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Death still a mystery

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Police hope a cellphone will hold clues to the mystery death of an Ashburton man who drowned in a swampy industrial run-off area on West Street.

Police said yesterday there was no evidence of suspicious circumstances in the death of 34-year-old AJ Gairns, information which may help stop rumours circulating in Ashburton.

Detective senior sergeant Marion Neill said police were aware of speculation over Mr Gairns’ death, and some 12 police staff were working on the investigation.

“The investigation team is focused on establishing Mr Gairns’ movements and how he came to be in the area where he was found,” Ms Neill said.

Police are hoping Mr Gairns’ cellphone, which specialist search staff found yesterday in the drainage runoff area, would provide some clues.

“Today they have located his cellphone, which we expect will be helpful in providing further information on the events leading up to his death,” Ms Neill said yesterday.

“At this stage we are satisfied that drowning is the cause of death, and there is no evidence of suspicious circumstances. However we are continuing our investigation of behalf of the

coroner. We have released the scene.”

As part of their inquiries, police were speaking to friends and associates of the deceased, and wanted any witnesses who may have been in the area during the early hours of Saturday morning to contact Ashburton police on 307-8400 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Mr Gairns’ body was released to his family yesterday, and police and Victim Support were providing assistance to bereaved members. The Guardian understands his body was found before 5pm on Sunday by a group of residents walking through the industrial area accessway. Mr Gairns had gone missing around 3am on Saturday, after popping out to see a friend, but did not make it there and never returned home.

Mr Gairns is a former Ashburton College student who qualified as a welder. One of his former school mates said he had been “a nice joker” who liked to party hard and play hard, and would be very much missed.

“Everyone knows him for his big smile, his cheeky smile, and just being cheeky, but in a good way. He could have no money, no job, but still smiling and see the positive about everything.”

Mr Gairns’ funeral will be at the Paterson’s Funeral Services chapel on Friday at 1.30pm.

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Ozzy Osbourne talks memory loss Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne’s short term memory has been damaged by his past alcohol and drug dependencies. The legendary rocker has always been open about the battles he’s faced and when a fan quizzed him on writing his autobiography Ozzy wasn’t shy about admitting he struggled to recollect certain times. “I can remember the 80s vividly. I think my shortterm memory is damaged from all the years of abuse. I don’t know what I did four seconds ago but I can remember clearly things that happened when I was a kid,” Osbourne told British music magazine Q. His autobiography I Am Ozzy was released in 2010 and records the Black Sabbath star’s meteoric rise to fame, as well as the downside to being in the public eye. “The 80s was a fabulous decade. I remember thinking ‘Wow, this is great. This is going to last forever.’ I don’t really remember the 90s. I don’t know why. My drug addiction and alcohol addiction were absolutely fierce then,” he explained.

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Thieves steal $15,000 worth of Lego Detectives are piecing together how $15,000 ($NZ16,400) worth of Lego was stolen from a Victorian toy store. In two separate heists burglars forced their way into a Seymour toy store by removing a glass sliding door. Police say “a large amount” of Lego, worth approximately $10,000 ($NZ10,960), was stolen during the first robbery between May 24 and May 26. Lego brands City and Technic valued at $5000 ($NZ5480) were snatched during the second break-in on Monday night.

Urban addresses rumours Keith Urban has addressed rumours about a rift between him and Nicole Kidman for the first time, saying it’s “pointless” trying to quash speculation the marriage is on the rocks. Rumours have surfaced that the high-profile couple are leading separate lives, fuelled last month when Kidman arrived alone at Cannes for the premiere of Grace of Monaco while Urban was in the US for American Idol. But Urban has told a special country edition of Rolling Stone that defending rumours of a split isn’t worth his or Kidman’s time. “The people who really know us are most aghast by the whole thing,” he said. “(They say), ‘How do you not want to defend that?’“ “I’m like, ‘It’s pointless.’ Our life will be our way of defending it.” The two don’t go more than five days without seeing each other, and Skype and talk numerous times a day, he said.

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Back in time Today, 95 years ago, on June 4 1919, the Ashburton Guardian commemorated the death of a legendary moggy.

“A cat which died recently at Messrs Robey’s engineering works, Lincoln, is said to have killed 1033 rats during the seven years she lived in the foundry.

In attacking her 1034th rat she was severely bitten, and blood-poisoning caused her death.”

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Pandas to predict scores A crack team of baby pandas in China will be used to predict scores at the World Cup in Brazil, according to reports, in a homegrown answer to former soccer soothsayer Paul the Octopus. The cuddly creatures will predict match winners by picking food from a choice of baskets and climbing trees at China’s flagship panda breeding base in the southwestern province of Sichuan, it was reported yesterday. During the group stages, pandas aged one to two will select food from three bamboo baskets representing a win, loss or draw, Xinhua said. For the knock-out rounds, the animals will select winners by climbing trees marked with the flags of competing nations. They will have to go a long way to beat Paul, who successfully predicted the outcome of eight matches by choosing a mussel or oyster from one of two boxes bearing the flags of competing nations.

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■ RAKAIA FATALITIES

Deaths bring back memories

By Myles HuMe

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Feelings of loss and devastation have come back to haunt Diana Poriomaka after a Dutch tourist was charged over a triple fatality close to the scene where she lost her mother.

When news reached Ms Poriomaka this week that three people died in a car crash, alleged to have been caused by tourist Johannes Jacobus Appelman when he ran a stop sign near Rakaia, she felt the void left by her Ashburton mother Marae Judy Dean.

She died in similar circumstances last November when Indian tourist Gaurav Bhabhera crossed the centre line and collided with the car she was in north of Rakaia while on route to Christchurch to pick up a passport for a relative to attend a funeral in Rarotonga.

“We carry on with life as best we can, I’ve just recently gone back to work so I can help pay for her unveiling later this year, but every now and again she just pops into my head and I have a wee cry – I don’t know if we will ever get over it.”

Mr Bhabhera also died in the crash but the “double tragedy” is one Ms Poriomaka believes may have been avoided if tourists were forced to undergo testing before embarking on New Zealand roads.

It is a message resounding throughout the country this week, as Appelman, 52, was yesterday remanded on bail in Christchurch District Court

for the crash at the Thompsons Track and Somerton Road intersection near Rakaia on Saturday.

He appeared before a registrar with his arm in a sling, but entered no plea on three charges of careless driving causing death and one of careless driving causing injury.

Sally Summerfield and her daughter Ella, 12, died in the crash, along with Abigail Hone, also 12.

Ms Poriomaka said she recently signed the petition of Geraldine nine-year-old Sean Roberts, who is seeking law reform on foreign drivers after his father was killed by an overseas student in 2012.

“I think there should be some sort of testing regime, New Zealand’s roads are windy compared with other countries and not always the easiest to drive, if they are not familiar with them then we need to make sure they are ready in some way,” she said.

Why Mr Bhabhera veered on to the wrong lane is still unknown, making it that much harder for Ms Poriomaka. She holds no anger towards the tourist and his surviving wife who also lost a loved one in the crash.

Appelman will reappear on July 10, at which point he will instruct top defence lawyer Phil Shamy.

Meanwhile, memorials have been set up at schools attended by the two 12-year-olds, with school friends leaving flowers and messages for the girls.

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The scene of the SH1 crash which claimed the life of Marae Judy Dean last year.

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Driver tests would impact tourism

By Myles HuMe

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Forcing tourists to undergo a driving test would have a major impact on one of New Zealand’s most profitable industries, Mid Canterbury’s tourism boss says.

Experience Mid Canterbury general manager Nigel Birt was speaking after renewed calls this week to test foreign drivers before they drive on New Zealand roads. Four fatalities at Queen’s Birthday involved foreign drivers.

Mr Birt said foreign driver education was increasing for tourists preparing for New Zealand, but introducing a testing system would be costly and even detrimental to tourism.

Prime Minister John Key pointed to statistics showing tourists had a similar accident rate per capita than Kiwis, indicating there was no need for change.

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He was not aware of Kiwi travellers having to undergo testing when they went overseas. New Zealand is also part of a United Nations treaty in 1949 that allows Kiwis to drive in other countries.

“Imagine landing in New Zealand and the first thing you have to do is pass a test, we have a lot of tourists landing in the middle of the night too.”

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■ LOCAL DANCERS

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Highland outing lands clutch of trophies A group of 17 Mid Canterbury dancers travelled to Dunedin over the Queen’s Birthday weekend to compete across all age groups against 120 other New Zealand but mostly South Island dancers.

Ashburton dancers gained a number of placings right across the board but also had a handful of outstanding dancers.

Newcomer five-year-old Chloe Graham won the six and under fling and was third in the six and under jig. She was awarded the Peterson Shield for the five-year-old having the highest aggregate mark in the fling. Oskar Trafford competed in the eight to 10 section and was awarded two cups for the boy with the highest aggregate over a number of classes.

Charlotte Sloper was outstanding in the ten to 12 age group where she won four dances and was awarded cups for the most points as well as two cups for individual dances. Charlotte also competed in the under 14 age group and received the runner up cup in this age group.

Following closely behind was Lucy Moore who received the runner-up cup in the ten to 12 age group. In the open age group Sarah was named runner up and won the sailors horn pipe.

Pentecost celebration Mid Canterbury churches will join together on Sunday to celebrate Pentecost. The annual event will see members of each of the districts church communities together for a special service to celebrate the birth of church.

Catholics, Methodists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Salvation Army, Baptists, New Life, Assembly of God, Evangelical Presbyterian will all be involved. The evening service will include a dancer, special music and supper. It will be held at St Andrews Church, on Havelock Street. It starts at 7pm.

Fire calls The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade attended a minor noseto-tail crash at the State Highway 1 and Johnstone Street intersection about 8.45am yesterday. No one was injured in the crash. Meanwhile the Methven brigade were alerted to a mobile property fire on Rakaia Barhill Methven Road about 7am.

Domestic disputes Ashburton police attended three domestic related incidents during Queen’s Birthday weekend.

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Ashburton highland dancers (from left) Oskar Trafford, Charlotte Sloper, Lucy Moore, Chloe Graham and Sarah Gluyas performed well at the Highland Dancing and Piping Competition in Dunedin at the weekend.

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■ RAKAIA FATALITIES

Schools set up memorials

By ReBecca Quilliam Memorials have been set up at schools attended by two 12-year-old friends killed in a horrific weekend road crash, with school friends leaving flowers and messages for the girls.

Abigail Hone, her friend Ella Summerfield and Ella’s mother Sally, 49, died in the crash at Rakaia, 67km southwest of Christchurch, on Saturday.

Mrs Summerfield’s husband Shane, who was driving, was seriously injured and was in a serious but stable condition at Christchurch Hospital.

Dutch tourist Johannes Jacobus Appelman, 52, has been charged in relation to the crash.

Gillian Simpson, principal of St Margaret’s College, where Ella attended, said a number of students and parents came to school early yesterday morning to visit a memorial set up for her.

“We’ve set up in the chapel a photograph of Sally and Ella and two candles and flowers and a book for the girls to write in,” she said.

The book would be gifted to the Summerfields at the end of the week.

Ms Simpson said everyone who spoke about Ella talked about her “amazing smile”.

She was a keen netballer as well as in-

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terested in the arts _ “she was an absolute all-rounder”, she said.

Both the girls had attended Sumner School as primary students, and acting principal Paul Wilkinson said a memorial had been made around a tree with flowers and messages. “(The students) have been doing a beauti-

ful job supporting each other,” he said.

“It’s been a day of looking after each other and they’ve been doing it beautifully.”

A Ministry of Education Trauma Incident Team will also be working with staff and pupils at the school.

St Margaret’s and Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, where Abigail went, declined the team’s help, as they had support services in place, said Katrina Casey, Ministry head of enablement and support sector.

The two member team would stay at Sumner School for as long as they were needed to help their pupils work through what had happened, she said.

Wyn Mossman, a co-director with Mr Summerfield of Ferrymead Dental Clinic, said the community had rallied around the family.

“There’s a roster of mums who are cooking for the family and they are on a roster every day and that will happen for months.”

Hone family spokesman Darren Wright said they were trying to work through “what is an incredibly devastating time for them”.

“They continue to say they feel no malice towards the other driver.”

The Summerfield family, from Sumner in Christchurch, were taking Abigail with them to the Ohau ski area for the long weekend when the crash occurred.

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Prime Minister John Key has announced a $1 million package for tourism in Samoa on his Pacific Mission. Mr Key said it would help upgrade a number of visitor attractions in the country, which gets almost a quarter of its GDP from tourism. New Zealand’s aid would also help Samoa’s recovery from Cyclone Evan in 2012.

“They’ve had both the cyclone and the tsunami so this is really just rebuilding work after the cyclone that took place in 2012,” Mr Key said. Mr Key met yesterday with Sheree Stehlin, a Samoan business woman who was the PM’s Fellow in 2013. They had breakfast at one of her cafes in Apia.

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Drive-by shooting Police are still searching for those responsible for a drive-by shooting which targeted a Waipukurau home on Saturday. A family of three adults and two children were home when two bullets were fired about 6.30pm. They have since moved out of the Racecourse Road address. Police believe the shooting may have been gang related and wanted to hear from anyone who may have seen a car leaving the area at speed.

Car stolen A man who was undergoing treatment at Buller Hospital on Saturday night after being assaulted at a party in Westport, had another stroke of bad luck when he emerged from hospital to find his car had been stolen. The 22-year-old suffered facial injuries in the assault in Derby Street.

His car was found the next day, abandoned at Westport cemetery.

Prisoner on run A prisoner has been missing from Otago Corrections Facility since 4.15pm yesterday. Stephen Uriah Maddren is described as a male caucasian, 25 years, 171 cm tall with mullet-type brown or black shoulder length hair and no teeth.

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Vintage beauties survive chill factor

BY TONI WILLIAMS

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Four members of the Ashburton Vintage Car Club of New Zealand took their pre-1932 vintage cars off-road at the weekend, joining hundreds of other car enthusiasts on the Irishman Rally down in the Mackenzie district.

Ashburtonians Donald Williamson, Bruce McIlroy, David Oakley and Struan Moore drove their vintage beauties into the wintry conditions of the rugged Mackenzie high country and off

well off the beaten track.

Mr Williamson drove a 1930 Chevrolet Roadster, Mr McIlroy a 1928 Ford Model A, Mr Oakley a 1927 Overland Whippet and Mr Moore a 1928 Singer Porlock.

It was the 60th anniversary event run by the Canterbury Vintage Car Club of New Zealand and it was often slow going in the old vehicles. They covered steep climbs, farm tracks and gravel roads - each year the rally covered a different route.

Mr Oakley said there were 330 people in attendance, driving 151 vintage cars.

Along the route, they were privileged to visit Mount Cook Station and Irishman’s Creek Station, not often open to the public.

“We were very, very lucky. It was a remarkable privilege,” he said.

The weather played its part with heavy frosts causing some frozen radiators, but even some radiators drained at night froze from the wind-chill factor.

Mr Oakley said there were one or two

with minor breakdowns, but the Ashburton contingent performed well.

“It was the largest number ever been on an Irishman Rally, and it was probably on of the best Irishman Rallies I’ve ever been on,” Mr Oakley said.

“The weather and the locations we went to, everything seemed to conspire to make it a brilliant rally.”

Mr Oakley said Ford Model As were the most common vehicles on the rally, the most unusual was a 1930 Hotchkiss and the oldest a 1917 Buick.

■ POLICE TECHNOLOGY

Police phones feed video live About 9000 police iPhones nationwide can now beam live video feeds directly into national police headquarters in Wellington, as part of a new centralised command centre that was unveiled yesterday.

But Police Commissioner Mike Bush is downplaying any Big Brother implications, saying he had full confidence that police would not abuse the legal framework around lawful surveillance.

Mr Bush and Police Minister Anne Tolley formally opened the National Command and Co-ordination Centre (NCCC) with bold claims that it will increase crime prevention and help towards the police goal of reducing all crime by 15 per cent.

The centre has already been operative for the royal visit by Prince William, his wife Kate and their son Prince George in April, and the national recall of all psychoactive substances last month.

The centre has large computer monitors that feature live feeds of the 30,000 calls to police communications centres per day, and a corresponding geo-spatial map showing where police resources are deployed in every district.

Mr Bush said it enabled police to monitor blackspots for car accidents, burglaries, areas where high-priority victims live, and hotspots that show, for example, a spate of car thefts. National headquarters could then decide to employ a more visible police presence in those areas to increase prevention.

The centre also keeps track of national events such as the current Junior Rugby World Championship, the upcoming Cricket World Cup, or next year’s Junior U-20 FIFA World Cup. Mr Bush also showcased a new capability where frontline staff use their iPhones as cameras, feeding live video into the NCCC. - APNZ

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■ MOA BONES

Illegal digging could be costly People illegally digging at an ancient moa bone site at Awamoa Creek, south of Oamaru, could find it very costly.

The coastal site, believed to date to the mid-1300s, was used by Maori to butcher and cook the flightless birds.

It is now being threatened by coastal erosion and has been excavated twice since October to retrieve material, including moa bones, before they are being lost.

Department of Conservation technical adviser Shar Briden said yesterday a person or persons had dug pits at the site looking for material.

“Local people are now keeping a very close watch on it to catch whoever is doing it,” she said.

Ms Briden pointed out the site was to prepare and cook moa, so was unlikely to contain artefacts such as adzes or greenstone.

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■ GOLD GUITAR AWARDS

Win helps push for first album

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Ashburton singer Cam Luxton was happy to lose a bet he made at the New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards at the weekend.

That was because he was betting on someone else taking out the senior overall winner title, but he ended up winning it himself.

The 19-year-old had bet $100 with a friend that fellow competitor Lesley Nia Nia would be chosen by judges as the senior overall winner, knowing she had won a wide range of categories at the awards.

Cam had won the male vocal solo section with the song Disappointing You, but did not think that would be enough to be named the overall winner.

When his name was read out, he knew that he had lost the $100, but the honour of winning and the $3500 prize money more than made up for it. He will put the money towards creation of his first album of songs including originals, which he

is currently putting together.

“It was a pretty good feeling, I didn’t think I was going to win, so it was even better,” Mr Luxton said.

“It was pretty awesome.”

The win tops off a successful year for the Ashburton apprentice electrician, who is the stepson of Kiwi icon Lynda Topp. He was among three Kiwi nominees for the 2014 New Zealand Horizon Award which offers the winner a trip to Nashville.

Mr Luxton will later this year tour with the Topp Twins on their Grand Ole Toppry show around New Zealand, performing with Phil Doublet. And as he prepares to record his album, he is hoping Mid Cantabrians might support the project via a pledgeme.co.nz page he is constructing this week.

Meanwhile, fellow Mid Cantabrian Ocean Waitokia won the open yodelling at the Gold Guitars, as well as other awards including first in busking open section and audience favourite.

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Departing Rakaia doctor Robert Wolf will soon return to the United States after 11 months in the town. .

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‘The best year of my life’

By Toni Williams

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Departing Rakaia doctor Robert Wolf cites his time in the district as the best year of his personal and professional life.

Dr Wolf is due to leave the position next week as he returns to America.

Dr Wolf was at the Rakaia Medical Centre for 11 months.

He commuted to work from Christchurch.

Rakaia had similar traits to his solo practice in America which was within a cropping community and he had learned “an awful lot” about dairy farm-

ing, sheep farming and meat cutting from his patients.

“It’s quite comical,” he said, as most patients assumed he understood their industry.

He had no idea.

But the diverse community had given him a lot of insight into the lives of others – it was a mix of cultures, in a range of ages in “a very fulfilling role”.

And as the closest doctor to Mid Canterbury’s only legal synthetic cannabis shop, Dr Wolf saw a few who had gone through life changing effects as users.

However the positive expe-

riences of his time in Rakaia outweighed any negatives and Dr Wolf was honoured to have experienced them.

“It’s a fantastic experience, dealing with naught to 90s, from birth to death.

“It’s very nice, not the most financially rewarding but really nice on a personal level.”

He said being invited into the most intimate time in people’s lives was “an honour”.

“It’s been a big personal and professional year, one of the best years of my life, I am truly sad to see it come to an end,” Dr Wolf said.

He arrived in New Zealand to accompany his wife, Rachel Davidson, a professor at Canterbury University while she studied earthquake risk mitigation in the build environment for a year. She was on sabbatical from her fulltime position.

They have two children, aged eight and five.

Dr Wolf jokes he was the “trailing spouse” to New Zealand but said his time at Rakaia and in Canterbury had been the best year of his life.

Dr Wolf will show his replacement the ropes, before his final day on June 13.

■ SHARK SIGHTING

Shark’s Hauraki Gulf visit no fishy tale

By TEuila FuaTai Three Auckland fishermen chanced upon a great white shark during a day in the Hauraki Gulf over the long weekend.

West Auckland resident Steve Robertson, 39, was fishing off the coast of Tiritiri Matangi island with his two brothers Brett and Paul when a shark took an interest in their boat.

The shark, measuring about 2.5m, swam around Mr Robertson’s 7.2m boat Reel Obsession for about 15 minutes and took a particular liking to the propeller.

“The shark just turned up and swam around the back of the boat,” he said.

“It kept swimming through the berley trail and then coming up against the back of the boat and having a bit of a go at the propeller.

“It put its nose up on the back of the platform, just on the back of the boat at one point as well.”

Mr Robertson has been fishing for about 25 years and said he’d never seen a shark “that size” come up close.

“We do a lot of fishing. To have it 100 metres out from Tiritiri Matangi’s wharf, where

the ferry goes, and in 20 metres of water in a gulf was just amazing.”

It swam off once it lost interest, he said.

“We were a little bit more cautious than we usually would be when leaning over and washing your hands in the water after baiting your hook _ we certainly weren’t doing that.”

Department of Conservation marine scientist Clinton Duffy confirmed from Mr Robertson’s photo the shark was a juvenile great white.

A video taken by Mr Robertson showing it swimming around the berley trail was

“very typical”, Mr Duffy said.

“The shark has simply followed the scent to its sources and is investigating the boat to see where the smell is coming from and if there is anything edible there.”

Interest in the outboard motor, which was removed from the water by Mr Robertson after the shark kept nudging it, was also not unusual, Mr Duffy said.

“Once at the boat, sharks of all species can be strongly attracted to outboard motors and anodes attached to the hull by the weak electric field these generate in saltwater.” - APNZ

Southern health board members will consider a request for $1.75 million to fix the leaking clinical services building at Dunedin Hospital when they meet in Dunedin tomorrow.

Windows would be sealed up in the proposed repairs, because replacing them is too costly.

Patients were at risk of surgery delays when the building leaked, a staff report to members says.

Wet corridors in an already cramped theatre suite was another concern.

Repairs worth about $78,000 were already under way.

Board members would consider the request for “up to $1.75 million” once the public are excluded from the meeting.

Last month board chairman Joe Butterfield advised the bill for repairing leaks would be at least $1 million.

The building was nearing the end of its economic life; the repairs would allow its use for up to a decade, the report for tomorrow’s meeting said.

Exterior windows could not be fixed, and would be sealed completely from the outside.

“The clinical services building exterior windows are constructed of a special aluminium extrusion which was manufactured especially for the clinical services building project in the 1950s.

“These windows are beyond their usable life and there are no parts or retrofits available.”

Replacing them was too expensive, given the expected lifespan of the building.

It was believed that most, if not all, of the windows could be sealed. Air conditioning meant there was little need to open them anyway.

“There remains some risk of leaks with [this option] and the option of a hybrid solution with some full replacement will be made available to the contractors once closer inspection is possible.”

Scaffolding the entire face of the building would be required.

Scaffolding and window sealing would go out to tender, but staff are seeking permission to bypass competitive tender to award the roofing contract.

The favoured supplier was a specialised roofing contractor with an excellent reputation, the report said.

- APNZ

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■ HAKATERE MARAE

New meeting house blends old with new Health Hakatere Marae’s new Wharenui (meeting house) will be a blend of traditional and modern as the building takes on the frontage of a traditional marae, supported by its modern steel framework.

Smith and Sons workers continued yesterday putting together the building framework seen clearly from State Highway 1 at Fairton. It is expected the roof will go on shortly.

The original Hakatere Marae building was destroyed by fire in 2003.

Since then Marae members have fundraised to get money to continue the rebuild. Along with funding from Community Trust Mid-South Canterbury and Lottery Grants, the group has also been supported with time provided by Ashburton District Council and Safer Ashburton personnel.

The current building - Te Hapai O - was built as the dining area. It stands alongside the ablution block.

The dining area had been used as the makeshift meeting house

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and once the new build was completed the dining area and meeting house (called Te Amorangi) would be connected through the

central ablution block.

The official opening of the building was likely to be next year.

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A new health clinic opened at the Hakatere Marae aims to ease doctor shortage for newcomers to the district.

Dr Charlotte Cox will be at the clinic between 9am-12pm on Fridays.

Marae spokesperson Janet Benfell said the clinic had been set up for people who haven’t been able to register with a GP in town. This particularly applied to newcomers to Mid Canterbury.

There is no need for an appointment, anyone can come along,” Mrs Benfell said.

“Its all very low key, there are no formalities required.”

The service also aims to assist people with the process of registering with a doctor.

The service has been running for three weeks now, in the former dining room at the marae.

The Hakatere Marae is on State Highway 1, opposite the turnoff to Fairton.

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We are reviewing Canterbury’s Air Plan and we want your feedback.

Environment Canterbury is responsible for managing the region’s air quality and our aim is clean, healthy air. Poor air quality has a significant effect on our health, our well-being and how we feel about where we live.

Canterbury has had an Air Plan since 2002 and it sets out the activities we have agreed can and cannot be done. Many people and businesses have played their part and the number of high pollution days across our cities and towns has dropped. But we still have more to do to meet the national health standards set by the Government.

We have learnt a lot since the plan was put in place – what has worked and what is important to the community. We have also done research to better understand issues like rural burning.

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A tale of two cities: $1m v $71k

By AlAnAh EriksEn A two-bedroom home with its original 1950s bathroom and kitchen and not in one of Auckland’s hottest suburbs has sold for $1.08 million.

That compares with a home that was larger, newer, on a bigger section and closer to the CBD in Gisborne, which sold for just $71,000.

That’s a $1,009,000 difference in price and a Gisborne real estate agent says the cheaper investment will see a rental return that is “way ahead” of what the Auckland market is seeing.

The Auckland home, at 1 Miro Rd, Greenlane – about 7.6km from the city centre – sold for $450,000 above its valuation of $630,000.

The brick and tile house is just 91sq m but sits on a 607sq m section.

“It was just the section they were buying really, the section values are shooting up,” said Barfoot & Thompson agent Scott Haydon. It was his big-

1 Miro Rd, Greenlane, Auckland (left) and 14 Cambridge Tce, Gisborne (right).

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gest sale in the area for a home outside of the zone for any of Auckland’s grammar schools.

He had expected it to sell for closer to $900,000.

“It was a bit of a shock, to be honest.”

The owner had lived at the home for 40 years and had moved to a rest home in Rotorua to be close to her daughter.

Mr Haydon said the new owner had not yet decided what he wanted to do with the house – renovate or build again.

The three-bedroom, one-

bathroom Gisborne house, at 14 Cambridge Tce in the suburb of Kaiti – about 2.9km from the centre of town – had a value of $114,000 and sold for $43,000 less than that. It sits on a 673sq m section.

The 1969 ex-state house had been rented for $200 a week for the past 10 years to the same tenant and was bought by an investor from Nelson.

Bayleys Gisborne manager Karen Raureti said: “On those figures, [it] generates an annual return of 14.6 per cent

– that’s more than three times the current 12-month deposit rates with the big banks, where you’re lucky to get 4.5 per cent interest.”

She said the sale was far from an anomaly. “We’ve seen a lot of 10 per cent-plus rental yields coming through for residential investment stock selling over the past year.”

There have been homes that have sold much more cheaply in recent years, but they are usually remote and dilapidated.

An ANZ report this year identified New Zealand’s “hottest” residential investment locations.

Top of the list – with a rental return of 8.3 per cent – was the Dunedin suburb of Forbury, followed by South Dunedin with a yield of 8.2 per cent.

At the bottom was the Auckland coastal suburb of Castor Bay, delivering a 2.7 per cent return from rents, followed by neighbouring Devonport, where investors could expect rental returns of 2.8 per cent.

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State houses in pricey suburbs sit empty

By MorgAn TAiT State-owned houses in some of Auckland’s most expensive suburbs have been left unoccupied and “deteriorating” for up to 18 months.

Neighbours of the derelict buildings contacted the NZ Herald following a story about the country’s most expensive state house, 38 Takitimu St in Orakei, which has sat empty since September, 2012.

The Crown said a sales deal was being negotiated but Housing Minister Nick Smith said it was “too slow” and had requested a report from staff.

In Ponsonby, where the average

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house value is just over $1.2 million, 51 Norfolk St has sat empty for nearly a year. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom 1910 weatherboard house has a land area of 303sq m.

Its 2011 capital valuation is $810,000.

Norfolk St resident Paul Patton said neighbours could not understand why the house was left unoccupied and uncared for.

“It is a perfectly good home and no one seems to live in it,” he said.

Mr Patton said the lawns were overgrown and a picket fence and gate had recently been removed leaving the 51 Norfolk St in Ponsonby has sat empty for nearPhoto NZ herald property looking “pillaged”. - APNZ ly a year.

A man accused of murdering Wanganui man Whetu Hansen has pleaded not guilty. The accused, 56, who has interim name suppression, appeared in the High Court at Wellington yesterday via audio-visual link from Palmerston North. Justice Robert Dobson remanded the man in custody and ordered him to reappear on August 4 for a case review hearing, where name suppression would be reviewed. Mr Hansen, 48, was last seen on November 24 last year.

After an extensive search lasting several weeks, police found his car at a property in Linton. Police are still looking for the body of Mr Hansen and his dog Henry. - APNZ

Child hit by car A child hit by a car in Mount Maunganui has been taken to Tauranga Hospital. Emergency services were called at 3.20pm yesterday to Maranui Road. Police northern communications centre Inspector Ian Brooker confirmed a 7-year-old child had been hit by a car but was not seriously injured.

It was not clear if the incident happened on a driveway or on the road, Mr Brooker said.

- APNZ

Museum fire CCTV footage of a fire at the Waikato Museum which burned carvings and part of a 200-yearold waka showed it started when rags of linseed oil spontaneously combusted. There had been three fires in the Waikato started by the same cause in the past year and the region’s area commander says not many people are aware of the dangers of not storing the rags properly. The fire started at 8.22pm on Sunday near the 30m-long waka Te Winika, and the flames were extinguished within four minutes of the smoke alarm being activated.

- APNZ

Car fire shocks tourist A French tourist got a shock when a vehicle he bought erupted into flames while he was out sightseeing in Northland. The incident happened about 4pm on Thursday on top of Radar Hill, between Matauri Bay and Tauranga Bay. Kaeo fire chief Lindsay Murray said the man sought help from owners of a nearby house. - APNZ

■ HAYDEN MILES MURDER

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The man who murdered and cut up Christchurch schoolboy Hayden Miles has lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Gavin Gosnell was found guilty of Hayden’s murder after a trial in the High Court at Christchurch last year.

He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum nonparole period of 18 years.

Gosnell, 29, appealed against his conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal on a number of grounds,

including that he wanted to give evidence but felt pressured at the last minute not to and that the prosecutor’s emphasis on Hayden’s dismemberment had an insurmountable prejudicial effect.

In its decision, the Court of Appeal said Gosnell’s lawyer Craig Ruane handled a difficult trial with commendable professionalism and did not believe Gosnell was pressured not to give evidence. It also found that while the evidence about Hayden’s dismemberment

was shocking, the Crown did not make more of it than was fair.

Gosnell admitted killing Hayden, 15, after a prolonged assault at a Cashel St flat on August 22, 2011.

Gosnell then cut the schoolboy into 12 pieces with a $20 jigsaw. He dumped the remains in two city graveyards and buried the organs in the backyard.

He denied murderous intent at his trial and asked to be convicted of manslaughter.

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Scammers target social media By nicholaS JoneS Kiwis are being urged to think twice before clicking on a Facebook friend’s new video, as fraudsters increasingly target victims over social media.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has issued advice on online scams as part of Fraud Awareness Week. It says there has been a rise in scams on social media such as Facebook, with many succeeding after people trust updates from online friends.

This year Kiwis have reported losing close to $3 million to an array of scams.

Sean Lyons, NetSafe’s chief technology officer, said social media scammers worked on the assumption people were more trusting of content delivered through a friend’s profile.

“The art of the scammer [is] about convincing people of the validity of what’s being offered. What they are now doing is using what feels like, to the target, a more genuine recommendation.”

A wide array target Facebook users, including the increasingly common problem of “clickjacking”.

This is a technique to trick users into clicking on links or buttons that are hidden from view – a security weakness in web browsers can allow pages to be

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layered and hidden. As a result, people can think they are clicking on the play button on a video posted by a friend, but they are really clicking on a hidden link.

They are then often redirected to other pages which ask for personal information, sometimes in the form of a “competition”. The scam can expose victims to malicious software and use their profile to spread the scam.

According to NetSafe, Facebook users should beware of suspect or “goofy” posts from anyone.

If a video looks like something someone would not normally post, people should not click on it. A suspicious post could be a sign their Facebook account has been hijacked.

Another way to minimise risk is to stay current on browser updates.

Another threat is versions of phishing scams, where criminals steal personal information or trick people into giving it. On Facebook, phishers can use status postings and Facebook messages from friends’ accounts (which they have hacked).

They also send messages or emails pretending to be a popular app like Farmville or Mafia Wars.

Consumer Affairs urges people to report scams to scamwatch.govt.nz.

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Todds of Ashburton re-opened yesterday after a small ceiling fire forced a temporary closure of the upmarket fashion retailer on Saturday.

Head of department women’s fashion Melany Sandys said she arrived at work on the Saturday, about 10 minutes before the store was to open at 10am.

She turned on lights and undertook a couple of jobs before noticing black smoke near the ceiling above the store’s front doors.

She and another staff member who had arrived by that time exited the building and dialled 111.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade members were quickly on the scene, and removed ceiling boards to reveal a smoul-

dering area underneath.

It was quickly extinguished, but the store closed for the day as staff notified the owners, who were away at the time, and cleared the building of smoke.

There had been just a small amount of smoke, and no stock had been damaged, Ms Sandys said.

She and her colleagues were yesterday pleased to re-open to the public on the first weekday after the long weekend, and relieved it had not been worse.

“The fire brigade were so good, they were awesome at letting me know what to do next and who to get hold of,” Ms Sandys said.

“I was just grateful that it wasn’t worse, it could’ve been a whole lot worse,” said head of department men’s Rachelle Sowman.

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OUR VIEW

All drivers need to take care Coen Lammers EDITOR

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he tragic death of three people on a Mid Canterbury road has sparked a nationwide debate over tourists’ driving skills.

Two crashes over the long weekend were caused by visitors from abroad, claiming four lives in Rakaia and the Coromandel.

These days, accidents are not allowed to be just that, but have to be analysed, justified and remedied.

In this case, an emotional groundswell of anger has taken aim at all foreign drivers, not just the two that caused this weekend’s tragedies.

Judging by some comments, our road toll can be improved significantly if we just sort out those horrible foreign drivers.

Thankfully our Prime Minister John Key has urged for calm and against a knee-jerk reaction.

As he pointed out, only two per cent of crashes in New Zealand are caused by tourists so clamping down on their driving skills may not be the silver bullet to fix our road toll.

Of course, we can do with a few more arrows on the road to keep those who normally do not drive on the left hand side, on the correct side of the road.

Another suggestion to test how tired drivers are after a longhaul flight, before they drive away their rental car, also has merits.

However, trying to get tens of thousands of tourists to sit a drivers’ test before they set off on New Zealand roads seems absurd and totally impracticable.

Sadly on Saturday, the Dutch tourist seems to have missed the stop sign, a devastating human error, and a special driver’s test or better signage is unlikely to have made any difference.

Stop signs look the same in the Netherlands, which is also one of the toughest places in the world to get a driver’s licence after months of instructor lessons and rigorous testing.

New Zealand drivers in fact have one of the poorest driving records in the developed world, so before we start blaming every tourist for our poor road toll, let’s have a good look in the mirror.

YOUR VIEW Conflict Email Now that the anonymous emailer has been revealed as Don McLeod, Councillor McLeod claims that “there was no conspiracy to stop someone from taking part”.

Come on Don McLeod; how stupid do you think that we really are. You did it at the 11th hour to prevent any chance of checking out the legalities to allow Alasdair Urquhart to vote and when everyone in town was asking who was the phantom emailer, you didn’t have the decency to come forward. You knew full well what the results of the vote would be by removing Alasdair Urquhart’s vote.

I feel that now that he has shown how low he will stoop to get what he wants he should stand down from council. Is this the same Don McLeod who wanted to be our Mayor?

Dianne Rawlinson, I hope that you do decide to stand for council because we need you there and there is a seat waiting for you in the council chambers.

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wo weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending some time at the New Zealand tourism industry’s most important international trade event, TRENZ, where leading tourism operators and international tourism buyers come together each year to network and do business.

The teams from Experience Mid Canterbury, Hotel Ashburton and Mount Hutt Marketing Group were all present; showcasing the best our district has to offer and selling travel packages.

Buyers at TRENZ are looking for tourism products such as hotels, attractions, activities and tours that they can sell to consumers in their home countries.

Tourism brings millions of dollars into Ashburton district each year and last year the figure was well in excess of $100 million. This serves to not only keep our overall economy resilient; it also acts

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as a support industry for our key economic driver – farming.

Interestingly, international visitors make up around 40 percent of total visitor night stays here at present, with Australia representing the most guest night stays and visitor spend.

The UK comes in second however China is expected to take this position soon based on future flight capacities into Christchurch airport.

We are lucky to live in a region with such naturally beautiful surroundings that draws people from all over the world but at the same time a lot of hard work has gone into creating a tourist industry that is

suited to, and takes advantage of, these stunning surroundings. Methven, for example, used to predominantly be a farm supply town but is now also a bustling ski resort in the winter months thanks to people in the district’s vision, determination and sheer hard work.

For tourism to continue to be a success in Mid Canterbury, it is essential that we maintain high standards of service.

Visitors expect a certain standard and judge us by how we do or do not deliver. Whether it is running a café, jet boating business or a B&B, each local tourist operator plays a part in the overall experience visitors have when they come to Mid Canterbury.

I think we would all agree we want visitors to have the kind of really positive experience in Mid Canterbury that sees them return and recommend it to others too.

As was highlighted in our tourism packages at TRENZ,

the skiing, hot air ballooning, high country activities, fishing, golf, hiking, white water rafting, mountain biking and jet boating we have in Mid Canterbury are arguably some of the best in New Zealand - not to mention our range of accommodation.

And in Ashburton itself, our new EA Networks Centre and Art Gallery and Heritage Centre will soon serve to enhance visitors’ experience too. The fact that all these things are within a relatively short distance of each other is another big drawcard.

It is easy to take our beautiful lakes, rivers and mountains and all that they offer for granted when you live here but I think we all need to make the time to get out there and enjoy what is right on our doorstep. Be proud to live in a place with a backdrop as alluring as the Alps and make sure you are tourism champions for our district.

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Sandstorm kills at least four A massive sandstorm and record winds have killed at least four people in Tehran, plunging the Iranian capital into darkness, knocking out power supplies, damaging buildings and causing massive disruption.

The freak weather struck at 5.10pm, sending residents dashing for cover as debris swept across streets and snapped trees yesterday.

State media reported 110 kilometre per hour winds.

Forecasters on state television initially warned Tehranis to stay indoors, shortly before the ISNA news agency said the fatalities were caused by falling trees.

Amin Sabernia, Iran’s chief emergency official, announced the deaths and said at least 27 people were injured, 10 of them in a road accident when the gloom suddenly descended.

State television later reported that two people injured in the storm were in critical condition.

Almost 7000 emergency workers were deployed within

A flash dust storm hits the Iranian capital.

the hour, city officials said, and Ahad Vazifeh, in charge of government weather forecasts, cautioned of bad weather until tomorrow.

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in the capital’s central business district to escape the gales said seconds after the storm hit.

A man inside the same building said: “I’ve never seen anything like this. I was afraid it was an omen of things to come.”

Residents of earthquakeprone Iran usually make such comments when they fear a strong tremor is imminent.

After a 15-minute period of gloom caused by the sandstorm began to lift, rains arrived with winds remaining strong.

Pictures posted on social media showed a giant sand cloud approaching the city, before it turned dark and the outside temperature plunged from 33°C to 18°C. An electricity official quoted by the ISNA news agency said power had been lost in at least 50,000 homes.

Flights out of Tehran were delayed, Fars news agency said, quoting airport officials.

Internet and telephone services were heavily affected, with lines going down before returning intermittently.

About 90 minutes after the initial storm, the winds appeared to ease and more cars were seen on the streets, although many people opted for caution, staying on in office buildings.

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■ ENGLAND

Jury told Harris, daughter lied Rolf Harris and his daughter Bindi have both been accused of lying to the jury in the entertainer’s child sex abuse trial which has taken a dramatic turn with new evidence coming to light.

Video has emerged of the star at a charity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978 less than a week after Harris insisted he’d never been to the city until three or four years ago.

The 84-year-old is charged with groping a teenage girl in Cambridge in the mid-1970s.

The jury yesterday was shown footage of the Australian participating in Star Games at Jesus Green in Cambridge in 1978.

Harris was captain of the Theatre team, participated in a swimming race and painted a mural on a wall, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC said the video proved Harris was lying when he said he hadn’t been to Cambridge until recently.

The alleged victim initially said she’d been groped by Harris at what she thought was a celebrity version of It’s a Knockout in around 1975 when she was 13 or 14.

Following her father into the witness box Bindi Nicholls cried when speaking about her former best friend - another complainant in the case - who alleges Harris abused her from the age of 13. Ms Nicholls backed her dad’s claim that the pair actually had a consensual “affair” which started after the family friend turned 18.

Ms Wass grilled Harris’s daughter about when in 1980 the family moved from south London to Bray, west of the capital.

The date is important as the alleged victim claims she was assaulted in Harris’s new home before she turned 16 in April 1981.

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US kids stabbed New York police are searching for a suspect after a six-year-old boy was killed and a seven-year-old girl was critically wounded in a stabbing in New York’s Brooklyn borough. The boy, Prince Joshua Avitto, and his friend Mikayla Capers were on their way to get ice-cream when a man stabbed them in the elevator of a Brooklyn housing project. Avitto died shortly after, while Capers was hospitalised in critical condition, reportedly with a pierced lung.

Police were sweeping the streets of Brooklyn yesterday in search of the suspect with the help of helicopters and K-9 units.

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Jolie ‘not retiring’ Angelina Jolie has denied she has plans to retire from Hollywood, insisting she still wants to make movies. The Angelina Jolie Maleficent star has stepped behind the camera in recent years to direct films, and her third movie, Unbroken, is due for release later this year. Jolie has now sparked fevered rumours she is planning to retire from acting, after telling the BBC her upcoming role as Cleopatra is “one of those that you think maybe that’s the one you put everything into and that’s where you end it, that’s where you finish”. However, the actress is adamant she is not turning her back on Hollywood and will continue making movies.

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Death toll raised Sierra Leone has raised its death toll from the highly contagious Ebola virus, sparking fears that the deadly epidemic gripping west Africa is spreading. Health ministry spokesman Yaya Tunis said yesterday one more patient had been killed by the tropical pathogen since the government announced a death toll of four on Friday last week. “As of now, the update is 15 confirmed cases out of 36 suspected cases documented.

Out of the 15, we now have five deaths,” he said. Three of the patients had been undergoing treatment at a health facility in eastern Sierra Leone while two others were among four sick patients removed from an isolation facility by family members and taken back to their village. - AFP

Nigeria bans protests Nigerian police have banned protests in the capital Abuja by supporters of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants as the activists vowed to challenge the “illegal” move. Noisy street demonstrations in Abuja have become a regular feature of the campaign to put pressure on the government and keep the issue in the public eye seven weeks after the girls were abducted from a school in northern Nigeria on April 14.

Police spokeswoman Altine Daniel confirmed the ban in a text message to AFP. - AFP

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enry Cooper, a senior shepherd at Mt Pember Station (MPS), was dismissed for medical incapacity following heart surgery. MPS’ failure to meet with Mr Cooper prior to his dismissal cost them $18,500 in wages and compensation.

Mr Cooper had suffered chest pains at work and shortly after underwent surgery. He remained in hospital for a month. He provided a medical certificate which indicated his rehabilitation could be several months.

A few days later the employer wrote to Mr Cooper and asked for further medical information. They also advised they would have a meeting with him to decide if they could keep his position open. The employer claimed Mr Cooper’s absence was putting pressure on everyone else. Mr Cooper provided the additional medical information which said he was likely to be off work for a total of three months, and thereafter would

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need to ease himself back to work.

Then, without meeting Mr Cooper, MPS terminated his employment giving seven days’ notice. On the last day of his notice Mr Cooper obtained clearance to return to work on light duties and informed his employer. They didn’t respond.

Mr Cooper subsequently raised a personal grievance.

It is important to note there is no obligation on an employer to hold a position open indefinitely for a sick employee.

However MPS failed to meet a number of their obligations.

They didn’t meet with Mr Cooper to consider his feedback although having said they would. While he was still an

employee Mr Cooper advised he was able to return to light duties, but the employer failed to consider alternative duties. Finally the claim other staff were under pressure because of Mr Cooper’s absence was proven to be incorrect. As is often the case, the devil is in the detail.

When proposing a dismissal of an employee while they’re on long term sick leave, it’s essential to meet with them.

It’s a key step in the dismissal process – even if the employee is off work for several weeks due to ill health.

Chapman Employment Relations provides employment law and HR advice exclusively to employers.

Any questions regarding this column can be e-mailed to christine@chapmaner.co.nz Christine Summerville of Chapman Employment Relations is an employment and HR advisor for businesses in Ashburton christine@chapmaner.co.nz

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open plan floor space, and the company hopes to move in by early 2016. It will bring together 350 Christchurch staff who are currently based at a number of temporary sites.

Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee said the Vodafone building would anchor the Innovation Precinct, which will bring together businesses, innovators, and an ICT graduate school.

“What is even more encouraging is that there are several other prospective tenants waiting in the wings to secure a place within this precinct,” Mr Brownlee said.

The Government also an-

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Vodafone is pouring $50 million into a major new headquarters in the heart of Christchurch’s new Innovation Precinct to help support start-ups and fuel business development which has been crippled since the earthquakes.

The four-storey building on Tuam Street will include a hub called the Xone to support entrepreneurial projects and allow them to trial their ideas across Vodafone’s network.

“The Xone will allow between 10 and 20 start-ups to cluster together in a purpose-built, collaborative environment, and gain access to Vodafone’s global innovation community,” Vodafone chief executive Russell Stanners said.

The hub, developed with Callaghan Innovation and the city of Christchurch, will feature technical expertise and logistical support, as well as Vodafone SuperNet facilities.

It will be the sixth Vodafone Xone in the world, following sites in Silicon Valley, London, Cairo, Dusseldorf and Milan.

Vodafone’s new building will feature more than 8300 sq m of

nounced it would support the development of an additional innovation hub with low-rental prices to accommodate start-ups within the precinct.

The facility will accommodate Callaghan Innovation’s and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s business-facing services as well as one of the three new ICT Graduate Schools.

Labour’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery spokeswoman Ruth Dyson commended Vodafone on its move.

“But, sadly, many others have given up in the face of bureaucracy from Cera [Canterbury EarthQuake Recovery Authority] or delays from insurance companies.

“In the suburbs things are getting worse, not better. People are now entering their fourth winter with wrecked homes and no idea when damage will be repaired.”

The Christchurch Innovation Precinct covers an area of approximately 3.6ha in the southeast corner of the Urban Frame and will be located within three city blocks bounded by Lichfield, Manchester, St Asaph, High, Tuam and Madras Streets.

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been supportive through this period, but has decided it cannot extend its facilities further to cover ongoing losses.”

In April, Postie Plus said it was in breach of its lending covenants and expected to remain so “for the foreseeable future,” meaning its bank funding is repayable on demand, though the arrangements it had in place with its bank were sufficient to meet the company’s forecast funding requirements up to July 30.

The company was hit by supply chain disruptions in the summer of 2012 and 2013 after outsourcing its distribution centre to a third part, while shifting its headquarters to Auckland, where it anticipated growth. After receiving legal advice, Postie Plus said it intends to “vigorously” pursue a damages claim.

The shares were halted on Thursday at 7.3 cents, valuing the company at $2.9 million.

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Postie Plus, the worst performing stock on the New Zealand stock market, has appointed administrators after its lenders withdrew support as the company continued to make ongoing losses.

The Auckland-based retailer appointed David Bridgman and Colin McCloy of PwC as administrators, saying attempts to recapitalise the business had been unsuccessful. The retailer’s board also sought to sell the business outright, or find a new cornerstone shareholder. The administration should allow Postie Plus to keep trading so it can be sold as a going concern.

“Despite restructuring, optimising of the existing DC (distribution centre), and recent improvements to gross margin and market share, the company has continued to make ongoing trading losses,” the company said in a statement.

“The company’s bank has

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Soup a winter warmer

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inter means soup in all its endless variety of flavours.

Just about any meat, vegetable or lentil can form the basis of a hearty soup and with the addition of a slice of bread, just about any soup can make a meal.

Not only is soup easy to prepare, it’s one of those dishes that tastes even better the next day – and the day after. Flavours seem to blend and the spices and herbs used gain a depth and subtleness that is not always there on day one.

Pumpkin and pepper soup 3 T extra virgin olive oil 5 red pepers, seeded and cut into quarters 1 large onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 C pumpkin, peeled and diced 1 T fresh parsley, chopped ½ red chilli, seeded and chopped Juice of ½ lime 1 C vegetable stock 3 C chicken stock 1 T balsamic vinegar 1 T brown sugar ■ In 2 tbsp of olive oil cook peppers and garlic for 10 minutes.

Set aside.

■ Using the same pot, add the remaining olive oil and onions and cook for 1 minutes.

■ Add the pumpkin, herbs, chilli and lime juice.

■ Cook for 5 minutes, before mixing in the stock.

■ Bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

■ Add peppers, vinegar and sugar.

■ Stir and remove from heat, put

1 x 420g can corn kernels, drained

Pumpkin and kumara soup 1 kilogram pumpkin, peeled and chopped 2 medium kumara 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 t curry powder, use more or less to taste 4 C water 3 teaspoons vegetable or chicken stock powder ½ C low-fat milk

through blender ■ Reheat and serve.

Carrot and orange soup 1 onion, finely chopped 6 medium sized carrots, peeled and sliced 4 C chicken stock Salt and pepper Cream ½ C orange juice 3 T light olive oil Zest of 1 orange ■ Heat the oil over moderate heat and add the onion and orange zest.

■ Fry gently, without browning, until the onion is soft.

■ Add the carrots and stock, bring to the boil and boil gently for about 15 minutes until the carrots are tender.

■ Remove from the heat and puree until smooth in a blender or food processor.

■ Place back on the heat, in a clean saucepan and bring to the boil.

■ Remove from the heat and add

the orange juice, do not reheat otherwise the orange flavour will disappear.

■ Taste, season and serve with a little cream drizzled onto the soup and a sprinkling of chives.

Chicken and vegetable soup 2 t sunflower oil 1 x skinless chicken breast fillet 1 onion, thinly sliced 1 pkt chicken stockpot mix 1 large carrot, sliced 1 stick celery, sliced 1 cup broccoli florets, sliced ½ C frozen peas 2 T chopped parsley ■ Heat oil in a large saucepan and lightly brown the chicken and onion.

■ Mix 2 cups hot water with Stockpot and add to the saucepan along with vegetables.

■ Bring to the boil stirring and simmer gently for 5 minutes.

■ Sprinkle with parsley and serve with crusty bread.

■ Add onion, garlic and curry powder to large pot with a little oil.

■ Fry until onion is cooked, but not brown.

■ Add pumpkin, kumara, water and stock powder.

■ Bring to the boil and simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes or until vegetables are very soft and mushy.

■ Remove soup from heat.

■ Puree soup with stick blender, mash with a potato masher, or blend in a food processor.

■ Stir in milk.

■ If necessary, gently reheat before serving.

■ Serve with toasted wholegrain bread or toasted sandwiches.

Beef and vegetable soup 1 tbsp oil 350g rump steak, cut into 1cm cubes 1 onion, diced 1 carrot, cut into 1cm dice 2 medium potatoes, cut into 1cm dice 1 L beef stock 200g green beans, cut into 1cm lengths 1 x 400g can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

■ Heat oil in a large saucepan and cook steak for 3 - 4 minutes or until browned.

■ Add onion and carrot and cook for 2 minutes.

■ Add potatoes and stock, cover and bring to the boil.

■ Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

■ Add green beans, cannelini beans and corn and cook a further 5 minutes.

■ Serve with fresh crusty bread.

Lentil and bacon soup 1 T olive oil 1 onion, diced 100g lean bacon diced 1 carrot finely diced 1 t ground cumin ½ t turmeric 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 chilli, sliced 2 stock cubes 250g red lentils, rinsed ■ Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion, half the bacon and the carrot.

■ Cook on a low to medium heat for 10 minutes until the onions are soft.

■ Add the cumin, turmeric, garlic and chilli and cook for a further 1 – 2 minutes until the aromas are released.

■ Pour in 1.25 litres of boiling water, crumble in the stock cubes and add the lentils.

■ Bring to a simmer and cook for 20 mins, stirring occasionally to ensure the lentils aren’t sticking.

■ Fry the remaining bacon in a small frying pan for about 10 minutes until crispy.

■ Serve the soup with a sprinkle of crispy bacon on top.

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■ OTAGO GROUP TO PERFORM

New look at earthquake

BY SUSAN SANDYS

SUSAN.S@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

A new way to look at February 22, 2011, a day forever etched in the memory of Cantabrians, will come from a show to stage at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre in August.

Munted is a verbatim documentary theatre response to the earthquake which struck the region that day. It has been produced by Bare Hunt Collective, a drama company established by two Otago University theatre department graduates.

The show, much acclaimed at previous stagings, will travel to Los Angeles next month, followed by a threeweek New Zealand Arts On Tour billing, from Kaitaia to Gore, in August. It will stage in Ashburton on August 27.

Munted is derived entirely from interviews with Cantabrians, members of the media and other New Zealanders. Shared stories of hope and loss, peppered with humour and surprising perspective on one of the country’s worst national disasters.

Tickets are $25.

Bare Hunt Collective will perform a new take on the 2011 February earthquake when they visit Ashburton in August.

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■ MONTY PYTHON ON STAGE

Monty Python swansong will surprise

BY JILL LAWLESS Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And as with all things Monty Python, fans need to expect the unexpected.

Next month the surviving Monty Python members reunite on stage for the first time in almost 35 years - and, they say, the last time ever.

Fans understandably want to see the anarchic comedy troupe’s classic skits. They’re hoping for Spam, lumberjacks, dead parrots and of course the red-robed cardinals who burst in to proclaim: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”

Troupe member Eric Idle assures fans they will get the old favourites - but they are also in for surprises.

“I’ve got one or two up my sleeve that will absolutely freak people out,” said Idle, who has taken the lead on assembling the 10 performances at London’s O2 Arena.

The Monty Python Live (mostly) shows will take place between July 1 and July 20, with the final performance beamed live into movie theatres worldwide - including hundreds in the United States. More screenings are planned on July 23, 24 and August 6.

“It’s not five old guys on a stage doing old sketches,” Idle said of the show, which has a budget of $US3.5 million ($NZ4.13 million).

The 15,000-seat stadium will be filled with the help of a live orchestra, film footage, special effects and Terry Gilliam’s sur-

ARTS DIARY ■ June 8 – Ashburton Musical Club presents Musical Moments, arranged

by Margaret Hawkey and June Barrett, at the Sinclair Centre. Visitors welcome, $5 at door. Afternoon tea served.

■ June 21 – Cabaret La Vie – Ma Bell and Guests at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre. The Canterbury Pop Up Concert Series turns up the heat in Ashburton with a mid-winter celebration presented

by Celtic Soul and Blues icon Isabella (Izzy) Miller Bell Aka Ma Bell. The programme is supported by Ashburton Creative Communities Funding and features the work of five world class independent Cantabrian artists, all coming together on stage to present the very best of their individual works as well as performing together.

■ June 24, 25 and 26 – Heartland Music Festival, annual Mid Canterbury Primary Schools Choral Music Festival.

■ To June 26 - Artist Vjekoslav Nemesh’s exhibition Mother Of All Illusions exhibition at Terrace Downs, open during resort opening hours.

■ July 5 – Christchurch City Chorus, Sweet Adelines, at Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ Ashburton Society of Arts weekly art groups held Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays. Jeff Bradley and the Delta Swing playing at Terrace Downs Resort every Sunday, 11am to 3pm.

Surviving members of the Monty Python comedy group (from left) Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese.

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real animation. There will be plenty of “rude songs and rude dancing” from an ensemble of 20 singers and dancers - the approach Idle adopted during his performance at the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony.

“Who wants to look at a bunch of old guys? Put some attractive young people on stage,” said 71-year-old Idle.

“That’s my Broadway background. It’s what I learned from ‘Spamalot.”‘ The sixth member of Monty Python, Graham Chapman, died of cancer in 1989 but will be present in recorded form.

Carol Cleveland, who appeared regularly on the Pythons’ 1970s TV show, will also take

part. “It’s a revue - ‘Deja Revue,’ as I call it,” Idle said.

“What I’ve tried to do is make a sort of necklace - and we’ll be the jewels. I’ve tried to make it segue into each other like the old Python shows used to do.”

Idle says he’s looking forward to the live transmission’s potential for chaos.

The five comedians have had their disagreements over the years - but, crucially, they still make one another laugh.

“I think everybody is much mellower, and happy,” Idle said.

All the members of Monty Python have had busy solo careers, taking in television, movies, theatre, books and opera.

They’ve reunited because - to

be blunt - they needed money.

The five were left with a large legal bill last year after losing a lawsuit brought by movie producer Mark Forstater over royalties from the stage musical “Spamalot.”

“We were in a mess,” Idle said, until an adviser suggested putting on a show to clear the debt. “It changed everything round, and everybody got excited.”

But he says it will never happen again.

“It’s the last shout,” Idle said.

“A) We’re extremely old and b) it takes a lot to get this sort of thing together. Everybody has other things they like to do.”

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In brief

■ BOXING

Golden Gloves bout looms

By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton boxer Christian Tikao has cemented his spot in the South Island Golden Gloves squad to take on their northern counterparts next month.

Tikao joined fellow Ashburton boxers Morgan Lumsden and Dillon Smart on a mixed night at South Island Golden Gloves in Timaru during the weekend when he lost in split decision in the elite men’s open final against a wily opponent.

It may not have been the result he was after, but it has booked him the number two spot in the South Island squad, which will go toe-to-toe with the North Island on July 5-6 in Christchurch at the New Zealand Golden Gloves.

Fellow Ashburton boxer Lumsden was champion in his under 64kg elite novice division by winning both his bouts, taking his winning tally to five with four of those by way of technical knockout.

In the first, he won unanimously over three rounds - the first time an opponent has taken him that far, while in the final he made a dominant display, ending the match in the second round.

In other grades, Smart lost to a difficult opponent, while Connor Perriton was forced to pull out from the tournament with the flu.

“And that was a shame, Connor just needed to step in the ring and he would have made it into the South Island team,” Ashburton boxing coach Col Sheehan said.

The coach was impressed by the strengthening calibre of local boxers.

“Things are looking really good for Ashburton boxing, we have got a number of boxers building nicely for our own local tournament in August.”

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May 31 Balls sponsored by Eagles Association Winners of the Porateka Fourball Competition: Ian Beach and Wayne Blair Other Stableford 0-15: Allan Dixon 40, Steve Cross 39, Tony Neilson 38, Tim Hoban 37 16-36: Ali McLeod 36, Mike Salvesen 35.

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Kiwi golfer Steven Alker has gained a start in next week’s US Open at Pinehurst in North Carolina. Alker punched his card after he finished second at a sectional qualifying tournament in California yesterday. The Web.com Tour regular also played in last year’s US Open where he finished in a share of 45th place at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania.

Fellow Kiwi Danny Lee looked in a strong position to come through his qualifying tournament in Ohio but the PGA Tour player dropped six shots in his final seven holes to miss out.

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Carlton have sacked first-round AFL draft pick Josh Bootsma, with his inappropriate use of social media proving the last straw for the Blues. The Blues said the 21-year-old had been struggling with discipline issues for several months. But Bootsma’s fate was sealed on Monday when the club was made aware of the social media problem. Blues football director Andrew McKay would not go into what happened, but several media outlets reported it involved explicit images.

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Third was the team of G Crawford, S Beavan, T King and M Daniel.

Nearest Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: not struck, Braided Rivers: J Fechney, Rothburys Insurance: G Russell, Netherby Meats: V Moore, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) B Brown.

Twos: G Russell, T Gimblett and J Fechney.

Nett Eagles: #1; Birdy Jackpot: # 8 June 2 In the 4BBB Stableford the winners were B & J Smith 46pts; followed by J Williams & M Cook 45 and then G Jansen & B Hawksby also 45. Nearest Pins: #8 Braided Rivers V Moore; #12 Speights Ale House A Hopwood. Twos: V Moore, A Hopwood, P Bradford, P Bell and M Cook.

Women’s Section, June 3 Irish Stableford If Only (Heather Robertson, Heather Trott, Glenis Sloper) - 65. Nearest Pins: No 4 Gabites Not Struck, No 8 House of Travel Ashburton: Alison Hewson, No 12 Lynn’s Small Salon: Alison Hewson, No14 Todds of Ashburton:Vicki Moore, 2nd Shot No 18: Gay Lane. Twos: Alison Hewson – No 8 and 12, Jenny Williams, Hilary Ward – No 8

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9 Hole Division May 29, Stroke and Stableford Stroke - Men 1st E Graham 50:12:38, 2nd G Jacobson 68:29:39; Ladies 1st W Sim 57:17:40, 2nd B Inglis 68:28:40 on C/B Stableford Men 1st G Jacobson with 16 on C/B from E Graham; Ladies 1st B Inglis with 15, 2nd W Sim with 14 Nearest the Pins: Greg Sim Builders and Excavators 2nd Shot No. 2 – J Greenslade, Mayfield Transport No. 5 – G Jacobson

Methven Golf Club 9 hole results 5th Stableford and 5th Mary Fahey May 30 Hammer Hardware Best Player of the day Lorna Dent 54-18-36, 18 St; Warren Jowett 61-24-37, 17 St; Jodie Monk 63-23-40, 16 S t BNZ 2nd shot: Lorna Dent

ANZ Championship Round 14 SOUTHERN STEEL 65 (Jhaniele Fowler-Reid 44 Jodi Brown 21) bt MELBOURNE VIXENS 64 (Tegan Caldwell 34 Catherine Cox 17 Karyn Bailey 13) at Stadium Southland.

ADELAIDE THUNDERBIRDS 66 (Carla Borrego 36 Erin Bell 30) bt MAINLAND TACTIX 49 (Mwai Kumwenda 42 Anna Thompson 5 Sophia Fenwick 2) at Netball SA Stadium.

NORTHERN MYSTICS 56 (Catherine Latu 32 Maria Tutaia 24) bt NSW SWIFTS 53 (Caitlin Thwaites 34 Susan Pratley 19).

QUEENSLAND FIREBIRDS 59 (Romelda Aiken 40 Amorette Wild 19) bt WAIKATO BAY OF PLENTY MAGIC 55 (Jo Harten 29 Ellen Halpenny 26) at Claudelands Arena.

WEST COAST FEVER 51 (Caitlin Bassett 37 Natalie Medhurst 14) bt CENTRAL PULSE 44 (Donna Wilkins 26 Paula Griffin 12 Irene van Dyk 6) at Challenge Stadium.

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P Vixens 13 Firebirds 13 NSW Swifts 13 BoP Magic 13 Southern Steel 13 Central Pulse 13 Mystics 13 Thunderbirds 13 Fever 13 Mainland Tactix 13

W L For Agt 9 4 746 592 9 4 694 623 9 4 707 652 8 5 727 672 7 6 792 809 7 6 658 675 6 7 706 752 5 8 663 706 4 9 689 724 1 12 694 871

% Pts 126.01 18 111.40 18 108.44 18 108.18 16 97.90 14 97.48 14 93.88 12 93.91 10 95.17 8 79.68 2

■ Petanque MSA Petanque Section Trophy Winner: Stephen Kyle and partner; Trophy runner up: Rewa Kyle and partner; Plate runner up: Betty King and partner.

■ Rugby league NRL Round 12 PENRITH 38 (J Mansour 2 T Peachey 2 J Segeyaro J Soward I Yeo tries J Soward 5 goals) bt PARRAMATTA 12 (C Norman P Pauli tries C Sandow 2 goals) at Sportingbet Stadium. Referee: Matt Cecchin, Gavin Morris. Crowd: 19,141.

SYDNEY ROOSTERS 26 (D Tupou 3 J Maloney tries Maloney 5 goals) bt CANBERRA 12 (Vaughan J Wighton tries J Croker 2 goals) at Allianz Stadium. Referee: Gerard Sutton, Jared Maxwell.

NORTH QUEENSLAND 22 (Linnett M Morgan Thurston Winterstein tries J Thurston 3 goals) bt MELBOURNE 0 at 1300SMILES Stadium. Ref: Ashley Klein, Adam Gee. WARRIORS 38 (S Mannering 2 M Vatuvei 2 K Hurrell S Tomkins C Townsend tries S Johnson 5 goals) bt NEWCASTLE 18 (J Leilua T Roberts R Rochow tries J Mantellato 3 goals) at Mt Smart Stadium. Referee: Gavin Badger, Gavin Reynolds. Crowd: 19,068.

BRISBANE 36 (D Copley 2 J Reed 2 M Gillett A Glenn L Maranta tries B Hunt 2 C Parker 2 goals) bt MANLY 10 (J Buhrer K Foran tries J Lyon goal) at Suncorp Stadium. Referee: Ben Cummins, David Munro.

SOUTH SYDNEY 29 (J Reddy 2 S Burgess A Reynolds D Walker tries A Reynolds 3 D Walker goals A Reynolds field goal) bt ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA 10 (G Beale T Frizell tries G Widdop goal) at ANZ Stadium. Referee: Shayne Hayne, Henry Perenara.

Bye - Canterbury, Wests Tigers, Gold Coast, Cronulla Standings P W D L B PF PA PD Pts 1 Bulldogs 11 8 0 3 1 237 156 81 18 2 Penrith 11 7 0 4 1 225 176 49 16 3 Manly 11 7 0 4 1 232 202 30 16 4 Sth Sydney 12 7 0 5 0 261 181 80 14 5 Syd Roosters 12 7 0 5 0 270 193 77 14 6 Brisbane 12 7 0 5 0 268 204 64 14 7 Parramatta 11 6 0 5 1 251 265 -14 14 8 Wests Tigers 11 6 0 5 1 228 242 -14 14 9 Melbourne 11 6 0 5 1 216 246 -30 14 10 Gold Coast 11 6 0 5 1 183 218 -35 14 11 N Queensland 12 6 0 6 0 266 195 71 12 12 Warriors 12 6 0 6 0 270 251 19 12 13 St G Illawarra 11 4 0 7 1 189 285 -96 10 14 Canberra 12 4 0 8 0 236 322 -86 8 15 Newcastle 11 2 0 9 1 166 257 -91 6 16 Cronulla 11 2 0 9 1 155 260 -105 6

■ Tennis French Open Collated results from French Open yesterday (prefix denotes seeding).

Men, Round 4 7-Andy Murray (GBR) bt 24-Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 6-4 7-5 7-6(3). 23-Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 6-0 6-2 7-5. 1-Rafael Nadal (ESP) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 6-1 6-2 6-1. 5-David Ferrer (ESP) bt 19-Kevin Anderson (RSA) 6-3 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1.

Women, Round 4 27-Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) bt 23-Lucie Safarova (CZE) 6-3 6-4. 4-Simona Halep (ROU) bt 15-Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-4 6-3. 10-Sara Errani (ITA) bt 6-Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 7-6(5) 6-2. 28-Andrea Petkovic (GER) bt Q-Kiki Bertens (NED) 1-6 6-2 7-5.

Women’s Doubles 4-Kveta Peschke (CZE)/Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) bt Kaia Kanepi (EST)/Alexandra Panova (RUS) 6-3 6-1. Garbine Muguruza/ Carla Suarez (ESP) bt Irina Begu (ROU)/ Karin Knapp (ITA) 6-4 7-6(4).

16-Marina Erakovic (NZL)/Arantxa Parra (ESP) bt WC-Julie Coin/Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 6-2 6-3; 7-Ashleigh Barty/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) bt 12-Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 4-6 6-2 6-1.

Mixed Doubles Quarter-finals: Timea Babos (HUN)/Eric Butorac (USA) bt WC-Alize Cornet/Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) 6-4 6-3.

Penrith youngster Bryce Cartwright could find himself off his uncle John’s Christmas card list if he delivers a starring role for the Panthers on Saturday. The 19-year-old back-rower made his NRL debut in the Panthers’ 38-12 win over Parramatta last week and will travel north to take on John Cartwright’s Gold Coast outfit in Robina. John, a premiershipwinning forward with the Panthers, admits it seems odd coaching against his brother David’s son, who he remembers mostly as a little boy running around in the backyard.

- AAP

‘Bellyache’ in pain If the NRL is serious about player welfare, it will introduce a standalone State of Origin series, according to Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy. The Storm mentor’s NRL club was thrust into an injury crisis following Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk’s setbacks in game one. Bellamy was more worried about the many NRL players who did back up after Wednesday’s classic Origin encounter, including Storm skipper Cameron Smith.

The former NSW coach accused the league of failing its duty of care.

- AAP

Rafa right on target Eight-time champion Rafael Nadal has stormed into a French Open quarterfinal showdown against compatriot David Ferrer, while Andy Murray set-up a clash with childhood friend Gael Monfils.

With the abdication of King Juan Carlos on his mind, world number one Nadal brushed aside the outclassed Dusan Lajovic, the world 83 from Serbia, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1. Nadal was at his ruthless, efficient best against Lajovic, who claimed a paltry 15 points off the champion’s serve. Nadal, seeking to become the first man to win five French Opens in a row, needed just 93 minutes to go through to a lasteight showdown with Ferrer. - AFP

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In brief Mt Smart is ‘home’ The Warriors have announced they will return to their “spiritual home” of Mt Smart Stadium next season and have no plans for a permanent move to Eden Park. The decision follows trialing Eden Park with three matches this season to support a stadium strategy being put together by Regional Facilities Auckland, an offshoot of Auckland Council. Warriors chief executive Wayne Scurrah said the club had analysed the three games at Eden Park and considered feedback from its partners, members, the public and club ambassador Sir Peter Leitch.

- NZH

Scurrah’s time is up The Warriors have today confirmed that Chief Executive for nine seasons Wayne Scurrah will leave the club at the end of 2014.

Current NRL chief operating officer and former NZRL chief executive Jim Doyle has been appointed as the next CEO for the club.

Scurrah’s departure comes as a surprise, after he announced earlier this year that he would resign from his post if the Warriors failed to qualify for the 2014 NRL finals series.

- HOL

Adams not a Tall Black Steven Adams has confirmed he won’t play for the Tall Blacks at the Basketball World Cup in Spain.

Adams’ rookie NBA season with the Oklahoma City Thunder is over after the side failed to make the Finals. It was hoped he would be made available for New Zealand at the tournament beginning in August. However, Adams has told reporters in the United States he’ll be focusing on playing for the Thunder in the Summer League instead of going to Spain. New Zealand open their campaign against Turkey on August 30 and face the United States three days later.

- HOL

Fekitoa’s big chance?

Malakai Fekitoa’s ability to cover both midfield positions and, at a pinch, wing, could see him as a beneficiary if Julian Savea is ruled out of the All Blacks’ first test against England. Cory Jane is likely to be the big winner if Savea, who probably would have started on the left wing, is out of the mix. The powerful No11 was due for a scan yesterday afternoon on the problem which has been troubling him for three weeks and must be considered a big doubt. The door now has also been opened slightly wider for new boy Fekitoa, a 22-year-old who has been a big reason why the Highlanders have improved so dramatically this year.

- APNZ

Matfield SA skipper Victor Matfield was named as the Springboks’ interim captain yesterday, capping a remarkable return to international rugby after retirement. With regular leader Jean de Villiers out injured, Matfield, 37, is making his return to the international side after stepping down following the 2011 World Cup. “When I decided to return to playing rugby, my aim was to be good enough to make the Springbok team. I never dreamt of leading the team again and it’s a massive honour.” - AFP

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Erakovic into quarter-finals New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic has advanced to the doubles quarter-finals at the French Open for a second straight year.

Erakovic and Spanish playing partner Arantxa Parra Santonja moved into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-3 win over French duo Pauline Parmentier and Julie Coin. They will face Lucie Hradecka and Michaella Krajicek in the next round. It is the fourth time Erakovic has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam.

- HOL AP PHOTO

■ RUGBY

Hansen’s worries eased

BY PATRICK MCKENDRY Steve Hansen didn’t have to wait long for the warm, positive, glow of his squad announcement on Sunday to turn into something else entirely the next morning when Kieran Read woke feeling unwell from his efforts in his return game for the Crusaders.

There was something in Hansen’s manner during the occasion which suggested he didn’t want to get too far ahead of himself with regards to Read, the best No8 in the world and a linchpin on both attack and defence for the All Blacks.

That cautious approach to the player’s return from concussion proved to be right, but the presence of Jerome Kaino in the squad means the news delivered to him at the team’s central Auckland hotel wouldn’t have been as crushing as it might have been.

Only six months ago, while Kaino was still playing club rugby in Japan, it might have been a different story.

The All Blacks would probably have had a re-shuffle and put Liam Messam to the back of the scrum, with the inexperienced Steven Luatua given the No6 jersey.

Another solution could have seen Richie McCaw start at No8, with Sam Cane playing openside.

Long-term, probably only the inexperienced Luke Whitelock was next in the pecking order behind Read.

Now, with the return of the World Cup-winning Kaino, a

31-year-old veteran of 48 tests and nearing his form of old for the Blues, Hansen has a readymade replacement for as long as Read is unavailable.

To a slightly lesser extent, the return to form of Victor Vito, who has been outstanding for the Hurricanes, will also give Hansen comfort.

At the end of last year, Vito had been tried and discarded once again. Now he has forced his way back and is a serious contender.

Read trained with the squad yesterday which suggests his symptoms are not overly serious.

However, after suffering the injury, caused by a high tackle against the Chiefs in mid April, his return for the Crusaders took a long time - five weeks.

Hansen appeared confident his latest symptoms would rule him out of only Saturday’s first test against England at Eden Park, but in truth there is no telling how long it will take Read to come right.

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the news yesterday, Read’s update the third and most significant after he revealed flanker Cane was withdrawing from the series due to a knee fracture, and told of wing Julian Savea’s injury, also a knee, which must put him in doubt this week.

“He’s frustrated as you would be, but we’re very lucky that we’ve got

very capable people who can fill in in his place and JK and Victor have been performing very well,” Hansen said of Read.

Asked if he was concerned about Read’s long-term health, he said: “We’ve been through it before with a certain Richie McCaw. “We’ve got really good faith in the people looking after him.

“Long term, I’m not too concerned.”

Yesterday’s dramatic injury bulletin will probably be a boost for a below-strength England team, but the depth now in the All Blacks suggests the home side shouldn’t be unduly troubled.

Crusader Matt Todd has joined the squad for Cane, and is a possibility to cover for McCaw on the reserves bench, with Hansen saying he had recovered from his recent calf issue.

Cory Jane will be in line to start on the left wing if Savea is ruled out.

Luatua, an initial casualty after breaking into the squad last year, has been added as cover for Read.

- APNZ

Jerome Kaino in action for the Blues

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In brief

■ CAMBRIDGE A WINNER

Jewels myths laid to rest

By Matt MarkhaM The Harness Jewels has been and gone, but where are the usual cries?

By now, each year, the call is out for Cambridge to be axed as a Jewels host, following either a successful day on the Ashburton track or a day of predictable racing in the Waikato.

It’s been a bugbear of the industry since the popular day began eight years ago, but this year everything seems a little quiet.

And that’s because from a racing viewpoint, there is nothing to complain about – all myths regarding the inability of the Cambridge track to allow horses to come from the back, or win from bad barrier draws, were dispelled by Saturday’s racing which many are describing as the best Jewels day yet.

And while it all might be true – what made that happen was

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incredibly gifted, and in some cases, freakish horses. Venus Serena had no right to win the three-year-old Diamond after the work she did in the race.

But despite her 13 barrier draw she managed to do it.

Sheemon and Franco Nelson probably shouldn’t have been able to win either, but some cunning craft from the unbelievable Dexter Dunn quickly sorted that out.

What the success of Saturday has done though, it draw a positive for Ashburton.

Cambridge’s rise from the ashes will see it more favoured and therefore a lot more likely to remain as a host – which means Ashburton will too as opposed to it beginning to drift toward the more major tracks in both Auckland and Christchurch.

It also lays the platform for Ashburton, and sets the challenge, for Jewels Day 2015, which is back in Mid Canter-

Habibi back on track New Zealand Derby winner Habibi will make her North American debut tomorrow. Trained by Dan Blacker for new owner George Strawbridge, she will step out in a fillies’ and mares’ event over 1600m at Santa Anita where she will be opposed by five rivals. Formerly prepared by Dean and Donna Logan to win six of her nine starts, Habibi hasn’t raced since she suffered a fractured hind pastern when fourth in the Australian Oaks.

- APNZ

Shuka off to Sydney

Venus Serena: Freakish performance to win at Cambridge.

bury, to reclaim the spot of best race day. *Back here in Mid Canterbury on the weekend there was reason to celebrate too. One of the area’s most hard-working and loyal servants was made a deserving member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Helen Pope has invested 40

years into harness racing, a lot of it in Mid Canterbury – a former president of the Ashburton Trotting Club and the first female board member of Harness Racing New Zealand, she has devoted her life to the industry she loves so much and is thoroughly deserving of all honours bestowed upon her.

The Peter and Dawn Williamstrained Shuka, which gave Pukekohe rider Danielle Johnson her first Group One win when he claimed the Captain Cook Stakes at Trentham, has Australia on his radar. Peter Williams said Shuka’s first target would be the opening leg of the Hawke’s Bay Triple Crown series, the Gr.1 Makfi Challenge Stakes.

- APNZ

Kiwis target Caulfield Group One Herbie Dyke Stakes winner Costume is back in trotting and cantering work with breederowners Waikato Stud before rejoining Hamilton trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson. “We’ll aim at those Hastings races and in the back of my mind, I think she can be a Caulfield Cup horse. I’d like to think she could take that next step,” Debbie Rogerson said.

- APNZ

Matamata gallops Today at Matamata Raceway

Racing Matamata Venue: Matamata Meeting Date: 4 Jun 2014 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.20pm (NZT) JIM FURNESS MATAMATA GRADER SERVICES MAIDEN 2000 $7000, MDN HWT, 2000m 1 045x5 Bayross h (16) 68 .......................C Studd (3) 2 x7525 Fast Profit (13) 68 ...................... C Thornton 3 24x44 Tequila At Midnite h (9) 68 ..........D Miller (3) 4 23433 Whatwasthat (6) 68 ......................... T Harris 5 5x339 St Saturnin (3) 68 .................M Mitchell (1.5) 6 45055 Crimson Prince (4) 68 ...............R Hutchings 7 938x0 Don Diego h (5) 68.........................S Phelan 8 x8469 Sergios h (7) 68 ..................... G Walsh (1.5) 9 0x650 Sir Al Syd (11) 68 ........................... C Perrett 10 006 Lazarus (14) 68 ............................ P Ormsby 11 05x00 Conspiracy (15) 68........................ E Farr (3) 12 68. Cruiseo (17) 68 ...................... M McNelis (3) 13 987x The Talisman (12) 68 14 6x520 Royal Command bh (2) 66 ...........A Kuru (3) 15 68743 Sweet Molly (10) 66 16 07 Kachina (1) 66 17 89x08 Lord Shiva h (8) 68 18 0x90 Keepthego h (18) 68 Emergencies: Lord Shiva, Keepthego 2 12.55pm SLATTERY CONTRACTING LIMITED 3YO MAIDEN 1400 $8000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 5 Soul To Squeeze b (5) 57.5...........O Bosson 2 8 Fionn’s Kid (8) 57.5 ......................... R Jones 3 Bomaye (11) 57.5.......................M Cameron 4 0x000 Eye Contact (6) 57.5 ................ B Grylls (a1) 5 60x0 Power Star h (14) 57.5 ............ P Turner (a1) 6 Shamal h (9) 57.5 ......................M Coleman

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7 Shimano (2) 57.5 .................... R Smyth (a2) 8 Well Related (1) 57.5 .......... R Hutchings (a) 9 290x3 Fairy Cake h (13) 55.5 ..............J Wong (a3) 10 925x4 Mezzaluna (3) 55.5 ..................... D Johnson 11 728. Eagle Magic (4) 55.5 ................A Jones (a3) 12 x6537 Reynen Rose (15) 55.5 ................... M Wenn 13 0 Bo Ying (7) 55.5 .................................J Jago 14 096 Flanders (10) 55.5......................M Sweeney 15 46807 Little Dreamer (12) 55.5 ..................S Collett 3 1.30pm COLCHESTER ENGINEERING LIMITED R65 1600 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark HWT*, 1600m 1 0x058 Galaxy Road dm (2) 69 ................... T Harris 2 x4364 Hez Cool dmbh (8) 68 ................ C Thornton 3 081x0 Iz m (5) 68 ..................................C Studd (3) 4 210x0 Sweetazcuz 67.5.......................... Scratched 5 028x0 Centavada tmh (7) 67 ..........M Mitchell (1.5) 6 388x7 Nasrina m (1) 66.5 ........................ E Farr (3) 7 0069x Sharakti d (4) 66.5 ....................R Hutchings 8 16x54 Sneaky Feelings tdmh (3) 66.5 ...D Miller (3) 9 3812x Southern Countess tdmbh (6) 66 .A Kuru (3) 10 30x00 Falcon Regiment tdh (10) 66..........S Phelan 11 x0638 Katinka m (9) 65..................... M McNelis (3) 4 2.00pm MURRAY WILCOX LIMITED MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 440x Rip City h (19) 58.5 ................. P Turner (a1) 2 Lamason (5) 58.5 .......................M Cameron 3 0x50x Gemodi (16) 58.5 .......................M Sweeney 4 8x Monterey Bay (15) 58.5........... R Smyth (a2) 5 0x Meskerre h (12) 58.5 .................J Wong (a3) 6 Quantum Maelstrom h (8) 58.5 .....O Bosson 7 3 Dasha (18) 56.5 ........................J Oliver (a3) 8 390 Centre Stage h (10) 56.5 ................ R Jones

9 Celebrity Miss (17) 56.5 ..................S Collett 10 5x5. Labels h (2) 56.5 .....................S McKay (a4) 11 Deception h (3) 56.5 ................... D Johnson 12 Mary Poppins (11) 56.5 ....... R Hutchings (a) 13 0x Patakia (13) 56.5 ...................... B Grylls (a1) 14 Strategus h (7) 56.5 ................... L Satherley 15 0x Golan Power h (9) 58.5 16 570x Elle Grace h (1) 56.5 ................A Jones (a3) 17 600x Strike Back h (14) 58.5 18 58x88 Sea Fury h (6) 56.5 19 709x0 Absolute Gem (4) 58.5 20 47x87 Madame Millie 56.5 ...................... Scratched Emergencies: Golan Power, Elle Grace, Strike Back, Sea Fury, Absolute Gem, Madame Millie 5 2.35pm TEAM WEALLEANS 1200 MAIDEN $7000, MAIDEN, 1200m 1 93292 Heart Of Grace (3) 58.5 ...... R Hutchings (a) 2 68x50 King Pheroz 58.5 ......................... Scratched 3 5x Close Up (2) 58.5 .......................... R Norvall 4 Kanali h (7) 58.5....................... B Grylls (a1) 5 Our King Sway h (12) 58.5 ...... P Turner (a1) 6 Ali h (14) 58.5................................O Bosson 7 0x Cartridge (4) 58.5.................... R Smyth (a2) 8 Maestro Tom h (6) 58.5 ............A Jones (a3) 9 Pockets (1) 58.5 ......................S McKay (a4) 10 Prize Lad h (5) 58.5 ...................M Coleman 11 4x926 Laugh (11) 56.5..........................M Cameron 12 8270x Dahls Delight h (17) 56.5 ............ D Johnson 13 05x8x Silk Shot (10) 56.5 ..........................S Collett 14 Eva Quick Steph h (9) 56.5 ........M Sweeney 15 0x Golan Power h (13) 58.5 16 570x Elle Grace h (15) 56.5 -

17 600x Strike Back h (18) 58.5 18 58x88 Sea Fury h (8) 56.5 19 709x0 Absolute Gem (16) 58.5 20 47x87 Madame Millie 56.5 ...................... Scratched Emergencies: Golan Power, Elle Grace, Strike Back, Sea Fury, Absolute Gem, Madame Millie 6 3.10pm TANKS AND SILOS NZ LIMITED MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MAIDEN, 1400m 1 95x23 April Joy (14) 58.5 ..............................J Jago 2 9x3 Oompa h (9) 58.5 ............................ R Jones 3 0x804 Kings Call (8) 58.5 ...................... D Johnson 4 8 Fionn’s Kid 58.5 ........................... Scratched 5 709x0 Absolute Gem (7) 58.5 .............A Jones (a3) 6 58x67 Flash Forward h (4) 58.5 .................S Collett 7 78700 Jacky Paper (6) 58.5 ................K Leung (a2) 8 9 Jochen Rindt (13) 58.5.................... M Wenn 9 9 Rich Ted h (12) 58.5 ...................M Cameron 10 Silverburn (5) 58.5 ............................ D Hain 11 x36x0 Epicurean b (10) 56.5 ......... R Hutchings (a) 12 7065x Fairytale Romance (3) 56.5 .... R Smyth (a2) 13 07096 Jafa Jill 56.5 ................................. Scratched 14 47x87 Madame Millie (1) 56.5 .............. Z Moki (a4) 15 40x97 Suggest Gold h (11) 56.5 ........... L Satherley 16 890x0 Te Atatu Princess (2) 56.5....... P Turner (a1) 17 0x000 Eye Contact 58.5 ......................... Scratched Emergency: Eye Contact 7 3.45pm PGG WRIGHTSON MATAMATA 1400 $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1400m 1 43341 China Tea mh (2) 59...................M Coleman 2 x07x1 Flossy The Cat th (8) 59.......... P Turner (a1) 3 28204 Darting h (5) 58.5 ..........................O Bosson 4 570x8 Dontdyewonderin d (11) 58.5 ...A Jones (a3)

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547x5 Imagunakepa h (15) 58.5 ................ R Jones x8138 Iseemagic d (13) 58.5 ......... R Hutchings (a) 3316x Lucky Ruby mh (1) 58.5 .............M Sweeney 55318 Running Scared (10) 58.5 .........J Oliver (a3) 00x15 Lady Marilyn (12) 58 ................... D Johnson 21805 The Link td (6) 57.5 ............................M Hills 85752 Brondan (3) 56.5 x7770 Cool One t (7) 56.5 ................. R Smyth (a2) 6x4x8 So Keep Me m (14) 56.5 ...........T Wenn (a3) 4829x Ballypiper h (9) 55.5 ..................J Wong (a3) 77877 Sweet Rita tdm (4) 55 .............S McKay (a4) 8 4.15pm MATAMATA TRACTORS & MACHINERY F&M MAIDEN 1600 $12,000, MDN F&M, 1600m 1 640x2 Chardon (8) 57.5 .......................J Oliver (a3) 2 4725. Dreims Of Gold (6) 57.5 ...... R Hutchings (a) 3 0x42 Kalinda (4) 57.5..................L Magorrian (a4) 4 23648 Cheyenne (5) 57.5 ..................... L Satherley 5 50x64 Istis Lass (2) 57.5.......................M Cameron 6 90x75 Okay Annie (9) 57.5 .................... D Johnson 7 05858 I’ma Countrygirl 57.5.................... Scratched 8 0x0 Copper Queen (1) 57.5 ................... M Wenn 9 0x0 Diamond Refusal h (10) 57.5 .. P Turner (a1) 10 x6777 Electric Fizz h (12) 57.5 ..........S McKay (a4) 11 09 Harvest Maid (13) 57.5 ............K Leung (a2) 12 070 Rebel Rose (7) 57.5 ................ R Smyth (a2) 13 90x Ruapunawai (11) 57.5 ...............T Wenn (a3) 14 4070x Society Rose h (3) 57.5 ..................S Collett Blinkers on : Cruiseo, Lord Shiva (R1), Rip City, Monterey Bay, Sea Fury (R4), Sea Fury (R5), Flash Forward, Epicurean (R6), Imagunakepa, Running Scared (R7), Istis Lass, Ruapunawai (R8) Winkers off : Flash Forward (R6), Istis Lass, Diamond Refusal, Ruapunawai (R8)

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway

Palmerston North Greyhounds Venue: Manawatu Race- 3 12.47pm MANAWATU RACEWAY C1 C1, 375m 5 65843 Homebush Sting nwtd ...............J McInerney way Meeting Date: 4 Jun 2014 NZ Meeting number: 9 1 73285 Macgyver Rama nwtd P &..................Doody 6 47158 Google It nwtd .......................... S Gommans Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 2 54525 Fire Boy Baxter 21.55 ...............J McInerney 7 78365 Coyote Caught Ya 22.34...........E Duganzich 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 3 48466 Backyard Queen 22.43 ..................... B Hunt 8 72536 Boomerang Man nwtd ................ B Johnston 11 and 12 9 44768 Exact Master nwtd ............................ B Hunt 4 85476 Raveon 21.92 ............................ M G Gowan 10 6F777 Cosmic Sally 22.11 ...................J McInerney 5 65156 Behemoth 22.07............................A Speight 1 12.09pm (NZT) AWAPUNI DASH C0 C0, 375m 6 55554 Flayosc 22.37 G &........................... J Clarke 6 1.45pm MARTON DASH C1 C1, 375m 1 83 Fortis Lion nwtd U &..........................Cottam 7 66655 Flirt With Me 22.03 .................. T McCracken 1 27348 Gold Stone nwtd D L & ................... L Wright 2 46467 Shinzigzag nwtd G &..........................Denby 8 48866 Where’s Rican nwtd ................. S Gommans 2 36364 Scarilicious 21.97 L & ........................ Morris 3 1 Boston Strike nwtd F & ..................Turnwald 9 55488 Rebel Joe 22.41 ..............................

C Brider 3 57763 King’s Selection nwtd ............... S Gommans 4 Hannibal Lecter nwtd .......................L Ahern 4 12325 Tongariro nwtd G & ......................... J Clarke 5 66276 Cee Ach Gee nwtd ................... S Gommans 10 14868 Smash Magic nwtd................... S Gommans 5 45532 Cosmic Rascal nwtd ............... T McCracken 6 54253 Fortis Memories nwtd..........................L Udy 4 1.04pm J P PRINT PETONE C1 C1, 375m 6 27611 Waldo Baxter 22.03...................J McInerney 7 43667 Addis Mate nwtd ............................... R Hunt 1 887x8 Shiny Upsome nwtd .................A Duganzich 7 65457 Homebush Anabel 22.49 ................. C Clark 8 645 Cawbourne Malky nwtd................M Roberts 2 45478 Hill of Grace nwtd..................... S Gommans 8 37284 Chelsea’s Beauty 21.75 ............... T Downey 9 44875 Garnsey nwtd ........................... S Gommans 3 62278 Boot The Cash nwtd................ T McCracken 9 73788 Rijeka 21.76 .............................. M G Gowan 4 44868 Uno Charm 22.20........................B Goodwin 10 74677 Fantas Fiction nwtd .................. S Gommans 5 55842 Sydenham Opal 22.05 G & ............. J Clarke 10 6F777 Cosmic Sally 22.11 ...................J McInerney 2 12.29pm WOODVILLE STAKES C0 C0, 457m 6 31244 Toxic Revenge 22.02 .....................A Speight 7 2.10pm WWW.RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ HT 1 C2q, 375m 1 2 Allegro Max nwtd .............................L Ahern 7 65447 Dodgy Pockets nwtd.................. M G Gowan 1 64542 Flying Blake 21.92 .............................. L Bell 2 Allegro Class nwtd ...........................L Ahern 8 54214 Aokautere nwtd .........................J McInerney 2 32888 Fanta’s Fever 22.03.................. S Gommans 3 68467 Portobello Patsy nwtd ......................R Waite 9 44768 Exact Master nwtd ............................ B Hunt 3 25475 Sheza Fooling 22.10 ............... T McCracken 4 45325 Big Job Jonesy nwtd ............J Woolston-Bell 4 x3567 Girl Pride nwtd ..................................D Edlin 5 78 Mean As nwtd S & ....................C Blackburn 10 85787 Opawa Cuddles nwtd ......................S Maher 5 41818 Riba Lorda nwtd G &....................... J Clarke 6 34858 Little Prophet nwtd ...........................R Waite 5 1.22pm PETER SINCLAIR PHOTO FINISH C1, 375m 6 76766 Queen Cobra 21.84 ......................... A Clark 1 86645 Sydenham Jade nwtd G & .............. J Clarke 7 33324 Members Only nwtd .........................L Ahern 7 248F6 Secret Sprite 21.94 .......................A Speight 2 13568 Sub Silentio nwtd ........................B Goodwin 8 2 Auckland Vending nwtd F & ...........Turnwald 8 32188 Gem’s Conquest 21.62 ...................... R Udy 3 47477 Seconds Good nwtd.................. M G Gowan 9 64677 Sniff of Brandy nwtd .........................R Waite 4 F5818 Miss Cool nwtd........................ T McCracken 8 2.28pm ASHHURST DASH C2 HEAT 2 C2q, 375m 10 87765 Wairere Mike nwtd ..........................P Knight

1 18577 Chelseas Babe 22.02................... T Downey 2 74852 It’s A Doll 21.92 ...........................A Turnwald 3 1141x Plan Your Move 21.75 ......................L Ahern 4 38247 Missy Sloy 21.71 ..................... T McCracken 5 86636 Gay Thorley 22.12 .....................J McInerney 6 62463 Thrilling Might 22.03 G & ................ J Clarke 7 87255 Hot Pootie nwtd U & ..........................Cottam 8 42466 Dogged Dan 22.01 ............................ R Hunt 9 2.53pm CLOVERLEA DASH C2 HEAT 3 C2q, 375m 1 12252 Goodtime Kate 21.65 ..................B Goodwin 2 32655 Cool Heir 21.80 .................................. N Udy 3 65716 Kotumba 22.00 L & ............................ Morris 4 16663 Homebush Envy nwtd ...................... C Clark 5 54674 Thrilling Abra nwtd .............................L Bliek 6 46321 Azure Dreams nwtd G & ................. J Clarke 7 26853 This Time Pedro nwtd U & ................Cottam 8 76113 Cawbourne Onyx 21.93 ...............M Roberts 10 3.20pm SHANNON DASH C3 C3, 375m 1 32455 Not Bad 21.76 ............................ B Johnston 2 12874 Smirnoff 21.80.......................... S Gommans 3 21145 Cosmic Choice 22.09 ................J McInerney 4 81546 Deathstar nwtd ..............................A Speight 5 11121 Wild As Angels 21.68 ......................M Olden 6 36564 Flying Trance 21.86 F & .................Turnwald 7 11131 Cawbourne Flow 21.91 ................M Roberts 8 67112 Dasher Rum 21.78 ...........................R Waite 9 46657 Time’s Up 21.78 G & ..........................Denby

10 33576 Uno Flash nwtd ...............................S Maher

11 3.38pm FEILDING STAKES C1 C1, 457m

1 73664 Adda Boy Zeke 27.02 B & .............G Atwood 2 73757 Sarah Campbell nwtd..................B Hodgson 3 22124 Dipsy Lala 27.07 ..............................L Ahern 4 65554 Paddy Baxter 26.55...................J McInerney 5 74221 Opawa Cassidy nwtd ......................S Maher 6 21151 Semantics 26.59 ..............................L Ahern 7 76553 Cawbourne Crazy nwtd................M Roberts 8 48816 Amy Wineglass 27.05 ..............A Duganzich Emergencies: 9 75846 Radical Rufus nwtd .................... B Johnston 10 55858 Belldeen 26.48 .........................A Duganzich 12 3.56pm FOXTON STAKES C1 C1, 457m 1 22478 Rock On Sprite nwtd G & ...................Denby 2 43233 Contemporaneous 26.55 .................L Ahern 3 22512 Cawbourne Aries nwtd .................M Roberts 4 66372 Zamaddis Lass nwtd .................... T Downey 5 66823 Into The Fray nwtd ...........................R Waite 6 57773 Applause nwtd ............................B Goodwin 7 1111 Sweet Rubyjane 25.65 .....................L Ahern 8 46764 Time For What nwtd .................. M G Gowan Emergencies: 9 75846 Radical Rufus nwtd .................... B Johnston 10 55858 Belldeen 26.48 .........................A Duganzich 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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Wednesday, June 4 , 2014

SITUATIONS VACANT

SITUATIONS VACANT

Office Administrator Your Office Administrator provides professional services for local businesses choosing to outsource their office administration and bookkeeping requirements. Our business has grown and as a consequence we need our own office administrator.

For four hours each day we need an organised and positive person to help us to manage our jobs, assist with payroll processing, accounts payable and receivable, organise our clients to bring in their paperwork, filing, deliveries and reception duties.

To fit our culture you will; • Continually strive for quality, with a focus on attention to detail • Have a passion for numbers and be extremely accurate • Show initiative and flexibility with great analytical and problem solving ability • Be positive, cheerful and easily relate to our varied and interesting clients • Have the utmost integrity and respect client confidentiality Ideally your skills will include; • Experience in Accounts Payable and Receivable • Ability to accurately code transactions • Payroll experience • Familiarity with bank reconciliations; full training will be provided • Knowledge of a variety of Desktop and Cloud software packages We will provide you with a competitive salary package reflecting your ability and efficiency, varied and interesting work and the opportunity to grow your skills with on-going development and training. Hours are four hours per day, between the hours of 11am to 5pm.

To apply email your application, references and CV to: kim@yoa.co.nz by June 5, 2014.

SITUATIONS VACANT

S.E.E.D.S Family Wellbeing Coordinator Due to our current staff member moving on to a new position within our organisation we are now looking to employ a coordinator to oversee this very successful service.

S.E.E.D.S places volunteer support workers with parents of new-borns/ pre-schoolers in homes to support parents with practical parenting and household skills with the goal of building self-confidence and self-reliance.

We are looking for a non-judgemental, empathetic person with the ability to support vulnerable families in obtaining their goals.

9 Do you have experience in service coordination, client planning and assessment?

9 Are you passionate about improving wellbeing and social outcomes for families?

9 Are you a skilled communicator with excellent relationship management?

9 Do you have excellent organisational and time management skills?

9 Do you have experience in social work practice and a commitment to strength based processes?

9 Do you have experience in volunteer recruitment, management and retention?

If you can answer yes to these questions we would love to hear from you.

This position is for 28 hours per week and is based in Ashburton Applications close Friday, June 20.

For an application pack please contact Mary at: mary@saferashburton.org.nz or download from our website.

Located at: 20 William Street, Ashburton 7700 Phone: 03 308 1395 www.saferashburton.org.nz Email: info@saferashburton.org.nz

RESTAURANT MANAGER The Hotel is entering an exciting new phase with the refurbishment of its restaurant and we are looking for an enthusiastic person to help drive and lead the team.

This is a full-time, hands on role and experience in restaurant management is preferred.

Must be able to work weekends and public holidays.

A current, or the ability to obtain (ie: have the necessary industry experience etc.), a Liquor Licensing Managers Certificate is essential.

Please e-mail CV or drop off in person to: Hotel Ashburton Racecourse Road Ashburton fbmanager@hotelash.co.nz

We offer a collegial, family friendly and flexible work environment.

Chef/Cook Position We are looking for a Chef to take charge of our new kitchen to provide meals meeting the differing needs of our residents.

Previous experience in the retirement industry would be helpful but not essential.

Food Safety Unit standards 167 & 168 required or similar qualifications.

District Attendance Officer

This position would be minimum four days a week 0900 to 1730

We are seeking to employ a District Attendance Officer 20 hours per week during the school term. This role involves working with, and supporting, young people (and their families) with the goal of re-engaging the young person back into regular attendance at school.

The Key Tasks of this position involve receiving referrals, identifying root causes, developing proactive interventions and strategies then supporting the young person back into schooling.

Applicants must have: 9 Well developed verbal communication skills with young people and their families 9 Well developed written communication, data collection and reporting skills 9 Be able to work within, and have clear boundaries 9 Be able to maintain a high level of confidentiality 9 Be sensitive to, and accommodating of, cultural and individual differences 9 Ability to develop effective relationships with schools and agencies Applicants would need to be available to start work from 8:00am and although most work would occur during school time some flexibility would be required to meet with working parents.

Applications close Friday the 13th of June.

For an application pack please contact Mary at: mary@saferashburton.org.nz or download from our website.

Located at: 20 William Street, Ashburton 7700 Phone: 03 308 1395 www.saferashburton.org.nz Email: info@saferashburton.org.nz We offer a collegial, family friendly and flexible work environment.

Scale A Teacher Term 3, 2014 A position is available for a Scale A Teacher for Term 3, 2014. This is a fixed term position in a Year 8 class.

If you think this position suits you, please reply by Friday 13 June 2014 with your CV detailing current experience to: Email: office@ashinter.school.nz Or post: Ashburton Intermediate School, P.O. Box 294, 144 Cass Street, Ashburton 7740

Guardian Situations Vacant

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

Guardian Classifieds 307 7900

307 7900

The successful applicant must be passionate about food, reliable and hard working.

Must be able to manage a busy kitchen and work to set menu’s, order and monitor supplies.

Does this sound like you? Then we want to hear from you!

Email karen@terraceview.co.nz Applications close on June 6, 2013

FARM POSITION Versatile employee required for our mixed cropping and stock property at Wakanui, 12.5km east from Ashburton. Varied work including cultivation, stud sheep, dairy support and general maintenance. Some experience preferable. Own transport and accommodation required.

Apply with References to DR & AD Bennett 1272 Beach Road, Ashburton Ph: 302 3720 d.mbennett@farmside.co.nz

We design, we build, we innovate.

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

SITUATIONS VACANT

» Wheel Digger Operator Rooney Earthmoving is one of New Zealand’s leading privately owned civil contractors specialising in earthworks and civil projects.

The organisation employs over 215 staff and operates a significant fleet of heavy machinery in the central South Island.

The company is currently looking for • An Experienced Wheel Digger Operator Applicants should possess: • A good work ethic • Be capable of working unsupervised • Maintain regular attendance • Be a team player • Be prepared work overtime as required • Hold the required licences.

Applicants need to apply to: The Area Manager, PO Box 403, Ashburton Ph (03) 308 6011 email: andrew.ree@rooneygroup.co.nz

Casual part time

Cook/kitchen hand wanted Back again bistro Phone 027 255 9155.

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SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

151 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton www.petermay.co.nz

Classifieds www.guardianonline.co.nz TRADES, SERVICES

SPECIALISED SERVICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES Injured/Need

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

TRADES, SERVICES

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.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Help

Contact: Paul Annear

Physiotherapist

Former All Blacks Physio ACC provider

Ph 307-0560

256 Moore Street, Ashburton

PERSONAL MAKE LOVE HAPPEN There is no need to be alone when there are so many others who also seek one safe, special partner. Whether you live in town or on the land, our experienced matchmakers can put you in touch with someone wonderful, as soon as today.

Ph 0800 856 640 til 7pm All areas. All ages.

Seniors welcome www.lovesuccess.co.nz

FULL TIME work wanted!

Willing to learn and gain MOTORING experience. Experience in child care and house keeping. WHEEL alignments at great Please contact Ashley on 027 prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an 305 2106. alignment from Neumanns REGULAR work wanted in Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills arts or design areas for art Street. Phone 308-6737. graduate. Any attention to detail positions considered.

Phone Taylor on 020 4022 LIVESTOCK, PETS 8121.

BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, RURAL TRADING POST horse and all farm animals.

WANTED - 6-14ft cyclone We also sell pet food. Call gates, Respectable condition. Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Phone Barry 027 229 2313.

LET OR LEASE

Call the Guardian for all your classified requirements.

307 7900

Wednesday, June 4 , 2014 GRAZING

GRAZIERS required to accommodate increased demand for dairy heifer grazing and winter cow grazing, immediate, or May 1, 2014. For all grazing requirements. Contact Phone: Matt cellphone no: 027 608 3226.

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ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

CUTE KATIE - Cutest sweetest girl you will ever meet. Love to flirt, kiss, tease and please. Sexy size 8 body and perfect C cup. My body is your wonderland. Stunning looks and lush lips will blow your mind until you unwind.

HIGH Quality Winter Grazing Dress up and doubles available, some brassica, available xx. Phone 020 4030 some oats and some grass. 5858.

Contact: John Benefield.

Cellphone no. 027 227 6075. ZOE - Attractive and busty genuine. Genuine callers only, please. No texting, FOR SALE please, 021 0233 9259.

ADD THAT FINISHING touch to your ball outfit! Sparkly Valentine necklaces and ACCOMMODATION, earrings, Swarovski Strech RENTAL and Slake bracelets, Linden LARGE 3 BEDROOM house, Leaves gold dust and boys in Allenton. Double garage, we have cufflinks. Check close to schools and shops. these out at The China Shop No pets or smokers, and The Arcade. references essential.

CONTAINERS for sale or Available now, trade me ad hire, ex shipping: general and #735506864. Phone Belinda insulated. Sidelifter available at B & N Properties 021 1198 for delivery. 222.

Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone TO RENT two double, one 308-7772. single bedrooms, dishwasher, DO YOU ENJOY A PORT? heat pump, garage + off Why not enjoy it in a Port street parking, fully fenced, Sipper. You warm the port pets negotiable $285 p/wk while holding the sipper. They 307 6487 or 021 048 0210. come in singles or pair enjoy on your own or in company.

Available at The China Shop.

FIREWOOD - cut your own, Methven. $100 per trailer pine. $110 per trailer - blue gum. Please phone 302 8799 or 027 248 6050.

FIREWOOD JUNE SPECIAL. 3 cord (10.8m3) screened slabwood $240 delivered in town C.O.D. - Adams Sawmilling 308-3595 EFTPOS/Credit Card facilities available at mill yard prior to delivery

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

For all your classified requirements.

CHRISTINA - What a babe, smoking hot, kinky, role play, toys and DVD, Loves kissing, makes me feel intimate and one. here for a short time but a good time. My size 10 curves are ready to play, my firm big breasts are bouncing with joy. Luxury service, GRAZING luxury location. Phone 022 HIGH quality supervised 075 2100. grazing available for Rising 1 Heifers, now, or at May 1, CINDY Kiwi, 36, size 6, 2014. For all grazing attractive, busty, long hair. Guardian Classifieds requirements. Contact: Matt GFE. Phone calls only. New cellphone no: 027 608 3226. location, 027 448 7011.

307 7900 OFFICE SPACES AVAILABLE. Parking, fibre optic hub, 24 hour access, security monitored. Clean and tidy. Lease options. $PBN. Phone 021 554 570.

Phone the Guardian 307 7900

Honda’s range of lawn and garden advanced 4-stroke technology products offer everything you need to make gardening a dream.

ASHBURTON 832 East St 03 307 9911 www.dne.co.nz 0800 432 633

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.

10.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, upstairs. All welcome. 254 Cameron Street.

Thursday 9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Beginners and maintenance class. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

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.

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

M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11.30pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid week service and lunch. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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.

1.30pm ASHBURTON HERB SOCIETY. Monthly meeting herb discussions by members.

1/51 Peter 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.

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

12.50pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome.

Racecourse Road.

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

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm SCOTTISH SOCIETY INDOOR BOWLS. Bowls afternoon, all players welcome. Balmoral hall, Cameron Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT. Curtain bank van arrives. Contact Dianne Smith at Presbyterian Support for information.

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

Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street, the Domain.

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIOR NET. Antarctic visit, Robin Burton insight. M.S.A. Lounge off Burnett Street.

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

Noticeboard

4 June 2014

havE your Say Ashburton District Council’s draft Local Approved Products Policy (LAPP) is now available for community consultation.

The LAPP specifies where in the district retailers of approved psychoactive products (more commonly known as “legal highs”) may be located.

Although the Government has recently revoked all approvals for psychoactive products and licences to sell them, it is likely that some of these products will return to the market in 2015. Council needs to be prepared for when this happens, so has continued with development of its LAPP. Council wants to hear what you think of the proposed policy. To learn more about the policy visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz Submissions will be received until 5.00pm, Monday 30 June 2014.

PubLIc NotIcE

gr aNtS

Proposed Road Closure

Biodiversity Grant Applications

Pursuant to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, notice is hereby given that for the purpose of allowing Ashburton Business Association to hold Boulevard Day, proposes to close the following roads to ordinary vehicular traffic for the period indicated hereunder.

Funding applications are invited from groups and organisations for financial assistance from the Ashburton District Council’s Biodiversity Grants scheme.

Roads to be closed: East Street, from Moore Street to Cameron Street Burnett Street, from East Street to 230 Burnett Street Tancred Street, from East Street to Cass Street Havelock Street, from West Street to Baring Square Period of closure: From 7.00am until 5.00pm on Monday, 22 September 2014.

Any person objecting to the proposal is called upon to lodge notice of their objection and grounds thereof in writing or email to Council by 4.00pm on 6 June 2014.

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.

coMMuNIt y PooL The Ashburton Community Pool will be undertaking annual pool maintenance and will be closed from 3 June 2014 until 8 June 2014. For more information visit www.ashburtoncommunitypool.co.nz

Up & Coming

Council provides for annual grants to protect and/or enhance indigenous biodiversity in the Ashburton District.

The maximum individual grant available is $5,000 and can be no more than 50% of the total project cost. The applicants share of the project’s cost can be in kind, or financial.

Application forms and full criteria are available from the Council website and from the Council offices. For further enquiries please contact the Council on 307 7700 or email info@adc.govt.nz.

Applications close 5.00pm Monday 14 July 2014.

havE your Say

Meetings Finance & Business Support Committee Meeting Thursday 4 June 2014, 1.30pm Council Meeting Thursday 26 June 2014, 1.30pm Methven Community Board Monday 30 June 2014, 1.30pm

Career Opportunities Team Leader & Garden Opportunities For more information, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

Review of Transportation and Parking Bylaw The Ashburton District Council adopted draft amendments to the Transportation & Parking Bylaw on 8 May 2014. The bylaw sets controls for parking, traffic and the use of roads within the district, excluding state highways controlled by the New Zealand Transport Agency.

The draft amendments to the bylaw are now open for public comment, and Council wants to know what you think of the proposed changes.

Copies of the full draft Transportation & Parking Bylaw, related documents and submission forms are available on the Council’s website or from Council offices, Rakaia Mobil and the Methven i-SITE. For more information on the draft Transportation & Parking Bylaw, visit www.ashburtondc.govt.nz Submissions will be received until 5.00pm, Thursday 19 June 2014.

road SaFEty Country Roads are not Motorways There are obvious differences between motorways and country roads. Country roads are narrower, have more corners, less road markings and have rural activities happening on them.

While both have a 100km speed limit, we need to drive at speeds that reflect our surroundings - is 100k ok on rural roads?

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Record of meeting made up by seconds (7) 5. Be silent! It’s a game of cards! (5) 8. One being taught to be a wage-getter after fifty (7) 9. Its building-blocks might disappear in sunnier climes (5) 10. Bubbly person best at his sport gets silver: one loses lead (9) 12. Give one a dressingdown that may be a transformation (3) 13. Revolting person will stagger around the top of the bar (5) 17. Moorland height starts towering over region (3) 19. Sack the man on watch for standing in the grate (9) 21. Slacken off end of tassel and put a board on it (5) 22. Attacks a fool when about to put to sea (7) 24. Provide hands and leave the fruit (5) 25. He may have no bottle left, having finished his round (7)

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11. Share selection left in a ship for one to fool with (9) 14. It holds the mind of Iran perhaps with Latin surroundings (7) 15. It flows right inside a vapour (6) 16. Betting the price is curious when numbers are up (4-2) 18. Is up and is going east in the Navy (5) 20. ‘this earth, this ____ , this England’ (K Richard II) (5) 23. The sun, note, thus appears at the end of April (3)

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DOWN 1. More than enough (5) 2. Process of experimentation (5-3-5) 3. Deadlock (9) 4. Lives (6) 5. Health resort (3) 6. Beyond doubt or reproach (13) 7. Strips (7) 11. Glues (9) 12. Question session after a mission (7) 14. Blending (6) 17. Computer enthusiasts (5) 19. Male cat (3)

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Dearly loved son of Karen and Mike. Beloved brother of Kylie and Quint, Chris and Candice, Aaron and Tania, and Ben and loved uncle of all his nieces and nephews.

Messages to 17 Cameron Street, Ashburton 7700. A service to celebrate AJ’s life will be held at Our Chapel Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, June 6, commencing at 1.30pm followed by private cremation at Ashburton.

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VAN DEN BERG, Jantina (Tina) – On June 3, 2014. Peacefully at Ashburton. Loved wife of Jan. Loved mother and mother in law of Peter and Gail, and Hilda and Nick de Wys. Loved Oma of Ricky, Kerry, and Angela; Roberta, and Blair and her 9 great grandchildren.

“Rest in Peace” Messages to the van den Berg family C/- 9a Thomson Street, Ashburton 7700. A private family service will be held.

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Areas of morning low cloud or fog, otherwise fine. Northeasterlies.

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Queenstown

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SATURDAY

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Invercargill

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Rain at times. Winds becoming light at all levels.

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Wednesday, 4 June 2014

A ridge remains over the North Island as a front moves slowly up the South Island tomorrow and Friday. The front moves onto the North Island on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a ridge over the South Island.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 9.2 11.8 Max to 4pm -2.1 Minimum -7.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm June to date 0.6 Avg Jun to date 6 2014 to date 417.8 288 Avg year to date Wind km/h SE 7 At 4pm Strongest gust SE 15 Time of gust 3:24pm

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am Ellen 3 0 11am Selling Houses Australia Ross wants to sell his heritage-listed cottage located three metres from a busy railway track.

Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale Nicola is annoyed; Val makes an apology; Betty is frustrated. 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 3 2pm May The Best House Win USA 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 Ellen 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 3 0 6:50 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:57 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 7am Phineas And Ferb 3 0 7:25 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:50 Ben 10 – Omniverse 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 8 Simple Rules 0 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Cougar Town PGR 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 2pm Bethenny 3pm According To Jim 3 0 3:29 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:35 Sanjay And Craig 0 4:04 Horace In Slow Motion 3 4:05 I’m In The Band 3 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

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 The Shopping Channel 11:25 The Nanny 3 0 Noon 3 News 12:30 Dr Phil PGR A mother and daughter try to mend a troubled relationship caused by events in the past.

1:30 The Dr Oz Show PGR A meal plan designed to stabilise blood sugar and mood.

2:30 Rachael Ray Tips on protecting oneself from identity theft; Daniel Dae Kim. 3:30 The Queen Latifah Show 4:30 Entertainment Tonight 5pm The Biggest Loser Australia Last-chance training becomes too much for one contestant.

6pm 3 News

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Rapid Response A family fears its youngest is struggling to live; a father of three suffers an attack of dizziness at work; a man training for his first triathlon is hit by a truck. 0 8pm Fair Go 0 8:30 One Born Every Minute 0 9:30 Nashville AO 0 10:30 One News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR Rachel wins a friend; Vasa takes a chance on love; Sarah is alarmed by a threat to Tillie. 0 7:30 My Kitchen Rules Gate crashers Josh and Danielle take to the kitchen as the competition moves to Victoria. 0 8:45 The Big Bang Theory PGR 0 9:15 2 Broke Girls AO 0 9:40 Once Upon a Time 0 10:40 Supernatural AO 0

7pm Campbell Live 7:30 House Rules PGR 0 8:40 3rd Degree 9:35 Bouncers AO 0 10:30 The Paul Henry Show Paul Henry wraps up the day’s events, including the latest from the newsroom.

11pm House Husbands PGR 0 11:55 Damages AO 3 1:05 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:40 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:35 Happily Divorced 3 Midnight Feedback AO 3 12:30 20/20 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:25 Detroit 1-8-7 AO 3 3:10 Necessary Roughness AO 3 0 3:55 Jeremy Kyle USA PGR 4:40 The 4:30 Show 3 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11pm NCIS AO 3 Tony’s secret assignment for the SECNAV leads to an NCIS agent’s death. 0 Midnight Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 My Dream Derelict Home With Simon O’Brien.

7:30 Belfast Zoo 8am Better Homes And Gardens 9:30 House Crashers 10am My Dream Home 11am Auction Hunters 11:30 Home Of The Future 12:30 Hairy Bikers’ Meals On Wheels The boys ride to the rescue of one of Britain’s national culinary treasures – Meals on Wheels.

1:30 Love The Place You’re In 2:25 My Dream Derelict Home 3:30 Belfast Zoo 4pm Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 4:30 The Cook And The Chef 5pm Candice Tells All 5:30 Carter Can 6pm Bid America 6:30 Bath Crashers 7pm American Restoration Mike and Frank travel the country looking for antique gold.

7:30 Ray Mears’ Bushcraft Everything you need to know to survive alone in the wilderness.

8:40 IFish 9:40 Bullproof PGR 10:30 Stupid, Stupid Man AO 11pm American Restoration 11:30 Saturday Cookbook

THURSDAY

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Belfast Zoo 1:30 Carter Can 2am The Cook And The Chef 2:30 Back To Basics With Nick Nairn 3am Stupid, Stupid Man AO 3:30 Bullproof PGR 4:30 Bath Crashers 5am Ray Mears’ Bushcraft

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PRIME

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Test PGR Celebrities and viewers answer moral questions.

1:55 Secret Millionaire UK PGR 3 Sue Stone is a millionaire confidence coach, and is going undercover in Coventry looking for people to help.

3pm History Under The Hammer 3 3:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 3 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his guest chefs create dishes using pulses.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 MythBusters PGR 7:30 The Face Australia PGR Nicole gives the girls a master 8:30 Elementary AO When a famous cancer researcher class in movement and is found dead, Holmes and modelling before setting a Watson must determine if the test shoot challenge on a scientist’s demise was tied to trampoline. his latest invention.

8:40 Last Resort AO 9:30 Prime Rocks – Sex, Drugs 9:40 Burn Notice AO and Rock ‘n’ Roll AO (Part 2) 10:35 Breakout Kings AO 0 10:30 Back Benches PGR

6am Rugby – IRB Junior World Championships (Highlights) 7am Rugby League – Holden Cup (Replay) Roosters U20 v Canberra U20.

9am Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Magic v Firebirds.

9:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Mystics v Swifts.

10am Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Steel v Vixens.

10:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Thunderbirds v Tactix.

11am Triathlon – ITU World Series (Replay) 12:30 Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day Ten. 1:30 Athletics – IAAF Diamond League (Highlights) 2:30 Motorsport – European Le Mans Series (Highlights) 3:30 Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series (Highlights) 4:30 Darts (Delayed) Dubai Masters.

7:30 Triathlon – ITU World Series (Highlights) London.

8:30 Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day Ten. From Roland Garros in Paris.

9:30 Golf World 10pm Rugby – IRB Junior World Championships (Replay) New Zealand v Samoa. From the QBE Stadium in Auckland.

11:30 Entertainment Tonight 11:55 Infomercials

Midnight Motorcycling – Isle Of Man TT 1am Hockey – Women’s FIH World Cup 2:30 Rugby League – NRL 3am Rugby League – NRL 3:30 Rugby League – NRL 4am Motorcycling – Isle Of Man TT 5am Rugby – Super Rugby 5:30 Rugby – Super Rugby

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 All Grown Up 3 7:55 Rugrats 3 8:20 Chuggington 8:30 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8:45 Peppa Pig 3 8:55 Bob The Builder 3 9:05 Thomas And Friends 3 9:15 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:25 Barney And Friends 3 9:50 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:30 Four Live 6pm Malcolm In The Middle 0 6:30 Just Shoot Me! 3 0

11:30 The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

12:30 Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2am Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Maggie And The Ferocious Beast 3 2 4pm Miharo 2 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga o

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 – Borneo PG 8:55 Criminal Intent MV 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 CSI – Miami MV 11:20 Falling Skies MV 12:10 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 1:05 Criminal Intent MV 1:55 Law And Order MV 2:45 Survivor – Borneo PG 3:35 Raw MC 6:35 The Simpsons PG 7pm Parking Wars PGL 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 NCIS PGV 9:30 Hawaii Five-O MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 CSI – Miami MV

THURSDAY

12:30 Survivor – Borneo PG 1:20 Law And Order MV 2:10 SVU MV 3am NCIS PGV 3:50 Hawaii Five-O MV 4:40 Most Shocking M 5:35 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG

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SKY SPORT 2 te Motu 6:30 Ako 3 2 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 F Karanga – The First Voice 8pm Whare Taonga 8:30 Tautohetohe PGR 9:30 Te Tepu 2 10pm Te Kauta 10:30 Native Affairs 3 11:30 Te Kaea 3 2 Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Factory Made PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Man v Wild PG Everglades. 8:30 MythBusters PG Big-Rig Myths.

9:30 Mighty Planes PG 10:30 The Unexplained Files PG 11:30 I Married A Mobster M Noon I Married A Mobster M 12:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 1:30 Dead Of Night M 2:30 Super Skyscrapers PG 3:30 Moonshiners M 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 6:30 Auction Hunters PG 7pm Auction Hunters PG 7:30 Bear Grylls – Extreme Survival M 8pm Bear Grylls – Extreme Survival M 8:30 Sons Of Guns M 9:30 Yukon Men M 10:30 Tickle M 11pm Southern Fried Homicide M

THURSDAY

Midnight Nightmare Next Door M 1am Deadly Affairs M 2am Meteorite Men PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Sons Of Guns M 5am Meteorite Men PG

The Paul Henry Show 10:30pm on TV3

MOVIES PREMIERE 7:25 The Making Of The Bourne Legacy MV 7:45 The Watch 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn. 9:25 The Expatriate MV 2012 Thriller. Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko.

11:10 The Day 16VL 2012 Horror.

Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell.

12:35 Inappropriate Comedy 16LS 2013 Comedy. Adrien Brody, Rob Schneider.

2pm The Making Of The Bourne Legacy MV 2:20 The Cabin In The Woods 16VL 2011 Horror. Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchinson.

3:55 The Watch 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn.

5:35 The Selling Of Scarry Manor MV 2010 Comedy. Gabriel Diani, Jonathan Klein.

7:05 Pawn 16VL 2013 Thriller.

8:30 Django Unchained 16VL 2012 Action.

11:15 Movie 43 16VLS 2013 Comedy. THURSDAY 12:50 Killer Joe 18VLS 2011 Crime.

2:30 The Selling Of Scarry Manor MV 2010 Comedy. 4am Killer Joe 18VLS 2011 Crime. 5:40 Movie 43 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

7:15 The Fugitive MV 1993 Action.

Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford.

9:25 The Importance Of Being Earnest 2002 Comedy.

11:05 Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans 16V 2009 Action.

12:35 Twister PGV 1996 Drama.

Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes.

2:30 Duplex MVS 2003 Comedy.

Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller.

4pm The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 Fantasy. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin.

6:55 Just Like Heaven PGS 2005 Romantic Comedy. Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo.

8:30 Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street 16V 2007 Crime. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter.

10:30 The River Wild MVL 1994 Action Adventure. Meryl Streep.

9am Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series (Highlights) 10am Tennis – French Open (Highlights) Day Ten. From Roland Garros in Paris.

10am Boxing – WBA Super World Featherweight Title (Replay) Vetyeka v Donaire. From the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao.

4pm Rugby – IRB Junior World Championships (Highlights) Round One. 5pm Rugby – IRB Junior World Championships (Highlights) New Zealand v Samoa. From QBE Stadium in Auckland.

5:30 Cricket – IPL (Highlights) Final – Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders. From Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.

6pm Sky Sport – What’s On 6:30 NRL Fulltime 7pm Golf Central (Replay) 7:30 Motorcycling – Isle Of Man TT (Highlights) Supersport – Race One. 8:30 Rugby – IRB Junior World Championships (Highlights) New Zealand v Samoa. From QBE Stadium in Auckland.

9pm Cotto v Martinez 24/7 9:30 NRL 360 10:30 Cricket – IPL (Replay) Final – Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders. From Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.

12:20 The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 Fantasy. Elijah Wood.

3:15 Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street 16V 2007 Crime. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter. 5:10 Duplex MVS 2003 Comedy.

2:30 Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (Highlights) Fedex 400.

3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) Waikato Bay Of Plenty Magic v Queensland Firebirds.

4am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Sharks v Stormers.

Elementary

8:30pm on Prime

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Methven bowler claims coveted award

BY MYLES HUME

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Methven bowler Craig Carter was named Canterbury’s most consistent player this week.

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He is a man who spends almost every night on the green during summer, so it was no surprise Methven lawn bowler Craig Carter claimed one of the most coveted awards in Canterbury bowls.

Carter was awarded the region’s most consistent player award on Saturday night at a Canterbury Bowls function – a prize that is rarely won by players competing in the smaller centres.

But with a Canterbury triples title and runner up fours medal for his Hornby club and a final eight singles placing and a champions of champions triples title for his Methven team, it would have been hard to ignore him.

Like most sports consistency is key, but no more so than in lawn bowls.

So what was the secret?

“For me it’s all about practice and just focusing on what you’re doing and not getting grumpy at your team-mates,” Carter said.

“Before Christmas I was just about practising every night and I was playing in competitions at the weekends, so having that time on the green really helps.”

Although he was proud to have his name added to the prestigious list after competing for 17 years, he was not claiming all the credit.

“It’s great, but in saying that I have got team-mates that helped me along the way so I couldn’t have done it without them.”

The stellar season does not stop there for Carter, who will join two other team-mates on June 25 when they head to Dunedin to vie for a national triples title.

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