MALVERN RIFLE CLUB UPDATE

In addition to the Malvern Rifle Club Training Day at 900 yards on Saturday, February 18 the Club hosted a weekend training event for the South Island team members of the New Zealand Palma Target Rifle (TR) Team. The Palma TR Team will compete in the Palma Team Match at the Long Range World Championship in South Africa, in March 2024 The Malvern Rifle Club have members in the New Zealand Palma Open Team as well as some in the Under 25 Team. The following members have been selected, Jessica Riddle(U25Team),SamKershaw

Sports Results

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and Daniel Alexander (U25 and Open Team) and Andre du Toit andChrisKershaw(OpenTeam).

The weather was fine and warm on both Saturday and Sunday, with lighter, more subtle winds on Saturday and stronger - but variable strength winds on Sunday.

The scores weren’t kept for the Palma Team shooters as they were coached matches which provided practice for both coaches and shooters. They were also trying out di erent adjustments of shooting equipment and shooting positions.

The February 25th shoot will be the - Championship #5 Shorts (10 counting shots at 300, 500 and600yards). This is a repeat of the Championship Day from February 4th, which was stoppedbecauseoftherain.

For contact details visit For contact details visit Malvern Rifle Club Rifle Club’ ’’ ’s s s Facebook page: Malvern Rifle Facebook Malvern Club Mark Alexander.

Malvern Tennis

Greendale Golf

Hororata Golf Hororata

Opening Day Opening Day Opening Day Opening Day Ambrose Ambrose Ambrose Ambrose

1st: 1st: Ken Beaumont, Joss Whitaker, Daryl McCaughan, Stu Blok 57.9

2nd: 2nd: 2nd: 2nd: Ann Harliwich, Tony Edwards, Dan Reardon, Barry Marshall 58.8

3rd: 3rd: Mark Weatherly, James Perkins, Lorraine Oliver, Warrick Norton 59.3

4th: 4th: 4th: Al Sime, Catherine Thorne, David Mansbridge, Chris Whyte59.9

Closest to the Pins: Closest to the Pins: Closest to the Pins: Closest to the Pins:

#2 in 2: #2 in Team Sime #6: #6: #6: Paddy Helmore

#11: #11: Ken Beaumont #14: Al Sime #

: David Mansbridge

LINE DANCING AT OXFORD & DARFIELD

Dancing to a variety of music, exercise, socialising, and travel all in one package. No need for a partner.

Suitable for young & old, men & women

Oxford: Oxford Club Monday’s 6 - 8.30 pm.

Darfield: Trinity Hall Wednesday’s 6 - 8.30 pm.

Bring a friend & start now - first 3mers please contact first Instructor Jenny Brookes 0274 452 285 Jennybrookes76@gmail.com

Accountants

ARE AREARE ARE you wasting your valuable time trying to keep up with accounts? Call us now for hassle-freeaccounting, tax and businessadvice-rightonyour doorstep. Sterling Accountants @ Malvern Business Hub, Ann-Maree 0212150981.

Automotive

DARFIELD DARFIELD Automotive, service & warrant centre. 3D wheel aligner. 7:30am - 5:30pm, Monday - Friday. Your onestopautoshop!Pleasephone 033188113.

BIRTHDAY WISHES

CARPET NEED NEED carpet? Go local! Very competitive pricing, seldom beaten. 30 years servicing this area. In home sample service, also repairs and installations. Please phone Alan Roberts 0212272080.

Cats

Public Notices

Chimney Cleaning

CARRS CARRS CARRS CARRS Chimney Cleaning. Servicing the Selwyn district. $70 per chimney. Please phone Rodney on 03 324 2999 and leave a message.

CHIM CHIMCHIM CHIM Chim. We'll sweep your log-burners flue, check the firebricks, baffles, air-tubes and controls. We're experts oncoal-ranges,alsosweeping any sized openfire. Wequote and undertake repairs, flue extensions and install bird netting. Please phone us on 021939113.

Darfield Life Church

LIFESTYLE LIFESTYLE LIFESTYLE LIFESTYLE, farm tracks, yards and dairy lanes our speciality. Screened rottenrock, it’s local and lasts better. Phone Springfield Quarryon3184132.

FIREWOOD & COAL

HAIR DRESSER

WALK WALKWALK WALK--IN IN IN IN haircuts with Vetty. Gold Card Specials. At the DarfieldHairBoutique.

Hedge Trimming

PEST CONTROL SPIDERBAN NC LTD

Darfield owned and operated since 2008.

Call Brian Walker for your pest control requirements!

0800 667 778

Roof Maintenance

For Sale For Sale

Half Slips & Camisoles for sale

A collection of half slips and camisoles from the 1950’s - 1990’s. Over 200 items Over (mixture of new and used) (mixture of new and used) (mixture of new used) (mixture of new used) Beautiful variety of colours $600 ono (Cash only)

Phone Graham Phone Graham Phone Graham Phone Graham 021 045 6458 045

WOOD WOODWOOD WOOD shavings - untreated, clean shavings suitable for horse stables, calving sheds, chicken houses and rabbit hutches. Available in 70L bags, 1m 3 bales (compressed) and bulk delivery. Please phone 021 243 8378 for more details.

Gardening

GARDENING GARDENING GARDENING GARDENING, handyman. All jobs considered. Interior and exterior. Please phone 021 2070532.

GENERAL GENERAL GENERAL garden maintenance in Darfield area. Domestic hedge trimming, pruning & edging. Please phone Kane 0274676613.

HORSE TRANSPORT

Malvern Lions have PEA

Straw Available

$7 per small bale, delivered. Medium squares pea straw and linseed straw also available!

• Hugh Wright

Sheffield - 021 565 550

• Brian Redfern

Darfield - 318 8053

• Andrew Brooker

Kirwee - 318 1530

• Stu Lill

Kirwee - 03 347 6770

CANTERBURY HORSE TRANSPORT Ph 021 656 695

PAINTING & DECORATING

ROOF ROOFROOF ROOF & property services. 2 storey work! Roof leak repairs (incl Butynol), moss control,siliconeseal,spouting clean & repairs, spider & fly control, bird proofing, roof painting. All roof & spouting types. Call Arthur’s, 7 days, 03 347 2635 or 0275847980.

FULL-TIME COOK

LOCKSMITH

LOCKSMITH LOCKSMITH LOCKSMITH Selwyn based 24hr mobile service, keys cut and general lock and safe maintenance. EFTPOS available. Call Locktight Security0211718060.

OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE OFFICE SPACE DARFIELD

Darfield township

• 5 Ross Street

• 1st floor

• 79sqm open plan office

• Small kitchenette and toilet

• Heat pump/air conditioned

• Fully alarmed parking.

Contact: Gerald 021 340 990

Vivien 021 340 991

PAINTING & DECORATING

Udi Painting & Decorating Udi & Decorating

For all Painting and Decorating services!

Interior & Exterior Painting & Plastering

Fully Qualified

Roof Painting

Wallpapering

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Free Quotes.

Contact Udi Aale 021 074 2075 www.udipaintingndecorating.co.nz

SHEEP SHEARING

MOBILE MOBILE MOBILE MOBILE SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEARING SHEARING

• Drenching

• Foot Trimming

• Crutching

• General Animal Welfare Advice.

Call Shaun Adams Call Adams for a quote on for on 021 204 1274

Dunsandel Stop Shop is looking for a full-time cook, with front of house experience and excellent coffee making skills!

You will be in charge of food prep every morning, baking, cooking food all day for the hot food cabinets as well as meals. Some serving behind the counter will be required. Being available to work weekends is a must! But don’t worry you get guaranteed weekends off as well, approximately 35 hours per week.

If this sounds like something you are interested in please email your CV in to dunsandelstopshop@gmail.com

Workshop Team Leader/Mechanic

• Experience of at least 3-5 years

• Immediate start possible

• Wages and remunera3on nego3able

Workshop Assistant/Trainee

• Experience 12 months minimum or

• Completed level 3 Automo3ve appren3ceship

• Appren3ceship available for the right candidate

• Immediate start possible

• Wages & Remunera3on nego3able

For further info please email Shelley on coalgatemotors@xtra.co nz

Situation Vacant Situation Vacant

Maintenance Engineer

Canterbury Clay Bricks is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to carry out general engineering work and repairs.

The posi3on is full 3me and is based at our Factory in Darfield. The job entails a wide variety of skills which would suit trade and non-trade applicants. Experience in general maintenance and repair of plant and equipment would be an advantage. You must be able to work well on your own and have excellent communica3on skills, both verbal and wri9en.

To apply for this position or for further details please email richard@clay-bricks.co.nz

Livestock Manager

We are searching for a talented pasture manager to fill the role of livestock manager on our dairy support block. The role will largely entail stock management, repairs and maintenance, and tractor work, including cultivation and mowing. The farm is located 10 minutes from Darfield, Rolleston, Hororata and Burnham. The role will be a drive-in position.

We are taking over this 180ha block at the end of March, with the successful applicant starting mid-April. The block will be running 300 R1 and R2 heifer replacements, 100 mixed age Jersey bulls, and 100-150 mixed age carryover cows. Over winter, mixed age dairy cows will be wintered on the block, but their management will be the responsibility of the dairy farms. The livestock manager will be responsible for the management of the youngstock, carryovers and bulls over winter.

The block is fully irrigated, currently with 1 pivot and 3 turborains. A linear will be installed to replace one of the turborains as part of the development program. The block requires development, including fencing and waterlines, which the livestock manager will be responsible for, under guidance from the Operations manager. At times the livestock manager will be required to do tractor work and repairs and maintenance on the dairy farms.

The successful applicant will have the following attributes:

• Excellent pasture management skills

• Stockmanship - you will be a great stockperson, in and out of the yards.

• Attention to detail - We pride ourselves on rearing healthy, robust dairy replacements that are at their target weights. To ensure we continue doing this, all the little things must be done correctly.

• Self-starter - A lot of the time, you will be working on your own, with guidance from the operations manager.

T H Enterprises Ltd is a family-owned business with several farms in the South Island hub within the Selwyn area, and two further hubs in the North Island, Rotorua and the Hawkes Bay. All farms are kept to a high standard, with good housing, excellent support from the o -farm team, including the Operations Manager, Farm Support, HR Specialist, etc. The South Island farms vary in size between 800-1050 cows and are all located within 5-10 minutes of the nearest township and 15-20 minutes from Rolleston.

T H Enterprises Ltd welcomes applicants for the following roles in our South Island Group of farms:

FARM MANAGER - Tripleton Farm

This is a Synlait Lead with Pride farm, milking 800 cows through a 54-bail rotary shed with five full time sta , pivot and lateral irrigation. Calving is managed jointly with the adjoining farm within the South Island Group and wintering is managed internally on our support block next to the farm.

The successful applicant will:

• Have a minimum of 1-2 years experience managing a dairy farm.

• Have a passion for working with people and cows.

• Understand pasture and feed requirements.

• Be able to show evidence of career growth and continued learning.

• Experience with Lead With Pride would be an advantage but not a must.

In return, we o er a competitive remuneration package with a fully paid for external training programme, if desired. Home is a warm modern 3-bedroom + o ce family home with a great location, only 11 minutes from Dunsandel township and 20 minutes from Rolleston township, with buses to nearby schools. There are opportunities to further train and progress your career both within farming and within the T H Enterprises Ltd business.

FARM ASSISTANT - Tripleton Farm

The successful applicant will:

• Be a keen learner with a strong work ethic

• Have a love of the outdoors and a genuine interest in animals and animal health

• Have a valid driver's license

• Be able to pass a pre-employment drug test

In return, we o er a competitive remuneration package, warm family home, great location close to good schools and welcoming townships, and opportunities to further train and progress your career both within farming and within the T H Enterprises Ltd business.

To apply, please email your CV and cover-letter to: thenterprises.recruitment@gmail.com, note the role that you are applying for in the subject line.

A CV and at least 2 references A CV and at least 2 references least 2 references least 2 references MUST be included in your application. MUST be included in your application. MUST be in your application. MUST be in your application. Email nick@mrb.co.nz Email

Scrap Metal

WANTED! WANTED! Best prices! Amalgamated Scrap Ltd. Buying cars & farm machinery.Specialisinginfarm clean-ups. Rod McQuoidbuyer. Please phone either 0276950480oralternatively 0800030712.

Tenancy

RuralTenancyInspections. RuralTenancyInspections. AlsoprovidingTotalRural andResidentialProperty ManagementSolutions.

PhoneRebecca 0273132270or rebecca@ruraltenancy.co.nz

Trades

BUILDER BUILDER BUILDERJamesHunt Residential Ltd. Renovation Specialists. Registered Master Builder. Pleasephone0274660092. jameshuntresidential.co.nz

CARPENTER CARPENTER CARPENTER CARPENTER available for next project. Quality tradesman workmanship. Specialising in character homes. For all your building, releveling and gib stopping needs. Phone Grant anytimeon0211671718.

ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER ENGINEER available to do design and drawings. Specialised in mechanical work, but can do other fields as well. Realistic rates and goodservice. PhoneGeoffrey (Sheffield)02041266026.

Wanted

AMMUNITION AMMUNITION AMMUNITION AMMUNITION and reloading equipment. Powder projectiles, presses etc. Any calibre rifle / shotgun. Anything hunting related. Cash buyer. Contact Rob 033425885.

DEAD DEADDEAD DEAD Cars - we buy dead cars, end of life cars, scrap cars, old farm vehicles. Cash paid. Please phone 0274848121.

Window Cleaning

Country Touch

Window Cleaning Services

Friendly & experienced professional service. Phone or text Darryl on 027 316 9968

Window Tinting

TINT TINT--A AA A--WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW WINDOW Solar Protective films. Fade UV block. Heat Glare control. Privacy. Safety/Security. Frosted films. Free online quotes. Phone 0800 368 468. info@tintawindow.co.nz www.tintawindow.co.nz