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An uncertain future By Sue Newman

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With its budget almost halved, Experience Mid Canterbury’s board is looking at a future where the district’s promotion will be pared back to bare bones. As part of their cost-cutting exercise to reduce the district’s planned rate increase to just 2.5 per cent, Ashburton’s district councillors decided to reduce the tourism organisation’s budget to just $195,000. And that has meant a total rethink of how that business operates in the foreseeable future as the impact of New Zealand’s Covid-19 closed borders hits home, said board chair James Urquhart. “You can’t argue with what the council has done. “It’s about doing the best by ratepayers,” he said. Board members met with staff from both the Ashburton office and the Methven i-SITE on Thursday to talk through the budget cuts and to ask for suggestions on how the business should be

reshaped within its pared-back budget. “Our operating costs are now clearly higher than our income so we need to have all ideas on the table for the way forward. And staff are coming up with ideas, with new ways of doing things,” Urquhart said. Potentially there could be redundancies as the organisation reshaped for a future where there were no international tourists in the short term, he said. “While we’re looking for all ideas we’re very much about on supporting our team as we go through this, that’s our biggest focus.” All options and ideas were on the table, he said. Board and staff will meet again this week to discuss options, but the timeframe for coming up with a workable plan for the future was quite short, Urquhart said. “This is about how EMC will look going forward. It’s like the stars have all aligned, but the wrong way round. Domestic tourism is all we’ll have and we

are looking at how to do this efficiently with the money we now have. We have to look at the money and see how it can be used the best way.” Experience Mid Canterbury was likely to emerge from this as a pared-back organisation, but it would still have a strong role to play in ensuring the district received its share of what was likely to be a growing domestic tourist market. Unlike many parts of New Zealand, Ashburton’s strongest market had always been the domestic market, but the loss of international tourists would still have a massive impact, Urquhart said. Government funding for the tourism industry in the new environment, however, was likely to be directed to regional tourism organisations rather than district organisations, he said, and that meant, while Mid Canterbury had always worked with the regional Canterbury organisation, the need to do this had increased. “We have to make sure our flag is getting waved.”

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114 years of service By Sue Newman

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For the first time since Anzac Day became a day of national remembrance, it will not be marked with parades and ceremonies. The virtual shut down of New Zealand during the Covid-19 pandemic means all public gatherings are cancelled, with them the traditional Anzac observances. The life of the Ashburton’s RSA, however, will carry on and it will continue to play a significant role in the community, both as an organisation offering social events and gatherings for members and with its welfare arm for returned servicemen and women. The RSA was formed in New Zealand in 1916 by returning Anzacs during World War One to provide support and comfort for service men and women and their families. The first Anzac Day was also observed that year on April 25. Poppy Day, however, did not begin until 1922 and that year more than a quarter of a million large and small poppies were made and sold around the country. The money raised was used to help war ravaged areas of Northern France and to help unemployed New Zealand returned servicemen and their families. Ashburton was part of the national RSA movement with a public meeting held in February 1916, called by mayor Robert Galbraith. It was decided an association should be formed and a committee was set up to keep in touch with Wellington and to draw up a set of rules. A second meeting was held in May and the first officers of the association elected. It underwent a settling down period before becoming firmly established in the community until the last of the returned servicemen arrived home in 1919. Branches and sub branches were also formed in several other parts of the district. The RSA’s first home was in a two-storey wooden building that had started its life as the Somerset Hotel. The RSA acquired the Tancred Street building in 1918 but by 1943 it had become inadequate to meet the needs of its members and a larger clubrooms was needed. This was at a time when the association’s membership was at an all-time high, 1725. That number was remarkable and a significant turnaround after membership had dropped steadily from 1924 to 1938. Those dark days saw membership dropping but the need for relief for returned servicemen from World War One increasing as the Great Depression of the 1930s brought great hardship to many who found themselves facing the loss of both work and their savings. In 1938 an all-out effort was made to increase membership and this lifted to 600 just prior to the outbreak of the war in 1939. With numbers climbing, the need for a new building became urgent and fundraising started in 1944 with a 500 pound grant. And when the opportunity came to buy a large, two-storey property on West Street, the RSA executive signed a deal. That was in 1944 and the property was purchased for 8000 pounds. Another 15,000 pounds was needed to convert the building into suitable clubrooms. This was achieved with donations, debentures, war savings and a government granted subsidy on membership. In February 1948 the RSA sold the Tancred Street building to the Ashburton Borough Council and it became a community centre. It has since been demolished. In March 1947 it was decided to set about

The RSA’s third home in Cox Street was opened in May 1988 and while the move from West Street may not have been popular with all members at the time, today provides members with a warm and sunny base for meetings and social activities. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN

Right - A building that had served as the Ashburton Farmers Co-op headquarters for many years became the RSA’s second home in 1944. The building was well used by both members and the community. It was demolished and the land on which it once stood is now the home of a Shell Service Station. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN

establishing a women’s section and the inaugural meeting was held in February 1945. In 1948 the RSA decided to investigate the possibility of a charter and this was finally received in 1952 with the RSA became a chartered club. When a concert hall was added to the building it became a well used community facility as well as a gathering place for members. When the Ashburton RSA celebrated its 50th birthday in 1966, its membership stood at 1500. As time ticked by the West Street building, once deemed one of the best RSA headquarters in the country, no longer met the modern day needs of members and the search for a new building began. This was not a popular move with some members, but the executive moved ahead with its plans. The new premise in Cox Street was built, opening its doors on November 5, 1988 and, after standing empty for some time, the RSA building on West Street was demolished.

The Ashburton RSA’s first home in a wooden building in Tancred Street that had started its life as the Somerset Hotel. It was later bought by the Ashburton Borough Council and used as a community centre until it was demolished in the early 1960s. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN

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Restaurants welcome news By Jaime Pitt-MacKay

“We thought about whether it was worth doing it for 48 hours but decided not to.” Up in Methven the team at the Brown Pub are eagerly waiting for the move to level three and have already been handing out takeaway menus with their alcohol deliveries they have been doing through their bottle store, says owner Deb den Baars. “As so as it opens we’ll be starting,” she said. “I’m certainly looking forward to having someone else cook my dinner. “The staff are itching to get back to work and it’ll be nice to give them some spread-out hours.” Den Baars said they were keen to work with other Methven restaurants for what would work best to share the demand around and allow everyone to have a piece of the pie. “We’d be really keen to work with everyone to say we do Mondays or you have Tuesday off so everyone gets a piece of the pie and everyone is getting looked after as that is important,” she said. Due to the size of their kitchen, two metre spacing between staff will not be an issue she says, and that they will be taking every precaution they can.

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Three babies have virus NZME News a baby boy is among New Zealand’s latest Covid-19 cases has further dispelled the myth children can’t catch the virus at a time when parents contemplate a potential return to school for some youngsters. Three boys aged under one year old have now caught the virus in New Zealand, including two infants in the country’s far south and one in the Waikato. The Southern DHB wouldn’t comment on how the two babies in its region are faring, while Waikato DHB only confirmed it had no babies in hospital with coronavirus. Normally virus outbreaks hit the very young and the very old hardest. Yet internationally, children seemed to be suffering far fewer severe coronavirus infections than the elderly in what had been a relief to parents the world over, former president of the Paediatric Society Dr Nick Baker said. Just 34 children under nine had so far been diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to 342 cases among 20-29 year olds and 110 cases in over 70-year-olds. “However, some children will still get very sick,” Baker said. “And it is certainly not a condition that you want your kids to get by any means.” Overseas some children have died from the virus and for those who do become unwell, Covid-19 can be a terrifying condition in which a patient often suffers alone, away from loved ones. Infants most at risk of a severe infection were those with an underlying condition that already made it harder to breathe or cough, Baker said. “So if you have cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy or Down Syndrome, something that means your cough is not as strong or has other weaknesses, it is going to be worse,” he said.

“And similarly for children whose immune systems may not be as strong, they may have more illness.” “But there also seems to be the random bad case – absolutely no reason why this person does terribly with this germ.” Infants could be tested for Covid-19 in the same way as others, by collecting a sample of their “snot” from their nose or mouth. Further muddying the waters about children and the coronavirus outbreak is their potential role as spreaders. “For so many viruses children are often a spreader because of the nature of the fact they are less careful with their secretions and coughing and sneezing,” Baker said. That could become an increased risk now the Government was set to decide tomorrow at 4pm whether the nation would leave its hardline alert level 4 lockdown and enter a slightly eased alert level 3. Under alert level 3, children could return to school if no one was available to care for them at home. “So the plan would be to try and keep the bubbles small at school, but, as you know, preschoolers will just mix,” Baker said. “So I think that is the reason why there are a lot of concerns from the education sector and early childhood sector about how realistic this is going to be.” Then there was the potential for children to be asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19, taking it into the formerly safe bubbles of elderly relatives. Baker pointed to recent results from the US aircraft carrier the US Theodore Roosevelt, indicating the strength of the global outbreak may be partly due the number of asymptomatic carriers. The navy said about 60 per cent of the more than 600 sailors from the vessel who tested positive for the virus had yet to show symptoms of it.

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Restaurants across the district have welcomed news from the Government that when the country does move to level three, they will be able to do contactless deliveries. For restaurant operators like Nikita Moore at Cleavers Corner Gastro Pub it is a chance to get staff back working and some form of income coming in to the business. “It is good to have an idea of what will be happening, it is just a case of now when will we move to level three,” she said. “We had kind of assumed it would be deliveries before the announcement.” They had planned to do deliveries prior to the lockdown, but were unable to due to the fast moving nature of the situation. Having noticed a drop-off in people going out to dine when cases first started arriving in New Zealand, they had looked into takeaways and deliveries, set to begin on the night the lockdown was announced. “We planned to launch it on the Monday night but then there was the announcement at lunchtime about the lockdown,” she said.

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■■ CANTERBURY ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Local finalist in awards An Ashburton project has earned its architect a place in the final line-up of entries in this year’s Canterbury Architecture Awards. The bathroom pavilion at Farmers Corner retail and restaurant business has been shortlisted in the commercial architecture section. It was designed by Architype. The pavilion serves thousands of tourists each year. It was created when the existing bathrooms needed refurbishment. The complex’s owners made the decision to create a new facility to house the bathroom services outside of the main building. Architype was commissioned to design a unique ‘experience centred’ bathroom facility which would be up there with the best bathroom facilities in the South Island. It was created in a way that it connected visitors to the rural landscape. The bathroom pavilion is located on the entry axis of the main building in order to allow these

one-time visitors access to facilities immediately upon arrival. This axis continues right through the centre of the pavilion and leads the eye out into the surrounding landscape. To either side of the central axis, the pavilion is divided into private bathroom cubicles which look outward through full-height fritted glass to the fields beyond. In the central open-air breezeway there is a 4m long double-sided stone vanity for hand washing. The roof of the pavilion is constructed of an engineered timber lattice supporting a faceted glass roof. The roof is supported on a series of Oamaru stone fins which provide the divisions for the bathroom cubicles and form the central open area. Because of the Covid-19 lockdown, visits to finalist sites have been put on hold. Whether visits will take place later or whether alternative means of assessing finalists is used has yet to be decided.

The bathroom pavilion at Farmers Corner retail and restaurant has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Canterbury Architecture Awards. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Council urged to buy local By Sue Newman

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When it comes to where it spends money, the Ashburton District Council should be thinking local first, says councillor Carolyn Cameron. At Thursday’s Covid-19 Emergency Response meeting, Cameron said that with the local economy under pressure because of the level four lockdown, it was timely the council took a long, hard look at where it was spending its dollars. “The future environment in our district will be challenging for a lot of businesses and if the council can support local business in any way possible, then we need to do this,” she said. While there was a process the council had to follow when it let big ticket tenders, Cameron wanted to see those tenders have a 10 per cent positive

weighting put in place for local tenderers. “This would be a great way to illustrate to local businesses that we want to support the local community as much as we can,” she said. The council has a procurement policy that requires it to secure at least one quote from a local supplier for purchases large or small. Councillor Rodger Letham also wanted as much money spent locally as possible, and that’s what staff should be encouraged to do, he said. Chief executive Hamish Riach said the weighting issue had been discussed in the past and councillors had decided that the prudent approach was to take the best deal for ratepayers. However, the current policy could be looked at again, he said.

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Firefighters uncertain of level three impacts

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

Local firefighters are waiting to see just what operating under level three conditions will look like when the country shifts from lockdown with many firefighters returning to work. Currently most volunteer fire brigades have watches in place to minimise the contact between firefighters when attending callouts and to reduce the risk of firefighters needing to be stood down due to contact with the virus. For the Methven Volunteer Fire

Brigade, it has meant running two different watches, each consisting of 12 members working on a week-about system. “We would normally have up to six people on a truck but we have been keeping it to the minimum four,” Chief Fire Officer Brent Anderson said. Anderson said the watch system would continue through until next Friday when they would make a decision on what would happen next, depending on if the country was still at level four, or had moved to level three. “If we have a lot of people go-

$13m Lotto win One player in lockdown is $13.2 million richer after winning Lotto Powerball on Saturday night. It is the first big Lotto win since the nation went into the Covid-19 lockdown last month. The win was made up of Powerball and a one-fifth share of Lotto Division One. The winning ticket was sold on MyLotto to a player from the Manawatu/Whanganui region. The next biggest collect was $1 million for a single ticket in Strike Four. All Lotto tickets are being bought online during the level four - NZME lockdown.

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ing back to work we might just have to open it back up to the full roster, but keeping trucks crewed with just the four,” he said. “We want to minimise the risk if anyone is coming into contact with the virus and we don’t want the whole brigade being stood down.” Anderson said there had been a noticeable drop in call-outs for the brigade, only attending four call-outs over the three-week period of the lockdown so far. Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer Alan Burgess echoed Anderson’s state-

ments, saying it would depend on how many firefighters would be returning to work. “The dynamics could change looking at who will be doing what and we will have to be flexible with a number of guys going back to normal working hours,” he said. Burgess said the watch system had worked effectively for them, and had benefited from having somewhat of a captive audience knowing crew members would be showing up as they would not be at work or attending other events.

A New Zealand national has been arrested in Australia after a yacht suspected to be carrying hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine was intercepted off the NSW coast. The 33-year-old man was arrested after the bust on Saturday and is in police custody awaiting his first court appearance on serious drug charges. A second man – a 35-year-old man holding dual UK and South African citizenship – is also in custody. The Australian Federal Police said in a statement yesterday that the arrests followed a multi-agency investigation dubbed Operation Romani. - NZME

Emergency rescue Two people have been charged with breaching the restriction rules after an incident which saw 20 emergency service staff called to Moturiki (Leisure) Island near Mount Maunganui. About 5.30pm on Wednesday emergency services were sent to the island after reports a man had fallen six or seven metres off a cliff near the blowhole. When they arrived, they found the man injured and lying on rocks. The TECT Rescue Helicopter winched down an intensive care paramedic to help St John staff already there. Police have since confirmed the man and an associate have been charged with breaching the restriction rules under the Health Act 1956 and will appear in the Tauranga District - NZME Court at a later date.

Positive for Covid-19 A mental health worker at Bay of Plenty District Health Board has tested positive for Covid-19. The nurse who was working at the adult mental health unit at Tauranga Hospital, Te Whare Maiangiangi, is recovering at home and the 21 staff members who were in contact with her have been stood down and are in self isolation. Bay of Plenty DHB acting chief executive Simon Everitt said the nurse became symptomatic mid-week and was tested at a local community based assessment centre (CBAC) on Thursday, with the result confirmed Friday night. She had not been at work since developing the symptoms. Patients who had contact with the nurse have been tested for Covid-19. - NZME

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Living at Alert Level 4 Monday 20 April Update Keep up the great work, New Zealand. Our actions are extremely important as we all unite against COVID-19, now and in the coming months. Are we still at Alert Level 4? Yes, we are and this means you need to stay home. The Prime Minister will make an announcement today, letting us know if New Zealand’s alert level will change or stay the same. Remember: until a decision is announced, with a date confirmed, we remain at Alert Level 4 and everyone must stay home.

How can I learn more about other alert levels so I can prepare? Information is available at Covid19.govt.nz. This includes some details of what Alert Levels 3 and 2 will mean for people and businesses. The information is there to help you plan ahead for when we change levels. At Alert Level 3, there will still be significant restrictions on workplaces, schools and gatherings. This is to make sure New Zealand continues to win the fight against COVID-19.

Is there somewhere I can access tools to help me through feelings of anxiety? We have free tools and apps to help you through. Find them by going to Covid19.govt.nz and searching for ‘your mental wellbeing’. They include tips for parents or caregivers who want to discuss mental health and wellbeing with primary school-aged children.

Should I get tested for COVID-19? Health professionals are the best people to decide when testing is needed. Having symptoms that match the case definition do not necessarily mean you have COVID-19. The symptoms are similar to other, more common illnesses such as cold and flu. If you are concerned about any symptoms you have, please call your GP, or Healthline (for free) on 0800 358 5453. They will guide you on what you need to do.

How much longer will schools be closed?

What are the exceptions to a household bubble at Alert Level 4?

While we are in Alert Level 4 schools will stay closed. This is important to ensure New Zealand is doing everything it can to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Alert Level 4 is about stopping movement and breaking the chain of COVID-19 transmission. Unfortunately, this means that seeing any person outside your household increases your risks.

If we move to Alert Level 3, where possible, students should remain at home and use distance learning.

However, at Alert Level 4 there are a few, limited exemptions for those who may a have a real need to expand their bubble a small amount:

Schools and early childhood education centres will be open for some students, up to and including Year 10. This change is so parents and caregivers can send their children to school if they need to.

Who can I contact if I see people not following the rules on self-isolation? You can tell the Police by completing the online form at 105.police.govt.nz. Where possible, try to keep the phones free for those that need them in an emergency.

• Children in shared custody arrangements can move between two households if they are in the same community. • If you are caring for somebody local who is isolated and vulnerable. • Unsafe or life-threatening circumstances may require you to move from your household. If this happens to you, or you are concerned for someone else, there is help available around family or sexual violence.

Thank you New Zealand Your support of Alert Level 4 and lockdown is essential to our success in this fight against the virus. Thank you for your strength and dedication as we continue to unite against COVID-19.

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Slow down and watch for chicks South Island rattled Guardian motoring correspondent, Bernard Egan is well known around these parts. Over the next few weeks, he’s agreed to share with us some of his tales of from yesteryear. Some will be his own telling while others will come directly, or indirectly from others. The whole truth of some, can be left for public opinion. Readers are invited to share tales with Bernard by emailing geegeeber@gmail.com

e promised you another funny from Aine Whiting’s treasure trove of amusing stories, and here it is. Farmer Fred originally lived on a quiet rural road, but as time went on, traffic volumes built up and eventually got so heavy and fast that his free range chickens were being run over at an alarming rate. Farmer Fred called the local police station to complain, “you’ve got to do something about all these people driving so fast and killing all my chickens” he said to the policeman. “What do you want me to do?” asked the policeman. “I don’t care, just do something about these crazy drivers,” said Farmer Fred. So the next day the officer got the council to erect a sign that said SCHOOL CROSSING. Three days later Farmer Fred called the policeman again and said, “you’ll still have to do something about these drivers – the school crossing sign seems to make them go faster!”

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So they put up a new sign – SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY. That seemed to make the drivers go even faster. So Farmer Fred called the policeman again and said, “your signs are no good, can I put up my own?” To get Farmer Fred off his back the policeman said, “sure, put up your own sign”. The calls to the police station stopped, but curiosity got the better of the policeman so he called Farmer Fred and asked, “how’s the problem with the speeding drivers, did you put up a sign?” “I sure did and not one chicken has been killed since,” said Farmer Fred. This made the policeman really

curious so he thought he’d better go and have a look, and he also thought the sign might be one the police could also use. When he got to Farmer Fred’s place his jaw dropped when he saw the sign – NUDIST COLONY – slow down and watch out for chicks!

NZME South Island residents have been left rattled after two earthquakes on Saturday including a magnitude 5.0 quake in Fiordland. According to monitoring site Geonet, the quake struck just before 8pm with an epicentre 40km north-west of Te Anau, at a depth of 56km. There were reports of a ‘good shake’ in Queenstown and Invercargill but no reports of damage. As of 8.20pm, about 30 minutes after the earthquake struck, a total of 1340 people had reported feeling the rumble to Geonet, mostly from the Fiordland and Central Otago areas. It comes after a series of smaller quakes around Christchurch over the last few days, the latest a 3.4 magnitude quake 5km south of Christchurch on Saturday afternoon. The quake hit at 3.19pm about 5km south of Christchurch, according to Geonet, in the Port Hills. The earthquake had a depth of 4km. More than 6000 people had registered feeling the quake. “As if being in lockdown wasn’t enough! That was a good

shake although it was only M3.4 in the Port Hills but it was shallow at 4km deep. We have had almost 6,200 felt reports from around Christchurch - remember to drop cover hold,” Geonet tweeted shortly after the quake. A Mt Pleasant resident said the house was “rattling and shaking”. “It gave me a fright. The reason you feel bad is this was not out of the blue. This is about the third one in a few months,” the resident whose house was destroyed in the 2011 earthquakes said. “If we had a big one now it would be disastrous. It’s very disconcerting,” the resident, who did not want to be named, said. “For us the Covid-19 lockdown is a breeze compared to the earthquakes.” Satirist Joe Bennett, who lives in Lyttelton, said the earthquake was nothing compared to what Cantabrians had experienced before. “I felt it. It wasn’t significant. Ten years ago it became a game to estimate the magnitude of each shake and anything under 5 didn’t rate a mention. A police spokeswoman was unaware of any incidents arising from the earthquake.

SECONDS WITH…….. Manager, Safer Ashburton Kevin Clifford We know them largely for their roles within our community but for many at the moment those roles are on hold. So, in the spirit of getting to know a little bit more about some of the frequent faces of the Ashburton District, we’re putting the spotlight on and digging a little deeper.

and Anne Hathaway. 3: What’s your go to relaxation away from work? Either clay target shooting or going bush for a bit of hunting. 4: What’s the one thing you couldn’t live without? My family, nothing comes close to that. 1: What’s something you’ve never tried, but have always wanted to? I had to rack my brain on this one, I usually have a go at most things, perhaps driving a dragster. 2: Which three celebrities would you invite to dinner? Probably the Rock, Jason Statham

5: What are three things you wouldn’t miss if you were stranded on a desert island? My phone, emails and traffic. 6: What’s the best book you’ve ever read? I don’t have a favourite novel but I do enjoy reading the National Geographic each month.

7: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve heard or had given to you? And if there’s any more of it, there’ll be more of it. 8: If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be? Love to have a crack at being a helicopter pilot. 9: What is the one thing you cannot resist? Free food in the break room. 10: Tell us something about you that might surprise us? I went to university to study archaeology so I could be like Indiana Jones, turns out there were no more temples of doom to be found

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YOUR VIEW Rakaia weighbridge So the NZTA wishes to install a CVIU weighbridge between the two bridges north of Rakaia. I don’t think they have thought this through enough or observed traffic movements in this confined area. Picture this; an overweight load travelling north across the mile long bridge at its allowable speed of 10km/h, the pilot has stopped traffic at the north end traffic congregates quickly until there is a queue formed completely occupying the southbound lane between the bridges. I have seen this senario happen regularly and the same complication with similar southbound loads. Even without the bridges being stopped for over dimension loads, this is a busy dangerous area with traffic slowing to access either the North Rakaia Road or the major turn-off to the Ellesmere district. The more one thinks about the whole proposition, it is one that won’t be solved by a simple rearranging of speed limits as was suggested by Graham Taylor from NZTA. I and many locals think this proposition is an ill-conceived accident waiting to happen. Safety is usually NZTA’s first concern about roading matters, so what’s happened this time. Bryan Murphy

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The day of reckoning is upon us

ife isn’t as simple as just flicking a switch and picking up where you left off. A fact that New Zealand is likely to find out in coming weeks. Today is the day Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is going to tell us all what happens next. After a month of not really knowing when or how we would begin the transition back to some form of normality, today we finally will get some sort of indication – and for many that will be a huge relief. Unfortunately, in some instances anyway, it’s not going to be a case of just picking back up where we left off and rolling the sleeves up and getting stuck in. It will likely be a slow and gradual process. Frustration is likely, it’s a natural human reaction in any sense, only heightened by the fact that for the past month a huge majority of the country has been limited in what they’ve been able to do in a normal day. Cabinet meets at 10.30am to determine what we will do when the deadline of midnight Wednesday rolls around. Betting folk and pessimists will have a few dollars on an extension being the most likely outcome, while the optimists will be certain that alert level three is coming and the wheel is set to start turning. The truth however is, nobody really knows. Ardern and the horde of people around her will have a fair idea, but there’s been nothing in the way she – or even Dr Ashley Bloomfield – have spoken in the past few days to suggest they are firm in their minds about what the outcome will be. Can we take solace in the fact that whatever the decision is, it will be made with the best interests of the everyday New Zealander in mind? You’d like to think yes. And so whatever it is, we must embrace it and deal with it in the best way we can. Much like we have this entire situation from the outset. Thought of the day: If there’s one thing that’s certain in life, it’s uncertainty.

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oday we find out if the restrictions we’ve lived with for nearly four weeks can begin to be lifted. Although we would all love for Level 4 measures to be removed, it’s important that decision is informed by the latest health and scientific advice. The last thing any of us want is for the virus to spread, for community transmission to become the norm, and for the lives of those around us to be at risk. But regardless of what that decision may be, we can all take huge comfort that we are even in a position to do so. In some parts of the world it is only now they are beginning to take the issue seriously. Even in countries where Parliaments and Governments have instituted a range of lockdown measures, their domestic populations have flouted them. In recent days protests have erupted in Texas, Virginia, Michigan and Minnesota, all demanding their so-called “liberation” from lockdown measures. Alarmingly, footage from the protests

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show no evidence of physical distancing, of masks, or of common sense. Texas has suffered almost 500 deaths. Virginia around 250. Michigan has seen a staggering 2400 people die. Even Minnesota, a population barely bigger than ours, has had 121 fatalities. All now with people on the streets demanding an end to restrictions. That’s not to say it has been easy. It hasn’t. Through my office locally (or more accurately, through my office phone line) I’ve spoken to many hundreds of people to work through problems they’ve had associated with Level 4 measures. I accept that for many people the level of uncertainty around some of the rules has been frustrating. I share that frustration, but I also see the

difficult position the Government were in. Having just a matter of days to rewrite the rules on how almost five million New Zealanders live their lives is no easy task. It’s no wonder that on some things the response was effectively ‘we’re still working on that and will have more detail soon.’ It’s created a myriad of problems, with many new Level 4 rules only just being announced now. It was barely a week ago we learned that driver licences and warrants of fitness, unobtainable for most of us, will be extended for six months. Just a few days ago we were finally told the guidelines for contactless deliveries for butchers and bakers. They’re issues I’ve been working on in recent weeks, alongside countless other complex cases. Many desperately sad, with some locals quarantined and isolated overseas with no easy way of getting home, and hundreds of others out of work or struggling to pay the bills. On Level 3 there has been more time to work out some of those

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wrinkles, and I hope we see more clear guidance in coming days. Already there’s been a change for schools, with the Government admitting it was wrong to describe attendance under Level 3 as “voluntary”. It has now been changed to say that students should attend only if no-one is available to care for them at home. What we’ve seen throughout this process is a level of understanding not present in many other countries. An appreciation that mistakes will be made. That perfect is the enemy of good. But that the alternative, to wait, or to do nothing, will cost lives. The reason we may now be in a position to ease restrictions is you. Staying home. Staying connected. And staying safe. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof

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AP The President of the United States and the Governor of New York have started their own personal war as they both try to grapple with the state’s coronavirus outbreak, which is now the deadliest in the world. The pair have been at loggerheads for weeks, but things took a turn for the worse at the weekend, with President Donald Trump telling New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to “spend more time doing and less time complaining” in a pointed tweet in response to a televised briefing Cuomo had given. Cuomo fired back at the President, saying he should “get up and go to work” rather than being at home “watching TV”. The United States is now the country worst affected by the coronavirus, with more than 732,000 cases and more than 38,000 deaths. The US has more than half a million more cases of coronavirus than other hard hit nations around the world

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Shock claim in cruise ship lawsuit AP The operator of the Ruby Princess cruise ship knew about coronavirus outbreaks while the vessel was at sea and “recklessly” put the lives of the passengers at risk, according to a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after disembarking. Princess Cruises is being sued for nearly $1.6 million by the relatives of American national Chung Chen, who died earlier this month as a result of the pandemic when he returned home to Los Angeles. The Ruby Princess is at the centre of one of Australia’s biggest clusters after the ship visited New Zealand and Australian ports, and allowed passengers off in Sydney when many were feeling ill. The virus tore through the ship and sparked cases in Australia and New Zealand. Sixteen cases in Hawke’s Bay have been linked back to the ship which docked in Napier on March 14. Detectives have begun interviewing thousands of witnesses about what they knew about potential Covid-19 cases on board the cruise ship before it returned to, and docked in, Sydney more than three weeks ago. Since disembarking in Sydney, 18 passengers from the ship have died and hundreds of confirmed cases have been linked to the vessel. Chung Chen’s widow, Juishan Hsu, and daughter, Vivian, are seeking damages in the District Court of California as the death toll from cases linked to the infamous ship reaches 21. Princess Cruises “chose to place profits over the safety of its passengers, crew and the general public in continuing to operate business as usual”, the lawsuit claims. The wife and daughter of the deceased man, who were both also infected by the virus, didn’t know there was an outbreak on the ship until after they got home. “While they were on the ship, they had no idea anything was going on”, the family’s lawyer Debi Chalik said.

like Spain and Italy, who have just over 191,000 and 175,000 cases respectively. New York State is the country’s coronavirus epicentre, and has been badly affected, with more than 13,200 deaths. During Governor Cuomo’s press conference on Friday Trump, watching on, sent a series of tweets directly to the Governor. Cuomo had been commenting on his belief that his state, the worst hit by coronavirus, had been short-changed by US federal coronavirus relief packages, and needed another US$500 billion in federal funding to get through the crisis. “First of all, if he’s sitting at home watching TV, maybe he can get up and go to work,” Cuomo said, responding to the President’s tweets. “He wants to say, ‘I’ve done enough!’ None of us have done enough. We haven’t, because it’s not over.” Cuomo insisted there were a number of ongoing issues for the federal government to deal with, including funding testing for the people of America.

“He’s doing nothing! He says it’s up to the states (to open up the country), which it always was. Then he calls it a ‘fifty piece puzzle’. It’s not a puzzle. That’s called a map of the United States.” On Thursday Mr Trump outlined his “Opening Up America Again” plan, which was a road map for different states to ease social distancing restrictions. He said at the time some states were close to being ready to open within days, referring to the country as “a beautiful puzzle”. “Fifty pieces, they’re all different,” the president said. The Governor also accused Trump of not having a proper understanding of the Constitution, leading him to claim earlier this week he had the “total authority” to reopen the country. Cuomo said the states “have the power to open on their own timelines”. “Maybe he should have read the Constitution before saying he had the power to open the states?” Cuomo said.

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New Chaser There’s a new chaser on popular game show The Chase, and he might be familiar to avid watchers of the show. New professional quizzer Darragh Ennis was a contestant on the show in 2017 and was asked to join the rest of the chasers after his performance, according to Express UK. In his 2017 run on the show, he won £9000 (NZ$18,000) for his team, but his teammates took minus offers, meaning he actually walked away with less. The aim of the game is to answer a series of questions correctly without being beaten by the chaser, a professional quizzer. - AP

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Japan passes 10,000 cases AP Japanese health ministry said yesterday that 568 new cases of the coronavirus were reported the day before, bringing a domestic total to 10,361. A combined total including 712 others from a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo earlier this year came to 11,073, with 174 deaths. The number of cases is still relatively small compared to the US and Europe, but that’s only as many as Japan’s limited testing has detected and actual infections are believed to be far more widespread.

Japan has finally started setting up additional testing centres in Tokyo and elsewhere, allowing primary care doctors to send suspected patients directly to testing stations rather than having them go through public health centres to screen eligibility. Experts say going after clusters to trace infections is no longer effective to keep up with the surging cases and more tests are needed. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expanded a state of emergency, which was limited to Tokyo and six other urban areas, to all of Japan.

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Skatepark filled with sand AP A skatepark on the beachfront in LA has been filled with sand, to stop people ignoring social distancing rules from continuing to use it. The skatepark is located in front of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. All its ramps and bowls were filled with sand at the

weekend, rendering it unusable. All parks, beaches, bike paths and trails in Los Angeles County are closed and will remain closed until at least May 15, under the county’s Safer at Home order. The popular Venice Beach Boardwalk is also closed as part of that order. It is not yet known when the restrictions will be lifted.

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Scaled back celebrations The Queen is scaling back her birthday celebrations amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Reuters reports the Queen will not have the traditional gun salute on her April 21 birthday, a royal source saying she did not think it was appropriate as Britain grapples with more than 14,000 deaths relating to the virus. Typically, blank rounds are fired across London to celebrate special events like anniversaries and birthdays in the royal family. She is set to spend her 94th birthday at Windsor Castle, and family members will video call her to wish her well, the - AP Guardian reported.

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Markle to give interview Meghan Markle will give her first television interview since she and Prince Harry stepped away from royal life. According to The Sun, Markle will appear on Good Morning America to promote her new Disney movie Elephant, which she narrated. It is not yet known whether Markle will discuss her departure from royal life. The star was approached by film-makers Mark and Vanessa Berlowitz to narrate the documentary, and in return for lending her voice to the movie a donation will be made to a wildlife charity, The Sun reports. - AP

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No such thing as retirement At 26 years of age, former champion trotter Lyell Creek is still getting the first class treatment as he receives a feet trimming from Mid Canterbury’s John Morrison. One of the greatest ever trotters to race in New Zealand, Lyell Creek had 113 starts for 56 wins, 15 seconds and 11 thirds and won 15 Group One races in both New Zealand and Australia as well as travelling all over the world. Incidentally, Lyell is older than Morrison. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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Three-time World Player of the Year Dan Carter has announced he won’t be returning to Japanese Top League side Kobe Steelers, potentially ending his decorated rugby career. The former All Blacks first-five was early in his second of a two-season contract with the club, when all Japanese competitions were cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Carter has thanked the club and says he’s gutted he can’t help Kobe win another Top League title. But the 38-year-old hasn’t made it clear whether he’s retiring from the game altogether. “I’ve gone a bit quiet since the JRU announced they are cancelling all their competitions this season,” Carter wrote on Instagram. “I want to thank the club, fans and

my team-mates for welcoming me and making the last two seasons some of the most enjoyable rugby I have ever played. “The club’s future is looking very bright, and I’m glad I got to add my little piece to the @kobelcosteelers_official legacy,” he concluded. Carter is one of just two players to win the World Player of the Year award three times, alongside compatriot Richie McCaw, and he has also won the Rugby World Cup twice. In the 2015 Rugby World Cup final against Australia, Carter scored 19 points and was named player of the match. He made 112 appearances for New Zealand, amassing 1598 points and becoming the highest points scorer in test match rugby.

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The Ashburton Celtic Rugby senior women’s team have displayed some inventive touches despite being away from the paddock. A video was shared on the Ashburton Celtic Facebook page on Friday involving a passing challenge between players and coaches of the senior womens outfit. “This is what we are about. Stay safe everyone. Seniors, Bs, Colts, JAB pick up the challenge.” The sharply cut video, which is paired with the Major Lazer song Lean On, features more than a dozen individuals and involves numerous costume changes as players pass or kick a rugby ball onto the next person. Players also stop to have a sip of a beverage of their choice. The three-minute clip begins with a screenshot of a quote from former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis which states; “the bond we have is so much deeper than the game we play”. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN

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Covid-19 a major challenge for WADA By Michael Burgess The coronavirus pandemic could have severe implications for the global fight for clean sport, says the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. New Zealander David Howman, who served as Director-General of Wada from 2003 to 2016, admits the Covid-19 situation has provided an unprecedented window for athletes who want to cheat, as testing has been shut down across the globe. Wada suspended its programmes last month, and the majority of countries around the world are in lockdown. Internal travel for testing purposes is either difficult or near impossible, while border controls mean international journeys to monitor athletes are out of the question. That could continue for months. Since testing programmes became widespread in the mid-1980s, there has surely never been such an extended period where potential dopers knew they wouldn’t be receiving a knock at the door.

“It is as opportunity for people to dope, if they are totally certain they are not going to be tested,” Howman said. “There is a downside to that. If you dope too much, you might be picked up when doping tests resume but it creates an issue for people organising sport and trying to say that the sport you are going to see after Covid-19 is going to be clean. “It’s a major challenge.” Howman is one of the world’s foremost authorities on drugs in sport. His time at Wada coincided with a marked increase in testing capability and diversity, and many high-profile cases. Howman also put together Wada’s anti-doping code and was a key figure in the drafting of the Unesco International Convention against Doping in Sport, since ratified by all but six countries. The Wellington-based lawyer says the anti-doping agencies still have some weapons – particularly the biological passport – “there will be markers that stand out to scientists” but concedes the situation is a worry.

David Howman “I used to put the cheats into two categories,” said Howman. “There were the ‘dopey dopers’, who were silly in what they were trying to do. “Then there were the intentional dopers, who have a huge armoury of people behind them, sometimes with a lot more money to pay for doctors, lawyers and scientists that Wada has itself.” “Those people will, for sure, be thinking about how they are going to do things [at this time] and planning their doping exercise, no doubt in my mind at all.” Howman, who is now chairman of the Athletics Integrity

Unit (which replaced the IAAF’s ant-doping unit in 2017) says it won’t be completely open slather for potential dopers. “Apart from the testing, there is a lot more reliance on artificial intelligence now, so that you test at the right time,” said Howman. “You can use the information that athletes provide, both on social media and also in their whereabouts data. “We will be doing things that they won’t be aware of, making sure this AI is gathered in a different way.” Drug Free Sport New Zealand CEO Nick Paterson shares Howman’s fears. “It’s a unique set of circumstances and there is no way of getting around it,” Paterson said. “There is no testing going on, so the doping risk isn’t being managed right now. We would be naive to think otherwise and we have to recognise there is a window for people who want to do it.” DFNZ has 20 contracted testing officers, who conduct about 1300 tests annually on nearly 800 elite sportspeople. Prominent athletes

can be tested three or four times a year, but all testing in New Zealand has been suspended since the lockdown. Paterson has confidence there won’t be a swing in this country – “the vast majority of New Zealand athletes are clean and there is no reason to believe that will change” – but he is worried about the global landscape, given the different testing landscapes across the world. “It’s a window, and hopefully we can counter it as best as we can,” he said. “We are still looking. We’ve still got intelligence and investigation units that are still working, same for my international counterparts.” Howman says Covid-19 could also make for a seminal time. “For the anti-doping community, it’s an opportunity to look at different ways to do things scientifically, medically and legally,” he said. “There has been a lot of talk about a re-boot happening to make sure sports survives after this but we need to do the same at the anti-doping level to ensure the integrity of sport survives.”

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Postponement hurts athletes Athletes are having to go through a grieving process as they come to terms with the loss of the Tokyo Olympics due to the global pandemic, says a leading sports psychologist. Dr Kylie Wilson is a sports psychologist working for High Performance Sport New Zealand and the New Zealand Olympic Committee. Her team deals with around 350 of New Zealand’s top athletes – about 200 of those were due to compete in Tokyo in July and August but now have to re-focus on the Olympics being a year later. Coming to terms with no competition can be tough for goal driven athletes. “The general theme would be grief,” Dr Wilson said. “There is grief at the loss of the Olympics. A lot of athletes will have had a four year plan of how their lives would look and how they would set up their lives, so there is grief at the loss of those plans. “Some athletes who are coming back from injury or who thought they were targeting Paris in 2024 are really thankful for another year of preparation but at the other end you have people who were possibly con-

sidering retiring after Tokyo. “It takes a while for them to get their head around another year of commitment and what they will have to give up so there has been quite a varied response to the postponement.” She doesn’t mention names but names like Dame Valerie Adams, Mahe Drysdale and Nick Willis are certainly in the twilight of their international careers and whether they are up for another year at the top level remains to be seen. Dealing with the entire Covid-19 situation comes down to having a sense of self worth outside of being a top athlete said Dr Wilson. “In the current situation your sporting identity if taken away from you. So you are forced to take a look at what else does my life look like? What else does it include? What gives me a sense of purpose and passion outside of the ‘sporting me’.” Answering those questions will serve athletes well when competition finally does return, she said.

Boredom is also a factor with training regimes severely curtailed in lockdown. While all have been able to do some training, it’s nowhere near as varied as it might have been while

learning to cope with uncertainty is an issue too. Not knowing when competition will resume and what buildup events there will be ahead of the 2021 Games plays on athletes minds, Dr Wilson said. “There has got to be a lot of acceptance of where we are at and how do I make the most of it? “Some are picking up more study or doing things that their sporting schedules didn’t previously allow, so that way they feel they are making progress on something.” “There is a level of ‘why me, why now?’ but people drift in and out of that quite quickly ... so generally people are at a good level of acceptance.”

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Wind km/h less than 30 fine

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

TODAY

hail

60 plus

TOMORROW

FZL: About 1800m

WEDNESDAY Partly cloudy. Light winds.

overnight max low

Auckland

showers

Hamilton

showers

Napier

fine

Wellington

fine

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

WEDNESDAY

Greymouth

showers

Christchurch

fine

FZL: Around 2000m

THURSDAY

Partly cloudy. Northerlies.

Mostly cloudy. A few spots of rain. Northerlies.

Mostly cloudy, scattered rain. Northwesterlies becoming strong, possibly gale in exposed places, easing later.

Timaru

fine

Queenstown

fine

FRIDAY

Dunedin

showers ease

Invercargill

showers ease

THURSDAY

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

showers fine fine fine fine fine fine thunder cloudy thunder fine drizzle fine fine fine

Showers about the divide, but mainly fine further east. Westerlies.

Frankfurt Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi

16 5 27 3 15 23 16 27 8 25 25 21 26 6 4

fine showers showers fine fine rain cloudy fine thunder fine fine drizzle rain showers thunder

20 18 18 29 29 27 32 25 35 18 20 17 19 10 32

8 11 10 23 21 14 26 13 25 8 13 8 12 0 22

New York Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

rain fine cloudy showers rain showers cloudy thunder fine cloudy drizzle fine rain showers fine

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing Monday

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9 noon 3

9 pm am 3

9 noon 3

Wednesday 6

9 pm am 3

9 noon 3

9 pm

2 1

2:03

8:07 2:20 8:25 2:42 8:43 2:58 9:03 3:18 9:19 3:34 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

Rise 7:12 am Set 5:50 pm Fair

Fair fishing Rise 3:51 am Set 5:01 pm

Rise 7:13 am Set 5:49 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 4:52 am Set 5:22 pm

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8:40 am

9:42

Rise 7:15 am Set 5:47 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 5:52 am Set 5:44 pm

Full moon 7 May 10:46 pm

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cumecs

1.81

Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:05 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 286.9 Nth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

7.65

Sth Ashburton at 4:00 pm, yesterday

10.0

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

126.9

Waitaki Kurow at 4:03 pm, yesterday

305.6

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Canterbury Readings

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River Levels

Forecasts for today

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20 12 20 8 22 9 18 9 17 9 18 7 19 3 14 7 18 4 18 2 14 3 15 8 14 5

Palmerston North showers

Fine, apart from evening high cloud. Wind at 1000m: Light. Wind at 2000m: Light.

TOMORROW

Fine, some evening high cloud. Light winds.

Monday, 20 April 2020

NZ Today

Fine, apart from showers about the divide clearing in the evening. Wind at 1000m: NW 50 km/h dying out at night. Wind at 2000m: Gale NW 85 km/h easing to W 50 km/h in the evening then dying out.

Fine. Northwesterlies, gusty about the foothills, dying out at night.

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A few showers with a southwest change.

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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 16.5 17.1 Max to 4pm 4.7 Minimum -0.1 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm April to date 17.8 Avg Apr to date 33 2020 to date 131.2 201 Avg year to date Wind km/h NW 26 At 4pm Strongest gust NW 65 Time of gust 11:09am

to 4pm yesterday

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0.0 12.8 32 97.4 172

0.0 18.4 21 98.4 155

NW 17 – –

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Carter’s career over?

Celtic’s passing challenge

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BOWLERS STUCK IN LIMBO

One of the more vulnerable sports on the Mid Canterbury sporting landscape sits in limbo as it waits for further advice on what steps to take next before even thinking about getting back on the mats. Nationally, statistics reveal that indoor bowls consists of a playing population with more than a half over the age of 60, putting it in the tricky bracket of sports where a cautious approach will

be required when lockdown restrictions are eventually lifted and sport can resume. Like so many other sports nationally, the indoor bowls season was due to get under way around the time New Zealand was placed into lockdown, and the sport’s governing body stepped in quickly and made a raft of announcements, including the cancellation of some of their major events for

the year; the National Championships and also the Island Championships – as well as a host of other events throughout the calendar. But with a vulnerable population, the sport will need to take a careful approach to a return which could see most of the season wiped, with a view to returning to normal in 2021. That doesn’t come without concerns either with the real threat of

some players not returning to the game after 18 months away. Locally, the sport has been holding steady for a number of years with small declines in player numbers from year to year – largely matching up to the national situation. Mid Canterbury has a number of strong clubs across the district, and some with very few members, but all are usually well represent-

ed in tournaments each week. The sport’s governing body, NZ Indoor Bowls, is set to meet next month to finalise decisions on any remaining tournaments or events that were left untouched and it’s likely that their advice to districts across the country will be to take a case by case viewpoint and structure whatever works best to ensure some bowls are played were possible.

First class treatment still for champion trotter

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