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Mountain bike recovered Almost one week on from the shooting tragedy which rocked Ashburton, police are continuing their high profile investigation in the town.

At the weekend they located a black mountain bike with a number of personal items thought to belong to the suspect arrested in relation to Monday’s incident.

Canterbury police search teams, including specialist firearms dog handlers and dogs from Christchurch and Wellington, had been joined by 65 volunteer SAR team members from Christchurch, Methven, Oxford, Rakaia, Ellesmere and Timaru to search through rough scrub and bush.

They extensively searched the area stretching from the scene of the double fatality to the farm near where Russell John Tully was apprehended. This included searching about 13 kilometres of riverbank along the Ashburton River.

Police are continuing to look for any other items which could include an additional firearm and ammunition that may have been in the alleged murderer’s possession.

They will continue the search today with a smaller team of police staff, and request the public and media continue to keep

away from the area.

Police are still seeking information regarding the owner of a distinctive blue, red and yellow Challenger Sport mountain bike which was located last week.

“If this is your bike or you know who it belongs to please contact police,” police said in a media release yesterday. “Please contact police urgently if you believe you have any information that may help with locating any personal items or this bike by calling Ashburton police on 307-8411.

“Information can also be provided anonymously to the organisation Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.”

The Winz building scene of the triple shooting, which left Leigh Cleveland and Peg Noble dead and Lindy Curtis injured, remained cordoned off yesterday and police continued to work at the site.

Ms Cleveland’s funeral was held on Saturday in Alexandra where she grew up. Hundreds of mourners gathered to farewell the 55-year-old, and included her Ashburton work colleagues and Minister for Social Development and Employment Paula Bennett.

Ms Noble’s funeral will be held today at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Police and search and rescue personnel search the Ashburton River on Saturday as part of the town’s ongoing shooting tragedy investigation.

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Prince Harry turning 30 Prince Harry (below) will soon celebrate his 30th birthday - an important moment for the Queen’s grandson, who has come of age. The big day - on September 15 - is likely to be marked by a party with family and close friends, and comes after a busy summer for the fourth in line to the throne.

There are rumours Pippa Middleton, has been given the honour of organising the bash at Kensington Palace. Harry’s birthday falls the day after his Invictus Games has ended - a Paralympic style championship for wounded servicemen and women from across the globe. Turning 30 will also mean the fourth in line to the throne will be entitled to an inheritance - estimated at £10.7 million ($NZ21 million) - left to him by his mother Princess Diana.

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G.R.L. member found dead Pop group G.R.L. are in shock following the sudden death of member Simone Battle. “Words cannot express the depth of our loss. Simone’s incredible talent was only surpassed by the size of her heart,” they said. The 25-year-old X-Factor contestant and G.R.L. member was found dead in her apartment in West Hollywood at the weekend by her father Anthony Battle. Only last month Battle visited Australia where G.R.L. had a double platinum hit with Ugly Heart. Battle became a member of G.R.L. in 2012 just as she was about to become the new Pussycat Girl.

Pharrell eco friendly at NY Fashion Designers usually wait to show their faces after the models hit the runway. Not Pharrell (right). The pop star led a dozen models during New York Fashion Week for his RAW for the Oceans spring-summer collection. He sported his signature hat and denim which was a staple for the line, a collaboration with G-Star and Bionic Yarn, which produces fabrics made by fibres collected from recycled plastic bottles. “It’s very easy to forget we live on this planet,” Pharrell told the crowd. “We don’t want to just talk about it, but we actually wanted to put it in practice.” The large room at 23 Wall Street was smoky and gloomy as lights beamed and ceiling featured a projection of artsy white spots. Frank Ocean and Jay Z’s Water played in the background. Pharrell says he’s always been interested in fashion.

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Back in time Two well known Ashburton residents were the victims of the old dropped-coin hoax in Havelock Street on September 9, 1921.

Having used matches to search for the coin, one of the parties became suspicious and suggested setting a light a high macrocarpa fence abutting the footpath. A chorus of scared juvenile voices emerged from behind the fence adjuring the adults not to do that.

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Streakers ‘must be stopped’ All Blacks coach Steve Hansen (below) has challenged security guards at test matches to up their game after a female streaker was allowed to disrupt his team’s 28-9 victory at McLean Park in Napier on Saturday night.

The woman, naked apart from a woolly hat, sprinted on to the field in the second half as the All Blacks prepared for a defensive lineout. Running from behind the All Blacks’ try-line, she made it to Argentina’s half before security eventually stopped her.

Hansen said security at tests had to be more aware of the potential threat from pitch invaders. “The question is, how do they get on? There was enough of them in the jackets, you’d think they’d be able to stop them,” he said.

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■ ASHBURTON STADIUM

Focus on new sports fields

By Sue NewmaN

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Debate is about to start on the future of a planned greenfields development around Ashburton’s new sports stadium.

Mayor Angus McKay says his door is wide open to sporting codes who are looking to relocate. He’s keen to start discussions, formulate plans and to put these before his councillors.

And the first cab off the rank could be the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union.

Fresh from losing the chance to host a pre-season match between the Crusaders and High-

landers in January next year, chief executive Ian Patterson said the time was right to look at options for developing a first class playing surface that several sporting codes could use.

Big ticket matches bring a big pay day in terms of money coming into the community, he said, but until a first class surface was developed the district would continue to be off the possible venue list.

Rugby is currently based at the Ashburton Showgrounds, but neither the player facilities nor the playing surface meet first class match standards.

Looking ahead, it was time for discussions to start about finding a site for new, multi-purpose playing fields capable of hosting premier matches, Mr Patterson said.

He’s keen to explore options around the stadium’s greenfields.

“Clearly this provides an opportunity to develop a premium outdoor field, not just for rugby but for other sports to use so they too can host top level events; we’re all looking for similar quality turf,” he said.

Ashburton’s playing fields were generally pretty good, but

to attract top events they needed to have a sand base that was a bit kinder to bodies, Mr Patterson said.

“Athletes are an expensive investment now for all sporting codes.”

Like other codes, rugby couldn’t afford to go it alone in developing a premium standard playing field, but multiple fields with one premier field around the new stadium could solve venue options for a lot of sports, he said.

“Something like this could be a big, year-round dollar earner for the stadium. We’ve had an op-

portunity that we’ve missed out on and this highlights the issue.”

Mr McKay is keen to get the ball rolling and said he has issued an open invitation to the rugby union to meet with him to talk through their options and ideas.

While the stadium was under construction, the council’s focus had been on that project, but with this due to wrap up early next year, the focus could now turn to other development in the area, he said.

“With that almost done, it’s easier to do the next part,” he said.

■ WINZ TRAGEDY

Shooting victim farewelled Leigh Cleveland’s beloved dogs featured in every anecdote shared at her funeral service in Alexandra on Saturday.

People attending dog shows across the country that day were all observing a minute’s silence to remember Ms Cleveland, mourners were told.

Her passion for dogs was evident in the tributes paid by family, friends and colleagues, photos of her pet rottweilers featured in the service sheet and mourners were asked to make donations to the New Zealand Guide Dog Appeal “as dogs were a particular love and passion of Leigh’s,” funeral celebrant Jeannie Barker told the service.

Leigh Cleveland, 55, and her colleague Peg Noble were shot dead while working at the Ashburton Work and Income office last Monday.

Ashburton man Russell John Tully has been charged with

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two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett and a 30-strong contingent of Work and Income staff were among about the 300 mourners. Mrs Barker said it

was a time for comfort and support rather than focusing on the “why and wherefores” of Ms Cleveland’s “senseless death”.

“There will be time enough for that in the days, weeks and months ahead,” she said.- APNZ

Winz remained cordoned off yesterday.

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■ RIDING FOR THE DISABLED

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Group celebrates 40 years

By SuSan SandyS

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Mid Canterbury Group Riding for the Disabled has helped about 2000 people learn to ride horses in its 40-year history.

The group celebrated its 40th anniversary at the weekend, with a dinner on Friday night at the Ashburton Racecourse and a day at its Leeston Street grounds on Saturday.

Saturday’s events included the unveiling of a carved limestone sculpture in honour of former secretary, the late Lesley Brown.

Her husband Denis Brown said he and Mrs Brown had moved to Mt Somers in 1997 from Banks Peninsula, and until she passed away in 2008 had been an enthusiastic volunteer of the group.

The memorial was unveiled on Saturday by grandsons Reuben Brown, 10, and Toby Brown, 7.

Flattered by such an amazing memorial to his late wife, he said he believed the sculpture could come to commemorate other long-serving members as well.

Group senior coach Maxine Hooper said the weekend

Cervical screening Mid Canterbury women are encouraged to get their cervical smears up to date during Cervical Screening Awareness month this September. Associate Health Minister Jo Goodhew said cervical cancer was one of the most preventable of all cancers, but early detection was important.

“By having regular smears the risk of developing cervical cancer is reduced by around 90 per cent.

That’s a very compelling reason for women to check if they are due for a smear,” she said. A cervical smear test took less than 15 minutes and should be done every three years. Around 1.5 million women aged 20 to 70 years were enrolled in the National Cervical Screening Programme with 400,000 of those screened in the last year. Women were encouraged to find out when their next smear was due either by calling their GP or free-phone 0800 729 729.

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Denis Brown was flattered to see a commemorative sculpture unveiled in memory of his late wife Lesley Brown at Mid Canterbury Group Riding for the Disabled’s 40th anniversary at the weekend.

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had been “brilliant”, with good weather and about 70 people at the dinner and another 70 attending on Saturday.

In addition there had been about 100 scouts and cubs arrive for riding on the Saturday,

from a Mania-O-Roto event.

“It was amazing because so many of them had never been near a horse,” Mrs Hooper said.

She said the memorial stone had been carved by Ashburton artist Ash Banks from lime-

stone donated by the Aclands at Mt Somers Station, where Mrs Brown had worked as a gardener.

The group has eight of its own horses and also uses loan horses.

■ EMERGENCY CALL-OUTS

Firefighters busy Mid Canterbury firefighters attended a number of minor incidents at the weekend, including a two-car collision at the Oak Grove-Harrison Street roundabout (pictured), which the Ashburton fire brigade and St John responded to.

About 3.40pm yesterday the brigade was called to a tractor on fire on a farm at Elgin. Its only other call-out for the weekend was to a minor one-car accident at 10.40pm on Friday, which the Methven and Mt Somers brigades also responded to.

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Three Mid Canterbury organisations catering to different age groups in the community benefitted from the August funding round from the Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury. The Ashburton Youth Café Charitable Trust, which runs the BASE Youth Centre, got $7000 and the newly established Ashburton Menz Shed $6000.

Both organisations got their funding for operational costs.

The Ashburton Gymnastics Club received $5093 towards the purchase of new gym equipment.

Three other organisations to get a share of the total $32,593 funding were Timaru based Women’s Community Centre Trust, which runs the Butler Street community centre ($4500), Arthritis NZ ($5000) and Christchurch based Youthline (Central South Island) ($5000).

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Cunliffe keeps his distance

Rangitata’s Labour Electorate Committee (LEC) chairman is disappointed by the latest comments of the electorate’s candidate, but does not regret Steve Gibson’s appointment.

Mr Gibson was not commenting yesterday, but LEC chairman Glen Cameron, of Rakaia, said while the party had been let down Mr Gibson had no intention of resigning and the committee did not regret his appointment, which members had voted for unanimously.

“The Labour Party are running a positive campaign, and I feel bitterly let down by these things because we want to concentrate on policy, and I have told Steve,” Mr Cameron said.

He understood the alleged comments had come from a phone conversation with a reporter where Mr Gibson had naively believed he was talking off the record.

“We are moving forward, surely there are bigger issues.”

Labour leader David Cunliffe has dissociated himself from his Rangitata candidate, Steve Gibson, and is not encouraging anyone to vote for him.

“We are campaigning for the party vote in that seat and I don’t expect that he is going to be a Member of Parliament.”

Mr Cunliffe last month put Mr Gibson on a final warning when he called Prime Minister John Key “Shylock” and a “nasty little creep”, - at odds with Labour’s “Vote Positive” campaign. Mr Gibson is reported in the Timaru Herald as saying his party was being too “respectful” of National and he was sick of toeing the party line.

Labour was “not going to win by being “Mr Soft-arse softlysoftly” and he was prepared to call it as he saw it.

Mr Cunliffe said Mr Gibson could not pulled as a candidate, but Labour was seeking the party vote in Rangitata. People would make their own minds up about Mr Gibson.

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Mr Gibson had his first ever media interview in April.

It was with the Guardian the day after his appointment to the role for which he had been the sole nominee for. He admitted he had a steep learning curve in front of him.

He was a Lincoln University Certificate of Commerce gradu-

ate with a varied work history, including being a professional entertainer, plasterers’ labourer and sales analyst.

He had been in his current job as self-employed insulation, ventilation and energy efficiency consultant since 2009. He lives in Timaru with his wife and preschool-age daughter.

Dad faces dog charges The father of a boy seriously injured in a dog attack has been charged as a result of the incident.

Orlando Shepherd is due to appear in court next month. In the attack last month, his pitbull mastiff cross inflicted severe facial injuries on his 4-year-old son.

Shepherd said he got the dog, named Musha, to protect his Housing New Zealand property in Otahuhu, South Auckland, from burglars. Four-year-old Mea spent 10 days in intensive care at Middlemore Hospital after the incident.

Auckland Council confirmed this week that it had “thoroughly investigated”the case and said it had pressed charges against Shepherd. He is due to appear in the Manukau District Court on October 23 for a deputy registrar’s list hearing.

Talking to the Herald on Sunday,

Shepherd said he was devastated about the events but was grateful that his son was recovering.

“I’m happy that he’s all right,” he said, adding that his boy’s scars were now healing.

Mea was not at kindergarten, but was recovering at his mother Katarina Kopa’s house most of the time.

Shepherd now faces possible eviction for keeping a dog on the HNZ property without permission.

Shepherd said he was still waiting on details from HNZ, but was despondent at the thought of being evicted.

The dog attack sparked renewed debate about a ban on some dog breeds.

Shepherd said the incident had changed his own view on pitbull terriers which he believed should be banned. “I don’t trust those dogs,” he said. - APNZ

500 gatecrash ‘quiet’ party A “few quiets” with friends ended with several fights, bottles and fence palings being thrown at police and a number of arrests as a Hamilton party spiralled out of control on Saturday night.

Callum Tilbury told the Herald he would be personally apologising to his Tawa Street neighbours in Melville after a drinks session involving about 10 mates last night swelled to more than 500 mainly teenagers gatecrashing his get-together.

The unemployed 18-year-old, who was still drinking at 11am, said he had planned a few quiets with a few friends

“but it kinda got on Facebook and the address kinda got online and people started getting crazier and crazier”.

“There were so many people that it was crammed, it was just packed on the drive way. “There would have been about 500 people here, easy.”

He said by 10pm police arrived and spoke with him to end the party.

They came back again at 10.30pm and by 11pm neighbours reported seeing cordons in place at roads entering in to Tawa Street to stop further partygoers from getting to the out-of-control soiree.

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Labour Electorate Committee (LEC) chairman Glen Cameron (right) and Rangitata candidate Steve Gibson the day after Mr Gibson’s appointment in April.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Office staff crammed in corridors

BY SUE NEWMAN

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The Ashburton District Council is running out of space.

Staff are hot desking, corridors have been turned into office space, and meeting rooms are now crammed with desks and computers.

For several years the council has had renovations and extensions to its Baring Square home on the drawing board, but each year plans have been shelved, pushed back. Meanwhile, the number of people per square

metre of floor space has increased.

With the art gallery and museum moving to the new arts and history precinct on West Street, the council has eyed the vacant Baring Square east building as additional accommodation. This would see it spreading employees over three bases - the civic building, an old villa next door and the gallery/museum building.

The council originally planned to spend $300,000 in 2009/2010, $200,000 in 2012/13 and

$250,000 in 2013/14 to provide temporary accommodation while design and consent work were completed for the construction of an extension to the civic centre. It budgeted to spend $5.4 million this year on the building extension.

The project has now passed through the 2006-2016, 20092019 and the 2012-2022 community plans and it is still on hold as other big ticket items make a call on council cash reserves.

The project now carries a

$6 million price tag with work likely to be carried out between 2017 and 2019.

While extending the existing building is the council’s preference, district councillors are also looking at options around short term office accommodation.

At Thursday’s meeting of the council’s finance and business support committee, councillors debated what to do with almost $5 million of money budgeted but not spent on projects last year. Included in that money was $1.45 million for work to

provide temporary accommodation for council staff.

They agreed to sign the money over to complete the long list of outstanding projects this year. A space assessment was being finalised for council staff accommodation and while the outcome wasn’t known yet, money needed to be available to proceed with that work, committee chair Neil Brown said.

“The long term plan is coming up and we need to be able to build the money into that,” he said.

■ SCOTT GUY MURDER

Guy case mystery may point to accomplice

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Private investigators claim a series of mystery phone calls were made to slain farmer Scott Guy on the eve and day of his killing which may hold the key to the four-year-old murder.

The investigators, working on behalf of Guy’s widow Kylee, have sent cellphone data gleaned from the official police file to expert analysts in the UK in the hope of finding out who made the calls.

They believe other evidence they have amassed suggests the killer may have had an accomplice, adding what they have uncovered is enough to warrant a fresh investigation of the case.

Police told the Herald on Sunday their investigation was thorough and included analysis of phones, cell towers and text messages.

However, Scott’s father Brian Guy said he knew nothing of the mystery calls and said anything that could shed new light on the case needed investigation.

“Well, I would hope if police had new information they would be investigating that and yes, of course, I would support that,” he said.

Scott Guy, 31, was shot at close range

in the driveway of his Feilding farm on July 8, 2010.

Nine months later, his brother-in-law and business partner Ewen Macdonald was charged with murder.

But in July 2012 a jury in the Wellington High Court found him not guilty.

Macdonald’s father, Kerry Macdonald, told the Herald on Sunday: “There’s quite a lot that needs reinvestigating.

“Ewen was found not guilty and that was two years ago so we’ve moved on but it’s really to find Scott’s killer. It’s not to exonerate Ewen in our view. It’s more to find the killer.”

Shortly after the trial, the Sensible Sentencing Trust approached four private investigators in a bid to bring Scott’s killer to justice. The team has uncovered calls from a mystery phone number to Scott Guy on the eve of his slaying. They believe he received another call from the unidentified number on the day of his death.

Investigator Mike Crawford said the evidence provided by police was “incomplete ... text messages were not there, there was an absence of cell-site data and three numbers did not have subscriber details.”

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Dozens of guinea pigs from around the South Island showed off their good looks and high grooming standards in Ashburton on Saturday.

It was the Garden City Cavy Club’s annual Ashburton show, and it attracted over 40 entries from areas including Kaiapoi, Christchurch, Dunedin and Ashburton.

The guinea pigs were judged on a number of qualities including cleanliness, quietness, grooming and density of coat.

Among them was Sunbeam Dutch Dainty, owned by the Christchurch-based club’s Ashburton president Sandra Smith.

Mrs Smith, who has her own guinea pig caviary (stud), reported that Dutch Dainty had done well, bringing home several rosettes.

Mrs Smith herself has 61 guinea pigs, not counting her sale stock, and has been breeding them for 50 years.

She and her husband also own six cats, goldfish and mandarin ducks.

Soldier burnt A soldier was flown to hospital after suffering burns to his back at Waiourou yesterday. The Palmerston North-based Rescue Helicopter was sent to Waiouru Military Camp about 9.30am after the soldier suffered burns to his back from an open fire. It took the man to Hutt Hospital in Wellington.

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First kiwi chick The first week of spring has brought the first kiwi chick of the season for Rotorua’s Rainbow Springs. Dad Para sat on the egg for 59 days in the Maungataniwha Forest in Hawkes Bay before the egg was sent to Kiwi Encounter at Rainbow Springs where the team incubated it to hatch on Thursday, Kiwi Encounter husbandry manager Claire Travers said.

“After 78 days of incubation the chick was so keen to hatch that he/she kicked its hocks out of the rear end of the shell. The kiwi has been called Tuatahi, meaning first in Maori. It weighed a healthy 375g when it came out.

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Big ticket not claimed She said guinea pigs were not affectionate like cats, but were suited to showing as they were easy to transport and handle.

They enjoyed their regular show days, and were used to

being handled and sitting on judging platforms.

“At lunch time we give them celery for lunch, they are usually quite happy to sit there for lunch,” she said.

Sunbeam Dutch Dainty the guinea pig brought home several rosettes at the weekend. She is pictured being judged by Karen Asquith.

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Internet services are returning to normal following a meltdown this weekend.

Telecommunications giant Spark said the situation had “stabilised” and “traffic on our network has returned to normal levels”. “[This] means customers are able to browse the internet as usual,” a spokeswoman said.

Spark’s customers reported problems with various internet services throughout the weekend, with the company - formally Telecom - admitting yesterday it had been battling a “dynamic” cyber-attack nearly 24 hours after it was first reported.

The internet mahem is thought to have been linked to fake or leaked nude celebrity photos, in the wake of a scandal which saw nude photos of a number of female celebrities hacked from a cloud storage system and posted to an online message board.

Spark said it was aware that when people clicked on some celebrity nude snaps, they inadvertently installed the kind of software that created distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks such as this weekend’s.

However, a spokeswoman said services were coming back online. Staff had taken a number of steps to mitigate the issue.

“Our work has included identifying and neutralising the effect of the small number of customer connections that had been exploited by cyber criminals to send vast amount of traffic through our network to overseas destinations.”

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Mid Canterbury schools use a variety of social media to contact parents and caregivers, but Rakaia School is investigating in new technology to reach their school community faster.

The primary school is looking into a smartphone app, designed for schools to get messages and alerts to parents and caregivers at the touch of a button.

It will be pitched to the school staff soon.

Rakaia School principal Mark Ellis said the parents and caregivers were interested in the potential of new smartphone technology.

He did a survey of the school community and of those survey returns, almost 100 per cent had indicated they would be on board if the school decided it was for them.

“We are exploring (app technology) and have a meeting with a team from Christchurch Boys’ High School who are going to pitch it for us,” Mr Ellis said.

He said the company was snApp and they did school specific apps. Ideally Rakaia School would develop it for use in 2015.

Mr Ellis said the smartphone app to be presented to the school was already used at Christchurch Girls’ High School.

As Rakaia School sought to condense to

a school specific app, at other Mid Canterbury schools the way they communicated is growing with texts, Facebook posts, school links, telephone, Twitter, websites and paper newsletters all offered.

Mount Hutt College did not have its own app but principal John Schreurs said technology was used more and more to reach parents.

“Our newsletter is e-mailed out, paper copies are still available for those with no or slow broadband. This allows us to have active links to websites for more information. We email information to groups of parents and use a text messaging service to check absences.”

Mr Schreurs said parents were encouraged to look at the website which could be updated quickly if there was a possibility of closing due to snow or wind.

There was also the more traditional method of contact via a cancellation telephone. “Our buses have a push out service via Facebook, it sends a text so it does not require the receiver to have Facebook,” he said.

The technology used at the school was typical of the use at other schools, and some others used Twitter.

“We are always mindful that not all parents have internet access but with more using these forms of communication it does mean people have a better chance of contacting us,” he said.

It’s been nearly five days, and still the winner of the fourth largest ever Big Wednesday First Division has yet to come forward. The ticket, sold at Countdown Pukekohe South, reaped $20.2m with a payout for the first two divisions. Division 1 paid $20,048,756, with the winner also getting a division 2 prize of $197,319. The total is still $16 million short of the $36 million won in Masterton in 2009.

It is unknown if the ticketholder has checked their ticket. Lotto spokeswoman Emilia Mazur confirmed today that the winner had still not come forward.

“We can’t wait to find out who New Zealand’s latest multimillionaire is,” she said.

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Postie shot A wounded postwoman is believed to have been the victim of an accidental shooting in Northland yesterday. The woman, a contract worker for New Zealand Post, suffered minor injuries in the incident which happened about 10am at Guy Road, Kaikohe. “A woman underwent medical checks in case there was a pellet involved, after being referred to hospital by her GP as a precaution,” Whangarei Hospital spokesman Kim Tito said. “She had a single wound but is stable and in no pain.” It was understood some children had been involved in the incident and it was an accidental shooting, an NZ Post spokesman said .

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his morning, a week after she was killed by a gunman, Peg Noble will be farewelled by her family.

With them will be friends, acquaintances and a community still reeling over what happened last Monday.

They will say goodbye at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre and they will express a grief that they must surely wish to have kept private.

The gravity of what happened at the town’s Winz office means so much of its detail has become public knowledge.

There has been so much examination, there has been so much intrusion. And through it all, there has been so much sadness.

Consider the media coverage during the weekend. Fresh details were made public even as Peg’s family prepared to say goodbye.

On Saturday, some media reported in raw detail what a witness said happened in the Ashburton Winz office.

This was reported soon after the shootings, but was writ large as those closest to Peg awaited her funeral today.

People this weekend remarked how inappropriate this seemed given everything that has happened and is yet to come.

The families of those affected, the police and even a High Court judge have asked the media to leave the bereaved to grieve.

They have implored the media to respect their privacy and to let them deal with a trauma no family should ever face.

This is fair - but it is also an indictment. Nobody, especially a media that holds a mirror to its community, should need reminding of what is fair and right.

There is an understandable desire for people to know what happened on Monday. Some say this will help people stand alongside the bereaved.

However, this need for information must be weighed alongside the needs of the families and friends caught in this nightmare.

In any community - especially one where social circles are so closely aligned - the scales must tip in favour of those left behind.

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ohn Lennon’s famous refrain may well be catchy (All You Need Is Love, ba-da-da-da-da) but any lawyer worth their salt will tell you there’s an inherent danger to unqualified advice - no matter how resolutely it sticks in your head.

The Property (Relationships) Act 1976 has the potential to affect all relationships as it gives those in de facto relationships (where the partners live together “in the nature of marriage” but are not married) the same property rights as married couples. Yet many people don’t know how the Act operates or that they are able to contract out of its provisions in order to suit their particular circumstances.

The focus of this article will be on relationships (both marriages and de facto relationships) that have lasted for three years or more, although the Act applies in other situations such as where there are children born into the relationship and relationships of short duration which meet certain criteria.

The function of the Act is to set out the rules that apply at the end of a relationship: these designate property as either “separate property” (to which the other party has no right) or “relationship property” (which the parties will share equally).

At this point it should be noted that there are a range of outcomes that can occur at the end of a relationship due to factors such as the parties’ contributions but my focus here is on general outcomes rather than specific ones.

Under the Act the family home (regardless of when it was purchased) is relationship property. This means that even in situations where one party owns a house in their own name prior to a relationship beginning, if a relationship lasts three or more years and the parties live in that home together then the home is relationship property. That is also the case for the family chattels and any property purchased

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What happens to property when a de facto relationship breaks up?

jointly or in contemplation of the marriage or de facto relationship. Your income is also relationship property (which can have various consequences as discussed below).

The Act sets out that any property that is not relationship property is separate property, as is property purchased using separate property, the proceeds of the sale of separate property, and any increases in the value of separate property.

Property acquired from someone outside of the relationship by way of gift, survivorship, or succession, or property that the party is entitled to as a beneficiary of a trust settled by a third party, is also the separate property of the party that acquired it. Separate property can, in special circumstances, become relationship property.

The provisions of the Act do not necessarily suit all relationships, particularly where the parties have brought with them significant amounts of pre-relationship property to the relationship. Family trusts can be an effective way to protect assets but it is perhaps less known that the Act provides for a regime whereby the parties can reach their own agreement as to how property is to be distributed if their relationship

ever comes to an end. This is known as entering into a contracting out agreement because you are contracting out of the provisions of the Act. Contracting out agreements should be entered into prior to rights accruing under the Act, so generally before the relationship has lasted for three years.

The main driver here is that once those rights accrue there may be no incentive for a party to enter into a contracting out agreement if it means that they would receive less than they would under the provisions of the Act. An example would be where one party has provided the family home: After the relationship has lasted three years the other party would be entitled to half of that home so they might be reluctant to enter into a contracting out agreement which provides that they receive a reduced share in the home.

Contracting out agreements can specify which items of property are to be separate and which are to be relationship property in the event that the relationship ever comes to an end. It can also provide that certain other provisions of the Act will not apply, such as separate property becoming relationship property. Some-

times parties to agreements will provide that income (which would otherwise be relationship property) is separate property which can have a number of consequences such as ensuring bank accounts and superannuation are separate property.

Confronting the issue of how your property is to be divided if your relationship comes to an end is not an easy subject to broach nor a straightforward discussion to have but a contracting out agreement gives clarity and peace of mind to both parties. The whole point is to come to an arrangement which you both think is fair in your particular circumstances.

Understanding and addressing relationship property matters will undoubtedly prove its worth should your romance ever go from (as the Beatles might put it) I Want To Hold Your Hand to Help!

This article is necessarily brief and general in nature.

You should seek guidance from your legal advisor before taking any action related to the matters raised in this article.

Matt Marshall is a senior solicitor in the Ashburton office of Goodman Tavendale Reid, a leading Agri-Business and Commercial Law Firm.”

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Al-Shabaab names successor The radical Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has vowed revenge for the killing of its leader by a US airstrike on Somalia, and named a successor, according to broadcaster Al Jazeera.

In a message given to the Qatar-based broadcaster, the group declared yesterday that it would never give up or forget its solemn obligation to avenge the death of Ahmed Godane, the co-founder of al-Shabaab.

It said that Godane’s successor, Ahmed Umar, had been named in a unanimous decision, according to BBC broadcaster.

Godane had claimed credit for ordering the deadly attack in 2013 on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people. That attack was

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claimed to have avenged Kenyan and Western action against al-Shabaab in Somalia.

Godane was killed on Monday in the US strike, but his death was not certain until the Pentagon and Somali government confirmed it at the weekend.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday thanked the United States for killing Godane.

“We owe the United States and its soldiers our heartfelt thanks for bringing an end to Godane’s career of death and destruction and finally allowing us to begin our healing process,” he said in a statement quoted by the Daily Nation.

At the weekend, Rear Admi-

ral John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, confirmed that Godane had been killed, as did the Somali government.

“Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to alShabaab,” Kirby said.

The Somali government’s nearly decade-long conflict with al-Shabaab has cost thousands of lives.

Somali National Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf told dpa: “His death is great news for the Somali people, because he was responsible for the killing of thousands of innocent people in his so-called holy war.” The White House said the killing of Godane was the result of years of intelli-

gence, defence and law enforcement work.

Al-Shabaab has conducted frequent bombings within Somalia and also claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Uganda in 2010 that killed more than 70 people.

About five years ago, alShabaab controlled most of southern and central Somalia and even parts of Mogadishu.

Despite being militarily weakened since then, in part by the Kenyan military, the group still wields power in the south and centre of the country.

It seeks to establish an Islamic state in Somalia and has had an alliance with al-Qaeda since 2012.

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Ebola shut-down Sierra Leone says it will confine people to their homes in a nationwide three-day shutdown later this month aimed at containing the Ebola epidemic threatening west Africa.

Pedestrians and vehicles will be barred from the country’s streets, except on essential business, for 72 hours starting from September 19. Authorities in Freetown will use the three-day window to search out patients who have not come forward for treatment centres.

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Bodies recovered Bosnian rescue workers have recovered the bodies of four miners killed when a gas explosion caused part of a mine to collapse, and are set to resume the search for a final body. Twenty-nine men were trapped in the Raspotocje mine outside the town of Zenica for more than 20 hours after an earthquake triggered a gas explosion on Friday. Yesterday, four bodies were brought to the surface, with rescue teams taking more than 15 hours to dig their way into the collapsed tunnels 500 metres underground. The body of the fifth deceased miner was in a different part of the mine which rescuers could not approach due to ventilation problems, Duranovic said. The explosion was triggered by a 3.5-magnitude earthquake.

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Body found at last The body of a Belgian snowboarder has been found more than two years after he went missing in the Mont Blanc mountains in France. A mountain climber discovered the corpse early at the weekend in the area of the Dent du Geant (“giant’s tooth”) glacier at an altitude of about 2000 metres. The unnamed man in his forties disappeared in January 2012 after he left alone to snowboard through the White Valley, a famous glacial off-piste route.

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Torrential rains kill 230 in Pakistan More than 230 people in Pakistan and northern India have been killed in torrential monsoon rains that have triggered flooding, landslides and house collapses.

Troops and other emergency personnel were deployed in both countries to help with relief operations, with boats and helicopters being used to reach stranded people.

Incessant rains in Pakistan have killed at least 106 people over the past three days and

damaged thousands of houses, officials said on Saturday as authorities put four districts on red alert for floods.

And in neighbouring India, torrential rains and flooding have left at least 128 people dead and marooned thousands more, according to officials.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a highlevel review meeting on Saturday and ordered acceleration of relief and rescue efforts in the country, his office said.

In worst-hit Punjab province, the death toll from rains and flooding over the past three days hit 55 while 235 people were injured, rescue services director general Rizwan Naseer, siad.

Another 48 people have died in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, said Akram Sohail, the chairman of the disaster management agency in capital Muzaffarabad.

Three soldiers were killed in a mudslide on Thursday near

the de-facto border with India, known as the Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir.

Pakistan has been swept by deadly monsoon floods for the last four years - in 2013, 178 people were killed and about 1.5 million affected by flooding around the country.

Hardest hit on the Indian side was Indian Kashmir, where the heaviest rains and flooding in at least half a century have claimed at least 107 lives since last Tuesday.

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Eight newborns were among 18 civilians killed when Iraqi warplanes hit a hospital in the northern town of Hawija, which is controlled by Islamic State militants. At least 16 people were also wounded in the bombardment at the weekend, a hospital official said. The hospital building was heavily damaged, while the premature baby ward collapsed, according to the report.

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Hunt for ‘ghost plane’ Rescuers are hunting for the wreck of a small plane that crashed off the coast of Jamaica after a mysterious “ghost” flight, officials say. A spokeswoman for the United States Coast Guard said searchers had been unable to confirm whether an apparent debris field spotted at the weekend was wreckage from the crash, which left two people dead. Sabrina Laberdesque said a C-130 cargo plane had picked out possible debris from the downed aircraft but had been flying at too high an altitude to confirm if it was definitively the crash site.

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In most corners of the world, an Ashburton person can be found. So the Guardian’s Erin Tasker decided to track some of them down. This week it’s Allan Hill who left New Zealand for Australia more than 25 years ago for a work opportunity which has taken him far.

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former Mid Canterbury rugby representative who moved to Australia for work has gone on to make a name for himself in the farm machinery industry.

Allan Hill is based in Melbourne, Australia, but travels the world as a technical support manager for AGCO Australia, working with farming machinery dealers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.

It’s been more than 25 years now since Allan and wife Judith left New Zealand. They left in November 1988 due to the downturn in the economy in the late 80s. Several redundancies in Ashburton and a slowdown in farm diversification had proven to be bad news for Allan.

So with sons Jason and Mark, then nine and six, and threeyear-old Melissa in tow the family moved to Albury, on the border of Victoria and New South Wales, where Allan had been offered a position by German Farm Machinery on their plant. It proved to be the right move.

After 10 months he got a promotion and the family moved to Perth. After two months there the German manufacturer closed its Australian operations and contracted Massey Ferguson Australia (MFA) to distribute their harvesting equipment.

“Part of this agreement meant I had a position with MFA for 12 months. After four months I was promoted to area service manager for all of MFA’s products which included tractors, hay and harvest equipment.

“Almost 13 years later I was promoted to head office in Melbourne as national service manager for AGCO Australia Ltd (previously Massey Ferguson Australia, purchased by AGCO in 1996).”

Later, New Zealand became his responsibility too and in 2009, so did the Far East Asia distributors.

Today, he has nine internal and nine external staff working under him and together they administer warranty, carry out service training, and report on reliability issues for several AGCO manufacturing facilities globally.

Allan and his wife live in Eltham, a north-eastern suburb of Melbourne, but his job takes him all around the world.

“I travel around the six Australian, one New Zealand

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and two Singapore technical support managers throughout the year,” he said.

“Visiting the Asian countries with our Singapore staff has been an experience but I enjoy every part of it as you get to learn their respective cultures.

“Also meeting farmers using our machines is always enjoyable as they also like somebody from the manufacturer visiting.

“On a recent trip to Philippines it was amazing seeing the country side in the Mindano region. Very similar terrain to New Zealand but there are palm trees, not ferns.”

In 2009, Allan became part of a global dealer technical support management team looking at several aspects of the business and create initiatives that assist dealers to service their respective customers.

“We have monthly telephone conferences which mean some very late nights and early morning calls for me given the time differences,” he said.

As well as around Asia and the Pacific, Allan visits North America two to three times a year for meetings with senior management.

His role, and the industry he works in, has grown tremendously over the years.

“When I started with Massey Ferguson Australia in 1989 we only had 18 to 20 models to manage but today we have 467 within our region which equates to an increase of 2597 per cent.

“The dealer network is also

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increasing but with internet and other forms of communication it is not difficult to manage.”

Over the years he’s recruited young personnel into the farm machinery industry who have gone onto big things, which is rewarding.

“Some have been very instrumental in harvester operator training in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and China,” he said.

His own children now all live in Perth – Mark and Melissa are accountants and Jason is a senior high school teacher.

They are all married and Allan and Judith now have six grandchildren – five girls and a boy.

“Thanks to Skype we see our grandchildren a lot,” Allan said.

Allan and Judith love Melbourne, it has so much to offer that it would take a lifetime to experience it all. But Perth

will be where they retire, to be closer to family.

It’s hard being so far away from their Ashburton family too.

Ask him what he misses most from Ashburton and he’ll tell you – family, friends, club rugby, the farm and CharRees wine.

“I will always miss my mother, who has done a fantastic job bringing up 10 children,” Allan said.

Ashburton will always be home, for both Allan and Judith.

“Living in the country growing up when my father was shearing was great and as a family we would all do things together.

“We learnt a lot during those years that I believe has taught me a lot about life and work ethics.”

A former Mid Canterbury rugby representative, Allan’s

grateful Super Rugby has followed him wherever he’s gone - Super Rugby started after they left New Zealand but both Perth and Melbourne now have teams.

But his greatest rugby memories are from his Mid Canterbury days.

“I was fortunate to play rugby for Mid Canterbury which will always be a big part of my life there. I often speak to different groups and tell them of the comrade/team spirit we had during those years which I fully believe has assisted in the growth of my current career,” he said.

With two or three trips to New Zealand each year for work, Allan always makes the time to come back to Ashburton to stay with his mum, and heads out to his brother’s vineyard – CharRees – for a wine or two.

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outh Korea’s hyper-efficient capital doesn’t immediately spring to mind when you think of exotic Asian destinations. But this mega-city offers much to tempt travellers beyond a layover from the ultra-modern international airport in nearby Incheon.

You can explore Korea’s rich historic heritage, visiting temples and palaces; wander around the enormous National Museum of Korea, and savour the delights of its surprisingly varied cuisine.

As in Tokyo and Hong Kong, Seoul’s transportation network puts most European and North American cities to shame.

Invest in a Seoul City Pass Plus card, which can be used not only on the trains, which run both under and above ground, but also on buses and even taxis. It’s also accepted for payment at many tourist sites and convenience shops, offering discounts on some tours and museum admissions.

High on your list will be one or two of Seoul’s five palaces.

Most guidebooks recommend Gyeongbok-gung, the grandest of all of them. But I headed to Changdeok-gung, a Unesco World Heritage Site, instead.

The sprawling palace grounds can only be visited on guided tours; check the schedule to make sure you catch a tour in the right language. There’s one tour of the famous gardens and another of palace buildings.

Strategically and culturally, Korea is wedged between East Asia’s superpowers, Japan and China. As you travel around Seoul, you’ll understand the intricate connections among the three countries. Many links are evident in the collection at the National Museum of Korea, a must for those seeking to go beneath Seoul’s veneer of technology and learn about the country’s history.

The museum, the largest in area in Asia and sixth-largest in the world, is suitably impressive from the outside, with a futuristic architectural design that pays tribute to Korea’s modernisation. Inside, many of the more than 300,000 pieces are designated National Treasures of Korea. The building design utilises natural light in many galleries, which makes it easy to explore for hours

On a recent trip Amir Bibawy found that Seoul, with its interesting mix of old and new, had plenty to offer the average tourist.

People walk through the historic neighbourhood of Buckchon village in Seoul. Buckchon village is one of the few places in Seoul where you can see dozens of traditional Korean houses.

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without that feeling you get in big museums that you’re stuck in a vault all day. Highlights include Buddhist bells on the third floor (one each from Korea, China and Japan) and, the piece-de-resistance, the TenStory Pagoda, a unique marble structure built in the 14th century, looming over the ground floor. It was taken to Japan before World War Two (Japan occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945), but was returned to Korea in 1960, disassembled. It’s been painstakingly restored.

Koreans love to shop and there’s nowhere better for it than the pedestrian shopping district of Myeong-dong, where I stayed. Streets are lined with brand name-stores (both Korean and Western) open late into the night. It also has countless restaurants and cafes.

On my first night there, I ventured out to find a restaurant near my hotel and had a near-panic attack. There were so many choices, but none familiar to me, though I’d gone

to many Korean restaurants in New York. I ended up in a brightly-lit place that was almost ready to close. I pointed out a few menu items and a hot barbecue top was turned on at my table, ingredients meticulously lined up to cook.

I tried to stir them together but the waitress, half-amused but also stern about my culinary ineptitude, took the ladle from my hand and set it aside.

“Needs to cook more,” she mumbled. Every time I tried to touch the food with my chopsticks, other diners looked on with amusement.

Clearly, I had no idea what I was doing. Mercifully, the waitress ultimately came over and stirred up a delightful chicken and vegetable dish with rice. I added kimchi from the buffet.

Another essential stop is Gwangjang Market, which bustles with street food vendors and little restaurant-shacks in the evening when its shops have closed.

Locals go there for Korean pancakes made from mung

beans called bindaeddeok and cheap street food. I opted for one of the ubiquitous dumpling soup places, where for about $5 you get a huge bowl of steaming soup with pork dumplings, freshly made before your eyes.

In winter, the stall benches are even heated.

On my second visit to the market, I had sashimi and rice wine. The sashimi was nearfrozen, a common way of serving it there and different from the Japanese room-temperature tradition.

For traditional Korean food beyond the market, skip Korea House — it’s touristy and expensive. Do venture into one of the tent restaurants that serve food late into the night in popular nightlife districts. And get your fix of bibimbap — a rice dish with vegetables, egg, meat and chili or soy sauce served all over the city — along with a traditional seafood stew, which is hearty and warm.

Bukchon Village, a neighbourhood of traditional Korean houses with slanted roofs, is a

nice place to stroll. The area is flanked by two palaces, and dotted with boutiques and cafes.

One striking thing you’ll notice is that Seoul’s residents are glued to their cellphones — usually Samsung or LG, brands that have played a role in Korea’s strong economy. During my visit last winter, everyone was streaming the Olympic games live on cellphones on the subway — a testament to how fast and reliable the 4G network is. Even my American phone worked faster there than in New York.

Finally, don’t leave Seoul without venturing up to the N Seoul Tower, the city’s highest tourist point, offering a view from the top at nearly 480 metres above sea level.

You can hike through Namsan Park, Seoul’s Central Park, to the base of the tower, or take a cable car up.

It’s busy at dusk, but a nice time to watch as the city below you transforms into a stunning and colourful display of lights.

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In brief Messam, Whitelock out Having seen off Argentina’s pack, the All Blacks travel to Wellington with the knowledge they will have to play the Springboks, another forward-oriented team, without Sam Whitelock and Liam Messam.

Both will be out for up to four weeks - lock Whitelock with a rib cartilage injury, and loose forward Messam with a thigh problem.

The pair’s absence will place the microscope on the All Blacks’ depth in their respective positions.

Locks Patrick Tuipulotu and Dominic Bird have been out with injury for some time, and Jerome Kaino remains a month away with an elbow problem. However, coach Steve Hansen will take immense comfort from the way Jeremy Thrush played in Saturday’s 28-9 victory.

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McKenzie not happy Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie has refused to sugarcoat his side’s “frustrating” last-gasp victory over the Springboks after several squandered tries made the win tougher than it needed to be. The Wallabies capitalised on a controversial yellow card to Springboks winger Bryan Habana in his 100th Test by piling on 10 late points to record a dramatic 24-23 win in Perth on Saturday. Flyhalf Bernard Foley kicked the match-winning goal from a 78th minute Rob Horne try to end the No.2 ranked Springboks’ eight-match winning streak. The character redeeming win comes just two weeks after the All Blacks humiliated the Wallabies 51-20 at Eden Park, yet McKenzie is still wanting a more polished performance from his side. - NZH

Manawatu on a roll Manawatu confirmed their lofty position at the top of the ITM Cup Championship table with a decisive victory in Palmerston North yesterday. This was the fifth win in four weeks by a second tier union over a Premiership outfit, and the second in nine days by the Turbos. Manawatu No 10 Jade Te Rure, himself in a battle for his jersey with the prodigiously talented Otere Black, lifted the clash out of the mundane in the 45th minute. His shimmy, feint and inside ball sent second five Jason Emery in for a super try. Te Rure himself was over less than five minutes later after a sweet offload by centre Jaxon Tagavaitau. A try between the sticks to flanker Onosa’i Auva’a gave some hope to the visitors, but it was too little, too late for the flat Steelers. - NZH

Auks’ huge comeback Auckland almost played Wellington back into some form with a mistake-addled opening but, incredibly, overturned a 30-6 halftime deficit to preserve their unbeaten threeyear home record. In doing so, they reclaimed the Fred Lucas Memorial Trophy and consigned Wellington to a winless 0-4 record so far this season. Auckland mounted a rousing second-half comeback, showing far more energy than in a limp first spell. Their forwards, in particular, marked up when it mattered. Auckland coach Paul Feeney was relieved to get the win, and said there was no rev-up at halftime because he felt his side were not far off the pace.

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Try-scoring machine rolls on

By Patrick Mckendry Julian Savea, one of the most dangerous attacking players in world rugby and with a tryscoring record to match, has only a vague idea of the identity of the top try-scorer in All Black history.

After his two tries against Argentina at McLean Park which takes his phenomenal record to 26 tries in 25 tests, he was asked about who he thought the record holder was.

He paused. “Is it Dougie?”

It is.

Doug Howlett’s 49 tries in 61 tests is the benchmark; Chris-

tian Cullen (46 in 58 tests) and Joe Rokocoko (46 in 68 tests) not far behind.

Savea now sits in 11th place overall, alongside Ma’a Nonu his midfield team-mate having taken 92 tests to score 26 tries.

It’s not difficult to see how Savea has managed it.

He is a huge man for a back 1.92m and 107kg - with thighs like tree trunks which generate his explosive speed and bounce would-be tacklers back from whence they came.

He has developed into an extremely valuable asset for the All Blacks, announcing himself on the world stage with three

tries on debut against Ireland at Eden Park in 2012, and rarely failing to cross the line since.

One of the pleasing things for the coaches is the way he has continued to develop his game, including safety under high ball, work rate and defence.

For the modest 24-year-old, who had another opportunity early in the first half when chasing a Beauden Barrett kick only to mishandle it after being held back, the try-scoring record means little.

“I’m not aware of it,” he said.

“I’ve just got to keep doing my job and if I’m able to finish off some opportunities ... I have

to be in the right place at the right time.”

After capitalising on a Conrad Smith left-foot kick through the defence, and a set move when he received a perfectly delayed Barrett pass to score near the posts.

“As a backline we practice that most of the time and it’s always pleasing to see it come off.

“It was good to be a part of that. It would have been easy to go into our shells and move away from an attacking mindset in these conditions.

“The good thing about it is we trusted our skills and calls and it came off.”

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Pumas provide ABs with a powerful test

By GreGor Paul If the point of the exercise was to ready themselves for the onslaught that awaits next weekend in Wellington, then the All Blacks can consider Saturday night a job well done.

There is a sense that the Rugby Championship from an All Blacks perspective is more of a Tri Na-

tions kind of thing. The Wallabies are the warm-up - a bit of fun to get in the mood for the real challenge of playing the physically brutal Pumas and Boks.

These three play a different sort of rugby. They knock each other about, take each other on in the scrums and produce something that looks distinctly like test football.

Argentina are South Africalite - which makes things rather handy for the All Blacks. What they got on Saturday was exposure to all the things they didn’t against the Wallabies.

What they got was an opponent who forced them to adjust mentally and physically to the core business of scrum and tackle, lineout and lineout drive.

“I’m happy about the end result,” Steve Hansen said. “We have played these guys in not great conditions and managed to pick up a bonus point for the first time. So I’m really pleased about that. You saw a good Argentina team out there tonight who I don’t think are far away from getting over the hump and beating a few teams.”

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In brief

Country boys too tough Mid Canterbury’s Sam Milne grabs hold of his Canterbury Country opposite during the under 55kg representative rugby match at the Ashburton Showgrounds on Saturday.

The Mid Canterbury under 65kg were outclassed by Canterbury Country 7-59, but had earlier claimed a win over South Canterbury 29-14.

The Mid Canterbury under 48kg side suffered a 12-19 loss to South Canterbury, and then Canterbury Country were too strong taking a 50-0 win.

Down in Oamaru the Mid Canterbury under 16s beat North Otago 45-7, and the under 14s also had a big 51-5 win over North Otago.

The defending champion Mid Canterbury A finished the Hanan Cup competition without a victory, going down to South Canterbury A 14-38 in Timaru.

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There was no late heroics this week as Mid Canterbury suffered a 15-20 loss to Thames Valley in Paeroa in the Heartland Rugby Championship.

The Hammers went to halftime behind for the third straight game, but couldn’t reproduce their second half exploits of the previous two weeks as the Swamp Foxes held on.

The build-up had focused on intensity from the first whistle and while that was there, the finishing touch was again missing.

“We definitely started okay, and had a few opportunities where we pushed a fifty-

fifty pass and turned the ball over hard on attack to end up down the other end conceding points,” Mid Canterbury coach Glenn Moore said.

“We did all the hard work, but crucial turnovers proved costly.”

Thames Valley scored two tries, while Mid Canterbury put Brenton Connell over for a try which Murray Williams converted, but the Hammers were down at the break for the third time in three games, and this time they wouldn’t peg it back.

“The wind was blowing straight up the ground and I wasn’t too worried at halftime.

“To me it was almost a 15-point wind.

“Thames Valley came out and

totally out-passioned us in the second half.”

Impatience and poor option taking on attack proved their downfall, and they couldn’t conjure up another late try to snatch the points, taking only a consolation point for finishing within seven.

“The biggest disappointment was our defence – something that has been a hallmark.

“There were some individuals that missed a number of crucial tackles.”

Replacement Seta Koroitamana scored the Hammers’ second half try with Williams adding a penalty, but that was matched

by Thames Valley, who held on for the win.

After a draw and a loss on the

road, Moore doesn’t think it is a case of hitting the panic button.

“We just need to switch on for 80 minutes and be more clinical.

“You don’t all of a sudden become a bad outfit, so we need to get that confidence back.”

After a frustrating two-week away stretch, Mid Canterbury are back at home to face heartland rivals Wanganui, coming off a confidence boosting first win, and then the high flying Buller.

Mid Canterbury 15 (Seta Koroitamana, Brenton Connell tries; Murray Williams con, pen).

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Thames Valley taking down Mid Canterbury wasn’t the only upset in the third round of the Heartland Rugby Championship.

Wanganui claimed their first scalp, beating North Otago 2015 in Wanganui, holding on for the win after leading 20-3 with 20 minutes to go.

Houston’s team third Mid Canterbury ex-pat Jesse Houston and the Christchurch Boys High School 1st XV finished third equal at the National Secondary School’s top four rugby finals in Rotorua at the weekend.

Christchurch Boys’ went down to defending top four and world champions, Hamilton Boys’ High School, 19-20. In the other semifinal Wellington’s Scots College were too strong for Auckland Grammar 39-22. In the final Scot’s College led 19-7 at the break but Hamilton came back to play out a 26-all draw. Scots will go to Japan for the World 1st XV championships. It was the first time in a number of years that an Auckland team hasn’t appeared in the final but a North Island school has now won 29 of 33 Top Fours.

In the Co-ed final Fielding High School outclassed Cambridge High School 43-10. South Island’s, St Kevin’s were edged out 14-15 by Cambridge in the semi-finals.

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South Canterbury kept up their high-scoring start to the competition with a 43-16 win over Wairarapa Bush in Timaru to remain on top of the table.

Buller also went on a scoring spree to beat King Country 5329 in Te Kuiti to be second on the table, and will host South Canterbury in round four in a replay of last year’s Lochore Cup final.

Horowhenua Kapiti and Poverty Bay were the bottom two teams last year but have both doubled their win tallies in 2014 after just three rounds to sit inside the top four.

Poverty Bay are third after they got the better of West Coast 29-20 while Horowhenua Kapiti were too good for East Coast 3710 to move up into fourth.

Thames Valley’s win lifted

them into fifth leapfrogging the defending Meads Cup champions, Mid Canterbury, who sit sixth, one place ahead of beaten finalists North Otago.

Last year’s beaten Meads Cup semi-finalists are still struggling, with Wairarapa Bush 10th and the winless West Coast only spared last place by the winless East Coast who have leaked 156 points in three games.

Bay of Plenty broke a 12-match losing drought and North Harbour spirits with a rugged Championship win in Rotorua yesterday. The visitors attempted to steal a draw in the closing moments, but an emphatic counter-ruck by the Steamers snuffed them out. In what seemed to be perfect conditions, the kickers, Teaihe Toma of Bay of Plenty, and Matt McGahan of North Harbour, missed their first four kicks between them. These misses were matched by a clutch of errors from both teams in this low quality dance of the desperates.

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Beale on the bench Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie has hinted he won’t restore Kurtley Beale to his starting team against Argentina despite the brilliant cameo that helped snatch victory over South Africa. Axed as five eighth after the back-to-back losses to the All Blacks, mercurial Beale was only introduced with seven minutes remaining in Perth on Saturday night but his arrival was pivotal. Replacing Matt Toomua at inside centre, Beale’s fresh legs and combination with five eighth Bernard Foley and fullback Israel Folau exposed the tired Springboks forwards before the Wallabies secured their 78th minute try through winger Rob Horne, allowing Foley to kick the winning conversion.

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Richie ‘past his prime’ Former Wallabies No 8 Ross Reynolds has continued the Bledisloe Cup war of words by claiming All Blacks captain Richie McCaw and prop Tony Woodcock are past their prime - less than a fortnight after the world champions’ recordbreak-ing 51-20 win over Australia.

The assistant coach expects his views will poke the bear that is New Zealand before the third and final Test in Brisbane on October 18, even predicting the two All Black veterans, both aged 33, will be shown up as ‘’passengers’’ at next year’s World Cup. Reynolds believes the Wallabies forward pack shown up in their thrashing last Test at Eden Park two weeks ago will improve with the imminent return of hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau and Stephen Moore.

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In brief College make nationals The Ashburton College senior girls’ basketball team finished second at the South Island Secondary Schools’ Premiership in Nelson.

College came across Waimea in the premiership final and went down 50-66, but qualified for the National Championships later this year In Palmerston North. College had advanced to the final with a nail-biting win over Christchurch Girls’ High School, with Tessa Morrison landing a free-throw with time up to win 58-57. The Ashburton College senior boys’ finished 20th, going down to Christ College 65-79 in their final match.

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Roulston 38th in Classic Hayden Roulston finished 38th in the Brussels Cycling Classic yesterday. The race included 19 “hellingen,” or short climbs, over the 202km, with the semiclassic one of the oldest races on the international calendar. It traditionally finishes in a mass sprint and Roulston and his Trek teammates were ideally positioned after they had assumed control of the peloton with 40km to go as they looked to set Giacomo Nizzolo up for the final sprint.

Nizzolo was right in the thick of it but could only manage seventh, as André Greipel (Lotto Belisol) won his second consecutive Brussels Cycling Classic. Roulston was in the finishing sprint crossing in 38th with the same time as Greipel.

Ryan McNulty eyes up a backhand at the Mid Canterbury Tennis Open day yesterday. Junior, open grade and senior players went along to the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre to sign up for the upcoming season, and have a friendly hit-out on court to get back in the swing of things. The junior and open grade interclub, and mixed masters seasons starts on October 11. Twilight tennis starts on October 1 and sunset doubles the following evening.

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Two first half goals have helped Cashmere Technical to their second consecutive Chatham Cup title yesterday after they beat Central United 2-1 in the final at North Harbour Stadium. Packed with Canterbury United national league talent, Cashmere won the physical battle, clinically finished their chances and used their experience to navigate past a spirited Central side who dominated possession for large periods of the match.

Ashburton’s PT Bierema was on the bench for Cashmere, but didn’t make it on the field.

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Shock US Open finalists

Madrid in the money Spanish giants Real Madrid have announced a record 603.9 million euros income for the 2013-14 season, thanks in large part to winning the Champions League for a 10th time in May. Madrid’s total revenue was up 10.9 per cent on last season, with the net profit slightly up from 36.9 million euros last year to 38.5 million euros.

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Spain missing Costa Chelsea striker Diego Costa is out of the Spain squad to face Macedonia in their opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Valencia tonight due to a hamstring injury. The 25-year-old played for over an hour in the European champions 1-0 defeat to France in a friendly on Friday and will be replaced in the squad by 18-yearold Barcelona wonderkid Munir El Haddadi. “Diego Costa left the Spanish training base this morning due to a hamstring injury in his left leg,” said a statement on the team’s website. Costa’s injury leaves Spain boss Vicente del Bosque very short on attacking options with the inexperienced Paco Alcacer the only natural striker left.

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By Darren Walton He won’t say it’s a changing of the guard, but Marin Cilic credits grand slam gatecrasher Stanislas Wawrinka for paving the way for one of the most improbable US Open finals in major tennis history.

Cilic will play Japanese giantkiller Kei Nishikori in the $US3 million championship showdown tomorrow after the unfancied pair engineered monumental upsets on an extraordinary afternoon at Flushing Meadows.

Nishikori overcame stifling heat and humidity and unnerving winds to triumph 6-4 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 over world No.1 Novak Djokovic and become the first Asian man ever to reach a grand slam final.

Cilic then played the match of his life to sweep past secondseeded Federer 6-3 6-4 6-4 in a second semi-final boilover that left fans shellshocked at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The showpiece final will be the first grand slam decider not featuring Federer, Rafael Nadal, Djokovic or Andy Murray since Marat Safin beat Lleyton Hewitt at the 2005 Australian Open.

It will also involve two men

contesting their maiden grand slam final for the first time since Albert Costa upset Spanish countryman Juan Carlos Ferrero at Roland Garros in 2002.

Before Wawrinka’s breakthrough over Nadal at this year’s Australian Open, the so-called big four had shared 33 of the previous 35 grand slam titles in the most dominant collective reign the game has ever seen.

But Cilic said while Wawrinka’s stunning success hadn’t quite shaken tennis’s world order, it gave other challengers the belief they too could be title contenders - and no longer pretenders - at the majors.

“I knew I had to work and it’s possible,” the Croatian said.

“The competition is getting bigger. The guys there are from the ‘second’ line are moving closer, and they are more often at the later stage of the tournament.

“They are going to get only better; they’re not going to get worse.”

Both the 11th-seeded Nishikori and 14th-seeded Cilic have overcome major career setbacks to book their dates with destiny.

After years of injury-enforced layoffs, Nishikori had been in doubt for this very

Kei Nishikori: First Asian man to play in a Grand Slam final.

tournament after pulling out of the Cincinnati Masters with a cyst on his foot that required removing.

The 24-year-old feared the injury would end his American hardcourt season.

Then, after surviving the opening week, the Japanese underdog needed brave backto-back five-set comeback wins over Canadian fifth seed Milos Raonic and the third-seeded Wawrinka to set up his clash with Djokovic.

And once again Nishikori de-

livered, breaking the top seed five times to continue his Open fairytale.

“I don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “It’s an amazing feeling beating the world No.1 player. It was really tough conditions today. It was heavy, but I guess I love to play long matches and I hope I can recover for the final.”

When Nishikori last year lost in the opening round to a lowly-ranked qualifier, Cilic wasn’t even playing while serving a reduced four-month suspension for testing positive to a banned substance. The 25-year-old maintains he tested positive for a banned stimulant contained in a supplement bought over the counter by one of his staff and says the controversy is fuelling his grand slam desire.

Even Federer, a long-time ant-doping advocate, said he couldn’t begrudge the 24-yearold if he went on to win the title.

“Yeah, I’m fine with it. I truly believed he didn’t do anything wrong in the sense that he did it on purpose,” Federer said.

“Was he stupid maybe? Maybe. You know, yeah. But I feel like I know him well enough and I don’t think he would ever do it.”

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Trophy still proving elusive

BY JONATHAN LEASK

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The Welch Trophy again eluded the Ashburton Indoor Bowling Association.

North Wellington became the 2014 Welch Trophy winners in Auckland on Saturday after they held off a strong challenge from Tauranga and Ashburton over the closing stages.

The champions cemented the win with a good showing in the final pairs to finish with 107 points, to Tauranga 100.5 and Ashburton’s 94 – who are yet to win the trophy since it was introduced in 1951.

North Wellington had led after the opening two sessions

before Ashburton moved up from third to lead after a strong third session.

Their five point lead was wiped away in the fourth session as North Wellington reclaimed the lead by half a point from Tauranga, and one point from Ashburton heading into the final session and still very much in the contest.

Ashburton then dropped back while North Wellington held on to take the win.

The Ashburton team consisted of Grant Wilson, Ken Mackenzie, Russell Ellis and Matt Bassett as team one, and Michael Lawson, Matt Markham, Graeme Chapman and Chris Talbot in team two.

The top scored were Lawson with nine wins and one draw from his 15 matches, while Markham and Chapman had nine wins.

It has been a strong season from the representative team with wins over North Canterbury, Ellesmere, South Canterbury and a win over Canterbury 89-79 for the first time since 1996, as well as taking out the Pat e r s o n

Trophy Zone tournament to advance the Welch Trophy.

The teams manager, Darryn Turner, gets his shot at a national title this weekend when he contests the National champion of champions Henselite Singles tournament in Hamilton, which was won by Wilson last year.

Dogs blow 18 point lead against Titans The Canterbury Bulldogs face a nervous wait to know whether Tony Williams will be available for next week’s start to the NRL finals.

Williams was placed on report for a shoulder charge on Gold Coast’s Aidan Sezer late in the Bulldogs’ golden point loss to the Titans yesterday.

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Date: 8 Sep 2014 Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.01pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C1, 295m 1 74457 Bowman nwtd ...........................J McInerney 2 16736 Ohoka Faith 17.52........................ L Waretini 3 44267 Petra Haka nwtd........................J McInerney 4 77744 Cala Rapita 17.55 .............................M Flipp 5 613 Mull It Over 17.72 ......................R Blackburn 6 53413 Mr. November 17.60 .................. D Stapleton 7 23857 Smash That 17.70 ........................... M Grant 8 2F214 Spider Girl 17.90 ....................... A Bradshaw 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 38467 Homebush Ginger nwtd ............J McInerney 2 12.18pm OPAWA BOWL JACK TAVERN DASH C1, 295m 1 74385 Opawa Lucky 17.46 L & ..................... Wales 2 16335 Homebush Ramona nwtd .........J McInerney 3 53652 Slingo 17.75 .............................. M Robinson 4 67612 Ganache 17.71 .................................M Flipp 5 35263 Yaldhurst Edward 17.38 ............J McInerney 6 51252 Umaga Rama nwtd .......................R Adcock 7 22463 Rangitata Raider 17.80 ............. D Stapleton 8 3F676 Our Charlotte 17.68 ...................H Anderton 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 36548 Botany Win 17.61 ......................J McInerney 3 12.36pm GARDEN CITY CHEM-DRY STKS C1, 520m 1 36425 Opawa Dosh 30.90 L & ...................... Wales 2 53636 Goldstar Junior nwtd S & ................B Evans 3 73418 Sparrow 30.88................................ H Cairns 4 1156 Nicky Noir 30.54 ............................... B Dann 5 4574F Voussoir 30.78 H & .............................Taylor 6 44518 Homebush Lucifer nwtd ............J McInerney 7 2312 Opawa Rabbit nwtd L & ..................... Wales 8 57645 Dusty Rider 31.34 ..................M K Dempsey 9 55678 Court The Belle 31.46 L &.................. Wales 10 88878 Cawbourne Muscle nwtd..............C Roberts 4 12.53pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC SPRINT C1, 295m 1 12453 All About Jazz 17.87 .........................M Flipp 2 63373 Memphis Girl 17.73 S & ..................B Evans 3 57482 Avec Lamour 17.58 ................... A Bradshaw 4 x7418 Homebush Rowdy nwtd ............J McInerney 5 81832 Sweet Marylou 17.80 ................R Blackburn 6 13468 Tony’s Choice 17.54 .................. D Stapleton 7 55246 Jasper Haka 17.90 ....................J McInerney 8 33256 Cawbourne Cruze nwtd .................. M Grant

The NSW State of Origin player’s late hit on Sezer was the icing on an unpalatable cake for Bulldogs coach Des Hasler, as his team blew a commanding 18-point halftime lead at Robina.

From the resulting set after Williams’ penalty the Titans levelled

through Brad Takairangi’s late try before William Zillman’s field goal in golden point sealed a remarkable 1918 win.

The Titans snapped an eight-game losing streak at home and a six-game losing run overall to end the year on a high.

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 75855 Fanta’s Fever 17.43..........................A Joyce 5 1.11pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH STAKES C1, 520m 1 21765 Opawa Messini 30.73 L & .................. Wales 2 25574 Opawa Hally 30.69 L & ...................... Wales 3 34544 Mr. Johnny 31.00.............................J Goode 4 23342 Aniu 30.83 J &.................................D Fahey 5 25573 Know Smiggle nwtd ...................... G Cleeve 6 1343 Opawa Rosie 30.49.......................... B Dann 7 67555 Toddy’s A Flyer nwtd ....................C Roberts 8 13745 Shadow Baxter 30.44................J McInerney 9 63787 Thrilling Sound 30.68 S & ...............B Evans 10 8x788 Opawa Goodie 30.71 L & ................... Wales 6 1.28pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m 1 76442 Unreliable Andy 17.42............... A Bradshaw 2 85412 Botany Zenvo 17.59 ..................J McInerney 3 34255 Kenny’s Comet 17.56 M &................... Smith 4 74244 Charles Fredrick 17.82 .............. D Stapleton 5 8x66F Mum’s Prodigy 17.58 ........................P Scott 6 78767 Quattro 17.66 ............................ M Robinson 7 78284 Harper’s Bizarre 17.49 ..................... B Dann 8 73476 Some Genes 17.79 ...................J McInerney 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 18864 Homebush Dawn nwtd ..............J McInerney 7 1.46pm BARRON’S SUPPLIES STAKES C1, 520m 1 14523 Culvie Sprite 30.62 H &.......................Taylor 2 13463 Opawa Loi 31.28 L &.......................... Wales 3 5434x Louisa’s Girl 31.32 ........................... B Dann 4 17x66 Opawa Margorie 30.82 L & ................ Wales 5 24443 Cawbourne Miami nwtd ...............C Roberts 6 22621 Come On Dolly 30.98.............M K Dempsey 7 33544 Blushing Belle 30.63 L & .................... Wales 8 67736 Know Solution 30.99 .................... L Waretini 9 63787 Thrilling Sound 30.68 S & ...............B Evans 10 8x788 Opawa Goodie 30.71 L & ................... Wales 8 2.03pm PROTEXIN SPRINT FINAL C1f, 295m 1 25621 Giganaire 17.45 S &........................B Evans 2 73231 Cec Divine 17.49........................... G Cleeve 3 42331 Goldstar Bridie 17.67 S & ...............B Evans 4 34F61 Stock Taker 17.40...................... D Stapleton 5 76421 Too Much Rebel 17.82 .................A Waretini 6 42151 Homebush Ariel 17.54 ..............J McInerney 7 51221 Rockwood Archie 17.58 ............ D Stapleton 8 53141 Inspector Spot 17.42 .................A Bradshaw 9 37652 Cawbourne Kiwi 17.76 .......................C Weir 10 85412 Botany Zenvo 17.59 ..................J McInerney

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46855 Opawa Bro 30.38 L & ......................... Wales 73335 Opawa Shaiden 30.74..................M Roberts 33144 Opawa Rob 31.03 L & ........................ Wales 77242 Scotsome Power 30.99 M &..............Jopson 74413 Jinja Cookie 30.77 ........................... B Dann 66155 Know Judge 30.87 ........................ G Cleeve 84437 Axel Grinder 30.46 ................... A Botherway 5361 Mega Surge 31.02 ......................... H Cairns 55678 Court The Belle 31.46 L &.................. Wales 88878 Cawbourne Muscle nwtd..............C Roberts 10 2.37pm GLENBYRE TAVERN SPRINT C1, 295m 1 48313 Another Plane 17.58 .................J McInerney 2 42556 Sea Spray Boris nwtd..................B Freeman 3 21715 Norman Jewel 17.62 ....................C Roberts 4 23421 Zorba The Greek 17.35 ................... M Grant 5 85853 Gypsy Hunter 17.56 .................. D Stapleton 6 25163 Sleeper Agent 17.78 .................A Bradshaw 7 15536 Eyes On Lulu 17.68 M & ..................... Smith 8 15422 Ohoka Joka 17.55 ........................ L Waretini 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 85x74 Homebush Radar nwtd .............J McInerney 11 2.55pm C.T.V. DASH C1, 295m 1 32126 Homebush Paige 17.62.............J McInerney 2 1462F Gin Sling 18.12 ........................ A Botherway 3 74318 Leigh Serene 17.71.......................... B Dann 4 35137 Cabarita nwtd .................................. M Grant 5 53685 Culvie Boy 17.38 H & ..........................Taylor 6 141 Elwood Sensation 17.65 ...........R Blackburn 7 82537 Puma Pants 17.61.....................J McInerney 8 11646 Goldstar Deejay 17.58 S &..............B Evans 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 x7574 Katie Ate It 17.94 ...................... M Robinson 12 3.16pm LIVAMOL SPRINT C1, 295m 1 63222 Hareeba Time 17.88 ................. D Stapleton 2 77123 Homebush Rocky nwtd .............J McInerney 3 73163 Cronk Went Plonk 17.67 ................. D Voyce 4 47544 Abogado 17.32..................................M Flipp 5 52F38 Ohoka Strika 17.90 ...................... L Waretini 6 66537 Goldstar Magic nwtd S & ................B Evans 7 65556 Another Another nwtd ...............J McInerney 8 52524 Glenn Is Goodesy 17.20 ................. M Grant 9 66845 Duco To Duco 17.73..........................M Flipp 10 68746 Wandy On In 17.69 .....................D Kingston LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Russell Ellis was bowling for Ashburton on Saturday.

Knights slay Dragons Newcastle brought to a close the tumultuous Wayne Bennett era with a win yesterday, thrashing one of the master coach’s former teams St George Illawarra 4010 at Hunter Stadium. The NRL clash was a throwback to a time before 2014, and featured Timana Tahu theatrics, vintage barnstorming runs from the departing Willie Mason and a wild melee that sparked when Josh Dugan and Tyrone Roberts stood toe-to-toe and traded punches. The Knights have typically struggled against the Dragons over the past decade and Bennett hadn’t beaten his former team since joining the Knights in 2012. Veterans Tahu, 33, and Mason, 35, have been told they are not required in Newcastle for season 2015, but both showed yesterday they still have plenty to offer an NRL club as they helped the Knights to their equal biggest win of the year.

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10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. 9.00am New Zealand and Agriculture ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Encounter, interactive fun for all Real women circuit training in hall. ages. Main Street, Methven.

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1.00pm - 3.00pm 9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY MUSEUM. SERVICE INC. Classic aircraft on display including For free budget advice and DC3. Seafield Road. workshop enquiries. Phone 3070496. 60 Cass Street.

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

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1.30pm R.S.A. CARD SECTION. 500, Ashburton R.S.A. Cox Street.

7.30pm SAVAGE CLUB. Wahine Korero concert, all welcome. Savage Club Hall, William Street.

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9.30am 10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road, Allenton. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all 9.30am ages. Main Street, Methven.

M.S.A. TAI CHI. 10.45am Exercises for all abilities. M.S.A. M.S.A. TAI CHI. Social hall, Havelock Street.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) While you think you don’t have time to hear yourself think, when you don’t find the time you’ll start to feel stressed, pulled from too many directions.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) With a Full Moon building in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, hold on to the professional edge you’ve gained.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) I Hold on to today’s adventurous lunar vibes. You’ll find it a lot easier to tap into today’s adventurous vibes if you don’t sweat the small stuff.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) The next few days are to become some of the most defining of the year when it comes to establishing the amount of adventure you expect from life.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) At a time of enormous personal growth, and with your relationships getting little support, having the right balance is your responsibility.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) There is a chance today to address old relationship issues, especially now that your own personal needs are fighting back.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) As you get ready to move into some intense days on the work front, make the most of today’s fun, playful and romantically charged lunar vibes.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Before you can address work/life balance issues, there’s a need to first make the most of a chance to redefine your needs and priorities.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Any work/life balance tension today is simply a reminder, during the most professionally focused weeks of the year, of a need for balance.

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Family Notices MURISON, David John, (Dave) (CMT 889280) – On September 4, 2014 at Hospital, Ashburton surrounded by his loving family. Dearly loved husband of Lorraine. Loved father and father in law of Janine and Marty Marshall, John, Tracy and Jamie and Andrea and Corey. Loved granddad of Hayden and Hayley, and Kayla and Vinnie; Amanda and Zach, and Melissa; James and Danielle, and Ella; Simon and Amanda, Libby, Josh, Kees, and Ben; Josh, Sam, Matthew, Faith, and Piper. Great granddad of Paige, and Brody. Messages to Murison Family P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. A special thank you to the staff at Terrace View Retirement Village for their care and understanding, to the staff at AAU and ward one and Dr Kiuru at Ashburton Hospital.

“Now at peace” A service to celebrate Dave’s life will be held at the Ashburton Club and MSA, Havelock Street, Ashburton on WEDNESDAY, September 10, commencing at 11.00am. Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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TODAY: Light showers developing from midday with southerly.

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Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAYFZL: 2400m, lowering to 1400m for a time in the east

Auckland

mainly fine

Early fog patches and fine spells in the morning. Becoming cloudy around midday with a few light showers developing and southerlies freshening, clearing in the evening with winds dying away.

Mainly fine, becoming cloudy about the foothills and in the north during the afternoon with scattered light showers developing, clearing in the evening.

Wind at 1000m: S rising to 30 km/h, then dying evening.

Wind at 2000m: SW rising to 55 km/h morning, then easing to 35 km/h.

Hamilton

mainly fine

Napier

mainly fine

TOMORROW Mainly fine, areas of morning cloud.

Northeasterlies.

TOMORROW

WEDNESDAY

High cloud. Winds mainly northeast.

FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY

Cloud increasing, late rain. Northerlies dying away.

Fine apart from cloud near the divide.

Freshening northwesterlies.

THURSDAY

World Weather

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Dubai Dublin Edinburgh Frankfurt

rain fine rain cloudy showers fine fine thunder fog rain fine showers fine cloudy cloudy

Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi Delhi

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Rise 6:49 am Set 6:13 pm

Rise 6:47 am Set 6:14 pm

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Bad

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Set 5:48 am Rise 5:15 pm

Bad fishing

Rise 6:45 am Set 6:15 pm

Bad fishing

Bad

Set 6:25 am Rise 6:31 pm

Full moon

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Wellington

mainly fine

Nelson

mainly fine

Blenheim

mainly fine

Greymouth

few showers

Christchurch

few showers

Timaru

few showers

Queenstown

mainly fine

Dunedin

showers

Invercargill

few showers

Last quarter

1:40 pm

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 130.6 Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday

4.58

Sth Ashburton at 1:15 pm, yesterday

6.64

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

42.4

Waitaki Kurow at 3:00 pm, yesterday

412.4

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FZL: About 2400m

Mainly fine, morning cloud about the foothills.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: SW tending NW.

Mainly fine with northeasterlies.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 14.9 15.4 Max to 4pm 0.3 Minimum -4.6 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm September to date 0.6 Avg Sep to date 12 2014 to date 541.0 473 Avg year to date Wind km/h NE 13 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 22 Time of gust 12:59pm

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Sport Forwards lay the platform

FULL STORY P16 Brodie Retallick carries the ball with team-mate Wyatt Crockett in support against Argentina in their Investic International rugby match at McLean Park in Napier, New Zealand, Saturday night.

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Warriors crash out of NRL finals

BY DAVID SKIPWITH The Warriors’ season came to a spirit-crushing end at the hands of a clinical Panthers side at Penrith on Sunday night.

Penrith’s James Segeyaro, Dallin Watene Zelezniak, and Matt Moylan were first half try-scorers, with halfback Jamie Soward contributing two goals for a 16-0 halftime lead.

A 95-metre try to Manu Vatuvei and Shaun Johnson goal re-

suscitated the Warriors hopes, but they frittered away attacking opportunities to let the home side off the hook.

A high tackle penalty against Ben Matulino allowed Soward a third goal inside the final quarter and Watene Zelezniak crossed for a second seven from time to seal the result.

The defeat consigns the Warriors to a ninth-place finish to see them miss the finals for a third straight year, while the

Whitelock out for four weeks P16

win gives the Panthers the last coveted spot among the top four.

The Warriors are left to reflect on a poor away record that leaves them with just four wins from 12 starts on the road, while their overall win-loss record is evenly split at 12/12.

Both sides looked tentative in the early stages but four Warriors errors helped the Panthers consolidate possession, while Soward was content to kick early in the tackle count to let the

visitors work it off their own line.

Signs were ominous when Panthers fullback Moylan took a quick tap and broke free to send Will Smith close, before a dummy-half dart from Segeyaro gave the Panthers first points after seven minutes.

A Ben Henry error inside the Warriors half put them under more strain from which Moylan was able to work a three-on-two to put Hamilton-born Panthers

winger Watene Zelezniak in for their second four-pointer.

A Panthers repeat set allowed a set play that gave the fullback their third try, with Soward kicking the goal from touch for a 16-0 halftime lead.

Vatuvei’s effort swung the momentum but desperate defence saw Feleti Mateo held up over the line before Watene Zelezniak’s second try iced the cake for the Panthers.

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