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Bid to make our roads safer

BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY

The announcement has not gone four stretches of road, one of which is down well with the opposition however, between Rakaia and Ashburton.

Improvements that could be imple- with Rangitata and National MP Andrew The Government has announced a new $1.4 billion, three-year programme to mented are median and side barriers, Falloon labelling the safety plan “a cruel joke”. make some of New Zealand’s high-risk rumble strips and shoulder widening.

“That huge cut in funding consigns “Drivers will inevitably make mistakes roads safer, but some are saying the contribution to Mid Canterbury is not and it’s the government’s job to stop any major upgrade on the Ashburton those mistakes turning into tragedies,” to Christchurch highway to the dustbin enough. while Labour are in Government,” FalTransport minister Phil Twyford and Twyford said.

“This year, far too many New Zealand- loon said. associate transport minister Julie Anne “Cutting $5 billion from the state highGenter announced the Safe Network ers have lost their lives or been seriously Programme which will make 870km of injured in crashes that could have been way network to invest in Auckland rail and cycleway projects was always going high-volume, high-risk state highways prevented by road safety upgrades.”

The addition of local councils being to have an enormous cost for us in Mid safer by 2021.

The programme will target an esti- offered a higher level of central govern- Canterbury. Ashburton to Christchurch mated $600 to $700 million of state high ment will allow the repair of high-risk, is the second most dangerous stretch of Guardian www.guardianonline.co.nz 3 9, 2018 highway inAshburton the country.” safety improvements and $700 towww.guardianonline.co.nz $800 local and regional roads, said Genter. Tuesday, January The announcement comes only a day The NZ Transport Agency will also million of local road safety improve■ METHVEN speed up the time it takes to deliver safe- after another crash on State Highway 1 ments.

Canterbury is marked down to receive ty projects by fast-tracking the approval between Ashburton and Christchurch between $30 and $35 million from the process for standard, proven safety im- after a two-car crash slowed down traffic for several hours on Saturday morning. provements. programme, which will be split between B S S JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

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If you’re on your way past the Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week, keep an ear out for the hard-working vocal chords of 149 Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School (MCSSS) students.

The group launched into a week of practice yesterday before they bring a musical theatre production to the stage on Friday and Saturday.

It’s the biggest production yet for the MCSSS, which has been operating each January for 18 years and is musically helmed

by Ashburton singing tutor Jo Castelow.

“We now have people from all over, from as far as Timaru and Christchurch, and each time brings a new mix of voices,” said Castelow.

Some singers have been involved in the week-long course for more than 10 years, she said,

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while more than half of this year’s junior group are newcomers.

The group range in age from 9 to 21 years and includes members of NAZDA and first-year university students.

This year’s production is themed Time Travellers and will cover musical theatre and tunes from across the ages – from My Fair Lady and Bing Crosby to recent hits like Hamilton and Moana, along with everything in between, Castelow said. “Among the juniors everyone knows the songs from Moana, but they find that they love singing the older ones just as much,” she said.

And not only does the theme provide something for everyone in the audience, she said, but gives the young singers the opportunity to learn about various musicals. The group received their music a month ago, and auditioned for solo positions on Sunday. They are currently undergoing two days of musical

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Getting pitch perfect for their production later this week are Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School students (from left): Lucy Clough, EJ Stockman, Emily-Jane Farr and Annah Casey-Solly.

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practice, before director Alice Sollis steps in to help with the actions from Wednesday onwards.

Three 80-minute performances of Time Travellers will take place on Friday night, Saturday after-

Building standards placards set to roll out

By Sue newman

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A number of older buildings around the Ashburton District will shortly be sporting signs that spell out how they rank against new building standards.

As part of the on-going drive to

ing work is either carried out or planned in the future.

It’s been a long process getting to this point, council building services manager Michael Wong said, but the placard templates had now arrived and these would be sent to property owners over

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already assessed. Then we’ll do another desk top review and pick up the ones we may have missed and we’ll work with them,” he said.

Buildings that have not been assessed will be given the lowest rating until an assessment is

noon and Saturday night at the Event Centre, with tickets now available from Ticket Direct.

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and that dramatically reduced the number of buildings coming into the net locally.

If a building is required to have a placard displayed it will contain information on the percentage it complies with building standards and the year with which it will

From P1 Near Methven, Lucy Raisbeck’s free range egg stall was also burgled on Sunday night.

While taking out the bins yesterday morning, she said she noticed that the security camera had been taken and the padlock had been cut off from her honesty box.

Te Araroa walkers are on the rise, benefiting the summer tourism industry in Methven.

Many who do the 3000-kilometre trail, which runs the length of New Zealand, end up in the ski town, as it is a natural rest resting point near the uncrossable Rakaia River.

Methven i-SITE consultant Lyndsay Agnew said December to February was peak season for trail walkers, and she was assisting about half a dozen per week.

“Most of them are doing the whole trail or the whole South Island, depending on how much time they have got,” she said.

“They are really interesting people, you have to be a certain breed to want to go and walk 3000 kilometres.”

They mostly came from Europe and North America, and walked north to south, hitch-hiking into Methven from above Lake Coleridge. They generally stayed in the campground or backpacker lodges in Methven.

“It’s nice to have them here and they spread the word when they go back,” she said.

Walkers rejoin the trail on Blackford Road in the Rakaia Gorge, and Methven Travel provides transport on the “empty” section of its school bus run, and operates an on-demand shuttle service in school holidays.

The Te Araroa section through Mid Canterbury goes from here to the Hakatere Heron Road, taking a public access easement over Glenariffe Station, then crossing the 60,000-hectare Hakatere Conservation Park.

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After a couple of days rest in Methven, the Te Araroa trail beckons once again for American hiker Clayton Beckett.

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fered a Hikers’ Special made it all the more attractive.

“My feet were pretty banged up, so I decided to hang out for just one more day,” Beckett said.

hitchhiked to Methven, and left at the weekend aiming to hitch to north of Lake Coleridge to resume the trail.

Beckett said the trail to date had

south. “A lot of Kiwis don’t even know about the trail,” Beckett said.

He was not worried about being without a cellphone.

compared to 350 in 2015-2016 and 210 the year before.

Te Araroa Trust chairman David McGregor said the trail, which takes five months to complete

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Ashburton’s civic leaders ending their tenure of the Baring Square east council building with a final meeting held in a temporary meeting room.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Another chapter of meetings closes

By Sue NewmaN

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It might have been a temporary hiatus, but it’s a hiatus that’s come to an end, with Ashburton’s district councillors meeting for the final time in the Baring Square East meeting rooms.

In 2015 council meetings were moved from the third level chamber in the council’s administration

building in Baring Square West to what was to be a three-year temporary home.

With council staff numbers putting pressure on space in the administration building, and the Baring Square east building sitting empty, it was decided to convert the council chambers and meeting rooms into office space.

The first meeting in the new

chamber was held on October 29, 2015 and the last on Thursday, not in the council chamber but in a meeting room.

Civic trappings from the building had already been relocated to what will once again be a temporary meeting area in the new civil defence building on Havelock Street.

The Baring Square east build-

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ing was originally home to the Ashburton County Council until the county and borough councils amalgamated in 1989.

The site will eventually be home once again to council meetings when the district’s new council administration centre and library are built on the site of the county building and surrounding land.

And if some current councillors

are still sitting around the meeting table when the building is completed they could be occupying the fourth council chamber of their civic tenure.

Contenders for that honour are Russell Ellis, Stuart Wilson, Neil Brown, Peter Reveley, Alasdair Urquhart and mayor Donna Favel if all choose to stand and are re-elected in October next year.

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■ POLICE

Man charged after stabbing

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

A 23-year-old man has been charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous

bodily harm after a stabbing incident occurred in Ashburton in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Police were called to Ashburton Hospital

at about 3.10am following a report someone had presented to the hospital after being stabbed.

The incident is understood to have oc-

curred in the Bridge Street area of Netherby on a residential property.

The offender is set to appear in the Timaru District Court today.

Finding Santa by torchlight

■ ASHBURTON MUSEUM

By Sue NewmaN

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Getting ready to hide about 40 Santas at the Ashburton Museum are summer staff Connor Lysaght and Rosie Twamley with Museum Director Tanya Robinson.

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When the lights go out in Ashburton’s Museum on Wednesday night there will be about 40 little men, most dressed in red suits, hiding, waiting to be discovered.

The after-dark exercise will involve hundreds of youngsters scurrying around the museum, hoping to tick off every missing Santa from their list.

They’ll be searching by torchlight, taking part in what has now become a firmly established tradition, the museum’s Great Santa Hunt.

Last year more than 300 people turned up for the torchlight search with many returning the next day to find the names and numbers that were missing from their check list, museum director

Tanya Robinson said.

Each Santa has a name on a reflective number attached to them and each of those is listed on participants’ check sheets.

Each Santa is different. Some are vintage, others are traditional and the odd one or two are downright quirky. And they’re not all tiny, she said.

The Santa hunt starts at 5pm on Wednesday and the only thing participants need to bring is a torch, Robinson said.

For many Santa hunters, it may require a return visit or two to find all the hidden little men and for staff it takes at least two days to find all their special hiding places.

“They’re always looking for new hiding places so hunters can expect the unexpected. We won’t be revealing any secrets before the night,” she said.

■ ENVIRONMENT CANTERBURY

ECan staff set to strike after unsuccessful bargaining

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Environment Canterbury staff who are aligned with the PSA will be striking today after unsuccessful bargaining.

The strike action is expected to begin at midday, and comes after protracted negotiations with

ECan and fundamental disagreements over the current salary system, said the PSA in a statement.

“Information from ECan shows that 73 per cent of members are paid less than the standard rate for their position, with some being below the lowest rate for their role,” PSA organiser Angela Collier said.

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“This is unacceptable to members and is made worse by pay levels continuing to slip in real terms.”

Environment Canterbury have defended their pay policy, saying they pay salaries that keep themselves consistently around the 100 per cent of the public sector median.

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An ECan spokesperson said they have been able to do this for the past few years, and have already agreed salaries with the majority of their staff who are not covered by the collective employment agreement under the PSA to maintain the position this year.

“The PSA, on behalf of the staff who are covered by the CEA, have

asked for a 4.9 per cent salary increase.

“We have offered 1.1 per cent to be consistent with the majority of staff and our stated policy position,” the spokesperson said.

“The PSA has called for their members to take industrial action, and we respect their right to do so.”

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Rain forces pot hole repairs

By Sue NewmaN

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The long wet spell that’s heralded the start of summer has not been the Ashburton District Council’s roading contractors’ friend, says council service delivery manager Neil McCann.

Currently, he said, there were two teams working on pothole repairs throughout the district, and making safe the areas that required more substantial repair.

“While the weather has caused an increase in potholes throughout our roading network, we are

working to identify and repair these as quickly as possible.”

There were also three additional teams undertaking dig out and stabilisation repairs for the bigger issues as part of ongoing priority work. This was governed by safety and the council’s planned resurfacing programme, McCann said.

“Many of the issues are within this scope of work and will be fixed by this planned activity.”

Over recent weeks abutment repairs of the Rangitata River bridge (Arundel Rakaia Gorge

Road) had been completed and all sunshine bridges had been reinstated.

Work was continuing on Jig Road where one side of the road was being extended to address erosion issues on the other and drivers should proceed with caution in that area, McCann said.

Maronan Road rehabilitation work was currently nearing completion, while minor slips on Double Hill Run Road were being cleared. With long spells of wet weather impacting on roads, staff and its contractors were

surveying roads dailing to assess damage and the list of problems was constantly being updated as work repairs continued, he said.

All works will take a scheduled break between Christmas and the New Year, unless critical work is identified, McCann said.

Anyone travelling the district’s roads and spotting roading issues could let the council know by using its Snap Send Solve app, he said.

“This will help us identify road damage issues that need attention.”

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■ HUNDRED JUMPS PROJECT

Man attacked by shark

Project still raises $10,057

A man has been attacked by a shark at Matauri Bay. Police received reports of a man being bitten by a shark at the bay — 30 km north of Kerikeri — about 11.20am on Saturday.

He was transported to Bay of Islands Hospital. A St John spokeswoman confirmed they attended an event at the Northland beach around the same time but would not confirm it was a shark attack.

The Northern Advocate understands it was a mako shark and the victim suffered injuries to his arm and leg. It is believed the attack happened near the Cavalli Islands.

The attack is the second shark attack in Northland in the space of two months.

In October Whangarei surfer Andrew Brough was attacked by a great white shark at Baylys Beach, near Dargaville.

He was catching a wave when the shark attacked him and thrashed around with his surfboard and arm in its mouth.

Brough quickly paddled ashore and raced to Baylys for help. His 4mm-thick wetsuit’s compression held his lower arm, torn to the bone, in one piece.

Surgeons removed three shark teeth from the wound, and a larger tooth was embedded in the surfboard.

Shark expert and Department of Conservation marine expert Clinton Duffy said there had been 15 fatal attacks in since records began in the 1850s. - NZME

In brief Council meetings It began as a trial, but Ashburton District councillors say they want to stick with their six-weekly meeting schedule for 2019. The change from a four to a six-weekly meeting cycle was introduced several years ago to relieve the pressure on staff on constantly preparing reports for council meetings. It has been reviewed and councillors opted to stick with the longer breaks beween meetings.

And last week, at the final council meeting of the year, they decided to again stay with a six-weekly cycle, leaving any reviews for the next team of councillors who will be elected in October next year.

New cap for sign-off The amount of money that can now be spent by Ashburton District Council staff without signoff by councillors has increased from $1 million to $1.5 million. The increase was sought because a number of contracts now exceed $1 million in value and having these come to a council meeting for sign off can mean a considerable delay in signing off those contracts, council chief executive Hamish Riach said. The $1 million ceiling was set in 2014.

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Skydiver Steve Gregor may not have completed a single skydive in his hundred jumps project, but he has completed his ultimate goal of donating more than $10,000 to the Canterbury Westpac Rescue Helicopter service.

Gregor was set to attempt to break the New Zealand record for the most skydives in one day by completing at least 100 jumps at the Ashburton Airport, but low cloud and high winds kept things grounded.

Despite not being able to complete a single jump, Gregor was still able to raise $10,057.40 for the Canterbury Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

Due to the logistics of co-ordinating two planes, four pilots, six parachutes and more than 40 volunteers, they had only one day to complete the challenge, with no postponement date.

Trying the event again is not out of the question, however.

“I most certainly have the energy, passion and dedication for a second attempt and our incredible team are all more than willing to dedicate themselves to a second attempt.

“The showstopper is the money involved,” Gregor said.

“Unfortunately, even without a single jump on the day, I still incurred significant costs in putting the day together and to repeat that is challenging to say the least.

“However, it is certainly not something I can walk away from.”

The Ashburton District has joined the national surge in house prices in the lead in to Christmas. In November the median price of a house sold in the district jumped 12 per cent over both October and November 2017 to $364,000.

That lift in price came after several months where the median price had either dropped or remained static and it was one of the largest in New Zealand. While most parts of the country watched house prices lift, Canterbury did not, with only Ashburton, Timaru and Waimate seeing prices rise.

After remaining Canterbury’s price hot spot for many months, Mackenzie moved onto the negative side of the ledger, with the median price dropping 16 per cent. In November 51 properties changed hands, 21 per cent up on November last year.

Missing woman found A Christchurch woman who had been missing since Thursday has been found. Leana King, 52, was last seen near her home in Linwood on December 13. Police and King’s family were concerned for her welfare and issued a plea yesterday for public help in finding her. A spokeswoman said about 3pm yesterday King had been found safe and well.

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Mangere house fire Fire crews were yesterday battling a large house fire in Mangere.

Three crews from South Auckland were at the property fighting the fire, which a Fire and Emergency spokesman said was under control.

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Lotto results Official Lotto results for draw number 1812 drawn on Saturday.

Winning numbers (in ascending order): 5, 7, 18, 22, 29, 40.

Bonus number: 25.

Powerball winning number: 6.

Strike: 7, 29, 22, 18.

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■ LABOUR MARKET

Immigration minister ‘playing favourites’

By Sue NewmaN

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In refusing a request for a streamlined labour market test for Ashburton, immigration minister Iain Lees-Galloway was picking winners and losers among regional New Zealand’s districts, says Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon.

Last month Lees-Galloway granted the Mackenzie District a streamlined labour market test to help solve its labour shortage. Falloon then made a request for the Ashburton District to be given the same treatment.

On Thursday he was told his request had been turned down, and that’s effectively playing favourites, he said.

“The streamlined process was given to Mackenzie on the basis of a very low unemployment rate, but they’re not unique, Ashburton’s unemployment rate is less than half the national average,” Falloon said.

A recent Ashburton District Council survey showed there were 500 job vacancies in the district and that the economic cost of this was around $16 million a year.

“For a population of 35,000 people that’s a massive hole. It’s crucial we’re able to hire not just locals, but people from other parts of New Zealand and the world,” Falloon said.

As Ashburton’s member of parliament, he said he’d dealt with cases where there have been delays of many months and those delays were creating huge uncer-

tainty and costs for local employers and people who had made the district their home.

Just how dire the immigration situation actually was was made clear when the head of Immigration New Zealand admitted that ‘timelines had degraded in the past 12 months’ in the processing of visas, Falloon said.

“The very least the Government could have done is streamline our process in the way they’ve done for the Mackenzie District.

Iain Lees-Galloway is putting the needs of some districts ahead of other and picking winners.”

Mackenzie was granted a streamlined immigration process because it was grappling with rising tourist numbers, which has led to increased demand for workers and forced several businesses to look overseas for new employees.

When an employer wishes to employ a migrant worker for an Essential Skills work visa, currently they need to go through a full labour market test.

The Mackenzie deal streamlined that part of the process, reducing turnaround time for the level four or five positions. Completing the MSD skills match report would now take 24 hours or less rather than the two to three weeks.

The Ashburton District’s situation was no less dire, Falloon said, and there was absolutely no reason why it could not be given the same treatment as Mackenzie.

■ MID CANTERBURY CHOIR

Celebrating the Christmas season It was virtually a full house at St Stephen’s Church on Friday when the Mid Canterbury Choir and guest soloists celebrated the Christmas season in song. Under the direction of musical director Kathy McKimmie the choir performed a range of festive music. Guest soloists were Olivia Stewart and Charlotte Blundell. The choir was accompanied by Deborah Sloper.

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Simply make a purchase at any participating retailers between November 10 Tracey – Hospice Mid Canterbury What’s your business about?

Here at hospice we help to enable clients with lifelimiting illnesses to live their life the way they chose, within their abilities, for as long as possible.

Why is it important to support local businesses?

When we support local we support the future of Ashburton and potentially increase our town’s population which can result in career opportunities.

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What is special about Mid Canterbury in your eyes?

I personally love Mid Canterbury. The friendliness of the

town and the extra mile the retailers go to ensure your satisfied with their service, this is not something you experience in every town.

What would you do with $2500?

I would definitely go on a well-deserved holiday with my family.

If you were the Mayor of Ashburton for a day, what is the one thing you would do?

I would reopen the i-site visitors centre, this is a real loss to our town.

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Desme – Ashburton Guardian What’s your business about?

Providing local news to the community, alongside community information. We now provide this on three platforms, print, mobile and digital.

Why is it important to support local businesses?

We all need to be buying local and using local service providers and keeping our money in the district – not sending it to businesses outside the district. This helps keeps our locals employed and the district buoyant.

What is special about Mid Canterbury in your eyes?

As a district we punch well above our weight with everything we do from businesses, sports and news !

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What would you do with $2500?

Take my kids away on a holiday to the North Island as we’ve not explored much of there yet.

If you were the Mayor of Ashburton for a day, what is the one thing you would do?

Get the town centre looking flash and enticing to shoppers and visitors. Decals on empty shop windows, hanging baskets and nice seating. Then I’d pedestrianise East Street on a Sunday, move the farmers’ market there and invite food trucks, coffee carts, fruit stalls and street performers to make the area come alive.

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Girl’s family wants answers The family of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in US Border Patrol custody is disputing an account from officials who say she had not been given food or water for days.

In a statement released by lawyers, the parents of Jakelin Caal said the girl had been given food and water and appeared to be in good health as she travelled through Mexico with her father, 29-yearold Nery Gilberto Caal Cuz. Border patrol officials did not immediately respond to the family’s comments.

The family’s statement was released at the weekend during a news conference in El Paso, Texas, at an immigrant shelter where Jakelin’s father is staying. Her family did not attend and has asked for privacy.

Jakelin and her father were seeking asylum in the US and were among a large group of migrants arrested on December 6 near a remote border crossing in New Mexico. Hours later they were placed on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol station, but Jakelin began vomiting and eventually stopped breathing. She later died at a Texas hospital.

Border Patrol officials on Friday said agents did everything they could to save the girl but that she had not had food or water for days.

They added that an initial screening showed no evidence of health problems, and that her father had signed a form indicating she was in good health.

But the family took issue with that form, which was in English, a language her father doesn’t speak or read. He communicated with border agents in Spanish but he primarily speaks the Mayan Q’eqchi’

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Claudia Maquin, 27, sits on a wooden bed while she answers questions from journalists with her three children, Elvis Radamel Aquiles Caal Maquin, 5, (left) Abdel Johnatan Domingo Caal Maquin, 9, (centre), Angela Surely Mariela Caal Maquin, 6 months, in Raxruha, Guatemala. Her daughter, 7-year old Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal, died two days after being taken into custody by border patrol agents in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert.

PHOTO AP language. “It is unacceptable for any government agency to have persons in custody sign documents in a language that they clearly do not understand,” the statement said.

Jakelin’s family is urging authorities to conduct an “objective and thorough” investigation into the death and to deter-

Samantha Markle has claimed her sister Meghan Markle’s Christmas card shows she is turning her back on her family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the weekend revealed the image they had chosen to celebrate the festive season – a black and white photograph of them watching fireworks at their May wedding.

But the photograph, taken at Frogmore House, was slammed by Meghan’s estranged half-sister Samantha. Taking to Twitter, the American wrote: “Interesting that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have their backs turned. Is this towards the world or just the Ragland and Markle family? “It’s a bit sad. Face the Christmas spirit.”

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mine whether officials met standards for the arrest and custody of children.

Family members in Guatemala said Caal decided to migrate with his favourite child to earn money he could send back home.

Jakelin’s mother and three siblings remained in San Antonio Secortez, a village of about 420 inhabitants.

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A woman lights a candle to pay respect to the victims after the Strasbourg, eastern France, attack.

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The father of the 29-year-old suspect in last week’s deadly Christmas market attack in France says his son supported the Islamic State group.

The interview with Abdelkrim Chekatt by the staterun France 2 television channel was shown yesterday, two days after his son was killed in a confrontation with three police officers in his childhood neighbourhood in Strasbourg following a massive manhunt.

Four people died in the Tuesday night attack. A dozen others were wounded.

The Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament, is the largest in France. It reopened on Friday after being closed during the search for the suspect.

Chekatt said he had seen his son, Cherif Chekatt, three days before the attack but couldn’t contact him while he was on the run.

He acknowledged that his son backed the IS group.

“He’d say, for example, that Daesh, fights for the just cause and all that,” the red-bearded father said, using the common term in France and elsewhere for the Islamic State group.

The interview, initially outdoors with the father, continued briefly inside with Cheriff

Chekatt’s mother, Rouadja Rouag, who expressed shock and sorrow for the deaths.

France 2 said the couple had been divorced for a long time.

Abdelkrim Chekatt, a French-Algerian, said he’d tried in the past to dissuade his son from backing the Islamic State, saying, “You don’t see the atrocities they commit.” The son would reply that “it’s not them”.

Shortly after Chekatt’s death, the Islamic State group’s Amaq news agency claimed he was a “soldier” of the group. French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner rejected the claim as “totally opportunistic”.

The father and mother and two siblings of the suspected killer were among seven people held for questioning.

French media reported that the family members were released. The three others, still in custody, are unrelated but close to Chekatt.

The young Chekatt had been on a French intelligence watch list for radicalism and was convicted 27 times for criminal offences – the first time at age 13 – mainly in France but also in Germany and Switzerland. Investigators are trying to determine whether he had accomplices or logistical support.

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Egypt unveils tomb A private tomb thought to be more than 4000 years old and built for a senior official from the fifth dynasty of pharaohs has been discovered in Egypt. Antiquities minister Khaled al-Anani announced the find in Saqqara, just west of Cairo, which is also home to the famed Step Pyramid.

Brightly painted relief statues were part of the “exceptionally well-preserved” treasures found in the tomb of a priest called Wahtye who was involved in royal purification during the reign of King Nefer Ir-Ka-Re about 4400 years ago.

Anani said the tomb contains scores of statues of different sizes and colours.

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Massive diamond found A massive 522-carat diamond has been unearthed in a Canadian mine near the Arctic Circle – the largest diamond ever mined in North America. The yellow diamond was recovered at the Diavik Diamond Mine, located in northern Canada about 200km south of the Arctic Circle, the Toronto Star newspaper reported, citing mine operator Dominion Diamond Mines. The stone is thought to be one of the 30 biggest diamonds ever found.

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Recline by Jocelyn Pratt – Leaf-form seat – price on application.

Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring Again by Jina Lee – Just like the atoms, we are all connected, and continue as we live – price on application.

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Of 16 works created by the 11 artists from throughout New Zealand and Australia who attended, nine sold at auction at the completion of the symposium.

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Pouakai (Haast Eagle) by Moira Crossman – The largest eagle to have existed in the world once roamed here – $3800.

Off Balance by Rex O’Brien – Geometric form on macrocarpa pillar – $5000.

From December 16: Summer Holidays family activities begin at the Ashburton Art Gallery. Explore shapes and colours with collection exhibition and special light box activity, do the search and find trail, enter a drawing competition connected to David Elliot’s exhibition. These programmes are open to all ages and run to February 10.

December 21: Buskers Night.

Local performers sharing their music in Baring Square East from 6.30pm.

December 30: The Extravaganza Fair, 9am-5pm, Ashburton Domain.

January 5 - 10: Methven Summer School, from January 5 to January 10, 9am-4pm.

To January 13 – Complement and Contrast – Works from the gallery collection on exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery.

January 14 – 18: Big Little Theatre Company summer theatre school.

January 18 – 19: Soundwaves at Ashburton Trust Event Centre, songs from some of the latest shows and your old favourites performed by students aged from nine to 21.

January 19 – 21: Ashburton Society of Arts watercolour class

by Amanda Brett at Short Street Studio.

February 3 - Michele A’Court & Jeremy Elwood – On the Road, Ashburton Trust Event Centre at 2.30pm.

February 17 - Sofia Talvik Americana/Folk. Sofia Talviks is an Americana/Folk musician and her music has a special tint of her Scandinavian heritage.

Ashburton Trust Event Centre at 7.30pm.

April 7: Get Coloured by CainInspire Colour Fun Run, April 7 10am-noon, Lake Hood.

April 15: Cats the musical at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7.30-10pm.

May 1: The Adele and Amy Songbook tribute band. Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

May 24 – June 1: Sister Act! Variety Theatre of Ashburton.

Unconditional by Brent Holley – As is the bond between mother and child – $3500.

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Paul Deans’ Time Traveller works – a figure entering one side of the stone and emerging from the other – $4500 each.

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Strikes an eye-opening experience S

o what is all this striking malarkey about then?

I am still fairly new to this, being part of the big section of the New Zealand population that has a job, and weirdly at school, we didn’t hear much about strikes.

So this year has been a bit of an eye-opener for me to see just how they work, and for me, there are two separate groups they fall in to.

Firstly, there are those under collective agreements that choose to go on strike with the ability to pull in sympathy from the rest of the working public.The main ones I think of are nurses and teachers, people many would find it hard to argue that they don’t play a key role in keeping New Zealand ticking.

I was fortunate enough to be

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able to cover the nurses’ strike in Christchurch, and it was an eye-opening experience.

It was about more than just money for these people, it was about being safe at work, not being overworked, for Christchurch Hospital nurses in particular, being able to walk safely back to your car after a long shift of saving lives.

They had my sympathy.

Teachers are much the same.

Everybody had a teacher who they remember fondly, who they know put in the hard yards for them.

Fair enough for the teachers to now be in the position to say ‘hey, we mean more than what you give us credit for’.

Yet more sympathy gained.

One group that get very little sympathy from me are the Air New Zealand staff that threatened to strike at the peak time of the year, just a few days out from Christmas.

From a purely neutral standpoint, it is a pretty good power play to pull. It would be crippling for Air New Zealand if the strike went ahead, and we now know they have reached an agreement and getting home up north for Auntie Brenda’s secret ham is still

going to happen.

But it leaves a pretty bad look, that while these people serve an important role in making sure we don’t have planes falling out of the sky, they have shown a fairly un-Kiwi selfish streak and said the public’s festive season is not as important as their pay-packets.

At the end of the day, all that really matters is what is negotiated in the collective agreement, and the public do not get to sit in for that, but public image is massive for organisations these days, and anyone being seen to be mistreating their staff could probably expect to suffer because of that.

Strong-arming has proven to be effective, but it can leave a bit of a bad taste in the mouth, so I’d pick pity over power.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, December 17, the 351st day of 2018.

There are 14 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned powered-airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.

On this date: In 1773, at Wharehunga Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, 10 men serving under Tobias Furneaux on the sister vessel to James Cook’s Resolution died at the hands of Ngāti Kuia and Rangitāne led by the chief Kahura. - nzhistory. govt.nz In 1777, France recognised American independence.

In 1865, Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, known as the Unfinished because only two movements had been completed, was first performed publicly in Vienna 37 years after the composer’s death.

In 1889, just 8½ months after Gustave Eiffel’s famous Paris tower was officially completed in March 1889, a wooden replica Eiffel Tower opened at the 1889–90 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin. nzhistory.govt.nz In 1944, the US War Department announced it was ending its policy of excluding people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast.

In 1957, the United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.

In 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, 59, disappeared while swimming in the ocean off Cheviot Beach in Victoria state; despite an extensive search, his body was never found.

In 1969, the US Air Force closed its Project “Blue Book” by concluding there was no evidence of extraterrestrial

spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.

In 1979, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally injured after leading police on a chase with his motorcycle in Miami. (Four white police officers accused of beating McDuffie were acquitted, sparking riots.)

In 2000, President-elect George W. Bush named Stanford professor Condoleezza Rice his national security adviser and Alberto Gonzales to the White House counsel’s job, the same day he was named Time magazine’s

Person of the Year.

In 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died after more than a decade of iron rule; he was 69.

Ten years ago: OPEC agreed to slash 2.2 million barrels from daily production — its single largest cut ever.

Five years ago: Germany’s Parliament elected Chancellor Angela Merkel to a third term as the leader of Europe’s biggest economic power, nearly three months after an awkward election result forced her to put together a new governing

coalition.

One year ago: Star Wars: The Last Jedi took in $220 million in its debut weekend in North America.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Armin Mueller-Stahl is 88. Pope Francis is 82. Singer-actor Tommy Steele is 82. Rock singer-musician Art Neville is 81. Actor Bernard Hill is 74. Actor Ernie Hudson is 73. Political commentator Chris Matthews is 73. Actor Joel Brooks is 69. Rock singer Paul Rodgers is 69. Pop singer Sarah Dallin (Bananarama) is 57.

Country musician Tim Chewning is 56. Country singer Tracy Byrd is 52. Country musician Duane Propes is 52. Actress Laurie Holden is 49. Pop-rock musician Eddie Fisher (OneRepublic) is 45. Actress Sarah Paulson is 44.

Actress Marissa Ribisi is 44.

Thought for today: “The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.” — B.C. Forbes, Scottish journalist (1880-1954).

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ne of the hazards of being a Member of Parliament, particularly one in Opposition, is the expectation that we’ll always be negative.

I’ve never been interested in that sort of politics. Granted, if I see something I disagree with or an opportunity going wasted, I’ll say so.

Similarly if I see injustice, I’ll speak up. The most important job I’ve had this year as your local MP has been going into bat for people who come to see me with issues.

But none of that should be read as out-and-out negativity.

While there’s plenty to disagree about with the Government’s economic direction, the reality, at least for now, is that our local economy continues to perform pretty well.

The test will come in the next couple of years’ time, as the new taxes they’ve announced (even more fuel taxes on the way) and those they’ve signalled (a Capital Gains Tax and nitrate levy) start to bite along with their employment law changes.

But if history is any guide, the likelihood is we’ll come through it better than most.

At the beginning of 2008, with

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an economy heavily stressed by high Government spending and low growth, New Zealand was the first country in the developed world to slide into recession.

By the time National took office later in the year, the US banking system was in meltdown and the Global Financial Crisis had kicked off, and many other nations had followed our lead into negative growth.

But through all that, and even with the Canterbury earthquakes and low dairy prices to follow, Mid Canterbury performed more strongly than other regions.

For wage growth and productivity we’ve been leading most of the country for the better part of a decade.

We are the sixth most desirable place in the country to do business, and have the 12th

highest quality of living.

Our unemployment rate is less than half the national average of 3.9 per cent.

That’s enormously positive, but can create challenges.

A recent NZIER report commissioned by the Council shows there are 500 vacancies across a district of just 35,000 people.

Employers having to carry vacancies is holding back our local businesses and farms from growing.

Part of the solution has to be enticing more of our young people to stay, but we also need to welcome others from around New Zealand and the world.

For the last 14 months the Government have been silent on immigration policy, despite promises new settings would be in place before the end of this year.

I understand that Immigration Minister Iain Lees Galloway is finally set to announce what they’ll be in the next day or two.

Our growth has also put pressure on infrastructure.

Traffic volumes on State Highway One between here and Christchurch have doubled since 1997.

As a first time electorate candi-

date I convinced the then-Minister of Transport Simon Bridges to commit to a four lane highway if National were returned to Government.

The new Government’s cut-price solution of a median barrier on the existing narrow road will put road users at risk.

I’ll keep the pressure on to make the investment needed to make the road safer.

But those are arguments for next year.

From my family to yours, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a relaxing break, and a safe a prosperous New Year.

My Ashburton office in Harrison Street will be closed from December 21 until January 16 to give my staff a well-earned holiday.

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The Essen Christmas market invites visitors to delve into the world of the Middle Ages at Flachsmarkt market square.

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or Kiwis, nothing spells the festive period quite like going to the beach or enjoying a family barbecue in your back garden.

However, on the other side of the world, celebrations are rather different. For a change, why not plan a trip to a winter wonderland where you can wrap your hands around a mug of warm mulled wine while strolling under twinkling fairy lights?

With the help of Booking.com, we’ve rounded up some of the world’s most magical magical Christmas markets for you to dream about.

Essen, Germany A shimmering jewel of the Advent period, the Essen Christmas market invites visitors to delve into the world of the Middle Ages at Flachsmarkt market square.

Running until December 23, the 250-plus stall markets glisten under a canopy of 45,000 lights, bustling with gift ideas and culinary delicacies.

Once you’ve shopped for homemade soaps, incense,

pottery and furs, branch out and sample some medieval treats at Burgküche kitchen.

Where to stay: Ideally situated beside the pedestrian zone and main railway station in Essen, the TOP CCL Hotel Essener Hof is just a short stroll away from the medieval festivities of the Essen Christmas Market.

This traditional hotel is also ideal for day trips to Essen’s green surroundings and is a great choice for travellers interested in markets and shopping for clothes.

Vipiteno, Italy In the mountains of Vipiteno in northern Italy lies a Christmas market offering the perfect mix of delicious goods and snowy scenery for visitors.

Situated almost 1000 metres above sea level, Vipiteno is transformed into a winter’s fairytale each year, this year ending on January 6, 2019.

Local vendors will serve freshly baked goods against the backdrop of crackling fireplaces and decorated Christmas trees.

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set in the pedestrian area of Vipiteno city centre, a five-minute drive from the Monte Cavallo ski area. Its rooms are decorated in a classic Alpine style and the hotel boasts a free on-site wellness centre including a hot tub, Turkish bath and Finnish sauna.

Frankenmuth, Michigan, USA Each year during the first weekend of December, Christmas vendors selling fresh chestnuts, handmade garlands, fresh apple cider and more, converge at the Frankenmuth Farmers’ Market for their version of a European-style Christkindlmart.

If one weekend of festivities isn’t enough, indulge all year round at Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest Christmas store. The store is spread over a huge 27 acres and attracts over two million visitors each year.

Where to stay: Boasting both an indoor and outdoor pool, the Four Points By Sheraton offers a relaxing stay at this modern location.

Just a short drive from the cen-

tre of Frankenmuth, guests can enjoy the spacious interiors and comfortable suites.

Mulhouse, France In contrast to the usual red and green, the Mulhouse Christmas Market celebrates the festive season in multicolor, with locals labelling it the most colourful market.

With its heritage in the textile industry, Mulhouse marks the season each year by creating a festive fabric which is then adorned around the market’s 100 huts.

Local craftspeople produce delicacies of foie gras, gingerbread and Bredeles for visitors to taste in the city’s most famous square, Place de la Réunion, up until December 23.

Where to stay: Continue this colourful theme at the nearby Maison Mondrian. This brightly decorated building is home to a superb guesthouse, which proves particularly popular with couples.

This artsy abode offers a great location, just a short walk from Mulhouse Train Station, and

excellent facilities including an on-site shop.

Taipei City, Taiwan Travel to Taiwan to experience the vibrant and family-friendly Christmasland in Taipei City for a truly unique holiday experience.

Visitors can enjoy the annual winter wonderland’s festive activities, performances, food, games and homemade treats from local stores.

With the event lasting several weeks, guests can marvel at light displays, dancing Christmas lights, a huge Christmas market, carol singers and more.

Where to stay: Situated in a great spot for exploring Taipei, Star Hostel Taipei Main Station offers simple but clean and comfortable accommodation.

Guests can enjoy a hearty breakfast and fresh coffee each morning, in the shared lounge and kitchen.

Travellers can also opt to have their own private room if they need a good night’s sleep after exploring the Christmas markets.

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■ RUGBY

Razor plots three-peat

By Patrick Mckendry The Crusaders have begun their mission to win three Super Rugby titles in three years for the second time in their history and will take the field next season without two of their best forwards – but not without the sense of fun which has characterised this team under Scott Robertson.

Adding to what could be a difficult start to the season (three New Zealand derbies in the first four weeks), they will be missing All Blacks Sam Whitelock and Kieran Read for the first four rounds and possibly Codie Taylor too.

Pressure?

Not so much.

As usual the defending champions will back their depth to not only cope but thrive in a potentially challenging World Cup year and once again the man of the moment known as Razor will be setting the tone in his own unique way.

“Trying to win a third title could be a burden, or you could make it about having great fun and doing something special,” Robertson said in Christchurch this week.

To presumably no surprise to virtually anyone, he added: “I’m on the latter side.”

Robertson, 44, has already created something special here in the place that is home to Super Rugby’s most successful franchise.

He was a crucial part of the team that won three titles in a row between 1998-2000 – which is still the only franchise to do so – and incredibly he is in with a good chance of doing it again as a coach.

Everyone in this rebuilding city has their own Razor story, whether it is a 10-year-old from the Marist-Albion club getting his photo taken with Robertson beside a wind-swept suburban field on the morning of the Super Rugby

Scott Robertson says the Crusaders have the depth to remain a Super Rugby superpower. final this winter, or a four-year-old in a Crusaders top walking across a pedestrian crossing in Robertson’s home village of Sumner and watching as the coach slows his four-wheel-drive and gives him a thumbs up out of the window.

He can be an entertaining man to be around but it is by design too because it is his job to create an environment in which his players, many of whom are experienced All Blacks including national captain Read and Crusaders skipper Whitelock, are stimulated and driven to improve, and Robertson has done it better than just about anyone could have expected in his first two years in the job.

His passion for coaching and success have put his name in the frame as the next All Blacks head coach and while Robertson is keen on the job at some stage, out of respect for incumbent Steve Hansen and the Crusaders, with whom he is negotiating a contract extension, he is wary about publicly revealing too much.

What he will say is that he is in a good position as he continues talks over a contract extension, and after working his way up from coaching the Sumner club, being a part-time assistant and then full-time head coach at Canterbury, and now Crusaders head coach with a perfect Super Rugby

record, he deserves to be.

He hopes to put pen to paper within the next fortnight or so.

“It’s obviously my home, so all those factors come into play but I love the team and I love the players,” he said of his willingness to stay at Christchurch’s Rugby Park.

“It’s probably the first time in my whole career that I feel I can negotiate.”

Next year, with the World Cup dominating the national conversation and priorities of the All Blacks coaches, will be challenging for the Crusaders and Robertson.

But Whitelock and Read, two

men who had a challenging 2018 in terms of the former’s workload and latter’s back surgery rehabilitation, will be better for their longer off-season, and the continuity that Robertson has in terms of his playing stock remains a big advantage.

“That’s the benefit of having such an experienced and loyal team,” Robertson said.

“Crusaders players often stay here for the long term and become All Blacks. We’ve had 77 All Blacks in the last 22 years and a lot of them are long-term All Blacks and very successful All Blacks who have played long careers.

“The key thing is the next person always stands up and comes through. We trust our squad. “[Loose forward] Whetu Douglas is a prime example, and he’s back. You look at [lock] Scott Barrett … who has a great understanding of the lineout and can step in there.

“We have [locks] Luke Romano and Quentin Strange and Mitch Dunshea.

“Our depth is strong.”

And so is the togetherness and drive within the squad.

This year one of the most notable features of the international season was how much nations such as South Africa, England and Ireland have improved in relation to the All Blacks and the challenge for the Crusaders is to find ways to get better too.

“We’ve spent the off season looking at our strengths and areas we can get better and making sure the squad, which we’ve got a lot of continuity with, can get excited and build on what we’ve done before and keep our momentum,” Robertson said.

“There are a few areas where we can improve and evolve. You have to keep evolving – that’s the exciting part of coaching; how we can get better.”

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Why Foster is, or isn’t, the best man to replace Hansen

By GreGor Paul

I

t hasn’t taken long for continuity to become a bad word in specific regard to who might be the next All Blacks coach.

For the first 10 years of professionalism there was this ruthless cycle of ditching coaches and their wider management teams after failed World Cups.

New Zealand Rugby never did continuity. It was slash and burn stuff - anyone associated with failure was razed and never seen again. The All Blacks lived regime-to-regime, the new coach coming in having to repeat all the same mistakes as their predecessor as there was no institutional knowledge left in the system.

After the failed World Cup of 2007 NZR decided to take a massive risk – or at least they braced themselves for what was an ugly public backlash by re-appointing

the incumbent coaching team of Graham Henry, Wayne Smith and Steve Hansen. It was a big, big moment in the history of New Zealand rugby as not only did it ultimately usher in the most successful decade any rugby team has ever known, it broke the shackles of the short-term thinking and reactive decision-making that had been holding the All Blacks prisoner to World Cup failure.

There was an awakening to the realisation that it isn’t always best to humiliate those who have met adversity by tossing them out as if failure is contagious.

Instead there was an acceptance that adversity can be a powerful force of good if those who have felt the sting of all that it brings can learn from it.

Henry and his coaching team justified their re-appointment when the All Blacks won the World Cup in 2011 and that paved

the way for Hansen to take over as head coach.

Continuity, having previously never been in NZR’s thinking, was suddenly the only way they wanted to go. A brave call in 2007 paid off and so an internal promotion seemed entirely the right way to go when Henry stepped down in 2011 and while there were plenty of people who had their doubts about what sort of head coach Hansen would make, the last six years have been spectacularly successful.

But the mood seems to be turning against continuity. Some of that resistance is focused on the general principle.

But the mood is turning against continuity not so much on a general concern, but more because specifically there isn’t nationwide faith or confidence in current All Blacks assistant Ian Foster.

He will, it seems, be forever judged by his seven-year tenure

at the Chiefs. His head coaching credentials were further damaged by the fact his successor at the Chiefs, Dave Rennie, won consecutive titles in his first two years.

But when it comes to coaching appointments, history is not always the best guide and the public are never the best judge.

As Hansen himself said, coaching appointments are often about time, place, and circumstance.

Hansen and Wales weren’t a great fit between 2002 and 2004 but Hansen and the All Blacks between 2012 and 2018 have had a rare chemistry.

Even the greatest coaches in history have a period somewhere in their career that they would rather forget.

It would be negligent to the point of catastrophic to fail to see that Foster, having spent the last six years as an assistant with the All Blacks has grown and devel-

oped significantly. It would also be wrong to believe that should he assume the top job in 2020 that he will simply try to preserve and replicate the strategies and team culture he inherits.

Hansen forged his own path and the All Blacks have evolved tactically and culturally on his watch to the point of being unrecognisable.

Foster has a strength of personality and rugby vision that is apparent to those who have spent time around him in the last six years. Having been in the system for as long as has, he shouldn’t be prone to making huge rookie mistakes.

Continuity shouldn’t necessarily be seen as the right way, but it categorically shouldn’t be ruled as the wrong way. And Foster may not be the right man but he deserves to not be viewed at this point of time as the wrong man.

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Rodney Pangilinan waits on as his doubles partner Sam Bubb lets a serve fly in the clash against Hampstead in the Mid Canterbury Tennis A Grade competition.

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Ronaldo a team man

■ TENNIS

Hampstead the giant-killer

By Jaime Pitt-macKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Allenton’s unbeaten run in Mid Canterbury Tennis A Grade competition has come to an end at the hands of Hampstead on Saturday.

Unbeaten through the first full round of games, Allenton headed in to the match-up without one of their top players Andre van Rooyen, and paid the price, losing four matches to two.

Things were evenly split between the two teams in the doubles, with Sam Bubb and Rodney

In brief

Pangilinan defeating Connor Brosnahan and Aidan Mitchell 6-3, 6-4.

Mike Kerr and Erin Connelly-Whyte pulled it back for Hampstead in the other doubles game however, defeating Jacob Pye and Oliver McKeown 6-4, 6-0.

In the singles Hampstead were able to pull away, with Bubb the only winner for Allenton as Brosnahan, Kerr and Connelly-Whyte all won their games comfortably, with nobody dropping more than three games in a set.

Fairton had the most convincing victory of the weekend, winning five matched to one against Southern.

Aidan Watt was the only Southern to player to offer any resistance, defeating John Leslie 6-0, 6-0 as Rhys Cromie, Tyler Leonard and Philip Crozier all won their doubles and singles games.

In the final match-up of the day, Tinwald got one over second-placed Methven in their clash, winning four matches to two.

The doubles encounters were split, with Cam McCracken and Peter Leonard defeating Edwin Dargue and Pete Kirwan 6-1, 6-1 to pick up the win for Tinwald, while Jared Hill and Matt Bubb were too good for Jayden Cromie and Riley Breen.

In the singles, Tinwald proved to be too strong, with only Ollie Bubb able to find a victory for Methven, defeating Jake Parsons 7-5, 7-5 as McCracken and Leonard easily won their games 6-0, 6-0 and 6-3, 6-1 respectively.

Cristiano Ronaldo has rediscovered his touch in front of goal by converting a penalty to guide Juventus past Torino 1-0 in their Italian Serie A derby and go joint top on the season’s scorers chart. Ronaldo failed to score in his previous two matches, the first time that had happened since September, but he netted 20 minutes from time. “I’m very happy but the main thing is doing my bit for the team.”

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Phoenix beat Mariners Mike Mulvey has pleaded with Central Coast fans not to give up on his team after a 2-0 loss to Wellington Phoenix secured them an unwanted place in A-League history.

Phoenix fullback Louis Fenton and forward Sarpreet Singh bagged their first goals of the season in Saturday’s opening half and that proved enough against the injuryplagued visitors.

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■ FOOTBALL

Jesus double helps Man City go top of EPL Gabriel Jesus has scored twice as Manchester City returned to winning ways to reclaim top spot in the English Premier League table.

After last weekend’s loss to Chelsea, City knew victory over Everton would take them back above Liverpool, who face Manchester United tonight.

Jesus had not scored a Premier League goal since August but the Brazilian exploited a poor Everton clearance to net the opener before

half-time and then doubled the lead with a header five minutes after the break.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin pulled one back but substitute Raheem Sterling ended a difficult week with another goal four minutes later to secure the points for Pep Guardiola’s side.

Burnley were agonisingly close to holding Tottenham to a draw at Wembley but Christian Eriksen netted in injury time to earn a 1-0

victory for Mauricio Pochettino’s side and keep them within five points of City.

Watford ended a six-game winless run in the Premier League with a 3-2 success against Cardiff, although they were made to sweat.

Gerard Deulofeu scored a fine individual goal in the 16th minute and then set up Jose Holebas for an unstoppable second seven minutes after the break.

Teenager Domingos Quina looked to have put the icing on the cake with his first league goal 22 minutes from time but Junior Hoilett curled in a superb goal for Cardiff and the Welsh side took another step towards an unlikely comeback when Bobby Reid grabbed a second with eight minutes left.

However, Neil Warnock’s side were unable to find an equaliser.

At the bottom of the table there

were important 1-0 victories for Crystal Palace – despite the absence of Zaha – and Newcastle.

Luke Milivojevic powered in a 39th-minute goal for Palace against Leicester while Salomon Rondon’s 55th-minute effort earned Newcastle victory at Huddersfield, who remain in the bottom three.

Bournemouth’s miserable run continued as they were beaten 2-0

by Wolves.

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■ BOXING

Parker brings the mongrel

By Patrick Mckendry Joseph Parker and his team say the Kiwi heavyweight’s vicious stoppage against Alexander Flores should silence those who say he’s too nice for the professional game.

Parker on Saturday night knocked out Flores in the third round at Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena but it came after at least two low blows against his Mexican-American opponent, who complained bitterly about the “dirty” tactics afterwards.

Parker’s second low blow caused Flores to drop his hands and the south Aucklander connected with a right hand which flattened his opponent.

Flores beat the count but was set upon straight away by Parker, who scented blood and was determined to finish a difficult year on a high note.

The 26-year-old Parker said any low blows were purely accidental.

“There were a couple of blows that were low, yeah,” Parker said.

“It wasn’t intentional. I knew there were a few but he didn’t get knocked out by a body shot.

“It was a head shot.”

Trainer Kevin Barry added: “He didn’t knock him out with a low blow, he knocked him out with right hand to the chin that spun his eyes to the back of his head and he was down for about two minutes with his eye split open.

“That’s a pretty decent couple of punches for me.”

Parker, the former WBO world champion, needed a knockout to show he deserves to be considered among the world’s elite and there would have been relief at the result.

Flores was technically sound in the first couple of rounds.

His head movement was good and he got through Parker’s defences with several right-hand counter punches.

But Parker’s finish was emphatic and showed too that he meant what he said about bringing a harder, more ruthless edge to the ring after being physically dominated by Dillian Whyte in his last fight.

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Big win for Akkawy Sydney super middleweight Bilal Akkawy’s seemingly inevitable journey to global boxing stardom has continued with a dominant win on the sport’s biggest stage in New York. Akkaway maintained his unbeaten record with a seventhround stoppage win over Mexican Victor Fonseca in the undercard to yesterday’s middleweight world championship showdown at Madison Square Garden.

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Jazz fail to fire Utah Jazz’s shooting woes have ultimately proved decisive in their 96-89 NBA loss to the Orlando Magic in Mexico. Australian duo Joe Ingles and Dante Exum combined for just 10 points as the Jazz shot at just 31.5 per cent from the field to slump to 14-16. Ingles was two of 11 for eight points, making two of six three-point attempts. Orlando were more efficient with Evan Fournier’s 24 points and 19 from bench player Terence Ross. Donovan Mitchell scored 24 points and Derrick Favors added 21 for the Jazz who have won just one of their past four.

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Adams the sportsman

Joseph Parker gets in a good one against Alexander Fores on Saturday night. against Dillian Whyte,” Barry said.

“A lot of people questioned Joe and said there’s not enough mongrel in him.”

Asked if the low blow controversy might take some shine off the win, Parker’s 25th as a professional, Barry said: “No, I don’t think so. If anything, it might silence a few people that think Joseph Parker is too much of a nice guy.

“We’re serious when we’re saying we want to get that world title back.

“That’s our number one goal and this is the beginning of that.”

Flores, who was a gamer and more canny fighter than expected, stood in his dressing room afterwards and said: “I didn’t expect this.

“I expected a cleaner fight.

“He is a former world champion, I didn’t think he would fight dirty.

“He clearly hit me low twice.

“In the last one… that one hurt me pretty good.

“He started getting frustrated, as you guys would have seen.

“He wasn’t hitting me. I think he underestimated me. I’m disappointed. I didn’t expect this outcome.”

It has been just over two years since Parker has scored a stoppage win.

This one is extra sweet too after a difficult year in which he lost his world title to Anthony Joshua in Cardiff and to Whyte in London after a headbutt which was scored as a legitimate knockdown.

“We haven’t had a knockout in a long time,” he said.

“It felt nice.

“As a heavyweight or as a boxer, when you get those knockouts – you feel sorry for them but that’s what we want.

“We’re happy as a team but we hope that he recovers well from the knockout and the cut that he got.

“It feels damn good.”

He will enjoy Christmas and New Year in New Zealand and Samoa before heading back to Las Vegas to train for his next fight which is likely to be in March or April.

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Even in the heat of NBA battle there is time for a bit of sportsmanship. Look no further than the gesture from Steven Adams, who produced a heart-warming moment during his Oklahoma City Thunder’s 109-98 loss to the Nuggets. Adams scored a seasonhigh-equalling 26 points, but it was his act with around eight minutes to go in the match which also caught plenty of attention.

Mason Plumlee jumped to block a shot, but Adams had dummied, which saw Plumlee toppling over the Kiwi’s body. Adams swivelled and helped break Plumlee’s fall to the floor, then helped Plumlee off the court, with the latter not doing any serious injury.

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Killies back on top Kilmarnock returned to the top of the Scottish Premiership with a 3-1 win against Dundee. Steve Clarke’s side were knocked off top spot after being thrashed 5-1 by Celtic last weekend, but they immediately returned to winning ways and recorded a third straight home victory. The victory moved Killie a point ahead of Socceroo Tom Rogic’s Celtic, And Aberdeen moved up to fourth with a 2-1 win at St Mirren.

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■ MOTOR RACING

Whitley makes history in the V8 utes A 25-year-old woman has made motorsport history as the first female to win a V8 Ute championship race in the 12 years it has been running.

Alexandra Whitley took out the historic win in the first round of the New Zealand V8 ute series at Pukekohe Park Raceway yesterday.

The front heavy cars are notoriously hard to handle making the

win an even sweeter victory for the driver who described herself as an “accidental ambassador” for women in the male dominated sport.

“I was on the way to my first win last season but I was taken out with two laps to go,” Whitley said.

“Since then I have bought my own car and have my own crew so it’s especially rewarding to come back and do this in the first round.”

Matt Spratt, the driver Whitley crashed with last season, came second to her in last weekend’s race.

“In the last race he tried to pass me a few times and down the back straight he hit me and spun me around, being a ute they are a bit lighter so we both spun,” she said.

“This time he came second to me so it was nice to come back and have a clean race and beat him fair and square.”

Whitley said she “never set out to be a role model for women in motorsport” but is more than happy to break down barriers.

She is the only woman in the 12 strong field of older, experienced drivers with big budget sponsors.

“There is a bit of banter and the, ‘we can’t let that girl beat us’, sort of thing off the track, but on the track they race hard and close but in a respectful way.”

“I don’t want to be treated any differently because I am female and they respect that.”

Whitley’s ground-breaking win comes in a week where Black Ferns star Kendra Cocksedge made history by becoming the first woman to win New Zealand Rugby’s supreme player of the year award, when she was named the Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Player of the Year.

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In brief Teen takes tourney Sydney teenager Grace Kim has scored a three-shot victory at the inaugural ANNIKA Invitational Australasia golf tournament in New Zealand. Kim carded a final-round 68 yesterday to finish at 14 under for the championship at Royal Wellington. The event is an extension of former world No.1 Annika Sorenstam’s global foundation that aims to give the world’s best junior amateurs a springboard to the LPGA Tour.

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Another ton for Kohli India captain Virat Kohli has notched his sixth test century in Australia, joining the elite company of Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli brought up triple figures on day three of the second test against Australia at Perth Stadium, taking 214 balls to reach the mark – 161 of which were dot balls. Tendulkar was faster to the mark, needing just 16 tests in Australia to notch six centuries. Kohli has done it in his 17th test, and now has the chance to overtake Tendulkar.

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Strikers grab Di Venuto

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Sheppard holds off the challengers Tony Sheppard lines up a putt on his way to victory in the Lynne Trophy which was played for at the Tinwald Golf Club on Saturday. Facing off against a field of about 60 other golfers, Sheppard collected the trophy that was the last piece of silverware going on the line in 2018, with the next tournament on the club’s programme being their New Year’s tournament on January 2.

The batting guru who helped Steve Smith take his game to another level shapes as arguably Adelaide Strikers’ most important recruit as they seek back to back titles in the Big Bash League. Michael Di Venuto has linked up with the Strikers as an assistant coach this season. In September, Di Venuto coached Surrey to their first English county title in 16 years.

Prior to that gig, Di Venuto was the Australian team batting coach and served as Darren Lehmann’s right-hand man. Smith was among the test stars to benefit from Di Venuto’s tutelage.

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■ CRICKET

Black Caps’ bats in charge

By Niall aNdersoN Tom Latham sculpted a classy century, Kane Williamson surprised everyone when he fell nine short of a ton of his own, and Ross Taylor brought up a milestone as the Black Caps battered Sri Lanka on day two of the first test.

Latham’s unbeaten 121 was the anchor of the Black Caps’ 311-2 as they bullied the Sri Lankan bowlers, racing past the visitors’ first innings of 282 and putting themselves in prime position to set up another test victory.

Latham brought up his seventh test century – his first since January 2017 – in an innings that was a lesson in application, facing 256 balls and batting for nearly the entire day.

He had to knuckle down early – scoring seven from his first 47 balls, and avoiding being given out lbw by the narrowest of margins when on 16.

A sharp delivery from Kasun Rajitha had pitched – only just – outside leg stump, and after surviving the scare, Latham picked up the pace, playing some textbook cover drives as he wrestled control against the Sri

Lankan bowling attack.

He added 162 in partnership with Williamson, who looked almost certain to bring up his 20th test century in a fantastic innings.

With Williamson, the most impressive thing now is not the runs, but the fact the runs are so expected, especially versus Sri Lanka, against whom he averages 91.

He was on top from the start, striking three boundaries off the first three balls, and looked in another stratosphere as he rattled along at a run a ball.

Any cries of catch were more in hope than expectation, with an array of glorious back foot cuts and drives complementing superb accumulation and excellent running between the wickets.

A Williamson century all seemed so pre-ordained, so there was a stunned silence around the Basin Reserve when he swept part-time spinner Dhananjaya de Silva straight to the man at backward square leg.

Williamson had to go for 91 from 93 balls, but while he couldn’t reach three figures, Latham made sure someone would raise their bat by the end of the day.

It came in classic circumstances – sprinting through for a quick single on 98, before a misfield allowed him to scamper back for a second, and salute an appreciative crowd.

It was a timely knock after the 26-year-old had averaged just 16.5 in the series against Pakistan, and he found further support from Taylor, who finished unbeaten on 50, in the process passing Brendon McCullum for second all-time on the New Zealand runscoring charts, with 6456 runs.

For Sri Lanka, it was a day of toil, with little to indicate day three will produce anything different.

Lahiru Kumara bowled with some fire, and took the wicket of Jeet Raval, but the rest of the seam brigade were unthreatening.

Compared to the efforts of Tim Southee – who ended with 6-68 after wrapping up the Sri Lankan innings early in the day – the Sri Lankan seamers looked second-rate, creating few chances, and spinner Dilruwan Perera leaked runs in his 13 overs.

It all points to a substantial first innings advantage for the Black Caps – and, most likely, a first test victory.

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Kane Williamson narrowly missed another century.

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■ INTERDOMS

Tiger roars at Interdoms

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Tornado fires up in Melbourne

By AdAm HAmilton

By AdAm HAmilton

This was supposed to be a hohum Inter Dominion pacing series, but instead it will be remembered for one of the great wins by a real pacing warrior.

Anyone who has watched Tiger Tara over the past 12 months, especially just last month in the NZ Cup, would agree he deserved Saturday night’s win.

But those same people would be surprised by the dominant and easy way he did it.

And all of that after he, trainer Kevin Pizzuto and assistant trainer Karen Crouch were involved in a frightening car accident.

“We could’ve died,” Pizzuto said. “A car T-boned us and we crashed off the road.

“Karen broke some ribs, I hit the windscreen and when I got to the horses, they were all down on the floor of the float, including Tiger.

“At first I thought Tiger had broken a leg or something.

“I’m still getting over the accident and the memory issues it’s caused me, so to have him go to NZ and do what he did then come out and win this just amazing.”

Tiger Tara blitzed his rivals by 14.4m in a 1min53.9sec mile rate for 2760m, which took 0.2sec off Lazarus’ track record.

The race changed soon after the start when Galactic Star was crossed by Mach Doro then Galactic Star broke stride and caused the field to spread out.

Meanwhile driver Todd McCarthy kept Tiger Tara out deep and kept surging forward to find the lead from Mach Doro.

What looked a horror draw in

Relief overtook excitement for Kate Gath after Tornado Valley clean-swept the Melbourne Inter Dominion trotting series.

It was closer than most expected, by the former Kiwi trotter made 17 wins from his past 19 starts and gave Gath and her husband, Andy, their first Inter Dominion final win.

“For so long I’d had people coming up to me at the races saying ‘it’s not long now until you’ll be an Inter Dominion winner, Kate’, but I hated that. It added to the pressure,” Kate Gath said.

“He was the best horse through the heats, but the final was a new race, a different races, and I fully expected a battle and we got one, just from a different than horse that I thought.

“To win the Inter Dominion tonight blows my mind.

It’s the race everyone wants to win and I’ve won one now.”

Tornado Valley’s prospects soared when he showed enough gate speed to buzz across the field from gate six, including his main danger Speeding Spur.

Once in front, Gath steadied the tempo and everything looked good until Tornado Valley started to overrace in the middle stages.

Gath kept looking around to Speeding Spur on her back as the main danger, but it was local bolter Sky Petite, a $104 chance, who launched a massive three and four-wide run around the field and just kept coming at the favourite.

Speeding Spur, who had a cosy run behind the leader, was flat rounding the home bend and just battled for third.

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Former Mid Canterbury pacer Tiger Tara is now the Inter Dominion champion. gate seven was suddenly irrelevant.

“I got it fairly soft once I found the front and I said to myself with a lap to go that I had to take the zip out of them and make them chase, so I cut the ribbons and went for home down the back straight,” McCarthy said.

Tiger Tara blazed a 26.2sec split from the 800m to 400m opened-up a huge lead and still finished-off in a 27.9sec closing quarter.

“This means the world to me,” McCarthy said.

“And to share it with Kev (Pizzuto) is extra special.

“He’s been so good to me. All credit goes to him, it’s been an amazing training effort.

“I thought he felt tired on the line at Cranbourne last week, but when I turned up tonight he looked fantastic and Kev said he was spot-on.

“He was right.”

Pizzuto is now seriously looking at a Perth raid for net month’s Fremantle and WA Pacing Cups.

“Give me a few days to digest this and think it over, but he loves the small tracks and it would really suit him over here.

“Plus, look at him, he could go around again right now,” Pizzuto said an hour after the win.

All Stars pair Spankem and Cruz Bromac finished third and fourth respectively, but never really looked winning chances.

“Spankem ran well and Toddy

just ran us off our feet down the back straight,” co-trainer and driver Mark Purdon said.

“Natalie (Rasmussen) was a bit disappointed that Cruz Bromac didn’t finish his race off better.”

Im Pats Delight was held-up at different stages, lost momentum, but just battled when he say daylight in the home straight to finish fifth.

The revelation of the series and by far the second best run of the pacing final came from runner-up Our Uncle Sam, who sustained a big three, four and five wide run from behind Spankem and Cruz Bromac to finish a clear second.

Galactic Star did a mighty job to recover for sixth.

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S Fredrickson 3 322 Race Me Home nwtd ..................B Hodgson 1 1.05pm (NZT) FORMPRO RATINGS FREE EVERY 1 42587 Cawbourne Bee nwtd J & ...................D Bell 3 33317 Zara Zara nwtd..................................M Flipp 4 85334 Jetlag Jag nwtd .........................J McInerney 5 44F56 Bigtime Paige nwtd ............................L Cole MONDAY C1 C1, 410m 2 54211 Blitzem Gem nwtd .................... S Gommans 4 46157 Choice Lass 24.34 ..........................C Morris 6 37336 Tuff An’ Spicy nwtd ........................B Mitchell 1 64843 Bigtime Ronnie nwtd G & ....... S Fredrickson 3 64745 Cool Wolf 23.70............................. D Donlon 5 84218 Cawbourne Johno nwtd ........... K Gommans 7 2836 Rockoneva nwtd ..........................B Hodgson 2 86452 Cawbourne Zayne nwtd J & ................D Bell 4 26721 Crackle nwtd .................................. L A Hunt 6 33684 Little Scamp 23.69 ....................... D Denbee 8 57524 Bionic Boy nwtd............................M Goodier 3 66755 Cawbourne Rob nwtd .............. K Gommans 5 36335 Judge Me Jackie nwtd.................... L Pearce 7 23222 Retail Mayhem nwtd....................... L Pearce 9 26853 Grunty Mama nwtd S & .............C Blackburn 4 82676 I’ll Be Loyal nwtd .......................... T Downey 6 54734 Pick A Pascal nwtd......................A Turnwald 8 23164 He’s A Sharkie 24.18 ............... K Gommans 7 Paradox Prince nwtd ...................B Hodgson 5 23253 White Comet 23.69 ....................... D Donlon 7 12651 Bigtime Jetty nwtd ..............................L Cole 9 57377 Bigtime Joshy 23.58 G &........ S Fredrickson 10 6 6x336 Free Option nwtd.........................A Turnwald 8 47575 Making It Up 23.75 ..........................C Morris 10 48187 Electrical Storm nwtd ...................M Goodier 8 3.07pm PAUL CLARIDGE ELECTRICAL C1, 457m 7 31128 Bigtime Lovie nwtd .............................L Cole 9 68x57 Bula Roberts nwtd ................... K Gommans 6 2.32pm J P PRINT, PETONE C3 C3, 410m 1 123 Bigtime Willow nwtd ...........................L Cole 8 22546 Kellydean nwtd ................................C Morris 10 17688 Kirkham Webby nwtd ......................C Morris 2 43328 Daring Affair nwtd ............................S Stone 1 82356 Bigtime Mike nwtd ..............................L Cole 9 68468 Jelani nwtd ........................................D Edlin 4 1.57pm USE PETRAVELLER.COM.AU C2 C2, 410m 2 32233 Go Ash nwtd .....................................M Flipp 3 74744 Kamada Park nwtd ......................A Turnwald 10 18687 My Ginger Kiss nwtd ........................S Stone 4 84644 Bigtime Lonestar 27.28 G & ... S Fredrickson 1 63565 Blackjack Man nwtd ...................B Goldsack 3 73351 Cawbourne Ridge 23.56 J & ...............D Bell 5 36463 Bigtime Rosie 26.24 G &........ S Fredrickson 2 1.22pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS C1 C1, 410m 2 81376 Hurricane Al nwtd............................C Morris 4 53155 De Blonde nwtd................................. B Hunt 6 63445 Bill’s Barker 26.81 ...........................S Maher 1 82357 Tuff Jewel nwtd..............................B Mitchell 3 43512 Cawbourne Chops 23.55 ......... K Gommans 5 85244 Cawbourne Cruz nwtd .................M Roberts 7 15547 Tuff Treasure nwtd .........................B Mitchell 2 18754 Cawbourne Sandy nwtd ........... S Gommans 4 58812 Broken Wallet 23.83 ................. K Gommans 6 13187 Cawbourne Brandy 23.57 J & .............D Bell 8 74558 Luke Skywalker nwtd ..................... L A Hunt 3 66754 Wong Full Arrest nwtd .....................C Morris 5 55125 Cawbourne Foxy 23.39 ...................C Morris 7 47512 Mikachu 24.20.............................A Turnwald 9 76777 Magnetude Eight nwtd ............. S Gommans 4 37224 Cawbourne Looks nwtd ........... K Gommans 6 57156 Thrilling Stan 23.49 ...........................D Edlin 8 12111 Bigtime Pete nwtd ..............................L Cole 5 44263 Bigtime Boy 23.95 ....................... P B Briggs 7 22345 Our Tyson nwtd .................................M Flipp 9 35571 Running Freer 23.47 .......................M Olden 10 65888 Star Mechanic nwtd ....................... L A Hunt 6 77277 Cawbourne Symsy 23.75 J &..............D Bell 8 32372 Billy’s Churn nwtd....................... G Hodgson 10 28625 Plan Stan nwtd ............................... L Pearce 9 3.25pm OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C1, 457m

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Palmerston North Greyhound Racing Club (2014) Incorporated Venue: Manawatu Raceway Meeting Date: 17 Dec 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 4 and 5 Trebles: 3, 4 and 5 1 4.00pm ADRIAN CLARK BLOODSTOCK CONSULTANT C3/C4 C3/4, 457m 1 36788 Cheese And Chalk nwtd ....................L Cole 2 88458 Bigtime Forest 26.21 ..........................L Cole 3 65436 Fusion Cronulla 25.81 .................A Turnwald 4 87188 Bigtime Kiowa 26.10 ..........................L Cole 5 7x388 Caveman Sam 25.88 ..................B Hodgson

1 27562 Bigtime Rod 26.19 .............................L Cole 2 77767 Goldstar Sawyer nwtd ......................S Stone 3 21726 Flying Huey nwtd ..................... K Gommans 4 84588 Alf Tupper nwtd .............................. L A Hunt 5 72718 Here’s Hemi 26.33 ....................J McInerney 6 64522 Tuff Mr. Tee nwtd ...........................B Mitchell 7 58842 Bigtime Sam 26.08 G & ......... S Fredrickson 8 18 Flash Barry nwtd .........................B Hodgson Emergencies: 9 76777 Magnetude Eight nwtd ............. S Gommans 10 65888 Star Mechanic nwtd ....................... L A Hunt 10 3.44pm BROOKS TIMING C2 C2, 457m 1 68487 Bigtime Michelle 25.80 .......................L Cole 2 64611 Bigtime Liam 25.97 ............................L Cole 3 61565 Bigtime Talker 26.20 ...........................L Cole 4 5x517 Toki Girl 26.45 .............................. D Denbee 5 48843 Iris Allen nwtd..............................A Turnwald 6 21F11 Zipping Cobra 26.28 ..........................L Cole 7 25173 Hot Mayhem nwtd ............................ P Clark 8 31133 Lucky James 27.03 ...........................M Flipp 9 12666 Midnight Molly 26.28 ...................B Hodgson 10 75731 Bigtime Kate 26.13 G & ......... S Fredrickson LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway 6 167F7 Mister Ebby 26.09 .......................A Turnwald 7 8x745 Bigtime Craig 26.46 ...........................L Cole 8 18855 Bigtime Vanessa 25.68 ......................L Cole 2 4.19pm KAMADA PARK C3 C3, 457m 1 73263 Cawbourne Palmer 25.93 ...........A Turnwald 2 21411 Allen Mack nwtd ...........................M Roberts 3 15347 Bigtime Chris 26.32 G & ........ S Fredrickson 4 16226 Argus Filch 26.14 ........................A Turnwald 5 51626 Little Juzzy 26.30 ........................A Turnwald 6 36653 Lunch Special 26.14 ..........................L Cole 7 84332 Queen Big League nwtd G & . S Fredrickson

8 37265 Bigtime Doug 25.82 ...........................L Cole

3 4.35pm STEVE THE AUCTIONEER DAVIS C4, 457m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

74456 Thomas William 25.97.................. D Denbee 26462 Bigtime Mia 25.95 ..............................L Cole 75325 Trojan Hoarse 25.99...........................L Cole 26425 Bigtime Wendle 25.93 ........................L Cole 17874 Bigtime Caleb 25.99...........................L Cole 12155 It’s A Threat 27.20 .......................A Turnwald 61646 Big League Diva 25.95 ................A Turnwald 35823 Bigtime Acacia 26.09 .........................L Cole

4 4.54pm M & M MASTER BUTCHERS C3/4, 410m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

64128 Sub Eighteen 23.82 ...........................L Cole 22764 Smash Charger nwtd ....................M Gowan 44653 Oskitz nwtd .................................A Turnwald 67275 All Black Star nwtd ...................E Duganzich 14557 Bigtime OnFire nwtd ..........................L Cole 71834 Kirkham Coby 23.52 .......................C Morris 12767 Mitsuta nwtd ......................................D Edlin 57571 Bigtime Basher 23.17.........................L Cole 13738 Scotta Pie nwtd .............................. L Pearce 67657 Avedon Film nwtd..............................M Flipp

5 5.10pm TOTAL BODYSHOP SUPPLIES C5 C5, 457m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

51356 Bigtime Tears 25.87 ...........................L Cole 21217 Arden Emgrand 26.07 .................A Turnwald 33218 Monster Fish 25.62 .....................A Turnwald 12718 Fare Dodger 26.03 .......................M Goodier 77178 Ask King Jeff 25.78 ............................L Cole 14435 Gray Bale nwtd.............................M Roberts 73633 Bigtime Lily 25.91...............................L Cole 48451 Bigtime Levi 25.75..............................L Cole

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

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TOMORROW: High cloud thickens, light rain from afternoon. N.

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METHVEN

TODAY: Fine after early low cloud.

NE, turning gusty NW afternoon.

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Ashburton Forecast

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 17.5 18.6 Max to 4pm 13.3 Minimum 13.5 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm December to date 15.2 Avg Dec to date 30 2018 to date 978.6 667 Avg year to date Wind km/h E 13 At 4pm Strongest gust E 20 Time of gust 2:12pm

to 4pm yesterday

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Christchurch Airport

Timaru Airport

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19.2 19.8 13.9 15.3

18.1 18.9 14.2 –

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0.0 18.4 24 814.6 607

0.0 22.0 28 845.8 507

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E 19 E 31 3:10pm

E9 E 19 3:25pm

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Razor plans his three-peat P15

Parker brings mongrel P17

Stags snatch the Shield All eyes on the ball from Tech wicket-keeper Callum Gallagher as one gets past the batsmen in Tech’s victory against Coldstream.

BY JAIME PITT-MACKAY JAIME.P@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The first piece of Mid Canterbury Cricket’s 45-over silverware has been locked away by the Tech Stags after a thrilling match at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday.

Coldstream needed a win to claim the Pritchard Shield unbeaten, and could not have gotten off to a better start when they had the Stags 36/5 in the early stages.

Seasoned campaigner Bevan Ravenscroft steadied the ship for his side however with a well-constructed 53, which included four fours and one six.

He was helped by a wagging tail, with 13 each from Callum Gallagher and Alex Veint, while Sam Hurley pulled out the boomstick, smashing three sixes on his way to 33 and a total for side of 165.

Burgess was the pick of the Coldstream bowlers, capturing three wickets for 33, while Richard Print and Deon Biggs took two wickets each.

In response Gary Cheema opened with a good starting platform for a run chase with 34 runs, but unfortunately Coldstream’s unbeaten run was ended when only one other batsmen was able to crack double figures with 36.

In the end, Coldstream were all out for 102 off 30 overs, falling 64 short of the 166 required to claim the Shield.

The other game of the weekend was a bleak day at the office for Methven facing off against Lauriston, with the men from under the mountain being dismissed for 60.

Lauriston were boosted by a Matt Pawsey masterclass, taking

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six wickets for four runs from his 5.5 overs.

It was a short run chase, but not one without wickets as Lauriston chased down the 61 runs required in 17.5 overs.

Thomas Ravenscroft was the pick of Lauriston’s batsmen, picking up 27 runs, while Methven’s poor bowling did not help their chances, bowling 16 wides, helping Lauriston to the victory.

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