Feature - Mayfield A&P Show - Mar 2018

MAYFIELD A&P SHOW 12 Ashburton Guardian

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Welcome from the president

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Our annual Mayfield show is a fun-filled family day out with attractions for all ages. We are famous for our pig racing, six races spread throughout the day.

Not only do we have these small fast four-legged animals but we also have sheep, goats, a well-supported horse section, sheep shearing, dog trials, a scarecrow competition and a large selection of entries to view in our produce shed.

For the children there is the Carrot and Pickle clowns, free bouncy castle, pop-up playground, scavenger hunt and the ever popular pet tent.

This year the Mayfield show has a new attraction, a tractor pull, this exciting new event is being run by Tractor Pull NZ on the paddock on the north side

of the rugby fields accessible by two entrances from the main car park.

Farm machinery, tractors, and equipment are always a highlight for any agricultural show, and this year is no exception. Modern farm equipment and machinery will be on display (and available to order!) as local companies how their support for our district with their trade sites.

This year in the vintage machinery section there will be a “story teller” telling some good yarns.

With lots to do and see during the show I would like to wish you a great day.

Martin Fleming President Mayfield A&P Association

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District Horse District Pony 8.00 Dog Trials start Saddle Hacks and Park Hacks Saddle Hunters followed by Working Hunters Riding Horse Group A Ponies followed by Group B Ponies Group C Ponies Cobs followed by Standardbreds 8.30 Miniature Horses First Year Ridden followed by Lead Rein Ponies Unity Cups (Harewood and Wakelin) 9.00 Clydesdales Judging of Sheep Judging of Classes in the Produce Shed 9.30 Tractor Pull starts (approx) Judging of Poultry 10.00 SHOW OPENS with address by the president Machine Shearing starts Judging of Goats 10.45 Scarecrow Judging 10.55 Gift Calf prize-giving at the Pig Racing 11.00 PIG RACE 1 (FMG Advice & Insurance) Pastoral Measurements Micron Measuring Presentation In Hand Horse In Hand Pony In Hand Welsh Hunters R.T.R Pony Hunter R.T.R 11.30 Carrot & Pickle Kids Entertainment (Village Green)

AFTERNOON 12.00 PIG RACE 2 (G & G Building) FEI Show Jumping (approx) Champion of Champions Ram 12.10 Presentation at the Sheep Pens Terminal Ram Hogget Presentation at the Sheep Pens Dysart Trophy Presentation (Best Wool Breed Ram lamb) Carrot & Pickle Stage Show (Village Green) 12.30 Live Music by Phillip Chapman and Team (Village Green) Pastoral Measurements Micron Measuring Presentation Horse power vintage chaff cutting Display (Trade space) 1.00 PIG RACE 3 (Ross Bros Transport) 1.45 GRAND PARADE led by the MacKenzie Highland Pipe Band and $100 spot prize from Dayboo Stud Lolly scramble finale 2.10 Carrot & Pickle Stage Show (Village Green) 2.30 PIG RACE 4 (Carrfields) 2.45 YFC Piano Smashing Competition 3.00 Eartags in the Haystack 3.30 PIG RACE 5 (VetEnt Riverside) 3.40 Scavenger Hunt Prize Giving at the Pig Racing 4.00 Lushingston’s Terrier Race Shearing Prize Giving 4.30 PIG RACE 6 (Barber Well Drilling) including a raffle for a Giant Easter egg 5.00 Bar Closes

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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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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 ensure all buildings will be earthquake safe, the Ashburton District Council will be sending signs to owners of buildings built prior to 1976 and will be asking them to display those signs prominently on the outside of their property.

The public notification is part of the council’s drive to ensure every older building has been inspected by engineers and that where required, strengthen-

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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 unSunday. They are currently un dergoing two days of musical

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 the next month.

The placards would serve a two fold purpose – making the public aware of a building’s compliance level and encouraging owners to carry out necessary strengthening work.

Wong anticipates there will be about 150 sent out in February to owners of non-compliant buildings.

“These are the building’s we’ve

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.

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 done, Wong said.

There had been a proposal to change the rules so the cut-off date for engineering assessment would have moved forward to cover all buildings built before 2004 and that would have seen hundreds of buildings around the district bearing stickers, he said.

The consultation process ensured there was no date change

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

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 need to be strengthened to come up to code, Wong said.

Older buildings that have been assessed and found to be up to strength or that have already been strengthened will not need to display placards.

Details on the placard-bearing buildings will be held on a public register with the Ministry of Building and this is accessible to anyone.

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

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.

All money had been cleared from the box before the theft, but Raisbeck said she was still gutted to discover the break-in, which she presumes is the work of people “who don’t care about other people”.

However, with new security methods for Raisbeck and an ultra-secure honesty box for Billie, both stalls are continuing to operate.

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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 had many river crossings, and some mountainous terrain, as well as farm tracks and dirt roads.

Besides the road walks, which he did not like as they lacked the wilderness appeal of true trail walking, and a lack of markers in some areas, he was enjoying the scenery and meeting lots of people.

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

He was not worried about being without a cellphone.

“If you don’t have service it’s not going to help you and you are not going to get that in the mountains,” he said.

He was confident enough from previous trail walking in Chile and America not to worry about an emergency locator beacon.

In the 12 months to July last year, 550 people walked the full length from Cape Reinga to Bluff,

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 and officially opened in 2011, was attracting people from all walks of life.

“From students and young people taking a gap year to retirees and workers taking an extended holiday.

“It’s a great way to connect with New Zealand and to really get to know the landscapes, people and climate,” McGregor said.

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

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.

He flew into Auckland in midDecember, and had his cellphone stolen in his first two days. He flew to Queenstown and shuttled to the southern end of Te Araroa at Bluff, and walked 555 kilometres north to Twizel over the next fortnight, staying in high country huts and his tent. With last week’s storm system forecast he decided to skip the next section and he

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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 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.

Among those undertaking Te Araroa is American Clayton Beckett. His trail name is Chef, he has a travel blog at chefspecial5.com and is from Connecticut.

The 26-year-old is walking the South Island section, south to north, and was in Methven at the weekend. He said he ended up staying two nights instead of one at Snow Denn Lodge because he needed the rest, and the fact it of-

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This weekend’s Mayfield A&P Show features a new event that’s sure to grab people’s attention – the only tractor pull competition in the top half of the South Island.

Mayfield A&P Association president Martin Fleming said it’s taken two years to organise the event, which will be run by Tractor Pull New Zealand (TPNZ).

TPNZ chairman Vaughan Coy said the Mayfield show will feature three classes: standard, pre-’85 and modified.

Standard tractors are exactly that, Coy said. “They’re straight out of the paddock.

Pull on Sunday, plough on Monday.”

Around 1985 there were a few changes in tractor technology, so the pre-’85 class is for older machines, while modified can best be summed up as “boy racer, rural style”, Coy said. “With those ones, it’s not News about economy, it’s more about having a bit of singing fun.”

Summer Tractors entered in the competition have school now in session to pull a specialised weight transfer sled, which requires them to pull 80 per cent of their own weight as far as possible. “It’s all

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