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By Sue Newman When Ashburtonians woke up this morning and stepped outside they were left in little doubt that winter had arrived, albeit early.

There was a definite nip in the air and while it might still officially be autumn, one glance at the Southern Alps made it very clear that winter is here.

For the first time this year the mercury dropped below zero, with the overnight low recorded just before 8am at 0.9 degrees according to data recorded on Graham’s Weatherstation.

The Mt Hutt ski area celebrated its second major snowfall in two weeks with the weekend’s cold snap and associated snowstorm delivering 20cm of snow over the entire mountain.

The ski area access road was

blocked for two days with large snowdrifts at the Rakaia Saddle and yesterday was the first day Mt Hutt staff made it to the ski area car park, trudging the last 2.5km uphill on foot.

A D8 Bulldozer is working from the Rakaia Saddle clearing an access track to the base building car park.

Mt Hutt operations general manger James Urquhart said the snow had settled “absolutely

Mid Canterbury plan to house rebuild staff

By Sue Newman Up to 750 workers from the Christchurch rebuild could be calling the Ashburton District home over the next few years.

The district’s commercial accommodation owners have banded together with Grow Mid Canterbury to prepare an accommodation package they believe will net the district a share of the Christchurch worker a deluge over the next five years.

Grow Mid Canterbury had been working to pull the accommodation package together for some time, business advisory services manager Simon Nikoloff said.

“Our accommodation packages are available only to employers.

We’ve been told it’s a requirement of their construction contracts to show how they’re going to accommodate their workers. Cera doesn’t want workers living in single men’s camps, they want them to integrate into communities. That’s important from a lot of stand points.”

Mr Nikoloff said the accommodators were enthusiastic about the opportunity to have rebuild work-

Simon Nikoloff ers absorb their surplus accommodation.

“If they can have some guaranteed, long-term bookings they say that will be great. We’re not talking about replacing tourism however, we’re simply talking about soaking up surplus capacity.”

That surplus would be both long term and seasonal beds, he said.

“Basically what Methven is saying for example is they’d be happy to have people take over Methven from the end of September until the end of June.”

The demand for out-of-town beds is likely to start later this year.

“Cera is saying the accommodation situation in Christchurch is like a sponge. All excess capacity has been quietly soaked up and no one’s noticed and the rebuild hasn’t really started yet. The spill over is already happening.”

A survey of accommodators showed the district’s spare bed numbers usually ran at more than 100, peaking at more than 700 in the off-season. Working through a single desk such as Grow Mid Canterbury meant a tab was kept on who was taking which accommodation and where, Mr Nikoloff said.

“We want to make sure this becomes a good, positive experience for everyone.”

The district’s information package is with Cera who will present it to contractors, but individual contractors will be able to arrange accommodation through us too.”

The package has the backing of Ashburton mayor Angus McKay who said it was a win-win deal, one that would help in the Christchurch recovery but one that would also benefit the Ashburton District.

everywhere” on the mountain as there had been very little wind.

“The Mt Hutt snowmaking department will fire up the guns from mid next week and hopefully these cool temperatures stick around and should make for some excellent conditions.

“Our snowmaking systems have been checked and are ready for staff to sign on at the end of this week,” he said.

Mt Hutt’s seasonal manage-

ment team started work at the beginning of this week and 11 members of staff were sorting through applications for seasonal staff positions.

“Today really is the start of winter as we’ll be transporting our first groomer up the mountain today and this always signals winter for our summer crew,” he said.

Mt Hutt is scheduled to open for the season on June 15.

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Mt Hutt snowmaking head Blair James, couldn’t resist making the first tracks in the mountain’s first snowfall of the winter.

Jail sentence ‘a positive result for conservation’

By Myles Hume

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And the winners of Methven’s scarecrow competition were – Jack and Jill, created by Cheryl Irwin and Jean Markillie.

Jack and Jill take out the top prize Visitors to Methven over the school holidays could be forgiven for thinking they’d stepped into the pages of a nursery rhyme book.

In dozens of front yards scarecrows dressed as nursery rhyme characters appeared as families took part in the village’s annual scarecrow competition and trail.

This year’s winners were Cheryl Irwin and Jean Markillie with their life-like creations of Jack and Jill.

More than 1000 people walked the scarecrow trail, inspecting the entries and voting for their favourite exhibits.

When the votes were counted Mount Hutt Motels came out the winners with their Incy

Wincy Spider creation. Others to receive popular support were The Muffin Man (i-Site), Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Debbie Lamont), Ride a Cock Horse (Forest Lodge), Sing a Song of Sixpence (Café Primo) and The Gingerbread Man made by Methven Preschool.

Methven Preschool is the recipient of the proceeds from this year’s Scarecrow Trail and will receive $1505 from the trail maps that were sold.

Scarecrow hunters came from Methven, Ashburton and Christchurch, but a number of visitors will have taken back their memories and photos to other areas of New Zealand and overseas.

A jail sentence for an Ashburton man who destroyed a colony of the world’s most endangered gulls shows the courts will not tolerate offenders who damage New Zealand’s conservation, the Department of Conservation says.

The department’s comments come after Samuel John Townhill pleaded guilty to two charges of destroying the nests of a black billed gull colony when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court on Monday.

The 39-year-old drove his 4WD into a colony of black billed gulls nesting on the Ashburton Riverbed, and was on Monday sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each count, to be served consecutively.

Department of Conservation Raukapuke office manager George Hadler welcomed the jail sentence yesterday, calling it “a positive result for conservation”.

He believed the courts sometimes did not take conservation matters as seriously as they should, but the sentence showed crimes against New Zealand’s precious wildlife should not be handled lightly.

“It hits home, these are the world’s rarest gull species and that colony by the bridge on State Highway One is the largest colony, there were 10,000

birds recorded there in 2012,” Mr Hadler said.

He said the Ashburton River colony made up about 11 per cent of the total black billed gull population, which was severely impacted by Townhill’s actions on November 4.

“Not only were eggs destroyed but the disturbance of adult birds would probably have caused other nests to fail,” Mr Hadler said.

“We don’t know the exact numbers lost but this unnecessary mindless act would have had a serious impact on the colony.”

Sensible Sentencing Trust national spokesperson Garth McVicar said he did not want to take away the hard work of prosecutors, but the sentence showed a lack of consistency by the courts.

“Ultimately it makes a mockery of the sentencing system, why can someone beat another person to within an inch of their life and get community service when someone runs over a bird and they go to prison?” Mr McVicar said.

He said offences against other humans had a greater impact, saying there was “huge public concern” over the judicial system in New Zealand.

Townhill was already serving a custodial sentence on unrelated driving matters and Monday’s sentence will be served cumulatively to the existing sentence.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DEATHS EDE, Derrick Russell – Passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at Christchurch Hospital, aged 74. Loved husband of Diana. Loved father and father in law of Ken and Pik, Stephen and Mel, and Andrew and Di. Loved grandfather of Sarah, Lily, Hong, Troy, Joshua, and Caleb. A graveside service for Derrick will be held at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery on FRIDAY, May 10, at 1.00pm.

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Loved father and father in law of Susan and Graham Smith, Anne, Lynley, and John, Graeme and Tania.

Loved Pop of Matthew, and James; Max, Lily, and Ava. In his 79th year. Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton, 7740. Stan’s funeral service will be held at the Mt. Hutt Memorial Hall, Methven TOMORROW, THURSDAY May 9, commencing at 2.00pm. To be followed by private cremation Paterson’s Funeral Services.

FDANZ Ashburton STEELE, Michael James – At home on May 4, 2013, Michael finally lost his long battle. Aged 58 years. Dearly loved husband of Lynda.

Loved son of the late Ron and Gloria Steele, and brother and brother in law of Peter and Marie (Dunedin), and Jenny and Ross Bristol (Lyttelton) and a loved uncle. Loved son in law of the late Joyce Hewitt and brother in law of Keith Hewitt, Coral Lewis and families and Robbie Hewitt.

Many thanks to all those wonderful friends who offered so much support throughout his journey and especially to the District Nurses, Nurse Maude Hospice and Dr John Guthrie. Messages to P.O. Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Nurse Maude Hospice would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A celebration of Michael’s life will be held at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre TODAY WEDNESDAY, May 8, at 2.00pm, followed by private interment at the Ashburton Cemetery.

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Water plan option ‘horrific’

By Linda Clarke Hinds and Mayfield farmers fear they will become peasants and their communities will be decimated under one option in a plan designed by Environment Canterbury to improve water quality and quantity in the Hinds Plains area.

At a meeting in Hinds yesterday more than 100 farmers were horrified to see that under one of the options around 250 jobs would be lost and farmers would be unable to make a profit.

The plan based around restoring the Hinds River and drains, focused totally on environmental gains. It was

one of three scenarios created by the regional authority to gauge community feedback on how the catchment should be managed in the future.

The other scenarios are status quo and developmental, the latter aimed at increasing irrigated farmland by some 30,000 hectares.

Farm professionals say the developmental scenario would encourage more dairy conversions and boost the income of dairy farmers and dairy support farmers by about $100 million.

By contrast, the environmental solution, they said, would kill off economic growth in Hinds and Mayfield, reversing recent trends of increasing job numbers and income. The economic

downturn would lead to social conflict, with sports clubs struggling to maintain membership and reduced farm margins putting pressure on families.

Feedback on each of the scenarios is being used by the Ashburton Water Zone Committee to help it set water quality and quantity limits for the catchment.

Committee chairman Matthew Hall said if the committee didn’t set limits, “someone else will”.

He said farmers had already made it clear they would go broke under the environmental scenario, but it was a theoretical document aimed to generate discussion.

“We are not simply thinking of tomorrow. We are thinking five years,

out, 10 years out, and 30 years out.”

The environmental scenario assumes farmers are doing as much as they can to mitigate their environmental impact and reduce nitrate levels leaching into groundwater and other waterways.

That would include specific cropping rotations, destocking, lateral or centre pivot spray irrigation, feedpads, wintering dairy cows off farm or housing them under cover and reducing fertiliser application.

It also assumes land use remains the same with no expansion of irrigated land, that stockwater races are piped and that one cumec of water from the RDR will be released into the Hinds River.

ECan staff said they knew the envi-

ronmental scenario would be controversial.

“It has a big impact on economic outcomes,” said technical team leader Darren Leftley.

Farmers at the meeting were clear it would make their farming operations uneconomic.

Eiffelton farmer Ian Mackenzie said it would turn them into peasants.

“I know it is only theoretical but under this it makes it clear you are going to close down the local community and our young people will have to go to Australia to find work.”

Another farmer said farm values would decline along with farm income, and correspondingly the rates collected by ECan.

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• Fighting back Local residents say they’ve had enough of youths dragging their town down by burgling businesses and abusing tourists. Locals say the town is suffering from a wave of break-ins and graffiti, drunks harassing visitors at the Hundertwasser toilets, and calls to Kawakawa police station getting no further than the answerphone.

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A 39-year-old man facing several charges relating to a P lab explosion at a rented Oceanbeach Rd house last month has been remanded in custody. Rhys James Maybury from Papamoa Beach faced one charge each of arson, manufacturing methamphetamine, possession of a precursor substance, possession of precursor materials and equipment when he appeared in Tauranga District Court yesterday.

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• Sheep shot

Monarchs soak up sun in numbers

Police are investigating sheep killings in which one was shot with a crossbow.

Constable Tim Winchester said the sheep were found on the side of a road, about 30 minutes from Gisborne, last Thursday. “A farmer found the remains, and removed a crossbow bolt from the carcass of a sheep,” he said.

“It also appears the remains were dumped there after the animals had been killed and slaughtered somewhere else.”

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Suzanne Martin and Jeffrey Kearney came across a Monarch butterfly during a walk in the Ashburton Domain on Saturday. They followed it to this tree where many more Monarchs were soaking up the warm autumn sunshine. The couple, from Vancouver, Canada, are visiting family in the district.

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Mum, son spend night at bottom of bank

By Christine Linnell A 4-year-old boy and his mother spent a cold night at the bottom of a steep bank on the West Coast after he slid to the bottom on Monday and could not climb back out. His mother also became

trapped after trying to rescue him.

A fire and rescue team was called to a Ahaura property yesterday morning to winch the boy to safety. It took more than 10 people to reach him, secure him to a stretcher and pull him back to the top. Ngahere Volunteer Fire Brigade officer Deb Daly said the

boy was playing with his dogs on Monday night and followed them down a steep 6m bank. When he was unable to get back up his mother climbed down after him and got stuck herself. The pair spent a chilly night huddled outside with their five dogs.

Yesterday morning the woman

managed to climb out and raised the alarm at 9.15am.

Ms Daly said the boy had sore ribs but was otherwise unharmed.

He was awake and talking to rescue officers when they pulled him out about 11am. He was taken to Grey Base Hospital for a check-up.

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A Malaysian tourist who went missing on Aoraki Mt Cook in 2009 has been ruled dead by a coroner. Kok Liang Wong, 32, is believed to have died after falling down a steep, rocky gorge after attempting to walk down a track at night.

Despite a large-scale two-day search, his body has never been found. At a coroner’s inquest in Timaru yesterday, police said there were no suspicious circumstances.

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New bus drop-off point put to test DOC office to retain 14 positions

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• P lab blast sequel

By Sam Morton and APNZ St John staff in Ashburton, Mayfield and Methven will remain active in their roles, despite a nationwide restructure.

The restructure, revealed yesterday, will see the potential axing of nine senior management roles – in a move that will streamline the national service with overseas models.

However, despite the significant changes, paramedics in Mid Canterbury will escape the chopping block.

South Island communications manager Ian Henderson confirmed the changes would not affect Mid Canterbury crews, pointing out it would be “business as usual”.

“The short answer is everything will continue as normal, but the restructure will affect one major job in the South Island.

“That person isn’t from Ashburton though and all crews and team leaders will remain the same,” Mr Henderson said.

In the national overhaul, a new uniform will also be sourced – similar to that of paramedics in London.

Following an increasing number of 111 calls, the service has been forced to stem the loss of millions of dollars a year and key management roles look set to be in the firing line.

St John operations director Michael Brooke insisted frontline operations would not be affected by the review and confirmed no decisions had been made yet.

He said the charity was reviewing nine positions, but possibly creating five new positions that would report directly to the operations director and one district operations manager – based in Auckland.

“The changes are needed to take the organisation forward in a challenging environment, but they will not affect the numbers of frontline ambulance officers,” Mr Brooke said.

New uniforms are expected to be rolled out by the end of this year.

• Clarification

By Myles Hume A strenuous process dating back to the first day of last term may finally have cleared its last hurdle.

On Friday and yesterday, Ritchies Bus and Coach combined with Ashburton College staff to conduct a series of trials to back a bus which carries disabled pupils within metres of their learning unit at the college.

The trials brought a feeling of relief to Ashburton College deputy principal Grant Congdon who said yesterday that the trials went better than expected, meaning the pupils would be dropped about 15 metres from their learning unit – at least 300m closer than their current drop-off spot.

Reluctant to put a timeframe on the process, Mr Congdon said it was likely the new drop-off spot accessed from Middle Road would be fit for use “in the coming weeks”.

It would be a stark contrast to the Creek Road bus bay drop-off point the pupils have used since the start of this year when Ashburton Taxis lost the contract.

The pupils have been making a 300 to 400 metre trip by foot or by wheelchair to their learning unit, leaving some with fragile health or powered wheelchairs vulnerable to the rain.

After the college puts together a “tight” procedure plan on how the bus will be backed into the school in

Fraud charges A former APN employee is facing more than 100 charges relating to more than $200,000 she allegedly stole from the company’s credit union.

Denise Georgina Topia worked as a teamleader in the New Zealand Herald call centre before becoming the manager of the Wilson and Horton credit union office.

Topia appeared at the Auckland District Court on Monday where she faced 107 charges including using false documents and accessing a computer to obtain a pecuniary advantage. According to police charge sheets, the offending dates back to before 2009. Topia was remanded on bail and is due to reappear later this month.

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The bus which transports disabled pupils to and from Ashburton College trials a new entrance off Middle Road which will mean the pupils will be dropped closer to their learning unit, situated right of the bus. one motion using staff and a rearmounted bus camera as guides, then the new entrance would be used.

“I think the feeling is that it’s a really good option which gets the bus right up to the unit, the students will get out of the bus on to a hard surface and then it’s a short walking distance,” Mr Congdon said.

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a raft of changes since the company took over the contract at the beginning of this year, Mr Congdon saying the company had responded to parent concerns.

“It’s important we get it right, that’s why we have spent so much time because we didn’t want to have a short term solution,” Mr Congdon said.

The current staffing levels in the Department of Conservation’s Raukapuke office will be retained, but it is unclear exactly who will fill the office’s 14 positions.

After consulting with more than 1800 staff, the Department of Conservation (DOC) yesterday confirmed its restructuring plan to save about $18 million, culling a total of 72 full-time roles.

Under the finalised structure – to take effect in September – the Raukapuke office, which oversees conservancy between the Rakaia and Waitaki Rivers and to the main divide, will be funded for 14 staff.

Even though there are 14 permanent staff in the Geraldinebased office now, four vacancies were not filled last year to soften the impact of restructuring.

The office was funded for 18 positions.

Now with 14 positions and no vacancies, it is unclear what the

make-up of the office staff will be as the department looks to create more frontline roles. The office’s manager George Hadler did not want to comment on the restructuring yesterday, asking “for space”, but said he would be ready to speak about the overhaul today.

Forest and Bird Ashburton branch president Edith Smith said it was disappointing the total number of funded staff would drop from 18 to 14.

Working closely with DOC in the pristine Ashburton Lakes District, Ms Smith said DOC staff already had a lot of work in front of them, and would rely more heavily on volunteers who also became stretched at times.

Warren Jowett recently stopped operating his eco tours business in the Mid Canterbury high country.

He worked closely with DOC during the business’ 14-year existence, and he said there was already too much work for DOC to do.

The Canterbury conservancy, which covers Raukapuke, will

lose eight positions in total, going from 136 to 128. As part of the restructuring, DOC is also looking to create more than 60 additional frontline positions.

Deputy Director -General Doris Johnston said simple regional structure and strengthened field teams would enable DOC to continue with its own work and also develop new conservation partnerships with others, such as Forest and Bird.

Ms Johnston says the new structure will streamline the department’s current 11 Conservancy districts into six new conservation regions.

Ms Johnston says budget funding announced last week has enabled an additional 41 field-based ranger roles and 22 visitor information and support positions to be added to local offices.

DOC said the new structure will take effect in September and DOC will be working with affected staff on options such as redeployment, relocation or redundancy.

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Novopay here to stay for now

By Myles Hume and APNZ They are seeing just as many errors, but Mid Canterbury principals say they are putting their faith in Novopay troubleshooter Steven Joyce.

Yesterday the minister responsible for the disastrous payroll system confirmed the Government would stick with Novopay but its

long-term future would remain under review.

Every Mid Canterbury school has been impacted by Novopay, which has overpaid, underpaid, not paid school staff at all or paid wages to people the money was not owed to.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan “figured they might do that”, and hoped those in Wellington had a better informa-

tion than what schools were seeing on the ground.

“We are taking this decision with a significant amount of trust, trusting that he (Steven Joyce) does have confidence in it, trusting that things will improve and get better,” Mr McMillan said.

Still seeing errors that he believes will still emerge in years to come, Mr McMillan hoped the Government had a trick up their

would stick with it. “I would be more understanding if there was progress being made, but there’s not it’s just a failure on their part,” Mr Melrose said.

Mr Joyce said three out of four pay periods had shown recommended results of less than 0.5 per cent error rates.

“You can’t just switch a $4.4 billion a year payroll that pays around 90,000 people every fort-

night without creating more issues - no matter which system you are using,” he said.

Mr Joyce said the backlog of mispayments totalling 25,000 would be cleared by the end of June.

He said he did not know how much money was owed to school staff but it could be in the millions.

My Joyce said the focus in the next two months will be on the Novopay system remediation.

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District hall committees struggling to cope with the cost of having their building assessed for earthquake proneness have been thrown a lifeline by the Ashburton District Council.

Fearing that the cost of an engineering report could cripple some community halls the council has come up with a bulk deal option that could see the work done for just $1400 per hall.

But even that, council property manager John Rooney said, might be more cash than some hall committees had in the bank.

The Mayfield Hall committee is looking at a bill of more than $12,000 for engineering reports. An initial report indicated the hall could need significant work to bring it up to building code standards, but a second and more in-depth analysis revealed the work needed could be carried out at relatively little cost, Mr Rooney said.

There was a big question over the appropriateness of requiring a rural hall or church that was used irregularly by small numbers of people to meet the same standards as an inner town commercial building, he said.

“Common sense would say they should not.”

Earlier this year the council met with hall committee members and talked through options for the future of their halls.

“We asked them, if they were going to spend a heap of money upgrading their hall to look at what was there and to look long term and see if it could be replaced with something that was more suitable for today’s purposes.”

That could mean in some rural communities a large, old hall that was rarely used could be replaced by something smaller and more suited to the current needs of the community, he said.

Another issue for rural communities to consider was reinsurance and whether, depending on their hall’s structure, they opted not to insure against earthquake damage.

With any earthquake reports, it was important not to sound alarm bells before all the facts were known, Mr Rooney said.

“Do you want to send shivers down people’s spines as a result of an assessment or do you want to make sure whether there is a problem or not? Sometimes the first report can be quite damning and a second report can be quite different. There’s a fairly fine line between going out and ringing alarm bells or waiting until you get something more detailed you can talk about.”

The council accepted that the cost of earthquake strengthening might be too high for hall committees, but there could be grant options available, Mr Rooney said.

“While the council owns war memorial halls and the communities own rural halls, we have a vested interest in other halls and the council is happy to provide them with assistance. They’re not alone, this is part of the council being part of the community.”

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A fresh start must not be a community risk A

proposed law change to make information about serious criminals available to the public could save many lives.

Unfortunately the new plans come too late for teenager Jade Bayliss who was killed

by Jeremy George McLaughlin, a man who had earlier been jailed for killing a teenager in Australia.

Bizarrely, New Zealand and Australian police do not share information about criminals they deport across the Tasman, which

OUR VIEW is a classic hospital pass among law enforcement agencies.

They tell their colleagues that a criminal will be deported across the ditch but they do not divulge how dangerous this individual is.

As a result, the police was unable to warn Jade Bayliss’s mother Tina when she shared her concerns about her former partner’s erratic and threatening behaviour.

Even if the police had been

aware of the previous killing in Perth, they would have been unable to share that information with Tina Bayliss, but at least they could have given her some hints to keep him away.

Justice Minister Judith Collins now wants improved information sharing between Australia and New Zealand but is also considering a public register for serious criminals.

Civil liberty groups are

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naturally concerned that this kind of information would breach the offender’s privacy or endanger a fair trial if that person appears in court for another crime.

Currently the police can only share this kind of information when lives are in danger, but like the Bayliss case, it is hard to predict when and if a life is in danger.

By making a community aware of violent offenders in their midst, the authorities at least give individuals the opportunity to put some safeguards in place to protect themselves and their families and avoid potentially violent situations.

Tina Bayliss said she would never have left her sick

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The fact is that those who are convicted for manslaughter or murder are given a prison sentence but also should forfeit some of their rights to privacy.

The importance of giving a violent criminal a new chance in life should never be at the expense of a community’s safety.

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daughter home alone if she had known that the former partner bothering her was a convicted killer.

The civil liberty groups have a strong argument that we need to protect the rights of all individuals and their right for a fair trial, but that must be weighed up against the safety of the community.

Some will fear a witch-hunt against those named on a register for serious criminals, but maybe those fears are exaggerated.

Police officer acquitted of bribery

By Aaron van Delden “He has shamed himself, embarrassed his family and humiliated his wife. He should hang his head, he should be ashamed, but a criminal he is not.”

That’s how lawyer Susan Hughes, QC, summarised the defence of a Wanganui police officer accused of seeking a bribe of sexual favours from a women caught driving while disqualified.

In the High Court at New Plymouth yesterday, Constable Hayden Clifford Bradley, 31, was acquitted on one count of corruption and bribery of a law enforcement officer.

There were outpourings of relief from his family, who had filled the public gallery throughout Mr Bradley’s two-day trial.

His father said the jury, which took less than three hours to

return a unanimous verdict, made the right decision.

The mother of the complainant said she was proud of her daughter for going to the police and her family was very angry at the verdict.

“We are devastated but very proud ... My daughter is very vulnerable right now. She feels the verdict made a mockery of what she did. She says she told the truth”.

Mr Bradley still wants to work as a police officer but whether he is allowed to will depend on an internal police investigation.

He has been suspended on full pay since the allegation emerged in February last year.

The Crown accused Mr Bradley of seeking sexual favours in return for not prosecuting a 27-year-old woman, who he pulled over on February 5, 2012, for driving while disqualified.

Ms Hughes told the court the

only thing Mr Bradley was seeking was an assurance the woman would not talk about his decision not to charge her.

The court was told how police officers must charge someone who has been driving while disqualified because the offence can lead to imprisonment.

Ms Hughes said the sexual innuendo, flirting and “silliness” recorded in a conversation between Mr Bradley and the complainant as he drove her home from a bar in central Wanganui on February 7 was never linked to the prosecution of the woman’s disqualified driving.

New Zealand Police Association spokesman Emmet Lynch said Mr Bradley was considered a hardworking and reliable policeman.

The case had been “pretty tough” on him and his family.

Mr Lynch said the use of dis-

cretion was a fraught issue for police and perceived by people in different ways.

“We all have bad days. This was a really bad day.”

But Central district Commander Superintendent Russell Gibson said that while the jury had not found sufficient evidence to convict him, Mr Bradley’s behaviour was “disappointing and undermined the integrity of NZ Police”.

“Our reputation and our integrity is our greatest asset and we guard that very fondly.”

Mr Gibson thanked the woman for her bravery in coming to police with the allegation.

“This woman has shown enormous integrity and strength in raising a matter where she felt a person in a position of power was acting inappropriately.

“She has had no personal gain from this situation and was subsequently prosecuted for driving while disqualified.”

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A Hastings man who filmed the abuse of children and distributed the images to other paedophiles has been sentenced to preventive detention.

Aaron John Ellmers, 41, was considered to be at the “absolute highest end” of child sex offending in New Zealand and his crimes were today described as “utterly depraved”.

Arrested last year, Ellmers, pleaded guilty to about 60 charges at the Hastings District Court in February. These included sexual violation, making an intimate visual recording, dealing in people for sexual exploitation and attempted sexual conduct with a child aged under 12. Many charges were representative, meaning the offences occurred on numerous occasions.

Two other men had appeared in courts across the country facing charges in relation to an alleged paedophile ring Ellmers was a part of. The specialist police team which first identified Ellmers (Oceanz - Online Child Exploitation Across New Zealand) made 35 referrals to overseas jurisdictions, including Australia, the UK, the US and Canada.

Police summaries said Ellmers had two victims.

Yesterday in the High Court at Napier, Ellmers was sentenced to preventive detention for a minimum period of imprisonment of 20 years for offending Justice Edwin Wylie described as “utterly depraved”.

Only the High Court can impose a sentence of preventive detention. This means Ellmers is sentenced to a minimum term, and will only be released thereafter if authorities are satisfied he no longer represents a significant risk to the public.

Despite the likely length of a finite sentence, Justice Wylie did not believe it would be adequate to protect the community from a man he said had “wormed” his way into a position of trust.

Among the 60 charges detailing horrific acts of abuse were dozens

relating to the possession and trading of child pornography; the number of images on his computers the court heard numbered in the thousands.

Ellmers’ bowed his head during sentencing to avoid the media cameras, while a relative of one victim wept in the public gallery.

After reading victim impact statements, Justice Wylie said it was clear his offending had “a very real impact on both families”.

“His [victim’s] mother explains how her world was blown apart when she became aware of the offending,” he said.

She had lost her “will to function” and lost her job because she was not prepared to leave her children alone.

“The family has become extremely protective and they were devastated when they found out about the abuse.

“There is a very real concern the effects on the children will only become apparent when they get older. It is readily apparent that you are a serial paedophile.”

Offending against the first victim started when the child was 3 and Ellmers made significant steps to groom the child.

Another victim was aged 9 when the offending started. This child was plied with money and given alcohol and cannabis. There was video evidence of the offending on a camera memory card in Ellmers’ possession. Another potential victim was a child aged 18 months, who Ellmers had flown across the country to abuse but was arrested before he had the chance.

Following sentencing, the head of the Eastern District Child Protection Team, Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Greig, praised the work of Oceanz at the time of Ellmers’ guilty pleas.

“None of us have been left untouched by the nature and depravity of this man’s offending which has wreaked havoc on so many lives,” he said. “It is heartening to know that the children involved have been saved by us from further offending and can now start to receive the support they need to put their lives back together.”

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Calls for disclosure Two rescued from helicopter in water of criminal record gain momentum A helicopter which went down in Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour yesterday morning was the first of its kind and was due to feature in a helicopter expo in Russia in a few days, the helicopter company director says.

The two occupants of the helicopter escaped serious injury when the chopper went down some 200m from shore about 11.15am.

The helicopter was a prototype for New Zealand company Composite Helicopters and was out on the harbour yesterday filming video for an upcoming expo in Russia, company director Tim Pike said.

“They were flying along, doing some low-level work and a bit of filming when the pilot saw an engine light come up, followed by an alarm.”

It appeared the engine had failed, so the pilot tried to take the aircraft down as gently as possible.

“He put it into a controlled descent but unfortunately we had no land to land on so it had to be the water,” he said.

“We don’t call it a crash; it’s a controlled landing. Crashes are when they fall to bits.”

The helicopter floated for two to three minutes, giving the pilot and passenger plenty of time to get out, before it sank.

Mr Pike said it was the first helicopter of its kind.

“It’s the world’s first composite

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Yesterday’s helicopter crash in the Waitemata Harbour is being blamed on engine failure. helicopter, made totally in New Zealand, apart from the engine which appears to have been the downfall of it.”

The engine was made in America, he said.

“This is pretty much the first New Zealand-made serious helicopter there is.”

Mr Pike said the two on board were uninjured, while police said they had minor injuries.

A Navy spokeswoman said the inshore patrol vessel HMNZS Taupo happened to be sailing from Devonport Naval Base at the time of the incident.

“It was very much in the right place at the right time to provide

rapid response to that emergency.”

Auckland Westpac rescue helicopter pilot Barry Watkin saw the splash as the chopper landed in the harbour.

“There was an almighty splash as the rotor blades hit the water.”

He said a second chopper was accompanying the one that crashed, and hovered over the location.

Something “catastrophic” had occurred with the chopper that caused it to drop into the water.

The pilot was able to make a mayday call and performed a “semi controlled” crash where the chopper turned on its side,

which killed the rotor blades and allowed him and a passenger to escape uninjured.

It was submerged under 10 metres of water.

Mr Watkin said it was extremely unlucky thing to happen - but those on board were also incredibly lucky to walk away uninjured.

“I’d be going straight to the Lotto shop.”

The pilot of the crashed helicopter, Peter Maloney, told reporters engine failure was the cause of the crash.

He saw a warning light and then heard an audible warning which told him, “I was losing power”.

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Justice Minister Judith Collins and the Justice Ministry are considering a law change to allow police to flag criminal backgrounds to family members and others.

Ms Collins said she would like to ensure police can provide information to people who might be concerned about the behaviour of someone they’re in a close relationship with.

“For example, if you’re living with someone, or going out with someone and you start to see some behaviour that made you concerned, you should be able to go to police and get the full details.

“I don’t understand the idea that one day a matter is in court and it’s public and public information, and it seems like a week later it’s suddenly private.

“It seems bizarre to me, and I need to really be convinced that what we’re doing at the moment is the right thing and I’m not sure that it is.”

Ms Collins said on her way to caucus yesterday a report could take up to two months.

The call for disclosure of a person’s criminal background came after Jeremy McLaughlin was convicted for his second killing of Christchurch schoolgirl Jade Bayliss.

He was deported to New Zealand after serving a manslaughter conviction in Australia - but was not subject to any release conditions.

Only when the guilty verdict in the Bayliss case was handed down could it be revealed that he had killed before.

On his arrival in New Zealand, police were advised of the manslaughter conviction, but McLaughlin was not subject to any release conditions or monitoring because the crime occurred in another jurisdiction.

Christchurch police confirmed they knew of McLaughlin’s past, but were unable to tell anybody about it – even Jade’s mother, Tina who became worried about McLaughlin’s behaviour after ending a four-week relationship with him just weeks before he killed her eldest child.

Unaware of his previous convictions, she sought trespass papers against him.

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Asset petition falls H T L A E H short on signatures &BEAUTY

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The Grey Power-led and Labour and Greens-supported petition to force a referendum on the Government’s partial asset sales policy has failed because it did not have enough signatures.

However, the “Keep Our Assets” coalition has not given up and says it will continue to collect signatures.

Parliament’s Clerk of the House Mary Harris yesterday said she had certified that the petition had lapsed because she could not be sure the minimum number of signatures required by law had been met.

The petition needed the signatures of 10 per cent of voters to succeed, which the Electoral Commission said worked out to 308,753.

But Ms Harris said following a counting and sampling and checking process she found the petition was short by about 16,500 valid signatures.

The organisers of the petition presented it to Parliament in March claiming they had 393,000 signatures.

But Ms Harris yesterday said some of the signatories could not be found on the electoral roll, “either because they were not enrolled or because the identifying information they supplied was insufficient or illegible”.

“Some duplicate signatures were also identified.”

Ms Harris said legislation allowed the organisers a further two months to collect additional signatures.

Grey Power national president and Keep Our Assets coalition spokesman Roy Reid said the coalition was committed to finishing the job.

“We have two months to collect the remaining signatures. History shows that most petitions require a second go to get across the line.

“Three out of the four previous citizens initiated referenda have had to go back to get more signatures after the initial count.

“Of those petitions that required more signatures, two of them needed more than ours, so we’re happy there it’s only a small number of signatures left to go, and that on the second go the ref-

erendum will happen. “The asset sales are still unpopular and economically foolish. The collapse of Solid Energy’s value and the Government’s willingness to push ahead with the sale of Mighty River Power regardless of market conditions shows the Government isn’t listening.

Labour’s SOE spokesman Clayton Cosgrove said his party would redouble its efforts to help get the remaining signatures.

“New Zealanders are overwhelmingly opposed to the Government’s plans to sell our assets. Labour MPs hear it every day. We’re absolutely committed to working with the Keep Our Assets coalition to gather the number of signatures needed to ensure Kiwis have their say.”

He said it was not unusual to have signatures on petitions ruled out because people aren’t enrolled or have filled in their details incorrectly.

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Aleshia Davy, 34, spoke to youth of her trials and tribulations after falling ill with meningitis two years ago.

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By Myles Hume Mid Canterbury youth were offered a brief glimpse into the minds of legendary everyday people in our community yesterday.

As part of Youth Week, about 20 teenagers from the YMCA and the Ashburton College community entry programme gathered at the Base Youth Centre to listen to the stories of inspirational locals along with the issues that affect Mid Canterbury teens today.

The speakers’ stories provided a timely fit with this year’s theme – Live Like a Legend.

One of those was Burger King manager Aleshia Davy, 34, who told her story to the Guardian about living a life exposed to drugs, alcohol and a busy social life, supported by her McDonald’s job.

But her life made a dramatic turn when she fell ill with meningitis two years ago, causing brain damage which affected her hearing, vision and made her feel dizzy.

It did not take long before she realised she was out-of-control, turning her life around she moved to Ashburton six months ago to take one of the leading jobs at the fast-food outlet.

Her story left the teens stunned, whose smiles quickly disappeared as they took in her moving story, the youth were told “life is too short to throw away”.

“You never know what’s around the corner, you have to appreciate every day and what you’ve got, because you can lose it so quick,” Ms Davy said.

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Senior youth worker Deb Hay described six cases she had worked with during her 19 year career, offering up some “legendary” stories about teens who had overcome adversity.

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Syria threatens to hit back after raids Israeli air raids on Syria at the weekend killed at least 42 soldiers and Damascus has warned it will strike back.

UN human rights investigator Carla del Ponte says rebels had used the deadly nerve agent sarin in their fight to oust Syria’s regime, although a commission of inquiry later said there was no conclusive proof and the United States said it was “highly sceptical”.

“At least 42 soldiers were killed in the strikes, and another 100 who would usually be at the targeted sites remain unaccounted for,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP yesterday.

The strikes near Damascus were the Jewish state’s second reported air raids on Syria in 48 hours.

An early Friday raid had targeted a weapons storage facility at Damascus airport.

A senior Israeli source said the raids targeted Iranian weapons destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Iran and the Shiite group Hezbollah are steadfast allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and arch-foes of Israel.

A Syrian official in Damascus, reached by phone from Beirut, warned “Syria will respond to the Israeli aggression and will choose the moment to do so.”

“It might not be immediate because Israel now is on high alert,” he added. “We will wait but we will answer.”

Two rockets fired from Syrian territory exploded inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Monday, without causing casualties or damage, an Israeli army spokeswoman said, suggesting it was a spillover from the conflict inside Syria. UN leader Ban warned against any escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people in Syria since it erupted in March 2011.

“The secretary-general calls on all sides to exercise maximum calm and restraint, and to act with a sense of responsibility to prevent an escalation of what is already a devastating and highly dangerous conflict,” his spokesman Martin

Nesirky said. The EU also said it feared recent developments “risk dragging the region into an expanding conflict”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Syrian conflict, the Kremlin said yesterday.

Putin and Netanyahu discussed the “situation in the region and the situation around Syria”, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement to Russian news agencies, without giving further details.

The foreign ministry in Russia, the most powerful ally of Assad’s regime, had earlier expressed concern over the air strikes.

And China implicitly criticised the strikes as Netanyahu arrived in Shanghai, saying “we are opposed to the use of force and believe that the sovereignty of any country should be respected”.

The Syrian regime’s main regional ally Iran denied the weapons targeted were from the Islamic republic.

A diplomatic source in Beirut told AFP the sites were the Jamraya military facility, a nearby weapons depot and an anti-aircraft unit in Sabura, west of the capital.

UN human rights investigator Del Ponte, meanwhile, said there was evidence that Syrian rebels had used the deadly nerve agent sarin.

“According to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas,” the former UN war crimes prosecutor said in a Swiss radio interview.

But UN investigators into rights abuses in Syria stressed on Monday they had no conclusive proof that either side in the conflict has used chemical weapons.

And the White House said it was “highly sceptical of suggestions that the opposition could have or did use chemical weapons”.

US President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons in the conflict was a “red line” for his administration but also that he does not foresee US troops on the ground in Syria.

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• Charles for Chogm Queen Elizabeth II will miss the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka in November, sending her son Prince Charles in her place, the palace has announced. It will be the first time the 87-year-old monarch has missed such a meeting since it was first held in 1971, and comes as she hands over some of her duties to younger members of the royal family. The queen was forced to cancel several public engagements earlier this year after being admitted to hospital suffering from gastroenteritis, her first hospital admission in 10 years.

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In this photo taken from Legazpi, the capital city of Albay province, about 450km south-east of Manila, Philippines, a mushroom of volcanic ash shoots up to the sky as Mayon volcano spewed huge rocks and ash yesterday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years.

Five dead after volcano erupts One of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes rumbled to life yesterday, spewing room-sized rocks toward nearly 30 surprised climbers, killing five and injuring others that had to be fetched with rescue helicopters and rope.

The climbers and their Filipino guides had spent the night camping in two groups before setting out at daybreak for the crater of Mayon volcano when the sudden explosion of rocks, ash and plumes of smokes jolted the picturesque mountain, guide Kenneth Jesalva told ABS-CBN TV network by cellphone.

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in critical condition. Jesalva said he rushed back to the base camp at 914m to call for help.

Among the dead were three Germans and their Filipino guide, said Albay provincial Governor Joey Salceda. He said everyone on the mountain had been accounted for at midday, except for a foreigner who was presumed dead.

Eight people were injured, and Salceda said the others were in the process of being brought down the mountain. Ash clouds have cleared over the volcano, which was quiet later in the morning.

“The injured are all foreigners ... They cannot walk. If you can imagine, the boulders there are as big as cars. Some of them slid

and rolled down. We will rappel the rescue team, and we will rappel them up again,” he said from Legazpi, the provincial capital at the foothill of the mountain.

An Austrian mountaineer and two Spaniards were rescued with small bruises, he said.

Yesterday’s eruption was normal for the restive Mayon, said Renato Solidum, the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

The 2460m mountain about 340km southeast of Manila has erupted about 40 times during the last 400 years.

In 2010, thousands of residents moved to temporary shelters when the volcano ejected ash up to 8km from the crater.

Solidum said no alert was

raised after the latest eruption and no evacuation was being planned.

Climbers are not allowed when an alert is up, and the recent calm may have encouraged this week’s trek. However, Solidum said that even with no alert raised, the immediate zone around the volcano is supposed to be a no-go area because of the risk of a sudden eruption.

Salceda said he would enforce a ban on climbers.

Despite the risks, Mayon and its near-perfect cone is a favourite spot for volcano watchers.

The volcano has a trail to the crater that is walkable though it’s steep and strewn with rocks and debris from past eruptions.

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Mum wants son Limo driver rues ‘nightmare’ blaze buried in Russia The mother of the dead Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev wants her son to be buried in Russia, providing a possible solution to the problem of finding a cemetery that will accept him in the Boston area.

Tamerlan died of massive trauma to his body and limbs after a confrontation with police on April 19 outside Boston, four days after he and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, allegedly planted deadly pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the famous marathon, killing three people and wounding 200 others.

In the hours before Tamerlan’s death, a police officer was shot dead and another officer wounded by the brothers. Dzhokhar was also severely wounded and is in police custody.

Authorities released Tamerlan’s remains to the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlours funeral home last week, after extensive post-mortem examinations.

Peter Stefan, an undertaker with the funeral parlour, has told reporters their mother, Zubeidat,

telephoned him from her home in Russia’s Dagestan region at the weekend. She wept during the conversation with him and asked for Tamerlan to be sent to her for burial.

Stefan has vowed not to ship Tamerlan’s remains until he is assured there will be a proper burial, with neither mutilation of the body nor glorification of the suspect’s alleged terrorism.

After protesting at the weekend outside the funeral parlour, demonstrators rallied there again yesterday to voice their opposition to Tamerlan’s burial in the Boston area or anywhere in Massachusetts.

Stefan says if no alternative is found, he will have to turn to the state board of health or even the federal government to report that the unburied body was becoming a “health issue”.

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said US officials as of Monday were “unaware of any efforts to co-ordinate sending his remains to Russia”.

- DPA

A US limousine driver says he misunderstood his passengers’ cries for help when his limo erupted in flames en route to a wedding party.

A Filipina bride and four friends died when they were trapped inside the limo which was carrying too many passengers, an official said yesterday.

The victims died desperately trying to scramble through a partition to the driver’s section of the limo, which was en route to a wedding party near San Francisco on Saturday night, a coroner said.

Four passengers survived.

The driver of the limo was quoted as saying he initially thought the women, reportedly all nurses, were asking him if they could smoke, but misheard them because they were playing loud music.

The victims’ bodies were found up against the partition at the front of the vehicle, which caught fire on the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge, across San Francisco Bay. “This particular vehicle is listed .. as for carrying eight or fewer passengers .. there were nine people in this vehicle,” California Highway Patrol (CHP) captain Mike Maskarich told reporters.

According to media reports,

31-year-old newly-wed Neriza Fojas was travelling with eight friends in their 30s and 40s to a wedding shower in nearby Foster City when the limo burst into flames.

The cause of the blame is still not clear. The San Francisco Chronicle quoted the driver, Orville Brown, as saying he initially misheard when one of them tried to get his attention through the partition.

“They had the music up in the back, and I figured she was asking, ‘Can I smoke?’“ he told the newspaper. “I said, ‘The owner doesn’t allow smoking in the car, and we only have four minutes to the destination’.”

Less than 15 seconds later the women knocked again, he said. This time, when he rolled down the partition, they were shouting, “Smoke, smoke!” and “Pull over, pull over!”

He helped some of the survivors to safety but was unable to save the women in the back.

“We got out by the grace of God. I just wish that I could have done more,” the newspaper cited him as saying.

Fojas had recently married and had planned to return to her native Philippines for another ceremony next month.

- AFP

Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova will reportedly wed next week. According to UK newspaper The Sun, the pair have finally set a date after 12 years together.

The outlet reports the couple will wed in their adopted hometown of Miami, Florida.

The rumoured wedding plans reportedly come after a tense engagement period in which Iglesias is said to have pushed back at setting a date. The ceremony is said to be a star-studded one with no expense spared. Iglesias and Kournikova are known to be tight-lipped about their romance. They were rumoured to have wed in secret in 2011 and Kournikova has worn an engagement ring for years.

Neither star has commented on the latest reports. - CM

• Blast cause found Officials said yesterday that they had determined that ammonium nitrate stored at a Texas fertiliser plant is what exploded on April 17, killing 14 people and injuring hundreds. The finding was expected, and officials had said they were focusing their investigation on the explosive chemical used in many fertilisers, said Rachel Moreno, spokeswoman for the Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office.

A spot where the ammonium nitrate was stored is now a 27.5m-wide crater, Moreno said. However, the ignition source for the explosive chemical remained undetermined.

- AP

• Attack thwarted The FBI said yesterday it has thwarted a terror attack in a small town in Minnesota after discovering home-made bombs and guns in the home of a local man. The agency provided few details, saying the investigation into Buford ‘Bucky’ Rogers, 24, was “ongoing.” “The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were potentially saved,” the agency said. Investigators found Molotov cocktails, “suspected pipe bombs” and a Romanian AK-M assault rifle during a search of Rogers’ home. - AFP

• Toll passes 700 Hundreds of survivors of Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster have blocked a main highway to demand wages as the death toll from the collapse of a nine-storey building passed 700. Around 3000 garment workers were on shift at the Rana Plaza complex at the time of the collapse on the morning of April 24, making clothing for Western retailers such as Britain’s Primark and the Spanish label Mango.

Many of the staff were earning only around $38 a month, a salary condemned as “slave labour” by Pope Francis. But with work having come to a complete halt, the employees are now demanding payment from factory owners, both for their wages and as compensation for injuries suffered when the complex caved in. - AFP

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Women missing for decade found Three young US women who went missing around a decade ago – two of them teenagers when they disappeared – have been found alive in a house in Cleveland, Ohio, as police arrested three brothers in the case.

The dramatic discovery yesterday – just a few kilometres from where the women went missing – ended years of anguished searching by their families and drew hundreds of cheering people to the usually quiet, residential street.

The details of the trauma they may have suffered in captivity were not yet known, but it appeared that at least one of the girls had borne a child. The Associated Press reported a six-year-old child had been found at the same time.

Police said they have arrested three Hispanic men in their 50s in connection with the case, but declined to provide further details.

The long nightmare ended when Amanda Berry – who had been kidnapped 10 years ago at the age of 16 – reached her arm through a crack in the front door and called for help.

“I heard screaming. ... And I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside of the house,” neighbour Charles Ramsey told the local ABC news affiliate.

“I go on the porch, and she said, ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time’.”

Ramsey, a bystander now hailed as a hero, said he tried to get her out through the door, but could not

pull it open, so he kicked out the bottom and she crawled through “carrying a little girl”.

Berry went into a neighbouring home and called police, begging them to come as soon as they could, “before he gets back”.

“I’m Amanda Berry. I’ve been kidnapped. I’ve been missing for 10 years. I’m free. I’m here now,” a frantic Berry says in the recording of her call to 911. When police arrived, she said two other women were being held captive.

She told the dispatcher that the man who had held her was named Ariel Castro. Media reports identified the three suspects as Castro and his two brothers, but police provided no confirmation.

“All three women, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, seem to be in good health,” Cleveland police said in a statement.

Berry was last seen on April 21, 2003 when she left work at a fast food restaurant just a few blocks from her home around 7.40pm.

Her mother, Louwanna Miller, died of a “broken heart” in March 2006, Dona Brady, a family friend, told CNN. DeJesus was 14 when she vanished while walking home from school on April 2, 2004.

Knight, who was 19 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen at a cousin’s house on August 23, 2002, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Kayla Rogers, 23, went to school

with DeJesus and joined the crowd gathered near the house where her friend had been held captive.

“They don’t find people who go missing, you know,” Rogers, 23, told the Plain Dealer. “I’m at a loss for words.”

Neighbour Charlie Czorb said he was stunned by how long the women had lived at the house undetected, saying: “These girls were locked up in our own backyard.”

Castro was described by neighbours as a friendly school bus driver and musician whose daughter would often come over with his grandchildren.

Ramsay, the man who helped Berry escape, also expressed shock, telling reporters he had eaten ribs and listened to Salsa music with Castro.

Tasheena Mitchell, 26, said she didn’t believe her brother at first when he called to tell her that their cousin Amanda had been found alive and said she raced to the hospital to confirm it with her own eyes.

“She was my best friend,” Mitchell told the Plain Dealer.

A friend interrupted her, “She’s alive. She is your best friend.”

An emergency room doctor who treated the three women said they were in fair condition and were being evaluated.

“This isn’t the ending we usually hear to these stories so we’re very happy for them,” the doctor, Gerald Maloney, told reporters.

- AFP

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Charles Ramsey near the home on the 2200 block of Seymour Avenue, where three missing women were rescued in Cleveland, yesterday.

EU sets out post horsemeat food standards The European Commission has set out what it says will be a revolution in food safety from farm to fork, drawn up in response to the scandal of horsemeat sold as beef.

But the EU executive was careful to underline that the new rules would not in and of themselves prevent willful future misselling.

The agri-food industry is the European Union’s second biggest, in the world’s largest tariff-free market of half a billion consumers.

It is worth, the Commission says, some 750 billion euros per year and employs nearly 50 million people across Europe.

If passed by EU member governments and the European

Parliament, the proposed revamp, boiling down existing legislation and sharpening testing regimes, will introduce: • financial penalties directly related to profits from “fraud”; • and mandatory spot-check testing, as opposed to the power only to recommend inspections, as now.

In a departure, national author-

ities will be encouraged to publish league tables where consumers can check food data from everything from big-brand producers to individual restaurants, the Commission’s proposals said.

But the changes will not affect, in the main, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or “micro-businesses,” a large part of the post-industrial food chain.

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rulebook rewrite. He said the changes “take on board” some of the lessons of a scandal that stunned consumers in large part due to links to organised crime.

Borg’s office spelled out that the labelling of food, as seen in the horsemeat scandal, is a problem of fraud, not origin – already covered in legislation due to take effect from December 2014.

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“This fraud could have occurred, even if there was mandatory origin labelling in place,” it said of the equine scandal.

The Commission is to report to the European Parliament by December on whether or not it is desirable or feasible to extend origin labelling to meat provenance, it added.

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Neither will stipulations governing the important seed sector be applied to “private gardeners,” who will still be able to buy seeds “in small quantities” on open markets.

“The recent horsemeat scandal has shown that there is room for improvement,” said EU Health and Consumer Commissioner Tonio Borg, in announcing the

By Ben Chapman-Smith New Zealanders have increased their card spending during the first four months of this year despite fluctuations month-to-month, according to figures out yesterday.

Paymark, which processes about 75 per cent of all electronic transactions in New Zealand, said retailers had enjoyed a positive start to the year.

Spending over the first four months has evened out at 3.9 per cent higher than the same period last year, the company said.

Excluding fuel, seasonally adjusted spending through the Paymark network increased 2.1 per cent from March to April, which offset a decline in March caused by the ‘Easter effect’.

Paul Whiston, Paymark head of sales and marketing, said the fourmonth trend offered a clearer picture of how spending was tracking in comparison to the monthly trends, which often fluctuated.

“There have been several contributing factors impacting monthly spending over the past four months,” Whiston said.

“In January we saw a high 5.1 per

cent year-on-year increase, exaggerated by January 2012 having an extra Sunday than January 2013, typically a low spending day.”

February annual spending was down 1.8 per cent because a leap day in February last year gave an extra day of spending, he said.

March growth was also below average because Easter fell in that

month of April this year. April saw strong annual growth of 5.9 per cent.

“Balancing the results over January to April levels these seasonal effects to reveal an annual growth of 3.9 per cent, up on the 3.3 per cent average of 2012; so a positive start to the year for retailers in general,” Whiston said.

The Canterbury recovery was helping drive the higher national average growth rate, Whiston said.

For the first four months of the year, spending in the region was up 6.9 per cent compared to the same period last year.

Other regions to experience growth included Otago and Waikato (+4.5 per cent) Marlborough (+5 per cent) and Hawke’s Bay (+4.9 per cent).

Auckland/Northland’s spending growth of 4 per cent was above the national average but only slightly above the 3.9 per cent growth averaged in the region last year.

Some retailers in particular have enjoyed accelerated spending growth in the first third, with food and liquor spending up 4.1 per cent, pharmacies up 6 per cent and building and hardware up 9.6 per cent.

Compared to April last year, spending in hardware stores has increased 10.4 per cent, appliance shops 10 per cent and furniture and floor covering outlets 12.9 per cent.

The number of card transactions was 6.2 per cent higher last month than a year ago. Credit card usage rose 10.5 per cent and debit card usage 4.9 per cent.

- APNZ

Warehouse set to boost pay, training

By Paul McBeth Warehouse Group, the country’s biggest listed retailer, has unveiled plans to lift staff wages and create a better-trained workforce, rewarding long-term service at an extra cost of up to $2.5 million in each of the next two years.

The Auckland-based company wants to improve the public perception of retailing and attract more talented staff, and will hike wages for team members who achieve a certain level of skills-based training and stay with the firm for at least three years, it said in a statement. The details have yet to be finalised, but the plan is expected to be introduced in two phases over the 2014 and 2015 financial years.

“While having an engaged team is about much more than just pay, pay is a significant factor,” Warehouse Group chief executive Mark Powell said. “While this will cost the group an additional $2 million to $2.5 million in

‘While having an engaged team is about much more than just pay, pay is a significant factor’ - Mark Powell each of the 2014 and 2015 financial years, the impact on company profits is expected to be less due to increased team management, lower team turnover, improved sales and higher productivity.”

Warehouse employs about 7000 staff, and spent $169.4 million on employee expenses in the first half of the year, or about 15 per cent of its $1.11 billion revenue.

For qualifying Warehouse staff it will increase their overall package to between $18.50 an hour and $20 an hour, adding $50 to $100 to their weekly pay. For someone working a 40-hour week, that’s an annual salary of between $38,480 and $41,600.

Powell said the company had been working to build capability in the retail sector for some time, and was

influenced by the union-led New Zealand Living Wage campaign, which flagged the need for an increase in the country’s minimum wage to address the growing income gap between rich and poor.

“We took account of the analysis done by the Living Wage campaign, which the First Union took part in, regarding the level of career pay rates required to reasonably support a household,” he said.

The First Union welcomed the news as they prepare to negotiate their collective agreement in July, having accepted what it called a lower wage rise than justified last year when the company was in a turnaround phase.

“At that time the Warehouse CEO Mark Powell promised the workers and their union that the company would

look at significant wage increases after the turnaround had been completed,” First Union retail secretary Maxine Gay said. “We are pleased to see that Mark Powell is a man of his word.”

Warehouse shares rose 1.2 per cent to $4.10 on Monday, and have climbed 35 per cent this year. The stock is rated an average ‘hold’ based on six analyst recommendations compiled by Reuters, with a median target price of $3.675.

The government re-introduced a youth minimum wage last month in a bid to fuel employment growth for young New Zealanders struggling to get a toehold in the workforce.

It increased the minimum wage to $13.75 an hour in February.

New Government figures are expected to show private sector wages grew 1 per cent in the first three months of the year, according to a Reuters survey of economists. The average private sector wage was $25.17 an hour, according to the December quarter employment survey. - BusinessDesk

Norgate set to lead accountant merger

By Christopher Adams The New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants has brought former Fonterra chief executive Craig Norgate on board to oversee a major merger between the organisation and its Aussie counterpart, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.

The two organisations, which are the custodians of the Chartered Accountant designation in each country, yesterday released details of a proposed new trans-Tasman institute.

Norgate, who has been on the board of the NZICA for three years and took over as its chief executive in December, said he would head the 33,000 member organisation for around 12 months to “sort the future of the institute out”.

“It does put my plans on hold for a year, but life’s a long one,” Norgate said.

NZICA president Liz Hickey said yesterday’s announcement marked a major milestone in the history of the two institutes.

“The proposed new institute will have the scale to significantly improve the education offering and tools that members access from their institute, while also enabling the sharing of knowledge and insight amongst members on both sides of the Tasman,” Hickey said.

Norgate said the trans-Tasman institute would get the chartered accountant designation back to the pre-eminent position that was warranted by its entry standards.

“What’s tended to happen over the last generation is we’ve probably only had a high level of engagement with about a quarter of our members – the rest are just happy to have the brand and the designation supported, but don’t look to the institute for anything else,” he said.

“We really do need to increase our relevance to the rest of our members.”

Norgate said the merged organisation would have 3000 members based in Asia, but neither institute currently had a physical presence in that part of the world. “We’ll open offices in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong to support members in that region as part of really being relevant to those members.”

Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia president Tim Gullifer said members and the businesses they served would benefit from a larger institute with greater scale, increased policy formulation and advocacy capability, as well as global influence.

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ew Zealand MasterChef winner Chelsea Winter says sharing a meal is about connecting with family and friends as much as it is about eating.

Her style of food is relaxed and she chooses the freshest produce.

Being healthy, she says, is about much more than losing weight.

And let’s face it, keeping trim and fit is so much easier if you’re functioning well and feeling good about what you eat.

For many people, eating has become a routine and, while that may imply a certain resistance to change, in the interim it can be helpful. By gradually breaking less-than-healthy eating habits, the “new you” can set up a new routine that is much better for you.

Here are Chelsea’s top five tips to set you on the path to health, happiness and maybe even a trimmer torso.

Ensure you have a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruit and veges, meat, eggs and dairy – yum. What’s to fear about this? Look at all the good foods we are so lucky to enjoy in New Zealand – and you should eat them to stay healthy. In moderation, of course.

Eat “real” food, as opposed to packaged processed food. A no-brainer, you might say. But temptation lurks in the urgency of modern life – a few minutes preparing your own fresh food is an investment in your future.

Eat everything in moderation, but don’t take food too seriously.

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Food should be enjoyable, so don’t deny yourself a treat every once in a while. My guilty pleasure is wine, which leads me to my next point.

Wine is my occasional treat and guilty pleasure; however it can be loaded with sugar.

Increasingly, I have been going for a light wine option this summer, in particular, Kim Crawford First Pick Sauvignon Blanc. We’re the sauv blanc capital of the world. Enjoy it because you can enjoy it light.

Get plenty of fresh air and exercise.

Again, this is a tough one, with the pace of 21st-century living, but there are some fun ways – get a dog, run on the beach, play golf ... use your imagination. Exercise doesn’t need to be a chore.

Chelsea winter’s pan-seared salmon with beetroot & pistachio salad

Salad dressing ½ C plain unsweetened yoghurt ½ t cumin 1 T fresh chopped dill 1 T lemon juice.

Salad: 2 medium-sized beetroot 1 bulb garlic 3 sticks chopped celery ½ a large red onion, finely sliced ½ C pistachio nuts 4 salmon fillets or halve two large fillets, bones removed ½ C crumbled feta lemon wedges and microgreens to serve.

Salad dressing: • Mix the yoghurt, cumin, dill and lemon juice in a small bowl. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

Salad: • Preheat oven to 180°C. Cut tops and tails off beetroot, wrap individually in foil. Bake in oven with unpeeled garlic bulb for 45 mins. Remove beetroot and cool. Scrape off skin and chop into chunks.

• Place in a bowl with celery, onion and pistachios, add roasted garlic (skin removed) and mix.

• Remove any bones from the salmon with tweezers. Heat a little olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Rub the skin side of the salmon with salt and place in pan, skin side down. Cook for 4 minutes, turn over, then cook for another couple of minutes (depending on fillet thickness). Salmon is ready when it easily flakes when pierced with a fork.

• Spoon beetroot salad on to plates and sprinkle with feta. Top with salmon and garnish with microgreens. Serve with yoghurt dressing on

the side.

Suggested wine match: Serve with Kim Crawford First Pick Lighter Sauvignon Blanc.

This wine is full of flavour, yet lighter in calories and alcohol. Crisp and refreshing, the wine delights the palate with tropical and citrus flavours.

Chelsea winter’s crispy haloumi & pumpkin salad with lemon coriander dressing

Salad dressing: 1 clove garlic, minced 1 T lemon juice 2 T olive oil 1 t sugar 1 pinch chilli flakes (optional) 2 T coriander leaves and stalks, very finely chopped.

Salad: 500g pumpkin, skin removed and cut into large chunks 1 t ground cumin salt and pepper to season 1/3 C pine nuts 3 C baby spinach leaves 1 cucumber, shaved into ribbons, ½ C red onion sliced thinly 6-7 fresh basil leaves ¾ C grapes, halved 1 x 180g block haloumi cut into 5mm slices, olive oil for cooking.

Salad dressing: • Whisk garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, sugar, chilli and coriander until well combined.

• Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

Salad: • Preheat the oven to 180°C. Coat the pumpkin pieces in olive oil, sprinkle with cumin, season with salt and pepper, and roast for 30 minutes or until cooked.

• Cool, cut into chunks.

• Dry roast the pine nuts in a pan over medium heat until golden. Toss the baby spinach and cucumber with some dressing, and place on a platter. Add the pumpkin, onion, basil and grapes.

• Heat a splash of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Fry the haloumi for a few minutes each side until golden brown. Add to the salad and sprinkle with the toasted pine nuts. Drizzle with the remaining dressing.

Suggested wine match: Kim Crawford First Pick Pinot Gris. This superb wine is full of flavour, yet lighter in calories and alcohol compared to the standard First Pick range. Aromatic and delicious, this pinot gris delights the palate with crisp lemon-lime flavours and a delicate finish.

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One $21.50/Two $29

Black Cherry Chicken

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

Mary Jane Speight’s Salad

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

The Allenton Burger

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

Grandma’s Lambs Fry

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

Chicken Parcels

James Speights Steak

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

For the Wee’ans (12 and under)

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

One $22/Two $28.50

Percy’s Ribs (GF)

Blue’n’gold

Rooster Burger

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

Small $19.50/ Large $25

Kids Mini Platter (GF)

Feeling like a good Thai curry?

Great Food.

Great Beer, Great

With salad, redcurrant coulis and bread.

Alehouse Hot Platter

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

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

Crumbed Camembert

Malthouse Platter (GF)

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

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

The famous Speight’s Wednesday quiz nights have now returned! So come down and enjoy the fun.

$18

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

$12 and an iceblock!

BBQ ribs with crispy fries or mashed potato.

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

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

Japanese Restaurant

Tantalise your tastebuds

&Takeaways Since 2003

and the award to prove it...

www.thebrownpub.co.nz

148 East Street, Phone (03) 308 5885

302-9010

To advertise in this directory, please phone Desme on 027 468 8186

Tantalise your taste b

phone 03 302 8045

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

Burnett Street Ashburton

WED-SAT 112 Main Street, METHVEN

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

ASHBURTON

OPEN 5:30pm

Do Tasty Tex Mex cuisine and Kiwi classics blend to make beautiful music together? Nah. It’s just Great Food...

Indian Minar 300 East S Phone 03 308 1076

Phone 308 5980

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

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

Some say we’re Ashburton’s best kept

Traditional Authentic Japanese Cuisine

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

Indian Minar 300 East Street Phone 03 308 1076

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Classifieds ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

AVAILABLE rEntALs 4 / 46 Peter Street Two Bedrooms Web ID AS506 $280 per week 2 / 21 Creek Road Two Bedrooms Fully Furnished Web ID AS508 $320 per week 32 Church Street Two Bedrooms + Sleep out Web ID AS509 $310 per week 76B Aitken Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS511 $350 per week 74 Melcombe Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS510 $330 per week 20C Aitken Street Three Bedrooms Web ID AS512 $350 per week References required

Alana 0274 736 825 Michelle 027 77 66 497

FOR SALE

PUBLIC NOTICES

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

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

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

SMART TAVERN LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION) Notice of Appointment of Liquidators Pursuant to Section 255(2)(a) of the Companies Act 1993 Keiran Anne Horne and Lynda Jane Smart, Chartered Accountants of HFK Limited were appointed Liquidators of the above-named company by order of the High Court at Timaru on the 30th day of April 2013 at 11:33am.

Notice to Creditors to Claim

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

NEED a GOOD TENANT? For one week’s rent, have one of our Property Managers organise and arrange for you one of our vetted tenants that has been screened through our comprehensive 5 Security Check system for your peace of mind and security. It’s why more people are choosing McGregor Property Management! Taking your no-obligation enquiry now www.mcgregorrealestate.co. nz/property-management/ rentals@mcgregorrealestate. co.nz or 308 6173 and ask for our rental dept.

McGregor Real-Estate LREA-2008-MREINZ

The Liquidators fix the 30th day of May 2013 as the day on or before which the creditors of the company are able to make their claim and to establish any priority their claims may have under Section 312 of the Act, or be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before their claims are made or as the case may be, from objecting to any distribution.

Any creditor holding a security interest over the assets of this company should urgently contact the Liquidator. Further information and creditor claim forms are available on our website www.hfk.co.nz. Enquiries may be directed during normal business hours to: Geoff Brown HFK Limited 567 Wairakei Road P O Box 39-100 CHRISTCHURCH 8545

K A Horne TROUBLE? LIQUIDATOR

ASIAN new to town. Busty 36DD. Long hair, curvy body, sexy and friendly.

Phone Jessie 022 324 8167.

BEAT the bad weather blues. Come in and see one of our lovely ladies. Ph 021 565 126.

RENTAL 4 Property Managers, 5 Security Checks, 3 Management Options, Emailed Account Statements, Owner Login, Zero Tolerance Rent Arrears, Mediation and Tenancy Act Compliant. It’s why more people are choosing McGregor Property Management! Taking your no-obligation enquiry now www.mcgregorrealestate.co. nz/property-management/ rentals@mcgregorrealestate. co.nz or 308 6173 and ask for our rental dept.

McGregor Real-Estate LREA-2008-MREINZ.

DAILY DIARY TODAY - WEDNESDAY MAY 8

8.30am. ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. Mellish’s stream, Harrions Bight. new members welcome, phone Jenny 308-6826. Meet Ashburton courthouse, Baring Square West.

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

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

9.45am. MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS. Monthly meeting, Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

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

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

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

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

10.30am. ASHBURTON LADIES PROBUS. Coffee morning, Cafe Central, Tancred Street.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Exercises for people with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock St. 1.15pm. TINWALD 500 CLUB CARDS. Come join in and play cards, all welcome. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

1.30pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Euchre, all welcome, Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip St 6.30pm. ASHBURTON ROSE GROUP. Annual meeting with pot luck tea.

7.00pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing.

Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

7.00pm - 9.30pm. MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance 7pm, followed by beginner/intermediate (8pm - 9pm). Phone 307-7138 a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm. ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Workshop, night photography with Peter. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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

7.30pm. ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, music, fitness and fun. Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

7.30pm. ALLENTON INDOOR BOWLING CLUB. New members welcome. Allenton Hall, Harrison Street.

TOMORROW - THURSDAY - MAY 9 9.00am-4.00pm.

landscape supplies

Telephone 03-352-9189

Better in Blue

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

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

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

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

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

10.00am. ST DAVID’S UNI0N CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Qigong exercises, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

1.00pm. ASHBURTON SCOTTISH SOCIETY INDOOR BOWLS. Bowls afternoon new and old members welcome.

Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

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

1.00pm - 4.00pm. ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

1.15pm. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - beginners welcome. Waireka Croquet Club, the Domain, Philip St. 7.30pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. learn to dance. All welcome. Pipe band hall, Creek Road.

7.30pm. DIABETES NZ ASHBURTON. Open meeting, guest speaker Allison Donald. St John rooms, Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

EDUCATION VEGETABLE Production Horticulture Training includes organics, composting, soil, crop production, plant nutrition, pest and disease management.

Supplement your income, change your lifestyle.

Other course options available. www.agribusiness.ac.nz Phone 03-308-7870.

Noticeboard

8 may 2013

Cle an He at libR aRy SeSSion

we aRe Re viewinG ouR libR aRy openinG HouRS

The Ashburton District Council would like to invite Ashburton Residents to a public information session about the Clean Heat Ashburton Programme. This will be held at the Ashburton Public Library between 11.00am and 1pm on the following dates: • Thursday 16 May, Thursday 30 May

The Ashburton Public Library is reviewing our opening hours so we can improve our services to the community. It is important to us that any changes in opening hours are on the right days and times. It is always a challenge balancing staffing resources and hours but we want to get it right. You can help us by telling us when you make best use of the library.

A representative will be available on site to offer advice, provide guidance and answer any questions that you have relating to Clean Heat Ashburton and the funding that is available to home owners who live within the Ashburton Clean Air Zone.

If you would like to provide feedback please :

For further information visit www.cleanheatashburton.org.nz or call (03) 307 7700.

Together – Let’s clean up our air J DonalDson, Environmental services Manager

• complete the questionnaire on the Ashburton District Council website www.ashburtondc.govt.nz; or • print a copy of the questionnaire from the Ashburton District Council website and either post or hand deliver to the Ashburton Public Library, 180 Havelock Street, Ashburton 7700; or • collect and complete the questionnaire at the Ashburton Public Library J watSon, district librarian

dR af t ReSeRve manaGement pl an foR tHe a SHbuRton domain and G aRdenS

Have youR Say – a SHbuRton diStRiC t CounCil dR af t annual pl an 2013/14

Ashburton District Council advises that the draft Reserve Management Plan for the Ashburton Domain and Gardens is available for community consultation from Saturday 6 April 2013.

The draft Reserve Management Plan has been prepared in accordance with section 41 of the Reserves Act 1977. The purpose of the Plan, as outlined in the Act, is to provide for and ensure the use, enjoyment, maintenance, protection, preservation and appropriate development of the Domain.

Council invites any people or organisations with an interest in the Plan to provide suggestions or objections by 7 June 2013.

Copies of the draft Reserve Management Plan for the Ashburton Domain and Gardens and a submission form are available from the Council website www.ashburtondc.govt or from the Council offices at 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Submissions should be addressed to ‘Reserve Management Plan – Submission’ and posted to Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, Ashburton 7700, or may be delivered to the Council’s offices at 5 Baring Square West, or emailed to communityplanning@adc.govt.nz

The Ashburton District Council adopted its draft Annual Plan for 2013/14 on 4 April 2013. The draft Annual Plan details Council’s proposed work programme and budget for the coming year and outlines the level of funding required from rates.

The draft Annual Plan 2013/14 is now available for feedback from the community, and Council wants to know what you think.

Copies of the full draft Annual Plan 2013/14, summary and submission form are available on Council’s website or from the following locations: • • • • • • •

Ashburton District Council, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton Ashburton Public Library, Havelock Street, Ashburton Rakaia Mobil, State Highway 1, Rakaia Mount Somers General Store, Pattons Road, Mount Somers Hinds on the Spot, Peters Street, Hinds Methven i-SITE, Main Street, Methven Mayfield Udder Dairy, SH 72, Mayfield

b leSteR, Chief executive

Submissions on the draft Annual Plan 2013/14 will be received until 5pm, 10 May 2013.

Roa d Safet y C alendaR Competition

StoCk wateR R aCe pollution Council wishes to remind stockwater customers that races are to be kept clean and free of pollution at all times.

FOR SALE

Pollution of water races can result from-: ALLENTON Scouts - Fundraising for Jamboree in Feilding, December '13.

Green blue gum $150 for 3 3m , free delivery in Ashburton township. Crushed sheep manure $20 for 25kg bag.

Please phone Rebecca 308 5738/027 555 1455 or Lisa 308 2395.

ARE YOU sorted for Mother’s Day? If not, come into The China Shop and we have a fantastic selection of beautiful gifts all wrapped for you to give on Monther’s Day (May 12). We are in The Arcade Burnett Street.

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We want your artwork in our road safety calendar!

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

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

SuRve y of youtH viewS on alCoHol

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

We want to know what youth think about alcohol, especially where and when it can be purchased.

DO YOU LOVE blue and white?

We have just unpacked a new shipment of awesome urns, ginger jars, vases and more in varying shades of blue. Come into The China Shop in The Arcade Burnett Street Layby available.

Council is conducting a survey of Ashburton District residents aged under 25 years to obtain their views on matters such as how late they think bars should close, when alcohol should be available for purchase from places such as supermarkets, and their thoughts on alcoholrelated harm.

CONTAINERS

Mum’s the Word, remember mum on May 12. Boxes of handmade fudge from $15.

And passionfruit hearts from $5.00. Only at Kitchen Kapers the Arcade.

Ecoya Candles, room diffusers, hand crème and soaps. In five favourite fragrances from only $14.99.

Kitchen Kapers the Arcade.

GRAZING GRAZING wanted short or long term, for heifer calves, bull calves, yearling heifers or winter dairy cows.

Contact: John 027 227 6075.

HIRE FUNCTION / party equipment available for hire.

Marquees, tables, chairs, glasses, cutlery, cooking equipment, heaters and more. See U-Hire Ashburton.

588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.30am - 5.30pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 12.30pm. Ph: 3088061, A/h: 308-7460, www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz.

The Ashburton District Council is developing a new Local Alcohol Policy that will determine the hours, location and conditions for places that sell alcohol. The aim of the policy is to minimise alcohol-related harm.

The results of this survey will be taken into consideration when developing Ashburton District’s policy.

To complete the survey, please go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ADCyouthandalcohol Or check out the Ashburton Youth Council’s Facebook page for a link to the survey.

the activities of stock in and around water races in particular cattle and deer. In these cases, it is recommended that the races are fenced off and defined “drinking bays� are established to allow access for drinking only and prevent damage to the race and the associated pollution; discharges (accidental or otherwise) from other activities on farm; i.e. irrigation runoff; ploughing, spraying; welling drilling etc. These act ivities may require special management to ensure that contaminated water does not enter the race network.

Council regards race pollution as an urgent issue and will respond quickly to any reports received. By-law Enforcement Notices will be issued to property owners or occupiers where the cause of the pollution has been identified. In some cases a $500 instant fine may be issued.

Please consider your property now and attend to any activities that have the potential to cause pollution. If you are asked by Ranger staff to address a pollution issue on your property, please attend to the request as soon as possible (within 2 hours). If not done so, this may result in an instant fine of $500 being issued.

If you would like to report a polluted water race or require guidance on how to prevent the likelihood of polluting a water race on your property then contact Council Customer Services on 307 7700.

lif tinG of fiRe ReStRiC tionS

The survey will close at 5pm, Monday 20 May.

Notice is hereby given that the Restricted Fire Season that existed in the Ashburton hill and high country has been replaced with an Open Fire Season as from midnight Wednesday 8 May.

CloSuRe of Roa dS to oRdinaRy veHiCul aR tR affiC

This notice does not apply to State Areas administered by the Department of Conservation and the fire safety margins of those State Areas, for which an all year Restricted Fire Season applies.

Pursuant to Paragraph 11 (e) of the Tenth Schedule of the Local Government Act 1974, notice is hereby given that for the purpose of allowing the Ashburton Car Club to hold a Street Sprint event the following roads will be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic (with the exception of emergency vehicles) for the period indicated hereunder.

Streets to be closed • SMALLBONE DRIVE, from River Terrace to Robinson Street • ROBINSON STREET, from Smallbone Drive to McNally Street • WATSON STREET, from Range Street to Robinson Street • MCNALLY STREET, from Range Street to the end of the Street

Restrictions may be reimposed at a later date if conditions warrant, and it is the responsibility of all persons lighting fires to determine the current fire season status before lighting any such fires.

Under Environment Canterbury’s Natural Resources Regional Plan rules, no outdoor burning is allowed at any time within all urban areas of the District without a resource consent from ECan. There is still an expectation that all outdoor burning is conducted in a safe manner.

period of Closure: From 8.00 pm on Friday 10 May 2013 until 8.00 pm on Sunday 12 May 2013.

During the periods of closure provision will be made for ordinary vehicular traffic, which would otherwise use the roads, to access the Ashburton Resource Recovery Park via Dobson Street West.

CloSuRe of a SHbuRton RiveR walkinG tR aCk The Ashburton Hakatere River Trail will be closed to the public due to a Mountain Bike event held by the Mid Canterbury Mountain Biking Club.

It will be an offence under the above regulations for any person otherwise than under authority of an authorised permit to use the roads / streets for ordinary vehicular traffic during the period of closure.

Where: Ashburton Hakatere River Trail from State Highway 1 (the bridge) to Melrose Road, Ashburton

b leSteR, Chief executive

Unauthorised use of the track during this closure is considered an offence.

When: Sunday 12 May from 8am until 5pm d aSkin, manager, parks and Recreation

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals.

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

5 Baring Square West, ashburton 7700 PO Box 94, ashburton 7740 p (03) 307 7700 e info@adc.govt.nz www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

MEETINGS, EVENTS

MOTORING

MOTORING

LOST, FOUND HAVE you seen a big black and white duck with wings that stick out? Missing from Phillips Street end of Ashburton Domain. Please call 021-0819-6829.

ASHBURTON Society of Arts Autumn Show, Now until Sat, June 1. Short Street Studio. Mon, Wed, Sat, 10am - 2pm or by appointment. Ph 308-4533.

BMW 1997 - blue, new engine, new brakes, just serviced, registered and warranted. Moving away $8,000 o.n.o. Phone 021 158 0349.

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.

SITUATIONS WANTED

TRADES, SERVICES

WANTED

HOME handyman available. ANDREWS and Bevan seed machine.

Seed Minor repairs, painting etc. dressing riddles and cylinders.

PART TIME reception/ Ph 027-677-1952.

Anything considered. Ph 027 admin/office work wanted by 366 5777. a warm, friendly, well presented female. 28 years of experience and excellent Guardian Classifieds references. Phone Susan 027 501 0166. phone 307 7900

Guardian Classifieds

Phone 307 7900

Guardian Classifieds

Phone 307 7900

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

POWERTOOLs DEPARTMENT

Dairy Stock Feed Sales Representative – Canterbury Based Dairy Business Centre (NZ) Limited is a successful Ashburton based company providing ruminant nutrition and agri-business consultancy services to clients throughout New Zealand, as well as supplying quality dairy feed products to our rapidly expanding South Island client base.

As the leading innovators in New Zealand dairy nutrition, we are entering an exciting new growth phase that requires us to seek a highly motivated sales representative, demonstrating proven sales ability, to join our existing sales team.

The primary focus of this role is to develop our Canterbury and West Coast stock feed customer base through the use of pro-active marketing skills, while promoting the company’s unique and proven philosophy on dairy cow nutrition.

Working in conjunction with our experienced Ruminant Nutrition Consultants, you will enable clients to achieve optimum production and maximise their return on investment through a combination of sound nutritional advice, utilisation of our proven MilkMaP™ Dairy Solution Software and the feeding of high quality stock feed products.

The key responsibilities of this position include: • Developing new customer relationships in order to capitalise on dairy industry growth within the target regions; • Ensuring both new and existing customers experience total satisfaction with our products and service; • Achieving continual delivery of sales targets through pro-active account development and a strong marketing approach; • Promotion of the company at industry related events and trade shows.

Candidates should possess: • A good knowledge of the dairy or stock feed industry either through study or equivalent practical experience; • Proven sales experience, preferably within the agricultural sector; • An outgoing personality with the confidence to undertake cold calls; • Motivation, a good work ethic and a strong desire to achieve sales targets; • Effective communication skills at all levels; • The willingness and passion to commit to helping grow an already successful business in a dynamic and expanding industry.

On offer is an attractive remuneration package, to be based on the successful applicant’s skills and experience, together with the opportunity to receive industry training and ongoing career development.

Applications for this position close Friday 17th May 2013. If you are interested in working for an established company who values their staff and is committed to the dairy industry please forward your CV, together with a covering letter, to:

Dairy Business Centre (NZ) Limited Attention: Human Resources PO Box 29 Ashburton 7740 Phone: 03 308 0094 or

Email: hr@dairybusiness.co.nz

Committed to the development and sustainability of dairying within New Zealand

sALEsPERsON

Bar Managers Wanted Full time position.

Must be flexible.

Please contact Annette today 307 1406 or 021 262 9623 SEALY STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE

Medical Receptionist We are a patient-centred general practice in the township of Ashburton looking for a receptionist to join our friendly professional team. As the first point of contact for our patients you will need to have the following attributes: • professionalism and discretion • high standard of presentation • excellent communication skills • ability to cope well under pressure • ability to multi-task • good sense of humour You will also be proficient with a computer and have good knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes.

Training on our practice management software programme, MedTech 32, will be provided.

The position is full time with a minimum of 30 hours per week, plus occasional rostered weekend clinic work.

Please email your CV and covering letter by Thursday 16 May to kaye@sealyst.co.nz, or post to:

Automotive Technician We are look for a technician to work along side our team of seven. Our technicians include automotive, auto electrical and air conditioning. We also have an attached Bridgestone Direct that cover tyres, lubes and wheel alignment.

Practice Manager Sealy Street Medical Practice P O Box 87 Ashburton 7740

We have a relaxed efficient work style that results in a very low staff turnover.

Our workshop is bright and sunny with six hoists and up to date Hanatech and Snap-On diagnostic equipment.

For further information contact: METHVEN MOTOR SERVICES LTD 170 Main Street Methven Phone 302 8201

ARGYLE WELSH FINNIGAN is seeking to make the following appointments to our staff. We wish to employ highly motivated people to join our busy practice and offer a competitive salary package and a modern and pleasant work environment.

RECEPTIONIST This position would suit a mature person with previous reception experience. Responsibilities include front desk and telephone reception as well as a range of administration work.

Truck Driver Required Truck Driver We require a truck driver toRequired start immediately in We require a truck driver to start immediately in

Must havecontracting Class 5 License our busy team. and confidence to operate other machinery such as telehandler Must have Class 5 License and confidence to loaders.

Aqua Japanese Restaurant, Methven Must have at least 6 months experience in the Japanese food industry, have both English and Japanese conversation skills Contact: AQUA Japanese Restaurant 03 302-9010 for more information

operate other machinery such as telehandler

Applicant must be adaptable to all situations, loaders. have a broad range of skills and be prepared to work long hours the harvest Applicant must during be adaptable to allseason. situations,

The position of Legal Secretary will involve working alongside the Partners and Associates undertaking Residential and Commercial conveyancing together with Trust and Estate work.

The applicant will have had recent experience working in a legal environment and need to be self-motivated with excellent organisational and people skills, be a team player with a flexible, proactive and professional attitude.

Please apply, enclosing a copy of your CV, to

The Office Manager Argyle Welsh Finnigan Solicitors PO Box 454 Ashburton 7740 Email: jan.johnson@awlegal.co.nz Applications will close at 5pm on Monday 13th May 2013

Contractors Required Nichols (NZ) Limited, a major player in the casualty stock industry requires contractors to collect and skin slink lambs and calves for the 2013 season.

Please apply to: Nichols (NZ) Limited PO Box 19758, Woolston, Christchurch 8241 P: (03) 384 3260 F: (03) 384 3014 Email: office@nichols.co.nz Web: www.nichols.co.nz

In return we offer a pleasant working environment and generous staff buying privileges and job security.

If you think you are the person we are looking for to fill this position, we would like to meet with you.

Email: hr.ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to: Human Resources, Mitre 10 MEGA PO Box 35, Ashburton 7740 All applicants remain confidential and close on Friday, May 17, 2013

Mill Hands – Winslow Fixed Term Contracts

Seales Winslow is a leading national animal nutrient feed business with branches in Morrinsville and Ashburton. We are seeking a number of motivated individuals to work in our state-of-the-art feedmill, based in Winslow, 10km south of Ashburton.

These positions involve shift work on a fixed term contract for a period of four to five months, requiring flexible working hours (including weekends). Some heavy lifting is involved. These positions may lead to full time contracts.

You must be able to demonstrate: • Knowledge or an interest in the dairy sector • Good communications skills, be thorough and able to keep good records • Ability to work with minimum supervision, meet daily targets and be a team player

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Donn McLaren whips around the bend in front of spectators at the Ashburton Street Sprints last year.

Petrolheads line up for the sprints

By Jonathan Leask The Ashburton Car Club is gearing up for their biggest weekend of the year with the 24th running of the Street Sprints this weekend.

The marquee event in Wheels Week sees the Industrial Park transformed into a race track as motorhead madness takes over for the weekend, with 54 drivers racing each other and the clock to be the last man standing.

All 54 drivers get four qualifying runs to push the clock before the field is cut for the elimination rounds.

“The entry list filled up almost immediately again and it looks like being a hotly contested event,” club spokesperson Daniel Tew said.

Southland driver Glen Frew and his Mitsubishi Lancer returns as the man to beat taking out the last two sprint titles, outgunning Tim Cook and his Mitsubuishi Evo by 0.48 seconds in last year’s final.

“Glen is back to defend his title but with Tim and former three time winner Neville Stowell it will be tight at the top of the field.

“They should be the top three as I

believe they all have better and faster vehicles.”

Stowell was setting the pace in qualifying last year but had to withdraw due to mechanical issues after Frew set the fastest lap of the weekend in the round of 32 on his way to edging out Cook, a second time runner-up in three years.

The trio will be hoping for good conditions to push their cars to the limit and the weekend’s forecast is for fine weather, which will please the drivers but possibly not the spectators.

“If we get fine weather they set faster times but if it’s wet it makes it better for the spectators.

“I must admit I like to see people going sideways off the course rather than around it but from the drivers’ point of view they want to set fast times.”

All of the cars will get the official once-over on Thursday night before the Industrial Park is transformed into a race track on Friday.

The racing gets underway at 9am Saturday with the qualifying rounds for all 54 drivers before the eliminations start on Sunday, with the final scheduled for around 4pm.

Navigators’ time to shine More for the family than the speed freak, the club have the annual Suzie Morrison Memorial Night Trial tonight, starting at 7pm.

Competitors are set an orienteer-

ing-type course to complete in their vehicles with the driver, navigators and any back seat helpers try to find checkpoints while following a complicated set of route instructions.

Openers chasing summer form

By David Leggat New Zealand’s second and final warmup game in England holds particular importance for openers Peter Fulton and Hamish Rutherford.

The pair lorded it over England’s bowlers at different stages of the drawn three-test rubber in New Zealand in March.

Rutherford’s 171 on debut at University Oval drew deserved high praise.

He faltered as the series went on, England figuring they had worked out a weakness to the shorter ball around off stump.

Fulton’s fabulous double of 136 and 110 at Eden Park firmly put in their place those who questioned the wisdom of recalling the 34-year-old.

However, the pair failed to cash in as New Zealand beat Derbyshire by 107 runs yesterday.

Fulton made 21 and 3, lefthander Rutherford 13 and 0.

Their positions for the opening test at Lord’s, starting on May 16, aren’t in doubt.

But both will want runs when New Zealand’s game against the England Lions starts at Leicester tomorrow night.

Coach Mike Hesson indicated yesterday the shadow test batting group will play at Leicester.

That is likely to be Fulton, Rutherford, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, captain Brendon McCullum and Dean Brownlie.

The brevity of the test leg of New Zealand’s tour - with no other game between the first and second tests means Martin Guptill’s chances of forcing his way in now appear slim.

Hesson also indicated that the only spinner in the party, Auckland left armer Bruce Martin, is a strong chance to play in the Lord’s test, thus burying the idea of a four-

Peter Fulton: Opened against England and put all the doubters firmly in their place seamer bowling attack supplemented by Williamson’s occasional offspin.

“We will look at Lord’s but I suppose, in early season, when the wickets are a little bit slower it’s quite nice to have someone with a change of pace,” he said.

Martin and rival seamers Neil Wagner and Doug Bracewell shared all 20 Derbyshire wickets.

Wagner’s five for 45 as Derbyshire were rolled for 227 in their second innings, gave him eight for 78 in the match - six of them in the top five of the county team’s batting order.

He deserves to hold his place for the Lord’s game, although Bracewell has done everything right in terms of keeping the heat on to try and regain his spot.

Test certainties Tim Southee and Trent Boult will play at Leicester.

The third seamer role at Lord’s looks, as it has since the end of the home series, the key decision for Hesson and McCullum.

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Today’s Avondale fields, form and riders Avondale JC Venue: Avondale Meeting Date: 08 May 2013 NZ Meeting number : 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.20pm (NZT) TULLOCH CAFE MAIDEN 2100 $7000, MDN, 2100m 1 40x6 Duel Of Honour (6) 58.5.............M Sweeney 2 08859 Skyfall (4) 58.5..................... R Hutchings (a) 3 6068x Count Isti h (12) 58.5............... D Turner (a3) 4 007x6 Daggy One (10) 58.5...................T Thornton 5 960x0 Divine Promise h (9) 58.5................ M Wenn 6 05226 Silk Chardonnay b (3) 56.5...... P Turner (a1) 7 5x530 Inis Rose (11) 56.5.................... M D Plessis 8 63. Candy Girl (13) 56.5.................. M Cameron 9 84348 Anyx (8) 56.5..........................K Chiong (a4) 10 80x05 Dixie Run (5) 56.5.....................A Jones (a4) 11 56 Inarush (1) 56.5..........................M Coleman 12 8. Dee I Why (7) 56.5........................ O Bosson 13 97 Pixie (2) 56.5...................................... M Hills 2 12.55pm RACING AT AVONDALE 22 MAY MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 62263 Command (3) 58.5............... R Hutchings (a) 2 2343x Perfect Flow (1) 58.5..................... O Bosson 3 36 Ramarro (19) 58.5..................... M Cameron 4 4208x Victory Gold (6) 58.5.................. M D Plessis 5 3665 Aerospace (8) 58.5......................T Thornton 6 Cillian Will (15) 58.5....................M Coleman 7 8x8x Action Man (4) 58.5......................... M Wenn 8 Hurikin (5) 58.5.........................C Wong (a2) 9 60x Maa Chuck (14) 58.5............... P Turner (a1) 10 Pretty Scary (17) 58.5........................ M Hills 11 926 Always On My Mind (13) 56.5.......... L Innes 12 83298 Brahma Queen (10) 56.5........ A Forbes (a1) 13 50. Zah Tart (2) 56.5......................B Hutton (a3) 14 0x I Dream Of Jeannie h (16) 56.5.......... S Dye 15 50x0x Pure Grace (7) 56.5 16 46x86 Miss Meena (9) 56.5 17 3700x Rap N Tap (18) 58.5 18 8x2 Loot ‘N’ Lust b (11) 58.5 19 Sidi Rezegh (12) 56.5 -

20 96697 King Panamera 58.5..................... Scratched Emergencies: Pure Grace, Miss Meena, Rap N Tap, Loot ‘N’ Lust, Sidi Rezegh, King Panamera 3 1.30pm NZ ALL GOLDS COSMIPOLITAN CLUB MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 05403 Canthassleme (4) 58.5....................S Collett 2 9x30 He’s Magic 58.5............................ Scratched 3 Cacophony (13) 58.5.................... O Bosson 4 Cast King (9) 58.5............................. L Innes 5 Blackjack Man (5) 58.5.................... M Wenn 6 Cast A Spell h (17) 58.5..................... S Dye 7 Jesshanimo (14) 58.5.............. D Turner (a3) 8 0x Skai Ruler (8) 58.5............... R Hutchings (a) 9 222x Maiden Warrior b (1) 56.5........R Smyth (a3) 10 234x6 Senatorial b (10) 56.5................ M D Plessis 11 335 Vice Versa (18) 56.5......................M McNab 12 75x44 Fonda You (3) 56.5.................. A Forbes (a1) 13 2579. Miss Directional (12) 56.5.......... M Cameron 14 8 Our Molly Malone (7) 56.5...........T Thornton 15 50x0x Pure Grace (2) 56.5....................M Sweeney 16 46x86 Miss Meena (11) 56.5 17 3700x Rap N Tap (6) 58.5 18 8x2 Loot ‘N’ Lust b (15) 58.5 19 Sidi Rezegh (16) 56.5 20 96697 King Panamera 58.5..................... Scratched Emergencies: Pure Grace, Miss Meena, Rap N Tap, Loot ‘N’ Lust, Sidi Rezegh, King Panamera 4 2.05pm THE ORDER OF ST JOHN NORTHERN REGION R75 2100 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m 1 40410 Dancing Embers m (9) 59........ D Turner (a3) 2 24616 Lucky Charm (7) 56.5................... O Bosson 3 03955 Mons Calpe d (2) 56....................T Thornton 4 44588 Commanding Oak td (1) 55.5..... L Satherley 5 12285 Diamond Pete b (5) 55.....................D Walsh 6 18462 Indy Ruler (6) 55............................... L Innes 7 33451 Chevremont (8) 54.5....................C Dell (a1) 8 00x94 Nukumai d (10) 54..................... M D Plessis 9 07461 Exabelle (3) 54........................... M Cameron 10 38285 Makers Mark d (4) 54................J Oliver (a4)

5 2.40pm THE ORIGINAL AUSSIE BUTCHER KUMEU C,G&E MDN 1400 $7000, MDN CG&E, 1400m 1 0x262 Catalan King b (11) 58.5............... O Bosson 2 372x2 Travel Wise (2) 58.5........................... M Hills 3 35 Feroz 58.5..................................... Scratched 4 4 Cee Tee Are (9) 58.5........... R Hutchings (a) 5 747x5 Reckon I’m Ready (4) 58.5..............D Walsh 6 5540x Roman Rascal (14) 58.5............ M D Plessis 7 9 Goin To The Chapel (7) 58.5......M Sweeney 8 9x6 Tama Akarana (12) 58.5................M Tanaka 9 6x0x7 Castelnaudary (13) 58.5..............T Thornton 10 96697 King Panamera (5) 58.5...........R Smyth (a3) 11 7009x Mister Troy (8) 58.5......................C Dell (a1) 12 Mitcham (6) 58.5........................ M Cameron 13 Nek Minnit (1) 58.5.......................... M Wenn 14 960x Voncini (3) 58.5................................. L Innes 15 0x60 Zephyros (10) 58.5..................B Hutton (a3) 6 3.15pm BOB BLACK - SHIVAREE R65 1400 $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1400m 1 4730x Pure Platinum dm (4) 59..............C Dell (a1) 2 5483x Iponi m (3) 58.5...................... A Forbes (a1) 3 41x Little Butterfly 58.5........................ Scratched 4 21527 Carnavalito (11) 58.............. R Hutchings (a) 5 1x27 Queens Rose (10) 58......................N Harris 6 37214 Question (1) 58.......................... M Cameron 7 22303 Belorussiya (7) 57.5........................... M Hills 8 x1295 Miuccia Belle (9) 57.5......................... S Dye 9 828x3 Perfect Katch (6) 57.5..................T Thornton 10 46523 Sophie’s Gem b (5) 57.5................... L Innes 11 15685 Costume db (12) 57...................... O Bosson 12 3380x True Light m (8) 57.....................M Coleman 13 15054 Saffron d (15) 56..............................D Walsh 14 03446 Pay Attention (14) 55...............B Hutton (a3) 15 699x4 Prickley Princess d (2) 54.5 16 00x70 Princess Holly d (13) 54.5..........M Sweeney 7 3.50pm BECKETT REAL ESTATE R75 1400 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 8057x Kidnapped dh (10) 60.5........... D Turner (a3) 2 1185x Seed Of Speed dm (5) 59.5...... M Cameron

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3 0130x Boy Star dm (15) 58...............K Chiong (a4) 4 9x813 Frank Whitaker (12) 58..................... L Innes 5 32004 Billie Jean King td (2) 56.5............M Tanaka 6 60950 Is Da Chief (9) 56.5.................... L Satherley 7 439x8 Russianov (7) 56.5.......................T Thornton 8 60175 Witz End d (8) 56.5..........................S Collett 9 23433 Endorsement 56........................... Scratched 10 13240 Decorah d (14) 55.5...................... O Bosson 11 7121x Goyescas d (13) 55.5......................... S Dye 12 28x26 Ma Belle Ami (6) 55.........................D Walsh 13 3780x Ruby Lips (4) 55.............................. M Wenn 14 73331 Takeover tdm (3) 55....................M Sweeney 15 35x16 Mareka Miss tdm (16) 54..... R Hutchings (a) 16 5107x Noosa Blue (1) 54................... A Forbes (a1) 17 1180x Nazeer d (18) 55.5......................M Coleman 18 Lx537 Sweet ‘N’ Keen dh (11) 54 19 300x8 Malbec 54..................................... Scratched 20 46201 Smedley 54.5................................ Scratched 21 0x0x0 Cassius h (17) 54 Em: Nazeer, Sweet ‘N’ Keen, Malbec, Smedley, Cassius 8 4.25pm WAITAKERE UNITED SUPPORTERS F&M MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN F&M, 1400m 1 9x522 Carolina Island b (8) 57.5............. O Bosson 2 20233 Cupcake 57.5................................ Scratched 3 00532 Hardtaluva (7) 57.5.......................... M Wenn 4 4x29 Posy (13) 57.5................................... L Innes 5 00x4 Holly Rose (1) 57.5......................T Thornton 6 30x4 Stars Of Jiro (6) 57.5......................... M Hills 7 Honeymoon (3) 57.5.................. M Cameron 8 08x5 Roc de Chine (4) 57.5............... M D Plessis 9 8x5 Sheena O’Reilly (2) 57.5..................P Taylor 10 6 Emilys Own (12) 57.5.........................J Jago 11 9 Celeste (10) 57.5.............................D Walsh 12 Rosheen (11) 57.5...........................S Collett 13 56x66 Shades Of Gold (9) 57.5.............M Coleman 14 66x7 Vendemiaire (5) 57.5...................C Dell (a1)

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Wanganui greyhound fields, form Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 08 May 2013 NZ Meeting number : 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.08pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL HEAT 1 C0q, 520m 1 53855 Gucci Rush nwtd L &.......................... Morris 2 56347 Just Like Prince nwtd.......................S Maher 3 785 Hunted nwtd............................... K B Benson 4 447 Jimmy Buffett nwtd K &......................Phillips 5 76 Opawa Summer nwtd L &................... Wales 6 55476 Tepirita Tuiteka nwtd......................B Mitchell 7 84 Botany Seaton nwtd...................J McInerney 8 67x6 Candy Belle nwtd L &......................... Wales 9 x8486 Opawa Jen nwtd L &.......................... Wales 10 687 Tarryn’s Pride nwtd F &..................Turnwald 2 12.28pm HARRISON HIRE MASTER HEAT 2 C0q, 520m 1 44675 Sydenham Jade nwtd.................G M Clarke 2 87475 Big Job Jonesy nwtd K &...................Phillips 3 25348 Mighty Baxter nwtd....................J McInerney 4 2688 Botany Craig nwtd.....................J McInerney 5 7 Pat Patty nwtd L &.............................. Wales 6 Doll Parts nwtd............................ B Hodgson 7 56322 Opawa Cassidy nwtd L &................... Wales 8 Uno Charm nwtd...............................L Ahern 9 x8486 Opawa Jen nwtd L &.......................... Wales 10 687 Tarryn’s Pride nwtd F &..................Turnwald 3 12.47pm J P PRINT, PETONE C0 HEAT 3 C0q, 520m 1 3527 Botany Kevin nwtd.....................J McInerney 2 8 Rose Bow nwtd L &............................ Wales 3 34458 Cluain Meala nwtd...................... B Johnston 4 32364 Bigtime Tip nwtd...............................L Ahern 5 27437 Black Hennessy nwtd F &...............Turnwald 6 Pretty Sneaky nwtd.............................W Kite 7 53263 Opawa Royal nwtd L &....................... Wales 8 65675 Billy Holmes nwtd.......................G M Clarke

9 x8486 Opawa Jen nwtd L &.......................... Wales 10 687 Tarryn’s Pride nwtd F &..................Turnwald 4 1.04pm GUTHRIE BOWRON C0 C0, 305m 1 48246 I’m A Catch nwtd L &.......................... Morris 2 68565 Looptastic nwtd..........................J McInerney 3 657x4 All For One nwtd........................J McInerney 4 47286 Homebush Smoke nwtd............ S Gommans 5 737 Homebush Sting nwtd................J McInerney 6 Swiss Alps nwtd U &................... McCracken 7 85676 Go Russel Go nwtd.....................J McArthur 8 76x67 Dixie Queen nwtd....................... B Johnston 9 87 Botany Jessie nwtd....................J McInerney 10 78 Seconds Good nwtd.................A Duganzich 5 1.22pm GARY ROSS DECORATOR C0 C0, 305m 1 55855 Judy In Disguise nwtd.................R N Maisey 2 67 Hold Up Harry nwtd.....................B Goodwin 3 66x68 Chase Ostee nwtd.......................A Turnwald 4 76456 Homebush Envy nwtd................J McInerney 5 5 Homebush Awesome nwtd........J McInerney 6 33754 Gunpowder Gertie nwtd...............J McArthur 7 58773 One Ear Poised nwtd................ S Gommans 8 85266 Supreme Shelleen nwtd.............J McInerney 9 87 Botany Jessie nwtd....................J McInerney 10 78 Seconds Good nwtd.................A Duganzich 6 1.39pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD C0 C0, 305m 1 58654 Ruthless nwtd..............................J McArthur 2 x8683 Maddie Brand nwtd G &.....................Denby 3 Mariah nwtd......................................P Taylor 4 48284 Charlie’s Pal nwtd......................J McInerney 5 77327 Where’s Rican nwtd...................J McInerney 6 36656 Sedgebrook Glory nwtd.......................F Kite 7 32484 Sectioned nwtd........................... M Goodwin 8 245 Danny Sheen nwtd...........................L Ahern 9 87 Botany Jessie nwtd....................J McInerney 10 7766 Coyote Caught Ya nwtd......... E S Duganzich

7 1.57pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION C0 C0, 305m

1 648 Holly Lolly nwtd........................... M Goodwin 2 Scott Some Toe nwtd U &........... McCracken 3 27577 Intense Zoom nwtd......................J McArthur 4 43x87 Ello Elle nwtd....................................P Taylor 5 82362 Another Drink nwtd....................J McInerney 6 668 Homebush Julian nwtd..............J McInerney 7 55 Fantastic Anna nwtd.....................P Blanche 8 2686x Kotumba nwtd L &.............................. Morris 9 87 Botany Jessie nwtd....................J McInerney 10 37388 Tepirita Jazil nwtd........................ C D Brider 8 2.15pm MICKEY’S SUPER LIQUOR C1 C1, 305m 1 67467 Belle Cadeau nwtd...........................H S Kite 2 55678 Snap To It 17.77.......................... T R Pilcher 3 52211 Homebush Limbo 17.90.............J McInerney 4 13122 Matilda’s Babe 17.53...................J McArthur 5 16775 Car Wreck 17.90..........................B Goodwin 6 76345 Cawbourne Tobes 17.65............J McInerney 7 5114F Queen Cobra 18.12.......................... A Clark 8 11381 Eureka Izmir 17.59 F &...................Turnwald Emergencies: 9 53175 Speedy Feet 17.89.................... K B Benson 10 35442 Yeah Nah 17.89...................................L Udy 9 2.33pm BROAD ROOFING C1 C1, 305m 1 22132 Just A Boy 17.75 K &.........................Phillips 2 11311 Shanghai Sam (c2) 18.07.................L Ahern 3 264x5 Double Tapp nwtd..........................M Gowan 4 7467x Randy Outside 18.09......................... B Hunt 5 13275 Homebush Rick 17.91...............J McInerney 6 23253 Sarah’s Cool 17.96 F &...................Turnwald 7 5563x Jill Sprite nwtd U &..................... McCracken 8 43736 Azure Dreams 18.07...................G M Clarke 9 32148 Uno Green 17.81.............................S Maher 10 43276 Nina Be Good 18.04............................ L Bell 10 2.50pm KEENAN CONCRETE C1 FINAL C1f, 520m

1 25225 Cawbourne Bree nwtd...............J McInerney 2 61682 Inner Beauty nwtd....................... B Johnston 3 44784 Hair He Is 30.63.................................. R Udy 4 11142 Fierce Star nwtd F &.......................Turnwald 5 46281 Kylie’s Belle (c2) 30.28....................S Maher 6 61371 Smile For Daddy 30.35....................H S Kite 7 13 What’s Up Gee 30.34.......................L Ahern 8 21332 Uno Heidi nwtd.................................L Ahern 9 64345 Very Chilly nwtd..........................M Mathews 10 84265 Stevie’s Magic nwtd............................W Kite 11 3.08pm WANGANUI SECURITY C1 C1, 305m 1 82357 Red Hot Dutch 18.26.................. S Drysdale 2 64868 Sedgebrook Skite 18.19......................F Kite 3 56473 Easy Silence 18.00....................J McInerney 4 74883 Opawa Black nwtd B &................. G Atwood 5 11235 Laugh Like Santa 17.44....................L Ahern 6 18627 Working Waikato 17.75.................. D Donlon 7 76673 Black Mercedes 18.04.............. S Gommans 8 66845 Rebel Joe nwtd................................. A Clark 9 32148 Uno Green 17.81.............................S Maher 10 66226 Nuts For Sure 17.83................... B Johnston 12 3.25pm THE ROCK 95.2FM C2 FINAL C2f, 305m 1 66333 Surf Quake 17.69 U &................ McCracken 2 61211 Stock Taker (c3) 17.58......................L Ahern 3 38784 Jimmy Jurante (c1) 17.80..........J McInerney 4 11123 Tawny Port 17.42 F &.....................Turnwald 5 21122 Where’s Chicken 17.67 F &............Turnwald 6 32451 Crystal Wave (c3) 17.65............. B Hodgson 7 73444 Opawa Prince 17.91...................... D Donlon 8 28673 Pin Up Puppy 17.60....................G M Clarke Emergencies: 9 61575 Chelsea’s Beauty(c3) 17.84.......... T Downey 10 25355 Kezz 17.56...............................T McCracken

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6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Buzzy Bee And Friends. (G) 6.35 Tiki Tour. (G, R) 7.00 Flapjack. (G, R, T) 7.25 Kick Buttowski. (G, R, T) 7.50 Beyblades Metal Masters. (G, T) 8.20 Dinosaur Train. (G, R, T) 8.30 Guess How Much I Love You. (G, T) 8.40 Fireman Sam. (G, R, T) 8.50 Bird Bath. (G, R, T) 9.00 Infomercials. 10.30 Neighbours.

(G, T) 11.00 Shortland Street.

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

(AO, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle. (PGR) 2.00 Anderson Live.

3.00 Mr Men. (G, R, T) 3.05 Jungle Junction. (R, T) 3.30 Spongebob Squarepants. (G, T) 4.00 Austin & Ally. (G, T) 4.30 The Erin Simpson Show.

5.00 Horace In Slow Motion.

(G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 8 Simple Rules. (G, T) 6.00 Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Neighbours. (G, T) Toadie prepares for Sonya’s surprise wedding.

7.00 Shortland Street.

(PGR, T) Brooke hits the jackpot.

7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (T) The teams must cook for 100 farmers.

8.35 Big Bang Theory.

(PGR, T) Leonard’s car is stolen.

9.05 2 Broke Girls. (PGR, T) 9.35 Alan Carr: Spexy Beast.

(AO) Alan Carr is back in a special stand up show.

10.35 Revolution. (T) 11.35 Man Up. 12.05 Rescue 1. (PGR, R, T) 12.35 Ny Med. 1.30 Infomercials.

2.30 Shameless. (AO, R, T) 3.30 The Amazing Race.

(PGR, R, T) 4.15 Jeremy Kyle.

(PGR, R) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

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3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

Everybody Loves Raymond. (G, R, T) 3 News.

Home And Away.

(G, R, T) Dr Phil. (AO) The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) The Real Housewives Of New York City. (PGR) Carole throws a holiday bash.

Rachael Ray. (G) Entertainment Tonight.

(G) Home And Away. (G, T) Jett is upset when Bianca packs up Gina’s things from the office, John is at a loss without Gina, and Tamara is worried that Casey is putting others’ needs ahead of his study.

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

(G, R) 7.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 7.30 Home Shopping. (G) 12.00 The Doctors. (G) 12.55 The Jeff Probst Show.

(G) 1.50 Three Men Go To Venice. (PGR, R) 3.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (G, R) Ideas and practical guides to improvement projects for your home and garden, plus recipes and entertaining solutions.

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.

6.00 3 News.

7.00 Campbell Live.

7.30 Destroyed In Seconds.

(PGR, T) 8.00 Road Madness. (PGR, R) Presented by Ewen Gilmour, the series’ opener sees shocking footage of what happens when tourists forget what side of the road they should be on.

8.30 3rd Degree.

9.30 Harry. (AO, T) Harry returns to work to investigate a murder case.

10.35 Nightline.

11.15 Media3.

11.50 Hawaii Five-O. (AO, R, T)

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

(G) 7.00 The Crowd Goes Wild.

7.30 Best Of Top Gear.

(PGR, R) Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car. 8.30 Elementary. (AO) Holmes and Watson investigate the discovery of a body found inside an industrial washing machine.

9.30 Strike Back. (Final, AO) Scott confronts Bryant.

10.30 Back Benches. (G) 11.30 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G)

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12.50 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer.

5.30 Infomercials. (G)

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

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.30 Avatar: The Last Airbender. (G) 8.00 George Of The Jungle. (G, R) 8.30 Care Bears: Welcome To Care-A-Lot. (G, R) 8.55 HUMF. (G) 9.05 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.15 Thomas & Friends.

(G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.35 Wonder Pets. (G, R) 10.00 Tickety Toc. (G) 10.10 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G) 4.30 FOUR Live. (G)

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6.00 Everybody Hates Chris. (G, R) 6.30 Futurama. (G, R) Fry and Leela have to track down Bender on a planet of human-hating droids.

7.00 The Simpsons. (G, R) Homer has a mid-life crisis and decides to become an inventor like his hero, Thomas Edison.

7.30 Glee. (PGR) The members of New Directions take on the greatest hits of music icon Stevie Wonder.

8.30 FILM: The Perfect Man. (2005, G, R) Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth. A teenage girl invents a fictitious dream man for her lonely mother, in order to stop their family from moving house once again.

10.35 Burn Notice. (AO, R) 12.00 Infomercials. (G)

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Sky Movies, 6.25pm In a silly premise most kids will go crazy for, this sci-fi sports drama tale with a twist is set sometime in the near future, where robot boxing is all the rage (and human boxers are a thing of the past). Hugh Jackman has a blast playing a former boxer and struggling promoter who teams up with his estranged son (Dakota Goyo, below) to build a mega-fisted robot named Ambush (below), training it to become a championship contender.

sky sPORt 1 6.30 Netball. College Series. Upper North Island Playoffs. From The Trusts Stadium, Auckland. Replay.

7.30 Netball. ANZ Championship.

Melbourne Vixens v Central Pulse.

From Hisense Arena. Replay.

9.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

9.30 Re: Union.

10.30 AFL Weekly.

11.30 Rugby. Super Rugby. Rebels v Chiefs.

From AAMI Park. Highlights.

12.30 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

1.00 Golf. Asian Tour. CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters. Highlights.

2.00 Surfing. Champions Tour. Insperity Championship. Highlights.

3.00 Golf Central.

4.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Brumbies v Crusaders. Highlights.

5.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Highlanders v Sharks. Highlights.

6.00 Rugby. Super Rugby. Blues v Stormers. Highlights.

7.00 Rugby. IRB Sevens. World Series.

Glasgow Event. Highlights.

8.30 Rugby Zone.

9.00 Surfing. Rip Curl Pro Australia.

9.30 Sky Sport What’s On. 10.00 Fight Night On SKY. 12.00 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Roosters v Panthers. Replay.

2.20 Cricket. IPL. Sunrisers Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings. Live.

the bOx 6.00 NYPD Blue. (M) 6.50 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.15 Pawn Stars. (PG) 7.40 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 8.30 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 8.55 24. (M) 9.50 Law & Order. (M) 10.40 NCIS. (PG) 11.35 CSI. Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 12.25 CSI. Crime Scene Investigation. (M) 1.15 NYPD Blue. (M) 2.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 2.35 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 7.30 NCIS. (PG) The NCIS team suspects foul play when a Navy Lieutenant is the victim of radiation poisoning.

8.30 NCIS. LA. (M) 9.30 Terriers. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NCIS. (PG) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

1.45 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 3.05 NCIS. LA. (M) 3.55 Terriers. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

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sky sPORt 2 6.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

6.38 Soccer. English Premier League. Wigan Athletic v Swansea City. Live.

8.45 Football League Show.

9.30 Snooker. World Championship. Final.

Day Two. Session Two. Replay.

1.00 The Code.

1.30 Re: Union.

2.30 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels.

3.00 Cricket. IPL. Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils. Highlights.

4.00 Cricket. IPL. Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders. Highlights.

5.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Highlights.

6.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Highlights.

7.00 Netball. ANZ Championship. Northern Mystics v Canterbury Tactix. From The Trusts Arena, Auckland. Replay.

8.30 Deaker On Sport.

9.30 NRL 360.

10.30 Rugby League. NRL Premiership.

Warriors v Titans. Highlights.

11.30 Surfing. Champions Tour. Insperity Championship. Highlights.

12.30 Crowd Goes Wild.

1.00 Deaker On Sport.

2.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Replay.

4.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

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6.25 Spy Kids 4. (2011, PG) Jessica Alba.

7.55 Lottery Ticket. (2010, M) Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Gregory Moss, Ice Cube.

9.35 Total Recall. (2012, M) Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel.

11.35 Bad Teacher. (2011, 16) Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake.

1.10 Haywire. (2011, M) Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor.

2.45 Making Of Dr: Seuss’ The Lorax.

(2012, G).

3.10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

(2012, PG) Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson.

4.45 Red Riding Hood. (2011, M) Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman.

6.25 Real Steel. (2011, M) Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo.

8.30 Katy Perry: Part Of Me. (2012, PG).

A backstage pass, front row seat and intimate look at the fun, glamorous, heart-breaking and magical life of Katy Perry on and off-stage.

10.05 The Five-Year Engagement. (2012, 16) Jason Segel, Emily Blunt.

12.10 Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings.

(2011, 18) Tenika Davis, Scott Johnson.

1.40 For Colored Girls. (2010, 16) Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine.

3.50 Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings.

(2011, 18) Tenika Davis, Scott Johnson.

5.20 Red Riding Hood. (2011, M) Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman.

7.15 Life. (1999, M) Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence.

9.00 S.W.A.T. (2003, M) Samuel L Jackson.

10.55 Wedding Crashers. (2005, M) Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn.

12.55 Air Force One. (1997, M) Harrison Ford, Glenn Close.

3.00 Life. (1999, M) Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence.

4.50 The Thomas Crown Affair. (1999, M) Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo.

6.45 Fantastic Four. (2005, PG) Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba. Four astronauts gain superpowers when they suffer cosmic radiation exposure on a mission, and must use them to defeat an evil doctor. 2005.

8.30 Apollo 13. (1995, PG) Tom Hanks, Ed Harris. Ron Howard’s intense depiction of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, a mission that no one on Earth really cared about, until disaster struck.

1995.

10.50 Eraser. (1996, 16) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams.

12.45 The Thomas Crown Affair. (1999, M) Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo.

2.35 Fantastic Four. (2005, PG) Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba.

4.20 Apollo 13. (1995, PG) Tom Hanks, Ed Harris.

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Auction Hunters. (PG) Dirty Jobs. (PG) Swamp Loggers. (PG) Deadliest Catch. (PG) Mythbusters. (PG) Ultimate Warfare. (PG) Combat Countdown. (PG) True Crime With Aphrodite Jones.

(M) Nightmare Next Door. (M) River Monsters. (PG) Swamp Loggers. (PG) Deadliest Catch. (PG) Gold Rush: The Dirt. (PG) Gold Rush. (PG) The Night Shift.

Moonshiners. (M) Tickle Goes Rogue.

Jungle Gold. (PG) Armed Robbery.

Scott and George have been kicked off their gold mine in Ghana.

Dual Survival. (PG) Marooned on a deserted island, Joe and Cody face unpredictable and punishing tropical storms and brave shark-infested waters. With limited resources, they try to get back to civilization.

Deadly Sins. (M) Scorned: Love Kills. (M) Swamp Loggers. (PG) Moonshiners. (M) Jungle Gold. (PG) Dual Survival. (PG) Deadly Sins. (M) Auction Kings. (PG)

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Focus ST certainly is proof that a decidedly quick fivedoor hatch can be both a comfortable everyday car as well as being very rewarding drive.

I reckon it’s a car for all occasions!

Although there is at times, a little too much tyre noise.

It looks great, inside and out, is loaded with gear, and sounds fantastic.

The only thing I really didn’t like about it was having to give it back!

Focus ST

Classics fetch millions

By Stefan Weissenborn

For many enthusiasts the truly great car were created in the 1930s. Today these gems from an age when coach-builders fashioned bodywork around a running chassis seem like sculptures.

Many are replete with baroque trimmings such as chromium-plated radiator grilles and bonnet emblems. In view of their high value, driving one of these rare classics on the road calls for courage.

One collector last year paid the staggering sum of $US11.8m at auction for an ultra-rare Mercedes 540 K Spezial Roadster built in 1936. It was the highest price ever achieved for a model of the German marque.

Since then car fans have been wondering whether the new owner

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will ever dare to take the car out for a spin on a public road.

Doubts are justified, despite the temptation to put this supercar of yore through its paces. On the one hand, a classic car enthusiast is keen to drive his vehicle, said Peter Schneider, President of Germany’s Classic Car Clubs Federation.

On the other hand, an accident is not just a disaster in itself.

Regardless of how well the repair work is executed by expert restorers, the finished car is no longer in original trim - something revered by many owners.

The perils of taking a valuable classic on the open road were demonstrated recently in Germany when a mechanic crashed a rare gull-wing Mercedes SL300 during road-testing. Repairs could run into six figures and the car will never be the same again.

- DPA

The stunning Mercedes 540 K Spezial Roadster

he Focus ST loves hills, and fittingly so has the capability of making them alive to the sound of music!

For Ford knows sound is definitely part of many keen drivers’ total driving experience.

So the ST gets a “sound symposer”.

This includes some special plumbing that, as you accelerate hard up through the gears, redirects some delightful engine noises into the cabin.

To which the sporty twin exhaust adds its own notes to this aural symphony.

Under the bonnet lurks the source - a 2.0-litre turbocharged, direct injection petrol, four cylinder EcoBoost engine delivering a very healthy, and invitingly usable,184kW and torque of 360Nm between 2000 to 4500 rpm.

Just where needed for the ST driver to enjoy this very strong, “turbo-diesel like” seamless, linear delivery.

And enjoy it you do – not just the fact that it scoots from standstill to the legal limit in close to 6.5 seconds, but the way it will effortlessly pull out of tight corners in fourth gear from just 1500rpm, then continues to surprise with such a keen response for overtaking when sitting at 2500rpm, in sixth gear on the open road.

And this urgency is just so easily maintained, as the gearbox, which is so well matched to the engines almost seamless flow of power, has a delightfuly quick and precise action.

The clutch matches this, and there’s a proper handbrake.

The new Focus is a good looking car in its own right.

So while the ST doesn’t, at a distance look much different to its Titanium sibling, it

TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) You might find it harder to see the viewpoints of others today.

You will likely hone in on exactly how you see situations and may even border on being brusque, certainly less patient.

Yet there can be an upside to this and it can give you the drive to get things done.

So, if you can clear the decks and focus narrowly on one thing, you can do well.

GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) How are you finding Mars sweeping through your 12th Solar House? This began in the middle of last month but it may have had the effect of stirring up buried angers that you had previously long forgotten. Today, such an emotional legacy has a much stronger chance of suddenly erupting to the surface. Your mood could be tender to say the least.

Ford Focus ST Price: $52,490 (plus on-road costs) Engine: 2.0-litre four-cyl turbo-petrol, 184kW at 5500rpm and 360Nm of torque between 2000 and 4500rpm.

Transmission: 6-speed manual, FWD Safety: five-star ANCAP rating.

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room for two in the back.

Lots of comfort and convenience gear on board including dual-zone climate control, an alarm, auto headlights, rain-sensing wipers and three additional gauges set on top of the dash for oil temperature, turbo boost, and oil pressure.

Before I forget, for those who also want more traditional music there’s a range of voice command features, including those for the ninespeaker audio system, the Bluetooth system and more.

Read-outs are courtesy of the colour five-inch screen, which also provides very clear pictures for the reversing camera.

So that’s the singing and seating dealt with, but what about the dancing?

Well for a start the Focus is one of the best-handling hatches around and the ST goes even further with it’s clever electronic aids.

The suspension is a revised version of the standard Focus set-up, with different shock absorbers and springs.

It turns into corners quickly and has a nicely planted feel on the road with little body movement, yet does all this with very acceptable ride quality.

Meanwhile the electric assisted steering (with variable ratio steering rack) is direct, nicely weighted and consistent.

While under hard acceleration you do notice a slight pull at the steering-wheel, this torque steer is minimised thanks to Ford’s electronic wizardry.

Another such system brakes the inner wheel to reduce understeer.

All of which come together to give the ST the ability to go through corners in the manner of a classy, sporty, rearwheel drive car and stick to the road like its on rails!

Setting the benchmark

Porsche proudly presents in the 50th year of their classic 911 the new generation 911 Turbo and Turbo S – the technological and dynamic performance peak of the new 911 series.

New all-wheel drive, active rear axle steering, adaptive aerodynamics, full-LED headlights and up to 412 kW (560 hp) from the flat six-cylinder engine with bi-turbo charging underscore the role of the new generation 911 Turbo as a circuit racing car, everyday car and technology platform.

Playing an equally crucial role is the entirely new chassis, in lightweight design with a 100 mm longer wheelbase and larger 20-inch wheels.

The PDCC active anti-roll system, which is being offered for the first time in 911 Turbo models, increases dynamic performance even further.

This system is standard equipment on the 911 Turbo S, as is the Sport Chrono Package Plus with dynamic engine mounts and PCCB

ceramic brakes; all of these features are also available as options in the 911 Turbo.

The results: The new 911 Turbo S shortens the lap time for the North Loop of the Nürburgring to well under 7.30 minutes – naturally with standard production tyres.

The standard sound symposer intensifies the driving experience; it transmits induction sounds of the turbo engine to the passenger compartment via a speaker diaphragm.

The performance partners in the powertrain are the further advanced engines and the new Porsche Traction Management (PTM) all-wheel drive system.

The turbocharged 3.8-litre sixcylinder engine with direct petrol injection produces 383 kW (520 hp) in the 911 Turbo and 412 kW (560 hp) in the S model.

Fuel efficiency technologies have reduced NEDC fuel consumption by up to 16 per cent to 9.7 L/100 km; this figure applies to both models.

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ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) The Moon passes over Mars today and this could make you more conscious of your possessions, money in general, or even your values. But this combination, though brief, could also arouse some annoyance about the cost of your bills, especially for things like utilities. You may be more protective of things you own, especially if you feel taken for granted.

has some nice sporty but sutble changes and additions.

Like the black one-piece grille, tasteful bodykit and roof spoiler, and the 18-inch alloys with their 235/40 Goodyear Eagle tyres.

Not forgetting those nicely shaped, centre mounted, twin exhausts and the two small ST badges.

Despite its desirable performance, the ST remains a very practical car with its five doors and decent boot space.

With the 60/40 back seats folded flat, it was very easy getting my mountain bike (with the front wheel removed) in and out for our southern expedition.

The driver and front passenger are spoilt with a pair of figure-hugging, partial leather Recaro seats.

Complete with red highlights, these proved to have the perfect blend of grip and comfort for however long the trip was.

The steering wheel, which adjusts both ways feels just right.

With plenty of adjustment on the driver’s seat, it’s very easy to get yourself set up.

There’s plenty of room in these front seats, and decent

Roger Hart

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) Group dynamics can be less serene today.

Someone in your circle may seem flustered or worse. It’s possible a friend can seem less approachable. You may also have a change of mind about something that previously you’d shown every prospect of seeing through to its conclusion. Longterm hopes and aspirations can shift now Cancer.

LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) People can see that you are a charismatic person but this is one of those days when you will need to earn rather than demand respect. If you are overly bossy or demanding at home, rather than motivating people to do what you want, it can actually push them away from you. Work to foster a constructive use of your authority and power potential.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) Today has a number of potentials. You might encounter someone who is a tad too evangelical, with a tendency to enforce their viewpoint and credo upon you. However, equally, this might be how someone views you. Some truths are practical, such as the price of a loaf of bread, others are more to do with our perspective.

Neither browbeat nor be browbeaten Virgo.

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) You might have found yourself much more on the front foot about debts, business and longer-term finances.

However today, the chances are that your determination can become influenced by more subjective issues. This could see you make some snap judgements or be more confrontational towards another person. Talk to an advisor if you are unsure.

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SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) Relationship, competitive and partnership issues have been much to the fore recently, but if you are not quite getting what you want, today you may feel like telling it how it is, or more to the point, telling it how you think it is.

Someone else may have a very different view and this could lead to a clash of the titans! It will be important to listen too.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) Little things can be a source of satisfaction OR irritation today.

If you get your head down and put all your energies into getting things done, you might find yourself in a very productive space.

The downside is that you may have less patience with others.

People’s little ways and idiosyncrasies can get under your skin.

This may see you dish out some criticism.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) You could feel more amorous and playful, but also restless.

Routines and dull everyday needs can leave you cold. You want some excitement and may find yourself attracted towards those who have something exciting or daring about them. If you have talents, look to make the most of them. If you have children, look to encourage their creativity too.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Your mood could be very changeable today. It may be hard for people around you to keep up with what you want and need.

This may see you making some physical changes to your home or falling out with a loved one. It’s best not to invest too much time and energy in your short-term whims today, for very soon your outlook could alter all over again.

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PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) You could find yourself needing a lot of mental stimulation today but anyone or anything rather dull can leave you cold.

You could, however, have several changes of mind, or feel fidgety and find it hard to sit still for more than a few minutes. Find something to do that challenges and inspires you all at the same time.

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• Parker fight sorted Brice Ritani-Coe believes he is more than just a tune-up fight for Joseph Parker as the South Auckland heavyweight builds up for his bout with Francois Botha next month. New Zealander Ritani-Coe, who lives, trains and fights in Las Vegas put pen to paper yesterday on a contract to meet Parker in a six-round bout in California on May 17.

The 27-year-old last fought in November when he was beaten in a unanimous decision by undefeated American Jerry Forrest in Washington. Having dropped his weight down to 124kg and standing 1.88m, “I’m a tough fight for anyone. I’ve got a granite chin and know what I’m doing,” said Ritani-Coe. - APNZ

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Sheryl Carter and Bree Harrison battle for possession in the opening round of Mid Canterbury girls’ Kwick Sticks competition which got under way last night.

Hockey season hits its straps they, but gee our game’s in a hell of a state if they start saying those sorts of decisions are acceptable.

“He’s thrown a pass and it’s gone four metres forward. I just think it’s a forward pass.”

Bray conceded the Higginbotham try was a “tough sell” but said it was a correct decision according to the law.

“The TMO doesn’t worry about the travelling forward in terms of his decision, what he worries about is whether the hands are passing the ball forward or whether the hands go sideways or backwards which therefore means the player has not thrown the ball forward, that’s all he worries about.

“His logic on both decisions where we play on for a try is that both players have ... attempted to pass it back so play on.

“I believe his logic is 100 per cent right. We’ve checked that with five or six law experts. We have a group of reviewers who are very expert around the law, so it’s not just my view, it’s a coordinated view.”

Leszczynski got the Anscombe try wrong because there was nothing “clear and obvious” that should have prevented it being awarded, Bray said.

The defending champion Chiefs, second on the table but closing in on the Brumbies, host the Force in Pukekohe on Friday night.

New Zealander Vinny Munro is the TMO. - APNZ

By Jonathan Leask Hockey in Mid Canterbury gets into full swing this week.

The senior sides have already been playing for a month in the Mid-South Canterbury competition but the local lower grade competitions all get under way by Saturday.

The first grade men kicked things off on Sunday, while the division two men and boys’ Kwick Sticks

By Jonathan Leask Three days of racing has produced three different race leaders in the Giro d’Italia.

The thrilling descent to the finish line in Marina di Ascea highlighted the skills of the special bike handlers who think going downhill fast is like an easy ride in the park.

Attacking at 6.5km to go, Katusha’s Luca Paolini surged ahead to immediately create a gap that the chasers were never able to close, giving the 36-year old Italian rider the race win as well as the maglia rosa (pink leaders jersey) after three days of competition.

Sprinting in for second and third at 16-seconds were Cadel Evans (BMC) and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Sharp.

The 222km stage started out

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tonight, played out for the first time this season.

The grand final replay between Wakanui Black and Wakanui Blue was played in the rain on Sunday night, with Black look to remain unbeaten and Blue looking for revenge after last year’s final loss.

Blue struck first blood through Karl Snowball, putting Black on the back foot, but they couldn’t hammer home an advantage.

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earned a penalty corner and Ryan Wilson found the back of the net to level the scores before halftime.

The second half proved to be a stalemate despite being an open affair.

Both sides had numerous opportunities to score and from penalty corners, but a match winner wasn’t forthcoming, ending in a 1-1 draw.

The Tinwald men play their deferred match against Cambridge tomorrow night in Timaru.

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(third grade) were scheduled to start on Monday but were washed out.

The girls’ Kwick Sticks had their first games last night and the other junior grades, Kiwi, Mini and Fun Sticks, all get under way on Saturday.

The division one and two women start on Friday.

After the first grade men had their first hit-out of the season on Sunday the senior men’s Wakanui derby that was originally scheduled

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Junior: George Cartney 66, Bryan Shanks 67, Eddie Tulip 70.

Women: Sue Newman 73 b/l Jo Peacock 73.

Winning pairs in the Findlay Cup 4BBB match play were Malcolm Fechney and Tony McAndrew, Paul Gray and Stephen Anderson, Dave and Jason King, Shane Webster and Paul Boon, Lindsay Jackson and Rod Harris.

Plate winners were John Smitheram and Kerry Whiting, Tony Clarke and Warren Eddington, Dave Allan and Murray Beach, Andrew Barrie and Graham McCall. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Tony Clarke . Gluyas Ford # 6; Joyce VanderHeide. Stirling Sports # 12; Ray Goodman.

Ideal Electrical # 16; Ray Bell. Two’s: Bill Mason, Ray Bell, Duncan Lye, Wayne Lloyd, Joyce VanderHeide, Warren Eddington, Tony Clarke, Bryan Shanks, Tony McAndrew, Allen Moore.

Eagle; Brent Jary # 14. Net Eagle; # 8 Rod Harris. Dave Gill.

in Sorrento simply enough with a break of seven riders heading up the road after only 12km of racing and building a gap of more than six minutes.

Bradley Wiggins, Paolini and Hesjedal were all especially active on the last climb, most notably the defending champion who clearly showed he has the form to mount a defence for his title.

But it was Paolini who went on a tear for the finish line, winning by 16 seconds after almost six hours on the bike.

Time bonuses put him into the pink jersey by 17-seconds to Wiggins, taking the maglia rosa off the back of Sky’s Salvatore Puccio after only one day.

Ashburton’s Hayden Roulston, contesting his first Giro tour, rolled across the line 15 minutes back.

“From a tourist’s perspective, it

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Netball ANZ Championship Round 7 QUEENSLAND FIREBIRDS 63 (Romelda Aiken 40 Natalie Medhurst 22 Ameliaranne Wells 1) bt WEST COAST FEVER 54 (Caitlin Bassett 33 Catherine Cox 21) at Brisbane Convention Centre.

MELBOURNE VIXENS 52 (Tegan Caldwell 24 Sharelle McMahon 20 Karyn Howarth 8) bt CENTRAL PULSE 30 (Caitlin Thwaites 15 Donna Wilkins 11 Paula Griffin 4) at Hisense Arena.

CANTERBURY TACTIX 61 (Joanne Harten 37 Sophia Fenwick 24) beat the NORTHERN MYSTICS 57 (Catherine Latu 26 Maria Tutaia 20 Bailey Mes 11) at The Trusts Stadium.

SOUTHERN STEEL 60 (Jhaniele Fowler 59 Jodi Brown 1) bt NSW SWIFTS 55 (Susan Pratley 32 Carla Dziwoki 23) at Stadium Southland.

ADELAIDE THUNDERBIRDS 45 (Carla Borrego 29 Erin Bell 16) bt WAIKATO BAY OF PLENTY MAGIC 33 (Irene van Dyk 13 Ellen Halpenny 12 Jess Waitapu 8) at Netball SA Stadium.

Standings P W L For Agt % Pts Adelaide Thunderbirds 7 6 1 363 324 112.04 12 Melbourne Vixens 6 5 1 326 248 131.45 10 Queensland Firebirds 6 5 1 375 327 114.68 10 Waikato BoP Magic 6 3 3 331 281 117.79 6 Southern Steel

6 3 3 371 350 106.00 6 West Coast Fever 7 3 4 398 403 98.76 6 Central Pulse

7 3 4 363 385 94.29 6 Canterbury Tactix 6 2 4 328 404 81.19 4 NSW Swifts

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Shooting Mayfield Smallbore Rifle Club May 6 P McClintock 93.1; D McClintock 86.0; S Bartlett 97.3; B Austin 92.2; M Fleming 98.3; J Fleming 96.4; P Fleming 90.2; C Nordqvist 99.7; A Wakelin 95.2.

was a beautiful stage,” Roulston said.

“But for us it was very hard, the first real stage of the race.

“I had good legs but lacked some racing in them so it made it tough.

I could feel it at the end.

“I tried to stay in the front the first part of the race, but by the time we hit the first climb the race was already full-on and we’d just come back from getting bottles, so we didn’t get Robert where we wanted him and he had to work more than he should have had to.”

The work is only just beginning and Radioshack Leopard Trek has some catching up to do.

Overnight day four of racing was a 246km road stage starting in Policastro Bussentino and ending in Serra San Bruno, one of the longest stages in this year’s race which concludes on May 26.

New Zealand Golf and the PGA of New Zealand have signed a heads of agreement to explore the establishment of a combined governance entity for golf in New Zealand.

The heads of agreement specifically arises from a memorandum of understanding signed by the parties on 23 June, 2011, in which the parties agreed to work together with the goal of creating a long term vision and plan for golf in New Zealand.

Dean Murphy, chief executive of New Zealand Golf, said this was a landmark moment for golf in New Zealand.

“This is a very significant achievement in the administrations of New Zealand Golf and the PGA of New Zealand,” Murphy said. “The proposed merger with the PGA of New Zealand has been some time in the making, with some hard work from both parties.

“We believe this alignment of our organisations and their capabilities would have a very positive impact on both creating a secure future for the game here in New Zealand, in our clubs and communities, and would also increase our ability to compete on the international stage.

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But the powerful second-rower, who played two games for the Blues last series, has two attributes Daley treasures - size and strength. Fresh from his best performance of the season in the Bulldogs’ 40-4 victory over Wests Tigers, Williams revealed he is desperate to earn another crack at the Queenslanders. “It’s something special, something I’ve always dreamed of.”

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• Golden State blows it Andrew Bogut’s Golden State Warriors blew a 16-point lead with just four minutes left in the final quarter to lose game one of their NBA western conference semi-final against the San Antonio Spurs in double overtime yesterday. The Warriors are the underdogs against the four-time NBA champions and the 129-127 defeat in San Antonio represented a huge opportunity lost.

While the Warriors missed out on an upset win, the Chicago Bulls pulled off one in the first game of their eastern conference semifinal against the Miami Heat. The Bulls, with most of their team struggling with injuries, beat the Heat in Miami 93-86.

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Dumped for the Ashes, Mitchell Johnson has suffered more cricketing misfortune as the victim of a bizarre “hat-trick” in the Indian Premier League. Johnson claimed 3-27 in a match-winning performance against the Chennai Super Kings. But only after having former Test teammate Mike Hussey dropped three times off successive balls by the same player fielding at point - usually brilliant West Indies allrounder Kieron Pollard. To rub salt into the wounds for a bemused Pollard, the third miss crashed through his hands and into his face. Hussey (507) is second to Chris Gayle (566) as the tournament’s top run-scorer - AAP

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Sanzar referees’ boss Lyndon Bray yesterday backed TMO Steve Leszczynski’s decisions in giving the green light to a Scott Higginbotham try despite the ball clearly travelling metres forward from the final pass in the Chiefs’ 39-33 victory at AAMI Park in Melbourne.

Leszczynski also ruled legitimate a borderline pass from James O’Connor to Kurtley Beale which led to a try to Nick Phipps, a decision which Bray said his Australian official also got “100 per cent right”.

Rennie has hit back, calling the backing of the decisions “ludicrous” which had the potential to “open up a can of worms”.

A fourth try to Chiefs fullback Gareth Anscombe late in the match was ruled out by Leszczynski due to an apparent knock-on in the build-up, something Bray said his official got wrong.

However, Bray said he fully backed Leszczynski on his forward pass rulings, saying: “My basic answer to Dave around that is that I think he has been absolutely wrong in what he has said to the media, which is unfortunate because he has a particular view which I think when you test that against the law and you test it against our review of those decisions, they are correct decisions.”

Bray’s judgment elicited a heated response from Rennie, particularly the ruling over Higginbotham’s try, which he believed was thrown four metres forward.

“If that’s not a forward pass then we’ll start getting guys 10m down the track and we’ll start throwing it to them.

“That’s just ludicrous.

“In the end they’re going to open up a can of worms if they think they can fob that decision off with the fact that the hands are facing this way and the ball has drifted forward because there’s going to be massive questions every game due to that.

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Brickie wins Badminton “It was a great way to spend a weekend - go for a ride and have a few beers and hang out.

“There were a whole bunch of people who did it with us and it just went from there.”

Where it took him was rodeo school.

He wanted to learn how to improve his riding and thought trying to hang on to a bucking bronco for eight seconds would help.

But Paget wanted more and decided to take a year off bricklaying and work at an event yard.

“I love working with the horses and rodeo wasn’t a good way to work with the horses at all,” he said.

“There’s not much of a relationship with a horse when you were bucking them out of a chute for eight seconds ... I just like the lifestyle of being with horses all day.

“It was hard work but it didn’t feel like work at the time.”

He was spotted by former Olympian Heleen Tompkins and recommended to Frances Stead, who owned Clifton Eventers.

He still rides her horses and won Badminton on Clifton Promise and was also 14th on Clifton Lush.

In less than two years, he went from never having jumped a fence to competing at three-star eventing level (the second-highest level).

In 2008/09 he was the nation’s leading event rider, in 2010 was seventh at the world equestrian championships in Kentucky and last year helped the New Zealand team to second at the world equestrian festival in Germany and bronze at the Olympic Games.

He also finished 10th in the individual event in London.

By Michael Brown and Jared Savage Not so long ago, Jonathan Paget was laying bricks on Sydney building sites and trying to learn how to stay on bucking broncos for eight seconds at rodeo school.

Yesterday, the 29-year-old became just the second Kiwi behind Sir Mark Todd to win the Badminton Horse Trials, the Wimbledon of eventing, after a thrilling finish.

To cap it off, it was the first time he had competed at the famous course.

Paget was second going into the showjumping phase and went clear in his round.

World, Olympic and European champion Michael Jung of Germany, also competing at Badminton for the first time, seemed destined to go clear to win only to drop the last rail to hand victory to Paget.

World No 1 Andrew Nicholson, chasing an elusive first Badminton title at his 33rd attempt as well as the grand slam (and the US$350,000 prize that went with it) finished third.

Paget looks very comfortable in the eventing world now and, even though he is already world No 4, is considered a rising star of the sport.

It’s not something that seemed remotely possible even 10 years ago.

Born in Wellsford, he moved to Australia when he was three and after school started an apprenticeship as a bricklayer.

He might still be doing it had his father not bought a lifestyle block on the outskirts of Sydney and furnished it with a horse.

“I just started bush riding with my dad,” Paget said last year.

Paget is well ensconced in the eventing circuit but accepts he’s different.

“I’m a bricklayer who rides a horse,” he said.

“Most of these guys have been brought up differently.

“I try to fit in but I grew up in Sydney in the suburbs and laid bricks. I didn’t grow up in a dressage saddle.”

It also meant he “copped a bit of shit” from his mates for a while.

Paget thinks his rodeo background helps him at times “when things get a little wild or ugly”.

It was a tense ride yesterday morning and it took some time for Paget to discover he had won.

He couldn’t watch Jung’s ride because it followed immediately after his and he relied on the crowd’s response.

“I’ll need a week for this to sink in,” he said.

“I wasn’t looking.

“I was hanging out with the horse and I heard them say it was going down to the last line.

“I’ve spent a bit of time with Michael and he’s such a perfectionist.

“When he gets to the last fence, you expect him to have it down.

“The crowd cheered and I thought, ‘Well, he deserves it’. Then I heard the crowd groan and I thought, ‘S***, I think I just won’.

“Winning Badminton is everyone’s dream.

“I came here knowing that I could win, but I never thought I would win.”

There might be some from Paget’s former life who might struggle to believe it, too.

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Currie ‘off the pace’ in first American triathlons Methven athlete Braden Currie has begun his next challenge in America, but didn’t have the greatest start.

The talented multisporter, who won this year’s Coast to Coast, has opted to try his hand - or rather his feet - at something new, heading to the USA to race in two triathlons in a move away from the adventure

racing he has made his name in.

However, his first expedition into the “less adventurous” multisport racing could have gone a lot better.

“I didn’t have such a good trip,” Currie said while preparing for 24 hours of flying to get home.

“I got smashed in the first race.

Then I got a flat tyre and my hand caught up in the front wheel which required a number of stitches.

“I still finished but I was well off the pace.”

Currie completed his first 5150, a non-drafting Olympic distance triathlon featuring a 1.5km swim, 40km bike and 10km run, on April 28 where he came in 39th overall out of the professional field in the St Anthony’s triathlon.

He was four minutes behind the lead bunch out of the water and then struggled to make up time on the bike or run legs to eventually finish 11 minutes behind winner Jan Frodeno, a German who won

gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

It was a tough introduction but unperturbed Currie lined up in the St George 70.3 ironman race in Utah on Saturday where, despite a flat tyre and damaging his hand, he came in 28th overall.

He covered the 1.9 km swim in 25.43 minutes, then the 90 km bike leg took 2 hours 24.22mins and he finished off the 21.1 km run in 1hr 20.51 for a total time of 4hr 13.53mins.

Canadian Brent McMahon won the race, coming home in 3 hr 51.10min.

Fellow Methven triathlete Julia Grant also got her American season started at the weekend competing in the annual Wildflower Triathlon.

In her first race of the season Grant finished in 11th place in the elite women’s field, good enough for 39th overall in a time of 5hours 8.22 mins.

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28.0 164.6

W 26

14.9 -0.6

–

0.2

9.2 163.8

NW 20

Temperatures °C

Average

14.4

3.6

Christchurch Airport 13.4 Average

14.3

Timaru Airport Average

0.9

3.7

13.9

Rainfall mm

1.1

2.6

14

234

12

203

8

175

6

9 noon 3

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing Wednesday

m am 3 3

6

9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

6

Thursday 9 noon 3

6

9 pm am 3

Friday

Wind km/h

max gust

6

9 pm

2 1 0

2:22

8:26 2:44 8:55 3:04 9:09 3:28 9:38 3:46 9:51 4:11 10:21 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 7:33 am Set 5:25 pm

Good

Good fishing Rise 5:27 am Set 4:17 pm

New moon

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Rise 7:34 am Set 5:24 pm

Good

Good fishing Rise 6:29 am Set 4:50 pm

First quarter

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Rise 7:35 am Set 5:23 pm

Good

Good fishing Rise 7:29 am Set 5:26 pm

Full moon

25 May 4:27 pm

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa