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Controversial legal high retailer Garry Davies believes his local market stronghold will strengthen, predicting the Government will refuse further businesses from selling the products.

The Rakaia R18 store owner, who has the legal high monopoly in Mid Canterbury, says he is at a loss as to what comes next as the Government stalls in its work to introduce new regulations for the industry, now expected to be in force by June.

The current delay has shut out potential competition not approved to import, make or sell legal highs, as licences were only given to those who applied during the 28-day grace period after the law was passed in July.

But Mr Davies - one of 170 licensed retailers - believed even when new regulations were released, no more legal high retailers would be allowed to set up shop throughout New Zealand.

“But I don’t mind which way it goes, I’ll either be the only

Locals crowned champs Mid Canterbury athletes claimed two national titles this weekend. Cyclist Hayden Roulston successfully defended his men’s Elite National Road Cycling Championships title for his fourth national road race title (P17) while swimmer Grace Sommerville (right) was crowned the women’s New Zealand Open Water Swim 10km champion on Saturday (P24).

one here, or I may have the opportunity to open more shops in Ashburton, Temuka, Timaru and in other places in New Zealand,” he said.

Mr Davies said his interpretation was business owners must have operated in the industry for 28 days previously and businesses would not be allowed to on-sell licences to another retailer. And he said major legislative changes to allow that would be unlikely in an election year.

“I also think 170 is a good sample size for the Government to test if the legislation works.”

The new laws have spelt the end of dairies, service stations, liquor outlets and grocery stores selling psychoactive products, forcing Ashburton’s Bel Air Dairy and Coin Save to pull them off the shelves in July.

Being the sole operator between Christchurch and Timaru, Mr Davies admits “it’s pretty reasonable”.

“I’m not going to go into figures, but we are making a profit . . . and on a personal level I’m looking at investing in retail buildings in Ashburton.”

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English actress to play Kiwi nurse

A New Zealand nurse formerly married to the wife-killer dubbed the “Black Widower” will be played by English actress Kate Fleetwood in a true crime television adaptation. The three-part series, The Widower, will dramatise the calculating crimes of Malcolm Webster, who was jailed for murdering his British first wife Claire Morris in 1994, before staging a similar attempt to kill his second wife, New Zealander Felicity Drumm. Webster took out life insurance policies against both women, but his crimes were discovered before he attempted the ruse again with his would-be third wife. The drama series, first reported by the Herald last year, was officially announced by British television network ITV this week, British media have reported.

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Cold cat rescued A cat that spent at least three winter days in a north-west Ohio drainpipe has been rescued after initially refusing attempts to lure it out with tuna, the classic call of “here, kitty, kitty,” and even a cellphone app that meowed. The Courier newspaper reports a resident in Findlay heard the cat’s cries and groundskeepers at a school cut through the pipe to free the orange cat, which was muddy, emaciated and hypothermic.

The male cat has been named Piper. It has a broken leg and other injuries signalling it’s had a rough time lately. But things are looking up, with a number of people volunteering to adopt if it goes unclaimed.

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Kiss all glammed up in Milan Gene Simmons wagged his trademark tongue as an all-glammed-up Kiss swept down the runway in an unannounced appearance during Milan Fashion Week. The band that brought glam to rock decades ago gave a burst of energy to the John Varvatos’ rock-inspired menswear preview for next winter yesterday, bringing the normally restrained fashion crowd to its feet to Rock and Roll All Nite. Bassist Simmons said fashion for him is “to be an individual and not to be a lemming”. Varvato’s designs have that “rock persona,” Simmons said, adding “if he wasn’t designing clothes, he’d have a guitar around his neck. The idea is to have a fiery heart and an insatiable appetite for any pair of beautiful eyes, male or female, looking at you.

And what you wear is an extension of your sexuality,” he said.

Singer and guitarist Paul Stanley said the band met Varvatos during Milan Fashion Week last year when they were performing in the city. The band has since signed on to do an ad campaign for Varvatos. “I knew John’s clothes for years because they have all those elements that I love in clothes, which are timeless,” Stanley said. “There is a style that goes back to some of the great rock ‘n’ roll bands of the ‘60s.”

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Booster seat for Minogue?

Kylie Minogue has revealed she joked about having a possible “booster seat” on The Voice UK. The Australian pop star, who stands at a little over one-and-a-half metres, joined American singer will.i.am, Ricky Wilson and Sir Tom Jones as a judge and mentor for the first time on the British talent show, at the weekend. Before the show aired, Minogue commented that her petite frame in The Voice’s big red chairs might be quite amusing. “I thought it could look pretty comical, me being in that huge chair!” she told Britain’s OK! magazine.

“I had joked (that) maybe I’ll need a booster seat!”

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Work romances banned Companies are cracking down on office romances, with bosses increasingly being asked to sign contracts promising not to have sex with staff – or if they do, they must declare the liaison to avoid conflicts. Air New Zealand confirmed it has introduced a formal code for its 80 senior executives.

Another company has banned senior staff from sexual relationships with co-workers, even if both parties are single. There were several high profile workplace sex scandals last year – notably Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s extra-marital affair and that of naval Commodore Kevin Keat, who was fired after a court martial over his sexual relationship with a civilian subordinate. And a top employment lawyer says companies are increasingly looking to introduce rules around office flings to manage potential fallout.

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■ WORKER EXPLOITATION

New laws for workers welcomed

By Myles HuMe

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Mid Canterbury immigrant workers are not immune to exploitation, but new laws will go a long way to ensure rogue employers pay the price, a migrant unionist says.

First Union migrant support co-ordinator Dennis Maga said exploitation of Filipino workers in Mid Canterbury was nothing new, seeing some work up to 70

hours a week and paid below minimum wage. The union had also addressed issues with migrant accommodation on dairy farms in the district.

He welcomed news that Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse is working on legislation to make the exploitation of legal migrant workers criminal, as opposed to civil, serving as a strong deterrent for dodgy employers.

Mid Canterbury has a diverse population, which includes up to 3000 Filipinos.

“Filipinos are such hard workers and some of them have a tendency to work 60 to 70 hours a week,” Mr Maga said.

“Many employers are becoming so confident at exploiting migrants especially in areas such as the Canterbury rebuild, and I think the new laws will help us prosecute against those

who are taking advantage.”

Mr Maga hoped, if passed, the new legislation would make “rouge” employers think twice about taking advantage of hard working legal immigrants.

But he said there needed to be further clarification.

“What if an employer decides to shut down or liquidate the company? How can the Government or any organisation prosecute because that is one of

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the strategies of some employers right now. Once they close it down, it makes it hard for us to press charges against them and claim the money for those who have been victimised.”

Mid Canterbury Migrant Workers co-ordinator Maria Cristina Tawatao also said she supported the move, with such a high strong Filipino community in the district. “And that is only going to increase,” she said.

■ WANAKA ASSAULT

Police speak to alleged victim

The Jones family of Carew, marking 100 years of farm ownership.

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Carew is Jones country through and through By sue NewMaN

front of a young oak tree.

Thirty years ago it may not have been uncommon Head out Carew View or purchase for families to have way and you’re photos online held a century long heading into Jones guardianonline.co.nz tenure of a farm, country. but changing farm It’s been that way practices and infor 100 years and creasing career if the fifth generaoptions have seen tion descendents many family farms of Arthur and Anna Jones are willing, it will pass into strangers’ hands.

Organiser of yesterday’s be Jones country well into the gathering, Wyvern Jones, tells future.

Yesterday more than 80 de- the story of the Arthur and scendents gathered on the fam- Mary Jones who bought the ily farm at Carew to celebrate 453 (180 hectare) acre farm 100 years of their family own- for six pounds five shillings an ing and farming on one block acre.

For their money they reof land. In front of the old homestead, built in 1914, de- ceived a block of land without scendents unveiled a plaque in trees, without fences. sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

It was covered in tussock, matagouri and scrub and its boundary was a couple of dusty roads.

The young couple had plans drawn up for a house and for an outlay of 600 pounds received a home, tank stand, wash house and a shed. With their two sons and daughter they moved into a house that was open to the roaring nor’wester, but that also provided them with an unimpeded view of the mountains.

They called their property Mountain View, a second daughter was born and the family laid the foundations of what was to become a spreading Jones farming empire.

Sons Harold and Jim became farmers as did their sons and

the Jones holdings grew to accommodate the growing number of farmers.

As the Jones descendents unveiled a plaque to honour Arthur and Mary, the nor’west wind hammered across the paddocks, providing a clear picture of the conditions Arthur and Mary Jones would have had to endure.

“We can only imagine what a desolate place this must have been. My dad often told the story of a State Advances man who came out here. He paused, looked around and said – you don’t intend to live here do you? What a God forsaken place this is.”

To the Jones family, however, 100 years on, Carew is still the place they call home.

Police are questioning a man who may have been the victim of what was described as a “ferocious” daylight assault in Albert Town, Wanaka, last week.

Constable Martin Barham told the Otago Daily Times yesterday a man had responded to a newspaper article which said the victim had fled the Dale St scene on Thursday, before being spoken to by police.

The man had contacted police but wished to remain anonymous. Mr Barham would not say where the man now is.

“All I can say at the moment is that he has contacted us to say he’s been made aware of a newspaper story.

“But he’s not local to be spoken to, so I’ve had to arrange for an officer from out of the area to go and speak to him.

“But he did express that he was the victim in that case.”

After the incident at 12.44pm on Thursday, police asked the public to look out for the victim of the assault who was thought to be a tourist in his 20s who was travelling with a woman of the same age in a silver Mitsubishi Chariot camping vehicle.

Two Albert Town brothers appeared before justice of the peace Joy McDonald in the Queenstown District Court on Friday charged in relation to the alleged assault.

Jarred Wira, 20, and Beaudine Wira, 17, were charged under the Crimes Act with assaulting persons unknown with intent to injure them, carrying a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment. - APNZ

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■ ASHBURTON GARDEN COMPETITION

In brief Taking a kip in shop View or purchase photos online guardianonline.co.nz

An Ashburton man learned the hard way that taking a kip on the way home from town after a few drinks on Saturday night can land you in trouble with the police.

The 24-year-old apparently was overcome by the need to sleep in the early hours of Sunday morning, claims he found a shop door unlocked and decided to nip inside. He pulled up a chair and footstool and promptly fell asleep.

The shop’s alarms were activated, the police arrived at 2.45am, found the sleeper and have charged him with being unlawfully on a property.

Fall through window Fooling around on Burnett Street in the early hours of yesterday morning had an unfortunate outcome for one young man when he fell through a shop window.

Police were called at 3am are following inquiries on the incident.

Hit by bottle Police are also making inquiries after a man on East Street was hit on the head by a bottle at 2am yesterday.

Female assaulted Keen gardener Daphne Allison gives her front border some close attention ahead of next month’s Ashburton Horticultural Society garden competition.

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Aiming for a tip-top garden

By Sue NewmaN

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Daphne Allison’s garden is a labour of love, never more so than in the lead-up weeks to Ashburton’s annual garden competition.

With husband Jim, she’s been a regular entrant in the competition, winning both the open and premier sections. Last year her garden was awarded second place in the premier section and she’s aiming for the top prize this year.

It’s been anything but an ide-

al lead-in to a garden competition, weather-wise with hail, wind, searing heat and chilly nights, she said.

Undeterred, Mrs Allison is making every effort to ensure her garden is in top form for final judging in this year’s event on February 9.

A call has been put out for entries in the annual event over a wide range of categories.

Last year, rather than spotters selecting gardens for judging, gardeners were invited to enter and the new system proved

to be a winner, said Ashburton Horticultural Society president Dick Bennett.

Last year two new categories were introduced – back sections and native plantings and both attracted excellent entries, he said. All gardens are judged from the street, with categories including open grade, premier (for gardens that have previously won an open grade), town houses and flats, back sections and native plantings.

There are also categories for best display of flowers, best

special feature, best lawn and best street or cul-de-sac.

While it had been a tough gardening year with plenty of wild weather, Mr Bennett said he had spotted plenty of good gardens around town he hoped would be entered in this year’s event. He’s keen to encourage people with new gardens to enter the competition.

“It’s a good way to get them gardening and to keep them gardening.”

This year’s event will be judged on February 9.

A 33-year-old Ashburton man has earned himself a court date after he assaulted a female on Friday night.

Forbidden to drive For one 15-year-old Ashburton girl, the decision to get behind the wheel and drive meant a brush with the law. The girl was issued with a forbidden to drive notice that spelled out clearly the consequences of electing to make the same decision before she acquires a driver’s licence.

Large scrub fires Canterbury firefighters battled two large scrub fires in the region yesterday. Motuariki Island near the centre of Lake Tekapo was engulfed in flames and smoke and firefighters decided to let it burn itself out. A Fire Service spokesman said fire broke out on the uninhabited island late Saturday. Emergency services were also alerted to a large blaze off State Highway 75 near Birdlings Flat about 2pm.

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Tonga pounded by cyclone; one dead

A 73-year-old Auckland man remains in a serious condition after a high-speed crash at Taupo Motorsport Park on Friday night.

Tony Sturm was flown to Waikato Hospital with serious pelvic and neck injuries. A hospital spokeswoman said he was in a serious condition in the hospital’s high dependency unit. The racing car driver’s red 1960s MGB Roadster was wrecked, the track’s chief executive Geoff Langham said.

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The cyclone that has wreaked havoc on Tonga has now cleared the Pacific nation after causing one death, damage to buildings, power and communication systems.

Tonga was pounded by Tropical Cyclone Ian, which had winds reaching 270km/h.

Tonga Red Cross head Sione Taumoefolau said a woman had been killed in Lifuka, a small island within the Ha’apai group of islands.

Ha’apai is said to have been the most severely hit by the category 4 cyclone, which had

hovered over the island nation for the past few days.

Mr Taumoefolau said it was not yet known exactly how the woman died, however there have been reports of major damage to homes and buildings in Ha’apai.

The Tonga Red Cross was among a group of organisations that was preparing to fly out to the area with supplies and aid.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said New Zealand had deployed a P3 Orion to assist Tonga’s government

with aerial assessment of damage.

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully yesterday announced that New Zealand would make $50,000 immediately available to respond to specific requests for assistance.

“Our thoughts are with the people of Tonga as they begin to come to terms with the damaged caused by this cyclone.”

Early reports suggested damage to buildings in parts of Ha’apai, limited communications and power outages, he said.

More details would become available as Tongan authorities made assessments.

Further support would be considered as the full extent of the damage became clear and Tonga’s government determined its priority response areas, Mr McCully said.

New Zealanders in Tonga were advised to follow the advice of the local authorities, seek suitable shelter, monitor local media for updates, and keep friends and family in New Zealand informed of their wellbeing.

- APNZ

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■ SECOND ASHBURTON BRIDGE

Flood of bridge submissions Rift over racy

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The Ashburton District Council’s mailbag has been extra heavy since the start of the new year as submissions flood in on the council’s notice of requirement to have land designated for a second bridge across the Ashburton River.

Submissions close on Friday and one week out 150 have been received.

Council senior planner Ian Hyde expects this number to increase significantly with an anticipated flood of responses this week.

As they arrive, the submissions are opened, categorised and logged into the council system.

Identifying topics and weighting these would not be done until after submissions closed, Mr Hyde said.

The notice of requirement was notified on November 7 and came after the

council had been through a long round of consultation and public meetings over its second bridge proposal. Many options were looked at for the bridge and its feeder roads in the early stages of the project but the council eventually narrowed this down to just two.

Both options used Chalmers Avenue at the northern end and the southern end offered two options through rural land to Tinwald’s east and an alternate route, still on urban land but a short distance east of Grove Street. The latter route was chosen. It will connect with Grahams Road to the south.

As the bridge project progressed it has been opposed by many residents in the Tinwald area and along Chalmers Avenue and a Bridge Action Group was formed to fight the project.

The council views the project as a long term one and by tagging land for the

new bridge today it will pave the way for work on the project to commence in the future and protect that land from private development.

Submissions can be made until 5pm on Friday to the council’s planning department at the Ashburton District Council, PO Box 94, Ashburton. Submissions must be dated, signed and must include the submitters name, address, phone number and email.

Submitters must state whether they support or oppose the requirement, in whole or in part; the reasons for their submissions and the outcome they would like. They must also indicate whether they want to appear before a commissioner to support their submission when a hearing is held.

The hearing on the second bridge land notification is likely to be in the first quarter of the year.

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And the winners were . . . Team BNZ. Irene Duff (left) and Leeanne Holmes talk through their menu with compere Marya Trengrove during Friday night’s final of the Methven Summer School Masterchef competition.

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Masterchef final serious business

By Sue NewmaN

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It might have started out as a fun event, but Methven Summer School’s Masterchef final saw teams turn up with their competition faces on and their best culinary skills fine-tuned.

On finals night, before a large crowd, there was plenty of laughter, but when it came turning out the best three course meal it was serious business.

The teams had been through two master classes during the week and in the final were required to create a salmon

starter, a pork main dish and dessert based on chocolate.

The BNZ team of Irene Duff and Leeanne Holmes proved they had been top students during the week, winning both the most votes from the audience and earning the nod from the judging panel of Phill Hooper, Pete Woods and Chantelle Quinn.

Summer school co-ordinator Judith Sommerville said the event was introduced to the programme this year as a way to involve local businesses.

“It bought the summer school out into the community and raised the school’s

profile. It turned out to be a hugely entertaining event, but the teams admitted they were also pretty competitive,” she said.

With the last classes held yesterday, Ms Sommerville rated this year’s school as another success.

“There was not one negative report from anyone. The response to our tutors was great and that shows how much talent we have in the Mid Canterbury area as most of those tutors were local.”

The organising committee has already held a debrief and planning for next year’s school has already begun.

kids’ book

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The head of the Film and Literature Board of Review has broken ranks with his board to express strong reservations about an award-winning children’s book.

Into The River by Ted Dawe is laced with detailed descriptions of sex acts, coarse language and scenes of drug-taking. The book came to public attention after it took top prize at last year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.

Award organisers hastily sent “explicit content” stickers to booksellers after the book’s win.

After concerns - including some shops refusing to stock the book - were reported by the Herald on Sunday, the Film and Literature Board of Review was asked to consider restricting Into the River to certain age groups. In September, the board decided the book should be sold with a warning that it was suitable for readers aged 16 years and older.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification ruled people might be offended but the book would remain “unrestricted”, though it recommended the book be read by a mature audience.

This week, it emerged that the chairman of the board of review, Dr Don Mathieson held serious reservations and would have preferred the book to have had an R18 rating.

Mathieson asked that his “dissenting opinion” be posted on the Department of Internal Affairs website with the board decision.

One of Mathieson’s concerns is that the book portrays sex with a 13- or 14-year-old as normal.

“It is injurious to the public good to normalise, as the book does, sexual intercourse by young teenagers,” he said.

“Into the River also portrays girls as all too ready for sexual activity. Drug taking is also presented as the kind of thing that a modern young teenager does; if you don’t do it, it is likely you will be disapproved by your schoolmates.

“The book is full of language that is highly offensive to the public in general.”

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■ CIRCUS COMING TO ASHBURTON

Big top coming to town

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Zirka Circus is heading to Ashburton, bringing a show they say is guaranteed to make people laugh.

Zirka Circus is currently on its third New Zealand tour and they will set up their new big top – which they say is New Zealand’s biggest and brightest circus tent – ready for their first show on January 22.

A spokesperson for the circus said they had awe inspiring and death defying acrobatics that had to be seen to be believed, contortionists and a magician, as well as more clowns than ever.

“And hold onto your hats for the amazing juggling and tumbling,” the spokesperson said. “Our contortionists put themselves in positions that will have you wondering how they will ever get out. And our clowns - yes, the ridiculous clowns - have multiplied, and we now have more clowns and clown acts than ever before.”

Zirka Circus will perform eight shows in Ashburton, at 7pm from January 22 to 25, as well as 2pm shows on January 23, 24 and 25. They’ll wrap up with a final show on January 26 at 1pm.

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Thrown from dinghy A 68-year-old man is dead after he was thrown from his dinghy following a collision with a yacht in Northland yesterday. The collision occurred as the yacht was coming into Opua at 8.30am, police said.

Crew members from the 13m tall ship R.Tucker Thompson who witnessed the incident, pulled the man from the water and began CPR until a defibrillator and then ambulance crew arrived. The attempts at resuscitation were not successful, police said. Police at the scene were interviewing witnesses and the crew of the yacht with Maritime New Zealand.

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An arson attack which significantly damaged four classrooms and destroyed a toilet block at an Auckland primary school has left the school community “angry and disappointed”.

The deliberate blaze at Richmond Road School in Ponsonby was set in the early hours of yesterday morning, with firefighters called to the scene around 5.50am.

The fire - which was described as “significant” by the fire service - quickly took hold, igniting in a toilet block before moving through a classroom and spreading to the roof. Smoke and flames were able to travel easily through the ceiling void as there were no fire breaks built into the school, fire investigators said.

The toilet block was “destroyed”, and the first classroom significantly damaged, with three other classrooms suffering smoke damage. It was thought the roof which covers the entire block may need to be completely replaced.

Principal Stephanie Anich said the arson had come as a shock to the school community.

“Obviously we are really angry and disappointed that someone would do that to our school,” she said.

“But on the other side, we’ve already got a plan in place, and new classrooms are on their way. The children will have classrooms to go into [when they return from summer holidays].”

Ms Anich said as it was the holiday period most, if not all, of the pupils’ work had been taken home, and had luckily not been ruined by the fire.

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The search for a 49-year-old boatie who disappeared after falling into Wellington Harbour a week ago has been suspended.

Uikilifi Peniamina and a 29-yearold companion were in a small dinghy off the mouth of the Hutt River when they fell into the water just after 5pm, last Sunday. They were retrieving a fishing net that had been set 20 metres from the shore. Mr Peniamina was not wearing a lifejacket at the time.

His companion was able to make it back to shore. Senior Launch Master Barry Hart of the Maritime police said navy divers with sonar equipment searched the harbour on Saturday, but found no sign of the man. The navy divers had now returned to Auckland.

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Lorde in Turangi Oh my Lorde - look who turned up in Turangi. She may have just had a Brit Award nomination to go along with her Grammy nominations, Lorde but Kiwi singing sensation Lorde was more than happy to pose with fans in Turangi at the weekend. The singer’s visit to Turangi has been the talk of the town with plenty of locals lining up to get photos taken with her. It’s understood Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, has family in the area including grandparents and an aunty who she has been visiting.

She’s also been hanging out at popular local swimming spot Bully Point, between Turangi and Taupo.

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Waikato police are trying to locate a person who fell off the rocks at Whiritoa, near Whangamata, about 5pm yesterday. A witness saw a male fall off rocks at the south end of the beach, did not see them resurface and left the beach to call for help. Senior Sergeant Gael Mockford of Hamilton Police said the male was on the rocks for an hour prior to entering the water and was described as wearing a white shirt.

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Business brisk at market

Suiting up in black isn’t unusual for All Black Aaron Cruden, but Saturday’s occasion was special for a different reason. The firstfive made it official with his sweetheart Grace King in front of a congregation of family and friends, including a host of All Blacks and Chiefs players. The Manawatu couple met when they were 18. A year later Cruden was diagnosed with aggressive testicular cancer.

King, a sports teacher, supported him through a recovery that culminated in his starring role in New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup victory. Cruden turned 25 this week, and celebrated with a white wedding under a blue sky. - APNZ

Hit and run Business was brisk at Saturday’s farmers market in Ashburton’s West Street car park. Helen Hargreaves (left) with customer Maureen Bishop, was one of the many retailers who enjoyed a a good day’s trading. The market is held every Saturday from 9am.

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By John Lewis Former Dunedin man Stanley Paris has been forced to quit his solo circumnavigation attempt, after his yacht’s designers expressed grave concerns about a substantial failure of the jury rigging system.

The 76-year-old had hoped to set a record to become the oldest and fastest person to sail solo around the world from Bermuda, in his custom-built yacht Kiwi Spirit.

His attempt was nearly in tatters last week when he tried to repair a sail destroyed by storms in the South Atlantic, and he received suspected cracked ribs and an injured left arm.

Despite his injuries, he decided to continue.

However, after seeing photos of the failures and repairs on Kiwi Spirit, and recognising the design of the rigging attachments to the yacht were inadequate for ocean sailing, Farr Yacht Design president Patrick Shaughnessy urged Dr Paris to halt his attempt.

“I think you have too many substantial problems to head into harm’s way,” Mr Shaughnessy told Dr Paris.

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By LynLey BiLBy Axed television series Nothing Trivial may return in a one-off special after being unexpectedly canned at the end of its third season to howls of protests from fans.

Television New Zealand spokeswoman Megan Richards last week said writers had been hired for a special finale episode to “tie up loose ends”.

The season ended on a brutal cliffhanger when leading lady Catherine (Tandi Wright) was struck by a van, just as it appeared her trou-

bled relationship with Mac (Shane Cortese) was back on track.

Viewers were left not knowing if she was dead or alive.

The network said poor ratings made it difficult to justify paying for a further season of the programme, but thousands of disgruntled viewers took to social media to lobby the state broadcaster to reconsider its decision.

In a surprise move, TVNZ revealed it has agreed to an approach by the show’s producers, South Pacific Pictures, to write a one-off script.

But Richards warned this was not confirmation the finale would go ahead.

“There are plenty of ifs and buts, and it’s perfectly possible that this won’t go ahead, so we don’t want to raise hopes only to dash them,” she said.

“We’ve had to disappoint fans once and we’d rather not do it again.”

She said the network had to assess the quality of the script before asking NZ on Air for the more than half a million dollars of public money it would take to make the finale.

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■ INCEST AND SEX CHARGES

and another daughter all live in Australia.

The man, in his 40s, had been living in Australia for 19 years, but will be deported back to New Zealand after a tribunal upheld a decision to revoke his visa.

The tribunal made its decision despite finding he has a relatively low chance of reoffending, RNZ reported.

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Two Lotto winners Two lucky Lotto players are celebrating after winning $500,000 each on Saturday night. The pair landed themselves a summer cash bonus with the First Division prizes, after buying their winning tickets from Te Aroha Supermarket in Te Aroha, and Green Island Lucky Lotto and Milkbar in Dunedin. Strike was won by a lucky player in Mangawhai, who took home $351,333. The winning ticket was sold at Molesworth Four Square in Mangawhai.

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Criminal to be deported to NZ A New Zealand man who has been sentenced in Australia to more than eight years in jail on incest and sex charges will be deported despite his family not living here.

The man, who has name suppression, pleaded guilty in Melbourne to the charges against his daughter, who was aged under 16, Radio New Zealand reported.

His mother, siblings, fiancee

A pregnant woman was rushed to hospital with serious injuries early yesterday after a hit and run crash in west Auckland. A silver Subaru car spun out of control in the city-bound lanes of the northwestern motorway, and collided with another car at around 4am, police said. It then fled the scene, driving in the wrong direction on the motorway. The car was caught

by CCTV cameras leaving the motorway at Lincoln Road. The driver of the other car - a pregnant woman - was rushed to hospital with serious injuries, police said.

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Peter Williams QC told the station isolating the man from his support network would make it harder for him to rehabilitate into society.

Justice Minister Judith Collins said New Zealand would do the same as Australia in the same position.

She said he was a very serious criminal who would be monitored when he arrives.

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Nobody has yet been charged over an early morning attack on a 23-year-old man in central Auckland, police say. The man was kicked about his head until he was unconscious in a fight between two groups on Customs Street, about 3.30am on Saturday. “During the fight a 23-year-old old man was knocked to the ground and kicked about the head, rendering him unconscious,” police said. The man was admitted to Auckland Hospital with a serious concussion injury. Detective Senior Sergeant Dick Corbidge said yesterday police were still to track down the offenders and the investigation was ongoing.

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Govt scramble over legal highs Coen Lammers EDITOR

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egal high retailer Garry Davies is an upbeat person at the best of times, but the Rakaia R18 shop owner is now laughing all the way to the bank.

Further delays in the introduction of regulations to enforce the Psychoactive Substances Act has given retailers like Mr Davies an unexpected monopoly to sell their products while the Government is scrambling to regulate the controversial substances.

When the legislation was rushed through in July, Mr Davies and 169 other retailers were awarded interim licences to sell 47 types of synthetic drugs that also received interim approval.

The regulations were expected to kick in before April but are now pushed back, possibly until June or even further.

The delay suggests that the legislation was rushed through Parliament half-cocked without fully investigating and understanding the effects on the ground in places like Rakaia.

Mr Davies will continue to be the only sales point of these dangerous substances between Timaru and Christchurch, while other shops are unable to apply for a licence. It may be a relief to some that no more shops will be opened in the district, but Rakaia still has to put up with many unwanted visitors.

The customers of the R18 shop continue to arrive and leave by car, and you have to wonder how many of them are driving around off their heads.

Many will understand the Government’s philosophy to control the trade and stop the business from going underground.

The legal high market is an extremely lucrative business and a wholesale ban would likely push the multi-million dollar industry into criminal hands, but further delays are unacceptable.

The tighter testing regime will hopefully weed out the most damaging products, but meanwhile 47 largely untested products are still being sold to young and old around the country.

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YOUR VIEW Landscapes Between Christmas and New Year I spent a few days at Kakanui in North Otago, which I hadn’t had the pleasure to do for some years.

What struck me was the beautiful untouched landscape of market gardens, lovely looking wheat and barley crops down to the cliffs which below entwined with lovely golden sandy beaches with the sea.

What there wasn’t compared to Canterbury, but in my opinion not missing, were no dairy cows, muddy paddocks and ugly looking central pivot irrigators.

Since returning to Canterbury 13 years ago, going to Kakanui has reminded me how the Canterbury landscape has generally changed for the worse

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with cows, mud and hundreds of dairy and cropping farmers’ irrigators.

While I know and appreciate that this is a sacrifice needed for the benefit of the economy and livelihood for many Cantabrians and our national economy, I still hope we can still retain spots in New Zealand like Kakanui, which are just as productive as dairying and cropping in Canterbury but fortunately are unspoilt for current and future generations of Kiwis and tourists to enjoy.

I applaud the dairy and cropping farmers for their hard -working contribution to the economy and the general efforts of dairy farmers to look after the environment as much as possible.

Chris Thomas

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Roadside car sales Clause 1004.1 of the district council’s bylaws states, “No person shall without the prior written permission of the council, park a vehicle or trailer displaying advertising or sales material on any road or part of a road, or on any piece of land owned or controlled by the council”.

This obviously means that no sign-written vehicle may be parked on the road side as the bylaw does not exclude any business vehicles of any type.

We must therefore assume that all Ashburton businesses will now remove all sign writing from their vehicles including transport companies, contractors, tradesmen etc etc.

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he breathless arrogance of Greenpeace knows no bounds. It is therefore time for the rest of us to point out a few – what used to be called – “home truths”.

First, much as it would like to, Greenpeace rules neither the waves not the world.

Flawed as our democracy may well be it is, nevertheless, the system by which we are governed and for which, every three years, we vote.

If Greenpeace wishes to compete – and not simply by hanging to the anaemic coattails of the Labour-centric Greens – it should put up candidates, issue a suitable manifesto and, with the use of its not inconsiderable funds, canvass for votes.

Were it actually to have the guts to do even a little of that, rather than relying on gung-ho interventions from sea and sky, it might gain some political credibility.

People who liked the cut of its jib and its gybe would then have a democratic opportunity to give it a legitimate voice in the land.

In the meantime, unless and until that unlikely scenario “eventuates” I very much hope its most recent vapourings over the proposed Shell exploration drilling well in the Great South Basin is studiously ignored and that inspirational project, not only goes ahead but brings untold riches to the long-suffering residents of both Dunedin and Invercargill.

In fact, I hope either or both of those fine Kiwi cities will become the Aberdeen of the South Seas, with correspondingly exciting life enhancement.

Whether it be gas or “black gold” that eventually brings Eldorado to their doorstep is irrelevant.

If it’s “out there” let it be harnessed for the good of both the locals and those many of us further afield.

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may not do or how we may use our resources, whether they be below or above water, or even airborne.

Greenpeace appears to preach a doctrine of supreme negativity to which the first and inbuilt reaction to any innovation is automatic opposition.

So for it – and them – a perfect New Zealand would be one frozen firmly in time taking us back to some utopian, pre-colonial era. They make the Luddites look positively forward thinking.

Elsewhere, the Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, has apparently “raised a storm”

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– as politicians of every hue are apt to do – by seeming to suggest that Australians who get themselves into predictable difficulty through their own irresponsible behaviour might be prevailed upon to pay for some of the assistance their government then offers to extricate them from their own ill-considered actions, rather than Australian taxpayers back home.

Mother Russia. And yes, that’s right, the Australian concerned is one of the legendary, Greenpeace “Arctic 30” protesters who, heroically – but stupefyingly naively – took on

the might of Mother Russia … and lost.

They actually thought – or claimed they did – that Russia would “abide by international law”. A likely outcome, I’ll be bound.

Shepherds. And even as we speak those stalwart Shepherds of the Sea are sailing to their annual aquatic punch-up in the deep southern waters where they will, once again, take on their worthy Japanese “whale science researcher” opponents.

It’s a super stunt – again well financed by “secret supporters” – but seemingly one of futility and frustration.

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Protest over ’lawful killing’ Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside a London police station yesterday to condemn an inquest that found the killing of an armed man by an officer in 2011 was lawful, a shooting that sparked nationwide riots.

They condemned the “perverse” jury verdict returned on Wednesday over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot after armed police stopped the taxi he was in as they followed it through Tottenham, north London, in August 2011.

The jury found Duggan had a gun in the taxi but did not have it in his hand when the fatal shot was fired, having thrown it onto nearby grass.

The peaceful protesters gathered outside Tottenham police station held placards reading “Justice for Mark Duggan”, and heard from other families

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whose relatives had died in incidents involving the police.

Demonstrators chanted: “Who are the murderers? Police are the murderers” and “No justice, no peace”. They heard calls for all police officers to wear cameras. A minute’s silence was held during the vigil, and 20 white doves symbolising peace were released.

Speaking from the police station steps - with few officers in sight - Duggan’s aunt Carole told supporters: “Mark is not the first person to die at the hands of the police. There are thousands more.

“There is no justice in this country.” She said Duggan, a 29-year-old father of six, was not from a gangster family.

Duggan’s death was the catalyst for urban riots and looting that spread from Tottenham

across London and then to other cities, including Birmingham and Manchester, leaving five people dead.

Tottenham is an ethnically diverse urban area best known for its English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur.

Diane Abbott, the first black woman elected to parliament and the member for neighbouring Hackney, told the crowd she was hosting a meeting in parliament on Monday with the Duggans, lawyers and community activists.

The meeting is “to try and discuss where the Duggan family can go from here”, she told AFP. “It’s very much down to the family and what’s legally possible.”

She added: “There are longstanding issues between the

Metropolitan Police in London and the black and minority ethnic communities: stop and search, deaths in custody - and the death of Mark Duggan has not helped matters at all.”

The Duggans are pushing the Independent Police Complaints Commission to pursue a wider, more thorough investigation.

Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said on Thursday the Met Police held “a particular concern about our relationship with younger members of the black community”.

However, there was a “tremendous determination” to “strengthen relationships”, he added.

Reverend Nims Obunge, who buried Duggan, was among the vigil organisers. He urged the crowd to seek “justice, peace and truth”.

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Show goes on after hypnotist’s death A magic show at the Sydney Opera House will continue despite one of its performers falling to his death from a Sydney balcony.

The body of Las Vegas hypnotist Dr Scott Lewis was found by police on Saturday morning at a Pyrmont apartment block.

He fell from an 11th-floor balcony to the fourth floor, media reports say. Dr Lewis was to board a bus to take him and the other six members of the magical performance group The Illusionists 2.0 to the Opera House for Saturday’s 2pm show.

Following the discovery, the Opera House cancelled Saturday’s matinee performance due to “unforeseen circumstances”.

It later released a statement confirming his death and expressing its sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues.

“Dr Lewis was a wonderful performer and he will be greatly missed,” the Opera House said.

Show co-producer Tim Lawson said the company was “deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Dr Lewis”.

“The entire company has decided to continue the show in his honour, and send our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends,” he said.

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Miners electrocuted Two miners have been killed and three others injured by an electric shock in a silver mine in the northern Mexican town of Bermejillo. The National Union of Mine and Metal Workers said the accident occurred in a mine operated by the Canadian firm Excellon Resources on Thursday, though the company failed to report the accident until the following day. In its report, Excellon said the workers were immediately taken out of the mine after the accident and rushed to a hospital, where two of them died.

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Sailor stopped French police have arrested a Russian journalist only a few hundred metres into a bid to sail across the Atlantic on a rickety homemade raft. Authorities picked up Andrei Novoselov in southwest France as he attempted to navigate his unseaworthy vessel up the Tet river to the Mediterranean Sea. Novoselov’s plan was to head for the United States, via Spain, after his application for asylum in France had been refused. Before taking to the waves, he had told a handful of reporters he wanted political asylum in France or the United States as he feared his life would be in danger if he returned to Russia.

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Three vessels collide British marine investigators are examining how three vessels came to collide in the English Channel, causing one of them serious damage. A cargo ship reportedly en route to Genoa in Italy was in a collision with a tug and a smaller vessel it was towing on Saturday.

The collision resulted in serious damage to the smaller vessel, but no one was injured in the incident which happened about 15km off Dungeness in Kent. The cargo ship, which is reportedly a Liberian-flagged vessel, has gone on to anchor at Newhaven in East Sussex.

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UK army cuts jobs Firefighters fortify a wooden building while a fire ravages ancient Dukezong town in Shangri-La county, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. The 10-hour inferno has razed the ancient Tibetan town in the province that’s popular with tourists. ap photo

300 houses destroyed in fire A huge blaze that ripped through the centre of an ancient Tibetan town in the popular Chinese tourist area of Shangri-La destroyed almost 300 buildings.

The fire in Gyalthang, in an area believed to be the inspiration for James Hilton’s mythical Shangri-La, flattened two-thirds of the town’s old centre at the weekend, the Beijing Morning Post reports.

The government-run Yunnan Net news service said 242 houses, mostly wooden, were burned down in the 1300-year-old town while 43 were demolished to prevent the fire spreading.

“The damage is extremely

heavy,” the Yunnan report said, citing officials who added that a final estimate of the damage was still to be made.

The town, known in Chinese as Dukezong, has become a tourist destination thanks to Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon which describes a mystical lost paradise called Shangri-La. In 2001, officials renamed the surrounding county - which sits in southwest China’s Yunnan province Shangri-La as part of efforts increase visitor numbers.

More than 1000 firefighters and volunteers were deployed to tackle yesterday’s blaze and photos on local news sites

showed gigantic flames, some more than 10 metres high.

“A single fire destroyed goods I’d saved over 12 years worth 40 or 50,000 yuan ($7300-$9100),” a vendor surnamed Zhao said.

The fire in Gyalthang, which sits high on the Tibetan plateau, followed a blaze at another high-profile site of Tibetan culture - the Buddhist Serthar institute in the nearby province of Sichuan.

The inferno last week destroyed at least 10 structures at the institute thought to be among the largest in the world.

The cause of both fires is unknown.

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The British government is to have another round of army redundancies as it continues to reduce the organisation’s size. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed there are more cuts on the way though the numbers involved are unclear. The Sunday Telegraph newspaper says it had been told that the army would cut around 3000 jobs this year, but a government source said the figure under discussion was lower. The regular army is being cut from 102,000 to 82,000 while the Army Reserve is being expanded from 19,000 to 30,000.

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25,000 flee volcano More than 25,000 people have fled their homes following a series of eruptions and lava flows from a volcano in Indonesia. Mount Sinabung, on the western island of Sumatra, sent hot rocks and ash up to 5000 metres in the air several times on Saturday, National Disaster Mitigation Agency emergency response director Tri Budiarto told AFP. “So far, 25,516 people have been evacuated.”

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In most corners of the world, an Ashburton person can be found. So the Guardian’s Erin Tasker decided to track some of them down. This week it’s Chris Doyle, who is living in the United Arab Emirates and flying for their airforce.

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hris Doyle is a helicopter pilot who has flown around the world.

He’s sprayed crops and fought bushfires from the air, but now he’s a test pilot for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force.

Chris flies as a civilian contractor and a maintenance test pilot and instructor for the UAE Air Force and lives with his wife Maria in Al Ain, between Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

They moved there 18 months ago and they’ve made themselves a home there, recently welcoming their first child into the world.

Chris – who grew up in rural Mid Canterbury at Ruapuna – has been flying commercially since 1996 but has worked outside of New Zealand since 1998 in places that include Australia, Papua New Guinea, the United States and now in the Middle East.

“I fly both helicopters and fixed-wing. Here in the Middle East I fly fixed-wing. I fly for the military instructing and test flying with a new aircraft which is a modified Air Tractor,” Chris said.

“So my job is doing the test flying on the aircraft that they have modified to carry weapons.

That’s about all I can say about that!”

Chris indulging in his passion for motorcycle racing.

Chris said he’d flown the Air Tractor previously for crop spraying and water bombing on bush fires.

“I did a lot of the water bombing in Australia, through the mid-2000s when a lot of the country was suffering a drought situation and there was not a lot of crop-spraying work, but there were a lot of bushfires so we adapted the fixed-wing aircraft for water bombing.

“It is probably the most exciting flying that I do. The most significant was flying in Victoria in February 2009 fighting the Black Saturday fires in which 173 people were killed and over 2000 homes destroyed in one afternoon. That is by

far the most challenging flying situation I have being in.”

Chris said he and Maria decided to move to the Middle East because it was an opportunity to “settle down” and not be bouncing between Australia and the USA throughout the year for work, whilst also trying to fit in holidays to Spain and New Zealand to see family. Maria is from Spain and the couple met in Australia six years ago.

And there will be plenty of holidays to their homelands to come as they introduce onemonth-old Patrick to their extended family.

“We feel (the UAE) is a good place to start a family because I have regular working hours and everybody enjoys having maids

and nannies that would otherwise be unaffordable elsewhere,” Chris said.

“The Arabs (who I work for) are also very sympathetic to the needs of family life, so they do not have a problem with family matters coming first before work, such as dealing with a sick baby.

“And with the abundance of cheap labour here it is affordable to have housemaids and nannies, which definitely helps.”

Another up side to the Middle East for Chris is the abundance of motorcycle racing facilities, which has seen him resurrect his racing career. He had not raced for the past 12 years, since leaving New Zealand.

“There’s fantastic facilities here such as Formula 1 race tracks that we race on.

“I was a little bit worried that being a bit older I might have lost the touch somewhat, but I have managed a little bit of success, so that makes it more enjoyable.

“I do know that it certainly hurts more when you crash being older, as I just recently discovered! But I think that minor crash might be telling me it’s time to slow down a bit and concentrate on the new addition to the family!”

Their new home is hot with temperatures sometimes soar-

ing into the late 40s and even 50 degrees. But after growing up in cold Mid Canterbury winters, Chris doesn’t mind.

“I enjoy the climate here because I hate the cold. Throughout the summer here it can become uncomfortable for a couple of months, but that is usually the time to go on vacation,” he said.

The couple have always enjoyed travelling and from the UAE they are less than eight hours flying time away from 80 per cent of the world’s population.

“So we have lots of options for short trips away,” Chris said.

They’ve had to adjust to the big cultural and religious differences there because it’s a Muslim country, and Chris said driving on the roads was a whole new experience in itself.

“Although we are in probably the most stable country in the region, we still have to always be mindful of the fact we are in a Middle Eastern Islamic state and circumstances that affect expatriates living here can happen at any time. So we always have that in the back of our minds.

Chris and Maria miss their home countries, but regard themselves as lucky that they’re able to make regular visits home.

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■ VANUATU

Efate not far from paradise

F

ive Melanesian children splash in the calm, turquoise bay while their mum washes clothes nearby.

Tanoliu, a tiny village on Vanuatu’s Efate island, is only about 40km from the capital, but it’s not far from paradise.

My partner and I have been exploring the island on quad bikes all morning.

We’re staying in Port Vila, a resort centre and transit point to the salubrious outer islands.

There are numerous guided tours available, offering waterfalls, turtle feeding and custom village experiences.

But we don’t want to spend a day on and off a tour bus, being ferried about the tourist traps that inevitability cost more than what you agreed to when you set out.

So we rent quad bikes from a Frenchman and head southeast out of the city.

Rolling through the verdant countryside we see cattle grazing between coconut palms and beneath giant banyan trees.

Despite high poverty and unemployment, Vanuatu was recently ranked the world’s happiest country on the New Economics Foundation’s Happy

Marty Silk travelled to the island of Efate in Vanuatu recently looking for paradise and is convinced he found it.

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With every person we pass on the road stopping to wave at us with big warm smiles, it’s easy to understand why.

As we slow down to ride through villages, children run out for high fives and older people tending to vegetable patches down tools to greet us.

There are hardly any other vehicles - Vanuatu’s off-season is November - and for most of the 120km ride the road is empty.

We take our own detours, rounding bends and coming over hills to find starched white beaches lapped by azure waters.

The road runs past steep forested hills smothered by vines and thick weeds like a great green carpet.

This part of Vanuatu doesn’t make the glossy brochures, but it’s really something special.

Far from the urban throb and with the wind in our hair, we’re getting closer to paradise.

Tearing down narrow, shady

lanes lined with hedges and pretty flower beds, kicking up fallen leaves in our wake - it’s hard not to ride with a smile.

Fishermen, graziers and men holding huge machetes all break into a grin and wave as we zip past.

Towards the end of the morning we come over a hill and the vast Havannah Harbour opens out in front of us.

Hemmed by tall green islands of Moso and Lelepa, the har-

bour’s calm, crystal inlets call out to us.

We pull over next to a quiet bay to take in the scenery.

To our left there are a few colourful corrugated iron shanties surrounded by coconut palms with mountains rising up behind them.

To the right, an idyllic scene with those children playing near their mother in the bay.

My partner snaps a photo of the water, while I close my eyes and breathe in deep.

We’ve found what we were looking for.

The road sign says Tanoliu, but it should say Paradise.

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■ CYCLING

Roulston rules elite road race Ashburton cyclist Hayden Roulston outgunned Jack Bauer in a sprint finish to claim a fourth Elite National Road Cycling Championship title in Christchurch yesterday.

The win came after a longrange battle with fellow World Pro Tour pro Bauer and 23-yearold Tom Davison, and means he is now equal with Jack Swart and only one title behind ebullient Aucklander Gordon McCauley for the most number of victories in the 76-year history of the championship.

“It feels the best of the four wins to be honest,” said Roulston, who also became the first national winner for his renamed Trek Factory Team.

“It is very difficult to win this race once, let alone winning it again and again.

“I think this year was the hardest. I raced this year different to how I usually race.

“This time I decided to go from the start and make those guys chase me.”

The trio hit the front shortly after the midway point of the 12-lap, 184km race on a windswept day on the arduous Cashmere Hills circuit and with five laps remaining it was down to Roulston, Bauer and Davison, a prominent young triathlete, who did more than his share of tempo work at the front of the pack.

The trio were still together as they rounded the corner with 400m remaining.

As 33-year-old Roulston made his move, Bauer looked to jump across to repeat his sprint finish to the 2010 title, but he ran out of real estate.

“Anything but the win here is disappointing especially after a hard, hard day. I just had nothing in the kick. I completely cramped up when he (Roulston) went,”Bauer said.

There was plenty of joy for

the Davison, who not only clung with the two professional riders for the entire journey, but even fought back after being dropped on the penultimate climb up Dyers Pass Road.

“Just coming around that last corner with those two guys was

a dream come true,” Davidson said.

It was a magical effort from Davison, who nearly died after being bitten by a spider in Europe last year, while training with triathlete Nicky Samuels.

Ashburton’s Jason Christie led

in the chase pack to finish fourth while the national under-23 honours went to Te Awamutu professional Hayden McCormick, who out-sprinted defending champion James Oram and fellow New Zealand junior representative Dion Smith.

Hayden Roulston on his way to a win in the National Road Cycling Championships in Christchurch yesterday.

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Buchanan grabs exciting win London Olympian Rushlee Buchanan produced an outstanding victory in the Women’s Elite Road National Championships in Christchurch on Saturday.

After relinquishing the lead to Auckland’s Linda Villumsen with 800m remaining, Buchanan found another gear, using her track speed to good effect, to sprint her way to her second New Zealand title after winning in 2010.

Villumsen, who was second in the time trial on Friday, had to settle for runner-up with Reta Trotman third.

“It’s a pretty emotional win,” Buchanan said.

“I won it in 2010 and I haven’t

really been back at my best since then. I’m on a new team this year, and with the Commonwealth Games this year as well it means a lot.

“The track riders have performed this weekend and it’s a good way of putting our hands up and saying yes, we’re ready.”

Buchanan and time trial winner Jaime Nielsen caught runaway leader and fellow track rider, Hinds Lauren Ellis, on the third of eight laps in the 120km race. The trio pushed their lead out to over four minutes before a select group of six riders took up the challenge including Villumsen, and Trotman.

As Ellis dropped off the front

to the chase pack, the lead whittled down to 45 seconds with the one final lap on the flat after six climbs up the daunting Dyers Pass on the Cashmere Hills.

Buchanan went out on her own with Nielsen’s legs gone, and Villumsen attacked from the chase group to round up Buchanan before the track specialist went into auto-drive, jumping on to the wheel in-front and sprinting clear for the victory in 3:32.25.

Villumsen was second in the same time with Trotman seven seconds back in third from the chase pack led by Collins, while Ellis was one of seven riders not to finish.

Rushlee Buchanan celebrates victory.

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■ NATIONAL SEVENS RUGBY

In brief

Hammers hold heads high

By Jonathan Leask

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Mid Canterbury were well beaten by Waikato 7-29 in the shield final of the National Sevens Tournament in Rotorua yesterday.

Mid Canterbury battled hard but came up short against the first division unions but were able to beat the other Heartland Union, Poverty Bay, on the road to the shield final.

The Mark Cousins coached side headed north looking to put out “creditable performances” and gain at least one win.

They achieved both over the weekend.

Mid Canterbury had the opportunity to claim an early scalp pushing North Harbour, runners-up in 2012, in their opener on Saturday leading 12-7 at halftime.

Missed tackles allowed Harbour to score four tries to Mid Canterbury’s one in the second stanza to win 29-19.

Mid Canterbury put up another good fight against defending champions Taranaki before going down 14-24.

Turnovers had the Hammers trail Canterbury 0-19 at halftime and then New Zealand representative and Mid Canterbury native Mark Jackman scored Canterbury’s fourth try before the Hammers managed a consolation try for a 7-24 final score.

That had Mid Canterbury meet Counties-Manukau, with the two unions set to showdown in the 15-a-side format for the Ranfurly Shield later this year, in the bottom-half quarterfinals going down 5-36 to set up what was a virtual Heartland Sevens Championship final against Poverty Bay

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks moved within one victory of the Super Bowl after NFL home playoff wins yesterday.

LeGarrette Blount ran for 166 yards and four touchdowns to spark the Patriots 43-22 win over the Indianapolis Colts while Marshawn Lynch ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns as Seattle beat the New Orleans Saints 23-15. New England will face the winner of today’s Denver-San Diego game in the American Conference while the Seahawks await the winner of the Carolina-San Francisco matchup.

Black Sticks win The New Zealand men’s hockey team has beaten India 3-1 to secure their first points at the World League Final in New Delhi. Leading 1-0 at halftime, the Black Sticks held their composure in the second half and didn’t allow India to build any momentum thanks to some strong defending. Shea McAleese scored inside the first minute - the tournament’s fastest goal so far - with Stephen Jenness scoring a second-half double to seal the win.

McAleese’s goal came after an open run into the circle before he took a cracking shot into the top left corner of the goal.

- APNZ Mid Canterbury’s Nete Caucau looks for an offload while fending off a North Harbour defender at the National Sevens Tournament in Rotorua.

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in the shield semi-finals.

After coming close against the big boys, Mid Canterbury finally had something to celebrate getting past Poverty Bay 31-14.

After the high of clinching a

win the side was brought back to earth in the second half of the shield final against Waikato.

The scores were level at halftime but the Hammers were again made to pay for their mistakes, conceding four tries to go

down 7-29.

The 2014 national champions were Wellington, denying Auckland a 13th title with a 2617 win in the final. Manawatu beat Auckland 19-12 in the women’s final.

Jackman tries for big impact New Zealand sevens representative Mark Jackman’s Canterbury side were knocked out in the plate semi-finals by Manawatu yesterday.

Canterbury lost 12-7 to Taranaki, beat North Harbour 22-12 and had a 24-7 win

over Mid Canterbury to finish second in the pool. Canterbury then met Northland in the quarterfinals and couldn’t come back from a 0-12 half time deficit, with Jackman yellow carded as his side eventually went down 0-26. They then

lost to Manawatu who went on to win the plate 38-17 over Bay of Plenty.

Jackman now heads into the New Zealand Sevens camp hoping to gain selection for the Las Vegas and Wellington legs of the World Series.

■ TENNIS

Big shot serves its purpose for Isner The most destructive weapon in tennis took John Isner to a second Heineken Open title on Saturday - and may carry him back to the top 10 in the world.

As was the case all week, Isner was imperious from the service line, with regular 220km/h bullets helping him negotiate any tough moments.

Across more than 100 minutes of tennis, the American gave Yen-Hsun Lu only one break-point opportunity - in his first service game - which he defended with ease.

There were some tight moments in the second set tiebreak, as Isner trailed 0-3 at one point, but a series of unre-

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turnable serves got him out of trouble.

Lu was gallant, and played some extraordinary tennis to save 10 break points, but was left in awe of Isner’s serve, which he labelled the best in the world.

“Right now, yes, I think he’s [got] the best one,” said Lu. “He has proved he’s the best server.

He just served incredible [and] I couldn’t read his serve. Even sometimes I guessed right but the speed meant I couldn’t really get it back. He’s still No14 in the world and his serve is his main weapon.”

Isner sent down 23 aces, including one in excess of

230km/h, and landed 73 per cent of his first serves. Lu won only eight of 59 points when Isner pulled off his first serve.

“It was my best performance all week and, as always, I relied on my serve a lot,” said Isner, who served more aces (979) and saved more break points (71 per cent) than any other player on the ATP tour in 2013.

“Against him, even in [your] service game, [you] have pressure,” said Lu. “If you don’t make your first serve, then you are always under pressure in the second serve because he will try to smash it. If you can serve like him, it’s a different story.”

While Saturday’s match had

its routine elements - Lu fought hard but never looked like creating an opening - Isner has fought the odds, and a persistent ankle injury, all week. He recovered from a set and break down in the semifinal and endured a three-tiebreak struggle in the quarter-final.

“I am so happy,” reflected Isner. “To say this was unexpected coming into this tournament would be a huge understatement.”

It was Isner’s eighth ATP title but only his second outside the US (his first was at this tournament in 2010) and he hopes now a strong Australian Open performance.

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Waitakere stunned Waitakere United were yesterday on the wrong end of one of the biggest upsets in ASB Premiership soccer history, being upended 3-1 at home by the struggling Southern United. The champions suffered their third defeat of the season to slip to fourth place, with Southern winning just their second game of the season. Southern came into the contest second from bottom, having conceded 17 goals from seven games, and just one win. Waitakere, on the other hand, have spent the entire campaign near the top of the table, making a good start to their quest for a fifth straight title.

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Canty into playoffs The domestic T20 playoff teams have been finalised and even though they have one game outstanding, Auckland won’t be in the mix this week. Auckland finish their HRV Cup campaign at Eden Park’s outer oval against winless Central Districts tomorrow.

However Canterbury’s strong rails run, including a five-wicket win over Northern Districts in Christchurch yesterday, has jumped them into the frame.

Canterbury have won four of their last six games and picked up two points from washouts in the other two. Chasing ND’s 156 for six, Canterbury reached the target with one over to spare.

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Fed Express courted Roger Federer is the No 1 target of the Heineken Open - and tournament officials remain confident the Swiss legend can be lured to Auckland. Despite his fall in the world rankings to No 6, Federer, rated by many as the best player in history, is still seen as the biggest drawcard in tennis, even slightly ahead of world No1 Rafael Nadal and well in front of men such as Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro in his ability to bring in crowds.

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■ CRICKET

Lauriston looking good for shield

By Jonathan Leask

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Lauriston has one hand on senior cricket’s Pritchard Shield after a big win over Allenton while the defending champion Tech Sharks fell to Methven on Saturday.

Lauriston’s demolition of Allenton and the Sharks’ loss to Methven has Lauriston with a two-game buffer with three rounds to play.

Lauriston sent Allenton in to bat and quickly dismissed the hosts for 47 in the 20th over.

Scott Morgan had 3/11 off nine and Bevan Ravenscroft took 3/7 off 3.5 while Bevan Richan and Jeremy Duckmanton took two wickets each. Logan Ford was the only batsman to break double figures for Allenton with 15.

Lauriston then made short work of the chase, getting home in just seven overs, losing three wickets in the process for a seven wicket win.

Next door in the domain, the Sharks were chased down by Methven to lose ground on Lauriston, and hand over the Bevan Stroud Memorial Challenge Trophy.

A middle-order partnership from Jason Morrison (48) and Paul Morrison (38) got the Sharks to a defendable score before the tail collapsed to be all

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out for 133, with Methven Dan Wheeler taking 4/19 off 5.5 overs.

Ben Payne (38) and Ryan Dalzell (35) got Methven off to a strong start before their middle

order fell over. Jay Patel scored a crucial 12 not out and a big tally of 34 extras from the Sharks’ bowlers got Methven home for a three-wicket win.

Out at Lowcliffe, Coldstream

were able to defend 154 to beat the Stags by 19 runs.

The Stags were well placed in their chase at five down with 50 runs to get before they collapsed.

The bails fly as Tech Sharks batsman Cody Barry is bowled by Methven’s Sithum Jayatilleke.

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McCullum happy with Vettori now at career crossroads NZ’s T20 blueprint

Daniel Vettori’s contract for his new role coaching in the Indian Premier League is thought to be worth US$450,000 ($542,000) and a decision will be made on his playing future in the next month.

Vettori’s methodical demeanour is the driving force behind his appointment as coach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore after what’s understood to have been up to six months of negotiations.

Franchise bosses see Vettori’s unassuming man-management style as key to developing an inclusive environment, especially for younger Indian players and batsman Virat Kohli, who, at 25, remains a work-in-progress as captain.

Vettori joined the franchise in 2011 on a US$550,000 ($662,000) contract as a player and his willingness to set aside hours with fledgling players in the nets has paid further dividends. The RCB have already retained the services of over-

seas players Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers for the coming season.

The franchise is owned by Indian industrialist Vijay Mallya who also has the Force India Formula One team as part of his portfolio. He is also an MP and chairman of the United Breweries group that produces Kingfisher beer.

Vettori’s role will require approximately three months’ work per annum once planning time has been factored in beyond the eight-week tournament.

In signing the deal, he will forego a place in the IPL player auction on February 12 and he joins former New Zealand captains Stephen Fleming (Chennai Super Kings) and John Wright (Mumbai Indians) as IPL franchise coaches.

Vettori replaces South African Ray Jennings after RCB missed the IPL semifinals and subsequent qualification for the Champions League for the past two seasons.

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By DaviD Leggat Just how cross captain Brendon McCullum was at New Zealand’s wretched ODI performance in Hamilton last week was rammed home after their thumping T20 win over the West Indies at Eden Park.

The win gives New Zealand a chance to win their second series out of three in the tour finale in Wellington on Wednesday. New Zealand won the test rubber 2-0, but squared the ODIs, after the Hamilton blowup.

There may be a temptation for New Zealand to begin looking towards the higher-profile Indian tour, which starts in Napier on Sunday. But McCullum won’t be swayed from a resolve to send the West Indies packing with another series defeat.

“We’ve got another opportunity to close out a series. We missed one the other day,” he

said, referring to the 203-run belting in Hamilton. “If we’re serious about trying to win big tournaments we’ve got to be closing out those sort of games, so Wellington presents a good challenge for us.”

McCullum was much happier on Saturday night after New Zealand’s 81-run win.

“We knew this game was very important for us to try and wrest back some momentum in the series. The way we played was pretty close to how we want to play as a short version team,” he said.

Wellington is New Zealand’s last T20 before hitting the world T20 tournament in mid-March. India, who arrive in Auckland today, are playing only ODIs and tests and McCullum admitted it’s difficult trying to get real T20 value out of 50-over contests. Still, he reckoned the Eden Park performance was a pretty good blueprint of how to play the game.

There was strong batting from him with an unbeaten 60 in 45 balls, and wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi, who hit 48 not out off only 25 balls, in reaching 189 for five - New Zealand’s second highest total against the West Indies.

The bowling was impressive. Adam Milne’s pace added a fresh ingredient, while Jimmy Neesham, Corey Anderson and four-wicket offspinner Nathan McCullum all produced strong hands. The fielding was outstanding and the West Indies batting desperately limp.

Fast bowler Tino Best pointed to the absence of their “sixhitters”, such as Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard and Darren Sammy, through injury. Had they been there, on the small outfield, “it would have been a whole different ball game”.

Maybe, but the unbroken sixth-wicket stand of 85 between McCullum and Ronchi was rousing indeed. - APNZ

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Club Name: Palmerston North Greyhounds. Venue: Manawatu Raceway. Meeting Date: 13 Jan 2014. 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.

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4 65817 White Legs nwtd .............................. C Clark 5 17581 Cold Turkey 21.93 ............................G Quirk 6 13831 Cawbourne Banksy nwtd .................G Quirk 7 54441 Cool Heir 21.80 .................................. N Udy 8 63717 Black Hennessy 21.37 F &.............Turnwald 9 85882 Dasher Rum 21.78 ...........................R Waite 10 85764 Shaga Banga Bang 22.08 G &...........Denby 6 2.00pm MARTON STAKES C1/2 C1/2, 457m 1 71141 Johnny Ritza nwtd............................L Ahern 2 71162 Tifino 26.38 ..............................A Duganzich 3 33633 On The House nwtd B & .................... Steele 4 77246 Cawbourne Logan nwtd ...................G Quirk 5 84635 Matisse 26.30..................................... N Udy 6 47733 Opawa Jay nwtd ............................... A Clark 7 15682 Time For What nwtd ......................M Gowan 8 44243 Cognac Diamond nwtd G & ..............S Ross 9 27486 Nose White nwtd ......................A Duganzich 10 18747 Paddy Baxter 26.55...................J McInerney 7 2.25pm WWW.RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ C3 C3, 375m 1 1144x Way Too Crude nwtd F & ...............Turnwald 2 34785 Bulet Tooth Tony 21.65 .....................R Waite 3 64675 Attire 21.52......................................... N Udy 4 87335 Fire Boy Baxter 21.55 ...............J McInerney 5 17657 Another Course 21.88 ...............J McInerney 6 76644 Go Fern Go 21.95 .......................A Turnwald 7 51852 All The Milk nwtd ..............................G Quirk 8 42814 Ten Eleven 21.97 ............................... N Udy 9 3147x Uno Orange 21.82 ..........................S Maher 10 4F486 Flying Blake 21.96 .............................. L Bell 8 2.53pm ASHURST STAKES C3 C3, 457m 1 46456 Bigtime Jet 26.24 .............................L Ahern 2 53253 Necter 25.85 ...............................B Hodgson 3 12461 Bigtime Dasher 26.42 ......................L Ahern 4 73337 Thrilling Tremor nwtd B & ................... Steele 5 15886 Cawbourne Bree nwtd ..............J McInerney 6 65346 Just Mac 26.23............................B Hodgson 7 36558 Cawbourne Tilly 26.31 ..............J McInerney 8 488x4 Backyard Bully 26.08 ................. G Hodgson 9 3.10pm CLOVERLEA DASH C4 C4, 375m 1 66672 Addicted 21.79 .................................L Ahern 2 25316 It’s A Doll 21.92 ...........................A Turnwald 3 35575 Eureka Izmir 21.58 F & ..................Turnwald 4 63226 Lady Anabella nwtd F & .................Turnwald 5 46535 Crystal Wave 21.54 .....................B Hodgson 6 66585 Flirt Academy 21.45 ........................... N Udy 7 42242 Stiff Drink 22.01 F & .......................Turnwald 8 26112 Queen Cobra 21.84 ......................... A Clark 9 75437 Decado 21.57...................................... L Bell 10 27365 Run Junior Run 21.69 .................A Turnwald 10 3.33pm SHANNON DASH C5 C5, 375m 1 22241 Explosive Osti 21.63 .........................C Hore 2 24276 Stirling Dann nwtd .............................. N Udy 3 84322 Individual Lily 21.75 .........................L Ahern 4 61152 Sweet Lies nwtd F & ......................Turnwald

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33136 Nitro Luis 21.83 F & .......................Turnwald 37853 Talk It Over 21.55 ................................ L Bell 11513 Call Me Ralph 21.34 G & ................ J Clarke 14511 Bolt Rama 21.56 P & .........................Doody 53235 Miss Foxy Minx 21.56 G & .................Denby 65731 Ever So Hopeful 21.63 G & ................Denby 11 4.02pm GRADUATION RACING SERIES FINAL NZRSf, 457m 1 68718 Belldeen 26.48 .........................A Duganzich 2 11121 Thrilling Georga 26.09 .................... K Walsh 3 57125 That’s King 26.60 ........................B Hodgson 4 11542 Thrilling Judge 26.48....................... K Walsh 5 31231 Bit Coin 26.64 ..........................A Duganzich 6 32622 What’s Up Gee nwtd ........................L Ahern 7 21331 Thrilling Style 26.21 ........................ K Walsh 8 11331 Thrilling Sonic 26.50 ....................... K Walsh 9 15682 Time For What nwtd ......................M Gowan 10 71162 Tifino 26.38 ..............................A Duganzich 12 4.20pm FOXTON STAKES C4/5 C4/5, 457m 1 51343 Boston Chanel 25.95 F & ...............Turnwald 2 27877 Thrilling Charly nwtd B &.................... Steele 3 34286 Hello Ello 26.12 .......................... B Johnston 4 11376 Thrilling Butcha 26.11 ..................... K Walsh 5 85818 Crushed Monkey 26.34 ...................... N Udy 6 13251 Stay Young nwtd F & ......................Turnwald 7 34324 Superior Izmir 26.13 F & ................Turnwald 8 12547 Ostapchuk 26.12 ..............................L Ahern 9 33258 El Jetta 26.41 ...................................L Ahern 10 35846 Chevy Volt nwtd................................L Ahern

Race 1: Couger Alert, Applause, Vinny Doon, Dirty Minds, Seconds Good Race 2: Boston Blaze, Come On Mickey, Hear Hare Here, Genia Haka, Smirnoff Race 3: Opie Bossman, Sheza Fooling, Cosmic Sally, Sub Silentio, Billy Holmes Race 4: Wallace Lad, Iva Cunning Plan, Adda Boy Zeke, Uno Charm, Chevy Impala Race 5: Black Hennessy, Dasher Rum, Cold Turkey, Cool Heir, All The Rage Race 6: Johnny Ritza, Tifino, Cognac Diamond, On The House, Opawa Jay Race 7: Way Too Crude, Attire, Bulet Tooth Tony, Go Fern Go, All The Milk Race 8: Bigtime Dasher, Bigtime Jet, Necter, Just Mac, Backyard Bully Race 9: Addicted, Eureka Izmir, Stiff Drink, Lady Anabella, Crystal Wave Race 10: Call Me Ralph, Explosive Osti, Individual Lily, Nitro Luis, Bolt Rama Race 11: Thrilling Georga, Thrilling Style, Thrilling Sonic, Thrilling Judge, What’s Up Gee Race 12: Thrilling Butcha, Superior Izmir, Hello Ello, Ostapchuk, Stay Young

Today at Avondale Raceway

1600 $7000, MDN, 1600m 1 54245 Zephyros 58.5 .............................. Scratched 2 8x206 Jigger Inn (4) 58.5 .................... A Taylor (a2) 3 9077 Jud Strunk (5) 58.5 .................. B Grylls (a2) 4 5323 Longbeach b (10) 57 ........... R Hutchings (a) 5 739 Bergerac h (7) 57 .................... R Smyth (a3) 6 305 Diesel (2) 57.............................. A Collett (a) 7 3307 Liquid Asset (1) 57 ............... M Cheung (a3) 8 Corral (3) 57 .............................K Leung (a2) 9 60 The Poacher (9) 57 .................. K Joyce (a4) 10 6x3x3 Epicurean (8) 56.5 ................... A Forbes (a) 11 8x60 A Perte De Vue (6) 56.5 .............. C Dell (a1) 4 2.45pm AVONDALE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION RATING 65 1200 $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1200m 1 44057 Madam Kirk d (3) 59 ................ B Grylls (a2) 2 94x21 Giardini d (2) 58.5 .........................O Bosson 3 081. Elusive Unicorn (1) 57............... M D Plessis 4 130 Pinzano 57 ................................... Scratched 5 5149. Lola d (6) 56.5 ................................. K Myers 6 x17x3 Neutron Star tdm (5) 56.5 ............... N Harris 7 x6000 Aimees Gold d (4) 54.5 ...............T Thornton 8 4x377 Justtheanswer (7) 54 5 3.18pm FUNCTIONS@THEFALLS.CO.NZ RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 x0407 Sam Mesi d (6) 59.................... B Grylls (a2) 2 x4000 Our Kingpin d (3) 58.5................M Cameron 3 016 Habitual Offender (5) 56.5.................L Innes 4 x6164 It’s Got To Be You (2) 56.5 ............... C Grylls 5 10x60 Diamond Edge (4) 56.5 .................O Bosson 6 125 Black Mascara 55.5...................... Scratched 7 x99x8 Beyond All Doubt d (7) 55 ... R Hutchings (a)

Sam Mesi on song Matamata trainer Peter McKay is looking for an improved performance from his talented galloper Sam Mesi when he steps out in the Rating 65 Functions@ TheFalls.co.nz mile, race 6 on the card at Avondale today.

McKay, who prepares the four-yearold in partnership with son Jacob, was encouraged with the gelding’s last run at Tauranga even though he finished in mid-field.

“In hindsight the distance of that race at Tauranga was too short for him as he got run off his feet early in the piece but he ground home nicely.”

8 7390x I’ve Got Faith t (1) 54 ...................... R Jones

6 3.53pm RON MURPHY MEMORIAL MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 2200m 1 4x555 Sir Manawa (2) 58.5 .................. M D Plessis 2 0x853 Singing Dune (8) 57 .................... D Johnson 3 22772 Curtain Call b (10) 56.5...............T Thornton 4 52582 Grace O’Malley b (1) 56.5 ............... K Myers 5 67832 Chazelle (3) 56.5........................M Coleman 6 00606 I’m Outa Hair (7) 56.5 ................... R Norvall 7 63622 Alezan (6) 55....................... R Hutchings (a) 8 87692 Toetwotoe (9) 55 ............................. N Harris 9 7773 Chart Topper (5) 55 ....................M Sweeney 10 7870 Perfect Rose (4) 55 ................. R Smyth (a3) 7 4.28pm BATTERSBY FUNERAL SERVICES MAIDEN 1200 $8000, MDN, 1200m 1 8x055 Cerulean 58.5 .............................. Scratched 2 Mings Man (9) 58.5 .................. A Forbes (a) 3 007x5 Rusty Heights (8) 58.5 ......... M Cheung (a3) 4 Close Up (10) 58.5 .............. R Hutchings (a) 5 08730 Affogato (13) 57 .......................... C Dell (a1) 6 Belial (12) 57 ........................... R Smyth (a3) 7 9 Turret Hill (5) 57 ........................ A Collett (a) 8 Dalezinga (2) 56.5.....................T Wenn (a4) 9 75 Weshallsee (7) 56.5 ................. A Taylor (a2) 10 6 Jafa Jill (11) 56.5 ...................... B Grylls (a2) 11 Chalet Queen (4) 56.5 ............ P Turner (a1) 12 0x608 Gold Vault 56.5............................. Scratched 13 59x Suggestive Smile 55 .................... Scratched 14 Flying Briar (1) 55 ....................K Leung (a2) 15 4x007 Rattle And Hum (6) 56.5 ..........A Jones (a4) 16 80x8 Circus (3) 55 17 0x5x Speedski 57 ................................. Scratched

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1 1.05pm (NZT) TULLOCH CAFE 3YO MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 22. Aranmore b (6) 57.5 ...................M Cameron 2 x2251 Cheeky Boy 57.5 .......................... Scratched 3 0x5x Speedski (3) 57.5 ........................T Thornton 4 Eight To Rule h (7) 57.5 .......... R Smyth (a3) 5 1 Hollywood Lad 57.5 ..................... Scratched 6 Keep On Truckin (1) 57.5 ................ C Grylls 7 2 Ultraviolet b (4) 55.5 .................... D Johnson 8 08433 Garland 55.5 ................................ Scratched 9 20x54 Opt (5) 55.5 ..................................... K Myers 10 454 Reims Of Gold 55.5 ..................... Scratched 11 7 Itsonlymakebelieve (8) 55.5 .....K Leung (a2) 12 x8007 Panamba (2) 55.5 2 1.40pm NEW LYNN F&M MAIDEN 1600 $7000, MDN F&M, 1600m 1 0x426 Dreamworld (7) 57.5 .......................S Collett 2 x8974 Our Serafina (9) 57.5 .......... R Hutchings (a) 3 8x60 A Perte De Vue (3) 57.5 4 80. Meir (10) 57.5.................................. K Myers 5 090 Rio Syrah h (6) 57.5 .................. M D Plessis 6 000x8 Serenanova (11) 57.5 ..................... R Jones 7 2 Lady Kalimara (1) 56................... D Johnson 8 30 So High (5) 56 ............................M Cameron 9 04 Soul Sista (8) 56 ........................M Coleman 10 6x764 Yuleanne (2) 56 ............................... C Grylls 11 050 Capinsky (4) 56 .................................L Innes 3 2.15pm AVONDALE SUPPORTERS CLUB MAIDEN

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10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven.

9.30am ST DAVID’S WALKING GROUP. Meet at the church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display including DC3.

Seafield Road.

1.00pm - 7.00pm TINWALD SWIMMING POOL. Outdoor pool open in the Tinwald Domain, Maronan Road.

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

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Puzzles Monday, January 13, 2014

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. It’s open maybe before end of term with jobs for the boys (8) 7. Roe, with two rights, can make a wrong (5) 8. Unending bargain time always contained more than one (7) 9. Non-winning horses? No wonder: there’s no run in them! (7) 10. Being a little sheepish, he wrote essays (4) 12. Things eyed coming from pine trees, perhaps (7) 14. Preens at a nice setting for being so devilish (7) 17. Gas-ring in the wrong order for making pudding (4) 18. This warm overcoat might be Welsh or Scottish (7) 21. Loss of land seen when Piccadilly figure takes one on (7) 22. Hide a strip for achieving a tie (5) 23. One carrying drinks, in drink, is one to shop one (8)

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11. Mechanically oscillating the chase (7) 13. The pub? It begins the year, this being where it’s at (8) 14. They’re hardly afoot so, as boot, test every other one (6) 15. The business concern is present, so stick with it (6) 16. A monopoly caused by Queen’s court officer losing heart (6) 19. Club that may be pressed into service (4) 20. It gives one access to gold after a party (4)

CRYPTIC Across 1. Scarlet runner 9. Charivari 10. Rapid 11. Every 12. Touch wood 13. Duration 15. Baltic 18. Dubbed 20. Producer 23. Trousseau 24. China 25. Ruler 26. Termagant 27. Threequarters Down 1. Succeeded 2. Amateur 3. Laity 4. Traction 5. Unique 6. Northward 7. Rapport 8. Added 14. Treasurer 16. Cervantes 17. Frou-frou 19. Booklet 21. Climate 22. Settle 23. Torch 24. Chair QUICK Across 7. Exterminating 8. Fearsome 9. Apex 10. Assess 12. Voyage 14. Kea 15. Ashore 17. Loiter 19. Fowl 21. Engaging 23. Cut the mustard Down 1. Expenses 2. Decree 3. Ammo 4. Interval 5. Steady 6. Once 11. Skewered 13. Greenery 16. Of late 18. Ingots 20. Opus 22. Glut

QUICK ACROSS 1. Retreat (10) 7. Walked (5) 8. Large knife (7) 10. Total (8) 11. Grain store (4) 13. Bodyguard (6) 15. Do without (6) 17. Possesses (4) 18. Squid (8) 21. Noblemen (7) 22. Mindless (5) 23. Arrangements (10)

DOWN 1. Rouses (5) 2. Small fish (8) 3. Lower in rank (6) 4. Curve (4) 5. Simian (7) 6. Language guide (6,4) 9. Scrimped (10) 12. Gift (8) 14. Sly (7) 16. Kidnap payment (6) 19. Accumulate (5) 20. You (archaic) (4)

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YOUR STARS

by Forecasters

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) The mood of the year changes today, with a more social vibe coming into play. Today is all about friendship, teamwork and networking.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) While you moved into the New Year with your work hat on, today is the day you’re able to really get your head in the game.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) This is one year where you’re able to march to the beat of your own drum, especially if you open your mind to the options there are.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) A smart head for money brings a chance to start taking control, making the smart choices, decisions and plans that put you back in the driver’s seat.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) As Mercury spends his first full day in your relationship sector you have the kind of support that allows you to draw a new line in the sand.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) With your head in the game and your professional instincts sharp, it’s important to start this new professional year on your terms.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Where life has been all work and no play the Moon and Mercury are getting together to shake things up, with old excuses no longer cutting it.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) You finally have a chance to give home, family and/ or property matters much needed attention, with communication essential.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Where your emotional responses may be pushing some buttons you’ll find an opportunity for a communication and/or relationship breakthrough.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) Get your head around your income options at a time when you’ve also got some real professional leverage. All of a sudden you’ve got options.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) A week before the Sun’s return to your sign kicks off your birthday month and new solar year there is a chance to explore your options.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20) You’re likely to find today that you get impatient with too many noises and too many distractions, craving the space and peace to hear yourself think.

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TODAY

FZL: Lowering to 1600m

Fine, apart from areas of morning and evening cloud. Southwesterlies dying out in the afternoon.

Showers about the divide gradually clearing.

Mainly fine elsewhere.

Wind at 1000m: Gale W 70 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: W severe gale 90 km/h.

TOMORROW

TOMORROW

Fine with high cloud. Southerlies dying out early.

WEDNESDAY Fine with northerlies developing.

THURSDAY Rain and southerlies developing.

World Weather fine drizzle fine cloudy showers showers cloudy fine fine rain thunder rain fine fine drizzle

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Greymouth

showers

Becoming fine. Westerlies, rising to severe gale 100 km/h about the tops.

Christchurch

mainly fine

THURSDAY

Timaru

mainly fine

Queenstown

shower

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showers

Invercargill

hail

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Set 3:34 am Rise 6:44 pm

Fair fishing

Set 4:21 am Rise 7:30 pm

Full moon

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Last quarter

24 Jan 6:21 pm www.ofu.co.nz

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Good fishing Set 5:12 am Rise 8:11 pm

New moon

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 11:00 am, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 12:00 pm, yesterday 234.8 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday

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Sth Ashburton at 12:15 pm, yesterday

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Rangitata Klondyke at 1:00 pm, yesterday

101.8

Waitaki Kurow at 9:00 am, yesterday

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Source: Environment Canterbury

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 21.4 24.0 Max to 4pm 10.8 Minimum 8.4 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm January to date 2.2 Avg Jan to date 23 2014 to date 2.2 23 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 35 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 63 Time of gust 1:29pm

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Canterbury Readings

Wednesday

8:57 3:06 9:11 3:33 9:40 3:47 9:53 4:14 10:21 4:27 10:33 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.

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A few showers about the divide, fine with high cloud elsewhere.

Wind at 1000m: W 30 km/h.

Wind at 2000m: Severe SW gale 90 km/h.

FRIDAY

Showers and southerlies.

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FZL: Rising to 3400m

A period of rain. Southwesterlies, gale or severe gale about the tops.

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Grace Sommerville (3) in action during the New Zealand Open Water Swim Championships in Taupo.

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Ashburton’s Grace Sommerville became the women’s national champion at the State New Zealand Open Water Championships, which also doubled as the Oceania Championships, in Taupo on Saturday.

The women’s 10km race was dominated by Australian Sacha Downing to finish 52 seconds ahead South Africa’s Sasha-Lee Nordengen with Somerville third to claim the national title as the leading New Zealander.

The 17-year-old Ashburton swimmer clocked 2:07.57, just one second behind Nordengren but with Somerville and Downing ineligible, the Oceania title went to experienced Taranaki

swimmer Charlotte Webby with Australian Leah Cutting second and Kiwi Courtney Carson third.

Downing then made it twofrom-two with a decisive victory, comfortably winning the 5km championship yesterday by 10 seconds. Downing swam away from the pack to comfortably win ahead of Cutting and Wellington’s Emma Robinson came in third.

Robinson, the 19-year-old national representative, took the New Zealand title for her effort with Sommerville taking the silver and Webby bronze. The Oceania Championship title was taken by Cutting.

In the men’s races Rotorua’s Kane Radford showed his class

in winning his third straight victory in the men’s 10km race and then recorded a second double, the Oceania and national titles, in the 5km Championship yesterday.

Radford broke away on the final lap of the 10km race for the victory from Japanese champion Yusunari Hirai in second and Australia’s Ridge Grimsey third, with the New Zealand Championship silver and bronze medals to Phillip Ryan and Troy Balvert respectively, while the Oceania podium placings were rounded out by Grimsey and Ryan.

Radford had a tight battle with Hirai in the 5km, just winning.

Michael Mincham was second and Phillip Ryan third.

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Taranaki’s Charlotte Webby (left) with gold medallist Grace Sommerville.

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