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Crime rate plummets by 17.1%

By Sam Morton Crime in Mid and South Canterbury has plummeted a staggering 17.1 per cent in the last calendar year, according to latest police figures.

Yesterday, the NZ Police headquarters released the reported crime statistics for 2012, revealing Mid-South Canterbury has once again reduced the crime rate across the district.

The area, which includes Ashburton, Methven, Timaru, Waimate and Mackenzie, has collectively dragged the rate to a record low from 16.7 per cent in 2011 to just over 17 per cent in 2012.

However, while the figures are pleasing for most areas of crime, two serious offences have worryingly risen.

Homicides have climbed from zero to four (one in Ashburton, three in Timaru), while sexual related offences have also climbed 20 per cent, from 67 to 81 reported incidents.

Burglary, extortion and dangerous acts (endangering persons) have also propelled upwards, but overall Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin is elated with the progress.

Inspector Gaskin credits the reduction to good community programmes and effective crime prevention strategies, assisted duly by local councils.

“It’s a very pleasing result, pleasing for me, pleasing for my staff and pleasing for the community. I think this is a moment to celebrate and the challenge now is to stay proactive and keep building on such great progress.

“My staff across all of the communities have done some really stunning work this last year and I really hope they can take some motivation out of these figures ... I always knew our district would be in for a significant reduction and this is a thorough reflection of some outstanding team work,” Inspector Gaskin said.

Inspector Gaskin said it was encouraging to see local councils getting on board, helping to make their communities safer, funding initiatives such as night patrols and security cameras and enforcing CBD liquor bans.

“There has been some great work done in certain fields and around the community, in particular,” he said.

“The Prevention First Strategy which we have implemented has really paid off, I think – with the idea that more staff are put into areas to prevent crime before it starts, rather than all of us chasing our tails.

“I’ve always been a little dubious of statistics, but it’s fair to say the hard work accurately shows up in these (latest figures),” Inspector Gaskin said.

Meanwhile, recorded crime in Canterbury has taken a jump.

The crime rate rose a moderate 5.6%, although still remains well below pre-earthquake levels – providing some encouraging signs for police throughout the region.

The figures released yesterday show a total of 42,796 offences for the 12 month period to December 31, 2012, compared to 40,540 in 2011.

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By Myles Hume Dorie youngster Charlotte Sloper could not put a foot wrong in her stellar performance at the Easter Highland Games.

The 10-year-old was the stand-out performer among a host of dancers and pipers from Mid Canterbury that made the trip to Hastings on Friday to compete over the Easter break.

Hours spent between dance schools in Ashburton and Christchurch paid off for Charlotte, who made a return to the 63rd annual event after dancing her way to the top of the under eight and 10 age groups in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Although she did not compete last year, Charlotte’s competitive nature and hard work put her above 30 other competitors in the under 12 grade during the weekend, flying home on Monday with three gold medals, four silver medals and one bronze out of eight dances.

But it was not easy for the Dorie School pupil, who had to remember every last step while up against 30 other tough competitors in front of a rigorous judging panel.

But with seven years experience in the sport and four hours training a week, she was always in the running for the prestigious title.

“It’s not too hard to remember when you get used to it but you can’t put a foot wrong,” Charlotte said.

“I didn’t think I was going to win, but I was confident going up there.”

The victory marked a special occasion for the whole family, with Charlotte keeping the family tradition alive after her grandmother Janice Allan competed at the Hawke’s Bay event 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, sister Brianna Sloper and fellow dancer Eirinn MacLean finished third in their respective age groups after several good placing in the Highland Flings, Irish Jigs and Hornpipes categories.

Sarah Gluyas and Kate Booker also picked up well-deserved placings.

Pipers Ruairidh MacLean, Hamish Sloper and Andrew Booker also performed well, keeping the crowd entertained with their acts in performances in the strathspeys, reels, marches and slow airs.

Charlotte will shift her focus to Oamaru when she will compete in a performing arts competition on April 19 with her dancing shoes and violin.

CRIME SUMMARY Crime reported in Mid/South Canterbury

WHAT WENT DOWN? Total crime – down 17.1 per cent, from 6841 to 5370 Acts intended to cause injury – down 10 per cent, from 670 to 603 Abduction, harassment and other related offences – down 29.8 per cent, from 238 to 167 Unlawful entry with intent to burgle – down 15.4 per cent, from 662 to 560 Theft and related offences – down 21.6 per cent, from 1689 to 1324 Fraud, deception and related offences – down 11.3 per cent, from 160 to 142 Illicit drug offences – down 4.5 per cent, from 355 to 339 Property damage and environmental pollution – down 9.5 per cent, from 1303 to 1179 Public order offences – down 27.9 per cent, from 1002 to 722

WHAT WENT UP? Homicide and related offences – from zero to four Sexual assault and related offences – up 20.9 per cent, from 67 to 81 Robbery, extortion and related offences – up 57.1 per cent, from 7 to 11 Dangerous or negligent acts endangering persons – up 60 per cent, from 10 to 16

QUICK NATIONAL STATS Lowest recorded crime rate in 24 years – nationally.

Theft is down, burglary is down and public disorder is down.

For the third year running crime has dropped around the country.

While reported crime overall hiked, police were able to resolve more crime in 2012 than in either of the previous years, marking down an impressive 45 per cent resolution rate, compared to 43 per cent in 2011 and 2010 respectively.

“I look forward to seeing what my staff can do in the next 12 months and seeing the community working together with police,” Inspector Gaskin said.

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By Susan Sandys Ashburton real estate prices are catching up to Methven.

Traditionally prices for homes in the small inland ski town have been about one-third higher than in Ashburton.

Methven Professionals principal Selwyn Allred said while Methven prices were trending upwards and had traditionally attracted higher prices than Ashburton, he believed Ashburton homes in the $300,000 plus price bracket were fetching slightly higher prices than similar homes in Methven.

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“But anything under $300,000 you can get a better house in Ashburton than Methven,” he said.

He said he had not calculated property trends so could not confirm by how much Methven prices had risen in the past year, but estimated it could be 15 to 20 per cent.

And homes were selling faster than they had a year ago in the ski town. In a normal market it would take about 90 days for a house to sell, but in today’s buoyant market that had reduced to 45 to 60 days.

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February saw the median sale price up 27 per cent on February last year for the Ashburton District.

Methven’s Ray White licensed salesperson Margaret Feiss said Ashburton prices had risen faster than Methven prices, and this had been since the earthquakes.

“I don’t see it has being a bad thing for Methven, everyone’s house prices are good, Ashburton has just had a bit of a run,” Mrs Feiss said.

“Ashburton has seen growth post earthquake.”

She said in Methven there were many young locals looking to buy

their first home, and this had created demand in the $250,000 to $350,000 price bracket.

Consequently due to a lack of supply in this bracket prices in the ski town were a little higher than Ashburton.

She gave the example of an older three bedroom brick home selling for almost $300,000 in Ashburton, may get as much as $325,000 in Methven.

Generally in Methven the market was strong.

“I think it’s slowly turning into a seller’s market. Nothing much sells under the rateable value,” she said.

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ZANKER (nee Fisher) – To Hayley and Lindsay, a son, Lochlan Isaiah, born March 2, 2013. A precious baby brother for Bethany.

Incidents attended to by the Ashburton Police and Mid Canterbury volunteer fire brigades recently.

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BROWN, Alice (Jean) – On April 2, 2013. Passed away peacefully at Christchurch Hospital. In her 83rd year. Dearly loved mother and mother in law of Murray and Debbra. Dearly loved nana of Charlotte and Chris, Daniel and Lucy, and Isabella.

A very special lady who will be sadly missed.

NICHOLS, Barrie Donald – On April 1, 2013, peacefully at Ashburton Hospital.

Loved and cherished husband of Judith.

Treasured father and father in law of Philippa and Noel Dyson (Perth WA), Simon and Margaret (Richmond Nelson) and dearly loved grandad of Annabelle, Ben, Olivia, and Luke. Also loved brother and brother in law of Roy and Dorothy, and brother in law of Annette and Paul Gregg. Thank you to the staff of the Ashburton Hospital and the Allenton Medical Centre for your care over the years. Messages to P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to St John Ambulance would be much appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Barrie’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY, April 5, commencing at 11.00am.

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O’MALLEY, William Martin (Bill) – On March 27, 2013, suddenly at Christchurch Hospital, aged 81 years young. Dearly loved husband of the late Janet (Jenny).

Much loved brother of the late Gladys, and Eva. Loved special uncle, and greatuncle to his many nieces and nephews. Many thanks to the staff at Christchurch Hospital involved in caring for Bill. Messages to the O’Malley Family, C/- P O Box 10345, Christchurch 8145. A celebration of Bill’s life will be held in the Ferry Park Chapel, 297 Ferry Road, Christchurch on MONDAY, April 8, at 1.00pm.

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• Car overturns An Ashburton woman sustained minor injuries when her car rolled near Temuka on Monday, about 1pm. The woman, 38, was taken to Timaru Hospital after losing control of her car on State Highway 1, near Dominion Road. It is understood the woman has since been discharged from hospital.

Twenty-eight new citizens officially sworn in Mid Canterbury officially opened its arms to 28 of the district’s freshest faces yesterday.

The Ashburton District Council held its regular citizenship ceremony in the council chambers yesterday afternoon, where they welcomed the newest residents, hailing from Zimbabwe, Samoa, The Philippines, Britain, Argentina, Morocco, South Africa, Holland and Romania.

In front of more than 30 friends and family, the immigrants swore an oath to respect their duties as citizens in New Zealand.

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DEATHS O’MALLEY, William Martin (Bill) – On March 27, 2013, suddenly and unexpectedly.

Dearly loved husband of the late Janet Evelyn (Jenny).

Brother-in-law of Betty and Charles Smith (Timaru) and Bill Straight (Christchurch).

Treasured “Uncle Bill” of Debbie and Grant de Joux (Nelson), and Reece and Sue Smith (Australia). Much loved and special great-uncle of Logan, and Zane, Gemma, and Claire.

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• Quiet time Ashburton Police reported no incidents for the entire Easter period, summing up the weekend as “exceptionally quiet”.

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and now it’s your country,” Mayor Angus McKay told the group after handing over their citizenship certificates.

Mr McKay reassured each of the residents his door was always open if they had any concerns and wished them all the best for the future.

St John Ambulance travelled more than 3150 kilometres last week attending to 64 call-outs, 19 categorised as urgent, 27 as non-urgent and 18 deemed as routine transfers. Of the call-outs, 52 were classed as medical call-outs, while 12 were deemed as accident related.

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Safety messages ‘ignored’

By Sam Morton Key safety messages and police warnings appear to have fallen on deaf ears over Easter, according to the district’s police traffic patrol boss.

The Easter toll period wound up yesterday at 6am and recorded three road fatalities nationally – one being in Canterbury, two others occurring in the North Island.

Senior Sergeant Phil Newton, of Canterbury Highway Patrol, said he was reasonably impressed with the level of maturity and driving approach displayed over Easter, but says “quite a few” ignored the messages altogether.

In fact, patrol officers stopped and registered 500 drivers speeding, issuing infringement tickets for exceeding at least 4km/h over the posted speed limit throughout Canterbury.

A further 80 drivers were stopped between Timaru and Christchurch and processed for drink-driving – a figure Mr Newton is highly disappointed with.

“It’s just too many and there is no reason for us to be dealing with such a high number,” he said.

“The message was to watch your speed, don’t drink and drive, plan your trip and pull over if you feel tired ... pleasingly most drivers listened, but unfortunately quite a few didn’t.

“Overall, I’m happy with the week-

end operation, but one drink-driver and one driver speeding is still one too many, so there is still some serious work to do around reducing those numbers,” Mr Newton said.

Elsewhere, the Methven Mountain Thunder event went off without a hitch, with police recording no incidents throughout the entire weekend.

Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin praised the community for their effort and hoped to build on it in later years.

“It’s been a great effort from everybody involved and Senior Sergeant Grant Russell has reported no incidents for the last week in the Ashburton area, so that’s really positive to see.

“By all accounts it’s been very quiet,

Rakaia agent goes out with a bang Retiring real estate agent 30-year-old Gareth Cox, who Ken Cutforth estimates was “an enthusiastic young property prices have risen guy, it makes me feel tired to in Rakaia by at least 15 to just look at him”.

20 per cent in the last year.

“He’s going to bring a lot The 67-year-old Property of energy to the job,” Mr Brokers agent said it meant Cutforth said. that he was retiring from Enquiry was strong and the industry after 10 years houses were generally on the “with a bang rather than a market for six weeks until whimper”. they sold, compared to at Ken Cutforth “I have had my best month least twice that a year ago. in the past five years,” he There had been uncertainsaid of March sales. ty in the market post earthquakes but He was handing over the reins to now the economy was good in the dis-

trict and confidence had returned.

It was Mid Cantabrians, investors and Christchurch people moving to Rakaia who were buying homes in the town.

“Once you get on this side of the river there’s none of the insurance issues or the geo-tech issues,” he said.

Mr Cutforth was looking forward to spending more time on his role as an Ashburton District councillor.

He was also looking forward to spending more time with wife Miriam and running their St Ita’s guest house in the town, which was getting busier.

Daughter dobs in dope-growing parents A North Canterbury couple managed to keep two cannabis plants, that were ready to be harvested, secret until their daughter found them in the backyard and dobbed them in.

A police spokesman said an 18-yearold phoned police on Saturday after finding two large cannabis plants “nestled amongst the shrubs” at their Woodend property.

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The girl’s parents were away for the Easter break and she “stumbled” across the plants with her friends, who were visiting.

“She told police she was pretty sure the plants belonged to either one or both of her parents. She called police immediately and it was a good thing she did. She took a stand against drugs,” he said.

Both plants, which were about 1.5 metres tall and were “near harvest”, were seized by police.

“She was confronted with an ethical dilemma. So often we say the older generation are wiser than the younger.

Maybe we didn’t get that right. The parents will be interviewed by police this week and they are aware the plants had been seized,” he said.

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so it appears the event in Methven must have gone off smoothly, which is fantastic,” Inspector Gaskin said.

Mr Russell, of Ashburton, said the weekend was held in good spirits and he was pleased with the behaviour of both event-goers and residents alike.

“All is well in Ashburton, we’re all happy with how things went for another year,” Mr Russell said.

Several checkpoints were carried out in Methven and Ashburton, but no major incidents were reported, Mr Russell said.

During the weekend operation, police breath-tested 800 drivers throughout the campaign, which covered Tekapo, Twizel, Timaru, Methven and Ashburton.

Sneaky thief strikes again Another woman has had her handbag “swiped” while visiting a Dunedin cemetery.

Senior Sergeant Brian Benn said police had taken complaints from three women who had their handbags stolen from their vehicles when visiting grave sites at Dunedin’s Andersons Bay Cemetery.

In the latest incident, someone hiding near the cemetery waited until the woman vacated her vehicle then “snuck up and swiped their handbag” on Monday.

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• Tourist missing Search volunteers were flown into the mountainous Croesus Track, between Blackball and Barrytown on the West Coast yesterday morning after a Dutch tourist was reported overdue on a day trek. West Coast police search and rescue co-ordinator Sergeant Sean Judd said the 43-year-old failed to rendezvous with an acquaintance on Monday.

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• Toddler falls into fire A 14-month-old Papamoa boy is recovering in Middlemore Hospital after being seriously burnt when he fell into a rubbish fire. A hospital spokesperson said the boy was in a stable condition in intensive care. The toddler, who had just started walking, stumbled into the fire on Friday while visiting family in Edgecumbe.

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FOSTER Margaret Elizabeth (nee Hight) – Died peacefully on March 30, 2013 at Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton aged 81 years.

Cherished wife, soul mate and companion for 61 years of the late Murray. Much loved and respected mother and mother in law of Barry and Jill (Christchurch), John and Michelle (Southbridge), the late Ross, and Joy (Tinwald), Julie and Anthony Hampton (Lauriston), Dearly loved and adored nan of Darryn and Melissa, Tim and Sharon, Katie and Stefan; Hayden, Jonelle and Ben, Richard and Abby; Joanne and James, Shane and Sarah, and the late Corey; Mark, Olivia and James.

And special nan to her 10 treasured great grandchildren. A special thank you to Rosebank staff for their care and support of Margaret during her stay with them. Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Margaret’s funeral service will be held in Our Chapel, Corner East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, April 5, commencing at 11am. To be followed by interment at the Springston Cemetery at 2.30pm.

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Ashburton’s newest citizens. Back row: (from left) Jason, Niki-Lee, Devin and Jordan-Lee Francis (Zimbabwe), Lesley Edwards (Britain), Gerrit Iosefo Lesa (Samoa), Graeme, Cynthia, Chanaide and Heath Fulton (Zimbabwe), Roger, Julia, Samuel and James Lasham (Britain), Noeleen, Timin, Kenan, Amber (South Africa) and Joseph Gillson (Britain) and Anna Harvey (Holland). Front row: (from left) Lilian and Josephine Lesa (Samoa), El Ouafi Aghoutan (Morocco), Crisma Paterson (Philippines), Mayor Angus McKay, Christopher Barnes (Britain), Carlos and Gisela Cuadrado (Argentina), Andrei Mugurel Nistor (Romania).

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BUTLER, Terence Maxwell (Terry) – Ann, Jo and Hayden together with their extended family are deeply saddened to announce his death on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the Mercy Hospice, Ponsonby, Auckland. Terry will be in our hearts and minds forever and we will always love and admire him for his dedication to his family and friends. A service for Terry will be held at the Greenlane Christian Center, 17 Marewa Road, Greenlane, Auckland on WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2013, at 11am. No flowers by request but a donation to the Ponsonby Mercy Hospice who cared for him and our family with dedication and compassion would be appreciated.

Communications to the Butler family at 9 Darwin Lane, Remuera, Auckland (butler.ta@xtra.co.nz).

Five police cars, two fire engines and two St John ambulances attended a crash on Alford Forest Road, in Allenton, yesterday. At least two people at the scene were attended to by paramedics, following an attempted U-turn, just after 1pm. Senior constable Mike Jackson said no-one was taken to hospital, but people involved in the crash were treated for bruising.

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Council control for liquor laws

By Sue Newman The number of licensed premises in the Ashburton District and the hours they can trade, could change dramatically when the community’s local alcohol policy is signed off next year.

The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 challenges local authorities to develop their own local alcohol policies (LAPS) for the sale and supply of alcohol on their patch. And that could impact on the way the owners of existing and new licensed premises are able to run their businesses.

Through Ashburton’s LAP, trading hours could be restricted or extended, the location and density of licences could be limited and conditions could be imposed on licensed premises.

A working group of council, licensees, police and a medical officer of health has been set up to explore sector interests.

The community’s involvement is under way with a council commissioned telephone survey.

The survey will see 400 people phoned by an independent research company and it was important people contacted took the time to respond, council community planning officer Gavin Thomas said.

Local authorities had the option of preparing their own alcohol plan or using the act’s conditions as its default plan, he said.

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WHAT A LAP WILL CONTROL • The location of licences in particular areas or near certain types of facilities, such as specific neighbourhoods or near schools or churches • The density of licences by specifying whether new licences or types of licences should be issued in a particular area • Conditions imposed on groups of licences such as a one-way door condition that would allow patrons to leave premises but not enter or re-enter after a certain time • Restrict or extend the maximum opening hours set in the new act – these are 8am to 4am for on-licences such as pubs and restaurants; 7am to 11pm for off-licences such as bottle stores and supermarkets visions quite liberal though in the expectation that most communities will do their own plan.

The survey is one part of this, it’s to get a gauge on what the community’s views are and it’d be fair to say this will be a fairly emotional topic.”

Because respondents would have little information on which to base their survey responses, the council accepted that these would be “from the heart” and would therefore be a good guide to community feeling, he said.

“The survey will provide a snapshot of community attitudes towards by-laws and numbers, locations and operating hours of licensed premises. This is just the first opportunity for community input to the policy process but it will form an important base from which the policy can be developed.”

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The policy will then be drafted and an appeal period is likely to follow.

“This reflects the fact that this policy could potentially impact on people’s livelihoods – there’s a fair bit at stake.

“It’s quite a responsibility that councils have been given, but generally they have been asking for this and it’s something that communities have been asking for too, to have a say on licensing decisions.”

For licensees and as well as the community, getting the LAP right was of paramount importance, and that would inevitably mean it would be a good compromise rather than dovetailed to any one sector Mr Thomas said.

A district licensing committee will be appointed in December.

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“We need earlier closing for bars but the number of off-licences and restaurants is okay.”

“The differing closing hours we have now caters for the needs different age groups and we have a good balance in the number of off-licences and restaurants.”

“3am closing is a bit late, but it would be good if closing times were staggered, we have far too many off-licences particularly near schools and there’s not enough variety in our restaurants.”

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It’s just so great to be back home again I

t is a cliché, but the best part about going abroad is coming back to New Zealand.

After a quick trip to an icy cold Europe, it was not only wonderful to arrive back into our Indian summer, but also rediscover the wonderful advantages our lives in Aotearoa have.

We far too often focus on what we do not have, and at times lose sight of what brings so many foreigners to move to our shores.

Sitting at the family bach in

OUR VIEW Banks Peninsula after my return, watching the boats skid across the water against a magnificent backdrop, I was reminded of the things we enjoy almost every day without having to pay a cent.

Visitors from off-shore would pay top dollar to be able to have the views around Mt Potts, the Rakaia Gorge, have a swim in Lake Hood or a picnic in the Ashburton Domain.

Many of the things that really matter in our lives are available on our doorstep, and still for free.

If life was all about money, like sometimes seems to be the case, we should all live in Dubai.

During a brief stopover, I found Dubai is a great place to visit.

At first glance it is easy to feel envious of the glamorous lives many of the Western ex-pats

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enjoy and feel impressed by the opulence on offer.

Scratch the surface however, and you will find the glamour covers up its fair share of social

unrest in a state that lacks our democratic principles, but most residents put up with it as long as the money keeps pouring in.

And with the northern hemisphere summer about to kick in, life in the Middle East will soon head back into the airconditioned indoors as the desert heat becomes too stifling.

On the flipside of that heat, last week I also suffered the polar conditions whipping Europe at present and felt glad we do not have to put up with

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smiling at a stranger, can easily be perceived as a threat and trigger a negative response.

We often forget that our national instinct to be open, interested and friendly towards others is one asset that sets New Zealanders apart and makes this country such a joy to live in.

And then I haven’t even mentioned the lack of traffic jams, pollution, overcrowding, violence or terrorist threats.

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either of these extremes back here.

We may be experiencing a record drought and have the annual cold snap that snows us in for a few days, but thankfully rarely anyone freezes to death in their own homes as is happening around Europe.

The most striking part about travelling though is how rarely you see a smile when walking around cities in Europe.

Looking people in the eye, as we are used to here, or even

Dog poo Respect your elders!

This was a lesson I learned as a very young child and it’s grown with me throughout my life ... until yesterday.

Yesterday I found myself leaning from a car window, yelling at the top of my voice “Pick it up” at an older person walking along the West Street carpark.

Today, I’m wishing I’d pulled out from the multitude of cars that lined the main road to actually go up to and verbally abuse this elderly individual up close and personal.

Why? What made me, a respectful middle-aged woman with three children want to tear into this man?

I’ll tell you.

I watched this elderly man walking his beautiful golden haired labrador through the carpark, I’m an avid people watcher and the love a man has for his dog and vice-versa always gives me a smile.

This smile froze on my lips yesterday as the man stopped walking as his dog squatted and relieved himself of his pre-

vious meal.

I waited with bated breath to see if he would berate his canine friend or if he would be the responsible owner he should be and clean up after his beloved pet.

OMG, he glanced around to see nobody was watching and began to lead his dog away from the defecation on the grass in the centre of the carpark.

This was when I saw ‘red’ and leaned from the car window and the first time in my entire life, yelled at an elderly person.

“Pick it up’, the man looked at me, looked at the ground and continued to walk on.

He was an elderly man, he was a dog owner, he knew his responsibilities and still he failed even after he was loudly reminded of the right thing to do.

We blame our youth for littering, fouling our town; should we really be surprised when this is the kind of example some of our elders are setting?

People like this man give dog owners a bad name. How dare you!

Pick it up! Be responsible.

Debbie Buller

Cycle ways Experience Mid Canterbury’s Nigel Birt wants more cycle ways (as long as service clubs and locals build them).

It is time we saw some evidence of this group’s existence in Ashburton.

Why do the existing cycle ways and other attractions remain such a secret?

Where are the promotional signs marking the walks and cycle ways start?

An AA road sign is all that directs people to Lake Hood, very easy to miss when travelling through town.

The ideal place for large billboards promoting our major attractions like Lake Hood and Plains Museum, are now being used to entice travellers to drive another 90 minutes to Tekapo.

Mr Birt please promote the use of what the town has to offer before asking for more.

B. George

Lindo column So (Nick) Lindo is still licking the backsides of the tories!

At least Shearer wasn’t want-

ing money like Banks was and he never lied like Banks.

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Diesel crisis?

Is there really a diesel crisis as your recent stories would have us believe.

Your online poll wouldn’t suggest so.

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Paying taxes Sorry Sandy, maybe they look like they are paying tax, they do pay tax on wages but they are registered as a charitable trust so are supposed to be nonprofit making, but still make massive profits, on money and land etc, that was given to them, while, health, roading, education, etc all are being told there is no money, all miss out big time.

They do not pay taxes on profit, which they make massive amounts of.

Oh and I do read the Press.

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Souvenir fraudsters fined $259,000 Companies and individuals who passed off high-priced imported souvenirs as New Zealand-made products to tourists have been fined a total of $259,000.

Top Sky Holdings Limited and Kiwi Wool Limited were convicted and fined in the Auckland District Court.

Tourists from China, Korea and Taiwan visited the companies’ stores in Rotorua and Auckland through organised tours where they paid up to $8000 for alpaca rugs and up to $1000 for duvets and merino products, claiming to be “proudly

made in New Zealand” and 100 per cent alpaca or merino. The rugs had instead been imported from Peru, the alpaca wool content was only 20 per cent and the other items were not merino, said the Commerce Commission.

“New Zealand has a reputation for producing premium wool products. Tourists are prepared to pay significantly more for these products than for the same items produced elsewhere.

“To sell items as New Zealand made when they are not, or knowingly label and sell items as 100 per cent alpaca or merino wool when they are not, is delib-

erately misleading buyers,” said Commerce Commission chairman Mark Berry.

Top Sky Holdings was fined $140,000 and managing consultant Haidong Chen fined $24,500.

Kiwi Wool was fined $84,000 and managing director Jinming Chen fined $10,500.

The company directors admitted they knew the representations made about the duvets were not true and manufacturing the duvets cost about $70 each.

At sentencing, Judge Dawson said the misrepresentations made by the defendants was “deliberate and systematic”and”

“undermined fair competition in the market. The sentencing sent a clear message that exploitation of international visitors would not be tolerated, said Associate Tourism Minister Chris Tremain.

“New Zealand makes many high-quality products that international visitors like purchasing when on holiday here. We will continue to ensure that goods offered to visitors are high-quality, good value for money and are correctly labelled,” he said.”

Six other companies and five individuals are also facing charges as a result of the investigation.

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Toddler abandoned in middle of night

By Kurt Bayer Two men will appear in court on Thursday after a 14-month-old baby boy was found abandoned and crying in a pram in the middle of the night.

The child was found on a Christchurch city centre street around 3am last Thursday by a resident who heard it crying.

Police were phoned and the boy was taken into Child, Youth and Family (CYF) care where it remains.

Two men, aged 29 and 43, one of whom believed to be the child’s father, were arrested soon afterwards.

Sergeant Vaughan Lapslie said they are due in Christchurch District Court this week charged with leaving a child without prop-

er supervision. CYF acting southern regional director Theresa Perham said the child had been placed with a Child, Youth and Family caregiver “until we could ensure his safety with family”.

“He is doing well,” she said.

“We are working closely with the family to make arrangements for the future care of this little boy.”

Babies and young children should never be left without ade-

quate supervision, she said.

“We would advise anyone who comes across a baby in this situation to call the police.

“When we are alerted to children being left unsupervised, we ensure the immediate safety of the children and work with the parents and wider family to ensure the children are adequately supervised in the future.”

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Forty angry red zone property owners are launching a legal battle to force Gerry Brownlee to change his mind over compensation.

They have engaged high profile lawyer Grant Cameron to file proceedings in the High Court next week for a judicial review.

Mr Cameron said his clients were owners of vacant land and uninsured properties in the red zone calling themselves “quake outcasts”.

“The issue is whether or not they should accept the Government’s offer of 50 per cent of the value of their land,” Mr Cameron said.

The claimants want the same compensation offer other red zone properties owners received - the 2007 rateable value of their properties.

Earthquake Recovery Minister Brownlee was unavailable to comment on the court action yesterday.

But he has publicly previously said the Government is being fair in offering 50 per cent compensation to uninsured home owners and those that owned sections in the red zone.

Bare land can not be insured, which left many people facing huge financial burdens when the February 22 quake struck.

Mr Cameron said there was “no logical reason” for the Crown to the approach it had, nor to differentiate between insured and uninsured owners.

“The Government has said reg-

ularly that it would help those disadvantaged in the Canterbury earthquakes and offered to purchase properties from affected people.

“If they are genuine in their social conscience and want to help people, then they should treat them in the same way,” Mr Cameron said.

The current offer was “minimising the liability for the taxpayer,” but disadvantaging those worst affected by the earthquakes.

Mr Cameron said the High Court had created a fast-track option for legal action related to the earthquakes and the judicial review would take advantage of that.

He hoped for a “very early hearing”, but said regardless of the outcome the findings might need to got to the Court of Appeal and that would not be before next year.

Wellington-based Queen’s Counsel Francis Cooke was preparing legal papers and making some adjustments before filing the documents.

Mr Cameron said he was “very confident” of success.

“It’s going to make for a very interesting and dramatic court case,” he said. “Obviously we think the Government’s position is untenable.” * Meanwhile, a group of Brooklands residents met last night to plan a challenge for Mr Brownlee to remove the red zone.

A spokesman said the residents believed the red zone could be lifted as it had “served its purpose”.

- APNZ

EQC leaks ‘result of human error’

By Kate Shuttleworth Prime Minister John Key says privacy breaches like the two revealed in one week at the Earthquake Commission are inevitable, and they are a result of human error, not systemic failure.

EQC mistakenly sent an email containing claims status and private details of 83,000 claimants, covering 98,000 claims, to former EQC contractor Bryan Staples.

Six days later it was revealed another claimant received an email with an attached spreadsheet with 2200 names, stopped cheque details and claim amounts worth $23 million.

Mr Key said EQC had been under huge pressure to grow quickly and respond to hundreds of thousands of claims, and operate with a high degree of urgency.

“There’s always a trade-off here; there will always be human error.

“I don’t have a simple way of stopping human error. If there were a few people you can get them in a room, but you’re literally talking about tens of thousands of people who might make a simple mistake by forwarding an email.

“I don’t know about you - but over the weekend I happened to get three text messages from people that were nothing to do with me.

They were very affectionate towards me; but they were nothing to do with me.

“It happens.”

Mr Key said Government employ-

ees were expected to treat sensitive information carefully and diligently.

“We need to make sure that we’re instructing our agencies and departments to follow the most precautionary steps that they can, in terms of the dissemination of what could be personal information. Inevitably some people still make mistakes.”

Information systems at the Earthquake Commission will return to business on a restricted basis.

Last week Minister Responsible for the Earthquake Commission, Gerry Brownlee, called for a complete freeze on IT systems, including all incoming and outgoing emails.

Last night Mr Brownlee announced a resumption of EQC’s claims settlement system and functions that allow the Commission to pay contractors in the Canterbury home repair programme.

Staff will still not be able to email customers, but customers will be able to email staff.

Claims processing will be delayed, including claims payments.

Mr Brownlee has continued to restrict online forms including query forms, Official Information Act requests and complaints forms.

EQC staff worked over Easter with a team from the office of the Government’s chief information officer, Colin MacDonald.

Other functions will return progressively this week, subject to EQC and Mr MacDonald’s sign-off that systems to protect privacy are appropriate and robust, Mr Brownlee said.

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Rain will bring some relief to droughtstricken farms this week, but the seasonal outlook is for dry conditions to linger well into autumn.

Niwa’s seasonal climate outlook for April to June has predicted near normal rainfall and above average temperatures throughout the country.

But river flows and soil moisture levels will likely be below normal in the north including Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty - and near or below normal for the rest of the North Island.

Niwa principal climate scientist Brett Mullan said the current dry conditions meant it would take some time for river and soil moisture levels to recover.

“When things get so dry, you really need more than the average rainfall to bring the soils up to normal.”

He said temperatures would be above average for the outlook period, but would

The policeman found to have planted evidence that led to the wrongful conviction of Arthur Allan Thomas for the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe has died.

Former Detective Inspector Bruce Hutton, 83, died in Middlemore Hospital late on Sunday night after a short illness.

Mr Hutton was the officer in charge of the homicide inquiry after the Crewes were murdered in their home at Pukekawa in Waikato in 1970.

Mr Thomas was convicted of the crime in two trials before being pardoned.

A shell case from his rifle was found by police in the garden outside the Crewe home, and was an important part of the evidence against him.

But after his pardon, a royal commission of inquiry strongly criticised the actions of police, concluding there was never any solid reason to charge Mr Thomas with the murders.

The commission report said: “Mr Hutton and Mr [Len] Johnston planted the shell case ... and they did so to manufacture evidence that Mr Thomas’ rifle had been used for the killings.”

Neither Mr Hutton nor Detective Sergeant Johnston, who died in 1978, were investigated by police over the allegations of wrongdoing or held to account.

The Solicitor-General at the time said there was not enough information to lay charges against them.

In 2010, a review of the original inquiry into the murders was ordered by police after a request from the Crewes’ daughter, Rochelle. Until then, she had not spoken about the murders, which happened in the family home when she was a baby.

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“We have the right people and equipment on hand, both in Raglan and elsewhere, available to deploy, and each agency remains committed to returning the missing couple back to their family.”

CAA spokesman Mike Richards said an aviation expert was helping to identify parts of the aircraft found on the sea floor.

“With the aircraft being upside down, fully submerged and bedded in the ocean floor, it’s quite a difficult task to

make sense of the visual images that are being relayed to the team on the surface.”

Mr Richards said police and Navy were working on recovery options to retrieve the occupants.

“Once this is done, the CAA can start considering ways to carry out the investigation as to establishing possible cause or causes of the accident.

“The co-ordinated efforts of the agencies involved are both substantial and remarkable.”

- APNZ

gradually feel more autumnal in the coming weeks.

“It will stay warmer I think, but people will start to notice that the summer is finished.”

Dr Mullan said the seasonal climate outlook tracked general tendencies, but could not predict individual weather patterns.

“You can’t use it to forecast whether you take your umbrella to work.

“But if you’re making lots of decisions about water use - and I think this applies to farmers as well as energy companies you can bias your decision to take into account the fact that it could be a bit drier than normal.”

WeatherWatch head analyst Philip Duncan said seasonal outlooks had some relevance, but were not accurate enough.

“For the general public, they probably mislead people more than anything because it’s not a weather forecast, it’s a climate prediction,” he said.

“This summer is a good example; there

was no talk of a big drought coming, and that’s what we got.”

Mr Duncan said the key thing to take from the latest seasonal outlook was that the weather would be “far more chaotic” without a driving El Nino or La Nina.

“There’s nothing really dominant to control the weather patterns, so we can have a real mixture of weather, which is exactly what we’ve had for the past two winters, without a big driving force.”

Mr Duncan said rain was likely to move up the country today and tomorrow, and more rainmakers were predicted over the next two weeks. But it would not be significant enough to ease the drought.

“The rain we’re getting at the moment might be enough to ease the drought for some people, but it doesn’t reverse and put us back to where we should be.

He said colder temperatures were likely from today and tomorrow.

“It’s going to feel a lot like autumn.

Temperatures are going to really drop, especially for the South Island.” -APNZ

Crewe murders June 1970: Harvey and Jeannette Crewe murdered at their Pukekawa farmhouse.

Daughter Rochelle is fed for five days by an unidentified woman.

August 16: Jeannette’s body found in Waikato River.

Harvey’s body was found on September 16.

11 November: Farmer Arthur Allan Thomas, who lived nearby, charged with the Crewe murders.

March 1971: Jury finds Thomas guilty. Appeal dismissed, starts life term.

February 1973: New trial ordered.

April 1973: Thomas convicted again.

December 17, 1979: Thomas pardoned and freed. A royal commission of inquiry found he had been convicted on evidence planted by police officers. was “ongoing” but a source close to the investigation said the findings would be released “very, very soon”.

Mr Thomas’ brother Des, who made a lengthy formal complaint to the police over the actions of the detectives involved in the case, was upset to hear Mr Hutton had died before it was resolved.

Des Thomas was disgusted that although the royal commission criticised Mr Hutton and others, they did not face any consequences for their actions.

“They should have acted straight away. It just shows that the New Zealand police do not want to investigate their own,” he said yesterday.

“Hutton should have been charged straight after the commission. I think they wanted to stall and let people like Hutton die before they could be made answerable for their crimes.”

Arthur Thomas could not be reached for comment.

There was no answer at Mr Hutton’s family home.

It is understood Mr Hutton spent some time in hospital before he died, and was visited frequently by his family, friends and police colleagues.

Former detective Norm Sowter, a friend since the 1950s, visited Mr Hutton two days before he died.

“He was a top detective and will be missed by many of us. There is no question in my mind that they considered him fair and honest,” Sowter said yesterday.

Mr Hutton had been “hounded” over the Crewe case for many years, he said.

“He’s never answered his critics, he’s always wanted to protect the privacy of his family. But he was always happy in his knowledge that he knew the truth and he didn’t have to prove it to anyone else.”

Another former detective, Ron Chadwick, hoped the new review would finally give those involved in the case the answers they needed.

“I spoke to Bruce on one or two occasions about the case. He’d gotten used to it [criticism over his role] and it’s a shame his side of the story wasn’t put out there fairly at the time.”

Mr Chadwick said it was a “great shame” that Mr Hutton would not hear the results of the review.

He hoped the case would finally be put to rest, and his mate would be vindicated.

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Plane wreckage, thought to contain the bodies of 2degrees’ chief executive Eric Hertz and his wife Kathy, has been found on the sea floor off the Waikato coast.

Searchers confirmed yesterday that an underwater sonar image of an object 56 metres below the surface was that of the Beechcraft Baron that ditched into the sea at high speed near Gannet Island on Saturday.

A Navy squad specialising in mine sweeping on Monday joined efforts to retrieve the bodies of Mr Hertz, 58, and Mrs Hertz, 64.

The Navy team’s Remus 100 autonomous underwater vehicle, which travels along the contours of the ocean floor, identified a large object of interest, and police have now confirmed the sonar image is of the aircraft.

Sergeant Warren Shaw of the Waikato police search and rescue squad described the find as a success, but said it was a small step in the overall recovery operation.

“Once we were able to identify the item of interest it meant we could narrow our search field considerably and deploy even more specialised equipment to the crash site.”

He said a team including police, Navy and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) personnel had returned to the scene on a Coastguard vessel at first light yesterday.

Searchers yesterday afternoon received confirmation that the remoteoperated underwater vehicle (ROUV) had captured images of the aircraft.

“What the ROUV has shown us is that the aircraft is upside down at a depth of 56 metres on the ocean floor, which means the agencies involved have not been able to confirm if the occupants, Mr and Mrs Hertz, are on board or not,” Mr Shaw said.

The challenges faced by the agencies involved were difficult but not insur-

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Ryder doesn’t remember attack

By Kurt Bayer Bashed cricket star Jesse Ryder has been interviewed by police yesterday after his brutal bashing, but still doesn’t remember what happened to him.

The 28-year-old was punched and kicked outside Aikmans bar in Merivale, Christchurch, early last Thursday after a season’s end night out with his Wellington Firebirds’ teammates.

Ryder’s manager Aaron Klee confirmed that officers visited Ryder at the city’s hospital yesterday.

It’s not clear how much he could tell them about the attack or what led up to it.

“Unfortunately Mr Ryder has no recollection of what took place or the events leading up to the incident,” said Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Archer.

“This is not uncommon when a

victim has received a head injury of this nature.

“Should Mr Ryder gain sufficient recollection as his recovery continues then we may look to speak to him again, however there are no immediate plans to re-interview him at this time.”

Police wouldn’t go into details of what officers were told.

A spokesman confirmed the investigation was ongoing, but would not say if they were looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.

Two men, aged 20 and 37, have been charged with assault, and will appear at the Christchurch District Court on Thursday.

After spending two days in an induced coma with a fractured skull and a punctured lung, Ryder moved out of the intensive care unit at Christchurch Hospital on Sunday and is now in a stable condition in a ward.

He is on his feet and is walking

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around his hospital room as his “remarkable” recovery continues.

A hospital spokeswoman yesterday said he was continuing to improve.

It was not yet known when he will be discharged or potentially moved to Wellington Hospital.

Mr Klee spoke on Monday of his amazement at how much Ryder’s condition improved over the Easter holiday weekend.

“It’s been remarkable to see how someone can go from the state he was in to where he’s at now,” Mr Klee told APNZ. “He’s up on his feet ... he can walk around the room, but he’s still very weak.

“He continues to get better and build his strength. He’s still got injuries but we’ll continue to work through them. It’s just time and rest from here.”

Ryder released a statement at the weekend to let his fans know: “I’m OK.” - apnz

Women attacked as they slept A 25-year-old Blenheim man has been arrested over the sexual assault of two 16-year-old girls during a Picton home invasion.

The man entered a bedroom where the girls were sleeping about 3.45am on Sunday and sexually assaulted both of them, police said.

Their caregivers were alerted by their screams and the man fled. He was arrested shortly afterwards.

He appeared in Blenheim District

Court yesterday charged with burglary, performing an indecent act on a girl aged 12 to 16, driving while disqualified and driving with excess breath alcohol.

He was remanded in custody to reappear on April 8.

Meanwhile, a 46-year-old West Coast man appeared in Greymouth District Court today charged with sexually assaulting a woman as she slept.

Police alleged the man forced his way into a house early on Sunday and attacked the woman.

He was arrested later that day and charged with burglary, assault with intent to commit rape, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, indecent assault and cultivating cannabis, police said.

He was remanded in custody to reappear on April 9.

- APNZ

Vehicle sought in shooting inquiry Police are seeking a vehicle seen parked up near where George Taiaroa was shot dead shortly before it happened.

The roadworker was killed at Atiamuri in south Waikato two weeks ago.

Police said yesterday a dark-coloured 4WD believed to have been

parked on a nearby road before the fatal shooting was of interest to the investigation.

A farmer travelling in a tractor on Ongaroto Rd from Whakamaru towards Atiamuri on the afternoon of March 19 told police he saw the 4WD parked on the road and it later travelled behind him on Tram

Rd towards a traffic controlled point manned by Mr Taiaroa.

The 4WD did not try to pass the tractor and appeared to drop back as it neared the traffic control point, resulting in the vehicle being stopped by Mr Taiaroa, said Detective Inspector Tim Anderson.

-APNZ

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The country’s two main islands could soon also be officially known as Te Ika-a-Mui and Te Waipounamu.

The New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa Public is consulting the public about whether to formally assign official alternative Maori names to the North and South Islands.

The process means the English and Maori names could be officially used together or individually.

The move follows a proposal to change the name South Island to its original Maori name Te Waipounamu (the waters of greenstone) and the North Island to Te Ika-a-Maui (the fish of Maui), suggested after consultation with iwi.

“At that time we noted that the existing English names were recorded names, rather than official names.

“They appeared on LINZ’s maps, charts and other official publications but had never been formalised under the NZGB Act, board chairman Don Grant said.

The Maori names for the islands appeared on early official government maps of New Zealand but it is unclear why the practice stopped in the 1950s.

The NZGB agreed the English names should be formalised and Maori alternative names should be assigned and be formalised at the same time, Dr Grant said.

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Prime Minister John Key has called Anglo-American mining giant Rio Tinto’s bluff, saying the Government will offer no more than the short-term subsidy offered last week to keep the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter open.

Key told the TV3 and Newstalk ZB networks that Rio, which owns just on 80 per cent of the 41-year-old smelter, had rejected the short-term subsidy over Easter weekend, saying it needed a long-term deal and was returning to talks with its supplier, Meridian Energy.

“We have put our best foot forward, put our only card on the table,” Key told TV3’s Firstline.

“We have no interest in a longterm subsidy. If it can’t stand on its own two feet, it shouldn’t be there.”

He confirmed the smelter contracts lock Rio into paying for power for the next three years, whether they use it or not, and that there is a two-and-a-half year wind-down period.

“They could do things faster, but it would cost (Rio) an awful lot of money,” Key said.

The smelter directly employs around 750 people, accounts for about 10.5 per cent of economic activity in Southland, and con-

tributes export earnings from the shipment of high grade aluminium from the port of Bluff to international markets.

The stalemate effectively returns negotiations to where they were last Thursday morning, when Meridian chief executive Mark Binns announced Meridian thought a new deal with Rio Tinto “unlikely”, while the Rio subsidiary which controls the smelter, Pacific Aluminium, said it remained hopeful a deal could be struck.

Rio signed a new electricity supply contract in 2007, to start from January 1 this year, and with a lifespan of up to 18 years.

In the middle of last year, Rio told Meridian it wanted to renegotiate because tumbling aluminium prices were cutting profitability.

Rio’s Pacific Aluminium comprises a group of ageing Australasian smelters, including Tiwai Point, and has managed to garner subsidies from Australian state governments which Key said were worth “billions of dollars” to keep smelters open.

The smelters are being packaged for sale, with Rio seeking to extract maximum value from its suppliers as it scours the world for buyers in a depressed mar-

ket and seeks to extricate itself from substantial losses caused by over-investment globally in the aluminium sector. That overinvestment cost long-time Rio chief executive Tom Albanese his job earlier this year.

The hands-off approach by Wellington is understood to have frustrated Rio, which is used to governments buckling to the pressure it can exert as a major global industrial player. It is currently wrangling with the Mongolian government, which has sought to raise royalties on mining operations in breach, Rio argues, of a 2009 investment agreement.

Key told TV3 it was still possible a deal would be reached.

“Who knows where things will go?” he said, claiming Pacific Aluminium gave every sign of wanting to keep the asset open in preparation for eventual sale.

“I’m not as convinced as others may be that they will walk away.”

Labour’s state-owned enterprises spokesman Clayton Cosgrove said the government were “acting like amateurs” and desperate to maintain its asset sales programme, starting with the sale of 49 per cent of electricity company MightyRiverPower next month.

– APNZ The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.

KiwiRail shuts shop for winter Employment confidence looks up KiwiRail, the state-owned railway, will close its Coastal Pacific train service between Picton and Christchurch for the winter months to stem losses running at $3 million a year.

The tourist train needs to sell 130 seats to break even though last winter some services carried just 30, said Deborah Hume, general manager, passenger, in a statement.

The losses reflect “a significant drop in the tourism and domestic travel market to and from Christchurch after the earthquake,” she said. “These losses are highest through winter.”

The decline in patronage is more pronounced than for the TranzAlpine service, which links Christchurch with the West Coast and takes tourists through the Southern Alps. The railway has tried to arrest the decline with packages such as Whale Watch and wine tasting and had hiked

fares by about 20 per cent. The Government took a $1.4 billion impairment charge on the rail network last year after revaluing the assets and splitting the underlying land from the rolling stock.

While operating earnings at KiwiRail rose in the first half, driven by the freight business, it

took a charge of $189.9 million, relating to the restructuring of the company, resulting in a net loss of $75.9 million.

The railway is exiting unprofitable businesses including its Hillside workshops in Dunedin, and wants to scrap the Napier to Gisborne line, which has suffered expensive storm damage. – APNZ

New Zealand households’ employment confidence turned positive for the first time since the third quarter of 2011, as Canterbury and Auckland dragged up an otherwise gloomy nation.

The Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index rose to 100.7 in the first quarter from 99.1 three months earlier on a scale where 100 separates optimists from pessimists.

Employment data is being keenly watched after the household labour force survey for the final three months of 2012 showed the participation rate fell to the lowest level since September 2004, while employment shrank, casting doubt on the strength of the economic recovery. Yesterday’s survey results mark the fourth quarterly improvement in a row though the labour market remains subdued.

“Households’ job optimism is inching up,” said Westpac economist Dominick Stephens.

“The fact that it’s once again on a modest uptrend suggests that we may see the jobs market firming a little this year.”

Households now feel safer in their own jobs, with a net 14 per cent expecting it to improve in the next 12 months, up from 3 per cent in the

December quarter. Yet a net 56 per cent said jobs are hard to get a net 12 per cent expect job opportunities to reduce over the coming year, a deterioration from the net 6 per cent who saw worse times ahead in the previous survey.

A net 24 per cent of households said their wages had improved over the past 12 months though those expecting an increase in the year ahead fell back slightly to 33 per cent.

Canterbury remained the most upbeat region, with employment confidence edging up to 113.6 from 113.5, while Auckland showed a marked improvement, up to 104.1 from 96.9.

In Wellington, sentiment turned negative, falling to 97.4 from 101.1. Northland confidence fell to 94.5 from 96.3 while in the Waikato, confidence improved to 96.2 from 95.8. Bay of Plenty confidence rose to 93.9 from 92.5 and Gisborne/Hawke’s Bay fell to 95.8 from 96.

Confidence in Taranaki/ManawatuWhanganui weakened to 96.3 from 97.6. In the South Island, Nelson/Marlborough/West Coast improved to 98.3 from 96.7 while Otago fell to 88.8, the worst result in the survey, from 94.4 and Southland dropped to 95.2 from 97.5.

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US destroyer sent to S. Korea coast The United States has positioned a destroyer off the coast of South Korea to defend against a possible missile strike, a US official says as the South vows a strong response to any provocation from the North.

The USS Fitzgerald was moved to the south-western coast after taking part in military exercises, instead of returning to its home port in Japan, a US defence official said yesterday. The deployment came as North Korea’s rub-

ber-stamp parliament formalised the country’s status as a nuclear weapons state and appointed a sacked economic reformer for a fresh term as prime minister.

At a meeting with senior military officials yesterday, South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye said she took the near-daily stream of bellicose threats emanating from the North over the past month “very seriously”.

“I believe that we should make a

strong and immediate retaliation without any other political considerations if (the North) stages any provocation against our people,” she said.

Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin made it clear that the South would carry out pre-emptive strikes against the North’s nuclear and missile facilities in the event of hostilities breaking out.

“We will ... establish a so-called ‘active deterrence’ aimed at neu-

tralising the North’s nuclear and missile threats quickly,” Kim said.

The Korean peninsula has been caught in a cycle of escalating tensions since the North launched a long-range rocket in December, which critics condemned as a ballistic missile test.

United Nations sanctions were followed by a nuclear test in February, after which came more sanctions and apocalyptic threats from Pyongyang as South Korea

and the United States conducted joint military drills.

Those threats have run the gamut from warnings of limited artillery bombardments to preemptive nuclear strikes, and have been met with counter-warnings from Seoul and Washington of severe repercussions.

The White House said yesterday that despite its threats, North Korea had yet to back up its words with mass troop mobilisations.

“Despite the harsh rhetoric we’re hearing from Pyongyang, we are not seeing changes to the North Korean military posture, such as large-scale mobilisations and positioning of forces,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

In addition to the deployment of the USS Fitzgerald, the US military said yesterday it had deployed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to South Korea as part of the ongoing “Foal Eagle” military exercise.

– AFP

Brave Pakistani woman first to run for parliament A 40-year-old Pakistani housewife has made history by becoming the first woman to run for parliament from the country’s deeply conservative tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Badam Zari is pushing back against patriarchal traditions and braving potential attack by Islamist militants in the hope of forcing the government to focus more on helping Pakistani women.

“I want to reach the assembly to become a voice for women, especially those living in the tribal areas,” Zari told The Associated Press in an interview yesterday.

“This was a difficult decision, but now I am determined and hopeful society will support me.”

Many of Pakistan’s 180 million citizens hold fairly conservative views on the role of women in society. But those views are even more pronounced in the country’s semiautonomous tribal region, a poor, isolated area in the north-west dominated by Pashtun tribesmen who follow a very conservative brand of Islam.

Most women in the tribal region are uneducated, rarely work outside the home and wear long, flowing clothes that cover most of their skin when they appear in public.

Zari, who finished high school, spoke to reporters at a press conference yesterday wearing a colourful shawl wrapped around her body and head, with only her eyes showing.

Life for women in the tribal

An Afghan teenager fatally stabbed an American soldier in the neck as he played with children in eastern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as the US death toll rose sharply last month with an uptick in fighting due to warmer weather.

Last week’s calculated attack shows that international troops still face a myriad of dangers even though they are increasingly taking a back seat in operations with Afghan forces ahead of a full withdrawal by the end of 2014.

– AP

• 6 dead in mine blast A new explosion in a Chinese coal mine has killed six people and left 11 missing, three days after a blast killed 28 workers at the same mine, state media says. The blasts occurred at the Babao mine operated by the state group Tonghua Mining in Baishan prefecture in the north-eastern province of Jilin. An official at the Babao mine office confirmed to AFP that the two blasts occurred in the same mine.

– AFP

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Badam Zari (right) addresses a news conference with her sister in Khar, capital of Pakistani tribal area of Bajur yesterday. region has become even more difficult in recent years with the growing presence of Taliban militants who use the border region as their main sanctuary in the country. The militants have been waging a bloody insurgency against the government to impose Islamic law in the country and have a history of using violence to enforce their hard-line views on women.

Last fall, Taliban fighters in the north-west shot 15-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai in the head in an unsuccessful attempt

• Deadly attack

to kill her because she resisted the militants’ views and was a strong advocate of girls’ education.

Zari is from of Bajur, one of many areas in the tribal region where the Pakistani army has been battling the Taliban. She filed the paperwork necessary to run for office on Monday in Khar, the main town in Bajur. She was accompanied by her husband, who she said fully backed her decision to run for a seat in the National Assembly in the May 11 vote.

– AP

A suicide truck bomber has killed 11 people at a police headquarters as data showed March was Iraq’s deadliest month since August, raising fears of a surge in violence leading up to elections. The tanker truck was detonated at a police headquarters in Tikrit, slain dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown 160km north of Baghdad, also wounding 59 people, according to security and medical officials.

– AFP

al-Assad. Of the total killed in March, at least 2074 were rebel fighters, among them 86 former Syrian army soldiers who defected and joined the insurgency, Abdel Rahman said.

Also among them were 588 rebels whose names the group could not verify, including “a large number of non-Syrian fighters”, said the Observatory, which relies on a network of activists, lawyers and medics for its information.

Also killed were 1464 troops loyal to the Assad regime, Abdel

Rahman told AFP. The Observatory also reported the deaths of 387 people whose identities were impossible to verify.

“We believe the actual numbers of army troops and rebels killed in March were higher,” said Abdel Rahman, adding both sides in Syria’s war try to conceal the full extent of casualties to boost morale.

The United Nations said in January that more than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011.

– AFP

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Dallas Wiens (rear) and Jamie Nash pose for photos after their wedding ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas, at the weekend. Wiens, who became the first in the nation to receive a full face transplant after a 2008 power line accident, wed Nash, another burn victim he met at a support group.

Death sought for cinema shooter Face transplant Texan marries Prosecutors have revealed they will seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing 12 people in a crowded US cinema last year, as the judge delayed the trial until next year.

The case against alleged shooter James Holmes will probably take years to reach a resolution, Judge William Sylvester said, as some in the Colorado court showed frustration at the likely

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Still, a no-nonsense approach can get you where you need to be.

South African police say Happy Sindane has been found stoned to death. The teen made headlines around the world when he claimed he had been kidnapped and enslaved by blacks. The motive for his killing was not known.

Police spokesman Captain Leonard Hlathi said yesterday no arrests have been made. A four-month enquiry in 2003 established that Sindane was the son of a black domestic worker and the white man for whom she worked when the boy was born in 1983. Sindane had told reporters that he was a white slave, abused, threatened and forced to live outdoors tending animals. – AP

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March Syria’s ‘deadliest month’ The month of March was the deadliest in Syria’s two-year conflict, with more than 6000 people killed, a monitoring group says.

“At least 6005 people were killed in March. A total of 2080 were civilians, among them 298 children aged under 16. Another 291 fatalities were women,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

Most rebel fighters in Syria’s conflict are civilians who have taken up arms to fight against forces loyal to President Bashar

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length of the legal proceedings.

Twenty-five-year-old Holmes last week offered to plead guilty in return for escaping the death penalty and accepting a life jail term, in what his lawyers said could have ended the case immediately.

But District Attorney George Brauchler said yesterday he was seeking a death sentence after asking victims’ relatives what

they wanted. His office had heard from 800 survivors, victims and relatives, he said.

“In all the information that is available to me, it is my intention that for James Eagan Holmes in this case, justice is death,” he told the court in Centennial.

The trial had been tentatively set for August. But Sylvester postponed it until February 3, 2014.

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A man who became the first person in America to receive a full face transplant after a 2008 power line accident has wed another burn victim he met at a support group.

Dallas Wiens and Jamie Nash exchanged vows at the weekend at the Fort Worth church

where he was critically hurt.

Pastor Scott Cox says about 200 people attended the wedding at Ridglea Baptist Church.

Cox says the couple told him they believe God brought them together.

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LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) Fiery words from your partner may set a difficult tone today. It might not be until later that things between you become more positive. They may be feeling frustrated by life and keen to experience something new. Help them out with ideas that encourage adventure and a journey into the unknown. Strangely, you can gain from this too Libra.

• Madonna in Malawi Blantyre residents say that US pop diva Madonna has arrived in Malawi for an unannounced visit. An aviation department worker said Madonna’s jet landed at the Kamuzu International Airport in the country’s capital, Lilongwe, yesterday. It was not clear if she came with her children. The singer has previously stayed at the exclusive Kumbali Lodge in Lilongwe.

Madonna adopted two children from Malawi. She promised the court she would bring her adopted children twice “every two or three years”.

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touched a power line. He suffered facial injuries and was blinded. In 2011 he underwent a full facial transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Nash’s hands and back were burnt in a 2010 traffic accident.

– AP

Iraq has executed al-Qaeda’s former Baghdad chief and three other men convicted of terror-related offences, despite calls for a moratorium in its use of the death penalty. The executions brought to 22 the number of times Iraq has carried out the death penalty so far this year, compared with 129 in 2012, which was among the highest such figures in the world. “These terrorists were executed by hanging,” the justice ministry said yesterday.

– AFP

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ike most cuisines, Moroccan food is about the careful blending of spices that can change basic ingredients into a sensory sensation.

Spices are the defining point to any authentic Moroccan meal.

The 10 most common are: Cayenne (felfla), cinnamon (karfa), turmeric (quekoum), ginger (skinjbir), black pepper (elbezar), aniseed (nafaa), seaseme seeds (jinjelan), cumin (kamoon), paprika (felfla hlouwa) and saffron (zafrane). Add salt to that list.

The western take on Moroccon cuisine may not be strictly authentic, but it does provide a wonderful insight into the way in which that cuisine’s traditional spices can create wonderful tasting meals.

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1t salt 1t ground cumin 1t ground ginger 1t ground turmeric 3/4 t ground cinnamon 3/4 t freshly ground black pepper 1/2 t ground white pepper 1/2 t ground coriander seed 1/2 t ground cayenne pepper 1/2 t ground allspice 1/2 t ground nutmeg 1/4 t ground cloves • Mix all ingredients in a small bowl until evenly blended.

• Store in an airtight container up to 1 month.

500g skinless chicken breast meat 2t salt 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 carrots, sliced 2 stalks celery, sliced 1T minced fresh ginger root 1/2 t paprika 3/4 t ground cumin 1/2 t dried oregano 1/4 t ground cayenne pepper 1/4 t ground turmeric 1 1/2 c chicken stock 1C crushed tomatoes 1C canned chickpeas, drained 1 zucchini, sliced 1T lemon juice • Season chicken with salt.

• Brown in a large saucepan over medium heat until almost cooked through.

• Remove chicken from pan and set aside.

• Saute onion, garlic, carrots and celery in same pan.

• When tender, stir in ginger, paprika, cumin, oregano, cayenne pepper and turmeric.

• Stir fry for about 1 minute, then mix in broth and tomatoes.

• Return chicken to pan, reduce heat to low and simmer for about 10 minutes.

• Add chickpeas and zucchini to pan and bring to simmering again.

• Cover pan and cook for about 15 minutes.

• Stir in lemon juice and serve.

Moroccan couscous

Simple Moroccan spice mix

Moroccan chicken

5t ground nutmeg 5t ground cumin 5t ground coriander 2 1/2 teaspoons allspice 2 1/2 t ground ginger 1 1/4 t cayenne pepper 1 1/4 t cinnamon

• Mix spices together and store in an airtight container.

1 1/4 t ground cumin 1/2 t ground ginger 1/4 t ground cloves 1/8 t ground cayenne pepper 1/2 t ground cardamom 1/4 t ground coriander 1/4 t ground allspice 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 red onion, cut in half and thinly sliced 1 red, pepper, cut into cubes 2 zucchinis, halved lengthwise

and cut into cubes 1/2 C raisins 1t salt grated zest of one orange 1 tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 1/2 C chicken stock 1/2 C orange juice 1 1/2 C couscous 3T chopped fresh mint

• Add the oil, ground coriander, cumin, ginger and a pinch of salt.

• Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until aromatic, then remove from the heat.

• Toss the carrots with the spices in the pan.

• Add the honey and toss again.

• Transfer the mixture to a serving bowl.

• Mix with the lemon juice, orange juice and the fresh coriander.

• Place a large, heavy bottomed pot over medium heat.

• Stir in the cumin, ginger, cloves, cayenne, cardamom, coriander, and allspice.

• Gently toast until fragrant, about 2 to 3 minutes.

• Stir in oil and onion, cook until softened.

• Stir in the peppers and zucchini; cook for 5 minutes.

• Stir in the raisins, salt, zest, and chickpeas.

• Pour in the stock and orange juice; turn heat to high and bring to a boil.

• When the mixture is boiling, stir in the couscous and remove from heat.

• Cover, and let stand 5 minutes.

Fluff with a fork, and fold in chopped mint.

Moroccan vegetable stew

Moroccan style carrot salad

1T olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 green capsicum, diced 3 cloves garlic, diced 3 carrots, diced 2 sweet potatoes, diced 1 eggplant, diced 4 tomatoes, diced 3 zucchini, diced 1/2 C sultanas 1500ml chicken stock 2T lemon juice 1T honey 1/4 t ground cumin 1/4 t ground coriander 1/4 t ground turmeric 1/4 t ground cinnamon 1 (410g) tin chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1t salt 1t ground black pepper

• Heat oil in the bottom of a large saucepan over medium-high heat.

• Cook and stir the onion, green capsicum and garlic in the oil until tender; about 5 minutes.

• Place the carrots, sweet potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini and sultanas in the saucepan with the onion mixture.

• Stir in the chicken stock, lemon juice and honey then season with cumin, coriander, turmeric and cinnamon.

• Bring to a boil over high heat.

• Cover and reduce the heat to medium-low then simmer until the vegetables are tender.

• Pour the chickpeas into the stew and season with salt and pepper.

• Stir to combine and cook the soup for an additional 10 to 15 minutes.

500g carrots, peeled and cut into thick slices 2t vegetable oil 1t ground coriander 1t ground cumin 1/4 t ground ginger Salt 2t honey 2t lemon juice 1T orange juice 1/3 C finely chopped fresh coriander • Lightly boil the carrots in a little water for 5 minutes or until slightly softened.

• Pulse in a food processor with a little of the cooking liquid until roughly chopped.

• Heat a medium nonstick frying pan.

photo supplied

Sara Manning “rescues” Phil Marks during a St John training exercise at the Ashburton pool, watched by Karina MacKenzie (left), Fiona Ensor and Emma Cullimore.

St John bones up on water rescues Local St John officers found themselves in deep water last week.

Under the direction of the group’s training officer Heather Keele, volunteers and paid officers from Ashburton and Mayfield were in the Ashburton Community Pool

to train in both deep and shallow water rescue techniques.

The exercise was carried out because of the increasingly likelihood of water rescues being required at Lake Hood.

Participants only took off their shoes before jumping into the

water, where they practised turning their “victim” over and keeping them afloat, mindful of neck and spinal injuries.

They also familiarised themselves with equipment and getting the victim out of the water for onshore treatment.

dining out To Share

mushroom sauce.

An oldie but a goody!

Brewers Loaf (GF)

Served warm with the choice of garlic butter, plain butter or balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil.

Salt and Pepper Calamari Small $7/Large $12

Lightly coated and flash fried, tender Calamari served with salad garnish, lemon wedges, aioli and sweet chili dipping sauces. $18

Crumbed Camembert

Malthouse Platter (GF)

Selection of cold meats, cheeses, pickles, fruit and dips served with breads and crackers.

If its good hearty portions of Southern food matched with local beer you’re after then the Ashburton Speight’s Alehouse is the place for you. With a full range of wine and Speight’s beers on tap, including exclusive seasonal beers only to be found at the Ale House this is Southern hospitality at its finest.

Why not try our outdoor dining area? Relax in a rustic southern setting while enjoying the excellent service and wide selection of dishes for all tastes. Ladies remember it’s not all about the blokes leave hubby 9or bring him) and the kids at home while you have a night out enjoying our fantastic selection of wines. Boys whether it is live sport on the Big Screen or a beer or two with some mates the Ashburton Alehouse has something for everyone. Remember Sunday is family day at Speight’s bring the family along on Sunday and the kids eat for FREE! Conditions apply.

Keep your eyes peeled for the return of our popular Wednesday quiz nights, starting in early May.

$18

With salad, redcurrant coulis and bread.

Half $25/Whole $40

Alehouse Hot Platter

Chicken tenders, corn bites, fish bites, crumbed onion rings, mini hot dogs, Fries and dipping sauces.

Half $25/Whole $40

Winslow Wedges

Chunky wedges with cheese, bacon, sour cream and sweet chili .

To Start

$13.50

Moeraki Seafood Chowder

A true local favorite. Seafood bound in a creamy fish stock delicately flavored with the fresh herbs and served with warm bread.

Small $12/Large $16.50

Mushrooms on Toast (GF)

Crumbed mushrooms on Alehouse toast with bacon smothered with a creamy

Great Food.

Great Beer, Great

Japanese Restaurant

Atmosphere!

Since 2003

$14

To Follow

Shearers Shanks

Tender and delicious lamb shanks slow braised in Speight’s Old Dark on Alehouse mash with broccoli, red cabbage and rich gravy.

One $21.50/Two $29

Black Cherry Chicken

Tender, Juicy chicken breast wrapped in bacon, filled with cream cheese and cashew nuts, and oven roasted to perfection served on kumara mash with black cherry sauce and a garden salad (allow 25 min cooking time). $29.50

Mary Jane Speight’s Salad

Thai Beef strips with salad greens, crispy noodles, cashew nuts and a sweet chili and coriander dressing. $24

The Allenton Burger

Chicken breast, bacon and brie with guacamole served with lettuce, tomatoes and fries. $19.50

Grandma’s Lambs Fry

Grilled lambs liver and bacon on mash with cherry tomatoes, caramelized onions and a rich Speight’s Ale gravy. $20

Chicken Parcels

James Speights Steak

300gr prime rib eye served with a green salad and your choice of alehouse mash or fries Choose your sauce: garlic butter, hollandaise, mushroom, porter gravy, peppercorn or smokey bbq. $34

For the Wee’ans (12 and under)

Our famous filo parcels filled with chicken, bacon, peach and soft cheese baked till golden, topped with citrus peach chutney, kumara wafers, served with gourmet potatoes and salad.

One $22/Two $28.50

Percy’s Ribs (GF)

Blue’n’gold

Rooster Burger

Fish of the Day lightly golden fried in Speight’s beer batter, finished with fresh garden salad and fries. It’s a goody!

Small $19.50/ Large $25

Kids Mini Platter (GF)

BBQ ribs with crispy fries or mashed potato.

Burger filled with a chicken tender, lettuce, tomato, cheese and fries.

Ham, cheese, fruit, bread and other healthy goodies!

Feeling like a good Thai curry?

Tantalise your taste buds

Charming Thai Restaurant is an excellent and unique Thai restaurant in Ashburton. In our menu, you will find a variety of distinctive tastes, ranging from the north to the south and from the west to the east of Thailand.

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302-9010

With a large menu, hot and mild currie regular curry lovers and some of the m tasting dishes in New Zealand, you rea to miss out

Burnett Street Ashburton

WED-SAT 112 Main Street, METHVEN

Let Indian Minar tickle your senses wit a sensual family meal in it’s fully licens restaurant....

ASHBURTON

OPEN 5:30pm

Indian Minar 300 East S Phone 03 308 1076

Phone 308 5980

The World Famous Blue Pub Open 7 days for Lunch and Dinner Extensive all day menu and delicious evening dining

With a large hot and mild curries for new and regular curry lovers and some of the most unique tasting dishes in New Zealand, you really can’t afford to miss out.

Let Indian Minar tickle your senses with a sensual family meal in it’s fully licensed restaurant...

Some say we’re Ashburton’s best kept

Traditional Authentic Japanese Cuisine

$12 and an iceblock!

Some say we’re Ashburton’s best kept secret.

Indian Minar 300 East Street Phone 03 308 1076

148 East Street, Phone (03) 308 5885

to advertise in this directory, please phone desme on 027 468 8186

Kids 10 and under eat for free (See our website specials page*)

Latest menu online www.thebluepub.co.nz/cafe and menus

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Wednesday, April 3, 2013

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

AVAILABLE rEntALs 15 Ludlow Drive Three Bedrooms / Two Bathrooms Web ID AS491 $420 per week 12 Hakatere Drive Three Bedrooms Web ID AS486 $290 per week 71A Beach Road Four Bedrooms / Two Bathrooms $420 per week 4 Hakatere Drive Three / Four Bedrooms Web ID AS498 $320 per week 151 Dobson Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS499 $320 per week 11 Creek Road Three Bedrooms Web ID AS500 $340 per week

References required

Alana 0274 736 825 Michelle 027 77 66 497

TRADES, SERVICES

FOR SALE

landscape supplies

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

East Street, Phone 307 0456

Everything is on

Sale 80% Of Stock Is Less Than $20

Starts Easter Saturday.

Ends Saturday, April 6.

Guardian Classifieds phone 307 7900

Have your building experience stress-free with G&D Russell Builders • New housing • Alterations • Additions & maintenance • Commercial and farm buildings • All types of building work

Call us today for all your building work.

G & D Russell Builders Ltd P/F: 03 308 5325 M: 0274 367 986 E: g-drussellbuilders@xtra.co.nz

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL FLATMATE / boarder wanted.

Private back section. Double bedroom, all services. Own food. Must be working. Phone /text 021-317-392 $125.00 per week.

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-3227626.

LOST, FOUND LOST: black metal walking stick, between New World and Electraserve. Phone 308-5977.

ATTRACTIVE and busty. No texting. Everyday. No W’s. LOST on East Street, near Phone Zoe 021-023-39-259.

Information Centre, a large amount of money with a booklet.

Please FRISKY FILLIES. Lots of pension Guardian 1441. lovely ladies to choose from. contact ½ hour specials. Open 7 Substantial reward paid. days. Phone 021-565-126.

FOR SALE

Better in Blue

Classifieds

for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery. – Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone 308-7772.

CONTAINERS

MOTORING WHEEL Alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. – Phone 308-6737.

PUBLIC NOTICES

MACARON pans. Non-stick 20 cup trays for the perfect ASHBURTON Society of macaron. $20.50. Kitchen Arts Summer Show, Short Kapers, The Arcade.

Street Studio. Now until April 13. Hours: Sat, Mon, NEW - Emma Bridgewater Wed, 10am - 2pm or by store tins. Spices, tea, coffee appointment. Ph 308-4533 or and sugar. Cake and Biscuit 308-5460. tins in ‘Black Toast’ design.

Kitchen Kapers, The Arcade

RURAL TRADING POST

THANK SOMEONE special by giving them Linden Leaves moisturising lotion.

Made in New Zealand, 0% parabens, all natural goodness. The China Shop in The Ashburton Arcade.

CALF SHED BEDDING premium woodmulch chipped from our slabwood.

Guaranteed 100% untreated wood NO CONTAMINATION. Sawdust also available.

Adams Sawmilling, Malcolm McDowell Road.

Ph 308-3595.

THE NEXT GENERATION. Waterford have created, for the celebration of the 60th Anniversary, the Lismore Diamond Collection.

A SITUATIONS WANTED modern reinterpretation of Lismore. Come into The China Shop in The Arcade MATURE male looking for and see this dazzling new work. Fit and able to lift range.

80kg - 90kg, have forklift, OSH. Any shifts, any hours.

David 022-306-4574.

Noticeboard

3 April 2013

VAC AnCIES

PROPOSAL TO CLOSE ROA DS TO VEHICUL AR TR AFFIC

Finance Manager

Pursuant to Paragraph 11 (e) of the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974, notice is hereby given that the Ashburton District Council, for the purpose of allowing the Ashburton Car Club to hold a Quarter Mile Sprint meeting, proposes to close the following road to ordinary vehicular traffic for the period indicated hereunder.

Permanent Full Time This is both an exciting and challenging position. Being a Chartered Accountant, you will keep your technical skills current, the complexities and statutory requirements associated with local government will keep you interested, and your advice will be sought at a management and governance level.

You will be directly involved in the preparation of financial reports, organisation budgeting, cash flow forecasting, project business cases, along with large scale investment and borrowing decisions. In addition to this, your team will be responsible for rating and also providing financial services for our organisation.

To make the most of this opportunity, apply online.

Application Close: 8 April 2013

Roads proposed to be closed: WILLOWBY WINSLOW ROAD, from Longbeach Road intersection to 500m SE of the intersection with State Highway 1.

Period of Closure: From 9.30 am until 6.00 pm on Saturday 18 May 2013.

Any person objecting to the proposal is called upon to lodge notice of their objection and grounds thereof in writing by 4.00 pm on Wednesday 17 April 2013, at the office of the Ashburton District Council, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

B LESTER, Chief Executive

Contracts Engineer Permanent Full Time With technical expertise gained from civil engineering qualifications and previous experience building productive third party relationships; developing forward works programmes and managing contractors to ensure agreed levels of service are met are key to this position.

Strong time management skills and a systematic approach to work ensuring efficiency are crucial, as you will be in the office and out in the field. Your technical advice will shape the prioritisation of planned works, whilst ensuring the output of Council’s financial spend is optimised.

Previous experience in roading infrastructure is preferable with infrastructural contract management experience essential. To make the most of this opportunity apply online.

Applications Close: 8 April 2013

STOCk wATER - R ACE mAInTEnAnCE Council wishes to remind stockwater customers that races are to be kept clean with water flowing at all times. Throughout the year, Council water rangers closely monitor the standard of race maintenance in the network.

This also a reminder that any tree/hedge or gorse trimmings that fall into a stockwater race, are to be removed immediately after trimming has occurred.

Please attend to any requests from ranger staff to clean races in a timely way. Bylaw Enforcement Notices may be issued for races that do not comply maintenance requirements of the Stockwater Bylaw.

The responsibility for maintenance is as follows-:

A SHBURTOn wATER mAnAGEmEnT ZOnE COmmIT TEE

• For “localâ€? stockwater races on private property or on the property road frontage, these are responsibility of the relevant property owner.

A meeting of the Ashburton Water Management Zone Committee will be held at the Hinds Community Centre, 20 Rogers St, Hinds.

• For “mainâ€? stockwater races and road crossings, these are the responsibility of Council.

Date

Tuesday 9 April 2013

Time

8.30 am

If in doubt as to the status of a race on your property please contact Council Customer Services on 307 7700.

The meetings are open to the public. Copies of the agendas are available prior to the meetings and can be obtained by contacting the Council, phone 307 7700. The agenda and more information on the Ashburton Zone Committee can be found on the Canterbury Water website www.canterburywater.org.nz/committees/ashburton.php B LESTER, Chief Executive

ROA D SAFET y C ALEnDAR COmPETITIOn

GRAZING

GRAZING wanted for short term or long term, now, or winter time, for heifer calves, bull calves, yearling heifers or cows. Contact: John 027 227 6075.

TRADES, SERVICES HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc.

Ph 027-677-1952.

SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING, UV, heat, privacy etc. Vehicles - Homes HIRE Commercial. Phone your only local applicator Craig Rogers 307-6347, member of GENERAL hire.

Lawn- Master Tinters NZ. mowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

WANTED All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street. WANTED - trees to fell, Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; felled trees, branch wood Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sun- etc.

For firewood. day 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: Anything considered. Rural 308 8061 A/h: 308 7460 Ashburton. Ph 308-3873. www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

We want your artwork in our road safety calendar!

Design a picture with a “safe speed� safety message and you have a chance of being in the road safety calendar for 2014!

Visit the Road Safety page of the Ashburton District Council website for more details or contact Rachael Chapman, Road Safety Coordinator at rachael. chapman@adc.govt.nz

5 Baring Square West, Ashburton 7700

pO Box 94, Ashburton 7740

P (03) 307 7700

E info@adc.govt.nz

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

JOBS

To advertise here call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

DAIRY ASSISTANT Permanent full-time position in the Hinds district.

You need to be: • Licensed to drive. • Keen to learn.

Electrician We are an Electrical Company that prides ourselves on quality work and great service and we are looking for an experienced electrician, who is motivated and competent, to be part of our team.

If you hold the above qualities and are interested, please apply in writing with C.V. to: 149 Kermode Street Ashburton 7700

ADMINISTRATION POSITION A fixed term position is available for general office duties, two hours daily 8.30am - 10.30am with a possibility of extra hours. The position also includes additional hours as the Board of Trustees’ Minute Secretary.

Experience not required. Full training provided.

Work will include: • Milking 560 cows through a 54 bail rotary. • Shifting Rotorainers, and K-line. • Working with young stock on our run-off block. • Feeding stock, including winter grazing.

Roster is 5 on, 2 off. Family/team environment.

Near new, single accommodation available.

For more information phone Suzanne on 303 7326 between 6.30pm and 8.30pm.

Teacher Required We have a position available for a qualified registered teacher to cover three months maternity leave. This position could lead to permanent work. You must be enthusiastic and passionate, with an outstanding work ethic.

Applications close April 19, 2013.

Please send C.V. to: 27 Elizabeth Street, Ashburton 7700 or ph 03 308 0223 All applications strictly confidential.

If you are proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and think this position suits you, please reply with your CV detailing current experience to: Email: tsmith@ashinter.school.nz or Post: Ashburton Intermediate School, P.O. Box 294 Ashburton 7740 For any further information, please contact the Principal on 03 308 9563. Applications close Friday 12th April @ 3:00pm

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

Assistant Coach Full-time/part time position The Ashburton Community Pool requires an assistant coach to support Head Coach-Carl Gordon. You will be coaching a wide range of ages and abilities but primarily working with the junior squads. Could be suitable for a beginner coach willing to learn from an experienced Head Coach.

The ideal candidate will: • Have a competitive swimming background. • Be organised, committed, reliable and team orientated. • Be an excellent communicator with a proven ability to motivate. • Be a motivated and enthusiastic coach with a good knowledge of competitive swimming in all strokes.

Covering letter and CV can be emailed or mailed to: The Manager Ashburton Community Pool PO Box 196 Ashburton email carl@ashburtoncommunitypool.co.nz Applications close 19th April 2013.

Teacher Aide Hampstead School seeks a teacher aide to work approximately 20 hours/ week across a range of students including those with special needs (ORS). Position commencing 6 May, Term 2.

Please forward your CV and a covering letter to: Special Programmes Hampstead School 55 Wellington St Ashburton or via hampstead.admin@xtra.co.nz Applications close 10 April.

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

Guardian Print is a rapidly expanding web offset print company based in Ashburton. We operate a combination of heatset and coldset areas, producing both commercial catalogues, magazines and regional newspapers. As a result of this expansion, we are looking to add the following positions to our team:

PRINTERS ASSISTANT

Night Shift (3 x 12 hours – Wed, Thurs, Fri) IMMEDIATE START We are looking for a Printer’s Assistant to operate our DGM printing press. This position involves loading reels of paper into the press, and assisting the printer’s in running the machine. The position will suit someone who is mechanically minded who has a good “common sense� approach to operating equipment and is able to work in a team environment. It offers full training so previous experience is not essential, in time this position can lead to an apprenticeship in printing to the right applicant.

If you are interested in joining a quality focused, vibrant team of people who believe in enjoying the time we spend at work, then we would like to hear from you. We are looking to continue our expansion into the commercial print arena and are looking for hard working, committed people to join us.

If you have any questions regarding the above positions or would like to learn more about Guardian Print, please contact Blair Cutting via email to blair.c@guardianprint.co.nz

Dairy Farm Assistant Required We require a full time Farm Assistant to see us through until the end of the season, approximately two months work, immediate start.

Working within a team of four on an 800 cow farm, milking and general farm duties.

Phone/text Ross 027 291 1888 for further details.

Helmack ITM are currently seeking to employ motivated team members for our busy timber building supplies store.

Driver / Delivery Person / Yard Man As we are now operating our “Hiab� truck and trailer, we require a full time person for deliveries. This job will require some manual unloading of certain products i.e. “gibboard etc�.

HT licence is essential: Class 4 and 5, preference would be for the applicant to have had “Hiab� Crane experience.

Timber Sales, also Drive Through Sales A back ground in building products or the building industry would be an advantage, the essentials are: • Excellent customer service focus. • Some computer skills and accuracy. • Self-motivation with a pleasant manner for sales.

Some heavy lifting would be required and forklift experience would be advantage.

The positions offer excellent remuneration package along with staff buying privileges. We pride ourselves in customer service; therefore your appearance must be of a high standard along with your personal attributes. Hours of work will be 7.30am – 5.30pm with a minimum of 45 hours a week and there may be Saturday morning work.

Apply in your own handwriting, along with a CV with the details of two referees, to: The Manager Helmack ITM 92 Dobson Street ASHBURTON

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Wednesday, April 3, 2013

SPORT New Houses for Sale

25A Philip Street

25B Philip Street

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today’s open Homes

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Offers Over $320,000 WEB ID AU28900A WESTSIDE 72 Harrison Street 3 Well presented family home situated in popular location close to shops and Allenton School. 3 double bedrooms, updated kitchen and open plan dining/living with access to private sunny patio.

1 Internal access tandem garage, plus single garage.

VIEW Thursday 4 Apr 5.15 - 6.00pm

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For all your cake decorating requirements.

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DAILY DIARY TODAY - WEDNESDAY APRIL 3

9.00am-4.00pm. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street Consultancy House.

9.30am - 1.00pm. ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time around op shop. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets.

10.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

10.00am. ASHBURTON HANDISCOPE (CRAFT) GROUP. Inviting anyone interested to attend. Baring Square Methodist Church Lounge.

10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Tasmania doubles 10-12, assn doubles and golf croquet 1pm4pm. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10.00am - 4.00pm. ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, non members welcome. Upstairs in the Old Polytech Building, 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 7.00pm. ASHBURTON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM Open, Baring Square East.

10.45am. T’IA CHI CLUB. Exercises for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

11.00am. MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Movies “Great Expectations”. Regent Cinema, Wills St. 11.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid week service and lunch. 48 Allens Road.

1.30pm. ASHBURTON HERB SOCIETY. Monthly meeting, speaker from Neighbourhood Watch. 1/51 Peter Street, Ashburton.

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.

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9.00am-4.00pm. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street Consultancy House.

9.30am. M.S.A. T’AI CHI CLUB. Beginners class, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

9.30am - 11.30pm. MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime section, new players very welcome. Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

9.30am - 12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open today. Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East.

9.30am - 1.00pm. ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time round op shop. Ashburton Baptist Church, Cnr Cass and Havelock Street.

10.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Rd. 10.45am. M.S.A. T’AI CHI CLUB. Qigong exercises, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm. ASHBURTON SENIOR NET. Guest speaker Coen Lammers, getting Ashburton Guardian online.

Questions and answers. M.S.A. Lounge off Burnett Street.

7.30pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. learn to dance. All welcome. Pipe band hall, creek Road.

Nathan Friend hopes to get used to the winning feeling again after the Warriors’ 20-18 defeat of the Cowboys on Monday night, but he will also have to get used to having little feeling in his troublesome shoulder.

The 32-year-old hooker made a welcome return to the Warriors after missing the first three games of the season after offseason shoulder surgery to repair nerve damage.

His impact was immediate.

Not only did they win their first game in 12 attempts but he also gave the side greater thrust and structure with his crisp service out of dummy half.

In 67 minutes, he had 76 touches and made 34 tackles and one offload.

But Friend’s biggest influence couldn’t be measured - the greater time and space halves Shaun Johnson and Thomas Leuluai enjoyed and the confidence that filtered through to his team-mates.

The nuggety rake’s powers of resilience are well known.

Last season Friend played 75 minutes with a broken jaw but still made 53 tackles in a standout performance.

He just hopes his latest comeback endures, because he couldn’t feel his shoulder in the changing sheds after the match.

“It’s just the way it is going to be for the rest of the season,” he said after the match.

“I just have to get used to the feeling of the numbness because I can’t feel it at the moment.

“I have little power in the shoulder but it’s enough to pass the ball and that’s the main thing.

“The specialist probably had his fingers crossed. No one has really played on without a deltoid that doesn’t work.

“It’s an unknown. We had to bite the bullet some time and just see how it went.

It felt OK.” The Warriors can ill-afford to be without Friend at any time after their issues at hooker this season and he was named yesterday to start against the unbeaten Rabbitohs at Mt Smart Stadium on Sunday.

But they will probably be without Dane Nielsen, even though he was named in the side to face the Bunnies.

The centre damaged rib cartilage and was helped from the field just before halftime against the Cowboys but Jerome Ropati came through the Vulcans’ 24-24 draw with Windsor unscathed and could feature.

Ropati wasn’t named in the squad,

Nathan Friend: No-one else has played the game with a deltoid that doesn’t work which included an extended seven-man bench, but there are still some decisions to be made over the fitness of a handful of players.

Clubs are required to name their side for the weekend on a Tuesday, which gave the Warriors little chance to assess injuries after Monday night’s match.

Along with Nielsen’s injury, fullback Kevin Locke and utility Ben Henry both picked up head knocks against the Cowboys and will need to pass concussion tests.

“There are question marks over whether we’ll have them all against the Rabbitohs but we’re certainly hoping they are fit to play,” coach Matt Elliott said.

“On the positive side we have some more players coming back from injuries.”

Those players include Ropati and wingers Manu Vatuvei and Glen Fisiiahi, both named on the extended bench. Russell Packer is also in contention after receiving a clearance following his bicep injury.

Friend isn’t the sort of character to get carried away by one win, although the importance of it can’t be understated after a dreadful run of results that stretched back to July last year.

“Winning instils a little bit of confidence,” he said.

“The boys know they have what it takes to win and it was at home, so it was good to win in front of our fans.

“We really haven’t achieved anything yet.

“It’s a bonus for hard work. It needs to be a yardstick for us and we just have to run from there.

“There’s no sense coming out next week and having a shocker.”

Warriors side to play South Sydney at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, on Sunday (4pm): Kevin Locke, Bill Tupou, Dane Nielsen, Konrad Hurrell, Ngani Laumape, Thomas Leuluai, Shaun Johnson, Sam Rapira, Nathan Friend, Ben Matulino, Feleti Mateo, Simon Mannering (c), Todd Lowrie.

Interchange: Jacob Lillyman, Ben Henry, Elijah Taylor, Pita Godinet, Glen Fisiiahi, Manu Vatuvei, Sebastine Ikahihifo.

- APNZ

Battle for Origin spot heats up

By Ian McCullough Adam Reynolds’ red-hot early season form for South Sydney has set up an intriguing battle with Mitchell Pearce for the City Origin and NSW No.7 shirt.

Pearce has been the Blues halfback for the last two series and new coach Laurie Daley has already stated he’ll keep faith with the Sydney Roosters star.

Reynolds’ short kicking game is rated as the best in the NRL and City coach Brad Fittler will have a selection dilemma when he names his side on Sunday week for the annual clash with Country in Coffs Harbour in April.

Roosters coach Trent Robinson was full of praise for Reynolds, but said Pearce’s display in the 50-0 win over Parramatta on Monday proved why he should retain his spot in the NSW team.

“Adam has been outstanding,” Robinson said.

“The way he has been playing for Souths and the way in which he has been kicking and defending has been excellent.

“But Mitch is outstanding in defence as well. He was disappointed with his kicking last week, but it was much, much better against Parramatta.

“I think he deserves to be there, they are both great players, but I am always going to go with Mitch.”

Eighth immortal Andrew Johns said on

Adam Reynolds: in outstanding form Monday that throwing Reynolds into the Origin cauldron could affect his development.

The former NSW skipper also said the 23-year-old’s success was largely helped by playing behind Souths’ mighty pack.

Rabbitohs coach Michael Maguire said after the Good Friday win over Canterbury that Reynolds was ready and prop Sam Burgess has no doubt the diminutive playmaker is tough enough for Origin.

Reynolds shook off a calf problem picked up early in the win over the Bulldogs.

“He’s a great kid is Reynolds and we’d struggle without him,” Burgess said.

“He’s a tough little cookie ... I told him to just get on with it.

“But I knew he’d be able to push on through the pain.

“He’s a talented kid, I’ve watched him in the 20s when I first arrived and you could see how good he was.”

Pearce’s Roosters team-mate James Maloney is also hopeful of playing in Coffs Harbour as the Country side’s five-eighth.

The former Warriors playmaker was close to selection last year, but missed out to Todd Carney who went on to earn Origin selection.

But Carney is likely to miss out on CityCountry this year due to an ankle injury.

However, Newcastle Jarrod Mullen has been in fine form for the Knights this year and could get the nod over Maloney.

“There is talk about eight five-eighths at the moment,” Maloney said.

“I am not worried about it too much, if it comes along it comes along.

“It would be nice to get any representative call-up. Country would be a good foot in the door for Origin, but that’s not down to me.”

Maloney also backed Pearce to keep his Blues spot.

“He’s real easy to play with,” he said.

“He’s good with the ball in hand and strong defensively. He was one of the main reasons I came to the Roosters.” - AAP

Dragons still keen on Dugan

By Steve Jancetic St George Illawarra skipper Ben Creagh would welcome Josh Dugan to the club but warned the NRL bad boy off social media, with the Dragons shaping as the sacked Canberra Raiders’ star’s last chance saloon.

Dugan and his manager yesterday met with salary cap auditor Ian Schubert and members of the NRL’s welfare department in a bid to establish a potential timetable for the 22-year-old’s return to the code.

While the NRL could make a call on Dugan beforehand, no decision on his immediate future is expected until a club attempts to register a contract - with the Dragons seemingly the last team standing.

Brisbane had also been pursuing Dugan but pulled out when he engaged in a slanging match on Instagram where he

urged an antagonist to “end themselves.”

Dragons chief executive Peter Doust on Monday said the club was still interested in signing Dugan, pending the result of yesterday’s meeting with the NRL. Dugan’s manager Paul Sutton did not return calls.

As captain of the Dragons, Creagh said he was expecting to be consulted before the club put forward a formal offer to the former NSW Origin representative, and that he would give the move his blessing.

But it would come with a word of warning - get off social media.

“It’s causing him a few problems at the moment and it might be as simple as just closing his account,” Creagh said yesterday.

“That will solve a lot of problems because that’s where they keep popping up.

“If I was in his shoes, that’s what I would do.

“It’s not worth it at the moment.

“He’s only a young guy, he’s extremely talented, he’s got a big future ahead of him playing footy.

“If something away from footy is causing him this many problems - not just in his personal life but in his work life as well - I’d be getting rid of that.”

An NRL spokesperson gave little away as to the tone of yesterday’s meeting other than to say the league would now consider all the facts before taking a stance.

Any future contract is likely to be heavily laden with behavioral clauses, but Creagh said if the time came, he would “definitely” urge the club to pursue Dugan.

“I’ve played alongside him for NSW and Country and he’s a great guy to be around,” Creagh said.

“There’s just that one part of his life that seems to be causing him a lot of problems.”

- AAP

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8 8 Keep The Quest (10) 57..............C Johnson 9 07x Langham Lady (7) 57................ S Muniandy 10 9. Risky Flight (8) 57.............................P Taylor 11 Spinalin (3) 57..............................B Lammas 4 1.40pm FJ SHEARING DRAINAGE & CRT FARMLANDS MONOWAI MDN $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 06408 Tom Dooley (8) 58.5....................C Johnson 2 0x56x Gun Runner (5) 58.5........................S Evans 3 04907 Trundler (9) 58.5..........................B Lammas 4 90242 Croydon (1) 58..................................P Taylor 5 39462 Owe The Ransom 58.................... Scratched 6 750 Storm Uru 58................................ Scratched 7 08x97 King Tap (10) 58................... R Doherty (a2) 8 40688 Rotar (6) 58.....................................R Bishop 9 4520x Four Gees (11) 56.5.....................T Moseley 10 Mustang Missy (3) 56.5..........C Barnes (a3) 11 36 The Bubbly One b (7) 56..............K Williams 12 87007 Gallant Satin h (2) 56................. S Muniandy 13 5906. Heart Of Hearts (4) 56.............. R Black (a3) 5 2.16pm EUAN SHEARING CONTRACTING & DT KING WAIPANGO HCP $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 000x9 Voorsitter 59.................................. Scratched 2 281x8 Touchdown dm (7) 58.5....................P Taylor 3 46x00 Young Bachelor 58.5..................... Scratched 4 0x067 Prenuptial tdh (13) 58................ S Muniandy 5 187x7 Motorboat Mike (2) 58..................... J Bullard 6 x6510 Rikho (12) 58.............................. A Frye (a3) 7 56348 Wiseguy (3) 58.............................C Johnson 8 9577x Knightonthetown t (14) 57............B Lammas 9 5316. Matoaka (1) 56.5.............................. J Morris 10 23140 Quoin 56.5.................................... Scratched 11 62906 Whisky Reign d (11) 56.5..... R Doherty (a2) 12 88568 Lets Talk Gold d (6) 56............ J Chong (a3) 13 5310 Queens Habit d (10) 55.5 14 1766x Flirtation m (15) 55.5................ R Black (a3) 15 50306 Our Jackman d (9) 55............. P Shaikh (a4) 16 49505 Ima Geegee m (5) 54.5................T Moseley 17 13704 Our Bella Rose (4) 55.5...........T Direen (a2) 18 04x45 What A Find td (8) 57.....................R Bishop 19 84800 Marechal 54.................................. Scratched Emergencies: Our Bella Rose, What A Find, Marechal

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2 21352 Electronic Motion 57..................... Scratched 3 33275 Schockemohle 55.5...................... Scratched 4 65x50 Gargamel m (9) 55.......................... J Morris 5 05430 Aluminium Bikerack t (2) 54.5 6 77470 Eleanor Coup (6) 54.5.................C Johnson 7 92339 Ima Dude m (5) 54.5.....................T Moseley 8 28877 Our Mona Lisa dm (7) 54 9 52456 Saragarhi tb (8) 54.................... R Black (a3) 10 29165 Irish Wit (1) 54........................C Barnes (a3) 11 43014 Likeitlikethat td (4) 54...................C Johnson 12 41228 Back Burner 54............................. Scratched 9 4.33pm TSK WHITE MEMORIAL LONGWOOD HANDICAP $15,000, OPN HCP, 1400m 1 45171 El Chico td (3) 61............................ J Bullard 2 50985 Our Genes tdm (11) 57.5.........A Denby (a2) 3 45357 Miss Millbrook tdmh (4) 54........ S Muniandy 4 41025 Sucre d (6) 54..................A Tempelman (a3) 5 29038 Coat Of Arms (2) 54....................B Lammas 6 14247 Sandfly dm (1) 54................... T Kahlon (a4) 7 36150 Stormpatrol tdm (9) 54.................C Johnson 8 18281 Semper Plus td (5) 54...................T Moseley 9 61286 Oxborough Magic d (8) 54.......... A Frye (a3) 10 72037 Redfern (7) 54 11 54103 Individual d (10) 54...........................P Taylor 12 13704 Our Bella Rose 54........................ Scratched 10 5.08pm THORNBURY TAVERN THORNBURY HANDICAP $10,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 04674 The Jester d (9) 62.5.......A Tempelman (a3) 2 66456 All Spice dm (2) 61.......................T Moseley 3 66855 Conscious Mistake tdm (5) 59.5..C Johnson 4 1658x Prime Hit dm (6) 59.5............... R Black (a3) 5 93174 Party Cat d (1) 58.5................. J Chong (a3) 6 7x373 Golden Globe d (8) 57.5................. J Bullard 7 58681 Remembrance td (7) 55.5........A Denby (a2) 8 12043 Napatap m (4) 55.5.......................K Williams 9 39221 Black Berry Punch 56.5................ Scratched 10 000x9 Voorsitter 54.5............................... Scratched 11 15668 Stravinskaya 54............................. Scratched 12 31919 The Dewdrop 54........................... Scratched 13 54103 Individual (3) 54 14 13704 Our Bella Rose 54........................ Scratched

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8 32666 Cawbourne Stars nwtd...................... D Little 9 7F387 Sydenham Bubbles nwtd............G M Clarke 10 46667 All The Rage 21.91 U &.............. McCracken 4 1.13pm MANAWATU RACEWAY C0 C0, 375m 1 47546 Summertime Bobby nwtd...........A Blackburn 2 7 Seconds Good nwtd.................A Duganzich 3 2442 Flirt Academy nwtd U &.............. McCracken 4 64372 Flying Blake nwtd................................. L Bell 5 78458 Blue Rush nwtd L &............................ Morris 6 36685 Looptastic nwtd S &..........................Bonnett 7 56x1 Eureka Izmir (c1) nwtd F &.............Turnwald 8 76666 Billy Holmes nwtd.......................G M Clarke 9 56587 One Ear Poised nwtd S &.................Bonnett 10 68677 Green Treats nwtd......................J McInerney 5 1.32pm PETER SINCLAIR PHOTO FINISH C0 C0, 375m 1 8 Cosmic Zoom nwtd...........................L Ahern 2 F5867 Cuts Deep nwtd............................P Blanche 3 Fierce Star nwtd F &.......................Turnwald 4 35775 Addis Mate nwtd........................A Blackburn 5 85554 Sheeza Flower nwtd S &..................Bonnett 6 54435 Inner Beauty nwtd....................... B Johnston 7 7x844 I’m A Catch nwtd L &.......................... Morris 8 Coyote Caught Ya nwtd......... E S Duganzich 9 56587 One Ear Poised nwtd S &.................Bonnett 10 68677 Green Treats nwtd......................J McInerney 6 1.50pm (NZT) CLOVERLEA DASH C1 C1, 375m 1 18536 Scarilicious 21.97 L &......................... Morris 2 32333 That’s King 22.36........................ B Hodgson 3 465F5 Bizarro nwtd S &..............................B Evans 4 52815 Aykroyd nwtd S &..............................Bonnett 5 82782 Red Hot Dutch nwtd................... S Drysdale 6 16322 Got Value 22.33................................L Ahern 7 66555 Another Gunna nwtd..................J McInerney 8 76428 Homebush Layla nwtd.............. S Gommans

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375mMerry (6) 1 52611 Kylie’s nwtd.............................S Maher 1 71447 Working Camarade nwtd............... D Donlon 2 43236 Secret Nadia nwtd...........................S Maher 10. Tension Goodnwtd.......... spirits (9) Ascribe (9) 3 51356 Summer 2 86644 Fearsome McKay nwtd S15. &.............B Evans E S Duganzich 3 57445 Kezz 22.06...............................T McCracken 4 14432 Cover Cover 26.87(5) S &................Bonnett 13.To Ancient 17. Lair (3) 4 1526x Stock Taker nwtd...............................L Ahern 5 58755 Darby Lane nwtd L &.......................... Morris 14.

Appetite (6) 18. Fall (5) 5 57868 Perfect Clarity nwtd........................A Speight 6 35657 Baby James nwtd......................J McInerney 6 68367 Sub Silentio nwtd.........................B Goodwin (5) 7 46654 Mission nwtd...........................M Olden 16.Drive Drunkard (5) 19. Presented 7 77476 Cawbourne Tobes nwtd.............J McInerney 8 75276 Otewa Bella nwtd.........................B Goodwin 20. Sound By way Safeguard (12) 9 88528 Thrilling 8 23453 Merely A Dream nwtd S21. &................Bonnett 25.97of S &.(3) ...............B Evans 9 36658 Dogged Dan nwtd..............................R Hunt 10 66876 Heroism nwtd.................................... J Tapiki 10 86686 Thrilling Lyric nwtd............................ J Tapiki 12 4.08pm BULLS STAKES C1 C1, 457m 9 3.10pm WWW.RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ C1 C1, 375m 1 46265 Opawa Charlie nwtd........................S Maher Across: 4 Special; Outset; 9 Money Alarmed; Putrid; 11 1 82167 Car Wreck nwtd...........................B Goodwin 8 2 6x487 Funny nwtd S 10 &...................B Evans 2 54747 Marjanshar 22.12...................

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4 37558 Lissadell Toby 22.25...................... D Donlon 5 74855 Miss Fit 26.43 S &............................Bonnett Down: 1 Compose; 2 Station; Depict; 5 Pell mell; 6 5 14654 Kapai Max nwtd.......................T McCracken 6 44555 Thrilling3Cloud nwtd.................T McCracken Circle; McInerney 7 Amends; 13 14 Satanic; 15 Destiny; 6 56213 Homebush Rick nwtd.................J 7 Academic; 74733 Sand Buster nwtd.....................

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6.00 Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Neighbours. (G, T) 7.00 Shortland Street.

(PGR, T) Rachel reaches for a crutch, Kylie sets her sights on someone.

7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (T) It’s the first elimination at Kitchen HQ. 8.50 The Big Bang Theory.

(PGR, T) Howard and Raj try to get to the bottom of why Sheldon disappears every afternoon at 2:45.

9.20 2 Broke Girls. (PGR, T) 9.50 Hell’s Kitchen. (AO, T) 10.50 The Walking Dead.

(Final, T) 11.50 Man Up. (PGR)

3.55 4.25 5.25

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6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Seven Sharp. (T) 7.30 Fair Go. (T) Hosted by Pippa Wetzell and Gordon Harcourt.

8.00 Global Radar. (PGR, T) Te Radar finds local food is a global concern with honey smugglers targeting our golden goodness.

8.30 Winners And Losers.

(PGR, T) 9.30 Thelma’s Gypsy Girls.

(AO, T) The girls are causing trouble with their constant in-fighting.

10.30 ONE News Tonight. (T) 11.00 Person Of Interest.

(AO, R, T)

2.00 3.00

12.00 Attitude. (R, T) 12.35 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.00 Infomercials.

5.05 Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

5.35 Te Karere. (T)

12.20 Rescue 1. (G, R, T) 12.50 20/20. (R, T) 1.50 Infomercials.

2.50 Rizzoli & Isles. (Final, AO, R, T) 3.35 Make It Or Break It. (R) 4.25 Who Dares Wins. (G, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

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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) The Biggest Loser Australia. (G) Rachael Ray. (G) Entertainment Tonight.

(G) Home And Away. (G, T) Kyle tells Tamara that he has feelings for her, Mollie tells Gina, John and Jett that Richard is coming to discuss the adoption.

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 All Saints. (PGR, R) 3.00 Stargate Universe.

(PGR, R) Alien drones create a blockade of viable power sources forcing Destiny to recharge in a star so hot it could destroy the ship.

4.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Game show.

5.30 Prime News - First At 5.30.

6.00 3 News.

7.00 Campbell Live.

7.30 World’s Deadliest Roads. (PGR, T) Hugh gets his old truck back and transports sheep during a night ride.

8.30 3rd Degree.

9.30 Sons Of Anarchy.

(AO, T) Jax gets closer to the truth, but there are still obstacles in his way.

10.40 Nightline.

11.20 Media3. Presented by Russell Brown.

11.55 Hawaii Five-O. (AO, R, T) The lone witness in a high-profile murder case disappears into the jungle.

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G) 6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat.

(G) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild.

7.30 Best Of Top Gear.

(PGR, R) 8.30 Elementary. (AO) Called in to investigate a plane crash, Holmes deduces that one of the dead was killed before the plane went down.

9.30 Prime Rocks: Genesis.

(PGR) 10.30 The Crowd Goes Wild.

(G, R) 11.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G)

12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 3.05 4.00 5.00 5.30

12.55 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 Bayless Conley. (G)

6.00 Everybody Hates Chris. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) Bender learns that he suffers from a mortal manufacturing defect.

7.00 The Simpsons. (G, R) Troy McClure hosts three spin-offs from ‘The Simpsons’ television show.

7.30 Glee. (PGR, R) Emma’s parents visit and get an understanding of her problems.

8.30 The Biggest Loser. (G) The

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12.00 Home Shopping. (G) 1.30 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (G)

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.30 Avatar: The Last Airbender. (G) 7.55 George Of The Jungle. (G) 8.20 Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. (G) 8.45 HUMF. (G) 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 Wonder Pets. (G, R) 9.45 Tickety Toc. (G) 9.55 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G)

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6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Hi-5. (G, R, T) 7.00 Pinky. (G, R, T) 7.25 Back At The Barnyard. (G, R, T) 7.55 Beyblades Metal Masters. (G, R, T) 8.20 Dinosaur Train. (G, R, T) 8.35 Guess How Much I Love You. (G, T) 8.45 Fireman Sam. (G, R, T) 8.55 Bird Bath. (G, R, T) 9.00 Infomercials. 10.30 Neighbours.

(G, R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street.

(PGR, R, T) 11.30 Spin City. (G, R, T) 12.00 Desperate Housewives.

(AO, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 2.00 Anderson Live. 3.00 Buzzy Bee. (G, T) 3.05 Everything’s Rosie. 3.15 Mike The Knight. (G, T) 3.30 Spongebob Squarepants. (G, T) 4.00 H2o. (G, R, T) 4.30 Erin Simpson. 5.00 Horace In Slow Motion. (G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 8 Simple Rules. (G, R, T)

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Ellen. (R) Cowboy Builders. (G) ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Laurel’s defensive, Cameron plays the doting boyfriend, and Gennie insists she’s fine.

Come Dine With Me. (G) A lifestyle show that sees five people competing to be named the ultimate dinner party host.

Cookery School. (G, R) Dickinson’s Real Deal.

(G) Te Karere. (T) Ellen.

Millionaire Hot Seat.

(G, T)

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10.30 Life Unexpected. (PGR) Lux and Tasha face the aftermath of their recent decisions, which strains their friendship and forces Lux to be honest with Cate and Baze about her history.

11.25 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G) 12.00 Infomercials. (G)

sky sPORt 1 6.00 Rugby. IRB Sevens World Series. Tokyo Event. Highlights.

7.30 Golf. European PGA Tour. Trophee Hassan II Round Four/OneAsia Tour.

Indonesian Championship. Round Four/US PGA Tour. Shell Houston Open Round Four. Highlights.

10.30 Reunion.

11.30 Cycling. Criterium International.

Highlights.

12.00 AFL Weekly Highlights.

1.00 Golf Central.

2.00 Golf. Asian Tour. Chiangmai Golf Classic. Highlights.

3.00 Rugby League. Holden Cup. Warriors U20 v Cowboys U20. Replay.

5.00 40/20.

6.00 AFL Weekly Highlights.

7.00 Athletics. Queen Street Mile. Replay.

8.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

8.30 Rugby Zone.

9.00 The ITM Fishing Show.

9.30 ANZ Golf World.

10.00 Reunion.

11.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

11.30 Rugby Zone.

12.00 Soccer. A-League. Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Victory. Replay.

2.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Fulham v Queens Park Rangers.

Replay.

4.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Southampton v Chelsea. Replay.

the bOx 6.00 NYPD Blue. (M) 6.50 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.15 Pawn Stars. (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. (PG) 11.35 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 12.25 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 1.15 NYPD Blue. (M) 2.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 2.35 Cash Cab. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Pawn Stars. (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 Pawn Stars. (PG) 7.30 NCIS. (PG) 8.30 NCIS: LA. (M) 9.30 Terriers. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NCIS. (PG) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 1.45 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 3.00 NCIS: LA. (M) 3.50 Terriers. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

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7.30 Netball. College Netball. Avondale v Westlake. Replay. 8.30 Netball. West Coast Fever v Northern Mystics. Replay.10.00 The Netball Zone. 10.30 Tenpin Bowling. Weber Cup. Europe v USA. Highlights. 11.30 Rugby League. NRL Telstra Premiership. Warriors v Cowboys. From Mt Smart Stadium. Highlights.

12.30 Rugby League. NRL Telstra Premiership.

Sea Eagles v Wests Tigers. Highlights. 1.30 Surfing. Quiksilver Pro. Highlights. 2.00 The Ultimate Fighter. 3.00 Reunion. 4.00 Soccer.

ASB Futsal Football National League Series.

Highlights. 4.30 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby.

Stormers v Crusaders. Highlights. 5.30 Rugby.

Investec Super Rugby. Chiefs v Blues. Highlights.

6.30 SKY Sport What’s On. 7.00 Rugby. IRB Sevens World Series. Tokyo Event. Highlights.

8.30 Deaker On Sport.

9.30 Rugby League. NRL Telstra Premiership. Sea Eagles v Wests Tigers. Highlights.

10.30 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby.

Waratahs v Force. Replay.

12.30 Golf. Asian Tour. Chiangmai Golf Classic. Highlights.

1.30 Golf. European PGA Tour. Trophee Hassan II Round Four. Highlights.

2.30 Golf. OneAsia Tour. Indonesian Championship/US PGA Tour. Shell Houston Open. Highlights.

4.30 Rugby. IRB Sevens. Highlights.

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6.00 Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close. (2011, PG) Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock.

8.10 Goodnight For Justice. (2011, PG) Luke Perry, Lara Gilchrist.

9.40 Goodnight For Justice 2: Measure Of A Man. (2012, PG) Luke Perry.

11.10 Immortals. (2011, 16) Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke.

1.00 The Decoy Bride. (2011, PG) Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant.

2.30 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years. (2011, G) Travis Turner, Donnelly Rhodes.

4.00 Reel Love. (2011, PG) Burt Reynolds, LeAnn Rimes.

5.30 Firelight. (2012, PG) Cuba Gooding Jr. 7.00 Certain Prey. (2011, M) Mark Harmon, Lola Glaugini.

8.30 Jeff, Who Lives At Home. (2012, M) Jason Segel, Ed Helms. 30-year-old slacker, Jeff, finds his true destiny as he helps his brother stalk his possibly cheating wife.

9.55 The Philly Kid. (2012, 16) Wes Chatham, Devon Sawa.

11.30 Slayer. (2006, 16) Casper Van Dien, Tony Plana.

12.55 To The Mat. (2011, PG) Ricky Schroder.

2.30 Slayer. (2006, 16) Casper Van Dien.

3.55 Reel Love. (2011, PG) Burt Reynolds.

5.20 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years.

(2011, G) Travis Turner.

6.00 Predator. (1987, M) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura.

7.45 Courage Under Fire. (1996, M) Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Matt Damon.

9.40 National Lampoon’s European Vacation. (1985, M) Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo.

11.15 Biography: Mel Gibson. (2008, PG).

12.05 Saw 2. (2005, 18) Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell.

1.35 Predator. (1987, M) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura.

3.25 Pearl Harbor. (2001, M) Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale.

6.25 Ocean’s 13. (2007, PG) George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino. Danny Ocean rounds up the team for a third heist after a casino owner double-crosses one of the original eleven. 2007.

8.30 Interview With The Vampire.

(1994, 16) Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise.

10.35 Edge Of Darkness. (2010, 16) Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone.

12.30 Biography: Emma Thompson.

(2007, PG).

1.20 Pearl Harbor. (2001, M) Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale.

4.20 Ocean’s 13. (2007, PG) George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino.

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Auction Hunters. (PG) Dirty Jobs. (PG) Yukon Men. (M) Deadliest Catch. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Weapons That Changed The World.

(PG) Combat Countdown. (PG) Cold Blood. (M) Nightmare Next Door. (M) River Monsters. (PG) Yukon Men. (M) Deadliest Catch. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Gold Rush. (PG) Up Smith Creek.

Moonshiners. (M) Josh & Bill make a breakthrough on their underground still.

Jungle Gold. (PG) Hell And High Water. Scott and George struggle to get their Ghanaian gold mine to hit pay dirt. Floods claim their equipment and a machete wielding cocoa famer attacks.

Dual Survival. (PG) The Green Hell.

Inside The Gangster’s Code. (M) Scorned: Love Kills. (M) Yukon Men. (M) Moonshiners. (M) Jungle Gold. (PG) Dual Survival. (PG) Inside The Gangster’s Code. (M) Auction Kings. (PG)

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Bernard Egan MOTORING AND OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES

Left: The impressive, but ultimately disastrous Ford Edsel.

Below: Roy Brown Jnr was the designer of this automotive failure, but he eventually put it behind him and went on to be involved in the massively popular Ford Cortina (bottom) and the Ford Thunderbird.

Last month Roy Brown Jr passed away at the grand old age of 96.

Born in Canada, Roy became an American citizen and he died in Michigan.

Roy, who was the son of a Chrysler engineer moved to the USA as a teenager, graduated from an Art Academy, served in the army during World War Two and then became a designer for General Motors.

Later he joined the Ford Motor Company and took charge of a project to design a new model.

The new car was introduced to the public in 1957 and was an immediate flop.

In fact, it turned out to be one of

the biggest in automobile history!

The car was the Ford Edsel.

There were a whole lot of reasons why the car which was supposed to be sophisticated was not regarded that way by the public, these included outdated customer research and its departure from prevailing fashion.

A depressed economy and a consumer move to smaller imported cars didn’t help either.

But in one sense the Edsel did meet the aim of its designers – they said they would produce a car so distinctive it would stand out “from a block away”.

It certainly stood out!

The car was named after the Henry Ford’s deceased son Edsel.

It’s not a name you hear every day, but sadly it’s a name which became synonymous with failure.

But the car was only given its name after company executives rejected other suggestions, and if you think Edsel is unusual wait till you hear the other possibilities.

They included, I kid you not, Intelligent Whale, Ford Faberge, Mongoose Civique and wait for it Utopian Turtletop!

Sales numbers of the Edsel were nowhere near those hoped for, and the whole thing was a disaster for Ford, costing many millions of dollars and leading to job losses.

As for Roy Brown he said “I cried

in my beer for two days and then returned to designing work with renewed vigour”.

And success!

He was chief designer of the immensely popular Cortina, and he helped design the Ford Thunderbird.

One of his earlier ideas helped inspire the Batmobile.

Roy Brown put the failure of the Edsel down to “bad timing” and at least in part he’s been proved right because amongst enthusiasts the Ford Edsel now generates nostalgia for a bygone era in American Motor history.

For over five decades since he designed the Edsel and right to the end of his life Roy Brown expressed pride in the car, and in fact still owned and until recently was driving a Ford Edsel.

Always one to think the glass was half full, Roy Brown sometimes referred to the car he was proud of as “Ford’s most successful failure”.

In his later years when the model had become a collectors’ item people would often ask Roy Brown if he would sell his Edsel and he would reply “where the hell were you in 1958?”

Emma’s new rally car revealed The face of New Zealand motor sport will be transformed this weekend, when an innovative Suzuki Swift makes its competition debut on the opening round of the national rally championship.

Dubbed the Suzuki Swift Maxi, the radical turbo-charged four-wheel drive machine is being built by the team at Gilmour Motors, under the guidance of Glenn Macneall, for leading Kiwi rally driver Emma Gilmour to campaign.

It is the first of a new generation of machine prepared to a Super Rally formula that many pick will be the future of the sport in this country.

The Swift Maxi started life little more than six months ago as a stock-standard Swift Sport. Over the summer it has been stripped back and re-engineered as a state-of-the art rally car in a small upstairs workshop at Gilmour Work in progress - Emma Gilmour’s new Suzuki Swift Maxi being readied for the 2013 season. Suzuki, Dunedin’s Suzuki dealership. photo David Thomson

The car that emerges shortly will still be recognisable as a Suzuki Swift in shape, albeit with flared wheel arches and the like.

However it’s actually quite different when viewed in detail: along with being wider by 125mm than a standard Swift (thanks to a wider track and wheel arches), it has had a 170mm stretch in wheelbase to provide wheelto-wheel dimensions that maximise handling; structural strength and occupant protection is provided by over 47 metres of chrome moly tubing, fabricated locally into a massively strong FIA international-specification roll cage; key sub-frame and suspension components have come from overseas, as has the 5-speed PPG competition gearbox and front and rear limited slip differentials that will play key roles in delivering power to all four-wheels.

There’s also an astonMacneall run the car for ishing change in the the first time, on the 5-7 engine bay, where the April Otago Rally.

1.6-litre non-turbo “The engine is being engine removed from the prepared by Aucklanddonor car will shortly be based engine specialist returned as a 1.8-litre Edgell Automotive, and (courtesy of an increased right now they are awaitbore) with a Garett turing some final parts from bocharger and customoverseas to complete made exhaust manifold, its transformation,” say radiator and intercooler.

Gilmour.

“Otherwise the project As if that wasn’t Emma Gilmour: new wheels has been 100 percent enough, the engine is Dunedin-based.” going to be re-mounted to sit northGilmour is confident that the new south rather than the east-west (across machine, which will weigh in at little the engine bay) configuration that is more that 1200kg and pack a 250kW used for a normal Swift. plus power-punch, has what it takes Right now it’s the engine that is to be fully competitive against the eagerly awaited to take the near-comGroup N production class cars that plete car to the point at which highhave been the mainstay of national performance testing can be undertaken before Gilmour and co-driver Glenn championship rallying in recent years.

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Crockett, Retallick staying with NZ Two members of the All Blacks rugby engine room - Crusaders prop Wyatt Crockett and Chiefs lock Brodie Retallick - have re-signed with New Zealand Rugby and their respective Super 15 franchises through to the end of 2015.

30-year-old Crockett has played 11 Tests for the All Blacks since 2009 and been a Crusader since 2006, playing his 100th match for the team last year.

Prior to his elevation to the top tier of New Zealand rugby, the loosehead prop also represented New Zealand at all other national levels, as a member of the Junior All Blacks in 2006-2007 and New Zealand’s 2004 Under 21 and 2002 Under 19 championship-winning sides.

Crockett said he still had a lot he wanted to achieve.

“I am really happy to extend my contract with New Zealand Rugby and the Crusaders for another two years.

“I still have a lot I want to achieve in New Zealand rugby and I feel privileged to get up each day and do something I truly love.”

Retallick, 21, had a breakout year in 2012.

The talented young lock was called into the All Blacks on the back of an outstanding debut Super 15 season, helping his Chiefs team win the 2012 Super 15.

He played in all but one of the All Blacks 14 Tests last year.

“I am really enjoying playing for the All Blacks and the Chiefs, and I want the opportunity to defend the Chiefs’ Investec Super Rugby title and also hopefully will get the opportunity to also play in a Rugby World Cup,” Retallick said yesterday.

All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen had plenty of praise for both players.

“Wyatt and Brodie are both quality men and quality rugby players and it’s fantastic that they have put their hands up and said ‘we want to stay’, especially as we know they have the choice to go and play their footy elsewhere.

“Their re-signing is great for New Zealand rugby and great for the All Blacks.”

Retallick and Crockett join a large group of 2012 All Blacks who have committed through until 2014 and 2015.

That group includes captain Richie McCaw, playmaker Daniel Carter and prop Ben Franks (2015), the All Blacks most capped prop Tony Woodcock and fellow props Owen Franks and Charlie Faumuina, hookers Dane Coles and Hikawera Elliot, lock Luke Romano, loose forward Victor Vito, halfbacks Piri Weepu and Aaron Smith, first five-eighth Aaron Cruden, midfielder Conrad Smith and outside backs Israel Dagg and Cory Jane.

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• Snakes a problem The New Zealand Davis Cup tennis side might have thought safety wouldn’t be an issue when their tie with Pakistan was moved to Myanmar for security reasons, but they have been watchful of snakes since arriving in the country. New Zealand will take on Pakistan in their Asia/ Oceania Group II second round contest at the Pun Hlaing Golf and Country Club in Yangon this weekend, and have been trying to get used to the grass courts there. “Really, overall, the courts aren’t great,” Marcus Daniell said. But nor is the presence of snakes. Daniell said they had been constantly warned by workers at the country club to “be on the lookout for snakes”.

Myanmar is, apparently, home to the most fatal snake attacks in the world.

- APNZ

• Brown best of Kiwis

Photo Peter McGregor

The oldest remaining members of the Ashburton Old Boys Rugby Club (from left) Bill Corbett, Gray Campbell and Doug Watson cut the cake at the club’s reunion at the weekend.

Reunion for the ‘men in black’

By Jonathan Leask It has been 26 years since the Ashburton Old Boys Rugby Club had a team on the playing field, but they had more than 140 former members gather over Easter weekend for a reunion.

The Old Boys club started in 1902 and played right through until 1987, bar 1945 when it joined

former Old Boys club member Graham Thomas said.

“It’s getting to the point where it was the sooner the better for a reunion or there just wouldn’t be many of us Old Boys left, and if we didn’t have one now we might not ever get around to it.

Thomas said the club, which also incorporated a large squash section, had quite a bit of history over its 85 years including five All Blacks,

two Maori All Blacks and a South Island representative.

Of those players, Doug Bruce, Jock Ross, Paul Williams and Murray Roulston all attended at the weekend.

“We also had 10 former players come over from Australia and from throughout the north and south islands, so they came from near and far for a good weekend,” Thomas said.

Japan now a ‘major threat’

By Patrick McKendry

Wyatt Crockett: Still a lot to achieve with the Crusaders and the All Blacks.

forces with Celtic for a season post World War Two. It was 1987 when it merged with Tech Old Boys to become Collegiate, and that merger was celebrated last year and provided the catalyst to get the old boys of Old Boys back together.

“The Collegiate Rugby Club celebrated 25 years last year so it got some of us thinking we were overdue for an Old Boys reunion,”

The power of the yen and relative merits of Japan are proving too good to turn down for an increasingly young and talented crop of rugby players in New Zealand.

Yesterday former All Blacks Anthony Boric and Stephen Donald announced they will join the Mitsubishi DynaBoars in Sagamihara, near Tokyo.

Blues’ lock Boric, who is two games into his comeback from a serious neck injury, will leave at the end of the Super Rugby season, with Donald, who kicked the winning World Cup penalty for the All Blacks, moving from England club Bath.

Hurricanes’ prop Ben May also announced his move, also on a twoseason deal, to Sanix, yesterday.

While the flurry of signings can be partly explained by Japan’s rigid contracting period, there is no doubt the country is attracting more New Zealand players, and, more significantly, they are no

longer at the end of their careers.

The relative proximity of Japan to New Zealand, the favourable exchange rate, friendly visa conditions, time zone and less physical nature of the competition means the country is leaping ahead of Europe as the major threat to the New Zealand Rugby Union.

It is understood that a junior All Black can earn up to $600,000 a season in Japan, almost three times more than in New Zealand.

Chiefs’ centre Richard Kahui (Toshiba) and wing Lelia Masaga (Honda) recently announced their moves, with the former a shoo-in to make the All Blacks’ squad this year.

The NZRU has long conceded it cannot match the financial clout of overseas clubs and relies on the black jersey for its pulling power.

“I think statistically there are probably fewer players going overseas, but what we’re seeing is, in regards to Japan and what was traditionally seen as a retirement village, people are going up there in their pomp and much younger

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Stephen Donald: World Cup hero heading to Japan to play his rugby than they have in the past, and that’s creating visibility because they’re higher-profile guys,” said Simon Porter, a player agent for the Essentially group.

That was a trend also seen by Esportif agent and former All Black Craig Innes, who represents Boric.

“There’s more of that top echelon of player choosing to head for Japan,” he said. “They’ve become trailblazers for the others.”

Innes also represents former All

Blacks’ enforcer Jerome Kaino.

Kaino was one of the first high-profile players to leave for Japan after the World Cup. Also leaving then were Ma’a Nonu (on a short-term contract) and Brad Thorn, now both back playing for the Highlanders.

Former All Blacks and Chiefs’ midfielder Sonny Bill Williams spent a short but lucrative stint at Panasonic.

All Blacks’ first-five Dan Carter has ruled out playing in France during his sabbatical next year, with Japan remaining a likely destination.

“Most of the guys who go up there, it takes them a good year to find their feet,” said Innes. “It’s a different culture to what we’re used to in New Zealand - the food and language - most of them do like the lifestyle. Most of the feedback is positive.

“The physical aspect is a lot different to New Zealand or Europe but in saying that, they train like crazy in Japan,” he added. “By our standards they overtrain something bloody terrible.”

- APNZ

Brumbies welcome return of McCabe

By David Barbeler Brumbies coach Jake White says Wallabies centre Pat McCabe is likely to make his long-awaited Super Rugby return in the competition-leading Brumbies’ starting team on Friday night.

And White may also ring in more rotational changes in the home clash with South African newcomers the Kings, with back-up hooker Siliva Siliva set to make his run-on debut in place of Wallabies stalwart Stephen Moore.

White said 25-year-old McCabe had recovered from the hamstring injury he suffered in an ACT XV trial game in early March when making his comeback from a broken neck sustained on the 2012 Wallabies Spring tour to Europe.

“Pat’s fine. He’s pulled up nicely this week so in all likelihood he’ll be involved this weekend,” White said.

White indicated that McCabe would most likely return straight to the run-on side.

“The reason for that is I don’t want to risk bringing him off the bench and something goes wrong and then you end up playing with 14 men,” White said.

“So if he’s good enough to go, he should be good enough to start.”

White added that whether McCabe played at centre or fullback would depend on the fitness of standout fullback Jesse Mogg, who had a 50 per cent chance of playing due to an ongoing shoulder injury.

If McCabe did move to the back it would be a tough blow to stand-in fullback Robbie Coleman, who played well and scored the Brumbies’ only try in the win over the Bulls at the weekend.

“It’s tough for everyone, that’s just the way it works,” White said.

“Every boy understands that it’s not about the individual, it’s about the team.”

Meanwhile 21-year-old Siliva, a 2008 Australian Schoolboys representative, will add to just the handful of Super Rugby caps he’s had off the bench after battling a knee injury in 2012.

White emphasised the rotational changes were in no way a sign of disrespect to the second-last placed Kings who have a 1-4 record in their first season.

“It’s purely because it’s week seven of the competition and we’ve obviously had tough games,” White said.

- AAP

Wellington’s Mark Brown has finished the best of the Kiwis at the Indonesian PGA Championship on the OneAsia Tour.

The former European Tour winner came home strong to finish in a share of 18th place on an 11 under par total after rounds of 69, 72, 68 and 68 at the Emeralda Golf Club. Brown was eight shots back from Korean Ho-sung Choi who won the event by two shots. The 38-year-old, who earlier this year qualified for the Open Championship by carding a course record 10 under par 62, earned $13,000 (NZD) and is the leading Kiwi on the OneAsia Order of Merit in 20th place. Gareth Paddison faded to finish in a share of 39th place in Indonesia after a three over par 75 in the final round. New Zealand No 1 Michael Hendry was three shots back. - APNZ

• Spurs lose Ginobili Guard Manu Ginobili is expected to miss up to four weeks of NBA action because of a strained right hamstring, the San Antonio Spurs announced yesterday. Ginobili, of Argentina, sustained the injury during the first quarter of their victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, causing the 11-year veteran to miss Monday’s 88-86 loss to Miami.

In 59 games this season, Ginobili averaged 11.9 points, 4.6 assists, and 3.4 rebounds per game.

Spurs for-wards Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard, both suffering from sore left knees, also did not play in San Antonio’s 92-90 loss to Memphis yesterday. San Antonio has already locked up a Conference playoff spot. - AFP

• Glory brace for Victory Perth Glory are confident they possess the right tactics to thwart Melbourne Victory’s Brazilian-like attacking mentality in Friday night’s A-League elimination final at Etihad Stadium.

The Victory boast one of the best attacking outfits in the competition, with the likes of Archie Thompson and Marco Rojas wreaking havoc on opposition sides. The star pair were on international duties a fortnight ago when Glory stunned Victory 3-2, and Melbourne will start hot favourites in the re-match. - AAP

• No change for Slater Billy Slater has no plans to modify the spectacular way he catches high balls despite the controversy over his “karate kick” which floored Canterbury prop David Klemmer. Still mid-air after leaping to catch a bomb, Melbourne fullback Slater’s extended front leg caught Klemmer in the head. He was cleared after being put on report, with the match review panel deeming the contact accidental. But many critics still considered it reckless. However, Slater saw no need to alter his leaping style, which often has his legs in front. “It’s just one of those accidents that happen on a football field,” Slater said. -AAP

• Mourinho wants goals Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is hoping his goal-shy team rediscover their goal-scoring form in the first-leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Galatasaray tonight.

Cristiano Ronaldo kept up his imperious form with his 43rd goal of the season in Saturday’s 1-1 draw away at Real Zaragoza, but the lack of goals from other areas concerns Mourinho. “Perhaps that is one of the differences this season,” he said. “Last season with four chances we would score three, we were scoring with great ease and the only one who has maintained a similar average has been Cristiano.”

- AFP

• Inu gets five weeks Canterbury will be without goalkicking centre Krisnan Inu for five matches after the NRL club opted to accept the early guilty plea for his spear tackle on South Sydney’s Greg Inglis on Good Friday. Inu was charged with a grade four dangerous throw following the incident and coach Des Hasler said the club looked at trying to get a downgrade at the NRL Judiciary hearing but decided against it.- AAP

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Hairpin huge concern for Nissan V8s

By Robert Grant V8 Supercars newcomer Nissan are dreading this week’s trip to Tasmania - all because of one corner.

Nissan Motorsport believes Symmons Plains’ famous hairpin could literally put their Altimas out of the race in the second round of the series.

It is the slowest corner in the championship, but one which could have a devastating impact on the four Nissans, which began promisingly with midfield finishes at the Clipsal 500 then scored top 10 spots at the grand prix meeting.

The sharply-banked corner leads onto the circuit’s longest straight, which is where the problem lies - full throttle acceleration from a virtual standstill, according to driver Todd Kelly.

“You really have to stop it and turn it and then you ask for full throttle really early on.

“That will really knock us around,” Kelly said.

“That will be the only weakness there, but at Symmons Plains you

don’t need much of a weakness to be a long way back.”

While Nissan have made a brave start to the new Car of the Future series, Kelly is downbeat about their hopes this weekend.

He said that even the perfect lap in qualifying would struggle to net a top 10 time for the new Altimas because the Nissan V8 engine is lacking the torque of the Fords and Holdens.

“That’s not to be negative because everything we are doing this year is massively positive as far as how far we have got with such a new car with such a new engine,” Kelly said.

“But it is going to be tough there, every little thing counts and that back straight is half your lap at Symmons Plains.”

However at the non-championship Grand Prix meeting the flowing nature of the Albert Park circuit and the handling balance of the Altima chassis meant both the Jack Daniels and Norton 360-backed entries consistently challenged for the top 10.

James Moffat emerged the best of the quartet with a fifth place in race

two and seventh overall, while Todd and Rick Kelly and Michael Caruso all made their presence felt as well.

“That was a surprise to me as much as anybody,” Todd Kelly said.

“Luckily the cars are just fantastic at the moment, a lot better than I could have hoped for. They carry really good mid-corner speed and come off the corner really really good, a lot better than any of the cars we have had in our team. So that’s really helped cover the engine deficiency.”

Japanese Nissan Motorsport engineers visited the team during the GP meeting but Kelly said there would be no easy solutions.

“They have a lot of good ideas and they have sent a few bits over to test on our dyno that we can just bolt on to our engine, but unfortunately nothing stood out as a quick fix for us,” he said.

Kelly is counting on constant small developments rather than major breakthroughs this season.

“I would say there will be six to 12 months of little bits here and there and the big question is will all those little bits add up to a big bit or won’t they,” he said. - AAP

Lauren in top form on the road

By Jonathan Leask Hinds cyclist Lauren Ellis has produced a strong performance in the Tour de Lakes as she continues to adjust to riding on the road.

As BikeNZ continues on its cost cutting team selection process, the track specialist is still spending her time on the roads, and was in the Benchmark Women’s team that dominated the Tour de Lakes in Southland over Easter.

Her Benchmark team won six of

in the king of the mountain (KOM) and sprint jersey stakes.

Day two started off with a 20km time trial with Ellis recording the 16th best time before another 80km stage produced another victory to take the lead in the sprint standings.

She then started the third and final day with her third win, taking out the 50km stage in a sprint finish.

The win had Ellis take a 16 point lead in the sprint stakes and that also moved her back into second

the seven stages with Ellis laying claim to three wins to come in sixth, while teammate and Olympic road cyclist Linda Villumsen was the overall women’s winner.

Ellis was fourth in the 5km tour prologue on Friday and then had a solid start coming in eighth on the opening 45km stage on day one of the tour.

On stage two Ellis made the big move on the 80km stage surging out solo after 15km and holding on for 65kms to win the stage by 18 seconds, and also picked up points

Cold road ahead for Roulston

By Jonathan Leask

Todd Kelly’s Nissan Altima V8 may struggle at the Symmons Plains round of the Supercars this weekend

SCOREBOARD Results Golf

Chelsea 1 (Ba 49) Manchester United 0 (Winners advance to semi-finals)

Basketball NBA results

NBA results yesterday (home team in CAPS): TORONTO RAPTORS 98 Detroit Pistons 108 MILWAUKEE BUCKS 131 Charlotte Bobcats 102 MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES 92 San Antonio Spurs 90 HOUSTON ROCKETS 111 Orlando Magic 103 MINNESOTA T-WOLVES 110 Boston Celtics 100 UTAH JAZZ 112 Portland Trail Blazers 102 ATLANTA HAWKS 102 Cleveland Cavaliers 94 L.A. CLIPPERS 106 Indiana Pacers 109

Football English Premier League results standings English Premier League results and standings Fulham 3 (Berbatov 8 pen, 22, Hill 41 og) QPR 2 (Taarabt 45, Remy 51) Aston Villa 1 (Benteke 31) Liverpool 2 (Henderson 47, Gerrard 60 pen) Everton 1 (Mirallas 28) Stoke City 0 Wigan Athletic 1 (A Kone 81) Norwich City 0 West Ham 3 (Carroll 16, 80, O’Neil 28) West Bromwich Albion1 (Dorrans 88 pen) Arsenal 4 (Gervinho 11, Cazorla 48, Giroud 67, Arteta 77 pen) Reading 1 (Robson-Kanu 69) Swansea 1 (Michu 71) Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Vertonghen 7, Bale 21) Southampton 2 (Rodriguez 23, Lambert 35) Chelsea 1 (Terry 33) Manchester City 4 (Tevez 41, Silva 45+2, Kompany 56, Perch 69 og) Newcastle United 0 Sunderland 0 Manchester United 1 (Bramble 27 og) Standings P W D L F A Pts Manchester United 30 25 2 3 70 31 77 Manchester City 30 18 8 4 55 26 62 Tottenham Hotspur 31 17 6 8 53 38 57 Chelsea 30 16 7 7 59 32 55 Arsenal 30 15 8 7 59 33 53 Everton 30 13 12 5 47 35 51 Liverpool 31 13 9 9 59 40 48 West Brom Albion 31 13 5 13 41 41 44 Swansea 31 10 10 11 41 40 40 Fulham 30 10 9 11 43 46 39 West Ham 30 10 6 14 35 44 36 Southampton 31 8 10 13 44 53 34 Stoke City 31 7 13 11 27 36 34 Norwich City 31 7 13 11 28 47 34 Newcastle United 31 9 6 16 41 56 33 Sunderland 31 7 10 14 33 43 31 Wigan Athletic 30 8 6 16 36 56 30 Aston Villa 31 7 9 15 32 58 30 QPR 31 4 11 16 28 51 23 Reading 31 5 8 18 36 61 23 Leading Goalscorers 22: Luis Suarez (Liverpool) 19: Robin van Persie (Manchester United) 18: Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) 16: Demba Ba (Chelsea), Michu (Swansea) 14: Christian Benteke (Aston Villa), Rickie Lambert (Southampton) 13: Dimitar Berbatov (Fulham), Romelu Lukaku (West Bromwich Albion), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) 12: Edin Dzeko (Manchester City), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal)

FA Cup 6th round

Ashburton Golf Club Greensome March 30 The winners of The Keig Cup and The Coasters Cup were Liz Pollock and John Power with a score of 83 -26 = 57. Other good scores were Karen McRae and Hamish Niles 60.5, Paul Greer and Tom Kearney 62, Peter van Vollenhoven and David Fisher 62.5, Don Houghton and Noel Sutton 62.5, Brian Wilson and Graeme Berhnes 63.

Nearest The Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: Murray Anderson, Braided Rivers: Ken Clucas, Rothburys Insurance: Bob Grant, Netherby Meats: Paul Greer, Blue Pub (Longest Putt): John Dudley, Robilliards (Nearest pin #18): Hamish Niles.

Twos: Murray Anderson, Paul Greer, Derek Shaw and Jan Guilford.

Stableford, April 1 Kay Robb 45, John Power 44, Fiona Williamson 43, Eric Parr 42; Wendy Parr, Brian Nuttall, Stewart Dunlop, Mike Holmes and Gaby Jansen all 41.

Nearest The Pins: Women Brenda Fechney; Men Ken Clucas.

Twos: Vince Carr, Peter van Vollenhoven, Brenda Fechney and Justin Wise.

Eagles: Fiona Williamson and Brian Nuttall.

Ashburton Golf Club Women’s Section April 2 LGU, National Teams Silver – Fiona Williamson – 67, Wendy Parr – 69 Bronze I – Kay Robb – 70 Bronze II – Hilary Ward, Joan Hetrick – 69 Bronze III – Mary-Lou Watson - 64 Nearest The Pins: No. 4 Gabites: Glenis Sloper No 8 House of Travel Ashburton: Kay Robb No. 12 Lynn’s Small Salon: Wendy Parr No. 14 Todds of Ashburton: Robyn Bennett 2nd Shot to Green: Gay Lane Nine Hole Section March 28 Rnd 2 Sue Bunt, Rnd 2 Marion Marshall – Stroke Zilpha Earl – 33, Sue Letham – 33 on c/b, Murray Early - 35 on c/b.

Twos Murray Early – No 4

Mayfield Golf Club March 30 2nd Round Ruapuna Rose Bowl Winners: Terry Kingsbury, Ian Hoskin, Nigel Ormrod.

Winners Par Round: 0-14: Wayne Blair 5 up, Kerry Read 2 up, Tony Neilson square; 15-36: Roger Lake & Phil Elliot 6 up, Wayne Vessey 2 up, Arnold Rushton 1 up.

Nearest Pins: Aon Insurance Brokers No 2: Wayne Vessey; Bayleys Real Estate No 11: Stuart Wilson (Methven); Marilyn Cross Property Brokers N0 5: Bill Allan; National Bank No 14: Jack Allan; ATS 2nd Shot No 9 & No 18: Allan Dixon.

Two’s: Jack Allan, Wayne Vessey, Ian Hopping, John Sim, John Low Ash Vegas Player of the Day: Roger Lake 87-23-64; Nett Eagle No 4: Not Struck.

Netball Results, standings Rd 2 ANZ Championship SOUTHERN STEEL 75 (Jhaniele Fowler 65 Jodi Brown 10) bt CANTERBURY TACTIX 56 (Joanne

Photo Robyn Edie

Lauren Ellis (right) chats with a fellow rider before the start of a stage in the Tour de Lakes in Southland.

Ashburton cyclist Hayden Roulston will start the Scheldeprijs in Belgium tonight (NZ Time).

Roulston is in the six-strong RadioShack Leopard team for the 204km Flanders Classic that will feature cold conditions with Europe in the grips of a cold snap.

Harten 29 Sophia Fenwick 26 Julianna Naoupu 1) at CBS Arena.

MELBOURNE VIXENS 58 (Karyn Howarth 36 Tegan Caldwell 22) bt ADELAIDE THUNDERBIRDS 44 (Erin Bell 25 Carla Borrego 17 Stephanie Puopolo 2) at Hisense Arena.

WEST COAST FEVER 80 (Caitlin Bassett 62 Catherine Cox 18) bt NORTHERN MYSTICS 53 (Maria Tutaia 34 Catherine Latu 14 Bailey Mes 5) at Challenge Stadium.

WAIKATO BAY OF PLENTY MAGIC 61 (Irene van Dyk 32 Jess Waitapu 17 Ellen Halpenny 12) bt NSW SWIFTS 35 (Susan Pratley 23 Carla Dziwoki 10 Amorette Wild 2) at ASB Baypark Arena.

QUEENSLAND FIREBIRDS 58 (Romelda Aiken 40 Natalie Medhurst 18) bt CENTRAL PULSE 56 (Caitlin Thwaites 35 Donna Wilkins 21) at Te Rauparaha Arena.

Standings P W L For Agt % Pts Waikato BoP Magic 2 2 0 130 81 160.49 4 Melbourne Vixens 2 2 0 118 90 131.11 4 Queensland Firebirds 2 2 0 126 115 109.57 4 West Coast Fever 2 1 1 121 108 112.04 2 Southern Steel 2 1 1 134 124 108.06 2 Adelaide T-birds 2 1 1 93 100 93.00 2 NSW Swifts 2 1 1 90 102 88.24 2 Central Pulse 2 0 2 98 107 91.59 0 Canterbury Tactix 2 0 2 102 144 70.83 0 Northern Mystics 2 0 2 99 140 70.71 0

Rugby league NRL results standings Rd 4 MANLY 26 (D Williams 2 D Cherry-Evans S Matai T Symonds tries J Lyon 3 goals) bt WESTS TIGERS 0 at Bluetongue Stadium. Referee: Matt Cecchin, Luke Phillips. Crowd: 11,758.

SOUTH SYDNEY 17 (G Burgess B Goodwin N Merritt tries A Reynolds 2 goals A Reynolds field goal) bt BULLDOGS 12 (B Barba M Brown tries K Inu 2 goals) at ANZ Stadium. Referee: Shayne Hayne, Alan Shortall. Crowd: 51,686.

MELBOURNE 32 (B Slater 3 M Duffie 2 J Sau tries C Smith 4 goals) bt BRISBANE 26 (J Hoffman 3 A Glenn J Reed tries S Prince 3 goals) at Suncorp Stadium.

Referee: Jared Maxwell, Adam Devcich. Crowd: 40,071.

ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA 25 (J Nightingale 2 N Fien J Soward tries J Soward 4 goals J Soward field goal) bt CRONULLA 12 (A Fifita J Robson tries M Gordon 2 goals) at Sharks Stadium. Referee: Phil Haines, Ashley Klein. Crowd: 20,130.

GOLD COAST 28 (K Gordon 2 G Bird D Mead S Michaels tries A Sezer 4 goals) bt PENRITH 10 (T Humble W Naiqama tries W Naiqama goal) at Centrebet Stadium. Referee: Gavin Morris, Jason Robinson.

Crowd: 8,181.

NEWCASTLE 28 (A Cuthbertson 2 A Quinn T Roberts A Uate tries T Roberts 3 K Gidley goals) bt CANBERRA 12 (J Papalii J Thompson tries J Croker 2 goals) at Hunter Stadium. Referee: Gerard Sutton, Brett Suttor. Crowd: 18,689.

WARRIORS 20 (K Hurrell S Johnson E Taylor tries S Johnson 4 goals) bt NORTH QUEENSLAND 18 (K Fai Fai Loa B Tate A Winterstein tries J Thurston 3 goals) at Mt Smart Stadium. Referee: Gavin Badger, Henry Perenara. Crowd: 10,572.

SYDNEY ROOSTERS 50 (R Tuivasa-Sheck 3 B Cordner M Jennings D Mortimer D Tupou J WaereaHargreaves S Williams tries J Maloney 7 goals) bt PARRAMATTA 0 at Allianz Stadium. Referee: Ben Cummins, Chris James. Crowd: 18,014.

Standings P W D L B PF PA PD Pts 1 Melbourne 4 4 0 0 0 116 64 52 8 2 South Sydney 4 4 0 0 0 103 66 37 8 3 Manly 4 3 0 1 0 94 30 64 6 4 Gold Coast 4 3 0 1 0 90 36 54 6 5 Newcastle 4 3 0 1 0 104 60 44 6 6 Sydney Roosters 4 3 0 1 0 84 42 42 6

7 Cronulla 4 8 Wests Tigers 4 9 Brisbane 4 10 Bulldogs 4 11 Penrith 4 12 St Geo Illawarra 4 13 Parramatta 4 14 Nth Queensland 4 15 Warriors 4 16 Canberra 4

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German Marcel Kittel (ArgosShimano) won last year in a rainsoaked sprint but this year’s race could feature snow, and temperatures below zero which is becoming the norm this season.

Cancellara headlines the team with Stijn Devolder, Markel Irizar, Yaroslav Popovych, Gregory Rast and Roulston.

The New Zealand road race cham-

4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Draws Basketball

Basketball - Intermediate Grade April 5 Stadium – Oxford Street Opening Duty – St Jos Jazz 3.45pm St Joseph’s Jazz v 7 Up (Tania Rule, Scott Kelland) 4.30pm St Joseph’s Diamonds v CPT Survivors (Hayden Adams, Fletcher Arnold); 5.15pm Ball Bashers v Herricanes (Josh Lowe, Hayden Adams); 6.00pm Inter Celts v Borough Bulls (Allie Henderson, Kieran Hunt); 6.45pm St Joseph’s Storm v Asteroids (Emily Hickman, Allie Henderson); 7.30pm St Joseph’s Titans v Thunder (Barrine Ross, Tania Rule) Closing Duty – Thunder Sports Hall – Tancred Street Opening Duty – Taste The Thunder 3.45pm Taste The Thunder v Longbeach Bouncers (Nic Ross, Liam O’Connor); 4.30pm Longbeach Lakers v Borough Bulls (Tessa Morrison, Justus Frank); 5.15pm The Lepricorns v The Saints (Nic Thomassen, Jayden Reid) Closing Duty – The Lepricorns Bye Girls – Robillard Rebels; Bye Boys – George & Co

Bowls Hampstead Bowling Club April 7 Skips names who have entered teams in the Sandy Keith Memorial to be held at Hampstead 9am start; whites to be worn; own lunch.

Tinwald R. Cutberlet, B. Holdom, T. Gibson, R. Anstiss, M. Smallridge, A. MacDonald, W. Suttie, M. Behrns, C. Leech, A. McKenzie, J. Drayton, D. Muir, D. Kiddey, M. Grice.

One more team required, Ph C. Hands.3072647.

Golf

pion is in good form after setting up team mate Fabian Cancellara for the win in the Tour of Flanders at the weekend and will be looking for another strong ride to book a start in Monday’s (NZ Time) ParisRoubaix, a 254km monument dubbed the hell of the north.

However, the end goal for Roulston is booking a place on the Tour de France in June.

Ko targets major World No 1 amateur Lydia Ko’s incredible record in professional events will be put to the test this week when she plays in her third major at the Kraft Nabisco Championship on the LPGA Tour.

The 15-year-old from the Gulf Harbour Country Club is one of nine amateurs given a sponsor’s exemption for the first major of the year at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California from April 4-7.

Ko, who has climbed to World No 25 on the Official World Rankings, has never missed a cut in the 14 professional events she has played since making her debut in a pro event at the NZ Women’s Open in 2010.

Ko is the youngest winner of a professional event (14 when she won the NSW Open in 2012), the youngest winner of a LPGA Tour event (15 when she won the Canadian Open in 2012) and the youngest winner of a LET Tour event when she won the ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open in February.

Now Ko gets a chance to be the youngest major winner of all time.

She has a good record in major championships too.

In 2012 she became the first

Lydia Ko: Has yet to miss a cut Kiwi amateur to make the cut at the US Open when she finished in a share of 39th place to claim the amateur honours by one shot from American Emma Talley.

She would have finished tied 18th if not for a poor finish where she dropped six shots in the final three holes.

A few months later Ko managed testing conditions at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club to finish in a share of 17th place and leading amateur in her debut at the Open Championship.

Ko, who no doubt is focusing on winning her first major championship, will face competition from Georgia Hall, Alison Lee, Lindy Duncan, Camilla Hedberg, Isabelle Lendl, Stephanie Meadow and Ashlan Ramsey for amateur honours.

- APNZ

spot in the KOM, while Villumsen also finished in the five women breakaway to take a 2 minute 36 second lead into the afternoon’s final stage.

Ellis finished the tour with a seventh place in the final 45km stage and held onto the sprint jersey by five points from final stage winner and overall champion Villumsen, who recorded an impressive solo win by five minutes to also storm into the KOM jersey as well, with Ellis runner-up in KOM and sixth overall.

• O’Connor to re-sign?

Star Wallabies playmaker James O’Connor says he doesn’t see any reason to leave the Melbourne Rebels, and has backed besieged coach Damien Hill to guide the club out of its lowest ebb. Hill’s future beyond this season is up in the air following the club’s disastrous tour of South Africa. Not only were they walloped 64-7 by the Sharks and 34-16 by the Cheetahs, but stars Kurtley Beale and Cooper Vuna were sent home in disgrace for their post-match punch-up.

O’Connor has been linked with a move to the Brumbies, but claimed he knew nothing about those rumours.

- AAP

• Eels ‘shambolic’ Shambolic on the field in Monday’s 50-0 defeat by the Sydney Roosters, Parramatta weren’t any better away from it 24 hours later when six players failed to show for an organised media session.

Squad members were due to speak after a recovery session, but didn’t arrive to discuss their awful loss to the Roosters. None of the team’s three co-captains Tim Mannah, Reni Maitua and Jarryd Hayne - were put up to explain the defeat. Coach Ricky Stuart said that Eels supporters should get used to seeing their side struggle this season as he looks to rebuild the team. - AAP

• Stosur on comeback Samantha Stosur returns from injury this week to launch her 2013 claycourt campaign in Charleston, South Carolina.

Stosur hasn’t played since withdrawing from her scheduled quarter-final at Indian Wells almost three weeks ago with a calf strain. But Australia’s world No.9 is making her comeback at a happy hunting ground after winning the trophy in Charleston in 2010 before going on to reach the French Open final. - AFP

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Celtic starts the right way Celtic opened their season in winning style with a 23-16 win over Darfield in the Combined Country Cup rugby competition last night.

Tukulua Tolu marked his return to Celtic with a try at the start of each half to set up the Celtic victory.

It was a see-saw battle where Celtic made most of the play, and the visitors were still able to keep in touch but not come up with a late winner.

Celtic met Darfield in last season’s opener and conceded two early tries but got off to the perfect start in 2013 with Tolu crashing over in the opening minutes.

Darfield then got on the scoreboard with their third shot at goal, but Celtic replied with a penalty off a Sam Hurley bust as new English first-five-eighth Nathan Wolf landed his first points to put Celtic up 8-3.

However, Wolf then missed consecutive shots at goal from a handy range to let Darfield off the hook, and the Richard Loe-coached side made the most of it.

Celtic rushed up but left a gaping hole for Darfield centre Jared Court to gallop through and the conversion put Darfield in front 10-8 right on the sounding of the halftime whistle.

Despite a dominant scrum and the lion’s share of possession, a single defensive lapse had Celtic trailing.

The second half started with deja vu for Darfield as a fired up Celtic sent Tolu barging over again and

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the Wolf conversion had the hosts out in front.

A Darfield penalty narrowed the gap but Celtic snared a turnover inside their 22 and turned it into a try for centre Gasolo Solima to go ahead 20-13.

The sides traded penalties, but Celtic was able to hold off Darfield’s desperate attempts in the closing stages to take the win, much to the delight of coach Dave McCrea.

“It’s good to get a win first up, and especially one over Darfield who were semi-finalists last year,” McCrea said.

“We probably had the weight of the possession but our discipline was terrible at times and that let them back in, but we were still able to do enough.”

Celtic’s next opponent in section two, Lincoln, also opened their season with a win beating Glenmark 24-0, Ashley hammered Ohoka 41-0 and Prebbleton got up over Waihora 17-15.

In section one, defending champions Southbridge sounded a warning with a 50-6 thumping of Burnham, West Melton edged out Kaiapoi 30-28 and the elongated Easter weekend first round comes to a close today when Oxford hosts Ashley.

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Breakers unconcerned by Perth dominance For two sides so evenly matched, it seems anomalous the Breakers and Perth have played out four very one-sided games this season.

It’s against this backdrop that the two teams play out this season’s best-of-three grand final series, starting with Sunday’s first at Vector Arena.

Perth won the opening game of the season 93-72 in Auckland and followed it up in November with an 89-64 demolition of the Breakers in Perth.

The Breakers responded with a comfortable 98-81 defeat of the Wildcats at Vector Arena in February before Perth thumped the Breakers 73-58 in last month’s

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final regular game of the season.

That’s an average winning margin in all four games of 19.5 points.

The Breakers are a confident bunch after winning the last two ANBL titles and are unconcerned about their record against their great rivals this season.

“The regular season counts for nought,” Lemanis told reporters after his side’s 2-0 win over Sydney in the semi-finals.

“Right now it’s the first to two.”

It’s a sentiment echoed by centre Alex Pledger.

“We’re not really concerned,” said Pledger, who chimed in with 18 points and 12 rebounds in the 99-88 win over Sydney on Monday.

“You would like to have a couple more wins against them but we played them twice early.

“We were still trying to find our feet back then. Players were playing different roles and Tom [Abercrombie] was still trying to get his foot back together [after a serious ankle injury].

“We were a completely different team to what we are now.

“We beat them pretty handily at Vector last time they played here and it will be 0-0 come playoff time.”

The grand final matchup is one most predicted at the start of the season and some even suggested cheekily the league should have ended earlier so the two best sides could battle it out in a seven-game series like it’s done in the NBA. Last year produced one of the best, if not the greatest, grand final series of all time.

The Breakers won the first game of the finals in overtime before being edged by one point in the return and won the decider 79-73 with CJ Bruton landing a couple of crucial three-pointers down the stretch.

It’s why the winning margin in all four games this season have been a surprise.

“There were extenuating circumstances.

“The first game was on the opening day of the season when a fired-up Perth had to watch the Breakers unveil their second championship banner and the last when the Breakers had already sewn up the minor premiership and soon after an emotional locker-room meeting when the players all told the retiring Dillon

Boucher why he meant so much to each of them - but it doesn’t explain everything.

The Breakers go into Sunday’s first game injury-free but Perth will be missing Damian Martin, after the influential guard partially tore an Achilles tendon in their gametwo overtime defeat of Wollongong.

It’s a big blow to the Wildcats considering Martin last week was named the league’s defensive player of the year for the thirdstraight season.

They will still go in with great form, having won 11 of their last 12 but the Breakers have won 18 of their last 19.

The numbers are close, just like the finals series should be.

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Guardian Weather

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

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19

RANGIORA

Wa i m a k a r i r i

LAKE COLERIDGE

Map for today

23

DARFIELD

19

METHVEN

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAY

MAX

23 OVERNIGHT MIN 7

MAX

14 OVERNIGHT MIN 5

TOMORROW: Showers clearing during the morning. S dying out.

LYTTELTON

FRIDAY: A few showers with a southerly change.

22

LINCOLN

Canterbury Plains

TODAY: Rain developing this afternoon.

Northerly then southerly.

24

CHRISTCHURCH

24

Ashburton Forecast

High cloud thickening. Rain spreads north during the afternoon and evening after northerlies change to cold southerly.

12 OVERNIGHT MIN 5 TOMORROW SATURDAY: Mainly fine. Light winds.

MAX

Rakaia

ASHBURTON

23

Ash

Geraldine

Ran

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gitata

TIMARU

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AKAROA

Ra

22

ka

MAX

Midnight Tonight

ia

Wind less than km/h 30

NZ Today

15 OVERNIGHT MIN 7

30 to 59

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

60 plus

FRIDAY Showers developing with a southerly change.

morning min max

fine fine fine fine cloudy rain cloudy rain rain rain showers rain showers

17 14 16 14 12 11 9 7 9 5 4 7 6

Showers clearing during the morning and becoming fine. Southerlies dying out.

25 25 28 25 19 21 22 18 24 21 18 17 15

SATURDAY

NZ Situation

A trough spreads northeast over the North Island tomorrow. This is followed by a cold southerly flow over the country. Another trough moves north over the South Island on Friday, and the North Island on Saturday, followed by a ridge moving onto the South Island.

Showers clearing in the morning. Light winds.

SUNDAY Mainly fine. Light winds.

FZL: Lowering to 1500m

Periods of rain, some heavy and possibly thundery falls about the divide. Snow lowering to 1000 metres in the evening.

Wind at 1000m: Northwest 45 km/h, easing in the afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: NW gales 65 km/h, easing in the afternoon.

TOMORROW

FZL: 1600m

Showers, with snow down to 1300 metres, clearing during the morning and becoming fine.

Wind at 1000m: S breezes dying out.

Wind at 2000m: SW 40 km/h

FRIDAY Showers with a southerly change, snow down to 1200 metres.

SATURDAY A few showers, with snow down to 1600 metres, clearing. Light winds.

SUNDAY Fine with light winds.

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River Levels

cumecs

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 9:15 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 9:00 am, yesterday

134.1 2.89 5.70 63.8

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

to 4pm yesterday

max

Ashburton Airport

min grass 16 hour Apr 2013 min to date to date

22.1

Temperatures °C

Rainfall mm

Wind km/h

max gust

3.5 -2.1

0.0

0.0 135.6

E 19

Christchurch Airport 22.5

8.9

5.4

0.0

0.0 77.6

NE 31

Timaru Airport

3.0

–

0.0

0.4 106.6

E 19

Average

17.6

Average

6.3

17.3

6.7

20.8

Average

3.8

16.5

3.9

4.9

3

172

3

143

2

136

6

9 noon 3

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

Wednesday

6

9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Thursday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

Friday

6

9 pm

2 1 0

4:26

10:41 4:51 11:12 5:29 11:44 5:53 12:14 6:30 12:43 6:51 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 7:52 am Set 7:20 pm

Good

Good fishing Set 2:52 pm

Last quarter

3 Apr

5:38 pm

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Rise 7:53 am Set 7:18 pm

Good

Good fishing

Rise 12:48 am Set 3:36 pm

New moon

10 Apr www.ofu.co.nz

9:37 pm

Rise 7:54 am Set 7:16 pm

Good

Good fishing Rise 1:57 am Set 4:14 pm

First quarter

19 Apr 12:33 am

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