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Murder accused denied bail

By Guardian reporters The Mid Canterbury youth charged with the murder of Sina Solomona stood in the dock with his eyes fixed on the Judge, as his lawyer applied for bail in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

The youth, 16, who remains in custody and continues to have name suppression, appeared before Judge Robert Murfitt charged with the murder of the Ashburton mother of one.

Sina was found in a pool of blood at her Cass Street home in the early hours of December 15.

The youth was arrested just four days later and charged with her murder, before a brief appearance in the Christchurch Youth Court last month.

Supporters of both the murder accused and the victim gathered outside the courthouse, while only a dozen people, including family, media representatives and police officials, spilled into the public gallery during the closed session in the Youth Court.

In a show of solidarity, up to 20 people milled around outside the courthouse in support of the accused youth and his family. Several small children also accompanied the group.

Two plain clothed detectives kept watch on the activities outside, but other than a few glances in their direction the young supporters kept to themselves during the brief hearing.

At the conclusion of the day’s procedures, many remained outside the court in the hope of catching a glimpse of the alleged offender on his return to custody.

Inside court, youth advocate Elizabeth Bulger, who represented the youth, put forward a bail application which was immediately opposed by Crown prosecutor Andrew McRae. Denying the application, Judge Murfitt suppressed the details of the accused and any conversations discussing the history of the youth for fear it could identify any relationship with the family.

As the youth left the court on his way back to the cells, a member of the public gallery, believed to be a family member, shouted “be strong, be strong”.

During the bail application Ms Bulger suggested that specific conditions could be imposed, which would include surrendering the youth’s passport and not being able to apply for travel

Ashburton man John Snowden spent 20 years trying to win it and now he has been granted special permission to bring the prestigious Ballinger Belt home.

The Ballinger Belt is the oldest trophy competed for in New Zealand which is why the belt is so preciously guarded.

“It’s getting pretty fragile now in its old age which is why we

NCEA results up, then gone

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Elizabeth Bulger, youth advocate for the accused, pleads a case for release on bail. documents.

Mr McRae responded and asked for the youth to remain in custody, pointing out a possible Crown witness was also living at the address put forward as a bail residence, which proved unacceptable.

As well as opposing the bail application, Mr McRae asked Judge Murfitt to grant the police investigation team more time to file police evidence, adding the extensive investigation was ongoing and that forensic analysis would be “important”.

Through Ms Bulger, the youth opposed the request saying he wanted to advance the case, which all parties agreed would inevitably lead to a High Court trial.

However, the Judge granted the order pointing out it had only

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been one month since the alleged murder had taken place and took the opportunity to emphasise the “powerful public interest” of the crime.

The trial would not be delayed and could still be scheduled, regardless of the extra time being

given, Judge Murfitt said.

He set down February 25 as the final date for police to collect all evidence, including filing written statements.

The youth was remanded in custody to reappear in the Ashburton Youth Court on March 4.

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are protective of it and reluctant to let it do too much travelling,” National Rifle Association of New Zealand (NRANZ) secretary Andre Doyle said.

“We’ve estimated that it’s probably good for another 15 years and then it will have to be locked away for good and find an alternative.”

The Belt was first presented in 1873 by the Government as a replacement for the first Champion Belt, won outright

when Captain Wales of Otago won it for the second time in a row in 1872, a feat not since repeated.

The new belt was won by Arthur Ballinger of Wellington in 1893, who won it twice more, meaning he was entitled to retain it on the third occasion in 1907 but when he donated the “Champion Belt” back it was renamed the Ballinger Belt, being presented each year to the winner of the national championships

Since then the belt has grown heavier every year with each winner’s name attached on a silver plate.

“That’s half the problem. Every year they stitch another winner on there and the original leather is running out of room and strength to bear the weight,” Doyle said.

Due to its historical value and failing health it has been hard to get it out of Trentham but the Snowdens pleaded their case and

the NRANZ was more than happy to let them take it.

“The sport is really struggling for number so any chance to promote the sport we should be taking it,” Coby Snowden said.

“So we asked to bring it back with us to Ashburton for a couple of weeks to show it off after we think about a suitable way to display it.”

The precious cargo was wrapped up snug and secure yesterday for the journey to Ashburton today. Ballinger Belt

It was a case of blink and you missed it for early rising Ashburton College and Mount Hutt College students who checked out their NCEA results on-line yesterday.

Along with hundreds of other students around New Zealand several were caught by the NZQA’s test run of exam results.

These were released at 6.25am and withdrawn five minutes later, but not before hundreds had had a sneak preview of their success or not in the end of year exams.

Those who saw their results were concerned when they disappeared and became alarmed when NZQA issued a statement saying the early issue of results was a “final check” before the final announcement that results were available.

Students were concerned that the results they saw may not be correct.

When the results were withdrawn students were no longer able to log on to the NZQA website.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan said he had not heard from any students who had checked their results. Several students contacted by the Guardian had not managed to log on during the short five minute window.

College head girl Fina Fakapelea said she was aware of only one student who had commented on her Facebook page that she had checked and read her results.

“They went up really quickly and I believe tomorrow is the day they’re going up, but I know people are concerned they might have changed.”

Nationally, NZQA has come under fire from parents and students who said the “trial” release was both confusing and upsetting. They asked why preliminary results were put up at all.

NZQA stated that there was no exact date for the release of results.

“It is a long process to ensure all data is correct [and] ready to be released so that all students get the [qualifications] they have earned,” a spokesperson said.

NZQA is asking all students to wait until the announcement that final results have been released and are available on their website.

“To avoid uncertainty learners will not be able to log in until results are released.”

One secondary school teacher said he was online compiling a spreadsheet of his students’ results when NZQA pulled them.

“They were still up and accessible at 9.40am when I accessed them and created my spreadsheet.

“I was able to put all my school’s level 3 English results in and some of the level 2s. Then the search engine suddenly stopped showing any results.”

He said it wasn’t true that the results were only up until 6.30am.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS DEATHS CURRIE, Thirza Elizabeth – Passed away January 12, 2013, at Ashburton, aged 64, after a valiant fight against cancer. Dearly loved wife of Campbell. Cherished mother of Tania and Andrew Wright, and Nathan and Greta Currie. Adored Nan of Abbey, and Sam; Logan, Jacob, and Patrick. Dearly loved daughter of the late Molly and John Morgan, and daughter in law of Natalie and the late Tom Currie.

Messages to Currie Family, C/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to the Ashburton branch of the Cancer Society would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A funeral service for Thirza will be held at St John’s Presbyterian Church, Methven, on TUESDAY, January 15, commencing at 2.00pm. To be followed by private cremation.

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Actions a ‘brain explosion’ An Allenton man sped away from police, before losing control of his friend’s car and crashing into a concrete pole following a speed checkpoint.

Sean Reweti Grey, 21, appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday facing one charge of drink driving and one charge of failing to stop for police.

Judge Robert Murfitt sentenced Grey to 100 hours’ community work and disqualified him from driving

for nine months. The police summary of facts refers to an incident on December 1, at 9.30pm.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Steve Midgley said the man was clocked by police on JB Cullen Drive travelling at 121km/h – significantly above the speed limit.

Police pursued the driver and witnessed the Subaru motor vehicle enter a sharp bend, before sliding through the bend and speeding onto Works Road.

“The defendant has then entered Works Road on the wrong side of the intersection, before sliding back onto the right side of the road, mounting a curb, crossing the footpath and crashing into a light pole snapping it from its base,” Mr Midgley said.

In explanation to police, the defendant said he had nothing to lose, so he might as well “go for it”.

The crash injured his two passengers, while police found the man to have a breath alcohol reading of 601

micrograms per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400mcg.

Grey’s lawyer Vicki Walsh, on behalf of her client, pleaded guilty to both charges, pointing out to the judge his mother was in court to support him.

“She (his mother) describes the offending as completely and utterly out of character for him and she is still trying to work out what went wrong,” Ms Walsh said.

Judge Robert Murfitt described the incident as a “complete brain explo-

sion”. “This really was an appalling example of driving, obviously influenced by alcohol and testosterone and showing off to your mates,” he said.

“You can live this incident down by proving to your family and to this community that you’re better than this, by never doing it again.”

Grey was sentenced to 100 hours’ community work and disqualified for nine months.

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Henry’s 95 and still happily working

By Sue Newman

CURRIE, Thirza Elizabeth – Loved sister, sister in law and aunty of Colin and Denise Morgan, Andrew and Karen, Jane, Joe and Isaiah.

Remembered with love and affection.

CURRIE, Thirza – The best sister we could ever have.

Rest peacefully Sis, we will always remember you for all your kindness to us and others.

Sadly missed by brother John, and sister in law Muriel Morgan.

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Henry Hunt retired in 1970 - 43 years later he’s still working, plying his trade as an engineer.

That might not seem remarkable, but when the engineer in question is 95 and he’s an outworker for his son’s business, it’s a story that almost defies belief.

Tucked away in his workshop among more than half a century’s worth of the machines, tools and the detritus of a thousand projects, Henry Hunt is happily at home, working on his milling machine creating parts for a stockfood grinder.

It’s complex work, but with about 75 years of skill in his armoury, Henry’s more than equal to the task.

Age to Henry is irrelevant. He’s always worked and intends to keep on working.

“When I retired I had quite a workshop here and I decided to build bowling green rollers. I built about 100 of them and my wife and I delivered them all around the South Island.”

Today he works only when he feels like it; his son is no hard task master, but work, Henry says, keeps him off the streets.

“There’s no excuse not to do things just because you’re a bit older, but I am getting a bit slower now,” he said.

A few years ago he thought his engineering days might have been over when a couple of turns saw him hospitalised. Whatever was going on in his body mystified the experts and so Henry returned home and got back down to work.

And he couldn’t be happier. He spends his days among the memorabilia that comes with a lifetime of storing things away against a day when they might be needed. There’s a sagging couch that’s given up on life, a Christmas tree the festive season has long forgotten, countless valve radios, a small tractor, several large machines and shelves groaning under the weight of accumulated engineering tools. It’s a man-cave paradise.

“They’ll have a great time in here when the family has to clean this up,” he said.

In the middle of the paradise that only a man could love, stands Henry Hunt, happily working, happily planning his next creation. One that he’s particularly proud of is his home-made snow plough. It started its life as a tractor but thanks to his inventive mind, it now has a hydrau-

• Oil spill at port A boom will remain in place overnight to trap any remaining oil which spilled from a boat in Timaru Port yesterday. Between 40 and 50 litres of what is believed to be light fuel oil was discovered in the water about midday. Environment Canterbury Regional Harbourmaster Jim Dilley there had so far been no reports that marine life had been affected. “The team have been removing oil from the water and expect most to be gone by this evening,” he said.

Mr Dilley declined to name the vessel believed to have been involved. An investigation would get underway once the clean-up was complete.

- APNZ

• Car rolls over A woman was taken to hospital after the car she was driving rolled and landed on its roof yesterday afternoon.

Emergency services responded to the crash on Windsor Rd in Bellevue just before 3pm. Steve Smith, shift manager at Northern Fire Communications, said a vehicle had flipped, landing on its roof. A female occupant had been cut from the wreckage and taken to Tauranga Hospital by ambulance.

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• Man stabbed in fight A man was stabbed in a fight at a Westport house on Sunday. The 24-year-old and a 49-year-old man were drinking with friends when an argument broke out, Sergeant Steve Baddock said. The older man allegedly pulled out a knife and in the ensuing scuffle the younger man was stabbed in the upper torso and also suffered cut fingers. He was in Christchurch Hospital in a stable condition. A man was to appear in Greymouth District Court charged with wounding with intent to injure, Mr Baddock said.

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• Youth tasered Police were forced to subdue a youth with a taser after he allegedly threatened an officer with a bayonet and a knife near Culverden. Police were making inquiries about a dog seen running loose on the highway east of Culverden about 9pm on Saturday when they were approached by an 18-year-old armed with a bayonet and a knife. “He became very aggressive and refused to drop the weapons,” Senior Sergeant Johnston said. The police officer was able to get out of the patrol car and tasered the youth.

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To the untrained eye it might look like disorganised chaos, but to 95-yearold engineer Henry Hunt his workshop is as close to paradise as a working man can get.

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He’s always been a do-it-yourself kind of man, right down to moving the house he now lives in onto its Harrison Street site from the Lagmhor flaxmill, back in 1947. He built his first shed and it just kept growing. Today it houses more than 60 years worth of living.

Henry’s engineering story runs

back to a time when traction engines were king. He learned his trade from a local master, Hughie Rainey, but he was already well versed in the engineer’s world, with his dad a blacksmith and wheelwright.

Later his career saw him part of the giant Burnett Transport engineering empire, a workplace that also provided his four sons with a living.

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Checking out his milling machine ahead of another day’s work, 95-year-old engineer Henry Hunt.

A 31-year-old forestry worker had to be airlifted to hospital yesterday after a forestry accident. The Taupo-based Greenlea Rescue Helicopter pilot Nat Every said the worker was hit by a branch about 8.30am while felling trees at Tarawera. The worker was taken to Hawkes Bay Hospital with rib and shoulder injuries.

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Two sought Pair on fraud charges Public asked to help in arrests in bashing Two men who fled Wairarapa after the brutal bashing of Featherston man Glen Jones should not be approached, police say. Detective Inspector Sean Hansen said yesterday that Masterton man Kristofer Jones, 23, and Hayden Ranson, 27, of Hutt Valley, were believed to have fled the Wellington area for central or upper North Island.

He said the pair were wanted on charges of aggravated burglary relating to the death of Mr Jones, 40, a supermarket worker.

Mr Jones was discovered bloodied and unconscious in his Fitzherbert St unit about midnight on Friday and died in Wellington Hospital about five hours later of head injuries.

Mr Hansen said the two men were believed to have fled the greater Wellington area in a blue 1989 Mitsubishi Mirage, with the registration number OE7854.

“If anyone is harbouring these two they are committing a criminal offence and should immediately contact the police,” he said.

Two women, aged 32 and 22, and a man, 28, all of Masterton, were given name suppression when they appeared in Masterton District Court yesterday on related charges of entering Mr Jones’ home armed with a wooden bat and an axe handle intending to commit a crime.

They did not plead and will appear again on Friday.

The three, wearing police issue boiler suits, bowed their heads and were silent throughout the brief hearing.

Sobs were heard to come from the dock.

There is a likelihood that further charges are pending.

Mr Hansen said police were unaware of any family or personal connection between the two wanted men and Glen Jones or between the pair and the three people who appeared in court.

He said six people had been interviewed so far as part of the homicide inquiry launched on Saturday. Members of the public had been vital to the investigation regarding sightings of a white car in Wairarapa and Wellington overnight on Friday.

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A couple in their 50s has admitted taking nearly $180,000 in welfare benefits over 23 years.

Leslie Patricia Tataurangi, 50, and Perry Hill, 57 appeared together in Balclutha District Court sitting in Gore yesterday.

Tataurangi admitted 20 charges of benefit fraud and Hill 19, which the Ministry of Social Development said totalled $179,081.01.

The summary of facts said the offending occurred between March 1, 1989 and February 12 last year.

Tataurangi and Perry had been employed by Silver Fern Farms Ltd for less than a year and had been living in a married relationship from March 1, 1989.

The ministry said the pair were each aware of each other’s status as a beneficiary and failed to inform the ministry they were living together as a married couple.

Tataurangi had completed several benefit application

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forms for Work and Income New Zealand and on each had said she was single or did not have a partner.

Hill had done the same.

Tataurangi told the ministry she was aware of her obligations but had not advised she was employed because she needed more money to pay her bills.

When asked why she had not advised of her de facto relationship with Hill, she said the money she received was not enough.

In an interview with ministry staff she apologised for her selfishness in taking the extra money.

Hill said he was aware of his obligations but had not advised of his employment as the Government was taking tax off him and giving it to the unemployed.

He said he did not advise of his de facto relationship because the couple would have got into trouble.

Tataurangi was charged with eight counts of wilfully omit-

ting to tell an officer she was living in a relationship in the nature of marriage or with her partner, one of wilfully omitting to tell an officer she was working and in all cases continued to receive benefits, nine counts of using a document with intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage and two counts of using a document capable of being used to obtain a pecuniary advantage for the purpose of obtaining a pecuniary advantage with intent to defraud.

Hill was charged with 13 counts of wilfully omitting to tell an officer he was living in a relationship in the nature of marriage or with his partner and continuing to receive benefits, one of omitting to tell an officer he was working and continuing to receive benefits, and five counts of using a document with intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage.

Judge Roy Wade convicted the pair and remanded them on bail to March 4 for sentencing.

- APNZ

by David Fletcher

A lone police officer asked members of the public to help detain two people after a Picton woman was killed on Sunday.

The 43-year-old woman was found dead after police were called to a disturbance at a house in the seaside town about 4.30pm.

A police officer who was struggling to detain the alleged offenders asked neighbours, including Tawhiri Matthews, to help, 3 News reported. “[The officer] said ‘you are

sworn officers from now. Keep them where they are and it’s all up to you. If they move, do what you can to keep them secure’,” Mr Matthews said.

The Picton community was in shock after the woman’s death, he said.

“The way she went out, no one deserves that. She’s a mother,” he said.

Detective Inspector Geoff Jago said two people at the house were handcuffed and taken into custody without incident.

“The officer took the pair out of the house and sought the assistance of members of the public to supervise them until further police officers arrived.

Police would like to thank those members of the public for their assistance,” he said.

A man and woman appeared in Blenheim District Court yesterday charged with murder and were remanded in custody for a psychiatric assessment. They were also granted name suppression.

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Building industry booming sign of slowing says Ashburton District Council building services manager Mark Fields.

“Every builder I’ve talked to has enough work to last them all year.

I’m aware of some people who are importing builders from outside the district just so they can get the jobs done; some are bussing them in every day,” he said.

In December the council saw 77 building consents flood into its offices and the new year has started with a large pile of consents waiting to be processed, Mr Fields said.

And the large amount of work available within the district could be a key factor in ensuring Ashburton’s tradesmen opted to stay, rather than move out of the district for work on the Christchurch rebuild.

Pay rates in Christchurch might be an initial attraction but when the cost of travel or accommodation was taken into account, stay-

By Sue Newman Ashburton’s building industry is booming with the construction of new homes pumping $65 million into the district’s economy last year.

The 211 consents issued for new homes last year broke all records and exceeded the 2010 figure of 146 (value $41 million) by about 45 per cent.

Over all categories, there were 1163 consents issued last year with a total value of $126.2 million; in 2011 there were 1049 consents issued worth $93.3 million.

Last year’s values were boosted by a consent valued at $6.6 million for the construction of the Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum and one for $10 million for the Terrace View aged care facility.

That flood of consents shows no

ing put when there was plenty of work was likely to be a better option, Mr Fields said.

Bradfords Building manager Mark Wilson said he’s seeing first hand how the attraction of work in Christchurch was impacting on staffing levels in Ashburton where work was stacking up for most construction companies.

His company is now bussing staff from Timaru on a job by job basis.

“They’ve got spare capacity down there and we’ve got work stacked up. We still have some windows, depending on the project. With residential we have some space, but commercial is lining up quite nicely. And that’s good for the district. The money is being spent in the area and it’s staying in our area.”

He’s sounding a warning to trades people who are looking to Christchurch as a way to make solid money in a short space of

time.

“You won’t make a quick buck up there. You have to be doing the right things for the right people at the right price to do that.”

The year ahead looked good for all trades people; if builders were busy all trades were busy, Mr Wilson said.

Jennian Homes owner Nigel Smith described the upsurge in building activity as the light at the end of a tunnel in terms of consistency of demand.

“Five years back we had a real peak and in 2012 we had peaks and troughs. Each time we thought we were coming out of it, it would fall back. We had a lot of false starts but in the last quarter of last year we started to see some real consistency in demand coming through.”

Mr Smith said the release of several subdivisions and growing confidence were key catalysts in revitalising the building industry.

The only word that matters for the next two weeks when it comes to sport in Ashburton, is tennis.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re an accommodator, a food business or a retailer and it doesn’t matter whether you like tennis or not, you’re unlikely to escape the impact of two major events being staged in town.

With the national 16 and under championships starting today and the International Tennis Federation under 18 champs on next week, accommodation in Ashburton is at a premium.

Several motels are fully booked for the two weeks and others are happy to have the odd spare room for passing travellers. Most are still fielding calls from players and coaches looking for beds.

For most, the weeks leading up to the tournaments have been noteable for on again – off again bookings as players changed plans, suffered injuries or didn’t make the cut. For most their booking sheets read like an international departure board.

Having two weeks of tennis mid-January is a perfect late Christmas present for accommodators, Commodore Motor Lodge owner Chris Marriott said.

“This is traditionally our quiet time. The only problem it creates is that we still have our regulars wanting accommodation.”

She’s gone out on a limb to ensure there are enough beds to go around, taking two youngsters into her home because she’s run out of rooms.

At Coronation Park, if you want a motel bed this week you might be lucky; next week and you’d be out of luck. And Alison Conway, duty manager at Bella Vista said

she’s looking at one or two gaps, largely from cancellations, but she knows they’ll be snapped up by passing travellers.

This morning it will be a seething mass of action but yesterday, at the Ashburton Tennis Centre there was more action off-court, than on.

Every nook and cranny of the tennis centre had been swept and cleaned, the kitchen was a hive of activity and the dozens of local volunteers who will be on duty over the coming two weeks were running background checks over the countless tasks that will be needed behind the scenes to keep action on court running smoothly.

For Ashburton’s young tennis players, the next two weeks will be a great boost for their own playing aspirations, Ashburton tennis coach Chris Anderson said.

Many of the youngsters will be on court as ball boys and girls for finals matches but the best lessons will be learned by simply watching, she said.

“The way this facility is set up there’s great spectator viewing and we expect plenty of people to be down here watching.”

Next week, tennis aficionados will be spoilt for choice when about 120 top under 18 age group players from dozens of countries take to the courts.

The busiest place, particularly during the international event on week two, is likely to be the courtside café. A team of volunteers will be putting in long hours, ensuring there’s food for every nationality, every dietary requirement, available whenever it’s required.

Mid Canterbury Tennis president Cynthia Christie said that with the tournaments underway, the locals move into a support

One in three relationships are blighted by infidelity according to a new study that paints New Zealand as a nation of liars, cheats and thieves.

Those behind the poll, which found 36 per cent of respondents admitted to having cheated in a relationship, say it raises questions about the type of example adults are setting for the country’s youth.

Comparative figures show 92 per cent of young people are selfconfessed cheats.

Cheating can mean different things for different people, according to Relationships Aotearoa national director of clinical services, Cary Hayward.

“It could mean having an emotional affair, rather than a sexual affair, or it could mean kissing someone else at a party,” he said.

Infidelity is a well-researched area of human behaviour Mr Hayward said, with infidelity rates varying from below 10 per cent to 40 per cent, and males typically the worst culprits.

But he said 36 per cent was “really quite high” and likely to have a significant impact on relationships.

“The more transparent we can be with each other, in a way we can continue to respect and value each other, generally the stronger the relationship,” he said.

“Most people would want to know if their partners were having a sexual or romantic liaison

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Most people would want to know if their partners were having a sexual or romantic liaison with another person

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with another person.”

The Colmar Brunton survey found that 81 per cent of adults admitted cheating of some kind, including 22 per cent in the workplace.

And not only are adults cheating on their partners, but they are lying to them too.

Almost a quarter of 280 adults aged over 30 surveyed online in December had lied to their partner - with almost three-quarters feeling guilty about it despite the large majority (84 per cent) saying it was justified.

Lying to avoid hurting someone’s feelings was the most excusable lie, the poll found, with only seven per cent of respondents saying this was never okay.

Dr Cate Curtis, senior lecturer in psychology at Waikato University, said while a person’s moral code is often shaped by their parents, they can change throughout life.

“All those people we come into contact with over the years will have some influence on the makeup of our morals,” she said.

• Woman hurt in crash An elderly woman and a baby were rushed to hospital yesterday following a crash at a “notorious blackspot” near Pukekohe.

Emergency services were called to the intersection of Glenbrook and Kingseat roads about 2pm after a car and truck collided.

The elderly driver of the car was initially described as being in a critical condition but a police spokesman said last evening that she was stable and her injuries were no longer serious.

A baby who was also in the car was taken to hospital for obser- APNZ vation.

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Ashburton is currently basking in a building boom.

“It’s certainly shaping up to be the board. Our wish list is that it back where we’d want it to be and will go back to the way it was, but the confidence seems to be across everyone is a lot more cautious.”

A coroner has recommended that ice skaters wear protective helmets following the death of a Timaru woman who fell and hit her head at an outdoor rink. Irene Elizabeth Peckitt, a 40-year-old farmer, wife and mother, fell heavily while skating at the Alpine Springs rink at Lake Tekapo, while volunteering as a parent helper on a school trip, on September 1, 2010.

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• Black Caps crash With the fall of Neil Wagner’s wicket for four runs, caught by keeper AB de Villiers, bowled Dale Steyn, the Black Caps’ dreadful test series against South Africa finally, mercifully, came to an end last night. The Black Caps were still 193 runs away from making the hosts bat again, despite half centuries from Dean Brownlie and BJ Watling.

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L ying, especially everyday ‘white lies’, are often thought of in an altruistic manner.

“Sometimes we don’t tell people things because it might upset or distress them,” Dr Curtis said.

“It can be a matter of weighing up the pros and cons - would it be worse to tell the truth and have your partner upset?”

The survey also found 60 per cent of adults have stolen something, with almost half admitting to shoplifting.

“These results mirror what we found among young New Zealanders and are concerning,” said Spencer Willis, leader of the study, which has a maximum margin of error of 4.4 per cent.

Children are taught basic “black and white” principles, according to Dr Curtis, like “stealing is bad”.

But as people grow up, the lines of morality can become blurred.

“Some people develop more of an acceptance of the grey area than others ... and it depends also on more complex ideas of justice and fairness.

“If you’re in a workplace where you feel valued, well-paid, welltreated, then you’re probably less likely to engage in any petty theft to kind of even things up a bit.”

Despite admitting the bad behaviour, 91 per cent of adults were satisfied with their personal ethics and character, while admitting lying, cheating and stealing hurt one’s character.

More than felt they were better than most people they know.

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ships are a grade four event and Mid Canterbury tennis is not required to find accommodation for players, Mrs Christie said the association will be looking out for

the many often quite young players, who will be travelling alone to the event.

Play in the 16 and under event begins today and ends on

Saturday and apart from one or two qualifying matches to be played on Sunday, play in the international under 18 event begins next Monday.

– Engineer still working – Singing school – Tennis tournaments – And so many more!

Man threw cat under cars to ‘make sure it was dead’

By Edward Gay, Children watched as an out-ofwork social worker threw his flatmate’s cat under the tyres of passing cars to kill it.

Yesterday Vincent Fleming, 48, was found guilty of wilfully ill-treating an animal.

He told Auckland District Court he found Tasman, his flatmate’s cat, behind the garage while gardening. He said the cat was dead and had a bleeding head.

Fleming, an unemployed social worker, said he decided to put the animal in a plastic bag and throw it under cars before putting it in a rubbish bin outside a dairy.

“Ah... ah... ah... It was a moment of stupidity on my behalf,” he said.

His lawyer Marie Dyhrberg asked him what he was thinking.

Fleming responded: “I wasn’t thinking - that was the problem.”

But police said Fleming wanted Tasman dead and the cat was still

Cat killer Vincent Fleming alive when he put it in the plastic bag.

Constable Matthew Bunce told the court that soon after the incident Fleming said he “chucked it under some cars to make sure it was dead. It was buggered ...”.

Mr Bunce asked Fleming why he didn’t take Tasman to the vet to be put down humanely. Fleming said throwing it under cars was the

“quickest way” and he had never thought of taking the animal to the vet.

Fleming said that at one point the cat rolled out of the bag while local children watched on.

“I realise what it looked like to the kids,” he told the court.

He said he later apologised to a “little girl” for what he had done.

Fleming later put the cat in a rubbish bin outside a dairy.

He told police he put it there “because that’s where I put all my rubbish”.

Judge Heemi Taumaunu rejected Fleming’s evidence.

He said a vet who examined Tasman’s body concluded that the cat had multiple fractures and had been dead only about an hour.

Judge Taumaunu said Fleming’s own evidence showed that he was trying to kill the cat when he flung it under cars.

“To put it simply, Mr Fleming’s behaviour was bizarre.”

Judge Taumaunu granted

Fleming bail until he is sentenced in March but imposed a condition that he cannot own a domestic animal.

He faces a maximum sentence of five years in jail and a $100,000 fine.

Earlier, Ms Dyhrberg opposed a media application for cameras in court. She said her client had been attacked outside his home shortly after his arrest.

She said Fleming was caught from behind, called a “cruel bastard” knocked out.

Ms Dyhrberg said there was a risk of a vigilante action if her client’s photo was published.

She also said he hoped to return to his profession as a counsellor and social worker.

But Judge Heemi Taumaunu said those who allegedly attacked Fleming already knew what he looked like and where he lived.

At the end of the day, the principles of open justice outweighed those concerns, he said.

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Second Marineland sea lion dies A second sea lion has died in just over a month at Napier’s Marineland when 22-year-old Makea failed to recover from a general anaesthetic on Friday.

Fellow sea lion Rufus died on December 9.

A Napier City Council spokesper-

son said Makea had begun showing signs of being unwell for several days before his death.

Makea failed to recover from anaesthetic that had been given to him by veterinarians from Massey University who arrived to check him out.

He had been initially been “uninterested” in his food and was closely monitored by the Marineland vet.

“Unfortunately, Makea was proving difficult to medicate due to his unwillingness to eat,” the spokesperson said.

After being advised of Makea’s

deteriorating condition Massey University sent a team of vets, support staff and specialist equipment.

A necropsy was carried out but the results were not available.

At 22 Makea had exceeded the average life expectancy in the wild, which is 17 years.

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id Canterbury athletes continue to punch well above their weight with local sports people taking out two high profile national titles last weekend.

Some towns and districts the size and population of Ashburton may have to wait years to celebrate success of this calibre but for Mid Canterbury the gold medals just keep on coming.

We congratulate shooter John Snowden and cyclist Hayden Roulston for both holding off worldclass competitors to win their respective national championships.

Coming only a week after Sandra Keith claimed the national bowls title in the pairs competition, Mid Canterbury athletes are again on the top of the pile.

John Snowden’s victory to claim the Ballinger Belt was especially sweet as the Ashburton farmer had tried unsuccessfully since 1992.

For 20 years Snowden won just about everything there is to win in his sport, including the 2010 Commonwealth Games, but the coveted belt had so far eluded him.

This year though, the man of few words would not be denied and Snowden was the dominant shooter at the Trentham range. He headed into the final with an impressive lead and could even afford to drop a few points before being hoisted on the winner’s chair.

With the next Commonwealth Games only a year away,

By Lawrence Gullery

An independent review has found flaws in KiwiRail’s decision to close the Gisborne to Napier line and suggests the tonnage needed to keep the route viable can be achieved with new commitments from regional businesses now coming forward.

The review, released yesterday, was paid for by donations from the public and written by economists at Business Economic and Research (Berl) then reviewed by a specialist international rail engineering consultancy.

It said KiwiRail’s analysis that it would take 1.5 million to 2.2 million tonnes of freight on the line per year to make the operation commercially viable was flawed.

A closer look at the KiwiRail analysis indicates the tonnage needed for the line to be cash flow neutral could be similar to the

Manu Caddie level of tonnage which the local community now indicated could become available, about 180,000 tonnes to 200,000 tonnes per year, the report said.

Wood and wood products initially on the Mohaka to Napier route could attract 750,000 tonnes per

year and eventually lead to the rail line becoming economically viable and potentially profitable “in a few years”.

Moving 750,000 tonnes from Mohaka to Napier would be equivalent to taking 83 trucks a day off the highway, each of 344 tonnes gross, carrying about 20 tonnes of logs.

New Zealand Transport Agency information in the KiwiRail report states there were 220 to 250 trucks per day on the road and the level of rail freight expected would prevent truck numbers increasing by 33 per cent to 38 per cent.

NZTA had spent $102 million on the Napier to Gisborne road in the past 10 years and an average of $14.8 million in the past four years.

“If the number of trucks and heavy trucks at that, increased by 33 per cent to 38 per cent because of the rail line not avail-

able for wood freight, the annual spend on the road can be expected to increase at least $4.9 million to $5.6 million per year,” the report said.

The decision over the future of the Gisborne to Napier rail line should be a national one.

“The externalities of rail transport are considerable and increasing with public safety concerns, greenhouse gas concerns, and the fact that nearly all the road transport capital and operating costs are imported.

KiwiRail’s scope was to complete a commercial analysis but the report said a broader economic view was needed in order to provide sound evidence to people who make decisions on the line’s future.

The report said a cost-benefit analysis was needed next to provide a guide for the future of the rail route.

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Loophole ‘needs to be closed’

Snowden seems to be hitting the right form to defend his title in Glasgow.

Hayden Roulston’s win in the national road cycling championships was not as unique but just as rewarding as he prevailed against the best field ever assembled in this country.

Roulston claimed his third title against the entire New Zealand contingent of Pro Tour riders including the likes of Julian Dean, Greg Henderson and Jack Bauer.

When Roulston first hit the professional scene in 2002, New Zealand riders were rare on the professional circuit but thanks to him and Dean and the New Zealand high performance system, Kiwis have become regular participants in the big tours.

The Ashburton rider has been a trailblazer for many of those youngsters but in an ironic twist last year missed out on the Olympics due to this surplus of talent available to the New Zealand selectors.

Roulston may be in the twilight years of his career but the Mid Canterbury lad showed his younger colleagues that he still has the quality and the hunger to prevail on the demanding Port Hills course.

He has told the Guardian that he feels in the best shape of his life and wearing the silver fern jersey as national champion will hopefully be an inspiration for more international successes in the season ahead.

And at least he will now be easy to pick out in the peloton.

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PM’s office sticks with Holidaymakers save Hobbit job numbers dolphin and her calf

By Matthew Backhouse

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The Prime Minister’s office is standing by its tally of the number of jobs created by The Hobbit after criticism it had plucked the number “out of thin air”.

The claim followed the release of correspondence between Prime Minister John Key’s office and Hobbit director Sir Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films, which was obtained by New Zealand First under the Official Information Act. The correspondence shows a senior adviser from Mr Key’s office wrote to Wingnut, requesting a figure for the number of people working on the film.

The adviser said that would allow Mr Key to respond to Labour’s industrial relations policy with a claim like: “About 3000 people will work on the Hobbit movies, if that policy hadn’t been in place then all those people might never have got jobs.”

The adviser said an estimate “to the nearest 500 or 1000 would be fine”.

A Wingnut staff member replied that 3000 jobs was “a good number”.

The staff member said there were 1000 people on payroll at the studio, 1000 at Weta Digital and almost 1000 across Park Road Post, Weta Workshop and related companies and casual contractors.

The staff member noted “flowon” effects while 700 people working on the film went on the road for nine weeks, boosting smalltown economies in the likes of Matamata, Te Kuiti, Piopio, Ohakune and Twizel.

NZ First leader Winston Peters said the documents showed nobody had any idea how many jobs had been created by the Government’s $67 million subsidy to Warner Brothers.

“The Government claims that filming The Hobbit in New Zealand

A dolphin and its calf which stranded on a reef as they fled from hunting orca have been saved by holidaymakers on the central Hawkes Bay coast.

David Petersen was his beachside Blackhead Beach bach yesterday morning when he saw a pod of several hundred common dolphins “going absolutely ape”.

“The were jumping two or three metres out of the water and going like anything,” he said.

“We see a lot of dolphins out here and I’ve never seen dolphins go at that speed before - they were absolutely rocketing.

“Then we realised there was an orca, right inshore just outside the breakers, chasing them.”

Department of Conservation ranger Rod Hansen said the dolphins sought refuge in the shallow waters of the beach and Te Angiangi Marine Reserve reef.

The pod continued north to Aramoana Beach but returned.

Mr Peterson’s 16-year-old

John Key (left) has defended the Warners tax incentives saying Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit film alone hired 3000 people. created an extra 3000 jobs and this was value for money to taxpayers, but documents from John Key’s office show this figure was plucked out of thin air.

“Questions have to be answered about how many of these jobs existed prior to filming, how many of them will exist once the final film has premiered, and how many of these jobs actually went to New Zealanders.”

He said Warner Brothers should repay the subsidy it had received from the Government now the film had grossed more than $1 billion.

The correspondence does not say 3000 jobs had been created only that 3000 people was “a good number” for those working on the films.

But a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister’s office stood by the figure, saying 3000 jobs had been created.

“These are people who were directly working on the Hobbit. If

Manu Caddie, who led the fundraising campaign for the Berl report, said its release raised questions about the figures used

by KiwiRail to recommend closing the line.

“The main thing is that the numbers are a heck of a lot closer to break even than previously claimed and, with a tiny fraction of the massive amount of wood coming on stream put on rail, the line will quickly be profitable.

“The Government needs to make a small investment now to save provincial jobs and some horrific roading costs if the wall of wood was to travel by road.”

Mr Caddie said a meeting between KiwiRail, Minister of Transport Gerry Brownlee, and a small group of business and community leaders from Gisborne and Hawkes Bay had been agreed on but Mr Brownlee’s office had yet to determine a date.

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the Hobbit had relocated offshore these jobs would not exist.”

The spokeswoman said 3000 jobs was “a minimum” and did not count flow-on jobs created for businesses and communities that supplied and serviced The Hobbit.

“The Hobbit production team took 6750 domestic flights, paid for 93,000 bed nights, and hired 1800 rental cars and 1650 work vehicles.

“The production spent more than $9m on construction materials and $1.5m on local food suppliers.”

The spokeswoman cited Statistics NZ figures which showed the local film industry employed 15,500 people in more than 23,000 jobs in the year ending March 2011.

“The Government stands by its commitment to attract and retain the film industry in New Zealand in order to reap these significant economic benefits.”

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grandson Hamish Hewitt and neighbour Frank Lochore paddled out to the dolphins on their surfboards.

“They shot off and then these two big fins came along,” Hamish said.

“We looked at them a bit and Frank said, ‘I don’t want to be the first one eaten by an orca,’ so we quickly caught a wave in.”

Mr Petersen was watching the action from his verandah and his son-in-law, who was also watching with a pair of binoculars, said a couple of dolphins were stranded on the reef.

Mr Hansen said people on the beach saved the mother and her calf, which were caught out by the outgoing tide.

“It was really good. All the locals just got together, rolled up their sleeves and got into it.”

Using beach towels as a sling, the rescuers moved the dolphins from the shallow water to the sea.

The calf was moved first, and the mother called to it constantly, keeping it close to the reef, Mr

Search to continue

By Rosie Manins Family and volunteers will carry out their own scaled-back search after a third day of searching by more than 90 people yesterday failed to find any trace of missing Clutha Valley teenager Blake Sinclair.

The 18-year-old’s parents, Raewyn and Mark Sinclair, yesterday thanked everyone involved in the search for their “wee guy”, who went missing while kneeboarding on the Clutha River near Balclutha on Saturday afternoon.

“Our son Blake loved the outdoors and all aspects of spending time in the outdoors with family

and friends. Blake grew up enjoying jet-boating on weekends, family holidays out and around South Otago and in the Southern Lakes region, and family boating holidays on the West Coast,” Mr and Mrs Sinclair said.

They asked for privacy and declined to speak directly with media, opting instead to issue a written statement through the police.

Today a scaled-down search will comprise four jet-boat crews and family members.

Police will spend the next week monitoring the level and clarity of the Clutha River while assessing the merits of any further search activity.

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Hansen said.

“They swam around for a while.

We are not sure if they were confused or didn’t want to go back into the deep. The mother was bleeding slightly from damage on the reef - I don’t think it was anything that was going to harm her.”

The dolphins then slowly moved out to sea.

Mr Petersen said the rest of the pod returned to Blackhead Beach because of the cries of the stranded dolphins.

“They came right into the bay, right into the breakers and up to the reef. Once we found the ones stranded we were pretty sure they had come back answering the distress call.”

Floppy Halliday, founder of Northland’s Whale Rescue, said there was no record of New Zealand-based orca eating dolphins, but visiting orca had.

She asked if anyone had recent photos of orca in Hawkes Bay to send them to floppysdolphins@ hotmail.com to help identify their origin.

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An academic says the loophole that lets people buy “lethal” air rifles should be closed following the death of a south Auckland teenager.

Prof Kevin Clements of the University of Otago Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, said air rifles should be sold only to gun licence-holders.

Anyone 18 years of age or older can own and use an airgun and anyone under the age of 18 can use an airgun if supervised by a firearms licence holder, or someone aged 18 or older.

“They don’t require the same type of registration and background checks as an ordinary rifle but they have the same lethality and they need to be treated like any other weapon,” Professor Clements said.

Air rifles were considered suitable for children and needed to be critiqued, he said.

He called for tighter controls after the death of undercover policeman Don Wilkinson, who was shot with a .22 calibre air rifle in 2008.

“There is really a need for a tightening up of this loophole or people are going to be killed with these weapons.”

The public considered the death of the policeman an anomaly, but when Shaun Townsley, 18, died after being shot by a .177-calibre air rifle in south Auckland on Saturday, it illustrated how lethal the weapons were, Professor Clements said.

Sports Industry Association spokesman Chris Ziesler rejected Professor Clements’ comments.

“When I was 14 years old, I got my first air rifle. My older brother had one and instructed me on its use and we grew up shooting our air rifles and tens of thousands of New Zealanders, of young Kiwis, have owned and used air rifles with no incident.”

The death of the teenager had allegedly involved alcohol so the law should not be changed because of a single “reckless” incident, Mr Ziesler said.

“That would be an overreaction ... I can’t quite follow the professor’s idea that having a licence to buy an airgun would cure a problem that really doesn’t exist.

“One fatality is no excuse to change the law” especially when alcohol was allegedly involved.

Changing the law would be a “huge overreaction”, Mr Ziesler said.

Legislation had been passed so more powerful pneumatic air rifles, like the .22 calibre rifle used to shoot the undercover policeman, could be owned and used only by a gun licence-holder, he said.

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YOUR VIEW Dog attack I am pleased to read that Gill had the honesty to admit that his dog bite was his fault.

Too many dog attacks are blamed entirely on the dog but I often wonder what exactly was

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Also why cannot the dog have some sort of defence, someone to speak for it.

Even the worst criminals have a defence, why not a dog?

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Midgley said the 74-year-old woman received some bruising and suffered minor neck injuries in the collision on Havelock Street on November 29.

Asolima ran a red light and crashed into the woman’s vehicle, causing significant damage, Mr Midgley told the court.

Asolima’s lawyer Marilyn Gilchrist said it was a truly unfortunate situation, as the man “simply did not see the red light”.

She added the man hadn’t long woken up, which may have played a part in the incident, but offered an apology to the woman, on behalf of the defendant.

“He is deeply sorry he behaved the way he did and in a panic, he was

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Man who ran red light apologises to crash victim A temporary Ashburton worker drove through a red light and crashed into the side of another car, injuring an elderly woman and then fleeing the scene.

Roma Asolima, who had only been in Ashburton for five months at the time of the accident, pleaded guilty to careless driving, driving without a licence and failing to stop at the scene of an accident when he appeared before Judge Robert Murfitt in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.

He was convicted and fined $600, disqualified from driving for six months and ordered to pay reparation costs of $338.

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frightened and left the scene.

“He truly apologises to this court and to the lady in particular. Mr Asolima tells me he does have a driving licence in Samoa, but that is irrelevant here,” Mrs Gilchrist said.

Before sentencing, Judge Murfitt asked Asolima what type of discipline he would face if the same incident happened in Samoa.

Visibly puzzled by Judge Murfitt’s address, Asolima replied, “I’m not sure”.

Judge Murfitt convicted Asolima and fined him $600, disqualified from driving for seven months and ordered him to pay reparation fees of $338.

Repeat drink driver fined $900; Hard at work ahead of production loses licence for 13 months

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The following people appeared on drink-driving charges in the Ashburton District Court yesterday; Maurice Dominic Fitzgerald, 59, of Methven, admitted drink driving (3rd+) in the Ashburton District Court. He blew 747mcg per litre of breath when pulled over by police. Fitzgerald was convicted and fined $900 and disqualified from driving for 13 months.

Matakipau Ulupano, 30, of Allenton, admitted driving with excess breath alcohol. He was found to have a breath alcohol reading of 491mcg/l. He was fined $1000 and disqualified from driving for eight months.

Damien Lars Gomez, 21, a cleaner of Tinwald, blew 627mcg/l.

He was fined $550 and disqualified

for six months.

Timothy William Masters, 23, admitted drink driving (3rd+). He blew 591mcg/l. It was his third conviction in two years and Judge Robert Murfitt requested a presentence report to be carried out.

Masters was remanded on bail to reappear next month.

Kenneth Flynn, 58, of Willowby admitted drink driving (3rd+). He blew 710mcg/l. Flynn was remanded until February and Judge Murfitt ordered a pre-sentence report to be completed prior to his sentencing next month.

Andrew Gerald Barker, 44, unemployed of Allenton, drove with a breath alcohol reading of 635mcg/l. He was convicted and sentenced to 120 hours’ community work, 9 months supervision

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and disqualified for 13 months.

Barker was also ordered to undergo relevant alcohol and employment counselling, as appropriate.

Other appearances; Russell George Pirika, 35, admitted one charge of wilful damage. He was convicted and fined $450 and ordered to pay reparation costs of $65.

Daniel John Brokenshire, admitted one charge of wilful damage. The damage included kicking his mother’s door down and Judge Murfitt referred the case to restorative justice.

Monique Gayle Philp, 25, of Hinds admitted driving while suspended. She was convicted and fined $300 and disqualified for six months.

Elliott Strange, and fellow students at the Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School who are spending this week preparing for

a two-show performance in the Ashburton Trust Event Centre on Friday and Saturday.

Almost 120 students, aged

between nine and 20 are taking part in the five-day singing school under the guidance of musical director and producer Jo Castelow.

During the week they will be polishing up a musical production that will hit the stage on Friday at the Ashburton Trust Event Centre.

Man charged with assaulting baby A Rotorua man accused of assaulting a 9-month-old baby has made his first appearance in court.

The 21-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, appeared in the Rotorua District Court yesterday and did not enter a plea to a charge of recklessly wounding a child. A charge of assaulting a child had been withdrawn and replaced with the reckless wounding of a child charge.

The case was called before Judge Chris McGuire and the accused was represented by Wiremu Te Are. Judge McGuire consented to continued interim name suppression until his next court appearance, when the issue would again be discussed. Police did not oppose name suppression on the grounds of protecting the victim’s identity.

The accused was remanded on bail until February 4, when lawyer

Harry Edward would become his assigned counsel. Bail conditions included non association with two people, and not to be around children under 16 without being supervised by an informed adult over the age of 20.

The baby was airlifted to Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital in a serious but stable condition after an ambulance was called to a house in Selwyn Heights

on December 27. The child was in the care of extended family at the time.

The baby was discharged from hospital late last week and is now in the care of Child Youth and Family.

Child, Youth and Family Midlands regional director Greg Versalko said the baby boy was doing “very well given the circumstances”.

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Beijing choked by smog

By Neil Connor Beijing has endured a third day of pollution at hazardous levels, as authorities warned a thick cloud of smog may not lift from the Chinese capital until the middle of the week.

While those venturing outside wore face masks, dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei went one step further, posting pictures of himself on Twitter in a gas mask.

As the dense smog shrouded large swathes of northern China, flights were cancelled and traffic delayed as visibility was reduced to 100 metres in some areas.

The dangerously poor air quality was highlighted by a steady stream of news broadcasts on state television, many of which warned residents against venturing outside.

The pollution also provoked China’s huge number of microbloggers to take to the internet, with some high-profile web users calling for a re-evaluation of China’s rampant modernisation. Rapid economic growth has led to a dramatic increase in the consumption of coal and clogged city streets with cars.

“The foreign media is laughing at us. I agree with their laughter,” said Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-run Global Times newspaper on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

“This is a warning to the Government and Beijing’s citizens.

We have to think about what kind of modernisation we want and how to manage it.”

Hu said the pollution issue would be on the front page of his newspaper yesterday.

Beijing-based Ai, 55, an outspoken critic of China’s communist government, posted three pictures of himself on Twitter standing against a white background wearing a gas mask, his beard frizzing out beneath. But he did not make any verbal comment. Beijing’s

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A visitor stretches her arms as she looks over the Forbidden City through severe haze in Beijing yesterday. municipal environment warning centre issued its second alert in two days, warning people to avoid outdoor physical activity.

The centre also urged government officials to set an example to other residents, by not using their cars.

Air quality in Beijing showed small airborne particles with a diameter small enough to deeply

penetrate the lungs at a reading as high as 993 micrograms per cubic metre on Saturday night, the warning centre said.

The World Health Organisation says the figure for such particles, known as PM2.5, should ideally be no more than 25 micrograms per cubic metre.

High levels have been linked to

health problems including respiratory disease, heart disease and lung cancer.

Official PM2.5 figures have only been monitored in China’s major cities since the beginning of last year. The lack of official data makes it difficult to compare the recent smog with previous cases of pollution, said Ma Jun, director of

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Many landlords outside Christchurch were struggling in over-supplied rental markets, and may need to drop asking rents to lure tenants

By Kurt Bayer and Abby Gillies Renters could be in luck, as a turnaround in the market has seen a flood of listings and brought prices to a standstill including in some of the country’s most desirable suburbs.

Supply is outstripping demand for houses and apartments in almost all regions, according to Trade Me Property figures for October to December last year.

The number of available listings has risen 8 per cent year-on-year, led by double digit growth in Manukau, North Shore, Wellington, and Hamilton.

In Auckland, supply is up 8 per cent while demand dropped 18 per cent compared with the same time the previous year. Some of the city’s most popular areas saw the most movement, with supply up 2 per cent and demand down 28 per cent in the CBD. Mt Eden supply was up 24 per cent and demand down 22 per cent, and supply in Remuera rose 21 per cent while demand dropped 17 per cent.

The figures were a turnaround from the previous year, Trade Me head of property Brendon Skipper said.

“In terms of supply, absolutely. If you take out Christchurch, demand has fallen away a little bit so there is a bit of a

going into another rental, they’re choosing to stay. They’re scared of not having anything at all.”

Mr Brazier said demand remains unchanged, but there was only about a quarter of the supply.

The influx of rebuild workers is putting extra strain on the already cramped market, he said, and alternative options need to be canvassed.

Lodging could be a logical solution, along with purpose-built workers’ villages – one of which has already secured building consent.

However, rebuild work won’t likely kick in until later in the year, and Mr Brazier was afraid it would bring even more pressures to the already strained marketplace.

“We’ll be in an even deeper pickle than we already are.”

Many landlords outside Christchurch were struggling in over-supplied rental markets, and may need to drop asking rents to lure tenants, said Mr Skipper.

The exception was for student-friendly properties in university towns like Dunedin and Palmerston North as the annual flat-hunting season started.

In spite of the figures, there was always demand for good-quality rentals in desirable suburbs, both Mr Skipper and Ms O’Sullivan said.

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- Brendon Skipper change of how people are in that rental market space,” he said.

The market could be the result of renters moving into the home ownership market and possibly people were staying put in their rentals longer than usual, Mr Skipper said.

Real Estate Institute of New Zealand chief executive Helen O’Sullivan agreed and said the figures also reflected a time of year when many students left their flats and people were winding down, so were less likely to move.

The figures are a strong contrast to early 2012 when demand for quality rental properties in central Auckland was at crisis point, with supply unable to keep up.

Then, agents reported having up to 60 people turn up to viewings, and renters resorting to extreme measures such as offering above the rental asking price to beat the competition.

As listing numbers have increased and interest from prospective tenants has decreased, prices have dropped off, said

Mr Skipper.

“As a result, the asking price for rentals is up by only 3 per cent, considerably below QV’s recently reported 5.7 per cent increase in house prices.”

While the average rent has dropped by 2 per cent in Auckland, the Trade Me figures show a staggering 26 per cent jump in post-earthquake Christchurch.

With thousands of homes quake damaged and ruled uninhabitable, the rental market has spiralled towards a crisis over the past two years.

Tony Brazier of Braziers Property Management said January was traditionally his busiest month, but all of his university student properties were filled last August, and people are reluctant to give up their rental properties over fears they won’t secure anything else.

“We usually have about 150 people changing properties about now, but we’ve only got about 40 this year,” said the Christchurch real estate agent.

“When existing tenants are given the choice of staying at a higher rental or

Hubbard misled investors, says 2011 report

By Paul McBeth Former National Bank chairman John Anderson concluded Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard had misled investors in his tangled affairs, in a report written shortly before Hubbard’s death in a car accident in September 2011.

The report by Anderson and Deloitte insolvency specialist Rod Pardington has been released after a 16 month wait that included an appeal to the Ombudsman’s Office, which had intended to suppress the comment about Hubbard making “misleading representations to investors” but mistakenly released the conclusion to BusinessDesk.

Hubbard died with fraud charges hanging over his head, and had been battling a decision to place him, along with his wife Jean, under statutory management along with much of the rest of his tangled business affairs.

In their July 2011 report reviewing the order freezing the Hubbards’ assets,

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Well respected and highly experienced Victorian firefighter Peter Cramer died doing what he had devoted half his life to.

The 61-year-old, from Tyers in Victoria’s Gippsland region, was one of more than 70 Victorian emergency services workers sent to Tasmania last week to help fight the state’s devastating fires, which have destroyed more than 130 homes since January 4.

Mr Cramer died on Sunday at Taranna, east of Hobart, while working on foot to identify potential containment lines on the southern boundary of the Forcett fire, about 2-3 kilometres from the active fire edge.

He was to have returned home to his wife Julie and their children today, but was found dead at 5pm on a bush track after he failed to make a scheduled call-in.

Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) chief fire officer Alan Goodwin said Mr Cramer had been a DSE firefighter for more than 30 years and a CFA volunteer for more than two decades.

He was a DSE training coordinator who also volunteered his time to train CFA volunteers.

“Peter was a well-respected and trusted member of the DSE community,” Mr Goodwin told reporters in Melbourne on Monday.

“He was a very experienced firefighter. As training co-ordinator he loved teaching and passing on his knowledge and had a passion for fire and land management.”

Mr Goodwin said the cause of death was unknown and Mr Cramer had recently passed a fitness test.

“Certainly all our firefighters that we send away, all our firefighters go through our fit-forfire programme, through medical testing and so forth, and Peter was certainly part of that,” he said.

Mr Goodwin first met Mr Cramer on a deployment to the US in 2003.

“He was always fun, he greeted you with a smile and a solid handshake, and that’s how I will remember him,” he said.

David Hamilton, president of the United Firefighters’ Union Victorian branch, said Mr Cramer’s tragic death highlighted the strenuous conditions and mental and physical demands placed on firefighters.

“These things can always be done better, and if, unfortunately, these high dangers and situations are occurring, I think the agencies and government probably should look at managing it better or increasing firefighter numbers,” Mr Hamilton said.

In a statement, Mr Cramer’s wife and family said they wanted to “express how truly well-loved Peter was by everyone who knew him”.

Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said losing a firefighter came as a shock.

“To lose someone in active duty is something you don’t plan for,” he said.

“We take our caps off to what Peter has done in three decades of service to Victoria through firefighting.”

A CFA spokesman said Mr Cramer’s colleagues at Swifts Creek and Tyers, where he was a member, had been devastated by the news.

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Anderson and Pardington concluded the statutory management should remain in place.

Anderson and Pardington said the managers needed to figure out the value of couple’s assets and liabilities and had to clarify the uncertainties around the business affairs, and that once those issues were cleared, the order could be lifted.

The uncertainty as to who held what assets was seen a risk for terminating Allan Hubbard’s statutory management, as was the claim that there were “misleading representations to investors,” the report said.

“The administration of the statutory management of the other entities without the inclusion of Mr and Mrs Hubbard would be counterproductive to resolution given the high degree of intermingling of Mr Hubbard’s affairs with the affairs of the other entities in statutory management,” Anderson and Pardington said.

The statutory managers also considered there was a possibility Hubbard’s

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Anderson and Pardington saw fewer risks to lifting the order on Jean Hubbard, Allan’s wife and the executor of his estate, saying her statutory management could be removed earlier once certain matters were addressed.

The government seized control of the Hubbards’s affairs in June 2010, controversially leaving out South Canterbury Finance, after an anonymous complaint was laid by an investor claiming they hadn’t seen a prospectus for their investment in Aorangi Securities.

Trevor Thornton, Richard Simpson and Graeme McGlinn of Grant Thornton were appointed the statutory managers of the Hubbards, Aorangi Securities and several charitable trusts.

During the course of the administration the statutory managers found an investment had been transferred into Southbury, even though Allan Hubbard had told an investor it was in Aorangi

Securities, the report said.

They also uncovered the existence of the Hubbard Managed Funds business, which had operated without clear instructions or authorities and was unknown to investigators before the statutory management order, as well as assets and liabilities that were omitted from the Hubbards’ statement of financial position.

The report was commissioned by Companies Registrar Neville Harris in 2011, and Allan Hubbard died while it was being considered. Harris subsequently sought more advice, leading to his recommendation to then-Commerce Minister Simon Power to lift the order over Jean Hubbard.

The statutory managers are now locked in High Court battle with Jean Hubbard over $60 million of assets she denies were transferred to Aorangi Securities, the cost of which is being picked up by investors in the frozen firm. A hearing has been set down for May this year.

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Kiwis less confident about job security

By Ben Chapman-Smith New Zealanders are feeling less confident about their job security in the coming year, according to a report out yesterday.

A survey of 1577 people last month revealed a dark cloud of pessimism hangs over most regions, with Canterbury the exception.

The Westpac McDermott Miller Employment Confidence Index rose to 99.1 in the December quarter, up slightly from 98.9 in the September 2012 quarter.

This is the fifth consecutive quarter that the index has been in pessimistic territory.

“The best thing to be said about the survey is that it could have been worse,” said Westpac senior economist Felix Delbruck.

Employment confidence remains at very low levels and households’ assessment of their personal job security has taken a step back, said Delbruck.

Job security sentiment fell back sharply in the quarter, with only a net 3 per cent (optimists slightly outnumbering pessimists) now expecting their jobs to become more secure over the coming year, down from 12 per cent in the previous survey.

Respondents’ assessment of current and future job opportunities improved slightly but remains very downbeat. A net 60 per cent (down from 63 per cent) said jobs were hard to get and a net 6 per cent (down from 8 per cent) said they expected them to get worse over the coming year.

Earnings expectations have risen for two quarters but are still well below levels seen before the 2008/2009 recession.

Delbruck said Canterbury continued to be the one bright spot in what was overall still a fairly gloomy report. Canterbury registered an index of 113.5, up from 110.9.

“Canterbury is now the only region where employment confidence is clearly in optimistic territory,” said Delbruck.

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Les Mis wins at Globes

Contestant to have double mastectomy

By Michael Thurston Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage drama Argo and musical Les Miserables were the big winners yesterday at the Golden Globes, while Steven Spielberg’s presidential drama Lincoln won only one major award.

Affleck won the top prizes of best dramatic film and director for his movie about a CIA mission to rescue diplomats caught in Tehran in 1979, while Les Miserables won best film, actor and supporting actress in the musical/comedy category.

Daniel Day-Lewis won best drama actor for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln at the 70th annual Globe awards, but that was the only top award for Spielberg’s film, which had topped the nominations tally with seven.

Jessica Chastain meanwhile won best actress in a drama, beating Naomi Watts, for her role as a relentless CIA agent tracking down Osama bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, while Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained won two key prizes.

Affleck, who also stars as a CIA agent who rescues six US diplomats who took refuge in the Canadian ambassador’s residence in Tehran in 1979, paid tribute to real-life agents and diplomats, including the character he was playing.

“Really this award is about Tony Mendez. You saw him. He’s an American hero. He represents the (US) foreign service making sacrifices every day for Americans. Our troops overseas. I want to thank them very much,” he said.

The movie has been accused of taking liberties with history, notably by exaggerating the role of the CIA in getting the US diplomats out, at the expense of the Canadian envoy in Tehran at the time.

Les Miserables, a musical adapted from the book by Victor Hugo, won best musical/comedy movie, while Aussie actor Hugh Jackman won best actor for his all-singing role, and co-star Anne Hathaway won best supporting actress.

In his acceptance speech, Jackman – praised for his vocal skills in the movie – revealed that he almost gave up the starring role of Jean Valjean only a few weeks before it started filming, after “humiliating” rehearsals.

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Miss America contestant Allyn Rose plans to undergo a double mastectomy now she has strutted in a bikini and flaunted her roller skating talent in this year’s pageant.

The 24-year-old is removing both breasts as a preventive measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.

“My mum would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant,” she said between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip. “If there’s something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I’m going to be alive.”

The University of Maryland, College Park, politics major said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother.

“I said, ‘Dad, I’m not going to do that. I like the body I have.’ He got serious and said, ‘Well then, you’re going to end up dead like your mum.’”

She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition.

She measures her age by the time of her mother, Judy Rose’s, first diagnosis, at age 27.

Judy had one breast removed in her 20s but waited until she was 47 to remove the other one, which Rose’s father had called a ticking time bomb.

“That’s when they found she had a stage-three tumour in her breast,” Rose said. “And that’s why for me, I’m not going to wait.”

She plans to have reconstructive surgery, but said the procedure has complications and there is no guarantee that she will regain her pageant-approved bust.

Art McMaster, CEO of the Miss America Organisation, called Rose an “incredible example” of strength and courage.

Mallory Hagan, 23, took the Miss America crown at the weekend after tap dancing to a James Brown tune, deftly answering a question about gun violence in schools and raising the issue of child sexual abuse in her contestant platform.

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Director Tom Hooper (left) actress Anne Hathaway and actor Hugh Jackman pose with the award for best motion picture comedy or musical for Les Miserables backstage at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. she talks me (down) most days,” he said of Deborra-Lee Furness.

Hathaway won for her portrayal of the young mother and prostitute Fantine, beating fellow nominees Amy Adams in The Master, Sally Field in Lincoln, Helen Hunt in The Sessions and Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy.

Day-Lewis, who had been widely expected to win for his turn in Lincoln, had to make do with being the only big winner for Spielberg’s movie - which has also topped nominations for next month’s Oscars.

“My fellow nominees, boys and girls, such beautiful performances this year. I’m very proud to be one amongst you,” said Day-Lewis, paying tribute to Spielberg as a “humble master with a quicksilver imagination” and a friend.

Tarantino’s blood-soaked spaghetti Western tribute Django Unchained meanwhile won two Globes: best supporting actor for Austrian Christoph

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“This is a damn surprise, and I’m happy to be surprised,” said Tarantino, whose film tells the story of a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a dentist-turnedbounty-hunter a few years before the American Civil War. British songstress Adele, making her first red carpet appearance since giving birth in October, won best song for the theme tune from James Bond blockbuster Skyfall, pipping Keith Urban who was nominated for For You in Act of Valor.

Best foreign language film went to Austrian Michael Haneke’s Amour, which won the Cannes Palme d’Or last year.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence won best musical/comedy actress for rom-com Silver Linings Playbook, while best original score went to Taiwanese-born Ang Lee’s Life of Pi.

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Scottish-themed Brave won best animated feature.

On the small screen meanwhile, terrorism-themed thriller Homeland and the quirky Brooklyn hipster comedy Girls took top television honours.

Homeland, which wrapped its second season in the US last month, won for best dramatic series, as well as best actress and best actor for its two stars, Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

Other TV winners included the television movie Game Change and its star Julianne Moore, who took best actress in a dramatic series for her role as renegade Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Meanwhile Nicole Kidman who was up for two Golden Globes – for her Supporting Performance in The Paperboy and the TV movie Hemingway & Gellhorn – bombed out of both.

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MyFarm director Andrew Watters says the dairy industry is entering a positive cycle this year thanks to rising global milk prices and greater investor focus on the sector.

$35m invested in dairy farm syndicates New Zealand investment in dairy farming will step up this year after attracting strong interest in 2012, says the one of the country’s largest dairy farm managers, MyFarm.

MyFarm has several Mid Canterbury dairy farms, all owned by syndicates.

Director Andrew Watters said the industry was entering a positive cycle in 2013, benefitting from rising global milk prices and greater investor focus on the sector.

“The successful $525 million capital raising by Fonterra in December highlighted the attractions of dairying, but at the same time revealed the complexities of investing in the sector in New Zealand.

Only by investing in dairy farms can investors benefit from rising milk prices.”

Last year 73 New Zealanders invested a total of $35 million in four new My Farm managed dairy farm syndicates and eight established dairy syndicates.

This compares with $43.9 million in

2011, when 81 New Zealanders invested into 12 new dairy farm syndicates and 2010 when 68 investors invested $44 million into nine new syndicates.

The lower number of new dairy farm syndicates compared to 2010 and 2011 reflected falling dairy commodity prices for the first half of the year and a lower milk price for most of the year.

“This year’s group of investors made their decisions based on the long term trend for higher dairy demand, rather than the anomaly of high supply from 2011/12.”

Last year also saw the launch of new investor partnerships that enable eligible investors to make smaller investments in MyFarm syndicates. More than 50 eligible investors have signed up for this $20,000 minimum investment option to date.

Mr Watters says Fonterra’s midDecember announcement of a $0.25/ kgMS lift in pay-out will be followed by more global dairy price increases and an

end of season pay-out above the current forecast of $5.90-6.00/kg MS. In 2012 MyFarm syndicated to a good balance of new (52 per cent) and repeat (42 per cent) investors and also saw some US and European investors join syndicates alongside expat New Zealand investors.

Directors of recent syndicates have included the directors of listed companies, senior executives of multinationals; award winning dairy farmers, senior dairy industry executives, medical professionals, expat fund managers and sheep and beef farmers.

Mr Watters said MyFarm was planning to develop a secondary market to enable retail investors to participate in MyFarm syndicates.

MyFarm is currently offering investment in a Southland dairy farm, which has 23 per cent production upside and is nestled within a cluster of MyFarm managed properties.

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hile it may not seem like it given recent media coverage, death and serious injury from quad bikes remains relatively uncommon despite around 100,000 machines being in New Zealand We also grieve for the family of Rakaia’s Hamish Baxter; farming’s first occupational death in 2013. I regret to say he will probably not be the last in 2013, though I pray otherwise.

The current quad bike focus by the media indicates it has become desynthesised to the road and drowning tolls; already much higher than farming. Safety also happens to be split between various agencies and ministries with each pursuing a different agenda but with finite resources.

As we have as many quad bikes as there are registered motorcycles, I think we can all agree the road is a heavily regulated environment.

Despite this and a police presence to enforce the rules, 45 people have been killed in accidents involving road-going motorcycles in the year to January when I checked. Around 1000 more people were injured in police reported accidents.

That compares with what seems to have been seven quad bike fatalities over 2012. If I am hesitant, it is because our statistics take time due to coronial processes.

Of the seven quad bike deaths, five appear to be farm-related and two seem recreational in nature. Even among

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By Jeanette Maxwell Claridge in mindset that was needed. He Federated Farmers also said enforcement would suck money away from education where this change needed to come from.

Claridge added that a seatbelt will not protect people from reckless driving but education makes for better decision making. the five farm-related deaths, one was The key points Claridge made that horrendously caused by electrocution resound with me, are for people to take and not the bike. While ‘850 people personal responsibility, to accurately on average’ are said to be injured on assess risk and to be responsible for quads each year, the number of serious children. harm notifications in 2011/2012 is As quad bike safety messaging is provisionally 84.

Any death is a tragedy but if we are to aimed at farmers, my fear is that weekend enthusiasts are being missed regulate then why and what exactly? out. A helmet will not save you if a On-farm, speed is less of a factor than loss of control and rollover. A quad quad bike is pushed beyond its limits.

Like with water safety, quad bike safety bike is like any other bike and needs is about education and training to get to be actively ridden by its user. While farmers and recreational users to own rollover protection or ROPS has been the issue. looked into, the current consensus is Adult quad bikes are big and powerful that they save as many lives as they machines demanding physical maturity take. ROPS changes weight distribution and training to safely use them. If we and some also require harnesses to be are to have a real discussion about effective, restricting a user’s ability to regulation then we need to know why ride safely. and what we are regulating for. Despite Newer quad bikes are superior in the many hours a farmer will sit on design and have added safety features. one, they remain relatively safer than a There are also other vehicle choices but road going motorcycle. to Federated Farmers, the big three are Jeanette Maxwell is Federated helmets, education and training.

Farmers Health & Safety While unconnected to farming, Water spokesperson and is chairperson of Safety New Zealand’s Matt Claridge Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre. delivered some of the best arguments

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Strong market at wool sale The year’s first North and South Island wool auction saw a strong market, driven by recent increased buying interest, particularly from China.

Of the 21,900 bales on offer, 90 per cent of the offering sold.

The weighted indicator for the main trading currency compared to the last sale in December, was practically unchanged, lifting only 0.05 per cent and having no impact on prices.

New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s general manager, John Dawson, said the range of types available in each island influenced the market pressure, backed up by client requirements for urgent shipment.

The overall effect is that interisland price variations have now largely been removed with most types having similar values at both selling centres.

The higher volumes of coarse short shears available were the only types to lose some ground.

Mid micron remained firm.

Fine crossbred fleece and shears increased 2.5 to 6 per cent. Coarse crossbred fleece and longer shears ranged from 1.5 per cent to 8 per cent dearer with the North Island lifting the most.

Short coarse shears were firm to 3.5 per cent easier. Lambs fleece were 3 to 5 per cent dearer.

Long oddments ranged from firm to 5 per cent stronger. Short oddments were firm to 7 per cent dearer.

Strong competition with China dominating, was supported by Western Europe, Middle East, India, United Kingdom and Australasia.

The next sale wool sale on Thursday comprises about 10,600 bales from the North Island and 6200 bales from the South Island.

LAMB The latest data out of Europe indicates that New Zealand filled just 70% of its allocated 228,000 tonne sheep meat quota in 2012. This is a continuation of the trend of past few years, where New Zealand has used less of its quota year-on-year.

In 2011 80% of the quota was filled, while in 2010 that figure stood at 86%. In 2011, trade was limited by reduced availability of product out of New Zealand, but in 2012 the drop was virtually entirely due to a drop in demand.

News from the UK Christmas chilled trade has so far been largely positive. Export figures indicate that New Zealand may have exported around 40% more chilled lamb for the Christmas trade than last year and consumer uptake of the Christmas specials looks to have been good. This time a year ago there were significant discounts still on offer in UK supermarkets, indicating that there was excess stock to clear. But that doesn’t appear to be the case this year.

BEEF Imported manufacturing beef prices have been flat in the past few weeks, with a slightly softer tone creeping in over the past few days. The handbrake has been put on the rising prices by a slower than expected rise in the US domestic market, as well as a weakening of spot market prices, particularly for bull meat.

The sharply increased prices paid for imported beef in November appeared to have a December lift in the domestic market factored into them.

But as December passed with only fractional increases in domestic 90CL prices, buyers of imported product, particularly traders, have become hesitant at current price levels. It’s likely that the import market will hover around current levels, or slightly lower, until a significant lift in domestic prices is seen.

VENISON The Christmas chilled venison season went reasonably well, though exports from New Zealand were down on last year. The highest October production since the 2007/08 season came as buyers rushed to fill quotas after holding off due to oversupply issues last year. Despite the rush exports for August through to the end of October were down by over 430 tonnes on 2011.

The reduced imports of New Zealand venison this season have by and large matched the reduced demand in Europe. This has meant that prices for chilled venison have held relatively steady, though there is pressure on strip loin prices which are 25-30% above prices for European strip loin. The focus now moves to the frozen venison market, where indications are for a slight downturn, which New Zealand schedules have dropped away to reflect. The high New Zealand dollar and recession in Europe continue to weigh in on the market. Cheap Spanish product as well as a large wild boar population in Germany will also add to downward pricing pressure.

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It was October 18, 1958 when a car built in Ashburton made its first appearance.

The occasion was a traction engine rally, said to be the first such event in New Zealand, held on a farm near Tinwald to raise funds to build a new Tinwald Town Hall and a swimming pool for nurses at Ashburton Hospital.

The event started with a street parade from Walnut Avenue in Ashburton to Grahams Road in Tinwald. Interest among Ashburton people was high – crowds lined the whole parade route and, following the parade, the queue of cars taking people to the rally stretched right back into Ashburton. At one stage police had to ask organisers to stop charging on the gate so as to clear the cars faster from the main road.

On show were 31 traction engines, a steam lorry, a Stanley steam car, a draught horse pulling a water joey’s cart — and the Dickson steam car. The

Mr Dickson driving his steam car.

car had been built by Mr J Dickson who is believed to have worked for the Ministry of Works at their Maronan Road site.

He took the chassis of a 1932 Triumph car and manufactured a vertical water tube boiler which he installed under the bonnet. The steam was supplied to a twin cylinder Mason engine, built in 1903, which by means of a chain powered the car at speeds up to 40 miles per hour. Its fuel was petrol, ignited by a spark from a motorcycle battery and Ford Model T coil.

A year after the rally Mr Dickson wrote the story of his car, including a great amount of technical detail, for a magazine. He obviously still had the car, and had plans for modifications, but nothing seems to have been heard of it since.

Ashburton Museum would like to hear from anyone who can add information to this story.

A cute collection of sad irons FROM THE COLLECTION

By Kathleen Stringer Not many people enjoy ironing, however I like it. Having one’s clothes well pressed is something my mother impressed (no pun, really) on me. Mum ironed everything – tea towels, underpants and sheets, nothing was too small or silly for her and her iron. When she became unwell I took over the ironing duties – I could see her cringing as I threw most of our wash into the ‘doesn’t need ironing’ pile. Doing the ironing quickly transformed my wardrobe as I realised all those pretty clothes abounding in pleats and frills weren’t fun to iron.

With synthetic fibres and modern washing machines much of our clothing doesn’t need to be ironed. In the past everything had to be pressed in a mangle if not ironed. Some larger items, such as sheets, might be starched to retain

their neat smooth look. Clothing in the Victorian period was extremely decorative with frills, tucks and pleats. So complicated were they that it was easier to

unpick the garment for laundering and ironing. We all know that Monday was wash day but next came Tuesday when the whole day would be spent ironing.

While today we have a single iron, the laundry of yesteryear had a stable of different irons – various shapes, sizes and weights to manage the variety of washing generated. Tiny irons or rod shaped (goffering) irons were used for filly bits, while heavy flat irons were used for sheets etc.

These latter irons were called sad (in the sense that they were heavy, some were up to 10 pounds). Originally they were solid metal with a fixed metal handle which naturally heated up with the rest of the object.

In 1871 Mrs Potts, an American, pat-

ented a hollow iron (which could be filled with some heat retaining substance such as plaster or, better still, asbestos!) with wooden detachable handles. These irons still required to be heated on a coal range or open fire (so you needed at least two to keep ironing) but were lighter and with the detachable handles you simply picked up the body – so the whole process was quicker and you didn’t burn your hand.

The set here, maybe a wedding present or for use in a commercial laundry or tailors, gives an idea of the variety in size and weight.

While later irons have many features such as steam and water sprayers, the sad iron can still hold its own in ironing circles.

The variety in size makes for a crisp finish to fiddly trims and the best thing is that it can’t be set on the wrong heat and burn your clothes.

The Kane family - neighbours from hell

By Michael Hanrahan

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t was January 18, 1887 when six children, the youngest aged only three, appeared before Ashburton’s Resident Magistrate, H. C. S. Baddeley charged with abusive behaviour on December 21 the previous year.

Aware there was likely to be more to the case than met the eye, Mr Baddeley adjourned proceedings for a week. When the court reconvened the six children were back, along with their mother, Mary Ann Kane.

A neighbour of the family in Cox Street, Ellen Burns, said the children had thrown stones at her and used abusive language.

Another neighbour, Edward Warne, said stones were being thrown both ways between the Burns and Kane families. He couldn’t say who started it, but the Kane children often used bad language, even towards their mother.

At that point the magistrate abandoned the case because no witness could give an exact date as to when the offence occurred.

However Sergeant Edwin Felton of the Ashburton police said he intended bringing another charge against the children as “they are a thorough nuisance in the neighbourhood where they live”.

The magistrate said he too had received scores of complaints about the children, and if Sergeant Felton could substantiate the charges he would take the children from their mother and send them to a school in Nelson.

It appears the sergeant was not successful as almost a year later Mary Ann still had the children with her, and she was in trouble again. Another neighbour, Mr Eden, had been repairing a fence near the Kane house when Mary Ann abused him, threw a bucket of water over him and then punched him before she and her children began throwing stones at him. He had to push her to the ground to get away.

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She was “a quarrelsome and troublesome woman, accustomed to using bad language,” he said. Her house was in the hands of the Public Trustee who had placed him in charge of it because of complaints from the neighbours, so he was aware she paid no rent and had no permission to occupy the house. Ellen Burns backed up Mr Eden and said she had sold her house to get away from Mrs Kane.

Against the advice of her solicitor Mary Ann gave evidence, accusing all her neighbours of being “low characters”. It didn’t help. She was fined one pound and bound over to keep the peace, with a personal surety of £25.

That could have been the end of things but only three months later she was back, charged before John Olliver RM and David Thomas JP with retrieving her six sheep that were on the way to the pound. This time her husband Bartholomew was with her in the dock, charged with assaulting Clifford Sage, a neighbour who seized the sheep when they were in his property.

Mary Ann and the children had attempted to rescue the sheep, while Bartholomew hit Mr Sage about the head. They were each fined one pound or two days in jail if they defaulted.

On this occasion Mary Ann adopted a tactic she used often later – cross-claiming against the complainant. She accused Mr Sage of ill treating her sheep, but the bench dismissed that charge.

By October the same year, 1888, the Kanes were living in Princes Street and Mary Ann was back in court before JPs Major Steward and David Thomas, charged with using obscene language towards a neighbour, Elizabeth Barnard. She crossclaimed against Mrs Barnard, who, she said, had called her “a low blackguard”, but that claim was dismissed.

The case centred on whether or not Mary Ann had been on the public footpath at the time she was alleged to have called Mrs

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Barnard names, or on her own property.

She swore she was inside; several neighbours said she was not. The bench sentenced her to two weeks in prison with hard labour, and directed the police to charge Mary Ann with perjury.

Sure enough, just on two weeks later Mary Ann appeared before JPs Donald Williamson and Hugo Friedlander charged with perjury.

The police asked for a remand and said Mary Ann’s husband had agreed to it, but Mary Ann wanted to proceed. She was remanded, and obtained a lawyer, Mr Clayton, who in spite of only being instructed 30 minutes before the case began, mounted a clever defence, claiming the court bailiff had not administered the full wording of the oath to Mrs Kane.

Both the justices from the previous hearing were called as witnesses, but only Major Steward was available. The case was dismissed as the bench felt legal authorities required two witnesses to give evidence about the administering of the oath.

The family was in trouble again only two months later when Bartholomew was charged with having pulled a knife and slashed Peter Copeland several times.

Copeland said he had gone into the Kane property in Green Lane, Hampstead, having mistaken it for the place he intended to visit.

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court at Christchurch, where after a retirement of only three minutes, the jury found Bartholomew Kane guilty of intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr Justice Ward sentenced him to six weeks in jail with hard labour.

Things became a little quiet with the Kanes for a couple of years until October 1892 when Mary Ann was again in court, before C.A. Wray RM, charged with assaulting a neighbour, Mary Jane Kerr, by spitting in her face and using obscene language in a public place.

Because of her family the magistrate declined to jail her but required her husband and another to stand surety for her to keep the peace for six months.

Within a couple of months the owner of the house they were living in, Harry Friedlander, applied to the court to have them evicted as they were paying no rent and he had sold the house. The magistrate ordered they should be given two days to leave.

Mary Ann managed to keep to her good behaviour bond for some time, but on April 15, 1895 she sent her daughter Mary to Andrew Young’s general store on Victoria Street, near Chalmers Avenue. She bought a shilling’s worth of sugar and handed over half a crown in payment, but Andrew Young kept the 18 pence change because Mary Ann owed him money from previous purchases.

Mary fetched her mother who confronted the shopkeeper, swearing at him. A tussle ensued as he tried to put her out of the shop.

In the process he was hit on the head with a scales weight, his hanging scales were broken, a large round of cheese ended up on the floor and a soap display was tipped over and trampled on. After Mary Ann was evicted she broke the door trying to get back in.

When she again appeared before Mr Wray RM she cross-claimed, alleging Andrew Young had hit her over the head with a stick to the point where she couldn’t see for three days.

Both cases were dismissed as the magistrate said the shopkeeper had no right to withhold the change.

That was the end of the Kanes, as far as Ashburton was concerned. A Bartholomew Kane, possibly the one from Ashburton, died in 1904, aged 54 and a Mary Ann in 1897 aged 46, but there is no record of either being buried in an Ashburton cemetery. A daughter, Anastasia, married in Wellington in 1914.

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Making the job of baling hay easier

By Gilmour Blee The harvesting and storage of hay for future use, be it winter or other periods of feed shortage, was another laborious job many farmers had to undertake if making provision for seasonal feed fluctuations.

Hay balers came on the scene as far back as 1905, when the J.I.Case Company, Wisconsin, USA started experimenting with the production of hay balers.

Stationery hay balers were on the market by the late 1920s with much physical labour involved – mowing the hay by whatever means, raking it into windrows as part of the drying process, then sweeping it up to be forked into a stationery baler or stacked, possibly using a stacker using horses or a tractor to pull the sweep or operate the stacker.

Mrs EM Begg, Wakanui, purchased a Case Stationery hay baler about 1928 for their own use and soon it was in demand by neighbours wanting their hay baled too. This baler was power-take-off driven and on steel wheels.

In 1938 she purchased the first Case Pick-up baler in Mid Canterbury, serial No 403o52.

On steel wheels, it was towed by a Model L Case tractor, PTO driven, with the pick-up driven off a ground wheel. Three or four men were still needed to operate it. A tractor driver, two men – one on either side of the bale chamber, seated, to thread and tie the pre-looped wires and one man to keep the hay moving from the top of the pick-up elevator towards the bale chamber.

Divider boards were placed in the bale chamber to enable the wires to be placed and keep the bales separated. The pick-up and elevator unit ran on metal skids and followed the ground contour. The bale body size was 18 inches by 14 inches and the length or tightness of the bales could

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be adjusted to suit.

Following the death of Mrs Begg in 1948, this pick-up baler was amongst her farm equipment that was sold. The buyer at the time remains unknown but the late Neil Begg spent a lot of time in the 1980s trying to track it down with the ultimate objective of restoring it to working condition.

Eventually located on a farm at Wheatstone, it languished for a few more years under his ownership.

A second baler, the same model in derelict condition, was located at Te Pirita and was procured for parts use wherever necessary. Unfortunately Neil was taken from us in April 1997 without seeing his baler restored.

In 2000 his family, with assistance from relatives and friends, worked on the restoration job which required the replacement of wooden components, sheet metal panels, and a rebuild of the elevator.

It was in running order for a Vintage Machinery Rally at Tinwald in November 2000.

The story is told of an occasion when Gordon Begg was driving the tractor, with one light on the front, and towing the baler at night on the Main Road between Fairton and Dromore when a car with two men in it who had been to the Chertsey Hotel, ran straight into it and got part way up the baler pick-up and elevator. The car rolled over and into an adjacent paddock. The two men who sued Mrs Begg for two new suits won their case in court!

Wire tied bales have been a thing of the past for many decades having been replaced by heavy twine and the conventional bale, as it was known, has been replaced to a large extent by ‘big round’ and ‘big square’ bales in various sizes. The conventional pick-up balers still in use with many improvements, are a one-man operation.

Thanks to Care Stewart and Kevyn Begg for help with this story.

ABOVE and BELOW: Kevyn Begg with the Case hay baler.

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PLANTS, PRODUCE OUR final sale. Yes, Smiths Footwear’s final summer sale (owing to change of ownership) is now on in the Arcade.

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SALE SALE SALE. Smiths Footwear’s Summer Sale now on in the Arcade.

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ZIERA and other brands heavily reduced in Smiths Footwear final summer sale in the Arcade.

GARAGE SALES MONSTER Garage Sale, Saturday, Jan 19. 2 house lots combined. Toys, clothes, kitchenware, bedding etc.

9am start, Saturday.

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Ideal candidate will be bright, energetic, with an exceptional people orientated approach and a proven track record. A high level of personal integrity, drive and motivation to succeed is expected as is a commitment to providing the best possible outcome for the client.

We will provide you with the training and support to offer your clients a superior professional service, to bring them the results they expect and more. The Ashburton Guardian offers an excellent remuneration package and is a great place to work.

If you are an experienced sales professional with a proven history of leveraging the highest levels of client service to achieve your personal and professional goals, then you should apply in writing, with confidence, by 5pm, Wednesday, January 16, to:Advertising Manager P O Box 77, Ashburton 7740 Somerset House Burnett Street, Ashburton or email desme.d@theguardian.co.nz

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CERAMIC Tiles - tile quality guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at Redmonds Furnishing and Flooring, Burnett Street.

CM Trailer Equipment Ltd is a national distributor of light trailer parts throughout New Zealand. We require a fit, energetic and reliable person with a mechanical knowledge to work in our Ashburton warehouse.

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CONDITIONS: 1. Details of events MUST BE submitted on the published form only. Telephoned information NOT accepted.

2. Forms MUST be signed by an authorised representative of the organisation concerned.

3. A separate form MUST be submitted for each future event and may be lodged with the Guardian as far in advance as desired. For example: A club which meets monthly may submit, say, 12 separate forms simultaneously – one pertaining to each meeting scheduled over the following 12 months.

4. The organisation acknowledges that no responsibility for errors or omissions will be accepted by the Guardian Company.

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This position will provide you with great opportunities to be innovative and creative in an exciting team environment. You will have the opportunity to work closely with business owners/managers to develop their own individual advertising strategy and will be responsible for advising, creating and implementing their advertising in Ashburton’s leading media.

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ASHBURTON Speedway this Saturday. V8 sprint cars at their best.

We have vacancy for a professional advertising sales consultant to join our newspaper sales team.

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Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after his first round win over France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne yesterday.

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DAILY DIARY TODAY TUESDAY JANUARY 15 9.00am start. TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Nationals under 16 individuals Day 1. Public viewing welcome, free entry. Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre, Oak Grove.

9.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group meets outside church. 48 Allens Road.

10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Singles competition. Waireka Croquet Club Ashburton Domain, Philip Street.

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these things private and confidential,� he said.

The 25-year-old admitted he and his support staff had been gathering information on his main rivals. “We are trying to be as informed as possible about everybody, you know, especially about their game,� Djokovic said.

The Serb will meet young American hope Ryan Harrison in the second round after the 20-year-old beat Colombian Santiago Giraldo 2-6 6-4 7-5 6-4 yesterday.

Other men’s winners included Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych, who powered past 34-year-old American Michael Russell 6-3 7-5 6-3, who has now suffered

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TOMORROW WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16 9.00am. TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Nationals under 16 individuals. Public viewing welcome, free entry.

Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre, Oak Grove.

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

10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Tasmania doubles 10-12, assn doubles and golf croquet 1pm4pm. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

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

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

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hanger RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road.

11.30am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid week service and lunch. 48 Allens Road. Allenton.

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

A cautious Novak Djokovic was unwilling to spell out how he’s been steeling himself to repeat his Australian Open heroics of the past two years but yesterday’s first round performance delivered its own message.

The Serbian world No.1, seeking his fourth Open title and to become the first man to win three straight in Melbourne in the professional era, stretched his winning streak to 15 with an impressive 6-2 6-4 7-5 victory over Frenchman PaulHenri Mathieu.

The 102-minute match was more than four hours short

of Djokovic’s last appearance at Rod Laver Arena, when he outlasted Rafael Nadal in last year’s epic final.

While the Serb showed typically outstanding mobility and shot-making when needed, he felt there was room to improve. “It’s expected in the first match you’re still not being 100 per cent,� he said.

Djokovic, whose only previous tournament tennis this year was in the low-pressure atmosphere of the Hopman Cup, brushed aside questions about what he has been doing physically to prepare for expected more gruelling matches to come. “I can’t give you too many details because I like to keep

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For further information please contact our advertising team on 307 7974 Marina Erakovic

Atrocious - that’s the word Kiwi tennis No 1 Marina Erakovic has used to describe the serve that repeatedly let her down in a heartbreaking first-round defeat at the Australian Open in Melbourne yesterday.

Frenchwoman Alize Cornet, the former world No 11, beat Erakovic 7-5 6-7(3) 10-8 in three hours and 28 minutes.

The match total of 43 games was just five off the record set in 1996 between Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Chanda Rubin.

Erakovic will rue her chances as she had service breaks in all three sets and completed 17 double faults in total.

At times she looked the better player as Cornet scrambled and chased down shots that looked like winners. “I definitely had my chances all through the match. There’s

not a lot to say. I fought hard but every time I had a chance I let it go. “We were nervous. You get nervous at a Grand Slam, but you do your best to deal with it,�

Erakovic said after the match.

Played in front of a large and enthusiastic crowd who were fully behind the Kiwi the match never had a rhythm, with both players looking set to capitalise on service breaks or game points on their serves before letting their opponent come back. “At the end of the day you always want to win no matter how you’re playing, even though there was some shocking tennis.�

When asked about her serving, Erakovic used the word atrocious under her breath then said: “Serving today was pretty bad. “Seventeen doubles, no comment, I really just want to go back to the room.�

- APNZ

22 first-round losses at a major in 27 attempts.

Spanish 22nd seed Fernando Verdasco, who lost an opening round five-setter to Australia’s Bernard Tomic last year, survived a tough clash with another youngster, Belgian 22-year-old David Goffin, 6-3 3-6 4-6 6-3 6-4.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori, the 16th seed, beat Romanian Victor Hanescu 6-7(5-7) 6-3 6-1 6-3. Swiss 15th seed Stanislas Wawrinka outclassed German qualifier Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-2 6-4 6-3.

Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, the 10th seed, fought off American qualifier Steve Johnson 7-5 6-7(4-7) 6-2 6-7(6-8) 6-2.

- AAP

• Sharapova imperious Not so much Puchkova as pushover. For hapless Russian Olga Puchkova, the Australian Open was all over - or maybe that should be all ova - before it started. Drawn first up on Rod Laver Arena against celebrated countrywoman Maria Sharapova, Puchkova lasted just 55 minutes before being belted 6-0 6-0. If you were to draw up a list of things that women’s tennis really doesn’t need, horrendously lopsided scorelines early in grand slam events would be right up - AAP there.

• Jones knocked out The “Aussie, Aussie, Aussieâ€? chants felt weird for New Zealand defector Sacha Jones but the chance to experience her first grand slam main draw match reinforced the worth of her switch of countries. The 22-year-old Auckland-born adopted Australian fell 6-3 6-2 to Czech Kristyna Pliskova in just 73 minutes on an outside court on day one of the Australian Open at Melbourne - AAP Park yesterday.

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(G, R) 8.20 Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Advent. (G, R) 8.45 Bananas In Pyjamas. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends.

(G, R) 9.10 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.20 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.25 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.30 The Wiggles Show. (G, R) 9.40 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. (G, R) 9.50 Action Central. (G, R) 10.00 Infomercials.

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(PG) 8.30 Top 20 Countdown. (M) 9.25 Law & Order. (M) 10.20 CSI: Miami. (M) 11.10 CSI: New York. (M) 12.00 CSI: New York. (M) 1.00 NYPD Blue. (M) 1.50 Top 20 Countdown. (M) 2.45 Malcolm In The Middle. (PG) 3.10 Pawn Stars. (PG) 3.35 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 4.00 The Simpsons. (PG) 4.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

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Cash Cab USA. (PG) Top 20 Countdown. (M) CSI: Miami. (M) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. (M) The Simpsons. (PG)

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7.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 2nd Test Day Four.

8.00 Snooker. World Tour. Masters Day Two Session 2. Live.

10.30 Rugby Sevens. Pub Charity National Sevens. Event. Highlights.

12.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. Volvo Champions Round Four. Highlights.

1.00 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 2nd Test Day Four.

2.00 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League.

Hobart Hurricanes v Brisbane Heat.

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5.30 Rugby Sevens. Pub Charity National Sevens. Event. Highlights.

7.00 Crowd Goes Wild.

7.30 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 2nd Test Day Four.

8.00 Rugby Zone.

8.30 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 2nd Test Day Five Morning Session. Live.

11.05 The Cricket Show.

11.35 Cricket. NZ Tour Of South Africa. 2nd Test Day Five Afternoon Session. Live.

4.30 Sky ARENA Access.

5.00 Cricket. Australia v Sri Lanka. 2nd One-day. Highlights.

6.30 Golf. US PGA Tour. Sony Open Round Four. Highlights.

7.30 A-League Highlights Show.

8.00 Football League Show.

8.53 Soccer. English Premier League.

Queens Park Rangers v Tottenham.

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11.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Norwich City v Newcastle United.

Replay.Newcastle United From Carrow Road, Norwich.

1.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Arsenal v Manchester City. Highlights.

2.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Manchester United v. Liverpool.

Highlights.

3.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Queens Park Rangers v Tottenham.

Replay.

5.00 Premier League Review.

6.00 The Dirt.

7.00 Basketball. NBL. Townsville Crocodiles v NZ Breakers. Highlights.

8.00 The Cricket Show.

8.30 Cricket. KFC T20 Big Bash League.

Semi-final 1. Live.

12.30 Rugby Zone.

1.00 Sky Sport What’s On. 1.30 Snooker. World Tour. Masters Day Three Session 1. Live.

4.00 Fight Night On SKY.

sky MOVIes 1 6.45 Rio. (2011, G).

8.20 Joyful Noise. (2012, PG) Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton.

10.15 Hop. (2011, G) Russell Brand.

11.50 Fast Five. (2011, M) Vin Diesel.

2.00 Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer. (2011, G) Jordana Beatty.

3.30 Goodnight For Justice 3: Queen Of Hearts. (2012, PG) Luke Perry.

5.00 The Howling Reborn. (2011, M) Landon Liboiron, Lindsey Shaw.

6.35 Battle: Los Angeles. (2011, M) Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez.

8.30 127 Hours. (2010, 16) James Franco, Kate Mara. The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

10.05 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

(2011, M) Shia LaBeouf.

12.40 Kill The Irishman. (2011, 16) Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken.

2.30 Demon Hunter. (2005, M) Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Drago.

3.50 Making Of Tower Heist. (2011, PG).

4.10 Kill The Irishman. (2011, 16) Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken.

5.55 Goodnight For Justice 3: Queen Of Hearts. (2012, PG) Luke Perry.

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MOVIe GReats 6.40 Conan The Barbarian. (1982, M) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

8.45 Making Of Johnny English Reborn.

(2011, PG).

9.00 Out Of Sight. (1998, M) George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez.

11.00 Meet Joe Black. (1998, M) Brad Pitt.

1.55 Conan The Barbarian. (1982, M) Arnold Schwarzenegger.

4.05 A Knight’s Tale. (2001, M) Heath Ledger.

6.15 Million Dollar Baby. (2004, M) Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank. A hardened trainer takes on a determined woman as a boxer, forging a friendship that transcends the losses of their past.

8.30 Crimson Tide. (1995, M) Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini. In the face of a nuclear showdown, danger runs deep, as one man embarks on a macho power play aboard a Navy nuclear submarine.

10.30 Lethal Weapon 2. (1989, M) Danny Glover, Mel Gibson.

12.25 Directors: Terry Gilliam. (2011, PG).

12.55 A Knight’s Tale. (2001, M) Heath Ledger.

3.05 Million Dollar Baby. (2004, M) Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank.

5.15 Crimson Tide. (1995, M) Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini.

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Lochhead feeling the pressure

By Daniel Richardson Tony Lochhead’s iron-clad grip on the starting left back role for the Wellington Phoenix is under serious threat.

The All White is the club’s most capped player with 123 A-League appearances and he has logged 10,992 minutes of playing time since the Phoenix were formed in 2007.

But as his form fluctuates this season his position seems up for grabs after the club recently signed fellow international Ian Hogg.

Lochhead’s delivery into the box was again inconsistent on Sunday as the Phoenix were beaten 2-0 by the Western Sydney Wanderers at the Cake Tin, and coach Ricki Herbert appeared frustrated at Lochhead’s lack of production.

Herbert offered this when he was quizzed about the 30-year-old’s form this season: “I think it’s been a little disappointing really. I think it’s a benchmark, it’s a national team player and I think just that quality of delivery in the box has kind of struggled.”

Hogg is likely to get an opportunity to impress the Phoenix coaching staff when he plays for their reserve side against YoungHeart Manawatu in Palmerston North on Wednesday night.

The 23-year-old was added to the Phoenix roster two weeks ago as a replacement for Mirjan Pavlovic after being released by US Major League Soccer outfit the Portland Timbers without making a firstteam appearance.

Hogg has played four times for the All Whites and can be deployed as a midfielder, but is predominantly a defender and is eligible for selection from this weekend when the Phoenix meet Sydney FC across the Tasman on Saturday.

“We were quite open to say that we’ve brought Ian to the club. “[In] the three months of investment we are going to have to see if he’s good enough in the legs,” Herbert said.

“So there definitely will be a chance for him.

“Whether it’s Sydney or back at home [against Newcastle on January 27] or whatever, but he’ll definitely get some game time.”

The Phoenix rely heavily on their ability to cross the ball as they like to spread their attack down the flanks, pressuring teams with plenty of crosses and that means players who are stationed out wide have to be accurate in their delivery into the box.

Lochhead is supremely fit but has struggled this season going forward and is yet to register a goal assist, which is a contrast to last summer where he logged four.

He is a favourite of Herbert’s but as the Phoenix sit at the bottom of the A-League ladder after 16 rounds - with five losses from their past seven games - something has to give.

The Phoenix are only four points adrift from the Newcastle Jets, who occupy fifth place on the table, but they need to find some momentum if they want to push for a spot in the playoffs.

Meanwhile, second-string goalkeeper Glen Moss is also expected to return from a hernia operation when he takes the paddock for the reserve side in Palmerston North on Wednesday but all eyes will likely be on another player.

Paul Ifill is pencilled in to play around 30 minutes from the bench for the reserve team as he continues his recovery from an ankle injury.

After the loss to Western Sydney, Herbert hinted that Ifill could be up to speed for a return to the first team when the Phoenix host Newcastle in two weeks. - APNZ

SCOREBOARD Results American football NFL Playoffs Results from the NFL divisional playoffs yesterday.

National Football Conference at Atlanta ATLANTA FALCONS 30 Seattle Seahawks 28

Basketball NBA results

Collated NBA results and standings yesterday (home team in CAPS: NEW YORK KNICKS 100 New Orleans Hornets 87 TORONTO RAPTORS 96 Milwaukee Bucks 107 SAN ANTONIO SPURS 106 Minnesota T-wolves 88 DENVER NUGGETS 116 Golden State Warrior 105 PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS 83 Oklahoma City 87 BROOKLYN NETS 97 Indiana Pacers 86 L.A. LAKERS 113 Cleveland Cavaliers 93

Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club January 13 Junior Pairs Championships final Alan Miller and Roger Daker defeated Robin Ford and John McLay 27-9.

Junior Triples Championship final January 13 Alan Miller, Roger Daker and Robin Ford defeated Russell Lowe, Jim McIntyre and John McLay by 7 shots.

Sat corner to corner Sat Jan 12. 1st Wally Porter.

2nd and 3rd John Lilley.

Cycling Friday Night Velodrome 12th week of racing in the Calder Stewart, McDonalds, and Tinwald Supervalue sponsored nights, Plastic Trainer wheels W/W. 1st. Fleur Kingsbury 15pts. Trainer Wheels A. Grade and B. Grade 1st.

Maddie Lowry 12pts. 2nd = Ben Donaldson and Zac Evans 7pts. C. Grade W.W. 1st. Ella Skinner 15pts. 2nd. Callum Kingsbury 9pts. 3rd.Emma Lowry 8pts. 4th. Nick Kershaw 5pts. D. Grade 1st

Lily Davidson 11pts. 2nd. Joel Moffett 9pts. 3rd.

Luke Rhodes 8pts. 4th. Penny Marriott 5pts. E. Grade 1st Juliet Kingsbury 9pts. 2nd. Josh Bellow 8pts. 3rd. Isla Moffett 4pts.

Open and U17 Riders 3 lap teams pursuit: Team 2. Josh Kershaw, Abe O’Donnell, Shona Proctor and Sam Cullimore, 2m 11.31sec. 2nd. Team 3.

Luke Skinner Kees Donaldson, Bailey Kershaw, Josh Donaldson 2m 11.43s. 3rd. Team 1. Connie Davidson ,Oliver Davidson, Bailey O’Donnell, and Daniel Rafferty 2m 13.66sec.

Teams Race 2- lap Relay 1st. Team 1. Connie Davidson ,Oliver Davidson, Bailey O’Donnell and Daniel Rafferty 2m 29.35s. 2nd. Team 3. Luke Skinner, Kees Donaldson, Bailey Kershaw, Josh Donaldson 2m 30,.31s. 3rd. Team 2, Josh Kershaw, Abe O’Donnell, Shona Proctor, Sam Cullimore, 2m 33.50s.

Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers 14 km Fords Road out and back social race.

1st. Oliver Davidson (Go.) 28m 48s. 2nd Alan Cox (Go) 28m 53s. 3rd. Shona Proctor (6m) 22m 54s. 4th.John Uden (6m) 22m 58s. 5th.Nicholas McIntosh (3.40m) 25m 26s. 6th. Bruce Paterson (3.40m) 25m 26s. 7th. Steve Tocher (3.40m) 25m 27s. 8th. Robert Grice (8m) F/T 21m 43s. 9th. Scott Albon (8m) 2f/t. 21m 43s. 10th. Brendan Davidson (8m) 3f/t 21m 46s. 11th. Martin Hyde (8m) 21m 46s. 12th. Geoff Skerten (6m) 23m 57s. 13th. Ross Proctor (6m) 23m 59s.

Till next week on Fords Road 1pm -1-15pm Reg with a 1.30pm Start.

Golf Aorangi South Canterbury Golf January 13 Mixed Pennants Final at Levels Golf Club Timaru 7 v Methven 1 Temuka 8 v Fairlie 0 Pleasant Point 2 6 v Ashburton 2 Pleasant Point 1 4 v St. Andrews 4

Tinwald Golf Club January 12 Summer championships final round Leading scores: Senior; Philip Roulston net 64, Simon Ross 65, Justin Smith 65, Bill Mason 66 b/l.

Intermediate; Cameron Miller 65, Paul Hefford 65, Ryan Ford 65, Lindsay Jackson 66, Ray Kirdy 66 b/l. Junior; Roger Bruce 58, Warren Scott 62, Mark

• Going for experience Black Sox veteran Jarrad Martin knows what it takes to win a world softball title - he’s helped win three. He also knows what it’s like to lose one and now hopes to learn how to win one back. That depth of experience - both good and bad - will be the key contribution Martin can make to the current campaign, as the New Zealand men try to win back the crown they lost to Australia in 2009. When the Sox line up at Rosedale Park in March, the Taranaki utility, who commutes to play his club softball in Wellington, will join fellow old-timer Thomas Makea at their fifth world tournament. Two others - Brad Rona and Donny Hale - will attend their fourth and while their physical skills may be waning ever so slightly, their “been there, done that” mentality cannot be replaced.

- APNZ

• Franks BMX champ

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Ashburton’s Bailie Perriton kept full-throttle pressure on his Australian rival Luke Burgess all the way at Levels Raceway last weekend.

Crash destroys promising raceday

By Jonathan Leask It was an up and down weekend in every sense for Ashburton motorcyclist Bailie Perriton at the Levels Raceway in Timaru.

In the second round of the National superbike series the 15 year-old was keeping up pace with Australian Luke Burgess before he went down in a crash that forced him to sit out while his rivals picked up valuable championship points.

During practice on Friday and Saturday Perriton proved he had the speed and determination to match the pace of Burgess, the current Australian 250 production class champion, who blitzed all three races in round one at Ruapuna.

Qualifying had Burgess again in pole position, but Perriton was only

Williams 65, Richard Hewson 67, Allen Moore 68.

Women: Senior; Sue Newman 70.

Junior; Helen Briggs 67.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Kevin Greenaway. Gluyas Ford # 6; Josh Smith. Stirling Sports # 12;Paul Hefford. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16 Bill Mason Two’s: Brendan Hurley, Bill Mason, Kevin Greenaway, Wayne Lloyd, Paul Hefford, Cameron Miller, Ron Meiklejohn. Eagles: Dave King #14, Brent Smith #3, Josh Smith #14 Net Eagle # 2 Keith Bonnington, Allen Moore, Wayne Ross, Alan Lilley.

2nd round of the Four Square Cup and Dobson Cup for mixed couples with Warren Scott and Barb MacGregor taking both trophies with a combined net of 135.

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January 10 Leading scores were: Senior; Snow Pierce 31, Michael Thomas 32, Paul Hefford 32, Miti Daniel 32, Phil Hooper 34, Brendan Hurley 34, Brent Green 34, Neil Rayner 34.

Junior; Kieron Gray 33, Steve Kircher 33, Mitch VanderKroght 33, Mark Williams 33, Keith Bonnington 33, Craig Davies 33, Kevin Turner 33.

Women; Pam McAndrew, Elaine Pierce 32, Val Prendergast 33, Diana Wellman 34, Sally cain 34, Anne Cain 34.

Football English Premier League English Premier League results and standings Arsenal 0 Manchester City 2 (Milner 21, Dzeko 32) Manchester United 2 (van Persie 19, Vidic 54) Liverpool 1 (Sturridge 57) Norwich City 0 Newcastle United 0 Stoke City 0 Chelsea 4 (Walters 45+2 og, 62og, Lampard 65 pen, Hazard 73) Sunderland 3 (Larsson 12, Johnson 47, McClean 74) West Ham 0 Aston Villa 0 Southampton 1 (Lambert 34 pen) Everton 0 Swansea 0 Reading 3 (Kebe 82, Le Fondre 88 pen, Pogrebnyak 90) West Bromwich Albion2 (Lukaku 19, 69) Fulham 1 (Karagounis 22) Wigan Athletic 1 (Di Santo 71) QPR 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0 Standings

P W D L F A Pts Manchester United 22 18 1 3 56 29 55

0.3 seconds off in second spot.

The two young riders immediately set a blistering pace in the first race to leave the rest of the field to fight for third.

Burgess and Perriton took turns in the lead as they both broke the lap record jostling for the lead.

In the final lap Burgess led at the end of the main straight but was blown to the edge of the track by the gusty winds.

Perriton saw the opportunity to take the lead and moved to put the pressure on, but pushed too hard coming off with only half a lap to go.

Perriton desperately tried to save the bike from going down but in doing so ended up going underneath it, suffering a blow to the head and knock to his right wrist and forearm as the bike landed on him.

After receiving medical attention

trackside he was cleared of concussion but sent to Timaru hospital with a suspected broken wrist.

The x-rays showed breaks but due to the severity of the impact he wasn’t allowed to continue for the remaining two races.

It was a disappointing end to the weekend that had promised so much but Perriton can take a lot away from his performance, as well as the bumps and bruises.

Going toe-to-toe with Burgess was able to smash the existing lap record on several occasions throughout the first race.

Burgess set the new bench mark at 1.17:488 minutes with Perriton’s best 1.17:501, only 13/100ths of a second slower.

“It was a weekend of good and bad,” Perriton’s Kiwi stars team manager Merv Orford said.

“We were delighted with his valiant efforts, proving that he is the fastest in New Zealand and can match the best riders in Australia in his class.

“Unfortunately he also had the crash that cost him competing in the two races on Sunday.”

“The other good news is that he has been cleared to race again next weekend.”

Perriton will have a few days to recover before round three at Teretonga Raceway in Invercargill.

Burgess has opened up a 49 point lead after winning all three races in Timaru with Grant Ramage taking second in all three races to move from third into second on 101.

Without a point from the weekend Perriton slipped from second to fifth still on 60 points but has the three remaining rounds to make up the ground.

Manchester City 22 14 6 2 43 19 48 Chelsea

21 12 5 4 43 19 41 Tottenham Hotspur 22 12 4 6 39 27 40 Everton

22 9 10 3 35 26 37 Arsenal

21 9 7 5 40 24 34 West Brom Albion 22 10 3 9 31 30 33 Liverpool

22 8 7 7 35 28 31 Swansea

22 7 9 6 31 26 30 Stoke City 22 6 11 5 21 24 29 West Ham

21 7 5 9 24 27 26 Norwich City 22 6 8 8 24 34 26 Fulham

22 6 7 9 33 38 25 Sunderland 22 6 7 9 24 29 25 Southampton 21 5 6 10 28 38 21 Newcastle United 22 5 6 11 27 39 21 Wigan Athletic 22 5 4 13 23 40 19 Aston Villa 22 4 7 11 17 42 19 Reading

22 3 7 12 26 42 16 QPR

22 2 8 12 17 36 14 Leading Goalscorers 17: Robin van Persie (Manchester United) 15: Luis Suarez (Liverpool) 14: Demba Ba (Chelsea) 13: Michu (Swansea) 10: Edin Dzeko (Manchester City), Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham Hotspur) 9: Rickie Lambert (Southampton), Romelu Lukaku (West Bromwich Albion) 8: Javier Hernandez (Manchester United), Marouane Fellaini (Everton), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Steven Fletcher (Sunderland), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)

26-Jurgen Melzer (AUT) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) 6-1 6-1 6-2.

5-Tomas Berdych (CZE) bt Michael Russell (USA) 6-3 7-5 6-3.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Q-Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) 6-3 6-7(5) 2-6 7-5 11-9.

Ryan Harrison (USA) bt Santiago Giraldo (COL) 2-6 6-4 7-5 6-4.

Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) bt Adrian Ungur (ROU) 6-4 6-4 6-2.

Carlos Berlocq (ARG) bt Q-Maxime Authom (BEL) 1-6 7-6(5) 7-6(4) 6-2.

Daniel Gimeno (ESP) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL) 6-7(4) 6-4 6-0 4-6 6-4.

10-Nicolas Almagro (ESP) bt Q-Steve Johnson (USA) 7-5 6-7(4) 6-2 6-7(6) 6-2.

15-Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) bt Q-Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) 6-2 6-4 6-3.

16-Kei Nishikori (JPN) bt Victor Hanescu (ROU) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-1 6-3.

Guillaume Rufin (FRA) bt Q-Julian Reister (GER) 4-6 7-6(4) 6-1 6-2.

Xavier Malisse (BEL) bt Pablo Andujar (ESP) 6-3 6-1 6-2.

32-Julien Benneteau (FRA) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 6-4 6-2 6-4.

Women, Round 1: 30-Tamira Paszek (AUT) bt Stefanie Vogele (SUI) 4-6 6-4 7-5.

15-Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) bt WC-Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 3-6 6-0 6-1.

Zheng Jie (CHN) bt WC-Zhang Yuxuan (CHN) 6-1 3-6 6-4.

Q-Valeria Savinykh (RUS) bt Mandy Minella (LUX) 7-6(4) 6-1.

11-Marion Bartoli (FRA) bt Anabel Medina (ESP) 6-2 6-4.

Irina Begu (ROU) bt Arantxa Rus (NED) 6-4 6-2.

Q-Maria Joao Koehler (POR) bt Q-Karin Knapp (ITA) 3-6 6-3 6-3.

5-Angelique Kerber (GER) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR) 6-2 6-4.

Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 7-5 6-7(3) 10-8.

22-Jelena Jankovic (SRB) bt Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-2 6-2.

Misaki Doi (JPN) bt Petra Martic (CRO) 6-3 6-4.

23-Klara Zakopalova (CZE) bt Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 6-1 6-2.

19-Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) bt Q-Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 6-2 7-5.

Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) bt Nina Bratchikova (RUS) 6-4 6-3.

4-Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) bt WC-Bojana Bobusic (AUS) 7-5 6-0.

9-Samantha Stosur (AUS) bt Chang Kai-Chen (TPE) 7-6(3) 6-3.

Romina Oprandi (SUI) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 4-6 7-5 6-2.

18-Julia Gorges (GER) bt Q-Vera Dushevina (RUS) 7-5 2-6 6-4.

Olga Govortsova (BLR) bt Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 2-6 6-3 6-2.

6-Li Na (CHN) bt Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) 6-1 6-3. 27-Sorana Cirstea (ROU) bt Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 6-4 6-2.

Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) bt WC-Sacha Jones (AUS) 6-3 6-2.

25-Venus Williams (USA) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6-1 6-0.

2-Maria Sharapova (RUS) bt Olga Puchkova (RUS) 6-0 6-0.

Tennis Australian Open Results from Australian Open yesterday (prefix denotes seeding).

Men, Round 1: Q-Tim Smyczek (USA) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 6-4 7-6(5) 7-5.

Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt Bjorn Phau (GER) 6-3 6-2 6-3.

1-Novak Djokovic (SRB) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-2 6-4 7-5.

Tobias Kamke (GER) bt Flavio Cipolla (ITA) 6-1 6-4 6-1.

22-Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt David Goffin (BEL) 6-3 3-6 4-6 6-3 6-4.

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BikeNZ high performance rider Daniel Franks took out the elite title at the South Island BMX Championships in Rangiora at the weekend. North Avon Christchurch rider Franks beat 18-year-old Trent Jones (Kaiapoi) and Matthew Davies (Chch).

These results signal great early season form for Franks and Jones, who will both travel to Perth in search of UCI points this month for the Probikx series, as part of the BikeNZ team. With no elite category on the women’s side of the draw, teenager Tahlia Hansen (Rangiora) stole the show in taking out the 16+ years final as well as the 11-29 years cruiser class at her local Rangiora BMX Club circuit. The two-time World Champion and six-time national champion, Hansen, beat home riders far her senior to further establish herself as the next - APNZ Sarah Walker.

• Lakers snap streak The Los Angeles Lakers celebrated Dwight Howard’s return from injury yesterday with a 11393 NBA victory over Cleveland that ended their worst losing streak in six years. Howard, who was sidelined for three games with a right shoulder injury, scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the Lakers ended a six-game slide. The Lakers hadn’t lost six in a row since a seven-game losing streak in 2007. San Antonio had a 106-88 win over Minnesota while the Denver Nuggets beat Golden State Warriors 116-105. - AFP

Team 2: Shirley Pagey – Raiona Isherwood – Sandra Holdom – Melva Middleton Team 3: Linda Boyd – Maureen Sullivan – Wendy Blackwell – Jill May Over 70’s: Helen Boag – Val Bell – Nola Wallace – Joyce Gray Manager – Joan Chapman Juniors Team 1 Triples: Dawn Bruce – Ollie Collins – Caitlin Bassett Pairs: Diane Vanderweg – Shirley Doig Team 2 Triples: Joycie Woods – Judy Ryk – Anne Reid Pairs: Shirley Thomas – Marg Lloyd Manager – Diane Gutberlet

Mid Canterbury Junior Reps To be played at Methven, Sunday January 20, 9.30am start.

Singles: Simon Fleetwood Pairs: Alan Millar, Roger Daker Triples: John Drayton, John Bruce, Richard Smitheram.

Fours: Neil Aitkenson, David Gallagher, Anthony Holmes, Jeff Limerick

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Bowls Mid Canterbury Sub Centre January 16 Women’s Quadrangular Representative Teams: Ellesmere – Travel details and cost to be advised.

Seniors: Team 1: Lorrel Chaney – Margaret Eder- Ruth Smith – Noeline Woods

Mugford Trophy To be played at Hampstead and MSA, Sunday January 20, 9.30am start.

Pairs: MSA B. Mayson, G. Eder; Hampstead D. Isherwood, B. White.

Triples: MSA N. Skerton, B. Hill, B. Clarke; Hampstead M. Smallridge, P. Whinham, D. Turner.

Fours: MSA A. Crawford, L. Luke, B. Harper, G. Clarke; Hampstead G. Bishop, D. Kiddey, R. Holdom, M. Anderson.

Reserves: R. Tonks, E. Maw, G. Crack, M. Quinn, D. Kinvig, M. Behrnes, C. Leech.

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Lunch almost very expensive

By Jonathan Leask A big lunch nearly cost Ashburton cyclist Hayden Roulston his shot at a third elite road national title.

Roulston claimed the 2013 title on Sunday, adding to wins in 2006 and 2011, but he almost made what he called a “serious blunder” in his pre-race preparation.

Roulston had felt in some of the “form of his life” in the lead-up to the race but his appetite almost got the better of him.

“I just over-ate leading into the race,” he said.

“I had lunch on top of breakfast and dinner the night before so I was pretty full.

“But it turned out alright as it was much needed fuel in the closing stages.”

In the run to the finish line the expectant crowd was left a little puzzled as Roulston and Bennett rolled to the line together, with Roulston edging ahead by a matter of centimetres for the win.

“I could have blown right past him if I wanted to.

“I orchestrated the move, telling him when to attack, and sat back because I want sure I could go with him.

“On the last lap I decided I could probably do it and had a real crack with about 6km to go, turned the burners on with 3km top go and caught him with 2km to go.

“I’m really happy with the win, but also pretty stoked to have

gotten over the mental barrier of just feeling off all day.”

While Roulston was up the front winning his battle, Nathan Tew lost his personal contest, failing to finish the epic elite race.

However, the first-time under 23 rider was in good company with only 20 of the 74 starters crossing the finish line.

Jason Christie was among his fellow DNFs, as were the likes of Olympians Westley Gough and Marc Ryan and the legendary Gordon McCauley while Greg Henderson, one of New Zealand’s top riders, was the only one of the seven UCI pro tour riders not to reach the finish as his national title drought continued.

Roulston however reclaimed the title and will now have the honour of wearing the New Zealand champion colours in Europe.

There was no rest for Roulston, getting back on the back yesterday for a light “two-and-a-half hour ride” before getting back into full training ahead of a busy schedule.

“I’m off to Europe on February 1 to start with the tour of Qatar and then the tour of Oman so it’s all go from now,” Roulston said.

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Jono Print scored 69 not out as Mid Canterbury crashed to a big defeat. for Country with 6/66 off 18.3 as they claimed the win by an innings and 34 runs.

Mid Canterbury start their Hawke Cup campaign against Otago Country on February 2.

Brendon McCullum’s test series as a batsman ended at St George’s Park yesterday in a familiar and potentially worrying manner.

McCullum fell lbw to South Africa’s left arm spinner Robin Peterson for 11.

It completed McCullum’s series with 82 runs at 20.5 from his four innings.

It was also the third successive time McCullum had fallen to Peterson, a steady but hardly world-beating spin bowler.

In his 119 completed test innings in 72 tests, McCullum has been dismissed by a left arm spinner 26 times.

It is a weakness which won’t have gone unnoticed by New Zealand’s next visitors.

Why? Because aside from the world’s No 1 bowler Dale Steyn, the other one to have claimed McCullum’s wicket more than anyone else is England’s left arm spinner Monty Panesar.

And England arrive for a full tour next month with Panesar in the party, even if he could be a marginal selection as second spinner behind Graeme Swann in seam-friendly NZ. Two of those Peterson dismissals were lbw - in the second innings of the first test at Cape Town and yesterday.

For the first, McCullum pushed forward and was struck on the front pad in line. The second appeared to hit him on the back leg as he again went forward.

In the first innings at Port Elizabeth, having dug in against the formidable pace attack for 97 minutes, his eyes may have lit up when Peterson was handed the ball.

Hussey ready to move on

By Justin Chadwick

Mike Hussey: scored 5442 ODI runs for Australian

John Snowden winning the Ballinger Belt was the tip of the iceberg at the national shooting championship at Trehtham.

John finished on top in the A grade with Peter Newman also finishing in the to 20 coming ninth overall. John Fleming was the top veteran in B grade and Coby Snowden was second in C grade ahead of Darian Miller.

John also won the Oceania Fullbore individual shoot by a five point margin, led the Ashburton Club to third overall in the teams match and the Canterbury regional team to finished on top, alongside Newman, John and Darian Miller.

New Zealand No 1 Danny Lee enjoyed a top 15 finish at the Sony Open after carding a one under par 69 in the final round at the Waialae Country Club in Hawaii yesterday. The 22-yearold Rotorua professional, who won the pre-qualifying tournament with a seven under par 65, finished in a share of 13th place, 11 shots back from champion American Russell Hanley, who won in his first event on the PGA Tour. Lee, the former World No 1 amateur who suffered the heartache of missing qualifying for a full card on the PGA Tour by one shot in 2012, was back to his best on the big stage this week in Honolulu. He had three consecutive rounds of four under par 66 in the first event of the 2013 season as he made a run at his first PGA Tour win.- APNZ

Right: Hayden Roulston (centre) surveys his options as the field in Sunday’s race in Christchurch streams through a huge group of spectators.

the second innings and was the next to fall at 104/4 before Mid Canterbury collapsed, losing six wickets for 50 runs.

Print was left stranded not out on 69 as Glen Foulkes did the damage

• Shooters on target

• Big finish for Lee

Hawke Cup warm-up Left-arm spin a curse misses the objective on Black Caps captain The Mid Canterbury senior cricket suffered a heavy defeat in a twoday Hawke Cup warm up match, beaten by an innings and 35 runs

by Canterbury Country at the weekend.

A Mid Canterbury XI were dealt a harsh lesson from a quality Country side three weeks before the start of their Hawke Cup campaign.

Mid Canterbury elected to bat first to get some time at the crease, but were quickly in trouble at 35/4.

Matt Winter led the way with 31 but Mid Canterbury were still struggling at 81/6.

The tail wagged as Will Southby made 36 and Jack Meyrick 30 to steer Mid Canterbury to a respectable 180, with Country’s Dan Fleming taking five Mid Canterbury scalps.

Mid Canterbury then made an early breakthrough before David Fulton and Shanan Stewart combined for a 132 run second wicket partnership to the visitors in control.

Fulton retired on 51 while Stewart made 73, but another big partnership followed as Henry Nicholls also retired on 50 while Matthew Laffey made 94 as Canterbury Country eventually declared for 369/5 after 92 overs.

Mid Canterbury were 189 behind and got off to a terrible start to be 8/2.

After a duck in the first innings Jono Print hunkered down and combined with Des Kruger for a 52 run third wicket stand before Kruger was removed for 38.

Winter could only muster 16 in

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In-form batsman Mike Hussey says he understands why he was dumped from Australia’s one-day team, but is still disappointed by the decision.

Hussey, who announced his Test retirement earlier this month, was keen to play in the home one-day series against Sri Lanka and the West Indies before stepping down from international ranks altogether.

But with national selectors already sizing up candidates for the 2015 World Cup, Hussey was told his services were no longer required, despite the 37-year-old plundering 527 runs at an average of 75.3 in his six Tests this summer.

Hussey was sorely missed in Australia’s eight-wicket loss to Sri Lanka at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.

But Hussey’s axing is good news for the Perth Scorchers, who will welcome back the star veteran with open arms for Wednesday night’s Twenty20 semi-final showdown against the Melbourne Stars at the WACA Ground.

“I’m disappointed not to be playing in the one-dayers because that was my plan,” Hussey said yesterday.

“I love one-day cricket.

“That’s where I got my opportunity to play for Australia, so I definitely wanted to play.

“But I understand what the selectors are trying to do.

“They’re trying to build for the 2015 World Cup and I’ll get over it I guess.

“I just want to come in and do whatever role the Scorchers need me to do.

“I don’t want any other agendas.”

Hussey’s inclusion creates an awkward situation for Scorchers coach Justin Langer, who must now decide which player to drop from his in-form squad.

Former skipper Marcus North, who made way for Hussey in the opening game of the season, could be the unlucky one to miss out.

However, with Hussey a slim chance to take on the wicketkeeping duties, gloveman Tom Triffitt also faces a nervous wait.

The Stars skittled the Scorchers for 69 when the teams met last month, with Stars paceman Lasith Malinga (6-7) the destroyer.

But with Malinga on duty with Sri Lanka’s one-day squad, the Shane Warne-led Stars will need to find other avenues to get the job done on enemy territory.

- AAP

To his second delivery McCullum shaped for a big off drive and touched a catch to first slip. His body language suggested he knew he’d blown it after doing all the hard work.

Since New Zealand went to India in August, McCullum has played 12 test innings and a left arm spinner has got him out seven times. In that period he’s scored 289 runs at 23.7.

Pragyan Ojha dismissed him in Hyderabad. Rangana Herath removed McCullum three times in two tests; and Peterson has now done the same.

While at the crease McCullum has worn the demeanour of a man with the weight of his team on his shoulders.

Over the course of this test, he knuckled down admirably.

Over the course of the series, he batted a total of 355 minutes, faced 240 balls and hit 11 of them to the fence.

For that amount of diligence, 82 seems a small reward.

McCullum’s natural game is to play his shots; take the attack to the bowlers and try to dominate.

Here, he’s clearly felt should he adopt that aggressive approach and it goes wrong, he’ll cop another “irresponsible” towelling.

McCullum has also possibly been worried about the strength through the middle order if he departs early.

He has worked hard, got his head down against some hostile pace bowling and won praise from Steyn yesterday.

“McCullum’s looked unbelievably difficult to get out, and yet he hasn’t made big scores,” Steyn said, highlighting the problem which has faced the new captain.

- NZH

Spin trouble Left arm spinners to have dismissed Brendon McCullum in tests 6 times: Monty Panesar (England) 3: Pragyan Ojha (India), Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka), Robin Peterson (South Africa) 2: Shakib al Hasan (Bangladesh) 1: Ray Price and Keith Dabengwa (Zimbabwe), Nicky Boje (South Africa), Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka), Abdur Razzak, Mohammad Rafique (Bangladesh), Ashley Giles (England), Yuvraj Singh (India), Abdur Rehman (Pakistan).

Brendon McCullum

The race to determine New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment for 2012 has begun, with motocross, netball, basketball and Olympic moments all vying for the only Halberg honour determined by public vote. The winner of the award will be announced by Prime Minister John Key at the Westpac Halberg Awards in Auckland on Thursday, February 14, with public voting officially closing at 9.15pm that night. Sports fans can vote for New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment up to once a day via Facebook, text or online through the Sky Sport, Radio Sport or Westpac Halberg Awards websites. The 2012 New Zealand’s Favourite Sporting Moment finalists are: 1. NZ Breakers, 2. Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, 3. Men’s Double Sculls, 4. Mahe Drysdale, 5. Lisa Carrington, 6. Valerie Adams, 7.

Levi Sherwood.

- APNZ

• Pomersbach is back Brisbane Heat have declared big-hitting Luke Pomersbach a certain starter for tonight’s BBL semi-final against Melbourne Renegades despite suffering a blow to the foot in last weekend’s clash with Hobart Hurricanes.

Pomersbach hit 82 in the match in Hobart, including the fastest half-century of the tournament this summer which came off just 24 deliveries. “He’s fine. He woke up the next day and he could walk which was the first sign that it probably wasn’t broken,” Heat skipper James Hopes told reporters yesterday. “I’m pretty sure you’ll see him running around today.” The fourth-placed Heat (4-4 win-loss) and the competition leaders the Renegades (7-1) both missed the finals last summer and have put themselves one step away from the riches of the Champions League T20. The Renegades and the Heat have been boosted by having key players dropped on Monday from the Australian one-day international squad. The Renegades regain skipper and opening batsman Aaron Finch while Ben Cutting returns for the Heat.

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in the second round, while Leonard has drawn Tauranga’s Janvhi Clark on the same half of the draw.

On the boys side of the draw the 14-year old Mitchell was set to only feature in the doubles, playing with former Mid Canterbury representative Sam Benny, but was included in the singles draw.

“I was thinking about entering but thought that I had left it a bit late.

“But Sam asked me to play doubles with him and they let me enter,” Mitchell said.

“I’m just hoping to do the best I can and make the most of it.”

Mitchell faces Ben Holmes of Auckland, while Benny has Daniel Cooney in the other half of the draw.

The players have already taken a step up this season competing in the Canterbury Tennis Challenger series on Friday nights, with Mitchell saying it will have been a boost for their chances.

“The challenger grade has been a big help as we are playing older and better players each week They aren’t just playing in the competition, they are winning, with the girls’ team leading division one and the boys’ team fourth in division two.

But this week is a step if not a leap up in level, starting with today’s first round with play under way from 8.30am and running through until the finals on Saturday.

By Jonathan Leask

Experiencing a top tier tennis tournament on their home courts was an exciting prospect for three Mid Canterbury players.

Mid Canterbury Tennis is hosting the New Zealand under 16s tournament this week, and three local players are taking up the opportunity to play in a national event in their own backyard.

However, Christal Brosnahan, Ashleigh Leonard and Aidan Mitchell are under no illusions, knowing the tournament will be a big step up.

“The top players in the country are here so it’s the biggest tournament any of us has played in,” Leonard said.

“It’s more of an experience thing for us and just trying to play our best and see how we go.”

Leonard is in top form this season winning the Gala Cup women’s title for the first time as well as excelling in the local open A grade interclub competition.

Brosnahan won the A reserve title at the Gala Cup but has featured in the open A grade competition throughout the season.

Both players were expecting a tough time but were hoping to at least claim one win.

Brosnahan has drawn Marlborough’s Sarah Maxwell, with the winner set for a date with top seed Sade Atkinson

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SATURDAY High cloud, spots of rain. Gusty northwesterlies easing.

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