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Trust support for taxi firm

By Myles Hume Ashburton Taxis has been given a leg up after controversially losing one of its biggest contracts.

Already one of the company’s biggest sponsors, the Ashburton Trust has got in behind the taxi firm by injecting thousands of dollars of advertising to compensate for the financial loss Ashburton

Taxis faced after losing a contract to transport disabled pupils to schools this year.

Ashburton Taxis general manager Graeme Bentley said it was hard on any business when they lost a contract, but it had been particularly difficult for the taxi company since the Ministry of Education was one of its most prized signatures.

But the support from the

Ashburton Trust was “definitely appreciated”. “It’s a good thing, and in return they do get advertising, so it’s a win-win situation,” Mr Bentley said.

“I think we will be able to stay afloat at this stage, but who knows what will happen in the next 12 months, but we have made operational changes and we’re looking okay.”

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of the ministry contract, Mr Bentley said losing it had been made harder after hearing the new transport provider, Ritchies Bus and Coach, had compromised the safety and welfare of disabled pupils.

Concerns arose two weeks ago following claims the Ritchies bus did not have certified wheelchair restraints, pupils were arriving late to school and were dropped 300400 metres from the learning unit.

Parents have told the Guardian they had no problems with Ashburton Taxis taking their children to school, and have only been concerned about the transport system since Ritchies were awarded the contract this year.

Ashburton Trust chief executive Giles Beal said the financial loss Ashburton Taxis faced prompted the trust to “assist with sponsorship”.

He said the taxi company was vital to Ashburton, pointing out the role it played at the weekends with pub patrons and other services such as transporting locals to the hospital.

Mr Bentley said the trust would have sign-writing on “one or two” more vehicles, and previous agreements had been successful between the two.

Some parents of disabled pupils

had also told the Guardian they had requested for Ashburton Taxis to make a return, but as much as he wanted to, Mr Bentley said it was not that simple.

He said parents would have to pay the taxi fee to get their children to school because Ashburton Taxis no longer held the contract, and transporting them free of charge was not financially viable for a small business.

Rain lifts local farmers’ spirits It is a case of clear gold falling experiencing an extremely dry sumfrom the skies for Mid Canterbury mer, there was good rain around farmers today.

Nelson, Westland and Buller, while MetService duty forecaster Leigh Southland and Otago had moderMatheson said yesterday 10 to 15 ate falls. millimetres of rain would fall in the Most parts of Canterbury and district from last night to today.

Marlborough missed out.

A secondary weather feature in “It’s been reasonably modest the early hours of tomorrow would but it’s quite widespread, which is not be likely to bring much rain to heartening,” MetService forecaster the district, clipping the coast.

Leigh Matheson said.

River levels would be expected “As of tomorrow, (Monday) most to rise after today’s rain, sure parts of the country should have to the music to the ears of Mid seen rain; some more than others.”

Canterbury farmers, most of whom Another anticyclone was forecast are on heavy irrigation restrictions to reach New Zealand tomorrow, in an autumn drought. meaning a return to the dry weathAnd while yesterday’s rain was a er, however, this was followed by welcome relief in Mid Canterbury, another low which could bring rain it will do little to nourish the next weekend.

North Island’s parched paddocks.

Weatherwatch analyst Richard However, it has at least given Green said the North Island needed despondent farmers some respite, 70-100mm of rain to break the and cleaned the dusty grass for drought. hungry cattle.

“But we don’t want that all at It was the most rain the coun- once because the ground is so hard try has seen since the first week it would run off and create floodof February, but not ing. Ideally, we would nearly the 100mm like close to 100mm of needed to break the rain over two to three Finance worst drought in decweeks.” ades.

Federated Farmers’ Minister Bill Keith Kelly said he president Bruce Wills English now said the best thing would need much more sustained rain to get about yesterday’s rain believes his Clevedon sheep was it showed the and beef farm, near the drought relentless string of antiAuckland, back to its cyclones passing over could cost pre-drought condition, the country appeared to but yesterday’s showthe nation’s be broken. ers were certainly welWhile farmers who economy up received 5-10mm of come.

“The only posiwould still be very to $2 billion rain tive aspect is it will much in drought, their put water back in the spirits would be lifted. tanks. It will also help “All it’ll do is bring freshen the grass but it won’t sus- some hope and wash some dust off tain long-term grass growth.” some leaves. It won’t be enough for Nonetheless, he said his stock good grass growth, but at least it’s appeared relieved to have their a start and it’ll start softening up grass rinsed of the dust it had been the soil.” covered in.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Bill He said some farmers were get- English now believes the drought ting desperate, and yesterday’s rain could cost the nation’s economy would be a great relief. up to $2 billion – double the figure “When you’re depressed, when estimated last week. you’re really down, every little bit “The latest advice is that somehelps.” where between $1 billion and $2 Mr Kelly had managed to keep his billion will be knocked off our sense of humour. national income, and as every week “We’re looking forward to the goes by, the prospect of it being $2 cricketers coming up here for the billion instead of $1 billion grows,” test. That’ll guarantee the rain.” he told TVNZ’s Q + A programme.

According to MetService, Taranaki Mr English further warned that through Northland got 5-15mm of the drought could potentially knock rain; lesser amounts fell south of 30 per cent off New Zealand’s the Central Plateau; while Gisborne growth rate in a year. and Hawke’s Bay, aside from the “This underlines for us the imporranges, mostly missed out. tance of our primary production In the South Island, which is also sector,” he said.

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By Susan Sandys Show day in Methven on Saturday was a great success despite coolish conditions with overcast skies.

Thousands turned out for the 99th annual A&P show, which saw gate takings on a par with last year.

High cloud blocked out the sun for most of the day and temperatures failed to reach the forecast 20°C. But no-one seemed to mind, especially competitors undertaking some of the more exerting events such as woodchopping, shearing and the Aorangi Regional Young Farmers’ agrifarm event.

President Rob Withers said highlights included the young farmer contest and the show’s first-ever gift calf auction.

were slightly down on last year, the quality of entries was high.

Mr Withers thanked his committee, members of which had put in much work to have the grounds in top condition for the annual show, including taking out many sheep pens and installing new calf pens.

He said now the association would be gearing up for its centennial show next year.

The committee would be led by Andrew Oram as president, and it would be searching for memorabilia relating to the show over the past 100 years.

“Anything, especially photos,” Mr Withers said, hoping members of the public would have such items and be able to get in touch with the association.

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He said trade space on the day was “chocker” and the food and wine area “hummed along all day”, with visitors entertained by the band Boru.

Arts and craft stalls, rides and side shows were popular, and the top team event saw many teams from local schools compete. Vintage machinery enthusiasts turned out in their dozens for the event, and while horse entries

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AGER, Jeanette Ann (Nett) – On March 16 2013 peacefully at st Allisa Life care Christchurch. Much loved and devoted wife of Kevin (the love of my life). Dearly loved and cherished Mum and Mother in law of Nicola and Edward Ellens, Jo and Chris, and Richard, Much loved Nana of Ben, Mikayla, and Jorja.

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Hundreds of toddlers badly hurt

By Bevan Hurley Early education centres report 85 injuries each year – including amputation, impalings and brain injuries.

Figures released under the Official Information Act reveal 426 “serious harm notifications” were reported over the past five years.

Five toddlers suffered “traumatic amputation”, three were impaled

by foreign objects and six suffered brain injuries. Nearly 60 toddlers sustained bone fractures each year.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said it received many notifications but not all were serious. Regulatory support and design general manager Tracy Mellor said there was a tendency to over-report accidents because of the protective nature of the sector.

However, Labour’s early childhood education spokeswoman Sue

Moroney said the numbers of children getting hurt was alarming.

“I think the Department of Labour should be concerned about the level of serious harm because it’s preventable.” About three-quarters of the injuries resulted from falls.

Tumbles from playground or sports equipment caused 119 injuries.

One early education centre has been prosecuted over a serious injury to a child. In 2008, a Kidicorp daycare centre was convicted of

failing to inform the Department of Labour after Kory Lucas DownieBoyte choked on a piece of apple at Te Awamutu’s Kids To Five.

Meanwhile, an investigation into a toddler who suffered a skull fracture has found a “serious breach” of procedure. Jaden Young had a 6cm fracture after falling at the Unitec Early Learning Centre in Mt Albert in January. His parents were not informed until the next day.

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Tough times for dryland farmer

By Susan Sandys Sheep farmer Ross Chisnall is the only dryland farmer left in his neck of the woods.

Just like throughout the rest of Mid Canterbury, farmers on the east side of State Highway 1 in the Lowcliffe and Hinds areas have installed some form of irrigation over the years.

Mr Chisnall has been farming in the area for decades, and has 1700 breeding ewes and 1000 replacement ewe hoggets, all corriedales.

While corriedales generally prefer drier conditions to wet, this autumn’s dry conditions have taken their toll.

“I don’t like autumn drought, which is what this one is shaping up to be, or will be soon. Summer droughts, you just expect them anyway,” Mr Chisnall said.

Winter feed he had just sown had not had a good start and desperately needed rain, which arrived late yesterday.

“Winter feed can be a problem for me, if we don’t get rain soon we are going to have a shortage of feed for the winter,” Mr Chisnall said.

On Saturday he sowed turnips and grass into bone dry ground,

and hoped the rain would help the seeds germinate. This year’s big dry had come just three years after the last “wicked” autumn drought of 2010. Before that 2001 and 1992 had been drought years.

On the bright side it had been a good spring for growth and he had plenty of hay in storage.

He said he had not installed irrigation over the years as he did not want to put the farm into debt, or have to alter his farming practices.

“I don’t want to start over financially,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Chisnall’s neighbours, who source water from a Lowcliffe drain system, can see the benefits of having no irrigation.

Arable mixed farmer Donald Smyth at Lowcliffe said irrigation created extra work.

“I used to farm without it, that was par for the course before irrigation came in, it was always dry in the autumn and a bit of a struggle.”

But he did not regret installing it on his farm.

“You can see what’s happening up north, everything is wiped out, we are not drought proof, we are proofing against it.

“Irrigation is pretty important as far as the county is concerned, that’s for sure.”

The incidents were among a number of callouts for the district’s fire brigades at the weekend, and the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade in particular was busy.

It was first called out about 11.30pm on Friday to a pile of straw burning on a farm at Frasers Road at Mayfield.

The Mayfield brigade also responded.

Ashburton deputy chief Graeme Baker said the cause of the fire was unknown.

Firefighters left it to burn as it was safe and the farmer said he could look after it.

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Hinds sheep farmer Ross Chisnall drills a paddock of turnips and grass on a rainless Saturday on his dryland property.

Insulation scheme may be scrapped despite success fuels ... We conclude that the dominant benefits (gross and net) of the programme are Treasury has heaped praise attributable to the insulation on a scheme which may be component of the scheme.” scrapped by the Government.

Minister of Energy and The future of a $330 mil- Resources Simon Bridges lion subsidised home heating admitted the initiative was a and insulation scheme is in winner but couldn’t say if it doubt despite tracking ahead would continue in its current of budget and being consid- form. ered a huge success.

Bridges said about 230,000 The Warm Up New Zealand: homes would be retrofitted Heat Smart project began in when the scheme ended in July 2009, offering to pay September. up to a third of the cost to A version of the scheme retrofit insulation which targets and clean heating lower -income into homes built ‘Kids are dying families might before 2000. More be an option, than 200,000 unnecessarily in Bridges said, homes have benbut no decision under-insulated efited from the inihad been made tiative. houses and it to include any The Herald on announcement Sunday – which doesn’t need to in the Budget on campaigned on May 16. happen’ the issue last win“While I underter – has obtained stand this cre- Phil Twyford a glowing ates uncertainty Treasury report for some in the which describes the bene- insulation sector, I want to fits as “almost five times the give an assurance that the resource costs”. The estimates matter is being considered of gross benefits for the pro- carefully.” gramme are about $1.3 billion Labour Party housing compared with the resource spokesman Phil Twyford said cost of just $330 million. the Government should boost The biggest success has the programme. been in the area of health “Kids are dying unnecessarimprovements, which make ily in under-insulated houses up about “99 per cent of the and it doesn’t need to haptotal benefits”. pen.”

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Students heading to Parliament for march

By Myles Hume A plane awaits Carew Peel Forest School pupils tonight, as they make their way to Parliament to raise awareness over the plight of the longfin eel.

For several months, 11 past and present pupils of the school’s Enviroschool club have been rais-

ing money, building their knowledge and heightening awareness over the longfin eel, which they fear could be in danger.

The pupils will join hundreds of children and other concerned New Zealanders, holding a 200-metrelong tapestry of the longfin eel which will be marched to the Parliament tomorrow.

After already contributing a 5m

section to the tapestry, they will also help deliver a petition called ‘Lifeline for Longfins’ to Green MP Eugine Sage with more than 5000 signatures.

Tonight the school pupils will travel to Wellington and stay in a youth hostel before an early morning trip to Te Papa tomorrow and then joining the march.

“We actually met with them (the

children) for lunch the other day, and they’re pretty excited,” Carew Peel Forest School principal Kay Ward said. The school’s pupils have been proactive in their quest, writing to Fisheries Minister at the time Phil Heatley and catching closely related shortfin eels to learn more about the slippery creatures.

Ms Ward said the pupils will be back at school on Wednesday.

Caught with $14,000 of methamphetamine An alleged drug dealer was caught with $14,000 worth of methamphetamine in a crackdown on Canterbury dealers who source the drug from the North Island.

Detective Sergeant Greg Cottam of the Christchurch police organised crime unit said the 50-year-old

man was arrested in Christchurch early on Saturday morning.

He was found in possession of methamphetamine with a street value of $14,000.

The man will be held in custody until he appears in Christchurch District Court today charged with possession of methamphetamine

A car towing a trailer overturned on State Highway 77 at Winchmore about 5.15pm on Saturday, blocking the road.

There were four people in the car and one of the passengers, a male believed to be in his 30s, received a serious head injury and was ambulanced to Ashburton Hospital.

The Ashburton and Methven fire brigades attended, while police closed the road and put a detour in place.

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A car towing a trailer spun 360 degrees in an accident on State Highway 1 at Dromore about 5pm on Sunday.

The Ashburton brigade attended, but the driver had managed to pull to the side of the road and check the trailer was secured before continuing his journey.

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Caregiver Parbin Kaur was under disciplinary action but there was no evidence of negligence.

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for supply. Mr Cottam said the arrest followed an operation targeting methamphetamine dealers who source the drug from the North Island to import into Canterbury.

“Police will continue to target methamphetamine dealers to disrupt the drug trade,” he said.

“This trade has a significant impact on society, with crimes such as burglaries being committed to fund the habits of methamphetamine users.”

Mr Cottam said no one else else was being sought in connection with the operation.

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About 5.20am on Saturday the brigade was called again to a minor car crash at Chertsey, also attended by the Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade.

• False alarms About 12.40pm on Saturday it attended a false alarm callout to Smiths City on Kermode Street, and then at 2.15pm attended a false alarm callout to a controlled fire in a paddock at Rakaia, also attended by the Rakaia brigade.

The 5.15pm car crash callout was followed by a false alarm callout to the Hotel Ashburton about 8pm.

“It gets a bit busy alright,” Mr Baker said yesterday, however Sunday had so far proved quiet with no callouts.

“We don’t normally get a run like that, over the last two weekends we have been busy.”

• Jump on hold High cloud on Saturday put paid to a skydiving jump which was planned by Mid Cantabrian Kara Hall. The wheelchairbound 30-year-old was going to be part of Day in the Sky, bringing skydiving to people in wheelchairs, at Rangitata Island. It would have been her first-ever skydive jump. “I’m hoping that maybe this coming weekend, because it’s supposed to be a real cracker,” she said.

• Struck by truck A 18-year-old was injured when he struck by a truck in Kaikoura early yesterday.

Police said the man, thought to be from the Christchurch area, was hit by a northbound truck and trailer unit on State Highway 1 about 4am. - APNZ

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Quake rattles Auckland A “moderate” 3.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Auckland yesterday was the biggest in the city since February 2007, GeoNet says.

The tremor, which struck at 4.05pm, was five kilometres deep and was centred near Motatapu Island, 15km north-east of the city. GeoNet described its intensity as “moderate”.

“It’s quite rare to get any felt events in Auckland, but occasionally we do have some like this,” said duty officer Nico Fournier.

He said the earthquake did not indicate an increase in volcanic activity under New Zealand’s biggest city, which is dotted with volcanoes.

“Because we have volcanoes in Auckland and then we had this earthquake it doesn’t mean the two are related. There is no indication of that.”

Further earthquakes were possible, he said.

“Usually when you get earthquakes there are aftershocks, so certainly in the next hours or days there is a possibility of further small earthquakes, but right now it’s looking pretty calm.”

Fire Service spokesman Jaron Phillips said the northern communications centre fielded calls about the quake from across Auckland.

“We’ve had quite a few calls actually. No actual damage reported, it’s really just people after a bit of advice, confirming whether it was an earthquake, a little bit of panic,” he said.

“We’re just out of the city in Grey Lynn, and it certainly rocked the building here.”

Mr Phillips said the earthquake had triggered an alarm at a rest home in Howick, but no damage was reported.

He urged people not to clog up emergency lines if they did not need to, but they could call if they had damage to report or needed assistance.

Many people in central Auckland felt the quake.

Blues captain Ali Williams tweeted “That was an earthquake.

Yes in Auckland” and Comedian Rhys Darby tweeted “Yip, just felt an earthquake in AKL”.

Around five minutes earlier GeoNet detected another quake, measuring 3.3. It was centred 25km north-east of Auckland at a depth of 23 kilometres.

Many Aucklanders said they barely felt the first earthquake, but the second quake was much stronger.

Readers who emailed the NZ Herald described it as being like a large truck going past, a gust of wind or a truck colliding with the house.

Bev Hooper of Stanmore Bay said she though the first quake was “a bit odd” but the second quake came as a bigger jolt.

“It felt like a truck had hit the side of the house. Just a hard jolt.”

Paremoremo resident Catherine Casey said she and her husband heard a “massive rumble” about 4.05pm.

“My husband thought it was a gust of wind but we had no wind.

I said I think it was an earthquake ... I am deaf in one ear but it was loud and I felt the vibration. I thought it was a tornado.”

A resident of Rothesay Bay on the North Shore said the second quake lasted from 30 seconds to a minute.

The walls of her lounge moved, shifting a painting, and the cups in front of her rattled loudly.

The earthquake was a first for Glenfield resident Maree Lawson, who has lived on the North Shore her whole life.

“Never experienced anything like that. I was watching a DVD on my bed, then the bed starts shaking like someone was underneath it ... very freaky.”

Sunnynook resident Val said the quakes felt like “a very strong gust of wind shaking the house”. The floor moved rapidly for a few seconds and the cat fled as the house shuddered.

A Torbay resident said her whole room started shaking during the first quake.

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Aorangi Regional Young Farmer Contest winner Matthew Bell, of the Hinds Young Farmers’ Club, excels in the agrisports challenge on Saturday.

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By Susan Sandys Mayfield dairy farm manager Matthew Bell will compete in the national ANZ Young Farmer Contest after winning the regional final at the weekend.

The 26-year-old Hinds Young Farmers’ Club representative beat seven fellow competitors from throughout Aorangi, including foothills club representative Sam Bryan of Methven who came second.

Mr Bell made a spectacular finish in the agrisports challenge at the Methven A&P Show on Saturday, being first over the line, however when quality points were added he was relegated to third.

Other day-time challenges such as a human resource section saw him maintain his ranking in the top three. And at quiz and speech finals that night he went on to blitz the competition.

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To see more or purchase photos He said the agrisports course at the show – which saw competitors put tyres on quad bikes and ride them, hang a gate, chainsaw a mini table and chair out of a log, bob for apples in a trough of water, put a bicycle together and balance on it for 30 seconds, install a k-line irrigation unit and construct a bee hive – was “extremely challenging”.

There was a supportive contingent from the Hinds club watching him, and did not mind when a fountain of water squirted over them as he tapped into the k-line irrigation pipe.

“Go Matt,” they yelled.

Yesterday Mr Bell said his win was “just an awesome feeling”.

“It hasn’t properly sunk it yet.”

His speech on Saturday night was on How Can We Continue Access to Canterbury’s Water Resources? He came second with 11 points, behind Phil Wilson of the Glenavy/Waimate club who got 12 points, but was beginning to notice by that stage he still had the overall lead.

More quiz questions followed and in the last round of 20 quick fire questions he answered three.

“I took my foot off the gas because I didn’t need to answer many questions,” he said.

Mr Bell said he will now relax for one week before training for the national finals, to be held on May 16, 17 and 18 in Auckland.

Mr Bell is relatively new to Mid Canterbury, having moved here to take up his position at Mayfield, managing an 1100 cow farm, in June. He is from Morrinsville originally.

New Zealand Young Farmers chief executive Richard Fitzgerald, himself a Methven farmer, said it was great to see Mid Canterbury shine once again in the contest.

“We have a strong heritage with the contest,” he said.

The current champion is Michael Lilley, representing the Tasman club but who was brought up in Methven. The year before Pendarves farmer Will Grayling was the national champion, while in 2006 John McCaw of Methven took out the title, following Tim Porter of Pendarves in the early 2000s.

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Council should put money where mouth is T

he lead story in Friday’s Guardian raises several interesting points around council spending.

Local signwriting businesses have been frustrated that the council decided to award a contract for rebranding its vehicles to a company outside the district.

The five local signwriters complained that they were not even asked to put in a tender for this particular job and claim that the expenditure contravenes the council policy of using local businesses.

OUR VIEW Some businesses are doing it tough, and watching your own council spend your rates with a company outside the district would seem disappointing.

The council has defended its decision by commenting that they had looked locally, but the offerings were not what the council had in mind.

Instead an outside firm came up with a design that was more acceptable to council staff who subsequently also awarded the

contract to paint the cars.

The council has strict guidelines around how its contracts are awarded and for this particular project was not required to go through the tendering process.

Jobs under $2000 can be signed off by individual staff, anything up to $5000 needs a quote, while anything between $5000 and $20,000 requires competitive quotes.

Technically, the council

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followed the letter of the law, but that does not wash with the local business association.

For them, this particular case is seen as a tip of the iceberg.

They question how much other business is being conducted with

out of town companies, while local rate-paying businesses miss out without even knowing the particular work is available.

Ashburton is not a big town and many businesses rely on the small jobs to make ends meet.

For civil servants dealing with millions of dollars each year, a $4000 contract may not seem worth worrying about, but for a small operator it can make the difference between paying the rent and having to go the bank manager.

It seems odd that the council said it looked locally for the

signwriting contract, but all five local companies say they were unaware the council was looking for someone to carry out the contract.

It would be interesting to see how closely the council considered the local offerings and why it took its business elsewhere.

The council staff dealing with this project may have followed correct procedure, but that does not eliminate the bad taste is has left among local businesses.

While hiding behind their own rules, council bureaucrats once

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again underestimate the power of perception.

Surely, one of the five companies would have been able to come up with an attractive design at an attractive price.

The council has to be commended for trying get the best deal for the ratepayers’ money, but most locals would probably not mind paying slightly more if the money remains in the local economy.

The council promotes local loyalty among shoppers, and should put their money where their mouth is.

YOUR VIEW Stolen scooter To the person that stole my daughter’s MGP purple scooter on Saturday from the gypsy fair, please return it as this was a Christmas present and is much loved. It also has her name engraved on it. Please text me on 0273713004.

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age, vomit, urine pools and now we have to look forward to the re-opening on Tancred Street of the very bar that had constant police presence, lack of proper security and constant fights. The police heaved a sigh of relief when earthquake damage shut down the original bar. Do we really need it back?

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Drinking behaviour As someone who lives right on the edge of the CBD, I thoroughly agree with the complaints of those who say stop dreaming!

There are too many drinking establishments in the town centre. Only two of them demand a standard of behaviour that’s reasonable.

There is very little police are able to do about property dam-

Zac Guildford After the media’s treatment of Zac Guildford, I hope people who work in the media don’t partake!

Why isn’t every 24-year-old kiwi given the same treatment as Zac when they break the law? The media should pick on all youth, not just sportspeople!

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‘Mindless’ arson attack

By Matthew Backhouse A “mindless” arson attack on a scout hall in Wellington could have jeopardised children’s Easter camping plans, the local Scout leader says.

The Karori West Scout Hall on Sunshine Avenue in suburban Karori was extensively damaged by the fire overnight Saturday.

Wellington Scouts zone leader John Saunders said the fire was disappointing for the young people and scout leaders who used the hall.

“It’s totally mindless. I just don’t understand it.”

The hall was regularly used by about 90 youth members, ranging from six-year-old keas through to 15-year-old scouts, as well as adult members.

Mr Saunders said the one

positive was that camping gear inside the hall had not been damaged by the fire.

The gear was essential for Easter camp, which members would be going on in two weeks.

Mr Saunders said the hall could be repaired, according to an initial insurance assessment, but it would be out of action for some time.

“The back wall was damaged, the leaders’ room was basically gutted. The kitchen is gutted and another smaller room has been gutted.”

Detective Sergeant Mike Priston of Wellington police said the offender or offenders went underneath the hall and set fire to part of the floor about 3.30am.

“If anyone has any information about the suspicious fire I would encourage them to come - APNZ forward,” he said.

Laconic Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has left New Zealand with much more to savour than tyre marks on Ninety Mile Beach.

In yesterday’s column for the UK Sunday Times, Clarkson writes: “If you were God and you were all-powerful, you wouldn’t select Bethlehem as a suitable birthplace for your only child because it’s a horrible place. And you certainly wouldn’t let him grow up anywhere in the Holy Land. What you’d actually do is choose New Zealand.

“New Zealand causes anyone to question the wisdom of God. Because if he really were all-knowing, children at Christmas time today would be singing ‘Oh little town of Wellington’ and people would not cease from mental fight until Jerusalem had been built in Auckland’s green and pleasant land.

“Jesus would have been from Palmerston North.

“I’m in New Zealand right now and it really is absolutely stunning; bite-the-back-of-your-handto-stop-yourself-from-crying-out lovely.”

Clarkson was vastly less complimentary about Australia, calling Sydney Harbour “a river”and local photographers “convicts”during a visit last week.

After Palmerston North was tarnished as the country’s suicide capital in a scathing attack by comedian John Cleese eight years ago, word that Clarkson thinks the Manawatu city should be recognised as the birthplace of Jesus

Jeremy Clarkson had mayor Jono Naylor rejoicing.

“Jeremy Clarkson is obviously a very wise man – on this occasion at least,” said Naylor. “Isn’t it good to see there are some enlightened Englishmen after all?”

Naylor reckons the parents of a modern-day Jesus would be opting for a home birth in one of the city’s poorer suburbs rather than booking into the maternity wing of the local Palmerston North Hospital.

“I reckon he would have been born in a state house in Highbury.”

Naylor was happy to publicly bury the hatchet with Cleese.

Cleese, who visited the city during his “My Life, Time and Current Medical Problems”tour, famously wrote: “If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.”

Said a conciliatory Naylor: “Everybody has an off day. So yes, I think we can forgive John Cleese.”

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Mighty River – The numbers game S

o it’s about 350,000 all!

Those who want them, those who don’t. Eyeball to eyeball they confront each other.

Who will be the first to flinch?

The Mighty River share supporters – and “expressers of interest” in buying a swag of them – or the referendum signatories prepared to go to the barricades to prevent a single drop of stateowned moisture passing into the hands of Kiwi mums and dads and, heaven forbid, possibly even Aussie parents too?

The validation process is now in full swing.

Hard cash. Will, as PM, John “I know what I’m doing” Key, fervently hopes, “expressions of interest” turn into hard, over-thecounter cash or will the reality of actually fronting up with the loot deter the mythical mums and dithering dads from signing on the d….d line, and their “interest” vanish in the haze?

Great divide. Simultaneously, across the great divide, the referendum signatures are being microscopically examined by the Clerk of the House – perhaps finger-printed for all I know – to ascertain their genuineness and integrity. As the names of David

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Shearer and Russel Norman are said to be among the wouldbe purchasers of Mighty River shares that would suggest there are jokers about prepared to add names at will, however unlikely. It’s not difficult to append make-believe names to such lists. Family pets are frequently included. Thus, the Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) may well, in the end, turn out to be short of real, anti partial asset sales citizens’ signatures and the overall number fail to make the cut.

Not binding. Unlike Switzerland and California, Kiwi referenda are not binding on the Government of the day but can be merely “noted” as a fairly widely held indication of public opinion on a particular issue.

So even if the numbers signing up prove to be sufficient for

it to pass the test of integrity, the National-led administration will acknowledge the CIR politely but, in the same breath, continue to sell shares in Mighty River and in other power companies to come.

No secret. That at the last election, National made absolutely no secret of its intention – trumpeted it, in fact – partially to sell these SOE (State Owned Enterprise) assets must still be seen as having been some kind of “default referendum” on the matter.

Had such a commitment been universally interpreted as a hugely retrograde step National, surely, would not have obtained the support of 48 per cent of the votes cast and 60 seats to go with it. Then again, perhaps 15 months on is too long ago for such considerations to mean as much as they might have then.

Outcome. The outcome of this numerical confrontation is in the balance. Will those numbers hold up? Will Mighty River retain its apparently powerful appeal and the punters really line up to buy shares in it? Can the anti lobby, even at this late stage, stymie National in its determination to exploit for – they argue – the general good of all New Zealanders,

the resources on offer?

Mighty River and “Mighty Fallen”. Until very recently, as we are all now only too well aware, one of Mr Key’s further potential SOE money-spinners was to have been Solid Energy, the nation’s once impregnable coal company, led by the formidable Dr Don Elder.

It was seen by Messrs Key and English as a particularly brilliant jewel in the SOE crown, of irresistible commercial attraction to all and everyone, whatever their financial status, and certain to bring in vast quantities of golden dollars to the national coffers Alas! Such wealth was not to be. Suddenly, a seemingly mighty asset had fallen foul of an international slump in coal prices – upwards of 40 per cent in just three months – and a series of what turned out to be mistaken investment decisions taken by Dr Elder and his board.

At the time both the fledgling bio-diesel and lignite industries seemed to offer good financial and environmental prospects of the type likely to satisfy the competing philosophies of those who have strong views on such matters – and there are many of

them.

Sadly for us all these cuttingedge activities failed to bring home the bacon and eye-watering losses were sustained.

Now, we are constantly told, Solid Energy is $389 million in debt, facing extinction and taking with it the jobs of many miners from the West Coast and elsewhere in the country.

To rub the proverbial salt into the wound, Dr Elder – now the former CEO – is on what is euphemistically known as “gardening leave” yet still receiving the sort of salary that would keep a mining family in food and the other vitals of life for several weeks.

Messy. It is a messy and unwelcome situation for which the blame is being vigorously sought, with the major parties, Dr Elder and his chairman, John Palmer, and politicians at large joining in vociferously and with passion.

Should the board have seen it coming? Were they complacent?

Was there a policy of greed at work with far too many executives receiving excessive pay packets? Was the Government making unreasonable demands

on the board to borrow more in order to be able to provide a bigger dividend? Are Mr Key and the SOE minister, Tony Ryall, singing from the same song sheet?

Spirited response. The spirited responses offered to the select committee by Dr Elder and Mr Palmer in the face of an avalanche of mostly hostile questions generated by the Opposition was impressive. They seemed to know where they stood.

Genuine apologies were given to the now unemployed miners as was a vigorous defence of decisions made but, with the unbeatable advantage of hindsight, probably should not have been.

At the end of a torrid day, Mr Palmer unequivocally accepted the blame for the collapse of the company while also forcefully praising his former CEO who, he stated, should be admired rather than be subjected to criticism and derision.

Refreshing. In many ways it was quite a refreshing performance by the two men facing their accusers but whether it will be enough to blunt further attacks from the benches opposite seems doubtful Watch the next poll.

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SHEEP STRONG COMBING SECTION Champion Merino Ram: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station Class 1 Merino Ram, 2-shear or over: RJ Brown 1, RJ Brown 2, Class 2 Merino Ram, 1-shear: RJ Brown 1, RJ Brown 2, RJ Brown 3, Class 7 Merino Ram, 2-shear or over: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 2, Class 8 Merino Ram 1-shear: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 2, ENGLISH LEICESTERS Class 26 English Leicester Ram, 1-shear or over: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 2, Class 27 English Leicester Ram lamb, natural condition: Dunfield Farming Co Ltd 1, Dunfield Farming Co Ltd 2, Class 28 English Leicester Ewe, 1-shear or over: Dunfield Farming Co Ltd 1, Class 29 English Leicester Ewe Lamb, natural condition: Dunfield Farming Co Ltd 1, Dunfield Farming Co Ltd 2, CANTERBURY MEAT PACKERS LTD ROMNEY SHEEP Class 37 Romney Ram, 2-shear and over: Felicitiy Gardner 1, Class 40 Romney Ram Lamb, shorn, natural condition: Felicitiy Gardner 1, Felicitiy Gardner 2, Class 41 Romney Ewe, 2-shear or over, must have reared a lamb: Felicitiy Gardner 1, Class 45 Romney Ewe Lamb, shorn, Natural Condition: Felicitiy Gardner 1, Felicitiy Gardner 2, PROVINCIAL LIVESTOCK COMMERCIAL RAM LAMB CLASS Class 50 One Ram lamb, any breed, Sired by a Wool Breed Sire: Felicitiy Gardner 1, Class 51 One Ram Lamb, any breed, Sired by a Prime Lamb Breed Sire.: WS & AK Boon 1, SI & HA Mangin 2, Paul Gardner 3, TEXEL Texel Champion Ram: Paul Gardner Texel Reserve Champion Ram: Paul Gardner Texel Champion Ewe: Paul Gardner Class 56 Ram - 1 shear or over, natural condition: Paul Gardner 1, Class 57 Ram Lamb, natural condition: Paul Gardner 1, Paul Gardner 2, Class 58 Ewe - 1 shear or over, natural condition: Paul Gardner 1, Class 59 Ewe Lamb, natural condition: Paul Gardner 1, SUFFOLKS Suffolk Champion Ram: E.A. Bedford Suffolk Champion Ewe: E.A. Bedford Class 71 Suffolk Ram lamb, natural condition: E.A. Bedford 1, E.A. Bedford 2, Class 72 Suffolk Ewe lamb, natural condition: E.A. Bedford 1, E.A. Bedford 2, SOUTH SUFFOLK South Suffolk Champion Ram: JP & LB Chamberlain South Suffolk Reserve Champion Ram: JP & LB Chamberlain South Suffolk Champion Ewe: JP & LB Chamberlain South Suffolk Reserve Champion Ewe: JP & LB Chamberlain Class 75 South Suffolk - Ram Lamb., natural condition: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, JP & LB Chamberlain 2, Class 76 South Suffolk - 1 pair Ram Lambs, natural conditon: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, P G Wilson 2, Class 78 South Suffolk - Ram, 2 Shear and over, natural conditon: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, Class 79 South Suffolk Ewe lamb, natural conditon: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, JP & LB Chamberlain 2, Class 80 South Suffolk Pair of Ewe Lambs, natural conditon: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, P G Wilson 2, Class 81 South Suffolk Ewe, 1-shear, natural conditon: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, P G Wilson 2, P G Wilson 3, Class 82 South Suffolk Ewe, 2-shear or over, natural condition: JP & LB Chamberlain 1, JP & LB Chamberlain 2, POLL DORSET Class 84 Poll Dorset Ram lamb, natural conditon: WS & AK Boon 1, WS & AK Boon 2, Class 85 Poll Dorset Ewe lamb, natural conditon: WS & AK Boon 1, WS & AK Boon 2, BLACK AND COLOURED SHEEP Class 88 Black & Coloured Ram, 2-shear and over: LP & KE Ponsonby 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, DB Thompson 3, Class 89 Black & Coloured Ram, 1-shear and over: JD & ML Stewart 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, LP & KE Ponsonby 3, Class 90 Black & Coloured Wether, 1-shear and over: JD & ML Stewart 1, S & S Albrey 2, Class 91 Black & Coloured Ram lamb, woolly: LP & KE Ponsonby 1, S & S Albrey 2, LP & KE Ponsonby 3, Class 93 Black & Coloured Ewe, 1-shear strong: JD & ML Stewart 1, S & S Albrey 2, DB Thompson 3, Class 94 Black & Coloured Ewe, 1-shear fine: JD & ML Stewart 1, S & S Albrey 2, Phillippa Sanders 3, Class 95 Black & Coloured Ewe lamb, woolly,strong: DB Thompson 1, LP & KE Ponsonby 2, S & S Albrey 3, Class 96 Black & Coloured Ewe lamb, wooly fine: LP & KE Ponsonby 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, JD & ML Stewart 3, Class 97 Black & Coloured Ewe, 2-shear and over,strong: JD & ML Stewart 1, DB Thompson 2, JD & ML Stewart 3, Class 98 Black & Coloured Ewe, 2-shear and over,fine: Phillippa Sanders 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, LP & KE Ponsonby 3, PRIME LAMB COMPETITION Champion Pen of three lambs: RD & FK Maw Class 99 Three Mutton Crossbred Lambs, shorn or woolley, most suitable for Export.: RD & FK Maw 1, WF & SE Bell 2, RD & FK Maw 3, Class 100 Three Crossbred Lambs, most suitable for export. Wool Breeds.: WF & SE Bell 1, RD & FK Maw 2, CHILDREN’S PETS Class 102 Best Pet amb exhibited and held by a child under 7 years: Kody Owen-Lam Lam 1, Class 103 Best Pet Sheep to be exhibited and led by a

child under 13 years and under.: Jacob StowellSpot 1, Sam Giltrap-Bubbles 2, Jack Giltrap-Dart 3, Class 104 Best Pet Lamb, Shorn or Long Woolled, any breed, to be exhibited: C Morris Jones-Popcorn 1, Angus Stewart-Dotty 2, Jacob Stowell-Lucky 3, Class 106 Pony (not entered

by Exhibitor in Pony Section): Brock Leitis-Patch 1, Emily Dewar-Casper 2, Class 107 Dog or Pup (not entered by exhibitor in Sheep Dog Section): Savannah Stewart-Hannah 1, Cooper Leitis-Chilli 2, Charlie Leitis-Stella 3, Class 108 Any other Pet (excluding Horses, Ponies and Sheep): Samantha Fitzgerald-Guinea Pig 1, Shyan Hughes-Goat Buddy 2, Harper Hughes-Goat Opal 3,

WOOL FINE WOOL Fine Wool Champion: RJ Brown Fine Wool - Reserve Champion: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station Class 109 Fine or Medium Merino Ram: RJ Brown 1, RJ Brown 2, BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 3, Class 110 Fine or Medium Merino Ewe or Wether: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, Class 112 Strong Merino Ram: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, Class 113 Strong Merino Ewe or Wether: BJ Todhunter Cleardale Station 1, Class 115 Corriedale or Halfbreed Ram: SI & HA Mangin 1, Class 117 Flock Ewe or Wether: JD & ML Stewart 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, CROSSBRED WOOL Crossbred Wool - Champion: SI & HA Mangin Crossbred Wool - Reserve Champion: SI & HA Mangin Class 119 Crossbred Ewe, above 30 microns: SI & HA Mangin 1, Class 120 Crossbred Ewe Hogget, shorn as a lamb: SI & HA Mangin 1, SI & HA Mangin 2, Class 121 Lamb Fleece: WF & SE Bell 1, Class 122 Lambs Wool Blend minimum 4 kg to be judged on: WF & SE Bell 1, BLACK AND COLOURED WOOL Class 124 Woolley Hogget fleece, 30 microns or finer: S & S Albrey 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, DB Thompson 3, Class 125 Woolley Hogget fleece, 31 microns and stronger: DB Thompson 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, S & S Albrey 3, Class 126 Mature fleece, 31 microns and finer: LP & KE Ponsonby 1, JD & ML Stewart 2, JD & ML Stewart 3, Class 127 Mature fleece, 33 microns and stronger.: JD & ML Stewart 1, LP & KE Ponsonby 2, JD & ML Stewart 3, GIFT FLEECE COMPETITION Class 128 Fleece, Flock sheep only, to be judged at Judge’s discretion: WHD & SH Ensor 1,

DAIRY GOATS Class 129 Herd Register Doe in Milk under 3 years: S & P Shorten-Kri Kri Melika 1, Class 130 Herd Register Doe in Milk 3 years and over: S & P Shorten-kohinoor TIa Maria 1, Barbara Kennedy-Antrimdowns Jazmine 2, S & P ShortenKriKri Kiribillie 3, Class 131 Herd Register Grand Champion Doe: L Youngman-Kohinoor Creme Brulee 1, M Tomes-Lagooncreek Celestyne 2, Class 132 Associated Record Doe in Milk under 3 years.: M Tomes-Lagooncreek Scarlett Mimi 1, Class 133 Associated Record Doe in Milk 3 years and over: J & M Shackleton-Clovenhoof Jaffa 1, Barbara Kennedy-Antrimdowns Paisley 2, Class 138 Herd Register Best Udder.: M Tomes-Lagooncreek Celestyne 1, S & P Shorten-KriKri Melika 2, L Youngman-Kohinoo Creme Brulee 3, Class 139 Associated Record Best Udder. (Conditions same as Class 138: M Tomes-Lagooncreek Scarlett Mimi 1, Barbara Kennedy-Antrimdowns Paisley 2, Barbara Kennedy-Antrimdowns Frida 3, Class 141 Herd Register Maiden Doe or Goatling.: N. Hofmeester-Amberlight Twilyte 1, L YoungmanKohinoor Creme de la Creme 2, S & P ShortenKriKri Tinka 3, Class 142 Herd Register Doe Kid.: S & P Shorten-krikri Marta 1, Barbara KennedyAntrimdowns Frida 2, S & P Shorten-Krikri Tsumeb 3, Class 143 Associated Record Maiden Doe or Goatling.: Barbara Kennedy-Antrimdowns Pearl 1, J & M Shackleton-Blackforest Juicey 2, Class 144 Associated Record Doe Kid.: M TomesLagooncreek Celesse 1, Barbara KennedyAntrimdowns Paprika 2, N.Hofmeester-Mystique Chicory Star 3, N. Hofmeester-Mystique Clover 3, Class 145 Junior Progeny.: Barbara KennedyAntrimdowns Paprika 1, S & P Shorten-KriKri Tandia & Krikri Tinka 2,

HORSES SADDLE HACK Saddle Hack - Novice Champion: Tracey PierceAvonlea Dream Dancer Saddle Hack - Novice Reserve Champion: N Buick-Blue Mountain Highwayman Saddle Hack - Champion: Jade Farrant-Toyboy Saddle Hack - Reserve Champion: Annabelle Tukia-Burnside Class 146 District Horse: Nikki Winn-Blackies Tolega 1, Grace Callaghan-Warlock 2, Kirstie Gilchrist-Norwester 3, Class 147 Methven Pony Club Challenge Cup: Grace Callaghan-Warlock 1, Class 148 Best Rider on a Saddle Hack: Annabelle Tukia-Burnside 1, Jade Farrant-Toyboy 2, Hollie Robinson-Secret Sam 3, Class 149 Novice Hack - not to have won 3 firsts.: N Buick-Blue Mountain Highwayman 1, Amy Stewart-Constellation 2, Kirstie Gilchrist-Norwester 3, Class 150 Novice Hack - not to have won 6 firsts.: Tracey PierceAvonlea Dream Dancer 1, N Buick-Blue Mountain Highwayman 2, Hollie Robinson-Secret Sam 3, Class 151 Hack not over 163 cm.: Jade FarrantToyboy 1, Nicki Hamburger-Hamstead Olliver 2, Mcdiarmid family-The Bees Knees 3, Class 152 Hack over 163 cm.: Annabelle Tukia-Burnside 1, N Buick-Blue Mountain Highwayman 2, Tracey

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Enjoying the animal section at the Methven A&P show are Georgina Jones and 15-month-old Tyler Dompeling-Jones.

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Ten-year-old Courtney Elliott holds on tight as friend Hannah Stratton, also 10, pushes for the finish line at the Methven A&P Show.

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Ten-year-old Courtney Elliott jumps her way through a top team event.

Pierce-Avonlea Dream Dancer 3, Class 153 Ladies Hack to be ridden by a Lady or Gent: Jade Farrant-Toyboy 1, Annabelle Tukia-Burnside 2, Mcdiarmid family-The Bees Knees 3, Class 154 Best Paced Hack.: Jade Farrant-Toyboy 1, Hollie Robinson-Secret Sam 2, Mcdiarmid family-The Bees Knees 3, Class 155 Best Mannered Hack.: Jade Farrant-Toyboy 1, Hollie Robinson-Secret Sam 2, Amy Stewart-Constellation 3, SADDLE HUNTER Saddle Hunter - Novice Champion: Goldie Lester-Muscorado Saddle Hunter - Novice Reserve Champion: Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane Saddle Hunter - Reserve Champion: Rosa Douglass-Highway 35 Saddle Hunter - Champion: G Lester-Muscorado Class 156 Best Rider on a Saddle Hunter.: Thomas Kerr-Thermopylae 1, P Christie/R Thomson-Just Monty 2, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 3, Class 157 Novice Saddle Hunter - 0 - 3 wins.: Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 1, Sarah Young-El Shiraz 2, Nikki Winn-Blackies Tolega 3, Class 158 Novice Saddle Hunter - 0 - 5 wins.: Goldie Lester-Muscorado 1, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 2, Sarah Young-El Shiraz 3, Class 159 Saddle Hunter - not over 163 cm.: Rosa Douglass-Highway 35 1, Nikki Winn-Blackies Tolega 2, Class 160 Saddle Hunter - over 163 cm.: G Lester-Muscorado 1, Clare PottingerMiss McFarlane 2, P Christie/R Thomson-Just Monty 3, Class 161 Gentlemen’s Saddle Hunter to be ridden by a Lady or Gent.: Thomas KerrThermopylae 1, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 2, Goldie Lester-Muscorado 3, Class 162 Best Paced Saddle Hunter.: Goldie Lester-Muscorado 1, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 2, P Christie/R Thomson-Just Monty 3, Class 163 Best Mannered Saddle Hunter.: Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 1, Thomas Kerr-Thermopylae 2, Goldie LesterMuscorado 3, PARK HACKS Park Hack - Champion Novice: Amy AustinMoulin Rouge Park Hack - Reserve Champion Novice: Emily Fisher-Kadabra’s Short Story Park Hack - Champion: Danielle SimpsonIntegrities Promise Park Hack - Reserve Champion: Bailey/Sarah Lee-Amberleigh Resemblence Supreme Champion: Jade Farrant-Toyboy Class 164 Best Rider on a Park Hack: Bailey/ Sarah Lee-Amberleigh Resemblence 1, Amy Austin-Moulin Rouge 2, Shirley Crawford-Cinnabar 3, Class 165 Novice Park Hack - 0 - 3 wins.: Amy Austin-Moulin Rouge 1, Emily Fisher-Kadabra’s Short Story 2, Shirley Crawford-Cinnabar 3, Class 166 Novice Park Hack - 0 - 5 wins.: Amy Austin-Moulin Rouge 1, Emily Fisher-Kadabra’s Short Story 2, Shirley Crawford-Cinnabar 3, Class 167 Park Hack over 148 cm and not over 153 cm.: Amy Austin-Moulin Rouge 2, Class 168 Park Hack over 153 cm and not over 158 cm.: Danielle Simpson-Integrities Promise 1, Bailey/ Sarah Lee-Amberleigh Resemblence 2, Shirley Crawford-Cinnabar 3, Class 169 Ladies Park Hack may be ridden by Lady or Gent.: Danielle Simpson-Integrities Promise 1, Bailey/Sarah LeeAmberleigh Resemblence 2, Shirley CrawfordCinnabar 3, Class 170 Best Paced Park Hack: Bailey/Sarah Lee-Amberleigh Resemblence 1, Danielle Simpson-Integrities Promise 2, I WilsonMedora Classic Touch 3, Class 171 Best Mannered Park Hack: Danielle Simpson-Integrities Promise 1, I Wilson-Medora Classic Touch 2, Shirley Crawford-Cinnabar 3, RIDDEN STANDARDBRED Ridden Standardbred Champion: Sheree Tomlinson-Aramid Ridden Standardbred Reserve Champion: Chanelle Dickie-Bronze Jay Class 172 Best Rider on a Standardbred.: Angela Henskes-Poeme 1, Chanelle DickieBronze Jay 2, Kerry Blakemore-Tinted Rainbow 3, Class 173 Novice Standardbred - not to have won 6 firsts.: Kylie Boulton-Lyall The Lad 1, Emma Yarnold-Willie 2, Joanne CrossenMonteith’s 3, Class 174 Open Standardbred.: Sheree Tomlinson-Aramid 1, Chanelle DickieBronze Jay 2, Kerry Blakemore-Tinted Rainbow 3, Class 175 Best Paced Standardbred.: Sheree Tomlinson-Aramid 1, Chanelle Dickie-Bronze Jay 2, Kylie Boulton-Lyall The Lad 3, Class 176 Best Mannered Standardbred.: Kerry Blakemore-Tinted Rainbow 1, Angela Henskes-Poeme 2, Sheree Tomlinson-Aramid 3, Class 177 Best Walking Standardbred.: Chanelle Dickie-Bronze Jay 1, Sheree Tomlinson-Aramid 2, Kylie Boulton-Lyall The Lad 3, SADDLE COBS Saddle Cob - Champion: Isabel McArthurJubalee Saddle Cob - Reserve Champion: Lyn Chamberlain-Just Billy Class 178 Best Presented Cob and Rider.: Isabel McArthur-Jubalee 1, Lyn ChamberlainJust Billy 2, Lyn Chamberlain-Lochanvar 3, Class 179 Best Rider on a Cob.: Lyn Chamberlain-Just Billy 1, Lyn Chamberlain-Lochanvar 2, Isabel McArthur-Jubalee 3, Class 180 Cob not over 152 cm.: Isabel McArthur-Jubalee 1, Lyn ChamberlainJust Billy 2, Grace Callaghan-Warlock 3, Class 181 Cob over 152 cm and not over 155 cm.: Lyn Chamberlain-Lochanvar 1, Emma Yarnold-Ancova Monsoon 2, Class 182 Best Paced Cob.: Lyn Chamberlain-Just Billy 1, Isabel McArthur-Jubalee 2, Lyn Chamberlain-Lochanvar 3, Class 183 Best Mannered Cob.: Isabel McArthur-Jubalee 1, Lyn Chamberlain-Lochanvar 2, Lyn Chamberlain-Just Billy 3, STOCK HORSE Class 188 Ridden Stock Horse, to be judged on Walk, Trot, Canter and Rein Back: Lindsey Roberts-Spin N Play 1, Janine Peters-Freddie Mercury 2, Grace Callaghan-Warlock 3, Class 189 Riding Pattern: Lindsey Roberts-Spin N Play 1, Janine Peters-Freddie Mercury 2, Grace Callaghan-Warlock 3, Class 190 Obstacle Class: Lindsey Roberts-Spin N Play 1, Grace CallaghanWarlock 2, Janine Peters-Freddie Mercury 3, Class 191 Best Walking Horse: Grace CallaghanWarlock 1, Janine Peters-Freddie Mercury 2, Linda Hofsteede-Tia Maria 3, SADDLE PONIES

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Fiona Kingsbury of Westerfield gives little Kimberley a kiss at the show on Saturday.

Group A Champion Novice Pony: Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata Group A Reserve Champion Novice Pony: Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha Group A Champion Pony: Kate Read-Farview Free Spirit Group A Reserve Champion Pony: Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata Class 192 District Pony,over 138 cm & not over 148 cm: Belinda Norrie-Hakuna Matata 1, Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 2, Class 193 District Rider - on a Group A Pony: Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 1, Belinda Norrie-Hakuna Matata 2, Class 194 Rider - on a Group A Pony: Emma McCloySunnybrae Aminta 1, Kate Read-Farview Free Spirit 2, Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata 3, Class 195 Novice Pony - 0 - 3 wins.: James WaddellFreelance II 1, Katanya Bishop-Vibe 2, Class 196 Novice Pony - 0 - 5 wins.: Isabella RobertsHakuna Matata 1, Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 2, James Waddell-Freelance II 3, Class 197 Open Pony over 138 cm & not over 143 cm.: Charlotte Waddell-Glencoe Rose of May 1, Class 198 Open Pony over 143 cm and not over 148 cm.: Kate Read-Farview Free Spirit 1, Isabella RobertsHakuna Matata 2, Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 3, Class 199 Best Paced Pony over 138 cm and not over 148 cm.: Kate Read-Farview Free Spirit 1, Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata 2, Emma McCloy-Sunnybrae Aminta 3, Class 200 Best Mannered Pony over 138 cm and not over 148 cm.: Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 1, Emma McCloySunnybrae Aminta 2, Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata 3, Class 201 Best matched and mannered pair of ponies 148 cm and under.: E Chamberlain/H Cuttle-Kennebrook Q 1, E McCloy/E JonesSunnybrae Aminta 2, Class 202 New Zealand Riding Pony Society Class: Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Natasha WaddellGlencoe Millie May 2, C Waddell-Jubilee Regal Outline 3, Group B Champion Pony: Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince Group B Champion Reserve Pony: C WaddellJubilee Regal Outline Class 203 District Pony over 128 cm & not over 138 cm: Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Class 204 District Rider on a Group B Pony (Refer Rule 12).: Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Class 205 Rider - on a Group B Pony: Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Emma Jones-Kennebrook Cameo 2, Dylan Simpson Mabey-Eastdale Allouetta 3, Class 208 Open Pony over 128 cm and not over 133 cm: Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, C Waddell-Jubilee Regal Outline 2, Dylan Simpson Mabey-Eastdale Allouetta 3, Class 209 Open Pony over 133 and not over 138 cm.: Emma Jones-Kennebrook Cameo 1, James Waddell-Pop Goes the Weasle 2, Amy WeastellMahoe Secret Squirrel 3, Class 210 Best Paced Pony over 128 cm and not over 138 cm.: Emma Jones-Kennebrook Cameo 1, Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 2, Amy Weastell-Mahoe Secret Squirrel 3, Class 211 Best Mannered Pony, over 128 cm and not over 138 cm.: Emma Jones-Kennebrook Cameo 1, Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 2, James Waddell-Pop Goes the Weasle 3, Group C Champion Pony: Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May Group C - Reserve Champion Pony: Hamish Kerr-Eastdale Beatrice Class 214 Rider - on a Group C Pony: Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May 1, Hamish KerrEastdale Beatrice 3, Class 217 Open Pony, not over 123 cm.: Hamish Kerr-Eastdale Beatrice 1, Class 218 Open Pony, over 123 cm and not over 128 cm.: Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May 1, Class 219 Best Paced Pony not over 128 cm.: Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May 1, Hamish Kerr-Eastdale Beatrice 2, Class 220 Best Mannered Pony, not over 128 cm.: Hamish KerrEastdale Beatrice 1, Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May 2, Champion Rider: Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q Champion Rider: Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q Novice Champion Hunter Pony: Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse Novice Reserve Hunter Pony: K Miller/Amanda Waddell-Miss Jazz of Rosewood Champion Pace and Mannered Pony: Kate Waddell-Harold George Reserve Champion Pace and Mannered: Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May Champion Open Hunter: Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q Reserve Open Hunter: Kate Waddell-Harold George Class 221 District Hunter Pony - Refer Rule 12.: Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 1, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 2, Class 222 District Rider on a Group D Pony - Refer Rule 12.: Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 1, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 2, Class 223 Rider on a Group D Pony: Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q 1, Kate Waddell-Harold George

2, Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse 3, Class 224 Novice Hunter Pony - 0 - 3 wins.: Philippa FlemingMighty Mouse 1, K Miller/Amanda Waddell-Miss Jazz of Rosewood 2, Class 225 Novice Hunter Pony - 0 - 5 wins.: Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse 1, K Miller/Amanda Waddell-Miss Jazz of Rosewood 2, Class 226 Open Hunter Pony - not over 143 cm: Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse 1, Class 227 Open Hunter Pony over 143 cm and not over 148 cm.: Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 1, Kate Waddell-Harold George 2, Class 228 Best Paced Hunter Pony: Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q 1, Kate Waddell-Harold George 2, Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse 3, Class 229 Best Mannered Hunter Pony.: Kate Waddell-Harold George 1, Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 2, Philippa Fleming-Mighty Mouse 3, Champion First Ridden: Harriet Laing-Sudeley Red Rascal Reserve Champion First Ridden: Molly RudgeRascal Class 230 Best Presented: Eva Simpson-MabyGundagai Perth 1, Harriet Laing-Sudeley Red Rascal 2, Alice Peters-Matiri Rascal 3, Class 231 First Ridden - Novice 0 - 5 wins.: Molly RudgeRascal 1, Eva Simpson-Maby-Gundagai Perth 2, Alice Peters-Matiri Rascal 3, Class 232 First Ridden Open: Harriet Laing-Sudeley Red Rascal 1, Molly Rudge-Rascal 2, Eva Simpson-MabyGundagai Perth 3, Class 233 Best Mannered: Harriet Laing-Sudeley Red Rascal 1, Molly RudgeRascal 2, Eva Simpson-Maby-Gundagai Perth 3, Class 234 Rider 9 years and under. (First Ridden Section only): Harriet Laing-Sudeley Red Rascal 1, Eva Simpson-Maby-Gundagai Perth 2, Alice Peters-Matiri Rascal 3, Champion Leading Rein: Knight Family/ Joely Townley-Chelton Ambitious Reserve Champion Leading Rein: TM Naish/ Vaughan Smart-Dragonwyck Skylark Class 235 Best Presented (Leader, Rider and Pony): Knight Family/ Joely Townley-Chelton Ambitious 1, Cretney Farmily/Ruby ThomasChatsoworth Paparazzi 2, TM Naish/Vaughan Smart-Dragonwyck Skylark 3, Tayla EstreichEllangowan Sensation 3, Class 236 Leading Rein Pony (Conformation and suitability).: Knight Family/ Joely Townley-Chelton Ambitious 1, TM Naish/Vaughan Smart-Dragonwyck Skylark 2, Estella Velenski-Mahoe Touch Wood 3, Tayla Estreich-Ellangowan Sensation 3, Class 237 Leading Rein Pony (Best Learners Pony): Knight Family/ Joely Townley-Chelton Ambitious 1, Estella Velenski-Mahoe Touch Wood 2, TM Naish/ Vaughan Smart-Dragonwyck Skylark 3, Class 238 Best Rider, 4 years and 5 years, on Leading Rein Pony: Annabel Hutton-Jubilee Aorangi 1, Natasha McFarlane-Little Raindrop Petite Fleur 2, Tayla Estreich-Ellangowan Sensation 3, Class 239 Best Rider, 6 years and 7 years, on Leading Rein Pony: Zara Stewart-Hillview Sleeping Beauty 1, Knight Family/ Joely Townley-Chelton Ambitious 2, Cretney Farmily/Ruby Thomas-Chatsoworth Paparazzi 3, UNITY CUPS Class 240 Elfin Trophy. Methven District Unity Competition (Rule 12). Trophy: Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Emily ChamberlainKennebrook Q 2, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 3, Class 241 J.F. Franks Challenge Cup: Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 1, Dylan Simpson Mabey-Eastdale Allouetta 2, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 3, Class 242 Debonaire Challenge Cup (donated by Mrs A.W. Mahoney): Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince 1, Natasha Waddell-Glencoe Millie May 2, Hamish Kerr-Eastdale Beatrice 3, IN HAND Welsh Adult Champion: Dyarne FortuneGundagai Leeweena Welsh Adult Champion: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man Welsh Adult Reserve Champion: Dyarne Fortune-Gundagai Leeweena Welsh Young Stock Champion: P.M. Philips/M Phillips-Ellangowan Champagne Welsh Young Stock Reserve Champion: Ashleigh Royal-Ellangowan Precious Gem Best Welsh Exhibit: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man Class 243 Best Presented Led Welsh Pony and Handler: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man 1, P.M. Philips/M Phillips-Ellangowan Champagne 2, Fiona Gemmell-Jym Aud Dew Drop Mahogany 3, Class 244 Purebred Mare, 4 years and over.: Dyarne Fortune-Gundagai Leeweena 1, Cretney Family/Gundagai Stud-Gundagai Zotoomootoo 2, Sophie Sauer-Sunninghill Mystique 3, Class 246 Pure Bred or Part Bred Stallion - 4 years and over: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man 1, Class 247 Purebred Yearling 2 and 3 year old.: Ashleigh Royal-Ellangowan Precious Gem 1, Philip PeterHollybank Royal Silver 2, P.M. Philips/J PhillipsEllangowan Miss Heidi 3, Class 248 Partbred Yearling 2 and 3 year old.: P.M. Philips/M PhillipsEllangowan Champagne 1, Fiona Gemmell-Jym Aud Dew Drop Mahogany 2, Class 249 Best Paced In Hand Welsh: P.M. Philips/M Phillips-

Ellangowan Champagne 1, Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man 2, P.M. Philips/D. FortuneEllangowan Chardonnay 3, Supreme In Hand Horse: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man Supreme In Hand Horse: Dawn Elliott-Nawarrah Park Lady’s Man Champion Adult In Hand Horse: Amy McMullanSwe Raffealla Champion Adult In Hand Horse: Kate ReadFarview Free Spirit Reserve Champion Adult In Hand Horse: Woodfieldpark Stud-Woodfieldpark Mosaic Champion Led Horse Young Stock: Emma Johnston-Money Talks Reserve Champion Led Horse Young Stock: S Gregory-Estetico Class 250 Best Presented Led Horse and Handler: S Gregory-Estetico 1, Amy McMullanSwe Raffealla 2, Jaye Asher-Bencurren the Rustler 3, Class 251 Best Warm Blood: Amy McMullan-Swe Raffealla 1, Woodfieldpark StudWoodfieldpark Mosaic 2, Class 253 Mare, (4 years and over) most suitable for Breeding,: Amy McMullan-Swe Raffealla 1, Woodfieldpark Stud-Woodfieldpark Mosaic 2, Bencurren StudBencurren the Countess 3, Class 254 Yearling Colt, Filly or Gelding: Woodfieldpark StudWoodfieldpark Herzrauber 1, Class 255 Two and Three year Colt, Filly or Gelding.: Emma Johnston-Money Talks 1, S Gregory-Estetico 2, S Young-Violet 3, Class 256 Best Paced In Hand Horse - Any Age.: Emma Johnston-Money Talks 1, Woodfieldpark Stud-Woodfieldpark Herzrauber 2, Woodfieldpark Stud-Woodfieldpark Mosaic 3, In Hand Young Stock Champion: Sarah Cronin-YS Last Dance In Hand Young Stock - Reserve Champion: Mary Naish-Dragonwyck Kind Regards Supreme In Hand Pony: Sarah Cronin-YS Last Dance Class 257 Best Presented Led Pony and Handler.: Sarah Cronin-YS Last Dance 1, Estreich Family-Stoneybrooke Henry 2, Mary NaishDragonwyck Kind Regards 3, Class 259 Mare, (4 years and over) most suitable for breeding.: Kate Read-Farview Free Spirit 1, Class 261 Two year Filly or Gelding or Colt, not to exceed 146 cm.: Sarah Cronin-YS Last Dance 1, Mary Naish-Dragonwyck Kind Regards 2, P.M. Philips/M Phillips-Ellangowan Champagne 3, Class 262 Three Year Filly or Gelding not to exceed 148 cm.: Sarah Cronin/ Kathryn Kirk-Willowspring Rosetta 1, Estreich Family-Stoneybrooke Henry 2, Class 263 Best Paced In Hand Pony: Debbie WoodsNavarre 1, Sarah Cronin-YS Last Dance 2, Class 264 Pony, any age not exceeding 108 cm - at maturity.: P.M. Philips/J Phillips-Ellangowan Miss Heidi 1, CLYDESDALES Clydesdales and Shires - Champion: Geraldine Cook-Woodbury Rose Clydesdale & Shires - Reserve Champion: Tasmin Cook-Woodbury Lara Class 265 Best Presented Heavy Horse and Handler.: Tasmin Cook-Woodbury Lara 1, Geraldine Cook-Woodbury Rose 2, Class 268 Mare over three years.: Geraldine Cook-Woodbury Rose 1, Tasmin Cook-Woodbury Lara 2, Class 270 Best Walking Horse.: Geraldine Cook-Woodbury Rose 1, Tasmin Cook-Woodbury Lara 2, Class 271 Working single or multiple heavy horse or horses, attached to a sledge or: Geraldine CookWoodbury Rose 1, WORKING HUNTERS JH Muirhead Gentlemen Rider: Shane MaleyLycanthorpe JH Muirhead - Best Lady Rider: Annabel Adams-Viktor M Hunter Champion: Annabel Adams-Viktor M Hunter - Reserve Champion: Britt Patton-Le Merle Class 272 Open Working Hunter, Light Weight.: Sarah Young-Dior Ross 1, Sandra MackenzieUltitate Reward 2, Nikki Winn-Blackies Tolega 3, Class 273 Open Working Hunter, Heavy Weight.: Britt Patton-Le Merle 1, Goldie Lester-Muscorado 2, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 3, Class 274 Novice Hunter - 0 - 5 wins. Height approx 1metre.: Annabel Adams-Viktor M 1, Clare Pottinger-Miss McFarlane 2, Goldie Lester-Muscorado 3, Class 275 DAVID HOOD CONTRACTING - Hunter Light Weight.: Sarah Young-Dior Ross 1, Hayley Curd-Blastor 2, Annabel Adams-Viktor M 3, Class 276 NEUMANNS TYRES - Hunter - Heavy Weight.: Britt Patton-Le Merle 1, Elizabeth BellDouble Bass 2, Shane Maley-Lycanthorpe 3, Class 277 TAMAR FARM - Open Hunter: Annabel Adams-Viktor M 1, Britt Patton-Le Merle 2, Sarah Young-Dior Ross 3, PONY HUNTERS - NORTHERN RING Pony Hunter Champion: Amy Weastell-Zsa Zsa Pony Hunter - Reserve Champion: Georgie Goodworth-Tui Hills Copper Abbie Class 278 Beginner Pony Hunter - 12 years and under.: Lily Peters-Dalmar Rhinestone 1, Charlotte Roberts-Glenmoor Gypsy Prince 2, Class 279 Novice Pony Hunter, 148 cm and under - 0 - 5 wins.: Georgie Goodworth-Tui Hills Copper Abbie 1, Emma McCloy-Sunnybrae Aminta 2, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 3, Class 280 Open Pony Hunter, 138 cm and under.: Amy Weastell-Mahoe Secret Squirrel 1, Class 281 Open Pony Hunter, over 138 cm and not exceeding 148 cm.: Amy Weastell-Zsa Zsa 1, Georgie Goodworth-Tui Hills Copper Abbie 2, Emma McCloy-Sunnybrae Aminta 3, Class 282 Novice Hack Hunter not to have won a first prize.: Olie Body-Freedie Mercury 1, Ward Family-Holmslee Entergrity 2, James Sheate-Phantom Power 3, HORSE AND PONY SHOW JUMPING Class 283 ANDREW JACKSON CONTRACTING LTD - Open Pony 95 cm: Georgie Goodworth-Tui Hills Xopper Abbie 1, Class 284 CANTERBURY VETS Training Horse max 95 cm TAM5 Art 238 2.2: Emma Johnston-Templar Knight of Renton 1, Sarah Young-Dior Ross 2, Clare PottingerJack Flash II 3, Class 285 ANDREW JACKSON CONTRACTING LTD -: Georgie Goodworth-Tui Hills Copper Abbie 1, Class 286 BACK TRACK DAIRIES - Open Horse 1.05 mtr TAM5 Art 238 2.2: Clare Pottinger-Tonka Toy 1, Ian Bell-Union Jack 2, Anna Douglass-Young Pretender 3, Class 287 ATLAS CONTRACTING - Open Horse. 1.15 mtr TAM5 Art 238 2.2: Elizabeth Bell-Double Bass 1, Hayley Curd-Totally 2, Elizabeth Bell-Mr Benetton 3, Class 288 ATLAS CONTRACTING OPEN HORSE 1.15 mt TAM2 Art 238 2.1: Elizabeth Bell-Mr Benetton 1, Thomas Kerr-Magic Moments 2, Elizabeth Bell-Double Bass 3, Class 289 CANTERBURY VETS - Open Horse 1.05 mt TAM2 Art 238 2.1: Anna Douglass-Young Pretender 1, Ian Bell-Union Jack 2, Danielle Simpson-Bartolo 3, Class 291 WITHERS FARM - Training Horse max 95 cm TAM2 Art 238 1.2: Emma Johnston-Templar Knight of Renton 1, Emma Johnston-Mind the Gap 2, Georgie Goodworth-Frodo 3, PONY SHOW JUMPING Class 293 Training Pony max 65 cm TAM5 Art 238 2.2. (Instant Jump off): Emma McCloySunnybrae Aminta 1, Lily Peters-Dalmar Rhinestone 2, Annabelle Velenski-Glenridick McKenzie 3, Class 294 TINWALD CANVAS & UPHOLSTERY - Training Pony max 75 cm TAM5: Lily Peters-Dalmar Rhinestone 1, Emma McCloy-Sunnybrae Aminta 2, James WaddellFreelance II 3, Class 295 Open Pony 85 cm - TAM5 Art 238 2.2. (Instant Jump off): Amy Weastell-Mahoe Secret Squirrel 1, Emma McCloySonnybrae Aminta 2, Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 3, Class 296 Training Horse TAM5 85 cm. Art 238 2.2. (Instant Jump off): Amy Stewart-Architect 1, Sarah Sauer-My Kennybrook Dundee 2, James Sheate-Phantom Power 3, Class 297 Training Horse TAM2 85 cm. Art 238 2.1: Sarah Sauer-My Kennybrook Dundee 1, Amy Stewart-Architect 2, James Sheate-Phantom Power 3, Class 298 Open Pony 85 cm. TAM2 Art 238 2.1: Amy WeastellMahoe Secret Squirrel 1, Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 2, Isabella Roberts-Phoenician Red Sunset 3, Class 299 METHVEN MOTOR SERVICES LTD - Training Pony max 75 cm: Heidi Cuttle-Strictly Kosha 1, Isabella Roberts-Hakuna Matata 2, Annabelle Velenski-Glenridick McKenzie 3, Class 300 Training Pony 65 cm TAM2 Art 238 2.1: Annabelle Velenski-Glenridick McKenzie 1, Emily Chamberlain-Kennebrook Q 2, Charlotte RobertsGlenmoor Gypsy Prince 3,

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Monday, March 18, 2013

METHVEN A&P SHOW RESULTS

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Prize winning ponies and their riders show the spoils of their success at the Methven A&P Show.

Best Male Bird: Duncan Callaghan Best Female Bird: M Rogers Class 302 Game, Female: M & G Barr 1, M & G Barr 2, Class 309 Silkie, Male: Duncan Callaghan 1, Class 310 Silkie, Female: Duncan Callaghan 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Class 311 Any other light Breed, Male: J & D Elms 1, Class 312 Any other light Breed, Female: Will GoudiePom Pom - Houdan pullet 1, J & D Elms 2, J & K Taylor 3, Class 316 Orpington, Female: Will Goudie-Jan 1, Class 318 Rhode Island Red, Female: Duncan Callaghan 1, Class 319 Sussex, Male: S Parsons-1 1, J & D Elms 2, Class 320 Sussex, Female: J & D Elms 1, Sarah Dodge 2, Class 321 Wyandotte, Male: J & D Elms 1, Class 322 Wyandotte, Female: J & D Elms 1, Class 323 Any other Heavy Breed, Male: S Parsons-1 1, S Parsons-1 2, Class 324 Any other heavy Breed Female: S Parsons-1 1, S Parsons-1 2, Best Duck: M Redmond/S Dodge Class 325 Game Male: J & K Taylor 1, Class 326 Game Female: J & K Taylor 1, M & G Barr 2, M & G Barr 3, Class 327 Rosecomb Male/Female: M & G Barr 1, M & G Barr 2, Duncan Callaghan 3, Class 328 Pekin, Male: M Rogers 1, M Rogers 2, J & K Taylor 3, Class 329 Pekin, Female: M Rogers 1, J & K Taylor 2, M Rogers 3, Class 330 Wyandotte Male: Duncan Callaghan 1, J & D Elms 2, J & D Elms 3, Class 331 Wyandotte Female: M & G Barr 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, J & D Elms 3, Class 332 Any other Variety, Male: M Rogers 1, Class 333 Any other Variety, Female: M Rogers 1, M & G Barr 2, J & K Taylor 3, Class 334 Any variety, Drake: M Redmond/S Dodge 1, J & D Elms 2, Duncan Callaghan 3, Class 335 Any Variety, Duck: Duncan Callaghan 1, Grand Champion Exhibit: M Rogers Class 337 Large Fowl, Female: Charlie Morris 1, Class 338 Bantam, Male: Georgina Hemsley 1, Charlotte Roberts 2, Class 339 Bantam, Female: Charlotte Roberts 1, Maddison Taylor 2, Class 340 Duck: Duncan Callaghan 1, Class 341 Drake: Duncan Callaghan 1,

TECHNOLOGY Supreme Premier Exhibit in Pavilion: Ben ToddKiwi Premier Exhibit Wine and Beer: Marius Cabout Premier Exhibit Wine and Beer: Bruce Williams Class 395 Fruit Wine Dry Red: Marius Cabout 1, Marius Cabout 2, Class 396 Fruit Wine Dry White: Marius Cabout 1, Marius Cabout 2, Class 397 Fruit Wine Sweet Red: Marius Cabout 1, Marius Cabout 2, Class 398 Fruit Wine Sweet White: Marius Cabout 1, Marius Cabout 2, Class 399 Vegetable Wine: Marius Cabout 1, Class 403 Ale: Marius Cabout 1, Class 404 Lager: Marius Cabout 1, Class 405 Stout: Bruce Williams 1, Marius Cabout 2,

PRODUCE AND PRESERVES Premier Exhibit - Produce and Preserves: DA Hill Class 406 Three Hen Eggs, judged by weight & condition, white, single yolk.: Glenys Rapsey 1, Lyn Chamberlain 2, Class 407 Three Hen Eggs, judged by weight & condition, tinted, single yolk. One egg: Shyan Hughes 1, Liz Giltrap 2, Markus Body 3, Class 408 450 grams Pot of Jam Microwave made: Glenys Rapsey 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Class 409 450 grams Pot of Apricot Jam: Glenys Rapsey 1, DA Hill 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 410 450 grams Pot of Blackcurrant Jam: DA Hill 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, J.V. McLaughlin 3, Class 411 450 grams Pot of Raspberry Jam: Annette M Maw 1, DA Hill 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 412 450 grams Pot of Strawberry Jam: DA Hill 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 413 Collection of Jams, 450 gram Pots, 3 varieties (not mixed fruits): Glenys Rapsey 1, J V Thomson 2, J.V. McLaughlin 3, Class 414 Jar of Lemon Honey: Glenys Rapsey 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, J.V. McLaughlin 3, Class 415 450 grams Pot of Marmalade: Glenys Rapsey 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, DA Hill 3, Class 416 Jar of Jelly, any Variety: J V Thomson 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 418 1 Jar ofPickles, and 1 Jar of Chutney: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, Class 419 1 Jar of Pickle Vegetables: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Class 420 1 Jar of Fruit Chutney: Glenys Rapsey 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, J.V. McLaughlin 3, Class 421 1 Bottle of Tomatoe Sauce: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Adrienne Richards 2, DA Hill 3, Class 422 1 Bottle of Plum Sauce: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, J V Thomson 3, Class 423 1 Jar of Relish: Glenys Rapsey 1, D Grant 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 424 1 Jar of Tomato Relish: DA Hill 1, Annette M Maw 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 425 1 Bottle of Preserved Gherkins: Annette M Maw 1, Class 426 Sweet Sauce in Presentation Bottle: Annette M Maw 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Class 427 1 Jar of Pickled Onions: Deidre Grant 1, Class 428 1 Jar of Tomato Soup: Annette M Maw 1, Class 431 Any other condiment: DA Hill 1, N.M. McLaughlin 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 432 1 Herb Bottle: J.V. McLaughlin 1, N.M. McLaughlin 2, Class 433 Gift basket with 6 items from Produce & Preserves section: N.M. McLaughlin 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Annette M Maw 3,

KNITTING Premier Exhibit Knitting: Joy Wilson Class 435 Baby’s Knitted Booties, in Wool: Joy Wilson 1, Class 436 One Baby’s Garment, or Article, knitted in Wool: Joy Wilson 2, Class 438 Garment in Double Knit, patterned: Joy Wilson 1, Class 439 Any Garment in 4 ply Wool: Joy Wilson 1, Class 441 Garment not double knit or four ply: J V Thomson 1, Rachel Pilling 2, J V Thomson 3, Class 442 Hat, any ply, Knitted, any medium.: J V Thomson 1, Joy Wilson 2, Colleen Pinfold 3, Alison Hydes 3, Class 443 Scarf, any medium.: Alison Hydes 1, Alison Hydes 2, Joy Wilson 3, Class 444 Socks, any ply, knitted, any medium.: Maureen Puckett 2, Class 445 Home-

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To see more or purchase photos made Soft Toy, knitted or crocheted, soft eyes Wool labels: Kehi Jufer 2, Class 446 Best Dressed Doll, garments may be knitted or crocheted: Joy Wilson 1, Joy Wilson 2, Class 447 Blanket, knitted or crochet, any mediums: Angelie Moore 1, Joy Wilson 2, Joy Wilson 3, Class 448 1 Peggy Square, wool labels not necessary: Joy Wilson 1, Joy Wilson 2, Adrienne Richards 3, Class 449 Crochet Article or Garment.: Angelie Moore 1, Class 450 Handspun, Handknitted Jersey. Sample of Fleece attached.: Jenny Evans 1, Jenny Evans 3, Class 451 Handspun, Handknitted Hat. Sample of Fleece attached.: Jenny Evans 1, Jenny Evans 3, Class 452 Handspun, handknitted baby garment or article. Sample of fleece attached: Jenny Evans 2,

ARTS AND CRAFTS Premier Exhibit - Arts and Crafts: Maureen Puckett Class 453 Pin Cushion: Elsa Hydes 1, J V Thomson 2, Class 454 Home made Soft Toy or Doll, not knitted or crocheted,: Maureen Puckett 1, Angelie Moore 2, Class 456 Christmas Decoration under 20 cm.: Elsa Hydes 1, Maureen Puckett 2, Alison Hydes 3, Class 457 Christmas Decoration over 20 cm.: Shari Early 1, Maureen Puckett 2, Fran Brown 3, Class 458 Collection of Hand Work, three Articles, distinct varieties: Lynley Pluck 1, Elsa Hydes 2, Class 459 Wall Hanging, any size, any medium, not patchwork.: Maureen Puckett 1, Elsa Hydes 2, Angelie Moore 3, Class 461 Article of Folk Art.: Maureen Puckett 1, S.A. Redmond 2, Class 463 Article of Decoupage larger than 30 cm.: Janine Peters 1, Class 464 Article made from Furnishing fabric: J V Thomson 1, Class 465 Hand made Birthday card (Tutors/Instructors exempt): Lynley Pluck 1, Rachel Moore 2, Angelie Moore 3, Class 466 Hand made Card: Lynley Pluck 1, Fran Brown 2, Joy Wilson 3, Class 467 Hand Made Baby Card for Tutors/Instructors.: Elsa Hydes 1, Elsa Hydes 2, Elsa Hydes 3, Class 468 Hand Made Card for a Male, any medium, Tutors/ Instructors exempt: Lynley Pluck 1, Fran Brown 2, Angelie Moore 3, Class 469 An Article of Craft not otherwise specified in any section: Marie Den Baars 1, Alison Hydes 2, Lynley Pluck 3, Class 470 Cushion - not patchwork: Fran Brown 1, Shari Early 2, J V Thomson 3, Class 471 Something new from something old.: Kehi Jufer 1, Class 472 An Article of Craft not otherwise specified, e.g.

Pottery, Ceramics, Wood: Rachel Moore 1, Elsa Hydes 2, Elsa Hydes 3, Class 473 Scrapbooking - Page layout maximum 2 page spread: WP & MK Den Baars 1, Alison Hydes 2, Lis Butterick 3, Class 474 Scrapbooking - 12” x 12” Maximum double Spread.: Alison Hydes 1, WP & MK Den Baars 2, Alison Hydes 3, Class 774 Christmas Decoration over 20 cm Paper: Angelie Moore 1, Angelie Moore 2, Elsa Hydes 3,

PAINTING Premier Exhibit - Painting: Rebecca Hawkes Class 477 Painting in Water Colours, any subject: Olie Body 1, Class 478 Painting in any other medium (Acrylic, Pen & Ink, Collage. Not mixed.: Maureen Puckett 1, Colleen Pinfold 2, Colleen Pinfold 3, Class 479 Abstract, or interpretive in any medium.: Olie Body 1, Class 480 Novice, any medium, 6 years and under: Craig Glass 1, Isabella Casey Solly 2, Louis Kiamtia-GreenVolcano 3, Class 481 Novice, any medium, 7 -10 years: Gus Casey Solly 1, Lauren Pluck 2, Class 482 Novice, any Medium. 11 - 14 years: Samantha Fitzgerald-Guinea Pig 1, Vicki Pluck 2, Class 484 Drawing, any medium, 6 years and under: Lucy Reeve 1, Sarah Reeve 2, Class 485 Drawing, any medium. 7 - 10 years.: Lilly Goodwin 1, Hayden Dove 2, Sam Cuttle 3, Class 486 Drawing, any medium. 11 -14 years: Ben Wakelin 1, Georgia Middleton 2, Sam Fitzgerald 3, Class 487 Drawing, any medium. 15 - 18 years: Mikali Laylor 1, Megan Fitzgerald 2, Mikali Laylor 3, Class 489 Painting, any medium, 7 - 10 years: Lilly Goodwin 1, Zinzan Goertzen 2, Hayden Dove 3, Class 490 Painting, any medium, 11 - 14 years.: Hannah Wakelin 1, Maysie Willis 2, Hannah Wakelin 3, Class 491 Painting, any medium, 15 18 years.: Rebecca Hawkes 1, Rebecca Hawkes 2, Rebecca Hawkes 3,

NEEDLEWORK AND HANDWORK Premier Exhibit - Needlework & Handwork: Maureen Puckett Class 497 Apron, Machine made: Joy Wilson 1, Class 499 Child’s Dress or Pinafore, Machine made, (suitable for child under: Deidre Grant 1, Class 501 Nightdress or Pyjamas: Annette M Maw 1, Deidre Grant 2, Class 503 A Specimen of Smocking: Deidre Grant 1, Deidre Grant 2, Deidre Grant 3, Class 506 Hand made Bag, machine allowed.: Maureen Puckett 1, Class 507 Hand Embroidery Article: Maureen Puckett 1, Kehi Jufer 2, Class 509 Article of Hardanger.: Deidre Grant 1,

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Watching the grand parade roll on by are Sasha Crawford, 11, and Tristan Crawford, Horses were a big part of the grand parade at the Methven A&P Show 3. on Saturday.

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Nathan Johnstone, 10, takes part in the top team event at the Methven A&P Show.

Class 513 Bed Quilt in Patchwork, to be hand or machine made. Quilting allowed: Maureen Puckett 1, Kehi Jufer 2, Lis Butterick 3, Class 514 Article in Patchwork, to be hand or machine made. Quilting allowed.: Maureen Puckett 1, Fran Brown 2, Shari Early 2,

JUNIOR ARTS & CRAFTS Premier Exhibit - Junior Arts and Crafts: Hannah Wakelin Class 518 Article made of Paper only 8 years and under: Todd McCloy 1, Zanthe Butterick 2, Class 519 Article made of Paper only, 9 - 11 years: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Gus Casey Solly 2, Class 521 Article made of fabric, e.g. soft toy, 10 years & under: Lauren Pluck 1, Jessica Hydes 2, Class 522 Article made of fabric, e.g. soft toy, 11- 14 years: Hannah Wakelin 1, Vicki Pluck 2, Ben Wakelin 3, Class 523 Article of Embroidery, unframed. 10 years & under: Todd McCloy 1, Class 525 Article of Embroidery, framed. 10 years & under: Todd McCloy 1, Class 527 Christmas or Easter decoration. 10 years & under: Lauren Pluck 1, Todd McCloy 2, Zanthe Butterick 3, Class 528 Christmas or Easter decoration. 11 - 14 years: Maysie Willis 1, Sarah Holland-Christmas Decoration 2, Class 529 Article of Folk Art. 10 years & under: Todd McCloy 1, Class 531 A Hobby collection, e.g. shells, weeds, stamps, no larger than 50cm square.: Hannah Wareing 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 532 A Hobby collection, e.g. shells, weeds, stamps, no larger than 50 cm square: Christopher Wareing 1, Class 534 Any Craft not already specified. 10 years & under: Angus Stewart 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 535 Any Craft not already specified. 11 - 14 years: Maysie Willis 1, Hannah Wakelin 2, Ben Wakelin 3, Class 536 Creative waste, 8 years & under: Jack McKenzie 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 538 Creative waste, 12-14 years: Maitreya Hesketh 1, Maitreya Hesketh 2, Hannah Wakelin 3, Class 539 Wearable Arts.: Hannah Wakelin 1, Abbey Wright 2, Class 540 Hand Made Craft - 8 years and under.: Todd McCloy 1, Isabella Casey Solly 2, Nicole Moore 3, Jessica Moore 3, Class 543 Hand Made Card - 8 years and under - no paper.: Nicole Moore 1, Todd McCloy 2, Nicole Moore 3, Class 544 Hand Made Card, 9 - 11 years - no paper: Jessica Hydes 1, Lauren Pluck 2, Class 545 Hand Made Card, 12 - 14 years - no paper.: Sarah Holland-Handmade Card 1, Vicki Pluck 2, Class 546 Stamped Handmade Card, 8 years and under- no paper: Todd McCloy 1, Class 547 Stamped Handmade Card, 9 - 11 years. - no paper.: Jessica Hydes 1, Lauren Pluck 2, Class 548 Stamped Handmade card, 12 - 14 years. - no paper.: Maysie Willis 1, Sarah Holland-Stamped Handmade Card 2, Class 549 Scrapbooking single page - 11 - 13 years: Sarah HollandScrapbooking - Single page 1,

COOKERY Class 558 Three Bran Muffins: Sabrina Read 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 559 Three Savoury Muffins.: Glenys Rapsey 1, J V Thomson 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 560 Three Sweet muffins: S.A. Redmond 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, Class 561 Fruit & Nut Loaf, must be baked in Open Tin: Glenys Rapsey 1, Sarah Lock 2, DA Hill 3, Class 563 Two Varieties Plain Biscuits, three of each: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Class 564 Three Plain Oven Scones: DA Hill 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Katherine Glass 3, Class 565 Three Sweet Scones.: katherine Glass 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Kate McCly 3, Class 566 Three Savoury Scones.: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Class 567 Three Pikelets: Katherine Glass 1, Sizie Grieve 2, DA Hill 3, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 569 Three pieces Shortbread: Katherine Glass 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 570 Three Belgium Biscuits: Glenys Rapsey 1, N.M. McLaughlin 2, J V Thomson 3, Class 571 Three Afghans: Sarah Lock 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Rachel Moore 3, Class 572 Three pieces of cooked Slice, any variety: Glenys Rapsey 1, Claudine Campbell-Three pieces of uncooked slice, any variety 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, S Andrew 3, Class 573 Three pieces of Apple Shortcake: S.A. Redmond 1, Class 575 Three pieces Uncooked Slice, any variety: Glenys Rapsey 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Katherine Glass 3, Class 576 Three Chocolate Chip Biscuits:

J V Thomson 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Kate McCloy 3, Class 577 Chocolate Cake, baked in a square tin.: S.A. Redmond 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, Class 578 Novice - Chocolate Cake, baked in square tin.: Katherine Glass 1, Stacey Monson 2, Rhys Fitzgerald 3, Class 579 Men Only - Chocolate Cake, baked in a square tin.: W Andrew 1, Ben Todd 2, Dave Alderson 3, Class 580 Banana Cake, Iced.: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Katherine Glass 3, Class 581 Carrot Cake, uniced. (No fruits or nuts to be used in recipe): N.M. McLaughlin 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Jackie Todd 3, Class 582 Sultana Cake.: DA Hill 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 583 Plain Sponge: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Class 584 Three Truffles, any recipe.: S.A. Redmond 1, Catherine Hughes 2, Glenys Rapsey 3, Class 586 Three pieces of Confectionary: Catherine Hughes 1, Class 587 Pizza - Open Class: Glenys Rapsey 1, J.V. McLaughlin 2, Class 589 Gluten free cake - any recipe: Glenys Rapsey 1, Catherine Hughes 2, Class 590 Gluten free slice - any recipe: Glenys Rapsey 1, Class 591 Gluten free cookie - any recipe: Catherine Hughes 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, Class 592 A healthy snack bar - any recipe: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Glenys Rapsey 2, J V Thomson 3, Class 594 One Loaf of Bread - Mixed Grain: J V Thomson 1, Alison Hydes 2, JUNIOR COOKERY 14 YEARS AND UNDER Premier Exhibit - Junior Cookery: Zinzan Goertzen Class 595 Healthy Lunch, packed, must include bread product. 7 years and under: Floyd Lister 1, . 2, . 3, Class 597 Healthy Lunch, packed, must include bread product. 11 -14 years.: Douglas Richards 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Class 599 3 Chocolate Brownies: William Callaghan 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Class 600 3 Chocolate Chip Biscuits: Jack McKenzie 1, Ben Todd 2, Maximus Hellyer 3, Class 601 Chocolate Cake: Duncan Callaghan 1, Juliet Campbell-Chocolate Cake 2, Leap Ahead Early Childhood Cen 3, Class 602 3 Muffins any variety. 10 years & under: Jack McKenzie 1, Class 603 3 Muffins, any variety. 11-14 years.: William Callaghan 1, William Callaghan 2, Class 604 Three Pikelets: Sam Wright 1, Floyd Lister 2, Estella Lister 3, Class 605 Three scones, any variety: Joe Todd 1, William Callaghan 2, Duncan Callaghan 3, Class 606 A Pizza Pie, homemade base, open.

Entries in this Class will be: William Callaghan 1, William Callaghan 2, Joe Todd 3, Class 607 3 Truffles: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Class 608 One Loaf of Plain Bread, made in Breadmaker: Ben Todd 1, Class 609 One Loaf of Wholemeal Bread, made in Breadmaker: Joe Todd 1, Class 612 Three Pieces of Lolly Cake: William Callaghan 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Class 613 Three Homemade Breadrolls or buns, any variety.: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Joe Todd 2, Ben Todd 3, Class 614 One Giant Cookie no bigger than 25 cm: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Annalise Early 2, Ben Todd 3, Class 615 Three Big Cookies no bigger than 15 cm.: Joe Todd 1, Annabel Glass 2, Class 617 Decorated Cup Cake - 5 - 7 years: Juliet Campbell-Decorated Cup Cake - 5-7 years 1, Jessica Moore 2, Annabel Glass 3, Class 618 Decorated Cup Cake - 8 - 10 Years: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Hayden Dove 2, Class 620 Three pieces of uncooked slice - any variety: Lauren Pluck 1, Byron Campbell-Three pieces of uncooked slice, any variety 2, Isabella Roberts 3,

WORKSHOP CRAFT Premier Exhibit - Workshop Craft: Henry Dewhirst Class 622 Bug Thermometer. Year 7.: Rosemary Taggart 1, Loralie Nacis 2, Simon Harford 3, Class 623 :Ladder Skills: Sophie Cornelius 1, Georgina Holesworth 2, Class 624 Tray. Year 8: Mia Bitr 1, Rory Posa 2, Michelle Ingham 3, Class 625 Mechanical Toy. Year 8,: Shae Cornelius 1, Annalise Early 2, Class 626 Container. Year 9: William Jessep 1, Ben Todd 2, John Leslie 3, Class 628 Small Cabinet. Year 10: Karla Burly 1, Class 629 A Piece of Furniture. Year 11: Nicole Purdon 1, Heath Fulton 2, Class 630 A piece of Furniture. Year 12: Henry Dewhirst 1, Julia Batt 2, Class 631 An Article of Wood Turning - Open: Ben Todd 1, Class 634 Farmyard Junk - 10 years and under: Jack McKenzie 1, Charlie McIntosh 2, Class 635 Farmyard Junk - 11 to 18 years.: Sam Wright 1, Joe McIntosh 2,

Premier Exhibit - Technology: Ben Todd-Kiwi Class 636 Meccano Model 10 years and under.: Todd McCloy 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 637 Meccano Model, 11 - 14 years.: Joe McIntosh 1, Charlie McIntosh 2, Joe McIntosh 3, Class 638 Working Meccano Model, 16 years and under.: William Rudge 1, Class 639 K-nex Model, 7 years and under.: Todd McCloy 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 642 Basic Lego Model, 7 years and under.: Craig Glass 1, Fergus Middleton 2, Toby Griffiths 3, Class 643 Basic Lego Model, 8 - 10 years.: Christopher Wareing 1, Jack Giltrap 2, Emma Begg 3, Class 644 Basic Lego Model, 11 - 14 years: Duncan Callaghan 1, Rory Posa 2, Daniel Blackburn 3, Class 645 Technic Lego Model, 8 - 10 years.: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 646 Technic Lego Model, 11 - 12 years.: Matthew Hydes 1, William Rudge 2, Class 649 Junior Engineering Model, 9 years and under.: Todd McCloy 1, Class 651 Plastic Kit Set Model, 10 years and under.: Liam Stephens 1, Todd McCloy 2, Gus Casey Solly 3, Class 653 Any other Model, not already specified. Open.: Ben ToddKiwi 1, Todd McCloy 2, OPEN SECTION Girvan Cup - Best Photograph in Show: Dinah Hughes-Purple Irises Premier Exhibit: Dinah Hughes-Schoolboys on an Excursion to the Ballarat Goldfie Class 654 Pople (more than one): Dinah Hughes-Schoolboys on an Excursion to the Ballarat Goldfie 1, Dinah Hughes-Cooling Off - Thailand 2, Dinah Hughes-Irish Visitors to the Methven Show - St Patrick’s 3, Class 655 Sculpture or Abstract.: Dinah Hughes-Purple Irises 1, Dinah Hughes-Golden Buddha - Thailand 2, Jane Withers 3, Class 656 Animal Study: Dinah Hughes-”Jackie” - Rescued as a baby then released 1, Dinah Hughes-Water Dragon 2, Polly Withers 3, Class 657 Seascape: Dinah HughesRough Sea - Kaikoura 1, Dinah Hughes-Sunset Reflections 2, Dinah Hughes-Ice Cave - Antarctica 3, Class 658 Print - Rural Activity: Dinah HughesSheep Shearing 1, Dinah Hughes-Preparing a Rice Paddy Field, Thailand 2, Alison Hydes 3, Class 659 Show Teme - Outdoor Recreation around Methven: Dinah Hughes-Watching the “Mountain Thunder” Motorcycle Race 1, Dinah Hughes-Evening Relaxation at Scott’s Saddle - Mt Hutt 2, Dinah Hughes-Methven Trots 3, Class 660 Print - Own Choice other than in Schedule.: Dinah Hughes-On Your Mark...Get Set... 1, Polly Withers 2, Dinah Hughes-”The Angel”-Hercules firing an Anti-Missile Screen 3, CHILDREN’S SECTION Class 661 Print - Floral. 10 years and under.: Brooke MacKenzie 1, Grace Newport 2, Lily Newport 3, Class 662 Print. Floral. 11 years to 15 years.: Heidi Cuttle 1, George Mckendry 2, George Mckendry 3, Class 663 Print. Floral. 16 -18 years.: Amanda Withers 1, Class 664 Print Any other subject other than Floral and Animal Study.: Hunter Lill 1, Class 665 Print - Any other subject other than Floral and Animal Study.: Mel Harworth 1, Heidi Cuttle 2, Ben Wakelin 3, Class 666 Print - Any other subject other than Floral and Animal Study: Amanda Withers 1, Amanda Withers 2, Class 668 Print - Outdoor Recreation around Methven. 11 years to 15 years.: George Mckendry 1, Ben Wakelin 2, Ben Wakelin 3, Class 670 Print - Animal Study. 10 years and under: Michael Butterick 1, Oliver Maw 2, Oliver Maw 3, Class 671 Print - Animal Study. 11 years to 15 years.: Hannah Wakelin 1, Heidi Cuttle 2, George Mckendry 3, Class 672 Print - Animal Study. 16 years to 18 years.: Amanda Withers 1, Amanda Withers 2, Class 673 Print - People (more than one). 16 years to 18 years.: Amanda Withers 1,

FLOWERS DAHLIAS Best Dahlia in Show: Jacki Ryan Most points in the Dahlias Section: Jacki Ryan Most points in the Cut Flowers Section: McLaughlin Class 674 1 Giant Dahlia 20 cm and over: Jackie Ryan 1, Class 675 1 Medium Decorative Dahlia, 15cm to 20cm.: Jackie Ryan 1, Class 676 3 Small Decorative Dahlias, under 15 cm, in one container.: A Donald 1, Class 677 1 Medium Cactus Dahlia: Jackie Ryan 1, Class 678 3 Small Cactus, or semi-Cactus Dahlias, under 15cm,: Jacki Ryan 1, Jacki Ryan 2, A Donald 3, Class 679 3 small Fimbriated Dahlias in 1 container.: Jacki Ryan 1, Class 680 3 Pom Pom Dahlias, under 5cm, in one container: Jacki Ryan 1, Jacki Ryan 2, A Donald 3, Class 681 3 Blooms, any type of Dahlia, not already mentioned in Dahlia Section.: A Donald 1, A Donald 2, Jacki Ryan 3, Class 682 1Cactus or semi Cactus Dahlia: Jacki Ryan 1, A Donald 2, Class 683 Fimbriated Dahlia: A Donald 1, Class 684 3 Mini or Small Ball Dahlia in one container: A Donald 1, Class 685 3 Water Lily Dahlias, in one container: A Donald 1, A Donald 2, Class 686 3 Dahlias, different types, in separate containers: Jacki Ryan 1, A Donald 2, Class 688 3 Collarette Dahlias, in one container.: A Donald 1, Class 689 1 Dahlia, medium large or giant.: Jacki Ryan 1, L McCloy 2, CUT FLOWERS Premier Exhibit - Cut Flowers: Lyn Chamberlain Class 690 3 kinds Cut flowers (outdoor grown) 1 bloom of each, separate containers: McLaughlin 1, Class 691 3 kinds Cut Flowers District Exhibitors only, separate containers: Di Callaghan 1, Class 692 2 stems Sweet Peas: Di Callaghan 1, Sandra Redmond 2, Class 695 1 stem Hybrid Tea Rose: L McCloy 1, McLaughlin 2, McLaughlin 3, Class 696 1 Stem Floribunda Rose: McLaughlin 1, Class 697 1 Stem one bloom Miniature Rose: Duncan Callaghan 1, Annette Maw 2, McLaughlin 3, Class 698 1 Branch of Rose: Sandra Redmond 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Lyn Chamberlain 3, Class 700 3 Petunias, any shade, on a plate: Jacki Ryan 1, McLaughlin 2, Jacki Ryan 3, Class 701 1 Branch of Fuchisa: McLaughlin 1, Class 702 1 Head Hydranga, any shade: Jacki Ryan 1, A Donald 2, Jacki Ryan 3, Class 704 A Collection of Foliage: Di Callaghan 1, Jacki Ryan 2, A Donald 3, Class 705 3 French Marigolds: Sandra Redmond

1, McLaughlin 2, McLaughlin 3, Class 707 1 Bloom Tuberose Begonia: A Donald 1, McLaughlin 2, McLaughlin 3, Class 710 1 Spike Gladioli: Lyn Chamberlain 1, Lyn Chamberlain 2, Class 711 1 Spike Gladioli, District Exhibitor only (see Rule 12): Annette Maw 2, Class 714 1 Container of Succelents: Sandra Redmond 1, Class 715 1 Branch of Flowering shrub or climber: McLaughlin 1, Class 716 1 Stem, any other variety: B Thornton 1, A Donald 2, McLaughlin 3, Class 717 1 Stem Gerbera: McLaughlin 1, Class 718 1 Stem Lily: Jacki Ryan 1, Class 719 A Display of Flowers, 6 kinds, one stem in each container.: Methven Garden Club 1, Methven Garden Club 2, Class 721 1 Vase of Perennials: Jacki Ryan 1, Class 722 1 Vase of Annuals: Jacki Ryan 1, DECORATIVE CLASSES Class 724 Sure to Rise: A Donald 1, Jackie Ryan 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, Class 725 Out of the Blue: A Donald 1, Jackie Ryan 2, N.M. McLaughlin 3, Class 726 Green with Envy: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Jackie Ryan 2, A Donald 3, Class 727 Purple Wizardry: N.M. McLaughlin 1, Jackie Ryan 2, A Donald 3, Class 729 Out of the Blue.: DL Callaghan 1, Class 730 Green with Envy: DL Callaghan 1, JUNIOR DECORATIVE Class 732 Arrangement of Flowers up to Year 3: Todd McCloy 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 733 Arrangement of Flowers Year 4-6: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Class 734 Sand Saucer, Preschool.: Jack P 1, Emma Goodwin 2, Matthew Glass 3, Elliot Markillie 3, Class 735 Sand Saucer, Year 1 3.: Todd McCloy 1, Henry King 2, Carly Stephens 3, Class 736 Sand Saucer, Year 4 - 6: Emma Begg 1, Class 737 Gentlemen’s Buttonhole (one flower only). Up to Year 3: Todd McCloy 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 739 Ladies Corsage. Up to Year 3.: Todd McCloy 1, Class 741 Flower Arrangement in a small yoghurt container: Duncan Callaghan 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 742 Single Flower in Vase: Vicki Pluck 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Todd McCloy 3, Class 743 Arrangement in Miniature Container (under 13 cm overall). Up to Year 3.: Isabella Casey Solly 1, Class 745 Floral Face on a round dinner paper plate: Todd McCloy 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Isabella Casey Solly 3, Class 747 Miniature Garden in a 2 LITRE ICECREAM CONTAINER. Up to Year 3.: Nicole Moore 1, Todd McCloy 2, Class 748 Miniature Garden in a 2 LITRE ICECREAM CONTAINER. Year 4-6.: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Class 749 Decorated Gumboot, Floral.: Duncan Callaghan 1, Duncan Callaghan 2, Todd McCloy 3, Class 750 Decorated Boot, Non Floral.: Todd McCloy 1, Class 751 Floating Bowl: Duncan Callaghan 1, Vicki Pluck 2, Lauren Pluck 3, Class 753 Vegetable and or Fruit Sculpture. Up to Year 3.: Lucy Reeves 1, Wynter Taylor Harding 2, Fergus Middleton 3, Byron 3, Class 754 Vegetable & or Fruit Sculpture. Year 4-6.: Zinzan Goertzen 1, Emma Begg 2, William Middleton 2,

DANCING Class 756 Highland Fling, 6 years & under: Amelia Grieve 1, Siara Clarke 2, Gabrielle JonesHighland Fling Under 6 3, Class 757 Highland Fling Novice, under 14 years: Gabrielle Jones-Highland Fling Novice 1, Molly Sargent 2, Lulu Steel-Lulu Steel 3, Class 758 Highland Fling, under 8 years: Brianna Sloper 1, Siara Clarke 2, Hayley Nolan 3, Class 759 Highland Fling, under 10 years: Megan Harrison 1, Holly Duff 2, Isla Miers 3, Class 760 Highland Fling, under 14 years: Eirinn MacLean 1, Charlotte Sloper 2, Lucy Moore 3, Class 761 Reel O’Tulloch, under 16 years: Britney Moore 1, Eirinn MacLean 2, Lucy Moore 3, Class 762 Sword Dance, under 8 years: Siara Clarke 1, Brianna Sloper 2, Class 763 Sword Dance, under 10 years: Megan Harrison 1, Julie&Wayne OvertonJasmine Overton 2, Brianna Sloper 3, Class 764 Sword Dance, under 12 years: Lucy Moore 1, Charlotte Sloper 2, Julie&Wayne Overton-Jasmine Overton 3, Class 765 Sword Dance, under 16 years: Britney Moore 1, Kate Booker 2, Class 766 Highland Reel, under 14 years: Britney Moore 1, Charlotte Sloper 2, Eirinn MacLean 3, Class 767 Seann Triubhais, under 12 years: Charlotte Sloper 1, Eirinn MacLean 2, Lucy Moore 3, Class 768 Irish Jig, under 8 years: Brianna Sloper 1, Siara Clarke 2, Hayley Nolan 3, Class 769 Irish Jig, under 10 years: Megan Harrison 1, Julie&Wayne Overton-Jasmine Overton 2, Holly Duff 3, Class 770 Irish Jig, under 14 years: Britney Moore 1, Evelyn Clarke 2, Charlotte Sloper 3, Class 771 Irish Jig, under 12 years. County only.: Charlotte Sloper 1, Eirinn MacLean 2, Lucy Moore 3, Class 772 Irish Hornpipe, under 16 years: Britney Moore 1, Eirinn MacLean 2, Kate Booker 3, Class 773 Sailor’s Hornpipe, under 12 years: Lucy Moore 2, Charlotte Sloper 2, Eirinn MacLean 3,

WOOD CHOPPING Small Underhand: R Harraway 1, M Balderstone 2, W Robertston 3, S Molloy 4; 325 Underhand: M Balderstone 1, P Smith 2, S Molloy 3, G Molloy 4; Vetern Underhand 275: W Robertson 1, R Harraway 2, T Rick 3, C Morgan 4; Single Saw: W Robertson 1, K Mahuira 2, B Gutsell 3, A Cox 4; Standard 250: G Sadler 1, A Charles 2, J Cox 3, P Smith 4; 275 Underhand G Sadler 1, T Cox 2, P Smith 3, A Charles 4; Tree G Molloy 1, A Cox 2, R Bowen 3, G Smith 4; Double hand saw: A Cox, A Charles 1, T Diense W Robertson 2, K & K Mahuika 3, G & P Smith 4.

SHEARING JUNIOR 1st Corey Smith, 2nd Codey Black, 3rd James Penney INTERMEDIATE 1st Ethan Pankhurst, 2nd Dylan McGruddy, 3rd Paul Hodges SENIOR 1st Floyd Neal, 2nd Pat Mulvihill, 3rd Brett Langrell OPEN 1st Tony Coster, 2nd Grant Smith, 3rd Gavin Rowland

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Dead man ‘reclusive’

By John Lewis and Debbie Porteous Neighbours of a man who lay dead in his South Dunedin home for more than six weeks say he was “reclusive” and would sometimes not answer his door or calls.

The badly decomposed body of John Burrows Baird, 74, was discovered in his Playfair Street home by police on Friday night, after they were contacted by a pharmacist concerned Mr Baird had not collected his medication for some time.

It is understood he collected medicine every two weeks, but had not done so since January.

The death is not being treated by police as suspicious.

Mr Baird’s unkempt Caversham property was relatively isolated from neighbours, whose properties were either set back from, or behind it, and from where they would not have been able to easily see vehicle movements to and from the property.

A couple, who declined to be named, living across the street from Mr Baird said he had become “very reclusive” in recent years.

They said they had only spoken to the man once in the 60 years they had lived on Playfair Street.

“It really upsets me. I don’t like to think people die like that.

“It’s a very sad scenario to think we sat here and didn’t do anything about it.”

The couple said they had chosen not to do anything because they were busy looking after their disabled son who needed 24 hour care.

“We’re reclusive ourselves. If there was trouble here, there’s nobody I could go to. We don’t know any of our neighbours.

“We could be in the same situation as [Mr Baird].

“Nobody ever comes and says are you all right? Are you managing?”

They said they were more likely to say hello to their neighbours while walking up George Street than looking over their back fence.

“It’s a really sad indictment on society when you have to go to town to meet your neighbours.”

Another neighbour said he had noticed there had been no lights on for about 3-4 weeks, the mailbox was jammed with mail and the grass was getting long.

“But we didn’t think to check on him. We were just minding our own business.

“That’s the way it is – you just mind your own business – don’t get involved.

“That just seems to be the way it is in South Dunedin.”

He was unaware Mr Baird had passed away until police arrived.

“In hindsight, I would have checked to see if he was OK.” Another neighbour said she left for work early in the morning and came home late in the day.

If it had been winter, she may have noticed that his lights were not on.

“You feel a bit terrible . . .

“I have spoken to him in the past, but he was very private.

“He was a solitary man, he wouldn’t speak to people much.

“He seemed to be a nice man.”

One woman visiting her elderly parents on Playfair Street said her parents had checked on Mr Baird from time to time in the past, but had themselves been away and more recently, busy dealing with their own health issues.

She said Mr Baird kept to himself and was known not to answer the door or calls sometimes, and his property was generally a bit scruffy, so nothing had been noticeably different in that area.

What had happened was very sad, she said.

Snr Sgt Bruce Ross, of the Dunedin police, said the coroner had been notified of the death and family in Auckland had been contacted.

- APNZ

Thai Airways flight blows a tyre

By Matthew Theunissen Emergency services rushed to the runway at Auckland International Airport yesterday when a Thai Airways flight carrying 286 people blew a tyre.

The 777 aircraft reported a

problem about 11.20am but was able to land safely by 11.40am, Northern Fire shift manager Jaron Phillips said.

Eight fire engines attended the scene, along with police and St John Ambulance.

The plane’s pilot, who did not wish to be named, said one of

the landing tyres had deflated, but he had never been concerned for the aircraft’s safety.

There was no on-board announcement about the problem and passengers making their way through the airport’s arrival gates were unaware anything had been wrong.

“We actually commented what a smooth landing it was,” said Neville and Christine Crow.

They had wondered why there were so many flashing lights on the runway when they touched down. Mrs Crow said she probably would have been worried had they been told.

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• Man beaten with bars A 27-year-old man was beaten with iron bars in a brutal home invasion in Upper Hutt yesterday afternoon. He suffered a suspected broken arm and bruising after he was attacked at his home in Clouston Park Road about 4.30pm. Police said two men entered the victim’s house and beat him with two iron bars. The offenders left in a car but were stopped and arrested by a nearby police patrol. Two men, aged 24 and 30, will appear in Lower Hutt District Court today charged with assault with intent to injure. More serious charges could be laid after police have finished speaking to witnesses.

Police said the victim was taken to Hutt Hospital, where he was in a stable condition with a suspected broken arm and bruising to his body.

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• Woman falls down cliff A woman who fell down a cliff while mountainbiking near the Bridge to Nowhere on Saturday afternoon was in a stable condition at Wanganui Hospital yesterday. The Palmerston North rescue helicopter responded. A St John Ambulance paramedic was winched down to the 34-year-old woman to assess her injuries before she was winched to safety and flown to Wanganui.

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• Man tragically killed

A sea of sails at lake Lake Hood was a sea of sails yesterday for the Ashburton Sailing Club’s Classic Boat regatta.

There were 23 entries of differing shapes, sizes, ages and propulsion methods, with sail, motor and even a rowboat sharing time on the lake and under the judge’s inspection.

The overall winner that lived up to its name for the judges was Andrew Pretty’s replica rowboat Bees Knees.

A former national speed record-holding power boat garnered a lot of attention but the boat was having an off day in the speed department, with its owner vowing to be back next year to rectify the poor showing.

The weather held for the regatta with a good breeze on hand for the sail boat race in the afternoon, and the rain held off until the end of the prizegiving.

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A man was killed when a gun went off after a drinking session in Waikato overnight Saturday. Detective Senior Sergeant Ross Patterson said the 22-year-old Ngaruawahia man had been out drinking with friends and when he returned home a gun was fired causing the fatal injuries. No one else was being sought in relation to the “terrible tragedy”, Mr Patterson said.

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Our goal is that they use their gifts and talents for the good of others and the glory of God. It is exciting to have our first Year 9s in 2013; who will become our first Year 10s in 2014. They are having a great time in a class of eight pupils!

Small beginnings. Along with these we have a large number of new pupils being integrated into the school, which makes for Year Nine Pupils Sarah, Eilis and Jewel at Wakanui a very busy and exciting place. Beach on Year 9 initiation day.

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Call for ‘great renaissance’

By Tom Hancock China’s new President Xi Jinping says he will fight for a “great renaissance of the Chinese nation”, as the world’s most populous country completed its once-in-a-decade power transition.

In his first speech as head of state, Xi called for “the continued realisation of the great renaissance of the Chinese nation and the Chinese dream”, laying out a vision of a stronger military and ever-higher living standards.

The 25-minute speech closed a parliament sitting which named Xi as head of state and Li Keqiang as premier, four months after the pair took the top two posts in the ruling Communist Party - the real source of their power.

Both Xi and Li stuck to the party’s long-held consensus on the need for economic reforms to ensure growth, while increasing military power and avoiding political change that could threaten its grip on power.

Analysts said Xi’s concept of a “great renaissance” was a slogan designed to have broad appeal, without any firm commitments to specific reforms.

Xi has close ties to China’s expanding military - which put its first aircraft carrier into service last year - and he called for the armed forces to strengthen their ability to “win battles”.

Beijing is embroiled in a bitter territorial row with Japan over islands in the East China Sea, and with neighbouring nations over claims to the South China Sea. Tensions with the US have

increased over reports of armyorganised hacking.

Newly appointed Premier Li Keqiang sought to play down such conflicts in a press conference, saying that Beijing would not “seek hegemony” as it became stronger and denying allegations that China engages in hacking.

Li called the accusations “groundless”, days after President Barack Obama weighed in on the issue. He said China’s relationship with Washington was vital and their mutual interests outweighed their differences.

“Conflicts between big powers are not inevitable,” Li said.

Li, now in charge of the day-today running of the government, said that “maintaining sustainable economic growth”, with an annual GDP increase of around 7.5 per cent over the coming

decade, would be his administration’s top priority.

But ensuring such a performance would be difficult, he said. China recorded its slowest growth for more than a decade last year amid weakened demand in key export markets.

“What the market can do, we should release more to the market”, he said without giving details of specific economic reforms.

Both leaders reiterated the party’s repeated pledges to fight corruption, with Li saying that the government had an “unshakable resolve” to do so.

Speaking in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Xi stressed continuity with previous Chinese leaders and thanked outgoing president Hu Jintao, who stood and bowed as China completed

the transition of its top leaders.

Neither Xi nor Li mentioned systematic political reform. But Li said China would release a plan for unspecified changes to its controversial “re-education” labour camp system, in which people can be incarcerated for up to four years without trial.

“The tone is definitely conservative,” Joseph Cheng, a China politics expert at Hong Kong’s City University, said of Xi’s speech.

“It is difficult to anticipate serious political reforms in the near future.

“What we see here is a very balanced approach not to alienate any vested interests and to continue to do something popular like combat corruption, combat lavishness and pomp and so on, and appeal to patriotism.”

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• Radioactive fish The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant says it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7400 times the government limit for safe human consumption. The bottom-dwelling fish called a greenling was found on February 21 in a cage set up by Tokyo Electric Power Co inside the port next to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, said a utility official who requested anonymity, citing company policy. The March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant, causing meltdowns that spewed radiation into the surrounding soil and water. Some experts speculate that radioactive water may be seeping from the plant into the ocean.

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• One dead in chopper crash A NATO helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing one coalition member and injuring another, officials say.

“This evening, a military OH-58 helicopter crashed in Daman district of Kandahar province,” Javed Faisal, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said yesterday.

He said the helicopter was being used for surveillance. NATO official Luca Carnel confirmed the helicopter crash, saying one coalition member was killed and one injured. They were the only people onboard, he said. The nationalities of the two were not disclosed. The cause of the crash was not known but there was no enemy activity in the area when the acci- DPA dent took place, Carnel said.

• Mel B for talent show Spice Girl Mel B has abandoned the Seven Network’s reality singing show The X Factor to be a judge on Nine’s Australia’s Got Talent. The Nine Network snapped up the rights to Australia’s Got Talent late last year after Seven did not renew the contract because of ailing ratings and rising production costs. Now Seven’s commercial rival has struck another blow by poaching Mel B, who was one of the four judges on the high rating X Factor, for the revamped Australia’s Got Talent. Nine says it will soon announce who will join Mel B on the judging panel.

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• Swiss woman raped in India Police have detained 20 men in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state after a Swiss woman on a cycling trip was gang-raped.

No charges have been laid so far but police were questioning the men in connection with the rape and assault on the woman and her husband in Datia district of the state, said senior police officer DK Arya.

He said the couple told police the woman had been raped by seven or eight men, but that it was dark and they could not be sure of the exact number. As a first step, police have registered a case of rape against seven unidentified men and were searching nearby villages, he said. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a bus outraged Indians and spurred the government to pass laws to protect women.

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Mexico fireworks blast toll rises to 16 The death toll from a fireworks explosion in a central Mexican village has risen to 16, an official says.

Scores more injured in Saturday’s tragedy were still being treated in hospitals,

said a statement released by the Tlaxcala state government.

The statement said a total of 154 people had been injured in the accident, of whom 72 remain in hospital.

One witness said he saw “bodies flying” as people ran for cover after a stray firework landed on the truck in Jesus Tepactepec in the middle of a march for the village’s patron saint.

Al Qaeda group claims Iraq attack

By Prashant Rao An al Qaeda linked group has claimed a brazen attack near Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone as a new study reveals at least 112,000 civilians have been killed in the decade-long conflict.

Ahead of the anniversary of the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, the latest reports raise fresh questions about the capabilities of the security forces to prevent attacks such as the March 14 assault on the justice ministry claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).

The attack involved a series of midday bombings in central Baghdad’s Allawi neighbourhood, adjacent to the Green Zone which is home to several government buildings as well as the American and British embassies.

As the blasts went off, militants

stormed the nearby ministry complex, clashing with security forces.

Accounts differed as to the success of the attack, but one official said two insurgents managed to detonate suicide vests inside the ministry building.

Overall, 18 people were killed and more than 30 wounded, security and medical officials said. But the ISI claimed to have killed 60 people, according to a statement distributed by the SITE monitoring service on Sunday.

Britain-based Iraq Body Count (IBC), meanwhile, published a study which concluded that at least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the invasion of Iraq.

It said that, including combatants on all sides of the decade-long conflict as well as yet undocumented fatalities, the figure could rise as high as - AFP 174,000.

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Police allege a 53-year-old driver failed to stop at the scene and continued on until he was pulled over a short distance away.

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Queen keeps me on my toes – British PM British Prime Minister David Cameron says Queen Elizabeth II keeps him on his toes with some sharp questions during their weekly meetings.

Cameron said he found the Wednesday evening audiences “therapeutic” as the 86-year-old sovereign puts the country’s problems in perspective.

Cameron’s comments came in a documentary called Our Queen, to be broadcast on Sunday on ITV television.

The documentary follows the story of the 2012 diamond jubilee year, the Queen’s 60th on the throne.

As a constitutional monarch, Queen Elizabeth is politically neutral but has a right and duty to express her view on government matters.

The sovereign has the right to be consulted, to encourage and to warn.

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ministers are strictly confidential - no notes are taken and nobody else is present.

Cameron is the 12th British prime minister to serve under Queen Elizabeth.

The first prime minister was Winston Churchill.

“There’s a very therapeutic side to it, because as you explain the particular problem that the government has, or a particular challenge the country’s facing, sometimes you find it is all becoming clearer as you explain it to this one incredibly experienced person,” Cameron said.

The Conservative leader said he was “very conscious” that he was the 12th British prime minister that the queen has dealt with.

“She’s been listening to this stuff for 60 years... and you get some pretty good questions which you need to think of some good answers to,” he said.

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• Alcohol poisoning kills 87 At least 87 people have died and 1014 are suffering the effects of being poisoned from drinking adulterated alcohol, the Libyan health ministry says. Two of the people hospitalised are in a state of clinical death and another 14 are in critical condition in an intensive care unit, the ministry said. Among those affected in the past week are Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Somalis, Sudanese and Egyptians, and the total includes 12 women, the country’s top health official, Yusef al-Wafi, said. Cases of poisoning began to surface more than a week ago, and five days later the authorities announced the arrest of several people suspected of making the adulterated alcohol. The sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in Libya, but it is nevertheless - EFE distilled clandestinely.

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Bomber to be freed from prison A Jordanian-born Palestinian man convicted of the 1982 bombing of a Pan Am flight travelling to Hawaii from Japan is set to be released from a US prison.

Mohammed Rashed has been behind bars for more than two decades after leaving a bomb under a jetliner seat that exploded on Pan Am Flight 830 from Tokyo to Honolulu on August 11, 1982, killing a Japanese teenager and injuring at least 15 other people.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd says Rashed, 63, has served about 23 years in prison, including time served in Greek and US jails, over the bomb plot. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, which published his release date of Wednesday, said he is currently being held at the Federal Correctional Institution, McKean, a - AFP medium-security jail in Pennsylvania.

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Opposition leader George Lillikas has called on his supporters to protest, charging that the president who was elected only last month had “betrayed the people’s vote”.

Even the conservative leader’s partners in the ruling coalition had strong words against the deal.

“During our meeting it was stressed that the decision was... almost annihilating the Cypriot economy,” said Marios Garoyian, after chairing a meeting of his centrist DIKO party.

The Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest lender, said it was “absolutely understandable and justified for public opinion to be concerned.”

The levy will see deposits of more than 100,000 euros held by all residents of Cyprus hit with a 9.9 per cent charge when lenders reopen their doors. Below that threshold, the levy drops to 6.75 per cent.

At the same time, an additional “withholding tax” will be imposed on interest on bank deposits, and Cyprus will have to hike corporate tax to 12.5 per cent from 10 per cent and sell off state assets.

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The Cyprus parliament is set to hold an extraordinary session as the debt-laden government seeks to push through legislation on a painful EU bailout.

The session is being held amid anger among bank savers who would be hard hit by the plans.

President Nicos Anastasiades is due to brief MPs, with a tough ride for the draft expected at a full plenum today, Cypriot media said.

Ministers are in a race to thrash out draft legislation ratifying the bailout and push it through parliament before banks reopen tomorrow after a long holiday weekend, including a pre-Easter carnival Sunday marred by the news.

Yesterday, the president already had meetings lined up with party leaders and the island’s bank bosses.

Faced with protest calls, the president said he will address the country today to defend the controversial deal which he admitted was “painful” but insisted was the only way to save the banking sector from total collapse.

He said thousands of small businesses would also have gone bankrupt because of cash flow problems without the deal and the unprecedented bank levy attached for an EU bailout.

Savers in Cyprus banks reacted with shock and anger after the government agreed to the levy on bank deposits in return for a desperately needed 10-billion-euro ($A12.62 billion) bailout.

The debt rescue package, agreed with the eurozone and International Monetary Fund after around 10 hours of talks in Brussels, is significantly less than the 17 billion euros Cyprus had initially sought.

Most of the balance is to be made up through the bank deposit levy of up to 9.9 per cent – the first eurozone bailout in which private depositors are having to help foot the bill.

The government had held out against the bailout condition until the 11th hour, arguing it would risk a run not only on the island’s own banks but also on those of other debt-ridden eurozone economies.

Only last Monday, Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said that a haircut on deposits in local banks

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Art deco style, music and more in Tulsa As an Oklahoma transplant — a native New Englander who moved here for love — I’ve had fun getting to know the Sooner State. I also host the occasional out-of-town visitor, so I’m always on the hunt for colourful history, interesting art, quirky shopping and a great meal.

I have found it all, plus some surprises, in Oklahoma’s secondlargest city: Tulsa.

Tulsa was initially occupied by Native American tribes forced to relocate here from their home territories by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. But the modern city was built from oil money in the early 20th century.

There was already a railroad station here serving the cattle industry when oil was discovered in nearby Red Fork in 1901, so Tulsa became the logical place for oilmen — from tycoons to middlemen to so-called wildcatters looking for the next big well— to settle with their families.

What you find here now is an eclectic mix of new and old: artsy hangouts that show off Tulsa’s thriving hipster culture as well as well-preserved historic gems that harken back to the oil boom of the early 1900s. As somebody who seeks out both highbrow art and underground subculture, I love this about Tulsa.

Downtown architecture At first glance, downtown Tulsa can seem quiet and a little rugged at the edges.

But if you know where to go and you practice the art of looking up at the buildings instead of down at your feet, you’ll find a great display of art deco architecture and other turn-of-the-century styles.

Tulsa was a “young city ... experiencing unprecedented growth and prosperity in the Roaring Twenties, just as the Art Deco movement came into vogue,” according to the Tulsa Preservation Commission’s website.

“Flush with oil money, prominent Tulsans started building the skyscrapers that would spur one of the pre-eminent Art Deco collections in the United States.”

The most striking example of Tulsa’s art deco treasures might be the Boston Avenue Methodist Church, 1301 S. Boston Avenue You can’t miss its 79-metre tower, hold-

A recent import into Tulsa, Hillary Speed found some surprises in her expeditions around Oklahoma’s second-largest city. With a raft of attractive, well preserved art deco buildings, great shops, museums and restaurants she found plenty to keep her engaged. ing court at the city’s southeastern edge. Somehow the building, erected in 1929, manages to look like a church and a skyscraper all at once.

Straight down Boston Avenue from the church sits another beauty: the Philtower Building, 427 S. Boston Avenue, which was commissioned by prominent oilman Waite Phillips and opened in 1928. Look for the gargoyles above the Boston Avenue entrance, and look way up to see the colourful tiled roof, a splash of strange, almost lovably outdated hues that floats above the city as a relic of the past.

Also worth a look are the Atlas Life Building, 415 S. Boston Avenue; the Mayo Hotel (where you can book a room or grab a gourmet meal), 115 W. Fifth Street; and the Philcade building, 509 S. Boston Avenue.

The building facades are only the beginning: On a weekday afternoon, it’s fun to wander into the lobbies for stunning views of ceilings and chandeliers.

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In search of fine art In addition to its architectural gems, Tulsa boasts two wonderful major art museums.

Ten minutes north-west from downtown, Gilcrease Museum, 1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road, houses an expansive collection of art from the American West (the largest worldwide, they say) and an array of Native American artifacts such as glass-beaded moccasins, feather headdresses and leather clothing.

Grown out of the private collection of Tulsa oilman Thomas Gilcrease, the museum is now home to more than 10,000 paintings, prints and sculptures from prominent American artists such as Frederic Remington and Thomas Moran.

Meanwhile, 10 minutes south of

downtown, the Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S. Rockford Road, houses an equally magnificent collection in what was once the 72-room private villa of Waite Phillips’ family.

Perhaps even more impressive than the fine artwork displayed at this renowned Tulsa attraction is the sprawling 9-hectare garden behind the museum. I attended a wedding last summer that embodied the romantic European spirit of this Italian-style estate.

Shopping, music and food The shopping in Tulsa, like everything else, can be fancy or casual, depending on your whim. I always like to browse through the luxury home-goods store T.A. Lorton, 1343 E. 15th Street, on a bustling street known locally as Cherry Street.

It’s quite expensive, but you are guaranteed to find items you’ve never seen before, from indulgent children’s gifts to high-end linens to unique lamps, tables and dinnerware.

For a store with lower prices and an edgier flair, I recommend Dwelling Spaces, 119 S. Detroit Avenue, in the Blue Dome District.

The neighbourhood, named after the blue-painted dome of an old gas station that originally served motorists on historic Route 66, is a small but bustling corner of downtown that attracts artists and others with a bohemian bent.

Dwelling Spaces sells quirky handmade items such as T-shirts, decorative pillows and posters that tend to feature offbeat Oklahoma- and Tulsa-centric designs. It’s where you can buy all your Flaming Lips merchandise (the world-famous rock band started in Oklahoma) and the latest copy of the popular bimonthly broadsheet magazine, This Land Press. Read it over a freshly brewed cup of Joe at the coffee bar.

My favourite casual spot for eat-

ing is El Rio Verde, 38 N. Trenton Avenue, an authentic Mexican restaurant in the otherwise unassuming region north-east of downtown.

Like many good hole-in-the-walls, this place seems a bit shady from the outside.

But step inside and order a wet burrito (served with sauce on top) and a glass of horchata (a traditional rice drink) and you won’t care where you are.

For higher-end fare, I’ve been twice blown away by the new but amazing Juniper Restaurant and Martini Lounge downtown, 324 E. Third Street. Chef Justin Thompson is getting a lot of buzz for his localfocused, seasonal menus featuring items such as bison burgers and pork belly eggs benedict.

I like the sweet carrot soup and roasted vegetable and goat cheese sandwich. And, while I’ve never had a Juniper cocktail myself, who wouldn’t be intrigued by concoctions using house-made green tea and lemon vodka and roasted peanut bourbon?

For a great non-alcoholic pick-meup, try the Coffee House on Cherry Street (1502 E. 15th Street). A community oasis for artists and musicians, full of mismatched furniture and a constant stream of regular customers, the cafe makes all its own baked goods, including glutenfree and vegan items that look just as enticing as their bad-for-you counterparts.

I never leave Tulsa without a slice of peanut butter pie from CHOCS (as the locals call it).

Tulsa is home to a great music scene as well. The historic Cain’s Ballroom, built in 1924 and known as the regular performing venue of Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, now draws a steady stream of big acts across all genres, 423 N. Main Street, or http://bradytheater.com/. The Brady Theater, likewise, has been around since the early 1900s — 105 W. Brady Street, http://bradytheater.com/ — and continues to draw the hottest performers.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) The rebel in you could come out today, but then this might not be a bad thing in some ways. If life has just become a bit too safe and predictable this can give you the inner spark to do something about it and get something new on the go. You are one of the most independent of star signs and this is a good day to embrace this.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) Your furniture could find itself in new locations today, when a restless desire to change something around you can be hard to resist.

Equally you can find yourself incredibly restless, and it may be hard to manage this around those you live with or are close to when small issues could soon blow up into something more combustible. Avoid those who ordinarily irritate you.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) Your co-ruler Uranus is what gives you a spark of originality, love of the outrageous and some very quick mood shifts.

Through to the 27th of this month, Mars is alongside Uranus and this can supercharge the more radical side of your self. How will this show? Well, the chances are you are going to be a lot more outspoken but you may also come up with an ingenious idea.

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PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) If you are doing your very best to make your finances work but they are not quite where you would like them to be, you may find yourself gripped by a gambler’s instinct over the next ten days. Now if you carefully calculate the risk/reward side of any transaction or investment, this may see you flourish. If you are overly rash you could lose.

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ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Monday, March 18, 2013

Issue 04, March 18, 2013

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Message from the Principal

Information

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’ Kia ora and Greetings.

Secondary Schools’ Summer Tournament Week As you read this from your home or workplace I will be with our College Rowing Team supporting them as they are competing in the Maadi Cup Regatta at Lake Karapiro, as part of the National Secondary Schools’ Summer Tournament. Ashburton College has eight teams participating in the annual Summer Tournament, ranging from the Open Water Swimmers competing in Auckland; to our Boys’ Softball Team competing in Invercargill.

I offer my thanks and appreciation to all of the adults, parents, caregivers, staff and community members who have helped with fundraising preparation, and who are with teams supporting them throughout the week.

Detector Dogs at College On Tuesday of last week the Detector Dogs spent much of the day at College. Our procedure is very simple - students are asked to leave the room for a few moments whilst the Detector Dogs check all bags which are in the room, before they move on to the next classroom to continue with their checks. This process only takes a few minutes.

A total of ten bags were identified by the dog as potentially being problematic. Each student met with myself and bags were checked. On this occasion there were no illicit substances found, which is a positive outcome.

The Detector Dogs are just one of the things the College does to make our learning environment a safe place to be – and, of course, drug free. It also helps students to make the best decisions they can. We have received positive feedback – particularly from a large number of students who have given us the clear message that “we don’t want that stuff here”.

Student Relationships Being a teenager has never been easy (as most of us will remember), as we are learning from the experiences of the teenagers around us.

Every generation has its own unique challenges

and, in our Mid Canterbury community, these have ranged from World Wars, to high unemployment rates, to today where teenagers face ready access to alcohol and drugs, and new ways of communicating through social media.

Here at College we are experiencing a small spate of incidents - largely amongst our junior (Year 9 and 10) girls, with our less mature Year 11s involving themselves as well. The general pattern appears to be: • Student A falls out with Student B during the weekend; • Student A feels the need to tell the world about the fall-out, using Facebook; • Student C (who is a friend of Student B) takes umbrage at Student A (or one of Student A’s friends – we’ll call her Student D) who then chips back with a comment; • Student C decides to sort this with Student A or D back at College on Monday – the end result is the whole thing ends in tears.

We are working hard with our students to encourage them to make use of all of the staff and services we have here at College to help them solve these problems before they escalate - as well as encouraging students to look after their friends better and prevent them from behaving in “catty” ways.

Probably the most frustrating thing in all of this is that a huge amount of time and energy is being lost from learning while these immature pastoral issues are being sorted.

We would greatly appreciate your thoughts and suggestions, as parents and caregivers (especially mothers) to assist their daughters address these issues in a better way so as to avoid the “feeding frenzy” that can evolve between small groups with regards to misinterpreting messages and misplaced loyalties.

If the College can be of assistance to yourselves as parents or caregivers, please contact us. We would be more than happy to offer our help.

Novopay It is the gift that keeps on giving!

Cheers Grant McMillan Principal

Board of Trustees News With the College year well and truly under way the Board has spent some time analysing the 2012 NCEA results, as have the Faculties within College. 2012 has shown some pleasing results and in some areas the results have been very good.

Some highlights included the percentage of students achieving University Entrance, which was the highest we’ve seen in at least five years.

NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3 all showed improvement over the 2011 results and Pasifika Level I literacy results were excellent. The hard work put in by the College is beginning to show results. It is important, however, that we build on this and look to where we can make improvements.

As we have done in the past, the Board met with the Heads of Faculty (last Tuesday, 12 March) to discuss the results and to look forward to how these can continue to improve in 2013. We know there is room for improvement and there is still a gap to where the College wants to be in terms of these results.

The responsibility for this lies not with the College alone. The students and their parents and caregivers also have to take responsibility.

As was reported in the Ashburton Guardian recently, attendance has a direct effect on NCEA achievement. Some research was undertaken by the College last year looking at attendance levels of all students in Years 11, 12 and 13 and comparing this to their achievement.

Across all levels it showed that • once attendance dropped below 85%, students’ chances of success were affected;

• once the student’s attendance level dropped below 80% they were more likely not to pass NCEA; • those with under 71% attendance would not gain enough credits to pass NCEA. Non-attendance was classified as not being present in class. This included not only those students who are truant, but those who may be playing sport, taking a holiday with their parents during the school year, or any number of reasons. It is important that all interested parties are aware of the relationship between non-attendance and non-achievement and under-achievement.

Also coming up in May, nationally, are Board of Trustees elections. I would invite parents and caregivers to consider putting their names forward for the Board, or if you wish to speak to someone regarding the Board please feel free to contact any Board member, or contact the College for some information.

We will have some retirements from the Board and will be looking for fresh faces around the table. It is not an overly onerous responsibility and you will learn a lot on how a school operates. More information on elections will be in the College Newsletters as election time nears, so please take some time to seriously consider standing.

David Rush Chairperson

Information Parent/Caregiver-Teacher Interviews - Year 9 Year 9 Interviews are being held on Wednesday 27 March, at the Hotel Ashburton

Appreciation

Ash-Dance 2013 Monday 25 March, 7:00pm Ashburton Trust Event Centre All Styles of Dance – from Ballet to Hip Hop, Class Groups, Cultural Groups, Solo Performances.

Tickets will be available for a Gold Coin donation from the College Office, Student Counter, from morning interval on Monday 18 March.

2013 Class Photographs – Orders Close This Wednesday, 20 March Photographs are presented on an A4 laminated sheet with the photo at the top and the students’ names at the bottom.

Cost - $12.00 Correct money or cheques would be appreciated, in a named envelope.

(Please make cheques out to Photoshots).

Completed envelopes and money to be handed into the College Office.

Envelopes are available from your student’s Family Form Teacher or at the College Office

Please note the first of Ashburton College’s three Teacher Only Days will be held on the above date (the Thursday preceding the Easter Holiday Weekend). Further information will be distributed closer to the time.

The purpose of this day is Course Programme Planning and Professional Development.

Two further days are scheduled for the year – • •

Friday 31 May Thursday 14 November

(prior to Queen’s Birthday Weekend). (prior to Christchurch Show Weekend).

Festival of the Spoken Word Tuesday 16 April (last week of term) 7:00pm. College Auditorium For students who like speaking or acting!

This is your chance to be on stage for a few minutes.

Categories: serious or humorous single or in groups sketches and monologues

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This is a House Competition.

Students check notices for details.

Auditions Term 1, Weeks 9-10 (before and after Easter).

Mt Hutt Ski Pass - Application Forms (for students)

Throughout the day’s programme students were shown previous companies’ successes, which helped to fuel creative ideas for their own ‘company and potential products’.

(Pictured above, left to right): Duxley Mui, Benedikt Schlecker, Zac Wellman and Brittany McCloy preparing to work with their mentor.

(Pictured below, left to right): A Business Mentor works with Brittany Butler, Sonya Leadley, Brittney Davis, Kate Hayman and Hannah Wright.

Business Mentors from the South Canterbury area spent time in the afternoon talking to the individual groups and offering advice.

A significant amount of time and help was given to the individual teams.

Ashburton College has four teams operating businesses this year, with the majority having five students per team.

Cost: For Secondary School students/Year 9 and above: $150.00 (Mt Hutt Pass)

They advise us to look out for the products or services that will be advertised in future newsletters.

NZSki is pleased to again offer our students a special deal on season passes for 2013.

The last day for payment at the College is Friday 19 April 2013.

(Applications will not be able to be accepted after this date).

Art Students’ Field Trip – Okains Bay

House Points The hotly contested annual House Points Competition is moving forward, following the early year College sports competitions. During the year a number of cultural activities will also add to the House Points tally.

Claire Robertshaw, Head of Faculty and teacher of Art, advised that on Thursday 7 March forty five Year 11 Art Students undertook a field trip to the Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, Māori and Colonial Museum.

The purpose of this trip was to allow students the opportunity to view objects and artefacts that they will be using as a part of their NCEA studies and specifically their Art portfolios.

At present the House Point totals sit at:

GREEN 45.71

ORANGE 42.00

BLUE 41.77

RED 40.51

Open Evening ASHBURTON COLLEGE FIRST OPEN EVENING FOR 2013 Thursday 04 April 2013, 5:00pm – 7:00pm Future students, parents/caregivers and whanau are warmly invited and encouraged to attend

(Pictured above) Students working on their sketches, including those of the Wharenui and Colonial Cottages (also pictured right).

Lauren Yeatman (left) and Larissa Reid (right) feature in the foreground.

• Meet Principal, Grant McMillan, and College teaching staff • Hear and see what the College can offer your family • Join with the students in action • See how we prepare our young people for life • Sausage sizzle, coffee, tea, juice provided on the chessboard

Students were able to explore the museum which features both indoor and outside exhibits. This particular museum was chosen because of the unique blend of Māori and Colonial displays, which ties in with this year’s Year 11 Art Programme theme of ‘The Story of Aotearoa’. This theme will require students to think about New Zealand’s past, present and future.

Students completed detailed drawings and took plenty of photographs of objects they selected themselves and they will use these extensively in their classwork for the remainder of the year.

(Pictured above) Inside one of the Colonial Cottages.

Secondary Schools’ Summer Tournament Week This week is a key week in the national secondary schools’ summer sporting calendar. Our good wishes go with College’s eight teams for positive and successful experiences in the widest sense.

Teams involved in the week are as follows:

Login to your Ashburton College portal at www.school-links.org.nz by entering your username and password: as emailed to you last week.

Click on ‘Visit Ashburton College’ Click on the ‘Events’ items in the Blue Menu bar.

Click on ‘Interview Centre’ at the right.

Click on the ‘Book Interviews’ icon for the Year 9 evening.

When the list of teacher names appear, select your child’s teachers by clicking on the appropriate check box.

Now follow the instructions - if you get lost there are detailed instructions under the Event Tab, please scroll down to see them.

• Sailing Team • Girls’ 1st XI Cricket • Rowing Team

EVERYONE WELCOME

27 Walnut Avenue, Ashburton Contact for enquiries: Sheena Tyrrell, Management Administrator, Phone (03) 308 4193 (ext 812), Email: ts@ashcoll.school.nz

Each Interview slot is for 5 minutes so please be aware of this when booking and book only the one 5 minute slot with each teacher. If you need to speak with a teacher for longer, please arrange a separate appointment time with them so that we can help you without holding other families up.

Please try to leave a gap between some interview times so you are not rushed.

The on-line booking facility will be open from Monday 01 April until noon on Wednesday 10 April.

On Tuesday 5 March Ashburton College’s Year 12 Business and Management Class, with teacher Clair Bedward, travelled to Timaru for E-Day.

Application Forms are now available for collection from the College Office, Student Counter.

Where possible parents/caregivers are asked to book interview times on-line. This is open now for families. Bookings will close off mid-day on Tuesday 26 March.

The process for booking interview times is as for Year 9 (above).

Young Enterprise Trust: E-Day for Student Business Projects

Each team will form a company and all members will have a directorship role. The company must then research, produce, promote and sell a product that must have a community focus. This is all supported by the planning in the business, marketing and review process. This year the students will also be gaining qualifications through Achievement Standards.

These are followed by guided tours of the College, or you may choose to self-tour by following the signs.

Bookings

Over past weeks Ashburton College has been involved in many events, including a number of specific curriculum-focused activities. Two of these are highlighted in this newsletter, while further reports will be itemised in following newsletters.

Tickets: $5:00, available at the College Office from Thursday 11 April.

Visitors can meet at the Auditorium where presentations start at 5:00pm and 5:45pm.

Year 10 Interviews are being held on Thursday 11 April, at the Hotel Ashburton.

Events

Friends and families welcome and encouraged to attend.

This is the first of the College’s 2013 parent/caregiver/teacher evenings.

Parent/Caregiver-Teacher Interviews – Year 10

Pictured right: Lynne Judkins (left) member of the Altrusa Literacy Committee presents the cheque to Christine McIndoe (right).

Entry forms available from House Leaders or Ms McIndoe (A5) (mc@ashcoll.school.nz)

Interview Length of Time: •

This successful programme operates in the library by means of a programme co-ordinated by Anne Williams, teacher with responsibility for Reading. Within this programme Senior Pasifika students read to Junior Pasifika students for the purpose of lifting reading skills.

This is a one day event held by the Young Enterprise Trust to help students registered for the Young Enterprise Scheme to operate their forthcoming businesses.

How you can book on-line :

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Altrusa is a service organisation which specialises in community needs, one aspect of which is literacy.

Teacher Only Day – Thursday 28 March

Please phone the College Office to book interview times with the staff, or your child can ask their teachers at College to allocate an interview time, in each subject.

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Very grateful appreciation is accorded to the Ashburton Branch of Altrusa International.

In line with this, Christine McIndoe, (Head of English Faculty) advises that Altrusa Ashburton has very kindly donated $650 to the Ashburton College Pasifika Students’ Reading Mentors’ Scheme.

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Pasifika Reading Mentors’ Scheme

Our second Open Evening for 2013 will take place on Tuesday 20 August.

Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment

Balance of Parent/Caregiver/Teacher Interviews – Hotel Ashburton, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Year 11

Monday 20 May

Year 12 and 13

Tuesday 28 May

• Boys’ Softball Team • Triathlon Team • Open Water Swimmers • Mixed Senior Touch Team • Golf Croquet

South Island Secondary Schools’ Sunburst Regatta, Otago Yacht Club, Dunedin (18-22 March).

NZCT Girls’ Tournament, Hagley Park, Christchurch (18-19 March).

Maadi Cup, National Championships, Lake Karapiro (19-22 March).

South Island Secondary Schools’ Competition, Surrey Park, Invercargill (19-22 March).

National Secondary Schools’ Triathlon, Christchurch, (21 March).

National Schools’ Open Water Swimming Championships, Christchurch (22 March).

South Island Secondary Schools’ Competition, Sheldon Park, Christchurch (23-24 March).

National Secondary Schools’ Golf Croquet Championships, Palmerston North (23-24 March).

Term Dates 2013: Term One: Wednesday 30 January Term Two: Monday 06 May Term Three: Monday 29 July Term Four: Monday 14 October

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Friday 19 April Friday 12 July Friday 27 September Thursday 12 December (Year 9 and 10 students)

Ashburton College Newsletter ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Monday, March 18, 2013

‘Individual Excellence in a Supportive Learning Environment’

Issue 04, March 18, 2013

Congratulations Ashburton College Athletic Sports Held at the end of February just as this newsletter was going to print, the results of this successful day were –

Four records were set and one equalled (previous holders in brackets) – • Becca Harper-Grey Under 14 Girls’ Discus • Greer Hooper Under 16 Girls’ Discus • Alin Onicas Under 14 Boys’ Discus • Alin Onicas Under 14 Boys’ 100m • Toafa Touli Under 19 Boys’ Shot Put

26.98m 33.05m 35.93m 12.02 13.61m

(Greer Hooper 2011, 24.97m) (Kama Tilson 2001, 26.97m) (Brad Gordon 1985, 34.00m) (Equalled: Sam Wilson 2000, 12.02sec) (J Marlow 2007; 12.80m)

College 2013 Champions Senior Boys’ Champion

Nick Ralston

Runners-up (equal)

Senior Girls’ Champion Boys’ Under 16 Champion Girls’ Under 16 Champion Boys’ Under 15 Champion Girls’ Under 15 Champion Boys’ Under 14 Champion (joint)

Emma Waite Kieran Hunt Naomi Cone Matthew Bowers Hannah Roulston Ben Kiria, Alin Onicas

Runner-up Runner-up Runner-up Runner-up Runner-up Runners-up (joint)

Girls’ Under 14 Champion

Libby Ross

Runner-up

Thomas Greer, Romeo Touli, Toafa Touli.

Savanna Ornsby Edze Bierema Kodie Vincent Kerry Claydon-Wade Mikhayla Stroganov Western Bartlett, Devin Coyle, Gareth Hunt.

Tayler Cousins

Four Event Winners Emma Waite Kieran Hunt

Under 19 Girls (100m, Triple Jump, Long Jump, High Jump) Under 16 Boys (100m, 200m, Long Jump, Triple Jump)

Three Event Winners Edze Bierema Under 16 Boys (400m, 800m, 1500m) Matthew Bowers Under 15 Boys (200m, 800m, Triple Jump) Mikhayla Stroganov Under 15 Girls (400m, 800m, Long Jump) Libby Ross Under 14 Girls (400m, 800m, 1500m) At the time this newsletter was being finalised approximately 70 athletes were representing Ashburton College at the Aoraki Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships at the Aorangi Stadium in Timaru.

These results will be available in our next newsletter.

South Island Secondary Schools’ Rowing Championships 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd

Girls’ Under 17 Single Skulls Boys’ Under 18 Light Weight Four Girls’ Under 17 Double Sculls Girls’ Under 16 Coxed Fours

4th 4th 8th

Boys’ Under 16 Double Sculls Boys’ Under 16 Single Sculls Boys’ Under 16 Coxed Fours

B Finals 2nd

Caitlin Johnstone

Jake O’Grady

Kate Hayman.

Matt Beveridge, Adam Hodge Kate Hayman, Georgia Lysaght.

Livvy Fleming, Jess Jary, Georgia Lysaght, Jemma Rotch – coxed by Madeleine Davidson.

Matt Beveridge, Matt Rae. Matt Beveridge.

Benji Barry, Sean McCormack, Matt Rae, Mark Tait – coxed by Matt Parker.

Girls’ Under 16 Coxed Quad

Jemma Rotch, Georgia Lysaght, Livvy Fleming, Jess Jary - coxed by Matt Parker

1st 4th

Boys’ Under 18 Doubles Boys’ Under 18 Coxed Four

6th

Boys’ Under 18 Doubles

Benji Barry, Sean McCormack.

Benji Barry, Lachie Davidson, Sean McCormack, Mark Tait - coxed by Madeleine Davidson Lachie Davidson, Mark Tait.

Novice

Oamaru Mail South Island Secondary Schools’ Triathlon/Duathlon Championships - 2nd placing Held in Oamaru on Sunday 03 March Year 9 student Bailey Kershaw (pictured) gained 2nd place in the Junior Boys’ Duathlon.

Bailey performed very well to also place 9th overall from 39 competitors in the Duathlon (all sections) in this, his first event representing Ashburton College.

Intermediate and Junior participants competed over a 300m swim OR 2km run / 13km cycle / 2.5km run.

Finalists

Lucy Clough

Aoraki Secondary Schools’ Lawn Bowls Championships These championships were held at the Kia Toa Bowling Club in Timaru with College competing in three sections.

Cait Bassett showed her experience over the day, resulting in the Girls’ Singles Title.

The Girls’ Pair of Mary Kitchen and Ashley Harrison and the Boys’ Pair of Campbell Bedward-Chapman and Josh Heney were very new to Bowls and Bowls Competition. Both teams showed how much they had learnt in a very short time of playing the game – with thanks to members of the Allenton Bowling Club. The girls’ team was delighted to gain one win.

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National Champion (pictured right)

Lucy Clough – 800m Freestyle.

Lucy led the race from the start, breaking her own previous best time by 11 seconds and qualifying for the New Zealand Open Championships.

This event is run as a timed final, with Lucy swimming with other swimmers from all Age Groups with similar entry times. Lucy’s race contained the four fastest 14 year old girls nationally, based on times.

Campbell Bedward-Chapman, Josh Heney, Cait Bassett, Mary Kitchen and Ashley Harrison.

Canterbury Inter-schools' Team Equestrian Show Jumping Twenty eight teams from throughout Canterbury and Marlborough participated in this annual competition held at McLean’s Island Equestrian Centre in Christchurch on Wednesday 27 February.

Ashburton College finished a creditable 6th equal overall.

Bronze Medal (pictured left)

Joe Brown – 200m Breaststroke and 100m Breaststroke.

The winner of the 200m event broke the New Zealand Age Group record so the pace was strong.

National Age Group Track Cycling Championships – Bronze Medal Ashburton College students competing in Invercargill at these Championships were Sam Cullimore, Kees Donaldson, Frances Smith, Isabella Smith and Brendan Whalley.

(Pictured left) is Sam Cullimore who recently competed at these Championships as part of the MidSouth Canterbury Team.

Sam and the three other team members - two from Waikato/Bay of Plenty and one from Timaru (pictured right on the podium) won the Bronze Medal in the Under 17 3km Team Pursuit.

Frances Smith finished 5th overall in the Omnium with her best placings being two 3rd placings, while Isabella Smith was in the team which finished 5th in the Team Pursuit.

ANZ RSA Cyril Bassett VC Speech Competition Regional Final Ryan Strijbis (pictured right) took part in this competition, held in Christchurch on Saturday 09 March.

Ryan gave a strong speech focused on ‘What Are We Fighting For?’ He looked at how soldiers came to question why they were fighting in World War I and cleverly linked it with how today we are fighting for, not against, people in order to build up vulnerable communities, not tear them down.

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Held at the Mt Pleasant Yacht Club at Sumner, Christchurch, Ashburton College, this year, wrested the cup from long-time holders, Christchurch Boys’ High School making it a rare, if not first occasion, the trophy has been won by a school outside of Christchurch.

A Finals

Further to our report in the previous newsletter we are delighted to congratulate two further medal winners, and acknowledge finalists (top ten in New Zealand in their Age Group).

50m Breaststroke, finishing 4th.

400m Individual Medley, finishing 6th in a new Personal Best time.

400m Individual Medley, finishing 6th.

200m Individual Medley, finishing 8th in a new Personal Best time.

400m Individual Medley, finishing 9th.

200m Breaststroke – 6th in a new Personal Best time.

100m Breaststroke – 5th in a new Personal Best time.

50m Freestyle. In the heats of this event Caitlin swam 28:58 for a Personal Best time and a time which qualified her for the final and is under the qualification time for the New Zealand Open Championships. Caitlin swam 28:79 in the final for 8th placing.

400m Individual Medley, finishing 9th.

1500m Freestyle, finishing in 5th place.

Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Sailing Regatta Rotary Cup Winners

Again the team performed very well, with key results from this event held at Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel, early March being:

NZ Age Group Swimming Championships Joe Brown

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Teams consist of four riders and three different jump heights with points awarded for clear rounds and individual placings.

Key results for Ashburton College came from – Jaimee Bird on Showtym Image with a 1st and 2nd in the 95cm classes and Emma Waite on Airborne Majic.

Emma was clear in Round 1 but had a rail down in the jump-off. She had a double clear in Round 2 but was unplaced overall in the 105cm class.

The team (pictured above, left to right) was – Megan Harrison on Timunga Skylark (80cm height); Emma Waite (standing) – Airborne Majic (105cm); James Sheate on Phantom Power (95cm) and Jaimee Bird on Showtym Image (95cm).

South Island Secondary Schools’ Tennis Championships Played in Timaru at the beginning of March the Ashburton College Senior Mixed Tennis Team (pictured below) was exposed to tough competition en route to earning a 3rd placing overall.

A dominant St Andrew’s College team this year took out the Mixed Team Division of the Championships.

Similarly, Burnside High School proved to be tough competition for both the Ashburton boys and girls.

Ashburton’s boys had closer games against Roncalli College while the girls had more convincing victories.

Chris Thompson, teaching staff member and sailing coach, said this was the strongest College team to contest competitions so far.

This was the first time this Regatta has been held since 2010, due to earthquake implications, which has affected competition numbers.

(Pictured left, left to right) – the winning team of Matt Arnold, Josh Heney, Maisie Fleming, Gemma Duncan, Jesse Woods, Josh Collins, Tom Norton, George Yeatman and Ross Allott.

To win the event the top two placings of each school is taken, over three different classes of yachts.

College’s results in achieving the overall win were: Laser Class Mixed Class Sunburst Class

Optimist Class

(Pictured right, far left and front) Josh Collins and Tom Norton setting off in Picolo’s.

Mainland Secondary Schools’ Futsal Championships (Indoor Soccer) The Mainland Tournament held in Christchurch on 9-10 March was the inaugural one for a team from Ashburton College. The tournament represented a shift for players more accustomed to the 11-a-side football game.

Futsal is a game which has five players on the court at a time. Each game lasts for 24 minutes with a half time at the 12 minute mark. Teams can sub players throughout the game.

The tournament proved challenging for Ashburton but pleasingly the team reflected on each performance and adjusted their strategy after each game accordingly to best suit, including more regular subs.

In their pool (Pool B of six teams) College gained two draws, one against Greymouth High School and another against Linwood College, both at 2-all.

Although Ashburton College suffered a first round loss to St Andrew’s College (1-4) the score didn’t reflect some tight defence.

College’s late, and developing run, saw them claw back a 0-3 deficit to finish with a narrow loss to Buller High School 2-3. The team also went down to a strong Christ’s College team, 1-5.

The Ashburton College Phoenix Team is looking forward to participating in this tournament again in 2014.

(Pictured above, back row left to right): JunJun Qin, Stuart Kirkaldie, Matt Boote, Zac Plumb.

(Front row, left to right): Andrew Hawthorne, Caleb Tuck, Laurent Fifield.

Forthcoming Events March 20 21 22 23-24 25 27 28 29

April 01-06 01 02 04

Left to right: Stacey Hopwood, Ashleigh Leonard, Ryan Hampton and Aidan Mitchell. Absent: Christal Brosnahan

1st Jesse Woods; 2nd Ross Allott 3rd Tom Norton; 6th Josh Collins 1st Josh Heney/Matt Arnold 2nd Maisie Fleming/ Gemma Duncan 4th George Yeatman

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Summer Tournament Teams as shown on the first page.

Year 11AGR/PIA Practical Skills Day, Chertsey University of Otago Junior Mathematics Competition, Years 9-11 Year 11AGR/PIA Practical Skills Day, Chertsey Year 13 AGH/Year 11 PIA, Lincoln Mufti-Day. Proceeds to Ronald McDonald House.

College Tramping Club, Pinnacles Hut, Mt Somers South Island Secondary Schools’ Mountain Biking Championships, Dunedin Liaison Visit: Nick Williams, Telford - to Agriculture classes during the day Ash-Dance, 7:00pm, Ashburton Trust Event Centre Year 9 Parent-Caregiver Interview Evening, Hotel Ashburton Aoraki Swimming Championships, Year 12 Ag Course, Chertsey Year 9 Parent/Caregiver/Teacher Interviews, Hotel Ashburton, 6:00pm Teacher Only Day – normal classes will not be operating Easter Friday holiday Pascal Gymnasium student group from Grevenbroich, Germany Easter Monday holiday Easter Tuesday holiday Aoraki Golf Tournament, Timaru General Studies class, First Aid Course, St John Rooms, Ashburton College Information Evening, 5:00pm General Studies class, First Aid Course, St John Rooms, Ashburton South Island Secondary Schools’ Athletics

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There were big hits, big plays and big scores Mid Canterbury Softball crowned their open grade and little league champions on Saturday.

In the open grade Revival Series final the Rusty Demons were too slick, out-gunning the Fairfield Marines 16-6.

The Revival Rebels had too much in the tank for the Hampstead Hawks to claim third.

The Cardinals and Tigers played out a high scoring, hard fought Little League final but it was the Cardinals who closed out for a 19-14 win.

In the battle for third the Pirates overcame the Methven Mad Dogs.

The other junior grades will wind up this Saturday.

Hampstead Blue and the Tinwald White Sox will square off in the T-ball final.

Hampstead Blue hammered the Netherby Nixons 30-18 and the White Sox clinched their spot with a close 26-23 win over Borough.

The Hampstead All Stars and the Netherby Dodgers took different paths to the slow pitch final.

The All Stars annihilated the Rakia Royals 21-4 while the Dodgers edged out the Tinwald Black Sox 9-8.

Right: Fairfield Marines’ Bernard Patea hits a pitch into the outfield during the Revival Series final on Saturday.

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College cricketers collapse again

By Jonathan Leask

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The struggles to score runs have continued for the College 1st XI, falling to a nine wicket loss to St Bedes in the Canterbury Secondary Schools cricket competition on Saturday.

College stunned St Bedes with a

three wicket win in their last meeting, College’s first win of the new season, but second time around their bowling wasn’t able to save the day after being asked to bat first and only managing 119.

Opener Tom Dudley made a patient 24 but the top order crumbled to be 47-5.

Jack Dudley made 22 in a cru-

cial sixth wicket partnership that slowed the momentum of the St Bedes bowlers as Jack Gill played stubborn defence, holding on for 66 balls for just four runs before his eventual departure made it 85/8.

Edze Bierema provided some impetus at the end of the innings making 19 not out as College

finished up 119/9 after 50 overs.

The College bowlers made an early breakthrough at 19/1, but the second wicket partnership combined for the winning 100run stand, getting home in the 23rd over.

Jack Dudley was the lone wicket taker with 1/19 from his fiver overs.

Fergie urging Man U to remain focused

By Ian Whittell Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson warned his team not to get carried away by believing they can romp to a record English Premier League triumph.

United are 15 points clear at the top after their 1-0 home win over Reading yesterday which followed defending champion Manchester City’s 2-0 defeat at Everton.

But Ferguson refused to be complacent despite United being in a position to win the title by a record margin.

The 18 points by which United won the 2000 championship from Arsenal remains the largest winning cushion, not only in the history of Premier League but in top-flight English football. “They can say what they like. “You don’t get points or medals for being complacent and we won’t be,� said Ferguson. “It wasn’t a great performance but ... where we are today is not down to today - it’s down to the previous six months. “The team has shown great consistency and played a lot of great football and the goal difference over City is big now - 15 points.�

Match winner Wayne Rooney echoed his manager and refused to get carried away by the commanding gap, a margin which looks certain to bring them a 20th English league championship. “You have to be professional. “We know we’re in a fantastic position with nine games to go and 15 points clear but we have to go out and do our job week in, week out,� he said.

Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen has produced a superbly timed run to claim his second Australian Grand Prix.

Surviving on just two pit stops, the 2007 world champion clung on

Waitakere United claimed their fourth straight ASB Premiership title with a 4-3 extra-time win over rivals Auckland City FC in a thrilling grand final yesterday.

Allan Pearce headed home the winner in the first half of extratime in a match that had four lead changes and 11 cards, one red, to earn Waitakere their fifth title. Earlier, 10-man Auckland looked set to win their fifth title when Chris Bale put them ahead 3-2 in the 89th minute. However golden boot winner Roy Krishna sent the match into extra-time in the 90th minute, his second goal of the match.

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• Coulthard ‘inspired’ Two years after the late Jason Richards was the story of the V8 Supercars exhibition round at the Australian Grand Prix, his former teammates honoured his memory with victory. With Richards’ wife Charlotte and his children watching on, Kiwi Fabian Coulthard led Brad Jones Racing in dominating the four races over the weekend.

The fourth and final race might have been won by another Kiwi in rookie Scott McLaughlin but it was Coulthard’s weekend in the Lockwood Racing Commodore, closely followed by teammate Jason Bright in the Team BOC - APNZ Holden.

• Hawks look to swoop

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Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, (right) scores via a deflection off Reading’s Alex Pearce in yesterday’s match.

Victory for United against Sunderland in their next game, in two weeks, coupled with a City defeat would build Ferguson’s side an 18-point advantage ahead of the Manchester derby at Old Trafford.

A win for United in that fixture, on April 8, would leave City mathematically unable to overhaul United’s point tally in the seven remaining matches.

Everton’s win temporarily put them into fifth place, but they slipped back to sixth after Arsenal won 2-0 at Swansea City to move

to within two points of fourthplaced Chelsea. January signing Nacho Monreal and Gervinho struck late in the game at the Liberty Stadium as Arsene Wenger’s side responded in positive fashion to their mid-week elimination from the Champions League.

Meanwhile, Liverpool lost ground in the race for European qualification after losing 3-1 at Southampton. Morgan Schneiderlin put Southampton ahead at St Mary’s, before Rickie Lambert doubled the hosts’ lead with a deflected free-kick.

Philippe Coutinho replied for Liverpool on the stroke of halftime, but Rodriguez made sure of victory in the 80th minute as Mauricio Pochettino’s side pulled seven points clear of the relegation places.

Queens Park Rangers were left seven points adrift of safety at the foot of the table after losing 3-2 to relegation rivals Aston Villa in a thrilling encounter at Villa Park.

In the day’s other game, Stoke City failed to reverse their disappointing recent form in a goalless draw at home to West Bromwich Albion.

- AFP-AAP

Raikkonen wins second Australian GP

By Robert Grant

• Four for Waitakere

to win by 12.4 seconds from the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso with triple world champion Sebastian Vettel third.

Raikkonen, who also won at Albert Park in his title-winning year, sent out a message that Lotus was set to fight for the Formula One championship, rather than be

the outside hope it was last year.

The Finn’s team-mate Romain Grosjean also finished in the points, crossing the line in 10th spot.

Mark Webber’s chances were again ruined by his trademark slow start.

After qualifying in second spot,

the veteran was swamped when the lights went out, a sitting duck for those behind.

Before the end of the opening lap, the Australian had dropped from second to seventh place, his hopes left in tatters.

Vettel had no such issues, leading from pole position.

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Competition pacesetters and favoured NBL grand finalists New Zealand and Perth clash in next week’s final round, but Wollongong have emerged as the favourite for one of the other two playoff spots. The ladder-leading Breakers (24-3) strolled to a 16th straight win with a crushing 114-84 home win over Melbourne. Slumping Melbourne (10-16) suffered a potentially fatal double strike to their finals ambitions in the second last round, as they lost 75-73 at Townsville (10-16) yesterday. Wollongong (12-15) consolidated third spot with a 81-74 home victory over fellow finals aspirants and intra-state - AAP rivals Sydney (11-16).

• Djokovic streak over Novak Djokovic’s 22-match winning streak on the tennis court ended at the hands of an inspired Juan Martin del Potro, who beat the Serbian star 4-6 6-4 6-4 to reach the Indian Wells Masters final. Djokovic had not lost a match since falling to Sam Querrey at the Paris Masters on October 31. His 17 wins this year included a run to a fourth Australian Open title and a triumph in Dubai. “It’s OK. It happens in sport,â€? Djokovic said. “I just didn’t make it this time.â€?

A well-judged forehand to the corner gave him a second break point in the game, and when Djokovic sailed a backhand long, del Potro found himself serving for the match. He polished it off in style, with a 214kph ace.

In the final, Argentine seventh seed del Potro will face 11-time grand slam champion Rafael - AFP Nadal.

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Today’s Racing Rotorua fields, form, riders Racing Rotorua Venue: Rotorua Meeting Date: 18 Mar 2013 NZ Meeting number : 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.23pm (NZT) ROTORUA MITSUBISHI 2200 RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2200m 1 97229 Carniva Boy (7) 59............................. M Hills 2 4223x Mr Composed m (6) 58.......... A Morgan (a3) 3 07403 Firekeeper (8) 57............................ J Riddell 4 6039x Tobouggie Nights m (3) 57............M Tanaka 5 4x89x Yamanaura (5) 57...........................C Perrett 6 9Fx5x The Democrat (4) 56.5.... K Kalychurun (a4) 7 75544 Amanpulo td (1) 54.5................. M D Plessis 8 6909x Eh Wanda (2) 54..........................T Thornton 2 12.58pm SPEEDY SIGNS-EMBROIDEME 1950 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1950m 1 4858x Banna Strand m (2) 58.5................... M Hills 2 88229 Ryan John (7) 58.5......................... J Riddell 3 55920 Gordyfromgreatbarr (5) 58.5........T Thornton 4 389x5 Rock Express (1) 58.5................M Coleman 5 x060x Montopoli (6) 58.5.......................... R Norvall 6 0x97x Imagunakepa (3) 56.5.............. P Turner (a1) 7 8467 Favourite Girl (8) 56............................J Jago 8 x0087 Corsicana (4) 56.............................. S Spratt 3 1.33pm ILES CASEY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 1200 $7000, MDN F&M, 1200m

1 4535. Wai Iti (1) 57.5...........................J Oliver (a4) 2 Idaho’s Halo h (7) 57.5....................S Collett 3 4537x Capistrano Magic (5) 57............ M D Plessis 4 025x Bay Dancer (2) 57........................... J Riddell 5 4 Legless 57.................................... Scratched 6 Leslie’s Legacy (4) 57..................T Thornton 7 4849x Pantana (6) 57.................................R Jones 8 Luen Yat Diva (3) 57.......................... M Hills 4 2.08pm MARKS EWEN & ASSOCIATES 3YO MAIDEN $7000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 48x62 Command (5) 57.5...........................S Collett 2 76. Havataste (6) 57.5.......................... J Riddell 3 220x2 Kisses b (2) 55.5..........................T Thornton 4 4 Legless (4) 55.5..........................M Coleman 5 49x Carolina Island b (8) 55.5.......... M D Plessis 6 69x9x Let’s Divorce (3) 55.5..........................J Jago 7 5 Manacor (1) 55.5............................. S Spratt 8 9x Subrideo (7) 55.5.............................R Jones 5 2.43pm WAIKATO BRANCH NZ FARRIERS ASSOCIATION 1560 $7000, MDN, 1560m 1 90809 Callmelou (3) 58.5.......................T Thornton 2 6250x High Society b (4) 58...............B Hutton (a4) 3 78275 Rule Breaker (6) 58........................... M Hills 4 875 Alicia (1) 56.5..............................M Coleman 5 05843 Anyx (8) 56................................ A Collett (a)

6 5 So Elite (5) 56............................ M D Plessis 7 Candy Girl (2) 56.............................S Collett 8 x0087 Corsicana (7) 56.............................. S Spratt 6 3.18pm ON LOCATION SERVICES 1560 RATING 75 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1560m 1 50060 Is Da Chief (6) 59....................... L Satherley 2 4530x Zenocoin m (1) 59............................. M Hills 3 47263 Just Call Me Bond t (3) 57.5.......M Coleman 4 31106 Virginia Wade td (7) 56.5........... M D Plessis 5 L380x Petushki m (4) 56.5..... A Morgan (a3) 6 00x17 Dreams Maker h (2) 56.................... S Spratt 7 2101 Survived (5) 55.5...........................M Tanaka 8 03281 Mrs Neat (8) 54.5.............................R Jones 9 05222 Sateka (9) 54...............................T Thornton 7 3.53pm DAWSON INSURANCE BROKERS 1400 RATING 65 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 x2x30 Amadeo t (2) 58......................... A Collett (a) 2 63x51 Oraka Prince (6) 58.........................S Collett 3 34615 Gold Rock d (10) 57.5.................... J Riddell 4 x750x Affaire D’Honneur t (5) 56.5.......J Oliver (a4) 5 6769x Candidly (4) 55.......................... M D Plessis 6 5768x Noah Jon tdm (8) 55...................M Coleman 7 60755 Wainui Prince m (9) 55................T Thornton 8 x988x Kiwi Chief tm (7) 54.5....................M Tanaka 9 43935 Dontdyewonderin h (1) 54................. M Hills

10 28x90 Tamsyn Rose m (3) 54............... L Satherley 8 4.28pm TOWNLEY TRENCHING & ELECTRICAL 1400 MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 34 Totolo (3) 58.5..............................T Thornton 2 7 Mistarox (6) 58.5 3 2720x Catalan King (7) 58.................... M D Plessis 4 Whatwasthat (8) 58.....................M Coleman 5 43324 Sunseka b (2) 56.5......................... J Riddell 6 539x Sophie Claire (1) 56.5...................... S Spratt 7 5. Electric Fizz (5) 56........... K Kalychurun (a4) 8 69x9x Let’s Divorce (4) 56.............................J Jago Blinkers on : High Society, Anyx (R5) Blinkers off : Rock Express (R2), Let’s Divorce (R4), Catalan King, Let’s Divorce (R8) Winkers on : Amanpulo (R1), Kisses (R4) Winkers off : High Society, Rule Breaker (R5) Collar on : Amadeo (R7) SELECTION Race 1: Amanpulo, Firekeeper, Carniva Boy, Mr Composed Race 2: Ryan John, Gordyfromgreatbarr, Favourite Girl Race 3: Leslie’s Legacy, Wai Iti, Capistrano Magic, Bay Dancer Race 4: Carolina Island, Kisses, Command, Legless, Manacor Race 5: High Society, Rule Breaker, So Elite, Candy Girl, Alicia Race 6: Just Call Me Bond, Survived, Mrs Neat, Virginia Wade Race 7: Oraka Prince, Gold Rock, Wainui Prince, Candidly Race 8: Totolo, Catalan King, Sunseka, Sophie Claire, Let’s Divorce

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Rain Affair back for Canterbury Stakes

By Caryl Williamson Joe Pride is solid in his belief Rain Affair can fulfil his Group One potential but admits he has a tough assignment if it is to be this week.

Rain Affair runs first-up in the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill where he will have to beat a star studded field including More Joyous and Pierro.

But Pride doesn’t believe it is necessarily a match race between the Gai Waterhouse-trained stablemates.

“It is a tough race to start off in,” Pride said.

“But I’m very happy with him and his barrier trials have been just what I wanted to see.”

More Joyous has won the past two runnings of the Canterbury Stakes which is being run this year at Group One level for the first time.

Although eight of Rain Affair’s wins have been on rain-affected tracks, he has performed with the best on top of the ground.

He won last year’s Group Two Apollo Stakes on a good track and

ran Group One seconds in the TJ Smith and All Aged Stakes won respectively by Master Of Design and Atlantic Jewel.

“There’s no doubting he performs better than a lot of other horses in the wet,” Pride said.

Rain Affair had an operation on a knee after two unplaced runs in the spring and has won two barrier trials leading into his return.

His program will again encompass the TJ Smith and the All Aged.

Also making his return in the Canterbury Stakes after a summer break

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10 45887 Homebush Colt nwtd.................J McInerney 4 1.15pm MANAWATU RACEWAY C1/2 C1/2, 457m 1 11111 Ostapchuk 26.18...............................L Ahern 2 77434 Deceiver 26.24.................................M Olden 3 87886 Opawa Chance (c1) nwtd..........J McInerney 4 88457 Shodsie nwtd U &....................... McCracken 5 Box Vacant.................................... Scratched 6 23578 Bigtime Latte 26.65...........................L Ahern 7 84345 Asher 26.19......................................R Waite 8 54621 Opawa Stu 26.54..............................G Quirk 5 1.42pm PETER SINCLAIR PHOTO FINAL C2f, 375m 1 12223 Red Crystal nwtd........................ B Hodgson 2 85462 Opawa Charlie (c1) nwtd.................S Maher 3 57723 Winsome Achiever nwtd................A Speight 4 xP244 Miss Foley 22.29............................J Harland 5 54561 Bound By Pride (c3) 21.66...............G Quirk 6 45563 Thrilling Halo 21.80........................M Gowan 7 62274 Jimmy Jurante nwtd...................J McInerney 8 44251 Homebush Alex (c3) 21.64........J McInerney 9 51254 Crystal Wave 22.01..................... B Hodgson 10 85665 Opawa Blaze nwtd S &....................B Evans 6 2.00pm CLOVERLEA DASH C1/2 C1/2, 375m 1 66777 Bimboo 21.85 2 24545 Fire Boy Baxter 22.13................J McInerney 3 51254 Crystal Wave 22.01..................... B Hodgson 4 87755 Bulet Tooth Tony 21.65......................R Waite 5 67778 Scott Me Going 22.03 U &.......... McCracken 6 23334 Red Moova Hoova 22.11 G &.............Denby 7 4F732 Your On Fire 22.06...................... B Johnston 8 53715 Diggin’ On You 22.12................... B Johnston 9 44878 Maxi’s Mate (c1) nwtd............... S Gommans 10 45887 Homebush Colt (c1) nwtd..........J McInerney 7 2.27pm FEILDING SPRINT C3 C3, 375m 1 82524 Trinity Boy nwtd F &........................Turnwald 2 21877 Juke Box Boy 21.69................. L MacDonald 3 66747 Glenaddis Boy 21.75 G &...................Denby

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4 12241 Uno Allegro (c4) 21.74......................L Ahern 5 25386 Okuku Wee Man nwtd U &......... McCracken 6 82738 Chelseas Babe 22.02................... T Downey 7 86466 Parra Sparra 21.70....................J McInerney 8 21155 Surf Quake nwtd U &.................. McCracken 9 43877 Another Snazza 22.76...............J McInerney 10 78858 Okuku Skyhigh nwtd U &............ McCracken 8 2.51pm MARTON STAKES C3 C3, 457m 1 87662 Okuku Dreamer nwtd U &........... McCracken 2 11114 Bee Rabbit 26.43..............................L Ahern 3 83753 Regal Dancer 26.21.................... B Hodgson 4 75474 Upahut Cindy 26.47.................... B Hodgson 5 Box Vacant.................................... Scratched 6 88868 Lindop 26.82..............................J McInerney 7 23431 El Jetta (c4) 26.41............................L Ahern 8 88787 Ode To Liberty 26.42........................R Waite 9 3.09pm WWW.RACINGDOGS.CO.NZ C4 C4, 375m 1 31778 Krussian 21.59...................................D Edlin 2 88746 Chelsea’s Beauty(c3) 21.75.......... T Downey 3 23213 Hey You nwtd......................................W Kite 4 42463 Little Blackspot 21.27.................D MacAuley 5 86413 George Baxter 21.91.................J McInerney 6 55244 Bigtime Jet 21.77..............................L Ahern 7 12116 Time’s Up 0.00 G &............................Denby 8 11217 Kazillion 21.83...................................D Edlin 9 8568x Tilt Your Glass 21.55..................D MacAuley 10 56656 Donky Deep 21.69 G &.......................Denby 10 3.42pm SHANNON DASH C5 C5, 375m 1 13221 Daddy Lowe 21.17............................L Ahern 2 44157 Sassafras 21.68 U &................... McCracken 3 42172 Thrilling Havoc nwtd.........................G Quirk 4 21311 Chemically Free 21.56.....................M Olden 5 14431 Bob’s Your Uncle 21.68......................R Hunt 6 41165 Trendy Knocka’s 21.65......................L Ahern 7 86111 Mirage 21.32 F &............................Turnwald 8 F6152 Wise Crack Lad 21.76.....................M Olden

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6.00 Creflo Dollar. 6.30 Hi-5. (G, R, T) 7.00 Pinky And Perky. (G, R, T) 7.25 Back At The Barnyard. (G, R, T) 7.55 Ben 10. (T) 8.20 Dinosaur Train. (G, R, T) 8.30 Guess How Much I Love You. (T) 8.45 Fireman Sam. (R, T) 8.55 Bird Bath. (G, R, T) 9.00 Infomercials.

10.30 Neighbours. (R, T) 11.00 Shortland Street. (PGR, R, T) 11.30 Spin City. (R, T) 12.00 Desperate Housewives. (AO, R, T) 1.00 Jeremy Kyle.

2.00 Anderson Live.

3.00 Everything’s Rosie. (T) 3.15 Mike The Knight. (G, T) 3.30 Kung Fu Panda. (G, T) 4.00 H2o Just Add Water.

(G, R, T) 4.30 The Erin Simpson Show.

5.00 Horace In Slow Motion.

(G, R) 5.01 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (G, R, T) 5.30 8 Simple Rules. (G, R, T)

6.00 8.30 10.30 11.30

6.00 Friends. (G, R, T) 6.30 Neighbours. (T) 7.00 Shortland Street.

(PGR, T) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules. (T) 8.50 The Big Bang Theory.

(R, T) With Leonard, Howard and Raj away camping in the desert, an injured Penny has only Sheldon to rely on.

9.45 Kitchen Nightmares.

(AO, T) 10.45 Necessary Roughness.

(PGR, T) 11.40 Hot In Cleveland. (PGR, R, T)

6.00 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.30

12.40 Off The Map. (AO, R, T) 1.40 Infomercials. 2.35 Rizzoli & Isles.

(AO, R) 3.25 Secret Life Of The American Teenager. (PGR, R) 4.15 Emmerdale. (PGR, R, T) 5.05 The Erin Simpson Show. (R) 5.30 Infomercials.

12.00 12.30 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 5.30

3 News: Firstline.

Infomercials. (G) The Shopping Channel.

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

Home And Away. (G, R, T) Dr Phil. (AO) The Dr Oz Show. (PGR) The Biggest Loser Australia. (G) Rachael Ray. (G) Entertainment Tonight.

(G) Home And Away. (G, T) Casey won’t give a statement, even if it means he will go back to jail, Tamara gives Casey an ultimatum, and Romeo has an x-ray on his shoulder.

3 News.

Campbell Live.

Crime Exposed. (PGR, T) Territory Cops. (PGR, T) Grand Designs Australia. (G, R, T) Peter Riedel and his interior designer wife Mary attempt to re-build the 1870s church on their property, overlooking Wilsons Promontory.

9.30 The Blue Rose. (AO, T) Jane finds Linda has secrets, as Simon wants her to go away with him, possibly for somthing more then work.

10.35 Nightline.

11.15 The Americans. (AO) 12.15 Infomercials. (G) 5.00 Joyce Meyer. 5.30 City Impact Church.

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8.30 Up All Night. (PGR) Reagan and Chris look for a family car that’s

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Emergencies: 9 12674 Moody Man 21.73..............................D Edlin 10 32446 Tiz Now 21.68 F &..........................Turnwald 11 4.09pm FOXTON STAKES C1 C1, 457m 1 25415 Cawbourne Anna nwtd..............J McInerney 2 31111 Rene Ranger (c2) nwtd....................L Ahern 3 22328 Eric’s Song 26.56........................ B Johnston 4 78884 Wandy Kyle 26.14......................J McInerney 5 P6466 Mission Drive nwtd...........................M Olden 6 61543 Just Mac 26.35........................... B Hodgson 7 32764 Big Girl Welshy nwtd..................J McInerney 8 46687 Heroism nwtd.................................... J Tapiki 12 4.41pm BULLS STAKES C4/5 C4/5, 457m 1 82433 Sam I Am (c5) 26.33....................A Turnwald 2 11845 Tepirita Rita (c4) 26.16................A Turnwald 3 11378 Sammy James (c4) 26.22.................L Ahern 4 11486 Unprofessional (c5) 26.11 F &........Turnwald 5 11628 Cob Webber (c5) nwtd F &.............Turnwald 6 53338 Retaliate First (c4) 26.14 F &.........Turnwald 7 78585 Emma Marie (c4) 26.46................ T Downey 8 28377 Corteccia (c5) 26.37....................A Turnwald SELECTIONS Race 1: Cosmic Zoom, Flirt Academy, Fastback King, Paw No More Race 2: Charming Nev, Miss Foxy Minx, That’s King, Sedgebrook Lad Race 3: Izzy Dagg, Sedgebrook Skite, Majma, Motor Mouth Race 4: Ostapchuk, Opawa Stu, Bigtime Latte, Deceiver, Shodsie Race 5: Red Crystal, Opawa Charlie (c1), Homebush Alex Race 6: Fire Boy Baxter, Red Moova Hoova, Crystal Wave, Bimboo Race 7: Uno Allegro (c4), Trinity Boy, Glenaddis Boy, Parra Sparra Race 8: Bee Rabbit, El Jetta (c4), Okuku Dreamer, Regal Dancer Race 9: Little Blackspot, Krussian, Bigtime Jet, George Baxter Race 10: Daddy Lowe, Chemically Free, Thrilling Havoc, Mirage Race 11: Rene Ranger (c2), Eric’s Song, Just Mac, Wandy Kyle Race 12: Unprofessional (c5), Sam I Am (c5), Cob Webber

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Pariah (6,7) Pace (5) Mid-day (4) Powerful (6) Biased (3-5) Pull out (7) 25th Anniversary (6,7) Haphazardly (2,6) Trumpet-call (7) World-wide (6) Allude (5) Morose (4)

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Across: 3 Fortitude; 8 Lard; 9 Territory; 10 Ponder; 11 Rebel; 14 Ample; 15 Rest; 16 Taunt; 18 Curb; 20 Ashen; 21 Trite; 24 Terror; 25 Forgotten; 26 Mien; 27 Brutality.

Down: 1 Flippancy; 2 Transport; 4 Over; 5 Terse; 6 Titter; 7 Dark; 9 Tenet; 11 Rouse; 12 Lethargic; 13 Itinerant; 17 Taken; 19 Bright; 22 Total; 23 Poor; 24 Tent.

Across: 1 Satan; 4 Profess; 8 Comfort; 9 Extol; 10 Agog; 11 Indicate; 13 Fate; 14 Felt; 16 Tentacle; 17 Drub; 20 Award; 21 Baleful; 22 Thermal; 23 Merge.

Down: 1 Social outcast; 2 Tempo; 3 Noon; 4 Potent; 5 One-sided; 6 Extract; 7 Silver Jubilee; 12 At random; 13 Fanfare; 15 Global; 18 Refer; 19 Glum.

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

(G, R) 7.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 7.30 Home Shopping. (G) 12.00 The Doctors. (G) 1.00 The Jeff Probst Show.

(G) 2.05 All Saints. (PGR, R) Adam faces death when mindless violence spills into the All Saints ED, and Frank accidentally discovers the appalling secret Katerina is carrying.

3.00 Stargate Universe.

(PGR, R) Dr. Rush and Col. Young are stranded aboard an alien ship.

4.00 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G, R) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (G, R) 5.30 Prime News.

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Hall Pass

Sky Movies, 10.05pm Films by the Farrelly brothers often have a ludicrous premise, such as the hypnotism in Shallow Hal, but the set up of Hall Pass may take the cake for the most unlikely yet. Two men, (Jason Sudeikis, below, Owen Wilson) and whose wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) are fed up with their immature behaviour, are given a week off from being married to carry on as they’d like, although predictably it turns out to be less fun than they thought.

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

The Crowd Goes Wild.

Tony Robinson Down Under. (G) 8.30 Never Mind The Buzzcocks. (AO) British presenter and DJ Tim Westwood resides over a musical battle of wits between two teams,.

9.00 Qi. (PGR) Join Stephen Fry and Alan Davies for a whole new series of the hit show where life’s facts, often unusual but always fascinating, are pondered upon.

9.35 60 Minutes. (G)

10.35 The Late Show With David Letterman. (G) 11.30 Cricket. ANZ Test Series. Second Test. New Zealand v England. From the Basin Reserve, Wellington. Highlights.

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

FOUR 6.00 Sesame Street. (G, R) 6.55 Pingu. (G, R) 7.00 Sticky TV. (G, R) 7.30 Avatar: The Last Airbender. (G) 7.55 George Of The Jungle. (G) 8.20 Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. (G) 8.45 HUMF. (G) 8.50 Bob The Builder. (G, R) 9.00 Thomas & Friends.

(G, R) 9.10 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.15 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 9.20 Barney And Friends. (G, R) 9.45 Raa Raa The Noisy Lion. (G, R) 9.55 Infomercials. (G) 2.00 Sesame Street. (G) 2.55 Peppa Pig. (G, R) 3.00 Sticky TV. (G)

is the Queenslander Solzhenitsyn.

The six-year-old won the Toorak Handicap in the spring to give premier Brisbane trainer Rob Heathcote his second Group One victory, his first coming earlier in the year with Woorim in the Oakleigh Plate.

Heathcote was forced to retire Woorim last week when the gelding’s ongoing hoof problems made it impossible to continue his racing career.

Damian Browne, who won the Oakleigh Plate on Woorim, sticks with the stable and rides Solzhenitsyn in the Canterbury Stakes. - AAP TURF

not too boring, and Chris goes into negotiating mode.

9.00 Whitney. (PGR) 9.30 The Mindy Project. (PGR) Mindy offers a job to an ex-con after she’s put in charge of hiring a new nurse.

10.00 Community. (PGR, R) A competitive Dean Pelton asks the study group to refurbish an old flight simulator in order to stay on par with a rival college.

10.30 Alphas. (AO, R) A dangerous Alpha cult leader bewitches Hicks and Nina.

11.25 Entertainment Tonight. (G) 11.50 Infomercials. (G)

sky sPORt 1 7.00 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Australian Grand Prix.

From Albert Park, Melbourne. Replay.

9.30 Cricket. New Zealand v England. 2nd Test Day Four. From The Basin Reserve, Wellington. Highlights.

10.00 Cricket. New Zealand v England. 2nd Test Day Five. Morning Session. The Basin Reserve, Wellington. Live.

1.05 Cricket. New Zealand v England. 2nd Test Day Five. Afternoon Session. The Basin Reserve, Wellington. Live.

5.30 Soccer. A-League. Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix. Highlights.

6.30 Basketball. NBL. NZ Breakers v Melbourne Tigers. Highlights.

7.30 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Hurricanes. From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

Highlights.

8.30 Rugby. NRL. Rabbitohs v Sharks.

11.00 Darts. Premier League. Manchester.

Replay.

2.00 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby.

Highlanders v Hurricanes. From Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin.

Replay.

4.00 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby.

Waratahs v Cheetahs. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney. Replay.

the bOx 6.00 NYPD Blue. (M) 6.50 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.15 Pawn Stars. (PG) 7.40 America’s Funniest Home Videos. (PG) 8.05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 8.30 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 8.55 24. (M) 9.50 Law & Order. (M) 10.40 Main Event.

(M) 11.30 Smackdown. (M) 1.15 NYPD Blue. (M) 2.10 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG) 2.35 Cash Cab. (PG) 3.05 24. (M) 4.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 4.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 5.00 Law & Order. (M) 6.00 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG) 7.00 Pawn Stars. (PG) 7.30 NCIS. (PG) 8.30 CSI: New York. (M) Mac and the team lose the Compass Killer at the World’s Fair site, and it’s only a matter of time before he targets the next victim.

9.30 CSI: New York. (M) 10.30 Law & Order. (M) 11.30 NCIS. (PG) 12.30 24. (M) 1.20 America’s Funniest Home Videos.

(PG) 1.45 Cash Cab USA. (PG) 2.10 NYPD Blue. (M) 3.05 CSI: New York. (M) 4.45 24. (M) 5.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PG)

sky sPORt 2 6.00 Golf. US PGA Tour. Tampa Bay Championship. Round Four. Live.

11.00 Golf. European PGA Tour. Avantha Masters Round Four. Highlights.

12.00 Golf. OneAsia Tour. Thailand Open.

Round Four. Highlights.

1.00 Investec Super Rugby Review.

2.00 Rugby. Investec Super Rugby. Kings v Chiefs. Highlights.

3.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham.

Highlights.

4.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Everton v Manchester City. Highlights.

5.00 Premier League Review.

6.00 Investec Super Rugby Review.

7.00 SKY ARENA Access.

7.30 Crowd Goes Wild.

8.00 Cricket. New Zealand v England. 2nd Test Day Five. Highlights.

8.30 Motorsport. FIA Formula One Championship. Australian Grand Prix.

Highlights.

10.00 Motorsport. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Food City 500. Highlights.

11.00 Motorsport. NASCAR Nationwide Series. Highlights.

12.00 Soccer. A-League. Adelaide United v Newcastle Jets. Replay.

2.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham. Replay.

4.00 Soccer. English Premier League.

Everton v Manchester City. Replay.

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7.25 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

(2011, M) James Franco, Freida Pinto.

9.10 Tamara Drewe. (2010, M) Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans.

11.00 The Next Three Days. (2010, M) Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks.

1.10 21 Jump Street. (2012, 16) Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum.

3.00 Courageous. (2011, M) Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel.

5.10 One Day. (2011, M) Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess.

6.55 One For The Money. (2011, M) Katherine Heigl, Jason O’Mara.

Stephanie Plum is a newbie bounty hunter on the tail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.

8.30 The Mechanic. (2011, 16) Jason Statham, Ben Foster. An elite hit man teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.

10.05 Hall Pass. (2011, 16) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis.

11.50 Left In Darkness. (2006, 16) Monica Keena, David Anders.

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

3.05 Secrets In The Walls. (2010, M) Jeri Ryan.

4.30 Hall Pass. (2011, 16) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis.

6.20 The Peacemaker. (1997, M) George Clooney, Nicole Kidman.

8.20 Legally Blonde. (2001, PG) Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson.

9.55 Pearl Harbor. (2001, M) Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale.

12.55 The World’s Fastest Indian. (2006, PG) Anthony Hopkins.

3.05 The Peacemaker. (1997, M) George Clooney, Nicole Kidman.

5.10 Legally Blonde 2. (2003, PG) Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field.

6.45 Saw. (2004, 18) Cary Elwes, Danny Glover. Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a sadistic serial killer abducts two men and forces them to play horrific games for their own survival. 2004.

8.30 Saw 2. (2005, 18) Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell. Jigsaw is back! Eight strangers are forced to play another round of horrifying life-ordeath games. 2005.

10.05 The Pursuit Of Happyness. (2006, M) Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

12.00 Biography. Mad Mel. The Rise & Fall Of A Hollywood Icon. (2010, PG).

1.30 Legally Blonde 2. (2003, PG) Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field.

3.05 Saw. (2004, 18) Cary Elwes, Danny Glover.

4.45 Saw 2. (2005, 18) Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell.

DIsCOVeRy 6.30 7.30 8.30 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.30 1.00 1.30 2.30 3.00 3.30 4.30 5.30 6.30 7.30 8.00 8.30

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Dirty Jobs. (PG) American Loggers. (PG) Deadliest Catch. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Nightmare Next Door. (M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Stalked: Someone’s Watching. (M) I Was Murdered. (M) Disappeared. (M) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) Moonshiners. (M) Deadliest Catch. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Outlaw Empires. (M) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Swinging Pirates.

On this episode of MythBusters, The Hyneman and Captain Redbeard take a swing at a pirate movie myth while Kari, Tory and Grant roll out the barrel for a turbo charged go-cart.

Meteorite Men. (PG) A Haunting. (M) Deadly Sins. (M) I Shouldn’t Be Alive. (PG) Moonshiners. (M) Auction Kings. (PG) Auction Hunters. (PG) MythBusters. (PG) Meteorite Men. (PG) A Haunting. (M)

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shINe 6.00 Life Questions 6.30 Unlocking the Bible 7.00 Buzz and Poppy 7.30 Bedbug Bible Gang 8.00 Paws and Tales 8.30 Impact for Life 9.00 In Touch 10.00 From Heartache to Hope 10.30 Life Questions 11.00 Hearts Wide Open 11.30 Why Dig That Up? 12.00 Impact for Life 12.30 Enjoying Everyday Life 1.00 The 700 Club 1.30 From Heartache to Hope 2.00 Give Me An Answer 2.30 Hearts Wide Open 3.00 Buzz and Poppy 3.30 Bedbug Bible Gang 4.00 Paws and Tales 4.30 Xtreme Life TV 5.00 YouthBytes 5.30 Why Dig That Up? 6.00 Life Questions 6.30 Destined to Reign 7.00 The 700 Club 7.30 Facing the Canon 8.00 The Way of the Master 8.30 THE BIBLE SERIES: Jesus 10.00 Impact for Life 10.30 The 700 Club 11.00 Hearts Wide Open 11.30 Why Dig That Up? 12.00 Give Me An Answer 12.30 In Touch 1.30 Life Questions 2.00 Impact for Life 2.30 THE BIBLE SERIES: Jesus 4.00 Hearts Wide Open 4.30 Why Dig That Up? 5.00 From Heartache to Hope 5.30 Connection Point

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Managing tired players key for Chiefs coach

By Patrick McKendry Dave Rennie doesn’t have Jamie Joseph’s injury problems, but the Chiefs’ coach will have to manage his team wisely ahead of Friday night’s match against the Highlanders.

It is a short turnaround for the Chiefs, who played Saturday morning NZT and will arrive home from South Africa only this morning after a journey of 30 hours.

Anti jet lag measures will be taken, but there are still sure to be some sleepless nights for Rennie’s players, who lost narrowly to the Stormers and beat the Southern Kings during their trip.

Rennie will be without No8 Ross Filipo, who injured his knee in his first game for the Chiefs and now faces a long stretch of rehabilitation from an ACL injury.

“It’s a long-term injury,” said Rennie. “It’s really gut-wrenching for him. He’s had an elbow injury and he got his first crack only for this to happen.”

Other players are beaten up.

Liam Messam, who celebrated his 100th game for the Chiefs in the 35-24 victory at Port Elizabeth, injured an ankle in a tackle late in the match and the joint was badly swollen after the match.

“Hopefully it won’t amount to much,” Rennie said.

On the positive side of things, lock Brodie Retallick’s hip injury stood up well - he entered the match from the reserves bench after not being able to train all week - and Sam Cane suffered no ill effects from the stitches in an ear put in after the Stormers match in Cape Town.

Lelia Masaga scored a hat-trick for the Chiefs as they put the Cheetahs away 35-24.

Rennie is expecting a “desperate” Highlanders at Waikato Stadium as Joseph’s men continue their search for a first win of the season.

However, their style shouldn’t come as a surprise.

“We’ve played them twice already this year, unbelievably,” said Rennie.

The Chiefs beat the Highlanders in a pre-season match in Taupo and accounted for them 41-27 in their first competition game of the season in Dunedin.

“We’ll have to be a hell of a lot better than we were [against Kings],” he said.

One particular area of concern will be the breakdown, where the Chiefs were again heavily penalised

and lost replacement halfback Augustine Pulu to the sinbin in the second half.

The week prior they lost both Tawera Kerr-Barlow and Nick Crosswell to the bin.

“It’s a major concern,” Rennie said.

“We seem to be counter-rucking okay, but as soon as we put our hands in we are getting penalised.

“Smithy [assistant coach Wayne Smith] has done a lot of work in that area and it’s disappointing.”

The Kings, who lost lock and captain Darron Nell before kick-off with a calf injury, scrapped and scrambled, but looked vulnerable when the Chiefs spread the ball.

Lelia Masaga, sporting a cut on his left cheek, cashed in with three tries; flanker Sam Cane, who replaced Filipo, scoring the other in the second half when bulldozing over from close range.

The Kings’ 18-year-old speedster Sergeal Pietersen, scored a popular 90m try just before halftime when capitalising on a misunderstanding between Aaron Cruden and Masaga, and No8 Jacques Englebrecht dived over from close range after Pulu’s departure.

The new kids on the block came closer to the Chiefs than was expected, which annoyed Rennie, but although he was disappointed with aspects of their win and narrow loss in Cape Town, where they got two bonus points, seven points from two games is a good haul in the Republic.

Chiefs 35 (Lelia Masaga 3, Sam Cane tries; Gareth Anscombe 3 cons, 3 pens). Kings 24 (Sergeal Pietersen, Jacques Engle-brecht tries; Demetri Catrakilis con, 4 pens).HT: 18-13.

- APNZ

Waratahs a tricky assignment

By Wynne Gray The Blues’ next rugby challenge shapes as a trapdoor fixture.

Their voyage across the ditch to play the Waratahs next Sunday will be a test on many fronts after their last round bye.

Momentum is a boon for any team and their staff in such a demanding programme as the Super 15.

When sides stutter they often find it difficult to regain their rhythm.

The Blues lost their last game against the Bulls and they need to find the sting which marked their opening work in the series.

On recent evidence, the Blues should beat the Waratahs who have managed just one win in their last 12 games and are struggling to connect with coach Michael Cheika’s philosophy. He wants them to keep the ball more and accepts there will be mishaps as the Waratahs try to adopt that unfamiliar strategy.

Similar heat is coming on the Blues to improve standards which dipped against the Bulls.

Coach John Kirwan and his col-

leagues will ramp up the Blues’ conviction in their ability to reproduce the style which saw off the Hurricanes and Crusaders. But that encouragement will be balanced with demands for greater accuracy and attention to game plans.

They have had time to mull over their best selection after a different set of players got some work in the loss to the Bulls.

Former All Black lock Anthony Boric may be getting closer to a place on the bench but former skipper Keven Mealamu will not make the trip despite linking up with the Blues again today after his sabbatical. He is likely to be on the bench for the following game with the Chiefs.

Hooker James Parsons, lock Culum Retallick and a fit No8 Peter Saili should return to the pack while the debate about Tom McCartney or new man Tim Perry at loosehead prop might be more competitive.

There is a strong case for George Moala to come back to the left wing while most discussion will come about the five-eighths general.

Chris Noakes began the season

SCOREBOARD Results Boxing

Timothy Bradley Jr v Ruslan Provodnikov Result from the WBO Welterweight fight yesterday: Timothy Bradley Jr (USA) bt Ruslan Provodnikov (RUS) on a unanimous points decision over 12 rounds.

Football English Premier League English Premier League results and standings Manchester United 1 (Rooney 21) Reading 0 Swansea 0 Arsenal 2 (Monreal 74, Gervinho 90+1) Southampton 3 (Schneiderlin 6, Lambert 33, Rodriguez 80) Liverpool 1 (Philippe Coutinho 45+1) Aston Villa 3 (Agbonlahor 45+3, Weimann 59, Benteke 81) QPR 2 (Jenas 23, Townsend 73) Stoke City 0 West Bromwich Albion 0 Everton 2 (Osman 32, Jelavic 90+3) Manchester City 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts Manchester United 29 24 2 3 69 31 74 Manchester City 29 17 8 4 51 26 59 Tottenham Hotspur 29 16 6 7 51 36 54 Chelsea

28 15 7 6 56 30 52 Arsenal

29 14 8 7 55 32 50 Everton

29 12 12 5 46 35 48 Liverpool

30 12 9 9 57 39 45 West Brom Albion 30 13 5 12 40 38 44 Swansea 30 10 10 10 40 38 40 Stoke City

30 7 13 10 27 35 34 Fulham

28 8 9 11 39 44 33 West Ham 28 9 6 13 32 41 33 Newcastle United 29 9 6 14 40 50 33 Norwich City 29 7 12 10 27 45 33 Southampton 30 7 10 13 42 52 31 Sunderland 29 7 9 13 32 41 30

Aston Villa

30 7 9 14 31 56 30 Wigan Athletic 28 6 6 16 33 55 24 Reading

30 5 8 17 35 57 23 QPR

30 4 11 15 26 48 23 Leading goalscoreres: 22: Luis Suarez (Liverpool) 19: Robin van Persie (Manchester United) 17: Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur) 16: Demba Ba (Chelsea) 15: Michu (Swansea) 13: Christian Benteke (Aston Villa), Rickie Lambert (Southampton), Romelu Lukaku (West Bromwich Albion), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) 12: Edin Dzeko (Manchester City) 11: Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Marouane Fellaini (Everton), Santi Cazorla (Arsenal), Steven Fletcher (Sunderland), Theo Walcott (Arsenal)

A-League Round 25 ADELAIDE UNITED 1 (Marcelo Carrusca 49m) drew NEWCASTLE JETS 1 (Michael Bridges 45m) at Hindmarsh Stadium. Crowd: 7,284. Referee: Lucien Laverdue.

WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 3 (Labinot Haliti 29m, 60m, Iacopo La Rocca 88m) bt MELBOURNE HEART 1 (Golgol Mebrahtu 39m) at AAMI Park. Crowd: 6,101. Referee: Ben Williams.

SYDNEY FC 1 (Yairo Yau 85m) drew MELBOURNE VICTORY 1 (Mark Milligan 3m) at Allianz Stadium. Crowd: 22,233. Referee: Strebre Delovski.

CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 (Bernie Ibini-Isei 35m) bt BRISBANE ROAR 0 at Bluetongue Stadium.

Crowd: 7,225. Referee: Alan Milliner.

Motor racing Australian Grand Prix results Collated results from the Australian Grand Prix yesterday (58 laps): 1. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/LOT) 1hr 30min 3.225sec 2. Fernando Alonso (ESP/FER) +12.451 3. Sebastian Vettel (GER/RBR) 22.346 4. Felipe Massa (BRA/FER) 33.577 5. Lewis Hamilton (ENG/MER) 45.561 6. Mark Webber (AUS/RBR) 46.800

Keven Mealamu: back with the Blues today after his sabbatical. in that role and was sharp and efficient against the Hurricanes and Crusaders. He was not so comfortable goalkicking after off-season surgery.

Halfback Piri Weepu is kicking at less than 50 per cent while Baden Kerr was solid in his five-eighths debut against the Bulls and goaled four kicks from five attempts.

The Waratahs have lost midfield back Berrick Barnes to a thumb injury and their halves have not always been crisp but they still have star power through their back four.

- NZH

7. Adrian Sutil (GER/FOR) 1min 5.068 8. Paul Di Resta (SCO/FOR) 1min 8.449 9. Jenson Button (ENG/MLA) 1min 21.630 10. Romain Grosjean (FRA/LOT) 1min 22.759 11. Sergio Perez (MEX/MLA) 1min 23.367 12. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/TOR) 1min 23.857 13. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/SAU) 1 lap 14. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/WIL) 1 lap 15. Jules Bianchi (FRA/MAR) 1 lap 16. Charles Pic (FRA/CAT) 2 laps 2 laps 17. Max Chilton (ENG/MAR) 18. Giedo van der Garde (NED) 2 laps Not classified: Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/TOR) 19 laps Nico Rosberg (GER/MER) 32 laps Pastor Maldonado (VEN/WIL) 34 laps Nico Hulkenberg (GER/SAU) 58 laps Overall Standings 1. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN)

25 2. Fernando Alonso (ESP) 18 3. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 15 4. Felipe Massa (BRA)

12 5. Lewis Hamilton (ENG) 10 6. Mark Webber (AUS) 8 7. Adrian Sutil (GER) 6 8. Paul Di Resta (SCO) 4 9. Jenson Button (ENG) 2 10. Romain Grosjean (FRA) 1 Constructors 1. Ferrari

30 2. Lotus - Renault 26 23 3. RedBull - Renault 4. Mercedes

10 5. Force India - Mercedes 10

Rugby Super Rugby Round 5 HURRICANES 23 (Ben Franks, TJ Perenara, Conrad Smith tries Beauden Barrett con 2 pens) bt HIGHLANDERS 19 (Hosea Gear try Colin Slade con 4 pens) at Forsyth Barr Stadium. Referee: Francisco Pastrana.

CHEETAHS 27 (Raymond Rhule 2, Robert Ebersohn tries Johan Goosen 3 cons 2 pens) bt NSW WARATAHS 26 (Adam Ashley-Cooper, Peter

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Tech Sharks captain Jason Morrison and wicketkeeper Paul Morrison stand despondently as the Muirhead Rosebowl cricket final slips out of their grasp on Saturday.

Lauriston harpoons Sharks

By Jonathan Leask Lauriston took down the Tech Sharks in emphatic fashion to claim Mid Canterbury cricket’s Muirhead Rosebowl on Saturday.

Lauriston delivered an impeccable bowling display to leave the Sharks treading water looking to defend the low total.

The Sharks, who went into the final unbeaten throughout the season in 45-over matches, won the toss and elected to bat first, an odd decision based on their blueprint throughout the previously season of putting sides in to bat and bowling them out cheaply.

Instead Lauriston was able to turn the tables and employ the tactic on the Sharks, producing a top shelf effort with the ball to sink the Sharks for just 88 and then chase it down inside 23 overs.

“We bowled brilliantly. Everyone was bowling tight lines and the field was backing them up,” Lauriston

captain Nick Gilbert said.

“Then we got off to a flier to be a strong position.

“We lost a few wickets and started to get a bit nervous but got there comfortably in the end.”

Sam Hurley was the shining light for the Sharks with 31, but Lauriston made regular inroads and the Sharks were unable to establish partnerships as the slumped to 66/6 and were eventually finished off for 88, with Ben Mably the next best score for the Sharks with 13.

Bevan Ravenscroft finished with 3/20 for Lauriston with Scott Morgan, Rob Hooper and Bevan Richan taking two wickets each in Lauriston’s top team effort.

Lauriston got off to a flyer with Nick Gilbert and Scott Morgan pushing through to 45 before the first wicket fell, that of Morgan for 14.

Gilbert was eventually out for 30 as the Sharks searched for a comeback, led by Mably who put the brakes on taking three wickets.

There were a few nerves setting in

for Lauriston but Richan steadied the ship scoring 36 not out to see Lauriston home for the five wicket win.

Mably finished with 3/21 of his nine overs but the Sharks had little room to work with as Lauriston chased down their meagre total in the 22nd over.

It also meant the Sharks’ unbeaten season came crashing to an end in the season climax, spoiling their shot at the clean sweep for a second consecutive season.

The holders of the Pritchard Shield, Studholme Shield and the Twenty20 Trophy again fell short in the Muirhead Rosebowl.

The Sharks had been unbeatable all summer long, but the Ashburton Domain hasn’t proven a happy hunting ground.

It was their fourth straight final and they have only come away with one win in 2010-11, beating Collegiate.

A number of players in that Collegiate side were on hand on

Brumbies create Super history

By Jim Morton Jake White believes his red-hot Brumbies have learned from their harsh lessons of 2012 after taking a stranglehold of the Australian conference by making Super Rugby history yesterday.

Thanks to the ACT club’s best first-half display since their memorable 2004 final rout of the Crusaders, the Brumbies smashed the Sharks 29-10 at Durban’s Kings

Betham tries Brendan McKibbin 2 cons 4 pens) at Allianz Stadium. Referee: Garratt Williamson.

Crowd: 12,263.

CHIEFS 35 (Lelia Masaga 3, Sam Cane tries Gareth Anscombe 3 cons 3 pens) bt SOUTHERN KINGS 24 (Jacques Engelbrecht, Sergeal Petersen tries Demetri Catrakilis con 4 pens) at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Referee: Stuart Berry.

CRUSADERS 41 (Wyatt Crockett, Robbie Fruean, Willi Heinz, Tom Marshall, Johnny McNicholl, Kieran Read tries Daniel Carter 4 cons pen) bt BULLS 19 (Deon Stegmann try Morne Steyn con 4 pens) at Christchurch Stadium. Referee: Chris Pollock.

WESTERN FORCE 19 (Alfie Mafi try Sias Ebersohn con 4 pens) bt QUEENSLAND REDS 12 (Quade Cooper 4 pens) at Suncorp Stadium.

Referee: Angus Gardner.

BRUMBIES 29 (Jesse Mogg, Henry Speight, Joseph Tomane, Matt Toomua tries Christian Lealiifano 3 cons pen) bt SHARKS 10 (Marcell Coetzee try Patrick Lambie con pen) at Kings Park Stadium. Referee: Jonathan Kaplan.

Bye-Blues, Stormers, Melbourne Rebels P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts NZ Conference Chiefs

4 3 0 1 155 90 65 5 17 Blues

3 2 0 1 89 63 26 3 15 Crusaders

3 1 0 2 84 82 2 3 11 Hurricanes 4 2 0 2 84 99 -15 1 9 Highlanders 3 0 0 3 65 100 -35 1 5 P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts Standings Rd 5 Brumbies 4 4 0 0 118 35 83 3 23 Chiefs

4 3 0 1 155 90 65 5 17 Bulls

4 3 0 1 108 105 3 1 13 Blues

3 2 0 1 89 63 26 3 15 Queensland Reds 5 3 0 2 84 85 -1 1 13 Sharks

4 3 0 1 72 69 3 0 12 Crusaders

3 1 0 2 84 82 2 3 11 Hurricanes 4 2 0 2 84 99 -15 1 9 Cheetahs 4 2 0 2 88 119 -31 1 9 Stormers 3 1 0 2 59 71 -12 1 9 Western Force 4 1 0 3 78 100 -22 1 9 Melbourne Rebels 4 1 0 3 82 107 -25 1 9 NSW Waratahs 4 1 0 3 80 113 -33 1 9 Southern Kings 3 1 0 2 58 66 -8 0 8 Highlanders 3 0 0 3 65 100 -35 1 5 Leading tryscorers:

Park to be the only unbeaten team left after five rounds.

It was also their seventh straight win on the road - breaking the record for the competition’s longest away streak.

The Brumbies (23) sit six points clear at the top of the table ahead of the defending champion Chiefs, while they’re 10 in front of the Queensland Reds in the Australian conference.

But former Springboks coach White, who astutely made five

changes for the Sharks clash, expects his team to cope well with the extra pressure after being run down by the Reds in the final round last season.

“It’s something we are used to,” he told AAP. “We were (Australian) frontrunners for all of last year.

“It makes no difference how long you’re in the lead - it’s whether you finish in front.

“The lesson we learned last year will hopefully bode us well in the next few weeks.”

- AAP

4: Frank Halai (Blues), Jesse Mogg (Brumbies), Kade Poki (Highlanders), Alfie Mafi (Force) 3: Sergeal Petersen (Kings), Lelia Masaga (Chiefs), Tim Nanai-Williams (Chiefs) 2: Charlie Ngatai (Chiefs), Hosea Gear (Highlanders), Sarel Pretorius (Cheetahs), Robert Ebersohn (Cheetahs), Ben Mowen (Brumbies), Robbie Coleman (Brumbies), Henry Speight (Brumbies), Raymond Rhule (Cheetahs), Julian Savea (Hurricanes), Ged Robinson (Rebels), Ben Tapuai (Reds), Rene Ranger (Blues), Aseli Tikoirotuma (Chiefs), Gio Aplon (Stormers), Marcell Coetzee (Sharks), Charles Piutau (Blues)

Hinchcliffe R Hoffman tries C Smith 3 G Widdop goals) bt NORTH QUEENSLAND 10 (A Graham K Linnett tries J Thurston goal) at 1300SMILES Stadium. Referee: Gerard Sutton, Brett Suttor.

GOLD COAST 36 (A Kelly 2 M Srama 2 G Bird K Gordon tries A Sezer 6 goals) bt CANBERRA 0 at Skilled Park. Referee: Adam Devcich, Henry Perenara. Crowd: 12,267.

WESTS TIGERS 28 (A Woods 2 M Koroibete B Marshall J Miller tries B Marshall 4 goals) bt PENRITH 18 (S Manu 2 D Simmons tries L Walsh 3 goals) at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

Six Nations results standings Six Nations Championship results and standings France 23 Scotland

16 Wales 30 England

3 Italy 22 Ireland

15 Standings P W D L F A BP Pts Wales 5 4 0 1 122 66 0 8 England 5 4 0 1 94 78 0 8 Scotland 5 2 0 3 98 107 0 4 Italy 5 2 0 3 75 111 0 4 Ireland 5 1 1 3 72 81 0 3 5 1 1 3 73 91 0 3 France

Rugby league NRL results standings Rd 2 BULLDOGS 20 (M Brown J Jackson S Perrett J Reynolds tries K Inu 2 goals) bt PARRAMATTA 16 (C Blair 2 M Ryan tries C Sandow 2 goals) at ANZ Stadium. Referee: Shayne Hayne, Alan Shortall.

Crowd: 25,068.

BRISBANE 22 (B Hannant J Hoffman C Norman D Stagg tries S Prince 3 goals) bt ST GEORGE ILLAWARRA 6 (M Weyman try J Soward goal) at WIN Stadium. Referee: Gavin Morris, Jason Robinson. Crowd: 13,156.

SYDNEY ROOSTERS 16 (M Aubusson S KennyDowall A Minichiello tries J Maloney 2 goals) bt WARRIORS 14 (P Godinet S Johnson B Tupou tries S Johnson goal) at Eden Park. Referee: Phil Haines, Ashley Klein.

MELBOURNE 32 (W Chambers 2 C Cronk 2 R

Tennis Indian Wells Masters Collated results from the Indian Wells Masters yesterday (prefix denotes seeding).

Men, Semi-finals 7-Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) beat 1-Novak Djokovic (SRB) 4-6 6-4 6-4.

5-Rafael Nadal (ESP) bt 6-Tomas Berdych (CZE) 6-4 7-5.

Draws Squash

Celtic Squash Club Draw for this week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s summer league competition, with just three more weeks to go.

Monday, 6pm: James McCloy v Billy Nolan, Pat Summerfield v Chris O’Reilly; 6.30pm: Mick Hooper v Mark Holmes, Warren Mackenzie v Mark O’Grady; 7pm: Rebecca Abernethy v Di Ness, Maria O’Reilly v Chrissie Stratford; 7.30pm: Lucas Hooper v Susan Dargue, Jane Lowe v Cath Blacklow.

Wednesday, 6pm: Jock O’Connor v Paul Cousins, Sandy Richardson v Ian Dolden; 6.30pm: Laurence McCormick v Petr Holub, Brendon Clarke v John Surridge; 7pm: Jenni Ryk v Marie Kennedy, Steve Devereux v Robbie Kok; 7.30pm: Chauntel Kentish v Rachel Prendergast.

Saturday, moving to Lauriston last season after Collegiate fell into recession.

It’s also worth noting that Lauriston’s season finished in the penthouse after hitting rock bottom back in round two, when they were skittled for just 18 by Coldstream but turned their season around dropping only two games since, both to the Sharks but they won the one that counted.

“We were completely embarrassed but certainly picked it up from there only dropping the two games both to the Sharks but I guess we won the one that counted,” Gilbert said.

It win marks the first time Lauriston has won silverware since the reconfiguration of Mid Canterbury senior cricket, having been regular cellar dwellers since the merger of second grade and senior in 2006, including a winless season in the 2009-10.

They now hold the Muirhead Rosebowl, and the Sharks are left one short for another season.

• Week off for Funnell Crusaders’ reserve hooker Ben Funnell has been suspended for one week after pleading guilty to a charge of foul play in his team’s 41-19 victory over the Bulls in Christchurch on Saturday night.

Funnell, who replaced Corey Flynn in the second half, was charged with making illegal contact against Bulls replacement lock Grant Hattingh in the 60th minute. The footage was reviewed by the citing commissioner, who deemed the incident met the red card threshold for foul play, with the suspension handed down

by Sanzar duty judicial officer Nicholas Davidson QC. Davidson said Funnell’s prompt admission of breach and his previous good record allowed for mitigation and resulted in the one-week suspension.

- APNZ

• Alby in his element Former NSW coach Michael Foley isn’t the only one revelling in his switch to a new “supportive” Super Rugby organisation at the Western Force. Former All Blacks halfback Alby Mathewson has also lapped up his move to Perth, following a year to forget for the Blues in Auckland, and highlighted his value as a marquee signing with a standout display against Queensland on Saturday night. Recruited by Foley, the speedy Kiwi provided the desperate Force’s attacking flair and X-factor in a breakthrough 19-12 triumph over the Reds. - AAP

• England’s hopes over Wales thrashed England by a record-breaking 30-3 in Cardiff yesterday to retain the Six Nations title and deny the visitors the grand slam. As the tournament enjoyed a frenetic finale, Italy handed Ireland a 22-15 defeat in Rome while France recorded their first win with a 23-16 victory over Scotland in Paris. However, it was not enough to prevent the rock-bottom French landing the dreaded wooden spoon for the first time since 1999.

- AFP

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Monday, March 18, 2013

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By Michael Brown The Warriors needed to show some fight against the Roosters on Saturday night - and in the case of centre Konrad Hurrell he probably took that directive too literally as he squared up to Sonny Bill Williams - but they now need to find some more fluidity.

It was a dramatic improvement after their abject first-up display against Parramatta but they still went down to the Roosters 16-14 in front of more than 32,000 at Eden Park.

Their final 30 minutes was respectable, as they came back from a 16-0 deficit, but their first 50 was poor.

They defended reasonably well, except for two extremely soft tries just after half time, but their attack lacked rhythm, accuracy and results.

Even captain Simon Mannering made three handling errors - he would barely make that many in a season as they fumbled close to the Roosters’ line or got in each other’s way.

They made 12 errors to the Roosters’ six, completed 72 per cent of their sets and made just two line breaks.

They are not the sort of numbers to build pressure.

“We are not sitting here talking about effort and application,” coach Matt Elliott said in reference to the change from their first game.

“Still our attack is not where we want it to be but it was good enough for us to win.”

The Warriors haven’t won in 10 NRL games, dating back to July last year, and things don’t get any easier with Cronulla, North Queensland and the Rabbitohs looming in the next three weeks.

“We will make sure it’s not easy for them, either,” Elliott said.

“There are no easy game in the NRL. With that baseline effort and the attitude the boys displayed, I am

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Joe Ford timed his run to perfection in the Ashburton Harriers annual Turkey Trot 3km run/ walk handicap race on Saturday.

Ford covered the 3km in 10.04 minutes, the exact time he predicted he would have ran to win the unique event around the Ashburton Domain. The nine runners and 13 walkers wrote down their own estimated times prior to the start of the race. The winner isn’t the one who records the fastest time, it’s the person who records the closest time to their prediction, with Ford finishing bang on his prediction.

Dave Strong was second with his time of 18.35 mins a difference of three seconds from his guess with Stephanie Ross only four second off her predicted finish.

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not optimistic, I am confident we will turn this around.”

A lot will depend on their key playmakers.

Shaun Johnson and Thomas Leuluai are still in their early days of their combination and Elijah Taylor, more accustomed to playing in the back row, is workmanlike as opposed to dynamic at hooker.

Pita Godinet has provided a spark to the Warriors each time he has come on at dummy half in his last three games, and must now be pressing for a start in the No 9 jersey.

He scored a good try darting close to the line and injected more pace to the Warriors’ game.

It was unfortunate goalkicking was the difference because Johnson had an otherwise good game, scoring a 75m runaway try that sparked the turnaround and backing it up with a good kicking game, including the first 40/20 of his NRL career. But he doesn’t look a natural goalkicker - he’s kicked two from five so far this season - and badly scuffed his late attempt that could have taken the game into golden point.

Todd Lowrie (46 tackles) and Jacob Lillyman (123m and 31 crunching tackles) epitomised the sort of effort the Warriors put into the match and Lillyman saw some good signs in the match.

“I never thought we were in danger of big points being put on us,” Lillyman said.

“You can tell when there’s a certain level of commitment there and there certainly was [against the Roosters].

“It was worlds apart from last week when we all dropped our heads and couldn’t wait for it to finish, whereas we were positive and wanted to make a difference.

“Although it wasn’t quite good enough, it was a step in the right direction.”

- APNZ

Maurice Beatson topped off a stellar season with the ultimate win at the New Zealand Horse of the Year Show in Hastings yesterday. The 59-year-old farmer from Dannevirke rode his 18-year-old home-bred horse to victory in the $200,000 JB Olympic Cup. It’s the fourth time the former Olympian and World Games representative has held aloft the Olympic Cup, coming 30 years after his first victory. Beatson triumphed over a record-sized field that started the cup on the final day of the week-long Horse of the Year Show at the Hawke’s - APNZ Bay Showgrounds.

• Trophy finalists found The four finalists in the Ford Trophy cricket competition have been found after a run-soaked penultimate round saw all three matches abandoned. Run around the country may have provided welcome relief for farmers but Central Districts and Otago would have been less pleased to see the heavens open, with both sides eliminated from contention. Auckland (23 points) and Northern Districts (20) remain in the box seat to seal the allimportant top two positions, with Canterbury (17) and Wellington (15) currently occupying the final two playoff places. Auckland will travel to Otago on Wednesday in a bid to lock up top spot, while Northern Districts will attempt to hold off Wellington at the Basin - APNZ Reserve.

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Titans run over woeful Raiders Juniors battle for court supremacy

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Harry Dargue seeks consolation from his mother Susan during the Junior A boys’ final against his older brother Edwin in the junior grade tournament yesterday.

By Ed Jackson Gold Coast marked their 150th NRL match with a record-breaking 36-0 win over Canberra at Skilled Park yesterday.

Playing in hot and humid conditions which forced the activation of the NRL’s heat rule, the Titans were relentless against a woeful Raiders outfit, running in six unanswered tries as temperatures soared past 30 degrees.

The victory margin is the biggest in the Titans’ history, eclipsing their 38-12 win over Parramatta in 2007, while their 30-0 halftime advantage was also a new high for the club.

Matt Srama and Albert Kelly both scored first-half doubles for the Titans, with Kelly’s second coming after a length-of-the-field break by Jamal Idris sent the former Cronulla playmaker into the clear.

The Raiders, who have endured a miserable week including the sacking of star fullback Josh Dugan, head back to the nation’s capital winless from their opening two fixtures of the season.

The visitors were simply never in yesterday’s game, racking up 35 missed tackles and completing just 22 of their 37 sets.

They will also have a nervous wait

By Jonathan Leask

Josh Dugan: missed by the Raiders after forward Tom Learoyd-Lahrs was placed on report in the 72nd minute for a shoulder charge on Titan Ryan James.

The Titans host Manly next weekend while the Raiders welcome St George Illawarra to Canberra.

Meanwhile Wests Tigers are off the mark for 2013 but might have paid a heavy price for yesterday’s 28-18 NRL win over Penrith with prop Keith Galloway suffering a suspected torn pectoral muscle at Campbelltown Stadium.

The Tigers, hammered 42-10 by Newcastle in the opening round, rebounded with a five tries to three win, prop Aaron Woods scoring a double for the home side as he continued his recovery from minor knee surgery.

- AAP

The top junior talent put their club allegiance aside for a final shot in the final matches of the season in the junior grade tournament at the weekend.

The interclub season came to a close the previous Saturday but 88 juniors returned to the courts for a final chance at glory, putting club allegiances, and in some cases family allegiance aside.

Top seed Sam Bubb blitzed the B grade boys’ singles, dropping just one game which came in the 6-1, 6-0 win over Jacob Pye in the final, after Pye ousted second seed Jarrad Hill 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 in the semi-finals.

Second seed Georgia Benny fought back to topple top seed Erin Connelly-Whyte 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 in the girls’ final.

The doubles was a boys v girls showdown with Bubb and Angus Mears tackling Benny and Holly Wild, with the boys getting up for a 9-7 win.

Junior A was a familiar affair.

In the girls singles twin sisters Millie and Sophie Ness squared off while in the boys’ it was brothers Edwin and Harry Dargue, with the finalists also being cousins.

Third seeded Harry overcame second seed Tyler Leonard 9-5 to come against his top seeded brother, who also had a 9-5 semifinal win over fourth seed Ryan McNulty.

In the final Edwin overcame younger brother Harry 9-3.

The fourth seeded Millie edged out Jade Brosnahan 9-8 in the semi-finals while Sophie overcame third seed Isabelle Talbot 9-5, but in the final Sophie proved too strong beating Millie 9-2.

In the junior A doubles Edwin made it two wins over his younger brother, teaming up with Liam Donnelly to beat Harry and Tyler Leonard 6-3.

In the junior B boys’ singles fourth seed Felix Harnett took down top seed Nicholas Wilson 6-1 in the semi-finals before beating unseeded Patrick Harnett 6-1 in the final.

The girls’ singles was a straight shoot-out between Olivia Bishop

and Sophie Moore, with Moore outgunning Bishop 6-0.

In the doubles event the Harnett boys, Felix and Patrick, took down Cameron Slee and Wilson 6-2.

The top seeds were knocked out early in the junior C boys’ singles, and it was Kaleb Chamberlain who prevailed 6-0 over Aidan Watt in the final.

The junior C girls’ had second seed Ashlee Strawbridge come out on top with a 6-1 win over unseeded Ashleigh Allred.

In the tournament doubles Levi Deal and Ben Farrell beat Chamberlain and Thomas Donnelly 6-5 in the final.

The junior season winds up for good next Monday with the seasonending prizegiving.

Boyle, Snyders under qualifying time New Zealand swimming’s star pair Lauren Boyle and Glenn Snyders both went under the world championships qualifying time on the opening day of the national championships in Auckland yesterday.

Boyle was the top qualifier in

heats of the 400m freestyle at the West Wave Aquatic Centre in Henderson, while Snyders snuck inside the world championship mark in the 100m breaststroke.

With a time of 4:05.67, Boyle finished more than four seconds inside the qualifying mark for

July’s world championships in Barcelona. Her time was also the fastest 400m freestyle recorded in New Zealand, quicker than the national record she set in last year’s championships to qualify for the Olympics.

Such was Boyle’s dominance

that she was eight seconds faster than the next qualifiers and fellow London Olympians, Tash Hind and Samantha Lucie-Smith.

Snyders, now based in southern California, impressed to clock 1:00.14 in his heat of the men’s 100m breaststroke.

- APNZ

Big season in Europe gets under way I

It has been a while since cyclist Hayden Roulston updated his blog but it’s easy to see why. Roulston has already had over 20 days of racing this season, six in Qatar, six in Oman, the Strade Bianche and he just finished seven days in Tirreno. Before taking to the start line in the Milan San Remo overnight (NZ time), the first big one-day race of the year, he recapped the start of his European season.

’ve had a good block of racing with good and bad feelings since leaving New Zealand, some testing times too, but I got through all the races fine -except for Strade Bianche where I was caught up in a crash.

Just the thought of Qatar fills me with nothing but regret for even going.

It’s a race for the guys who have the biggest balls, who are prepared to risk their last three months of training for one stretch of road.

It was just carnage and after

seeing it on day one the plan was simple, leave the race turning the pedals and with my body in one piece.

Oman was a great race and I loved every minute of it. The racing was different to what it was the last time I was there and with all the big Tour de France guns present it was always going to be a tough race.

The team all left Oman with good sensations and all of us ready for the start of the season in Europe.

Strade is an amazing race which

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takes place in one of the best areas in the world, Tuscany. It has 50km on white gravel roads and over a really testing course.

I was super in Strade, the team was also great too, right up until the 130km mark when we lost three guys in the space of 10km

right before the toughest section where the race always blows apart.

I was caught up in a crash and it was over for me. I was gutted.

I really felt good and wanted some sort of confirmation as to where my form was at.

I had been feeling super in training and walked away from Strade feeling frustrated.

From there it was on to Tirreno.

With the same field from Oman it was going to be a tough race but I don’t think anyone expected

three full days of rain to begin with and a brutal second-to-last day with more rain to finish.

It made life tough.

Suffering from an ear infection made it challenging, but each day I got better and walked away with a good last three days.

I finished with a seventh in the time trial which I was happy with and could have done nothing better on the day.

Writing this I’m getting ready for the first of the monuments, the Milan San Remo, a 300km effort and right now they predict rain

all day, possibly snow. It will be a spectacle for those watching, for us it will be yet another day of whining about the weather.

Then it’s on to Belgium for the first of the classics.

My race program is a nice one.

I do Waregem, E3, Flanders, Scheldeprijs and then Roubaix.

Then I’m home to NZ for a few weeks before I head back for the Tour of Italy and then Tour of Luxembourg.

It’s going to be a big month and I’m really excited about kicking off the classics season.

The New Zealand men’s hockey team haven fallen short in their title defence at the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia, losing 3-2 against Australia on Saturday night. The result means that Australia progress to the final to face hosts Malaysia while the Black Sticks, who won the tournament for the first time last year, will play Korea for bronze. “It was disappointing not to come away with a win tonight,” coach Colin Batch said.

“We hung in there in the second half but conceding three goals put us on the back foot and, although we rallied together, it was always going to be difficult to come back.”

- APNZ

• NZ Maori to tour US The New Zealand Rugby Union has agreed a new strategic plan that will shortly be unveiled and one of the top priorities is to build and enhance global relationships.

Forging closer links with Sanzar partners is an obvious must but the US has also been singled out as a target. It has been on the NZRU’s radar since 2004 but to date the relationship has been confined to a few New Zealand coaches holding short coaching clinics in the States. The Maori tour represents a major breakthrough and has much to do with the arrival of AIG as a sponsor - NZH of the All Blacks.

• A-League ‘dogfight’ Coach Frank Farina has praised the fighting spirit of his Sydney FC side after they salvaged a vital point on Saturday night in their 1-1 draw with Melbourne Victory. In an entertaining up-tempo game in which both sides were wasteful in front of goal, an 85th-minute header from substitute Yairo Yau cancelled out a third-minute strike from Victory captain Mark Milligan.

With two rounds to play, the point could be vital in finals calculations and Farina said his side never gave up. “We are still in the dogfight I have been talking about,” Farina said.

- AAP

• Bans will hurt Ashes Highly successful former Australian coach John Buchanan said yesterday the homeworkgate affair had handed England a clear advantage for the Ashes series starting in July. Australian coach Mickey Arthur stood down four players including vice-captain Shane Watson for the third Test against India in Mohali for failing to meet a deadline on a homework assignment relating to how to improve the side. “There is a very clear message there,” Buchanan said.

“I definitely think it has provided some advantage to England but time will tell.

- AAP

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Eden Park likely to be a decider The frustrations of England’s seamers were laid bare yesterday.

With all the indications New Zealand and England will battle out a decider at Eden Park this week, England’s bowling coach David Saker made plain the tourists’ feelings at the type of pitches served up for the first two tests.

Given their respective world rankings of No 8 and No 2, this was expected to be a relatively straightforward job for England.

But they were outplayed in the first test of the ANZ international series in Dunedin on a pitch which died over the last two days, and with weather cutting play back to just 35 overs at the Basin Reserve yesterday, and a grim forecast for the final day today, it’s likely to all rest on Eden Park, and by extension the type of pitch produced.

A cup final scenario, Victorian Saker called it, and agreed 0-0 going to Eden Park would be a fair reflection of the series so far, but he’s unimpressed with the quality of the pitches.

“If you watched the T20s and oneday internationals (which started the tour) they were played on very good, fast wickets and produced some good cricket both ways, with bat and ball,” Saker said.

“The two test wickets have been quite the opposite of that. I don’t know whether that’s something New Zealand Cricket would put out, or just the way the wickets are.”

Saker pointed out New Zealand went through a stage of having pitches which did offer help to the seamers,”and New Zealand’s bowling attack has got great ability to move the ball in the air and off the wicket”.

Kane Williamson: A career of peaks and troughs for the Black Caps

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Robbie Fruean had a dreadful first 10 minutes at AMI Stadium on Saturday night, but then somebody flicked the switch and he turned into a rampaging midfield weapon for the Crusaders, proving a major threat every time he touched the ball.

Crusaders 41 Bulls 19 There is no doubt now, not a hint of ambiguity - the Crusaders are back.

Scrub what they did in previous weeks: that wasn’t them.

That placid rugby was not what they are all about.

The old Crusaders are back, the proper version, but with a new twist.

The Bulls were destroyed in the scrum, disrupted at the lineout and then whacked off the ball at the breakdown.

Their tired legs were also forced to cover an inordinate amount of ground to close down a Crusaders team that finally started to deliver much of what they promised preseason.

The ebb and flow of the Crusaders was relentless.

The ball kept appearing at the base of rucks and would be shipped one way, then the next, the support always there, the Bulls stretched until everyone could

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Rain easing from the south in the evening.

Showers turning to rain early morning, then Snow lowering to 1600 metres. easing from the south in the evening. Fresh Wind at 1000m: Light SE. Wind at 2000m: NW easing to 40 km/h in cool southerlies, easing by evening. the morning.

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the tackled ball, where they were unable to compete or even do much to slow the speed of the Crusaders’ recycle.

The visitors can consider themselves fortunate that the Crusaders were guilty of some amateur handling in the first 20 minutes.

They had all the right ideas but they couldn’t build the pressure because they couldn’t hold the ball.

Robbie Fruean had a horrid beginning where he couldn’t catch or pass and as the frustration built, the Crusaders pushed more risky passes and made more mistakes.

It took a little magic from Israel Dagg to turn things.

The fullback, maybe a little quiet in previous weeks, came to life.

He played at first and second receiver, appeared out wide, mopped up the bombs and then managed to offload close to the line out of a melee of bodies that enabled Daniel Carter to put Fruean over from close range.

That settled everyone, particularly Fruean, who came into

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see they would have to break at some stage.

The Crusaders can fret less about their attacking game - no one is going to live with them if they can tidy their execution to match their endeavour.

The intensity was the difference.

The Crusaders looked flat in their opening games - almost as if they were pacing themselves.

There was none of that on Saturday night. The forwards upped their workrate to a man.

Kieran Read charged into everything and was always in support.

Sam Whitelock made himself available to good effect in the wider reaches and Dominic Bird was aggressive at the lineout, challenging well for the ball in the air which prevented the Bulls getting much mileage out of their vaunted rolling maul.

The scrum was almost unrecognisable - low, firm, dynamic and too much for the Bulls.

They felt the pressure there and it seeped through the ranks; left them short of confidence in

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the game more and had a bigger impact and better workrate than he’s had in an age.

From there, it was all Crusaders.

They played all the rugby and would have clocked up a lot of points but for those nagging mistakes they couldn’t quite eliminate.

Tom Marshall was deadly on the wing and gave the Crusaders a thrust and directness they have been missing.

Carter was effortless - he just kept the ball moving, moving, moving and knocked over his kicks.

By 50 minutes, the Bulls were properly stuffed. They were never going to even get close enough to a bonus point. They kind of knew they would be lucky to score a try which they managed only after the Crusaders had emptied the bench.

The home side were happy to let the visitors pound around the 10 metre line but they couldn’t get much further than that.

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Saker said it is frustrating for the spectators, as well as the bowlers.

“Just for the spectacle of test cricket it’s not the greatest way,” he said. “Anyone watching wants to see the ball bounce through and batsmen being able to play off the back foot more.

“It is frustrating for spectators but they’re test cricketers and have to learn to play on all surfaces.”

Saker said the pitches demanded building pressure and being patient and force a batting error.

He remained optimistic that if play is possible today, England’s bowlers can do that and still win the test.

New Zealand will start at 162 for two, with Kane Williamson on 55, his sixth test 50, and Ross Taylor on 41, their stand worth 81.

They still trail England by 49 runs.

New Zealand opener Peter Fulton maintained the key today was to “turn up with the right attitude”.

“If the weather’s good we’ve still got a lot of work to do.”

Williamson and Taylor had shown a solid duty of care, Williamson completing his sixth half century, Taylor, if unconvincing early on, a strong support hand.

Williamson’s career has been one of peaks and troughs.

There have been three centuries, all considerable ones in terms of character and achievement, but there have also been too many misses. His average is 30, and should be higher. Of his 40 innings, 23 have ended short of 20; 11 are single figures.

Williamson’s talent isn’t in question. At 22, he is shaping as a key figure in the national side for the foreseeable future, so yesterday’s performance when things could have got sticky, was timely. - NZH

By David Leggat

From the sideline

Crusaders 41 (R. Fruean, K. Read, J. McNicholl, T. Marshall, W. Crockett, W. Heinz tries; D. Carter 4 cons, pen) Bulls 19 (D. Stegmann try; - NZHSUN M. Steyn con, 4 pens).

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River Levels

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Canterbury Readings

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Christchurch Airport 21.5 13.6 12.2

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Timaru Airport

0.2

5.6 84.6

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9:47 3:56 10:14 4:27 10:45 4:50 11:10 5:24 11:40 5:43 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

Rise 7:32 am Set 7:49 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 1:44 pm Set 11:16 pm

Rise 7:34 am Set 7:47 pm Bad

Bad fishing Rise 2:34 pm

Rise 7:35 am Set 7:45 pm Bad

Bad fishing Set 12:04 am Rise 3:19 pm

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Last quarter

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27 Mar 10:29 pm

3 Apr 5:38 pm

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