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Trial success sparks $200m spend

BY MYLES HUME

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A decision to pour more than $200 million into New Zealand’s education system has been built on the success of Mid Canterbury schools.

Mid Canterbury Fibre Connected Schools (MCFCS) regional support co-ordinator Trudy Hulme said the district’s 23 schools had been “the crash

test dummies” for the Ministry of Education to look at the best ways of educating children in modern-day classrooms.

Education Minister Hekia Parata recently announced Crown-owned company Network for Learning (N4L) had signed a $211m deal with Telecom to provide a managed internet service “to transform all (2500) schools into technol-

ogy-based learning environments”.

MCFCS, which represents all Mid Canterbury schools, is among an exclusive group asked to work under a technology-focused trial, which the ministry will review before rolling out the revolutionary N4L early next year.

Ms Hulme said the MCFCS group had been given the trial

opportunity because of the free, uncapped ultrafast broadband delivered by EA Networks to all of the district’s schools - a move that has revolutionised the local teaching landscape.

“The ministry have been monitoring our data usage along with the programmes our teachers are using in classrooms,” she said.

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would have been taken on board when looking at the success Mid Canterbury had already gained from the trial, Mrs Hulme said.

She said schools were “sitting very pretty at the moment” from the extra professional development and learning opportunities for teachers, which filtered into the classroom where many pupils worked on laptops or tablets.

Kids question Fonterra milk

BY MYLES HUME Fonterra’s contamination scare has not put off Mid Canterbury youngsters from drinking milk, however it has been on the lips of many children.

Schools (including Longbeach, left) told the Guardian there had been pupils asking if their milk was safe to drink, following the intense coverage of a bacteria scare in a batch of whey product, which could cause botulism.

Principals have assured pupils it is safe to drink, however it comes after Fonterra cancelled its Wellington regional launch of the programme following the contamination scandal.

Instead, milk would be rolled out quietly, while Fonterra staff will focus on rectifying the whey debacle.

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Two stationary yellow-eyed penguins standing sentinel over Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula have been confusing penguins, tourists and volunteers alike. The plywood penguins are so realistic volunteers have rung the Department of Conservation concerned about their welfare, tourists have mistaken them for the real thing and penguins cuddle up to them as if one of their own. Penguins have walked up to them, pecked their faces or given them a whack. Tourists have gone home with photos of them, Doc ranger Mel Young says.

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A nine-kilo cat called Dracula has been put on a diet after it became wedged between two brick walls at a NSW south coast property, sparking a two-hour rescue operation. Ambulance rescue paramedics were called to the address yesterday afternoon. They found Dracula stuck in the double garage wall and after a long and delicate operation were able to free the fat cat. “It was such a nice thing to see this cat reunited with her owner,” rescue paramedic Faye Stockman said. “It is not every day paramedics get to see happy incidents like this.”

Germany’s election campaign has veered into a debate about eating habits after the ecologist Green party called for a weekly “Veggie Day” in work canteens, drawing ire and ridicule. With the barbecue season in full swing, the meatfree proposal by the opposition Greens was skewered across the political spectrum, with one leading politician asking ‘What’s next? Green-Shirt Day?’ But the Greens argue that reducing meat consumption would have health benefits in a country known for its love of sausages, as well as an upside for animal protection and climate change.

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One might guess that’s why they call it the blues, to quote the Elton John song.

Exposure to blue light at night can lower your mood, a new study suggests.

White has a less depressive effect, while red is the least disturbing colour for night lights, according to US scientists.

The research was conducted on hamsters, but is thought to highlight a phenomenon that also applies to humans.

It has important implications for people on night shifts, such as hospital workers, say the scientists. They argue that 24-hour working environments should preferably be red lit at night.

The Bledisloe Cup is flying to Australia in style, with its own business class seat and even its own ticket, in the lead-up to the first Bledisloe Cup test between the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the end of next week. The coveted prize left Wellington airport yesterday on a Qantas flight on its way to Sydney’s ANZ Stadium - after first adhering to the seatbelt sign.

WHAT’S ON ■ Ashburton Club & MSA Wine Club Join this active club that holds meetings on the second Wednesday of every month. Enjoy tastings and periodic visits to wineries and other great venues. Contact the Bottle Store at the MSA for further information or contact Greer on 308 1999.

■ On the couch Twenty Twelve, UKTV, 10.35pm Brilliant satire giving an insight into how Britain’s Olympic organising committee may have worked.

Tonight, the marketing team come up with a major public event to mark the ‘1000 Days to Go’ milestone. Rated: M. Duration: 30 minutes.

■ At the movies Byzantium, Cinema Paradiso, Methven, 7.30pm Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood.

As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequences.

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Chief apologises over scandal

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three batches of a whey protein concentrate.

Fonterra’s chief apologised to consumers and the New Zealand public at a press conference yesterday, saying all contaminated stock had been contained.

Over the past few days Fonterra, regulatory authorities and Fonterra’s eight customers have located and secured products that were not in the market, and where they had already reached retail shelves, initiated recalls, he said.

Mr Spierings made his com-

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings made his first apology on New Zealand soil over the infant formula contamination scandal yesterday, as it emerged that four batches of potentially contaminated formula had reached Hong Kong and Australia.

The debacle began on Saturday when Fonterra went public with news it had found the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism, in

ments after returning from a trip to China, and said after talks with Chinese authorities he was satisfied the situation there was stable. All contaminated stock had been contained and there was now “little or no risk” for consumers, he said.

“Like I said in China, I do apologise to the consumers and to the public for the anxiety and distress that this has caused.”

Asked if he would resign over the scare, Mr Spierings said: “That’s not up to me, it’s up to the board.”

An internal investigation had started into the cause of the contamination, and an external investigation was also likely, he said.

At a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) press conference yesterday, acting director general Scott Gallacher said two batches sent to Australia had been contained in a warehouse, while another two were released for distribution in Hong Kong.

He said a product recall had been issued and MPI were working with representatives

in Hong Kong. Questions were asked in Parliament yesterday about the length of time taken

by Fonterra to tell the Government about the contamination.

Fonterra had suspected the contamination since March this year and had gone about testing, but did not let MPI know until August 2, two days after the testing confirmed the contamination. Mr Gallacher clarified the issue yesterday by saying that MPI and AssureQuality had found out on the same day.

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Mid Canterbury children still enjoying milk

BY MYLES HUME

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Mid Canterbury youngsters’ taste for milk has not soured as schools continue to see most pupils downing their cartons two months since it was reinstated.

Fonterra’s milk in schools initiative saw most Mid Canterbury schools stocked up with long-life milk at the end of May, when the novel factor was peaking.

Milk often left a bad taste in the mouths of 1960s children when it was last in schools, but the 21st century model appears to have won over local youngsters.

“It’s still popular, I would think that out of our 89 kids here, I think about 80 would drink it,” Mt Somers Springburn School principal Brent Gray said.

Other Mid Canterbury schools reported about 80 per cent of its children still liked the milk, many saying it fit seamlessly into the school fabric.

Fonterra are currently seeking feedback from local schools about how popular the scheme had been with pupils.

Each school’s supply is restocked every fortnight, with fridges and blue recycling bins also supplied.

Schools appoint pupils as “milk monitors” to distribute it among their peers.

Hinds School principal Eric Davis was supportive of the nutrition scheme, however it still posed a problem for younger pupils.

“Some of the younger kids have problems folding them up and take a bit longer to drink,” he said.

Methven School principal Chris Murphy said he had a pupil who tasked himself with folding cartons during his lunch break, but the wider scheme also prompted a sense of responsibility and environmental awareness for pupils.

Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president and Longbeach School principal Neil Simons said schools had not noticed differences in class, however children had learned a lot about milk’s nutritional value and its importance to New Zealand.

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In brief Barbecue fundraiser An Ashburton fundraiser aims to help New Zealand children suffering from conditions such as cancer, heart disease and cystic fibrosis. The barbecue will take place outside Ashburton Harvey Norman on August 17 and 18, raising money for Cure Kids. A Harvey Norman spokesperson said events like these were vital to raising awareness in rural areas. “Knowing that our contribution is directly assisting the research that Cure Kids funds, inspires us immensely.”

Last year, Harvey Norman stores across the country raised $333,000 for Red Nose Day and Cure Kids, 25 per cent of the total national fundraising effort.

Pitfalls of driving children to school

BY GABRIELLE STUART GABRIELLE.S@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

The days when parents let their children walk to school unaccompanied seem long gone – but the move toward driving children to school could be putting children at more risk than they were walking.

Safe Kids director Ann Weaver said that the most dangerous part of the trip for young children was often right outside the school gates, where congestion and distractions for drivers could become a deadly combination.

“As congestion gets worse at the school gate it does make it more dangerous for children who are walking to school, but it’s a result of children no longer walking that we see that increase in congestion, so it becomes a cycle.”

Children being dropped off at school has been pointed to as

Risk factor Are our children over-protected?

another sign of children being over-protected by parents, but she said it could also be a result of a change of culture.

“Families do have a lot more vehicles, so there are a lot more cars on the road. In the 80s

most mums would have stayed at home, while now you see children being dropped off on the way to work.”

She said it took hard work to stay ahead of cultural changes, but children could be kept safer without restricting their activities. The growing popularity of scooters being ridden to school was one example, as ACC scooter-related child injury claims rose from 697 claims in 2008, to 6474 claims last year.

“A rise like that doesn’t mean we just ban scooters. We have to take each activity and look at the types of injuries we’re getting, and find ways to make it safer without restricting their freedom. Encouraging helmets and elbow and knee pads will prevent many of the head injuries and serious fractures that we see.”

However, she said the most important influence in keeping

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children safe around traffic was their parents.

Children don’t always listen but they will nearly always mimic, and she said the best way to teach a child good judgment was to lead by example.

“When we talk about supervision we’re not talking about sitting back and watching. By walking to school with your child you are not only teaching them the safe routes to travel, it is also the best way to assess when they are ready to make those judgments on their own.”

She said that it was up to each parent to make that decision based on their child and their community, and no blanket age could be put on it.

“The age a child could ride to school on their own would be very different in Nelson to what it would be in Auckland, so in each case the parent needs to make that judgment.

BAIN CASE

Police to re-examine Bain evidence

BY MATTHEW THEUNISSEN AND REBECCA QUILLIAM New tests will be carried out next week on the gun used in the Bain family murders.

The tests will by done by police with David Bain supporter Joe Karam and forensic scientists present.

Mr Karam announced yesterday that police would be examining original fingerprints and conducting tests on the gun used in the murders in June 1994.

The development comes after claims in June that a photo of Robin Bain’s body showed parallel markings on his thumb consistent with him having fired a gun on the morning of the killings - apparently proving his son’s innocence.

Police rejected the theory,

saying the marks were cuts.

“The Bain team, myself and forensic people will be in attendance and I’m very confident that the original fingerprints will show in fact that there are no cuts on (Robin) Bain’s thumb and forefinger where the black marks were,” Mr Karam said yesterday. “If the fingerprints don’t show cuts police are going to be left in the position of saying ‘what are these sooty black lines?’

“The only proposition they’ve put forward so far is that they’re cuts from rose bushes or something. Well, I can tell you now with a great deal of confidence, the fingerprints will not reveal any cut.”

Mr Karam would not reveal when or where the tests would be held.

David Bain had been invited

to attend but he would be busy at work, Mr Karam said.

A police spokesman said last night that the decision to re-examine Robin Bain’s fingerprints was made in June in response to TV3’s 3rd Degree programme.

“What we said in June was an examination of the original photograph does not give any definitive indication of what the marks could be.

“There are other possibilities, including that they are minor cuts - we know for example, he was doing work on the roof.”

Police had never definitively said what they believed the marks were, the spokesman said.

“Anything at the moment is just a theory ... it might well be that we do all this testing and get no closer to a definitive

explanation for them.”

He would not speculate what could happen should the tests prove they were gun marks on Robin Bain’s fingers.

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A 53-year-old will appear in court today charged over a triple stabbing in Taihape. The local man was arrested and charged today in relation to the July 31 incident which resulted in him and two others being admitted to hospital with stab wounds.

He has been charged with three counts of wounding and will appear at Palmerston North District Court today.

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Parole denied A former school principal jailed for eight years over the sexual abuse of students has had his first bid for parole declined. Elvis Dobson Shepherd, 52, was convicted in 2010 for sexual offending against two young male victims while teaching at Hato Petera College, a Maori Catholic boarding school on Auckland’s North Shore between 1990 and 1994. He will be seen by the parole board again in July next year after an updated psychologist assessment report.

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Gang insignia ban A bill banning gang insignia in places owned by the Crown or local authorities passed into law last night. Police would be given the power to seize gang patches and official colours within a few days. Offenders could be faced with a $2000 fine. The Prohibition of Gang Insignia Government Premises Bill’s sponsor MP Mark Mitchell said he did not expect an escalation in tension between police and gang members as a result of the changes. He believed the law change would act as a deterrent and would not generate a greater workload for police officers responding to complaints about gang members in public spaces.

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New DOC chief Antarctica New Zealand head Lou Sanson has been appointed as Department of Conservation chief executive and director-general.

The appointment is for three years. State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie said Mr Sanson had been involved with a number of organisational structural shifts in his career.

“With a proven commitment to conservation, he possesses the focus to roll out the new business model and required shift in culture and practice, while maintaining delivery of the wide range of DOC services.”

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Quake strengthening deadline

BY ISAAC DAVISON The Government has set a deadline of 20 years for assessing 193,000 buildings for earthquake risk and strengthening them.

Housing and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson said all commercial buildings and high-rise, multi-unit apart-

ments in New Zealand would have to be assessed for earthquake risk within five years.

Any building found to be at risk of collapse will have to be strengthened or demolished within another 15 years under the proposed policy, which forms the Government’s response to a Royal Commission investigation into earthquake-prone build-

ings after the Canterbury earthquakes.

The Government had initially proposed that these buildings had to be strengthened within 10 years, but Mr Williamson said the cost to property owners would have been too great.

Category 1 heritage building will get extensions of 10 years on this national timeframe.

The strengthening requirements would remain the same - owners would have to upgrade to 34 per cent of the new building standard.

Unreinforced masonry buildings resulted in the death of 39 people in the February 22, 2011 earthquake in Christchurch.

The commission found there was poor information on earth-

quake-prone buildings in New Zealand, lack of central guidance on defining and repairing these structures, and variable council approaches to fixing the problem.

Only 23 of 66 local authorities were able to tell the commission how many earthquake-prone buildings were in their area.

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Family escape fire

New safety reforms

A “brave” 12-year-old girl who woke to flames in her Christchurch home yesterday managed to wake the rest of her family and escape the inferno.

Fourteen houses were evacuated after fears the fierce house fire, which broke out at 2.45am at Alexandra Street in Richmond, would spread to neighbouring properties.

Three people were taken to Christchurch Hospital by St John with unknown minor injuries.

The evacuated residents, which Newstalk ZB reported included a 98-year-old, were allowed back in their homes an hour later once the blaze was brought under control.

A police spokeswoman confirmed it was a 12-yearold girl who raised the alarm.

“She woke up to flames and managed to wake everyone else in the house. It was a brave effort.”

A Fire Service spokesman said the blaze was well involved when they arrived on the scene.

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Reinforcing the safety message

BY MAX TOWLE Colourful drawings will next year warn motorists of the dangers of speeding.

The 12 winners of the Ashburton Road Safety Calendar Competition were revealed at the Ashburton District Council

chambers yesterday.

Primary and intermediate pupils from Wakanui, Fairton, St Joseph’s, Mayfield and Hampstead schools proudly showed off their designs, based on the theme of speed.

Road Safety co-ordinator Rachael Boyd said the compe-

tition, which attracted 66 entries, was about reinforcing an important road safety message.

“We do this to get the message of safe driving across to kids at a young age.”

The calendars will be sent out to local schools and businesses in the area.

Major health and safety reforms stemming from the Pike River disaster have been unveiled by Labour Minister Simon Bridge.

The Working Safer reform package would introduce stronger penalties and court powers for health and safety offences, but did not include a corporate manslaughter charge, which had been called for by the Opposition.

A person who engaged in reckless conduct which put a worker at risk of injury or death faced a maximum penalty of $600,000 or five years’ imprisonment, or both, or $3 million for a company.

At present, the penalties for this offence are $500,000 or two years’ imprisonment, or both.

Judges would be given power to make “adverse publicity orders” for individuals or companies which broke the law.

The package was a response to the recommendations of an independent taskforce on workplace health and safety, which followed the deaths of 29 men in the Pike River coal mine in November 2010.

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I am the Lucky one.

Lucky for me I was not one of the 40 people who were killed on their farms last year.

My farm accident was one of over 6,000 to be reported.

Life goes on for me and my family, but you might not be so lucky.

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uardian photographers Kirsty Clay and Tetsuro Mitomo have been named finalists in the Pacific Asia Newspaper Publishers Association awards.

A record 600 plus entries were received for the photography section of the awards, and the judges have made their pick in the main categories; news, sport, features, lifestyle and portrait.

Kirsty is a contender in the Features Photography of the Year category, for rural, regional or suburban papers, with her photo titled Top Award, and in the New Photography of the Year section with her photo – Dreams go up in Smoke, snapped after a fire in the industrial estate in September.

A photo of 80-year-old bodybuilder Ray Thompson has earned Tetsuro a spot in the Lifestyle Photography of the Year category, and another in the News Photography of the Year for capturing the essence of the Muddy Good Run in Rakaia early this year.

Editor Coen Lammers said the inclusion of the paper’s mainstay photographers was the icing on the cake, coming on top of last week’s announcement that the Guardian was a finalist for the Pampa Newspaper of the Year award in the category for papers with a circulation under 10,000.

The Guardian’s advertising department is also in the line-up as a finalist in the awards, with an advertisement from graphic designer Simon Fox also in the running for an award.

And in the Best Advertising Feature or Supplement section, the Guardian’s South Island Field Days publication has made the cut.

Winners will be announced at a gala industry awards dinner, the PANPA Newspaper of the Year, at the Four Seasons in Sydney on August 29.

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Rising Stars director Heather Kissell, two-year-old Luca Young, three-year-old Isabella Wapp and head teacher Sally Johnstone were excited to receive a Healthy Heart Award from NZ Heart Foundation co-ordinator Julia PHOTO DONNA WYLIE 070813-DW-064 Tatam yesterday.

Celebrations of a Heart Foundation Healthy Heart Award meant smoothies and fresh fruit for children at Rising Stars Preschool yesterday, who have learnt a lot about healthy choices as they worked towards the award.

From practicing scooter skills and Zumba exercises to growing their own gardens, there have been plenty of changes made at Rising Stars Preschool to earn their silver level award.

It isn’t only the children who have had a lot to learn, as criteria for the award involves plenty of work from teachers and parents too, from using healthy lunchbox guides to taking part in professional development programmes.

Rising Stars head teacher Sally Johnstone said it was a fun award to work toward, and the children had enjoyed healthy choices being made available to them.

“Teachers have worked hard to promote healthy eating and physical activities to the children and families, to make a difference in children’s lives and establish healthy habits for their lifetimes.”

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DROWNING

Toddler’s parents devastated

BY KURT BAYER

ples, who moved to Queenstown from the Hibiscus Coast, north of Auckland last year, were coming to terms with the tragedy.

“We are absolutely devastated,” they said in a statement.

Violet, who was 34 months old, is survived by three siblings - Jacob, Elle, and younger brother Reuben.

The Waples are heavily involved in the C3 Church at Frankton, outside Queenstown, where Mrs Waples is a pastor.

The parents of a two-year-old girl found floating face down in Lake Wakatipu on Tuesday are “absolutely devastated” by the loss of their “beautiful daughter”.

Violet Elisabeth Waples had wandered off from her family home at Kelvin Heights, Queenstown and was found in the lake 100m away soon after.

Yesterday, the toddler’s parents, Alana and Andrew Wa-

Mr Waples, originally from Southland, works as a builder in the area.

“We would like to thank the police, Coastguard and St John Ambulance as well as our neighbours and community for their amazing response,” said the Waples.

Queenstown police completed a scene examination yesterday and will now file a report for the coroner.

“All parents know that they are vulnerable. It’s the sort

of thing that when the planets don’t line up and things go wrong, it is every parent’s worst nightmare,” said local senior sergeant, John Fookes.

Mr Fookes said the child had been inside the house, described as an older property which was “partially fenced”, when her mother noticed her missing.

Police had come to the conclusion the child had walked through a gap in the fencing towards the lake, Mr Fookes said.

- APNZ

In brief Faulty chargers Apple has launched an inquiry and is offering to exchange third party iPhone chargers worldwide after a woman was fatally electrocuted answering her phone in China. Bride-to-be Ma Ailun, 23, suffered a fatal electric shock last month when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged in and charging. Apple has issued a recall of counterfeit or third-party iPhone, iPad, and iPod chargers from August 16, offering to replace them with Apple versions at a special rate of US$10 (NZ$12.60). The exchange programme starts in China on Friday, before being rolled out to the rest of the world.

- APNZ

Man spots ‘UFO’

Cupcakes for Mid Canterbury SPCA

BY KATE DAVIDSON

bury inspector manager John Keeley said the money raised helped to run the day-to-day operations of the SPCA and the event promoted awareness in the community.

The Mid Canterbury SPCA receives no central or local government funding and relies on public donations, fundraising events and support from businesses such as Vetlife.

The regional animal welfare group is responsible for all animals in Mid Canterbury.

Mr Keeley said that last year the SPCA re-homed 400-500 cats and 70-80 dogs and attended 150 welfare call-outs.

This year South Island New World stores are competing between branches with all funds raised from sales going to local SPCA centres.

Fundraisers can upload their cupcake creations to the SPCA Cupcake Day website where 2012 Masterchef winner Chelsea Winter will choose the most creative cupcake winner.

Teams, individuals or schools can register on the SPCA cupcake website at http://www. spcacupcakeday.co.nz/

Cupcake makers: pull out your aprons and nan’s recipe book for this year’s SPCA Cupcake Day. The annual event raises funds for the Mid Canterbury volunteer-run SPCA. Teams, individuals and schools are encouraged to get involved in the August 26 event.

Ashburton New World has been baking fundraising cupcakes for the past three years and hopes to take part again.

Store manager Devin Young said the event was good for team morale.

“It builds a bit of camaraderie in the store because every staff member who wants to participate can. There’re no limitations.”

Customers voted for the staffmade cupcakes, which were displayed and sold in-store. All funds raised went to the local SPCA My Young said it was a good opportunity to be part of the local community and support a good cause.

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A West Coast man is ‘freaked out’ after coming face to face last night with what he claims was a UFO, parked on the road outside the entrance to Shantytown.

Matthew Robert, a mechanic from Rutherglen, insists he is not alone and that three other cars were also confronted by the night-time visitor on Rutherglen Road, south of Greymouth, about 8.45pm.

When the car-shaped object suddenly lifted into the sky in a blinding light, he and the other drivers left in such a hurry they left skid marks on the road.

He claims that immediately following the incident he lost all cellphone reception, his vision was blurry and his eyes watery for about an hour afterwards.

- APNZ

The driver of an overloaded quad bike who crashed in January, seriously injuring his 6-year-old daughter, has avoided a prison sentence to help prevent his daughter suffering any further trauma.

Daniel McGregor, 29, was sentenced to nine months’ home detention and disqualified from driving for two years when he appeared in Hastings District Court yesterday. He plead guilty in April to four

charges of driving with excess blood alcohol causing injury and one charge of reckless driving.

McGregor was driving the overloaded quad bike down a steep hill from a Waimarama lookout about 11.20pm on January 2, when he crashed, injuring everybody on board. He and his daughter Ashlee Shorrock, now aged seven, were both airlifted to Hawke’s Bay Hospital.

McGregor was drunk, the bike was in poor condition and was without brakes.

He broke his legs in the accident and appeared in court on crutches yesterday where his lawyer Scott Jefferson said he was the only person on the vehicle to suffer permanent injury. He was likely to regain only 80 per cent use of his leg.

Mr Jefferson said the probation report illustrated McGregor’s remorse and shame for his actions.

“He is the last person who would want to hurt his own daughter or his close friends, or his partner.”

- APNZ

An Austrian couple have been rescued from their yacht near American Samoa after getting into trouble for the second time in a week. The skipper of the yacht made a distress call at about 11pm on Tuesday indicating they were prepared to abandon ship 407km east of American Samoa, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) said.

A fishing boat called the Tifa Imoana, which was close by, picked up the couple from the 12.8m yacht Gobo about 9am yesterday. “This was a serious situation in a largely empty area of ocean, and to successfully transfer the pair to the safety of the Tifa Imoana was a good result,” said RCCNZ search and rescue mission co-ordinator Mike Roberts.

- APNZ

Bail declined A Hawke’s Bay man who allegedly kidnapped his young son and led police on a chase through Hastings has been declined bail. Charlie Ngapera, 32, appeared in Napier District Court yesterday where Judge Tony Adeane declined a bail application lodged by his lawyer but suppressed his reasons for doing so. Ngapera has been charged with kidnapping, assaulting a female, assaulting a child, endangering life, threatening to kill and dangerous driving. He has been in custody since Friday and first appeared in court on Saturday morning.

Ngapera did not enter a plea today and is due to reappear in court on August 21.

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EDUCATION

Principal backs Reading Recovery

BY MYLES HUME

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An Ashburton principal insists Reading Recovery is the best way to bring struggling pupils up to speed even though a new report has called the strategy “fundamentally flawed”.

Tinwald School principal Peter Livingstone has jumped to the defence of the Reading Recovery programme, which he says most pupils pass in the six-month intensive learning period.

It comes after Massey Uni-

versity researchers released a damning report on the strategy introduced to improve the reading ability of struggling youngsters, reflecting on international studies which show “reading achievement scores have not improved over the past decade”.

It supports Education Minister Hekia Parata’s comment that “we are either standing still or falling behind in reading”.

Mr Livingstone disagreed.

“From what I have seen it’s still the number one method you have to accelerate a child’s

learning when they are behind in reading ... I would definitely say most children pass, you are basically putting a year’s worth of learning into six months,” he said.

Massey professor Bill Tunmer said it did not suit the “lower achieving children” and recommended identifying struggling children in the first year of school instead of the second and using more tailored programmes for pupils.

However, Mr Livingstone said children developed several

reading concepts during the first year at school, and the programme was already personalised.

“You can’t get more powerful than one-on-one for half an hour every day . . . a teacher is not going to approach one child whose quite shy with the same message for a child that makes up the story on the spot,” he said.

In response to the underwhelming statistics on pupil achievement, Mr Livingstone said the changing faces of

schools, particularly in Mid Canterbury, needed to be considered. He said there was a growing number of ethnicities that possessed English as a second language compared with a decade ago.

Mt Somers-Springburn School has a combined Reading Recovery programme with Mayfield and Carew Peel Forest.

Principal Brent Gray said it showed “big benefits for some” while other pupils needed more time invested into their learning.

Cereals too sweet - survey

BY NICHOLAS JONES Almost two-thirds of children’s breakfast cereals contain too much sugar, a survey of brands sold in New Zealand shows.

Parents are being warned to check what goes in their children’s cereal bowl after the Consumer NZ survey revealed many cereals were more than 30 per cent sugar.

Bright packaging, promotional activities and sweet flavouring are used to market many of the cereals to children.

Kids who are fed sugar-laden cereal each morning face health problems including tooth decay and weight gain, and are likely to have an energy “crash” while at school, a nutritionist warns.

Consumer NZ gave 35 of 51 cereals a red mark for sugar content, meaning they had 15g or more of sugar per 100g.

Eighteen were found to be more than 30 per cent sugar.

Kellogg’s Frosties had the worst sugar content at 41.3g per 100g.

Others with high sugar content included Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain, Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes, Coco Pops cereal and rival budget versions, and Hubbards’ Big Bugs ‘n’ Mud and Honey Bumbles.

Consumer NZ chief executive Sue Chetwin said given climbing rates of obesity in New Zealand, a bowl full of sugar was a disturbing way to start the day for children. While cereal grains in natural form contain little sugar, many cereals had sucrose, glucose or honey added.

About 31 per cent of New Zealand children between 2 and 14 years old are obese (about 10 per cent) or overweight (about 21 per cent). Child obesity was 8 per cent in 2006/07. - APNZ

Traffic lights in spotlight PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS NZTA0003

The New Zealand Transport Authority (NZTA) held a public consultation on Tuesday at the Ashburton Domain Pavilion about proposed traffic lights at Walnut Avenue intersection on

State Highway 1.

NZTA representative Chris Morahan (from left) and BECA engineering consultants, Christina Bell, Andrew Henderson and Byrce Carter attended

the meeting to hear residents’ views about the proposed traffic light installation.

The NZTA has recommended installing traffic lights to replace the roundabout at the

Walnut Avenue intersection.

The proposed traffic lights would reduce rush hour congestion at the intersection and keep traffic moving along the state highway.

Aoraki and Lincoln join forces for courses

BY MYLES HUME

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Aoraki Polytechnic has reached out to Lincoln University to open up farming qualifications to students and workers in Mid-South Canterbury.

The two tertiary providers have joined forces to provide part-time diploma programmes in agriculture and horticulture to be based at its Timaru campus.

It comes after the polytechnic announced earlier this year it was considering collaborating with other tertiary providers

“to meet the strategic challenges faced by Aoraki in the current tertiary education environment”.

Recently, it was announced enrolment numbers declined across the whole tertiary sector, and Aoraki Polytechnic was feeling the effect of a worker shortage as would-be students take on apprenticeships and other work-based study options.

“The diplomas are part-time, which allows us to expand with more opportunities for people to study close to home, with

flexible hours that fit around work and life commitments,” acting chief executive Alex Cabrera said.

“The programmes are ideal for farm workers who want to take their career further, including moving into farm management.”

Mr Cabrera said the polytechnic started a pilot programme in July, and would expect an intake in February.

The courses would be available to students and workers in Mid Canterbury, via the daily bus which travels from the Ash-

burton campus to the Timaru campus.

The Diploma in Agriculture will provide skills including livestock health and production, soil management, farm management and animal husbandry. The Diploma in Horticulture is similar but covers the care of plants instead of livestock.

Federated Farmers skills and education spokesperson Jeanette Maxwell said the polytechnic’s farm near Washdyke in South Canterbury would “complement” the new agreement.

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OUR VIEW

We’re just getting on with it Coen Lammers EDITOR

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t is hard not to get excited when the diggers start moving in and a major project like the new EA Networks Stadium gets under way.

While Christchurch continues to bicker over its new facilities and the schedules seem to be getting longer and longer, Ashburton is just getting on with it.

As we all know, the larger a group or community, the harder it is to get a consensus.

With the large number of interest groups in Christchurch it was always going to be tough to get everyone on the same page and the debates are likely to go on for years.

We also know that the new Art Gallery and Heritage Centre on East Street has caused plenty of local ructions but now the complex is starting to take shape it is time to embrace this new jewel in Ashburton’s crown and capitalise on its potential.

Several of our readers have pointed out the Heritage Centre debate will still be on the agenda during the upcoming elections, when opponents Russell Ellis and Angus McKay line up against Don McLeod who has been a strong supporter of the project.

Once that election is over though we should all move on and enjoy the cultural boost this district will receive, just like the sports events the new stadium is going to host.

Towns and districts around the country are envious and point at Mid Canterbury as the example how a small community can achieve astonishing results.

We have just celebrated the 40th anniversary of Mt Hutt, which is arguably our biggest asset, and the brainchild of a bunch of keen, tireless locals with plenty of vision and even more determination.

Hopefully in a few decades we will be celebrating the birth of the new gallery and the new stadium with the same pride and even more glorious memories.

YOUR VIEW one of the key barometers of our Mayoral race collective Kiwi well-being, then Just a note to congratulate the all is well in Ashburton!

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The fascination of Snapchat

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nap and Chat. Two words that are commonly used in our everyday lives but, Snapchat?

If you would have said to me at the beginning of the year that there would be a popular phone app called Snapchat, where people take photos, send it and it disappears in seconds, I would have said “mate, you’re dreaming”.

Yet here we are, and here is Snapchat. I ask you fellow readers, why is it that something that sounds so simple can yet be so exciting?

Is it the excitement of seeing that little yellow notification light up, the instant image that captures a moment, or is it simply the trend of it?

Many of the Snapchat users that I know would send a minimum of at least 10 Snapchats per day. They send one before they are about to eat something, do something, or even say something. They just have to Snapchat it.

If you would ask someone why is it that they like this particular app, they might say that it’s a chance to see an instant snap of an emotion that someone is feeling.

For instance, if I found something exciting and just sent a text message to somebody, the receiver probably wouldn’t understand it.

However, if you were to snapchat that excitement, the receiver would suddenly get your instant reaction.

Snapchat users are more persuaded to use the app instead of text messaging, because you can have it disappear in seconds and you have the power to control how long you want it on

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The convenience of an instant conversation with someone, to see their face and yet not have to physically Skype or video chat them, is a massive bonus for a lot of young people. the receiver’s screen The convenience of the app is one of the things that make it such a beauty. The convenience of an instant conversation with someone, to see their face and yet not have to physically Skype or video chat them, is a massive bonus for a lot of young people.

I would call it the cousin of the text message. You still have the excitement of saying something but having a character restriction of 33 characters.

This gets the creativity juices in you flowing. It becomes some what of a challenge to see how creative you can get with the caption, with your limited amount of characters.

I am no expert when it comes to technology, I have lost count how many times I have lost my phone or stood in front of the DVD player because I could not figure out how to work the thing.

But when I first used this app, there was a feeling of excitement. From the uncertainty about whether anyone will reply or the happiness you get when you see they have replied.

No one knows why it has captured the hearts of young teenagers but I might have a hunch.

It’s the rewarding feeling you get when you’re included.

We’ve all had those times in our life where we get left out of a game or haven’t been kept in the loop.

And honestly, that feeling sucks.

There are moments in life where we crave to be included and this app does just that. You may ask why it works?

Or why it has caught the attention span of our young youth.

You might even ask what the point of it is. There was a time where a ball and bat could keep

us interested. But times have changed and technology has evolved from the ancient machines, to a compacted portable device.

Just keep in mind, dear readers that unless you want our friendly officers knocking on your door, let your friends know you’re taking a photo of them and who you are sending it to.

I know it can be tempting when your friends have suddenly grown five chins, a bit of a creepy smile and yellow coloured moustache on their faces.

But trust me, for the sake of your bank account, friendship and the law, best to keep it between yourself and your friend.

I say if it makes you happy and you’re not harming your peers, then this phone app is for you.

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In brief Ivory seized Hong Kong customs officials have seized a shipment of illegal ivory, rhino horns and leopard skins worth $5.3 million in the territory’s second big bust of endangered species products in a month. The haul is also the latest in a string of big ivory seizures over the past year in the southern Chinese city.

Acting on a tip from customs officials in mainland China, authorities at Hong Kong’s port confiscated 1120 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five leopard skins weighing a total of 2266 kilograms, said Vincent Wong, customs’ head of ports and maritime command.

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Onlookers watch as black smoke billows from the international arrival unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in photo ap Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday.

Kenya airport hall gutted

By Jason straziuso and tom odula A massive early-morning fire destroyed the arrivals hall at Kenya’s main international airport yesterday, forcing the closure of East Africa’s largest airport and the rerouting of all inbound flights.

No serious injuries were reported, said Michael Kamau, the cabinet secretary for transport and infrastructure. Two people were treated for smoke inhalation.

The fire broke out on the 15th anniversary of the bombings of the US Embassy buildings

in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, in neighbouring Tanzania, but there were no immediate signs of terrorism in the fire. Kenya’s anti-terror police boss, Boniface Mwaniki, told The Associated Press that he is waiting for the fire to be put out so that he can inspect the scene before making a judgment.

Dark black smoke was visible across much of Nairobi as emergency teams battled the blaze.

Passengers reported a slow response by the under-resourced fire brigade. The fire raged for more than four hours before being contained, though flames still persisted two hours later.

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“It was huge, the smoke billowing, and it didn’t seem to be stopping,” said Barry Fisher, who had hoped to fly to Ethiopia..

The fire gutted the international arrivals hall, where passengers pass through immigration and retrieve their luggage.

The Kenya Airports Authority closed Jomo Kenyatta International Airport until further notice.

“We reassure international and local travelers that arrangements are being put in place to restore normal operations. The airlines are working to assist stranded passengers and advise

them on the measures being put in place to resume services at JKIA,” said Stephen Gichuki, the director of the Kenyan Airports Authority.

The Nairobi airport is the busiest in East Africa, and its closure is likely to affect flights throughout the region and beyond.

Kamau said the fire began at 5am in the immigration section of the arrivals hall. Inbound flights were diverted to the coastal city of Mombasa, he said. Kenya’s Red Cross said that flights were also being diverted to Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Uganda and the Kenyan cities of Eldoret and Kisumu.

-AP

■ JORDAN

Al-Qaida a growing threat Smugglers thwarted By lara Jakes Far from being on the brink of collapse, al-Qaida’s core leadership remains a potent threat — and one that experts say has encouraged the terror network’s spread into more countries today than it was operating in immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

President Barack Obama, who ordered the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, has described al-Qaida’s headquarters as “a shadow of its former self.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney called it “severely diminished” and “decimated.”

The bravado, however, didn’t match the Obama administration’s action this week. It closed

19 US diplomatic outposts stretching across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and evacuated nonessential personnel from the US Embassy in Yemen after intelligence officials said they had intercepted a recent message from al-Qaida’s top leader about plans for a major terror attack.

The new communique came from bin Laden’s replacement, Ayman al-Zawahri, who as early as December 2001 announced plans to decentralize the network and scatter its affiliates across the globe as a way of ensuring its survival.

Now, major al-Qaida hubs are thriving along the Iraqi-Syrian border, in North Africa and, in the most serious risk to the US, in Yemen.

-AP

Jordanian police are questioning two Syrians who allegedly tried to smuggle a large cache of arms including surface-toair missiles into the kingdom, a security official said. It was the second such attempt reported in a week.

The official said earlier that preliminary reports indicated that five had been arrested near the northern Syrian border earlier. He said the reason for discrepancy in the number was not immediately clear and declined to elaborate further.

The announcement came a week after authorities said they had arrested another group of smugglers, including Syrians, trying to bring in arms. They said the group arrested late yes-

terday was caught with the largest arms cache to be brought to the kingdom from Syria during its 2-year-old civil war.

The official said anti-tank missiles, surface-to-air missiles and assault rifles were seized with the two men caught earlier.

He declined to say if the alleged smugglers were affiliated with any side in Syria’s civil war.

“There is an investigation now to determine if the two men were rebels seeking to hide weapons in Jordan, or that they smuggled them in with the malicious intention of staging attacks here,” he said.

Jordan is concerned that Syria’s war will spill across the border.

-AP

Syrian government forces killed more than 60 rebels yesterday in an ambush near Damascus, a blow to opposition fighters confronting a regime offensive in the capital, activists said.

The state news agency SANA confirmed the ambush near the Damascus suburb of Adra at dawn, saying “dozens” were killed. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 62 rebels died. It did not report any government casualties.

-AP

Bush recovering An aide says former US President George W. Bush is “doing great” while recovering from a heart procedure and should be going home soon. Spokesman Freddy Ford says the 43rd president is expected to be discharged today.

Doctors inserted a stent to help prop open an artery. The blockage was discovered during Bush’s annual physical. Ford says the 67-year-old former president is expected to resume his normal schedule by Thursday.

-AP

Bomb kills teen A government official says a bomb planted outside a shopping center in southwestern Pakistan has killed a 13-year-old girl and wounded over 20 people. Shafqat Anwar says the blast occurred on Wednesday in Mastung district, about 50 kilometres south of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Anwar is the assistant commissioner of Mastung.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

-AP

Obama disappointed President Barack Obama said he was “disappointed” that Russia had granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying administration demands that the former government contractor be sent back to the US to face espionage charges. In his first comments about Snowden since Russia’s decision last week, Obama said the move reflected the “underlying challenges” he faces in dealing with Moscow.-AP

Swedish police cleared A prosecutor has closed an investigation into a police shooting that triggered riots in Stockholm’s suburbs, saying no crime was committed and that the officer who shot a 69-yearold knife-wielding man acted in self-defence. The shooting set off a week of violence in Husby and other low-income, predominantly immigrant areas of the Swedish capital in May. -AP

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■ SOUTH CANTERBURY FINANCE

Complex trial to be held in Timaru The complexity and quantity of evidence in the Serious Fraud Office prosecution of four former associates of South Canterbury Finance could be more than the average juror could understand, says Crown prosecutor Colin Carruthers QC. On the second day of pre-trail applications for one of the biggest cases of alleged corporate fraud in New Zealand, Justice Paul Heath heard arguments in the High Court at Timaru yesterday from Crown prosecutors and defence counsel for and against trial by jury or judge alone and possible relocation.

Mr Carruthers said the case would be too long and complex for a jury. He said there were 35 witnesses, 943 pages of evidence and 880 exhibits. He said the traditional right of jury trial was

sometimes outweighed by the complexity of such evidence.

Some jurors might not be able to perform their duties effectively or “not last distance”, requiring a re-trial with attendant inconvenience and cost to all parties, Mr Carruthers said.

He also said, if the trial was to be held in Timaru, given the high profile of the company and the defendants, it would be difficult to empanel an impartial jury.

The four defendants face 20 dishonesty charges relating to the collapse of the company in August 2011 bringing a $1.775

billion taxpayer bailout to investors under the Government’s Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme.

Justice Heath suggested some indication of the number of people who received a payout from the scheme and who might also be potential jurors would also be helpful in making his decision.

The Crown application was opposed by defence counsel Raymond Squire QC, acting for Robert Alexander White, and Kerry Cook, acting for Edward Oral Sullivan. Both counsel argued it was possible for a jury to be properly directed in matters of complex evidence.

Justice Heath determined that the trial would be held in Timaru by judge alone. It is expected to begin on March 14 next year and take about 16 weeks.

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A2 Corp ATM 69 141.5 Air NZ AIR 508 AMP AMP 3340 ANZ Banking Gr ANZ 97.5 Argosy Prop Tr ARG 316 Auckland Intl Apt AIA 302 Chorus CNU 540 Contact Energy CEN Diligent BM Services DIL 540 164.5 DNZ Prop Fund DNZ 985 Ebos Gr EBO 370 F&P Healthcare FPH 835 Fletcher Building FBU Fonterra Sh’ders Fund FSF 700 403 Freightways FRE 102.5 Goodman Prop Tr GMT 56.5 Guinness Peat Gr GPG Hallenstein Glasson HLG 453 86 Heartland NZ HNZ 247 Infratil IFT 265 Kathmandu Hldgs KMD 114.5 Kiwi Prop Tr KIP 1036 Mainfreight MFT 322 Metlifecare MET 126 Michael Hill Intl MHI Mighty River Power MRP 236 310 Nuplex Ind NPX 84 NZ Oil & Gas NZO 137 NZX NZX 168 Oceana Gold OGC 1425 Port Tauranga POT Precinct Properties PCT 100.5 137.5 Prop For Ind PFI 87 Pumpkin Patch PPL 271 Restaurant Brands RBD 695 Ryman Healthcare RYM 138 Skellerup SKL 537 Sky Network TV SKT 418 Sky City SKC 250 Steel & Tube STU Summerset Gr Hldgs SUM 298 226 Telecom NZ TEL 179 Tower TWR 482 Trade Me TME 726 TrustPower TPW 268 Vector VCT 138 Vital Hlth Prop Tr VHP 375 Warehouse Gr WHS 3500 Westpac Banking WBC 1632 Xero XRO

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Nearly 64,000 workers were wanting extra hours of work and it was a very tough time to be looking for a job, he said.

Wages were up only by 1.7 per cent and the median increase for those who got a wage increase in the last year was only 2.7 per cent - the lowest increase since 2001, Mr Conway said.

In the last year 45 per cent of employees did not receive a pay increase, he said.

“We need a renewed focus on decent jobs for workers. Much more could be done to boost employment.”

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A large percentage of unemployed people were unskilled, which meant the pool of skilled people for employers to choose from was relatively small, he said.

“Even the most basic jobs today require a certain amount of training. Even the most basic warehouse work requires some numeracy skills with computers.”

Overall, the economy was stronger than it had been in years, Mr Campbell said.

“All the surveys we’ve seen is there is a strong willingness to hire and invest and grow.”

Council of Trade Unions’ secretary Peter Conway said the news of flat wages brought no

tigation into its tainted product, returning to New Zealand from the company’s key Chinese market after he was satisfied the food scare had stabilised. Traders have recovered confidence in New Zealand’s dairy exports after an initial scare on the news, and a record volume of product was sold at today’s GlobalDairyTrade auction.

“We’ve had a lucky escape with the milk scare with high demand at the auction and volume jumping,” said Stuart Ive, senior client adviser at OM Financial in Wellington.

“At the moment it looks like a fairly contained situation.”

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Even basic jobs require a certain amount of training.

The New Zealand dollar held its gains in the local trading session as the furore over Fonterra Cooperative Group’s tainted whey protein appears to be contained, and as local jobs figures show continuing improvement in the labour market.

The kiwi traded at 78.94 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 78.98 cents at 8am, up from 78.51 cents yesterday.

The trade-weighted index advanced to 74.66 from 74.37 yesterday.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings told a media briefing today the dairy exporter has launched an inves-

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Average hourly earnings have risen by the lowest amount since 2010, new figures show.

Labour market statistics for the June 2013 quarter released

by Statistics New Zealand today show average ordinary time hourly earnings rose by 2.1 per cent over the past year - the lowest wage growth since the December 2010 quarter.

The Quarterly Employment Survey, Household Labour Force Survey and Labour Cost Index were released together and showed wage inflation dropped to 1.7 per cent in the year to the June 2013 quarter, down from two per cent at the same time last year.

The unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points from the previous quarter to reach 6.4 per cent in the June 2013 quarter resulting in another 5000 people looking for work.

Labour’s employment spokesman Grant Robertson said the figures made for depressing reading and came hard on the heels of hundreds of job losses at New Zealand Post.

However Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Kim Campbell said high unemployment coupled with the lowest wage increase rate in more than a decade did not necessarily make for an employers’ market.

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Wheels are already in motion for the 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

Mid Canterbury farm manager Richard Pearse won a national title in this year’s contest and will be encouraging others to enter to make more of themselves in the industry.

The dairy awards will take place in 11 regions, including a merged Southland-Otago

region. National convenor Chris Keeping says organisers made the decision to merge the Southland and Otago regions in late July as it is believed that the merged region will be stronger, creating a better competition for entrants.

Disappointing entries forced the Otago region to revamp its contest this year

with only Otago’s Dairy Trainee of the Year winner progressing to the national final. Mrs Keeping says organisers wanted to prevent a similar fate recurring.

Planning and preparations for the 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are well under way and entries will be received online from November 1.

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Iconic New Zealand artist Russell Clark’s City Hotel Goldrush Panels will be leaving Otago for the first time this weekend, for an exhibition at the Methven Heritage Centre Art Gallery.

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Iconic artist Russell Clark’s work will be on show at the Methven Heritage Centre Art Gallery.

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ficially opened on Friday evening.

Since Russell Clark’s death in 1966 his work has continued to inspire New Zealand artists, and features not only in galleries but on the streets around the country.

A born and bred Cantabrian, his work as both an artist and a teacher had a huge influence on contemporary art, especially in

changing culture and attitudes around public art, murals and sculpture.

His skills as an artist were developed in a variety of roles, working as an illustrator for the New Zealand School Journal, a designer of murals around the country, a teacher at Canterbury University, an architect of contemporary buildings and even an official war artist in the

Solomon Islands in 1944.

He travelled and gained recognition around the world before returning to continue his work in his home country.

An opening of the selection of his work will be held at the Methven Heritage Centre Art Gallery at 5.30pm on Friday.

The exhibition will show at the gallery until September 3rd, during opening hours.

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Rotorua blues rock band Swamp Thing will be playing at Methven on Monday as part of their first South Island tour, which will include a stop in Queenstown to open the NZ Winter Games and a gig on the Interislander Ferry.

Swamp Thing will visit Mid Canterbury for one night only on August 12, starting at 8pm at the Blue Pub in Methven.

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■ August 9 – Opening of artist Russell Clark’s City Hotel Goldrush Panels exhibition at The Methven Heritage Centre until September 3. Opening free, and begins at 5.30pm.

■ August 10-11 – Sale of retrospective works of Robin Arnst at the Ashburton Arts Society Short Street Studio, 10am-4pm.

■ August 11 – Ashburton Musical Club, Musical Hijinks arranged by Alister Argyle.

Sinclair Centre, 2pm, afternoon tea served, visitors welcome $5.

■ August 12 – Rotorua duo Swamp Thing visiting The Blue Pub in Methven on their first National tour.

7pm, R18, entry free.

■ August 15 – NZ Trio concert at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ August 16 – Playing Miss Havisham at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ August 24 – The Pirates of Penzance stage tour premiere at 8pm at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Tickets $79.90.

■ To August 25 – Exhibition by artist Ross Gray at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ August 28 – Film society screening of ‘Wunderkinder’ at the Ashburton Regent Cinema at 5.45pm.

Tickets $15.

■ August 30-31 – Comedic stage hypnotist Dave Upfold performs two fundraising shows at 7pm at Ashburton College. Tickets $25, students $15.

■ August 31 – ‘Inspired to Stitch’ Ashburton Embroiderers Guild Exhibition on display until September 22 at the Ashburton Art Gallery.

■ August 31 – Shop Me Pretty night market at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ September 13 – NASDA musical HAIR at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Four shows from September 13-15, at 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets $45.

■ September 14 – Ashburton Musical Club, Spring Concert, 7.30pm, arranged by Carolie Andrew. Sinclair Centre, visitors welcome $5, supper served.

■ September 15 – NZ Trio (Arts on Tour NZ) at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

■ September 21 – Opera Favourites by the Mid Canterbury Choir, 7pm at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre. Tickets $25, seniors and students $20.

■ To September 21 – Ashburton Society of Arts Winter Show at the Short Street Studio. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm.

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Allenton Netball Club We are getting down to the business end of the netball season now so good luck everyone for the last few weeks of competition.

First a big thank you to Kellie Johnson and Kelly Holden for all the hard work they put into a very successful and enjoyable Quizco evening held at the Clubrooms recently. It was a great night and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Also a big thanks to “Hoops” for his job as Quizmaster - a great job as always. A big thankyou must also go to those local businesses and individuals who donated great prizes for the winning teams it was much appreciated.

The Junior Netball prizegiving is to be held at the Rugby Clubrooms, Melrose Road, on Friday 6 September 2013 from 5.30pm sharp to 7pm. Awards are to be presented at 6pm. Parents and supporters are very welcome to attend. Any queries please contact Mandy Chivers on 308 2618.

The Senior Netball prizegiving is also to be held at the Clubrooms on Friday 13 September commencing at 7pm onwards.

The theme is “Fluoro” so come in your brightest clothes and make it a fun night. The teams are to be asked to do an item - lip sync or whatever they wish to do. Supper will be provided. All parents and supporters are welcome to attend. All enquiries please to Kellie Johnson 027 601 3357.

We ask that all coaches get all the uniforms in, and have them clean and tidy ready to hand in on the night of the prizegivings.

That would be appreciated.

Thankyou.

Twilight netball is once again being run at our courts Melrose Road with the co-ordinator this year being Amy McIntyre. This will commence on 17 September and run for six weeks. The cost is $70 per team. For any enquiries and team entries please phone Amy on 307 6735.

It is hoped to hold a “Movie Night” before the end of the netball season as these are always fun nights and great fundraisers. When a suitable movie has been chosen a notice will go out informing everyone of date, time etc. Our thanks to David and Donna at the Regent Cinema for their support in running these evenings.

Thursday, August 8, 2013 its Charter and invited members from our club to attend.

Reports were received.

As the new Lions year is just beginning time was spent sharing ideas that may become a focus for the year. Annual activities were noted – Toot for Tucker is being planned; a catering project has been completed; Camp Quality raffle is being conducted 14-27 September; and “Toiletries for Mum’s” for World Service Day 8 October will be collected.

PDG Jack Allan was welcomed to the podium to share information relevant to the International Association of Lions Clubs, information of which all members should be aware.

He reminded us that Lions is essentially a service club in which fellowship, friendship and social activities also play an important part.

He cited our Motto “We Serve”; reminded us that both the “Objectives” and “The Code of Ethics” are non-negotiable; and that there are still protocols to be respected.

He outlined the structures of International Board of Directors based on geographical regions of the world; spoke of LCIF the humanitarian arm of Lions; talked of the Multiple District structures; shared information on Lloyd Morgan Trust, a NZ Lions Charity; mentioned the local District of which our and other clubs are a part; reminded us that it is in clubs where local action occurs challenging us to remain relevant; and encouraged members to always be diligent in their meeting attendance.

Lion Fern Blake thanked PDG Jack for his informative address.

Raffle was won by Lion Helen Allan, who then deputised for our regular Tail Twister in a lively session fining members.

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Ashburton Ladies Probus Club The Ashburton Ladies Probus Club held their July meeting in the Doris Linton Lounge. There were several visitors including members from the other Probus Clubs in Ashburton and the Area rep from NSIPA, Milner Jacob.

After the singing of the National Anthem, President Sheila welcomed everyone.

Mini speaker was Jill Walkham, who had recently been to South America to attend her son’s wedding, and she saw quite a lot of the country.

After morning tea, our main speaker was Holly Gilmour.

Holly is a medic in the NZ Army, based at Burnham. She told us of her decision to join the Army, about her training and the various parts of the world where she has served. A most interesting speaker who is a credit to her family and the Army.

Ashburton St John Fellowship The bimonthly meeting of the Ashburton St John Fellowship, was held in July, in the St John Rooms, and took the form of a luncheon to which members from Christchurch and Timaru were invited, along with other invited guests. Members supplied the food and it was served by two cadets assisted by their leaders.

Everyone enjoyed the company of the cadets who used this experience to add hours towards their community help awards Next meeting will be in September

Ashburton Woodworkers Our Vice President, Bryan Ching, welcomed twenty one members along with demonstrator Ken Newton from Otematata. Ken,

who is a world class ornamental turner who has travelled extensively, his methods and arrange of tools impressed us all. How we would wish for those splendid range of tools. Ken demonstrated turning an off centre goblet. He began hollowing the cup of the goblet with an amazing hooked tool shaping the inside, then onto the outside. He then remounted the apple wood blank slightly off-centre to turn the stem. Because it is off- centre the speed needs to be slowed down, care has to be taken at this stage. His specialised tools and polished techniques made it appear so effortless. The mark of a skilled craftsman, to complete a turning without using any sandpaper. His demo really needs to be seen not read. Later he showed us some examples of his work which were very complex and perfection. A magnificent demo, especially as our USA club patron, Tom Dotta, urged us by email to attend. Ken also donated his sample goblet to the Lynn Historical Woodworking Museum. Thanks Ken. Our Show and Tell was somewhat overshadowed by Ken’s magnificent work.

Frank Luxton a cherry lidded bowl John Millichamp two rough turned bowls Wim Melchers selection of rattles of different wood Fred Jackson, Adriaan Slooten, Les Mattingly, Bryan Ching with various rattles Ted Ralston an Italian miniature roulette wheel in a small box Dave Busby two letter holders Clarrie Brake huon pine box with a burl lid A challenging, informative evening.

Ashvegas Country Club Club day was held at Tin-

wald last Sunday and saw Evan Pearce come out on top in the morning’s stroke round. Evan had a round of 78 to finish with a net score of 71 and was 2 shots clear of veteran, Richy Watson who finished with a net 73 after his round of 95. Brock Peddie and Graeme Mills did best of the others with net 75’s and Mike Thomas had the least putts with 27.

This Sunday’s club day is scheduled to be held at Mayfield at the usual tee off time of 10.00am.

Coronation Smallbore Rifle Club

Clearly girls benefit night with Hailey Beevor top scorer closely followed by Savanna McArthur and Sandy Collett. Token resistance only from Nick Squires.

Others left in the dust. Individual scores were: Murray Cook 81.1, 94.4 & 91.4, Heather Ross 82.0, Steve McArthur 96.1, 194.9, Savanna McArthur 97.5, 92.2, Erin McLaren 90.0, Graeme McLaren 90.1, Sandy Collett 96.4, 98.5, Nick Squires 96.5, 92.2, Hailey Beevor 99.8, Bill Rankin 93.2, 93.2, T.J. Stewart 95.1, Coby Snowden 93.2, 92.1, David Atkin 89.0, Dean Smith 90.1, Brian Hawksby 92.3, Shirley Herridge 94.3.

Tyro results for 30th July : Conor Hydes topscored with a good one and Emma Smith not far behind. Emma Smith 87.0, Jarrod Ward 92.0, Ben Wakelin 76, Liam O’Reilly 84.0, Hamish Sheate 76.0, Adriaane DuPris 79.0 & 84.1, Connor Hydes 96.5, Liam Hydes 82.0, Jake Magill 82.0 & 80.0, Conor Power 79.0, Tom McKendry 66.0, James Sheate 74.1, Morgan Smith 69.0, Craig Smith 83.1, Priscilla Morales 76.1, Logan McArthur 73.0.

5th August: Another good night

Ashburton County Lions A good attendance of members was welcomed to the recent meeting by President Lilian Wakelin. Also welcomed were visitors Marie Sloper, Sheila Shearer, and PDG Jack Allan.

Following an excellent meal, members shared memories from childhood – some members had brought toys and other favourite things from that era of their lives to ‘show and tell’.

It was with regret that we received the resignation of Dawn Whiting, we express our thanks for all she did while a member.

Requests to assist with collections for MS and Victim Support were received. As these collections come at a similar time to Camp Quality Raffle, an annual priority for our club, it was agreed that any members who wished to support MS and Victim Support would do so independently.

Ashburton Lions Club is celebrating the 50th anniversary of

Allenton under 8s in action in their final on Saturday.

Allenton Rugby Club

Two teams represented our club on Finals Day, and both coming away with a win. The Allenton/Celtic U16s kept Methven/Rakaia scoreless, winning 27-0. Try scorers were Benji Barry, Lachie Davidson and Harry McIntyre, with Kieran Hunt adding the extras with 3 conversions and a penalty. The Allenton Maroon U8s beat Methven 25-20 with Jack Busch scoring all 5 tries. Congratulations to both teams on a very successful season. Our prizegiving is next Saturday, 17th August. Hope to see everyone there.

Club news www.guardianonline.co.nz for Hailey Beevor holding off challenges from Mark Stewart and Bryan Hunter while Steve McArthur didn’t have a single ten on his target. Heather Ross another personal best. Heather Ross 91.4, Murray Cook 92.2, 77 & 88, Erin McLaren 73.0, Graham McLaren 91.3 & 89.1, Shirley Herridge 90.1 & 94.2, Hailey Beevor 99.7, Steve McArthur 97.7 & 99.6, Bill Rankin 93.4, T.J. Stewart 96.1 & 98.5, Mark Stewart 98.5, Bryan Hunter 98.3, Brian Hawksby 97.5 & 93.3, Sarah Clifford 95.4 & 95.3.

Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club Last Sunday, we are held another Chocolate Fish Race. Although rain was expected the weather held and we had 22 racers and 5 casual riders with a few new faces in the mix.

Starting at the bridge riders roded the track up to Melrose Road and back before heading east to Chalmers Avenue and back to the start. Scott Albon came in first with a time of 25 minutes, 40 seconds, followed

by Dell Phillips at 25 minutes, 52 seconds and Graeme Russell was third with a time of 26 minutes and 03 seconds. The first junior home was Henry Smith at 28 minutes and 14 seconds.

Track development and maintenance continues all year round and the track always provides a challenge and fun opportunity for all riders. Remember that others use the track and you need to be aware of other riders or walkers at all times.

The Mid Canterbury Mountain Bike Club always welcomes new members and you can check us out on our website at www.midcanterburymtbclub.co.nz.

Mid Canterbury Netball Junior A Team: Mid Canterbury Junior A Netball placed 4th out of seven in the Mid Canterbury Netball Junior Tournament held in Ashburton on Sunday 4th August.

We had good wins in our first two games, playing nice consistent netball, we held the court well winning 20-14 against North Canterbury A and 26-12

against Selwyn A. Our third game against Nelson Primary A and the playoff game against Marlborough U13A brought a more physical game forcing errors throughout the court. Both games making Mid Canterbury A having to fight really hard for the ball, we were defeated 23-14 to Nelson Primary A and 23-11 to Marlborough U13A. Junior B Team: No rain laid the table for an enjoyable day full of netball at the Mid Canterbury Netball Tournament held in Ashburton. The girls played well fought out netball with only small losses resulting in the Mid Canterbury B team being placed 4th overall in their division. Games in this division were played at 2 x 12 minute halves.

All girls played well and showed their potential for being a competitive team at future tournaments. Thank you for everyone’s support throughout the day, it was great to see the turnout of family and friends. As a team we would like to thank Property Brokers and Mid Canterbury Netball for our new hoodies - we looked very smart! We look forward to travelling to Timaru next Sunday to represent Mid Canterbury.

Nor’westers Musos Club Finally got pen to paper with the review for June’s Jam. First up we had the welcome return of Peter from Orari on the drums , with Eddie on electric guitar/vocals , Jan vocals, with Marg on back up vocals and marracca.

As usual a very classy set with covers of Stevie Nicks & Don Henley, Jo Cocker, Beatles,Dire Straits & Dragon to name a few, with a bit of Kid Rock to finish off, nice. Next up the very popular Grant Hopkins with his trusty acoustic guitar strumming & singing his way through some classic Beatles,Wayne Fontana, Paul Weller, Tommy Dorsey, and a topper ‘Jealous Guy’ from John Lennon, well done G. Don Hughes was up next on acoustic guitar/vocals and played a very tidy set including ‘Dream A Little Dream’ from the Mama’s & Papa’s and some dirty ol’ blues with ‘Alberta’ - nice touch Don. Kinnear followed, also on

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Collegiate Rugby Club Our congratulations to the Eclipse Services Senior B’s who made it into the final against Tinwald – unfortunately the result didn’t go our way but it was a great season! It was great to see our sponsors, all the supporters and families at the game to support the boys despite the weather and then those who came back to the Clubrooms.

The JAB round robin games are all finished and it has been

a fantastic season for our teams and we look to continue our growth in JAB next season.

The JAB prize giving is on the 10th August at 2pm and we encourage everyone to come along for a fun afternoon.

Senior grade sport (Rugby, Netball and Hockey) will have their Prize giving on the 31st August 7pm at the Clubrooms – again all sponsors, players and supporters are welcome.

There will be a courtesy van,

DJ and supper – come and help us celebrate a great year for the Club.

Touch will be starting in October and this year it is on a Friday night – to register your interest please contact Belinda 3020118.

Again a huge thank you to all our Sponsors, supporters, families and the hard working Committee who have helped make this another great year at Collegiate!

acoustic/vocals with ‘Say It Ain’t So’ from Wezzer and ‘Better Man’ from Pearl Jam.Just keeps getting better. Brendon Green then took up the coustic/vocals with ‘Civil War’ from the Gunners & ‘Gel’ from Collective Soul , good stuff.Tony Johnson from Timaru then picked up the acoustic and sang his way through some belters including Dylan’s ‘Mozambique’ and a great ‘Dear Prudence’ from the Fab Four.

Always a pleasure to see you at the Jam , keep it up. Paul

Johnson also on acoustic/vocals was up next with a real tasty set including a couple of ‘Decemberists’ numbers,The Narcs,Frankie Miller and Rod Stewart , real cool.Then we had a real treat with Nicol on vocals and Kelly on acoustic playing a couple of beautiful Maori songs , ‘Whakarongo Mai’ , a very old song ,and ‘No Nga Ariri’ a song written

by Kelly’s Uncle., brilliant at it’s best , thanks for getting up guys and would be good to see you back , you really got the crowd

going.

To finish off the night we had ‘Alley Cats’ with Bruce on bass , Alan McQuarters on trombone , Don on guitar/vocals,Zippy on drums and Jim Lishner on trumpet , and they took us all back in time with some real cruisy sounds to finish off a very entertaining afternoon. Very polished fella’s.

See you all at the next Jam on Sunday 25th August. The July Jam review will be in Thursday 22nd August.

Cochrane Two’s: None.

9 Hole: Stroke. Pauline Boon 43.

10.24 G Sloper vs L Wackrow, D Hinton vs H Argyle No 10 Tee 10.00 W Parr vs H Lovett, J Welch vs B Turton 10.06 H Hawksby vs J Guilford, V Moore vs P Bell 10.12 A Hopwood vs A Grant, D Engelbrecht vs K Read Nine Hole Men and Women’s Section August 15 Rnd 4 Heather Smith trophy, stableford- report 9:45am Nine Hole convenor - Carol O’Reilly 308 8758 August 10 – report 8.15am for 8.45am start for play with weekend ladies Town vs Country August 11 – report Tinwald Golf Club 12pm for 12.30pm start Foodstuffs Trophy Ashburton vs Tinwald

Starters: B.Cochrane ,L.Bird.

Cards: D.Mitchell, D.Wellman.

Tea Duties: A.M. A.Moody. P.M. I.Divers,J.Bruhns.

No., 1: 10.00 a.m . C. Linney, P.Smith,M.Bennett.

10.05: P.McLauchlan,P. Bishop,C.Shanks,B.Harris.

10.10: M.Oakley,B.Jackson,L. Glassey,T.OConnell.

10.15: B.Cochrane,L.Bird,S.Rodgers,I. Divers.

No 4: 10.00 a.m. M.Colville,D. Bell,K.King. 10.05: R.Kinvig,M. Moore,D.Sharplin.

No10: 10.00 a.m B.ONiell,D. Mitchell,D.Wellman.

10.05 M . S m i t h , M . K e n n e d y, M .

Reddicliffe,P.Ellis.

No. 13. 10.00a.m. J.Undy,J. Smith,A.Dwan.

10.05 K.McAuliffe,J.Vanderheide,P. Bell.

9 Holes: 6th Bell Trophy.

No. 10.: 10.10.am.

M. Sherriff,V.Johnston,N.Costin.

No. 17: 10.00 a.m. K.Young, P.Gibson.

SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS

Results ■ Golf

Ashburton County Veterans Golf Association August 5 Teams Stableford Mixed Teams.: 1st: 120 Stableford Points Bill Mason, Ray Goodman and Suzette Rodgers..

Men’s Teams: : 1st 139 Stableford Points John Dudley, Colin Divers, John David. Murray Beach and Stewart Dunlop.

2nd. 130 Stableford Points Peter Kiddey, Malcolm Fechney. Ray Lambert and John Rodgers.

Two’s: Neil Connelly.

Ashburton Golf Club Women’s Section August 6 Nearest The Pins: No 4 Not Struck , No 8 House of Travel Ashburton: Hilary Ward, No.12 Lynn’s Small Salon: Abbie Hop-

wood No. 14 Todds of Ashburton: Jacqui Welch, 2nd Shot to Green: Heather Trott. Twos: Dee Simmons – No 8, Sally Lemon – No 12.

Nine Hole Section August 1 Ambrose First: Muriel Hill, Carolyn Nelson, Ruth Logan, Kath Read – 43 -21.9 = 21.1 Second: Richard Johnson, Murray Early, Ken Kingsland – 43 – 18.75 = 24.25

Tinwald Golf Club Tuesday Ladies: Stroke August 6 Judith Smith 76,Joyce Vanderheide 76,Diana Wellman 77,Di Bell 77,Diane Lowe 77 Suzette Rodgers 77.

Nearest the pins: Sponsored

by No.6-Stables Family Restaurant, Phil Ellis. No 12-Hair by Mac and Maggie,Di Lowe. No.2-Dairy Business Centre, Phylis Smith.

No.16- Outdoor Adventure, Barb

Draws ■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club Midweek Women August 13 Town v Country Men accepting invitation to play please report 9.30am Draw Steward: Leigh Wackrow 308 3790 Tuesday Starters: Helen Argyle, Daphne Hinton No 1 Tee 10.00 H Robertson vs K McRae, M Bean vs E Porter 10.06 D Simmons vs B Gregory, W Carter vs H Ward 10.12 G Lane vs H Trott, K Green vs B Cameron 10.18 B Watkins vs F Matsinger, J Dunlop vs E Langford No 7 Tee 10.18 K Robb vs T Cates, S Simpson vs R Bennett

Tinwald Golf Club Tuesday Ladies August 13 LGU 3rd Foundation Cup,3rd Betty McBride B3.

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CHRYSLER 77

Prize-winning restoration ‘a challenge’ I t could almost be said Rob and Diane Ross are cornering the 1930 Chrysler 77 market in New Zealand.

There are only six known examples of this model in the country, and Rob and Diane have two of them, one a roadster and the other a coupe.

And that coupe has just been awarded the Ashburton Vintage Car Club trophy for Restoration of the Year.

So how come Rob and Diane have ended up with these two very special cars?

Well its ladies before gentlemen, so here’s Diane’s side of the story.

“I really like the first one Rob restored, but I wondered do we really need a second one?”

Rob says: “There were a lot of parts left over from the first restoration so I thought I might as well put them together.”

Those parts had been gathered to build a roadster.

Diane says: “We needed another roadster like a hole in the head,” and she was able to “persuade” Rob that if he was going to build another one it should have a roof, so that’s what he did.

Any restoration, especially one starting with a pile of parts, is a challenge; to assemble a car and then construct a roof is an ever-bigger call, and of course an incredible achievement.

Cars have fascinated Rob Ross since he was a nipper. And one car in particular has always held a special fascination for him, since he was very young Rob dreamed of owning a Chrysler 77.

Rob’s early work was on Dodges, he liked those because of their pedigree and also because the steel construction suited him.

Over the years he has restored several vehicles, and in fact this is not the first time his name has been engraved on the Restoration of the Year trophy. He previously won the trophy for his superb work on an Oldsmobile.

Rob and Diane say that with the 77 model Chrysler they set out to produce a stylish, upmarket car.

They succeeded, and not only do the Ross cars always attract attention; they also perform really well and are very comfortable touring cars which can keep up with today’s traffic.

Even though they are the same age and share the same specifica-

tions except for the body type, the two cars handle differently.

Rob and Diane are not exactly sure why this is but think it may be because one has fixed roof and the other is a convertible.

Either way they are both nice cars, and despite Diane claiming she needs to be convinced she and Rob need two she does admit it’s nice to have a pigeon pair which look great beside one another.

Diane agrees with Rob’s contention that it’s handy to have two for reference just in case anything goes wrong, and because they have plenty of spare parts.

The 1930 Chrysler 77 production run was comparatively small and the model has always been rare, so it’s quite possible there are very few if any other enthusiasts who have two of this model.

Because the 77 Coupe was constructed from parts, many sourced from the late Alan Storer in Christchurch and some from elsewhere, Rob and Diane don’t have a lot of historical information about their car, but they say that being able to readily source technical and other information has helped in the restoration process.

The finish of the Chrysler 77 was both stylish and luxurious, and the model was a hit with consumers as soon as it rolled off the production line. Under the bonnet the Chrysler 77 has a 4.4 litre side valve straight six engine which produces 93 horsepower and drives the rear wheels through a four speed box.

Perhaps because the Chrysler Company guaranteed a top speed of 77 mph and named the model accordingly, it was fitted with brakes which were better than average for the time.

This year three cars were nominated for the Restoration of the Year trophy. Rob and Diane say each of those cars is superb and each reflects a high standard of restoration. The judges agree, and this is evidenced by the fact that there were very few points in it.

When they manufactured their 77 model, Chrysler achieved their aim of producing a stylish car.

The two examples in the Ross stable are not only testament to that but also to Rob’s skills as a restorer.

And for Rob the dream of owning a Chrysler 77 has come true.

Twice!

Bernard Egan

MOTORING AND OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES

National Mopar Forum in town This year the Mopar Forum is holding their Annual get together in Ashburton over Labour Weekend.

The Group, which takes its name from the motor parts business set up in the 1930s by the Chrysler Company caters to members with an interest in certain American cars, including of course Chryslers.

Like other Chrysler enthusiasts Rob and Diane Ross are delighted the event is being held locally and those attending are in for an interesting time.

Above: The classically simple (and superbly restored) interior of the Chrysler 77.

Left: Rob and Diane with the Restoration of the Year trophy.

PHOTOS DONNA WYLIE

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

■ CYCLING

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In brief

Serious prep about to pay off Alex Hooper ON THE ROAD

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made it to Glasgow after another two weeks hard training in Belgium.

We trained on two different tracks, Ghent during the week in Belgium and on the weekends we were lucky enough to train on the brand new Roubaix track after crossing the border into France.

The Roubaix track was awesome and the facilities there were crazy. The recovery room consisted of three cold baths at 12 degrees which was pretty cold after a hard track session and there was a sauna but we were advised not to go in there.

Leaving our last training at Roubaix the staff played the All Blacks haka, and then wanted us skinny cyclists to do one, which we kindly rejected.

We also got to go out onto

Ashburton’s Alex Hooper takes to the track in the Junior World Track Cycling Championships in Glasgow today. Hooper has spent the past few weeks preparing in Belgium with the Bike NZ team before moving onto to Glasgow for the pre-championships warm-ups at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. The championship got underway last night (NZ Time) with Hooper set to contest the individual pursuit tonight (NZ Time) and the kilo time trial on day three. the famous Roubaix outdoor track which is where the biggest one day classics race, the Paris-Roubaix, finishes.

Basically we have been training and living a serious cycling lifestyle for the past couple of weeks and all the boys are looking good and fast - a good thing leading into Junior Worlds.

I will be riding my main two events, the individual pursuit and kilo time-trial. I missed out on the team pursuit which has been good as I have been able to concentrate and train for the two events.

On Saturday we left Belgium for Glasgow. Two trains to the airport then two flights, the first to London where I was dumb enough to leave my computer in my bag through customs, so had to wait for ages

while they did a bag check but I watched all these other tourists get pulled up for pills, liquids, duty free and a whole heap of other stuff which kept me entertained.

We made it to Glasgow after another hour flight and settled into the Crown Plaza in Glasgow, very flash, along with several other countries. We have had three sessions on the track now and it is super-fast.

The atmosphere will be crazy, with seating the whole way around the track and 32 countries competing.

The trainings have been crazy enough with four or five different countries trying to use the track together but we have been able to get some good efforts out and I am feeling confident about my form.

TRACK INFO A link to the live feed of the Junior World Track Championships is available on this story at Guardianonline. co.nz.

Hooper will be in the men’s individual pursuit qualifying between 10.30pm-1.30am tonight (NZ Time), with the finals then raced between 6am-8.50am Friday morning.

The kilo will be raced between 6am-8.50am Saturday morning.

I have the individual pursuit tomorrow and the kilo the next day. Thanks to all the support back home it does mean a lot and I hope I can now go out and make all my supporters proud.

Vito won’t be going off-shore Victor Vito isn’t going anywhere.

After being axed from the All Blacks last weekend the Wellington loose forward said he won’t head overseas and will instead take out his frustrations on unsuspecting ITM Cup sides during the next two months.

“I’m not worried about going overseas,” Vito said yesterday.

“The black jersey still holds a huge importance for me and I want to stick around and I haven’t written myself off. I still want to play well for this ITM team and just really try and help Wellington achieve something it hasn’t since 2000, I think, and that’s win the ITM Cup.” The rise of Blues tyro Steven Luatua has forced Vito out of the 28-strong All Blacks squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship and the Wellingtonian could have a tough job returning given Luatua’s rapid improvement. Hurricanes blindside Brad Shields had a booming Super Rugby campaign this year and Crusaders loosie Luke Whitelock is also a useful prospect. All three are younger than

Vito. Vito has been told by the All Blacks selectors that he isn’t physical enough and needs to maintain a higher intensity for 80 minutes.

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen said Vito needed to “unclutter himself ” and the 26-year-old had no issues with Hansen’s criticisms.

“Yep, they’re pretty fair,” Vito said. “The coach is always right, I guess.”

It’s a tough scenario for Vito given he is naturally suited to No 8 but Kieran Read is firmly established in that position for the All Blacks while blindside flanker is more up in the air, although Liam Messam may be finally turning a corner following the departure of Jerome Kaino.

In a bid to “unclutter” his game, Vito said he would seek the advice of All Blacks mental skills coach Gilbert Enoka and Wellington rugby’s professional development manager Steve Symonds.

“I probably haven’t changed enough,” Vito said.

“You’re making mental shifts in areas I’ve never really explored before. [That] will probably be what’s needed.”

Veteran netball shooter Catherine Cox is on the move again, joining the Melbourne Vixens on a one-year contract for the next trans-Tasman competition. The 37-year-old Cox, who has played 108 Tests, joins the Vixens after two years at West Coast Fever and several seasons at NSW Swifts. She effectively replaces fellow Test veteran Sharelle McMahon, who announced her retirement last month.

“There are few clubs in the competition that have a genuine culture about them and the Vixens is definitely one of them,” Cox said.

Arrogant England

■ RUGBY

By Daniel RichaRDson

Cox joins Vixens

Shane Warne has criticised England’s attitude and behaviour during the third Ashes Test, accusing Matt Prior of being “smug” and questioning whether they are being deliberately “arrogant and dismissive”.

England retained the urn on Monday when the Old Trafford Test - which they were on course to lose - was washed out by rain, meaning their 2-0 lead was preserved heading into the final two matches of the series.

Coach Andy Flower’s men came in for criticism throughout the game for alleged time-wasting, and Warne went one step further on Wednesday.

Hotspot misused The ICC is understood to be investigating the use of a siliconebased tape by batsmen in the Ashes series to prevent edges appearing on Hotspot technology.

The Nine Network reported that cricket’s governing body was looking into its use - with suggestions players from both England and Australia would be fronted on the issue. The Hotspot technology, which forms part of the decision review system, has come under fire during the Ashes series, with both teams complaining of inconsistencies in its use and application.

Stars queue up Australian cycling’s world championships dream team will be a nightmare call for selectors.

Richie Porte, Cadel Evans, Michael Rogers and Simon Gerrans are frontrunners to make the team for the September 29 men’s elite road race in Florence.

The tough 272.5km road race is said to feature as much total climbing as a Tour de France mountain stage. Australia will most likely qualify a full team of nine riders for the men’s road race. Brad McGee, the new men’s road coordinator for Cycling Australia, said it will be hard to decide who misses out.

Tua injured?

Victor Vito is sticking round.

If David Tua’s calf injury forces his fight against Alexander Ustinov to be delayed then promoters Duco Events will be scrambling to reschedule the event mindful they will have to avoid clashes with other sports, most notably an All Blacks test.

More will be known about Tua’s grade one calf tear later this week, and if needed the fight against Ustinov delayed.

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In brief Hockey battle

Emma has eyes on world medal

It will fourth time lucky in the Wakanui men’s hockey derby tonight to decide the winner of the Bowman Cup. Wakanui Black and Wakanui Blue have both recorded wins over Tinwald but their three draws leave the title of top Mid Canterbury team, and the cup that goes with it unclaimed. But tonight’s fourth and final showdown will see the cup’s fate decided, with the match at 7.30pm at the Ashburton Hockey’s turf.

BY JONATHAN LEASK

Tall Ferns named

Mayfield rower Emma Dyke is in Trakai, Lithuania for the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships which got underway last night (NZ Time).

In total, 59 nations have sent 800 athletes to race and are competing in 13 junior (under 19) boat classes at the championships, which showcase the future of the sport including potential 2016 or 2020 Olympians.

There are four crew entries from New Zealand.

Dyke, who attends Craighead Diocesan, is in the New Zealand junior women’s coxless four with Eloise Dowse (Cambridge RC), Holly Greenslade and Alice Darry (St Margaret’s College).

Greenslade is one of four athletes who are returning from the 2012 squad where New Zealand won three medals Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A gold medal was picked up by the men’s coxed four and two bronze medals came from the women’s quadruple scull and women’s four.

The 2013 team has high hopes of bringing home four medals at this year’s event.

Dyke enjoyed international success when she claimed silver in the coxless four at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January.

Tall Ferns’ coach Kennedy Hamilton-Kereama has named seven new caps on his roster to take on the Australian Opals at the Fiba Oceania Championships next week. Perth-based Kate Fielding is the biggest bolter the shooting guard has a Kiwi father and plays for HamiltonKereama’s West Coast Waves in the Australian WNBL. Towering 2.03m centre Megan Craig will get her chance after two strong seasons on scholarship at the University at Albany, while the other rookies - Otago’s Samara Gallaher, Waikato’s Kalani Purcell, Waitakere’s Penina Davidson, Hutt Valley’s Stella Beck and Nelson’s Jess Bygate - have all starred in the domestic women’s league in recent seasons.

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Buderus on brink On the verge of breaking Andrew Johns’ Newcastle appearance record, hooker Danny Buderus has revealed the moment he feared he would never play again.

The former NSW Origin and Test captain will make his 250th appearance against Cronulla at Remondis Stadium on Saturday night - surpassing rugby league Immortal Johns’ mark in the red and blue. But having undergone two bouts of back surgery at the start of the year, Buderus doubted his potential to ever lace on the boots again, let alone reach 250 games.

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The high price of ‘assistance’

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hoever next?

Another massive sporting figure has fallen to the lure of the needle to extract that last vital percentage point out of their bodies, this time Alex Rodriguez on the baseball diamond.

For a start, he stands to lose around $31m in earnings over the next couple of years; even a handy European footballer might blink a little bit at that.

Then will come all the retrospective stuff, irate sponsors (who will get even more, and free, exposure for a few months) will want their investment returned, and more importantly, Uncle Sam doesn’t like being lied to under oath, and there’s more than a hint of that around A-Rod. The strutting, blind arrogance that he’s displayed over the past year or so is instantly reminiscent of another top sportsman, one who also finally got caught in the web that he had so carefully spun all by himself.

But is it all becoming a witch-

hunt, a sporting replay of the Spanish Inquisition in the prosecutors’ zeal to put away the big names (and that’s what should happen - A-Rod and Lance Armstrong should be in jail, we’re talking about bigger fraud than some of our more noted finance company directors).

Armstrong’s ridiculous ‘I made a mistake; everyone was doing it’ defence on Oprah was simply part of his high-powered, highmoneyed rhetorically platitudinous defensive line in action, and A-Rod is still marshalling his own gang of be-suited lawyers ready for a hugely expensive defence/appeal campaign.

But the likes of Stuart O’Grady, noted as one of the Tour’s all-time good guys, have been swept up in the near-religious fervour of it all, paying with their entire reputations for making a bad choice, many many years ago. No hint here of any deliberate tampering with documents or procedures, or orchestrated bullying and badgering of witnesses to make

things ‘go away’, just a terrible error of judgement, one that will now haunt him (and a heap of others) for the rest of their lives.

Still on the Tour; but a slightly different angle, the two guys who commentate the whole thing. For the most part they provide a superb, highly entertaining and educational sporting travelogue as we follow the peleton as it meanders through the stunning French countryside and mountain areas.

Just two things; the older guy gets to do the sprint finishes, and he simply can’t keep up, he loses the plot as the riders rocket towards the finish line in a situation that changes faster than the last 50 metres of a greyhound race. He should be taking the Richie Benaud approach, let action unfold in front of everyone then make informed comment on what we’ve all seen for ourselves.

The other? The two of them have a slavish, completely unquestioning fixation on

Steve Devereux MY SHOUT

Mark Cavendish, a fixation that touches on excrutiating, if not crossing the state line into nauseating territory.

In the first week of the Tour, you’ll hear Mark Cavendish mentioned twice. Oh, that’s in each and every sentence our dynamically verbose duo utter, for an entire week.

And when they hit the mountains, Mark Cavendish of course is nowhere to be seen, but you still get to hear what he had for breakfast that day, and how he’s going to murder them down the straight at the Champs Elysees (he didn’t).

Purely hypothesising here, but imagine if it was discovered that their illicit love child (he must be) Mark Cavendish had scored all his hugely impressive Tour victories while pumped to the eyebrows with jungle juice.

Now those explanations would be worth twice the price of admission to hear.

Badminton over New Zealand’s involvement at the badminton world championship in Guangzhou, China, was short-lived when the Kiwi players were beaten by highly-ranked opponents on day two of the tournament. Waikato brother and sister Oliver and Susannah Leydon-Davis, ranked 52nd, were defeated by the world No 7 Thai pair of Sudket Prapakamo and Saralee Thoungthongkam 21-8 21-11 in 26 minutes in the second round of competition.

Richest sportswomen Tennis stars have dominated the list of the world’s 10 best-paid female athletes, Forbes magazine says. But the magazine says it also highlights the yawning earnings gap with their male counterparts in most sports.

Russia’s Maria Sharapova headed the list, published on forbes.com, earning a total of $US29 million between June 2012 and June this year. Tennis took the top four positions, with world number one Serena Williams States second $US20.5m, China’s Li Na third $US18.2m and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus fourth ($US15.7m.

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club. Venue: Addington Raceway. Meeting Date: 08 Aug 2013. NZ Meeting number: 10. 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 4.35pm (NZT) SUPER PETS SPRINT C4, 295m 1 26455 Austin Wana 17.58 ....................J McInerney 2 48x77 Red Carpet 17.29...........................G Cleeve 3 13324 Gotta Go Ace 17.48 ..................R Blackburn 4 53627 Primitive 17.19 S & ..........................Bonnett 5 76118 Nitro Mabel 17.39 H &.........................Taylor 6 87887 Smash Amy 17.19........................... M Grant 7 24416 Benny’s Angel 17.46 .................J McInerney 8 61454 Claremont Pizzaz 17.34 A & ..............Seque 9 68355 Know Jealousy 17.29 .....................G Cleeve 10 42676 Excuse Please 17.35 .................. J McMillan 2 4.55pm (NZT) HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY LORRAINE BRIGHT DASH C3, 295m 1 33386 Know Pride 17.26...........................G Cleeve 2 88475 Cawbourne Dusty 17.51 ................. M Grant 3 47463 Life’s A Laugh 17.39..................R Blackburn 4 28348 Anytime Will Do 17.48 ...............J McInerney 5 22265 Rambunctious 17.67 ................. A Bradshaw 6 11228 Hooray For Hazel 17.56 M & ............... Smith 7 68532 Fly Canary Fly 17.74 .................J McInerney 8 x2352 Wandy Luck 17.51 .........................G Cleeve 9 68855 Blickling Bridge 17.53 J & ......................May 10 58877 New York Affair 18.08 J & .......................May

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3 5.12pm (NZT) THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C3, 295m 1 74355 Homebush Churro 17.35 ...........J McInerney 2 64177 Avec Lamour 17.58 ................... A Bradshaw 3 82623 Opawa Wally nwtd L & ....................... Wales 4 12132 Know Wisdom 17.36 ......................G Cleeve 5 53764 Another Becky 17.49 .................J McInerney 6 51547 Fireman’s Rocket 17.46 .................G Cleeve 7 64478 Wandy Paul 17.47 ........................... M Grant 8 71617 Vitalize 17.65 J & ...................................May 9 45487 Theokoles 17.51 S & ........................Bonnett 10 58877 New York Affair 18.08 J & .......................May 4 5.30pm (NZT) CAROL’S TAB SPRINT C4, 295m 1 43637 Homebush Edith 17.21 .............J McInerney 2 11252 Trans Tasman 17.23 ..................R Blackburn 3 77263 Fireman’s Escort 17.28 ..................G Cleeve 4 45121 Know Lies 17.37 ............................G Cleeve 5 15747 Wandy Jewel 17.39 .....................D Kingston 6 45478 Cawbourne Moff 17.00..............J McInerney 7 26758 Gitcha Easy 17.25 W & ..................... Nissen 8 86558 Pure And Special 17.25 .................. M Grant 9 68355 Know Jealousy 17.29 .....................G Cleeve 10 53885 Bolt Rama nwtd S & .........................Bonnett 5 5.48pm (NZT) SKY HIGH SCAFFOLDING DASH C3, 295m 1 38515 Big Token nwtd ..........................J McInerney 2 63114 Home Truth 17.32...........................G Cleeve 3 43278 Dyna Frier 17.23 ..........................C Roberts

4 21688 Make Your Point 17.40 S & .............. B Evans 5 63178 Alisaray nwtd ................................ L Waretini 6 32254 Two Ways 17.30 ...............................B Shaw 7 48266 Runway Queen 17.41 ....................G Cleeve 8 16485 Wandy Gaylene 17.30....................G Cleeve 9 68855 Blickling Bridge 17.53 J & ......................May 10 45487 Theokoles 17.51 S & ........................Bonnett 6 6.08pm (NZT) CTV SPRINT C5, 295m 1 54232 Butterbean 17.29 M & .....................P Binnie 2 76512 Starburst Josh 17.16 ....................... M Grant 3 31352 Homebush Mayhem 17.27 ........J McInerney 4 11611 More Better 16.99 W &...................... Nissen 5 84326 Wandy Boiler 17.33 ........................G Cleeve 6 43142 Know Thought 17.10 ......................G Cleeve 7 68541 Rodriguez 17.19..................................A Lee 8 56424 Zebidiah 17.02 J & ..........................D Fahey 9 14664 Ringa Ding 17.50 ......................J McInerney 10 11885 Rule Judge Judy 17.47 J & ....................May 7 6.37pm ROBBIE’S BAR & BISTRO STAKES C3, 520m 1 55612 Girl Racer 30.42 H & ...........................Taylor 2 48787 Wandy Pam nwtd ........................D Kingston 3 34334 Red Typhoon 30.56 ......................... M Grant 4 43327 Bigtime Kelina nwtd..........................B Shaw 5 43418 Ohoka Frenchi 30.69.................... L Waretini 6 31631 Popstar Rocket 30.57 ........................M Flipp 7 21251 Criniti’s nwtd ......................................J Dunn 8 21446 Chevy Chevelle 30.70 H & ..................Taylor 9 63312 Bob’s Eye 30.73 ........................J McInerney

10 47336 Cawbourne Kim 30.63 ..............J McInerney

8 7.02pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC DASH C5, 295m

1 22135 Know Advantage 17.04 ..................G Cleeve 2 41172 Callahan 17.26 .............................M Roberts 3 78263 Another Colt 17.35 ....................J McInerney 4 14145 Go Housie 17.09 ............................G Cleeve 5 11352 Mr. Whippy 17.19 W & ....................... Nissen 6 11255 Just A Mate 17.21 .....................J McInerney 7 63363 Etched In Stone 17.25 ..............R Blackburn 8 12125 Ciri Rioli 17.11 J & ..........................D Fahey 9 14664 Ringa Ding 17.50 ......................J McInerney 10 66643 Know Mistake 16.95 .......................G Cleeve 9 7.28pm I PAVE CONCRETE STAKES C4, 520m 1 51355 Take A Trick 30.62 .............................M Flipp 2 82178 Stolen Money 17.97 .......................G Cleeve 3 31266 Cawbourne Kesha 30.74...........J McInerney 4 73847 Opawa Bomb 30.67 L & ..................... Wales 5 22244 Opawa Style 30.55 L & ...................... Wales 6 34187 Mick and Paddy 30.34 W & ............... Nissen 7 56154 Opawa Jed 30.06 J & ......................D Fahey 8 42123 Swip And Tear nwtd H & .....................Taylor 9 38177 Maximum Jewel 30.46 .................C Roberts 10 357x7 Business Plan 30.50 .................R Blackburn 10 7.54pm KOLORFUL KANVAS STAKES C4/5, 520m 1 23213 Indi’s Grace 30.20 ........................... M Grant 2 11452 Banbit 30.57 .....................................B Shaw 3 41325 Jinja Power 30.41 J & .....................D Fahey

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31151 Homebush Chopper 30.60 ........J McInerney 56217 Speedy Kazza 30.46 .................J McInerney 71836 Black Emily 30.16 L & ........................ Wales 33218 No Undies Sundy 30.39 ............J McInerney 18421 Homebush Iris 30.66 .................J McInerney 38177 Maximum Jewel 30.46 .................C Roberts 75888 Geoff The Ref 30.65 H &.....................Taylor 11 8.20pm RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ DASH C5, 295m 1 73521 Pearl’s Boy 17.19 ...........................G Cleeve 2 24113 Drysdale 17.17 ....................................A Lee 3 6164 Bellwave nwtd W &............................ Nissen 4 21336 Sosan 17.43 .................................C Roberts 5 21324 Sting Me 17.12 ................................ M Grant 6 1788x Wandy Geno 17.27 ........................G Cleeve 7 71636 Know Favours 17.37 ......................G Cleeve 8 42541 Nippa Mary 17.09......................J McInerney 9 14664 Ringa Ding 17.50 ......................J McInerney 10 61678 Homebush Sarge 17.35 ............J McInerney 12 8.42pm SPEIGHT’S SPRINT C4, 295m 1 64878 Campaigner 17.34 H & .......................Taylor 2 34865 Wandy Chick 17.36 ........................G Cleeve 3 81336 Cawbourne Chief 17.39 .................. M Grant 4 88657 Wandy Devil nwtd ........................... M Grant 5 85552 Dillmanstown 17.45...........................J Dunn 6 85353 Lynny Southcombe 17.29 .........J McInerney 7 58875 Matti Oah 17.08 ........................J McInerney 8 51417 Enable 17.34 B & ............................. T Shaw 9 68355 Know Jealousy 17.29 .....................G Cleeve 10 67483 Know Escape 17.02 .......................G Cleeve

Hawkes Bay gallops Today at Hastings raceway

Hawkes Bay Racing Club. Venue: Hastings. Meeting Date: 08 Aug 2013. NZ Meeting number: 4. Doubles : 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7.

1 12.30pm (NZT) STELLA ARTOIS 3YO HANDICAP $8000, 3YO HCP, 1200m 1 1. Lord Turbo dm (4) 58.......................R Myers 2 478x2 Miss Rhythmic (5) 54 ....................D Bradley 3 Mr Mendelssohn 54 ..................... Scratched 4 Laced Up h (2) 54 ..................... M D Plessis 5 68x Lady Huntingdon (6) 54 .................. K Myers 6 Lord Casanova (3) 54 ................. R Hannam 7 Waipatiki Girl h (1) 54.........................M Hills 2 1.05pm WINDSOR PARK STUD STALLIONS RATING 85 $12,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 2000m 1 57117 Belfast Lad tm (4) 60 ........... M Dravitzki (a2) 2 23111 Chill Bill m (5) 60 .....................B Hutton (a3) 3 98192 The Muffin Man dm (12) 59.5M Ulucinar (a4) 4 10187 Ormond Road m (8) 58.5 ................R Myers 5 x8247 Chapinta 57.................................. Scratched

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ING 65 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 x5362 Dal Dantrix d (12) 59 ...................... J Parkes 2 76431 Ekko Beeches tdm (11) 58..............D Walsh 3 32462 Ashalini (2) 56.5 ......................B Hutton (a3) 4 x7302 The Great White dm (7) 56.5R Hutchings (a) 5 99x85 Our Entourage (8) 56 .................. R Hannam 6 0x147 Anniesstar (3) 55.5........................ T Russell 7 x9206 Platinum Lincoln m (4) 55.5 ..........D Bradley 8 94x10 Hayabusa mb (9) 55........................ K Myers 9 4x570 Pearls tdh (10) 54............................R Myers 10 848x0 Sloshed h (1) 54........................ M D Plessis 11 x8826 Bolt Action tdm (5) 54 .............. B Grylls (a2) 12 45707 Seducer d (6) 54 ............................. S Spratt 5 2.50pm DESERT GOLD CLUB RATING 75 $10,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1600m 1 4x753 Tidal Wave tm (5) 59 ................ B Grylls (a2) 2 008x9 Sou’east t (2) 58.................................M Hills 3 0x125 Anotherchancetaken tdm (8) 57.5..............R Hutchings (a) 4 27721 St Ransom dm (1) 57.5 ............... R Hannam

5 01902 Are You Devious dm (10) 57............ S Spratt 6 1x044 Quality Royal dm (3) 56 .............. B Lammas 7 52724 Ishiarose (4) 54.5 ...................... M D Plessis 8 0x063 Flippant dm (7) 54.5 .......................D Walker 9 05332 Share The Blame m (6) 54.5 ...B Hutton (a3) 10 36543 Jamomiti t (9) 54 ............................. K Myers 6 3.25pm BAY FORD 2013 PUNTER OF THE YEAR MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1600m 1 353x9 No Commission h (1) 58.5 .................M Hills 2 380x3 Viceroy h (9) 58.5 ............................J Riddell 3 47x54 Mr Cool Boy (6) 58.5 ................... B Lammas 4 x08x5 Gingerbread Man h (3) 58.5..... B Grylls (a2) 5 87705 Rapt In Gold (10) 58.5 ........ M Dravitzki (a2) 6 03332 Jazz Rock b (5) 56.5 ................. M D Plessis 7 54432 Port Elizabeth (11) 56.5 ..........B Hutton (a3) 8 362 Bonny Heights (4) 56.5 .................. J Parkes 9 x9033 Lovetokeep’er 56.5....................... Scratched 10 9x305 A’Rosa Blu (14) 56.5 .......................D Walsh 11 900x5 Tullyho (13) 56.5 ......................... R Hannam 12 0x0. Zinika (12) 56.5 -

13 73876 Mahora Gold h (8) 56.5 14 30x06 Prince Federico 58.5 .................... Scratched 15 07x06 Hunky Dory h (7) 58.5 16 708 Shadow Player (2) 56.5 Emergencies: Tullyho, Zinika, Mahora Gold, Prince Federico, Hunky Dory, Shadow Player 7 4.00pm WESTBURY STUD OPEN HANDICAP $15,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 69x32 Fritzy Boy tdm (4) 61 ................ B Grylls (a2) 2 52319 No Excuse Maggie tdmh (7) 57 ..M Dravitzki (a2) 3 x3310 Kaap Kruis tdm (5) 54.5 ............J Oliver (a4) 4 1111x Thunderbird One m (6) 54.5 ...B Hutton (a3) 5 64385 Aunt Daisy dm (2) 54 ......................D Walsh 6 4550x Delecta Dreims tm (3) 54 ................R Myers 7 4606x Figure Again m (8) 54 ............... M D Plessis 8 x5327 Gossiping dm (1) 54................. A Taylor (a3) Blinkers on : Figure Again (R7) Winkers on : Mr Cool Boy (R6)

Waikato harness Today at Cambridge Raceway

Harness Racing Waikato. Venue: Cambridge Raceway.

Meeting Date: 08 Aug 2013. NZ Meeting number: 5.

Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9.

1 5.57pm (NZT) FAIRVIEW MOTORS CAMBRIDGE JUNIOR DRS MOBILE PACE $5500, 4yo+ 2 to 4 wins mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2200m 1 99x80 Delicata (1) fr ...................... S Abernethy (J) 2 42753 Get Holme Tyron (2) fr............. B Butcher (J) 3 18144 Keepsake (3) fr..................... S McMullan (J) 4 35375 Howzat (4) fr ...................... J MacKinnon (J) 5 36145 Guilty Verdict (5) fr .......................A Veint (J) 6 69956 Distraction (6) fr ....................... D Branch (J) 7 24611 Spirit Of Art (7) fr................... T Cameron (J) 8 5655x Mach Cruiser (8) fr ................ M Salaivao (J) 9 31652 Lambrusco (21) fr.................. A Poutama (J) 2 6.22pm BADLANDS HANOVER @ NEVELE R STUD MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ c&g non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 38x Comrade (1) fr..................................G Robb 2 60x0 Royal Arthur (2) fr .................... M McKendry

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6 28511 Sea Eagle tm (11) 57 ....................D Bradley 7 02161 I’m Not Ticklish dm (7) 57 ...............D Walsh 8 51219 D’Llaro dm (1) 56.5 ............. R Hutchings (a) 9 23552 Ngario (10) 55 ................................ J Parkes 10 10x85 Les Sylphides dm (6) 54 ................. S Spratt 11 51024 Lasswade td (9) 54.........................D Walker 12 x9749 Me Aroha m (2) 54 ................... B Grylls (a2) 13 77x26 Amity Dane m (3) 54 ..........................M Hills Emergency: Amity Dane 3 1.40pm HASTINGS-HEART OF HAWKE’S BAY RATING 85 $12,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1400m 1 44213 The Filly dm (3) 59.5 ........ J Shackleton (a3) 2 23711 Commett tdmh (6) 58.5 ....... M Dravitzki (a2) 3 41116 Iamishwara d (4) 58.5 ............... M D Plessis 4 3680x Rumour Has It Now dm (7) 56.5 ....H Tinsley 5 63362 The Flying Affair 56.5 ................... Scratched 6 01019 Musuko King dm (2) 55.5 ................S Collett 7 92107 Marotiri Miss dm (5) 54.5 ................ K Myers 8 01331 Polly Flinders dm (1) 54 ..................D Walsh 4 2.15pm RUSH MUNRO’S SPRING CARNIVAL RAT-

3 0x94 Miro Bay (3) fr .............................. D Butcher 4 3 Rado (4) fr .....................................P Butcher 5 397 Mach’s Gem (5) fr ..................... J Abernethy 6 8x636 Mullinalaghta Lad (6) fr ........... T Macfarlane 7 9x Bettormore (7) fr............................Z Butcher 3 6.47pm NO.1 MOTEL CAMBRIDGE HANDICAP TROT $6000, 6yo+ 2 or more wins +claimers discrhcp trot, stand, 2700m 1 x1092 Banana Smoothie (1) fr .................Z Butcher 2 99574 Good Hest (U1) fr...................... J Abernethy 3 84838 Meyer Lansky (1) 20 ........................G Robb 4 27244 Tommiray (2) 20 ............................P Butcher 5 19926 Moment Of Truth (U1) 20 ............. D Butcher 6 66516 Oto Invasion (1) 40....................S McCaffrey 4 7.14pm CHANGEOVER @ NEVELE R STUD CLAIMERS MOBILE PACE $5000, claimers 5yo+ mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 78373 Harry The Maori (1) fr ........ J MacKinnon (J) 2 15468 Broadway (2) fr...............................S Phelan 3 58224 Winstone P (3) fr ........................... A Sharpe 4 23327 Thrill Factor (4) fr...........................P Butcher

5 76055 Brooke Brad Carolina (5) fr .......... D Butcher 6 10461 Jonny Wilkinson (6) fr....................Z Butcher 7 25497 Kilarney Guy fr ............................. Scratched 8 63615 Viewfield Apache (7) fr ............ B Butcher (J) 5 7.40pm DUNSTAN MAXIM LOW-GI MOBILE PACE $5500, 4yo+ mares up to 2 wins mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 64233 Macy Delight (1) fr.........................S Lawson 2 51x34 Stars And Sound (2) fr ................. B Mangos 3 8x1P8 Bailey Maguire (3) fr ......................Z Butcher 4 84727 Silent Night (4) fr ...........................T Mitchell 5 37349 Aces N Eights (5) fr .......................N Chilcott 6 43936 Captivating (6) fr...........................R Downey 7 94884 Shardon’s Pearl (7) fr ................... D Butcher 8 66878 Only Whisper fr ............................ Scratched 6 8.05pm SKY CITY HAMILTON HANDICAP PACE $7000, 5yo+ 3 to 6 wins discrhcp pace, stand, 2700m 1 45748 Callie O’Malley (1) fr......................P Butcher 2 80712 Meet Me In Mayfair (2) fr .............. D Butcher 3 87145 Millview Rachal (3) fr ................ D Branch (J) 4 7x639 Elias Bromac fr............................. Scratched

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73635 Secret Desire (4) fr.........................S Phelan 15454 In The Living Years (1) 10...............J I Dickie 1810x Hugh Hefner (2) 10 .......................Z Butcher 31866 Beaming Jay (3) 10 ................. T Macfarlane 7 8.30pm DUNSTAN SWEET MIX MOBILE PACE $5500, 4yo+ 1 to 2 wins mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 1 008x8 American Classic (1) fr............ B Butcher (J) 2 24412 Ergo fr .......................................... Scratched 3 60553 Jack Bates (2) fr ............................N Chilcott 4 33253 Cullies Delight fr ........................... Scratched 5 24216 Spook (3) fr ..................................A Veint (J) 6 8982x Bonnie Maguire (4) fr ................S McCaffrey 7 35375 Howzat (5) fr .................................S Lawson 8 42854 Randalstown (6) fr...............................T Hall 9 66767 Hitch (21) fr ...................................Z Butcher 10 65433 Golden Delight (22) fr................... D Butcher 11 54796 Escape The Fate (23) fr ...... S Abernethy (J) 12 0x737 Salvador (24) fr ..................... A Poutama (J) 13 90984 J J’s Flash (25) fr....................... J Abernethy 8 8.55pm CAMBRIDGE TAB HANDICAP TROT $5500, 4yo+ up to 1 win spechcp trot, stand, 2200m

1 Quite Easy Damit (1) fr ................ B Mangos 2 22270 Latent (2) fr ...................................Z Butcher 3 94326 Door Slammer (3) fr ................... J Robinson 4 42566 Burt Munro (1) 30..................... D Branch (J) 5 P8478 Sudon Speed (U1) 30 ............... J Abernethy 6 x431P Jessica (U2) 30 ............................... S Argue 7 30354 Jimbo Johnson (U3) 30 ................ D Butcher 9 9.20pm HARNESS RACING WAIKATO MOBILE PACE $5000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 56x60 Ineedanorvic (1) fr .................... M McKendry 2 x0Px6 Tactful Lady (2) fr .............................G Robb 3 46315 Cougar Bromac (3) fr .....................S Phelan 4 Imperial (4) fr............................. J Abernethy 5 96058 Stagefright (5) fr ............................N Chilcott 6 Violle (6) fr............................... T Macfarlane 7 Desire To Fly (7) fr.........................P Butcher 8 2028x Lay Down Mizere (8) fr ....................H Cullen 9 83439 Monets Daughter (21) fr ........ A Poutama (J) 10 2 Lotta Bets (22) fr ................. S Abernethy (J) 11 600 Smoken Bad (23) fr ...................... D Butcher Pacifiers off : Sudon Speed (R8)

1 57646 Jinja Jam nwtd ............................B Littlejohn 2 34242 Uncle Romilly nwtd ...........................B Craik 3 81817 King’s Legacy 21.53 ..........................J Black 4 46828 Major Tom 21.91 H ......................L Laagland 5 64836 Bigtime Whizz nwtd R O’....................Regan 6 24542 Cawbourne Banksy nwtd ..................C Hore 7 85285 Where’s The Cat 21.38 ..............D Schofield 8 58733 Realon Rose nwtd R O’......................Regan 9 64767 Go Dolphin Power nwtd .............. C F Moore 10 58577 King’s Mistress 21.72 ........................J Black 9 2.25pm 0800 4 DOWN COW SPRINT C5, 375m 1 83615 Explosive Osti 21.11 .........................C Hore 2 33574 Cosmic Mack 21.18 ...................D Schofield 3 71332 Hajime 21.26 .................................P Cleaver 4 43814 Harvey Nichols 21.22 ........................B Craik 5 43441 Kiwi Girl 21.18 ...................................J Black 6 14827 Grizz 20.92....................................... S Clark 7 35648 Opawa Sacha nwtd .....................B Littlejohn 8 51551 Quick Cat 21.31 .........................D Schofield 9 32255 Fancy Idol nwtd ............................... K Walsh 10 84357 Ima Spice nwtd R O’ ..........................Regan 10 2.42pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 31114 Zagato 25.68 ............................. A Lawrence 2 12312 Lafayette nwtd ...................................B Craik 3 21421 Feel The Vibe 25.60 ...................D Schofield 4 51878 Matrix nwtd........................................J Black 5 82736 We’re So Lucky 25.62 .......................B Craik 6 53261 Valain’s Flyer 25.61 .........................T Patton

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Waikato And Districts Greyhound Racing Club. Venue: Cambridge Raceway. Meeting Date: 08 Aug 2013. NZ Meeting number: 9. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12.

1 12.03pm (NZT) SERGIO @ STUD SPRINT C1, 375m 1 83446 Mic Player nwtd .............................. P Lowen 2 65655 Tata Safari 21.60 ...............................B Craik 3 52322 Sasha’s One 21.32........................... S Clark 4 48766 High Fly Hunter nwtd .......................T Agent 5 84727 Bigtime Treasure nwtd.................... I George 6 16146 Miss Paeroa 21.93 R O’ .....................Regan 7 32121 Wheezy Appeal nwtd ......................P Green 8 68543 Bubble Ostee 21.83 ........................ M Mann 9 84876 Caruba King 21.67 ............................J Black 10 87777 Hot Pal 21.94 ............................. W Toomath 2 12.21pm ALL SEW EMBROIDERY SERIES HEATS C0f, 457m 1 5865 Tennesse Ave nwtd ...........................B Craik 2 2 Thrilling Bert nwtd ........................... K Walsh 3 8783 Westerly Wind nwtd ..................... M J Lozell 4 665 Legree nwtd ................................... G Parker 5 66576 Skyhigh Levi nwtd .......................... G Parker 6 Blitzing Mayhem nwtd ...................... S Clark 7 84554 Billy Holmes nwtd........................... G Clarke 8 Thrilling Tricks nwtd ......................... K Walsh 9 777 Larto nwtd .....................................A Cleaver 10 46x58 Summertime Bobby nwtd .........S M Gardner

3 12.39pm HAUTAPU VETERINARY CLINIC SPRINT C3, 375m 1 76268 Lochinvar Valero nwtd ................D Schofield 2 23245 Cocky Appeal 21.00 ........................P Green 3 85332 This Is Swip nwtd ............................. S Clark 4 57568 Hot Pootie 21.31 U & ........................Cottam 5 83348 Lockey’s Call 21.30 R O’ ....................Regan 6 21323 All In All nwtd U & .............................Cottam 7 12636 Armour nwtd................................B Littlejohn 8 22815 Peno Boy 21.38 .................................J Black 9 4888x Stat Me Up nwtd .........................B Littlejohn 4 12.57pm (NZT) FOND FOODS LTD SPRINT C5, 375m 1 72531 Stellar Force nwtd .........................P Cleaver 2 61676 Uno Lachlan 21.12 .....................D Schofield 3 61672 Cosmic Pearl 21.27 ....................D Schofield 4 41362 Black Hombre 21.07 ........................ S Clark 5 16788 Thanks Mercedes 21.17 .................. S Clark 6 15214 Call Me Ralph 21.48 ...................... G Clarke 7 21432 Lord Will 21.07 ..................................C Hore 8 12373 Thrilling Edge 21.02 ........................ K Walsh 9 78147 Secret Star 21.63 .............................T Agent 10 5347x Hustler nwtd ...............................D Schofield 5 1.14pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SERIES HEAT 1 C1q, 457m 1 21428 Cawbourne Penny nwtd ....................C Hore 2 25466 Very Chilly nwtd .........................M Mathews 3 66667 Otewa Bella nwtd .....................S M Gardner

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68478 Hit Boost 26.04 ...............................T Patton 41411 Nitro Luis nwtd F &.........................Turnwald 35257 Ghost Writer 25.68 ............................S Ross 52376 Teegz nwtd ................................ A Lawrence 4421 Thrilling Rebel 26.04 ....................... K Walsh 6 1.32pm (NZT) GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C2, 375m 1 44157 South Bay Dream 21.57 R O’.............Regan 2 63521 Opawa Crusher nwtd U & .................Cottam 3 51818 Miss Apocalypse nwtd ...................P Henley 4 11784 Captain Osti 21.64 ............................C Hore 5 48143 Realon Rumba 21.42 R O’ .................Regan 6 56338 Mr. Majestic 21.41 .............................J Black 7 34355 Mr. Reece nwtd ................................M Black 8 42362 Monty Dosh nwtd ........................B Littlejohn 9 11488 Chance On Me 21.78 ......................P Green 10 33485 Utah Bolt 21.49 .......................... G Pomeroy 7 1.49pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SERIES HEAT 2 C1q, 457m 1 6534 Lochinvar Brando nwtd ..............D Schofield 2 65864 Alpinador nwtd ................................. S Clark 3 87754 Tapu Boy nwtd................................A Bowen 4 13432 Thrilling Judge nwtd ........................ K Walsh 5 33454 On The House nwtd H.................L Laagland 6 15838 Cawbourne Logan nwtd ....................C Hore 7 66876 Mr. Lochlyn nwtd .......................... M J Lozell 8 73113 Sydenham Jade nwtd .................... G Clarke 8 2.07pm YGOT BONUS SCHEME SPRINT C1, 375m

85354 Toi Shan 25.64 ...........................D Schofield 65743 Threat nwtd W & .............................T Steele F7834 Lochinvar Sonic nwtd .................D Schofield 72457 Magico 25.81 .................................. L Martin 11 3.00pm CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT C4, 375m 1 86466 Mahonie 21.22 ........................... G Pomeroy 2 16658 El Jarrah 21.48 .......................D V Meeuwen 3 55327 Thrilling Abra 21.57 ............................L Bliek 4 17486 Ruby Tron 21.18 H ......................L Laagland 5 74385 Proven Shelly 21.52 .......................P Henley 6 77674 Down The Back nwtd .......................T Agent 7 72118 Exciting Dream 21.51 R O’.................Regan 8 56553 Winsome Buster 21.22...............D Schofield 9 22755 Predator Drone 21.35 W & ..............T Steele 10 23477 Karma Rhode 21.33 W & ................T Steele 12 3.17pm TE AWAMUTU SELF STORAGE STAKES C2/3, 457m 1 65x5x Gundabooka nwtd ........................... K Walsh 2 12635 Coal Sack 25.86........................ A Lawrence 3 22223 Thrilling Charly 25.63 ...................... K Walsh 4 25764 Beau Rivage 25.51 W & ..................T Steele 5 422x5 Thrilling Charge 25.97 M O’ ................Bryan 6 22148 Jembo 25.67 .................................... S Clark 7 55385 Wabi Sabi 26.03 .............................. L Martin 8 82147 Trilise 25.59 ............................... A Lawrence 9 42544 Another Burst nwtd ....................D Schofield 10 68844 Thrilling Tremor 25.62 .......................J Black

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Artemis impressive in semifinal defeat

BY DANA JOHANNSEN Luna Rossa have taken the first point of the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals but it was Artemis who impressed, with the Swedish team producing a creditable performance in their first competitive outing at the America’s Cup. A healthy downwind speed advantage saw the Italians take out the first race by one minute 56 seconds this morning, as Artemis struggled with their downwind speed and execution of their gybes.

But the Swedish team, who took to the race course for the first time yesterday after just nine days of training on their newly relaunched AC72, can be satisfied with many aspects of their performance.

While Luna Rossa had a higher average speed, it was Artemis who recorded the top speed for the race (40.56 knots), with the Italians carrying some damage to their wingsail.

Artemis led the race early after Australian helmsman Nathan Outteridge won the pre-start, shutting Chris Draper out in the start-box. The slick navy blue boat, which carries a poignant tribute to their fallen teammate Andrew Simpson in the form of a blue ribbon painted on the wing, led Luna Rossa at the first mark. But with a speed differential of up to four knots between the two boats downwind, the Italians quickly overran Artemis on the first run, leading by 30 seconds at the second mark.

Artemis managed to eat into some of Luna Rossa’s lead upwind, however, the Italians were able to push out a healthy lead on the following run as they capitalised on their speed advantage.

While the final delta of 1 minute 56 seconds would have been larger than Artemis would have liked, completing their first race of the regatta is a big achievement for the Swedish team. The relief was evident in Outteridge’s quip as they crossed the finish line - “well, we finished”.

The first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals nearly didn’t get underway, with the race under threat from strong winds. The wind was forecast to peak at around 25 knots - well above the 21-knot limit imposed by regatta director Iain Murray following Artemis’ fatal capsize in May. The wind remained stable at around 16-20 knots prior to the race getting under way, but the bigger concern was whether it would be too much for Artemis’ team-imposed limits. Skipper Iain Percy said last Friday that the team would not risk the safety of the crew.

“We will never get to the point where we take unnecessary risks. We push to a point where we feel risks are reasonable,” said Percy. “There is no in-themiddle for how you sail the AC72, but there are wind limits where you can keep the boat safe.”

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Public Notices

Mount Somers Township – Water Supply Shutdown

In order to undertake work as part of the Mt. Somers Water Supply Upgrade, it will be necessary to temporarily shutdown the supply of water to the entire town. This is to allow for the pipe realignment works to be carried out at the existing water treatment plant on Ashburton Gorge Road.

The water supply will be unable for approximately 4 hours from: 8.00am until 12.00pm, Saturday 10 August 2013.

This work is being undertaken by Ashburton Contracting Ltd. If you have any questions about the impact this shutdown may have on your business operations, please contact the contractor in the first instance on 308 4039 (Note-: This is a 24 hour number).

If you would like further information about the Mt. Somers water supply upgrade project please contact Council’s water services department on 307 7700 or email info@adc.govt.nz.

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A position has become available for a Cold Store Supervisor based at SPM’s state of the art Beef, Ovine, Venison and Bobby Calf processing facility located just South of Burnham Military Camp in Christchurch.

Reporting to the Plant Manager, this position is responsible for the overall management of the Cold Store Operation at SPM Malvern. This will involve receipt of product from the processing departments and other external customers for freezing and storage, managing the day to day operations and logistics including a large team of employees, managing the compliance with food safety regulations and health and safety regulations, maintaining the inventory and security of the products and finally organising the shipment of products to various markets throughout the world.

The successful applicant will have Strong Leadership and Communication Skills coupled with proven experienced in a similar type of operation. A sound knowledge in Logistics, the Health and Safety in Employment Act as well as a good understanding of the MPI regulations in relation to Cold Storage and Shipping of Products.

You will be computer literate and in particular, conversant with Microsoft Office package.

If you are looking to be challenged and want to join a successful, growing organisation then send a full resume to: Wayne Lindsay HR Cooridinator PO Box 8 Rolleston 7643 Applications close Friday, 16 July 2013.

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

9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Beginners class, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

Friday 9.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women circuit training in the hall. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime section, new players very welcome.

Sports hall, Tancred Street.

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

9.30am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Second time round op shop. Ashburton

Baptist Church, cnr Cass and Havelock Street.

10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz. 48 Allens Road.

10.30am MID CANTERBURY NEW COMERS NETWORK. New comers coffee morning group.

McDonald’s Ashburton.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB.

Qigong exercises, newcomers welcome.

M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

12.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE. Petanque has started, everyone welcome, Racecourse Road.

1.00pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH SOCIETY INDOOR BOWLS. Bowls afternoon new and old members welcome, Balmoral hall, Cameron Street.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM Classic aircraft on display including DC 3.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - beginners welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing, learn to dance.

All welcome. Pipe Band hall, Creek Road.

9.30am - 11.30pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Drop in centre, St Andrews Anglican Church hall, cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

11.00am - 3.00pm TE HUB. Seeds, seedlings, workshops, enviro centre. 35 Dobson Street West, Biograins building.

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

1.30pm R.S.A. Euchre, R.S.A. Cox Street, Ashburton.

Puzzles Thursday, August 8, 2013

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Stopped, lost head, but brought comfort (5) 4. Wide-mouthed – but not wide-awake, it seems (7) 8. Time to get there, get off, get on, and go (9) 9. Tax would hold a great deal were it not capitalised (3) 10. Lets film see the light of former model stances (7) 12. ‘E might pull the waistband up if it’s such an irritant! (4) 14. Gains a monopoly on grain: hers hasn’t begun (7) 17. They don’t agree with one’s changing (4) 18. Piece of music withdrawn from the beat at Nachschlag (7) 20. One can’t say what it is up there, in short (1,1,1) 21. Get rid of one that is afflicted with mental disturbance (9) 23. US Intelligence in unending spell that’s not ordinary (7) 24. Had to embrace half the eleven, but didn’t like it (5)

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11. Thus endlessly pinch a sort of boom (5) 13. Right among the players his confusion will wave about (8) 15. Take up model sitting again for a rest (6) 16. He’s learned to find a commercial vehicle in the street (6) 19. Suburban property is upset, half of them being included (4) 22. The Italian, at fifty, is indisposed (3)

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QUICK ACROSS 1. Analyse and improve (8) 7. Unaccompanied (5) 8. Fonts (9) 9. Inquire (3) 10. Possesses (4) 11. Yearly publication (6) 13. The last drink (3,3,3,4) 15. Reach a conclusion (6) 16. Partly open (4) 18. Mongrel (3) 20. Not seen (9) 21. Rescues (5) 22. Worshipped (8)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Just as a major opposition between forces on the home and career fronts come to a head the cavalry rides to the rescue.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) Just as communication challenges or issues peak and any mental pressure you’re under reaches an extreme, Mercury is working to find a solution.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Just as financial tension is likely to peak, Mercury’s last full day in your income sector is an opportunity to approach things with a smart head for money.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) A clash between new growth and the resistance from the past makes it important to keep things in perspective, seeing this as a rebirth.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) With Mercury spending a last full day in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart you’re likely to be spending more time looking at the rear view mirror.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) If there are going to be any challenges between your own needs and the needs of others, this is the day it’s likely to come to a head.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Just as any work/life balance tension is likely to peak it is important to keep your cool and remain as mentally and strategically focused as possible.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) Mental pressure or communication tension is likely to peak, yet in doing so it’s going to reveal where it’s really coming from and force things to a head.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) With luck and the money gods on your side you’re able to use duelling financial forces as motivation to take your power back.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) Mercury’s last full day in your relationship sector gives you a chance and a need to ensure the communication lines are open.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Mercury is putting everything he has into helping you to work smarter, more efficiently and to make the choices, decisions and plans you need to make.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20) While you may have got away with an all work and no play approach to life in the past that is now no longer an option.

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Family Notices 26 Ashburton Guardian Deaths

EARLY, Norman James (JP) – On August 7, 2013 peacefully at home, aged 75 years. Most dearly loved and loving husband of Amuri. Much loved and cherished father and father In law and granddad of Carolynn, Murray, Matthew, Laura, and Ella Donald (Spar Bush, Invercargill); David (deceased), Karen, Leigh and Fletcher; Martin, Sarah, Jacob, and Sam; Kathryn, Robert, Lucy, Flynn, and Ben Schikker. Funeral details to follow.

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HUGHES, James Winter, JP (Late of Rai Valley). At Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton on August 5, 2013.

Dearly loved husband of Judith. Loved father and father in law of Sarah and David Wyllie, Barbara and Bob Croker (Masterton), Nicholas and Sandra Hughes (Ontario, Canada) and the late Peter. Loved grandfather of Lisa, Azarra, and Keanu.

Messages to Greenstreet, R D 1, Ashburton 7771. A service to celebrate Jim’s life will be held in Our Chapel, Cnr East & Cox Streets, TOMORROW, FRIDAY, August 9, commencing at 2.00pm.

Followed by cremation.

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Buzzy Bee And Friends 3 0 6:35 Tiki Tour 3 0 7am Fish Hooks 3 0 7:25 Rated A For Awesome 0 7:50 Transformers Prime 3 0 8:15 Franklin 3 8:40 Mike The Knight 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Shortland Street PGR 3 0 11:30 Scrubs PGR 3 0 Noon The Secret Circle PGR 3 0 1pm Jeremy Kyle PGR 2pm My Kitchen Rules PGR 3 0 3:20 Supernormal 0 3:30 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 4pm Kickin’ It 3 0 4:30 The Erin Simpson Show 4:59 Horace In Slow Motion 3 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Hope And Faith 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Coronation Street 0 7:30 Police Ten 7 New Plymouth 8:30 Gavin and Stacey AO police deal with an (Starting Today) 3 Gavin is an unimpressed customer. 0 ordinary boy from England; 8pm Code – 1 PGR One team Stacey is an ordinary girl from must winch a teenager off a Wales. They speak every day remote island after he suffers on the phone at work, and injuries in a 10m cliff fall; a yet they have never met – daytime party goes wrong. 0 until now. 0 8:30 Arrow AO 0 9:05 Winners and Losers PGR 0 9:30 F 20/20 0 10:05 Auckland Daze AO 3 0 10:30 Nikita AO 0 10:35 One News Tonight 0

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 The Shopping Channel 11:30 Everybody Loves Raymond 30 Noon 3 News 12:30 Home And Away 3 0 1pm Dr Phil AO 2pm The Dr Oz Show PGR 3pm House Rules PGR 3 4pm Rachael Ray Organisational expert Peter Walsh offers cleaning tips; Rachael prepares drunken spaghetti with sweet, roasted beets.

5pm Entertainment Tonight 5:30 Home And Away Casey proves a destructive influence on Maddy; Pippa deals with her symptoms; April gets off to an interesting start with the new doctor.

0 6pm 3 News 7pm Campbell Live 7:30 House Rules PGR 8:30 The Almighty Johnsons AO Axl’s trip takes some unexpected turns; Mike and Michele take their own roads to the dark side; Dawn becomes the launch pad for a journey Anders cannot see ending well. 0 9:30 Bones AO 3 0 10:30 Nightline

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Moe 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Avatar – The Last Airbender 3 7:55 Hey Arnold! 3 8:25 Chuggington 8:35 Bananas In Pyjamas 3 8:50 Bob The Builder 3 9am Thomas And Friends 3 9:10 Peppa Pig 3 9:20 Barney And Friends 3 9:50 Tickety Toc 3 10am Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Moe 3pm Sticky TV 4:30 Four Live Pop-culture entertainment show.

6pm Everybody Hates Chris 3 6:30 Futurama 3

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

7am Deal Or No Deal 3 Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000.

7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Jeff Probst Show 2:05 Masterchef USA PGR 3 The top 38 Masterchef contestants are cut down to 18.

3pm Millionaire – Hot Seat 3 0 3:30 Getaway 3 4pm The Late Show With David Letterman 3 5pm Deal Or No Deal 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0

6am Motorsport – FIA World Rally Championship (Highlights) Finland Event. 7am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (Highlights) 8am Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series (Highlights) 9am Motorcycling – Superbike World Championship (Highlights) 9:30 Motorsport – IndyCar Series (Highlights) Honda Indy 200.

10am M7 Multisport TV Lancelin Ocean Classic windsurfing event.

10:30 M7 Multisport TV 11am Cape To Cape 2012 Noon Cycling – RideLondonSurrey Classic (Replay) 4pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 4:30 Arena Access 5pm Deaker On Sport (Replay) 6pm Re:Union (Replay)

7pm The Simpsons 3 0 7:30 Family Guy PGR 3 8pm Futurama 8:30 Family Guy AO 3 9pm Unsupervised AO When Joel’s 40-year-old brother moves back into his bedroom, Joel tries to be more tolerant of him despite his bad behaviour.

9:30 South Park AO 3 10pm Cops PGR 10:30 Against the Wall AO 3

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Best of Man v Wild PGR 3 8:30 The Animal Files PGR A Fiordland crested penguin has been brought to Wildbase after being found starving on a local beach hundreds of kilometres from its normal habitat.

9pm Storage Wars Texas 9:30 Celebrity Wife Swap USA PGR 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3

7pm Total Rugby Reflecting on the best of rugby union around the world.

7:30 Grassroots Rugby 8:30 Football League Show 9pm Total Rugby 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 10pm L Boxing – Fight Night Corey McConnell v Jerry Nardo.

11:05 Tagata Pasifika 11:35 Sailing – America’s Cup (Highlights) 12:20 Snakes In The City PGR 1:20 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:45 Infomercials 5:05 Believer’s Voice Of Victory 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:10 Golf World A weekly review of golf tournaments around the globe.

11:40 Medium AO 0 12:40 Infomercials 5am Joyce Meyer 5:30 Infomercials

11:25 Entertainment Tonight 11:50 Infomercials

11pm The Late Show With David Letterman A late-night comedy and talk show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2am Home Shopping

12:30 Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series 1:30 Motorsport – Nascar Nationwide Series 2:30 Motorcycling – Superbike World Championship 3am Motorsport – IndyCar Series 3:30 Motorsport – FIA World Rally Championship 4:30 Golf World 5am L Golf – PGA Championship

6am Breakfast 9am L Sailing – America’s Cup Race two in the Louis Vuitton Cup semi-final from San Francisco Bay. 9:30 Millionaire – Hot Seat 3 0 10am Good Morning 11am Cowboy Builders 3 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Paddy feels like a failure; Katie tells Declan she has cancelled her lesson; Val and Pollard plan an evening. 0 1:30 Come Dine With Me Australia PGR 3 2pm Four Weddings USA 3 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 Masterchef Australia 3 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 7:30 Candice Tells All 8am What’s Really In Our Food?

8:30 The Stagers 9am Food Safari 9:30 Room Crashers 10am The Cook And The Chef 10:30 Candice Tells All 11am World On Wheels 11:30 Timothy Spall – All At Sea Noon Million Dollar Contractor 12:30 Barter Kings 1:30 Days Of Our Lives PGR 2:30 Early Edition 3:30 The Stagers 4pm Taste 5pm The Home Show 6pm What’s Really In Our Food?

6:30 Yard Crashers 7pm Auction Room Gordon meets a range of intriguing personalities with fascinating stories to tell about the treasured possessions they are selling at auction.

7:30 Hairy Bikers’ Mississippi Adventure 8:35 Gourmet Farmer 9:05 Food Safari 9:40 Food And Drink With Michael Roux.

10:10 Turkish Delights With Allegra McEvedy 10:35 Campus AO 11:30 Early Edition

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12:30 Benny Hinn 1am The Stagers 1:30 Auction Room 2am Taste 3am The Home Show 4am What’s Really In Our Food?

4:30 Yard Crashers 5am Hairy Bikers’ Mississippi Adventure

11:30 Police Ten 7 3 0 Midnight Rizzoli And Isles AO 0 1am Renters PGR 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:30 Private Practice AO 3 0 3:25 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:15 Anderson Live PGR 3 5:05 The Erin Simpson Show 3 5:30 Infomercials

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2pm Korero Mai 3 2 3pm Tatai Hono 3 3:30 Rolie Polie Olie 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana Ka Pao 3 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3

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SKY SPORT 2 6:30 Ako 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Marae Kai Masters 8:30 Code 9:30 Hunting Aotearoa AO Matua joins local hunters Darryl Tamblyn and Chris Masters near the Blue Mountains in the far south, to hunt fallow deer.

10pm Head 2 Head PGR 10:30 Beneath The Maori Moon 3 11pm Te Kaea 3 2 11:30 Closedown 3

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6am NYPD Blue MVLS 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 7:40 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 8:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 8:30 Cash Cab USA PG 8:55 24 MVLS 9:50 Law And Order MV 10:40 CSI – Miami MV 11:30 NCIS MV 12:20 SVU MV 1:10 NYPD Blue MVLS 2:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 2:35 Cash Cab USA PG 3:05 24 MVLS 4pm Hardcore Pawn PG 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Law And Order MV 6pm America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 CSI – Miami MV 8:30 Criminal Intent MV 9:30 SVU MV 10:30 Law And Order MV 11:30 CSI – Miami MV

6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Dirty Jobs PG Bug Detective.

7:30 Sons Of Guns M 8:30 Deadliest Catch PG 9:30 Mythbusters PG 10:30 American Guns M 11:30 Deadliest Catch PG 12:30 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M 1pm I Married A Mobster M 1:30 Scorned – Love Kills M 2:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG 3:30 Sons Of Guns M 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 Mythbusters PG Franklin’s Kite.

6:30 American Guns M 7:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 8:30 Backyard Oil PG The Bird Man Cometh.

9pm Auction Kings PG 9:30 Auction Hunters PG 10:30 Blood Relatives M 11:30 Disappeared M

12:30 24 MVLS 1:20 America’s Funniest Home Videos PG 1:45 Cash Cab USA PG 2:10 NYPD Blue MVLS 3:05 Criminal Intent MV 3:55 SVU – Special Victims Unit MV 4:45 24 MVLS 5:35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

12:30 Sons Of Guns M 1:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 2:30 Backyard Oil PG 3am Auction Kings PG 3:30 Auction Hunters PG 4:30 Man v Wild PG 5:30 Auction Kings PG

FRIDAY

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6am NRL Fulltime 6:30 NRL 360 7:30 Deaker On Sport (Replay) Murray Deaker and guests discuss the week’s sporting issues.

8:30 Golf World 9am Golf – PGA Champions Tour (Highlights) 3M Championship. From TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.

10am Golf Central 11am Golf – Women’s British The Almighty Johnsons Bones Open (Highlights) Round Four. From 8:30pm on TV3 9:30pm on TV3 the Old Course, St Andrews Links, Scotland.

SKY MOVIES MOVIES GREATS Noon Re:Union (Replay) 6:40 Biography – Marisa Tomei PG 1pm Deaker On Sport (Replay) 8:05 True Confessions Of A 2pm Golf World A weekly review of Hollywood Starlet PGL 2008 Comedy. 2010 Documentary. golf tournaments around the globe.

7:30 A History Of Violence 18VS 9:35 The Help M 2011 Drama.

2:30 Golf – PGA Champions Tour 2005 Crime. Viggo Mortensen.

Emma Stone, Viola Davis.

(Highlights) 3M Championship. From 9:05 Mrs Doubtfire PGL 1993 Noon The Hangover Part II 16LS Comedy. Robin Williams, Sally Field. TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.

2011 Comedy. Bradley Cooper.

3:30 Sky Sport – What’s On 1:40 Contraband 16VL 2012 Action. 11:10 The Making Of Fast And 4pm Cape To Cape 2012 Furious M Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi.

3:30 Three Weeks, Three Kids PGC 11:40 Men Of Honor ML 2000 Drama. (Highlights) 5pm Golf World 2011 Family. Anna Chlumsky.

Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding jr.

5:30 Inside The PGA Tour 5pm Queen Sized PGL 2008 Drama. 1:50 Fast And Furious MVLS 2009 6pm Judo – IJF (Highlights) 6:30 Safe House MVL 2012 Action. Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

Dusseldorf Grand Prix, Germany.

Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds. 3:40 A History Of Violence 18VS 6:30 Deaker On Sport (Replay) 8:30 The Watch 16VLS 2012 2005 Crime. Viggo Mortensen.

7:30 The Ultimate Fighter Comedy. Four suburban men form 5:15 Eastern Promises 18VS 2007 a neighbourhood-watch group, Drama. Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen. Aussie v UK. only to discover their town has 6:55 Office Space ML 1998 Comedy. 9:30 Sterlo An in-depth look at each of the NRL games from the become overrun with aliens posing Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston. as ordinary suburbanites. Ben Stiller, 8:30 The Fugitive MV 1993 Action. weekend.

10:30 L NRL Footy Show Vince Vaughn.

Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford.

10:15 Twilight Saga – Breaking 10:40 Mystic River 16VL 2003 FRIDAY Dawn Part 1 MVS 2011 Fantasy Drama. Drama. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins.

1am Athletics – Australian Tour Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson.

And World’s Qualifier (Highlights) FRIDAY Melbourne World Challenge. From FRIDAY 12:55 Biography – Ashton Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne.

Kutcher PG 2007 Documentary.

12:15 Cat Run 18VLS 2011 Action.

2am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 1:45 Eastern Promises 18VS 2007 Paz Vega, Janet McTeer.

2am Murder On Her Mind PGL 2008 Drama. Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen. Raiders v Storm. From Canberra Drama. Annabeth Gish.

3:25 Office Space ML 1998 Comedy. Stadium in Canberra.

4am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 3:30 The Watch 16VLS 2012 Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston.

Comedy. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn.

4:55 The Fugitive MV 1993 Action. Warriors v Sharks. At Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland.

5:10 Cat Run 18VLS 2011 Action.

Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford.

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Winter tournament takes priority

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Classrooms across Mid Canterbury were abandoned as pupils participated in the annual winter sports tournament in Ashburton yesterday.

Teams from the various schools competed in rugby, netball, hockey and football in two age grades - year 5/6 and year 7/8, with winners booking a place in the Canterbury Schools Winter Tournament at Hagley Park in Christchurch later this month.

The Allenton Sports Club was the hub for a majority of the action, hosting rugby and netball fixtures.

In the year 7/8 rugby Mt Hutt College were first with Ashburton Borough second while in the year 5/6 Rakaia were top with Hampstead runners-up.

Over on the Allenton netball courts Mt Hutt College were first with St Joseph’s second, while the year 5/6 netball was played at the Ashburton College courts had Allenton A first and St Joseph’s settling for second again.

In the hockey, Ashburton Borough came out on top of Mt Hutt College White with St Joseph’s third, while it was a tie for first in the year 5/6 between Longbeach and Allenton.

At the Ashburton Domain, Longbeach fought out a tough final with Ashburton Borough to take out the year 7/8 football, with Mt Hutt third.

St Joseph’s overcame Our Lady of the Snows in the year 5/6 football with Netherby third.

Left: Hinds pupil Jed Syme looks to get on the outside of the Lauriston defence during a rugby encounter.

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Marshall says yes, but Barrett says no Benji Marshall has given verbal confirmation he will sign with the Blues but Beauden Barrett confirmed last night he will be staying with the Hurricanes.

Barrett, having been seriously tempted initially by the Blues’ offer, has decided to sign on for more with the Hurricanes.

“For reasons of loyalty, Beauden has told us he will be staying with the Hurricanes,” said Blues coach John Kirwan.

“It would have been great to have him here but I understand his reasons.”

Marshall, on the other hand, is believed to have made his decision, and is likely to be unveiled as a Blues player on Saturday after his Friday night NRL commitments.

The Blues have offered him a two-year contract - believed to be worth about $500,000 a season - exclusively out of their

own funds. The level of investment reflects the confidence the Blues have that Marshall can make a significant impact.

Interest in the NRL and Kiwis star will be massive which partly justifies the enormous salary.

But the Blues coaching staff are also confident they are buying a player with the ability to make a significant difference: a player who could unpick defences and create space for others.

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While Kirwan has said he sees Marshall as a potential first-five, the Blues are prepared to be patient and experiment initially.

Previous league converts have taken time to settle.

Marshall is likely to be introduced to rugby as a fullback or second-five - with a view to converting him into a first-five once he has found his feet and better understands the code.

Barrett’s decision to reject the

Blues came after weeks of reflection and analysis.

The 22-year-old’s interest in shifting to Auckland was originally driven by a desire to be exposed to the Blues’ experienced coaching team of Kirwan, Graham Henry, Mick Byrne and Grant Doorey.

Barrett is thought to have been disillusioned by the Hurricanes’ coaching staff ’s decision to shift him to fullback. - APNZ

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