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A whirlwind of activity, every day

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With three children under five, the Covid-19 lockdown means there are no quiet moments in Jaime and Paul Rapley’s lives.

Jack, 4, Piper, 3 and Harry, 1 create a home that’s a whirlwind of activity all day, every day.

Paul, an engineer, is not working, and for that Jaime’s grateful, it’s someone to share the care load. She, however, counts herself lucky that for a few hours each week she can walk out the door and head to work.

It’s her job to keep tabs on the chlorine supplies for Ashburton’s drinking

water supplies as part of the Aqua Care team and she’s always happy when the call comes that a supply needs to be topped up because that means a childfree hour or two.

One week into lockdown, the couple have no complaints. As a family they’re simply enjoying spending time together.

“So far it’s going well. We just take each day as it comes. It’s great when it’s fine weather but when it’s raining it’s a bit rough though,” she said.

They’ve established what she describes as a “lax routine”.

“We get up, have breakfast and then set a goal, one big job for the day. Then there’s outdoor play and in the after-

noon we do another activity.”

The family escapes outdoors as often as possible, and count themselves lucky to have a large backyard with a trampoline. They also hit the footpaths along with many others.

“When we’re out walking now, it’s insane the number of others out walking, it’s great to see,” Jaime said.

Jack and Piper are usually at preschool for some of the week and the care load is often shared with her mother who comes down from Christchurch.

For her mum, the lockdown is hard, but regular Skype and message dates allow her to keep in contact with her grandchildren.

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Life alone – in lockdown

By Heather Mackenzie

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The prospect of being alone during the government enforced lockdown due to Covid-19, is daunting enough for most people, let alone the most vulnerable in our communities.

In particular, it’s tough on those who are doing it alone.

But one widowed Mid Canterbury resident is taking it all in her stride.

The 79-year-old, who didn’t want her name mentioned, said that this not really all that different from years gone by when she and her husband were farming and heavy snowfalls would make travel impossible and cut off services, like power and telephone, for up to weeks at a time.

“At least with this, I still have power and my phone, and my house is nice and warm.”

Because of lessons learned from those snowed-in days on the farm, and then the Canterbury earthquakes, she said her pantry and freezer are always well-stocked with essentials.

“After the earthquakes they told us we had to have essential stuff on hand, so this shouldn’t make much of a difference, at least the ground isn’t moving as well.”

Going without veges is not something she has to worry about either. The green-thumbed tiller has a vege garden full of enough fabulous looking produce to rival even the best in the business.

Having the most amazing neighbours is something she credits to her lockdown not being the hardship it could be. For her being able to wave to each other across the street, receive daily neighbourly phone calls and have the odd chat across the boundary fence makes a huge difference.

“Everybody has neighbours, and it is up to you to get to know them. If you have done that and something like this happens, you already know each other.”

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Passing the newly made face masks between neighbours in an inventive non-contact way.

“It’s about being an approachable person all-year round, so when the chips are down, like they are now, people are there for you and you can be there for them.”

Alongside the neighbourhood support she also receives a daily call from family members. Not being able to drive the 20 minutes to visit family, is something this capable great granny is finding difficult.

“I miss being able to catch up with my two great grandchildren and their parents, but I get daily phone calls from them and my daughter rings me every day as well.”

So, what advice does she have to pass on to others finding themselves home and alone?

High on the list of things to do, is to try and remain positive.

She said after suffering the heartbreaking loss of her darling husband six years ago, she was left with the sometimes seemingly insurmountable task of rebuilding her life alone, so she fully understands the vital role

state-of-mind plays in trying times.

“I still get down in the dumps, of course I do, but then that’s life and you just have to get on with it as best you can.”

Finding things that make you happy will help improve your spirits and pass the time. According to her, getting out your old photo albums is the perfect way to fill in an afternoon. Failing that, set to and clean out old drawers and cupboards, you never know what memories you will find.

“I was sorting out a drawer this week, and I found a little book my daughter gave me in 2002. In it were lots of lovely quotes and sayings about how nice mothers are, so I sat down and read it, just lovely.”

She also said the bonus of getting into the likes of the linen cupboard and pulling everything out, is that the mess can stay there for a few days, as nobody is going to call in and see it.

Keeping busy is something else she does to pass the time.

Knowing she is very handy with a sewing machine, a neighbour from across the street asked if she could make face masks.

Knowing she had the skills to do it was the easy part but finding out how to do it provided more of a challenge.

However, it didn’t take the would-be mask maker all that long to find an instructional video on YouTube, she was particularly proud of herself for managing to navigate her way around the internet, and now she is merrily making masks for quite a few on her street.

Staying in your normal routine as much as possible is another tip she has to pass on.

“Just get up and do what you would on a normal day around the house, go for a walk in your garden or around your house.

“I have been recording Les Mills workouts on the morning telly, I have not had a chance to look at them yet but will get around to it this afternoon, hopefully, if I have time.”

Vehicles should survive lockdown

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

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As long as your car battery is in good condition your vehicle should be able to see out the four-week lockdown without any issues, a local mechanic said.

With vehicles now only required for essential travel, to the supermarket or pharmacy or for essential workers to get to work, many vehicles are sitting around not getting used as much as they normally would in a week.

Malcolm Lovett Automotive owner-operate Malcolm Lovett said as long as your car battery was in good condition, you should not have any trouble getting your car started again once the lockdown is over.

“I would not recommend going out and just starting it and letting it run,” he said.

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“It would be more unsafe than doing nothing, especially in a garage, never leave a car running in a garage.”

While their Havelock Street location is shut during the lock-

down, they are available for emergency repairs.

“If there is someone whose car doesn’t start and they need it to go and get groceries or to the pharmacy and they don’t have

any other transport options, we can go and repair the car, but if it’s some teenager doing wheelies who breaks his axle he is stuck,” he said.

Official guidance issued by the New Zealand Transport Authority on Monday said that obtaining a warrant of fitness is not regarded as an essential trip during the lockdown, and due to the inability to obtain a new WOF at this current time, for the period of the lockdown all expired WOFs will be deemed current.

Any person driving a private vehicle during the lockdown, with a current or expired WOF has the responsibility that the vehicle is safe to operate.

Mid Canterbury GPs are requesting patients wanting the flu vaccine to not phone their doctors.

Spokesperson Emma Andrew said GPs would be contacting their patients as the vaccine became available, working through their lists of vulnerable patients first.

There had been temporary shortages at some practices as there was a lull from time to time in supplies coming through, and clinic phone lines were getting overwhelmed with calls about the vaccine.

“Please can everybody be patient and not call in to their practice with queries about the vaccine,” Dr Andrew said.

At Tinwald Medical Centre, where she is based, a batch had been delivered last month but had now been used up, and no further shipments were expected until later this month.

However, Dr Andrew was confident in the Ministry of Health’s assurances that there were plenty of vaccines available for everyone, with 400,000 more than last year.

Dr Andrew said in previous years the vaccine had not arrived until April, so to get the first supplies, as they had this year in midMarch, had been welcomed.

“We are a little bit ahead anyway, I think there’s a lot more panic because of Covid-19. And last year people were starting to get flu before vaccines were out,” she said.

The Ministry of Health is urging people to get vaccinated against the common flu to avoid taking up hospital resources that could be used to treat Covid-19 patients.

This year’s vaccine campaign was brought forward by two weeks, beginning March 18 for people aged 65 and over, pregnant women, and those with chronic conditions.

From April 1, children with a chronic condition or a history of severe respiratory illness were eligible, while everyone else could get it from April 13.

There would be a total of 1.77 million flu vaccinations available this year.

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Street side fun

By Sue Newman

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While they’re living in lockdown seven-year-old Anna Wells and her sister Eva, four, have been busy coming up with creative ways to keep their neighbours busy.

On the pavement outside their home they spent yesterday creating an exercise game they’re hoping walkers will stop and enjoy. The variation on hopscotch is a work of art and has attracted plenty of interest.

Mum Liz and her daughters spotted a similar game chalked on a footpath in Allenton when they were out for a walk, and decided to create their own Lane Street game.

It’s all part of keeping life as busy and as normal as possible for the family, Liz said.

Dad Mike works from home so, as he does every morning, he walks a few steps to a portacom in the backyard.

And as a teacher, Liz is now officially on holiday, but when the second school term starts, she’ll be back on the job providing school

Mike and Liz Wells and children, Eva, 4, (left), and Anna, 7, creating a kerbside hopscotch game for people to enjoy while walking in their neighbourhood.

work for her students online and home schooling Anna.

“We’re coping pretty well. We’ve had lots of things like Zoom time with cousins and online games with friends. The girls are just relaxing and we’re going for plenty of walks,” she said.

Walks are kept interesting by the girls taking turns at each intersection to decide which direction they travel and there is also the challenge of spotting teddy bears in windows.

Lockdown might not be an ideal way to live, but the upside is the way it seems to be bringing people together – in a non-contact way, Liz said.

“It’s really nice walking around the streets and everyone says ‘hello’. People are talking more and it seems to have slowed life down.”

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Funeral rules stressful

By Sue Newman

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The business of living and dying continues while New Zealanders are in Covid-19 lockdown, and that has created a unique situation, when someone dies, says funeral celebrant Carol Gunn.

Like celebrants across New Zealand she has had to deal with cancelled weddings as well as with the knowledge that there will be families, that in ordinary times, she would have been helping plan funerals with, where a family member’s life would be celebrated.

The Alert Level 4 lockdown, however, means that gatherings to celebrate someone’s life are no longer permitted. Burials and cremations can be attended by two funeral directors only. And that situation is incredibly upsetting for most people, Gunn said.

When it became clear that traditional funerals would not be allowed during the Alert Level 4, Gunn said she, like most celebrants was shocked.

“But I quickly realised that if they had limited a funeral to a very small number

Hospice team support continues

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of people how would anyone decide which five or so family members could be there.

Not allowing anyone to be there is best and safest, she said.

For families unable to attend a burial or cremation, Gunn said it was important something was still done to mark a person’s passing. It could be as simple as lighting a candle and sharing memories, but doing that would be helpful as part of the grieving process.

“Don’t let it just slip by with nothing done, do something that works for your family.”

Most death notices currently stated that a memorial service would be held in the future, and it was important for people to hold a memorial of some kind, however, the uncertainty around when gatherings could make it easy for these not to happen, she said.

Gunn suggests a good alternative could be to defer a service until the anniversary of the person’s death.

There are also new protocols around spending time with a person who is dying or viewing a body after death and these are spelt out by the Ministry of Health.

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Its doors might be closed and service managers might be working from home, but the support provided by the Hospice Mid Canterbury team will continue during the Covid-19 lockdown, manager of volunteer services Christine Wilson said.

While face-to-face support for clients and their families has been temporarily stopped, the team is working to come up with other ways support can still be provided, she said.

“We can’t do a huge amount without faceto-face services but we’re doing phone calls and trying to see what capability people have in terms of technology.”

The service currently supports 53 clients and their families, and it was important that support continued and a range of options for doing this were being explored, she said.

Counselling would continue to be available but this would be through non-contact means and, where possible, biography recording would carry on. However, it would be difficult to begin new biographies during the lockdown because it was important to establish a face-to-face relationship between the client and biographer.

Exercise classes could not be held, but Wilson is working with the service’s exercise provider to create short videos of exercises people can do in their own home.

For many clients the massage and reflexology service was an important part of their care package, and this would be sorely missed, she said.

Companionship was one of the key services provided and service managers would be looking at ways of providing this, possibly through Skype or other video links to ensure social contacts were maintained, Wison said.

Some of the service’s volunteers would continue to assist clients and families with tasks such as grocery shopping.

Mid Canterbury Hospice is currently supporting 53 clients and their families and while it will be unable to conduct face-toface meetings it will continue to accept referrals for new clients during the lockdown.

“We have also recently contracted two new service providers to extend the range of therapies being offered. We look forward to continuing and further developing these programmes and services in the future, and will resume full support as soon as possible,” she said.

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Essential job listings to appear on app The Ashburton District Council, in partnership with the Ashburton Guardian, has launched a new feature on the Ashburton App designed to help local jobseekers find essential work during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Essential Jobs button, which features inside the Covid-19 option on the app’s homepage, lists available paid positions that are allowed to operate during the lockdown.

Locals are able to use the button as a directory to find, and fill, essential service vacancies.

Ashburton District Mayor, Neil Brown said the Covid-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown has greatly impacted the district’s workforce and businesses, and the new Essential Jobs button has been specially created to help meet the district’s new employment needs.

“We are very excited to launch this new feature on the Ashburton App. These are very trying and uncertain times across the country,” he said.

“Here in the Ashburton District, we want to do what we can to help our people find work and ensure our supermarkets, trucking companies, health services, support agencies and other es-

sential services are able to continue meeting the community needs.”

The feature is available for listing paying positions and only essential businesses can list their job vacancies. The positions must be temporary, as the feature is only designed for helping to connect jobseekers and employers while normal business is restricted during the Covid-19 response.

“We’re pleased to be working together with the Ashburton Guardian to make this initiative happen. We hope it will make a real difference for people and families who have been left without work and need a job,” Mayor Brown added.

Businesses wishing to list their vacancies can do so inside the app by following the Essential Jobs button and emailing their listing to the Ashburton Guardian.

The Essential Jobs button within the app coincides with the existence of the Ashburton District Council’s own button on the app in which users have access to all of the latest and up-to-date information from the council as well as easy access to council owned

In brief Restrictions lifted All Level One and Two water restrictions that had been in place across the Ashburton District have been lifted, however schemes on a permanent hosing ban remain on their restrictions. The Ashburton District Council has removed all restrictions in place for Ashburton, Chertsey, Fairton, Hakatere, Hinds, Lake Hood, Mayfield, Methven, Mt Somers and Rakaia. Cooler temperatures around the district as well as recent wet weather has seen water consumption levels ease and the council is satisfied the summer restrictions are no longer required.

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The Covid-19 feature on the Ashburton App which now lists jobs available in essential services.

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The decision to come on board with the Ashburton District Council and provide a reliable and easily accessible platform in which essential businesses can readily source workers as they need was an easy one, Ashburton Guardian editor, Matt Markham said.

“The Ashburton App has been up and running for almost three years now and continues to grow and prosper,” he said.

“Last week, when we announced on the app that the country was going into lockdown, more than 12,000 people came onto the app to find out more within the first hour.

“As Mayor Brown says, these are trying and uncertain times and any little bit that can be done to help ease the stress of it all to anyone is something the Guardian is more than happy to be a part of.

“If we can help essential businesses continue to be wellstaffed so they can play their role during this stage of uncertainty, then that’s a big win for the district and working alongside the Ashburton District Council to help produce and communicate that information is a big bonus.”

The Ashburton App is free to download and can be accessed from either the Apple Store or Google Play.

Decisions still need to be made as usual at ADC

By Sue Newman

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New Zealand might be in lockdown for Covid-19 but it’s business as usual for the Ashburton District Council.

While staff are working from home offices or, in some cases, the dining room table or breakfast bar, the business of running the district continues, uninterrupted, said chief executive Hamish Riach.

Planning has to continue,

meetings have to be held and decisions have to be made – albeit all done remotely, he said.

And for council field staff, many of whom are involved in the operation and maintenance of essential services, the lockdown does not mean a loss of work.

Water supplies and waste and stormwater systems must continue uninterrupted and any faults repaired, Riach said.

Heavy overnight rain, par-

ticularly in the back country, saw washouts at two stockwater intakes – at Methven and Pudding Hill.

That saw field staff on the job, repairing damage and removing accumulated debris.

Staff were well set up to work remotely and to hold meetings

by Zoom and that meant work would continue on the district’s big projects that were in the planning stages, such as the civic centre and library, and the

second bridge, he said.

“As each day goes by we’re getting better equipped at working from home, so this period is still business as usual for us in many ways.”

The council’s Covid Response Committee will meet on Thursday morning by audio visual links and this meeting will be livestreamed.

A council meeting is scheduled for April 9 and this too will be available by livestreaming.

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While the country is in lockdown, the business of government and local government continues. On Monday another small step was taken in the long journey towards the construction of Ashburton’s second urban bridge across the Ashburton River, with a workshop between the NZ Transport Agency and the Ashburton District Council.

Consultants from the two groups discussed the business case that must be prepared for the project.

A business case is required to be prepared, and signed off, before work on the project can begin.

Price-gouging Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said nearly 1000 people had sent in complaints about price-gouging at supermarkets after a dedicated email was set up. Earlier this week, Ardern told New Zealanders to report unfair high prices to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. About 990 emails had so far been sent. The most common complaint was the high price of cauliflower, but also hand sanitiser, bread, meat and garlic also featured.

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Living at Alert Level 4 Thursday 2 April Update The information we all need to know about living at Alert Level 4 will change over time, based on how our collective response to the pandemic is progressing. Below are some updated answers to the latest FAQs: FOR EVERYONE

FOR BUSINESSES

When can I use my car?

How can I find out if my business or work is considered essential?

Using private vehicles for transport is allowed. However, you can only travel if you’re: 1) accessing essential services 2) shopping for food or medicine 3) an essential worker travelling to, from, or as part of your essential work.

You should only travel in your car with people from your household.

Remember, any unnecessary travel may spread COVID-19.

Essential businesses, and those that support them, will continue to provide the necessities of life for everyone in New Zealand during Alert Level 4. This means food, medicine, healthcare, energy, fuel, waste-removal, internet and financial support will continue to be available.

What does staying local mean?

Go to Covid19.govt.nz for more information, and to see if your business is essential.

At Alert Level 4, the aim is to stop and eradicate COVID-19. That’s why we’re asking everybody to stay at home. Any unnecessary travel may spread the virus.

Apart from essential work, staying ‘local’ refers to exercise and shopping for food or medicine.

Your local area will be quite different depending on where you live.

For example, if you live in the city you might have a supermarket or dairy close by. If you live in the country you might have to drive quite a way to get to the nearest supermarket.

If you do leave your house, you must keep a 2 metre distance from other people at all times.

Should I wear a face mask if I leave the house?

You do not need to wear a face mask when you leave the house, because COVID-19 isn’t airborne. It’s spread by droplets, which means you’re most likely to catch it by touching something with a droplet on it, and then touching your face – specifically your eyes, mouth or nose. The best action to take is to regularly wash your hands with soap to kill the virus. And stop touching your face – we know this is a hard habit to break!

Who can I contact if I see people not following the rules on self-isolation?

You can tell the Police by completing the online form at 105.police.govt.nz Where possible, try to keep the phones free for those that need them in an emergency.

If you’re unsure whether you’re an essential business, you should close. We need as many businesses as possible to close to slow the spread of the virus.

What measures are in place to protect essential workers from Covid-19?

Workplaces must operate in a way that minimises the risk of COVID-19 transmission for essential workers. They should be:

• minimising, or eliminating if possible, physical interactions among staff and with and between customers • ensuring appropriate health, hygiene and safety measures are in place • restricting to essential activities only during the Alert Level 4 period.

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Creating a strong, local presence

By Heather Mackenzie

Left – Christchurch and Ashburton He Waka Tapu staff, including service founder Daryl Gregory and his wife, far right.

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He Waka Tapu have been providing family violence and health services for Maori and other ethnic groups in Christchurch for 25 years.

Over the last five years, even though they were based in Christchurch, services were in regular contact with Mid Canterbury whanau needing their help and supporting cultural needs.

It was through this contact that He Waka Tapu identified there was a gap in the services being offered for their target groups in the Ashburton District.

Chief executive Jackie Burrows said there was a real need for someone to help the Maori youth who were getting into trouble with the police and ending up in the corrections system.

Answering the call for this need, He Waka Tapu stepped in to help in 2015, when they had a navigator working across the Hakatere and Timaru regions.

Fast forward to 2019 and they now have eight full-time staff working across both Mid and South Canterbury and have formed a strong, working bond with Hakatere Marae.

He Waka Tapu services don’t just revolve around at-risk youth, staff are specialists in other areas like whanau wellbeing, family violence, suicide prevention and addictions and cervical screening.

Trauma is a common denominator seen in clients seeking help from He Waka Tapu. Burrows pointed out this trauma could be recent, from childhood or even go back as far as post-colonisation, when traditional Maori land was lost and with it a sense

Below – He Waka Tapu chief executive, Jackie Burrows.

of personal belonging.

“It is important to all cultures to have a sense of who they are and where they fit in the world.

Ko wai au (who am I?) is an important question to be answered.”

The way to move forward from past traumas, according to Burrows, is to acknowledge it has happened, then find a way to work from being the victim, so the past trauma doesn’t go on to affect the next generation.

“Well, that is what would happen in a perfect world.”

The world is less than perfect at the moment with the Covid-19

lockdown forcing many people into one space for an extended period of time.

This new reality could see a shift in the kind of clients being helped by He Waka Tapu and others like them.

Families from middle or higher social economic groups are now spending a lot more time together than they perhaps normally would. A normal week may have seen them all off in different directions and this new-found physical proximity could lead to tempers fraying.

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New work sites increase resilience Ensuring electricity reaches homes and businesses has never been more important than it is today, local electricity provider EA Networks says.

EA Networks understands the criticality of the electricity supply and has taken the initiative to physically separate parts of its business.

This is to reduce the chance of potential Covid-19 spread amongst the company’s essential fault response personnel.

Roger Sutton, chief executive, said the company had moved swiftly to develop new ways of working to reduce the chance of spread of any infection across the team should a staff member become infected.

“Our fault response teams never stand down so we acted very quickly to make sure they are as safe as they can be,” Sutton said.

Two additional operating sites have been secured. Office and yard space at Greg Donaldson Contracting (GDC) in Tinwald and another base in the industrial area on Range Street. Fault response crews are now working out of EA Networks’ primary site at the Ashburton Business Estate

Roger Sutton, chief executive of EA Networks at the Greg Donaldson Contracting site in Tinwald.

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“It’s a testament to our strong local relationships, and the co-operation within this community, that we could move so quickly on this,” Sutton said.

The company has ceased all non-essential work and is currently prioritising responding to faults on the network.

“We are doing what we can to reduce the chance of Covid-19 spread within our business.

Physical separation of our people and obsessive hygiene standards can only help,” Sutton said.

Further updates on how the business is managing its response to the pandemic can be found on its website: eanetworks. co.nz

not afford wifi or laptops, or children flatly refusing to do school work, all add further financial and emotional stress, possibly creating a cauldron for disaster, Burrows said.

Burrows is proud of the staff working within the organisation.

She acknowledged that while qualifications are important, of equal importance is having staff that have life experiences and really want to be working in the well-being field, as they bring an extra level of understanding and empathy to their work.

Sitting alongside clients’

well-being needs, are systems in place to support the staff’s mental health as well. Gym memberships, external supervisors and a focus on defining a strong worklife balance are all things He Waka Tapu have implemented in order to help staff morale.

“Having a sense of humour is also a way of getting through for us, we try to introduce as much fun in our day as possible.”

For more about He Waka Tapu go to www.hewakatapu.org.nz

■■ESSENTIAL SERVICES

Civil Defence helpline opens Cantabrians in need of assistance in accessing essential household goods and services due to the Covid-19 lockdown can get help via a local helpline.

Civil Defence Emergency Management Canterbury group controller Neville Reilly said that, in partnership with all district councils in Canterbury, a local helpline is now operating to help vulnerable people who are unable to access essentials such as food and medication.

“These measures will particularly assist the disabled, at risk groups, and people who cannot access these services themselves,” he said.

“This service is intended for those facing hardship and is offered in addition to a range of other support measures provided by other agencies, particularly the Ministry of Social Development.

“We request that, if you are able to provide for yourself at this time, please help by keeping the line free for those who

need urgent assistance.”

Residents who need assistance can call 0800 24 24 11.

For Christchurch city, the helpline will operate 24/7. For other districts, the helpline will function during normal council business hours.

The hotline is primarily for those in need of welfare support and are struggling to attain these goods or services through community connections or other means.

Key communities include the elderly, those with health or social vulnerabilities, those with a disability and people unable to access adequate transport support.

Welfare needs could include: food, water, clothing, medication or other medical needs, baby or infant needs and pet needs – food, veterinary or shelter.

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Scout activities go online

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

Normally associated with getting out and about and making the most of the great outdoors that New Zealand has to offer, scouts have had to re-think how they do things with the country in lockdown.

Gatherings are continuing, except this time online, and the children are tasked with different activities each week.

These activities will soon be made available for children that are not part of scouts, to help keep all kids entertained through the lockdown period.

Mania-o-roto scout zone leader Michelle Brown said the organisation had sent out the activities to be completed online.

This week’s activities focused on baking, while kids have also been challenged to scavenger hunt as well as other activities.

Over the coming weeks younger kids will be set craft tasks focused on Anzac Day, while older kids will have to complete research projects on World War One, and the meaning behind Anzac Day. Brown said the scouts were looking at making the tasks available online for everyone as a community service during the lockdown.

She said it has been a learning experience for a lot of the leaders as well as the children.

“The leaders are really only a halfa-step ahead of the kids as for many

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Readers’ tall tales Guardian motoring correspondent, Bernard Egan is well known around these parts. Over the next few weeks, he’s agreed to share with us some of his tales from yesteryear.

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Scouts are prepared to move their gatherings online should the Covid-19 pandemic worsen.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN of us, we don’t have any experience with online learning, so we are having to do a bit of learning ourselves along the way,” she said.

An international scout jamboree would be held this weekend, but

entirely online, allowing scouts to connect with other scouts across the world and discover what might be happening in their country and what they are doing to keep themselves entertained, if they are in lockdown.

wo of our readers, who are each blessed with a wonderful sense of humour, have sent these stories to Bernard Egan share.

TALES FROM THE BACK SEAT Beth Hayman relates the tale of a young man who told his friend, “my uncle tried to make a new car.”

“How?” asked his friend.

“Well he took the engine from a Ford, the transmission from a Chevrolet, the tyres from a Cadillac and the exhaust system from a Buick.”

“Really,” said his friend, “what did he get?”

“Fifteen years for theft,” answered the nephew.

The three-legged chicken story reminded Tony Todd of another Ronald Reagan witticism.

During the Cold War President Reagan often joked about the socialist system in Russia where there was a wait of 12 years to buy a car.

Ronald Reagan said this Russian resident went to the local dealer to buy one of those well-built Russian cars.

The customer was reminded delivery would be in 12 years’ time and paid the deposit.

The customer then asked will the car be delivered in the morning or afternoon.

The car salesman asked why it mattered?

“Why do you need to know now if delivery of the car will be in the morning or afternoon?”

“Well,” said the customer, “I have the plumber coming in the morning”.

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Rent holiday lightens business pressure

By Sue Newman

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The Ashburton Trust’s board has taken the lead in the business community, giving its tenants in Somerset House a rent-free month to ease financial pressure during the Covid-19 lockdown.

In what was a trying time for everyone, general manager Rob Reid said the board had been working on ways to provide relief for its tenants and decided that a rent-free month would be a significant help. That month would also be free of opex charges.

In addition, Reid said, the trust would defer rent for a second month and this would be reviewed later during individual meetings with tenants to discuss a way forward on a case-by-case basis.

“The key for us is that it’s in everybody’s best interests to trade out the other end of this period and we are wanting to work

with all our tenants proactively.

As this has been a fast moving situation we wanted to be able to give everyone the opportunity to have a fully considered discussion on the way forward rather than rush into something that may prove unsuitable long term.”

By taking these steps at this stage, Reid said it would remove any uncertainty around leases and would provide some relief for tenants as well as giving them an opportunity to fully consider their own situation before they met with the trust.

“Our intention at this point is simply to relieve some stress and pressure during what is a trying time.”

When there was more information available from the government the board would meet and review its position, Reid said.

In deciding to give its tenants and leasees a rent-free month, the trust accepted it would lose

The Ashburton Trust has offered its tenants a rent-free month.

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significant income, but it viewed the move as making a community grant in a different way.

“Our tenants are all based and operate in the community. This is another way of us meeting our community obligations. It’s about doing what’s best for the community. It’s easy to be hardnosed today but if we don’t have tenants in two months’ time, then there is less money coming in for grants to the community,” he said.

The Ashburton Guardian is one of those tenants, and managing director Bruce Bell said the rent relief was some great news during what was a very testing time for businesses.

“The attitude of the trust to its tenants is very generous and appreciated,” he said.

For all businesses, rent was a major cost and ultimately, when the lockdown was lifted, he suggested the cost of renting a premises could see a shift in where

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Restorative Justice operations go digital

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

The local court may be closed, but Restorative Justice programmes are still taking place, just in a different way.

“We are still up and running and still functioning, just in a different way,” Restorative Justice co-ordinator Toni Sowman said.

“We are still doing conferences, just not face-to-face, we are using Zoom or Skype or something similar.

“If they don’t have access to the internet we can do them by phone.”

While court days have stopped, Sowman has still received one referral for a case and is working through a number of cases that were assigned prior to the lockdown.

Restorative Justice is a process that aims to give offenders and victims of crime the opportunity to meet, discuss the impact of crime, and step towards reparation and putting things right.

The process involves a pre-conference with the offender and victim, followed by a con-

The Ashburton District Court might be closed, but Restorative Justice operations are continuing online.

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Right – Toni Sowman. ference between both parties, where the harm is addressed and various plans or actions (outcomes) are agreed upon.

Outcomes may include an apology, reparation payments and education. Community

work for defendants and voluntary payments to local charities nominated by the victim can also be outcomes.

Restorative Justice is a voluntary process for all parties and will not go ahead unless both victim and offender agree and it is determined suitable by the co-ordinator.

Sowman said reparation can still be completed and any counselling services can also be completed online, though they are yet to attempt any conferences between victims and offenders.

“We would normally have a facilitator with the victim and a facilitator with the offender, which we obviously can’t do, so I’m not sure how we would work that,” she said.

“We can still speak on behalf of the victim or a representative of the victim can be there so not to re-victimise the victim.”

Safer Mid Canterbury now facilitate Restorative Justice in Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru with Sowman, and another facilitator, working between Ashburton and Timaru and two other staff in Oamaru.

“At the moment we are just divvying up the referrals, so the one I picked up the other day is actually from Timaru,” she said.

some chose to be located.

“My heart goes out to the many businesses that cannot open.

This has stopped their income immediately and some won’t get back to where they were.”

While the Guardian was classed as an essential business and was fortunate to have a loyal subscriber base, the lockdown and the inability of many local businesses to trade had impacted heavily on advertising volumes, Bell said.

An orderly queue please Police are asking people to remain calm and be prepared to queue when visiting essential businesses after an assault at a supermarket yesterday afternoon.

Two males argued with a security guard at Countdown on East Street. Senior Sergeant Leigh Jenkins said it appears there was an issue around how they were to queue.

One of the party allegedly assaulted the security guard.

Both males had left the scene prior to police arrival.

Enquiries are ongoing with the registered owner of a vehicle of interest.

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Community transmission uncertainty

By Derek Cheng NZME

Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay has conceded that the testing regime so far does little to show the true extent of Covid-19 community transmission in New Zealand.

A new directive to test more and looser testing criteria would lead to more tests, an increase in confirmed cases, and a clearer picture of the prevalence of Covid-19 in communities, she said.

The growth rate in the number of new cases continued to decline, with the announcement yesterday of 61 new confirmed and probable Covid-19 cases in New Zealand.

But while that was “encouraging”, McElnay said it was early days and more cases will spring up as testing capacity increased to 5000 tests a day.

The 61 new cases are made up of 47 confirmed cases and 14 probable cases, bringing the total number of confirmed and probable cases to 708.

Fourteen people are in hospital, with two of those in ICU in a stable condition.

There are 82 people who have recovered. No further deaths have occurred.

McElnay said there was still a strong link to overseas travel, with just over half of the cases reporting overseas travel.

Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay.

About 1 per cent of cases were due to community transmission.

Community transmission is the key factor in whether the lockdown will be lifted McElnay said the 1 per cent figure was based on the case information available.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty about that number because there is some information we still don’t have on those cases. It’s what we can determine at the moment.”

More testing would provide a clearer picture of community transmission, she said.

“In the next couple of weeks, we will have a much better assessment

of what the community transmission is, bearing in mind we are already in a Level 4 lockdown.

“That is a control intervention, so we could expect to see less community transmission.”

On Tuesday epidemiologist Sir David Skegg said the data was meaningless because the testing criteria was skewed to symptomatic people returning from overseas or those who have been in close contact with a confirmed case.

The actual number of cases was likely “far higher” than the Ministry of Health’s numbers, he said.

He and expert epidemiologists including Professor Michael Baker

have been calling for more testing for weeks.

The lockdown will only be lifted if community transmission has been stamped out, but making that call would be difficult without the testing to show where the virus is present.

McElnay said new criteria for testing was to be issued yesterday.

Anyone with respiratory symptoms consistent with Covid-19 should be tested regardless of whether they had been overseas or in close contact with a confirmed case.

About 1843 tests per day were being conducted in the past week, with daily capacity at about 3700 tests.

The Ministry of Health had been in touch with 418 close contacts yesterday, McElnay said, but she had no data on whether that was more than previous contact-tracing numbers.

McElnay apologised unreservedly for breaching the privacy of two people with Covid-19 in a press release.

She also pushed back on reports that there was a supply issue with the flu vaccine, saying instead that it was a distribution issue.

She said surveillance sentinel testing would start, which could look at where Covid-19 is present around the country.

But how that would work was

still being worked through, as faceto-face consults for Covid-19 were happening less and less.

McElnay said personal protective equipment (PPE) was being distributed to healthcare workers as a priority.

Some nurses have been asking for more masks, but McElnay said she did not have details about those reports.

Civil Defence director Sarah Stuart-Black said the first charter flight had taken off to bring New Zealanders returning from overseas from Auckland to their homes around the country.

More flights would follow, and those people would have to self-isolate in their homes.

She did not have numbers for how many people coming back to New Zealand from overseas were self-isolating, or whether any of them had tested positive for coronavirus.

The national state of emergency was extended on Tuesday, and Stuart-Black said that was necessary because each time it is declared, it expired after seven days.

Stuart-Black said the emergency powers had been used a number of times so far, including stopping people doing non-essential activities.

She said most New Zealanders continue to comply with the lockdown rules.

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Farmers adapt to social distancing

By Heather Chalmers

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Mid Canterbury farmers have quickly adapted to new social distancing requirements in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown, while continuing to operate as normally as possible.

As an essential service, farmers can continue to milk cows and sow new season’s crops but must observe new two metre social distancing and other hygiene requirements.

Mid Canterbury’s large farming and farm servicing industry means more people remain employed compared with urban centres.

In the Ashburton District, 56 per cent of people are employed in essential services compared with 40.4 per cent nationally and 35.5 per cent in Christchurch, according to figures released by ChristchurchNZ economists.

Essential services include health, food production and processing, supermarkets, pharmacy, banking, telecommunication and distribution.

Fairton arable and beef finishing farmer Randal Hanrahan said that on hearing that New Zealand was moving to Alert Level 4 he had made several phone calls to check whether suppliers of seed, fertiliser and chemicals, required for autumn-sown crops, would remain open.

“We found out fairly quickly that most of the people we deal with are essential services, but the way we interact with them has changed.”

All ordering was now done by phone or online, with no interaction or paper being handed from one person to another

Ealing lower order sharemilkers Brent and Rebecca Miller have procedures in place to protect their 10 staff.

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Truckloads of beef cattle had arrived on his property last Friday for finishing and while stockyard sales had halted, sales of stock were continuing using online platforms.

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fined to their house or property. It makes us realise how fortunate we are to be on a farm,” Hanrahan said.

Brent and Rebecca Miller, who are lower order sharemilkers on two dairy farms at Ealing, said they had received guidelines from Fonterra and were in regular communication with the farms’ owners to make sure they were compliant.

River Terrace Dairy, milking 1150 cows on 318 hectares, has four staff, while Ealing Pastures milking 1420 cows on 400ha, has six staff.

Milking cows was the priority and other non-essential work such as fencing repairs was on the backburner in the meantime.

As well as two metre distancing, other precautions were also being practised to keep everyone healthy on-farm, Rebecca Miller said.

“We have teat wipes in all the tractors with only one person per vehicle and everyone wipes down after they have been in a vehicle.”

During milking, generally only one person milked each herd, as the dairy sheds had automatic cup removers.

“We don’t have masks, but we have gloves and alcohol wash.”

To help out with the hand sanitiser shortage, Fonterra had made 250,000 litres of high-grade ethanol available to its suppliers and the wider community.

As traditional staff meetings were off the agenda, staff gatherings were held outside where people could keep their distance, or communication was via phone or Zoom video conferencing.

“We are just keeping mindful that the virus is still going around and trying to keep everyone aware,” Miller said.

Elsewhere in Canterbury, the Waimate District had the highest number of people employed in essential services at 73.4 per cent, followed by the Hurunui District at 67.8 per cent.

Both these districts had strong food production and processing activities, which employ 29,700 people in Canterbury.

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Bold sales goal loses certainty in economy fall-out NZME Kiwifruit marketer Zespri says $4.5 billion of global sales by 2025 remains its goal but it acknowledges considerable uncertainty about Covid-19’s impact on the global fresh fruit economy.

The first of this season’s kiwifruit harvest was only now starting to arrive in markets so the company, which has the statutory right to export the bulk of New Zealand’s kiwifruit, said it was not yet able to offer a view on this year’s sales.

Before the virus pandemic, Zespri’s chief Dan Mathieson said sales revenue this financial year – excluding income from selling growing licences – was forecast to pass $3b.

At the time the big goal of $4.5b was considered achievable before 2025 “if all goes to plan”, he said.

The New Zealand kiwifruit industry has been deemed an essential service during the lockdown.

In a recent letter to Zespri growers, company chairman Bruce Cameron said there remained much uncertainty about the full impact of the virus, including the effect it would have on the global fresh fruit industry.

“While there is strong demand for fresh, healthy fruit like kiwifruit, we are yet to see the full impact on the availability of local labour to pick and pack our fruit, on our distribution networks to get fruit to our customers and on the ability of our offshore consumers to be able to physically access our fruit.”

The Zespri board had reviewed all debtor arrangements and seasonal banking facilities to ensure the company had extra cover to manage various scenarios, Cameron said.

Meanwhile, Dave Courtney, Zespri’s chief grower and alliances officer said export operations were progressing well.

“Our first shipment of the season arrived in Tokyo this week with one million trays of SunGold on board, with the unloading process running smoothly.

“We’re also encouraged by the

demand for our fruit in Japan and the strong signals we’re seeing in all of our major markets. Our first charter shipment arrives in China today and another is on its way to Europe and all other markets have container shipments in transit.

“At the end of last week we had shipped 9.8 million trays year to date, compared to 5.3 million trays at the same point last year so we’re tracking very well. We still have no market issues at this stage and ports are operational.

“There is some risk around the

reduced capacity of in-market trucking and we will continue to monitor this. We’re encouraged by the efforts governments around the world have made to keep international trade opportunities open,” Courtney said.

New Zealand-grown kiwifruit were exported to 53 countries in 2018, with $1.19b (2017: $1.09b) to Asian countries including Japan $397m (2017: $381m) and China $458m ($365m). Kiwifruit to the value of $512m ($422m) went to countries in Continental Europe.

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Strong growth in both volume and value saw Zespri’s returns grow in 2018-2019 with total operating revenue from global kiwifruit sales and licence release exceeding $3b for the first time.

Total sales volumes reached 167.2 million trays in the 2018 season, 21 per cent up on the 138.6m trays sold in the previous season.

Global revenue generated by fruit sales and the SunGold licence release increased to $3.1b, while Zespri’s total fruit and service payments, including a loyalty premium, to New Zealand growers was up 24 per cent to $1.8b.

Growers saw average orchard gate returns increase in 20182019, including a 6 per cent increase in the average per-hectare return for green fruit to $63,622, and a 28 per cent increase in the average per-hectare return for SunGold to $145,991.

SunGold returned record levels on a per-tray basis but green returns were down due to higher than expected volumes and an associated extended sales window and greater fruit loss.

Zespri’s net profit after tax in 2018-2019 was $179.8m, up from $101.8 million the previous season.

The company said this reflected the strong season results which were further boosted by revenue from the ongoing SunGold licence release process and increased earnings from new cultivar royalties.

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Johannesburg . . . for all of its polarised challenges and complexities, nature’s bounty soothes the soul.

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asting my eyes across the sprawling green canopy of confronting, troubled Johannesburg from the Munro Drive lookout, the blaze of purple haze from the city’s beloved jacaranda trees was in full bloom.

Maybe those trees serve as a metaphor on South Africa’s dynamics. For all of its polarised challenges and complexities,

After six years since his last visit, Mike Yardley returns to Johannesburg. nature’s bounty soothes the soul, serving up a harmonising tonic.

I was last here six years ago, just weeks before Nelson Mandela passed away. My guide, Gladness, drove me through Houghton’s leafy streets, gliding

by Madiba’s palatial residential

mansion, still heavily fortified with cameras, watch towers and razor-wired high walls. His children are still vacillating as to what should become of the property.

We skirted the staggering sight of the exclusive private school St.

Soweto, a pillar of anti-apartheid resistance, where extreme deprivation and tin-shack housing remains disturbingly pervasive.

John’s College, looming like a palace, starkly backed on the other side of the hill by the inner-city of cauldron of crime-infested squalor, Hillbrow.

Gladness didn’t sugar-coat his patter, “Hillbrow, Yeoville and Berea are the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the city and absolute no-go zones after dark.”

They serve as potent reality-checks on the city’s seemingly intractable problems, where violent street gangs, squatters, drug dealing and surging hordes of illegal migrants rule these roosts.

We then stopped in the heart of downtown Joburg, which pleasingly struck me as less intimidating and slightly cleaner than how it struck me six years ago.

Gladness remarked that some urban regeneration progress has been achieved in recent years, but it’s an on-going herculean assignment if there’s any chance of achieving the lofty goal of making downtown a safe place to walk after dark.

He impishly noted that the cleanest downtown streets are the ones that are bracketed with government buildings. After being assertively assisted by the army of opportunist on-street car parking touts, we ventured up to the Top of Africa.

The 360-degree Top of Africa observation deck is a stirring perch to get perspective on the city’s incredible scale, its jumble

of neighbourhoods and the vestiges of its goldmining legacy as manifest by the heaped mounds of tailings.

Jozi does deliver some indelible encounters, starting with Constitutional Hill, where I explored the ramparts of the Old Fort, built by Paul Kruger in 1883, to keep watch over the goldminers and to repel the British invasion.

I also visited the notorious jail, Number Four, which incarcerated and brutalised many political prisoners including Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

From there, we sauntered to South Africa’s largest township Soweto, a pillar of anti-apartheid resistance, where extreme deprivation and tin-shack housing remains disturbingly pervasive.

Arriving into storied Vilakazi Street, the township’s beating heart, and posing with some locals dressed in traditional tribal attire, I then headed to Nelson Mandela House, the humble ‘matchbox’ abode where he lived with Winnie in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In order to make the house into a museum, the garage has become the ticket hall.

Inside, the small rooms are now filled with memorabilia belonging to the pair including letters, gifts and awards, as well as some original items of furniture.

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Nelson Mandela House, the humble ‘matchbox’ abode where he lived with Winnie in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

On the home’s exterior, you can still see the bullet holes fired by the police and some of the trees planted by the Mandelas.

Rev. Desmond Tutu still divides his time between his official Cape Town residence and his modest house on the corner of Vilakazi and Bacela Streets.

Magnificent market stalls drape the length of Vilakazi Street where ebullient locals peddle a plethora of authentic wares.

We popped into Sakhumzi for a cracking lunch. Always bustling, this vibrant Vilakazi Street restaurant trumpets typical African township fare, with a sprawling buffet.

I feasted on local dishes such as mogodu (tripe stew), chakalaka (spicy vegetable stew), ox liver and maotwana (chicken feet.).

Feeling suitably re-fuelled, Gladness breezed me through some more Soweto landmarks including Orlando Towers, two huge cooling towers bedecked in colourful murals.

One of the most popular attractions is the SCAD Fall, where ‘divers’ freefall (completely unattached to anything) for 70 metres through the centre of one of the towers before landing on a giant springy net. I chickened out of it – fearful that the freshly-devoured trifle might not survive the journey.

Then there’s FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City. The iconic 94,000-seater venue is Africa’s largest stadium and was rebuilt for the 2010 World Cup designed to resemble an

African calabash (a gourd used to carry water), with an orange, red and gold-coloured exterior that blends with the nearby mine dumps.

Gladness was born and raised in Soweto, sharing with me that he was seven when he joined his grandmother in the queue for the historic democratic vote in 1994. It took them 24 hours to finally reach the ballot box.

But before leaving Soweto, there were two particularly poignant encounters. Regina Mundi Catholic Church is a compelling stop which played a hugely significant role in the struggle against apartheid with the bullet holes to prove it. During the student uprising in 1976, thousands of young people fled here for refuge, only to be followed inside by policemen who fired live ammunition into the church.

Miraculously, no one was killed, but the scars of those bullet holes are ever-present throughout the church.

Transfixed by that experience, we then visited the Hector Pieterson Memorial, where you’ll struggle not to shed a tear. Hector was one of the first schoolkids to be killed by police in the 1976 uprising, after he was caught up in the cross-fire.

Sam Nzima’s searing photograph adorns the site where he took his last breath, cradled in the arms of another school boy frantically carrying him to his home, alongside a petrified young girl.

Hector’s sister works as a guide in the adjoining museum.

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Madiba’s palatial residential mansion, still heavily fortified with cameras, watch towers and razor-wired high walls.

Regina Mundi Catholic Church is a compelling stop which played a hugely significant role in the struggle against apartheid with the bullet holes to prove it.

Magnificent market stalls drape the length of Vilakazi Street where ebullient locals peddle a plethora of authentic wares.

The Hector Pieterson Memorial, where you’ll struggle not to shed a tear. Hector was one of the first schoolkids to be killed by police in the 1976 uprising, after he was caught up in the cross-fire.

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Letters with Love Decisions, decisions, decisions. So we’re starting to grasp the chillaxing idea that everyone talks about doing on holiday.

Today, my biggest decision was trying to decide will I reload the toilet roll holder with one of those three-ply single rolls or one of those extra long rolls.

Went for the extra long but on reflection I should have gone for the short one – it would give me more to do.

But there is extra excitement, watching and waiting for the washing machine cycle to change, that seems endless, and breakfast conversation is stimulating, like this morning I asked your father what he was going to do today, he replied “finish my tea . . . oh . . . you mean after that?”

Got an email from my boss suggesting that I could do some online study while we are here on Covid Island with not much to do, but it arrived on Sunday, a non-workday, so I don’t think that counts.

Love Mother and Father

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here’s a great tightrope that we walk on each day, it’s pretty stretchable and will handle most stresses and pressure.

But, every now and then a piece of that tightrope will fray and the resistance becomes a little bit weaker until we reach a point where it snaps and we become shadows of our actual selves, caught in a haze of frustration and needing release.

Right now we’re in what you would call a high pressure situation. It’s tense – we can’t sugar-coat it. Many are handling it incredibly and doing their best to focus on the end result as opposed to the day-to-day battle.

But over the past few days we’ve seen a few reach that point, already, where things are just getting a little bit too much and behaviours are changing.

Be it in the line at the supermarket, or in the comfort of your own home sitting in front of a laptop, computer or cellphone and passing comments on social media – some situations are getting nasty.

The biggest message to come out of all of this so far has been not only to stay at home, but also to be kind.

Everyone is in the same boat. A huge majority of the country are facing the same problems and walking around being nasty and aggressive at others isn’t going to get anyone anywhere.

It takes a lot of energy to get angry, but it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to simply smile.

I fear that if we’re seeing negative situations already, one week into this, what it’s going to be like in three weeks’ time or potentially even longer?

Take a breath, sit back and think about it a little bit more and then move on.

That’s probably the best way to approach a potentially negative situation.

Thought of the Day: Why isn’t there a mouse-flavoured cat food?

Brief Relief This lady, she lived in Rakaia, know what? she started a fire.

No not in the grate, No not in the grate. It was out on a date. She made love on a funeral pyre.

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ollow instructions or you, and the people with whom you illegally come into contact, will die,” says our heroic Prime Minister (or deliberately harsh words to that effect).

Jacinda Arden is beginning to make Joan of Arc look and sound like an amateur. Even Florence Nightingale, in all her nursing glory, could not have coped with the coronavirus. The Crimea was her absolute limit. Once again, Jacinda, has stood her ground, faced the challenge and will, in due course, overcome it.

There will be losses along the way for sure but fewer per head in Aotearoa, New Zealand, than in just about any other country on the planet, except, possibly, South Korea, where the resolution and resourcefulness of the people is phenomenal.

In that country the medical experts grabbed the virus by its tail and remorselessly squeezed much of the life out of it before it knew what had hit it.

Kiwis all, should be massively grateful that “cometh the hour cometh, too”, Jacinda Ardern.

Her recent experience has been strewn with crises of great an-

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guish and tragedy, but the PM has invariably fronted up to offer genuine sympathy and encouragement to the bereaved.

The coronavirus is not, after all, the creation of a media beat-up, in which the ladies and gentlemen of that profession did all they could to up the ante and turn the topic into potential public hysteria, all in the cause of selling their various papers and magazines. Such accusations have died, along with the many victims of the virus.

No, Covid-19 is real, long-lasting and often fatal. Even the present occupant of the White House has had to face the fact the pandemic will not be over by Easter Sunday, April 12. Even this dark shadow of a president is unable to wave away the reality of the running catastrophe, abroad throughout the world.

As it is, we must stay in our bubbles until further notice, avoid bubble-trouble, but bubble bumps are encouraged – particularly of the elbows – as representing friend and lasting fellow ship.

And then there’s our election due, supposedly, on September 19. For all sorts of reasons, medical and other, that now seems most unlikely.

If the virus is then still on the prowl there will be absolutely no rubbing shoulders in voting booths or any other form of contact.

From a wider standpoint, if the Olympics, Wimbledon and other major sporting occasions are to be cancelled, as many already have been, then our election – less world-shattering as it may be – should be too.

In fact from a purely political point of view it’s hard to see why this particular election need be held at all. With Ardern still being, overwhelmingly, the preferred Prime Minister, with a golden record to justify that accolade, what price the chances of Simon Bridges and National of overthrowing her? None whatever.

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a creaky construction and would be much improved by the permanent demise of Winston and his rabble, but with Jacinda now an untouchable political super star here and everywhere, such conditions become irrelevant.

Like the Olympics, I would strongly recommend our election be postponed for a year. Even then, the result would still be a forgone conclusion.

Sorry Simon but unless you can do an Andrew Little and stand aside from the leadership of your party in favour of a currently barely heard of but pleasingly telegenic lady National MP – or potential one – any hope of unseating Jacinda anytime soon must be regarded as pure fantasy.

At this rate “baby” Neve will be a fully-grown woman with children of her own by the time her mother decides to relinquish the Prime Ministership of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Inside NZ Rugby’s fight for survival

By Liam Napier NZME

New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson says everyone must share the pain of the coronavirus crisis as he confronts potential revenue losses in excess of $100 million and issues sweeping 40 per cent wage cuts across the organisation for the next three months.

No one in the sporting sphere will be spared the fall-out as the global pandemic freezes revenue streams required to keep pay cycles spinning.

In the rugby bubble alone Australia on Tuesday stood down 75 per cent of its staff; Ireland have deferred payments up to 50 per cent, Wales cut wages by a quarter, while England’s RFU, the world’s richest union, projects a $100 million revenue loss over the next 18 months.

At the helm of New Zealand Rugby, Robinson is charged with tackling this unprecedented shutdown.

In a frank interview with the Herald he details the scope of rugby’s survival battle.

“The overall impact on revenue is significant. The absolute worst case scenario, if we weren’t able to get on the field this year, there is potential risk of north of $100 million in revenue at stake,” Robinson said.

“When we’ve looked at scenarios around that we’ve realised we have to act very quickly in terms of getting costs under control.

Preserving cash is absolutely critical.”

Robinson confirmed wage cuts included All Blacks management, Super Rugby coaches and his salary. He added all staff have waved bonuses.

“We’ve gone to a 40 per cent cut in staff salaries across the spectrum – from the board through to all staff in all areas. It’s been very consistent.

“We’ve been very fortunate with the government support subsidy that we’ve been able to still pay people at four days per week. We’re very grateful for that initiative.

“We’ve done everything we can to support our people. New Zealand rugby has a unique culture.

There’s a huge amount of people working in areas they’re really passionate about so it’s a challenging process to work through.”

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NZ Rugby will face sweeping wage cuts. anteed provincial union payments for April but there are no promises beyond that.

Other budgets and activities are frozen. These measures, which aim to save $20 million, include cancelling this year’s Heartland Championship, national sevens tournaments and all representative rugby below the elite provincial level, the Mitre 10 and Farah Palmer Cup. “When you look at that potential loss of revenue and model that cost saving activity, we’re still looking at significant scenarios of deficits but we’ve done everything we can at this stage to preserve cash and get through this as best we can.”

Players throughout the rugby world have taken pay cuts. New Zealand athletes will be no different. By next week, all parties are expected to agree a figure, which has been around 25 per cent in other places such as England.

“We’re working with the players quite closely and we’d like to think sometime in the near future we can get something finalised in terms of their role. They’ve been really understanding.

“We’ve had leads from Dane

[Coles] and Beaudy who have been very supportive publicly in terms of their acknowledgement of how critical it is for New Zealand rugby to survive. They fully understand the gravity of the situation.”

Given the uncertainty surrounding any sporting resumption, New Zealand Rugby’s initial three month pay cuts will be regularly reviewed and Robinson indicated some staff may lose their jobs.

“The scale of the challenge is great so if we’re not recognising things quickly that could impact on the business very seriously.

“We are looking at the structure of the organisation now essentially but we’ll take a bit of time to get that right and understand what the future might look like.

There’s certainly the possibility of redundancies in time, but we’ll just have to work through that.”

The longer lockdowns persist, the further New Zealand Rugby will be forced to use cash reserves which are thought to sit between $70 to $90 million.

“We will have to dip into them.

We’re still working through exactly what that means and looks like.

“We’ve acknowledged to the board and stakeholders that reserves are there for times of crisis and we’ll be utilising them but we also want to make sure when we get through this we’re in a position that’s positive enough to rebound quickly. That’s part of the balancing act in all this.”

From a global perspective, World Rugby is being asked to prevent unions folding. It also has a crucial role to play in eventually reshaping the test calendar, with the July window unlikely to go ahead.

World Rugby forecast revenue from last year’s World Cup in Japan to exceed $700 million. Profit is expected to register approximately half that figure. Those funds will be needed now more than ever.

USA Rugby is the first union to collapse, filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy due to “insurmountable financial constraints” – though many of their financial issues not related to the coronavirus outbreak.

While Robinson’s focus is squarely on New Zealand’s survival he joined a conference call with national union bosses early

this week where mutual challenges were outlined to World Rugby.

The scale of potential World Rugby bailout packages hinges on how much, if any, international rugby can be played in the remainder of the year.

“They’ll come back with a plan as to how they might help. We’ve got no indication as to how that might look at the moment but they’re very engaged and they’re being very positive at present.

“They’ll be working through the scenarios and we’ll find out more as we work through it with them.”

Despite the doomsday crisis facing all sports, Robinson remains confident New Zealand Rugby will emerge out the other side.

“We’ve got to make it work and we’re positive we can. Everyone has to share in the pain of this.

There’s no way in a small ecosystem like New Zealand rugby that we can’t have everyone pitching in and being part of the solution.

“These situations bring people together to work for the greater good. We’ve found there’s been a huge amount of support to try and understand what people can do to help.”

Kiwi league star ejected from hospital for Covid-19 patients NZME

Mose Masoe has been ejected from hospital to make room for Covid-19 patients.

Kiwi-born former NRL prop Mose Masoe will have to continue rehabilitation from home after being asked to leave his hospital in England to make room for patients with Covid-19.

Masoe, who is the Hull Kingston Rovers co-captain, has been recovering after suffering a career-ending spinal injury in January.

He has make remarkable progress since, but the 30-year-old Samoa international said he was not ready to go home after being told he would be discharged from the Wakefield’s Pinderfields Hospital in the next 72 hours.

“They’ve got to clear out a lot of wards to get in the people who have coronavirus so a lot of us have to go home,” Masoe said on the Hull KR website.

“I’m not really ready to go home at all.

“It will be nice to get home so I can spend some time with my kids but there’s a lot of things I can’t do myself, like going to the toilet and things like that.

“I don’t want to put a burden on my missus.”

Hundreds of non-critical patients in the UK are being discharged to make room for coronavirus patients as the pandemic overruns the country’s health system.

Masoe, who played for the Sydney Roosters and Penrith Panthers at the NRL, urged

“selfish” people to stay home and stop spreading the virus.

“We need people to stay home so we can get back into the hospital to do rehab,” he said.

“People need to stop being selfish because we’ve felt the effects already.

“It’s the first time in the world you can save lives by just staying home watching TV or playing PlayStation - that’s my frustration with people who aren’t listening.

“They [his family] have been doing the right thing and staying away. I haven’t seen them for two weeks. “[But] I’m gutted to be going home because I wanted to keep my progression going.”

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With no live sport to watch, things are grim. We won’t hide from that. But, to create some debate and discussion, members of the Guardian’s sporting nuts club have decided to undertake a series of sporting discussions, which will run for as long as there are topics to list. Today we reminisce on a top sporting occasion at which we were present to witness the action.

Matt Markham NZ Trotting Cup 2005 I can’t claim to have been sitting in the stands for any major sporting moments in time.

No record-breaking innings at a cricket match, no historic All Blacks or Highlander victories at all, to be honest.

Not surprisingly, to those who know me though, will be the fact that my I WAS THERE moment comes at a race meeting. And it was a special moment for so many reasons.

The year was 2005, Tuesday, November 8 to be exact. All the talk around Addington Raceway was about this flash looking girl who’d begun her racing career in Mid Canterbury and was going to win the New Zealand Trotting Cup later that day.

Ricky May was in the bike, so that was always a plus – her name, Mainland Banner.

My association with Chrissie (as she was known off the track) began a lot earlier than that day.

I remember my father coming off the track at Methven one day after a workout and telling me that the horse he had just driven was a little bit special.

Bought for $9000 by Ian Sowden, she was later sold to Robert Dunn and went on this incredible run which culminated in her being at Addington Race-

Jaime Pitt-MacKay Lochore Cup Final 2017 My youth is absolutely a hindrance on this occasion, given that for most of the time I’ve been attending sporting events Christchurch has been viewed as second-rate for hosting sporting events thanks to the earthquakes.

This has meant I haven’t had the chance to view many big sporting moments at a national level, so I’m going to keep things local.

For that reason I’m going to stick to local iconic sporting games I’ve had the chance to witness. A few Watters Cup finals spring to mind, from the mudbowl, extra-time thriller between Rakaia and Methven at the showgrounds last year, or the thrilling Watters Cup final in 2017 between Southern and Rakaia that was moved to Mayfield and played on a Sunday due to torrential rainfall in the week leading up to the final.

The game that sticks in my memory the most, however, is the Lochore Cup final of 2017 against the West Coast, which Mid Canterbury won 47-15.

Maleli Sau

Steve Devereux Black Caps v Australia 2016 I was torn on this one; the triumphant Watters Cup final of 2018 looms so large; a heap of big Super Rugby games, international rugby at Eden Park, Athletic Park and Carisbrook; test cricket featuring the world’s best at Lancaster Park – but Baz trumps them all.

Hagley Oval, February 2016.

Captain of New Zealand, one Brendon McCullum, playing his 101st and final test for his country.

Perhaps with thoughts of Bradman’s final-test duck preying on his mind just a little.

Especially with Pattinson, Hazlewood, Marsh and Lyon proving irrestible; Black Caps 32 for 3.

Still, this is Baz’ back yard.

The baggy greens give him a guard of honour as he strides out, the ovation is rousing.

He has a little luck early, but then emerges Bren-

way on that fateful day.

Inexperienced, a mare and up against some hardy types, there were plenty of knockers, but after spending all day telling everyone that would listen that she would win, standing in the grandstand and cheering her and Ricky home was a massive moment and one I’ll never forget.

Perhaps it has only ever been even closely measured just the once – Terror To Love’s third New Zealand Trotting Cup win, again with Ricky May sitting in the sulky.

Mainland Banner in her earlier days.

While Mid Canterbury games have gone viral in the past for howling nor’westers that have sent kickoffs back over the players’ heads and out of play, this game went viral for a coathanger tackle from Maleli Sau that would’ve made Dwayne Johnson proud early in the game.

Sat down just beyond the goal area at the west end of the ground in the baking sun, a seething Sau trundled past taking off his boots and tape, and a sense of quiet came over the crowd, not sure how Mid Canterbury would respond.

It had been a topsy-turvy season for the Hammers thus far, but they responded perfectly, and despite conceding a penalty try and yellow card only minutes after Sau’s red card, they simply blew the Coasters off the park after that.

It was an incredibly dominant performance in a stunning venue that was the last success the Hammers have tasted recently.

It is not the biggest event in the global scheme of things, but was an amazing event to be at. don McCullum, Master Blaster. Sixes. Lots of them.

Tracer-bullet fours.

This is pyrotechnics time, and Baz is on the charge, big-time. Twenty-one off Marsh’s first over.

Parents in the crowd were protecting small children, no-one was safe.

Half century – 34 balls (this is test cricket remember). World record in sight if he can smash another 50 in 21 more deliveries – not a problem. Get there going 6, 4, 4, 4 off Hazlewood.

The crowd goes wild. Like, really. Even Steve Smith rushes to shake Baz’ hand.

Another of Viv Richards’ records tumbles.

Only the second New Zealander to hit a century in his final test, and Rodney Redmond’s hardly counts.

One of my companions’ sons had been remarkably quiet for the last hour – turns out he had his first sports bet at the TAB (just old enough) and his $10 was on Baz to get a ton, at around $20 to one.

Yeah, a great day to be there, for lots of folks.

Jonathan Leask The fog final I’ve been to a few important rugby matches in my time, but one that stands out is one I didn’t even see.

The Crusaders played host to the Hurricanes in the 2006 Super Rugby final – the infamous fog final.

I sat in the old Tui Stand at Jade Stadium, with a group of 44 university students, all sitting in a block, and I was the lone Crusaders fan. It made for an interesting evening.

Both teams were brimming with All Blacks, but the spectacle that had loomed large in the week-long build-up promptly disappeared behind a thick blanket of fog.

Thanks to the thick fog, there wasn’t a lot to see on the field, and the big screen wasn’t much use either.

For those at home it wasn’t much

Adam Burns Australia v New Zealand, Boxing Day Test, Melbourne, 2019 This result and the series may have been a resounding disappointment, but I hold no regrets in knocking off an item from my sporting bucket list.

Like thousands of other Kiwis, I had been anticipating this occasion for a long time.

Finally, New Zealand had been invited back to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for a Boxing Day test – the first since 1987.

Unfortunately, we were still migrating into the G by the time Trent Boult had knocked over Joe Burns in the first over of the match, the roar of the 80,000 Day 1 crowd (which included about 25,000 Kiwi supporters) from outside the ground was thunderous.

By the time I had found my seat, it took me a good half an hour to compose myself as I soaked up the atmosphere and overwhelming stage that was the MCG. There was little to crow about throughout the test for Kiwi fans, you could certainly absorb just how commanding the Australian bowling attack was in the flesh and it was an imposing setting for the New Zealand batsmen.

Us New Zealand supporters

better. But the atmosphere at the ground was great.

You had to go by the ohhs and ahhhs from around the ground to get a gist of what was happening.

The only action we really saw in the first half was two Dan Carter penalties, and then only when the ball was splitting the uprights.

Things got tense – and tough for a lone Crusaders fan in a sea of yellow and black – after two Jimmy Gopperth penalties levelled the scores at 9-9.

A try to Casey Laulala in the 62nd minute, down the far end in front of the Hadlee Stand, and a conversion from Dan Carter, proved the difference.

The Crusaders took it out 19-12, defending their title in what was at the time the franchise’s sixth.

It certainly wasn’t champagne rugby but it was a unique experience.

who had tripped over brought the noise and colour like there was no tomorrow and out-rallied the locals by some distance.

The visitors were rewarded for their vitality on the fourth day when Tom Blundell hit a gutsy 100.

Among the zinging supporters, Blundell reaching that milestone which sent us all into raptures was the most delirious moment I’ve ever experienced at a sporting event; remarkable considering we were comprehensively beaten.

The total attendance of 203,472 across the four days was also the biggest non-Ashes Boxing Daytest crowd in 44 years.

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It’s still hoped that the football season will begin as planned next month.

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By Adam Burns

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Mid Canterbury football bosses are still aiming to have the season under way early next month.

Community football was postponed until May 2 following a directive issued by New Zealand Football a fortnight ago.

Mid Canterbury’s local competition was originally slated to begin on the first weekend of May. The postponement also ap-

plied to community futsal.

Mid Canterbury United Football Club (MCUFC) committee chairman Neil Simons said this date remained intact.

“It’s still our scheduled start date so we’re just working towards that at this stage.

“We won’t know for another couple of weeks what’s going to happen.”

Last week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand would go into an Alert

Level 4 lockdown for at least four weeks beginning March 25 to combat the spread of Covid-19.

No announcements around further delays to the season had been made by Mainland Football or the national governing body.

However a Mainland spokesperson said they are evaluating their options and possible start date scenarios alongside New Zealand Football in a lengthy Facebook post last week.

“Right now that date (May 2) looks hard to hit.”

Mainland Football chief executive Julian Bowden could not be reached for comment yesterday.

The organisation was adopting social media as a means to keep players active with several training drill videos shared.

Simons said local coaches had also been corresponding with players during the lockdown period.

King Carlos rules his home domain NZME Think your dad has swag?

Spare a thought for Payton Spencer, son of Carlos, who just got shown up when his father made a guest appearance on his TikTok channel.

The younger Spencer has been sharing videos showing how their family is surviving lockdown and trying to nail difficult trick shots for his followers.

One shot involved firing a rugby ball backwards long-distance, over a fence and into a basketball hoop.

Payton had problems perfecting his aim.

Then King Carlos stepped up.

Too easy.

In case anyone thinks it all happened first time, an earlier video shows Carlos needed practice. But not much.

The following day, Carlos was at it again, nailing a long-range kick

into the hoop with enviable ease.

His son wrote: “Can’t believe the old man got it 2nd shot”.

It’s not the first time Carlos Spencer has made an appearance on his son’s growing TikTok channel, popping up in the past to shimmy shirtless to Nesian Mystik’s hit Sun Goes Down.

Carlos Spencer is one of many well-known New Zealanders to make an appearance on social media recently, detailing how they are coping with lockdown and sending messages of support to fellow Kiwis.

In a Government-funded ad, Kiwi icons such as Taika Waititi and Willie Apiata joined forces to tell Kiwis to encourage New Zealanders to work together to halt the spread of coronavirus.

They urged Kiwis to stay calm, be kind and take the pandemic seriously, using the hashtag #uniteagainstcovid19.

Carlos Spencer

Switching to a vegan or plantbased diet is a growing trend amongst sportspeople across the world. Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams are just some of the names that have embraced the dietary adjustment, but it is yet to catch on in rugby so much thus far.

However, All Blacks and Hurricanes scrum-half TJ Perenara recently shared on Twitter the effects of switching to a vegan diet.

The 65-cap All Blacks wrote: “Been doing some research on how to improve my diet as a vegan athlete and come across a lot of hate from people talking it down. I personally haven’t had any negative reaction from it and feel pretty good pre and post games.”

South Africa and Northampton Saints scrum-half Cobus Reinach commented, saying that he has adopted a plant-based diet this season in the northern hemisphere, and that he is “feeling much better” since he started eating cleaner.

He said: “Probably started beginning of our season here. Not completely vegan will eat meat beginning of week but three days before a game I eat no meat.

Feeling really good though.”

Veganism has become increasingly popular amongst athletes in recent years, helped by documentaries such as Netflix’s The Game Changers, which asserts that reducing the consumption of meat and dairy products can improve athletic performance.

However, this revolution has not made its way into the game of rugby in the way it has in some other sports, but the likes of Perenara and Reinach are a testament to the benefits of such a dietary change.

Perenara also revealed he has been vegan since “about November” after being a vegeterian for two and a half years, and made the switch for ethical reasons.

“I haven’t personally had heaps of criticism but I’ve seen people say a lot about other athletes,” he added.

He also added his view on the Game Changers documentary.

Before the global suspension of rugby due to the coronavirus pandemic, the season in the southern hemisphere was still young, and Reinach’s season with Northampton after the Rugby World Cup was also relatively fresh, but many will be interested to see the long term effects of this lifestyle change, and whether it picks up momentum in rugby.

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End of the road for Wellfield sire NZ Racing Desk

Road To Rock, the sire of dual Hong Kong Horse Of The Year Beauty Generation, passed away last week.

The Wellfield Lodge stallion had been battling laminitis issues in recent years and the tough decision was made to euthanise the dual Group One winner.

“He has had laminitis issues, which we have been managing for some time,” Wellfield Lodge director Bill Gleeson said.

“It got to the stage last week where we had to make a welfare decision on him, which was unfortunate.”

Road To Rock recorded victories in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) and Gr.1 George Main Stakes (1600m) for trainer Anthony Cummings before retiring to stud in New Zealand.

“We had a bit of an association with Anthony Cummings and he approached us to stand the horse,” Gleeson said.

The son of Encosta De Lago has sired four stakes winners to date, headlined by eight-time Group One winner Beauty Generation, a horse Wellfield has a strong affiliation with.

Wellfield Lodge stallion Road To Rock.

Bred by Greg Tomlinson under his Nearco Stud banner, Beauty Generation was purchased out of Highden Park’s 2014 New Zealand Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale draft for $60,000 by Kylie Bax under her Hermes Syndications banner.

He then returned to Manawatu to undertake his early education at Wellfield Lodge.

“He came back to the farm after the yearling sales,” Gleeson said “He spent 12 months on the farm, we did all the work on him. As a

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late two-year-old he went over to Anthony Cummings.

“We have been in a privileged position to stand the horse, but to have a close affinity with his best performed son adds a bit of nostalgia to it all.”

While he served a minimal amount of mares in his last few seasons at stud, Gleeson said Beauty Generation’s success in Hong Kong began to pique interest in Road To Rock from Asia.

“It generated quite a bit of interest in the farm, particularly

the Covid-19 pandemic, Gleeson said the farm took a proactive approach last week in turning out their entire race team and he said the farm’s clients will hopefully benefit from the farm’s private track.

“We decided to close our racing team down straight away and bring them all back to Wellfield,” he said.

“We took a stance when you could keep training them, that we wouldn’t because of the current situation.

“As to what the future holds it is very difficult to tell.”

Although racing has temporarily ceased in New Zealand, Gleeson is looking forward to this weekend where House Of Cartier will carry Wellfield Lodge’s colours in the Gr.2 Chairman’s Quality (2600m) at Randwick in Sydney.

Trained by ex-pat Kiwi John Sargent, House of Cartier has had three runs this preparation, including a last start fourth-placing in the Gr.3 Jack Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m).

“At this point she is going to back-up in the Chairman’s Quality on Saturday. That’s something to look forward to.”

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“Beauty Generation was the flagbearer for Road To Rock. As a result of his Asian success we fielded a number of calls about sending him to stud in China. But we resisted that opportunity because he meant a fair bit to us at the farm, he was a real character.”

While Gleeson said it is a sad time for the farm, he is looking forward to lining up a few of his progeny in the coming years.

“He had the ability to leave a good horse. His numbers dropped off dramatically over the last couple of years but we have kept breeding to him with specified matings and we expect there to be a few horses in the future to come.

“We have a couple that we really like that are in work. They are pretty well bred. There is a full to Art Deco and a full to Rock On and a half to Jessiegee.

“I think his days in the headlines aren’t quite finished yet. He was a good old soldier for the farm and it is always sad, particularly when you have had them for a number of years, they become a part of the farm.”

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11:20 Police Ten 7 3 0 11:50 Claws AO 0 12:35 Private Practice PGR 3 0 1:25 Happy Endings AO 3 1:45 Infomercials 2:50 Quantico AO 3 0 3:30 Desperate Housewives AO 3 0 4:15 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3 0 4:40 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours AO 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11pm NCIS AO 3 Torres’s partner vanishes, and the subsequent investigation leads to new evidence in a decade-old murder. 0 Midnight Infomercials

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:55 Another Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 Comedy.

Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers.

8:19 Charlie Says 16VLSC 2018 Drama. Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon. 10:05 Duplicate 16VS 2018 Drama.

Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse.

Billy Connolly’s Great American Naked Attraction 11:42 Sweetheart Con MVLC Trail, 8:40pm on TVNZ 1 9:35pm on TVNZ 2 2017 Thriller. Jessalyn Gilsig, Jon Cor. 1:06 Another BRAVO SKY 5 Kind Of Wedding MLSC 2018 10am Four Weddings USA 3 6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel Comedy. Kathleen Turner, Of Fortune PG 6:45 The 11am Snapped PGR 3 Kevin Zegers. 2:29 Crazy Simpsons PG 7:10 Modern Noon The Kelly Clarkson Famous MVLC 2017 Comedy.

Family PG 7:35 Modern Gregory Lay, Richard Short.

Show Family PG 8am Border 1pm The Real Housewives Security – Australia’s Frontline 3:44 Little Pink House ML 2017 Drama. Catherine Keener, M 8:25 Highway Thru Hell Of Beverly Hills PGR 3 Jeanne Tripplehorn. 5:21 The PG 9:15 Hardcore Pawn 2pm Below Deck PGR 3 PG 9:40 Hawaii Five-0 MV Domestics 16VLC 2018 Thriller.

3pm Keeping Up With The 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Modern Sonoya Mizuno, Tyler Hoechlin.

Kardashians PGR 3 Family PG 11:35 Modern 6:55 The Man Who Killed 4pm The People’s Court 3 Family PG Noon Jeopardy!

Hitler And Then The Bigfoot PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune 5pm Judge Jerry 16VLC 2018 Action. Sam Elliott, PG 12:50 Shades Of Blue 5:30 Hoarders 3 MVLSC 1:40 FBI MV 2:25 Hawaii Aidan Turner. 8:30 X-Men – 6:30 Love It Or List It Five-0 MV 3:10 Modern Family Dark Phoenix MVLC 2019 Action.

7:30 Tattoo Fixers PGR A cosmic force makes Jean Grey PG 3:35 Modern Family Sketch conceals a large portrait PG 4pm The Simpsons PG infinitely powerful, but also far 4:30 Jeopardy! PG 5pm Wheel more unstable, and the X-Men on biker Les; Alice spreads Of Fortune PG 5:30 Hardcore must decide whether her life Becca’s favourite food on her Pawn PG 6pm Highway is worth more than that of all leg; Jay immortalises Ashley’s Thru Hell PG 7pm Border of humanity. Sophie Turner, best mate as a pin-up girl.

Security – Australia’s Frontline James McAvoy.

M 7:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 8:35 Below Deck – Sailing 10:23 Permanent MSC 2017 8:30 NCIS MV 9:30 Seal Yacht AO Comedy. Patricia Arquette, Team MV 10:30 SVU MV Stewards brace and dishes Rainn Wilson.

11:15 Highway Thru Hell PG break as the last breakfast of 11:55 Lancaster Skies PGVL Friday 12:05 Modern the charter is served; the deck Family PG 12:55 Wheel Of 2019 War. Jeffrey Mundell, team gets into choppy waters Fortune PG 1:15 Jeopardy!

David Dobson. during a rough docking.

PG 1:40 Border Security Friday 1:30 Crazy – Australia’s Frontline 9:35 Hollywood Medium Famous MVLC 2017 Comedy.

M 2:05 Seal Team MV With Tyler Henry 3 2:45 Little Pink House ML 2:55 NCIS MV 3:40 SVU 10:30 Snapped PGR 3 2017 Drama. 4:21 Permanent MV 4:25 Hardcore Pawn 11:30 Killer Couples AO 3 MSC 2017 Comedy. 5:51 The PG 4:50 Hawaii Five-0 MV 12:20 Infomercials 3 Domestics 16VLC 2018 Thriller.

5:35 The Simpsons PG

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6am Ben 10 – Alien Force 3 0 6:25 Danger Mouse 3 0 6:50 The Loud House 3 0 7:15 Trulli Tales 3 0 7:30 Atomic Puppet 3 0 7:40 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 0 8:05 The Thundermans 3 0 8:30 Tiki Tour 3 0 9am 100 Things To Do Before 3 9:25 Advocates Of Change 9:30 MasterChef Junior USA 3 10:30 The Chase Australia 3 0 11:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 3 0 Noon Modern Dinosaurs 3 1pm Robot Wars 3 2pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm Antiques Roadshow 3 5pm 3rd Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Pawn Stars 3 6:30 Pawn Stars 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Mayday PGR 3 0 8:30 Forensics NZ AO 3 0 9:30 Madam Secretary PGR 0 10:30 Thursday Night Kick-Off

6:30 Paia 6:40 My Mokai 7:10 He Rourou 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Mahi Pai 7:40 Tamariki Haka 7:50 Huritua 8am Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9am He Kakano 3 9:30 Opaki 3 10am Waiata 3 10:30 Morena 3 11am Nga Tamariki O Te Kohu 3 Noon Nanakia PGR 3 12:30 City Slickers Rodeo 3 1pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 1:30 Ako 3 2 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Kapa Haka Whanau 3 3:30 Playlist 4pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 4:30 Patapatai 5pm Paia 5:10 My Mokai 5:40 He Rourou 5:50 E Kori 3 5:55 E Ki E Ki 6pm Mahi Pai 3 6:10 Tamariki Haka 6:20 Huritua 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm Tangaroa With Pio 7:30 Easy Eats 3 8pm Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 8:30 Waiata Nation 9pm Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9:30 F The Laughing Samoans 10pm F Only In Aotearoa AO 3 10:30 Nanakia PGR 3

11pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR The best of Stephen Colbert’s satire and comedy, discussing politics, entertainment, business, and more.

Midnight Closedown

11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities.

11:30 Closedown

MOVIES GREAtS 6:11 House At The End Of The Street MV 2012 Horror. Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue.

7:51 Gridiron Gang MVL 2006 Action.

Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Xzibit. 9:55 Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn: Part 1 MVS 2011 Fantasy. 11:50 Fast And Furious 6 MV 2013 Action. 2pm House At The End Of The Street MV 2012 Horror. 3:40 The Sapphires PGVLS 2012 Biographical Comedy. 5:25 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama. 7:05 Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo 16LS 2005 Comedy.

When Deuce Bigalow goes to Europe and discovers someone is murdering the city’s male prostitutes, he goes undercover to find the killer.

Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin.

8:30 Scream 4 16VLC 2011 Horror. Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer.

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette.

10:25 Inglourious Basterds 16VL 2009 War Drama.

Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson.

Friday 1am Cuban Fury MLS 2014 Romantic Comedy.

2:40 Blue Jasmine ML 2013 Drama. 4:20 Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo 16LS 2005 Comedy. 5:45 Scream 4 16VLC 2011 Horror.

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6am Paul Hollywood’s Pies And Puds 7am Gino’s Italian Escape 7:30 Nigellissima 8am Turtle Beach 9am Caribbean Pirate Treasure 9:30 Top Of The Shop 10:30 Mysteries At The Museum 11:30 Gem Hunt 12:30 The Curse Of Oak Island PGR 1:30 Running Wild With Bear Grylls 2:30 Alone – The Arctic PGR 4:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food The Hairy Bikers cook some of their favourite comfort food, from feasts for friends and family to meals inspired by pub grub.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7:30 Yukon Gold PGR Ken and Guillaume’s plan to get two sluice plants running fails after one falls off a truck, and the other spins itself into disrepair.

8:30 Discovering… The Police 9pm Discovering… The Pretenders 9:30 Ozzy And Jack’s World Detour PGR 10:30 American Pickers 11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 1:30 Caribbean Pirate Treasure 2am Dara And Ed’s Road To Mandalay 3am Discovering… The Police 3:30 Discovering… The Pretenders 4am Ozzy And Jack’s World Detour PGR 5am Mysteries At The Museum

UKtV

6:15 Insert Name Here M 6:45 EastEnders PG 7:20 The Graham Norton Show M 8:10 The Bill MVC 9am Midsomer Murders MVC 10:30 Call The Midwife PG 11:15 Doc Martin MC 12:05 Prime Suspect 16VC 1:40 The Bill MVC 2:30 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown M 3:25 The Force – Northeast MLC 4:20 The Graham Norton Show ML 5:15 Who Do You Think You Are? PG 6:20 Qi MS 6:55 EastEnders PG 7:30 Qi M With Danny Baker, Hugh Laurie, John Sessions, and Alan Davies.

8pm Would I Lie To You? PG Huw Edwards, Sarah Millican, Bradley Walsh, and Josie Lawrence join the regulars.

8:30 All Round To Mrs Brown’s MLS Mrs Brown and the family are joined by comedian Sue Perkins, Diversity’s Ashley Banjo, and actress Emilia Fox. 9:30 The Jonathan Ross Show M 10:20 Ackley Bridge MC 11:10 Prime Suspect 16VC Friday 12:45 Qi MS Friday 12:10 Director’s 1:15 QI M 1:45 Would I Cut 18VLSC 2018 Horror. 1:35 My Lie To You? PG 2:20 Who Revolution MC 2016 Comedy.

Do You Think You Are? 2:53 Making Babies MLS 2018 PG 3:20 All Round To Mrs Comedy. 4:18 They Come Brown’s MLS 4:10 The Knocking 18VLSC 2018 Horror.

Jonathan Ross Show M 5:41 Steve McQueen – Desert 4:55 Holby City MC 5:55 Doc Racer PG 2015 Documentary.

Martin M

6:46 Godzilla II – King Of The Monsters MVL 2019 Action. Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown. 8:55 The Darkest Minds MV 2018 Action. Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore. 10:40 Paris Can Wait PG 2016 Comedy.

Diane Lane. 12:10 Superfly 16VLSC 2018 Action.

2:05 Making Babies MLS 2018 Comedy. 3:30 They Come Knocking 18VLSC 2018 Horror. 4:55 My Revolution MC 2016 Comedy. 6:15 Steve McQueen – Desert Racer PG 2015 Documentary.

7:05 Destination Wedding MLS 2018 Comedy. Two miserable wedding guests discover they have a lot in common – they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding and most especially, each other. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder.

8:30 Ophelia MVC 2018 Drama.

A rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia is taken in by Queen Gerturde as one of her most trusted ladies in waiting.

Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts.

10:20 The Hummingbird Project ML 2019 Drama.

Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG The Shorty Short VW Bus. 7:30 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 7:55 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 8:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Fall Scramble.

9:10 Alaskan Bush People PG Storm’s Fury.

10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Expedition Unknown PG Captain Morgan’s Lost Gold. 11:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 12:30 Evil Lives Here M I Invited Him In. 1:20 Blood Relatives M The Lies That Bind. 2:10 Top Gear 3pm Deadliest Catch PG Blood in the Water. 4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG One Cool Impala.

5:40 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 6:35 Gold Rush PG We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bucket.

7:30 Gold Rush – White Water PG Golden Guys.

8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Aussie Mega Mechanics PG Shut Down.

10:15 Alaskan Bush People PG Storm’s Fury.

11:05 Naked And Afraid MLC Stomping Grounds.

Friday 12:45 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:10 World’s Deadliest Drivers PG 1:35 Deadliest Catch PG 3:15 Naked And Afraid MLC 4:55 Deadliest Catch PG

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Some representative netball tournaments have been moved to next year.

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Rep netball canned for year

By Adam Burns

adam.b@theguardian.co.nz

Age-group representative netballers in Mid Canterbury have been left to plan for 2021 after two new rep competitions have been crossed out for the year.

Netball New Zealand (NNZ) announced this week the under-18 championships and the open championships which were due to debut during this year’s domestic season were to be moved to next year.

The events were to replace the

under-17 and under-19 competitions respectively.

Mid Canterbury Netball (MCN) were set to send a rep team to the under-18 tournament which was scheduled to be held in Rotorua in July.

There had also been deliberation over a senior team making an appearance at the national open champs or the South Island equivalent, MCN centre manager Erin Tasker said.

The NNZ national open championships were to be held in

Palmerston North in September.

In NNZ’s Monday release, head of events and international Kate Agnew said the financial ramifications from the disrupted season would make it difficult for centres to get teams to the national event.

“Our wider netball community will continue to feel the financial fall-out from this unprecedented event and we want to ensure that we give everyone an opportunity to find their feet again and be represented at the netball.”

Furthermore, the Netball Mainland under-16 tournament which was to be held in Ashburton on Queen’s Birthday weekend has also been called off.

It means the majority of the Mid Canterbury rep programme had been cut for the season.

Tasker said the region had been planning on having five rep teams in total this season comprising of senior, under-18, under-16 A, under-16 B and under-16 development line-ups.

No decisions have been made

Football still hopeful of getting season under way

around the South Island open age championships in August which would potentially feature a senior team, as is the case for the Hanan Shield the same month which is to be played in Ashburton.

Both the South Island and National Secondary Schools’ tournaments are still set to take place later in the year.

Ashburton College’s A team made an appearance at last year’s national championships in Nelson.

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