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MARR – Hamish, Melanie (nee Stevens) and big sister Abbey are delighted to announce the arrival of Sophie Eleanor (7lb 7oz), on Friday, November 30, 2012.

A special heartfelt thank you to Dr Jane Fielder and her team for all their extra planning and care to ensure the safe arrival of Sophie.

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IN MEMORIAM AUSTIN-WILKINS, Pam – My sister, my friend, Ten years on and I still miss you everyday.

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AUSTIN-WILKINS, Pam – Your memory is a keepsake, From which we shall never part.

God has you in his arms, We have you in our heart.

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SYME, Derek - Doc – December 8, 2011.

We held hands for 46 wonderful years.

HANSEN, Boris Adrian Now you still walk Emil – beside me.

Suddenly, after a short So many memories, Kate. illness, on December 7, 2012, at Ashburton. Respected SYME, Derek (Doc) – former husband of the late December 8, 2011. You Pamela. Loved father of touched and influenced the Peter (Queensland), Tracey, lives of so many, it was a Nigel, and the late Carol. privilege to be a part of Loved grandad of Tamara, yours. and Adrian (Queensland); The memories we have will live within us forever.

Sara, and Monica; Toni, A very special man.

Chrissie, and Amy; Nick, Becky, Kate, Jacqui, Felicity, With love from your girls. and Samantha, and his 9 great grandchildren. Aged SYME, Derek (Doc) – 73 years. Messages to P.O. Treasured memories of our Box 472, Ashburton 7740. very special friend who left Boris’ funeral service will be us a year ago today. Julie held in Our Chapel, cnr East and Bevan. and Cox Streets, Ashburton WILKINS, Pam – on FRIDAY, December 14, 17/06/1951-08/12/2002. commencing at 1.30pm. Ten years since you left us.

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Quake appraisals likely

By Isaac Davison Every building in New Zealand except single-storey homes will be assessed for earthquake risk and the results made public under Government proposals released yesterday.

Any buildings found to be at risk of collapse will have to be strengthened or demolished within 15 years under the proposed changes, which form the Government’s response to a Royal Commission investigation into earthquake-prone buildings after the Canterbury quakes.

The Government planned to adopt many of the commission’s recommendations, but has chosen longer timeframes

and lower minimum standards of building strengthening than the report proposed.

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

Under the Government proposals, around 193,000 non-residential or multi-

unit, multi-storey residential buildings will have to be assessed for earthquake risk within five years. There was an estimated 15,000 to 25,000 buildings which were at risk of collapse in a moderate-sized tremor.

Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson said the recommendations in the report could have significant economic consequences for the building owners.

But he stressed that the Government’s proposals, which were released in a consultation paper, would strike a balance between increasing safety and managing the economic pressures of strengthening and removing vulnerable buildings.

He also emphasised that property owners who upgrad-

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ed their buildings would benefit from a higher property value, higher rent, and lower insurance premiums.

The Government’s proposals were broadly in line with the Royal Commission’s recommendations, but did not go as far as the commission in some areas.

Mr Williamson said making the timeframes too short or ramping up the minimum earthquake-proofing standards would lead to “catastrophic” increases in costs to property owners.

The report was the fourth volume of seven to be released by the commission on the quakes. The next volume, which focused on the collapse of the CTV building, will be released on Monday.

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Ronald McDonald delighted the children during his visit to Jigsaw Preschool.

Crash spate Three serious crashes in three hours in Hamilton yesterday left one person dead, one child seriously injured and four people requiring medical attention.

At lunchtime a 77-year-old pedestrian suffered fatal injuries when she was hit as she crossed Thomas Rd in Rototuna.

Emergency services were still at the scene when news came through of four people being treated by ambulance staff after two vehicles collided in Frankton.

A short time later, about 3.20pm, a boy, believed to be aged six, was hit by a vehicle in the suburb of Nawton and taken to Waikato Hospital with serious leg injuries.

The officer in charge of the North Hamilton Community Policing Centre, Sergeant Juliet Burgess, urged the public to stay aware around roads and vehicles.

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Parents don’t need to be too worried, though.

Ronald also encouraged the children to remember their helmets, fasten their seatbelts, and even eat their vegetables, getting a cheer of support for broccoli and peas.

Four-year-old Hamish said the stories Ronald McDonald read them were funny, but his face was even funnier.

Wiremu, also 4, said he had seen Ronald McDonald before. “I went to McDonald’s, he gave me my burger.”

While most of the children said they would be excited to see him again at the Christmas parade, fouryear-old Samara thought it would be a waste of time.

“I already,” she said about seeing Ronald, but said she would remember to put her seatbelt on on the way to the parade.

Ronald had four early childhood centres to visit during his time in Ashburton, and was escorted by staff from Ashburton McDonald’s.

Ronald McDonald will also be giving a free magic show on Saturday at the Classic Hits Christmas in the Carpark.

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Killer storm clean-up in full swing

By Kieran Campbell, Lucy Bennett and Matthew Theunissen Residents were allowed back into homes in the worst-damaged parts of Hobsonville last night, although officials urged them to take “extreme care” when checking their properties for damage caused by Thursday’s killer storms.

As the cordon was lifted the clean-up of the damage continued with power restored to hundreds of homes left without electricity for more than 24 hours.

At 9pm last night 457 customers were still without power but crews were working into the night in the hope they could reconnect others, depending on other network damage. Lines company Vector said repairs were ahead of schedule.

Three people died and about 250 were left homeless after the violent storms, which are estimated to have caused $11 million worth of damage.

Prime Minister John Key, touring the area yesterday, said the loss of life could have been far greater.

“It’s far more significant than a very bad storm where you have a few trees down. It’s something you might expect to see in the midwest of America, but not in Hobsonville,” Mr Key said.

“I think we’ll take a step back and retrace our steps and ask the obvious questions: What was in place in terms of weather forecasting? Did we miss anything? What does that mean in terms of people on the workplace and the likes? I suspect in the end it will come down to - as it does in America which is much more prone to these - that they’re a sort of random act of nature.”

The three men killed on a construction site when the tornado tore through Hobsonville and Whenuapai were named as Tom

Stowers, 42, Keith Langford, 60, and Brendon Johnson, 22.

The men, from Hawkins Construction and subcontractors Vuksich and Borich Civil Engineering, were crushed by a large concrete slab as they took shelter from the tornado.

Four other men working on the building site were hospitalised; one remains in a stable condition and three have been discharged.

“This has been a terrible tragedy for the families of those killed and injured and everyone involved in the project is deeply shocked and saddened by what has happened,” Hawkins Construction general manager Dan Ashby said.

Auckland Council programme adviser Jan Ziegler-Peri said 66 people had registered with a recovery centre at the Massey Leisure Centre.

Work and Income has arranged for people displaced from their homes to stay in motels for up to two nights.

Some West Aucklanders affected by the tornado said they felt they were not prepared for the emergency.

Wamairie Rd resident Rhys Hogg said: “We’re lucky we’ve got gas cookers. And the water’s still on, but if the water was off we’d be in trouble.”

The family had been caught without an emergency kit, but that was certainly something they were “going to get”.

“It makes you think about, if it was worse, what could’ve happened.”

Just up the street, Kate Dunn had similar concerns. “[We were] not as prepared as I would have thought. We’ve got lots of food but it wasn’t until later that we got out a gas cooker and one of the attachments was missing that made us aware that we probably need to be a bit more prepared than we were.”

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Surface flooding caused problems for some motorists yesterday following heavy rain, although the Ashburton District Council reported few problems.

Minimal effect from storm

By Erin Tasker and Sam Morton Mid Canterbury was the coldest and possibly the wettest place to be in New Zealand yesterday.

Just a couple of days after the mercury soared into the high 20s, with Ashburton recording a high of 28 degrees but some also reporting highs on their weather stations of 30 degrees, yesterday the district returned to winter.

By mid-afternoon, Ashburton was the coldest place to be in New Zealand according to the MetService website. The temperature at 3pm was just 9.8 degrees, but the ‘feels like’ temperature was just 6 degrees.

Christchurch was giving Ashburton a run for its money when it came to the wettest place to be, with Ashburton recording 32mm by 3pm.

The heavy rain appeared to have put pressure on Ashburton’s storm water sys-

tems with water flooding out onto some streets and intersections. But Ashburton District Council contracts engineer Tony MacPherson said there had been no major problems reported, and it was business as usual.

“Any flooding seems to have cleared itself in the short time between showers, but apart from some minor blockages, it is reasonably stock-standard stuff.

“We’re always on the lookout for any flooding issues when there is intense rain, but I think the worst of it has passed through,” Mr McPherson said, when the Guardian spoke to him shortly after lunch.

The rain was good news for some, with the district’s firefighters rejoicing as it kept things a little greener heading into what was looking like being an average summer from a fire risk point of view.

For the district’s arable farmers the rain was also good

news. Federated Farmers’ Mid Canterbury grain and seed spokesperson David Clark said every time the district got a couple of hot days and things started to dry out, a good rain followed, and that was great news.

“It’s a brilliant rain, we have had about 23mm here,” he said, from his property near Mayfield.

Cereal crops were looking “magnificent” and were just a couple of rains or irrigations off being finished, he said.

And that’s brilliant news following an unusually wet and cool summer last year, which put pressure on cropping farmers.

“This year we just need to find where the tap is to turn it off at New Year,” Mr Clark said.

While yesterday’s downpour was great for cereal crops, it was a double edged sword because vegetable crops could actually do with more sun, he said.

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Hard work cuts suspensions

By Myles Hume School suspensions in the Ashburton District are the lowest in the region after featuring some of the highest rates a decade ago.

Peaking in 2003, the Ashburton District saw 13 pupils per 1000 suspended from schools closely followed by 11 in 2004.

It meant Ashburton schools had some of the highest suspension rates in the country, well above the national average of seven.

However, in recent years the district has seen fewer pupils wandering local streets thanks to a lot of hard work by community support groups.

The latest Ministry of Education figures show in 2011 there were six suspensions per 1000, which was lower than surrounding districts such as Timaru (7.3), Mackenzie (14.6) but shadowed Christchurch City (2.4).

A suspension is when a pupil is removed from school while the board of trustees meet to discuss the pupil’s future following severe

behavioural issues.

Hampstead principal Peter Melrose, who also chairs the Collaborative Behaviour Initiative created two years ago, said community organisations such as Safer Ashburton District, police youth and the initiative itself had all contributed to lowering the suspension srate.

“I believe we do compare well with other regions because of the proactive nature of the schools here,” he said.

Mr Melrose said the initiative he chaired allowed principals to talk about what avenue they should choose to deal with the pupil’s behaviour as well as providing support through what is “not a clear-cut process”.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said he was hesitant to “crow” about the figures, however he said the reduction was a combination of schools and parents getting it right.

Although there was a perception that suspension did not work and gave problem pupils the opportunity to spend more time out of school, Mr McMillan

believed it was a useful tool for schools.

“If you think about suspension itself, perhaps it is the first time the child has done something they thought was right, but it wasn’t. They can be smartly removed which underlines for the family, the child and the parents that this is very serious.

“We don’t use it lightly because it is a tool that has such a huge effect.”

However, Mr McMillan feared the suspension rate could “sky-rocket” in the coming years if the Education Amendment Bill goes through its consultation stage unscathed.

The Bill could mean teachers would lose the right to search and seize pupils’ property. This proposal has been met with skepticism by Mr McMillan and fellow principals.

Mr McMillan said if a teacher wanted to search a pupil’s bag and they did not oblige, then the next step would be suspension.

“If you get a run of this at schools then the ministry are going to look at us and say ‘why?’,” Mr McMillan said.

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Birthright tree up again Gifts are piling up again under the Birthright community Christmas tree erected for possibly its 20th year at the Heartland Building Society.

Single-parent support society Birthright distributed three van-loads of presents to families from the tree last year, and had 186 children to find gifts for this year.

Birthright field worker Christine Muff said families were struggling this year, and finding money for Christmas presents was harder than ever.

“GST this year has had a huge impact on families because it hits across the board, raising the cost of everything. Some of these children don’t ever get toys new, and they think it’s awesome. Awesome is what I hear most, and ‘best present ever’.”

The tree was erected on Monday at the Heartland Building Society,

and Heartland funding manger Kevin Soster said one of the best things was seeing children putting gifts under the tree.

“Parents bring their children in, and they have wrapped presents and put them under the tree. It’s teaching kids to give.”

Gifts given in previous years ranged from bicycles to colouring pencils, and all are donated anonymously.

Heartland Building Society employee Amanda Wilson-Davis said the tree brightened the place and customers were excited to see it back.

“Everyone loves it, especially the children. Their faces light up.”

Birthright also offers counselling, help and support for single-parent families across New Zealand, and has been operating in Ashburton for more than 40 years.

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A young child may be going around Ashburton collecting money and saying it’s for the Cancer Society, when it’s not. Both the police and the Cancer Society have been made aware of incidents and both are warning people to be wary. According to the Mid Canterbury branch of the Cancer Society there is no one officially collecting money for the Cancer Society in Mid Canterbury at this time.

A man found dead in a burntout vehicle in forest between Taupo and Tokoroa on Wednesday has been named as 41-year-old Marcelo Jose Luis Pazzelli. The Taupo man was found in Kinleith Forest after fire service staff responded to reports of smoke. Police are not treating the death as suspicious and have referred the matter to the Coroner.

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• Boy’s death suspicious A 9-year-old boy whose unexplained death is being investigated by police was found dead yesterday morning.

The boy was found shortly before 6am, a police spokeswoman said. A post-mortem investigation was being conducted last night and results were expected today. “A family member discovered the boy was deceased and notified police and ambulance,” Detective Senior Sergeant Keith Borrell said.

Police spent yesterday interviewing witnesses and conducting an examination of the scene.

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• Massive power cut Electricity has been restored to almost all of the 68,000 customers in Tauranga, Mount Maungaui and Kaimako affected by yesterday’s massive power cut. Powerco was given the green light by Transpower to begin restoring power following a fault on the national grid just after 2pm yesterday. Powerco network operations manager Phil Marsh said an automatic system switched the power off when the problem was detected. “The system protects the integrity of the national grid,” he said.

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Santa Claus is an extremely busy man, but we managed to pull a few strings to get an exclusive interview with him before today’s Santa Parade in Ashburton.

Santa’s elves come to grips with mod cons gifts and toys for children around the world, but this year has proved slightly more difficult for Santa and his magical elves.

The flurry of letters has indicated iPads, computers, mobile phones and electronic scooters are the gift of choice this Christmas – causing confusion among the senior elves.

“A lot of children are asking for iPads, so my elves have had to go through quite a bit of technological training to get up to speed with how to make them – just in time for Christmas.

“They’ve done tremendously well though and I think all those children that have behaved for their parents this year will have big smiles on their faces on Christmas Day,” he said. “And of course, with a little bit of elf magic, anything can be achieved.”

And don’t be surprised to see Santa grab a guitar and burst out in full song with a few popular Christmas classics this afternoon at the Christmas in the Square function.

He has been working on his renditions of Winter Wonderland and So, This Is Christmas, and has been singing to the old folks in retirement homes throughout the North Pole.

The parade, featuring about 30 floats, gets under way at midday and will be followed by the Classic Hits Christmas in the Square.

Mona Square and parts of East Street will be closed during the parade from 12pm to 3.30pm.

After the parade, Santa will be heading back to the North Pole to hit the home gym to shape up, before guzzling millions of mince pies and drinking hundreds of sherries come Christmas Eve. It’s the busiest time of year for Santa, but hey, he has all next year to recover.

By Sam Morton The digital age has thrown up modern challenges for Santa’s elves’ this year.

The strong demand for iPads and other technological whiz gadgets have proved difficult for his elves and time has had to be allocated for training courses – altering the yearly schedule.

While it has been a hectic few months for Santa back home in the North Pole, today he will take time out to greet children at the Ashburton Santa Parade.

Arriving in Mid Canterbury recently, Santa has been staying with one of his chief elves’ relatives in Tinwald, preparing for today’s event. His boots are shined, his red and white suit has been pressed and he is raring to go.

Meanwhile, Santa’s reindeers have been seeking shelter at a local paddock, before taking part in today’s parade.

Yesterday, Santa took a few minutes out to speak to the Guardian in an exclusive interview about his schedule for the coming weeks – as he prepares for the big annual trip in his large red sleigh.

“Everything is going well, it’s always very difficult to fit everything in the time-frame, but every year, we always manage to.

“My reindeers have been good to me, but unfortunately for some of them, this could be their last year as a few of them are getting a bit past it and will need to be replaced,” Santa said.

And that appears to be the case for a handful of his 56 elves, who are employed at the toy workshop in Greenland – near Santa’s home.

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Australian police look at charges for Shirtcliff

By Kurt Bayer Australian police are looking into the murky background of Gerald Shirtcliff, the convicted fraudster who oversaw construction of Christchurch’s doomed CTV building.

Mr Shirtcliff, aka William Anthony Fisher, is already facing an investigation by New Zealand police after claims he stole the identity of a British engineer and faked his engineering degree.

Last month, it was revealed that Mr Shirtcliff, 67, had his engineering degree revoked after an investigation by the University of New South Wales.

He has already lost his lucrative contract with global engineering consultancy WorleyParsons and his membership with Engineers Australia cancelled after an internal probe by the professional body upheld claims he falsely assumed the identity, including a University

of Sheffield engineering degree, of former colleague William Anthony Fisher.

Engineers Australia said they had referred the case to the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who yesterday confirmed they had received the referral.

All matters referred to the AFP are rated against its Case Categorisation and Prioritisation Model (CCPM) before an investigation can start.

“As this referral [received on November 22] is currently under evaluation, it would not be appropriate to comment further,” an AFP spokesman said.

Mr Shirtcliff, now living in Brisbane, hit the headlines this year when he initially refused to give evidence at the royal commission of inquiry into the collapse of the six-storey CTV building.

The New Zealand Police probe continues.

Mr Shirtcliff has continually denied any wrongdoing.

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Rehearsing for pageant Netherby School pupils Ana Taufa, 5, (bottom left) and Beaver Touli, 6, took part in a dress rehearsal for the school’s biennial Christmas Pageant to be held on Monday.

The pupils are doing the production to show their perception of Christmas which will also see performances from the kapa haka

group, the musical tuition group and a bunch of hip-hop dancers.

Yesterday, the pupils performed to Allenton School pupils and preschoolers but will be presenting their work to members of the public on Monday.

The show is planned to start at 1.30pm at Netherby School.

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Scholarships to boost teachers’ ICT knowledge

By Myles Hume Mid Canterbury’s leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiative in schools is set to get a whole lot stronger.

Through the Mid Canterbury Fibre Connected Schools (MCFCS) group each school in the district has been delivered free ultrafast broadband thanks to EA Networks, putting the district’s schools ahead of the pack when it comes to technology.

But those stocks are set to be bolstered with 11 teachers presented scholarships at Braided

Rivers on Thursday, which will guide them towards becoming more technologically savvy in the classroom.

The teachers range in age and ICT capability, with three coming from secondary schools in the district while the others are based in various primary schools.

As part of the scholarship, the teachers will head to Nelson for two days in April where they will visit schools who have swapped chairs for beanbags and computers for Ipads as part of the evolving education landscape.

MCFCS regional facilitator Jan Anderson said

it was a great opportunity for the teachers to further their knowledge.

“It’s incredibly important because teachers don’t have the time to be up with play because they are so busy with the children,” Ms Anderson said.

The money to fund the teachers’ trip, about $2500, has been freed up by money which would have been used to connect schools, however the Ministry of Education allowed the funding to be invested in teachers for the betterment of education.

The teachers will be working in the scholarship programme for the next six months.

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Eleven Mid Canterbury teachers were awarded with a scholarship on Thursday, which will go towards furthering their knowledge in ICT.

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‘A tragic day for all’

By Kurt Bayer A young driver who hit a pedestrian, killing him instantly, before driving off narrowly avoided jail yesterday in what a judge described as “a tragic day for all”.

Harry Silcock, 18, overtook on double yellow lines before ploughing into two pedestrians in a late-night hit-and-run on a country road in Christchurch in September.

Sean Hutt, 20, died at the scene and Kyle Thomson, 17, suffered a broken leg.

Judge Jane Farish became visibly emotional as she recounted the effects the “catastrophe” had had on Mr Hutt’s family, especially his twin brother Callum.

She fought back tears as she read a victim impact statement written by Callum to the convicted driver in the dock at Christchurch District Court yesterday.

“I would like Harry Silcock to know that by taking Sean from us, he’s taken half of who I am. I miss him all the time. Part of me is missing.”

Although Silcock ignored a “fundamental rule of overtaking” by failing to check what was ahead before pulling out and then fled the scene, he was not put behind bars.

Judge Farish said jail would “do nothing” for the remorseful Silcock, and told the Hutt family that it would not “replace Mr Hutt”.

Instead, by “a very narrow margin”, she sentenced Silcock to 10 months’ home detention, along with 250 hours of community work.

She also disqualified him from driving for two and a half years.

She ordered him to make two emotional harm repayments - one of $10,000 to Mr and Mrs Hutt and a further $5000 to Mr Thompson, who is still on crutches and unable yet to return to work.

The Hutt family declined to comment outside court.

Earlier the court heard how a “huge void” had been left in their lives, and wondered if they would ever be able to come to terms with what happened at Shands Rd in Hornby about 10.20pm on Saturday, September 15.

Around 70 young car enthusiasts had gathered to socialise in the area that night.

Mr Hutt and Mr Thompson had barely left the grass verge when Silcock overtook another vehicle in his early model Toyota Starlet and hit the pair.

He skidded to a halt but then fled the scene.

The next day, he handed himself in to police.

Police initially thought Silcock had been racing another car when he hit Mr Hutt.

Silcock, a welder from Burnham, pleaded guilty in October to driving dangerously causing death, failing to stop and give assistance, and driving dangerously causing injury.

The courtroom was packed with friends and family members on both sides of the “tragic” incident yesterday.

Silcock, in a dark suit and tie, nodded to the judge when she raised points but otherwise remained expressionless.

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Wakanui farmer Peter Butterick and Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club spokesman John Hall watch the first potato seeds being planted for their 30th anniversary rally to be held next year.

Doing the groundwork for big day

By Myles Hume A bunch of vintage vehicle enthusiasts are pulling out all the stops to ensure they are more than ready for their 30th anniversary next year.

Still five months out from the big day, the Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club planted the first potato seeds on Tuesday that will be used to show the public how these machines worked when they dominated the district’s landscape throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

By Anne-Marie Emerson A group of inmates at Whanganui Prison have recorded a CD of original music, thanks to the help of a Catholic nun.

Nine prisoners, using the name Urban Migration, have recorded Songs Down Pauri Road 2012, a collection of 16 songs they wrote and recorded in Whanganui Prison. The title of the CD comes from the prison’s location on Pauri Rd, Kaitoke.

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what these machines can do,” he said.

Mr Hall said the club had to start preparing now so the crops would be ready for enthusiasts and competitors, some coming from as far as Takaka.

“They’ll be making the trip down in their tractor, it could take them up to four days to get down here,” Mr Hall said.

He insisted it would not just be a day for local farmers, and encouraged townies and anyone who would be interested to come along and see how their machines ran.

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The event, to be held on April 13 and 14, will showcase vintage farm machinery that will churn up potatoes and harvest wheat, marking a significant milestone for the club.

Spokesman John Hall said it was too early to say how many people would take part in the anniversary to be held at Peter Butterick’s farm in Wakanui, but he is expecting to hold one of New Zealand’s largest displays of pivot tractors.

“A lot of people restore tractors and it’s a place to bring them into a particular setting and show the public

Whanganui Prison acting manager Jan Smith said the prisoners attend a music programme of four music sessions a week, under the guidance of the prison’s Catholic chaplain, Sister Litia.

She said while assisting the men spiritually, Sister Litia recognised they had musical talent and thought that talent could be used to address their behaviour.

With the aid of Sister Litia and a church volunteer, John Scudder, the men wrote and recorded songs about their families and their dreams for the future.

The men play all the instruments on the CD, and one of the prisoners also designed the CD artwork.

Ms Smith said music could be an important part of prisoners’ rehabilitation.

“Music can bring self-reflection, which for some prisoners is the beginning of a process to change their behaviour. The prisoners in the group have used music as a way of expressing themselves, and to share their experiences,” she said.

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Cherries in short supply

By Lynda van Kempen Cherries from Central Otago might be in short supply for Christmas unless the weather warms up.

Cold temperatures and rain showers yesterday and Thursday, combined with a chillier than usual spring have slowed down the estimated main harvest of the summerfruit delicacy by up to a week.

“We’re looking at the main harvest starting five to seven days later than usual and unless we get a run of hot day days, there will still be cherries for Christmas, and nice fruit, but not a huge volume of them,” 45 South general manager Tim Jones said.

He estimated the main harvest of 45 South’s Cromwell cherries would begin between December 15 and 20.

Although there had been 6 to 7mm of rain this week, the cherries were at little risk of damage from the rain.

“We had one helicopter going this morning to dry out the fruit, but then the wind came up so that was good ... and cheaper than using helicopters.”

Summerfruit New Zealand chairman Gary Bennetts, of Roxburgh, said the cooler weather had slowed the harvest right down.

“It’s not just the last couple of days that have affected it but the colder weather in spring too. Usually by this time of year we’re getting hot

days and hot night-time temperatures too, but those days haven’t arrived yet.”

The bulk of his crop would be harvested after Christmas and into January.

“There used to be a big push to have fruit ready for the Christmas market but now there’s more of an export focus and the bulk will be exported in January.”

This week’s rain had simply “freshened up the fruit a bit” rather than causing any damage, he said.

“A wee bit of rain now is fine and it hasn’t been enough to cause any damage.”

Earnscleugh orchardist Harry Roberts said the cold snap was “a bit of a nuisance, but it’s always the way”.

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Prominent man on assault charge

By Sandra Conchie A prominent Tauranga professional is accused of seriously assaulting on a young boy, which allegedly resulted in the child spending two days in hospital.

The man’s identity cannot be revealed because of a courtimposed suppression order.

The man faced a charge of assault on a child when he

appeared in the Tauranga Registrars’ Court yesterday.

A court document reveals police allege the boy, aged under 12, was assaulted in Mount Maunganui last month.

The man’s lawyer, Paul Mabey, QC, successfully sought interim name and occupation suppression as well as a ban on publication of any details which might lead to the defendant’s identity being revealed.

By Tevita Taufalele CHRISTIAN COMMENT

Advent and Christmas T

he first Sunday of Advent recently heralded the beginning of the new church year.

The word Advent is from the Latin and means ”coming” or “arrival”. The focus of the whole season is the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ in his first Advent, and the anticipation of the return of Christ the King in his Second Advent.

Thus, Advent is far more than simply marking a 2000 year old event in history.

This Advent season covers the four Sundays before Christmas. It is a time of preparation as we ponder Christ’s coming to us and our need to open ourselves to God so that we can receive him.

I believe people’s preparations for the Christmas celebrations is very much well underway. Some of you guys have already, if not almost, finalised your gifts, meals, travel arrangements and any other arrangements before Christmas Day arrives.

Well done if you are one of those people.

There are others however, who either struggle or not quite sure of how and where to celebrate come Christmas Day. Recently, the news was dominated by the Hobbit premiere being held in Wellington.

By the look of things it had been a huge preparation for the event.

The city of Wellington anticipated a huge economic windfall with millions of dollars pumped into the city’s economy. We hope this windfall will trickle down to the most needy of the community.

For this Advent and Christmas season I hope that alongside the preparations and the celebrations may everyone experience God’s love and care reaching out to each and everyone in all walks of life.

Blessings to all.

Rev Tevita Taufalele is with the Methodist church

A Tauranga registrar consented to the interim suppression orders being imposed under Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Act, on the basis that publication would be likely to cause undue hardship to the defendant at this stage in the criminal proceedings.

Police did not oppose the suppression orders being made.

The defendant, who is yet to

plead to the charge, has been remanded on bail and is due back in court this month.

Sources told the Bay of Plenty Times that the assault charge stems from the man’s alleged attack on the boy last month.

The source claims the boy was left with red marks around his neck after he alleges he was dragged by his neck up some stairs, and was hospitalised for two days with delayed

concussion after he claims his head was slammed on to a wooden table and a concrete floor in a garage.

The boy now can’t see properly out of one eye, has a sore back, is suffering headaches and nightmares and has been left “devastated” by the alleged assault, the source told the Bay of Plenty Times.

The police officer in charge of the case did not return phone calls.

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Fridge blast puzzle solved

By Amy McGillivray The mysterious case of the exploding fridge has been solved.

Firefighters and police were called to an explosion at a house in Scott St, Gate Pa in the early hours of October 3.

The force of the explosion smashed all 10 windows in the two-bedroom flat, ripped the frame off the sliding door in the lounge and tore off window joinery frames. It also caused the ceiling to flex and crack in the kitchen and dining room.

The two occupants of the house were asleep at the time and were unharmed.

Tauranga fire safety officer Ken McKeagg said the occupants initially told him the fridge only contained a bag of vegetables.

He said lengthy questioning by police led the men to admit they had been mixing butane with alcohol, removing the evidence before emergency services arrived.

“We were happy to learn it was flammable gas and there was not something wrong with the veggies, which would be

quite disconcerting.”

Mr McKeagg said it was unclear if a leaking butane canister had been left in the fridge or if it had vapourised off the alcohol during the night.

The butane vapour would have eventually reached its explosive limit and been ignited when the thermostat kicked in and started the motor, he said.

Most fridges had a protective layer between the motor and the storage space but this could get worn down in older appliances, Mr McKeagg said.

Under normal circumstances that would not be a problem as most people do not keep volatile substances in their kitchen fridge, he said.

Mr McKeagg had never heard of people mixing butane and alcohol and had only seen one similar explosion during his 30 years in the fire service.

“In the first one the lid of a sample bottle in a laboratory had been left slightly ajar.

“Volatile vapour escaped and when the fridge engine clicked on it blew the hell out of the fridge and the lab.”

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Ashburton District councillor Darryl Nelson presents Alice McLaren with a certificate on a day all about the volunteer.

Volunteers’ work recognised

By Erin Tasker Volunteering is alive and well in Mid Canterbury.

That’s according to Lyndal Watt from Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury who was in Ashburton on Wednesday presenting certificates to many of those who give up their time for the community, as part of International Volunteers Day.

An awards function was held at the Ashburton Club and MSA where a total of 130 certificates were presented to volunteers.

“Organisations were able to get certificates for their volunteers in recognition of the voluntary contribution they make to the Mid Canterbury community.”

She said there were a lot of other volunteers out there who were recognised at the awards

too. “There’s heaps of volunteering happening in the Mid Canterbury community, but in saying that there’s always room for more too.”

Trevor Hurley, who ran Trev’s Barbecue – a voluntary service for those in need in Christchurch following the earthquake – was the guest speaker at the awards.

The volunteer awards are held every two years in Ashburton.

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Hakatere Round Table No. 78 member Jamie Lane with the Christmas trees that will be on sale to the community today.

Rain and mud fails to deter tree sellers

By Myles Hume

Hakatere Round Table No. 78 was not going to let driving rain and a flooded paddock get in the way of Christmas this year.

The club met at Ashburton resident Sue Duncan’s farm yesterday to cut down the Christmas trees to be sold to the public today on Walnut Avenue – near the new hockey pavilion – and in Tinwald, as part of their annual fundraiser.

Last year the club could not source trees for the first time in 20 years, meaning they did not sell them to the community. So a few drops of rain and a paddock of mud were not going to stop the team of five from returning to their former glory this year.

Club members admitted earlier in the week they were lucky to

revive the fundraiser thanks to Ms Duncan, after facing another year without Christmas trees.

Round Table member Jamie Lane said he knew it was going to be a tough ask yesterday, but they were able to cut down about 110 trees, each about 2.5m tall, that will be sold for $10 each.

“The field was flooded and we only had one 4WD, but we all decided to go through with our trailers and we just used the cattle track to get out,” Mr Lane said.

He said fellow member Lyall Graham was surprisingly lucky to be cutting down the trees.

“Actually Lyall was pretty well sheltered underneath the trees, we were the ones all getting wet,” Mr Lane said.

Tree sales start at 8am and finish at noon with the money going towards the Riverside Stadium and other community projects.

Driver eating pork chops A drunk driver who crashed his car while eating a plate of pork chops has been sentenced to community service.

While police argued that Westport man Robert Pomare, 37, was eating ribs when he crashed on November 7, Pomare told Westport District Court it was actually a plate of chops.

Police prosecutor Steven Greer said Pomare had been drinking at the Black and White Hotel before driving to a local restaurant and picking up a plate of pork ribs. As he was eating his ribs, he failed to give way to a vehicle driven by a pregnant woman and hit it.

Pomare recorded 763 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath, almost

twice the legal limit of 400 mcg.

He told police he’d been drinking and had decided to get a feed before going home.

Defence lawyer Mark Dollimore said Pomare had accepted the description of events but said he’d been eating pork chops rather than ribs.

He stayed put after the accident, apologised, checked to see if everybody was all right and waited for police.

Judge Rob Murfitt noted Pomare had three previous convictions for drink-driving. He sentenced him to 200 hours’ community work, nine months’ supervision and suspended his licence for a year and a day.

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Being the emergency services reporter involved spending a lot of time with Mid Canterbury’s volunteer firefighters – some of the district’s unsung heroes.

Meeting people like rugby league legend Ruben Wiki – just part of the job, and one of the best parts of the job, for a sport-loving journalist.

t’s been eight years since the last murder in Mid Canterbury.

That’s a fact that a new staff member at the Guardian, fresh off the plane from England, couldn’t believe.

Eight years? And it was a case that was solved and the offender sent away to serve his time quick smart, after pleading guilty.

Before that, we had the as-yet-unsolved Kirsty Bentley murder. Believe it or not, this New Year it’s 14 years since the day the innocent young girl went missing while walking her dog down by the Ashburton River.

It was tragic and something that sticks in the mind of every person who was living in the town at that time, but really, it’s not actually a bad record. Look at Timaru for example; police down there have dealt with three homicides this year alone.

We might be a slightly smaller dot on the map than Timaru, but we’re not a small town anymore. Ashburton is a thriving town that is continuing to grow and grow.

Ten years ago, I came to the Guardian as a 19-year-old fresh out of the Aoraki Polytech Diploma in Journalism course.

The editor of the time – Coen Lammers, who just happens to be the editor again now – took a chance on me. Initially I was just someone to fill a gap and help out in the newsroom in the lead-up to Christmas.

But 10 years later as I head off on maternity leave, ready to tackle the next big challenge in my life, I do so as the Guardian’s chief reporter.

In 10 years, I’ve seen a lot and experienced a lot. Being a journalist is one of those jobs where one day is never the same as the day before.

Just a couple of weeks ago, there was a Monday where we started off by chasing teams in the American version of hit reality television show The Amazing Race around Methven, before ending the day by attending a fatal crash. From a great high, to a sad low.

That’s the hard part of this job. I’ve lost count of how many fatal car crashes I’ve attended over the years and they don’t get any easier.

There are times we get yelled at by members of the public and told to go away.

We’re prepared for that.

Sometimes that’s also the response you get when you contact the families of the people who have lost their lives as well, but more often than not, people are happy to talk about their loved ones.

They see it as a way of telling the world how wonderful their son, daughter, mother or father was.

I recall once getting an email from the mother of a young man killed in a car crash, thanking me for the lovely story I’d done on her

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Asking the big questions along with national television media after a getaway car from a bank robbery in Temuka crashed in Ashburton. son. Something like that is a nice change – usually when you write a story you only hear from people again if they want to complain.

In the case of the many tragedies which have unfolded since I’ve worked here, the unfortunate fact is these things are news. They’ve happened, nothing can change that and you can just about guarantee our newspaper sales will go through the roof the next day.

It’s another sad fact – death and destruction sells newspapers. People are more likely to buy a paper with a headline telling of a tragic death or miraculous escape from death’s clutches, than they are to buy one which proclaims everything is good in the world.

Unfortunately everything isn’t good in this world. You just need to read the paper each day or watch the nightly news to see that. How often do you see the 6pm news bulletin lead with a positive story?

There was The Hobbit premiere the other day, but things like that don’t crop up every day.

Sometimes it can be all too easy to only remember the bad stuff, but in 10 years there’s been plenty of good stuff too.

I spent a few years as sports reporter and being a young female doing that job provided some interesting moments. I remember going to my first Crusaders game in an official capacity and walking into the press box and being the only female, and the youngest by a good 20, or more, years. One of many times I got given a funny look.

Being a sports reporter though, meant meeting some pretty cool people. Looking back I wish I’d asked the photographer to take a sneaky photo of me with each of

them at the time, because looking back it’s hard to remember them all.

Whether it was someone here to promote a book they’d written, doing a coaching session in town, or speaking at an engagement, chances are I got to interview them. All Blacks, Silver Ferns, Black Caps, Olympians – as a sports reporter you meet them all.

When the Crusaders came to town for a training session, as they used to every now and then, that was always the most exciting. It was a case of going from interview to interview – Reuben Thorne, then Richie McCaw, before moving on to a young Daniel Carter and some old favourites like Caleb Ralph.

Most of them were good people – one even asked myself and photographer Kirsty Graham for a ride after a promotional visit to the Tinwald Tavern. That was boxer Shane Cameron, who I kindly gave the front seat to – the Guardian car only has two doors so the back seat might have been a bit of a mission for him.

It’s not every job where you can come to work and end up meeting these kinds of people at a moment’s notice. But it’s not just the ‘celebrities’ which make the job what it is, it’s the people of the community in which you live. Mid Canterbury is a mighty good community and working in this industry you get to meet a fair chunk of them.

Just look at our reaction to the Christchurch earthquakes. Trevor Hurley and his team have gained much recognition for their work post-quake, taking Trev’s BBQ to those in need and keeping on going back until they were no longer needed. Trevor was the driving force, but plenty of volunteers made

the trip up to help over the weeks of daily trips to the quake-stricken city.

The earthquakes were untested ground for everyone, newspapers included.

To have such a big news story unfolding right in our backyard was unbelievable.

Looking back, it’s still hard to believe it happened, but each time we go to Christchurch we see the scars and travel the bumpy roads

which remind us it really did happen. That was, without a doubt, the biggest news event of my 10 years at the Guardian.

We sent our people to Christchurch to bring you the latest news, something which rarely happens in this newsroom. That’s because we’re a local newspaper and our focus is our people.

What sets us apart is that we tell you the local news. We let you know what’s going on at council, we let you know where the fire engines raced off to last night and we tell you who is playing in the big cricket match this weekend.

Over the past 10 years, the faces around this place have changed – there’s only three or four people who have worked at the Guardian for the full past 10 years with me.

There are others that have gone away and come back – you wouldn’t believe the number of boomerangs in this place – and that’s a good sign. People keep coming back, me included.

I took a couple of months off to travel the world, and came back, and I am about to embark on a whole new challenge, but I’ll be back one day.

I’m from Ashburton. I went to Tinwald School, Ashburton Intermediate and Ashburton College, and I remember as a teenager, all everyone wanted to do was get out of this town.

Many of us did. We went away and studied, and some stayed away for a few years, but it’s amazing how many people came back.

Turns out, Ashburton isn’t such a bad place to live after all.

Sometimes you even get to model for the photographers doing things like being breath-tested in the police’s booze bus. It’s ok, I passed.

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Ashburton real estate agent Jenny Gray has been matching people with the home of their dreams for 30 years. It is a job she loves, and she has no intention of slowing down or giving up. She talks to reporter SUE NEWMAN.

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Jenny Gray might have notched up 30 years as a real estate salesperson, but she loves the job as much today as she did on day one, December 3, 1982.

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hile million dollar homes are no longer a real estate novelty, real estate salesperson Jenny Gray can remember the excitement generated when the first Ashburton home sold for more than $100,000.

She has just ticked over her 30-year anniversary as a sales agent, staying with the same company in the same town for all of those years. And she wouldn’t have it any other way, she says.

Like any job you love, selling real estate becomes your life, becomes part of who you are.

And it’s addictive, because there are always challenges, always the rewards of matching people with the home of their dreams.

Over those 30 years the industry has changed dramatically, moving from a free wheeling environment where there was no such thing as signing an authority to sell, to today’s highly regulated era.

And while regulations might mean more paperwork, because of the protections offered, it’s

a far better environment for everyone concerned, Jenny said.

When she started out with what was then Hastings McLeod, there were no open days, no cellphones, no computers and the only way to let people know a house was for sale was by a sign in its front yard or a newspaper ad.

Communication with agents came from their office receptionist to a car RT. Anything that was recorded was recorded on paper and manually filed. Mortgages took at least one month to approve – post signing an agreement to purchase and the whole process was long and laboured. Today with pre-approved finance and low interest rates, the buying process was easier, she said.

“I remember holding the first open home in Ashburton.

No one had done one so I decided to have a go. It was in Chalmers Avenue and I was pretty nervous so I held it at lunchtime. No one came.”

And there were no sole agencies back then either. It

was a free-for-all and it took several years before the idea of sole agencies won sellers over.

“Today the job is much more of an office job. I never went into it for this and there are times I struggle with all of that.

I went into this to sell. And it was probably easier to sell, looking back. We did very well, they were good times, but while the volumes were good, the values were low.”

She recalls sections selling for $9000 and a good three bedroom house could be had for under $30,000.

“And I remember getting a sale for $97,000, that was amazing; getting $100,000 was huge, that didn’t often happen.”

Like any industry, real estate was kind to some and unkind to others and it was never easy, sales could never be taken for granted, Jenny said.

“If you didn’t go ahead you fell out the bottom. Over the years a lot of people have come and gone. It used to be a case of when you lost your job you tried real estate, but real estate often

tried those people.”

While new agents come into the industry dreaming of selling the big ticket houses at the top of the market, there’s just as much satisfaction to be gained in selling at the opposite end too, Jenny said.

“I remember one year having four or five sales in Davis Crescent. That area treated me well. You have to always see good in whatever you’re selling, you have to be able to have a vision and to create that vision for people no matter what it is or where it is.”

She believes selling real estate is about selling ideas to people.

You can’t make them buy but you can put up ideas and opportunities. While ideas and visions could convince buyers, it was always up to sellers to present their property in the best possible way and that had become increasingly important in recent years as buyer expectations rose, she said.

“The huge thing with listing I tell them, is to spend time making sure your property is

the best it can be. As an agent you’re doing this as part of a team, you and the vendor, and they need to be on your side.”

With 30 years behind her, Jenny says she has no intention of slowing down or giving up.

“I’ve stayed in the business because I’ve enjoyed it so much.

I’ve met some fabulous people over the years and such a diverse range of people. I’m not working so hard now and I’ve always believed that outside the business you always have to have a life. I’ve seen people over the years who’ve been so absorbed by it, it finally gets them. You just can’t keep that pace up.”

She’s sold many houses several times over and there’s always a thrill in seeing how a property changes with each owner, she said, and she’s sold several homes to the same families. Getting repeat business is always a buzz.

“I believe that working keeps you young. I’ve still got the passion and I know I need a little bit of stress in my life.”

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2012

Gardening

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Anyone with a young fruit tree should understand the three fundamentals of summer care that keep these plants healthy, protected and growing as vigorously as possible, writes Maureen Gilmer

Give trees a coat of sunscreen Y

AVOID SUNBURN

PRUNE UNWANTED GROWTH

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oung fruit trees have a very small canopy that cannot shade the tender bark of the trunk from the hot summer sun. If exposed, the young bark burns, then blisters, and the vital cambium layer underneath dies. Once this occurs, the flow of nutrients and water through the layer is cut off in the burned area. Many pests and diseases enter young trees through sunburn blisters, which are the most common cause of premature death.

Protect your young trees as orchard farmers have for centuries by painting the trunk white. Use white interior latex as sunscreen because it does not contain fungicides.

Thin it with water to allow oxygen to reach the bark underneath the paint.

Lightly coat the entire trunk from soil up to where the branches begin. If there isn’t yet enough foliage to shade the crotch and lower branches, then paint those parts, too.

Garden tasks

oung fruit trees are vulnerable to two types of undesirable rank growth.

These fast-growing whip-like stems can crop up quickly anytime over the growing season, so keep a sharp eye out for them. Otherwise they will demand growth energy that would otherwise go towards development of a larger canopy.

Suckers originate at the base of the trunk, often below the graft union. This is rootstock material that may not match the rest of the tree. It’s so named because these shoots literally suck off growth energy before it can support the upper portion of the tree. Water sprouts are similar, but they originate in the canopy itself.

Prune away water sprouts and suckers close to the trunk, but not flush, to avoid dieback, which can damage the tree. Repeat this process the moment new leaves appear in these problem areas. An old trick is to rub off the freshly sprouted leaves with a finger, which reduces the chances of its return.

• Fertilise your plum tree If you have a plum tree, it’ll appreciate a good dose of citrus fertiliser right now.

• Water relief Even well-established trees dry out in the hot summer months. If it’s not raining much, give them all a good, deep watering once or twice a week.

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• Wallop brown spots Check all your precious plants for the brown spots caused by fungus, and wallop them with a fungicide spray.

• Trim hedge plants Give new hedge plants a gentle trim. They’ll be putting on new growth now but topping them will

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DEEP WATER

our goal for tending a young fruit tree is to encourage a large and very deep root system that remains moist and cool through the heat of the summer. New gardeners tend to wet the top few inches of soil and call it watered, but deeper down the root ball is dry. Unless you irrigate in a way that wets the soil deep underground, your tree will root only where you’ve provided moisture - on the surface where the soil is hot and dries out quickly in the summer sun.

Build a large berm around each fruit tree for a deep and expansive well. Fill the well with water, then let it percolate downward at the proper rate for your soil type. Refill as often as you like in dry weather and feel free to mulch the surface to reduce surface evaporation rates.

Above all, discipline yourself to cut off any new fruit that forms in the first few summers. This helps your tree produce a strong trunk and branches before taking on the job of ripening a crop.

Remember that your fruit tree is just like a child in a way, at least. What you do today and throughout these first years will be key to a successful adult – AAP tomorrow.

encourage growth at the base.

• Courgette overload Plant one more courgette – having an over-supply means you can eat them when they’re really tiny.

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These days not everyone has the luxury of space and large gardens to rotate their plants every year.

You can successfully grow tomatoes in the same spot, but you will have to improve the soil immensely before planting.

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So prepare your soil first by digging in plenty of Daltons Compost or Daltons Garden mix; this will add much needed nutrients back into the soil and help with moisture retention.

Feed with a good quality slow release fertiliser such as Daltons Incredible Edible Tomato Fertiliser to give your soil a boost of nutrients.

It is very important to mulch around the base of your tomato plants with peastraw or fine bark mulch as this will prevent the soil from drying out.

Tomatoes require a lot of water, especially around fruiting time; the key is to be

consistent and regular with your watering, whether it is a deep watering three times a week or daily watering for shorter periods.

Top tip: Remember to stake your tomato plants to provide support. A good trick is to recycle old pantyhose to tie plants to support structures as they are soft and won’t damage the stem.

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Comment Our view

Digital intrusion a surprise

By Coen Lammers editor

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he Chinese are on to me. And I really start to wonder how many others know who I am and what I am interested in.

Like most of us these days, I have a significant digital footprint and I am no longer paranoid about sharing my details.

Most people in Mid Canterbury will have an email account, and often more than one, a Trademe account, do our banking online and are active on Facebook or Twitter.

All this activity leaves a comprehensive trail of information that companies use to create your profile and find out what you are interested in.

Some companies have specialised in gathering this information and selling it to third parties who want to sell their products to you.

Up until now I have been relaxed about this, and not worried when websites that I have voluntarily signed up to, try to sell me what I am interested in.

It becomes concerning though when those sites starts cross-referencing and sharing that information with people I do not want to deal with.

Trademe is clearly in that category. Like millions of Kiwis each week, I made a bid on an item this week, in this case a garden shed, and within seconds that information was flashed around the world-wide web.

A few minutes later I checked my Yahoo email account and to my astonishment the advertising on the sides suddenly featured companies selling garden sheds.

I was surprised by the speed and the unexpected sharing of information between Trademe and Yahoo, but was still not too concerned.

Indeed, advertisers will argue that they simply serve their consumers in the best possible way and offer you the items you are interested in.

Yesterday, however, even my very high digital threshold was crossed when I received an email, specifically targeted at me, from a garden shed supplier in Guangzhou City.

The most concerning part was this did not arrive on my Yahoo account but on my work email and this Chinese company somehow had cross-referenced my Trademe bid with my work email at the Guardian.

Some people refuse to put any personal information online, but that would prohibit them from using the many advantages the internet has to offer. Still, my early morning email from China is a nasty reminder that very little online information remains secure on the site you put it.

Comfort is definitely in the eye of the beholder D

riving or wandering round the streets of Ashburton, most of us probably have the view that Ashburton is attractive, leafy, comfortable and prosperous.

There are well established mature trees; the large majority of homes appear to have flourishing well tended gardens, and houses on the whole have the appearance of solidity and comfort.

For the most part, that is probably true.

In the middle of the last century, Crum’s brick kiln, which was roughly where Queen’s Drive now is, provided an ample supply of locally made bricks. So we probably have a higher proportion of low maintenance houses built in permanent materials which have gathered the patina of long establishment, than many other towns.

True, there are homes which could well be enhanced by having a garden planted, or a bit of tender loving care.

If we live next to them, or across the road, we probably moan quietly that their occupants are letting the side down.

We know from Jade Temepara’s Hand over a Hundy scheme that there are residents who are eager to seek help with learning the skills of garden-

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great price), goes straight through the walls or roof.

We also have people living in

By Felicity garages.

I’ve seen children, wearing what Stacey Clark appeared to be every item of clothFOOD FOR THOUGHT ing they owned, huddled round a log burner, dangerously close probably.

All because no matter how well stoked the burner was, less than a metre away from the fire, the ing, and others who have volunteered heat has dissipated. to help them.

So yes, let’s enjoy the beauty of Gardening means food, but also our town, take a walk in the Domain, beauty. down Walnut Avenue, or though the But all is not always as it seems. In town centre, and admire the years of recent weeks we have seen stories of effort put in by talented caring and poverty, or local people struggling on devoted gardeners. benefits, finding it difficult to land jobs But as Shakespeare said, “beauty or accommodation that fit the family lives with kindness”. purse.

So let’s not assume that because we A quick flick through last weekend’s are warm and comfortable, and surads showed a rental range of about rounded by beauty, everyone else is as $230 to $450 a week. well.

Beyond the reach of many I fear.

Behind walls or tucked away out of But seeing those, how many of us sight in a garage, Ashburton too has realise that yes, we do have people in people who are poorly housed and Ashburton living in houses through overcrowded, living lives of quiet deswhich the wind whistles, with holes in peration. Maybe their numbers are not the floor or the lining material. huge. Who knows?

There is no insulation, so all the Spare a thought for them as you raise heating which can be cranked up (at the heat pump a couple of degrees.

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Weekend under the spotlight when forced to answer baby-related questions for over a minute at a press conference in London. Carter, Running the Wallabies so used to batting back the usual rugby questions in a state off Eden Park There was back-slapping aplenty approaching zen-like calm, looked overjoyed when finally asked his in August after the All Blacks swept the Wallabies off Eden Park views on the upcoming match against England. Surely a first. with a 22-0 victory to retain the “Reasonable genes,” Carter said Bledisloe Cup for another year. of the baby due in April. Quite.

Even Australia coach Robbie Deans got into the act, saying Putting on a show in no one could have kept up with the All Blacks in that mood.

Buenos Aires Israel Dagg scored the only try, There was relief all-round when a minor quibble given his team’s the match between Argentina dominance. The defeat extended and the All Blacks kicked off at Australia’s winless streak at Eden La Plata Stadium. Much of the Park to 26 years. Steve Hansen build-up had concentrated on got the most laughs afterwards the effect the notorious Argentine with his answer to TV3 reporter crowd would have on proceedJim Kayes’ loaded question (with ings, which everyone - the All the under-pressure Deans in Blacks’ coaches, players, and mind) about whether the All journalists from both countries Blacks coach would have kept began to tire of. The Pumas, who his job had he lost to Australia had pushed the All Blacks close like that. Hansen replied: “Jeez, in Wellington a few weeks earJimmy, why don’t you just give lier, decided the run everything me some rope and let me put it which backfired spectacularly. around my neck?”. Which brings The All Blacks soaked up the us to ... early pressure then decided it was their turn to lead the tango, Carter’s baby news running in seven tries, three to There were suggestions the Cory Jane, two to Julian Savea announcement, which Dan and and one each to Ma’a Nonu and wife Honor, a former New Zealand Aaron Smith. Richie McCaw hockey representative, made via called it the All Blacks’ most their Twitter accounts, and domi- complete performance of the nated news cycles for the rest year and finally one worthy of a of the day, was a master plan team called world champions. to divert attention from Andrew The crowd? Well-behaved and Hore’s moment of madness in applauded McCaw’s team off the Cardiff. Not quite. But it was pitch. amusing to watch Dan squirm

SPORT

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Sportstalk

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1. They’re not the best

ever

For further evidence - see England match. To be fair to the All Blacks, this wasn’t a tag they were comfortable with, but many New Zealand observers and supporters were beginning to get a little ahead of themselves this year. Yes they went into the final match of the season unbeaten, but the All Blacks almost drew with Ireland on a freezing June night in Christchurch, only for Dan Carter to get them out of jail and they drew with a Wallabies team in turmoil in Brisbane before saving their worst performance of the year for England, who gladly twisted the knife.

They were easily the best team in the Rugby Championship but questions remain about how good the Springboks, Wallabies and Pumas were.

2. Julian Savea is the All Blacks’ best left wing

Savea was one of the success stories of the year, and there were a few for the All Blacks, despite the disappointing finish. He went to Europe at the end of the year vying with Hosea Gear for the No11 jersey but now can

Standout captions from last week’s odd pictures

Highs and lows for the All Blacks

1. A moment of madness

Andrew Hore claimed he was trying to clear out Bradley Davies.

He succeeded, connecting with the Welshman’s jaw and sending him into unconsciousness.

Like most right-thinking rugby people, the IRB took a dim view and banned Hore for five weeks, although the hooker was probably let off a little lightly. Hore said he was disappointed with his actions and never intended to hurt Davies, whom he apologised to several times. Another good result for the traditional pre-judicial haircut and shave.

money at Twickenham. That’s not all. Everything England tried worked and the opposite applied to the All Blacks, who clawed their way back into the game at 15-14 before seeing their vaunted defence quickly shredded by a set of exciting backs, including midfielders Brad Barritt and Manu Tuilagi. Who could have predicted that?

s w o l

2. Record loss to England

Didn’t quite go to plan this one did it? Oh how we laughed at Owen Farrell’s nomination for the IRB player of the year award. Turned out he gave his opposite Dan Carter, the eventual winner, a good run for his

3. IRB’s judicial shambles

Weak sanctions for foul play in the Rugby Championship - and final Bledisloe Cup match in Brisbane - many of which were aimed at Richie McCaw, yet the IRB chief executive Brett Gosper sticks his oar in only when several Northern Hemisphere scribes don’t like Adam Thomson’s onematch ban for his use of the boot against Scotland. A bizarrely inconsistent process which must be fixed before next year. - APNZ

virtually select himself in the position. Savea began his career at the top level with a hat-trick against Ireland at Auckland before going through a dip and then re-establishing himself.

He has scored nine tries in 12 tests, including a double in the loss to England. At his best he has power but also finesse - his handling and passing was exceptional in Europe.

3.

Steve Hansen appears to have the goods He went into the top job with a few question marks over him but Steve Hansen has had an extremely good year. That the players like his easygoing charm is a given, but one of the most impressive things about the former policeman was his honesty with the media, and by extension, supporters. If a player was dropped, Hansen would say so and give the reasons why. He didn’t play any games in press conferences - which isn’t something that could always be said about his predecessor Sir Graham Henry - and he showed great patience at times in that area.

The only quibble would be regarding his loyalty to players who probably didn’t deserve it - the outof-form Piri Weepu and Ali Williams.

“Greg Murphy wins the Bathurst 1000 Great Wheelie Bin Race.”

- Rich

We’ve learned a lot about the ABs effort he gave him a 4. We’re still looking for Messam’s 1 out of 10. It was probably an a Jerome Kaino replacement

They say you don’t appreciate something until it’s gone and that is certainly the case as far as Jerome Kaino is concerned.

The big blindside flanker was a punishing presence around the ruck area before departing for Japan and the All Blacks simply don’t have that any more. Liam Messam established himself in the No6 jersey by the end of the year but went missing against England.

Former England international lock Paul Ackford, now a journalist, was so unimpressed by

“Next year Roger Federer, next year . . .”

- Ross T

overly harsh critique but the fact remains - the All Blacks have yet to find a world class No6.

5.

Richie is consistently the best player in the world Dan Carter took the IRB player of the year award but there is no doubt Richie McCaw was the more consistent performer.

Despite playing in a high-risk and high-impact position, McCaw just kept putting in world-class performances, and all this despite the constant cheap shots from the opposition. His efforts in Dunedin against South Africa were exceptional - before and after he was clobbered by Dean Greyling. There’s no doubt he will be missed - by the All Blacks and the Crusaders - but he thoroughly deserves his six-month break.

- APNZ

“No good trying to play up there if you haven’t got balls!”

- Merv C

“The sacrifices that I have made in the last 12 months have been quite big. I knew I had to do them ... so to me, I can go in there with a fresh mind.” - Batsman PHIL HUGHES on his call-up to Australia’s Test cricket team for the third time.

* * * * “There is no one out there that can replace Ricky Ponting.” HUGHES again.

* * * * “At this stage if you ask me do I want to make a comeback?

No.” - SHANE WARNE clears up the annual question about his return to Test cricket.

* * * * “I’ve been lucky. I’ve won a bit of money and saved it. I never got married and divorced so, I’ve probably got double than most of the guys on tour.” - Australian golfer PETER LONARD’S philosophical view on his tour decline.

* * * * “From our point of view (it was) one of the best marketing exercises since Tina Turner singing ‘Simply the Best’ with the NRL.” - GWS coach KEVIN SHEEDY defends the signing of Israel Folau.

* * * * “I didn’t promise anyone anything. There were no promises at all.” - ISRAEL FOLAU says there is no need for him to apologise after spurning NRL club Parramatta to try his hand at rugby union.

* * * * “What I haven’t seen in union a lot is the ability to catch the ball above your head, and that’s a skill he’s going to bring to our game.” - Waratahs assistant coach and former All Blacks centre DARYL GIBSON says the sky is the limit for Folau.

* * * * “I don’t want to be 78 and in a retirement home and having to ring up people to see if I won something or not.” Melbourne Victory coach ANGE POSTECOGLOU says changed Asian Champions League qualification criteria has created confusion over what is the A-League’s top honour; the Premier’s Plate or grand final success.

* * * * “I was never meant to play that Cup tie, I spoke to Pat (about that). I’m going to use that time for training and to prepare for tournaments in America.” BERNARD TOMIC’s take on his Davis Cup ‘suspension’.

* * * * “That’s probably the most disappointing thing for a lot of people on the outside - that he’s got this unbelievable tennis ability and he’s not really using it at the moment.” - US Open winner SAM STOSUR weighs in on the TOMIC issue.

“Don’t mind a bit of skirt but ye gods no, please not with the socks!”

- Merv C

“Believe you me, that’s just Lake Hood on a good day!”

- Merv C

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Netball era ends

the meetings dragged on towards midnight.”

Her service to netball wasn’t only in administration, but also officiating.

When her playing days came to end, which started when the game was still nine-a-side, Leath took up the whistle.

As an umpire she has witnessed big changes in rule variations with the major one being the change from sole control to dual control umpiring.

Leath made her way through the grades to become a New Zealand umpire, controlling games at eight New Zealand age group championships.

“At one point we had more New Zealand referees than Christchurch and Auckland.

“There was a big group of us and we still get together every now and again.”

Through her umpiring she became involved in the Ashburton Netball Umpires Association, becoming president in 1985 through until 1993 when the association joined with the Ashburton Netball Association.

Audrey is a life member of the Allenton Netball Club, a Service Award holder and life member of Mid Canterbury netball and a service Award holder of Netball New Zealand.

“Netball is my passion and I love it which made it easy to have done this for so long.”

However she decided the time was right to step down and as of January she will have no netball workload, only time for herself.

“I’ve taken up golf croquet which I’m really enjoying, and the dog will get walked more often.

“We have children in the North Island we don’t get to see as often as we would like so now we are able to pack up and go whenever.”

Leath said she would take some time away from netball but would eventually drift back on Saturdays to “watch and help out with umpire assessing”, but not before enjoying the free time.

By Jonathan Leask Mid Canterbury Netball has some big shoes to fill.

Audrey Leath has called time on her long service after 46 years of running Mid Canterbury Netball in some way, shape or form.

“It has been a long time and I’ve done a number of roles and jobs over the years,” Leath said.

Leath began her administrative career in 1966 when she became the secretary-treasurer of the Allenton Netball Club.

She joined the Ashburton Netball Association as treasurer in 1971 and became the secretary the following year, a position she held for the next 11 years.

Also in 1972 Leath became the delegate to the Netball New Zealand Council, a position she held for 17 years.

In 1978 the netball association went to a new format of an executive committee and in 1988 Leath was back in the secretary’s chair for another two years.

In 1998 Leath took up the administrator role for the Mid Canterbury Netball Association which was initially set down for a few hours a week, but by 2001 she was required to do more hours as the role grew becoming a full time role.

“Over winter I do upwards of 40 hours a week but over the offseason the workload is a lot less.”

During the early days of administration it was all volunteers and the meetings were less than ideal but necessary.

“We used to meet in the rickety old building at the domain and they were horrible.

“It had a grotty old kitchen.

“Each club sent a delegate and there was always plenty to get through so sometimes Left: Mid Canterbury Netball’s long-time servant Audrey Leath is stepping down.

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Wins too late for Aorangi time around as he led Tasman to a dramatic comeback to make the final four.

Riordan won his match with North Harbour No 1 Cam Jones yesterday afternoon and was looking forward to his team’s tilt at winning the title for only the second time.

“We suffered a lot of heartbreak last year so it is good to be here,” he said.

“We got off to a really poor start this year but, from there, fired off four really good wins against four really good teams.”

Defending champions Southland hammered Auckland 4-1 to top division one and will play Bay of Plenty in the first semi-final, a repeat

of last year’s final.

Meanwhile, the under dog Tasman team will face Manawatu/Wanganui, who beat Taranaki 4-1 in round seven.

Tasman looked dead and buried after two rounds of the championship with a loss-and-a-half, but won four straight matches in convincing fashion to become the form team heading into the playoffs.

“The mindset will be to win five-zip,” Riordan said of the semi-final.

“That has what we have been trying to do the last four matches and it seems to be working.”

- APNZ

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A superb 4-1 victory over Hawkes Bay wasn’t enough to get the Aorangi golfers into the semi-finals at the Toro Men’s Interprovincial at the Otago Golf Club yesterday.

Cameron Grant beat Richard Squire 4/3, Jordan Green beat Russell Mitchell 4/3, Garth Simpson beat Max Gill 1up, Damian Rodgers beat Madixon Noakes 1up and George Wardell lost to Carlos Tawera 5/4.

Meanwhile Tasman No 1 Blair Riordan enjoyed his own personal redemption at the Interprovincial yesterday.

The 22-year-old, who lost a winner-take-all match last year as his team missed the semi-finals, was the hero this

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Sorry saga three years in the making

By Dylan Cleaver and David Leggat

Were William Shakespeare to sit down and pen The Great Captaincy Coup with a stage play in mind, he’d still have trouble finding the right starting point.

For many the narrative begins only when Mike Hesson, a long-time admirer of Brendon McCullum, is appointed coach in July.

In truth, the sorry saga stretches back to October 2009, when Andy Moles resigned after conceding he had, in modern sporting vernacular, lost the dressing room.

Suddenly, the spectre of player power loomed large.

McCullum, the vice-captain and obvious heir apparent to Daniel Vettori, was fingered as the biggest personality in the dressing room, a man with too much influence over the younger players in particular.

He was relieved of his vice-captaincy duties.

Soon after, the quieter, less bolshie Ross Taylor was ushered into his position.

McCullum was furious, not with Taylor’s ascension, but with his demotion and the tittle-tattle that accompanied it.

He resented the implication that he was somehow a negative influence on the team and lost respect for those he felt were propagating that line.

He initially wanted nothing to do

with leadership aspects of the team but quickly came around to thinking that it wouldn’t do anybody any good.

Things appeared to sail along fairly smoothly until Vettori stood aside, prematurely perhaps, after the World Cup in March last year.

Rather than passing the baton directly to his vice-captain Taylor, New Zealand Cricket decided to have him and McCullum present for the job - a farcical situation because sources have told the Herald there was only ever one person coach John Wright was going to have as his skipper, and it wasn’t McCullum.

So all the process did was turn what should have been a low-key coronation into a highly politicised, extremely partisan race.

Camps were established, rumour and innuendo were allowed to flourish.

Taylor had high-profile and very vocal backing from Martin Crowe.

His manager, Leanne McGoldrick, was known to have the ear of key people on the board.

McCullum, once managed by McGoldrick, was now represented and advocated by Stephen Fleming, arguably NZ’s finest captain.

People inside cricket circles were being asked to take sides, the game’s fans were being asked to take sides.

Two of the most important players in the team were effectively being pitted against each other,

having their pros and cons very publicly debated.

It might have made for an entertaining media sideshow, but in all other respects it was an appalling piece of management.

When chief executive David White sat down yesterday and said straight-faced that there were no issues with Taylor’s captaincy, he must have been living in a vacuum for the past year.

Even before Hesson’s appointment the whispers were growing louder that Taylor was struggling with certain aspects of the job, most notably communication.

He never looked entirely at ease in front of a microphone, but that’s no deal breaker.

It was certainly nothing that was particularly damning, and nothing that couldn’t have been improved with time and experience, but it was there all the same.

The bowlers, it was said, were struggling to get a sense of what Taylor expected from them and were tired of the withering looks when they strayed off plan.

Again, there was nothing to suggest there was anything that would prove terminal to his leadership; it was painted more as an awkward bedding-in process.

That all changed when Hesson was appointed.

The writing might not have been on the wall, but it was certainly in the paper.

This is how the Weekend Herald

reported the appointment of Hesson, back on July 21.

“Taylor can no longer be guaranteed a long reign as captain.

“Taylor was very much a Wright appointment, chosen not only for his cricketing brain and undoubted talent, but also because he was more pliable than the other candidate, Brendon McCullum.

“Where Wright wanted players to do what they were told, Hesson said yesterday he wanted them to take more responsibility on their own shoulders.

“Quite apart from the fact they have an affinity for each other through their work at Otago, Hesson might argue McCullum is more suited to delivering that style of leadership.”

It was obvious very early that Hesson and Taylor was not going to work.

After the tour to India, there were noises that the coach wanted a change.

Taylor scored a century in the final test at Bangalore that possibly bought him some time.

He did so again in Sri Lanka, after he had been asked to resign.

Many thought his superb batting and a highly meritorious victory would be enough to buy more time.

Unfortunately the noise was too loud by now and it was going public.

There was to be no turning back.

New Zealand Cricket was moving very slowly towards a giant train

wreck and simply didn’t have the wherewithal to avoid it.

White headed for Dubai and International Cricket Council business on Saturday.

He characterised his five days away as dealing with “important international business” and conceded there had been “a void” of information in that time.

As is always the case, that void was very quickly filled with talkback chatter and social media tittle tattle, all of it incredibly damaging to Taylor, McCullum and cricket in general.

White has insisted player power had nothing to do with yesterday’s decision.

“I don’t believe so. Ross is well respected,” he said.

Asked what had changed since Taylor was endorsed 16 months ago by a panel which included director of cricket John Buchanan, White said: “We’ve got a new coach.”

Although publicly NZC is saying Hesson wanted Taylor to remain test captain, this reeks of compromise, rather than a firmly held conviction that Taylor was the best man for the test job.

It is known Taylor had started to feel increasingly isolated.

New Zealand opening batsman Martin Guptill is believed to have been a staunch ally; younger players in the squad have been identified as having been less than 100 per cent supportive of Taylor’s leadership style.

Whatever the more intricate details, there’s no question this imbroglio is at least on a par with the player power which did for Moles, if not quite up with the “biggie”, the players strike of 2002.

The captaincy is worth about $40,000 but that’s peanuts compared with the blow dealt to Taylor’s pride this week.

Another outcome of yesterday is that NZC has once again lost the services of its former champion batsman Martin Crowe, who has resigned from the job of talent scout just weeks after accepting it.

Crowe is a longtime supporter of Taylor.

Fleming’s teammates have suggested it took him at least a couple of years to grow into the captaincy.

This is not to say Taylor would have become another Fleming.

It does give pause for thought, though, whether he even had the chance.

- NZH

Taylor the victim in NZC fiasco

By Kris Shannon

As the New Zealand cricket captaincy drama bubbled to a boiling point yesterday, the only man to emerge with his credibility intact was deposed skipper Ross Taylor.

Taylor may no longer be the leader when he returns to the Black Caps after his self-imposed exile, but he will enjoy a groundswell of public support.

After keeping his counsel during a catastrophic week for New Zealand Cricket, Taylor told his side of the story yesterday and there is no doubting it is a tale deserving sympathy.

In a statement - released through a public relations company and not New Zeland Cricket - Taylor described the decision to dump him as the limited overs captain as

“distressing” and “disappointing”.

But Taylor, who confirmed he turned down the chance to remain as test captain, wished successor Brendon McCullum well and said he was determined to contribute to the team in the future, whoever was in charge.

NZC barely deserve his services after the way it treated him.

The organisation’s handling of the affair was negligent at best, while a lack of communication from coach Mike Hesson cost the Black Caps their best batsman for the forthcoming tour of world No 1 South Africa.

Hesson yesterday insisted he always intended to have different skippers for different forms, but the coach admitted that fact was not made clear to Taylor.

Having seemingly been stripped of his stewardship, then having seen

the saga played out in the media this week while NZC remained silent, it is no wonder Taylor feels he couldn’t contribute 100 per cent to the team at this point in time.

In fact, with Hesson’s calls to Taylor this week going unreturned, it is difficult to see how the pair can work together when Taylor does want to return.

NZC chief executive David White was adamant that Taylor would be available to play for this summer’s home series against England, but Taylor’s statement said simply he would return when the time was right.

Whether that is a time with Hesson no longer at the helm is now the burning question.

The former Otago coach can be accused of agitating throughout his brief Black Caps tenure for McCullum, with whom he has a

close relationship, to take the reins of the team.

Taylor may have been told his days as captain were numbered before the recent test series against Sri Lanka, but Hesson had hardly given Taylor a vote of confidence during the tour of India, Hesson’s first in charge, or the Twenty20 World Cup in September.

The captaincy issue - which had previously prompted a reality showstyle showdown between Taylor and McCullum when Dan Vettori stepped aside - was allowed to fester as the Black Caps continued to struggle on the field.

White said those struggles were at the heart of Hesson’s decision to remove Taylor as captain in the shorter forms, but it would be naive to suggest the same side playing under McCullum’s leadership would have performed any better.

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This team’s problems run significantly deeper than field placements and bowling changes.

And McCullum will learn that the hard way during this month’s series against South Africa.

If results fail to improve under the new regime, Hesson and White must surely be the next men whose jobs are called into question.

Hesson has been in his role for just five months and White is also new to the scene, but Taylor was in charge of the side for a mere 18 months before he was dumped.

And given the unceremonious way that occurred, the heat on Hesson and his employers will now be at an alltime high.

- APNZ

• Balmoral ‘a sensation’

Ross Taylor has walked away from the Black Caps’ South African tour; he will return to New Zealand cricket ‘when the time is right’.

Balmoral Sensation lived up to his name during the dressage phase of the Puhinui three-day event in Manukau yesterday.

Donna Smith’s second ride in the advanced CCI*** class, the exciting young horse showed just how good he is by taking an 8.6-point lead. South Islander Annabel Wigley is in second place on NRM Frog Rock, just in front of veteran Bryce Newman on Bates Trademark. However, in eventing, it’s not over until the end of the showjumping phase on the third day and, with fewer than 20 points between the highest and lowest placed horse after the dressage, it could be anyone’s competition. Today’s cross country day is all-important, and the Tich Massey-built course promises to test the horses and riders. - APNZ

• Smith going for gold photo ap

Defending champion Val Smith powered her way into the women’s singles final with a superb demonstration of draw bowls at the World Championships in Adelaide yesterday. Her start in the gold medal playoff on Sunday will be Smith’s second successive world final, following on from her victory over England’s Ellen Falkner at Burnside in 2008. The diminutive Black Jack was far too accomplished for Canada’s Kelly McKerihen in yesterdayday’s semifinal, winning their entertaining encounter 21-12 in front of a large audience at Lockleys Bowls Club.

Smith will face the winner of the corresponding semi-final - featuring Karen Murphy from Australia and England’s Natalie Melmore.

Today sees the Black Jacks combination of Mandy Boyd, Jan Khan and Lisa White taking on Murphy, Lynsey Armitage and Natasha Van Eldik from Australia for the gold medal in the triples final. - APNZ

• Brockie happy scorer Whether it’s scoring screamers, using his head or relying on goalkeeping howlers, Jeremy Brockie can’t stop finding the back of the net for the Wellington Phoenix.

The 25-year-old has banged home six goals in five games after going goal-less for the first four rounds of the A-League season. It seems to be feast or famine for the All White, who netted 17 times in the pre-season. Brockie’s goal-scoring feats have sparked the Phoenix in to life in recent weeks but the jury is out on Brockie’s best position given he has been deployed all over the park at club and international level. Brockie’s next chance to add to his goal tally comes on Sunday when then Phoenix host - APNZ Sydney FC at Westpac.

• Warne ‘happily retired’ Australia skipper Michael Clarke says he’s been pestering Shane Warne to return to the Test team ever since he called time on a magnificent career in 2007.

But Clarke senses it won’t happen given Australia’s record Test wicket-taker would first need to return to Sheffield Shield, a move that wouldn’t fit in with Warne’s hectic trans-continental schedule.

Warne made some typically-teasing remarks about a potential Ashes comeback this week, saying he would consider dusting off the whites if called on by Clarke.

The 43-year-old stoked the fires when he said: “If your best friend says, ‘Mate, I want you to seriously consider making a commitment to Australian cricket and coming back out of retirement’, (to) make myself available for selection, that’s a different scenario”. Clarke noted that Warne is “very happily retired”, but not through any lack of trying on his part.

- AAP

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New president ready to face challenges

By Sam Morton For the first time in 66 years, Ashburton will be home to the national president of indoor bowls.

Indoor bowls, like many other minor sports, is fighting for membership and survival, but Methven bowler and Ashburton District councillor Martin Nordqvist says he is primed for the challenge.

Nordvqist was elected to the presidency unopposed at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday, after serving as vicepresident under Wellington’s Trevor Rayner for three years, before joining in 2007.

Nordqvist, who has been playing indoor bowls since 1967 and has only ever played out of the Methven club in Mid Canterbury, wants to improve the sport’s wider profile.

Financially, indoor bowls is buoyant – but membership wise, more than 700 members have been lost in as little as 12 months.

It is a figure that would surely concern any sports administrator, but Nordqvist knows the game is still in good heart, with proactive members and a continuous sense of pride felt throughout the country.

Despite the falling participation rate, some key players are doing big things for their centres and Nordqvist is confident the indoor bowls fraternity can stick together to turn things around.

“Everyone is getting the message and there are a lot of positive things being done for the game.

“There are a number of reasons that could possibly have contributed to the drop off in numbers,

but what we are finding (anecdotally) is although these members have gone – we don’t believe they have died and we understand a large percentage of them are having a social roll-up – instead of registering to be competitive,” he said.

Nordqvist knows the role of presidency will be a real challenge, but he hopes his time on the executive will serve him well in his time to come.

He takes comfort from Mr Rayner remaining on the executive after being successfully reelected and welcomes the new blood to the table in the form of highly accomplished bowlers Nigel Warnes, of Nelson and David Lynn, of East Coast, who were both successfully elected on Saturday.

“While it is difficult and sad to lose experienced executive members, I think it is encouraging for the sport to have new faces around the table who genuinely care for our game,” he said.

“I would like to thank the departing executive members for their hard work and commitment during their time and it is now important for us to move forward and develop our sport,” Nordqvist said.

So what’s his vision going forward?

In other sporting codes, some clubs are being forced to amalgamate to stay alive, but put that word to Nordqvist and you will get a thoughtful, but to the point answer.

“It won’t necessarily work – the logistics of most clubs involve distance and I think you would find many members wouldn’t be comfortable having to drive an extra 20 or 30 minutes for a game of bowls,” he said.

“I think amalgamating has some

merits with sports operating bigger assets, but indoor bowls has always relied on community support and our local participation . . . and it always will.”

It was virtually impossible to reduce the fees to play, as the average membership would cost between $20 and $50 for a six month season – cheaper than most sports.

“When you sign up to indoor bowls all you need is a pair of flat soled shoes – everything else is provided,” Nordqvist said.

“I don’t think people are leaving the sport because of cost, I think it is more to do with time commitment, so maybe we can look into the scheduling of events to minimise any working time lost by having to travel to some of these major events.

“It’s not ideal to take time off work, but sometimes the reality is to compete at the top, you will have to travel,” he said.

In his first duty as president, Nordqvist announced the star-studded New Zealand team to take on Australia next year.

“That was quite an honour and a great way to start the new role,” he said.

Just days in to the new role, Nordqvist has signalled his desire to seek re-election as president for a second year, and would most likely move aside at the 2014 AGM, to allow more new blood onto the executive.

“It’s a great game and it has been a big part of my life for some time,” Nordvqist said.

“This is my way of giving back to the sport that has given me so much joy over the years.”

The next season of indoor bowls will commence between March and April.

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El Presidente: Ashburton’s Paterson representative Martin Nordvqist has taken a leap from the executive to head of the table, elected president of New Zealand Indoor Bowls.

• Super 15 wider training groups Twenty five players have been named in the wider training groups for the New Zealand Super Rugby teams for 2013. Super Rugby players report for duty for the first time with their franchises next week. Blues: Pita Ahki, Joe Edwards, Albert Nikoro, Sean Polwart, Lolagi Visinia.

Chiefs: Mike Kainga, Michael Leitch, Pauliasi Manu, Maritino Nemani, Matt Vant Leven.

Hurricanes: Richard Buckman, Mike Coman, Ash Dixon, Callum Gibbins, Ope Peleseuma.

Crusaders: Kurt Baker, Adrian Barone, Joel Everson, Paea Fa’anunu, Kieron Fonotia.

Highlanders: Hugh Blake, Tony Ensor, Bronson - APNZ Murray, Doug Tietjens, Frae Wilson.

• No complacency in Breakers Going by the form guide, the New Zealand Breakers should breeze past the Sydney Kings across the Tasman tonight. They haven’t lost to the Kings since they returned to the NBL in 2011 and the Breakers have won those contests by an average of 15.4 points. The Kings could be without the league’s leading scorer in Ben Madgen, struggling with a shoulder complaint, and you could see how the Breakers could be forgiven for thinking it should be an easy outing.

But Breakers centre Alex Pledger doesn’t buy in to the hype. “I’ve heard rumours that [Madgen] might not be playing but we’re preparing for the game as if he is,” Pledger said. “We’ve definitely prepared as if he is playing and I think we all expect that he will.”

- APNZ

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2012

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Grass track specialist

By Jonathan Leask

Record-breaking Ricky May is known as the mayor of Methven’s Mt Harding racecourse, claiming numerous wins on his grassy home track, but there is one man that knows more about it than him.

It’s not one of the local trainers from the O’Reilly clan or a fellow driver like Dexter Dunn, fresh off recording his 1000th win of which he has claimed his share at Methven.

It’s Russell Beardsley, the man who doesn’t race on the grass, he cuts it.

A committee member for four years, Beardsley is in his second season in charge of the track at the Mt Harding Raceway and has had a busy week getting the course ready for a big day on Sunday.

“It’s not just me it’s the whole committee, a great bunch of dedicated volunteers and we all have are areas of concern,” Beardsley said.

“It’s not just the track but the surrounding areas like the birdcage which probably get mown once a week, while the track is normally twice a week this time of year.”

With the Southern Alps supplying a stunning backdrop the Methven track is renowned as one of best grass tracks in the country and a popular destination.

“We also have the benefit of not having to share the track with the gal-

lops. If we did it would mean a lot more work because they can really cut up a track.”

During the off-season Beardsley’s job is done for him with the track used for grazing, but during race season it is a constant routine of keeping it in shape.

“It’s not just this weekend or the other race meets, there are 20 days in the year it has to be ready for with trials and workouts.

“They are all treated the same.”

“The area of the track is eight and a half acres, which takes about three hours to mow on the tractor.”

Beardsley, and the rest of the committee have done all they can to have the track in pristine condition for Sunday’s Christmas at the Races meet, which features the twin Green Miles, as long as the weather plays it’s part.

“When I mowed it on Thursday it was dry and firm, so the rain was probably good for it as long as the weather clears for it to dry out.”

Sunday’s feature race comes in the 10th, the $17,500 Pacers Green Mile, which comes with a $2000 kicker if the winner breaks the track record, a feat achieved in the last two runnings of the Green Mile.

In 2010 May drove Tennis Ball to a record 1:57.1, but then Grant Payne steered Ohoka Dallas to a new record last year clocking in at 1:56.50.

May

takes the reins of Ellmer Hanover, which has finished in the top three in its last six starts with three first places, including a win in its last start in Methven.

Dunn will steer Bettors Creek making its first start on the grass its 26th, but looking for an 11th win.

Mark Purdon’s Major Mark was fifth in the New Zealand Cup back in November and is a classy contender.

The trotters also have their $14,999 Green Mile earlier in race eight where Clover Don and driver Colin De Filippi are back to defend their title after setting the race record of 1:59.6 last year in a field that included The Fiery Ginga and Dr Hook.

The first race is at 1pm.

Methven Selections Race 1: Dragon Lady, Juneamy Castleton, Armed Force, Bim Bom Bay Race 2: Cullens Spirit, Ultimate Sheldon, Nine Mile Maiden, Davy Lindenny Race 3: Field Officer, Mixed Emotions, Marilyn Golightly, Christian Acropolis Race 4: Kaiteri Bay, Delboy, Pacquiao, Majors Blue Jean Race 5: Surfin Swift, Tubbys Sister, It’s Only Me, Itz Fatima Kiwi Race 6: Highview Teejay, Captain Webber, Jackaroo Bromac Race 7: Beaver Boy, Sounds Like Us, Massimo Race 8: Quality Invasion, Clover Don, Ready Set, With Intent Race 9: Castellina Lover, Just Rose, Bella Arden, Star Of Isis Race 10: Sleepy Tripp, Major Mark, Glencoe V C, Flyover Race 11: Unico Pegasus, Trip’s On Me, Hot Vacation, Oscar Race 12: The Brigadier, Major Arthur, The Falcon Legend, Fiery Lustre

Fields, form and drivers Methven Trotting Club Venue: Mt Harding Racecourse Meeting Date: 9 Dec 2012 NZ Meeting number : 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 1.00pm (NZT) FULTON HOGAN LTD TROT $6500, 3yo+ non winners trot, stand, 2400m 1 0 Davey’s Gift (1) fr.............................. C Ward (J) 2 0330 My Mums Astar (2) fr........................ T McMillan 3 83579 Suzannah (3) fr.................................... T Chmiel 4 700 Sunrise Invasion (4) fr.......................I Cameron 5 6x095 Sea Spray Ronnie (5) fr...................C Markham 6 7x677 Earls Buller Girl (6) fr.............................R Alfeld 7 0265x Juneamy Castleton (7) fr......................M Jones 8 Nasty Brat (8) fr....................................... R May 9 93 Bim Bom Bay (9) fr......................... R Anderson 10 62624 Dragon Lady (U1) fr............................R Holmes 11 Thanksforplaying (U2) fr................. C McDowell 12 0xP03 Armed Force (U3) fr........................P Anderson 13 07067 Joltin Joe Demagio (U4) fr................. G O’Reilly 14 Kidder (U5) fr....................................... B Hutton 2 1.30pm METHVEN PANEL & PAINT LTD MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo+ non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 47908 Back Pay (1) fr....................................M Kerr (J) 2 56426 Ultimate Sheldon (2) fr.......................R Jenkins 3 08807 Hit The Spot (3) fr.............................. G O’Reilly 4 x0800 Flyin Seelster (4) fr......................... M Edmonds 5 00894 Davy Lindenny (5) fr...................... S Thompson 6 55690 Nine Mile Maiden (6) fr.................... R Close (J) 7 38502 Eastwood Falconet (7) fr..................C DeFilippi 8 38948 Maybe Flyin (8) fr............................ R Needham 9 Px001 Cullens Spirit (9) fr.................................. J Dunn 10 0080 Chapala Surprise (U1) fr................... S Harding 3 2.00pm PLACEMAKERS ASHBURTON MOBILE PACE $7500, 4yo+ 1 to 2 wins mob. pace jun.d, mobile, 2300m 1 20225 Mixed Emotions (1) fr.......................J Young (J) 2 079x9 Brooke Brad Carolina (2) fr................M Kerr (J) 3 42232 Field Officer (3) fr............................T Bagrie (J) 4 20xP5 Debs Pal (4) fr..............................B Thomas (J) 5 48x05 Westburn Warrior (5) fr....................J Trainor (J) 6 60x94 Highview Jackie (6) fr......................B Munro (J) 7 23316 Christian Acropolis (7) fr................J Thomas (J) 8 58725 Comply Or Die (8) fr..................... S Golding (J) 9 090x1 Boro (9) fr........................................ S Ottley (J) 10 12806 Marilyn Golightly (21) fr.....................R Todd (J) 11 08834 K C Pedro (22) fr........................J Anderson (J) 12 5x0x0 Melando Reign fr............................... Scratched 13 2434x Bad Dancer (23) fr........................... R Close (J) 14 5460x Star Of Courage (24) fr.............B Williamson (J) 4 2.30pm SMITH SEEDS LTD MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo+ non winners mob. pace, mobile, 2300m 1 68956 Majors Blue Jean (1) fr...................... A Lethaby 2 000 Pacquiao (2) fr..................................... K Barron 3 005 Hotmamalinemypockets (3) fr.................. R May 4 69352 Kaiteri Bay (4) fr..................................... J Dunn 5 7000x Double Vision (5) fr.......................B Thomas (J) 6 09803 Living Memory (6) fr..........................I Cameron 7 54 Tiana Franco (7) fr............................. S McNally 8 808x4 Delboy (8) fr........................................R Holmes 9 8 Bank Raider (9) fr............................... B Orange 10 60 Toppathepark (21) fr.............................M Jones 5 3.05pm DARFIELD HOTEL FILLIES & MARES MOBILE PACE $6500, 3yo+ f&m non winners mob. pace, 1609m 1 4228 Surfin Swift (1) fr..................................... J Dunn 2 It’s Only Me (2) fr................................ B Orange 3 506P2 Tubbys Sister (3) fr.................................. R May 4 00667 Mimi Surarti (4) fr...............................I Cameron 5 7x277 Ally Grace (5) fr.................................... G Smith 6 007x6 Kirstys Luck (6) fr..............................M Heenan 7 89758 Hannah Jaye (7) fr.................................J Curtin 8 62x83 Speedy Ideal (8) fr...........................J Trainor (J) 9 06660 Riverboat Gracie (9) fr........................ B Weaver 10 0x92 Itz Fatima Kiwi (21) fr........................ G O’Reilly 11 9 Gold Wings (22) fr...........................C Markham 12 67048 Dream Gal (23) fr.............................C DeFilippi 6 3.40pm GLUYAS MOTOR GROUP HANDICAP PACE $8500, 2 to 3 wins spechcp pace, stand, 3000m 1 615x4 Captain Webber (1) fr.......................... K Barron 2 60702 Anntoro (2) fr.........................................J Curtin 3 x5541 The Friendlyassassin (3) fr.................R Holmes 4 31074 Westburn Courage (4) fr.................. S Ottley (J) 5 54012 Ohoka Kentucky fr............................. Scratched 6 323P4 Supreme Sign (U1) fr........................ S McNally 7 23212 Highview Teejay (1) 10....................... B Orange 8 82031 Roxy Bromac (2) 10..........................J Young (J) 9 54487 Gumboots (3) 10................................. J Geddes 10 435x7 Jackaroo Bromac (4) 10.......................W Higgs 7 4.18pm RAY MAYNE HOSE & FITTINGS LTD PACE $6500, 3yo+ non winners pace, stand, 2400m 1 44 Spanish Red fr................................... Scratched 2 2x Lottie Franco (1) fr................................M Jones 3 079x5 Wood Fire (2) fr...............................C Markham

Left: Russell Beardsley has had a busy week getting the Mt Harding Racecourse ready for the Methven Trotting Club’s big day on Sunday.

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4 007x9 Reklaw Supreme (3) fr.........................W Higgs 5 60x90 Molly Mantis (4) fr............................... L O’Reilly 6 20870 Augustus Time (5) fr..........................M Heenan 7 7407 Incomparable (6) fr.....................J Anderson (J) 8 22604 Sounds Like Us (7) fr..........................K O’Reilly 9 04052 I’m Bettor (8) fr.................................. A Lethaby 10 453 Massimo (9) fr......................................... J Dunn 11 9 Hey Knowitall (10) fr.......................... G O’Reilly 12 87x Cromac Jesse (11) fr......................... S Harding 13 3x56x Beaver Boy (12) fr................................... R May 14 Glenferrie Ann (13) fr.............................J Curtin 15 00x0 Live Together (U1) fr........................J Trainor (J) 16 0 Magical Mario (U2) fr............................. D Dunn Emergency: Cromac Jesse 8 4.55pm METHVEN 4 SQUARE SUPERMARKET GREEN MILE MBL TROT $14,999, ffa mob. trot, mobile, 1609m 1 x1603 Taimate Boyz (1) fr.............................P O’Reilly 2 208x5 Donaldson (2) fr....................................... R May 3 46640 Tehoro Diva (3) fr................................R Holmes 4 65738 Aylesham (4) fr............................... C Middleton 5 2x114 Springbank Sam (5) fr.............M Williamson (J) 6 9x597 Ready Set (6) fr................................ N McGrath 7 x9467 With Intent (7) fr................................... D Nyhan 8 x2436 Beat The Monarch (8) fr...................... T Chmiel 9 18791 Quality Invasion (9) fr.......................... G Archer 10 26908 Unique Star (21) fr................................M Jones 11 34744 Clover Don (22) fr.............................C DeFilippi 9 5.30pm CHRISTIAN CULLEN CBRY MARES SPEED SERIES MBL PCE $9000, 4yo+ mares up to 5 wins mob. pace, mobile, 1609m 1 x3303 Magna (1) fr........................................ J Geddes 2 146x7 Misty Magic (2) fr................................ B Orange 3 x6178 Rebateable (3) fr..............................B Munro (J) 4 4035x Strata Star (4) fr.................................R Todd (J) 5 x5231 Star Of Isis (5) fr....................................J Curtin 6 21730 Juniper Bromac (6) fr........................... K Barron 7 13556 Tyron’s Alive (7) fr.................................... R May 8 11x32 Castellina Lover (8) fr............................ D Dunn 9 131x0 Citylight (9) fr............................B Williamson (J) 10 12065 Ginger Spice (21) fr................................ 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By Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan MONEY MATTERS

By Sam Morton Mid Canterbury electrical company Laser Electrical has expanded its presence into South Canterbury.

Business owners Brent and Megan Christie recently purchased the Temuka and Geraldine franchises – which have been operating for more than a decade, under previous owners Colin and Raewyn Newton.

During the past four years, the management team at Laser Electrical Ashburton has continued to branch out, adding to their services, which now cover from Rolleston to Timaru.

Three years ago, the Christies purchased the Rolleston franchise, before going on to establish Laser Plumbing Ashburton a year later and appointing Gerard Gallagher as chief executive overseeing all branches.

Mr Gallagher, who has lived in Mid Canterbury for 16 years, said the latest development in South Canterbury was an exciting time for all involved.

“The latest acquisition is already healthy and strong and

has been serving the Geraldine and South Canterbury communities for many years,” he said.

“The Geraldine business provides an increase in capacity and service which can only provide more local support for our existing and new customers in the Geraldine and Temuka areas.”

While the expansion is to cater for the rocketing demand in electrical services post Christchurch earthquakes, Mr Gallagher insisted the Ashburton franchise would remain the core branch.

“We now have 65 staff scattered from Christchurch to Temuka and with what is happening throughout Canterbury, we see this continuing to grow.

“Christchurch is poised for huge growth and we have been preparing for this even before the earthquakes ... now we are ready to take advantage of this (demand).”

Mr Gallagher’s son Morgan has been lured back from the UK to manage the Temuka/ Geraldine franchises, with the assistance of the previous owner Colin Newton – who will stay on as an employee.

Morgan Gallagher has recently returned from project managing and estimating large commercial sites in the UK – and from his days in New Zealand, he has established strong local connections in South Canterbury.

“The team is looking forward to extending their skills and being part of the dynamic, extended Laser Ashburton team,” Morgan said.

Meanwhile, Gerard Gallagher said the new areas were already showing massive potential.

He said the Ashburton franchise staff has been working closely with the previous owners for many years, helping them out with a heavy workload whenever possible.

“It seemed like the natural step when Colin and Raewyn approached us – all the business units will be strengthened with managerial support and skill sharing between the team – resulting in even better local customer service,” Mr Gallagher said.

“It’s a really exciting time to be in this stage of development and we will continue to grow to meet the demand.”

Maori tribe wins $70.6 million treaty settlement

By Pattrick Smellie The Government has acknowledged Treaty of Waitangi breaches against the Ngati Toa iwi and agreed a settlement package of cash, land and rights of first refusal on Crown assets valued at $70.6 million.

Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson announced the settlement related to land expropriation and confiscations around Wellington’s so-called “Nicholson Block” and the top of the South Island, as well as the arrest and imprisonment of Te Rauparaha, the originator of New Zealand’s most distinctive haka: Ka Mate.

Ngati Toa Rangatira will receive financial redress of $70.6 million, including opportunities to purchase and lease back Crown properties and a right of first refusal over surplus Crown properties.

A key part of the settlement is a redress package relating to Kapiti Island, and includes a vesting and gift over part of the island, which will continue to be operated as a bird sanctuary by the Department of Conservation.

A total of 189 hectares of the island will be vested to the tribe, with provision for an overlay classification over the reserves, establishment of a strategic advisory committee and a conservation manage-

Te Rauparaha, the originator of New Zealand’s most distinctive haka: Ka Mate. ment plan, Finlayson said. “The Department of Conservation will remain responsible for the management of Kapiti Island and public access will continue to be restricted to protect the high conservation values,” he said in a statement.

Ngati Toa hailed from the Kawhia coast in the Waikato, but left the area in the 1820s under threat of wipe-out by other tribes, and re-established on Kapiti Island, areas around Wellington and the top of the South Island.

On the run, the iwi re-established itself in part through the war parties led by Ngati Toa chiefs, including Te Rauparaha, who composed the haka after escaping a hunting party of Ngati Maniapoto and Waikato enemies.

The haka is the most-performed Maori haka, including by the All Blacks national rugby team, before international test matches. The government wishes to settle all historical Treaty of Waitangi settlements by 2014.

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ou can get a new ‘pretty much anything you want’ these days. You can almost become a bionic man or woman thanks to the huge developments in healthcare over the past century. Super smart scientists even expect to be able to grow complex body parts in the near future. The mind boggles.

The medical sector is a major area of interest to me. Health is an essential industry with defensive characteristics, not only offering a degree of reliability within established blue chip firms, but also providing speculative investment opportunities from new discoveries at the junior end of the market.

The sector is a very broad, complex and fascinating area for investors to focus on. It encompasses; hospitals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical services and health insurance.

There are several major trends that are driving medical sector growth, including: the ageing population of developed countries, advances in technology, growth in obesity and diabetes, and the impact of increased mobility of populations, resulting in the cross pollination of disease across borders. From a negative perspective, limitations to growth include: government regulation, increasing insurance costs, and a reduction in risk capital available to innovators.

Our local sharemarket offers investors a range of options within the medical sector.

New Zealand listed companies include: Vital Healthcare, the medical property company, has an average lease term of 12 years on their properties, which is over twice the industry average. This reflects the defensive nature of the industry. The company has paid a healthy historic gross dividend of around 8.8% per annum.

Fisher and Paykel Healthcare is one of our better known names in the sector, although their sharemarket performance has been lack-lustre, having trended downward over the last five years. The company produces heated humidifiers for use in respiratory care and humidified airflow generators for obstructive sleep apnoea, along with associated single and multi-use accessories including breathing tubes and face masks.

Abano Healthcare is a dental and audiology company.

Ebos is a company, with a market capitalisation of $430 million, that’s been around since 1922. They supply a broad range of healthcare products throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Ebos have more than doubled in price over the past five years.

Acurity Health, formerly

known as Wakefield is the leading provider of private surgical healthcare services in New Zealand. They operate three private hospitals: Wakefield Hospital and Bowen Hospital in Wellington, as well as Royston Hospital in Hastings. The company also owns a 30% stake in Endoscopy Auckland and Laparoscopy Auckland, and a 60% stake in Grace Hospital.

The company’s share price slid post the financial crisis, but sensing potential value, a partial take-over from Austron saw Acurity’s share price rebound.

Pharmacy Brands represents the retail pharmacy sector. The company owns Radius Medical, Amcal, Care Chemist, Life Pharmacy and Unichem.

The company has been on the acquisition trail and now has over 300 community pharmacies in total. Their share price has reflected this growth, rising three-fold in the past two years alone.

The more speculative investor might be interested in junior companies such as Pacific Edge, who have developed a bladder cancer diagnostic test kit, and Neuren Pharmaceuticals, a drug company based in Wellington, but listed in Australia whose drugs are focused on neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

They also have a brain injury drug whose development is being partially funded by the United States Army. Both companies share prices have more than doubled in the past few months; such is the nature of market speculation.

Looking ahead there is potential for the sector to represent an even larger portion of our share market. Orion Health is a New Zealand based medical software company selling products into a global market. Last year they produced revenue of almost $100 million, a considerable sum.

Our country has some very sharp minds. The Glaxo part of the global drug company Glaxo Smithkline Beecham, was started in Bunnythorpe back in 1904. Back then the company was a baby food manufacturer and their slogan was “Glaxo builds bonny babies”. I think those bonny babies went on to deliver some rather smart cookies and I am constantly amazed at the products they devise and the companies behind them.

Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan are Authorised Financial Advisers with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton.

This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice. Disclosure Statements are available on request and free of charge.

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Morsi refuses to call off poll

By Maggie Michael An angry Mohammed Morsi refused to call off a referendum on a disputed constitution that has sparked Egypt’s worst political crisis in two years, drawing chants of “topple the regime!” from protesters who waved their shoes in contempt.

The Egyptian president’s uncompromising stand came a night after thousands of his supporters and opponents fought pitched battles outside his Cairo palace, leaving at least six dead and 700 injured.

Speaking in a nationally televised address, Morsi accused some in the opposition of serving remnants of Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime and vowed he would never tolerate anyone working for the overthrow of his “legitimate” government.

That brought shouts of “the people want to topple the regime!” from the crowd of 30,000 Morsi opponents — the same chant used in the protests that brought down Mubarak.

Morsi also invited the opposition to a “comprehensive and productive” dialogue at his presidential

palace, but gave no sign that he might offer any meaningful concessions.

The opposition has already refused to engage Morsi unless he first rescinds decrees giving him nearly unrestricted powers and shelves the draft constitution hurriedly adopted by his Islamist allies last week.

Morsi said the referendum on the disputed charter would go ahead as scheduled on December 15. He also refused to rescind the November 22 decrees.

Reading from prepared notes, Morsi frequently broke off to improvise. He wore a black tie in mourning for the six people killed in earlier clashes.

Earlier, Morsi’s troubles grew when another of his advisers quit to protest his handling of the crisis, raising to seven the number of those in his 17-person inner circle who have abandoned him.

Violence persisted into the night, with a group of protesters attacking the Cairo headquarters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, ransacking the ground floor. Another group of protesters attacked the Brotherhood’s offices in the Cairo district of Maadi.

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Egyptian protesters stand behind barbed wire on a road leading to the presidential palace during a protest against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, in Cairo.

Safety, need compete in typhoon-hit Philippines The Philippine government’s geological hazard maps show why this farming community was largely washed away by a strong typhoon: “highly susceptible to flooding and landslides.” That didn’t stop some villagers from rebuilding even with bodies still lying under the mud.

Most of the about 420 people confirmed dead from Typhoon Bopha were killed in the steep valley that includes New Bataan, a town criss-crossed by rivers and cleared from lush hillsides by banana, coconut, cocoa and mango farmers in 1968. Flooding was so widespread that places people thought were safe, including two emergency shelters, became among the deadliest.

In the impoverished Philippines, the jobless risk life and limb to feed their families and the government can do little beyond warning of the danger.

“It’s not only an environmental issue, it’s also a poverty issue,” said Environment Secretary Ramon Paje.

“The people would say, ‘We are better off here. At least we have food to eat or money to buy food, even if it is risky.’

“But somehow we would like to protect their lives and if possible give them other sources of livelihood so that we can take them out of these permanent danger zones,” Paje said.

Nearly 400 people were missing after the typhoon struck the southern Philippines this week.

After a night of pounding rain, floodwaters started rising around 4am, trapping farmer Joseph Requinto, his wife and two young children in their house near a creek.

“After that I saw some people being swept away,” he said. He climbed up a hill, carrying his children, and the family found shelter behind boulders that shielded them from coconut trees rolling down the hill.

“The water was as high as a coconut tree,” he said. “All the bamboo trees, even the big ones, were all mowed down.”

Interior Secretary Mar Roxas saw New Bataan covered in 15 centimetres of mud. He was told by townspeople that a pond or a small lake atop the mountain collapsed, causing torrents of water to

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Members of the Philippine Coast Guard carry relief goods for victims of flash floods caused by Typhoon Bopha in Davao province, while loading their ship in Manila, Philippines. rampage like a waterfall. and southern provinces. The typhoon, “There is hardly any structure that is which hit the region with winds of undamaged in New Bataan town,” he 175km/h, was weakening and expected said. “Entire families may have been to dissipate in the South China Sea. washed away.”

The 20 or so tropical storms that New Bataan residents led report- hit the Philippines each year strike its ers from Manila’s GMA Television to a northern and central regions more often mound of felled trees that were swept than the southern provinces pummeled down from the hills. At least five bodies by Bopha, but still, deadly floods are were jammed beneath the rubble, with common on resource-rich Mindanao no sign that anyone had attempted to Island. retrieve them. It was uncertain if there The Bureau of Mines and Geosciences were more bodies at the site. had issued warnings before the typhoon Dozens of people stared blankly at to people living in flood-prone areas, but their devastated town as they waited in the Compostela Valley, nearly every at a government information centre, area is flood-prone. hoping for word of missing relative.

Bureau Director Leo Jasareno said Authorities planned to display about about 80 per cent of the valley is a dan80 newly washed bodies in coffins at a ger zone due to a combination of facRoman Catholic church, hoping rela- tors, including the mountains and rivtives will identify them. ers, as well as logging that has stripped Authorities said about 215 people hills of trees that minimise landslides died in Compostela Valley and more and absorb rainwater. Logging has been than 151 in nearby Davao Oriental banned since last year’s fatal flooding, province, with the rest in other central but it continues illegally.

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Duchess discharged McAfee hospitalised The Duchess of Cambridge left a London hospital yesterday after being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy.

Clutching a small bouquet of yellow roses, the former Kate Middleton smiled and posed briefly for a photograph alongside her husband, Prince William, before leaving King Edward VII Hospital.

She stepped delicately into a waiting car.

The couple’s office said she would head to Kensington Palace in London for a period of rest. She had been in the hospital since Monday.

Officials from St. James’s Palace have said the duchess is not yet 12 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child.

William visited his wife at the hospital every day, while media from around the world camped outside, seeking any news on the royal pregnancy.

Royal officials announced earlier this week that the Duchess was pregnant, their hand forced by her admission into the hospital.

But the stay of one of the world’s most recognised women was complicated by a breach of her privacy.

Two Australian radio disc jockeys impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles placed a prank call to the hospital early Tuesday, and persuaded an unwitting nurse to tell them all about the Duchess’ condition.

Australian radio personalities Mel Greig and Michael Christian later apologised for the hoax.

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Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalised briefly yesterday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala, and his lawyers said they were making a last-ditch effort to keep him from being flown back to Belize for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate.

McAfee said he suffered chest pains overnight but didn’t believe he had a heart attack. A government doctor who examined him agreed, saying that McAfee’s heart rhythm and blood pressure were normal and that he appeared to be suffering from high stress.

McAfee was moved from an immigration centre to a policerun hospital after Guatemalan authorities said McAfee’s request for asylum had been denied. They did not explain why.

He was released from the hospital and taken back to the detention centre later.

Shortly after the decision to deny him asylum was announced, McAfee issued a plea on his blog for the public to petition Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to let him stay.

“Please email the President of Guatemala and beg him to allow the court system to proceed, to determine my status in Guatemala, and please support the political asylum that I am asking for,” the post read.

McAfee’s legal team said they were preparing to appeal the denial of asylum to the country’s constitutional court, a process that could give McAfee perhaps another day or two in Guatemala.

The court would have to issue a decision within 48 hours.

McAfee’s complaints of chest pain prompted authorities to

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John McAfee move him from the immigration centre where he had been held overnight. He had been taken to the centre after his arrest for illegally entering the country after a bizarre weeks-long journey as a self-styled fugitive with an active blog and constant contact with the press.

During an interview from inside his private room at the centre, McAfee said he was refusing to travel to a hospital because he had been using Chinese herbal medicine since suffering a heart attack in 1993.

“Last night I had a little bit of pain, but I am fine this morning,” he said. “I don’t like Western medicine.”

Belizean police spokesman Raphael Martinez said officials expected McAfee to be flown back to his country’s capital. Police want to question him about the fatal shooting of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived.

There is no warrant for McAfee’s arrest, so it is possible his selfinitiated flight from Belizean authority could end up with him free to roam the Caribbean island where he lived for years.

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Aries 21 March - 20 April Early on there could be some emotional hiccups but a grounded focus may turn your attention to more practical matters. Though you may try to approach things harmoniously, beware of others who could be controlling and may not have your best interests at heart.

Try calm negotiation. Yet despite this, something new can attract you.

TAurus 21 April - 21 May You may be able to charm your way into someone’s good books. Be careful later though, as your bright and breezy mood may mean you accidentally step on someone’s toes. If you are part of a team you can go far but make sure that it’s not you doing most of the work. Be clear about what you expect. Give yourself a little treat if necessary.

Gemini 22 May - 21 June The desire for fun and pleasure as a distraction from too much work may overtake you early on. Thoughts of romance may linger in your mind, encouraging you to make that phone call or perhaps arrange a date.

Though busy and perhaps under pressure, your confidence and sunny personality seem capable of overcoming any obstacle.

CAnCer 22 June - 23 July Love and romance are intriguing, sometimes excessive, passionate and definitely not boring. A focus on your home zone suggests entertaining back at your place could allow a liaison to take shape. Be sure it’s good for you. Make your excuses if something doesn’t seem right. A recent dream may be informing you of something important.

Leo 24 July - 23 August Good news makes the future look bright and your attitude optimistic. There is also potential for harmony in close ties, especially with siblings, which is another bonus. Although a fair-minded approach can resolve problems you may be tired of tact and decide to express yourself more directly, even if some impulse control could be helpful.

VirGo 24 August - 23 September Be patient with affairs of the heart early on. Though certain upsets may seem unavoidable, there is more chance for tolerance later. Keep your wits about you as you could be overlooking a vital piece of information. Though you may not want to admit something to yourself, you may have to.

In fact, today it helps to avoid wishful thinking.

LibrA 24 September - 23 October Coffee with a friend puts you on track for fun and creates a relaxed mood, especially if you have big plans to talk about or share the same dreams. The Moon in your sign encourages you to eliminate old, unhealthy habits and self-doubts, and to birth a new inner confidence. If you’re taking care of your own needs then others may be drawn to you.

sCorpio 24 October - 22 November Being forthright and direct may seem like the way to go, but be prepared for defensive reactions if your words aren’t tempered with some sensitivity and compassion. If a relationship gets complicated it may not be such a bad thing. You enjoy a good mystery and this may help keep things interesting. It may help to be proactive in a love tie.

sAGiTTArius 23 November - 21 December Longstanding financial matters may be resolved. Even if you have to dig deeper into resources, you’re also managing to come up with ideas to increase your income. You want freedom to enjoy exciting pleasures in love and friendship, especially if someone you meet on the social scene encourages a romantic attraction.

A pleasure-seeking vibe may be hard to resist.

CApriCorn 22 December - 20 January The Moon in your career zone suggests you can safely resume your climb to the summit. You’re in the driver’s seat and this is a splendid opportunity to steer things in the right direction. A positive yet practical outlook produces results. Personal as well as professional relationships benefit from the willingness to commit. Will you make that decision?

AquArius 21 January - 19 February Career issues may be more complicated than you thought. Although things may seem fairly straightforward on the surface, behind the scenes there may be all kinds of hidden agendas and ego-driven desires affecting your journey to success. While you can’t do anything about this, you can keep your mind on the goal and ignore such distractions.

pisCes 20 February - 20 March Be prepared to see dealings with others in a new light, though that may require you to rid yourself of treasured illusions. Even though giving in to the suggestions of headstrong friends may feel good, a decision could be followed by a change of heart. There are other forms of fun and excitement that you may want to indulge in Pisces.

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9.00 Rural Delivery. (Final, G) 9.30 Coach Trip. (PGR, R, T) 12.00 Marco’s Kitchen Burnout. (PGR, T) 1.00 MasterChef: The Professionals.

(G, T) 2.15 How To Look Good Naked. (Final, PGR, T) 3.20 Wedding House. (Final, G, T) 4.25 Find My Family. (G, R, T) 4.55 New Zealand’s Got Talent. (Final, G, R, T) 6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook - Simple Pleasures.

(G, T) 7.30 Doc Martin. (G, R, T) 8.30 Come Dine With Me. (PGR, T) A week of bullish behavior, distasteful discoveries and illness ends with only three competitors, one of whom will beat the others to the £1000 prize.

9.35 Pan Am. (PGR, T) A flight ferrying journalists to Berlin to cover an important speech by John F. Kennedy provides Maggie with a chance to meet the U.S. President.

10.30 FILM: 28 Days. (2000, AO, R, T) 12.40 Louie Spence’s Showbusiness. (AO) 1.40 BBC World – Spirit Of Yachting. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.15 Sport Today. 2.30 Fast Track. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Dateline London. 4.00 BBC World News.

4.10 Shakespeare From Kabul. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Mishal Husain Meets.

6.00 Tiki Tour. (G, T) 6.25 Buzzy Bee And Friends. (G, T) 6.30 Jake & The Neverland Pirates. (Final, G, T) 6.55 The Adventures Of Chuck And Friends. (G, T) 7.15 Fish Hooks.

(G, R, T) 7.45 Phineas and Ferb. (G, R, T) 8.10 Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

(G, T) 8.35 Batman: The Brave And The Bold. (G, R, T) 9.05 A.N.T. Farm. (G, T) 9.35 Just The Job. (G, R, T) 10.00 I AM TV. (PGR) 11.00 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

(PGR) 12.30 Gary unmarried. (Final, PGR, R) 1.00 The Amazing Race. (PGR, R, T) 2.00 Hell’s Kitchen. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 Huge. (PGR, R) 4.00 Good Luck Charlie. (G, T) 4.30 State Of Georgia. (G, T) 5.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 According To Jim. (G, R, T) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, T) 6.30 Wipeout. (G, T) 7.30 The Voice. (G, T) 8.35 FILM: Starship Troopers. (1997, AO, R, T) Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey. In the far future, a group of young recruits joins an elite military unit to fight against huge alien insects determined to exterminate humankind.

11.10 FILM: Lost In Space. (1998, PGR, R, T) 1.50 FILM: Malibu’s Most Wanted. (2003, AO, R, T) 3.25 Live At The Apollo. (AO, R, T) 4.15 Cougar Town. (PGR, R, T) 4.40 I AM TV. (PGR, R) 5.30 It Is Written.

6.00 Charles Stanley.

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11.00 The Farmer Wants A Wife. (Final, PGR, R) 12.00 The X Factor uSA. (G, R) 2.00 The X Factor uSA. (G, R) 3.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. (PGR, R) 4.00 The Office. (G) 4.30 The Real Hustle NZ. (G, R, T) 5.00 Outdoors With Geoff. (G, R) 5.30 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 On The Grill. (Final, PGR, T) 7.30 Ice Road Truckers. (PGR, T) 8.30 CSI: New york. (AO, T) Mac investigates when a body washes up on shore, and his probe unravels a dark secret from deputy chief Carver’s past.

9.30 CSI: Miami. (AO, T) An eccentric genius is assassinated with an unusual weapon.

10.30 Homeland. (AO, R, T) 11.35 FILM: My Name Is Khan. (2010, AO) 2.50 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Brian Houston @ Hillsong. (G) 5.30 Charles Stanley.

6.00 Home Shopping. (G) 11.30 Harry’s Practice. (G, R) 12.00 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus.

(G, R) 2.30 Human Planet. (PGR, R) 3.30 Masterchef uSA. (G, R) 4.30 Get Growing With New Zealand Gardener. (G) 5.00 Fishing NZ. (G) 5.30 Prime News - First At 5.30.

6.00 Getaway. (G) 6.30 The Enforcers. (G, R) 7.00 Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen. (G, R) Nigella takes a trip to Paris to explore the chocolate in this famous city, demonstrates a few richly sweet recipes including a chocolate Rocky Road and her favourite Christmas Pavlova.

7.30 Antiques Roadshow. (G) Fiona Bruce visits the National History Museum of Wales at St Fagans, just outside Cardiff, and amongst the objects are a collection of early dog collars and a doll gifted

by Queen Mary.

8.40 Weekend Murders: Midsomer Murders. (AO, R) Two years ago, benevolent landlord Edward Milton died of a heart attack, however his widow is keen to make confession to the Reverend.

10.40 Running Wilde. (PGR) 11.05 Paul Merton In Europe. (AO, R) 1.15 Home Shopping. (G)

SuNDAy

6.00 60 Minute Makeover. (G, R) 6.50 The School Of Home Truths.

(PGR, R, T) 7.40 Tagata Pasifika. (R) 8.05 Praise Be. (G) 8.35 Attitude Awards 2012. (T) 9.35 (Busy As) Aunty Bea. (G, R, T) 10.00 Marae Investigates. (Final) 10.30 Waka Huia. (T) 11.00 Neighbourhood. (G, T) 11.35 What Lies Beneath. (G, R, T) 12.00 2012 Surf Life Saving World Championship.

2.00 Hotel Inspector. (PGR, R, T) 3.00 undercover Boss uSA. (G, R, T) 4.00 Homegrown. (G, R, T) 4.30 Coasters. (G, R, T) 5.00 Expedition Tiger. (Final, G, R, T) 6.00 ONE News. (T) 7.00 The Zoo. (G, T) 7.30 Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey.

(G, T) 8.30 Sunday Murder Mystery: Little Lazarus. (AO, T) Detective Vera Stanhope mist unravel deadly secrets and their murderous consequences.

10.30 Packed To The Rafters. (PGR, R) 11.30 Meet The Natives uSA. (New, G, T) 12.30 Call 911. (G) 1.00 BBC World – BBC World News. 1.30 The Hottest Classroom On Earth. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.15 Sport Today. 2.30 Click. 3.00 BBC World News.

3.30 Horizons. 4.00 BBC World News. 4.10 Why Poverty? 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 The Believer’s Voice Of Victory.

MONDAy 6.00 9.00 12.00 12.30 1.30 2.00

Breakfast.

Good Morning. (G) ONE News. (T) Emmerdale. (PGR, T) Coach Trip. (PGR, T) World’s Strictest Parents us.

(PGR, T) 3.00 Ellen.

4.00 Te Karere. (T) 4.30 ONE News.

4.55 Come Dine With Me. (G, R) 5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat. (G, T) 12.00 I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PGR, R, T) 1.00 Te Karere. (R, T) 1.30 BBC World –MT With George Alagiah. (G) 2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain. 3.30 World Business Report. 5.05 The Believer’s Voice Of Victory. 5.35 Te Karere. (R, T)

SuNDAy

6.00 Tiki Tour. (G, T) 6.25 Jungle Junction.

(G, T) 6.45 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. (G, R, T) 7.10 Chowder. (G, R, T) 7.35 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (G, R, T) 8.45 A.N.T. Farm.

(G, R, T) 9.10 Jonas. (G, R, T) 10.00 Shortland Street Omnibus. (PGR, R, T) 12.00 FILM: Freshman Father. (2010, G, R, T) 1.50 Mad. (PGR, R, T) 2.00 The Secret Circle. (PGR, T) 3.00 New Zealand’s Got Talent. (Final, G, R, T) 4.00 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. (G, R, T) 4.30 Just The Job. (G, T) 5.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 Hart Of Dixie. (G, T) 6.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter. (T) 7.00 FILM: Happy Feet. (2006, PGR, R, T) 9.10 FILM: Bride And Prejudice.

(2004, PGR, R, T) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Martin Henderson.

11.25 FILM: The Reaping. (2007, AO, R, T) 1.25 Distraction. (AO, R, T) 2.55 Infomercial.

3.25 20/20. (R, T) 4.10 It Is Written. (R) 4.45 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 5.30 Infomercial.

MONDAy

6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Hi-5. (G, R, T) 7.00 Toon Disney. (G, R, T) 7.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. (G, R, T) 7.50 Ben 10: Alien Force. (G, R, T) 8.20 Tiki Tour. (G, T) 8.45 The Magic Roundabout. (G, R, T) 8.55 Fireman Sam. (G, T) 9.05 Chuggington. (G, R, T) 9.15 Pajanimals. (G, T) 9.25 Mr Men. (G, R) 9.30 Infomercial. 11.00 Korero Mai – Speak To Me. (Final, G) 11.30 Neighbours.

(G, R, T) 12.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 12.30 Hope And Faith. (G, R, T) 1.00 My Kitchen Rules. (G, R, T) 2.05 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 3.10 Special Agent Oso. (G, R, T) 3.35 Spongebob Squarepants. (R, T) 4.00 Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. (G, R, T) 4.30 Pair Of Kings. (G, T) 5.00 Horace In Slow Motion. (G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 My Wife And Kids. (G, R, T) 12.30 Drop Dead Diva. (AO, R, T) 1.30 Infomercial. 2.30 Police Women Of Maricopa County. (AO, R) 4.15 Emmerdale.

(PGR, T) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (G, R) 5.30 Infomercial.

SuNDAy 6.00 6.30 7.00 8.00 8.25

Bayless Conley. (G) Brian Houston @ Hillsong. (G) Charles Stanley. (G) Open Door. (G, R) What’s Really In Our Food? (G, R, T) 8.50 Hitched. (G, R, T) 9.15 Fly Girls. (G, R) 9.35 Fly Girls. (PGR, R) 10.00 Home And Away Omnibus. (G, T) 11.55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend.

(G) 1.00 60 Minutes.

2.00 King Of Dirt. (G) 2.30 Motorsport. Ashley Forest Hill Climb. From North Canterbury.

Highlights.

3.00 Motorsport. Offshore Powerboats.

Round 7. From Auckland Harbour.

3.30 Motorsport. Xtreme Rally Challenge. Rally Of The North.

Round 5. Highlights.

4.30 Motorsport. Dirt Western Springs.

Round 1 Sprintcars. Highlights.

5.00 Million Dollar Catch. (PGR, R) 5.30 ITM Fishing Show. (G) 6.00 3 News.

7.00 Coca-Cola Christmas In The Park 2012. (G) 8.30 FILM: Love Actually. (2003, AO, R, T) Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Colin Firth, Bill Nighy. A series of interlocking vignettes exploring love and romance in modern-day Britain through the eyes of eight, very different, couples in the weeks before Christmas.

11.10 Smash. (PGR, T) 12.10 Media3. 12.45 The Good Wife. (AO, R, T) 1.35 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV. (G)

MONDAy 6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

3 News.

Infomercials. (G) Top Chef. (G, R) Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 12.00 3 News.

12.30 Missing Pieces. (PGR, R, T) 1.00 Dr Phil. (PGR, R) 2.00 The Dr Oz Show. (PGR, R) 3.00 Dance your Ass Off. (G, R) 4.00 Rachael Ray. (G, R) 5.00 Entertainment Tonight. (G, R) 5.30 Last Man Standing. (G, R, T) 11.15 Sports Tonight.

11.30 Medium. (AO, T) 12.30 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 City Impact Church.

SuNDAy

6.00 Religious Programming. (G) 10.30 Sport Box. (G) 12.30 World’s Strictest Parents uK. (PGR, R) 1.40 Top Gear uSA. (PGR, R) 2.35 Psych. (G, R) 3.30 Registered Master Builders House Of The year. (G) 4.30 Food Culture. (G) 5.00 Export Gold Match Fishing League. (G) 5.30 Prime News - First At 5.30.

6.00 Ty’s Great British Adventure. (G, R) 6.30 Genius. (PGR, R) 7.00 Rick Stein’s Food Heroes. (G) Rick visits John Firth, who rears freshwater crayfish in Galloway, cooks crayfish with pasta, then travels to Ludlow in Shropshire which is as rich in gastronomic delights as it is in history.

7.35 Top Gear Top 40. (PGR) The boys make their own stretch limos from everyday cars.

9.00 America’s Got Talent. (G) The Miami All Stars are out to impress, and find out if Will Landon Swank can bring his magic touch to the stage or if adorable singer Anna Graceman will win over the crowd.

10.50 Leverage. (PGR) 11.45 Boardwalk Empire. (AO, R) 12.00 Home Shopping. (G) 1.30 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.00 Home Shopping. (G)

MONDAy 6.00 6.30 7.00 7.30 12.00 1.00 1.30 2.00 3.05

Home Shopping. (G) The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) Millionaire: Hot Seat. (G, R) Home Shopping. (G) Great Outdoors. (G, R) The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) Surviving Suburbia. (G, R) Getaway. (G, R) Legend Of The Seeker. (PGR, R) While the keeper wages war on the living, Richard, Kahlan, Zedd and Cara set out to rescue a group of villagers who may have been kidnapped by banelings.

4.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) Game show hosted by Andrew O’Keefe that gives contestants the opportunity to win up to $200,000 each night.

5.30 Prime News - First At 5.30.

12.35 Home Shopping. (G) 1.35 The Crowd Goes Wild. (G, R) 2.05 Home Shopping. (G)

KEy: T Teletext R Repeat S Stereo P Premiere F Final RATINGS: G General exhibition PG Parental guidance recommended M Suitable for mature audiences AO Adults only 16 Approved for persons 16 and over 18 Approved for persons 18 and over c Content may offend l Language may offend s Sexual content may offend v contains violence

movie Bride And Prejudice Sunday, TV2, 9.10pm (2004) Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) brings engaging energy and good intentions to her Bollywood take on Jane Austen’s venerable text. Indian former Miss World Aishwarya Rai (below) plays Lalita Bakshi, who is freed from her miserable life by the dashing Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), an American hotelier in India on business. This is a spicy and appetising concoction.

FOUR TODAy 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 The Angry Beavers. (G, R) 7.30 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 7.55 The Wild Thornberrys. (G, R) 8.25 Twisted Whiskers. (G, R) 8.35 Twisted Whiskers. (G, R) 8.45 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.10 Hot Wheels Battle Force 5: Fused. (G, R) 9.35 Power Rangers: Samurai. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby. (G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. (G) 5.35 Clueless. (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments. (G, R) Hosts Laura McKenzie and Erik Estrada bring audiences the funniest moments from around the world.

6.30 FILM: Home Alone 3. (1997, G, R) Alex D. Linz, Haviland Morris, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt.

After an airport mix-up, a whiz-kid at home alone with chicken pox comes into possession of a top-secret computer chip hidden in a toy car.

8.40 The Real Housewives Of Orange County.

(AO) Andy Cohen mediates a reunion instalment featuring the Orange County ladies.

9.35 Face Off. (PGR) Runway models are turned into ‘ugly ducklings’, and the artists must apply old-age makeup to triplets.

10.35 Sons Of Tucson. (PGR) The Gundersons host a party to help Robby make friends with children his own age.

11.00 Excused. (AO) 11.25 Excused. (AO) 11.50 Infomercials. (G) SuNDAy 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 The Angry Beavers. (G, R) 7.25 Hey Arnold! (G, R) 7.50 The Wild Thornberrys. (G, R) 8.15 Rugrats. (G, R) 8.40 The Mighty B! (G, R) 9.05 The Mighty B! (G, R) 9.30 The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

(G, R) 9.55 Sticky TV Omnibus. (G) 12.00 Infomercials.

(G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 3.30 Bryan & Bobby.

(G, R) 3.40 Pukana. (G) 4.05 Drake And Josh. (G, R) 4.35 Kenan & Kel. (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. (G) 5.30 Clueless. (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments. (G, R) 6.30 Survivor: Philippines. (G) 7.30 The Simpsons. (PGR, R) 8.00 Family Guy. (PGR, R) 8.30 Futurama. (G) The Professor is deeply disturbed when his parents return from virtual retirement aboard the Near-Death Star.

9.00 American Dad. (PGR, R) Stan runs into an old flame from his CIA-training days and their romance heats up again.

9.30 South Park. (AO, R) 10.00 The Ricky Gervais Show. (G, R) 10.30 I Just Want My Pants Back. (AO, R) 11.00 Entertainment Tonight Weekend. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G) MONDAy 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 The Angry Beavers. (G, R) 7.30 Monsuno. (G, R) 7.55 The Wild Thornberrys. (G, R) 8.25 Go Diego Go. (G, R) 8.50 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends. (G, R) 9.10 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.30 The Wiggles Show. (G, R) 9.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G, R) 9.55 Action Central. (G, R) 10.05 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOuR Live. (G) 0812

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Television

The Box 6.00 The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 8.05 Deadliest Warrior. (M) 8.55 The Simpsons. (PG) 9.20 Burn Notice. (M) 10.15 RAW. (M) 1.05 The A-Team Marathon.

(PG) 4.30 The Simpsons Super Saturday. (PG) 7.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.30 Chuck. (M) Chuck, Sarah and Casey shockingly learn Chuck’s girlfriend, Jill (guest star Jordana Brewster), is a Fulcrum agent in search of the Intersect. Captain Awesome’s parents come for Thanksgiving.

8.30 Deadliest Warrior. (M) Viking versus Samurai. The savage Scandinavian raider that plundered Europe for almost a thousand years, against the blinding speed and skill of Japan’s elite warrior class.

9.30 Spartacus: Blood And Sand. (18) 10.30 TNA Impact Wrestling. (M) 12.30 The A-Team. (PG) 1.20 The A-Team. (PG) 2.10 The A-Team. (PG) 3.00 Spartacus: Blood And Sand. (18) 4.00 Girls Gone Wild. (18) 4.45 The A-Team. (PG) 5.35 The Simpsons.

(PG)

SuNDAy

6.00 The A-Team Marathon.

(PG) 9.20 TNA Impact Wrestling.

(M) 11.10 The Simpsons Marathon.

(PG) 1.15 Chuck. (M) 2.05 Deadliest Warrior.

(M) 3.00 RAW. (M) 5.45 WWE NXT. (M) 6.45 SmackDown! (M) 8.30 Criminal Minds. (M) 9.30 Criminal Minds. (M) 10.30 Life. (M) 11.30 WWE NXT. (M) 12.30 SmackDown! (M) 2.10 Criminal Minds. (M) 3.05 Criminal Minds. (M) 3.55 Life. (M) 5.10 Chuck. (M)

MoNDAy

6.00 NyPD Blue. (M) 6.50 Malcolm In The Middle.

(PG) 7.15 Cash Cab. (PG) 7.40 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 8.30 Monk. (PG) 9.25 Law & order. (M) 10.20 WWE NXT. (M) 11.10 SmackDown!

(M) 12.55 NyPD Blue. (M) 1.50 Monk. (PG) 2.45 Malcolm In The Middle.

(PG) 3.10 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 3.35 Cash Cab. (PG) 4.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 4.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

(PG) 5.00 Law & order. (M) 11.30 NyPD Blue. (M) 12.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 1.00 Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) 1.25 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 1.50 Cash Cab. (PG) 2.15 Monk.

(PG) 3.05 CSI: Miami. (M) 3.55 CSI: New York. (M) 4.45 CSI: New York.

(M) 5.35 The Simpsons. (PG)

Sky Movies 1 Movie Greats 6.40 It’s Christmas, Carol!

(2012, PG) 8.10 X-Men: First Class. (2011, M) 10.20 True Justice: Dark Vengeance. (2011, M) 11.50 Water For Elephants. (2011, M) 1.50 Have A Little Faith. (2011, PG) 3.25 A Dog Named Christmas.

(2010, PG) Bruce Greenwood, Noel Fischer.

5.00 Lottery Ticket. (2010, M) Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Gregory Moss, Ice Cube. One very lucky 18-year-old realises everything is about to change when he discovers he is holding the winning lottery ticket.

6.40 In Time. (2011, M) Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried.

8.30 Drive. (2011, 18) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan. A Hollywood stunt performer, who moonlights as a getaway driver, discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist went wrong.

10.15 Morning Glory. (2010, M) Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford.

12.00 Behind The Mask. (2006, 16) 1.30 Drive. (2011, 18) 3.10 Behind The Mask. (2006, 16) 4.40 Making of Water For Elephants. (2011, PG) 5.00 Have A Little Faith. (2011, PG)

SuNDAy

6.35 A Dog Named Christmas.

(2010, PG) 8.10 Lottery Ticket. (2010, M) 9.50 Making of Water For Elephants. (2011, PG) 10.05 Morning Glory. (2010, M) 11.50 In Time. (2011, M) 1.40 November Christmas.

(2010, PG) 3.15 Knockout. (2011, PG) Steve Austin, Daniel Magder.

4.50 Flypaper. (2011, 16) Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd.

6.20 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

(2011, M) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson.

8.30 We Bought A Zoo. (2011, PG) Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson. Based on a true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places. a zoo.

10.35 Devil’s Den. (2006, 16)

MoNDAy

6.00 November Christmas.

(2010, PG) John Corbett, Sam Elliott.

7.35 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

(2011, M) Daniel Radcliffe.

9.45 Moonlight And Mistletoe.

(2008, PG) Tom Arnold.

11.15 We Bought A Zoo. (2011, PG) Matt Damon.

1.15 Confined. (2010, PG) 2.45 Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. (2011, PG) 4.25 Beautiful Boy. (2010, M)

6.00 Booga Booga Land 6.30 Wemmicks 7.00 The Lads TV 7.30 Paul the Little Missionary 8.00 Spoon TV 8.30 Adventures from the Book 9.00 Revolution TV 9.30 TheDRIVEtv 10.00 The uprising 10.30 MXTV 11.00 The one to one Show 11.30 Serve the City 12.00 The Verdict of Science 12.30 Just 10: J. John 1.30 Building a Difference 2.00 Beyond Adventure 2.30 Joni and Friends 3.00 Missions Dilemma 3.30 The Men’s Series 4.00 Conversations in the HolyLand 4.30 Philosophy, Science and the God Debate 5.00 The Verdict of Science 5.30 Give

6.55 Home Alone. (1990, PG) 8.35 Home Alone 2: Lost In New york. (1992, PG) 10.35 Mad Max. (1979, 18) 12.10 Role Models. (2008, 16) 1.50 The Thin Red Line. (1998, M) 4.40 Definitely, Maybe. (2008, M) Ryan Reynolds, Abigail Breslin. A thirty-something father is in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter starts to question him about his life before marriage.

6.30 S:W:A:T. (2003, M) Samuel L. Jackson.

8.30 Mrs: Doubtfire. (1993, PG) Robin Williams, Sally Field.

An actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children who are in the custody of his ex-wife.

10.40 Gladiator. (2000, M) Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix.

1.15 Biography: Clive owen.

(2008, PG) 2.05 The Thin Red Line. (1998, M) 4.50 Definitely, Maybe. (2008, M)

SuNDAy

6.40 Biography: Clive owen.

(2008, PG) 7.30 S:W:A:T. (2003, M) 9.25 Mrs: Doubtfire. (1993, PG) 11.30 Gladiator. (2000, M) 2.05 Making of Johnny English Reborn. (2011, PG) 2.20 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. (2005, PG) 4.40 The Dark Crystal. (1982, PG) Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen. On a planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and restore order to his world.

6.15 The Blues Brothers. (1980, 16) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd.

8.30 Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (2008, M) Ron Perlman, Selma Blair. The saga of the world’s toughest, kitten-loving hero from hell continues when Hellboy is pitted against an army of creatures set on the world from another realm.

10.30 Courage under Fire. (1996, M) Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Matt Damon.

MoNDAy

6.25 Hellboy II: The Golden Army. (2008, M) Ron Perlman, Selma Blair.

8.25 Courage under Fire.

(1996, M) Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Matt Damon.

10.25 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. (2005, PG) Tilda Swinton.

12.45 The Blues Brothers. (1980, 16) John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd.

3.00 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner.

(2007, PG).

4.45 Blade Runner: The Final Cut. (1982, M) Harrison Ford, Sean Young.

Sky Sport 1

Sky Sport 2

6.00 Soccer. A-League. Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory.

8.00 Golf. Australian Open.

Round Two. Highlights.

9.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Franklin Templeton Shootout Day 1 12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Two. Highlights.

1.00 Mitch Evans.

2.00 olympic Review: Kiwi Magic.

3.00 Cricket. HRV Cup. Central Stags v Wellington Firebirds.

6.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Franklin Templeton Shootout Day One. Highlights.

7.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Two. Highlights.

8.00 The Cricket Show.

8.30 Premier League Preview.

9.00 Pacquiao Marquez 24/7.

Episode Four.

9.30 Basketball. NBL. Sydney Kings v NZ Breakers. Live.

11.30 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Three. Live.

3.30 Snooker. UK Championship.

6.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

6.30 Cricket. HRV Cup. Central Stags v Wellington Firebirds.

9.30 The Cricket Show.

10.00 ICC Cricket 360.

10.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Live.

12.30 Premier League Preview.

1.00 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Live.

3.00 Swimming. Ocean Series.

3.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Semifinal One. Live.

5.30 Rugby Zone.

6.00 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Semifinal Two. Live.

8.00 Pacquiao Marquez 24/7.

Episode Four.

8.30 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League. Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder. Live.

12.30 The Cricket Show.

1.00 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Semifinal One. Replay.

2.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Semifinal Two. Replay.

3.53 Soccer. EPL. Sunderland v Chelsea. Live.

SuNDAy

6.00 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League. Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder. Replay.

9.00 Golf. Australian Open.

Round Three. Highlights.

10.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Franklin Templeton Shootout Day Two 12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Three. Highlights.

1.00 Swimming. Ocean Series.

1.45 Soccer. ASB Premiership.

Team Wellington v Otago. Live.

4.00 The Cricket Show.

4.30 Soccer. A-League.

Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC. Live.

6.30 Rugby Zone.

7.00 Soccer. A-League. Western Sydney v Brisbane Roar.

Live.

9.00 Basketball. NBL. Adelaide 36ers v Perth Wildcats.

11.00 The ITM Fishing Show.

11.30 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Four. Live.

3.30 Basketball. NBL. Sydney Kings v NZ Breakers. Replay.

5.30 SKy Sport What’s on.

MoNDAy

6.00 olympic Review: Kiwi Magic.

7.00 Golf. Australian Open.

Round Four. Highlights.

8.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Franklin Templeton Shootout Day Two. Highlights.

9.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Franklin Templeton Shootout Day Three 12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour.

Nelson Mandela Champs Round Four. Highlights.

1.00 Basketball. NBL. Sydney Kings v NZ Breakers. Replay.

3.00 Soccer. A-League. Western Sydney v Brisbane Roar.

5.00 Basketball. NBL. Adelaide 36ers v Perth Wildcats.

12.00 Soccer. English Premier League. Arsenal v WBA. 2.00 Soccer. A-League.

Newcastle Jets v Central Coast Mariners. Replay.

4.00 Soccer. A-League.

Melbourne Heart v Perth Glory. Replay.

SHINE

Me An Answer 6.00 The Journey 6.30 Building a Difference 7.00 Joni and Friends 7.30 Return to the Secret Garden 9.00 Beyond Adventure 9.30 Nzone Focus 10.00 Just 10: J. John 11.00 Give Me An Answer 11.30 Joni and Friends 12.00 Nzone Focus 12.30 The Journey 1.00 Missions Dilemma 1.30 Beyond Adventure 2.00 Just 10: J. John 3.00 Return to the Secret Garden 4.30 H2o: A Journey of Faith 5.00 Give Me An Answer 5.30 Running With Fire SuNDAy 6.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 7.00 TQ 7.30 The Lads TV 8.00 Paul the Little Missionary 8.30

SuNDAy

6.00 Soccer. EPL. Aston Villa v Stoke City. Delayed.

8.00 Soccer. EPL. Wigan Athletic v QPR. Delayed.

10.00 Rugby Zone.

10.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Live.

12.30 ICC Cricket 360.

1.00 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Live.

3.00 Premier League World.

3.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Bronze Final. Live.

5.30 SKy Sport What’s on.

6.00 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Gold Final. Live.

8.00 Fishing. Export Gold Match League.

8.30 Mixed Martial Arts. UFC On Fox. Henderson v Diaz.

10.30 Hockey. FIH Mens Champions Trophy. Gold Final. Replay.

12.30 The ITM Fishing Show.

1.00 The ultimate Fighter.

2.15 Soccer. EPL. Manchester City v Manchester United. Live.

4.53 Soccer. EPL. West Ham v Liverpool. Live.

MoNDAy

7.20 Soccer. English Premier League. Everton v Tottenham. Delayed.

9.30 Mitch Evans.

10.30 olympic Review: Kiwi Magic.

11.30 Soccer. English Premier League. Arsenal v WBA. Replay.

1.30 Golf. Australian Open.

Round Four. Highlights.

2.30 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League. Brisbane Heat v Hobart Hurricanes. Replay.

5.30 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League. Perth Scorchers v Adelaide Strikers. Replay.

11.30 Basketball. NBL. Adelaide 36ers v Perth Wildcats.

1.30 The ITM Fishing Show.

2.00 Mixed Martial Arts. UFC On Fox. Henderson v Diaz.

4.00 Basketball. NBL. Sydney Kings v NZ Breakers. Replay.

Discovery 6.30 Shark After Dark. (M) 7.30 Adrift. 47 Days With Sharks. (M) 8.30 Great White Invasion. (M) 9.30 Mysteries of The Shark Coast. (M) 11.30 Shark Week’s Impossible Shot. (M) 12.30 Shark After Dark. (M) 1.30 Adrift. 47 Days With Sharks. (M) 2.30 Great White Invasion. (M) 3.30 Mysteries of The Shark Coast. (M) 5.30 Shark After Dark. (M) 6.30 Shark Week’s Impossible Shot. (M) 7.30 Shark City. (M) 8.30 Summer of The Shark. (M) 9.30 Sharkbite Beach. (M) 10.30 Shark Attack Survival Guide. (M) 11.30 Adrift. 47 Days With Sharks. (M) 12.30 Great White Shark. uncaged. (M) 1.30 Shark City. (M) 2.30 Summer of The Shark. (M) 3.30 Sharkbite Beach. (M) 4.30 Shark Attack Survival Guide. (M) 5.30 Adrift. 47 Days With Sharks. (M)

SuNDAy

6.30 Great White Shark. uncaged. (M) 7.30 Shark City. (M) 8.30 Summer of The Shark. (M) 9.30 Rogue Sharks. (M) 10.30 Great White Invasion. (M) 11.30 Jaws Comes Home. (M) 12.30 Shark City. (M) 1.30 Adrift. 47 Days With Sharks. (M) 2.30 Shark Week’s Impossible Shot. (M) 3.30 Shark Week’s 25 Best Bites. (M) 4.30 Shark Fight. (M) 5.30 MythBusters Jawsome Shark Special. (PG) 6.30 Air Jaws Apocalypse. (M) 7.30 Nefertiti: Mummy Queen Mystery. (PG) 8.30 Superstorm Apocalypse.

9.30 Ragin’ Cajuns. (PG) 10.30 First Time Filmmakers.

Korea. (PG) 11.30 Nightmare Next Door. (M) 12.30 I (Almost) Got Away With It. (M) 1.30 Swamp Loggers.

(PG) 2.30 Meteorite Men. (PG) 3.30 Fight or Die. (PG) 4.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

(PG) 5.30 Dirty Jobs. (PG)

MoNDAy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30

10.30 11.30 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.30 4.30 5.30

Swamp Loggers. (PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Blood, Lies And Alibis.

(M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

(PG) on The Case With Paula Zahn. (M) Stalked. Someone’s Watching. (M) Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) Disappeared. (M) Fight or Die. (PG) Swamp Loggers.

(PG) Man Vs. Wild. (PG) MythBusters. (PG)

Connection Point 9.00 In Touch 10.00 Life Questions 10.30 Word For you 11.00 Songs of Praise 11.35 Quick Study 12.00 The Bible Series: Joseph 1.30 Feature: Tour of New Zealand 2.00 Feature: Calcutta Hilton 2.30 Precious Memories 3.00 Hour of Power 4.00 In Touch 5.00 Living Truth: Charles Price 6.00 Running With Fire 6.30 The Journey 7.00 Nzone Focus 7.30 Songs of Praise 20.05 Precious Memories 8.30 David Jeremiah 9.30 The Bible Series: Joseph 11.00 Feature: Tour of New Zealand 11.30 Feature: Calcutta Hilton 0812

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To place a trades & services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Mobile Mower servicing • Rotary Mowers • Reel Mowers • Ride on Mowers • Chainsaws Ashburton 308-6173 - Methven 303-3178 • Water blasters • Rotary Hoes • Small Motor Repairs • Generators

PROFESSIONAL DECORATORS

You’re our best advertising And you’ll have great things to say.

The Finishing Company 03 307 8870 or 0274 444 856

Stan Keeley, Owner

Ph 307-0002 - Mobile 021 88 34 36

Paint, Plaster (Rockcote), Factory Spray Lacquer, Specialist Coatings/Textures (Resin & Stone Floors)

Roofing Specialists

HEAT PUMPS KEEP YOUR HOME THE PERFECT TEMPERATURE

HEAT PUMPS Perfect all year round

• Wall or Floor mounted available • Most models will continue to heat even with outside temperatures of minus 15°C

electriCOOL Ltd

We specialise in:

• New roofs and re-roofs • Glendeck 5 rib • Corrugated iron • Fascia, gutters and down pipes • Qualified fixers.

03 307 0593 or 0508-453-696 North park drive

Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer for a free quote on all domestic and commercial systems.

CLEANErs EXECUTIVE HOME CLEANING (2012)

EmErgEncyglass glassrEpairs rEpairs EmErgEncy There when you need us with a Fast reliable service

We will clean anything from the mountains to the sea.

Under new management.

Call sandra and the team on 03 307 8184 or 027 292 0180

plus No extra Call-Out fee for urgent after-hours work

ashburton glass Works 11 peter street, gordon allan gordon allan

Home • Commercial • Office

Got a tree troubling you?

11 peterashburton street, ashburton Tel:Tel: (03)(03) 308308 3918 3918 a/H:a/H: (021)(021) 716 716 157 157

painting & Decorating contractors

if you are renovating or building a new home you need someone to trust in all your painting and Decorating neeDS – commercial or residential.

• Interior decorating • Exterior decorating

• Wallpapering • Waterblasting • roof painting

You need Four Seasons Treecare, your local tree experts!

• Pruning • Felling • Branch chipping (up to 12”)

Free Measure & quote

• Hedge trimming • Powerline clearance • Stumpgrinding • Dismantling

Greg Trudgeon

0800 559 255 for a free quote

HEAVY VEHICLE DRIVER LICENCING Certified Assessor for licencing from Learner to Full • Licence classer 2 - 5 • Wheels, tracks & roller endorsements • NZTA Certified • Tranzqual Assessor Drive Rite - But Keep Left Contact Paul McCormick

For any enquiries call us today on Ph/Fax 308-8432 Mob 0274 332 259

Alps

Continuous Spouting Need new spouting, fascia and downpipes?

Give Ben a call for a free quote. All jobs guaranteed.

Manufacturers and installers of continuous spouting, fascia and downpipes.

Phone 03 307 7402 Mob 027 433 5766 Ben Kruger • Phone 308 4380 or 021 808 739 • email: benkruger@xtra.co.nz

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2013

WEEKENDservices

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In the event of medical or accident emergencies DIal 111

medical services HML ( Homecare Medical Limited) - Ring 0800 700 155 for

To place a trades & services ad, call 307-7900 or email classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

FREE 24 hour health advice.

PEST CONTROL • Fly Control • Fleas / Ants • Silverfish • Whitetails • Borer

DUTY DOCTORS

• Rodents • Spider Proofing • Moss / Lichen • Silos / Dairy Sheds

Grant Smith 0800 BUG OFF

Smithfield Rd, Ashburton

Smithy's Watch &Clock Repairs Why send your precious items away when they can be repaired locally by a fully qualified watchmaker.

Collected and delivered back to your home within the Ashburton town boundary.

Phone Smithy’s for a free quote now on 307 8574

Full workshop to service any brands of small motors

P 307 7055 F 308 8116

Painting & Plastering

Working to keep the price right

Chris Boniface Painting & Plastering

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

BUS DEPARTURES

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday 10am-1 pm; Sunday 1pm – 4 pm

COMMUNITY POOL WEEKEND HOURS Hours: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

Baring Square East, Ashburton. Phone 308 3167 Open Saturday and Sunday 1pm - 4pm METHVEN AND RAKAIA AREA - For weekend doctor and Closed Statutory Holidays only. emergency details please phone Methven 302 8105. Emergency phone Groups by arrangement - phone 308 3167 0800 700 155. For medical attention during the weekend there are drop MAIL CLOSING TIMES in clinics from 11am - 12noon and 6pm - 6pm Saturday and Sunday.

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and emergency FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm service. Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons POST DELIVERY CENTRES — subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm general practitioners referral note.

Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm PHARMACIES Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Unichem Ashburton Pharmacy, cnr Burnett and East Streets, will ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS — be open from 9.30am until 12.30pm on Saturday and from 10.30am Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm until 12 noon Sunday and from 6.30pm until 7pm both evenings.

Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm ASHBURTON HOSPITAL GENERAL WARDS — (Medical and Surgical): DAILY, 2pm until 4pm & 6pm until 7.30pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

CHALMERS WARD (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) — OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD — DAILY, 10am - 8pm. Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron Street) — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES: COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service. Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. BUSES — Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON — Saturday 10am until 2pm. Sunday CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN — Saturday and Sunday 10am until 3pm. Phone 3028955 or methven@i-site.org

animal services DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL - 24 hour service,

phone Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700.

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please MID CANTERBURY SPCA phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Inspector John Keeley, 308 4432 or 0274 342 646 Holidays.

5 Range Street, Riverside Industrial Park, Ashburton

• Exterior • Small Fences • Planter Boxes

Phone 308 1133. Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Dr Wackrow, Sealy Street Medical Practice, will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday. He will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212. Emergency phone until 8am Sunday 0800 700 155.

Dr Norman, Sealy Street Medical Practice, will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday. She will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until 7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212. Emergency phone until 8am Monday 0800 700 155.

EMERGENCY DENTIST

• Husqvarna • Gardena • McCulloch • Flymo • Honda • Briggs & Stratton • Victa • Lawn Master • Robin / Mikasa

• Painting • Plastering • Interior

LIFELINE - Toll-Free Number: 0800 353 353 community services ART GALLERY

Specialise in old villas, older properties and weatherboard

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER

helpline services ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www. VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 307 5195, cnr East Street and alcoholics-anonymous.org.nz for more information. If you want to drink Smithfield Road. The duty vets are: Large: Reon McMurtrie, Small: that’s your business, if you want to stop that’s ours.

Susan Geddes. Saturday morning clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive. The duty vets for emergencies are: Large: Peter Crawford. Small: Juan Crisis Team.

Gray. Full emergency service all weekend. Saturday morning clinic: SAFE CARE - ~ 24 hour rape and sexual assault crisis 9am - 12 noon. support. Phone 03 364 8791 CARE VETS - Ph 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street. The duty vet for this weekend is: refer to VET ENT RIVERSIDE. Saturday morning clinic: VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP ~ 24 hour number Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - direct dials to a volunteer. 10am - 2pm.

CANTERBURY VETS - Phone 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Ashburton office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of Road, Methven. The duty vet is: Jade Hackney. Ashburton Saturday these hours leave a message on answer-phone. morning clinic: 9am - 12 noon.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELPLINE - Call us free on (0800 787 797). Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

Phone Today 022 681 2499 After Hours 03 308 9617

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The destination for jobs - Over 30 jobs every week The meeting place for Ashburton District employers and employees To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

TAG/Agrikids Project Leader Full-time position, Methven Based Want to be a part of the future of agriculture in New Zealand?

New Zealand Young Farmers is a progressive and dynamic network for rural youth which develops the leadership and personal skills of its members through participation and achievement.

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic person to take responsibility within the newly created TAG/Agrikids Project Leader role. You will need to hit the road running in leading the Agrikids and TAG Competitions starting in early February. The role is responsible for the management and delivery of these events from start to finish. The person we are looking for will be responsible for presenting agriculture to primary and secondary school aged students as a dynamic and exciting career choice. This is a junior management role and the salary will be dependant on qualifications and previous experience.

If you are a fantastic communicator, have experience or qualifications in event management and can bring a positive, cheerful personality and a can-do attitude to our organisation, then we want to hear from you.

Please apply by 12 noon on Wednesday 12 December 2012 by forwarding a covering letter, completed application form and your CV to kim.roberts@youngfarmers.co.nz.

Drivers Required McDowall Transport Ltd provides a full service rural transport and agricultural operation from its depots in Winton, Browns and Ashburton.

Our Ashburton operation is looking for operators to fill the following positions: - Class 5 Bulk Driver for bulk tipper operations – this position can be based in either Ashburton or Christchurch - A versatile operator who can operate both Tractor and Agricultural implements and Class 5 Truck & Trailer Units based in Ashburton Applicants should be able to show they are experienced and have a clean licence.

If either of these positions sounds like you and you want to join a busy and well established company, send your current CV to: “Driver Required” McDowall Transport Ltd PO Box 114 WINTON 9741 Email: jobs@mcdowall.net.nz

ALLENTON MEDICAL CENTRE

A detailed job description can be viewed on our website: www.youngfarmers.co.nz

Administrator - Part Time

Irrigation Design Assistant

We require a part time administration person for our medical centre. The position is for three or four days per week with the ability to work extra hours (including occasional weekend surgeries) when required.

We seek a driven, enthusiastic individual to join our growing team in a ‘hands on’ Design Assistant position with the opportunity to become an intern.

Duties and attributes include (but are not restricted to):

The position involves drawing irrigation designs on CAD based programs, liaising regularly with clients and suppliers, organising quotes and marking out on site.

• • • • • •

The successful applicant will have: Competent computer skills Interest in agricultural industry Superb people skills Ability to work alone or as a team Good understanding of mathematics

Experience within the industry is preferred, however industry training will be provided for the right applicant.

Please phone

• Greeting patients and booking appointments.

• Having a courteous phone manner, excellent communication skills and the ability to multitask.

• Database entry and maintenance.

• Well presented, empathetic, enthusiastic and flexible.

Having an experience in health care and knowledge of software programs would be an enormous advantage For a position description and application form please phone the Allenton Medical Centre, Ashburton on 03 308 9139 or email diana@allentonmedical.co.nz.

The Manager 307 9049 We currently have two positions at our retail store:

Account Administrator and Sales Assistant

Mid Canterbury Building Removals Ltd We are seeking to employ an energetic, physically fit person to join our team.

Qualifications required: • Current drivers licence • HT 2 licence • Class 2 pilot licence • At least two years in the building removal trade.

Referees required, full-time, permanent position.

Please phone 308 3482

Place your classified advert via your sales rep.

BRIAN TIERNAN

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

TEL MOB EML

03 307 7907 021 836 543 brian.t@theguardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury Hockey Association is seeking applications for the following positions:

Hockey Participation Officer The Hockey Participation Officer will deliver our Regional Development Programme, including Small Sticks Hockey Programmes in Schools and Association competitions. The ability to interact and relate to children of all ages is essential. This new role is contracted for 10 hours per week on average, flexibility of hours is required.

Hockey Turf Manager The Hockey Turf Manager’s role is to ensure that the turf surface and facilities are maintained and prepared to a standard to enable the playing and further development of hockey in Mid Canterbury. This position is contracted for 7 hours per week on average; due to seasonal variations flexibility of hours is required.

Consideration may be given to combining these two positions for suitable applicants.

Visit our website www.mchockey.co.nz for an application form.

Email applications to mchockey@hotmail.co.nz or post to Mid Canterbury Hockey, P O Box 366, Ashburton 7740

by Wednesday 19 December 2012.

BULK TRUCK DRIVER Rural Transport is a locally owned transport business with its head office located in Ashburton and with branches operating in Kurow and Fairlie.

An opportunity has arisen for a bulk truck driver based in Ashburton. This position requires a Class 5 License and previous experience would be a definite advantage.

Relief Milker Required Hinds area.

Phone 027 246 8686 SITUATIONS WANTED WORK wanted - relief milker (not sole-cups-on-inrotary), any other type of work.

10 years dairy farming experience. Own accommodation. 302-6647.

Wanted the right person for the job

Apply in writing or email your application to: Jim Crouchley PO Box 104, Ashburton 7740 03 308 4079 or 0275 554 364 jim@ruraltransport.co.nz www.ruraltransport.co.nz

Panel Beater or Spray Painter A full time position has become available in our Panel and Paint shop for a Panel Beater or Spray Painter The position requires • A tradesman of at least 5 years experience • Good work ethics • Have a high standard in detail and finish • To be reliable • The ability to work unsupervised • To work in a team and meet production deadlines Please send resume and cover letter to The General Manager Bus and Truck Body Work Ltd PO Box 51, Ashburton 7740 Or phone Keith on 0274 274 007 or 307 0378

Place your job ads with our experienced team Deadline 2pm prior publication day

You will be required to manage general account duties (e.g. data processing and analysis) and should have good computer skills, with experience using MYOB. Your duties also include sales promotion and cash handling in our retail store.

The ability to speak confidently and persuasively is important. You must be able to speak Chinese as you will mainly be dealing with tourist groups. A minimum of two years experience in accounting and sales is a must.

Retail Sales Assistants We require full time sales assistants to join our busy tourist retail shop based in Ashburton. If you can speak Mandarin, Cantonese or Thai, plus English, have experience in sales dealing with overseas tourists and have a bright friendly personality, please send your current CV and job history details to jobs@farmerscorner.co.nz or to: The Manager Farmers Corner Ltd Cnr Longbeach Rd & S.H 1 Ashburton

The number Mid Canterbury is sold on!

Our People, Our Place, Our Guardian

t: 307 7900 f: 307 7981

Housekeeping assistant

We are looking for some dedicated and enthusiastic people to help us out on a parttime basis in our busy laundry, housekeeping and cleaning departments.

Must be available to work in the school holidays, weekends & public holidays.

If you are interested please contact the housekeeper Margaret Templeton 03-307-8887 cell 027-637-0156 Email housekeeping@hotelash.co.nz

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900 Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

Place your classified advert via your sales rep.

ASHLEIGH FRASER

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

TEL MOB

03 307 7975 021 892 425

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The destination for jobs - Over 30 jobs every week The meeting place for Ashburton District employers and employees To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Sales Servicing Team Leader

Operations Manager

Ashburton Based

Ashburton Based

Growth company and industry

Growth company and industry

Ashburton Milking Systems Ltd have an excellent reputation for building and installing the industry’s leading rotary platforms and milking systems for dairy farmers in the Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury areas.

Ashburton Milking Systems Ltd have an excellent reputation for building and installing the industry’s leading rotary platforms and milking systems for dairy farmers in the Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury areas.

A great opportunity now exists to build on this company’s reputation and to take a fully resourced post-sales servicing support operation to new levels of customer service for our valued clients. The right person can make a real difference!

Due to significant growth in all areas, the company now seeks an Operations Manager to report to the Managing Director and Board of Directors, be part of the senior team and lead a team of up to 20 staff with full responsibility for construction, installation, servicing, health and safety and quality assurance. Initially you will concentrate on construction, installation and providing service support in the Mid Canterbury area but in due course you will also take on responsibility for resourcing and job scheduling in the company’s other operations.

We are looking for a post-sales servicing support team leader to be based in Ashburton and head up our servicing team in the Mid Canterbury area.

Reporting to our Operations Manager, you will oversee all day-to-day servicing and support and develop positive relationships with all users of our equipment.

You will have significant dairy industry experience in either construction and installation or servicing of dairy sites and have the ability both to get on the tools when required and to manage the assignments and related client relationships.

Team building, developing relationships, listening and communicating are all amongst your strengths and abilities.

You will be able to demonstrate both significant experience in successfully carrying out construction projects and sound project management job scheduling and quality control principles. Team building, developing relationships, listening and both written and verbal communication will all be listed in your strengths and abilities. The company’s head office is in Ashburton with operations also in Timaru and Oamaru.

To apply please send your CV to:

Experience in the dairy industry is desired but not essential.

Mike Johnson, Essential HR at mike@essentialhr.co.nz or phone 027 280 8546 quoting ref AM002.

PD available on request.

To apply please send your CV, quoting ref AM001. PD available on request to Mike Johnson, Essential HR at mike@essentialhr.co.nz

Teacher Aide Position 2013 (Fixed Term) Dorie School Initially 6 hours per week, with the possibility of further hours to be added.

The successful person will be assisting with our literacy programmes.

Applications in writing to: The Principal Dorie School 103 Dorie School Road, RD 11, RAKAIA Further information is available by phoning the school - 302 0862

Applications close: Friday 14th December

The number Mid Canterbury is sold on!

Guardian Classifieds

Phone 307 7900

Hardware Assistant Manager We are currently looking to employ an Assistant Manager for ITM Building Supplies. This person will have the ability to allocate work on a day to day basis when the Manager is absent and form a close working relationship with him at other times.

A background in building supplies would be a prerequisite for the position.

Census Collectors Census is on Tuesday, 5 March 2013.

We need people in your community to assist with delivering and collecting census forms. Six weeks paid work. Part-time, flexible hours. Full training provided.

Timber Manager Due to our current Timber Manager retiring, we are looking to employ a person as overall Timber Manager. Duties will include, purchasing wet and dry timbers, allocation of stock for prenail and customer orders, dealing on a daily basis with customers.

www.census.govt.nz/jobs

Estimator / Detailer Prenail Department

0800 CENSUS

We have the above position available in our Frame and Truss division. The person required will have the ability to read plans and understand architectural drawings, allowing the material take offs to be checked. This person will be able to advance his or her career, with training provided by Mitek and ourselves in the role of Detailer.

Turn your unwanted items into cash with a FREE advertisement in the Ashburton Guardian classifieds*.

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FOR SALE mountai n size m, all bike double wa oy frame, ll rims wi th quick relea se brakes, ne hubs, disc w cassette, m chain and int Phone 1234 condition.

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Contact name: 161 Burnett St, Ashburton Phone 307 7900 No photocopies accepted - Not to be used in conjunction with another promotion.

All the above applicants should display a competent work ethic and have a pleasant personality.

All applications should be sent including a brief CV to:

ADULT EDUCATION TUTOR/ FACILITATOR (Part Time - 15 to 22.5 hours pw) YMCA ASHBURTON The YMCA South and Mid Canterbury offers a second chance learning environment, where the learners’ needs are central to all our delivery. We seek a passionate, skilful and motivated tutor to join our education team.

Is this you?

• you enjoy making a difference in peoples’ lives and bringing about positive change • you are self motivated, have a passion to be part of a strong, cohesive “second chance” education team • you are experienced in a community based tertiary education setting • you have a sound understanding of foundation learning, with skills in delivering imbedded literacy and numeracy based programmes • you hold an adult education sector qualification, such as Unit Standard 4098 or be a registered secondary school teacher with skills in delivering unit and/or achievement standards based assessment If so....please send your application, marked CONFIDENTIAL to: Sandra McHaffie Education Manager YMCA, C/- 23 Butler Street, Timaru or e-mail sandra@ymcasc.org.nz Applications close 14 December 2012

Allan McCormick Helmack ITM 92 Dobson Street ASHBURTON

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Windrower

Smallbone Isuzu

Driver Required

After Sales Manager • • • • •

Senior management and leadership Commercial acumen and industry knowledge Full business unit responsibility Ability to build and foster a team Customer focused

Smallbone Limited is a well-respected and successful franchised dealer dedicated to delivering outstanding service to our customers. It operates the Isuzu dealership in Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury offering full sales, parts and service for the entire range of products from Isuzu New Zealand.

In order to satisfy customer expectations the company is in expansion mode.

One of the keys to meeting this need will be to grow the Isuzu brand in the region.

This will be done by the appointment of an After Sales Manager who will be tasked with increasing our ability to meet these requirements.

Smallbone Limited invites applications from motivated individuals with relevant experience to manage and lead the After Sales department. The successful candidate will organise the Service and Parts teams, ensuring that this vital part of the business runs efficiently and effectively. The key to success will be through building a team and furthering a culture that expects high levels of customer service to be a given.

The successful applicant will require:

• Success in building a team and the ability to positively manage people.

• Excellent communication and PR skills with exceptional customer service skills.

• The ability to multi-task and think on your feet.

• To be a self-starter with a proven track record in this field, and a; • Passion and dedication for the industry.

For the successful applicant there is potential to grow in a dynamic company with strong growth aspirations along with the opportunity to be rewarded with an attractive remuneration package.

Experience and success in running a service operation is important. Likewise your team building skills and ability to positively manage people will be to the fore. This will be balanced by a commercial acumen that shows understanding for the bottom line and the ability to manage against targets.

Initial enquiries and applications can be made to Scott Parker by email scottp@cagl.co.nz or by phone 03 307 9400.

Applications will close 4pm Thursday 20th December 2012.

Administration Manager Winslow Contracting Ltd is a professional and progressive agricultural contracting business based in the Mid Canterbury farming heartland. Part of the wider Winslow group of companies, our business strives to provide prompt and professional services to all our clients and we are looking for a new team member to help us in delivering this.

Reporting to the Managing Director, we are looking for a pro-active and highly organised person to provide administration support to the management team, assistance to the operational team as well as delivering excellent customer service to our growing customer base.

This position involves: ► Daily support to the management team ► Customer service and maintaining customer records ► Invoicing work completed ► Accounts receivable and accounts payable processing ► Co-ordinating marketing and promotional activities ► Personal assistant tasks for the Managing Director

Experience on windrowers helpful but mechanical knowledge/ agricultural experience necessary.

Please phone Scott

027 315 5942 CRANE OPERATOR

Experienced Crane Operator required for full time position working for local crane business.

Some paperwork skills essential.

Prepared to train suitable applicant with Class 4 or 5 licences.

To be successful in this role you will need: ► A friendly, confident personality ► Proficiency with administration of debtor and creditor accounts, and bank reconciliation ► Attention to detail and accuracy in all areas ► Good skills in planning and execution of your work ► Ability to work under pressure at times ► To be competent with Microsoft Office ► A can do attitude at all times This full time role will require you to be dedicated to work hours of 8am until 5pm.

Based in our brand new Winslow company offices in Ashburton, you will work within a large team encompassing all Winslow businesses (Winslow Contracting, Canterbury Seed Company and Lely Center Ashburton).

We offer our staff excellent working conditions and company benefits.

If you know you have the qualities we need, like a challenge and would like to work for a company providing excellent service to Mid Canterbury farmers then please apply by emailing your application including your C.V. by Monday 10th December 2012 to: James Carr, Managing Director, Winslow Contracting Ltd email: james.carr@winslowltd.co.nz.

Please contact Warren Galbraith

0274 192 554

ASHBURTON CRANE HIRE

Cleaner For public toilets in Ashburton.

Must be able to work independently.

Vehicle provided.

Immediate start.

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Area Sales Manager Casual Registered Nurse Tuarangi Home Vacancy 60679. Closing 16/12/12 Casual positions to suit your lifestyle.

Tuarangi Home is a residential care facility with a new dementia unit. We’re looking to build a skilled and dedicated workforce within our dementia and hospital unit to provide quality care in a friendly environment and we want you to be part of it.

Apply online, or to find out more information, please contact Charlotte Burtt, Recruitment Specialist – Nursing, phone (03) 378 6580, email charlotte.burtt@cdhb.govt.nz

Great Southern presently have 9 stores throughout the lower halve of the South Island and have a reputation for their superior quality posts and timber.

We have an exciting career opportunity for a highly motivated person with strong interpersonal skills to join our professional and progressive team as an Area Sales Manager based at our Ashburton site The role includes management of our Ashburton site with the main focus of maintaining and developing the Great Southern retail business for the wider Ashburton area so as to maximise profitability of the existing business and identify and capture new sales opportunities.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic committed to excellence in customer service, enjoy working and contributing within a team environment and be prepared to go that extra mile.

A successful sales management background and industry knowledge would be an advantage but not essential.

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Persons with a positive attitude who believe that they have the ability to motivate and maintain a team environment while leading from the front should apply by e-mail or post, enclosing a current CV to: Roy Duffell Great Southern Group P.O. Box 160 Temuka E-mail: royduffell@greatsouthern.net.nz Applications remain in confidence and close on December 14, 2012

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 9.30am-12.30pm. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open.

Methodist Church hall, Baring Square East.

10.00am - 12noon. ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, non members welcome. Upstairs old Polytech Building. 254 Cameron Street.

10.00am - 12noon. VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. Maronan Road. Tinwald.

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM,

Leanne Kathrine Walsh Happy 11th Birthday Leanne for Sunday our karate champion.

Lots of love, Dad and Mum.

12.50pm (draw) WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Ricochet 1pm - 2pm, Association golf 2pm onwards. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain Philip Street.

1.30pm. MID CANTERBURY SOCIAL WHEELERS. 14km road race. Register from 1pm. Fords Road, near the sale yards.

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Classic aircraft on display. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

8.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am. HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass.

Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am. ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship and Sunday School breakup, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Childrens Christmas pageant, 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

9.30am. ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Worship Service, Church lounge, Baring Square East.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Holy Communion service with Rev David Brown. Cnr Havelock and Park Streets.

10.00am. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH, Mass.

Sealy Street.

10.00am. ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street.

10.00am. ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Carol Service, Park Street.

10.30am. DORIE ST PATRICK’S, children’s drama with shared lunch to follow.

10.30am. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 37 Alford Forest Rd, (In Polytechic building).

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

2.00pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Drawn doubles, change partners. Waireka croquet club, the domain, Philip Street.

7.00pm. VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 37 Alford Forest Rd, (In Polytechic building).

7.00pm. ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre. Park Street.

TRADES & SERVICES

Mia Christie Happy 8th Birthday Mia Lots of love Dad, Mum, Blake and Troy. xoxo.

Conor Rogers Happy 6th Birthday to our special wee guy. Hope you have a great party on Sunday. Lots of Love Mummy, Daddy, Dillon and Iona. xxxx

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Enjoy your day.

Lots of love Nana and Grandad xx

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MONDAY DECEMBER 10 9.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women Circuit Training in hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

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. AGE CONCERN. Ladies exercise group. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Play Group in lounge. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

10.30am. AGE CONCERN. Men’s exercise group. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.30am. PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT. Walking group, walk and talk, get fit and meet new people. Meet outside the Hockey Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

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

1.00pm - 3.00pm. PRESBYTERIAN SUPPORT. Multi Cultural Playgroup. at the Plunket Rooms Cameron St. 6.00pm. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real Women Circuit Training in hall. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

6.30pm - 8.15pm. M.S.A. DANCE SECTION. Dance your favourite dance, check our notice board in the foyer for our itinerary . All welcome. M.S.A. Havelock Street.

7.00pm. ASHBURTON INDOOR VOLLEYBALL. 4-a-side competition for people of all abilities. Ashburton College Main Gym. 7.30pm. CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre commences this evening. All Welcome. Cnr Winter and Burnett Street Parish Centre.

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bedroom home. minutes from town. Character filled 5 3.4ha of pleasant rural living located 15 965 Fords Road ASHBURTON WEB ID AL26650

area and lounge both overlook excellent Allenton shopping centre. Kitchen/dining 3 out, in great Westside street, close to home, well maintained both inside and VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 11.00 - 11.30am Immaculately presented three bedroom 18 Bathurst Street $279,000 WESTSIDE WEB ID AU26892

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ASHBURTON 965 Fords Road 3.4ha of pleasant rural living located 15 minutes from town. Character filled 5 bedroom home.

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EASTSIDE 53A Beach Road Three bedroom sunny standalone townhouse on smaller easy care rear section. A lovely warm home with internal access garaging. Now is your chance to view.

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WEB ID AU25908 EASTSIDE Unit 1 Church Street Purchase this brand new townhouse with two bedrooms, open plan dining/living area and internal access from garage. All double glazed and fully insulated on a very sunny corner site. Inspection will impress.

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Mobile 027 442 2281 markw@propertybrokers.co.nz 1

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OPEN HOME jennyg@propertybrokers.co.nz

Mobile 0274 522 888

Mobile 0274 340 942 murray@propertybrokers.co.nz 2

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Mobile 0274 522 888 jennyg@propertybrokers.co.nz

OPEN HOME murray@propertybrokers.co.nz

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WEB ID AU26045 WEB ID AU26552 WESTSIDE EASTSIDE 10 Houston Place 13 Sudbury Street Spacious family room in attractive Currently tenanted, as an investment or Allenton location. Present owners as a comfortable home this property moving to townhouse, so looking offers forup a number of options. Three new owners to enjoy their much bedrooms, loved multi purpose room, sheds property. Three double bedrooms, and garaging. separate shower and bathroom.

TwoSaturday 13 Oct 12.00 - 12.30pm VIEW toilets. Great garaging with workshop attached.

Murray Young

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phone 307 7900

WEB ID AU26175 WESTSIDE 7 Cross Street A comfortable family home with three spacious bedrooms. Large living area with heatpump. Excellent westside location with Domain and schooling nearby. Private well fenced backyard. .

$235,000 A HOME TO LOVE

$328,000

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$305,000

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Mobile 0274 356 311 marilyn@propertybrokers.co.nz 1

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Murray Young

$299,000 CHARMING HOME

1 Marilyn Cross

Hamish Niles

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 10.00 - 10.45am

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Mark Williams

Mobile 0274 522 888 OPEN HOME jennyg@propertybrokers.co.nz 1

WEB ID AU26552 WEB ID AU25908 EASTSIDE EASTSIDE 13 Sudbury Street Unit 1 Church Street Currently tenanted, as an investment Purchase or this brand new townhouse as a comfortable home this property with two bedrooms, open plan offers up a number of options.dining/living Three area and internal access bedrooms, multi purpose room, from sheds garage. All double glazed and and garaging. fully insulated on a very sunny corner site. Inspection will impress.

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 12.00 - 12.30pm

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 11.00 - 11.45am

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0274 356 311 03 307 9186 03 308 6629 2 marilyn@propertybrokers.co.nz

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 11.00 - 11.45am

Arguably the most high profile corner site in Ashburton. A superb $325,000 MAKE$555,000 $325,000 & NEW BE IMPRESSED AN OFFER FANTASTIC & NEW$235,000 A HOME TO LOVE MAKE AN OFFER location with approximately 10,700 passing vehicles per day. Long term ground lease available. A significant land area of up to 1.81 ha. Smaller sites also available. A strategic location, corner State Highway 1 and Racecourse Road to establish your business.

OPEN

Mobile 0274 522 888 OPEN HOME jennyg@propertybrokers.co.nz 3

2Marilyn Cross

seperate dining plus large sunny lounge.

Master with en suite. Double garage attached. Set in established gardens with lovely indoor/outdoor living. Just a casual stroll into town.

WEB ID AU26175 WEB ID AU26492 WESTSIDE EASTSIDE 7 Cross Street 53A Beach Road A comfortable family home with Three three bedroom sunny standalone spacious bedrooms. Large living townhouse area on smaller easy care rear with heatpump. Excellent westside section. A lovely warm home with location with Domain and schooling internal access garaging. Now is your nearby. Private well fenced backyard. chance to view. .

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 10.15 - 10.45am

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 10.00 - 10.45am

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1 Jenny Gray

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web id ac26605

VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 10.00 - 10.45am VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 11.00 - 11.30am

Mobile 0274 522 888 HOME jennyg@propertybrokers.co.nz

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$305,000

asHBUrToN Cnr state Highway one and racecourse road Jenny Gray

ASHBURTON

WEB ID AU26875 WESTSIDE 89 Walker Street Attractive three bedroom home with VIEW Saturday 13 Oct 11.00 - 11.45am unique character. Has to be seen. Located TENDER closes Friday 2nd November within the avenues. Seperate kitchen, 2012 at 4.00pm 3 seperate dining plus large sunny lounge.

Master with en suite. Double garage attached. Set in established gardens with lovely indoor/outdoor living. Just a casual 2 Murray Young stroll into town.

0274 340 942

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www.propertybrokers.co.nz

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GUARDIAN CLASSIFIEDS 1 2

MUST BE SOLD

17 Smitheram Street ◊ Three bedrooms here ◊ Top location ◊ Close to shops ◊ Compliant burner ◊ Be quick here $250,000 $239,000

Neg Over

$230,000 OPEN HOME Saturday, December 8, 2012 11am - 11.30am Sunday, December 9, 12noon – 12.30pm

Turn your unwanted items into cash with a FREE advertisement in the Ashburton Guardian classifieds*.

Special conditions apply*. Up to 24 words, private parties only. Does not apply to Real Estate or Situation Vacant advertising.

Offer valid until November 30th, 2012.

Clip this coupon and deliver to The Ashburton Guardian office the Friday prior to publication

Phone 308 6173

Sue Prendergast 027 322 8422

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

Publication date: Classification:

Contact name: 161 Burnett St, Ashburton Phone 307 7900 No photocopies accepted - Not to be used in conjunction with another promotion.

FOR SALE mountai n bike size m, all double wa oy frame, ll rims wi th quick relea se hubs, di sc brakes, ne w chain an d cassette, m int condition .

Phone 1234 -567.

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Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz TRADES & SERVICES

ENTERTAINMENT

TILING. For guaranteed professional workmanship and all your tiling needs see Linton Muir at Skip 2 It Tiling, 240 Burnett Street.

Ph 308-0266, cell 027-2225432. AH ph 308-0131.

New Year’s Eve Delta Swing Swing Jazz From 9am A meal A snack A beer A wine A coffee

WANTED

Health beauty connections

CAN’T find what you are looking for? Place a classified in the Wanted section of the Ashburton Guardian classifieds, call today on 307-7900.

CHILD’S playhouse - wanted to buy. Phone 302-2661 or 027-248-2590.

WANTED - used Ford, Belarus and Massey Ferguson tractors in any condition.

Freephone 0800-888-343.

No cover charge During summer we are all keen to get moving, exercise and shed any extra weight to form a lean, strong beach ready body

Bistro Cafe & Bar

TURN YOUR GARAGE UPSIDE DOWN

Phone 302 6064 for Reservations and Enquiries – Open 7 days 10am - till late

Red 8 protein powders can be made into protein drinks/ shakes and may be beneficial because :

MEETINGS & EVENTS

• They are a convenient, low fat source of protein for people with busy lifestlyes • They may provide a satiating snack for people trying to manage their weight • They are soluble, easy to digest protein and are efficiently ab sorbed into the body Ashburton Arcade 308-1815 www.health2000.co.nz

mirror image SKIN

TY • BODY • BEAU

Mirror Image is pleased to present a fresh new face with a brand new passion, Ashleigh Mitchell.

Dermalogica and Electolysis Extended hours up until Christmas. Lee Anne & Ashleigh’s appointments are filling quickly.

Please phone today on 03 308 2266

PLANTS & PRODUCE

The next meeting of the Ashburton Trust Board will be held in the Head Office Boardroom Level 1, Somerset House, Cnr East + Burnett Streets, Ashburton on Thursday, December 13 2012 at 4:30pm

Giles Beal Chief Executive

TRADES & SERVICES

Strawberries $2 punnet Tomatoes 700gm $2 bag New Season Rocket Potatoes $2 kg Cabbage $2 ea Onions 1.5kg $2 bag Specials available from 04/12 - 11/12

FOR SALE

• 450 Frs Frs X Cows 500MS Herd, good udders – very tidy herd.

• 300 Friesian Cows 500 MS • 200 R2 Friesian Heifers • 150 R2 Jersey Heifers • In milk Cows • Autumn calving Cows

Contact - David Mair (03) 688 6789 or 027 472 6625 www.elders.co.nz

OPEN 7 DAYS Fresh Fruit & Vege

ROOFING - for all your roofing requirements, new roofs, reroofing, commercial, insurance claims, repairs.

Licensed building practitioner, Wiki, Vision Roofing, phone 027-4760203.

LIVESTOCK & PETS

$2

The Green Grocer

278 Tancred Street, Ashburton

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

This is really easy money!

Just clean out your garage and sell the stuff you don’t need in the classifieds.

Phone 307 7900 Place your classified advert via your sales rep.

BRIAN TIERNAN

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

TEL MOB

03 307 7907 021 836 543

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2013

Guardian Classifieds the destination for...

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Rentals ¾ Belt Rd, Allenton, three bedrooms, pets neg. $330 per week ¾ Glassey Drv, Allenton, two bedrooms $270 per week ¾ Winter St, Central, two bedrooms, $270 per week

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

AVAILABLE RENTALS 367 Burnett St Four Bedrooms Web ID AS449 $380 per week 37 River Terrace Three Bedrooms + Extra Living Area Web ID AS463 $360 per week

¾ Rolleston St, Rakaia, three bedrooms, $300 per week

52A Princes Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS458 $420 per week

¾ Racecourse Rd, Allenton, two bedrooms, rent includes phone, power, internet, sky, $450 per week

110 Thomson Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS448 $320 per week

Please call Penny at Property Brokers on 307 9491

3 Reflection Place Four Bedrooms Web ID AS460 $470 per week

¾ Grove St, Tinwald, three bedrooms $350 per week ¾ Harland St, Tinwald, three bedrooms, $335 per week ¾ Kermode St, Central, three bedrooms, pets neg. $290 per week

Please call Donna at Property Brokers on 307 9195 Website www.propertybrokers.co.nz Please see our TradeMe listings Property Brokers Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed Under the REAA 2008

Rentals

77B McMurdo Street: Brand new, 3 bedrooms, ensuite, heat pump, internal access double garage. $395 pw.

Available 20 Dec 2012 196 Harrison Street: Spacious brick home, 4 bedroom plus ensuite, kitchen/dining, separate lounge. Internal access to double garage. $450 per week.

Available 26 Jan 2013 19 Wellington Street: Great 2 bedroom property plus sleepout. Close to town. Easy care section. $270 per week.

Available 16 Dec 2012 27 Aitken Street: 3 bedroom brick home with open planENTERTAINMENT kitchen dining ADULT lounge, separate family room/ fourth bedroom. $310 per week.

Available 21 Dec 2012

Deep Tissue Massage

Racecourse For ladies.Road: An experience Fully furnished, 2 bedrooms, of true relaxation and Long term, power, phone, pampering.

Professionally broadband and sky all included provided byper week.

English in the rent of $450 educated Frenchman Available Now with twenty years oriental 166 Barkers Road METHVEN: training.

Hygiene and 3 bedroom furnished home 3km discretion is mutual. out of Methven.

Log burner,I visit you for one - two hours by Bathroom bath and separate shower, main bedroom ensuite appointment. and walk in robe. Double garage Contact Jacques on to be built in Jan 2013. Available 3636 03 Jan021 2013.0269 $380 per week.

In my world the ladies come first.

Call Annie on 03 308 4018 or AH 027 287 3388

Guardian Classifieds phone 307 7900

Burdett Real Estate Licensed Real Estate Agent (REAA 2008)

BOATING & ACCESSORIES

Don’t let your boat ruin your holiday!

Bring it into D&E for a service and enjoy peace of mind boating 153 Moore St 03 307 7620

References required

and Children’s Programme

In Ashburton

At St Stephens

Sunday 8am Holy Communion 10am Carol Service “A Journey to the Manger”.

All welcome Vicar The Venerable Jacqui Paterson Ph 308 5438 or 027 646 6000

Phone 03 308 8893 www.petermay.co.nz

Aoraki’s programmes are vocationally orientated and have been developed in collaboration with industry. They will equip

St. David’s Union Church 48 Allens Road, Allenton

Speaker: Pastor David Jensen Boys Bridgade Parade LIFE 2 da MAX (Kids Church) Creche Available Refreshments to follow 4.30pm Hour of Power YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE VERY WELCOME

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

9.30am

Children’s Musical Christmas Dramas, performed by St David’s Kidz Church and ‘The Notables’ Morning Tea to follow.’

Visit our website: www.st-davids.org.nz

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.30am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

SPECIALISED SERVICES

TRADES & SERVICES

are waiting NEED a Protection Order? CLIENTS Everist Gilchrist Lawyers, to hear of your services in the Connections section of 03-307-7441. the Ashburton Guardian newspaper. Phone 307-7900.

TRADES & SERVICES

firm foundation for future study.

10am Morning Service

All Welcome

***** Kids Friendly *****

you well for employment and provide a

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts, Phone 308 5409 Website www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

Come and hear faith to overcome in these unstable days.

Ministers: Rev’s Alan & Rachel Judge Church Office 308 5174

Marquees Luxury Restrooms Tables, Chairs & Accessories Cutlery, Crockery & Glassware Chiller Trailer

Great range of programmes

and Communion

EvEryonE WElcomE

Marquee & Event Hire

your success

10.00am You’re very welcome!

Cnr Cass & Cameron St 308 7610 - 308 7062

on Park Street

HIRE

EDUCATION

For more info please call Pastor Mike Grove 308 4695

Anglican Church

Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

LINK – New Zealand Business Sales Limited, Lic REAA 2008

37 Alford Forest Road

Heart to God And Hand to Man Celebration Service

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

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302

The Shearer’s Quarters offers an opportunity to purchase a unique, strongly performing, and well-established lifestyle business.

Ph Athol McCully 03 366 3394 or 027 433 8052

69 McMurdo Street Two Bedrooms $270 per week

landscape supplies

Country Cafe, Giftware and More!

Price $375,000 + SAV.

We hope to see you this Sunday!

FOR SALE

The Shearer’s Quarters

Contact the sole agents today for further details.

15 King Street Three Bedrooms + Sleep out with En suite Web ID AS464 $340 per week

Better in Blue

BUSINESS WANTED, SELL

For sale, outstanding business – The Shearer’s Quarters is a South Canterbury icon, providing delicious country cafe food, a wide range of giftware, an attractive farmyard animal section, plus a mini-golf course and driving range.

Peaceful and convenient rural Seadown location.

Church Services (Aoraki Polytechnic) Sunday Morning 10.30am Sunday Evening 7pm Wed Bible Study 7pm

Michelle 027-77-66-497

Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

17 Mona Square Four Bedrooms Web ID AS461 $340 per week

Alana 0274-736-825

Your next job Your next house Your next car

AgRicULTURE ANd HORTicULTURE ARTS ANd dESigN t Certificate in Arts and Media (Level 4) Diploma in Arts and Media (Level 5 & 6) Majors in Fashion Design | Graphics and Multimedia | Visual Arts and Design

BEAUTY ANd HAiRdRESSiNg t Certificate in Beauty Therapy (Level 4) (ITEC Certificate) Diploma in Beauty Therapies and Epilation (Level 5) (ITEC Diploma) Certificate in Hairdressing (Level 3) Certificate in Professional Hairdressing (2nd Year) (Level 3) Certificate in Make-up Artistry (Level 3)

BUSiNESS ANd TOURiSM HEALTH ANd EdUcATiON HOSPiTALiTY iNFORMATiON TEcHNOLOgY MEdiA OUTdOOR EdUcATiON & SPORT t Certificate in Outdoor Recreation (Level 4) Diploma in Outdoor Instruction and Management (Level 5) Diploma in Outdoor Education (Level 6) Certificate in Sport and Fitness (Level 4) Diploma in Sport and Fitness (Level 5)

TRAdES FREE BUS for 2013 to the Timaru Campus* *Conditions Apply

For all of our programmes visit www.aoraki.ac.nz or phone 0800 426 725 All programmes subject to approval and sufficient numbers supporting your success

ENROL NOW - FEBRUARY START

0800 426 725

www.aoraki.ac.nz TRADES & SERVICES

FOR: Welding – Mig, Arc, Mild steel fabrication.

Sandblasting. Competitive BUILDERS, carpenters Rates – Quality assured. bricklayers, all advertise in Phone Kurt at Action HOME handyman available. the Ashburton Guardian Sandblasting Ltd. 027-332- Minor repairs, painting etc.

Ph 027-677-1952. classifieds. Phone 307-7900. 4549 or 308-4226

supporting your success

Guardian Classifieds Phone 307 7900

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2012

Guardian Classifieds the destination for...

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

FOUR rottweiler pups for sale. Two girls, two boys.

Phone/text 027-858-8946 for more details.

NO DREAMERS!

FOR SALE

ESCORT - male, gay.

Friendly, discreet service.

Good rates. Phone 027-8462926. No texts please.

BOATING & ACCESSORIES

GET in touch with renters.

Place an advertisement in the Guardian Classifieds.

Phone 307-7900.

BUSINESS WANTED, SELL

PROPERTY INVESTORS Distance yourself from tenant and management problems.

Have your property managed independently, professionally and cost effectively. Property management is our sole focus 24/7. Call B&N Properties Ltd now, phone 021-1604565. www.bnproperties.co.nz

QUICK sale of your business in the Ashburton Guardian Classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

WORK for yourself by owning your own business, advertised in the Ashburton Guardian Classifieds in the Business Sell section.

To place Classifieds phone 307-7900.

RELIABLE working family with one dog, require two three bedrooms house to rent in the Ashburton area.

Phone 027-333-2693.

THREE bedroom unit for EDUCATION rent. Open spacious living and dining areas. Close to town and schools. $290 a weeks. Phone Andre on 99EXTEND your education, 307-2217 or 0272-103-713. look to up-skill in the TO RENT: sunny, tidy two Education section of the bedroom flat, heat-pump and Ashburton Guardian single garage. Central. No Classifieds. pets. Suit mature tenants.

References required. LEARN while you work, lots $240/pw. Ph 308-7749. of opportunities in the TO rent - two bedroom Education section of the townhouse, central location, Ashburton Guardian. no pets. References required.

NEW qualifications extend $260pw. Ph 308-1670. your abilities, check for training courses in ADULT ENTERTAINMENT the Ashburton Guardian Classifieds under Education.

FOR SALE ASIAN new lady, hot and slim, gorgeous body, busty, friendly.

Enjoy service massage, ph 021-083-36855, 1000LTR caged tanks Linda. 6 days only.

(I.B.C.). Ideal for water, ATTRACTIVE and busty. No milk, spray or waste oil. texting. Phone Zoe 021-023- $100 each. Phone 027-2281467.

39-259.

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ONE for free ‘For Sale’ classified advertisement in the Ashburton Guardian when you buy two. – Phone AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 307-7900.

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all SCOOTER’S - new and electric heating. Sky, all mod secondhand three and four cons, short walk to village. wheel electric scooters and Phone Brian 307-8000 or wheel chairs. Call Fred 308-6180.

Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today. AKAROA - Spacious holiday Phone 308-3602. home with great views.

Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, heatpump, flat GARAGE SALES section with boat parking.

Close to shops. Phone 302 8028.

BARGAIN hunters can find treasure at Garage Sales LIVESTOCK & PETS advertised in the Guardian classifieds. Ph 307-7900.

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11:59 6:14 12:25 6:37 12:52 7:05 1:18 7:32 1:45 7:57 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Bad

Bad fishing Rise 1:57 am Set 2:53 pm

New moon 13 Dec 9:43 pm ©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

Rise 5:44 am Set 9:07 pm Fair

Fair fishing Rise 2:26 am Set 4:04 pm

First quarter 20 Dec 6:20 pm www.ofu.co.nz

FRUIT sells fast in the Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

NEW potatoes. 40 Cameron Street. Orders taken for Christmas. Phone 308-7023.

Place your classified advert via your sales rep.

EMMA JAILLET-GODIN

ADVERTISING CONSULTANT

TEL MOB

03 307 7936 021 662 884

Fair fishing Rise 3:00 am Set 5:17 pm

Full moon 28 Dec 11:23 pm

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TUESDAY

NZ Situation

The high over the Tasman Sea extends a ridge onto New Zealand tomorrow. A trough moves onto the South Island on Monday, and weakens as it moves over the rest of the country on Tuesday and Wednesday. A second ridge builds over New Zealand behind the trough.

322.5 10.1 12.1 191.3

Canterbury Readings to 4pm yesterday Temperatures °C

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa

Rainfall mm

nc

Wind km/h

max

min grass 16 hour Dec 2012 min to date to date

11.8

9.0

9.0 21.2

21.2 765.3 SW 61

Christchurch Airport 14.9

9.2

7.9 23.0

24.4 648.4 SW 57

Ashburton Airport Average

Timaru Airport Average

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MONDAY Cloudy periods increasing, and patchy rain developing. Light winds at low levels, westerlies about the tops easing.

TUESDAY

Mostly cloudy, patchy rain easing to drizzle.

Light winds.

WEDNESDAY

Patchy rain clearing, then isolated showers near the divide. Light winds at low levels, westerlies about the tops dying out.

WEDNESDAY

Patchy morning drizzle, mainly fine by day.

Light winds.

max gust

4.2 599.4 SW 57

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Dubai Dublin Edinburgh Frankfurt

FZL: Rising above 3000m

Fine apart from morning cloud near the divide.

Wind at 1000m: Light.

Wind at 2000m: SW 30 km/h.

Fine apart from the odd shower near the divide. Light winds.

World Weather Forecast for today

cumecs

FZL: Rising to 2600m

TOMORROW

Fine. Northeasterlies near the coast, light winds inland.

Cloudy periods increasing in the afternoon and patchy rain developing. Light winds.

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 9:15 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke at 9:00 am, yesterday

Average

STOCK - buy or sell through the Ashburton Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

Remaining showers clearing early morning and becoming fine.

Wind at 1000m: SW dying out.

Wind at 2000m: SW easing to 40 km/h.

Rise 5:44 am Set 9:08 pm Fair

LUCERNE. For sale 9 hectares standing. Winslow area. Enquiries, ph 0274399-155.

Fine apart from areas of morning cloud.

Southwesterlies dying out in the afternoon.

MAX

max

20 20 19 18 16 18 18 18 18 18 20 17 15

FEED wheat and barley available from experienced grower. Also green feed rape seed $2.00 1kg. Ph 027-2211408.

Canterbury High Country

Source: Environment Canterbury

Rise 5:44 am Set 9:06 pm

CAT D8 and 40 tonne excavator for hire. Phone IMPORTANT announcements, 027-474-5243. share them with Mid Canterbury in the Guardian classifieds. Phone CONCRETE pipes - used.

307-7900.

600mm diameter, 2.4m long. $200 each + GST. Ph 027277-7876.

TODAY

River Levels

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CAN’T find what you are looking for? Advertise in the Wanted section of the Ashburton Guardian. Phone 307-7900.

PUBLIC NOTICES

MONDAY

showers fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine showers

RURAL TRADING POST

No eftpos available and no Christmas orders taken please.

To tag or chop down.

Anthos Gardens, Thews Road.

Open Saturdays and after 4pm weekdays.

Phone 308-8386.

Midnight Tonight

Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill

TIMARU

RASPBERRIES 56 Tinwald Mayfield Westerfield Road Phone 308 1338

Canterbury Plains

MAX

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Organiser- Graham Smith

TODAY

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NZ Today

Thank you for your support.

Open 9am - 6pm daily

MOTORCYCLES

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All winners have been notified.

SOUTHBERRY

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

TUESDAY: Patchy rain easing. Light winds.

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New potatoes available at 80 Carters Terrace ONLY.

SAVE money, by advertising your vehicle in the Guardian classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

MONDAY: Afternoon cloud, evening rain. Light winds.

AKAROA

1st Children’s Playhouse, ticket 5436, Amy Mills.

2nd Christmas cake, ticket 4197, Bob Holdum.

3rd Turkey, ticket 4833, Bev Gregan.

TODAY: Morning cloud then fine. Southwesterlies dying away.

LYTTELTON

LINCOLN

Community Projects Raffle

Ashburton Forecast TOMORROW: Fine. Northeasterlies.

CHRISTCHURCH

Lions Club of Ashburton

3 punnets of flower plants for $9.00 or 6 for $17.00 Last week of local asparagus.

Orders taken for Christmas flowers and gift baskets.

RACING car parts, trade or sell them in the Motoring Section of Ashburton Guardian Classifieds. Phone 307-7900.

BUYER of unwanted animals.

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

WORKSHOP or shed with yard wanted, for parking of small trucks. Close to town.

FUNCTION/party equipment Ph Tim 027-475-0817. available for hire. Marquees, tables, chairs, glasses, cutlery, MEETINGS & EVENTS cooking equipment, heaters and more.

See U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30am5.30pm; Sat 7.30am-5pm; UPCOMING events and Sunday 8am- 12.30pm. Ph meetings in the Ashburton 308-8061 A/H: 308-7460 Guardian classifieds. Phone www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz 307-7900.

RAFFLES

Farmers Market December 8 Pre-Christmas Specials

MITSUBISHI Aspire 2000CC year 2000. $4,500 ono. Ph 03-308-7566.

HIRE

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GREAT stocks of new and used kids bikes, ready for Christmas, at McKay and Donaldson Motorcycles, 734 East Street, ring Cliff on 308-7982. www.mckayanddonaldson. co.nz

TREES

LAKE COLERIDGE

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PLANTS & PRODUCE

RACING bikes, buy or sell in the Motorcycles section of CAN’T find what you are the Ashburton Guardian looking for? Advertise in Classifieds. Phone 307-7900. the Wanted section of the Ashburton Guardian classifieds, call today on PLANTS & PRODUCE 307-7900.

FRESIAN bull calves for sale. Ph 302-3872 or 302FLOAT hire - single, double 3873. and tandem. Reasonable rates. Morrison’s Saddlery & Feed. Phone 308-3422 anyCHRISTMAS LET OR LEASE time.

RANGIORA

METHVEN

MOTORING

FIREWOOD green old man equipment, pine $130. Green poplar $80. RENTAL All 3.6m3. Phone Shane advertise yours in the Ashburton Guardian. Phone James Firewood 303-7063.

307-7900.

GET in early. Dry firewood $170 per load. Ph 027-439HOLIDAY 9322.

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Map for Saturday

HIRE

ACCOMMODATION

FOR Sale - jetski, Yamaha Waverunner. Two seater, 135hp, incl. trailer, reg, warranted, fully serviced. Ph 03-686-2070.

NEAR new town house. 3 bedroom town house to rent, Double garage, heat pump, open plan. Ref required, $350 per week. Phone 027741-477.

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Your next event Your next purchase Your next sale

To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Guardian Weekend Weather

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29 5 30 -3 28 32 21 29 30 32 35 28 6 8 0

Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi New Delhi

Compiled by © Copyright Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited 2012

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-1 30 21 26 24 32 28 34 6 20 11 37 -1 32 27

New York Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

rain fine fine rain showers fine fine rain snow thunder rain rain fine cloudy snow

4 0 11 22 2 7 -13 25 -7 19 17 14 4 2 -5

13 1 27 30 11 16 -7 31 -4 27 19 20 15 19 0

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Saturday, December 8, 2012

“All your Christmas wishes for less”

CHAT, TEAM MEMBER MEMBER

4 Burner Delta Hooded BBQ

Stainless steel hood.

Side burner. SKU00165811

$

122 Piece Tool Chest 3 drawer.

399

600mm. Conventional fan & grill. SKU00314823

129

799

$

SKU00200693

$

$

299

$

SKU00283326/00283383

SKU00343334

82

11

95

$

47

Twin Halogen Worklight

Waterblaster

500W. SKU00896553

1450psi. SKU00498861

127

$

29

98

40L Vegetable Mix

White. Low sheen.

15 year guarantee.

$

298

$

50

$

29

99

4L Endure Interior Wall White. Scuff, stain & mould resistant. SKU00195927

10L $159.90

$

96

95

1.5w x 0.8d x 1.8h m.

Zinc. Kitset. SKU00189683

149

$

LED Head Light

SKU00218242

7

9

$ 97

$ 98

Live Christmas Tree

SANTA’S

8L. Douglas Fir.

1000W Line Trimmer

$

$

SKU00485171

SKU00302706

26

86

99

98

3 Piece Bistro Setting

39

89

78

$

Steel frame. 60cm glass top.

Resin wicker chairs. SKU03190110

99

1500W Steam Mop

99

Folding Resin Table

$

1830 x 760mm. SKU03191114

69

25kg Fastcrete SKU00409657

11

$

SANTA’S KIDS WORKSHOPS SATURDAY 8 & SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER From 10am • Christmas cards • Wish lists for Santa • Christmas decorations and gifts • Colouring competition

www.bunnings.co.nz

SKU00203593

$

VISIT SANTA IN HIS GROTTO DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR CAMERA

SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER 11am & 1pm D.I.Y. Outdoor project SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 11am & 1pm D.I.Y. Decking

370 x 520mm.

SKU03170610

HERE

SATURDAY 8 & SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 10–11AM & 2–3PM

FREE D.I.Y. WORKSHOPS

Firepit Brazier

$

WHAT’S ON

Two trowels, a mini rake & gloves.

SKU04410009

4 Piece. SKU00278198

Garden Shed

Kids Garden Tool Set

Includes batteries.

4 Piece Gun Spray Set

4L 4 Seasons Exterior

10L $132.50

148cc Briggs & Stratton engine.

40L catcher. SKU00189348

Stainless Steel Electric Stove

Accessories not included. SKU02582635

5.7m. Aluminium.

120kg load rating.

(Plank not included).

4 Stroke Petrol Lawn Mower

169

6 Tier Wine Rack

Mighty 19 Multi Purpose Ladder

2.15 x 1.95 x 1.53m. Metal frame.

Suits ages 3-12. SKU03320771

$

SKU06120200

99

$

2 Function Swing Set

26

Fence Palings

150 x 25mm x 1.8m.

H3.2. SKU00469224

2

$ 97

Not all services and products featured are available in all stores, but may be ordered. See in store for product availability. We reserve the right to restrict the purchase of commercial quantities. All prices quoted are inclusive of GST. Prices valid until Friday 14th December 2012 or while stocks last.

EACH

Store locations Weekend D.I.Y. workshops Catalogue online

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE ASHBURTON 363 West Street, Ph 03 307 6671 TRADING HOURS Weekdays 7am-6pm Weekends & Public Holidays 8am-6pm Catalogue online at www.bunnings.co.nz

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