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Elton to raise gay rights in Russia

Elton John is to play a concert in Moscow today during which he’s vowed to raise the issue of Russia’s legal crackdown on gay rights. The British singer told CNN last month that he was “going to say something from the stage that’s ... going to be meaningful” when he plays two dates in Russia, in Moscow and the Volga city of Kazan this weekend. He said he planned to be cautious on stage in Russia, fearing that he would be thrown out if he was strongly critical of President Vladimir Putin. But he added he planned to “meet with the LGBT community”, describing the current situation in Russia as “awful”. He will be the first major Western star known for strong support of gay rights to play in Russia since Putin in June signed a national law banning “propaganda of homosexuality” to minors.

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There’s an online debate raging this week from the New York Post front page splash that appears to denigrate the woman (above) taking a selfie as a man appears about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A witness said the tourist knew exactly what was going on behind her. The tourist had apparently been watching the drama unfold for up to 25 minutes before she pulled out her phone and took the shot. Police eventually saved the man’s life talking him down from the bridge.

Tongue twister to end all tongue twisters Forget Peter Piper and his Peck of Pickled Peppers - psychologists have come up with what may be the world’s most frustrating tongue twister. It may not make much sense, but the phrase “pad kid poured curd pulled cold” completely defeated volunteers taking part in a US speech study. Asked to repeat the phrase 10 times at a fast lick, many of the participants clammed up and stopped talking altogether, according to lead researcher Dr Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. “If anyone can say this 10 times quickly, they get a prize,” she said.

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One lucky crab A giant crab that escaped a cooking pot after spending five days in a fridge is making a miraculous recovery. The edible crab was caught by a fisherman in Dartmouth, who drove it on to Weston-super-Mare in his car. The fisherman was so impressed with its hand-sized claws and nine-inch shell (23cms) that he gave it to a sick friend to cheer him up. The crab then spent five days in the fridge. But the family decided they couldn’t bring themselves to cook the crustacean and instead they donated it to Bristol Aquarium, where David Waines said it was recovering.

“Hopefully it will continue to get better and will be able to enjoy an unexpectedly long retirement here at the aquarium,” he added.

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■ ASHBURTON BRAWL

Non-response claims refuted by police

By Myles HuMe

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Ashburton police refute claims they did not respond to emergency calls over a mass brawl in town a fortnight ago, despite what witnesses told media.

The police have been conducting internal inquiries into their response following criticism from the public and people at the scene.

Yesterday, Senior Sergeant Grant Russell said his staff did respond to emergency calls over the incident but was unsure if he would release further details from the investigation.

Mr Russell spoke to Ashburton police rostered on the morning of Sunday November 24, who members of the public say failed to show at a brawl allegedly involving more than 30 young men, despite making calls to 111.

Four Talbot Security Group guards were confronted with fight in the Ashburton McDonalds and Harvey Norman car park, while witnesses said they saw police drive past the scene.

Mr Russell also requested information from the police communications centre into calls made to 111.

Yesterday, Mr Russell was yet to talk to Ashburton McDonald’s franchise owner Dave Whalley and Talbot Security managing director Dean Talbot about the outcome of his inquiries, but claimed police responded to emergency calls

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Police attended, and like I said before you have to get your facts right before you put things to print

over the incident.

“The police attended, and like I said before you have to get your facts right before you put things to print,” he said.

“The police responded to the incident, at the time the guys did what they thought was right and they utilised the resources that were available.”

Mr Russell would not be drawn on details of the police response, and said he may consider providing more information after speaking to Mr Whalley and Mr Talbot.

He said no complaints had been laid over the response from Ashburton police or from those embroiled in the incident itself.

“All I’m looking at is the procedure; did we do things right?

Did we not do things right?

Could anything be altered? And that’s what Dean and Dave are doing, we are not looking to blame people.”

He expects to speak with them next week.

Investigations into a brawl two weeks ago in the McDonald’s car park are ongoing with witnesses and suspects still to be interviewed.

Brawlers unlikely to face charges but instigators ‘will be dealt with’

By Myles HuMe

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The young men involved in a brawl in the McDonald’s car park are unlikely to face charges, Ashburton police say.

Police will be speaking to those involved in the car park brawl almost two weeks ago, but Senior Sergeant Grant Russell said it was likely they would not be charged.

He said police had obtained a video of the fight from surveillance cameras, and inquiries were being made.

Witnesses told the Guardian the brawl involved more than 30 men aged between 15 and 30, who continued to fight onand-off for more than an hour.

Talbot Security Group had

already issued several trespass warnings to ringleaders of the brawl.

Mr Russell said it was difficult to clearly identify those fighting in the video and no complaints had been laid.

He refuted claims there were more 30 men involved, saying maybe up to a dozen people threw punches with no one going to hospital.

He said police were still yet to speak to those involved, and would not put a timeline on it.

No charges have been made and Mr Russell suggested “the instigators will be dealt with in a different manner”.

“The identity isn’t clear in the video, but in saying that we are aware of people involved and they will be spoken to by police,

and that will be a discussion between us and them, but it’s up to us whether we go any further than that.”

“There are a number of things we have to weigh up before we charge a person, the big thing is we have to be able to prove who they are in the initial incident,” he said.

“The second thing is the solicitor general’s guidelines that we have to follow exclusively, and to be honest we have to look at what we are doing and where this all fits into those ... before we decide where to go.”

He said other alternatives could include pre-charge warnings, restorative justice or diversion, among others.

He said police would continue with inquiries.

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In brief

■ MANDELA’S LEGACY

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The news of the death former South African president Nelson Mandela shocked the world and many in Ashburton.

Mr Mandela died at home yesterday surrounded by his family. He was 95.

South African-born Ashburton man Greg Martin was deeply touched by the leader’s death and his legacy.

Mr Martin has lived in New Zealand for eight years but still remembered the strong aura surrounding the former leader when he came within a few feet of him with his supporters shortly after Mandela’s release from prison.

‘I had the privilege to watch Nelson Mandela meeting a small group of his Xhosa supporters in Umtata, Transkei, shortly after he was released from prison in 1991.

“He was tall, grinning, and exuded total confidence and humility. I regret a little that I did not go up to him and shake his hand, but in a way that would have been an intrusion as it was his time with his people.”

Mr Martin watched Mandela dance with his supporters while his bodyguards stood by with their AK47s glancing every now and then at the only white man anywhere to be seen.

“It was a time of great tension. And yet he was grinning and dancing. He had no fear or doubt about where the country was going, and that was the kind of leader the country needed.”

Mandela’s leadership was felt

Christchurch police have spoken to a Northwood man in relation complaints from local residents about a man attempting to kiss women in local parks. Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Archer said police spoke to a man, aged in his 60s, in a park at Northwood yesterday. “We have given him a verbal warning and advised him that his behaviour is not acceptable. We have also spoken with his family,” police said.

“It does not appear that any criminal offending has taken place, so no further action will be taken at this stage.”

- APNZ

Mandela tribute

Keaton Anderson, 10, poses for a photograph for his father Dijon Anderson, of Bowie, Marylands, as they visit the statue of Nelson Mandela at the South African Embassy in Washington.

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not only in South Africa, but also globally with a number of world leaders paying tribute to his life.

Even after he stepped down as president, he was a positive influence on the nation and everyone he met.

“It is a legacy of positivity, forgiveness, confidence, and hope, and it is available to anyone, anywhere,” Mr Martin said.

“He empowered a nation, but he did this by empowering individuals on a personal level. He was above politics. He just made you feel strong,” Mr Martin said.

World leaders have expressed their sadness over his

death including Prime Minister John Key. “Nelson Mandela will be remembered for being an incredibly inspirational leader.”

“Someone that was a beacon of hope for the people of South Africa but someone that also believed passionately in reconciliation.”

Politicians, sports stars, personalities and every day Kiwis used social media to tell others how the death has affected them.

NZ First leader Winston Peters said the legacy left by South Africa’s first black president will have “a lasting effect” on New Zealand.

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern

tweeted: “One of the greatest privileges I’ve ever had was to meet Nelson Mandela. So sad to hear of his passing. The world has lost a hero. RIP”.

All Black star Liam Messam was saddened to hear of the passing, tweeting: “What a life well lived! RIP #legend.”

Radio personality Nathan Rarere said: “The earth lost its most brave and gracious human today.”

Former Prime Minister and current United Nations Development Programme head Helen Clark tweeted: “Nelson #Mandela was the visionary leader of our times; an inspiration 4 his commitment 2 #humanrights. RIP #Madiba.”

■ REAL ESTATE AGENTS’ DISCIPLINARY TRIBUNAL

Ashburton agent’s conduct ‘disgraceful’

By HeatHer Mccracken A former real estate agent has been found guilty of forging a client’s signature and using the document to claim commission on a sale.

Julie Anne McDonald of Ashburton faced four charges before the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal (READT) in relation to the sale of an Ashburton home in 2009.

She had been engaged to rent the property after its elderly owner, W. D. Kamau, went into a rest home, with a view to possibly selling it at a later date.

The owner’s son, R. J. Kamau, had power of attorney for his father, and said he never signed an agency agreement with McDonald.

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Julie McDonald

However, McDonald had a signed form which she said Mr Kamau had emailed to her.

She was never able to produce the email, and a forensic computer expert found no trace of it.

McDonald said she had also called in a computer expert who told her it was likely to

have been deleted by a virus.

A document examiner from New Zealand police said he could not be sure, but believed the signature on the document to be false.

The tenant eventually bought the property through the owner’s lawyer, and McDonald lodged a caveat to enforce her agency agreement and claim commission.

The tribunal found her guilty on all four charges and said her conduct, using dishonest and forgery to assert her entitlement to commission, was “disgraceful”. A penalty has not yet been set.

Meanwhile, in other READT decisions, agents Astrid and Karen Clark were censured and fined $3000 each.

The tribunal had previously

found both guilty of unsatisfactory conduct by not disclosing in writing that Karen Clark stood to benefit from a sale, but also that the breaches were not deliberate.

In another case, complainants appealed against a decision not to take action against three agents, Patrick Regan, Mary Curnow and Lisa Hopewell.

The tribunal found Mr Regan guilty of unsatisfactory conduct, but dismissed the appeal in relation to the other agents.

A penalty for Mr Regan has not been set.

Complainants also appealed against a decision to impose no penalty on Kapiti agent Della Randall for not seeking further information about weathertightness issues. The appeal was dismissed.

- APNZ

The exterior of Auckland War Memorial Museum will be lit in the colours of the South African flag for the next three nights as a tribute to Nelson Mandela’s “extraordinary life and contribution”. Museum director Roy Clare said the museum was honoured to commemorate the achievements of the internationally loved and respected figure. “His humanity, dignity, wisdom and compassion defined his political achievements and inspired men and women across the globe; his memory is engraved forever in our hearts. Our flags are at halfmast and our building will be lit especially - simple tributes for a giant figure.”

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Cabin pressure issue A pressure malfunction on board a domestic Jetstar flight forced the plane to turn around and return to Wellington shortly after take-off yesterday. Flight JQ246 from the capital to Auckland had 158 people on board. A spokesman from the airline said there was an “issue with pressurising the cabin”, which prompted the pilot to turn the plane around. “No cabin pressure was lost and the aircraft, with 158 passengers on board, landed without incident around 8am,” he said.

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Dead woman named A woman who was killed when her car crashed into a horse on a rural road near Christchurch has been named by police. Lincoln woman Diana Clair Morton, 56, died at the scene of the crash just north of Lincoln about 9.50pm on Thursday.

Mrs Morton was driving south on Birchs Rd, towards Lincoln, when her car struck the horse on the road near the intersection with Leadleys Rd. Her husband, a passenger in the car, received minor injuries and was treated at the scene by ambulance staff. Police are continuing their investigation into the crash.- APNZ

Murder trial date set Two men accused of murdering a Christchurch man who died in hospital from serious burn injuries will stand trial in June next year.

Terrance Martin Smith, 55, died on May 8 this year after receiving severe burns in an incident at a Woolston property on Anzac Day, April 25. Jason Alistor Barr, 42, of Waltham, and Shay Barry Webster, 20, of Woolston, have been charged with murder. A two-week trial begins at the High Court in Christchurch on June 23, next year.

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■ FATAL WINSLOW CRASH

Emergency services at the scene of yesterday’s fatal crash on State Highway One, at Winslow.

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Fatal crash ‘one of worst’

By Erin TaskEr

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Experienced emergency service personnel say a crash which claimed the life of a woman yesterday morning was one of the worst they’ve seen.

The woman was killed instantly yesterday when her car smashed into the house, which was being carried on the back of an oncoming wide-load truck.

The top half of the car was effectively ripped off after the car went under the house and the car came to rest a good 100 metres away from the truck.

The crash occurred on State Highway One (SH1) at Winslow about 10.45am and emergency services raced to help,

but it was too late. Police are yet to name the woman – the sole occupant of the car - as her next of kin are still being informed.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy chief fire officer Graeme Baker said it was one of the worst crashes he’d come across in almost 50 years as a volunteer firefighter.

“It’s certainly not a pleasant one at all,” he said.

Firefighters could do little apart from disconnect the car’s battery when they arrived, and were called back to wash down the road early yesterday afternoon once the scene was cleared, so the road could be reopened.

Traffic was diverted down Boundary

Road while the police serious crash unit and commercial vehicle investigation unit investigated, but the road was reopened by yesterday evening.

Police said the truck and trailer the woman hit was transporting a house south on SH1 and it was accompanied by pilot vehicles at front and rear.

Investigations into how the crash occurred are continuing. Ashburton Police spent the afternoon speaking to witnesses, and have appealed for the driver of a green Subaru station wagon, seen driving south through the area just prior to the crash, to contact their nearest police station.

They believe that person may be able to help with their inquiries.

House transport causes long delays

By Erin TaskEr

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A truck transporting a house, which was involved in a fatal crash south of Tinwald yesterday morning, had earlier manoeuvred its way through a busy central Ashburton.

Members of the public had been venting their frustration over traffic holdups caused by the large load.

But for most their frustration took a back seat following the news that the truck had later been hit by an oncoming car – the driver of which died at the scene.

Half-an-hour before the crash, the Guardian received a phone call from a frustrated truck driver, stuck in a long line of traffic behind the house.

Daniel Gundry questioned why houses were being shifted through the town

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during the middle of the day and not at night. “It took me half an hour to get from Smith’s City to the bridge,” he said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if traffic is backed up to Chertsey.”

He made a stop and when he continued south he saw the road block caused by the crash.

He said drivers became frustrated when stuck in long traffic queues caused by heavy loads like that during the day.

“I was frustrated, I can imagine there were hundreds of other people that were frustrated too.”

Police are still investigating the cause of the crash – but the crash and the truck’s earlier holding up of traffic in town was a hot topic on the Guardian’s Facebook page yesterday.

Someone raised the question over pilot vehicles through Facebook, to which another person said the truck had one

pilot vehicle in front and two behind.

Another said she’d seen the truck “speed” through Tinwald prior to the crash.

A New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) spokesperson said they were saddened by yesterday’s crash and due to the crash they were limited as to what comment they could make.

But they did say there were four categories of over dimension vehicles and loads.

The requirements for the use of permits, times of travel and the use of pilot vehicles depended on what type of vehicle or load was being moved.

In cases where an over dimension permit was needed requirements included pre-travel route checks, required permissions – like from railway operators, vehicle lighting and emergency service notifications.

Interpol has issued a “purple notice” at New Zealand’s request, seeking information regarding the whereabouts and activities of the fishing vessel Thunder, which has been suspected of illegal fishing.

A purple notice seeks information rather than a request for detaining or speaking with people of interest.

This was the first time New Zealand had requested an Interpol purple notice for suspected violations of international fisheries law, Ministry for Primary Industries manager operational co-ordination Gary Orr said.

Information was being sought regarding the individuals and networks that owned, operated and profited from the suspected illegal actions of the vessel.

“Thunder has been operating under a number of names and flags over several years and we believe this is being done to avoid being caught violating international laws and conventions,” Mr Orr said.

Thunder had been on the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing vessel list of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) since 2006 because its illegal fishing activity in CCAMLR waters undermined the convention’s conservation objectives.

It had deliberately changed its identity a number of times to avoid sanctions such as denial of fishing permits and permission to enter ports.

“It has used three identities interchangeably, including the use of removable name plates with different vessel names on the stern and pilothouse,” Mr Orr said.

The three known identities with flag states are: Wuhan No.4 (Mongolia), Thunder (Nigeria), and Kuko (unknown).

The vessel was last seen in the Southern Ocean in September, northwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, by an Australian Customs and Border Protection Service aircraft conducting a routine maritime surveillance patrol.

It was the third purple notice Interpol had issued since formation of the Interpol Fisheries Crime working group in 2012 made the issuing of purple notices for fisheries crime possible.

- APNZ

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■ LABOUR LEADER VISITS

In brief

‘I’m going to win Ashburton’

By Myles HuMe

Myles.h@theguardian.co.nz

Labour leader David Cunliffe left Mid Canterbury with one message yesterday: “I’m going to win Ashburton.”

Mr Cunliffe was in Ashburton yesterday on a whirlwind visit to the electorate he grew up in as a child, flanked by his young son Cameron, Rangitata Labour electorate committee chairman Glen Cameron and MP for Te Tai Tonga Rino Tirikatene.

Speaking just a year out from the general election, Mr Cunliffe expressed his keen interest to wrestle the Rangitata electorate away from National’s Jo Goodhew.

Timaru has typically been a Labour stronghold with a strong party base in the district, however Mid Canterbury has traditionally leant towards the right.

But Mr Cunliffe said as the

Labour leader David Cunliffe was in Ashburton yesterday.

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district’s population continued to grow, so did the wage gap between the high earners and the working class.

“The trickle down isn’t happening.”

If Labour was able to tap

into those who traditionally did not vote, he believed the party was in with a strong chance to claim Rangitata.

Mr Cunliffe said Labour would look to be “on the ground” in the electorates, vis-

iting homes to reach its voters, such as in Christchurch East when they recently knocked on the doors of thousands of homes.

Recent proposals to move the Rangitata electorate boundary south, effectively losing Rakaia, also played into Labour’s hands as the southern part the electorate, which traditionally attracted strong Labour support, became more concentrated, he said.

“I think you’re going to see a close race for the Rangitata electorate,” he said.

Mr Cunliffe and his group went to speak with Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay before heading south to Timaru to pick up his mother and attend a Labour party function in Temuka.

Mr Cunliffe, his son and Mr Cameron were then planning to travel further south to Moeraki where a planned weekend fishing trip awaited.

■ CHILD CANCER FUNDRAISER

Expectations exceeded; total more than tripled Ashburton’s generosity and support helped three St John ambulance officers exceed expectations and raise more than $1600 shaving their hair for Child Cancer.

Frith Chamberlain (right), Kerry McKee Bowdler and Shane Hurst had their hair removed on Thursday night by fellow officer Karina MacKenzie, a hairdresser by trade.

The trio all got number one shaves.

Ms Chamberlain said nerves did kick in before the 7pm deadline but she kept reminding herself what it was all about.

“Well, to be fair I got nervous … but it’s just hair, it’s just vanity. That what (my nerves were) about vanity.”

With an online target of $500, the officers raised a final tally of $1694.44, three times their goal.

“I am quite overwhelmed, all we were hoping for was $500. I’m just really encouraged by the generosity of people. Thank you.”

“It’s in memory of my son,” Frenchman Eric Soubrier said as looked towards his backpack which carried a stone commemorating his son and his son’s friend.

The pair drowned in Lake Wakatipu in 2010.

Mr Soubrier and the stone were ferried across the lake by

Santa is coming to town today.

Ashburton’s Santa Parade will kick off at 12.30pm, following pre-parade entertainment at 11am, which includes a Santa sack making competition for which the prize is riding with Santa on his float. The pre-parade entertainment will be on the chessboard, with the parade to travel from Mona Square, up East Street, and back down again.

On a summer high Summer hit Ashburton yesterday, with the town spending much of the day as the hottest place in New Zealand. According to the MetService, Ashburton hit 30-degrees yesterday afternoon – the first time it has hit that mark so far this summer – while Graham Taylor’s Allenton weather station recorded a high temperature of 32.6 degrees. By 4pm the town’s temperature had dropped to a pleasant 26 degrees. It may have been a one-off for now though, with temperatures for the next three days only expected to reach 21, 18 and 17.

Drink driver A man was processed for driving with an excess breath alcohol level following a crash at the intersection of Porter and McDonald streets shortly after midnight on Thursday night.

He recorded a level of 784mcg.

Police also reported the arrest of a 42-year-old man for misuse of a telephone yesterday.

Fined over kidnapping A Canterbury businessman who kidnapped two burglars who stole fuel from his company’s yard has been fined $3000. David Clemence was sentenced in Christchurch District Court yesterday, after he was found guilty following a trial in August. After Clemence caught the men stealing diesel from his drilling business in Kaiapoi in April 2011, the pair were beaten, kidnapped and dumped in a river by his staff before being handed to police, the trial was told. Judge Gary MacAskill told Clemence he went a step too far when he made a citizen’s arrest.

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ACC fraud

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Dad pays special stone tribute to dead son

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Santa arrives today

Coastguard Queenstown to the base of Cecil Peak at 7.30am yesterday.

Mr Soubrier was then dropped off with the stone, which he planned to carry up to a ledge on the peak where his son Raphael Soubrier, 21, and his son’s friend Yoann Firdion, 24, both from France, had climbed to take photos.

Raphael and Yoann were

drowned in the lake while kayaking in rough conditions three years ago yesterday.

Photos were retrieved from their camera and they were used to help place the stone.

“I want to find this place and leave this stone so the mountain will remember these boys,” Mr Soubrier said. “[And] it’s my way to remember my son. Today is the

third year after [their deaths].”

During an inquest in Queenstown in September 2011, Coroner David Crerar said the young men “left the safety of the shore too late and left the call to safety too late” and described their preparation and equipment as “inappropriate”.

The pair had planned a return journey from Queenstown to Hidden Island.

- APNZ

A Christchurch company director has been sentenced to five and a half months’ home detention after pleading guilty to defrauding ACC. Brian Arthur Skinley, 56, was sentenced after being convicted of one representative charge of dishonestly using a document under the Crimes Act. He was also ordered to pay reparation of more than $41,000. Skinley received undisclosed income of $157,523 between August 2007 and January 2011 while in receipt of weekly compensation for an injury. - APNZ

Couple found dead A terminally ill 84-year-old man and his 80-year-old wife have been found dead in their home.

Police are investigating the scene in Maraetai, a coastal village in east Auckland, a police spokeswoman said. The bodies of elderly couple were discovered yesterday about 7.30am by a family member, who alerted the police.

- APNZ

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■ ALLENTON POSTIES DELIGHTED

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Marauding magpies disappear

BY ERIN TASKER

ERIN.T@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Allenton’s angry birds appear to have mysteriously disappeared, much to the delight of the area’s posties.

Mail delivery in the area had been under threat after posties found themselves under attack, day after day, from what appeared to have been two or three rogue magpies.

This week though, something has changed. For the past three or four days, the mail delivery has been much more peaceful.

The birds have gone.

Head postie Dave Aberhart said they didn’t know where they had gone although they had heard rumours someone may have “taken care” of the issue for them.

“We are hoping like crazy that they have been taken away to magpie island far, far away,” Mr Aberhart said.

They’d tried everything – they ditched their bright coloured clothes and simply wore black, they switched their bikes for walking shoes and cars and they blew whistles, but the birds still attacked. They even tried a loud air horn that someone lent them, but that just seemed to attract the birds more.

Allens Road and Churchill

Education Minister Hekia Parata has met with the Phillipstown Board of Trustees and principal to discuss consultation process on the proposed merger, following a judicial review on the decision.

The High Court found the government had not adequately consulted and the process behind the decision to merge it with Woolston was unlawful. Ms Parata said it was another opportunity to respond to questions about the timeframes around the consultation process. “I expect to announce my final decision in March 2014 which will be 18 months since consultation began.”

- APNZ

Female in command

Postie Rachel Hyde was delivering mail in peace yesterday, with Allenton’s troublesome magpies having mysteriously disappeared.

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Avenue were the problem areas.

“It was just a couple of rogue birds I would say, because we still get the nesting ones too, but we don’t have such a problem with them.

“They just swoop down and say ‘get out of my area’,” Mr Aberhart said.

The Allenton magpies appeared to deliberately target posties, waiting for them to come by no matter what time of the day.

Postie Rachel Hyde said they’d even single them out from the shoppers in the Allenton Shopping Centre.

She isn’t a bird fan anyway, and was physically sick the day one hit her in the ear.

The birds were threatening to halt mail delivery to the area.

“We did talk about stopping mail delivery. The bosses came down from Christchurch and gave the go-ahead,” Mr Aberhart said.

“But the posties didn’t want to do that. They said they had to deliver to their customers.”

Mr Aberhart said if someone had killed the magpies, he did not condone that action, but he was pleased they were gone.

They still don’t know why they were targeted as they changed everything they could possibly think of from bikes to clothes, but still got attacked.

“I think it was the bills,” Mr Aberhart joked.

■ DEFAMATION CASE

Teapot cameraman takes action against PM Bradley Ambrose, the freelance cameraman who recorded the so-called “teapot tapes” conversation between Prime Minister John Key and Act’s John Banks is taking defamation action against Mr Key. Mr Key acknowledged the court action yesterday while

Parata at Phillipstown

speaking to reporters in Hamilton.

“We’ve been aware for some time now that he’s likely to file proceedings for defamation and we’ll be defending that action.

“I’m not really going to go into any great comments about it. It’s a matter that’s before

the courts so we’ll just leave it there.” Mr Ambrose faced criminal investigation after he taped a conversation between Mr Key and Act’s Epsom candidate Mr Banks at an Auckland cafe just before the 2011 election.

Mr Ambrose said the recording was accidental but Mr Key

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Police eventually decided not to lay charges but Assistant Police Commissioner Malcolm Burgess said investigators had concluded the recording was more likely than not to have been deliberate.

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A Dunedin woman is New Zealand’s first female commanding officer of a reserve infantry battalion. Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Brosnan, 48, was officially appointed as Commanding Officer of 2/4 RNZIR (Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment) during a charter parade in Christchurch last week. She will remain based in Dunedin, but regularly travel to the Burnham Military Camp to lead the recently amalgamated South Island reserve force. Colonel Brosnan said it was exiting to set a precedent for other women in the army, which like many other organisations sometimes struggled to recruit and retain high-ranking female staff. - APNZ

Barriers removed Impatient motorists have busted through two sets of safety gates that have kept the Haast Pass highway closed to night traffic since a slip was brought down in September, killing two tourists.

Constable Rob Manera, of the Haast police, said the offenders attached a vehicle to the double cyclone gates that were blocking the highway either side of the Diana Falls slip, tearing them apart. Having first wrecked the gates on the Makarora side of the pass, they drove through the slip and then repeated the act on the Haast side. Mr Manera said their actions had placed other road users in danger. closed at Diana Falls between 7pm and 8am daily until the slip is stabilised. - APNZ

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■ WOMEN AND DRINKING

More women drinking in hotels

By Toni Williams

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Ashburton hotels are noticing more women drinking in their establishments but not the increase in volumes stated by two national health watchdogs.

A new policy briefing paper released by Alcohol Healthwatch and Women’s Health Action looked at issues for women concerning alcohol use.

It said women were drinking more frequently and consuming greater volumes, and highlighted issues such as increased health concerns, injuries, reproductive and sexual health problems, mental health and abuse disorders.

Their paper wanted a range of changes investigated in an upcoming review of the Nation-

al Drug Policy such as increased alcohol prices, and restrictions on marketing, as well as services specifically for the needs of women.

Ashburton’s Devon Tavern second in charge Toni Guy agreed there were more women drinking at the Devon but did not think they were drinking more.

“It’s more socially acceptable for women to be at the pub these days.”

She said there was also more for women to do with pokie machines and meeting their friends.

Women no longer had to just sit with their husbands.

Ashburton Hotel Turf Bar manager Lucien Graham had also not noticed more women drinking greater volumes of al-

cohol but his bar did not have a large youth clientele, they tended to be older.

“I personally haven’t noticed a huge increase. I guess we see more in the 30, 35 to 50 years range now.”

They were not binge drinkers, just out for an evening, he said. “...They don’t get really drunk and messy in my bar.”

He also agreed that women going out to hotels was more socially accepted. “...they need to have a night off too, from whatever they are doing, work or children or whatever.”

Whether women were out drinking or at home, director of Salvation Army addiction services major Sue Hay, from Christchurch, said there had been a noticeable increase in the

amount of women seeking help in Canterbury.

“There are definitely more women drinking than there used to be.”

Of the 1651 people who had approached the Salvation Army service for help over the last 12 months 40 per cent of those were women, she said.

Clients for addiction services were referred to the agency.

They had drop-in and sharing support groups, short educational groups and residential care for intensive treatment.

Mrs Hay said there were a number of reasons of why people drank but often they did it to overcome social phobias, to numb memories or emotions of past trauma.

“No one sets out to become an alcoholic, it sneaks up on you.”

Wellington has been shaken by a strong magnitude 4.7 earthquake but there have been no reports of damage.

GeoNet said the quake struck 10km southwest of Seddon, in Marlborough, at a depth of 22km just before 1.45pm.

The quake was felt as a slow, deep rolling motion in an office tower in central Wellington.

Fire and police communications centres said there had been no reports of damage so far in the lower North Island and upper South Island.

A Wellington Free Ambulance spokesman said there View or purchase had been no call-outs as a photos online result of the earthquake. guardianonline.co.nz The tremor was felt by Twitter users in Wellington.

Philippa Ormrod said: “Ew yucky earthquake in Wellington just now, went for ages! #eqnz” Dacia H said it was a “minor quake” that was mostly felt by people sitting at their desks.

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■ DORIE PRESCHOOL

Christmas trees wear edible treats Christmas trees in Dorie homes will be welcoming new additions this year as preschoolers in the area baked their own decorations yesterday.

Baker-cum-dairy farmer Alastair Holdem (centre) visited Dorie Preschool youngsters (from left) Cayla Maher, 4, Campbell Copland, 2, Jack Fifita, 4, Vienna Smith, 2, and Bena Lorimer, 4, to help them create Christmas tree decorations to be hung hopefully near the top of the tree during the festive season.

About 22 youngsters took part in the bake-off and is only part of Christmas activities in the lead up to the summer break at the preschool.

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Kiwis are throwing away perfectly good food from their fridges at alarming rates, new research suggests, wasting money and edible resources. Lydia Anderson reports on what we’re wasting, and what we can do to kick the habit.

We are wasting too much food F

ood waste - it’s a big problem.

The latest Canstar Refrigerator Satisfaction Survey turned up a surprising result – more than a third of respondents admitted chucking out food from the fridge every week.

The survey questioned 704 Kiwis from across the country who had bought a new fridge in the past three years.

The biggest food waste offenders were Generation Y, or those aged under 30, followed by Generation X and Baby Boomers.

Men and women had equally bad food wastage habits.

Canstar general manager Derek Bonnar says every item thrown from the fridge that could have been used is not only a waste of food, it is a waste of money.

“Minimising food waste through the creative use of ingredients and making the most of leftovers means that you’ll get maximum bang for your food budget buck.’’

The results come amid international reports of food wastage - with a recent United Nations report revealing more than 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year, mostly due to poor harvesting techniques in developing countries and careless consumer behaviour in high-income areas.

A further report by the United Kingdom-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers found 30 to 50 per cent of food in UK homes is thrown away before it hits the table, often at the direction of conservative ‘use by’ labelling.

DON’T THROW IT OUT

In New Zealand, we turn our noses up at ageing fruit and veges, leftovers and food past the best before date, says food writer and presenter Sophie Gray, of Destitute Gourmet.

“People often buy fresh produce because they know they should, but they haven’t necessarily planned how they’re going to use it.

“Some people are really, really funny about leftovers - it’s very first world problematic.’’

Many consumers confess to throwing away leftovers instead of using them for a subsequent meal, she says.

Fans on her Facebook page have posted comments such as:

‘My husband just won’t eat leftovers; it makes him feel like a poor person.’

“Whereas I’m going, ‘Yum, casserole for lunch, what a luxury’.’’

Consumers are also confused by the difference between ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ dates.

“They’ll chuck something out because it’s reached its best before rather than even determining if something is still usable.’’

The “hysteria’’ around food hygiene is getting worse, as more manufacturers guess a product’s shelf life instead of paying to have it tested, and then label it with a conservative use-by date, she adds.

– APNZ

MONEY-SAVING TIPS FROM SOPHIE GRAY “One of the best and easiest ways to reduce your waste is to plan your meals around what you’ve already got.

“If you’ve got a leek and a celery that’s going soggy and a couple of carrots, perhaps you should be thinking about making minestrone rather than nachos.’’

On her website, Gray lists a number of foodrelated cash saving tips, including: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

Make a menu plan Only shop once a week Use cash instead of a bank card to get groceries Try not to buy anything you can realistically make yourself Eat in season

Check out more detailed advice at www.destitutegourmet.com, or on the Destitute Gourmet Facebook page.

Further Canstar survey results: The top two preferred fridge brands were Mitsubishi Electric and Westinghouse for energy efficiency, value for money, and quality.

More than half of survey respondents (55 per cent) found it cheaper to replace a fridge than fix it, and more than a third (33 per cent) chose their fridge to match the colour, brand or appearance of another appliance in their kitchen.

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■ REESE’S SEARCH FOR ‘KATIE’

Public response ‘overwhelming’

BY LANE NICHOLS A lovestruck man using social media to track down a mystery American woman he met in Hong Kong says he is overwhelmed by the public response.

Reese McKee, 25, is hoping the magic of Christmas and the power of Facebook will reunite him with “Katie”, who he met by chance last New Year’s Eve.

They both became lost earlier in the night and shared hours together before parting ways at 6am - her last words to him: “Find me.”

But realising he had no details to go on other than her first name, the fact she was from “DC” and a photo of her on his phone, Mr McKee turned to Facebook this week in a bid to find her.

A story on the romantic endeavour has gone viral online and on social media. By yesterday afternoon, it had already attracted nearly 83,000 page views on nzherald.co.nz, been shared more than 8700 times on Facebook and tweeted more than 180 times. The story has also attracted the attention of overseas media, including US TV shows.

Mr McKee, from Wellington, said he was yet to hear from Katie or source her contact details, but was now confident of tracking her down.

“It definitely looks like this will probably work - it’s big.”

His Facebook post about his search was “exploding” and feedback from people had mostly been encouraging, he said.

“Some people have been a bit

suspicious which I suppose is understandable, but the vast majority is really positive. Everyone’s on board.”

He believed his story had hit a nerve with the romantics out there.

“Everyone’s sort of projecting their own romantic ideas or missed opportunities, and helping out - the power of social media.”

- APNZ

Six arrests in police meth sting Six people have been arrested in a two-day sting targeting methamphetamine supply ring in Manawatu.

Ten search warrants were executed - eight at residential properties and two at commercial properties.

Four men and two women were arrested and a small amount of methamphetamine and stolen property - including a digital projector - seized.

“We believe that this network was distributing methamphetamine in the Palmerston North area, and a team of officers from Manawatu, Whanganui, and Wellington supported by specialist police dogs carried out the search warrants,” said Detective Sergeant Dave Thompson of the Manawatu CIB. “This is a major success for both the police and the public of Palmerston North. By disrupting and dismantling the supply of illicit drugs we can ensure our communities are happy, healthy, and safe places to live.”

- APNZ

Day especially for volunteers Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury host Andie Rutherford shares afternoon tea with Rosemary Case and Lois Burridge as part of International Volunteers’ Day on Thursday. More than 20 volunteers attended the informal afternoon tea at the Sinclair Centre to thank volunteers across the board for their time and efforts.

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■ MANDELA DIES

What they said

South Africa, world mourns As the news of Nelson Mandela’s death spread across South Africa, residents of Soweto gathered in the streets near the house where he once lived, singing and dancing to mourn his death and celebrate his colossal life.

The people of South Africa reacted with deep sadness at the loss of a man considered by many to be the father of the nation, while mourners said it was also a time to celebrate the

achievements of the anti-apartheid leader who emerged from prison to become South Africa’s first black president.

President Jacob Zuma, dressed in black, announced the news of Mandela’s death on television, saying the 95-year-old known affectionately by his clan name “Madiba” had died “peacefully” at around 8:50pm while in the company of his family.

“He is now resting. He is now at peace,” Zuma said.

Some people gathered with candles as media swarmed outside the Johannesburg home where Mandela had been receiving medical care in past months.

About 40 people celebrated Mandela’s life by dancing and singing outside his former home on Vilakazi Street in Soweto.

Big gatherings of mourners were expected in coming days as the country prepares a formal farewell for a man who helped guide the country from racial

conflict to all-race elections in 1994.

“He transcended race and class in his personal actions, through his warmth and through his willingness to listen and to emphasise with others,” retired archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement.

“He taught us that to respect those with whom we are politically or socially or culturally at odds is not a sign of weakness, but a mark of self-respect.” - AP

‘We’ve lost our greatest son’ - President Zuma Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world’s most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, has died.

He was 95.

South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement at a news conference, saying “we’ve lost our greatest son”.

His death closed the final chapter in South Africa’s struggle to cast off apartheid, leaving the world with indelible memories of a man of astonishing grace and good humour.

As South Africa’s first black president, the ex-boxer, lawyer and prisoner No. 46664 paved the way to racial reconciliation with well-chosen gestures of forgiveness. He lunched with the prosecutor who sent him to jail, sang the apartheid-era Afrikaans anthem at his inauguration, and travelled hundreds of miles to have tea with the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd, the prime minister at the time he was imprisoned.

His most memorable gesture came when he strode onto the field before the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg. When he came on the field in South African colours to congratulate the victorious South African team, he brought the overwhelmingly white crowd of 63,000 to its feet, chanting “Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!”

He had been convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for leading a campaign of sabotage against the government, and sent to the notorious Robben Island prison.

As time passed — the “long, lonely, wasted years,” as he termed them — international awareness of apartheid grew more acute. By the time Mandela turned 70 he was the world’s most famous political prisoner.

Thousands died, were tortured and were imprisoned in the decades-long struggle against apartheid, so that when Mandela emerged from prison in 1990, smiling and waving to

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the crowds, the image became an international icon of freedom to rival the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18, 1918, the son of a tribal chief in Transkei, one of the future “Bantustans,” independent republics set up by the apartheid regime to cement the separation of whites and blacks.

Mandela’s royal upbringing gave him a dignified bearing that became his hallmark.

Growing up at a time when virtually all of Africa was under European colonial rule, Mandela attended Methodist schools before being admitted to the black University of Fort Hare in 1938. He was expelled two years later for his role in a stu-

dent strike.

He moved to Johannesburg and worked as a policeman at a gold mine, boxed as an amateur heavyweight and studied law.

His first wife, nurse Evelyn Mase, bore him four children.

The couple divorced in 1957 and Evelyn died in 2004.

Mandela began his rise through the ANC anti-apartheid movement in 1944, when he helped form the ANC Youth League.

He organised a campaign in 1952 to encourage defiance of laws that segregated schools, marriage, housing and job opportunities. The government retaliated by barring him from attending gatherings and leav-

ing Johannesburg, the first of many “banning” orders he was to endure.

After a two-day nationwide strike was crushed by police, he and a small group of ANC colleagues decided on military action.

He was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years’ hard labour for leaving the country illegally and inciting blacks to strike.

A year later, police uncovered the ANC’s underground headquarters and seized documents outlining plans for a guerrilla campaign. Mandela and seven co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison.

In 1973 Mandela refused an offer of release on condition he agree to confine himself to his native Transkei. In 1985 Mandela was again offered freedom, and again he refused unless segregation laws were scrapped and the government negotiated with the ANC. In 1989, F.W. de Klerk became president. This Afrikaner recognised the end was near for whiteruled South Africa. Mandela, for his part, continued, even in his last weeks in prison, to advocate nationalising banks, mines and monopoly industries — a stance that frightened the white business community.

On February 11, 1990, inmate No. 46664, who had once been refused permission to leave prison for his mother’s funeral, went free and walked hand-in-hand with Winnie, his wife. Blacks across the country erupted in joy — as did many whites.

Mandela took charge of the ANC, shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with de Klerk and was elected president by a landslide in South Africa’s first allrace election the following year.

His marriage to Winnie had fallen apart after his release and he was now married to Graca He is survived by Machel, the widowed former first lady of neighbouring Mozambique.; his daughter Makaziwe by his first marriage, and daughters Zindzi and Zenani by his second. - AP

“What an honour it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

— Idris Elba, who has the title role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

“Mandela was one of the great leaders and teachers of the twentieth century. He conceived a model for mortal enemies to overcome their hatred and find a way through compassion to rebuild a nation based on truth, justice and the power of forgiveness. His passing should re-ignite a worldwide effort for peace.”

— Paul Simon, whose widely acclaimed but also criticised Graceland tour of South Africa during the 1980s’ artists boycott protesting apartheid was personally approved by Mandela.

Today, as it did while he inhabited our planet, Nelson Mandela’s spirit truly soars with the angels. It was a spirit born of a generosity, love, compassion and hope for mankind that may never exist at such a heightened level in any single human being again. One of the most profound honours that I have had in my life was to be able to call ‘Madiba’ my friend and brother.”

— Musician Quincy Jones “We count ourselves unspeakably fortunate to have been immersed in Nelson Mandela’s story and legacy. It’s been an honour to have been granted such proximity to a man who will go down as one of history’s greatest freedom fighters and advocates for justice. I have had the privilege of spending time with President Mandela and I can say his sense of humour was as great as his optimism.”

— Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company released Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

“I am so happy that Nelson Mandela is at last truly free. I will wave to him as he transforms into everything around me and on into the cosmos. What a race to run, Life gave him. That he made it in so much beauty tells us who we are, and who we can be.”

— Author Alice Walker.

“Today the world lost one of the true giants of the past century. Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honour, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve — a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.”

— Morgan Freeman, who starred as Mandela in Invictus.

“Portraying Nelson Mandela, in the film Goodbye Bafana was a defining moment in my life and my career. We, as a society, have been blessed to live in a time that Nelson Mandela has lived, loved, and led. What he has done for his country, his countrymen, and everyone on this planet may not be achieved again. Ever. I will always honour him as a saint.”

— Actor Dennis Haysbert

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hen you walk into the room, you get a feeling these children are something else, something different.

In what is a rarity in primary education, these children have chosen what they are going to learn and what’s more, it’s genetic engineering.

It may seem unusual and a bit out of this world, but if you were in Methven Primary’s school hall to see these children you would understand why.

The two groups of Years 1 to 5 and 6 to 8 pupils that meet alternate Thursdays in Methven are not your everyday children from the foothills.

From the articulate language they use, the left-field ideas, to the unique problem-solving thought processes, it is obvious these kids are ahead of the pack.

These pupils form the Foothills GATE, a gifted and talented school programme for pupils handpicked from Methven Primary, Mt Somers-Springburn, Mayfield, Our Lady of the Snows, Lauriston and Mount Hutt College.

The new initiative was launched during term three this year.

“The research shows there is a high likelihood of a gifted child becoming disenfranchised when they are not being catered for.

The suicide rate is higher, the drop-out rate is higher later on, so having the opportunity for these kids to get together is quite valuable,” Methven Primary principal Chris Murphy said.

The New Zealand education curriculum states schools must provide for all pupils, from those at the bottom to those at the top of the class.

Numerous Mid Canterbury schools, mainly those with a larger roll, already run such programmes.

Mr Murphy feels today’s schools tend to put huge focus on lifting the performance of pupils who may be struggling, and fair enough too, but that sometimes came at the detriment of the brightest pupils.

“Schools have always done well for the kids at the bottom end, but have always struggled with what to do with kids at the top, and quite often it’s such a small group so they don’t get pushed or extended as much as they could,” he said. he Foothills GATE aims to deliver a broad curriculum based around individual learning styles that develop critical thinking skills.

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With so much emphasis on pupils who are struggling at school, sometimes those at the top are fo talented pupils in the area.

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education. The idea of the Foothills GATE is to get these pupils together under one roof who are all like minded.

Mr Murphy says it allows them to feel comfortable to step outside of their comfort zone.

Quite often they may be reluctant to speak up as they would rather sit back with the rest of the class, and prefer to work on their own.

“Quite often these children think differently to other children, they have some left field ideas and ways of solving problems,” Mr Murphy said.

The Guardian was asked to sit in on a class run by gifted and talented facilitator Rosie Robinson.

The room was bustling with small groups dotted around the hall, each child dressed in mufti

to avoid segregation and encourage new relationships.

After a rigorous brainstorming period, this class of bright youngsters decided they wanted to learn about genetic engineering this term.

The group has been quick to embrace technology where knowledge is readily available at their finger tips, and they work enthusiastically together.

Guest speakers who are experts in genetic engineering have paid visits, and a trip to Lincoln University to extract DNA from an organism are only part of the experience.

The group were asked to perform a play based on a news clip showing an extinct animal coming back to life with medicine they had produced.

Each group had their own take on how they presented the play, and without a script, presented theatrical plays that would have had many Hollywood directors impressed.

What was striking was the articulate language they used, the expressions they had and just how far they took each play – all things they likely would have kept inside on a regular day at school. osie Robinson has been asked to lead the Foothills GATE after running a similar course for a cluster of small schools in South Otago in the past.

She was a resource teacher of learning and behaviour, and after working with children of various abilities she decided gifted and

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talented children were an area of interest for her.

Today she is a teacher at Our Lady of the Snows and once a week takes a day out to facilitate the Foothills GATE. “One of the things you have to remember is these kids aren’t necessarily the top of the class all the time.

“These kids think differently, have a higher order of thinking skills, and I think that’s one of the things parents sometimes misunderstand.”

A collaborative approach has spread the funding cost across the six schools to open up the course.

Mr Murphy admits it was somewhat of a juggling act, but with each of the schools giving up two or three reliever days

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orgotten about. MYLES HUME finds out how a cluster of schools in the Mid Canterbury foothills are catering for gifted and

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they have found the funds to run the programme. In action since mid-way through term three, a review will be launched into how effective it was.

That will be a vital time, as it will determine the future running of the course, and create stronger collaboration between the foothills schools which feed into Mount Hutt College.

So what has Ms Robinson seen from her groups?

At times, she admits, she has found herself blown away.

“They have made a lot of progress at different levels. They have come up with what they are learning and the way they have retained the knowledge is amazing. As a group they have got to really know each other and work as a team.”

Top left and right – Facilitator and teacher Rosie Robinson with Mid Canterbury pupils who make up the Foothills GATE, a programme that brings gifted and talented children from foothills schools together.

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Top right – Foothill Gate pupils (from left) Lily Goodwin, 10, Amelia Taylor, 11, and Rosemary Taggart, 12, act out a play involving genetic engineering. Technology also plays a vital part in the Foothills GATE programme.

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In brief Stoner’s final fling Casey Stoner’s V8s experiment comes to an end in Sydney this weekend - and the two-time MotoGP champion couldn’t be happier. The 28-year-old yesterday conceded 2013 didn’t pan out the way he had hoped after switching from two wheels to four in the V8 Supercars’ second-tier series.

Driving a Holden for Red Bull Racing Australia, Stoner has only managed two top-10 finishes in 16 races this season. His average finish is 19th.

- AAP

Jaguars end streak Chad Henne completed 12-of27 passes for 117 yards and two touchdowns as the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Houston Texans 27-20 yesterday, snapping a seven-game home losing streak.

The Jaguars improved to 4-9 in the National Football League season as they halted the franchise’s worse losing streak at home by winning there for the first time since November 2012. “We had opportunities and our guys really believed in themselves,” said Jaguars coach Gus Bradley. - AFP

Thunder sign Mendis Sri Lanka’s Ajantha Mendis is the latest signing for the Sydney Thunder, providing a dangerous leg-spin threat in the T20 Big Bash League starting this month. The 28-year-old Mendis has played 17 Tests since his 2008 debut, taking 64 wickets at 34.20, but it’s in T20 that he’s really excelled. He has an overall economy rate of 6.56 over 85 career T20 matches, including figures of 6-8 against Zimbabwe in September 2012.

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Seven years for del Nido Jose Maria del Nido, president of Sevilla football club, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement and breaching the course of justice, the club said yesterday. Del Nido, a lawyer, was accused of charging the local authority in Marbella millions of euros for work that was either unnecessary or never even carried out between 1999 and 2003. The 56-year-old was first sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for the crimes by a provincial court in Malaga back in 2011. Sevilla confirmed that his appeal to the Supreme Court had only been succesful in reducing that sentence by six months.

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Soccer sin bin?

UEFA should consider introducing rugby-style time penalties in football to replace yellow cards, the president of European football’s governing body, Michel Platini, said in an interview yesterday. The UEFA boss believes such time penalties would be fairer because they would immediately favour the team directly affected by the player’s foul. At present, a player who picks up a number of yellow cards - either during the same game or during a succession of matches - is suspended for the next game. “It’s an idea, a suggestion that would need to be tested. We have to see if it’s really good for the game,” Platini told Spanish daily AS, referring to rugby’s method of sending players off a period of ten minutes. - DPA

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■ MOTOR RACING

Whincup throws down gauntlet

By Roje AdAimy Drivers usually say practice times mean nothing - but not Jamie Whincup.

The V8 Supercars championship leader was fastest overall after three sessions yesterday at Sydney Olympic Park, a circuit not normally kind to his Holden.

And Whincup admits that counts for a lot heading into the season’s final two races and one of the closest title showdowns in recent memory.

“It doesn’t mean anything mentally, but certainly technically it does,” said Whincup, chasing his record-equalling fifth crown in six years.

“It’s been a good start to the weekend.

“We’re in the best position to keep moving forward tomorrow.”

The Holden driver outpaced teammate and nearest championship rival Craig Lowndes, who failed to break into the top six in any of the day’s three sessions.

Lowndes needs to overcome a 20-point deficit to beat Whincup to this year’s crown and claim his first title since 1999.

Whincup has never finished better than fifth in the Sydney 500’s eight-race history, while Lowndes is the only repeat winner with victories in 2011 and 2012.

“I have blocked it out,”

Jamie Whincup in his Commodore is the man to beat in the Sydney V8s today.

30-year-old Whincup said of his poor record.

“I’m not too concerned but I’m certainly aware that ...

Lowndsey’s been the most successful guy around this place.

“He’s going to be incredibly hard to beat.

“I’m going to have to do something a little bit unexpected to beat him this weekend.”

Fellow championship contender Mark Winterbottom - 124 points off the lead - finished the day third fastest, behind Holden young gun Kiwi

Scott McLaughlin in second.

Outside hope Will Davison came in sixth.

Winterbottom struggled earlier in the day, only managing the 15th and 22nd quickest times in the opening two practice sessions.

“We’re obviously up the front somewhere.

“Hopefully, we’ll qualify well and put some pressure on, just not hold back and have a go,” he said.

The brutal street course didn’t take long to draw first

blood on the first day of V8 action.

Lee Holdsworth’s Mercedes hit a wall and suffered front-end damage in the closing stages of practice two, forcing him to sit out the following session.

While his mechanics managed to piece his car back together for the final 30-minute run, a starter motor issue ended his day early.

Qualifying begins today at 11.55am (AEDT), with the category’s first twilight race starting at 5.10pm (AEDT). - AAP

■ FOOTBALL

Brazil ‘will be ready for World Cup’

By ChRis WRight On the eve of the draw, and amid lingering doubts all the venues will be ready in time, a trio of Brazilian football legends yesterday vowed their country will host a successful World Cup. As FIFA readied the 32 balls representing each qualified team to be distributed across eight groups of four in the northeastern resort of Costa do Sauipe former champions Ronaldo, Bebeto and Mario Zagallo insisted Brazil will meet the challenge of hosting the event for the first time since 1950.

Preparations have been marred by months of speculation, given credence by regular FIFA reports, of some of the 12 stadiums spread across the vast country of 200 million may not be ready.

In Costa do Sauipe, both

FIFA and Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo have admitted that three stadiums are running late and another three will only be inaugurated in January, with FIFA finally dropping a firm December 31 deadline.

Last week’s fatal accident, which left two construction workers dead at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, has also increased fears as to Brazil’s ability to stage the jamboree.

But Bebeto and Ronaldo, ambassadors for the event, and former player and coach Zagallo stressed Brazilians should be proud of their country’s efforts.

“Everyone wants to come to the World Cup, where they will see the passion of Brazilians for football,” said Ronaldo, who scored both goals in the 2002 final win over Germany and who has been travelling the world as a Brazil 2014 ambassador.

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ardise things. There is no chance an arena won’t be ready _ all will be ready for the World Cup.” Bebeto, 1994 champion with the Selecao, reinforced the message.

“We have struggled hard to get where we are.

“And where we are is the result of the struggle and efforts of all Brazilians,” said Bebeto, shrugging off criticisms of preparations by fellow former

star-turned-politician Romario.

The draw at the northeastern Brazil resort of Costa do Sauipe will has a complex system designed to separate teams from the same continent as far as possible, but some groups will contain two European sides, with the Old Continent having 13 of the 32 qualifiers.

The presence of all eight former champions - only surprise package Bosnia will be making their debuts - means there could be one or even two “groups of death”. Brazil could theoretically face two European former champions in the shape of for example, France and Italy.

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke will oversee the draw and will be joined on stage by eight former star players, including Englishman Geoff Hurst, the only man to score a World Cup final hat trick.

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■ RUGBY

In brief

‘Huge honour’ caps big season

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Being named the Heartland Player of the Year at the Steinlager Rugby Awards in Auckland on Thursday night put the icing on a big season for Mid Canterbury’s Jon Dampney.

“It was a massive honour,” Dampney said.

“I was actually a bit nervous when they read my name out.

I didn’t know what to do and I was taken aback by it.”

The 30-year old was handed the captaincy by incoming coach Glenn Moore and the rangy loose forward led from the front guiding his team to seven wins in the round robin, including securing the Hanan Shield, and then scored a try in his side’s 26-20 win over North Otago to lift the Meads Cup. Dampney was on the field when Mid Canterbury lost to Wanganui in 2008 and 2009 so to lift the Meads Cup this season, the first time Mid Canterbury has claimed the top prize and the union’s first silverware since a third division title in 1998, was a big moment for Dampney.

“It’s just been an awesome season.

“It has been a massive season and a privilege to play with the boys and how it’s all gone.

“Full credit really has to go to the whole team, because I’m just one person of a group of

30-odd that were involved.”

He was also involved with the Mid Canterbury sevens team qualifying for the nationals.

To top things off he was named the Heartland Player of the Year at the New Zealand Rugby Union awards, where he got to rub shoulders with the big names of New Zealand rugby, the likes of Kieran Read and Richie McCaw, and he was also one of them for the night.

“We had Andy Ellis and Marty Banks at our table, and some of the All Blacks were just across from us.

“They all came over to yarn with Andy and obviously we got to as well which was pretty cool.

Glenn Moore had often heaped praise on his skipper throughout the season about how Dampney genuinely led the team, and if all goes to plan next year could be even bigger.

He could captain the Hammers in a Ranfurly Shield challenge in July and should bring up 100 caps in Mid Canterbury colours during the season when they can hopefully defend the Meads Cup. “It’s exciting times for the union and something to look forward too.

“I can’t wait for the year ahead and to get that milestone will be good but I have to get selected first again and do all the right things first.”

It’s not too often that Steve Hansen hesitates.

Serve him up some item about the All Blacks or an issue in the game and he will soon be in full voice.

Quiz him about himself and he is nowhere near as comfortable.

Ask him what he has learned about himself since the All Blacks won the World Cup

in 2011 and he dithers. There are a few ums and aahs and he repeats the question before he starts.

“I learned that an open and honest approach with you blokes [media] has worked okay, I have learned that everyone’s job is easy until you have to do it yourself,” he says.

“I have learned I like it, I like doing it. It suits me.

I enjoy the role more than I do being an assistant, but it is just a privilege to be part of a team. That hasn’t

Steve Hansen: ‘It is just a privilege to be part of the team’

Perry’s Crusade begins Tim Perry has been named for his first start in Crusaders colours, but not with the oval ball. Perry has been named to play for the Crusaders in their annual Charity Cricket match against the All Stars XI tomorrow to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand. The reigning champions, the Crusaders XI, will be captained by Andy Ellis, a former Canterbury age group cricketer, who can also call teammates Mitchell Drummond, Tyler Bleyendaal and Colin Slade who have also represented at age grade level. The All Stars XI will be captained by Crusaders Coach Todd Blackadder. He is joined by his assistant coach Tabai Matson and fellow rugby identities Stu Loe, Robbie Deans and Leon MacDonald while former Black Caps Geoff Allott and Stephen Fleming bring some valuable experience to the side and help the All Stars’ chances of breaking the Crusaders XI’s winning streak. The 20/20 match begins at 11am on Sunday at Christchurch Boys’ High School.

Heineken Cup snubbed England face the alarming prospect of entering the 2015 Rugby World Cup without players battle-hardened by European competition after their clubs announced they would be missing from next season’s Heineken Cup. Premiership Rugby declared yesterday it is “pursuing other options” after owners and chief executives from all 12 top-flight teams confirmed they will not be involved in European competition.

In a repeat of 1998-99, the decision leaves England’s clubs isolated from the rest of Europe from next season.

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Hansen’s verdict: It was a special year

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changed and I am still excited by it. You get better at coaching the more experiences you have, and as long as you are open and flexible in your thinking you are going to benefit from those experiences.”

Hansen is the boss, but he is prepared to delegate and filter the broad talents of his staff.

He does his stint and works hard on allowing others to perform their roles.

Some of that coaching might be done in a meeting room or at the breakfast table. Most of Hansen’s hands-on work is done at a Thursday session before a test or a drills session.

“The type of approach we take is that we debate things as a group and then whoever takes the session goes about that business,” he said.

When he took the coaching baton from Graham Henry last year, Hansen was apprehensive.

He’d thought about the job for some time, then decided he had to do it.

“The more you do it, you see

you can cope and success also gives you more confidence. It is like a player, the more belief you have as a player you are prepared to try things.”

Confidence was important, but it could also inhibit progress. Changes had continued in the All Blacks with 12 new players used this season after nine last year. Sometimes alterations came because of form, others because of injury.

“I believe everyone gets the same good luck and bad luck as each other but it is about what you do with it and how you deal with it,” Hansen said.

“We could take the attitude that it’s a disaster if someone gets injured or we can decide that he is injured so let’s see how another guy goes.”

Hansen’s off-season will be occupied by time with his extended family and his impending wedding to Tash Marshall.

“It will be time for my family.

They make the sacrifices so it is important to give them my focus,” he said.

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SBW up for Golden Boot Australian World Cup winners Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Johnathan Thurston are among six rugby league stars shortlisted for the Golden Boot award. Melbourne teammates Smith and Cronk and North Queensland’s Thurston are joined by the Sydney Roosters’ Kiwi star Sonny Bill Williams, South Sydney’s England ace Sam Burgess and Scotland’s Danny Brough as nominees. The 2012 winner, Kevin Sinfield, missed out on the shortlist for the annual award for the world’s best player as judged by international media.

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Dragons upsizing The Big Red V is set to go up a size in 2014, with Kyle Stanley preparing to become the NRL’s biggest halfback. Having turned sizeable five-eighth Trent Barrett into a halfback for the jointventure’s inaugural campaign in 1999, St George Illawarra will go even bigger in the No.7 next season in the form of 188cm and 96kg Stanley. Traditionally the domain of the smaller, crafty playmaker, Stanley is big enough to play in the back row. It’s safe to say there will be no easy targets in the Dragons defensive line next season, as Wollongong begins to resemble the land of the giants. Josh Dugan has added to his frame at fullback, while Gerard Beale is looking to add bulk in his comeback from a ruptured knee, as he aims for a centre position.

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In brief Firebirds ‘slim chance’ After a disastrous first innings saw them slump at one point to 26-6 at Mainpower Oval in Rangiora, Wellington rebounded in fine fashion but will still need an inspired final day with the bat to avoid defeat in their Plunket Shield match. Canterbury, who held a 93-run lead at the halfway mark, resumed the third day on 192-6 before eventually declaring their second innings to a close on 376-8.

Andrew Ellis (109) and Todd Astle (64) combined to form a 134run stand for the seventh wicket, helping the hosts set a fourthinnings chase of 470.

- APNZ.

Draws appear likely Otago and Northern Districts spent the day conspiring to make their match at Cobham Oval interesting, but both sides may run out of overs, while Central Districts seemed content to take a draw from their visit to Eden Park. In Whangarei, while the Volts and the Knights made up for two lost days with a wild third, the match will require some more creative captaincy to avoid a draw.

Otago appeared giddy at finally getting some time in the middle, stumbling through to 93-6 before Derek de Boorder made a surprise declaration. Northern Districts were slightly more circumspect in reply, with Brad Wilson (64) and Daniel Flynn (78) forming a 133run opening stand before Flynn pulled the pin at 223-8. That left Otago to see out the day on 44-1, trailing by 86 runs and leaving a collapse or an extremely generous declaration the only routes to reach a result. Central Districts’ clash with Auckland also saw the opening two days rained out, but Jamie How opted for the opposite approach at Eden Park’s Outer Oval as his side batted the full day to reach 381-6 at stumps. - APNZ

Tribute to Mandela Ashes foes Australia and England temporarily set aside their bitter rivalry as the sporting world mourned the death of Nelson Mandela. Wearing black armbands the two teams joined in a minute’s silence on the field before play in the second Test at Adelaide Oval as the capacity crowd stood. It was a moment symbolic of the former South African president’s unique power to unite people in sport and life, a gift that being celebrated in worldwide tributes from sport figures that swamped social media on Friday.

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Huge task for England England will hope a docile Adelaide Oval pitch proves to be their saviour with Australia making the most of their good fortune to score 9(dec) for 570 yesterday. England will resume on today’s third day of play in the second Ashes Test on 1-35.

The tourists will be looking to Kevin Pietersen, who has scored a hundred and a double-century in his two previous Adelaide Tests, to put on another batting master class. Pietersen will need to be right on song to rival the superb performance of Aussie skipper Michael Clarke (148) who stroked 17 boundaries off 245 balls in a classy hundred, his fourth century of 2013.

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■ CRICKET

Cairns launches counter-attac

BY ANDREW ALDERSON

Chris Cairns’ legal team has struck back at revelations he is one of three former New Zealand players being investigated by the International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit over allegations of matchfixing. Daryl Tuffey and Lou Vincent are the others.

Andrew Fitch-Holland of Britain’s Argent Chambers was the barrister who helped Cairns clear his name last year in the London High Court.

The case came about after former Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi tweeted allegations the former New Zealand cricketer was a match-fixer in January 2010.

Fitch-Holland says Cairns’ legal team met earlier yesterday.

He says he’s “sickened” that more than 20 months on from the original victory, Cairns’ life is dominated by “unsubstantiated media claims”.

After the Cairns-Modi libel case - where the onus was on Modi to prove his tweet was justified, rather than Cairns proving his innocence - Justice David Bean said Modi had “singularly failed to provide any reliable evidence” and awarded Cairns damages of

‘Chris Cairns is not a cheat and the High Court recognised this’

90,000 pounds ($174,000).

Fitch-Holland says nothing has changed.

“Nobody from the ICC has contacted Chris but they will be hearing from him via a letter from his legal firm Collyer Bristow.

[Britain’s] Daily Mail will be receiving similar correspondence as the media organisation who released the names first, as will Lalit Modi as a reminder of his injunction to not speak about the matter.

“The trouble is people read the newspaper headlines but also need to read what really happened

[in the case] which is published online.

“I just don’t understand how these allegations can be bandied about when they haven’t had the decency to communicate the news to him.

“If there’s an investigation Chris will co-operate fully.

“Chris Cairns is not a cheat and the High Court recognised this.

I can’t believe this nonsense has come around again, especially if the claims are true about this investigation going on four months.

“What more does the guy need to do?

“When will this madness end At the moment there is no need to deny anything because nothing has been put to him.

“When he knows what he’s facing, he’ll give a full account.”

Fitch-Holland called on the New Zealand public’s “innate sense of fairness” to ensure there was no “where there’s smoke there’s fire” perception.

“Chris’ reputation is clean and he walked away from that court room with his head held high.

Some self-confessed liars took the stand against him in the Modi trial and he emerged with his credibility intact.

Suddenly this nonsense comes back and reduces Chris and his family into a state of high distress.

“Match fixing is a major prob lem in cricket and it is right th it is properly investigated.

“But what’s the agenda here with all this rumour, innuendo and pub talk?

“He shouldn’t be tried by me “At this stage we’re only oper ing under the assumption Chri even involved.”

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Black Caps making hard work of i

BY DAVID LEGGAT Sometimes the best way to judge the mood of a team comes at the end of a day’s play.

So it was with the West Indies last night as they kicked a football about. Where over the last three days it has been a largely muted exercise, last night there was piles of exuberance.

It’s not hard to work out why, after a day in which they acquitted themselves with plenty of grit and took what was shaping as an embarrassing four-day first test defeat into the fifth day.

New Zealand are still warmest of favourites, considering the West Indies are effectively 47 for six.

But, inspired by Darren Bravo’s terrific double century, they will feel far more confident going into the second and third tests.

And, who knows, if Bravo and captain Darren Sammy can get through the first session today, the concluding stages may yet be intriguing.

The West Indies will start at 443 for six, with Bravo on 210 and Sammy 44, their seventh wicket stand worth 80 so far.

“We’re still on top but there’s still a lot of hard work to do,” said spinner Ish Sodhi last night.

“If we can knock a couple over early in the morning hopefully we (won’t) have too many more to chase.”

Sodhi in his third test had a long day, wheeling away exclusively from the northern end of University Oval for 28 overs, but it was a tiring day for the bowlers as the pitch steadily died.

New Zealand would have fancied their chances at the start of the day, but test wins aren’t supposed to be easy and the most satisfying are those that are hard-won.

New Zealand got two wickets in the first session, including the key man, Shiv Chanderpaul.

Travel adjustments were briefly contemplated until Bravo, with help from Narsingh Deonarine (122 runs for the fifth wicket), De-

nesh Ramdin (a 56-run partnership for the sixth) and Sammy, changed all that.

Bravo was magnificent. He had slices of luck along the way, a run out threatened to derail him at 76 and Neil Wagner spilling a return catch on 82 and there was the odd error outside off stump.

But he unfurled a stream of glorious shots, primarily through the offside and reminiscent of his cousin, the great Brian Lara.

His 200 came with an edge past slip shortly before stumps. By the end he had batted for 9 hours 18 minutes, faced 404 balls and hit 30 fours.

“Just keep going,” came the tweet from Lara at one point. He did.

Comparisons with his cousin are unfair, but Bravo, talented but yet to write his name in capital letters on the West Indian landscape, stood tall in his own right yesterday.

New Zealand would have made their job far easier had three catches not been spilled. Tim Southee,

off a difficult return catch, Brendon McCullum at short off put chances down off Deo ine.

Sodhi did well, sticking to one end, believing the directio the small bit of breeze helpe drift. Still, a handful of overs the pavilion end, just to try it might have helped.

The seamers toiled hard found Bravo in the mood to punish anything loose. In time this may come to be seen as a career-changer for the 24-year-old Trinidadian.

Near the end, Sammy speared a shot just wide of Southee at cover.

That was soon after he’d banged Sodhi for two sixes in an over. He can’t run, with a gluteal strain but he hits the ball cleanly.

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Cricketing colossus

BY DAVID LEGGAT Shiv Chanderpaul has made a career of putting out fires in the cause of West Indies cricket.

The little Guyanan has been the rock in the middle of often modest West Indies batting units since making his test debut in 1994 and, at 39, shows no signs of packing it in any time soon.

He could not do the trick yesterday, lasting only 16 balls in a rare lapse.

But the first innings was a different story, as he became the seventh batsman to pass 11,000 test runs, on his way to 76, an innings which showed him to be in a different class from his teammates.

This is Chanderpaul’s fifth tour of New Zealand, and presumably his last, although you wouldn’t bank that as a certainty given his longevity, fitness and passion for batting, which remains undimmed.

Over the years he’s accumulated 28 centuries, has a test average in excess of 50 and has developed a technique which works for him.

His stance must be disconcerting for a fielder at mid wicket, who will have Chanderpaul facing him as the bowler runs in.

Then, at the moment of delivery, his right, or front, leg swivels around so that at the moment of bat making contact with ball he is in what approximates a standard position.

Trying to get Chanderpaul to explain the stance, or much else about his cricket isn’t easy.

A quiet man, he prefers to let his bat speak for him.

And it roars, long and loud.

“He just comes in and does his stuff every day.

“He’s a professional guy,” said West Indies opener Kirk Edwards.

“For a young guy he’s more someone you have to watch and learn.

“He doesn’t talk much.”

Ian Bishop, once among the production line of fearsomely fast bowlers who helped the West Indies rule the world of cricket for a couple of decades, and now a commentator, roomed with Chanderpaul, played with and against him and has a high appreciation of his game.

“I think the desire is still there and he’s a fierce competitor,” Bishop said.

“People look at him from a distance and that body language, with his head bowed walking to the crease, doesn’t indicate that.

“He’s not afraid of anyone, be it fast bowling or great spinners.”

Certainly there’s no swagger or chest out strut about Chanderpaul.

He cuts an anonymous figure in the field.

You suspect he’s simply biding his time until he can put his pads on again.

His origins were humble, growing up in the town of Unity, on the Demerara coast of Guyana.

“He talks about the hours of hitting a ball underneath his home, about his old man bowling at him on a concrete strip from closer than 22 yards,” Bishop said.

No one was safe - be it his mother or sister or an anonymous passerby - from being persuaded to bowl at him.

“That epitomises his desire to perfect his art. “[Former West Indies player] Jimmy Adams once said if Shiv came back from a tour and you asked him to go straight to Timbuktu to bat he would.”

He is capable of adjusting his tempo - he scored the fourth fastest test century on his home ground Georgetown off 69 balls against Australia in 2003 - but has largely settled for a sedate, compact, no frills philosophy, although he possesses some attractive strokes.

Along with now-retired Brian Lara, by their distinctly different methods, he’s been the bulwark for the West Indies in recent years, an antidote to the sparkier, free shotmaking types in the batting order.

- NZH

SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL ■ Age: 39 ■ Born: Unity village, Demerara,

Ashburton Guardian 37

Tables turned in Ashes

BY STEVE LARKIN This is Ashes cricket as we know it: one team blundering, butterfingered and bickering.

The other team rampant, rubbing it in, with plenty of runs.

One team can’t take a trick; the other performs party tricks.

One team’s captain has the answers; the other is full of questions.

Only this time, roles are reversed; tables have turned. What was up, is now down. This time, Australia are doing the pulverising.

And England are impersonating the Australians, who were hapless and near-hopeless in three consecutive Ashes defeats leading into this series.

The English display in the second Test has been comical, and Australia are laughing.

In the initial four sessions, the Poms dropped four catches. And oh, how they paid.

Michael Clarke made 148 - he was dropped on 18 by Joe Root, and on 91 by Ian Bell. Brad Haddin made 118 - he was dropped on five

by Michael Carberry, who turfed a dolly.

The English did send Haddin walking when the Australian was on 51 - he snicked a catch to Matt Prior. Haddin trudged toward the dressing room as England’s Ben Stokes marked his first Test wicket with high-fives all-round.

The celebration lasted less than a minute.

Haddin, halfway off the ground, was told to stay put while umpires checked for a no-ball. Sure enough, replays showed Stokes over-stepping the crease and Haddin strode back to the pitch as Stokes literally cursed his, and England’s, ill-fortune.

Stokes’ stressed state wasn’t helped when Haddin, after a resolute forward defensive shot to end the over, walked towards England’s new chum and, with no subtlety, reminded the bowler of his error.

Haddin continued chirping as umpire Marais Erasmus played traffic cop and, with an arm, tried to shepherd the verbally-sparring players from each other.

The incident was symbolic.

In these Ashes, what was out, is now in.

- AAP

Guyana ■ Tests: 151 ■ Runs 11,040 ■ Average: 51.58 ■ Hundreds: 28 Brad Haddin

Racing 38 Ashburton Guardian

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

■ TRENTHAM

In brief Collett cops ban New Zealand jockey Jason Collett will be forced to take a lengthy break following a suspension at Gosford on Thursday. He was found guilty by Racing NSW stewards of careless riding for his handling of Mineko and that he allowed his mount to shift out approaching the 100 metres when insufficiently clear of Opulence Start. Collett’s ban commences after Saturday week’s Villiers Stakes at Randwick. - APNZ

Queen scoops award Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was presented with the award for Owner of the Year at the 32nd Annual Horseracing Awards in London on Thursday. The award recognised the first success of a reigning monarch in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot with Monsun mare Estimate in June. The award was collected on the Queen’s behalf by her racing manager John Warren.

- APNZ

Hydrogen facing extreme Trentham test Hydrogen gives every impression he can cope with the extreme 3200 metre trip and confirmation of that at Trentham today will set him on a path to a far greater goal.

“We’ll get a really good line on him and whether he’s a cups type of horse,” said co-trainer Dale Bussey, who prepares the fiveyear-old with wife Katie.

“We think he can cope with the two miles and we’d love to get him through to the Auckland Cup and sneak in with a light weight.”

The country’s leading ride Mark Du Plessis will continue his association with Hydrogen in the Allfinanz Chalmers Two

Mile Premier and he has no doubt about the horse’s staying ability.

“Mark is confident that the two miles will be no problem to the horse,” Bussey said. “This is a nice race for him now he’s strengthened up and he’s settling better and improving all the time.”

A winner over 2100 metres at Ellerslie in the spring, Hydrogen has placed in three of his four subsequent starts. Last time out he ran fourth over 2400 metres behind the Group One winner More Than Sacred at Te Rapa where he lost a plate during the running.

A half-brother to the Gr.2 Eight Carat Classic winner Ala-

M8 Methven harness

gant Satin and a grand-son of the New Zealand Oaks winner Brown Satin, Hydrogen’s versatility will also stand him in good stead at Trentham.

“He’s a horse that seems to cope with anything and he’s won on a heavy track and run on everything in between, although we would prefer it dead,” Bussey said.

Fellow Cambridge visitor Pump Up The Volume made up some late ground for sixth in the More Than Sacred race at Te Rapa and he’s another who should manage the marathon trip while Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Cup placegetter Double O Seven will appreciate a drop back in class.

- APNZ

Jockey Mark du Plessis

Sunday at Mt Harding Racecourse

Methven Trotting Club Venue: Mt Harding Racecourse Meeting Date: 08 Dec 2013 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.05pm (NZT) SEED PRODUCTION LTD TROT $7500, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2400m 1 0x084 Price Of Fame (1) fr ...................... T Trathen 2 00070 Filigree Sheree (2) fr .................A Tomlinson 3 Cracker Comet (3) fr 4 x00x0 Strathfield Sun (4) fr ....................C DeFilippi 5 x8824 Contella (5) fr .....................................B Ford 6 Celeste Franco (6) fr ..................P Anderson 7 5 Sunbloc (7) fr ............................J Smolenski 8 004 Lavros Segil (8) fr..........................B Orange 9 7257x Trouble Rieu (9) fr ........................ S McNally 10 7539x Henley Park (10) fr .................... B Borcoskie 11 Monkey Luck (11) fr ................... K Cameron 12 600 Jean Sebastien (12) fr........... J Markham (J) 13 94033 Total Exposure (13) fr..................... D Nyhan 14 0000x Pat’s First Sun (14) fr ......................M Jones 15 04806 Never Fear (15) fr ..........................P O’Reilly 16 0x370 Waihemo Angus (U1) fr............ S Smolenski 17 00x32 Sueno (U2) fr ............................... G O’Reilly 18 079x Ton Tine (U3) fr ......................... R Anderson 19 59559 Breeny’s Smile (U4) fr ..................M Heenan Emergencies: Cracker Comet, Celeste Franco, Monkey Luck, Ton Tine

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12.30pm PLACEMAKERS ASHBURTON MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 Magical McGyver (1) fr ......................J Dunn 2 26924 Betabeeasy (2) fr ........................... K Barron 3 342 Franco Salisbury (3) fr.............. T Woodward 4 09 Albuquerque (4) fr .......................C DeFilippi 5 6000x Shantahlia Hero (5) fr................. K Cameron 6 57x4 The Mighty Falcon (6) fr ............ T Bagrie (J) 7 50x97 Never Pay Retail (7) fr ............. S Golding (J) 8 55703 Rollin Thunder (8) fr ................. S Thompson 9 0x445 Destined For Glory (9) fr .................... R May 10 7 Major Patron (21) fr .......................B Orange 11 6 Efficient (22) fr........................... R Anderson 12 45630 Doctor McDreamy (23) fr ...............T Chmiel 13 Irish Spark (24) fr .........................M Heenan 14 67930 Tubby Jim (25) fr .................................B Butt 15 60709 Stans Day (26) fr .............................. D Dunn 16 Raphoe (27) fr 17 5958 Nicky’s Dynamic (28) fr ........... C D Thornley 18 8673 The Grinder (29) fr .....................C Markham

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Emergencies: Shantahlia Hero, Never Pay Retail, Major Patron, Raphoe 3 1.00pm RAY MAYNE HOSE & FITTINGS LTD MOBILE PACE $7000, 4yo+ c1 mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2300m 1 15528 Mach’s Gladiator (1) fr.............B Thomas (J) 2 41090 Independent Anvil fr ..................... Scratched 3 40347 Batini (2) fr .............................. J Thomas (J) 4 6069x Will He Rule (3) fr...................D Stratford (J) 5 27809 Drover’s Eyre (4) fr ..................... L Lester (J) 6 51660 Steal A Grin (5) fr .................M Anderson (J) 7 143 Clarisa (6) fr ............................... S Ottley (J) 8 x2739 Eva Sophnally (7) fr...............J Anderson (J) 9 0x005 Shantahlia’s Star (8) fr .................. K Butt (J) 10 185x Match Point (21) fr......................... K Cox (J) 11 00123 Firebreak (22) fr ......................... R Close (J) 12 95608 Lockey (23) fr .......................... S Golding (J) 13 01753 Ireby Betty (24) fr ......................C Hunter (J) 14 71x09 Perissa (25) fr.........................V Atherton (J) 15 43332 Lumos (26) fr.............................M Purvis (J) 16 08529 McArdles Smooth (27) fr ..............A Veint (J) Emergencies: Independent Anvil, Lockey 4 1.30pm CHRISTIAN CULLEN CANT’Y MARES SERIES HT MBL PACE $9000, c0 to c5 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 480x5 Woodlea DJ (1) fr ............................. D Dunn 2 x1108 Speedy Ideal (2) fr ....................... S McNally 3 47667 Tubbys Sister (3) fr ........................... A Lowe 4 30013 Cullen’s Mercy (4) fr ..........................J Dunn 5 61339 Maiden Rome (5) fr ................. S Golding (J) 6 7324x Strata Star (6) fr ..............................M Jones 7 3735x Little Miss Sunshine (7) fr .............R Holmes 8 8x375 Still Laughin (8) fr ........................... K Barron 9 5x076 Supreme Gem (9) fr ................ C D Thornley 10 12132 Helena Jet (21) fr ............................... R May 5 2.00pm DARFIELD HOTEL FILLIES & MARES MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 02024 Sell A Bit (1) fr .............................. S McNally 2 89x00 Artistic Lover (2) fr...................... S Ottley (J) 3 45 Smiling Design (3) fr ........................... J Hay 4 Jessie’s Delight (4) fr.......................... R May 5 03038 Fulham Flyer (5) fr ........................R Holmes 6 I Ching (6) fr ..................................... J Keast 7 008x0 Gracetown (7) fr ..................................B Butt 8 6x970 Washington Diva (8) fr ...................T Chmiel 9 9750 Rockahula Arden (9) fr ................G R Payne

10 0 Nothingtolaughabout (21) fr .... C D Thornley 11 07 Highview Aria (22) fr .........................J Dunn 12 x0499 Starry Delight (23) fr..................... G O’Reilly 13 69 Keep On Smiling (24) fr.................... C Ward 14 09038 Is This Love (25) fr ........................ K Butt (J) 15 25608 Major Talk (26) fr ................................M Kerr Emergency: Gracetown 6 2.30pm TEXTILE BAG & SACK PACE $7500, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2400m 1 5 Royal Chance (1) fr .......................... D Dunn 2 9 Highview Jimmy (2) fr................ T Bagrie (J) 3 22023 Threebee (3) fr ..................................J Dunn 4 40034 Classiegent (4) fr.......................... G O’Reilly 5 00x Arcano (5) fr ....................................... R May 6 03x90 Kotare Vernon (6) fr .................... S Ottley (J) 7 Hayleys Comet (7) fr .................... S McNally 8 World Famous (8) fr ......................R Holmes 9 0 That Guy Finn (9) fr.....................C DeFilippi 10 26550 That’s Hunting Pink (10) fr 11 Tuxedo Max (11) fr 12 4400x Diamond Rule (12) fr...........................B Butt 13 969x Shivarji (13) fr ...............................M Heenan 14 8 Snowden (14) fr .........................C Markham 15 70 Good Deed (15) fr ............................... J Hay 16 808x2 Lifestyler (16) fr ........................ T Woodward 17 30400 Westburn Elite fr........................... Scratched 18 67084 Taia’s Kid (17) fr ........................... P Wakelin 19 570x8 Freezer Bay (18) fr ........................L O’Reilly Emergencies: Highview Jimmy, Hayleys Comet, That’s Hunting Pink, Tuxedo Max 7 3.05pm METHVEN 4 SQUARE SUPERMARKET GREEN MILE MBL PACE $17,500, ffa mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 1x63P Franco Nattai (1) fr .........................B Cusdin 2 6x213 Castellina Lover (2) fr ....................... D Dunn 3 60695 Flyover (3) fr ............................ C D Thornley 4 2656x Motu Cup Day Cullen (4) fr .........C DeFilippi 5 43308 Sleepy Tripp (5) fr ..............................J Dunn 6 531x1 Glencoe V C (6) fr ........................ G O’Reilly 7 x7478 Jason Rulz (7) fr ................................. R May 8 74560 Choise Achiever (8) fr .....................M Jones 8 3.40pm METHVEN PANEL & PAINT HANDICAP PACE $9000, c2 to c3 spechcp pace, stand, 2400m 1 81335 Jeans Mattjesty (1) fr ................. R Close (J) 2 17x60 Jerry Garcia (2) fr ..........................L O’Reilly 3 22x64 Graduate Under Fire (3) fr ................J Dunn 4 7556x Franco Revel (4) fr .........................T Chmiel

5 x6188 Top Brass (5) fr .......................... S Ottley (J) 6 1x163 Star Black (6) fr ................................... J Hay 7 0074x Johnny Mick (U1) fr .......................... D Dunn 8 46594 Roxy Bromac (1) 10 ....................J Young (J) 9 x3817 Debs Pal (U1) 10............................. G Smith 10 x210P Alta Tallyho (U2) 10 ............................ R May 11 1P617 Comenche (U3) 10.................. J Thomas (J) 9 4.15pm METHVEN 4 SQUARE SUPERMARKET GREEN MILE MBL TROT $14,999, ffa mob. trot, mobile, 1609m 1 94009 Trip’s On Me (1) fr .........................L O’Reilly 2 8x6D3 Dixie Commando (2) fr ..................J Geddes 3 57793 Donaldson (3) fr ......................... R Close (J) 4 3023x With Intent (4) fr ............................. D Nyhan 5 617x1 Royal Aspirations (5) fr............. S Smolenski 6 0x009 Pink Diamond (6) fr ................... C Middleton 7 97957 Uncas (7) fr .............................B Thomas (J) 8 14306 Quality Invasion (8) fr .....................G Archer 9 x2080 Clover Don (9) fr..........................C DeFilippi 10 x5104 Phil’s Gift (21) fr ................................. R May 11 x1141 Master Lavros (22) fr .......................M Jones 12 0x365 King Charlie (23) fr ......................N McGrath 13 42262 The Fiery Ginga (24) fr..................... A Clark 10 4.50pm SMITH SEEDS LTD MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 166x4 Mundaka (1) fr.....................................B Butt 2 08038 K C Pedro (2) fr ................................ D Dunn 3 70358 Johnny Eyre (3) fr ...................... L Lester (J) 4 00013 All Cash (4) fr ..................................... R May 5 x00x0 Linel (5) fr ..............................J Anderson (J) 6 803x0 Eyre Hostess (6) fr ..................... S Ottley (J) 7 31 Moondyne Joe (7) fr .......................T Chmiel 8 4787x Vienna Eyre (8) fr ..........................B Orange 9 97878 Baileys Desire (9) fr ........................M Jones 10 94731 Miss Lisa (21) fr .......................N Purdon (J) 11 5460x Sailing On (22) fr ..................... C D Thornley 12 508x7 Gamblers Delight (23) fr ....................J Dunn 13 88579 Libby Jaccka (24) fr ...................... G O’Reilly 14 52x28 Mixed Emotions (25) fr ................J Young (J) 15 45602 Native Geminthenight (26) fr ...... R Close (J) 16 P0807 President Obama (U1) fr ..............T Williams Emergencies: Linel, President Obama 11 5.15pm NEUMANNS TYRE SERVICES HANDICAP TROT $8000, 4yo+ c1 to c2 discrhcp trot, stand, 3000m 1 57520 Danke (1) fr .................................. S McNally 2 020x1 Spell (2) fr .................................. S Ottley (J)

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0748x Evander D Go (3) fr ........................N Burton 00091 Diggerboy (4) fr ..................... J Markham (J) 08980 High Distinction (5) fr ....................... A Lowe 00754 Fancy Pants (U1) fr .....................C DeFilippi P0x00 Armed Force (U2) fr ......................B Orange 09316 Gin Rummy (U3) fr .......................I Cameron 02100 Sundown In Paris (1) 10....................J Dunn 0x920 Keeping The Dream (2) 10 ........... G O’Reilly 1x400 Wally’s Girl (3) 10 ............................. J Keast 13654 Sundons Comet (4) 10 ....................... R May 8162x Earls Buller Girl (5) 10............. C D Thornley 6x808 Native’s Brite Spark (U1) 10....... R Close (J) 12 5.50pm GLUYAS MOTOR GROUP PACE $8000, 3yo+ c1 pace, stand, 2400m 1 4464x Stradowan (1) fr .............................T Chmiel 2 50062 Shadow Rider (2) fr .....................C DeFilippi 3 08409 Tapestry Franco fr ........................ Scratched 4 17620 The Black (3) fr .......................... S Ottley (J) 5 4909x Unique Chance (4) fr...................G R Payne 6 607x0 Lady Under Fire (5) fr......................... R May 7 05559 Special Bella (6) fr......................C Markham 8 76804 Waikari Cash (7) fr ....................C Hunter (J) 9 8630x Black Ice (8) fr .............................. S McNally 10 90076 Shantahlia Knight (9) fr .................R Holmes 11 0105 Jacko (10) fr ........................................ J Hay 12 9x427 Thorn In My Side (11) fr .......... C D Thornley 13 47x57 Midfrew Tarpediem (12) fr .............B Orange 14 x0360 Loch In C (13) fr ........................... G O’Reilly Pacifiers off : Jean Sebastien (R1) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS Race 1: Trouble Rieu, Never Fear, Total Exposure, Sueno Race 2: Franco Salisbury, Destined For Glory, Betabeeasy Race 3: Lumos, Clarisa, Firebreak, Eva Sophnally Race 4: Helena Jet, Still Laughin, Cullen’s Mercy Race 5: Smiling Design, Keep On Smiling, Major Talk Race 6: That Guy Finn, World Famous, Hayleys Comet Race 7: Jason Rulz, Glencoe V C, Sleepy Tripp, Choise Achiever Race 8: Graduate Under Fire, Jerry Garcia, Roxy Bromac Race 9: Master Lavros, Royal Aspirations, The Fiery Ginga Race 10: All Cash, Moondyne Joe, Mundaka, Miss Lisa Race 11: Sundown In Paris, Sundons Comet, Armed Force Race 12: Jacko, Shadow Rider, Thorn In My Side

Waipukurau gallops Sunday at Avondale raceway

Waipukurau JC Venue: Waipukurau Meeting Date: 08 Dec 2013 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.45pm (NZT) NZ BLOODSTOCK SPRINT 3YOF MAIDEN $12,000, MDN 3YOF, 1200m 1 35x02 Irish Strings (4) 56.5................ M Cropp (a3) 2 3 Slice Of Class (3) 56.5 ....................R Myers 3 020x Awesome Diva (9) 56.5 ..........L Whelan (a1) 4 7269 Rose And Crown (11) 56.5 ......... R Hannam 5 7x058 Indolljence (1) 56.5 ..........................S Doyle 6 8x09 Asania (5) 56.5................................S Collett 7 Donnah (2) 56.5 .................................M Hills 8 Far Fetched (6) 56.5........................J Riddell 9 La Grande Chocolat (8) 56.5 .........H Tinsley 10 28886 Miss Rhythmic (10) 56.5 11 Sentiment (7) 56.5 ......................... J Parkes 2 1.15pm WAIPUKURAU NEW WORLD DASH RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 0x136 Countessofdelgatie db (3) 58 ..........R Myers 2 1 Pikachu d (5) 58 ..............................S Collett 3 32106 Theodore dmh (2) 58 .................. B Lammas 4 15 Showstopper d (1) 57.5.................. J Parkes 5 1x0 Princess’ Jewel dm (7) 57 ........K Leung (a2) 6 822x9 La Sommeliere h (4) 56.5 ......L Whelan (a1) 7 1800x Deo Volente d (9) 56.5 .......................M Hills

8 1788x Fast Fiction mb (8) 56.5 ............. M Dee (a2) 9 3970x Workingclass (10) 55.5 ....................K Smith 10 x9487 Pit A Pat (6) 54.5 ..............................S Doyle 11 8x900 Pure Octaine m (11) 54.5............ R Hannam 3 1.45pm CHB MAIL/CHB RAM BREEDERS SPRINT MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 77x Fidel (7) 58.5 .................................. J Parkes 2 900x Golden Penny (5) 58.5 .....................K Smith 3 00 Lucasaurus (4) 58.5 ................ M Cropp (a3) 4 Pickpocket (9) 57 ............................R Myers 5 8x0 Interpreting Halo (10) 57 ............. R Hannam 6 Tigger Tahnee h (8) 57 ................ B Lammas 7 89x5 Takemehomebabe (1) 56.5 ................M Hills 8 9. Paierau Puke (3) 56.5 ....................D Walker 9 0x09x Baby Gee (6) 56.5.................... A Taylor (a2) 10 28886 Miss Rhythmic (2) 55 .............L Whelan (a1) 4 2.15pm PGG WRIGHTSON MAIDEN STAYERS $7000, MDN, 2100m 1 65623 Platinum Marseille (4) 58.5 ............H Tinsley 2 84043 Seaweed (17) 58.5 .........................D Walker 3 x8940 Vettriano (15) 58.5 ...................... R Hannam 4 Cajero (11) 58.5 ......................... M Dee (a2) 5 80 Bayrum (19) 58.5 ........................... J Parkes 6 07889 No Commission (16) 58.5 ...............J Riddell 7 0 Sir Gus (3) 57.....................................M Hills

8 76625 Missteeflying (9) 56.5 ................. A Frye (a1) 9 26 Thieving Sisters (12) 56.5 ............. T Russell 10 0x084 Adrienne (8) 56.5 .................... M Cropp (a3) 11 40x05 Skybird (7) 56.5........................... B Lammas 12 0x560 Miss Professional (14) 56.5........ V Johnston 13 00668 Andalou h (18) 56.5 ................. A Taylor (a2) 14 x8078 Bailar Riovida (1) 56.5 ........ M Dravitzki (a2) 15 4x006 Scotch Hoppa (6) 56.5 ....................R Myers 16 06x09 Serene Star (5) 55 ........... J Shackleton (a2) 17 07090 I’m Bella (2) 56.5 18 07x80 Inscrutable (13) 58.5 19 29760 Another Bachelor (10) 58.5 Emergencies: I’m Bella, Inscrutable, Another Bachelor 5 2.50pm AON INSURANCE MILE RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 x5195 Grenade d (3) 59............................H Tinsley 2 00004 Mibachelorboy dm (8) 58.5 ......... R Hannam 3 36x20 On The Hill (9) 58.5 ....................... T Russell 4 x50x0 Cajun td (7) 57.5 .............................J Riddell 5 617x3 Legless (1) 57.5 ............................. J Parkes 6 0x00x Colt Forty Five (2) 57 .....................D Walker 7 08x09 Crafty Lad t (5) 57 ...................... A Frye (a1) 8 x8637 Exabelle d (4) 56.5 ..................... M Dee (a2) 9 0x682 Slippery Mistake (10) 56 ............ V Johnston 10 97778 Jabez (6) 56 ...........................L Whelan (a1)

6 3.25pm LEOPARD HOTEL CHRISTMAS CUP RAT- 8

ING 75 $10,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2200m 1 x8001 No Fear (3) 62 .......................... A Taylor (a2) 2 x4041 Fredrick William m (2) 58.5 ......... B Lammas 3 06157 Mr Handsomelad d (8) 57 ..............H Tinsley 4 27x01 Gamer Royale (9) 56................K Leung (a2) 5 3x093 Mendoza (5) 55.5 ............................R Myers 6 08078 Kipkeino mh (4) 55.5 ......................D Walker 7 x0311 Milan Miss m (1) 55.................... M Dee (a2) 8 22123 Pearls (6) 54.5................................ J Parkes 9 27008 Lasswade (7) 54.................. M Dravitzki (a2) 7 4.00pm AWASSI/C R GRACE MAIDEN MILE $7000, MDN, 1600m 1 99426 Hunter Street b (3) 58.5 ................D Bradley 2 47x70 Kool Return (5) 58.5.................... R Hannam 3 x4374 Beautiful Man (12) 58.5..................H Tinsley 4 x4300 Coz I’m Lucky (4) 58.5 ....................R Myers 5 29760 Another Bachelor (11) 58.5 6 070x Brotha Lite (8) 58.5 .........................J Riddell 7 8768x I’m Sam (6) 58.5 ................................M Hills 8 00x00 Tatanka (1) 58.5 ......................T Kahlon (a4) 9 468 Hedge Fund (10) 57 .......................D Walker 10 8 Earl’s Court (2) 57 ....................... B Lammas 11 x6x67 Danced All Night (9) 56.5 ........... M Dee (a2) 12 40x00 Last To Dance (7) 56.5 ...........L Whelan (a1)

4.35pm THE BEST TRAVEL MAIDEN SPRINT $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 83x6x Mr Woohoo (11) 58.5 .................. B Lammas 2 00x Larry (9) 58.5 ......................... S Rennie (a4) 3 Ooee (6) 58.5 ..................................J Riddell 4 7. Sand Bird (14) 58.5 5 5 Dibiase (3) 57.................................H Tinsley 6 7 National Pride (15) 57 7 7x3 Princess Sienna (1) 56.5............. R Hannam 8 4734x Rosehip (12) 56.5 ............................S Doyle 9 439x0 Miss Raquel (16) 56.5 ......... M Dravitzki (a2) 10 454 Revolve (10) 56.5 ............................R Myers 11 587x6 Alicia (8) 56.5 ............................. M Dee (a2) 12 6 Azraf (13) 55 .................................. J Parkes 13 0 Deli Girl (4) 55 ....................................M Hills 14 9 Don’stopgirl (5) 55 ...................... A Frye (a1) 15 80x00 Hula Grace (7) 56.5 ................T Kahlon (a4) 16 24 Mr Frankey b (2) 57 Emergencies: Hula Grace, Mr Frankey

Blinkers on: Rose And Crown, Asania (R1), Vettriano, Serene Star, Inscrutable, Another Bachelor (R4), Grenade, Cajun (R5), Mr Handsomelad (R6), Coz I’m Lucky, Another Bachelor, Earl’s Court (R7) Blinkers off: Jabez (R5), Kipkeino (R6), Kool Return, Danced All Night (R7) Winkers on : Slice Of Class (R1), No Commission (R4) Winkers off : Vettriano, Another Bachelor (R4), Another Bachelor (R7) Pacifiers off : Inscrutable (R4)

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Ashburton Guardian 39

Retired champion keeps on winning

Jeremy Markham and Diggerboy.

■ METHVEN

First win very special

BY JONATHAN LEASK

Markham and Diggerboy team up again on another grass track at Methven It’s took just over two seasons, 40 drives tomorrow looking for another first, a and it was only by a nose, but Jeremy win on their home track.

“It’s something that I probably want Markham’s first win was worth the wait.

Markham was at the reins of rank to happen more than anything else at the outsider Diggerboy at the Motukarara moment to win one at home.

“Mum text me earlier in the week and Races on November 24 and the trotter that had shown little form in its 10 starts said he’s been working really well. As produced a strong run on the turn for long as he trots away well and doesn’t home to claim the win by a narrow mar- make a mistake he’s a good chance.

“He’s the kind of horse that if he puts gin.

But that margin was enough for the it all together he’s good enough to win.

“Mum and dad have always known 23-year-old junior driver to get his first that, they have had that many reasons win, paying $36 for the effort.

It was a special day claiming his maid- to give up, but they keep going with en win, made be more special that Dig- him.”

The five-year-old Diggerboy is unfangerboy is trained by his father Carl and cied, but who knows what could happen owned by family friends, the Blackwells. at the infamous punters’ graveyard. www.facebook.com/propertybrokersash “Mum and dad have spent a lot of time It is Methven’s Green Mile race day, with the horse and he’s been a fair bit of trouble for them so finally good to get a with 12 races and featuring the Methven win on him, a first win for mum and dad Four Square Supermarket Pacers Green Mile and Trotters Green Mile. and to break my duck.”

The New Zealand Cup’s most winIn May 2010 Markham joined Mark Purdon’s stable at Rolleston and became ningest driver Ricky May will drive Jathe strapper of one of our greatest trot- son Rulz with fellow cup runner Sleepy ters - I Can Doosit - which was retired Tripp the other favourable pick in the this week completing a high-to-low sev- pacers green mile, while the trotters field has Royal Aspirations, Master Laven days for Markham.

After witnessing I Can Doosit’s last ros and the Fiery Ginga.

Each of the green mile races has a borun which was the “writing on the wall” for one of the all-time greats, Markham nus $2000 at stake if the winner cracks the course record. had another first.

The trotters record is owned by last “Later that day at Geraldine my horse galloped behind the mobile and I locked year’s winner, Quality Invasion with a wheels with another sulky and got time of 1:58.6 while the pacers record tipped out. It’s the first time I’ve been is held by Ohoka Dallas of 1.56.5 set in 2011. tipped out at the races.”

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Ken Breckon could be excused for not answering the phone on his birthday next year.

Because for the second birthday in three years he got news he didn’t want relating to his champion trotter I Can Doosit.

Breckon, the Aucklandbased owner of Breckon Farms which owns I Can Doosit, was informed at 7am that the great horse would need to be retired, as suggested in yesterday’s Herald.

“I actually read the Herald before I got the news and was a bit shocked it was that bad,” said Breckon.

“Then Bill Bishop [vet] rang and said there was no point going on with the horse because his fetlocks were too bad. So he is coming home now to retire at the farm. It is a real shame but he has been a hell of a horse and we have loved racing him.”

The phone call brought back memories of Breckon’s

birthday two years ago when he was stunned to hear his best broodmare Sheezadoosie, I Can Doosit’s dam, had died in a paddock accident on their Waikato farm.

But there was one lighthearted moment yesterday for Breckon. A cheque turned up at his Auckland office for the winning stake in last season’s Cochran Cup at Melton, which turned out to be I Can Doosit’s last race in which he finished second.

“It turns out the winner I Didn’t Do It got disqualified after a long drawn out case, which was only resolved recently. So we actually got a winner’s cheque for the old boy yesterday after he was retired.”

Meanwhile, one of New Zealand’s other best trotters, Peak, has had a setback and will not be coming north for this month’s trotting features.

“He has a bruised fetlock after kicking a wall,” says trainer Tim Butt.

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Lecturer avoids jail A former Perth university lecturer has escaped imprisonment after admitting he took thousands of dollars in bribes to increase exam marks for students who would otherwise have failed.

Tuck Cheong Foong, 54, pleaded guilty in the Perth Magistrates Court in June to three charges of corruption and two counts of bribery following a Corruption and Crime Commission investigation into offences committed at Curtin University in 2012. Foong increased the marks of two students who should have failed units for their Bachelor of Applied Science (Construction Management and Economics) degree.

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The sun rises above Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Department before the transfer was ordered that Bensayah feared for his safety. Kirsch had also appealed to the Defense Department and the Algerian embassy.

“Mr Bensayah believes Muslim extremists will expect him to sympathise with them, only because he was held at Guantanamo,” he said. “He fears that they will attack or perhaps kill him when they learn he does not support them.”

Ian Moss, adviser to Sloan, said that “while detainees may have a range of reasons for not wishing to return to their

countries of origin - including a desire to avoid prosecution - it is our practice to repatriate detainees when this can be done consistent with our security and humane treatment policies”.

Ameziane, who lived in Austria and Canada, fled Algeria in the early 1990s during the country’s civil war, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which had helped represent him since 2006.

A member of the minority Berber community, he feared harsh treatment from security forces and had made multiple

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applications for asylum, his lawyer, Wells Dixon, said.

When president George W. Bush’s administration cleared Ameziane for release in 2007, the Algerian, who was never charged with a crime, had asked to be returned to Canada.

“The United States government’s forcible transfer of Djamel Ameziane to Algeria is a blatant breach of international law,” said Viviana Krsticevic, executive director of the NGO Center for Justice and International Law, adding that he “risks torture or persecution” in Algeria.

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US woman live tweets husband’s fatal crash An American woman has tweeted about a horrific car crash in real time - only to find out her husband was killed in the accident, police say.

Caran Johnson, 47, follows police scanner exchanges and began tweeting about the collision on Wednesday afternoon, the Seattle Times reported.

“This accident sounds horrible,” she wrote in her first tweet, following up with “omg that is so horrible”, as details emerged of the crash on the 205 freeway in the northwestern US state of Washington.

Then she began to worry.

“I’m trying not to panic, but

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US sends detainees home Two detainees have been sent home to Algeria from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay despite the prisoners’ protests that they face persecution there.

The Pentagon said Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane and Bensayah Belkecem were transferred from the prison after a review “examined a number of factors, including security issues.

“The United States co-ordinated with the government of Algeria to ensure these transfers took place with appropriate security and humane treatment assurances,” it said yesterday.

The transfers were the latest in a series stemming from President Barack Obama’s much-delayed efforts to meet his vow to finally shut down the US detention centre in Cuba.

“We are making progress on the president’s commitment to close Guantanamo, and we look forward to continued progress on many fronts,” said Cliff Sloan, the State Department’s special envoy for Guantanamo closure.

But the men were fighting repatriation to Algeria, which Bensayah’s lawyer said was the only country authorised by US law to accept its nationals detained at Guantanamo, although the State Department denies that this is the case.

“This was not voluntary - at all,” Bensayah’s lawyer Robert Kirsch told AFP by email.

“Our hearts go out to Mr Bensayah and the family he never will see again.”

Bensayah had demanded to be returned to Bosnia, where he was arrested in 2002 and where his wife and daughters lived.

The lawyer told the US State

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my husband left work early and he drives 205 to get home. He’s not answering his phone.”

Her next tweets, cited by the Times and screen-captured by the kgw.com news website in neighbouring Oregon state, gradually grew more apprehensive.

“And he’s late,” she said.

“Well he used his bluetooth, so he would answer his phone. He also wasn’t feeling good so his work was concerned when he left.”

“I’m a basket case.”

“I just called his work and he was feeling faint when he left work #panic.”

She continued: “What do I do now? he might have pulled over because he was feeling faint and then passed out or had a seizure. he has epilepsy. “how long do i wait for him to come home before I call the police?”

She ended up calling, but at first didn’t get a definitive answer. “i just called 911 and they transferred me after I gave them his licence number and told me that they will call me back. wtf ?”

Finally, she tweeted bluntly: “it’s him. he died.”

Her husband, Craig Johnson, also 47, lost his life after he

crossed a traffic median in his Hyundai Elantra near the town of Vancouver, just north of the Oregon state line, according to Washington State Patrol spokesman William Finn.

He struck a Toyota pickup driven by a 54-year-old woman, who suffered a broken femur, collapsed lung and broken pelvis, Finn said.

Officers went to her home to break the news of his death, but Johnson already seemed to know, he said.

Her final tweet, at 10.30pm, stated: “My boys are finally asleep. I feel like a block of cement fell on me.”

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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has claimed an attack on a Yemeni defence complex that killed 52 people, in a statement published on the internet by its media arm. The defence ministry complex was “stormed and attacked on Thursday ... after the mujahedeen (holy fighters) proved that it accommodates drone control rooms and American experts”, it said on Twitter yesterday. “As part of a policy to target drone control rooms, the mujahedeen have dealt a heavy blow to one” in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, added the statement by the Al-Malahem foundation.

“Such security headquarters in partnership with the Americans in their war on these Muslim people are a justified target wherever they may be,” warned AQAP, classified by the US as Al Qaeda’s deadliest branch.

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Radioactive waste Mexican authorities have recovered dangerous radioactive material from a cancer-treating medical device that was on a stolen truck and abandoned in a field, the interior ministry says. It was in a capsule two centimetres in diameter and authorities are now trying to isolate it safely before taking it to its original destination at a waste storage facility, the ministry said in a statement yesterday. A family that handled the device is being monitored for health risks. Soldiers had set up a 500-metre safety perimeter around the hazardous material.

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Microsoft ‘concerned’ Microsoft is joining the movement to encrypt traffic that flows across its networks, citing “serious concerns” about government surveillance. The move follows similar actions by Google and Yahoo in the wake of revelations of vast online surveillance programs led by the US National Security Agency.

“Like many others, we are especially alarmed by recent allegations in the press of a broader and concerted effort by some governments to circumvent online security measures - and in our view, legal processes and protections - in order to surreptitiously collect private customer data,” Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said in a blog post yesterday.

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The whole world mourns Coen Lammers EDITOR

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id Canterbury people, and not just those with South African ancestry, are sharing a strong sense of loss for one of the greatest human beings to walk this tiny planet.

The death of Nelson Mandela was not unexpected after a long period of ill health but his passing still sent shockwaves throughout the world.

Even here in Ashburton, Mr Mandela may not have affected everyone’s lives, but most of us will realise mankind has lost one of its special specimens.

Most of us will be familiar with the story of the activist lawyer spending 27 years incarcerated on Robben Island before becoming the first black president of post-apartheid South Africa.

His wisdom, kindness and ability to forgive after decades of terror and torture by the apartheid regime, saved the fledgling rainbow nation from descending into all-out civil war and prevented extreme elements from determining the fate of South Africa.

Even though Mr Mandela has been out of politics for some years, his mere presence and the respect he enjoyed from all sections may have been a stabilising factor. Many fear some old grudges and agendas may resurface in South African politics after his death.

Many of us will remember Mr Mandela appearing in the Springboks jersey at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, which was a defining moment to unite the white folk who love their rugby, and the black population that despised the Springbok jersey as a symbol of the apartheid era.

This was just one of the countless moments in which Mandela managed to find common ground in his deeply divided country.

Some years ago I stood in the tiny cell on Robben Island in which Mandela languished for 27 years and I find it hard to fathom how he did not emerge filled with anger and a thirst for revenge.

Our generation can count itself fortunate to have witnessed the creation of a legend, because future generations may struggle to believe Nelson Mandela was not a myth.

His kind smile, his soothing voice and his wise, and often cheeky, remarks will be missed.

YOUR VIEW Suitable location?

Just took the kids to New World to enjoy the Xmas activities, only to discover the area in which the activities were being held were surrounded by pallets of beer. Surely New World could have found a more suitable location for children and families to gather?

Legal highs Tasman and Nelson councils have taken a stand to have them banned - Angus is hoping our community will make a decision when they release a “draft policy” with the next breath he states “banning sales is not an option” then using the good ole bullcrap scare tactic “it would drive the product underground” so is this yet another “have your say but we won’t listen” campaign yet again?

Job role Re: Tony Vainerere comments about the increase in Pacific Islanders to Ashburton not having a GP and his grumble about “he himself has to try and enrol people”. Is that not your role as our Pacific Island community rep and health promoter?

Thank you Can I please convey the grateful thanks to the community

of Ashburton and the County Women’s Lions for the sterling effort for Toot for Tucker this year. Well done Ashburton.

The shelves of the Community Food Bank are looking a lot healthier going into the Christmas period.

May I also extend my thanks to all of the community groups who have supported the Community Food Bank over this past year. Without your support we would be unable to assist the families of our town to the extent that we are able.

I pray God’s blessings on you all.

Judith Lilley Community Food Bank manager

Tinwald intersection In reply to the letter in Thursday’s edition of the Guardian, the reason why a considerable number of residents from Carters Terrace feel the need to go left at Carters Terrace and then achieve a U-turn outside Lushingtons or somewhere thereabouts, to head north, is obviously due to the change of the updated New Zealand Road Traffic rules, that create having to give way to all the traffic under the viaduct who are also turning left to head north.

Early, when the change of the new road rules came into place, a local senior police officer informed me that it was quite

okay to use the above practice, when needed, if you didn’t so wish to sit and wait for up to 10 minutes at the Carters Terrace corner to get on to the road north.

He also implied it was something he himself had done on occasions, but obviously once again only to be done, like any situation, if it was safe to achieve at the time.

It’s unfair to use Lushington’s carpark as a thoroughfare to find another way of getting out on to the main road, also Wilkins Road is no better at times with traffic built up, and not being able to see past large vehicles parked up against the kerb.

Most people realise only some residents living on the East side of Tinwald, who drive a vehicle, are retired and may have all day to sit patiently at this shocking corner.

A lot of residents in east Tinwald are still in the working world, our time is valuable, we did not choose to change the New Zealand Road Rules.

Hence you should all now understand why traffic lights in Tinwald are extremely urgent, as the most effective and safe resolution to the above issue, as would be a roundabout. At that point, who knows, maybe an extra bridge would not be required anywhere.

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***** To that person who did not have the balls to put a name to their view in Thursday’s Ashburton Guardian about the so-called idiots that do U-turns outside Lushingtons.

Well, I would like to inform you that I am one of those idiots. Being the narrow-minded person you are, it would seem that you do not live on Carters Terrace.

Since the road rule that all right-hand turning traffic must give way to left-hand turning traffic has come into force, it has become necessary for many of us to do a U-turn on the main road whether it is outside Lushingtons or further up the main road.

To be fair, many of us have got enough going on in our lives with the bridge affairs that are affecting us landowners on Carters Terrace at the moment so a bit of compassion would go a long way instead of telling us idiots what to do.

Sometimes we can be waiting for 15-20 minutes to get out on to the main highway.

Would you sit there for that length of time trying to get to work, get kids to school or attend kids sports practices etc?

If it takes a U-turn outside Lushingtons to get out on to the main highway, we will do it whether you like it or not. We don’t have a choice.

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arlier in the week I was driving along the road when I saw a man standing on a ladder rubbing furiously on a new concrete wall.

And I mean a very new concrete wall.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I stopped briefly to ask him what he was up to.

He explained he was scrubbing out black spray paint on the wall.

Sure enough, there were visible tags there and around the corner.

Nothing skilful or meaningful, just black spray can scribble.

I have a friend whose fence is also the target of tagging from time to time.

When you have worked hard to make your property attractive it must be like getting a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.

Earlier in the week I saw similar amateurish rubbish on a sign set up at the CTV site.

The sign paid tribute to the many who died there in the February earthquake.

To vandalise the sign, the lowlifes that did it must have been totally without feeling or respect.

Notice I say tagged.

To me, tagging is mindless scribble usually derived from the so called “gangster” name the tagger gives himself.

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Note: I make no apologies for using the word “he”.

Graffiti is another deal completely.

Australian artist Ken Done has made his name in art

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circles internationally for his graffiti art, which can sell for more than most of us pay for our houses.

Now for the past couple of weeks a friend of mine has

also been paying big bucks for graffiti art with a difference.

She is shelling out for paint, brushes, and, most of all, spray cans.

Dozens of them.

Young people are travelling for as much as an hour and a half each way daily to spray a fence.

One very significant difference between them and the taggers is that they got, and were given, permission to paint the fence.

Another is there is the enormous talent showing up in the not-yet-completed work.

And they are doing it in broad daylight, in full view of passing traffic.

And why is my friend doing this?

About a year ago her beloved 17-year-old son was murdered.

He was a smiling, happy and talented young man, not just in the visual arts, but in song writing and recording.

His friends and family are gathering to paint the mural in his memory.

I know some of them, and I’m confident none would ever go out tagging.

Their mural is a tribute to a much-loved friend, brother and son, and in my view, couldn’t be more appropriate.

I’ve seen photographs, and am totally in awe of their colourful, professional work.

It’s a pity that our black spray taggers are so totally lacking in talent and respect.

There’s an old saying: “Fools’ names and fools’ faces are often seen in public places.”

Seems to me that saying fits the talentless, brainless idiots who wander round Ashburton at night with black spray cans!

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By George! Georgie Aitken puts some Georgie Pie pies into the oven ahead of Wednesday – the day Georgie Pie comes to Ashburton.

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Georgie Pie is coming to Ashburton.

Fifteen years after the doors of the last of the fast food chain’s restaurants were closed in New Zealand, Georgie Pie pies are making a comeback around the country, after a trial reintroduction in the North Island last year proved a roaring success.

Ashburton McDonald’s will become the first in Canterbury to sell the pies from this Wednesday.

Ashburton McDonald’s owner Dave Whalley said the pies would be baked on site and the ovens were installed this week, with staff having attended special training to learn how to make the perfect pie.

He expected demand for the pies to be high. “We’ve hired another 10 or 12 staff to handle it,” he said.

Mr Whalley said he’d forgotten how good Georgie Pie pies were, until he tasted one of the new ones. He gave it a thumbs up.

“It’s the original Georgie Pie recipe,

the only difference is we have taken out the MSG,” he said.

Only Steak Mince ‘N’ Cheese pies are currently being sold, but next year another two flavours are due to be added.

Last year’s reintroduction of the pies in the North Island exceeded sales expectations by about 50 per cent, leading to the nationwide roll-out.

Georgie Pie will be available in 107 of the country’s 161 McDonalds restaurants by the end of the year and the majority of its stores nationwide by the middle of 2014.

Get into Christmas gifts that fit the budget Christmas is almost here, again, and oily rag households are busy planning for the special day.

Fortunately, the oily rag community has lots of ideas to take the cost out of Christmas but leave in the fun. Here are some tips to unlock your creativity.

A Wellington reader writes: I have recently been trawling galas, garage sales and op shops for Christmas pressies for the kids.

You can buy fantastic gifts at very reasonable prices. I have bought all my nieces and nephews puzzles and games of their favourite cartoon characters for 20c each and they are still in almost new condition. My nieces are also getting jewellery boxes that were less than 50c each and my son is getting a huge box of Lego we found for $5.

Check out the number of credits you have on your reward cards. Redeem

your points for products or vouchers and use them as gifts.

M.G. from Hastings says: Our wider family got together and decided to limit Christmas gifts to a few dollars per person. That way nobody is too disappointed when they don’t get anything flash. So what can you give for a few dollars?

– Photos with a message printed across them, from digital machines.

– Photo frame, bought or home-made.

– Plants grown from seeds or cuttings.

– Home-made biscuits, cakes, drinks and so on.

– Personalised pens made by printing names (or something more imaginative), on stickers in a small font.

Also make a pen holder to go with them.

– Glue fridge magnets to the back of a

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– A family favourite is chocolate. Look for a mould that has about a dozen deep individual shapes. Slowly melt chocolate in the microwave to coat the sides of the shapes. When they have set, fill with a cold ganache, made by heating 100ml of cream and dissolving 100g of chocolate into it. This can then be flavoured with peanut butter, liqueurs or honey.

– Kids love to get a plastic glass full of lollies or lolly kebabs.

Please send in your favourite tips for frugal gifts so we can share them with others.

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Since share prices have risen more or less across the board, it’s tempting for investors to “follow the herd”; but all sorts of flotsam can wash in on a rising tide and we believe this is a time to be selective.

The New Zealand economy is proving to be quite buoyant, but the sharemarket tends to be forward looking, so some share prices may have already risen beyond the value implied by the forecast earnings of the underlying company.

As a result, Forsyth Barr’s view is that in the next few months some share prices have the potential to be negatively impacted, because certain companies aren’t producing the earnings to support their current value.

Despite this, some recent small business surveys have reported broad-based revenue increases and we’ve also seen a re-emergence of revenue growth.

Our research team favours companies that have provided consistent aboveaverage earnings growth and which have acceptable expected target returns.

In the current market, they’ve identified a number of companies with strong earnings that should support their current share prices.

In particular, they currently favour selected cyclical companies, meaning those that provide goods and services that consumers will cut back on during a recession and therefore benefit from a recovering economy.

We believe it’s important to review your portfolio on an on-going basis and be prepared to avoid the flotsam carried along by a buoyant market.

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

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SITUATIONS VACANT

Gift & Homeware Sales Position

This fulltime role will support the manager and be responsible for providing exceptional customer service. You will be responsible for: • Store presentation through visual merchandising; • Inventory control; • Building customer relationships; • Supplier relationships.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven sales person to build a career in retail. Ideally you will have the following attributes: • Be a team player • Outstanding customer service and selling experience; • Desire for personal development and willingness to learn; • Intermediate computer skills; • Excellent communication skills.

ATS is a dynamic and innovative co-operative offering members the ability to purchase all farm inputs through our retail stores in Ashburton, Rakaia and Methven.

To join this friendly, enthusiastic and motivated team, please apply.

Email your application together with your CV to: hr.manager@ats.co.nz Applications close Thursday 19th December 2013.

Martin Seed Dressing

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A full time permanent position is being offered to assist in our small seed dressing plant at Lyndhurst, 10km from Methven and 27km from Ashburton.

Experience is not essential as full training will be given to the successful applicant.

Operation of machinery and some heavy lifting is involved.

Please contact John Phone 302 1777 (wk), 027 388 6004 or 302 1839 (a/h)

Office Administrator Partime

Motorcycle Service Technician

We are seeking an energetic experienced sales person for our busy and successful Gift & Homeware Store in Ashburton. If you are passionate about customer service, presentation and have a proven sales ability, then you are the person we are looking for.

www.ats.co.nz

SITUATIONS VACANT

Due to a position becoming available in our service department, we are seeking to appoint another service technician to our busy, enthusiastic franchise dealership. Desirably, this person would come from the motorcycle industry already, or the automotive industry, where the necessary training can be given. Jeff Marshall Motorcycles is in a very buoyant, large rural sector. We service the farm and off road sector, and have a large road bike riding clientele as well.

Our service department is spacious, clean and tidy, warm with easy access. Our business is very much customer focused, so applicants need to be the same, be prepared to take responsibility, be honest, have strong self-belief, be physically fit and active, loyal, driven, have a sense of humour and be passionate about motorcycles.

We consider ourselves a pro-active business, and also in the community and motorcycle clubs.

Applicants: • Must have a high attention to detail, • Must be able to work as part of a team, and also be able to work unsupervised, • Must be willing to do on going product training, • Must have a clean drivers licence, • Should have a NZ residency or a valid NZ work Visa, • Remuneration is dependent on experience and skill.

Mid Canterbury Tennis is responsible for promoting and supporting tennis within the local community.

To facilitate this we require a partime administrator to work alongside our volunteers and coaching staff to take care of website maintenance, database management, preparation for tournaments, general administration and some secretarial duties.

This position will require approximately 15 hours/week averaged over the year. Flexibility to be able to work longer hours during busy periods is necessary.

Candidates must be able to show attention to detail, be able to work unsupervised and be a good communicator.

Knowledge of tennis would be an advantage but is not essential.

For details/information package please contact:

Cynthia Christie, President Mid Canterbury Tennis wcchristie@ruralinzone.net or 3022656.

Applications, including a CV, should be emailed to the above address or posted to

“Administrator” Mid Canterbury Tennis PO Box 490 Ashburton 7740

Applications close on 13th December

Check out our business www.jeffmarshallsuzuki.co.nz Application can be made in the strictest confidence by contacting Jeff. Marshall direct on wk - 03 308 2055 cell - 027 431 1744 email - jeff@jeffmarshallsuzuki.co.nz

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Ashburton College CrICKet Club Expressions of interest are invited for key positions for the 2014 cricket season • Ashburton College 1st XI Coach (involved in Saturday Competition play) • Ashburton College 1st XI Manager (involved in Saturday Competition play) Please email expressions of interest to: Ashburton College Cricket Club Via sports@ashcoll.school.nz

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SITUATIONS VACANT

CARPENTER AND APPRENTICE Due to growth in the business, we have vacancies available for experienced carpenters and for enthusiastic apprentices.

If you are keen to work on a variety of exciting building challenges, we want to hear from you.

As well as experience on varied building projects, you will also receive:

KAPA HAKA TUTOR/S A cluster of four Ashburton schools require suitably skilled Kapa Haka Tutor/s to deliver Kapa Haka on a weekly basis.

Further information contact: Andrew Leverton, Ashburton Netherby School.

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Counsellor Ashburton Part time 20 hours per week Presbyterian Support Ashburton has been providing counselling in Ashburton since 1991.

Due to a retirement we wish to appoint a Counsellor who has membership of NZAC or NZPB. We offer: • challenging and rewarding work • an attractive work environment • ongoing training and support • a place in a highly respected team A job description and application form are available by phoning Jackie Girvan on (03) 308 5868 or email jackieg@psusi.org.nz Applications close Friday, 10 January 2014 at 5pm and should be forwarded to: Jackie Girvan Regional Manager Presbyterian Support P O Box 581, Ashburton or e-mail to jackieg@psusi.org.nz

Presbyterian Support is a leading South Island social service agency offering a wide range of services

Relief Milker

Relief Milker, with some previous experience, required to cover staff taking holidays.

Very flexible as to the days in the week you can work. Roster to suit as many or as little milkings you would like to do.

Could start asap and would be definitely required for December, January and February.

We could also offer further milkings for the rest of the season if wanted. Milking 1000 cows in a 60 bail rotary, shed is only three years old with automatic cup removers and Protrack.

Would be able to offer accommodation if required or pay for travel.

10 minutes out of Methven at the Rakaia Gorge.

Contact: Tom Mawle on 021 891 938 or e-mail tjmawle@yahoo.co.uk

Phone 308 5799, before 19 December 2013

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Herd Manager We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and hardworking individual to join our team of staff. The farm is 683Ha, un-irrigated, with 2x 60 bail rotary sheds, milking 1000 cows through each shed. One shed is three years old and the other will be ready for December 2013. Both sheds are fitted with ACR’s, auto teat sprayer and Protrac. We are looking for this position to start immediately.

1000 cows are wintered on farm and 1000 cows off farm. All young stock is off farm most of the time. We aim to rear 500 plus calves and all cows and young stock are DNA tested.

The farm is located 10 minutes from Methven, 40 minutes from Ashburton and an hour from Christchurch. New accommodation is available, various size houses. The school bus is at the gate. We run a 6,2 roster with an attractive salary package which includes; accommodation, electricity, meat, wood, and wet weather gear.

Applicants must ideally have two years’ experience in dairy farming, but we will consider someone who has the right attitude and enthusiasm. The applicants must be able to communicate clearly, work as part of a team, have a sense of humour, an eye for detail and show initiative when required. Honesty and reliability is also a key attribute. Tractor skills are not essential but are an added bonus as we cultivate and re-grass on farm with our own modern equipment. Training will be given in this area. Ag ITO is encouraged. Must be eligible to work in NZ, have a full driving licence and be able to supply two references.

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Apprenticeship Opportunity Newlands are seeking a person who wishes to train as an Apprentice Auto Electrician and make their career in the industry.

The successful applicant will have demonstrated an above average ability to learn at school or at tertiary institutions, a technical ability sufficient to get them started in the trade and an obvious passion and enthusiasm for the opportunity being offered.

Newlands have a proud history of training and employing technicians who are at the top of their game. We are industry leaders and have branches in Ashburton and Rolleston. We service a wide range of vehicle types from cars, trucks and buses to heavy transport and agricultural machinery, with both outlets currently experiencing significant business growth. This position offers the opportunity to get the most out of your career and work in a modern and supportive environment.

The successful applicant will initially be employed on a fixed term contract, ideally during the school holidays, to experience our work environment and to display the qualities we are looking for. Upon the successful completion of this contract an apprenticeship contract will be offered.

If you are interested in the position being offered, and have the qualities we seek, please apply in writing on the application form available from our office together with your CV and references.

Applications should be forwarded to:

The Service Manager, Newlands Group Ltd., P.O. Box 315, Ashburton, 7740 or email to craig@newlands.net.nz www.newlands.net.nz

Casual vacancies available for general hand/ tractor driver/ handyman on our

Teacher Aide Teacher Aide to support a 10 Year old student at our Rural school. We seek a person who is calm, relationship focused and non-judgemental, able to focus on the child and their learning. Previous experience working with ASD children would be helpful (or at least some learning about ASD).

The Minimum requirements would include some experience working with or interacting with older children.

Letters of application close with the Principal, Hinds School, No 5 RD, Ashburton or principal@hinds.school.nz on by December 16 at 4pm.

Application must respond to the above criteria and provide the names and contact details of three referees.

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Our advertising consultant is very good to deal with, always very obliging and always has our business at heart giving us every opportunity available to promote our business.

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Good hourly rate but no accommodation available.

If you’re curious to find out more please ring Nick or Lyz on 027 215 9813.

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HOME IMPROVEMENT WAREHOUSE

$ CASH PAID $ $ $ $ FOR SCRAP $ BUYERS OF ALL METALS Copper, Brass, Aluminium etc.

Looking for any quantity and any quality, priced accordingly.

Also maize contracts available.

Mid-Canterbury Metal Recycling

Phone Blake 0274 343 551

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Conor Rogers Happy 7th Birthday on Sunday. To our special guy. Lots of love, Mummy, Daddy, Dillon and Iona.

Conor Rogers Happy 7th Birthday.

Hope you have a fabulous party on Sunday. Love Nana and Grandad. xx Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our ground floor office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Call Paul to tend to all your appliance repairs great people great service

ElectraServe, for everything electrical . . .

Appliance repairs Washing machines, fridges, freezers, ovens, dryers, dishwashers and all small appliances (toasters, heaters etc).

Please drop your appliance into our workshop or we can come can pick it up.

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Specialising in grass control for lifestyle blocks.

Conventional baling.

Can offer full service.

Mowing, raking, baling and carting.

Also topping.

Phone 303 7680 or 027 390 0002

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

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• Dance/Movement Auditions - Saturday 14 December 2013, at Allenton School Hall, Harrison St. Those wishing to audition for a dancer are required to attend the dance audition.

Registration for the

Ashburton District Christmas Community Lunch 2013 The lunch is being held at the Sinclair Centre, at the rear of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Park Street, Ashburton at 12.30pm on Christmas Day and there is no charge. This lunch is for anyone who would like to share Christmas Day with others.

If you have any questions please phone Maureen at 308 1200 and leave a message.

Everyone auditioning for a Principal or Ensemble role are required to attend the movement audition, unless auditioning for a non-movement role (please refer to Company Requirements).

• Principal, Ensemble & Backing Vocal Auditions - Saturday 14 December 2013 check web site for Company requirements www.varietytheatreashburton.co.nz • Recalls - Sunday 15 December To book your audition appointment, and more information please contact Faye on 3088279.

• Dance Workshop - Tuesday 10 December 6-7pm and 7-8.30pm at the Netherby School Hall.

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Do you need help with transport (please circle one): Yes / No Would you like to perform at item at lunch (please circle one): Yes / No Please return this form to The Trevor Wilson Centre, 215 Tancred St, Ashburton, to Community House, 155 Tancred St, Ashburton or PO Box 581, Ashburton 7740 by Monday, December 16, 2013 if possible.

Notice from IAG NZ to all collision repairers Between November 2013 and June 2014, IAG NZ will be undertaking a review of its aligned collision repairer network. As part of this process, a Request for Proposal (RFP) will be made available on IAG NZ’s website, www.iag.co.nz, from Friday 15 November for collision repairers who would like to be considered for IAG NZ’s collision repair network from 01 July 2014.

If you are an existing collision repairer, please note that from 08 November, your current contract with IAG NZ is extended six months until 31 June 2014.

All collision repairers, including those with existing contracts with IAG NZ, who would like to be considered to be part of IAG NZ’s collision repair network from 01 July 2014 will need to submit a RFP between 9am on Friday, 15 November 2013 and 5pm on Friday, 20 December 2013. RFPs must be completed online and returned to IAG NZ digitally, i.e. via email, during this period.

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Notice of Restricted Closure of Lake Hood

SERVICES: Hay covers, farm truck seat covers, upholstery repairs, shade sails and blinds, marquee and event hire Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more!

151 Alford Forest Road, Ashburton www.petermay.co.nz

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The northern end of the lake from the boat ramp will be closed for the 2013 Lake Hood Open Water Swim on: Saturday, December 14 From 6.00am – 12.30pm for further details www.lakehood.co.nz/lake_activities

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East Street Ashburton (03) 308 0308

CENTRAL SOUTH ISLAND REGION ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING To be held at Fish & Game Boardroom 32 Richard Pearse Drive, Temuka.

Thursday, 12 December 2013, 7.30pm Licence holders and members of the public are invited to attend the public meeting at which Council will present its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 August 2013.

There will be two presentations: • “Environmental Drivers of Phormidium Growth in NZ” • “Stream habitat mapping on Waikakahi.”

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Saturday, December 7, 2013 PLANTS, PRODUCE

Private Sale

Green Peas Pick your own $5 a bucket Phone John 308 3669 Before 8am or after 8pm

TRADES, SERVICES HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

71A Wills Street Open Home Saturday, December 14 at 10am - 11am Newly built three bedroom home, master with ensuite. Open plan living, heat pump.

Double garage with internal access. Patio door off living to easy care section.

SECURITY DOORS & FLYSCREENS. Call us today for a free measure and quote!

HomePlus Ashburton 03 308 2966.

Trademe Ref # DP2369

Enquiries to: 027 448 3405 WANTED

WANTED: young goose for Christmas. Phone 302 9629.

TRADES, SERVICES

4 TINT-A-WINDOW solar protective films, UV block, fade, heat and glare control, privacy and safety films for glass. FREE quotes - 20 years local service. Bill Breukelaar - phone 0800 368 468. www.tintawindow.co.nz

Monday-Friday 8am – 5.30pm Saturday 10am – 1pm

ROOFING - for all your roofing requirements, new roofs, reroofing, commercial, insurance claims, repairs. Licensed building practitioner, Wiki, Vision Roofing, phone 027-476-0203.

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ASHBURTON 832 East St 03 307 9911 www.dne.co.nz 0800 432 633

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SPECIALISED SERVICES

PHARMACIES

Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, East HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring Street, Ashburton. Will be open from 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice. 9.30am - 12.30pm Saturday, from 10.30am DUTY DOCTORS 12noon Sunday, and from 6.30pm - 7pm both This service is for EMERGENCY MEDICAL evenings.

CARE ONLY. Please remember your HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Community Services Card. Emergency ASHBURTON HOSPITAL phone until 8am Tuesday - 0800 700 155.

GENERAL WARDS - (Medical and Surgical): Sealy Street Medical Practice, Sealy Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Surgery will be held from 10am - 12noon and from 6pm - 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212.

Dr Lues, Tinwald Medical Centre, Archibal Street, Ashburton, will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 6565. No appointment necessary.

Surgery phone 308 6565. Emergency phone until 8am Monday 0800 700 155.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

For weekend doctor and emergency details please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners.

DAILY, 2pm - 4pm and 6pm - 7.30pm Children must be accompanied by an adult.

CHALMERS WARD - (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES

N.Z Nectarines 1kg $4.99 bag Fresh Peas 500gm Strawberries Courgettes 500gm Fresh Chicken Nibbles French Bakery Xmas Fruit Mince Tarts 8pk

$3.99 bag $1.89 ea $1.99 bag $6.99 kg $3.99 ea

Specials available from 3/12 - 10/12

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

RURAL TRADING POST

FEED barley for sale. Phone 021 147 3388.

LUCERNE hay 17 med square bales. Suit cattle or sheep, Rakaia area. Ph (03) 960 2335.

RYE grass and red clover hay 550 conventional bales.

NGAIO McKee, artist, recent Rakaia area. Ph (03) 960 works available, many others 2335. at special prices. Call in to UNTREATED SAWDUST. Eastside Gallery Ashford Summer special $10/m3 plus Village, 415 West St, GST ex yard - Adams Ashburton, 10am - 4pm daily. Sawmilling, Malcolm McDowell Rd, Ph 308-3595.

RELAX and enjoy your Open Mon-Fri 7am-5.30pm special occasion in style. Sat morn 8am-12 noon.

AEROVIEW FUNCTION VENUE. Exquisite ambience, PUBLIC NOTICES full catering options, licensed Benneydale – bar. Book your 2014 event Mangapehi – Pureora early. www.aeroview.co.nz District Reunion Call Larraine now, 307 2376.

January 25th/26th 2014 SITUATIONS WANTED Waitomo Club. Te Kuiti Registration forms and 46 YEAR old woman wanting information. full time work. Experience in factory and processing work.

Jenifer Reinhardt Happy to try anything. Please 07 878 4885. phone 308 1654 evenings. jenifer.graeme@slingshot.co.nz Nancy Timmo RURAL TRADING POST 07 878 3303 kntimmo@xtra.co.nz GRASS SEED STRAW David Hunter wanted for the coming 07 886 5337 season.

Phone Jacob da.@xtra.co.nz .

Holdaway 027 422 5464.

Weekend Services MEDICAL SERVICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON PLANTS, PRODUCE

NEW potatoes, dug fresh daily - 2 kg for $5. Buxus 6 pack only $9.90 and hydrangeas in flower at Lakeway Nursery, 100 Grahams Road, Ashburton.

Phone 308 9950.

RASPBERRIES RASPBERRIES P.Y.O. and freshly picked Open 8am - 6pm 7 days Smithfield Road Phone 308 3498

308-1095

PLANTS, PRODUCE PEASTRAW for sale, medium squares. $45 delivered Ashburton. Phone 302 6605.

Southberry Open 7 days 9am - 6pm Freshly picked Raspberries and P.Y.O. No Eftpos.

56 Tinwald/ Westerfield/ Mayfield Road.

Phone 03 308 1338.

NEW POTATOES, digging daily. $2 kg -Christmas orders taken. Bennett, 22 Melrose Road, phone 308 4015.

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

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 322 7626.

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

HELPLINE SERVICES ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.nz for more information.

Saturday-Sunday 1.00pm - 4.00pm Closed Statutory Holidays.

Group Bookings by arrangement

COMMUNITY POOL

WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

MENTAL HEALTH

TINwALD POOL

Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road. Weekends 1pm – 7pm

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP

24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm Seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted OMMUNITY ERVICES visiting.

ART GALLERY PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted Phone 308 1133. Baring Square East, visiting.

Ashburton. Sat & Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm EMERGENCY DENTIST Closed Public Holidays.

If you do not have or cannot contact your ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. for the name of the rostered weekend dentist Saturday: 10:00am - 1:00pm in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm Sundays and Public Holidays.

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ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Baring Square East, Ashburton. Ph 308 3167

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

CARE VETS - Ph 03 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street. Saturday clinic: 10am - 2pm. Weekend emergencies: Refer Vet Ent. VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am-12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Matt Hart. Small: Toni Johnston.

INFORMATION CENTRES VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 03 308 2321 ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am clinic: 9am-12 noon. 24-hour weekend until 2pm. Phone 308-1050. emergencies: Large: Amanda Kilby. Small: METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Ian Hodge.

Holidays 10am until 3pm.

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 027 683 8000, Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: The duty vet for emergencies this weekend is: Ben Hallenstein.

BUS DEPARTURES Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service. Full emergency service all weekend.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

West Street Clinic, Main Rd, Methven.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Saturday clinic: 9am-12 noon. Weekend Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. emergencies: Steve Williams.

Classifieds www.guardianonline.co.nz MOTORCYCLES

MEETINGS, EVENTS

Saturday, December 7, 2013 GRAZING

Sign posted Gardiner Road Main Waitohi Road Waitohi Temuka Road Sign on 9.30am

Christmas prizes 5 Hill country farms and forestry.

Spark arrestor muffler required.

Enquiries Grenville 0272 911239

PERSONAL How long will you be single??

There is no need to be alone when we know so many genuine women and men also seeking one safe special partner. With over 20yrs matchmaking experience Bridges are the experts at turnings singles into couples. Call today and get in touch as soon as tonight!

Ph 0800 856 640 www.bridgesdating.co.nz Members of other agencies and disillusioned Internet daters very welcome.

Credits avail - please enquire

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Quigley Contracting is now buying standing grass and lucerne for silage.

• • • •

on Thursday, December 12, 2013 at 4.30pm

No paddocks too big or too small Top prices paid Bonuses available for high ME grass Deal with an established company

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409

Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10am Morning Service

Speaker: Pastor Bill Dodge LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

Call one of our salesmen for details: James 027 436 9989 Andrew 027 436 9307 Ricky 027 436 9317

Giles Beal Chief Executive

GARAGE SALE - Philip St, Allenton Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th. Starting at 9am.

ACCOMMODATION

FIREWOOD - green old man pine - $130, green blue gum + macrocarpa - $150, green poplar - $90. All pr 3.6m3. Ph Shane James Firewood 03 303 7063.

FIREWOOD SPECIAL. Get ready for winter now! 3 cord (10.8m3) green slabwood $180. Also available offcuts $100/ cord (delivered in town) Adams Sawmilling, Malcolm McDowell Road. Opening hours Mon-Fri 7am-5.30pm Sat morn 8am-12noon. Ph 308-3595.

CARAVAN sell - 1977 Zephyr 18 foot tandem. Awning, fridge, oven, cooker, registered. Cheap buy $9800 as is. Phone 03 308 6343 or 027 204 9709.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

Why wait for tomorrow?

Healing is yours now!!

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

We hope to see you this Sunday!

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

FIREWOOD - Green old man pine $140 per 3 cubic metres split and delivered. Ph Tim Boyd 303 6280.

CARAVANS, TRAILERS

10am Every Sunday All Welcome

Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wednesday night Bible Study, 15 Cross Street 7pm

FOR SALE

TRAMPOLINE - Heavy duty frame, wind resistant, 3m x 1.8m mat, $150 ono. Ph 03 303 6054.

Jubilee Christian Fellowship

131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School Hall)

Maize | Silage | Baleage | Hay | Grass | Straw

ALEXANDRA Christmas Family Holiday Accommodation.

Accommodation available for families in Alexandra, Cromwell & Queensbury during Christmas and Summer, also available for FOR SALE long weekends. Phone Tina CHRISTMAS trees to book or 027 936 1195. cut down. Anthos Gardens, 94 Thews Rd. Open 4-9pm GRAZING weekdays, all day Saturday.

Closed Sundays 308 8386.

FLOAT hire - single, double FIREWOOD - green old man and tandem. Reasonable rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & pine - $130, green blue gum Feed. Phone 308-3422 any- + macrocarpa - $150, green poplar - $90. All pr 3.6m3. Ph time.

Shane James Firewood 03 303 7063.

GARAGE SALES

FOR SALE - Brown shaver hens. laying well. Ph 303 7680.

GARAGE SALE - “Sunday” 11am - onwards Aitken Street. Sign at gate.

LET OR LEASE OUTDOOR storage available, near Lake Hood, please FOR SALE phone 302 6113 or 021 328 760.

BENCH high fridge $100, double mattress $50, hotshot ski biscuit $50. Phone 308 HOLIDAY 9480 or 022 411 5064.

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

Church Services

GRASS WANTED LUCERNE WANTED

suzuki trails The next meeting of the Ashburton Trust Board will be held Head Office Boardroom, Level 1 Somerset House, Cnr East + Burnett Streets, Ashburton

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CHURCH SERVICES

Trail Ride Waitohi

Sunday, November 15 Upper Waitohi

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Wanted • Weaner dairy heifer grazing • R2yr In-calf heifers • Herds Fr- Fx in breed Phone Richard Andrews 027 536 8693 David Topham 027 435 2308 Scott Perkins 027 474 2077 www.livestockexchange.co.nz

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

HOUSE available for short 021 055 4593. WELCOME to term rent in Tinwald $340.00 Asian lovely girl, 24 years, per week. Phone Heyden 021 FOR SALE - Macrocarpa size 6, nice body, busty, 950 966. furniture, china cabinet and relaxing massage. Phone entertainment unit. Very good Nicole.

LANDLORDS. Don’t leave condition. Phone 027 313 2333.

BROOKE 39 yrs. Passing the management of your through, weekend only, 10am valuable asset in the hands SCOOTER’S - new and - 6pm. Lingerie. Ph 027 247 of a company that’s primary secondhand three and four 5621 no txts. income is from selling wheel electric scooters and properties.

Property wheel chairs. Call Fred CALL Zoe. Available management is our sole Reddecliffe at Electric everyday.

No texting. focus 24/7. Contact B&N Mobility Ashburton today. Discretion assured. Ph 021 Properties Ltd now, 0800 111 Phone 308-3602 252 www.bnproperties.co.nz 0233 9259.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL HOUSE for rent, three bedroom, large living, kitchen area, big section, double garage, Tinwald suit family.

021 033 7571.

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting

Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Enquiries Phone 308-8699

10.30am Worship

Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

NEWLY refurbished three bedroom brick home with large living area. Available December 9. East side.

Phone Graeme 302 1814 or 027 221 1408.

10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355 St David’s Church 48 Allens Road Everyone welcome www.st-davids.org.nz

Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service and Children’s Programme

10.00am You’re very welcome!

Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062

Daily Events Saturday 9.00am - 12.00noon ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS MARKET. Weekly farm fresh produce, plants, coffee, food and more. North end of the West Street car park.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open today. New members always welcome. Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am

Sunday 8.00am ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Morning worship. Methodist Church Lounge, Baring Square East.

ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service and communion. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship and communion, all welcome, 65 Oxford Street.

Monday 9.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.00am - 4.00pm ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Exhibition by local artists Judith Sommerville and Rebecca Hawkes. Main Street, Methven.

10.00am - 12.00pm ASHBURTON VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road, Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm

ASHBURTON CRAFT MARKET. Saturday’s in the West Street Car park.

10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

12.50pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Association croquet singles. The domain, Philip Street.

1.00pm - 7.00pm

TINWALD SWIMMING POOL .

Outdoor swimming pool open. Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

1.30pm MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf croquet doubles, change partners. The domain, Philip Street.

10.00am ASHBURTON M.S.A. QUOITS. all welcome to have a throw, Racecourse Road, M.S.A. Sports ground.

ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting.

Lovett’s Road, off Maronan Road.

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Exhibition by local artisits Judith Sommerville and Rebecca Hawkes, Main Street, Methven.

HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street.

ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Christmas Pageant and all age worship, with Rev David Brown, cnr Havelock- and Park Streets.

ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping god and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

12.50pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Come and try Petanque, everyone welcome. Racecourse Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm

ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC 3. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 4.00pm STAVELEY MUSEUM. Open in the Staveley Village.

1.00pm - 7.00pm TINWALD SWIMMING POOL. Outdoor pool open for swimming in the Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service in the Sinclair Centre with Rev David Brown. Cnr Havelock & Park Street.

307-0496. 60 Cass Street.

9.30am - 10.30am AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON. Ladies exercise classes. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF. Christmas tournament. McKenzie trophy, subs due.

Tinwald Golf Club, Frasers Road.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3. Seafield Road.

3.30pm - 7.00pm TINWALD SWIMMING POOL. Outdoor pool open in the Tinwald Domain, Maronan

Road.

6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in the hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre in the Parish Centre, Cnr Burnett and Winter Streets.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 0 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Christchurch – From The Streets 3 0 7:30 How The Other Half Lives 30 8am Make The Politician Work 30 8:30 60 Minute Makeover 3 9:30 Come Dine With Me Omnibus A daily lifestyle show that sees five very different people competing to be named the ultimate dinner party host.

Noon There’s No Taste Like Home 1pm Masterchef All Stars 3 0 2pm The Chase 0 3pm Recruits Paramedics PGR 3 0 3:30 Coastwatch 3 0 4pm New Zealand’s Got Talent 30 6pm One News 0 7pm NZ Story PGR 0 7:30 Showtime PGR 0 8pm Paul O’Grady – For the Love of Dogs PGR 0 8:30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries AO 0 9:40 M Casino Royale AO 2006 Action. Special Agent 007 must stop a banker from winning a casino tournament and using the prize money to fund terrorist activities. Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench.

0 12:40 Louie Spence’s Showbusiness AO 3 1:55 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:55 Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

CHOICE TV 6am Simply Italian 6:30 Better Homes And Gardens 8am The Edible Garden 8:30 Food Factory 9am From Birmingham To Bombay 9:30 Simply Italian 10am Fantasy Homes By The Sea With Jenni Falconer.

11am American Restoration Mike and Frank travel the country looking for antique gold.

11:30 Wildlife Warriors Noon House Crashers 12:30 Kirstie’s Home Style 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm The Edible Garden 3:30 Guide To The Good Life 4pm My Dream Home 5pm No Kitchen Required 6pm Wild Thing I Love You 7pm Lonely Planet – Best In Asia An inspirational and interactive travel show which road-tests the best experiences in Asia nominated by travellers.

7:30 Natural World 8:30 M The Cleaner AO 2007 Crime Thriller.

Tom Carver is a former cop who now makes his living cleaning up crime scenes. Samuel L Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes.

10:30 Guide To The Good Life 11pm My Dream Home

SUNDAY

Midnight Wild Thing I Love You 1am Natural World 2am Lonely Planet – Best In Asia 2:30 Flatmates AO 3am M The Cleaner AO 2007 Crime Thriller. Samuel L Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes.

5am No Kitchen Required

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TV THREE

FOUR

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Outdoors With Geoff 3 7am Gone Fishin’ 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 Saving Gen-Y PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 10am Extreme Makeover – Weight-Loss Edition 3 0 10:55 3rd Degree Presents The Vote 3 11:55 Project Runway PGR 3 0 12:55 Gok’s Fashion Fix PGR 3 0 2pm The X Factor USA 3 4pm The X Factor USA 3 Following the performances, the elimination will leave seven acts remaining.

5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 Fishing Show 3 6pm 3 News

6am Tiki Tour 0 6:25 Wiki The Kiwi 0 6:30 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 6:55 Stitch! 3 0 7:15 Matt Hatter Chronicles 3 0 7:45 Phineas And Ferb 3 0 8:10 Transformers Prime Beasthunters 8:35 Adventure Time 3 0 9:05 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 9:10 Young Justice – Invasion PGR 0 9:35 Regular Show PGR 3 0 10am Totes Maori 10:30 Neighbours Omnibus 0 1pm H8R PGR 2pm Secret Life Of The American Teenager PGR 3pm Mobbed 3 4pm F Operation Hero 4:30 F Let’s Get Inventin’ 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 According To Jim 3 0 6pm The Amazing Race 0 7pm Duck Dynasty PGR 0 7:30 Oh Sit! 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw.

8:05 Oh Sit! Continued. 0 8:30 M Sweet Home Alabama PGR 2002 Romantic Comedy. Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey. 0 10:40 M Mad Money PGR 2008 Comedy.

Dianne Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 7am Rocko’s Modern Life 3 7:30 Invader Zim 3 8am All Grown Up 3 8:25 Scaredy Squirrel 3 8:45 BeyWheelz 3 9:10 Redakai 3 10am Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Mr Young 3 5:30 The Suite Life On Deck 3 6pm Sabrina – The Teenage Witch 3 0 6:30 M Monster House PGR 2006 Animated.

Children discover the house across the street is a monster that threatens everyone who crosses its path. 0 7pm Fusion Feasts Peter travels 8:30 South Park AO 3 to Canterbury to cook crayfish 9pm M The Return and mutton-bird for a 21st AO 3 2006 Thriller. birthday with 250 guests. 0 A travelling business woman 7:30 Survivor – Blood v Water 0 begins having nightmares 8:30 SVU AO 3 0 of a murder from 15 years 9:25 Blue Bloods AO before, and is drawn to the Frank must uncover the farmhouse where the murder secretive Blue Templar police took place. organisation and discover Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter who killed his son. 0 O’Brien. 0 10:25 Outrageous Fortune AO 3 10:50 Excused AO 3 0

12:45 Treasure Island PGR 3 (Miniseries) (Part 2) Donald Sutherland, Elijah Wood. 0 2:40 M Love And Other Disasters AO 2006 Comedy. Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Catherine Tate. 0 4:20 Jeremy Kyle USA PGR 5:05 Totes Maori 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:25 Underbelly – Razor AO 3 Kate’s profits take another dive, so she decides to poach Tilly’s prostitutes to sell more snow on the streets. 0 12:25 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:15 Poker After Dark PGR 3 The world’s best poker players gather in Las Vegas each week to play in an invitation-only event.

12:10 Infomercials

PRIME

6am Basketball – NBL (Replay) Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers.

8am Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Four.

10am L Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Five. Coverage of the morning session from University Oval in Dunedin.

12:35 Sky Sport 365 1:05 L Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Five. Coverage of the afternoon session from University Oval in Dunedin.

6pm The Cricket Show 6:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) Northwestern Mutual World Challenge – Round Two.

7pm Storage Wars The buyers travel to Lake Elsinore, California, where Jarrod and Brandi argue, and the Sheets find something out of this world.

7:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 8pm Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course 8:30 Weekend Murders – Midsomer Murders AO 3 10:35 True Blood AO (Starting Today) 3

7pm Football – A-League (Highlights) Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix.

7:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers.

8pm Cricket – International (Highlights) New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Five.

8:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers.

10:30 Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Five.

12:30 The Cricket Show 1am L Hockey – FIH Women’s World League New Zealand v TBC. 3am Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) 3:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) 4am Basketball – NBL (Replay)

11:40 Case Histories AO 3 12:45 Cricket – International New Zealand v West Indies.

Highlights of day five of the first test from University Oval in Dunedin.

1:15 Home Shopping

MAORI TV 10am Toku Reo 3 2pm Tribe PGR 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 3 Marist Saints v Port Chev Pirates.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Te Tepu 3 2 6:30 Whatukura Mareikura Makoha Gardiner, Tame Iti, Rhonda Tibble, Ngamaru Raerino, and host Hohepa Harawira give a male and female perspective on life’s

THE BOX 6am Mountain Men PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 The Unit MV 8:10 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

10:15 Raw MC 1:10 24 Marathon MVLS 4:30 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Modern Family PGL 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 Billy The Exterminator PGL 9pm Lizard Lick Towing MVL 9:30 Mountain Men PG 10:30 The Unit MV 11:30 Spartacus – Blood And Sand 18VLS

SUNDAY

12:30 24 Marathon MVLS 3:50 Spartacus – Blood And Sand 18VLS 4:45 Billy The Exterminator PGL 5:10 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 5:35 The Simpsons PG

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK 3 Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 Father Ted PGR 3 3pm Harvest 3 3:30 Telefrag The latest gaming updates, featuring previews, trailers and industry news.

4pm Getaway 3 4:30 South American Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby PGR 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Getaway 3 6:30 Forever Summer With Nigella Nigella Lawson presents summer recipes that can be eaten at any time of year.

SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Triathlon – ITU World Series (Replay) Men’s Race. From San Diego.

9am The Crowd Goes Wild (Replay) 9:30 Basketball – NBL (Highlights) Perth Wildcats v New Zealand Breakers. From Perth Arena.

10am Football – A-League (Highlights) Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix. From nib Stadium in Perth.

Monster House 10:30 Hockey – Men’s Junior 6:30pm on FOUR World Cup (Replay) New Zealand v Malaysia. From Major Dhyanchand National Stadium in New Delhi, India.

MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Noon Cricket – The Ashes 6:40 Hairspray PGS 2007 Comedy 6:50 Looper 16VL 2012 Thriller.

Musical. Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta. (Highlights) Australia v England Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis.

– Second Test, Day Two. From 8:35 My Cousin Vinny PGL 1992 8:45 The Directors – Frank Adelaide Oval in Adelaide.

Comedy. Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Darabont PG 2002 12:30 L Cricket – The Ashes 9:15 Teenage Bank Heist MC 2012 Marisa Tomei.

Australia v England – Second Test, 10:30 Michael Clayton MVL 2007 Thriller. Abbie Cobb, Maeve Quinlan.

Day Three. Coverage of the morning Crime Drama.

George Clooney, Tom 10:40 To The Mat PGV 2011 session from the Adelaide Oval.

Wilkinson.

Comedy. Ricky Schroder.

3:05 The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 Hairspray PGS 2007 Comedy 12:15 The Code MLVS 2009 Crime.

3:35 L Cricket – The Ashes Musical.

Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta.

Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas.

Australia v England – Second 2:25 Daylight MV 1996 Action.

2pm Looper 16VL 2012 Thriller.

Test, Day Three. Coverage of the Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, 4pm Queen Sized PGL 2008 Drama. afternoon session from the Adelaide Viggo Mortensen.

5:25 Vehicle 19 MVL 2013 Thriller.

Oval.

4:20 Walk The Line MC 2005 6:50 Wanderlust 16LS 2012 8:30 The Cricket Show Biography. Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Comedy.

9pm UFC Fight Night (Replay) Witherspoon.

8:30 Abraham Lincoln – Vampire 6:35 Me, Myself And Irene MC Mark Hunt v Antonio Silva. From the Hunter 16V 2012 Action.

Brisbane Entertainment Centre in 2000 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Renee 10:20 The Bourne Legacy MV 2012 Zellweger, Chris Cooper.

Australia.

Action.

8:30 The Lord Of The Rings – The SUNDAY SUNDAY Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 Midnight Fight Night One 12:35 Biography – Teen Fantasy.

Fighting Championship – Moraes v Heartthrobs PG 2009 Documentary. 11:30 Patriot Games PGV 1992 Saadulaev.

Action Thriller.

1:25 Wanderlust 16LS 2012 2am Football – A-League (Replay) Comedy. 3:05 Abraham Lincoln Western Sydney Wanderers v SUNDAY – Vampire Hunter 16V 2012 Action. 1:25 Daylight M 1996 Action.

Melbourne Heart. From Pirtek 4:50 The Making Of Prometheus 3:20 Walk The Line MC 2005 Stadium in Sydney.

MV 5:05 The Bourne Legacy MV 4am Football – A-League (Replay) Biography. 5:35 Me, Myself And 2012 Action.

Central Coast Mariners v Sydney FC. Irene MC 2000 Comedy.

challenges.

7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up 3 1995 Family. Three young people must fight a wealthy toxic-waste dumper to save a local Indian tribe and their friend. Victor Wong, Charles Napier, Michael Treanor.

9:30 M Smash Palace AO 3 1982 Drama.

Bruno Lawrence, Greer Robson.

Storage Wars 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:00pm on Prime 11:30 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6:30 Shark City PG 7:30 I Escaped Jaws PG 8:30 Air Jaws Apocalypse PG 9:30 Great White Appetite PG 10:30 Top Five Eaten Alive PG 11:30 Top Ten Sharkdown PG 12:30 Air Jaws Apocalypse PG 1:30 I Escaped Jaws PG 2:30 Shark City PG 3:30 Great White Appetite PG 4:30 Return Of Jaws PG 5:30 Air Jaws Apocalypse PG 6:30 Top Ten Sharkdown PG 7:30 Sharkpocalypse PG 8:30 25 Best Bites PG 9:30 Killer Sharks PG The Attacks of Black December.

10:30 I Escaped Jaws PG 11:30 Sharkpocalypse PG

SUNDAY

12:30 Shark Attack Survival Guide M 1:30 Return Of Jaws PG 2:30 25 Best Bites PG 3:30 Killer Sharks PG The Attacks of Black December.

4:30 Sharkbite Beach PG 5:30 I Escaped Jaws PG

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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FOUR

6am Mucking In 3 0 6:25 60 Minute Makeover 3 7:10 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude Awards 2013 0 9:35 An Irish Homecoming 10am Marae Investigates 10:30 Waka Huia 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 NZ Stories 3 0 Noon Football – English Premier League Manchester United v Newcastle. From Old Trafford in Manchester.

2pm Help! My House Is Falling Down 3 0 3pm Jennifer Saunders – Back In The Saddle 3 0 4pm Radar’s Patch 3 0 4:30 SPCA Rescue 3 0 5pm Our World – Mama Twiga In The Garden Of Eden 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 F New Zealand’s Got Talent The winner of New Zealand’s Got Talent is revealed. 0 8:30 A Place to Call Home AO 0 9:30 A Mother’s Son AO (Part 2) A community divided after the murder of a local teen; Rosie finds evidence that her son might have something to do with the murder. 0 10:30 Offspring AO 3 0

6am Tiki Tour 0 6:25 Fireman Sam 3 0 6:35 Jungle Junction 3 0 7am The Looney Tunes Show 3 0 7:25 Back At The Barnyard 3 0 7:45 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 7:50 Rated A For Awesome 0 8:15 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 8:40 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 9:05 SpongeBob SquarePants 30 9:25 Mad 3 0 9:35 Prankstars 3 10am Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 Noon M Christmas Cupid PGR 2010 Family Comedy. 0 1:40 New Zealand’s Got Talent 3 0 3:40 Home And Away Omnibus 0 6pm F Hart Of Dixie Zoe decides to visit New York, but a medical emergency on the plane leads her to complete the trip with an unexpected companion. 0 7pm M The Santa Clause 2 PGR 2002 Comedy.

A man has been a Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he cannot find a Mrs Claus.

Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell.

0 9:05 M Bringing Down the House AO 2003 Comedy.

Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Joan Plowright, Eugene Levy.

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6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah 9am Hitched 3 0 9:25 Missing Pieces 3 9:50 Open Door 3 10:15 Inside New Zealand– A Bit Mental 3 0 11am The Best Of Campbell Live Noon World Jetboat Expedition 1pm King Of Dirt 3 2pm Motorsport – New Zealand Road Race Championship 2:25 Motorsport – New Zealand Jetsprint Championship 2:50 Motorsport – Speedway Grand Prix 3:30 Motorsport – Rally Xtreme 4:30 Motorsport – US Formula Drift Championship 5pm World’s Deadliest Roads PGR 3 0 5:30 World’s Deadliest Roads PGR 3 0 6pm 3 News 7pm M Meet the Fockers PGR 3 2004 Comedy.

The Byrne family journeys to Miami to meet Greg’s parents, only to find they are alcoholic, sex-addicted hippies. Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro. 0 9:30 M The Longest Yard AO 3 2005 Comedy.

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds. 0

11:30 Medical Anomalies PGR 3 12:30 Family Feuds AO 3 Alia meets a mother who uses physical violence to bully her adult children. 0 1:10 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:10 Gardens Of The World 3:20 Infomercials

11:15 M A Perfect Getaway AO 2009 Thriller. Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant. 0 1:10 Vampire Diaries AO 3 0 2:55 Infomercials 3:25 Detroit 1-8-7 AO 3 4:10 It Is Written 3 4:40 Good Luck Charlie 3 0 5am Infomercials

11:40 Infomercials 11:55 7 Days AO 3 12:30 Jono And Ben At Ten AO 3 Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce give their take on New Zealand current events.

1am The Slap AO 3 0 2:10 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV

CHOICE TV 6am Guide To The Good Life Ways to enjoy life and feel good.

6:30 Christ Embassy Religious Programming.

7am My Dream Home 8am No Kitchen Required Follow three chefs who are dropped off in remote locations where they must work with the locals to hunt, forage and collect ingredients for a locally-inspired meal.

9am Days Of Our Lives Omnibus PGR Noon Natural World 1pm Wild Thing I Love You 2pm Lonely Planet – Best Parks Ever 2:30 Early Edition 3:30 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 4:10 Food And Drink With Michael Roux jr.

4:50 Grand Tours Of Scotland 5:30 Holiday Home Sweet Home With Lisa Faulkner.

6:30 N2K PGR 7pm Gourmet Farmer 7:30 Extreme Frontiers Africa 8:30 Zen AO A police drama set against the decaying grandeur of Rome.

10:30 Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong 11pm Food And Drink 11:30 Saturday Cookbook

MONDAY

12:30 N2K PGR 1am Extreme Frontiers Africa 2am Gourmet Farmer 2:30 Zen AO 4:30 Blokes 5am Cheese Slices 5:30 Grand Tours Of Scotland

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Pingu 7am Rocko’s Modern Life 3 7:25 Invader Zim 3 7:50 All Grown Up 3 8:15 Scaredy Squirrel 3 8:40 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8:50 Wonder Pets 3 9:15 Tickety Toc 3 9:25 Dora The Explorer 3 9:50 Moe 3 9:55 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Peppa Pig 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Entertainment Tonight Weekend 6pm Sabrina – The Teenage Witch 3 0 6:30 Everybody Hates Chris 3 7pm Rules of Engagement PGR Jen makes the guys give Adam a surprise bachelor party.

7:30 The Biggest Loser Australia PGR 9:20 WANNA-BEn AO 3 9:50 The Ricky Gervais Show AO 3 10:20 Excused AO 3 10:45 Entertainment Tonight Weekend

PRIME

6am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Sydney Telstra 500 – Race 35.

6:30 Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) Northwestern Mutual World Challenge – Round Two. 7am L Golf – US PGA Tour Northwestern Mutual World Challenge – Round Three. From Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California.

Noon Motorsport – V8s Bathurst Review 12:30 L Cycling – UCI Track World Cup 3:15 Football – A-League (Highlights) Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix.

3:45 Motorsport – V8s Bathurst Review 4:15 Golf – US PGA Tour (Highlights) 4:45 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights)

7pm Storage Wars 7:30 Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce and the team make a second visit to Port Sunlight on the Wirral as visitors present more family treasures.

8:35 Masterchef Junior USA 9:35 The Millers PGR 10:05 QI PGR 10:45 Whites AO

7:30 Motorsport – Toyota Racing Championship Coverage of the TR 86 Racing Series from Pukekohe Park Raceway.

8:30 Hockey – FIH Women’s World League (Replay) New Zealand v TBC. From San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina.

10pm Rugby – IRB Sevens World Series (Highlights) South Africa – Day One.

11:20 PhoneShop AO The arrival of area manager at the store sets everyone on edge; Lance must prove to the staff that he is not boring; everyone else prepares for a big night out.

11:50 Home Shopping

11:30 Motorsport – Toyota 86 Championships (Highlights) 12:30 The Fishing Show 1am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship 1:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 2am Golf – US PGA Tour 2:30 Basketball – NBL 4:30 Rugby Sevens – Central Qualifiers

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2pm Aa Rau 3 2:30 Outback Café 3 3pm The Native Diet 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield 3 Bay Roskill Vikings v Otahuhu Leopards.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Whanau Factor 3 8pm Whare Taonga (Starting Today) 3 A documentary series that

THE BOX 6am 24 Marathon MVLS 9:20 The Unit MV 10:20 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of The Simpsons episodes.

12:20 Modern Family PGL 12:50 Mountain Men PG 1:40 Pawn Stars PG 2:05 Billy The Exterminator PGL 2:30 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 2:55 Raw MC 5:45 WWE Main Event MC 6:45 SmackDown! MC 8:30 CSI MV 9:30 CSI MV 10:30 Numb3rs MV 11:30 WWE Main Event MC

MONDAY

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 CSI MV 3am CSI MV 3:50 Danger Beach PG 4:25 Numb3rs MV 5:10 Modern Family PGL 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box Noon Mayday PGR 3 12:55 Customs PGR 3 1:25 Bondi Rescue PGR 3 1:55 Getaway 3 2:20 Doctor Who Christmas Special 3 3:30 Nigella Express 3 4:05 The Good Cook 3 4:35 Junior Masterchef Australia 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Millionaire – Hot Seat Hosted

by Eddie McGuire.

6:30 Nigella Bites Nigella shares favourite recipes for soothing, restorative foods, including Vietnamese chicken and mint, gingery-hot duck salad, and tom yam soup with tiger prawns.

SKY SPORT 2 6am Cricket – International (Highlights) New Zealand v West Indies – First Test, Day Five.

6:30 Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) Australia v England – Second Test, Day Three.

7am Hockey – FIH Women’s World League (Replay) New Zealand v TBC. 8:30 Rugby Sevens – Central Qualifiers (Highlights) 10am Rugby – IRB Sevens World The Santa Clause 2 Meet the Fockers Series (Highlights) Day One. 7:00pm on TV2 7:00pm on TV3 11:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) New Zealand v West DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Indies – First Test, Day Five.

6:30 Sharkpocalypse PG 7:20 Queen Sized PGL 2008 Drama. 7:30 Patriot Games PGV 1992 Action Noon Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) Australia v England – 7:30 Return Of Jaws PG Nikki Blonsky.

Thriller. Harrison Ford, Anne Archer.

8:30 Shark Attack Survival Guide M 8:50 Biography – Teen 9:25 The Lord Of The Rings – The Second Test, Day Three.

9:30 Sharkbite Beach PG 12:30 L Cricket – The Ashes Heartthrobs PG 2009 Documentary. Fellowship Of The Ring PGV 2001 10:30 Killer Sharks PG The Attacks of 9:40 Vehicle 19 MVL 2013 Thriller.

Australia v England – Second Test, Fantasy. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Black December.

Day Four. Coverage of the morning Paul Walker.

Orlando Bloom.

11:30 I Escaped Jaws PG 11:05 Abraham Lincoln – 12:20 It’s Christmas, Carol! PG 2012 session from the Adelaide Oval.

12:30 Sharkpocalypse PG 3:05 The Cricket Show Vampire Hunter 16V 2012 Action.

Romantic Comedy. Emmanuelle 1:30 Great White Serial Killer PG 3:35 L Cricket – The Ashes Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper.

Vaugier, Carrie Fisher.

2:30 Great White Highway PG Australia v England – Second Test, 12:50 The Bourne Legacy MV 1:50 A Beautiful Mind M 2001 3:30 Top Ten Sharkdown PG Day Four. Coverage of the afternoon 2012 Action. Jeremy Renner, Rachel Drama. Jennifer Connelly, Russell 4:30 I Escaped Jaws PG session from the Adelaide Oval.

Weisz.

Crowe.

5:30 Sharkzilla PG Meet Sharkzilla.

8:30 The Fishing Show (Highlights) 3:05 A Dog Named Christmas 4:05 Metro 16VL 1997 Action. Eddie 6:30 Return Of Jaws PG 9pm Motorsport – V8 Supercars PG 2009 Drama. Bruce Greenwood, Murphy, Kim Miyori.

7:30 Ben Earl – Trick Artist PG Championship (Highlights) Sydney Noel Fisher.

8:30 The Dixie Mafia PG 6pm Inglourious Basterds 16VL Telstra 500 – Race 36.

4:40 Stash House 16V 2012 Thriller.

9:30 World’s Biggest Ship PG 2009 War. Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz. 9:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) Dolph Lundgren, Sean Faris.

10:30 Rogue Sharks PG 8:30 Harold And Kumar Go To Melbourne Tigers v New Zealand 6:25 Prometheus 16V 2012 Sci-fi.

11:30 Capturing Oswald PG Breakers.

Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender. White Castle 16LS 2004 Comedy.

MONDAY 10pm I Am Legend MV 2007 Drama. 11:30 Cricket – The Ashes Australia 8:30 Argo MVL 2012 Drama. Ben 12:30 Ben Earl – Trick Artist PG 11:45 Directors – Michael Apted PG v England – Second Test, Day Four.

Affleck, Bryan Cranston.

1:30 Scariest Moments At Sea PG Documentary.

10:30 The Sweeney 16VLS 2012 MONDAY 2:30 Off The Hook – Extreme Action.

Ray Winstone, Ben Drew.

MONDAY 1:30 The Cricket Show Catches PG 12:15 Metro 16VL 1997 Action.

2am Rugby – IRB Sevens World MONDAY 3am Off The Hook – Extreme 2:10 Inglourious Basterds 16VL Series (Highlights) Day One. 12:25 Stash House 16V 2012 Catches PG 3:30 Motorsport – V8 Supercars Thriller. Dolph Lundgren, Sean Faris. 2009 War. 3:30 Dirty Jobs PG Animal Barber.

4:40 Harold And Kumar Go To Championship (Replay) Sydney 2:10 Prometheus 16V 2012 Sci-fi.

4:30 Man, Woman, Wild PG Utah.

Telstra 500 – Race 36.

4:15 Argo MVL 2012 Drama.

White Castle 16LS 2004 Comedy.

5:30 Dirty Money PG celebrates Maori architecture while exploring the stories of iwi and hapu through significant whare.

8:30 Ihimaera 3 9:30 M Run Lola Run AO 1998 Action.

A German woman must make splitsecond decisions after a gang deal goes wrong and her boyfriend’s life is put at risk.

Joachim Krol, Franka Potente.

11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language. RATINGS: 16 Approved for persons 16 years or over; 18 Approved for persons 18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

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Puzzles Saturday, December 7, 2013

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Chemist’s ‘sucker,’ a favourite in one favourite form (7) 6. Affected by the moon, I’d appeared in latitude’s reverse (5) 9. Cold on cold, hot shell production (5) 10. Such games as my police endlessly organised (7) 11. Right, I hit it aloft – but it’s dangerous! (5) 12. Discharge former spouse, due to change (5) 13. In a wide smile it’s not on backing such a dog! (7) 15. Close encounter left in a certain situation (6) 16. Principal male character going North to get a bird (5) 18. The Good Book, the pout, and the French (5) 20. Rough estimate invited people tout (5) 21. Couple begin fish and stick fast (5) 22. Non-u thing to find in one’s soup, this plant (6) 25. Last Cockney runner to back the bill? (7) 26. Studied by the selfcentred, such an orange? (5) 27. Where Americans relax a participation in Boheme part (5) 28. In French water, quietly allowed piece of shoulder to appear? (7) 29. Ancient date one observed between Poles (5)

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7. Parcel out drugs for writers in changing side (8) 8. Produce egg as non-cleric (3) 14. Ref’s signal to cease US election-tour (7-4) 17. Silent smeller is about one fewer (9) 19. How Ahab might have taken time to create disturbance (8) 23. Affected airs provide superfluous ornamentation (6) 24. Something that happens to enter seven times (5) 27. More than one writing will feel absence of one missing (3)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Dictatorial 8. Tolerant 9. Giro 10. Repel 13. Tows 16. Grip 17. Disc 18.

Tend 20. Fresh 24. Nice 25. Clearing 26.

Cornerstone Down 2. Idle 3. Terse 4. Tinge 5. Ingot 6.

Straightens 7. Loose change 11. Proof 12. Ledge 14. Omit 15. Sign 19. Drear 21. Ruler 22. Slant 23. Finn

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QUICK Across 1. Vile 3. Happened 9. Vacancy 10. Easel 11. Commissioned 14. Tar 16.

Chart 17. Gee 18. Impenetrable 21. Corgi 22. Caution 23. Eternity 24. Held Down 1. Vivacity 2. Locum 4. Any 5.

Preposterous 6. Nest egg 7. Dolt 8. Indiscretion 12. Shame 13. Demeaned 15. Remorse 19. Bride 20. Acme 22. Cat

QUICK ACROSS

1. Highest point (6) 5. Perfect world (6) 9. Be unbearably loud (6) 10. Fuel (6) 11. Information (4) 12. Ruling (8) 14. Scattered (6) 16. Inclined (6) 19. Military unit (8) 21. Tube (4) 22. Loudness (6) 23. Smells (6) 24. Act between parties (6) 25. Looking at (6)

DOWN 2. Graceful (7) 3. Blow up (7) 4. Impediment (9) 6. Binding (5) 7. Emotion (7) 8. Claimed (7) 13. Uncomfortable (3,2,4) 14. Wither (7) 15. Crown jewels (7) 17. Give consent (7) 18. Interpret (7) 20. Acts out, silently (5)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) While taking your professional hat off over the weekend is never really an option, what you have this weekend is a chance to take your work hat off.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) Throw yourself into your romantic and creative passions while you can, in one last ditch effort to create a balance between work and play.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Pay attention to the things that need your attention.

You may have been able to put things aside or on your ‘to do’ list in the past, but not now.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) Make this a weekend where a communication breakthrough is not only possible, but where it needs to happen. Don’t let an opportunity pass you by.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) This is an important weekend for relationship matters and especially when it comes to listening to your emotional and intuitive responses.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) This is a weekend that is all about paying attention to what excites you and your passions or even the things that have you hot under the collar.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) A sense of frustration is a sign that you’re ready to break free, with a sense of lethargy more a chance to recharge your batteries before life gets busy.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Do whatever it takes to take your work and your money hats off, making this a weekend that is all about people, friendship and family.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Mars’ departure from your career sector on Sunday makes this a weekend for holding onto the professional passions and fighting spirit being evoked.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) Do whatever you can to embrace a passion for adventure this weekend, with a hunger for life’s richer experiences already challenging your excuses.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Keep your focus on your overall financial objectives and especially to your long term goals and objectives, giving you something to strive and aim for.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20) Don’t sweep things under the carpet. The more you can get relationship matters out in the open the better.

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