reduced.

■ Crackle the skin by grilling under a hot grill until it crisps.

■ Remove the pan from the oven and transfer the pork to plate, cover and rest 10 mins.

■ Serve with the hot pan juices.

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The Tottle Trio will perform in Ashburton next weekend. They are (from left) Bruce Roberts, Cathy Irons and Grant Bartley.

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■ TOTTLE TRIO FROM CHRISTCHURCH

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August 1 – Create with Canbead, ladies night out to make your own set of bezel earrings and necklace, Short Street Studio, price $40, 7.30pm to 9pm.

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August 2 – Sarah Conlan at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, EP release tour.

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To August 7 – Beyond the Garden exhibition featuring paintings by Amber Emm at Terrace Downs Resort.

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August 10 – Ashburton Musical Club 2pm Sinclair Centre, Park Street. Public concert featuring The Tottle Trio.

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August 16 – Mid Canterbury Choir’s Goodbye to Winter concert, The Gypsy Baron, by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, featuring guest soloists, 7pm, Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

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August 17 – Oklahoma, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 4pm.

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Ashburton Society of Arts weekly art groups held Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays.

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Jeff Bradley and the Delta Swing playing at Terrace Downs Resort every Sunday, 11am to 3pm.

Top-notch musicians to entertain The Ashburton Musical Club will be hosting The Tottle Trio next weekend.

Cathy Irons on the violin, Bruce Roberts on the trumpet, and Grant Bartley on piano, will entertain at the Sinclair Centre, August 10, 2pm.

Spokesperson Janice Allen said the trio would be playing a mixture of light classical/jazz music, and would also be joined by vocalist Lois Johnston.

“This is a public concert and will be very well received,” she said.

Cathy Irons

Cathy played in the Kwa-Zulu

Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, South Africa, and is now a first violinist and the Outreach and Education Co-ordinator for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Last year, she toured nationally for Chamber Music New Zealand with her string trio, Tres Cordes.

She has been guest concertmaster for the Vector Wellington Sinfonia and currently leads the Jubilate Chamber Orchestra.

Another string to her bow, is her cross-over jazz playing in her group, The Classical Jazz Quartet.

Bruce Roberts

Bruce is principal trumpet with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and has held similar positions with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and the Vector Wellington Orchestra. He has also appeared in concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane Australia, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Southern Sinfonia.

Bruce has worked professionally in Europe. He presently teaches trumpet at Canterbury University and has an extensive private teaching practice in Christchurch.

Grant Bartley

For the past 10 years Grant has been assistant head of department music at Cashmere High School, he is the musical director of the Christchurch Youth Choir, assistant conductor of Addington Brass Band and works as an accompanist and conductor for the Christchurch Primary Schools Music Festival.

Formally the assistant director of music and organist at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Grant frequently works as an organist, harpsichordist, accompanist and conductor in Christchurch and New Zealand.

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■ CONCERT REVIEW

Working out with The Searchers

John McNally

The Ashburton Trust Event Centre was almost at full seating capacity on Friday evening with those present settling in very quickly for a night of rollicking good music and reminiscing.

The Searchers, under the leadership of founder John McNally, took us through five decades of songs that were either hit titles for the group or ‘B sides’ taken from other singers and turned into a success by this band.

A punishing tour itinerary for the group may well have been the reason for a rather sluggish start to the show, but an enthusiastic audience certainly helped them to gain momentum and after interval, everyone on stage and in the audience was in fine fettle and giving it their all.

Hit songs such as Sweets for my Sweet, Sugar and Spice, Love Potion Number Nine and Needles and Pins, had many audience members singing and clapping heartily.

John, Frank Allan (50 years with The Searchers) and Spencer James (a member for 28 years), sang harmonies we well remembered and were still every bit as agile with their guitar playing.

During the performance, Frank alluded to several career highlights for the group, naming Buddy Holly as an idol, Roy Orbison as a gentleman and the best person they ever toured with.

Touring with Del Shannon

in 1964 and the Rolling Stones in 1966 remain fond memories for The Searchers. The band, attired as always in their signature suits, drew the evening to a close with a medley of their most well-known hits that had everyone up on their feet, singing and waving arms in the air.

It was an evening for warm fuzzies and, as people exited the venue, there was much chat about remembering the good old days. reviewed by Moyra Whiting

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After Borat trashed Kazakhstan’s image, the oil-rich Central Asian nation has hit back through Italian cyclist Vincenzo Nibali - and believes his Tour de France victory helps put the record straight.

Nibali’s triumph on the Champs Elysees concluded an eight-year campaign by his Astana Pro Team - named after the Kazakh capital - to get people talking about the world’s biggest landlocked nation. “This has been a very successful project, if you took the mathematics, how many times Astana was named in social media and in newspapers and on TV,” said Kairat Kelimbetov, president of Kazakh Cycling, governor of the country’s central bank.

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Stosur humbled After a terrific month on tour for Australian tennis, Sam Stosur has suffered a shocking loss to a teenage qualifier. Australia’s number one was humbled by 16-year-old Naomi Osaka in a WTA event in Stamford, California. Despite holding a match point in the second set and being a break up in the third, Stosur was conquered in three sets, losing 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 to the Japanese qualifier. The win was 406th-ranked Osaka’s first WTA main draw victory and was Stosur’s fourth straight loss on tour.

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Cronk key for Storm Steve Prescott is hoping to fly the New Zealand flag from the medals podium at next week’s World Masters swimming championships in Montreal, Canada.

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When Ashburton’s Steve Prescott pulls down his swim goggles and climbs on the starting blocks at the World Masters’ Swimming Championships next week, he’ll be testing his skills in the water against some of the world’s best.

He’s competing in the 60-64 year age group over several strokes and distances, and in every event he’ll be up against ex-Olympians.

The tough competition, however, is just part of the challenge, Prescott said.

He knows he’s put in the hard yards in the pool, swimming up to 60 kilometres each week and he knows his times are good.

In fact, they’re good enough to earn him a world ranking of number one in the 800 metre freestyle event, and top five rankings in every other event.

While he’s been a past winner and past record holder, Prescott said it’s been three years since he last competed at the world championships so he’s unsure how he’ll rank against his peers.

Unlike Olympic athletes who compete in one or two specialist areas only, Prescott’s spreading

his net a little wider, competing over freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly events and over 200, 400 and 800 metre distances.

He is also competing in the individual medley.

He’ll be one of about 4500 masters at the event, one of 69 in his age group.

“I don’t think I’ll be one of the stronger medal contenders, but it won’t be for the lack of trying.

“I know I’ll be up there or thereabouts,” he said.

The times he submitted were good, well within the qualifying range and he’s put in hours of

training since he was accepted to race. Seedings are done on times submitted.

He is one of about 50 swimmers in the New Zealand team.

In the May New Zealand Masters championships in Dunedin, he set new national records in 200m butterfly, 400m individual medley, 200m breaststroke and 800m freestyle.

Competition is alternated between and indoor and outdoor pool in Montreal, with the three kilometre open water swim, in which Prescott is also competing, over the rowing course used for the 1976 Olympics.

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Barba believes six switch can be NRL spark By ed JackSoN He’s barely fired a shot since his high-profile recruitment from Canterbury, but Ben Barba believes his switch to five-eighth could be the catalyst to recapturing his best form for Brisbane.

Barba has looked far from the player who secured the 2012

Dally M in Broncos’ colours, struggling to adapt to his new club’s style of football.

Feeling he needed to get involved more, Barba suggested to coach Anthony Griffin he slot into the No.6 jersey while Josh Hoffman be allowed to slot back into his preferred fullback role.

Griffin agreed and threw Bar-

ba in at five-eighth for the Broncos’ past two games against the Warriors and Melbourne.

It’s a position he’s poised to stay in for Friday night’s trip to table-topping Manly.

“Playing up in the line now gets me up and a bit more involved in the game a bit earlier,” Barba said. “Hopefully I can make something of playing

five-eighth now and who knows what will happen?

“What I did at the Dogs and here, it’s two different playing styles. Being at five-eighth now might allow me get the ball a lot more.”

Barba was a half in his junior days before moving to fullback to force his way into first grade at the Bulldogs.

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The return of master playmaker Cooper Cronk is behind Melbourne Storm’s surge back into NRL top four contention, according to backrower Kevin Proctor. The Storm moved up into sixth on the competition ladder after their impressive 22-point win over Brisbane last round thanks to a star performance from Cronk. The 30-year-old Test halfback was at the peak of his powers with a hand in four Storm tries. While he was out with a broken arm Melbourne won just two from five. Ahead of their clash with Wests next Monday, Proctor said Cronk was the difference in their side.

- AAP

Hargreaves marked man The Sydney Roosters say prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves has a target on his back when it comes to NRL referees after he was sinbinned for swearing by Gavin Badger in last week’s loss to Newcastle. The Kiwi enforcer was given a spell during a crucial period in the second half after complaining vociferously about the legitimacy of a Tyrone Roberts try. An irate Tricolours coach Trent Robinson said post game WaereaHargreaves had complained of an “effing forwarding pass” in the lead-up to the Roberts try and expressed his incredulity at Badger’s decision to dismiss the key Roosters forward.

- AAP

Burgess undamaged South Sydney enforcer Sam Burgess says he’s been cleared of any “serious damage” to his right shoulder but could still miss part of the NRL season. Burgess underwent scans yesterday morning after injuring himself in the second half of the Rabbitohs’ 34-18 romp over Canberra at GIO Stadium. Burgess, who’s heading to Bath in England’s top rugby union competition at season’s end, has a history of shoulder problems. - AAP

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In brief The golden gun Shooting has been the fourth most successful sport for New Zealand in Commonwealth Games history, behind athletics, cycling and swimming, but the Kiwi team were without a medal in the sport at Glasgow. Until, that is, Sally Johnston struck gold in the 50m rifle prone, winning the event with a Games record points tally. The 44-year-old, who took bronze back in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, celebrated her fourth Games in style, taking the country’s gold medal tally to seven after five days of competition.

- APNZ

Quick Nikki Nikki Hamblin will have a chance to add to that total in the 1500m final this morning, but the middle distance runner is simply happy to be back in elite competition.

After struggling with persistent injuries in the four years since she won silver in the 800m and 1500m in Delhi, Hamblin returned to the Games and immediately showed her class. The Kiwi qualified second-fastest for the final, losing her heat only to a Games record run.

- APNZ

King for a day After the disappointment of losing her semi-final to world No 1 Nicol David yesterday, squash ace Joelle King bounced back with a win in the bronze medal match to complete a full collection of medals. King crushed Englishwoman Alison Waters in straight sets, backing up the gold and silver she took at the Delhi Games. King has a chance to add further to her haul in this week’s doubles event.

- APNZ

Famous fans at boxing It was a mixed day in the ring for New Zealand’s boxers. In a roundof-16 bout in the welterweight division, Bowyn Morgan won a split decision over Mmusi Tswiige - surely a candidate to be a question at the next Scripps Spelling Bee - while compatriot Eric Finau lost to Siph Iwe Lusizi by a unanimous decision in the middleweight. Enjoying all the action from the stands were Wills and Kate (and Harry). - APNZ

Decathletes under way The two Kiwi decathletes got their programme underway at Hampden Park, completing three of the 10 events in the morning session. But neither was particularly successful, with Brent Newdick sitting seventh on 2413 points and Scott McLaren back in 17th on 2128 points. Both made the most gains in the shot put and both trail leader Damian Warner of Canada, who has managed 2691 points.

- APNZ

Black Sticks pushed hard The New Zealand women’s hockey team remain perfect at the Commonwealth Games but were pushed in their latest encounter, a 2-1 win over South Africa. Anita Punt opened the scoring midway through the first half with a low blasting shot from a penalty corner.

South Africa hit back just before halftime, but ew Zealand scored the winner 15 minutes before fulltime after Olivia Merry delivered an inch-perfect pass to Krystal Forgesson for the diving winner.

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■ COMMONWEALTH GAMES

Positive lessons for Walsh

BY DAVID LEGGAT It was hard to reflect on it in a moment of crushing disappointment, but Tom Walsh was able to identify positives out of his first trip to the Commonwealth Games.

His throws en route to the silver medal at Hampden Park give a clue: 20.73m, 20.96m, 20.90m, 21.19m and 20.84m, before fouling on his last as he made a last-ditch bid to catch Jamaica’s O’Dayne Richards’ gold medal-clinching 21.61m Games record.

Walsh is young for a shot putter - albeit he has three years on compatriot Jacko Gill - but took heart from the consistency of his performance.

The only thing lacking was what Canadian bronze medallist Tim Nedow said of Richards’ best throw: “He just bombed one.”

Walsh needed a bomb and it didn’t come.

There was a long pause when he considered what he’d take out of the final.

He got within 7cm of his personal best in Sopot, Poland, this year at the world indoor champs.

“My consistency is awesome, and the more consistent you are the more likely [you are] to throw big, and then I’ll be better in big competitions and more relaxed.

“It flows on to the whole confidence thing. The more I throw up around the 21m mark the more confident I’ll be.”

There are clues dotted through those remarks, and the thought occurred whether events the previous day in qualifying might not have done Walsh any favours.

He set a Games record of 21.24m with his one and only throw.

Walsh spoke after the final

Tom Walsh of New Zealand takes part in the men’s shot put final competition at Hampden Park Stadium during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow.

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about feeling tense and his rhythm being off just a touch.

Walsh was the man to catch in the event.

Did he, subconsciously, get thrown off his stride by the burly Richards’ big throw?

It was 67cm better than his next best on the night.

Whatever, Walsh got advice from Australia coach Scott Martin during the event - “it’s pretty much the same advice I always get: work the lower body up and through the circle, then let the rest take care of itself.

“You learn from these experiences and next time hope you can do better.”

He looked a shattered man shortly after the event, and,

having taken the lead with his second throw, possibly didn’t see Richards coming.

Still, he’s had a cracking year, made substantial progress and placed himself among the world’s elite.

His best work remains in front of him.

And in time he’ll reflect that only two New Zealand men have got Games medals in the discipline before him.

He’s likely to contest the Stockholm Diamond League on August 21 but he has made it plain that his ambitions lie on a higher level.

“At the end of the day I’m here to throw well at big championships.

“If Diamond Leagues don’t fit into what I want to do I won’t be there. I won’t be chasing them.

“No one cares how you throw at a Diamond League. The worlds in Beijing next year are the big one.”

Then Rio, of course, in 2016.

If Walsh continues at his recent rate of progress, and can use his disappointment yesterday in the right way, he should be a serious contender.

NZ’s Commonwealth Games men’s shot put medallists: Les Mills, silver 1966, bronze 1970 Courtney Ireland, silver 1994 Tom Walsh, silver, 2014 - NZH

Coach’s calming influence does the trick

BY KRIS SHANNON One last lift was the difference between the top of the podium and the depths of despair for Richie Patterson.

The Kiwi weightlifter, ranked No 1 in the Commonwealth and winner of silver four years ago, nearly came away with nothing from yesterday’s 85kg competition in Glasgow.

Two no-lifts in the cleanand-jerk saw him on the precipice of disaster, threatening to squander a top performance in

the snatch and the type of form that left him supremely confident of victory.

As is turned out, that confidence was justified. Eventually.

Patterson hoisted his final attempt at 184kg high above his head inside a packed Clyde Auditorium, took a couple of heartstopping stutter-steps backwards but recovered to hold his stance, see two green lights and claim gold.

“I came here to win, and I put my starting weight so heavy that I was going in to win,” he

Richie Patterson strikes gold

said. “I did a 180 out the back pretty comfortably, so I was pretty confident that I was go-

ing to come out and nail the 184.

“And then the first jerk was slightly out in front, and the second jerk I pressed it.

“I had to go backstage and (coach) Adam (Storey) calmed me down a little bit - I’ve lifted this weight almost every week, day-in, day-out, and it was just about calming myself back down to go and do it.

“Even the last one, I locked it overhead and had a couple of steps backwards on it, so it was nerve-racking.”

- APNZ

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Crusaders forwards seek improvement

BY PATRICK MCKENDRY The Crusaders’ forwards, who provided the platform for their semi-final victory over the Sharks with a dominant performance which at times embarrassed the big South Africans, are targeting an improved effort for Saturday’s final against the Waratahs.

Like the Sharks, the Waratahs’ pack is extremely big - lock Will Skelton weighs 137kg - but there is a suspicion they can be brought down to size with aggression and firepower, something this Crusaders’ outfit has in abundance.

When the Blues beat Michael Cheika’s team 21-13 at Eden Park in April, the inexperienced Patrick Tuipulotu showed with his direct running that the Waratahs’ pack can dominated.

Former Bulls lock Jacques Potgeiter has become a cult figure in Sydney with his flowing locks and liking for running at the opposition, but the Crusaders will enjoy the prospect of such a challenge.

Owen Franks’ defence was outstanding in the 38-6 victory at AMI Stadium, and he for one will relish the chance to cut another South African down to size.

The Waratahs’ lineout has also been wobbly this season - an area of strength for the Crusaders - so it’s no surprise Todd Blackadder’s pack is looking forward to the clash at Olympic Stadium.

Prop Wyatt Crockett confirmed yesterday the Waratahs set piece

Wyatt Crockett: Crusaders targeting the set piece

RESULTS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club Women’s Section, July 26 and 29 Results of 3rd round Bermaline Cup Daphne Hinton, Maryanne Urquhart 38; Wendy Parr 37, Jacqui Welch 36, Alison Grant, Rhonda Gallagher 35 on c/b from Heather Trott Nearest Pins: No 4 Gabites, Heater Trott No 8 House of Travel Ashburton: Shirley Elliott No 12 Lynn’s Small Salon: Robin Bennett No14 Todds of Ashburton: Maryanne Urquhart, 2nd Shot No 18: Heather Robertson

■ Volleball Robbies Bar & Bistro Volleyball July 28 Panic Slowly v USO 0-3, Social Quads v Team Havoc 1-2, Atomics v Clirco 2-1, Wonders v Serves You Right 3-0, Set Play v Misfits 2-1, 4 Play (the Chokers) v S & Giggles 2-1 Robbie’s player of the day goes to Carl from S& Giggles

DRAWS ■ Rugby Junior squads MCRU Under 14 (Preliminary Squad) Coaches: Regan Broker, Lance Taylor Manager: Christin Taylor Allenton: Devon Coyle, Celtic: Elyh Mckibbin, Conner Donaldson, William Tod, Mitchell Prendergast Hampstead: Te Maiharoa Waaka, Richard Faoga, Elama Touli, Tutanekai Kareko, Eloni Tuakoi, Keegan Gentle Methven: Samuel Van-Leerdam, Jackson Jones, Joshua Ree, Josh Smith, Richard Turpie, Tuoafa Kinikini, Southern: Issac Huddleston, Drew Chisnall, Conner Hydes Joseph Allen-Perkens Tinwald: Liam McCormack, Liviu Cojocaru, Vinnie Lawrence, First training will be Tuesday 5th of August at Hampstead at 5 .30pm If unavailable please contact Lance Taylor 021 073 0936 or Regan Broker 021 100 0048 Under 16 Training Squad Darren Cockburn (coach) – 027 298 9721, Phil Prendergast – (Coach) – 027 432 7768, Leighton Nicol (Manager) – 027 473 0815

would be targeted, but added his side’s work at the breakdown needed improving.

The Crusaders became disconnected at times against the Sharks and were often penalised for holding on.

Crockett added the Crusaders were pleased with their defence but another big effort would be required this week.

“We wanted to really make a statement with our defence and obviously the South Africans having a big physical pack, we wanted to make an impact there,” Crockett said. “It’s the same this week with the Waratahs. We need to stop them coming forward and hopefully we can do that with a really good, physical, defensive line.

“Owey has been outstanding the past couple of weeks, leading that physicality, and it’s up to the rest of us to match that.

“We didn’t play as well as we could have.

“There were areas in the first half where we dropped a lot of pill and we got cleaned up at the breakdown a few times as well.

“Hooper is pretty good in that area, over the ball, so we have to make sure we’re a lot more accurate at the breakdown.”

Crockett, who won two titles in his first three years at the Crusaders - 2006 and 2008, said of the Waratahs’ lineout: “I think they’ll be on the job on Saturday night, being a final - I think they’ll come out firing, but we back ourselves and it’s certainly an area we’ll try to put some pressure on.

We just have to be disciplined when we do it and not give away penalties. We’ve been working hard this week and that’s certainly an area where we want to have a crack at them.”

Waratahs team to play the Crusaders at Olympic Stadium on Saturday, kick-off 9.40pm NZT: Israel Folau, Alofa Alofa, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Kurtley Beale, Rob Horne, Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps, Wycliff Palu, Michael Hooper (c), Stephen Hoiles, Jacques Potgieter, Kane Douglas, Sekope Kepu, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Benn Robinson. Reserves: Tola Latu, Paddy Ryan, Jeremy Tilse, Will Skelton, Mitch Chapman, Pat McCutcheon, Brendan McKibbon, Matt Carraro, Taqele Naiyaravoro, Peter Betham (two to be omitted).

- APNZ

First XV: Cameron Turpin Allenton/Harlequins: Robert Jenner, Declan O’Neill Celtic: Makie Te Are, Troy Vainerere, Ioelu Leo, Josh Wotton, Gabe Hamill, Toafa Mafiti, Max Stapleton, Josh Gill, Piritahi Pia, Te Aranga Hohaia, Richard Sooaemalelagi, Eru Tahuri, Jack Good, Josh Strange, Tuakana Kamoe, Kerry Claydon-Wade, Oliver Adlam Methven/Harlequins: Andrew Henderson, Quinton Pannett, Dallas McLeod, Keegan Marsh.

Rakaia/Harlequins: Lopete Langi, Maui Kinikini.

Training to be held on Saturday 2nd August from 10.00am to 11.10am at the Celtic Rugby Grounds.

Please contact Leighton Nicol with any Questions. (Manager) – 027 473 0815

2014 Mid Canterbury Rugby Junior Representative Teams U48kg Coaches: Mike Davis, Vaughan Ward, Managers: Nathan Currie, Allenton: Lochie Stockdale.

Celtic: Liam Donnelly, Toby Lee. Hampstead: Max Watson, Conner Perriton, Caleb Ward, Aiden Bennett.

Methven: Logan Currie, Archie Redfern, Ben Innes, Liam Begg, Elliot Wareing, Josh Sheridan, Guy Smith, Olly Hood.

Southern: Marshall Bell, Angus Meers, Hayden Davis.

Tinwald: Ben Donald, Lochlan Deuart, Thomas Middleton.

Trainings Monday and Thursday 5.30 at the Showgrounds, First training this Thursday 31st July Please call Nathan Currie to confirm your availability on 0272 956 516 Weight grade team selection depends on players being under the required weight.

U65kg Coaches: Alan Harkness, Stephan Brook.

Managers: Lee McLintock, Karl Henderson.

Celtic: Zane Cockburn, Thomas Schmack, Soul Lima, Jakob Kilworth, Kaea AddisCouch, Opeti Draunibaka, Brynmore Workman, Harry Stapleton.

Hampstead: Joseph Daniel, Mac Kaitao, Fotu Hala, Tanae Edwin-Sharpe.

Methven: Josh Harkness, Thomas Henderson, Marcus Bishop.

Southern: Brydon Smith, Mitchell Barron, Samuel Wilson, Sam Milne, James Martin, Tinwald: Sam Pearce.

Trainings Monday and Thursday 5.30 at the Showgrounds, First training this Thursday 31st July Please call Lee McLintock to confirm your availability on 0273 458 844 Weight grade team selection depends on players being under the required weight.

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In brief Skelton joining Chiefs Lock Cameron Skelton, younger brother of Wallaby Will Skelton is set to join the Chiefs development programme. The 145kg, 2.05m Auckland-born giant, who represented Samoa at the recent Junior World Championship held in New Zealand last month, was a member of the Waratahs under-20 side but he will join the Waikato under-19 squad when he arrives in New Zealand. Chiefs high performance manager Chris Tindall said: “Cameron possesses what we are looking for in a lock with his size, strength and potential, so our focus will be on developing him further through our development programme.” - APNZ

A happy underdog NSW Waratahs coach Michael Cheika is happy rather than insulted some pundits rate the Crusaders as favourites over his red-hot side heading into Saturday’s Super Rugby final. Cheika named an unchanged starting side for the game at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, which has already drawn ticket sales of more than 38,000. While bookmakers on both sides of the Tasman have the Waratahs as marginal favourites, plenty of chatter from New Zealand suggests the seven-time title winning Crusaders should enjoy that status. “I would have expected that’s how they would have thought,” Cheika said. “We’ll try and play really attacking footy and see if we can give them some trouble.”

- AAP

Hird back for Essendon James Hird will be put to work in front of the TV and gladhanding sponsors when he returns to Essendon. Handed a 12-month coaching suspension by the AFL for his role in the club’s supplements scandal, Hird could have resumed coaching from round 23. On Friday last week the club confirmed Hird would not be a part of the club’s gameday coaching regime this year, fearing the attention would be a distraction from the club’s campaign. Hird’s work at the club’s Tullamarine base will instead be focussed on beginning Essendon’s 2015 campaign: list assessment, planning and recruitment. - AAP

Johnson, Mateo back Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson and back-rower Feleti Mateo have both been named in coach Andrew McFadden’s side to play the Canberra Raiders on Sunday.

Johnson (groin) and Mateo (calf) were both late scratchings from the line-up for last Sunday’s 22-12 loss to competition pacesetters Manly but have recovered well and are expected to take the field on Sunday. “We’re very hopeful they’ll be right to play but we have Tui and Sione there as cover if needed,” McFadden said. Johnson comes back into the halves with Chad Townsend while Mateo is on a six-man bench with Ben Matulino, Sam Rapira, Thomas Leuluai, Tuimoala Lolohea and Sione Lousi. ExRaiders McFadden and assistant coach Adam Mogg will be in familiar territory when they head to Canberra. McFadden had his second victory as Warriors head coach against his old club in May - a 54-12 win - but this will be his first in charge in Canberra. - NZH

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■ CHERTSEY TRIALS

In brief Booked to Darci Brahma

Hot to trot

Fleur de Lune has been booked to visit Darci Brahma this breeding season. “Danehill crosses well with daughters of Stravinsky and it’s only just down the road for her – I could ride her there myself!” said Lee Somervell, who prepared the mare to win the Railway Stakes.

Fleur de Lune was also successful in the Foxbridge Plate and placed at the top level in the Makfi Challenge, the Windsor Park Plate, the NZ Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes and in the Easter Handicap.

- APNZ

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Rawiller to Hong Kong Leading jockey Nash Rawiller will continue his riding travels in the spring with a four month stint in Hong Kong starting in September.

Currently riding in Japan, Rawiller is the leading metropolitan rider in Aus-tralia this season with 87 wins. He has also ridden the most Group One winners with eight successes.

- APNZ

Proving she’ll be a force to be reckoned with in the new racing season, two-year-old Habibti Ivy showed the field a clean pair of heels to win the second on the card at yesterday’s Chertsey Trotting Club’s trials.

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Sugar chasing top prize

Paul Nairn could have a champion in his stable, if the performance of two-year-old trotter Habibti Ivy at yesterday’s Chertsey Trotting Club trials was any indication.

The youngster stepped smartly away from the line and within a few metres had taken the lead in the second of the day. And

Te Aroha galloper Uncle Sugar will be out to break a run of second placings when he steps out at Warwick Farm in Sydney today.

The Lisa Anderson-trained gelding left for Sydney with consecutive runner-up finishes at Ruakaka before he filled a similar placing at Hawkesbury in his Australian debut.

- APNZ

that’s where the chestnut filly stayed. At no stage was the I Love You-Ten To One youngster challenged.

She made the race her own from the get go, and ran the 2400m as though she had a prize purse at the finish line.

In what increasingly proved to be a one horse race, she

stretched the gap between herself Leo O’Reilly’s Don Let Loose to around 18 lengths at the finish.

The Diedre Don-Foot Loose three year old filly came home another 16 lengths clear of third finisher, the Michael Heenan trained Port Royal.

Habibti Ivy scored a trials day

gold star for the rare feat, as a trotter, of running 2400m in under 3.10.00; she came home in 3.09.5, 800m, 59.6 and 400m, 29.3.

Her mile rate 2.07.0.

The race commentator had just four words for the filly– “wow, an unbelievable performance.”

13 52503 Brondan (2) 55 ................................ R Jones 14 40382 Sweet Rita tdmh (4) 55 ........... R Smyth (a2) 15 361P8 Istimagic m (8) 55 ........................... M Wenn Emergency: Istimagic 8 2.50pm MACMILLAN ACCOUNTANTS ROTORUA RATING 75 1400 $17,500, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 72859 Cornelius dm (9) 60.5 ........L Magorrian (a3) 2 300x0 The Shackler d (6) 60.5 ................O Bosson 3 96346 Heart Of Darkness dm (7) 58..... M Dee (a1) 4 60291 Dubai Wolf tdm (11) 57.5 ................ C Grylls 5 x1217 Immigration tdmb (4) 56.5 ........... D Johnson 6 4x882 Irish Heartbeat tdm (3) 56.5 ...............M Hills 7 14x50 Mr Mendelssohn dmb (1) 56.5 P Turner (a1) 8 34115 El Bandido d (12) 56 ..................M Sweeney 9 07166 Financialterrorist m (13) 56 ............. R Jones 10 x1430 Oui m (14) 55.5 ................. U Holmquist (a3) 11 18x95 Alfonze tm (5) 55.5 ...................K Leung (a2) 12 x4100 La Stellina dm (2) 54 .............. K Chiong (a3) 13 51752 Lady Marilyn td (8) 54 ......... M Dravitzki (a1) 14 10615 Coriander m (15) 54 ....................T Thornton 15 x3404 Offangone tm (10) 54 .............. R Smyth (a2) 16 40382 Sweet Rita 54............................... Scratched Emergencies: Offangone, Sweet Rita 9 3.30pm LIST WITH TEAM STURT @THE PROFESSIONALS R65 1400 $15,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 8x055 Mr Kanton tdmh (11) 59 .....L Magorrian (a3) 2 93139 King Panamera dm (7) 58 ....... R Smyth (a2) 3 031 Maestro Tom m (3) 58 ...................O Bosson 4 35818 Edward The Eighth 57.5............... Scratched 5 32133 Rivertaine Coup (9) 56.5 ................. C Grylls 6 0x08x Thats How We Roll (6) 55.5 ........ D Johnson 7 x7449 Just Ideal dm (12) 55 .................. C Dell (a1) 8 45170 Madison Ave tm (5) 55 ............S McKay (a4) 9 40064 Super Thunder d (13) 55 ............... R Norvall 10 97620 The Paperboy t (4) 55 ....... U Holmquist (a3)

11 30050 Artifact dm (8) 54.5 ................. P Turner (a1) 12 x8000 Raivac m (10) 54.5 .......................... R Myers 13 x8060 Dontdyewonderin tdh (2) 54 ......J Wong (a3) 14 16300 Prickley Princess tdm (1) 54 .....J Oliver (a3) 15 361P8 Istimagic 54 .................................. Scratched Emergency: Istimagic 10 4.05pm OHINEMUTU TAKEAWAYS FOR AWESOME BURGERS MDN 1950 $10,000, MDN, 1950m 1 73223 The Show b (4) 58.5 .....................O Bosson 2 295x4 Egg (19) 58.5 .................................... D Hain 3 98362 Jochen Rindt (3) 58.5...................... M Wenn 4 335 Well Related (6) 58.5 ...................... R Myers 5 684 Prize Lad (17) 58.5 ......................... C Grylls 6 78340 Tukawa (1) 58.5..................L Magorrian (a3) 7 0x94 Zee Ink h (2) 58.5.................... P Turner (a1) 8 x0465 Varro (12) 58.5 ........................ R Smyth (a2) 9 97083 Suggest Gold (15) 56.5 .............J Wong (a3) 10 x0304 Copper Queen (9) 56.5 ..... U Holmquist (a3) 11 64465 Lady Lindauer (8) 56.5 ..............J Oliver (a3) 12 8x005 Miss Grace (11) 56.5 .................. D Johnson 13 0x Deschanel (13) 56.5................... M Dee (a1) 14 657 Katy O’Beel b (10) 56.5................... N Harris 15 07950 Absolute Gem (7) 58.5 16 Kims Message 56.5 ..................... Scratched 17 7087 Nearly Grand (5) 58.5 18 00669 Lazarus (14) 58.5 19 90x07 Kashika (16) 56.5 .......................... R Norvall 20 86x08 Anuschka (18) 56.5 Emergencies: Absolute Gem, Kims Message, Nearly Grand, Lazarus, Kashika, Anuschka Blinkers on: April Joy (R3), Schrodingers Cat, Brondan (R7), Heart Of Darkness (R8), Zee Ink (R10) Blinkers off: Brave Buccaneer (R2), Wajima, Brandy (R4), Jack Flash (R6) Winkers off: Sweetazcuz (R2) Pacifiers on: Scrambler (R4), Jack Flash (R6)

3 87257 Indefinite Order nwtd............... T McCracken 8 37865 Chelsea’s Beauty 17.84 ............... T Downey 4 74431 Magic Arrow 30.77 .......................M Roberts 9 88518 Tasha Rama 18.11 ........................ M Gowan 5 64373 Jinja Pat 30.53 G & ...........................S Ross 10 63684 King’s Selection 18.01.............. S Gommans 6 31111 Moore Park Miss 30.25 .................... S Clark 6 1.32pm THE ROCK 92.2FM C1 C1, 305m 7 85675 Miss Selfies nwtd ......................J McInerney 1 65544 Kiribati Girl 17.90 ..................... S Gommans 8 F8256 Acapella nwtd....................................D Edlin 2 61485 Cosmic Sally 17.99 ...................J McInerney 9 788x8 Opawa Stu nwtd .......................S M Gardner 3 37468 Our Jack Attack nwtd .................... M Gowan 10 78676 Sarah Campbell 30.93 ................B Hodgson 4 52312 War On Terror 17.88.........................L Ahern 5 31333 Boston Strike 17.86 F & .................Turnwald 9 2.25pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD (NZ) LTD C1 HT 3 6 25645 Lemon Fish 18.07 .....................J McInerney C1q, 520m 7 71626 Five Kay Leg 18.08 ............................ N Udy 1 43344 Madam Ice 30.65 ........................J McArthur 8 17274 Crystal Ghost 17.82 ....................B Hodgson 2 76671 Minnie For Mum nwtd....................... S Clark 9 7848x Otewa Bella 18.20 ....................S M Gardner 3 77258 Working Jewel nwtd ...................... D Donlon 10 57464 All The Coco 17.98 G & .................. J Clarke 4 26333 Come On Mickey nwtd G & ............. J Clarke 7 1.49pm WANGANUI PUNTER OF THE YEAR 15TH 5 46464 Versatile Richie nwtd........................M Black 6 11121 Kilchurn 29.99 ............................ G Hodgson AUGUST C1 HT1 C1q, 520m 7 25465 Applause nwtd ........................ T McCracken 1 56774 Girl Pride nwtd ..................................D Edlin 8 65461 Te Maari Style 30.83 G & ..................S Ross 2 38253 Uno Charm 30.51.................... T McCracken 9 788x8 Opawa Stu nwtd .......................S M Gardner 3 45432 Kotumba nwtd L & .............................. Morris 4 56843 Jasper Haka 30.83 ....................J McInerney 10 44787 Another Fantasy 30.26 ..............J McInerney 5 11112 Trendy Boy 30.57 .............................L Ahern 10 2.43pm KEENAN CONCRETE C1 HT4 C1q, 520m 6 34227 That’s King 30.50 ........................B Hodgson 1 44266 Taikorea Lass nwtd ...................... T Downey 7 85358 Opawa Leanne nwtd ......................R Murray 2 53152 Thrilling Dylan 30.38 ............... T McCracken 8 31421 Atom Bomb nwtd.............................. S Clark 3 25665 Pats All Round nwtd ...................... J D Black 9 788x8 Opawa Stu nwtd .......................S M Gardner 4 23667 Working Working nwtd .................. D Donlon 10 58588 Belldeen 30.24 .........................A Duganzich 5 57876 Opawa Cuddles nwtd ......................S Maher 8 2.07pm WANGANUI CHRONICLE HT2 C1q, 520m 6 11625 Allegro Class nwtd ...........................L Ahern 1 88561 Billy Holmes 30.64 G & ................... J Clarke 7 41356 Auckland Vending 30.47 F & ..........Turnwald 2 55654 Darby Lane 30.67 L & ........................ Morris 8 3566F Gucci Rush 30.81 L & ........................ Morris

9 788x8 Opawa Stu nwtd .......................S M Gardner 10 75783 Rich List 30.41 ........................... B Johnston 11 3.00pm CHRISTMAS @ THE RACES 5,12 & 19 DECEMBER C1 C1, 305m 1 72331 Vicariously 18.31 B & ......................... Steele 2 27788 Monkey Queen 17.96 .........................W Kite 3 88212 Flutter Fly nwtd .................................. N Udy 4 58313 Otto Baxter 17.76 ......................J McInerney 5 45446 Belle Cadeau 18.07 ............................S Kite 6 15227 Runs For Gas 17.98 ................. S Gommans 7 17664 She Said Maybe 18.12 F & ............Turnwald 8 88523 Homebush Sarah 18.11 ............J McInerney 9 28662 Miss Softy 17.86 ..............................L Ahern 10 43785 Raveon 17.91 ................................ M Gowan 12 3.23pm BOOK YOUR FUNCTION @ HATRICK RACEWAY C1 C1, 305m 1 54225 Opehu Flyer 18.17 ...........................R Waite 2 67338 Riba Lorda 17.73 G & ..................... J Clarke 3 24743 Go Dolphin Power nwtd ................ J D Black 4 55156 Serve Ya Purpose 18.06..................... N Udy 5 78337 Homebush Barabas nwtd ..........J McInerney 6 34212 Allegro Master nwtd .........................L Ahern 7 11152 Manu Rama 17.70 P &.......................Doody 8 78621 Our Crown Jewel 18.29....................T Agent Emergencies: 9 36348 Black Magic Rock 17.88 G & ............. Denby 10 48285 Vinnie Baxter 18.25...................J McInerney

M2 Rotorua gallops Today at Rotorua Raceway

Racing Rotorua Venue: Rotorua Meeting Date: 30 Jul 2014 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 10.50am ROT & BOP HUNT CUP DAY-14 SEPT MAIDEN HURDLE $10,000, MDN HDL, 2800m 1 65P0P Applaud (3) 68 ................................ C Studd 2 27325 Yipson (11) 68 .................................M Gillies 3 04654 Tequila At Midnite (9) 68 ........D Miller (a1.5) 4 21x09 Boyszone m (5) 68 .....................N Quinn (3) 5 96490 Magna Carta m (8) 68 ....................... A Kuru 6 08x06 Mangaroa Hustler (12) 68 ..............S Phelan 7 44882 Mr Chez (10) 68 ........................... M Mitchell 8 20989 Russianov (6) 68 ...............................R Cully 9 50x00 Suntory (2) 68 ............................... E Farr (3) 10 0098L Varnish m (7) 68..................... M McNelis (3) 11 46490 West End m (1) 68 ....................... P Ormsby 12 x7668 Zarazen (4) 68.................................... A Tata 2 11.20am PHELAN RACING STABLES MAIDEN HURDLE $10,000, MDN HDL, 2800m 1 34858 Brave Buccaneer (3) 68 .............N Quinn (3) 2 73382 Noah Jon tm (1) 68 ...........................R Cully 3 90353 Isdabicky m (10) 68 ............................ A Tata 4 42P4P He’s Infrared (5) 68 ........................S Phelan 5 x2308 Il Poverino 68 ............................... Scratched 6 x0P77 Maharishi m (11) 68 ........................M Cropp 7 30967 Mutt Williams (8) 68 ...................... E Farr (3) 8 x0120 Sweetazcuz tmh (6) 68 ................ P Ormsby 9 0x Talos (4) 68 ..................................... C Studd 10 10285 Zankuro tm (7) 68 ........................ M Mitchell 11 x4665 Kick Back m (9) 66 ..........................M Gillies 12 07776 Golden Miss m (2) 66.............D Miller (a1.5) 3 11.55am ROTORUA CHRISTMAS RACES-BOOK NOW MAIDEN 2200 $10,000, MDN, 2200m

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23484 April Joy (10) 58.5 ............. U Holmquist (a3) 22626 The Arabian Duke 58.5 ................ Scratched 7082 Same As (3) 58.5 ....................... L Satherley 7x863 The Talisman h (2) 58.5 ................ R Norvall 7x56 Bad Taste (4) 58.5 ................... R Smyth (a2) 56 River Force (9) 58.5 .................... C Dell (a1) 00 Lover Boy (5) 58.5.......................T Thornton 0x00 Manoeuvre (8) 58.5............L Magorrian (a3) x8526 Chloe Keeper (6) 56.5 .............S McKay (a4) 6420 Smugglers Cove (7) 56.5 ....... K Chiong (a3) 069 Eva Quick Steph (13) 56.5 .........M Sweeney x0069 Izzanorange (11) 56.5 ..................... R Jones P8 Nells Belle (12) 56.5............ M Dravitzki (a1) 0x988 Ruapunawai (1) 56.5 ....................... M Wenn 4 12.30pm ATKINSON & DONALDSON PLUMBING 3YO MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 23732 Zahconi (11) 57.5 ......................J Wong (a3) 2 73 Lucky Boy (7) 57.5 .....................V Gatu (a3) 3 70x Wajima (5) 57.5 ........................K Leung (a2) 4 087x Scrambler (6) 57.5 .......................... R Myers 5 Smart Suggestion 57.5 ................ Scratched 6 7. The Canon (3) 57.5 .................... L Satherley 7 The Gin Keeper (1) 57.5 ...............O Bosson 8 96624 Flanders (9) 55.5.........................T Thornton 9 3368x Brandy (4) 55.5 ............................... C Grylls 10 330x7 Waipatiki Girl (2) 55.5.................. D Johnson 11 358x7 Polar Mist (8) 55.5 .....................J Oliver (a3) 12 578x0 Strike For Kash (10) 55.5 ................ R Jones 5 1.05pm KNOX ENGRAVERS ROTORUA MAIDEN 1200 $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 0400x Sir Blitzen 58.5 ............................. Scratched 2 Gotta Reprieve (2) 58.5............K Leung (a2) 3 Smart Suggestion (3) 58.5 .............. R Myers 4 744x0 Agostini (10) 56.5 ..........................O Bosson 5 07x43 Checkoutthemisses (4) 56.5L Magorrian (a3)

6 76753 Our Molly Malone (9) 56.5 ......S McKay (a4) 7 4 Deeligna (7) 56.5 ........................T Thornton 8 0x454 Della Lamour (6) 56.5 ................ L Satherley 9 5009x Oceania (1) 56.5 ......................... D Johnson 10 9. You Little Ripa (5) 56.5 ..............J Wong (a3) 11 68x Denial (12) 56.5 ...................... R Smyth (a2) 12 3x666 Rhythms Of Nature (8) 56.5 .......M Sweeney 13 60x Victoryshallbemine (11) 56.5 .......... C Grylls 6 1.40pm VILLAGE SPORTS BAR & CAFE NGONGOTAHA MDN 1400 $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 28223 Heart Of Grace (9) 58.5 ............. Z Moki (a4) 2 50x24 Apachee Taat b (8) 58.5 .... U Holmquist (a3) 3 8663x Malcolm (11) 58.5 ............................. D Hain 4 40x84 Rip City (3) 58.5 ............................ R Norvall 5 Enure (2) 58.5 ...............................O Bosson 6 Maranui (7) 58.5 .......................... D Johnson 7 50x76 Jack Flash (5) 58.5.....................M Sweeney 8 26752 Laugh (6) 56.5.............................T Thornton 9 0x305 Peria Princess (10) 56.5.................. R Jones 10 77785 Electric Fizz (1) 56.5 ...............S McKay (a4) 11 00x78 En’joyour Lindauer (4) 56.5 .......J Oliver (a3) 7 2.15pm VISTAMAX-LED SUPER SCREENS RATING 65 1400 $15,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 45x02 High Society t (6) 59 .................. L Satherley 2 32150 Holy Affair 59................................ Scratched 3 0215 Mihaia dm (1) 59 ......................... D Johnson 4 13456 Domarco t (13) 58.5 ......................O Bosson 5 x0402 Summer Dale (10) 58.................V Gatu (a3) 6 6157x Wairaka (9) 57.5......................S McKay (a4) 7 41 Ysabella Brave (5) 57.5..... U Holmquist (a3) 8 5x009 Kontiki (11) 56.5 ................................M Chui 9 0x033 Raisedinasandpit (3) 56 .................. R Myers 10 7x549 Schrodingers Cat m (12) 56 ............ C Grylls 11 50206 Sir Jack Remington 55.5 .............. Scratched 12 8x406 Manaia Rose (7) 55 ...................M Sweeney

M9 Wanganui dogs Today at Hatrick Raceway

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Race- 2 32783 Members Only nwtd .........................L Ahern way Meeting Date: 30 Jul 2014 NZ Meeting number: 9 3 75 Bigtime Flo nwtd B &.......................... Steele Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 4 76333 Miss Votchka nwtd B & ....................... Steele 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 5 Homebush Bounce nwtd ...........J McInerney 11 and 12 6 43725 Venga Guapa nwtd..........................M Olden 7 62834 Dark Faerytales nwtd ............... S Gommans 1 12.01pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C0 C0, 305m 8 3 Homebush Zane nwtd ...............J McInerney 1 Homebush Ariel nwtd ................J McInerney 9 67784 Portobello Patsy nwtd ......................R Waite 2 74637 Prancing Bee nwtd ...........................M Black 3 53x87 Ranger Chick nwtd ....................... D Craigen 10 66777 Addis Mate nwtd ............................... R Hunt 4 57 Homebush Spook nwtd .............J McInerney 4 12.57pm HARRISON HIRE MASTER C0 C0, 520m 1 47 Homebush Ramona nwtd .........J McInerney 5 656 Foxiarna nwtd B & .............................. Steele 2 46746 Working Poppy nwtd ..................... D Donlon 6 2F442 Fortis Memories nwtd..........................L Udy 3 64836 Goodtime Mike nwtd ............... T McCracken 7 5 Homebush Buck nwtd ...............J McInerney 4 54652 Big Job Jonesy nwtd ............J Woolston-Bell 8 84 Lil Miss Picky nwtd G & .....................S Ross 5 31 Here Without You nwtd ............... B Johnston 9 67685 Cool Gypsy nwtd ............................. L Wright 6 35737 Botany Liz nwtd.........................J McInerney 10 55788 Icahn nwtd...................................B Hodgson 7 Bolt Allegro nwtd ..............................L Ahern 2 12.20pm JP PRINT PETONE C0 C0, 520m 8 7F57x Rikki’s Rebel nwtd ............................R Waite 1 37648 Blu Desire nwtd ............................. J D Black 2 85662 Sheza Hum Dinga nwtd ............. G Holswich Emergencies: 9 77658 Sniff of Brandy nwtd .........................R Waite 3 67547 Little Prophet nwtd ...........................R Waite 4 Tepirita Mega nwtd F & ..................Turnwald 10 77888 Goldstar Frankie nwtd ...............J McInerney 5 22243 Weepu nwtd .....................................L Ahern 5 1.14pm WANGANUI SECURITY C1 C1, 305m 1 38775 Kezz 17.56 .............................. T McCracken 6 84632 Homebush Misha nwtd .............J McInerney 2 62476 Working Pizzaz 18.63 ................... D Donlon 7 6245 Bigtime Kaz nwtd .............................L Ahern 3 35326 Another Rule nwtd ....................J McInerney 8 87784 Effie Awards nwtd .....................J McInerney 4 57436 Groovy Leo 17.84 .....................J McInerney 9 88 Navajo Blue nwtd ........................ K Hanover 5 22266 Legerdemain 17.86 ..........................L Ahern 10 87888 Working Twinkle nwtd .................... D Donlon 6 35557 Boomerang Man 18.12 .............. B Johnston 3 12.39pm LIQUORLAND WANGANUI C0 C0, 305m 7 187 Boston Spirit 18.05 F & ..................Turnwald 1 25 Homebush Dawn nwtd ..............J McInerney

LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Adams sharing the wisdom

By Dana Johannsen

Hughes smashes 202 Phillip Hughes smacked an incredible double century in Australia A’s one-day clash with South Africa A in Darwin. Hughes’ push for a national recall gathered further momentum on Tuesday when he set a new Australian List A record, scoring an unbeaten 202 to better David Warner’s 197 for NSW last year. The 25-year-old needed a boundary off the final ball to reach 200. Hughes calmly lifted Hardus Viljoen’s delivery over the mid-wicket fence, powering his side to a total of 4-349 in the quadrangular series match. - AAP

Wristbands investigated England cricketer Moeen Ali could be facing disciplinary action after the International Cricket Council said they were investigating his decision to wear wristbands in support of Gaza during the third Test match against India on Monday. Ali wore wristbands that read “Save Gaza” and “Free Palestine” while batting during England’s first innings at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. “We’re investigating and will report in due course,” an ICC spokesman said. ICC regulations prohibit players from displaying political, religious or racial statements on their clothing and equipment while taking part in international matches.

- AFP

Sri Lankans go close Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has lavished praise on his ace spinners for nearly winning his team the second Test against South Africa with a lion-hearted effort. The hosts yesterday were agonisingly close to victory, having taken eight wickets in the second innings, but South Africa’s tailenders hung on to snatch a draw in the end. Leftarm spinner Rangana Herath was almost unplayable on a deceptively turning track at the SSC ground, conceding just 40 runs off 45 overs for five wickets.

- AFP All Blacks halfbacks Tawera Kerr-Barlow and Aaron Smith take on Steven Adams, New Zealand professional basketball player during a training clinic held at Trusts Stadium in Auckland yesterday.

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teachers and even coaches, sometimes they’re not as powerful as hearing them from your peers or athletes you admire.

“It’s extremely valuable for the athletes to hear what these guys are doing right now, in their sports, with their bodies and they’re doing pretty good.”

The academy had more than 250 applications, which signals the high standard of young

Kiwi athletes, said Tracey Evans, marketing manager, Stills at Coca-Cola Oceania.

“We had a huge response and the majority of applicants were regional or national representatives in their respective sport – so to have such a large number of young athletes competing at that level signals our sporting culture is alive and well.”

Adams is clearly a drawcard

with 71 young basketball players applying, and the next most popular sport is unsurprisingly rugby, with 54 applications.

Other represented sports ranged from athletics to swimming, but there were also some unique entries with our young people competing at a high level in archery, synchronised swimming, rodeo and even arm wrestling.

- NZH

US judge approves record Clippers sale A California judge has given the go-ahead to the $US2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team to former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, ruling that the club’s embattled owner Donald Sterling could not block the move.

The ruling from California

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Kiwi NBA star Steven Adams has taken a break from his offseason training with the Oklahoma City Thunder to help mentor some of New Zealand’s top young athletes.

Adams joined a group of All Blacks and their strength and conditioning trainer, Nic Gill, in Auckland yesterday to share his wisdom with 10 promising young athletes selected to be part of the Powerade Breakthrough Academy.

The 10 athletes selected come from around the country and have already shown potential in their given sport.

The academy has been created to foster this potential and encourage them to achieve great things in the sporting world.

Having only just turned 21 himself, many of the young sportspeople attending the session are around the same age and in some cases even older than Adams.

The towering 2.13m centre said he finds it strange to be seen as a role model and someone young athletes look to for advice.

“It is really weird, but most of the stuff I have to share with them is not things that I thought up myself - it’s stuff I picked up along the way from veterans and more experienced players that have given me their time and helped me out,” said Adams.

“I constantly ask questions of the veterans, so this is all their words really, I’m just the messenger boy.”

Adams, along with All Blacks Liam Messam, Aaron Smith, Julian Savea and Tawera KerrBarlow, will run through a daylong programme of intensive physical training and classroom sessions include goal setting, training techniques and nutrition, led by Gill.

Gill said the insights Adams and the All Black group have to share help reinforce the key messages of the programme.

“Hearing messages from

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Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas came at the end of a three-week trial pitting the 80-year-old Sterling - who is barred from the National Basketball Association for life for making racist remarks - against his estranged wife Shelly, who had made the deal with Ballmer.

Donald Sterling had challenged his wife’s authority to sell the NBA franchise.

Shelly Sterling had negotiated the deal on behalf of the Sterling family trust, after Donald Sterling’s position as co-trustee was terminated when two top medical experts declared him mentally

incompetent to handle trust affairs.

In April, recordings of Sterling making racist comments to his would-be girlfriend led NBA commissioner Adam Silver to ban him for life from the sport and launch proceedings to strip him of the team.

- AFP

Re-think for Mercedes Mercedes are to review their team orders policy after Monday’s Hungarian Grand Prix with team chief Niki Lauda backing Lewis Hamilton for ignoring instructions to allow teammate Nico Rosberg to over-take.

Hamilton went on to finish third and trim Rosberg’s lead from 14 points to 11 in a race won by Australian Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull. Rosberg, who started on pole and had a different strategy, was a fuming fourth.

Ac-cording to Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, they can both expect to be disturbed during the sport’s August break by calls to discuss a new protocol for managing their duel for the drivers’ crown.

- AFP

Helping to celebrate A few of Daniel Ricciardo’s mates from Australia picked a “bloody good weekend” to visit him on a Formula One track. The group dropped in to watch the 25-yearold win the Hungarian Grand Prix in stunning fashion - his second victory in as many months - during their travels around Europe. “It was really cool for them to see what I do,” said Ricciardo, who left his hometown of Perth in 2007 to move to Italy and pursue his motorsport career.

- AAP

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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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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.

PMR are pleased to announce that they are now able to supply total dairy feed systems through our supplier GSI into both rotary and herringbone dairy complexes.

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The range of products include bulk storage silos, hopper bottom silos, roller mills, flex flo coreless augers and grain augers.

WAKELY ROLLER MILLS PMR are pleased to be able to supply the Wakely Roller Mill. Wakely Engineering have been manufacturing Roller Mills for the last 30 years and manufacture mills from 1.5tph through to 30tph plus.

The manager 027 201 5924 Roofing Labourer required, immediate start.

Take advantage of this excellent career opportunity for the right person.

Full drivers license essential.

Contact Wiki on 027 476 0203.

Start date September 1, 2014

Duties to include • Bobcat operator and labourer.

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GSI SILOS Flat bottomed or hopper. 10 tonnes to 10,000 tonnes. Can be fitted with stirrers and unload systems.

Dairy Feed Systems now available.

We seek two exceptional colleagues to join our wonderful family of boys, staff and parents, who have high expectations and a real commitment to making a difference.

If you want to teach in a growing school with small class sizes, a full 1-1 iPad programme, an Inquiry Learning model of curriculum delivery and a wide variety of sporting and extra-curricular activities then we would like to hear from you.

Letters of application (please identify your preferred teaching levels and areas of strength), CV and the names of two referees to the Headmaster.

Position 1 is to begin Term 4 2014.

Position 2 is to begin Term 1 2015 Applications close Friday, August 8 For an application package please contact the Headmaster’s PA Rachael Proudfoot rp@waihi.school.nz 03 687 8071

Boiler Operator 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.

Bobcat Operator Required

Midland Spreaders Ltd Truck driver required to service the Mid Canterbury area.

Good rates of pay.

For more information phone

Waihi is an Independent day and boarding school for boys in Years 4-8. We are located rurally in beautiful South Canterbury.

Attractive working conditions and remuneration.

Accommodation on site may be available for successful candidates if required.

Arable Farm Vacancy

FEED SYSTEMS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH PMR

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It would be desirable for you to hold a 'Level 2 National Certificate – Boiler Operation' and have experience in the operation of boilers and associated equipment.

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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

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Drivers needed Baler/Mower/Rake Drivers required for up and coming season.

Will include work on 220 hectare cropping farm in the Rakaia area, plus other cultivating and drilling contracting work.

Please phone Murray Hood 0274-066-332 or 302-7143

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NOTICE TO PINE BLOCK OWNERS Zindia Ltd, well known forestry exporting company is pleased to announce its presence in the whole Canterbury region.

We wish to purchase pine stumpage to amalgamate and export through Port Lyttleton.

All other facilities are arranged.

Stumpage contracts available upon request.

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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.

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The Annual Public Meeting of the Ashburton Trust will be held in the Gallery Room at the Hotel Ashburton, Racecourse Road, Ashburton on

Thursday, August 7 at 5.30pm Agenda: 1. Welcome 2. Apologies 3. Confirmation of Minutes from meeting held 13 August 2013 4. Presentation of 2013/14 Annual Report of the Ashburton Trust Consolidated Group 5. General Business Chief Executive Giles Beal

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TREES WANTED - Mid Canterbury area for milling and firewood. shelter belts are speciality. No obligation quote. Phone 021 935 628.

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SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING. Professional window tinting for cars, homes & offices. Quality films for privacy, UV (fading), heat, safety & security. Phone Craig Rogers your ONLY local applicator 307 6347 or 0800TINTER. Member of Master Tinters NZ.

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LUCERNE hay for sale. Good BEAUTIFUL new selection of quality. Ph 027 473 3010. artificial flowers. Now in store at The China Shop. Brighten up your home, office, PERSONAL waiting/board room with these SOMEONE FOR life like flowers and foliage.

We have a fantastic selection EVERYONE Wherever you live, whatever of colours. You will find us in The Arcade. you do, Success Network knows someone who is CONTAINERS for sale or perfect for you! Over 20 years hire, ex shipping: general and of matchmaking experience insulated. Sidelifter available delivery. means we are the experts at for Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone turning singles into couples. 308-7772.

Call today and get in touch with your ideal partner as FOR SALE - Firewood, Dry Old Man Pine $180, 3.6m3 soon as tonight! (cord). Phone 027 371 8880.

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We also sell pet food. Call WINTER SKIN hydration with Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 love from Linden Leaves and 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

The China Shop. Free body oil will Miraculous facial oil purchase. Exclusive limited MOTORING WHEEL alignments at great offer while stocks last. This is prices. Maximise the life a beautiful New Zealand of your tyres with an made product. We are on alignment from Neumanns Burnett Street.

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Daily Events Wednesday 9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time round op shop. Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

10.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

Thursday 9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON. Great fun, everyone welcome. Racquets can be hired. Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Large variety of toys for hire. Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Goodwill shop, sale of pre-loved clothing.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises, ideal for users of mobility aids. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

10.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, upstairs. All welcome.

254 Cameron Street.

1.15pm TINWALD “500” CARDS. Come and play cards, all welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

1.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre, all welcome. Waireka Croquet club, The Domain, Philip Street.

7.00pm

GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing, Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

7.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women walking group. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS.

Learn to line dance 7pm, beginner/ intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Instructor Annette 307-7138a/h. Tinwald hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, music, fitness and fun. Buffalo Lodge Hall, Cox Street.

Tinwald Methodist Church. Cnr Archibald and Jane Streets, Tinwald.

9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time round op shop. Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit kidz, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture

Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

10.30am RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. Real women circuit training in the hall, St Andrews Church, Bridge Street, Rakaia.

1.00pm SCOTTISH SOCIETY INDOOR BOWLS. Bowls afternoon, all players welcome.

Balmoral hall, Cameron Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - no counting, beginners welcome.

Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street, the Domain.

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

2.00pm R.S.A. WOMENS SECTION. Meeting at the R.S.A. Cox Street.

7.00pm BARING SQUARE METHODIST CHURCH. Community consultation - use of premises.

Church lounge, Baring Square East.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time / sequence dancing. Learn to dance, all welcome. Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

Noticeboard

30 JULY 2014

LAST WEEK TO REGISTER YOUR DOGS TIme is running out to register your dog this year and to help make this easier and quicker for dog owners, Council is encouraging re-registrations using its pay it online service.

All dogs over 3 months of age are required to be registered with the Council, including all farm dogs.

Alternatively, you can register your dogs by filling in and returning the registration form mailed to you at the beginning of July or by going into the Council offices.

Please note that if there are changes to your dog’s registration this year (e.g. a change of address), you can only pay it in person at the Council offices.

To learn more, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

YOUTH COUNCIL SURVEY

RURAL FIRE AGM

The Ashburton District Youth Council would like to know what 14-24 year olds see as priorities for the district. A survey asking young people for feedback on ideas generated at a Youth Week event is now live. The short survey gives youth an opportunity to have their voice heard and to win free movie passes!

Annual General Meetings of the volunteer rural fire forces in Ashburton District will take place between August until September 2014.

For a full list of rural fire AGM meetings, visit www. ashburtondc.govt.nz

TENDER

COMMUNIT Y GR ANTS Council is now accepting applications for financial assistance for the following grant schemes: •

Community Grants

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School Holiday Grants

$50,000 is available for distribution to community groups through the Community Grants Scheme and $5,000 for the School Holiday programme grant Scheme.

All applications close 5.00pm, Friday 29 August 2014.

Application forms and full criteria for each scheme are available from the Council’s website www.ashburtondc. govt.nz and from the Council office.

WEBSITE Find out what’s happening at your local council on the Ashburton District Council website. It’s easy to use and has all the information you need about the services that the Council offers you.

Visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

Meetings Council Thursday 7 August 2014, 1.30pm Methven Community Board Monday 18 August 2014, 1.30pm Environmental Services Committee Thursday 21 August 2014, 1.30pm

C630 Roadside Drainage Improvements Ashburton District 2014/15 To learn more, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/youth

Up & Coming

Tenders are invited for roadside drainage improvements to 33 kilometres of rural roads at 19 sites in the Ashburton District. The work comprises the excavation of swale drains and the removal of high shoulders.

Tender documents are available from the Ashburton District Council, P O Box 94, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton - Phone 307 7700, Fax 308 1836. All inquiries should be directed to Gavin Green, Contracts Engineer -Rural.

Tenders close with the Chief Executive, Ashburton District Council, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton, at 4.00pm Tuesday 19 August 2014.

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Service Delivery Committee To follow Environmental Services Meeting

Career Opportunities Aquatic Supervisor Sports Facility Assistant Manager

Grants Applications are open for the following schemes: Heritage Grants Community Grants School Holiday Grants

NEIL McCANN Group Manager Service Delivery

KEEPING THINGS HUMMING Council provides a 24-hour call centre service 307 7700.

You can also request service through our website. Click the green “Request It” tab on our front page.

Urgent requests for service are given a priority response.

Non-essential requests are normally responded to on the next working day. We are working to keep our district humming.

Tenders Maintenance of Pavement Markings 2014/15 Mill Creek Bank Stabilisation 2014/15 C630 Roadside Drainage Improvements 2014/15 For more information, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

HOURS OF SERVICE COUNCIL OFFICE 5 Baring Square West

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY 180 Havelock Street

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Monday - Wednesday 8.30am - 5.00pm Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm

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13. Crumpled rag finishes with a double, but not all at once (7) 14. Told how one had blood ties (7) 16. A pointer from Fletcher (5) 18. Boot stiffeners for which wood can’t be seen, they say (5) 20. Among Poles, ring for a boy (3) 21. Because it’s in favour! (3)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) You’re nearing a major turning point in your professional year, with the focus shifting from focusing on the big picture to the more practical steps.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) During Mercury’s final days in your communication sector it’s all about making sure lines are open across the board.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Next month you could have a problem with work/ life balance issues so there’s a need to heed any advance warnings or clues.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) The Moon and Mercury are working together to create auspicious days for ensuring the communication lines are open and authentic.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) While it will be another 3 weeks before new doors open on the income front, a nose for money will see you picking up on this already.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) What you have today is a chance to get a jump on your new solar year before it begins, with your instincts giving you a glimpse of things to come.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) When life gets so noisy or busy that you need to put out the ‘do not disturb’ sign. Smart time management should make it possible.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Knowing you have until next October to work with the professional gods takes away the pressure of having to succeed at first try.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) The Moon’s last visit before new career doors open next month makes it important to trust what your gut and professional instincts are telling you.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) You’re likely to find that it’s harder to hold onto things or to create challenges where there are none, making it harder to sweat the small stuff.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) The Moon’s monthly visit to your financial sector is a chance to listen to your financial instincts and gain some valuable clues, hunches and insights.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) Pay attention to any emotional responses to relationship matters and especially when this reveals conflicts with your own needs and authenticity.

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Guardian

Family Notices 26 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

MCROBB, Helen Sibylla – On July 29, 2014 at Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton. Two weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Dearly loved wife of the late George.

Loved mum and mother in law of Alastair and Suzanne (Wellington), and Anne and Ian (Tauranga). Loved gran of Alyssa, Callum, and Brenna; Lorimer, Cameron, Mckeller, Tui, Malcolm, and great gran of her six great grandchildren.

Loved sister and sister in law of Maurice and Eleanor Fittock (both deceased).

Messages to P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A service to celebrate Helen’s life will be held at Our Chapel, Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, August 1, commencing at 2.00pm.

Followed by private cremation at Ashburton Crematorium.

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FZL: Rising to 2600m

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Showers becoming isolated, southerlies dying out.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 10.9 14.7 Max to 4pm 8.7 Minimum 1.6 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm July to date 35.8 Avg Jul to date 53 2014 to date 509.4 397 Avg year to date Wind km/h S6 At 4pm Strongest gust N 31 Time of gust 4:57am

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Rain near the divide with heavy falls possible, scattered rain further east. Snow level lifting to 2200 metres. Wind at 1000m: NW gale 70 km/h. Wind at 2000m: NW rising to severe gale 120 km/h.

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am The Chase 3 0 11am The Renovation Game Simon O’Brien is with the team in Burgess Hill, where they make over a large family home.

Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Pete worries Ross will get him into trouble; Brenda cannot help but show her envy; Moira is sad. 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 2pm Four Weddings PGR 0 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 6:55 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 7am Fish Hooks 3 0 7:25 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 7:50 Transformers Prime 3 0 8:15 Dinosaur Train 3 0 8:30 Fireman Sam 3 0 8:40 Mike The Knight 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Baby Daddy PGR 3 0 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Hot In Cleveland 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 2pm Jeremy Kyle USA AO 3pm According To Jim 3 0 3:28 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:30 Robot And Monster 3 0 4pm Jessie 0 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Highway Cops PGR Flattery 7:30 My Kitchen Rules PGR 0 will get you everywhere, 9pm The Big Bang Theory PGR 3 except out of a ticket in Levin; 0 drunk and angry in Motueka; 9:25 F 2 Broke Girls PGR some people will do anything When Caroline discovers Max for a cold beer. 0 failed to graduate from high school by failing to show up 8pm Fair Go 0 for an exam, she decides to 8:30 Britain’s Biggest Hoarders help her get her degree, and PGR 0 reconnect with her mother. 0 9:40 Nashville PGR 0 10:35 One News Tonight 0 9:55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine PGR 0 10:25 Supernatural 0

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 11:25 The Nanny PGR 3 0 Noon 3 News 12:30 Dr Phil AO A couple seek advice for their relationship after accusations of infidelity have led to arguments and violent behaviour in front of their daughter.

1:30 The Dr Oz Show PGR US television weatherman Sam Champion discuses his hypertension diagnosis; Dr Oz discusses Vitamin D levels.

2:30 Rachael Ray Bobby Flay prepares tarragon chicken; Rachael makes cider-brined pork chops.

3:30 The Queen Latifah Show 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:25 Million Dollar Minute 6pm 3 News 7pm Campbell Live 7:30 N Prison Families PGR 0 8pm N Family Secret PGR A First World War bagpiper’s great nephew, a soldier, seeks to find his great uncle’s lost pipes. 0 8:30 3rd Degree 0 9:30 Stacey Dooley Investigates… Booze, Bar Crawls and Bulgaria 0 10:30 The Paul Henry Show

11:05 Dallas AO 0 Midnight Person Of Interest 3 0 12:55 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:20 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11pm NCIS AO 3 The search for a missing Marine officer who vanished after a bombing in Afghanistan continues. 0 Midnight Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 The Home Show 7:30 Celebrity DIY With Craig Phillips 8am Untamed Asia 8:30 Hairy Bikers’ Mississippi Adventure 9:30 Better Homes And Gardens 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Auction Hunters Noon My Dream Home 1pm Nick Knowles’ Original Features 2pm The Home Show 3pm Celebrity DIY With Craig Phillips 3:30 Untamed Asia 4pm Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 4:30 The Cook And The Chef 5pm The Wow Factor 5:30 Candice Tells All 6pm Catch And Cook – World 6:30 Room Crashers 7pm American Restoration 7:30 Natural World – Shark Coast 8:40 IFish 9:15 Fishing Expedition – Amazonia 9:40 Rodeo – Life On The Circuit PGR 10:30 American Restoration 11pm The Wow Factor

THURSDAY

Midnight Room Crashers 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Celebrity DIY With Craig Phillips 1:30 Untamed Asia 2am Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 2:30 The Cook And The Chef 3am Catch And Cook – World 3:30 Bucket Wish 4am Natural World – Shark Coast 5am IFish 5:30 Fishing Expedition – Amazonia

11:20 Happily Divorced PGR 3 11:50 $#*! My Dad Says 3 0 12:15 20/20 3 0 1:10 Infomercials 2:10 Gossip Girl PGR 3 0 3am Pretty Little Liars 3 0 3:50 Bethenny 3 4:35 The 4:30 Show 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Max Steel 3 7:55 The Wild Thornberrys 3 8:20 Chuggington 3 8:30 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 8:45 Peppa Pig 3 8:55 The Moe Show 0 9:05 Bob The Builder 3 9:15 Thomas And Friends 3 9:25 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 9:35 Barney And Friends 3 10am Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:30 Four Live 6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 0 6:30 Just Shoot Me! 3 0 7pm The Simpsons 3 0 7:30 Face Off PGR The remaining artists explore abandoned tunnels to find inspiration for the humanoid underground monsters they must create.

8:30 Last Resort AO Chaplin attempts to surrender the Colorado; Kylie and Admiral Shepard target the president.

9:25 Burn Notice AO 10:20 Breakout Kings AO 3 0 11:20 Entertainment Tonight 11:45 Infomercials

PRIME

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6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) Canadian Open – Round Four.

7am The Golf Fix 8am Golf – The Haney Project Michael Phelps.

9am Golf – Feherty 10am Golf Central 10:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Titans v Eels.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 1pm AFL Weekly (Highlights) 2pm #SkyRugby – Breakdown 2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Semi-final One – Crusaders v Sharks.

3pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Semi-final Two – Waratahs v Brumbies.

5pm Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Bulldogs v Cowboys.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7pm Fox Sports News 7:30 MythBusters PGR 8pm The Crowd Goes Wild 8:30 Under the Dome AO Barbie 8:30 NRL Fulltime All the action risks his life to help Rebecca from the latest round of the save the Chester’s Mill food NRL Premiership. supply when she discovers an 9pm Golf Central infestation of butterfly eggs 9:28 Golf World on the town’s crops.

9:58 L Cricket – 9:30 Ready, Set, Glasgow International 10pm Commonwealth Games – England v India – Third Test, Gymnastics Artistic men’s Day Four. Coverage of the and women’s finals. morning session from The Rose Bowl in Southampton.

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

9:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR A talk show focusing on tough medical questions in an open forum.

1pm The Test PGR Celebrities and viewers answer moral questions.

1:55 MythBusters PGR 3 A vintage car, some reverse engineering, and a bizarre race; Kari, Tory, and Grant hit the freeway with a surfboard.

3pm Harry’s Practice 3 3:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm Glasgow 2014 Highlights The latest news and results from day six.

12:30 Commonwealth Games – Netball New Zealand v Jamaica.

2:30 Commonwealth Games – Women’s Hockey New Zealand v Canada.

4:30 Commonwealth Games – Gymnastics Men’s artistic team finals.

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Korero Mai 3 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Dora Maataatoa 4pm SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga o te Motu

THE BOX 6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Parking Wars PGL 7:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 8:05 Survivor – Marquesas PG 8:55 Criminal Intent MV 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 NCIS PGV 11:25 America’s Funniest Home Videos 11:50 Pawn Stars PG 12:15 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 1:05 Criminal Intent MV 1:55 Law And Order MV 2:45 Survivor – Marquesas PG 3:35 Raw MC 6:35 The Simpsons PG 7pm Parking Wars PGL 7:30 NCIS PGV 8:30 NCIS – LA MV 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 NCIS PGV

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12:30 Survivor – Marquesas PG 1:25 Law And Order MV 2:15 SVU MV 3:05 NCIS – LA MV 3:55 Hawaii Five-0 MV 4:45 Most Shocking M 5:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG

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12:05 Fox Sports News 12:35 L Cricket – International England v India – Third Test, Day Four. Coverage of the afternoon session from The Rose Bowl in Southampton.

5:30 Fox Sports News

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Ako 2 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 #Hakanation 8pm Whaikorero PGR Pou Temara, Erima Henare, Anaru Martin and Paraone Gloyne look at how to deliver a whaikorero.

8:30 Kowhao Rau 9:30 Te Tepu 2 10pm Te Kauta PGR 10:30 Native Affairs 3 11:30 Te Kaea 3 2 Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Kings PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Man v Wild PG Urban Survivor.

8:30 MythBusters PG Curving Bullets.

9:30 Aeroplane Repo PG 10:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 11:30 Evil Kin M 12:30 Beauty Queen Murders M 1:30 Deadline – Crime With Tamron Hall M 2:30 Sons Of Guns M 3:30 Alaskan Bush People M Fight or Flight.

4:30 Gold Rush PG Man On Wire.

5:30 MythBusters PG Thermite Ice. 6:30 Ice Cold Gold PG The Rise and Fall of the Ruby Empire.

7:30 Deadliest Catch – The Bait PG 8:30 Deadliest Catch PG Careful What You Wish For. 10:30 Rods N’ Wheels PG Hollywood Hot Rod. 11:30 Diabolical M Shattered.

THURSDAY

12:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M 1am Deadly Affairs M 2am Dirty Jobs PG Plumber.

3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Extreme Forensics M 5am Dirty Jobs PG

2 Broke Girls

9:25pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:35 Now You See Me MVLS 2013 Thriller. Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo.

8:30 Skid Marks 16LSC 2008 Comedy. Tyler Poelle, Dianna Argon.

9:55 The Making Of Tower Heist PG 10:20 The Babymakers 16LS 2012 Comedy. Paul Schneider.

11:55 Inescapable 16VL 2012 Thriller.

Marisa Tomei, Joshua Jackson.

1:30 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 Comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill.

3:15 Now You See Me MVLS 2013 Thriller. Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo.

5:10 Stash House 16V 2012 Thriller.

Dolph Lundgren, Sean Faris.

6:50 A Good Day To Die Hard MVL 2013 Action. Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney.

8:30 Red 2 MVL 2013 Action.

Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren.

10:30 Kath And Kimderella PGLS 2012 Comedy. Jane Turner, Gina Riley.

11:55 The East MVS 2013 Thriller.

Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard.

THURSDAY

1:50 Stash House 16V 2012 Thriller.

3:30 A Good Day To Die Hard MVL 2013 Action. Bruce Willis.

5:05 Red 2 MVL 2013 Action.

Million Dollar Minute 5:25pm on TV3

MOVIES GREATS 6:25 Serendipity PGS 2001 Romantic Comedy. John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale.

7:55 The Directors – Adrian Lyne PG 8:25 There Will Be Blood MV 2007 Drama. Daniel Day-Lewis.

11am The Three Musketeers MV 2011 Adventure. Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen.

12:50 Borat 16LS 2006 Comedy.

Sacha Baron Cohen.

2:15 Man On Fire 16V 2004 Crime.

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning.

4:40 300 16V 2006 Action.

Gerard Butler, Lena Headey.

6:35 The Heartbreak Kid 16LS 2007 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan.

8:30 Chicago MV 2002 Musical.

Renee Zellweger, Catherine ZetaJones, Richard Gere.

10:25 Blood Work MVL 2002 Thriller. Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston.

THURSDAY

12:15 Unfaithful 16VS 2002 Drama.

Diane Lane, Richard Gere.

2:20 Man On Fire 16V 2004 Crime.

Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning.

4:45 300 16V 2006 Action.

Gerard Butler, Lena Headey.

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6am Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series (Highlights) Indiana 250. From Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.

7am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (Highlights) Brickyard 400. From Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis.

8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Motorsport – FIA Formula One Championship (Highlights) 9am Rugby League – 40/20 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 10am Fox Sports News 10:30 Sky Sports News UK 11am UFC Now Noon Fox Sports News 12:30 Sky Sports News UK 1pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 2pm Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) 2:30 Fight Night Gennady Golovkin v Daniel Geale.

4:30 Cycling – UCI BMX World Championships (Highlights) 5pm Cycling – Tour de France (Highlights) Week Three.

5:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 6pm Ironman Cairns (Highlights) 7pm Rugby – First XV Championship (Replay) De La Salle College v St Kentigern College.

From Auckland.

9pm #SkySpeed 9:30 NRL 360 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 11pm Fight Night

THURSDAY

1:30 Arena Access 2am Fight Night Gennady Golovkin v Daniel Geale.

4am Rugby League – NSW Cup (Replay) Warriors v Manly.

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Jack Busch: Aim in rugby is simple - to be an All Black.

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Jack’s a try-scoring machine

BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Jack Busch might be only nine, but he’s making records in the tough world of rugby.

This season, the Allenton under 9 player smashed his own – and probably most other youngsters’ records – scoring a massive 111 tries for the season.

His record for one game this year, was 13.

And that tally probably could have been higher dad Ben said, but Jack was keen to share the try scoring around, often passing to his mates when the try line was in sight.

Jack’s modest about his achievement.

“The first year I got 97 and last year I got 98, so it’s pretty good,” he said.

He stepped out on the field as a six-year-old after a couple of seasons at football.

Now he admits rugby is his number one love.

Ask him who his rugby idol is and he doesn’t have to think – Richie McCaw. “I’ve got a Crusaders’ top signed by him and I met him at their training grounds,” he said.

Ask him what is rugby goal is and again he doesn’t have to think – he wants to be an All Black.

“My grandad’s got a signed All Black jersey,” he said.

Jack’s a back, and while kick-

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The first year I got 97 and last year I got 98, so it’s pretty good

ing for goal is not part of his age group games yet, he’s eyeing up a place as goal kicker in the future.

This year’s season is over, with his huge try tally amassed over just 13 games.

For Jack that means he now transfers his sporting allegiance to other pursuits like cross-coun-

try, slow pitch and basketball.

Summer won’t see him forgetting about rugby though, he’ll be using that time to develop his general skills and to practise his goal kicking.

While it’s fun scoring tries, Jack said the great thing about rugby is playing with his mates.

It’s good being part of a team,

he said. “It was good last year, because I got one of my friends from school to play and now he’s in my team.”

Dad Ben is the team coach and admits he’s proud of Jack’s efforts, but said he’s also proud of the way his son is just as happy to pass the ball as he is to score the tries himself.

Like all dads, he’s hoping Jack has a good rugby future.

“He’s got a good rugby brain, so he’s not just strong and fast,” he said.

Last year Jack received Allenton’s overall JAB player of the season for players from teams from under 14 and a half down to under sixes.

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