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Isobel makes her mark internationally

By Gabrielle Stuart One dedicated young Ashburtonian has made her mark this year not only in the district and the country but across the world.

Isobel Ferguson is one of 10 young women to receive the Zonta International Young Woman in Public Affairs Award, impressing international judges with her hard work in Ashburton and dreams of making a difference in the community.

And despite years of work on the

Ashburton Youth Council, work with dozens of local volunteer groups, on the Ashburton College student executive and even coaching local sports teams, she said that winning the award took her by surprise.

“I’m so grateful. I just volunteered because people needed me, I never knew it would add up to anything.”

She said she was driven to volunteer by a mother who didn’t believe in sitting still, and a pair of ‘very altruistic’ grandparents.

“There’s this idea people have that their town owes them stuff, but that’s just not true. They post things

like ‘I’m bored’ on Facebook, but I think if you don’t want to use your time why not give it?”

And the local girl doesn’t plan to stop at volunteering.

After working three jobs to fund her studies in health science at Otago University this year, the $5000 American dollars in prize money will go a long way towards funding her future, and she has a clear vision of what she wants to achieve.

“I wouldn’t have made it without scholarships from the community and the help from Zonta, and I want to prove to them that they made a

good choice. I want to be an ambassador for mental health, but actively; to do as well as talk.”

After seeing the effects of suicide in the community, it’s an area she is passionate about.

“We have an incredibly high youth suicide rate, and rural men are overrepresented in that. I want to be a GP, but focus specifically on the mental health of youth in New Zealand.”

With years of study ahead of her, it could be a decade before she returns to Ashburton – but one day she would like to.

“Everyone trashes this place, but I don’t think we realise how good we have it. There’s everything you need here, and so many people willing to help you out. No one is insignificant here.”

District councillor Robin Kilworth worked with Miss Ferguson during her three years on the Ashburton Youth Council, and said she was impressed by her hard work.

“She has always impressed as a very committed and energetic young woman, who works hard for the things that she believes in, is well organised and a very good leader. I

know the experience she will gain through the awards will stand her in good stead, and we’re sure that she will do the youth council and Zonta proud.”

President of the Zonta Club of Ashburton Jeanette Montgomery said that the local club was very proud of Miss Ferguson and what she had achieved.

“Isobel has shown that she is a very motivated and passionate young woman, and her aspirations reflect the aims of Zonta, that of advancing the status of women worldwide.”

Trapped in remote gully A skier and snowboarder were winched to safety after venturing into back country terrain at Mt Hutt on Sunday.

The pair, a man and woman from Christchurch, were grateful to be airlifted after becoming “bluffed”, said the Westpac Rescue Helicopter paramedic who winched them out.

“They were in a very precarious position to be fair, it was quite steep up there,” he said.

The couple were winched back to the Mt Hutt base area where they were checked by the ski area’s medical team.

The pair’s frightening afternoon began when they climbed beyond the skifield boundary to the Rakaia River side of the mountain, known as Avalanche Gully, perhaps to access fresh skiing terrain.

But one of them slid down, and both lost their skis and snowboard.

Mt Hutt Ski Area manager James McKenzie said the skifield was notified about 4.15pm after one of the pair used their cellphone to alert authorities of their plight.

Ski patrollers were quickly searching, and despite a poor description of their location, found them by 5pm, 300 metres from the mountain’s ridge. A patroller skiied

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down to them, and was also airlifted out of the steep terrain when the helicopter arrived just a few minutes later.

Mr McKenzie said the skifield was investigating whether recent heavy snow had compromised signage in the area where the pair accessed back country terrain, but he was confident the skifield boundary was well roped with adequate signage.

To access that area required a climb, so it appeared they had made an intentional choice to get there.

“They have made a decision about it and it backfired on them a bit,” Mr McKenzie said. They had not been carrying avalanche transceivers and shovels, which was the advice for those heading back country.

The pair had done the right thing by calling for help, and Mr McKenzie said it was a pleasing outcome.

Rakaia Gorge farmer Julian Evans said he watched the rescue through his binoculars from his house. He was not surprised skiers had tried to access the area.

“I can’t believe anybody would be stupid enough to ski down there,” he said. And it was not possible at the moment with avalanche debris and shingle slides.

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Big bubbles are big science for three-year-old Max McKay, who donned safety glasses before stepping inside the giant bubble at a Science Alive ‘bubble workshop’ in Methven yesterday.

More than 30 children sat on towels to watch bubble magic happen in Methven yesterday at a workshop organised by homebased care Ashburton Educarents.

Astrid Mueller from Science Alive led the ‘bubble workshop’, and said it was science that was interesting for everyone.

“Most people don’t realise that this is science. For this age group it’s just an entry into science, looking at shapes and colours and skills. But you can study bubbles at all ages, and with older groups we can look into things like what creates the colours, and why, when stretched, they go back to a sphere.”

Since losing their Christchurch base in the Canterbury quakes, the staff at Science Alive have spent a lot more of their time travelling to give talks, and organiser of the day Erin Redfern of Educarents Ashburton said it made the workshops accessible for rural kids.

“Logistically even organising so many children and caregivers to get down the road is difficult, so it’s fantastic that they can come to us here.

“The great thing is that these are just basic things using water and dishwash liquid, so it’s not a tricky thing for the kids to take home.”

The Science Alive van also stopped by Methven Preschool, before heading back to Christchurch.

Ashburton man killed Three women caught driving with excess breath alcohol

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A skier is winched to safety from Avalanche Gully late on Sunday.

A 64-year-old Ashburton man has died after the vehicle he was driving collided with a truck and trailer unit south of Timaru on Sunday afternoon.

He was Allan Clifford Brady.

Mr Brady was driving a north bound Nissan 4WD accompanied by two passengers, a 76-year-old Ashburton man and an 81-yearold Ashburton man.

The crash occurred on State Highway One just after 3pm near the intersection with Woolshed Valley Road in the Otaio district.

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The highway was closed and a detour was set up through Woolshed Valley and Springbank roads for several hours.

Police and serious crash investigators from Christchurch worked through Sunday night but the cause of the collision has yet to be established.

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Badly behaved women were high on the list for police in Ashburton this weekend.

Three women were charged with driving with excess breath alcohol levels, after they were caught in a booze bus trap.

Two were more than double the legal limit at 994mcg and 816mcg respectively.

The third was caught driving

with a breath alcohol level of 645mcg. A man was also charged with drink driving in relation to this sting.

On Thursday another woman was found to be driving with a level of 762mcg.

Ashburton police attended four incidents of family violence during the weekend.

In other matters, an assault

was reported at 3.20am in the Ashburton CBD, enquiries are continuing into this matter, and around the same time a man was arrested on West Street and detained for detoxification.

A 17-year-old youth was arrested on a warrant, and there was a vehicle collision on Thompsons Track at 3am on Sunday morning; no injuries were reported.

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BRADY, Allan Clifford – On June 30, 2013. Tragically taken too soon, as a result of an accident. So dearly loved husband of Bron. Much loved dad and best friend of Scott and Caro, and Jody, a very special “Grand� of Jacob, and Sophie, and a very close friend of Carol. “Gone fishing�

Funeral details to follow.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton BREEN, Kevin Patrick—– Breen, Kevin Patrick On June 30, 2013 at Ashburton Hospital after a courageous battle. Dearly loved and cherished husband of Margaret, and loved father and father in law of Clifton and Kelly, Nix, and Regan and Meg; and Francesca and Jason, Terewai and Shaun, and Valanda and Kirsty, and loved granddad of Jessica, and Katie and Lucas; Grace, and Millie; and Willem. Aged 63 years. R.I.P. Messages to the Breen family c/- 24 Rakaia Terrace, Rakaia 7710. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cancer Society (Mid Canterbury branch) would be appreciated and can be made at the service or sent to P O Box 296, Ashburton, 7740. A service to celebrate Kevin’s life will be held in the Rakaia Community Hall, Elizabeth Avenue, Rakaia on THURSDAY, July 4 at 1.00pm followed by an interment in the Rakaia Cemetery.

Academy Funeral Services F.D.A.N.Z. Ph 03-3430919 Breen, Kevin Patrick BREEN, Kevin Patrick– – Dearly loved son of Mick and the late Dorothy, and stepson of the late Cath; loved brother of Michael (deceased) Chris, Terry, Tony (deceased), and Paul; loved brother in law of Kevin and Robyn, Selwyn and Robyn (deceased), Lesley and John, and Lyall and Gay, and loved by all their families.

Academy Funeral Services F.D.A.N.Z. Ph 03-3430919 ROBINS, Alfred Mark Cargill – Mark passed away on July 1, 2013 at Ashburton. Most dearly loved husband of Catherine.

Much loved father and father in law, of Sarah and Peter Hay, David and Jacks, Elizabeth, Michael and Anna, and Caroline and Anthony Keogh.

Much loved grandfather of Lucy, James, Nicholas, Ruby, and Sarah.

Messages to 69 Cross Street, Ashburton, 7700. In lieu of flowers donations to The Ashburton Order of St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A funeral service to celebrate Mark’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY July 5, commencing at 1.30pm.

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Fire used to cover crime?

Ashburton police suspect property was taken from a Hinds house destroyed fire on Sunday morning.

The Hinds Fire Brigade was alerted to the fire at a Fields Road property at about 11pm on Saturday.

Appliances, tankers and firefighters from Ashburton and Willowby were also involved in

the four-hour battle to halt the flames, Hinds chief fire officer Dave Kingsbury said.

Police were called to the scene at about 11.30pm; after it was ascertained the occupants of the property were not at home when the fire started. “The fact that no one was home raises suspicions, there was no

heaters or fires going; when this happens automatically think something happened to ignite the fire,� Mr Kingsbury said. “It might have been an electrical fault – or it might have been something more sinister.�

Police who examined the scene on Sunday, have indicated property may have been removed from

the address prior to the fire starting. Ashburton’s fire safety officer Mark Sillis said the house was completely gutted. “Three fire safety officers, two from Christchurch and one from Ashburton spent all day there (on Sunday), we have finished our examination but can’t get out any information at the moment –

because other investigations are still underway,� Mr Sillis said.

Ashburton police are seeking information about any suspicious activity in the Fields Road, Hinds Arundel Road area. Call 03 3078408 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Police and fire safety enquiries continue.

A Northland company has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety legislation after four children were injured when a bouncy slide blew away at a Christmas party. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment laid the charge against Kerikeri company Trailblazers Northland Ltd over an incident at Whangarei’s Heritage Park on November 17 last year. The company will be sentenced in September. -APNZ

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• Free lessons Free driving lessons will be given out to Tauranga drivers in a bid to curb the road toll.

The free lessons will be offered once a year to AA members, who can use them themselves or pass them on to a person of choice. The programme is being piloted in Tauranga and Hamilton and is likely to be rolled out nationwide later in the year.

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Course co-ordinator Paco Mones-Cazon (right) presents Federico Montans with a graduation certificate at the completion of an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course.

Newcomers graduate from ESOL class

By Sue Newman When Argentinian Paco MonesCazon arrived in New Zealand he realised settling into a new country would involve bridging a large language barrier.

But eight years down the track he speaks perfect English. He has also taken dozens of new arrivals under his wing to help them brush up their conversational English so they too can become part of their new community.

Mr Mones-Cazon put together an English for Speakers of Other Languages course for farm staff in the Dorie area. On Friday more than 20 students completed 10 weeks of study with most saying they wanted to come back

for a second course. Most immigrants on the course were South American or Filipino. “I was lucky when I came here I had had quite a few English lessons but I saw the need here. To be honest the primary push for this was to help people to get more involved in the community. As immigrants, I don’t think we were pushing hard enough to integrate so we had to create a bridge over the language distance,� he said.

Newcomers might be quite social at home but when language stood in the way of mixing in their new community they tended to be less confident, he said. “For most, their level of English was pretty good, they understand what you talk to them about. When you read you are pretty confident,

when you listen you drop back a bit and when you speak it is so much harder, you can’t express yourself properly and conversations are short and slow.�

Without the help of employers in the Dorie area, who subsidised the course for their staff, it would never have happened, Mr MonesCazon said. “We had a lot of help from Kiwis when we first arrived and we wanted to do the same for others. This is a great nation for what it does and offers to immigrants.�

Nicky Webster was one of the farmers involved and said she was motivated by the desire to see immigrant staff become comfortable communicators, not just on the farm, but also in the community.

With the growing numbers of

immigrant staff in the area, Mrs Webster said the community decided it was important newcomers felt comfortable merging in the community rather than staying among themselves. Improving their confidence in spoken English was seen as one way of doing that, she said. “They’re such good, reliable staff and most of them hope to secure residency. Part of the process towards that is improving their English language skills. They’re very genuine people and very loyal and they see coming and working in New Zealand as a huge opportunity. They really relish it. It’s a win-win for everyone.�

The ESOL course was tutored by staff from the Ashburton Learning Centre.

Revoking consents ‘bizarre’ Takeaways rise ‘worrying’

By Sue Newman Revoking the Christchurch City Council’s building consent accreditation yesterday was a ‘bizarre’ action says Ashburton District Council chief executive Brian Lester.

The city council had been on notice for several weeks

by International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ), that it needed to improve its performance when it came to issuing building consents, after shortcomings were identified in its consent issuing procedures.

The council had previously been given a one month to improve its consenting processes and was warned that failure to improve could result in its accreditation being withdrawn.

It had also been told that the Government would step in if it continued failing to meet statutory timeframes for processing building consents, 20 working days.

To cancel accreditation because the city council was not meeting consent times 100 per cent of the time was very odd, Mr Lester said. “All councils have fluctuat-

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ing demands so you have to priorities.

Ours can fluctuate 50 per cent from one month to the next and you can’t turn your resources off and on to handle this. You can run with spare capacity to take account of the peaks but someone has to carry the cost for this. “We’re pretty stretched ourselves but we get there with a lot of goodwill from staff.�

The decision to revoke the city council’s accreditation was disappointing and it was unclear what IANZ was trying to achieve by such action, he said.

The city council was working in an extreme work situation where it was dealing, not only with a huge number of building consents post earthquake, it now had houses being built on land that carried a range of designations, all with different consenting requirements, Mr Lester said.

While Ashburton was already under pressure because of the rapidly increasing number of consents it received each month, Mr Lester said it would look at what it could do to help Christchurch out.

The council was already

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taurant meals to fit in with lower budgets.

Mangere Budgeting Services Trust chief executive Darryl Evans said unhealthy and cheap takeaway outlets were often concentrated in lower socio-economic areas - a concern echoed by Fight the Obesity Epidemic spokeswoman Dr Robyn Toomath.

Data collected in the report did not provide a breakdown by takeaway outlet, but showed the total number of outlets reached just over 4600 in New Zealand last year.

Mr Evans said there was a takeaway outlet “on every corner� in Mangere.

And while the larger chains like McDonald’s were often an unaffordable option for families on tight budgets, smaller “lunch-box� takeaway bars offered full meals at incred-

ibly low prices. “For example in Mangere, you can buy a $10 fish and chip pack, which will give you four fish, four dollars of chips, four sausages and four potato fritters. “You’d find it very hard to feed a family of four for that price [at the supermarket],�

Mr Evans said.

Latest available figures from the Health Ministry showed about one million New Zealand adults and 10 per cent of children were obese last year.

Maori and Pacific peoples were overrepresented in the statistics.

Celebrity chef and owner of the Food Truck Michael Van de Elzen said busy lifestyles often made it difficult for many families to regularly cook at home.

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Police will not lay charges in relation to a car fire in Gisborne that badly burned two children. Manaia and Rious Namana-Rowe, aged three and 22 months, were critically injured in April while their mother left them alone in a car while she was in a store.

The fire was started accidentally by one of the children with a barbecue-style lighter.

Police say that after receiving legal advice, no one will face charges. Both children were unconscious and had stopped breathing when rescuers pulled them from the car.

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• ‘H’ to remain out Wanganui Hospital will retain the current spelling of its name - unless you’re speaking Maori. The Whanganui District Health Board has voted unanimously against changing the hospital’s name to Whanganui Hospital, instead opting to keep the current spelling and adding the Maori translation, Whanganui Hohipera, underneath.

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• Immunisation The Ministry of Health says it will not adjust immunisation targets for the West Coast, even though the ever-growing Gloriavale Christian Community refuses to immunise its children. The group, now numbering over 400, lives communally on the shores of Lake Haupiri.

Gloriavale members promote breast-feeding as a way of boosting their children’s immune systems, but reject vaccinations.

Despite growth at the commune, the overall vaccination rate on the West Coast fell to 79 per cent for eight-month-old babies in the last quarter, the worst figure in the country.

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• Worker injured A man suffered serious hand and arm injuries when he was caught in mussel harvesting machinery in the Marlborough Sounds yesterday afternoon.

The Nelson Marlborough Rescue helicopter was called about 2.30pm to Oyster Bay in Port Underwood where the 67-year-old Picton man was injured on a mussel harvesting vessel. He was treated at the scene and flown to Hutt Hospital in Wellington. -APNZ

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Pita Sharples will resign as the Maori Party’s co-leader today and will quit politics altogether next year. Dr Sharples said he planned to stay on as a minister and Tamaki Makaurau MP until the 2014 election. He would not run for Parliament next year. The 71-year-old will stay as co-leader until the party elects a new leader, which he expected to happen at the AGM in Whakatane in a fortnight.

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Children neglected Two young parents found drunk while their pre-schoolers were neglected and suffering from infected skin sores have a long way to go before their children will be returned to them, a judge said yesterday.

The 22-year-old mother and 25-year-old father were sentenced at the Wellington District Court yesterday to community based sentences and intensive supervision after they earlier each pleaded guilty to four neglect charges.

Judge Susan Thomas gave both permanent name suppression to protect the identities of their four children.

They were charged in January after police arrived at the family’s Hutt Valley property when concerned neighbours alerted them to a twoday party in which the children were apparently unsupervised.

When police arrived, they found the parents drunk, and there was more alcohol than food in the house.

Judge Thomas said the children, then aged between 4-years-old and 7 months, all had health problems.

Three of the children had to be hospitalised and given antibiotics for infected lesions. One of the children’s t-shirts was stained with blood seeping from her sores.

Police had to stop the mother from driving from the property with a breath alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, and the father was stopped by police as he was leaving the property to buy more alcohol.

Drug utensils and alcohol was found in the house but there was very little suitable food for the children, and very little furniture, Judge Thomas said.

All the children remain in Child Youth and Family care.

Judge Thomas said the children were totally dependent on the adults, and the parents had breached their children’s trust. “You clearly have a substantial amount of work to undertake before they can be returned to you,� she told the parents. “It is a very sad case for small children who love their parents and who have been removed from them.�

The children would be feeling “bewildered, lost and confused�, Judge Thomas said. “They trusted you to look after them, they relied on you and you significantly let them down.�

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“turning point” in her client’s life.

“He’s said in the [pre-sentence] report that he has basically wasted 30 years of his life.”

Ms Sellars said Harawira was also willing to pay reparations if he was not sent to jail.

But in sentencing, Judge Harvey said a message needed to be sent to the community that home invasions would not be tolerated.

“We live in a violent society there is no doubt about that, and violence involving children is a characteristic of our community that is outrageous and must be deplored.”

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Choir celebrates its 10th birthday Ten years on and 40 members strong, things are looking good for the Mid Canterbury Choir.

The choir celebrated its 10 year anniversary at the weekend, with a concert held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

More than 200 people turned up to hear the choir sing an array of songs they had performed over the past 10 years, including songs from the Beatles and Bach.

Mid Canterbury Choir manager Carol Gunn said the day was a huge success, and was thankful the snowfall which hit the region last week stayed away.

“It went really well, we were really delighted. We had some extra door sales on the day, and were really pleased people received the message about the change of date.

“We had to re-schedule the event due to the poor weather

last week,” Mrs Gunn said.

The crowd was treated to musical pieces from soloists Luke Glendining and Angela Petrus, while Mid Canterbury Choir members Alister Argyle and Elizabeth Small also sang various sections to the crowd, accompanied by musical director Sylvia Watson.

The choir was treated to an iced fruit cake made by a retired member, to celebrate the choir’s anniversary.

Age is no barrier within the choir, with the youngest person performing in the group being 20, with ages spread evenly throughout right up to their oldest member who is in their 70s.

Up next for the Mid Canterbury Choir is the Opera Favourites concert on September 21 at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, while they are hoping to attract some internationally recognised soloists to the event.

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“I’m feeling pretty good that he’s handed himself in. It was a freaky situation.”

The incident left Zania, who was in the seat beside her mother, shaken and upset.

Miss Hawea later returned to the scene to find the 20cm blade, which had a sharpened edge, and its handle on the road.

Senior Sergeant Lance Kennedy said the man, who has not been named by police, turned himself in after seeing the story in the paper.

He will appear in Whanganui District Court on July 18 charged with wilful damage.

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A man who threw a knife at a passing car carrying a mother and her daughter has been arrested.

The man handed himself in after seeing his victims - Nikayla Hawea and her 5-year-old girl Zania - pictured in the Wanganui Chronicle.

The kitchen knife shattered the driver’s side window as Miss Hawea drove through Aramoho last Thursday.

Miss Hawea said she was relieved to hear the news of the arrest.

“I feel so much better knowing he’s been arrested - that he’s come forward and accepted responsibility.

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Police believe a property in Onehunga may hold clues that could assist a murder investigation more than 20 years old.

Jane Furlong was reported missing by her boyfriend in May 1993.

Her skeletal remains were found over a year ago at Port Waikato.

New information has led police to obtain a warrant to search her last known address - 51 Heretaunga Ave, Onehunga.

The search that began yesterday is being conducted by the police specialist search group, ESR forensic scientists and members of the Jane Furlong homicide investigation team.

Detective Inspector Mark Benefield said people who were close to Furlong wanted this matter resolved.

He said police were encouraged that people were still coming forward with information that might help solve the mystery behind Ms Furlong’s disappearance and death.

“It may take us several days to complete our search for any evidence that might assist the investigation into Jane’s death,” said Mr Benefield.

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“A teacher aide has far more education value in my eyes.”

Joining the movement meant pay rises for half a dozen staff, and now all staff were paid a minimum of $18.40 an hour, he said.

He declined to say how much extra it was costing the school to meet the living wage cost, saying it was personal information.

The NZEI teachers union and the Living Wage Movement both said the school was the first to adopt the wage.

The living wage movement was launched in New Zealand in May last year, and is modelled on living wage campaigns around the world.

A public meeting at 5.30pm tomorrow at Dunedin North Intermediate is to launch a Dunedin group supporting the Living Wage Aotearoa campaign.

Service and Food Workers’ Union communications director Lyndy McIntyre, who will speak at the meeting, said yesterday the campaign had already achieved success around the country, with the Wellington City Council and The Warehouse announcing steps to move towards adopting a living wage.

The Dunedin City Council has been asked to support the campaign, and council managers are now studying the impact adopting the minimum of $18.40 an hour wage would have on its salary structure.

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A Dunedin primary school has become the first in New Zealand to pay all its staff a living wage of at least $18.40 an hour.

North East Valley Normal School principal John McKenzie said the school was inspired to join the Living Wage Movement after reading an article about a school which charged course fees which cost about the same as what school support staff are being paid each year.

“Cleaners don’t have a very pleasant job and yet they are the lowest paid on our property.

He said cleaners, grounds keepers, administration staff and teacher aides provided fantastic support, and teachers would be unable to do what they did without that support.

Mr McKenzie said there was also a common concern about the growing gap between the rich and poor in New Zealand.

As poverty increased, more and more New Zealanders were not paid enough to meet their needs, enjoy their lives and participate in society, he said.

“We wanted to do something about that.

“We’ve worked out that we can afford to pay our staff at least $18.40 if we tighten up in other budget areas.

“That was the big decision for the board of trustees.”

“We’ve had to make decisions like having a classroom full of

A nephew of Hone Harawira has been jailed for chasing a boy into his home and beating him in his bedroom before stealing a whale bone necklace.

Mau Harawira - a son of antiviolence campaigner Hinewhare Harawira - was sentenced to three years and two months in jail when he appeared at the Auckland District Court yesterday.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to theft and injuring with intent to injure.

“After it was over, you helped yourself to a number of items.”

They included a whale bone taonga made by a relative of the boy.

Judge Harvey described Harawira as a “gutless cowardly thug”.

He said the boy was a small 12-year-old while Harawira and his friend were large, drunk men.

The boy was taken to hospital for a check-up. Doctors found bruising to his cheek, nose and chest.

Harawira’s lawyer Belinda Sellars said the incident marked a

“We’ve seen an unusual decline in the number of people vacating our properties and as a result we have a low turnover rate. If we have a property available for rent, we offer it to the person with the greatest need.”

That low turnover of houses, plus the high degree of earthquake damage to Christchurch housing stock, meant waiting lists were ballooning, particularly in Christchurch and that could see applicants willing to move elsewhere finding accommodation across the South Island.

Since mid April about 20 Christchurch families have been accommodated in Ashburton, Blenheim and Timaru.

The housing shortage meant HNZ was looking outside the square to meet accommodation needs, Mr Leggett said.

Ashburton has a total of 188 HNZ properties, 17 four bedroom, 86 three bedroom, 72 two bedroom and 13 one bedroom units.

The district’s housing stock has remained static for several years and no new units are planned.

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The court heard how the 30-year-old had been drinking with a friend at an Auckland beach when the pair believed they had been offended by a 12-yearold playing nearby.

They chased him to his house and went inside, where they knocked him to the ground and kicked him.

They then dragged him onto a balcony and the beating stopped only when a passerby noticed the violence.

Judge David Harvey said the boy’s bedroom is the one room where he should have been safe.

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Over the past three months, six Christchurch families have moved into Housing New Zealand homes in Ashburton in a drive to ease waiting list pressures on the city’s state houses.

None of those, however, came on the back of Christchurch’s new incentive to leave deal, free rent and fuel vouchers.

Settling out of the district families in Ashburton does not mean they will leap-frog over Ashburton based applicants, Housing New Zealand South Island regional manager Symon Leggett said.

There are currently 15 people on Ashburton’s HNZ waiting list, two of those in the priority A category.

“If a Christchurch applicant lists Ashburton as a place they would move to and their need is higher than everyone else on the waiting list, then they could be offered a property,” he said.

The six Christchurch families now living in Ashburton houses were all high on the needs assessment list.

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he slow but steady rebuild of Christchurch facilities could become a double boost for Mid Canterbury.

The Government last week announced the plans to invest $4.8 billion into key facilities around the earthquake ravaged city, which included a number of arts and sports venues.

At present, Christchurch is struggling to host too many major events due to the loss of several key facilities like the Theatre Royal and the old Lancaster Park.

OUR VIEW Theatre and music acts are fighting to use the remaining smaller venues and Ashburton has been able to cash in on the shortage of larger halls up the road in Christchurch.

Event Centre boss Roger Farr says that the initial surge of acts coming to Mid Canterbury straight after the February 2011 quake had subsided slightly as Christchurch venues got back up and running and the arts

scene started using previously under-utilised auditoriums.

The same goes for some sporting events, like the international tennis tournaments that have come to Ashburton because Wilding Park has been out of action.

Mid Canterbury arts and sports followers have enjoyed this unexpected side-effect of the quakes but many fear that this influx of high-profile artists

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and athletes will come to an end as Christchurch’s new major venues become operational.

Interestingly, the key officials in Ashburton are not worried.

While they have treasured the

big events coming to town, they say Ashburton will remain an attractive proposition for event organisers with the fabulous Event Centre and soon the brand new sports stadium.

In fact, the earthquakes have put Ashburton on the map with many organisers and groups who would normally not have seen past the bright city lights of Christchurch.

Many arts and sports groups have commented on how much they have enjoyed their time in Mid Canterbury and many,

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Councillors’ pay rise Friday’s Guardian front page Quote Councillor “Pay rise “overdue” but not enough”.

An 18 per cent pay rise but at a new rate of $21,230 that is not sufficient compensation for the work involved, particularly when ACC levies and tax were paid out of this, the member

said.

Does he think that councillors should be exempt from these taxes that other members of society have to pay?

There are a large number of people in our community that live on a low income.

Importantly there are also a large number of people in our community that give extremely

valuable voluntary service without financial reward.

It is one of the important ingredients that make a successful community.

I get rather tired of reading about the large workload of members and because of this their remuneration only works out at so many dollars per hour.

My view is that it is also a

privilege to be able to give service.

I would encourage people that are interested in local government to get involved.

Consider your options and if you can make a commitment go for it.

You will find it challenging and rewarding.

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in Christchurch are still many years away from being completed so the new EA Networks Centre will have a few years to enjoy a lack of competition and build its reputation as a great Canterbury sporting venue.

And even when Christchurch is back up and running, touring acts or sporting teams will remember Ashburton and may consider tagging Mid Canterbury as an extra stop, instead of just a make-shift replacement venue.

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like the National Academy for Singing and Dramatic Art, have pledged to keep coming back.

With its new-found reputation among several organisations, Ashburton’s medium-size venues will become an attractive option for those events that are too small for the CBS Arena or the Christchurch Stadium.

The awareness that Ashburton can offer a real alternative, just down the road, is likely to pay off for years to come.

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By Rebecca Quilliam and Kurt Bayer Bus drivers have been told they should always carry passengers who want to pay with bank notes, even if they don’t have enough change.

The safety message comes after a Tauranga driver was blasted for refusing to let a child on board because the boy had only a $20 note to pay his $1.80 fare.

Unions representing drivers said the female driver should never have left the passenger behind.

Bus driver Kay Pridmore was issued with a warning last October by her Tauranga-based employer, Go Bus Transport after leaving the child behind.

She later told her boss: “I am not a f***ing banker, if I wanted to give out change, I would work in a f***ing bank.”

The story sparked a huge reac-

tion from others who said they had suffered similar experiences.

Kevin Nolan, 45, of North Shore, said he got an apology from NZ Bus after he complained that a driver abused him after he boarded a bus to Auckland city with a $20 note.

“If they are looking to persuade the likes of me into using public transport, they need to buck their ideas up on their customer service skills,” he said.

Nicky Labuschagne, a 42-yearold theatre administrator at Manukau SuperClinic, said she was often spoken to rudely when trying to pay her fare with notes.

“The drivers have been downright rude and embarrassing to the point I was in tears at the way I was treated. One driver even growled at me then spat out the window and told me to sit down.”

Another person said she wasn’t let on with her baby in a pram on a Gossamer Drive to Botany trip

because she had only a $20 note.

Chris Darby, chairman of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board, said he had received individual examples to reinforce his concern that there are “too many bus drivers across Auckland who are turning young people off taking the bus by unlawfully denying them access”.

“If we do not make public transport welcoming to our young people we risk losing their custom for life. In Auckland that means more cars on our roads and more congestion.”

Ms Pridmore took Go Bus to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) after claiming the warning over her behaviour unjustifiably disadvantaged her employment.

Her case was thrown out, with the ERA saying it was company policy to always give children passage even if the driver did not have the appropriate fare.

However, it was recommended

that the company issue guidelines on how drivers were to deal with $20 notes. She has kept her job.

Go Bus regional operations director Darryl Bellamy was unavailable for comment.

NZ Tramways Union spokesman Gary Froggatt said drivers were never supposed to leave children behind.

“That’s a real no-no because there’s a risk of something happening to them.”

But he said some passengers had the drivers on on a daily basis, turning up with $50 or $100 notes.

First Union Transport/Logistics spokesman Karl Andersen agreed, but said problems arose if a bus inspector found a passenger without a ticket.

“The inference taken is that the driver has taken money off them and not issued a ticket and put the money in their pocket.”

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Trio plead not guilty to robbery charges

By Edward Gay Three men - including two nephews of Mana Party leader Hone Harawira - are alleged to have attacked a man at a bus stop for his iPod before hitting school boys and telling them “not to nark”.

Tohara Harawira and Enesi Zane Brooks Taito - together with Wikatana Popata - are charged with aggravated robbery. Popata faces two extra charges of aggravated assault.

Their jury trial began at the Auckland District Court yesterday where all three pleaded not guilty.

Joseph Harper told the court he was listening to his iPod as he walked down a street in the West Auckland suburb of Avondale in August last year.

Three men were standing by a car and one yelled out: “stop, come

over here” as he walked past.

But Mr Harper said he started to run across the road and headed towards a bus stop where other people were.

The three men followed.

One threw a punch which missed him but a second one connected with his face.

Mr Harper said he fell down and saw another man go through his bag.

“In a condescending way, as if speaking to a child, he said: ‘oh, its all right, bro. It’s all right’.”

Mr Harper said he was pulled up and one of the men took his iPod before they headed back to their car.

He said a father and son pulled up in a car and told him to get in and they followed the three men until police turned up.

Mr Harper was later taken to hospital where he was treated for a

broken eye socket and cheek bone.

He also suffered concussion.

He said the attack has left him with ongoing nerve damage to the side of his face.

Mr Harper confirmed to Harawira’s lawyer Isaac Koya that he did not stop the man taking his iPod. The court has also heard from two schoolchildren who were at the bus stop.

One said he was with two of his friends after finishing a dance practice at Avondale College when he saw three men following Mr Harper.

He said he did not see any punches but heard a “scuffle” on the other side of the bus stop.

It was then that one of the men approached his group and asked if they were girls before slapping his friends in the face.

Another student said he saw one

of the men repeatedly punching Mr Harper while another “egged them on”.

“We just stood there in shock, we felt it was a joke at first.”

He said the men approached them afterwards.

“They said if we said anything they’d get us ... I was worried at the time - I seen what happened to the boy and I thought what was going to stop them doing that to us?”

Under cross-examination from Taito’s lawyer Cameron Robertson, the witness said he saw “eight or nine” punches.

He denied suggestions from Harawira’s lawyer Isaac Koya that he was making his story up.

Earlier in his opening address to the court, Crown prosecutor Robin McCoubrey said police found Mr Harper’s iPod when they pulled Harawira, Taito and Popata over.

The trial continues.

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A Christchurch school has launched a last-ditch legal battle in a desperate bid to stay open.

Phillipstown School will file judicial review papers at the High Court in Christchurch this morning against a Ministry of Education decision that it must close.

The decile one school with a roll of 165 will merge with nearby Woolston Primary, across the busy Ferry Rd, to create a 465-pupil super-school as early as next January, according to a controversial decision made by Education Minister Hekia Parata in May. It was one of several schools to close or merge as part of the Government’s $1 billion city schools shake-up.

But the decision to close Phillipstown, which has been on its site near the quake-crippled AMI Stadium since 1877, has enraged the school and local community.

They say Ms Parata’s decision to close the school is illegal and in breach of the Education Act 1989.

The consultation process was “flawed”, while information essential to the process either wasn’t available, or it was misleading or missing.

“It is tremendously sad that we have to take legal action but it has become the only option left to keep

Phillipstown School open,” said Wayne West, Board of Trustees chairman.

“Given that the Minister’s decision has now been gazetted, and her officials have already started implementing the closure of the school and the merger with Woolston School, the school has no choice but to seek an urgent hearing. If we wait any longer, there will be no Phillipstown School to save.”

Education Ministry officials refused to hand over information needed to respond to claims about the costs of remediating the earthquake damage at the school and other property related issues, Mr West said.

“The Minister cited both of these as key reasons for her decision,” he said.

The Crown has encouraged the school to file court proceedings given their concerns over lawfulness, and Mr West says they have been assured they will be given an urgent hearing.

“Closing our school will be massive blow to our local community,” Mr West said. “But we are ready to fight for our students, their parents and our staff.”

The Ministry of Education yesterday declined to comment on the legal action.

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Hunch puts baby buyer behind bars New Zealand needs more resources to fight the increasing number of child sex abuse cases that are becoming more extreme and involving younger children, a group that targets paedophilia says.

The comments from ECPAT follows the horrific international paedophile case that was cracked with the help of New Zealand’s Internal Affairs Department.

A 42-year-old Australian man has been jailed for 40 years in the United States after he bought a baby boy for US$8000 (NZ$10,321) with his partner, sexually abused the child and traded him to other paedophiles to abuse.

He and his male partner, who lived in Cairns, were tracked down by authorities after being tipped off by the censorship compliance team at Internal Affairs which investigates online child sex abuse.

The investigation began when senior Internal Affairs investigator John Peacock alerted Australian authorities after noticing something suspicious about a series of photos of a 6-year-old boy, stored on the computer of a man in a separate investigation.

ECPAT director Alan Bell told Radio New Zealand the Department of Internal Affairs was fronting the battle against child sex offenders, but it only had 13 investigators to target the increasing crime rate.

“It’s something that we need to stamp out, they do need more resources. As long as it’s there and it’s so prevalent there’s demand that more resources be put towards it.”

Paedophiles were offending against babies who were not able to speak out, he said.

“The acts are becoming more violent - we’re talking about rape and torture. The victims are becoming younger and it’s not uncommon, sadly, for toddlers, babies, infants to be violently sexually abused.”

The latest case was particularly

bad because the child was bought for the purpose of being abused, Mr Bell said.

Mr Peacock told RNZ he had seen a trend of younger victims.

The reason behind that was that “pre-verbal children” were not able to describe the type of abuse they were suffering, he said.

He said this latest case was rare in terms of the degree of premeditation and global organisation involved.

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The victims are becoming younger and it’s not uncommon, sadly, for toddlers, babies, infants to be violently sexually abused

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“I wouldn’t be foolish enough to believe it was not happening elsewhere. I would certainly consider that people who are organised enough, financed enough and resourced enough would be doing these sorts of offences all around the world.”

Mr Peacock said the unit was punching above its weight with helping to catch perpetrators.

“We’re a public sector organisation and resources are going to be constrained and that’s a reality we have to live by.”

But he said it was “logical” that if they had more resources, the department would be able to catch more offenders.

“We’re aware of the constraints we’re under and we work around those and are still achieving, I think, fairly highly.”

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By Kurt Bayer A man accused of murdering Canterbury dairy farmer sounded shocked when a friend phoned him to say Sameera Chandrasena Battelage had been found dead, saying, “Don’t lie man,” a court has heard.

Viraj Alahakoon, 34, and Thuvan Prawesh Sawal, 24, are both standing trial for the murder of Mr Battelage at his farmhouse on Domain Rd, just outside Oxford on February 23 last year.

They have both denied cutting his throat and setting his body on fire.

The Crown says Mr Battelage’s neck was stabbed or cut six times before his body was doused in petrol and set alight.

On the sixth day of their trial in the High Court at Christchurch yesterday, a friend to all three men, Buddiya Hewa-Alankarage took the stand.

He said he got a phone call from his close friend, Mr Battelage’s brother, Nilantha, to say that ‘Sammy’ had been found dead in his burnt home.

He then phoned Alahakoon to give him the bad news.

“Viraj sounded shocked, and he said, ‘Don’t lie man’,” he told the court.

“I said, ‘No, no, it’s true. Sammy is dead’. So then he wandered and shout [sic].”

Sawal was with Alahakoon at the time, and Mr Hewa-Alankarage said he also spoke to Sawal.

He also “couldn’t believe” the news, he told the court.

Both men admitted to the witness that they had been with Mr Battelage earlier that night, and had watched cricket at the Oxford Working Men’s Club.

They then dropped him home about 10.30pm, they said.

Under cross examination by Pip Hall QC, representing Alahakoon, he admitted that it was Sawal who told Mr Hewa-Alankarage the exact time they dropped Mr Battelage home.

Mr Hewa-Alankarage denied telling the murder accused that Mr

Battelage had died in a fire, saying, “I didn’t know what had happened.”

Under cross examination by Andrew McCormick, representing Sawal, Mr Hewa-Alankarage wasn’t sure if Alahakoon was crying during the two to three minute phone conversation.

“I felt ... that he was seriously shocked. I didn’t feel he was crying but I can say he was severely shocked.”

Mr Hewa-Alankarage said he ended the call, saying he was “a bit upset”, adding: “I didn’t feel like continuing the conversation.”

The Crown has told the court that Alahakoon and Sawal had visited Mr Battelage - who had recently been having an affair with a woman they knew - on the night he died.

All three went to Oxford Working Men’s Club where they drank and watched cricket on TV, before returning to his home.

Mr Battelage then sent text messages to friends, saying “something going wrong”.

His badly charred body was found by firefighters later that morning.

The Crown says that the movements of Alahakoon and Sawal that night were captured by CCTV and security technology.

They dumped their clothes, which had the victim’s blood on them, outside a red zone property, the Crown alleges.

The defence counsel of both accused say the other was responsible.

Alahakoon is also charged with assaulting a woman, who has name suppression, with a pair of scissors on December 5, 2011, and again on Boxing Day that year.

A woman, who has name suppression, yesterday told of a series of text messages between her and Sawal on the night of the alleged killing.

Sawal texted her into the early hours of February 23, saying he was “with friends” and would be home soon.

The trial, before Justice Christian Whata, continues.

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Shannon Begg peels off a fleece at the speed shearing competitions in The Shed nightclub on Friday.

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By Michelle Nelson The dress code was modified in a local nightclub on Friday, to accommodate a mob of sheep.

Speed shearers turned up to The Shed, to contest the first of the

three events on the local circuit in record numbers for recent years, according to organiser Rocky Bull.

Two world record holders – Grant Smith, from Rakaia, and Rod Sutton were in the lineup of 20 contestants, along with a former world champion.

“It went off really well, we had more competitors than we’ve had for a long time and the crowd was bigger than we expected for the first event,” Mr Bull said.

The competitions will continue at the Brown Pub in Methven on Saturday, where even more speed

shearers are expected to take place – including Rakaia veteran John Hough, who at almost 70, is planning his final national circuit.

The titles will be decided on accumulated points, at the final shear off at Tinwald Tavern on Saturday, July 13.

Robin Bain supporters have filed a complaint with TV3 about a television show claiming re-examined evidence could clear his son David of the family’s murders.

Melanie White, of the Justice For Robin Bain Facebook group, confirmed the group had lodged a complaint against the programme 3rd Degree, which screened on Wednesday at 8.30pm, The show claimed “a newly reexamined photo of Robin Bain’s hand could vindicate his son David from killing his whole family, and help him get compensation for the 13 years he spent in prison”.

A Dunedin member of the group instigated the action after watching the show, which they allege breached three standards of the free-to-air television code of broadcasting practice.

The group alleges the show breached standards for controversial issues, accuracy and fairness, Ms White, of Dunedin, said.

“We want to make people aware of the terrible reporting that TV3 has done. It was so biased.”

If the group was not happy with the broadcaster’s response, it could take the complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA).

TV3 director of news and current affairs Mark Jennings said he was not aware of any formal complaints about the programme.

“The BSA accepts that there is a ‘period of interest’ after a controversial story where different viewpoints can be aired, and this has already been the case with various 3 News stories and John Campbell’s interview with Police Assistant Commissioner Malcolm Burgess.”

“I also expect we will do more on this week’s 3rd Degree.”

“We absolutely stand by the programme.”

Police said the option of a formal complaint had not been considered yet.

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The first four place getters in our Waste Busters awards.

Here we are learning about local heroes in our community.

Here are our Year 7 and 8’s are preparing to do high ropes at their camp in Wainui.

Here are our Year 7 and 8’s kayaking at their camp in Wainui.

Here we are walking the pacific to raise money for CARITAS.

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Children lining up for their First Holy Communion.

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Egypt erupts in protests over Morsi Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country yesterday and marched on the presidential palace, filling a broad avenue for blocks, in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with the most massive protests Egypt has seen in 2½ years of turmoil.

In a sign of the explosive volatility of the country’s divisions, young protesters mainly from the surrounding neighbourhood pelted the main headquarters of President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood with stones and firebombs, and at one point a fire erupted at the gates of the walled villa. During clashes, Brotherhood supporters barricaded inside opened fire on the attackers, and activists said at least three protesters were killed.

At least five more anti-Morsi protesters were killed Sunday in clashes and shootings in southern Egypt.

Fears were widespread that the collisions between the two sides could grow more violent in coming days. Morsi made clear through a spokesman that he would not step down and his Islamist supporters vowed not to allow protesters to remove one of their own, brought to office in a legitimate vote. During the day Sunday, thousands of Islamists massed not far from the presidential palace in support of Morsi, some of them prepared for a fight with makeshift armor and sticks.

The protesters aimed to show

by sheer numbers that the country has irrevocably turned against Morsi, a year to the day after he was inaugurated as Egypt’s first freely elected president. But throughout the day and even up to midnight at the main rallying sites, fears of rampant violence did not materialize.

Instead the mood was largely festive as protesters at giant antiMorsi rallies in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square and outside the Ittihadiya palace spilled into side streets and across boulevards, waving flags, blowing whistles and chanting.

Fireworks went off overhead.

Men and women, some with small children on their shoulders, beat drums, danced and sang, “By hook or by crook, we will bring Morsi down.” Residents in nearby homes showered water on marchers below — some carrying tents in preparation to camp outside the palace — to cool them in the summer heat, and blew whistles and waved flags in support.

“Mubarak took only 18 days although he had behind him the security, intelligence and a large sector of Egyptians,” said Amr Tawfeeq, an oil company employee marching toward Ittihadiya with a Christian friend. Morsi “won’t take long. We want him out and we are ready to pay the price.”

The massive outpouring against Morsi raises the question of what is next. Protesters have vowed to stay on the streets until he steps - AP down.

Sydney slips in rain Almost two weeks of heavy rain has wrought chaos across Sydney, causing trees to be uprooted and a landslide and embankment collapse at a train station.

No one was hurt when the concrete wall collapsed across the westbound lane and onto platform 4 at Harris Park Station near Parramatta on Sunday evening, but commuters on Sydney’s Western Line were advised to expect delays.

Pieces of concrete, fencing and trees spilled across the platform and onto the tracks, and could take days to clean up, a Railcorp

spokesman told News Ltd. June is traditionally Sydney’s wettest month, with 316 millimetres falling this year.

While that’s more than double the average of 132mm, it’s less than half the record 643mm experienced in 1950.

Earlier Sunday, a fig tree collapsed in Hyde Park, reportedly narrowly missing two mothers and their children. Large trees in the park will be inspected on to ensure they don’t pose a danger.

In Centennial Park over the weekend, a tree fell across the children’s bicycle path.

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• Ace playmate Jessica Simpson’s daughter has a new playmate — a baby brother named Ace. Simpson’s representative confirmed that the entertainer gave birth to Ace Knute in Los Angeles on Sunday via planned C-section. The details were first reported by Us Weekly. This is the second child for Simpson and her fiance, Eric Johnson.

Simpson gave birth to daughter Maxwell last year.

Simpson, who got her start as a singer and has a successful apparel and accessories line, most recently appeared on NBC’s “Fashion Star.”

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Pakistani security officials and media gather at the site of car bombing on the outskirts of Peshawar. The car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing more than a dozen people and wounding scores of others, police said.

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Bombings killed 49 people in three different areas of Pakistan yesterday, just as Britain’s prime minister was in the capital pledging to help to fight extremism.

In the deadliest of the attacks, twin blasts near a Shiite Muslim mosque in Quetta, the capital of southwest Baluchistan province, killed at least 28 people, including nine women and several children, said city police chief Mir Zubair Mahmood. Dozens of others were wounded.

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grenade caused the first blast, forcing people to run in the direction of the mosque, where a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, said another police officer, Fayaz Sumbal said.

Security forces prevented the bomber from entering the mosque, or the death toll would have been higher, said the provincial Home Secretary Akbar Durrani. Radical Sunni Muslims have stepped up attacks in the past two years against minority Shiites, whom they consider

to be heretics. Local TV video showed ambulances rushing victims to the hospital and wheeling them inside on stretchers. Some of the bodies were covered with white sheets.

Relatives of the victims frantically entered the emergency room to inquire about their loved ones.

Security forces cordoned off the area of the attack. The walls of shops near the blast were pockmarked with holes caused by small steel balls packed with the explosives to cause maximum

death and destruction.

In the northwest, a car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens of others, police said.

Most of the dead and wounded were civilians, although nine paramilitary Frontier Corps troops were hurt, said police official Shafiullah Khan. The blast struck one vehicle, but the other - AP passed by safely.

Obama humbled by Mandela prison visit Barack Obama says he was “deeply humbled” by a visit to the cell where Nelson Mandela spent years as a prisoner.

The US president paid tribute to Mandela and other anti-apartheid inmates of Robben Island, who “refused to yield” in the face of racist white minority rule.

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At least 31 people have died in a blaze that engulfed an oil tanker after it was hit by another vehicle in a suburb of the Ugandan capital.

“We can confirm 31 dead and over 10 others seriously injured in the inferno,” Kampala Metropolitan Police commander Andrew Kaweesa told AFP after inspecting the scene of the accident, which took place at the weekend.

“Most of the victims were scooping fuel from the tanker after it was hit by a car and fuel spilled out,” Kaweesa said. “People rushed there to take the fuel and in the process fire broke out engulfing the whole area and trapping - AP them,” he added.

ing Mandela - endured hours of backbreaking work.

He stood alone, looking out the barred window of the small damp cell where Mandela spent two thirds of his 27 years in prison, his darkest days of his detention.

After touring the sandy windswept island, Obama took a few minutes to write a note in the visitors book.

“On behalf of our family we’re deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down

injustice and refused to yield,” he wrote. “The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit.”

Mandela’s continued hospitalisation has cast a pall over Obama’s much awaited threenation visit to Africa.

Obama will later make Mandela the keystone of an address at the University of Cape Town, citing his unifying legacy as a blueprint

for a new generation in emerging Africa.

Mandela’s illness placed Obama in a tricky political spot, forcing him to balance his desire to push for a new economic relationship with Africa, with the need to properly honour his hero, who has been in intensive care for more than three weeks.

On Saturday, Obama and his wife Michelle called Mandela’s wife Graca Machel, and the president then visited other family.

• Samaritan bashed A good Samaritan who stopped to help a person lying on the road in Sydney’s west was then bashed and almost had his car stolen.

The 27-year-old man was driving when he saw a man lying in the gutter on Sunday. He stopped his car and approached the man to help him but the man lying on the road punched him in the chest. Another man then approached him from behind and both men began assaulting him.

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Croatia celebrates EU membership Fireworks lit the sky and festive crowds gathered on the streets to mark Croatia’s entry yesterday into the European Union, a major milestone some 20 years after the country won independence in a bloody civil war that shook the continent.

Croatia became the 28th EU member, the bloc’s first addition since Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007. Though enthusiasm for the country’s achievement has been dampened by the EU’s financial turmoil, it is a historic turning point for the small Balkan nation of 4.2 million, which endured years of carnage after declaring independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.

“As midnight struck, your country crossed an important threshold,” European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told the

cheering crowd in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. “It will change the life of this nation for good.”

“In the history of a nation, there are a few events such as this one,” Croatia’s President Ivo Josipovic said. “The accession of Croatia to the European Union is confirmation that each one of us belongs to the European democratic and cultural set of values.”

A decade back, when Croatia started negotiating the entry, the once war-torn country was overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a member of the European elite.

With the EU in deep financial trouble and Croatia’s own economy in recession for five consecutive years, the excitement has dimmed.

Thousands of people waving small EU and Croatian flags nonetheless joined celebrations across the country, including in

Zagreb’s main square.

Customs posts were removed from Croatia’s borders with EU neighbours Slovenia and Hungary, while EU signs and flags were put on its borders with non-EU states Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro.

The festivities were much more modest and less jubilant than when Bulgaria and Romania — currently EU’s poorest states — became members. With the entry, Croatia becomes the third poorest country in the EU. “There are not too many festivities because the general situation is not brilliant,” Josipovic told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

“We have to develop our economy, take care of those people who are jobless now, and there is no time and money for big cel- AP ebrations.”

Sports car hits crowd, injures 17 Authorities say a luxury sports car skidded into the crowd during a car show in Poland, injuring 17 people.

The Provincial Governor’s Office in Poznan, western Poland, said in a statement that four people are in serious condition but their injuries are not life-threatening. Two children are among the injured.

The statement said the driver lost control on a straight stretch of road, broke through a barrier and hit the crowd. Prosecutors are investigating.

Polish agency PAP said the driver was Norwegian. The car was from Swedish specialty automaker Koenigsegg.

The accident took place during the ninth Gran Turismo Polonia show, in which drivers show off their rare sports cars.

Cirque du Soleil artist dies in fall

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The Yarnell Hill Fire burns through the US town of Yarnell, Arizona yesterday. The fire started Friday and picked up momentum as the area experienced high temperatures, low humidity and windy conditions. It has forced the evacuation of residents in the Peeples Valley area and in the town of Yarnell.

Two missing after storms Two people were missing after heavy rains inundated the northeast and led to severe flooding in some areas, officials said yesterday.

A woman in upstate New York’s Mohawk Valley is unaccounted for after her mobile home was washed away by rising waters in Fort Plain, Police Chief Robert Thomas said. Officials identified her as Ethel Healey.

In Pennsylvania, officials said an 86-year-old Clinton County man was swept into a rain-swollen creek while trying to retrieve an ATV. State police did not

More was expected in some areas, including northern Vermont, where the National Weather Service posted a flash flood warning for the Burlington area.

In upstate New York, the storms caused the Mohawk River and other waterways to overflow.

At Little Falls, the river reached about a metre above flood stage before receding, the National Weather Service said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo toured areas damaged by flooding Saturday and said a disaster declaration would remain in effect for - AP 15 counties.

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Clinton County Director of Emergency Services Kevin Fanning said 18 homes had been damaged by flooding after one part of the county received about 178mm of rain in an hour Thursday night. The flooding damaged more than 48km of roads — not including some state routes repaired immediately under an emergency order — but remained passable. “Travel at your own risk,” he warned.

A number of communities in the northeast experienced flash flooding as a result of heavy rain.

A Paris-born performer in Cirque du Soleil’s Ka died after a fall during a show in Las Vegas.

Sarah Guyard-Guillot was pronounced dead yesterday at a hospital after falling about 50 feet from the show’s stage.

Witnesses said that the accident occurred near the end of the production at the MGM Grand.

Visitor Dan Mosqueda of Colorado Springs, said the 31-year-old acrobatic performer was being hoisted up the side of the stage when it appeared that she slipped free of her safety wire and plummeted to an open pit below the stage.

“Initially, a lot of people in the audience thought it was part of the (show),” he said. “But you could hear screaming, then groaning, and we could hear a female artist crying from the stage.”

The show momentarily continued, then stopped. Minutes after the accident, a recorded announcement informed audience members that refunds or vouchers to future shows would be offered, and the crowd was dismissed.

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte praised Guyard-Guillot and saying performances of Ka have been cancelled until further notice.

Guyard-Guillot, a mother of two children, had been with the original cast of Ka since 2006, and had been an acrobatic performer for over 20 years.

“I am heartbroken. I wish to extend my sincerest sympathies to the family. We are all completely devastated,” Laliberte said. - AP

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The Government plans to spend $28 million on new tourism projects in New Zealand.

Tourism investment targets wealthy visitors The Government is seeking to attract more wealthy visitors with $28 million of investment in new projects over the next four years through the Tourism Growth Partnership.

Announced before this year’s Budget, Prime Minister John Key yesterday gave more details of the co-investment fund which begins this year with an investment of $8 million to “to support innovative projects that will create new opportunities and overcome barriers to

growth in the tourism sector”.

Mr Key said the Tourism Growth Partnership “is a great opportunity for the tourism sector to identify and respond to new market opportunities”.

“New Zealand is a nation of innovators. I encourage the tourism sector to start thinking now about developing proposals for investment, and I look forward to seeing what businesses and tourism providers can achieve through this investment.”

For each project approved for investment, the government will provide up to 50 per cent of the required funding.

Funding decisions will be made by an independent panel which will be looking for projects that cater to international demand which is not otherwise satisfied in New Zealand.

The panel will also look for projects that generate positive spill over effects for the wider economy rather than just benefiting investors.

The funding would help the tourism industry “seize international opportunities and grow its contribution to New Zealand’s economy” Tourism Industry Association chairman Norm Thompson said.

“New Zealand has some of the most innovative tourism operators in the world and the new Tourism Growth Partnership will help us develop more world-leading ideas and respond to new market opportunities.” - APNZ

Job confidence spreads beyond Canterbury The rest of New Zealand has started catching up to Canterbury and Auckland in terms of employment confidence though jobs are still deemed hard to come by and there’s less optimism wages will rise.

The Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index rose to 104.2 in the second quarter from 100.7 three months earlier on a scale where 100 separates optimists from pessimists. That’s the highest since September 2011.

The survey indicates a gradual improvement in a labour market that is still tracking well below levels before the global financial crisis.

Still, it adds to evidence from the

Household Labour Force Survey for the first quarter, which showed the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 6.2 per cent in the first quarter while people in work jumped 1.7 per cent to 2.23 million, the biggest increase since that survey began in 1986.

The employment confidence survey “doesn’t suggest the labour market is off to the races - a slow uphill climb is a better characterisation,” said Felix Delbruck, senior economist at Westpac Banking Corp.

Confidence in both Canterbury and Auckland slipped in the latest quarter.

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Confidence in Canterbury fell to 110.6 from 113.6, leaving the region in second place, while Auckland’s was little changed at 104, relegating the nation’s biggest city to fourth place. Among the gainers, Nelson/ Marlborough/Westland rose to 104.4 from 98.3 and Otago jumped to 102.1 from 88.8.

Bay of Plenty also turned positive at 103 from 93.9 and Wellington just reached the start point of optimism at 100, up from 97.4 in the first quarter.

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The survey shows perceptions of current job opportunities are dimming, with a net 48.6 per cent of those polled saying jobs are hard to get, a slight improvement on the first quarter’s 55.9 per cent who saw jobs as being hard to come by.

The outlook has brightened however, with a net 0.2 per cent saying they expect jobs to be hard to come by in future, an improvement from the 12.1 per cent who expected to struggle finding a job three months earlier.

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Almost half of Australians don’t know the interest rate they pay on their credit cards, says consumer watchdog Choice.

Its new survey shows credit cards are deliberately confusing and designed to distract consumers from very high interest rates.

Choice commissioned a nationally representative survey of 1045 online Australians in May. Forty-eight per cent of respondents who had used a credit card in the last three months said they either didn’t know or weren’t sure what interest rate currently applied to new purchases.

“Credit cards are marketed as a convenient payment option, often with a modest annual fee, honeymoon interest rate periods, and seemingly lucrative rewards programs,” said Choice CEO Alan Kirkland. But he said the real rewards are for banks, who earn an estimated $6.2 billion in revenue from average credit card interest rates of 17.16 per cent.

That’s 14.41 per cent above the Reserve Bank’s cash rate, up from 12.65 per cent in June 2011.

“If credit card rates had moved in line with the RBA cash rate since mid-2011, the average Australian credit card user would be over $80 a year better off,” Mr Kirkland said.

Choice said the gap between the Reserve Bank’s cash rate and the average credit card interest rate has widened by 176 basis points since June 2011-12, earning the banks an additional $630 million this year alone.

“The consumer psychology around credit cards is very different to home loans, where we see so much focus on interest rate movements, and a huge amount of public pressure,” he said.

However, there’s a lot more choice in the credit card market, with many no-frills, low-interest options, he said. Choice is calling for the government to find ways of giving consumers access to their own consumption data to help them make complex decisions,

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Angela grew up on a lifestyle block on the Kapiti Coast and worked for Federated Farmers in the zone from New Plymouth to Wellington before moving south to Methven earlier this year.

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Based on announced schedules with levies & charges deducted and published premiums included. For a valid comparison between the Islands, add $1.20 in Lamb and 7c/kg in Beef to the North Is values, because North Is Cos pay freight.

V E N I S O N ($/kg - gross) AP Hind 50kg AP Stag 60kg AP Stag 80kg

6.58 6.68 6.28

6.48 6.58 6.18

6.38 6.48 6.08

6.38 6.48 6.08

7.28 7.38 6.98

6.38 6.48 6.08

7.98 8.08 7.68

7.73 7.82 7.42

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1500 930 795 730 452 428 418 410 481

1500 1075 865 745 460 400 385 395 520

1570 1050 855 735 485 435 435 362 506

1280 930 790 670 395 345 340 315 465

1570 1100 900 755 510 493 475 458 545

1705 1170 895 797 606 594 591 564 571

446 413

452 408

412 412

405 413

338 408

473 443

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5030 5050 6440 4930 12100

3620 3690 3750 4960 10800

3490 3360 3420 4510 10220

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Lamb The focus of meat processors’ is now very much on the supply of chilled lamb through the winter.

Some contracts on offer to farmers have been up around the $5.80/kg mark for supply in the coming months. This is about 70 to 80 cents above current schedule levels.

Confidence is being seen at saleyards around the country, with replacement ewe lambs selling well at a number of centres. After drought forced many farmers to destock this year, it’s expected that there will be very good demand for two-tooth ewes further down the track. Some buyers are looking to source their replacements now, to avoid the potential high prices at the two-tooth fairs, while traders are looking to make a margin buying now and selling at those fairs.

Beef The support recently found by the US imported 90CL beef market remained over the past week, while 95CL bull meat also traded on a slightly firmer market. The period of the highest trade volumes has now passed, so exporters are mostly now just tidying up the smaller parcels of meat they have leftover.

It’s Independence Day in the US on July 4 which, like all the summer holidays, is generally supportive of beef consumption. This has helped the domestic market to hold firm.

The lower NZ dollar has helped exporters but schedules remain largely unchanged this week.

Wool The last auction of the 2012-13 season was a good one to end the season on. There were high volumes, the second highest offering for the season, and good prices were achieved. The higher prices pushed up the Agrifax wool price indicator four points for the second auction in a row.

Prices are currently being pushed up due to supply issues, both long term and short term.

Recently there have been auctions cancelled due to the poor weather, causing wool piles to build up. Buyers eager to fill shipments were hungry for supply and the New Zealand dollar has only accentuated this demand.

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munity – these range from agricultural vehicle reviews, to district plans, water strategies and nutrient restrictions.

Spending time on the road recently has also involved navigating some icy and snow-affected roads as she makes her way to farmers’ front doors. “I’d never driven on icy roads, so that was interesting.”

Angela also spends time looking after farmers or corporates who own multiple farms. She said the farm ownership landscape had changed a lot in the past decade but Federated Farmers was still able to look after off-farm risks like councils and regulators.

She says Mid Canterbury farmers had been friendly and welcoming so far and she was looking forward to becoming a familiar face at farming events.

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Wrong name, wrong road, but story remains

By Michael Hanrahan In the early days of naming roads there was little formality about the process — the name of a family living on a road would often be used — it was, in a sense, their road. If that family moved on the original name sometimes remained, in other cases the road name would change to that of a new resident.

As maps came to be drawn up with names on them, and as road name signs were erected, it sometimes happened that spelling changed.

Later, when councils became involved with road naming and tried to make the system more certain for emergency services some decisions were made that didn’t always take historical accuracy into account.

One road that has been through all these processes is Taverners Road. It begins at the railway crossing at Dromore and runns due east for several kilometres, bending slightly as it crosses Chertsey Road and ends several kilometres further on when it arrives at Chertsey Kyle Road.

It began life as Gardners Road, named after a family who, in the 1880s, lived on the south side of the road near Dromore.

Chertsey Kyle road was the boundary between two Road Board Districts – the Wakanui Road Board on one side and the Rakaia Road Board on the other side. In earlier years it was actually called Boundary Road. The Road Boards had full responsibility for roads in their districts, with not a lot of co-ordination between districts. In 1938 the Wakanui Board was merged with the Ashburton County, which already had responsibility for non-roading matters, and the following year the County excursed its powers and took over the Rakaia Board.

Not far away from Gardners Road, where it intersected with Chertsey Kyle Road, was another road, Gardiners Road, in the Rakaia Board’s district. To avoid confusion, one of them had

to change. With the Gardiner family still living on the road in the former Rakaia district and the Gardner family long gone from the road in the former Wakanui District, it was decided to change the latter one’s name. But, what should it be changed to?

Almost, but not quite, opposite the end of Gardners Road, across Chertsey Kyle Road, was a small road, Taveners Road. The council’s solution was simply to use that name for the former Gardners Road, extending all the way back to Dromore. Somewhere along the way the spelling was changed, Taveners becoming Taverners.

Then, in the 1990s, with the introduction by the District Council of the Rapid numbering system for farms, the fact the two parts of the road did not quite match up where Chertsey Kyle road was crossed caused concern for emergency services. One had to change. The original Taveners Road became Copley Road and the original Gardners Road remained Taverners Road.

Where did the Taveners name originate?

In July 1913 Walter Tavener from Orari bought a 300 acre property near Chertsey from George Ross. It was situated at the corner of what today is Copley Road and Chertsey Kyle Road. He moved to the property with his new wife, Elizabeth Annie Metcalfe. In November 1914 their first child, Tui, was born at Rakaia, and later, a son, Morris was also born at Rakaia.

Walter was a noted athlete. He had grown up on his father Edward’s farm at Belfield, near Orari, and worked as a labourer in the district before taking up farming. In 1906 he competed in the Timaru to Christchurch cycle race, finishing 34th in a time of four hours 34 minutes 23 seconds. However, his real strength was running. He competed at track events throughout Canterbury and gained a reputation as the best long-distance runner in the South Island.

His move from Orari to Chertsey failed to dampen his enthusiasm for running, and his

name regularly appeared as a competitor in feature events. In August 1913 it was reported he intended having some of his former Ashburton rivals, particularly George Smart, train with him.

Elizabeth Tavener also entered into the life of the district. As well as raising two young children she also regularly appeared as a prize winner in the Rakaia Horticultural Society’s annual shows, particularly with needlework and fruit entries.

World War One was raging at that time, and it had a variety of effects throughout New Zealand.

Elizabeth contributed in cash to the Chertsey collection for the Trench and Comforts Fund taken up by the YMCA and in 1916 Walter was placed on the reserve roll for the Second Division.

He was medically examined in Ashburton in August 1918 and placed in Class A, as fit for active service. Later in August he appealed his callup, saying he was the only man on the farm. While his appeal was not allowed, it was adjourned for a time.

The appeal was never re-heard. On November 11, 1918 the war came to an end, but by then Walter had fallen ill with influenza. He died in Ashburton Hospital on November 17, 1918, a victim of the epidemic of flu that swept through the country at that time.

His obituary in the Christchurch Press focused on his athletic achievements. “He won innumerable half and mile races, and though not a graceful runner had a tremendous stride, and his gameness made him a prime favourite with the public, as whether he had caught his field or was still chasing it he always made the pace lively.”

Walter was buried in Geraldine Cemetery, the

farm was sold and a clearing sale held in May 1919. That was the end of the Tavener family’s connection with the road that bore their name, and another road that carries a version of the name today. However, it is not the end of the story.

Elizabeth took the two children to Rangitata to live near her parents. Tui and Morris both attended Rangitata Station School, but in 1923 Elizabeth re-married, to John Thomas Charles of Arundel, and the children moved to Arundel school.

Elizabeth died in the Nelson area in 1961.

During World War Two Tui joined the war effort as a clerk in the US military in Australia. In July 1943 she married an American serviceman, John Murray Patterson, and after the war travelled to San Francisco to be reunited with him. He was assigned at different times to Indonesia and Thailand, and Tui travelled to those places to be with him. She was a keen golfer and, perhaps taking after her mother, her needlework creations were said to be works of art. She died in America in 2010, survived by one of her two sons, and a half sister, Joan Oakley, of Timaru.

Morris moved to Waimate where, in 1940, he married Winifred Hilda Davie. He served in the 26th Infantry Battalion in Italy in World War Two, and was wounded twice, the second time at Forli in April 1944. He died from the effects of his wounds on Christmas Eve 1944 and is buried at Forli Cemetery, Italy. He was posthumously awarded the Military Medal. Today his name and photo appear on the Rangitata Station School roll of honour which hangs in the Rangitata Soldiers Memorial Hall on State Highway One at Rangitata.

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Growing fuel for the farm workforce

By Gilmour Blee The importance of the four, five or six horse team to the farmer up until the 1950s cannot be underestimated. They were the power supply for all aspects of farm work. The importance of the hack or carriage horses for transport purposes until the mid 1930s also cannot be overlooked.

It was vitally important that these animals were well fed while in work, and oat sheaf chaff filled a vital role in this regard.

Someone considered that ‘working draft horses needed 1½ kerosene tins of chaff in the morning, the same again at mid-day, a tinful again at 6pm and again at 8pm.’ (A kerosene tin was a four gallon container used by oil companies for oil, kerosene and petrol in the early days and when empty, used for a multitude of other jobs). With chaff weighing 24 or 26 bags to the ton, depending on the length of straw and quality and quantity of oats in the head which governed the weight, a bagful held about ten four gallon kerosene tins full or a bag of chaff per horse every two days.

A six horse team would require a 25 acre paddock of oats to provide sufficient chaff and they also needed a ‘run-off’ paddock. During the winter non-work period, straw chaff with a smaller quantity of oats added as well as some meadow hay or its equivalent was needed.

On a farm using several teams of horses a chaffcutter was a necessary item of farm equipment. A contractor could be called on to cut chaff for a lesser number of horses.

Early small chaffcutters could be driven by a ‘horse power’ or ‘whim’ which required two horses to turn the mechanism which drove the cutter, or perhaps a stationary engine for the same purpose. Booth MacDonald Ltd of Christchurch were early manufacturers of such small machines.

Andrews & Beaven Ltd of Christchurch manufactured most portable chaffcutters.

They produced two large models, Empire and Commonwealth, with a 10, 12, or 14 inch feed.

The Empire was driven from the side with the cutter wheel running at right angles to the machine body and the Commonwealth driving mechanism allowed the cutter wheel to run parallel with the machine body.

Once cut, the chaff was riddled to take out the bits of string, which had been the band on the oat sheaves, and long straws or flag and blow it out and also the very fine cut, as was the case if some grass was in the oats. Andrews & Beaven

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For example, this may see you considering a home business or new hobby.

TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) Venus in Leo may encourage the home-maker and creator in you to come out. You may be in the mood to redecorate or make other happy changes to your abode. A friend may benefit from your advice.

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made two smaller models, the Canterbury and the Selwyn. A Selwyn model of 1910 vintage has a 10in ‘feed’ and a three blade cutter wheel. It is a ‘single bag’ machine which had to be stopped to change the bags.

Bags used we knew as ‘three stripers’. They needed to be sound and hole free, as the screwpress applied pressure in filling the bags and they were then pulled together tightly at the top. About every fifty bags cut the knives were changed in order to make a good job. These were sharpened at a point when only one man was needed on the stack. There were three or four blades on the cutting wheel and it only took a few minutes to change them.

G.B.O.S. (Good bright oat sheaf) 24 bags per ton and without rust was the standard required for sale of chaff for the local market or shipment to the North Island. It helped to attain this quality if the stooks did not get rain on them prior to stacking. Once stacked, a period of at least six weeks was allowed for the stacks to sweat and get out of the sweat before being cut for chaff.

Mice that sought residence in a stack of oat sheaves for the winter sometimes came to a sticky end either by chaffcutters or a very active dog. For them, catching an escaping mouse was good sport.

As a small child I remember Ern. Soal’s chaf-

fcutter coming to cut chaff at home. Towed by a 5 NHP Marshall traction engine the chaffcutter was followed by the whare which had a stove in it. The men cooked and slept in this. Next was a wagon carrying coal and other necessities.

The chaffcutter in the accompanying photo was the replacement for the engine and cutter and was new in 1936. Built on a Ford V8 chassis, this was Andrews & Beavan’s Commonwealth model driven off a ‘power take off’ from the truck transmission and all hands went back to base at night. It took five men to operate it, two on the stack, one man feeding and two men on the bags.

I well remember Mrs Soal telling me about the huge quantities of jam etc. she used to make for the men’s lunches.

When Ern. Soal retired, Geo. Cunningham took the unit over and later still Noel Edge from Rakaia. It now lives with the South Canterbury Traction Engine and Vintage Club at Seadown.

Bennett & Walls from Tinwald also operated a truck mounted chaffcutter which preceded that of Ern. Soal and also worked in the same area.

In 2013 the demand for oat sheaf chaff is minimal, and along with lucerne chaff it is used mainly for light horses and race-horses.

Thanks are due to Anthony Hampton and Andrew Donaldson for their help with this story.

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However, the good news is that Jupiter in your money zone brings other financial opportunities. Follow up new possibilities.

Pioneering tricycle turns heads

By Kathleen Stringer Coming from Oamaru, which has a passion for penny farthings and other vintage cycles, this image appealed to me. It’s of George Easton Nicholas, “one of the good old pioneer stock, to whose energy and perseverance Britain owes her magnificent position in the southern seas”.

He was born in 1818 and after training as a vet emigrated to Victoria in 1852.

After ‘knocking about’ on farms he came to Canterbury in 1863, working first in Alford Forest and a few years later came to Ashburton itself. His 1902 obituary even mentions that he was a familiar figure, often seen riding his bike. It certainly is quite a machine.

In the 1600s a German paraplegic watchmaker manufactured a hand propelled wheelchair; in 1789 two Frenchmen developed this idea into a fully fledged tri-cycle.

In 1818, the year George was born; an English designer patented his tricycle and there followed a flurry of similar inventions.

Many were very much like a penny farthing in that the front wheel was larger than the two side wheels.

In 1882 the first front steering model

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LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) You may be in a charismatic and upbeat frame of mind but others may not be in the mood to deal with your larger-thanlife persona. Just be yourself and let them accommodate your efforts. At the same time it helps to reach out and meet folk halfway, even if they do seem to disagree with your viewpoint. This may prove uplifting.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Creative plans may get the go-ahead, but do make sure no-one imposes on your affable nature.

For example, someone may feel that they know better than you. However, where our passions are concerned we need to be true to our calling. Careerwise, think about taking stock, especially if you are spreading yourself too thinly.

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) There may be tensions today between home and career duties. You may have a goal or plan that you’d like to focus on but someone close may have other ideas.

This isn’t the time to press your point. A few days down the line things may be pleasantly different.

Socially, you seem to be gaining in popularity but stick to your principles.

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Avoid scenarios that make your life limited or cramped.

came onto the market.

So, even if George obtained a model straight away, he would still be in his mid 60s when he began riding it. It would be interesting to know why he took to riding what must have, even then, been an oddity.

Did he have some ailment that affected his legs perhaps?

As a rule, tricycles were for people not able, or willing, to ride bicycles. Being more expensive than two wheels they were reserved for the well off, the infirm, or those ladies who wanted to ride a bike, without having to give up their long dresses and lady-like deportment.

As one who has ridden both a penny farthing and a tricycle, I’m not sure which is worse (or best). The penny’s are hard to steer and stop and are, of course, frightenly high.

The tricycles, especially the early hand cranked models (as Mr Nicholas rides), give slightly more control and are safer but very uncomfortable and are very hard on one’s arms. Unless adjusted to the rider’s size it is almost impossible to ride very far. However, given Ashburton’s relatively flat streets, I’m sure Mr Nicholas was able to cycle rather happily for quite some distance.

He certainly looks happy, don’t you think?

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Toning up yourself ready for a beach vacation may also be on your mind.

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Experiment and opt for an activity that gives you a real sense of excitement.

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1.15pm. TINWALD 500 CLUB CARDS. Come join in and play cards, all welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

11.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid week service and lunch, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

1.30pm. ASHBURTON HERB SOCIETY. Annual meeting, soup and bread lunch. 1/51 Peter Street, Ashburton.

1.30pm. M.S.A. GARDEN SECTION. annual meeting, DVD Elleslie flower show. M.S.A. Social hall. Havelock Street.

1.30pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre, all welcome, Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip St 7.00pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing.

Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

7.00pm - 9.30pm. MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance 7pm, followed by beginner/intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Phone 307-7138 a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women walking group. 48 Allens Road.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, music, fitness and fun. Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

7.30pm. ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. New members welcome. Allenton Hall, Harrison Street.

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Liam scores despite desperate defence Country’s Liam McCormack dives in for the try despite the attempts of Town defenders Bailey O’Donnell and Tom Bell in the under 13 Town and Country clash in Rakaia. Town snapped a four year losing streak in Mid Canterbury rugby’s JAB town and Country at the Rakaia Domain on Sunday. Town hadn’t won the annual fixture since 2008 but came away with five wins to Country’s three with one draw to claim bragging rights. The under 6 match was drawn but Town dominated the other younger grade matches, winning the under 7, 8, 9 and 10 matches and also claimed the under 14.5 with Country claiming wins in the under 11, 12 and 13s.

Mackintosh off to the Chiefs A born and bred Southlander, Mackintosh, an affable figure, is popular with supporters.

A big man at 1.93m and 130kg, he said in Jamie Mackintosh, fed up with his treat- an interview last month that being cut down ment at the Highlanders which has seen him to size was painful. go from captain to virtually unwanted this “It’s hard. Coming from doing everything, season, is heading to the Chiefs. to being pushed down the pecking order, it’s It is understood that the loosehead a real humbling experience and it’s a reality, prop, who before this season but I think you’ve got to learn had played 62 times for the stuff out of each situation in Highlanders, has decided to life,� he said. move after being constantly Mackintosh, who has played overlooked by coach Jamie one test for the All Blacks Joseph. against Scotland in 2008 - will All Black Tony Woodcock has join a Chiefs squad with plenty been favoured for the No1 jerof front row talent, but there is sey, with the captaincy going to an expectation that he will fulfil hooker Andrew Hore. Woodcock his potential in Hamilton after has been underwhelming for the becoming a little too comfortable Highlanders this season due to in Dunedin, at least before this injuries and a lack of form. season.

Despite being fit and availHe is a good replacement for Jamie Mackintosh: Moving on able, Mackintosh, 28, has Toby Smith, who is leaving for played only five times this season. the Rebels at the end of the season, and will His last appearance was a start against be up against Pauliasi Manu for the loosehead the Blues in Dunedin on June 1, a stunning position. The Chiefs are also well served at victory for Joseph’s men. He wasn’t named tighthead, with recent All Blacks debutant in the match day squad for the recent loss to Ben Afeaki and improving man-mountain the Crusaders, a phenomenon he has become Ben Tameifuna fighting for the No3 jersey. all too familiar with this season.

The defending champion Chiefs, sitting On the face of it, Joseph might not be pretty at the top of the table ahead of their unduly worried about Mackintosh’s departure, clash against the ominous-looking Crusaders but the Highlanders board, which will grill in Christchurch on Friday, could prove to be him after a season which has so far reaped the ideal destination for Mackintosh, a man only two victories, will not be impressed. in need of a change of scenery.

- APNZ

By Patrick McKendry

• Where to for Nonu?

Gone for the rest of the season, questions still remain about where Ma’a Nonu will be playing next year. The controversial midfielder was not available for comment yesterday after receiving a three-week ban for his tip-tackle on Tom Marshall, and Highlanders GM Roger Clark said at the weekend it was too early to say whether Nonu will be back. The 31-year-old is off contract at the end of the season. The Highlanders would probably be Nonu’s preferred team after he burned his bridges at the Hurricanes and Blues, but he is gaining a reputation of being difficult to work with at a Super Rugby level, considered by Mark Hammett to be a malignant influence. - APNZ

• Lions yet to hit straps The touring British and Irish Lions are getting seriously into plans about finding victory in the series decider on Saturday.

Assistant coach Andy Farrell was certainly on the money in part of his review. ‘I think we all realise that there’s a fantastic performance in every team and I don’t think we’ve seen that fantastic performance out of this squad yet,� he said. The intrigue is whether there is a thorough team performance left in the Lions. Are they mentally shot now at the end of a long season with the Wallabies slowly getting into their work after their training camp and two tests together?

This Saturday is amongst the hot ticket items for July when record crowds are expected to boost the NSW economy by $50m. - NZH

RACING

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Tuesday, July 2, 2013

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Status upgrade for Ashburton An extra $45,000 in stake money is up for grabs at the Ashburton Racing Club’s meeting on Friday.

The recent abandonment of the Canterbury Jockey Club meeting because of wet conditions meant a pool of money was available for other meetings.

And for Ashburton, treasurer Greg Jones said, that has meant the Friday meeting has been upgraded to feature meeting status.

“The loss of stakemoney available to the industry was seen as detrimental to participants, and so New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing decided on this initiative as an opportunity to minimise the effects of the lost day”, he said.

The Waimate and South Canterbury Racing Clubs will also have slight increases in stakes as a result.

With the two Open class events scheduled now worth $25,000

each, and all other races run for between $15,000 and $12,500, the best horses available in the South Island are expected to front up and do battle on Friday, Jones said.

The country’s leading trainer Michael Pitman will have a bigger contingent than usual as he looks

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The best horses available in the South Island are expected to front up

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to maintain his advantage in the premiership title race.

Lisa Latta, who won a feature event in Queensland over the weekend with Zennista, is currently eight wins behind but has sent down a number of horses from her

North Island operation to bolster her assault and close the gap with less than a month to run.

A number of prominent North Island jockeys will also be present to try and get their percentage of the increased stakes.

While the Ashburton track received a hammering from persistent rain and snow over the past two weeks, it had recovered remarkably well Jones said.

“It looks in great shape for Friday thanks to the skills of Brent Read the track manager.”

With a fine weather forecast for the week ahead, club officials and the public alike could look forward to some terrific racing for good stakemoney as the winter horses prepared for the Grand National carnival around a month away, he said.

As usual the facilities will be available for all to use this Friday.

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Otago greyhound fields and form Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 02 Jul 2013 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.02pm OTAGO FIRST4 MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 1 45488 Mulberry Macro nwtd.................... K Cassidy 2 358 Thiago nwtd S &...............................Bonnett 3 Cosmic Galaxy nwtd A &....................Seque 4 67876 Homebush Julian nwtd..............J McInerney 5 67287 Okuku Muppet nwtd B &................... T Shaw 6 5241 Beadman (c1) nwtd............................J Dunn 7 45767 Poised Boy nwtd S &........................Bonnett 8 5F888 Zahra nwtd......................................J Guthrie 9 788x8 Another Warning nwtd..................... K Kilsby 10 Cosmic Echo nwtd A &.......................Seque 2 12.21pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 545m 1 83 Pukeko Raptor nwtd.......................B Healey 2 35241 Massage Only (c1) nwtd..............D Kingston 3 22732 Mr. Jimmy nwtd A &............................Seque 4 36872 Master At Arms nwtd......................J Guthrie 5 24862 Opawa Anne nwtd L &........................ Wales 6 46336 Girl Pride nwtd A &.............................Seque 7 4 Oche nwtd..........................................J Dunn 8 748 Shy As nwtd S &...............................Bonnett 9 57658 Joey’s Secret nwtd S &.....................Bonnett 3 12.41pm BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS SPRINT C1, 310m 1 27446 Jack’s A Jewel nwtd C &...............D Roberts 2 26638 Zed Kay Man nwtd.......................D Kingston 3 6126 Ronrose Hill 18.65 M &......................... J Hill 4 47251 Opawa Rufus 19.04 S &..................B Evans 5 54632 Merely A Dream nwtd S &................Bonnett 6 68687 Black Ozark 18.95..........................J Guthrie 7 75758 Johnny’s Blue 18.69 P &................B Conner 8 75626 Canvas Rider nwtd S &....................B Evans 9 74447 Mighty Fortune nwtd P &...............B Conner 10 77577 Mighty Monica nwtd....................... J Holdem 4 1.00pm ST KILDA VET CENTRE SPRINT C1, 310m

Breakfast.

Good Morning.

The Chase. (G, R, T) Coach Trip. (G) House Guest. (G, R) Five couples are challenged to put on an evening’s entertainment with one lucky house guest getting to stay the night.

ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Chas bumps into Cameron, Katie shows off her ring, and Alex tells Moira he’ll have a word with Victoria.

Come Dine With Me. (PGR) Four Weddings USA. (PGR) Renovation Game. (G) Te Karere. (T) MasterChef Australia.

(G, T)

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Tiki Tour.

(G, R, T) 6.55 Grizzly Tales. (G, R, T) 7.20 Scooby Doo. (G, R, T) 7.50 Pokemon: Black and White. (G, T) 8.15 Franklin. (G, R, T) 8.35 Mike The Knight. (G, R, T) 8.50 Fireman Sam. (G, T) 9.00 Infomercials.

10.30 Neighbours. (G, R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 12.00 Hart Of Dixie. (G, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 2.00 Jeremy Kyle USA. (AO) 3.00 Pocoyo. (G, T) 3.05 Jake & The Neverland Pirates. (G, R, T) 3.30 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (G, R, T) 4.00 Good Luck Charlie. (G, R, T) 4.30 The Erin Simpson Show.

5.00 Horace In Slow Motion.

(G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 Hope And Faith. (G, R, T)

6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Seven Sharp. (T) 7.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible. (PGR, T) Dynamo travels to Miami, where he makes himself disappear.

8.30 Penguins – Spy In The Huddle. (Final, G, T) The chicks are growing up fast and becoming increasingly independent.

9.35 NZ Detectives. (AO, T) Get the inside story on critical cases that show how Detectives use dedication, community support and detailed forensic work to solve a homicide.

6.00 Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Neighbours. (G, T) 7.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, T) 7.30 Mitre 10 Dream Home.

(T) 8.35 Go Girls. (AO, T) Alice finds her wild life might wreck her career, as Ted finds he has an enemy close to home.

9.35 Revenge. (Final, AO, T) The devastation leads to a death that will send shockwaves down the shoreline and force Emily to take a look at the truth and the path of revenge.

10.35 Haven. (AO, T) 11.35 The Mentalist. (AO, R, T)

10.35 ONE News Tonight. (T) 11.05 Tennis. Wimbledon. Day Seven. Highlights. Day Eight. From All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London. Live.

MORNING

6.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 11.30

12.00 12.30

1.30 2.00 3.00 3.55 4.25

6 37467 Shalana Star 32.81............................J Dunn 7 44153 Noggin 32.74..................................... J Allen 8 73372 Opulent nwtd A &................................Seque 9 21265 Rob’s Mate (c1) 32.82 M &................... J Hill 10 48575 Autumn Spirit (c1) 33.63.................... J Allen 8 2.13pm OTAGO SILK STOCKINGS SPRINT SPECA, 310m 1 16513 Botany Prancer (c5) nwtd..........J McInerney 2 11156 Cawbourne Queen (c5) 18.65 C &.D Roberts 3 21218 Marmalade Skies (c5) 18.92..............J Dunn 4 34613 Roqette (c5) nwtd C &..................D Roberts 5 15248 Primitive (c5) 18.26............................J Dunn 6 11585 Dillmanstown (c5) 18.63....................J Dunn 7 15847 Homebush Helen (c4) 18.58......J McInerney 8 76425 Jumpin’ Julia (c5) nwtd..............J McInerney 9 13676 Lynny Southcombe(c5) nwtd.....J McInerney 10 83184 Wandy Jewel (c4) 18.43..............D Kingston 9 2.31pm ROOFING SOLUTIONS STAKES C3/4, 545m 1 81836 Homebush Iris (c4) 32.54..........J McInerney 2 35333 Banbit nwtd.......................................B Shaw 3 28567 Adulterous nwtd C &.....................D Roberts 4 33453 Homebush Violet (c4) 33.51......J McInerney 5 67885 Cawbourne Heidi 33.34 M &..............Jopson 6 55468 Cawbourne Kesha 32.36...........J McInerney 7 55528 Shiraz Rose nwtd........................ R Hamilton 8 86652 Dyna Groll 32.63 C &....................D Roberts 9 68777 Wot Price Curly 32.91................J McInerney 10 57778 Cawbourne Kim nwtd.................J McInerney 10 2.48pm GREEN ISLAND SUPER LIQUOR SPRINT C4/5, 310m 1 44143 Oscar Tuivasa nwtd..........................L Philips 2 58383 Princely Dollar nwtd...................J McInerney 3 54218 Fizzle Bale nwtd C &....................D Roberts 4 88817 Matti Oah nwtd...........................J McInerney 5 21736 Homebush Sarge 19.10.............J McInerney 6 18315 Bugsy Bangles 18.45........................B Shaw 7 13176 Rosca 18.15...............................J McInerney 8 31615 Elki 18.50..................................... M Roberts 9 14186 Opawa Midnight nwtd S &...............B Evans

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1 14867 New Ingilltab 18.94 P &.................B Conner 2 53423 No Lane nwtd............................... M Roberts 3 72332 Harper Mehl nwtd S &.....................B Evans 4 71111 Homebush Churro (c2) nwtd......J McInerney 5 37868 Miss Ozark nwtd.............................J Guthrie 6 58288 Wandy Millah 19.16.....................D Kingston 7 7F827 Secret Sarah nwtd S &....................B Evans 8 54442 Hazza’s Got Swag 19.21 S &...........Bonnett 9 21265 Rob’s Mate nwtd M &............................ J Hill 10 77687 Opawa Sir nwtd S &........................B Evans 5 1.19pm SPEEDPRINT SHOP STAKES C1, 545m 1 62128 Opawa Hally nwtd L &........................ Wales 2 76866 Wandy On In 33.54......................D Kingston 3 77526 Shadow Wolf 33.17.........................J Guthrie 4 46566 Bake Bean Betty 32.86...................... J Allen 5 24651 Mega Girl nwtd A &.............................Seque 6 114 Pukeko Thunder nwtd.....................B Healey 7 88464 Calm Spirit 33.00............................... J Allen 8 34813 Cover To Cover nwtd S &..................Bonnett 9 16 Pukeko Prowler nwtd......................B Healey 10 51745 Moon And Sea 34.08......................... J Allen 6 1.38pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER SPRINT C2, 310m 1 52255 Lachie’s Lad nwtd..............................J Dunn 2 58773 Black Trigger 19.04 P &.................B Conner 3 24384 Cawbourne Reeah 18.47...........J McInerney 4 17472 Hazza’s Lad 18.91 S &.....................Bonnett 5 31361 Speedy Kazza (c3) nwtd............J McInerney 6 36745 Parkermon (c1) nwtd S &.................Bonnett 7 44625 Sam’s Flyin Norm nwtd S &..............Bonnett 8 81816 Upsala Jewel nwtd S &....................B Evans 9 73711 Fly Canary Fly (c3) 18.82..........J McInerney 10 16563 New Order nwtd S &.........................Bonnett 7 1.56pm BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING STAKES C1/2, 545m 1 62385 Big Token nwtd...........................J McInerney 2 2x122 Opaque nwtd S &.............................Bonnett 3 28164 Bizarro nwtd S &..............................B Evans 4 53673 Dittman nwtd......................................J Dunn 5 8x421 Party Rock nwtd S &........................B Evans

12.30 Embarrassing Bodies. (AO, R, T) 1.30 Infomercials. 2.30 Desperate Housewives. (AO, R, T) 3.20 Amazing Race. (Final, PGR, R) 4.05 Anderson. (PGR, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 3.00

4.00 5.00 5.30

PRIMe

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 3 News.

Home And Away. (G, R, T) Dr Phil. (AO) The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) Top Chef. (PGR, R, T) The chefs must whip up baby food for host Padma Lakshmi’s newborn infant.

Rachael Ray. (G) Entertainment Tonight.

(G) Home And Away. (G, T) Kyle struggles to control his feelings for Tamara, Zac confronts Natalie over her feelings for Brax, and Maddy stages a protest to save Bianca’s job.

6.00 3 News.

7.00 Campbell Live.

7.30 Modern Family. (Final, PGR, T) The family fly to Florida to be with Phil after his mum’s passing.

8.30 FILM: The Bourne Ultimatum. (2007, AO, R, T) Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn.

Lured out of hiding by a reporter researching a story connected to his past, former secret agent Jason Bourne is once again hunted by the agency that created him.

10.55 Nightline. Your late edition news, weeknights with Sacha McNeil.

11.35 The Good Wife. (AO, R, T) Alicia defends a prisoner who, under duress, confesses to murdering a fellow inmate.

12.35 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 Infomercials. (G)

6.00 Home Shopping. (G) 6.30 The Crowd Goes Wild.

(G, R) 7.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 7.30 Home Shopping. (G) 12.00 The Doctors. (G) 1.00 The Jeff Probst Show.

(G) 2.05 America’s Got Talent.

(G, R) See who will win Season 6 of America’s Got Talent and which world class international performers will grace the AGT stage.

4.00 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.

Deal Or No Deal. (G) Millionaire Hot Seat. (G) The Crowd Goes Wild.

60 Minutes. (PGR, R) Keeping you up to date with the latest from around the country and the globe, join our investigative team for the stories you need to know.

8.30 FILM: The Quick And The Dead. (1995, AO) Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio. Gunslingers and one vengeful woman congregate in a Western town run by a psychotic killer, for a gunfighting contest.

6.30 Futurama. (G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons. (G, R) 7.30 Face Off. (PGR) The final five contestants are given the task of creating Egyptian mummies inspired by the ‘Evil Dead’ remake.

8.30 FILM: The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It. (2010, AO) Bryan Callen, Noureen Dewulf, Mircea Monroe.

Riffs on famous scenes from such

1 117F5 Tepirita Charger 18.77......................B Shaw 2 57462 Anytime Will Do 19.03...............J McInerney 3 54533 Ringa Ding nwtd........................J McInerney 4 77586 Another Becky (c2) 18.88..........J McInerney 5 58113 Cawbourne Renee nwtd C &........D Roberts 6 7F643 Just A Mate 18.68......................J McInerney 7 76734 Benny’s Angel nwtd...................J McInerney 8 x7631 Cosmic Bolero nwtd P &................B Conner 9 34878 Another Blend (c2) 19.11...........J McInerney 10 25664 My Little Oah (c2) nwtd..............J McInerney 12 3.24pm RACING AGAIN SUNDAY 28TH JULY C4, 310m 1 52145 Homebush Mayhem 19.12.........J McInerney 2 44336 Homebush Edith 18.37..............J McInerney 3 83184 Wandy Jewel 18.43......................D Kingston 4 25282 Miss Sweet 18.81 P &...................B Conner 5 58x54 Our Beowulf 18.20 S &.....................Bonnett 6 28611 Another Colt nwtd......................J McInerney 7 55655 Nova’s Fortune nwtd..................J McInerney 8 55877 Heza Sensation 18.70 P &............B Conner Emergencies: 9 46665 Jennings 18.57 S &..........................Bonnett 10 21374 False Step 18.71................................J Dunn SELECTIONS Race 1: Beadman (c1), Cosmic Galaxy, Thiago, Mulberry Macro Race 2: Mr. Jimmy, Pukeko Raptor, Oche, Massage Only (c1) Race 3: Ronrose Hill, Opawa Rufus, Jack’s A Jewel, Merely A Dream Race 4: Homebush Churro (c2), Harper Mehl, Hazza’s Got Swag Race 5: Mega Girl, Pukeko Thunder, Opawa Hally, Cover To Cover Race 6: Speedy Kazza (c3), Cawbourne Reeah, Lachie’s Lad Race 7: Shalana Star, Opaque, Noggin, Opulent, Rob’s Mate (c1) Race 8: Cawbourne Queen (c5), Dillmanstown (c5), Botany Prancer Race 9: Cawbourne Kesha, Adulterous, Homebush Violet (c4) Race 10: Rosca, Elki, Oscar Tuivasa, Fizzle Bale, Bugsy Bangles Race 11: Cawbourne Renee, Tepirita Charger, Just A Mate, Cosmic Bolero Race 12: Our Beowulf, Homebush Mayhem, Wandy Jewel LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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The Quick And The Dead Prime, 8.30pm New-wave western with feminist inklings casts Sharon Stone as a gunslinger (femme futile) out for revenge, arriving in a town where psychotic lawman Gene Hackman is hosting a quickdraw contest. Aussie boy made good Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio infuse some character spark, and Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan) directs a number of Leone-inspired set-pieces to refreshing effect.

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30

11.20 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G) 12.20 Home Shopping. (G) 1.50 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.20 Home Shopping. (G)

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.35 Scaredy Squirrel. (G, R) 8.00 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 8.30 Chuggington. (G) 8.40 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 8.50 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.10 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.15 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.20 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 9.50 Tickety Toc. (G, R) 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) 6.00 Everybody Hates Chris.

(PGR, R)

10 23461 Austin Wana nwtd......................J McInerney

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modern hits as The 41 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Superbad, as well as a hodgepodge of other popular movies and TV shows.

10.20 The Real Housewives Of New York City.

(PGR, R) Bethenny and Ramona have a venomous argument while walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.

11.20 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 11.45 Infomercials. (G)

sky sPORt 1 6.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. Irish Open.

Round Four. Highlights.

7.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National.

Round Four. Highlights.

8.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Chiefs v Hurricanes Replay.

10.00 Football. AFL. Richmond v St Kilda.

Replay.

1.00 SKY ARENA Access.

1.30 Rugby. British And Irish Lions Tour.

Wallabies v British & Irish Lions. 2nd Test. Replay.

3.30 Netball. ANZ Championship. First Semi-final. Replay.

5.30 Netball. ANZ Championship. Second Semi-final. Replay.

7.30 The Netball Zone.

8.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Sharks v Blues From Mr Price Kings Park, Durban.

Highlights.

8.30 Re:Union.

9.30 FaceBook Fan Zone.

11.30 Rugby. British And Irish Lions Tour.

Wallabies v British & Irish Lions. 2nd Test. Replay.

1.30 Investec Super Rugby Fulltime.

2.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. First Semi-final. Replay.

4.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Second Semi-final. Replay.

the bOx 6.00 NYPD Blue. (M) 6.50 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.15 Hardcore Pawn. (PG) 7.40 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) 10.40 NCIS. (M) 11.30 CSI: Miami. (M) 12.20 CSI: Miami. (M) 1.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 2.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 2.35 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Hardcore Pawn. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 Hardcore Pawn. (PG) 7.30 NCIS. (M) 8.30 Falling Skies. (M) The 2nd Mass moves into an airport hangar.

9.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NCIS. (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 Falling Skies. (M) 3.55 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

sky sPORt 2 6.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Roosters v Sea Eagles. Replay.

8.00 Monday Night With Matty Johns.

9.00 Rugby League 40/20.

10.00 Cycling. Tour De France. Third Stage.

Last Two Hours 12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. Irish Open.

Round Four. Highlights.

1.00 Golf. USPGA Tour. AT&T National.

Round Four. Highlights.

2.00 Motorsport. Superbike World Championship. Imola. Highlights.

2.30 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. British Grand Prix.

Highlights.

3.00 Motorsport. GP3 and GP2.

Silverstone. Second Race. Replay.

5.00 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. British Grand Prix.

5.30 Rugby League 40/20.

6.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Warriors v Broncos. Replay.

8.30 Fight Night On SKY. Gavin Reels v Anthony Crolla.

10.30 SKY ARENA Access.

11.00 Motorsport. FIA Formula One C’ship.

British Grand Prix. Replay.

1.30 NRL Fulltime.

2.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Panthers v Dragons. Replay.

4.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Knights v Titans. Replay.

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6.20 The River Why. (2010, M) Zach Gilford, Amber Heard.

8.05 Kung Fu Panda 2. (2011, PG) Voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie.

9.35 The Big Year. (2011, PG) Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin.

11.15 Behemoth. (2011, M) Ed Quinn, Pascale Hutton.

12.45 Captain America: The First Avenger.

(2011, M) Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones.

2.45 Biography: Emma Thompson. (2007, PG).

3.35 Foster. (2011, PG) Toni Collete, Ioan Gruffudd.

5.05 Glee The Concert. (2011, PG) Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron, Lea Michele.

6.30 Jane Eyre. (2011, M) Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender.

8.30 Johnny English Reborn. (2011, PG) Rowan Atkinson.

10.15 The Darkest Hour. (2011, M) Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby.

11.45 Death Row. (2006, 16) Jake Busey, Kyle Schmid.

1.15 Beautiful Boy. (2010, M) Michael Sheen, Maria Bello.

2.55 Biography: Emma Thompson. (2007, PG).

3.45 Death Row. (2006, 16) Jake Busey, Kyle Schmid.

5.15 Foster. (2011, PG) Toni Collete, Ioan Gruffudd.

6.10 The Ghost Writer. (2010, M) Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan.

8.15 End Of Days. (1999, 18) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne.

10.20 Moulin Rouge. (2001, M) Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor.

12.30 Saw. (2004, 18) Cary Elwes, Danny Glover.

2.15 The Ghost Writer. (2010, M) Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan.

4.25 Duplicity. (2009, M) Julia Roberts.

6.30 The Chronicles Of Riddick. (2004, M) Vin Diesel. The sequel to ‘Pitch Black’ has a wanted criminal arriving on a new planet about to be invaded by a warrior priest and his army of Necromongers. 2004.

8.30 Firewall. (2006, M) Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany. A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he’s protecting as a bid to pay off his family’s ransom. 2006.

10.20 Click. (2006, M) Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale.

12.10 Biography: The Wahlberg Brothers.

(2008, PG).

1.00 Duplicity. (2009, M) Julia Roberts.

3.05 The Chronicles Of Riddick. (2004, M) Vin Diesel.

5.05 Firewall. (2006, M) Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany.

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(PG) Gold Rush. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Ice Cold Gold. (PG) River Monsters. (PG) Jeremy Wade takes on Africa’s wild Zambezi River.

Future Firepower. (PG) A forth-coming war could see a mighty military power battle small insurgent groups.

Ultimate Warfare. (M) Nightmare Next Door. (M) Fatal Encounters. (M) Jungle Gold: Behind The Scenes.

(PG) River Monsters. (PG) Future Firepower. (PG) Ultimate Warfare. (M) Man Vs: Wild. (PG) Auction Kings. (PG)

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14; Methven C 14 Hampstead School A 13; Ashburton team The Plainsmen 4974.256, Afternoon Rodney O’Neill and Derek Prebble AMI Insurance Court: 12.30: United KFC C v Methven B 19 Hampstead Blue 6.

Results Rodney O’Neill and Neil MacDonald. stepped up to third place in the national competition, Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U17, A Rush, A Blair; 2.30: Celtic F v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U18, Intermediate A: Southern Hayden MacKenzie beating Hutt Valley Hawks 4969.234, by 10 comA Mareko, L Lyttle.

Contracting Ltd C 15 Netherby Magic 2; St Josephs petition points to 7.

Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 217 West Street ASHBURTON ashburton@propertybrokers.co.nz Telephone Leading teams, Manawatu Marauders 49, PortFM Local Court: 12.30: Allenton C v Green 19 Allenton Mystics 12; St Josephs Red Mid Canterbury Hockey Eastern Force 48, Ashburton The Plainsmen 44, Hampstead Hotel Ashburton U15, J Cavill, M 15 Tinwald School A 1.

Gallacher; 2.30: College Combined B v Methven Ashburton Bridge Club July 5 Intermediate B: South Hyde Bros Spraying D Hutt Valley Hawks 41 Ashburton scores, Composite squad, Greg 2nd Grade Girls 4.00 PM: Primary Boys Training Panel and Paint U15 B, A Hefford, A McDonald.

0 Allenton Magic 32; Methven D 5 Longbeach A June 28 Stirling Sports Court: 1.30: College Y9 B v Menzies 99.5, 198.14, 297.19, Martin Fleming Squad v Methven Black (Umpires: Ashley Kelland A 17.

WEB BID7 Rakaia AU29058 WEB ID AU29231 WEB Tuesday Evening – 3 round Duplicate. Different 11; Borough Restaurant and Bar U18 99.5, 198.14, 297.19, Denva WESTSIDE Wren 100.8, 196.14, & Caitlyn Johnstone); 5.00 PM: Methven White Methven The Lodge EASTSIDE Junior A: Hampstead School B 8 Methven Silver TINWALD partner each round 3.30: Methven 195.11, 295.17, Rex 9; Allenton Tactix 9 Tinwald School B 4; Borough 296.22, Bruce Sheate 100.6,18 Thomson Woodham Drivev Wakanui/Collegians (Umpires: Rachel Law & B, C McClintock, D Philip; 6/42 Aitken Street The N/S 1 P Fergus and M Stowell 237 V Ferrier and Street Mountain Gym U18 C v College Combined A, J Gardiner 99.6, 196.8, 295.14, John Fleming 99.4, Hampstead SW) 11 Rakaia B 8. with A Wright, 3 A Reid and S Rosevear This magnificentCvilla will impress The time is right to purchase this two Hard to find are easy care Kovacs, K Mead.

196.9, 295.13, Carl Nordqvist 97.3, 197.12, 294.15, 1st Grade Junior B: Netherby Diamonds 21 Mayfield E 0; E/W 1 John Fechney and Barbara Fechney 2 and quality finishing modernisation bedroom townhouse with goodWomen sized 6.00 PM: Hampstead Blue v close to town with single g Steve McArthur 98.4, 196.10, 294.14, Mark Stewart Collegiate (Umpires: Kevin McCosker & Rakaia Colourplus Court: 1.30: College U15 v Hampstead refurbished the living area and nice modern kitchen. bedrooms, good sized livin St Josephs Purple 3toWakanui School 2.

M Holmes and T Small 3 A Maudethroughout. and M MooreRecently 96.2, 197.12, 293.14, Tony Thomson 96.5, T Wylie, TValue Barry.$140,000.

1GW); 7.10ceiling PM: Collegians v Methven (Umpires: Hotel Ashburton Blue,Rateable highest standard is to the benefit of the The home has195.9, insulation in the Wednesday Afternoon. 2 Round Duplicate Mid Canterbury Netball Heartland Senior Ashburton Guardian White Court: 1.30: Mt 291.14, total 2947.161, Hutt Valley 2944.156.

Collegiate 1GW & Hampstead Gold 1GW); 8.20 owners and walls, double glazing and single N/S 1 R Kyle and B Smith, 2 Mnew Moore and Ifor years to come.

June 29 Ashburton Composite squad, Sandy Collett 195.10, PM: Rakaia v Hampstead Gold (Umpires: Methven Somers Social v Hampstead Beautifully landscaped grounds with garage.98.7, Front townhouse on a secure DeadlineHotel Sale closing Thur Taylor, 3 M Buckland and R McLaughlin Senior: College B 18 United A 32; Hampstead 293.17, Elizabeth Gardiner and Hotties, R McLeod, P February McClintock; 2.30: Allenton 95.3,fully 196.8, 291.11, 1GW & Scott Marshall) gardens. landscaped section.

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E/W 1 B Holmes and K Robb, 2 Jestablished Lovett and V A 24 College A 21; Celtic A 48 Hampstead B 14; Alan Wakelin 97.6, 192.11, 289.17, Bill Rankin Social v United Colonels Chicks, S Hart, A Lucock.

July 6 VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.45am VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 Palmer, 3 P Jowers and R PhillipsVIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.45am Rakaia Blue 21 Methven A 53.

94.4, 193.8, 287.12, Shane Bartlett 93.1, 192.9, Byes: Celtic Social, College U16 Small Sticks Hockey - Duty Club: Allenton Thursday Evening – Smith Trophy 285.10, total 1445.67, Hutt Valley 1439.55.

Club Duty: Celtic/Mieke Brook; Canteen Duty: 3 2 Senior B: United B 19 College 10A 39; Celtic C Kiwi Sticks (4th Grade) Coaches to Umpire N/S 1 J Knight and B Smith, 2 R McLaughlin Juniors Savanna McArthur 98.5, 97.5, 195.10, 9.30 AM: Allenton v Collegians; Wakanui Black Colleen Harraway; Umpire Duty: Dianne McTigue; 18 Methven B 39; College U18 26 Celtic B 24; and K Robb, 3 R Kyle and T Small 1 1 Methven Hailey Beevor 98.5, 96.4, 194.9, Joe McAdam v Wakanui Blue; Bye: Management Duty: Karla Newlands.

E/W 1 M Buckland and J Fechney, 2 J Irwin and Collegiate A 41 Allenton A 10.

97.6, 96.3, 193.9, total 582.28, Hutt Valley 586.23.

Mini Sticks (5th Grade) Coaches to Umpire 10.30 Senior Reserve A: College Y9A 18 Methven J Lovett 3 V Ferrier and W Kolkman OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME AM: Collegians S2I v1Methven; Allenton Hawkes White 26; Rakaia White 182Celtic D 20; Methven v Hampstead; Collegians D&E v Wakanui Black; Black 32 Methven U18A 42; College Y10B 28 Mid Canterbury Rugby Wakanui Blue v Rakaia Hampstead Gold 35.

Mid Canterbury Interclub Fun Sticks (6th Grade) 11.30 AM: Collegians July 3 Aorangi South Canterbury Golf Senior Reserve C: Celtic Social 35 United 27; Representative Rugby Division 1 Turfinators Methven; Allenton Tigers v Wakanui Mt Somers Allenton 13.

WEB33ID AU28267 WEB ID vAL28409 WEB Women’s Weekend Pennants OPEN HOME Ashburton beat Hinds 14/4ASHBURTON Wildcats; Allenton Maroon v Allenton Gold; Rakaia Mid Canterbury XV v TINWALD Ellesmere, Kirwee Domain, EASTSIDE 2nd Grade: Tinwald Black 41 Allenton B 22; June 30 Darren Dudson beat S Jones 3/0, Corey Hastie v Hampstead; Wakanui Whackers v Wakanui 3pm, J Lamers, J Rogers, A McMillan 125 William Street 5 Keenans Road 34 Catherine Street WEB ID AU28705 North Zone (at Ashburton) Ashburton 9 Gleniti Hampstead C 28 Methven U15A 23; Southern beat A Watt 3/1, Dean Harrison beat A Peck 3/2, Wasps Mid Canterbury Development v Ellesmere This 6freshly redecorated bedroom 1 hectare in popular location. Vendor First time XV offered for sale.

Livestock three Exchange 2002 Ltd 15 Collegiate B 29; TINWALD 1 3; Geraldine 12 Timaru 0; Methven Tinwald Scott Broker beat C Bell 3/1 Colts, Kirwee Domain, 1.30pm, G Peddie, Senior Men Timaru 2.00 PM: Tinwald v home is close in on the eastside of fattens cattle and has good orchard and the sun.

Kitchen diningJliv Celtic E 15 Celtic U18 24.

92 McMurdo Street 6; Temuka 8.5 Pleasant Point 1 3.5 Methven beat Mayfield14/2gardens and is self sufficient.

Cambridge (Umpires: S Hardacre & B Findlayson); Rogers, A McMillan separate (large) lounge, tw Ashburton, handy3rd toGrade: the post office,U18C 24 Hampstead U 18 Unique Methven South Zone (at Waimate) Waimate 10 North Relax and enjoy sunshine and privacy at VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.15 Elliot McNutt beat Jamesfour Wright 3/0, Davo Ashburton 3.30 PM: Wakanui Black v Wakanui Under 13 (Murray Roulston Countdown, park and central bedroom home set in attractive pumps Centurion and HRV Shield) system he Otago 2; Pleasant Point 2 9 Gleniti 2 3; St Andrews 21; Methven U18B 21 Hampstead U17 26; College McPhail beat Robert Mensen 3/0, hayden Blue (Umpires: Rasek Ganda & Peter Edwards) "your new townhouse". This well 12.00pm Celtic AWF v Southern HC, home Celtic 1, 6pm, Ran Ashburton. All three bedrooms grounds. A big plus is the outbuildings a warm in winter A 19 College Y9Bare 43; Celtic F 13 United C 41.

7.5 Maungati 4.5; Fairlie Bye. presented two bedroom (possibly three), Women Campbell beat Robert Stocker 3/0, Andrew spacious and sunny have large built including largeHart lock upSenior workshop andTimaru 3.00 PM: Hampstead Ford; Bye: Southern CFA summer. Large double gar 2 4th and Grade: Methven U15B 14 College U15 15; beat Harley Davies 3/2 two bathroom townhouse is landscaped v St Andrewsfor (Umpires: K Young & E Shearer) wardrobes. two bay pole shed. Opportunity auto door and ample outb Under 11.5 (John Smitheram Shield) Ashburton County Lady’sinVeterans College U16 14 Allenton C 15; Hampstead U15 and waiting for you NOW! Internal access July 7 Pleasant Point beat Rakaiagood 11/4 living and lifestyle.

VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.15 - 11.00am VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.45 Club Referee or Associate Referee Required 43 Hampstead Blue 11. double garage, loads of storage, HRV, June 28 1st Grade Men 4.00 PM: Collegians v Tinwald Richard Beck beat Grant Smith Bob Goslin VIEW3/0, Saturday 23 Feb 10.30 - 11.15am Allenton v Celtic Blacklows, Allen, 5pm; Hampsmart kitchen with very generous open 2 3 Played at Ashburton: Bryant Trophy beat Bill Brownlie 3/1, Paul Taylor beat Lindsay (Umpires: Wakanui 1GM x 2); 5.15 PM: Ashburton stead v Collegiate Drummond & Etheridge, Hamp, plan living, and a well fenced outdoor 1st Mara Kennedy 36 Stblf. H. Robertson 34 Christie 3/0, Tim Allen beat Jeff Hurst 3/0 College v Wakanui (Umpires: Collegians 1GM x 5.30pm; Tinwald Smitheram/Frew v Rakaia Synlait area.

1 Stblf. J. Webb 28 No results from Collegiate v Temuka 2); Bye: Methven Farms, Tin, 5.30pm Mid Canterbury Rugby Nearest The Pins: 0-27 Bev Blair, 2nd Shot: 28 July 8 2 Division 2 – ALL TEAMS BYE OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME July 4 2 June 29 Plus Bev. Gregory.

3rd Grade Boys 4.00 PM: Allenton v Hampstead Division 3 Under 13 (Murray Roulston Centurion Shield) Luisetti Seeds Division 1 Combined Final (Umpires: Rachel Law & Caitlyn Johnstone); 5.00 Ashburton Golf Club Celtic beat Rakaia 11/6 Allenton v Hampstead D Jackson Painting, Allen, Southbridge 23 v Lincoln 15, PM: Wakanui v Methven (Umpires: Collegians Matt Speedy beat Peter Blacklow 3/2, Ed 6.15pm, K O’Conner (Late Change) Senior Luisetti Seeds Watters Cup Stableford, June 29 1GW x 2) Harrison beat Paul Lancaster 3/0, Ben Mcnally Devon Tavern Hampstead 5 v REL Rakaia 57, July 6 In the semifinals of the President’s Trophy Paul 2nd Grade Boys 6.00 PM: Allenton v Methven WEB ID AU27284A WEB ID AU29095 WEB ID AU29247 WEB Holub beat Vanessa Dave White Memorial Cup & Max Gilbert Trophy beat Mark O’Grady 3/1, PeterWESTSIDE Senior Luisetti SeedsEASTSIDE Watters Cup (Round 3) Greer defeated Ron Carlson and WESTSIDE Tom Kearney (Umpires: Tinwald SM x 2); 7.10 PM: Wakanui EASTSIDE Loe 3/0 Claas Harvest Centre Southern 22 v PWL Darryl Phillips Celtic v REL Rakaia, Celt defeated Ken Clucas.

In the Plate matches Noel 5 Goldrich Drive 74 Harrison Street 123 Cameron Streetv Hampstead (Umpires: Wakanui Blue SM x 2) 14 Magnolia Place 1, Pleasant Point beat Collegiate A 11/7 Methven 28; and Bye: Darryl Phillips Celtic 2.45pm, C Kelland, K All Opele, M O’Callaghan Sutton defeated Bruce Ferriman andRecently Troi Kingsford July 9 Construction has been completed on upgraded kitchen A lovely character home situated in the brand new and in the n Kevin Hall beat Scott Evans 3/2, Logan Ford beat Claas Harvest CentreBraebrook Southern vsubdivision, Devon Taverncom B – 2ndofRound Centennial Mug defeated Jordan Green.

3rd Grade Girls 4.30 PM: Wakanui/Allenton this beautifully finished home featuring bathroom are theSenior beginnings a heart of town.

This stunning home Dougal McCullough 3/0, Greg Allen beat Mitchell Hampstead, May 1, 2.45pm, G Shaw, B Frame, h Allenton 5 v Celtic Kelly’s Cafe & Bar 36, ColStableford results: Troi Kingsford 39 by c/b vbeautiful Collegians (Umpires: Rex Turnbull & Fran four bedrooms with ensuite off the remodelled home.

The major expense oozes character with timber a look at this 4 bedroom Stoddart 3/2, Nick Russell beat Corey Smith 3/0 Eclipseand Services from Grant Russell 39; Murray Anderson 37; Ray Connelly-Whyte); 5.30 PM: Methven v Hampstead R Ford; Bye: PWL Methven master and walkin wardrobe. Open items have beenlegiate completed now 12 v Tinwald Liquorland joinery, polished rimu floors and led including ensuite and walk Geraldine beat Temuka 14/2 7, Hampstead Coulter Lambert, Robbie Bell, Hamish Niles, Tong King Senior B – 2nd Round Mug Open plan living/dining/kitchen. Separate there is an opportunity to make yourSeeds 0 v Rakaia Murray light windows. A sunny quarter acre Karen McIntrye & Rebecca in Centennial master bedroom.

Blue (Umpires: Grant Rogers beat Gareth Williams 3/2, Henry HoodisBaling 55, Southern Tinwald Tavern 34 v and Terry O’Reilly all 36.

Celtic Kellys Cafe & Bar v Rakaia Murray Hood lounge. Fully insulated and double personal mark. This a superbly section providing for McCloy); a privateBye: retreat. kitchen/dining/living plus a Hampstead Gold Bolt beat Nigel Cleverley 3/0, Murray Methven 0, Bye: Mt Somers Nearest The Pins: Robbies Bar located & Bistro:family Don home.

Baling, Celt 1, 1pm, Kseparate Opele; Collegiate Eclipse glazed.

Enjoy theMcFarlane benefits of central living. lounge. Compute beat Tim Heke 3/0, Michael Whethey beat Colin Houghton, Braided Rivers: Brent Clarke, Services v Methven, Coll 1, 2.30pm, D 23 McKibbin; – (Ellesmere/Mid VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.00 - 11.45am VIEWRothburys Saturday 23Colts Feb 11.00 - 11.30am Canterbury Competition) VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.45 - 12.30pm VIEW Saturday Feb 12.00 Insurance: Tony Gimblett, Netherby Meats: Robbie Mt Somers v Tinwald Liquorland, Mt Som 1, Southern Ross Bros Transport 27 v Kirwee 15, Pinn 3/0 Ashburton beat Rakaia B 14/2 4 3 3 Canterbury Junior 2.30pm, P McKnight; Southern Tinwald Tavern Bell, Blue Pub (Longest Putt): Dave Hewitt, Press Cup Paper Plus Mid Mike Redwood beat Derek Aubrey 3/0, Nick Swift Robilliards (Nearest pin #18): Troi Kingsford. v Hampstead Coulter Seeds, May 1, 1pm, G Ashburton College 25 v St Thomas 8, Roncalli 2 1 3 beat Brian McGuigan 3/1, Stephen Blain beat Netball Twos: Brent Clarke, Ron Carlson and Robbie College 3 v. St Bedes College Clement; Bye: Allenton 71, Marlborough Julie Smith 3/0, Tim Low beat jono Strange 3/1 July 6 Bell. Birdie Jackpot: #6; Nett Eagles: # 3.

Press Cup B C 20 v.

Christchurch BHS 12, Nelson College OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME 2 2 Collegiate beat Mayfield 14/2 Heartland Court: 29.00: Tinwald South A v Christchurch Boys v Ashburton College, CBHS, 27 v. Christs College 13, Todd Cameron beat Shannon Notter 3/1, Rob Southern Taylor Groundspreading Ltd A, A Mayfield Golf Club TBA – See MCRU Website Under 18 (Combined Ellesmere, Mid Canterbury coyle beat Brendon Steet 3/0, Paul Cartney beat Osbourne, T Watson; 10.00: New World Allenton June 28 Colts – (Ellesmere/Mid Canterbury Competition) Competition) Naish Massey 3/1, Mitchell McLauchlan beat A v Hampstead A, C Waddell, A Elliott; 11.00: Laurie Doyle Trophy: Bill Allan nett 62 Kirwee v Rolleston, Kir 1, 1pm, S Prendergast; Methven/Rakaia 5 v Waihora/Springston 42, Talia Young 3/0 New World Allenton B v St Josephs Gold, N Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed under the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 WEB ID AU29237 217 West Street ASHBURTON ashburton@propertybrokers.co.nz Telephone 03 307 WEB 9176 ID AU28999 Other good scores: Andrew Lake 74-9-65, Darfield WEB AU27552A WEB West Melton v Waihora, WM 1, 1pm, D Sullivan 7 v ID Celtic 27, MacKenzie defaulted to Hinds due to the snow.

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EASTSIDE WESTSIDE TINWALDLR 1, 2pm, M Gordon Duthie 84-15-69, Arnold WESTSIDE Rushton 102Banks Peninsula v Springston, Under 16 (Combined North Canterbury, EllesNo results from Methven V Rakaia B Neumanns Tyre Services Court: 11.00: Tinwald Hanson; Prebbleton 36A SALE 4/03 20 DEADLINE SALE 5/3 ACTION REQUIRED DEADLINE THIS BEATS BUILDING MAJESTIC VILLA TOWNHOUSE 81 Bridge Street Pages Roadmere, Mid Canterbury 11 Windsor StreetSALE Johnstone Street 32-70,DEADLINE Tim Hoban 79-9-70. v Southern Ross Bros Competition) School v Southern Agspread F, Coaches.

Division 4 Kerr Trophy: Allan 67, 72, 72, 74, Be it first home or rental this is a Nestled in 72; this lovely very tidy treed and WEB ID AU29231 Fantastic opportunity to get Cinto the A townhouse Transport, Preb 1, 1pm, W Heslop with just a b WEBDixon ID AU29058 WEB ID AU29219 Semi Finals TINWALD Trophy: Andy Lake 43, 39, 39; Handicap EASTSIDE Ashburton Guardian Methven beat Rakaia 14/1 Stableford winner! Great three bedroom home shrubbed gardenSpringston is this very5vWESTSIDE sunny property market with your first home or Blue Court: 10.00: St a good indoor outdoor Under 18 (Ellesmere, Mid Canterbury Com-flo 37 Thomson Street 18 Woodham Drive 28, West Melton Aitken Street Allenton/Celtic Orange v Borough Future Ferns, petition) Mark Allred beat Christina6/42 Lima Sarah Paton Trophy: Andy Lake 66,with 65 with cosy Ecan approved log burner. three bedroom vhome with a The generous rental TwolikeJosephs large double bedrooms, open p This magnificent villa will76, impress time is right to purchase this two Hard to 3/0, findproperty. are easy care units this, bedrooms , Ohoka, quality finishing andAon modernisation townhouse with good sized close to town with single garage.

Coaches; 11.00: beat Christina Lima 3/0, Rosie Robinson beat Craig Separate kitchen, living room and open plan area. Two bedroom generous two living areas, heatTwo pump, log fire,Laser Electrical Allenton v Rakaia area, attached garage M with Nearest Pins: Insurance Brokers No lounge 2: Celtic v Methven/Rakaia, Celt 2, 1.15pm, throughout. Recently refurbished to the living area and nice modern kitchen. good sized living areas.

Playoffs upstairs.

C, Coaches.

Straw 3/1, Steph Meredithbedrooms, beat jess 3/0Very tidy. laundry. Garage and various sheds. Well bedrooms and bathroom updated bathroom, cosy hobbies room access.

Attractively presen highest standardBayleys is to the benefit the The homeFull has insulation in the ceiling Rateable ValueLima $140,000.

Steve Cross; Realof Estate No 11: Allan O’Callaghan; Darfield v MDI, Dar 2, 1pm, G Waihora v Ashley, new owners for years to come. and walls, double glazing and single Ashburton Guardian Red Court: 9.00: Southern Pleasant Point B beat Geraldine 10/8 fenced for children and pets. A happy bathroom and master bedroom all with fantastic Allenton location. tenanted. Preb Sim; Marilyn Crossgrounds Property Robinson; Prebbleton vcurrently Waihora/Springston, Beautifully landscaped withBrokers No 5: Steve garage. townhouse Deadline Sale closing Thursday 28th Methven/Rakaia 71Front v Kaiapoi 5,on a secure Mayfield Janneen Christey beat James McDonald 3/1, tenant presently in place. downstairs.

With2013. so much to offer, this is Service a 'mustCentre E v St Josephs Purple, S Oval, 1pm, C Parker established February King; ANZ gardens.

Bank No 14: Richard Spicer; ATS 2ndBe sure to view. and fully landscaped section.

Tinwald 22 vVIEW Malvern Combined VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.45am Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 12, 10.45am VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.30am Bonnington, M Milmine; 10.00: Methven Hammer Peter McKnight beat Brenda hall 3/1, Lisa Munro see' home.

VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 12.15 - 1.00pm Shot No 9 and No 18: Allan DixonVIEW Sunday 24 Feb 1.30 - 2.30pm Under 16 (Ellesmere, Mid Canterbury Prebbleton/Rolleston v Oxford, 2 2 Silver v Borough C, L Morrow, C Morrice; beat Pete Blackler 3/1, Todd Sullivan beat Julie Hardware Two’s: Allan Sim, Kerry Read3 Competition) 3 3 2 Under 14.5 (Jock Ross Centurion Shield) 11.00: Longbeach B v Netherby Diamonds, M 1 Allan 85-23-62 1 1 Allen 3/1 Ash Vegas Player of the Day: Bill Top Four Allenton G 7v Methven 44, Allenton M 21 v Celtic Gilbert, C Griffiths.

Pleasant Point A beat Hinds 14/5 OPEN HOME OPEN HOME Nett Eagle: No 1 Bill Allan 2 OPEN HOME 1 1 217 West Street ASHBURTON ashburton@propertybrokers.co.nz Telephone 03 1 307 9176 2 1 10.00: Hampstead School Springston v Waihora, Spring 1, 1pm, TBC; West Lysaght Glass 36, AMI Insurance Court: Tim Croskery beat Leighton Jones 3/2, Jason Next week: Presidents v Captains; names for Under 13 (Murray Roulston Centurion Shield)ITS Clemens B v Tinwald School B, A Lill, L Alves; 11.00: Melton v Allenton/Celtic, WM 3, 1pm, M Quinlivan John Jefferson 3/1, Stephen OFFERS $595,000 OFFERS OVER $268,000 FRESH NEW DECOR SELF SUFFICIENT ON THEbeat LIST club champsOVER in by 13$279,000 July.

OPENDEADLINE HOME SALE 5/3 ACTION REQUIRED OPEN HOME 1 B, T Johnson, V Pluck.

DEADLINE1 SALE Bottom Four Hampstead D Jackson 2Painting 63 v Celtic Clemens beat John Booth 3/2, Ben Johnson Allenton Tactix v Rakaia beat WEB ID AU28267 WEB ID AL28409 WEB ID AU29076 OPEN HOME Methven/Rakaia v Malvern Combined, Methven WEB ID AU29231 WEB ID AU29219 EASTSIDE ASHBURTON TINWALD Argyle Welsh Finnigan 19, Allenton 31v Celtic W Craig McDonald 3/0 PortFM Local Court: 9.00: Southern Hyde WESTSIDE EASTSIDE 125 William Street 5 Keenans Road 34 Catherine Street WEB ID AU28705 7, Southern Hinds Cartage 66location. v Methven W 58, Brothers Spraying D v Methven Trucking D, M 1, 2.15pm, M Bell; Tinwald v Prebbleton/Rolleston, 18 Woodham Drive 6/42 Aitken Street This freshly redecorated three bedroom 1 hectare in popular Vendor First time offered for sale.

Nicely set for TINWALD $349,000 home is closeGrand in on the eastside and has good orchard and the sun. Kitchen dining living area Bremner, with The time is right to92 purchase this Street two Hard to find are easy care units like this, Southern Cantfattens Feedcattle Assessment 66 v Methven I Roberts; 10.00: Borough B v Longbeach Tinwald 1, 2pm, T Pearce British Prixof McMurdo Ashburton, handy to the post office, gardens and is self sufficient. Unique separate (large) lounge, two heat bedroom townhouse with good sized close to town with single garage. Two Under 14.5 (Jock Ross Centurion Shield) Relax and enjoy sunshine and privacy at B 31, Bye: Tinwald MSA VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.15 A, N Johnson (TS), M Yeatman; 11.00: Allenton Countdown, park and central four bedroom home set in attractive pumps and HRV system help make this living area and nice modern kitchen. bedrooms, good sized living areas.

Results from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone "your new This well 12.00pm Ashburton. All three bedrooms are big plus is the outbuildings warm home in winter and cool inMagic the Celtic Lysaght Glass v Allenton G, Celt 2, Tennis Canterburyasummer.

10’s Zone The home has insulation in thetownhouse". ceiling Rateable Value $140,000. Very tidy. v Rakaia A, K Hunter Letham, C Moore.

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(John ASmitheram Shield) presented two bedroom (possibly three), yesterday (52 laps): spacious and sunny and have large built including large lock up workshop and Large double garage with and walls, double glazing and single 2 2.30pm, G Brown; Methven v Allenton M, Meth two bathroom townhouse is landscaped in wardrobes. two bay pole shed.

Opportunity for auto door and ample outbuildings. Stirling Sports Court: 9.00: St Josephs Blue Collegiate Drummond & Etheridge 5 v Celtic June 30 garage. Front townhouse on a for secure Deadline Sale closing Thursday 28th 1.

Nico Rosberg (GER/MER) 1hr 32m 59.456s and waiting you NOW! Internal access living and lifestyle.

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Blacklows 41,good Hampstead 55 v Rakaia Synlait double garage, loads of storage, HRV, Country Crushers beat Eastern Stars 8 matches v Methven Winslow B, S Beveridge, C Olds; 1, 1pm, C Carter 2. Mark Webber (AUS/RBR)3 +0.765 VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.30 - 11.15am VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.45am VIEW Saturday smart kitchen with very generous open 2 23 Feb 10.00 - 10.30am 3 Under 13 (Murray Roulston Centurion Shield) 10.00: Hampstead Blue v Hampstead School Farms 0, Methven 38 v Allenton 0, Southern to 4 plan living, and a well2fenced outdoor 3.

Fernando Alonso (ESP/FER) 7.124 2 Celtic Argyle Welsh Finnigan v Allenton, Celt 2, area.

1 All Farm Engineering 27 v Tinwald Smitheram/ Boy’s Singles: Edwin Dargue beat Liam Adams A, 1B Surridge, S Anderson; 11.00: Methven 4. Lewis Hamilton (ENG/MER) 7.756 1 1 Real Estate C v Allenton Crusaders, 12pm, P Everest; Celtic W v Tinwald MSA, Celt 1, 2 Frew 14, Nathan McKenzie lost to Finn Emslie-Robson Professionals OPEN HOME HOME OPEN9-6; HOME 2 11.257 5. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/LOT)2 OPEN 11.45am, P Hunt; Hampstead D Jackson Painting v OPEN HOME 5-9; Ryan McNulty lost to Jordan Edwards 2-9; P Teare, B Raynor.

1 1 Under 10 6. Felipe Massa (BRA/FER) 14.573 Colourplus Court: 9.00: Allenton Mystics v Southern Cant Feed Assessment, Hamp 1, 1pm, R $498,000 POTENTIAL PLUS OFFERS OVER $299,000 TRULY DEADLINE SALE 13/3 $539,000 EASY LIVING BRAND NEW beat Jack Churcher 9-6; Harry Tyler Leonard Celtic 35 v Allenton 75, Hampstead Lifestyle 7.

Adrian Sutil (GER/FOR) 16.335 QUAINT Southern Hayden Mackenzie Contracting Ltd C, Ford; Methven B v Southern Hinds Cartage, Meth $595,000 ITS ON THE LIST WEB IDOFFERS AU27284A OVER $268,000 WEB(AUS/TOR) ID AU29095 16.543 WEB ID AU29247 WEB ID AU27246A Motorhomes 60 v Rakaia Synlait Farms 20, Dargue beat Nichia Morgan 9-5.

8. Daniel Ricciardo EASTSIDE WESTSIDE WESTSIDE EASTSIDE M Maslin, E Anderson; 10.00: St Josephs Red v 1, 1pm, Club Ass; Methven W v Bye Girl’s Singles: Millie Ness beat Melissa Finnie WEB ID AL28409 WEB ID AU29076 Southern Cowcare Hooftrimming 45 v Tinwald 9.

Paul DiStreet Resta (SCO/FOR) 17.943 5 Goldrich Drive 74 Harrison 123 Cameron Street 14 Magnolia Place ASHBURTON TINWALD Under 11 1/2 (John Smitheram Shield) St Josephs Green, M Edwards, B Digby; 11.00: 9-3; Sophie Ness beat Lauren Scott 9-1; Sophie Construction has been completed on Recently upgraded kitchen and A lovely character home situated in the All brand new and in the new Barry Whittaker Contracting 45, Southern Hinds 10. Nico Hulkenberg (GER/SAU) 19.709 5 Keenans Road 34 Catherine Street this beautifully finished home featuring bathroom are the beginnings of a heart of town. This stunning home Braebrook subdivision, come and have Club Referee or Associate Referee Required Tinwald School A v Netherby Magic, G Naylor, 9-0.at this 1 hectare in popular location. Vendor time offered for sale. Nicely set for Contracting 45oozes v Methven B 50, Bye: timber Methven W Adams beat Paris Bromelya look 11.

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Maldonado (VEN/WIL) 21.135 four bedrooms with ensuiteFirst off the remodelled The major expense character with beautiful 4 bedroom home fattens cattle and has good orchard and theOpen sun. Kitchen dining living area with Allenton v Tinwald Smitheram/Frew, Allen 2, D McArthur. master and walkin wardrobe. items have been completed and now joinery, polished rimu floors and led including&ensuite walk-in wardrobe Boy’s Doubles: Edwin Dargue Tylerand Leonard 25.094 12.

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Under 9 gardens and is self sufficient. Unique separate (large) lounge, two heat plan living/dining/kitchen. Separate there is an opportunity to make your light windows. A sunny quarter acre in master bedroom. Open plan Ashburton Guardian White Court: 9.00: Allenton 1pm; Celtic Blacklows v Rakaia Synlait Farms, lost to Liam Adams & Jordan Edwards 2-6; Ryan four bedroom home set in attractive 13.

Jenson (ENG/MLA) 25.969 lounge. Fully insulated and pumps double and HRV system help make this personal mark. Button This is a superbly section providing for Synlait a private retreat. kitchen/dining/living plus another Hampstead 35 v Rakaia Farms 10, grounds. A big plus is the outbuildings a warm home in winter and cool in the glazed. located family home.

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McNulty & Harry Dargue lost to Nichia & C v Southern Harrison Spraying Services Ltd B, E Celt 2, 11am; Collegiate Drummond & Etheridge 14.

Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) 26.285 Collegiate Cranfield Glass 5011.45 v Methven including large lock up workshop and VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.00 summer.

- 11.45am Large double garage with VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.00 - 11.30am VIEW Saturday 23 Feb - 12.30pm W 35, VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 12.00 - 12.45pm Hurley, E Bonnington; 10.00: Methven Shermac v Methven, Coll 1, 1.15pm; Southern All Farm Jack Churcher 3-6. two bay pole shed. Opportunity for auto door and ample outbuildings.

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VIEW Saturday Girl’s Doubles: Sophie Ness & Sophie Adams A v4 Hampstead B, E Ahearn, S Bueta; 11.00: Engineering v Hampstead, May 2, 1.15pm 16. Jules Bianchi (FRA/MAR) 36.097 Riverlea 40 v Celtic McCrea Painters & Decorators VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 10.30 - 11.15am 2 3 2 3 Allenton Hurricanes v Borough A, E Riordan, K Under 10: Associate Referee Required beat Lauren Scott & Paris Bromley 9-4.

17. Max Chilton (ENG/MAR) 1 1min 7.660 65, Tinwald Lizzies Dairy 50 v Methven B 40, Johansen.

Allenton v Tinwald, Allen 5, 1pm; Methven B v OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME OPEN HOME Mixed Doubles: Nathan McKenzie & Mille Ness 1 2 2 1min 2 2 18. Giedo van der Garde (NED) 7.759 Under 8 Club Duty: Longbeach School/Pauline Anderson; Rakaia, Meth 4, 1pm; Methven W v Hampstead, beat Finn Emslie-Robson & Melissa Finnie 6-4.

19. Romain Grosjean (FRA/LOT) DNF 1 lap OPEN HOME 2 Celtic 60 v Tinwald H&L Jones$250,000 Excavation 15, Canteen Duty: Ange Chudleigh; Junior Committee Meth 4, 2pm; Southern Hoofcare Cow Trimming $245,000 POPULAR SPOT DEADLINE SALE 7/3 A $225,000 A GREAT STARTER RARE TOWNHOUSE PLUS DNF 6 lapsFIND 20. Sergio Perez (MEX/MLA) Collegiate Ash Paint & Decorators 5 v Allenton M Duty: Michelle Adams; Umpire Duty: Wendy v Celtic, May 4, 2pm; Bye: Southern Hinds ConWEB ID AU29237 WEB ID AU27552A WEB ID AU28999 WEB ID AU28695 DEADLINE SALE 13/3 BRAND NEW $539,000 Not classified:Sebastian Vettel 11 laps 45, Southern BR Jones Contracting 30 v Methven EASTSIDE WESTSIDE WESTSIDE TINWALD Hopwood/Lyn Hart. tracting Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/TOR) 16 laps 81 Bridge Street 20 Pages Road Windsor Street 36A Johnstone Street WEB ID AU29247 WEB ID AU27246A 40, Southern 11 Agspread 35 v Hampstead W J Under 9: Associate Referee Required Be it first home or rental this is a Nestled in this lovely very tidy treed and Fantastic opportunity to get into the A townhouse with just a bit extra giving WESTSIDE EASTSIDE Kellett Builder 60, Allenton G v Bye Heartland Mid Canterbury Senior winner! Great three bedroom shrubbed garden is this very sunny property market with your first home or a good indoor outdoor flow. Two 123 Cameron Street 14 home Magnolia Place Celtic v Allenton, Celt 3, 1pm; Methven B v Superbike World Championship with cosy Ecan approved log three bedroom home with a generous rental property. Two large bedrooms , double bedrooms, open plan living A lovely character home situated in the Allburner. brand new and in the new Under 7 Separate kitchen, living room and open plan lounge area. Two generous two living areas, heat pump, log fire, area, attached garage with internalNetball Rakaia, Meth 5, 1pm; Methven W v Hampstead, heart of town. This stunning home Braebrook subdivision, come and have Results from the Superbike World Championship Allenton 50 v Celtic Summerfield Builders 90, laundry.

Garage and various sheds.

Well bedrooms and bathroom upstairs.

Full updated bathroom, cosy hobbies room access.

Attractively presented and oozes character with beautiful timber a look at this 4 bedroom home Meth 5, 2pm; Southern Hyde Bros v Collegiate, May July 6 fenced for children and pets.

A happyensuite and walk-in wardrobe and master bedroom all with fantastic Allenton location. currently tenanted. at bathroom Imola yesterday: joinery, polished rimu floors and led including Collegiate Countdown Foodmarkets v Rakaia tenant presently in place. in master bedroom. Open plan downstairs. Be sure to view.

With so much to offer, this is a65 'must Mid Canterbury Football 4, 1pm; Southern Riverlea v Tinwald, May 4, 12pm light windows. A sunny quarter acre Heartland Court: 12.30: Celtic Vetent v HampRace 2: see' home.

VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 12.15 1.00pm VIEW Sunday 24 Feb 1.30 2.30pm Synlait Farms 90, Hampstead Netherby 4 Square section providing for a private retreat. kitchen/dining/living plus another stead Hotel Ashburton A, S Hopwood, K Bush; Under 8: Associate Referee Required July 6, Local Enjoy the benefits of central living. separate lounge.

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Tom Sykes (GBR/Kawasaki) 37:10:947 50 v Tinwald RD1 50, Southern Coleman Ag 3 3 2 80 2 VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 11.45 - 12.30pm VIEW Saturday 23 Feb 12.00 - 12.45pm Hampstead W J Kellett Builder v Allenton M, 14th grade, 9.15am: Methven v Westside Real, 1.30: College A v United KFC A, W Hopwood, 2. Jonathan Rea (GBR/Honda) v Methven B 65, Southern CRT 55 v Methven 1 2 +5.032 1 W 1 3 4 Methven. Stingers v Westside, Domain S3. V McArthur; 2.30: College B v Rakaia Blue, C Hamp 2, 1pm; Southern BR Jones Contracting v 3. Sylvain Guintoli (FRA/Aprilia) 10.201 25, Tinwald Skip-2-It Flooring 25 v Methven R 50, OPEN HOME OPEN HOME 1 2 1 1 Corbett, I Anderson; 3.30: Methven Wareings Celtic U8, May 3, 1.30pm; Southern Agspread v Eastern a bye.

3 2 4. Marco Melandri (ITA/BMW) 13.120 Under 6 12th grade, 9.30am: Westside v Methven, Domain A v Hampstead Hotel Ashburton B, L Kennedy, Allenton G, May 3, 12.30pm; Tinwald H&L Jones 5. Chaz Davies (GBR/BMW) 13.630 OPEN HOME Allenton M 60 v Rakaia Synlait Farms 50, Celtic 2 2 Excavation v Methven , Tin 3, 1pm; Bye: Collegiate S Geddes.

Race 1: Champion Murphy Racing 40 v Allenton G 45, I10. Ash United a bye.

Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd Court: 12.30: Ash Paint & Decoraters 10th grade, 10am: Methven 1 v Methven 2, $250,000 TOWNHOUSE PLUS $225,000 1. Tom Sykes (GBR/Kawasaki) 37m 52.860sec Collegiate McDonalds 20 v Celtic Summerfield Under 7: Associate Referee Required Methven. Rakaia v Collegiate, Domain J3. College Y10 A v Celtic C, L Muckle, D McNab; 2. Davide Giugliano (ITA/Aprilia) 7.198 Builders 30, Collegiate Regent Cinema 70v Tinwald WEB ID AU28999 WEB ID AU28695 1.30: United KFC B v College U18, R MacGregor, Celtic Summerfield Builders vs. Tinwald Skip-2-It Westside v Longbeach, Domain J2.

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9.484 Ian Howden Spraying 75, Hampstead Metalcorp 11 Windsor Street 36A Johnstone Street Fun football and First kicks at Methven Domain, K Bell; 2.30: Celtic B v Wilson Bulk Allenton A, E Flooring, Celt 3, 2pm; Methven B vs. Allenton, Meth 4. Marco Melandri (ITA/BMW) 10.323 70 v Rakaia Synlait Farms B 65, Southern starting 9.30am.

Fantastic opportunity to get into the A townhouse with just a bit extra giving Scott, E Robertson; 3.30: Methven EuroAgri B v 3, 1pm; Methven W v Rakaia Synlait Farms, Meth property market with your first home or a good indoor outdoor flow. Two 5. Michel Fabrizio (ITA/Aprilia) 18.697 Progressive Livestock 40 v Methven B 45, Southern Smith and Church Collegiate A, B Williams, A Bell. 3, 1pm; Southern CRT vs. Southern Coleman rental property. Two large bedrooms , double bedrooms, open plan living two living areas, heat pump, log fire, area, attached garage with internal H Mackenzie Contracting 45v Methven W 40.

Ashburton Guardian Blue Court: 12.30: Hamp- Ag, May 3, 1.30pm; Tinwald RD1 vs. Collegiate updated bathroom, cosy hobbies room access. Attractively presented and all with fantastic Allenton location. currently tenanted. stead Hotel Ashburton Gold v Methven The Blue Countdown Foodmarkets, Tin 3, 1pm; Hampstead Mid Canterbury JAB Town & Country With so much to offer, this is a 'must Ashburton Golf Club Pub Black, L Clough, S Rudolf; 1.30: Methven The Netherby 4 Square vs. Methven R, Hamp 3, 1pm see' home.

Mid Canterbury Netball June 30 Brown Pub White v Methven R & R Haulage U18 Under 6: Associate Referee Required July 6 2 2 Paper Plus Ashburton Junior Netball Under 6 – Draw; U7 Town win; U8 Town win; U9 Methven B v Methven W, Meth 3, 1.45pm; The finals of the Presidents Trophy and Plate A, M Ashworth, L Hutchinson; 2.30: Rakaia White 1 1 June 29 Town win; U10 Town win; U11 Country Win; U12 will be played. For those not in the match play a v College Y10B, A Johnson, L Forbes; 3.30: Celtic Celtic Champion Murphy Racing v Rakaia Synlait Senior A: Allenton B 22 Southern Taylor Ground- Country Win; U13 Country Win; U14.5 Town Win 1 1 Farms, Celt 4, 1pm; Celtic Summerfield Builders stroke round will be played (off the White Tees) D v College Y9 A, L Clough, D McNab. spreading Ltd A 9; Allenton A 31 St Josephs Gold Town win by 5.1/2 to 3.1/2 Ashburton Guardian Red Court: 12.30: Celtic E v Tinwald Ian Howden Spraying, Celt 4, 1.45pm; Matchplay Draw off #1 Tee: 22; Hampstead A 31 Tinwald South A 6.

11.48 N Sutton vs T Kingsford; P Greer vs T v Tinwald South Black, O Cunneen, E Sinclair; Collegiate McDonalds v Allenton G, Coll 3, 1.45pm; Senior B: Southern Harrison Spraying Services 1.30: Hampstead Hotel Ashburton C v Allenton Collegiate Regent Cinema v Rakaia Synlait Farms Kearney Contracting Ltd B 42 Allenton Hurricanes 10; B, C Wylie, K Wilson; 2.30: Methven South Pacific B, Coll 3, 1pm; Southern Progressive Livestock v Starting Time: Morning 8.30am; Afternoon Report Smallbore Rifle Shooting Methven A 36 Ashburton Borough A 4; Allenton Seeds U15 A v Southern Livestock Exchange 2002 Hampstead Metalcorp, May 2, 12.30pm; Southern at 11.20 for an 11.48am start.

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Big trip true test for the Warriors

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By Cameron McMillan The Warriors have certainly come a long way in the past six weeks - recording a fifth straight win on Sunday - but they need to cover some serious distance for their next encounter. 5,358 kilometres to be exact.

The 10th-placed Warriors face one of the longest away trips in world sport later this week when they travel to Perth to face the tabletopping South Sydney Rabbitohs on Sunday.

The west coast of Australia is not a happy hunting ground for the Warriors. They have not won there in four attempts, the last being a 24-22 loss to Manly last season which saw them throw away a 16-point lead in the final 12 minutes.

Despite the poor record, coach Matt Elliott can’t wait for the encounter between two of the competition’s in-form teams.

“The competition ladder will probably suggest that it’s the ultimate test for us.

“I don’t want to get excited too early but I am really, really looking forward to it,” he said following Sunday’s 18-16 win over the Broncos.

Looking for any travel tips ahead of Perth, Elliott has sought the aid of the New Zealand Breakers, whose most recent trip to Perth in April saw them claim a third straight NBL title.

“We have done a lot of planning behind the scenes and contacted

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Mid Canterbury under 17 shooter Chelsea Corbett chases down a bounce pass against Selwyn under 19 during the representative tournament in Ashburton on Sunday.

Warriors coach Matt Elliot: ‘The ultimate test for us.’ [former Breakers coach] Andre Lemanis who has obviously done the trip a few times, and successfully, so we have some really good advice on what to do there,” Elliott said.

First on Elliott’s list, though, is to tidy up areas of the game where the side were lacking on Sunday after escaping with a late win over a strong Broncos side.

“I thought we were a little off.

“We looked like a team coming off the bye.

“Our execution wasn’t great but I am probably being too hard a marker in saying that because of the quality of the opposition and the amount of defence we had to do impacted on our attack.

“We definitely need to play better than what we did with the ball in particular. We are scrambling really

well in defence but there are little things we need to do better.

“Us having high expectations of ourselves is a really healthy thing.”

The Warriors defence will certainly be tested against a Rabbitohs side which has topped 30 points in the last three weeks and features one of the game’s most explosive players in Greg Inglis.

The travel factor may seem daunting for the Warriors but it doesn’t exactly suit the Rabbitohs either, who would probably prefer to be aiming for their own five-game win streak at home, where they have lost just once this season, instead of Perth.

A win against the Rabbitohs, followed by their second bye a week later, could see the Warriors move to seventh place.

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Perfect day for the A team

By Jonathan Leask A week after being postponed by wild weather, Mid Canterbury Netball couldn’t have asked for a better day for their annual tournament on Sunday.

It was a perfect day to play netball and the Mid Canterbury A team came away with a perfect record.

Their opening game for the A team was against Selwyn, who had proved a handful at the Hanan Shield tournament in Timaru earlier in the season. With no time available for training the team went in a little cold but proved too hot for Selwyn, recording a 39-29 win.

Mid Canterbury A coach Rachel

Evans then tried some new combinations against Canterbury Country under 19, but Mid Canterbury were still able to take control to win 34-26.

Their final game was against South Canterbury, who they had comfortably beaten to secure the Hanan Shield three weeks earlier, and again they proved too strong with a 42-34 win.

The Mid Canterbury under 17 girls are preparing for a national tournament later this season and had four wins from their five matches.

They had a 15-6 win to start the day against Selwyn under 19 before a 23-10 win over Selwyn under 17B. They started strong against

South Canterbury but their southern rivals came back with greater intensity in the last quarter to take the win 15-27.

They bounced back for a 19-13 win over Selwyn under 17A and finished with a 25-16 win over North Canterbury under 17.

The girls have another hit-out in Dunedin on July 13-15 before heading to the national under 17 championships in Hastings on July 22-25.

The Mid Canterbury under 15 girls had three wins and two losses.

They suffered a slow start against Selwyn under 15B to go down 19-14, but started strongly in their second game to record a 21-9 win over North Canterbury Blue and

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By Jonathan Leask The turf war fell in favour of Country after they won three of the five Town and Country hockey matches at the Ashburton Hockey Turf on Sunday.

The primary development mixed match had Town come out 1-0 winners and the Town B girls’ had a 6-2 win but the rest of the day belonged to Country.

The Country B boys’ won 3-1, the A girls edged out a 1-0 result and the A boys got up 2-0 for country to come out on top, but Mid Canterbury hockey was the real winner.

“There were some great games and some great hockey with a lot of people commenting on the big improvement in play across

the board, Mid Canterbury hockey’s James Tavendale said.

“The introduction of New Zealand Hockey’s Small Sticks programme is really paying off, and what was on display bodes well for the representative season.”

In the coming weeks the Mid Canterbury primary boys’ and girls’ teams will be named for the national tournaments later in the year.

The Mid Canterbury primary A boys’ team will attend the National Hatch Cup Tournament in Hamilton and the primary A girls are in Wellington for the National Collier Trophy Tournament in October.

The senior men’s Town and Country match wasn’t played with too many players unavailable.

Town’s Kate Donald clears the ball up field during the Primary A girls’ Town and Country clash at the Ashburton Hockley Turf on Sunday.

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Carr back with Cats Bakelants finally emerges

By Jonathan Leask Former Black Stick Stacey Carr will lead the Canterbury Cats in their National Hockey League (NHL) title defence next month.

The retired Black Stick was convinced to come out of representative retirement last year and went on to captain the Canterbury Cats to their first NHL title in a decade, earning the women’s MVP for her efforts.

The 29-year-old 127-test veteran is back to lead the title defence in a side now boasting a lot of experience despite still being a young side.

Current Black Stick and former Mid Canterbury resident Pippa Hayward is also in the team that also boasts current Black Stick Sian Fremaux, Bridget Blackwood, Amelia

Gibson, Olivia Merry, Anna Wetherall, Jenny Storey and South Canterbury’s Cass Reid.

The Canterbury Cavaliers men’s side also has former Mid Canterbury age group representative Jason Niles from Rakaia alongside current Black Sticks Nick Haig, and former 150-cap Black Stick Bradley Shaw.

The NHL has the opening two rounds on August 10 and 11 at venues across the country, with the Canterbury men and Women playing Southern in Timaru on August 10 and then Central in Christchurch on August 11, before converging on North Harbour Hockey Stadium on August 17-25 for the remaining rounds.

Right: Stacey Carr has again been lured out of retirement to lead a side bulging with Black Sticks.

By Andy Scott Just when it looked like Jan Bakelants might never live up to the potential he showed in his younger days, the Belgian came good at long last in yesterday’s second stage of the Tour de France, as the controversy that marred Saturday’s opener took a back seat.

There were no mass crashes or farcical incidents involving buses on the 156-kilometre ride across Corsica from Bastia to the island’s largest city Ajaccio.

A rumoured protest by the peloton amid safety concerns on the back of Saturday’s mess amounted to nothing either.

Instead, there was plenty of to-ing and fro-ing on the collection of tricky climbs across the island’s interior before Bakelants broke away from a small group of fellow escapees and made for the line, coming home a second clear of a mass pack trying frantically to play catch-up.

Australian Cadel Evans rode solidly and was one of several riders who came in a second behind Bakelants to sit in 10th place in the overall standings.

Fellow Australian Simon Gerrans was also among the same pack and now sits in sixth place overall.

So unheralded was Bakelants that French television commentators were completely caught out, confidently declaring that Spaniard Markel Irizar had crossed the line first.

But this was to be Bakelants’ day, with the RadioShack-Leopard team rider finally recording a major stage victory at the age of 27.

This is his debut Tour de France, but bigger things might have come sooner for someone who won the Tour de l’Avenir in 2008, had “bad luck”, as he puts it, not got in the way.

“I’ve had a lot of bad luck,” said Bakelants, who hails from the Belgian town of Oudenaarde, a cycling-mad town in a cycling-mad

nation that is home to the museum of the Tour of Flanders.

“I fell in 2010 in the Tour of Lombardy and fractured my right knee and left elbow. Things like that need time for you to recover and come back.

“I remember at L’Aquila in the Giro d’Italia when I fell on the last curve too. I had my opportunities but something was missing, just a bit of luck.

“Today, I had a bit of everything.

I attacked at a good time and my legs went well, and finally it has happened.”

He is unlikely to hold on to the overall race leader’s yellow jersey for long, though.

Indeed, he and the rest of his team-mates are focused primarily on Andy Schleck’s GC bid.

The fragile Luxemburger has lost the edge that allowed him to grapple with Alberto Contador for Tour glory in 2010, but Bakelants hopes his stage win can help Schleck come back out of his shell.

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then accounted for Selwyn Under 15A 15-9.

North Canterbury Gold boasted some tall timber at both ends of the court to outplay Mid Canterbury 22-12, but Mid Canterbury finished on a high with a 28-5 win over Malvern.

The Mid Canterbury under 14s stepped up to play four under 15 sides, and although they lost all four put in strong performances against older and taller opposition.

They pushed Selwyn under 15A 9-13 before they almost tipped over Malvern under 15 only to be edged out 13-14. They lost to North Canterbury Under 15A 15-19 and then North Canterbury under 15 Development 23-28.

• First for boxing club The Ashburton Boxing club had the successful debut of their second female boxer at the Woolston Boxing Club tournament at the weekend. Melissa McGlynn had her maiden bout, producing an impressive display to stop her opponent in the second round for a winning debut. McGlynn is the second female boxer to have stepped in the ring for the club, following on from Megan Woolley made her debut last year. The club had two other boxers at the Woolston tournament that was held at the Cashmere Club, with Connor Perriton having another strong bout to win the points decision while Cody McKinney was outclassed in his debut.

The Ashburton club is hopeful to have some more bouts at other tournaments in the next few weeks but are also is in full swing preparing for their own tournament on April 17.

• Unwanted first for Ko For the first time in five golf majors, New Zealand’s Lydia Ko has failed to secure top amateur honours, despite a bounce-back round on the final day of the US Open. The world No 1 amateur fired an even par 72 to secure a top-40 finish. However the 16-year-old finished two shots behind fellow amateur Casie Cathrea of the US. Ko ended the tournament 11-over the card, tied for 36th. World No 1 Inbee Park won her third major in a row. Ko didn’t have the best start to her final round, recording bogeys on the fourth and sixth holes before regaining her composure to finish the front nine with three straight birdies.

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• Bad luck dogs Evans An electronics failure prevented Mitch Evans from winning the GP2 feature race at Silverstone on Saturday, and he endured more electrical system issues at the start of the Sunday Sprint race at the British Grand Prix round.

After the disappointment of the pit speed limiter not functioning correctly in the feature race; the young Kiwi was left stranded on the grid at the start of the sprint race when the anti-stall system malfunctioned. He had lined up 19th on the grid but was last away in the 26-car field.

He chased after the pack and had recovered to 14th. “What a weekend it could have been,” said Evans. “We found a good set up for Silverstone. We just need a bit of luck and we’ll be - APNZ right there.”

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focus sitting in the dressing room.

In the end it might have assisted and worked in our favour.

“It was quite disruptive but we stuck to our game plan against England. It was a comprehensive win. They played right into our hands and we knew they would.

“I couldn’t believe our luck when they kept kicking it back to us. I don’t normally like doing it but today was about winning a World Cup, which meant playing percentages and the best footy.”

Women’s playmaker Kelly Brazier said she did likewise with her wipers kicks for the women. “It was all about possession and territory, when we needed to play down there we did. It was a mudbath and tough under foot.”

Tietjens says his players responded to the pressure after tepid pool play.

“I’m pleased about the younger players putting their hand up. But we needed the more experienced guys like Tomasi Cama, DJ Forbes, Tim Mikkelson and Lote Raikabula to bring them through.

“I can’t wait to get my hands on the next crop of players coming through in the under-20s. That’s what South Africa have done.”

Tietjens invited sevens greats Eric Rush and Jonah Lomu to speak to the team before departure.

“They talked about getting the buzz going in the team. We stalled for the first two days but today we played superbly.”

Portia Woodman was a star for the women with 12 tries. “My job was just to finish. I’ve been watching Kelly Brazier, she’s ‘the man’ in our team, so I’ve been learning off her.

Netball probably helps as well. It’s nice when it comes off.”

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By Andrew Alderson Veteran playmaker Tomasi Cama offered a forecast on the evening ahead for the New Zealand sevens sides after men’s and women’s World Cup glory at Luzhniki stadium.

He came out, trophy in hand, to front the media. Someone suggested the trophy was shiny.

“Might get dirty,” he quipped.

The comment reflected the collective relief of securing triumphs in a brave new sevens world where investment has increased now it is on the Olympic programme.

New Zealand Rugby can temporarily bask in the glory of maintaining high standards against that threat but vigilance and dedication to the sevens programme will be needed if such success is to be repeated at Rio de Janeiro.

The New Zealand sides generated the second biggest cheer from the paltry crowd in three days of competition when they each completed haka to celebrate.

Both sides benefited from a bizarre weather change which turned the sun-baked turf into the equivalent of a Waikato farm paddock in August.

It was slip-slop-slap; players slipped, a lot of the ball presentation was sloppy and thighs took a slapping in tackles.

The New Zealander men’s side had to come off the field 12-0 up in the 17-0 win over Fiji because of the threat of a lightning strike.

Sir Gordon Tietjens reflected on the change in circumstances in his second World Cup victory, 12 years after his first.

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By Jonathan Leask The Ashburton College 1st XV made the best possible start to their first time in the top eight of the Crusaders Secondary School rugby competition by comfortably beating St Thomas’ 25-8 at College Field on Saturday.

It was unknown territory for College but they managed to achieve the win in a performance lauded by coach Shane Enright as their best so far.

“It was probably our most complete performance in my three years coaching the first XV, even

though we did blow a number of opportunities to nab a bonus point try,” Enright said.

A Nathan McCloy penalty opened the scoring before St Thomas hit back with try. College responded with Hemi Tahuri making a bust in the midfield before finding loose forward Seta Koroitamana who finished off the try to regain the lead.

McCloy landed a drop goal under penalty advantage to go out to 11-5, but another mistake allowed St Thomas to add a penalty.

Koroitamana then made a strong blindside run for his second, with McCloy landing the conversion to go to halftime ahead 18-8.

College turned on a dominant second half that may not have yielded as many points as they would have liked but ensured their first top eight match was a winning one.

A number of counter-attacks cut St Thomas to shreds but weren’t finished off before replacement prop Lancy McKay scored and McCloy converted to go up 25-8.

For the final 15 minutes College continued to attack, but a constantly came up with simple mistakes that cost them a four-try bonus point.

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upset beating Christchurch Boys’ 20-12 in Blenheim.

The win, just the third time Marlborough has ever defeated Christchurch Boys’, established Marlborough as real contender holding on to an unbeaten record while it was a second loss for Christchurch Boys, Ashburton’s next opponent.

St Bede’s also sounded a warning with a 71-3 romp over Roncalli to also remain unbeaten although they have eight straight wins to Marlborough’s seven wins and a draw with Nelson College, while Nelson College got up for a 27-13 win over Christ’s College.

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Skipper DJ Forbes leads the NZ sevens team in a victory haka in Moscow.

There was plenty left unsaid in the post-match press conference as the Magic reflected on their failed trans-Tasman league title defence.

The Magic’s sixth finals campaign ended in Hamilton on

Sunday night, when they were ousted in the minor semi-final by an impressive Queensland Firebirds side. The 53-50 loss also ended coach Noeline Taurua’s 11-year tenure with the team, adding an extra sense of finality.

With Taurua bowing out and several top players rumoured to be following her out the door,

there is a feeling that this is the end of an era for New Zealand’s most successful ANZ franchise.

Already Magic captain Laura Langman has been linked with the Mystics, while sharpshooter Irene van Dyk - a close friend of Taurua’s - is likely to weigh up contracts with other franchises.

Silver Fern defender Leana de

Bruin has already played for three different trans-Tasman league franchises, suggesting she will be open to offers elsewhere as well.

With the prospect of having the heart ripped from the team, Sunday night’s minor semi-final could very well have been the last time the Magic contest the play-offs for quite some time.

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