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Woman lucky to be alive

By Erin Tasker A woman has made a miraculous escape after a crash ripped her car into two yesterday morning.

Emergency services were called to the scene, at the Staveley end of Ashburton Staveley Road, at 7.30am after the car hit a power pole.

Methven Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Selwyn Allred said he’d never seen anything like it in all his years as a firefighter.

He said the car had hit the power pole side on and split in two on impact – the back half was wrapped around the pole and the front half was a couple of metres down the road.

“It was the first time I’ve seen a car split in half,” Mr Allred said.

The woman was the sole occupant of the car and she was taken to Ashburton Hospital by ambulance.

Her injuries at this stage were unknown, but they were not thought to be serious.

Her family had requested complete privacy from the media.

Methven Police constable Aaron Tapp said what caused the car to leave the road on a sweeping bend was as yet unknown.

The road would have been damp at the time of the crash though, and rain may have been falling after the district’s damp start to the week.

Mr Tapp said the woman was lucky; the original call that came in to emergency services said the car had split in two and the woman was lying on the road.

St John Ambulance were among the first on the scene and they quickly stabilised the woman and transported her to hospital.

Mr Allred said the crash also caused power lines to drop and start arcing, threatening to start a fire, but they eventually tripped and A woman made a miraculous escape from a crash which ripped this car in half yesterday morning. cut out.

While most women work their hardest to hide their age, Rita Turtill flaunts it.

Turning 102 on Saturday, Mrs Turtill celebrated another birthday with her friends at her Cameron Courts home yesterday and she could not have been more proud.

“One-hundred and two years ago I was born in Christchurch,” she said.

“It doesn’t worry me, it’s great, it’s a privilege to be this old.”

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LEFT: Ashburton’s oldest resident Rita Turtill turned 102 on Saturday and celebrated the milestone with friends at Cameron Courts yesterday.

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Mrs Turtill is believed to be the oldest person in Ashburton.

It was a milestone she thought was out of her reach as sickness hampered her as a child, battling through pneumonia and abscesses on her lungs.

“I didn’t think I would make it this long. I was a very sickly as a child especially since we didn’t have things like penicillin back then.”

She dabbled in a sherry every so often and never smoked, but her answer to longevity is one she says is a simple equation.

“Being happy is a great thing, if you’re miserable or sad worrying about things, life isn’t fun,” Mrs Turtill said.

Keeping busy was important for her, working hard as a dental technician and being

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active in the Christchurch and Ashburton communities.

She kept busy chatting to friends at the Cameron Courts where they gathered around to celebrate her birthday with two cakes and a sing-along yesterday.

Although she had outlived most of her lifetime friends, Mrs Turtill said it was the people and the care she had around her that made life still so enjoyable.

“I’m so lucky to be in a place like this, it’s a struggle on your own and you wouldn’t make it.

“I’m so well looked after here, I’m very lucky.”

Mrs Turtill lived between Christchurch and Ashburton throughout her life, before settling in Ashburton, her favourite place, in 1990 and moving into the courts in 2007.

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By Sam Morton

Rita turns 102 and she’s proud as punch

By Myles Hume

Victim’s name released The name of a man who died in a car crash at Maronan on Friday has been released by police.

He was Graeme Mervyn Carr, 68, of Ashburton.

The crash occurred on Siberia Road, at Maronan, near Ashburton, around 2pm on Friday.

According to Ashburton Police, initial inquiries indicate that Mr Carr lost control of the van he was driving and rolled on the shingle road, in windy conditions.

Mr Carr was the sole occupant of the van, and no other vehicles were involved.

The van ended up on its side in a paddock.

Inquiries into the cause of the crash are continuing.

A senior GP in Ashburton says major reinforcements are needed for Mid Canterbury medical practices, following a surge in the district’s population.

Practices throughout Mid Canterbury have been operating at full capacity for more than a year and the heavy workload is slowly taking its toll on doctors in the area as the demand continues to grow.

GP spokesperson Chris Ryan said some practices were wary of taking on new patients as there had been difficulties with registration and auditing processes in the past.

However, the reality was most, if not every practice in the district was full and simply unable to enrol new patients.

“There have been some problems with correct registrations and appropriate zoning and I understand practices can be fined if they do not dot their i’s and cross their t’s – all processes have to be accurately completed.

“But in other cases some doctors are not prepared to expand their patient list and when it comes down to it, that is their decision,” Dr Ryan said.

Dr Ryan also said GPs had been calling for back-up services for some time, but so far all requests had been ignored by authorities.

He believed the focus had been placed heavily on establishing a central health hub, but insisted the focus needed to be put on addressing the growing population and the increasing medical demands.

“We would desperately like some relief, but so far we don’t have many lining up to help us.

“The emphasis seems to be in the wrong area and we would dearly love some incentives to encourage young doctors to the area in a GP capacity.

“There are certainly ways to make Ashburton a very attractive place, but like anything, funding is a major part of the problem,” Dr Ryan said.

The recent resignation of both of Rakaia’s doctors has caused further complications and according to Dr Ryan, some recruitment action needed to be taken – and fast.

“The more patients you are going to see, the more back-up you need.

“GPs around the district are seeing plenty of patients, more than they should be – and you can only do so much.

“It’s a very rewarding and satisfying job, but when you become bored and exhausted, that’s when you become dangerous and at some point most doctors will go through that phase – we have to stick together and deal with that pressure,” he said.

Rural Canterbury Primary Health Organisation chief executive Bill Eschenbach said recruitment and retention of GPs and other medical staff has been on the radar for quite some time.

Comments made at a recent community consultation session, following the organisation’s AGM, suggested a shortage of 26 GPs among practices in Canterbury.

It was also noted that the issue of GP shortages applied to most practices and that communities needed to be involved in finding solutions to both attract new doctors and retain existing GPs. The RCPHO Board will discuss the issue in depth at their next meeting.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DEATHS AYERS, Raymond Charles (Ray) – Peacefully at Ashburton Hospital on November 1, 2012. Dearly loved son of the late Hector and Ethel Ayers (Lyndhurst/Rangiora). Loved brother of Lynda Ayers and brother-in-law of Maud Ayers. Loved brother of Eric Ayers, Winnie Kermode, Hector, Leslie and Ivan Ayers (all deceased).

Respected uncle of all his nieces and nephews.

TAYLOR, Annie (Anne) – On November 4, 2012, peacefully at Rose Court, Christchurch, much loved wife of the late Bill Taylor (formerly of Ashburton), loved mother of the late Colin and mother-in-law of Elaine, and loved mother and mother-in-law of Jill and John Russell, loved nana of Debbie and Charley, and Paul and Maria; Dean and Emily, and Karen, greatgrandmother to Andrea, Megan, and Christopher; Darian, and Serene; and Alexa, and Nadia, greatgreat-grandmother to Savanna, and Summer.

“Will be sadly missed.”

Our sincere thanks to the staff at Rose Court for their wonderful care of Anne.

Messages may be addressed to The Family of the late Anne Taylor c/- PO Box 39001, Christchurch 8545.

The Celebration of Anne’s life will be held in our Westpark Chapel, 467 Wairakei Road, Burnside, Christchurch, on FRIDAY, November 9, at 10am followed by private cremation.

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Pike tragedy ‘preventable’

By Kurt Bayer and Kate Shuttleworth Three of Pike River Coal’s board of directors have denied the company put profit above people.

The Royal Commission of Inquiry today delivered a damning report into the disaster at the company’s mine near Greymouth that killed 29 men in November 2010.

Its withering conclusion, that the tragedy was preventable and Pike River Coal management failed to assess properly the health and safety risks faced by its workforce, prompted an apology from Prime Minister John Key and the resignation of Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson.

Nicholas Davidson QC, a lawyer for the victims’ families, said the report painted an “unrelenting picture of failure at virtually every level”.

However a statement issued by Stacey Shortall, lawyer for Pike River Coal’s former chief executive Peter Whittall, board chairman John Dow and board members Ray Meyer and Stuart Nattrass, said the three board members disagreed with any sug-

gestion it did not act appropriately with regard to health and safety at the time.

“They note that there has been much comment with the convenient benefit of hindsight about matters ... that were known to the Department of Labour mine inspectors, the union and many others but did not attract adverse comment in relation to safety at the time,” Ms Shortall said.

The statement came after the victims’ families welcomed the contents of the Royal Commission’s report.

“It’s a moving on for me,” said Bernie Monk, a spokesman for most families.

Although the explosion that caused the disaster was likely caused by high methane levels, the commission said it could not pinpoint the cause.

As well as criticising Pike River Coal, the report described the Department of Labour performance in relation to health and safety in the mining industry as being “so poor, both at the strategic and operational levels, that the department lost

industry and worker confidence”.

The commission made 16 recommendations, including that a new regulatory crown agency be established with a chief executive and board that would reflect that health and safety was a responsibility of employers, workers and government.

It also recommended that the Government establishes an expert taskforce to establish a regulatory framework for underground coal mining.

Chris Finlayson was appointed Acting Labour Minister to replace Ms Wilkinson, who said she quit because it was the “right and honourable thing to do”.

Mr Finlayson promised to update victims’ families on getting access to the drift - the main tunnel into the mine - within a fortnight.

“There are answers down that drift,” said Mr Monk. “They (the Government) know how many blunders have been made here and they want to make amends.”

Mr Key said successive governments since 1992 had allowed the role of the mining inspectorate to be

eroded and apologised to the families, friends and loved ones of the dead miners for the role a “lack of regulatory effectiveness” played in the tragedy.

“I speak on behalf of the Government when I say I regret deeply what has happened, in terms of the lives lost and suffering caused.”

Grey District mayor Tony Kokshoorn said the disaster has affected everyone in the small township, but praised the “very good, very comprehensive” report.

Today Mr Monk and a team of mining experts brought in by the families to consider the reprot and review a body recovery plan, will hold a press conference.

Meanwhile, unions want the Government to quickly implement a change for workers to have more involvement in health and safety in underground coal mines - a recommendation made by the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

The commission recommended worker participation in health and safety in underground coal mines

Kiwis’ focus on race across the ditch The Melbourne Cup is the race that stops two nations, and Mid Canterbury will get amongst the 5pm pause today.

On the first Tuesday in November about 5pm New Zealand comes to a standstill for roughly 3 minutes and 20 seconds as all eyes go on a horse race in Melbourne.

The race attracts the interest of people who will not watch another horse race until the first Tuesday of next November, and many make their annual trip to the TAB or get their gambling fix from the office sweepstakes (available on page 7).

Ashburton MSA manger Simon McDonnell said that they don’t specifically market the event because the race basically “advertised itself” but expected a busy 24 hours at their TAB outlet.

“The TAB staff gets a good workout in the lead up to the race and we get quite a few extra people in around 5pm for the race,” McDonnell said.

One punter who got in early to put a bob on the gee-gees yesterday was Reg Diamond, who backed Fiorente at $28.60.

“I like the trainer Gai Waterhouse and the kiwi jockey James McDonald but also its form is good,” Diamond said.

Diamond said he wasn’t a regular punter but did follow racing and always had nudge at the cup, having a bit of luck over the years.

“I had a win on Bart Cummings Viewed a few years back and Silver Knight (1971).”

It’s not just the TAB that cashes in.

Restaurants and bars around the district get on the bandwagon holding Melbourne Cup parties and a number of employers let their staff knock off early to take in the race.

The reason behind its popularity this side of the Tasman stems from New Zealand success in the Australian’s marque event.

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Donation The Methven Community Board decided to give half a $500 community donation to the town’s swimming pool and tag the other half for Civil Defence supplies at its meeting yesterday.

The University of Otago, Christchurch, donated the sum to thank the community for hosting its third year medical students during a community contact week.

In a letter before the board, university representatives said the students had been exposed to a wide range of issues and all had enjoyed and received significant educational benefit from their experience in the town.

Board members considered another possible recipient, a town children’s Christmas party, but ended up deciding on the pool and civil defence supplies, which will be required as the heritage centre becomes an emergency management base.

TAB’s Deborah Fox hands Reg Diamond his bet for today’s Melbourne Cup. New Zealand-bred horses have won the Melbourne Cup while New Zealand-bred horses have won 28 of the past 50 Melbourne Cup races.

The first New Zealand-bred winner of the Melbourne Cup was Martini Henry in 1883, a miracu-

lous win by two lengths where the jockey, was reported to have “never whipped him from start to finish”.

It was not until 1907 that a New Zealand-owned horse, Apologue, won the race and in 1916 Sasanof became the first winner to be bred, owned and trained in New Zealand.

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This year New Zealand has four horses in the field of 24, and will pin its hopes on Maluckyday ($15.50) while New Zealand jockey James McDonald will be on the reins of Fiorente ($29.60).

Dunaden ($6.90) is the defending champion and comes off a win

• Kiwi robber flees A suspected New Zealand man is believed to have fled home after robbing a series of banks in Australia. The man, believed to be part of a crime gang, is accused of holding up and robbing three Queensland banks in January. However, he evaded police when soon-afterwards officers raided the suspect’s hideaway in the Gold Coast, and he ran out the back door and into bushland, news.com. au reported. The suspect also escaped a large-scale police search involving a helicopter, the website reported.

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in the Caulfield Cup but 2010 race winner, Americain ($6.60), will start at the favourite.

For those who believe in the grey nag getting up look to Voila Ici ($42.50) or Tac de Boistron ($98.70).

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Methven’s disastrous Hobbs Road walkway project may yet become a success after its instigator has secured voluntary assistance.

Methven Community Board member Dave Wilson told fellow board members at their six-weekly meeting yesterday that contractors would get to work on the project, weather dependent, on the weekend of November 24. Fulton Hogan and Sicon and local contractors would contribute labour and equipment, including two diggers and four trucks.

The Hobbs Road walkway begins on the outskirts of town. It is to be a shingle pathway along the grass verge, looping around the Methven Golf Course, taking in Forest Drive, Pudding Hill Road and Hobbs Road.

It was dug out before winter, but further work stalled when bad weather hit and then contractors proved unavailable in spring, leaving residents with a weed infested strip on the grass verges outside their homes.

Fellow board member and Ashburton District Councillor Martin Nordqvist said it would be good to see the Forest Drive part of the walkway completed first, as it was “the most unsightly part of the project”.

Mr Wilson, a former manager of Mt Hutt Ski Area who now lives near Christchurch, said later in the meeting, when asked if it was his last meeting, that he would not be leaving the board until the walkway was completed.

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Cutting corners A truck which cut a corner a bit fine caused a commotion in Tancred Street yesterday afternoon.

Onlookers said the truck was turning out of an alleyway when it caught the corner of the verandah of the building occupied by A Touch of Elegance nail salon.

The impact ripped into the side of the truck and also caused some damage to the building’s verandah.

People up and down the street watched on as the truck driver tried to manoeuvre the truck off the building. Onlookers said the noise it made was incredible.

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Air New Zealand’s new Hobbit-themed inflight safety video has received more than six million YouTube views in four days. The video, named An Unexpected Briefing, features elves, wizards and hobbits along with a cameo from the popular Lord of the Rings character Gollum. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey director Peter Jackson makes a brief appearance, finding the “one ring” on the ground and exclaiming “my precious” before putting it on and disappearing. Air New Zealand international marketing chief Jodi Williams said An Unexpected Briefing was a viral hit from the start, receiving one million views on the day it launched.

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be improved through legislative and administrative changes.

It said the changes should include allowing unions to appoint check inspectors with the same powers as the worker health and safety representatives.

EPMU assistant national secretary Ged O’Connell said the report should mark a turning point for mine safety in New Zealand.

“We are particularly pleased to see the reintroduction of worker-elected check inspectors, a strong focus on strengthening mine safety regulations and the creation of a new Crown agency to monitor health and safety.”

Public Service Association president Brenda Pilott said the report confirmed mine inspectors were under immense pressure and requests for extra resourcing were ignored.

“The commission’s report clears the inspectors involved with the Pike River mine from any individual responsibility and points to systemic failures within the Department of Labour.”

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A Martinborough man accused of assaulting a volunteer firefighter had more charges laid against him in Masterton District Court yesterday.

Milton Haira, 25, unemployed, had faced a charge of assault but that was upgraded to one charge of wounding firefighter Peter Fisher with intent to cause

grievous bodily harm. Four other charges of common assault and one of threatening to kill, in relation to the same incident, were also laid.

Defence lawyer Louise Elder did not apply for bail and Haira was remanded in custody until December 3.

Mr Fisher was bashed when he

stepped in to help a group of young people remove an unwelcome visitor from a house last week.

He was left in a critical condition but has slowly been improving.

His father, Brian Fisher, said on Friday that his son was conscious and talking, although speech was difficult because of injuries to his mouth and neck.

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Homework - is it helpful?

By Myles Hume It appears the age old battle with homework continues and even some of the old time excuses have rubbed off on Ashburton youngsters.

Statements like; “the dog ate it” and “I’d hypnotize my mum so I didn’t have to do it” are among many reactions from Ashburton

primary school children yesterday when they were quizzed about their homework.

The desire to leave work at school is one not only shared by the pupils, but one that is aligned with Central Queensland University professor Mike Horsley who said homework had little or no academic value for children.

The general consensus is much the same from Longbeach and

Hampstead School pupils who cringe at the thought of homework even though their principals say it is short and sweet.

“It’s annoying, I have after school things,” Longbeach School pupil Summer Anderson, 11, said.

“It’s something we have to do,” fellow pupil Charlie Stock, 12, said.

A Hampstead School pupil said

it was not good because they already had too much work, while another wanted to keep the workload to six hours.

“I reckon we shouldn’t have homework – you have six hours of school and after school should be relaxing, going to the skateranch and watching TV.” Getting out of homework was something that was on the pupils’ minds, with some wanting their

parents to mark their homework and one asking for bribes of up to $1000 dollars.

“Once my dog did eat my homework – I brought it to school and showed my teacher the teeth marks because I just knew she wouldn’t believe me,” one pupil said.

It’s well-known homework is a chore, so is it helpful?

“Yes, because then you can

come back to school the next day and you will know what to do,” Molly Cameron, 11, of Longbeach School said.

Charlie Stock, 12, said it was relative to what they were learning.

Most of the children said homework was easy or suitable to their ability, with reading surpassing maths as the “favourite” thing to do.

Community board may get funds to attend conference

By Susan Sandys

Pensioners Colleen and Allan Wederell living on a pension and loving life.

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Coping - it’s all about attitude

By Sue Newman If your only income is a pension and you’re paying a mortgage, you’d imagine life might be pretty grim.

But Colleen and Allan Wederell will tell you it’s not. How you cope with what you’ve got is all about attitude. And for them that means making the most of every day and every dollar and being thankful for what they have rather than what they don’t have.

This is a couple who clearly enjoys life.

The pair of 68 year olds are relative newcomers to life on a pension, but they’ve had a lifetime of experience in making the best of a modest income.

When they were close to retiring age they sold their home, downsized and became mortgage free. Allan got cabin fever. A limited income meant limited recreational options and a small section meant a quick trip around the garden with a hoe and his work was done for another week.

They decided to move again, take on a small mortgage and upsize. They couldn’t be happier. Alan’s days once again have structure. If he’s not planning or planting his vegetable garden or working in his orchard, he’s replanting the front lawn and front garden.

Living on a limited income is a challenge and its success lies in careful planning and careful shopping.

“Everything we’ve got we own. Our mortgage is $137 a week, we spend $200 a week shopping and that includes petrol and we still manage to put $50 a week away in savings. It’s all about what you buy and how you shop,” Colleen said.

She buys non-perishables in bulk when they’re on special and her pantry is full.

She buys meat on special and freezes the

The Guardian’s series looking at living on a tight budget or a benefit continues today. During the six part series, reporter Sue Newman test drives life on the pension - $348 a week and talks to Ashburton people who know what it’s like to struggle every day to make ends meet. In a life where cash is tight there are no luxuries. extra. They live well out of Allan’s garden.

They’ve put all of their regular accounts – phone, power, mortgage, rates, insurance - on automatic payment. The same amount is paid each week and they’re often in credit. They keep their house cosy with a log burner, buying wood and picking up old pallets that Allan breaks up.

They’re the ultimate recyclers. He haunts junk yards, recyclers’ yards, and chases anything that’s offered for free. That’s allowed him to build raised vege plots, garden edges, a deck and a reticulated irrigation system without spending a dollar – and it looks a million dollars.

Allan’s the epitome of a great home handyman. He can fix most things and he also maintains the family car.

“If I can get something for $2 I grab it,” he said.

They don’t waste food. Everything is made from scratch, surplus food is frozen and Colleen chases specials – 2 litres of milk for $5.80 – one goes in the freezer and the other in the fridge.

On a limited budget they don’t have a big social life, but Allan can still afford an 18 pack of beer on special. Christmas is already organised. Size 30 chickens were on special a few weeks ago and now they’re stashed in the freezer. Each week $20 is put away in a supermarket Christmas Club account.

Colleen is smartly dressed and proof that looking good doesn’t cost big dollars.

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“I run the Baptist second-hand shop and you can get some great clothing there for just $2 – and it’s often still got the price ticket on it.”

While Allan gardens Colleen sews. She takes scraps of donated material and turns these into skirts that become charity packages for Fijian children.

“I absolutely love doing this. I don’t get paid for it but I don’t care. I love it.”

They don’t worry too much about unexpected bills because of their $50 a week savings habit. It’s all about planning.

“There are a lot of people who say they can’t manage but none of them want to listen to how you can do things so you do manage. I’ve even planned it so we have got enough if one of us dies – we have our funeral money put away.”

They don’t have Sky TV, say they don’t need it because they have more than enough to do and they have never had medical insurance.

They’ve always lived on one income and raised three children on that. Yes, it might

be nice to go into a shop and buy whatever they wanted, but Colleen and Allan say there’s nothing they go without.

“We’ve got each other.”

The big sacrifices have been holidays, a second car and limiting the number of trips they make to Christchurch to see family.

But there are still treats. For Colleen that means visits to the hairdresser and a regular catch up with her girlfriends for coffee or lunch.

“We have a lot of laughs and yes, we do have a bitch or two now and again, but there are a lot of people worse off than us.”

The big keys to living well on a pension are to plan well, shop wisely and buy specials, to have a vegetable garden and if possible some fruit trees and berry bushes.

“It makes me mad when I hear people complaining. Do it properly, listen to ideas other people have and you’ll make it work.

We’ve got nothing more than anyone else and we’ve also got a mortgage, but we don’t think about buying what we know we can’t afford,” Colleen said.

October ‘ordinary’ Soldiers coming home Temperatures fluctuated in Mid Canterbury last month, although overall it was an “ordinary” October in terms of weather.

AgReserach Winchmore meaured 57.4 millimetres of rain for the month, compared to the long term average of 61 millimetres. Most of the rain was received in just two days, 17.4 millimetres on the 21st, and 21 millimetres on the 8th.

The average maximum was 17.5 degrees, compared to the longterm average for the month of 16.4 degrees, and the average minimum was 3.9 degrees, compared to the longterm

average minimum of 5.5 degrees. There were both cold and hot days, with the highest maximum being 23.8 degrees, and the lowest maximum being a chilly 8.1 degrees.

AgResearch Winchmore manager John Carson said it was an ordinary month with the data tying in with long term averages.

What was needed on farms now was consistent warm weather to increase soil temperatures and boost pasture growth.

“It’s good to have the moisture but we need some nice sunny days for growth,” he said.

The bulk of New Zealand defence personnel serving in Timor Leste will return home this week.

Five New Zealand personnel would remain in the former Indonesian territory following the withdrawal on Friday of up to 81 troops serving as part of the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force (ISF) sent to the republic in 2006.

New Zealand Commander Lieutenant Colonel Steve Watts said from Timor Leste the United Nations formally handed over security to Timor Leste police and the local defence force on October 31, also ending the ISF mandate.

“All the security indicators had indicated that the security services weren’t needed and that was really around the time of

the successful running of the presidential elections,” he said.

The country was stable and calm after the election earlier this year.

Lieutenant Watts said Timor Leste had changed dramatically since 2006, when the UN sent security forces to quell unrest and factional fighting in the lead-up to the 2007 election.

“Houses were burnt, there were tens of thousands of internally displaced people.

There was violence, murders, gangs ran the streets,” he said.

“There were what I call military-type activities to take control of the city and the wider country. Now it’s the dead opposite. We’re now all unarmed and walking around safely,” he said.

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Methven Community Board members have potentially secured additional funding from the Ashburton District Council to attend a national community boards conference.

The New Zealand Community Boards Conference 2013 will be held in Wanaka between May 9 and 11.

Executive committee chairman Mick Lester said in a letter before the board at its six-weekly meeting yesterday, that a number of “inspirational” speakers had been secured for the conference. They included Young New Zealander of the Year Sam Johnson, Canadian Nuffield Scholar Leona Dargis, and international neighbourhood development expert Jim Diers.

“We also have a range of workshops during the conference, sharing success stories from community boards which illustrate the way that boards are successfully accepting the challenges that leadership in our communities throws at us and performing functions that also provide real benefit to their parent councils,” Mr Lester said.

The achievements of community boards would be celebrated by awarding best practice awards.

Methven Community Board chairperson Liz McMillan said ideally three or four members of the board would take the opportunity of attending, as it was being held reasonably close by.

The last conference was in Rotorua.

She was informed by council staff member Jo Naylor at the meeting that there was $2100 in the board’s budget to cover travel and conference expenses.

It was unknown what the conference fees were, and whether this would be enough to cover a group of board members attending.

Democracy and community services manager John Rollinson sugested the board move that the council’s finance and community services committee make provision for a further $2000. The board passed a motion to that effect.

Meanwhile, it was the board’s last meeting of the year yesterday.

Its next meeting will be on January 28.

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• Three airlifts The Westpac Rescue Helicopter made three trips to Mid Canterbury last week.

One trip was to Lismore where a 31-year-old woman had sustained a lower leg injury after being thrown from a horse on Friday. She was flown to Christchurch Hospital. Earlier in the week, on Monday, it was called to Ashburton Hospital to transfer a motor vehicle accident patient to Christchurch Hospital, while on Saturday it was back at the hospital transferring another patient to Christchurch Hospital.

• Driver injured A 42-year-old Methven woman was taken to Ashburton Hospital yesterday afternoon, following a crash at the intersection of Thompsons Track and State Highway 77. The crash occurred when a car travelling from Mayfield to Rakaia failed to give way to a southbound car on the Methven Highway. The driver of that car was taken to hospital with an elbow injury and was suffering from shock.

The male driver of the vehicle that failed to give way was not injured and was able to drive his vehicle from the scene. Police enquiries are continuing.

• Drink drivers nabbed Four drink drivers were caught on Mid Canterbury roads at the weekend. One, at 2.10am on Sunday had an excess breath alcohol level of 535mcg/l and another, caught at 1.40am that morning, had a level of 1011mcg/l. At 4am on Sunday, a man was caught with a level of 822mcg/l, and at 12.45am the same morning, a man was caught with a level of 587mcg/l.

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OUR VIEW

Homework under fire

By Coen Lammers

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any parents and their children will be welcoming the growing trend to drop homework for primary school children.

Aside from the dedicated few, the majority of children will be pleased to play on the trampoline instead of sitting inside swatting after a long day at school.

As it turns out, a growing number of parents are also starting to feel the pressure.

With many households now including two working parents, getting the dinner and children organised for bed can be enough of a challenge, without having to sit them down to do some homework.

And let’s not forget we are talking about small children here at primary school age.

Many of them only have enough energy to concentrate for the time at school and desperately need to do something else once they get home.

In days gone by, that was never a problem and the learning rarely extended to the home, aside from picking up a few leaves for a school project In recent decades though, the demands on young ones have grown, along with the backpacks hanging off their little shoulders.

Intriguingly, educators have blamed this trend on ambitious parents around the world, who have been demanding to get involved in their children’s learning. A few years on though, the worm

has turned and those same parents are now calling for schools to give their children a break.

With three children at primary school, including our youngest in a new entry class, the homework drama plays out many days in our kitchen.

Especially when other activities like sports add to the after-school pressures, the homework can become a real challenge.

Nobody wants to be a slack parent, so we all feel the obligation to sit our children down and squeeze the last bit of energy out of their tiny bodies to tick off the writing or maths.

Instead of a nice bonding experience to encourage learning behaviour, the homework can actually put strains on both parties and their relationship.

Once the compulsory element is removed, reading a book with your child may return to being enjoyable.

Interestingly, some researchers are now also challenging the value of homework at an early stage, as the young brains may not be developed enough to reap the benefits from the additional work.

Thankfully, the schools and principals in Mid Canterbury realise that giving our children time and energy to focus on other skills and activities are just as important to a child’s development as reading and writing.

OPINION

King had bad health news Yvonne Tahana High-profile defence lawyer Greg King had received disturbing health news just days before he was found dead at the weekend.

The body of the 43-year-old was found beside his car on Saturday morning in the Wellington suburb of Newlands.

In a column dedicated to his close friend, Sir Bob Jones writes that while Mr King accepted a diagnosis of diabetes last year as “a minor nuisance”, a “fresh problem” with the diagnosis arose last week.

He said the suggestion he had been affected by public condemnation of the Ewen Macdonald not guilty verdict in the Scott Guy murder trial was wrong. Instead, the lawyer accepted opprobrium was part of his job.

A police spokesman would not comment on a post-mortem examination after coroner Wallace Bain issued a written warning to media about the con-

ditions which apply to reporting deaths referred to the coroner.

Of Ngati Tuwharetoa descent and the son of a prison officer, Mr King grew up in Turangi. He loved beautiful cars and boxing - he claimed to have been known as the Canvas Kisser in his youth.

Rugby league, animals, collecting art, alcohol and fried food made that list, too.

In 2007 he was named Barrister of the Year and was the host of The Court Report, on the now defunct TVNZ 7, which focused on contemporary legal issues. He practised with his wife, Catherine Milnes-King, out of Lower Hutt.

The mother of Sophie Elliott, murdered by Clayton Weatherston whom Mr King defended, said she was “shattered” by his death.

While the family might not have appreciated Mr King’s “tactics” during Weatherston’s trial, the lawyer earned their admiration and respect.

His personal side was sympathetic, generous, passionate

and humane, she said. She had attended justice forums at which Mr King was a lone voice on some issues. He was prepared to be at odds with others, but the “great thing about him” was an ability to listen and engage.

Sophie’s father, Gil Elliott, said Mr King was extremely intelligent, courteous and friendly.

“He admired Sophie, he told me that.”

Contemporaries agreed.

Auckland Crown Solicitor Simon Moore, SC, said the thing he most admired about Mr King was his “completely principled approach to everything he did”.

He had a “sense of proportion” which made him such an effective advocate.

“He understood what juries liked and what juries didn’t like.

But I think it’s important to remember it wasn’t just before juries, but also in tribunals, and I’d appeared against him at the Court of Appeal ... He was very much a man for all seasons.

“His word was his bond.”

Mr King worked to stop

Auckland criminal barrister Barry Hart from being struck off by the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal for misconduct this year. The pair had also worked together on the defence of samurai sword killer Antonie Dixon.

Mr Hart said Mr King was the architect of Dixon’s appeal and eventual 2008 retrial. He added that he was reeling from his friend’s death.

“He’s helped me and gone beyond the call of duty to assist me both as a friend and as a fellow lawyer in my time of need. I don’t want to really go into all of that but Greg was there for me and, as I say, I’m in disbelief.”

Convicted double murderer John Barlow told 3 News: “In prison, people talk about lawyers a lot. There’s only one lawyer that came up a lot and every single time people praised him, whether he’d won their case or not.”

Mr King’s funeral will be held at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on Friday at 11am. -APNZ

Cromwell man Glen Christiansen knows telling insurance assessors a tornado was responsible for tossing his caravan on its roof could sound like “a bit of a tall story”, but fortunately, he has witnesses to corroborate the unusual explanation.

Mr Christiansen, general manager of the Golden Gate Lodge and a Cromwell Community Board member, was having dinner with his wife Sarah and their three young children about 6.15pm on Friday when their house was hit by what they describe as a tornado or whirlwind.

As they watched the “swirling wind” approach, their home’s ranchslider was blown out of its frame by the force. Mr Christiansen tried to hold it in place, while the rest of his family took refuge in the laundry.

Once the whirlwind had passed, they discovered the damaged door was the least of their worries. Outside, their 19ft, twin axle caravan - which Mr Christiansen and his son Baxter, 3 had been in just half an hour earlier - had been lifted into the air, flipped up and over their aluminium dinghy, and thrown on to its roof by the random weather event.

Their trampoline, which had been tethered to the ground in their back yard, had been ripped from its moorings and carried on to the nearby golf course.

Witnesses from the petrol sta-

tion across the road rushed over to check the family was unharmed and to relay what they had seen. Among them was Dunedin broker Peter Young, who was in Central Otago on a golf trip at the time.

“I noticed near the Big Fruit, there was a big dust storm twirling round,” Mr Young said.

When he glanced back a few moments later he saw “a trampoline flying through the air”.

The trampoline was carried for about 30m, two or three metres off the ground, before turning at a 90 degree angle, hitting the ground, and rolling at high-speed for another 200m or so into trees on the golf course. He then saw the caravan lift about 10ft into the air before overturning and dropping to the ground again.

“I couldn’t believe what I’d seen. It was quite bizarre.”

The caravan was extensively damaged by the tornado, while the trampoline was the third the Christiansens had lost to high winds.

“I don’t think we’ll have a fourth. I think lesson learnt,” Mr Christiansen said.

Other Cromwell residents also reported items being lifted off the ground by powerful, circular winds on Friday evening.

In January 2009, mini tornadoes tore off a section of the Bannockburn Hotel’s roof, and in July of that same year, a whirlwind whipped through an area north of Cromwell, ripping apart an implement shed and lifting an entire roof off a barn.

- APNZ

By Alanah Eriksen

Speeding drivers nabbed by police

By Teuila Fuatai A driver caught by police doing 200km/h has the dubious honour of being ticketed for the country’s highest recorded speed in the last year.

Figures released by national police headquarters show that nationwide, more than 900,000 speeding tickets were issued by police in the past financial year, amounting to more than $80 million in fines.

Ticket numbers have remained steady during the past two years, but speed fines revenue fell by more than $3m - from $83,619,720 in 2010/11 to $80,155,710 in 2011/12.

The dollar figures do not include fines for speedsters caught driving at more than 50km/h over the limit, as those penalties are imposed by the courts.

Speed is also one of the biggest accident risk factors and is linked to hundreds of fatal and serious injury crashes each year on our roads.

Western Bay road police Acting Senior Sergeant Wayne Hunter said drivers aged between 18 and 24 were the worst offenders.

“Speed kills - it’s a message that’s very hard to get through to that age group. They think they’re bullet-proof.

“A lot of their views are that ‘we’re not hurting anybody but ourselves’.”

Mr Hunter said it was not uncommon for drivers regularly pinged for speeding to say: “I’ll just add it to my other fines.”

The country’s highest recorded speed last financial year was 200km/h. Three other drivers were pinged by police doing more than 190km/h.

National road policing manager Superintendent Carey Griffiths said many speed-related crashes were caused by motorists travelling at just 10km/h over the speed limit.

“Traditionally [police] have exercised their discretion and not issued notices to these drivers. “[However] police believe that reducing speed tolerance on hol-

iday weekends and other highrisk periods is one of the best ways of reducing mean speeds below posted speed limits.”

In the 2011/12 financial year, police dedicated $51m to speed enforcement in a bid to prevent crashes and save lives.

During this time, New Zealand’s speed camera system received a major overhaul.

Mr Griffiths said all speed cameras were now digital which had reduced the infringement processing period and meant cameras could now operate longer as they did not run out of film.

There were also more cameras on the roads, meaning speeding drivers were more likely to get caught.

With increased enforcement, the number of fatal crashes linked to speed has declined, dropping by a third in the last three years, according to the New Zealand Transport Agency.

After spiking at 100 in 2009/10, fatal speed-related crashes dropped to 91 the following year, then 66 in 2011/12.

Overall, the total number of

Key explains ‘gay’ radio comments

By Kate Shuttleworth and Hayden Donnell Prime Minister John Key says “gay” just means “weird” and he had no intention of offending anyone when he used it on a radio show last week.

Mr Key is under fire for using the word “gay” to rib a radio host last Friday, the same day he levelled an internationally reported insult at footballer David Beckham.

Mr Key jokingly criticised a red top worn by presenter Jamie Mackay in an interview on The

Farming Show.

“What you’re wearing is an absolute disgrace. You parade yourself as some sort of centreright interested community leader and you’re in the red,” he said.

Later in the segment he described Mackay’s top as “gay” in an exchange about golf.

“You’re munted mate. You’re never going to make it. You’ve got that gay red top on.”

The comments have been ridiculed on Twitter, with comedian Guy Williams saying “John Key is quickly becoming to New Zealand what Borat was to Kazakhstan.”

Other Twitter users said the

Scott Watson (2003) Took an unsuccessful case to the Privy Council seeking leave to appeal against double convictions for murder.

John Barlow (2008) Convicted of the murders of Wellington businessman Gene Thomas and his son Eugene in 1995 after three trials. King’s appeal to the Privy Council in 2008 was dismissed.

Clayton Weatherston (2009) Second counsel to Judith Ablett Kerr, QC. Weatherston was found guilty of murdering Sophie Elliott.

Virender Singh (2009) Successfully represented South Auckland liquor shop owner Virender Singh, cleared of assaulting with a hockey stick two men he believed were robbing his store.

Ewen Macdonald (2012) Macdonald was cleared of the murder of brother-in-law Scott Guy.

Kiwis want flexible work options

‘A tornado did it’

By Lucy Ibbotson

KEY DEFENCES

use of “gay” as an insult made Mr Key appear homophobic.

Yesterday Mr Key said he used the term “gay” to mean “weird”.

He said he picked up the term from his children and had no intention of seeming homophobic.

Asked at his post-Cabinet press conference whether he was homophobic, Mr Key said: “No, I’m voting for gay marriage, I’m hardly homophobic - I led the charge on it.”

Mr Key agreed it was an unfortunate use of words but said: “a hell of a lot of people would use it and the common use of it is in

the Oxford dictionary”.

“Young people use it all the time, I don’t think too many people would be offended by it.

If someone is I apologise for it,” he said.

Also during the Farming Show interview, Mr Key also took a swipe at hip hop group Home Brew for criticising him during their acceptance speech for best urban/hip hop album at the New Zealand Music Awards last week.

“These people are idiots. They turned up on the red carpet with a goat that then managed to relieve itself or whatever on the red carpet. What idiots,” he said.

Mr Key courted controversy over reports he branded David Beckham “thick as batshit” while speaking to a group of students at Dunedin’s St Hilda’s Collegiate.

He has refused to confirm or deny insulting the football superstar.

However, British media have picked up the story.

Beckham’s London-based media guru Simon Oliveira - who also oversees global campaigns for tennis ace Andy Murray and Formula One star Lewis Hamilton - was not impressed.

“It is not worthy of comment.”

- APNZ

fatal and serious injury speedrelated crashes fell by 16 per cent during the three years from 447 to 374.

Mr Griffiths said hundreds of police staff worked towards enforcing speed safety on our roads.

“All police districts conduct regular speed campaigns.

“These campaigns can range from addressing a particular problem in a high risk area to being part of a national speed campaign,” he said.

“And there are hundreds of staff whose role includes targeting speeding drivers.”

The numbers - by financial year: 2011/12 - 2010/11 - 2009/10 * Speeding tickets issued: 919,082 - 920,111 - 773,948 * Police fines: $80,155,710 $83,619,720 - $77,803,160 * Fatal and serious injury crashes linked to speeding: 374 - 450 - 447 * Top five fastest clocked driver in 2011/12: 200km/h, 198km/h, 195km/h, 192km/h, 182km/h -apnz

Violent assault Two men and a woman were injured in violent assault in Canterbury on Sunday night.

Police said the three required medical attention after the incident outside Crown Hotel, Temuka.

A 29-year-old man was transferred to Christchurch Hospital with a serious head injury.

Two men, aged 32 and 33, were arrested and will appear in Timaru District Court today.

Police wanted to hear from anyone who witnessed the events or who has information relating to the assault. - apnz

Ninety per cent of New Zealanders say flexible employment options such as working from home are an important factor when looking for a new job.

But only 13 per cent of employers say they will provide greater workplace flexibility through remote working in an effort to improve productivity over the next five years, a report shows.

Experts say evolving technologies are seeing more people working from home and employers needed to open their minds if they want to attract and retain skilled workers.

The Randstad World of Work survey stems from research from 9820 employees and employers across the Asia Pacific region. In New Zealand, 1620 were surveyed, including 970 employees and 650 employers, ranging from chief executives to middle management and human resource professionals.

Asked if flexible work options were an important attribute for potential employers to have, 42.54 per cent of employees said it was very important and 47.76 said it was important.

Of the 187 respondents who were already offered flexible working conditions, 54.55 per cent said it had made them more satisfied, 41.18 per cent said it didn’t make a difference and 4.28 per cent said it made them less satisfied.

When asked how it would address talent scarcity over the next decade, 18.58 per cent of employers said they will recruit more people who wanted to work remotely.

Almost 29 per cent said the biggest barrier for home-based workers was technology limitations.

Heather Douglas, owner of Bizbuz, which provides support to home-based businesses, said she had seen more older men leaving their jobs to work from home.

“After a certain age it becomes difficult for them if they are made redundant.

“Men leave the workforce and start up on their own when they are unable to get back into the workforce, whereas perhaps for women it may be a secondary income and it’s less of an issue for them.

“Also, they’ve paid off the mortgage, the kids are out of the house and they’re sick and tired of working for somebody else.”

A survey by the company showed people were highly satisfied working from home, but they were earning less, Ms Douglas said.

Home versus the office Employees 90.3% said flexible work options are very important or important.

54.55% of those who worked from home said it has made them more satisfied.

67.89% said the option of working from home was either appealing or very appealing.

Employers 13.67% will provide greater workplace flexibility to improve productivity over the next five years.

18.58% will recruit more people to work remotely in an effort to address talent scarcity over the next decade.

28.7% said the single biggest barrier to offering flexible working conditions was technology limitations.

Source: Randstad World of Work Report 2012-13 - APNZ

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Review of MMP suggests changes

By Kieran Campbell The final report reviewing the MMP voting system has been tabled in Parliament.

The report, conducted by the Electoral Commission, was an independent review after last November’s referendum in which a majority of voters chose to keep MMP. In its final report the commission has recommended several changes to the MMP system, including: - Lowering the party threshold to 4 per cent - Abolishing the one electorate seat threshold - Abolishing the provision for overhang seats - That Parliament consider fixing the percentage ratio of electorate to seats at 60:40 Justice Minister Judith Collins said almost 6000 submissions were received during the review, including more than 1000 submissions on changes proposed in August.

“The Government will now carefully consider the commission’s recommendations and will be consulting with other parties in Parliament for their view,” Ms Collins said.

ACT leader John Judith Banks criticised the report and said his party would not support the proposed changes.

The commission’s proposal to have thresholds reviewed in the future shows “a lack of confidence in its own recommendations”.

“Voting systems benefit from infrequent change,” he said.

“Voters will not have any confidence in the electoral system if it can be continually tinkered with.”

Mr Banks, whose party has struggled to register in the latest One News Colmar Brunton poll, said the proposed changes to the 5 per cent threshold were arbitrary and that existing standards were “understood by voters”.

Labour leader David Shearer said the proposed changes must be passed.

“The review shows that it is well and truly time to ditch the socalled ‘coat-tails clause’ to avoid stitch-ups like the deal done over the tea cups by John Key and John Banks last election,” Mr Shearer said.

“That infamous moment damaged New Zealanders’ confidence in MMP and we now have an opportunity to restore that trust so Kiwis can be confident the electoral system works in the best interests of the country, not individual politicians.”

He said Labour wanted the Government to move quickly implementing any changes and his party was offering to facilitate the passing of a new law for “the most important recommendations”.

Labour MP Lianne Dalziel said the thresholds must be implemented in time for the 2014 election.

“The Electoral Commission says these changes don’t require a referendum, which means we need to just get on with it. The integrity of the 2014 election requires these changes be made,” Ms Dalziel said.

The Green Party said the recommendations reflected the underlying principles of fairness, proportionality and diversity in the electoral system.

“I look forward to seeing them implemented,” Green Party electoral reform spokeswoman Holly Walker said.

Ms Walker said the Government should respect the review and implement the recommendations.

“It’s vital that the National Government does not allow the immediate political interests of any single party get in the way of changes that strengthen our electoral system in the long term,” she said.

Collins “This isn’t about the next election; it’s about the next 10 elections.”

Jordan Williams, a constitutional lawyer and a former campaigner for Vote for Change which lobbied against MMP, said he was disappointed with the commission’s report.

“New Zealanders have been conned,” Mr Williams said.

“The public voted to keep MMP with an expectation that the review would result in improvements and a more stable electoral system.

“Instead, these recommendations would make the features of MMP even worse.”

The Wellington-based lawyer said lowering thresholds was “a recipe for instability and unpredictability” because it potentially allowed “even more small party tails to wag the dog”.

“Governing arrangements and lines of accountability are complex enough without letting more marginal parties into Parliament,” he said.

“The commission has made no effort to address the power of party bosses to select, rank and exercise power over list MPs. “The report ignores the overwhelming calls for transparency in list rankings.”

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Anna Guy takes to the radio airwaves

By Abby Gillies Anna Guy is excited about starting the next part of her life as she eyes a new career and home for herself and her four children.

The 31-year-old joined the breakfast shift at More FM Manawatu on Sunday as part of a week-long internship with the station.

The internship marks a new phase of Miss Guy’s life as she takes the first steps in pursuing a career in broadcasting in Auckland, where her boyfriend lives.

“It’s not the whole reason (for the move) but it’s definitely part of the reason and that’s going really well and he’s a really cool guy,” she told APNZ. This year her ex-husband, Feilding farmer Ewen Macdonald, was acquitted of the murder of her brother Scott Guy, but was sentenced to five years in prison

for other crimes.

Miss Guy said yesterday she was looking forward to moving on with her life and was considering several career options including television, radio and motivational speaking based on her own experiences.

“I haven’t said yes to anyone yet and am kind of just looking into it, (be)cause I want to make the right choice.”

She planned to make a decision on her career by the end of the year and move to Auckland after that with her sons and daughter, aged 4 to 9.

It was an exciting time, she said.

“I kind of feel like I’ve got a new lease on life. I just didn’t know any different here and haven’t really seen any other parts of New Zealand even. I didn’t get out much I suppose.”

While many may be surprised at her choice to pursue a career in media, it felt like a natural choice and a chance to move away from

Anna Guy her past, she said.

“I really want to do stuff about other people and have fun with it. I don’t want to do anything too serious and I definitely don’t want to do anything about myself.

“I don’t want to be defined by that (the past) I don’t want to be that ex-wife of Ewen Macdonald.

I kind of want to hopefully drop that name.”

On Monday she was still buzzing about her first stint on radio.

“I really loved it. I kind of woke up and went ‘Oh no, what have I agreed to do?’, but once I got in there and in with the guys, you feed off people. They’re heaps of fun and made it real easy for me,” she said.

Dressed casually in jeans and a fitted white top, staff were shocked when Miss Guy arrived at the Palmerston North radio station for her first shift at 7am, as the programme director had kept it a secret.

“It was a surprise. I knew there was an intern coming in and we just thought it was a schoolgirl,” said host Mike West.

She “melted seamlessly” into the show, he said.

On air, she expressed sadness at the shock death of high-profile defence lawyer Greg King - the man who successfully defended

her ex-husband in his murder trial.

“I just thought it was so sad,” she said of his death.

Miss Guy also read the weather report, contributed to “Weekend Wars” with a story about running a red light while in Auckland Programme director Darren Wallace was impressed with Miss Guy’s natural talent, saying she was well spoken.

“But by far the personality is the most important and that’s what I see in her,” he said.

Tomorrow, Miss Guy will be dressing up with fellow hosts for the Melbourne Cup, and will also be telling listeners about her life in “Anna’s daily diary, and during a movie review during the week.

All of the listener feedback from listeners had been positive, said Mr Wallace.

Miss Guy wanted others know they could overcome any challenge and “do anything that you put your mind to”.

- APNZ

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Weather shines on Bands in the Park Band master Bill Hill leads Salvation Army band members from around Canterbury through their paces during the Ashburton Civic Music Council’s Bands in the Park concert on Sunday. The skies stayed clear for the concert, meaning a good sized crowd turned up to hear some tunes from the Salvation Army Band, the Ashburton Silver Band, the Electronic Organ and Keyboard Club and the Ashburton MSA Orchestra at the Ashburton Domain.

Comedian Mike King admits driving offence

By Matthew Theunissen Comedian Mike King has been ordered to complete 200 hours of community work after pleading guilty to a driving charge.

In April last year, King’s licence was suspended for three months due to excess demerit points.

The following month he applied for and was granted a limited licence, which allowed him to drive cars during certain hours of the

day so he could continue working.

However, in June he was pulled over while riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle - a breach of the limited licence.

According to the police summary of facts, King said he did this “because I’m an idiot”.

He was initially charged with driving while suspended, but in Auckland District Court yesterday this charge was amended to driving contrary to the terms of a limited licence. The charge usually carries

a minimum six-month disqualification, but King’s lawyer John Munro successfully applied for a community-based sentence instead.

This provision can be granted if the court is satisfied it will be difficult for a person not to breach their disqualification again, and they do not pose a danger to the public by driving.

Mr Munro said disqualifying King from driving would make it difficult for him to fulfil his numerous commitments in the community, which

required him to travel all over the country.

He said King dedicated much of his time to the Key To Life charitable trust, aimed at changing New Zealanders’ attitudes to mental health and suicide, and his radio and television show the Nutters Club, which deals with issues surrounding mental health.

King pleaded guilty yesterday to the amended charge and was sentenced by Judge Anne Kiernan to 200 hours of community work.

“I would hope you won’t be back before the court again due to transgressions,” she told him.

The court was told that King’s licence was also suspended for three months in 1981 when he was caught drink driving.

Speaking outside the court, King said he was glad the matter was over.

“I’d like to thank the police and the prosecution for helping me along here. I was stupid, and it just pays to obey the law.”

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Blood test drink-drive loophole to be closed

Blood test drink-drive loophole to be closed.

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Suspected drink-drivers could be prosecuted on the evidence of a breath test alone, even if they had requested a blood test, under a bill expected to come before Parliament this week.

The private member’s bill sponsored

by National MP for Coromandel Scott Simpson would close a loophole that allowed suspects to escape a charge of driving while intoxicated when a blood sample could not be taken.

At present, a driver can elect to have a blood test if their evidential breath test returns a positive result.

Once they elect to have a blood sample taken, the breath test is inadmissible as evidence for a prosecution.

This means that some drink-drivers escape charges if a blood sample can not be taken.

Mr Simpson said a law change would net “not hundreds, but a handful” of drivers each year who evaded court action because of technical problems in extracting blood.

They were mostly people whose intravenous drug use had damaged the vein in their arm, making it more

difficult to remove blood.

Police could not extract blood from other veins in the body.

Mr Simpson cited a case in August when a known drug user had his case dismissed by a judge in the Rotorua District Court because police had been unable to take a blood sample.

“As the tourniquet was being put on him by police, he had the gall to say, ‘Good luck’, to them,” Mr Simpson said.

The bill is likely to pass its first reading, expected to be on Wednesday, with the support of the National Party, United Future and the Act Party.

But the legislation has stirred some controversy, with Attorney-General Chris Finlayson flagging it as inconsistent with the Bill of Rights because it limits a person’s right to be presumed innocent.

Mr Finlayson said the bill was broad and would capture motorists in a range of situations, such as when they were physiologically incapable of providing blood.

Mr Simpson felt the concerns

expressed by the Attorney-General’s advisers had been “ill-placed”.

He said the police would still have to build a case to the satisfaction of a judge to get a prosecution, and the law change simply ensured that people did not escape criminal responsibility.

The Automobile Association supported the intent of the bill.

AA motoring affairs spokesman Mike Noon said he would ask for the legislation to be refined so that police could not exploit it and bypass the full process for testing drivers for alcohol.

At present the bill said an evidential breath test was admissible as evidence if blood could not be taken “for any reason”.

Mr Noon said this needed to be tightened, “otherwise the police could say, ‘Sorry, there’s no doctor today’.”

He said the blood test procedure needed to be simplified. “It takes the doctor 30 minutes, he has to sign his name 17 times, and the form is so old that it’s carbon paper.”

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Syria rebels shoot down warplane Rebels have seized a major oilfield and shot down a warplane in eastern Syria, an observer group says.

The escalating conflict added urgency to a meeting of the Syrian National Council (SNC) in Qatar, with the United States reportedly pressing for a new umbrella organisation to unite the country’s fractured opposition.

The rebel advances in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor yesterday came as warplanes pounded their positions around Damascus and in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.

State media also reported that a blast near the Dama Rose Hotel in the heart of the capital wounded 11 civilians. It blamed “terrorists”, the regime’s term for armed rebels.

The hotel hosted UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi during his visits to Damascus.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the seizure of the oilfield was an opposition first since the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime erupted in March 2011.

“Rebels in the Jaafar Tayyar Brigade took control of Al-Ward oilfield, east of the town of Mayadin, after a siege that lasted several days,” it said.

“This is the first time the rebels have taken control of an oilfield,” Observatory director Rami Abdel

Rahman told AFP. The fighting lasted several hours, said Abdel Rahman, adding 40 soldiers were either killed, wounded or captured.

The Observatory later said rebels in Deir Ezzor had shot down a warplane, with initial reports indicating the pilot had been captured.

Fighting also erupted near a political intelligence office in Damascus province, the Observatory said, adding warplanes later carried out three raids on the Ghuta region northeast of the capital.

To the south of Damascus, eight civilians were killed by mortar fire in the Yarmuk Palestinian camp, in clashes between the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineGeneral Command and rebels, the Observatory said.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, meanwhile, said it has delivered humanitarian aid to the beleaguered districts of Khaldiyeh and Hamidiyeh in the central city of Homs for the first time in months.

According to the reports, which emerged after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton charged the SNC was not representative, long-time dissident Riad Seif is touted as the potential head of a new government-in-exile dubbed the Syrian National Initiative.

But as the Qatar meeting began, Seif denied planning to head such a government.

– AFP

Boy mauled to death in US zoo

Cold adds urgency to storm recovery Storm victims went to church yesterday to pray for relief and give thanks for their deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan area compounded the misery for people already struggling with severe petrol shortages and power outages.

With temperatures dipping into the 1-4°C overnight and close to 700,000 homes and

businesses in New York City, its northern suburbs and Long Island still without electricity six days after the storm, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that many homes are becoming uninhabitable and that tens of thousands of people are going to need other places to stay. More than 900,000 homes and businesses in New Jersey were still without electricity.

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24. But its rain-heavy outer bands soaked the southern coast and capital for much of that week, causing many rivers to overflow. Authorities say the storm destroyed 70 per cent of the crops in Haiti’s south and caused widespread deaths of livestock.

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A young boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo with his mother and friends was killed yesterdasy when he somehow got over a railing and then fell about 4.3m into an exhibit that’s home to a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the boy and mauled him, zoo officials said.

It’s not clear whether he died from the fall or the attack, said Barbara Baker, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. Zoo officials and police were trying to determine how the child got over the railing, which is about 1.21.5m high, then apparently fell off a mesh barrier and into the exhibit.

When the boy fell, other visitors immediately told staff members, who responded along with Pittsburgh police. Zookeepers called off the dogs, and seven of them immediately went to a back building. Three more eventually were drawn away from the boy, but the last dog wouldn’t come into the building, and police had to shoot him, Baker said.

“It’s clear that the dogs did attack the child, but whether he died of the attack or the fall has yet to be determined,” Baker said.

The dogs are about as big as medium-sized domestic dogs, 0.6 to 0.75m high and 17 to 36kg, according to the zoo.

African wild dogs are also known as cape hunting dogs, spotted dogs, and painted wolves. – AP

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Westpac Banking Corp’s New Zealand unit lifted annual earnings 22 per cent as it grabbed more market share and squeezed more from its interest margins, marking it as the fastest-growing unit of the Australian lender.

Cash earnings rose to $707 million in the 12 months ended September 30, from $578 million a year earlier, the Sydneybased lender said in a statement.

That accounted for about 9 per cent of the group’s A$5.97 billion

net profit. The New Zealand unit increased net operating income 7 per cent to $2.01 billion, and cut its impairment charge for bad loans 21 per cent to $191 million.

The bank’s net interest margin widened 8 basis points to 2.72 per cent.

“Despite subdued economic conditions, the business achieved sound balance sheet growth, improved margins, strong wealth and insurance cross-sell and wellmanaged expenses,” the lender said.

Westpac New Zealand increased term deposits 11 per cent to $23.1

G20 chiefs meet G20 finance chiefs have held talks to tackle Europe’s relentless debt saga amid new concerns about Greece, while the United States faced questions about its own fiscal dilemma.

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 top economies began two days of talks in Mexico City focused on easing fears over threats to global growth.

The eurozone debt crisis remains at the core of global worries as debt-riddled Greece faces another key deadline to avoid bankruptcy this month, while Spain is under pressure to seek its own bailout.

A Spanish source said Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, a guest at the G20 talks, will outline the country’s banking and labour reforms but will not dwell on why the country is not seeking a sovereign bailout.

The United States is also in the spotlight over a looming “fiscal cliff” of spending cuts and tax hikes that could undercut the US economy and global growth.

The White House and Congress need to reach a compromise by the end of the year to avoid the cliff, but a resolution will have to wait until after the presidential election, with US President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney locked in a tight race.

“The G20 meeting takes place in an environment of concern over several issues in various parts of the world,” Mexican Finance Minister Jose Antonio Meade told a news conference before a private dinner with his counterparts.

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Luis de Guindos “There is concern over how the so-called fiscal cliff will be resolved in the United States,” said Meade, whose country will hand over the G20 presidency to Russia on December 1.

“There is a perception that a fiscal adjustment of this magnitude is more than what is required to ensure that the United States returns to a sustainable path,” he said, adding that US officials have voiced confidence that a compromise will be reached.

A European central banker, who requested anonymity, said the US fiscal cliff is one of “several risks” to the global economic outlook along with Japan’s own budgetary challenge and slowing growth in China.

“Europe is among many factors.

I wouldn’t expect this to be only a euro area session,” the European official told AFP. The Mexico City talks are not expected to yield major decisions.

– AFP

billion as at September 30, and grew net loans 3 per cent to $59.4 billion. Of that, mortgages grew 3 per cent to $35.4 billion and business loans rose 4 per cent to $21.8 billion.

New Zealand chief executive Peter Clare said agriculture was a strong performer for the bank, which grabbed nearly half a percentage point of market share.

“We remain committed to supporting agriculture in New Zealand our ongoing investment into the sector will see 20 new frontline agri-bankers employed in the next 12 months,” he said.

Clare was more upbeat about the prospects for New Zealand’s economy, saying it is well-placed for growth compared to international peers.

“The key now is moving from caution to confidence and investing for future growth,” he said.

The Australian group lifted cash earnings 5 per cent to $A6.6 billion with a 6 per cent gain in revenue to $A17.98 billion. The board declared a fully-franked final dividend of 84 Australian cents, with a November 15 record date. That takes the annual payout to $A1.66 per share. – APNZ

Tax rate just a small slice of the Apple pie Apple paid an income tax rate of only 1.9 per cent on its earnings outside the US in its latest fiscal year, a regulatory filing by the company shows.

The world’s most valuable company paid $US713 million on tax on foreign earnings of $36.8 billion in the fiscal year ended September 29, according to the financial statement filed on October 31.

Its foreign earnings were up 53 per cent from fiscal 2011, when Apple earned $24 billion outside the US and paid income tax of 2.5 per cent on it.

The tech giant’s foreign tax rate compares with the general US corporate tax rate of 35 per cent. Apple may pay some income taxes on its profit to the country in which it sells its products, but it minimises them by using various account-

ing moves to shift profits to countries with low tax rates. For example, the strategy known as “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich” routes profits through Irish and Dutch subsidiaries and then to the Caribbean. Other multinational corporations also use such tax techniques, which are legal. Like other big companies, Apple leaves cash overseas.

If it brought the cash home to the US, it would have to pay US corporate taxes on the money. The cash that Apple has left overseas as of September 29 has amounted to a stunning $82.6 billion, up from $74 billion as of June 30.

Where Apple differs from other companies is that it sets aside a portion of the foreign profits, marking them as subject to US taxes sometime in the future.

When Apple reports quarterly results,

it records that portion of the taxes as a liability, which is subtracted from its profits even though it hasn’t actually paid the taxes. Tax experts say the company could easily eliminate these “phantom” tax obligations. That would boost Apple’s profits for the past three years by as much $10.5 billion, according to calculations by The Associated Press.

While investors might rejoice if Apple suddenly added $10.5 billion to its profits, unilaterally erasing a massive US tax obligation could tarnish its reputation as a relatively responsible payer of US taxes.

Instead, the company is lobbying to change US law so that it can erase its liabilities in a less conspicuous fashion.

– AP

The rise of the $1m salaries More than 40 executives at three of New Zealand’s top companies now earn more than $1 million a year, and one of our top bosses has taken a swipe at CEOs’ salaries.

Former New Zealander of the Year and television host Ian Taylor – now considered one of the country’s most astute business people – says he can no longer remain silent on the debate around executives’ salaries.

“As a CEO of a privately-owned company, I have not taken a pay rise for 10 years and I currently share my salary with my wife, who works fulltime in the company without pay,” said Mr Taylor, founder and CEO of Animation Research in Dunedin.

“I have made a personal commitment

to remain on that salary until I am satisfied every person working with me is paid what they are worth.”

Mr Taylor’s comments come as the Business Herald yesterday reveals that 41 executives at Fonterra, Telecom and Fletcher Building earn more than $1 million a year. The number has more than tripled in a decade, and sparked debate over their level of pay.

Former Telecom chief Paul Reynolds was paid $12.7 million in the last financial year. Fonterra’s Andrew Ferrier received $8.2 million and Fletcher’s Jonathan Ling $2.4 million.

Pay surveys released mid-year showed the median annual base salary for CEOs and managing directors rose by $28,311 to $315,000 this year – a jump of nearly

10 per cent. Mr Taylor said a CEO’s remuneration “should be measured by how well he or she protects jobs and should bear a direct relationship to how well the employees ... are paid”.

In a letter to the Herald, he referred to a comment last week by former Nuplex chairman Fred Holland, who, when referring to a 26 per cent rise for non-executive directors, said: “You won’t get anything but monkeys if you pay peanuts.”

Mr Taylor said: “If that means I have joined our fellow primates in his eyes then I know who I would rather spend my time with: Them and the countless other CEOs and management of small New Zealand companies who still live in the real world.”

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Melbourne Cup Sweep Chart 5pm, Emirates Melbourne Cup, 3200m. Prize money: A$6,200,000 Form

Horse

Dunaden

1

326X1

2

6X6X4

3

X51X0

4

1233X

5

X9996

6

X6240

7

71142

8

X111X

9

X0060 Sanagas

Breeding: 7h, Nicobar - La Marlia Trainer: Mikel Delzangles

Americain

Breeding: 8h, Dynaformer - America Trainer: Alan de Royer-Dupre

Jakkalberry

Breeding: 7h, Storming Home - Claba Di San Jore Trainer: Marco Botti

Red Cadeaux

Breeding: 7g, Cadeaux Genereux - Artisia Trainer: Ed Dunlop

Winchester

Breeding: 8h, Theatrical - Rum Charger Trainer: John Sadler

Voila Ici

Breeding: 8h, Daylami - Far Hope Trainer: Peter G Moody

Cavalryman

Breeding: 7h, Halling - Silversword Trainer: Saeed Bin Suroor

cm

tcm

m

m

h

m

b

Mount Athos

Breeding: 7g, Lomitas - Scota Trainer: Bart Cummings

mh

Ethiopia

10 11

261X4

12

7X11X

13

11110

14

X5217

15

X8025

16

9X421

17

40115

18

X0080 Niwot

19

521X6

20

X0933

21

41064

22

X9005

23

97065

24

14121

Breeding: 5h, Monsun - Desert Bloom Trainer: Gai Waterhouse

Galileo’s Choice

Breeding: 7g , Galileo - Sevi's Choice Trainer: Dermot K Weld

Glencadam Gold

Breeding: 5g, Refuse To Bend - Sandrella Trainer: Gai Waterhouse

Green Moon

Breeding: 6h, Montjeu - Green Noon Trainer: Robert Hickmott

Maluckyday

Breeding: 6g, Zabeel - Natalie Wood Trainer: John Hawkes

Mourayan

Breeding: 7h, Alhaarth - Mouramara Trainer: Robert Hickmott

mh

dm

bh

th

th

tm

My Quest for Peace

Tac de Boistron

Breeding: 6g, Take Risks - Pondiki Trainer: Michael Kent

Lights Of Heaven

Breeding: 5m, Zabeel - I'm In Heaven Trainer: Peter G Moody

Precedence

Breeding: 7g, Zabeel - Kowtow Trainer: Bart Cummings

tcdm

m

m

th

Unusual Suspect Zabeelionaire

18

22

13

6

4

2

11

7

5

9

3

15

21

17

20

24

Breeding: 4h, Zabeel - Kisumu Trainer: Leon Corstens

Breeding: 5g, Refuse To Bend - Orinoco Trainer: Chris Waller

19

23

Breeding: 9h, Unusual Heat - Penpont Trainer: Michael Kent

Kelinni

12

1

Breeding: 5h, Galileo - Play Misty For Me Trainer: Luca Cumani

Breeding: 8g, Galileo - Too Darn Hot Trainer: John Hawkes

16

14

Breeding: 4g, Helenus - Shona Trainer: Pat Carey

Fiorente

Draw

8

Breeding: 6g, Montjeu - Ionian Sea Trainer: Luca Cumani

1X764

KEY

Legend

t

10

Jockey

Craig Williams

Damien Oliver

Colm O'Donoghue

Michael Rodd

Jamie Mott

Vlad Duric

Frankie Dettori

Ryan Moore

Nicholas Hall

Comment by Mike Dillon Weight (kg)

59

58

55.5

55.5

55.5

55

54

54

54

TAB odds

$7

French stayer who is unbeaten in Australia in a Melbourne Cup (last year) and a Caulfield Cup (this year). Currently flying after a sensational performance to win the Caulfield Cup. Biggest problem is the 59kg topweight. Will give it a big shot though.

$6

Won this race two years ago and poorly ridden when close up in it last year. Terrific 4th in the Caulfield Cup when again poorly ridden by Gerald Mosse. He is sacked and replaced

by Damien Oliver. Huge chance and if the rain arrives so much the better.

$51

$9

$41

$126

$31

$7

$41

Rhys McLeod

53.5

$18

James McDonald

53.5

$26

Patrick Smullen 53.5

Tommy Berry

Brett Prebble

Jim Cassidy

53.5

53.5

53.5

Hugh Bowman 53.5

Corey Brown

Dwayne Dunn

53.5

53.5

Olivier Doleuze 53.5

Luke Nolen

Blake Shinn

Glyn Schofield

Craig Newitt

Glen Boss

53

53

53

52

51

Sweepstake drawer

$16

$41

$17

$14

$26

$18

$51

Went from England to USA and won the Arlington St Leger as the favourite in August. Three wide throughout in the Caulfield Cup and although only 13th, it wasn’t the worst run.

Probably outside place chance.

Beaten a nose by Dunaden in this last year as an unheralded English stayer. Trainer Ed Dunlop believes he is at least as well as 12 months ago. Natural stayer well suited to this 3200m. Drawn wide, but back runner and may not be affected by that.

Better effort than placing suggests when 9th in the Caulfield Cup. Was running home strongly at the end of that 2400m and will be well suited to stepping up to 3200m. Blowout chance to hit the minor money.

The likely pacemaker. Went fast in front when 4th in Green Moon’s Turnbull Stakes. Could not get the lead in the Caulfield Cup and dropped out to tail the field, although rider said he didn’t handle the track. Win would be a major shock.

Dour stayer owned by Sheikh Mohammed. Last three starts at this distance or further and was running on in each of them. His depth of stamina gives him a chance to get at least some of the money.

Came back from injury to win his last three English races straight. Has a devastating turn of foot for an extreme distance stayer, very valuable in a Melbourne Cup. Might give trainer Luca Cumani the Cup win he’s been wanting for seven years.

Running on nicely at the end of the Caulfield Cup after a dour performance in the Caulfield Stakes. Has had Bart Cummings to put the polish on him, but a win would surprise. Should be in the first half of the field though.

Won the AJC Derby in Sydney earlier in the year. Finished off well when 6th in the Turnbull Stakes when right up behind the placegetters when 4th in the Cox Plate. Chance to run in the money on that performance.

Trained by Gai Waterhouse and will be ridden by James McDonald. Easy winner of the Goldsmiths Stakes in England in July and should have finished closer to Japanese star Orfevre in France at last start. Difficult to assess, but not out of it.

Has won his last two races in Ireland. Won back to back hurdle races in February and March. Don’t be put off by that – trainer Dermot Weld used the same method to win this race with Vintage Crop. One of the chances.

Controlled the speed to win the Metropolitan in Sydney.

Went just too hard in front in the Caulfield Cup and couldn’t see it out. Would need to settle a little better here, but would make things interesting if he did.

Sat three wide without cover in the Turnbull Stakes and still ran away to win. Raced a bit one-paced when 7th in the Cox Plate and may be looking for this extra distance. Has more class than some of these.

Classy stayer who finished second in this two years ago.

Latest form suggests he is on the comeback. Got home well in the sit-sprint Geelong Cup. Nicely placed in the weights and a big chance.

Dour stayer who simply out-toughed them in the Craven Plate in Sydney last start. This is grades up from that race in terms of class. Place chance at best with a lucky run.

English stayer who made local debut in the Caulfield Cup, finishing a close 5th to Dunaden after being held up on the turn. Will be better suited by the 3200m here. Luca Cumani rates him highly.

Won at 3200m in the Sydney Cup and 6th in this race last year. Caulfield Cup run was just okay although it suggested he would be better at this longer trip. Place best.

$51

Won in France before heading to Australia. Made local debut in the Geelong Cup and was unsuited by the sit-sprint tempo, finishing 6th. Bigger track, longer staying test will suit better.

$21

Only mare in the race. Won the Brisbane Cup in June and placed in last two races. Last time it was third in the Caulfield Cup when she enjoyed the perfect run in transit. Badly drawn, but still a chance.

$81

Has always threatened to win a big race, but despite having banked a million dollars we are still waiting. Finished mid-field in this last year and the same scenario looks likely again.

$201

Unplaced in four Australian starts. That is unlikely to change here. The outsider of the field.

$51

Form looks ordinary on paper, but his was one of the best runs in Saturday’s Mackinnon Stakes. Aimed specifically for this and looms as a horse coming to his best at the right time.

$21

Won the Lexus on Saturday to force his way into the field.

Had the perfect run there and will need all the luck to win this race. Best attribute

b = Beaten favourite at last start c = Won at this distance on this course d = Won at this distance on another course h = Home track m = Won in heavy going t = Won at track X = Spell of three months Herald graphic

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Local input on nutrient limits important Federated Farmers is urging farmers to attend meetings in Hinds and Mayfield today to talk about how nutrients limits will affect their farming operations.

The Ashburton water zone committee is hosting the meetings to tell people about water management limits to be set between the Ashburton and Rangitata rivers.

The committee will soon set nutrient limits for the Hinds plains area as part of a sub-regional chapter of Environment Canterbury’s proposed Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP).

Federated Farmers submitted on the regional plan and will put its concerns to a hearing panel next year. Some 350 submissions were received.

The farmer group has concerns about the economic and social impacts of nutrient limits.

“The nutrient discharge provisions have the potential to largely prevent land use change and stall the regional economy,” said Federated Farmers senior policy adviser Lionel Hume.

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New Zealand farm manager of the year at this year’s Dairy Industry Awards was Mick O’Connor, who farms for Synlait just north of Rakaia. He is encouraging his colleagues to enter next year’s awards.

Improve skills with the dairy industry awards Mid Canterbury dairy farmers keen to improve their skills or move up in the industry are being encouraged to enter the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

Farmers here are part of the CanterburyNorth Otago region, with the best in three different competition categories progressing to national finals.

The awards are open to all involved in the dairy industry – sharemilkers and equity farmers, farm managers, and dairy trainees.

Earlybird entries are open now, with local launches in Ashburton on November 19, Rangiora the same day and Temuka on November 20. RD1 stores have offered to host the launches, and put on a barbecue between 11am and 1pm at even venue.

Previous regional winners and DIA organising committee members will be on hand to answer any questions.

Canterbury-North Otago farmers will

be defending their triple crown, with this year’s category winners going on to win the three national titles.

Rakaia dairy farmer and winner of the national farm manager title Mick O’Connor said dairy farmers at all stages of their careers should enter.

He and partner Kirsten found it an opportunity to assess their own performance and pick up tips from some very experienced dairy farmers involved in the judging.

National awards convener Chris Keeping said the contest delivered considerable benefits to all those that participated.

“People already know the awards will give them a head start in the employment market and provide feedback on their business performance, as well as identify strengths and areas to develop while also providing some financial and business acumen with rural institutions.

“What might not be so obvious is the opportunity the awards offers entrants

to develop a wider network with other motivated dairy farmers, and potential future business partners, and rural professionals.”

The 2012 awards attracted a record number of entries, with 525 received.

Mrs Keeping hopes a similar number will enter the 2013 awards.

Earlybird entries are already being accepted with a deadline of December 20 for all categories.

Ms Keeping said she expected some to make excuses not to enter.

“We just say people can’t afford not to make the time to gain from the personal growth and business development. The dairy industry awards are not about being perfect, they are about making progress.”

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Pauline Hewson, Marlene McLauchlan, Kay King, Glenys Nicol and Janet Benfell. Diane Milne acted as secretary in Pauline’s absence.

Betty George reported on progress with the hop-scotch panel in the Mt Somers domain. Pavers had been bought and a brick with the Anama branch named as the donor.

Anama volunteers delivered Meals on Wheel supplying seven cars, drivers and runners and members catered for the Mayfield Lions dinner on October 2.

Life member Betty Evans conducted the election of officers which resulted in all being re-elected, Jackie Ryan, Natalie Quantock and Pauline Hewson being thanked for their loyalty with presentations of flowers.

Jackie’s annual report showed a diversity of activities ranging from an apron display, garden and helicopter visit, an insight into the running of the Lake Hood recreation area, a talk by NZ Gardener of the Year Jade Temepara, a Masterchef contestant cooking demonstration and a visit to a glass and jewellery workshop at Hinds.

Students have returned to school, the fourth term is full with activities, pet shows, athletic sport days, and school camps while for the older ones this is a short term with exams looming.

It brings to mind safety on our roads and, of course, school bus safety. With such busy lifestyles, often we have something else on our mind, become less focused and an accident can arise because of this. Remember 20km/h past a stationary school bus and the speed restrictions around the school zones.

All branches have held their annual meetings. I am looking forward to an interesting year ahead – our Canterbury region is holding the national conference in Christchurch in May. This will be an ideal chance for us to showcase our area; many bus tours will be available giving partners the opportunity to see our countryside, farms, irrigation systems and more.

Mid Canterbury Rural Women NZ annual meeting is being held November 29, at the Senior Centre. Our scholarship recipients will be attending and it will interesting to hear their experiences relating to their chosen careers.

Bev Bagrie Provincial President

Seafield St Pauls Lounge was the venue for eight members of the Seafield Rural Women plus the four Smith girls to meet for our meeting.

Our motto was: The person who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something.

We went through all the correspondence and other business and reminded members about MOW and talked about competitions for Provincial AGM. Asked if there was any more knitting for the hospital and one member had done some. December’s meeting will be a

Winchmore A beautiful old Cook House, a lovely extensive garden, good food and great company made for a very successful AGM of Winchmore branch.

President Trish Small presented the annual report in the format of the words WINCHMORE, each letter was used to report on various activities of the branch during the past year, a most novel and very well-written report enjoyed by all present.

Provincial President Bev Bagrie was our invited guest who carried out the task of chairing the AGM. Positions were filled and the branch looks forward to celebrating its 80th year as Rural Women in 2013.

Prior to the AGM a branch meeting was held and president Trish thanked members for their involvement in different service activities over the past month. Arrangements were made to supply and serve suppers to the ALIS meetings in late October.

The annual bus mystery trip was announced and the first 28 seats paid for to Shona will secure a place on the day, so members are encouraged to come and bring a friend to fill the bus.

Following the meetings Penny Thomas provided a lovely light luncheon to members and then took us on a walking tour of her lovely Longbeach gardens.

Anama The Anama women’s October monthly meeting and the annual general meeting were followed by a lunch at Pat Bishell’s home.

A good number of members attended and apologies were received from

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13.0kg YL SI 13.5kg YM SI 15.0kg YM SI 15.0kg YM NI 15.0kg YM Market Indicator 17.5kg YX SI 19.0kg YX SI 19.0kg YX NI 21.0kg YX SI 21.0kg YX NI 23.0kg YX SI

last 4 weeks 3 months week ago ago

1 year ago

2012/13 Low High

45.71 66.29 84.97 85.21 59.90 98.34 105.98 108.08 116.18 119.51 120.21 45.71

46.80 67.31 86.10 86.47 61.14 99.69 107.46 109.67 117.82 121.27 122.02 45.71

48.15 68.71 87.66 84.45 61.66 101.51 109.43 107.11 120.00 118.44 134.07 45.71

47.19 67.71 84.21 81.28 60.99 97.48 105.06 103.10 115.17 114.01 120.09 45.71

72.90 94.54 114.40 117.55 80.44 133.13 139.06 144.70 152.92 159.36 167.17 45.71

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48.15 68.71 87.66 86.47 61.84 101.51 109.43 109.67 120.00 121.27 134.07

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391 400 381 277 310 302

391 400 384 277 310 304

394 405 381 280 313 293

374 390 390 270 305 314

407 417 360 294 311 319

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381 396 377

356 392 394

390 401 394

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394 409 385 * 280 315 305 * 381 400 * 387

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7.98 8.08 7.68

7.98 8.08 7.68

7.48 7.58 7.18

9.14 9.24 8.84

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7.73 7.82 7.42

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1280 985 815 670 408 375 375 350 495

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1570 1100 900 735 485 435 435 375 * 506

1705 1170 895 797 606 594 591 564 571

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461 432

464 417

357 468

331 346

517 468

417 433

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3710 3520 3520 4940 10500

4900 4150 4460 5030 12570

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Lynnford Lynnford met on October 11 at the home of member Janice Peck.

Members stood for a moment’s silence for Gwen Cornwell. Gwen will be missed by our group for her willingness to help and her pleasant personality.

Members who helped with delivering meals on wheels were thanked.

After general business we moved into our AGM which was chaired by Val Reddicliffe.

The existing office bearers were re-elected. President - Bev Bagrie, Secretary - Marian Taylor, Treasurer Rosalyn Moore. Members were reminded of Provincial AGM to be held at the Senior Centre November 19, 10.30am.

Our next meeting Judith Cameron’s, 7.30pm. Speaker Maxine Urquhart Scarf Bouquets.

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Rangitata rivers, including the Hinds catchment, to feed in to a sub-regional plan for our zone.

“We also want to talk to people about the role infrastructure can play to deliver the targets in the CWMS and make better use of water in the zone,” he said.

The CWMS identifies infrastructure as a means to contribute to all the strategy’s targets. In particular, it can address future-proofing issues such as ecosystem support in a changing climate, and water quality management through enhanced reliability and distribution efficiency.

“As it was with developing our ZIP, community input is vital to developing effective solutions to address the issues facing our water resource.

“The two public meetings are the people’s chance to hear about the issues and how they can be involved, so we hope to see plenty of people there,” Mr Hall said.

The Hinds meeting is at the Hinds Community Centre at 1.30pm; the Mayfield one will be held at the Mayfield War Memorial Hall starting 7pm.

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He said farmers were concerned the proposed plan put undue emphasis on the management of nitrogen, and that the computer model Overseer was not the right regulatory tool.

Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers section heads are encouraging farmers to get in the ear of Ashburton water zone committee members and tell them how nutrient limits will affect how they farm.

Zone committee chair Matthew Hall said local input is important to ensuring decisions are made in the bests interests of the zone as a whole.

“The underlying philosophy of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy is that local communities are best placed to make decisions on local water management.

“We are keen to engage with community members to ensure a wide range of views are represented in the recommendations we make.

“Specifically, we need to hear people’s views on water quality and quantity limits in the area between the Ashburton and

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0.810 0.796 0.522 0.496 0.665 0.576 2.76 3.11 (Estimates only) 75 61 108 3 13 9 4.3 4.0 7.7

0.753 0.481 0.596 2.40

0.839 0.528 0.665 3.12

0.791 0.494 0.568 3.32

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472 153 25.8

200 41 11.0

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LAMB It’s crunch time now as farmgate prices become more reliant on the frozen trade, with the last Christmas chilled shipment departing this week.

As a result, meat company schedule prices have eased in both islands. Frozen New Zealand lamb continues to trade within a wide range, both here and overseas, depending on inventory levels of companies and the pressure on them to move it.

Exporters are reported to be having more luck in the UK frozen market than in Continental Europe, where importers appear to still have significant volumes of product on hand.

Australia has continued pumping out huge volumes of lamb, with October’s shipments being the highest ever for a single month. Fortunately for New Zealand, Australia only has a small share of the European quota, but in other markets this is keeping prices under constant pressure.

BEEF Beef trading on the US East Coast came to a standstill early last week as Hurricane Sandy passed through.

Philadelphia, the main entry point into the US for New Zealand beef, was in the path of the storm. Infrastructure damage there caused issues in transporting product and left chillers without power for a while. But despite these troubles, the imported beef trade looks to have come out the other side largely unscathed, with prices edging slightly higher later in the week.

China has gradually been becoming more prominent on the radar of New Zealand exporters in 2012 and there is much optimism around the future of this market for New Zealand beef. For the first time ever for one month, over 1000 tonnes of beef was exported there in September.

That’s only 6 per cent of New Zealand’s total exports for the month but more growth is expected as more plants around the country are approved

by Chinese officials.

DAIRY Dairy commodity markets have been quiet in the past couple of weeks. Buyers are generally well positioned having already purchased much of their requirements for the remainder of this year.

Meanwhile sellers are generally comfortable with their forward sales positions.

In the past week prices in Northern Hemisphere markets have softened a tad for most dairy commodities. Meanwhile in the Southern Hemisphere prices have crept upwards. The net result is that the pricing gap between the two origins has closed slightly.

Fundamentals point towards higher prices to come as milk supply continues to tighten both in Europe and the US. At present this is being compensated for by a strong start to the milk production season in New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Australia.

However, as we progress into 2013 the supply of dairy commodities into the global markets is expected to tighten as less product is exported out of the US and Europe.

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Kirk House – the grand old lady of Nixon Street

By Velma Langdon

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he life of the 111-year-old grand old lady of Nixon Street is coming to an end.

Because of earthquake damage and the cost to repair it will be demolished early in 2013. The solid Victorian house, believed to be built in 1901, has been a home for many families.

In 1899 almost 500 acres of the Lagmhor Estate was surveyed into small lots to be auctioned as ‘handy farms for closer settlement’. The 47 lots were bounded by Brickfield (now Nixon) and Melcombe streets, Buckleys Terrace and Tarbottons Road.

Like a few other sections, because the reserve was not reached, Lot 17 of 4 acres 1 rood 17 perches was not purchased until after the auction when it was bought by George Alexander McLean Buckley. In November 1900 Buckley sold it to John Clark, a saddler in Tinwald. In the meantime Albert James Andrews bought Lot 1 of 4 acres 2 roods for £44.10s. This property was a corner section on Melcombe Street and Richmond (Buckleys) Terrace.

Albert Andrews came from a long line of bricklayers, and his eldest son, William Robert, also a bricklayer, built a brick home on Lot 1 about 1900. The bricks were the first handmade from the clay dug in the field behind the Andrews section. The bricks were barrowed to the nearby kiln. Approximately two metres of the bagged, single brick wall is still standing today as part of the outer walls of a villa.

John Clark kept his section, Lot 17, for three years. During that time it is possible he had built a large, magnificent, brick home on his land, with all of the inner walls also bricked.

Earlier, in 1875 when Thomas Andrews and two of his sons, George and Albert, were working on the Christchurch Cathedral’s stone carving, Sam Saunders asked if they would build a flour mill (Canterbury Roller Flour Mill) in Ashburton. Thomas Andrews accepted. The Andrews also built the Bank of New South Wales (now Speights Alehouse) and a two-storey brick house for Thomas in Chalmers Avenue.

George built several more brick homes in the town. All those bricks would have been made at their Eton Street clay and brick kiln.

Most likely Albert Andrews (by then a neighbour) and his father built John Clark’s house. The bricks used were again made from the local clay from the field behind Albert’s property. The Brickfield (Nixon) Street house was built with a turret roof either side of a small verandah with a wrought iron fretwork frieze. The

bricks were beautifully pointed.

Three long, sash windows lit the two rooms under the turrets. There were three bedrooms, the hall with a glass door with a frosted patterned upper section and two front sitting rooms, each with long sash window and Victorian coloured tiled fireplaces. A Banksia rose was planted to twine up one verandah post and around the fretwork. Laurels were planted along the front fence line.

John Clark’s mortgage was from Walters and Latham, and not discharged until 1906, even though he sold the home and section in 1903.

The purchaser was Kate Emma Andrews, wife of Albert who, with their five children, lived at 26 Nixon Street for the following six years. However the clay from the local area was of poor quality, the handmade bricks porous. The entire outside brick walls of the house were covered, like Albert’s Richmond (Buckleys) Terrace home, by bagging with a coating of lime, cement and water mixed. A thin layer was then rubbed on the walls in a circular motion with bags, after which the house was painted a dark brown/maroon, the same colour as the roof. The brick work character of the home was hidden.

In 1908 Kate Andrews sold the property to Mildred Emma Giddings of Tinwald, a spinster, the daughter of George and Mary Giddings. There were three sons and four daughters in their family. Only two married, William the youngest son and Ethel, an elderly sister. Neither couple had children.

George Giddings bought land at Greendale, Huntingdon, Grahams Road and Lynnford as well as other pockets of land, also 2000 acres at Ealing for his three sons, John, Richard and William. The Ealing property was farmed by Richard and William. When Richard died young, William continued farming the property. John, the eldest son, farmed at Greendale. Later George (who farmed on Grahams Road) and Mary Giddings retired to Mildred’s grand home in Brickfield (Nixon) Street.

George, who was 17 years older than his wife, died in 1916 when he was 80 years old and was buried at Greendale. Mary and Mildred moved to Greendale, where John was still farming, but the 1922 Tinwald Electoral Roll still listed Mary and Mildred Giddings as ratepayers of Brickfield Street. The property no doubt was rented after Mary and Mildred left the home. An old newspaper cutting states that in 1926, in the Greendale district, when the ‘electric installation was complete, Mrs Giddings, as the oldest lady resident, (73 years) switched on the lights at

The three ages of Kirk House — 1904 (above), 2002 (below left) and 2012 (below right).

the opening ceremony’.

In 1940 my parents, Belle and Fred Feron, and family of six moved to 26 Nixon Street from the country to be nearer Ashburton for the work of older family members. We lived there for 14 years. The rent was £1 and 5 shillings a week. Our mother was delighted with the large house. She did not mind the outside neglect. The roadside laurel hedge was an unruly six

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ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) Mercury begins the third of its three annual retrogrades this week and this cautions you to take particular care around travel plans, contracts and agreements over the next ten days. Uranus is currently forging a great alliance with this planet for being spontaneous and creative but if you dive into anything without forethought it can come back on you.

The wash house with a copper and two kauri tubs kept the morning sun from the cold back door. Also in that area was a square water tank on a high wooden stand, painted the same colour as the house, and a dairy so small that one had to stand outside to turn the handle on the separator. The kitchen sink and drop bench were concealed behind the backdoor. The dropbench had a prop to hold it up

when the dishes were washed.

That unit was promptly removed when one of the family crawled under a bench full of dishes for quick access from the living/dining room to the kitchen.

The prop was knocked, the bench collapsed, broken crockery everywhere! After that our father installed a more serviceable sink/bench unit under the kitchen window. A large, dark pantry extended from floor to

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feet high with an arch over the entrance. My father cut away the arch and trimmed the hedge to respectability. The rambling ivycovered toilet was a long drop, 30 yards away along a rough concrete path, with fruit trees and long grass either side. My father demolished the toilet and partitioned off a corner inside the brick wash house and built a new toilet there.

ceiling and was most convenient.

An Everhot range was installed to compliment the hot water Shacklock coal stove. The tiny bathroom contained of a claw foot tin bath with an open, corrugated copper cylinder beside.

A sheltered windmill, well and hand pump were behind the wash house. If wind did not turn the windmill we all had turns of hand pumping.

The vast area of two orchards was never tamed. A Barberry hedge divided the house section from the drive lined with mature oak trees. There were also three wooden sheds – one possibly a garage. Our massive vegetable garden was sheltered by an unkempt holly hedge which was never trimmed. In the paddock area beyond was a long, curved gully. During rain it often filled with water. Either side of the gully were two mature conifers.

My parents were so pleased with the four acres of land and grew potatoes and peas, as well as making hay for our draught horse and two milking cows. For the family it was a happy home.

In 1954 we moved to Buckleys Terrace. The 26 Nixon Street house was again rented. Some time after 1954 the verandah roof was replaced without the wrought iron work.

In 1954 the house and land was transferred to John Giddings of Greendale, and William Giddings of Ealing. A 1959 transaction also included their sister Annie, spinster of Greendale. John died in 1961.

His share was passed on to the Public Trust, the same day Annie passed her share on to William, and he in turn transferred the property to George Kirk, Ashburton Company Director.

In 1970 the Ashburton Pottery Society was looking for a new venue and approached George Kirk, asking if they might rent the vacant house at 26 Nixon Street. He offered the premises rent free. Because the house was very suitable for the Pottery Society Mr Kirk was again approached regarding a purchase. Through his generosity he sold the premises for the nominal fee of $500.

After 1973 the Ashburton Pottery Society owned its own venue and fittingly named it Kirk House. The Ashburton District Council owns the mown grass area.

The Grand Old Lady of Nixon Street still proudly stands even though the brick chimneys have been demolished. The soft green repaint blends with Nature – a vast change from the morose brown/maroon after the bagging and painting 106 years ago. Her story is now released after considerable research.

It is sad this is the end of her era – so many secrets, so many memories, so many families.

This building being moved by traction engine from Westerfield in 1946 is believed to be the main building at the DSIR’s Entomological Research Station in Princes Street.

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TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) It would be no surprise if you find yourself having a ‘hand on head’ moment today, realising that something you already have is actually more valuable than you thought. This could be a savings plan, a pension or a possession. You can also try to realise the value on a property. Just be aware that there may be delays in this area for a while.

GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) Your ruler begins to head backwards early this week in your sector of partnerships and relating. So the inference is clear: you need to work very hard at being totally clear in all you say and do during the next ten days. Yet with Venus and Uranus still prominent there can also be some pleasant surprises when it comes to messages that you hear.

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) Your professional situation has thrown up both unexpected opportunities and changeable attitudes connected with a boss or your employment prospects.

This may have delighted or alarmed you.

With Mercury set to retreat this week, don’t give anyone, be it a grumpy colleague or a manager, any cause to criticise you. Be absolutely meticulous in all you do.

The recent article about an entomological research station in Princes Street drew an excellent response.

Thank you to all the people who got in touch. From their responses, and other material we have been put in touch with, we have put together the following information. The station was opened at 77 Princes Street by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1946, at the end of World War Two. The buildings, known to the town’s youth during the ’40s and ’50s as The Bug Factory, are

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LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) There are lots of social possibilities at this time of year but don’t expect every date to go exactly to plan in the next ten days as Mercury moves into rewind.

Yet with Venus and Uranus bringing real sparkle to your situation it’s unlikely things will be flat for long. You may even decide that this is the perfect time to host a party or gathering.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Your ruler Mercury is set to move into retrograde this week but today makes a really strong tie to stern Saturn. If you have things you want to achieve domestically this would be a good time to push on and get them done.

Why? Well, factors beyond your control could come into play in the next ten days, so do be proactive right now Virgo.

believed to have come from the Army Camps at Westerfield.

There were a number of entomologists and technicians working there under the leadership of Jack Kelsey, initially to develop controls for grass grub and porina, both pests that were causing huge problems for farmers by eating pasture.

Among those working at the station were Alan Lowe, Jim Cleland, John Storrier, Tom Jessop and Jim Hoy, a scientist who had worked on malaria control research during the war.

They pioneered the use of DDT as a control, a solution used throughout the country that was estimated to have been worth £15 million

to New Zealand, although problems with overseas markets and the breeding of resistant species caused it to be banned in 1970.

They were not the only uses DDT was applied to – a paper by Jim Cleland recommended using it to control a parasite that infected the legs of poultry in place of the more usual, and damaging, treatment of soaking the hens’ legs in petrol.

Later Lindane was trialled for grass grub and porina control.

The work in Ashburton was mainly centred around the needs of agriculture and extended to the effects of insecticides on bees, control of aphids on clover, and later on lucerne, and control of a beetle

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LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) Your whole world may still be reverberating from the big planetary dust-up between your ruler and Uranus that occurred last week.

This may have seen someone dramatically enter your world or it may have seen an existing partnership unsettled. Today, the lines of communication are opened up but things can still move at a dizzying pace.

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) You might find yourself a bit restless.

The Moon and the Sun in Scorpio conspire to see you look beyond your current tasks or situation and ponder what might be.

Fortunately Saturn, also in your sign, helps you to see what is really important around the things you do need to do. The best way to approach this is to carefully prioritise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) A scheme that’s important to you may go through a period of annoying and frustrating stalls. Yet ironically today you might find that you can get things done and wonder what I mean. Well, if you can prove me wrong I’d be pleased, but do just anticipate that not everything may go as sweetly as you would like. If so, there is a reason for it.

that was attacking manuka.

In 1956 the DSIR’s main research base was moved from Nelson, where it had been associated with the Cawthron Institute, to Auckland and its emphasis changed, with the long-term grass grub control programme being terminated.

The Ashburton Station was closed in 1959 and some staff were transferred to the DSIR’s crop research unit at Lincoln.

The main building was moved to the Department of Agriculture’s Winchmore Irrigation Research Station, where two offices were added to it and it became a laboratory block.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) You might find yourself going into a bit of a shell. Friends may be keen to include you in the social whirl but part of you can want to insulate yourself from anyone’s demands.

Even people you usually get along well with can seem harder to be around. Some anxieties can surface too. Be sure not to become too reclusive or to think more negatively.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Your co-ruler Uranus forges a fab link with Mercury. This can help you to reach out to other like-minded friends or associates, and if you are interested in any causes you can espouse some imaginatively.

You may also find yourself enjoying a spark of genius.

I know, it’s not so uncommon for you, but it is what you do with this that counts!

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) If you have unusual or original money-making ideas, do run with them. If you follow the less trodden road you will do far better than following the pack.

But there is a proviso, and that is that you cannot expect instant results. Getting others to take your ideas seriously may prove more challenging. If you need to cultivate a decision-making process, prepare well.

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NEW Asian, pretty, size 6, slim, busty, sexy body, nice VARIOUS works of art massage. Phone 021-215- paintings, photographs for sale to aid life Education 3297, Patty. trust. Can be viewed in old Bernina.

BOATS, ACCESSORIES

2.4M FLAT bottom plywood VIEW various work of art at dinghy oars and anchor. All old Bernina shop, East St. new $600. Ph 03-381-1564.

All funds to Life Education Trust.

ENTERTAINMENT MID Canterbury Choir presents Handel’s “Messiah�

Saturday November 17, 2012 at 7pm, St Andrews Church, Ashburton.

Entry by programme at the door, $20 adults, $15 seniors and students.

FOR SALE

$1.49 ea $4.99 1kg box $2.49 ea $5.99 tray

YORK Z16 treadmill, runs well. Offers. Ph 308-5928.

ZIERA and Saimon new summer styles at Smiths Footwear in the Arcade.

Step on in and see for yourself.

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STANDiNg grASS AND LUCErNE Phone Wayne 027 436 9366

Wanted the right person for the job

AGM The Annual General Meeting of the Ashburton District Tourism Board will be held on Tuesday November 27, 2012 at 4pm at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre, Bradford Room.

211a, Will Street, Ashburton.

RURAL TRADING POST WANTED. Standing grass and lucerne. Phone Donald 027- 279-8704.

CHECK out our display in old Bernina shop. All funds TRADES, SERVICES to life education Trust.

FOUND long haired white and ginger male cat. Very DOG kennel, tread mill, friendly. Winchmore area, basketball hoop. Phone 307- 302-4746 (on death row).

CERAMIC Tiles - tile quality 8987 after 5.30pm. guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at RedFOR sale. Fisher & Paykel 3 monds Furnishing and PERSONAL wheel mobility scooter.

Flooring, Burnett Street.

Excellent condition. Owner has upgraded. $150. Ph 308WANTED 4796.

ART for sale. Woodcut, oil KIDZ Korner Sale. Toys and paintings, spiritual theme. gifts include; Sylvanian Ring or text Hara on 027- WANTED. Ranchshlider, Families, craft kits, 239-7632. any size. Phone Wayne 0274dinosaurs, tool boxes, 369-366. puzzles and kites and great Christmas presents. East CLAIRVOYANT reading Street. ATS supplier. with Hara. Ring or text me LADIES golf clubs, trolley on 027-239-7632 for a with seats and new bag. booking. Thank you.

Offers. Ph 308-7163.

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PEONIE flowers for sale from Saturday November 10 at Farmers Market, West St. Carol and Keith Gunn, Flower Growers.

STEP into Smiths Footwear in the Arcade to view their latest range of Ziera and Saimon footwear.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

PEONIE flowers for sale at the Farmers Market this Saturday November 10.

Carol and Keith Gunn, Peonie Growers.

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Maluckyday carries Kiwi hopes Just four New Zealand-bred stayers will be among the 24 horses battling it out for the A$6.2 million ($7.77 million) prize money in the Melbourne Cup. The pressure is on New Zealandbred horses Maluckyday, Lights of Heaven, Precedence and Zabeelionaire to make the country proud tomorrowand bring home a win, as about 10 per cent of Kiwis traditionally have a flutter on the country’s single biggest betting event.

This is the second year in a row no New Zealand-trained horses will be racing because of increasingly tough international competition.

Maluckyday is the Kiwi-bred favourite to win and came second to this year’s overall favourite, United States-born and French-trained Americain, during the 2010 race.

Maluckyday is by champion New

Zealand stallion Zabeel, who has sired three previous winners.

The last win from a Kiwi-bred, owned and trained horse was secured

by Ethereal more than a decade ago.

The champion horse is among an elite group who won both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

However, the famous mare, 15, was retired shortly after her wins and is at home at the Pencarrow Stud in Tamahere, south of Hamilton, raising her 7-week-old filly.

Pencarrow Stud manager Leon Casey hoped she would eventually repeat her mother’s success. Ethereal already had six foals of racing age, including 3-year-old filly Dequesa.

New Zealand-bred horses have won 41 Melbourne Cups since the race was first run in 1883. More recently, they have won 29 of the past 54 Melbourne Cups.

Last year, TAB betting on the Melbourne Cup was $7.95 million, down on the record figure in 2010 of $8.73 million. It blamed the fall on the absence of any New Zealandtrained horses for probably the first time since the 1940s.

Local meets on Melbourne Cup Day: Auckland Racing Club is holding an event at Ellerslie Racecourse with racing, a prize for the best-dressed man and woman, and live coverage of the cup event on the big screen followed by the famous “Birdcage Bash� party.

Otago Racing Club has its biggest event of the year at Wingatui with racing and its annual Fashions on the Fields competition.

Melbourne Cup race starts at 5pm New Zealand time and runs for about 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

Jim Cassidy will ride Maluckyday.

Wingatui fields, form, riders

Ashburton District Tourism Board

All welcome.

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DAILY DIARY TODAY TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6 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. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group, walk for an hour. Meet outside Church, all welcome. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Tai Chi for beginners, everyone welcome. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock St. 10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet, handicap single, Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

10.00am. NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Coffee morning - all welcome. Nosh Cafe at Ashford Village.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Maintenance Tai Chi. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

12noon - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON J.P.’S ASSOCIATION. J.P. signing centre, document signing service. 122 Tancred Street, Community House, behind Westpac Bank.

1.00pm. ASHBURTON PETANQUE CLUB. Played in most weathers, interested? We play by the Ashburton Bowling Club in the domain, West Street entrance.

1.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hanger RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road.

1.30pm. R.S.A. Cards “500�. Everyone welcome. R.S.A. Club, Cox Street.

7.30pm - 9.30pm. MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB - Night time section. Club night, all welcome.

Rackets available. Sports hall, Tancred Street.

Otago Racing Club Venue: Wingatui. Meeting Date Nov 6.

NZ Meeting number 6. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.52pm (NZT) MORNINGTON TAVERN STAYERS RATING 65 $12,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 24861 Confused td (8) 61.......................C Johnson 2 x3143 Gallivant tb (9) 59.................S Muniandy (a) 3 90x41 Squash (10) 58............................... J Bullard 4 80722 Knightonthetown t (2) 57.5......C Barnes (a3) 5 210x8 Puddle Alley tdh (1) 57............T Direen (a2) 6 47561 Big Energy m (4) 56.5...................K Williams 7 02158 Gorgeous (6) 56.5...............K C Walters (a2) 8 x9421 Tickle My Fancy (11) 56....... R Doherty (a2) 9 09665 Logan Town (5) 56..........................R Bishop 10 300x4 Yazoom th (3) 54.5.............. D Prastiyou (a4) 11 09635 Muzza m (7) 54.5..........................T Moseley 2 1.32pm IMMERSION MARKETING MAIDEN SPRINT $12,500, MDN, 1200m 1 26337 Major Decision b (10) 58.5..........C Johnson 2 0x434 Lets Talk Gold (6) 58.5.................... J Bullard 3 6 Valiant h (7) 57.........................T Direen (a2) 4 90 Ready To Rule (3) 57............ R Doherty (a2) 5 85020 Jacksanfives h (2) 56.5...........C Barnes (a3) 6 348 Dressed ‘N’ Ready h (8) 56.5.S Muniandy (a) 7 5x940 Almost Famous h (1) 56.5............T Moseley 8 77 Kingsley Rose (9) 56.5.......K C Walters (a2) 9 Nancho Lass 56.5......................... Scratched 10 Agnus Brown h (4) 55......... D Prastiyou (a4) 11 Whezmyphone (5) 55............. A Forbes (a1) 3 2.18pm IDEAL DUNEDIN SOUTH MAIDEN SPRINT $12,500, MDN, 1200m 1 3x38x Strike Up The Band b (5) 58.5........R Bishop 2 36x73 Tuapeka (7) 58.5.................K C Walters (a2) 3 0040x Lofty Heights h (12) 58.5.... D Prastiyou (a4) 4 8 Vindication (4) 58.5.................. J Chong (a3)

5 Beehive Bomber h (2) 58.5......T Direen (a2) 6 5997x Lord Yarborough (10) 58.5.............. J Bullard 7 37354 Dragon’s Glory (8) 57............. A McKay (a4) 8 05 Aussie Boy (1) 57........................C Johnson 9 4x2 Mikabella (9) 56.5.........................K Williams 10 885. Sweet But Neat (6) 56.5....... R Doherty (a2) 11 7x730 Whare Creek h (3) 55.............C Barnes (a3) 12 7 Annabel Rose (11) 55...................T Moseley 4 3.03pm REDPATHS TROPHY RATING 85 $15,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 20x14 All Spice dm (6) 60......................C Johnson 2 5655x The Jester d (5) 59..........A Tempelman (a3) 3 7109x Straitothepoolroom tdh (8) 58......... J Bullard 4 134x3 Street Light dm (4) 58........... R Doherty (a2) 5 00730 Redfern d (7) 56.5................... B Moore (a2) 6 5x203 Royal Governess td (1) 54.5 7 12x68 Ortem Fire th (2) 54................C Barnes (a3) 8 10x11 Sir Singo d (3) 54.....................A Denby (a2) 5 3.48pm ARTHUR BARNETT/BRENT WEATHERALL MAIDEN MILE $12,500, MDN, 1600m 1 323x2 Dubai Bear h (7) 58.5..................C Johnson 2 3242x Yeahman bh (4) 58.5...................... J Bullard 3 66442 Saragarhi (3) 58.5..................... R Black (a3) 4 93x75 Buena Suerte (12) 58.5...........T Direen (a2) 5 34550 Ourmanstan (1) 58.5......................R Bishop 6 35x87 Contador (11) 58.5..............K C Walters (a2) 7 07L. Alexstonysaprano (2) 58.5....... J Chong (a3) 8 00x79 Drumreims h (9) 58.5 9 079x0 Giocchino (6) 58.5 10 Jimmytoshoes h (5) 57...........C Barnes (a3) 11 0x820 Be Ma h (13) 56.5.................S Muniandy (a) 12 20963 Carbonista (10) 56.5............. R Doherty (a2) 13 950x8 Ben’s Girl h (8) 56.5......................T Moseley 6 4.35pm MAINLAND AIR TROPHY OPEN HANDICAP $25,000, OPN HCP, 1400m

1 28x69 El Chico td (2) 59.........................C Johnson 2 37801 Our Genes tdm (8) 57................A Denby (a) 3 03906 Keep The Conflict td (3) 55.5.S Muniandy (a) 4 813x6 Ric O’Shea tdh (7) 55............... A Forbes (a) 5 84821 Fiddler’s Green tdm (6) 55.........T Direen (a) 6 375x2 Chaparella tdmbh (4) 54...............K Williams 7 373x8 The Hand Of Faith t (5) 54............T Moseley 8 1240x The Hammer Head tdm (1) 54.R Doherty (a) 7 5.42pm DUNEDIN CASINO TROPHY RATING 65 $12,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 01008 Keep Dreamin m (1) 59...A Tempelman (a3) 2 34x31 Motorboat Mike (12) 58....... D Prastiyou (a4) 3 x2554 Split Decision (14) 57.5........ R Doherty (a2) 4 139x9 Gold Leaf th (13) 57.5...........S Muniandy (a) 5 210x7 Just Frank (6) 57..................... A Forbes (a1) 6 18x47 Recording tdbh (11) 57................... J Bullard 7 46x50 Richard Trimbole h (5) 57.............T Moseley 8 40x33 Shatarka (2) 57...............................R Bishop 9 x3542 Luv Da Bling (9) 56.5....................K Williams 10 55700 My Latte (8) 56.5...................... R Black (a3) 11 3369x Magic Potion (10) 55.5........K C Walters (a2) 12 63602 Powder Creek tdh (7) 55.5.......T Direen (a2) 13 717. Zolatoi tm (3) 55.5 14 02905 Davone Code 55........................... Scratched 15 321 The Diamond One h (4) 54.5.......C Johnson 8 6.28pm ONE CALL RATING 65 SPRINT $12,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 0x661 Gannicus dm (10) 59...................... J Bullard 2 107x2 Hernandez tdh (5) 58.5................C Johnson 3 41x Tommy Tucker mh (12) 58....S Muniandy (a) 4 86924 Mangaroa Lad tdm (4) 57.5.. R Doherty (a2) 5 09x37 News Flash tdh (6) 56.5..........T Direen (a2) 6 7x241 Savont 56...................................... Scratched 7 34652 Our Jackman (1) 56................. B Moore (a2) 8 x0809 Toro td (11) 56..............................T Moseley 9 2310x Blue ‘N’ Gold tbh (9) 55.5........C Barnes (a3)

10 02905 Davone Code d (8) 55..................K Williams 11 320x1 No Mean Feat dm (2) 54.5..... A Forbes (a1) 12 60466 Ustibecasual dm (3) 54.5....K C Walters (a2) 13 700x6 Midnite Murma’s dm (7) 54..... A McKay (a4) 9 7.07pm MARKS AND WORTH LAWYERS RATING 75 MILE $15,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 10246 Heza Kool Kat dm (4) 60.......... R Black (a3) 2 41x61 Mr Trimbole tdmh (7) 59...........T Direen (a2) 3 19545 On The Take tm (11) 58.5...K C Walters (a2) 4 64137 Captain Cruising d (2) 58.5............. J Bullard 5 2335x The Bishop td (8) 58........A Tempelman (a3) 6 35x12 Voodoo Vixen tdm (10) 57....S Muniandy (a) 7 45121 Golden Tower m (3) 57......... R Doherty (a2) 8 70146 Astralight tdm (1) 56.......................R Bishop 9 901x0 Deceptive tdm (5) 56............... J Chong (a3) 10 84x10 Flying Legend d (6) 56..................T Moseley 11 648x5 Savanur tdm (12) 55.5..................K Williams 12 12335 Flying Storm db (9) 55............C Barnes (a3) 13 172x6 Ginty’s Choice tdh (14) 54...........C Johnson 14 126x8 Jaylah tdh (13) 54............... D Prastiyou (a4) 10 7.37pm TRANSPACIFIC WASTE RATING 75 DASH $15,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 2663x Albus d (10) 59............................... J Bullard 2 2509x The Choice d (3) 56.5......A Tempelman (a3) 3 3144x Bacio Francese td (7) 56......S Muniandy (a) 4 6543x Lemon Honey dh (9) 56........ R Doherty (a2) 5 75144 Fiesty Chick dm (6) 55.5.................R Bishop 6 x2010 Replace td (4) 55.5......................C Johnson 7 1409x Briga tdmh (8) 55.....................T Direen (a2) 8 08x34 Moirai d (2) 55........................C Barnes (a3) 9 0968x Pinot Express dh (5) 54.5.............K Williams 10 21097 Tappy Lee dm (1) 54.5..................T Moseley Blinkers on : Lets Talk Gold (R2), Be Ma (R5) Blinkers off : Straitothepoolroom (R4), News Flash (R8) Winkers on : Valiant (R2)

Ellerslie fields, form, riders Auckland Racing Club Venue Ellerslie. Meeting date Nov 5.NZ Meeting number: 2. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 12.10pm (NZT) COCA-COLA STAYERS RATING 85 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2200m 1 17x60 Wisecrack t (15) 59.5.................... O Bosson 2 41231 Just Got Home tdm (1) 59.S Shirahama (a2) 3 40x00 Tempelten t (4) 58.5.........................N Harris 4 16x42 Boninsky td (9) 57.5................... M D Plessis 5 21618 Kidnapped t (14) 57......................... C Grylls 6 41006 Little Alfie Brown t (10) 56.5....... L Satherley 7 31131 Storming The Tower m (6) 56.5..........J Jago 8 70011 The Flying Affair tm (12) 56.5......T Thornton 9 30x70 Endor t (13) 56..................... R Hutchings (a) 10 0x873 Annie Higgins tb (8) 55.5.................. L Innes 11 01276 Inanoff (7) 55.5.............................. V Colgan 12 69444 Dancing Chief 55.......................... Scratched 13 22200 Free Serve (11) 55..................... M Cameron 14 7x210 Gold Cape (3) 54.5.......................... S Spratt 15 18150 Mawah Vellous (2) 54.5...............C Dell (a2) 16 0x565 The Terminator td (5) 54.5.............. A Calder 17 07110 Flavour Flav 54.5.......................... Scratched 18 75193 Kashin Girl 54............................... Scratched Emergencies: Flavour Flav, Kashin Girl 2 12.42pm JOHN DEERE AGROWQUIP RATING 65 1200 $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 07301 Billy Bingo d (9) 59.................... M Cameron 2 3x721 Over And Above d (1) 59.................. L Innes 3 014 Riot Act d (10) 58.5.......................... S Spratt 4 x5312 Copacabana (2) 57.......................... C Grylls 5 10x24 Madam Kirk d (8) 57.........S Shirahama (a2) 6 7x021 Lady Chapel d (7) 56.5................. O Bosson 7 513. Oui d (5) 56.5................................... M Wenn 8 212x8 Pretty To Watch 56.5..................... Scratched 9 44103 Dragonkeeper 55.5....................... Scratched 10 x475x Ishimine d (11) 55.5....................... V Colgan 11 24054 La Tourneau dm (3) 55.5.............C Dell (a2) 12 3x485 Sand’ior (4) 55.5............................J Waddell 13 9x1 Magic Belle d (6) 55........................ A Calder 3 1.22pm STELLA ARTOIS RATING 85 1200 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1200m 1 124x1 Whosyourmaster d (6) 59...........M Coleman 2 1328x Goldminer 58................................ Scratched 3 5110x Joey Massino t (9) 57.5................. V Colgan 4 111x4 Allanah td (13) 57..........................M Tanaka 5 x131x Sir Lovesalot d (5) 57.................... O Bosson 6 1136x Beyond Desire (8) 56.5.............. M D Plessis 7 2250x Cat Woman d (7) 56.5......................S Doyle 8 80x31 Vincent Street td (4) 56.5.. S Shirahama (a2) 9 2161x Gunsmoke d (12) 56.................. M Cameron

10 1x11. Mosse td (2) 56..............................J Waddell 11 53699 Ginja Ninja tdm (1) 55..................C Dell (a2) 12 881x1 Special Draw dm (3) 54.5................N Harris 13 2416x Justagem 54................................. Scratched 14 1827x Jungle Joy d (11) 54........................ M Wenn 15 10x1. Frank Whitaker d (14) 54.............D Johnson 16 x5x78 Fieldofdreams d (10) 54.................. S Spratt Emergencies: Frank Whitaker, Fieldofdreams 4 2.08pm NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK READY TO RUN SALE 3YO MDN $20,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 35272 Golden Downs (13) 57.5..................N Harris 2 422 Our Kingpin b (3) 57.5.................. O Bosson 3 2x26 Sigarsa b (10) 57.5........................... L Innes 4 x2303 Cornelius (16) 57.5.......................... D Nolan 5 3 Klitschko (11) 57.5.......................... A Calder 6 06026 Centavada (17) 57.5....................T Thornton 7 60x03 Footprint (14) 57.5......................M Coleman 8 3 Little Jack (5) 57.5.......................D Johnson 9 Fast Profit (7) 57.5..................... M D Plessis 10 3342 Bassaleg (1) 55.5....................... M Cameron 11 07623 Coat du Roan (12) 55.5....S Shirahama (a2) 12 4x4 Inis Rose (6) 55.5 13 5x256 Marmi (9) 55.5................................. S Spratt 14 35. Angel’s Share (15) 55.5................... C Grylls 15 3 The Successor (2) 55.5................. V Colgan 16 47x4 Pentarose 55.5.............................. Scratched 17 Sunofagun (4) 57.5........................J Waddell 18 6. Duquesa (8) 55.5 Emergencies: Sunofagun, Duquesa 5 2.53pm BOFFA MISKELL MAIDEN MILE $20,000, MDN, 1600m 1 x2265 Get On It 58.5............................... Scratched 2 0x539 Take Charge (6) 58.5........S Shirahama (a2) 3 002. Dalkeith (14) 58.5.......................... R Norvall 4 38020 Karaka Jack (13) 58.5.................... V Colgan 5 x4x62 Surpass (8) 58.5.........................M Coleman 6 598x4 Eastward (3) 58.5...................... M D Plessis 7 48 Fender (4) 58.5............................T Thornton 8 8x422 Deane Martin (5) 57......................... S Spratt 9 6734 Solar Eclipse (12) 57.................... O Bosson 10 34 Tremain b (10) 57..........................J Waddell 11 857 Saint Kitt (1) 57............................... A Calder 12 32325 Forbidden b (2) 56.5.................. M Cameron 13 337x5 Kept In Style b (9) 56.5.................... C Grylls 14 843x5 Memory (11) 56.5................ R Hutchings (a) 15 9x2 Chandelier (7) 55.............................. L Innes 6 3.38pm LINDAUER WFA STAKES (GROUP III) $70,000, WFA, 2000m 1 61226 Indikator tm (7) 59...........................R Jones 2 71241 Noble Warrior dm (6) 59................... L Innes

3 62607 The Jungle Boy tdm (4) 59.........M Sweeney 4 090x9 Showcause 59.............................. Scratched 5 13667 John Gray tm (2) 59.....................T Thornton 6 50701 Shez Sinsational tdm (1) 57......... O Bosson 7 x2600 Postmans Daughter t (10) 57..... M Cameron 8 51x05 Dolmabache d (3) 57.....................J Waddell 9 x4903 Villifye (9) 57.................................. V Colgan 10 11110 High Kin m (5) 57........................M Coleman 11 44210 Cong’er tdm (8) 57........................... S Spratt 12 5x390 Joy’s Choice b (11) 56.5............ M D Plessis 7 4.25pm CARBINE CLUB TROPHY OPEN HANDICAP $40,000, OPN HCP, 1600m 1 9480x Eagle Mountain dm (9) 60................ L Innes 2 021x3 Sum Up tdm (13) 56.5................... R Norvall 3 763x1 Options td (4) 56..........................D Johnson 4 30552 Atom Cat tdm (8) 55.5.................... A Calder 5 6x842 Capone tdmb (11) 55.....................J Waddell 6 493x6 Arcenciel d (2) 53.5....................M Coleman 7 85537 Nicole Amy tdm (1) 53.5................M Tanaka 8 0210x Fiorano dm (7) 53.5.....................T Thornton 9 114x2 Viadana td (10) 53..................... M D Plessis 10 83640 Sircross tdm (5) 53.......................... C Grylls 11 69x28 Rochallen dm (12) 53.................M Sweeney 12 34521 Cool Cruising tdm (3) 53..............C Dell (a2) 13 x058x Bone Of Contention td (6) 53.R Hutchings (a) 14 67x71 Parnell Prince d (14) 53................... S Spratt 8 5.33pm BACH ESPRESSO RATING 65 MILE $20,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 187x8 Kiwi Spirit td (5) 59........................J Waddell 2 214x2 Red Dakota t (7) 59.......................... L Innes 3 62124 Traveller db (13) 59........................ V Colgan 4 170x2 Barney (6) 58.5................................ C Grylls 5 016x4 Idalmar td (3) 58.5......................M Sweeney 6 31302 Smedley m (8) 58.5.....................T Thornton 7 64591 Ike Eisenhower (4) 58.......S Shirahama (a2) 8 x1503 King Zeus (2) 56.5........................ O Bosson 9 71 To Be Sure (12) 56.5................. M Cameron 10 02864 Ransoms Gold (14) 55.5......... P Turner (a1) 11 4x921 Kalevala (11) 55......................... M D Plessis 12 7x482 Bouvier (1) 55.................................. M Wenn 13 55010 Light The Way d (9) 55................... A Calder 14 76x05 Belinda’s Girl d (10) 54..................M Tanaka 9 6.14pm THE EDGE RATING 85 1400 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 530x3 Made My Point 60......................... Scratched 2 930x0 Steel Giant td (12) 59.5..........K Chiong (a4) 3 x1273 Islington Bay d (17) 58..................... C Grylls 4 51874 Cosabella tdm (11) 57................... V Colgan 5 24234 Faraway Eyes (8) 57............ R Hutchings (a) 6 314x1 I Do (14) 57................................... O Bosson

7 0072x Natsinga tm (4) 57......................M Sweeney 8 1527x Chaparrone t (1) 56.5....................... L Innes 9 45612 Arnold dmb (5) 56........................... A Calder 10 51x21 Shining Armour td (3) 56...............J Waddell 11 101x4 The Menace td (10) 56................C Dell (a2) 12 5x611 Have No Mercy td (9) 55.5.S Shirahama (a2) 13 447x6 Gendarme d (6) 55.5....................... S Spratt 14 1344x Carlotta tdm (16) 55......................... M Wenn 15 910x1 Passilente d (15) 55................... M Cameron 16 36x34 Master Zenno b (2) 54.5..................N Harris 17 30x12 Apache Sky d (7) 54.................. M D Plessis 18 x058x Bone Of Contention t (18) 55.5 19 1224x Sophia’s Dream db (13) 54 Emergencies: Apache Sky, Bone Of Contention, Sophia’s Dream 10 6.50pm AUCKLAND CO-OP TAXIS RATING 75 2400 $25,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2400m 1 22484 Rafa tm (20) 59.5.........................C Dell (a2) 2 13931 I Gotta Feeling m (6) 59....... R Hutchings (a) 3 x5515 Hidden Asset tb (10) 59................ O Bosson 4 53110 Whistling Straits t (16) 58.............. V Colgan 5 58008 She’s A Tomboy td (14) 57.. J Whiteside (a3) 6 90687 Azincourt (12) 57............................. S Spratt 7 54082 Bruce Almighty dm (17) 57.........M Coleman 8 15029 Grand Admiral (9) 57........................ L Innes 9 x5043 Oberon tb (4) 57........................ M D Plessis 10 02356 Saved By The Bell tm (8) 56.5....M Sweeney 11 21226 Le Bon Fin 56............................... Scratched 12 56212 Pooka’s Sister 55.5....................... Scratched 13 42714 Cool One (11) 55.........................T Thornton 14 11330 Malbec m (15) 55.............................N Harris 15 34225 Regalo Reaal m (1) 55.....S Shirahama (a2) 16 75193 Kashin Girl 54.5............................ Scratched 17 71036 Irene Alice (3) 54..................... P Turner (a1) 18 01473 Pure Platinum tm (13) 54........... M Cameron 19 81342 Senna (5) 55..................................J Waddell 20 10078 Te Kingi dm (7) 54.5 21 76636 Vivaldi’s Gone td (18) 54 22 00430 Letmeby m (19) 54 23 04305 Toby Cee 54.................................. Scratched 24 18150 Mawah Vellous (2) 59.5 Emergencies: Senna, Te Kingi, Vivaldi’s Gone, Letmeby, Toby Cee, Mawah Vellous Blinkers on : Annie Higgins, Gold Cape (R1), Forbidden (R5), Villifye (R6), Oberon (R10) Blinkers off : Joey Massino (R3), Karaka Jack (R5), John Gray (R6), Eagle Mountain (R7), Irene Alice (R10) Winkers on : Joey Massino (R3), Cong’er, Joy’s Choice (R6) Winkers off : Oberon (R10)

Otaki fields, form, riders

TOMORROW WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7 9.00am-4.00pm. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street Consultancy House.

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

10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Tasmanian doubles 10 - 12noon. Golf Croquet doubles 2-4pm.

Waireka Croquet, the Domain, Philip Street.

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

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hanger RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. 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.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Seated exercises for those with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

11.00am. MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS CLUB. “Movie� The Sapphires, Regent Cinema, Wills Street.

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

1.00pm. WAIREKA AND ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Reciprocal singles at both clubs.

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

7.30pm. ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Members night. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

Otaki Maori Racing Club Venue Otaki. Meeting date Nov 6.

NZ Meeting number: 4. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 11.55am (NZT) 94.3FM SOUND OF KAPITI 2YO $7000, 2YO SW, 1000m 1 Cool Hand Duke (1) 57.5................ J Riddell 2 4 Keepherhot (2) 55.5.....................R Hannam 3 Fantastic Honour (5) 55.5................ K Myers 4 Shangeri La (3) 55.5...................... H Tinsley 5 Groovey Ruby (7) 55.5.....................S Collett 6 Ruthless Lady (6) 55.5................C Lammas 7 Silver Shadow (4) 55.5 2 12.30pm RIVERBANK ENGINEERING 3YO MAIDEN $7000, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 3x Manu b (9) 57.5.............................. J Riddell 2 670x Bang (1) 57.5...............................R Hannam 3 Storm Warning (8) 57.5......... A Morgan (a3) 4 33 Amethyst (7) 55.5....................... V Johnston 5 7x5 Edensong (10) 55.5......................... K Myers 6 6x Dragon Beauty (5) 55.5...............B Lammas 7 50x Mi Apache Horse (2) 55.5.............. H Tinsley 8 9 Anniesstar (3) 55.5.............. M Dravitzki (a3) 9 Boots (6) 55.5...................................K Smith 10 Gwynethanne h (11) 55.5................S Collett 11 Holly Lincoln (12) 55.5..............B Grylls (a3) 12 Jazz Rock (4) 55.5............ J Shackleton (a3) 3 1.12pm DR HARRY PHELPS CHIROPRACTOR MAIDEN $7000, MDN 4YO&UP, 1200m 1 022x3 Clan O’Ceirin (3) 58.5..................... J Parkes 2 2x Bam A Lam 58.5........................... Scratched 3 6459x Del Potro (8) 58.5................ M Dravitzki (a3) 4 960x Zum Zing h (10) 58.5................ T Baker (a4) 5 3423x Stormy Lass b (11) 56.5...........B Grylls (a3) 6 46x82 Quality Street (7) 56.5................ V Johnston 7 0536x Golden Jubilee (5) 56.5...............C Lammas

8 4050x Baby Gee h (12) 56.5......................S Collett 9 448x Colourful Lady (9) 56.5.................... K Myers 10 6850x Evasive Tracy (2) 56.5....................D Walker 11 9 All In Keeping h (1) 56.5..............B Lammas 12 x2087 Decadent (4) 56.5........................R Hannam 13 0 Flat White (6) 56.5............................K Smith 4 1.57pm MILLS REEF WINERY RATING 85 HANDICAP $8000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2100m 1 213x0 In To Win (1) 61.........................B Grylls (a3) 2 38374 Bragato tdmh (5) 60.....................B Lammas 3 0200x Yours tdm (4) 59...................... D Turner (a4) 4 11116 Thorn Prince dmb (3) 57.5........... L Allpress 5 28510 Ngario (6) 55.5................................D Walker 6 3x682 Dancing Dee b (2) 55..................... J Parkes 7 45620 Show The Beel t (7) 54.................... K Myers 5 2.42pm NIGEL SMITH TRACTOR & FARM MACHINERY R65 HCP $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1200m 1 84830 Elusive Red dm (8) 59..............B Grylls (a3) 2 246x8 Our Delight d (2) 59........................ J Riddell 3 7361x Pimms Time t (1) 59....................C Lammas 4 65x7x Merinda bh (7) 57.5....................... H Tinsley 5 17374 Turquoise d (3) 57.5............... A Morgan (a3) 6 516x8 On Yer Feet d (4) 56.5.................... J Parkes 7 0739x La Vie Onze d (6) 56.5................ R Hannam 8 170x2 Lady de Chine d (5) 56.................... K Myers 6 3.27pm THOMSON JONES MORTGAGES & INSURANCE 3YO MAIDEN $8000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 623 King Kamada (15) 57.5................... J Parkes 2 2 Redlaha b (1) 57.5........................... K Myers 3 2x45 Taipa Tiger (11) 57.5....................R Hannam 4 3x0. Eucher h (3) 57.5.........................B Lammas 5 5 Charging Bull (12) 57.5................C Lammas 6 Desmonds Recipe h (5) 57.5...........D Walsh 7 Norbert (8) 57.5................... M Dravitzki (a3)

8 Obrahma (4) 57.5........................... J Riddell 9 Running Late (10) 57.5...................D Walker 10 22 Eternity b (2) 55.5......................... L Allpress 11 3804 Bella’s Delight (7) 55.5...............W Satherley 12 7x5 Grace With Power h (14) 55.5....... H Tinsley 13 Duck For Cover (6) 55.5............. V Johnston 14 8 Pure Blonde h (13) 55.5..................S Collett 15 60 Miss Professional (9) 55.5 Emergency: Miss Professional 7 4.12pm TEMPERTON CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS PARAPARAUMU MDN $7000, MDN 4YO&UP, 1400m 1 43320 Pinocchio Boy (2) 58.5......... M Dravitzki (a3) 2 x0950 Soognillana (15) 58.5................ T Baker (a4) 3 Cold Hearted (13) 58.5....................S Collett 4 0 He Kin Be Famous (16) 58.5.....W Satherley 5 Our Comedian (7) 58.5....................D Walsh 6 The Beama (4) 58.5......................... K Myers 7 6522 Dame Margot b (1) 56.5................. J Riddell 8 557x5 Quin Bay h (6) 56.5....................... H Tinsley 9 64 Kayzed b (8) 56.5........................... J Parkes 10 47x5 Ceviche (5) 56.5.......................... B Lammas 11 0x309 Lajuca (14) 56.5.......................... V Johnston 12 97 Ambitious Beauty (12) 56.5..... D Turner (a4) 13 0x My Charmaine h (11) 56.5..............D Walker 14 Sunlover h (9) 56.5...........................K Smith 15 99 Party Rock h (10) 58.5.................R Hannam 16 99x Stormy River (3) 56.5 17 000x Recherche (17) 56.5 Emergencies: Party Rock, Stormy River, Recherche 8 5.23pm FARMLANDS RATING 75 HANDICAP $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 13858 Daiello tdm (10) 61......................... J Riddell 2 18335 Don’tlikemonday tdm (9) 57.............D Walsh 3 116 Finn Moss 57................................ Scratched 4 01491 Daufino dm (6) 56.5............. M Dravitzki (a3)

5 x0573 Sir Cosworth tm (3) 56.5..............B Lammas 6 7058x Margarets Own dm (5) 55.5......... R Hannam 7 x8100 Faro Rubino tdm (11) 55... J Shackleton (a3) 8 116x0 Lucky Spur (2) 55........................C Lammas 9 0260x Lord Boris t (7) 54.5........................ J Parkes 10 34x07 Unbelieveabelle (4) 54..................... K Myers 11 52368 Marain d (8) 54...................... A Morgan (a3) 12 859x3 Coatofmanycolours tdm (1) 54.......D Walker 9 6.05pm COASTLANDS SHOPPING TOWN RATING 65 HANDICAP $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 5x839 Dinksta d (5) 58............................... K Myers 2 2696x Jabez (9) 58.................................... J Riddell 3 x9551 Miss Holly (8) 57.5............... M Dravitzki (a3) 4 80x67 Jungle Pago (1) 57......................... J Parkes 5 55x07 Elusive One m (6) 56........................K Smith 6 0000x Birchino m (10) 55.5....................R Hannam 7 8x000 Desert Star (11) 55.5...................B Lammas 8 4x075 Minnaleo d (4) 55.5..........................S Collett 9 907x0 La Danseur d (7) 55.5.....................D Walker 10 800x0 Royal Tramp (2) 55.5................B Grylls (a3) 11 00000 Auburn Beauty (3) 55.5............ D Turner (a4) Blinkers on : Flat White (R3), Bragato (R4), Elusive Red (R5), Eucher, Pure Blonde (R6), Party Rock (R7) Blinkers off : Bang (R2), Zum Zing, Baby Gee, Decadent (R3), Soognillana, Recherche (R7) Winkers on : King Kamada (R6), Soognillana (R7) Winkers off : My Charmaine (R7), Marain (R8) Pacifiers off : Our Delight (R5) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months

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Ryan Hampton watches Andrew Hawthorne play a stroke, with partners Adam Greaney and Harry Ferguson, in the Mid Canterbury Secondary school qualifying final.

Croquet students seek shot at nationals Adam Greaney and Andrew Hawthorne will represent Mid Canterbury in the Aorangi secondary school croquet championship for a place in the nationals.

Greaney and Hawthorne won the final in extra time at the Mid

Canterbury qualifier on Saturday.

Despite wind and rain 16 students from Ashburton College gathered at 8am to battle out for the best pair in the school and qualify for the regional playoff. After three and half hours of play, the winning pair was

found from a thrilling final.

Greaney and Hawthorne now tomorrow night By the seventh round,ACROSS Greaney head to Timaru DOWN and Hawthorne were even with to battle the other qualifiers from 2. Tropical fruit (7) 1. Insolvent Ryan Hampton and Harry Ferguson,(8) South Canterbury and Oamaru for 3. Maim (7) Aorangi at 5. Notion (4) the right to setting up an enthralling and tight represent 4. Military captive 9. Unaccompanied final that had Hawthorne seal vic- the (4) New Zealand championships in tory with a brilliant hoop.

(8,2,3)next year.

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Crowbar (5) leaderboard, before a double bogey back after finishing with a disapStutter 22. Sediment (4) pointing 17. on the eighth saw him drop back three over(7) par 75.

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Stress (8) and make the turn in one under par.

Bay of Plenty golfer Peter Lee fin-

McCall, Pearce among top 20 amateurs New Zealand No 1 Vaughan McCall has finished as the leading Kiwi at the Asia-Pacific amateur championship in Thailand.

The 21-year-old carded a three under par 69 in the final round at the Amata Spring Country Club to finish on a three under par total in a share of 14th place.

Ashburton golfer Daniel Pearce, who was second after round one, shot even par in the final round to finish on a one under total and claim

a share of 18th place.

McCall was 12 shots back from China’s Tianlang Guan, as the 14-year-old won by one shot to secure an invitation to the 2013 Masters at Augusta National.

McCall, who finished 13th on the individual standings at the Eisenhower world amateur team’s championship in Turkey, got off to a fast start in the final round.

The Southland golfer birdied three of the opening six holes to climb the

He added further birdies on the ished tied 29th, Compton Pikari was TO55th PUZZLE No 12,049 and James Beale finished 15th and 17th to sign for aSOLUTIONS 69 and tied in a share of 57th place. secure another top 15 finish in a Across: 1 Sticky; 4 Candid; 9 Lackadaisical; 10 New Zealand amateurs have quality international Canteen; field.

11 Admit; 12 Vital; 14 Meant; 18 Ahead; 19previously come close to winning the It continues McCall’s fine year Enchant; 21 Fragmentation; 22 Exeunt; 23 Flinch. after he became the first golfer in 24 Asia-Pacific amateur and earning Down: 1 Solace; 2 Inconsiderate; 3 Knave; 5 Assuage; 6 years to win both the New Zealand the right to play at the Masters. In Documentation; Dilute;Peter 8 Jaunt; 13 Abdomen;finished 15 stroke play and amateur titles in the 7 2010 Spearman-Burn Raffle; 16 Feint; 17 Stench; Crawl. same year. fourth,20and in 2011 Ben Campbell Blair Riordan was one shot further went one better.

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7.30 The Amazing Race Australia. (PGR, T) The remaining eight teams race through Istanbul.

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9.35 Body Of Proof. (AO, T) 10.35 Scrubs. (PGR, R, T)

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6.00 3 News.

7.00 Campbell Live.

7.30 The Block Australia.

(PGR, T) With everyone happy they are still in their own homes, and with five days until room delivery, the teams get down to business.

8.35 Grand Designs Australia. (G, T) Mike Dare and wife Lowen Partridge attempt to install custom designed steel anchors that support their house above the ground.

9.40 24 Hours: Police. (PGR,

T)

10.45 Nightline.

11.15 Sports Tonight.

11.30 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (AO, R,

T)

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

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

(G, R)

Prime, 8.30pm Picking up where the first film left ©(G,Central Press Features R) off, New Moon is a feverishly faithful 7.30 Home Shopping. (G) recreation of Stephenie Meyer’s 12.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (G, R) text. It’s blessed with a wider scope, 1.00 The Crowd Goes Wild. bigger budget and a better cast than (G, R) the workmanlike original. The mix of 1.30 Hot Property. (G, R) brooding romance and supernatural 2.00 All Saints. (PGR, R) intrigue should win over even the non3.00 Man Vs Wild. (PGR, R) Grylls parachutes into Twihards. Stars Robert Pattinson and Northern Kenya, and Kristen Stewart (both pictured).

7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat.

comes into close contact with lions, elephants, and rhinoceros, being careful not to get too clos.

4.00 The Late Show With David Letterman.

6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Aaahh!! Real Monsters. (G, R) 7.30 Monsuno. (G) 7.55 The Wild Thornberrys.

(G, R) 8.20 Go Diego Go. (G, R) 8.45 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.10 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.30 The Wiggles Show. (G, R) 9.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G) 9.50 Curious George. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa

Pig. (G) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G) 6.00 That ‘70s Show. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons. (G, R) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PGR) 8.00 New Girl. (PGR) 8.30 Dont Trust The B**** In Apartment 23. (PGR) June struggles to make ends meet and comes up with a creative way to make some extra cash.

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9.00 Whitney. (PGR) Alex and Whitney reflect on the night they first met in 2008 and reminisce about the origin of their romance.

9.30 30 Rock. (PGR) Kabletown breaks news that TGS will no longer be live. Liz and Jack embrace the change, believing a cheap, taped show will equal less headaches.

10.00 Parks And Recreation. (PGR) Everyone forgets Jerry’s birthday.

10.25 90210. (PGR) The gang vacation in Mexico.

11.20 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G)

sky MOVIes 1 6.05 Made.The Movie. (2010, PG) Cyrina Fiallo, Rachel Skarsten.

7.35 Whiskey Business. (2012, PG) Pauly Shore, John Schneider.

9.05 Biography: Christian Bale. (2011,

PG).

9.55 11.30 1.05 2.45 3.15 4.45 6.25

(PG)

7.30 CSI: Miami. (M) 8.30 CSI. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NYPD Blue. (M) 12.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 1.00 Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) 1.25 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 1.50 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.15 Monk. (PG) 3.05 CSI: Miami.

(M) 3.55 CSI. (M) 4.45 CSI. (M) 5.35 The Simpsons. (PG)

6.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 6.30 The Crowd Goes Wild.

7.00 Best Of QI. (PGR) Stephen Fry hosts this comedy panel show full of quirky facts, where Alan Davies and Jo Brand are in the hot seat.

7.30 America’s Got Talent.

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NYPD Blue. (M) Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) Cash Cab USA. (PG) Funniest Home Videos. (PG) Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) Monk. (PG) Law & Order. (M) CSI. (M) Top 20 Countdown. (M) The Beast. (M) NYPD Blue. (M) Monk. (PG) Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) Funniest Home Videos. (PG) Cash Cab USA. (PG) The Simpsons. (PG) Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) Law & Order. (M) America’s Funniest Home Videos.

8.30

(PG)

5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe.

11.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G) 12.05 Home Shopping. (G) 1.35 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.05 Home Shopping. (G)

6.00 6.50 7.15 7.40 8.05 8.30 9.25 10.20 11.10 12.00 12.50 1.45 2.45 3.10 3.35 4.00 4.30 5.00 6.00

6.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(G, R)

8.30 FILM: Twilight Saga: New Moon. (2009, PGR) Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson. Bella’s heart is broken when Edward leaves. However, she finds a way to cope by building a relationship with Jacob, who has his own supernatural secret.

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sky sPORt 1 IAAF Champion Of The World.

Athletics. New York Marathon.

Cycling. Tour of Southland Golf. Asian Amateur Event. Highlights.

Golf. WGC HSBC Champions.

Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second One-day. Highlights.

11.30 Cycling. Tour of Southland Stage 7 and 8. Highlights.

12.30 IAAF Champion Of The World.

1.30 Motorsport. NASCAR Nationwide Series. O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge.

2.30 Motorsport. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. AAA Texas 500. Highlights.

3.30 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

5.00 The Cricket Show.

5.30 Rugby. ITM Cup. Premiership Final.

Canterbury v Auckland. Highlights.

6.30 IAAF Champion Of The World.

7.30 World Of Golf.

8.30 ITM Reunion.

9.30 Rugby Zone.

10.00 The Code.

10.30 Premier League Review.

11.30 Soccer. EPL. Sunderland v Aston Villa.

Replay. 1.30 Soccer. EPL. Fulham v Everton.

Replay. 3.30 Crowd Goes Wild. 4.00 Soccer.

EPL. West Ham United v Manchester City.

6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 9.30 10.30

6.00 The Netball Zone.

6.30 Crowd Goes Wild.

7.00 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

8.53 Soccer. English Premier League. West Bromwich Albion v Southampton. Live.

11.00 Football League Show.

11.30 Soccer. English Premier League. West Ham United v Manchester City.

Highlights.

12.30 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second One-day. From R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Highlights.

1.30 Soccer. English Premier League. West Bromwich Albion v Southampton.

Replay.

3.30 Premier League Review.

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

6.30 The Dirt.

7.00 The Cricket Show.

7.30 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Second One-day. From R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Highlights.

8.30 Red Bull Chronicles.

9.00 The Cricket Show.

9.50 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Third One-day First Innings. From R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Live.

1.30 Crowd Goes Wild.

2.10 Cricket. NZ Tour Of Sri Lanka. Third One-day Second Innings. From R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Live.

10.20 12.05 1.35 3.05 4.45

Skyline. (2010, M) Eric Balfour.

Demoted. (2011, M) Michael Vartan.

Red Riding Hood. (2011, M) Red Riding Hood. (2011, M) Reel Love. (2011, PG) Burt Reynolds.

Chloe. (2009, 16) Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried.

The Town. (2010, 16) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. A long-time thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his heists as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

Starring. Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall.

Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night. (2010, M) Brandon Routh, Anita Briem. The adventures of supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, who seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou.

Starring. Brandon Routh, Anita Briem.

Stone. (2010, 16) Robert De Niro, Edward Norton.

Left In Darkness. (2006, 16) Monica Keena, David Anders.

Deadliest Sea. (2009, PG) Chloe. (2009, 16) Julianne Moore.

Left In Darkness. (2006, 16)

DIsCOVeRy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.00 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30 7.30 8.30

9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30

Bering Sea Gold. (PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Meteorite Men. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Extreme Forensics. (M) Scorned: Love Kills. (M) I Was Murdered. (M) I Married A Mobster. (M) Factory Made. (PG) How Do They Do It? (PG) Bering Sea Gold. (PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Sons Of Guns. (M) World’s Largest Machine Gun. Countdown To Collision. (PG) Airport UK. Superhuman Showdown. (PG) Skill.

Our team of scientists are on a quest to identify the ultimate superhuman in the category of skill. They investigate five very different candidates and put them through a series of tests.

I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Nightmare Next Door. (M) Deadly Sins. (M) Extreme Forensics. (M) Bering Sea Gold. (PG) Cops & Coyotes. (M) Countdown To Collision. (PG) Superhuman Showdown. (PG) Dirty Jobs. (PG)

KEY: T Teletext R Repeat S Stereo P Premiere F Final RATINGS: G General exhibition PG Parental guidance recommended M Suitable for mature audiences AO Adults only 16 Approved for persons 16 and over 18 Approved for persons 18 and over c Content may offend l Language may offend s Sexual content may offend v contains violence

MOVIe GReats 6.35 8.25 8.50 10.35 1.00 3.25 5.20 7.00

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Dumb & Dumber. (1994, PG) Fight Club. (2003, M).

Beauty Shop. (2005, M) Black Hawk Down. (2001, 16) Ewan McGregor, Josh Hartnett.

The Da Vinci Code. (2006, M) Tom Hanks, Audrey Tatou.

Dumb & Dumber. (1994, PG) Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Harland Williams.

Legally Blonde. (2001, PG) Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson.

Seed Of Chucky. (2004, 16) Jennifer Tilly. A movie detailing the urban legend of the killer doll leads to Chucky’s orphaned offspring bringing his ‘parents’ back from the dead.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. (2003, M) Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler. The trilogy concludes as the fellowship prepares for the final battle for Middle Earth and Frodo approaches Mt Doom.

Music And Lyrics. (2007, PG) Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore.

Making Of The Town. (2010, 16).

Legally Blonde. (2001, PG) Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. (2003, M) Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler.

shINe 6.00 Days of Wonder: Jarrod Cooper 6.30 Precious Word of Truth 7.00 Auto B Good 7.30 Veggie Tales 8.30 Word For You 9.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 10.00 “Philosophy, Science and the God Debate” 10.30 Days of Wonder: Jarrod Cooper 11.00 UCB Meets 12.00 Word For You 12.30 Enjoying Everyday Life 1.00 The 700 Club 1.30 Roots and Reflections 2.00 Precious Memories 2.30 The Verdict of Science 3.00 Auto B Good 3.30 Veggie Tales 4.30 Ultimate Choice 5.00 TheDRIVEtv 5.30 Abundante 6.00 Challenging Lifestyle 6.30 Destined to Reign 7.00 The 700 Club 7.30 Ancient Israel Explored 8.00 Precious Memories 8.30 Christian World News 9.00 Roots and Reflections 9.30 Beyond Adventure 10.00 Word For You 10.30 The 700 Club 11.00 Days of Wonder: Jarrod Cooper 11.30 Challenging Lifestyle 12.00 The Men’s Series 12.30 The Verdict of Science 1.00 Roots and Reflections 1.30 Precious Memories 2.00 Living Truth. Charles Price 3.00 Beyond Adventure 3.30 Christian World News 4.00 The Men’s Series 4.30 Roots and Reflections 5.00 Challenging Lifestyle 5.30 Word For You

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Magic unveils 2013 squad

By Dana Johannsen The Magic have looked outside their region to boost the franchise’s depth, signing three Auckland teenagers for next year’s transtasman league.

The Waikato/Bay of Plenty side yesterday confirmed their line-up for the 2013 season, with Noeline Taurua retaining the bulk of this year’s championship winning team, including star Silver Ferns quartet - Casey Williams, Leana de Bruin, Laura Langman and Irene van Dyk. But it was the inclusion of young Auckland trio Kendra Falefitu, Nadia Loveday and Jaime Lee Price, the daughter of Australian rugby league great Steve Price, that was the biggest talking point of yesterday’s announcement.

Falefitu has been signed to a full contract, while Mt Albert Grammar students Loveday and Price will occupy the two development spots on the Magic’s roster.

The development spots are new this year, with the New Zealand squad sizes increasing from 12 to 14. Most franchises have used the extra spots to develop young talent from their own regions, but the Magic have looked further north.

Magic assistant coach Tanya Dearns said while Price and Loveday are still very young, they’ve been picked up now with the view to building depth for the future.

“In recent years, Magic has probably struggled with finding a consistent depth. There’s been a lot of work done in the last couple of years to build that depth and raise the levels.

The plan is to keep building on that and we believe that will happen with this group,” said Dearns.

While the Australian franchises revealed

their line-ups months ago, the Magic are the only Kiwi side to have officially announced their full 2013 squad.

Provisional squads were submitted to the ANZ Championship office yesterday, with the finalised rosters to be confirmed next week.

The only loss from the Magic’s starting side that took the court in the grand final is young shooter Julianna Naoupu, who has been lured back to her hometown of Christchurch to play for the Tactix after stints with the Steel and Magic.

The Magic have in turn picked up Canterbury shooter Ellen Hapenny, who has developed strongly over the last couple of years with more regular court time. It is hoped the experience of playing alongside Irene van Dyk will fast-track Halpenny’s progress through the elite ranks.

The addition of Naoupu is a major boost for the Tactix side that have finished bottom of the table for the past three seasons. They’ve also picked up English midcourter Jade Clarke, who will join her national team mate Jo Harten at the Tactix after being squeezed out of the Mystics team by the arrival of Julie Corletto.

The Central Pulse have only officially confirmed the return of their captain Katrina Grant for next year. They plan to hold off announcing their team until later this week, however the Herald understands the Wellington-based franchise have re-signed Camilla Lees, Te Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit, Joline Henry and Daya Wiffen from this year’s team, along with Australian import Caitlin Thwaites.

Silver Ferns midcourter Liana Leota, who took time off to have a baby this year, is also believed to have signed with the Pulse. It is still unclear whether Leota’s former Steel team mate Donna Wilkins has committed to the Pulse for next season.

- APNZ

CLUB NEWS Results Golf Mayfield Golf Club Results from 3 November 2012 Winners: John Sim 5 up; Andrew Lake 3 up; Terry Kingsbury, Allan Dixon, Nigel Ormrod 2 up; Logan Tasker, Wayne Vessey 1 up.

Nearest Pins Aon Insurance No 2: Not Struck Bayleys Real Estate No 11: Wayne Blair; MX Property Brokers No 5: Wayne Blair; National Bank No 14: John Sim; ATS 9 & 18 2nd Shot: Terry Kingsbury Two’s: Andrew Lake Nett Eagle No 6: Not Struck Ash Vegas Player of Day: John Sim. Ashburton Golf Club Inc National Bank Teams Friday Results from 2 November 2012 Top Team: Owies Oddfellows (Owen Miller, W. Paul, R. White, R. Begg) 92 Top Man: Robbie White 34; Top Lady: Alison Vessey 36 Men: 1st x Cockies 90½, 2nd The In Betweeners 89, 3rd One Man Handicap 88, 4th Young Uns 88, 5th The Smitts 86½.

Mixed: 1st The Dream Team 84, 2nd Country Lassies 82½, 3rd Nanna’s & Pappas 82 Women: 1st Lovely Ladies 86, 2nd Periwinkles 1 85.

Nearest Pins: Templeton Motors: Paul Morrison; Paul May Motors: Regan Broker; Mac Maggies: Tom Simmons; BP Ashburton: B. Nuttall Gabites Lucky Player: Margaret Bean BP Ashburton Lucky Player: Steve Johnson Two’s: Brent Smith, Ron Molloy, Pat Bell, Paul Morrison, Peter Cleary.

Methven Golf Club

Methven 9 hole Tournament Results Ladies Grade A Best Gross: Lena Choo Russley 49 2nd Best Gross: Wendy Sim Mayfield 50 Best Nett: Lynn Collins Avondale 36 2nd Best Nett: Cath Sheperd Kaiapoi 37 1st Stablefords: Tina Cook Coringa 17 2nd Stablefords: Tessa Gallagher Mayfield 17 3rd Stablefords: Avis Sutherland Greendale 16 4th Stablefords: Sandy Dermott Coringa 15 5th Stablefords: Christine Stevens Coringa 15 Longest Drive: Annette Maw Methven Nearest the Pin Christine Stevens Coringa Ladies Grade B Best Gross: Jill Ludemann Mayfield 57 2nd Best Gross: Kay Russell Templeton 57 Best Nett: Eleanor Titherage Waimate 31 2nd Best Nett: Edith Ward Pleasant Point 34 1st Stablefords: Barbara Inglis Mayfield 20 2nd Stablefords: Marg Kerse Temuka 18 3rd Stablefords: Lesley Reilly Temuka 17 4th Stablefords: Judith Clinton Greendale 16 5th Stablefords: Shona Long Coringa 16 B/L Sue Johnstone Templeton Sharon Smith Timaru Gail McKirdy Pleasant Point all on 16 Longest Drive: Marg Kerse Temuka Nearest the Pin: Kay Russell Templeton Men’s Grade

Tennis juniors outclass Malvern

Best Gross: Mark Webb Rangiora 42 Best Nett: John Willis Charteris Bay 32 1st Stablefords: Murray Early Mayfield 23 2nd Stablefords: Mike Markillie Methven 21 3rd Stablefords: Michael Reilly Temuka 19 4th Stablefords: Ray Terras Rangiora 18 5th Stablefords: Dave Gosling Rangiora 18 Longest Drive: Mark Webb Rangiora Nearest the Pin: Howard Thomas Rangiora

Aorangi South Canterbury

Results from Aorangi South Canterbury Golf Women’s Silver Pennants final round played in the morning on Monday 5th November at the Timaru Golf Club in atrocious conditions. The final that was set down for the afternoon is postponed due to the amount of water on the greens and will now be played on Tuesday 13th November North Zone: Geraldine 1 10 Ashburton 0 St. Andrews 8 Rakaia/Mayfield 2 Timaru bye Points: Geraldine 1 30 Rakaia/Mayfield 21 St. Andrews 21 Ashburton 17 Timaru 11 South Zone: Geraldine 2 5 North Otago 5 Gleniti 8 Waimate 2 Tokarahi 3 Temuka 0 Points: Gleniti 40 North Otago 33 Geraldine 2 25 Tokarahi 20 Temuka 12 Waimate 10

Cricket Mid Canterbury Cricket Biggar Memorial Mid Canterbury Senior Reps v South Canterbury Senior Reps Results from Sunday 4 November 2012 South Canterbury Senior Reps won by 5 wickets Mid Canterbury D Murari c C Hinton b M Woods 5 B Ward c J Geddis b C Hinton 4 J Print c N. Horsley b C Hinton 9 D Kruger c S Carlew b G. Drake 65 M Winter c J Geddis b B Watson 15 J Morrison c M Woods b N McNichol 3 T Meyrick c M Woods b G Drake 18 M Tait c J Geddis b S Carlaw 3 R Print c B Watson b N McNichol 54 B Ravenscroft not out 27 S Maher c J Geddis b N McNichol 0 Extras 12 Total (47.4 overs) 215 Bowler C Hinton 9.0-1-34-2-1-0 M Woods 9.0-0-35-1-0-0 B Watson 6.0-0-33-1-1-0 N. McNichol 9.4-0-32-3-0-1 S Carlaw 9.0-2-40-1-1-0 G. Drake 5.0-0-33-2-0-0 South Canterbury Senior Reps J Geddis c S Maher b J Morrison 15 J Leming run out (J Print) 12 Z Sanders c J Print b D Kruger 5 N Horsley c J Print b D Kruger 27 G Drake not out 76 S Carlaw lbw b R Print 43 S Porter not out 8 Extras 30 Total (49.1) 216 Bowler R Print 10.0-2-31-1-3-0 B Ravenscroft 10.0-2-42-0-6-0 D Kruger 8.0-1-37-2-1-0 J Morrison 4.0-0-27-1-1-1 T Meyrick 10.0-2-28-0-3-0 M Tait 2.0-0-19-0-3-0 D Murari 9 5.1-0-28-0-3-0

Fullbore Rifle Shooting Lighter, but fickle breezes and bright sunshine were the order of the day at the Ashburton District Rifle Club seven shots day on the 3rd of November.

John Snowden 34.3, 35.2, 35.3, 104.8, John Miller 35.2, 34.3, 35.2, 104.7, Darian Miller 33.3, 35.3, 35.2, 103.8, Peter Newman 34.0, 35.4, 34.3, 103.7, John Fleming 34.4, 33.1, 33.0, 100.5, Brian Hawksby 35.3, 31.1, 32.2, 98.6, Sandy Collett 33.3, 30.1, 33.0, 96.4, Murray Cook 33.3, 28.0, 32.2, 93.5, Coby Snowden 25.0, 34.1, 32.1, 91.2.

Next weekend, 10th and 11th November will be the Canterbury Autumn meeting at Tai Tapu, so no shoot at Ashburton.

Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis Results from Saturday 3 November 2012 A Grade Methven lost to Hampstead 1 match to 5 J. Cromie & B. Wright beat T. Deeley & P. Withers 6-2, 6-3; J. Watt & T. Thomas lost to B. Deeley & R. Withers 3-6, 2-6; J. Cromie lost to T. Deeley 1-6, 2-6; B. Wright lost to P. Withers 3-6, 5-7; J. Watt lost to B. Deeley 2-6, 0-6; T. Thomas lost to R. Withers 1-6, 1-6.

Dorie lost to Tinwald 55 games to 60 R. Cromie & D. Lake beat S. Jordan & L. Glendining 6-2, 6-4; T. Boag & J. McCloy lost to A. Mitchell & I. Langley 6-7 (3-7), 4-7; R. Cromie beat S. Jordan 7-6 (7-4), 6-1; D. Lake beat L. Glendining 7-5, 7-5; T. Boag lost to A. Mitchell 2-6, 1-6; J. McCloy lost to I. Langley 0-6, 3-6.

Fairton beat Allenton 4 sets to 2 P. Leonard & R. Robinson beat A. Hunt & J. Deeley 6-1, 6-2; P. Crozier & B. Chisnall beat A. Leonard & A. Keir 6-4, 6-2; P. Leonard beat A. Hunt 6-2, 3-6, 1-0 (10-7); R. Robinson lost to J. Deeley 0-6, 0-6; P. Crozier beat A. Leonard 6-2, 6-0; B. Chisnall lost to A. Keir 6-2, 6-7 (7-3), 0-1 (3-10).

Challenger Grade (Boys) Results from Friday 2 November 2012 Mid Canterbury Black lost to Te Kura Red 1 match to 5 Singles Connor Brosnahan lost to Sean Zumbraegel 0-6, 0-6; Aidan Mitchell lost to Steven Watson 7-5, 4-6, 0-1 (6-8); Hayden McNulty beat Mark Cotterrell 6-4, 6-1; Jamie Burrows lost to Robbie Morrison 3-6, 2-6.

Doubles Connor Brosnahan & Hayden McNulty lost to Sean Zumbraegel & Mark Cotterrell 3-6, 2-6; Aidan Mitchell & Jamie Burrows lost to Steven Watson & Robbie Morrison 2-6, 3-6.

Mid Canterbury Black beat Hagley Park 4 matches to 2 Singles James Watt beat Jamie Garbett 6-3, 6-2; James Wild lost to Alex Zorn 1-6, 3-6; Joseph Benny lost to AJ Tyler 3-6, 1-6; Duncan Rollinson beat William Ju 6-3, 6-0.

Doubles James Watt & James Wild beat Jamie Garbett & Alex Zorn 6-2, 2-6 (11-9); Joseph Benny & Duncan Rollinson beat AJ Tyler & William Ju 7-5, 7-5.

Challenger Grade (Girls) Mid Canterbury beat Burnside Park Red 4 matches to 2

Mid Canterbury outgunned Malvern in the first junior representative tennis match of the season winning all three grades on Sunday.

The Mid Canterbury 12s produced the most lop-sided result sweeping Malvern winning both all the girls’ and boys’ singles and doubles and the mixed doubles for a 16-0 win.

The 14s also ran out convincing 15-1 winners, proving unbeatable across all the doubles matches and only dropping one boy’s singles match.

In the 16s the Mid Canterbury girls led the way winning all their singles and doubles matches while the boys could only manage one win in the singles, but wining two of the four mixed doubles ensured a 9-7 win.

The Mid Canterbury 10s didn’t have an opposition but were on site for a hit against each other to get a feel for the representative environment ahead of what will be their first match against North Canterbury in December.

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LEFT: Mid Canterbury’s Aaron Reid smashes a forehand during his doubles match with Hamish Hood against Malvern.

Photo Kirsty Graham 041112-KG-001

Singles Ashleigh Leonard beat Alice Seemann 6-3, 7-5; Stacey Hopwood lost to Harriet Clyma 4-6, 6-4, 0-1 (2-7); Christal Brosnahan beat Clare O’Connell 4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (7-5); Larissa Allan beat Scarlett Steel (retired injured) 7-5 (7-5).

Doubles Ashleigh Leonard & Christal Brosnahan beat Alice Seemann & Scarlett Steel by default; Stacey Hopwood & Larissa Allan lost to Harriet Clyma & Clare O’Connell 3-6, 4-6.

Rep Match v Malvern Results from Sunday 4th November 2012 Mid Canterbury 10’s (all Mid Canterbury Players; Malvern unable to field a 10’s team) Jarrod Hill & Jake Benny beat Edwin Dargue & Tyler Leonard 9-5.

Girl’s Doubles Sophie Ness & Sophie Adams beat Tori Kelland & Millie Ness 9-7.

Boys Singles Edwin Dargue beat Jarrod Hill 9-4; Jake Benny beat Tyler Leonard 9-5.

Girls Singles Sophie Ness beat Sophie Adams 9-0; Millie Ness beat Tori Kelland 9-5.

Mid Canterbury 12’s Boys Doubles James Watt & Duncan Rollinson beat Jeroen Breunisse & Grayson Cullen 6-3, 6-0; Flynn Ness & Charlie Stock beat Josh Dillion & Angus Horsburgh 6-2, 7-6 (7-2).

Girls Doubles Erin Connelly-Whyte & Georgia Benny beat Emma Pennells 6-2, 6-0; Isabella Talbot & Maisie Looij beat Aiden Elvines & Grace Adams 6-1, 6-4.

Boys Singles James Watt beat Jeroen Breunisse 7-6 (7-0), 6-2; Duncan Rollinson beat Grayson Cullen 6-1, 6-0 Flynn Ness beat Josh Dillion 6-0, 6-1; Charlie Stock beat Angus Horsburgh 6-1, 7-5.

Girls Singles Erin Connelly-Whyte beat Emma Pennells 6-4, 6-1; Georgia Benny beat Jessica Bayliss 6-0, 6-0; Isabella Talbot beat Aiden Elvines 6-2, 6-0; Maisie Looij beat Grace Adams 6-0, 6-3.

Mixed Doubles James Wild & Erin Connelly-Whyte beat Jeroen Breunisse & Emma Pennells 9-5; Duncan Rollinson & Georgia Benny beat Grayson Cullen & Jessica Bayliss 9-4; Flynn Ness & Isabella Talbot beat Josh Dillion & Aiden Elvines 9-4; Charlie Stock & Maisie Looij beat Angus Horsburgh & Grace Adams 9-7.

Mid Canterbury beat Malvern 16 matches to 0 Mid Canterbury 14’s Boys Doubles Aidan Mitchell & Joseph Benny beat Freddy Varley-Clapp & Campbell Nauman 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, (14-5); James Wild & Connor Brosnahan beat Tom Trengrove & Alex Shutus 6-1, 6-2.

Girls Doubles Larissa Allan & Shannon Crequer beat Jessica Lowe & Emma Harding 6-0, 6-1; Fran ConnellyWhyte & Ella Ahearn beat Eloise Steyers & Lucy Jenkins 6-2, 6-3.

Boys Singles Aidan Mitchell beat Freddy Varley-Clapp 6-2, 6-3; Joseph Benny lost to Campbell Nauman 3-6, 0-6; James Wild beat Tom Trengove 6-0, 6-0; Connor Brosnahan beat Alex Shutus 6-3, 6-2.

Girls Singles Larissa Allan beat Jessica Love 6-0, 6-1;

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Shannon Crequer beat Emma Harding 6-0, 6-2; Fran Connelly-Whyte beat Eloise Steyers 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-5); Ella Ahearn beat Lucy Jenkins 6-3, 6-4.

Mixed Doubles Joseph Benny & Larissa Allan beat Freddy Varley-Clapp & Jessica Love 9-4; James Wild & Shannon Crequer beat Campbell Nauman & Emma Harding 9-6; Aidan Mitchell & F. ConnellyWhyte beat Tom Trengrove & Eloise Steyers 9-3; Connor Brosnahan & Ella Ahearn beat Alex Shutus & Lucy Jenkins 9-6.

Mid Canterbury beat Malvern 15 matches to 1 Mid Canterbury 16’s Boys Doubles Todd Boag & Jamie Burrows lost to Stefan Breunissse & Ryan Frampton 1-6, 0-6; Aaron Reid & Hamish Hood lost to Jacob Ludemann & Mathew Emms 3-6, 1-6.

Girls Doubles Stacey Hopwood & Ashleigh Leonard beat Lauren Brown & Alex Nauman 6-0, 6-0; Christal Brosnahan & Milly Young beat Amelia Reed & Sarah Brown 6-2, 6-2.

Boys Singles Todd Boag lost to Stefan Breunisse 0-6, 0-6; Jamie Burrows lost to Ryan Frampton 5-7, 6-0, 0-1 (3-10); Aaron Reid lost to Jacob Ludemann 0-6, 4-6; Hamish Hood beat Matthew Emms 6-1, 7-5.

Girls Singles Stacey Hopwood beat Lauren Brown 6-1, 6-1; Ashleigh Leonard beat Alex Nauman 6-1, 6-0; Christal Brosnahan beat Amelia Reed 6-0, 6-2; Milly Young beat Sarah Brown 6-2, 6-2.

Mixed Doubles Todd Boag & Stacey Hopwood beat Stefan Breunisse & Lauren Brown 9-4; Jamie Burrows & Ashleigh Leonard beat Ryan Hampton & Alex Nauman 9-3; Aaron Reid & Christal Brosnahan lost to Jacob Ludemann & Amelia Reed 7-9; Hamish Hood & Milly Young lost to Matthew Emms & Sarah Brown 8-9 (4-7).

Mid Canterbury beat Malvern 9 matches to 7.

Collegiate Touch Results for 1st November Youngsters 8 vs Laser Sparks 7 Kinvigs A 5vs Maulaz 3 Cereal Business 2 vs The Lemons 5 Barbarians 6 vs Spraymark Sharks 2 Farques 3 vs Give me 10 4 High Raters 6 vs Team Xtreme 2

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Nosh Café Slow-Pitch Results 26th October 2012: TGIF Sluggers 10 - 9 Muz’s Tigers As Good As It Gets 12 - 8 Marines & Angels S & Giggles 11 – 10 Hawks

Draws Bowls Mid Canterbury players to play for Canterbury Country against Town Sunday 11 November 2012 At Papanui Bowls M. Smallridge, G. Bishop, P. Whinham, B. White, C. Carter, J. Nowell, B. Mayson If unavailable contact G. Sparks 308-6090.

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The following Skips have entered a team for the Ladies Bowman Cup, to be played Nov 9 starting at 9.30.

D Gutberlet, L Spargo, G Hawkins, L Connell, Tinwald 1, Tinwald 2, S Holdom, W Watson, H Boag, R Bennett, M Hack, M Sullivan,W Blackwell, G McCosker, J Krammer, S Taylor. Morning tea at 9am. Dress code whites. Please bring your own lunch.

Hampstead Bowling Club Skips names who have entered in Hampstead Devon Friday Triples 12.30pm start, 9th November.

Whites to be worn. To be played at the Tinwald Bowling Club.

B. Williams, G. Taylor, M. Grice, H. Kemp, A. McKenzie, J. Ryk, C. Leech, B. Harper, R. Mitchell, R. Cockburn, R. Neilson, K. Butler, W. Watts, R. Harrison, B. Holdom, R. Anstiss.

Softball Mid Canterbury Softball

Bowls Ashburton Bowling Cub Friday triples held Nov 2, sponsored by Ashburton Toyota. Played on 2 full greens in blustery conditions.

1st D Gutberlet, G Crack and R Gutberlet; 3 wins, 23 ends 46 points.

2nd B Williams, C Dennis and N Early; 3 wins 15 ends 26 points 3rd N Atkinson, J Dutton and D Dutton; 2 wins 1 draw 14 ends 31points 4th R Neilson, D Watson and J Sclater; 2 wins 1 draw 14 ends 29 points 5th M Smallridge, A MacDonald and G Sparks; 2 wins 15 ends 28 points 6th B White, B Holdom and J May; 2 wins 14 ends 30 points

T Ball 9am T1 Allenton Diamonds v Tinwald Whitesox, T2 Allenton Gold v Tinwald Dolphins, T3 Borough v St Josephs Tigers, T4 Hampstead v St Josephs Panthers, T5 Hinds Heroes v Rakaia Red Sox, T6 Longbeach Strikers v Netherby Nixons Slowpitch 9am D1 Allenton Tigers v Rakaia Royals, D3 Hampstead v Metalcorp Hampstead Allstars, D4 Netherby Dodgers v Tinwald Blacksox Little League 10.30AM D1 Cardinals v Ashburton City Tigers College League 1PM D1 Fairfield Marines v AC Phoenix Flyers, D4 Revival Rebels v AC Girls Revival Series 3PM D1 Fairfield Marines v Nosh Cafe Hampstead Hawks, D4 Rusty Demons v Fairfield B52’s.

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• Frostbuster dusted The Frostbuster 12 multisport race was moved to Sunday and was dominated by Christchurch athletes. Sitting second after the 8.5km run, Christchurch’s JJ Wilson pulled out a big effort on the 32km bike to hit the kayak leg two minutes in front and extended his lead on the way to the win in a time of 2 hours 20.45 minutes. Peak to Pub winner Flavio Vianna was overtaken by Wilson on the bike and trailed him home by 2.45mins.

Christchurch’s Jacqui Gee was the fastest female coming in 16th overall. Christchurch athlete David Fitch took out the duathlon event by almost seven minutes and Fiona Gilroy won the inaugural run.

• Golfers unbeaten Mid Canterbury golfers were unbeaten after day one of the Freyberg Masters at the Maraenui Golf Club in Napier yesterday. Tinwald’s John Smitheram and Ashburton’s Robbie Bell both recorded wins in the first two rounds with Aorangi sitting second behind Auckland after the opening two rounds. Aorangi swept Poverty Bay 5-0, with wins for Smitheram 6/5 and Bell 4/2, before they drew with Taranaki despite wins for Smitheram 2/1 and Bell 4/3. Aorangi have the bye this morning and face Waikato in the afternoon.

• Williams out Captain Casey Williams will miss the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series in Auckland this weekend to make further progress in the rehabilitation of her left knee. Fast5 Ferns coach Waimarama Taumaunu confirmed Te Huinga Reo SelbyRickit will be called in.

Nosh Café Slow-Pitch Draw Friday 9th November 2012 6.30 D.1 TGIF Sluggers V Hawks D.2 Muz’s Tigers V Nosh Café D.3 As Good As It Gets V S & Giggles

Tennis Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis Draw Saturday 10th November 2012B Grade – All games played at ATTC -9am sharp start.Duty team- Tinwald White. Allenton v Tinwald Orange; Lon/May/Rak Picknmix v Hampstead; Methven Jade v Methven Black ; Rakaia v Tinwald White.Junior A-Pool A – 9am start – Wakanui v Hampstead Racquetts at Hampstead; Methven Blue v Longbeach at Longbeach; Tinwald Trojans v Allenton Green at ATTC. BYE – Hinds.Junior A – Pool B – 9am start – Hampstead Crusaders v Dorie at Dorie Hall; Methven Silver v Allenton Maroon at Allenton; Rakaia v Hampstead Hurricanes at Rakaia.Junior B – 9am start – Longbeach Tryhards v Tinwald Red at Tinwald; Tinwald Blue v Rakaia Pink at Rakaia; Allenton v Methven Green at Mt Hutt College; Hinds v Rakaia Black at Hinds. BYE –HampsteadJunior C – Pool A – 9 am start – Hinds Black v Hampstead Flames at Hinds; Methven Orange v Rakaia at ATTC; Dorie C v Longbeach Aces at Dorie School. 10.30am start – Methven Red v Allenton at Allenton.Junior C – Pool B – 9 am start – Methven Brown v Longbeach Spinners at Mt Hutt College; Methven Gold v Hampstead Sting at Hampstead. 10.30am start – Tinwald Green v Hinds Silver at Tinwald.Please phone any defaults to ATTC on 3083020.

Touch Touch Draw 8th November 6.30 pm High Raters vs Kinvigs A Barbarians vs The Lemons 7pm Cereal Business vs Team Xtreme Youngsters vs Give me 10 7.30pm Farques vs Spraymark Sharks Laser Sparks vs Maulaz

Netball Mid Canterbury Netball Mitre 10 Mega Twilight Netball Draw Week 2 Tuesday 6th November 2012

Heartland Court: 6.00pm, Udder Chaos v Doggies; 7.00pm, Legal Ganstaz v Hoops I Did It Again ; Neumanns Tyre Services Court: 6.00pm, Scoring All Night v Canterbury Dirty Tactix; 6.00pm,Childs Play v S & Giggles; Ashburton Guardian Blue Court: 7.00pm, Dragons v Megz Team ; Ashburton Guardian White Court: 6.00pm, Dodgy Knees v Mixed Up; 7.00pm, The Geez Team v S & Giggles; Ashburton Guardian Red: 6.00pm, High Raters v Seeds R Us; 7.00pm, Ashburton Ligers v Semi Pro’s.

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Williams feels pressure to play

By Patrick McKendry A controversial selection from the outset, Ali Williams has revealed to the international press that he was told by Steve Hansen to stand in front of his teammates and explain what it meant to be among them.

It was an interesting decision by All Blacks coach Hansen, who this week asked Williams to address the team along with new boys Dane Coles and Tawera Kerr-Barlow. Not one to lack confidence, Williams is likely to have spoken eloquently and emotionally about his opportunity at what is the twilight of his career.

“Shag got me to stand up and say what it means to be in this team. There were just a few of us he asked,” Williams told the media in Edinburgh ahead of Monday’s (NZT) test against Scotland.

“I said ‘watching you guys over the Rugby Championship and the level you took the game to, especially the three locks, has inspired me to see if I can match that and if not better it’.

“In terms of my career I look at things differently now. For me it’s about this week and only this week.

In terms of looking to the future I no longer do that, I don’t want to do that. I just want to enjoy the moment. If I look too far ahead I could fall over real quick.”

That is probably wise for 31-yearold Williams, who senses time is running out. Brodie Retallick and Luke Romano have leapt ahead of him on the locking pecking order and Sam Whitelock, who has just turned 24, has been the first-choice All Blacks lock since Brad Thorn departed last year.

Two serious Achilles injuries put the brakes on Williams’ career just as he was about to cement himself as one of the best locks to have played for the All Blacks.

An excellent lineout technician, he brought a new dimension to the position with his ball carrying ability and pace, yet he also had the bulk and mindset to engage in the physical stuff.

A knee injury which required surgery this year was another knock-back, and prompted many to think his days in an All Blacks jersey were numbered.

“There’s always going to be talking points about my selection; good bad or indifferent,” he said. “At the end of the day there are a group

of guys who have put some faith in me. It’s about me repaying that and adding value to a team I’ve been in for so long.

“I’d lie if I said I haven’t been frustrated by how my career is going but it’s about how I deal with that and how I come out the other side.

“I got pretty frustrated a while back,” he said of the knee injury in the middle of the Ireland series. “To be honest it was probably the worst injury I’ve had because there’s no big shinning light; there’s no big World Cup to chase. It was about my passion and drive to get back in this jersey. That’s what kept me going.”

How much game time Williams gets on this four-test tour remains to be seen - his big opportunity is likely to come in the match at Murrayfield or six days later against Italy in Rome.

Hansen wanted Williams, who has played 75 tests, in his 32-man squad because of his experience and has already thrust him into the spotlight. It was a challenge, which Williams appears to have passed. But that’s not the end of it, he said. “I’m aiming to get back to where I was.”

- APNZ

First up loss for Diamondblacks There were plenty of positives for the New Zealand Diamondblacks after the national baseball side’s first ever competitive match.

The Sydney Blue Sox defeated Team New Zealand 10-4 at Blacktown International Sports Complex on Sunday, as New Zealand warm up for this month’s World Baseball Classic qualifier in Taiwan.

The Diamondblacks scored in the top of the second inning to take a 1-0 lead thanks to a huge home run from outfielder Moko Moanaroa, who also chimed in with a single and a double to go 3 for 4. But that was the only time they led in the contest as the Blue Sox scored one run in the third and two runs in the fifth to take a 3-1 lead.

The Diamondblacks cut the

deficit to 3-2 in sixth inning, but Sydney took charge of the game with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.

The Kiwis showed their fight, though, scoring two more runs in the seventh inning when Max Brown and David Skeels chimed in with run-scoring hits. But Sydney put the game beyond all doubt in the seventh and eighth innings.

Photo Kirsty Graham 041112-KG-077

Modified V8 driver Luke Kegan gets on the outside of Andrew Naven in their opening race at the Ashburton Speedway on Sunday.

Speedway action despite rain

By Jonathan Leask Rain ruined what was to be a double-dose of speedway on the weekend.

Vintage speedway cars and hot rods were lined up to cruise the clay but Saturday’s downpour made the track slippery and not ideal for spectators so the event has been postponed until early next year.

“It was a tough call to make because we had so many hot rod people travel a long way but we will have it later in the season,” Speedways Fiona Moffitt said.

However, it was all sunshine on Sunday and the regular speedway

racing was all go.

The modified V8s made their guest appearance racing a grand prix.

Hayden Mackay moved up from fourth to take the chequered flag, overtaking runner-up Andre Naven and Brett Stack, who started at the back of the field took third.

The six shooters also had their Mid Canterbury grand prix and the top three qualifiers all maintained their placings at the finish. Top qualifier Kevin Clive held his nerve out the front with Mike Gourkey second and Kirk Hawkins third.

Ron Koole won the Productions grand prix, edging out Alan Kirk and Andrew Bennett. Ellis

Jellyman had qualified to start at the front of the grid but didn’t start final race and it was Koole that led from start to finish. Kirk maintained second place while Bennett moved from fourth up to third, overtaking Steve Crowe.

Liam McCoubrey had a first, third and then second to take out the quarter midgets with 60 points, two points ahead of Hunter Rowland who had two seconds heading into the final race but finished fourth for a total of 58 points.

Brett Sherman was third on 57 while Jack Low was named driver of the day after crashing out of the opening race before coming back to win the second and was third

in the final race.

The adult ministocks had one point in it with Rowan Ogilvie’s third and two seconds enough to pip Tony Newman who won the first and last races but slipped up in the middle coming sixth. Craig Butterick took third.

Logan Arras and Nathan Webster went head-to-head in the youth ministocks trading wins in the first two races before Arras won the decider.

Ryan Marsden was near perfect in A grade saloons with a two firsts and a second putting him ahead of Pete Walsh and Terry Catlow.

James Robinson won the Street Stocks and Josh Turner took out C grade.

Quiney slots into top order Front markers set hot pace Brian Ellis found the line first in the latest Tinwald Cycling Club race on Sunday.

A large field of 66 riders contested a 40km handicap race around Chertsey but no one could catch the front markers, with Ellis pulling ahead in the closing stages for the win.

The front markers made the most of the good conditions and worked together to maintain their margin over the chasing bunches.

They led from start to finish but it was Ellis who had the final say producing a strong surge to take the win and lift the Brian Cavill Memorial Shield.

Emma Hudson continued her good form to secure the second with Janis Crawford storming into third.

Paul Hands was rewarded for a solid ride picking up fourth with the ever improving Lucy Kirwan in fifth.

Scratch rider Alex Hooper Photo Kirsty Graham 041112-KG-062 rode the course in 57.07 minOn the Chase, Henry Smith (left) is right on the tail of Kees utes to set the fastest time from Donaldson during the Tinwald cycling Club’s junior race in co-marker Nathan Tew while Darrell Kircher led the break Chertsey.

group in to take third time.

Frances Smith pulled out a top ride to take the junior open win with Julia Tarbotton improving every week to secure second. Back marker Josh Connor produced another good effort to ride into third.

Barry Linwood pulled out a strong sprint to get the win in Division 2 from co-markers Tony Tarbotton and Rachel Russell. Tony Gimblett set the fastest time.

The juniors raced over 13km with a close race coming down to a group sprint.

Jessie Banks unleashed a strong sprint to secure the win by the barest of margins over Josh Kershaw. Bailey O’Donnell was in the thick of the finish to claim the third. Oliver Davidson and Kees Donaldson continued their good form to secure fourth and fifth.

Solo scratch rider Sam Cullimore rode the fastest time, clocking 21.22 minutes with Isabella Smith and Bailey Kershaw taking second and third best time.

Vettel grabs third in historic F1 drive Sebastian Vettel produced the biggest improvement from a starting grid position in 23 years to keep his world title defence firmly on track as Australian teammate Mark Webber crashed out of a drama-charged Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Vettel started 24th in his Red Bull car but finished third behind winner Kimi Raikkonen at the Yas Marina Circuit on Sunday night the biggest jump by any driver since fellow-German Christian Danner went from 26th to fourth at the 1989 US Grand Prix.

“It was a crazy race,” said Vettel.

“It’s hard enough to get through the field once, but we did it twice.”

Vettel’s brilliant drive, which included the fastest lap, came despite a near-miss with young Australian Daniel Riccardo, driving for Red Bull subsidiary Toro Rosso, which forced him to the pits.

With two races remaining and a maximum 50 points on offer, Vettel heads the drivers championship on 255 points, a lead of 10 points from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, who placed second in Abu Dhabi.

Lotus driver Raikkonen, the 2007 champion who returned to Formula One this season after a two-year absence, is 57 points back from Vettel in third, with Webber fourth on 167 points.

Starting from the front row, Webber was pushing for fifth place deep in the race when he was involved in a crash with Romain Grosjean which broke his suspension, ending a run of 23 straight finishes and cruelling his chances of gaining ground on the championship leaders.

“Absolutely nothing worked out for me in this race,” lamented Webber, who was also involved in a minor incident with Williams driver Pastor Maldonado. “There were quite a few incidents. Maldonado and I made contact at one point.

“I was pleased with how I drove, particularly in qualifying, but it wasn’t to be in the race. That’s racing.”

Vettel admitted he was caught out when he nearly collided with Ricciardo. “We were in quite a good position, but I was surprised by Daniel Ricciardo’s move and I was caught out,” Vettel said.

- APNZ

A 30-year-old carpenter’s apprentice, Rob Quiney admits he’s crawled through a small window of opportunity and he’s now determined to build something big.

Hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow late-blooming left-hander Mike Hussey, Quiney believes his experience can see him hit the ground running in his Test debut against South Africa on Friday.

The Victorian opener will slot into No.3 in the inconsistent Australian top-order at the Gabba after being called in to replace injured allrounder Shane Watson.

Quiney has won his spurs on the back of two consistent years of Sheffield Shield performances, topped off by player of year honours last season plus 85 for Australia

A against the Proteas’ high-quality pace attack at the SCG. Despite turning 30 in August, and previously being viewed as a hard-hitting white-ball specialist, he never gave up on the dream of playing for Australia after just missing out on debuting for the Twenty20 side in 2009.

“No, I guess my last two years were my most consistent and I thought there might be a little window, over 12 or 18 months, where I could try and get my foot in and I’ve needed to continue to make runs,” Quiney said.

“Fifty-odd first-class matches, I hope that helps.

“We’ve seen in the past Mike Hussey is probably the greatest of them all but

when Marcus North first came in he started pretty well as well.

“Only time will tell but I’m hoping my maturity will help me.”

Quiney beat younger men Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja and Alex Doolan to the post after the national selectors opted for a specialist batsman to replace Watson.

Coach Mickey Arthur described the Victorian as the stand-out domestic player in the land and felt the matchhardened stalwart was tailor-made for an intense heavyweight battle.

“Against a nation like South Africa right now - we’d probably do the same with England and we’d probably do the same with India - you want an experienced head to come in,” Arthur said.

- AP

Federer hails Djokovic as No 1 Tennis great Roger Federer is in no doubt that Novak Djokovic deserves to finish 2012 as the world’s top-ranked player.

Federer replaced Djokovic at the top of the standings after winning Wimbledon in July but will cede the No.1 position to the Serb on Monday.

And with the Swiss star unable to improve on last year’s perfect performance in winning the 2011 seasonending ATP World Tour Finals in London, not even an unblemished victory in this year’s edition at the O2 Arena will see him regain top spot before 2012 is out.

“We know who the real No.1 is,” said Federer. “It is going to be Novak. I do not think there should be any debate around about that.

“You do not get to No.1 by chance. The rankings are something that shows how you have played over a 365-day period.

It might all change again in two months at the Australian Open but right now it is clear.”

Federer all but conceded the No.1 ranking this year when opting out of defending his Paris Masters title last week on the grounds he could not do himself justice by playing successive tournaments in

Basel, Paris and London.

“I obviously gave it everything I had,” said Federer. “I’ve played so much tennis the last one and a half, two years and I’m happy I got back to world No.1.

“It’s obviously a time where you need to win at least a slam, if not more slams, or at least five to 10 titles, so we’re not talking about just a quick jump to number one and then you lose it again.”

Although Djokovic has failed to hit the same heights as in 2011, when he won three out of the four Grand Slam singles titles, this year has seen him retain his Australia Open crown.

- AP

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From the sideline

Coastal success for Currie maintained his lead through the swim and produced solid efforts on the 13km kayak paddle and 32km mountain bike to set up another strong run sprint over the 2.5km run to the finish for the win.

The win made it two-from-two in the series for last year’s runner-up with Currie eyeing a clean sweep in Lorne, Victoria in December.

However, Currie’s solo effort wasn’t enough for New Zealand to defend the Tri-nations trophy, upgraded from the trans-Tasman trophy this year.

The collective results of the two males and one female racing for Australia, New Zealand and South African decided who would claim the trophy.

Australian Jarad Kohlar trailed

By Jonathan Leask Braden Currie continued his superb run of form to take out the Augusta leg of the Anaconda Race Series in Australia yesterday.

Currie led the race, one of the biggest adventure races in the world, from start to finish to have almost 10 minutes on his nearest rival.

Currie hit the finish line in 3 hours 50.59 minutes, more than a minute faster than the next best, a four-man team who had the luxury of sharing the workload, and almost 10 minutes ahead of the next best solo entry.

The race started with a 13.5km coastal run where Currie (right) surged out strongly to hit the water first for the 1.9km ocean swim. He

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Currie home in second just under 10 minutes behind, with fellow Australian James Pretto a further five minutes back in third with the minor placings enough to put Australia ahead in the Tri-nations team stakes. The win was completed when Australian Deanna Blegg took out the women’s race, with her 11th overall finish putting the Australians’ tally 34 minutes faster than the Kiwis.

Although the team aspect didn’t go to plan it was another strong performance for Currie who a week earlier finished 17th at the World Xterra Championships in Hawaii, placing him in the top 20 of multisport racers in the world, beating last year’s Anaconda series winner Richard Ussher.

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More frustration for Black Caps It isn’t getting any easier for the New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka.

They’ve had to deal with inclement weather for the majority of their tour and now the Black Caps have illness and a key injury adding to their challenge after losing the second ODI against Sri Lanka this morning.

For the third straight game rain played a pivotal role in the result, with the match ending in the 23rd over of Sri Lanka’s chase as the dark clouds rolled in and ended New Zealand’s hopes after a strong batting effort.

Sri Lanka were awarded the victory by 14 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method after the covers were called on with

New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat with Taylor leading the way with 72 from 62 balls including seven boundaries and two sixes. BJ Watling (55), Rob Nicol (46) and James Franklin (35) all made strong contributions as the Black Caps set a competitive total.

Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene finished on 43 from 49 balls leading Sri Lanka to a 1-0 lead in the best of five series.

Black Caps coach Mike Hesson said there wasn’t a good mood in the dressing room following another rain-affected result.

“It’s a bit of a hollow feeling I think. After having batted well and got a good score on the board and to get that last wicket of Dilshan the game was pretty even. To then see it rain again is obviously pretty depressing really,” he said.

“Two hundred and fifty was a good score and as I said Sri Lanka are pretty top heavy and we were able to remove two of their three big guns in the first 20 overs so we were pretty confident we’d have a crack at it.”

Taylor revealed after the match that he vomited before his innings.

The same illness robbed the Black Caps of a seamer when Ellis left the field early into Sri Lanka’s innings.

Hesson has his fingers crossed that Ellis and McCullum will be free to play in the third ODI. “Hopefully we’ll get a full squad of players to choose from. It was a big loss for us today to have Andy Ellis having to leave the field three to four overs into the game. He was really sick so that gave us a seamer short so I thought the rest of the guys stood up nicely.

“Unfortunately his [McCullum’s]

back flared up and he wasn’t in great shape and we obviously had to remove him from the side.”

Despite the illnesses, injuries and unconfirmed reports of ark building in the area, Hesson remains positive heading into a must-win game of what must have been a frustrating tour to date.

“It’s a good challenge for us. A lot of times in the hotel, a lot of games shortened. We just have to make sure we keep people on task.”

That might be difficult. Heavy rain is forecast again. But as New Zealand sets out to level the series tonight, they should certainly be buoyed by events yesterday.

Consider they’d had effectively no practice due to rain, forced to endure a four-hour return trip to Colombo by bus over tricky, winding roads over the previous two days - which could easily have

been avoided with some thoughtful planning - and there was plenty to offer encouragement.

“We were pretty confident we were going to have a decent crack at it,” Hesson said of the game at the point it was washed out.

Still, that’s life when you’re forced to endure a schedule foisted on you by hosts, who have argued unconvincingly their hands were tied on timing due to commitments for both countries.

Hesson yesterday admitted the tour had its challenges.

“But it’s a good challenge for us.

There’s a lot of time in the hotel and we’ve got to make sure we keep people on task.”

The match was the first ODI under revised conditions, which include only four fielders being allowed outside the inner circle in non-Powerplay overs.

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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

11

12

RANGIORA

Wa i m a k a r i r i

LAKE COLERIDGE

Map for today

10

DARFIELD

10

Rakaia

ASHBURTON

10

Ash

Geraldine

Ran

burto

n

gitata

TIMARU

11

Compiled by © Meteorological Service of NZ Limited 2012

Waimate

For the very latest weather information including Weather Warnings, visit:

TODAY

A few showers north of Timaru, clearing in the afternoon. Otherwise fine, with early morning frosts in sheltered places. Cold southerlies dying away in the evening.

Remaining snow showers clearing early in the morning and becoming fine.

Wind at 1000m: S dying out in the morning.

Wind at 2000m: S 30 km/h.

NZ Today

10 OVERNIGHT MIN 1

MAX

14 OVERNIGHT MIN 3

MAX

20 OVERNIGHT MIN 5 TOMORROW

FRIDAY: Fine. Northwesterlies developing.

MAX

22 OVERNIGHT MIN 8

Midnight Tonight

ia

Wind less than km/h 30

MAX

THURSDAY: Fine, some cloud morning and evening. Light winds.

10

ka

TODAY

LYTTELTON

AKAROA

Ra

Canterbury High Country

TOMORROW: Fine, some cloud morning and evening. Light winds.

10

LINCOLN

Canterbury Plains

TODAY: A few showers, clearing afternoon. Cold southerlies.

11

CHRISTCHURCH

10

METHVEN

Ashburton Forecast

30 to 59

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

60 plus

THURSDAY Cloudy morning and evening, afternoon long fine spells. Also isolated afternoon and evening showers possible near the foothills.

Light winds.

morning min max

showers fine showers fine showers fine fine fine showers fine fine fine fine

9 4 4 1 6 6 2 4 2 1 2 4 1

Cloudy morning and evening, afternoon long fine spells. Also isolated afternoon and evening showers possible near the foothills.

Light winds.

18 18 13 13 11 15 14 16 11 11 16 10 12

NZ Situation

A high lies over the country from tomorrow to Friday, and stays over the North Island through to Saturday. A front moves onto the southern South Island on Friday evening, becoming slow moving there on Saturday.

TOMORROW

FZL: Rising to 1400m

FZL: Rising to 1800m

Fine, apart from isolated afternoon and evening showers, falling as snow flurries above 1500 metres.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: Light.

THURSDAY Fine, apart from isolated afternoon and evening showers, falling as snow flurries above 1800 metres. Light winds.

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

Fine. Northwesterlies developing, becoming gusty in exposed inland places.

Fine with increasing high cloud. Northwesterlies developing.

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

High cloud increasing. Gusty northwesterlies.

Extensive high cloud. Northwesterlies rising to gale.

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showers rain rain rain fine showers fine rain thunder rain thunder fine showers rain rain rain showers fine showers fine rain fine rain fine fine cloudy rain rain rain fine fine rain showers cloudy cloudy fine rain rain showers fine showers fine rain fine rain

22 4 24 5 17 22 22 24 8 25 25 26 3 -1 5 4 11 21 22 13 24 13 25 2 17 5 20 5 23 15 2 7 10 21 16 14 9 25 0 17 15 19 10 -1 7

24 12 31 8 28 31 31 29 29 31 35 33 10 11 8 8 23 27 28 28 31 29 34 10 29 14 26 9 27 29 8 9 21 28 20 27 11 31 3 27 23 31 20 8 6

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 12:00 pm, yesterday

227.3 12.2 15.7 144.2

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

Temperatures °C

max

to 4pm yesterday Ashburton Airport

Rainfall mm

min grass 16 hour Nov 2012 min to date to date

nc

Wind km/h

max gust

8.5

5.4 -1.1

2.4

26.2 672.5

SE 30

Christchurch Airport 11.5

2.8 -0.5

0.0

6.8 586.4

SW 46

Timaru Airport

6.1

5.4

20.6 555.0

S 43

Average

19.3

Average

18.8

11.3

Average

17.6

7.9

5.8

8.0

5.4

–

6.0

13

585

9

546

11

435

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

6

Tuesday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

Wednesday

6

9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Thursday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm

2 1 0

3:45

10:02 4:20 10:29 4:35 10:52 5:11 11:19 5:25 11:43 6:00 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 6:07 am Set 8:26 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Rise 1:29 am Set 11:40 am

Last quarter

7 Nov

1:37 pm

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Rise 6:06 am Set 8:28 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Rise 2:01 am Set 12:42 pm

New moon

14 Nov 11:09 am www.ofu.co.nz

Rise 6:05 am Set 8:29 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Rise 2:31 am Set 1:46 pm

First quarter

21 Nov 3:33 am

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