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Perry gets call up to the Blues

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Tim Perry But it did. The son of former Mid Canterbury hooker Grant Perry, who played one game for the All Blacks on their 1980 tour of Fiji, caught Tasman’s eye. He turned out for Tasman B last year before making the top side this season, alongside another Mid Canterbury export, Gary Redmond.

He came off the bench in game one of the ITM Cup, but soon became a regular starter, and Perry said he learned a lot through the season.

It wasn’t until the final three or so weeks of the ITM Cup that Perry realised he could be in with a shot of a Super 15 contract. His phone started ringing; teams wanted him.

First it was the Chiefs and the Crusaders.

“I didn’t even know the Blues were interested until about four days before they had to get their squad finalised,” Perry said.

But it turned out what they could offer Perry, was the best offer on the table.

Perry will move to Auckland at the end of next month ready for the beginning of the Blues pre-season training programme.

Another Mid Canterbury export to make the cut when yesterday’s Super 15 squads were announced, was Chris King, who will again line up for the Highlanders. This year he’ll do so without another Mid Canterbury bred player though, with Adam Thomson not named and set to take his rugby career offshore.

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Ms Methven contestant Carl (Fish) McHugh has his arm pits waxed courtesy of beauty therapist Vanessa Kelk, watched by his five-year-old son Patrick.

Ripping in to Ms Methven build-up

By Susan Sandys Screams of pain flowed from within the walls of a Methven beauty salon this week.

It was the sound of eight hairy males having their legs, chests and armpits waxed. Each are Ms Methven contestants and as such are determined to look as pretty as possible come Saturday night.

They learned quickly that beauty is pain, as beauty therapist Vanessa Kelk, assisted by Ms Methven organiser Vicki Mee, got to work.

“It’s not like I’m giving birth,” Carl (Fish) McHugh said in a brave moment between wax strips being torn from his left

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He then screamed away, but was determined not to swear with his five-year-old son Patrick watching proceedings.

Mr McHugh was looking forward to the event, and said rehearsals on how to walk in heels, how to dance and how to look beautiful had been going well.

“I never thought I would have

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Tim Perry got the break of his life yesterday, but you would never have thought it talking to him.

The 24-year-old Ashburton rugby player started his day with a spot of shearing, and when the Guardian spoke to him he was considering going whitebaiting or deer hunting for the afternoon.

There was no time for celebrating the fact he’d just been announced in the Blues squad for the 2013 Super Rugby competition. In fact, he’d hardly even told anyone his big news.

Perry, a prop who burst onto the national scene in this year’s ITM Cup with the Tasman Makos, is part of what new Blues coach Sir John Kirwan has described as a ‘young and exciting’ squad announced yesterday.

Perry signed his contract about 10 days ago, after having been approached by three Super Rugby franchises. It came down to the Blues and the Crusaders, but all the Crusaders could offer him initially was a spot in the wider training group, so he signed on the dotted line with the Blues.

He doesn’t know what the season will bring, or how much game time he’ll get, but will be appreciative of whatever does come his way.

He said he’d spoken to Kirwan a couple of times and was excited to be working with him, and about having the chance to play alongside All Black hooker Keven Mealamu.

Getting a Super Rugby contract was the last thing on Perry’s mind when he went to Tasman for some work.

“I just went up there for a bit of work and wanted to have a crack,” he said.

He made the Makos and ended up seeing plenty of game time, but found it to be a big step up from Heartland Rugby. He’d played for Mid Canterbury in 2010 and made the New Zealand Heartland team, before moving north.

“I definitely didn’t go expecting anything to come out of it,” Perry said.

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The black stilettos he had chosen for his evening outfit would

go well with fish net tights, and he was pleased their heels were not too high.

“Because I want to be able to walk and pull off my dance moves confidently,” he said.

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Don’t complain about the way your council is run, do something about it says Labour’s spokesperson for local government Annette King.

She was in Ashburton yesterday at the invitation of the Ashburton Citizens’ Association to talk local governance and local government.

But she also delivered a short sharp message to anyone who is not happy with the way their district was being run.

“I’m here to listen to what people are saying, not to interfere. The local body elections are next year and local people should have a local say. These decisions are your decisions and they’re very important. If you’re unhappy you have the opportunity to put your hand up next year.”

Local democracy was crucial in ensuring communities were run the way people in those communities wanted, she said.

“The last thing we’d want is for all decisions to be made in Wellington; we can’t lose local democracy.”

People complained that New Zealand was top heavy with politicians, but compared to Australia where there were Federal and State houses and local body politicians, New Zealand’s two tier system was simple, Mrs King said.

“What we have here is something I call intimate democracy.”

And that intimate democracy was the best possible environment in which foster an open relationship between local authorities and their communities, she said.

“Councils need to be as open and transparent as possible because by doing this they avoid conspiracy theories, criticism, misinterpretation and misinformation.”

The more open and transparent a council could be the better its relationship with its community, Mrs King said, but she accepts there is sometimes a dislocate between what the community expected and what a local body understood as communication or consultation.

“Consultation is often misinterpreted; people think it may make them change their mind but at the end of the day, elected people are elected to make decisions.”

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CAMPBELL – Jo and John are rapt to announce the early and speedy arrival of their grandson Luka Jamie, October 26 at 2.57pm.

Thanks to Ashburton and Christchurch midwives.

Haylee and Luka are both doing well.

HURST – On October 30, 2012, at Christchurch.

Liz and Andy’s bundle of joy has arrived - a beautiful baby boy! 6lb 15oz. Ollie, Heather and Wendy are all on cloud nine. All well.

DEATHS HEWSON, Robert Ian (Rex) – On October 29, 2012 at Ashburton. Dearly loved husband and best friend of Pauline; a loving and much cherished father of Johanna and respected mate of Struan. Adored brother and brother in law of Brenda; Heather and Nigel Tucker; Vivienne and the late Stuart; and brother in law and friend of Russell and Pam Dale. Special uncle of Nathan, Adam, Emma and Sarah Tucker; Robbie Hewson; Nicola, Jodi and Anna Dale; and proud great uncle of Oliver Rex Tucker.

In his 67th year. A brave and courageous man who was admired and loved by everyone. His wit and sense of fun will always be remembered and sadly missed.

In lieu of flowers donations to the Neurological Foundation would be appreciated and may be made at the service.

The funeral service for Rex will be held on SATURDAY November 3, at 11am at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park St, Ashburton.

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Fire officer defends actions

By Samantha McPherson The first senior fire officer on the Canterbury Television building site has defended claims he failed to establish command after the February 2011 earthquake, saying “the book goes out the window”.

Station officer Alan Butcher yesterday told a coroner’s inquest into eight of the 115 deaths at the site that he did not have the time or resources to “sit back” and take command or ask a higher-ranking officer to do so.

Mr Butcher’s Addington crew and Station Officer (SO) Stephen Warner’s crew were the first on the scene.

The two SOs did not discuss taking charge of the site, Mr Butcher said.

“The book goes out the window when you’re stuck like this. You are doing the best you can,” he said.

An independent report released two weeks ago slammed Fire Service chiefs for being disorganised, out of the loop, and failing to support their firefighters in the initial response to the earthquake.

The review by the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service chief executive and Chief Fire Officer found executive officers could have been “better organised, integrated and supportive of operational crews and incident commanders”.

In earlier evidence at the inquest on Tuesday, the first police officer at the scene, Sergeant Mike Brooklands, said emergency services trying to find people still alive in the collapsed CTV building should have set up a command structure.

“We should have set up a system of reporting - a command structure - at a point where everyone knew to come for information. That was probably one of our failings,” Sergeant Brooklands said.

Mr Butcher said, “There was no time at the time to be able to sit back and discuss. You’re in there working.

The fire brigade was stretched. There’s no doubt about that.

“Generally in an incident like that, more trucks and a more senior officer arrives and the senior officer takes charge,” Mr Butcher said.

Counsel assisting the coroner Richard Raymond asked Mr Butcher why he did not follow the co-ordinated incident management system (CIMS) which is designed for emergency services to co-operate in major emergencies.

“CIMS or anything like that is not working at this stage because you do not have an overall site commander.

There is nobody there. You’re too busy working,” Mr Butcher said.

Mr Raymond asked whether CIMS was for “exactly that purpose - to identify an incident controller so that the site can be properly managed?”

“We were just stretched. There is no spare person ... to command the site,” Mr Butcher replied.

Mr Raymond asked whether Butcher expected Fire Service assistant area manager Dave Burford, who visited the site in the afternoon, to assume command. “Possibly, yes,” Mr Butcher said.

Mr Raymond acknowledged that it was difficult for Butcher “to talk about senior officers (but) I put to you that it’s simply incorrect for you to say that

it would be a luxury for an officer who outranks you to assume command in a situation like this”.

“It’s not a luxury it’s a necessity, isn’t it?” he said.

“In general terms, yes. But this wasn’t general terms. I don’t know where he went or what his next move was,” Mr Butcher said.

Mr Butcher said Mr Burford told him to concentrate on the fire and let others manage the rescues, and they never discussed command.

Communications at the site were “frustrating”, Butcher said.

The only radio line to the fire communications centre was at the fire engine, and Mr Butcher had to shout over it to get his initial call for more resources heard.

“I gave up waiting for a space to allow me to speak and instead just yelled over the top of everyone else, such was the sense of urgency.”

Upon Mr Butcher’s arrival to the collapsed building he said there was “very little smoke” coming from the middle of the rubble and the tower lift.

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New Zealand’s population will reach 4,444,444 today, new figures show. Statistics New Zealand estimates show New Zealand will reach the rare moment of symmetry some time on November 1. Population statistics manager Andrea Blackburn said the 4,444,444th resident could be a new migrant or a New Zealander flying home from overseas - though he or she is most likely to be a newborn baby. “And who knows?

That new boy or girl might even be born at 4.44 in the morning,” she said. New Zealand’s population hit 3,333,333 in the mid-1980s and is unlikely get to 5,555,555 for another 30 years.

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• Drink blamed Welcome everyone: A total of 30 Mid Canterbury residents became New Zealand citizens yesterday.

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The Mid Canterbury residents from Samoa, Zimbabwe, Britain, South Africa, Thailand and the Phillipines – swore on oath to respect their duties as New Zealand citizens.

The ceremony in the Ashburton District Council chambers was watched on by family, friends and

fellow councillors as Mayor Angus McKay presented the new citizens with their certificate and welcomed them to the district.

All the residents received a native plant and a historic book about Ashburton, before posing for photographs along the council bench.

Samoan family Ulia, Salina, Star, Diana, Trabecca, Esmay, Charlene and Vernal Mauigoa became citizens, alongside their fellow natives Ela, Fauuli, Thywillbedone, Uatifoti and Lupepe Saofai.

Other citizens include George and Julie Allen (Britain), Marisa, Jacob,

Marzaan and Jacob Jr Le Roux (South Africa), Epenesa Frost of Samoa, Yvonne Furneaux (Zimbabwe), Wayne Krog (South Africa), Ioan Daniela, Juliana and Carmen Popoviciu (Romania), Rollette Rodgers (Filipino), Jane Moore (Britain) and Lucy Sharp (Britain).

A mother has blamed her teenage son’s secret energy drink habit for a breakdown in his mental health.The Auckland woman said the 15-year-old told her he drank up to 16 cans of Monster Energy a day. She said they made his anxiety and insomnia worse and his intake came to light only after he started seeing a therapist following a recent breakdown. “I’ve talked to him since and his explanation is that [the energy drinks] are his best friends because when he was low he could have one of those and they’d make him feel better,” said the woman, who wanted to remain anonymous to protect her son.

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Mayors to sign off SI alliance

By Sue Newman Top of the agenda at Wednesday’s meeting of South Island mayors will be ticking off the formation of an alliance of councils that will provide a strong southern force to lobby Government.

Ashburton mayor Angus McKay has long been a supporter of a South Island alliance of councils saying the single strong voice would ensure a better deal for all southern local authorities when it came to gaining a share of national funding in areas such as roading.

Individual councils have been discussing the formation of an alliance for several months and

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A final decision has been made on the closure of two residential schools catering to children with intellectual disabilities - Salisbury School in Nelson and McKenzie Residential School in Christchurch. They will close at the start of next year. Education Minister Hekia Parata announced yesterday the schools were given 28 days to comment on the proposal to be closed. Under the proposal Ms Parata said she had reached a compromise by keeping two of four residential schools open - Halswell Residential College in Christchurch and Westbridge Residential School in Auckland.

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seated” fire had gone from nothing to something more serious.

The Fire Service crew, who Mr Butcher said are not trained to deal with a tsunami or earthquake, had run out of water which had “hindered” their ability to control the fire.

But Mr Butcher failed to alert fire communications that there was a serious fire.

“There was too much traffic (on the radio) and initially there was a small amount of smoke, the main problem was the people who were trapped,” Mr Butcher said.

There were only 36 firefighters in Christchurch on the day of the earthquake and only eight pumping appliances, a turntable and a command unit, of which four were available.

“There were very few fire personnel on site. It was clear this area was a priority disaster site. Having to ask a senior officer to be in charge has never happened in my 39 years experience,” Mr Butcher said.

“We did what we do best, putting out fires. I wish we could have done more,” he said.

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will vote on the issue at the Zone Five and Six meeting in Christchurch on Tuesday.

While there were no guarantees the alliance would go ahead, Mr McKay said he had not spoken to any mayors who were opposed to its formation, but he had spoken to several mayors from the 28 South Island councils who were keen supporters of the concept.

Ashburton has been a leader in supporting the formation of the alliance because of the huge benefits that would be generated through one strong lobbying voice, he said.

If the alliance is given the green light on Tuesday, Mr McKay said its first task will be to commission an economic assessment of all roads in the

South Island. While individual councils would already have most of this information, it would still take several months to pull it together into a report.

“It’s very important that we do this and do this properly to show our input into New Zealand’s economy.

“With that report we will be able to go to Government with one voice on roading issues.”

Water quality will also be high on the list of issues the alliance would address, he said.

Local Government Minister David Carter has already indicated that a single council voice would have greater power with Government that a raft of lobbying from individual councils.

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Ashburton Citizens’ Association member Malcolm Tarbotton gives Labour local government spokesperson Annette King a run down on traffic congestion in Tinwald.

‘We’re a victim of think-big’

By Sue Newman In struggling to have traffic lights ticked off as a must-do project in Tinwald, Ashburton was a victim of a think-big attitude by national roading decision makers, says Labour local government spokesperson Annette King.

Mrs King was in Ashburton yesterday at the invitation of the Ashburton Citizens’ Association. She checked out the proposed route for a second bridge across the Ashburton River and studied traffic flow issues in Tinwald.

And while she wasn’t in town to interfere, she was there to listen and to provide any answers she could, she said.

The district’s failure to convince the New Zealand Transport Agency that traffic lights were needed in Tinwald had everything to do with the National Government’s focus on its national roads of significance project (RONZ),

she said. “They’re spending billions of dollars on cutting eight minutes off a trip north of Auckland and the provinces don’t get the money.”

During her tenure as Minister of Transport, Mrs King said she had been instrumental in ensuring all money generated from roads, such as excise tax on petrol and road user charges, went into the transport budget. That success had been tempered by the current drive to put the majority of money into urban areas, she said.

“Budgets in the provinces have been cut and your financial assistance rate has been cut too. Money has been redirected into RONZ and that’s not right.

They’re now asking councils to dib in more than is fair. It’s not fair because everyone pays into the taxpayer fund but they’re not getting their share out of the pot.”

When it came to a route for the second bridge across the Ashburton River, Mrs King said that while it was a

long term project, it was important the council designated the land it might need well in advance.

She did, however, question whether route planning had been sufficiently long term.

“I’m very much a supporter of longterm spatial planning, 30 years out,” she said. Mrs King applauded the Ashburton District Council for its foresight in tackling the need for long term planning several years ago, with its long term development plan and with the north east business estate.

“Ashburton’s already proved it has its head in the right place. I’d love to have that business estate in Wellington. We have industry all over the place, it’s a real muddle.”

She said she was also a strong supporter of the council’s plan to move the shunting rail head out of central Ashburton to the business estate.

“What a great thing that will be, it will change the face of the town.”

If the words water management confuse you, then there’s an opportunity next week to find out exactly what they mean for the Ashburton District’s future.

Canterbury Water’s Ashburton Zone Committee is charged with the task of working with the community to develop local solutions to local water management challenges.

And on Tuesday it will be holding two public meetings where people will have an opportunity to hear about those challenges and to help identify ways in which they can

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The meetings will focus on water management in the area between the Ashburton and Rangitata Rivers, including the Hinds catchment.

To make the right decisions on the future of water management in that area, the zone committee needs input from the people who live there.

Issues that will be discussed will be water quality and quantity limits in the catchment and the role infrastructure can play in the zone.

The water management

solutions that are decided for the district will be reflected in the Ashburton’s section of Environment Canterbury’s proposed Land and Water Regional plan.

This plan will help deliver the community’s aspirations for water management in Canterbury, in line with the Canterbury Water Management Strategy.

Tuesday’s meetings will be held at 1.30pm in the Hinds Community centre and at 7pm in the Mayfield War Memorial Hall.

by David Fletcher

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• Cow, car collide A cow, a driver and a passenger all survived a car crash on the Methven Highway on Tuesday morning. The car, with two occupants, hit a cow on the Methven Highway at around 5am. The car sustained serious damage to the front right-hand driver’s side but the two occupants and the cow all walked away uninjured, police said.

• Roller falls on foot A road worker who was trapped beneath a 15-tonne roller near Gisborne for 45 minutes yesterday morning is now in stable condition. The man went into surgery in Gisborne Hospital at 4.30pm to repair his foot, which was crushed by the roller’s chassis during the accident. Emergency services were contacted about the incident on State Highway 35 near Pouawa, about 20km north of Gisborne, shortly after 11am.

Firefighters arrived at 11.37am and put airbags under the vehicle to try to get him out. He was freed at 11.53am and flown to hospital.

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• Correction Map shows the proposed changes to the Wills, Victoria and Cass streets intersections.

Wills Street stays open; submissions pay off

By Sue Newman Finding a solution to improving traffic safety on a small stretch of Ashburton’s urban roading network has caused a mountain of angst.

Because of its record of traffic accidents, a triangle that involved Wills, Victoria and Cass streets

came onto the Ashburton District Council’s roading radar. It looked at options to change traffic hierarchy and it looked at options that included closing the short strip of Wills Street between Cass and Victoria streets.

But when it notified its intention to close that part of the street, the proposal attracted huge public interest, with a large number of

objectors coming out of the woodwork. This resulted in 14 submissions that became part of a hearing last month.

The upshot of that hearing, panel chair district councillor John Leadley said, was a plan that addressed traffic issues in a way that kept safety for all users uppermost.

“This proved to be a very worth-

while hearing as we were able to get from the people most affected their concerns and these didn’t show up in the reports we had,” he said.

Before making a decision on changes to the roading hierarchy, Mr Leadley said the three panel members had spent time observing traffic movement in the area. It became clear that negotiating the intersections was difficult for heavy

Council chief executive under constant scrutiny

By Sue Newman He could be Ashburton’s most influential man, but when it comes to his employment, Ashburton District Council chief executive Brian Lester knows he can never count on his job to be a job for life.

More than most employees, he is constantly under scrutiny and will be even more so now that the council has reviewed its policy and procedures for appointments to the job and the framework of his annual performance review.

Like all local authority chief executives, Mr Lester is employed on

a five year contract. At the end of that five year period, the council has two options – roll over his contract for two more years or readvertise the position. If his contract is rolled over, the position must be readvertised at the end of that seven year period. He may apply for the position but will not be guaranteed re-employment.

Mr Lester was re-appointed as the council’s chief executive in August 2008.

He is the only person at the council employed by the mayor and councillors and they must notify him by February 28 whether his employment will be rolled over or

his job re-advertised.

In September the councillors opted to increase Mr Lester’s salary by 10.2 per cent to $252,000, including full use of a car. For that he is responsible for employing 123 full time equivalent staff, an asset base of $627 million and a total council income of $62 million.

The council yesterday agreed to adopt the reviewed policy and procedures, the position description and performance agreement for the chief executive’s position.

Included in his wide ranging performance measures for the year to August 31 are several high interest community projects:

• a requirement to have the district’s art gallery and heritage centre constructed within the approved specifications, budgets and timelines • for the final design and tender to be undertaken for the EA Networks Centre (stadium) • for further sales to be achieved at the Ashburton Business Estate • for an agreement to be finalized on the rail shunting line to be finalised • for council to be provided with sufficient information and resources to enable the future direction for the second Ashburton bridge to be decided.

trucks.

The proposed roading changes became confused for some people because there was a school of thought that change was being driven by the need for more parking rather than traffic safety, he said.

“We believe we’ve come up with a good solution but it will need ongoing monitoring.”

The modified design for the area

makes the following changes: Give way controls on Cass Street will be changed to Victoria Street Splitter islands will be constructed in the middle of Victoria Street to improve adherence to the change control Pedestrian crossings at each intersection will be maintained but relocated further back from each intersection.

Council fails to recover all its costs In the Ashburton District Council’s budget $5656 might not be a large amount, but when it comes at the end of a long legal battle, it’s a bitter-sweet prize.

The council, for many months, was involved in an Environment Court wrangle that delayed the start of work on the district’s new art gallery and museum complex on West Street. Alister Argyle and Laurence Cooney, who lived near the site of the new building, had battled the council for many months over planning and construction issues. That battle eventually found its way to the Environment Court.

The men applied for an enforcement order against the council in relation to a land use consent saying the application contained

inaccuracies which materially influenced the decision to grant the consent. They asked that no construction work begin on the site.

The applicants later sought leave to amend their application but in July the Court issued its decision striking the applications out. It reserved its decision on costs.

While the council claimed legal costs of $7541, the court has now opted to award 75 per cent of this - $5656 in the council’s favour.

In awarding compensation to the council, Environment Judge Borthwick said it would be inappropriate for ratepayers to cover a significant portion of the amount incurred.

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An alleged assault which took place outside the Ashburton District Court on Monday happened on the footpath outside, rather than in the court’s waiting room, as reported in Tuesday’s Guardian.

The 18-year old victim was awaiting an appearance before the judge outside the court house when the alleged assault occurred.

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The dawn of a new era

By Coen Lammers

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ovember 1 is a memorable date in the 133-year history of the Ashburton Guardian.

Today our news organisation ceases to be merely a newspaper with a modest website.

From today we are a fully-fledged multi-media organisation that publishes across multiple platforms and across all parts of the day.

The launch of the new Guardianonline (www. guardianonline.co.nz) website will give our readers a modern vehicle to publish and consume every facet of the news and other information relevant to their lives.

Gone are the days that Mid Canterbury people had to wait until their newspaper landed on their driveway to find out what is happening across the district.

While our newspaper will continue to serve our subscribers well, we now offer them a variety of additional, new sources of information, in words, photographs and video.

The digital edition of the Guardian also gives new online subscribers from out of town or out of the country the opportunity to sample the full breadth of what our newspaper has to offer.

Our new website also recognises and embraces the important role social media plays in our modern society and GuardianOnline will provide a vehicle for our readers to engage with our newsroom and the wider district.

Through this forum we aim to communicate with a fresh

OPINION

Passport renewals online

By Kate Shuttleworth The Government has announced adult passport prices will drop as online applications are launched from the end of the week, but New Zealand will remain one of the most expensive countries to get a passport.

The price of an adult passport for five years currently sits at $153.30, but it will drop from Friday.

It will cost $124.40 for an adult renewing their passport online, or $134.50 for a renewal of a passport using a printed form.

It will cost first-time adult applicants $140.00.

An urgent passport costs

$306.60 for an adult.

The lowered fees will apply only to passports applied for in New Zealand, not those applied for in London or Sydney’s Department of Internal Affairs offices.

Mr Tremain signalled in September there was scope to reduce fees after a surplus had built up in the account due to the change to the five-year passport time frame.

The reduction comes after lobbying, led by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, for the price to be decreased to bring New Zealand in line with countries offering cheaper passport prices.

In 2005, the fee for an adult passport increased from $71 and

the term was reduced from 10 to five years as New Zealand moved to biometric passports.

The Department of Internal Affairs said biometric ePassports were introduced for security reasons.

A spokesman for the department said e-passports allowed the passport holder to be electronically linked to the passport for the first time.

He said biometric e-passports were part of the requirements for being part of the United States’ visa waiver programme.

Five-year passports are rare in OECD nations. Some countries, such as Japan, Korea and Canada, offer the choice of both five and

10-year passports.

The United Kingdom, United States and Australia have only 10 year passports for adults.

Mr Peters called for prices to be halved, and has called yesterday’s reductions of up to $28 “transparently pathetic” and said those without internet access would be disadvantaged.

“The Government is making huge profits from the issuing of New Zealand e-passports which were essentially twice as expensive as a UK and Irish passport.

“They should be reducing the price of passports by half not by up to a measly $28 - to match what is going on overseas,” said Mr Peters. Internal Affairs

generation of readers who are not necessarily using a traditional newspaper to get their information.

With a host of multi-media sections, a specialised youth section and the increased use of social media, we want the younger generations to have their say on our website about what matters in their lives.

This increased communication with our readers through comments, blogs or other forms of citizen journalism will hopefully give us a better insight into your lives and what really matters to our people.

This will enable us to adjust to your wishes and serve our readers more effectively.

To achieve this goal, Guardianonline will be much more than a traditional news site. It will offer our readers the opportunity to tell their own stories and publishing their pictures and videos.

We also want to offer a comprehensive events calendar across the district.

Guardianonline will also provide the first online trading location, specifically set up for the public of Mid Canterbury.

If you want to sell or advertise any goods, the Guardian newspaper and website will be the best place to reach the maximum potential buyers in the district.

As with any major new venture, we will continue to learn more lessons about this brave new world, but we genuinely hope the people of Mid Canterbury will be just as excited about our new site as the staff who put it all together.

Minister Chris Tremain launched the department’s online passport renewal scheme yesterday.

He said the online application system will be secure given the security problems that have occurred at ACC, IRD and the Ministry of Social Development.

“I have had assurance from my officials that the system is secure and we’ve gone to significant lengths to ensure that security by employing outside auditors to review the system to make sure it’s as robust as possible.”

“The fee that was set when the new five year plan change came in was set at the cost at that point in time plus a subsidy that’s included for child passports.”

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Mayfield looks to its future Mayfield residents are taking charge of their future.

A brain storming session last week saw about 25 residents turn up to share their ideas of how the Mayfield of tomorrow should look, the facilities they wanted and the way they saw their village growing and developing.

The workshop, Mayfield – Our Community, Our Future was hosted by the Ashburton District Council and was the first in a series of events that will see a community development plan created.

Among the topics explored at the workshop were the development of activities and facilities for youth, upgrading public toilets and improving camping facilities, promoting the town and what it had to offer and sustainable facilities and clubs.

Council policy officer Jenna Scott has taken the ideas gathered at the meeting and these will form the basis of a draft plan. This will be taken back to the community and refined to ensure it reflects the community’s needs.

The next workshop is planned for December 2 at 1pm in the Mayfield Memorial Hall and the final plan will be launched at the Mayfield Show in March next year.

YOUR VIEW Council meetings Reference Councillor McLeod’s letter, concerning the many meetings councillors are “involved in”.

I presume he means meetings councillors MUST attend.

I trust we are not confusing busyness with business.

If the Ashburton District is seen as a business (and for the most part it should be) then the ratepayers would be the share-

holders, mayor and councillors would be the board of directors, and paid staff would be the management team, from CEO down to the tealady.

So where all these many meetings for councillors come in is something that maybe needs to be explained to ratepayers (maybe in the District Diary).

In the business world, the directors (on behalf of shareholders) set out annual targets

and activities and direct the management team to carry out such directions, and on a regular basis report on progress, or lack thereof.

There would be a fairly clear line between governance on the one hand and management on the other. Seems reasonably straightforward.

If councillors choose to attend all sorts of other meetings, eg to stay in touch with their power-

base, that is up to them. That is NOT strictly council business, it is more a case of cultivating your supporters, and each councillor will do that differently.

If councillors attend a lot of daytime meetings, as claimed by Mr McLeod, they certainly aren’t community meetings as once again, working people would not be available to attend.

Maybe we can have an explanation as to what sort of meet-

ings we are talking about.

Peter Opthoog

Thank you On behalf of the Mania-o-roto Scout Zone I wish to thank everyone who was involved with the Scout fertiliser drive last month.

We appreciate the efforts many in the community have made to support this venture:

Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd, Ryal Bush Transport, M A Bruce Contracting Ltd – Hororata, Repco, Allenton Auto Centre, Tinwald Canvas and Upholstery, Radcliffe Electrical, Creek Road Service Centre and South Island Seeds.

To the youth members of our Scouting movement, the leaders, parents and supporters who spent time bagging off and then delivering the fertiliser - well

done.

The final thank you must go to those of the Ashburton District who purchased our fertiliser and those who gave us donations.

Our building at the Mania-oroto Scout Park, for which this was a fundraiser, is up and looking magnificent.

In time it will be completed – as funds allow!

David Stevens, Project co-ordinator

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A correspondent in Afghanistan is standing by his claim that SAS soldiers are taking an active role in the hunt for the insurgents who killed five New Zealand soldiers in August.

The Defence Force, Prime Minister and Defence Minster have rejected the claim, made by Radio New Zealand’s Afghanistan correspondent Jon Stephenson yesterday morning.

He said the information came from reliable sources within the US-led coalition in Afghanistan and the New Zealand SAS community.

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Collar bomb hoaxer ‘psychotic’- court A psychiatrist who assessed the man who attached a fake collar bomb to a Sydney teenager has told a Sydney court it was one of the most difficult cases he has ever encountered.

Clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Phillips told the District Court in Sydney yesterday that he believed Paul Douglas Peters was in a psychotic state when he entered the Pulver family home in Mosman in August 2011.

“This is one of the most difficult assessments I have ever had to

carry out,” Dr Phillips told the court.

“It’s unusual for a person with a long and seemingly untroubled life and record to then commit an extremely callous and dangerous act.”

Peters, 52, has pleaded guilty to breaking into the home and attaching a fake collar bomb to 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver’s neck after cornering her in her bedroom.

An attached document demanded an unspecified sum of money

and said the device would explode if tampered with.

The incident sparked a 10-hour police operation before the device was confirmed to be fake.

Peters was arrested in the Kentucky home he had shared with his ex-wife, Debra Peters, in the US a couple of weeks later on August 15.

Dr Phillips, who interviewed Peters, said it was hard to understand how he appeared to act “relatively normally in a number of areas of his life” but then

could become “very distorted in his thoughts”.

He said he believed Peters suffered from a bipolar disorder and was coming in and out of a psychotic state in the weeks or months prior to the incident.

Peters has told psychiatrists his last memory of the collar bomb event was walking up the steps of the Pulver home.

The court has also heard Peters had taken on the role of a character in a book he was writing, which he was “obsessed” with.

It was possible Peters was hoping he would be caught so he could get psychiatric help, the sentence hearing was told on Wednesday.

“It was in my view a very clumsy crime,” Dr Phillips said.

But he agreed with crown prosecutor, Margaret Cunneen, SC, that as the extortion attempt could have been successful, it was probably not credible that Peters wanted to get caught.

The hearing continues before Judge Peter Zahra.

Madeleine Pulver was in court for yesterday’s hearing, along with members of her family.

Speaking outside court her father Bill Pulver said the plea was a relief, and said the family was grateful for the support shown to it by “thousands” of well-wishers.

“We are incredibly pleased with today’s outcome. It is great comfort knowing Maddie won’t have to endure the stress and anxiety of reliving the events of that terrible night,” he said. - AAP

Kids become more sedentary with age Australian kids are becoming obese because they spend too much time on their backsides watching TV, new research shows.

And as with most bad habits, it only gets worse with age.

The amount of time children spend sedentary - that is with little or no physical activity - jumps from 4.5 hours a day between the ages of three and six years to nearly eight hours by 18, according to Dr Dale Esliger from Britain’s Loughborough University.

“Methods of counteracting the incline need to be developed, based upon an improved understanding of the phenomenon,” he said in a statement on yesterday.

Dr Andrew Atki, from the UK Centre for Diet and Activity Research, said many things can be done around the home environment to get the kids active.

He said it’s important for parents to

British border officials have detained three people who tried to enter the country illegally by hiding in a truck full of coffins. The Border Force says a sniffer dog found the three Eritrean nationals among dozens of boxed coffins in the vehicle, which was from Bulgaria. The would-be migrants were not inside the coffins.

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limit TV and movie watching, particularly on the weekends, and to increase family participation in sports.

Dr Amanda Staiano, from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, said having a television in the bedroom was negatively impacting people’s health.

“Television in the bedroom and watching more than two hours a day are associated with greater odds of elevated waist circumference,” she said.

“Reduced television viewing could protect our youth.”

Experts will gather in Sydney over the next four days at Be Active 2012 - a sports medicine, sports science, injury prevention and physical activity promotion conference.

One of the main topics of discussion will be the need to encourage more exercise amongst young Australians to curb a growing trend in obesity.

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• Customs seize salts Customs officers in Sydney have seized two kilograms of a chemical commonly used to make the drug ice concealed as baby formula and bath salts. The precursor ephedrine was discovered inside two bottles labelled as baby powder and two packets of bath salts when it came through air cargo at Sydney airport from the United Kingdom on Friday.

Ephedrine is commonly used to manufacture methamphetamine or ice, and importing it without a permit is illegal.

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A decade since George Lucas said Star Wars was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy under new ownership is destined for theaters after The Walt Disney Co. announced that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. from him for $4.05 billion. The seventh movie, with a working title of Episode 7, is set for release in 2015.

Episodes 8 and 9 will follow.

The trilogy will continue the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia beyond Return of the Jedi, the third film released and the sixth in the saga. After that, Disney plans a new Star Wars movie every two or three years. Lucas will serve as creative consultant in the new movies. - AP

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Rotorua District Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Southern Airlines - Asia’s largest passenger carrier.

The signing, held in Guangzhou, China on Monday night, was the culmination of months of discussion, but does not mean Rotorua will get any extra international flights.

The council delegation, led by deputy mayor Trevor Maxwell, also included the council’s Economic and Regulatory Services group manager Mark Rawson, Destination Rotorua Marketing’s Oscar Nathan and Shelley Huang, as well as representatives from Rotorua’s local tourism and tertiary education sectors.

Also attending were Asia for Tourism New Zealand regional manager Tony Everitt and New Zealand Chinese

Herald director Raymond Chen.

The memorandum is aimed at collaboration across trade and product development, as well as mutually growing profiles and opportunities.

According to Mr Nathan, the memorandum paves the way for Rotorua to work closely with China Southern’s marketing, public relations and foreign affairs departments and through their New Zealand office, to begin implementing the next steps.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Maxwell said it was important to develop the potential for China’s semi-FIT (free, independent traveller) inbound market and to work with the likes of Auckland International Airport and key regions, such as Auckland and Queenstown, to achieve this.

He said the signing was not just

an opportunity for Rotorua to offer enhanced tour options and experiences, but it was also one for regions to work together to offer quality and diversity in itineraries right across the country.

“Currently, Rotorua welcomes around 85 per cent of all Chinese visitor arrivals to New Zealand. However, the dynamics are changing and it’s exciting for us to be at this juncture with China Southern Airlines, particularly at a time when the market is going from strength to strength,” he said.

Chinese tourists overtook the United States as New Zealand’s third-largest visitor source in September and have come to New Zealand in increasing numbers - up 38 per cent compared with last year.

China Southern Airlines executive vice-president He Zong Kai told the delegation he acknowledged the opportunity to work together to grow awareness of Rotorua across southern China and at the same time to increase the visitor flow, profile and understanding of China Southern Airlines’ offering in New Zealand.

Mr Rawson said Rotorua had been attracting Chinese visitors for many years and would continue to work with all carriers, including Air New Zealand.

The signing would require Rotorua to take an even closer look at itself so it could increase the value and length of stay for Chinese visitors to the region.

“This approach is extremely exciting for Rotorua,” Mr Rawson said.

“It’s part of a marketing strategy for the destination which will continue to evolve to include other Chinese speaking markets across Asia over time.

“Working with the likes of China Southern Airlines and other principal carriers to grow inbound value to New Zealand is important for our country’s inbound tourism. Key to this is the likes of Auckland International Airport, which is aiming to generate more than 430,000 arrivals from China and across Asia by 2020.”

China Southern Airlines fly a daily service between Auckland and Guangzhou.

Rotorua Mayor Kevin Winters said even though the signing would not generate any extra flights for Rotorua it would bring more Chinese visitors to Rotorua.

A2 Corp want into NZ market More jobs lost on coast A2 Corp, which markets milk products with a protein variant claimed to have health benefits, wants to directly enter the New Zealand market and is looking to expand into North America and some European nations having wrapped up a strategic review to speed up growth.

The alternative-market listed company will shift its focus to a number of opportunities in a bid to ramp up growth, including directly marketing into New Zealand, it said in a statement.

A2 plans to expand rapidly include entering markets in North America, German, France, Italy and Spain via joint ventures, using local contract manufacturers or investing in regional processing, it said.

Other plans include developing its suite of intellectual property and patents, and to accelerate its existing investment in the UK and in China. A2 is also looking at expanding its product range to ultra-heat tested (UHT) milk and yoghurt.

“A2 is well placed to drive strong future growth independent, with an openness to engage with potential partners who may assist with its global ambitions,” the company said.

“By virtue of the capital light partnership model the company is well positioned to progressively fund its development through its internally generated cash flows and strong balance sheet.”

The six-month review’s results come a week after A2 entered into a Chinese distribution arrangement with China State Farm Holding Shanghai Company, a subsidiary of stateowned China National Agriculture Development Group Corp, as the exclusive distributor of its a2 brand infant formula.

The shares fell 1.5 per cent to 67 cents, hav- A2 Corp markets milk with a protein variant said to ing surged 183 per cent this year. have health benefits.

COME MEET AL BROWN

In yet another blow to the Greymouth economy, Stillwater Lumber has laid off 12 staff as it readjusts to the economic recession.

Only last week the Spring Creek mine was mothballed, with the loss of about 220 jobs.

Stillwater Lumber is an offshoot of Canterbury company Southern Pine Products, and general manager Mike Taylor said all the affected West Coast staff had been offered positions at its Christchurch mill. One had accepted already and several others were contemplating the move to the city.

Stillwater would be re-hiring as soon as the economy turned the corner, he said.

For now, the New Zealand building market remained in a state of depression, despite the anticipated Christchurch rebuild, and the

Australian market was flat. This, coupled with the high value of the New Zealand dollar, had made it difficult to make an acceptable return in export markets.

“As a result of the economic conditions, Stillwater Lumber has been forced to look at various options to restructure and rationalise its operations,” Mr Taylor said.

Currently the Stillwater lumber mill runs a manual cut line and an automated scanning line. It will phase out the manual line but will add another scanner when the market picks up.

“I have no doubt that the market will pick up, but it’s taken a lot longer than we expected and we just can’t hang around waiting for the Christchurch rebuild to kick in,” he said.

Christie quits reality screen Reality TV queen Julie Christie has resigned as boss of Eyeworks New Zealand and Australia, saying it’s time for someone else to take over the role.

Christie, who founded the company in 1991 as Touchdown Productions, said she was leaving with a continued love for television but had a parting message to funders and broadcasters about the need for good quality Kiwi content in the “fast-changing television market”.

“The recent trend of caring so much more about ‘carriage’ - how content is distributed rather than building an industry that produces great NZ content, means that our television is amidst very troubled times.”

She said The Block NZ was a good example

of quality TV: “I have never seen a show in this country that so engaged children and families sitting at home watching TV together.”

Touchdown became New Zealand’s largest producer of lifestyle, reality and entertainment programmes including This is Your Life, Changing Rooms, My House My Castle, DIY Rescue, The Money Game, Treasure Island and Game of Two Halves.

The company sold formats to overseas companies and became part of the Eyeworks Group in 2006, with Ms Christie remaining chief executive.

The next boss of the New Zealand arm of the company would be announced in the next few weeks, she said. John McAvoy will take sole charge in Australia.

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Disarray, millions without power Storm The most devastating storm in decades to hit the most densely populated US region cut off modern communication and left millions without power yesterday, as thousands who fled their waterlogged homes wondered when — if — life would return to normal.

A weakening Sandy, the hurricane turned fearsome superstorm, killed at least 50 people, many hit by falling trees, and still wasn’t finished. It inched inland across Pennsylvania, ready to bank toward western New York state to dump more of its water and likely cause more havoc. Behind it: a dazed, inundated New York City, a drenched Atlantic Coast and a moonscape of disarray and debris — from unmoored shoretown boardwalks to submerged mass-transit systems to delicate presidential politics.

“Nature,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, assessing the damage to his city, “is an awful lot more powerful than we are.”

More than 8.2 million households were without power in 17 states as far west as Michigan.

Nearly two million of those were in New York, where large swaths of lower Manhattan lost electricity and entire streets ended up under water — as did seven subway tunnels between Manhattan and Brooklyn at one point, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. The New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day from weather, the first time that has happened since a blizzard in 1888. The city’s subway system, the lifeblood of more than 5 million residents, was damaged like never before and closed indefinitely, and Consolidated Edison said electricity in and around New York could take a week to restore.

“Everybody knew it was coming. Unfortunately, it was everything they said it was,” said Sal

Novello, a construction executive who rode out the storm with his wife, Lori, in the Long Island town of Lindenhurst, and ended up with 2.1 metres of water in the basement.

The scope of the storm’s damage isn’t known yet. Though early predictions of river flooding in Sandy’s inland path were petering out, colder temperatures made snow the main product of Sandy’s slow march from the sea. Parts of the West Virginia mountains were blanketed with 60cm of snow and drifts 1.2m deep were reported at Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border in the South.

With Election Day a week away, the storm also threatened to affect the presidential campaign.

Federal disaster response, always a dicey political issue, has become even thornier since government mismanagement of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. And poll access and voter turnout, both of which hinge upon how people are impacted by the storm, could help shift the outcome in an extremely close race.

As organised civilization came roaring back in the form of emergency response, recharged mobile phones and the reassurance of daylight, harrowing stories emerged in the hours after Sandy’s howling winds and tidal surges shoved water over seaside barriers, into low-lying streets and up from coastal storm drains.

By yesterday, there were still only hints of the economic impact of the storm. Airports remained closed across the East Coast and far beyond as tens of thousands of travelers found they couldn’t get where they were going.

Images from around the stormaffected areas depicted scenes reminiscent of big-budget disaster movies. In Atlantic City, New

Jersey, a gaping hole remained where once a stretch of boardwalk sat by the sea. In Queens, New York, rubble from a fire that destroyed as many as 100 houses in an evacuated beachfront neighborhood jutted into the air at ugly angles against a gray sky. In heavily flooded Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, dozens of yellow cabs sat parked in rows, submerged in murky water to their windshields.

At the ground zero construction site in lower Manhattan, sea water rushed into a gaping hole under harsh floodlights.

One of the most dramatic tales came from lower Manhattan, where a failed backup generator forced New York University’s Tisch Hospital to relocate more than 200 patients, including 20 babies from neonatal intensive care. Dozens of ambulances lined up in the rainy night and the tiny patients were gingerly moved out, some attached to battery-powered respirators as gusts of wind blew their blankets.

Sandy killed 18 people in New York City, the mayor said. The dead included two who drowned in a home and one who was in bed when a tree fell on an apartment.

A 23-year-old woman died after stepping into a puddle near a live electrical wire.

In Moonachie, New Jersey, north of Manhattan, water rose to 1.5m within 45 minutes and trapped residents who thought the worst of the storm had passed.

In a measure of its massive size, in the Midwest waves on southern Lake Michigan rose to a record-tying 6.1m. High winds spinning off Sandy’s edges clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.

The presidential candidates’ campaign maneuverings Tuesday

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Michael Brown (left) and Enos Jones, with Ocean City, fill a truck with debris as they clean the boardwalk after the effects of Hurricane Sandy. revealed the delicacy of the need to look presidential in a crisis without appearing to capitalise on a disaster. President Barack Obama cancelled a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled in Ohio, in Sandy’s path. Republican challenger Mitt Romney resumed his campaign with plans for an Ohio rally billed as a “storm relief event.”

And the weather posed challenges a week out for how to get everyone out to vote. On the hardhit New Jersey coastline, a county

elections chief said some polling places on barrier islands will be unusable and have to be moved.

Sandy began in the Atlantic and knocked around the Caribbean — killing nearly 70 people — and strengthened into a hurricane as it chugged across the southeastern coast of the United States.

By Tuesday night it had ebbed in strength but was joining up with another, more wintry storm — an expected confluence of weather systems that earned it nicknames like “superstorm” and, on

Halloween eve, “Frankenstorm.”

It became, pretty much everyone agreed Tuesday, the weather event of a lifetime — and one shared vigorously on social media by people in Sandy’s path who took eyepopping photographs as the storm blew through, then shared them with the world by the blue light of their smartphones.

On Twitter, Facebook and the photo-sharing service Instagram, people tried to connect, reassure relatives and make sense of what was happening.

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Insured losses from the massive superstorm Sandy that has battered the US East Coast could run between $US7 billion ($NZ8.5 billion) and $US15 billion ($NZ18.2 billion), catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide says.

AIR said the damages were akin to much more intense hurricanes, because of the gigantic size of Sandy and its collision with another huge front sweeping in from the west, wreaking havoc over a much broader area than other megastorms.

AIR’s estimates included wind and storm surge damage to onshore residential, commercial and industrial properties and their contents, automobiles and insured losses related to things like business interruption for companies forced to shut down.

Sandy, rated only a category one hurricane, was nearly twice the size of the devastating Category 3 Hurricane Katrina of 2005, AIR said.

AIR said tropical force winds from Sandy affected an area spanning 1,530km, and hurricane force winds extending 28okm from its centre, much more than other extremely damaging hurricanes.

“Sandy’s diameter made it the largest Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of the span of tropical storm-force winds,” the company said.

“The storm affected areas as far north as Toronto and west to the Great Lakes.”

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Toasting the speechmakers Toasting the speechmakers When people ask me, “What is Toastmasters all about?” I tell them “It is all about friends, helping friends succeed”.

I often hear the words “I couldn’t do that” when I talk about getting up in front of a crowd, and delivering a verbal presentation.

The reason for this popular stance is simple. Statistically, public speaking is one of, if not the top rated fear, in the list of phobias If you feel like this, then you are not alone. And even better than that, there is help at hand, to combat this fear.

Ashburton Toastmasters has been helping Mid-Canterbury sufferers of glossophobia, or the fear of public speaking, for 41 years. It is a group of men and women, who have all started at

of Will Grayling. He joined our club to help with speechmaking before he entered the NZ Young Farmer of the Year competition, and won the prestigious title in 2011. He continued to be a member and is now our president.

Unfortunately, once the all important speech is out of the way we see some members not returning as their mission is accomplished, but for those that do stay, greater progress is possible as they have the opportunity to complete advanced manuals.

With our membership averaging around 16, we offer a small forum which can be very beneficial to new members, as they are less likely to feel overwhelmed with our small club.

Some feel they need to be distinguished orators to be a member of Toastmasters. This isn’t true! Eloquent speakers would more likely be bored with Toastmasters, as they would have very little to learn from us, and their scope for growth would be quite small. I’ve been in Toastmasters 13 years and find I am still learning.

I still vividly recall my first night in Toastmasters, at the Sunbelt Club in Blenheim. I was invited to come along and sit in the back if I wished, and see if it was for me or not.

I did just that, safe in the knowledge that I would be quietly anonymous, in the back row. However, during a part of the night’s agenda, this thing called “Table Topics” began. It was all about being given an impromptu, topic of a general nature to speak on. It was basically to get you thinking on your feet.

Much to my horror, I was invited to come forward, and partake.

I was humbled by the positiveness of others in the room, to encourage me to do just that. The theme of the table topics, that night, was pulling a letter of the alphabet out of a hat, and speaking for a minute or two on a topic beginning with that letter.

“Just my luck to get a Z, an X or something equally unapproachable” I thought. I meekly went to the lectern and pulled out a “T”. By the grace of God, I had been Teamwork will assist you with every aspect of staff management planting tomatoes that day. Relief encompassed my entire being at and recruitment to ensure your business succeeds. that point, and I confidently spoke about my day, for the full two minutes.

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the same level when it comes to public speaking.

People join Toastmasters for various reasons; an up-coming wedding or event, a competition which includes public speaking, even some local politicians have been members.

As an indication of how Toastmasters can help the every day person diminish their fear of public speaking, I often remember a lady named Barbara. When she first joined she sat close to the door so that she would have a fast exit out of the room if she needed to leave to be sick. Her fear was that severe.

Not too many weeks later, she was up the front, delivering a speech about a holiday she had, at the former prison colony of Norfolk Island. As toastmaster for the meeting I was sitting behind her while she was speaking to the group, and noticed what seemed to me, to be a really nervous action, of reaching around to her back and playing with the buttons of her dress.

The next thing I knew, she undid the buttons, and the dress dropped to the floor. She was now dressed in a prisoner’s striped uniform, which she wore to the meeting under her dress. It was a souvenir that she brought back to New Zealand.

This action showed the growth in her confidence, in such a short space of time.

One of the great benefits of being a toastmaster is that I have witnessed countless episodes of success similar to this.

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night. I didn’t need to attend the two or three allowed nights, visiting meetings, to make up my mind. I knew I liked the atmosphere in that room, and have stuck with it since 1999.

When a person joins Toastmasters, they receive from America a pack, including a speech manual and also a leadership manual. Toastmasters International is based in the USA, and governs Clubs worldwide.

There are the two directions Toastmasters takes people: the leadership role; and of course the speaking role. This first speaking manual covers ten different speaking projects, all with different objectives. This may be projects on gestures, vocal variety, non-use of jargon and slang, and so on.

After this initial handbook, members can then press forward into more advanced manuals, to attain the certified bronze, silver and gold status, from Toastmasters International. Added to this, are the competent and advanced leader roles.

But the Toastmaster meeting doesn’t just consist of speeches; we have a “Jokemaster” role which brings a joke into the agenda.

This does two things: it lightens the mood of the evening; but more importantly, because everybody is not naturally talented in the area of joke telling, this gives them a forum to practice that skill.

We have a memory master. Part of the art of conversation, is the ability to listen. So again, in a light moment, we quiz the members on snippets that have come up during the evening’s speeches, to see how well they’ve been paying attention.

We have an Um and Ah counter, and it is surprising how many people use these fillers, and how often they use them.

Men and women, 18 years and over, are welcome to join Toastmasters. We do enable a fine balance between professionalism, and having fun, and often it’s the laughter everyone has had, that has been the key ingredient to a great evening out.

We meet fortnightly, upstairs in the main block, of the Old Polytechnic building in Cameron Street, behind the Police Station, which is in Havelock Street. Dress is tidy casual, and the meeting begins promptly at 7.30pm, so everyone is encouraged to arrive at least 10 minutes earlier to get settled.

The meeting is 2 hours in length, with a cuppa in between.

Telephone enquiries are most welcome and can be made by ringing Ph 308 6268.

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By Linda Clarke New Zealand could make new and influential friends by attending the annual World Food Prize, says Methven farmer Craige Mackenzie, who attended the event – the agricultural equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mr Mackenzie, an innovative crop and dairy farmer, was the first New Zealander to take part in a prestigious global roundtable discussion of farmers associated with the event, held in the US last month.

He was one of 15 farmers from 13 countries talking about issues farming faced in their own countries, and the tools needed to intensify in the next 5-10 years.

Mr Mackenzie said New Zealand would benefit from sending Government representatives to future events, to sow the seeds of new trade relationships and widen the country’s agricultural networks. Many other countries sent trade and government agricultural officials.

He said he rubbed shoulders with some innovative and inspirational farmers, who were all encouraged by speakers including secretary general of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to

concentrate on sustainable intensification, whether they were in Africa or Mid Canterbury.

New Zealand issues included farming within water and nutrient limits, while other developing countries wanted GM crops so they could produce enough food to feed their families or communities, and reduce dependence on outside aid.

“It was not all about GM, that is only a small part of it.”

He said some Zimbabwean farmers growing GM corn resistant to insects and disease had raised their harvest tonnage by “monumental” volumes and were able to make their communities more profitable.

New Zealand farmers could play their part, without GM, by continuing to push technology boundaries growing traditional and niche crops.

“It is important that farmers are profitable, here or in Zimbabwe. If you are profitable you have the ability to invest in new technology and be better at what you do.”

He said the roundtable discussion and food prize celebration was a fantastic event to attend.

The World Food Prize was presented to Israeli scientist Daniel Hillel, for his work developing drip irrigation.

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Sheep judge Ike Williams gives spectators at the sheep pens a run-down on why he chose Norm Carr’s Suffolk as champion meat breed at the Ashburton A&P Show.

Home industry, dancing, shearing trophy winners Global farmer roundtable farmers talk with US scientist Mike Stahr.

More trophy winners from this year’s Ashburton A&P Show: Home Industries Pavilion – AT Begg challenge trophy, most points in student classes, Ben Wakelin. Association trophy, most points in adults classes, Glenys Rapsey. GR Burton Challenge cup, most points in wine classes, Dennis Blackler. Ashburton Tust challenge trophy, premier exhibit in wine section, Dennis Blackler. Ashburton Trust challenge trophy, most points in beer classes, Dennis Blackler.

Walter Butterick Memorial Cup, most points in eggs and fruit, Glenys Rapsey.

Louisa Amos memorial challenge trophy, most points in bread, scones and cakes classes, Glenys Rapsey.

Ashburton A&P trophy, winner of tray competition, Winchmore Rural Women.

Andrew memorial rose bowl, most points in sewing, Jenny Knight. Ashburton WDFF filigree vase, most points in embroi-

der, Deborah Halliday. Ashburton A&P Association home industries trophy for needlework, most points in patchwork, Debbie Macdonald.

Ashburton Guardian tankard, most points in crafts section, Tina Hayman.

Ashburton A&P trophy, most points in teddy bear section, Donece McEwan. CL Begg cup, most points in natural handspun fibrecraft, Judy Willetts.

TH Lemon challenge trophy, most points in hand knitting, R. Jones and M. Moore.

CP Lill memorial challenge trophy, champion print in photography, Julie Begg.

Gordon Binsted memorial trophy, most points overall in photography, Marcia Glenie. Gordon Binsted memorial trophy No 2, most points in student photography, Ben Wakelin. Ashburton Photographic Society trophy, top novice print, Aileen Brake. Association challenge cup, most points in paintings, Brian Kerr. Connolly cup, most points in student cookery, Katie

Partleton. Ashburton A&P Association trophy, most points in student craft and technology, Ben Wakelin. Allan Stewart McGregor memorial cup, most points in student art, Maysie Willis.

Hazel Lill cup, most points in student flowers, Todd McCloy. Mrs R. McConnell tray, most points in floral art, Tracy Fisher.

Lowery Cup presented by James Lowery, most points in flower section, Tracy Fisher.

CS and AM Leadley family tray, over 70s most points, Dennis Blackler, Rebecca Johnstone trophy, premier exhibit in student cookery, Katie Partleton.

Tiny Tots – Silver Salver, champion baby, Edward White.

Highland dancing – Julie Hawke challenge cup, winner novice under 14, Libby Meyrick. R and D Mawes cup, local winner of most points under 10, Megan Harrison. Charmaine Quaid cup, local winner of most points in national dancing, Charlotte Sloper. Gray Clan trophy,

A&P sailors under 10, Brooke Kingsbury.

Julie Hawke cup, winner of double swords, Eirinn MacLean. Kate Wills cup, winner of waltz clog, Charlotte Sloper. Hamie Gray Highland trophy, most points local unplaced dancer, Melissa Christie.

Trade exhibit – Challenge trophy donated by members of 1984 general committee, best trade display, Andrew Quigley Contracting Ltd. Irwin trophy, best small display, Ashburton Playcentre Asociation.

Shearing – Ashburton A&P Shears, open machines, T. Coster. Ashburton A&P Shears, senior machines, D. Bloomfield. Ashburton A&P Shears, Intermediate machines, P. Hawkins. Ashburton A&P Shears, junior machines, K. Culshaw. Bull trophy, local open senior, G. Smith. Ashburton A&P Shears, open blades, N. Handley. Joe Spooner memorial cup, best all round local competitor with most points in heats over all grades, G. Smith.

Farm environment Standards met through trust head bows out effluent pond course North Waikato farmer Jim Cotman has stood down from his role as chairperson of the New Zealand Farm Environment Trust after a very successful six years at the helm.

Since the trust was established, its flagship event, the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, has gone from strength to strength and is now regarded as one of New Zealand’s premier farming awards. The Trust has also developed a range of other initiatives designed to promote environmental sustainability in New Zealand agriculture.

Mr Cotman says the trust has played a key role in showcasing sustainable farming practices.

“Throughout my years of involvement with the trust, one constant has been the achievements many farmers have made in the stewardship of our land and resources.

This flies in the face of comments made by some bigoted and probably

politically motivated commentators regarding farming in general.”

Mr Cotman says it has been a huge privilege to lead this “brilliant organisation” and he has been inspired and motivated by the efforts and successes of his fellow farmers.

“The celebration of their achievements is important and that’s something the trust set out to do right from the very start.”

Speaking at the trust’s annual meeting in October, Mr Cotman said the trust was in good heart, with a strong balance sheet, an excellent team of volunteers and a fully-committed family of sponsors and partners dedicated to the promotion of profitable and sustainable practices on-farm.

“This now allows the trust to pursue its plans to further grow and support the Ballance Farm Environment Awards within the regions they operate.”

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Over 100 contractors and designers of farm dairy effluent (FDE) ponds are the first to complete a training course aligned with new industry standards.

The Farm Dairy Effluent Pond Training Course was established by DairyNZ in conjunction with InfraTrain New Zealand and Opus International Consultants (Opus).

The course is based on Practice Note 21: Design and Construction of FDE Ponds, released by the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) at the end of last year.

DairyNZ sustainability team leader Dr Theresa Wilson says the information in Practice Note 21 is the first industry-agreed set of good practice standards for the design and construction of new effluent storage ponds.

“The course is part of work to ensure the standards outlined in the practice note are met,” says Theresa.

“Those that have completed the course are listed on the InfraTrain website and we encourage dairy farmers to use this list when looking to build an effluent pond.”

The course, delivered by New Zealand Water and Environment Training Academy (NZWETA), was

split into three days. The first day provided an overview, the second day focussed on construction, and the third day on pond design.

InfraTrain’s national operations manager, Ross Leslie, says the workshops, held in six locations across the country, covered the practical aspects of design and construction.

“The course aims to ensure that those building storage ponds have all the information they need to build an effluent pond that is compliant and will provide farmers with a great return on investment,” said Mr Leslie.

“The practice note provided a good solid base to model the course on and also means there are consistent messages around pond construction.”

Hugh Ratsey, from Opus, says it was really good to see such a range of companies across the North and South Islands participating in the course.

“This course required a high level of participation and those that attended responded well to the practical examples and the expert guest speakers used throughout the programme,” he said.

“Our course trainers have many years’ experience in this business and were heavily involved in drafting Practice Note 21. Attendees made the most of having these experts on-hand.”

Drugs hidden in milk powder New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra says it has strict security measures after reports that a massive drug haul in Algeria came from New Zealand in a powdered milk container.

Algerian police seized 165kg of cocaine concealed in a powdered milk container from New Zealand, according to foreign media reports.

But Customs here says there is no evidence to suggest the drugs came from New Zealand or that any illegal substances were introduced into the container before it left the country.

“Fonterra is a trusted trader and is part of Customs’ Secure Export Scheme. Containers are sealed when they are packed, and the seal assures that the container has not been breached until it is loaded onto a ship,” said New Zealand Customs spokesman Paul Campbell.

Fonterra also pointed to the export scheme, which had “strict security measures”, a spokesman said.

All the company’s containers left New Zealand with sealed lids, he said.

“We’re aware of reports from Algeria that a container loaded with milk powder is being investigated. We’re waiting to hear which Algerian authority is leading the investigation and we’re on standby to provide any information as required,” said the spokesman.

Customs was aware that the cargo in which the drugs was found was unloaded and reloaded in Panama and Valencia, Spain, Mr Campbell said.

“We have engaged our attache in Brussels and he will be working to establish the facts.

“Customs has very high confidence in the integrity of New Zealand exports.”

The Agence France-Presse news agency reported that the container had been imported by Algerian company ONIL. The haul was thought to be one of the largest ever intercepted in the North African country.

A New Zealand Police spokesman said it would get involved only if there was a suggestion of unlawful activity in New Zealand.

- APNZ

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Sandy shuts down Broadway Broadway, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre have all remained dark as Superstorm Sandy left the New York entertainment industry fighting to go on with the show - even if it means performing for empty studios.

That was how David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon taped their late shows on Monday night, leading to some remarkably quiet monologues. On Tuesday, as the city took account of the damage wrought by the storm, some late-night shows were moving back into full production, while the aftermath of Sandy continued to cause the cancellations of film premieres, film and TV production and even that

most unshakable performer: Bruce Springsteen.

The Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert scheduled for Tuesday night at the Rochester Blue Cross Arena in upstate New York was postponed because of the hurricane. Officials at the arena said the concert was rescheduled due to flight cancellations for Springsteen’s band and more than 1000 ticket holders.

In New York, despite a downed subway system and a large swathe of Manhattan being powerless, others were pushing on.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report both cancelled Tuesday night’s tapings.

The city revoked film permits for all five boroughs on Tuesday, after doing the same on Monday. Among the productions affected are Smash, Gossip Girl, Person of Interest, 666 Park Avenue and Elementary. Films forced to stop shooting include Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and Akiva Goldsman’s Winter’s Tale.

While Broadway theatres were closed and ready to reopen, the thriving downtown off-Broadway community, with most of its theatres in lower Manhattan, was still assessing the damage and likely facing a longer time off. The superstorm already forced the well-respected Vineyard Theatre in Union Square to cancel performances.

Arts DIARY

Photo Claire Robertshaw

Ashburton College Year 13 student Alasdair Tarry (centre) discusses his portfolio with Year 12 students Ryan Strijbis and Grace Goulter.

Seniors show stunning portfolios

By Susan Sandys Ashburton College parents, friends and teachers will be able to see the stunning work of the school’s Year 13 art students next week.

The Year 13 Art and Photography Exhibition will be on Tuesday, 5pm to 7pm, at the hockey pavilion on Walnut Avenue.

Head of faculty arts and drama Claire Robertshaw said the exhibition would give people an opportunity to view the work before it was sent to Wellington for assessment.

“We tried this exhibition idea with the Level 1 and Level 2 portfolios last year and it was very successful. Parents enjoyed seeing the finished product after all the hard work that had gone into them,” Miss Robertshaw said.

“The exhibition also gives us a chance to celebrate our most creative senior students before they leave college and go on to bigger and brighter things.

“The exhibition is a chance to say ‘thanks’, ‘well done’ and ‘come visit us when you’re famous’.”

Photography teacher Jenny Owens said her students had used a combination of Photoshop, on-line editing tools and col-

lage to develop their work. And they had developed their ideas by looking at the work of established artists and getting feedback from others.

They had explored “wonderful and very different” themes and concepts, including the quintessential great New Zealand road trip, rubbish infiltrating the landscape at Wakanui Beach, and a modern suburban marriage riddled with disdain.

“They must be organised and self-motivated as they organise the project, which means often they need to go back and retake photos to complete or perfect a series they are working on after they have evaluated their work,” she said.

• Until November 4 – Ashburton District Schools exhibition at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

• November 5 – Beatlemania – On Tour at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

• November 6 – Ashburton College Year 13 Art and Photography Exhibition at the hockey pavilion on Walnut Avenue.

• November 7 - Ice Age 4 – Continental Drift (PG) will screen at 6pm at the Regent Cinema as part of the nationwide Wattie’s Cans Film Festival. The session will be limited to 120 seats and bookings can be made on 307-1230 or by emailing bookings@regentcinema.co.nz • November 13 – Bang Crash Tap at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, 7pm.

• November 17 – Haunts of Dickens opens at Ashburton Art Gallery.

• November 17 – Mid Canterbury Choir presents Handel’s Messiah at 7pm at St Andrews Church.

Entry by programme at the door, $20 adults, $15 seniors and students. Organist Martin Setchel, Christchurch, soloist soprano Angela Petrus, Ashburton, soloist contralto Ruth Reid, Alexandra, soloist tenor Michael Petrus, Ashburton, soloist bass Julien van Mellaerts, Dunedin.

• November 25 – Home at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

• November 30 – In-Flagrante at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Pioneer battles brought to big stage

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ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) Conversation is positive, and one discussion could seal a deal you have been working on for some time.

There are possibilities for flirting and romance but despite options to become more intimate, you may decide you prefer to keep things light and easy. It’s also possible that you’ll feel happier doing your own thing. Enjoy time to yourself.

GOODIE GIVEAWAY Each week the Ashburton Guardian gives readers a chance to win DVDs courtesy of Roadshow Entertainment.

Winners will be announced in this column the following week, so keep looking! If you see your name in the winner’s box, come into the Guardian and tell our lovely staff at reception you’re a DVD winner. ID may be required.

Winners have two months to claim their prize.

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Arts on Tour New Zealand is bringing the production Home to the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, as part of a nationwide tour, on November 25.

Home gives insight into early 20th century nation building in New Zealand through the eyes of two Scottish immigrants, Maggie and Johnnie. They meet and marry just before World War 1, and the show tells the story of the difficulties they endure when Johnnie is called to the battle lines.

It features a series of songs and dialogue which tell an affecting story, and it is written and directed by the award-winning Jacqueline Coats.

It features the musical and acting talents of Wellington-based Rowena Simpson and Stuart Coats as Maggie and Johnnie, assisted on piano by Douglas Mews.

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• To November 30 – From Shadows to Light, Katrina McGettigan, exhibition at Terrace Downs Resort art gallery.

• To December 15 – Ashburton Society of Arts Spring Show opens at the Short Street Studio. Hours are Saturday, Monday and Wednesday 10am to 2pm.Anyone wishing to view works outside these hours can phone Ngaio McKee on 308-4533 or Val Henderson on 308-5460.

• Mondays 10am to 2pm – Mixed media group.

Ashburton Society of Arts. Create artwork using collage, painting and different surface design techniques. Non-tutored. Contact Rowena Hart 3089371.

• First Monday of the month – Ashburton Society of Arts life drawing group from 10am to 12 noon, phone Robin Arnst on 308-1001. Also third Monday night of each month, 7pm to 9pm. Both at the Short Street studio.

• Every Wednesday, 10am to 2pm – Weekly art and printmaking group at Short Street Studio, nontutored and everyone welcome. $10 per month or $3 a day.

• Last Wednesday of every month – Film Society evenings.

If you have an event coming up and you think it might be suited to the Arts Diary, please let us know by contacting Susan Sandys on 307-7961 or susan.s@theguardian.co.nz

eet Will Gerard, Nicolas Cage (Knowing, National Treasure), a hard working English teacher. His life is changed forever when his wife Laura, January Jones (Mad Men), is brutally attacked, seemingly without motive. At his wife’s bedside in the hospital, a distraught Will is approached by Simon, Guy Pearce (The Hurt Locker, L.A. Confidential) a complete stranger. He tells Will he can wait for the police to find the culprit and trust in the justice system, or his “organisation” can kill the attacker before the night is out. In return, Will might owe a favour.

Winners of Little Princess DVDs are: Nicola Robertson, Bennett Family, Maureen Small

If you would like to go into the draw to win a copy of Seeking Justice DVD, write your name, address and the DVD’s title on the back of an envelope and send to: Goodie Giveaway, PO Box 77, Ashburton.

Alternatively you can email goodies@theguardian.co.nz with the above details.

Entries must be received no later than 9am, the following Wednesday.

ONLY ONE ENTRY PER HOUSEHOLD PLEASE

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Wellington-based Rowena Simpson and Stuart Coats are Maggie and Johnnie in the musical production Home.

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TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) Today holds personal rewards for you, especially early on when you may find the bargain you have been looking for.

However, a decision to snap up something that catches your fancy may encourage you to spend a lot more than you intended. A more divisive influence later could make relationships more challenging. Try not to rock the boat.

GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) Romance is fun, with a hint of surprise. With Uranus in the picture you can expect the unexpected. Friends may have an idea for an outing that turns into a wonderful evening.

Light-hearted conversation that is fun and engaging may leave you wanting more.

Work-wise you seem to be very busy. Try not to allow the pressure to get too much.

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) Loving feelings and artistic tendencies rule the day. Shop for beautiful home items and think about decorating a room or several rooms to make your property lighter and brighter.

The presence of Venus suggests things are perfect for entertaining friends, family or work colleagues. Healthwise, you seem to be on a roll but try not to overindulge. Focus on exercise.

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Act now before the rush to see what we can achieve for you – you may be

LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) There seems to be a lucky atmosphere around, which is affecting you in particular. Plan a trip or a party, or dare to ask for a pay rise or a new contract. When you are easygoing about getting what you want, you have far more chance of being successful. Benefits come through friends and through being seen in the right places.

Accept those invites.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) A new start in the business world may be crowned with success. The other good news is that finances can improve and you might even have a tendency to splash out. Actually, it’s about time that you did. Don’t feel guilty. When an issue seems to be going in the opposite direction to which you want it to, allow a good friend to help you out.

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) A sociable influence is likely to bring contacts and ideas. Write letters, advertise your goods and services and be in touch.

A short trip may turn out to be very rewarding, especially if you are exploring somewhere for the first time. Money may come in but you may need to handle it with care in order to keep it. A friend can prove funny.

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) The accent is on relationships, though you might not be able to act as independently as you’d like. There may be comfort in allowing partners or loved ones to provide security of some kind.

You may feel you want to do as much as possible on your own, but in reality it may not be practical or possible.

Despite your feelings, you seem to be in a generous mood.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) You seem to be gearing up to attempt a challenge that is both exciting and fun. A focus on your sign reveals that you seem to be having the time of your life. Prospects are good now for furthering your heart’s desires and ties with a loved one. If you have been in a rut, the planets today provide a means to get out of it and explore fresh ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) Sidestep gossip that could arouse antagonism with a friend or colleague. A conversation topic that seems innocent may end up opening the door to regrettable comments or revelations. Today also brings an opportunity to get more realistic about money and earnings. Although you are practical, you could have a tendency to be irresponsible today.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) You may have reason to feel exuberant, mainly because your social life has potentially recently perked up. The accomplishments of a child may also bring a great deal of satisfaction your way. A message from someone you don’t get to see very often may inspire you to get in touch and renew your relationship. Later, a change of schedule could work out well. Enjoy yourself.

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) Love can stir a rainbow of sparks today and sudden attraction may be dazzling. Later, don’t read too much into what people say.

Once past an edgy incident it will be clear sailing for romance and fun. Overall, try to avoid spreading yourself too thin or giving away too much of your time and resources.

It’s time to recharge your batteries and pamper yourself.

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CASH for used goods, when you advertise in the TRADES, SERVICES Guardian Classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

CERAMIC Tiles - tile quality WEATHERBOARDS. Good guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection.

South Street selection available at RedTraders, corner South and monds Furnishing and William Streets.

Flooring, Burnett Street.

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HIRE SPECIALISED equipment not being used? Advertise it for rent/hire in the Guardian classifieds to make extra cash. Phone 307-7900.

LOST, FOUND ANIMALS or stock wandered? Place a classified in the Ashburton Guardian.

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MEETINGS, EVENTS 2012 HOT Rod dirt challenge at Ashburton Speedway on Saturday, November 3.

DON’T miss the action at Ashburton Speedway this Sunday, November 4.

MOTORING ACTION packed speedway racing on Sunday, November 4 at the Ashburton Speedway.

SATURDAY, November 3 Hot Rods on display at the Ashburton Speedway.

MOTORCYCLES

Place your job ads with our experienced team

FARM bikes, buy or sell in the Motorcycles section of Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

Tickets available from The Event Centre 211a Wills St, Ashburton Phone 307 2010 www.ateventcentre.co.nz

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

PLANTS, PRODUCE

ENTERTAINMENT

PEONY flowers for sale from Saturday, November 3, at Farmers Market, West Street. Carol and Keith Gunn, Flower Growers.

Deadline 2pm prior publication day

REAL ESTATE

SUNDAY, November 4 great family entertainment YOUR future home, ATTRACTIVE and busty. No TWO bedroom flat, warm texting. Phone Zoe 021-023- at Ashburton Speedway. advertised daily in the Real and sunny.

Logburner, 39-259.

Estate section of Guardian garage, permanent material. classifieds.

West side location. $220 per Guardian Classifieds week. Tel. 308-8774.

Phone 307 7900

DAILY DIARY TODAY - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 9.00am-4.00pm. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street Consultancy House.

9.30am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Beginners, everyone welcome.

Give it a go. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

9.30am - 11.30am. MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. All welcome, rackets available for hire.

Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open, Phone 0273665475. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 1.30pm. ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time around OP shop. Ashburton Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Havelock and Cass Streets.

10.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI EXERCISES. Qi-gong Tai Chi exercises for everyone. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

1.00pm. ASHBURTON PETANQUE CLUB. New members welcome, we play in most weathers, near Ashburton Bowling club in the Domain, enter off West Street.

Place your classified advert via your sales rep.

Classic aircraft on display in Heritage Hangar. RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road.

1.30pm. R.S.A. Euchre, all welcome. R.S.A. Club, Cox St. 2.00pm. CAVENDISH CLUB. Garden circle, rose show.

Speaker Norman McDowell. 31 Tancred Street.

For all your cake decorating requirements.

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287

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Aoife Roche Happy 5th Birthday Sweety.

Gosh you are growing up fast.

With lots of love, Dad, Mum and Quaid. xx

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Lots of love, Mum, Dad, Todd and Bailey.

Madeline Tew Happy 4th Birthday princess.

Lots of love Mum, Dad, Lincoln and Hollie. xxxx

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1.30pm. ASHBURTON SENIOR NET. Question and Answer Day. Downloading photos from phones, understanding phones. M.S.A. Lounge, Havelock Street.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Continue traveling ORT Pot. Senior Centre, Cameron St. 7.30pm - 9.30pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/Sequence dancing. Learn to dance. All welcome.

Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

9.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH, Real women circuits training in the hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

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CLUB NEWS

Methven Bowling Club At the men’s Interclub on Wednesday night Team 1 had 3 wins and 1 loss against MSA. Team 2 had 1 win and 3 losses against Allenton 3. The men’s 3/4s team had 1 win and 2 losses against Ashburton and the Junior men had a good win over Bowls Papanui. Our ladies came 2nd overall in the Hefford Shield congratulations to Ashburton on winning the Shield. At the Gill Trophy at Hinds D Isherwood, G Pagey, H Weir, J McCrory 1 win.

Last week at Greymouth some of our girls played in the LVA Tournament with the team of Barbara Gawn, Raiona Isherwood, Shirley Pagey, Ruth Smith winning it for the second year in a row. Our other team of Glenda Ryan, Wendy Blackwell, Wendy Carter, Lois Allred came second well done all the girls good bowling. This weekend we have four members entered in the Lowry Cup B Harper, B Mayson, A Hill, E Maw best of luck to you all as well as C Carter and J Nowell who have entered the Centre singles in Christchurch. The Methven Bowling Club would like to congratulate Sandra Keith for winning the world champion of champions in Cyprus. Fabulous effort Sandra, well done. Happy bowling everyone.

Seniornet Ashburton Inc The members who attended the photo group demonstration and discussion had a great morning. Norman showed us some of his photos, how we would snap them and then explained how he thought they should be taken.

After this, he gave us a talk on the different settings on our cameras and with the comments, it was easy to see and hear that most of us didn’t know we had such settings or how to use them.

The problem now is to retain this information.

Norman then showed us some of his competition photos, which was a real treat to see. Congratulations to him on his success at the South Island Photo Show.

We have been asked by quite a few to do this session again, so, if you are interested, please give one of us a call and we will set up a day to suit when Norman is available.

Question and answer last Thursday was well attended and enjoyed by all.

Lindsay gave us an interesting guide to Google.

The big news is that Microsoft launched Windows 8 last Thursday and we are all waiting in anticipation to see if they can keep their place in the market.

Apple are also about to release the Mini Ipad, so if you are looking, there will be competition out there for a while.

Question and answer afternoon will be held at the MSA Lounge today at 1.30pm.

Subject is demonstration of downloading photos from phones as well as understanding your phone and looking at Windows 8. A gold coin donation would be appreciated.

A discussion and help afternoon for Ipads and tablets will be held on November 21 at 10am, at our rooms.

Members who don’t have an Ipad or Tablet, but would like to know more about them, are welcome to come along. Please register you interest. A gold coin donation would be appreciated. Downloading photos from camera to computer workshop will be held on November 28 at 10am. Please register.

Other classes have been continuing, so if you are interested in any classes, phone one of the following and we will endeavour to accommodate you.

Help and solve afternoon on Thursday afternoons have been put on hold until next year, as interest has fallen off for the summer months.

To register for any of these workshops or others please phone Jenny on 308-8424, Margaret on 307-7498 or Noma on 308-5883. For information on Mac/Apple computers phone Norman on 307-0359.

Ashburton Ladies Probus Club The meeting was held in the Doris Linton Lounge.

President Rona welcomed members who then sang the National Anthem.

Several members have been visited by the Almoner Bev. Mini speaker was Gwenda Hansen who entertained us by recalling memories of a cycling trip she took in her youth, with a friend around Central Otago Speaker George Findlay from the Mega Store, gave a demonstration on planting a hanging basket. He answered members’ questions and showed some popular plants that he gave to members. He also urged all present to make the males in our families have a PSA test when they reach 50. He was thanked and given a small gift.

Members were reminded about our Christmas meal after our meeting next month. This will be at Hotel Ashburton, and anybody who was not at the meeting, and wishes to go must contact Jackie on 307-6236 or Rona on 308-0189 as soon as possible.

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WAGONS, buy or sell through the Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

TRAIL bikes, buy or sell in the Motorcycles section of Ashburton Guardian Classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

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Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our ground floor office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Championship Ladies Fours have been concluded.

Winners were Diane Gutberlet, Gillian Kelly, Gaynor Crack and Joyce Gray with a win over Leonie Spargo, Noeline Mackenzie, Noeline Woods and Ollie Collins 24/13. 3rd place went to Colleen Van Leeuwarden, Lois Connell, Koa Congdon and Ursula Crack. Well done.

Edna Lowe Open 4’s played at Methven October 21 also saw Ashburton team of Diane, Leonie, Gaynor and Gillian, have 3 wins 15 ends and take first place. Murray Anderson played in a composite team from Hampstead and featured in second place.

The men’s 3 4’s on October 20 had 2 wins and a draw against Burnside. The Juniors had a win against Papanui on the same day.

The ladies entry in Rowntree Cup saw another good win by team Anne Gowan, Koa Congdon, Ursula Crack and Peta Smith beating Rangiora 2 Â by 28 to 12 on Wednesday 24 on the home green. The green was playing true and the ladies executed the win with precision.

Entries are still being accepted for the Bowman Cup Ladies 4’s on November 9. 3 games of 10 ends and play begins at 9.30am. Phone Anne Gowan 307-7277 with your entry or email at grannieannie11@xtra.co.nz Friday Triples saw 2 full greens enjoy a good day’s bowls and Ashburton featured in 4 of the 6 placings as reported in a previous report.

Hot off the press. The men’s 10’s saw 3 wins and a loss against Allenton October 24. Roger  Gutberlet won 26 to 14 against Alex Crawford. Pairs of Joe Ryk and Murray Anderson defeated Bruce White and Murray Smallbridge 19 to 12. Triples team of Charlie Leech, George Crack and Harold Kemp went down narrowly 15 17 against R Greeney, T Sutton and G Clark. The 4’s team led by Graham Taylor, Alastair Mackenzie, Doug Kinvig and Colin Bird had a victory 13 to 11 over G Bishop, L Luke, R Coyle and R Smitheram. The predicted strong winds held off and the three wins set Ashburton off to a good start in the competition. Well played lads, we are proud of you all.

Cavendish Club Cavendish Club members enjoyed an afternoon viewing and reminiscing over wonderful wedding presents, the oldest one being given to grandparents at their wedding in 1895. Other gifts shown included beautiful crystal, silver cutlery, antique fish knives and forks, hand embroidered cloth and a valuable gold bracelet given to the bride by her bridegroom (lucky lady). One most interesting tale of a wedding present that could not be brought to the afternoon because the gift was the wedding breakfast (how generous was that).

After the story of each gift they were then placed on a table for members’ closer inspection during afternoon tea. Another highly successful afternoon bringing back memories of bygone days that we all treasure.

Cavendish Club Singing Group On October 19, June welcomed the Mid Canterbury Federated Institute Choir who entertained us with a wide variety of songs, we all knew and loved. They began by singing the lovely old song The Place Where we Worship followed by many others including Look for the Silver Lining, Sweet Violets, The Little Brown Church, I Started Courting, Turned Up and Pokarekare. Their bracket of war songs was appreciated by all the members who joined in and sang along. Estelle thanked the choir very much and presented them with a gift and flowers. Afternoon tea was served which brought a lovely day to a close.

Arts and Craft Circle of the Cavendish Club Convenor for the August meeting Sally Lambert welcomed members and new members to this afternoon meeting. The speaker for the August meeting was not able to attend, so I stood in as quest speaker.

My talk topic was a recent trip to South America. The subject I based my talk on was, the music, dance, craftwork and sculpture of the Argentines, Chileans, Amazonians and the Peruvian people. A lot of the textiles, such as shawls, capes, scarves, ponchos, gloves and blankets were very colourful, wonderful designs and all made of llama and Alpaca wool.

Music and dance: The Tango native dance of South America. The most beautiful sensual dance I have ever seen. Cafes with dance floors performed all over Buenos Aeries.

The musical instrument of South America, the pan flute

can be heard everywhere in the hotels, restaurants, market places a wonderful haunting sound.

As I enjoy photography, I displayed a lot of the photos I had taken, just to emphasise the colour and beauty of this part of the world.

Tinwald Outdoor Bowling Club Congratulations to Sandra Keith on winning the world bowls champion of champions singles in Cyprus, a great achievement, well done Sandra.

October 19 Ashburton Friday triples, M Eder, S Maw and J Rooke 1 win.

G Eder, D Duff and W Lee 2 wins. R Herriott, C Andrew and W Herriott 1 win.

Methven Edna Low Fours R Herriott’s team had a very enjoyable day but recorded no wins.

First round of men’s inter-club against Ashburton 3, we had a win with the singles, a draw with the triples and the pairs and fours both lost their games.

Twenty-five members competed in our in-house Jim O’Shea tournament, proceeds going to the Ashburton branch of the heart foundation, winners being M Eder, W Lee and M Richardson, 3 wins 11 ends 17 points, second S Maw, G Whipp and C Scoon, 3 wins 10 end 25 points.

Thank you to M and G Eder for donating the raffle prizes, W Allnut and N Duff being the lucky winners, proceeds also going to the heart foundation.

The last round of the Hefford Shield, M Eder, S Maw, J Knudsen and W Herriott won their game against Rakaia. Our congratulations to the Hefford Shield winners Ashburton.

October 26 Friday triples at Allenton, G Eder, D Duff and W Lee 1 win.

Club Championships are under way, pairs R Herriott, C Andrew beat G Eder, B Stringer.

Hinds Gill Trophy two teams entered, R Herriott, W Lee, J Rooke and W Herriott 3 wins, G Eder, M Eder, R Diamond and C Rooke 1 win.

Over 70’s six members entered and had a very enjoyable day of bowls.

We thank Lakeway Nurseries for donating raffle prizes for our recent tournament, very much appreciated thank you.

showed 2 Christmas decorations made by our Patron.

Fred Jackson displayed a Christmas tree and a bell. Bruce Ferriman 2 bells using gum tree seed capsules for the clanger. Les Mattingley a model car chassie in progress; Frank Luxton a small platter with carving and a nice holder for a glass: diamond on a very dark piece of wood; Merv Peck an ash bowl with routed flutes, burnt for emphasis – very nice and also 3 other bowls. Ross Close a nice platter in Vitex wood. John Millward a motorbike side cover; Merv Peck also brought along bags of wood and rough turned small bowls to give away. Our Christmas social will be on November 22 at MSA. Fred Jackson and Wim Melchers gave a static demo. Wim showed us how to do inside/out turning by showing us the various stages to achieve this.

Four pieces glued using paper between – then separating and remounting to turn the outside.

Fred had many jigs, tools, off centre tail stock mounts, sanding blocks, glove for sanding and other interesting and clever items.

Ashburton Garden Club Thirty-six members gathered in the Senior Centre for their monthly meeting recently with Jennifer Marks presiding.

Brent Holley from Mastergard gave a most interesting and very informative talk on composting and worm farming which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

Afternoon tea was served and Brent was presented with a fruit tray.

Members please remember November 15 Christmas luncheon and presentation of scholarship.

Monthly Flower Show winners were: Premier Bloom: Audrey McKay; Flower of the Month Poppy: 1st Mary Smith; 2nd Lois Bradley; 3rd Heather Gray; Large Bloom: 1st Isabel Porter; 2nd Lois Bradley; 3rd Jenny Marks; Small Bloom: 1st Mary Leighton; 2nd Jenny Marks; 3rd Isabel Porter; Miniature Bloom: 1st Mary Leighton; 2nd Audrey McKay; 3rd Lois Bradley; Spike: 1st Audrey McKay; 2nd Heather Gray; 3rd Jenny Marks; Cluster: 1st Jenny Marks; 2nd Lois Bradley; 3rd Mary Leighton; Shrub: 1st Daphne Calder; 2nd Ellie Leak; 3rd Isabel Porter; Decorative A: 1st Jenny Marks; 2nd Audrey Mckay; Decorative B: 1st Lynn Rickard; Fruit/ Vegetable – Lettuce: 1st Pat Tabotton; 2nd Audrey McKay

Bowling Club Methven Friendship Club Hampstead Hi, hope you have missed me. Been a bit one-eyed for On Thursday October11 a good turnout of members met at The Lodge for a lovely lunch thanks to Tracey and her staff. After lunch we then went to the United Club rooms for our meeting.

Our speaker for the day was Ron Cresswell and his topic was music made the difference.

Ron grew up in a mining village in the North of England where there were two coalmines and it was the norm for boys to “go down the pit.� Ron’s grandfather Tommy went down the mine at twelve and worked there until he was 65 and wanted his grandson to try something different so gave him a very tough initiation into life down in the mine.

It was a tough life but family was important and luckily for Ron every coal mine had a brass band and at sixteen he was introduced to the trombone. He attended band practice and eventually leant to play the trombone along with some valuable life skills.

His music saw him accepted into the Grenadier Guards but he instead trained as a teacher and he loved teaching.

At this time he formed a band of four where he met and married the lead singer. While singing an impromptu item at his 40th birthday they were spotted by an agent and as a result they toured the North of England.

He and his wife came for a holiday in New Zealand and later immigrated and settled in Ashburton .

Music became a big part of their lives with Ron as assistant musical director at Ashburton College and his wife a talented musician director of the New Zealand Male Voice Choir. Ron was given the lead role in the local production of Les Miserables which was the highlight of his life in spite of the hard work involved.

They continue to be very involved in their community and Ron now Musical Director at the College says they love New Zealand as it has offered them so many opportunities and feel they have come to the right place.

With such a talented teacher working with our youth we are the fortunate ones to have them here and thank them for sharing their gift of music with us.

President Dulcie Lyttle thanked Ron for his humorous talk and after the drawing of the raffles we enjoyed afternoon tea together. Our next meeting on November 8 is a mystery trip. Names to Dulcie or Rachel and bus leaves from Methven House at 9.30am

College Cricket Club Well the cricket season has started and at least one college team was going to have a win when the oldies in the blue team took on the much younger and less good looking gold team. Gold batted first and reached 179 all out thanks mainly to Josh Gill who made 83 off 97 balls which included 11 fours and 3 sixes (one which nearly ended an Open Grade Tennis doubles match) He was ably supported by Patrick Sandrey’s 35 and their partnership of 70 was at nearly a run a ball. Bob George was the standout bowler with 4-4 off his 7 overs. PT Bierema, Rory Brown, Tom Foster and Aaron Cullimore (who wore pads and a helmet in the field) also chimed in with wickets.

Blue were then bowled out for 79 all out. Rory Brown got to 25 before being brilliantly caught in the deep by a full length dive by Sandrey. Rookie tail ender Charlie Morrison managed his first run (just the one) while the rest for the classy blue batsmen used the tipneis technique. Gold’s best bowlers were Deon Biggs with 5 - 21 off 4 overs and Harry Ferguson’s Muralitharran style spinners taking 3-17 off 4.Biggs is not known for his consistency but managed to generate such pace that when he got it right the spring loaded stumps were being demolished but when he didn’t everybody ducked for cover.Inspirational captain Matt Coote, who was quoted as saying “happy with the spirited performance and believed his team showed more enthusiasm throughout� has a new nickname “juggler� after his juggling act when catching Ryan Hampton. Latest report is it was juggled ten times before eventually being caught by the captain.

Green travelled to the high velt to play Methven in what turned out to be extremely windy and cool conditions which made it very challenging for both teams bowling and batting.

Green had Methven struggling at 6 wickets down for 66 but unfortunately they rallied and posted 166 all out. Best of the Green bowlers were Michael Burton and Jeremy Punselie with Michael getting 4 wickets for 25 and Jeremy getting 3 for 14 .Green’s batsman struggled as the wind got stronger and eventually fell 8 runs short, best batman for Green was Jeremy Punselie who posted 43, but top score went to extras which totalled 44. Green could have been home in the warm a lot earlier if they had taken their catches (the old saying is true “catches win matches�), but the conditions were against everyone.

Little is know of Red’s trip to Lauriston apart from one of Lauriston’s batsmen got away and allowed the home team to post 170/6 in their 50 overs. Lewis Dray with 1/21, Aron Martizano 2/17, Josh Buchanan 1/12 and Todd Gray 1/19 got amongst the wickets.In reply Red managed 96 with Devam Pandya top scoring with 38 while Lewis Dray chipped in with 17 n.o.

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members and a visitor. There was a good attendance on October 25.

Apologies were received. Lorraine Boud played the piano for us to sing the RSA song and Happy Birthday to one member. Sympathy was extended to anyone who has lost a loved one. Sick members were wished a speedy recovery. Claire Wesley agreed to become Vice President.

Written and verbal thank yous had been received for sympathy and get well cards sent out. Christmas Dinner – Monday December 3; please arrive by 5.30pm to eat at 6pm. As the cost is subsidised members are to pay $20. The menu sounds most appetising; names to Claire next month. From the meeting re Friendship day held in Timaru on October 2: Friendship day 2013 will be held in Timaru on Wednesday March 14 at the Timaru RSA. There won’t be any raffles. More information nearer the time. Our next afternoon will be Thursday 22nd November.

Fabulous entertainment was provided for us, by the Red Hot Nannas; four very talented ladies – Jenny, Margaret, Susan and Ann, accompanied by Yvonne on the piano.

Members greatly enjoyed the quartet, trio and solo items.

Really toe tapping stuff. The ladies were thanked for coming to share their talents with us.

Raffles were won by Marilyn Coley, visitor from Christchurch and Betty Breakwell. Competitions: Spring Flowers: 1st Judy McKibbin; 2nd Lorraine Boud; 3rd Claire Wesley. Hand Embroidered Duchesse Set: 1st Marilyn Coley; 2nd Ayleen Beatty; 3rd Elsie Worsfold.

Ashburton Woodworkers Geoff Brown welcomed 24 to our October meeting and also John Raut. Geoff briefly outlined our investigation into the possibility of a building on the Allenton School grounds, of a club room but felt it would not be our best option.

Show and tell – Peter Ireland displayed clusters of Christmas bells as did Wim Melchers. John Millichamp

a couple of months. It’s called eye haemorrhage; couldn’t unite pen to paper. It is a pleasure for Hampstead to congratulate Sandra on her magnificent performance in winning the women’s world bowls champion of champion singles title cup and gold medal, well done champ! You are a very worthy celebrity for Mid Canterbury and the bowling fraternity. Also your big brothers Al and Rodney not forgetting your late mum Ngaire and Sandy your dad; wouldn’t they be so proud and enjoy it Sandra you’ve earned it; just a word of appreciation to your old coach Pete; couldn’t have anyone better. Now to more mundane news the Walls Cup was very successful and played on the Tinwald Green while our Green recovers from its new top. Thank you Tinwald for all your help especially Gavin Eder Green keeper, also Gavin and Margaret Eder and co doing all the catering for our girls so they could play in our tournament. That was a very nice gesture and was very much appreciated. Also many thanks to our sponsors.

The Canterbury 2/4’s have commenced. 1st round rained off; 2nd round played Avonside Park had 2 wins.

P. Collins(s), T. Caldwell, T. Gibson & Sparky 18-10.

B. Marsh(s) M. Skilling, A. MacDonald, W. Kellett 18-8; 3rd round Hornby at (Tinwald green) M. Behrns(s), T. Caldwell, T. Gibson, Sparky 38-7. B. Marsh(s), M. Skilling.

A. MacDonald, W. Kellett 24-15. Well done boys! Keep it up. Our thoughts go out to Ivan and Ken with our warmest good wishes. There will be no keeping up with our Ken now. We wish Arthur well too. I think he has a new abode.

Inter Club played Ashburton 2 had 2 all draw, won singles and pairs, lost triples and 4’s.

Our Green is progressing nicely and with a little bit of luck we should be back home in about 3 weeks’ time.

Ashvegas Country Club The club’s mystery bus trip was held last Sunday with the bus eventually pulling up at the Pegasus course north of Christchurch. For some it was their first experience playing at a course of this kind and there were many golf balls left behind finding their new home in either the lakes or the hazards that seemed to be on the edge of most of the fairways.

Despite all of the water, long grass and numerous bunkers there were a few that managed reasonable scores with the best being Jamie Binnie who finished with a score of 42 stableford points after an excellent round of 89.

Legs clearly enjoyed the well mown fairways and a 25 handicap as he was able to virtually putt his way around the course to finish with 40 points after his round of 93.

Best of the others were Evan Pearce and Clarkie who both had 37 stableford points after their rounds of 78 and 88 respectively.

There were so many hard luck stories it is too difficult to pick any that stood out but at the end of the day it was a great experience and one that is likely to be repeated a bit more often in the future. Club day this Sunday is scheduled to be held at Tinwald at the normal tee off time of 10am.

Allenton Bowling Club This week’s results - world singles champion of champions played in Cyprus Oct 22nd-27th 2012 - first SANDRA KEITH. What a truly deserved win and how proud this town is to boast a world champion. Isn’t it just great to be a kiwi. Sandra arrived back home Tuesday 5.30pm and was piped into the clubrooms, she entered through a guard of honour comprising friends, fellow bowlers and town dignitaries. After receiving flowers, lots of hugs and close up looks at her medal and cup, Graeme Bishop our president spoke on everyone’s behalf and conveyed our over- awing congratulations. Mayor Angus McKay spoke in appreciation of Sandra’s huge achievement which really puts our town on the map. Alistair Lilley spoke on behalf of the Licensing trust commenting on our club and projecting more world champions being produced on our greens. Sandra’s Boss Richard Ashford conveyed pride from her workmates and humoursly commented on her dominance of the business website. Serena Mathews spoke on behalf of Leeston Bowling Club and as a real insider mentioned the huge amount of training and effort Sandra has put in to reach this point in her bowling career.

Sandra made a very gracious reply interlacing her speech with her well known sense of humour. She said Cyprus is a very beautiful place and somewhere you would expect to go sunbathing and relaxing, not playing bowls. Once again Sandra congratulations - you are “Simply The best�.

Ashburton Bowling Club Members winning in the last week at MSA Friday Triples on October were J Ryk, M Anderson and D Kinvig with 3 wins and 16 ends. The Ladies also won the Hefford Shield, and congratulations to all who participated. We had 4 wins and 8 points with 47 ends. Well done you all.

Saturday 27 saw the mens 3 4’s play away at Methven and J Ryk, M Anderson, D Kinvig and R Anstiss were winners 21 to 14. C Leech, T Blain, M Quinn and H Kemp lost 15 to 18, and team B Williams, G Crack, G Taylor and C Bird had a good win 23 to 8. The Junior 4’s played at home and had a satisfying draw 16 all against Chch Club. Alan Miller, Roger Daker, Dereck McKinnon and Russell Lowe; well done lads.

A domestic tournament, The Ingold tray, sponsored

by Pearsons Coachlines, was held on Sat pm and a full green of drawn teams played. Winners were C Dennis, Anne Gowan, B Ellis and Cath Bassett 3 wins 16 ends 35 points. 2nd J Ryk, Sheila Butterick, R Keeling and Heather Gray with 3 wins 10 ends and 28 points. 3rd with 2 wins and a draw was G Taylor, Gillian Kelly, J Withington and Anne Stroud. 4th M Anderson, Relda Prendergast, Koa Congdon and E Surridge, with2 wins14 ends and 21 points.

When checking the trophy it revealed that Cath Bassett was also in the winning team last year, she played some very good bowls considering she is vision impaired, and scored 2 shots on one end to help her team score a 6 on that end. Shows that we can all achieve,(some of us blind and some on walking sticks!!!!!) The club also welcomed 3 new members that day and wished them well on the green.

At Hinds on October 28 the team skipped by Joe Ryk with Murray Anderson, Colin Bird and lead John Smart won the day with 3 wins 28 ends and 48 points. Are they on performance enhancing drugs do you think. Their blood must surely be worth bottling.

The Over 70’s played at MSA saw members Murray Anderson and Ursula Crack in the winning team, Joe led the 2nd place team, Koa played in the 3rd placed team, until she had to depart with illness, and Graham Taylor led the 4th placed team. We wish Koa a speedy recovery and hope to see her back soon. During play on Tuesday Oct 30 when playing in the Championship Ladies Triples Colleen Van Leeuwarden was taken to Hospital and we wish her too a very speedy recovery. We all send you our very best wishes and love.

The greens are playing well and all is set for the Men’s Lowrie Cup in the weekend. The greenkeepers are very busy keeping the surface in superb condition. Thank you one and all.

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Thursday, November 1, 2012

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Seven new recruits in Chiefs squad

By Cameron McMillan The defending champion Chiefs have named their 2013 Super 15 squad which includes five current All Blacks and little surprises.

Aaron Cruden, Brodie Retallick, Sam Cane, Liam Messam and Tawera Kerr-Barlow are the only Chiefs who will tour Europe with the All Blacks but the squad also includes seven members of the New Zealand Maori squad.

2011 All Black Richard Kahui will also return from injury for the 2013 season.

The Chiefs re-signed many of their players during the 2012 season, adding seven new recruits in Auckland first-five Gareth Anscombe, Manawatu loose forward Nick Crosswell, Wellington loosie Ross Filipo, Taranaki hooker Rhys Marshall, Wellington midfield back Charlie Ngatai, Canterbury winger Patrick Osborne and Wellington prop Solomona Sakalia.

The Chiefs open next year’s competition in Dunedin against the Highlanders on 22 February.

Their first home game is a week later against the Cheetahs in Hamilton.

The franchise confirmed yesterday that the Chiefs will also play home matches in Tauranga (30 March v Blues) and Pukekohe (10 May v Western Force).

Squad: Forwards: Ben Afeaki, Sam Cane, Craig Clarke, Nick Crosswell, Hikawera Elliot, Ross Filipo, Mike Fitzgerald, Romana Graham, Josh Hohneck, Tanerau Latimer, Fritz Lee, Rhys Marshall, Liam Messam, Brodie Retallick, Mahonri Schwalger, Toby Smith, Solomona Sakalia, Ben Tameifuna Backs: Bundee Aki, Gareth Anscombe, Aaron Cruden, Andrew Horrell, Richard Kahui, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Brendon Leonard, Lelia Masaga, Tim Nanai-Williams, Charlie Ngatai, Patrick Osborne, Augustine Pulu, Robbie Robinson, Asaeli Tikoirotuma.

Blues The feature of the Blues in 2013 is newness.

New coaches, 16 new players and renewed optimism. Sir John Kirwan has assembled a young and inexperienced squad but he didn’t have much choice than to start afresh after the disaster of 2012.

It will take some time to take the squad from promising to polished but Kirwan is hoping he can bring the sort of transformation that Jamie Joseph and Mark Hammett brought to the Highlanders and Hurricanes respectively.

Key signing: It’s a struggle to identify one.

There are 16 new players – 11 will be new to Super Rugby – and most of them are virtual unknowns.

A lot will hinge on new first-fives Chris Noakes and Baden Kerr.

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Not long ago, few top-line players wanted to venture south to the Highlanders but coach Jamie Joseph is assembling a side with a considerable black tinge to it.

He has 11 past or present All Blacks in his squad and success will presumably only breed success.

The new indoor stadium has helped but so has Joseph’s return to traditional southern

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Loose forward Brendon O’Connor has the chance to establish himself now he’s out of the shadow of Richie McCaw and Matt Todd, and lock Culum Retallick could become a central figure if Anthony Boric and Ali Williams continue to struggle with injury.

Key loss: Ma’a Nonu might not have had a great season for the Blues in 2012 (who did?) but he is still one of the best midfield backs in world rugby.

He’s exercised an out-clause in his contract to join the Highlanders, where prop Tony Woodcock has also gone.

Squad: Forwards: Kane Barrett, Anthony Boric, Luke Braid, Charlie Faumuina, Steven Luatua, Quentin MacDonald, Tom McCartney, Keven Mealamu, Liaki Moli, Brendon O’Connor, James Parsons, Tim Perry, Ronald Raaymakers, Culum Retallick, Peter Saili, Angus Ta’avao, Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Ali Williams.

Backs: Malakai Fekitoa, Jamison Gibson-Park, Frank Halai, Bryn Hall, Baden Kerr, Marty McKenzie, George Moala, Waisake Naholo, Chris Noakes, Charles Piutau, Rene Ranger, Francis Saili, Piri Weepu, Jackson Willison.

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After a period of considerable change in 2011, as coach Mark Hammett cleared the decks, stability is now the main feature.

As many as 24 players who were fully contracted last season return and others like the immensely promising Ardie Savea step up from the region.

Key signing: Ben Franks went looking for a change from the Crusaders and had an option to head to the Highlanders but settled on the Hurricanes instead.

He will add more grunt to a front row which has the services of two talented hookers in Dane Coles and Motu Matu’u and props Reggie Goodes and Jeffery Toomaga-Allen.

Key loss: The Hurricanes haven’t lost anyone of note. Midfield back Charlie Ngatai has opted to join the Chiefs where he will provide cover in the midfield backs.

Squad: Forwards: James Broadhurst, Dane Coles, Jason Eaton, Ben Franks, Reggie Goodes, Jack Lam, Faifili Levave, Karl Lowe, Motu Matu’u, Ben May, Mark Reddish, Ardie Savea, Brad Shields, Eric Sione, Blade Thomson, Jeremy Thrush, Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, Victor Vito.

Backs: Beauden Barrett, Tim Bateman, Samisoni Fisilau, Cory Jane, Rey Lee-Lo, Alapati Leuia, James Marshall, TJ Perenara, Tusi Pisi, Matt Proctor, Julian Savea, Conrad Smith, Chris Smylie, Andre Taylor - APNZ

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3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 6.00 That ‘70s Show. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) Homer and his buddies become firefighters.

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Finn in doubt for test against India England fast bowler Steven Finn could be a doubtful starter for the first test against India after a thigh strain ruled him out yesterday for the rest of the tour opener in Mumbai.

Finn, 23, who was regarded as a certainty for the first test in Ahmedabad from November 15, pulled up with the strain on the opening day of the three-day game against India A on Tuesday.

Central Press

The beanpole Middlesex paceman bowled four overs before being injured while chasing a ball in the outfield and was confined to the dressing room for the rest of the day.

Scans did not reveal any major damage but Finn was asked to sit out for the rest of the match to undertake a recovery program set out by team doctors.

“Steven Finn has been ruled out

of the remainder of the three-day game with a right thigh strain,” spokeswoman Rhian Evans said.

“He will be assessed over the next couple of days to determine a rehabilitation program.”

England are not calling in a replacement, but Finn might need to play at least one of the two remaining warm-up matches to be considered for the Ahmedabad test.

- AFP

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12.30 Triathlon. Mass Participation Series.

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4.00 Netball. Quad Series. Silver Ferns v South Africa. From TECT Arena, Tauranga. Replay.

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His squad has more depth than the past couple of years and should be able to cope better with the demands of the competition.

Key signing: The additions of All Blacks Ma’a Nonu and Tony Woodcock will make a considerable difference but perhaps the most significant addition is Brad Thorn. The 37-year-old World Cup-winning lock shows few signs of slowing down and his professional can only rub off on his new teammates.

Key loss: Adam Thomson remained loyal throughout his Highlanders career and it’s a shame now he’s decided to leave with the franchise holding so much potential.

They have decent loose forwards but Thomson’s presence would have made them even better.

Squad: Forwards: Josh Bekhuis, Tim Boys, Liam Coltman, Elliot Dixon, Ma’afu Fia, John Hardie, Jarrad Hoeata, Andrew Hore, Chris King, Jamie Mackintosh, Nasi Manu, Brayden Mitchell, Jake Paringatai, Brad Thorn, Joe Wheeler, Tony Woodcock.

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Taylor felt Black Caps in the match Playing in Sri Lanka during the wet season was always going to be a risky move and it’s played havoc with New Zealand’s opening match of their tour, with their one-off Twenty20 encounter called off with only 16 overs bowled yesterday (NZ time).

New Zealand struggled to make 74 for seven in a reduced 14 overs after being sent in on a pitch that had been under covers for three days leading up to the match.

Sri Lanka reached 6-0 from two overs before the covers had to be called on and remained there until the match was abandoned.

Skipper Ross Taylor said the score might have looked low on paper but it would have been competitive had the rain stayed away.

“It was tough out there and I think a no-result was a fair reflection on the match,” he said. “In saying that, I still think we were in with a sniff with 70 runs under our belt and I guess that shows what type of wicket it was.”

“I feel sorry for the groundsman.

The wicket’s been underprepared and under covers for three days and, for us to get out there and play a Twenty20 match on that wicket, it was probably a fair result at the end of the day.”

The bad news for New Zealand is that the rainy season isn’t moving and neither are they with the first one day international also taking place in Pallekele tonight at 10pm (NZ time).

“Our tour starts now, really, and hopefully some sunshine comes out because I can’t see that wicket changing a hell of a lot in the next couple of days,” Taylor said.

New Zealand made the worst possible start to their innings after being sent in with the top six batsmen failing to reach double figures.

They struggled through to 28-6 midway through the ninth over before a quickfire 21 by Tim Southee ensured they passed 70.

Tom Latham (4), Rob Nicol (1),

Jesse Ryder has continued his sensational comeback to domestic cricket, by scoring his second century in as many days to lead the Wellington Firebirds to a five wicket win over Central Districts in the Plunket Shield at Nelson Park in Napier.

After scoring an unbeaten 117 from 114 balls in the first innings, the former Black Cap backed it up with 174 from 136 balls yesterday to lay the platform for the Firebirds to win with 13 overs remaining in the final day of play.

It was Ryder’s 12th first class ton and it once again reinforced the 28-year-old’s value to the New Zealand cricket side, after he took an indefinite break from interna-

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Sri Lankan bowler Angelo Mathews (left) and New Zealand’s batsman Rob Nicol collide, during their Twenty20 cricket match in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, yesterday.

Brendon McCullum (1), Taylor (4), James Franklin (2) and BJ Watling (8) all failed to entertain the crowd with the type of hitting expected in a Twenty20 clash with only two boundaries between them.

They were 24-5 when rain interrupted play, shortening the

match to 14 overs each, and it took Jacob Oram (10), Andy Ellis (16) and Southee to try to resurrect the innings.

Oram and Southee put on 23 for the eighth wicket, the biggest partnership of the match.

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tional cricket in March.

Central began the final day with a 266-run lead on 223 for six, and Black Caps all-rounder Doug Bracewell and Will Young stretched the lead out to 341 before the home side declared on 298 for seven from 94.3 overs.

Bracewell, who started the day on 34, hit 11 boundaries and one six on his way to 85 off 94 balls before he was caught by Jeetan Patel off the bowling of Andy McKay. Wellington hit an early hurdle in their chase when former Black Cap Michael Papps was dismissed by Bracewell for one in the second over.

Firebirds’ skipper Stephen Murdoch then fell in the 12th over, caught and bowled by Andrew Mathieson for 17, leaving Wellington at 34-2.

That brought Ryder to the crease and it didn’t take long for him to

show his intentions bringing up his half century in just 34 minutes with five boundaries and two sixes in 39 balls.

Ryder and Michael Pollard got Wellington through to 97-3 before Taran Nethula had Pollard caught

by Jeet Ravel for 24.

Despite losing Grant Elliott soon after, Ryder kept on and brought up his hundred off 85 balls and his 150 from 126, before being caught

by Bracewell off the bowling of Carl Cachopa for 174.

Luke Woodcock navigated the closing stages well, reaching 69 from 133 balls with the help of Luke Ronchi who scored 36 from 43.

The Firebirds join Otago – who beat the Canterbury Wizards on Tuesday – at the top of the table after the first round of play.

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Proteas pace ‘won’t bother Ponting’

By David Beniuk The 37-year-old reflexes of Ricky Ponting will need to cope with variety more than outright pace in the test series against South Africa, says former Proteas allrounder Johan Botha.

Botha, as captain of South Australia, will come up against Ponting in the Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania starting today and is convinced the former test skipper is as good against sheer speed as ever.

But he says the fearsome trio of Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander will offer more than a workout for the speed gun in the much-anticipated series beginning at the Gabba on Friday week.

“He’s always played pace bowling really well,” Botha said.

“The three (South African) quicks are all different. That’s a challenge

Fields for Wanganui JC meeting at Wanganui today.

NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 RACE 1 12.48pm (NZT) 94.4 THE SOUND 1340 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1340m 1 02398 Exceeding A Dream (8) 58.5.......R Hannam 2 On The Hill h (4) 58.5...................... K Myers 3 0x502 Gearbox (10) 57.............................. J Parkes 4 35x50 Golden Bay (2) 57........................... J Riddell 5 Jackson Street (3) 57................B Grylls (a3) 6 5x899 Joe Cool (6) 57............................. L Allpress 7 739x6 Saniani h (1) 56.5.......................... T Russell 8 56x06 Cool Reception (7) 56.5...............B Lammas 9 58x60 Dasirabella h (5) 56.5................. V Johnston 10 0 Doozyatold (9) 56.5........................D Walker 11 65870 Acutelygold (11) 55..........................S Collett RACE 2 1.23pm G BRISTOL & SONS 1340 RATING 85 $8000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1340m 1 4539x Queen Of The Castle tmh (2) 59... T Russell 2 2346x Ballybit b (8) 58.5................. M Dravitzki (a3) 3 7450x Powelka m (6) 58........................... H Tinsley 4 199x7 Skittle td (5) 57.5......................... B Lammas 5 89194 Zumba tmh (1) 56........................... J Parkes 6 89x73 Gus tdh (4) 55..................................D Walsh 7 9630x Surreal Storm (7) 55 8 31833 Don’tlikemonday tdm (3) 54.5... T Baker (a4) 9 160x6 La Sommeliere (9) 54................... L Allpress RACE 3 1.58pm UDC - NZ’S FINANCE COMPANY 1200 MAIDEN $7000, MDN 4YO&UP, 1200m 1 Bachelor Man (7) 58.5.................R Hannam 2 00x70 Daring Spikie (8) 58.5..................... J Riddell 3 Earl Spencer h (4) 58.5................... K Myers 4 680x Just Call Me Blue (13) 58.5........... H Tinsley 5 7990 Sartoby (11) 58.5.............................S Collett 6 7x237 Pirinitete (12) 56.5................... D Turner (a4) 7 2 Texas Yellow Rose (2) 56.5.. M Dravitzki (a3) 8 08x Chimes (5) 56.5.......................... V Johnston 9 080. Complete (9) 56.5.............................K Smith 10 Fashionelor (6) 56.5............... A Morgan (a3) 11 590x8 La Stellina (10) 56.5....................... J Parkes 12 00. Lucie Can Danske h (3) 56.5.. L Allpress 13 7x0x Our Sonare (1) 56.5.....................B Lammas RACE 4 2.33pm CENTRAL CITY AUTOMOTIVE LTD

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Cambridge HRC fields, form and drivers

Ryder continues his sensational comeback

By Steven Holloway

Wanganui JC fields, form and riders

within itself.

“Steyn swings it at good pace, Morkel gets a lot of bounce and Philander’s got a lot of skill – he moves the ball around both ways.

“I think that’s the biggest challenge for him – not so much out-and-out pace.”

Ponting’s start to 2012/13, his first season as a test-only international player, has made plenty sit up and take notice.

He is the Sheffield Shield’s top scorer with 350 runs from three matches at an average of 175.

That kind of preparation can only have the Proteas wary after Ponting’s major role in knocking India from their perch last summer, including a double century in Adelaide.

It will be welcome in the Australian camp after Ponting passed 50 just once in six innings in the West Indies.

“The way he’s playing now, you can’t count him out and you can’t

look past him,” Botha said.

“He’s obviously putting in big runs and that’s great to see.

“It’s great to see the hunger that he’s got at his age with everything he’s done in his career.”

Ponting will turn 38 in December and Tasmanian coach Tim Coyle said the end of his career was not yet in sight.

“As long as he’s scoring runs,” Coyle said.

“That’s the bottom line – that’s what he’ll say: ‘As long as I’m scoring runs, pick me’.

“He’s invested a huge amount of time over the last two months to get himself to where he is now which is a great thing for Australian cricket. “(His form is) no surprise to me.

“He’s actually getting younger I reckon – that’s the way I look at him.

He seems to be going back the other other way.”

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Fields for Cambridge-Te Awamutu HRC meeting at Cambridge Raceway today.

NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 RACE 1 5.47pm (NZT) ZONE BAR @ SKY CITY COLTS & GELDINGS MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ c&g non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 5 Ok To Fly (1) fr................................S Phelan 2 7450 Lisdelight (2) fr...............................N Chilcott 3 22266 Distant Drum (3) fr..........................T Herlihy 4 3 Summer Wind (4) fr................. T Macfarlane 5 x6854 Covert Action (5) fr...........................G Robb 6 Art I Special (6) fr.................... Z Butcher (J) 7 88085 Sir Indianapolis fr.......................... Scratched 8 Bettor Arden (7) fr......................... D Butcher RACE 2 6.15pm XMAS AT THE RACES DECEMBER 6TH MOBILE PACE $5000, 1 to 2 wins mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 1 59x68 Mach Cruiser (1) fr........................ D Butcher 2 40334 Captivating (2) fr.........................P Ferguson 3 60715 Riverboat Sue (3) fr......................B Mangos 4 76546 Painted Black (4) fr.........................S Phelan 5 31527 Dominique Prieur (5) fr...................T Herlihy 6 10735 Bells On Fire (6) fr................. M McAuley (J) 7 94575 Russian Alsu (7) fr................... Z Butcher (J) 8 35514 Stepin Fetchit (8) fr.................K Marshall (J) RACE 3 6.45pm SILK RESTAURANT @ SKY CITY F&M MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 26783 Chequeme Rosie (1) fr................J Stormont 2 668x3 Lil Miss Hilarious (2) fr..................B Mangos 3 0x Louco (3) fr................................... P Butcher

4 07695 Western World (4) fr............... R Downey (J) 5 369x2 Vengeance (5) fr.............................. S Argue 6 Corzan Effect (6) fr......................... H Cullen 7 7 Smoken Su (7) fr........................... D Butcher 8 83266 Riviera Reigns (8) fr....................P Ferguson 9 0 Vivian Ward (21) fr........................M Teaz (J) RACE 4 7.15pm ROTARY CAMBRIDGE CHARITY FUNDRAISER J/D HCP TROT $5000, 4yo+ 1 or more wins +claimer discrhcp trot jun.d, stand, 2200m 1 627x2 The Scruff fr.................................. Scratched 2 51205 Le Lua Invasion (1) fr............. M McAuley (J) 3 59x54 Benromach (U1) fr..................K Marshall (J) 4 76x25 Avalon Sunset (1) 10.............. R Downey (J) 5 39x67 Johnny Springfield (2) 10..........D Branch (J) 6 58x15 Bunnys Gem (3) 10.......................A Veint (J) 7 33013 Loki Brogden (U1) 20.............. Z Butcher (J) 8 21833 Phoebe Gladiator (1) 30.......... S Lawson (J) 9 65522 Guadeloupe (1) 40.................... J I Dickie (J) 10 53951 Meyer Lansky (2) 40........... J MacKinnon (J) RACE 5 7.45pm CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY HOUSE MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ 1 win mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 74507 Peruvian Vance (1) fr......................... S Hunt 2 05186 J J’s Flash (2) fr..............................S Phelan 3 510x5 Pembrook’s Star (3) fr............... M McKendry 4 6x157 American Classic (4) fr..................N Chilcott 5 31527 Dominique Prieur fr....................... Scratched 6 45522 Lambrusco (5) fr...................... Z Butcher (J) 7 02666 Eagletons Girl (6) fr...................... P Butcher 8 11 Macy Delight (7) fr................... S Lawson (J) 9 x2213 Mista Mara (21) fr......................... D Butcher 10 x0838 Ergo fr........................................... Scratched RACE 6 8.10pm UTi NZ HANDICAP PACE $5000, 3 to 7 wins +claimer discrhcp pace, stand, 2700m

Brent Mangos 1 47156 The Magic (1) fr............................ D Butcher 2 5x956 All About Speed (2) fr...............D Branch (J) 3 88938 Liquidity (3) fr...........................T Fensom (J) 4 07x22 Millview Rachal (1) 10.............. T Macfarlane 5 x6144 Carlos (2) 10...............................P Ferguson 6 95433 Speedstar (U1) 20........................B Mangos 7 75112 Glenlochar (1) 40..................... Z Butcher (J) RACE 7 8.40pm ALABAR SIRES STAKES 3YOF

HEAT 2 MOBILE PACE $18,000, 3yo fillies mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 21131 Robyn’s C C (1) fr.........................B Mangos 2 x1211 Georgia’s Jury (2) fr...................... D Butcher 3 424x1 Keepsake (3) fr........................ Z Butcher (J) 4 7545x Can’t Teach That (4) fr.................J Stormont 5 11171 Delightful Christian (5) fr........... M McKendry 6 7439x Dixey Styx (6) fr.............................N Chilcott 7 9893x Kilkeel Lady (7) fr.......................... P Butcher 8 458x2 Pepper Potts (8) fr...........................S Phelan 9 11 River Polka (21) fr...........................T Herlihy 10 x6503 Vincennes (22) fr........................P Ferguson RACE 8 9.10pm CAMBRIDGE VET SERVICES TROT $5000, non winners trot, stand, 2200m 1 00 Boronova (1) fr....................................L Chin 2 Itsnowornever (2) fr........................M Branch 3 66734 Door Slammer (3) fr.................... J Robinson 4 45 A Night In Paris (4) fr................D Branch (J) 5 525x7 Burt Munro (5) fr............................ S Branch 6 x9098 Great Barrier (U1) fr...................D Alexander 7 0000x Derek Clarke (U2) fr..................... D Butcher 8 06066 Jessica (U3) fr.................................. S Argue RACE 9 9.40pm ELSU @ ALABAR AMATEUR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $4000, 4yo+ 1 to 4 wins +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 1740x Easy For Cullen (1) fr................ M Northcott 2 509x3 Clancy’s Icon (2) fr............................J Darby 3 x9847 Erin Go Bragh (3) fr.............J Kriechbaumer 4 22161 Abe Attell (4) fr................................ T Thorby 5 77285 Anvil Justice (5) fr....................... J Brownlee 6 19606 Jonny Wilkinson (6) fr....................... T Vince 7 96121 Ralph (7) fr.........................................W Rich 8 54775 Greg Brydon (8) fr...................... R Frampton

Waikato greyhound fields Fields for Waikato And Districts Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Cambridge Raceway today.

NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 RACE 1, 12.02pm (NZT) NOVEMBER MAIDEN SERIES HEATS C0q, 375m 1 Matrix nwtd........................................J Black 2 5887x Nek Minute nwtd.............................. M Mann 3 78552 Hot Pal nwtd............................... W Toomath 4 78788 Wee Nana nwtd..............................G Parker 5 27484 Noble Tobin nwtd.............................. B Craik 6 66477 Rumball and Ice nwtd....................... S Clark 7 86 Urban Combat nwtd.......................P Cleaver 8 78658 Joe Lee nwtd..............................M Mathews RACE 2, 12.22pm GARRARDS HORSE AND HOUND SPRINT C1, 375m 1 27223 Coleridge Ainsli 21.74....................... S Clark 2 34387 Hit Da Nos nwtd.................................. J Foot 3 34167 Tapu Boy 21.54...............................A Bowen 4 62434 Cullen’s Impact 21.50........................J Black 5 38331 Kyirrie nwtd......................................T Green 6 76735 Big Lass 21.30...............................A Cleaver 7 64774 Noddy’s Mistress nwtd................ R O’Regan 8 73457 Flyin’ Shifty nwtd R M &.................... J Smith 9 45676 Hajime 21.55..................................P Cleaver 10 86857 Sydilicious nwtd.................................. R Udy RACE 3, 12.40pm NOVEMBER MAIDEN SERIES HEAT 2 C0q, 375m 1 Lincoln Flyer nwtd............................. S Clark 2 57555 Question Me nwtd..............................S Ross 3 45768 My Girl Izzy nwtd........................ R O’Regan 4 8868 Austin Space nwtd..........................G Parker 5 Box Vacant -

6 37255 Flash Guy nwtd........................... G Pomeroy 7 88557 Kapai Max nwtd.............................A Cleaver 8 7 Wolf Marine nwtd...........................P Cleaver RACE 4, 12.57pm CLUB HOUSE SPORTS BAR STAKES C0, 457m 1 44472 Sam Boy nwtd................................A Cleaver 2 4 Gypsy Hunter nwtd...................... C F Moore 3 4384 Belrani nwtd.................................... G Farrell 4 83 Riddle Mate nwtd............................ G Farrell 5 376 Wabi Sabi nwtd................................ L Martin 6 Chinook nwtd................................... L Martin 7 32426 Wind Up Whitey nwtd.................. C F Moore 8 67777 Lady Louis nwtd..........................M Mathews RACE 5, 1.15pm GENERAL ENGRAVERS SPRINT C1, 375m 1 24364 Exciting Girl 21.54............................ M Mann 2 671 Major Tom 21.91......................... L Laagland 3 66764 Rhyme In Melody nwtd......................J Black 4 63355 Utah Bolt nwtd............................ G Pomeroy 5 78865 Cool Time nwtd..............................A Cleaver 6 15848 Bingo Starr 21.12................................ J Foot 7 72368 Stormy Rhode 20.99 W &................T Steele 8 32658 Sub Silentio 0.00............................... S Clark 9 54857 Bon Vogue 21.55...........................A Cleaver 10 38577 Jetsun Coal nwtd............................G Wilson RACE 6, 1.32pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SERIES HEAT 1 C1q, 457m 1 168 Majma nwtd...............................A Blackburn 2 42564 Peno Boy nwtd...................................J Black 3 4241 Beau Rivage 26.04 W &..................T Steele 4 2F153 Borasco 26.45.................................. L Martin 5 44337 Stellar Force 26.12........................P Cleaver 6 47232 Zagato 25.99.............................. A Lawrence 7 12371 Jay Cee Hurt nwtd......................G Calverley 8 63755 Kanga Whiz 26.41......................D Schofield 9 38577 Jetsun Coal nwtd............................G Wilson

10 555F8 Mr. Lochlyn nwtd...........................M J Lozell RACE 7, 1.50pm YGOT BONUS SCHEME SPRINT C3, 375m 1 61742 So Insignificant nwtd........................T Green 2 844F1 Cosmic Mack 21.18....................D Schofield 3 55134 Cherry Tree Lane 21.48.................... B Craik 4 38565 Predator Drone 21.37 W &..............T Steele 5 25767 Enough Is Enough 21.20............D Schofield 6 31363 Lafayette 21.60................................. B Craik 7 18345 Sasha’s One 21.32........................... S Clark 8 54623 Karma Rhode 21.33 W &.................T Steele 9 22845 Samson Dash 21.75......................... B Craik 10 12646 Swift Swinger 21.10.......................... S Clark RACE 8, 2.07pm FOND FOODS LTD SPRINT C4, 375m 1 76472 Blue Tramp 21.40.............................T Green 2 65588 Run A Bath nwtd U &................. McCracken 3 22474 Declaration 21.38.............................. B Craik 4 33646 Aston Red 21.22............................... B Craik 5 21267 Proven Shelly 21.52........................P Henley 6 15877 Percentage Man 21.42................ L Laagland 7 788x7 Hong Kong Louie 21.06.................... S Clark 8 11487 Locklinne nwtd.................................. B Bond 9 86785 My Girl Cookie nwtd................... R O’Regan 10 57785 Jabu 21.57................................. A Lawrence RACE 9, 2.25pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION SPRINT C2, 375m 1 32152 Deb Bale 21.71........................... G Pomeroy 2 61257 Jetsun Playboy nwtd.......................G Wilson 3 67583 Don’t Know nwtd..................................J Udy 4 12217 Mahonie 21.34............................ G Pomeroy 5 46278 Proverbial 21.15.................................S Ross 6 71151 Naughty Courty 21.75...................... M Mann 7 72223 Winsome Achiever 21.31............D Schofield 8 56562 Flash That 21.47......................... R O’Regan 9 44867 Living The Dream 21.27....................S Ross 10 45878 Mr. Majestic 21.41..............................J Black

RACE 10, 2.42pm 0800 4 DOWN COW STAKES C2/3, 457m 1 36372 Winsome Flash (c3) 25.44..........D Schofield 2 44674 Endorse (c3) 25.78.....................D Schofield 3 36725 Edward Cullen (c3) 26.21................. B Craik 4 12653 Twin Rivers 26.26....................... G Pomeroy 5 24226 Thrilling Ella 25.74........................... K Walsh 6 32224 High Flyer (c3) nwtd....................H Laagland 7 44823 Cafe Chic (c3) 25.65.................. A Lawrence 8 63F34 Tata Safari nwtd................................ B Craik 9 11274 Hit Boost 26.04........................... R O’Regan 10 86865 Hot Pootie 25.83..................................J Udy RACE 11, 2.58pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SERIES HEAT 2 C1q, 457m 1 45453 Makinen 25.97 W &.........................T Steele 2 27F32 Salt nwtd R M &................................ J Smith 3 P2113 Thrilling Abra nwtd............................. L Bliek 4 22421 Limerick Lee nwtd.........................M J Lozell 5 56152 Magico nwtd..................................... L Martin 6 62135 Eunuchs Luck nwtd....................A Blackburn 7 74375 Newton Willow nwtd...............K Sutch-Jones 8 51454 Very Chilly nwtd..........................M Mathews 9 24487 Imagination nwtd......................... B Littlejohn 10 58688 Hot Hope nwtd...............................A Cleaver RACE 12, 3.16pm ALL SEW EMBROIDERY STAKES C4, 457m 1 75754 Hustler 25.55..............................D Schofield 2 34833 On Trey 25.72.............................D Schofield 3 63138 King Mick 25.69..............................P Henley 4 11667 Jackson Town 25.70.......................... S Clark 5 42112 Thrilling Vegas nwtd......................... K Walsh 6 12151 Valain’s Flyer 25.61..................... R O’Regan 7 34644 Koko Whiz 25.49.........................D Schofield 8 16342 Bornato 25.53............................ A Lawrence 9 57785 Jabu 25.38................................. A Lawrence 10 18646 Hair He Is 25.95.................................. R Udy

Christchurch greyhound fields Fields for Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Addington Raceway today.

NZ Meeting number: 10 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 RACE 1, 4.08pm (NZT) GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND DASH C3, 295m 1 2534F Benny’s Angel 17.50..................J McInerney 2 35335 Smash Dora nwtd............................ M Grant 3 32524 Attire 17.37 A &..................................Seque 4 73888 Wandy Olivia 17.41........................ G Cleeve 5 56436 Uno Harriet 17.24 H &.........................Taylor 6 67514 Bigtime Yahoo 17.59 P &....................Doody 7 77151 Another Becky (c4) 17.58..........J McInerney 8 15774 Knox 17.44........................................ B Dann 9 83744 Where’s John Cee 17.36................. M Grant 10 23587 Okuku Lilly 17.53............................ R Casey RACE 2, 4.26pm (NZT) FLATPACK HOUSES PHONE 021480250 C3, 520m 1 43444 Opawa Rapid 30.59 L &..................... Wales 2 86115 Opawa Style 30.71 L &....................... Wales 3 42214 Black Emily 30.67 L &......................... Wales 4 26651 Cawbourne Kim 31.15...............J McInerney 5 13751 Dyna Indigo (c4) 30.72 C &..........D Roberts 6 15265 Know Thought 30.58...................... G Cleeve 7 24223 Opawa Bomb 30.77 L &..................... Wales 8 17678 Alisaray 30.64............................... L Waretini 9 442x7 Know Peril 30.62............................ G Cleeve 10 51641 Bob’s Eye (c4) 30.73..................J McInerney RACE 3, 4.43pm (NZT) THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C3, 295m 1 88355 Another Coffee 17.41.................J McInerney 2 11623 Know Love Affair 17.37................. L Waretini 3 2366x Elite Palace 17.40.......................... G Cleeve 4 71766 Hot Shot Lawyer 17.69 H &.................Taylor 5 23454 Decado 17.83 C &........................D Roberts 6 76345 Tom Finn 17.42................................. B Dann 7 44772 Homebush Domino 17.56..........J McInerney 8 55473 Finger Pop 17.35...............................J Dunn 9 83744 Where’s John Cee 17.36................. M Grant

4 81881 Miss Iron Fist 30.68...................J McInerney 5 Box Vacant.................................... Scratched 6 31164 Inishrush 30.37 J &..........................D Fahey 7 51747 Magic Lass 30.43 C &..................D Roberts 8 12275 Lachlan’s Cash nwtd...................D Schofield RACE 6, 5.37pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP HEAT C5q, 520m 1 22143 Gone Awol (c4) 30.94................J McInerney 2 11364 Yella Mustard (c5) 30.14 J &............D Fahey 3 18716 Cool Izmir (c5) nwtd F &.................Turnwald 4 23824 Dyna Groll (c5) 30.82 C &............D Roberts 5 65336 Not A Know (c5) 30.82.................A Waretini 6 21265 Thrilling Blitz (c5) nwtd..................... S Clark 7 11242 Elki (c3) nwtd............................... M Roberts 8 86366 Jonny Jet (c5) 30.64..........................J Dunn RACE 7, 5.57pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP HEAT C5q, 520m 1 85x52 Mamaja 30.14................................. R Casey 2 26358 Dyna Diego (c4) nwtd C &............D Roberts 3 31547 Come On Rodge nwtd J &...............D Fahey 4 72711 Homebush Iris (c4) 30.93..........J McInerney 5 43137 Know Peace 30.21 J &....................D Fahey 6 25187 Nerd Corner 30.88........................... M Grant 10 76488 Visual Illusion 17.38.......................... G Cleeve 7 71212 Fancy Tip nwtd............................D Schofield RACE 4, 5.01pm (NZT) BILL’S BAR & BISTRO SPRINT 8 47164 Moriarty 30.80...................................B Shaw RACE 8, 6.25pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP C4, 295m HEAT C5q, 520m 1 34586 Weona Darling 17.20.................R Blackburn 1 21417 Lektra Fantasy nwtd.......................... S Clark 2 47323 Cawbourne Flippa 17.35................... M Flipp 2 76x63 Maximum Jewel 30.46 C &...........D Roberts 3 41828 Iceberg Rapper 17.48...................... M Grant 3 14441 Brighton Bullet nwtd J &..................D Fahey 4 84712 Gotta Find Bubba 17.37................... M Flipp 4 25427 Wot Price Curly 30.73................J McInerney 5 85256 Cool Jordie 17.27..............................S Whall 5 53167 King Of Clubs 30.46....................... H Cairns 6 72863 Benji Lafourche 17.41....................... M Flipp 6 66156 Take No Prisoner(c4) 30.64........... G Cleeve 7 87256 Jed Norton 17.36........................... G Cleeve 7 5116x Sha Char (c2) 30.60........................ D Voyce 8 42262 Hard Habits 17.34.......................... G Cleeve 8 27111 Admire 30.22 A &...............................Seque 9 87711 Hauko (c5) nwtd.................................J Dunn RACE 9, 6.55pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP 10 58834 Wandy Boiler 17.33........................ G Cleeve HEAT RACE 5, 5.18pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP C5q, 520m HEAT C5q, 520m 1 17678 Wonnie Wonder (c4) 31.81 C &....D Roberts 1 21172 Riley’s Mate (c4) nwtd....................... S Clark 2 16751 Lochinvar Onyx nwtd..................D Schofield 2 11432 Know Class (c4) 30.12................... G Cleeve 3 11114 Unshaken 30.56 J &........................D Fahey 3 13617 Ate To Much nwtd F &....................Turnwald 4 51313 Peking Tom nwtd............................... S Clark

5 12332 Emily (c4) 30.63 A &...........................Seque 6 21567 Grace Hill 30.38 W &......................... Nissen 7 61642 Another Dollar 30.28..................J McInerney 8 32358 Know Which 30.25......................... G Cleeve RACE 10, 7.25pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP HEAT C5q, 520m 1 31258 Kiki Rhode nwtd W &.......................T Steele 2 78741 Still Helina (c4) 30.61 H &...................Taylor 3 24435 Geoff The Ref 30.65 A &....................Seque 4 87118 Dittman (c3) 31.01.............................J Dunn 5 73276 Magic Maggie 30.50 C &..............D Roberts 6 14312 Emily Baxter 30.09.....................J McInerney 7 11331 White Air 30.50 J &..........................D Fahey 8 61778 Molly Paisley 30.47........................ G Cleeve RACE 11, 7.55pm BUY SELL & EXCHANGE NZ CUP HEAT C5q, 520m 1 58165 Mahalo Rhode nwtd W &.................T Steele 2 87471 Waterview Lass 30.66 A &.................Seque 3 36523 Walk Da Torque 31.05................. M Roberts 4 61546 Barnaby Bale (c4) 30.84 C &........D Roberts 5 51411 Russell Hart nwtd......................J McInerney 6 32268 Know Spunk 30.25......................... G Cleeve 7 11274 Ultimate Dream 29.93 J &...............D Fahey 8 11113 Jinjarango (c4) 30.51 J &.................D Fahey RACE 12, 8.18pm SPEIGHT’S DASH C3, 295m 1 46315 Radiator Springs 17.39 W &.............. Nissen 2 24555 Cool Charmer 17.11..................J McInerney 3 71158 Banbit 17.47......................................B Shaw 4 44652 Thrilling Sadie nwtd......................... M Grant 5 67463 Black Pan nwtd............................... H Cairns 6 5x741 Wandy Luck 17.51......................... G Cleeve 7 17468 Rizz Around 17.46........................ L Waretini 8 37313 No Lane 17.32............................. M Roberts 9 83744 Where’s John Cee 17.36................. M Grant 10 56576 Another Star (c2) nwtd...............J McInerney

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Thursday, November 1, 2012

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Tony Iro leaving Warriors Warriors’ assistant coach Tony Iro has been granted an early release from his contract to pursue other opportunities, with reports linking him with a return to the Roosters.

Iro, who coached the Warriors in the National Youth Competition’s first two seasons in 2008 and 2009, said the Warriors had given him the chance to start his coaching career, and the decision to leave was a difficult one.

“After so long here, I had a lot to weigh up,” he said. “I’ve had plenty of great times with the club and I’ve learnt so much.

“I’m grateful for the chance I was given to start my coaching career here but I’ve decided to move on to explore other opportunities. I want to thank all the coaching staff, players past and present and staff I’ve enjoyed working with.”

Not only did Iro play 60 games

for the Roosters in the mid-1990s but friend and former strength and conditioning coach Craig Walker, who was brought to the Warriors under Ivan Cleary, is also returning to the Sydney club.

Chief executive Wayne Scurrah said the Warriors had been keen for Iro to continue in the role he has filled for the past three seasons.

“Tony has made a major contribution since joining our football

department in 2005, most recently with our NRL side,” he said.

“It’s disappointing he won’t be staying on but we gave him time to make his decision and respect the choice he has made.

“We’re extremely grateful for what Tony’s done for the Vodafone Warriors. He’s looking at other opportunities and we wish him and his family all the best for the future.”

Warriors’ head coach Matt Elliott

said he had hoped Iro would stay for the 2013 season and beyond.

Iro applied for the Warriors head coaching position following the sacking of Brian McClennan but was overlooked in favour of former Canberra and Penrith coach Matt Elliott.

He took over as caretaker coach when McClennan was sacked with two games remaining this season, and still had two years remaining

on his Warriors’ contract.

As a player Iro made 25 test appearances for the Kiwis from 1988-1998 and played almost 250 games in the Australian and English competitions for Manly, the Sydney Roosters, Hunter, Adelaide, South Sydney, Wigan and Leigh.

He joined the Warriors as IT and video analyst in 2005, and became development coach in 2006.

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Sonny Bill says surgery successful Boxing All Black Sonny Bill least delay his high-profile switch Williams had successful surgery on back to the code after walking out a chest injury in Sydney yesterday. on the Bulldogs in 2008.

The 27-year-old announced the Reports on Tuesday night sugnews on Twitter a day after arriving gested Williams was set to be out from Japan, where he picked up the of action for at least two months. pectoral injury playing rugby union The injury puts in jeopardy his for the Panasonic Wild Knights last return to the Wild Knights, where he weekend. is contracted until the “Just spoke to the end of January, while doctor operation went his heavyweight fight Reports on with South African well, Thanks for the support I’ve truly Tuesday night veteran Francois Botha been blessed,” tweeted on November 24 will suggested Williams. almost certainly be With Japanese rugby Williams was postponed. on a five-week break, And while his mooted set to be out deal with the Roosters Williams initially flew might still eventuate, to Sydney to prepare of action for the untimely injury for a boxing bout next at least two has the potential to month.

But it was rumoured further complicate months that the dual internanegotiations that have been bubbling away for tional was also poised months. to formally sign a contract to return to rugby league with In July, Williams said he would the Sydney Roosters. quit the All Blacks to fulfil a handInstead, Williams went straight shake agreement made several to the NRL club’s headquarters at years ago to return to rugby league Moore Park to undergo scans on in the NRL in 2013.

- AAP an injury that could threaten or at

A warrior lost S aturday night was quite an occasion at AMI Stadium Addington (you have to put Addington in, because Google Maps is still sending people looking for the game to Lancaster Park).

Most importantly, the Cantabs posted their fifth ITM Cup victory, and equally importantly, it was against the oldest foe from the north, the Aucklanders who are the only ones to have won the thing more often.

To win it in such a fashion, after being under immense pressure for the first 36 minutes, must have made it all the more gratifying for those who made it on to the paddock, and their backroom boys, the coaching staff (who have pretty much all worn the red and black in championships themselves), not to mention the 12,000+ fans who produced so much noise to push their team along, and the thousands more perched in front of the telly experiencing all the comforts of home as they endured the prospect of being swamped by the northerners for a good part of proceedings.

That was until Telusa Veainu’s ‘Hand of God’ moment, which, depending on which island you’re from, was either an attempted intercept (correct) or an illegal deliberate knock-on deserving of a penalty try (incorrect).

The ball was way above his shoulders, which makes it hard to see how it could be an attempted knock-down, and from then on it was red and black all the way.

Before the match started, there was an awful rendition of the national anthem (unfortunate, the singer, with big links to our town, is usually a talented performer), and there was a minute’s silence for one of the best ever All Black skippers, Wilson Whineray.

In the past few weeks many stories have surfaced about the great man, and it was a surprise to some that he had spent some time in our own catchment, playing for Rakaia but also turning out for Mid Canterbury.

That was in 1954.

Whineray was a farm cadet at Harrison’s farm at Dorie, and the 19-year-old was quickly called up for rep duty in a young team captained by Morry Dennis, and it was apparent to all that their was a rugby prodigy in their midst.

Tubby Edwards coached the team, and he was a fitness freak, a rare thing in those days, so Whineray revelled in a team where everyone was a ball-runner, unlike most which still had the ‘props and locks shouldn’t be seen’ mentality.

The coach’s mantra on the field was ‘Do what you like!’ and the

By Steve Devereux

MY SHOUT

fitness would take care of the rest, so moves like the famous ‘Willie Away’ were born, and after a first-up loss 9-6 to Canterbury B, played in a quagmire, the side went to Oamaru and relieved North Otago of the Hanan Shield, and then defended it at home against a strong and confident South Canterbury team, eventually winning 17-6, in a game where fitness proved to be key.

It was a very successful season for Mid Canterbury, and no-one was in any doubt about the role played by the youngster in the front row.

During games he would have a chat to the halfback and flanker and find out which way they were going if they were going to run it, and invariably the first man in support of their break was Whineray, who seconds before had been giving his all in the battle of the behemoths in the front row.

While he wasn’t the captain, his leadership qualities were obvious, and after every game he would go around every player in the dressing sheds, enquiring their opinions on his own performance, and theirs, and trying to pick up on any pointers to improve everybody’s game.

At season’s end, when Whineray moved up the road to Canterbury, it was apparent to all that he was heading to bigger and better things, and he had only one path in mind, the path to the All Blacks.

A couple of Ashburton lads, Stan Goodwin and Bob McLenaghan, made the NZ Colts tour to Ceylon the next year; having played alongside such a talent for a season can’t have done their skill levels any harm at all.

That was also the debut tour of a promising young lock from King Country, a player who ‘had never even been to the South Island’, and went on to play one or two games in the black jersey.

Name of Meads.

It was that player who provided the name for a book about Whineray, The Perfect Gentleman, and all the anecdotal evidence suggests that’s exactly what he was off the field, as well as going on to become one of New Zealand’s finest leaders in industry.

Definitely one of our greatest, and in a time where role models are often turning out to be less than advertised, Wilson Whineray will forever stand out.

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Warriors sign up for baby formula deal

By Michael Dickison and Christopher Adams

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Rolling up at the Allenton Bowling Club Rolling up: Allenton Bowling Club’s Alan McIntosh in action during round three of the Mid Canterbury Wednesday interclub 10s competition.

The competition sees all Mid Canterbury clubs go up against each other every week from 6pm to 8pm, before an evening supper provided by the host club.

SCOREBOARD Draws Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis Open Grade Draw Saturday 3 November 2012 held at Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre A Reserve 12.15pm Allenton Gold v Hinds/Mayfield; Tinwald v Hinds/Longbeach; Hampstead Gold v Hampstead Blue; Methven White v Allenton Maroon; Methven Purple v Bye A Grade 1.30pm Allenton v Fairton; Hampstead v Methven; Tinwald v Dorie

Golf Ashburton Golf Club women Ashburton Golf Club Midweek Women’s Golf Draw for Tuesday 6th November 2012 Four Ball Best Ball – The Cup Sweep $1 optional extra Details of jockey colours to be advised for each designated horse number in brackets Draw Steward: Leigh Wackrow – 308 3790 Tuesday Starters: H Ward, J McKeown No 1 Tee 9:00 W Parr (1) & J Dunlop (2), D Hinton (3) & B Watkins (4) 9:06 A Grant (5) & H Lovett (6), J Montgomery (7) & H Trott (8) 9:12 V Moore (9) & H Ward (10), H Robertson (11) & C Ness (12) 9:18 L Wackrow (13) & E Langford (14), R Bennett (15) & J McKeown (16)

No 7 Tee 9:12 B Turton (17) & B Cameron (18), H Argyle (19) & H Benke (20) No 10 Tee 9:00 P Bell (21) & R Evans (22), S Durry (23) & J Chisnall (24) 9:06 J Mitchell (1) & K Green (2), G Sloper (3) & R New (4) 9:12 D McConnochie (5) & B White (6), D Simmons (7) & G Lane (8) Saturday 3rd November - Weekend women vs Mid Week Women, matchplay All welcome - report 8.20am for 8.45am start Thursday 8th November – Lions charity tournament 11am report, $25 Entries to Stewart Dunlop ph 308 3910 or email: thedunlops@live.com

by Monday 5th November Club Captain – Alison Grant 302 4635 All members and visitors welcome

Softball Mid Canterbury Softball Draw T Ball 9am T1 Allenton Diamonds v Tinwald Whitesox, T2 Allenton Gold v Tinwald Dolphins, T3 Borough v St Josephs Tigers, T4 Hampstead v St Josephs Panthers, T5 Hinds Heroes v Rakaia Red Sox, T6 Longbeach Strikers v Netherby Slowpitch 9am D1 Allenton Tigers v Rakaia Royals, D3 Hampstead v Metalcorp Hampstead Allstars, D4 Netherby v Tinwald Blacksox Little League10.30AMD1 Cardinals v Ashbu rton City Tigers College League1PM D1 Fairfield Marines v AC Boys, D4 Revival Rebels v AC Girls Revival Series 3PM D1 Fairfield Marines v Nosh Cafe Hampstead Hawks, D4 Rusty Demons v Fairfield B52’s.

Golf Tinwald ladies Tinwald Ladies Golf Draw 6 November 2012 Closing Day Marge Wilson Trophy – Ambrose 9 holes – Ambrose Check in by 10.15am for 10.30am start. Please note change in starting time Starters: B. Cochrane, P. Ellis Cards: K. McAuliffe, C. Shanks AM: N. Costin; PM: L. Bird Dinner and prize giving at M.S.A. Restaurant 6pm.

Results Golf Ashburton Golf Club Ashburton Golf Club (Inc.) National Bank Friday Teams Results from 26 October 2012 Top Team: Farlie Flyers – Ted Connell, Brian O’Neill, Tony Simmons, Alan Rivett 91½ Top Man: Chris Lovelock 34; Top Lady: Ally Glossop 32 Men: 1st Roaring Pride 90½; 2nd Reids Rebels 90; 3rd Talley’s 85½; 4th The Young Ins 85.

Mixed: 1st Gabites Swingers 88½; 2nd TGIF 88; 3rd Green Team 86 Women: 1st Lovely ladies 87; 2nd Periwinkles 2 87.

Nearest Pins: Templeton Motors: Carol O’Reilly; Paul May Motors: Simon Ross; Mac Maggies: Peter Morgan; BP Ashburton: Jamie Binnie Gabites Lucky Player: Eric Weir; BP Ashburton: Jack Jackson Two’s: Tom Simmons x 2; Simon Ross.

Tinwald Golf Club Tinwald Golf Club women’s results for October 30.

Competition: Lagmhor Salver (Stableford) Phyl Ellis 40; Jan Clucas 39; Carol Shanks 39; Marilyn Cross 39; Joan Johns 38; Di Bell 38; Kirsty McAuliffe 37 (c/b).

Nearest the Pins No 6 – Stables Family Restaurant: Mara Kennedy; No 12 – Cochrane Bros: J. Undy Two’s: Mara Kennedy 9 Hole Competition: Par Round 1st J. Johns; runner-up: P. Boon; c/b: J. Cartwright.

Aorangi South Canterbury Results from Aorangi South Canterbury Golf Women’s Silver Pennant played on Monday 29th October North Zone (Temuka) a.m.

Ashburton 8 St. Andrews 2 Geraldine 1 8 Timaru 2 Rakaia/ Mayfield bye p.m.

Ashburton 8 Timaru 2 R a k a i a / Mayfield 5 Geraldine 1 5 St. Andrews bye South Zone (Lower Waitaki) a.m.

North Otago 10 Temuka 0 Waimate 7 Geraldine 2 3 Gleniti 8 Tokarahi 2 p.m.

Temuka 5 Geraldine 2 5 Gleniti 7 North Otago 3 Tokarahi 9 Waimate 1

The Warriors will promote baby formula on their uniforms in a major new sponsorship deal – undermining the breast-feeding message in communities that could benefit most, say critics.

Under the three-year deal, formula-maker Fernbaby will sponsor the Junior Warriors next year, before becoming a full sponsor of the club’s NRL team in 2014 and 2015, with its logos displayed on players’ shorts.

Warriors chief executive Wayne Scurrah said the sponsorship was “an exciting new direction for us and for sporting brands in New Zealand”, bringing a potential to expand the game into Asia.

He said he was not concerned about how breast-feeding advocates and the general public might react to the Fernbaby sponsorship.

The use of formula came down to “personal choice”, he said.

But Infant Feeding Association national co-ordinator David Newton said the sponsorship was a shame, highlighting the imbalance in influence between the corporate proponents of formula and volunteer breast-feeding advocates.

“It’s pretty much impossible to have a counter to that kind of marketing on a Warriors’ uniform,” he said.

He did not think the Warriors had an obligation to avoid publicly promoting formula, or that formula makers should be antagonised.

But the “breast is best” message would be muddled, deliberately, in the marketing gimmicks used to sell the commercial baby products.

“They want you to think it’s a magic powder that’s going to make your kid into a Warrior,” he said.

“But it’s just milk powder – one that’s unbelievably expensive and with an extra gold label that means nothing.”

Maori, Pacific Island and provincial communities that traditionally supported the Warriors would be targeted, he said.

Their relatively poor health statistics would benefit from breast feeding, where possible, for two years.

Fernbaby assistant director John McCaulay said cans of the firm’s product had “breast is best” written on them.

Many mothers did not have the option of providing full-time care for their infants, especially in China – a target market for New Zealand-based Fernbaby – where grandparents often took care of children while parents worked in other cities.

Announcing the Chinese-owned Fernbaby’s sponsorship of the rugby league team, Mr Scurrah said there was potential to “take the Vodafone Warriors to Asia”.

He said Warriors’ co-owner Eric Watson had received an approach from someone who wanted to establish rugby league in Shanghai.

- APNZ

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Guardian

Iro leaving warriors P15 | Taylor felt black caps in the match P14

Nine new faces for Crusaders He is in the final season of his contract and knows the weight of expectation from his employers and rugby public within the The Crusaders have nine new faces in franchise will ratchet up several notches. their squad for the 2013 Super Rugby Despite a side stacked with All Blacks, campaign – including six players from the he has yet to win a title in his four years Canterbury team which won a record fifth in the job and realises this could be his consecutive NPC title on Saturday. final chance.

Forwards Dominic Bird, Joe Moody, The Crusaders last won a title, their Codie Taylor and back Johnny McNicholl, seventh, in 2008, the final year of Robbie all in the Crusaders’ wider training group Deans’ reign. this year, have been rewarded for their “You are under pressure but you have contribution to the ITM Cup campaign to enjoy it along the way, otherwise it with promotion. affects your decision making, the playProp Nepo Laulala – a younger brother ers and the people who work with you,” of former All Black Casey Laulala – and Blackadder said. loose forward Jordan Taufua, who both “It can’t all be about the one outcome also played for Canterbury this season, – winning a title – it has to be about enjoywere also named in the squad yesterday ing the journey, otherwise it’s no fun at by coach Todd Blackadder. all. That was definitely a mistake I made Two Tasman players, loose forward this year.”

Shane Christie and Samoa World Cup Blackadder has lost captain Richie halfback Jeremy Su’a, have also been McCaw to a sabbatical and prop Ben called up.

Franks to the Hurricanes The ninth newcomer and but still has a forward only recruit from outside pack more than capable the Crusaders catchment of holding its own and a is Counties loose forward backline featuring Dan Jimmy Tupou.

Carter and Israel Dagg The Crusaders Blackadder said the which is better than most. last won a title, Crusaders carried only He realises the key to two halfbacks last year success, after a series of their seventh, in and wanted Su’a to put play-off failures, is unlockpressure of Andy Ellis and ing the talent among the 2008, the final Willi Heinz. latter pair. That is why he year of Robbie Su’a was a good passer, is eager to get an attack was strong and physical, coach on board.

Deans’ reign and would bring something Daryl Gibson performed different, he said. the role for the past four The coach will be in no years but resigned after doubt about the toughness being essentially demoted that tighthead prop Laulala to a defence role. There will bring to the squad. were questions about The second-youngest of eight siblings whether Blackadder might go back to of whom Casey (now with Munster) is the one backline assistant to cover attack oldest, he fractured his lower back in the and defence but he confirmed yesterday ITM Cup but started against Taranaki in it would remain split and two people spite of the injury. appointed.

His recovery will take another two to The deadline for applications is Sunday three months. and Blackadder hopes to announce his Blackadder said Laulala had played new appointments by the end of next week. two seasons for Canterbury and proved First- and second-year players in the himself to be a promising tighthead, and squad will assemble for training on Taufua had been outstanding for Tasman December 10, and the full squad will be on loan and then made a real impact when back on January 28. he joined Canterbury for the semifinal Crusaders 2013 squad: and final.

Forwards: Dominic Bird, Shane Christie, Counties player Tupou was a physical Wyatt Crockett, Tom Donnelly, Corey Flynn, and talented loose forward who would be Owen Franks, Ben Funnell, Nepo Laulala, a real asset, he said.

Richie McCaw, Joe Moody, Kieran Read, Luke He would bring something different with Romano, Jordan Taufua, Codie Taylor, Matt a style that sat somewhere between Kieran Todd, Jimmy Tupou, George Whitelock, Luke Read and Jerome Kaino, and could play Whitelock, Sam Whitelock. lock as well as No 6 or 8.

Backs: Tyler Bleyendaal, Dan Carter, Ryan Blackadder has admitted the pressure of Crotty, Israel Dagg, Andy Ellis, Robbie Fruean, attempting to win a title at the Crusaders Zac Guildford, Willi Heinz, Tom Marshall, affected his decision making last season Johnny McNicholl, Jeremy Su’a, Tom Taylor, and he is vowing not to fall into the same Adam Whitelock. trap again.

- APNZ

From the sideline Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz

What is this person famous for?

By Nick Tolerton and Patrick McKendry

Thursday, 1 November 2012

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Bede Prendergast – or Bumble as he’s known in cowboy action shooting circles – takes aim at the Ashburton Pistol Club yesterday. It was all go at the club’s range on Cochranes Road yesterday as the Cowboy Nationals for 2012 got under way, hosted by the Ashburton Pistol Club. Day one was the wild bunch day, which attracted around 60 shooters, and today the real competition gets under way with the long range shooting. Around 100 cowboys are expected to take part today. The nationals will run through until Sunday.

Ashburton Forecast

Canterbury Plains

Canterbury High Country

TODAY: Morning cloud, then fine.

Northwest winds developing.

TODAY

TODAY

MAX

24 OVERNIGHT MIN 12

MAX

21 OVERNIGHT MIN 6

MAX

15 OVERNIGHT MIN 5

MAX

15 OVERNIGHT MIN 3 TOMORROW

Midnight Tonight 30 to 59

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

60 plus

morning min max

fine fine fine fine fine fine fine drizzle fine fine cloudy cloudy rain

11 8 11 10 12 12 11 12 13 10 8 12 9

20 22 21 22 17 24 26 16 25 25 19 20 17

Today’s answers:

It’s a good old cowboy shootout

SUNDAY: Cloudy periods, some drizzle.

Southerly breezes.

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Wind less than km/h 30

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SATURDAY: Early southerly change with a period of rain or showers.

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AKAROA

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Brian McKechnie came on as a replacement and kicked a famous goal to beat Wales on the 1978 Grand Slam tour.

Who did he replace??

TOMORROW: Increasing high cloud.

Gusty northwest dying away.

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Today’s sports trivia question

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“I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we’re gonna be winners.”

Mystery person: Jennie Lynn Finch pitched for the American softball team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She plays first base as well, and is generally recognised as the most famous softball player of all time.

Quote: Coach Norm Dale in ‘Hoosiers’ Trivia question: Clive Currie

Guardian Weather

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Early low cloud or fog north of Banks Peninsula clearing, and a few morning spots of rain possible further south, otherwise fine with high cloud. Northwesterlies inland freshening and northeasterlies about the coast turning northwest in the afternoon.

Increasing high cloud. Gusty northwesterlies dying away.

SATURDAY An early southerly change with a period of rain or showers.

SUNDAY

NZ Situation Cloudy periods with patchy drizzle. SouthA northwest flow over the South Island spreads erly breezes. over the rest of the country tomorrow as the trough moves onto the South Island. The trough slowly crosses the rest of the country during the weekend. MONDAY A high over the Tasman Sea spreads a ridge onto Cloudy periods. Southerlies dying out. the South Island on Saturday and Sunday.

FZL: 2600m

Rain developing near the Divide, and scattered morning falls possible further east otherwise mostly cloudy.

Wind at 1000m: NW rising to severe gale 90 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to severe gale 100 km/h.

TOMORROW

FZL: Lowering to 2000m

Rain near the Divide, possibly some heavy falls, and scattered falls further east. Snow lowering to 1600 metres.

Wind at 1000m: Gale NW easing.

Wind at 2000m: Severe gale NW slowly easing below gale.

SATURDAY

Rain and snow clearing, but remaining cloudy with patchy drizzle. NW dying out at low levels, and tending light SW about the tops.

SUNDAY

Cloudy periods with patchy drizzle. Southeast breezes at low levels, southwesterlies about the tops.

MONDAY

Cloudy periods, patchy drizzle at first.

Southerlies dying away.

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River Levels

cumecs

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 1:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 3:15 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 am, yesterday

188.7 11.5 14.9 124.6

Source: Environment Canterbury

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Canterbury Readings

to 4pm yesterday

max

Ashburton Airport

min grass 16 hour min

21.4

2.8 -2.2

0.0 111.0 646.3

Christchurch Airport 19.7

7.4

4.8

0.0

55.0 579.6

S 35

Timaru Airport

6.4

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0.0

75.6 534.4

NE 24

Temperatures °C

Average

17.6

Average

6.1

17.0

6.2

22.0

Average

3.5

16.1

3.3

4.7

Rainfall mm

Oct 2012 total to date 2

574

1

538

2

426

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

6

Thursday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Friday

9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Saturday 9 noon 3

Wind km/h

max gust

S 20

6

9 pm

2 1 0

6:09 12:18 6:23 12:34 6:53 1:02 7:08 1:19 7:38 1:48 7:55 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 6:14 am Set 8:20 pm

Good

Good fishing

Set 7:20 am Rise 10:37 pm

Last quarter

7 Nov

1:37 pm

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Rise 6:13 am Set 8:21 pm

Fair

Fair fishing

Set 8:03 am Rise 11:27 pm

New moon

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Rise 6:11 am Set 8:22 pm

Fair

Fair fishing

Set 8:51 am

First quarter

21 Nov 3:33 am

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa