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Cup record looms for May Ashburton eyes trifecta in big race

By Sue Newman By 5.20pm Methven’s Ricky May could have written himself into the harness racing record books and Ashburton may have scored a race day trifecta.

May’s in the sulky for favourite, Terror to Love who is going for back-to-back New Zealand Trotting Cup wins. If things go his way he’ll will equal Cecil Devine’s tally of six winning cup drives and he’ll become the sole current driver to hit the golden half dozen.

And if the cards fall Gavin Douglas’ way the two horses he part owns, top rated Fly Like an Eagle and Major Mark will be in the first three, putting the Ashburton District at the top of the harness racing tree.

Harness racing’s young guns might be taking a quiet and contemplative approach to cup day, but the man who by tonight could be a cup day legend, has to get through a stack of farmwork before he can head north to Addington. It’s just another morning on the May farm, working horses and shifting cattle.

Yesterday May admitted he wasn’t giving the big day too much head space. He has almost a full book of drives and on the day that’s a good thing, no time for thinking too much about the big race, he said.

“I’ve got a lot of other good

drives as well and I’ll be wanting to do right by those horses and their trainers too and to be honest, I’ll be thinking about the race, not the record.”

When he heads north this morning, May will have an extra pair of driving trousers in his bag, his lucky pants that have been part of his big race kit for years. He was worried those trousers wouldn’t make cup day. Age was starting to take its toll, but a bit of a tidy up by Judy and they’re back doing race day duty.

Never one to talk up his chances, May is adopting the super-cool approach to the big race.

Yes, Terror to Love has every chance, but in a field where the horses and drivers are pretty hyped up, anything can happen.

“We can do a bit of pushing and shoving for the first 200 or so metres but he’ll need to get himself into a good position early on because odd things can happen in big races.”

He’s reluctant to pin-point any one horse as his greatest threat, but suggests that could be Franco Ledger. Likewise, he’s reluctant to single out another driver who might keep him out of a winning drive.

While his will be the name on every lip at Addington today, May feels gutted for his mate Jim Curtin who last year drove Terror to Love to win the cup. May’s the horse’s default driver after Curtin

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“I’ve already made my investFranco Emirate. He withdrew last I’ve got two.”

The field’s super-strong but He never goes a bad race and at ment, that’s in the stake money; week after a paddock injury leavDouglas rates both of his horses $40 he’s certainly not the worst of what happens, happens. I just ing Curtin without a drive. hope the team goes well.”

For Douglas cup day is his 45th as in with more than a fair chance. options.”

“Fly Like an Eagle’s the horse to Yes, he’ll be nervous, no he Sweepstake form and fields, P12, on the trot.

“All those years and I’ve never beat as long as he gets away. He’s won’t be punting. All he hopes is 13

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Hours of preparation led to Adam Tupper, 16, feeling confident when he came out of NCEA Level 1 English, the country’s biggest examination, yesterday.

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And that was certainly the case for a bunch of grafting Year 11 Ashburton College pupils who came out of their first ever NCEA examination confident of their work yesterday.

Level 1 English is the biggest exam with more than 46,000 New Zealand teens, about 260 of those from Ashburton College, sitting the three hour marathon.

Coming out of the exam after spending more than two hours in an intense cauldron of pressure, Jack Hanrahan, 16, said he spent up to two and a half hours a night studying to make sure he was more than ready for the big day.

So did it work?

“It wasn’t too difficult but there were certainly parts of it that were harder

than other parts but I was lucky to do a bit of study in the weekend,” he said.

Jack said the secret to his success was using distractions like television and Facebook to reward himself with breaks and come back “with a clear head”.

Adam Tupper, who won the top scholar award at the Year 11 prizegiving, said the exam fell into place when he opened his first booklet.

“We had a lot of time to answer the questions and some of them were quite good because they suited the text I studied in class,” he said.

Preparation was the key for Adam, however he said it did not come without its difficulties as the internet, TV and swimming commitments made it difficult to fit in study.

“Luckily my parents keep a close eye on me,” he said.

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and poetry, provided a headache for many pupils who found it harder than when they sat the provisional examinations earlier this year.

“Unfamiliar text was quite difficult but in the practise exams that was the easy one and the essay was harder, they seemed to switch around this time,” Michael Ward, 16, said.

Chelsea Corbett, 16, worked extremely hard on her essay, plastering versions of it around her bedroom wall because she failed it earlier this year.

Although unfamiliar text was a challenge she said she would draw confidence that she would put into her remaining exams.

“I guess you have just got to read through the questions well and really work hard to explain why you wrote what you did,” she said.

Today Level 1 Accounting, Level 2 English and Level 3 Biology are the main exams.

Adam Thomson’s return to the starting side looks set to have been short-lived as what could be his last All Blacks outing will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

Thomson received a yellow card in Monday morning’s 51-22 win over Scotland after catching Alasdair Strokosh in the head with his boot.

The incident appeared to be rather innocuous but due to the contact with the head was deserving of punishment but the yellow card may be the least of Thomson’s worries.

The 30-year old flanker, who s t a r t e d his rugby career as a Tinwald junior, is expected to be called in front of the judiciary and be handed a sentence that will Adam Thomson prematurely end his Northern hemisphere tour, and with his future looking more-and-more likely to be offshore his 29th test cap may have been his last.

Replays show a frustrated Thomson attempting to get the ball out while one Scottish player moved out of an offside position and then raised his boot to ruck the ball out and instead made contact with the head of Strokosh, who was smothering the ball, but immediately withdrew from the movement.

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen suggested it was more of a “reckless” act than an aggravated one, even going as far as saying “he placed his foot on his head but he didn’t stomp him which is one good thing but the rules say you can’t (make contact with the head)”.

“I don’t think it was a stomping but that’s not for me to decide,” Hansen said.

It wasn’t a stomp on the head but it was still contact with the head and Thomson will be dealt with accordingly.

Scotland coach Andy Robinson felt it probably should have been a red rather than yellow, but the on field ruling had no bearing on the result but is likely to have future repercussions.

The saving grace will be the apparent lack of malice or intent in his actions, but the expectation is Thomson has played his last game for the All Blacks on tour, if not indefinitely.

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Man exposed self to kids

By Sue Newman Two young Tinwald students walking home from school on Friday, were horrified when a male in a car stopped, and exposed himself to them.

The children ran to one of their homes, told a parent and the Ashburton Police were contacted.

Tinwald School prinicipal Peter Livingstone said a complaint has been laid with police and the school community had been made aware

of the incident. The students, while shaken, were unharmed and were back at school yesterday, he said.

“They were on their way home from school, doing exactly what they should have been doing and this person somehow gained their attention. They’ve given a description of the offender and the vehicle and registration number to police.”

The offender had chosen a day when student numbers travelling from school were lower because it was County Sports Day, Mr Livingstone said.

“Usually they’d be part of a larger group of students. This is nasty because it looks as though it was premeditated. It’s despicable behaviour.”

The incident was traumatic for the students and had shaken the school community, Mr Livingstone said.

It did, however, serve as a timely reminder to parents to revisit stranger danger issues with children.

While the two students had behaved absolutely correctly after the incident, parents needed to ensure they had good safety plans

in place for their children when they were travelling to and from school.

“We can’t afford to get complacent about this. Children should always have a phone number they can call, an address they can go to and if a parent is not available there needs to be another adult on the way home from school they trust and can go to,’ he said.

It was also recommended that parents gave children a time they should be home by and a route they should travel. IF they were late parents then knew where to check.

“You have to educate your children in the actions they can take, they have to know not to respond in anyway to a stranger, not to give them any information and not to go near them. As a community we need to ensure everyone is aware of this so we can safeguard our children.”

In the aftermath of the incident, Mr Livingstone said he hoped parents would be vigilant and if they saw anything suspicious, they would contact the police and let them decide if what they saw had any relevance to the incident.

Licence loss avoided A young Rolleston man who drove drunk to save a friend from a serious beating was treated kindly by Ashburton District Court Judge Colin Doherty yesterday.

Jordan Mark Russ was stopped by police after driving only a short distance and blew 760mcg/l.

He admitted a drink driving charge yesterday but avoided losing his licence.

Judge Doherty fined him $700 and said special circumstances existed for disqualification not to be imposed.

He said Russ had driven to take a friend out of harm’s way.

“It was for a short time and a short distance and you probably saved him from a more severe beating than he got.”

Russ’ lawyer Michelle Barrell supported the application for special circumstances with statements from witnesses.

Police accepted the situation.

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O’Neill to sing Messiah Ashburton’s Simon O’Neill will be singing in Christchurch next month with the Christchurch City Choir in its annual performance of Handel’s Messiah.

O’Neill is the choir’s newly appointed patron and will sing alongside three other soloists, soprano Madelaine Pierard, Mezzo Sally-Anne Russell and bass, Stephen Bennett.

The Auckland based tenor travels regularly for opera commitments in London, Europe and the United States. He is recognised as among the foremost singers of his generation and has variously been credited as the Wagnerian tenor of his generation and as a turbo-charged tenor.

The Christchurch City Choir and Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s Messiah will be conducted by Brian Law. There will be one performance only in the Christ’s College Hall at 7.30pm on December 8.

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Just rewards for a year of hard work, Shannon Reeve in the Methven garden that earned her first placing in the Methven Garden Club’s annual competition.

Garden passion turns into a winner

By Sue Newman Shannon and Dave Reeve are no newcomers to prize winning gardens, but this year they’ve scooped the pool winning the premier section in the Methven Garden Club’s annual event.

By garden competition standards Shannon and Dave are young competitors – in their late 30s, but they garden with a passion that has turned their 1300 square metre section into a place that has managed to meet the needs of a family while it also meets tough competition standards too.

They’ve lived at their Mays Lane address for eight years and when they moved in, the beginnings of today’s well developed plot were there.

“I’m lucky, my father’s a landscape gardener in Christchurch so I guess it’s in my blood and he and mum have given us quite a lot of help along the way,” Shannon said.

The Reeve garden follows no particular theme and has a little bit of everything included.

“It’s built around a big lawn and we like to liken it to a hidden park in Methven, but it’s a place we live in as a family and it’s even got a trampoline in it,” Shannon said.

The couple spend many hours each week in the garden juggling it around Dave’s full-time job, her part-time work and the demands of a six and four-year-old.

“The lawns are my husband’s pride and joy but I do the rest of it and I love having a vegetable garden,” Shannon said.

Like most gardens, theirs is a work in progress, with a new section dug in recently and brick trim edges built about a year ago.

In the past the Reeves have won other sections in the competition on their way to qualifying for the premier section.

Because they’re at the end of a lane, Shannon said many people are unaware their garden exists.

Post competition, they often spot garden tourists’ heads popping over their garden fence.

Results of the Methven Garden Competition judged on Sunday Premier: S & D Reeve, 5 Mays Lane, 1; V. Wilson, 4 Cushmore Drive, 2; J & B Senior, 151 Forest Drive, 3.

Open: C & R Tullett, 56 Lampard St, 1; G & S Goodwin, 4 Shearer

Place, 2; E & A Cornwall, 20 Allington St, 3.

Intermediate: E&M Lumsden, 2 Shearer Place, 1; D. Lamont, 10 Lochhead Crescent, 2; D. Quinn, 54 Lampard Street and M & R Collins, 12 Jackson Street, 3 equal.

Colour and Care: B. Anderson, 36 Chapman Street, 1; G. Lawson, 10a Allen St, 2; P. Blunden and P. Phillips, 3 Racecourse Rd, 3.

Half acre plus: S & K Meiklejohn, Main Road, 1; D & P Dixey, 4 Mountain View Estate, 2; A & R Smith, 42 Line Rd, 3.

Commercial: Mt Hutt Motels, Main Road, 1; Powderhouse, Cameron Street, 2; Skibo House, Forest Drive, 3.

Ouststanding Feature; Meiklejohns’ entrance, 3027 Methven Highway.

‘A deeply serious failure’

By Olivia Caldwell New Zealand Post’s communications manager says he feels betrayed after a Queenstown postal delivery woman was arrested and charged with theft after allegedly accumulating thousands of envelopes, magazines and mail packages over two years.

A 32-year-old Queenstown woman, contracted by NZ Post, was arrested on Friday by Queenstown police after they were notified by the company of concerns over undelivered mail to the Fernhill area.

Police began an investigation on Friday and made the arrest after they recovered a substantial amount of mail, including parcels and letters.

NZ Post media communications manager Michael Tull said the alleged crime was “a deeply serious failure” by the individual and the company was “completely disappointed”.

“There is no excuse for it and we apologise to those who have been affected.

“There is a sense of betrayal.

This is someone you place trust in and the public place trust in.”

Hundreds of complaints from residents in the area about missing mail have been made to NZ Post during the past two years.

Detective Grant Miller, of Queenstown, said “thousands” of mailed envelopes and packages were retrieved from the woman’s address, which she shared with flatmates.

This included 30 trays that contained 100 envelopes each.

The woman, who lives in a large house at Frankton, had stacked mail inside and outside the property, he said.

“The mail had clearly not made it to Fernhill at all. As a result of information we were given we found the mail spread throughout the property,” Det Miller said.

The woman will appear in the Queenstown District Court on Monday charged with theft by a person in a special relationship, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years’ imprisonment.

Further charges specific to the Postal Act were likely, police said.

Mr Tull said NZ Post employed 2000 post men and women nationwide who delivered, on average, 1000 items a day each and 750 million envelopes and packages a year.

The woman had lost her job, and would be prohibited from entering any New Zealand Post store, Mr Tull said.

He accepted there would be concerns about the fact complaints of missing mail had been received for two years.

“Certainly, from our end, we will be looking into ... if there is something we can learn from this. There may have been an opportunity where we could have identified this earlier.”

Police would assist NZ Post to deliver the mail as soon as possible.

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A scooter track and computer equipment were the driving force behind one of the biggest school fairs Hampstead School has seen.

On Sunday, Sarah McKerrow, 8, (pictured) along with more than 2000 people gathered at the school grounds to take part in car smashing, bike riding, and competitions along with a bite to eat at the numerous food stalls as a year of planning came to fruition.

Hoping to raise $8000, PTA committee member Tania Hooper said it was looking as though they may fall just short of their target, raising about $6000.

The long-awaited scooter track was a great incentive for the pupils, as they all participated in setting up and running a stall, Ms Hooper said.

The final amount will be finalised today.

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An abandoned earthquake damaged block of flats in Christchurch has been bulldozed in a bid to stop prostitutes working from there.

The move is the latest initiative to try to stop sex workers using residential areas to ply their trade.

Long suffering residents around the St Albans and Edgeware area have been calling for action for months.

City councillor Aaron Keown, who has been helping residents,

said street prostitutes were taking their customers to an abandoned St Albans property on the corner of Purchas St and Bishop St. “There was a two-storey building, where there were three or four flats. Beside them was a set of garages which was quite well covered and that’s where the prostitutes were taking their customers,” he said.

“The neighbours to the property alerted to me that was where the prostitutes were going and it was

really quite disgusting,” he said.

“There was all sorts of paraphernalia, used condoms and wrappers - it really was a health hazard.”

Mr Keown sent a letter to Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority outlining the issue.

“Two weeks ago they raided the site and demolished it,” he said.

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Residents Shortlisted for scholarship take new tack with speeders

By Myles Hume

By Sue Newman Residents, fed up with speedsters using Chertsey Line Road as a race track have turned from threat to titillation in an attempt to slow traffic.

Last week an anonymous resident tacked a warning sign onto the road’s 50km/h sign – Slow Down, Angry Residents With Paintballs. That didn’t work.

Yesterday morning Christchurch commuters beating a track to Ashburton were greeted by a new sign – Slow Down, Nudist Camp Ahead. They’re hoping it will have the desired effect.

Traffic has been diverted from State Highway One for the past three weeks while road side drainage and road improvement work is carried out. The diversion moves south-bound traffic down the side road, while north-bound traffic is left to crawl through the roadwork zone Locals say that might be the rule, but it’s definitely not the reality. Traffic travelling in both directions is electing to use Chertsey Line Road, they say, and regardless of which direction it’s travel-

ling in, it’s travelling at speed.

A resident who does not want to be named said speedsters on Chertsey Line Road were not new, racing down the side road was a practice locals have observed for decades.

“Locals speed and use this road as their own personal race track.

If I could scrape up all the rubber on that road I’d have enough for a new set of tyres,” the resident said.

The road diversion would only be in place until December and a regular police presence in the village meant many of the speedsters were being nabbed, the person said.

They were overtaken recently by a local travelling at speed and their car was forced onto the grass verge.

“And it was a local who ignored the ‘give way’ and cut off my car when I was travelling straight through. Speed down that road is just one of the things you learn to live without here.”

Given the average age of residents in Chertsey, the person said, the nudist sign was unlikely to slow traffic.

“People are more likely to speed up.”

Sarah Clifford remembers some of her darkest days when she was diagnosed with melanoma.

Two years ago, hospital beds, endless treatment and persistent negative thoughts took her through what she calls the rollercoaster ride of her life.

But it was the small things like making jewellery with beads that got her through, providing a distraction for the then 30-year-old from all the worry and panic.

It took her to a new place, one that “gets her out of bed in the morning,” where Mrs Clifford knows she makes a difference as chairperson of the CanInspire Charitable Trust.

The Ashburton based trust has gone to new heights, so high that Mrs Clifford was voted in by a host of 83 judges to fill one of the rare final 16 spots in the National AMP Scholarship Awards that will be presented by Governor General Jerry Mateparae.

If the mother of two takes out the scholarship at the awards dinner, she could be entitled to $10,000 which she will put towards branching her trust throughout New Zealand, helping people through illness, trauma or loss.

The big picture says it will cost millions, but the money would be a great boost for the trust.

“I just entered locally and now I have got to here,” she said.

“I would like to think I will get a scholarship but when you look at some of the other applicants it’s astounding what they are doing, I’m just so ecstatic to be shortlisted out of 2500 people.”

The CanInspire Charitable Trust supports people with cancer, with their CanBead workshop where sufferers make jewellery from beads, and the newly created CanTackle where cancer patients make fishing lures and learn how to fly fish.

The trust helps people like it helped Mrs Clifford.

“We get to have some fun with them, after all we are trying to distract them from what they are going through,” Mrs Clifford said.

Mrs Clifford will be up against other entrants who wish to fix climate change, cure genetic disorders and create a robotic device to help stroke victims.

She will head to the awards dinner on November 22.

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• Cyclist hit by car A 15-year-old cyclist was struck by a car in Upper Hutt yesterday afternoon.

Emergency services rushed to Fergusson Drive around 3.30pm but the boy was unhurt. “He was knocked off his bike but did not receive any injuries,” a police spokeswoman said.

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• Be responsible Racegoers at today’s New Zealand Trotting Cup in Christchurch have been encouraged by police to “have a great time” - but to be responsible when it comes to alcohol. The horse racing showpiece at Addington Racecourse has been criticised in previous years for revellers’ “overindulgence”.

Christchurch police are stepping up their crackdown on alcohol-related offending this week.

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• Fire suspicious A house fire near Whakatane is being investigated by police after it burnt to the ground. The Taneatua Fire Service was called to the fire about midnight on Sunday, assisted by the Whakatane and Edgecumbe fire services.

Whakatane Fire Service fire officer Jon Rewi said the house was well ablaze by the time firefighters arrived and no one was in the house at the time of the fire.

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• Henry’s show axed Broadcaster Paul Henry’s breakfast TV show has been axed by its Australian network bosses after less than a year on air. Australian network Ten released a statement saying Breakfast, which is fronted by Henry, will cease production on November 30. It admitted the show had failed to catch on with viewers. Henry and his former New Zealand Breakfast co-presenter Pippa Wetzell have been tipped to replace Mark Sainsbury once Close Up is axed later this year. -APNZ

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Threats didn’t work so Chertsey residents have resorted to titilation in a bid to slow down speeding motorists.

Christmas might still be six weeks away but planning for this year’s community Christmas Day lunch is already underway.

And registrations for Christmas Day diners have also started with several names on the books and a line up of volunteers already pledging to give their time and energy for the community event.

Last year more than 150 people sat down together for the traditional Christmas meal and organising committee chair Maureen Bishop said a big line up of volunteers

is vital to ensure the day runs smoothly.

“One of the most important jobs is that of heading up the kitchen team, but any offers of help will be very welcome,” she said.

“We need to people for all sorts of things. Not everyone is available on Christmas Day but we need help decorating the hall and setting the tables on Christmas Eve as well.”

The free lunch in the Sinclair Centre, is open to anyone and has been held for several years.

Last year, several who attended

the lunch also helped provide the entertainment.

“It was a lot of fun and hopefully we will find some great entertainers amongst the diners again this year,” Mrs Bishop said.

People wishing to attend the lunch can obtain a registration form at Presbyterian Support, Tancred Street or Community House Mid Canterbury from its new offices at the back of the Westpac Bank, also on Tancred Street. As well, the forms will be printed in local newspapers.

Volunteers can also leave their names at either of these places and they will be contacted later.

Regsitrations for the lunch close on December 17 and while the committee would like to have the names of diners in advance to help with catering, no one would ever be turned away on Christmas Day, Mrs Bishop said.

The event also relies on strong support from the community and from local business in providing food and other equipment for the lunch.

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OUR VIEW

Rental woes much more complex

By Coen Lammers

editor

T

he truth is always somewhere in the middle.

As a newspaper editor you discover this on a daily basis.

The Guardian newsroom often gets tipped off about potentially strong stories, but more often than not the frontpage lead evaporates in front of our eyes once our journalists start digging.

Once we start scratching beneath the surface, dig for more facts and get the other side of the issue or event in question, the reality is frequently a bit different than the initial story-line.

The tales around a rental shortage in Ashburton are no different.

Yes, there are many people in the district struggling to find appropriate accommodation but the situation is far more complicated than a simple lack of supply.

Our reporter discovered that there are plenty of properties available but that price is the main stumbling block and that landlords are selective.

One property manager was yesterday quoted in the Guardian as saying that most tenants rule themselves out for a multitude of reasons.

They may not be able to come up with references or the bond, while others have pets that rule them out for certain listings.

Landlords often have a bad reputation, but surely they are entitled to get some guarantees before they let another person or family take over their properties?

Certain landlords over the years have taken advantage of their position, but the current

OPINION

Shearer rejects critics

By Claire Trevett Labour leader David Shearer is brushing off a crescendo of calls for him to step down by left-leaning bloggers and commentators, saying it is “nonsense” and should be ignored.

Discontent with Mr Shearer’s leadership does not appear to have galvanised any challenges to his position, but it is damaging and has allowed right-wing bloggers to claim a campaign is under way to undermine Shearer in the leadup to the party’s conference this weekend.

The open criticism has so far largely been from party members and supporters but there is concern it is starting to spill over into the caucus and there is pressure on Mr Shearer to perform well at the conference.

Labour will introduce a new process to elect its leader at that conference - including giving members 40 per cent of the share of the

David Shearer vote which determined the leader and party affiliates 20 per cent.

Currently only caucus votes on the leader.

The series of those calling for Shearer to step down included three bloggers on the Standard blog, although another Standard blogger, former Labour secretary Mike Smith, counselled against a change. Other critics included Brian Edwards, who has consistently been critical of Shearer, and

Herald columnist Tapu Misa.

Yesterday the three MPs regarded as having leadership goals - Grant Robertson, David Cunliffe and Andrew Little - all ruled out any immediate challenge and rejected suggestions they were involved in any attempt to undermine Mr Shearer.

Deputy leader Mr Robertson said he had no intention of challenging Mr Shearer and dismissed the criticism, saying Labour was doing well and closing the gap with National.

“I’m backing David 100 per cent.”

David Cunliffe, who lost in the leadership contest against Mr Shearer last year and was perceived to have more support among the members, said Mr Shearer had his support as leader. Asked if he would run for the leadership again he said,”Crikey dick - I haven’t crossed that bridge at all. I am very clear that our leader has my support.”

He said Labour had a lot of “weighty matters” to get through,

legislation has gone a long way to protect the tenants.

Some landlords would even argue that the Tenancy Tribunal these days mostly looks after the tenants while the homeowner with genuine grievances faces an uphill battle for his claims.

To avoid any potential pitfalls or visits to the tribunal, landlords have become more careful and they want some assurances that the bills will be paid and the property will not be damaged.

If potential tenants cannot provide those basic requirements, they will struggle to find a home, but it is up to them to address this situation.

The more serious concern must be for single mums like Beatrice Pfeutzenreuter, who also featured in yesterday’s Guardian, or other people on low incomes who are at the mercy of the market forces.

They may be an ideal tenant, but are unable to compete when the market rates are pushed beyond the rental price they can afford.

The reality is that those families may not find the ideal home in their price range and will have to settle for a property that is not up to their standards.

The solutions are complex, but it is a sad indictment on our society that fewer and fewer Kiwis on average incomes are able to provide their children with a nice roof over their heads and a backyard to play in.

And judging by the constantly increasing real estate sales, owning their own home has virtually become a pipe-dream.

School bans hugging North Shore students have been banned from hugging during school hours because too many of them - mainly girls - were consistently arriving late to their classes.

Takapuna Normal Intermediate School deputy principal Sue Cattell said teachers last week suggested to students that they keep the hugs outside of the school day.

A trend among groups of year 8 students - 12- to 13-year-olds - had driven the call, Mrs Cattell said.

“It’s just a little thing that they’re doing. It got out of hand towards the end of morning tea time especially. There would be groups that got back to class 10 to 15 minutes

late because they were going around making sure they’d hugged the whole group before they got back to class.

“Obviously they’ll see their friends again at lunchtime so there’s not a need for a great big hug. [The teachers’ talk] was to remind them that this is like their place of work and they need to be back on time.”

More than 600 attend the school.

Parent Lorna Subritsky, whose daughter attends the school, said she could understand it might be annoying for teachers to have stragglers to their classes but the issue could be dealt with by addressing the lateness, not the physical contact.

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But the royal hysteria in downtown Auckland yesterday was for a veteran of the House of Windsor.

It was the Prince of Wales, who turns 64 tomorrow, who received the rock star reception as he and the Duchess of Cornwall met crowds of screaming fans.

The occasion was marred only briefly when police arrested a 74-year-old man near Britomart, and charged him with preparing to commit a crime, namely assault.

Protesters with a sign “bye, bye Charles” were drowned out by the ecstatic crowds on Lower Queen St, where “I’m never washing my hand again” was a popular phrase.

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Britain’s Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, meets cast members after attending a performance of Hairy Maclary at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna, Auckland Prince Charles or his wife Camilla were lost for words to describe their excitement.

It was a similar story at most of the royal couple’s engagements

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across the city on their second full day in Auckland, during which they encountered Olympians, scientists and an unexpected compliment about Speedos.

Justine Rowe braved the rain so her 6-year-old daughter Madelyn could meet the Prince before he left the North Shore to travel across the harbour in the morning. “[The children] all wanted to see Camilla because they wanted to see a real princess,” Ms Rowe said.

If the purpose of the Prince and Duchess’ tour to New Zealand was to revitalise the royals to a new generation, then the palace achieved PR perfection.

“Royals rule,” said one sign being held by primary school children who lined the streets of Devonport to watch the royal motorcade.

Children at the AUT Millennium building treated the Prince and Duchess like movie stars, shrieking with excitement as the pair walked by.

“Oh my god, that was awesome,” young Laurin Midwood said after meeting the royal couple.

Rachael Jones, who was doing laps at the AUT Millennium, stopped swimming to meet Their Royal Highnesses, telling Prince Charles she thought he would look good in Speedos, and apologising to the Duchess for not being able to curtsey in the water.

“It’s nice to see she’s not wearing a hat. She’s quite pretty, isn’t she,” Ms Jones said.

“I think Camilla and Charles are just gorgeous. I think they’re the ultimate love story.”

The couple also attended a stage rendition of the classic Kiwi children’s novel Hairy Maclary - one of the Duchess’ favourite books.

It was like the premier of a Hollywood movie as they sauntered down the red carpet to the Bruce Mason Centre, which was flanked by hundreds of wellwishers.

They laughed heartily during the show, and Camilla told performers afterwards that they got it “perfect”.

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my animals (inside house) was so terrified one year by only a few going off in street, that it had to be put down because of on-going nervous trouble.

Fire service time is wasted; why does this barbaric custom continue, originating in Britain where a man called Guy Fawkes was tortured on the rack for trying to destroy the Houses of Parliament.

Why are the explosives still being sold when they are meant to have been banned?

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Christchurch Boys’ High School headmaster Trevor McIntyre has resigned to take up an appointment as an executive adviser to the Christchurch Education Renewal Programme.

The announcement came from the board of trustees chairman Mark Jordan.

“In this role he will be responsible for working with the education sector during the consultation process. This recognises the great knowledge and expertise Trevor has built up over his many years of involvement with the sector,” said Mr Jordan.

“The appointment is for a one year term but we have agreed that in the best interests of his commitment to the role, and for the long term stability of Christchurch Boys’ High, it will be best for him to resign from his position as headmaster.

“While we will be sad to see him leave, we are pleased that Trevor has been rewarded for his passion for the Christchurch education sector.”

The Education Renewal Programme has been highly criticised for its lack of consultation and errors in fact after it announced the possible closure of 13 schools and merger of 18 in September.

In the proposals Christchurch Boys’ High School had been slated to merge with Shirley Boys’ High School but the Minister of Education Hekia Parata backed down last week saying this would not happen.

Mr McIntyre will take up the role December 3 and deputy headmaster Paul McWilliam will be acting headmaster.

Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone said Mr McIntyre had a long history of serving education in Christchurch.

“As executive adviser, Trevor will ensure the sector, parents and school communities have one of their own monitoring the integrity of the programme and facilitating the consultation process. He will act as a voice of the sector within the programme,” she said.

Mr McIntyre said he was privileged to be more closely involved with the Education Renewal Programme.

“I would like to be seen as someone who can support and advise both the Ministry and the schools through the changes that are taking place.

“I’m looking forward to be able make a greater contribution to education in Christchurch,” he said.

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including a modernisation process.

Andrew Little, when asked whether he would rule out running for the leadership, said a change of leadership was not currently an issue within Labour.

He said he had not seen the blogs in question.

Mr Shearer said the spate of calls consisted of “a small circle of bloggers feeding off each other and I’m surprised the media is taking it seriously. It’s nonsense.”

He said Labour had halved the gap in the polls between Labour and National since the last election.

“We’ll continue to take it to the Government and stand up for what matters to Kiwis. That’s jobs, education, a strong economy and the opportunity for every Kiwi to get ahead.”

At the conference Labour is expected to make organisational changes recommended after a major review of the party following its abysmal election result in 2011.

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is nothing short of misuse of ratepayers’ funds.

Council needs to change their attitude of, — “we’ll do it our way, to hell with the ratepayers and citizens,” — but instead should be listening to the people and users and look to the future especially when there are blatantly obvious better options.

A well designed Ring Road option which is favoured by many including heavy transport users has not been put to NZTA by the council, only a ridiculously poorly routed inner bypass that would probably and rightfully be rejected by NZTA which allowed council to push their Chalmers Avenue option.

Of course NZTA may support a bridge of council’s choice if the local council will pledge a large sum of “ratepayers’ money” to pay for a large portion of the project.

The NZTA representative at the recently run open days told several members of the public that

they have not yet committed to any bridge over the Ashburton River.

So council, look at safety, health, pollution, environment and the development of the town before you proceed any further because Chalmers Avenue, East Tinwald do not comply with any of these important social issues.

This is a NZTA problem and NZTA must pay for any bridge so a medium, long term option such as a ring road which can be constructed to comply with these very important issues should be considered.

Take through traffic, especially heavy, past the town not through urban areas.

Communicate and consult with affected land owners now, respect their rights and negotiate a fair deal for the future of the town and avoid the arrogant macho debacle council has created over this ridiculous Chalmers Avenue, East Tinwald option.

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Guy Fawkes And now yet another nightmare fireworks season has come and gone. Animals and babies terrified, kids injured.

It’s time these dangerous explosives were eliminated, apart from public display. Stupid hoons toss them around and even into street mail boxes, and it can continue well after the 5th.

A pony was so terrified it impaled itself on a fence, one of

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Man on his 10th drink-drive charge An Ashburton man convicted of his 10th drink drive charge was sentenced to three months’ home detention when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Allan David Taka, 53, was stopped by police and found driving with 115 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. His vehicle was seen to swerve over the centre-line, but he claimed he was rolling a cigarette.

Judge Colin Doherty said the starting point for recidivist drink drivers was prison, though it had been a decade since his previous alcohol charge. The gap meant the judge could exercise his discretion and not send Taka to jail.

But he did disqualify Taka from driving for 13 months and ordered him to do something about his alcohol issues.

He cannot drink on home detention, during which time he will be electronically monitored.

Taka has been to jail twice before for drink driving offences and his counsel Paul Bradford said his recent clean stretch was the positive influence of a new partner.

Toby Kevin Heke may lose his job as a meatworker at CMP because he can’t be electronically monitored while he works.

Heke, 42, was sentenced to four months’ home detention after pleading guilty to his fourth drink-drive charge.

The father of five was stopped on his way home from a season break-up.

His lawyer Paul Bradford said Heke had already referred himself to ACADS and would take part in a driving while impaired programme next February.

Probation officers said monitoring Heke at his work would be a problem

as CMP did not allow them access to the site.

Judge Doherty said it was a policy that put meat workers at an extreme disadvantage.

Heke asked for the sentence to be deferred a day so he could talk to his bosses.

The judge also imposed conditions requiring him to undertake alcohol counselling, and he disqualified him from driving for 18 months.

Other drink drivers to appear before Judge Doherty yesterday: A 64-year-old man convicted of his third drink driving charge was sentenced to four months’ community detention. George Rongotoa went out for a few drinks and made a foolish decision to drive; he was stopped and blew 811mcg/l of breath.

The sickness beneficiary will spend four months under community detention, with a curfew confining him to the property from 8pm to 6am. He was also disqualified from driving for 18 months and will have to stick to a three-year zero alcohol level when he eventually gets his licence back.

Bryden Troy Lumsden, 20, was stopped on Harrison Street on October 21 and found over the limit; he blew 463 mcg/l of breath. Judge Doherty said he already owed several thousand dollars in fines so sentenced him to 50 hours community work. He also disqualified him from driving for six months.

Five drink driving convictions in 10 years could add up to imprisonment for Mark Anthony McEvedy. The

Ashburton man has been remanded to January 14 for sentence to test his resolve to finish a driving while impaired course. The course, organised

by ACADS, is for recidivist drink drivers and McEvedy referred himself there.

McEvedy’s counsel Michelle Barrell said her client almost had special circumstances for driving after drinking.

He had been at a barbecue, drinking, when he received a text saying his brother was seriously ill in hospital. He drove to the hpsital and was caught on the way.

Ms Barrell said McEvedy had a letter from ACADS saying he was going well on the programme and he was motivated to change and deal with his alcohol issues.

Judge Doherty said the delay until sentencing would allow McEvedy to finish the course, and for police to check his brother had been admitted to hospital that night.

Peter Maxwell Batchelor, 54, of Elgin, admitted drink driving on Seafield Road on October 5. He blew 652mcg/l of breath. It was his third drink-drive charge and Judge Doherty remanded him to December 10 for sentence, so probation officers could prepare a report on sentencing options.

Hayden Johnathon Wood, 23, of Ashburton, was fined $500 after he admitted drink driving on Kitchener Street on October 5. Police stopped his vehicle at random about 2.15am.

He asked for a blood sample, which revealed 103 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. He must also pay $93 analyst’s fees and $80 medical fees; he was disqualified from driving for six months.

Man jailed for mini crime-spree A young Ashburton man who fled a community detention sentence to embark on a mini crime-spree was jailed for 19 months yesterday.

The Ashburton District Court was told yesterday that Aiden John DeeLindsay, 19, was sentenced to four months’ community detention in August for repeat driving while disqualified and

theft.

In October he left the house he had been ordered to live in, and a week later unlawfully took a car and drove it.

Two days later he was in possession of another stolen car.

Lawyer Michelle Barrell said DeeLindsay did not have an outstanding record and responded to being kicked

out of home by going on a crime spree.

Judge Colin Doherty said he could not give Dee-Lindsay a second chance at a home-based sentence because he had burned his bridges by ignoring previous court orders.

He also disqualified him for 13 months from August next year, when his current term of disqualification expires.

Disorderly behaviour earns fine A man who told Ashburton District Court staff he “could shoot someone” ended up before a judge charged with disorderly behaviour.

Unemployed Allan Baikie, 51, walked into a family court hearing on October 19 and sat down beside lawyers. He had no connection to the case.

Prosecutor Mike Wingfield told Judge Colin Doherty yesterday that Baikie had been drinking and court staff asked him to move.

He then said: “I could shoot someone.

I could have a gun.”

Finally staff got him out of the courtroom, where he complained that people

were scared of him because he was big.

“I would suggest people are scared of you because you go around saying things like ‘I could shoot someone’,” said Judge Doherty, after he accepted Baikie’s guilty plea to the disorderly behaviour charge.

He fined him $200.

Vehicle theft has sequel in court One of four young men who took a stolen van to the Ashburton riverbed and wrecked it was sentenced to three months community detention when he appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

Luke Alan Tarbotton, 22, had admitted charges of receiving the van, driving it like a boy racer, and damaging it,

was also ordered into counselling for an alcohol problem suspected by Judge Colin Doherty.

He also lost his licence for six months.

The four were at a stag party before they travelled in the van to the riverbed.

There they jammed the accelerator and revved the engine on full until it burst into flames. Tarbotton also admitted a

charge of driving carelessly, relating to a separate incident on Andrew Street.

Tarbotton has two previous convictions for drink driving and Judge Doherty said he viewed alcohol abuse as a major contributor to the young man’s situation.

He also imposed a 12-month sentence of supervision.

Driver logbook breach earns fine Arin Jon McNaught, a truck driver, was fined $250 and court costs for breaching logbook regulations. He was supposed to hand copies of his driving hours to his employers within 14 days, but had tallies in his logbook 36 days old.

Toni Cousins, 19, admitted driving while her licence was suspended because of excess demerit points. She took over the driving when her partner was tired during a trip back from

Queenstown.

She was fined $450 and disqualified from driving for six months.

Baring his butt to police resulted in a disorderly behaviour charge for Rangi Bruce Aranui Rix, 19. He also admitted failing to report to community work.

Judge Doherty fined him $150 and ordered him to do another 40 hours community work.

Allan Stuart Bunn, 49, a truck driver

of Methven, was fined $200 for exceeding maximum driving times without taking a break. He was 22 minutes over the 5.5 hour limit when he was stopped in Tinwald.

Punching a glass window at a Kaitaia bar put a pain in Allan Charle Elliot’s wallet. Elliot, 23, had been evicted from the bar earlier because he was too drunk. He was fined $200 and ordered to make reparation, which was expected to be around $1000.

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Graham Brazier light fitting as a weapon.

She was also bailed, and the pair are due back in the family violence court

later this month.

It is Brazier’s second court appearance in as many months.

Last month he pleaded not guilty to two charges of assaulting his former partner, the Herald On Sunday reported.

Court documents show the alleged assaults on former partner Toni Aitcheson dated back to 2009.

Brazier is known for his vocals with iconic Kiwi rock outfit Hello Sailor which formed in 1975. Their debut album two years later was the first New Zealand record to go gold.

The band toured the US and Australia, and were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame last year.

Brazier, who turned down an offer to join The Doors in 1978 after its lead singer Jim Morrison died, met Ms Aitcheson when he was a guest judge in 2007 on the talent contest Pop’s Ultimate Star.

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Hello Sailor frontman Graham Brazier has been back in court, accused of assaulting a woman.

The New Zealand rock star denies the charge and appeared at the Auckland District Court yesterday.

Wearing a Liverpool football shirt, Brazier remained quiet during his brief appearance, and let his lawyer Adam Couchman do the talking.

According to the police charge sheets in court, Brazier and hairdresser Joanne Wild both live at a Dominion Rd flat.

Mr Couchman told the court that Ms Wild would need to find another address to live at because he wanted Brazier bailed there.

Community Magistrate Joanna Sihamu gave Brazier bail on the condition that he lived at his Dominion Rd flat, didn’t associate with Wild, and that he was not violent.

Wild is also facing a charge of assault.

Police say she attacked Brazier using a

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Israel fires warning shots Israeli troops have fired warning shots into Syria, in what public radio says is the first Israeli fire directed at the military in the Golan Heights area since the 1973 war.

“A short while ago, a mortar shell hit an IDF post in the Golan Heights adjacent to the IsraelSyria border, as part of the internal conflict inside Syria. In response,

IDF soldiers fired warning shots towards Syrian areas,” the army said in a statement yesterday.

Military sources told AFP the army used a single Tamuz antitank missile, a weapon known for being highly accurate.

In addition, the army said in its statement it had filed a complaint through the local UN forces, warning that “fire emanating from

Syria into Israel will not be tolerated and shall be responded to with severity”.

Earlier yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “closely monitoring what is happening on our border with Syria and there too we are ready for any development”.

Yesterday’s cross-border fire was the latest in a string of inci-

dents in which fire has spilled from Syria across the ceasefire line.

On Thursday, three stray mortar rounds from Syria hit the Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981 in a move never recognised by the international community.

And on Monday, an Israeli mili-

A man threw a pipe bomb at an Indonesian provincial governor while he was on a stage but the device packed with nails failed to explode, police said yesterday after arresting the suspect and a second man. No one was injured.

South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo was attending a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of his political party, the Golkar party, in the provincial capital, Makassar. Police are investigating whether the failed attack was linked to a known terrorism group or to the next gubernatorial election. Limpo is seeking re-election in the January poll.

White smoke poured out of the pipe bomb but it did not explode, said national police spokesman Brigadier General Boy Rafli Amar.

The suspect, Awaluddin Nasir, 25, was beaten up by the crowd and arrested just after allegedly tossing the device.

Nasir led police to another suspect late yesterday, and

A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, just days after a tremor in the same area left 42 people dead.

The aftershock triggered some landslides but “fortunately we have no human losses to lament”, Guatemalan President Otto Perez told reporters.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was “no destructive widespread tsunami threat” based on the data.

The epicentre of the quake was located 24km west-southwest of the town of Champerico, and 180km west-southwest of Guatemala City, said the US Geological Survey, which monitors quakes worldwide. Perez said the quake triggered some landslides, especially in an area known as Barranca Grande (Big Ravine) in the department of San Marcos, some 250km west of the Guatemalan capital on the border with Mexico.

Scores of rescuers were already on the site searching for a person who was buried in Wednesday’s quake, Perez said.

“Thank God nothing regrettable happened, only that the landslide again covered what we had already cleared out,” Perez said.

The 7.4-magnitude quake on Wednesday killed 42 people.

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security forces are still searching for at least two other men who escaped during a police raid near Pamajengang village.

Dozens of officers are now surrounding the area.

Police seized a homemade bomb and two guns and are investigating a possible terrorism link.

“We found similarities with the explosive used by a terrorist group in Poso,” Amar said.

Poso was a flashpoint for violence between Christians and Muslims in which more than 1000 people died in 2001 and 2002. Authorities believe the district is now a terrorist hotbed.

Indonesia has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Terrorist attacks aimed at foreigners have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting government, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.

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Suspected militant Awaluddin Nasir (centre) is beaten by the crowd after he threw a bomb at South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo, unseen, during a political party anniversary celebration in Makassar, Indonesia.

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A water-bombing helicopter has mistakenly sprayed partially treated sewage onto firefighters battling a blaze on the NSW mid-north coast.

The Rural Fire Service (RFS) has launched an investigation into last Tuesday’s incident but says all firefighters involved have undergone medical checks and none have shown any ill effects.

The mistaken drop took place in the Kew area, near Port Macquarie, where firefighters and four aircraft were battling a blaze.

The Australian Workers Union urged an investigation after RFS volunteers and state forest crews were affected.

An RFS spokesman said oyesterday that a helicopter mistakenly drew up secondary treatment water from a sewage treatment plant.

It was then dropped near 12 firefighters, while another seven firefighters were in the general area.

“Following this, all 29 firefighters on the fireground and their equipment were immediately withdrawn and decontaminated by Fire and Rescue NSW,” the spokesman said.

They were also checked by paramedics at the scene and as a precaution each firefighter was given a further medical check the following day, he said.

“At this time no firefighters have complained of any ill-effects.”

The spokesman said the firefighters would continue to be monitored by the RFS. The fire was brought under control after burning more than 30 hectares.

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No one was wounded, but the incident prompted an Israeli complaint to the United Nations Security Council in which it described the gunfire as a “grave violation” of a 1974 agreement on security in the buffer zone.

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Buller’s Stockton opencast mine is cutting $32 million from its budget, but needs to save more by making shift changes or its viability will be in doubt, says the mine manager.

However, workers are sceptical and want to know how much management proposes cutting from its own pay packets.

Stockton Alliance manager Michael Harrison said Solid Energy’s export opencast operations, including Stockton, were close to marginal at current coal prices and with the New Zealand dollar so high.

“We’ve already cut back the use of contractors to concentrate on making the best use of our fleet,” Mr Harrison said in a newsletter to workers.

“To date, our plans will result in savings of approximately $32 million. However, unless we can make the savings which come from the shift change and other adjustments to how we operate and manage the mine, Stockton will no longer be a viable opera-

Buller’s Stockton opencast mine is cutting $32 million from its budget. tion.”

Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union area organiser Garth Elliot said machinery operators faced a wage cut of up to 17 per cent if they agreed to move from 12-hour to 10-hour shifts. They could lose between $9000 and $13,000 a year each.

As far as the operators knew, managers weren’t facing any pay cuts.

“The guys are feeling they are the only ones taking this on board, that they are the only ones feeling the pain.”

However, workers also had to consider what was happening to Solid Energy nationwide.

“They’re obviously not in a very good financial state and they’ve got to make the best out of Stockton.

“The company are saying to us that this (10-hour shifts) is their best option in regards to making the mine viable.”

Mr Elliott said the workers doubted Stockton was as under threat as management had claimed.

“Stockton has been profitable in years gone by and what’s actually changed that now?

They find that very hard to accept.”

Half the operators had voted in a secret ballot on the shift proposal last Thursday, he said.

The rest would vote at 5.30pm today. None of the votes would be counted until after the second vote.

Workers on the mine’s aerial ropeway and at its workshops were not affected by the proposed shift change.

If operators rejected the proposal, he hoped Solid Energy would be prepared to discuss alternatives.

The newsletter said the Stockton Alliance must get the

Fulton Hogan delays AGM

By Paul McBeth Fulton Hogan, the privately held construction company, has delayed its annual meeting until mid-December amid negotiations relating to a problematic Australian project which has already scuttled a scheduled share buyback.

The Christchurch-based company will hold its annual meeting on December 19 as it continues holding talks that are “material to the annual results of the company,” it said in a letter to shareholders. It will instead hold a series of informal meetings between November 29 and December 6 updating investors on Fulton Hogan’s performance, which would typically be held after the AGM. “These negotiations relate to the financial outcome of a project in Australia which has been impacted by severe adverse weather conditions and some complexities around the contract,” chairman

Ed Johnson said. “Obtaining clarity on the contractual matters is pivotal to the 2011-12 financial performance of the company and the provision of up-to-date and accurate financial information to shareholders.”

In June, the company formally revoked its October offer to buy back small share parcels, citing some difficult trading and project issues in Australia as well as a potential acquisition opportunity.

Fulton Hogan’s A$705 million joint venture with Leighton Holdings to upgrade the Sapphireto-Woolgoolga section of the Pacific Highway in New South Wales lost 71 days to wet weather in the first six months of this calendar year.

The project has been reported in Australian media as being in financial strife due to rainfall and poor planning.

The upgrade didn’t lose any work days in August.

The construction company gets more than half its revenue from

across the Tasman after acquiring the half of Australia’s Pioneer Road Services it didn’t already own.

Fulton Hogan ended the 2011 financial year with a forward order book of $3.2 billion, up 10 per cent from a year earlier.

Orders were helped by the company winning a share of the government’s roads of national significance programme, which made major roadways a funding priority.

The company said it expects available funding from New Zealand Transport Agency road maintenance and operations will come under pressure this year as the government realigns its focus.

“The NZ government is focussed on directing funds to areas of most need while maintaining borrowing to manageable levels and we know that Christchurch is a high priority in this respect,” Robert Jones, chief operating officer infrastructure NZ, said in a quarterly update.

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maximum use from its core mobile plant to meet the mine’s cost targets.

The Alliance also had to meet the mine plan and deliver the amount and quality of coal Solid Energy’s customers needed.

To do that, the mine must have 87 pieces of equipment working every shift but fewer annual hours from each piece of gear.

Stockton’s new mine plan required each piece of equipment to work 4200 hours in the year ahead, which required 348 operators.

“If we did that on 12-hour shifts we’d end up with just over 5200 hours a year worked, far more than we need or can afford. On a 10-hour roster, it works out at just over 4620 hours, which is close to our target (4200),” Mr Harrison said.

The alternative some people had suggested - fewer operators still working the old 12-hour shifts - would not work because it would mean the mine couldn’t staff all the equipment.

He said other cost-cutting measures taken at Stockton included:

• Reducing Downer EDI expat personnel on site; • reviewing the structure of teams to bring them in line with the tighter work plan.

In many cases numbers were reducing and vacant posts were not being filled; • reducing the amount of travel and training for managers and supervisors; • cutting back on light vehicles; • cancelling upgrades to buildings and computer/IT systems.

“These current and proposed savings to date total over $32 million and have been incorporated already in our budget.

“These changes, across the site and top to bottom, are what’s needed to get Stockton through this downturn and ensure it remains a viable operation,” Mr Harrison said.

“I am convinced that these changes – including the need to reduce the shifts to 10 hours – are essential. If it is rejected, the future viability of the mine will be in question in the current market.”

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Pay gap widens

By Cassandra Mason The gender pay gap is the biggest it has been in 10 years, according to new data from Statistic New Zealand.

The quarterly employment survey shows the gender gap has increased in the year to September by 1.3 per cent, from 12.85 per cent to 14.18 per cent.

The Pay Equity Challenge Coalition said it was the biggest gap it had seen in a decade.

“It’s a huge jump,” said spokeswoman Angela McLeod.

“You would think that if the overall rate had gone up – quoted at 1.1 per cent – that the gender pay gap wouldn’t be affected. You’d hope.”

Although the coalition couldn’t know for sure the reasons for the jump, McLeod said a higher proportion of women in part-time work had not helped.

“Unemployment has risen and probably an increase in part-time jobs. Female-dominated workplaces have been traditionally lower-paid, like carers and cleaners. In these lower-paid

roles women are paid barely above minimum.”

While the Government bases its measurements on data collected annually through the NZ income survey, the Statistics New Zealand quarterly employment survey provided more regular information, obtained from employers as well as employees, she said.

“The best [the gap] has ever been using the measurements we use is 12 per cent. It’s still a gap and it’s still unacceptable.”

McLeod said the Equal Pay Act, passed in 1972, was not effective in the current economic climate, given the proportion of contract work.

“A couple of bills have been drafted, which will make it more transparent and therefore give women and men the available data to challenge their pay.”

But waiting for the bills to be drawn was not enough, McLeod said.

“We want to see the Government take action – they could put those changes in themselves.

The Government needs to take on board the international and New Zealand-based research and see how they could increase the productivity of the economy.

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Irrigation managers targeted in pilot workshop IrrigationNZ will team up with Synlait later this month to host a pilot workshop for irrigation managers.

Aimed at farming staff who operate irrigation systems, the November 30 workshop will cover the skills and knowledge needed for high performing irrigation, said IrrigationNZ CEO Andrew Curtis.

“IrrigationNZ has been asked for this kind of practical workshop for some time.

With new water quality and quantity limits bearing down on farming, having the ability to irrigate effectively is critical. We want to help irrigation managers streamline their procedures to minimise problems and maximise profitability.”

The workshop, to be held at Synlait

Milk’s Dunsandel Plant, will be divided into four modules covering regulation, scheduling, operation and maintenance, and calibration. As well as classroom learning, participants will use nearby irrigators for practical in-the-field application.

Focusing on those actually managing irrigation should ensure widespread adoption of good management practice, says Mr Curtis.

“We have deliberately targeted irrigation managers as they oversee the system on a daily basis. The ability to prove, justify and account for water use is now a given and working with those at the coalface means these skills can be passed onto all farm employees.”

Synlait Environmental Manager Lucy Johnson said the pilot workshop is a good fit for the company.

“We are committed to providing our milk suppliers with the necessary training to meet current and future best practice in the environmental area. We’re excited to be able to offer this pilot workshop to our suppliers enabling access to the latest irrigation techniques and knowledge.”

IrrigationNZ intends to roll out the ‘Irrigation Manager’ workshops nationally next year. They will cover all irrigation types from drip irrigation systems in orchards and vineyards through to centre pivots in broad acres and pastoral scenarios.

After Aspirations a minute’s silence was observed in memory of Connie Johnston, a past president, secretary and longtime member of Rakaia Women’s Institute.

Arrangements were made for up coming events. Alzheimers Collection (in conjunction with Rakaia Red Cross).The competition judges congratulated members on a great collection of flowers and felt the ladies were very versatile in their interests.

Competition results: Cut Flowers - 1st Natalie Gardiner, 2nd Pat Duncan, 3rd Monica Hanrahan.

Floral Decorative: Pat Duncan.Cooking: 1st Natalie Gardiner, 2nd Heather Isles, Craft: Pam Dolan, 2nd Natalie Gardiner 3rd.

The Sandford Trophy for most points overall: Natalie Gardiner, the van Leeuwen Trophy, for most outstanding entry was won by Pam Dolan. The judges were thanked alnd presented with fruit baskets.

Federation representative Pauline gave an outline of the work of Federation Committee, which has 10 members and meets once a month at Senior Centre in Ashburton. Each member has a job to do and Rakaia Federation member Jenny Logan has responsibility for publicity and reports.

Motto: “Friends are the flowers of Life’s Garden”.

Roll Call: What I would like for my garden”. Two members would each like a lemon tree (this winter seems to have been hard on lemon trees), two would each like a Magnolia tree and two would like roses. One member yearns for a new fence another a bird statuette and another would like a gardener. WI ladies are certainly versatlile.

November’s trip out finalised. Members to meet at hall at 9.30am, bring own lunch and cup. Jan read our Link letter.

Three members dipped into the Birthday Box. Judy Hay and Bev Oakley were the recipients of the raffles.

Competition results - Floral: Judy Hay, Cooking: Judy Hay, Craft: Judy Hay, Overall: Judy Hay. Congratulations Judy, you scooped the pool.

Our thanks to Joan Campbell for doing an excellent job of the judging, Joan received a plant. Afternoon tea concluded a pleasant day.

• Women’s institute reports Mid Canterbury Federation of WIs held a successful half-yearly meeting hosted

by Hinds and federation executive acted as models for clothing from The Merino Store in Hinds.

We held an indoor bowling fun day last week for the Canterbury region with six teams participating. This was won by Canterbury district with the Mid Canterbury team from Tinwald, placed third. We had eight bays at the A&P show with great displays. Hinds was 1st, Fairton 2nd and Lowcliffe 3rd.

This coming February we are going to Barrhill for our Founders Day Service and hope all WIs and Canterbury federations will attend.

Denise Clark, President

Netherby The October meeting was a very wet day.

President Adrienne Hodson welcomed 22 members. Secretary Joan Campbell read the minutes and results from last meeting’s flower show. General business was discussed also entries for the Bay and Tray for the A&P show.

Joan Henderson gave reports on the Wakanui Flower Show also the half-year federation meeting.

Motto: Better is the neighbour that is near than family far away.

Roll Call: Swap a plant, with many plants going to new home gardens.

Moylan Trophy went to Cora Petrie, North Church Trophy was tied points, went to Adrienne Hodson and Molly Amos, Raffle was won by Joan Henderson.

Members enjoyed a game of Beetle before ending the meeting with a welcome cup of tea.

Rakaia The Rakaia WI held their September Spring Flower Show in St Andrew’s Church lounge recently.

President Heather Isles welcomed members and two Mid Canterbury Federation WI representatives Pauline Palmer and Judy Vaughan and also two Rakaia Garden Club members Trish Molloy and Fay Howard who would judge our competitions.

Tinwald Members arrived at the Hall 10.30am for our mini flower show. An excellent showing, many entries in each catergory.

After lunch President Joy Keen welcomed members, two apologies were accepted, minutes were read and confirmed.

Motto: Don’t expect more out of your Institute than you put into it, was read

by Judy Hay. The tray was organised, two members to sell raffles at the show.

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Westpark Our October meeting is our outing so 12 members met at Colleen Corbetts and filled cars and travelled up Racecourse Road to Gilbert Donaldson’s shed where he showed us his wonderful collection of machinery and household items that he has collected over the years. His knowledge of the history of the items is just amazing.

Mary Simpson thanked Gilbert and presented him with a small gift. We then headed to McDonalds for afternoon tea, and we had a short meeting, a full report of the federation half-yearly meeting was read by Yvonne on behalf of Margaret Thorpe. Congratulations to Mary Simpson on receiving second placings in the competitions. Arrangements for our entry at the A&P show were dealt with.

Birthday greetings were sent to Sylvia Smith. Our next meeting will be held at 1.30pm on November 20.

Willowby-Eiffelton As our speaker was unable to attend, business filled our meeting, with L. McAslan and N. Christey appointed as delegates to the half-yearly meeting.

Representatives had attended Netherby Home Industries Show, and the opening of the new Cancer Society Rooms. We had entered a team in the bowls tournament, a lot of fun.

Competitions were an arrangement using one flower, three biscuits for donating and best bloom. The Motto was: Dreams have no expiration date.

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Tips for improving pasture quality Mid Canterbury farmers had a chance to hear the pros of high sugar grass last week.

Farmers at Hinds and Methven have been growing the grass and shared their observations with farmers at field days.

Dr Jock Allison, a former director of MAF Invermay and of AgResearch, was also on hand to explain why a big jump in pasture quality was needed in New Zealand.

He also debunked “some of the myths out there”.

One of the field days was at the dairy farm owned by David and Jill Jones and sharemilked by their son Vaughan.

The farm milks 750 cows and the Joneses have been growing Aber high sugar grass for nine years. The Joneses regrass weak paddocks each year and have about 60ha in Aber.

“Aber has more drymatter than appears as it’s very dense. It therefore resists pugging. Fine leaf also makes this grass more resilient to weather extremes and it’s shown good longevity.”

Their farm has stony soil, which dries in the summer unless irrigated. It is prone to pugging in wet winters.

Father and son Wayne and Greg Meadows, at Methven, have also been sowing more high sugar grass each year.

They have about 140ha in Aber and say their 850 cows are happy to eat it.

Promoters of the high sugar grass say it boosts milk production, increases meat production and creates less nitrogen waste to the environment. It also has vigorous root growth and can last longer than short-term ryegrass cultivars.

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Patrick Davis listens as scientist Dr Jock Allison talks about improving New Zealand pasture quality during a field day at Hinds last week.

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The other development has been the introduction of split lamb schedules, with significant premiums now being paid for lambs born this spring over old season lambs.

These premiums range between companies from 10c/kg to as much as 35c/kg.

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By Michael Hanrahan

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n a district that relies heavily on farming grain, as Ashburton does, it was only natural advantage was taken by officialdom of the natural desire of children to make as much pocket money as they could ridding the area of pests, while having fun at the same time.

It was also natural that those same young boys would at times take advantage of the naiveté of the same officialdom to maximise their returns for little more work.

In the early days of colonisation several varieties of small birds were imported from Britain by settlers wanting to make New Zealand more like “home”, and that was the case with songbirds such as the skylark and linnet, but many other varieties such as the starling were imported in an attempt to control the nuisance of insects that were spreading onto farmland as the native bush cover was cleared.

However, the birds themselves soon became the nuisance in intensively farmed areas such as Canterbury.

Common crops damaged by birds were wheat grown to make flour, oats to feed the teams of horses used for cultivating the land, and barley.

The birds soon learned the ripening crops provided free food and they gathered in thousands, stripping the growing plants bare. By the early 1880s the problem was serious enough to concern local councils. In response to their pleas Parliament in 1882 passed the Small Birds Nuisance Act, allowing councils to rate for the destruction of birds and other pests named in the act.

In many areas the new powers were not widely taken up, but the reliance of Mid Canterbury on grain growing saw the Ashburton County Council think differently. Over the years an organised system developed, with a bounty being paid for birds eggs in the nesting season. Bird nesting was a valuable source of income for young boys on farms, but it could be hazardous – one 14-year-old boy was killed when he fell from the top of a very tall gum tree.

Removing eggs only partially reduced the problem, so from 1896 the Ashburton County moved to a payment for birds’ heads at certain times of the year. Again, catching birds, removing their heads and

Ten minutes for refreshments is the signal for the rush As the famished hordes exterminate the feeble in the crush No battlefield is grimmer, where battered heroes die than the bloody Railway battle for a cupper and a pie.

In a scrum All Blacks would envy Only hardy souls remain To grab a bun and sandwich is the saviour of the train.

Barry Lineham’s ‘Wellington Express’ This replica of a bird trap designed by retired Ashburton schoolteacher John Brown is from the Ashburton Museum collection.

A sample of receipts from the Ashburton District Council archives dating from the early 1950s show money paid out by the Ashburton County Council for birds’ heads, eggs and rats’ tails. taking them to the county council or one of its depots set up around the district was valuable for supplanting the income of youth. However, when that also did not prove entirely successful the County moved onto supplying poisoned grain free of charge.

Of course, some boys found their way around having to do the work. There are records of some getting free poisoned grain from the council and then taking the heads of poisoned birds to the council for a cash payout – the original double dipping. And there is the story of one country blacksmith shop that acted

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t first sight a French sounding name for a road in the heart of Mid Canterbury may seem a little strange, but things are not always as they seem.

Le Bretons Road runs from just east of Ashburton Airport into the heart of the Wakanui district. However, in the Ashburton Museum collection is a large map dating from about 1881.

It was taken, by the County Council, around ratepayers’ meetings when the construction of stock water races was being debated. Farmers were asked to write their names on it, and the name Le Breton appears, not on Le Bretons Road, but on Seafield road, near the major intersection known colloquially as Charing Cross, about where the CMP Canterbury plant is today.

Did Mr Le Breton write his name in the wrong place. It is possible — there are certainly other instances of this on the map. At that time roads were mainly lines on a map and tracks through tussocks, and most people would never have seen a map of the area before.

But there appears to be another reason — two people by the name of Le Breton.

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as a depot for the council. Boys were known to have their birds’ heads counted and be told to throw them in the forge. They would pretend to do so, take them out and give them to a friend to make a second claim.

As time went on other pests were added to the list the county would pay for, with up to sixpence being paid for rats’ tails and hares’ tails – while such animals could probably live without their tails the council felt it was unlikely they could easily be removed from a live animal.

Numbers destroyed were large.

In January 1901 8000 heads and eggs were handed in at a depot

at Wakanui School and during 11 months of 1909 the County Council paid £949 6s 3d for 126,840 heads and 403,990 eggs.

The following year, on one day in August, £3 2s 3d was paid out in Ashburton for 794 heads, with more collected in Methven and Rakaia.

One Saturday in 1911 one farmer at Braemar picked up 553 dead birds after laying poison that morning around some straw stacks.

During this period some wanted the council to pay for birds’ nests as well as eggs, because of tales boys were “farming” nests – removing eggs but leaving the nest so the bird would lay more.

One boy had collected 24 eggs from one nest in a season by that method, Mr J. Lambie of Kyle said. County chairman Mr D Wood was sceptical about buying eggs. “Some of the boys would become expert nest builders,” he said.

Other methods were tried, with the Council in 1909 importing 25 owls, which it was thought would reduce the number of birds. These did multiply, and were claimed by some to be effective, but eventually they died out.

Traps were invented to catch birds in large numbers. In 1919 Kings

From the Ashburton District Council archives, a schedule of 1950 payments for rats’ tails from the Lauriston area. It shows some people were very active, while some only brought in the occasional tail. Girls were as active as boys in the pursuit of pocket money.

By Kathleen Stringer Lightning Bird Trap was advertised for sale in Ashburton. It was said one man had caught 25,092 birds in four months and earned nearly £105 selling their heads to the County Council.

Locally retired schoolteacher John Brown invented a trap in 1918 that was widely used. The Ashburton Museum has a replica of one of his traps in its collection, one of the few remnants of this era, although in the archives of the Ashburton District Council is a box of receipts up to the 1950s, with sixpence been paid for rats’ tails and a penny for birds’ heads.

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destination had been Timaru, but the voyage had been a disastrous one, with 25 passengers dying, and health authorities in Timaru insisted she continue to Lyttelton.

On board was a family from Alderney in the Jersey Islands, Francis and Mary Le Breton, and their children Mary, aged 18; Francis Philip, 16; Ann Elizabeth, 14; Amelia Luce (her mother’s maiden name), 12; Adolphus John,7; and Alfred John, 3. Francis, father and son, were listed as being farm labourers and Mary the daughter as a domestic servant.

What they did during their early years in New Zealand is unclear, but by 1870 they were living in Waltham, Christchurch, where Francis was a tailor, and by 1880 he owned his own land in the area.

At the same time their son, Francis Philippe Le Breton, now aged 32, had started farming on land he leased in the Ashburton area, listing his address as Charing Cross. It is likely he did live on Seafield Road and that it is his name that appears on the map in the museum collection.

Five years later Francis Philippe was still at Charing Cross, but by now his father had given up tailoring in Christchurch and appears as a farmer at Wakanui. It is likely that the road is named after him, although nothing has yet been found to show exactly where he lived.

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t’s not lovely, it’s not cared for, but there’s just a chance it may have significance in the story of farming in New Zealand.

It is the sheep shower on Barrosa Station in the Ashburton Gorge, right beside the road that takes many tourists to the Ashburton Lakes and beyond.

From the earliest days of sheep farming in Canterbury it was considered essential to wash sheep in a variety of solutions to control insect infestations and diseases.

This was at times done by damming a small stream, but the more common method was a trough filled with liquid the sheep were required to swim through, and be fully dunked under.

Whatever the chosen method, it was hard work for the people doing it, as sheep seldom want to swim of their own accord. It was only a matter of time before someone decided pouring the water on the sheep would be easier than throwing them into it.

This was a method that became the norm from the late 1950s onwards, with dipping contractors taking mobile sheep showers from farm to farm. However there were earlier attempts, one of the earliest being this structure at Barrosa built

probably in the 1920s by station owner Colonel Redmond Neil.

Looking like a small shed, the shower could hold up to 200 sheep at a time in pens. The roof consists of a tray with countless holes punched in the bottom. The concrete floor collected the liquid which ran into a sump from where it was pumped back up to the roof, using a second hand pump purchased from the harbour board and driven by the rear wheel of a Model A Ford car.

The weakness to the system was

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the “organic matter” the liquid picked up on its passage through the system, blocking the holes in the roof. It is reported the Neil children were put on the roof to constantly sweep the holes clear. At that time a variety of chemicals were used in dipping, including arsenic, but no harm seems to have come to anyone.

How long the shower remained in use is not known, but it was possibly the problem of the roof holes blocking that caused it to be abandoned.

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SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) A Solar Eclipse in your sign means that it’s time to make some demands on the Universe. Ask for whatever you want and you might even get it. You can continue to receive surprise support and today you might even get an offer you can’t refuse. Someone can want the best for you and may be prepared to agree to your requirements.

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You may even feel trapped and frustrated.

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hile the song is about Wellington, it does rekindle the memories many readers would have of rushing into a railway refreshment room to get a pie or sandwich and the unforgettable tea or coffee.

Throughout the network there were refreshment rooms which served counter food (if you did brave the rush and crush) or dining rooms which served a slightly more civilised and leisurely sit down meal. Regardless of the fare the hot liquid was the same – strong tea or milky coffee – no choosing between flat whites or lattes in those days. The coffee in particular was a creation singular to refreshment rooms – a milky, bland substance that obtained a skin on the top if you left it to cool.

Apart from the food the cups themselves are still remembered. Large, heavy objects with the boast that they were unbreakable; the NZR cup is seen as Kiwi as the gumboot or black singlet.

However, like the Wellington boot and Jacky Howe black singlet the railway cup is not a true Kiwi. While the cups most remember are indeed Kiwi bred, originally made by Crown Lynn and later Temuka Potteries, the example shown here is English. Compared to the later, more familiar cups, they certainly have a more finished look to them.

For many years government ceramics, like most things, were British made. The size of our market didn’t warrant our own potteries churning out a few hundred chamber pots or cups and saucers. It was cheaper to import them, often already stamped, from mother England. Potteries here dealt in small runs of pretty vases and other items. During the war however, shipments of luxury goods such as ceramics was restricted, even if British potteries bothered to make them.

The first NZR cup made here dates from 1941. New Zealand potteries quickly took up the challenge to make essential items such as railway cups. The Crown Lynn cups were rather ugly, heavy creations – originally without handles. Although they may have not been pretty they were functional and an important chapter in the story of New Zealand’s pottery.

Oddly, through so well known there are not a vast number of examples of good old Kiwi NZR cups. Maybe one reason was the directive of rail management to destroy cups once passenger lines such as the Southerner closed.

Fearing that the cups would indeed become souvenirs, staff were told to commit such senseless acts of destruction as throwing trays of ceramics out of windows as the trains passed over bridges.

While it is a shame such an iconic object was destroyed wholesale, it at least proved they were breakable after all.

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AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Health issues may be brought on by powerful subconscious forces which could be trying to get your attention. A Solar Eclipse may have a message for you. It could be hinting that it’s time to change your ways and listen more carefully to your instincts.

Just a small transformation in your daily working habits and lifestyle could have profound benefits.

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) Love happens when we least expect it and today one new tie may start out as a platonic relationship. A focus on your adventure zone reveals that someone you meet while travelling or while learning a new skill may affect you powerfully.

You may not realize what is happening but before too long you could begin to feel obsessed. Easy does it!

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9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group, walk for an hour. Meet outside Church, all welcome. 48 Allens Road.

9.30am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Tai Chi for beginners, everyone welcome. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock St. 9.45am. ASHBURTON MENS PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting with guest speaker. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet, handicap single, Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

10.00am. NEWCOMERS SOCIAL GROUP. Coffee morning - all welcome. Nosh Cafe at Ashford Village.

10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Maintenance Tai Chi. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

12noon - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON J.P.’S ASSOCIATION. J.P. signing centre, document signing service. 122 Tancred Street, Community House, behind Westpac Bank.

1.00pm. ASHBURTON PETANQUE CLUB. Played in most weathers, interested? We play by the Ashburton Bowling Club in the domain, West Street entrance.

1.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hanger RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road.

1.30pm. R.S.A. Cards “500�. Everyone welcome. R.S.A. Club, Cox Street.

1.30pm. ASHBURTON SENIOR CITIZENS. Social afternoon, sales table, raffles. Senior Centre, Cameron St. 7.30pm - 9.30pm. MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB - Night time section. Club night, all welcome.

Rackets available. Sports hall, Tancred Street.

TOMORROW WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14 8.30am. ASHBURTON STROLLERS CLUB. An easy days walk, new Methven cycle way. New members welcome. Phone Jenny 308-6862.

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

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10.45am. M.S.A. TAI CHI CLUB. Seated exercises for those with limited mobility. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

1.00pm. WAIREKA AND ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Reciprocal singles at both clubs.

7.00pm. ASHBURTON ROSE GROUP. Monthly meeting, floral art, Pat Bishell, Rose show. Catholic School Rooms.

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

7.30pm. ASHBURTON PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Anderson set of three. Results field trips. Senior Centre.

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Sunday’s date will go down in the record books of Canterbury Country Bowls after the women secured a historic win over Canterbury Centre at the Ashburton Bowling Club.

The annual town versus country fixture had the Country women claim a rare win after years of suffering defeat.

The senior Canterbury Country women had a sound 8-4 win over Town, picking up three out of four wins in the singles, and had two wins and a draw in both the pairs and fours.

The Country Development women had their noses in front at the end of the day’s play with both Town and Country claiming six wins apiece it went to points differential with the country women holding a 14 point advantage.

The Country men weren’t so lucky at the Papanui Club in Christchurch.

The Canterbury senior men outclassed the Country senior men 10-2 while the development men were outscored 7.5-4.5 by the town development men.

Methven’s Ruth Smith rolls up for the Canterbury Country in the development women’s pairs against Canterbury on Sunday.

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ACROSS 1. Lewd (9) 8. Sick (3) 9. Impoverished (11) 11. Present (7) 12. Sword (5) 13. Fertiliser (6) 15. Card game (6) 17. Tapestry (5) 18. Increase (7) 20. Unwilling (4-7) 22. Japanese sash (3) 23. Wrong (9)

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Everton v Sunderland. Replay.

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8.30 The Netball Zone.

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3.40 Goodnight For Justice 2: Measure Of A Man. (2012, PG) Luke Perry.

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6.45 Faces In The Crowd. (2011, 16) Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon. A woman develops face blindness after surviving a serial killer’s attack. As she lives with her condition, the killer closes in.

8.30 Jack And Jill. (2011, PG) Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes. Family guy Jack prepares for the annual event he dreads. the Thanksgiving visit of his passive-aggressive twin sister, Jill.

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Smiths dominate Peach Cup races The Smith family claimed the double in the Peach Cup when the Tinwald Cycling Club travelled to Methven on Sunday.

The Peach family have had a 73 year association with the Club and Madge Peach was on hand to preside over the race and present the cups, which went to the Smith family.

The open grade faced a 45km handicap conditions and it was Dave Smith that found the line first.

Emma Hudson continues to impress this season producing a solid ride to take second leading Lucy Kirwan, who is rapidly regaining last year’s excellent form.

Angela Smith topped off a good day for the Smith family coming in fourth place with Ross Proctor charging into fifth.

Methven local Glen Currie made a strong cameo appearance to clock the fastest time, covering the course in 67.34 minutes to edge out co-markers Tony Ward with Simon Earl.

Earlier in juniors Henry Smith has set the tone for the family when he pulled out a top shelf ride to take the 15km handicap event.

Henry was made to work hard for his victory, pushed right to the line by Oliver Davidson.

Sam Cullimore rode through the field to secure third place and also record the fastest time, clocking 26.00 minutes.

Ben Sutton was fourth while yet another Smith featured in the top five with Isabella coming in fifth.

Barry Linwood secured top position in division 2.

Adrienne Hodson (left) accompanies Madge Peach in watching the Tinwald Cycling Club race for her cup, the Peach Family Cup. Photo Tetsuro Mitomo 111112-TM-249

SCOREBOARD Results Bowling

Ashburton Bowling Club Results of Ladies 4’s Playing for the Bowman Cup held Nov 9 at Ashburton Bowling Club.

1st N MacKenzie, R Fleming, N Woods and O Collins; 3 wins 22 ends and 48 points.

2nd J Krammer, J Eddy, P Smith and M Rutherford; 3 wins 18 ends and 45 points.

3rd M Eder, M Barnes, W Herriot and J Rooke; 2 wins 1 draw 15 ends and 28 points.

4th M Sullivan, L Boyd, M Middleton and R Isherwood; 2 wins 20 ends and 33 points.

Lucky draw: S Holdom, Z Keen, J Ryk and J Trudgeon.

Ashburton Bowling Club Members played on Saturday November 10 at Ashburton Bowling Club, for the Quaich Trophy sponsored by Pearson’s Coachlines. Teams were drawn.

1st C Leech, J Dutton, C Cross and O Gray; 3 wins, 14 ends and 22 points 2nd T Watson, S Cullimore, E Ellis and B O’Sullivan; 3 wins, 12 ends and 31 points 3rd T Blain, R Prendergast, M Jones and H Johnston; 2 wins, 14 ends and 24 points 4th Jo Dennis, R Keeling, E Surridge and R Lowe; 2 wins, 13 ends and 22 points Spider was won by Annette Blain Prizes for first touches by Lead, Dave Dutton, by seconds, Jeff Withington, by thirds, Ian Blackwell, and Skips, Russell Anstiss.

Canterbury Country Rep Bowls Full Results: Development Women: Canterbury Country 6 wins, +14 points differential – Canterbury 6 wins, -14 points differential Country win by differential Senior Women: Canterbury Country 8 wins – Canterbury 4 wins

Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers 10th November, fine weather not too bad a field of riders for the Saturday race, wind a bit deceiving, all in all not too bad for the day. Coming in to the finish a bunch sprint was to be with 14 riders out of the 24 starters contesting.

At about the 75 meters mark the pressure was put on and two riders came to the front for a battle to the line crossing with nothing in the placings so close.

Results: 1st Sam Cullimore (10.50m) F/T. 21m 03s. 2nd. Scott Albon (10.50m) 2f/t. 21m 03s. 3rd.

Ben Sutton (8m) 23m 55s. 4th.Nigel Chatterton (8m) 23m 55s. 5th. Richard Kirwan (10.50m)3f/t. 21m 05s.

6th. Ross Templeton (10.50m) 21m 06s. 7th. Bruce Albon (8.50m) 23m 07s. 8th.Shona Proctor (8.50m) 23m 07s. 9th. Don Sutton (8m.) 23m 07s.10th Robert Grice (9.40m) 22m 18s. 11th.Dave Shurrock (8.50m) 23m 08s. 12th. David Sullivan (8m) 23m 59s. 13th Harriett Sutton (8m) 24m 13s. 14th.

Nickolas McIntosh (8m) 24m 13s.15th Tania Tocher (4.30m) 27m 59s. 16th. Bruce Paterson (4.30m) 28m 00s. 17th Brent Hudson (8m) 24m 33s. 18th.

Sonya Hyde (3m) 30m 21s. 19th Alan Cox (3m) 30m 22s. 20th Brendan Tocher (9.40m) 24m 10s.

21st. Doug Coley (9.40m) 24m 10s. 22nd. Steve Tocher (8.50m) 25m 01s. 23rd. Bruce Arnst (Go) 36m 05s. 24th. Harry Chatterton (4.30m) 34m 25s.

Well done to all. Many thanks to Bruce Arnst, Harry Chatterton and Scott Albon on the Reg Table, thanks to go to Ruth Kirdy on Turning Duties, as well as Martin Hyde on the Clocking in, great work team.

Thanks to the riders who made the race. For now bye and see most next Saturday.

Friday Night Track Racing Well the evening was to be the very best in weather and attendance, 54 Young Wizz Wheelers and 11 Open and U17s.

A very big thanks to all the helpers over the racing and to the mums and dads thank you for coming along, to the youngsters very well done with some excellent racing and exciting finishes.

Results of Points over the evening, all the W/W races are over one Lap and there is three over the evening, the W/W Trainers race along the home

Straight over 50metres.

Trainer Wheels W/W Group 1. 1st. Wiremu Keefe-Paul 13pts. 2nd. Madeling Howden 11pts.

3rd. Tea Aitken 5pts. 4th. Fionn Dineen 2pts. 5th.

Ruby Busch 1pt. Trainer Wheels W/W. Group 2. 1st.

Savannah Todd 11pts. 1st.=Charlotte Doak 11pts.

2nd. Juliet Kingsbury 10pts. 3rd. Fluer Kingsbury 8pts. 4th.Te Arohi Keefe-Paul 5pts. 5th. Isla Moffett 3pts. 6th. Oliver Bellow 2pts. othe W/W. Ella Rose Blampied and Zac Moffett.

A. Grade W/W. 1st. Ethon Titheridge 11pts. 2nd.

Simon Moore 8pts. 3rd.Jack Busch 2pts.4th. Caitlin Titheridge 4pts. 5th. Nik Taparau 3pts. B. Grade 1st. Jenna Moore 8pts. 2nd. Madison Clark 6pts.

3rd= Paige Aitken and Mitchell Cushnie 5pts. 4th.

Gemma Taparau 4pts. 5th. Maddie Lowry 3pts.

6th.Zac Evans 2pts. and Cole Aitken. C. Grade 1st. Ashlin Banks 10pts. 2nd.Emily Jane Elliott 8pts. 3rd. Layton Carr 7pts. 4th. Tom Rosevear 5pts. 5th. Emma Lowry 3pts. also racing in C. Briar Clark, Charlie Howden,Nik Kershaw, Callum Kingsbury. D. Grade 1st. Thomas Anderson 11pts.

2nd. Ashleigh Binnie 10pts. 3rd.= Lily Davidson and Zac Bartlett 4pts. 4th. Poppie Busch 3pts. 5th.

Charlie Brown 1pt. also raced in D. Jesse Nieman, and Luke Rhodes.

E. Grade 1st. Maxton Rowlands 6pts. 2nd.= Josh Bellow, Joel Moffett, and Samantha Nieman, 5pts.

3rd. Brooke Wylie 4pts. 4th=. Mitchell Lye and Tyler Bartlett 3pts. 5th. Liam Elliott 2pts. also racing in E. Harrison Doak,and Ashleigh Binnie. Open and U17, 1st. Rob Hooper 12pts. 2nd. Josh Connor 10pts.

3rd. Ross Templeton 5pts. 4th.= Sam Cullimore, and Ben Sorenson (Tim) 3pts. 5th Brendan Davidson 2pts. B. Grade. 1st. Jessie Banks 13pts. 2nd.Oliver Davidson 8pts. 3rd. Connie Davidson 7pts. 4th.Ben Sutton 5pts. 5th. Tim Leonard (Tim) 2pts.

A great night with excellent racing. Until next week bye for now.

Fanciers Entered: 4; Birds Released: 17 Fancier: 1st R. Cornwall; Flying Time: 12:54:04; MPM: 1012.3917; 2nd L. Quinn 985.8400; 3rd M. Davidson 984.3500; 4th L. Quinn 858.3367; 5th S. Davidson 827.5817; 6th L. Quinn 825.1483; 7th M. Davidson 809.5783; 8th S. Davidson 798.2033; 9th R. Cornwall 759.1517; 10th R. Cornwall 696.2150.

Shooting Fullbore Rifle Shooting Lovely fine conditions with pretty docile wind made for some very good scores at the annual Canterbury Spring meeting on the Christchurch clubs Tai Tapu range.

Won by Malvern shooter Chris Kershaw, 346.38 after ten shots at 300, 500, 600 and 800 yards on Saturday and fifteen shots at 900 and 1000 yards on Sunday. Kershaw with a magnificent last range possible, 75.8 at the 1000 yards took the Champion Belt from Malcolm Dodson of Blenheim, one point back on 345.36, and Ken Chittock of Gore 344.41.

Ashburton’s Darian Miller 335.29, put on a top shoot to take the C grade and Ladies Trophies.

Other local scores, John Snowden 343.32, 4th, John Miller 337.26, 6th, John Fleming 321.21, Veterans Trophy and 5th in B grade, and in C grade, Sandy Collett 309.17, 3rd, Brian Hawksby 309.12, 4th, Coby Snowden 291.8 5th and Murray Cook 270.8 6th.

Next week club shoot is at 700 yards, Sunday at 1pm.

Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby Awards 2012

MCRU JAB Awards JAB Seven-A-Side Under 7 - Celtic G Under 8 - Allenton Under 9 - Hampstead Mayfield Golf Club Under 10 - Methven November 10 Under 11 - Methven Winners: John Bell nett 65; John Sim 66; Nigel Under 12- Southern H Ormrod 67; Wayne Blair 68; Roger Lake 70; Steve Under 13 - Allenton Cross 71; Jacob Paterson 71.

Under 14 - Methven B Nearest Pins: JAB Town V Country Aon Insurance Brokers No 2: Jacob Paterson; Under 7 Green – Country Bayleys Real Estate No 11: Jacob Paterson; Under 7 Gold - Town Marilyn Cross Property Brokers No 5: John Sim; Under 8 - Draw National Bank No 14: John Sim; ATS 2nd Shot 9 Under 9 - Town and 18: Jack Allan.

Under 10 - Country Two’s: Toney Neilson, John Sim Under 11 - Town Nett Eagle No 6: Roger Lake Under 12 - Country Ash Vegas Player of Day: John Bell 80-15-65 Under 13 - Country Next Week: Bisque Par Under 14- Country Geraldine visit us 24th November 12.30 for 1pm.

Agrifarm Machinery Limited Jab Town V Country Trophy - Country Tinwald Golf Club Jab Championship Trophies And The Centurion Twilight November 1 Shields Results from the twilight par round competition Under 8 Geoff Frew Centurion Shield - Celtic played on Thursday were : Senior; Daz Young 3 Under 9 Grant Perry Centurion Shield - Hampstead up, Paul Boon, Cameron Miller, Brent Green, Snow Under 11 John Smitheram Centurion Shield And Pierce, Paul Gray, Chris Hart and Nigel Heney all 2 Mcru Cup - Methven B up. Junior; Steve McCloy 6 up, Jamie Stone 5 up, Under 13 Murray Roulston Centurion Shield And Kerry Whiting, Pete Ranson, Selwyn Munro, Luke Summerfield Cup - Allenton M Spence 2 up, Jason McLaren 1 up b/l. Women; Under 14½ Jock Ross Centurion Shield And Mcru Pam McAndrew 4 up, Joyce VanderHeide, Madeline Cup - Methven Smith 3 up, Belinda Kirdy, Verna Hampton 2 up.

Under 16 Hn Edge Cup, Russell Kelly Memorial Cup Ashburton Lady Vet Golf James Paton Memorial Cup (Of Combined Mid Stableford match at Methven on October 19 Canterbury/Ellesmere Competition) – Celtic 1st Heather Santy 40, Bev Gregory 39, Colleen Special Awards For Jab Club Rugby Linney 35. Nearest the pin No 6 Heather Santy.

Pauline Ball Trophy (Most Improved Under 9 Next match on Friday 16th November at Rakaia, Team)- Hampstead playing a Bisque Par. Bruce Printing Tray (Best Average Points In Jab Rugby) - Methven B Under 11 Aorangi South Canterbury Golf Stirling Sports Fair Play Award - Celtic U14 1/2 Women’s 9 Hole Pennants at Temuka November 9 Len Sandrey Trophy (Best Conduct, Dress Etc. Temuka 55 Ashburton 51 Lower Waitaki 48 Tinwald In Jab Rugby) – Southern 38 Pleasant Point 38 Timaru Combined 36 Jab Club Coach Of The Year: Warren Mackenzie Waimate 36 And Mark O’grady – Celtic Under 16 The winners of the 9 Hole Pennants being played for the first time this year and over four rounds were Jab Mid Canterbury Representative Player Of Temuka on 198 Lower Waitaki 194 Ashburton 191 The Year Tinwald 185 Timaru Combined 180 Waimate 178 Under 48Kg- Hamish Cartwright Pleasant Point 177 Under 65Kg - Eru Tahuri Under 14 ½ - Anton Herewini Under 14 ½ Robert Woodham Cup(Mc Player Of The Tournament : Anton Herewini Ashburton Racing Pigeon Club Under 16 - Tom Foster November 10 Referee Awards Gisborne Flock Long Service Presentations - Peter Mcknight, Liberation Point: Gisborne; Time: 3:07:15:00 Graham Shaw, Tony Macpherson

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Findlay Cup (Contribution To Refereeing) Graham Shaw Pierce Trophy (Most Improved Referee) Kevin Opele Life Members Cup (Outstanding Contribution To Mc Rugby Refereeing) Tony Macpherson Open Grade Club Awards Under 18 Rudstone Cup And Kevin Dwyer Memorial Trophy - Celtic Colts Mcru Cup (Mc Club Championship Cup) And Crt Cup (Winners Of Mid Canterbury/Ellesmere Competition) - Southern Senior B Michael Duff Memorial Trophy (Top Team After Round One), And Centennial Mug (Top Team After Round Two) And 2Nd Grade Cup (Mid Canterbury Championship -Collegiate 50Th Bruce Beckley Memorial Cup - Southern Senior Dave White Memorial Cup - Methven Max Gilbert Challenge Trophy - Southern Luisetti Watters Cup -Methven Special Awards For Open Grade Club Rugby Body Cup (Best Open Grade Captain) Dan Dwyer - Celtic Seniors Roy Smith Memorial ((Best Conduct, Dress Etc. In Open Grade Rugby) – Methven Under 18 Mb Roulston Cup (Most Points In Senior Rugby) Ewan Scott Cbs Canterbury Positive Play Award - Celtic Seniors Open Grade Coach Of The Year – Michael Ellis Southern Colts Open Grade Mid Canterbury Representative Awards Under 18 Mid Canterbury Representative Player Of The Year – Kenan Gillson Mid Canterbury Sevens Player Of The Year (Cousins Cup) : Richard Catherwood Mid Canterbury Development Team Best Team Man James George Mid Canterbury Development Team “Best Back” Cawte Whiting Mid Canterbury Development Team “Best Forward” Mark Andrew Mid Canterbury Development Team ”Player Of The Year” Paddy Davis Heartland Best Team Man Simon Fleetwood Heartland Most Improved Back Ben Kitching Heartland Forward Of The Year Tukulua Tolu MCRU Premier Rugby Awards Heartland Player Of The Year – (Morgan Trophy) Nick Mckain Mid Canterbury Coach Of The Year (Neville Goodwin Memorial Trophy) Mark Cousins Mid Canterbury Referee Of The Year (Ant Mcgirr Trophy) Kevin Opele Volunteer Services Award (Philip Mcdonald Cup) Garry Brown Club Of The Year For 2012 Southern

Softball Hampstead Softball Club Nosh Café Slow-Pitch Results November 9 Hawks 34 - 16 TGIF Sluggers Muz’s Tigers 12 - 11 Marines and Angels S and Giggles 26 - 3 As Good As It Gets

Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis Saturday November 10 Mixed Masters Orange beat Green 5 matches to 1 W. Christie and B. Sivier beat P. Yates and G. Esker 9-4; B. Danielson and P. Huggins beat I. Taylor and S. Leith 9-4; W. Christie and P. Huggins beat P. Yates and S. Leith 9-6; B. Sivier and B. Danielson lost to G. Esker and I. Taylor 8-9; W. Christie and B. Danielson beat P. Yates and I. Taylor 9-5; B. Sivier and P. Huggins beat G. Esker and S. Leith 9-3.

Gold lost to Red 38 games to 36 D. Taylor and R. Warring beat B. Riseley and G. Donaldson 9-6; C. Christie and M. Allen lost to F. Ruddenklau and R. Wilson 3-9; D. Taylor and M. Allen lost to B. Riseley and R. Wilson 3-9; R. Warring and C. Christie beat G. Donaldson and F. Ruddenklau 9-0; D. Taylor and C. Christie beat B. Riseley and F. Ruddenklau 9-5; R. Warring and M. Allen lost to G. Donaldson and R. Wilson 3-9.

A Grade Dorie beat Fairton 5 matches to 1 R. Cromie and D. Lake beat P. Leonard and R. Robinson 6-2, 6-2; T. Boag and C. Brosnahan beat

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T. Thomas and H. McNulty 6-1, 6-0; R. Cromie beat P. Leonard 6-4, 2-6, 1-0 (10-2); D. Lake beat R. Robinson 6-3, 6-2; T. Boag beat T. Thomas 6-1, 1-6, 1-0 (12-10); C. Brosnahan lost to H. McNulty 6-2, 3-6, 0-1 (8-10).

Allenton lost to Hampstead 60 games to 58 J. Feutz and J. Boag lost to T. Deeley and J. Langley 5-7, 3-6; B. Donaldson and A. Leonard beat W. Blacklow and C. Brosnahan 6-4, 7-5; J. Feutz lost to T. Deeley 2-6, 1-6; J. Boag lost to J. Langley 2-6, 7-6 (7-2), 0-1 (9-11); B. Donaldson beat W. Black low 6-2, 6-2; A. Leonard beat C. Brosnahan 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 1-0 (10-8).

Tinwald lost to Methven 7 sets to 6 S. Jordan and L. Glendining beat J. Cromie and B. Wright 7-6, (7-2), 0-6, 1-0 (10-3); A. Mitchell and I. Langley beat J. Edginton and J. Watt 6-0, 6-4; S. Jordan lost to J. Cromie 3-6, 4-6; L. Glendining beat B. Wright 6-4, 6-4; A. Mitchell lost to J. Watt 3-6, 4-6; I. Langley lost to J. Edginton 4-6, 3-6.

A Reserve Methven White beat Tinwald by default Hinds/Mayfield beat Methven Purple 4 matches to 2 H. McNulty and A. Rollinson beat J. Early and B. Early 6-2, 6-2; P. Murdoch and J. Moore lost to C. Kuyf and J. Marr 2-6, 2-6; H. McNulty beat J. Early 6-2, 6-3; A. Rollinson beat C. Kuyf 6-2, 6-1; P. Murdoch lost to B. Early 1-6, 2-6; J. Moore beat J. Marr 6-1, 6-0.

Allenton Maroon beat Hampstead Gold 4 matches to 2 L. Allan and L. Thomson beat A. Cuthbertson and B. Muir 6-2, 6-3; K. Benny and H. Lloyd lost to N. Purdom and E. Connelly-Whyte 0-6, 2-6; L. Allan beat A. Cuthbertson 6-4, 6-0; L. Thomson beat B. Muir 6-4, 6-4; K. Benny beat N. Purdom 6-2, 6-0; H. Lloyd lost to E. Connelly-Whyte 0-6, 0-6.

Hinds/Longbeach beat Allenton Gold 5 matches to 1 D. Rollinson and N. Jansen beat A. Reid and B. Looij 6-1, 6-0; C. Stock and W. Reith beat S. Bubb and S. Reid 2-6, 6-0 1-0 (10-3); D. Rollinson beat A. Reid 6-1, 6-0; C. Stock beat B. Looij 6-4, 6-1; N. Jansen lost to S. Bubb 2-6, 2-6; W. Reith beat S. Reid 6-1, 6-1.

B Grade Methven Jade beat Methven Black 4 matches to 2 D. Wilson and Q. Pannett beat P. Ahearn and E. Ahearn by default; S. Molloy and A. Holmes beat H. Muckle and A. Todhunter 9-4; D. Wilson beat P. Ahearn by default; Q. Pannett lost to E. Ahearn 6-5, 4-6; 0-1 (5-10); S. Molloy beat H. Muckle 6-0, 6-1; A. Holmes lost to A. Todhunter 4-6, 4-6.

Allenton beat Tinwald Orange 6 matches to 0 S. Bubb and A. Mears beat E. Sinclair and E. Farr 9-6; R. Twamley and N. Thomassen beat A. Hefford and S. Cunneen 9-5; S. Bubb beat E. Sinclair 6-4, 6-1; A. Mears beat A. Hefford 7-5, 4-6, 1-0 (7-4); R. Twamley beat E. Farr 6-1, 7-5; N. Thomassen beat S. Cunneen 6-1, 6-2.

Rakaia beat Tinwald White 4 matches to 2 G. Benny and H. Wild beat O. McKeown and L. Schikker 9-5; J. Benny and R. Bishop lost to J. Leslie and S. McAtamney 7-9; G. Benny beat O. McKeown 6-4, 6-0; J. Benny lost to J. Leslie 2-6, 4-6; H. Wild beat L. Schikker 6-3, 6-2; R. Bishop beat S. McAtamney 6-2, 6-4.

Piknmix lost to Hampstead 50 games to 42 K. Wild and T. Edwards lost to E. Connelly-Whyte and R. Feutz 3-9; H. Stock and C. Elvines beat P. Young and T. Hampton 9-4; K. Wild lost to E. Connelly-Whyte 4-6, 1-6; T. Edwards lost to R. Feutz 0-6, 0-6; H. Stock beat P. Young 6-3, 6-1; C. Elvines beat T. Hampton 6-4, 7-5.

Junior A Tinwald Trogans lost to Allenton Green 5 matches to 1 T. Leonard and H. Kirwan lost to E. Dargue and L. Donnelly 3-6; M. Langley and V. Sandrey lost to H. Dargue and M. Ness 1-6; T. Leonard lost to E. Dargue 5-9; H. Kirwan lost to L. Donnelly 5-9; M. Langley beat H. Dargue 9-8 (7-5); V. Sandrey lost to M. Ness 1-9.

Wakanui beat Hampstead Rachettes 6 matches to 0 J. Keenan and J. Settle beat K. Canning and E. Radford 6-2; H. Davies and W. Wallis beat H. Rossellini and G. Canning 6-1; J. Keenan beat K. Canning 9-1; H. Davies beat E. Radford 9-4; J. Settle beat H. Rossellini 9-1; W. Wallis beat G. Canning 9-1.

Rakaia beat Hampstead Hurricanes 4 matches to 2 H. Helem and D. Hadfield lost to H. Adams and V. Barbu 5-6; J. Helem and M. Bishop beat S. Prendergast and T. Carter 6-0; H. Helem beat H.

Adams 9-6; D. Hadfield beat S. Prendergast 9-1; J. Helem lost to V. Barbu 3-9; M. Bishop beat T. Carter 9-0 Allenton beat Methven Silver 5 matches to 1 M. Looij and C. Muir beat S. Kemp and T. Faulki 6-4; M. Looij beat S. Kemp 9-4; C. Muir beat T. Faulki 9-4; T. Kelland lost to M. Wilson 7-9; J. Kell beat D. Wilson 9-3.

Hampstead Crusaders beat Dorie 6 matches to 0 J. Brosnahan and Q. Ritchie beat C. Stewart and T. Bassett 6-1; L. Potts and O. Hastie beat T. Mones Cazons and M. Gilbert 6-0; J. Brosnahan beat C. Stewart 9-1; Q. Ritchie beat T. Bassett 9-1; L. Potts beat M. Gilbert 9-0; O. Hastie beat T. Mones Cazons 9-0.

Junior B Hinds beat Rakaia Black 5 matches to 1 N. Wilson and L. Hyde beat J. Bloomfield and J. Blakemore 6-0; J. Allen-Perkins and J. Rollinson beat J. Dennett and P. Docherty 6-1; N. Wilson beat J. Bloomfield 6-0; L. Hyde beat J. Dennett 6-2; J. Allen-Perkins beat J. Blakemore 6-3; J. Rollinson lost to P. Docherty 4-6.

Tinwald red beat Longbeach Tryhards 6 matches to 0 J. Jones and S. Millar beat A. Bagrie and L. Bagrie 6-4; J. Millar and S. Bell beat K. Gane and J. Gane 6-1; J. Jones beat A. Bagrie 6-5; S. Millar beat L. Bagrie 6-4; J. Millar beat K. Gane 6-0; S. Bell beat J. Gane 6-5.

Junior C Methven Orange beat Rakaia 6 matches to 0 T. Scott and J. Blakemore beat T. Lewthwaite and J. Molloy 6-2; R. Nee and S. Mattson beat H. Faulks and R. Duff 6-0; T. Scott beat T. Lewthwaite 6-2; J. Blakemore beat J. Molloy 6-0; R. Nee beat H. Faulks 6-0; S. Mattson beat R. Duff 6-0.

Dorie beat Longbeach Aces 6 matches to 0 J. Jackways and L. Pye beat E. Keating and J. Keating 6-0; J. Price and F. Pye beat H. Bishop and R. Gray 6-1; J. Jackways beat E. Keating 6-3; J. Price beat J. Keating 6-4; L. Pye beat H. Bishop 6-0; F. Pye beat R. Gray 6-4.

Methven Green beat Allenton 4 matches to 2 H. Pooler and A. Early beat C. Allen and C. Donaldson 6-5; O. Pooler and J. Scott lost to C. Collins and l. Woodman 4-6; H. Pooler beat C. Allen 6-1; A. Early lost to C. Donaldson 4-6; O. Pooler beat C. Collins 6-4; J. Scott beat L. Woodman 6-5.

Allenton beat Methven Red 4 matches to 2 K. Chamberlain and T. McIntyre beat B. Farrell and K. Braidwood 6-0 K. Danielson and S. Judge lost to S. Innes and E. Riordan 1-6; K. Chamberlain beat B. Farrell 6-0; T. McIntyre beat K. Braidwood 6-1; K. Danielson beat E. Riordan 6-4; S. Judge lost to S. Innes 0-6.

Methven Gold lost to Hampstead 4 matches to 2 C. Taylor and F. Taylor beat L. Deal and M. Ruffle 6-5; A. Connew and E. Connew lost to L. Prendergast and T. Connelly-Whyte 2-6; C. Taylor lost to L. Deal 1-6; F. Taylor lost to L. Prendergast 4-6; A. Connew beat M. Ruffle 6-5; E. Connew lost to T. Connelly-Whyte 3-6.

Grade Unknown Rakaia Pink beat Tinwald Blue 4 matches to 2 S. Moore and J. Bloomfield beat G. Adams and M. Farr 6-3; S. O’Reilly and O. Bishop beat S. Adams and K. Brady 6-5; S. Moore lost to G. Adams 5-6; J. Bloomfield beat M. Farr 6-3; S. O’Reilly beat S. Adams 6-3; O. Bishop lost to K. Brady 6-0.

Challenger Grade (Girls) Friday November 9 Mid Canterbury beat Waimairi Gold 4 matches to 2 Ashleigh Leonard lost to Lily Bray 4-6, 1-6; Stacey Hopwood lost to Vera Goesmann 1-6, 0-6; Christal Brosnahan beat Kirsten Swindell 6-0, 6-1; Larissa Allan beat Olivia Ridges 6-2, 6-0; Ashleigh Leonard and Stacey Hopwood beat Lily Bray and Vera Goesmann 6-4, 6-3; Christal Brosnahan and Larissa Allan beat Kirsten Swindell and Olivia Ridges 6-1, 6-1.

Challenger Grade (Boys) Mid Canterbury Black beat Edgeware Black 3 matches each 7 sets to 6 Aidan Mitchell lost to Luke Hulston 3-6, 2-6; Connor Brosnahan beat Troy Johns 6-2, 6-1; Hayden McNulty beat Sam Lange 6-2, 6-0; Jamie Burrows lost to Hamish Visser 6-0, 4-6, 0-1 (4-7); Aidan Mitchell and Jamie Burrows lost to Luke Hulston and Troy Johns 1-6, 4-6; Connor Brosnahan and Jayden McNulty beat Sam Lange and Hamish Visser 6-4, 6-2.

Mid Canterbury Blue beat Burwood 3 matches each 7 sets to 6 James Watt lost to Ryan van Grinsven 6-3,

• Seniors two from two The Mid Canterbury seniors tennis representative team made it two wins out of two so far this season by beating Hurunui 10-6 in Ashburton on Sunday. Mid Canterbury’s next match will be tough against North Canterbury A in the Canterbury Country Sub Association competition which will also be in Ashburton on December 9.

• Cricketers struggling Ashburton College is in deep trouble against St Andrews heading in the second day of their first two-day match.

Ashburton College lost the toss and was put into bat against St Andrews with early wickets putting Ashburton in early trouble.

A middle order fight back by Jordan Scott-Wells with 20 and 32 from Jack Meyrick restored some respectability with number 11 Kieran Hunt also adding 17 to get Ashburton to 118 all out by lunchtime. In reply St Andrews pushed through to a declaration at 255-9 for a 137 run first innings lead. With an hour of the days play remaining Ashburton were asked to bat again and lost three wickets by stumps to be 32/3.

1-6; 0-1 (2-7); Joseph Benny beat Levi McNab 6-2, 6-2; James Wild beat Reece Falck 6-0, 6-2; Duncan Rollinson lost to Khaki Morgan 1-6, 0-6; James Watt and Joseph Benny lost to Ryan van Grinsven and Reece Falck 2-6, 4-6; James Wild and Duncan Rollinson beat Levi McNab and Khaki Morgan 6-4, 6-4.

Trinity exams Results of Trinity College practical exams held recently: Grade 8 Distinction: Olivia Pike; Merit: Greta Casey-Solly, Luke Glendining (Singing), Emily Langridge (Piano).

Grade 7 Distinction: Savanna Sewell, Ryan Strijbis (Piano); Merit: Micah Townshend; Pass: Sophie Brennan (Singing) Grade 6 Merit: Hayley Tait, Olivia Brown; Pass: Tealy Wood (Singing), Ross Allott (Jazz Sax).

Grade 5 Merit: Teagan Carter (Piano), Lucy Clough; Pass: Casey McRae, Jack Hanrahan (Singing), Zoe Diedricks (Cello).

Grade 4 Merit: Hamish Sloper (Piano), Olivia Stewart, Annie McDonald, Lydia Ford, Joshua Pike (Singing); Pass: Annah Casey-Solly (Singing), Susannah Harper (Piano).

Grade 3 Distinction: Annelise Diamond (Singing); Merit: Madeleine Evans, Liberty Higson, Gabrielle Stringer, Samantha McArthur (Singing), Willow Diedricks (Violin), Benjamin Sutton, Kate Booker (Piano), Claire-Louise Davies Stewart (Flute).

Grade 2 Distinction: William Hollings, Brianna Harrison (Piano), Jack Bubb, Tenielle Booth, Matilda Smith (Singing); Merit: Annalise Reilly, Mickayla Milmine, Sophie Kettley (Singing), Jamie Roberts (Piano); Pass: Breanna Sutton, Hannah Kuipers (Violin), Ruby Wills, Joshua Pike (Piano), Anna Crossan, Lara Biggs, Joe Danielson, Lily Burdett (Singing).

Grade 1 Distinction: Amy Pearson (Piano), Merit: Mitchell Farr, Toby Lee (Singing); Pass: Kate McIIroy (Piano).

Initial Merit: George MacLeod (Piano).

Touch Collegiate Touch November 8 High Raters 6 vs Kinvig A 5, Barbarians 11 vs The Lemons 0, Cereal Business 1 vs Team Xtreme 9 Youngsters 6 vs Give Me 10 6, Farques 4 vs Spraymark Sharks 1, Laser Sparks 5 vs Maulaz 6

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Mid Canterbury Netball Mitre 10 Mega Twilight Netball Draw Week 3 Tuesday 13th November 2012 Heartland Court: 6.00pm, Mixed Up v The Geez Team; 7.00pm, Ashburton Ligers v Moisties ; Neumanns Tyre Services Court: 7.00pm, Doggies v Dragons Ashburton Guardian Blue Court: 6.00pm, Canterbury Dirty Tactics v Udder Chaos; 7.00pm, Semi Pro’s v Dodgy Knees ; Ashburton Guardian White Court: 6.00pm, High Raters v Hoops I Did it Again; 7.00pm, Seeds R Us v Childs Play; Ashburton Guardian Red: 6.00pm, S & Giggles v Legal Ganstaz; 7.00pm, Megz Team v Scoring All Night.

Touch Touch Draw for 15th November 6.30pm Give me 10 vs Spraymark Sharks Youngsters vs Farques 7pm The Lemons vs Kinvigs A Team Xtreme vs Laser Sparks 7.30 pm Cereal Business vs Maulaz Barbarians vs High Raters

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Fields, form and drivers for Cup Day NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club Inc Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2012 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles : 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles : 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 11.50am (NZT) GARRARD’S HORSE & HOUND HANDICAP TROT $20,000, 3 to 5 wins discrhcp trot, stand, 3200m 1 24376 Paint The Moon (1) fr.................... S McNally 2 3x282 Mo Hahn fr.................................... Scratched 3 40066 Sunchita (2) fr.................................T Herlihy 4 73232 Theycallmesam (3) fr.................... P Wakelin 5 43658 Pammys Boy (4) fr..................... M Edmonds 6 31103 Bert Powell (5) fr................................. A Butt 7 11x90 Galleons Legend (6) fr......................... J Hay 8 83830 Westmelton Willie fr...................... Scratched 9 84570 Glendaloch (U1) fr................... L McCormick 10 60177 Top Notch Lavros fr....................... Scratched 11 PPx12 Luby Ann (U2) fr............................M Purdon 12 05965 Aylesham (1) 10......................... C Middleton 13 12x21 Stent (2) 10..................................C DeFilippi 14 x8464 Blackjacky (3) 10.............................. D Dunn 15 x1639 Royearl Quest (U1) 10...................B Orange 16 03611 Murcielargo (U2) 10............M Williamson (J) Emergency: Sunchita 2 12.25pm HYDROFLOW GRADUATION SERIES FINAL MOBILE PACE $20,000, 3yo+ mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 57x65 Sachin Arden (1) fr......................C DeFilippi 2 17452 Three Pints (2) fr............................M Purdon 3 44x76 Declan fr....................................... Scratched 4 348x4 Alex (3) fr.........................................M Jones 5 222x5 The Friendlyassassin (4) fr........... G O’Reilly 6 33242 Field Officer (5) fr...............................J Dunn 7 1x11 Mossdale Conner (6) fr.......................R May 8 7913 Condrieu (7) fr................................B Orange 9 24132 Hard Copy (8) fr............................... G Smith 10 41085 Supabet (21) fr.............................. M Kerr (J) 11 57x41 Alberto Contador (22) fr................ R Holmes 12 31754 Ohoka Kentucky (23) fr...................T Herlihy 13 00x33 Magna (24) fr.................................J Geddes 14 73204 Comenche (25) fr..................... C D Thornley 15 1x321 Jimmy Johnstone (26) fr...................... J Hay 16 31D53 Better Than Money (27) fr.................D Dunn Emergencies: Declan, The Friendlyassassin 3 1.00pm CROMWELL LAKE DUNSTAN HANDICAP TROT $25,000, 5 or more wins spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 56743 Lookslikeatrooper (1) fr..................... J Smith 2 411x5 Uncas (U1) fr................................... G Smith 3 1592x Springbank Sam (U2) fr......M Williamson (J) 4 09x9P Escapee fr..................................... Scratched 5 25567 Global Invasion 10........................ Scratched 6 78245 Thanesan (U1) 10............................... A Butt 7 13x12 Phil’s Gift (U2) 10..................... N Williamson 8 58x94 With Intent (1) 25............................ D Nyhan 9 0x600 Jaccka Jack (2) 25...........................J W Cox 10 97x24 Beat The Monarch (3) 25................T Chmiel 11 24018 Quality Invasion (U1) 25.................G Archer 12 0409x Ready Set (U2) 25.......................N McGrath 4 1.35pm RICOH FFA MOBILE PACE $35,000, ffa mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 18026 Mach Banner (1) fr.............................J Dunn 2 3614x Dream Out Loud fr........................ Scratched 3 38006 Rangataua Ray (2) fr.................... R Holmes 4 6x699 Mister Presley (3) fr............................ D Butt 5 73x23 Easy On The Eye (4) fr...................T Herlihy 6 x1155 Kotare Yaakov (5) fr........................B Orange 7 56910 Lord Mamaduke (6) fr......................J W Cox 8 41712 Sir Lincoln fr.................................. Scratched 9 12574 River Black (7) fr..............................M Jones 10 11085 Donegal Delight (21) fr..................... D Dunn 11 x07P3 Flyover (22) fr..............................A Edmonds 12 x2571 Beaudiene Christian (23) fr..........N McGrath 13 7x067 Excuse Maker (24) fr....................... G Smith 14 00992 Sleepy Tripp (25) fr..............................R May 5 2.10pm DAVE CARVILLE MEMORIAL FFA PACE (STAND) $20,000, 2 to 3 wins ffa pace, stand, 2600m 1 93182 Roxy Bromac (1) fr..........................T Herlihy 2 34104 Mr Murdoch (2) fr....................... B Borcoskie 3 31309 Simple Saver (3) fr.......................C DeFilippi 4 87x62 Cee Uin L A (4) fr......................... R Jenkins 5 11x11 Jivin Cullen (5) fr................................J Dunn 6 05x52 Living The Dream (6) fr..................B Orange 7 53112 Ellmer Hanover (7) fr..........................R May 8 1x302 New Revenue (8) fr.................. C D Thornley 9 1x362 Phantom Grin (9) fr...........................D Dunn 10 76041 Alta Capone (10) fr...........................P Davis 11 418x3 La Passione (11) fr.........................T Chmiel 12 7135x Cam Before The Storm (12) fr............ A Butt 13 21230 Hairy Maclary (13) fr..................... R Holmes 6 2.45pm SEELITE WINDOWS & DOORS NZ TROTTING FFA MBL TROT $80,000, ffa mob. trot, mobile, 2000m 1 21453 Leighton Hest (1) fr...........................D Dunn 2 0x600 Jaccka Jack fr............................... Scratched 3 39x31 Raydon (2) fr...................................T Herlihy 4 58x94 With Intent fr................................. Scratched 5 8x740 Vulcan (3) fr........................................ A Butt 6 32121 The Fiery Ginga (4) fr....................... A Clark 7 x3786 Musgrove (5) fr.................................... D Butt 8 x1861 Sovereignty (6) fr.......................... R Holmes 9 1x111 I Can Doosit (7) fr..........................M Purdon 10 09x9P Escapee (U1) fr..............................B Orange 7 3.20pm NRM SIRES STAKES FINAL 3YO C&G MOBILE PACE $180,000, 3yo c&g mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 2x273 Mighty Flying Mac (1) fr 2 x3121 Cyamach (2) fr................................S Phelan 3 13321 Franco Nelson (3) fr................. C D Thornley 4 x1613 Greenburn Creek (4) fr..................... D Dunn 5 13211 Arden Rooney (5) fr.....................G R Payne 6 211x1 Five Card Draw (6) fr.................... B Mangos 7 9x136 Supreme Mach (7) fr.......................K Barron 8 14132 Topshelf Attitude (8) fr............. Z Butcher (J) 9 23254 Mac The Finn (9) fr............................. A Butt 10 21734 Bettor Rock On (21) fr........................R May 11 1x111 Classiesistar (22) fr..........................M Jones 12 62452 Rocky Marciano (23) fr...................T Herlihy 13 25324 Blazin N Cullen (24) fr.......................J Dunn 14 22131 Mista Mara (25) fr......................... D Butcher 15 11222 Beau Vite (26) fr.............................M Purdon Emergencies: Mighty Flying Mac, Bettor Rock On 8 3.55pm AVON CITY FORD MOBILE PACE $20,000, 2 wins mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 1x362 Phantom Grin fr............................ Scratched 2 41110 Motu Prince Of Peru (1) fr.................. A Butt 3 04x51 Little Tess (2) fr...............................T Chmiel 4 62909 Giannis Bromac fr......................... Scratched

Selections Race 1: Stent, Murcielargo, Blackjacky, Theycallmesam Race 2: Mossdale Conner, Jimmy Johnstone, Alberto Contador, Hard Copy Race 3: Springbank Sam, Thanesan, With Intent, Phil’s Gift Race 4: Easy On The Eye, Sleepy Tripp, Mach Banner, Mister Presley Race 5: Jivin Cullen, Phantom Grin, Living The Dream, Cam Before The Storm Race 6: I Can Doosit, Escapee, The Fiery Ginga, Sovereignty Race 7: Franco Nelson, Five Card Draw, Cyamach, Classiesistar Race 8: All Star Man, Motu Prince Of Peru, Little Tess, Pemberton Shard Race 9: Christen Me, Statesman, Bettor’s Fire, Magical Mel Race 10: Terror To Love, Franco Ledger, Fly Like An Eagle, Sushi Sushi Race 11: Master Lavros, Jag’s Invasion, Pretty Sunday, Another Love Race 12: Smiling Star, Johnny Fox, Poacher, Jason Rulz 5 22250 Cullen’s Mercy (3) fr...........................J Dunn 6 04358 Call Me Danny (4) fr..................... G O’Reilly 7 459x1 Chechnya (5) fr............................N McGrath 8 48145 High Valour (6) fr........................... S McNally 9 89379 Cup Of Life (7) fr..............................M Jones 10 6x223 Highview Teejay (21) fr..................B Orange 11 0x142 Pemberton Shard (22) fr.....................R May 12 11x08 Ratlock (23) fr..........................B Thomas (J) 13 73x47 Spectactular (24) fr...........................D Dunn 14 2x241 All Star Man (25) fr........................M Purdon 15 98733 Marhabah (26) fr.............................. G Smith 16 57x41 Alberto Contador fr....................... Scratched Emergencies: Phantom Grin, Alberto Contador 9 4.35pm PASCOES THE JEWELLERS MOBILE PACE $30,000, 4 to 6 wins mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 5x339 Our Boy Su (1) fr.......................... D Butcher 2 27665 Magical Mel (2) fr...........................M Purdon 3 45427 Temudjin (3) fr............................... G O’Reilly 4 12100 Double Happy fr............................ Scratched 5 3112x Bettor’s Fire (4) fr................................ A Butt 6 11312 Hurricane Bromac (5) fr................... G Smith 7 11111 Christen Me (6) fr..............................D Dunn 8 x6328 Statesman (7) fr..............................T Herlihy 9 109x0 Ten Diamonds (8) fr............................R May 10 96225 Live Lea (21) fr.............................. R Holmes 11 46323 Franco Nartiscape (22) fr...............B Orange 12 27x45 Fiery Achiever (23) fr.........................J Dunn 13 52x43 Charge Forward (24) fr.....................P Davis 14 x1266 Buy Chevron Direct (25) fr..............T Chmiel 10 5.15pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NZ TROTTING CUP PACE (STAND) $600,000, ffa pace, stand, 3200m 1 165x1 Zenola Seelster (1) fr................... P Butcher 2 11212 Caribbean Blaster (2) fr....................K Gath 3 1x121 Terror To Love (3) fr............................R May 4 54852 Major Mark (4) fr........................ C DeFilippi 5 24471 Sushi Sushi (5) fr.................. N Rasmussen 6 x3231 Mah Sish (6) fr................................... A Butt 7 1x114 Franco Ledger (7) fr.......................H Hunter 8 11103 Fly Like An Eagle (8) fr................ M Purdon 9 x5569 Stunin Cullen (9) fr...........................D Dunn 10 18026 Mach Banner (10) fr..........................J Dunn 11 69114 Pure Power (11) fr................... T Macfarlane 12 44718 Ohoka Texas (12) fr........................ M Jones 13 11085 Donegal Delight (13) fr 14 x3557 Highview Tommy (14) fr................B Orange 15 x5169 Gold Ace (15) fr.............................T Herlihy 16 x2284 Jarcullembra (16) fr...................... D Butcher 17 6x312 Pembrook Benny (17) fr.......... Z Butcher (J) 18 7x688 Auckland Reactor (U1) fr.........M McKendry Em: Zenola Seelster, Mach Banner, Donegal Delight 11 5.55pm THE RECRUITMENT NETWORK HANDICAP TROT $20,000, 1 to 2 wins spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 13824 Sol Invictus (1) fr.................................R May 2 0x412 Another Love (2) fr..................... C Middleton 3 33135 Danke (3) fr................................... S McNally 4 8x791 Royal Pilot (4) fr...........................B Crothers 5 2x467 Frisson (5) fr................................. P O’Reilly 6 145P3 Le Garcon (6) fr.................................. D Butt 7 65285 Sophistication (7) fr 8 43601 Continental Halo (8) fr............... M Edmonds 9 36x21 Yankee One (9) fr..................... N Williamson 10 8x21 Lucky Monarch (10) fr........................J Dunn 11 34294 The Black Forest (11) fr....................J Curtin 12 x11x1 Master Lavros (U1) fr.......................M Jones 13 2501x Pretty Sunday (U2) fr....................... G Smith 14 23208 Flyin Courage (U3) fr.......................J W Cox 15 55738 Gregory R (U4) fr................................ A Butt 16 56219 Sunny Kash (1) 20................... C D Thornley 17 1745x Jag’s Invasion (2) 20...........M Williamson (J) 18 83830 Westmelton Willie (U1) 20.............B Orange Emergencies: Frisson, Sophistication, Westmelton Willie 12 6.30pm BLUE STAR TAXIS MOBILE PACE $30,000, 3 to 4 wins mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 621x1 Jason Rulz (1) fr.................................R May 2 9900x False Promise (2) fr........................ K Coutts 3 51105 Noddy (3) fr......................................... A Butt 4 434x6 Poacher (4) fr................................ D Butcher 5 134x1 Smiling Star (5) fr.......................... R Holmes 6 1x291 Canardly Lover (6) fr.......................H Hunter 7 4x969 Eyre County (7) fr....................... K Cameron 8 x3131 Johnny Fox (8) fr...................... C D Thornley 9 423x4 Falcon Crown (9) fr............................J Dunn 10 0x001 Awesome Prospect (21) fr................D Dunn 11 35210 Cloudy Beach (22) fr......................B Orange 12 25630 Far Too Rusty (23) fr.........................J Curtin Pacifiers on : Sunchita (R1), Thanesan (R3), False Promise (R12) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

2012 New Zealand Trotting Cup

Sweepstake

5.15pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO NZ TROTTING CUP PACE (STAND) $600,000, ffa pace, stand, 3200m Drawn by 1 165x1 Zenola Seelster (1)

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P Butcher

2 11212 Caribbean Blaster (2) fr

K Gath

3 1x121 Terror To Love (3)

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R May

4 54852 Major Mark (4)

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C DeFilippi

5 24471 Sushi Sushi (5)

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N Rasmussen

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A Butt

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H Hunter

6 x3231 Mah Sish (6) 7 1x114 Franco Ledger (7)

8 11103 Fly Like An Eagle (8)

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M Purdon

9 x5569 Stunin Cullen (9)

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D Dunn

10 18026 Mach Banner (10)

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J Dunn

11 69114 Pure Power (11)

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T Macfarlane

12 44718 Ohoka Texas (12)

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M Jones

13 11085 Donegal Delight (13)

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14 x3557 Highview Tommy (14) fr

B Orange

15 x5169 Gold Ace (15)

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T Herlihy

16 x2284 Jarcullembra (16)

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D Butcher

17 6x312 Pembrook Benny (17) fr

Z Butcher (J)

18 7x688 Auckland Reactor (U1) fr

M McKendry

Emergencies: Zenola Seelster, Mach Banner, Donegal Delight

Last chance for the $4m horse?

By Michael Guerin So, it comes down to this.

After five years of headlines, hype and heartache, Auckland Reactor has four minutes left in which to right the wrongs.

To make anybody care. To matter again.

Because Auckland Reactor used to really matter.

As hard as it is to believe, the now New Zealand Cup outsider arrived on the harness racing scene a game changer, the equine version of the iPhone.

He went from unraced 3-year-old to Sires’ Stakes hero in months and was acclaimed champion trainer Mark Purdon’s greatest-ever horse.

The Great Brown Hope was sold for around $4 million and his life became a reality show, equipped with fake horror.

There was the episode where he nearly died before the Harness Jewels; the debacle of Purdon’s suspension and the driver merry-

go-round at the Gold Coast Inter Dominions.

In between times, Auckland Reactor would run and win and small children with giddy adults would hang over the outside rail post-race for the privilege of a pat.

To touch greatness.

Racing officials made caps and posters to give away as Auckland Reactor became their real-life, pinup boy. They had to cordon off his race night stall at Alexandra Park because too many people wanted to see The Reactor.

Never happened before or since.

There was the now cringeworthy episode where he was apparently so viciously attacked in front in the New Zealand Free-For-All, a rival driver was publicly abused and castigated, by the media and even those at the highest levels, before ever being charged.

It was the same sort of protectionism rugby zealots call for now for our beloved Richie McCaw. You can’t pick on champions, they are sacred.

The difference is, McCaw is a champion whose record matches his reputation.

Auckland Reactor’s does not.

Reactor’s subsequent North American campaign went about as badly as Sarah Palin’s, and he returned home to a throat operation and a stalled stallion career.

Last season, there was the false dawn of his Flying Stakes win before another Cup week injury, followed by some truly superb performances in the Australian summer before the inevitable Interdom Final implosion.

Yet, Auckland Reactor started this season the highest rated of Purdon’s then six Cup chances.

He looked great, his work was fluent.

He was back.

But the closest he has finished in three race starts is sixth.

The one-time Cup favourite could, or at least should, start 20-1 in today’s New Zealand Cup. But Auckland Reactor, with his new pilot Maurice McKendry, is

Cup, over-race no longer racing for like he doesn’t stakes and trophies.

He is racing for want be an athsomething far more lete anymore and lose the last of his important. fans.

If by some miracle He could be little he steps away safely more than a name today, actually puts on a few discarded his mind on the job, tote tickets, half ignores the pain of ageing joints and a line in the race muscles and manresults. ages to run past Don’t expect to about 14 of the best see anybody wearpacers going around, ing their blue Auckland Reactor Auckland Reactor will turn back the caps to Addington clock.

Maurice McKendry has the drive today.

But maybe a Pundits will claim on Auckland Reactor in the Cup they always knew few people will he still had it, his Inter-dominion be searching for them, or those odds will be slashed, he will grace crinkled Auckland Reactor posters television and newspapers again, come Wednesday morning.

Maybe broodmare owners will like he did when he was the $4 start to think that Auckland million horse.

He will be a player again, for the Reactor is the answer to their summer, for a stud career, for a generic problems.

Maybe we will all love him again. place in our memories.

But probably not.

Or he could gallop away in the

No place for Sir Dogs extra Southland greyhound fields Lincoln at Addington A bizarre decision has robbed Auckland Cup winner Sir Lincoln of his shot at Addington glory this week.

The exceptional pacer was never a realistic New Zealand Cup contender because of an interrupted preparation but was in Christchurch for a free-for-all at Addington today, to be followed by the New Zealand FreeFor-All on Friday.

The latter, to be run over a mobile mile for the first time, was Sir Lincoln’s chance to break an Addington track record and further enhance his stallion career.

However, stewards have ruled Sir Lincoln cannot start on Friday after being ruled out of today’s lead-up races.

Trainer Ray Green was worried his stable star was suffering from a minor chest infection after a so-so performance in last Wednesday’s Cup trial.

A lung scope on Sunday suggested he was improving but wouldn’t be right for today, with Green still keen to race in the free-for-all on Friday.

“But I was told by the stewards if he didn’t race on Tuesday he couldn’t start Friday,” said Green.

Sir Lincoln’s trainer Ray Green “So he will be on the float home on Monday, which I think is a lose-lose situation for everybody.”

It also raises the question: Would Green have been better to have kept his mouth shut, given Sir Lincoln a quiet run as a hot favourite tomorrow and then still have been allowed for start on Friday?

The answer is yes. But he was too honest to do that.

Which is why he will watch Cup day from home in Auckland. - NZH

Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date : 13 Nov 2012 NZ Meeting number : 23 Doubles: 2 and 3 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3 1 11.04am (NZT) $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLES C1, 390m 1 25586 Slightly Amazing 22.69 J &.....................May 2 77232 New Order nwtd S &.........................Bonnett 3 44714 New Ingilltab 23.42 P &.................B Conner 4 38628 Mr. Jake Blues nwtd...................R Blackburn 5 46347 Starburst Hannah 22.78................... M Grant 6 34147 Campaigner nwtd A &.........................Seque 7 71311 But It’s Great (c2) nwtd..............J McInerney 8 68165 Junior What nwtd.............................. M Flipp 9 86767 Real Slim Shady 22.49 J &.....................May 10 87788 Moreport Shannon nwtd P &.........B Conner 2 11.22am $25 YARD MUZZLES C1, 390m 1 78433 Opawa Blaze nwtd L &....................... Wales 2 85358 Homebush Greta nwtd...............J McInerney 3 24388 Neon Neutron nwtd.......................... M Grant 4 17725 Kenny’s Comet nwtd M &..................... Smith 5 17775 Wandy Matt nwtd............................. M Grant 6 51756 Maggie Dee nwtd.............................. B Eade 7 84452 Real Fire Power nwtd J &.......................May 8 15316 Tekoa nwtd S &.................................Bonnett 9 85876 Maxi’s Mate nwtd S &......................B Evans 10 86767 Real Slim Shady 22.49 J &.....................May 3 11.40am $50 LEATHER LEADS C1, 390m 1 55445 James Arthur 23.22...........................J Dunn 2 46676 Paddo Score nwtd J &............................May 3 53386 Turbo Tundra nwtd........................... M Grant 4 83775 Candy’s Dandy nwtd S &..................Bonnett 5 63435 Johnny’s Blue 23.19 P &................B Conner 6 61241 Hannah nwtd A &................................Seque 7 22622 Fulla Torque nwtd C &..................D Roberts 8 56566 Salvador Bale nwtd S &...................B Evans 9 68756 Autumn Spirit nwtd............................. J Allen 10 86855 Hit The Lip nwtd...............................S Fagan SELECTIONS Race 1: But It’s Great, Starburst Hannah, New Order, Campaigner Race 2: Opawa Blaze, Real Fire Power, Tekoa, Homebush Greta Race 3: Hannah, Turbo Tundra, James Arthur, Johnny’s Blue

Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2012 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.00pm (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 54 Kodene nwtd..............................J McInerney 2 33735 Archie’s Doll nwtd S &.....................B Evans 3 2 Dixie Queen nwtd............................. B Dann 4 3 Easy Silence nwtd.....................J McInerney 5 35641 Smash Amy (c1) nwtd...................... M Grant 6 8 Opawa Wolf nwtd.......................J McInerney 7 2 Starburst Blanch nwtd...................... M Grant 8 63641 See Spot Run (c1) nwtd..................R Breen 9 7 Okuku Muppet nwtd C &..................... Fagan 10 27583 Inner Beauty nwtd............................. B Dann 2 12.17pm COLORMARK SYSTEMS LTD C1, 390m 1 25737 What A Dump nwtd J &..........................May 2 71268 Bam Bam nwtd................................ M Grant 3 42744 Hazza’s Lad 22.96 S &.....................Bonnett 4 F1686 Marmalade Skies nwtd......................J Dunn 5 82856 Froggy Newitt nwtd........................... B Eade 6 23847 Black Ozark nwtd............................J Guthrie 7 51547 Noisy Leo nwtd..........................J McInerney 8 83117 Ziggy War Paint nwtd M &................... Smith 9 57677 Yellow Diamonds 23.40 J &....................May 10 87788 Moreport Shannon nwtd P &.........B Conner 3 12.34pm 100% SELECTRIX C1, 390m 1 26717 Jet To Mars nwtd M &.......................... Smith 2 46752 Ruby’s Girl 23.30........................ R Hamilton 3 53541 Opaque nwtd A &...............................Seque 4 66647 Life With Dexter 22.58 J &......................May 5 66358 Another Jewel nwtd...................J McInerney 6 64766 Opawa Steve nwtd L &....................... Wales 7 67243 Jimmy Cee nwtd............................... M Flipp 8 32211 Wandy Feather (c2) 23.18............... M Grant 9 76875 Merely A Dream 23.34 S &...............Bonnett 10 67886 Another Colt nwtd......................J McInerney 4 12.51pm CENTRAL WATER CARRIERS C1, 457m

1 63411 Calm Spirit (c2) nwtd......................... J Allen 2 23146 Indi’s Grace nwtd............................. M Grant 3 66717 Homebush Wild (c2) nwtd..........J McInerney 4 87446 Secret Nadia nwtd L &........................ Wales 5 43768 Bank Roller nwtd............................... M Flipp 6 1168 Opulent 26.70 A &..............................Seque 7 45417 Bizarro 27.06 S &............................B Evans 8 22174 Canvas Rider nwtd S &....................B Evans 9 88x3x Seraphine Jewel nwtd M &.................. Smith 10 67888 Life’s Great nwtd M &.......................... Smith 5 1.08pm ADDED ENERGY C1, 457m 1 26788 Homebush Chopper nwtd..........J McInerney 2 63844 Aykroyd nwtd..............................R Blackburn 3 32382 Miss Ozark 26.97............................J Guthrie 4 58843 Moon And Sea nwtd.......................... J Allen 5 43634 Opawa Bart nwtd L &.......................... Wales 6 84835 Wandy Paul 26.54............................ M Grant 7 54241 Ray Dosh nwtd................................. B Eade 8 32252 Party Rock nwtd S &........................B Evans 9 88x3x Seraphine Jewel nwtd M &.................. Smith 10 67888 Life’s Great nwtd M &.......................... Smith 6 1.25pm MERVYN EADE MEMORIAL ROOKIE RUN HEATS C0q, 457m 1 7476 Matulino nwtd A &...............................Seque 2 75 Opawa Chance nwtd.................J McInerney 3 2 Billy Brand nwtd................................ B Dann 4 88428 Calm Brooke nwtd.............................J Dunn 5 533 Gotta Go Ace nwtd....................R Blackburn 6 65 Charlie’s Pal nwtd......................J McInerney 7 44767 Secret Nicole nwtd P &..................B Conner 8 73272 Secret Arnie nwtd L &......................... Wales 9 77468 Kiowa Sue nwtd M &........................... Smith 10 87878 Zahra nwtd......................................J Guthrie 7 1.42pm MERVYN EADE MEMORIAL ROOKIE RUN HEATS C0q, 457m 1 7 Be Prepared nwtd............................. B Dann 2 36466 Goldstar Bella nwtd S &...................B Evans 3 37 Opawa Niko nwtd.............................R Breen 4 8 Uno Green nwtd L &........................... Wales 5 666 Homebush Violet nwtd...............J McInerney

6 1 False Step (c1) nwtd..........................J Dunn 7 4 Opawa Leighton nwtd L &.................. Wales 8 65625 Bendall’s Boy nwtd............................ M Flipp 9 588 Homebush Cruden nwtd............J McInerney 10 68688 Blue Shorts nwtd P &....................B Conner 8 1.59pm MERVYN EADE MEMORIAL ROOKIE RUN HEATS C0q, 457m 1 47 Waimak Dave nwtd....................J McInerney 2 0 Zoe Brand nwtd................................ B Dann 3 7655x Botany Vixen nwtd.....................J McInerney 4 83476 Runs Like Al nwtd.............................B Shaw 5 62 Stirling Dann nwtd C &....................... Fagan 6 753 Pukeko Express nwtd.....................B Healey 7 41221 Grant A Wish (c1) nwtd....................R Breen 8 63554 Opawa Mohawk nwtd L &................... Wales 9 87675 Quiet Snort nwtd S &........................Bonnett 10 77468 Kiowa Sue nwtd M &........................... Smith 9 2.17pm WILLY’S FLOORING LTD C2, 390m 1 14488 Homebush Coco nwtd...............J McInerney 2 27241 Cawbourne Reeah (c3) nwtd.....J McInerney 3 61141 Wandy Devil (c3) 23.08.................... M Grant 4 45144 Okuku Skyhigh nwtd C &.................... Fagan 5 41627 Black Trigger 22.80 P &.................B Conner 6 15835 Foggy Storm 23.41 J &...........................May 7 56317 Smash Amego 22.80....................... M Grant 8 34325 My Little Oah 23.05...................J McInerney 9 82125 Thunda Thighs nwtd..................J McInerney 10 56238 Don’t Call Me nwtd....................J McInerney 10 2.34pm SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C2, 457m 1 41385 Shadow Wolf nwtd P &..................B Conner 2 35412 Drive Five 26.76.................................J Dunn 3 32622 Botany Molly nwtd......................J McInerney 4 87177 Molly Parton nwtd............................. B Dann 5 36127 Noggin nwtd....................................... J Allen 6 52557 Pukeko Flyer 26.35.........................B Healey 7 45167 Fancy Spice nwtd P &....................B Conner 8 53435 Okuku Surprise nwtd...................... R Casey 9 66838 Baby James nwtd......................J McInerney 10 17755 Another Course nwtd.................J McInerney

11 2.52pm BRENDON BURKE @ FIRST NATIONAL

C3/4, 457m 1 17476 Magic Lass 26.94 C &..................D Roberts 2 37777 Homebush Edith 26.53..............J McInerney 3 22445 Shunt Appeal 26.27.......................... B Eade 4 61584 Shiraz Rose 26.26...................... R Hamilton 5 27117 Homebush Iris nwtd...................J McInerney 6 63586 Dyna Diego nwtd C &...................D Roberts 7 73132 No Lane (c3) nwtd....................... M Roberts 8 37745 Crixus 26.54...............................R Blackburn 9 44111 Big Token (c3) 26.84..................J McInerney 10 87118 Dittman (c3) 0.00...............................J Dunn 12 3.09pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C4, 390m 1 73163 Heza Sensation 22.89 P &............B Conner 2 46346 Santa Sloy 22.56 S &.......................Bonnett 3 35225 Anytime Will Do 22.88...............J McInerney 4 71517 Another Becky 23.45.................J McInerney 5 52253 Fanta Alert nwtd C &.......................... Fagan 6 53618 Vitalize 22.95 J &....................................May 7 82647 Tepirita Tiki 22.70.............................R Breen 8 58143 Mustard Fudge 22.71 J &.......................May Emergencies: 9 6375x Genista Outlaw 23.13 J &.......................May 10 28635 Benji Lafourche 22.76....................... M Flipp SELECTIONS

Race 1: Starburst Blanch, Smash Amy, Dixie Queen Race 2: Ziggy War Paint, Hazza’s Lad, Marmalade Skies Race 3: Wandy Feather (c2), Opaque, Ruby’s Girl, Jimmy Cee Race 4: Opulent, Calm Spirit (c2), Indi’s Grace, Secret Nadia Race 5: Ray Dosh, Wandy Paul, Party Rock, Homebush Chopper Race 6: Billy Brand, Secret Arnie, Opawa Chance, Calm Brooke Race 7: False Step, Opawa Niko, Opawa Leighton, Be Prepared Race 8: Grant A Wish (c1), Stirling Dann, Waimak Dave Race 9: Smash Amego, Cawbourne Reeah (c3), Wandy Devil Race 10: Drive Five, Botany Molly, Pukeko Flyer, Shadow Wolf Race 11: Magic Lass, Shunt Appeal, No Lane, Homebush Edith Race 12: Santa Sloy, Heza Sensation, Mustard Fudge, Fanta Alert, Anytime Will Do LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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Ashburton trainers eye Cup Day spoils

By Sue Newman While all eyes will be on the feature race at Addington today, the New Zealand Trotting Cup, it’s still a big day at the track for owners, trainers and drivers of horses that make up the bulk of the racing card.

Four Ashburton trainers, John Hay, Carl Middleton, Paul Young and David McCormick, between them have six horses running today.

A seventh, owned by Patrick O’Reilly was nominated but didn’t make the cut.

Hay and Middleton will also be driving.

For Middleton the day will be long.

He has Aylesham in race one and Another Love at the end of the day in race 11.

When he’s not in the sulky, Middleton’s cup day will be spent in the stalls with his horses, walking them, warming them up, cooling them down.

He’s quietly confident his pair are in good form going into today’s meeting.

Aylesham in race one is a good place chance and in race

11, he reckons Another Love has a good chance of coming home in the money.

Cup day might be a big hype day, but you can choose to buy into that hype or not, Middleton said.

“It’s as different to other days as you want to make it.

“I treat every race like just another race. And it’s just another day at the races for the horses too.”

His pick for the cup? Terror to Love.

Patrick O’Reilly might be disappointed that Frisson didn’t make the cup day cut for race 11, but he’ll be lined up there with the rest of the country in front of the telly - when the big race is run.

His pick for the cup? Franco Ledger.

John Hay will be driving his two cup day contenders, Galleons Legend in race one and Jimmy Johnstone in race two, and then he’ll be loading up the float and heading back home.

The rest of the cup day meeting will be watched from the couch.

It could be a good day at the office for Galleon’s Legend, but for Jimmy Johnston there’ll

be the tough draw of 14 to overcome.

He’s a good horse, Hay said, and had the distinction at Rangiora of showing a fine turn of speed that broke a record held by Terror to Love.

Driving cup day is always a thrill, bigger crowds, great atmosphere and just being at harness racing’s holy grail day out, Hay said.

His pick for the cup? Terror to Love.

He might be paying $61 to win, but

Rangitikei fields and form Rangitikei RC Venue: Awapuni Meeting Date: 13 Nov 2012 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.42pm (NZT) KNOTTINGLY FARM MAIDEN $12,500, MDN 4YO&UP, 1200m 1 62327 Magic Epic b (4) 58.5............... P Turner (a1) 2 2x Bam A Lam (11) 58.5.................... H Tinsley 3 3 Bachelor Man (2) 58.5.................R Hannam 4 x9x0x Armani Code h (3) 58.5................... K Myers 5 0 Inca Park h (10) 58.5.................W Satherley 6 79906 Sartoby h (12) 58.5..........................S Collett 7 532x4 Phoenix Tycoon h (5) 56.5..............D Walker 8 20 Mulan Queen (8) 56.5..................... J Riddell 9 Gemma Lass (1) 56.5....... J Shackleton (a3) 10 000 Lucie Can Danske (6) 56.5............. J Parkes 11 0 Marlanda Miss (7) 56.5.....................S Doyle 12 Royal Hussy (9) 56.5........... M Dravitzki (a3) 2 1.15pm WAIKATO STUD 3YO MAIDEN $12,500, MDN 3YO, 1200m 1 5x502 Golden Bay h (12) 57.5................... K Myers 2 73x Hammer h (7) 57.5..........................D Walsh 3 80x92 Rule Breaker (11) 57.5................... J Parkes 4 3 All Good b (3) 57.5........................ H Tinsley 5 0x Corporal Lincoln h (9) 57.5.......B Grylls (a3) 6 Brad Thorn h (8) 57.5..................... J Riddell 7 09426 Kilmorack (2) 55.5.................... P Turner (a1) 8 745 Annieitiz (1) 55.5.................. R Hutchings (a) 9 249x Attivaree h (5) 55.5......................R Hannam 10 Ali Gator (4) 55.5.......................W Satherley 11 0 Bay Dancer (6) 55.5.....................C Dell (a2) 12 Holly Lincoln h (10) 55.5 3 1.50pm TUI BREWING LEGENDS SINCE 1889 R65 HANDICAP $12,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 93397 Bar Keeper tdmh (12) 59.................S Collett 2 2x16 Our Gazza dh (3) 58.5..................... K Myers 3 99x71 Iamishwara th (9) 58........................D Walsh 4 861x8 The Aftershock d (11) 58.............R Hannam 5 0230x Bella Vi h (10) 57.........................B Lammas 6 714 Nena Greena (13) 57.................... L Allpress 7 4163x Sloshed (6) 57................................ J Riddell 8 6700x Seducer tdh (5) 57...................... V Johnston 9 0340x Emma Lucy b (2) 56.5................... T Russell 10 56892 Our Moon Shadow dm (1) 56.5........K Smith 11 3x190 Mighty Matt h (4) 56....................... H Tinsley 12 20x16 Hi Yo Soo (8) 54.5........................... J Parkes 13 0597x Little Storm dh (7) 54.5...................D Walker 4 2.25pm BNZ MAIDEN $12,500, MDN, 1600m 1 27x22 Casino b (21) 58.5..........................D Walker 2 44352 Justa Charlie (7) 58.5..................... J Parkes 3 2766x The Big Opal (9) 58.5...................... K Myers 4 Casino Jack (13) 58.5.................... H Tinsley 5 Attaboy 58.5.................................. Scratched 6 8. No Escape (1) 58.5..........................S Collett 7 60260 Centavada (4) 57..................... P Turner (a1) 8 957 Major Lincoln h (12) 57.............B Grylls (a3) 9 x9223 Paige Me (2) 56.5............................D Walsh 10 82845 Ngawhini (18) 56.5............... R Hutchings (a) 11 57x55 Quin Bay (6) 56.5............................ J Riddell 12 447x6 Big Lucy (20) 56.5............... M Dravitzki (a3) 13 47x59 Ceviche (19) 56.5........................ R Hannam 14 6x065 Cool Reception (5) 56.5...............B Lammas 15 50x Skytower (16) 56.5.......................C Dell (a2)

16 9x60 Zip b (8) 56.5.................................M Tanaka 17 00 Pay The Fox (11) 58.5...... J Shackleton (a3) 18 6x688 Handsome Jake h (15) 58.5 19 x3098 Lajuca h (14) 56.5 20 788x0 Precious Poppie (3) 56.5 21 x66x6 Beguiling (10) 56.5 22 000x6 Monnie h (17) 56.5 Emergencies: Pay The Fox, Handsome Jake, Lajuca, Precious Poppie, Beguiling, Monnie 5 3.00pm SCULLYS PRODUCTS BULLS COUNTRY CUP $25,000, OPN HCP, 2100m 1 60016 Sacha tmh (3) 59............................. K Myers 2 54930 Superturf tmh (5) 58......................M Tanaka 3 37040 Beau Dane dm (7) 57.5...................D Walsh 4 05089 Flemington tdh (4) 56.....................D Walker 5 83746 Bragato dm (8) 55.5.....................B Lammas 6 50x99 Loose Change t (1) 55.5................ H Tinsley 7 19x97 San Pedro td (2) 54.....................R Hannam 8 46103 Abstain tm (6) 54........................B Grylls (a) 6 3.30pm MCVERRY CRAWFORD MITSUBISHI-HYUNDAI HANDICAP $25,000, OPN HCP, 1200m 1 96x22 Super Boy h (8) 58........................ H Tinsley 2 7x131 Taurus dm (7) 57.5..........................D Walsh 3 6212x Sitara tdh (4) 57............................... K Myers 4 117x7 Oak Park d (2) 57........................... J Riddell 5 539x7 Queen Of The Castle dm (3) 57... L Allpress 6 052x0 Captain Kirk d (6) 57........................S Collett 7 31x57 Reuben Thorn dmh (5) 57...........R Hannam 8 x84x0 Eightlives d (1) 57........................C Dell (a2) 7 4.05pm JOHN TURKINGTON FORESTRY RATING 65 HANDICAP $12,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2300m 1 0x462 He Kin Talk (4) 59...........................D Walker 2 14442 Platinum Choice mh (13) 59........ R Hannam 3 x5681 Firekeeper (9) 58.5.......................... K Myers 4 41214 How True h (11) 58.5.................... L Allpress 5 47x02 Enzedda (8) 58............................... J Parkes 6 43315 Jackabean (3) 58..................... D Turner (a4) 7 0x732 Polarity (5) 58...................... R Hutchings (a) 8 x0972 Desi Girl t (6) 57.5.......................... J Riddell 9 31065 Aymon m (2) 57.5........................C Dell (a2)

David Walker

rides He Kin Talk in the John Turkington Forestry, seventh on the card at Rangitikei today

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By Caryl Williamson Star sprinter Hay List is ahead of schedule in his recovery from knee surgery while his injured trainer John McNair’s rehabilitation from several broken bones is taking longer than he would like.

McNair suffered broken vertebrae, a broken pelvis and more breaks to his right ankle and foot when a horse fell on him in early September and is looking at another two to three months before things return to some sort of normality.

One member of the team who is fit and ready to compete is Irish Jig, the former Hong Kong galloper which represents the stable at Rosehill on Saturday.

“Hay List is well ahead of where they expected him to be,” McNair said.

“He’s had three knee surgeries but is progessing quickly.

“He’s up to cantering and I hope we see him in the autumn.

“He’ll bypass the Lightning and race in Sydney. I think he races better in this direction and the Challenge Stakes is a race I’ve picked to start off with.

“He’s doing better than me. It’s been ten weeks and I thought I’d be right by now but will need a stick for a bit longer although the doctors tell me I am doing better than most.

“The worst thing is not being able to get on a horse.”

While he can’t be hands-on, McNair has been keeping a keen eye on his horses and is convinced Irish Jig is ripe for a bold first-up run in the November Flying (1200m).

Irish Jig began his career in Ireland where he scored two wins and was sent to John Moore in Hong Kong.

He recorded just one win and a string of placings in his two years there and was sent to McNair with a view to retirement.

“I get a lot of horses who have broken down up there and are sent to me to find homes for,” he said.

“He had some problems but he came good and his owners love their racing so we thought we’d get him back to the track.”

Irish Jig has has eight starts for McNair, notching a frustrating five minor placings. He had just one winter start for a 1200m victory at Rosehill in June and won a barrier trial last month to prepare for his return.

“It is a nice race for him on Saturday,” McNair said.

“He will come in at the bottom of the weights and Nathan Berry will ride.”

Last year’s South Australian Derby winner Shadows In The Sun was among the 11 entries taken yesterday with Welkom Gold the top rater on 96 with Irish Jig 83.

- AAP

Bottom left: John Hay has two drives today, Galleons Legend and Jimmy Johnston.

Centre: Carl Middleton gives Aylesham a good place chance in the first of the day.

Below: Glendaloch went well enough at the trials to suggest to trainer David McCormick that he will figure in the finish of race one.

David McCormick hasn’t written Glendaloch, with son Lawrence in the sulky, out of race 1.

“He looks good, feels well and he went well at trials on Saturday. I wouldn’t be going if I didn’t think he had a show.

“This is the sixth time I’ve had a horse start in the two mile race at Addington – not bad for a one horse stable.”

His racing day will be over early but McCormick plans to stay the distance, sending Glendaloch home with another trainer.

His pick for the cup? Fly like an Eagle.

Maronan trainer Paul Young starts fiveyear-old Roxy Bromac in race 5 with Tony Herlihy in the sulky.

She’s drawn the pole position and Young suggests with a good run she could run home about fifth.

“It’s a pretty good field with some nice colts in there.”

His pick for the cup? Terror to Love.

Caviar on the menu

By Warwick Barr More than six lengths separated Black Caviar and arguably the next best pure sprinting mare in Australia in their one and only meeting.

Trainer Paul Messara has started work on at least reducing the width of that margin as he prepares Ortensia for the Lightning Stakes at Flemington in February.

The 1000m weight-for-age sprint will be renamed the Black Caviar Lightning and the horse it is honouring is tipped to be the star attraction if a comeback to racing goes to plan.

It will also be a return race for Ortensia after her 2012 campaign netted Group One wins in Dubai and England.

“We are looking at the Lightning Stakes with her, more than likely first-up,” Messara said.

“Being a well-performed sprinter, handicaps are probably out of the question now and we’ll just have to pick and choose her races.”

When Black Caviar posted the first of her 12 Group One wins in

Paul Messara: not dodging Caviar the 2010 Patinack Farm Classic, she left Ortensia 6-1/4 lengths in her wake in the minor placing.

It’s a measure of Black Caviar’s obvious dominance of Australian sprinters that Ortensia - barring one or two hiccups - has made her mark on world racing with Al Quoz Sprint and Nunthorpe Stakes triumphs to complement her Australian Group One win in the Winterbottom Stakes.

Her achievements have been recognised, along with Black Caviar, with a nomination in the champion sprinter category for Europe’s

annual Cartier Racing Awards.

Like most in racing, Messara is waiting to see if Black Caviar still has the fire for competition but the great mare’s future won’t shape how he prepares Ortensia.

“Obviously Black Caviar has got to come back but if she does, then we won’t be dodging her,” Messara said.

Ortensia enjoyed a leisurely return to work at Messara’s training complex at Scone yesterday.

“It was her first day back at the track and she just had a trot around,” he said.

Messara says Dubai would be the pick of any overseas destination should Ortensia’s form earn her the right to more international travel.

“Certainly we are looking at Dubai again,” he said.

“The race (Al Quoz Sprint) is perfectly set up for her and she has been there and done it and has been successful.

“The conditions really suit her so there are plenty of things in her favour.

“Beyond that there is a lot of water to flow under the bridge before we make any other plans.”

- AAP

Trainer hoping for Mental redemption

By Mike Hedge Peter Snowden farewells his latest offering of horseflesh to his Dubai benefactor this week with a tinge of sadness and a hope for redemption.

Leading the group of up to six horses is Saturday’s Group One Patinack Farm Classic winner Mental which will spend the northern winter in Dubai before being

Hay List on the mend

prepared for next June’s Royal Ascot meeting and other major sprints.

To Snowden, the desire of his boss Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, to take some of his Australian team to race abroad is a tribute. But Snowden says he still feels some embarrassment over the performances of his star colts Sepoy and Helmet which he took to Dubai last season.

Both ran well below their best at

the World Cup meeting in March when they raced under Snowden’s name.

They fared no better in their only starts in England.

But the man who took them to a lofty peak in Australia felt acute disappointment.

“On World Cup night in Dubai I was feeling that low I could have run under a snake’s belly,” Snowden said.

- AAP

• New drug testing Racing NSW will form a special unit to help stewards address potential integrity challenges for thoroughbred racing in the state. To be known as the Investigations and Surveillance Unit, the body will be headed by a person with senior police officer experience with proven investigative skills in intelligence gathering, forensics, surveillance and preparation of briefs of evidence. Racing NSW chief executive, Peter V’landys, said the unit would complement the $1.5 million investment in additional drug detection equipment that allows the testing for 1000 drugs in a single test.

- AAP

• Chances improved Local trainers have been handed the opportunity to claim another spring staying feature thanks to a change of plans by French trainer Alain de RoyerDupre. The 2010 Melbourne Cup-winning trainer had entered Herbert Power Stakes winner Shahwardi in both the Group Two Zipping Classic (2400m) and the Sandown Cup (3200m).

But the stable decided yesterday to withdraw both nominations and return to France without another run. Shahwardi had been most likely to run in the - AAP Zipping Classic.

• First foal on track When you’re the first foal of a 14-time winning mare, it’s understandable expectations are high for the family bloodline. Don’t Move, a four-year-old gelding

by Magic Albert, is yet to reach the heights of his dam, Perfect Passion, but at Quirindi today the gelding will be out to increase his win tally. Don’t Movetackles the Faxasnack Catering Class 1 Handicap (1450m).

- AAP

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Carter still king of the 10 jersey

By Gregor Paul Europe is thick with pretenders yet none of the first-fives hoping to steal Dan Carter’s crown are likely to usurp the king.

Not in the near future anyway.

The likes of Wales, Ireland, Argentina, England and even South Africa must have pondered what different rugby forces they would be should they have access to Carter.

He was the man who set the All Blacks alight in Edinburgh; the man who elevated the All Blacks from functional to outstanding at times during their 51-22 slaughter of Scotland yesterday.

The first five-eighth talent on show throughout the opening weekend of November tests was quite dismally underwhelming.

Rhys Priestland was indecisive and inaccurate for Wales; Johnny Sexton of Ireland will have to check with team-mates whether he really did play; Nicolas Sanchez of Argentina dropped more passes than goals; and Pat Lambie would have been excellent had the object of the game been to boot the ball aimlessly up in the air.

Toby Flood can’t be judged properly in a 50-point rout of Fiji.

Carter was refreshingly excellent - as good as he’s been in ages.

The barometer of his form and general fitness is his running game: when that is on, it means he’s in the mental zone and the body is limber - telling him he’s still young, still got it.

That much was obvious at Murray-

Dan Carter knocks over another conversion in yesterday’s match field where twice in 30 seconds he coasted through a Scottish defensive line that made the cardinal sin of being sluggish off the mark.

Carter only needed a sniff and he was away.

“If you give a guy like that time and space then he will pull the strings,” reckoned Scotland coach Andy Robinson.

“He is a fantastic rugby player, and the quality he has of getting you into a rhythm as if he is going to pass the ball, then he takes a hold of you and he just sucks you into it.

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“He’ll pass, pass, pass and then suddenly he goes [runs] and that is the quality of the man and when he breaks the line, the team normally scores from it.”

It wasn’t just his running, though, that elevated him so obviously ahead of the other international 10s on show.

The decision-making was effortless and immaculate.

His goal kicking was near perfect and he took control of his inexperienced midfield and guided them through the encounter.

“Pretty handy with the ball and pretty handy with the boot,” said All Black coach Steve Hansen.

“About the only thing he did wrong you could say was to give them an intercept try, but really that was a reflection about how he was taking the ball to the line and I thought he caused them a lot of problems when he did that.”

Carter is back to something approximating his best which is unlikely to help the British Lions prospects of either Priestland or Flood.

How, when Wales and England respectively clash with the All Blacks, could either of these two look good when compared with Carter?

They don’t have his range.

They don’t have his vision or innate understanding of how to dismantle an opponent.

This tour is shaping up as affirmation that Carter is King and the pretenders, those touted as potential heirs apparent, are really more court jesters.

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Ashburton’s Vikki Derik-Westaway is out in front with an eye on the finish line in a running race during the Arthur Cup competition on Sunday.

Ashburton athletes clean up

Impressive applicants for coaching spot Mid Canterbury will have a new Heartland rugby coach by the end of the month.

Applications for the position, made vacant by outgoing coach Chris Neill, closed at 5pm yesterday and Mid Canterbury rugby chief executive Ian Patterson said the

process should be completed by the end of the month.

Patterson wasn’t able to disclose details about any of the applicants but said there was some high calibre coaching talent interested in the position.

“We have received a bit of interest

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By Jonathan Leask Ashburton celebrated hosting the Arthur Cup for the first time in a number of years by convincingly winning the trophy for the first time in a “few years” with Ashburton athletics spokesman Kerry Clough applauding the efforts of the team.

“It was a great day and we had some great results across the board

from a number of well-credentialled candidates,” Patterson said.

“With the applications closed we will get the appropriate parties together and go through the candidates to convene a short-list by next week with a view to having a decision by the end of the month.”

to win the trophy for the first time in a few years,” Clough said.

Although difficult to single out an individual Clough, along with many others, was impressed by the running ability on display from 11-year-old Natasha Waddell.

“Natasha’s long distance running was impressive, and she was setting outstanding times that were at a level above her age group.”

Although the support from the

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fellow clubs wasn’t quite what they had expected, the Ashburton athletes put on a superb display across all the grades in all the disciplines to easily finish on top of the interclub points table, with Temuka coming in a distant second.

Ashburton will hope to repeat the top performance at the next interclub competition, the Rose Challenge Shield, at Geraldine on December 2.

New operators for Crusaders, Hurricanes Eagles flying high much-publicised financial problems last October and ceded control of the licence to the A-League club.

And now Morgan will have a stake in Wellington’s other main sporting franchise after the New Zealand Rugby Union yesterday announced the group, involving a mix of the provincial union and private investors, will manage the Hurricanes for a period of three years with a right of renewal for five more.

With a say now inside both clubs, Morgan said the Hurricanes and the Phoenix should benefit

from cross-code cooperation, especially considering the sides share Westpac Stadium.

“It will give us a combined voice when it comes to council support in stadium costs and usage,” Morgan said.

“Ultimately, with the Gareth support of council, we hope to develop a high performance unit capable of supporting multiple sporting codes in Wellington.

“There is sufficient synergy of interest between the football and

rugby codes to ensure we capture those benefits.”

After expressions of interest for the licences were south a year ago, the NZRU were able to only confirm the identity of the Hurricanes’ group.

Morgan The NZRU and a Crusaders region consortium agreed in principle a licence arrangement to operate the franchise and a final contract is expected to be signed - APNZ within a month.

By Jonathan Leask The Mid Canterbury Eagles soared again defending their Canterbury AFL premiership title on Saturday.

It came down to the last game against the University Cougars with the Eagles winning 11-1682 to 8-12-60 to finish top of the table.

The grand final was a repeat of the 2011 against the Christchurch Bulldogs. The Bulldogs were out for revenge but the Eagles, who

had to cobble together a team for the final, started well to lead 4-5-29 - 1.2-8.

The Eagles were up by 47 points at halftime, and consolidated in the third quarter to hold a 49 point lead heading into the final quarter, where they turned it on to blow out the Bulldogs for a 16-13-109 - 5-6-30 to claim back-to-back CAFL premierships.

The Eagles returned to their spiritual home in the Ashburton Domain in October and plan a return flight next season as they chase a triple crown.

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Wellington businessman and philanthropist Gareth Morgan has increased his control in Wellington sport as the first round of Super Rugby licences were awarded yesterday.

The Hurricanes and Crusaders Super Rugby franchises will have new operators next year, with the Wellington side to be controlled by a group including Gareth Morgan’s Welnix.

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Cloudy periods. A few showers, retreating to north of Banks Peninsula in the morning, then clearing in the afternoon. Northeast breezes developing in the afternoon.

Long fine spells, and areas early fog or frost.

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