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BIRTHS

DIXON – Cameron, Diana and very proud big brother, Lachlan, are delighted to welcome Scarlett Marie Redwood Dixon to the family. A very special wee girl born December 28, 2012. Many thanks to Chris and the brilliant team at Christchurch Women’s.

McGREGOR – Livia and Hamish are delighted to welcome Baxter Gordon McGregor, 9lb 6oz.

Baxter was born in Ashburton on January 28, 2013. Special thanks to Anna Campbell and the Ashburton Hospital Maternity Ward.

O’REILLY - LAKING – Louise and Jason are pleased to announce the arrival of Maddison Janine Laking on January 27, 2013 (7lb 15oz). Special thanks to midwives Ruth and Amy.

DEATHS

GRANT, John Donald – On January 30, 2013 at his home in Methven. Loved husband of the late Lorraine Catherine, loved son of Nola and the late Donald, loved brother of Duncan and Liz, Robert and Deirdre and Elizabeth and David McCormick. Cherished uncle of Jane and William, Graham and Sarah and Lawrence and Chauntel; Jamie, Ashleigh and Bridget; and Cameron and Victoria.

The Service is to be held at St John’s Presbyterian Church, corner of Jackson Street and South Belt, Methven, commencing at 1.30pm, MONDAY, February 4, 2013, followed by interment at the Methven Lawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Methven Medical Centre can be left at the service.

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ASHWORTH, Gary Donald – Deb, Kelsey, Meg and Cameron; Stewart, Richard, Julie and families wish to sincerely thank everyone for their kindness and support following the sad loss of our loved husband, father and brother. Your cards, letters, visits, phone calls, flowers, baking and meals were all greatly appreciated. Thank you to all who attended Gary's funeral service and to those that made a donation to the Cancer Society; to Bernard Egan for officiating; friends for their wonderful tribute speeches; the pallbearers; the cricket players that formed a guard of honour and the cricket community for providing the lovely food at the after match function. A special thank you also, to the amazing staff at both Tinwald Medical Centre and the Ashburton Hospital for their care and compassion.

We know that Gary touched many people’s lives and it helps to know that he was held in such high regard.

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Tributes flow following Sir Paul Holmes’ death

By APNZ staff Sir Paul Holmes’ admirers and some former adversaries have spoken of the hole left in New Zealand media following the death of the broadcasting giant.

Sir Paul died early yesterday at his Hawke’s Bay home, Mana Lodge, surrounded by family, after battling aggressive cancer and a failing heart.

A statement from his family said Sir Paul was more than just a broadcaster.

“Paul was a loving husband and father, as well as a generous friend. He loved people and people loved him.”

Flags have been lowered at TVNZ and at his former Hastings school, Karamu High.

His career in radio, print and television was dogged with controversy and he often butted heads with politicians, sportspeople and celebrities, but many have expressed their admiration for his feisty style.

Sir Paul rose through the ranks of media in New Zealand, and not long into fronting his eponymous TVNZ current affairs show became as much a celebrity as those he interviewed.

Politicians from across the spectrum spoke about their respect for the veteran broadcaster.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark said they had had many “robust” encounters on radio and television but “regardless of that, he was always stimulating to be with and in many ways became a friend”.

Prime Minister John Key

Sir Paul Holmes, 1950-2013 said Sir Paul’s death signalled the end of a broadcasting era.

“He was a trailblazer in New Zealand journalism with a style that was all his own.”

Winston Peters said Sir Paul knew some arguments would be won and some would be lost.

Former TVNZ head of news Paul Cutler said Sir Paul had a tremendous work ethic and for 15 years would get up at 4am and still be at his desk into the night.

Former colleague Susan Wood said Sir Paul “led the revolution in communica-

tion ... he was a man for the times” and fellow broadcaster John Hawkesby recalled a quick-witted, “one-off”‘ trend-setter who had an “action-packed career”.

He was lauded for being able to speak with every type of person, and that has been reflected today in social websites, with hundreds on twitter paying tribute.

Internet mogul Kim Dotcom wrote “Rest in peace Sir Paul Holmes”.

Throughout his career, Sir Paul never strayed far from radio.

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Crown pressed over redress for Maori

By Adam Bennett Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias, the senior member of a panel of five Supreme Court judges hearing the Maori Council’s final bid to delay the Government’s asset sales plan, says the court wants to consider potential mechanisms to protect Maori rights and interests in fresh water not canvassed by the Crown.

During the second day of the two-day hearing, Crown lawyer David Goddard QC fleshed out the Crown’s arguments that the sale of shares in Mighty River Power and other power companies would not jeopardise the Government’s ability to make redress for Maori rights and interests in water if and when they were determined.

Chief Justice Elias yesterday suggested the sale of shares in the companies

could be restricted to just 25 per cent rather than the maximum 49 per cent the Government has legislated for. She raised that as a theoretical means of preserving the Government’s capacity to make adequate redress for any subsequently proven Maori water rights.

This morning she raised the prospect that the companies’ rights to use water under the Resource Management Act could have some restrictions placed them effectively earmarking them for potential settlements with Maori.

She said the court was “interested in practical steps that could be taken”to protect future settlements “because that may reflect on whether the Crown is actually in conformity”with provisions in the State Owned Enterprises Act and the new Mixed Ownership Model Act that set out the Government’s treaty

obligations.

Colin Carruthers QC, who is acting for the Maori Council, yesterday argued there were various mechanisms available to the Crown that enabled it to preserve means of addressing Maori rights and interests in water.

“These mechanisms will not be available after the privatisation.”

He said the Crown and Maori should be directed to consult and devise a mechanism which protected the claims until they were resolved.

However, it was ultimately the Crown’s obligation under Article Two of the Treaty of Waitangi to protect Maori interests in water.

“It is not for Maori to dictate to the Crown or even in the context of litigation provide the mechanism that protects.”

The hearing continues.

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of MediaWorks said he would be sorely missed by his colleagues.

“Paul was a formidable competitor who lifted the bar for broadcasting in both radio and television.”

Sir Paul and his wife of 10 years Lady Deborah lived at their Hawke’s Bay farm surrounded by gardens and thousands of olive trees.

Just two weeks ago it was the setting for Sir Paul’s investiture ceremony, brought forward at the request of his family because of health worries.

Sir Paul backed numerous causes including the Paralympics and a fight against methamphetamine, following his adopted daughter Millie’s public battle with the drug.

His close friend Michelle Boag, who last year organised a thank you event where dozens of the charities Sir Paul supported over the years surprised him with tributes, said he was “compassionate and humane”.

He resigned from his TVNZ job in 2003 after outrage over comments made on his Newstalk ZB talkshow about then United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who he called a “cheeky darkie”.

But he couldn’t stay away from the cameras forever, returning to TVNZ to host the Q+A show in 2009, before poor health forced his final resignation in December.

An unexpected phone call from Mr Key on Christmas Day ended Sir Paul’s “annus horribilis” with an “unexpected, wonderful” gift in the form of a knighthood.

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Fire - train blamed

Sparks from a passing train were suspected of starting a five-hectare grass fire at Te Hauke in Hawkes Bay yesterday.

The blaze was brought under control with the help of local farmers, three helicopters and fire crews.

Reported at 2.35pm, the fire was alongside railway tracks, close to Te Aute Trust Rd. The helicopters scooped water from a dam alongside State Highway 2 on Te Aute Hill nearby.

Units from Otane, Hastings and the Heretaunga rural fire force attended.

The fire was a similar size, with similar strength winds, to another Te Hauke fire last week. But Hastings District Council principal rural fire officer Trevor Mitchell said it had been easier to control because the grass was shorter.

Farmers beat at upwind flames, in temperatures that were already over 30°C. - APNZ

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Cyber-bullying under spotlight

By Sam Morton Introducing tougher digital laws is a big step in the right direction in reducing New Zealand’s high cyber-bullying rate, according to a mental health expert.

Yesterday, Justice Minister Judith Collins confirmed she would be looking into a report compiled by the Law Commission, which recommends four key changes.

The call comes just two weeks after Ashburton teenager Jas Andrada shared her story with the Guardian and reflected on her experience as a victim of cyberbullying.

She has set up an online blog for people to talk about their issues and offer support – and

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The recommendations include establishing a cyber-bullying tribunal, implementing tougher digital laws, prosecution for instigating suicide, regardless if a suicide is completed or not, and

amending current Acts such as the Harassment Act 1997, the Human Rights Act 1993, the Privacy Act 1993 and the Crimes Act 1961 – to ensure they apply to digital communications.

Ms Collins will express the recommendations to Parliament in the next two weeks.

While the new policies are no done deal, Canterbury prevention suicide officer David Cairns still has his fingers crossed for action.

“Any move to reduce stress on individuals and protect their wellbeing has to be a move in the right direction,” he said.

“It is a sad indictment on our society that we have to legislate such things, but I hope that the bullies realise that as a society we are appalled by their behaviour and the people being bullied need

to realise they are not alone.”

Independent research outlined in the Law Commission’s report, fast-tracked by the Government, suggests that one in ten New Zealanders experience some form of cyber-bullying on the internet.

That rate more than doubles to 22 per cent among the 18-29 demographic, who evidently are the heaviest users of interactive media. Statistics also show that one in five high school students experience cyber-bullying or phone harassment.

“To the ones being bullied, this also helps them realise there are many people who stand with them and who want to offer help, encouragement and support,” Mr Cairns said.

“They are never alone.”

Ashburton College principal

Grant McMillan is also right behind the cause and praised the Ministry for further investigating solutions.

“I think if you got a group of college kids together you would find a lot of them think it (tougher laws) is a good thing,” he said.

“These kind of boundaries give a clear message that it’s not okay and I think you will find most people would like to see change.”

Ms Collins signalled her intentions following Rotorua coroner Wallace Bain’s repeated calls for tighter laws to be urgently introduced, in light of another teenager taking her life after she set up a Facebook page targeting herself.

Ms Collins is expected to make an announcement later this month.

Traditional Maori welcome for new pupils

By Myles Hume Ashburton College’s freshest faces were officially welcomed yesterday.

Each of the college’s 246 year nine pupils and new staff became a part of the college landscape following a wholeschool powhiri, a Maori welcoming.

The new pupils were welcomed on

to the school by year 10 pupil Georgia Cobden-Churcher which was then followed by a mihi from principal Grant McMillan.

Challenges were laid down by both sides in the form of emotionally-fuelled haka which was backed with songs that rang across the college campus.

The powhiri was capped of with a hongi between the new and the original

members of the school, meeting to create a sense of unity.

Mr McMillan said it was the fifth year the college had welcomed new pupils and staff in the unique greeting, which prompted a sense of community throughout the school.

“It’s a great way of recognising all the different cultures and learning experiences,” Mr McMillan said.

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Councils face cuts to NZTA roading subsidies

By Sue Newman Ashburton might have one of the longest roading networks in New Zealand but it receives one of the lowest maintenance subsidies of any council in the country.

In an effort to stretch their roading budgets, mayors of five district councils met in Timaru on Thursday with New Zealand T ransport Agency staff to discuss cost-cutting options.

The National Funding Assistance Rate (FAR) average is 50 per cent but Ashburton receives a subsidy of just 46 per cent on its road maintenance and in real terms, in spite of the Government upping the amount of money it poured into the FAR scheme, Ashburton could afford to do less work on

its local roading network this year and next, mayor Angus McKay said.

For Ashburton the roading news just gets worse as the mayors were told the Government now wanted to shave $160 million off its maintenance and renewals budget for state highways.

That will impact on State Highways one and 77 in the Ashburton district.

The other four councils at Thursday’s meeting all received subsidies that exceeded 50 per cent, but because the subsidy is based on land value and perceived wealth, Ashburton is subsidised at a lower rate.

The five councils are looking at ways to cut costs but still provide better service in terms of road maintenance.

“We’re more than will-

ing to look at any options for a more efficient way to create a higher level of service.

“NZTA put forward some suggestions and we’ll take these back to our councils. These ranged from shared services through to one contract for the whole area.”

“The Government has not cut its investment; it’s actually put some more money in but it hasn’t gone up enough so we’re exploring efficiencies, that’s our only option.

We’re not going to miss an opportunity with other local authorities and NZTA to work this one through. This is critical.”

The lowest the FAR subsidy can drop to is 43 per cent.

The highest, 80 per cent, is currently paid to the Chatham Islands.

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Rakaia School about to go live with tablets

By Myles Hume The iPad craze has hit Rakaia School.

Fifty Apple tablets were delivered to the school this week as part of the ongoing revolution that is changing the way Mid Canterbury children are taught in the classroom.

The school budgeted about $25,000 out of its operations grants for the tablets and yesterday principal Mark Ellis sat with an IT expert from Auckland to get his head around the new system and to discuss how the school would adjust to the change.

They also worked to configure the devices, which will be available for pupils around week two, most notably, the iPad-focused class where 25 year five pupils will each have a tablet.

“We live in a dynamic world today that’s very intuitive where things are ready available, that’s why we are doing this,” Mr Ellis

said. “It’s about bringing school to home and home to school because learning doesn’t happen from nine until three. Imagine the kids going home in the holidays and finding out all the new things you can do with apps ... students will become more connected.”

Tablets were only invented three years ago but have already become an everyday tool in the district’s classrooms.

With the rapid rise of technology, Mr Ellis admitted there were rules that would need to be set to prevent irresponsible use.

Coming to school with the devices fully charged, insurance policies and cyber safety agreements are all part of the processes the school will need to work through before they let the children take hold of the devices that can tap into more than 750,000 applications.

To control what goes on the tablets, Mr Ellis has also purchased a

GriffinDock which allows him to plug in 10 iPads at once and install applications that come at a cheaper rate for schools.

Pupils will also be able to do their work and send it via email to their teachers or put it into a “drop box” which everyone can access.

IT expert Roger Thomas, who Rakaia School flew down for the day, helped install the system.

He said many schools looked to iPads because there was an abundance of educational apps that were cheaper and easier to use.

With 10 schools upgrading their wifi systems to cope with the sheer number of tablet devices in school, Mr Thomas said Mid Canterbury was leading the way in classroom technology.

“I have been really impressed with what I have seen in Mid Canterbury, with the community network putting their research behind their youngsters.”

Police hit pedestrian POLL result Northland police are investigating how a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and then by a following police patrol car.

The 43-year -old man, believed to be from Auckland, suffered serious but nonlife threatening injuries predominantly to his lower body and legs and remained in a stable condition in Whangarei Hospital.

Road policing manager Inspector Murray Hodson said emergency services were called to State Highway 1, about 1km from Kaikohe, about midnight on Thursday but said it appeared neither driver was at fault.

“The crash is currently under investigation by the serious crash unit, however,

initial indications are that the incident happened in an area controlled by a 100km/h speed limit,” Mr Hodson said.

“It appears that a member of the public was driving west along SH12, followed by a marked police car, when the first vehicle ran over a man wearing dark clothing who had been lying on the road.”

A following police car then ran over the man.

Both vehicles stopped immediately.

Mr Hodson said it had not yet been established why the man was lying in the road but police understood the victim had been drinking alcohol before he was found in the westbound lane.

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Atmosphere: ‘awesome’

By Matthew Backhouse

Wellington’s biggest party has kicked off in colourful style, with rugby sevens fans dressed as everything from wizards to lizards.

The two-day Wellington Sevens tournament is known for the weird and wonderful costumes of spectators, many of whom packed waterfront bars yesterday on a glorious, hot afternoon.

The sporting action kicked off at Westpac Stadium at 1pm and wraps up tonight.

Extra police and ambulance officers will be on duty as about 70,000 fans are expected in the capital for the event - which has become as known for its offfield antics as the action on it.

Wellingtonian Riki Bradley, dressed as a shirtless cowboy, was among hundreds who gathered at the waterfront before heading to the stadium.

He said the Sevens was “pretty much the best weekend ever”.

“It’s just the fact that everybody’s into - and the girls, oh my god, there’s so many.

“But the reality of it is everyone’s up for it, and why not be a part of it?

“And the weather is cranking today, so you’ve got to get out there and enjoy the most of it.”

Jessica Higueras and friends were dressed as glamorous gladiators, modelled on Madonna’s outfit at the Super Bowl last year.

She said it took three weeks of planning and three days of sewing and gluing.

“It’s all hand-made by myself.”

Ms Higueras said the atmosphere was “awesome” and she was looking forward to getting to the stadium.

Aucklander Regan Wright, 34, was with a dozen-strong group dressed as dominatrix police officers.

He has been coming to the Sevens for the last six years, but the longest-standing member of the group had been coming for 11 years.

Some of the group was from as far as Sydney - despite not having tickets to the tournament.

“This is the first year we didn’t actually get tickets, we just decided to soak up the atmosphere and have a good time down here.

“Oh mate, you can’t go wrong - the happiness and good vibe of it all is just awesome.

“Never any trouble down here, just a bunch of guys getting on the lash but behaving actually quite well.”

Aucklander Michael Bell, 27, was with a group of who had imported bulky plush Care Bear outfits for the event.

“We got them in from China. They cost a fair bit, about $300 each.”

Mr Bell said dressing up was the best part of the Sevens weekend.

“And the good laughs - you come home with sore abs from laughing so much.

“It’s all about the vibe.”

Costume Company manager Gemma Freeman said there was be a rush of Sevens fans at the central Wellington costume hire shop yesterday.

“A lot of people are very last minute.

“If people are making their costumes, then they might have started a month ago or even earlier, but if you’re going to hire something, we catch all the lastminute unprepared people.”

Sevens operation commander Inspector Simon Perry said extra staff had been brought in with the aim of stopping people getting into trouble - as well as helping to stop drunk people from becoming victims of crimes.

“Our role out there is to prevent harm taking place and to look after the people who perhaps can’t look after themselves, and that’s along with the other emergency services.”

Almost 100 people were arrested over the Sevens weekend last year, although only 14 were at the stadium.

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Final end for bowls club

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By Sam Morton Six years ago Gavin Eder hadn’t even picked up a bowl.

Today, he is faced with the saddening task of winding the Tinwald Bowling Club to a close, as the club nears its final months of operation – for good.

In a matter of months, the bowling season will come to a close for another winter break – but this year will be like no other for Tinwald bowlers.

April will mark the end of an era for the historic bowling club, which in its heyday boasted 40-plus members and stood tall as a powerhouse of a club in Mid Canterbury.

As each year ticked by, the club, which was formed in the 1970s, declined in membership and strength, struggling to attract new blood.

In 2010, the neighbouring New Life Church brought the land and facilities at and around the club from the Tinwald Working Men’s Club – and last year signalled plans to build a new church where the current bowling green sits.

“We knew the writing was on the wall then, but when we weigh up the situation, it seems the sensible decision and we have mutually agreed to move on,” Mr Eder said.

Earlier this year, the church politely asked the bowling club if it would consider stopping play on Sundays, as the 300-strong church community wanted to turn the clubhouse pavilion into a youth club for their members and a meeting place for their whanau group.

Their plans involved setting up table tennis tables, pool tables and generally occupying the space – leaving little choice for the bowling club but to concede defeat.

“We would have had to move all the tables and all the

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The church definitely haven’t booted us out, far from it.

While their plans helped prompt our closure, sadly it just seemed the right thing to do

chairs and get them back in place in time for our visiting bowlers and then once the day is over, put everything back again for the church – it’s just far too much of an effort,” Mr Eder said.

“Everyone is extremely disappointed about pulling the pin and I would suggest that a majority of our members will not play anywhere else and therefore give up all together – which is a real shame.”

However, Mr Eder insisted there was no hard feelings between the two groups, pointing out the “mutual” decision was “only a matter of time”.

“The church definitely haven’t booted us out of our club, far from it. While

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their plans to expand helped prompt our closure, the way the club was, sadly it just seemed the right thing to do.

“Some of our members that still want to play will go to other clubs in the Ashburton area, but it is a shame because our green here would have to be the best in the district and right up there as one of the best in the country.

“Some great games of bowls have been played on this green ... some absolute memories,” he said.

Church senior leader Carl Anderson said the decision was ultimately left to the bowling club.

“If we could have worked around it and sorted something out, then we most defi-

nitely would have. Gavin and his team came to the decision it was easier for them to move on and we have respected that.

“I wish them all the very best, we always had a great relationship with the bowlers and I really hope their members can continue to bowl on,” Mr Anderson said.

Meanwhile, as the bowling gates close, a large slice of history will continue to hang in the pavilion – at least for now.

The club’s pride and joy, in the form of numerous certificates and trophies, will remain on show, nailed firmly to the wall boasting the dozen of district champions the club produced.

“There’s not enough room in my garage,” Mr Eder laughed.

“When they (award boards, certificates) come down, where will they go? This really is the end of Tinwald Bowling Club ... the end of the era is near.

“It is sad, but that’s life,” he said.

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• Incorrect date An incorrect date was printed in yesterday’s Guardian for judging this year’s Ashburton Horticultural Society annual garden competition. The event, will be judged on February 10 by a team from the Christchurch Horticultural Society. This year’s competition is run under a new format, where gardeners are required to enter rather than by selection. It also includes two new categories – native gardens and back sections. Other sections include premier (for previous open winners), open, best flowers, best lawns and best individual feature. Entries close on Sunday night.

• Speed displays coming Motorists travelling roads in the Ashburton District will soon be able to check their speedometers for accuracy. The Ashburton District Council has installed ground sockets in 14 locations around the district in preparation for the arrival of visual display speed units. Some of those locations are outside schools and along Maronan Road. The units will not only show vehicle speed but will operate in a similar way to ground based traffic count equipment and will provide the council with information on the number and type of vehicle using that stretch of road and the time of day they passed the unit. Testing on the units will be completed by the end of this month.

• Big bang for rates buck Ratepayers might think they’re not getting a fair bang for their rating buck, but a quick look at the Ashburton District Council’s works budget spells out very clearly where several millions of rating dollars are spent each year. For the year to June 30, the council has budgeted to spend $27.6 million on roading, drinking water, waste water, stormwater and stockwater.

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Churches stuck in quake limbo

By Sue Newman Ashburton’s churches might have obtained some insurance cover but for at least two, the battle to keep their buildings as places of worship is far from over.

The doors to the Baring Square Methodist church have been locked since the September 2010 earthquake and church property officer Allan Tweed said parish members had reached a point where they are fed up with waiting for answers.

“We’re lucky, we’ve got insurance cover on our church and buildings and yes we’ve had to pay about 50 per cent more but the frustrating thing is we have to pay expensive insurance for a building we can’t even use and that is very annoying.”

People were fed up with sitting in limbo waiting for decisions to be made, he said.

“We’ve been in limbo for too long. Some of our parishioners are saying, let’s have the news, good or bad. To be honest, we’re feeling a little marginalised down here. We know we’re not entirely forgotten but it’s time to have some difficult strategy meetings.”

The parish anticipated a strategy meeting early in the year with a team from the Christchurch synod which could spell out the historic church’s future. An engineer’s report had been received and this identified the church as being about 28 per cent of the current building code. The cut-off point is 34 per cent. No costings had yet been received for the strengthening work needed, Mr Tweed said.

“The problem is how far we will have to strengthen the building. We’re like many other churches, we have to look to the future and look at sustainability. It would be nice to reopen the church fully refurbished but can we carry the cost? I hate to say it, but we’re a dwindling church population.”

If the congregation found it had to front up with a sizeable amount of money for strengthening work, then demolition might be the most practical option. This year would be a year of big decisions, he said.

“I hate the thought of the church not standing

Refs threaten to pull red card in sexism row

By Lindy Laird Rugby officials say a red card might be pulled on the rugby website that has caused an uproar for posting an image of a female Northland referee administrator wearing a bikini, with a lurid caption beneath.

However the man responsible for the website says the sexism row has been blown out of proportion - though he is grateful for the increased web traffic it has generated.

The president of Northland Rugby Referees’ Association (NRRA), Martin Albrecht, said the person who ran the KerikeriRugby.com website had made “a sexist faux pas”. But Murray Potts, who is responsible for the website, says he feels he has been ambushed by the Northland Rugby Union (NRU) and the media after he posted the photo he had lifted off the young woman’s Facebook page.

He had later placed a caption beneath the photo saying: “Northland Referees blowing their whistle prematurely in 2013 could spend time in the Sin Bin, if this is anything to go by!”

Yesterday Mr Potts admitted he had initially made an “error of judgment” in first posting the photo. He had complied with NRU requests to remove the photo and the accompanying caption last week. But on Thursday, a manipulated image of the woman, Alanna Clare, was posted clad in signs accusing the NRU, NRRA and Northern Advocate of censorship.

Mr Albrecht said the organisation was worried about the pressure the unwelcome, sexist attention had put on their employee. “Our association is strong and we are not afraid of publicity, but we are conscious that Alanna is in a vulnerable position. As referees, we’re tolerant to a certain degree until we are forced to pull out a yellow or red card, and we may well do that yet.”

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there on the corner of Baring Square, but we have to take a pragmatic view.”

Many church members had an emotional attachment to the elderly church, but most had now adjusted to attending church in the parish hall.

“People have been pretty loyal but we’ve been in limbo too long; let’s bite the bullet and get on with it.”

Across town, the congregation at St Andrew’s might be able to use their church, but the building’s future is also uncertain.

Church treasurer Jeanette Seaton

said the congregation was ticking along from Sunday to Sunday, but knew some hard decisions will eventually be called for.

The church secured insurance for its manse and the Sinclair Centre but its two churches have only demolition insurance, which Miss Seaton assumes means the cost of demolition will be covered.

“We’re just getting on with it and hoping for the best, but the parish council is getting a bit frustrated. How do you plan for the future? Once you get

answers you know where you stand and what you have to do.”

Ashburton’s two other cornerstone churches, St Stephen’s and the Church of the Holy Name are caught to a lesser degree in the earthquake conundrum.

Holy Name, built of triple brick, had extensive strengthening work carried out in 1963 and St Stephen’s is of a later vintage than the other three, having been built in the 1960s. Like the Baring Square church and St Andrew’s, both are struggling with the cost of securing adequate insurance cover.

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By Sam Morton Staveley residents and a group of tourists celebrated the grand opening of their local store yesterday - as a new look, modern store was unveiled.

The historic roots of the Staveley Store stretch back to 1876 and before current owners Bex Shannon and Budd Lister took over – only had five previous owners.

Staveley resident June Burgess, whose family owned the store from 1920 to 2003, was on hand to cut the ribbon and officially opened the revitalised, yet maintained retro Staveley Store.

Soon after taking the reins and moving from their big city life in Wellington last year, Budd and Bex quickly set out to expand the store and cater for the growing demand of locals and tourists.

While the store has held onto its old characteristic and antique feel inside, on the outside a large bull-nose verandah with seating and shade brings the place to life.

The decking was added just

before Christmas and yesterday residents were raving about the new-look store.

“The opening went great, we had some fantastic feedback and it was a great feeling to know our locals had accepted the add ons,” Bex said.

“We’re really happy with it and we’re looking forward to a busy year.”

The storeroom has also been knocked through and made into a cafe like area for locals to enjoy a coffee and a bite to eat.

Moving to Staveley has proved to be a fitting homecoming for Bex, who grew up on the family farm, near the school.

“We’re very excited and it’s so great to finally see the work complete.

“We are sure people will like the new image, it’s a very 1930s type theme with a lovely modern outdoor seating area. It’s the best of both,” she said.

But with the famous sausage rolls still on offer, the locals still flock to the store as a central meeting place in the village.

“Everyone still comes in and asks for them.”

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By Ben Aulakh

The pilot of a microlight that crashed on Wednesday night, killing two men, has been described as a fun-loving family man.

Roger Smith, 58, is believed to have been flying the Bantam B22S model aircraft when it crashed at Carters Beach near Westport.

Cole Ashby, 25, also died in the crash.

The pair had taken off from the Westport airport, a couple of kilometres away, about three hours earlier.

Both men worked at Stockton opencast mine.

Mr Smith was also a union representative.

A spokesman for the Smith family said his life was about those closest to him.

“He was very much a family man and he loved his family. He had three lovely daughters and sons-in-law, he had lovely grandchildren.

“He was such a great guy and a loving husband.

He had a large number of brothers and sisters.

“He was just a very good friend. Everyone on the Coast knew him, because of his flying.”

The spokesman also said Mr Smith was a very capable pilot, with many years’ experience.

“He just maintained that plane to within an inch of its life. He certainly wouldn’t have put anyone’s life in danger because he took the grandchildren up at times.

“Overall, it’s just such a tragedy.”

Mr Smith, who worked as a shot firer for Stockton mine contractor Kaipara, enjoyed telling his grandchildren that he loved “blowing things up”.

“He teased the kids, his whole family, he was just an absolute fun-loving joker.”

Cole Ashby was a machine operator at Stockton mine. His body was found a kilometre further down the beach. Police suspect it might have been washed there by the tide.

Mr Ashby said his son was an adventurous young man who died while making the most of his life.

Mr Ashby said the microlight was last heard flying past Larsen Street at Cape Foulwind at 9.10pm on Wednesday.

Westport police search and rescue co-ordinator Sean Judd said police were still looking at what effect fog might have had on the crash.

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Disabled ‘ignored’

By Myles Hume Local early childhood education providers are echoing calls that the Government needs to do more to ensure children with disabilities do not slip through the cracks.

Their comments come after pleas from CCS Disability Action, which is worried about the lack of data education providers have to provide to the Ministry of Education about children with special needs and disabilities.

However, the ministry believes it would create more “bureaucracy”.

CCS Disability Action, which works closely with the disabled, believe if there was more information available then children and families would be more able to overcome “the barriers”

they face. Mid Canterbury early childhood education providers say they are not required to submit detailed information to the ministry, instead they have their own policies in place to ensure disadvantaged children made a smooth transition to primary school.

Ashburton Baptist Learning Centre manager Lorraine Bennet said her centre had a six month transition programme in place for children with special needs; however that was only a policy the centre carried out itself.

She said she would welcome universal guidelines for education providers on how they cared for particular children and with how they reported their progress to the ministry.

“They have never made anybody work exactly the same but it would be good to have proto-

cols in place,” Ms Bennet said.

Ms Bennet believed most children were not slipping through the cracks thanks to the guidelines local ECE providers put in place.

Methven Preschool manager Trish Powell agreed, saying if CCS Disability Action wanted more information then there was “obviously” a void that needed filling.

A Ministry of Education spokesperson said the Government collected data for 3 per cent of the children with the highest needs, while schools reported on the progress on special needs pupils to the board of trustees and in reports they submit to the ministry.

The ministry says it is up to education providers to decide how they monitor and teach disadvantaged children.

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Raewyn Low and Lianne Braam took shelter from the searing sun at a farm clearing sale near Hinds yesterday. MetService recorded yesterday’s temperatures at 27 degrees, although many would argue it felt hotter.

Temperatures are forecast to stay in the high 20s until Tuesday when we can expect some rain for Waitangi Day, along with a 19 degree daytime high.

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By Sue Newman The holiday surcharge in restaurants and cafes might be generating hot air in Auckland but in Ashburton it barely raises a ripple of interest.

With Auckland Anniversary Day on Monday, many of the restaurants and cafes that opened for the day found themselves embroiled in debate over whether or not to impose a surcharge to cover the extra costs of employing staff on a statutory day.

A survey found that there was almost an even split between those who did and those who did not. Many of the ‘did nots’

said they had given up trying to enforce the added costs because of customer resistance.

In Ashburton the surcharge debate has all but disappeared with almost all of the town’s eateries saying they had never bothered to impose the charge. The cost of doing business on statutory holidays, however, made big inroad into profits, business owners said.

Columbus owner Nigel Heney said he opens almost every statutory holiday and while the costs were high, the payback came in extra customers through the door.

“It is an expensive exercise.

At Christmas time it was dynamite because the way our rosters

worked virtually all staff got some of the extra time and our wage bill was about $2000 bigger than normal because of this.”

And the cost continued for businesses with smaller staff numbers because of the extra day’s leave those who worked accumulated, Mr Heney said.

“It costs, but I look at it as just the price you have to pay for being a service business. We do well by being open and not having a surcharge.”

For the Ashburton Trust, the decision not to impose a surcharge was made from the day changes were made to the Holidays Act in 2003 that ensured anyone who worked on a stat day was paid at

a rate of time and a half and was also given a day in lieu.

Operations manager Sarah Davidson said because the trust was a community owned organisation the decision was made to carry the cost of extra wages rather than pass those on to customers.

“We carry it over the year and while it’s not an easy cost to carry, it’s what we’ve decided to do and we’re just very careful around our rostering.”

Robbies Restaurant and Bar has never imposed a surcharge and neither has Robert Harris Cafe.

Owner Fiona Stirling, believes a surcharge creates more problems and costs goodwill.

Only Cafe Time in Tinwald has been a surcharge stalwart and while the cafe has imposed a surcharge on statutory holidays for several years there have been very few complaints, a staff member said.

In Auckland the highest surcharge found on Monday was 20 per cent at Mecca on the Viaduct, but 15 per cent was the normal fee.

Some restaurants advertised the fact they had no surcharge in an attempt to attract customers, with large signs at the door. Other places did not advertise the fact they did have extra charges, but they are not required to do this by law.

Polytechnic students’ art work on show An art exhibition by Aoraki Polytechnic Ashburton’s most talented students is on show at the Alford Forest Road campus.

Sandra Dryland (pictured) recently graduated her Diploma in Painting, with her exhibition about her personal trials and tribulations with illness and trauma during the past seven years.

“My hope is that these will inspire others to look at events that may appear as if they would destroy us, as golden opportunities to reassess our lives, goals and choices – and to choose life in abundance,” she said.

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By Kate Shuttleworth The Ministry of Education has been locked in a two-year battle with Novopay creators Talent2 and nearly scrapped the flawed payroll system four months before it went live.

The revelations are among a rafts of problems laid bare by the ministry when it yesterday made public hundreds of documents of the problems with the system going back years.

The ministry had deep concerns with the capacity of Novopay to make correct payments to school staff and in April 2012, four months before going live, officials looked to scrap it, the documents showed.

The ministry was in talks with its previous provider Datacom then but the plan never went ahead.

The Minister in charge of fixing Novopay, Steven Joyce, on Thursday announced the Government will again work with Datacom as it tries to fix the “dog” of a system Talent2 has produced and which has failed to pay school staff properly for months.

A report last June by ministry chief information officer Leanne Gibson revealed 147 software defects and 6000 errors prior to Novopay going live in August last year.

The final deadline for Novopay approached in April last year and then Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone

and her deputy Anne Jackson issued a memo saying four deadlines had not been met by Talent2. The ministry warned Talent2 were in breach of its $30 million contract.

Talent2 threatened legal action if there was a material breach notice on the contract.

“Talent2 is laying the foundations for an allegation that the ministry is in breach of its good faith obligation,” ministry officials advised in a memo.

Talent2 suggested the ministry was standing in the way of it doing its job.

Talent2 also asked for more money in 2011 to properly carry out the contract but it was declined.

The memo shows the ministry seriously looked at dumping Novopay and a contract was nearly signed with Datacom.

There was disagreement on whether this was possible so the back-up plan was never created.

In June 2012 Finance Minister Bill English, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Minister of Education Craig Foss signed off on the project despite knowing there were 147 defects.

During the testing phase, prior to launching Novopay, 5913 payslip errors were found and those figures were expected to be reduced by just over 773 before it was rolled out in September.

Four independent advisers Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the

Social Development Ministry, the Primary Industries Ministry and the New Zealand Transport Agency also gave the system the go-ahead.

Mr Joyce said he wasn’t entirely confident with Novopay there was sufficient goodwill to continue to work with Talent2.

“My understanding is the parties can trust each other and work together but there’s a natural tension between a supplier and a customer that isn’t particularly happy.”

He said the technical audit would determine if the system could work despite all the bugs and errors.

The $30 million contract with Talent2 was originally signed off in 2008 by former Labour MP Chris Carter.

Labour’s acting education spokesman Chris Hipkins said today that plans to work with Datacom again came too late.

“If they’d kept that Datacom contingency there when all the problems with Novopay spiralled out of control they would have something to flick back to.

An Official Information Act request obtained separately showed as of the payroll dated January 9, school staff were owed almost $12 million.

It also showed the ministry received 255 invoices from schools and school support staff for extra costs they incurred from administering payment errors in relation to Novopay to the value of $1.197 million.

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Japanese cuisine on festival menu

By Myles Hume Chiyo Hunt is the first to admit she is not a great cook, but she is hoping her trademark sushi and octopus balls will fill even more mouths than they have in recent years.

Originally from Japan, the Allenton School teacher has formed a team of seven fellow Japanese locals who will hold a stall at the Multicultural Bite festival on Waitangi Day next week.

Having “the best sushi in town”, Mrs Hunt is positive she will sell out again this year after handing out more than 500 plates full of her finest Japanese cuisine in the past two years.

“I’m not the best cook, but everyone really likes our food,” she said.

Her exotic octopus balls have always captured the attention of festival revellers, made of octopus meat and covered in a batter to create a small fritter with her secret sauce.

The interest was something which made her proud to showcase the international food she learnt to cook from her mother and working in a ski resort in her homeland.

“It gives everyone a chance to know migrants in the community, and it is also a chance for us to show how we cook food in our culture.

“Just talking to people last year, they wanted to try some of our food, wanting to know about the culture.”

One of the 16 stalls that will be handing out international food on the day, Mrs Hunt and her team have been asked to prepare at least 500 plates again, with more than 10,000 people expected again this year.

“We have already starting preparing some food and Photo Tetsuro Mitomo 310113-TM-042 it’s in the freezer now, but next week we will making Chiyo Hunt and her daughter Chinatsu, 7, will join six other a lot of food to get ready,” she said.

The stalls will be open from 11am until 3pm on Japanese locals to hold a stall of their finest cuisine at the Waitangi Day. Multicultral Bite festival on Waitangi Day next week.

By Brendan Manning Four Canadian men jailed over an international card-skimming scam stole the personal details of their victims from under their noses, a court has been told.

Sina Chea, William Alexande Rivera-Rivas, Mario Rivera and Kevin Roberto Flores Roldan were convicted of participating in an organised criminal group and dishonestly and without right obtain documents for pecuniary gain.

In Auckland District Court yesterday, Judge Phil Gittos sentenced each of the men to four years and six months in prison.

The court had been told victims of the cardskimming scam had their personal details stolen from under their nose as they used eftpos devices altered by the thieves.

Nearly $700,000 in total was taken via ATM machines in Canada from the accounts of about 700 New Zealanders in the scam which involved tampered eftpos keypads.

The group stole 27 eftpos keypads from 22 stores in Auckland and one in Hamilton between March and April last year, tampered with them, then put them back into shops.

The altered keypads recorded the information stored on magnetic strips on eftpos cards and the personal identification numbers (PINs) to which they were linked.

Those details were then sent overseas where they were used to make cloned cards for withdrawals in Montreal.

The scam relied on sophisticated technical know-how and sleight-of-hand, banking sources have said.

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When Mid Canterbury’s pioneer irrigation schemes first brought water onto the arid plains, the agricultural boom began and the landscape changed. Guardian chief reporter MICHELLE NELSON picks up the story from last week.

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or about 50 years borderdyke irrigation supported mixed crop and sheep farms, however the advent of sprinkler systems, and later centre pivots, enabled diversity.

Tapping into underground water, half the water was needed to achieve the same results. For the first time large-scale dairy farming became an option.

At about 250,000 hectares, Mid Canterbury is the largest area of flat farming land in New Zealand, and about 75 per cent of this is watered by way of irrigation schemes or ground water bores.

These days almost 60 per cent of the Mid Canterbury flatlands are used for dairying or dairy support grazing. The farms are among the biggest in the country, and they carry some of the largest herds with average head counts exceeding 800 cows, which also produce the most milk solids per hectare.

While the landscape may appear dairy-dominated, it is not the only industry reliant of water – and lots of it.

The lucrative seed industry produces half the world’s requirement for radish seed, and a third of its carrot and Bok Choi seed, along with many other high value seed crops.

Despite sheep appearing to be scarce these days, 2010 figures put the total land used for sheep-only farming at around 10 per cent, while 31 per cent is dedicated to beef and sheep.

By contrast dedicated dairy farms take up just 11 per cent of the total Mid Canterbury area.

Without the intensive cropping and dairying, made possible by irrigation, the population of the town would wither, and along with it, the services we all enjoy. In Ashburton and in the satellite towns of Rakaia, Methven, Mayfield and Hinds,

many businesses exist to support these primary industries.

But this has come at a cost.

The very water needed to sustain the district is often returned to the waterways in a degraded state.

This is often blamed on dairying, but intensive agriculture is also a major contributor to water pollution caused by leaching.

Leaching occurs when chemicals, nutrients and other soluble matter in soil is dissolved by excess water and washed away. It becomes a problem when pesticides and fertilisers in the soil, enter water systems.

Nitrogen, an important nutrient for plant growth, has been identified as a particular problem when leaching is discussed. Nitrogen occurs naturally, when plants and animals decompose, or enters the soil as animal manure and in plant fertilisers.

In wet soil, nitrogen converts into nitrate – a mobile form of nitrogen, which travels easily in water. In the waterways, nitrogen poses a risk to both human and animal health.

Faecal contamination has also put paid to swimming in the local rivers.

This is caused when effluent enters the water, and exposes users to health risks such as e-coli.

Cow effluent in particular has been linked with water pollution in Mid Canterbury. Just as everyone benefits from the bounty produced on the irrigated plains, pollution also affects us all. The Ashburton River has been off limits for swimmers for several years, and other waterways are also contaminated.

Over several years, Environment Canterbury (ECan) has been the regulatory body overseeing

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the sustainable management of natural resources in Canterbury, according to the Natural Resources Regional Plan (NRRP).

Despite the ‘dirty dairying’ label, ECan compliance figures for the 2011-2012 year showed the industry has been working hard to clean up its act. Seventy per cent of the district’s dairy farmers were fully compliant with their effluent discharge consents, five per cent higher than the previous year, despite a seven per cent increase in the number of dairy farms. The rate of also significant non-compliance, mainly caused by dairy effluent discharge, fell 26 per cent last year.

The Government recent release of $80 million from the $400 million Community Irrigation Fund has been met with a mixed reaction.The Mayfield Hinds scheme has been granted $158,125 over two years and the Ashburton Lyndhurst scheme $286,120 over one year. Those set to benefit from the water are happy, but critics have questioned why the Government is subsidising private business, and environmentalists fear this will result in more pollution.

“More irrigation and more intensive agriculture with increased stocking, and more fertiliser will result in greater water pollution,” Green Party water spokesperson Eugenie Sage said.

“Government irrigation subsidies will worsen our already severe water pollution problems.

“Irrigators get to pocket profits yet when the degradation

inevitably happens, the taxpayer will end up having to pay for waterway clean-ups.

“The Ministry for the Environment’s recreational water quality monitoring shows 52 per cent of our rivers are unfit for swimming.”

However, Ashburton Water Zone committee member and local farmer Neil Brown sees a cleaner, greener farming future.

He calls water the blood of the Canterbury economy, the agricultural dynamo driving the district’s economy, with over a third of the district’s $988m Gross Domestic Product (GDP) coming directly from the dairy, meat and arable and crop industries in 2010.

“Farmers genuinely want to look after the land, it’s in their interests – and they are working very hard to get it right,” Mr Brown said.

More efficient irrigation systems and a better understanding of environmental issues are starting to pay off, and at the end of the day failure to comply with the raft of standards is a costly business for farmers.

And Mr Brown pointed out, in the early days the tons of precious top soil blew out to sea in nor’west winds every year. Irrigation has also lessened the risk of fires, which in the past destroyed hectares of crop and grassland every year.

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Bain saga just keeps rolling on

By Coen Lammers editor

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ew Zealanders are tired of the David Bain saga.

Justice Minister Judith Collins has not covered herself in glory by the continued delays around the compensation for Mr Bain who was acquitted in 2009 of killing five family members.

The Bain legal team had requested compensation for spending 13 years in jail after an earlier guilty verdict in 1996.

Canadian Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie was hired to review the evidence and he recommended compensation for Bain was justified.

Clearly not happy with that outcome Ms Collins asked New Zealand judge Robert Fisher QC to peer review judge Binnie’s report, and judge Fisher found inaccuracies.

So far however, the minister has refused to release any details of either report and has given no indication on when a decision will be made so it is no surprise the Bain camp has demanded a judicial review into the process.

After the guilty verdict in 1996 and the lengthy trial in 2009 it appears the Bain trial is repeated over and over again.

If two juries and two experienced judges are unable to agree on the evidence at hand, this case is unlikely to be totally resolved.

In the meantime, Ms Collins should not be allowed to turn into judge and jury and continue to drag this out and get enough second opinions until she gets the answer she likes.

Whatever our personal views on this case, it is time to let Mr Bain move on with his life, and the rest of the country along with it.

Hopefully this is not just an exercise in saving a few pennies because the $400,000 paid to judge Binnie and $100,000 to judge Fisher and all the legal costs from both parties in between, will be getting close to any sum Mr Bain would be entitled to.

The Canadian judge was hired for his independence and his experience so even if there were some inaccuracies, it is not Ms Collins’ call to judge the judge.

The Government has the final say in this matter and if the Crown is determined to deny Mr Bain, it should simply make that call.

A recent survey showed that 74% of New Zealanders feel Mr Bain deserves compensation, but whatever the Crown decides, one segment of the polarised population will disagree.

It is a no-win situation but further delay is unacceptable.

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read a story in a magazine a while back about plans to reduce the numbers of camels in the Australian outback.

The magazine may have been old, but it doesn’t really matter.

Camels were apparently introduced to Australia generations ago, and used as a means of transport in the arid Australian red centre.

Now, having been released into the wild after being replaced by mechanised transport, their numbers have grown considerably.

I’m not sure what harm they do, I doubt if pasture degradation is the problem because from what I’ve see there isn’t any pasture to speak of.

Maybe it’s competing with beef cattle for other food.

Anyway, over the years we’ve had our own problems with introduced pests.

Rabbits, possums, pigs, weasels, stoats, ferrets, rats and mice all come to mind.

They take their toll on grazing and particularly on the more vulnerable native birds.

Our ancestors obviously didn’t have a clear eye to the future damage they might cause.

The same can be said for plants. The array of noxious plants is truly astonishing and I’m constantly amazed by the number of them I still see under cultivation in domestic gardens.

But mainly when we think of bad plants, the mind turns to gorse, blackberry, broom, and barberry and if you live in places like Golden Bay,

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By Felicity is underway, and Stacey Clark situation rightly so.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT We live in a so-called knowledge economy, and large amounts of the knowledge and study is centred round our primary industries. Surely the scientists could have looked far Himalayan honeysuckle Montbretia enough ahead to predict what might and buddleia. happen.

Then there are the other baddies.

Come to that, surely they could Pesticides like 24D, 245T and DDT and have looked ahead before the massive the nasties that have taken millions of growth of dairying, to predict the polludollars to fix up at Mapua. tion of our waterways.

I’m sure none of the people who When I came back to Ashburton, a released the first bunnies, planted farmer tried to tell me it wasn’t the the first gorse bushes or buddleia, or dairy industry which was polluting the sprayed the first seemingly miraculous waterways, it was the seagulls which weed killers had any idea they were had settled in the Ashburton River bed leaving a legacy of horror for their after the town dump was closed. grandchildren’s grandchildren to deal Perhaps that’s why dimwitted hoons with. drive their 4WD vehicles through the In the past week we’ve heard of river bed and decimate the nesting another potentially serious problem. areas of vulnerable endangered birds, Apparently there’s a chemical being in the mistaken idea they are wiping used here in Mid Canterbury to proout the former tenants of the dump. mote grass growth on dairy farms in An idle thought. How many birds the spring. would it take to equal the daily urinary It seems it is now present in the and faecal output of one cow? milk supply in minute amounts, which

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Weekend 2,140,000 - New

Zealand Cricket was yesterday given a $2.14 million handout over three years by the ICC as a way to help this country become more competitive. The targeted assistance and performance programme is usually reserved for developing nations, like Scotland and Ireland.

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- The Super Bowl in New Orleans on Monday will mark the first time two brothers have coached against each other for the championship game in America’s National Football League. The ‘Harbowl’ will feature John Harbaugh’s Baltimore Ravens facing Jim Harbaugh’s San Francisco 49ers.

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- The personal best 100m time of Carlin Isles, the United States sevens team speedster. In Wellington this weekend for the New Zealand Sevens, Isles’ time would have been enough for a semi-final spot at the London Olympics if he were able to crack qualification for the competitive US sprint team.

46 - The Breakers have lost

their two previous clashes this season against arch-rivals Perth

By Kris Shannon

1. The expectations

There are a couple of downsides to winning championships. The Breakers have been unaffected by one - American coach Pat Riley’s ‘Disease of More’, a concept which states that title-winning players return the following season wanting more playing time, more shots and more money - but they have fallen victim to the other.

Back-to-back championships can only enhance expectations among fans and media and, as a result, repeated success becomes ho-hum. The Breakers may have lost just three of 20 games during this campaign but that’s what they’re supposed to do. They’re the Breakers, the best team in the competition with the best roster and arguably the best coach. Rightly or wrongly, a string of victories is now expected.

2. The attitudes

The players may be ruthless on the court, dismantling opponents with the skill of Dexter Morgan, but they are more sweethearts than serial killers when they step outside of the lines.

Nice guys finish last and, although the Breakers are sitting atop the Australian NBL standings, their diplomatic nature has seen them fall behind in the public conscience.

The entire roster is

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by a combined 46 points. The two-time defending champions got one back on the team they defeated in last year’s grand final when they faced off in front of 9200 fans at Vector Arena last night. Report page 25.

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- Despite retiring from international cricket last year, Australia’s Ricky Ponting has attracted the top reserve price for this weekend’s Indian Premier League auction. Of the 101 nominated players, only Ponting and Michael Clarke were deemed worthy of the US$400,000 reserve.

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- New Blues coach Sir John Kirwan has wasted little time in moving on from last year’s disastrous campaign, naming 18 new caps for the Blues’ first pre-season game against the Reds. The Blues’ All Blacks contingent will not feature, leaving a fresh-faced team for the game in Toowoomba today.

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- England’s Football Association has decided against extending Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard’s three-match

ban for being sent off against Swansea last week. Hazard was given his marching orders for kicking ball boy Charlie Morgan, but the FA deemed sufficient the automatic ban for violent conduct.

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- World amateur No 1 Lydia Ko was defeated at last weekend’s NSW Open by two shots - the second time in three years she has finished runnerup at the event. Sandwiched between those second places was Ko’s victory last year, which made her the

youngest winner of a professional golf tournament.

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- The death of Caleb Moore at this week’s Winter X-Games in Colorado was the first in the competition’s 18-year history.

Moore, 25, died on Thursday after being hospitalised a week ago when his 204kg snowmobile landed on top of him while he was attempting a back flip.

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- Ross Taylor’s comeback tour continued this week, with matching scores of 21 in Central Districts’ clash with Auckland.

Taylor, who was yesterday named in New Zealand’s squad for the ANZ Series against England, has managed 98 runs in four innings since his self-imposed exile from cricket.

- APNZ

pleasant and friendly, denying bloodthirsty scribes of a soundbite they can blow out of proportion to generate page views.

Coach Andrej Lemanis leads by example in this regard, with his reasoned and rational quotes completely lacking in unprovoked pot shots. At least when the inevitable grand final series against Perth eventuates, the sports hacks will have the redheaded Rob Beveridge to fire up.

3. The competition

There is a perception the ANBL provides an inadequate competition level and games against Perth are the only ones in the regular season worth watching. That theory is backed by the standings but is refuted by visiting coaches. Rather than the bunch falling off the pace, it is instead a case of the leaders being too good, they argue. That may be the case, but it doesn’t change the fact that clashes between the NBL’s most western and eastern teams are the only ones a casual sports fan will care about.

The ANBL has had some glamorous clubs in

“Oh no Zac, not again! When will you ever learn?”

- Merv C

The Breakers remain undervalued in NZ the past - the three-peat-winning Sydney Kings before they went bust - but it is now lacking sides with the selling power of the Brisbane Broncos, Melbourne Storm or Sydney FC.

4. The scandals

The family values of the club, preached by owners Paul and Liz Blackwell, are well known but they come at a cost. Nothing produces more column inches or talkback calls than a good, juicy scandal. There’s a reason the Black Caps and the Phoenix have been hogging the headlines. Perhaps the Ross Taylor captaincy saga was simply a devilish scheme to keep an underperforming side on the back pages? Maybe Gareth Morgan’s ranting and raving is to ensure his side remains relevant? The Breakers have had the minor flare-up - Corey Webster’s fondness for synthetic cannabis, BJ Anthony’s battle with the booze - but both were comparitively minor on the scandal scale and both were dealt with in a swift, appropriate manner. Maybe Mika Vukona needs

“Poor old Jim was left at the altar while his bride preferred the gym.”

- Merv C

take a leaf out of former Golden State guard Latrell Sprewell’s book - go crazy at practice and choke Andrej Lemanis. That might liven things up.

5. The minority

When the Tall Blacks finished fourth at the world championships a decade ago, it seemed as if the world’s second-most popular sport was on the precipice of breaking through in New Zealand’s crowded sporting landscape. But that’s the thing about a precipice - the only way from there is down. Basketball, like football has found after the All Whites’ World Cup run in 2010, will never consistently compete against this country’s traditional sporting codes. If the Warriors were heading for a third-straight NRL title, they would have had a Halberg award by now (the Breakers, incredibly, haven’t had a nomination). If the Blues embark on a club-record winning run, especially after last year’s fiasco, Sir John Kirwan would be knighted again. But if it’s the Breakers? The national broadcaster prefer to run a Blues pre-season story. - APNZ

“Yes of course you can have a turn but only when I have finished!” - Merv C

“What a joy. It’s an incredible feeling winning this trophy once more - it’s definitely my favourite grand slam. I love this court” - NOVAK DJOKOVIC after winning his third consecutive Australian Open tennis crown.

* * * * “I know I’m not young, but I have to say I’m very (much) looking forward to next year” - Chinese star LI NA after her three-set loss to Victoria Azarenka in the Australian Open women’s final.

* * * * “I was digging in the back garden when (chairman Greg) Griffin rang me a year ago. Now I have some time to go back and finish it off.” - Adelaide United A-League coach JOHN KOSMINA after his shock resignation.

* * * * “If anyone had seen the wickets that we’ve served up at Bellerive earlier this season, you’d probably understand why I’ve only got two wickets so far.”

- Tasmania’s XAVIER DOHERTY explains his modest return of two wickets at an average of 80 in Shield cricket this summer.

* * * * “It’s disappointing, yes. I wish I had a dollar for every time I said something was disappointing when I’m talking about Anthony Mundine, but that’s just the way it is.” - DANIEL GEALE reacting to Anthony Mundine’s hasty exit from the ring without congratulating him on his win.

* * * * “He was a footballer, he crossed over and I give him all the credit in the world, that’s not easy to do, but his day has come, his day has gone.”

- Geale’s American promoter GARY SHAW on MUNDINE.

* * * * “I’m the best ever, the number one, the best athlete ever, you can’t mess with me.”

- MUNDINE declared before losing the world title clash on Wednesday to Geale.

* * * * “For 18 years, we have worked closely on safety issues with athletes, course designers and other experts. Still, when the world’s best compete at the highest level in any sport, risks remain.” - The X Games on the death of snowmobile rider CALEB MOORE on Thursday.

* * * * “Can CA please put current cricket people in charge to run the game,select teams, not ex rugby or any other sports people plse, seriously ... We have the best batsmen / captain in the world in @MClarke23 (Michael Clarke) - He needs current cricket people to help him out not muppets “ - SHANE WARNE hits out at Cricket Australia.

”What took you so long dear?”

- Graham H ”That’s bacon rind, I’m having some of that” - Kevin M

“Damn, I knew this wasn’t really a good idea” - Merv C

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Making waves

By Jonathan Leask

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Mayfield rower Emma Dyke could be a future Olympic medallist.

Dyke, 17, won a silver medal in the womens’ pair at the Youth Olympics festival in Sydney last month, an achievement that has her looking to a future in the sport.

“It was just an amazing experience and to get silver was incredible,” Dyke said.

“Rowing is my only sport and I hope to pursue a future in it.”

She starts her final year at Craighead on Monday and doesn’t know exactly what she wants to do next year, other than keep rowing and possibly become Mid Canterbury’s next top rower.

Dyke has followed a similar pathway to the gold medal-winning Bond.

Bond went to a small rural primary school in Chertsey, then Ashburton Intermediate, before heading off to Otago Boys’ High School where he started his rowing career.

Dyke went to Mayfield Primary School before heading to Craighead, where she picked up rowing and is making waves on the water.

The next step is the Olympics which will be in Rio in 2016, but Dyke is realistic about her prospects.

“Rowers are usually a bit older when you start to peak so I’m too young for Rio, but maybe the Olympics after that, but the junior worlds later this year is a definite goal.

“After Maadi they name a squad for the junior trials so hopefully I can go well enough to push for a place.”

The Junior Worlds are in Lithuania in August this year,

but her focus now turns to performing at the Maadi Cup, the New Zealand Secondary School regatta in March, and medalling at all the regattas along the road to Lake Karapiro.

After a few weeks out of the boat since winning the silver, Dykes is back in the Craighead boat this weekend competing at the South Island Club Championships at Lake Ruataniwha.

Dyke isn’t the only Mid Canterbury rower in Craighead colours.

“Half the squad are from Mid Canterbury.”

In the four Dyke rows with fellow Mid Cantabrians Harriett Sutton and Paige Cook, and she also rows with her younger sister Sarah.

“They tried us in a pair but it just didn’t work.

“I wasn’t a very patient teacher.

“We do row in the eight together but we’re at opposite ends of the boat.”

She missed the Craighead rowing camps and has had two weeks off rowing but she is in top form.

“We had a three week training camp before we went over to the Youth Olympics which is the longest time training I’ve ever had.”

The training paid off in Sydney.

“The top three in each heat advanced so it was a case of not coming last.

“For us that meant going out hard to make sure we made the final.

“But Great Britain held back in the heat and did enough to qualify then put it all out in the final.

“We beat them in the heats but they hit the front early and were three seconds ahead at the end so a boat length while we had to hold off the Australian crews.”

Happy enough with silver in her first international regatta, Dyke then got to experience an international medal ceremony.

“It was pretty cool getting up on the podium apart from they played the Great Britain anthem.

“But it was some relief from the Australian anthem which we heard plenty of.”

She plans plenty more trips to the podium, and one day plans to stand on top and hear the New Zealand anthem.

But there are plenty of strokes to make before then.

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By Michael Brown

Man vs Wild, Come Dine With Me, The Amazing Race, Coast to Coast.

Welcome to pre-season training, Super Rugby style.

There was a time when rugby pre-season training involved little more than running up and down training fields.

It still does but it has also transformed to include challenges, quests, community projects and competitions.

From tramping, trapping and triathlons to paint-

ing, shooting, hunting, fishing, cooking, whitewater rafting and bomb competitions, players are bombarded with a wide mixture of activities.

It’s large parts of fitness training as well as doses of team bonding, and each franchise will hope it’s a formula for success when the Super Rugby season kicks off this month.

The Highlanders have probably put together the most varied preseason programme of any New Zealand franchise.

They have cleared walking tracks and possum traps, picked up rubbish, done gardening and car washes, completed triathlons and a 25km tramp into the Greenstone Valley, been trout fishing, hunting and whitewater rafting, and a handful even flew to the top of the Remarkables mountain range near Queenstown in a helicop-

ter for a leadership meeting.

Their final block of training will be in Wanaka when the players will bring along their wives, partners and families so those closest to them can also get an understanding of what they are trying to achieve.

Coach Jamie Joseph might have been born in Blenheim but he fits the rugged Southern Man image often rolled out in the lower South Island and a lot of it was forged over a successful playing career with Otago.

During their first weeklong block of intensive training, players met at 5.30am and trained until 9am before they had breakfast together.

They would then head out to complete community projects before returning to the training field in the early evening.

“Our dynamics are different to every other team,” Joseph says.

“There

are only one or two players who are actually from Dunedin.

“While they might be good at rugby, they don’t really know who they represent so we spent the first part of our pre-season assimilating with the community.

“The priority is to get everyone fit and strong, but getting them ready is a bit more for us.

“They trained at morning and night and filled in the rest of the day with work. It helps them understand what the rest of the country does.

“I think initially there were questions [from players] why we do it, but all of the work shows the com-

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munity we are willing to work outside the square in order to get the support for us to be successful.”

Support shouldn’t be a problem this season.

Joseph has assembled an impressive squad that has the potential to challenge, with the likes of Ma’a Nonu and Brad Thorn added to a roster that features five All Blacks who went on the end-of-year tour.

Expectations are a lot more measured in the top of the North Island.

Blues fans, disillusioned after their side’s poor run in 2012, might be encouraged to learn their side has gone old-school.

There is little of the quirky and complicated, just lots of running.

“Lots and lots of running ... albeit with fancy gadgets and highly-qualified staff in plentiful supply.

New coach John Kirwan wants to play a high-tempo game and players can only do that if they are fit.

Specifically, he wants players to be in the top 10 per cent of fitness levels in their position in New Zealand but gener-

ally he wants them to be the fittest they have ever been.

The early indications suggest they are on track.

Not only is Piri Weepu 10kg lighter than he was at the same time last year, but he and nine of his teammates this week set personal bests in their yo-yo fitness tests.

The variety for them has come in the location of their floggings - up the sand dunes of Bethels Beach and over and around One Tree Hill (players were required to traverse the final metres doing an arduous lizard crawl).

Entertainment co-ordinator Anthony Boric organised a fishing trip with Geoff Thomas, host of TV fishing show Outdoors With Geoff, but players have otherwise indulged in little more than coffee and cards in the training headquarters.

The ultimate measure of a team’s pre-season campaign is what happens in the regular season and none were as successful as the Chiefs in 2012.

They did their own Amazing

Race last year as they hitchhiked from Hamilton through Cambridge, Rotorua, Tauranga and Te Puke to Ohope and this time completed a Coast to Coast as they traversed from Waihi beach on the east coast to Kawhia Harbour on the west.

The route was significant because it took in areas Tainui traversed many centuries ago and coach Dave Rennie wanted his players to capture the spirit of that journey, but in a way that challenged the players physically as well as engaging with people in the regions.

They biked, hiked and paddled over the course of a two-day adventure that left many physically exhausted but mentally invigorated.

This week the Crusaders have tackled their own version of The Amazing Race, a TV show that requires contestants to reach a destination as quickly as possible while completing tasks along the way.

The squad split into four groups and dispersed to Timaru, Banks Peninsula, the West Coast and Golden Bay on Sunday and on

Tuesday were required to hitchhike to Hamner, minus cellphones.

“It was pretty easy when Dan Carter stuck his thumb out in Greymouth,” Crusaders assistant coach Tabai Matson said.

The following day the squad split into six separate groups - led, inevitably, by the four hunting Whitelock brothers plus Luke Romano and Joe Moody - to forage in the bush for 24 hours in their own Man vs Wild challenge.

The ability to trap a rabbit or catch a fish is not going to help the Crusaders in their quest for a first Super Rugby title since 2008 and eighth overall but other outcomes like trust, camaraderie and belief might.

“It’s amazing when you get people outside their comfort zones,” Matson said.

They proved that in 2011 when they made the final despite playing all of their games outside of Christchurch, including a ‘home’ game in London, because of the earthquakes.

Fortunately, the comfort zone this time is a lot more controlled. - APNZ

• Chiefs’ co-captains The Chiefs have stuck with a winning formula and reappointed Craig Clarke and Liam Messam co-captains for the upcoming Super Rugby season. The defending champions kick off their pre-season campaign against the Highlanders in Taupo today and coach Dave Rennie saw no need to tinker with the leadership of his team.

“They are both top blokes who complement each other, work hard and bring a different skillset to the side,” Rennie said.

“Having co-captains worked really well for us last year, so we decided to continue with it. As far as leaders go, these two are highly respected by us all and epitomise what Chiefs mana is all about.”

- APNZ

• Davis Cup lead for NZ It was easy going for the New Zealand Davis Cup team on the first day of their Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II tie against Lebanon yesterday and they established a 2-0 lead and dropped only five games across six sets of tennis. New Zealand No 1 Dan King-Turner set the tone when he beat Lebanon No 2 Michael Massih 6-1 6-1 6-0 in just under 60 minutes and Artem Sitak then dispatched Lebanon No 1 Karim Alayli 6-2 6-1 6-0 in 67 minutes to put New Zealand on the verge of overall victory. They can wrap up the tie in today’s doubles.

For King-Turner, the match was something he hadn’t experienced before. “It was the most convincing Davis Cup match I’ve ever played and the shortest time-wise as well,” he said.

“I’m just happy to get the win.

I just tried to make him play as many balls as possible and he seemed to hit a couple and then missed. After that he didn’t look too comfortable.” - APNZ

• More Warne wisdom

Highlanders scrum coach Kees Meeuws watches Tony Woodcock as he trains with the Highlanders at Logan Park yesterday. photo odt

Test great Shane Warne says part two of his controversial discussion paper on how to fix Australian cricket will be released by Monday. The legspin genius lashed Cricket Australia on Wednesday with a statement which called for various friends of his to be given positions of power. The 43-yearold nominated ex-teammates Glenn McGrath, Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn as the type of people who would make good selectors and called for his former Test skipper Mark Taylor to be appointed general manager of cricket. Warne had slammed CA for getting rugby types involved in the game and said more current cricket people should be recruited. Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming’s name was raised by Warne as a good fit for national coach. CA chief Sutherland had previously welcomed a possible - AAP meeting with Warne.

• Panthers move on

Right: The Crusaders made a flying stopover at the Ashburton Domain on Tuesday and tested out the skills of the many Mid Canterbury youngsters who turned out. photo tetsuro mitomo 290113-tm-002

Penrith coach Ivan Cleary says the club has recovered from star centre Michael Jennings’ departure to NRL rivals the Sydney Roosters last month as if it never happened. Jennings ended a near season-long saga when he joined the Roosters a fortnight ago - a remarkable coup so late in the pre-season, considering the 24-year-old’s stature as an incumbent NSW centre. But Cleary is adamant that, despite planning all preseason as if Jennings would be lining up for the Panthers in round one, his exit has been anything but disruptive. - AAP

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Time to move on

• Handout for cricket New Zealand Cricket has been given a US$1.8 million (NZ$2.14m) handout over three years by the International Cricket Council as a way to help this country become more competitive on the international scene. The money is part of the ICC’s targeted assistance and performance programme (TAPP) and is aimed at developing more competitive international teams. The TAPP programme was put in place at the start of 2012, and money given to full and associate/affiliate countries to help improve team performance.

Ireland and Scotland were the first to receive TAPP assistance in June last year with the West Indies and Zimbabwe the first full members to receive funding. New Zealand are currently No 8 in both the test and oneday international rankings and were thrashed 2-0 by South Africa in the recent test series, even being dismissed for a paltry 45 in one innings. - APNZ

• Aussie batting coach

Richard Pithey: “I’ll stick with the senior team through their four matches in February and longer if we get a challenge” photo kirsty graham 040408-kg-036

By Jonathan Leask

Richard Pithey is pulling stumps on from his role as Mid Canterbury Cricket chief executive this weekend.

On Monday Pithey will become the Canterbury Cricket Development Manager, a role that will still see him in charge of the local development but also the rest of the Canterbury region.

“I’m moving into more of a managerial role,” Pithey said.

“With Mid Canterbury I have been in charge of junior devel-

opment and in the new job I will still have some part to play, but I will have the rest of the Canterbury district as well.”

Pithey took over Mid Canterbury cricket on April 1 2008 and five years later decided it was time to move on.

“Chief executive is a big role and it’s a lot of hard work.

“It isn’t just one thing it is everything.

“Junior development is only one aspect of the role.

“Then there is coaching, facilities and all the administration like sponsorship, funding and all the things that go with it.”

Taking over some of Pithey’s duties in a caretaker role will be Ben Crequer, with members of the board to cover aspects of the administration.

“Ben has been in charge of wicket preparation and maintenance but also helping out with the junior coaching.

“He will take over that role until the end of the season.

“The board will assess and review the situation at the end of the season and make decisions on what the role or roles will be and then advertise appropriately.”

In terms of coaching Pithey

relinquished the primary representative team after the tournament in Christchurch in January but will finish off the season with the senior team, who start their Hawke Cup campaign today against Otago Country.

“I’ve taken the primary team since the winter of 2008 and I’m not sure who will take that on.

“I’ll stick with the senior team through their four matches in February and longer if we get a challenge, but at the end of the season they too will need a new coach.”

Ronchi hoping for his chance

By Daniel Richardson Luke Ronchi stands a decent chance of becoming the answer to a tricky trivia question one day - who was the first person to play international cricket for both Australia and New Zealand?

Of course, he hasn’t yet achieved the feat, but the 31-year-old seems destined to play for the country of his birth on top of the four one-day and three Twenty20 internationals he played for Australia in 2008 and 2009.

He’s sat out a four-year standdown period and on January 13 became eligible to play for New Zealand.

He will take a step closer when he plays for the New Zealand XI against England in two Twenty20 matches starting in Whangarei on Monday.

He will go straight from Wellington to Whangarei after playing in their first three days of his side’s ongoing Plunket Shield match against Canterbury at the Basin Reserve.

The New Zealand XI is an interesting collection of fringe internationals, former Black Caps, useful first-class players and the returning Ross Taylor.

Ronchi wasn’t named in New Zealand’s one-day or Twenty20 squads yesterday to meet England but said next week’s games were a good chance to remind the selectors of what he can do.

“It’s a chance to put my name out there. I think for everyone who’s involved, that’s what it is and the majority of us haven’t had the opportunity to play for any New Zealand team or New Zealand A so it’s a good chance to try and showcase yourself against a very good cricket team,” Ronchi said.

“Whoever is playing is going to do their best to show they’re capable of playing for the Black Caps.”

Just where Ronchi would fit in to the national side remains to be seen.

He bats at a rapid pace but Brendon McCullum still wants to keep wicket in the short forms

of the game and BJ Watling was impressive during the recent tour to South Africa as a wicketkeeper-batsman.

Ronchi is regarded as the best gloveman in the country and his bat-

ting numbers stack up well.

Prior to the game against Canterbury, he had scored 494 runs in the Plunket Shield at an average of 61.75 with three centuries and he had also pouched 26 catches behind the stumps.

In the HRV Cup he wasn’t as prolific but his glovework was sharp with a competitionbest four stumpings. He made his debut for Wellington at the end of last season after cutting ties with Western Australia and announced himself on the New Zealand domestic scene with a a rapid knock of 111 from 91 balls in a rain-affected fourday game.

Ronchi, born in Dannevirke, had clear reasons for returning to New Zealand.

“I didn’t want to regret not trying once I finished playing cricket,” he said.

“If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen but you’d always be regretting that you should have just tried it. There’s no harm in trying. If it doesn’t work, so be it, but hopefully it does.”

- APNZ

Former one-day international opener Michael Di Venuto has been announced as Australia’s new batting coach. Di Venuto replaces Stuart Law, who held the interim position for the past five Tests after fellow former Test batsman Justin Langer stepped down to go and coach Western Australia. Dean Jones also held the position briefly during the recent oneday series against Sri Lanka.

The 39-year-old Di Venuto will take up the role for Australia’s four-Test tour of India starting later this month. He will stand down as an assistant coach for the Tasmanian Tigers and Hobart Hurricanes. An aggressive left-handed opening batsman, Di Venuto played nine ODIs for Australia and 336 firstclass matches for Tasmania, Derbyshire, Durham, Sussex - AAP and Italy.

• Players disregard IPA More than 50 foreign players have so far signed up for Pakistan’s first major Twenty20 league, organisers said yesterday, despite a warning from the international players’ association not to take part.

Salman Sarwar Butt, managing director of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), gave the figure and said more overseas players were “likely to sign up shortly”, in a Pakistan Cricket Board statement. He revealed neither any players’ names nor their nationalities but said the overseas interest showed the league, due to start on March 26, was “attractive both in terms of cricket and financial gains”. No international cricket has been played in Pakistan since militants attacked the Sri Lankan team bus during a Test match in Lahore in 2009 and the country is still rocked by almost daily bombings and shootings. Pakistan last week confirmed South Africans Mike Proctor and Rudi Koertzen along with Zimbabwean Russell Tiffin had signed up as match offi- AFP cials.

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‘Driven by enjoyment’

By Michael Brown Talk to any athlete and they will say enjoyment is paramount.

For Shane Van Gisbergen, that is non-negotiable, and was why he walked away from V8 Supercars at the tender age of 23.

It was a decision that shocked many, but not those closest to him.

He was not enjoying his year with a Stone Brothers Racing team undergoing massive changes, and walked away despite having recently signed a new three-year contract.

It was couched as retirement - something he now takes umbrage with - and contributed to the disbelief and incredulity among fans and fellow drivers when only six weeks later he announced he had signed with Tekno Autosports to race a Holden in this year’s series. He’s

always driven a Ford.

Van Gisbergen isn’t too worried about the sort of reception he will receive when he returns to the track this month.

He doesn’t seem to worry about much, except one thing.

“I just want to race,” he said, “to enjoy it.

“I just love driving.

“I never said retirement. That word was put in a few releases.

“Retirement is final and I never wanted to retire. I’m only 23.

“Just the way it came out last year was not right, not the way I wanted, but it was what the team wanted.

“I went along with it at the time because I didn’t plan to come back. I didn’t have any desire to.

“Of course, now I’m in a Holden and it’s a bit of a change as well. People are probably going to be disappointed or shocked, I don’t

know. I just tend to stay away from it and get on with it.”

The thing he used to appreciate about Stone Brothers was that it was a family operation who just loved to race.

All

that changed when they were taken over by Erebus Motorsport last year.

Tekno are a throwback to the Stone Brothers of old.

They are another family operation who just love to race, and his co-driver Jonathan Webb is also the team owner and son of a billionaire.

Last season Webb was even able to race without any sponsorship, and he intends taking some of the pressure off Van Gisbergen, who dislikes all of the fringe activities like media and sponsorship that comes with the job.

They will also drive cars built by Triple Eight Race Engineering, which should see the pair near the front of the grid.

“Being a small family business we are quite close and work quite well together,” Webb said.

“And being an owner and a driver I probably under-

Ifill impatient for success

By Michael Brown Mention the idea of a three to five year plan at the Wellington Phoenix to Paul Ifill and the winger lets out a rueful chuckle.

He is not a fan.

Ifill will be 36 in three years and doesn’t have time to wait for an elusive A-League title.

He doesn’t believe he should have to wait, either.

It’s a plan made public by co-owner Gareth Morgan, who outlined that he was happy to accept short-term pain if it meant long-term gain.

“For me, that’s a hard thing to take,” Ifill said.

“I love this club and I would love in three to five years for us to be having a great new season, me still part of it coaching somewhere and saying, ‘great, it’s worked, we have all these kids coming through playing for the national team’.

“But I am a professional sportsman and I want to win the league next year, the year after if I’m still here.

“I want to win the league this year. That’s what I am in the game for.

“It has to be a balance.

“You need to be able to say in the short term we are still trying to win the league.

“The longer-term plan is a business that is making money, which I understand, and a structure that works and brings

through the youngsters. It would be great in three to five years if they’re not having to go overseas and pay big money for imports.”

Ifill is one on ‘big money’ and has repaid that through some match-winning performances and his professionalism.

He has not, however, enjoyed this season at all for a number of reasons ranging from Morgan to injuries and their position on the table.

“It’s been the least enjoyable of my four years here, that’s for sure,” he said.

The Phoenix have a chance to try to turn things around against Perth at Eden Park and take some solace from the fact that, although last, they are only four points outside the top six.

It’s likely the ‘total football’ will be largely parked as the Phoenix chase competition points rather than ones for artistic impression.

The players got together before the 1-1 draw with Newcastle last weekend and decided results had to come first.

It was reflected in their performance against the Jets, when they adopted a more-safety-first approach and played long balls if they had to - the goal came from a long ball from defender Ben Sigmund.

“We just spoke and said we still want to play this brand of football [coach] Ricki [Herbert] wants us to play in terms of keeping the ball on the deck a

Former Mid Canterbury prop Tim Perry will get his first taste of Super rugby in a preseason match against the Reds in Toowoomba tonight.

Perry has been named on an extended bench for the Blues first pre-season match

Blues coach Sir John Kirwan has taken a 27-man squad featuring 18 uncapped players across the Tasman to meet a Reds side boasting 11 capped Wallabies from 2012.

The Blues starting XV features nine players who have yet to pull on a Blues jersey including the entire backline and nine of the reserves are also new to the

Breakers pound Perth

By Kris Shannon

Paul Ifill: “I want to win the league this year. That is what I am in the game for”

lot more but we thought if the ball is at risk in dangerous areas and it needs to go forward, it goes forward,” skipper Andrew Durante said.

Morgan’s utterings have put considerable pressure on the players, not to mention angered fans, and his announcement the Phoenix wanted to play total football was not only misplaced but also unrealistic.

Total football means that every outfield player can play in any position on the park and that’s not something any team, perhaps except Barcelona, are

capable of doing.

“I think this whole total football has been a little misunderstood,” Durante said.

“We are trying to be a better footballing team.”

New signing Isaka Cernak will start against Perth, possibly at the expense of Dani Sanchez, and Ian Hogg will replace the suspended Tony Lochhead.

Stein Huysegems could also come in for Tyler Boyd but there is some uncertainty around the makeup of the front three with Jeremy Brockie’s wife due with the couple’s first child. - APNZ

Perry gets a taste of Super 15 rugby

By Jonathan Leask

stand more than a lot of the team owners out there.

“It’s a matter of trying to make it work where you can still enjoy it but get the essential parts of the job done, like looking after sponsors but still having enough time to really get your head back in the right space before getting in the race car.”

Van Gisbergen has got himself in the right headspace after a stint back home with his parents.

He started working for his father, who sells cars, and planned on racing in the New Zealand V8 SuperTourers, drifting and rallying.

He will still do all that and his new deal also allows him to live in New Zealand for six months of the year.

“I will a lot busier than I have ever been but it will be enjoyable,” he said.

“The way it’s panned out, it will be a lot more fun but a lot more work, too.”

- APNZ

franchise, including Perry.

Kirwan said it would be a great challenge for his young team but was looking forward to seeing them express themselves.

“They’re all ready to go, they’ve been training really hard and now it’s time to play,” Kirwan said.

Fellow Mid Canterbury prop Chris King will sit out the High-

landers opening pre-season match with a shoulder injury but Highlanders’ coach, Jamie Joseph named a strong starting XV to play the defending champion Chiefs in Taupo today.

Brad Thorn returns to Super Rugby after a season in Japan and pull on the Highlanders jersey for the first time, as will Joe Wheeler and Frae Wilson.

If the Breakers and Perth do what most expect and set a grand final date for April, the defending champions will be feel rather relaxed about the rematch.

The Breakers picked the right time to score their season-high in points, pounding Perth by 17 points at Vector Arena last night to seize the initiative in the pursuit of the Australian NBL minor premiership.

The victory was the Breakers 10th in a row, extending their club-record streak, and enabled New Zealand to exact an element of revenge after two heavy defeats at the hands of the Wildcats this season.

With those losses coming by a combined 46 points, the Breakers seemed determined to hand out their own hiding in front of 9200 fans.

Once they recovered from a slow start and took their first lead in the second quarter, the Breakers proceeded to pour in the points and ensure they will have happy memories of the venue should the teams return in the postseason.

It was the Breakers’ third victory in nine months against Perth at the downtown venue, with the previous two coming in last year’s grand finals, and sent out a statement of intent to the men from the wild west.

The Breakers hot shooting of recent weeks continued as five players hit double figures, led by MVP-in-waiting Cedric Jackson with 22. CJ Bruton, meanwhile, became the Breakers’ second leading all-time scorer, surpassing Aaron Olson’s 1800 points to trail only Kirk Penney (2517).

- APNZ

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By Daniel Richardson New Zealand sevens coach Gordon Tietjens has put his side’s rustiness on the opening day of the Wellington sevens down to the seven-week layoff between tournaments.

His men looked scrappy in their opening two games, a 19-14 loss to England and 36-5 win over Spain.

The side still had one pool game to play in the Hertz Wellington Sevens as the Guardian went to print against the USA where victory would have assured them a spot in the cup quarter-finals today.

New Zealand’s last tournament was in South Africa in early December but the world series took a long break over the Christmas and New Year period.

“They’re just real rusty.

“That gap between when we played our last two tournaments and this is huge,” Tietjens said following his side’s win over Spain.

“This is huge, the work you do between and perhaps we need more games together so it’s pretty tough and even in our second game against Spain, while it may have been convincing in the end, it certainly wasn’t competent the way we played.

“There were still a lot of areas where our accuracy’s just not where it should be.”

New Zealand’s young bucks were impressive during the second spell of the victory against Spain and Rocky Khan and Luke Masirewa were particularly impressive.

“That’s what you want from the bench,” Tietjens said.

“You can never underestimate any of the teams and I think we probably

just couldn’t get up for the first one like we should have.

“But give some credit to England because they’re a good side, they’ve got a lot of firepower in there as well but we were up against a good defence.

“But we turned that around and we still put 30-odd points on Spain and Spain’s a team that has beaten England in the past.”

New Zealand lead the world series standings after three rounds and are two-time defending champions in the Wellington leg.

Tietjens said his side needed to click during the rest of the weekend if they wanted to achieve a three-peat in the capital for the second time after they won a hat-trick of tournaments between 2003 and 2005.

“We’ve got to dominate when we’ve got the ball in contact, [get] quick ball and dominate and that’s probably the real area for us.

“It’s also about defence, which is where you dominate in the tackle, post tackle and give them the go forward, that’s really key in sevens because the quality of possession and the amount of possession is massive.”

Kurt Baker has been in good form for New Zealand with two tries in the opening two games, while pivot Tomasi Cama was at his creative best in the first half against Spain.

There’s always plenty of pressure on New Zealand to perform in Wellington and they looked nervous during the opening outing against England.

The first day of the tournament threw out a few upsets with Fiji failing to make the cup quarter-finals for the first time in 14 years on the international circuit.

Kenya were the surprise package of

the day as they won their three group games to top Pool B. Samoa went unbeaten in Pool C and moved through to the knockout stages, while Australia and Scotland qualified for the quarterfinals from Pool D. Action gets underway today at 1pm with the cup final due to be played at 9.30pm.

- APNZ

Kurt Baker heads for the tryline in New Zealand’s match against England at the Sevens tournament in Wellington yesterday.

photo nzh

Where in the world is Adam Thomson?

When most rugby players hang up their boots - or head overseas - an announcement is made.

Ashburton’s Adam Thomson is not like most rugby players.

He has been the cornerstone of the Highlanders for the past five years, playing all but six of the 71 games played by the franchise in that time. But what he is doing this season, and what jersey he is going to wear, if any, remains a mystery.

In the back half of last year, Thomson consistently said he was considering his options.

He is taking his time. And with no comment from the All Black loose forward, speculation and rumour is swirling.

He is off to Japan and is taking the first half of the year off; he waited too long and no franchise had any money left to sign him; he is going to be the 32nd player to join the Highlanders squad; he will join the Blues; he only wants to play a few games and no-one will agree to that; a third party deal will see him sign for the Highlanders any day; he is owed money from the Highlanders and will not play until he gets it; he has gone

to league and will play for the Otago Whalers at the Oval in June.

Fine, we made that last one up, but the only person who can answer the question about the future of Adam Thomson, is Adam Thomson.

The man himself has steered clear of the discussion.

He could not be contacted for this story and has never indicated, via any media platform, what he is doing this season.

When fellow loose forward Doug Tietjens got injured in preseason training, the Highlanders tried to contact Thomson, and had no luck. They have talked to friends of his. No one knows anything.

The best indication appears to be that Thomson, who turns 31 next month, is off to Japan when its season kicks off in August.

He did not sign a New Zealand Rugby Union contract by October 30 last year, indicating he did not plan to play in this country. And the NZRU has ruled out the possibility of Thomson playing only a handful of games for the Highlanders anyway.

Thomson’s body has taken a battering over the years. At the end of the last Super 15 season, the tank was well and truly empty.

It seems he has decided to put his feet up and get his body right so he can play overseas for another five years.

Japanese rugby is still completing its season and any new signings for next season will not be announced until it concludes. So, Thomson can probably not say anything about joining a Japanese club for a month or two.

General manager Roger Clark said the Highlanders were interested in signing Thomson for this season but it never eventuated.

“We tried to sign him but our presumption was that he must have signed a contract somewhere else in the world,” Clark said.

“He has always said to us he would never play for anyone else in New Zealand apart from the Highlanders.”

Clark said he

had heard all the rumours, but the only person who could say what Thomson was going to do was the man himself.

Securing financial help from a third party to enlist Thomson had not been

an option for the Highlanders.

“Our last contracted player was Ma’a Nonu and that was all our money spent.

“If he [Thomson] was available and we get an injury, then we would definitely look at that option. We never close any doors and we explore all options. I think we showed that last year with getting Mike Delany.”

Clark denied speculation the Highlanders owed Thomson money. He last talked to Thomson in October last year before he went on the All Black tour.

Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph said he would love to have Thomson but the 29-test All Black missed the boat when it came to signing a contract.

Joseph had talked to Thomson pre-Christmas and said if Thomson did not want to commit to the All Blacks, it would hard to commit to the next level down.

Thomson’s Twitter feed indicates he and partner Jessie Gurunathan have been holidaying in Thailand, and may be back in New Zealand soon.

- ODT

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GARDENING

the dos and don’ts

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pring bulbs are slowly making their way into the garden centres and box stores with the earlier flowering varieties such as anemones, ranunculus and freesias being the first to arrive. Spring bulbs must be the most easy and rewarding of garden plants with great displays being obtained with minimal work and expense. A garden that contains a good selection of many different bulbs is assured of colour from late winter to summer or early autumn – crocus, jonquils, lachenalia in late winter or early spring, followed by daffodils, anemones and ranunculi. Spring brings hyacinths, freesias, tritonias, muscari, sparaxis, daffodils, Dutch iris with late spring heralding the arrival of the alliums, English iris, brodiaea and the tulip. Following on in summer are the calla lilies, gladioli and begonias but these are not available as dry bulbs until the spring months.

Getting ready

As with all other plants the most important thing to remember is to select the right bulb for the right use and then prepare the ground accordingly. Remove any problem weeds and incorporate lots of compost, organic matter, bone flour and superphosphate into the soil well before planting. Never have the bulb coming into direct contact with artificial fertilisers.

When selecting your bulbs make sure they are big, fat and firm and show no signs of mould. Generally larger bulbs will provide the best flowers.

Some bulbs, like hyacinths, tulips and daffodils, require some ‘winter chilling’ to break dormancy.

This can be achieved by placing the bulbs in a paper bag and storing them in a cool drawer or in the fridge for several weeks. If you use the fridge make sure the bag does not touch the side of the fridge in case the bag gets wet and keep them away from ripening fruit as

ers of Fritillaria camschatcensis while the most majestic bulb for dappled shade provided by deciduous trees is the Fritillaria Imperialis. A word of warning about the F. imperialis – the stem leaves a hollow tube into the bulb causing rotting if it gets too wet so always plant this on its side.

Naturalising in lawns makes a breathtaking site when in flower. In short grass use crocus, miniature irises and daffodil cyclamineus hybrids are best, while in longer grass daffodils and bluebells are the best. To plant, remove a sod with a spade, place the bulbs underneath and replace the turf.

Gardening

Pests and diseases

with

ROGER MARTIN the gas ethylene is bad for bulbs.

Planting

‘Which way is up?’ is a common question and in general the narrow end is the top and the flat bottom end is where the roots will develop from. With rananculus always put the ‘claws’ down. Anemones and ranunculus are best soaked in tepid water for a couple of hours to make them swell up, which in turn will aid germination.

Planting depth is generally to a depth equal to twice the width of the bulb. In heavy clay soil where drainage is poor, or where roots from surrounding trees and shrubs are a problem, plant the bulbs in raised beds adding some sand to the hole and gypsum over the top of the soil.

Bulbs are best planted in full sun, although snowflakes, bluebells, dog’s tooth violet, anemone blanda and ipheion will tolerate light shade.

If you have really rich soil with plenty of leaf mould you will be able to grow the sumptuous black flow-

Bulbs are easy to grow with the only serious pest being soil borne eelworms invading the bulb and slugs and snails eating the new shoots. Use Diazinon prills and Mesurol respectively for control measures as required.

After flowering

It is a good idea to fertilise bulbs as they finish flowering to assist them to store food for the next season. When flowering has finished do not cut off the foliage. Simply remove the dead flower head and leave the bulbs to die down completely. The leaves contain a natural food supply for the bulb for the coming season. Tie the foliage in a knot or fold over the foliage and secure with a rubber band.

Bulbs should be lifted every two to three years when the foliage starts to die down. Leave the foliage attached until it dries naturally and remove when completely dry.

Store the bulbs in netlon bags or seed trays in a cool, dry, airy place.

A dusting of Flowers of Sulphur will protect the bulbs during storing.

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Based on using the Daltons Incredible Edible or Premium Fertiliser range, you can apply a side dressing of fertiliser approximately every 4-6 weeks during the summer months.

In the winter, you would drop this back to every 2-3 months depending on the vegetable crops you have growing in your garden (some crops are heavy feeders and may require more applications). The term “side dressing” means to apply fertiliser to the soil on or around the sides of the plant. Always ensure that your applied fertiliser is watered in well.

If you are planning to put in a vegetable garden, initial preparation is of primary importance, and is critical to the success of any garden big or small.

Ideally soil should be deep, loose, crumbly, free draining and nutrient rich. Preparation includes deep digging to loosen up and aerate the soil.

Be sure to incorporate lots of organic matter such as good quality compost, and blood and bone which improve the soil quality and help plants develop strong healthy root systems. For best results do this about one week to two weeks before planting to allow the soil to cultivate.

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Exchange rate avoided Real life

By Jamie Gray Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler has spelt out ways for New Zealand to improve its prosperity in a speech to Canterbury businesspeople yesterday, but skirted the question on most exporters’ lips: What to do about the over-priced Kiwi dollar.

Wheeler, in a speech to the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, said improving New Zealand’s productivity and competitiveness was critical to the country’s economic well being.

He said there was no easy formula for boosting economic growth rates. Like other small, commodity-producing econo-

mies, New Zealand’s economic prospects depended greatly on the growth in world output and trade.

Wheeler said the Reserve Bank is committed to helping cement the foundations for growth. As well as ensuring price stability and reducing the risk of inflation surprises, the bank was strengthening financial sector regulation and supervision to promote a stable and efficient financial system.

Strong international demand for New Zealand’s commodity exports would also help to build prosperity. “However, we need more investment to help with job creation and market development,” he said.

“Instead of welcoming for-

eign investment, we have one of the more restrictive frameworks among OECD countries,” he said.

“We should re-examine the factors, including tax and regulation, that diminish and distort the incentives to both save and invest,” he said.

Wheeler said returning to budget surplus and lowering public sector indebtedness would also strengthen the economy’s resilience and create more room for responding to future economic shocks.

Improving education and employment outcomes, especially for Maori and Pacific Islanders, would also help to strengthen New Zealand’s skill base, improve productivity, and reduce inequality.

Turning to the currency,

Wheeler said that with official interest rates close to zero in the major advanced economies, investors continued to search for higher yields in countries with stronger growth rates, favourable commodity price outlooks, sound macroeconomic policies, and higher interest rates.

“As with Australia, Canada, Sweden, Norway and some Asian and Latin American countries, the ensuing exchange rate appreciation affects the growth of our import substitution and export sectors,” he said.

Wheeler said he would return to this issue when he addressed the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association later this month.

- APNZ

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Kevin and Gaylene Smith have handed over Smith’s Footwear to Melissa Shimmin, and her husband Brian.

Footwear shop changes hands

by Michelle Nelson A local business that’s been in the family for 73 years changed hands this week.

George Smith opened Smith’s Footwear in 1940, and his son Kevin literally followed in his father’s footsteps, starting work in the store when he was 17.

Not long afterwards, a young woman named Gaylene was employed as

a shop assistant. In her Kevin found his “solemate” and the couple married and took over the business.

Together Gaylene and Kevin have operated the shoe store for almost half a century, but retirement calls, and they have handed over the reins to Melissa and Brian Shimmin.

Mr Smith Snr made shoes and did repairs; and back in the day when shoes had leather soles, he also nailed heel and toe caps onto each

pair sold.

“Fashion goes around in circles with shoes – quite a lot of what you see now was around a few years ago,” Kevin said.

And the strangest incident in his 47 year in the busisness, was when a customer left her newborn baby in a pram in the shop.

“Fortunately we knew who she was so we were able to get in touch with her – she was very embarrassed,” he said.

The Smiths have no fixed plans, but a holiday is high on the agenda.

“The time comes to move on,” Kevin said.

“We are just going to get in the car and go wherever the road takes and relax.

“I might play a bit of golf – we’ll see.”

The Shimmins have no plans to change the business and will continue to stock the Ziera brand shoes, which the business has become known for.

SI companies perform well South Island listed companies continued to perform well over the December quarter, according to the latest Deloitte South Island Index.

The 20th edition of the index showed South Island companies gained $405 million, or 7.7 per cent, in market capitalisation over the quarter, continuing the momentum from the third quarter.

The latest results saw the index gain $1.2 billion, or 27.4

per cent, during the calendar year, with total market capitalisation now standing at $5.68 billion.

Paul Munro, a corporate finance partner in Deloitte’s Christchurch office, said most of the increase in market capitalisation was attributable to the share price growth of Ryman Healthcare, which increased by about $920 million (68 per cent) over the year.

A third of the companies

included in the index experienced declines in market capitalisation.

Half the companies listed on the Deloitte South Island Index experienced upward movements in their market capitalisation over the quarter.

Again, the index’s top performer for the quarter was Ryman, gaining $225 million, or 11 per cent, in market capitalisation.

PGG Wrightson was anoth-

er strong performer, gaining $67.9 million (25.7 per cent) and moving into 5th position on the index.

The biggest decline in the quarter came from Silver Fern Farms, which lost $20.1m, or 23.6 per cent, in value after the company reported an annual operating loss after tax of $31 million.

Silver Fern’s shares trade on the Unlisted trading platform.

- APNZ

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By Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan MONEY MATTERS

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ost people in investment circles have heard of Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and John Templeton. Very few would have heard of Anne Scheiber, despite her having one of the great investment records of our time.

What is remarkable about this story is that it is a real life lesson in the basics of investing. Using her modest salary Anne Scheiber saved scrupulously, invested in shares for the long-term and then let compounding take hold. As the story goes, she was able to turn $5000 into $20 million over a 50 year period.

What are some of the key lessons to be taken from her story, for those people looking to build wealth?

Firstly, for income earners, it doesn’t matter how much you earn over your lifetime, it’s what you save that is the most important foundation for building long-term wealth. If you don’t have money to invest, you won’t be able to take advantage of compounding.

Compounding is the ultimate get-rich-slow strategy, whereby earnings from investments are reinvested, so that your wealth grows over time.

What is the core tenet of any savings plan?

Sacrifice. While only earning a modest income initially, Anne Scheiber was a fastidious saver. She didn’t treat herself to expensive clothes or dinners and was even known to take paper bags along to shareholder meetings to fill with food that she could then live off for the next couple of days. While this is an extreme example, there are ways that people can change their behaviour to save more, even if it’s just taking their lunch to work, working a few extra hours, etc.

Another important lesson to be taken from this case study is the importance of longterm investing. Anne Scheiber held shares for decades; she did not get caught up in the “noise” that is so prevalent nowadays from the media.

Her sole focus was on purchasing solid companies that paid consistent dividends and then holding those shares for the long-term.

When her shares fell in value, which they invariably did from time to time, she held steady and even added to her holdings.

This is perhaps the hardest thing for any investor to overcome, as the immediate reaction to any drop in value is to sell up immediately. Very few people know that Warren Buffett has seen his shares slide by more than 50% four times throughout his career.

Volatility in the sharemarket is to be expected and for those long-term investors it becomes an opportunity to potentially add to their holdings.

More and more New Zealanders are investing in shares via KiwiSaver. For some people this is the ideal investment vehicle, as it allows them to dollar-cost average into markets with an enforced long-term holding period, the exact strategy that Anne Scheiber employed. With the start of a new year, now may be the time to review your financial matters with an Authorised Financial Adviser to ensure you are on track to meet your goals.

Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan are authorised financial advisers with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton.

To arrange a meeting to discuss your investment objectives in confidence, please call (03) 307 9540 or e-mail ian.lennie@forsythbarr. co.nz or selwyn.sloan@forsythbarr.co.nz.

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World

14 killed in Mexico blast An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the capital killed 14 people and injured 100 yesterday as it heavily damaged three floors of a building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.

Another 30 people remained trapped in the debris, according to the Interior Ministry, as teams of military with rescue dogs showed up to extract the victims. The blast occurred in the basement of an administrative building next to the iconic, 51-storey tower of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, one of the tallest buildings in Mexico City.

“It was an explosion, a shock, the lights went out and suddenly there was a lot of debris,” employee Cristian Obele told Milenio television, adding that he had been injured in the leg.

“Co-workers helped us get out of the building.”

Ana Vargas Palacio was distraught as she searched for her missing husband, Daniel Garcia Garcia, 36, who works where the explosion occurred about 3.45pm local time, when many workers were just returning from lunch. She said she last talked to him a couple hours earlier.

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There was no immediate cause given for the explosion in a busy commercial and residential area. Pemex first said it had evacuated the building because of a problem with the electri-

cal system. The company later tweeted that experts from the Attorney General’s Office were analyzing the explosion and any reports of a cause were speculation.

The tower, where several thousand people work, was evacuated following the blast but not damaged, according to Gabriela Espinoza, 50, a Pemex secretary for 29 years who was on the second floor when

the explosion next door occurred.

“There was a very loud roar. It was very ugly,” she said.

Espinoza’s co-worker, Tomas Rivera, 32, worked on the ground floor and was knocked to floor, fracturing his wrist and jaw.

A reporter at the scene saw rescue workers trying to free several workers trapped.

- AP

Iran to speed up nuclear programme In a defiant move ahead of nuclear talks, Iran has announced plans to vastly increase its pace of uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel and the fissile core of warheads.

Eager to avoid scuttling those negotiations, world powers are keeping their response low-key.

Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency of its intentions last week, and the IAEA informed member nations in an internal note.

The brief note quoted Iran as saying new-generation IR2m “centrifuge machines ... will be used” to populate

a new “unit” — a technical term for an assembly that can consist of as many as 3132 centrifuges.

It gave no timeframe. A senior diplomat familiar with the issue said work had not started, adding that it would take weeks, if not months, to have the new machines running once technicians started putting them in.

Mark Fitzpatrick, a nonproliferation expert and former senior official at the US State Department, described the planned upgrade as a potential “game-changer.”

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“If thousands of the more efficient machines are introduced, the timeline for being able to produce a weapon’s worth of fissile material will significantly shorten,” said Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

“This won’t change the several months it would take to make actual weapons out of the fissile material or the two years or more that it would take to be able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile, so there is no need to start beating the war drums,” he said.

“But it will certainly esca-

late concerns.”

The planned upgrade could burden international efforts to coax Tehran into scaling back its nuclear activities and co-operating with the agency’s attempts to investigate its suspicions of secret weapons work.

Talks are tentatively set for next month with a date and venue still open.

Iran insists it does not want nuclear arms and argues it has a right to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear power programme. But suspicion persists that the real aim is nuclear weapons.

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Syria threatens retaliation Syria threatened yesterday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said the Jewish state will regret the attack.

Syria sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General stressing the country’s “right to defend itself, its territory and sovereignty” and holding Israel and its supporters accountable.

“Israel and those who protect it at the Security Council are fully responsible for the repercussions of this aggression,” the letter from Syria’s Foreign Ministry said.

US officials said Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria on Thursday targeting a convoy carrying anti-aircraft weapons

bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.

In Israel, a lawmaker close to hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped short of confirming involvement in the strike. But he hinted that Israel could carry out similar missions in the future.

The attack has inflamed regional tensions already running high over Syria’s 22-month-old civil war.

Israeli leaders in the days leading up to the airstrike had publicly expressed concern that Syrian President Bashar Assad may be losing his grip on the country and

its arsenal of conventional and non-conventional weapons.

The Syrian military denied there was any such weapons convoy. It said low-flying Israeli jets crossed into the country over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and bombed a scientific research centre. The facility is in the area of Jamraya, northwest of Damascus. and about 15 kilometres from the Lebanese border.

A US official said the airstrike targeted trucks containing sophisticated Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. The trucks were next to the military research facility identified by the Syrians, and the strike hit both

the trucks and the facility, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak about the operation.

If the SA-17s were to have reached Hezbollah, they would have greatly inhibited the Israeli air force’s ability to operate in Lebanon, where Israel has flown frequent sorties in recent years.

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, who in December became one of the most senior Syrian army officers to defect, said the targeted site is a “major and well-known” centre to develop weapons called the Scientific Research Centre.

- AP

Beyonce confesses to lip-syncing Beyonce answered critics of her Inauguration Day performance the best way she could — with another sterling performance of the national anthem.

The difference?

Yesterday, it was live: She admitted during her Super Bowl news conference that when she performed for President Barack Obama and the nation, she decided to sing to a prerecorded track because she didn’t have time to practice. Calling herself a self-proclaimed “perfectionist,” she said wanted the day to go off without a hitch.

“I practice until my feet bleed and I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra,” she said, adding that she was also emotional that day. “Due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable

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taking a risk. It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is common in the music industry. And I’m very proud of my performance.”

It was the superstar’s first public comments on the scandal.

Her rendition of the anthem was critically praised, but was scrutinised less than a day later when a representative from the US Marine Band said Beyonce was lip-syncing — merely mouthing the words to a pre-recorded track — and the band’s accompanying performance was taped.

Shortly after, the group backed off its initial statement and said no one could tell if she was singing live or not.

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• Skull puzzle Archaeologists say they have turned up about 150 skulls of human sacrifice victims in a field in central Mexico, one of the first times that such a large accumulation of severed heads has been found outside of a major pyramid or temple complex in Mexico. Experts are puzzled by the unexpected find of such a large number of skulls at what appears to have been a small, unremarkable shrine.

The heads were carefully deposited in rows or in small mounds, mostly facing east toward the rising sun.

-AP

• Teen shot at school A student opened fire at his middle school yesterday, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief George Turner said. In the aftermath, a teacher received minor cuts, he said.

- AP

• Sextortion charge

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Beyonce sings the national anthem during a news conference before her halftime performance at the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game.

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Aries 21 March - 20 April There’s a lot going on for you today as Mars, your personal planet, moves into Pisces, and lovely Venus moves into Aquarius. Mars may stir up your dreams and your psyche, bringing vivid fantasies that encourage you to connect with your heart’s desire. Meanwhile Venus encourages plenty of socializing and hints at a chance of romantic vibes.

TAurus 21 April - 21 May Your social life may begin to get more defined, more fun, more active and plenty more interesting. You may be even keener to join groups or clubs, move in new circles or to connect with certain types of people - mainly those who are creative, artistic and fun to be with. At the same time it’s worth networking to help your career to progress.

Gemini 22 May - 21 June You may be inspired to go after a goal that you had only vaguely thought about.

Suddenly the vision of what could be may dance before your eyes, encouraging you to believe in yourself and go for it. The desire to explore new ideas is powerful. As Venus changes signs today, moving out of your comfort zone may encourage some full-on loving.

CAnCer 22 June - 23 July As Mars moves into your learning zone you may find that taking up a course or class could help your career to blossom further down the line. The chance to update your skills is worth taking as doing so could help you become financially better off at a later date. Indeed, someone may be thinking about you as much as you’re thinking about them.

Leo 24 July - 23 August There is great potential for socializing today, along with pleasant conversation and the company of good friends. As Venus moves into Aquarius and Mars moves into Pisces, you might also find that things between you and your partner become much sweeter, happier and more productive. You’ve cleared the air - now it’s time for some fun.

VirGo 24 August - 23 September There’s movement in your relationship zone as Mars moves signs and begins to stir things up. If you and your sweetheart have had plans which have so far failed to manifest, you may decide to make a start.

At the same time, Venus in your health zone suggests that you may have a tendency to indulge more than usual, so mind how you go!

LibrA 24 September - 23 October If you have been unsure of which way to turn concerning a health issue, you may be more fired up from today and determined to get something done, or at least get some answers.

The same goes for diet and exercise where you might be more inspired to make a start. The good news is that Venus’s move into your romance zone may bring some magic your way.

sCorpio 24 October - 22 November If your love life has seemed too quiet lately, with lots of promise but nothing much showing up, then you may be delighted to know that things should improve from today. Mars moves into Pisces, which may create a few waves of the right kind. A special focus on your home zone also makes the perfect ambiance for entertaining at your place.

sAGiTTArius 23 November - 21 December It’s all change in the heavens today as Mars moves into your home zone and Venus into your communication sector. If you have been at a loss as to how to get your place together, you may feel inspired to become more organized. Making a plan and sticking with it could be crucial. Meanwhile, there could be the possibility of an online romance.

CApriCorn 22 December - 20 January Your thoughts, fantasies and dreams may be stirred up enough to do something about them. Although you are usually very down to earth, you may have found it hard to get your act together, especially at the planning stage. The cosmos is encouraging you to get a move on and to make a start today. You may be in the mood to shop too!

AquArius 21 January - 19 February Have you been treading water as far as your finances are concerned? As Mars moves into your personal financial zone you may feel like taking action, especially if things seem to be taking a downward spiral. With your intuition at a peak you may find you get plenty of lucrative opportunities when you act on your dreams. Why not give it a go?

pisCes 20 February - 20 March You may finally begin to feel more in control of your life as Mars moves into your sign today. However, as a Pisces you may still be faced with the usual dilemma concerning whether to make a heroic effort to follow your star or whether to go with the flow and see what happens. By taking things one step at a time, your goals will sooner be realised.

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(G, T) 8.40 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (G, R, T) 9.10 A.N.T. Farm. (G, T) 9.35 Zeke And Luther. (G, T) 10.00 Fresh. 10.30 Neighbours Omnibus. (G, R, T) 1.00 The amazing Race. (G, R, T) 3.00 Secret Life Of The american Teenager. (PGR) 4.00 Good Luck Charlie. (G, T) 4.30 Melissa & Joey. (G, T) 5.00 america’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.25 My Girl. (1991, G, R, T) Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis. A young girl who is desperate for attention from her father shares her innermost feelings and fears with a shy neighborhood boy.

7.30 FILM: The animal. (2001, PGR, R, T) 9.10 FILM: Not another Teen Movie.

(2001, AO, R, T) Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen. A send-up of Hollywood teen movies from the past two decades.

11.00 FILM: Leaves Of Grass. (2009, AO, T) 1.05 FILM: The Special Relationship. (2010, AO, T) 2.50 Jim Jeffries: I Swear To God. (AO, R) 3.55 Behind The Scenes: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1.

(PGR, R) 4.15 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR, R) 5.05 Fresh. (R) 5.30 It Is Written. (G)

6.00 Charles Stanley.

6.30 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G, R) 7.00 Rheem Outdoors With Geoff. (G, R) 7.30 Knight Rider. (G, R) 8.30 Infomercials. (G) 9.30 Flowers uncut With Jeff Leatham. (PGR) 10.00 The Great Food Escape. (G, R) 10.30 Money Man. (G, R) 11.00 Project Runway. (PGR, R) 12.00 Tim Gunn’s Guide To Style. (G, R) 1.00 america’s Next Top Model: all Stars. (PGR, R) 2.00 Platinum Hit. (PGR) 3.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. (PGR, R) 4.00 The Office. (G) 4.30 The Secret Lives Of Dancers.

(PGR, R) 5.00 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G, R) 5.30 Rheem Outdoors With Geoff. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals. (PGR) 7.30 Ice Road Truckers. (PGR) 8.30 CSI: New york. (AO) The senior valedictorian at Manhattan’s most elite private school is murdered in a girl’s restroom, and Jo’s adopted daughter, Ellie, witnesses an elderly man’s murder on a subway platform.

10.25 Outrageous Fortune. (AO, R) 11.25 FILM: a Model Daughter. (2010, AO, R) 1.30 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Hillsong. (G) 5.30 Charles Stanley.

SuNDay 6.00 6.50 7.40 8.10 8.40 9.10 10.00

60 Minute Makeover. (G, R) are you My Tribe? (G, R, T) Tagata Pasifika. (R) Praise Be. (G, R) attitude. (G, R, T) The Big Picture. (Final, G, R, T) Marae Investigates Summer Series.

10.30 Waka Huia Summer Season. (T) 11.00 Neighbourhood. (G, R, T) 11.30 NZ Stories: Battle For Basilica.

(G, R, T) 12.00 Coronation Street Omnibus.

(PGR, R, T) 1.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. (G, R) 1.30 The Zoo. (Final, G, R, T) 2.00 The Force. (PGR, R, T) 2.30 Coastwatch. (G, R, T) 3.00 Hotel Inspector. (G, R, T) 3.55 Make The Politician Work. (G, R, T) 4.25 Keeping up With The Joneses.

(G, R, T) 4.55 Walk On The Wild Side. (G, T) 5.25 Wild Vets. (G, R, T) 6.00 One News. (T) 7.00 animal House. (Final, PGR, R, T) 7.30 Kevin McCloud’s Man Made Home. (Final, PGR, T) 8.30 Sunday Theatre: The Great Mint Swindle. (AO, T) An extraordinary tale about the most famous gold heist in Australia’s history and a 20-year long fight for justice, starring Grant Bowler.

10.30 Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. (PGR, R, T) 11.35 Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet.

(PGR, R, T) 12.35 Call 911. (AO) 1.05 BBC World – BBC World News. 1.30 The Bottom Line. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.15 Sport Today. 2.30 Click. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Horizons. 4.00 BBC World News. 4.10 My Country: South Korea. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

MONDay

6.00 Breakfast. (T) 9.00 Infomercial.

9.30 MasterChef New Zealand. (G, R, T) 10.30 MasterChef Masterclass. (G, R, T) 11.30 Infomercial.

12.00 One News. (T) 12.30 Emmerdale. (PGR, T) 1.30 Come Dine With Me. (G, T) 2.00 Britain’s Best Dish. (G, R) 2.55 To Build Or Not To Build. (G, T) 3.55 Te Karere. (T) 4.25 Ellen. (G) 5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat. (G) 12.55 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.20 BBC World – GMT With George Alagiah. (G) 2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain. 3.30 HARDtalk. 4.00 Global With Jon Sopel. (G) 5.05 Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 5.35 Te Karere. (T)

SuNDay

6.00 Tiki Tour. (T) 6.25 Pocoyo. (Final, G, R, T) 6.30 Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 6.55 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (G, R, T) 7.20 The Looney Tunes Show. (Final, G, R, T) 7.40 Adventure Time With Finn And Jake. (G, R, T) 8.00 Transformers Prime. (Final, G, R, T) 8.45 A.N.T. Farm. (G, R, T) 9.35 Sonny With A Chance. (Final, G, R, T) 10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus. (PGR, R, T) 12.00 FILM: Avalon High. (2010, G, T) 1.50 Mad. (Final, G, R, T) 2.00 The Secret Circle. (Final, PGR, T) 4.00 The Fresh Prince Of Bel air.

(Final, G, R, T) 5.00 america’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 Pretty Little Liars. (PGR, T) 6.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter. (T) 7.00 FILM: Tangled. (2010, PGR) 9.00 FILM: The Waterboy. (1998, AO, R, T) Adam Sandler. A simple-minded man becomes a star football player when he learns to channel all the humiliation he has suffered into aggression.

10.50 FILM: The Mist. (2007, AO, R, T) 1.15 Phantom. (AO, R, T) 2.55 Infomercials.

3.25 20/20. (T) 4.15 It Is Written. (G, R) 4.45 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 5.30 Infomercials.

MONDay

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Hi-5. (G, R, T) 7.00 Grizzly Tales. (G, R, T) 7.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (T) 7.50 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. (G, R, T) 8.15 Tiki Tour. (G, T) 8.40 Fireman Sam. (G, R, T) 8.50 Bird Bath.

(G, R, T) 9.00 Infomercials. 10.30 Neighbours. (G, R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 11.30 Spin City. (G, R, T) 12.00 Once Upon A Time. (PGR, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 3.00 Pocoyo. (G, R, T) 3.15 Disney Jungle Junction. (G, R, T) 3.35 Spongebob Squarepants. (G, R, T) 4.05 Sonny With a Chance. (G, R, T) 4.30 Kickin’ It. (G, T) 5.00 Horace In Slow Motion. (G, R) 5.01 america’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 My Wife and Kids. (G, R, T) 12.30 Off The Map. (AO, R, T) 1.30 Infomercials. 2.25 Lincoln Heights. (Final, PGR, R) 4.15 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (G, R) 5.30 Infomercials.

SuNDay 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 8.25 8.45 9.10

Bayless Conley. (G) Brian Houston @ Hillsong. (G) Charles Stanley. (G) Both Worlds. (G, R) What’s Really In Our Food? (G, R) under The Grill. (G, R) Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger.

(G, R) 9.35 The Gruen Transfer. (PGR, R) 10.05 Home and away Omnibus.

11.55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend.

(G) 1.00 Survivor: South Pacific. (G, R) 2.00 Ice Road Truckers. (G, R) 3.00 Motorsport.

4.00 Motorsport.

5.00 Would I Lie To you? (G, R) 5.30 ITM Fishing Show. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PGR) 8.00 Family Guy. (PGR) To boost Chris’ self-esteem, Peter and Lois send him to space camp.

8.30 FILM: The Dilemma. (2010, AO) Vince Vaughn, Kevin James. A man is unsure of what to do when he finds out that his best friend’s wife is having an affair.

10.45 The Good Wife. (AO, R) 11.45 The Good Wife. (Final, AO, R) 12.35 Portlandia. (Final, AO) 1.05 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV. (G)

MONDay 6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R) 12.00 3 News.

12.30 Home and away. (G, R) 1.00 Dr Phil. (PGR) 2.00 The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) 3.00 The Biggest Loser australia. (G) 4.00 Rachael Ray. (G) 5.00 Entertainment Tonight. (G, R) 5.30 Home and away. (G) 12.30 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 City Impact Church.

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PRIME 6.00 Home Shopping. (G) 11.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat. (G, R) 12.00 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus.

(G, R) 2.30 Country House Rescue. (G, R) 3.25 Motorsport. (G) NZV8s championship. From from Taupo’s Motorsport Park.

4.30 Get Growing With New Zealand Gardener. (G, R) 4.55 Fishing NZ. (G) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 Getaway. (G) 7.00 Storage Wars. (G) Upon arriving at an upscale retirement community Darrell lands a locker filled with furniture, and Jarrod gambles on a safe.

7.30 american Idol. (G) Judges Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban arrive in New Orleans for the latest round of Idol auditions.

8.30 Silk. (AO) With his recent conviction overturned it is a shock to all when Mark is then arrested for murder, and as the news of Martha’s pregnancy spreads her condition is used for emotional blackmail.

9.40 Weekend Murders: a Touch Of Frost. (AO) A child murderer is finally released from prison after a twenty year incarceration but with the remains of one other child never found, his assimilation back into normal life will not go smoothly.

11.35 Crownies. (AO) 12.45 Home Shopping. (G)

SuNDay 6.00 10.30 12.00 12.30 1.00

Religious Programming.

Sport Box. (G) Getaway. (G, R) The Enforcers. (G, R) Better Homes and Gardens. (G, R) 1.55 Outnumbered. (PGR, R) 2.30 Customs. (PGR, R) 3.00 Vacation Vacation Vacation. (G, R) 3.30 Must Be The Music. (G) 4.30 Three Hungry Boys. (G, R) 5.00 Export Gold Match Fishing League. (G) 5.30 Prime News.

6.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat. (G) 6.30 Rick Stein’s Food Heroes. (G) 7.00 Storage Wars. (G) The Storage Wars team explore hidden troves in a California town rich in historic Spanish-American culture.

7.30 Top Gear. (New, PGR) Jeremy, James and Richard adventure down the Nile, tinker with the concept of the hybrid microcar and attempt to take a Bentley off road.

8.45 Weekend Murders: Lewis. (AO) When a botanist uncovers the recently interred body of a murdered English professor, Lewis and Hathaway‘s investigation is hampered by a well-meaning amateur detective.

10.45 Sea Patrol. (PGR) 11.40 Boardwalk Empire. (AO, R) 12.10 Home Shopping. (G) 1.40 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.10 Home Shopping. (G)

MONDay 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 12.00 1.00 2.10 4.00

Home Shopping. (G) The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Home Shopping. (G) The Doctors. (G) The Jeff Probst Show. (G) america’s Got Talent. (G, R) The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000 each night.

5.30 Prime News.

12.30 Home Shopping. (G) 1.30 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (G)

KEy: T Teletext R Repeat S Stereo P Premiere F Final RaTINGS: G General exhibition PG Parental guidance recommended M Suitable for mature audiences aO Adults only 16 Approved for persons 16 and over 18 Approved for persons 18 and over c Content may offend l Language may offend s Sexual content may offend v contains violence

MOVIE Not another Teen Movie TV2, 9.10pm Doing for teen flicks what Scary Movie did for horror, this coarse and funny barrage of gross-out gags parodies the genre’s heady days of the ’80s and ’90s. With the story (that’s pretty much lifted straight from She’s All That) taking place at John Hughes High School, director Joel Gallen and cohorts are obviously well versed in teen film clichés. One of the better of the movie send-ups.

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 7.25 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 7.50 The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. (G, R) 8.20 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 8.45 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.10 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.35 Power Rangers: Samurai. (G) 10.00 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. (G) 5.30 Clueless. (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments. (G, R) 6.30 FILM: Lego: The adventures Of Clutch Powers. (2010, G) Ryan McPartlin, Yvonne Strahovski, Paul Michael Glaser. The best builder and explorer in the LEGO universe, Clutch Powers, heads off on his most dangerous mission yet.

8.15 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) The Simpsons dish out their own special brand of horror and mayhem.

8.45 FILM: White Noise 2: The Light. (2007, AO, R) Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff.

10.50 Excused. (AO) 11.15 Excused. (AO) 11.45 Infomercials. (G)

SuNDay

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.25 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 7.50 All Grown Up. (G, R) 8.15 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 8.40 The Mighty B! (G, R) 9.05 The Mighty B! (G, R) 9.30 Dora The Explorer. (G, R) 9.50 Go Diego Go. (G, R) 10.15 Go Diego Go. (G, R) 10.40 Franklin And Friends. (G, R) 11.00 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G, R) 11.15 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 11.40 Wonder Pets. (G, R) 12.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. (G) 5.30 Clueless. (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments. (G, R) 6.30 Top Chef Masters. (G) 7.30 Beauty & The Geek australia. (PGR, R) 8.30 How I Met your Mother. (PGR, R) 9.00 Rules Of Engagement. (PGR, R) Audrey wants to quit her job when she realises it makes her unhappy.

9.30 Raising Hope. (PGR) Jimmy imagines a life without Hope when he enters a strange, dreamlike world where he never met her mother.

10.00 The Ricky Gervais Show. (AO, R) 10.30 Better Off Ted. (PGR, R) 11.00 Entertainment Tonight Weekend. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G)

MONDay 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Rocko’s Modern Life. (G, R) 7.30 Monsuno. (G, R) 7.55 The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. (G, R) 8.20 Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures. (G, R) 8.40 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 8.55 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.05 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.15 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 9.50 Raa Raa The Noisy Lion. (G) 10.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 0202

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Television

The Box 6.00 The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 8.05 Deadliest Warrior. (M) 8.55 The Simpsons. (PG) 9.20 Flashpoint. (M) 1.10 24 Marathon. (M) 2.00 24. (M) 2.50 24. (M) 3.40 24. (M) 4.30 The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.30 Chuck. (M) 8.30 Deadliest Warrior. (M) 9.30 Spartacus: Vengeance. (18) 10.30 TNA Impact Wrestling. (M) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 24. (M) 2.15 24.

(M) 3.10 Spartacus: Vengeance. (18) 4.10 Girls Gone Wild. (18) 4.40 24.

(M) 5.35 The Simpsons. (PG)

SuNDAy 6.00 6.50 7.40 8.30 9.20 11.10

24. (M) 24. (M) 24. (M) 24. (M) TNA Impact Wrestling. (M) The Simpsons Marathon.

(PG) 1.15 Chuck. (M) 2.05 Deadliest Warrior. (M) 3.00 Raw. (M) 5.45 WWE Main Event. (M) 6.45 Smackdown. (M) 8.30 Criminal Minds. (M) 9.30 Criminal Minds. (M) 10.30 The Beast. (M) 11.30 WWE Main Event. (M) 12.30 Smackdown. (M) 2.15 Criminal Minds. (M) 3.05 Criminal Minds. (M) 3.55 Family Business. (18) 4.25 The Beast. (M) 5.15 Chuck. (M)

MoNDAy 6.00 6.50 7.15 7.40

NyPD Blue. (M) The Simpsons. (PG) Pawn Stars. (PG) America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 8.30 Cash Cab uSA. (PG) 8.55 24. (M) 9.50 Law & order. (M) 10.45 WWE Main Event. (M) 11.35 Smackdown. (M) 1.25 NyPD Blue. (M) 2.15 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 2.40 Cash Cab uSA. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & order. (M) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 1.45 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 3.05 CSI: New York. (M) 3.55 CSI: New York. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

Sky Movies 1 Movie Greats 7.00 The other Side of The Tracks. (2008, M) 8.35 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. (2011, G) 10.00 New year’s Eve. (2011, M) 11.55 Scream 4. (2011, 16) 1.45 Jumping The Broom.

(2011, M) 3.35 The Pirates! Band of Misfits. (2012, G) 5.05 The River Why. (2010, M) Zach Gilford, Amber Heard.

Sick of living in a home shrouded with secrets and lies, Gus runs away from home and the shadow of his famous fly-fishing father.

6.50 Wild Target. (2010, M) Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt.

8.30 The Fighter. (2010, 16) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale. A look at the early years of boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

10.30 Men In Black 3. (2012, M) Will Smith.

12.15 The Thing. (2011, 16) 2.00 Jumping The Broom. (2011, M) 3.55 The Thing. (2011, 16) 5.40 The River Why. (2010, M)

SuNDAy

7.25 The Pirates! Band of Misfits. (2012, G) 8.55 Wild Target. (2010, M) 10.35 Men In Black 3. (2012, M) 12.20 The Fighter. (2010, 16) 2.15 Queen Sized. (2008, PG) 3.45 Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011, PG) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie.

5.15 unstoppable. (2010, M) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine. With an unmanned freight train barrelling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.

6.55 young Adult. (2011, M) Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson.

8.30 Killer Elite. (2011, 16) Jason Statham, Clive Owen. Based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives against the cunning leader of a secret military society.

10.30 The Devil Inside. (2012, 16) Fernanda Andrade.

11.55 operation: Endgame.

(2010, 18) Ellen Barkin, Zach Galifianakis.

MoNDAy

7.05 Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011, PG) Jack Black, Angelina Jolie.

8.35 young Adult. (2011, M) Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson.

10.10 unstoppable. (2010, M) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine.

11.50 Killer Elite. (2011, 16) Jason Statham, Clive Owen.

1.45 Directors: Mike Figgis.

(2011, PG).

2.15 She Drives Me Crazy.

(2007, PG) Melinda Clarke, Krista Bridges.

3.45 Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer. (2011, G) 5.20 The Horses of McBride.

(2012, PG) Aidan Quinn.

6.00 Childrens Programs 9.00 UKCMC 9.30 TheDRIVEtv 10.00 The Uprising 10.30 MXTV 11.00 The One to One Show 11.30 Footnote 12.00 The Verdict of Science 12.30 Facing the Canon 1.00 Christianity Explored 1.30 Building a Difference 2.00 Leland Klassen’s Comedy 2.30 Joni and Friends 3.00 Journey into the Amazon 3.30 From Heartache to Hope 4.00 Conversations in the HolyLand 4.30 Facing the Canon 5.00 The Verdict of Science 5.30 Give Me An Answer 6.00 Incredible Creatures 6.30 Building a Difference 7.00 Joni and Friends 7.30 MOVIE:

6.40 Biography: Heath Ledger.

(2009, PG) 7.35 Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

(2008, 16) 9.25 Two Weeks Notice. (2002, PG) 11.10 Into The Blue. (2005, M) 1.00 Con Air. (1997, 18) 2.55 Poseidon. (2006, M) 4.35 8 Mile. (2002, M) Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy. Semiautobiographical story of a young white rapper struggling to make it in the dangerous hip-hop scene of Detroit.

6.25 The Sum of All Fears.

(2001, M) Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman.

8.30 Dodgeball: A True underdog Story. (2003, M) Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller. A group of misfits enters a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from a corporate health fitness chain takeover.

10.05 Waterworld. (1995, M) Kevin Costner.

12.20 Poseidon. (2006, M) 2.00 8 Mile. (2002, M) 3.50 Dodgeball: A True underdog Story. (2003, M) 5.20 The Sum of All Fears.

(2001, M)

SuNDAy 7.20 9.35 11.15 1.05

2.40 4.45

6.55 8.30

10.40

Waterworld. (1995, M) Poseidon. (2006, M) 8 Mile. (2002, M) Dodgeball: A True underdog Story. (2003, M) Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013. (2013, PG) unforgiven. (1992, M) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. A gritty tale of a retired gunslinger, who reluctantly takes on one last job with the help of his old partner and a young wannabe.

The Ringer. (2003, M) Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl.

The Ghost Writer. (2010, M) Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan. A ghostwriter, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his life in jeopardy. underworld. (2003, 16) Kate Beckinsale.

MoNDAy

6.30 underworld. (2003, 16) Kate Beckinsale.

8.30 unforgiven. (1992, M) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman.

10.40 The Ringer. (2003, M) Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl.

12.15 The Ghost Writer. (2010, M) Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan.

2.25 underworld. (2003, 16) Kate Beckinsale.

4.25 Making of Bridesmaids.

(2011, M).

4.45 Moulin Rouge. (2001, M) Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

Sky Sport 1

Sky Sport 2

6.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

6.30 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Highlights.

8.00 Basketball. NBL. NZ Breakers v Perth Wildcats.

Replay.

10.00 Mixed Martial Arts. UFC 156. Jose Also v Frankie Edgar.

11.00 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Day One. Highlights.

12.30 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Day Two. Live.

10.30 Basketball. NBL. NZ Breakers v Perth Wildcats.

Replay.

12.30 Swimming. State New Zealand Ocean Series.

1.00 Mixed Martial Arts. UFC 156. Jose Also v Frankie Edgar.

2.00 The ultimate Fighter: Aussie v uK. 3.00 Swimming. State New Zealand Ocean Series.

3.53 Soccer. EPL. Newcastle v Chelsea. Live.

6.00 Motorsport.

7.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 1st One-day.

Highlights.

8.00 The Cricket Show.

8.30 ICC Cricket 360.

9.00 Golf. Volvik Racv Ladies Masters. Highlights.

10.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Live.

1.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 1st One-day. Highlights.

2.00 The Cricket Show.

2.30 Motorsport. Toyota Racing Series. Round Three.

3.30 Premier League Review.

4.30 Soccer. ASB Futsal Football National League. Highlights.

5.00 Soccer. A-League.

Wellington Phoenix v Perth Glory.

7.00 Premier League Preview.

7.30 Soccer. A-League.

Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC. Live.

9.45 Soccer. A-League.

Melbourne Victory v Melbourne Heart. Live.

12.00 Motorsport. Toyota Racing Series. Round Three.

1.00 Premier League Preview.

1.30 Soccer. EPL. Queens Park Rangers v Norwich City.

Live.

3.45 Soccer. EPL. Arsenal v Stoke City. Live.

SuNDAy

6.00 Golf. Volvik Racv Ladies Masters. Round Three.

Highlights.

7.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Round Three. Live.

12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Round Three. Highlights.

1.00 Golf. Volvik Racv Ladies Masters. Round Three.

Highlights.

2.00 ICC Cricket 360.

2.30 The Cricket Show.

3.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 1st One-day.

Highlights.

4.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 2nd One-day 1st Innings. From the Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth.

Live.

7.55 ICC Cricket 360.

8.25 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 2nd One-day 2nd Innings. From the Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth.

Live.

12.30 Soccer. A-League.

Melbourne Victory v Melbourne Heart. Replay.

2.30 The ITM Fishing Show.

3.00 The ultimate Fighter: Aussie v uK. 4.00 SKy Sport What’s on.

4.30 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Day Two.

MoNDAy

6.00 Golf. Volvik Racv Ladies Masters. Round Four.

Highlights.

7.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Waste Management Phoenix Open Round Four. Live.

12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Omega Dubai Desert Classic Round Four. Highlights.

1.00 Golf. Volvik Racv Ladies Masters. Round Four.

Highlights.

2.00 Motorsport. Toyota Racing Series. Round Three.

3.00 The Cricket Show.

3.30 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 2nd One-day.

Highlights.

4.30 Cricket. New Zealand v England. NZ XI v England First T20. Live.

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En Tus Manos 8.00 Skate Bible 9.00 Footnote 9.30 Nzone Focus 10.00 Christianity Explored 10.30 Facing the Canon 11.00 Give Me An Answer 11.30 Joni and Friends 12.00 Nzone Focus 12.30 Incredible Creatures 1.00 Journey into the Amazon 1.30 Footnote 2.00 Facing the Canon 2.30 Christianity Explored 3.00 MOVIE: En Tus Manos 3.30 Skate Bible 4.30 Incredible Creatures 5.00 Give Me An Answer 5.30 Running With Fire SuNDAy 6.00 Living Truth 7.00 TQ 7.30 The Lads TV 8.00 The Storykeepers 8.30 Connection Point 9.00 In Touch 10.00 Life

SuNDAy

6.00 Soccer. EPL. Fulham v Manchester United. Live.

8.30 Soccer. EPL. Reading v Sunderland. Delayed.

10.30 Soccer. EPL. Newcastle v Chelsea. Replay.

12.30 Soccer. ASB Futsal Football National League. Highlights.

1.00 The ultimate Fighter: Aussie v uK. 2.00 Mixed Martial Arts. Live.

4.00 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne Tigers v Cairns Taipans.

Live.

6.00 SKy Sport What’s on.

6.30 The ITM Fishing Show.

7.00 Soccer. A-League. Adelaide United v Western Sydney.

Live.

9.00 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Day One. Highlights.

10.30 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Day Two. Highlights.

12.00 Basketball. NBL. Melbourne Tigers v Cairns Taipans.

Replay.

2.23 Soccer. EPL. West Brom v Tottenham. Live.

4.45 Soccer. EPL. Manchester City v Liverpool. Live.

MoNDAy

7.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 2nd One-day.

Highlights.

8.00 Rugby Sevens. IRB World Series. Wellington Event.

Highlights.

9.30 Rugby Sevens. Las Vegas Women’s 7’s. Highlights.

11.00 Soccer. A-League.

Wellington Phoenix v Perth Glory.

12.00 Cricket. Australia v West Indies. 2nd One-day.

Highlights.

1.00 The ITM Fishing Show.

1.30 SKy Sport What’s on.

2.00 Basketball. NBL. Replay.

4.00 Soccer. A-League.

Highlights.

5.00 Cycling. Highlights.

Discovery 6.00 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.00 1.30 5.30

Connect. (PG) River Monsters. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) off The Hook: Extreme Catches. (PG) off The Hook: Extreme Catches. (PG) Mythbusters Jawsome.

Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) Magic of Science. (PG) Auction Kings. (PG) Mythbusters Dirty Dozen.

Flying Wild Alaska. (PG) Sex In America. (M) yukon Men. (M) American Guns. (M) your Body on Drugs. (M) Gold Rush: The off Season. (PG) Sons of Guns: Guns of Glory. (M) River Monsters: untold Stories. (PG) Swords: Life on The Line.

Call 911. (PG) Destroyed In Seconds.

(PG) Gold Rush: Alaska. (PG) Powering The Future. (PG)

SuNDAy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.00 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30

River Monsters. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) ET Fishing Escapes. (PG) off The Hook: Extreme Catches. (PG) off The Hook: Extreme Catches. (PG) River Monsters: untold Stories. (PG) Texas Drug Wars. (M) your Body on Drugs. (M) Sons of Guns: Guns of Glory. (M) Gold Rush: The Jungle.

(PG) Gold Rush: The Jungle.

(PG) Gold Rush: The Long Road.

(PG) Gold Rush: The off Season. (PG) Hell And Back. (PG) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) American Guns. (M) Sex In America. (M) Mythbusters Dirty Dozen.

(PG) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) American Guns. (M) Body Invaders. (M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Nightmare Next Door. (M) Disappeared. (M)

MoNDAy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30

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Dirty Jobs. (PG) American Guns. (M) Gold Rush: Alaska. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Nightmare Next Door. (M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Stalked: Someone’s Watching. (M) I Was Murdered. (M) Disappeared. (M) Body Invaders. (M) American Loggers. (PG) Gold Rush: Alaska. (PG) Bedrock Or Bust: Desperate to get to bedrock and large quantities of gold, Todd and Jack throw caution to the wind and dig deeper than ever before.

Mythbusters. (PG)

Questions 10.30 Word For You 11.00 Songs of Praise 11.35 Quick Study 12.00 THE BIBLE SERIES: David 1.30 Skate Bible: Foolishness 2.30 Precious Memories 3.00 Hour of Power 4.00 In Touch 5.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 6.00 Running With Fire 6.30 Facing the Canon 7.00 Nzone Focus 7.30 Songs of Praise 8.05 Precious Memories 8.30 David Jeremiah 9.30 THE BIBLE SERIES: David 11.00 Skate Bible: Foolishness 12.00 Hour of Power 1.00 Nzone Focus 1.30 Songs of Praise 2.05 Precious Memories 2.30 David Jeremiah 3.30 Facing the Canon

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LUXURY VILLAS The independent lifestyle option

- 2 & 3 Bedrooms - Single/Double Garages - 98m² to 200m²

- Heat Pumps - Air Conditioned - Nurse Call

Enquiries: www.terraceview.co.nz Jill Quaid 027 437 6755 96 Tancred Street Licensed agent REAA 2008

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, February 2, 2013

GARDEN MAINTENANCE

attention: property owners For your rural, residential and commercial property maintenance contact us.

• Landscape and garden renovations • Ride-on Lawnmowing • Gardening • Hedge trimming • Clean-ups

To place a trades & services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Don, Sue & Chris Cooper 027 339 6350 or a/h 03 308 9257

Alps

HEAT PUMPS

Continuous Spouting

KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

Need new spouting, fascia and downpipes?

Give Ben a call for a free quote. All jobs guaranteed.

Manufacturers and installers of continuous spouting, fascia and downpipes.

HEAT PUMPS Perfect all year round

• Wall or Floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems.

Ben Kruger • Phone 308 4380 or 021 808 739 • email: benkruger@xtra.co.nz

Mobile Mower servicing

Plaster & Coatings

• Rotary Mowers • Reel Mowers • Ride on Mowers • Chainsaws Ashburton 308-6173 - Methven 303-3178 • Water blasters • Rotary Hoes • Small Motor Repairs • Generators

an excellent finish... ...is about how you get started.

The Finishing Company 03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856

Stan Keeley, Owner

int./ext. Plaster (rockcote applicator) & textures specialist Coatings: Resin/Stone floors, Waterproofing

Ph 307-0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Got a tree troubling you?

HEAVY VEHICLE DRIVER LICENCING

You need Four Seasons Treecare, your local tree experts!

Certified Assessor for licencing from Learner to Full

• Pruning • Felling • Branch chipping (up to 12”)

• Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left Contact Paul McCormick

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766

• Fly Control • Fleas / Ants • Silverfish • Whitetails • Borer

0800 559 255 for a free quote

Roofing Specialists

PEST CONTROL • Rodents • Spider Proofing • Moss / Lichen • Silos / Dairy Sheds

Grant Smith 0800 BUG OFF

• Hedge trimming • Powerline clearance • Stumpgrinding • Dismantling

We specialise in:

• New roofs and re-roofs • Glendeck 5 rib • Corrugated iron • Fascia, gutters and down pipes • Qualified fixers.

Free Measure & quote

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696 North park drive

Smithfield Rd, Ashburton

painting & Decorating contractors

if you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your painting and Decorating neeDS – commercial or residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • roof painting

Greg Trudgeon

For 332 259 259 Forany anyenquiries enquiriescall callusustoday todayononPh/Fax Ph/Fax308-8432 308-8432Mob Mob 0274 0274 332

Peter Young Plumber & Drainlayer Executive

PH 03 307 7582 | MOB 027 2800 889

Call Pete and you’ll get the boss on the job

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CLEANERS EXECUTIVE HOME CLEANING (2012)

The destination for jobs Over 30 jobs every week The meeting place for Ashburton District employers and employees

We will clean anything from the mountains to the sea.

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Call Sandra and the team on 03 307 8184 or 027 292 0180 Home • Commercial • Office

Dairy Key Account Manager

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ATS is a progressive farming co-operative striving to lower costs for Canterbury farmers. As a dynamic and innovative organisation, ATS offers farmers the ability to purchase all farm inputs through our retail stores and supplier networks.

There when you need us with a Fast reliable service plus No extra Call-Out fee for urgent after-hours work

ashburton glass Works 11 peter street, 11 peterashburton street, ashburton Tel:Tel: (03)(03) 308 308 3918 3918 a/H:a/H: (021)(021) 716 716 157 157

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Smithy's Watch &Clock Repairs Why send your precious items away when they can be repaired locally by a fully qualified watchmaker.

Collected and delivered back to your home within the Ashburton town boundary.

Phone Smithy’s for a free quote now on 307 8574

For this full time position, we are seeking a person who has a good understanding of the Dairy industry, who has a passion and drive for sales, exceptional customer service and has a strong desire to succeed.

If you have strong sales and personal management skills with intermediate computer skills, we would like to hear from you.

Ideally you will have: • Experience in agriculture with the ability to relate to farmers • Some knowledge of animal health, dairy nutrition, cropping and pasture management • Self-motivated to succeed with good organisational skills • Ability to build and maintain relationships • Good communication skills, both orally and written

Email your application together with your CV to: hr.manager@ats.co.nz

PAint DePARtment HeAD We have a vacancy in our Paint/Decorator Department. This is a fulltime position which will include rostered weekends.

Ask for: Luis or Mark

Painting & Plastering

Working to keep the price right • Painting • Plastering • Interior

• Exterior • Small Fences • Planter Boxes

Chris Boniface Painting & Plastering

Specialise in old villas, older properties and weatherboard Phone Today 022 681 2499 After Hours 03 308 9617

Are you ready for winter

CALL ME OR TEXT ME.

Minimum 4 m2 CALL ME OR TEXT ME. CALL OR TEXT ME

Trucks and trailer of semi dry firewood delivered.

Bluegum, oregon and oldman pine that is the good stuff Eftpos available. Hurray and order now!

027 451 7300

Wilson Bulk Transport require expressions of interest for the following position:

Experienced Fertiliser Spreader Operator Wilson Bulk Transport offer a modern truck/trailer unit equipped with a late model computer operated spreader and GPS. This unit needs an operator dedicated to quality workmanship, preferably with an agricultural background, although this is not essential as full training will be given.

A minimum Class 4 licence is required.

If you think you are the person we are looking for to fill this position, we would like to hear from you.

Wilson Bulk Transport offer:

Reply to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to PO Box 35, Ashburton 7740 All applications remain confidential and close on Friday, February 15 2013.

• Harvest Repairs • Grain Spears

Phone 308-9040 • 21 McNally Street, Ashburton

19/1/13 10:31:27 PM

• Excellent customer service skills • A flair for colour and design • Enthusiasm and be able to work as a team • Heavy lifting is require • Experience in painting or decorating would be an advantage but not essential as full training will be given.

• Trailer and Crate • Moisture Meters • Harvest Repairs • Trailer & Crate Repairs • Farm Crates/Bullbars Repairs • Farm Crates/Bullbars • Grain Spears • Panel Repairs • Tube and Pipe Bending • Panel Repairs • Tube & Pipe Bending • Component Manufacturing • Flashings/Ducting • Component • Machinery Guards • Flashings/Ducting Manufacturing

• Machinery Guards • Moisture Meters

www.ats.co.nz

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The Paint Decor Department services both trade and D.I.Y customers. We sell a full range of painting accessories and well known brands Resene and Dulux paint. The successful applicant will have the following attributes:

LIGHT ENGINEERING / SHEET METAL FABRICATORS

Applications close 6th February 2013.

General Engineering Labourer PMR Grain Systems specialise in the supply and installation of grain handling equipment to both farms and commercial operations.

We are currently looking to recruit a keen person who has either experience in welding/fabricating or a relevant Level 2 or above qualification would be preferable. You will be expected to work at heights and must be prepared to stay away from home on occasions.

Please send your CV and covering letter to:PMR Grain Systems 2 John Street, Hinds Ashburton 7773 Or email: steve@pmr.org.nz

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now

SUZANNA MACILQUHAM

The voice of Mid Canterbury 24/7

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

MOB TEL FAX EML ADR WEB

021 272 2399 03 307 7973 03 307 7981

suzanna.m@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, 161 Burnett Street Ashburton www.guardianonline.co.nz

The applicants shall have the following attributes:  An ability to understand modern machinery  An attitude that customer service is paramount  The ability to work with other personnel within the company and client company personnel  A permanent employment position  A pay rate commensurate with experience, with the ability to earn a good annual income  A team of people to work with committed to providing an excellent service to our clients  Training in plant operation and associated equipment Please contact: Jonathan Ward, General Manager Ph: 03 308 7772 or 0274 351 929 Email: jonathan@wilsonbulktransport.co.nz

Delivery-Customer Service Position Our busy Smith & Church appliance store requires an enthusiastic young person to assist in appliance deliveries and customer service.

Duties will involve everything from dealing with customers in store to in home T.V. tuning and whiteware deliveries.

Applicants require the following attributes: • A full clean drivers licence preferred but a restricted could be considered.

• Strong, fit and able to lift appliances by yourself.

• An outstanding personality and ability to relate well to clients.

• A can-do attitude.

In turn, you will receive a great working environment within a friendly team, the ability to earn above average remuneration, travel within the Mid Canterbury district and a chance to meet and deal with nice people.

Apply in writing or email, including your CV and references to: dean@smithandchurch.co.nz Delivery Position, P O Box 434, Ashburton 7740 Applications close on Tuesday, February 5, 2013.

Cafe assistant/barista The iconic Staveley Store is looking for an enthusiastic, hard working cafe assistant/barista to start mid-February.

We need an all-rounder who's happy to bake, cook, make great coffee and hold a friendly conversation with our loyal and varied customers. The job is 30-40 hours per week and you must be able to work weekends.

To apply, phone Bex Shannon on (03) 30 30 859.

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The destination for jobs - Over 30 jobs every week The meeting place for Ashburton District employers and employees To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz Reflections Cafe & Catering Part-time Staff Wanted

COMMUNITY WORK SUPERVISOR

Must be available Saturday.

ASHBURTON Do you want to be part of a team that makes a real difference to your community?

Full training will be given.

Feedlot Operator

Do you have the people skills, enthusiasm and practical trade know-how to become a Community Work Supervisor with the Community Probation Services?

Five Star Beef Ltd operates a large scale beef feedlot at Wakanui, Ashburton that finishes up to 35,000 cattle annually and wishes to employ a suitable person for the above position.

As a Community Work Supervisor you will oversee and manage up to 10 offenders serving community work sentences on meaningful projects at schools, reserves, community groups, Marae and churches - whatever the community needs.

This full time position involves being part of a small team which is responsible for

Phone Julie 03 308 4732 or 021 155 2305 or pop into cafe at 198 East Street, Ashburton with your updated C.V.

the feeding of cattle and requires the following: • Operation of a variety of machinery including feed truck and other feedlot vehicles and plant.

The work is varied; the hours are flexible and include some weekends.

A full driver’s license is essential.

• The undertaking of feedlot duties involved with feeding, maintenance, waste management and general duties.

If you are a positive role model with a firm-but-fair management style and you can motivate and work with a variety of people in a variety of situations, then apply now.

• Ability to work rostered weekends.

Machinery experience is preferred although full training will be provided to the successful applicant. The suitable applicant will be reliable, willing to learn and able

We will give you the training and support you need to become part of our team working to make communities safer.

to work within a small team of people.

Applicants should visit our website www.anzcofoods.com and

This is a powerful career choice; making change that matters to individuals, their families and their communities.

“Apply Online” via the “Our Careers” tab. Alternatively send a CV with covering letter and references to: Feedlot Operator,

Vacancy Number CSSR3099 Applications close Sunday, 13 February 2013 www.corrections.govt.nz/careers

Five Star Beef Ltd, PO Box 42, Ashburton.

Phone: 03 308 1599, Email: anna@fivestarbeef.co.nz

To find out more about this position, please call Trudi on 03 345 6776.

Relief Milker Required 780 cows New 60 bail rotary Full milking and wash down required Located at Lauriston

Contact Bernie

027 281 4755

Labourer/Apprentice Builder

At the Department of Corrections we are passionate about reducing re-offending and keeping communities safe.

With Corrections you’ll be part of a highly supportive team

Administrator / PA

that manages offenders in prison and in the community.

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Administrator / PA for Peel Forest Estate, a large farming operation including a deer stud.

Excellent computer skills essential and experience with accounts and data entry etc. Some marketing experience an advantage. Farming background preferred but not essential.

Please apply by email with CV details to:

Must be fit, reliable and honest, have enthusiasm and common knowledge.

You need to have completed a pre-trade course for apprenticeship or be able to complete one.

Phone Rodney on 027 634 1631 or email CV to rtoconstruction@yahoo.co.nz

Graham Carr Email: grahamcarr@xtra.co.nz www.peelforestdeergenetics.com

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Medical Receptionist

Phone Graeme Chettleburgh on 307-6223 or 027 694 8024 or call in to 57 Dobson Street, Ashburton

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For further information please contact our advertising team on 307 7974

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now EMMA JAILLET-GODIN

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

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The voice of Mid Canterbury 24/7

Must be interested in food and physically fit.

Approx 70 hours per fortnight.

Saturday to Wednesday (includes some evenings).

Send your CV and hand written cover letter to:

Place your job ads with our experienced team Deadline 2pm prior publication day

021 662 884 03 307 7976 03 307 7981

emma.j@theguardian.co.nz Level 3, 161 Burnett Street Ashburton www.guardianonline.co.nz

We have vacancies for part-time bar staff.

Available to work evenings and weekends.

Please contact: Simon McDonnell ph 308-7149

Customer Service/Cook

If you meet the above criteria then we invite your hand written applicationand CV to be submitted no later than 4pm on Tuesday 12 February to: Christine Dodge 33 Archibald Street Tinwald Ashburton

Ashburton Club & MSA

simon@ashburtonclub.co.nz

spelling of a high standard? Ø Do others see you as bright, courteous and your contact: Karena efficient? Ø Have you any previous reception experience in a related field?

If you are the person we are looking for, please send your CV to:

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WEB ID AU28267 EASTSIDE 125 William Street This freshly redecorated three bedroom home is close in on the eastside of Ashburton, handy to the post office, Countdown, park and central Ashburton. All three bedrooms are spacious and sunny and have large built in wardrobes.

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WEB ID AU28813 WESTSIDE 13 Kelvin Crescent If where you live is important this 3 bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well respected Allenton Crescent, handy to all schools and shopping amenities. The bright living areas flow well with immediate access to outdoor living.

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To be a successful candidate for this role, it is essential you have a ‘can do’ attitude and are keen and willing to learn.

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DEPOT SUPERVISOR Ashburton A unique blend of outdoor and indoor work Our River Engineering section is responsible for the construction and maintenance of river control, flood protection and land drainage works across the region.

The Ashburton Depot staff carry out works in river and drainage schemes from the Hinds River through to the Selwyn River.

You will manage staff and contractors engaged in a variety of activities. In addition, the role requires STMS, skills in planning and pricing outdoor works, budgeting expertise, liaison with landowners and other stakeholders, and sensitivity to the environment.

If you are fit, can work independently, and have the necessary skills, we want to hear from you.

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WEB ID AU28283 WEB ID AU25728A WESTSIDE WESTSIDE 2 Russell Avenue 71 Pages Road Packed with wow factor in the bracket Delightfully private sunny home in you can afford, this inviting permanent established well planted garden on material home is well positioned on an westside close to park. Three double established 646m2 section. A beautiful bedrooms with loads of storage, master new kitchen and sunny open plan living with ensuite. Fourth bedroom or office. spaces will appeal to families as will the VIEW Saturday 2 Feb 10.00 - 10.30am three bedrooms.

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WEB ID AU28742 WEB ID AU28283 EASTSIDE WESTSIDE 23 and 25 Manse Street 2 Russell Avenue A chance to purchase a spacious threePacked with wow factor in the bracket bedroom home with a large range of you can afford, this inviting permanent excellent sheds and other garaging. Set material home is well positioned on an on two titles with a total land area of established 646m2 section. A beautiful 3317sqm. new kitchen and sunny open plan living Deadline Sale closing 28th February. spaces will appeal to families as will the VIEW Saturday 2 Feb 10.45 - 11.30am three bedrooms.

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WEB ID AU28549 WEB ID AU27829 WESTSIDE WESTSIDE 49 Havelock Street 86 Alford Forest Road Spacious two bedroom front A good solid three bedroom home standalone townhouse located handysituated in handy Allenton location. to town. Roomy living areas. Double Partly upgraded including aluminium garage, nice section with good indoorwindow joinery and replaced long run outdoor flow. Deadline Sale Closing iron roof plus potential to further Thursday 7th February. enhance.

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WEB ID AU28695 WEB ID AU28549 TINWALD WESTSIDE 36A Johnstone Street 49 Havelock Street A townhouse with just a bit extra giving Spacious two bedroom front a good indoor outdoor flow. Two standalone townhouse located handy double bedrooms, open plan living to town. Roomy living areas. Double area, attached garage with internal garage, nice section with good indoor access. Attractively presented and outdoor flow. Deadline Sale Closing currently tenanted.

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WEB ID AU28813 WESTSIDE 13 Kelvin Crescent If where you live is important this 3 bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well respected Allenton Crescent, handy to all schools and shopping amenities. The bright living areas flow well with immediate access to outdoor living.

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WEB ID AU27287 WEB ID AU28789 WESTSIDE WESTSIDE 2 Reflection Place 71 Oak Grove This home is part of the well established Always a popular location and style.

Coniston Waters subdivision. Four Substantial four bedroom home on a bedroom home plus office or extra private back section with excellent bedroom, three car garaging, ensuite garaging and nice indoor/outdoor flow. off master bedroom, large dining, living A rare opportunity to purchase and kitchen area with separate lounge. something like this in this location.

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PART TIME CLEANERS Leading specialist outsourced sanitation provider requires a Leading Hand for cleaners for night shift work 5-6 days a week at an export meat processing facility in the Ashburton region.

You will need to be committed to delivering quality work performance each shift.

Process cleaning experience preferable but not essential as full training will be provided.

Must have reliable transport.

Contact: Andre Beukes on (027) 700 8870 or email andre.biogiene@gmail.com or Faried Jamodien on 021 934 060 or email faried@biogiene.co.nz

Experienced Tractor Operator Casual 3-4 week position Midlands Contracting We have a short term position for an experienced tractor driver to help us through a very busy crop separation period for 3 to 4 weeks Please phone Duncan King on

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if you are interested or require further information

We are currently seeking to employ a driver for our container and refrigerated operations.

The applicant must have a positive attitude to work, be reliable, honest and able to work in a team environment.

Want to work for an award winning team?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic

Butchery Assistant.

If you want to work with a great team with great potential, call in for the job description and application form.

Ask for Paddy or Marie Kennedy 94 Harrison Street ASHBURTON

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Garden Grove Preschool Leadership Opportunity Garden Grove Montessori Preschool is located in Timaru. Our centre is licensed for 34 children.

• Scraper Operator • Grader Operator • Excavator Operator

Our ideal Team Leader will have at least five years teaching experience and be willing to work through a supportive Montessori programme. You must be outgoing and have a passion for promoting professional development.

We require reliable, self motivated people, experience preferred, to fill the above positions in our team working throughout the Mid Canterbury area doing mainly agricultural earthworks.

You’ll also need…

• A recognised ECE Diploma or Degree and teacher registration • The ability to work well in a team and with a wide range of people • Strong commitment to working with children, teaching team and parents/whanau • Good communication and time management skills

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Due to our current staff member moving on to a new position with VSA in Cambodia we are now looking to employ a new coordinator to oversee this very successful venture.

Safer Ashburton District works in partnership with the Ashburton Youth Health Trust to employ and manage a person who will coordinate and be responsible for the day to day running of the Youth Health Centre.

• Are you passionate about improving health, wellbeing and social outcomes for youth?

• Do you have experience in working with, and along side, youth?

• Do you have experience in service coordination?

• Are you a skilled communicator with excellent relationship management?

• Do you have excellent organisational and time management skills?

• Do you have a knowledge of and commitment to strength based processes?

If you can answer yes to these questions we would love to hear from you.

Your role would be to develop, promote and coordinate the service along with developing interagency collaboration and partnerships to achieve better health outcomes for youth. This position also involves a high degree of hands on work with young people across our district.

This position is for 20 hours per week and is based in Ashburton For further information and an application pack please contact Mary Bailey at Safer Ashburton.

Applications close Friday February 8th at 4:00pm We offer a collegial, family friendly and flexible work environment.

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20 William Street, Ashburton 7700 03 308 1395 Email: info@saferashburton.org.nz www.saferashburton.org.nz

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We are losing our wonderful team leader after 7 years and have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and qualified ECE Teacher to join our dedicated, professional Preschool team as Team Leader.

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$310,000 BEATS OFFERS OVER $485,000 TERRIFIC $349,000 OFFERS OVER $485,000 TERRIFIC LOCATION NG NEAT AND TIDY$349,000 TOP LOCATION BUILDING LOCATION TOP LOCATION$749,000 WEB ID AU28705 WEB ID AU28818 TINWALD TINWALD 92 McMurdo Street 33 Buckleys Terrace Relax and enjoy sunshine and privacy Uninterrupted at rural views on tranquil "your new townhouse". This well Buckleys Terrace. Spacious open plan presented two bedroom (possibly living catching all day sun is a real three), two bathroom townhouse is feature here. Enjoy sitting in the pretty landscaped and waiting for you NOW!sheltered outdoor area with attractive Internal access double garage, loads of plantings. Well fenced for security. Gas storage, HRV, smart kitchen with veryfire will keep you cosy and warm on the generous open plan living, plus more.coldest of days.

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WEB ID AU28813 WEB ID AU28695 WESTSIDE TINWALD 13 Kelvin Crescent 36A Johnstone Street If where you live is important this 3 A townhouse with just a bit extra giving bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well a good indoor outdoor flow. Two respected Allenton Crescent, handy todouble bedrooms, open plan living all schools and shopping amenities. The area, attached garage with internal bright living areas flow well with access. Attractively presented and immediate access to outdoor living. currently tenanted.

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WEB ID AU28267 WEB ID AU28742 EASTSIDE EASTSIDE 125 William Street 23 and 25 Manse Street This freshly redecorated three bedroom A chance to purchase a spacious three home is close in on the eastside of bedroom home with a large range of Ashburton, handy to the post office, excellent sheds and other garaging. Set Countdown, park and central on two titles with a total land area of Ashburton. All three bedrooms are 3317sqm. spacious and sunny and have large built Deadline Sale closing 28th February. in wardrobes.

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DAILY DIARY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2 10.00am - 12noon. ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 12noon. ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, non members welcome, upstairs in Old Polytech building, 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.30am - 3.30pm. ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Welcome back, stitch and chat. Senior Centre.

1.00pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Assn and golf croquet 2pm -4pm. Richocet 1pm-2pm. Waireka Croquet Club Domain, Philip Street.

Call in and talk to the people that know

NEW LOOK SHOWROOM 60 YEARS EXPERTISE MONTHLY BIRTHDAY PRIZES Full range of engineering supplies & accessories for all your repairs and maintenance.

Kerrick hot & cold waterblasters & industrial vacuum cleaners.

Esseti welders & accessories.

Stockists and distributors of Trailer Equipment.

Peter Blacklow

Allenton Rugby Football Club (Inc)

Pre-Season Training Pre-season training for Senior B, U18 and U16 grades starts on Tuesday, February 5 7pm For more information please contact Club Captain: Todd Grieve Phone 027 432 1055

ASHBURTON

South Street, Ashburton PHONE (03) 308-3147 Fax (03) 308-1042 Email blacklows@xtra.co.nz FREEPHONE 0800 452 522

BIRTHDAY MONTHLY PRIZES TO BE WON!

Every purchase qualifies you to an entry.

WANTED

TRADES & SERVICES

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ $ FOR SCRAP $ BUYERS OF ALL METALS Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling Licensed Buyer Dealer

(Off McNally Street)

TF-SCRAP

10A McGregor Lane, Riverside Estate Phone 308-8959 or 027-228-1467 anytime

WANTED

MONDAY FEBRUARY 4

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

6.00pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

Resource Recovery Parks And Kerbside Collection Of Refuse And Recyclables Waitangi Day Arrangements For Wednesday 6th February 2013 The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks and the Methven Greenwaste and Inorganic material drop off facility will be closed on Wednesday 6th February 2013.

Kerbside refuse and recyclables programmed for collection on Wednesday 6th February 2013 in the Allenton area; bounded by River Terrace, Farm Road, West Street, river side of Harrison Street and Tinwald; mountain side of the railway line will be collected on Thursday 7th February 2013.

There are no changes to any other collections.

R ROUSE Operations Manager

SPORTING NOTICES

Allenton Netball Club Melrose Road Courts, Ashburton

Senior Netball 2013 Registration Night Trials for Senior Players

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3

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

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

9.30am - 10.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Ladies exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.00am. ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF ASSOCIATION. Summer tournament in grades. RSA Trophy in conjunction. Ashburton Golf Club.

10.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Play group in lounge, 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

10.30am - 11.30am. AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Men’s exercise classes start today. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM,

Ashburton District Council

Monday 11 February 2013 5.30-6.30pm at the Allenton Courts, Melrose Road. Registration fee of $20 must be paid on night

“Locally owned & operated family business for 60 years”

1.30pm. MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

8.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am. HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass.

Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.00am. ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Harrison Street.

9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship Service, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am. ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Covenant service with Rev Tevita Taufalele, Baring Square Church Lounge.

10.00am. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH, Mass.

Sealy Street.

10.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am. ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Streets. e 10.00am. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street.

10.30am. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 37 Alford Forest Rd, (In Polytechic building).

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 4.00pm. VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum open, 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

2.00pm - 4.00pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mixed doubles, Waireka Croquet Club, Domain. Philip Street.

2.00pm - 4.00pm. STAVELEY MUSEUM. open today in the Staveley Village opposite the Staveley store.

5.00pm. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Evensong, Park Street.

7.00pm. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 37 Alford Forest Rd, (In Polytechic building).

7.00pm. ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Service held in the Sinclair Centre with Rev David Brown. Cnr Havelock and Park Streets.

PUBLIC NOTICES

CAN’T find what you are looking for? Place a classified in the Wanted section of the Ashburton Guardian classifieds, call today on 307-7900.

Saturday, January 2 2pm North clubrooms, Smithfield Road All open grade players welcome - new and old.

Ashburton Celtic Rugby Club

Pre Season Training 4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, fade, heat and glare control, privacy and safety films for glass.

FREE quotes 20 years local service.

Bill Breukelaar phone 0800-368-468 www.tintawindow.co.nz

AB CONSTRUCTION Building Services In Ashburton We offer a range of quality building services including: New residential houses.

Renovations.

Garages. Sheds.

Suspended ceilings.

Light commercial.

Fencing.

Decking. Paths.

Silos & farm buildings.

Contact us today for a free quote.

Tobie Hartley 021 0236 7167

WANTED to rent: a double size garage or similar for long term storage. Ph/txt 308-1105 or 027-388-7452.

BUILDERS, carpenters bricklayers, all advertise in the Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

WANTED - used Ford, Belarus and Massey Ferguson tractors in any condition.

Freephone 0800-888-343.

CLIENTS are waiting to hear of your services in the Connections section of the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. Phone 307-7900.

Guardian Classifieds

FOR: Welding – Mig, Arc, Mild steel fabrication.

Sandblasting. Competitive Rates – Quality assured.

Phone Kurt at Action Sandblasting Ltd. 027-3324549 or 308-4226

Phone 307 7900

Pre Season Get Together

Senior, Senior B, Colts, Under 18’s Tuesday, February 5 Thursday, February 7 6.30pm Keenans Road grounds New and old players welcome.

Dave McCrea 027 475 3002 Stefan Brook 027 255 1025

SITUATIONS WANTED RELIEF milker available.

Hinds preferred. Four years experience. Please phone 027-942-3003.

Farm Relief Worker At times we all need an “extra pair of hands”.

Can I help?

Relief stock work, tractor driving and basic farm maintenance, 30 years farm experience.

Call Brett (Juett Partnership) 021 122 8463

Monday 18 February 6.30pm to 8pm Wednesday 20 February 6.30pm to 8pm We are still seeking new coaches for Senior and Junior Teams for 2013 and new players are always welcome Please contact Kellie Johnson Phone 027 601 3357 or Amy McIntyre (President) Phone 307 0045 (evenings)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

The end of an era for Smiths Footwear (1940 - 2013) Kevin and Gaylene would like to announce that their retirement time has arrived and they have sold their business (Smiths Footwear) in the Arcade.

We would very much like to thank all our valued customers who have supported us over the years and hope you will continue to support the new owners.

(Melissa and Brian Shimmin) in what will now be Style Footwear, still situated in the Arcade and will continue to be the stockist of the ever popular ZIERA footwear, plus a small range of others brands.

Kevin and Gaylene wish Melissa and Brian all the very best in their new venture.

a DE a

Thank you Kevin and Gaylene for your guidance and support over the last few months. Enjoy your well deserved retirement.

Melissa and Brian look forward to continuing the tradition of selling quality footwear to existing and new customers.

Melissa and Brian Shimmin Style Footwear.

TRADES & SERVICES

RURAL TRADING POST

HOME handyman available. BARLEY/Wheat straw. 4 x 3 Minor repairs, painting etc. x 7, 2 yrs old, good quality, Ph 027-677-1952. covered. Offers, must sell.

Baleage also suitable for cattle. Hinds area. 0274-766871.

ROOFING - for all your roofing requirements, new roofs, reroofing, commercial, insurance claims, repairs. CAN’T find what you are Licensed building looking for? Advertise in the practitioner, Wiki, Vision Wanted section of the Roofing, phone 027-476- Ashburton Guardian. Phone 0203.

307-7900.

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Your next job Your next house Your next car

Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz PUBLIC NOTICES

Ashburton District Council Ashburton District Council, Open Air Fire Control Measures, Restricted Fire Season Restricted Fire Season – Ashburton District Plains And Foothills Notice is hereby given that the part of the Ashburton Plains for which the Ashburton District Council is the Rural Fire Authority, is imposed with a RESTRICTED FIRE SEASON for the period midnight Friday 25 January 2013 until further notice.

This means that the lighting of fires in the open air in the Ashburton District is prohibited without permit except as below. A permit is required from the Department of Conservation for any fires on or within 1 km of any Crown land.

A Restricted Fire Season remains in force for the Ashburton Lakes and Rakaia Gorge area.

EXCEPTIONS DURING RESTRICTED FIRE SEASON:

Health beauty connections

The following are approved activities allowed under special authority issued under Section 23 of the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977: • Gas fuelled barbeques lit in properly constructed containers and gas cookers.

• Hangis (subject to specific conditions).

• Fires lit in fully enclosed drums (subject to specific conditions).

• The burning of agricultural crop residues, stubble or straw (subject to specific conditions).

Full information is available on the Ashburton District Council website at www. ashburtondc.govt.nz or by contacting Councils Customer Services on (03) 307 7700 (24 hours) D GEDDES Principal Rural Fire Officer

FREE

Gift

HEALTH 2000 ASHBURTON The Arcade, Ashburton Phone: (03) 308 1815 www.health2000.co.nz

Antipodes® Joyful Hand & Body Cream when you purchase any two Antipodes® products - worth $40.00*

If you have any pre-existing medical condition, are pregnant or lactating, consult a health professional prior to use. Always read the label and take as directed. If symptoms persist, see your healthcare professional.

*Offer ends 31/03/2013 or while stocks last and excludes lip balm.

Ashburton District Council ASHBURTON DISTRICT WATER SUPPLIES CHANGES TO WATER RESTRICTIONS The District Council wishes to advise consumers on council operated schemes, that in accordance with the Council’s Water Restriction Management policy, a Level 2 - Time Restricted Alternate Days Hosing restriction as detailed below shall be in place effective from 30 January 2013.

Level 2 – Time Restricted Alternate Days Hosing Scheme

Restriction

Permitted Activities

For all schemes listed below

Hosing is only permitted between the hours of 6.00pm and midnight.

Ashburton Hakatere Lake Hood Methven Rakaia

• Even numbered properties may hose on even dates • Odd numbered properties may hose on odd dates

Chertsey

• Properties located on the south-east side of Maldon Street may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of Maldon Street may hose on odd dates

• Any activity requiring water from a hose connected to the scheme supply • Operation of microspray irrigation systems.

• Operation of automatic irrigation systems.

Fairton

Hinds

Mayfield

Mount Somers

• Properties which have frontage to Waymouth Street or Deans Street may hose on even dates • Properties which do not have frontage to Waymouth Street or Deans Street may hose on odd dates • Properties located on the south-east side of the SIMT Railway may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of the SIMT Railway may hose on odd dates

• Neck and Back pain • Headaches and migraines • Orthopaedic problems • Trauma and Stress related problems

• Depression • Immune disorders • Muscle tension

A clinic is held fortnightly in Ashburton For more information and appointment times please contact:

Kate Smith Phone 03 313 8936 Mobile 027 435 8030 Email kate97@xtra.co.nz

• Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer.

• Properties which have frontage to Pattons Road may hose on even dates • Properties which do not have frontage to Pattons Road may hose on odd dates

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, February 22, 2013.

For further information and application forms, please contact:

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

CranioSacral Therapy combined with my gift of healing is an exceptionally gentle and yet extremely powerful form of treatment.

We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area:

• Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

R S ROUSE Operations Manager

Many of my clients report relief from chronic symptoms when other forms of treatments have not been effective”

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

• Properties located on the south-east side of Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road may hose on odd dates

NOTE: Hosing is not permitted at any time on the Dromore and Winchmore water supplies and the Methven Springfield and Montalto piped stockwater schemes.

“

Do you suffer....

• The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers.

The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email mcf@croys.co.nz

Ashburton Returned & Services Association (Inc) Notice is hereby given that the

Annual General Meeting of the Ashburton Returned and Services Association will be held in the Moore Lounge, Cox Street, Ashburton

Saturday, March 16, 2013 commencing at 10.00am.

Brenda Costello General Manager

RURAL TRADING POST

RURAL TRADING POST

BARLEY/wheat straw. 4 x 3 CAT D8 and 40 tonne x 7. Hinds area. 0274-766- excavator for hire. Phone 871 or 03-303-7476.

027-474-5243.

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Your next job Your next house Your next car

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Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz EDUCATION

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

iNFORMATiON ENROLMENT dAYS 7 and 8 FEBRUARY

Open until 6pm

Ladybank learning School of Music Taking enrolments Term 1

your success

Lessons for adults.

Ring Barbara 308-9161

with the

Mid cAnTERbuRy LinE dAncERs

A fun wAy To ExERcisE! instructor Annette fyfe

bEGinnER LEssons sTART foR 2013

wEdnEsdAys from fEb 13 from 7pm followed by

uppER bEGinnER/inT LEvEL 8-9pm

At the Memorial Hall, Grahams Rd, Tinwald Enquiries ph Annette: A.H. 307 7138

RURAL TRADING POST HAYCOVERS made to order or off the shelf standard size.

Morrison’s Saddlery and Feed, Racecourse Road.

Phone 308-3422.

PEASTRAW - for sale, small conventional bales. Pick-up from paddock, $3 per bale.

Delivered, $4 per bale.

Wakanui area. Ph: 32-3857.

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

AgRicULTURE ANd HORTicULTURE ARTS ANd dESigN t Certificate in Arts and Media (Level 4) Diploma in Arts and Media (Level 5 & 6) Majors in Fashion Design | Graphics and Multimedia | Visual Arts and Design

BEAUTY ANd HAiRdRESSiNg t Certificate in Beauty Therapy (Level 4) (ITEC Certificate) Diploma in Beauty Therapies and Epilation (Level 5) (ITEC Diploma) Certificate in Hairdressing (Level 3) Certificate in Professional Hairdressing (2nd Year) (Level 3) Certificate in Make-up Artistry (Level 3)

BUSiNESS ANd TOURiSM HEALTH ANd EdUcATiON HOSPiTALiTY iNFORMATiON TEcHNOLOgY MEdiA OUTdOOR EdUcATiON & SPORT t Certificate in Outdoor Recreation (Level 4) Diploma in Outdoor Instruction and Management (Level 5) Diploma in Outdoor Education (Level 6) Certificate in Sport and Fitness (Level 4) Diploma in Sport and Fitness (Level 5)

TRAdES FREE BUS for 2013 to the Timaru Campus* *Conditions Apply

PLANTS & PRODUCE FRUIT sells fast in the Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

MEADOW hay for sale.

Small bales, this seasons, ex quality, limited quantity. Ph 027-203-3852 (no txt).

0800 426 725

$40 rider $60 family $50 rider + 1 junior Easy main loop Junior/Enduro loop Highway 72, Mt Somers Ph Alasdair 027-431-1244.

collaboration with industry. They will equip you well for employment and provide a firm foundation for future study.

AgRicULTURE ANd HORTicULTURE ARTS ANd dESigN BEAUTY ANd HAiRdRESSiNg BUSiNESS ANd TOURiSM HEALTH ANd EdUcATiON t National Certificate in Animal Care (Level 2) Certificate in Parenting and Care of Children (Level 2) Certificate in Early Childhood Studies (Level 3) Diploma in Childbirth Education (Level 5) New Zealand Certificate in Nanny Education (Level 5) Certificate in Life Skills (Level 1) Intensive English (English as a Second Language) Te Reo Rangatira (Level 3) Certificate in Adult Learning and Teaching (Level 5) Certificate in Health Studies (Level 4) National Certificate in Mental Health and Addiction Support (Level 4) Diploma in Social Services (Level 5) National Certificate in Science (Level 4) - July start Certificate in Laboratory Technician Skills (Level 3)

HOSPiTALiTY iNFORMATiON TEcHNOLOgY MEdiA OUTdOOR EdUcATiON & SPORT TRAdES For all of our programmes visit www.aoraki.ac.nz or phone 0800 426 725 All programmes *subject tosupporting approval and your sufficient numbers success

FREE BUS for 2013 to the Timaru Campus* *Conditions Apply

ENROL NOW - FEBRUARY START

0800 426 725

supporting your success

www.aoraki.ac.nz

PLANTS & PRODUCE

Bottling Sundrop Apricots 10kg $25 a box Nectarines 1kg $3.99 a bag Bunched Carrots $1.99 a bunch Bagged Peppers 1kg $4.99 a bag Specials available from 29/01-05/02

OPEN 7 DAYS

The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

MOTORCYCLES

MOTORING

supporting your success

Individual 10 Week Training Programme

Seedless Oranges $1.99kg

PEASTRAW: New seasons. $3.50 ex paddock. Phone 302-3898.

TRAIL RIDE MT SOMERS Sunday, February 3 9.30am

For all of our programmes visit www.aoraki.ac.nz or phone 0800 426 725 All programmes subject to approval and sufficient numbers supporting your success

www.aoraki.ac.nz

PEASTRAW for sale. $4.50 bale, delivery can be arranged. Phone 303-7680 or 027-390-0002.

MOTORCYCLES

orientated and have been developed in

ENROL NOW - FEBRUARY START

PUBLIC NOTICES IMPORTANT announcements, share them with Mid Canterbury in the Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

Aoraki’s programmes are vocationally

Aoraki’s programmes are vocationally orientated and have been developed in collaboration with industry. They will equip you well for employment and provide a firm foundation for future study.

Lead Guitar, Ukelele, Piano, Keyboard, Singing, Drums.

LEARN TO LINE DANCE

Great range of programmes

Great range of programmes

For Guitar, Bass Guitar,

MEETINGS & EVENTS

your success

10 week training programme starting 13th February 2013, every Wednesday night for 10 weeks, 2 hours 6pm - 8pm @ 77 Archibald Street, Tinwald in the Accucentre.

Courses Covered:- Develop your attitude and awareness - Time management - Health and fitness - Negotiation skills - Goal setting and achieving - Graduation

- Self confidence and motivation - Memory development - Communication - Interpersonal skills - Leadership principals

EMPOWERMENT This 3 hour workshop will give you the tools to take control of your thoughts and actions - not to be missed.

Starts Saturday 9th February @ Serenity Place Methven from 10am-1pm Saturday 23rd February @ Tinwald in the Accucentre from 10am- 1pm and Thursday 28th February @ Tinwald in the Accucentre from 5.30pm – 7.30pm.

Learning Outcomes

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

MOTORING

- Learn how your values and belief’s control your behaviour - Learn how to change the ones you don’t want - Find out how to get what you want from life For more information or to book please contact:- Kay Liversidge @ Success Academy Phone 302 8772 Cell 021 267 6001 Contact kay@successacademy.co.nz Website www.successacademy.co.nz

LIVESTOCK & PETS

RACING bikes, buy or sell in the Motorcycles section of RACING car parts, trade SAVE money, by advertising the Ashburton Guardian or sell them in the Motoring your vehicle in the Guardian BUYER of unwanted of Ashburton classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

Classifieds. Phone 307-7900. Section animals.

Cattle, bobby Guardian Classifieds. Phone calves, horse and all farm 307-7900. animals. We also sell pet MEETINGS & EVENTS MOTORING food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-322WHEEL alignments at great 7626. prices. Maximise the life FOR sale: Kia Sportage 2006 of your tyres with an UPCOMING events and 2L diesel, 273,000km. Ex alignment from Neumanns meetings in the Ashburton reps 4WD vehicle. $8,500 Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Guardian classifieds. Phone Guardian Classifieds ono. Ph 027-590-8061.

307-7900.

Street. Phone 308-6737.

Phone 307 7900

LIVESTOCK & PETS

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village..

URGENTLY wanted by a Phone Brian 307-8000 or mature rider, paddock for 308-6180. one horse.

Prefer Hinds/Tinwald area.

Consider anywhere. Please Guardian Classifieds phone 027-486-6466.

COOPWORTH, Texel Coopworth, Dorset Down, rams. Colhoun Genetics.

Phone 03-303-9813

Phone 307 7900

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, February 2, 2013

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Your next job Your next house Your next car

Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

FOR SALE

CHURCH SERVICES

AVAILABLE RENTALS

Church Services Evangelical Presbyterian Church

10.30am Worship Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355

24B Grey Street Two Bedrooms Web ID AS478 $310 per week 2 / 14 Allens Road Two Bedrooms Web ID AS476 $230 per week 85 Grey Street Two Bedrooms Web ID AS482 $290 per week 70 Alford Forest Road Four Bedrooms Web ID AS481 $380 per week

37 Alford Forest Road (Aoraki Polytechnic) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Thursday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm

468 Longbeach Road Three Bedrooms Web ID AS480 $290 per week

We hope to see you this Sunday!

162 Alford Forest Rd Two Bedrooms Web ID AS483 $280 per week

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

67 Creek Road Three Bedrooms Web ID AS484 $350 per week

Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service

References required

Michelle 027 77 66 497 Alana 0274-736-825

and Children’s Programme

10.00am You’re very welcome!

Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062

landscape supplies

LIVESTOCK & PETS

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 2.00pm Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409 Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10.00am Morning Service

Speaker: Bob Ritchie LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow 4.30pm Hour of Power YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION AKAROA - Spacious holiday home with great views.

Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, heatpump, flat section with boat parking.

Close to shops. Phone 302 8028.

HIRE FUNCTION/party equipment available for hire. Marquees, tables, chairs, glasses, cutlery, cooking equipment, heaters and more.

See U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30am5.30pm; Sat 7.30am-5pm; Sunday 8am- 12.30pm. Ph 308-8061 A/H: 308-7460 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

Jo & Ben Hallenstein Experienced Dairy Veterinarians now open as

Ashburton Selwyn Rakaia Vets for all your large animal needs Cattle Preg Testing - $2/head 16 Mitcham Rd Ashburton Phone (03) 307 8565

Enquiries Phone 308-8699

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All Welcome

GARDENING

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

FOR SALE FOR SALE

$99 SHOE sale on now at Style Footwear in the Arcade. Selected styles GET in early. Dry firewood WIND KNOCKING THOSE only, so be in quick. $170 per load. Ph 027-439206 Cameron Street PLANTS AROUND????

9322.

Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Come see us for the Ph 308 7511 largest/cheapest stake ATTENTION DIY HOME WALL unit, two king single selection in town. Also made HANDYMAN. Did you know beds, two club chairs, wall to order raised vegetable we have the largest timber mounted plate rack, kitchen garden planter boxes - selection in town???? Pegs, work station, microwave, HIRE ADAMS SAWMILLING, boxing, posts, rails, palings, two coffee tables, numerous Malcolm McDowell Road, Ph kwila decking - ADAMS other items. 308-9004.

Malcolm 308-3595. Mon-Fri 7am- SAWMILLING, 5.30pm, Sat 8am-12noon. McDowell Road, Ph 308- ZIERA shoes still available 3595. Open Mon-Fri 7am- at Style Footwear in the Eftpos available.

5.30pm, Sat 8am-12 noon. Arcade. New winter styles in RENTAL equipment, EFTPOS available. advertise yours in the store now.

Ashburton Guardian. Phone GARAGE SALES 307-7900.

ONE for free ‘For Sale’ classified advertisement in EDUCATION the Ashburton Guardian GRAZING when you buy two. – Phone 307-7900.

99EXTEND your education, BARGAIN hunters can find look to up-skill in the SCOOTER’S new and treasure at Garage Sales Education section of the secondhand three and four CAN’T find what you are advertised in the Guardian Ashburton Guardian wheel electric scooters and looking for? Advertise in classifieds. Ph 307-7900.

Classifieds. wheel chairs.

Call Fred the Wanted section of Reddecliffe at Electric LEARN while you work, lots the Ashburton Guardian Mobility Ashburton today. of opportunities in the classifieds, call today on Phone 308-3602.

307-7900.

Education section of the SHRUBS from $1.00.

Ashburton Guardian.

Clearing all stock. Also TEMPORARY fence panels FLOAT hire - single, double clothing, kids to ball dresses, for sale. New stock just NEW qualifications extend abilities, check and tandem. Reasonable toys, builders tools, pedal landed. Highest quality, sharp your rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & cars, separator and much prices. Enquiries and orders for training courses in the Ashburton Guardian Feed. Phone 308-3422 any- more. Grove Street. 9am. Ph. 027-497-7444. View: time.

Saturday and Sunday. temporaryfencesales.co.nz Classifieds under Education.

Preaching victorious overcoming messages. Victory is yours!!

Better in Blue

BUSINESS WANTED, SELL QUICK sale of your business in the Ashburton Guardian Classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Rentals ¾ Philip St, Allenton, two bedrooms, $300 per week ¾ Grigg St, Allenton, three bedrooms, $320 per week ¾ Catherine St, Tinwald, three bedrooms, $280 per week ¾ William St, Central, three bedrooms, $310 per week ¾ Fords Rd, Willowby, five bedrooms, short term, $350 per week inc some power.

Please call Penny at Property Brokers on 307 9194 Website www.propertybrokers.co.nz Please see our TradeMe listings Property Brokers Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed Under the REAA 2008

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

For Ladies Only

Deep Tissue Sensual Massage.

Service professional executed

by Orientally trained, English educated Frenchman.

The ability to help every woman release her ‘inner goddess’ through relaxation, stimulation, liberation and satisfaction. Put back into your inner soul what modern life subdues. Allow 1-2 hours per appointment. Out calls only. Discretion, cleanliness and hygiene are mutually expected. Talk to Jacques 021 0269 3636 for your needs and fees.

In my world the ladies come first.

WORK for yourself by ACCOMMODATION, owning your own business, RENTAL advertised in the Ashburton Guardian Classifieds in the Business Sell section.

To place Classifieds phone METHVEN: two bedroom house, close to town. Lawns 307-7900. mowed. No dogs. $200 per week. Available now. Phone ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 027-647-6730.

ANGE tall, busty and attractive.

In/out calls.

Phone 022-174-4102.

ATTRACTIVE and busty. No texting. Everyday. No W’s.

Phone Zoe 021-023-39-259.

PROPERTY INVESTORS Distance yourself from tenant and management problems.

Have your property managed independently, professionally and cost effectively. Property management is our sole focus 24/7. Call B&N Properties Ltd now, phone 021-1604565. www.bnproperties.co.nz

FRISKY Fillies. In/out calls.

Sensual massages.

New ladies welcome. Phone 021- THREE bedroom (master with ensuite) home with 565-126. single garage, to rent.

Heat pump, off ACCOMMODATION, street parking. References required. Available February RENTAL 27. Phone/text 021-033-5870.

AN A frame, tidy, four bedroom home to rent.

5 Kermode Street. Available end of February. Phone 3082650.

WANTED, house to rent 3+ bedroom house wanted to rent, only till end of May. Must be child friendly and pets ok. Need asap, thanks.

FLATMATE wanted. Want Ph 303-9190 someone to share a house in WANTED - three - five the country, handy to town. bedroom home, Ashburton Would suit a professional district area, urgently, person. Phone 027-214-5691 by mature mother of Mon-Fri. four, boarder.

Excellent GET in touch with renters. references. Please phone Place an advertisement in Karen 022-079-0923. the Guardian Classifieds.

WANTED to rent: three Phone 307-7900. four bedroom house with PROFESSIONAL couple/ sleepout. Long term. No family wanted for three pets, don’t smoke. Good bedroom Allenton home. references. Prefer outskirts Anything Wood burner. Two car Ashburton. garaging, close to all considered. Phone 303-7160 amenities. $340p/week. or 027-712-6694.

Phone 308-9004.

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, February 2, 2013

WEEKENDservices

medical services HML ( Homecare Medical Limited) - Ring 0800 700 155

by an adult.

CHALMERS WARD (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) — OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD — DAILY, 10am - 8pm. Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron Street) — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES: COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

for FREE 24 hour health advice.

DUTY DOCTORS This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Tinwald Medical Centre, will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 6565. Emergency phone until 8am Sunday 0800 700 155.

Dr Wackrow, Sealy Street Medical Practice, will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. He will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212. Emergency phone until 8am Monday 0800 700 155.

EMERGENCY DENTIST If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

helpline services ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

METHVEN AND RAKAIA AREA - For weekend doctor

LIFELINE - Toll-Free Number: 0800 353 353 community services ART GALLERY

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In the event of medical or accident emergencies DIAL 111 BUS DEPARTURES Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service. Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. BUSES — Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

Phone 308 1133. Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm.

animal services DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL - 24 hour

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday 10am-1 pm; Sunday 1pm – 4 pm

service, phone Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

COMMUNITY POOL WEEKEND HOURS

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries Inspector John Keeley, 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

Hours: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

Baring Square East, Ashburton. Phone 308 3167 Open Saturday and Sunday 1pm - 4pm Closed Statutory Holidays only.

Groups by arrangement - phone 308 3167

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

CARE VETS - Ph 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street. The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Robert Muir. Saturday morning clinic: 10am - 2pm.

CANTERBURY VETS - Phone 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Road, Methven. The duty vet for emergencies this weekend POST DELIVERY CENTRES — is: Sinead Dunne. Ashburton Saturday morning clinic: 9am - 12 Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm noon.

Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm ASHBURTON SELWYN RAKAIA VET SERVICES – Phone Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 307 8565, 16 Mitcham Rd, RD2, Ashburton. The duty vet for Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm emergencies this weekend is: Large: Ben Hallenstein. Full ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS — emergency service all weekend.

Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 307 5195, cnr East Street and Smithfield Road. The duty vets for emergencies this weekend INFORMATION CENTRES are: Large: Hazel Foley, Small: Reon McMurtrie. Saturday ASHBURTON — Sat 10am until 2pm. Sun CLOSED. morning clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive.

METHVEN — Saturday and Sunday 10am until 3pm. Phone The duty vets for emergencies this weekend are: Large: 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org Duncan Williams-Large. Small: Lorna Humm, Richard Wright.

Full emergency service all weekend. Saturday morning clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

and emergency details please phone Methven 302 8105. For ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE medical attention during the weekend there are drop in clinics Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm from 11am - 12noon and 5pm - 6pm Saturday and Sunday. visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.nz for more information. STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and If you want to drink that’s your business, if you want to stop emergency service. Except in cases of emergency persons that’s ours. requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners referral for the Crisis Team. note.

SAFE CARE - ~ 24 hour rape and sexual assault crisis support. Phone 03 364 8791 PHARMACIES

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP ~ 24 hour number open from 9.30am until 12 noon on Saturday and from 10am - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - direct dials to until 12 noon on Sunday and from 6pm till 7pm both evenings. a volunteer. Ashburton office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message on answerHOSPITAL VISITING HOURS phone.

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL GENERAL WARDS — (Medical and Surgical): DAILY, 2pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELPLINE - Call us free on until 4pm & 6pm until 7.30pm. Children must be accompanied (0800 787 797). Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

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Guardian Weekend Weather

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Saturday, 2 February 2013

27

RANGIORA

Wa i m a k a r i r i

LAKE COLERIDGE

29

29

DARFIELD

Map for Saturday

27

26

Rakaia

Ra

25

Ash

Geraldine

Ran

burto

27

ka

ia

Wind km/h less than 30 Waimate

30 to 59 60 plus

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

6

9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Sunday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Monday 9 noon 3

morning min

shower fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine

MAX

22

OVERNIGHT MIN

10 TOMORROW

MAX

19

OVERNIGHT MIN

6

9 pm

1

20 17 19 16 16 17 15 14 15 12 13 15 12

max

25 26 27 28 23 26 30 21 29 26 25 23 26

NZ Situation

The ridge withdraws to the east during the weekend as a trough advances across the Tasman Sea, pre-

9:13 3:29 9:42 3:56 10:11 4:26 10:41 4:56 11:12 5:25 11:42 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 6:33 am Set 8:59 pm Good

Good fishing

Rise 6:35 am Set 8:58 pm Good

Good fishing

Good fishing

Set 12:49 pm Rise 11:36 pm

Set 1:58 pm

Rise 12:14 am Set 3:07 pm

Last quarter

New moon

First quarter

4 Feb

2:58 am

©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

10 Feb 8:22 pm www.ofu.co.nz

Temperatures °C

18 Feb 9:32 am

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

max

158.2 6.11 8.25 90.1

Ashburton Airport

max gust

0.0

0.0

71.8 SE 24

Christchurch Airport 24.7 14.8 12.4

0.0

0.0

37.2 NE 33

Timaru Airport

0.0

0.0

55.6

Average Average

8.4

Wind km/h

3.6

Average

26.8

Rainfall mm

min grass 16 hour Feb 2013 min to date to date

22.7

10.9

22.1

11.6

20.9

10.1

25.8

9.9

9.2

9.5

–

2 1 1

60 44 48

Fine.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: Light, but NW 25 km/h in the afternoon.

E 20

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Dubai Dublin Edinburgh Frankfurt

showers showers cloudy rain thunder showers fine cloudy showers showers thunder rain showers showers rain

13 1 23 3 23 25 10 13 8 23 25 21 -1 -1 4

23 5 32 5 31 35 18 26 22 33 34 24 8 6 5

FZL: Above 3500m

Mainly fine, showers near the divide later.

Wind at 1000m: N rising to 50 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: N rising to gale 80 km/h.

MONDAY Rain in the west, easing later.

A period of rain further east, easing to showers. Northerlies turning southwesterly.

TUESDAY Showers clearing. Southwesterlies easing.

WEDNESDAY Fine apart from morning cloudy periods.

Southerlies dying out.

World Weather Forecast for today

cumecs

Canterbury Readings to 4pm yesterday

Rise 6:36 am Set 8:57 pm Good

A few morning showers, clearing.

Southerlies easing.

ceded by a northerly flow. This trough moves onto the WEDNESDAY South Island later tomorrow and the North Island on Fine. Southerlies dying out.

Monday and is followed by another ridge.

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 9:30 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 9:00 am, yesterday

FZL: Above 3000m

TOMORROW

Morning and evening cloud, otherwise fine.

Northerly winds predominating.

TUESDAY

Source: Environment Canterbury 3:00

8

A period of rain followed by southerlies and showers.

River Levels

2

0

13

Areas of morning low cloud or fog, then fine breaks. Light winds and sea breezes.

MONDAY

NZ Today

26

Saturday

OVERNIGHT MIN

Midnight Tonight

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

TIMARU

TODAY

27

n

gitata

TODAY

MAX

TUESDAY: Few early showers, then fine.

Southerlies easing.

AKAROA

Canterbury High Country

OVERNIGHT MIN

MONDAY: Period of rain, then showers with southerly change.

13

Canterbury Plains 25

TOMORROW: Long fine spells. Northerlies.

LYTTELTON

LINCOLN

ASHBURTON

TODAY: Morning cloud, then fine. Light winds.

MAX

CHRISTCHURCH

27

METHVEN

Ashburton Forecast

Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi New Delhi

Compiled by © Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited 2013

rain showers rain showers rain rain fine showers fine cloudy showers showers sleet rain showers

3 9 19 20 7 24 13 24 3 12 2 13 -1 25 8

4 23 22 25 17 31 29 34 5 23 10 21 1 31 21

New York Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

snow showers fine cloudy rain cloudy fine showers fine showers rain showers rain fine rain

-4 4 22 23 5 8 -3 25 -5 18 15 9 5 -7 3

1 5 38 29 16 13 2 32 -3 22 24 18 20 3 3

For the very latest weather information, including Weather Warnings, visit metservice.com

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, February 2, 2013 AMAN, TEAM MEMBER

Twin Cutter

149

1200W SKU00318797

$

50

“Everything for D.I.Y. for less” 4 Burner Retro Hooded BBQ Cream high gloss finish. Side burner.

305g Synthetic Refill

10L Weathertough Exterior

$

SKU03170423

Also suits Raid & Robocan dispensers. SKU00310405

White. Self priming. Gloss, semi gloss or low sheen. SKU00415747

699

109

$

$

1800h x 603w x 412d mm.

SKU00164880

7898

$

Deck Scrub

2287

1998

$

9

6 Piece Promenade Setting SKU03190679

159

$

$

2694

430mm cutting width.

Clutch. SKU00178820

3485

138

$

Standard Plaster Board

2400 x 1200 x 10mm.

Drill driver & impact driver.

$

SKU00319201

Wooden Attic Ladder

299

299

SKU00343845

11

$

SKU00170325A

75

59

$ EACH

$

$

99

SKU00190156

39

99

98

359

SKU06120160

189

25kg Fastcrete SKU00409657

11

$

26

1894

SKU00226774

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“Waitangii D.I.Y. funn for all” Saturday 2nd February Face Painting 10am-12pm

Kiwi D.I.Y. Workshops 11am & 1pm

Bouncy Castle 10am-2pm

Kids Kiwi Themed Workshops* 10am

*Bookings essential. See the service desk for more details

Tool Chest & Cabinet 600mm. 3 drawer chest.

2 drawer cabinet.

SKU00810899

$

$

SKU00189370

99

5L Outdoor Cleaner

PER SHEET

Soft close drawers and doors. Vitreous china top.

300mm. Mill finish.

Large Rattan Solar Bollard 3 Piece Safety Protection Set

All pressures. WELS mains 4, low 3 star.

Roof Vent

2.7m. 150kg load rating. 3.3m $329. SKU00449102

$

Sink or Basin Mixer

$

1694

$

SKU00294518

750mm Sydney Vanity 18V 2 Piece Drill Kit

Accessories not included. SKU02582635

25cc Petrol Line Trimmer

SKU00154265

$

53w x 66d x 60h cm.

2

369

6 Tier Wine Rack

SKU00189604

$ 39

12L Knapsack Sprayer

880mm square table.

$

Aluminium Beach Chair

SKU00189896

$ 99

SKU04480309

148cc. Steel deck.

Briggs & Stratton engine. SKU00491480

Stainless steel blades. SKU00312722

Plastic LED Solar Garden Light

2 Door Cupboard

4 Stroke Petrol Lawn Mower

Secateur & Snip Set

Premium Decking Timber Ex 100 x 40mm. H3.2.

Grip tread. SKU00180074

Perimeter Fence Panel

Powdercoated aluminium.

2400w x 1200h mm.

SKU00207369

$

3

$ 65

PER LINEAL MTR

9998

Not all services and products featured are available in all stores, but may be ordered. See in store for product availability. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of commercial quantities. All prices quoted are inclusive of GST. Prices valid until Friday 8th February 2013 or while stocks last.

PER PANEL

Plus Wednesday 6th February the Great Kiwi BBQ Come and celebrate Waitangi Day with us and enjoy a sausage or two. All proceeds go to a local community group.

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE ASHBURTON 363 West Street, Ph 03 307 6671 TRADING HOURS Weekdays 7am-6pm Weekends & Public Holidays 8am-6pm Catalogue online at www.bunnings.co.nz

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