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Eight years of waiting

By Sue Newman

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It may have taken eight years, but the journey to make Ashburton’s art gallery and heritage centre fit for purpose is coming to an end.

The building’s owner, the Ashburton District Council, will shortly begin internal and external maintenance work on the complex, after earlier this month resolving the litigation that the project had been immersed in for some time.

Work will involve fixing condensation and circulation problems that have been experienced in the building since it became fully occupied.

Some of that work will be weather dependent, but there were other repairs that would get under way over the coming weeks, chief executive Hamish Riach said.

“It is pleasing work can finally begin, because the art gallery and heritage centre is an important local facility. We’re keen to start making the necessary repairs to ensure it continues to be one of our district’s valued cultural centres for many years to come,” he said.

Included in the work schedule are repairs on the roof membrane and the installation of two mechanical air conditioning units.

The southern exterior wall will be sealed and painted in the spring and there will

be ongoing investigations into a solution for weatherproofing the three upstairs bay windows facing State Highway 1.

Over the time the maintenance had been deferred the council had taken additional steps to ensure the protection of the complex’s assets, Riach said.

This has included regular monitoring of temperatures and moisture levels and installing a temporary dehumidifier system where needed to maintain appropriate levels of climate control.

The upcoming work has been budgeted for in the council’s 2020/21 annual plan.

In the current year’s annual plan, the council set aside a provision of $2.5 million

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for potential remedial work on the building.

At that time it was still working through the details of the work required.

In October 2018 the council confirmed that it was involved in a court case over the ongoing issues and proceedings were issued against parties involved in the design and construction of the West Street building. While the litigation has been resolved, the settlement terms are confidential to the parties involved.

Work on the complex started in 2012 and the building was completed in 2014 with the building code of compliance signed off by the council in August that year.

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■■ CARTERS CREEK

Carters Creek on road to recovery

By Sue Newman

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Improving water quality in Tinwald’s Carters Creek has been on the to-do list for years, but an action plan has now been prepared that could see the creek’s rehabilitation earn it national recognition.

One of the biggest water quality issues is faecal contamination, some of this human, and at last week’s Ashburton Water Zone meeting, questions were raised over the source of that contamination – leaks in the Ashburton District Council’s pipes that take sewage to Ocean Farm or septic tanks on lifestyle blocks.

In a report, Environment Canterbury principal water scientist Adrian Meredith said no sources of contamination had been ruled out and there had been discussions with council staff to determine whether the waste pipes were to blame.

“Carters Creek has been the focus of a lot of community concern over the past 20 years and it’s had quite a lot of water quality problems over several years and it still has water quality problems, particularly on its lower reaches,” he said.

In addition there was evidence of direct stock access to the creek, particularly in areas where there were lifestyle blocks, Meredith said.

The creek rises above Tinwald

and runs into Lake Hood and there are a number of sites along its length where water quality is measured. Its quality was at is poorest between Tinwald and Lake Hood.

There were also problems through Tinwald with rubbish blocking the creek and small culverts.

“It’s not a nice waterway in terms of water quality. Most worrying thing is with faecal tracing results, the human source, and we’re trying to work through where this might be from.

“It’s probably septic tanks but we’re not discounting the council’s pipeline.”

ECan land management advisor Lachie Ashton was part of a community team that walked the stream and found that while some parts were well fenced, the creek banks were in good condition and water flows were good, there were areas in the eastern reaches of the creek with significant issues.

Landowners in those areas had been spoken to about the lack of fencing and there was a general agreement they could do much better, he said.

In 2008, the creek was one of the three worst polluted in Canterbury, zone committee member Willy Leferink said.

“We’ve been talking about improving that creek since 2001. We met with neighbours about addressing the issues, but it never

went any further. I don’t want to point any fingers, I don’t want to point the finger at the council and say it’s the sewer pipe that’s the problem, but if it is, we need to solve this. It’s all about getting together and solving this problem,” he said.

A master plan was needed for the creek and this presented a tremendous opportunity to get the community involved in fixing its problems, Leferink said.

There were groups that were keen to be involved in working on the project and undertaking creek plantings, he said.

“Carters Creek has been an eyesore for too long.”

That community rehabilitation project could be one that eventually earned a national environmental award, zone member Ian Mackenzie said.

“There are a whole lot of boxes to tick by taking on this project. It’s a very exciting proposal and one that will get big buy-in. Hopefully in 10 years’ time we can tell the story of how good it is as a restored waterway.”

The zone committee agreed to an action plan for the creek that included working with landowners on stock access issues, identifying contamination sources, working with community groups and individuals interested in enhancement projects and identifying funds to enable that work to take place.

An action plan has been prepared for improving water quality in Tinwald’s Carters Creek.

■■FIRE AND EMERGENCY

Lucky escape following early-morning Tinwald blaze

By Matt Markham

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A Tinwald family are counting themselves lucky after an early morning fire on Sunday all but destroyed their home.

Fire and Emergency Service representatives were called to the blaze on Archibald Street in Tinwald around 5:45am on Sunday morning after a member of the family had awoken to the sound of fire and alerted fellow family

members. It is believed a woman and three children were in the house at the time of the blaze.

“They all managed to get out of the house safely, and for us that’s the main thing,” Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Alan Burgess said yesterday.

“Unfortunately though, the house has suffered significant damage, and rooms not touched by the blaze have suffered smoke damage due the course of the event.”

The fire was largely contained to the kitchen and rear sections of the house.

Three trucks from the Ashburton station attended the blaze and were joined by units from Methven, a move Burgess said was done largely for increasing the number of breathing apparatus available to the firefighters at the scene, but it also served a purpose for an issue not probably thought of when fighting a

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blaze with intense heat.

“It was bitterly cold, freezing actually – so with the Methven guys there helping us out we were able to rotate staff, especially those who were getting wet.

“We could get them back to the station and get them warmed up before sending them out again.”

Fire risk management officer Bevan Findlay was at the scene over the course of the weekend trying to determine the cause of

the blaze, and while confident it wasn’t suspicious he added it was difficult to determine exactly what had happened.

“The extensive damage has made it very tricky to try and ascertain exactly what’s happened,” he said.

Fire crews had the blaze extinguished almost two hours after they were called and remained at the scene through the early stage of Sunday cleaning up the site.

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■■ NEW LIFE CHURCH

Life not yet back to normal

By Sue Newman

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Ashburton’s New Life Church might celebrate its membership in very large numbers, but it’s those numbers that mean it’s one of the few churches that have yet to return to regular Sunday services.

It’s a simple case of logistics. When your average service attendance numbers are well over the 100 allowed under Covid-19 level 2 restrictions, you simply can’t open your doors, pastor Lisa Anderson said.

Holding Sunday services under current number restrictions would have meant counting numbers at the door and inevitably drawing a line where church members would be turned away. And that was a call no-one was prepared to make, she said.

The church traditionally holds two services each Sunday and both are attended by well over 100 people.

Since New Zealand went into lockdown on March 26, Anderson said that online church services had been held and since the alert level dropped to 2, life groups had restarted, allowing church members to begin reconnecting.

“Social media has been absolutely great through this,” she said.

Thursday will see the church open its doors for the first time to members, with a limited number service held. A call to pre-register online has been made to church members and it’s been made clear that people can’t simply turn up on the night, Anderson said.

“This will be an absolute celebration of us getting back together.”

The church’s 50th birthday celebrations were a victim of the lockdown.

They were scheduled for the weekend of March 21 and planning was well advanced when the decision was made to cancel the event. And while no date has been set for a belated celebration, this is likely to occur later this year, she said.

It is the second time the New Life Church has been forced to cancel a signature event. In Feburary 2011 it was ready to celebrate the opening of its new church in Tinwald when the Canterbury earthquakes hit. Rather than celebrating a major event of its own, the church became the community’s evacuation centre for hundreds of displaced people from Christchurch.

New Life Church members (from left) Larissa Reid, Megan Roberts, Pastor Lisa Anderson and Lisa King, creating decorations for the church’s 50th anniversary celebrations that were called off by the Covid-19 pandemic, are now looking forward to services resuming in their Tinwald church.

■■ RAKAIA WEIGH STATION

Pressure mounting to scrap weigh bridge site

By Sue Newman

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Truckies don’t want it, mayor Neil Brown doesn’t want it, but the NZ Transport Agency is adamant it has selected the perfect site for a heavy truck weigh station near Rakaia.

Earlier this year NZTA staff outlined its plan to install a weigh right station just north of the Rakaia River bridge on land between the bridge and the rail overbridge. Ashburton District Council staff and councillors were told at a meeting that wide consultation on the site had been carried out with the trucking industry and that all the boxes had

been ticked for the project to proceed.

At that meeting Brown made it clear that the council did not agree. That location would create significant road safety issues, and there would be better sites in Rakaia itself, he said.

The site was chosen, NZTA said, because it could not be avoided by truckies as there were no alternative routes. They likened it to a similar weigh right facility in North Canterbury.

The Canterbury West Coast AA council also has significant concerns over the weigh bridge being built in what is already a high crash area.

Those concerns are backed up by the Road Transport Association NZ, with chief operating officer Simon Carson saying a weigh station just off the Rakaia River bridge posed an unacceptable accident risk.

The association represents trucking and freight companies across New Zealand and Carson said he was speaking out because of the huge potential for the weigh bridge to increase accident risks in what was already a high risk area.

“We’re speaking out before a fatality or serious injury occurs.”

The association supported weigh right stations because they

ensured trucks complied with safe loading requirements, but they needed to be built in safe locations, Carson said.

“After seeing the NZTA independent site audits, these clearly state that the proposed site is deemed to be high risk, with the occurrence of a serious or fatal accident occurring now being considered likely on this short stretch of road if the build goes as planned,” he said.

His organisation had been in continued opposition to this site but the agency’s stance showed it was going against its own basic business fundamentals, road safety and saving lives, Carson

said. There were plenty of other options where there were stretches of straight, safe highway on either side of Rakaia where a station could be built, but after several meetings and discussions with the agency, the site appeared to be chosen because of its potential high capture rate rather than on site safety, he said.

“Their judgement here is simply incorrect. If drivers wish to avoid this site there are multiple alternatives for them to bypass Rakaia.”

NZTA needed to give the reconsideration of the Rakaia bridge site absolute high priority, Carson said.

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■■ RUBBISH

Rubbish causes frustration

By Heather Mackenzie

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What’s wrong with people?

That’s the question Melrose Road resident Wendy asks herself every time she sees rubbish dumped in her local area.

The region is a nice place to explore or take your dogs for a walk, but Wendy feels the dumped rubbish and broken glass are an eyesore and need to be gone.

“Within a short walk from the entrance to the riverbed there is a large pile of broken beer bottles, five big plastic rubbish bags stuffed full, and a burnt out bed.”

Broken glass in the area has caused problems for Wendy and her dog.

“I took him to the vet with a cut on his paw. I was told the cut went right though and was probably caused by broken glass.”

Bags of rubbish and glass bottles are not the only offenders down there.

Wendy said since fast-food outlets have reopened there is a noticeable increase in takeaway packing being turfed out of cars.

“I wish there was some way to keep cars out of the area, as that would go a long way to solving the problem.”

EnviroWaste operations manage Shane Enright said the best way for people to deal with dumped rubbish is to contact Ashburton District Council directly and not EnviroWaste.

“We cannot pick up rubbish without an illegal dumping notice from the council, so people have to contact them first.

“Either ring directly, or download the free phone app Snap-Send-Solve and notify them that way.”

Enright said using the app is a good idea, as notification can be done there and then. Where possible EnviroWaste will identify the dumpers and infringe- Dumped bottles in the riverbed off Melrose Road ment notices will be sent out. have local resident Wendy fired up.

In brief Kiwis protest New Zealand protesters yesterday joined thousands of Americans in protesting the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd in a protest starting from Aotea Square in central Auckland.

The number gathered in central Auckland continued to swell to attend the Black Lives Matter March for Solidarity yesterday afternoon, which then travelled from Aotea Square to the US Consulate General on Customs Street. Other demonstrations took place yesterday in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Organisers estimate as many as 2000 people assembled in Aotea Square. Chants of “Black Lives Matter” were ringing out across the square, referencing the United States-based movement. Many protesters are holding banners and signs. “Justice for Floyd”, says one. The square went silent for a minute, to honour Floyd. - NZME

■■FEMALE ART AWARDS

Coral’s vibrant work becomes the people’s choice

By Susan Sandys

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The Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards (ZAFAA) just keeps getting bigger and better, says new Zonta president Sue Prowse.

She was delighted to award Coral Broughton of Rangiora with the People’s Choice Award at the Ashburton Art Gallery on Friday.

Hidden in Plain Sight was so popular it sold on the exhibition’s opening night, which was held prior to lockdown.

“It’s a bright and vibrant piece of work and you can see why people were quite drawn to it,” Prowse said.

Zonta members were delighted to be able to showcase female art in the annual exhibition, and it was exciting to see the award having more and more entries each year in just its fourth year, she said.

Almost 300 people voted for people’s choice at the exhibition, which has ended up closing six weeks later than initially planned due to lockdown. The exhibition and its companion show, The Trappings of Ghosts, is closing after Queen’s Birthday weekend to allow the installation of two new exhibitions to open June 11.

Broughton said her oil-on-canvas work explored the concept of the invisibility of ageing woman in Western culture.

ZAFAA convenor Jocelyn Southby (left) and Zonta president Sue Prowse (right) a were delighted to see Coral Broughton win the People’s Choice award.

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“In my work there is an implied narrative that the body of an older woman is understood to be a body that can no longer be

unveiled nor is valuable,” she said.

It has been a lifelong journey arriving at her career as an artist.

She was a mum of two and working as a maths teacher at Burnside High School when she took one year off as her father was dying of cancer. He passed away early in 2011 and his funeral was on the day of the February 22 earthquake.

Broughton picked up her mother from a devastated house to go to the funeral at 2pm, where aftershocks rattled the congregation.

It was a traumatising year, but helped her make the life-changing decision of returning to her passion of art rather than going back to teaching.

In her late 50s she enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Canterbury University, and today, aged 64, sells and exhibits her work while teaching from her Rangiora studio.

She is also currently undertaking her Masters in Visual Arts at the Dunedin School of Art. Broughton has won awards for her art before, in both Queenstown and Darfield, however the ZAFAA award was a definite career highlight, she said.

“And it’s a great confirmation of what people think of my work,” Broughton said.

“As women we doubt ourselves a lot, and putting something on a wall that someone can make a value judgement on is quite daunting,” she added.

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OUR VIEW

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US breaking apart from the inside

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f you’re anything like me and tend to become a bit of a sponge when it comes to big events in the mighty United States of America, this weekend will have been good for you.

I’m ok in admitting that I’m a closet US junkie (no, you won’t find a MAGA hat anywhere at my house) so reading, listening and watching all the news that’s coming from that part of the world at the moment has me on the edge of my seat.

The way in which that country is operating at the moment simply just boggles the mind.

A country in tatters. Riots and protesting around almost every corner. Police being bashed by civilians and vice versa and media representatives being caught in the crossfire, it’s polarising stuff.

Yet for the president of that country, it’s just a good opportunity to up his social media game, at least that’s how it would seem.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but if I was the leader of that country, I can’t quite imagine that the first reaction I’d likely have would be to thank myself on Twitter for the response to the unfolding situation.

That’s what Trump did over the weekend. He thanked himself in the third person and then went on to all but directly lay the blame on his political rival for the entire situation.

Remarkable stuff.

Trump’s mind-boggling antics aside, what is happening there is troubling.

You can quite safely lay blame on both sides of the fence here, with some of the riots and protesting going a little too far in their actions, but the response team to those actions in some cases should hang their head in shame too.

Lives are being affected, everyone is on a knife edge thanks to Covid-19 and it seems as though this is the first reaction in the aftermath of all of that.

Chances are though, unfortunately, it most likely won’t be the last.

■■ COMMENT

UK leaders want disengaged public

By Sophie Bateman RNZ

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nprecedented times call for an unprecedented level of communication with politicians, so we may look upon the faces of those who govern us and contemplate shoving them into a locker.

The United Kingdom has had more than 271,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 so far, with more than 38,000 deaths. Estimates by the Office for National Statistics suggest there are currently 8000 cases per day in England alone.

And now, as a bit of a pandemic treat, the UK government is screening a 45-minute absurdist comedy sketch every weekday at 5pm, which they have confidently been calling “press conferences”.

All of the past week’s briefings began with an announcement that the UK had done such a good job of beating coronavirus, and we were now in a position to begin moving from level 4 to level 3 of the nebulous risk management system hurriedly rushed into policy about two weeks ago.

Each daily presenter – none of whom was the prime minister, who you might expect to be present at these things – deliv-

ered the identical statement with the exact same intonations of surprise to trick the viewer into thinking something new was being said. It was a jarring reminder that every single one of these briefings is the same, from the sombre death toll count (“as of today, 37,159 people have... sadly... died, next slide please”) to pointing at charts to eventually taking questions.

After a couple of hand-picked softballs from the public, the journalists appear one by one, peering into webcams with the nervous expression of someone who knows that too probing a question may result in unforeseen technical difficulties and swift removal from the call.

The chosen minister, typically a white guy called Matt or Tom or Simon, is flanked by one or two “scientific advisers” – no craggy-jawed Dr Bloomfields sadly, only mild-mannered lab coat types. That’s excluding Dame Angela McLean, who is abrasive and cold like a piano teacher who knows you haven’t been practising your scales.

“We’ve been very clear,” she hoots peevishly at any attempts at clarification.

Everyone insists the government has been very clear – so clear that every day reveals

more loopholes and exceptions to the rule. In a startling new twist, leaving your home while sick with Covid-19 and driving 420km to your elderly parents’ house is acting “responsibly and legally”, if you happen to be Boris Johnson’s chief of staff.

The briefings have allowed the ministers to perfect the art of parroting reporters’ questions back at them, nodding magnanimously to suggest they have provided an illuminating response.

“Two very good questions!”

Matt Hancock roars at a reporter from the Financial Times, going on to answer neither.

Priti Patel answers a question about NHS care workers getting visa extensions by saying “the immigration system is complicated”.

Last Wednesday, a ham-faced man named Tim or George or Michael announced “Pick for Britain”, a Blitz-style call to action for citizens to go and work in orchards for the summer harvest due to the current lack of immigrants taking our jobs.

The website for the patriotic fruit picking endeavour promptly crashed, although whether it was too many teary-eyed Brits smashing the “apply” button with one hand while saluting with the other or basic techno-

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logical incompetence remains unclear.

One of the benefits of a country as small as New Zealand is the unavoidable intimacy of government. There can be no faceless authoritarian state when citizens regularly run into MPs at the supermarket, so some level of openness is required.

Things are different here. The featureless ministers, the droning answers that say nothing, the avoidance of anything resembling liveliness or humour or a shared acknowledgement of humanity – all of it is intentional to keep the public at arm’s length.

That’s not just because the Tories hate their own constituents, but because a disengaged population who thinks politics is boring and inaccessible poses no threat to power.

They want people to leave these briefings befuddled and bored, deciding they’ll use their own common sense rather than listen to what a bunch of Westminster elites have to say.

Then when a deadly virus kills a vast swathe of the population because public health advice wasn’t followed, they can say it was our fault.

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MARKET REPORT

By Guy Trafford A lot of discussion has taken place around the profitability and also the risks of making a single market, in this case China, the predominant driver of export returns – or so it would appear if we believe the media.

The reality is somewhat different.

The most recent figures I can find from Stats NZ has China being our biggest returner, but apart from forestry, too much?

• 33% of dairy product • 60% of forestry • 40% of meat products • Plus 19% of tourist spending within NZ All of these are 2019 so pre-Covid-19.

New Zealand has experienced ‘single market failure’ in the past when we were totally reliant on the UK market pre 1939 (WW2) the numbers were: • 97% butter • 99% cheese • 99% sheep meat This along with wool made up the vast bulk of our exports.

By the late 60’s early 70’s the numbers for these products were still very high with: • 90% butter • 80% cheese • 80% lamb (note not sheep meat now) Where the change had occurred was that total exports to UK now made up only 39% of total exports of which lamb made up 12 per cent less than pre-war but still a sizable chunk.

The weakness of New Zealand’s export policy was exposed and went into meltdown mode when the UK voted to join the EEC in 1973.

There had been three or more years of warning bells that this

was happening but our ability to diversify into new markets was limited and things happened at a slower pace back then.

The issues were magnified by the oil price spike which came shortly after and the combined hit led to the Muldoon government’s attempt to leverage a recovery through the heavy subsidisation of agriculture, which, while pleasant while it lasted, ultimately ended in tears for farmers and Muldoon.

So, the China component which in 2019 made up 28 per cent of export returns (up from 24 per cent in 2018) is in a totally different league to what the perhaps naïve influence the UK market had.

What I believe has happened with China is that it is basically the ‘new boy in the block’ relatively speaking and its influence has upset what was the status quo in the supply and demand equation and through rapidly becoming our major market has added another tier of profitability on top of the ‘bar graph’ which wasn’t there before.

The line graph below from 2000 – 2020 clearly illustrates this and shows the recent impact of China on our exports.

Given that the earning capacity of the average Chinese is considerably lower to that of the average westerner, especially those shown as being our major trading partners.

It is perhaps interesting to see how they have managed to elevate themselves into that position.

A recent article I came across provided a good summary of this comparison.

At the individual level the average Chinese citizen ranks 65th in the world (one behind

Mexico) so hardly a position of strength for a trading partner.

However, China is a world of two economies, the Urban and the Rural. The Rural in 2018 made up 41 per cent, so 59 per cent in Urban cities and growing.

Back in 2008 the numbers could have been quite tidily reversed.

Not surprisingly, the area of China that New Zealand exporters are concerned with is Urban China and 59 per cent of a population of 1.4 billion still makes more than 800 million.

To put this into context the EU (the next largest population block) currently has around 446 million and even with the 66 million from the UK added still falls considerably short.

When the urban sector alone is studied, then the China earning capacity and more importantly spending capacity takes on a whole different picture.

As with many Asian cultures, Chinese are good savers, although this aspect appears to have weakened with the younger generations.

Along with saving, the Chinese have accumulated considerable wealth.

This is largely due to the Chinese government decision to privatise the then state owned housing stock in the late 1990s and most Chinese “were able to buy their homes and apartments at rates that are a fraction of what they are today”.

So, when it comes to comparing household debt in China to that of the USA, 57 per cent of Chinese have debt compared to 77 per cent of the USA and of that debt only makes up 16 per cent of assets compared to 36 per cent of the USA. 96 per cent of Chinese own their own

homes with 31 per cent owning two more apartments. (I’m not quite sure who lives in these given everybody owns their own house, perhaps the kids??)

So, the end result of all this household ownership is that what someone earns has less effect on their spending when you have this degree of wealth behind them and little debt or rent to service.

“In fact, China’s median urban household net worth stood at US$198,330 at the end of 2019, versus an estimated US$104,000 in the US.” As my wife, who spent time in China teaching in the outer region, said to me, there is plenty of poverty still in China and so these numbers could convey a false picture of it. However, New Zealand’s focus is on the cities and the wealthier sectors within them.

So, diversifying into other markets is always obviously important but we should not lose sight of just how and perhaps more importantly why China is so important to our returns and how they have managed to achieve that.

“So long as the fundamental components of why China has ended up being our major trading partner remains sound – so long as this component of our total trading mix remains in balance, and I would argue that currently it still is. I believe we should be cautious before throwing the China baby out with the bath water.

A reminder of the importance of the China influence is what has happened to the venison and wool industries which at least in part can show what can happen when China no longer plays an integral part in their supply chain.

The markets A positive week for most products with the exception of wool which continues to weigh as an anchor on sheep returns.

Red meat

All, yes all, even venison had a lift from Alliance.

Let’s hope it’s not a ‘dead cat bounce’ but does indicate a real bit of positivity.

At $5.90 per kg hardly stunning returns but a minor win.

All other categories of meat experienced some lift with most around 10c per kg and the occasional 20 cent rise.

Wools

At the previous Napier sale lamb’s wool looked OK. However, this was largely due to more wool falling into the finer grades and thereby lifting the overall average.

Last weeks Napier sale had no wool in these grades and the true fall in prices is revealed.

Lamb is now matching coarse wool at 210 cents per kg.

This seems to indicate that 210 is the bottom price buyers are prepared to let things fall to before getting interested as lamb should be several dollars better than coarse wool in a normal situation.

Saleyards Prices for ewes and store lambs had a lift last week reflected the added interest coming from the processors.

However, beef prices took a step backwards.

Maybe a lack of winter feed supplies is an issue for finishers to take additional stock through.

Dairy Nothing to report at this stage as the season comes to an end for most producers.

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Greenstreet in snow.

Winter woes in early Ashburton

By Connor Lysaght

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hen it comes to staying warm, many of us are privileged to have electric heaters, puffer jackets, and nice warm blankets to swaddle up in.

As for travelling short and long distances, our cars and buses have heaters which usually suffice in keeping us cosy while we commute.

In the early days of Ashburton District, or Ashburton County as it was then, things were very different when it came to staving off the elements.

Alex Hewson’s Early Days in the Ashburton County was first serialised in the Guardian in 1918, then published as a booklet later that year.

Eventually, these reminisces were republished as a booklet in 1996 by the Ashburton Museum and Historical Society.

This booklet contains a number of interesting and valuable stories from Ashburton’s past.

Such stories dwell on the hardships of early pioneer life in the locality, including one tale about a swagman who unfortunately lost his legs to frostbite, which we retold in a 2018 Heritage Page.

As we head into winter and turn our heat pumps up a few degrees, let’s take a look back in time to the mid-to-late 1800s

and see how our predecessors handled the colder months.

The freezing hills Domestic life for early Pakeha settlers was full of unpleasant surprises.

In a past article, I discussed the notion that while the Maori had much more time to acclimatise to New Zealand’s extremes, nineteenth century European colonists had only just begun to understand what it meant to live in Aotearoa.

It would take much time and effort to establish the infrastructure and way of life that the Europeans were used to, and this was quite evident in early Ashburton County.

Hewson describes the winter of 1878 as the coldest he ever experienced.

He was at Clent Hills that year, northwest of Mount Somers and just southwest of Mount Taylor.

According to Hewson, at one point it froze for 10 days straight without a thaw, and he goes on to describe some of the hardships he and Mrs Hewson faced that winter.

“I killed a sheep for mutton, and it was hung up for a few days in the woolshed. I was going to cut chops, but could do nothing with knife or tomahawk, so I took it outside on the frozen snow and started with the axe; but all the impression I could make was

Ashburton railway in snow, post 1920

chips flying off the same, just as hitting freestone. The only way I could cut chops was with a handsaw. The bone was the softest.”

He makes further testament to just how cold it was at Clent Hills as he describes how “there had been an enamelled iron jug full of water left in a bedroom. The water had frozen solid and burst the jug”.

At night, he continued, Mrs Hewson filled the range with Mount Somers coal before bedtime, and put the night’s milk on a chair close to the range.

In the morning, they had to cut the milk in the pan or break off pieces of the solid mass.

“I have had, when in bed, to break the ice on my whiskers; they were all frozen with my breath. The Ashburton was frozen over, and all the lakes were a sheet of ice. The sheep crossed the lakes and also the horse and cattle.”

Stay warm together As we continue through Covid-19 Alert Level 2 and go into winter, remember to take time to check on your whanau and friends to see if they need help preparing for the cold weather.

When I was studying in Dunedin last year, I remember all too vividly how cold my old lean-to flat used to get.

Every morning I awoke to find that the butter in the kitchen had gone rock-hard, and to make things worse it took ages for the hot water to get going.

If you kept the windows shut, the condensation would build up and the walls would sweat, and if you opened the windows, the whole house would practically freeze up.

Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don’t!

This is the case for a fair few student flats in Dunedin, and while things are a mite more comfortable here, it is still important that we make sure that those around us are not shivering at home.

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Learning poise and balance on court A group of squash up-and-comers jumped at the opportunity to learn off one of the country’s best at the weekend. The Ashburton Squash Club hosted a “have a go” open day on Saturday where New Zealand World Juniors squash coach Nick Mita offered a series of coaching tips. The day was about providing opportunities for players across various levels. Mita (above) takes the youngsters through a drill at the session.

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Date set for global rugby discussions The All Blacks’ schedule could see a radical shakeup, should a new proposal be accepted at a meeting of rugby’s leading governing bodies in two weeks.

June 15 is the date that rugby, as it is traditionally scheduled, could change forever – and a revolutionary global calendar be agreed.

Following recent talks between Six Nations and Sanzaar, the governing body of the Rugby Championship and Super Rugby, a follow-up meeting is now scheduled in Dublin in just over two weeks’ time.

This summit will include the Premiership, Top 14 and Pro14 – along with World Rugby – in the hope that an agreement can be reached on the best way forward for professional rugby to better align the disparate fixture schedules north and south of the equator.

French newspaper Midi Olympique is reporting that the various structures on the table have been presented to the Top 14 club pres-

idents, who had been looking at a September start for their 2020/21 season in France following the late April cancellation of the suspended 2019/20 season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Paul Goze, president of Ligue Nationale de Rugby, apparently outlined on Friday evening the two options that will be on the table when the main tournaments from around the world convene in just over a fortnight to decide what is possible.

In all cases, the remainder of 2020 would be left blank from new club rugby seasons.

The first option would see the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship played at the same time in March and April 2021, with the summer test window moved to October and running into the traditional November schedule, the one piece of the international schedule that would remain untouched.

The annual Rugby Championship – now contested between the All Blacks, Australia, South

Africa and Argentina – has been played in some form since 1996, traditionally between August and October.

According to Goze, this would result in the Top 14 and the other European leagues starting their new seasons in January 2021 with an eight-week block.

They would then break for the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship, before resuming in late April and running the whole way through to September 2021.

The second option apparently on the table would see the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship continue at their current different times of the year, with the leagues in Europe starting instead in late March 2021 and continuing through to the end of September.

According to the report, the information relayed by Goze left the majority of the Top 14 club presidents taken aback and concerned that they might not be able to adapt their businesses to a new The All Blacks might be facing a whole new global ball game. calendar year schedule.

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‘Massive honour’ for ABs skipper Former All Blacks captain Kieran Read has ranked receiving a Queen’s Birthday honour alongside some of his greatest achievements.

One of the most capped rugby players of all time, Read wore the black jersey 128 times during 2008-19.

He was a key member of the 2011 and 2015 world champion teams before captaining the All Blacks 52 times, including at last year’s World Cup. The 34-year-old has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to rugby – an award he described as a “massive honour” and one his family were proud of.

“It’s right up there,” he said.

“You never expect these types of honours but I’m chuffed. [My parents have] always looked over my career and been

a part of it for a long time, they got to as many matches as they could.

“It’s the wider community as well, it’s friends, your wider family who have taken a massive interest in what I’ve done, it’s a pretty big acknowledgement, so I’m very thankful for it.”

Read was contracted to play in Japan after the World Cup for Toyota Verblitz until 2021, but returned to New Zealand to be with his family in Christchurch following the cancellation of the Japanese Top League because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Like many players in New Zealand, he has been left pondering if he would see out his contract overseas, and has indicated his interest in potentially playing for Counties Manukau in this season’s Mitre 10 Cup, due to start on September 11.

Read said he hasn’t made any plans yet around retirement, hoping to see out his contract in Japan, but that the recent lockdown had put things in perspective.

“It’s a forced break from the game.

“I was naturally slowing myself down heading to Japan and having not had anything really to train for, it’s given me a little insight as to what it’s going to be like when I do retire, and in all honesty, it’s been fine for me, so whenever that day comes, I’ll be more than happy to move into that era of my life.

“The plan at the moment is to head back to Japan, but the season won’t start until next year.

“It’s all just a matter of wait and see around borders to get back up and running. At the moment, I’m enjoying time with the family.”

Kieran Read, ONZM.

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Netball trailblazer honoured with ONZM She was named New Zealand’s dream player of 75 years of netball at the turn of the millennium but Joan Harnett-Kindley says she would give her “eye teeth” to have played today’s game.

The 34th Silver Fern has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit – for services to netball and the real estate industry, in the Queen’s birthday honours.

Harnett-Kindley’s international career spanned from 1963 to 1971.

She follows the modern game and said she would have loved the opportunity to play in this era.

“The game is more aggressive.

“We had to have skills but today you have to be skilful in order to win and you’ve got to be aggressive, and you’ve got to think and you’ve got to play as a team,” said Harnett-Kindley.

“We couldn’t play as fast as they do now because we had to make the ball work for us because we played on those asphalt surfaces.

“So it would be too dangerous to allow the amount of aggressiveness that there is in contention in play that there is today; you couldn’t do it on the asphalt courts, there would be too many injuries.”

While so much has changed, history also keeps repeating.

Harnett-Kindley played at the inaugural World Championships in England in 1963, when they finished second behind Australia, after losing to their rivals by just one goal in pool play.

Incredibly that’s happened a few times since then – the latest at the World Cup in Liverpool last year when the Ferns prevailed over Australia by a single goal in the final.

“There’s very little between us, although Australia have beaten us more times than we’ve beaten them.

“We had a spell there for a while where we just didn’t have that aggressiveness – that do or die attitude that Australia has, so we needed to get that back into our game and it is there now so it’s re-

Joan Harnett was Silver Fern No. 34, starting in 1963. mained as close as it always was.”

Harnett-Kindley said she was delighted to receive an honour and felt very lucky.

“I think of all the other players that I played with, I couldn’t do it on my own, and I played with some very good players.”

Harnett-Kindley is credited with changing the public perception of netball in New Zealand, with her mix of athleticism and grace.

She’s said to have redefined the scope and skill of the shooting positions, with her ability to read the game and instinctive play.

She had an eight-year international career that included three World Cups, which was a long stint back then.

“Women really didn’t play as long as what they do now.

“Now of course they can perhaps afford to keep going when they have a family because they’re paid.

“Also it was sort of like there was always some young people coming up behind you, once you sort of reached 21, 22, it was sort of like ‘you should be retired’.

“Now they’re into their 30s and sometimes 40s which is fantastic because you are at your best, I mean you’ve had all that experience.”

Harnett-Kindley finished her career with just 26 test caps because they had far fewer fixtures back then.

“There wasn’t so much competition against other countries as there is now. So you didn’t play as many games, you only had your world tournament every four years.

“We had the odd few games against England, South Africa, and Australia so we didn’t get the amount of play in those days that they do now, it’s very competitive now.”

It also took a huge effort to get anywhere; in 1963 they had to travel six weeks each way to England by ship.

“It wasn’t very good for your fitness really because it’s very difficult to run around a deck and we were right down om the bowels of the ship of course ... you had to raise a certain amount of money yourself if you were going to play in the World Tournament.”

Harnett-Kindley said the game has a far bigger following today.

“You didn’t get the crowds because you didn’t get the media ... you got very little TV coverage if you got any.”

Despite that, she was often recognised on the street, particularly where she was based in Christchurch.

“The Christchurch Press actually gave the Canterbury team, and then the New Zealand team a lot of coverage.

“They were right behind us whereas perhaps a lot of the other papers didn’t really pick up on netball in those days.”

Unlike many current Silver Ferns, Harnett and her teammates didn’t feature in the Woman’s Weekly.

But Harnett-Kindley made the spotlight in England during the World Champs.

“I appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror with our Maori mascot ... it was quite something because netball wasn’t that well known then.”

She said men were considered

Joan Harnett slots a goal in a test against the Australians. “a bit odd” if they turned up to watch a game.

But towards the end of her career they actually started playing against rugby players.

“Because they learnt a lot of skills from us for their rugby.

“I can remember the late Laurie O’Reilly [the first Black Ferns selector, coach and stalwart of women’s rugby] got his rugby team to come and play against us.

“He could see the skills that we had with the ball and the vision that you had to have so I think that he thought this was going to rub off on the guys and I think to a certain extent it did.”

When Harnett-Kindley started playing netball in primary school, it was just after the sport had gone from 9-aside basketball to 7-aside.

“I remember watching the 9-aside and thinking you know ‘everybody cramped up into that

little space and only allowed to go into one third’ ... it’s a much better game now.”

Harnett-Kindley was named as the Player of the Tournament at the 1967 Netball World Cup in Perth, won by New Zealand, before captaining New Zealand at the 1971 champs in Jamaica.

She served as a provincial netball coach and administrator in Canterbury.

Harnett-Kindley, who is now retired in Wanaka, had a long career in real estate and was the first woman awarded both a Fellowship and Life Membership to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.

Former Silver Ferns physiotherapist Sharon Kearney was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to physiotherapy and netball.

Mary Thompson received the same honour for services to netball administration.

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club at Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 02 Jun 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

1 65x21 Run Run Rover 30.36................A Bradshaw 7 21738 Homebush Barclay nwtd............J McInerney 2 57874 Opawa Jane 30.49...........................R Wales 8 7x842 Vik Vikkers 17.47..........................C Roberts 3 7x776 Ascott 31.20.....................................C Steele 9 47535 Andrea Said 18.14 J M.................... McCook 4 24324 Meatloaf nwtd................................S Hindson 10 47257 Jaubert 17.66.............................R Blackburn 5 56542 Goldstar Alaska 31.07 S &...............B Evans 10 3.24pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STKS C1, 520m 6 11733 Leonard Bale nwtd........................C Roberts 1 658x7 Smash McDougal 30.95...............D Kingston 7 13 Great Work 30.46 J &.......................D Fahey 2 18x22 More Than That nwtd J &.................D Fahey 8 6114x Van Nindi nwtd....................................C Weir 3 22527 Little Secret 30.44......................... L Waretini 9 35282 Hustle Ace 30.54.........................N Wanhalla 4 16655 Goldstar Whitey 30.35 S &...............B Evans 10 x4625 Go Punter Go nwtd..........................R Wales 5 16786 Jinja Toni 30.73.................................A Joyce 6 2.04 GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND STAKES 6 22115 Usain Bale 30.64...........................C Roberts 73St, Burnett Ashburton Members I.B.A.N.ZBye & Brokernet Ltd. LevelSt, 2, 73 St,|Ashburton Members of NZBrokers I.B.A.N.Z & NZ Brokernet 2, 73 Level Burnett Ashburton | Members of|of I.B.A.N.Z & C1, 520m Level Level Punter 30.96......................R 7 Wales 2, 73 Burnett St,2, Ashburton |Burnett Members of 5x333 Bye I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. NZ Ltd. 1 13 All Unite 30.51 J &...........................D Fahey 8 22252 Go Diego 30.38 J &..........................D Fahey Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. 2 33472 Max Volume nwtd.......................A Bradshaw 9 35282 Hustle Ace 30.54.........................N Wanhalla 3 76211 Miss Adobe 30.50.........................M Roberts 10 62748 Afridi 30.87.......................................C Steele 4 x2241 Opawa Nova 30.69..........................R Wales 11 3.44pm ISLINGTON TAVERN SPRINT C1, 295m 5 65152 Making News nwtd............................ B Dann 1 24337 Horse Range Gold 17.71................. M Grant 6 77787 Tikao Jackie nwtd M &......................... Smith 2 32216 Mitcham Queen 17.63................J McInerney 7 65477 Goldstar Truman 30.54 S &..............B Evans 3 51577 Absent 17.27.................................. G Cleeve 8 32786 Jinja Twinkle nwtd.............................A Joyce 4 18234 Moany Maloney 17.53................A Bradshaw 9 35282 Hustle Ace 30.54.........................N Wanhalla 5 25787 Mick The Mower 17.75...............J McInerney 10 6x374 Haidee Bale 30.44........................D Roberts 6 1x46 By Gum 17.85 J M........................... McCook 7 2.24pm CHRISTCHURCHGREYHOUNDS.CO.NZ 7 66842 Mega Dream nwtd..........................R Adcock DASH C1, 295m 8 58622 Dyna Trevor 17.42.......................H Anderton 1 64147 Bound Up 17.58.........................J McInerney 9 24358 Shanly Star 17.15......................J McInerney 2 2124 Tabby 17.62..................................S Hindson 10 78x52 Precious Payton 17.49 S &..............B Evans 3 51736 Homebush Fairy 17.85...............J McInerney 12 4.04pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C1, 295m 4 48633 Goldstar Jay Jay 17.24 S &..............B Evans 1 32688 Homebush Sayer 17.54.............J McInerney 5 22F13 Sneaky Snitch 17.51 H &.....................Taylor 2 71477 Know Logic 17.21.......................... G Cleeve 6 47x36 Retallick 17.33 J M........................... McCook 3 26163 Culvie Numb Boy 17.86 H &................Taylor 7 41484 Mitcham Ryder 17.48.................J McInerney 4 63187 Impressive Mood 17.59..............J McInerney 8 37746 Gotcha Pixie 17.55..........................J M Lane 5 37882 Raquel Allen 17.47........................C Roberts 9 85636 Don’t Cry Joni 17.62............................A Lee 6 54578 Mulberry Minx 17.34..................... K Cassidy 10 47347 Ohoka Lacey 17.47....................... L Waretini 7 5311 Opawa Stubborn 17.44..............J McInerney 8 2.44pm MY REDEEMER DISTANCE C1d, 645m 8 82626 Azkadellia 17.44.........................R Blackburn 1 78776 Alotta Talk 38.00 S &........................B Evans 9 47535 Andrea Said 18.14 J M.................... McCook 2 37243 Barrel Runner nwtd....................A Bradshaw 10 34287 Justin Lincoln 17.46 S &..................B Evans 3 58131 Black Stockings 37.92................A Bradshaw SELECTIONS 4 33552 Student Loan 38.15 J &...................D Fahey Race 1: Mitcham Sam, Horse Range Opal, Mulberry Will 5 87573 Replica Casino 38.27......................B Pringle Race 2: Maffra Daisy, Dorothy Be Good, Jinja Cream Fizz 6 11F75 Goldstar Yankee 38.13 S &..............B Evans Race 3: Our Cook, Kingi Reigns, Dyna Elliot, Mitcham Reado 7 x4565 Know Anxiety 38.44....................... G Cleeve Race 4: Homebush Mandy, Know Tactics, Rocco Jewel, Nykara 8 67667 Mayhem Made nwtd...................A Bradshaw Race 5: Van Nindi, Run Run Rover, Leonard Bale, Opawa Jane 9 71638 Longshanks nwtd.......................A Bradshaw Race 6: All Unite, Miss Adobe, Opawa Nova, Goldstar Truman 9 3.04pm CASSWOODS FOR CARPET BINDING & Race 7: Mitcham Ryder, Tabby, Retallick, Goldstar Jay Jay Race 8: Black Stockings, Alotta Talk, Goldstar Yankee, Longshanks MATS DASH C1, 295m 1 7x326 Homebush Carl nwtd.................J McInerney Race 9: Know Crime, Mulberry Rock, Vik Vikkers, Ghost Mode 2 22272 Know Crime nwtd........................... G Cleeve Race 10: Usain Bale, Bye Bye Punter, Little Secret 3 21666 Ghost Mode 17.51 H &........................Taylor Race 11: Dyna Trevor, Mega Dream, Moany Maloney 4 186 Mikil 17.66......................................... B Dann Race 12: Opawa Stubborn, Know Logic Raquel Allen, Azkadellia 5 33546 Elite Blueblood 17.63.................J McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 6 25413 Mulberry Rock 17.37..................... K Cassidy - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Palmerston North dogs Today at Manawatu Raceway 8 21242 Novo Ollie 26.15.................................L Cole 9 78816 Bigtime Benji 25.74.............................L Cole 10 37288 Big League Diva 25.95 G &.... S Fredrickson 5 1.17pm PNGRC SECTIONAL TIMES @ PNGREYHOUNDS.KIWI C3/C4 C3/4, 457m 1 31114 Big Time Mac 26.17............................L Cole 2 42365 Big Time Anton 26.16..........................L Cole 3 64471 Bigtime Acacia 26.09..........................L Cole 4 44242 Big Time Harley 25.92.........................L Cole 5 11113 Big Time Baby 26.01...........................L Cole 6 51234 Big Time Chad 26.50..........................L Cole 7 35417 Broke Brad 23.03.........................A Turnwald 8 22382 Cheeseball 26.11................................L Cole 9 78816 Bigtime Benji 25.74.............................L Cole 10 37288 Big League Diva 25.95 G &.... S Fredrickson 6 1.34pm TOTAL BODYSHOP SUPPLIES C5 C5, 457m 1 12173 Big Time Kobe 25.89...........................L Cole 2 21111 Big Time Seth 25.76............................L Cole 3 23525 Emgrand Park 25.92....................A Turnwald 4 16637 Big Time Jackson 26.13......................L Cole 5 18322 Big Time Brie nwtd..............................L Cole 6 55421 Bigtime Archie 26.26...........................L Cole 7 232x4 Zipping Sarah nwtd......................A Turnwald 8 75153 Big Time Izzy 26.80.............................L Cole 9 138x7 Bigtime Brody 25.64............................L Cole 7 1.53 KERNOW CONSTRUCTION DISTANCE FEATURE C2d, 660m 1 47x55 Race Me Home nwtd...................B Hodgson 2 42846 Kamada Park 38.50.....................A Turnwald 3 26356 Rich Lister nwtd.............................M Gowan 4 46473 Hot Platter 38.72..........................A Turnwald 5 32724 Double That 38.85 G &........... S Fredrickson 6 41367 Meandering nwtd.........................A Turnwald 7 12836 Emgrand Rose nwtd....................A Turnwald 8 64268 Waitohi 39.43...............................A Turnwald 8 2.13pm GREYHOUND AS PETS C5 C5, 410m 1 25333 Big Time Pluto 23.28...........................L Cole 2 117x2 Bigtime Cooper 23.27.........................L Cole 3 21248 Cheese And Chalk 23.44....................L Cole 4 11115 Big Time Fairy 23.13...........................L Cole 5 16616 Allegro Curtis 23.27............................L Cole 6 34414 Big Time Kevin 23.34..........................L Cole 7 41124 Big Time Gwyn 23.22..........................L Cole 8 22368 Bigtime Emjay 23.44 G &........ S Fredrickson Emergencies: 9 13526 Funky Facts 23.27 G &........... S Fredrickson 10 37377 Allegro Will 23.37................................L Cole 9 2.33 OUTBACK TRADING COMPANY C3/4, 410m

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1 23365 Toca Madera nwtd........................A Turnwald 2 52863 Allegro Lexxi nwtd...............................L Cole 3 62784 Bigtime Cutie 23.66.............................L Cole 4 78851 Big Time Frosty 23.33.........................L Cole 5 23211 Big Time Lebron 23.38........................L Cole 6 35436 Bees And Birds 23.64.........................L Cole 7 16646 Sub Twenty Three 23.48.....................L Cole 8 11224 Allegro Lanie 23.00.............................L Cole 9 78777 Big Time Tina 23.42............................L Cole 10 58848 Dynamite Danger 23.55 G &... S Fredrickson 10 2.53pm CREATIVE CATERING C3 C3, 410m 1 16562 Bigtime Banjo 23.10............................L Cole 2 53686 Big Time Dynasty 23.19......................L Cole 3 686F5 Bigtime Sheer nwtd.............................L Cole 4 25788 Bigtime Leads 23.30...........................L Cole 5 528x3 Bigtime Charlote nwtd.........................L Cole 6 18323 Tuff Temptress 23.72......................B Mitchell 7 88421 Little Scamp 23.33........................ D Denbee 8 57472 Giraffe Club 23.65...............................L Cole 9 37288 Big League Diva nwtd G &...... S Fredrickson 10 87835 Bigtime Jetty 23.29.............................L Cole 11 3.14pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESORIES C1/C2 C1/2, 410m 1 87365 Bigtime Chris 23.88 G &......... S Fredrickson 2 44245 Millie Prince 23.29 J &.........................D Bell 3 35227 Belmonts 23.45...................................L Cole 4 86132 Ohana Lad 23.59...................... K Gommans 5 75734 Allegro Kyle nwtd................................L Cole 6 82155 Mother’s Touch 23.41 J &.....................D Bell 7 15x11 Softy Burgess 23.20............................L Cole 8 37645 Bigtime Daisy 23.61............................L Cole Emergencies: 9 64443 Summer Glee nwtd....................J McInerney 10 64556 Nuclear Jewel 24.34........................L Doody 12 3.33 RED SNAPPER SEAFOODS, CHRISTCHURCH C1 C1, 410m 1 41214 Big Time Lenny nwtd...........................L Cole 2 115 Big Time Lantao 23.62........................L Cole 3 81175 Allegro Rory 23.62..............................L Cole 4 22464 Plan Stan nwtd................................ L Pearce 5 4748x Magic Flynn 23.38 G &........... S Fredrickson 6 57237 Paradox Prince nwtd....................B Hodgson 7 42841 Yasawa Lights 23.74....................A Turnwald 8 31 Big Time Jimmy 23.84.........................L Cole 9 87235 Sedgebrook Saint nwtd....................L Doody 10 76356 Born Fab 23.73................................S Maher LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Previous solution: elk, elks, ilk, ilks, isle, lei, leis, lek, leks, lie, lies, like, likes, lis, sei, sike, silk, ski

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): What’s the difference between a flaw and a feature? Attitude. It’s all how you spin it, frame it, give it context, dress it up, light it, salt it, garnish it... So go on. You’ll be brilliant!

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Animals are experts at being who they are unapologetically, and we can use them as aspirational models today.

Shame is unnecessary. Simply own the fact that you’re doing your best.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Your finger just happens to be on the pulse of what’s cool. The more impressive you are, the less you care about impressing anyone. People will envy your style anyway, though.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Your first instinct may be to proceed as though your heart is fragile and in need of protection. Then again, your heart may surprise you with a strength and resilience that only emerges when it’s tested.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ll do things that make you feel insecure, and you’ll do this on purpose. To build character, strength and solidity requires that you find where the weaknesses are and shake things up.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Like an expert poker player who is wise to the fine art of bluffing, you detect untruths, which gives you an edge.

There may be an advantage to going along with the ruse for a while.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): People know what to do with people who appear to think and behave in familiar ways. So conformity makes people comfortable. For you, there’s quite a lot that takes priority over other people’s comfort.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): The story of the world begins with a word. So does the story of you, the tale of today, the one about the future. Words are the beginning. Nothing becomes something as soon as you start talking about it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You don’t want the kind of friends you have to try too hard with.

You’ll experiment to find just the right way to let people know who you are, where you’ve been and what you want.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): People say they’re doing nothing when, of course, that’s impossible.

They’re doing nothing worth mentioning, maybe, and what you choose to mention or omit will be the secret to your brilliant charm.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): There are so many layers to boredom that some neuroscientists have begun to study it exclusively. Your boredom will be a kind of passageway today.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): In order to do a good job, you’ll have to manage your feelings and responses. This emotional labour is the hardest part of a job or relationship and should not be given away for free.

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Rise 7:58 am Set 5:03 pm Good

Good fishing Set 2:56 am Rise 3:02 pm

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Good fishing Set 4:12 am Rise 3:31 pm

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Rise 8:00 am Set 5:02 pm Bad

Bad fishing Set 5:30 am Rise 4:02 pm

New moon 21 Jun 6:43 pm

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Nth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

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Waitaki Kurow at 3:01 pm, yesterday

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Source: Environment Canterbury

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 11.3 12.2 Max to 4pm 0.2 Minimum -0.8 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.2 16hr to 4pm June to date 0.2 Avg Jun to date 2 2020 to date 153.6 284 Avg year to date Wind km/h N7 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 28 Time of gust 1:10pm

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Fine with northerlies, but cloud increasing and rain developing late in the south as winds change southerly.

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Becoming cloudy, with scattered rain from afternoon. Wind at 1000m: NW 30 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: NW 30 km/h, gradually rising to NW 60 km/h at night.

Rain with snow to 800m, but 600m north of Mt Hutt in the evening, clearing in the south overnight. Strong cold southerlies.

Cloud, and rain north of Ashburton, gradually clearing to fine. Southwesterlies dying out.

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Tuesday, 2 June 2020

A low just east of the upper North Island is moving southeastwards and should be close to the Chatham Islands late tonight. A ridge over the South Island weakens away while another ridge moves down from the northern Tasman Sea and onto the country from this afternoon.

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Rain, with heavy falls in the north from afternoon. Strong cold southerlies.

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ENTRY FEES WAIVED

By Adam Burns

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The Mid Canterbury Rugby Union (MCRU) have joined other sporting organisations in waiving team entry fees for the upcoming season.

It follows similar moves announced last week by other associations to ease the burden in response to Covid-19.

Cricket Wellington have waived

affiliation fees worth about $200,000 for all of its clubs.

The Canterbury Rugby Football Union also announced on Thursday that all affiliation fees for clubs and schools will be waived for the 2020 season.

The decision means that there will be no costs for clubs and schools to enter club rugby competitions in the Canterbury Metro, North Canterbury and Elles-

mere sub regions.

MCRU chief executive Ian Patterson told the Guardian that all team entry fees would be waived.

“It means the clubs will have more funds to get through this period,” he said.

“It’s obviously a very testing peiod for everybody.”

The union informed its clubs of the decision about a month ago.

“We could see we were heading

for a reduced season,” Patterson said.

“The clubs are facing a tight year with the reduced number of games, in particular home games in generating revenue.”

It was confirmed last week that the Luisetti Seeds Combined Country competition had been abandoned and the Watters Cup would stick to a one-round championship.

The competition is set to begin on June 20, running through to early August.

“There’s some challenges for some clubs in making ends meet through the season,” Patterson said.

“We’ve provided some clubs with equipment and sanitizers just to get them under way and help with the cost saving for clubs.”

Date set for global discussions on future of rugby

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